Thursday, March 26, 2015
King Richard III's reinterment carries pomp and grandeur of state funeral. Certainly a step up from a nameless hole under a parking lot.
The cathedral had been transformed into a grove of white roses, and foliage including sweet scented broom, the “planta genista” emblem of the Plantagenets. Every seat was filled with well-dressed guests in, variously, military uniforms, black or navy suits, academic gowns,, chains of office, white rose brooches and flamboyant hats.
Two yeoman warders in medieval tunics, who had come from London with the Constable of the Tower of London, Lord Dannatt, stood with their backs to the south door of the cathedral, as if the Tudors or Lancastrians might try to break in at any moment.
The Duke of Gloucester, the Queen’s cousin, and the present holder of Richard’s title before he became king, carried an extraordinary book to lay near the foot of the coffin. On loan from Lambeth Palace for the day, it was Richard’s own prayer book, found in his tent after the battle of Bosworth Field where he was killed.
I gotta hand it to the English. They do pomp and ceremony better than anyone else.
I gotta hand it to the English. They do pomp and ceremony better than anyone else.
As the world turns.
"Egyptian security and military officials say Saudi Arabia and Egypt will lead a ground operation in Yemen against Shiite rebels and their allies after a campaign of airstrikes to weaken them."
And their allies. Who could that be?
Could it be.... *say this in Church Lady voice* .....Satan? (Iran)??
Well what do you know? Looks like someone is feeling the pain.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world...
The president is expected to stay at the Florida National Golf Club, which is in Palm City and Port St. Lucie. Obama made a similar trip to the area in February of 2013.
Like last time, he’s expected to spend much of his time playing golf."
What you'll find is that when poachers hear that any type of ex military or paramilitary operators are in the region, the poaching will cease in that area...
The photo is of Kinessa Johnson, an "anti-poaching" advisor. Here are the links to her Instagram posts and her Facebook page.
Kinessa works for VETPAW - "Veterans Employed To Protect African Wildlife."
Kinessa works for VETPAW - "Veterans Employed To Protect African Wildlife."
VETPAW provides meaningful employment to post-9/11 veterans, utilizing their expertise to train and support Africa’s anti-poaching rangers to prevent the extermination of keystone African wildlife, and the disastrous economic and environmental impact it would have.Lots more at Tai Wiki Widbee
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Congresswoman and proud Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton distinguishes herself.
And here she is, from Washington DC, and making vitally important decisions everyday for you, your family and your business.
A text book example of arrogance, gross incompetence, and contempt for the rules that she would expect the rest of us to follow.
Detection of mini black holes at the LHC could indicate parallel universes in extra dimensions
According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, gravity can be thought of as the curvature of space and time. However, here the scientists point out that this geometry of space and time responsible for gravity gets deformed at the Planck scale. They have used the new theory of gravity's rainbow to account for this modification of the geometry of space and time near the Planck scale, where the mini black holes are predicted to exist.
Using gravity's rainbow, the scientists found that a little bit more energy is required to produce mini black holes at the LHC than previously thought. So far, the LHC has searched for mini black holes at energy levels below 5.3 TeV. According to gravity's rainbow, this energy is too low. Instead, the model predicts that black holes may form at energy levels of at least 9.5 TeV in six dimensions and 11.9 TeV in 10 dimensions. Since the LHC is designed to reach 14 TeV in future runs, these predicted energy requirements for black hole production should be accessible.
If mini black holes are detected at the LHC, then it would arguably support several ideas: parallel universes, extra dimensions, string theory, and gravity's rainbow—with these last two having implications for a theory of quantum gravity. Most obviously, a positive result would support the existence of mini black holes themselves.
"If mini black holes are detected at the LHC at the predicted energies, not only will it prove the existence of extra dimensions and by extension parallel universes, but it will also solve the famous information paradox in black holes," Ali said. Solving the paradox is possible because, in the gravity's rainbow model, mini black holes have a minimum radius below which they cannot shrink.
However, if black holes are not detected, the scientists will need to reexamine their understanding of these ideas.
"If black holes are not detected at the predicted energy levels, this would mean one of three possibilities," Khalil explained. "One, extra dimensions do not exist. Two, they exist, but they are smaller than expected. Or three, the parameters of gravity's rainbow need to be modified."
Fascinating stuff.
Nutcase climbs into a tree to try and prevent it being cut down to make way for a golf course, but his quest comes to an ignoble end.
The man, identified as Jonathan Boover, who goes by Lloyd, fell out of the tree in City Park on Tuesday morning.
Christopher Lane of the City Park for Everyone Coalition says Boover apparently had not eaten in a day and was disoriented from lack of sleep.
Lane says Boover believed he may have broken an ankle and his nose in the fall.
Sheriff’s deputies had been monitoring Boover’s protest and kept a spotlight trained on him at night."
A spotlight all night. How rude ( said in Jar Jar Binks voice)!
Now they'll get sued by this guy for making him so sleepy he fell out of the tree.
This saga has just begun.
"Lloyd" went way overboard here, but give him credit for acting on his beliefs, and thumbing his now broken nose against The Man.
Hat tip: Weasel Zippers
"Lloyd" went way overboard here, but give him credit for acting on his beliefs, and thumbing his now broken nose against The Man.
Hat tip: Weasel Zippers
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