Monthly Archives: August 2011

Peruvian 13 Towers Sun Citadel

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The Thirteen Towers: Peruvian Citadel is Site of Earliest Ancient Solar Observatory in the Americas

Existence of sophisticated Sun cults uncovered by researchers from University of Leicester and Yale University

Article Image and Home Page Image: courtesy of Ivan Ghezzi

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A 2,300 year old solar observatory in Peru has been identified by new research published today (March 1), in the journal Science, by archaeologists from the University of Leicester and Yale University.

The Thirteen Towers of Chankillo have been discovered to span, almost exactly, the annual rising and setting arcs of the sun when viewed from two specially constructed observation points.

The existence of this observatory predates the European conquests by 1,800 years and even precedes the monuments of similar purpose constructed by the Mayans in Central America.

Chankillo is a large ceremonial centre covering several square kilometers. It was better known in the past for a heavily fortified hilltop structure with massive walls, restricted gates, and parapets. But the purpose of a 300m-long line of Thirteen Towers lying along a small hill nearby had remained a mystery. New evidence now identifies it as a solar observatory.

And the researchers go further-pointing to evidence of an ancient Sun cult participating in public rituals and feasts directly linked to the observation and interpretation of the seasonal passage of the Sun.

to read more, go to:  http://www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/news/press-releases/2000-2009/2007/03/nparticle.2007-03-02.8855875843

Historic Contact: Celts & Pawnee Indians

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The Pawnee Americans is an obscure 1925 article recently brought to our attention by a reader. Author Mark E. Zimmerman cites archaeological finds along major riverways throughout mid-America as well as Native American ethnographies to theorize Celts, who came to America long before Columbus, had children with the ancestors of a Pawnee tribe, the same one mentioned by Von Del Chamberlain in his 1982 book When Stars Came Down to Earth: Cosmology of the Skidi Pawnee Indians of North America illustrated with a map of the Milky Way preserved on a tanned elk hide. (NY Times article on Adler Planetarium show “Spirits From the Sky” in late 2000). Although Zimmerman believes these “long heads” slowly migrated from the eastern seaboard, through the Ohio River valley to what is today southeastern Nebraska and northeastern Kansas, perhaps more conveniently, Celtic sailors well may have navigated the inland waterways to bring their Ogham and European archaeoastronomy to southeastern Colorado and the Oklahoma Panhandle. Zimmerman’s 13 page article, highlighted and including our map, below, has just been added to our online PDF bibliography. You may download the 1.2 MB article directly here. Alternatively, for an overview of this and more, watch Celts & Indians on our videos page.

Zimmerman refers to a tribal elder Lenni Lenape historian and the Walum Olum, tree bark pictographs to aid in recalling song verses. More about the largely ignored, Native American ethnographic record on this, can be found at Frozen Trail, a web site describing Norse travels across an ice bridge from Greenland to Labrador. At the bottom of this external web page are links for more about the controversy regarding this artifact, discredited and discarded by much of academia, still simmering in 2008.
satellite map showing selective mid-American riverways and locations

 

Xinjiang Earthquake

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Earthquake China today (Xinjiang) : 26 people injured + 80 collapsed rooms

Last update: August 11, 2011 at 2:09 pm by By Armand Vervaeck and James Daniell

Earthquake overview : A new potentially damaging earthquake occurred in the Xinjiang Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture Artux, Kashi Jiashi County. The shallow depth of 8 km combined with the locally measured magnitude of5.8 makes this earthquake extremely dangerous for people living near the epicenter.

China August 11 2011 epicenter area landscape – panoramio picture by littlexu – http://www.panoramio.com/photo/550897

to read more, go to:    http://earthquake-report.com/2011/08/11/new-potentially-damaging-earthquake-in-china-xinjiang/

Potential Tropical Storm Systems Developing

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Tropical threats loom starting with Invest 92L and areas east of it

Published on August 11, 2011 12:00 am PT
– By Kevin Martin – Senior Meteorologist
– Article Editor and Approved – Warren Miller


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(TheWeatherSpace.com) — The tropics off Cape Verde are heating up and throwing disturbances out into the Eastern Atlantic and one of them looks very healthy.

There are two outlined by NHC, the furthest west one with a better chance of development and another one just coming off Africa with a lesser chance.

However, I would like to keep an eye on the one further east due to the stacked upper level features it has. Invest 92L is detached from the upper level system or easterly wave near it while the one without an invest assigned to it has a circulation developing from the surface to 25,000 feet which is good for a healthy tropical wave.

Knowing where these will go at the time is going to be tough so will wait a day or two, however both systems will track westward through the Atlantic over the next week.

for more, go to:    http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-08_11_2011_tropics.html

Underwater Volcano off Oregon Has Erupted

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Surprise! Underwater volcano has erupted

Scientists going back to pick up monitoring equipment find a changed seafloor

By Andrea Mustain

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updated 8/9/2011 5:36:28 PM ET

An undersea volcano has erupted off the coast of Oregon, spewing forth a layer of lava more than 12 feet thick in some places, and opening up deep vents that belch forth a cloudy stew of hot water and microbes from deep inside the Earth.

Scientists uncovered evidence of the early April eruption on a routine expedition in late July to the Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano that stands 250 miles off the coast of Oregon.

The discovery came as a surprise, as researchers attempted to recover instruments they’d left behind to monitor the peak a year earlier. When the researchers hefted a seafaring robotic vehicle overboard to fetch the instruments, the feed from the onboard camera sent back images of an alien seafloor landscape.

to read more, go to:    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44080264/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Facts About Meditation

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7 Fascinating Facts About Meditation

The Huffington Post      First Posted: 7/15/11 08:25 AM ET   Updated: 7/28/11 08:09 PM ET

Over the last decade, interest in the science of meditation has skyrocketed. We now know more than ever before about just how meditation affects our minds and bodies. Increased research has led to a plethora of fascinating discoveries: Take, for instance, the fact that meditation can prevent heart disease. Or that it reduces stress. Or that it can significantly lessen ADHD symptoms, and in many cases, beats medication.

Still, much is left to be discovered. We know more but we definitely don’t know everything. While we wait for science to catch up with ancient wisdom, check out this slideshow on the complex effects of the simple act of focused breathing.

 

It Makes Your Brain Plastic
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Quite literally, sustained meditation leads to something called neuroplasticity, which is defined as the brain’s ability to change, structurally and functionally, on the basis of environmental input.

For much of the last century, scientists believed that the brain essentially stopped changing after adulthood.

But research by University of Wisconsin neuroscientist Richard Davidson has shown that experienced meditators exhibit high levels of gamma wave activityand display an ability — continuing after the meditation session has attended — to not get stuck on a particular stimulus. That is, they’re automatically able to control their thoughts and reactiveness

Standardized Tests Bad Indicator of Student Performance

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(Oh, and why is this a surprise?????)

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Standardized Tests’ Measures Of Student Performance Vary Widely: Study

Proficiency Analysis

First Posted: 8/10/11 09:30 AM ET Updated: 8/10/11 10:06 AM ET

by Joy Resmovits

The United States has 50 distinct states, which means there are 50 distinct definitions of “proficient” on standardized tests for students.

For example, an Arkansas fourth-grader could be told he is proficient in reading based on his performance on a state exam. But if he moved across the border to Missouri, he might find that’s no longer true, according to a new report.

“This is a really fundamental, interesting question about accountability reform in education,” Jack Buckley, commissioner of the government organization that produced the report, told reporters on a Tuesday conference call.

The report, written by the Education Department’s National Center for Education Statistics, found that the definition of proficiency on standardized tests varies widely among states, making it difficult to assess and compare student performance. The report looked at states’ standards on exams and found that some states set much higher bars for students proficiency in particular subjects.

to read more, go to:   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/10/standardized-tests-standards-vary-widely_n_922908.html

The term “proficiency” is key because the federal No Child Left Behind law mandates that 100 percent of students must be “proficient” under state standards by 2014 — a goal that has beenuniversally described as impossible to reach.

Growing New Teeth from Stem Cells

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Science with real bite: Full set of teeth grown in the lab

By FIONA MACRAE

Last updated at 5:26 PM on 13th July 2011

Scientists have grown fully formed teeth from stem cells.

The artificial teeth looked like the real thing, were sensitive to pain and could chew food.

The breakthrough was made on mice but could pave the way for those who lose teeth to decay or injury being able to ‘grow’ replacements.

Cutting edge: A bioengineered tooth, bottom right, successfully transplanted into the jaw of a mouseCutting edge: A bioengineered tooth, bottom right, successfully transplanted into the jaw of a mouse

The researchers harnessed the power of stem cells – ‘master cells’ which have the potential to be used to grow any part of the body – to generate teeth.

Two types of stem cell which between them contain all the instructions for making teeth were mixed together and grown in the lab in a mixture of chemicals and vitamins that started their transformation.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2014076/Science-real-bite-Full-set-teeth-grown-lab.html#ixzz1UdpLe8GW

 

Nebraska Tornadoes Due?

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Red Cloud Nebraska ! HAARP rings / scalar square epicenter = HIT w/ tornadoes

Posted on August 10, 2011 by dutchsinse

watch the video here:

go to:    http://www.dutchsinse.com/blog/

very obvious confirmation of HAARP rings and Scalar squares that appeared two days ago.

here is the ORIGINAL forecast calling for Red Cloud Nebraska to get tornadoes within 1-2 days from the point the ring / scalar square appeared over the area.

All the areas marked with “tornadic winds/development” were HAARRP ring and scalar square areas!!!

to read more, go to:    http://www.dutchsinse.com/blog/