Russian solar probe to predict Earthly cataclysms

http://rt.com/news/space-probe-sun-scientists/


Some scientists believe bursts of solar activity cause natural disasters on our planet, but until now the star has been too difficult to reach or explore in any detail. Some Russian researchers think they have the solution.

­Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis – apocalyptic pictures are becoming an ordinary part of news bulletins across the globe. And scientists are not giving out reassuring forecasts.

“Unfortunately, we're expecting more severe cataclysms which may lead to large-scale human losses and destruction,” says Baku-based Professor Elchin Kakhalilov of the Global Network for the Forecasting of Earthquakes. “I'm talking about even a possible shift of the centers of our entire civilization.”

The change in the Earth's seismic activity coincides with the rise of activity on the sun. Scientists have been witnessing gigantic bursts of plasma on its surface and say they are affecting our planet, even though it is over 90 million miles away.

Each burst sends billions of particles into space which impacts the Earth's magnetic field. This may trigger some of the processes going on deep bellow its surface, leading to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Scientists predict solar activity will increase and say in the next few years, large-scale disruptions of electronic equipment, radio transmissions, computer failures and massive black-outs could become parts of everyday life.

The sun is currently monitored either by stations on Earth or in orbit. But sending a probe four times closer to the star would be far more helpful. And it may not be science fiction much longer, thanks to a project currently being developed by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).

“This is going to be like a thermometer which would fly close to the Sun, measure its temperature, density and magnetic fields,” Dr. Sergey Bogachaev, an Interheliozond engineer from Moscow. “We're making it from scratch: no one has ever done this before.”

The project of Interheliozond, as it is called, is intended to study the sun from close range, says RAS Space Research Institute Director Lev Zeleny according to Interfax. The space probe will provide new data about the sun. Scientists are currently carrying out preliminary design and trajectory studies of the future spacecraft. The project has been included into Russia’s Federal Space Program.

The Interheliozond is set to be launched by 2015. Of course it will not be able to control the star's activities, but it could at least give a heads up to humanity before disaster strikes.

utube vid of the boat that found the underwater object. the sonar pics really do look like the millenium falcon

http://www.spaceweather.com/



ELECTRON WARNING: Analysts at the GSFC Space Weather Lab report elevated levels of
energetic electrons around Earth. ("GOES 13 > 0.8 MeV integral electron flux is
above 105 pfu." ) This is caused by the high-speed solar stream now blowing around
our planet. Spacecraft with orbits passing through or in the vicinity of the Earth's
outer radiation belt could be affected by these charged particles.

http://www.spaceweather.com/



ELECTRON WARNING: Analysts at the GSFC Space Weather Lab report elevated levels of
energetic electrons around Earth. ("GOES 13 > 0.8 MeV integral electron flux is
above 105 pfu." ) This is caused by the high-speed solar stream now blowing around
our planet. Spacecraft with orbits passing through or in the vicinity of the Earth's
outer radiation belt could be affected by these charged particles.

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Explorers find bizarre, spaceship-like object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea

(video)

http://io9.com/5822917/treasure-hunters-find-bizarre-spaceship+like-object-at-the-bottom-of-the-baltic-sea

Annalee Newitz — Several days ago, we reported that a Swedish team of shipwreck hunters discovered a strange, circular object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea that looks sort of like the Millennium Falcon. The group was using sonar to plumb the depths of the waters, hoping to find shipwrecks that might contain treasures they could sell. The Ocean Explorer team isn't sure what to make of this strange discovery that some are calling a crashed UFO, but they've released more information about it.


Here you can see Peter Lindberg, from the Swedish Ocean Explorer team that discovered the object, explaining what they found. Earlier, he told reporters:

At 87 meters down, between Sweden and Finland, they saw a large circle, about 60 feet in diameter. You see a lot of wierd stuff in this job but during my 18 years as a professional I have never seen anything like this. The shape is completly round…a circle.

Apparently there are tracks about 300 meters long leading up to the object, leading Lindberg to speculate that the object has moved. So far nobody has explored the object yet, so hopefully we'll be learning more about this as the story develops.

before you complain about my posting a link, i just want to say that the link is to a website you may have some interest in. this group is looking at contacts with extraterrestrials. i don't know anything about them.

http://www.eceti.org/

board for you to check out.

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=6169

yepper. first time they missed. the next 2 times they didn't fire lol.

me too. i think it might be because of the ads

Earth Must Be Ready for Next Big Solar Storm
By SPACE.com Staff
Space.com | SPACE.com – 51 mins ago...

In September 1859, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in recorded history. The solar eruption induced electrical currents that set telegraph offices on fire and sparked dramatic displays of northern lights over Cuba and Hawaii.

Scientists and officials from a range of organizations gathered in Washington, D.C., yesterday (June 21) to ask a simple but frightening question: What if it happens again?

"A similar storm today might knock us for a loop," Lika Guhathakurta, a solar physicist at NASA headquarters, said. "Modern society depends on high-tech systems such as smart power grids, GPS and satellite communications — all of which are vulnerable to solar storms." [Infographic: Anatomy of Sun Storms and Solar Flares]

More technology, more vulnerabilities

Guhathakurta was one of more than a hundred attendees of the fifth annual Space Weather Enterprise Forum. SWEF aims to raise awareness of space weather and its effects on society, especially among policymakers and emergency responders. Yesterday's meeting drew representatives of the United Nations, Congress, NASA, power companies and more.

When the 1859 storm erupted, the sun was immersed in a below-average solar cycle (solar activity waxes and wanes over periods of roughly 11 years). That event served as a reminder that strong storms can occur even when the cycle is weak — as seems to be the case again in 2011, during our current Cycle 24. [Video: Huge Solar Eruption of June 7, 2011]

While the 1859 storm halted telegraph messages and puzzled a lot of skywatchers in the tropics, an eruption of that magnitude today would be much more serious, researchers said.

Worldwide blackouts could last for months as engineers struggled to repair damaged transformers, for example. Planes and ships couldn’t trust GPS units for navigation, and banking networks might go offline, seriously disrupting global commerce.

According to a 2008 report from the National Academy of Sciences, a massive solar storm could have the economic impact of 20 Hurricane Katrinas. That hurricane caused an estimated $80 billion of damage.
EARTH MUST BE READY FOR THE NEXT BIG SOLAR STORM
...

In September 1859, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in recorded history. The solar eruption induced electrical currents that set telegraph offices on fire and sparked dramatic displays of northern lights over Cuba and Hawaii.

Scientists and officials from a range of organizations gathered in Washington, D.C., yesterday (June 21) to ask a simple but frightening question: What if it happens again?

"A similar storm today might knock us for a loop," Lika Guhathakurta, a solar physicist at NASA headquarters, said. "Modern society depends on high-tech systems such as smart power grids, GPS and satellite communications — all of which are vulnerable to solar storms." [Infographic: Anatomy of Sun Storms and Solar Flares]

More technology, more vulnerabilities

Guhathakurta was one of more than a hundred attendees of the fifth annual Space Weather Enterprise Forum. SWEF aims to raise awareness of space weather and its effects on society, especially among policymakers and emergency responders. Yesterday's meeting drew representatives of the United Nations, Congress, NASA, power companies and more.

When the 1859 storm erupted, the sun was immersed in a below-average solar cycle (solar activity waxes and wanes over periods of roughly 11 years). That event served as a reminder that strong storms can occur even when the cycle is weak — as seems to be the case again in 2011, during our current Cycle 24. [Video: Huge Solar Eruption of June 7, 2011]

While the 1859 storm halted telegraph messages and puzzled a lot of skywatchers in the tropics, an eruption of that magnitude today would be much more serious, researchers said.

Worldwide blackouts could last for months as engineers struggled to repair damaged transformers, for example. Planes and ships couldn’t trust GPS units for navigation, and banking networks might go offline, seriously disrupting global commerce.

According to a 2008 report from the National Academy of Sciences, a massive solar storm could have the economic impact of 20 Hurricane Katrinas. That hurricane caused an estimated $80 billion of damage.

Preparing for the storm


Preparing for the storm

So what can scientists, and society, do to stave off such consequences? For starters, the researchers say, we could try to forecast and track solar storms more accurately, to give the planet more time to prepare.

And such efforts are well under way.

"We can now track the progress of solar storms in three dimensions as the storms bear down on Earth," said SWEF speaker Michael Hesse, chief of the Space Weather Lab at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "This sets the stage for actionable space weather alerts that could preserve power grids and other high-tech assets during extreme periods of solar activity."

Hesse and his colleagues feed data into supercomputers from a fleet of NASA spacecraft around the sun, including the twin Stereo probes and the Mercury-studying Messenger. Within hours of a major eruption, the computers will spit out a 3-D movie that predicts where the storm will go, which planets and spacecraft it will hit and when the impacts will occur.

"This is a really exciting time to work as a space weather forecaster," said Antti Pulkkinen, a researcher at the Space Weather Lab. "The emergence of serious physics-based space weather models is putting us in a position to predict if something major will happen."

Some of the computer models are so sophisticated, they can predict electrical currents flowing in Earth's soil when a solar storm strikes. These currents are what do the most damage to power transformers, so having good models could help officials stop a blackout cascade, researchers said.

"Disconnecting a specific transformer for a few hours could forestall weeks of regional blackouts," Pulkkinen said. [Amazing New Sun Photos from Space]

Protecting astronauts

While Earth can get hammered by the fast-moving particles and radiation unleashed by a solar eruption, the planet's atmosphere shields us on the ground to a degree. But astronauts in space are on the front lines.

"Astronauts are routinely exposed to four times as much radiation as industrial radiation workers on Earth," said SWEF speaker John Allen, of NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate. "It's a serious occupational hazard."

NASA keeps careful track of each astronaut's accumulated dosage throughout his or her career. Accurate space weather alerts could help keep these exposures under control — for example, by postponing spacewalks when solar flares are likely.

And not all forecasts have to raise alarm bells. Some could help NASA mission planners determine the best times for astronauts to go out on an hours-long spacewalk.

"We could use 'All clear' alerts," Allen said. "In addition to knowing when it's dangerous to go outside, we'd also like to know when it's safe. This is another frontier for forecasters — not only telling us when a sunspot will erupt, but also when it won't."

Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
•Amazing New Sun Photos from Space
•Anatomy of Sun Storms & Solar Flares (Infographic)
•Huge Sun Eruption of June 7, 2011

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/earth-must-ready-next-big-solar-storm-165902561.html

Earth Must Be Ready for Next Big Solar Storm
By SPACE.com Staff
Space.com | SPACE.com – 51 mins ago...

In September 1859, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in recorded history. The solar eruption induced electrical currents that set telegraph offices on fire and sparked dramatic displays of northern lights over Cuba and Hawaii.

Scientists and officials from a range of organizations gathered in Washington, D.C., yesterday (June 21) to ask a simple but frightening question: What if it happens again?

"A similar storm today might knock us for a loop," Lika Guhathakurta, a solar physicist at NASA headquarters, said. "Modern society depends on high-tech systems such as smart power grids, GPS and satellite communications — all of which are vulnerable to solar storms." [Infographic: Anatomy of Sun Storms and Solar Flares]

More technology, more vulnerabilities

Guhathakurta was one of more than a hundred attendees of the fifth annual Space Weather Enterprise Forum. SWEF aims to raise awareness of space weather and its effects on society, especially among policymakers and emergency responders. Yesterday's meeting drew representatives of the United Nations, Congress, NASA, power companies and more.

When the 1859 storm erupted, the sun was immersed in a below-average solar cycle (solar activity waxes and wanes over periods of roughly 11 years). That event served as a reminder that strong storms can occur even when the cycle is weak — as seems to be the case again in 2011, during our current Cycle 24. [Video: Huge Solar Eruption of June 7, 2011]

While the 1859 storm halted telegraph messages and puzzled a lot of skywatchers in the tropics, an eruption of that magnitude today would be much more serious, researchers said.

Worldwide blackouts could last for months as engineers struggled to repair damaged transformers, for example. Planes and ships couldn’t trust GPS units for navigation, and banking networks might go offline, seriously disrupting global commerce.

According to a 2008 report from the National Academy of Sciences, a massive solar storm could have the economic impact of 20 Hurricane Katrinas. That hurricane caused an estimated $80 billion of damage.
EARTH MUST BE READY FOR THE NEXT BIG SOLAR STORM
...

In September 1859, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in recorded history. The solar eruption induced electrical currents that set telegraph offices on fire and sparked dramatic displays of northern lights over Cuba and Hawaii.

Scientists and officials from a range of organizations gathered in Washington, D.C., yesterday (June 21) to ask a simple but frightening question: What if it happens again?

"A similar storm today might knock us for a loop," Lika Guhathakurta, a solar physicist at NASA headquarters, said. "Modern society depends on high-tech systems such as smart power grids, GPS and satellite communications — all of which are vulnerable to solar storms." [Infographic: Anatomy of Sun Storms and Solar Flares]

More technology, more vulnerabilities

Guhathakurta was one of more than a hundred attendees of the fifth annual Space Weather Enterprise Forum. SWEF aims to raise awareness of space weather and its effects on society, especially among policymakers and emergency responders. Yesterday's meeting drew representatives of the United Nations, Congress, NASA, power companies and more.

When the 1859 storm erupted, the sun was immersed in a below-average solar cycle (solar activity waxes and wanes over periods of roughly 11 years). That event served as a reminder that strong storms can occur even when the cycle is weak — as seems to be the case again in 2011, during our current Cycle 24. [Video: Huge Solar Eruption of June 7, 2011]

While the 1859 storm halted telegraph messages and puzzled a lot of skywatchers in the tropics, an eruption of that magnitude today would be much more serious, researchers said.

Worldwide blackouts could last for months as engineers struggled to repair damaged transformers, for example. Planes and ships couldn’t trust GPS units for navigation, and banking networks might go offline, seriously disrupting global commerce.

According to a 2008 report from the National Academy of Sciences, a massive solar storm could have the economic impact of 20 Hurricane Katrinas. That hurricane caused an estimated $80 billion of damage.

Preparing for the storm


Preparing for the storm

So what can scientists, and society, do to stave off such consequences? For starters, the researchers say, we could try to forecast and track solar storms more accurately, to give the planet more time to prepare.

And such efforts are well under way.

"We can now track the progress of solar storms in three dimensions as the storms bear down on Earth," said SWEF speaker Michael Hesse, chief of the Space Weather Lab at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "This sets the stage for actionable space weather alerts that could preserve power grids and other high-tech assets during extreme periods of solar activity."

Hesse and his colleagues feed data into supercomputers from a fleet of NASA spacecraft around the sun, including the twin Stereo probes and the Mercury-studying Messenger. Within hours of a major eruption, the computers will spit out a 3-D movie that predicts where the storm will go, which planets and spacecraft it will hit and when the impacts will occur.

"This is a really exciting time to work as a space weather forecaster," said Antti Pulkkinen, a researcher at the Space Weather Lab. "The emergence of serious physics-based space weather models is putting us in a position to predict if something major will happen."

Some of the computer models are so sophisticated, they can predict electrical currents flowing in Earth's soil when a solar storm strikes. These currents are what do the most damage to power transformers, so having good models could help officials stop a blackout cascade, researchers said.

"Disconnecting a specific transformer for a few hours could forestall weeks of regional blackouts," Pulkkinen said. [Amazing New Sun Photos from Space]

Protecting astronauts

While Earth can get hammered by the fast-moving particles and radiation unleashed by a solar eruption, the planet's atmosphere shields us on the ground to a degree. But astronauts in space are on the front lines.

"Astronauts are routinely exposed to four times as much radiation as industrial radiation workers on Earth," said SWEF speaker John Allen, of NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate. "It's a serious occupational hazard."

NASA keeps careful track of each astronaut's accumulated dosage throughout his or her career. Accurate space weather alerts could help keep these exposures under control — for example, by postponing spacewalks when solar flares are likely.

And not all forecasts have to raise alarm bells. Some could help NASA mission planners determine the best times for astronauts to go out on an hours-long spacewalk.

"We could use 'All clear' alerts," Allen said. "In addition to knowing when it's dangerous to go outside, we'd also like to know when it's safe. This is another frontier for forecasters — not only telling us when a sunspot will erupt, but also when it won't."

Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
•Amazing New Sun Photos from Space
•Anatomy of Sun Storms & Solar Flares (Infographic)
•Huge Sun Eruption of June 7, 2011

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/earth-must-ready-next-big-solar-storm-165902561.html

amazing amsc. i was one of 700 stockholders a few years ago. got in at 9.95 and half out at 19.00 and the rest at 22. reason i got out was i didn't like the news in the year end report. i felt then that the stockholders would get massacred by management.

i like your board and added it to my favorites. nice to meet you.

guy here robbed a bank about 7-8 years ago for the same reason. wore a jacket with his name stenciled on it just to be sure they knew who he was. then headed for a motel where he was known to hang out and waited for cops to come get him. he got $3000 and spent $30 of it. gave the money to the police, no argument, no fighting, no trying to get away. shame our world has to be like this.

incident? at nebraska nuclear plant

http://www.businessinsider.com/faa-closes-airspace-over-flooded-nebraska-nuclear-power-plant-2011-6


Airspace Over Flooded Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant Still Closed



Ricky Kreitner|Jun. 15, 2011, 4:02 PM|5,325|22


Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant is an island, but authorities are hoping it stays dry.

Image: Associated Press


A fire in Nebraska's Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant briefly knocked out the cooling process for spent nuclear fuel rods, ProPublica reports. The fire occurred on June 7th.

On June 6th, the Federal Administration Aviation (FAA) issued a directive banning aircraft from entering the airspace within a two-mile radius of the plant.

"No pilots may operate an aircraft in the areas covered by this NOTAM," referring to the "notice to airmen," effective immediately.

The plant is reportedly at a stage 4 level of emergency, though the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), which owns and operates the plant, denies this.

"This terminology is not accurate, and is not how emergencies at nuclear power plants are classified," the OPPD says on a website created to counter rumors about the security of the Fort Calhoun plant.

The OPPD claims the FAA closed airspace over the plant because of the Missouri River flooding. But the FAA ban specifically lists the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant as the location for the flight ban.

The plant is adjacent to the now-flooding river, about 20 minutes outside downtown Omaha, and has been closed since April for refueling.

WOWT, the local NBC affiliate, reports on its website:

"The Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Facility is an island right now but it is one that authorities say is going to stay dry. They say they have a number of redundant features to protect the facility from flood waters that include the aqua dam, earthen berms and sandbags."

OPPD spokesman Jeff Hanson told Business Insider that the nuclear plant is in a "stable situation." He said the Missouri River is currently at 1005.6" above sea level, and that no radioactive fuel had yet been released or was expected to be released in the future.

Asked about the FAA flight ban, Hanson it was due to high power lines and "security reasons that we can't reveal." He said the flight ban remains in effect.

We'll keep you apprised of the situation as more details come to light.

lots of arguing in comments section.

lol. no. it's the solar maximum. or almost maximum.

nasa says expect communication and power disruptions over the next few days

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110607/ts_alt_afp/usspaceweather

watch the video on spaceweather.com. this one is a beaut.

nasa says expect communication and power disruptions over the next few days

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110607/ts_alt_afp/usspaceweather

m2 flare, massive cme and an s1 radiation storm, all today. watch the video by the phd
http://www.spaceweather.com/

m2 flare, massive cme and s1 radiation storm, all today

TheRaveninexile
Wednesday, June 01, 2011 4:52:21 AM


auto sales #'s baaaaaad
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April Japanese Car Exports Collapse, Down 68%
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/31/2011 07:19 -0400


http://www.zerohedge.com/article/april-japanese-car-exports-collapse-down-68




Japan Market Share Subaru Toyota

Concurrent with last night's Moody's reminder that it is about to downgrade the Japanese economy, which we have long been claiming is the marginal global economic wildcard, we get an exportindustry update from the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association. In short: April car exports were an unprecedented disaster, with the average exporter seeing a 68% drop Y/Y, with some, such as Toyota plunging from 150,118 to only 31,025 cars in April 2011. And while this would be the ideal environment for US carmakers to grab market share, the fact that many are missing critial Made in Japan components in their supply chain means that there is a broad based supply drop. Which is why tomorrow's update of GM's recent channel stuffing practice will be observed with such interest: if the firm reports yet another increase in the cars parked with dealers, then something in the US carmaking space is seriously wrong two months after this Japanese car export free fall.

Japanese Motor Vehicle Exports April 2011:



Apr-10 Apr-11 Diff
TOYOTA 150,118 31,025 -79.3%
NISSAN 52,265 14,642 -72.0%
MAZDA 54,387 20,606 -62.1%
MITSUBISHI 27,878 19,491 -30.1%
ISUZU 11,939 2,770 -76.8%
DAIHATSU 3,594 984 -72.6%
HONDA 27,216 6,473 -76.2%
SUBARU 29,682 8,182 -72.4%
UD TRUCKS 1,472 692 -53.0%
HINO 5,614 3,069 -45.3%
SUZUKI 24,444 17,121 -30.0%
MITSUBISHI FUSO 2,931 1,006 -65.7%
TOTAL 391,540 126,061 -67.8%


And as the Truth About Cars reports further, in absolute numbers, export-heavy Toyota was hardest hit with a loss of 119,093 vehicles over April 2010. Nissan is a distant, but nonetheless surprising second with a loss of 37,623 units. All in all, the tsunami did cost the Japanese car industry 265,479 cars not exported, compared to April 2010. In dollar terms, the Japanese industry exported $5.9 billion in cars and parts in April, down $5.7 billion or 49 percent. Globally, the Japanese auto industry lost more than 600,000 cars in April.

Global Production April 2010

Apr 11 Apr 10 Diff % Short
Toyota 346,297 667,495 -48.1% -321,198
Nissan 248,024 319,673 -22.4% -71,649
Suzuki 220,832 229,565 -3.8% -8,733
Honda 138,498 294,308 -52.9% -155,810
Mitsubishi 68,239 79,948 -14.6% -11,709
Mazda 62,013 95,836 -34.9% -33,823
Total 1,083,903 1,686,825 -35.7% -602,922



One head cannot contain all wisdom.

fantastic news!

millenium fever - predicting catastrophes

http://www.spectacle.org/899/redd.html

i got a shareholder letter from shoshone today by snailmail. they are still sending ore to the smelter and still working to upgrade the old mine. they are planning a drilling program on one site.

the music ( to my ears at any rate ) is that they are holding the line on debt while getting out ore and upgrading and exploring. anyone else hear anything?

not sure what this is about, but it looks odd. posting it for you to check out. from the catastrophe board.




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6.0 in costa rico
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html

super flare in the crab nebula:

http://www.space.com/11641-superflare-crab-nebula-defies-explanation.html

how's this for a launch?

maglev train track with rocket on board and payload on rocket. the maglev accelerates the total load to 2100 mph and the rocket kicks in at the end of the track. the load would be at 10% of escape velocity before the rocket boosted it. if you start on the rockies and head east or south of east, the whole thing would be over the ocean in case an abort was necessary. the rocket could separate and splash down in the ocean to be recovered later.

best of the best

Alas, my love, you do me wrong,
To cast me off discourteously.
For I have loved you well and long,
Delighting in your company.

Chorus:
Greensleeves was all my joy
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
And who but my lady greensleeves.

Your vows you've broken, like my heart,
Oh, why did you so enrapture me?
Now I remain in a world apart
But my heart remains in captivity.

chorus

I have been ready at your hand,
To grant whatever you would crave,
I have both wagered life and land,
Your love and good-will for to have.

chorus

If you intend thus to disdain,
It does the more enrapture me,
And even so, I still remain
A lover in captivity.

chorus

My men were clothed all in green,
And they did ever wait on thee;
All this was gallant to be seen,
And yet thou wouldst not love me.

chorus

Thou couldst desire no earthly thing,
but still thou hadst it readily.
Thy music still to play and sing;
And yet thou wouldst not love me.

chorus

Well, I will pray to God on high,
that thou my constancy mayst see,
And that yet once before I die,
Thou wilt vouchsafe to love me.

chorus

Ah, Greensleeves, now farewell, adieu,
To God I pray to prosper thee,
For I am still thy lover true,
Come once again and love me.

chorus

lolzzz... congratulations. everyone shook their head when i bought a partial set of old silver at auction for $1.50. now worth ??? about 890 grams. ya gotta love it!

silver in a 'wedgie'... article points out support in the 30's.

http://www.321gold.com/editorials/roy_byrne/roy_byrne042911.html

alfa found this about silver

http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=62679621

lol. guess u have 2 decide 4 urself

even the best of us make a mistake now and then. it's what you do about your mistakes that defines who you are.

a local manufacturer, with around 780 employees, is self-insured. The largest component of their health costs is prescription meds. So they checked into the cost of at least one drug for which they are spending $1.5 million annually. Turns out that the drug, nexium, has a cost per month of $170, $20 from employee copay and $150 from insurance reimbursement.

Nexium is nearly the same as Prilosec. There is one molecule difference in the structure of the two medications. Prilosec is available over-the-counter for around $20 per month. Since
employees have to pay a $20 copay, it would make little difference to them whether they used the prescription or the otc version. So the company has decided to issue vouchers to any employee who has a nexium prescription and the employee can redeem the voucher at any of several local pharmacies for Prilosec. At no cost to the employee. The company discussed this with a local doctor before trying it. No one is required to participate and the doctor told them that some will have to use nexium.

This trial is to start now and the company will run the trial for 3 months. If it works, they may save a lot of that $1.5 million on their prescription reimbursements and will look into more, similiar options.

Thought you all would find this interesting, especially if you have similiar plans where you work. I won't give you the name of the company, but I will let you know what happens over the next 3 months.

a local manufacturer, with around 780 employees, is self-insured. The largest component of their health costs is prescription meds. So they checked into the cost of at least one drug for which they are spending $1.5 million annually. Turns out that the drug, nexium, has a cost per month of $170, $20 from employee copay and $150 from insurance reimbursement.

Nexium is nearly the same as Prilosec. There is one molecule difference in the structure of the two medications. Prilosec is available over-the-counter for around $20 per month. Since
employees have to pay a $20 copay, it would make little difference to them whether they used the prescription or the otc version. So the company has decided to issue vouchers to any employee who has a nexium prescription and the employee can redeem the voucher at any of several local pharmacies for Prilosec. At no cost to the employee. The company discussed this with a local doctor before trying it. No one is required to participate and the doctor told them that some will have to use nexium.

This trial is to start now and the company will run the trial for 3 months. If it works, they may save a lot of that $1.5 million on their prescription reimbursements and will look into more, similiar options.

Thought you all would find this interesting, especially if you have similiar plans where you work. I won't give you the name of the company, but I will let you know what happens over the next 3 months.

have a ball!! drink at least one mint julep for me please.

us nuclear plant in virginia affected by storms

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this is from bill's website.

http://amasci.com/unew.html

nanotech development:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-04/uom-rin041511.php

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Contact: Laura Bailey
baileylm@umich.edu
734-764-1552
University of Michigan

Researchers inject nanofiber spheres carrying cells into wounds to grow tissue


ANN ARBOR, Mich.---For the first time, scientists have made star-shaped, biodegradable polymers that can self-assemble into hollow, nanofiber spheres, and when the spheres are injected with cells into wounds, these spheres biodegrade, but the cells live on to form new tissue.

Developing this nanofiber sphere as a cell carrier that simulates the natural growing environment of the cell is a very significant advance in tissue repair, says Peter Ma, professor at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry and lead author of a paper about the research scheduled for advanced online publication in Nature Materials. Co-authors are Xiaohua Liu and Xiaobing Jin.

Repairing tissue is very difficult and success is extremely limited by a shortage of donor tissue, says Ma, who also has an appointment at the U-M College of Engineering. The procedure gives hope to people with certain types of cartilage injuries for which there aren't good treatments now. It also provides a better alternative to ACI, which is a clinical method of treating cartilage injuries where the patient's own cells are directly injected into the patient's body. The quality of the tissue repair by the ACI technique isn't good because the cells are injected loosely and are not supported by a carrier that simulates the natural environment for the cells, Ma says.

To repair complex or oddly shaped tissue defects, an injectable cell carrier is desirable to achieve accurate fit and to minimize surgery, he says. Ma's lab has been working on a biomimetic strategy to design a cell matrix---a system that copies biology and supports the cells as they grow and form tissue---using biodegradable nanofibers.

Ma says the nanofibrous hollow microspheres are highly porous, which allows nutrients to enter easily, and they mimic the functions of cellular matrix in the body. Additionally, the nanofibers in these hollow microspheres do not generate much degradation byproducts that could hurt the cells, he says.

The nanofibrous hollow spheres are combined with cells and then injected into the wound. When the nanofiber spheres, which are slightly bigger than the cells they carry, degrade at the wound site, the cells they are carrying have already gotten a good start growing because the nanofiber spheres provide an environment in which the cells naturally thrive.

This approach has been more successful than the traditional cell matrix currently used in tissue growth, he says. Until now, there has been no way to make such a matrix injectable so it's not been used to deliver cells to complex-shaped wounds.

During testing, the nanofiber repair group grew as much as three to four times more tissue than the control group, Ma says. The next step is to see how the new cell carrier works in larger animals and eventually in people to repair cartilage and other tissue types.


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Peter Ma: http://www.dent.umich.edu/bms/facultyandstaff/ma

School of Dentistry: http://www.dent.umich.edu/

EDITORS: For a high resolution photo of a nanofiber sphere, see http://ns.umich.edu/index.html?Releases/2011/Apr11/starr.

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http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/

he doesn't post enough links to check out his sources, but has some fascinating insights on EVERYTHING. lol. today's post is about magnetic fields and plate tectonics and whirlpools. yup. whirlpools. fascinating.

am still chuckling over the 'fishing shanty.' i told my brother the other day i am going to go off-grid and live like the amish.