By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow]Lance Winslow
It was a Friday, December 21, 2012 and it was a day that changed the world, which happened to coincide with the last day of the Mayan Calendar, traditionally understood by the ancient Mayans as a transitional period, to what, no one in the present period really knew, just that it was to be profound. And, not to burst anyone's bubble it certainly was all of that and more for the US Stock Market. Did that make it any easier for anyone who lost their life's saving that day as nearly 8 trillion dollars evaporated from the market? Certainly not, agreed the guest commentary on CNBC at the Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo.
Well, hindsight is 20/20 as they say, and this day was coming, and nearly 25% of Americans thought that it might be the end of days, apocalypse, or Armageddon. The number of short-sellers had the Dow opening down -303 points, which was bad enough, to make matters worse, most short-term traders were not leaving any money in the market over the Christmas Holidays, things were just too choppy, the volatility index was already at its highest point since the Debt Deal Impasse, S&P Downgrade, and the near collapse of the EU banking system in summer of 2011. With Quadruple-Witching, and end of year tax loss selling, the market was already getting hammered all week.
On what many hoped would be a light trading day due to the holiday weekend, it was rather odd all the short-sellers coming out of the wood-work as they did. After all what's that old Wall Street quote; "Never Short a Dull Market!" Well, it may have been assumed to be a dull-day, however it was anything but. After all, this was the end of the world, the Mayan Calendar had run out, and to make matters worse, there were four X-Flares of extremely high power the weeks prior; 2 of which hit Earth directly, one in November and one just the week before the catastrophic sell-off.
The November solar flare took out the North Eastern US Power Grid, half of AT&Ts network, and many communication satellites used for credit card transactions at C-Store Gas Stations, Restaurants, and even Wal-Mart on Black Friday, which happened to be the biggest shopping day of the year. Online Retailers were zapped too, data centers, cloud computing, all challenged. About half of all the systems were up by the end of the day, but consumer sales for America's largest corporations were now a day late and a dollar short.
With these solar disruptions there was damage to the Space Telescope, ISS, and even military satellites, although the US Military, actually militaries from around the world denied anything had been taken down, pure posturing, but that's to be expected. Folks were on edge, and many had wondered what the Mayans knew, and why now. For all these reasons everyone was shorting the market, and the institutional investors were betting down the market big time, and when the trading started so too did the high-frequency trading or algorithmic computational trading systems.
Europe had banned short selling of their bond markets, currency markets, and just recently; "No High Frequency Computer Trading!" Europe and Asia got hit pretty hard and the US markets hadn't opened yet, but when they did, holy hell, the volume of trading in the US hit a one-day record amount within the first hour, it was all over the place. The market hit the stops, one after another all day long. Wouldn't you know it, Mexico City had a 7.5 Earthquake just 35-miles away at 10 AM their time the same day. Was this really the end? Or was it all an excuse for the computer trading systems to make trillions slamming the market into oblivion?
There had been talk in the US about regulating or banning high-frequency trading all together in the US, and the Franks-Dodds Bill which had passed actually protected the "too big to fail banks," all of which were making money on algorithmic trading, rather than loaning money to small businesses. The President got on TV to tell everyone that it was going to be okay, the world wasn't coming to an end, and to hopefully calm markets, it didn't work, in fact, it may have done just the opposite. Then the new Treasury Secretary got on CNBC, no changes either the market was falling like a rock still.
The Federal Reserve Chairman was in-route back from G-8 Summit, unable to be interviewed, as soon as he landed he gave a question and answer meeting. All the financial media pundits said he was in full-combat crisis mode. That just made things worse, when regular investors heard that. Gold hit a new all-time high. Yes, it was the day from hell on Wall Street one which will go down in the record books, but the world didn't end, and the market gained back a third of what it lost that day during the next two-trading days after the holidays. By the last day of the year, the market had recovered all but 800 points on the Dow, and then the January barometer recovered all that and more.
The US Congress came back from holiday recess, vowing to fix this flash-crash, high-frequency challenge once and for all, but the banking lobby had made 100s of billions by then on both the downside and the upside of all that volatility. Was there a solution to prevent this from ever happening again? Apparently so, and there was a think tank which had a concept of viewing every single global transaction in real-time, using holographic imagery, supercomputers, and the new Intel chip running Oracle software, and IBM's new spectral imaging.
Basically how the system worked is that it was the size of a ping-pong table, and it showed the money flows in different colors transversing the map of the United States. The operator could click on different countries or all the countries at once, or isolate the system for currency trades in any of the major currency and view it in real time. Some of the same high-frequency trading software engineers would help build the system, and it could be controlled just as the Federal Aviation Administration could control the flow of airline traffic, viewing every single individual flight as it occurred.
The system was brilliant, and it worked, not only could it be used for tracking money flows, but it could also be used for watching and predicting the weather, observing the spread of influenza during flu season, and even monitoring our power grid. It was a system to monitor all the flows of civilization using net-centric warfare computational theory X's ten to the tenth power.
Only one problem, the system, plus terminals was going to run in the neighborhood of $30 million. The terminals and systems would have redundancy, and when the markets were not running, the supercomputers would be used for something else, including controlling all the Internet traffic from the major data centers coming into the US to prevent cyber attacks from foreign rogue nations.
The Senate passed the bill unanimously, and there was only one no-vote in the House of Representatives. The president signed the bill within 15 minutes of it reaching his desk, with the promise that Intel, IBM, Oracle, and several other vendors would have the system up and running in less than four months, and that they could only hire Americans to build the system. Apparently, this just proves there is opportunity in crisis, if only the Mayans would've known.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the [http://www.worldthinktank.net]Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 24,600 articles by August 26th will be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?The-Day-Frequency-Traders,-Institutional-Traders,-Mayan-Calendar,-and-Day-Traders-Were-All-in-Sync&id=6517126] The Day Frequency Traders, Institutional Traders, Mayan Calendar, and Day Traders Were All in Sync
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Audio Books Pay Homage to Pulp Fiction's Classics
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Fred_Duckworth]Fred Duckworth
Because of a resurgence of interest in the golden age of the pulp fiction stories, various publishers such as Galaxy Press, Adventure House, Sanctum Books and Black Dog Books, have taken to task republishing numerous writers from the 30s and 40s and 50s.
The era of the pulps is unique, a renaissance of sorts that produced a rocket ride for many authors and a thrilling array of stories for the eager public. Much like the color wheel has primary colors that produce secondary colors, the pulps developed genres within genres. The detective pulps like "Sherlock Holmes", is a classic whodunit but the pulps also created hard-boiled detective stories with characters like "Sam Spade". These characters had to be as tough and unyielding as the gangsters they relentlessly pursued. Within science fiction and fantasy came horror and dark fantasy that focused on the supernatural and weird tales. Westerns, air and sea adventures, mystery and spicy pulps were all published in monthly magazines. The pulps were also the birthplace of our much-loved super heroes!
Old-time live radio shows had much of its material from the golden age of pulp fiction. Families would gather in their daily ritual to enjoy an after dinner story told by charismatic voice actors with creative and unusual sound effects. At the precise moment one would hear the crack of the whip, bells ringing, stomping feet and a multitude of other sounds. It must have absolutely joyous to work on these productions.
With the advent of television and movies, the radio era ended as did the pulps. However, the pulps did not completely die out. The story lines and characters appeared in many TV shows and movies. From the pulps came Zorro, Tarzan, Spider-man and Batman, superman, Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, to name a few. Many well-known authors broke into the market and were very successful writers, such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dashiell Hammett, L. Ron Hubbard, Isaac Asimov, H.P. Lovecraft and many more.
Audiobooks have become a popular medium for recreating the flavor of old-time radio. When you listen to one of these stories, you really get a sense of the epic and far-flung adventures in exotic lands, the super natural settings, damsels in distress and how life may have been viewed back in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. It creates a theater of the mind and unlike watching a movie in the theater or a TV at home; audiobooks can be listened to anywhere, anytime, even while multi-tasking.
Publishers like Galaxy Press have been recreating pulp fiction in print and audiobooks with cinema quality sound effects and talented voice actors which bring you right into the heart of the action. If you have not availed yourself of these great stories, I highly recommend it.
Fred Duckworth is a passionate advocate of lifelong learning through audio books on CD collections from [http://www.goldenagestories.com/audiobooks]http://www.goldenagestories.com/audiobooks. Galaxy Press, publisher of "The Golden Age Stories" and all genres of pulp fiction stories and novels, offers a convenient subscription service, so you never have to miss an issue. It's a pulp fiction lover's dream!
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?Audio-Books-Pay-Homage-to-Pulp-Fictions-Classics&id=6517120] Audio Books Pay Homage to Pulp Fiction's Classics
Because of a resurgence of interest in the golden age of the pulp fiction stories, various publishers such as Galaxy Press, Adventure House, Sanctum Books and Black Dog Books, have taken to task republishing numerous writers from the 30s and 40s and 50s.
The era of the pulps is unique, a renaissance of sorts that produced a rocket ride for many authors and a thrilling array of stories for the eager public. Much like the color wheel has primary colors that produce secondary colors, the pulps developed genres within genres. The detective pulps like "Sherlock Holmes", is a classic whodunit but the pulps also created hard-boiled detective stories with characters like "Sam Spade". These characters had to be as tough and unyielding as the gangsters they relentlessly pursued. Within science fiction and fantasy came horror and dark fantasy that focused on the supernatural and weird tales. Westerns, air and sea adventures, mystery and spicy pulps were all published in monthly magazines. The pulps were also the birthplace of our much-loved super heroes!
Old-time live radio shows had much of its material from the golden age of pulp fiction. Families would gather in their daily ritual to enjoy an after dinner story told by charismatic voice actors with creative and unusual sound effects. At the precise moment one would hear the crack of the whip, bells ringing, stomping feet and a multitude of other sounds. It must have absolutely joyous to work on these productions.
With the advent of television and movies, the radio era ended as did the pulps. However, the pulps did not completely die out. The story lines and characters appeared in many TV shows and movies. From the pulps came Zorro, Tarzan, Spider-man and Batman, superman, Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, to name a few. Many well-known authors broke into the market and were very successful writers, such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Dashiell Hammett, L. Ron Hubbard, Isaac Asimov, H.P. Lovecraft and many more.
Audiobooks have become a popular medium for recreating the flavor of old-time radio. When you listen to one of these stories, you really get a sense of the epic and far-flung adventures in exotic lands, the super natural settings, damsels in distress and how life may have been viewed back in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. It creates a theater of the mind and unlike watching a movie in the theater or a TV at home; audiobooks can be listened to anywhere, anytime, even while multi-tasking.
Publishers like Galaxy Press have been recreating pulp fiction in print and audiobooks with cinema quality sound effects and talented voice actors which bring you right into the heart of the action. If you have not availed yourself of these great stories, I highly recommend it.
Fred Duckworth is a passionate advocate of lifelong learning through audio books on CD collections from [http://www.goldenagestories.com/audiobooks]http://www.goldenagestories.com/audiobooks. Galaxy Press, publisher of "The Golden Age Stories" and all genres of pulp fiction stories and novels, offers a convenient subscription service, so you never have to miss an issue. It's a pulp fiction lover's dream!
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?Audio-Books-Pay-Homage-to-Pulp-Fictions-Classics&id=6517120] Audio Books Pay Homage to Pulp Fiction's Classics
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Thanks to Internet Algorithms They Finally Found Him - Now What to Do With a Super Genius
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow]Lance Winslow
When LJ Wilson joined a think tank, he did so because he could not carry on a normal conversation. It's not that he had trouble talking to people, he was quite friendly, outgoing, and was a great conversationalist; at least for the first 15 minutes. One thing he wasn't good at was idle chitchat, and any time he was having a conversation, he immediately upped the ante. In fact, one time he was at a Fourth of July party watching the brilliant fireworks, and someone was talking about the foggy weather, and how that was causing a visibility problem in watching the fireworks.
Within 2 minutes, he was talking about offshore breezes and marine boundary layers, El Ni�o effect, and the different types of advection fog. Within 10 minutes he was giving a lecture on the cumulonimbus, funnel clouds, and seasonal variations of the altitude temperature inversion over the LA basin. Within 20 minutes he was discussing supercomputers, weather control, and unmanned aerial vehicles used by NOAA flying in a swarm grid formation to collect the necessary data to track and predict whether. Yes, he was one of those types.
LJ Wilson was perhaps a creative genius with savant tendencies, but he was perfectly stable in every way, and living what appeared to be a normal life. Only his closest friends realized that he was way over the top in IQ, and perhaps as brilliant as anyone they'd ever met. Of course on the Internet, no one knew, and yes he had a blog and he talked about intellectual things now and again, but no one would've suspected his true level of genius. That all changed one day when a startup company at of Silicon Valley was funded by In-Q-Tel.
The startup company had a two-fold business plan. One was to predict the future by watching Internet trends. The other was to locate potential terrorists and disruptors of society by watching online behavior in forums, on blogs, and on social networks. At first the company's success was limited, and produced far too many false positives. However over time their process was getting more refined, and with the help of the Department of Homeland Security, and an elite group of Internet analysts in Tucson Arizona, they were able to refine this process.
Then one day, the startup company was reading an article on the Internet which apparently was posted by a think tank suggesting that it was possible to find the creative genius eminent achievers of our time using a similar method. In other words hunting for geniuses, rather than hunting for terrorists. Looking for the good guys, or the diamonds in the rough, rather than the loan wolves who were ready to strike. The founder of a startup company thought that was a very intriguing idea, although he didn't know if there would be any buyers for such a technology. Boy was he wrong!
It turns out that a headhunting firm, that is to say an employee recruiter company at of Palo Alto California had a similar idea, not because they wanted to make money with such an algorithm to find these creative geniuses, rather because they were under contract to go out and find the superstars of humanity, and present them to the top fast-moving Silicon Valley-based corporations. Companies like Google, Oracle, Apple, Facebook, Intel, IBM, and others. They were looking for top talent, and they were so busy trying to steal each other's creative geniuses, that no one ever thought that they should be looking outside the box or outside Silicon Valley rather.
Apparently the think tank which posted that article, was also looking for geniuses amongst the US population to join them. They wanted to have such an algorithm, or figure out a way to find only the 145+ IQ individuals who might be interested in helping solve the challenges and problems of mankind. Then it occurred to the startup company, that In-Q-Tel would give them a second round of funding, because the US military also needed the super creative individuals and geniuses to help them protect our nation. There was definitely a market, and as before they started out with far too many false positives, folks who had pumped up their resume, but couldn't figure their way out of a paper bag.
Eventually they were able to refine their techniques and algorithms, and use all of the information they were scanning on social networks, Internet forums, and blogs for anyone who was outside the main data points. If they were too far on one side they might be a terrorist and if they were too far on the other side they might be a genius, and then they found something very intriguing. Many of the false positives they had who they thought were terrorists, were actually very pro-Americans who happened to be genius level IQ. And then they found something really troubling; some of the folks who appeared to be genius level were absolutely diabolically scary individuals.
When they took this information to a psychology PhD Proffessor at Berkeley California, he just laughed and said "of course, with brilliance comes baggage, and you may not be looking at this correctly." With his help, and a couple of other psychologists who worked in military intelligence, and had formally done stints at the Rand Corporation they narrowed down the types of psychology which would lead to genius level thinking, but would also lead to strong nationalism, competitiveness, and might give a glimpse into which of the geniuses might most be interested in working on advanced military projects and technologies.
They later broke down the categories, and had learned ways to sniff out the leaders of eco-terrorist groups, neo-Nazi groups, and other rogue cultish organizations. They further broke down the categories based on mathematical probability of which cultures would exhibit which type of behaviors online, allowing them better predictability based on the individuals writing, comments, and Internet activities. And then something really interesting happened; a psychologist from one of the top universities in California and an expert on geniuses, gave them the final clues in tweaking their algorithm. Now they were able to find future military generals, future presidents, and top government administrators.
When they put that to work, and sifted through all the data the same name popping up over, and over, and over again. Who was that person? It was LJ Wilson, and he'd been slipping through the cracks for almost 40-years. But thanks to the new internet algorithm, the start-up company had found the perfect individual to lead our nation into economic prosperity, military strength, and complete unity once again. The results were amazing, within 5-years, LJ Wilson was a top adviser, fast-tracked to be president, and he'd been flawless in his advice. Amazing indeed.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the [http://www.worldthinktank.net]Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 24,612 articles by September 12th will be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?Thanks-to-Internet-Algorithms-They-Finally-Found-Him---Now-What-to-Do-With-a-Super-Genius&id=6520027] Thanks to Internet Algorithms They Finally Found Him - Now What to Do With a Super Genius
When LJ Wilson joined a think tank, he did so because he could not carry on a normal conversation. It's not that he had trouble talking to people, he was quite friendly, outgoing, and was a great conversationalist; at least for the first 15 minutes. One thing he wasn't good at was idle chitchat, and any time he was having a conversation, he immediately upped the ante. In fact, one time he was at a Fourth of July party watching the brilliant fireworks, and someone was talking about the foggy weather, and how that was causing a visibility problem in watching the fireworks.
Within 2 minutes, he was talking about offshore breezes and marine boundary layers, El Ni�o effect, and the different types of advection fog. Within 10 minutes he was giving a lecture on the cumulonimbus, funnel clouds, and seasonal variations of the altitude temperature inversion over the LA basin. Within 20 minutes he was discussing supercomputers, weather control, and unmanned aerial vehicles used by NOAA flying in a swarm grid formation to collect the necessary data to track and predict whether. Yes, he was one of those types.
LJ Wilson was perhaps a creative genius with savant tendencies, but he was perfectly stable in every way, and living what appeared to be a normal life. Only his closest friends realized that he was way over the top in IQ, and perhaps as brilliant as anyone they'd ever met. Of course on the Internet, no one knew, and yes he had a blog and he talked about intellectual things now and again, but no one would've suspected his true level of genius. That all changed one day when a startup company at of Silicon Valley was funded by In-Q-Tel.
The startup company had a two-fold business plan. One was to predict the future by watching Internet trends. The other was to locate potential terrorists and disruptors of society by watching online behavior in forums, on blogs, and on social networks. At first the company's success was limited, and produced far too many false positives. However over time their process was getting more refined, and with the help of the Department of Homeland Security, and an elite group of Internet analysts in Tucson Arizona, they were able to refine this process.
Then one day, the startup company was reading an article on the Internet which apparently was posted by a think tank suggesting that it was possible to find the creative genius eminent achievers of our time using a similar method. In other words hunting for geniuses, rather than hunting for terrorists. Looking for the good guys, or the diamonds in the rough, rather than the loan wolves who were ready to strike. The founder of a startup company thought that was a very intriguing idea, although he didn't know if there would be any buyers for such a technology. Boy was he wrong!
It turns out that a headhunting firm, that is to say an employee recruiter company at of Palo Alto California had a similar idea, not because they wanted to make money with such an algorithm to find these creative geniuses, rather because they were under contract to go out and find the superstars of humanity, and present them to the top fast-moving Silicon Valley-based corporations. Companies like Google, Oracle, Apple, Facebook, Intel, IBM, and others. They were looking for top talent, and they were so busy trying to steal each other's creative geniuses, that no one ever thought that they should be looking outside the box or outside Silicon Valley rather.
Apparently the think tank which posted that article, was also looking for geniuses amongst the US population to join them. They wanted to have such an algorithm, or figure out a way to find only the 145+ IQ individuals who might be interested in helping solve the challenges and problems of mankind. Then it occurred to the startup company, that In-Q-Tel would give them a second round of funding, because the US military also needed the super creative individuals and geniuses to help them protect our nation. There was definitely a market, and as before they started out with far too many false positives, folks who had pumped up their resume, but couldn't figure their way out of a paper bag.
Eventually they were able to refine their techniques and algorithms, and use all of the information they were scanning on social networks, Internet forums, and blogs for anyone who was outside the main data points. If they were too far on one side they might be a terrorist and if they were too far on the other side they might be a genius, and then they found something very intriguing. Many of the false positives they had who they thought were terrorists, were actually very pro-Americans who happened to be genius level IQ. And then they found something really troubling; some of the folks who appeared to be genius level were absolutely diabolically scary individuals.
When they took this information to a psychology PhD Proffessor at Berkeley California, he just laughed and said "of course, with brilliance comes baggage, and you may not be looking at this correctly." With his help, and a couple of other psychologists who worked in military intelligence, and had formally done stints at the Rand Corporation they narrowed down the types of psychology which would lead to genius level thinking, but would also lead to strong nationalism, competitiveness, and might give a glimpse into which of the geniuses might most be interested in working on advanced military projects and technologies.
They later broke down the categories, and had learned ways to sniff out the leaders of eco-terrorist groups, neo-Nazi groups, and other rogue cultish organizations. They further broke down the categories based on mathematical probability of which cultures would exhibit which type of behaviors online, allowing them better predictability based on the individuals writing, comments, and Internet activities. And then something really interesting happened; a psychologist from one of the top universities in California and an expert on geniuses, gave them the final clues in tweaking their algorithm. Now they were able to find future military generals, future presidents, and top government administrators.
When they put that to work, and sifted through all the data the same name popping up over, and over, and over again. Who was that person? It was LJ Wilson, and he'd been slipping through the cracks for almost 40-years. But thanks to the new internet algorithm, the start-up company had found the perfect individual to lead our nation into economic prosperity, military strength, and complete unity once again. The results were amazing, within 5-years, LJ Wilson was a top adviser, fast-tracked to be president, and he'd been flawless in his advice. Amazing indeed.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the [http://www.worldthinktank.net]Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 24,612 articles by September 12th will be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?Thanks-to-Internet-Algorithms-They-Finally-Found-Him---Now-What-to-Do-With-a-Super-Genius&id=6520027] Thanks to Internet Algorithms They Finally Found Him - Now What to Do With a Super Genius
Monday, January 30, 2012
The Earthquake Weapon Tests Were a Success But Should They Pump Up the Volume?
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow]Lance Winslow
L.B. Fowler PhD loved his job, and he'd been around the block a time or two on some of the most advanced research on the Planet. He had put in time at CERN, Lawrence Livermore, SLAC, and was now at Los Alamos. About four years ago, some colleagues called him into their lab where they were working on a very interesting project. They were not friends with him personally, as they only knew him through reputation. Apparently their wives were in a nonprofit volunteer club together on the mountain there, and so they contacted him through back-channels. They asked that Dr. Fowler keep everything quiet, realizing he also had the highest of security clearances.
L.B was blown away when they explained what they were doing. They were using pulses of energy to create a magnetic field which was equal to 100 Tesla, the Earth's magnetic field is only 0.0004 T. Well, it turned out that when this beam of energy was pointed towards an earthquake fault line, they could trigger that fault line. So far, they were only able to cause small earthquakes of 1 to 2 magnitude on the Richter scale. However when they showed Dr. Fowler what they were doing, he immediately showed them how their calculations were wrong, and how to trigger almost any size earthquake that they wanted.
After sharing this information with them, he regretted it. In fact, he realized that he just created a weapon, that was equal to or worse than a 500 MT thermonuclear bomb. Immediately he began to remember the words of wisdom that Oppenheimer had uttered once at a seminar he attended as a young man coming out of grad school about his regrets on helping to produce atomic weapons. Of course, now the cat was let out of the bag, and L.B. had just hoped that his estimations of this powerful force were less than he had calculated.
He hoped that his understanding of physics was incorrect, that he was wrong, and it they would not be able to produce large magnitude earthquakes, but alas, he was pretty certain his calculations were correct, but again, also realized it was too late now. His new colleagues were giddy when he explained his new earthquake theory with them, using a new way to deliver the waves into the ground, a wave rider scheme, waves on waves, with proper pulse sequences, all electromagnetic rouge wave theory, simple stuff really, well at least to L.B. Fowler it was. He was concerned about their enthusiasm, and although he respected them as scientists, he worried about what this technology would be used for in the future.
The next day, he invited them over to his home for coffee, and explained his misgivings, and he soon realized that they to shared his thoughts, and although they were happy to make the breakthrough, and thanked him profusely, they realized what they would be creating if they used his delivery system to create larger earthquakes. They assured him that the use of this technology could be used in positive ways, such as for fracking and collecting natural gas and oil from the ground, very focuses energy, at low power. Of course they weren't na�ve either, and they all knew their history, after all they all work at Los Alamos labs.
It was obvious that the military would use this technology, and yes it might come in handy in the future in places like North Korea, Iran, Syria, Libya, or perhaps a future conflict. And yes, it had to be tested at scale, but where? The scientists determined that if they were to test this, they had to test it in an area where there was plenty of rock formations around going miles deep, and minerals where the earthquake could not get away, where the S-waves and P-waves would be stopped, rebuffed, or gathered to finally dissipate. They also needed to set a limit, and needed to figure out the exact amount of pulse power to trigger a seismic event no larger than 6.0 on the Richter scale, in fact somewhere between 5.0 and 6.0.
For this, they chose Mineral, Virginia, and an area right below Trinity, Colorado between there and the New Mexico border, about 30 miles East of the I-25, quite remote actually. They decided they would lower the device onto the ground via a helicopter, and then fly up to 3000 AGL and observe. They decided to do the earthquakes on the same day, or one day apart. A 5.0 magnitude earthquake in an area not known for large seismic events would be the perfect test. They couldn't do it in California, lest they make a mistake, and trigger a larger fault, causing a catastrophic earthquake which could actually kill people.
Nevertheless, they got permission from the military, and the secret black project's coordinators to do this test. The date was chosen; August 24, 2011. The tests went flawlessly, the earthquakes were contained by nearby sediment, and large mineral deposits, blue rock, and protruding mountain ranges, nearby. No one was hurt, and they were "shaken, not stirred" - proof of concept had worked. And these devices could be delivered via a parachute bomb, or even a secondary device following a bunker Buster.
In other words, a bunker buster bomb could go into an underground nuclear facility in Iran, followed up by a secondary guided parachute weapon, or a slower flying VTOL UAV, and then detonated, or rather remotely controlled to discharge the pulse energy firing sequence. Of course, to trigger an 8.0 to 10.0 earthquake event, it would only take a large fault line nearby which let's say ran for 350+ miles long, at the proper time. If done in conjunction with a full moon, harvest Moon, or during a large solar flare event, it would be quite possible that they could trigger an 8.0, 9.0, or 10.0 earthquake depending on the geography of the area.
L.B. Fowler was shocked to learn that his new colleagues and he immediately received over $1 billion in continued research funding from the special secret black projects within the week. He'd never known government to move so fast, but that's how things were done in the black realm, no red tape, no bureaucracy, and no politicians. He had hoped that the politicians would never get wind of this, and now that the military had the ability to play God, he just hoped that they would use it responsibly, and that that technology would never be shared with anyone, including our own allies. He trusted the US, but hardly trusted any of the rogue nations after spending much of his time off studying Nuclear Proliferation reports from 60s and 70s, from the RAND Think Tank.
Dr. Fowler knew the history of nuclear proliferation, and he hated to think what the future of earthquake proliferation might be. Then on the other hand, he realized how valuable this tool could be for breaking rock, mining, or even taking out a killer asteroid headed for Earth. "Well," he thought "this technology will either save mankind, or cause its early demise; I just hope it's the former, not the latter."
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the [http://www.worldthinktank.net]Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 24,612 articles by September 12th will be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now.
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?The-Earthquake-Weapon-Tests-Were-a-Success-But-Should-They-Pump-Up-the-Volume?&id=6520061] The Earthquake Weapon Tests Were a Success But Should They Pump Up the Volume?
L.B. Fowler PhD loved his job, and he'd been around the block a time or two on some of the most advanced research on the Planet. He had put in time at CERN, Lawrence Livermore, SLAC, and was now at Los Alamos. About four years ago, some colleagues called him into their lab where they were working on a very interesting project. They were not friends with him personally, as they only knew him through reputation. Apparently their wives were in a nonprofit volunteer club together on the mountain there, and so they contacted him through back-channels. They asked that Dr. Fowler keep everything quiet, realizing he also had the highest of security clearances.
L.B was blown away when they explained what they were doing. They were using pulses of energy to create a magnetic field which was equal to 100 Tesla, the Earth's magnetic field is only 0.0004 T. Well, it turned out that when this beam of energy was pointed towards an earthquake fault line, they could trigger that fault line. So far, they were only able to cause small earthquakes of 1 to 2 magnitude on the Richter scale. However when they showed Dr. Fowler what they were doing, he immediately showed them how their calculations were wrong, and how to trigger almost any size earthquake that they wanted.
After sharing this information with them, he regretted it. In fact, he realized that he just created a weapon, that was equal to or worse than a 500 MT thermonuclear bomb. Immediately he began to remember the words of wisdom that Oppenheimer had uttered once at a seminar he attended as a young man coming out of grad school about his regrets on helping to produce atomic weapons. Of course, now the cat was let out of the bag, and L.B. had just hoped that his estimations of this powerful force were less than he had calculated.
He hoped that his understanding of physics was incorrect, that he was wrong, and it they would not be able to produce large magnitude earthquakes, but alas, he was pretty certain his calculations were correct, but again, also realized it was too late now. His new colleagues were giddy when he explained his new earthquake theory with them, using a new way to deliver the waves into the ground, a wave rider scheme, waves on waves, with proper pulse sequences, all electromagnetic rouge wave theory, simple stuff really, well at least to L.B. Fowler it was. He was concerned about their enthusiasm, and although he respected them as scientists, he worried about what this technology would be used for in the future.
The next day, he invited them over to his home for coffee, and explained his misgivings, and he soon realized that they to shared his thoughts, and although they were happy to make the breakthrough, and thanked him profusely, they realized what they would be creating if they used his delivery system to create larger earthquakes. They assured him that the use of this technology could be used in positive ways, such as for fracking and collecting natural gas and oil from the ground, very focuses energy, at low power. Of course they weren't na�ve either, and they all knew their history, after all they all work at Los Alamos labs.
It was obvious that the military would use this technology, and yes it might come in handy in the future in places like North Korea, Iran, Syria, Libya, or perhaps a future conflict. And yes, it had to be tested at scale, but where? The scientists determined that if they were to test this, they had to test it in an area where there was plenty of rock formations around going miles deep, and minerals where the earthquake could not get away, where the S-waves and P-waves would be stopped, rebuffed, or gathered to finally dissipate. They also needed to set a limit, and needed to figure out the exact amount of pulse power to trigger a seismic event no larger than 6.0 on the Richter scale, in fact somewhere between 5.0 and 6.0.
For this, they chose Mineral, Virginia, and an area right below Trinity, Colorado between there and the New Mexico border, about 30 miles East of the I-25, quite remote actually. They decided they would lower the device onto the ground via a helicopter, and then fly up to 3000 AGL and observe. They decided to do the earthquakes on the same day, or one day apart. A 5.0 magnitude earthquake in an area not known for large seismic events would be the perfect test. They couldn't do it in California, lest they make a mistake, and trigger a larger fault, causing a catastrophic earthquake which could actually kill people.
Nevertheless, they got permission from the military, and the secret black project's coordinators to do this test. The date was chosen; August 24, 2011. The tests went flawlessly, the earthquakes were contained by nearby sediment, and large mineral deposits, blue rock, and protruding mountain ranges, nearby. No one was hurt, and they were "shaken, not stirred" - proof of concept had worked. And these devices could be delivered via a parachute bomb, or even a secondary device following a bunker Buster.
In other words, a bunker buster bomb could go into an underground nuclear facility in Iran, followed up by a secondary guided parachute weapon, or a slower flying VTOL UAV, and then detonated, or rather remotely controlled to discharge the pulse energy firing sequence. Of course, to trigger an 8.0 to 10.0 earthquake event, it would only take a large fault line nearby which let's say ran for 350+ miles long, at the proper time. If done in conjunction with a full moon, harvest Moon, or during a large solar flare event, it would be quite possible that they could trigger an 8.0, 9.0, or 10.0 earthquake depending on the geography of the area.
L.B. Fowler was shocked to learn that his new colleagues and he immediately received over $1 billion in continued research funding from the special secret black projects within the week. He'd never known government to move so fast, but that's how things were done in the black realm, no red tape, no bureaucracy, and no politicians. He had hoped that the politicians would never get wind of this, and now that the military had the ability to play God, he just hoped that they would use it responsibly, and that that technology would never be shared with anyone, including our own allies. He trusted the US, but hardly trusted any of the rogue nations after spending much of his time off studying Nuclear Proliferation reports from 60s and 70s, from the RAND Think Tank.
Dr. Fowler knew the history of nuclear proliferation, and he hated to think what the future of earthquake proliferation might be. Then on the other hand, he realized how valuable this tool could be for breaking rock, mining, or even taking out a killer asteroid headed for Earth. "Well," he thought "this technology will either save mankind, or cause its early demise; I just hope it's the former, not the latter."
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the [http://www.worldthinktank.net]Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 24,612 articles by September 12th will be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now.
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?The-Earthquake-Weapon-Tests-Were-a-Success-But-Should-They-Pump-Up-the-Volume?&id=6520061] The Earthquake Weapon Tests Were a Success But Should They Pump Up the Volume?
Saturday, January 28, 2012
His Tunneling Robot Design Wasn't Made in China After All - Black Project Secrets From Underground
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow]Lance Winslow
Vern Howard thought he must be the cleverest man around. He'd stolen new technology from China's secret Think Tank Lab, and was blown away with the incredible leap forward, it was simply amazing, yes, and very simple too, simple enough for him to build one in his garage. And so he did, borrowing a bit from his 401k - and although he did have to pay it back or take the tax hit in the next year, he figured he could show his prototype around, maybe even sell it to the military, or get a contract with DARPA.
Vern hated hackers, especially state sponsored cyber attacks to undermine his country. He'd worked for one of the top government data centers, but it had closed down, as the government was moving into the cloud with a new mega-contract. He could very well take a pay cut, and move cities, as the government still needed his computer talents for IT security, but he hoped to start his own business, maybe even buy a franchise, maybe a retail or service franchise working with computers.
He'd been shopping around, looking in franchise guides, checking out the SBA small business loan website, and reading up on how to start a business, but he wasn't trying too hard, thinking he needed some time off from his 80-hour work week in Washington DC, where they truly treated him like crap. So, he headed off to the Las Vegas Defcon Conference. He met some folks he even suspected as being the same individuals that had attempted to infiltrate his systems at work, luckily, he knew all their tricks, well, or so he thought.
Turns out he was talking with some "good guy" hackers, former MIT grads who worked for Microsoft and they explained how it was possible to break through 256-bit encryption. They explained the process, but he realized they'd never have gotten into his old work system that way, he just listened, didn't say anything. Then they said something that really made him think, and he realized that, they were right about their hacking techniques, but clearly didn't understand his protocols. Vern did, and he knew that with that knowledge plus, his insider knowledge of the system, it was more than possible.
Bored out of his mind, he set up a trap for some Chinese Hackers at his home using some dummy routers, and a few old computers, mimicked the set up at work, at least using similar albeit bogus codes and IP assignment schematics. Then he watched how they tried to get in, he realized right away as he watched what they were doing, that he was dealing with a government sponsored Chinese cyber-command team. He noted their techniques, style, and as they attempted to infiltrate his four old computers and garage sale bought routers. The trap was set.
He used this knowledge to try his luck returning the favor, using untraceable IP addresses, skipping through 4-different countries and finally gained access to the computer command system which had hacked him, after he installed a super-cookie, and used some of the interesting code he'd caught them using prior to them shutting down, and exiting his home system. He finally found a way in, around their system and then broke the encryption. He couldn't believe it; "these guys copy everything we do, even our encryption techniques, this is a piece of cake."
He stumbled into a set of files that were quite extensive and he downloaded as much as possible until he was shut out, "damn," he thought, "these guys are smarter than I suspected." He was caught, but he had already downloaded a large chuck of data. He figured the files were booby trapped, but he had to look, so he kept them on one of his throw-away computers and hooked it up to an old bubble jet and started printing away. Four messy refill cartridges later, he noted they were plans for a tunneling robot, and designs for a man-operated underground tunneling system. He thought, "wow, amazing, I can build one of these, although I have no clue what I'll use it for."
The next morning he woke up and it was clear as day. "Payback Time" - as all those years they were trying to break into his IT system at work, now he was on the other side of the game, and he was winning! It felt good, it was an adrenaline rush, "no wonder these hackers can't quit," he thought, "no wonder they come and work in IT security after their juvenile exploits and criminal activities."
Well, six months later, and 100 or more trips to home depot and the junkyard on the other side of town, and borrowed money from retirement, he built the robotic tunneling system, with a capsule for him to control it so he could dig through the underground depths near his home. He had to try it out, so he started studying local geology, sedimentary layers, ground water, and underground pipelines, cable lines, power lines. He had complete schematics of all underground stuff near him. Then he plotted a course to the local Starbucks, figuring he could come up in the field behind the Starbucks next to the trash area.
He drove over there, with some old plywood, so he could cover up the hole when he got there. Sure enough his calculations were right on the money, "thank god for Google street view and GPS," he thought to himself. His calculations were correct well within 12-feet, but he was thinking "good enough for government work," as he smiled, he was happy again, truly energized, as he exited his spaceship-looking tunneling machine and went in for a Frappachino, then returned home, the same way he came.
The next day he contacted the military to see if he could get a contract, figuring his tunneling robot would be just dandy for Special Forces and important missions. He sent them digital pictures of everything. A day later, there was a black van outside of his house, and someone had hacked into his WiFi system, and even broken the passwords, "wow, these guys are good, how on Earth did they break my encryption he thought?"
After a couple of days after that, two gentleman knocked on his door, and asked to come in. "Sure come in, how are you, I suppose you work for the government don't you?" They said "yes, military intelligence, and we realize you have security clearance, and so we'd like to know how you came across this device in your garage."
He explained the whole thing, and they told him that they'd be in touch with him later, "but keep that thing covered up and you never talked to us." Turns out, that the Chinese had stolen the design from a secret project team at S4 near Area 51, and that it was US Technology that they had stolen, and they wanted Vern to now work for them, to find out how they stole those secret designs, and to run their IT Security for all the black projects for the military.
Vern was glad to be back to work, and the benefits and pay raise were great, plus it was a lot more fun than working in the dungeon of the old government data center. Vern loves his new job, and enjoys chasing Chinese spies, and securing our nation's most valuable asset; knowledge.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the [http://www.worldthinktank.net]Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 24,612 articles by September 12th will be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?His-Tunneling-Robot-Design-Wasnt-Made-in-China-After-All---Black-Project-Secrets-From-Underground&id=6520087] His Tunneling Robot Design Wasn't Made in China After All - Black Project Secrets From Underground
Vern Howard thought he must be the cleverest man around. He'd stolen new technology from China's secret Think Tank Lab, and was blown away with the incredible leap forward, it was simply amazing, yes, and very simple too, simple enough for him to build one in his garage. And so he did, borrowing a bit from his 401k - and although he did have to pay it back or take the tax hit in the next year, he figured he could show his prototype around, maybe even sell it to the military, or get a contract with DARPA.
Vern hated hackers, especially state sponsored cyber attacks to undermine his country. He'd worked for one of the top government data centers, but it had closed down, as the government was moving into the cloud with a new mega-contract. He could very well take a pay cut, and move cities, as the government still needed his computer talents for IT security, but he hoped to start his own business, maybe even buy a franchise, maybe a retail or service franchise working with computers.
He'd been shopping around, looking in franchise guides, checking out the SBA small business loan website, and reading up on how to start a business, but he wasn't trying too hard, thinking he needed some time off from his 80-hour work week in Washington DC, where they truly treated him like crap. So, he headed off to the Las Vegas Defcon Conference. He met some folks he even suspected as being the same individuals that had attempted to infiltrate his systems at work, luckily, he knew all their tricks, well, or so he thought.
Turns out he was talking with some "good guy" hackers, former MIT grads who worked for Microsoft and they explained how it was possible to break through 256-bit encryption. They explained the process, but he realized they'd never have gotten into his old work system that way, he just listened, didn't say anything. Then they said something that really made him think, and he realized that, they were right about their hacking techniques, but clearly didn't understand his protocols. Vern did, and he knew that with that knowledge plus, his insider knowledge of the system, it was more than possible.
Bored out of his mind, he set up a trap for some Chinese Hackers at his home using some dummy routers, and a few old computers, mimicked the set up at work, at least using similar albeit bogus codes and IP assignment schematics. Then he watched how they tried to get in, he realized right away as he watched what they were doing, that he was dealing with a government sponsored Chinese cyber-command team. He noted their techniques, style, and as they attempted to infiltrate his four old computers and garage sale bought routers. The trap was set.
He used this knowledge to try his luck returning the favor, using untraceable IP addresses, skipping through 4-different countries and finally gained access to the computer command system which had hacked him, after he installed a super-cookie, and used some of the interesting code he'd caught them using prior to them shutting down, and exiting his home system. He finally found a way in, around their system and then broke the encryption. He couldn't believe it; "these guys copy everything we do, even our encryption techniques, this is a piece of cake."
He stumbled into a set of files that were quite extensive and he downloaded as much as possible until he was shut out, "damn," he thought, "these guys are smarter than I suspected." He was caught, but he had already downloaded a large chuck of data. He figured the files were booby trapped, but he had to look, so he kept them on one of his throw-away computers and hooked it up to an old bubble jet and started printing away. Four messy refill cartridges later, he noted they were plans for a tunneling robot, and designs for a man-operated underground tunneling system. He thought, "wow, amazing, I can build one of these, although I have no clue what I'll use it for."
The next morning he woke up and it was clear as day. "Payback Time" - as all those years they were trying to break into his IT system at work, now he was on the other side of the game, and he was winning! It felt good, it was an adrenaline rush, "no wonder these hackers can't quit," he thought, "no wonder they come and work in IT security after their juvenile exploits and criminal activities."
Well, six months later, and 100 or more trips to home depot and the junkyard on the other side of town, and borrowed money from retirement, he built the robotic tunneling system, with a capsule for him to control it so he could dig through the underground depths near his home. He had to try it out, so he started studying local geology, sedimentary layers, ground water, and underground pipelines, cable lines, power lines. He had complete schematics of all underground stuff near him. Then he plotted a course to the local Starbucks, figuring he could come up in the field behind the Starbucks next to the trash area.
He drove over there, with some old plywood, so he could cover up the hole when he got there. Sure enough his calculations were right on the money, "thank god for Google street view and GPS," he thought to himself. His calculations were correct well within 12-feet, but he was thinking "good enough for government work," as he smiled, he was happy again, truly energized, as he exited his spaceship-looking tunneling machine and went in for a Frappachino, then returned home, the same way he came.
The next day he contacted the military to see if he could get a contract, figuring his tunneling robot would be just dandy for Special Forces and important missions. He sent them digital pictures of everything. A day later, there was a black van outside of his house, and someone had hacked into his WiFi system, and even broken the passwords, "wow, these guys are good, how on Earth did they break my encryption he thought?"
After a couple of days after that, two gentleman knocked on his door, and asked to come in. "Sure come in, how are you, I suppose you work for the government don't you?" They said "yes, military intelligence, and we realize you have security clearance, and so we'd like to know how you came across this device in your garage."
He explained the whole thing, and they told him that they'd be in touch with him later, "but keep that thing covered up and you never talked to us." Turns out, that the Chinese had stolen the design from a secret project team at S4 near Area 51, and that it was US Technology that they had stolen, and they wanted Vern to now work for them, to find out how they stole those secret designs, and to run their IT Security for all the black projects for the military.
Vern was glad to be back to work, and the benefits and pay raise were great, plus it was a lot more fun than working in the dungeon of the old government data center. Vern loves his new job, and enjoys chasing Chinese spies, and securing our nation's most valuable asset; knowledge.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the [http://www.worldthinktank.net]Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 24,612 articles by September 12th will be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?His-Tunneling-Robot-Design-Wasnt-Made-in-China-After-All---Black-Project-Secrets-From-Underground&id=6520087] His Tunneling Robot Design Wasn't Made in China After All - Black Project Secrets From Underground
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Sweet Emma
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Yusef_Black]Yusef Black
"Yusef, you spoke of something earlier that struck me as odd, being content wherever one happens to be, it has occupied me for all the hours since."
At that exact moment, merely an hour after the appearance of the eastern sun, Yusef noticed a band of men on horses lining the top of the nearest dune. Directly facing them, they had obviously spotted Yusef and Saeed.
"Saeed, who are those men?"
A look of shock and fear captured Saeed's face. "Curses on this moment. My dear friend, forgive me."
"For what? Who are these people?"
"For sharing my troubles with you. Although unaware, you are now a co-conspirator."
"What???? What co-conspirator?" Yelled Yusef incredulously.
"Please my friend. You must reach into your cache of any good-will you have done in your lifetime and pray to your God for forgiveness."
"What are you talking about Saeed?"
"Do not move. These men are members of a nearby clan. In short I kidnapped the daughter of what you may call the tribe's chief and fought her brothers. My father has given the other clan permission to enter our territory and search for me."
Yusef lowered his face into his hands, and laughed, at the improbabilities of what is happening to him. "What will they..."
Before finishing his question, Yusef found himself looking up at a man standing in front of him, like a ghost, suddenly appearing before him. Saeed immediately rose to his feet and did not say a word. Yusef turned to look at his friend, before he could manage to stand up, the man in front of him knocked him out with one blow.
Evening has nearly arrived, there was still light. Yusef came about and opened his eyes, "Saeed? Saeed?"
"Yes my friend, I am here."
"Where are we?"
"In a pit, approximately twenty lengths deep. You must be hungry, there is rice and yogurt by the corner nearest you." Distress in Saeed's voice.
"I'm not really hungry." Answered Yusef while looking at his friend, downcast and moving a stick in a repetitive circular motion. "So your actions have caught up with you... well, with us." He added with a hesitant smile.
"Yes. I must apologize. I beg of you, believe me when I say I did not believe they would find me."
"But I don't understand, I thought you had issues with women, you feared them; yet, you just happen to kidnap a chief's daughter?!"
"Yes. Yes. You see, the kidnapping is not the problem. It is that I left her behind, did not complete the ceremony of ties between us, and shaming my father and my clan."
"Ahh, I see, right, commitment issues."
"Something along those lines."
"Well, is she beautiful?"
"Beyond any man's dreams."
"Hmm... not to be a downer or anything, but I have to say that something must be wrong with you. You obviously wanted to be with her, and she was with you, you accomplished that much, but you run away like a pig with his tail on fire."
"I see that you have a need to state the obvious."
"Well, is there something else you would like to talk about?" Asked Yusef sarcastically.
"Again, my apologies. It is your right and your place to speak of what you wish and how you wish. Yes, I ran away, I could not handle the love I had for her. And this is the result, an end to a life as a result of fear."
"End??? You mean they will kill you?"
"Most likely. I expect they are presently debating my punishment, more accurately, our punishment."
"Our punishment!" Said Yusef quietly and slowly, contemplating the surreal thought. After a moment, he continued, under his breath, "There is a reason for everything. I did something to bring me here, to this moment."
Saeed, seated with his legs crossed, slowly turned his face to look at Yusef, as Yusef brought himself to sit in the opposite corner and rest against the earth.
"Saeed, remember earlier this morning," Yusef pausing at the thought of how quickly circumstances and surroundings can change, "you were asking me about happiness, contentment, wherever one happens to be?!"
"Right."
"Well, it is truly simple, although often challenging, as we can now attest." Another pause, Yusef looks down, then continues. "So you see, my sister has a newborn, a baby, Emma, I used to look at her, I would become lost in her smiling eyes, specially when she is quiet and resting in my arms, she would often look back, her fingers in her mouth, her cheeks absolutely adorable."
"Of course you miss her."
"Of course. But there is more. Sometimes I used to find myself thinking about something else, not paying attention to her, this sweet sweet baby. This baby in my arms, somehow, her eyes would bring me back, to her, to that moment, to what is important, that moment, exactly that moment, and nothing else."
"I am afraid I am not quite following."
"Of course I miss her very much. But thinking of her, remembering her is not what this is all about. Thinking of her is reminding me to love the moment, wherever I happen to be, whatever I happen to be doing. Don't you see? No matter what, the moment we are in is the most beautiful gift the world gives us. A moment of life. 'Later' will inevitably come, and whatever it will bring will come whether we like it or not. But this moment, right now, that is the gift."
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?Sweet-Emma&id=6511646] Sweet Emma
"Yusef, you spoke of something earlier that struck me as odd, being content wherever one happens to be, it has occupied me for all the hours since."
At that exact moment, merely an hour after the appearance of the eastern sun, Yusef noticed a band of men on horses lining the top of the nearest dune. Directly facing them, they had obviously spotted Yusef and Saeed.
"Saeed, who are those men?"
A look of shock and fear captured Saeed's face. "Curses on this moment. My dear friend, forgive me."
"For what? Who are these people?"
"For sharing my troubles with you. Although unaware, you are now a co-conspirator."
"What???? What co-conspirator?" Yelled Yusef incredulously.
"Please my friend. You must reach into your cache of any good-will you have done in your lifetime and pray to your God for forgiveness."
"What are you talking about Saeed?"
"Do not move. These men are members of a nearby clan. In short I kidnapped the daughter of what you may call the tribe's chief and fought her brothers. My father has given the other clan permission to enter our territory and search for me."
Yusef lowered his face into his hands, and laughed, at the improbabilities of what is happening to him. "What will they..."
Before finishing his question, Yusef found himself looking up at a man standing in front of him, like a ghost, suddenly appearing before him. Saeed immediately rose to his feet and did not say a word. Yusef turned to look at his friend, before he could manage to stand up, the man in front of him knocked him out with one blow.
Evening has nearly arrived, there was still light. Yusef came about and opened his eyes, "Saeed? Saeed?"
"Yes my friend, I am here."
"Where are we?"
"In a pit, approximately twenty lengths deep. You must be hungry, there is rice and yogurt by the corner nearest you." Distress in Saeed's voice.
"I'm not really hungry." Answered Yusef while looking at his friend, downcast and moving a stick in a repetitive circular motion. "So your actions have caught up with you... well, with us." He added with a hesitant smile.
"Yes. I must apologize. I beg of you, believe me when I say I did not believe they would find me."
"But I don't understand, I thought you had issues with women, you feared them; yet, you just happen to kidnap a chief's daughter?!"
"Yes. Yes. You see, the kidnapping is not the problem. It is that I left her behind, did not complete the ceremony of ties between us, and shaming my father and my clan."
"Ahh, I see, right, commitment issues."
"Something along those lines."
"Well, is she beautiful?"
"Beyond any man's dreams."
"Hmm... not to be a downer or anything, but I have to say that something must be wrong with you. You obviously wanted to be with her, and she was with you, you accomplished that much, but you run away like a pig with his tail on fire."
"I see that you have a need to state the obvious."
"Well, is there something else you would like to talk about?" Asked Yusef sarcastically.
"Again, my apologies. It is your right and your place to speak of what you wish and how you wish. Yes, I ran away, I could not handle the love I had for her. And this is the result, an end to a life as a result of fear."
"End??? You mean they will kill you?"
"Most likely. I expect they are presently debating my punishment, more accurately, our punishment."
"Our punishment!" Said Yusef quietly and slowly, contemplating the surreal thought. After a moment, he continued, under his breath, "There is a reason for everything. I did something to bring me here, to this moment."
Saeed, seated with his legs crossed, slowly turned his face to look at Yusef, as Yusef brought himself to sit in the opposite corner and rest against the earth.
"Saeed, remember earlier this morning," Yusef pausing at the thought of how quickly circumstances and surroundings can change, "you were asking me about happiness, contentment, wherever one happens to be?!"
"Right."
"Well, it is truly simple, although often challenging, as we can now attest." Another pause, Yusef looks down, then continues. "So you see, my sister has a newborn, a baby, Emma, I used to look at her, I would become lost in her smiling eyes, specially when she is quiet and resting in my arms, she would often look back, her fingers in her mouth, her cheeks absolutely adorable."
"Of course you miss her."
"Of course. But there is more. Sometimes I used to find myself thinking about something else, not paying attention to her, this sweet sweet baby. This baby in my arms, somehow, her eyes would bring me back, to her, to that moment, to what is important, that moment, exactly that moment, and nothing else."
"I am afraid I am not quite following."
"Of course I miss her very much. But thinking of her, remembering her is not what this is all about. Thinking of her is reminding me to love the moment, wherever I happen to be, whatever I happen to be doing. Don't you see? No matter what, the moment we are in is the most beautiful gift the world gives us. A moment of life. 'Later' will inevitably come, and whatever it will bring will come whether we like it or not. But this moment, right now, that is the gift."
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?Sweet-Emma&id=6511646] Sweet Emma
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Washington DC Think Tank Debates of 2016
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow]Lance Winslow
The American people felt a new sense of vigor, a new president would be coming into office, the economy was starting to fire on all cylinders again, and things were actually working in Washington DC. Of course, where would America go with this newfound prosperity, and ever increasing abundance?
That's when the big debate started, and the think tanks on both sides of the political spectrum were drawing battle lines in the sand and organizing their intellectual debating points. But it wasn't just the Republicans and Tea Party, and Democrats and Socialists, this time there was a new player one which was stronger than ever now; the ever present and growing third-party with their libertarian zeal, something that was definitely catching on with the American people.
Scott Klein perhaps started off the debate when he was asked to renew his membership at one of the Washington DC think tanks as a fellow. He didn't like the socialist leanings and posturing that the think tank he was a member of had taken. He was well aware of exactly who the big donors to the think tank were, and the fact that the think tank was really an offshoot of a well connected Democratic law firm. Nevertheless, the group had always stated that it was partisan-politic-neutral, and only wanting true progress for America, but that was a laugh.
Yes, Scott Klein was madder than hell, and that's putting it mildly, he'd gotten tired of taking orders of which research projects to drop, the editing of his reports by staff, and the removal of several of his award-winning papers on the think tank's website. So he fired off an e-mail to the president of the progressive organization; Jonathan Protesta that stated;
Your members are so caught up in their views, that there is no debate left, they won't look at the empirical data, the facts, they enter all discussions at the point of political impasse from their new AGW religion with hyperbolic graphs in tow on down. What's there to talk about? Look Jonathan, we have too many insane environmentalists pitching nonsensical unreliable alternative energy promises such as wind power, who have no clue as to the reality. We have a bunch of old-timers there who don't get it either, have made rotten predictions and now have to live with their miscalculations, their credibility is shot, it hurts the entire group.
Are you not forgetting when I defended our organization after the Foreign Affairs, The Economist, and the Wall Street Journal attacked this organization a few years back. Still, there are too many anti-capitalist members who've seem to have forgotten Hitler was a socialist sending around emails of Republicans with Hitler-style mustaches. Remember FDR caused a lot of economic challenges and unintended consequences, look how those programs have grown today, a 1/3 of the Federal Budget for Social Security, yah, we need more socialism in America, right? Many of our members were big-time vocal supporters of the Obama Administration as well, which just blows me away to no-end, and I cannot believe for the life of me that anyone would fall for such nonsense and teleprompter speeches, especially fellows in this organization.
Any fellow, futurist, or long standing member in this group worth their salt could have seen that coming a mile away - shovel ready jobs, alternative energy, high-speed trains, not on a socialists' watch, not a chance Jonathan. Whatever tools our think tank members are using don't work, judging by their predictions. I wouldn't take any credit for that Jonathan. Here is the deal, we live in the real world, not some fantasy-land, this isn't Harry Potter on holiday, nor is it Wizard of Oz tweeting his meat like Congressman Weiner, or a Comic Book version of Soros making his latest commodity plays to cause world starvation making a cool 100 million in the process, while preaching love for humanity at Davos.
Yes, it's great that the original founder of this think tank met a lot of former Presidents and mucky-mucks here in Washington DC; good for the organization, something to lay a foundation on, prove self-worth and all that, but we can do better. What about in the here and now, today, in the present period? What are you really doing, talking about stuff, promoting member's concept drawings of utopian bubble cities; I don't see anyone building it? Think about it Jonathan.
Okay so, you put out a decent magazine, have an incredible eEzine list of the who's who here inside the Belt Way, yes, and some interesting articles, political research, reports, but really, it's nothing our organizations followers can't find in GizMag, Kurzweil's AI, OECD, UN Habitat for Humanity Program, MIT Technology Review, SpaceWars, DARPA press releases, TED, Industry Technology Trade Journals from TradePubs.com, or listening to on Coast-to-Coast mid-night conspiracy radio. It's the blind leading the blind Jonathan.
Jonathan, I need more, I am underwhelmed. I was really hoping for more. What you have on our website is repetitious, more noise, and the views of our members are not good enough, except for a very few standouts. How does being a member help me, or any of the other dedicated fellows in our group, or those interns we are grooming to blaze the field into the future? Your answer appears to be to give our team the tools we need, but many of us truly dedicated researchers have a system which obviously works better, at least based on the false-positive predictors and our member's predictions. The Hudson Group, CATO Institute, AEI, Heritage Group, and OTH are clearly blowing us out of the water here. They are right, and we can no longer pretend that socialism is good for America, as it's quite frankly been a disaster.
Whose team are we on Jonathan? Are we for America's future and progress or are we trying to turn this place into another economic depression as the Obama Administration did, we need to decide Jonathan. Personally, I am bored Jonathan, bored with being some sort of socialist soldier, censored by the committee, I need more. It's not good enough, why can't we push our organization to greater heights, why are we settling for mediocrity, why Jonathan? We have the opportunity to do great things. We need to stop acting like "flash-mob mentality" socialists and the apologists for humanity's ills. We need to get this show on the road.
Our group is promoting people as consultants who don't have a clue as to what they are talking about and they are mis-advising folks, corporations, and government agencies. You want me to "participate" and yet our website makes it damn near impossible, it's hard to comment even when logged in, even as a member with a log-in code, I can't comment, or set up a blog, not that I'd care too, but all the same. Our organization's secretary had advised me that my reports, comments, and insight is being censored, sentences being modified to established political correctness protocol, may I ask what on Earth that is about? Obviously this isn't a think tank anymore, it's just more Washington DC political punditry.
Our group is no longer functional, the communication systems on the website are hard to use, and as a Facebook twenty-something with an average of 682 friends might say; it sucks. Further, I see many of our members as the folks that are causing bad decision making in government and promoting horrible solutions based on socialist thinking borrowing plays out of the AGW theory alarmists' playbook. Our think tank should probably close and start over, then communicate better with our members. I have some information I'd like to get out too, but I keep getting censored, and quite frankly, I don't need some show-boat promoter, chimpanzee level intelligence, carbon-based organic biped telling me how to think or what to look for when doing reports, futurist studies, or research on this pale blue dot.
If they knew what they were talking about, they could argue or debate their points on the merit of their views, without censoring, plus they would have made better predictions without the stealth trickery we are now using with; brevity, ambiguity, and short Kiplinger style sentences, or ripped off bullet points from Professor Dychtwald's newsletters or the lasted UN message of the week. It's time for us Jonathan to start acting like a Think Tank, rather than dummying down our reader and leaders here in Washington DC with more socialist driven nonsensical material. And Jonathan if you disagree with what I've said here, consider this my resignation, and your new Think Tank competition.
Sincerely,
Scott Klein, PhD
--- --- --- ---
Jonathan did not agree, and Scott Klein made good on his promise. The socialist-based think tank did continue, with global partners, mostly European. It had lost most of its US Corporate based funding and Democrat Political support except for the outright socialists still left in Congress. The US had changed, socialism once again had been rooted out of American Society, well until the next pendulum swing, hopefully decades away.
Meanwhile, the intellectual debate in America was taken to a higher-level, and the political correctness, and noise of socialism had to compete based on reality, not political or media propaganda. America had grown up, and it was thriving once again.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the [http://www.worldthinktank.net]Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 24,612 articles by September 12th will be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?The-Washington-DC-Think-Tank-Debates-of-2016&id=6520613] The Washington DC Think Tank Debates of 2016
The American people felt a new sense of vigor, a new president would be coming into office, the economy was starting to fire on all cylinders again, and things were actually working in Washington DC. Of course, where would America go with this newfound prosperity, and ever increasing abundance?
That's when the big debate started, and the think tanks on both sides of the political spectrum were drawing battle lines in the sand and organizing their intellectual debating points. But it wasn't just the Republicans and Tea Party, and Democrats and Socialists, this time there was a new player one which was stronger than ever now; the ever present and growing third-party with their libertarian zeal, something that was definitely catching on with the American people.
Scott Klein perhaps started off the debate when he was asked to renew his membership at one of the Washington DC think tanks as a fellow. He didn't like the socialist leanings and posturing that the think tank he was a member of had taken. He was well aware of exactly who the big donors to the think tank were, and the fact that the think tank was really an offshoot of a well connected Democratic law firm. Nevertheless, the group had always stated that it was partisan-politic-neutral, and only wanting true progress for America, but that was a laugh.
Yes, Scott Klein was madder than hell, and that's putting it mildly, he'd gotten tired of taking orders of which research projects to drop, the editing of his reports by staff, and the removal of several of his award-winning papers on the think tank's website. So he fired off an e-mail to the president of the progressive organization; Jonathan Protesta that stated;
Your members are so caught up in their views, that there is no debate left, they won't look at the empirical data, the facts, they enter all discussions at the point of political impasse from their new AGW religion with hyperbolic graphs in tow on down. What's there to talk about? Look Jonathan, we have too many insane environmentalists pitching nonsensical unreliable alternative energy promises such as wind power, who have no clue as to the reality. We have a bunch of old-timers there who don't get it either, have made rotten predictions and now have to live with their miscalculations, their credibility is shot, it hurts the entire group.
Are you not forgetting when I defended our organization after the Foreign Affairs, The Economist, and the Wall Street Journal attacked this organization a few years back. Still, there are too many anti-capitalist members who've seem to have forgotten Hitler was a socialist sending around emails of Republicans with Hitler-style mustaches. Remember FDR caused a lot of economic challenges and unintended consequences, look how those programs have grown today, a 1/3 of the Federal Budget for Social Security, yah, we need more socialism in America, right? Many of our members were big-time vocal supporters of the Obama Administration as well, which just blows me away to no-end, and I cannot believe for the life of me that anyone would fall for such nonsense and teleprompter speeches, especially fellows in this organization.
Any fellow, futurist, or long standing member in this group worth their salt could have seen that coming a mile away - shovel ready jobs, alternative energy, high-speed trains, not on a socialists' watch, not a chance Jonathan. Whatever tools our think tank members are using don't work, judging by their predictions. I wouldn't take any credit for that Jonathan. Here is the deal, we live in the real world, not some fantasy-land, this isn't Harry Potter on holiday, nor is it Wizard of Oz tweeting his meat like Congressman Weiner, or a Comic Book version of Soros making his latest commodity plays to cause world starvation making a cool 100 million in the process, while preaching love for humanity at Davos.
Yes, it's great that the original founder of this think tank met a lot of former Presidents and mucky-mucks here in Washington DC; good for the organization, something to lay a foundation on, prove self-worth and all that, but we can do better. What about in the here and now, today, in the present period? What are you really doing, talking about stuff, promoting member's concept drawings of utopian bubble cities; I don't see anyone building it? Think about it Jonathan.
Okay so, you put out a decent magazine, have an incredible eEzine list of the who's who here inside the Belt Way, yes, and some interesting articles, political research, reports, but really, it's nothing our organizations followers can't find in GizMag, Kurzweil's AI, OECD, UN Habitat for Humanity Program, MIT Technology Review, SpaceWars, DARPA press releases, TED, Industry Technology Trade Journals from TradePubs.com, or listening to on Coast-to-Coast mid-night conspiracy radio. It's the blind leading the blind Jonathan.
Jonathan, I need more, I am underwhelmed. I was really hoping for more. What you have on our website is repetitious, more noise, and the views of our members are not good enough, except for a very few standouts. How does being a member help me, or any of the other dedicated fellows in our group, or those interns we are grooming to blaze the field into the future? Your answer appears to be to give our team the tools we need, but many of us truly dedicated researchers have a system which obviously works better, at least based on the false-positive predictors and our member's predictions. The Hudson Group, CATO Institute, AEI, Heritage Group, and OTH are clearly blowing us out of the water here. They are right, and we can no longer pretend that socialism is good for America, as it's quite frankly been a disaster.
Whose team are we on Jonathan? Are we for America's future and progress or are we trying to turn this place into another economic depression as the Obama Administration did, we need to decide Jonathan. Personally, I am bored Jonathan, bored with being some sort of socialist soldier, censored by the committee, I need more. It's not good enough, why can't we push our organization to greater heights, why are we settling for mediocrity, why Jonathan? We have the opportunity to do great things. We need to stop acting like "flash-mob mentality" socialists and the apologists for humanity's ills. We need to get this show on the road.
Our group is promoting people as consultants who don't have a clue as to what they are talking about and they are mis-advising folks, corporations, and government agencies. You want me to "participate" and yet our website makes it damn near impossible, it's hard to comment even when logged in, even as a member with a log-in code, I can't comment, or set up a blog, not that I'd care too, but all the same. Our organization's secretary had advised me that my reports, comments, and insight is being censored, sentences being modified to established political correctness protocol, may I ask what on Earth that is about? Obviously this isn't a think tank anymore, it's just more Washington DC political punditry.
Our group is no longer functional, the communication systems on the website are hard to use, and as a Facebook twenty-something with an average of 682 friends might say; it sucks. Further, I see many of our members as the folks that are causing bad decision making in government and promoting horrible solutions based on socialist thinking borrowing plays out of the AGW theory alarmists' playbook. Our think tank should probably close and start over, then communicate better with our members. I have some information I'd like to get out too, but I keep getting censored, and quite frankly, I don't need some show-boat promoter, chimpanzee level intelligence, carbon-based organic biped telling me how to think or what to look for when doing reports, futurist studies, or research on this pale blue dot.
If they knew what they were talking about, they could argue or debate their points on the merit of their views, without censoring, plus they would have made better predictions without the stealth trickery we are now using with; brevity, ambiguity, and short Kiplinger style sentences, or ripped off bullet points from Professor Dychtwald's newsletters or the lasted UN message of the week. It's time for us Jonathan to start acting like a Think Tank, rather than dummying down our reader and leaders here in Washington DC with more socialist driven nonsensical material. And Jonathan if you disagree with what I've said here, consider this my resignation, and your new Think Tank competition.
Sincerely,
Scott Klein, PhD
--- --- --- ---
Jonathan did not agree, and Scott Klein made good on his promise. The socialist-based think tank did continue, with global partners, mostly European. It had lost most of its US Corporate based funding and Democrat Political support except for the outright socialists still left in Congress. The US had changed, socialism once again had been rooted out of American Society, well until the next pendulum swing, hopefully decades away.
Meanwhile, the intellectual debate in America was taken to a higher-level, and the political correctness, and noise of socialism had to compete based on reality, not political or media propaganda. America had grown up, and it was thriving once again.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the [http://www.worldthinktank.net]Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 24,612 articles by September 12th will be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..
Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?The-Washington-DC-Think-Tank-Debates-of-2016&id=6520613] The Washington DC Think Tank Debates of 2016
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