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Lightworker 808: Starseed Ascension Short-Cuts and Star Races
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2017-01-20T00:45:45.000Z
2017-01-20T00:45:45.000Z
J-Tariah Aset Maat Kumara
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<div><p>LIGHTWORKER 808: STARSEED ASCENSION SHORT-CUTS AND STAR RACES -- GFL & ASHTAR COMMAND DOWNLOAD<br /> J--Tar'ia'h En Ra El -- jtariah@protonmail.com --<a href="http://www.20Dhealing.com">www.20Dhealing.com</a></p><p>You probably think you are perusing this writing to learn more about starseed Ascension shortcuts and star races. Yet, reading these words begins your path towards a new reality. You are seeking your origins in the skies above: this is your quest. You are upon an adventurous intergalactic quest to find reflections of your innermost “self” -- patterns to identify with -- fractals which mirror you to your real Starseed family.</p><p>When you are truly Ascending and/or when you have already Ascended to the 5th Dimension, you will constantly be experiencing serendipity, a sense of inner wisdom, your body will be growing younger, and you will be instantly manifesting your wants and needs! Not quite there yet? Here are some super easy Starseed Ascension Shortcuts for you to use to rocket yourself to the 5th dimension and beyond!</p><p>Go Vegan Plus Probiotics -- this will get rid of all of your sleepiness and all groggy feelings, plus this will remove all ''time-loss'' scenarios!</p><p>Wear only Cotton or Hemp -- this will increase connections to your Guides, Angels, and Twin Flames, because synthetics block higher dimensions!</p><p>Remove Metal from Your Wardrobe --- this also increases connections to the Angelic realm. Only copper is Angel plusFaerie Sidhe friendly!</p><p>Be Celibate or Twin Flame Monogomous -- Being sensual only with your own Soul, with the self, with your Twin Flame heightens your dimension!</p><p>Create and Maintain Starseed Altars -- Creating Starseed Altars with your higher dimensional desires is a sure gateway to maintain your 5D reality!</p><p>Take Salt Baths -- Dunking in salt water followed by clear water daily removes 3D annd 4D residue from your Soul, body, and Merkaba!</p><p>Keep Crystals On You -- Drilled & copper-wrapped crystals -- and on your body, and in your bedroom -- help you maintain higher dimensions always!</p><p>Use Essential Oils & Hire Shamans for Healing -- Avoid western medicine in order to Ascend your pure Soul to the higher crystalline dimensions!</p><p>If you do not know ''HOW'' to do these shortcuts, write to me at jtariah@protonmail.com and I will help you out at no cost! And yes, I AM doing all of these shortcuts myself, daily!</p><p>Your Starseed relatives -- within the ships -- are attempting to talk with you now. They are trying all means of communication available. They approach you through dreams, visual signs, plus you may sense them physically of feel their ever-persistent presence in the psychic realms. Are you listening? Are you feeling? Are you sensing?</p><p>While you believe you are sleeping, you are -- in fact -- *on assignment* on your ship above. You are now attending ship-side schools related to your skill-set and Starseed race. Fundamentally, you're being *reprogrammed* for a brighter intergalactic future every night.</p><p>Many factors and tests (in the ships and higher dimensional areas while you believe you are sleeping) have decided your upcoming roles and jobs -– in the very near future -– in these primary arenas:<br /> - Acting as a Liaison between Humans and many other Star Races;<br />- Being a journalist on one of many media 7D holo ships;<br />- Returning to your home planet for rest and reunions;<br />- Working in this system for the Ashtar Command;<br />- Being a VOYAGER with your Twin Flames;<br />- Employment in space farm agriculture;<br />- Negotiating within a liaison / alliance;<br />- Performing within a committee;<br />- Being an empath healer;<br />- Working for the GFL;<br />- Being an artist;<br />- Performer;<br />- Pilot.</p><p>Most of these posts involve living on a ship, if only for a short time. This calls for traveling to a different planet within another galaxy -- or to an alternative dimensional reality such as a parallel universe -- or to even to a higher frequency of expression.</p><p>While you are co-habitating within a starship, flagship or lightship, you will be interacting with those from across the Cosmos! They will not be comparable to anything you’ve seen, felt, or perceived with your current reality veils (in this incarnation thus far).</p><p>Since you are now experiencing dimensional shifts leading to *life aboard the ships with your star race family* it is crucial to be as open-minded and open-hearted as possible: there are infinite prisms of kindness and utility that can be found within each planetary civilization.</p><p>Your Starseed relatives cannot *yet* be completely understood from your current vantage point, but will be holistically perceivable during your ecstatic love-filled multidimensional Starseed reunion.</p><p>You will be surrounded by non-human *family* on these ships (and your appearance will most definitely reflect theirs in your future). What will they look like? What will they be like? Here are some basic essential traits of just a few of the planetary star races you will relate with very soon:</p><p>Andromedans:<br /> 1) The 7D, 8D and 9D humanoid group-thinkers from the Andromedan Star System, or; 2) term identifying the race of sentient service-to-other beings occupying the livable planets such as Aion in the Andromeda sector, as well as; 3) Sentients known for perfecting co-creation for peacefully-running planets and star bases.</p><p>Arcturians:<br /> 1) Both 6D and 7D Sentient service-to-other beings occupying the livable planets and bases in the area of the star Arcturus, and; 2) These individuals are known by their deep compassion and unfailing kindness towards all walks of life in all dimensions.</p><p>Centaurians from Meton in Alpha Centauri:<br /> 1) 7D - 12D Loving high dimensional humanoids who are descendants of Venus Beings; and 2) Wildly strategic deep mental thinkers who are holographically connected to the Great Central Sun and maintain a 12D Akashic Library within it, and; 3) Gorgeous brainy beings whose ships appear in the form of a Merkaba spinning.</p><p>Centaurians from Proximi Centauri:<br /> 1) 5D to 7D Beings who come in the form of Humanoids and Reptoids, and hybrids who have both types of DNA; 2) Strategists, counselors, and empaths who are excellent benevolent thought-broadcasters; 3) machine savants who can fix anything mechanical, and; 4) Peaceful and harmonious group-thinkers with telepathy.</p><p>Lyrans:<br /> 1) Felines -- the original progenitor race of this Universe -- who are beautiful bipedal (standing) cats, and; 2) 6D through 12D Creators originally from the Vegan Star System of a planet called Lyra, but now live everywhere in the Universe, and; 3) Planners of many flagships and living planets, plus; 4) Cat-Beings who have a keen sense of fair play in all arenas, plus; 5) Sentients who believe that their young have more wisdom than elders.</p><p>Orion Beings:<br /> 1) 4D and 5D polymorphs who are either chameleon-reptilian or humanoid-reptilian hybrids, and; 2) Beings from the Orion System – also called the Orion Nebula – whom reside upon planets and space stations throughout the Universe, and; 3) Individuals and soul-collectives from Orion who have tendencies towards high intellectual pursuits in physics, plus; 4) Sentients whose self-ascension practices are linked to extreme isolation, as well as; 5) Beings well-known for the utter perfection of holographic recreation of other star races' emvironments.</p><p>Pegasians from the Pegasus Galaxy:<br /> 1) Humanoid descendants from Sirius B and Dinoids plus hybrids who have DNA from both; 2) Innovators, scientists, and diplomats in many sectors; 3) Expert polite gracious beings who are expert in creating peace, plus; 4) Linguists whose brains are adept and learning thousands of languages at once.</p><p>Pleiadians:<br /> 1) 5D and 6D humanoids as well as reptilian-humanoid hybrids (in gorgeous prismatic skin colors) from the planets surrounding the stars Targeta and Maia; 2) Soul-collective service-to-others beings who are artistic and sensual in nature, plus; 3) Beings who are masters of storytelling as well as inspired artistic ingenuity in<br />both music and projected visualizations.</p><p>Sirians from Sirius A:<br /> 1) 6D - 8D hybrids with a variety of humanoid, canine, and fox-like appearances resulting from tremendous dna manipulation, as well as; 2) Star races who are experts in bodily implant-device-tracking over eons of time, plus; 3) Beings well-versed in hyper-advanced bio-technology and organic holographic realities, and; 4) Sentients who are well-known across the Universe for their senses of humor, and their love of practical jokes.</p><p>Sirians from Sirius B:<br /> 1) Nektons of hyper-intelligent water beings -- called Chloglians, who look like Cetaceans (dolphins, whales, and orcas) of Earthshan -- whom group-think within pods, and; 2) Chloglian-humanoid hybrids, who are bipedal in shades of pale blues and greens, and; 3) Higher dimensional Sentients who reside in and upon many planets to raise vibrations, plus; 4) Playful and loving group-consciousness beings, known for their intricate songs, and also; 5) Advanced Beings who can live as numerous souls (called a pod) within one biological entity, such as a whale or orca.</p><p>Now that you have some depictions of some of your biological star race relatives, spend some time each day communicating with them -- until you have a constant rapport -- so you can quickly Ascend upward beyond the mundane.</p><p>Multidimensional life with your Starseed relatives is multi-layered, and must be cultivated by **you** making an effort to be alert to all subtleties. You need to reach out towards your Star relatives to begin communicating with them to have a relationship with them in a pro-active way!</p><p>It is the time to discipline yourself to be silent and aware of every nuance through waking hours of hearing (e.g.; you hear songs about specific constellations, star beings, etc.). Also it is vital to be hyper-aware of what you’re seeing (i.e.; you notice paintings of aliens, observing lightships everywhere, seeing number sequences indicating names of universes). Focus all of your six senses on receiving signals from your NOW future’s new realities.</p><p>Force your inner “Self” to wake up! Attempt to be lucid while your projected Earthshan body sleeps: talk to whomever you meet in dreams, as they just might be your relatives in the ships above.<br /> In the near future -- the upcoming articles will cover electrifying intergalactic chronicles, including: future home planets, Starseed missions, how to interact with non-organic life forms, and more! Meanwhile, WAKE UP -- shake others awake -- and remember that you are not *Home* yet…</p><p>///\\\\\\//\\//\\//\\\/\/\/\\\\\\\\\\\////\\//\\//\\//\\//\\\/<br /> About the Author:<br />J--Tar'ia'h En Ra El is a Walk-In from three space sectors. Every night during lucid dreaming, she is within the ships above attending school. Currently – during the day – she is a published poet, author and artist. Her Lightworking includes being a PR specialist for Sananda’s Eagles: <a href="http://www.sanandaseagles.com">www.sanandaseagles.com</a>. Her new post-Matrix website can be found at <a href="http://www.20dhealing.com">www.20dhealing.com</a>. In the near future – her upcoming articles will cover exciting multidimensional information, including: future home planets, intergalactic cultural understanding, how to interact with non-organic life forms, and more!</p><p>///\\\\\\//\\//\\//\\\/\/\/\\\\\\\\\\\////\\//\\//\\//\\//\\\/<br /> Distribution Information:<br />You are free to distribute this essay only if you do so in its entirety, including the article and graphics plus the “about the author” bio with the article links. Thank you and enjoy your new Freedom. This writing is NOT copy written.<br />///\\\\\\//\\//\\//\\\/\/\/\\\\\\\\\\\////\\//\\//\\//\\//\\\/</p><p>Lightworker 101:<br /> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/101-lightworker">http://tinyurl.com/101-lightworker</a><br />Lightworker 202:<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/202-lightworker">http://tinyurl.com/202-lightworker</a><br />Lightworker 303:<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/303-lightworker">http://tinyurl.com/303-lightworker</a><br />Lightworker 404:<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/light-worker-404">http://tinyurl.com/light-worker-404</a><br />Lightworker 505:<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/lightworker-505">http://tinyurl.com/lightworker-505</a><br />Lightworker 606:<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/lightworker-606">http://tinyurl.com/lightworker-606</a><br />Lightworker 707:<br /><a href="http://tinyurl.com/707-lightworker">http://tinyurl.com/707-lightworker</a></p><p>jtariah@protonmail.com</p></div>
Weird red rain in India - are we aliens? part 1 & 2 - We Are The Aliens - BBC Space
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/weird-red-rain-in-india-are-we-aliens-part-1-2-we-are-the-aliens
2014-02-18T23:29:56.000Z
2014-02-18T23:29:56.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);"><strong><span class="font-size-3">Weird red rain in India - are we aliens? part 1 - We Are The Aliens - BBC Space</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Vb_y_Xed6Ek?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/Vb_y_Xed6Ek">http://youtu.be/Vb_y_Xed6Ek</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Uploaded on 26 Sep 2008<br />In July 2001, southern India was hit by weird red rain floods. What could cause it? Or who? Watch this fascinating clip from BBC Horizon science show 'We Are the Aliens' to find out more</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">Weird red rain in India - are we aliens? part 2 - We Are The Aliens - BBC Space</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xccamQ3aQzs?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/xccamQ3aQzs">http://youtu.be/xccamQ3aQzs</a></p></div>
The week in photos 22/7/11
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/the-week-in-photos-22-7-11
2014-02-09T19:55:54.000Z
2014-02-09T19:55:54.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620870,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621278,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621467,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621668,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621700,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900622290,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900623075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900623675,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900624072,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900624854,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900625090,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900625890,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(128,0,0);">The week in photos 22/7/11</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong>A look at the week's most striking photos from across the globe</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620870,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620870,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900620870?profile=original" /></a>A pair of twin boys had to be rescued by firefighters after becoming trapped on a window grid in Yulin, southern China's Guangxi Province. The two young boys climbed out of the window onto the grid after being left home alone while their parents went to work</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620893,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620893,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900620893?profile=original" /></a>Death-defying stunts went on display this week at the Extreme Sports Show, held in Oxford. Here a dirtbike stunt rider drives through fire at top speed.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621278,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621278,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900621278?profile=original" /></a>Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki oversees the burning of around five tonnes of tusks and ivory which were seized in Singapore in 2002. It came as Kenya marked the 'African Elephant Law Enforcement Day'.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621467,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621467,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900621467?profile=original" /></a>Here a leopard attacks a forest guard at Prakash Nagar village near Salugara, on the outskirts of Siliguri, India. The animal had strayed into the village area and mauled several villagers, including three guards, before being caught by forest officials, according to news reports.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621668,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621668,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900621668?profile=original" /></a>Offering vast views across London, this art installation from creative minds Bompass and Parr has made it possible to sail across Selfridges’ rooftop. The ‘Voyage of Discovery’ exhibition is open until this Sunday and includes a waterfall, dyed green water and 12 small sailing boats</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621700,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621700,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900621700?profile=original" /></a>Two players struggle for footing at the World Swamp Soccer championships. The tournament was held in Hyrynsalmi, Finland this week.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900622290,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900622290,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900622290?profile=original" /></a>Russian military have implemented a plan to fool enemy forces by constructing life-size inflatable replicas of fighting fleet. It is hoped that these distractions will be able to decieve satellite scopes and thermal imagery.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900623075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900623075,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900623075?profile=original" /></a>In what was another convincing deception this week, an American blogger spotted that this Apple store in Kunming, China is not in fact genuine. After realising that the iconic Apple logo was not as it should be she also noted that the store was not listed on the tech giant's website. Staff 'all genuinely think they work for Apple' according to the blogger, BirdAbroad</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900623675,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900623675,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900623675?profile=original" /></a>A tunnel under construction collapsed in Dalian leaving 12 workers trapped in the tunnel. No casualties were reported and rescuers have managed to get in contact with the trapped workers.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900624072,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900624072,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900624072?profile=original" /></a>Green algae continues to spread in waters off China's east coastline, this time swamping Qindao's popular beachside. Although the green algae is not poisonous, it can hinder fisheries industry and tourism in affected area</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900624854,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900624854,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900624854?profile=original" /></a>Beekeeper Wang Dalin wears tens of thousands of bees on his body with goggles and corks up his nose for extra protection.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900625090,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900625090,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900625090?profile=original" /></a>Previously unseen photos of The Beatles went on auction this week and managed to sell for an astonishing £224,000. Photographer Mike Mitchell snapped the fab four when he was just 18, restoring the photos from February 1964 for a handsome windfall</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900625890,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900625890,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900625890?profile=original" /></a>Vicious flooding hit the Nanjing region of China this week with cars swamped by a tide of water.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
This Landscape in China Wasn’t Caused by Photoshop or Pollution (PHOTOS)
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/this-landscape-in-china-wasn-t-caused-by-photoshop-or-pollution
2014-01-15T02:26:43.000Z
2014-01-15T02:26:43.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620292,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621301,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621659,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(128,0,128);">This Landscape in China Wasn’t Caused by Photoshop or Pollution (PHOTOS)</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(128,0,128);"><strong>Zhangye Danxia Landform's colorful rock formations were created over the course of millions of years.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> July 7, 2013<br /><strong>Andri Antoniades</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621868,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="460" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621868,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900621868?profile=original" /></a>Zhangye Danxia Landform in China's Gansu province remains untouched by the country's environmental ills. (Photo: Melinda Chan/Getty Images)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Almost every country is guilty of causing some amount of pollution, but if any one nation has become the most notorious for it, that would be China.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> With its algae-infested waters, a scarlet river, excessive coal consumption, and air quality so dangerous it could be described as lethal, China has understandably gained a reputation as the Wild West of environmental ills.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> That may be why this month the Chinese government declared it would put a stop to polluters—by killing them. Not all of them, just the most serious offenders. The rest will reportedly face fines and detention.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> It’s about time (for the fines, not the executions) because the nation is quickly losing what’s left of its natural beauty. One area that’s remained seemingly untouched by any pollution is the Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park, which sits in the Gansu province.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620292,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="640" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900620292,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900620292?profile=original" /></a>hangye Danxia is known for its saturated color patterns, which are caused by red sandstone and mineral deposits laid down over the course of 24 million years.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;text-align:center;"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Helvetica, 'sans-serif';font-size:15pt;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621301,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="640" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621301,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900621301?profile=original" /></a></span>The formations carved into the park, such as valleys, pillars and waterfalls, were shaped over millions of years by rains and winds.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621659,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="640" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900621659,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900621659?profile=original" /></a>Though the park is becoming a more well-trafficked tourist destination, parts of it have been protected under the UNESCO World Heritage Site, and for obvious reasons. China may still be figuring out where it stands on environmental protections, but the landform remains an ecological wonder in a country known for its environmental chaos.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> (Photos: Melinda Chan/Getty Images, Unbelievable Info)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/07/07/zhangye-danxia-landform-china">http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/07/07/zhangye-danxia-landform-china</a></p></div>
Surprising Source of Arsenic in Your Drinking Water—Will EPA Take Steps to Protect Your Health?
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/surprising-source-of-arsenic-in-your-drinking-water-will-epa-ta-1
2013-12-05T01:56:16.000Z
2013-12-05T01:56:16.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><h1 style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(255,255,0);">Surprising Source of Arsenic in Your Drinking Water—Will EPA Take Steps to Protect Your Health?</span></h1><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>August 13, 2013</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615475,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="300" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615475,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900615475?profile=original" /></a></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);">Story at-a-glance</span></strong></p><ul><li>While naturally-occurring arsenic in groundwater is one of the most common sources of exposure, hydrofluorosilicic acid (fluoride) added to drinking water is commonly contaminated with toxic arsenic</li><li>According to recent research, diluted fluorosilic acid adds, on average, about 0.08 ppb of arsenic to your drinking water</li><li>Low-level chronic exposure to arsenic can lead to a wide variety of health problems, including chronic fatigue, reproductive problems, reduced IQ and other neurological problems, and various cancers</li><li>As petition urges the EPA to change the source of fluoride in US drinking water, as the most commonly used form, hydrofluorosilicic acid, increases lung and bladder cancer risk</li><li>Switching from hydrofluorosilicic acid to pharmaceutical-grade fluoride could save the US $1-6 billion annually and prevent an estimated 1,800 cases of lung and bladder cancer</li></ul><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>By Dr. Mercola</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Pure water is one of the most important foundations for optimal health. Unfortunately, most tap water is far from pure, containing a vast array of <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/02/07/tap-water-toxins-is-your-water-trying-to-kill-you.aspx">disinfection byproducts</a>, chemicals, <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/02/14/is-your-home-supplied-with-water-contaminated-by-lead-pipes.aspx">heavy metals</a> and even <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/02/27/even-drugs-thrown-in-the-trash-can-end-up-in-your-drinking-water.aspx">pharmaceutical drugs</a>. <a href="http://fluoride.mercola.com/">Fluoride</a> and arsenic are two prime examples of hazardous water contaminants.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Not only is the level of arsenic in US tap water high due to natural groundwater contamination,<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn1"><sup>1</sup></a> the most commonly used form of fluoride added to water supplies also tends to be contaminated with arsenic. As reported by the featured article:<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn2"><sup>2</sup></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><em>“In early August, the Environmental Protection Agency is set to decide on a petition to change the source of fluoride in US drinking water.</em></p><p style="text-align:center;"><em>Currently, the source of fluoride in most public water supplies is</em> <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/10/11/dr-bill-osmunson-on-fluoride.aspx"><i>fluorosilicic acid</i></a><em>, according to government records. The petition calls for the EPA to instead require the use of pharmaceutical-grade sodium fluoride in water fluoridation, which is the addition of fluoride to drinking water for the purpose of preventing cavities.</em></p><p style="text-align:center;"><em>Fluorosilicic acid is often contaminated with arsenic, and recent research has linked the arsenic from fluorosilicic acid in drinking water to as many as 1,800 extra cases of cancer yearly in the United States...”</em></p><p style="text-align:center;">The petition<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn3"><sup>3</sup></a> was submitted by William Hirzy, a chemistry researcher at the American University in Washington, D.C. Hirzy previously worked at the EPA for 27 years.</p><p style="text-align:center;">His team recently published a study entitled: "Comparison of hydrofluorosilicic acid and pharmaceutical sodium fluoride as fluoridating agents – a cost-benefit analysis", in the journal <em>Environmental Science & Policy</em>.<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn4"><sup>4</sup></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">According to their estimation, switching the type of fluoride used to pharmaceutical-grade sodium fluoride would reduce the amount of inorganic arsenic contamination in drinking water by 99 percent!</p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);"><b>The Health Dangers of Inorganic Arsenic</b></span></p><p style="text-align:center;">Inorganic arsenic is a powerful carcinogen that has been linked to an increased risk of several types of cancer. In 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) lowered the maximum level of arsenic permitted in drinking water from 50 ug/L to 10 ug/L (or 10 parts per billion (ppb)) due to the established cancer risk.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The Natural Resources Defense Council<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn5"><sup>5</sup></a> estimates that as many as 56 million Americans living in 25 states drink water with arsenic at unsafe levels. According to the EPA:<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn6"><sup>6</sup></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><em>"Chronic inorganic arsenic exposure is known to be associated with adverse health effects on several systems of the body, but is most known for causing specific types of skin lesions (sores, hyperpigmentation, and other lesions) and increased risks of cancer of the lungs and skin."</em></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);"><strong>Other impacts of chronic arsenic exposure include, according to the EPA:</strong></span></p><table width="0" style="margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;" border="1" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Kidney damage and failure</p></td><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Anemia</p></td><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Low blood pressure</p></td></tr><tr><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Shock</p></td><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Headaches</p></td><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Weakness</p></td></tr><tr><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Delirium</p></td><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Increased risk of diabetes</p></td><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Adverse liver and respiratory effects, including irritation of mucous membranes</p></td></tr><tr><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">During development, increased incidence of preterm delivery, miscarriage, stillbirths, low birth weight, and infant mortality</p></td><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">During childhood, decreased performance in tests of intelligence and long-term memory</p></td><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Skin lesions</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><b>Water Fluoridation Chemicals Are NOT Pharmaceutical Grade</b></p><p style="text-align:center;">While naturally-occurring arsenic in groundwater is one of the most common sources of exposure, hydrofluorosilicic acid—the most commonly used form of fluoride added to water supplies—is a toxic waste product from the phosphate fertilizer industry that is commonly contaminated with arsenic, radionucleotides, aluminum and other industrial contaminants.</p><p style="text-align:center;">According to the featured research, diluted fluorosilic acid adds, on average, about 0.08 ppb of arsenic to your drinking water.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Most people are shocked when they realize that the fluoride added to their water supply is actually a toxic byproduct from the fertilizer industry, opposed to a pharmaceutical-grade chemical. The source of most water fluoridation chemicals is explained by Michael Miller, a minerals commodity specialist for the US Geological Survey, in the featured article:<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn7"><sup>7</sup></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><em>“During the production of phosphate fertilizer, phosphate ore is reacted with sulfuric acid to produce toxic gases. These are taken out of the air after being sprayed with water, which produces fluorosilicic acid... The solution is sold to water systems nation-wide, where it is diluted and put into drinking water. Occasionally, it is treated to create sodium fluorosilicate. Together, these compounds (called silicofluorides) provide fluoride to 90 percent of U.S. drinking water systems that are fluoridated...”</em></p><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><b>Water Fluoridation May Be Placing Infants at Great Risk</b></p><p style="text-align:center;">Not only is there mounting evidence that fluoride poses grave health risks to infants and children—including <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/08/14/fluoride-effects-in-children.aspx">reductions in IQ</a>—arsenic exposure in utero and during early childhood is also particularly problematic, as it can cause lasting harm to children's developing brains, and endocrine and immune systems.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>For example:</strong></p><ul><li>A 2006 study<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn8"><sup>8</sup></a> found that Chileans exposed to high levels (peaking at 1,000 ppb) of naturally-occurring arsenic in drinking water in utero and during early childhood had a <em>six times higher lung cancer death rate</em> compared to Chileans living in areas with lower levels of arsenic in their water. And their mortality rate in their 30s and 40s from another form of lung disease was almost 50 times higher than for people without that arsenic exposure.</li><li>A 2004 study<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn9"><sup>9</sup></a> showed children exposed to arsenic in drinking water at levels above 5 ppb had lower IQ scores. Earlier studies have linked chronic arsenic exposure to a range of cognitive dysfunctions, including learning disabilities, memory problems, poor concentration, and peripheral and central neuropathies.</li><li>A study<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn10"><sup>10</sup></a> published in 2011 examined the long-term effects of low-level exposure on more than 300 rural Texans whose groundwater was estimated to have arsenic at median levels below the federal drinking-water standard. It also found that exposure was related to poor scores in language, memory, and other brain functions.</li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><b>Is It Worth Increasing Cancer Risk for Minimal, if Any, Benefit to Teeth?</b></p><p style="text-align:center;">Some proponents of fluoridation believe that the large dilution of these fluoridating chemicals that takes place when they are added at the public water works ameliorates concerns about the known contaminants. However, arsenic is a known human carcinogen, for which there is no safe level.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Inevitably, the addition of contaminated hexafluorosilicic acid to the water supply by definition must increase the cancer rate in the US because of the arsenic it contains, and this is exactly what Hirzy’s research shows. Why would any rational government do that to reduce – at best – a miniscule amount of tooth decay? According to Hirzy:<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn11"><sup>11</sup></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><em>"We found that the United States as a society is spending, conservatively speaking, $1 billion to $6 billion treating the excess bladder and lung cancers caused by arsenic in the most commonly used fluoridation chemical, fluorosilicic acid... The switch [to pharmaceutical-grade sodium fluoride] would cost $100 million, but would save billions in reduced cancer costs."</em></p><p style="text-align:center;">For people living in areas with fluoridated tap water, fluoride is a part of every glass of water, every bath and shower, and every meal cooked using that water. This makes absolutely no sense considering the carcinogenic nature of arsenic—especially in light of the epidemic of cancer.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Hirzy’s study is actually the first risk assessment of arsenic-contaminated fluoride in drinking water. This is particularly shocking considering the fact that fluorosilicic acids have been used since the early 1950s<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn12"><sup>12</sup></a> (prior to that, sodium fluoride, a byproduct of the aluminum industry, was typically used). Incredibly, while the EPA performs risk assessments for most drinking water contaminants, the agency does NOT oversee the addition of fluoridation chemicals. As stated in the featured article, this policy makes no sense whatsoever.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><em>“Under the Toxic Substances Control Act, the EPA has the authority to regulate or ban almost any substance — including fluorosilicic acid — that poses an 'unreasonable risk' to public health, [Hirzy] said.”</em></p><p style="text-align:center;"><b>Appropriations Bill Would Prohibit EPA’s Phase-Out of Sulfuryl Fluoride</b></p><p style="text-align:center;">While we’re on the topic of fluoride, a related news item<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn13"><sup>13</sup></a> is worthy of note. Drinking water is not the only source of fluoride, as I’ve discussed previously. Fluoride also enters the human food chain via fluoridated pesticides. According to a recent report, the House of Representatives Appropriations Interior and Environmental subcommittee has voted to approve an appropriations bill that cuts the EPA’s budget by nearly one-third.</p><p style="text-align:center;">What’s worse, the bill <em>specifically</em> prevents the EPA from enforcing its decision to phase out sulfuryl fluoride—a neurotoxic fumigant that has been linked to cancer and neurological, developmental, and reproductive damage. If it passes once markups by the Appropriations Committee are completed, it will move to a House vote. According to the news report:</p><p style="text-align:center;"><em>“This is an outrageous attempt to circumvent a basic risk assessment calculation that EPA acknowledges puts the public at risk, given current exposure patterns, to a chemical that is especially hazardous to children.”</em></p><p style="text-align:center;">In response, Beyond Pesticides, the Environmental Working Group (EWG), and the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) submitted a letter<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn14"><sup>14</sup></a> to the House Appropriation Committee Chairman and Ranking members, urging them to remove the section in question (section 449) from the bill. You can help by writing or calling your state Representative, asking him or her to uphold the EPA’s ability to protect the health of all Americans by removing this hazardous pesticide from our food production. There’s no need for it, as there are many other viable alternatives, including:</p><ul style="text-align:center;"><li>Temperature manipulation (heating and cooling)</li><li>Atmospheric controls (low oxygen and fumigation with carbon dioxide)</li><li>Biological controls (pheromones, viruses and nematodes)</li><li>Less toxic chemical controls, such as diatomaceous earth</li></ul><p style="text-align:center;"><b>Water Filtration – A Must for Clean Pure Water…</b></p><p style="text-align:center;">If you have well water, it would be prudent to have your water tested for arsenic and other contaminants. If you have public water, you can get local drinking water quality reports from the EPA.<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn15"><sup>15</sup></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">In general, most water supplies contain a number of potentially <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/05/That-Tap-Water-Is-Legal-But-May-Be-Unhealthy.aspx">hazardous contaminants</a>, from fluoride, to drugs and disinfection byproducts (DBPs), just to name a few. You can get a good idea of what types of contaminants could be in your drinking water right now by viewing this awesome graphic from GOOD Environment<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn16"><sup>16</sup></a> (reprinted with permission.) It gives you a look at the five most and least polluted water systems in America (in cities with more than 100,000 population), including pointing out the pollutants of largest concern.</p><p align="center" style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615867,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615867,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900615867?profile=original" /></a></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center;">I strongly recommend using a high-quality water filtration system unless you can verify the purity of your water. To be absolutely certain you are getting the purest water you can, you'll want to filter the water both at the point of entry and at the point of use. This means filtering all the water that comes into the house, and then filtering again at the kitchen sink. I currently use a whole house carbon-based water filtration system, and prior to this I used reverse osmosis (RO) to purify my water.</p><p style="text-align:center;">You can read more about <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/12/18/distilled-water-interview.aspx">water filtration</a> in this <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/12/18/distilled-water-interview.aspx">previous article</a> to help you make a decision about what type of water filtration system will be best for you and your family. Since most water sources are now severely polluted, the issue of water filtration and purification couldn't be more important.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><b>Ideal Water Sources</b></p><p style="text-align:center;">Besides purification, I also believe it’s critical to drink <em>living</em> water. I recently interviewed <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/18/exclusion-zone-water.aspx">Dr. Gerald Pollack</a> about his book, <em>The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor.</em> This fourth phase of water is referred to as “structured water” and is the type of water found in all of your cells. This water has healing properties, and is naturally created in a variety of ways.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Water from a deep spring is one excellent source of structured water. The deeper the better, as structured water is created under pressure. There's a great website called FindaSpring.com<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn17"><sup>17</sup></a> where you can find a natural spring in your area.</p><p style="text-align:center;">But you can also promote structured water through vortexing. I personally drink vortexed water nearly exclusively as I became a big fan of Viktor Schauberger who did much pioneering work on vortexing about a century ago. Dr. Pollack found that by creating a vortex in a glass of water, you’re putting more energy into it, thereby increasing the structure of the water. According to Dr. Pollack, virtually ANY energy put into the water seems to create or build structured water.</p><p style="text-align:center;">My own R&D team is working on a careful study in which we use vortexed water to grow sprouts, to evaluate the vitality and effectiveness of the water. We are conducting extensive internal research to develop the best vortex machine on the market, because we believe an ideal vortexer could be one of the simplest ways to improve people’s health.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><b>Water Fluoridation Is Anything But Safe...</b></p><p style="text-align:center;">According to Bill Hirzy, water fluoridation remains a government policy because of “institutional inertia [and] embarrassment among government agencies that have been promoting this stuff as safe.” This is probably true, yet it’s shameful that the practice is allowed to continue in the face of overwhelming evidence showing the health hazards of not just fluoride itself, but also of related contaminants such as arsenic.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Clean pure water is a prerequisite to optimal health. Industrial chemicals, drugs and other toxic additives really have no place in our water supplies. So I urge you to join the Fluoride Action Network’s efforts<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn18"><sup>18</sup></a> and your local anti-fluoride movements in the US and Canada.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900616487,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="377" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900616487,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900616487?profile=original" /></a><br /> <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2">http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2</a></p></div>
Surprising Source of Arsenic in Your Drinking Water—Will EPA Take Steps to Protect Your Health?
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/surprising-source-of-arsenic-in-your-drinking-water-will-epa-take
2013-12-05T01:16:35.000Z
2013-12-05T01:16:35.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><h1 style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(255,255,0);">Surprising Source of Arsenic in Your Drinking Water—Will EPA Take Steps to Protect Your Health?</span></h1><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>August 13, 2013</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615475,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="300" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615475,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900615475?profile=original" /></a></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);">Story at-a-glance</span></strong></p><ul><li>While naturally-occurring arsenic in groundwater is one of the most common sources of exposure, hydrofluorosilicic acid (fluoride) added to drinking water is commonly contaminated with toxic arsenic</li><li>According to recent research, diluted fluorosilic acid adds, on average, about 0.08 ppb of arsenic to your drinking water</li><li>Low-level chronic exposure to arsenic can lead to a wide variety of health problems, including chronic fatigue, reproductive problems, reduced IQ and other neurological problems, and various cancers</li><li>As petition urges the EPA to change the source of fluoride in US drinking water, as the most commonly used form, hydrofluorosilicic acid, increases lung and bladder cancer risk</li><li>Switching from hydrofluorosilicic acid to pharmaceutical-grade fluoride could save the US $1-6 billion annually and prevent an estimated 1,800 cases of lung and bladder cancer</li></ul><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>By Dr. Mercola</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Pure water is one of the most important foundations for optimal health. Unfortunately, most tap water is far from pure, containing a vast array of <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/02/07/tap-water-toxins-is-your-water-trying-to-kill-you.aspx">disinfection byproducts</a>, chemicals, <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/02/14/is-your-home-supplied-with-water-contaminated-by-lead-pipes.aspx">heavy metals</a> and even <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/02/27/even-drugs-thrown-in-the-trash-can-end-up-in-your-drinking-water.aspx">pharmaceutical drugs</a>. <a href="http://fluoride.mercola.com/">Fluoride</a> and arsenic are two prime examples of hazardous water contaminants.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Not only is the level of arsenic in US tap water high due to natural groundwater contamination,<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn1"><sup>1</sup></a> the most commonly used form of fluoride added to water supplies also tends to be contaminated with arsenic. As reported by the featured article:<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn2"><sup>2</sup></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><em>“In early August, the Environmental Protection Agency is set to decide on a petition to change the source of fluoride in US drinking water.</em></p><p style="text-align:center;"><em>Currently, the source of fluoride in most public water supplies is</em> <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/10/11/dr-bill-osmunson-on-fluoride.aspx"><i>fluorosilicic acid</i></a><em>, according to government records. The petition calls for the EPA to instead require the use of pharmaceutical-grade sodium fluoride in water fluoridation, which is the addition of fluoride to drinking water for the purpose of preventing cavities.</em></p><p style="text-align:center;"><em>Fluorosilicic acid is often contaminated with arsenic, and recent research has linked the arsenic from fluorosilicic acid in drinking water to as many as 1,800 extra cases of cancer yearly in the United States...”</em></p><p style="text-align:center;">The petition<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn3"><sup>3</sup></a> was submitted by William Hirzy, a chemistry researcher at the American University in Washington, D.C. Hirzy previously worked at the EPA for 27 years.</p><p style="text-align:center;">His team recently published a study entitled: "Comparison of hydrofluorosilicic acid and pharmaceutical sodium fluoride as fluoridating agents – a cost-benefit analysis", in the journal <em>Environmental Science & Policy</em>.<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn4"><sup>4</sup></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">According to their estimation, switching the type of fluoride used to pharmaceutical-grade sodium fluoride would reduce the amount of inorganic arsenic contamination in drinking water by 99 percent!</p><p> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);"><b>The Health Dangers of Inorganic Arsenic</b></span></p><p style="text-align:center;">Inorganic arsenic is a powerful carcinogen that has been linked to an increased risk of several types of cancer. In 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) lowered the maximum level of arsenic permitted in drinking water from 50 ug/L to 10 ug/L (or 10 parts per billion (ppb)) due to the established cancer risk.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The Natural Resources Defense Council<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn5"><sup>5</sup></a> estimates that as many as 56 million Americans living in 25 states drink water with arsenic at unsafe levels. According to the EPA:<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn6"><sup>6</sup></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><em>"Chronic inorganic arsenic exposure is known to be associated with adverse health effects on several systems of the body, but is most known for causing specific types of skin lesions (sores, hyperpigmentation, and other lesions) and increased risks of cancer of the lungs and skin."</em></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,0);"><strong>Other impacts of chronic arsenic exposure include, according to the EPA:</strong></span></p><table width="0" style="margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;" border="1" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Kidney damage and failure</p></td><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Anemia</p></td><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Low blood pressure</p></td></tr><tr><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Shock</p></td><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Headaches</p></td><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Weakness</p></td></tr><tr><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Delirium</p></td><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Increased risk of diabetes</p></td><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Adverse liver and respiratory effects, including irritation of mucous membranes</p></td></tr><tr><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">During development, increased incidence of preterm delivery, miscarriage, stillbirths, low birth weight, and infant mortality</p></td><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">During childhood, decreased performance in tests of intelligence and long-term memory</p></td><td width="182" valign="top"><p align="center">Skin lesions</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><b>Water Fluoridation Chemicals Are NOT Pharmaceutical Grade</b></p><p style="text-align:center;">While naturally-occurring arsenic in groundwater is one of the most common sources of exposure, hydrofluorosilicic acid—the most commonly used form of fluoride added to water supplies—is a toxic waste product from the phosphate fertilizer industry that is commonly contaminated with arsenic, radionucleotides, aluminum and other industrial contaminants.</p><p style="text-align:center;">According to the featured research, diluted fluorosilic acid adds, on average, about 0.08 ppb of arsenic to your drinking water.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Most people are shocked when they realize that the fluoride added to their water supply is actually a toxic byproduct from the fertilizer industry, opposed to a pharmaceutical-grade chemical. The source of most water fluoridation chemicals is explained by Michael Miller, a minerals commodity specialist for the US Geological Survey, in the featured article:<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn7"><sup>7</sup></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><em>“During the production of phosphate fertilizer, phosphate ore is reacted with sulfuric acid to produce toxic gases. These are taken out of the air after being sprayed with water, which produces fluorosilicic acid... The solution is sold to water systems nation-wide, where it is diluted and put into drinking water. Occasionally, it is treated to create sodium fluorosilicate. Together, these compounds (called silicofluorides) provide fluoride to 90 percent of U.S. drinking water systems that are fluoridated...”</em></p><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><b>Water Fluoridation May Be Placing Infants at Great Risk</b></p><p style="text-align:center;">Not only is there mounting evidence that fluoride poses grave health risks to infants and children—including <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/08/14/fluoride-effects-in-children.aspx">reductions in IQ</a>—arsenic exposure in utero and during early childhood is also particularly problematic, as it can cause lasting harm to children's developing brains, and endocrine and immune systems.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>For example:</strong></p><ul><li>A 2006 study<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn8"><sup>8</sup></a> found that Chileans exposed to high levels (peaking at 1,000 ppb) of naturally-occurring arsenic in drinking water in utero and during early childhood had a <em>six times higher lung cancer death rate</em> compared to Chileans living in areas with lower levels of arsenic in their water. And their mortality rate in their 30s and 40s from another form of lung disease was almost 50 times higher than for people without that arsenic exposure.</li><li>A 2004 study<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn9"><sup>9</sup></a> showed children exposed to arsenic in drinking water at levels above 5 ppb had lower IQ scores. Earlier studies have linked chronic arsenic exposure to a range of cognitive dysfunctions, including learning disabilities, memory problems, poor concentration, and peripheral and central neuropathies.</li><li>A study<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn10"><sup>10</sup></a> published in 2011 examined the long-term effects of low-level exposure on more than 300 rural Texans whose groundwater was estimated to have arsenic at median levels below the federal drinking-water standard. It also found that exposure was related to poor scores in language, memory, and other brain functions.</li></ul><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><b>Is It Worth Increasing Cancer Risk for Minimal, if Any, Benefit to Teeth?</b></p><p style="text-align:center;">Some proponents of fluoridation believe that the large dilution of these fluoridating chemicals that takes place when they are added at the public water works ameliorates concerns about the known contaminants. However, arsenic is a known human carcinogen, for which there is no safe level.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Inevitably, the addition of contaminated hexafluorosilicic acid to the water supply by definition must increase the cancer rate in the US because of the arsenic it contains, and this is exactly what Hirzy’s research shows. Why would any rational government do that to reduce – at best – a miniscule amount of tooth decay? According to Hirzy:<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn11"><sup>11</sup></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><em>"We found that the United States as a society is spending, conservatively speaking, $1 billion to $6 billion treating the excess bladder and lung cancers caused by arsenic in the most commonly used fluoridation chemical, fluorosilicic acid... The switch [to pharmaceutical-grade sodium fluoride] would cost $100 million, but would save billions in reduced cancer costs."</em></p><p style="text-align:center;">For people living in areas with fluoridated tap water, fluoride is a part of every glass of water, every bath and shower, and every meal cooked using that water. This makes absolutely no sense considering the carcinogenic nature of arsenic—especially in light of the epidemic of cancer.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Hirzy’s study is actually the first risk assessment of arsenic-contaminated fluoride in drinking water. This is particularly shocking considering the fact that fluorosilicic acids have been used since the early 1950s<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn12"><sup>12</sup></a> (prior to that, sodium fluoride, a byproduct of the aluminum industry, was typically used). Incredibly, while the EPA performs risk assessments for most drinking water contaminants, the agency does NOT oversee the addition of fluoridation chemicals. As stated in the featured article, this policy makes no sense whatsoever.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><em>“Under the Toxic Substances Control Act, the EPA has the authority to regulate or ban almost any substance — including fluorosilicic acid — that poses an 'unreasonable risk' to public health, [Hirzy] said.”</em></p><p style="text-align:center;"><b>Appropriations Bill Would Prohibit EPA’s Phase-Out of Sulfuryl Fluoride</b></p><p style="text-align:center;">While we’re on the topic of fluoride, a related news item<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn13"><sup>13</sup></a> is worthy of note. Drinking water is not the only source of fluoride, as I’ve discussed previously. Fluoride also enters the human food chain via fluoridated pesticides. According to a recent report, the House of Representatives Appropriations Interior and Environmental subcommittee has voted to approve an appropriations bill that cuts the EPA’s budget by nearly one-third.</p><p style="text-align:center;">What’s worse, the bill <em>specifically</em> prevents the EPA from enforcing its decision to phase out sulfuryl fluoride—a neurotoxic fumigant that has been linked to cancer and neurological, developmental, and reproductive damage. If it passes once markups by the Appropriations Committee are completed, it will move to a House vote. According to the news report:</p><p style="text-align:center;"><em>“This is an outrageous attempt to circumvent a basic risk assessment calculation that EPA acknowledges puts the public at risk, given current exposure patterns, to a chemical that is especially hazardous to children.”</em></p><p style="text-align:center;">In response, Beyond Pesticides, the Environmental Working Group (EWG), and the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) submitted a letter<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn14"><sup>14</sup></a> to the House Appropriation Committee Chairman and Ranking members, urging them to remove the section in question (section 449) from the bill. You can help by writing or calling your state Representative, asking him or her to uphold the EPA’s ability to protect the health of all Americans by removing this hazardous pesticide from our food production. There’s no need for it, as there are many other viable alternatives, including:</p><ul style="text-align:center;"><li>Temperature manipulation (heating and cooling)</li><li>Atmospheric controls (low oxygen and fumigation with carbon dioxide)</li><li>Biological controls (pheromones, viruses and nematodes)</li><li>Less toxic chemical controls, such as diatomaceous earth</li></ul><p style="text-align:center;"><b>Water Filtration – A Must for Clean Pure Water…</b></p><p style="text-align:center;">If you have well water, it would be prudent to have your water tested for arsenic and other contaminants. If you have public water, you can get local drinking water quality reports from the EPA.<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn15"><sup>15</sup></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">In general, most water supplies contain a number of potentially <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/05/That-Tap-Water-Is-Legal-But-May-Be-Unhealthy.aspx">hazardous contaminants</a>, from fluoride, to drugs and disinfection byproducts (DBPs), just to name a few. You can get a good idea of what types of contaminants could be in your drinking water right now by viewing this awesome graphic from GOOD Environment<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn16"><sup>16</sup></a> (reprinted with permission.) It gives you a look at the five most and least polluted water systems in America (in cities with more than 100,000 population), including pointing out the pollutants of largest concern.</p><p align="center" style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615867,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900615867,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900615867?profile=original" /></a></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center;">I strongly recommend using a high-quality water filtration system unless you can verify the purity of your water. To be absolutely certain you are getting the purest water you can, you'll want to filter the water both at the point of entry and at the point of use. This means filtering all the water that comes into the house, and then filtering again at the kitchen sink. I currently use a whole house carbon-based water filtration system, and prior to this I used reverse osmosis (RO) to purify my water.</p><p style="text-align:center;">You can read more about <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/12/18/distilled-water-interview.aspx">water filtration</a> in this <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/12/18/distilled-water-interview.aspx">previous article</a> to help you make a decision about what type of water filtration system will be best for you and your family. Since most water sources are now severely polluted, the issue of water filtration and purification couldn't be more important.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><b>Ideal Water Sources</b></p><p style="text-align:center;">Besides purification, I also believe it’s critical to drink <em>living</em> water. I recently interviewed <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/18/exclusion-zone-water.aspx">Dr. Gerald Pollack</a> about his book, <em>The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor.</em> This fourth phase of water is referred to as “structured water” and is the type of water found in all of your cells. This water has healing properties, and is naturally created in a variety of ways.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Water from a deep spring is one excellent source of structured water. The deeper the better, as structured water is created under pressure. There's a great website called FindaSpring.com<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn17"><sup>17</sup></a> where you can find a natural spring in your area.</p><p style="text-align:center;">But you can also promote structured water through vortexing. I personally drink vortexed water nearly exclusively as I became a big fan of Viktor Schauberger who did much pioneering work on vortexing about a century ago. Dr. Pollack found that by creating a vortex in a glass of water, you’re putting more energy into it, thereby increasing the structure of the water. According to Dr. Pollack, virtually ANY energy put into the water seems to create or build structured water.</p><p style="text-align:center;">My own R&D team is working on a careful study in which we use vortexed water to grow sprouts, to evaluate the vitality and effectiveness of the water. We are conducting extensive internal research to develop the best vortex machine on the market, because we believe an ideal vortexer could be one of the simplest ways to improve people’s health.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><b>Water Fluoridation Is Anything But Safe...</b></p><p style="text-align:center;">According to Bill Hirzy, water fluoridation remains a government policy because of “institutional inertia [and] embarrassment among government agencies that have been promoting this stuff as safe.” This is probably true, yet it’s shameful that the practice is allowed to continue in the face of overwhelming evidence showing the health hazards of not just fluoride itself, but also of related contaminants such as arsenic.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Clean pure water is a prerequisite to optimal health. Industrial chemicals, drugs and other toxic additives really have no place in our water supplies. So I urge you to join the Fluoride Action Network’s efforts<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2#_edn18"><sup>18</sup></a> and your local anti-fluoride movements in the US and Canada.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p align="center" style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900616487,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="377" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900616487,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900616487?profile=original" /></a><br /> <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2">http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/08/13/arsenic-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20130813Z2_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20130813Z2</a></p></div>
A Case for Including Chemtrails in the Disability Known as “Aerotoxic Syndrome”
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2014-02-24T00:19:51.000Z
2014-02-24T00:19:51.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610085,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611452,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611292,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612070,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612282,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612865,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612879,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);"><strong>A Case for Including Chemtrails in the Disability Known as “Aerotoxic Syndrome”</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610085,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="474" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610085,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900610085?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-2" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);"><strong>Chemtrails Pumped inside Commercial Jets Could Poison Passengers and Crew</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/AJWyqifDLEc?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/AJWyqifDLEc">http://youtu.be/AJWyqifDLEc</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>February 20, 2013</strong><br /> Chemtrail Toxins and Aerotoxic Syndrome Can Disable or Kill Pilots, Crew and Frequent Flyers<br />The graphic in the video was intended to show how toxic fumes from engine oil leaks could be pumped inside the aircraft with the result of poisoning the passengers and crew in a recognized phenomena called aerotoxic syndrome. Source</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> While Aerotoxic syndrome from an engine oil leak is a relatively rare occurrence it must be considered that Aluminum aerosols are sprayed from jet aircraft to saturate the skies at almost every hour of the day. Even when aerosols are not deployed by the affected crew, it’s the ambient nano-aluminum and barium heavy metals sprayed by many other aircraft that create the concentrated toxic air at flight level altitudes.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> And we know the highest concentrations of aluminum toxins begin at altitudes to which thousands of passenger, cargo and civilian aircraft are cleared to cruise, ascend and descend at every hour of every day.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> The identified problem in cabin air contamination is a device called a bleed air valve. The valve has no ability to filter the air pumped into the cabin and cannot distinguish between aerotoxins of engine oil, aerotoxins of aerosol aluminum or even aerosols of toxic radiation plumes.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> So, its no longer enough to say that aerotoxic syndrome is ONLY related to an engine oil leaks.<br />The definition of aerotoxic syndrome is not complete until all possible sources of atmospheric contamination that can possibly pass through the bleed air valve are considered.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/373594/Dead-BA-pilots-victims-of-toxic-cabin-fumes">http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/373594/Dead-BA-pilots-victims-of-toxic-cabin-fumes</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Dead BA pilots ‘victims of toxic cabin fumes’</strong><br /> TWO of British Airways’ most talented pilots have died after complaining of years of exposure to toxic oil fumes on board passenger planes.</p><p style="text-align:center;">By: Ted Jeory</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Published: Sun, January 27, 2013<br />Official records from the Civil Aviation Authority show that oxygen masks are being donned by pilots and crew at the rate of at least five times a week to combat suspected “fume events”.<br />(Comment: Necessary use of oxygen mask 5 times per week sounds too frequent to be mechanical failure producing an oil leak. Observers frequently say they can “smell” chemtrails when deployed at low altitudes. When pilots are using oxygen masks in response to an “odor”, it must be considered that the source of the odor and associated toxins may be a result of ambient alumina and barium concentrated in a layer of atmosphere at flight level.)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611452,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="474" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611452,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900611452?profile=original" /></a><strong>Pilot, Richard Westgate, deceased</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Doctors believe Richard Westgate died from cabin fumes<br />Karen Lysakowska, 43, was buried last Tuesday, while Richard Westgate, also 43, was laid to rest four days before.Both believed they had been poisoned by the toxic oil fumes that can contaminate cabin air and which regularly forces pilots to don oxygen masks in order to breathe.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Lawyers for Mr Westgate now want to “give him the trial he never got” by suing the airline in a case they say will be a “moment of truth” for the aviation industry. They say they are on the cusp of proving in a court of law the existence of “aerotoxic syndrome”, a chronic physical and neurological condition they predict will one day be seen as “the new asbestos”.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Thousands of pilots are currently “unfit to fly”, one specialist doctor believes. Official records from the Civil Aviation Authority show that oxygen masks are being donned by pilots and crew at the rate of at least five times a week to combat suspected “fume events”. In some cases, crew members have passed out yet in almost all incidents, passengers are unaware.The air enters the cabin unfiltered via a bleed pipe off the jet engine where any oil leak at high temperature can cause the release of a dangerous mix of compounds, including potentially toxic organophosphates. Those most at risk are pilots, cabin crew, other very frequent flyers and people who are genetically susceptible to the toxins.A suspected three per cent of people are most vulnerable due to a genetic make up that renders their bodies less resistant.<br /><span class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">___________________</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Many pilots complain of headaches and other symptoms but they are often ignored or misdiagnosed.<br />Ms Lysakowska, who was one of the most talented pilots of her generation, having been given a special award as a cadet 20 years ago, had pleaded with her bosses at BA to address the issue after being grounded with ill health in 2005.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Writing to them in 2006, she warned: “My objective is to get well and carry on flying and not enter a protracted legal battle because of the impact exposure to contaminated air has had on my life but if I have to I will.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> However, she later developed cancer and the legal battle never took place.<br />Meanwhile, Mr Westgate, who was not married and had no children, also fell into the high risk category, his specialist aviation medic Dr Michel Mulder believes.<br />He died on December 12 in Amsterdam where he was being treated.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He had been there since last April after diverting to the Dutch city while en route to Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas, having given up all hope of finding a cure for his illness.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “All he wanted to do was fly,” Dr Mulder said.<br />However, it was a passion that slowly killed him.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Driven and ambitious, he was also a world record-breaking paraglider, a sport in which his talent was recognised only last August when he was given an award by ex-Royal Navy pilot Prince Andrew.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Richard had become a commercial pilot in 1998, flying with smaller airlines before joining BA in 2007, but he voluntarily grounded himself in 2011 after suffering whiplash in a car crash.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> However, Dr Mulder said by that time he had already become concerned about his health and memory, suffering persistent headaches, chronic fatigue, loss of confidence and mood swings.<br />Like many pilots, according to Dr Mulder, who himself flew for KLM and who suffered similar symptoms, Richard failed to tell his employer for fear of losing his job.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> And also like many others, he sought private medical advice to avoid any blemishes on his health record.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Dr Mulder said: “He was a very talented athlete but he had lost his sharpness. It had gone. He said to me, ‘I’m dying’. It was very sad.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “He had been losing the ability to multitask, which is obviously important when you’re flying a plane.<br />“He was misdiagnosed with depression. So many pilots are misdiagnosed because there is so little awareness of aerotoxic syndrome.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “Some of the symptoms are like the early onset of Parkinson’s Disease or MS.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “There needs to be an understanding of this but it’s wilfully not recognised. The airline industry knows how huge the implications would be.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He said Richard was beginning to make progress in his care but he then suffered a fall in which a head injury caused his neurological problems to deteriorate.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He died last month and was buried in the Dorset village of Shillingstone on January 18.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> His family are now awaiting the results of two autopsies in Holland.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> However, before he died he had instructed his lawyer, Frank Cannon, who was also a pilot, to sue BA for alleged breach of health and safety guidelines.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Mr Cannon said BA is liable under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations because it fails to monitor the quality of air on board planes.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Despite calls from many pilots and the Aerotoxic Association, BA and all other airlines do not install air quality detection systems.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Instead, they rely on the results of disputed Government commissioned studies, the most recent of which by Cranfield University, Buckinghamshire, concluded in 2011 that cabin air was safe.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Mr Cannon is now trying to force a groundbreaking British inquest into Richard’s death in which BA would be asked questions about aerotoxic syndrome.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Mr Cannon said: “I see this as an impending tsunami for the airline industry—it’s been hushed for and ignored for so long.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “We hope to use the inquest to give Richard the trial he never got. It would be the first judicial recognition of his condition.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> A spokesman for BA said: “Our thoughts are with the families of the two pilots at this very sad time and we offer our sincere condolences.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “We are not aware of any legal claims relating to the two individuals.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “It would be inappropriate for us to comment or speculate upon the individuals’ cause of death.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Doctor ‘finds sheep-dip link’ to cabin air issue<br />THE effects of toxic fumes on pilots are similar to the symptoms suffered by farmers working with sheep dips over many years.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> The link is the dangerous organophosphates that are contained in dip chemicals and the oils used to lubricate jet engines.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> The Sunday Express has spoken to the medic who discovered the link in the late Nineties.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Hertfordshire based Dr Peter Julu is Europe’s only autonomic neurophysiologist and he believes it is the lack of experts in his field which is preventing full recognition of the condition by the medical profession at large.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Dr Julu found the link after treating a Lufthansa pilot who had been referred to him by a neurologist.<br />He said the airline believed the pilot was “faking” the symptoms as a way of suing for compensation.<br />The German pilot used his contacts in the UK airline fraternity, then several others asked to see Dr Julu with similar symptoms.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Airlines tried to argue that carbon monoxide poisoning was causing the symptoms but Dr Julu, who also had experience of those problems, disagreed.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He said: “It was very strange. At that time, I was also doing some work on sheep dips for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “To my amazement, the kind of symptoms and findings I was getting from farmers was very similar to the pilots, yet occupationally they couldn’t be more diverse.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> “We suspected the famers were suffering from organophosphate poisoning and then an aeronautic engineer wrote to me to say there were also organophosphates in the oil systems.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He said the chemicals attack the autonomic nervous system, which controls the body’s major organs including the brain and heart.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> In particular, he said it targeted the brain stem, which he describes as the “headquarters of the autonomic nervous system”.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He said: “It attacks that part of the nervous system which deals with emotion and short term memory.<br />“It tends to be fairly specific. It affects a specific group of neurotransmitters that includes serotonin, which explains the appearance of depression in some cases.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He was a very talented athlete but he had lost his sharpness – Dr Mulder<br />“An imbalance means you could develop tremors and lots of problems with the regulation of blood pressure. “This is very similar to what happens with organophosphates. ”Asked why the condition wasn’t recognised, he said: “It’s mainly because the part of the nervous system it affects lacks experts.“Neurophysiology is the study of nerve function.</p><p style="text-align:center;">While there are many neurophysiologists—every hospital will have one—when it comes to autonomic neurophysiology, I’m the only one in Europe.”He has now treated a large number of senior pilots, including BA’s Karen Lysakowska, who was buried last week.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> He said: “She was exactly the same as the other pilots who I had seen.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong>Share this:</strong><br /><a href="http://chemtrailsplanet.net/2013/02/20/chemtrail-toxins-and-aerotoxic-syndrome-can-disable-or-kill-pilots-crew-and-frequent-flyers/">http://chemtrailsplanet.net/2013/02/20/chemtrail-toxins-and-aerotoxic-syndrome-can-disable-or-kill-pilots-crew-and-frequent-flyers/</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611292,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="275" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900611292,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900611292?profile=original" /></a><strong>Chem Trails</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612070,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="276" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612070,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900612070?profile=original" /></a><strong>Chem Trails</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612282,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="254" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612282,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900612282?profile=original" /></a><strong>Chem Trails From Space</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612865,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612879,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612879,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900612879?profile=original" /></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612865,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="240" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900612865,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900612865?profile=original" /></a><strong>Chem Trail Planes with barrels of Toxic Chemicals</strong></p></div>
Pictures of the week: From flooded homes in Britain to wildfire in California
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2013-12-30T00:03:12.000Z
2013-12-30T00:03:12.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603279,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603881,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900604862,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605287,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605898,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606701,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607077,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607697,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609271,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610074,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610681,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(255,0,0);"><strong>Pictures of the week: From flooded homes in Britain to wildfire in California</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong>Here's our pick of the best pictures around the world this week...</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603279,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603279,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603279?profile=original" /></a>Staff and residents are rescued as the floodwaters rise at the Mercure Box Hill Burford Bridge Hotel, Dorking. Two separate storms have battered Britain this Christmas week. Rivers have burst their banks, flooded homes have been left without power, and high winds have caused travel chaos. (Tony Kershaw/REX)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603881,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603881,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603881?profile=original" /></a>This impressive castle is in fact made of ice. It is being constructed for the 30th Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, in Harbin, China. According to the festival organisers, nearly 10,000 workers were employed to build the ice and snow sculptures, which require about 180,000 square metres of ice and 150,000 square metres of snow. The festival kicks off on January 5, 2014. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900604862,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900604862,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900604862?profile=original" /></a>What are you looking at? Ring-tailed Lemurs inspect a scale during an animal stocktaking at the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, Germany. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605287,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605287,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900605287?profile=original" /></a>Eve Grayson, a reindeer herder of the Cairngorm Reindeer Herd, feeds the deer in snowy conditions in Aviemore, Scotland. This is the only reindeer herd in Britain as the animals are not native to the land. Reindeer were introduced to Scotland in 1952 by Swedish Sami reindeer herder, Mikel Utsi. Starting with just a few reindeer, the herd has now grown in numbers over the years and is currently at about 130 by controlling the breeding. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605898,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605898,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900605898?profile=original" /></a>Haven't you forgotten someone? Onlookers hoping for a rare glimpse of Prince George were sorely disappointed after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived for the traditional Christmas Day church service without their newborn at St Mary Magdalene Church on the royal estate in Sandringham, Norfolk. (PA)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606701,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606701,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900606701?profile=original" /></a>Displaced families wait at Tomping United Nations base near Juba international airport, where some 12,000 people from the Nuer tribe have sought refuge as conflict rages in South Sudan. The country, which gained indepedence from Sudan in 2011, has quickly descended into violance after clashes between rival groups of soldiers in Juba spread across the nation. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607077,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607077,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900607077?profile=original" /></a>Stuart Radbourne (C), huntsman and joint-master with the Avon Vale Hunt, leads the riders and hounds for their traditional Boxing Day hunt, at Lacock in Wiltshire, England. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607697,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607697,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900607697?profile=original" /></a>A layer of ice coats the leaves of a Japanese maple tree after an ice storm in Toronto, Canada. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609075,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609075?profile=original" /></a>Spot the baby: A shopper taking advantage of the Boxing Day sales in Leicester covers her child's pram with clothes while the baby sleeps soundly. (PA)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609271,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900609271,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900609271?profile=original" /></a>Brrr, it's cold in there! Swimmers emerge from the Serpentine river on Christmas Day in Hyde Park, London. For over 100 years, swimmers have taken part in the Christmas Day "Peter Pan" swim in the Serpentine. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610074,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610074,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900610074?profile=original" /></a>Pope Francis holds a replica of the baby Jesus at the end of his first Christmas night mass as Pontiff in the Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610681,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900610681,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900610681?profile=original" /></a>Fire fighters battle a brush fire in the Simi Valley, California. Strong winds and dry conditions hindered the crews hoping to put out the flames. (ZUMA/REX)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Stunning before-and-after pictures have been released showing the falling water levels in flood-hit Walton-on-Thames in Surrey
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/stunning-before-and-after-pictures-have-been-released-showing-the
2014-02-24T00:07:29.000Z
2014-02-24T00:07:29.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605477,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605689,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606683,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607486,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608297,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a>Getty</strong><br /> <span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(0,255,0);"><strong>Stunning before-and-after pictures have been released showing the falling water levels in flood-hit Walton-on-Thames in Surrey.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605477,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605477,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900605477?profile=original" /></a>This picture shows the transformation of a street in the village on 10 February (below) and 19 February (above).</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605477,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605689,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605689,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900605689?profile=original" /></a>Walton-on-Thames: 19 February (above) and 10 February (below)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605477,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605689,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606683,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606683,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900606683?profile=original" /></a>Walton-on-Thames: 19 February (above) and 10 February (below)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605477,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605689,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606683,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607486,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607486,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900607486?profile=original" /></a>Walton-on-Thames: 19 February (above) and 10 February (below)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605477,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605689,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606683,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607486,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608075,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900608075?profile=original" /></a>19 February (above) and 10 February (below)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605477,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605689,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900606683,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900607486,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608297,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900608297,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900608297?profile=original" /></a>19 February (above) and 10 February (below)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Hybrid Man Found in China
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2014-02-09T19:37:38.000Z
2014-02-09T19:37:38.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Hybrid Man Found in China</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/3ZiMknx9wJE?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/3ZiMknx9wJE">http://youtu.be/3ZiMknx9wJE</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Published on 27 Jul 2013<br />Human Hybrid Man found in China. This Bigfoot hybrid man footage was taken in Sichuan Province in China and is being described all over the web as the Chinese Hybrid Man or Yeren Ape Man.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Subscribe <a href="http://tiny.cc/2byriw">http://tiny.cc/2byriw</a> Epic Wildlife</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">So the story goes that the boy's mother had claimed she was kidnapped by a Yeren "The Chinese Wildman" which is the Chinese version of Bigfoot, who raped her repeatedly before she escaped back to her village.</p><p style="text-align:center;">9 months later she gave birth this strange boy who grew to be abnormally large. Although he was never able to speak a language, he gain a mild understanding of what people said to him. He lived to be 33 years old and because he was kept hidden in a small village, not much was known about him.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Bastard Son of a Bigfoot Creature? One explanation was that he was born with (Microcephaly) which is a neurodevelopmental disorder which causes abnormal head growth, poor brain function and a shorter life expectancy. Skeptics who believe this explanation go on to say that the mother was ashamed of having a retarded baby and made up the story about being raped by a bigfoot.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The problem with this explanation however is that doesn't explain the size of this hybrid looking man as no other past case of Microcephaly have been very tall. In addition, he displays many ape-like characteristics such as an ape like jaw, extremely long gangly arms, and a lack of a human neck. Half Human, Half Animal? So is the Human Hybrid Ape Man found in China Real or Fake?</p><p style="text-align:center;">Facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/epiwildlife">http://www.facebook.com/epiwildlife</a><br /> Twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/epicwildlife">http://www.twitter.com/epicwildlife</a></p></div>
Best of Britain showcased in Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/best-of-britain-showcased-in-landscape-photographer-of-the-year
2013-11-03T00:33:56.000Z
2013-11-03T00:33:56.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4"><strong><span style="color:rgb(0,128,128);">Best of Britain showcased in Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Britain's woodlands, coastal views, tree trunks and railways have been magnificently captured in the Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards. A serene scene of Crummock Waters, by Tony Bennett, took the top prize of £10,000 in the seventh annual competition.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Winning photographs showcasing the best of Britain are reprinted in 'Landscape Photographer of the Year: Collection 7'. Take a look at a selection of our favourite winners, runners-up and entries.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595067,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595067,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900595067?profile=original" /></a>'Mist and Reflections': A calming view of Crummock Water in Cumbria, England, is the overall winner of the competition by Tony Bennett. (Tony Bennet/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595455,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595455,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900595455?profile=original" /></a>Rough seas in 'Ferry Leaving Newhaven Harbour In Storm' shot in East Sussex, England, by David Lyon, winner of 'Your View'. (David Lyon/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595286,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595286,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900595286?profile=original" /></a>'City Twilight' in London by Charlotte Gilliatt, runner-up of 'Urban View'. (Charlotte Gilliat/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595890,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595890,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900595890?profile=original" /></a>'Starlings Over Carmarthen' taken in south-west Wales by Nigel McCall, winner of 'Urban View'. (Nigel McCall/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595493,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900595493,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900595493?profile=original" /></a>A train driver passes a fellow driver a drink in 'Hand Over' in Loughborough, England, by Robin Coombes, runner-up of 'Living the View'. (Robin Coombes/Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596280,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596280,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900596280?profile=original" /></a>'Black Rock Cottage by Moonlight' in Glencoe, Scotland, by Scott Wilson. (Scott Wilson/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596864,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596864,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900596864?profile=original" /></a>A bed of dandelions in 'Morning Light In The Poplars' in Herefordshire, England, by Steve Gray, judge's choice in 'Your View'. (Steve Gray/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597091,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597091,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900597091?profile=original" /></a>Sunlight streams through the gaps of 'Corfe Castle' in Dorset, England, by Mirek Galagus. (Mirek Galagus/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598660,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598660,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900598660?profile=original" /></a>Gloomy clouds in 'Sky on Skye' in Inner Hebrides, Scotland, by Tim Way. (Tim Way/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598900,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598900,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900598900?profile=original" /></a>'The Household Cavalry' in Holkham, Norfolk, England, by David Morris. (David Morris/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599665,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599665,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900599665?profile=original" /></a>'Catbells Sunrise' in Cumbria, England, by Bart Heirweg, winner of the 'Visit Britain Award'. (Bart Heirweg/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600474,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600474,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900600474?profile=original" /></a>Snow-capped mountains in 'Ghost of Rannoch Moor' in Scotland by David Breen, winner of 'Clasic View'. (David Breen/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600701,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600701,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900600701?profile=original" /></a>'View Over Loch Treig' in Lochaber, Scottish Highlands, by David Kirkpatrick. (David Kirkpatrick/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601859,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601859,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900601859?profile=original" /></a>'Bobbing Cotton Grass' creates a sense of movement in this picture near Windgather Rocks, Peak District, England, by Jackie Robinson. (Jackie Robinson/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900602463,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900602463,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900602463?profile=original" /></a>Stunning reflections in 'Grasmere Light' in Cumbria, England, by Alan Ranger. (Alan Ranger/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900602673,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900602673,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900602673?profile=original" /></a>'Winter Sunrise From Catbells Ridge' in Cumbria, England, by Mani Puthuran. (Mani Puthuran/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603086,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603086,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603086?profile=original" /></a>'Micheldever Woods' in Hampshire, England, by Paul Mitchell. (Paul Mitchell/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603498,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900603498,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900603498?profile=original" /></a>Incredible colours in 'Sundial' at Beachy Head, East Sussex, England, by Mirk Galagus. (Mirk Galagus/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900604652,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900604652,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900604652?profile=original" /></a>'Bill & Ben': Mist seems to smother Fort William, Scotland, by Robert Birkby, runner-up of 'Classic View'. (Robert Birkby/ Take a View Landscape Photographer Of The Year Awards)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605474,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900605474,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900605474?profile=original" /></a>The winning photographs and highly commended images can be seen in 'Landscape Photographer of the Year: Collection 7' by AA Publishing,</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Pictures of the week: From a homemade boat in India to a colourful run in the Philippines
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/pictures-of-the-week-from-a-homemade-boat-in-india-to-a-colourful
2014-01-15T01:26:09.000Z
2014-01-15T01:26:09.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596067,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596092,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596297,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597291,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598290,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598865,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599498,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600276,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601653,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900602272,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900602683,original{{/staticFileLink}}"></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">Pictures of the week: From a homemade boat in India to a colourful run in the Philippines</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">Here's our pick of the best pictures from around the world this week..</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596067,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596067,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900596067?profile=original" /></a>Hot lava from Mount Sinabung volcano spews skyward in Indonesia's North Sumatra province. About 20,000 villagers have been evacuated since authorities raised the alert status for Sinabung to the highest level. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596092,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596092,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900596092?profile=original" /></a>Row, row, row your boat: A fisherman rows a makeshift boat to fish in the Bay of Bengal at Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh, India (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596297,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900596297,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900596297?profile=original" /></a>The first koala joey to be born in the UK in May of last year finally has a name. Pictured here with a toy koala he was given a name after keepers found out he was male. He was christened 'Yooranah', an indigenous Australian term meaning 'loving'. (PA)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597291,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900597291,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900597291?profile=original" /></a>No longer the 'Windy City': This stunning aerial view over Chicago shows the 'Windy City' encased in ice as a weather phenomenon known as a 'polar vortex' wreaked havoc across vast swathes of America and Canada. (Hank Cain/@WCL_Shawn/Twitter)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598290,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598290,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900598290?profile=original" /></a>A large wave crashes over the promenade at high tide in Aberystwyth, Wales, as Britain endured more floods and winds. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598865,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900598865,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900598865?profile=original" /></a>Students hold candles at a mourning ceremony for Run Run Shaw in front of a building donated by Shaw at the University of South China. The Hong Kong media mogul died on Tuesday at the age of 106. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599498,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900599498,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900599498?profile=original" /></a>The beauty of the Northern Lights in Whalsay, Shetland. The Lights can be seen as a green glow on the left. They were also seen in southern England and the last time they were so clear was 151 years ago.(SWNS)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600276,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900600276,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900600276?profile=original" /></a>Anglers cast lines through holes into a frozen river during an ice fishing competition in Hwacheon-gun, South Korea. The annual event attracts thousands of competitors where participants compete with traditional lures or with bare hands. (Getty)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601075,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601075,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900601075?profile=original" /></a>Bright lights, big city: Visitors watch fireworks during the opening ceremony of the 30th annual Harbin International Ice and Snow festival in Harbin, in northeastern's China's Heilongjiang province. (PA)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601653,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900601653,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900601653?profile=original" /></a>Flying high: A participant prepares to fly a large tiger-shaped kite at the 26th International Kite Festival in Mumbai, India. Kite-flyers from numerous countries participated in the day-long festival. (PA)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900602272,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900602272,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900602272?profile=original" /></a>'What are you looking at?' The Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Hospital in Queensland, Australia, has been inundated with tiny flippers at the start of the New Year. 18 short-neck turtles, no bigger than a 50p coin, have recently hatched at the sanctuary. (Rex Features)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900602683,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="750" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900602683,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900602683?profile=original" /></a>Participants throw coloured powder in the air during the 2014 Colour Run in Manila, Philippines. The event was founded in the U.S. in January, 2012, as an event to promote healthiness and happiness by bringing the community together. (Rex Features)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Ancient Message: written in stone
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/ancient-message-written-in-stone
2014-02-19T00:01:26.000Z
2014-02-19T00:01:26.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">Ancient Message: written in stone</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6Z9fX4WNvgA?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/6Z9fX4WNvgA">http://youtu.be/6Z9fX4WNvgA</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Uploaded on 30 Apr 2009<br />Featuring: mysterious Sego Canyon ( Ancient Aliens) Pictograph's. commonly referred to as Indian rock-art</p><p style="text-align:center;">The Shamans used petroglyphs for intentional purposes and the use of the Law of attraction to honor, respect and live in Balance with Mother earth which is a Time-less Message that pervades color, religion and culture</p><p style="text-align:center;">It is the instructions from the creator for all mankind to live in Balance with the Earth, this has been continuosly praticed by our traditional Native American Brothers and Sisters from the beginning.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">Represent the planet we're all one.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Petroglyph :</strong><br /> image etched into stone</p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>pictograph</strong><br /> image painted on stone</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">new paradigm 2012 shamanism shift cleansing 2012 mother earth climatic disasterpole shift end time new world new earth hopi prophecy 2012 December Dec 21st 2012 Apocalypse end world Rapture time asteroids Nostradamus native american end of time end of world end of the world as we know it end of paradigm new paradigm change Extreme Weather Patterns Maya END OF THE WORLD DOOMS DAY NEW AGE change evoloution shift timewave zero terence mckenna 2012 sightings nostradamus dimensional shift omega dedroidify Mayan Calendar Apocalypse Pinchbeck i ching 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Earth elohi 2012 December Dec Apocalypse Rapture time asteroids pole shift Nostradamus Native American Indigenous Hopi Prophecy Lakota Floyd RedCrow four corners Indian mega flood, typhoons hurricanes rip tides mini ice age,tsunami mega flood mega disaster ozone depletion, landslide drought earthquakes meteors,volcanoes wildfires flooding comets, volcano tornado 2012 weather climatic solar flares collapse flooding meteor showers meditation philosophy chakra dimension cosmic<br />divine intervention future 2012 endtimes end of world times rapture ascension transcendence mayan calendar change Awakening 2012 consciousness ascension spirituality Light new old ways living in balance 2012 new world great mass awakening spiritual awakening love and light emegergence 5th fifth world sipapu Pleiadian Evolution 2012 mother earth sacred planet way of the peaceful warrior solar federation signs of the end New spirituality environment Mother Earth elohi 2012 December Dec Apocalypse Rapture time 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Mother Mary ~ Claim Your Rightful Place Amongst the Masters in Your Ability to Love and to Create ~ via Fran Zepeda
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/mother-mary-claim-your-rightful-place-amongst-the-masters-in-your
2013-11-16T21:42:25.000Z
2013-11-16T21:42:25.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(51,204,204);"><strong>Mother Mary ~ Claim Your Rightful Place Amongst the Masters in Your Ability to Love and to Create ~ via Fran Zepeda</strong></span> <br /> <strong>Posted: 09 Aug 2013 09:31 PM PDT</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900594281,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="378" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900594281,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900594281?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>franhealing.com</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">Hello dear ones. By now you have realized that you have reached a crossroads, a crossroads of true unequivocal belief in your divine nature. We have been telling you for quite a while now of the magnificent essence that is you, naturally and never-ending and eternally, and many of you have accepted it with open arms and true belief in your true nature.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> However, there are many that still doubt this, and for you to move forward, it needs to be embraced fully and without any hesitation. Deep down you know of your nature, your Divine Nature. Deep down you know of its possibilities and its consequences. Deep down you recognize yourself more and more, as the veils are lifted from your hearts and as you accept yourselves truly and absolutely. But are you fully embracing it? Are you fully believing it? That is the question we pose to you this day, where you find yourselves continually inundated with purer and purer energy into your hearts, if you so accept it.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> For many it is bringing up doubts and resistance. For many it is still bringing up those parts of you that still cling to old beliefs of what you think you are, of who you think you are. But beloveds, I come today to ask of you: let go more, surrender more; look closely into your hearts and see any remaining doubts and fears and beliefs that are holding you back from receiving and accepting this pure light of such magnitude, that nothing can hide now, that nothing can be in your way of expanding more fully into your new lives and new sense of yourselves.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> But it isn’t really “new” now, dear ones, is it? You are indeed coming back to your true beginnings, your true center, and while it may feel sometimes that you are like a new fresh seedling newly sprouted and waving in the harsh winds of change, feeling very vulnerable, know that you are not alone and you can withstand it, that you can grow further and stronger into your true glory.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> I come to you now to give you comfort and love in your treacherous journey, or so it may seem to you now. Hold fast to your center, dear ones, and see how much love you can hold without feeling like you are bursting. And bursting is ok, even so. For you are breaking the barriers of old paradigms for one last time and it is so – it is rightfully so - that you claim your rightful place amongst the Masters in your ability to Love and to Create.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> The only thing stopping you, my dear ones, is belief and trust – belief and trust in your Divine Nature, in your Divine Essence, in your Christed Self, in your Lighted Ascended Being. You merely have to choose those thoughts and feelings that support that new level you have found yourselves in. It feels new, yes; it feels strange yes, but go with it. Allow it. You are almost there.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> You are the Lighted Love-Bearers of the World. I have told you this before. You are fully capable of sustaining that role; you are perfectly capable of carrying forward as supreme examples of Lighted Ascended Beings, of evolved Ascended Beings, so full of Love and promise that no one can deny it. Don’t deny it, dear ones. Be with us in your full glory. Now is the time. Now is the Creation you have been waiting for – the creation of so much Love oozing within you and without you and for you and by you. Take it in further, dear ones. You are almost there.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> We love you immensely, dear ones, we in the Celestial and Galactic Realm. That has never subsided. It grows and flourishes with each further acceptance of it. Let this Love and Light now illuminate any remaining dark patches that may prevent you from fully accepting that you are a Full and Lighted Divine Being, here to spread it further out than you could have ever imagined. For the dark patches are merely beliefs and fears and doubts you have accumulated to sustain you in the times of separation. But that time is closing dear ones. And you merely have to light them up and move through them like wisps of fog lingering before you on your path to full freedom.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> You have my deep abiding love always. You have the deep abiding love of all the Celestial and Galactic Realm, of which you are one. Believe it fully, dear ones. Now is the time.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong>All my love.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(51,204,204);"><strong>Mother Mary</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> ©2013 Fran Zepeda. Permission is given to copy and distribute this material, provided the content is posted in its entirety and unaltered, is distributed freely, and this notice and links are included.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="http://www.franheal.wordpress.com">http://www.franheal.wordpress.com</a> (Blog)<br /><a href="http://www.franhealing.com/Current-Channelled-Message.html">http://www.franhealing.com/Current-Channelled-Message.html</a> (Website</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Bermuda Pyramid found in 2012 - Underwater pictures + Crystal Pyramid - Bermuda Triangle + Atlantis Found Giant Sphinxes, Pyramids In Bermuda Triangle
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/the-revelation-of-the-pyramids-hd-documentary-bermuda-pyramid
2013-11-08T22:30:00.000Z
2013-11-08T22:30:00.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"> </p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#3366ff;">Bermuda Pyramid found in 2012 - Underwater Pyramid discovery pictures</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/0ij3MDUnx-w?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/0ij3MDUnx-w">http://youtu.be/0ij3MDUnx-w</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#3366ff;">MUST SEE | Crystal Pyramid Discovered In Bermuda Triangle</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/E4vdwipZf9Q?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/E4vdwipZf9Q">http://youtu.be/E4vdwipZf9Q</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#3366ff;">Atlantis Found Giant Sphinxes, Pyramids In Bermuda Triangle ½</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VZR_uxDQMK8?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/VZR_uxDQMK8">http://youtu.be/VZR_uxDQMK8</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Don't believe in Ancient Aliens? Watch this I Dare You. pt 1 to 6 + "Proof Positive" Aliens set up our Civilizations
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/don-t-believe-in-ancient-aliens-watch-this-i-dare-you-pt-1-to-6
2013-11-08T22:17:03.000Z
2013-11-08T22:17:03.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff0000;">Don't believe in Ancient Aliens? Watch this I Dare You. pt 1</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/G8IOhoF_jBM?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/G8IOhoF_jBM">http://youtu.be/G8IOhoF_jBM</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff0000;">Don't believe in Ancient Aliens? Watch this I Dare You. pt 2</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/zhTRtczqgj0?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/zhTRtczqgj0">http://youtu.be/zhTRtczqgj0</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br />Uploaded on 16 Jan 2012<br />Klaus Donna shows some of the absolutely amazing artifacts that he has found across the world</p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff0000;">Don't believe in Ancient Aliens? Watch this I Dare You. pt 3</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/YDITtbrFj80?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/YDITtbrFj80">http://youtu.be/YDITtbrFj80</a></p><p style="text-align:center;">Uploaded on 16 Jan 2012<br />Klaus Donna shows some of the absolutely amazing artifacts that he has found across the world<br />I do not own this information but am distributing it for education purposes.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff0000;">Don't believe in Ancient Aliens? Watch this I Dare You. pt 4</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gP0jJflKoDc?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/gP0jJflKoDc">http://youtu.be/gP0jJflKoDc</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff0000;">Don't believe in Ancient Aliens? Watch this I Dare You. Pt 5</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/rhvu4d7hzG8?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/rhvu4d7hzG8">http://youtu.be/rhvu4d7hzG8</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff0000;">Don't believe in Ancient Aliens? Watch this I Dare You. Pt 6</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/zCEpDM1gWwA?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/zCEpDM1gWwA">http://youtu.be/zCEpDM1gWwA</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff0000;">"Proof Positive" Aliens set up our Civilizations</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ELtmJZj_E_Q?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/ELtmJZj_E_Q">http://youtu.be/ELtmJZj_E_Q</a></p></div>
Travelling back in time IS possible, argues new science book
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/travelling-back-in-time-is-possible-argues-new-science-book
2013-11-03T00:34:29.000Z
2013-11-03T00:34:29.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:rgb(0,204,255);"><strong><span class="font-size-4">Travelling back in time IS possible, argues new science book</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Traveling into the past is “difficult,” the author admits and there is one, crucial, limitation - you cannot travel back beyond the point when the first time machine is invented.<br />Rob Waugh – Fri, Oct 18, 2013</p><p style="text-align:center;">“Time travel to the past is possible,” says Colin Stuart, author of The Big Questions in Science.</p><p style="text-align:center;">“In fact, you can travel back in time, arrive three months before you left - and buy yourself a Christmas present before you set off.”</p><p style="text-align:center;">Travelling into the past is “difficult,” Stuart admits, and there is one, crucial, limitation - you cannot travel back beyond the point when the first time machine is invented.</p><p style="text-align:center;">“In fact, the inventor of the first time machine will find it impossible to use,” says Stuart, “Lots of people will think, “Oh, I’ll go back and meet the inventor!’ So he’ll probably spend most of his time shaking their hands.”</p><p style="text-align:center;">Travelling forward in time is relatively easy, most scientists agree - to go forward in time, you simply need to accelerate to speeds close to the speed of light.</p><p style="text-align:center;">As you get close to that speed, time slows down, but only for you, according to Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Travel far enough, and you could return thousands of years into the future. Travelling backwards, though, is much, much harder - but still, Stuart, says “possible”.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Stuart notes that we have, as yet, never seen a time-traveller - which argues that limitless travel through time is not possible.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Professor Stephen Hawking announced a “party” for time-travellers, with details of latitude and longitude, and invited visitors from the future. “None showed up,” says Stuart.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Stuart also points out that “time tourists” would visit moments such as the launch of the Titanic, or the assassination of JFK, “but they’re not in the photographs.”</p><p style="text-align:center;">Stuart’s method of travelling through time for a surprise Christmas gift is not easy, though - it requires travel to another star, a spacecraft that can travel at near light speed, and a gigantic amount of energy.</p><p style="text-align:center;">“What you would do is create a wormhole - you can use them to go backwards,” says Stuart. “What you would need is something really heavy - which bends space - or a huge amount of energy, to create a wormhole. There’s a rule in physics that you can borrow a huge amount of energy - as long as you pay it back quickly - it’s called the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900588891,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="630" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900588891,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900588891?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">Brian Cox argues that using wormholes is tricky - or, in fact, impossible</p><p style="text-align:center;">“You see it in particles in the Large Hadron Collider which pop in and out of existence. If you can somehow pay off that “debt”, you end up with a permanent wormhole in space - which would take you instantly to, say, another star.”</p><p style="text-align:center;">“To travel “back in time”, you simply have to attach one end of the wormhole to a spaceship, fly around at near the speed of light for a while (so time slows down for the spaceship), then jump through the wormhole.”</p><p style="text-align:center;">If the spaceship flew for five years, only six months would have passed within the wormhole - so if you jump through it to the alien star, then fly back to Earth (on yet another spaceship), you arrive three months before you left.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Because you rely on the wormhole, you can’t go further back than when the machine is invented - hence, perhaps, the reason we have never seen any time travellers. Either that, or the sheer amount of effort involved.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Stuart says that this method requires technology far beyond what we currently have, “This isn’t the time to do it,” he admits. “But there are stars that are billions of years older than ours - if there is life there, perhaps they can travel in time.”</p><p style="text-align:center;">Stuart says that while the idea is “possible” it does raise questions - “What happens if you arrive three months before you leave, then shoot yourself? We just don’t know.”</p><p style="text-align:center;">Thus far, the only things we can accelerate to near light speed are particles such as protons in accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Science writer Carl Sagan once offered the rather weak argument that time travellers might be among us already - but would “disguise themselves” to avoid disrupting the past.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Professor Brian Cox suggests, though, that the idea of a stable wormhole may not be realistic.</p><p style="text-align:center;">“In General Relativity, you can travel backwards in principle,” he said in a speech this year. “It's to do with building these things called wormholes; shortcuts through space and time. But most physicists doubt it. Hawking came up with the 'chronology protection conjecture' - physics we don't yet understand that means wormholes are not stable.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">The Big Questions in Science, published by Andre Deutsch, is out in November</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/travelling-back-in-time-is-possible--argues-new-science-book-140927121.html#SJGIiVU">http://uk.news.yahoo.com/travelling-back-in-time-is-possible--argues-new-science-book-140927121.html#SJGIiVU</a></p></div>
Do Not Be Disheartened by the Violence Reported in the Media ~ via John Smallman
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/do-not-be-disheartened-by-the-violence-reported-in-the-media-via
2013-11-08T23:39:32.000Z
2013-11-08T23:39:32.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(255,0,0);"><strong>Do Not Be Disheartened by the Violence Reported in the Media ~ via John Smallman</strong></span> <br /> <strong>Posted: 07 Aug 2013 09:05 PM PDT</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}10900587685,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="259" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}10900587685,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="10900587685?profile=original" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">johnsmallman2.wordpress.com</p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Jesus through John</strong><br /> I just want to reassure you of God’s infinite Love for you, for all of humanity, and that that is the most real thing that you can attend to and focus on. The reading you have just been doing, spelling out the horrendous activities undertaken by people of many different religious persuasions “in God’s name” throughout the ages is shocking.</p><p style="text-align:center;">But remember that the physical environment you experience as embodied humans is unreal, imaginary, illusory, and although the horrendous treatment of some humans by other humans, for whatever reason, is monstrous, horrifying, and unconscionable, it did not really happen.</p><p style="text-align:center;">That is very hard for you to grasp because you have built such a convincing illusion, and because your bodies can and do experience intense pain – physical, emotional, and psychological – when abused or tortured. Also, those who inflict pain on others are, themselves, suffering from the most terrible fears and beliefs, and are striking out in terror – terror that they refuse to acknowledge to themselves and therefore bury under a cloak of denial.</p><p style="text-align:center;">To be in fear is to be backed up against a wall with no hope of escape and no place to go. You have an expression for it: “To be between a rock and a hard place”. So you lash out! It truly seems that you have no option because you have seen others hurt and even killed when they chose not to defend themselves from forceful attack.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Fear dehumanizes, and it has been doing it for eons. When you are dehumanized you cannot recognize Love because It terrifies you; it is the antithesis of fear. But by no means everyone has been dehumanized – just enough to cause considerable harm and keep fear alive in just about everyone – and humanity is presently in the process of recognizing that the horrors it has perpetrated on itself over the eons out of its own FEAR of itself (all of itself, which is one) is due to the apparent absence or actual denial of LOVE during those activities. Those activities could not be entered into by anyone who is conscious, aware, and therefore open to Love!</p><p style="text-align:center;">As you embrace the Love that constantly surrounds you, your fear shrinks, dissolves, and dissipates, and it then becomes possible for you to see and understand the intense suffering buried unacknowledged in the depths of those perpetrators. Understanding allows you to feel compassion, and then offer them that instead of judgment.</p><p style="text-align:center;">As all in the spiritual realms keep telling you, and re-emphasizing, Love is the answer to every issue, problem, disagreement, or area of conflict. Humanity is finally learning that lesson and putting what it is learning into practice. In recent decades, despite their suffering, many are forgiving the perpetrators of hate crimes. Occasionally, the media do report instances of this, but mostly it passes unnoticed except by those directly involved.</p><p style="text-align:center;">This active and intentional forgiveness is an indication of the enormous changes in attitude that are occurring all across the planet. Everyone holding their Light on high, intending to live lovingly and then putting that intention into practice, makes a big difference, intensifying the field of Love that envelops you.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Do not be disheartened or discouraged by the violence and suffering reported in the media; instead, remind yourselves that the time for fear-driven ways of living are at an end, and send Love and compassion to anyone or any situation of which you become aware, and in which suffering, by victims or perpetrators, no matter how caused, is being experienced. It is effective, it makes a difference, and it alters the energy fields of those involved by reducing the fear and stress being experienced, enabling them to draw back from instant knee-jerk reactions and reassess the situation with less fury.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Making a conscious intent at the start of each day to live lovingly and to be an open channel through which Love can flow constantly is an essential aspect of the life path you chose before incarnating, and it further strengthens the flow to remake that intent whenever you think of it throughout your day.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Your path homewards is unmistakable when you make a conscious choice to be aware of it. Frequently, however, the anxieties that you experience in the illusion lead you to engage with fear and make a choice that is unloving, and which will then take you on a diversionary path where you will re-experience lessons that you had thought were well learnt and had been left far behind you.</p><p style="text-align:center;">It can be shocking and depressing for you, but it is not the end of the world; it is not a catastrophe, and it is not an irredeemable disaster. You do need to acknowledge the possibility that you made a mistake. . . no more than that. And then, if you ask, you will receive an abundance of assistance to regain your path.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Never fear that you might die in sin! Sin is of the illusion, it is unreal, but your belief in it can cause you untold concern and intensify any feelings of unworthiness to which you may be clinging. Feelings of unworthiness often lead to unwise choices when making decisions in your daily lives.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Nearly all your cultures have been most successful in establishing a sense of guilt or sinfulness in their members from a very early age, and some of you have much greater difficulty than others in shedding that invalid self-judgment. When you are aware of harboring and experiencing such feelings, tell yourselves very firmly, even forcefully, that they are absolutely false. This does not mean that you have never made errors or mistreated others; it merely means that God will never judge you unworthy or will that you be punished.</p><p style="text-align:center;">If you have been unloving, try, if possible, to remedy your unloving words or actions; if it is not possible, send a loving intent to the person(s) wronged, and then FORGIVE yourselves. To truly forgive removes the feelings of guilt, self-blame, or unworthiness, and allows you to move forwards lovingly once more.</p><p style="text-align:center;">You may need to make the intent to forgive yourselves more than once because the guilt has been so ingrained over many lifetimes. It is like a physical ache or strain that hangs on after you have overexerted yourselves, and which requires you to treat yourselves gently until the physical damage is fully healed.</p><p style="text-align:center;">And to forgive yourselves is to treat yourselves with consideration and gentle, loving respect. Give yourselves adequate time to heal because forgiving is a process of releasing old and outdated beliefs and habits which involved, and may often have seemingly demanded, that you engage in quite harsh self-judgment. When you cease judging yourselves harshly, then you can start to forgive others. If you are having trouble forgiving others, look inwards to discover what you find there that is unacceptable to you and release it.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Love is all-inclusive. If you exclude anyone, and that most definitely includes yourselves, it is but an imitation, a pretence of Love. When you are having difficulty with self-acceptance and with letting go of self-judgment, remind yourselves that God loves you unconditionally in every moment, and if that is the case, as it most certainly is, then you have absolutely no valid reason for not accepting yourselves just as you are: perfect children of God. If you still have difficulty, then remind yourselves of occasions when your own children misbehaved and you lovingly forgave them, and then open to the realization that God is infinitely more loving and forgiving than you, as humans, can ever be!</p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Your loving brother, Jesus.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Satellites glimpse ultra-powerful “black hole” whirlpools in Atlantic
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/satellites-glimpse-ultra-powerful-black-hole-whirlpools-in
2013-08-22T21:04:55.000Z
2013-08-22T21:04:55.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">Satellites glimpse ultra-powerful “black hole” whirlpools in Atlantic<br /> The whirpools - never witnessed before - would suck down ships, debris and even living creatures<br />By Chris Hall | Yahoo! News – Wed, Aug 21, 2013</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><strong>Rex Features - Two mysterious 'black hole' whirlpools have been spotted in the South Atlantic ocean (Rex Features)</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Satellites have shown two mysterious 'black hole' whirlpools in the South Atlantic ocean - ultra powerful “vortexes” which suck water down into the depths.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">The whirpools - never witnessed before - would suck down ships, debris and even living creatures, moving 1.3 million cubic metres of water per second.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Two of the black holes - or “maelstroms” - have been sighted in three months by physicists from Zurich and Miami.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">The powerful vortices of current have been described as ‘maelstroms’ and are ‘mathematical analogues’ for black holes – which is to say they do exactly the same with water that black holes do with light.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>A whirlpool pictured by NASA.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">The discovery could give new insights into how oceanic currents transport debris and may even have implications for climate change studies.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Astronomical black holes bend space and time into a perpetually collapsing vortex. Light itself bends around them, which enables astronomers to recognise their existence.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Similarly, these oceanic maelstroms funnel current into an almost permanent spiral, trapping debris, oil and potentially living creatures in a body of water. Hardly anything leaks out.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The scientists used Edgar Allen Poe’s 1841 story ‘A descent into a Maelstrom’ to describe their discovery:<br /> “The edge of the whirl was represented by a broad belt of gleaming spray; but no particle of this slipped into the mouth of the terrific funnel…”</p><p style="text-align:center;">The ability to apply the same mathematical principles to water currents on earth as black holes in space is an unexpected side-effect of the theory of general relativity.</p><p style="text-align:center;">This phenomenon has been observed in the South Atlantic and South-western Indian Ocean, using satellite imagery designed to spot the aquatic equivalent of black hole currents. According to scientists, the maelstroms are prevalent in this area thanks to the southbound Agulhas current in the Indian Ocean.</p><p style="text-align:center;">In a three-month period, two perfect matches were found to mimic black hole behaviour, “We have found exceptionally coherent material belts in the South Atlantic, filled with analogues of photon spheres around black holes,” said George Haller, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich and Francisco Beron-Vera at the University of Miami in Florida, who worked on the study.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Top panel:</strong> Evolution of black-hole eddies (extracted from 3 months of data) in the South Atlantic over a period …</p><p style="text-align:center;">The phrase ‘photon spheres’ refers to the light that is trapped around astronomical black holes, and in this instance is comparable to the rings of debris that are forming around these ocean maelstroms. As Haller and Beron-Vera’s findings note, ‘these vortices will capture and swallow nearby passively floating debris.’</p><p style="text-align:center;">In their research findings, Haller and Beron-Vora express their surprise at finding real-world examples that hold so closely to the theoretical equations. ‘Vortices in turbulence are often envisaged as rotating bodies of fluid, traveling as coherent islands in an otherwise incoherent ambient flow. This… …view is appealingly simple, yet challenging to apply in actual vortex detection.’</p><p style="text-align:center;">The maelstroms are detected by their rotating edges, which the scientists found were reliable indicators of the vortex within, based on pioneering research carried out by Stephen Hawking on black holes: ‘Intuitively, one expects that any…vortex in the fluid must contain such a singularity in its interior, just as all black holes are expected to contain Penrose-Hawking singularities. This expectation turns out to be correct’.</p><p style="text-align:center;">The singularities, as they have been termed, last for months at a time, moving across the ocean without interference from other currents.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Thus they can transport water of different temperatures and salinity to other areas of the ocean, potentially influencing the regional climate.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Haller and Beron-Vera found that the vortices transported water in a north-western direction 30% faster than had previously been reckoned – at a rate equating to 1.3 million cubic metres of water per second.</p><p style="text-align:center;">In addition, the maelstroms were found to occur four times deeper in the ocean than previously estimated; the study found examples as deep as 2000m below the surface.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/satellites-glimpse-ultra-powerful-%E2%80%9Cblack-hole%E2%80%9D-whirlpools-in-atlantic-151036336.html">http://uk.news.yahoo.com/satellites-glimpse-ultra-powerful-%E2%80%9Cblack-hole%E2%80%9D-whirlpools-in-atlantic-151036336.html</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Pictures of the week: From a firewalker to wild ponies swimming in Virginia
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/pictures-of-the-week-from-a-firewalker-to-wild-ponies-swimming-in
2013-08-16T22:39:49.000Z
2013-08-16T22:39:49.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(51,102,255);">Pictures of the week: From a firewalker to wild ponies swimming in Virginia</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong><span class="font-size-3">Here's our pick of the pictures around the world this week...</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>Sparks fly as a man, moving briskly, runs barefoot across a pile of hot coals. The traditional ceremony in Jinhua city, China, is believed to grant the daredevil firewalker luck and prosperity and prevent disaster (Imaginechina / Rex Features)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /> Human skulls adorned with a crown of flowers and the name and date of its owner's death are placed in rows at the Bone House in Hallstatt, Austria. The Bone House, known as Beinhaus, is home to 1,200 skulls and bones and was founded in the 12th century due to a lack of space at the village's small cemetery. Remains were dug up after ten to 15 years and taken there to make way for the newly deceased (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>Keep close: Three one-month-old meerkats made their first trip outside their enclosure this week in Bristol Zoo Gardens. Pictured here are two of the tiny triplets, carefully snuggled under mother Babushka's arms (Tim Ireland/PA Wire)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""></a><a href=""></a><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>Andy Laird, 19, was left red-faced after he discovered his Vauxhall Corsa was submerged under 3ft of sea water. The teenager had parked his car on the beach at Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, and then left it to have lunch with his family. When he returned to the beach at 5pm he was shocked to find the tide had come in so suddenly his car was now 50ft from the shore. (SWNS)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>Boats are illuminated as a bolt of lightning streaks across the sky over Poole Harbour as heavy storms brought a temporary halt to Britain's heatwave to a dramatic end (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>Time for a shower: Visitors to an exhibition in Taiyuan, China, were able to fully immerse themselves in art by interacting with 3D paintings (Rex)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>Dancers in yellow and orange perform in front of thousands holding up coloured card in the May Day stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea. The Ariring mass games got underway this week with an extraordinary spectacle of thousands of dancers, acrobats and singers participating in the patriotic and celebratory show. This week is particularly significant to North Koreans as it is the 60th anniversary of the day the armistice was signed to suspend hostilities between North and South Korea (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>An estimated one million Catholics gathered on Brazil's famed Copacabana beach to hear Pope Francis celebrate mass (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>Baby parrots, whose feathers haven't begun to grow yet, are seen for sale in Dimapur, India (Caisii Mao / Rex Features)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>A wagon of the crashed train that killed 80 people in north-western Spain is lifted from the wreckage. The country is in mourning after the terrible accident (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge present their son, Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, to the world's media outside St Mary's Lindo Wing in London.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>Where's my swimming cap? Wild ponies keep their heads above the water during the 88th Annual Pony Swim in Virginia, America. The tradition sees 118 ponies make a five-minute swim across the Assateague Channel to Chincoteague Island where they are auctioned for money for the local fire volunteer service (Photo by Maddie Meyer/The Washington Post)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Pictures of the week: From Ramadan prayers to bull runners in Spain
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2013-08-09T23:22:19.000Z
2013-08-09T23:22:19.000Z
Melodie Munro
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<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">Pictures of the week: From Ramadan prayers to bull runners in Spain</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> <strong>Here's our pick of the pictures from around the world this week...</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>A child joins in as members of the Muslim community attend midday prayers at Strasbourg Grand Mosque, France, on the first day of Ramadan (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>Far out: This planet - 63 light years away - bears an incredible resemblance to Earth - but exoplanet HD 189733b is far from hospitable. Temperatures are 1,000C, winds howl at more than 4,000mph, and it rains silicate glass (PA)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>Orphaned kitten Tigger has been adopted by Harley the British bulldog. The adorable pair are inseparable; Tigger often sleeps with his surrogate mum and Harley even washes him (SWNS)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>Make a wish: A rare double rainbow is seen above towering skyscrapers in Guangzhou, China (HAP/Quirky China News / Rex Features)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>A giant statue of Jane Austen's romantic hero Darcy from the book 'Pride and Prejudice' surprises a swimmer in the Serpentine, London. The enormous structure is inspired by the infamous scene from the TV adaptation where Darcy, played by Colin Firth, emerges from a lake with a wet shirt - capturing millions of British hearts (PA)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="564" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>Donkey sandwich: Jack Johnston, 15 months, is caught in a cuddle with two micro miniature donkeys called 'Snuggle Pot' and 'Livingstone' in Yea, Australia (David Caird/Newspix / Rex Features)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>This dramatic picture shows revelers crouching at the entrance to a bull ring after the fourth running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
REAL Ancient Technology Found in Cuzco Peru 2012 - Cusco Peru
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2013-08-09T23:31:41.000Z
2013-08-09T23:31:41.000Z
Melodie Munro
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<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);">REAL Ancient Technology Found in Cuzco Peru 2012 - Cusco Peru</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/JpNwXFkNWJM?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://youtu.be/JpNwXFkNWJM">http://youtu.be/JpNwXFkNWJM</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Published on 6 May 2012<br />The secrets you're about to discover have been hidden from mankind for centuries for a perfectly good REASON <a href="http://www.universallifesecrets.com/?">http://www.universallifesecrets.com/?</a>... !! Take a look!</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">The truth is here, not out there <a href="http://www.universallifesecrets.com/?">http://www.universallifesecrets.com/?</a>... ....The Truth is Here, not out there <a href="http://TopSecretWorld.com">http://TopSecretWorld.com</a> !!</p><p style="text-align:center;">Ancient Technology Found in Cuzco Peru 2012 . Follow Top Secret News 1 on Fb <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TopSecretNews1">http://www.facebook.com/TopSecretNews1</a> and twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/TopSecretNews1">http://twitter.com/TopSecretNews1</a></p><p style="text-align:center;">REAL Ancient Technology Found in Cuzco - Cusco Peru 2012!</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
Pictures of the week: From car in a sinkhole to auto in the snow
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2013-07-18T20:55:23.000Z
2013-07-18T20:55:23.000Z
Melodie Munro
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<div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4"><strong><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0);">Pictures of the week: From car in a sinkhole to auto in the snow</span></strong></span><br /> <span class="font-size-4"><strong><span style="color:rgb(255,102,0);">Here's our pick of the pictures around the world this week...</span></strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>Going down: A Chinese family got the shock of their lives when a giant sinkhole appeared in the road and their car tumbled into it. Luckily the family escaped unharmed (Rex)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>Force of nature: A dramatic lightning bolt lights up the Grand Canyon's walls (TRAVIS ROE/U.S. DEPT OF THE INTERIOR/CATERS)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>The world's longest Lego railway track - in Denmark of course - is more than 2.5 miles long (Rex Features)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>A man stands in his damaged apartment after a car bombing in Reyhanli, in Hatay province near the Turkish-Syrian border (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>A bird flies underneath an atmospheric phenomenon known as a "sun dog" in the sky over Seaside Heights, New Jersey (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>Bangladeshis struggle against waves as they crashes onto the shore of the Bay of Bengal as cyclone Mahasen approaches. Despite fears of catastrophe the storm passed through with minimal casualties. A total of 18 people have been killed in Burma, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as a result of the cyclone (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>A dead tree stands in front of shallow water and a dried-up area of Lake George, 31 miles north of Canberra, Australia as a terrible drought affects the country (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>A man attaches prayer petitions with names written on cards to lotus lanterns at Jogye temple in preparation for the birthday of Buddha which falls on May 17 in South Korea (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>Summer weather: Snow fell in Shropshire (pictured), Devon and Dartmoor this week as an unusual blast of cold weather swept the nation (SWNS)</p></div>
Free ticket to the largest workshop in the world for creating vitality and wholeness
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2013-05-14T20:49:03.000Z
2013-05-14T20:49:03.000Z
Melodie Munro
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Pictures of the week: From colourful devotees in India to a flying car
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2013-06-05T23:12:59.000Z
2013-06-05T23:12:59.000Z
Melodie Munro
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<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">Pictures of the week: From colourful devotees in India</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">to a flying car</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Here's the pick of the pictures around the world this week.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""></a>Devotees wearing traditional blue clothing walk on a pathway made of cement bags to offer prayers at a shrine along the Arabian Sea in Mumbai, India (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""></a>Prince Harry pays tribute to those who died during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The young royal will spend a week in America on an official tour (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""></a>Dinner is served! This is the moment a lucky bird had an easy meal when an unsuspecting fish jumped out of the water. The cormorant had been paddling in wait of a meal at the El Dorado Regional Park in California. Seconds after this photo was taken he gobbled up the poor rainbow trout whole. (Dr. Andrew Lee/Solent News / Rex Features)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""></a>Not the Netherlands, but China. Villagers trim stunning tulip blossoms in Qushui County Tulip Farm (ZUMA / Rex Features)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""></a>Queen Elizabeth arrives for the State Opening of Parliament, at the Palace of Westminster where she unveiled the coalition goverment's legislative programme (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""></a>Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Supersquirrel! This creature was caught flying between trees in Novosibirsk, Russia, just like the comic book hero Superman (Caters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""></a><a href=""></a>Tourists on traditional boats paddle through the water tunnels guarded by the military on the island of Nangan, near northern Taiwan (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""></a>Rescue workers were astonished when they pulled a woman alive from the rubble of the Rana Plaza building 17 DAYS after it collapsed. The woman, identified as Reshma Begum, survived by scavenging biscuits from the bags of her dead colleagues. More than 1,000 people perished in the disaster in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""></a>Emergency services wear protective clothing during an exercise simulating a chemical attack on an underground station in South Korea. The United States, Japan and South Korea remain on alert despite reports that North Korea has moved a set of missiles from a launch site (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""></a>A supporter of former cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan takes part during a rally in Islamabad, Pakistan. Khan suffered severe injuries after he fell from a stage during a political rally. Pakistanis go to the polls on May 11 (PA)</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a>The commute home? The Terrafugia TF-X is a partially electric-powered FLYING car, which has the ability to take off vertically, meaning passengers should be able to take off from their homes and soar above traffic</p></div>
Trapped in Her Autistic Body, Girl Finds a Voice!
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2013-07-22T20:51:19.000Z
2013-07-22T20:51:19.000Z
Melodie Munro
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<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(51,204,204);">Trapped in Her Autistic Body, Girl Finds a Voice!</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Inspiring! This report is a little dated, but still so moving and interesting. Carly Fleischmann was born with autism. Her parents would not give up on her — pouring into her life unconditional love and thousands of hours of therapy. It seemed hopeless, until a breakthrough at 11 when she found her “voice.” (Carly has since graduated from high school, written a book with her father, and is headed for college!) <a href="http://carlysvoice.com/home/">http://carlysvoice.com/home/</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">Provided by <a href="http://www.godfruits.com"></a><a href="http://www.godfruits.com">www.GodFruits.com</a><br /> <span style="color:rgb(51,204,204);"><strong><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.godfruits.com/trapped-in-her-autistic-body-girl-finds-a-voice-23444.php"><span style="color:rgb(51,204,204);">http://www.godfruits.com/trapped-in-her-autistic-body-girl-finds-a-voice-23444.php</span></a></span></strong></span></p></div>
How to find free Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK
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2013-05-29T23:59:48.000Z
2013-05-29T23:59:48.000Z
Melodie Munro
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<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">How to find free Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">Finding free Wi-Fi hotspots can save you money on your monthly phone bills - as well as providing a useful way to get online on a laptop if you need to work on the go.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Recombu – 4 hours ago</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">Finding free Wi-Fi hotspots can save you money on your monthly phone bills - as well as providing a useful way to get online on a laptop if you need to work on the go.</p><p style="text-align:center;">There are lots of ways to get your hands on free Wi-Fi - ranging from using an Apple Store's free network, to sitting at a bus stop and hooking up to a BT Wi-Fi hotspot.</p><p style="text-align:center;">There are over 4.5 million public Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK and Ireland, all waiting for you to get connected. Here’s how to do it.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(255,0,0);"><strong>Use an app</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;">The quickest way to find yourself a hotspot is to use an app. For iOS, a safe bet is Wifi@, which we particularly like due to the fact it has an offline database, so you don’t need to be connected to the web to find Wi-Fi.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Android users should fire up Wi-Fi Finder , a clever app that can use a phone call, rather than data, to show you nearby Wi-Fi hotspot locations. Both are iOS and Android versions are free.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Alternatively you can search for hotspots via your phone’s browser at myhotspots.co.uk. This website lists hotspots via town and city, making searching even easier.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">Find free Wi-Fi on the High Street</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Pretty much any major high street franchise has free Wi-Fi on offer. Right now, McDonalds, Starbucks, Pret a Manger, Costs and plenty of others, all will give you free internet while you eat.</p><p style="text-align:center;">If you don’t fancy eating, then hotel chains like Premier Inn offer 30 mins of free Wi-Fi to guests. Or if you are really in the mood for saving cash, you can always use any Apple store’s Wi-Fi connection.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">Use your phone contract’s Wi-Fi allowance</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">O2 includes unlimited BT Wi-Fi access with most of monthly contracts. This means you can take advantage of its 4 million plus network of Wi-Fi hotspots across the UK for free. Vodafone also uses BT’s network and includes 2GB of usage with most pay monthly contracts.</p><p style="text-align:center;">BT Wi-Fi is particularly good for those living outside major cities, as a lot of its hotspots are based at bus stops, where you might not have any 3G reception on your phone.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Virgin is offering free internet access on London underground to Virgin Mobile, Virgin Media, EE and Vodafone customers, but will also let non subscribers join for a small fee. The Cloud is another favourite, which will give you 30 minutes of free connectivity in most restaurants and public places. O2 customers get unlimited Cloud usage.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-3" style="color:rgb(255,0,0);">Sign up for a Wi-Fi subscription service</span></strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Even subscription services such as Boingo offer freebies - if you sign up to a Boingo hotspot in airports such as Gatwick, Heathrow, Edinburgh and Glasgow, you get 15 minutes free.</p><p style="text-align:center;">Failing that, you can, of course, cough up - it's far cheaper going with a large worldwide service such as Boingo, than paying a lot of smaller companies. Boingo offers up Wi-Fi worldwide from over 600,000 hotspots. Pricing starts at around £1.50 for Pay as You Go internet minutes and go up to around £40 monthly for unlimited global access. It even includes a Wi-Fi finder app to help you locate Boingo hotspots.</p><p style="text-align:center;">BT Wi-Fi also allows non O2 and Vodafone customers to use its hotspots. Handy if you are in the UK as its network is extensive. 90 minutes is £5.99 or you can pay 18p per minute.</p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p></div>
How humans will survive in a million years
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/how-humans-will-survive-in-a-million-years
2013-07-22T21:11:52.000Z
2013-07-22T21:11:52.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(255,102,0);">How humans will survive in a million years</span></strong><br /> <strong>By Rob Walker, Yahoo News | Yahoo! News – Tue, Jul 16, 2013</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> An interview with the author of a new book about mass human extinction, space elevators and more</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="575" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><strong>A Geminid meteor streaks across the sky over Steamboat Springs, Colo., on Dec. 12, …</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:center;">If you’ve ever worried, or even wondered, about the ultimate fate of humanity itself, then here is the book for you: In Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Analee Newitz takes on the enormous topic of “how humans will survive a mass extinction.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> As that phrase (the book’s subtitle) indicates, Newitz proves to be an optimist about the science and potential technologies of long-term survival — but she didn’t start out that way. And while she makes her case in conversational tones, her argument reflects sweeping research: Methodically but entertainingly walking the reader through evolutionary history starting with mass-extinction events from billions of years ago, she works her way into the laboratories of contemporary researchers devising hard-to-believe innovations to save humanity from every future calamity you can imagine. Along the way the reader meets techno-thinkers and scientists grappling with pandemics and other threats, devising wild-sounding bio-energy alternatives, "converting urban spaces into biological organisms," preparing for the possibility of a planet-threatening asteroid, storing the sum of human knowledge in a discreet set of computer files and figuring out various methods of traveling to other planets — including a “space elevator.”</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> By the end of the journey, you can see why Newitz is optimistic that tech innovations could help our species persist for another million years. But should you believe it? We had some questions. Happily, Newitz had answers.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> You write that you "set out to write a book about how we are all doomed," but you ended up writing about ensuring humanity's next million years of not being doomed. Was that a gradual shift in your thinking, or were there particular turning-point moments in your reporting and research?</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> The first turning point came when I was learning about the survivors of the Great Dying, a mass extinction 250 million years ago which took out 95% of all species on the planet. It was the worst mass extinction in Earth's history, caused by disastrous climate changes in the wake of a super volcano. And yet a humble little creature called Lystrosaurus (whom I've written about here), who looked something like a cross between a pig and a lizard, managed to survive this horrific period. Pretty much every other animal on land went extinct. And Lystrosaurus survived just by sleeping in protected underground burrows, and walking into new environments where it adapted to the new world that was emerging in death's wake. I figured that if this little pig-lizard could do it, so could we. I think at that point I realized that humans are no worse and no better than other animals — we are so good at adapting to new circumstances that it's likely we'll follow in Lystrosaurus' path.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> I think my second turning point was when I began questioning why so many books focus on extinction and apocalypse and never tackle the arguably more important topic of survival. If we don't explore ways to survive, then we'll never do it. So looking at survival is useful. But I think survival stories are also far more rich and interesting than extinction stories. Survival is complicated and heroic and surprising. Death is always the same.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> As someone who often laments my fellow humans' apparent focus on the short term — a complaint that's often linked to the way we use technology — I was amazed at the long-term-focused science and technology infrastructure you explore in the book. Was there any area of long-term tech research that surprised you the most?</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> What surprised me over and over again was how a lot of these seemingly far-fetched technologies are already in our grasp. For example, if an asteroid were headed for Earth right now, we'd almost certainly see it coming several years out. We have space-based telescopes that are monitoring over 90 percent of the nearby rocks that could hit us, and astronomers are constantly looking for more. All it would take are a few space probes of the kind we already have to go out into space, meet one of those asteroids, and just push it out of an intercept course with Earth. No need for nukes or fancy-pants antigrav technology. We also have the technology to build carbon-neutral cities and even carbon-neutral factories. It was surprising to me to realize how much of our planet's future really is in the hands of humanity. We don't need to wait for a miracle, or for a new scientific discovery. We just need to implement the knowledge and tools we already have. We can do it!</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> You write that "science fiction … may be among the most important survival tools we have," essentially because science fiction writers can help us envision what researchers might not be able to imagine. Ray Bradbury's conviction that humans would be on the moon in his lifetime supposedly resulted in him being treated like a crank. Today writers like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling are viewed almost like seers in some quarters. Have we become more accepting of the view that science fiction can be highly relevant to everyday life?</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Science has become part of everyday life, and therefore it's no surprise that science fiction is one of our most popular forms of storytelling. We crave stories about science because it helps us make sense of our civilizations. Science fiction can take something incredibly complex — like, say, genetics — and show us how it fits into our personal lives, or how it shapes society. Notice that I'm not talking about science fiction as a genre that predicts the future. There are many kinds of stories that try to tell us about the future, or alternate realities, and science fiction is merely one of them.</p><p style="text-align:center;">I don't think that SF's popularity today comes from people seeking answers about the future — they're searching for meaning in the present. That said, I think SF helps us think about what possible consequences might follow from a scientific or technological discovery. Equally as important, SF stories can help us think about society itself as a vast experiment, where each political regime or cultural power bloc is another attempt to solve our problems as a species.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> A principle goal of Scatter, Adapt, Remember, you write at one point, is "to get us off this crowded planet and into space." This leads to some of the most insane-sounding stuff in the book — the "space elevator," for instance. You're talking about a million-year time frame, so it's perfectly understandable that you'd venture into territory that is essentially beyond our imaginations. But still: Did you encounter any schemes that were just too crazy to include?</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> The most implausible ideas I encountered were all about what humans would do in the long term instead of going into outer space. Humanity has a long history of exploring, starting a million years ago when our ancestors first left Africa.</p><p style="text-align:center;">By the time Homo sapiens evolved, our ancestors had already invented tools and fire. So we literally never knew a world without technological modifications (however crude). We are a species of tool-makers and explorers, and we're damn good at it. So I find it extremely unlikely that we would give up on exploring space. I think it's even more unlikely that we would choose to upload our brains to computers and live in virtual worlds instead of what we know as the physical world. I'm sure some people will do that, maybe temporarily while traveling through space. But just staying here on Earth when there are so many other awesome places to go? Like Saturn and Alpha Centauri and maybe even other dimensions? Whenever I encountered that idea, I found myself unable to accept it. But that probably reveals my own pro-space prejudices!</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Now let's see if I can get you back into a pessimistic mood: Let's say you are right that we humans can persist for another million years. Why do we deserve to persist? What's so great about humans, anyway?</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Whether or not we deserve to persist isn't really relevant to whether we will do it. "Deserving" is an ethical concern, not a survival issue. Even if humans are bastards, we are going to survive. We have all the traits of a survival species, just like Lystrosaurus. Saying that we deserve to go extinct doesn't solve our problems — it leads to both moral and practical paralysis. Humans are life forms, and life forms always fight to survive, no matter what. It's in our most fundamental, biological natures. So we'd better accept that, and work on making the future as comfortable as possible.</p><p style="text-align:center;">As human animals, we have evolved the ability to plan a better future for ourselves. We can even stop a mass extinction. It's not too late. We don't have to be angels to preserve our ecosystems. We just have to be practical, and not waste our time wondering whether we are good enough to deserve it. Let's not debate the magnitude of our sins. Let's get to work saving the world!</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Annalee Newitz is on Twitter at @annaleen; her book is Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction.</p></div>
Sea of green: Sunseekers relax in green algae which has engulfed Chinese beach
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/sea-of-green-sunseekers-relax-in-green-algae-which-has-engulfed
2013-07-14T21:56:19.000Z
2013-07-14T21:56:19.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(51,153,102);"><strong>Sea of green: Sunseekers relax in green algae which has engulfed Chinese beach</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> Huge swathes of blue-green algae have covered the beach in Qingdao, China. The bizarre sight is caused by algae called 'enteromorpha prolifera', which is non-toxic and keeps returning even though 20,000 tonnes have been removed in recent weeks.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">People walk through algae-covered seaside in Qingdao, Shandong province. (Reuters)</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /> <a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="630" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="477" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p></div>
Ships in the desert
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/profiles/blogs/ships-in-the-desert
2013-05-09T00:16:55.000Z
2013-05-09T00:16:55.000Z
Melodie Munro
https://www.cityofshamballa.net/members/MelodieMunro
<div><p style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-4" style="color:rgb(51,102,255);"><strong>Ships in the desert</strong></span></p><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Something interesting.</strong></p><p style="text-align:center;">Have you ever wanted to walk across the bottom of the River,<br /> Lake, or Ocean to see all the boats and ships that have sunk?</p><p style="text-align:center;">The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth-largest saline body of water.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> It has been steadily shrinking since the 1960's, after the rivers that fed it<br />were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><br /> And now it's almost gone leaving a desert full of old shipwrecks.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="700" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">And it had already been starved of nearly 30 yrs. of water by 1989.</p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href=""><img width="700" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /> <a href=""><img width="700" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="700" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="700" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="700" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="700" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="700" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="700" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="700" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="700" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a><br /><a href=""><img width="700" class="align-center" src="" alt="" /></a></p><p style="text-align:center;">Really quite unreal isn't it, the pictures you just saw are the BOTTOM of what was once the fourth largest salt water sea in the world.</p></div>