(1) As per Latest Priyanka Chopra Interviews, she said that, "I keenly observed several housewives and women of all the ages to prepare for the role."
"It was emotionally and physically very draining and I used to take out all my tantrums on Vishal (the director). We fought on sets, he yelled at me and I did the same to him. But then we used to make up."
Director Vishal Bhradwaj brought out the best in me. I'm really grateful that Vishal thought I could pull it off.
(2) Rise of the Planet of the Apes Movie Actress Freida Pinto recently on Simi Garewal’s popular chat show ‘India’s Most Desirable’ was all praises for SRK.
As per Latest Bollywood Interviews, she said that, "I was already nervous due to the magnanimity of the event and it only added after I met Shahrukh Khan. He was not at all nervous but told me he was nervous just to make me happy."
“I accidentally stepped on my gown and ripped it. I had to hold it in my hand, which was very uncomfortable. But then SRK held it for me to put me at ease. He isn't known as King Khan for no reason."
Friday, September 2, 2011
Priyanka Chopra News – she took a lot of references from day to day life
Spa Watch: Closing Weekend
--Brian DiDonato
SATURDAY
Race 1 - Paris Opera S., f+m, 3yo/up, 1mT
Unbridled Essence (Essence of Dubai) gets a bit of class relief coming off three consecutive Grade III tries against solid groups, including a narrow loss in the Violet S. at Monmouth in May. She was bumped at the break last out in defense of her GIII Matchmaker S. title July 31, and never got uncorked after that over a course that appeared to be favoring speed slightly. The 5-year-old should get some pace to run at here, and will be completely ignored in the wagering--her 10-1 morning line seems on the low side.
Race 2 - MSW, 2yo, 1 1/16mT
Three horses caught my eye in this very interesting event, but Scandalicious (Giant's Causeway) is the one I'll bet to win, mostly because of his expected price. It's tough to get a read on his debut--he was dead last early in a race completely dominated by a frontrunner, but the Flying Zee colorbearer flew home late in the slop to get up for second with a lowly 47 Beyer Speed Figure (TDN Video). It's very possible that nobody besides the winner did any running and Scandalicious' second was no great accomplishment, but trainer Carlos Martin very rarely has a firster cranked up for his/her best and Scandalicious was up against things from a dynamics standpoint. The $150,000 KEESEP yearling's dam Salty You (Salt Lake) was a Grade I-winning 2-year-old in the slop--both a positive and negative in this case--and she was graded stakes-placed and a multiple winner over the sod. Salty You is a half to a pair of runners with turf black-type, and she hails from the family of European champion Moorestyle (GB). Another intriguing horse is Super Saturday (Any Given Saturday), owned by a savvy partnership of TYB Stable, Jerry Dilger and trainer Mike Trombetta. The grey is out of a turf stakes winner who produced Chopinina (Lear Fan), GSW and GISP on turf; Karra Kul (Strawberry Road {Aus}), SW and GSP on turf; and Despite the Odds (Speightstown), winner of the sloppy GIII Hill Prince S. for Trombetta in 2009. Trombetta is 4-for-8 with a $5.05 ROI over the past five seasons with firsters going long on the grass*. O'Prado Again (El Prado {Ire}) was named for Donegal Racing's superstar Paddy O'Prado and, like his predecessor, his future is clearly on grass. The $350,000 KEESEP yearling is very likely to move up on the surface switch off a debut sixth-place finish sprinting in the slop at Churchill Downs, but demand a square price if considering a win bet--Dale Romans' young turfers, like Paddy O'Prado and GII With Anticipation S. show horse Dullahan (Even The Score), sometimes require several starts before finding their rhythm.
Race 9 - GI Forego S., 3yo/up, 7f
Rule by Night (Malibu Moon) probably isn't the most likely winner of this race, but he's going to be a major overlay. The Steve Asmussen pupil finished off last year with a monster performance in the Groovy S. at Aqueduct, romping by 9 1/4 lengths while earning a 108 Beyer Speed Figure that seems accurate when compared to what the also rans from that heat ran before and after. Rule by Night had some physical issues over the winter, and didn't make it back to the races until the May 11 Waldoboro S. at Belmont. That was a strangely run race that featured a very loose leader who was overmatched (TDN Video), and Rule by Night's third-place finish to Trappe Shot (Tapit) was better than it looks on paper considering the dynamics. He was subsequently scratched from the GII True North H., and resurfaced to finish a disappointing eighth in the Teddy Drone S. at Monmouth July 31. That performance was too bad to be believed, and may have been due to the way the track played that day (Haskell Day)--it strongly favored horses positioned out wide--he was glued to the rail throughout. Rule by Night worked five furlongs in company with GISW Haynesfield (Speightstown) last week, and Asmussen must like how the colt is doing to bypass Thursday's Island Whirl S. for this spot.
Race 10 - GI Woodward S., 3yo/up, 1 1/8m
Havre de Grace (Saint Liam) is the type of horse who gets drastically overbet, and her presence will create some overlays on other runners. Flat Out (Flatter) is by far the most likely winner of the Woodward, and he must be used on every ticket. Giant Oak (Giant's Causeway) is the value play, however. The accomplished veteran is no stranger to horseplayers and racing fans--he's pretty good at his best, but needs the proper pace set-up to threaten late. He didn't get his trip last time in the GI Whitney Invitational H.--a race in which it seemed nobody wanted to lead--but the 5-year-old came home quickly on the outside to get up for third. It's not like there are a number of need-the-lead types signed on this time, but Rule (Roman Ruler) and Mambo Meister (King Cugat) should keep things honest enough up front with several others close up in the second flight. With a little more pace, and a fair price guaranteed, its worth taking a flyer and hoping the good Giant Oak shows up.
Race 12 - MSW, 2yo, NYB, 7f
Down Broadway (Grand Slam), a $30,000 FTNAUG yearling turned $90,000 FTMMAY 2-year-old, closed well to be third in a good state-bred maiden race at Belmont July 14. Beyers for the race came back extremely slow, but the three winners and two runner-ups to return from that event all improved their figures dramatically next out. Down Broadway is faster than his 38 figure would lead you to believe, and he ran on debut like one who might appreciate this extra furlong.
Bonus Pick: GI Del Mar Debutante - Emerald Gold (War Front) was extremely visually impressive breaking her maiden while closing off a slow pace over the track (TDN Video). Her 5-1 morning line seems a bit on the low side, and she should offer good value in the 6-1 to 8-1 range.
SUNDAY
Race 6 - MSW, f, 2yo, 1 1/16mT
There isn't much to like about Zultanite (El Corredor) based on her debut or her pedigree, but note that trainer David Donk entered her in the P.G. Johnson S. Wednesday before opting to scratch and run here--that's a hint that her connections think pretty highly of her. The dark bay broke slowly and only made up a tiny bit of ground sprinting here Aug. 7 on a track that may have been favoring speed, but it's highly unlikely that she was well-meant for that effort. She was ignored as the 37-1 longest shot on the board, and was looking to become just Donk's second 2-year-old debut winner over the past five years from nearly 70 tries. He has won with six juveniles in their second career starts, including two while switching to grass. Watch to see if Zultanite takes more play here, and pull the trigger if she drifts up to 10-1+.
Race 7 - MSW, f, 2yo, 7f
Refining (Malibu Moon) was fourth on debut in one of the hottest maiden races for juvenile fillies to be run here this year. Winner My Miss Aurelia (Smart Strike) came back to win the GII Adirondack S. with a 91 Beyer; show horse Stopshoppingmaria (More Than Ready) romped by 9 3/4 lengths next out with a 101 Beyer; and the three other horses to run back hit the board in subsequent efforts. Refining did some late running in her unveiling after losing contact early, and conditioner Bill Mott's patience with young horses is well-documented. Mott maidens do much better with a start under their belt--he's 27% with 2-year-old maiden second timers in dirt sprints at the Spa over the past five years with a $2.52 ROI. Fellow Vegso homebred Come a Callin (Dixie Union), who broke her maiden on closing day here last year at 6-1 for Mott, was making the same move from 5 1/2 furlongs to seven when she graduated.
Race 10 - GI Spinaway S., f, 2yo, 7f
I tried to talk myself off of Vukovar (Forest Wildcat) here, but was unsuccessful. I was very high on her before the GIII Schuyverville S., and she made me feel very smart for about two furlongs before making me feel not-so-smart for the next four. The speed she showed in the first quarter mile of that race was off the charts--the :21.38 clocking was good for a Moss Pace Figure of 100--15 points above par for the level, but it's unclear what happened after that. She stopped so quickly that it seems likely she either displaced or bled, and it was surprising to see her back on the worktab just a week and change after her opening day debacle. I still wouldn't have thought much of her future, but if trainer Eric Guillot sees fit to run her off three sharp-looking works, I'll take a small shot at what is sure to be an astronomical price. Note that Guillot has connected with 44-1, 39-1 and 36-1 winners on this circuit over the past two years. Despite losing the hood, Vukovar should have no problem getting the early advantage here--it's just a question of how long she'll have it for. . .
*All trainer stats courtesy of DRF Formulator.
Depression. Anxiety. Hectic-ness. So much going on. My grandma had surgery yesterday. I've made a realization and I need some time to think. My family is being annoying. I can't make a joke without people taking everything too seriously. So I get yelled at. I don't want to talk. I just want to disappear.
Why am I not dead yet?
How administrators, staff, faculty and students worked together to pull off a post-quake miracle at Germanna
GCC pursues online classes
Germanna nursing and dental hygiene students return to class as details are ironed out for all others
Date published: 8/31/2011
By PAMELA GOULD
Nursing and dental hygiene students resumed classes at Germanna Community College yesterday as deans finalized plans for the rest of the students whose classes were disrupted by an earthquake on the second day of the fall semester.
The challenge has been finding a way to continue instruction for the 4,400 people who registered for classes at the V. Earl Dickinson Building on the Fredericksburg Area Campus. That structure, built in 1997, suffered significant damage from the magnitude-5.8 earthquake on Aug. 23 centered in Louisa County.
The building won't be available for use until January at the earliest.
The goal has been to find a way to keep those students on campus this fall in the Massaponax area of Spotsylvania County, said Deborah Brock, dean of arts and sciences, and Bill Fiege, dean of technical and professional studies.
College spokesman Mike Zitz said many in the community responded to a request for space but, with a few exceptions, Germanna officials have chosen not to move classes.
Instead, the deans said Germanna has relocated some of the 321 classes scheduled for Dickinson into the Workforce and Community Education Building on the same campus.
Many classes were restructured. Forty will be taught totally online. Others will be a mix of online and classroom, while the rest will be in different classrooms. Fewer than five classes had to be canceled.
The college is adding a few 10-week courses to meet the needs of students who couldn't take their classes after they were rescheduled.
Those courses will begin Sept. 28, have longer meeting times, and end at the same time as regular 15-week semester classes, Fiege said.
They will meet at the Locust Grove Campus and on the Stafford campus of the University of Mary Washington, Zitz said.
Students started the fall semester on Aug. 22. Classes were in session when the earthquake began shortly before 2 p.m. last Tuesday.
Germanna President David Sam canceled classes indefinitely immediately after the earthquake so that structures at all campuses could be inspected.
Germanna offers classes in its own buildings in Culpeper, Orange and Spotsylvania counties. It also holds classes in office space in North Stafford.
Germanna Community College officials have been working over the past week to accommodate students enrolled for classes at the Fredericksburg Area Campus, whose chief academic building was significantly damaged in the magnitude-5.8 earthquake.
Only the Dickinson building has significant structural damage.
Though nursing and dental hygiene students returned to class yesterday at the Locust Grove Campus in Orange, students at all other sites will resume Sept. 6.
Germanna may lease space for noncredit classes and personnel being displaced from the Workforce building.
The Fredericksburg Area Campus lost 22 classrooms, its six science labs and two computer labs with the closing of the Dickinson building.
The Workforce building has 18 classrooms and two computer labs.
College officials are optimistic that even students who have shied away from online courses will find they like that option.
"We think some may be glad they have had the opportunity," Brock said.
Fiege cited a study that found 30 percent of college students have taken at least one online course. He also said that with today's technology, online learning can be very interactive.
He noted that faculty--many of whom now have iPads--can respond quickly, utilize online chats to communicate, and can rapidly post announcements using the college's electronic blackboard.
"It's very user-friendly," Fiege said.
Pamela Gould: 540/735-1972
Email: pgould@freelancestar.com
Germanna Community College officials have been working over the past week to accommodate students enrolled for classes at the Fredericksburg Area Campus, whose chief academic building was significantly damaged in the magnitude-5.8 earthquake on Aug. 23.
4,400--Number of students enrolled in classes meeting in the V. Earl Dickinson Building, which was damaged
321--Number of classes scheduled to meet there
10--Number of offices available for 150 to 200 faculty members
1--Number of GCC buildings significantly damaged
If you don't like the F-Bomb...
Every summer, it seems like half our campus is under construction.
There is a flurry of activity during the months the students are away and by this time of year with just over a week left before classes, emotions are well... a little on the anxious side.
In the genteel, professional world of the IT department... there are certain words that are not heard very often.
Words that rhyme with "truck" and "shoe".
But you sure hear them at the construction site.
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And since we are perceived to be holding things up, sometimes the F-bomb gets launched in our direction.
If you take it personally, you are sunk.
If your team is REALLY holding things up because of lack of preparation or poor coordination, you are sunk.
But if not...
You need to be there for your team, and learn to speak to the issues. You don't have to use the F-bomb, but you need to stand your ground and find innovative ways to get the job done on time.
The construction manager wants results.
Your team's job is to deliver those results.
Of course the real solution is to have been part of the project planning process from the early stages so the right amount of time is allocated to do the work. The reality is that even with the best planning there are things that can throw a construction schedule off leaving the IT department pressed for time at the end of the project.
As an IT leader, you can't sit on the sidelines with construction projects. Either you, or someone from your team needs to be responsible for interaction with the construction manager. You need someone who knows IT needs (Architects are notorious for not allowing for things like enough conduits for cabling, or power for a room full of computers, or my favorite omission - wiring closets that are actually suitable for switches).
This person also needs to be versed in construction practices and project management. He or she will need incredibly thick skin, and the ability to converse in the language of construction.
At my last position, we averaged a new major campus building every year. By embedding an IT person in the property development team, we eliminated many of the headaches of the last minute IT rush, and saved the school literally tens of thousands of dollars in costs.
In my current position, this is a part time responsibility (different scope) but just as necessary.
As you plan out the mix of skills for your IT department, have you included a construction project manager? One who knows which words rhyme with "truck shoe" and are not offended?
Thursday, September 1, 2011
HPL website changes
A few months ago we rolled out a new website for HPL. Since that time, we have received training for a number of our staff members in order to keep it updated. You will begin to see changes to the site and the addition of fresh content with much greater frequency.
The calendar is one of our favorites so far, allowing us to provide easy-to-access information about everything that goes on here. You can find the calendar from the "Find an Event" link at the bottom of the home page or by clicking "Programs & Services" on the navigation bar and then clicking "Calendar of Events".
Events on the calendar are color coded and the legend is located at the bottom. If you only want to see certain types of events, click on the event type in the legend at the bottom and the calendar displays only that type. Also, you can hover your cursor over an event and a small pop-up will give you more information about that event. In the picture below, I was pointing at the first TALK book discussion for this fall.
Another great feature is the search box in the upper right corner. This can be toggled to search the website or to search the library's catalog. You can also log in to your library account from here to check holds lists, or find other information.
'Equal' does not equal 'The Same' - Why some people deserve to go to the front of the IT help line.
Children can have a heightened awareness of fairness.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Indonesia
I've been doing some candy sorting at work. As in, I've been sorting out the expired candy from the not expired. You would be surprised how much expired candy has been sitting around by the registers waiting for people to buy it. There were M&Ms that were made in 2009. They would have expired in early/mid 2010. They were older than my daughter. Gross. It's made me not hungry. And I the bc pills are making me sensitive to smells. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups smell disgusting to me. I guess that's a good thing because I could eat a bag of them at once. I would feel gross and want to purge after, but I like them enough that I could and would eat that many at a time. But now they just seem disgusting. I'm hoping that it will stay this way and that I will find more foods disgusting. When I was pregnant I became super sensitive to vegetable oil. I still kinda am. But I'm fine with canola oil. And Friday I was supposed to work 5-10:30 but this person I work with has to take her son to the doctor so he can get his shots so he can go to pre-school or day care or whateverthefuck it was. So I am going to be working from 9-2:30? Something like that. I know 9 am and the manager said I could work until 2:30 or whatever so that I can get my hours instead of losing 1 1/2 hours since the person was supposed to work 9-1 meaning I would work fewer hours. So yeah... I didn't want to close really. And the thought of going to the river and drowning myself after I close occasionally pops into my mind. So it's better if I don't close because I have no one to call and talk to if I did want to afterwards because I deleted J's and AA's numbers.
I'm weighing myself tomorrow morning because apparently my mother is taking Friday through Tuesday off work. So I will have to go 5 days without weighing myself. It's gonna suck. I may have to figure out another way. I think D has a scale... I could probably go weigh myself there sometime... He would want sex though. And I don't want sex with him. And I haven't been on bc long enough for it to be effective. And I don't think he would know that it isn't effective yet. So I may go without weighing. I don't know. I still need his damn divorce papers so I can fill mine out. And he was supposed to have given me his so I can fill mine out already and he was supposed to have turned his in. I am really getting pissed off with him. He keeps telling me shit like "very soon". But of course his version of "very soon" is like 2 months from now. This shit is really getting old.
I'm not sure if J knows about this blog or not. I don't think he does. But I think he wants me to think he knows how to find it. And it sort of is working, but I don't think he actually knows. I think he is bluffing. Because if he knew, he would prove it. Right? He just has me confused as fuck. If he does know, I want him to prove it. Then I want him to talk to me directly about it.
Tomorrow is the day I will start putting in the effort to change my pill/drug issues. I'm nervous about it. I'm not completely ready. I've eaten a lot today because of it. At least I did when I got home. I had pizza for supper. Hy-Vee has pizza slices for $.99 on Wednesdays so people were talking about getting pizza and it made me want pizza. So that kind of started it. I'm hoping September will be a good month with the pill/drug issue and food/weight and everything. I could really use a good month. I mean, I want everything on track and going smoothly. I want a good month. I would love to be at a new low weight by the end of September. It's possible. 111 is my low weight. 110 would be lower. And that's only 5 lbs from what I weighed in at this morning. It's completely possible. I just have to focus on my goals and work hard and hopefully I will succeed. I hope September is good to everyone too.
~Kes
Sony and the Public Library
An interesting article came through one of our library mailing lists this morning. It appears that Sony has stepped up their commitment to public library service and ebook borrowing. Sony and OverDrive struck a deal about two years ago that paved the for this new Sony device, the PRS-T1.
What an interesting time for libraries! We may be hurting for money, but the opportunities are there to make some great leaps in service.
BYOT - Encouraging CIOs to BYOB
Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) or the consumerization of technology is currently a very active item in the technology blogs. This trend was forecast by Gartner Group and others at least 3 years ago, indicating that by 2010 over one half of endpoint technology decisions would be made by the end user.
The rising capabilities of smart phones, tablets, and other devices have made them infinitely more productive for users than the 4 year old company assigned laptop computer. Couple that with an overwhelming onslaught of advertising encouraging everyone from your boss to your grandmother to go out and get one of these things along with an increased expectation that this will "just work" on your network, it is no wonder that CIOs and IT Directors are wringing their hands about this catastrophic lack of control.
But is losing control such a bad thing?
Just in case you think that I've substituted the ASA for PCP, let me explain.
If you feel your role as an IT leader is to fortify your world against the onslaught of these devices, treat this as a choose your own adventure and advance to the next posting, but if you are at all intrigued, read on.
Firstly, we have no reason to be surprised by the concept of BYOT. It has been in the tech press for years.
Yes, years.
Secondly, BYOT is not a golden opportunity to offload hardware costs to the end user. Those of you in education will understand what I mean by this.
BYOT must fit into your strategy of making your organization more productive, more nimble, and more profitable (Or more efficient if you are a NPO or government). It is not about being cool.
Being comfortable with BYOT involves a major shift in perception about what the IT department really does. And this change is not done by your end users, but you.
Simply put, we no longer control machines, but manage the environment in which people use them.
Sorry Sheldon, IT is now about people, and how they use technology.
So how do we manage? Before you go out an create a bunch of silly rules and unenforceable policies (See DON’T READ THIS POST!!! for my comments on this subject), make sure you are managing the right thing. Hint, it's not about managing the end users.
Move the management to the network layer.
One of my favourite quotes (attributed to R. Buckminster Fuller) says "Don't expect people to do the right things. What you need to do is to make the right thing, the easiest thing to do." Good advice for network design.
Have you designed your network to allow appropriate access, and protect your core information and systems? In the SME world, this isn't always a given. It is amazing how many IT shops haven't implemented segmentation of traffic, or management tools to monitor and manage the traffic that flows over the network. Many have good practices, but I'm not surprised when I hear "we are getting around to it" when I talk to CIOs and Directors.
Today's firewalls and management tools provide a great deal of ability for a SME to have an awareness of what is going on over the network. You may also want to consider a real time monitoring tool such as Tri-Geo Networks device, that will proactively protect your network (e.g. shut down compromised ports) even before it notifies you.
I could go on ad infinitum, but I think I've made my point. Quit controlling machines, and start managing your environment to be flexible, extensible, and secure, while making your user community more productive, successful, and innovative (in a good way). There are some major pitfalls to manage in the BYOT environment. I'll work on them in a future post.
This post was one of my entries in Computerworld Canada's 2001 Blog Idol contest.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
John's Art: Mega Man Zero
Part I: DisCERNing CLOUDs and God Particles
Only an atheist would search for a God Particle. ~ Joseph Johnson
When I was a child I loved taking tests, at least until the time came when I was asked to show my work and to reveal how I came to the answers. Many times I could not explain or show my calculations. It was as if the answers just came to me from a language-free place in my heart-mind. This abstract way of thinking and learning proved frustrating to some of my teachers and forced me to change the natural manner in which I receive and exchange information. I quickly learned how to fit into the 20th century educational model of a good student by repressing, and worse, distrusting my innate intelligence. Over the years, I have recovered some of these discarded pieces and have lucid moments in which I simply "know" but cannot express why or how. Perhaps it is more accurate to say I "feel" the answer.
Thus it was with mixed 'feelings' that I read the latest news on climate change. Research scientists from CERN's CLOUD project have finally discovered out the cause of global warming: the Sun and cosmic rays (click here). Yes, now according to one of the most celebrated science clubs, climate change may in part be orchestrated by the Sun and the cosmic rays of many of its star siblings. While I may be exaggerating the results (for a more objective response click here ), this connection is one that my intuition had also suspected without spending 9 million dollars. So why is something tugging at that space in my heart suggesting "buyer beware" of this story instead of jumping for joy that my intuition was right. Could it be just a case of bloggers like myself taking a shred of evidence and making a eye-catching headline, or political agendas swaying opinion by misrepresenting the significance of the results?
Or could my distrust and disbelief be due to the fact that the story was released under Mercury retrograde? As most astrologers will tell you, Mercury retrograde is not the time to make agreements or start new projects because when the planet of communication is in retrograde motion, we might not be getting all the facts. Sometimes there may be missing or withheld information that is uncovered at a later time when the planet is direct. Mercury is the god of communication and his archetypes include the winged messenger, trickster and teacher. During a retrograde, the Trickster is more active and comes out to play, reveal and deceive. Moreover, CLOUD's results were published on August 24, 2011 when the Moon in Gemini/Ardra was in a mutual exchange (parivartana yoga) with Mercury in Cancer/Ashlesha. Ardra is a nakshatra associated with extreme and catastrophic weather changes and Ashlesha is a nakshatra associated with kundalini energy (cosmic rays) and with deception and intrigue. Thus by observing the astrological influences surrounding this announcement, we have additional intuitive evidence that there may be more to it than meets the uncritical eye.
The results of CLOUD's research were published on August 24, 2011 in the prestigious journal Nature with little fanfare that some say is because the findings are really not "interesting" or "significant" (click here). Even the Director General of CERN, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, stated:
I have asked the colleagues to present the results clearly, but not to interpret them. That would go immediately into the highly political arena of the climate change debate. One has to make clear that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters.
Sure, cosmic radiation is obviously only one of many parameters in global warming, but as physicist Lubos Motl points out:
'One has to make clear that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters' is really a proof of his [Heuer's] prejudice. Whether the cosmic radiation is just one player or the only relevant player or an important player or an unimportant player is something that this very research has been supposed to determine or help to determine. An official doesn’t have the moral right to predetermine in advance what “one has to make clear” about these a priori unknown scientific results.
The hypothesis that cosmic rays and the sun hold the key to the global warming debate has been rejected and suppressed by the global warming establishment ever since it was first proposed by two scientists from the Danish Space Research Institute at a 1996 scientific conference in the U.K. Although the Danes found themselves marginalized by mainstream science, well respected physicists such as Jasper Kirby were still interested and brave enough to convince the managing powers of CERN to sink some money into the CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets) experiment. According to Lawrence Solomon: It took Mr. Kirkby almost a decade of negotiation with his superiors, and who knows how many compromises and unspoken commitments, to convince the CERN bureaucracy to allow the project to proceed. And years more to create the cloud chamber and convincingly validate the Danes’ groundbreaking theory. Thus it is amazing that CERN, whose initial job description is arguably something completely different than atmospheric science, would spend 9 million dollars on a project with such a controversial hypothesis.
And I find it somewhat ironic that CERN, the organization that invented the World Wide Web (the first gate to the virtual world) and built the Large Hadron Collider (LHC for short that some say is a star gate) to find the Higgs boson, the so-called God particle, is now stuck in the middle of the debate concerning the source global warming: whether it is a natural or man-made process. The contrast between the two worlds is intriguing and raises questions about the meaning of creation. The natural world is a creation or expression the divine god-mind, whereas the imaginary world of the internet is designed by the mental field of man-mind. Is Man imitating God, or worse seeking His magical power stored in an elementary particle? So much of CERN's work is hidden from the public eye that it makes me suspect of their motives and of their findings (even though I have said for years it's the sun and cosmic rays heating up all the planets in our solar system). And now that the director of CERN has publicly revealed his political bias and shut down scientists from making inevitable conclusions, it is clear there is more going on than meets the eye.
Even more starting than this new research that indicates global warming is a natural process, is CERN's recent the admission that the elusive Higgs boson particle, or God particle, may not exist after all. After months of reports of internal leaks and rumors that CERN scientists were on the brink of, or had found, the Higgs boson particle, they reversed gears and announced at the Lepton-Photon conference in Mumbai that their research shows a 95 percent probability that the hypothetical Higgs boson particle is nothing more than a figment of imagination (click here for more). This is a BIG deal in the physics world. Since 1963 the Higgs boson has been theorized by many in the physics community to be the elementary particle responsible for sparking the Big Bang, and thus the entire universe and everything in it. The Higgs boson is often referred to as "the God particle" by the media, taken from the title of Leon Lederman's book, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? Lederman initially wanted to call it the "goddamn particle," but his editor would not let him.
Many scientists dislike the nickname 'God particle' as it overstates its importance. The existence of the Higgs boson is postulated to resolve inconsistencies in theoretical physics. It is the only elementary particle in the Standard Model that has not yet been observed in particle physics experiments and is considered the Holy Grail by physicists who support this model. The Higgs boson particle is believed to be responsible for diffusing massive particles with their mass when the Universe was more youthful. In other words, the Higgs boson is part of a meta-narrative that physicists use to explain the creation of the Universe. So if the Higgs doesn’t exist, where does mass in the universe come from? Now it seems that theories that go beyond the Standard Model of particle physics may be taken more seriously.
Of course not all physicists agree with the Big Bang theory or the existence of the Higgs boson. Even Stephen Hawking made a famous bet a few years ago that CERN's LHC, along with every other particle accelerator, won’t find the Higgs boson, the elusive ‘God particle‘, simply because it does not exist (click here). Looks like he may be right. Personally my own preference for theories like the cyclic universe described in the Endless Universe by Steinhart and Turok or Endless, Boundless, Stable Universe by Grote Reber comes from a feeling or belief that the universe is indeed infinite, and goes through periods of cyclic expansion and contraction. I find Nassim Haramein's unification theory far more promising than the Big Bang theory as it answers many of inconsistencies of theoretical physics. For example his work on the Schwarzschild proton strongly suggests that matter at many scales may be organized by black-holes and black hole-like phenomena and thereby lead to a scale unification of the fundamental forces and matter. (Click here for a link to more of Haramein's research papers.) Thus there are no elementary particles, only fractal levels with a black (w)hole at the center that goes on for infinity.
While the scientists at CERN state that, with a 95% probability, the Higgs boson does not exist within the range of energies the LHC has so far explored, between 145 and 466 billion electron volts, there is still a 5% chance that the Higgs is hiding somewhere within this energy range. So the search is not quite over. Hmmm.
Amir Aczel at Scientific American writes:
So while CERN will continue its search for the Higgs at least until the end of this year, if no positive results about the Higgs should come out, Stephen Hawking—betting against the entire world of physics, as it were—would be able to cash in on his wager. And in that case, Congress may feel that even though its 1993 decision to cancel the American alternative to CERN—the Superconducting Super Collider—was generally met with chagrin by the American physics community, it may have been the right move one after all: to spend billions of taxpayer dollars in search of a particle that likely does not exist would have been wasteful.
So what will happen to CERN now that two of its big experiments have proved the opposite of what they initially proposed? After taking 16 years and $10 billion to build, is the LHC headed for the garbage heap? Unlikely. Could CERN's LHC be used for something else? Or has all that money be used to study something else?
Over the years CERN's quest for the so-called 'God particle' has raised a lot of controversy especially in conspiracy circles and in fundamentalist religious groups. Perhaps spurred on by popular books and movies like Angels and Demons, based on Dan Brown's mystery thriller, whose plot involves stolen anti-matter from CERN, secret societies, and priests gone bad, many blogs and commentaries expressed fear that the accelerator would ultimately create a black hole and destroy the planet. The blockbuster movie Angels and Demons was released in May of 2009, nine months after the LHC was first fired up and six months before its first successful smash up. And of course CERN's logo has caused some conCERN as it is a stylized representation of 6-6-6, which only amplifies the apocalyptic themes associated with the LHC. Or perhaps it's the statue of Shiva Nataraja given to CERN by the Indian government to celebrate the research center's long association with India that castes a shadow over CERN's true purpose. In the Hindu tradition Shiva is the destroyer or transformer god among the Trimurti (Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva), the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine.
A plaque next to the statue explains the significance of the metaphor of Shiva's cosmic dance with several quotations from The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra:
More recently, Fritjof Capra explained that "Modern physics has shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of all living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter," and that "For the modern physicists, then, Shiva's dance is the dance of subatomic matter."
It is indeed as Capra concluded: "Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics."
The two most common forms of Shiva's dance are the Lasya (the gentle form of dance), associated with the creation of the world, and the Tandava (the violent and dangerous dance), associated with the destruction of weary worldviews. The Lasya and the Tandava are just two aspects of Shiva's nature: he destroys in order to create, tearing down to build again. Assigned with destroying all of the universe at the end of time, CERN's Shiva appears to be guarding what some might call a doomsday machine capable of creating black holes that would destroy the planet. Others see CERN and the LHC as a secret military project designed to open up star gates or portals to other worlds as in the movie Contact. There was even a bizarre report of a "man from the future" who was arrested at the LHC claiming that he had travelled from the future to prevent the LHC from destroying the world (click here ). He mysteriously escaped.
Author and investigative mythologist William Henry describes an intriguing similarity between the 8-spoked LHC and the 8-spoked wheel indicating a wormhole in Mayan cosmology.
Henry writes: As I discussed in my DVD presentation, Stargate 2012, the Mayans say from out of this tree/star alignment comes a serpent rope with an enlightened being named Nine Winds or Quetzalcoatl riding upon it and a blessed substance’ or ‘sap’ the Mayans called itz (literally ‘the blessed substance’) apparently spewing from it.Usually, when one thinks of ‘sap’ they’re thinking of a watery liquid nutrient that circulates through the conducting tissues of a plant or tree (that or a person who acts like an idiot). However, when I Go(ogle)d, excuse me, Googled, ‘cosmic sap’ I found that ‘sap’ is also an acronym for ‘sub atomic particle’ (or sap). Hmm. Are the Mayans describing a ‘blessed sub atomic particle’ that will appear in 2012, give or take year or two? Is this the same as the God Particle?
Some circles believe that CERN is punching holes in the space-time continuum resulting in unusual and unexplained phenomena like the Norway spiral.
Was it mere coincidence that on December 9, 2009, 8 hours after CERN smashed together subatomic particles at the highest energies ever reached by a human-made accelerator (click here), the enigmatic Norway Spiral suddenly appeared over the morning skies of Norway (click here) a day before Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
Two days prior to the big smash and Norway lights, the UN Convention on Climate Control, COP-15, the child of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, began their annual two week meeting in nearby Copenhagen. Every year since the convention was established a conference takes place called Conference of the Parties, or COP for short, where the countries which have ratified the convention meet to discuss how they can meet the objective of the convention: to prevent global warming. According to the official Denmark website: "the goals of the climate change convention are to stabilize the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at a level that prevents dangerous man-made climate changes." Although the official policies were based on consensus among scientists that global warming is a driven by human activities and caused by the burning of fossil fuels in cars, trucks and power plants, the logo for the 2009 meeting was odd.
So what inspired their blue logo which looks more like an image of an elemental particle than something to do with the planet earth like the previous and later logos of COP-14 and COP-16 both of which use a world tree image. Isn't it a strange synchronicity that the logo bears a remarkable resemblance to CERN's particle imagery and same blue hue as the Norway spiral. It also bears a remarkable resemblance to images from the 2007 science fiction film The Last Mimzy. Presented as a flashback, The Last Mimzy is the story of a distant future's attempt to avert a catastrophic ecological disaster that has destroyed their world. Hmmm.
And don't even get me started on the synchronicity of all these blue phenomenon and logos with the release of James Cameron's Avatar in December 2009. As I have written in previous posts I associate blue with the fifth and sixth chakras that vibrate in a blue frequency and correspond to truth and spiritual insight. There is also an element of fantasy associated with the blue chakras, like a desire for purity, or for the world to be other than it is. So what is with the blue of all these logos? It does resemble the electron cloud of an atom. Is it a blue particle? Does it remind you of anything? Remember the book cover from Jaeckel's The God Particle?
What is this blue sphere? The great Hindu sage Swami Muktananda (1908–1982), who introduced Siddha Yoga practices and meditation techniques to the United Sates, gave a detailed description of the significance and of his experiences of what he calls the Blue Pearl: The Blue Pearl is the subtlest covering of an individual soul. When we see this tiny blue light in meditation, we should understand that we are seeing the form of the inner Self. To experience this is the goal of human life. [The Blue Pearl] is tiny, but it contains all the different planes of existence. Thus a blue pearl might be compared to the speck of divine, or god particle, in each of us.
My yoga teacher Katerina Wen first introduced me to the concept of the blue dot/orb in this video by Liquid Buddha. The video begins with an energetic representation of the blue lotus surrounded by white orbs and from which a spiraling dodecahedron emerges. It is an amazing visual representation of the energetic forces of consciousness.
In his book The Oracle of the Illuminati William Henry reveals how historically this image was also called the Blue Apple, the Divine Blue Particle, and the Blue Stone. Henry writes: The expression blue blooded, and the meaning of blue skin, I believe, originally symbolized the idea of having the wisdom of the Word, the Divine Blue Being, pulsing in one's veins (vines). The closer one was to becoming the Blue Being the bluer one's blood ran and the bluer one's skin became. In his book Blue Apples, Henry also suggests that Blue Stones are an exotic matter that the gods, or extraterrestrials, used to create gateways and pass through to other realms.
Moreover, at the end of 2009 Henry had a lot to say about the connection between the Norway spiral, CERN stargates, and the COP-15 convention as part of the beginning of a "new world order." In an article called Warning: The Apotheosis is at Hand, World Government is Here he revealed:
. . . the new European Union President Herman van Rompuy said last week, "The climate conference in Copenhagen is another step toward the global management of our planet." . . . Fortunately, the signing of the binding treaty has been delayed till later in 2010. Seems the conference’s earth chilling plans may have melted on November 23, 2009 when emails released by an anonymous computer hacker revealed that several leading climate scientists hired to provide objective and factual climate data to the Copenhagen conference allegedly manipulated climate data and research. This data was used by the conference’s advisors the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPPC claimed that man-made emissions are causing calamitous global warming. It turns out that the computer models that a lot of the policy the UN advocates positions are based on may be full of, well, I will let you fill in the blank. The scientists knew it and manipulated the data to promote their do or die climate scenario. They got caught. It’s being called “the greatest scientific scandal ever.”
So now, two years later, CERN is releasing ground-breaking information on global warming and admitting the God particle may not exist, all under Mercury retrograde which may mean more revelation or scandal is coming. And even more disconcerting is the new logo for this fall's COP-17, a leafless and withering tree.Seventeen is a number associated with themes of salvation, hope and ascension. In addition to its obvious connection to the 17th major arcana Star card in the Tarot, blogger Christopher Knowles has been commenting on 17s association with Osiris, lord of the underworld, whose Egyptian feast day is the 17th of March, and how it relates to the Blazing star of the Masons in his blog, the Secret Sun. In his Stairway to Sirius series he illuminates the incredible synchronicity between apparently unconnected events that occurred in December 2009. They are all tied together by the symbol of the star, or "secret sun." Could the secret sun also be the blue pearl? Like the Hopi blue Kachina, the secret sun is suppose to reveal itself at the end of time.
According to Vedic astrologer Prash Trivedi the number 17 is usually seen as a bringer of celestial waters down to the earth plane. Anuradha is the 17th nakshatra which presides over numerology and is known as the decoder of the secrets of the universe. Both Trivedi and Knowles contend that 17's magic goes back to ancient mystery cults of Egypt. Conspiracy writers believe it is used to trigger the subconscious mind and ready it for download. The nakshatra Anuradha contains three stars in the body of Scorpio. Although its primary symbol is the lotus flower, it's secondary symbol is an archway -- or portal. Just as the roots of a lotus are buried in the mud, they must grow and push the stem up through the water in the sunlight and release the delicately scented flower. This pattern of growth signifies the progress of the soul from the primeval mud of materialism, through the waters of experience, and into the bright sunshine of enlightenment. Thus the symbols of Anuradha reflects its ability to bring the flowering of consciousness out of the challenges of the murky material world and perhaps open up a new portal for our enlightened bodies to pass through. Anuradha is ruled by the planet Saturn, the blue deity who rules over time. Could the 17th nakshatra also be pointing to a blue stargate?
After a year full of weather-related disasters such as the nuclear melt down following the 8.9 earthquake in Japan, drought and famine in Somalia, and record summer heat in much of the US, COP-17's world tree has lost its leaves and is barren. Let's hope the COP-17 leafless tree image is not forecasting the destruction of the world tree, but rather like the green Osiris, the hibernation period before the resurrection and return of the tree of life on our planet.
May you reconnect with your own blue apple and raise the frequency on this beautiful blue pearl that we share and call Earth.
ॐ Namaste! ॐ
To be continued. . .
