Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Suppressed Archeological Mysteries





Published on Oct 26, 2012
Explorer, archaeologist, and expert in ancient mysteries, Jonathan Gray, discussed how new findings which don't match current academic beliefs are being suppressed, as well as the discovery of human remains in geological strata, including the very earliest Cambrian layer. Citing the work of scientist George Dodwell, he said the Earth underwent a massive cataclysmic event in 2345 BC. The planet was tipped on its axis and was left wobbling (which continues to this day). Gray contends that all civilizations essentially began after this date.

He said that the Globalist agenda has covered up a very big secret-- namely, that Earth's granite rocks didn't slowly cool from liquid to solid over millions of years. Based on data that shows polonium bubbles froze into granite rock, he argued that the planet solidified in a matter of minutes, thus correlating with the description of creation offered in the book of Genesis. If the planet solidified so quickly, there had to have been some type of outside intervention, he observed.

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Archaeology, or archeology is the study of human activity in the past, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes. Because archaeology employs a wide range of different procedures, it can be considered to be both a science and a humanity, and in the United States it is thought of as a branch of anthropology, although in Europe it is viewed as a separate discipline.

Archaeology studies human history from the development of the first stone tools in eastern Africa 3.4 million years ago up until recent decades. (Archaeology does not include the discipline of paleontology.) It is of most importance for learning about prehistoric societies, when there are no written records for historians to study, making up over 99% of total human history, from the Palaeolithic until the advent of literacy in any given society. Archaeology has various goals, which range from studying human evolution to cultural evolution and understanding culture history.

The discipline involves surveyance, excavation and eventually analysis of data collected to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. It draws upon anthropology, history, art history, classics, ethnology, geography, geology, linguistics, semiology, physics, information sciences, chemistry, statistics, paleoecology, paleontology, paleozoology, paleoethnobotany, and paleobotany.

Since its early development, various specific sub-disciplines of archaeology have developed, including maritime archaeology, feminist archaeology and archaeoastronomy, and numerous different scientific techniques have been developed to aid archaeological investigation. Nonetheless, today, archaeologists face many problems, ranging from dealing with pseudoarchaeology to the looting of artifacts and opposition to the excavation of human remains.

Thus, the items found in the Cambrian layers, including gold chains, iron pots, thimbles, and remains of modern humans, may be less than five or six thousand years old, he surmised. Gray also shared other intriguing notions:

The Egyptian pyramids (as well as the structure at Baalbek) were built through a anti-gravity technology using sound waves to lift heavy objects.
Underground tunnels that go for hundreds of miles appear to be cut with a laser beam.
The Chinese sent manned missions to the Moon, and constructed a "Palace of Cold" there, some 3,200 years ago.
Ancient cave paintings depict people wearing modern clothes.

Biography:

International explorer, archaeologist and author Jonathan Gray has traveled the world to gather data on ancient mysteries. Over the past 37 years, he has penetrated some largely unexplored areas, including parts of the Amazon headwaters. He has also led expeditions to the bottom of the sea and to remote mountain and desert regions of the world.

In the course of his explorations, Jonathan began to uncover evidence of surprising out of place artifacts. According to what he was taught at school, these were impossible! There was a global pattern to them, suggesting an ancient worldwide civilization of astonishing proportions. His book, Dead Men's Secrets, catalogues more than a thousand pieces of evidence of a lost super science and technology, including dozens of achievements ahead of our day.

Career

He started as skeptic investigator of American amateur archaeologist Ron Wyatt who claimed that he had discovered many ancient Biblical objects as the ark of Noah and the ark of the covenant.Gray has added conspiracy theories about a New World Order that works behind the scenes to become world dominant and tries to suppress the creationist worldview and evangelical Christianity. Mainstream archaeologists and historians view these beliefs as pseudoscience.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Scientists Want to Bring Some Animals Back from Extinction


On Friday at a National Geographic-sponsored TEDx conference, scientists met in Washington, D.C. to discuss which animals we should bring back from extinction. They also discussed the how, why, and ethics of doing so. They called it "de-extinction."

There are a few guidelines for which ancient species are considered, and sadly, dinosaurs are so long dead they aren't in the picture. Their DNA has long ago degraded, so researchers are fairly sure that Jurassic Park will never happen.

They chose the animals using the following criteria: Are the species desirable — do they hold an important ecological function or are they beloved by humans? Are the species practical choices — do we have access to tissue that could give us good quality DNA samples or germ cells to reproduce the species? And are they able to be reintroduced to the wild — are the habitats in which they live available and do we know why they went extinct in the first place?

This still leaves plenty of other animals on the table. The list of candidates is actually pretty long, considering. The cost of de-extinction varies by species but projects could run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more. Then there's also the cost of housing the animals once they are created, and re-introducing them into the wild and protecting them from poachers once they are there.

But, if you were the zoo that had that one Woolly mammoth or saber-toothed cat, these costs just might be worth it.

Here are 10 animals they are hoping to one day resurrect.

1. The mythical Aurochs is not a myth at all, actually. It is the ancestor of domestic cattle and lived throughout Europe, Asia, and North Africa. They died off in 1627.
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2. The Dodo is known for being really dumb — but really it was just fearless because it evolved without any natural predators. Humans who arrived on its home island, Mauritius, took advantage of this and killed them all for food.
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3. The Labrador Duck was always rare but disappeared between 1850 and 1870. Supposedly it didn't taste good, so it wasn't hunted extensively for food, so its extinction isn't fully explained.

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4.The Ivory-billed Woodpecker lived in "virgin forests" of the southeastern United states, but there hasn't been a confirmed sighting of the bird since the 1940s. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology even offered a $50,000 reward for someone who could lead researchers to a living specimen.
Original photo by Arthur A. Allen, coloured version by Jerry A. Payne


5. Frozen carcasses of the Woolly Mammoth allow scientists access to well-preserved DNA from these prehistoric giant animals, related to elephants. The last isolated population of woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until 4,000 years ago.
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6. The Mastodon is an extinct species related to elephants that lived in North and Central America. They went extinct 12,000 years ago.
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7. This extinct species of plains Zebra, the Quagga, once lived in South Africa. The last wild one was shot in 1870 and the last in captivity died in 1883.
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8. The iconic Saber-toothed cat, Smilodon, is also on the list. It died out about 10,000 years ago due to climate changes at the end of the last Ice Age.
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9. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, is the only marsupial to make the list. It lived in Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea until the 1960s.
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10. The Caribbean monk seal was hunted to extinction for use as oil, and they were out-competed for fish (their main food source) by humans. The last individual was seen in 1952.
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Monday, March 18, 2013

How Much Bandwidth do I Need?


When you’re shopping around for internet service, an internet provider (i.e. AT&T, Comcast) will typically offer many differently-priced service plans depending on how much bandwidth they will provide.  This equates almost directly with connection speed and load times, so it’s important to have enough bandwidth to accommodate your browsing habits.
There are two important metrics in bandwidth allocation (measured in Megabits per second or Mbps): upstream and downstream, denoting the speed of outbound and inbound traffic respectively.  They are useful for different tasks, so let’s address them separately.  All bandwidth suggestions below are for a single user.  Obviously if many users are simultaneously sharing a single connection, requirements will increase accordingly.

Downstream Bandwidth

This is the more useful of the two metrics for most residential users.  It reflects how much data can be transmitted to your computer/LAN at one time, affecting the speed of web page loading, file downloading, video/audio streaming, etc.  For comfortable web browsing, I recommend you have 1-2 Mbps per user.  If you watch a lot of YouTube or Netflix or use Pandora or other streaming media service, you probably want more like 4-5 Mbps per user.  If you make use of digital software and game distribution services like Steam or frequently download very very large files, then you should spring for 10-20 megs or faster.  It will really save on your thumb-twiddling time.

Upstream Bandwidth

Upstream bandwidth plays a more complicated role in internet activity.  It is less used, but still very important as it determines how quickly your computer/LAN can transmit data to a remote location.  In web browsing and media streaming, its only real function is to send the initial request for web pages and files to the server.  After that, all the load is carried on the downstream pipe.  For this reason ISPs typically provide much less outbound bandwidth to their subscribers, sometimes as little as 1/10th the inbound.
Upstream bandwidth does have significant impact on certain operations.  Does it take a long time to attach files to your email?  That’s the limitation of your upload speed.  Stuttering in Skype calls?  That’s probably a lack of upstream bandwidth (though it could be yours or the person you’re talking to).  Though you can theoretically make Skype video calls with 512k upstream bandwidth, you will probably experience poor performance and/or low picture quality.  Offsite backup systems like Mozy or Carbonite rely exclusively on your outbound bandwidth to transmit your files to their servers.  This is the reason they take so long to complete a full backup.
Sufficient outbound bandwidth is also critical when hosting remotely-accessible services on your LAN.  If you use Remote Desktop or LogMeIn or other remote protocol to access your home or office computer while on the road, you should have at least 1 Mbps upstream. 2 Mbps  or better is a good idea when accessing remote files via VPN.  If you’re hosting a website, you’ll need some significant outbound bandwidth too, but that becomes more complicated because your bandwidth requirements will change depending on how popular your site is.  I recommend 2 Mbps or more to start.

The Short and Sweet

If you want affordable general purpose internet and won’t be using any kind of remote access or hosting services, get 2-4 Mbps downstream per user and don’t sweat the upstream speed.  But do be aware of these metrics so you can make informed changes going forward.

Table o’ Bandwidth Requirements (Downstream)

Bandwidth (per user)What it’s fast enough for…
< 1 MbpsEmail
Instant Messaging
Frustrating Web Browsing
MUDs (those old text adventure games, remember?)
1-2 MbpsWeb Browsing
Audio Chat
Streaming Audio (i.e. Pandora)
Online Gaming
Facebook
3-4 MbpsVideo Chat
Streaming Video (YouTube, Netflix, etc.)
High Quality Photos
Peer to Peer File Sharing
Obsessive Facebook Use
5-9 MbpsStreaming HD Video
Porn (see Streaming HD Video)
10-20 MbpsDigital Software Distribution
20-50 MbpsDownloading very large files
Porn Addiction (see Downloading very large files)
50+ MbpsHuge households
Corporations
Small Countries
Impatient People

Table o’ Bandwidth Requirements (Upstream)

Bandwidth (per user)What it’s fast enough for…
< 256 KbpsEmail & Instant Messaging
Web Browsing
Audio/Video Streaming
SSH Server
512 KbpsAudio Chat
Online Gaming
Remote Desktop
1 MbpsVideo Chat
Emailing tons of obnoxious photos
Hosting a network game (2-4 players)
Screen Sharing
BitTorrent
2 MbpsSkype with more than 2 people
Hosting a network game (4-8 players)
Remote Backup
VPN
Web server for a small site
3-5 MbpsMulticast Video Streaming
Web server for a mildly popular site
P2P Network Hub
10+ MbpsMaking Me Jealous

CT Registry Review "Physics"

This quiz is designed to check your understanding of CT Physics.  I hope that it is challenging and helps you in your quest to become CT Registered.  Credit goes to Dimaio!  PS.  Know your Anatomy, it weighs equally with the Physics.  Key to identifying Veins/Arteries, if it branches of the IVC, it's a vein, Descending Aorta: Artery.  Follow the vessel to the structure, it will also help in identification.  Not only does the exam point to anatomy to identify, you also have to place your cursor over the appropriate anatomy and click to place an "X".  "Know your Anatomy"!  Please let me know how you all fare on your Registry!  Have a great day and God Bless!

48th Capablanca Memorial

Monday, 18 March 2013 23:12
The 48th edition of the Tournament Capablanca in Memoriam 2013 will take place from April 20th to May 1st
at Habana Riviera Hotel in La Havana, Cuba.

The Elite group’s full lineup was announced. With the March 1st ratings, the tournament reaches FIDE Category 18, something that might change in April.

There will be two Russian Grandmasters in the field: current National champion Dmitry Andreikin (2727) and
 Ernesto Inarkiev (2688).

Indian Pentala Harikrishna (2705) and Hungarian Zoltan Almasi (2689) will also take part.

The field is completed with two Cuban representatives: the best player in Latin America Leinier Dominguez (2723)
and Yuniesky Quesada (2596).


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