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USA WW I Debts to be called in .

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USA   WW I Debts to be called in .


Andre Willers
10 Feb 2015
Synopsis:
WW I debts were not forgiven , only placed on moratorium . The US now needs the money and is calling in the debts plus interest .

Discussion :
1.Total owed to the US in 1934 dollars  = $10,340,021,226  file:///C:/Users/andre/Downloads/ADistantMirrorOfDebtDefaultAndR_preview.pdf

$1(1934) = $17.65(2014)
3.Minimum due today
$10,340,021,226  * 17.65 = 1.825x10^10

3.With a reasonable interest of 4% pa , a reasonable call is (over 2014-1934=80 years) is
17.65 x 1.04^80 * 10.34 bn ~ $4.206 trillion

4.This is about the US QE amount .
It appears that they actually have collateral for it . Basically , Europe .

5. What the Europeans will think of this , heavens knows .
A debt conveniently forgotten , except by the creditor !

6. But it seems like the US is intending to collect , one way or another .


8. I wonder if somebody actually saw this , or it just fell out of the numbers naturally ?
In any case , the US of A intends to collect .

Interesting times for small minds .

Andre

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Cheerleaders of Knossos.

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Cheerleaders of Knossos.


Andre Willers
12 Feb 2015
Synopsis :
The Cheerleaders of Knossos echoed down the labyrinths of history , and their thunder persists undiminished into the trammels of the future .
 
Discussion :
1.Cheerleading is firmly based on the mirror-neuron networks of humans . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron
Show-and-tell .

2.The idealised , fit , healthy , limber ,athletic , sexy humans do their stuff in front of the old , arthritic ,sick , decrepit ,etc.
This automatically makes everyone feel better , as autonomic systems try to follow what they see .
This is what mirror-neurons do . That old positive thinking bit .

3.The young do it because they can as a celebration , the old because they wish they could .

4.This positive feedback ensured the existence of this class of cheerers .
Like bubbles under the carpet , they keep on popping up .
Tumblers , Jugglers , Athletes , Clowns , Musicians etc graced the feasts and celebrations of every civilization known .
Even the dour Middle-ages .

5.The religious element .
Always present is a sense of thanksgiving and gratitude for at least some grace and beauty . As well as optimism and cheer .

6.Form follows function .
Even separated by 4 000 years , you can see the similarity between a Knossos Cheerleader and an American Cheerleader .










 
I very carefully express no opinion about the relative intelligence of the bull and the football players .

Now , if they can get the bull to summersault over the singing horse …

Taurokathapsically yours ,
Andre

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Bull-leaping (also taurokathapsia, from Greek ταυροκαθάψια) is a motif of Middle Bronze Age figurative art, notably of Minoan Crete, but also found in Hittite Anatolia, the Levant, Bactria and the Indus Valley. 

 The routines usually range anywhere from one to three minutes, which may contain many components of tumblingdancejumpscheers and stunting 
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The Last Drop.

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The Last Drop.


Andre Willers
13 Feb 2015

Hi,
Civilization ending drought in Western America expected before the end of the 21st century.

Note Mexico and meso-america in picture below .
Expect massive volkewanderungs from the South  to the North .

It will take more than a wall to keep desperate families out .

Another reason for the Occupy Ukraine movement . (See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2015/02/yellowstone-catastrophe-and-us.html)

Although a similar type of approach didn't end well for the Anazazi . Desperate neighbours overwhelmed them .

The Maya simply imploded in resources wars.

Revolution is just one harvest away .

Andre
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Warming pushes Western U.S. toward driest period in 1,000 years: Unprecedented risk of drought in 21st century
Date:
February 12, 2015
Source:
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Summary:
During the second half of the 21st century, the US Southwest and Great Plains will face persistent drought worse than anything seen in times ancient or modern, with the drying conditions 'driven primarily' by human-induced global warming, a new study predicts.
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Soil moisture 30 cm below ground projected through 2100 for high emissions scenario RCP 8.5. The soil moisture data are standardized to the Palmer Drought Severity Index and are deviations from the 20th century average.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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During the second half of the 21st century, the U.S. Southwest and Great Plains will face persistent drought worse than anything seen in times ancient or modern, with the drying conditions "driven primarily" by human-induced global warming, a new study predicts.
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The research says the drying would surpass in severity any of the decades-long "megadroughts" that occurred much earlier during the past 1,000 years -- one of which has been tied by some researchers to the decline of the Anasazi or Ancient Pueblo Peoples in the Colorado Plateau in the late 13th century. Many studies have already predicted that the Southwest could dry due to global warming, but this is the first to say that such drying could exceed the worst conditions of the distant past. The impacts today would be devastating, given the region's much larger population and use of resources.
"We are the first to do this kind of quantitative comparison between the projections and the distant past, and the story is a bit bleak," said Jason E. Smerdon, a co-author and climate scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. "Even when selecting for the worst megadrought-dominated period, the 21st century projections make the megadroughts seem like quaint walks through the Garden of Eden."
"The surprising thing to us was really how consistent the response was over these regions, nearly regardless of what model we used or what soil moisture metric we looked at," said lead author Benjamin I. Cook of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "It all showed this really, really significant drying."
The new study, "Unprecedented 21st-Century Drought Risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains," will be featured in the inaugural edition of the new online journal Science Advances, produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which also publishes the leading journal Science.
Today, 11 of the past 14 years have been drought years in much of the American West, including California, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona and across the Southern Plains to Texas and Oklahoma, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a collaboration of U.S. government agencies.
The current drought directly affects more than64 million people in the Southwest and Southern Plains, according to NASA, and many more are indirectly affected because of the impacts on agricultural regions.
Shrinking water supplies have forced western states to impose water use restrictions; aquifers are being drawn down to unsustainable levels, and major surface reservoirs such as Lake Mead and Lake Powell are at historically low levels. This winter's snowpack in the Sierras, a major water source for Los Angeles and other cities, is less than a quarter of what authorities call a "normal" level, according to a February report from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. California water officials last year cut off the flow of water from the northern part of the state to the south, forcing farmers in the Central Valley to leave hundreds of thousands of acres unplanted.
"Changes in precipitation, temperature and drought, and the consequences it has for our society -- which is critically dependent on our freshwater resources for food, electricity and industry -- are likely to be the most immediate climate impacts we experience as a result of greenhouse gas emissions," said Kevin Anchukaitis, a climate researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Anchukaitis said the findings "require us to think rather immediately about how we could and would adapt."
Much of our knowledge about past droughts comes from extensive study of tree rings conducted by Lamont-Doherty scientist Edward Cook (Benjamin's father) and others, who in 2009 created the North American Drought Atlas. The atlas recreates the history of drought over the previous 2,005 years, based on hundreds of tree-ring chronologies, gleaned in turn from tens of thousands of tree samples across the United States, Mexico and parts of Canada.
For the current study, researchers used data from the atlas to represent past climate, and applied three different measures for drought -- two soil moisture measurements at varying depths, and a version of the Palmer Drought Severity Index, which gauges precipitation and evaporation and transpiration -- the net input of water into the land. While some have questioned how accurately the Palmer drought index truly reflects soil moisture, the researchers found it matched well with other measures, and that it "provides a bridge between the [climate] models and drought in observations," Cook said.
The researchers applied 17 different climate models to analyze the future impact of rising average temperatures on the regions. And, they compared two different global warming scenarios -- one with "business as usual," projecting a continued rise in emissions of the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming; and a second scenario in which emissions are moderated.
By most of those measures, they came to the same conclusions.
"The results … are extremely unfavorable for the continuation of agricultural and water resource management as they are currently practiced in the Great Plains and southwestern United States," said David Stahle, professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arkansas and director of the Tree-Ring Laboratory there. Stahle was not involved in the study, though he worked on the North American Drought Atlas.
Smerdon said he and his colleagues are confident in their results. The effects of CO2on higher average temperature and the subsequent connection to drying in the Southwest and Great Plains emerge as a "strong signal" across the majority of the models, regardless of the drought metrics that are used, he said. And, he added, they are consistent with many previous studies.
Anchukaitis said the paper "provides an elegant and convincing connection" between reconstructions of past climate and the models pointing to the risk of future drought.
Toby R. Ault of Cornell University is a co-author of the study. Funding was provided by the NASA Modeling, Analysis and Prediction Program, NASA Strategic Science, and the U.S. National Science Foundation.

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The above story is based on materials provided by The Earth Institute at Columbia UniversityNote: Materials may be edited for content and length.

Journal Reference:
  1. Benjamin I. Cook, Toby R. Ault, Jason E. Smerdon. Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central PlainsScience Advances, 12 February 2015 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1400082
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Darwins Pigs

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Darwins Pigs


Andre Willers
14 Feb 2015
Synopsis:
Anti-domestication of the feral porcine variety . The hidden cost of Kosher and Halaal.

Discussion :
Hi,
What happens when domestication works in reverse .
Aggression is strongly selected .
You get hippos or Cape Buffaloes instead of docile animals .
Feral domesticated pigs selected for aggression are the latest and most dangerous addition .

Humans and silver foxes .
Note the extraordinary plasticity of the genome . Seven generations is sufficient to domesticate .
There seems to be a whole epigenetic system that kow-tows .
Born with cap in hand …

Now we can do it with an aerosol spray . Perfumes of dominance .
Been done , and there are some really interesting defenses .
Professional betrayers .
Some cell-clusters produce bio-instruction molecules that are randomly close to the real thing , but has an apoptosis marker .
A sting operation .

Plants love them .
If you use plant based perfumes , you are shortening your life .


The old-fashioned way :

Hippo's

Cape Buffalo


“Bringing home the bacon …”  or vice versa .
  

  



This may seem like a ludicrous pitch for a doomsday blockbuster or a leftover gag from Babe: Pig in the City or an excuse to put even more bacon in our diet but the fact is, wild pigs have overrun the planet. To wit: Pig populations are nearing a million in the state of Florida, encroaching on urban areas and destroying an F-16 fighter plane in Jacksonville. Feral pigs are running (hog) wild in the streets of Berlin, with dedicated pig squads waging a losing battle to overtake them. They’ve become a fixture on the West Bank, after Israeli settlers, some say, released boars to destroy Palestinian croplands. There are even thousands of radioactive wild pigs wandering Europe, thanks to the tainted feeding grounds near Chernobyl.

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It’s a bird , it’s a plane , it’s a boar in the seat next to you …
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Wild boar causes flight delays at Spain's main airport
February 14, 2015 - 10:06 AM

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MADRID (AP) — Spain's airport authority says a wild boar that broke through a perimeter fence at Madrid's international airport caused runways to be shut briefly and two landings to be delayed.
The beast set off security alarms late Friday and when cameras focused on the spot, operators observed it turning around and loping off through the hole it had made.
The incident happened 100 meters (330 feet) from the nearest stretch of runway. It delayed an incoming flight from London 20 minutes and a domestic flight from A Coruna 10 minutes, the airport authority's statement said Saturday.
Newspaper El Pais reported the captain aboard Iberia flight 3179 inbound from London told passengers an animal had "surprisingly" forced him to abort a landing approach.
The hole was repaired later.
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Inside an Economic Crash

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Inside an Economic Crash


Andre Willers
15 Feb 2015
Synopsis:
The Real world economic system started crashing on the west coast USA in Feb 2015 . Just another repeat .

Discussion :
0.A Real Economic Crash .
This is when goods or services are not available at any price .
The Civilization Chain breaks down .

1.The four sphincters that clamped down :
1.1 Insurance
Uninsurability destroyed an Empire and Industry . See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2009/03/featherfall.html
The perils of Just In Time production  .
The value of a JIT item rapidly drops to zero after it’s sell-by-date . Thus becomes uninsurable . Thus no carrier (ship or land) will take the risk . It all grinds to  a halt , which is happening now .
Systemic breakdown , which cannot be fixed by printing more paper money .

1.2 Labor Unions .
The cost of the difference between the real economy  and the financial money printing is being borne by the middle and working class as shit flows downhill . This has now surfaced as shutdown of Just-in-time supply chains on the Western US seaboard . See Appendix A .

1.3 Declining demand .
Due to a number of factors :

1.3.1 Green :Small is beautiful . The Death of Growth . Declining population .
Actual less consumption . Desperate state monopolies are legally penalizing people who want to consume less .

1.3.2 Capital shift to Health Carers due to longer lives costing more money .
The money a family had accumulated(capital) is now spent on keeping a decrepit alive .
So , little Johnny has to take a McJob and stay at home with mommy  so that granny can eke out a miserable last few years in an Oligarch’s facility .

1.3.3 Stupidity
Humans aren’t naturally smart enough to pay their own way in a high-tech society .
But there ways to become smarter .
See

1.4  War .
And now about to repeat the whole thing with nuclear weapons . In the name of stimulating the economy .
 
2. What will happen ?
Trade will lock up tighter than a camel’s arse in the fly season .
2.1 You already saw a shadow of it in the 2008 crisis , when banks put their own interests ahead of the society .
Expect dumping of luxury globalised items (like wines , fancy foods , genetically modified foods , out-of-season foods , etc)

2.3Another way of looking at it :
If it’s not grown within about 100 miles , forget it .
Average Distances from Farm to Market
Terminal Market vs. Ferry Plaza Farmers Market
Apples: 1,555 miles vs. 105 miles
Tomatoes: 1,369 miles vs. 117 miles
Grapes: 2,143 miles vs. 151 miles
Beans: 766 miles vs. 101 miles
Peaches: 1,674 miles vs. 184 miles
Winter Squash: 781 miles vs. 98 miles
Greens: 889 miles vs. 99 miles
Lettuce: 2,055 miles vs. 102 miles
 

3. The survivors : Bringing home the bacon , lean and mean .

 

4.What does it all mean ?

”Where are they ?” Fermi .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradoxabout intelligent lifeforms .
At home . Where they belong .
A question they will ask about humans .
You are seeing the effects right now . Uncontrolled growth leads to death .
Civilizations that cannot handle this , doesn’t even make it off-planet .

 5.Post-Apocalyptic minefield .
It means that planets with surviving populations usually have defences in depth not accessible to the inhabitants .
A variant of the Castles and Knight Defence . Any roving band of interstellar  freebooters will get their heads handed to them pdq .
These defences get activated in ascending order .

6.It also means that Terra has ancient quiescent defensive and offensive weapon systems .
Not very old , either .
A supervolcano like Yellowstone has energy yields in the order of 10^17 Joules .
A megaton of tnt ~ 10^15 Joules  .
So , expect war energies bigger than 100 megatons of TNT to trigger ancient defensive systems , with unpredictable results .
This to prevent false alarms due to natural disasters .
The old USSR must have gotten the fright of it’s life when it tested its 50 megaton Tsar Bomb and ancient weapons came to life .
Note that nobody has tried it since . They were lucky as it was.

7. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba .
When many old weapon systems partially activated . In Australia of all places . Surat Basin .
It seems to be directed graviton particle beams .
Or , if you prefer , Stimulated Emission of Higgs Particles (SEHP)
Look at seismic records of October 1961 .
https://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CDYQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ga.gov.au%2Fcorporate_data%2F11511%2FRec1965_058.pdf&ei=x9HgVLWXEoKAUdqbgMgF&usg=AFQjCNG6YPebjvejDBb6nXJDor326SJNeg
·         There were lots of anomalies .
·         www.ga.gov.au/corporate_data/11511/Rec1965_058.pdf
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  • gravity data with the results of a seismic survey made previously in the same ... surface Tertiary flows), the depth analysis of the anomalies that result from this .... 11th October 1961 and returned to Melbourne on 11th November 1961.



Vajra-type weapons : Mothball central
Look at flat topped large hills with big scree fields .
They would be stealthed , but up close there should be gravitic and magnetic anomalies .
Lots of beta radiation from Fe60 . You will have to dig a bit .
Actually a good place to mothball radioactive nuclear pulse ships .

The data is all there , but in true human tradition it simply got ignored .

Radioactive iron after 5 000 years should still have Fe(60) with halflife  of 2.6x10^6 years .
It is a beta emitter , so use http://www.radpro.com/PANCAKE.pdf

Find your own spaceship in the Surat Basin .
And good luck  to all .

8.Footage from a Soviet documentary about the bomb is featured in Trinity and Beyond: ... "Moscow's Biggest Bomb: the 50-Megaton Test of October 1961" (PDF).

9. Which continent would they target ?
 Mu ? Lemuria ? Atlantis ?  Your beach house ?
Isn’t ancient history fun ?
Especially if you die frequently .

10 . As they say at Reincarnation Central :
Amnesia costs extra .
Salvation is free . But you have to pay for everything else .

And per gram too .

11.Exchange rate between here and the here-after .
Can you take at least some percentage with you ?
Well , we have exchange rates between virtual worlds like Second Life , War games  etc.
If this locale is seen as a virtual world , then there is no reason why there should not be an exchange rate .
The parameters would have to be by mutual consent .
Something like Bitcoin springs to mind .

12 GodCoin
Call it a GodCoin .
Valid in this life and after death .
Charon accepts only GodCoins for a return trip .
Have Fun !
Andre

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Appendix A




Here are some of the ways the already reeling US retail economy is now being pummeled as a result of the collapse of this weakest chokepoint in the US supply-chain infrastructure.
  • Small business owners are unable to get goods on the shelf in time for long-planned merchandising programmes. Some are paying high premiums for work-arounds such as airfreight.
  • Manufacturers are at risk of closing down assembly lines because they don't receive parts shipments.
  • California's Central Valley growers can't get perishable agricultural exports through the marine terminals quickly and on to ships for delivery to overseas markets.
  • Thousands of independent harbour truckers are doing less business — and receiving less pay — because they're often stranded in long lines awaiting cargo.  Businesses are beginning to furlough workers because their operations are stymied by cargo delays.
  • Surcharges, two week delays reported: congestion in the West Coast ports is leading to longer import lead times (up to two week delays) and increased surcharges from shippers, agents, and truckers.
  • According to Credit Suisse, surcharges for transport and east coast delivery are at all-time high levels (adding 75-100% to cost of shipping in some cases.)
    • K line, the sixteenth largest container shipping company in the world has added $800 congestion surcharges in ports where slowdowns are occurring.
    • Truckers in Long Beach and Lost Angeles have recently added $50/hour to $100/hour surcharges for shipments originating from these ports.  The average cost for Asia-U.S. shipping a twenty-foot container is approximately $750.
  • Rerouting to east coast ports is time-consuming and expensive: some companies have diverted shipments to the east coast to avoid congestion on the west coast, incurring additional surcharges on top of the already more expensive and time consuming journey to Atlantic ports.
Bottom line: estimated recovery is 1 week for each day the ports are closed, and the National Reta
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NeoViking Private Navies .

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NeoViking Private Navies


Andre Willers
17 Feb 2015
Synopsis :
As social collapse accelerates , private navies are appearing . Soon to morph into NeoVikings as support structures evaporate .
 
Discussion :
1.The inability of national navies to ensure the safety of their maritime merchants have led to the re-establishment of mercenary marines , private navies and mercenary naval drones .
See
Private Navies:







Mercenary Marines :

Drones :






Forget private airforces . Drones will rule the skies .
Expect major innovations in aerial drones like what happened with the Viking Longship .(See Below)

Super-cavitating drones .
The VA-111 Shkval (from Russian: шквал — squall) torpedo and its descendants are supercavitating torpedoes developed by the Soviet Union. They are capable of speeds in excess of 200 knots (370 km/h).[1]
It’s noisy , but a drone or drone launch can make it survivable .
Expect this technology to become commonplace and cheap .







Nukes :
Tactical nukes will be widely available as contractors or professional soldiers are no longer paid due to financial collapse .
 
2.As social collapse continues , the progression is mercenaries , privateers , pirates , NeoVikings .
This happened with the collapse of the Bronze Age civilization , Western Roman empire , various Chinese dynasties , Spanish Empire , French Empire , American empire , etc .

3. Elite Rats .
The sociopaths who end up as oligarchs in a collapsing society sees the collapse coming and scuttles for bolt-holes  , storing their loot in handy , concentrated form . Ideal for NeoVikings .
They will be hunted mercilessly .
They will be perceived as having more than half the wealth of the planet , and also the source of the collapse .
Island strongholds are usually the first to fall to NeoViking fleets . Even places like Fort Knox won’t be secure .  A few tactical nukes will take out any guarding forces , leaving the gold in the vaults intact . Same for New York .
Which is why most of this gold has already been moved .

4.An interesting bolt-hole that worked for a while : Ireland with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire .
Rich Romans , mostly from North Africa , fled to Ireland .
The influx of wealth stimulated the Irish Renaissance .
They survived fairly well until the Vikings because of the vertically integrated company structure of the monasteries .
And the oligarchs ended up as abbots . Delicious irony .
“Irish Christianity gradually developed a monastic system similar in style to the rural society at the time. Abbots, and not bishops, held the power and, eventually, the wealth.
The monasteries soon became indistinguishable from Irish secular society. They were family-owned and the abbots were usually married men who passed the monastery along to the next generation. They were also major centers of scholarship and learning. This was the great age of the independent Irish church. As Roman power declined and Europe fell prey to invading barbarians, Irish monks traveled abroad and brought the light of Christianity to the Dark Ages. They were in a unique position to do so because in Ireland, unlike Europe, scholarship flourished during this time. St. Colmcille, also known as Columba, founded a monastery on the island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland and his mission converted the northern part of Britain. St. Columbanus left Ireland to establish numerous monasteries on the European continent and traveled as far as Bobbio, in Italy, where he died in 615. His monastery at Luxeuil is said to have spawned about 100 other monasteries in the region. Columbanus and his fellow Irish monks are credited with playing a major role in the re-conversion of Europe to Christianity in the Dark Ages.”
 
5. How did the Vikings find them ?
Because they knew they were there .
The Norse learned and perfected clinker riverboat building by building riverboats under contract from the Batavians (present Netherlands) . (The Netherlands is not known for it’s timber , but they were excellent shipwrights and canal builders . They built Caesar’s invasion fleets)
These boats were ideal for river of or canal use and is still used for this purpose .
The Romans were the end-users. Riverboats were the main mass bulk carriers in the Roman Empire .
With the demise of the Western Roman Empire , this market disappeared .
The Irish were known as old Roman customers , and they also obligingly advertised their presence by missionaries .
Peaceful but desperate boatwrights morphed into Vikings  and the riverboat morphed into the Viking Longship .
Still essentially a riverboat . Note how the Vikings navigated the rivers of Europe and Russia .
The results are well known .






A Thames river clinker boat . A Viking would have felt right at home .

6. Viking is derived from the Old Norse “vic” , meaning a creek or small river .
“He’s gone a-viking” would then mean he sailed off in a riverboat , usually to raid or trade .
The Latin “Viccingi” seems to indicate the same .

Times rapidly coming to a civilization near you .
Andre

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NeoViking Swiss Bank Raids.

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NeoViking Swiss Bank Raids.


Andre Willers
19 Feb 2015
Synopsis :
Swiss banks haven’t been raided for a long time . Banks on or near lakes are no longer secure  from NeoVikings .
 
Discussion :
As states break down , they cannot pay their special units anymore .
These go freelance . See Appendix A

2.Contingency plans :
If the UK Special forces had contingency plans to get access to Beirut banking vaults ,
then present day US and EU forces have the same concerning Swiss vaults .
 
3.Rogue units use these plans and resources to use Force Majeure to smash their way into Swiss vaults , hold them militarily while they strip them , and get the loot out using swarm drones ,both aerial and submarine .

4.The banks rely too much on national defence forces to prevent , deter and catch .
When states break down , these same forces join the raiders .
The Swiss banks have broken the Oath of Rutli .
They aid the burners of barns .
The Armed Forces are starting to look out for their personal interests .
 

6.A delicious filip :
I wonder which state will first issue a Letter of Marque to traffic on the Swiss Lakes ?
Or privateer hovercraft (See appendix B) .

ISIS , of course , but after Grexit probably Greece , Spain , Italy ,Ukraine , etc .
You see what I mean by things falling apart ?
And Switzerland is Bankster Central .
Something like the Spanish Main in the 16thcentury . Fair game .

“Grasping all , they lose all”

Andre

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Appendix A
Most believable explanation , mostly because not a trace of the loot was ever found . The standard explanation is the PLO , but they leak like a sieve .
“In 1976, a crack team blasted its way into Beirut's British Bank of The Middle East and stole gold bars worth £100 million at today's prices; the world's biggest bank heist. With the robbers never found, who was responsible? “
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Appendix B
How to use hovercraft in Tibet and Switzerland .
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Stable Transuranic Elements.

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Stable Transuranic Elements


Andre Willers
21 Feb 2015
Synopsis :
Stable Transuranic elements start with Element 194 . Mineable concentrations on Luna and Mars .
Discussion :
1.The usual Physics kludge of assumptions and approximations is used .

“In nuclear physics, the semi-empirical mass formula (SEMF) (sometimes also called Weizsäcker's formula, or the Bethe-Weizsäcker formula, or the Bethe-Weizsäcker mass formula to distinguish it from the Bethe–Weizsäcker process) is used to approximate the mass and various other properties of an atomic nucleus from its number of protons and neutrons. As the name suggests, it is based partly on theory and partly on empirical measurements. The theory is based on the liquid drop model proposed by George Gamow, which can account for most of the terms in the formula and gives rough estimates for the values of the coefficients. It was first formulated in 1935 by German physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, and although refinements have been made to the coefficients over the years, the structure of the formula remains the same today.[1][2]

The SEMF gives a good approximation for atomic masses and several other effects, but does not explain the appearance of magic numbers of protons and neutrons, and the extra binding-energy and measure of stability that are associated with these numbers of nucleons.”

2.We derive as a first approximation
Z=N/(1+k*N^(2/3))
Where Z =number of protons , N= number of neutrons , k~0.01539

3.Do a spreadsheet .
Z ,N , diff(1), diff(2) , …, diff(6)
 
4.Pockets of stability would be where diff(n) switches sign between rows .
This happens at diff(6) for this simplified formula .

5.The first pocket of stability is found at
  Z            N
194       340
195       342

Thereafter more regularly :
   Z           N
202       360
203       362
203       364
204      366
205      369
Etc

6.These are hyperexplosives .
Thus unlikely to be found in small , rocky planets .
Fratricidal effects . They have a small basin of stability .

7.Supernovas
These would create these elements , but spread them in clouds .
Sooner or later these would condensate , and gamma-ray bursters would occur as fratricide occurs .

8.Or large nuclear explosions from inside small , rocky planets .

9.Mars :
Mons Olympus et al .
This would indicate that the asteroid belt has an inordinately high percentage of transuranics .
But the screes of the Olympus series of volcanoes on Mars should have useful concentrations of transuranics .

10.Or make them at home .
Very expensive . Cheaper to mine them on Luna

11. The Moon .
Re-examine that old moon rock of yours for transuranics . Nobody looked before .
Note the high density , which is Fe at the bottom of the nucleonic packing curve masking higher elements .

12. Earth ?
Magma plumes . At the bottom lies a high density transuranic body slowly decaying .
Look at Hawaii , Reunion island ,   
12.1 Siberian traps .
Consider that humans got it 180 degrees reversed as usual .
The explosion came from inside the planet , from the same source of transuranics that created the Siberian traps .
The bolide was then ejecta .
In any case , the energy release (~30 Mt) was too high for an atmospheric bolide .
So , there should be a smoking gun . And there is :




  The exit crater , heavy with transuranics and poisonous to terrestrial life .
Do not go near without full hazmat gear and radionics gear into the gamma range .

Transuranically yours

Andre

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Andre Willers
24 Feb 2015
Synopsis:
Commercial nuclear fusion power has been achieved . It is being eased into the world economy by DARPA .
 
Discussion :
COMPACT FUSION IN THE NEWS
Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details - Aviation Week & Space Technology

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The key to the Skunk Works system is their tube-like design, which allows them to bypass one of the limitations of classic fusion reactor designs, which are very limited in the amount of plasma they can hold, which makes them huge in size—like the gigantic International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. According to McGuire:
[The traditional tokamak designes] can only hold so much plasma, and we call that the beta limit. [Their plasma ratio is] 5% or so of the confining pressure. [...] We should be able to go to 100% or beyond.
This architecture allows it to be 10 times smaller at the same power output of something like the ITER, which is expected to generate 500 MW in the 2020s. This is crucial for the use of fusion in all kind of applications, not only in giant, expensive power plants.
Skunk Works is convinced that their system—which will be the size of a jet engine—will be able to power everything, from spaceships to airplanes to vessels—and of course scale up to a much larger size. At the size of the ITER, it will be able to produce 10 times more energy, McGuire claims:
It's one of the reasons we think it is feasible for development and future economics. Ten times smaller is the key. But on the physics side, it still has to work, and one of the reasons we think our physics will work is that we've been able to make an inherently stable configuration. In our case, it is always in balance. So if you have less pressure, the plasma will be smaller and will always sit in this magnetic well.
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2.The Brent Oil price .
The Lockheed announcement was made in Oct 2014 , but seems to have leaked 3 months before when they got a working prototype .
Serious oil producers (Saudi Arabia) believed it .
This is a case of the devil takes the hindmost .
The first out does the best .
The elites are exiting oil .



Year
Jan
Feb
Mar
 Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
2014
108.12
108.90
107.48
107.76
109.54
111.80
106.77
101.61
97.09
87.43
79.44
62.34

3.Lockheed Skunk works .
Believable . Not a mickey-mouse outfit .
It has a deserved reputation for cutting edge , rapid technological development and production .
SR-71 , F117 Stealth , etc .
Powered by DARPA .

4. The oil price was leveraged up by greed.
DARPA is trying to minimize the disruption of fusion power by phasing it in .
They could probably deliver trailer-sized 100 MW fusion plants within a month .
Rendering utilities stocks and bonds worthless .
You would have to pay somebody to cart that messy black oil away .

But there are too many oligarchs and politicians with fingers in the pie .
The news leaked and oil started falling as the elite got out before the thundering herd .
Note how the media oligarchs suppressed the news .

Ripple effects were noticeable by Jan 2015

5.Energy cost will go to zero as we go deeper into the singularity

6.Space Family Robinson .
This would actually be possible .
Especially since there is the equivalent of gold in the asteroid belts : transuranics.

Get off planet !
Andre .
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Andre Willers
24 Feb 2015
Synopsis :
Magma plume shifts corresponding the rapid shift of magnetic poles are blowing holes in the planet from the inside .Better hope that a Hapgood  poleshift is fiction . What can be done . Else human extinction .Last Chance Saloon .

Discussion:
1.The Earth’s core has an inner core of stable transuranics .
“researchers have found that the Earth's inner core has an inner core of its own,
 
2. Some are highly magnetic , some are not .
This causes friction in the core currents because of the solar magnetic flux .
Internal heat from decay of transuranics (stable , but with limited halflife)
Currents ensue , generating Earth’s magnetic field .
These currents move in a chaotic fashion . When they do , there are strong feedback elements as friction heat destabilizes some transuranics at the leading edge of friction , resulting in ever accelerating movement of the magnetic poles . Also orthogonal splitting of poles .
 
3.Magnetic pole movement .
Accellerating north magnetic pole movement in a spinward direction .(East)

New evidence for extraordinarily rapid change of the geomagnetic field during a reversal
R. S. COE*, M. PRÉVOT & P. CAMPS
*Earth Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Laboratoire de Géophysique et Tectonique, Université de Montpellier 2, URA CNRS 1760, 34095 Montpellier Cédex 05, France
Palaeomagnetic results from lava flows recording a geomagnetic polarity reversal at Steens Mountain, Oregon suggest the occurrence of brief episodes of astonishingly rapid field change of six degrees per day. The evidence is large, systematic variations in the direction of remanent magnetization as a function of the temperature of thermal demagnetization and of vertical position within a single flow, which are most simply explained by the hypothesis that the field was changing direction as the flow cooled.
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4. Why craters ?
There are two types of craters :
4.1 Heat plumes .
Gas explosions
Especially in areas with deep permafrost .
See



 
4.2 Transuranic ejecta
This is the exit crater of the Tunguska bolide .




5.Yellowstone and all that .
All those old volcanoes will trigger .

6.Poleshift .
Can this really happen ?
The energy requirements are rather large .
We have to look at core energy release .
If heat is enough to expand core , this will propagate through the layers slightly expanding the surface . This will cause an anti-spinward relative motion to the oceans and continental plates .
Continental drift will be seen as faster .
The movement of Earth's major continental tectonic plates is speeding up, suggests a new study.
The study, presented at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Sacramento California, challenges the idea that the rate of plate movement remains stable.
"This is quite mind boggling," says Professor Kent Condie of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, who led the study.
"It's different from what most people thought because Earth is cooling and everybody assumed plate movements would slow down."

Ocean sloshes (tides , storms) on spinward (east) coasts will be larger and growing larger .
The so-called poleshift is but a minor correction , but enough to wipe out civilization .
This is overdone . The shift is bit a few hundred meters . But enough for hundred meter high tsunami’s .


7.What can be done ?
A spot of geoengineering is called for .
Basically , inject a small , but critical amount of transuranics into the Earth’s inner core .
Enough to slow down the magnetic pole shift  and , preferably , the energy release .
(a dampener : any number will do . Most surviving Transuranics will  be dampeners compounds )

8. These will only be found in the Asteroid Belt  in time to do any good .
Humans still can do it .
For Orion pulse nuclear propulsion
For small fusion plants .

But I doubt it .

They would rather be consistent than right .
Then extinct .
9. Last Chance Saloon
The Oligarch addressing his minions .



10. When ?
Nobody cares .
A species that is not interested in it’s own survival deserves extinction .

Carpe that diem .
Andre
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Andre Willers
25 Feb 2015
Synopsis :
Core transuranic sudden increase in energy release percolates into magma gases . This causes planetary surface to bloat by about 4% . Sinkholes appear in unstable surfaces . Expect flat volcanoes like Yellowstone to activate as cap is weakened .

Discussion :
1.See

2.The planetary inner core is made up of transuranics  , which for some unknown reason is releasing more energy .
Transuranics are superexplosives  .
A 10 kelvin increase in the magma gases will lead to a (using PV=nRT)
deltaArea = 10/1000 * 4/3*p= 0.04188
It means that the Earth’s surface area stretches by 4%

3.What does it mean ?
Finely fitted surfaces like pavements become unstable .
Anything not on bedrock has a 2% probability of swallowing you .
And it will get worse as magnetic pole movement accelerates .

In a  50 m stretch  you have a 2% probability of a sinkhole  .

See  

Sinkhole opens up beneath South Korean pedestrians

24 February 2015 Last updated at 12:49 GMT
Local bus CCTV has caught the moment a sinkhole opened up in a pavement beneath two South Korean pedestrians.
Emergency workers rescued the man and woman, who were then taken to a nearby hospital in Seoul with minor injuries.
City officials and the Korean Geotec









4. Paranoids delight .
Not only are the bankers , politicians , religious nuts out to get you , but now you stand a 2% chance of being swallowed up by the Earth . Well , until the mega-tsunami’s hit .

5. Tread carefully .
Andre

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Arithmetical Incompleteness .

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Andre Willers
2 Mar 2015
Synopsis :
Proof that the Arithmetical System is incomplete .

Discussion :
1.As expected , it occurs in counting factors .
2.Let A be a number with factors.
3.Then A =a(1)^b(1)  * a(2)^b(2) … a(n)^b(n) , where a,b,n are integers
4. M= b(1)+ (b2) + …(b(n) , where M>=n
5. The Trick :
6.Clump 2 factors  , then 3 then to M .
The number of ways to write it is 2^M = mC0+mC1+mC2 +…mCm
Where mCr= M!/(r!*(M-r)!)
7.But the number of ways to write it is also
8. Therefore ,
2^M = M^n
9. If M is odd  , this leads to a contradiction .
10. Thus, The Standard Arithmetical System is incomplete .
11. Note the correlation with Mersenne primes .
12. See

To be expected from Godel .


Andre
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Singularity within five years

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Revolutionary 3-D printing technology uses light and oxygen to synthesize materials from a pool of liquid -- ScienceDaily


Hi,
A major paradigm shift in mass production speeds , costs , accuracy and novel applications .

Grey Goo becomes a possibility .

This tech Clip uses light and oxygen.
Note the light controls under direct nerve control used presently in mind-computer interfaces and switching of gene on-off controls .

The 3D printing of an organism clone should be able to be done in a matter of hours .
The latest time estimate for a brain transplant is now 2 years .

As well as increasing computing power of person by simply adding more cells .

Struldbugs rule , ok.

Singularity is now at most 5 years in future .

Regards

Andre

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Revolutionary 3-D printing technology uses light and oxygen to synthesize materials from a pool of liquid

New 3-D technology uses light and oxygen to fuse objects allowing for very quick accurate 3-D printing.
Credit: Screen shot from provided video, courtesy of Carbon3D Inc.
A 3D printing technology developed by Silicon Valley startup, Carbon3D Inc., enables objects to rise from a liquid media continuously rather than being built layer by layer as they have been for the past 25 years, representing a fundamentally new approach to 3D printing. The technology, to appear as the cover article in the March 20 print issue of Science, allows ready-to-use products to be made 25 to 100 times faster than other methods and creates previously unachievable geometries that open opportunities for innovation not only in health care and medicine, but also in other major industries such as automotive and aviation.

Related Articles


Joseph M. DeSimone, professor of chemistry at UNC-Chapel Hill and of chemical engineering at N.C. State, is currently CEO of Carbon3D where he co-invented the method with colleagues Alex Ermoshkin, chief technology officer at Carbon 3D and Edward T. Samulski, also professor of chemistry at UNC. Currently on sabbatical from the University, DeSimone has focused on bringing the technology to market, while also creating new opportunities for graduate students to use the technique for research in materials science and drug delivery at UNC and NCSU.
The technology, called CLIP -- for Continuous Liquid Interface Production -- manipulates light and oxygen to fuse objects in liquid media, creating the first 3D printing process that uses tunable photochemistry instead of the layer-by-layer approach that has defined the technology for decades. It works by projecting beams of light through an oxygen-permeable window into a liquid resin. Working in tandem, light and oxygen control the solidification of the resin, creating commercially viable objects that can have feature sizes below 20 microns, or less than one-quarter of the width of a piece of paper.
"By rethinking the whole approach to 3D printing, and the chemistry and physics behind the process, we have developed a new technology that can create parts radically faster than traditional technologies by essentially 'growing' them in a pool of liquid," said DeSimone, who revealed the technology at a TED talk on March 16 in the opening session of the conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Through a sponsored research agreement between UNC-Chapel Hill and Carbon 3D, the team is currently pursuing advances to the technology, as well as new materials that are compatible with it. CLIP enables a very wide range of material to be used to make 3D parts with novel properties, including elastomers, silicones, nylon-like materials, ceramics and biodegradable materials. The technique itself provides a blueprint for synthesizing novel materials that can further research in materials science.
Rima Janusziewicz and Ashley R. Johnson, graduate students in DeSimone's academic lab, are co-authors on the paper and are working on novel applications in drug delivery and other areas.
"In addition to using new materials, CLIP can allow us to make stronger objects with unique geometries that other techniques cannot achieve, such as cardiac stents personally tailored to meet the needs of a specific patient," said DeSimone. "Since CLIP facilitates 3D polymeric object fabrication in a matter of minutes instead of hours or days, it would not be impossible within coming years to enable personalized coronary stents, dental implants or prosthetics to be 3D printed on-demand in a medical setting."
CLIP's debut coincides with the United Nation designating 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies, which recognizes important anniversaries of scientific advances enabled with light.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpH1zhUQY0c

Story Source:
The above story is based on materials provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The original article was written by Thania Benios, Office of Communications and Public Affairs; and Crista Farrell, Research Group of Prof. Joseph DeSimone, Department of Chemistry and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.

Journal Reference:
  1. J. R. Tumbleston, D. Shirvanyants, N. Ermoshkin, R. Janusziewicz, A. R. Johnson, D. Kelly, K. Chen, R. Pinschmidt, J. P. Rolland, A. Ermoshkin, E. T. Samulski, J. M. DeSimone. Continuous liquid interface production of 3D objectsScience, 2015; DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa2397

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Andre Willers
26 Mar 2015
Synopsis :
A New Paradigm in 3D continuous, fast printing enables intelligence expansion in a positive feedback armsrace .

Discussion :
1.Braincells transplant within 2 years  : http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/290127.php
2.Force grown clones : see Appendix A and Appendix C
3.Integration of cloned 3 D printed braincells : already done .

4.Psychological integration : blueprint and therapeutic experience exists : the brain transformation at human puberty .
Implanting extra brain cell centers will be an equivalent . SuperTeachers will be needed .

5.See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/10/prodigies-update-ii.htmlon natural IQ resting ledges calculated ab-initio .
There are hints of groups of very smart people clustered around these ledges that might give sound advice if they can be coaxed out of hiding . Unfortunately , that is unlikely . They saw what happened to previous groups of self proclaimed supermen :
Spartans(exterminated) , Jews(persecuted , nearly exterminated) , Nazis (exterminated) , Tutsi’s(nearly exterminated) , Albigensians(exterminated) , etc ,etc , etc .


7.Does increasing smartness increase the mass of the soul ?
From complexity , it seems that it does .
A runaway intelligence driven Singularity will change the local space-time structures very quickly .Norms would probably not survive it unprotected .

8.Estimate of the size of the human soul (80 t0 400 meters) . A bit of a surprize .

9.Smart Grey Goo
At a sufficiently high intelligence , the lower intelligence is simply regarded as raw material .
For example , humans-bacteria , humans-worms , etc . What to the norm human appears as Grey Goo , is simply healthy growing computronium .

10.Internally controllable nanofactories .
These are being made now .
All you need is one prototype that can replicate itself , and it’s Smart Grey Goo wherever you look .
Optogenetic sensors emit light in response to neuronal signals, such as synaptic impulses or action potentials. These sensor proteins make activity visible. Optogenetic actuators absorb light and cause changes in neuronal signals, such as ionic currents. These acutuator proteins make activity controllable.
This will make the body completely controllable from the inside or the outside . The terms will become meaningless .
A human might decide to keep some organs in gaseous form .
A number of extra , specially created epidermis layers as protection and distant warning systems are probably already in the military pipeline . Armour that concentrates only at the impact point of the bullet has already been patented
Not to mention fashion . Manufacture new styles as you walk .
Why walk ? You could slither , ooze , hop , even roll .

11.Created memories , beliefs and emotions .
See Appendix C below .
The 5 000% increase in effectiveness of breaching the BloodBrainBarrier , as well as other cell walls will save many lives .
Eg a antirabies patch kept in an emergency kit ,  can be slapped on after a suspected bite and still have 90%+ cure probability.
Oxytocin delivery can be made precise and in large doses inside the BBB .
Why bother with insulin receptors?  Make your own receptor site .Use Sodium Formate (E-237)  more commonly used as a food preservative.
The same for addictions involving decrease in number of receptors .
  
11.1 Drawbacks
False memories , beliefs , desires , emotions , compulsions , etc can be induced by aerosol , touch , patch .
A real , working love-perfume can be made . Oxytocin +Sodium Formate and a bit of tinkering .
Not to speak of politicians , con artists , teenagers , criminals , etc .

11.2 This will necessitate an armsrace .
The resultant entity will not be regarded as human by Human(Norm)
Being at ground zero of a megaton explosion (10^15 J) will just add to the charge in his batteries .
The end of Human(norm) except for zoos and control groups by 2020 AD at the latest .

About time .
The end of the obscene Anthropocene .
Enter the Novocene . Where every pattern is new because it is unique .
Have fun !
Andre

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Appendix BB
Singularity within five years
Andre Willers
24 mar 2015


Revolutionary 3-D printing technology uses light and oxygen to synthesize materials from a pool of liquid – ScienceDaily
See Appendix A


Hi,
A major paradigm shift in mass production speeds , costs , accuracy and novel applications .


Grey Goo becomes a possibility .


This tech Clip uses light and oxygen.
Note the light controls under direct nerve control used presently in mind-computer interfaces and switching of gene on-off controls .


The 3D printing of an organism clone should be able to be done in a matter of hours .
The latest time estimate for a brain transplant is now 2 years .


As well as increasing computing power of person by simply adding more cells .


Struldbugs rule , ok.


Singularity is now at most 5 years in future .


Regards


Andre


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Appendix A
Revolutionary 3-D printing technology uses light and oxygen to synthesize materials from a pool of liquid

New 3-D technology uses light and oxygen to fuse objects allowing for very quick accurate 3-D printing.
Credit: Screen shot from provided video, courtesy of Carbon3D Inc.
A 3D printing technology developed by Silicon Valley startup, Carbon3D Inc., enables objects to rise from a liquid media continuously rather than being built layer by layer as they have been for the past 25 years, representing a fundamentally new approach to 3D printing. The technology, to appear as the cover article in the March 20 print issue of Science, allows ready-to-use products to be made 25 to 100 times faster than other methods and creates previously unachievable geometries that open opportunities for innovation not only in health care and medicine, but also in other major industries such as automotive and aviation.
Related Articles

Joseph M. DeSimone, professor of chemistry at UNC-Chapel Hill and of chemical engineering at N.C. State, is currently CEO of Carbon3D where he co-invented the method with colleagues Alex Ermoshkin, chief technology officer at Carbon 3D and Edward T. Samulski, also professor of chemistry at UNC. Currently on sabbatical from the University, DeSimone has focused on bringing the technology to market, while also creating new opportunities for graduate students to use the technique for research in materials science and drug delivery at UNC and NCSU.
The technology, called CLIP -- for Continuous Liquid Interface Production -- manipulates light and oxygen to fuse objects in liquid media, creating the first 3D printing process that uses tunable photochemistry instead of the layer-by-layer approach that has defined the technology for decades. It works by projecting beams of light through an oxygen-permeable window into a liquid resin. Working in tandem, light and oxygen control the solidification of the resin, creating commercially viable objects that can have feature sizes below 20 microns, or less than one-quarter of the width of a piece of paper.
"By rethinking the whole approach to 3D printing, and the chemistry and physics behind the process, we have developed a new technology that can create parts radically faster than traditional technologies by essentially 'growing' them in a pool of liquid," said DeSimone, who revealed the technology at a TED talk on March 16 in the opening session of the conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Through a sponsored research agreement between UNC-Chapel Hill and Carbon 3D, the team is currently pursuing advances to the technology, as well as new materials that are compatible with it. CLIP enables a very wide range of material to be used to make 3D parts with novel properties, including elastomers, silicones, nylon-like materials, ceramics and biodegradable materials. The technique itself provides a blueprint for synthesizing novel materials that can further research in materials science.
Rima Janusziewicz and Ashley R. Johnson, graduate students in DeSimone's academic lab, are co-authors on the paper and are working on novel applications in drug delivery and other areas.
"In addition to using new materials, CLIP can allow us to make stronger objects with unique geometries that other techniques cannot achieve, such as cardiac stents personally tailored to meet the needs of a specific patient," said DeSimone. "Since CLIP facilitates 3D polymeric object fabrication in a matter of minutes instead of hours or days, it would not be impossible within coming years to enable personalized coronary stents, dental implants or prosthetics to be 3D printed on-demand in a medical setting."
CLIP's debut coincides with the United Nation designating 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies, which recognizes important anniversaries of scientific advances enabled with light.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpH1zhUQY0c

Story Source:
The above story is based on materials provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The original article was written by Thania Benios, Office of Communications and Public Affairs; and Crista Farrell, Research Group of Prof. Joseph DeSimone, Department of Chemistry and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.

Journal Reference:
1.             J. R. Tumbleston, D. Shirvanyants, N. Ermoshkin, R. Janusziewicz, A. R. Johnson, D. Kelly, K. Chen, R. Pinschmidt, J. P. Rolland, A. Ermoshkin, E. T. Samulski, J. M. DeSimone. Continuous liquid interface production of 3D objectsScience, 2015; DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa2397
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Appendix C
Speeding up BloodBrainBarrier penetration (or any cell barrier) by a factor of 50 (5 000%) . Already done .

Stinging nettle chemical improves cancer drug
Researchers at the University of Warwick found that when the chemical, Sodium Formate, is used in combination with a metal-based cancer treatment it can greatly increase its ability to shut down cancer cells.
Developed by Warwick's Department of Chemistry, the drug, a compound of the metal ruthenium called JS07, is capable of exploiting a cancer cell's natural weaknesses and disrupts its energy generation mechanism.
Laboratory tests on ovarian cancer cells have shown that when used in combination with Sodium Formate JS07 is 50 times more effective than when acting alone.
Derived from formic acid which is commonly found in a number of natural organisms including nettles and ants, Sodium Formate (E-237) is more commonly used as a food preservative. The Warwick researchers developed a novel method for binding Sodium Formate with JS07 to form a more potent form of the drug.
The researchers subsequently found that the potent form of JS07 acts as a catalyst when it interacts with a cancer cell's energy-generating mechanism. This interaction disrupts the mechanism, causing the cell's vital processes to cease functioning and for the cell to shut down.
Lead-researcher Professor Peter Sadler explains:
"Cancer cells require a complex balance of processes to survive. When this balance is disrupted the cell is unable to function due to a range of process failures and eventually shuts down. The potent form of JS07 has proven to be very successful when tested on ovarian cancer cells."
The combination of Sodium Formate and JS07 provides a number of potential benefits to cancer patients, including a reduction in the negative side-effects compared with other traditional cancer treatments:
"By itself, JS07 is capable of shutting down cancer cells but when used in combination with Sodium Formate this ability is significantly increased. As a result, lower doses would be required to target cancer cells -- reducing both the drug's toxicity and potential side-effects.," says Professor Sadler.
A further benefit is that once the potent form of JS07 has interacted with a cell's energy generation mechanism the remaining non-potent JS07 molecules can then be reused in combination with a fresh supply of Sodium Formate.
"When the potent form of JS07 interacts with a cell's energy generation mechanism, the Sodium Formate is used up in the process, but the JS07 itself is still viable to be used again. When it comes into contact with fresh supply of Sodium Formate it can again become potent, making this an efficient potential treatment."
The research could also lead to substantial improvements in cancer survival rates. Co-researcher Dr Romero-Canelon says:
"Current statistics indicate that one in every three people will develop some kind of cancer during their life time, moreover approximately one woman dies of ovarian cancer every two hours in the UK according to Cancer Research UK. It is clear that a new generation of drugs is necessary to save more lives and our research points to a highly effective way of defeating cancerous cells"
The research, Transfer hydrogenation catalysis in cells as a new approach to anticancer drug design, is published by Nature Communications.
·  Joan J. Soldevila-Barreda, Isolda Romero-Canelón, Abraha Habtemariam & Peter J. Sadler. Transfer hydrogenation catalysis in cells as a new approach to anticancer drug designNature Communications, March 2015 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7582

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War seems more and more likely . A replay of 1914 
See
http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/05/belarus-and-european-instability.html

Nato troops and heavy armament (nuke level) are pouring into Baltics .
Poor Belarus is smack in the middle .




WW 2.75 
Good tank country. No mor e fooling around with asymmetric warfare .
The threat is a pincer to St Petersburg  (a-la-Crimean War) the Oblique Offensive .

Russia is of course strengthening Belarus , and weakening EU logistics by cutting of the gas .
This advantage will disappear by summer , so expect a pre-emptive  attack on Poland to pressurise Germany.

When? Expect a decapitation strike at Davos . Now,actually . Probably false flagged as ISIS.
Then good old fashioned Blitzkrieg in Europe.

And if you don't toe the line , you freeze .
The Gas Empire as a variant of Water Empires .

The good Swiss got wind of this , and good global citizens that they are , immediately cut their losses (about $60bn) and decoupled from the Euro (soon to be defunct)

"Don't send your daughter to Davos , Mrs Jones" 

Regards
Andre

On 15 Jan 2015, at 7:13 PM, "andre willers" wrote:
Hi,
This probably means war. Or some very hardboiled bargaining.
But note US influx of elite frontline forces in the Baltic 

Germany and France will freeze.
No wonder the canny Swiss untangled the Swiss Frank from the Euro.

Interesting times
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Breaking news: Russia will completely stop the delivery of gaz through the Ukraine


First, I was a little skeptical. Then more and more sources confirmed what seems to be a fact: Russia will completely stop the delivery of gaz through the Ukraine and all Russian gaz will now flow through Turkey (see Bloomberg and LifeNews). Not only that, but the Russians have told the Europeans that if they want Russian gaz, they will have to build their own pipeline to Turkey at pay for it all.



The Europeans appear to be shell-shocked. Maros Sefcovic, the European Commission’s vice president for energy union, declared that this decision made "no economic sense".  As if the nonstop economic and political warfare waged by the EU against Russia did make any sense!

I can image the faces of the Eurobureaucrats when Alexei Miller, the head of Gazprom, told them that "now it is up to them to put in place the necessary infrastructure starting from the Turkish-Greek border” while the Russian Energy Minister Novak added that "the decision has been made, we are diversifying and eliminating the risks of unreliable countries that caused problems in past years, including for European consumers.” 

In other words, the EU just lost it all and so did the Ukraine.  Keep in mind that the EU has no other options then to purchase the Russian gas from Turkey while Russia can simply do without gaz exports to Europe because China has already signed a contract covering the exact same amount of gaz and possibly much more. 

Let's see now how the infinitely corrupt, arrogant, criminally irresponsible European elites will cope with an agriculture choking in useless surplus stocks, a society waging ideological war on 1.6 billion Muslims, and now with no energy.

The always irreplaceable Poles have come up with a brilliant strategy it appears: they will "not really" invite Putin to the commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz even though Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet military.  I am sure that Putin will be both impressed and heartbroken.

Nowadays every time I hear any news out of Europe, I always think that Victoria Nuland's famous "f**k the EU" and how Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, called his colleagues the "great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies". I share exactly the same sentiments: let them "Charlies" now freeze in their own pathetic mediocrity.

The Saker


Regards
Andre

Workable AntiGravity Drive .

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Lightspeed and AntiGravity .


Andre Willers
18 Jan 2015
In honour of James Blish .
Synopsis :
We derive the General AntiGravity equations and indicate some applications .
Discussion :

1.Spindizzy :
Big G http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_constant  can be manipulated , and has a singularity .

The relevant equation is the Locke derivation of the Dirac-Brackett equation :
G = (2*c/b) ^2 * (L/s)^2
Where
G=Gravitational Interaction between particles
c is lightspeed , b~0.25 , s is magnetic moment , L is Angular Momentum .

See Appendices below especially Appendix F .
S can be written as a function of L
Therefore , if the above Dirac-Brackett equation holds , the Big G can be manipulated by spinning the electron .Which we can do at will using laser tweezers or RF .

The Solution (from Wolfram)
S= -1/3(L-1) +- 3(2)^0.5 (  (L-2) +3(3L-2)/(2L^2+3L+1)  ) ^0.5   *(KK/n^3) , where kk is a constant and n is primary quantum number .

Plugging it into G above :
G= (2c/b )^2   *   L^2/= (-1/3(L-1) +- 3(2)^0.5 (  (L-2) +3(3L-2)/(2L^2+3L+1)  ) ^0.5   *(KK/n^3))^2 , where kk is a constant and n is primary quantum number .
G then looks like the picture below this before deviding by a constant (n^6/kk^2)
Where kk=1/2*Z^4*u(0)   /   (4pi)*g(s)*u(B)*a(0)^3)

  U(0) is vacuum permeability =µ0 = 4π×10−7 V·s/(A·m) ≈ 1.2566370614...×10−6 Hm1 or N·A2 or T·m/A or Wb/(A·m)

  g(s) is quantum correction constant = 2.002319304… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyromagnetic_ratio
  u(B) is Bohr magneton 9.740 x 10^-24 J T^-1  (joules per tesla)
 Z =nuclear charge .
a(0) is Bohr radius = 5.2917721092(17)×10−11 m
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2.How G changes with Spin .
This is generally applicable . Just multiply with the applicable constant .
This goes a long way to explain Big Bang inflation , as well as later perceived acceleration of expansion .





There exists a spin for any material that leads to a singularity in Gravitational force .
Tractor and Repulsors can be made .
Metamaterial with the exactly right spin will be like Cavorite : an anti-gravity material , what today is called the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_universe
Notice that G is negative in the above graph for small positive spins .
The singularity on the y axis is better known as charge .
A monopole is then possible (spin increasing to asymptotic axis or decreasing to asymptotic axis) .
Should be easy to make . A chirp RF generator should do the trick .
I would expect anomalies to occur near big phase radar arrays .
And so they do .
ABSTRACT The propagation of ultrashort optical pulses in an AlGaAs waveguide array is studied using frequency-resolved
optical gating measurements. In the nonlinear regime, the measurements show that the pulses at the output of the array evolve toward a set chirp value that is independent of the input chirp. Simulations reproduce theexperimental results. The observations can be described as a fixed-point attractor on a chirp-intensity map.
Yeah , right .
This means that any chirp system tends to a behaviour independent of input . So much for Free Will .
The Universe is full of different frequencies . We can order them in chirp fashion by fiat . But still not get what we want .
In any case  , to find cavorite use Google Earth magnetic  and look for the signature as in Appendix F images .
If you are lucky , you might even snag a monopole . In which case you can name your price . The first one ,in any case .
After that , they will find them in steadily increasing frequency .
If you don’t believe me , check the history of exoplanets .

Example :
KK(1) for one charge  = 6.9252 x 10^46

A quantum condensate made up of n molecules orbiting in a closed circuit (ie a virtual central charge of n at the center due to constraint of material .)
Every particle in the ring is in faster than light contact with every other one because a quantum condensate is entangled .
See Appendix C .
The feedback effects in highly connected networks follow power laws of the form y=ax^p
We need only consider p=mMoles/AvogradoNumber .
To put it another way , you need about (6.952*10^46)^(1/(6.022*10^23)) ~ 1.962 moles of material to show an effect .

The highest temperature superconductor we know about is H2S  at 190 K under pressure .http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0460
That is 34.08088* 1.962 = 66.8 gm of H2S under pressure at 190 K .
 The predicted metallization pressure is 111 GPa, http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/141110/srep06968/full/srep06968.html
This is high . But there are ways around it . Mainly pulse . Explosive pulses at below 190 K can form shaped circular currents that lock in superconducting H2S .
This is not even difficult or expensive .

Ley lines .
More interesting , enstatite in its perovskite-structured polymorph , suitably doped with H2S , can form superconducting channels .
Pressure plus volcanic H2S .
Shades of Ley-lines !
I did not expect this .

Carbon Nanotubes and graphene :
Both can handle 111 GigaPascal pressures .

The poor man’s superconductor :
Carbon nanotubes and irregular graphenes .
Just look around volcanoes .

Prediction of room temperature superconducting material from the earth :
Look around explosive volcanos that are diamond bearing .

In other words , carbon , H2S ,high pressure in the 111 GPa range.
They should be fairly commonplace . A few hours at a place like Cullinan should yield a few grams of room-temperature superconductor .

Why hasn’t it been found before ?
Nobody looked .
Remember buckyballs ? Nobody looked either, If they did , buckyballs and the rest could have been discovered at least 300 years before .

You now should be able to build your own antigravity machine .
But it will be cheaper and easier to go and dig up some pockets of cavorite .
Or make your own , using dug-up cavorite as seeds .
This is possible because of the chirp-chaos attractor as mentioned above .

Ho-Ho-Ho !
Cavorite can breed more cavorite . All you need is the seed .
Happy hunting !
Andre

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Appendix A
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0905/0905.4830.pdf
Two dimensional characterization of space-momentum
entangled photon pairs
Martin Ostermeyer, Dietmar Korn, Dirk Puhlmann
University of Potsdam, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, 14476
Potsdam, Germany

*Corresponding author: oster@uni-potsdam.de
Abstract: Space momentum entangled photon pairs are generated from type II parametric
down conversion in a beta barium borate crystal. The correlations in the positions of
photons in the near field and far field planes with regard to the generating crystal are
observed in both transverse dimensions using scanning fiber probes. The space-momentum
correlation is characterized using a covariance description for a bivariate normal
distribution and tested for non-separability with Mancini’s criterion. The role of higher
order spatial modes to observe spatial entanglement between the two photons is discussed.
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Appendix B

Photons that travel in free space slower than the speed of light
(Submitted on 14 Nov 2014)
That the speed of light in free space is constant is a cornerstone of modern physics. However, light beams have finite transverse size, which leads to a modification of their wavevectors resulting in a change to their phase and group velocities. We study the group velocity of single photons by measuring a change in their arrival time that results from changing the beam's transverse spatial structure. Using time-correlated photon pairs we show a reduction of the group velocity of photons in both a Bessel beam and photons in a focused Gaussian beam. In both cases, the delay is several microns over a propagation distance of the order of 1 m. Our work highlights that, even in free space, the invariance of the speed of light only applies to plane waves. Introducing spatial structure to an optical beam, even for a single photon, reduces the group velocity of the light by a readily measurable amount.
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Appendix C
Bounding the speed of ‘spooky action at a distance’
Juan Yin, Yuan Cao, Hai-Lin Yong, Ji-Gang Ren, Hao Liang, Sheng-Kai Liao, Fei Zhou,
Chang Liu, Yu-Ping Wu, Ge-Sheng Pan, Qiang Zhang, Cheng-Zhi Peng and Jian-Wei Pan1
1Shanghai Branch, National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale,
and Department of Modern Physics,
University of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai 201315, China
Abstract
In the well-known EPR paper, Einstein et al. called the nonlocal correlation in quantum entanglement
as ‘spooky action at a distance’. If the spooky action does exist, what is its speed?
All previous experiments along this direction have locality loopholes and thus can be explained
without having to invoke any ‘spooky action’ at all. Here, we strictly closed the locality loopholes
by observing a 12-hour continuous violation of Bell inequality and concluded that the lower bound
speed of ‘spooky action’ was four orders of magnitude of the speed of light if the Earth’s speed in
any inertial reference frame was less than 10−3
times of the speed of light.
Vsa  bigger than or equal 13800 *c
Where Vsa is speed of Spooky Action
And c is classical plane speed of light in vacuo .



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Appendix D
Newton’s Laws
First law:
When viewed in an inertial reference frame, an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by an external force.[2][3]
Second law:
The vector sum of the forces F on an object is equal to the mass m of that object multiplied by the acceleration vector a of the object: F = ma.
Third law:
When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body.

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Appendix E
Viewing a magnetic dipole as a rotating charged particle brings out the close connection between magnetic moment and angular momentum. Both the magnetic moment and the angular momentum increase with the rate of rotation. The ratio of the two is called the gyromagnetic ratio and is simply the half of the charge-to-mass ratio.[4] [5]
For a spinning charged solid with a uniform charge density to mass density ratio, the gyromagnetic ratio is equal to half the charge-to-mass ratio. This implies that a more massive assembly of charges spinning with the same angular momentum will have a proportionately weaker magnetic moment, compared to its lighter counterpart. Even though atomic particles cannot be accurately described as spinning charge distributions of uniform charge-to-mass ratio, this general trend can be observed in the atomic world, where the intrinsic angular momentum (spin) of each type of particle is a constant: a small half-integer times the reduced Planck constant ħ. This is the basis for defining the magnetic moment units of Bohr magneton (assuming charge-to-mass ratio of the electron) and nuclear magneton (assuming charge-to-mass ratio of the proton).

Mass-to-charge ratio
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Beam of electrons moving in a circle in a Teltron tube, due to the presence of a magnetic field. Purple light is emitted along the electron path, due to the electrons colliding with gas molecules in the bulb. The mass-to-charge ratio of the electron can be measured in this apparatus by comparing the radius of the purple circle, the strength of the magnetic field, and the voltage on the electron gun. The mass and chargecannot be separately measured this way—only their ratio.
The mass-to-charge ratio (m/Q) is a physical quantity that is most widely used in the electrodynamics of charged particles, e.g. in electron optics and ion optics. It appears in the scientific fields of electron microscopycathode ray tubesaccelerator physicsnuclear physicsAuger spectroscopycosmology and mass spectrometry.[1] The importance of the mass-to-charge ratio, according to classical electrodynamics, is that two particles with the same mass-to-charge ratio move in the same path in a vacuum when subjected to the same electric and magnetic fields. Its SI units are kg/C.
Some fields use the charge-to-mass ratio (Q/m) instead, which is the multiplicative inverse of the mass-to-charge ratio. The 2010 CODATA recommended value for an electron is eme = (1.758820088±39)×1011 C/kg.[2]
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Appendix F
Really interesting .
Spin–orbit interaction
In quantum physics, the spin–orbit interaction (also called spin–orbit effect or spin–orbit coupling) is an interaction of a particle's spin with its motion. The first and best known example of this is that spin–orbit interaction causes shifts in an electron's atomic energy levels due to electromagnetic interaction between the electron's spin and the magnetic field generated by the electron's orbit around the nucleus. This is detectable as a splitting of spectral lines. A similar effect, due to the relationship between angular momentum and thestrong nuclear force, occurs for protons and neutrons moving inside the nucleus, leading to a shift in their energy levels in the nucleusshell model. In the field of spintronics, spin–orbit effects for electrons in semiconductors and other materials are explored for technological applications. The spin–orbit interaction is one cause of magnetocrystalline anisotropy.
Total interaction energy[edit]
The total spin–orbit potential in an external electrostatic potential takes the form
The net effect of Thomas precession is the reduction of the Larmor interaction energy by factor 1/2 which came to be known as the Thomas half.
This leads to
Final energy shift[edit]
We can now say
\Delta E = {\beta\over 2}(j(j+1) - l(l+1) -s(s+1))
where
\beta = \beta (n,l) = Z^4{\mu_0\over 4{\pi}}g_\text{s}\mu_\text{B}^2{1\over n^3a_0^3l(l+1/2)(l+1)}


Where n (the "principal quantum number") j (the "total angular momentum quantum number"), L (the "orbital angular momentum quantum number"), s (the "spin quantum number"),

As a wild approximation (since I have no reputation)
Set j = (L+s)/2 . Reminiscent of Heron’s area of the triangle .
We are essentially determining the “height” into an unknown dimension using Heron’s formula . See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron%27s_formula

This gives an extraordinary result .
A mathematical island . The equivalent of a particle
FunctionW  = ((L+s)/2((L+s)/2+1) – L(L+1) – s(s+1))  / (L(L+1/2)(L+1))
Using Wolfram , this functionW looks like this :














Notice the island formed by L the mass spin and s the charge/magnetic effects of spin .
See below for the contour plot . Notice the asymmetry .
So much for String Theory .
This Universe is inherently asymmetrical . Built in at the pi level .
There is charge and energy level separation at every scale .




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Appendix G
See pressures :
24 to 110 GPa
Stability range of enstatite in its perovskite-structured polymorph, possibly the most common mineral inside the Earth[citation needed]
40 GPa
Quantum mechanical electron degeneracy pressure in a block of copper[72]
48 GPa
Detonation pressure of pure CL-20,[73] The most powerful high explosive in mass production.
69 GPa
10,000,000 psi
Highest water jet pressure made in research lab[74]
96 GPa
Pressure at which metallic oxygen forms (960,000 bar)[71]
1011 Pa
100 GPa
130 GPa
> 300 GPa
Pressure attainable with a diamond anvil cell[76]
360 GPa
Pressure inside the core of the Earth (3.64 million bar)[77][78]
1012 Pa
5 TPa
Pressure generated by the National Ignition Facility fusion reactor.
1013 Pa
1014 Pa
540 TPa
Pressure inside an Ivy Mike-like nuclear bomb detonation (5.3 billion bar)[79][80]
1015 Pa
6.5 PPa
Pressure inside a W80 nuclear warhead detonation (64 billion bar)[79][81]
1016 Pa
25 PPa
Pressure inside the core of the Sun (250 billion bar)[82]
57 PPa
Pressure inside a uranium nucleus (8 MeV in a sphere of radius 175 pm)[83]
1029 Pa
2.3×1029 Pa
Pressure inside the core of a white dwarf at the Chandrasekhar limit[84]
1034 Pa
0.3 to16×1034 Pa
Pressure range inside a neutron star[85]
10113 Pa
4.6×10113 Pa
6.7×10109 psi
The Planck pressure (4.63×10108 bar), not reached except shortly after the Big Bang or in a black hole[citation needed



Euro QE by KISS

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Andre Willers
22 Jan 2015
Synopsis:
Dismantling of the Euro to more manageable chunks (UK–Euro model). QE will have negligible economic effect on the EU .
Russia or Turkey will pick up the pieces that break off due to mismanagement .

Discussion :
1.We look at the Euro as an asset backed formal currency , see the effect of QE .
Then we look at the Real Economy , and see the effects there .
Then a quick peek at the future.

KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid .

2.Euro’s as money
31.439 Trillion euros .

3.Debt/GDP
About 90.9 % in 2014
Debt is then 0.909x 31.439= 28.578 Trillion

4.QE
60 Billion Euros per month . An additional 0.72 Trillion euros per annum.
The annual rate of new debt creation = 0.72/28.578 = 0.02519  (~2.5%)

5.This is used to buy bonds , but the QE is not derived from savings , but is fiat money.
This should then be properly classified as a dilution of the currency , not an asset .
Also better known as inflation .
It is no accident that this new debt creation rate of 2.5% is close to the desired inflation rate of 2% .

The idea is to stimulate demand with new loans , that will eventually lead to a mild inflation .

Unfortunately the bank executives can make more money by inflating asset bubbles using the fiat money
than lending to the business enterprises .
The surprising other reason is lack of demand for new capital . See the Economics of Disrespect below for why.

6.Double Whammy :
Owners of shares get richer (income inequality increases) and economic activity slows because of capital starvation , as non-QE money chases the bubbles as well (in the formal sector)

7.Saved by the Economics of Disrespect .
The real economy is about thrice the size of the reported one .
See

8.Real Euro figures:
Euro’s = 31.439 x 3 = 94.317 Tr   (the hidden wealth is in the form of promissory notes and understandings –equivalent to bonds)
Debt remains as 28.578 Tr  (this gives a real debt/GDP ratio of 30%)
The cost of capital is negative , as lots of “illegal” money look for productive homes .
So a bank would find it hard to lend money to a SMME , even if it wanted to.
To make a dent , the QE would have to been at least three times larger .
As it is , the QE will make a few oligarchs a little bit richer , and destroy the Central Banks .

9.Armageddon ?
Only for the house of cards in Brussels.
Without interference, it is doubtful whether the EU will disintegrate .
Unfortunately , they made an enemy of Russia . And Russia is now actively interfering .
Upping the stakes.

It boils down to an old problem : Russia or Turkey .
Russia has been an ally to the West in three major , to-the-hilt-wars (Napoleonic , WW I , WW II))
Turkey (Ottoman Empire) : has never been an ally . Always enemy or neutral .

Expect interference from Turkey
(who is still being blocked from joining the EU . Old memories do not die in that part of the world .)

10.An interesting aside:
All this sequestering of QE money in the Bank-CentralBank loop is an ideal opportunity for currency reform .
Lop off some zeroes without disturbing the real economy .
Like they did with French Francs , Marks , Rubles , etc .
See the psychological effect.
New ruble (1 January 1998-present)[edit]
The ruble was redenominated on 1 January 1998, with one new ruble equaling 1,000 old rubles. The redenomination was a purely psychological step that did not solve the fundamental economic problems faced by the Russian economy at the time, and the currency was devalued in August 1998 following the 1998 Russian financial crisis. The ruble lost 70% of its value against the U.S. dollar in the six months following this financial crisis.
In November 2004, the authorities of Dimitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk Oblast) erected a five-meter monument to the ruble.
On 23 November 2010, at a meeting of the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, it was announced that Russia and China have decided to use their own national currencies forbilateral trade, instead of the U.S. dollar. 

The USD can do with a facelift . It is kinda sagging around the jowls . The Ruble looked much better after its reduction .
Psychology and expectation is everything .

11.An even more interesting aside :
Instead of lopping off zeroes , add some zeroes . Eg . a $100 for $1 .
Technically it is just re-labelling , but psychologically ?
It should cure deflation .
But I cannot find an example of where currency was revalued upward : the actual printed money .
(The British pound circa 1840-1860 could have done with a upward revaluation , but it was pegged to gold .)
They usually float it , or hope it goes away by spending more frivolously .

11.1 The Singularity :
As wealth creation grows faster than monetary creation , (as is now) , deflation occurs .
This does not suit vested interests with large commitments in obsolete industries .
Hence the present fancy footwork in the financial community .
But all they do is train everybody to lie . Everybody .
Humans are a lying species , but they have excelled themselves .
See

The wealth creation goes on inexorably .

11.2 Swop old currency for new .
Instead of QE printing , simply swap an old Euro(1) for a new Euro(2) . Then repeat annually or more frequently as things change more rapidly .

“Grasping all , they lose all”

Andre

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Andre Willers
25 Jan 2015
1653 GMT
Synopsis:
Greece Exit from the Euro will be a messy affair . Greece will probably enter Russia’s sphere of influence . Turkey will become aggressive .

Discussion :
1.Read a really excellent analysis of how to exit the Eurozone (It won the Wolfson prize , and will form the basis for any state wanting to exit the euro . The full text can be found at the following link :

2.A brief summation :
“The winning proposal argued that a member wishing to exit should introduce a new currency and default on a large part of its debts. The net effect, the proposal claimed, would be positive for growth and prosperity. It also called for keeping the euro for small transactions and for a short period of time after the exit from the Eurozone, along with a strict regime of inflation-targeting and tough fiscal rules monitored by "independent experts." 
3. See Appendix A for ideal Timetable .
Unfortunately , everybody knows about it , so it has to be accelerated .
Else there are going to be massive bank-runs and Euro instability .
D-Day might be as early as tomorrow , Monday 26 Jan 2015  if Syriza is on the ball .
Especially if they take up the Russian offer .

4.The Russian offer :
“on Jan. 16 the Eurasian power offered the beleaguered nation of Greece a way out of their own financial straits if they voluntarily leave the EU and sign on with the new Eurasian Economic Union.
Greece, along with several other European countries known in the financial world as the PIIGS (Portugal, Iceland, Ireland, Greece, and Spain), have been at the heart of the financial problems that have plagued the European Union since the credit crisis of 2008. “
5.Contagion :
If this exit goes reasonably well (with Russian and Chinese help) , then the other PIIGS will be sorely tempted to join in .

6. This will make WW 2.75 much more probable .

7. Extreme speed of events to be expected .
The faster , the less mess .
Hopefully , Syriza have their plans ready . They had long enough warning and a blueprint .
 
8. Some effects in Greece:
8.1 Banks closed
8.2 Credit cards and ATM’s inoperative .
8.3 Euro’s not acceptable as cash .
Hyper-Gresham’s Law : Everybody will want to spend Euro’s as quick as possible , because it might be replaced or rendered valueless by fiat (the problem with fiat currencies is that the same fiat that made them , can unfiat them) . Or worse , the contagion effect might collapse the whole Euro , a scenario not as farfetched as it may seem
(France or Germany might defect from the Euro . See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2014/05/belarus-and-european-instability.html  )
 
8.4 If the Drachma is not declared , Greece will then default to USD or (Ruble , Yuan) .
Like Zimbabwe , whose legal currencies are USD , Yuan , ZAR .
8.5 Greece will tend to the Russian sphere . They nearly voted the Communists into power after WW II (and would have , if not for CIA intervention ) . There is a massive sense of betrayal by the West .
There will be some very unhappy people about this :
8.5.1 NATO and the US
8.5.2 Turkey , who will feel hemmed in by enemies (Russia , Isis)
If Greece moves too slowly (which is likely with politicians) , one or both of these entities will mobilize against them .
There is a lot of ancient historical enmity between Turkey and Greece , while the US just likes to break things in a tantrum if it does get it’s way .

Expect escalation of the Civil War in Ukraine , rising tension in the Baltics and actual military adventurism by Turkey (especially in Cyprus)
 
9. A more graphic summation :
What the Greeks hoped for on joining the EU .


What they got was more like this :





10. “Magnificent in peril , undone by Victory”
About sums up Greek history for the last three millennia .

An interesting replay .
11. Got your refuge monastery picked out ?
“Athos the Mt.
 Too much St.”

double monastery (also double house) is a monastery combining a separate community of monks and one of nuns, joined in one institution.[a
Like co-ed schools . Humour in the term “lay brother” of such an institution shows low minds in need of spiritual guidance .
Mainly nuns , but …
Brigittine Monks
“The Brigittine Monks are located in Amity, Oregon, at the Monastery of Our Lady of Consolation. Founded on 16 March 1976, by Brother Benedict Kirby, O.Ss.S., it is the only Brigittine monastery of men in the world and the first since the nineteenth century when they were dispersed, largely due to the European wars. The monks here do not ordinarily receive Holy Orders, following the original pattern of monasticism. The monastery has the canonical status of a priory sui juris (one which is autonomous) and is supported mainly through sales of their chocolate fudges and truffles.[5]

 
Every oligarch should have one .

Regards
Andre

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Appendix A
7.2 Indicative timetable
With D-Day defined as the day when the drachma formally replaces the euro as
the national currency of Greece, our indicative recommended timetable is:
D-Day minus no more than one month: Key officials plan the exit in secret.
Capital controls implemented immediately and plan accelerated if news leaks out.
D-Day minus three days (Friday): Notification of partners in the euro-zone and
other international monetary organisations. Followed shortly afterwards by public
announcement that the changeover to the new currency will take place on D-Day.
Closure of domestic banks and financial markets.
Over the weekend: Authorities announce new policy regime including inflation
targeting, tough fiscal rules and outlawing of wage indexation. Government
redenominates its debt and starts negotiations over the terms of this debt. Legal
issues clarified as far as possible, with plan announced for resolution of those
issues that remain. Commissioning of new notes and coins.

D-Day (Monday): At 00:01 hours, the drachma is introduced at parity with the
euro. All domestic wages, prices and other monetary values converted 1-for-1
from the euro to the drachma. Euro notes and coins remain in use for small
transactions.
D-Day or shortly afterwards: Domestic banks and financial markets reopened.
Any other capital controls lifted as soon as practicable. Negotiations concluded on
outstanding legal and other issues raised by redenomination.
Within 3 to 6 months: Sufficient notes and coins available in the new currency for
the euro to cease to be legal tender in the exiting country. Conversion completed.

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RLS Stopper .

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Andre Willers
26 Jan 2015
Synopsis :
Promises outperform performance . This enables us to short circuit Restless Leg Syndrome(RLS) in an absurdly simple fashion .
Discussion :
1.RLS is a dopamine problem .
2.Buccal systems .
The critical observation (Appendix A)
“What was especially interesting was that rats got a dopamine high even if they didn't actually digest the sugar. One set of rats had drains placed in their stomachs that made all the fluid secrete out. Even in that group, the rats craved sugar." 
 
3.The Algorithm :
Put a lot of sugar in a little bit of water . Stir .
Rinse the mouth (the buccal bit)
Then spit it out . Under no circumstances swallow it .
Repeat about 5 times over a ten minute period .
This is to enable long-term potentiation of neurons .

3.1 Avoid MSG , salt , aspartame .
3.2 You can add caffeine and late nights .
 
4.What is happening ?
The buccal promise of sugar coming is sufficient to stimulate dopamine production .
But satisfying the promise shuts down the reward pathway . Less Dopamine leads to RLS.
A nice little trap .

5.Habituation :
I tried it and it worked . But not long enough to find habituation effects .

6. I’ll settle for what I can get .

Good luck .
Andre

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Annexure A
Common foods that affect Dopamine.
alcohol 

"Two neurotransmitters, gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) and dopamine are responsible for the loss of impulse control in those who consume alcohol. Dopamine causes an excitatory response at dopamine receptors in the frontal lobes). Alcohol increases the amount of dopamine acting on receptors and enhances the normal feeling of pleasure associated with the dopamine system. Alcohol may function like cigarette smoke to inhibit the action of enzyme monoamine oxidase, the enzyme responsible for breaking down dopamine in the synaptic cleft. Since dopamine is not broken down as efficiently when ethanol is present, it can act on the post-synaptic neuron for a longer period of time. The feeling of pleasure will be increased and the individual will want to keep drinking to maintain the sensation. Individuals want to continue to experience the feelings caused by dopamine, so they continue to consume alcohol. The response of ordering another drink when one is already visibly intoxicated can be explained by the pleasurable effect that an increased alcohol concentration has on the brain." 

Elizabeth Powell, "Alcohol and Impulse Control." Serendip (April 14, 2004). serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro04/web2/epowell.html

"Alcohol may be particularly damaging to key components of the 'brain reward system.' Alcohol sensitizes dopamine and serotonin neurons to toxic excessive excitation or 'excitotoxicity.'"If dopamine and serotonin neurons are damaged," said Fulton T. Crews, Director of the Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina, "this would disrupt reward processes in ways that could contribute to addiction." 

Ivan Diamond and Harriet de Wit, "Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research." Research Society on Alcoholism (2011).

"Alcohol also helps to increase the release of dopamine, by a process that is still poorly understood but that appears to involve curtailing the activity of the enzyme that breaks dopamine down." 

"How Drugs Affect Neurotransmitters." Canadian Inst. of Health Research thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_03/i_03_m/i_03_m_par/i_03_m_par_alcool.html 

aspartame 

"These findings suggest that aspartame has a relatively potent effect of decreasing evoked extracellular dopamine levels when administered systemically under the conditions specified." 

BP Bergstrom, DR Cummings and TA Skaggs, "Aspartame decreases evoked extracellular dopamine levels in the rat brain: an in vivo voltammetry study." Neuropharmacology. 2007 Dec;53(8):967-74. Epub 2007 Sep 29. PMID: 17976663 

"If an aspartame-containing beverage is consumed along with, for example, a carbohydrate-rich, protein-poor dessert food, its effects on brain phenylalanine are doubled. This is because the insulin secretion elicited by the carbohydrate selectively lowers plasma levels of the branched-chain amino acids (by facilitating their uptake into skeletal muscle), without having much of an effect on plasma phenylalanine; this increases the effect of the aspartame on the plasma phenylalanine ratio. A similar doubling may occur if the eater happens to be one of the perhaps 10 million Americans who are, without knowing it, heterozygous for the phenylketonuria (PKU) gene. Once within brain, neurons producing certain neurotransmitters, such as dopaminergic nigrostriatal cells, the excess phenylalanine can inhibit enzymes (like tyrosine hydroxylase) needed to synthesize the neurotransmitters." 

Timothy J. Maher and Richard J. Wurtman, "Possible Neurologic Effects of Aspartame - a Widely Used Food Additive." DORway to Discovery www.dorway.com/wurtman1.html

Yokogoshi, H., Roberts, C. H., Caballero, B., and Wurtman, R.J. Effects of aspartame and glucose administration on brain and plasma levels of large neutral amino acids and brain 5-hydroxyindoles. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 40: 1-7 (1984).

Maher T. J., Glaeser, B. S., and Wurtman, R. J. Diurnal variations in plasma concentrations of basic and neutral amino acids and in red cell concentrations of aspartate and glutamate: Effects of dietary protein. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 39: 722-729 (1984).

Levy, H. L., and Waisbren, S. E. Effects of untreated maternal phenylketonuria and hyperphenylalanemia on the fetus. N. Engl. J. Med. 309:1269-1274 (1983). 


"Physiologically it is impossible that aspartame can aid in weight loss! The ingestion of aspartame creates increased levels of phenylalanine that suppress the formation of dopamine and seratonin. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps us to identify satiety, while seratonin reports carbohydrate metabolism. When seratonin levels are suppressed by excess phenylalanine these levels are incapable of normal increases that occur due to eating carbohydrates leaving you to crave more and more food! As well, methyl alcohol has also been long time recognized in medicine for its ability to block metabolism. In fact, according to Dr. H.J. Roberts, people getting off aspartame lose an average of 15 pounds. Plain and simple...neurotoxins act in the brain to stimulate appetite and you do not stand a fighting chance!" 

Joshua Rubin "Aspartame: A Silent Killer." Self Improvement Association (April 23, 2011). www.sia-hq.com/articles/Aspartame-A-Silent-Killer 

caffeine

"Caffeine increases dopamine levels in your system, acting in a way similar to amphetamines, which can make you feel good after taking it, but after it wears off you can feel 'low'. It can also lead to a physical dependence because of dopamine manipulation." 

Elizabeth Scott, M.S. "Caffeine, Stress and Your Health: Is Caffeine Your Friend or Your Foe?" About.com Guide (Nov. 01, 2007) stress.about.com/od/stresshealth/a/caffeine.htm

"Using in vivo microdialysis in freely moving rats, we demonstrate that systemic administration of behaviorally relevant doses of caffeine can preferentially increase extracellular levels of dopamine and glutamate in the shell of the NAc. These effects could be reproduced by the administration of a selective adenosine A1 receptor antagonist but not by a selective adenosine A2A receptor antagonist. This suggests that caffeine, because of its ability to block adenosine A1 receptors, shares neurochemical properties with other psychostimulants, which could contribute to the widespread consumption of caffeine-containing beverages." 

M. Solinas, S. Ferre, ZB You, M. Karcz-Kubicha, P. Popoli and SR Goldberg, "Caffeine induces dopamine and glutamate release in the shell of the nucleus accumbens." J Neurosci 2002 Aug 1;22(15):6321-4 

"As well as providing an immediate 'feel-good' sensation, caffeine encourages long-term addiction by depriving the consumer of a good night's sleep. Because adenosine reception is essential to deep sleep and it is blocked by caffeine, consumers wake up feeling irritable, and use caffeine to mentally 'awaken' themselves so that they can function 'properly' - as though they had had a good night's sleep. In this way, a positive feedback loop is created, and consumers cannot abstain from caffeine consumption without adverse effects." 

"Caffeine: How Caffeine Becomes Addictive." BBC: The Guide to Life, The Universe and Everything. (Sep. 25, 2001). www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A622414 

gluten

"A significant increase in major serotonin and dopamine metabolite concentrations in the brain has been reported after one year on a gluten-free diet." 

C. Hallert and G. Sedvall, "Improvement in central monoamine metabolism in adult coeliac patient starting a gluten-free diet." Psychol Med. 1983 May;13(2):267-71. PMID: 6192458

"Gluten contains a neuropeptide which enhances dopamine activity." 

FJ Mycroft, ET Wei, JE Bernardin and DD Kasarda, "MIF-like sequences in milk and wheat proteins.." N Engl J Med. 1982 Sep 30;307(14):895. PMID: 6125889

"Since such manipulations of serotonin are difficult to regulate, and unlikely to have long-lasting effects (although some of the mystery of obesity may be revealed in this dynamic) a much more important dietary factor in depression may be the morphine-like substances which derive from the incomplete digests of proteins in cereal grains and dairy products. These were first reported by Christine Zioudrou et al. who dubbed such peptides "exorphins". Further elucidation of this issue has been provided through the extensive work of Fukudome and Yoshikawa, published over the last decade who have identified and characterized five distinct exorphins in the pepsin digests of gluten. Eight distinct exorphins have also been identified in the pepsin digests of milk. This work has given us a clearer sense of the morphine-like psychoactive nature of the peptides which result from the incomplete digests of these dietary proteins, as well as offering a possible explanation for some of the reported psychiatric reactions to these proteins including the sense of "brain fog" that often accompanies immune reactions to these foods." 

Ron Hoggan M.A.and James Braly M.D., "Food Allergies and Depression: How Modern Eating Habits May Contribute to Depression." About.com: Depression (December 08, 2003) depression.about.com/cs/diet/a/foodallergies_3.htm

Zioudrou C, Streaty RA, Klee WA, Opioid peptides derived from food proteins. The exorphins. J Biol Chem. 1979 Apr 10;254(7): 2446-9.

Fukudome S, Shimatsu A, Suganuma H, Yoshikawa M Effect of gluten exorphins A5 and B5 on the postprandial plasma insulin level in conscious rats. Life Sci. 1995;57(7):729-34.

Fukudome S, Yoshikawa M Opioid peptides derived from wheat gluten: their isolation and characterization. FEBS Lett. 1992 Jan 13;296(1):107-11.

Mycroft FJ, et al. MIF-like sequences in milk and wheat proteins. N Engl. J Med. 1982 Sep 30;307(14):895.

Dohan FC. Genetic hypothesis of idiopathic schizophrenia: its exorphin connection. Schizophr Bull. 1988;14(4):489-94.

Saelid G, Haug JO, Heiberg T, Reichelt KL Peptide-containing fractions in depression. Biol. Psychiatry. 1985 Mar;20(3):245-56.

Hoggan, R. Absolutism's Hidden Message for Medical Scientism. Interchange. 1997; 28(2/3): 183-189. 


insomnia

"One night without sleep increases the chemical dopamine in the brain, which may help explain how how the sleep-deprived stay alert, U.S. researchers said. Compared to when well-rested, participants when sleep deprived showed reduced binding of a radiolabeled compound that binds to dopamine receptors in certain parts of the brains. The researchers concluded that sleep deprivation increases dopamine - in the striatum part of the brain - involved in motivation and reward - and in the thalamus - involved in alertness. Following sleep deprivation, the rise in dopamine, the researchers say, may promote wakefulness to compensate for sleep loss." 

"Lack of sleep increases dopamine." United Press International (Aug. 22, 2011).

"First, the researchers treated the mice with a chemical that stops the production of dopamine entirely. In fairly short order, the mice had used up their initial supply of dopamine and were running on empty. The mice became rigid, immobile, and unable to sleep or dream, displaying symptoms similar to those experienced by patients with Parkinson's disease, the researchers said." 

"Dopamine Imbalances Cause Sleep Disorders In Animal Models Of Parkinson's Disease And Schizophrenia." Medical News Today (Oct 13, 2006). www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/53877.php

"Lack of sleep causes your body's dopamine levels to nose-dive. In an attempt to reproduce this hormone's feel-good effect, the neurons in your brain seek out a sugar fix. So you eat or drink or crave sex or nicotine - all dopamine releasers - and that helps satisfy your brain cells' craving for dopamine. But that fix lasts only so long, so you'll crave that sugary stuff again and again on the day after inadequate sleep. Too little sleep means your body also produces less rejuvenating human growth hormone (HGH), which likely affects your mood and energy level. So when you wake up each morning, all you want to do is go back to bed. And to top it all off, low levels of HGH also trigger sugar cravings, as well as a desire for salty foods. Of course, all of these side effects are also signs of depression." 

Michael Roizen, M.D. "How Does Lack of Sleep Affect Your Health?" iVillage (March 9, 2011). www.ivillage.com/how-does-lack-sleep-affect-your-health/122574

monosodium glutamate (msg)

"Adult rats which have received monosodium-L-glutamate (MSG) (4 mg/g body weight) on alternate days for the first ten days of life acquire neurotoxic lesions of the retina and arcuate nucleus and manifest an endocrine deficiency syndrome characterized by stunted growth, obesity, hypothyroidism, hypogonadism and pituitary atrophy. From these findings several conclusions were drawn: 1) The MSG-induced endocrine deficiency syndrome appears to result from the destruction of ARC-ME dopaminergic and cholinergic tuberoinfundibular systems within the hypothalamus; 2) a normal concentration of serotonergic and noradrenergic neurons within the hypothalamus does not insure normal central neuroendocrine regulation; 3) no more than 50% of the dopaminergic terminals in the ME arise from ARC perikarya; 4) cell bodies within the ARC contribute very few, if any, nerve terminals containing releasing factors to the ME; 5) MSG destroys the primary optic tracts while sparing the retino-hypothalamic projection; 6) LHRH, somatostatin and TRH are not contained within cholinergic nerve terminals in the ME." 

Charles B. Nemeroff, Richard J. Konkol, Garth Bissette, William Youngblood, Joseph B. Martin, Paul Brazeau, Michael S. Rone, Arthur J. Prange, Jr., George R. Breese and John S. Kizer, "Analysis of the Disruption in Hypothalamic-Pituitary Regulation in Rats Treated Neonatally with Monosodium L-Glutamate (MSG): Evidence for the Involvement of Tuberoinfundibular Cholinergic and Dopaminergic Systems in Neuroendocrine Regulation." Endocrinology Vol. 101, No. 2 613-622, (1977). 

"Histochemical examination of the hypothalamic arcuate area revealed a marked loss of dopaminergic perikarya in MSG V, but not MSG I animals; other catecholamine systems appeared intact. This raises the possibility that damage to the tubero-infundibular dopamine system may contribute to endocrinological and other deficits observed after neonatal MSG treatment." 

Charles B. Nemeroffa, Lester D. Granta, Garth Bissettea, Gregory N. Ervina, Lindy E. Harrella and Arthur J. Prange Jr. "Growth, endocrinological and behavioral deficits after monosodium l-glutamate in the neonatal rat: possible involvement of arcuate dopamine neuron damage." Psychoneuroendocrinology Volume 2, Issue 2 (1977). Pages 179-196, Elsevier Ltd. doi:10.1016/0306-4530(77)90023-3

"Dopamine levels were significantly reduced (P < 0.01) in the arcuate nucleus of MSG-treated rats." 

Louis V. DePaolo and Andres Negro-Vilar, "Neonatal Monosodium Glutamate Treatment Alters the Response of Median Eminence Luteinizing Hormone-Releasing Hormone Nerve Terminals to Potassium and Prostaglandin E2*." Endocrinology Vol. 110, No. 3 835-841 (1982).

"Wallace and Dawsons (1990) cited that, monosodium glutamate altered neurotranmitter content in discrete brain regions of adult male rats. several lines of evidence indicate that treatment with monosodium glutamate induced decreased in the brain levels of Dopamine, NE, E and 5-HT and the primary metabolites of these monoamines in some brain regions (Yoshida et al., 2004)." 

Abeer M. Waggas, "Neuroprotective Evaluation of Extract of Ginger (Zingiber officinale) Root in Monosodium Glutamate-Induced Toxicity in Different Brain Areas Male Albino Rats." Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences 12 (3): 201-212, 2011 ISSN 1028-8880

salt

"The results indicate that weanling animals have a greater jejunal sodium absorption than older animals, probably because of higher noradrenergic tonus. A challenge with a high-salt diet results in a decrease of the intestinal sodium absorption in weaning rats but not in adult rats; endogenous dopamine appears to play an important role in this regulation." 

Y. Finkel, AC Eklof, L. Granquist, P. Soares-da-Silva and AM Bertorello, "Endogenous dopamine modulates jejunal sodium absorption during high-salt diet in young but not in adult rats." Gastroenterology. 1994 Sep;107(3):675-9. PMID: 8076754

"These results suggest that sodium restriction leads to activation of antinatriuretic antidiuretic systems in HF patients. However, renal ability to synthesize dopamine is increased in this condition, probably as a counter-regulatory mechanism." 

Margarida Alvelosa, Antonio Ferreiraa, Paulo Bettencourta, Paula Serraoc, Manuel Pestanad, Mario Cerqueira-Gomesa and Patricio Soares-da-Silvac,"The effect of dietary sodium restriction on neurohumoral activity and renal dopaminergic response in patients with heart failure." European Journal of Heart Failure Volume 6, Issue 5, Pp. 593-599. (November 19, 2003).

"These results suggest that salt-sensitive hypertension is modulated by dopaminergic activity, which in turn is attenuated in SS patients. Decreased dopaminergic activity induced sodium retention both by a direct effect on the kidney as well as indirectly via relatively increased aldosterone secretion. Both mechanisms would help to increase intravascular volume and blood pressure in salt-sensitive hypertension." 

Reiko Shikuma, Anabu Yoshimura, Seichi Kambara, Hideaki Yamazaki, Ryosaku Takashina, Hakuo Takahashi, Kazuo Takeda and Hamao Ijichi, "Dopaminergic modulation of salt sensitivity in patients with essential hypertension." Life Sciences Volume 38, Issue 10, 10 March 1986, Pages 915-921 doi:10.1016/0024-3205(86)90259-6

sugar

"After a few days, the rats were "hooked" - wanting to drink more each day. Their brains created more dopamine receptors. After a month of this schedule, when the sugar was removed, or the dopamine was chemically blocked using a drug, anxiety increased, to the point that the rats' teeth audibly chattered -- a sign of withdrawal, Hoebel said. What was especially interesting was that rats got a dopamine high even if they didn't actually digest the sugar. One set of rats had drains placed in their stomachs that made all the fluid secrete out. Even in that group, the rats craved sugar." 

Joy Victory, "Studying the 'Sweet Tooth': Rats Given High Sugar Diet Show Strong Urge to Have More and More." ABC News (May 25, 2006). abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/story?id=2001298&page=1 BG Hoebel, P. Rada and NM Avena, "Evidence for sugar addiction: behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake". Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Review 32: 20-39. PMID 17617461 (2011). 

"Recent behavioral tests in rats further back the idea of an overlap between sweets and drugs. Drug addiction often includes three steps. A person will increase his intake of the drug, experience withdrawal symptoms when access to the drug is cut off and then face an urge to relapse back into drug use. Rats on sugar have similar experiences. Researchers withheld food for 12 hours and then gave rats food plus sugar water. This created a cycle of binging where the animals increased their daily sugar intake until it doubled. When researchers either stopped the diet or administered an opioid blocker the rats showed signs common to drug withdrawal, such as teeth-chattering and the shakes. Early findings also indicate signs of relapse. Rats weaned off sugar repeatedly pressed a lever that previously dispensed the sweet solution." 

Leah Ariniello, "Sugar Addiction" Brain Briefings, Society for Neuroscience (October 2003). 

"We made a fake bee and let it fly over the blue and yellow flowers" with variable amounts of sugar, Dr. Montague said. Each time a virtual bee landed on a flower, its dopamine neuron was alerted. As in most animals, the dopamine neuron at rest fires signals at a steady, base-line rate. When it is excited, it fires more rapidly. When it is depressed, it ceases firing. The virtual bee's neuron was designed to give three simple responses. If the amount of sugar was more than expected (based on what the bee knows about similar looking flowers), the neuron would fire vigorously. Lots of dopamine meant lots of reward and instant learning. If the amount of sugar was less than predicted, the neuron would stop firing. Sudden lack of dopamine, going to other parts of the brain, told the bee to avoid what had just happened. If the amount of sugar was the same, as predicted, the neuron would not increase or decrease its activity. The bee learned nothing new. This simple prediction model -- the dopamine neuron "knows" what has just happened and is waiting to see if the next reward is greater or smaller or the same - offers one explanation for how the bee behavior might arise, Dr. Sejnowski said. When the dopamine neuron encounters an empty flower, it throws the bee brain into an unhappy state. The bee, in fact, cannot stand hitting so many empties. It would rather play it safe and get more numerous, smaller rewards - or no rewards at all - by sticking to the yellow flowers." 

Sandra Blakeslee, "How Brain May Weigh the World With Simple Dopamine System." New York Times (March 19, 1996).

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Gene-Meme Parasites


Andre Willers
28 Jan 2015

Synopsis :
Successful genes and memes alter the phenotype and even behaviour of individuals , without regard to the benefit of the individual or even the species . The selfish gene has got into bed with the Selfish Epigenetic system . Civilization is a parasite on competent individuals , until very deep into the Singularity .

Discussion :
1.Actual examples :
See Appendix A .
1.0 How to calculate Gene Prevalence  - See Appendix F
1.1Genghis Khan -See Appendix A
1.2 Giocangga -See Appendix B
1.3 Uí Néill – see Appendix C
1.4 Abraham – see Appendix D
1.5 Jesus and Mohammed – see Appendix E
 
2.Comparing the influence of gene-meme complexes.
See Appendix G
People from Northern China are 3 times more likely to initiate major changes .

3.Want to start your own religion for fun and profit ?
You used to need at least Dunbar’s Limit (150) as start-up disciples .
But that is so old news .
Facebook has broken the Dunbar Limit . It is now floating .
This has interesting ramifications as churches lose membership because critical numbers of deacons and priests fall below the new Dunbar’s Limit . What is delicious , is that they do not even realise why their churches are dying .
They can easily kicker them up , but that would suppose that they are willing to change .

4.An Interesting Aside :
The decline of the Western Roman Empire induced the inhabitants of North Africa to emigrate to Ireland .
The origin of the Irish Flowering .
Note the dates . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandal_Kingdomand Appendix C .
They lasted quite long , until 1603 , when the much diminished descendants fled to the Lowlands and nobility of Europe .
You know them as the Bilderbergers of today .
See Appendix G
Their total influence is still more than 1.6 times that of Christianity .

5. Jesus’s other disciples .
An exercise for the dear reader .
There were at least 150 .
Who were they ?

6. These idle speculations are about to become life-and-death important as the whole world economic system is heading for the rapids .

7.Well , that was surprising .
I thought the old Roman Empire had decently shuffled off the coil .
But like the bobble in the carpet , it keeps on surfacing .
The whole meme-structure of slavery , debt bondage , interest rates , etc .

“Let’s let’s   do do   the the  Time-wars   Time-wars  again again”
Andre

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Appendix A

Millions of men bear the genetic legacy of Genghis Khan, the famously fertile Mongolian ruler who died in 1227. Researchers have now recognized ten other men whose fecundity has left a lasting impression on present-day populations. The team's study1 points to sociopolitical factors that foster such lineages, but the identities of the men who left their genetic stamp remains unknown.
The case for Genghis Khan’s genetic legacy is strong, if circumstantial. A 2003 paper2 led by Chris Tyler-Smith, an evolutionary geneticist now at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, discovered that 8% of men in 16 populations spanning Asia (and 0.5% of men worldwide) shared nearly identical Y-chromosome sequences. The variation that did exist in their DNA suggested that the lineage began around 1,000 years ago in Mongolia.
Khan is reputed to have sired hundreds of children. But a Y-chromosome lineage traces a single paternal line in a much larger family tree, and for it to leave a lasting legacy takes multiple generations who fan out over a wide geographical area, says Mark Jobling, a geneticist at the University of Leicester, UK, who led the latest study with geneticist Patricia Balaresque of Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France.
“Lots of men have lots of sons, by chance. But what normally doesn’t happen is the sons have a high probability of having lots of sons themselves. You have to have a reinforcing effect,” says Jobling. Establishment of such successful lineages often depends on social systems that allow powerful men to father children with multitudes of women.
The start of something big
In addition to Genghis Khan and his male descendants, researchers have previously identified the founders of two other highly successful Y-chromosome lineages: one that began in China with Giocangga, a Qinq Dynasty ruler who died in 15823, and another belonging to the medieval Uí Néill dynasty in Ireland4.
Related stories
Jobling’s team made a systematic search for genetic founders by analysing the Y chromosomes of more than 5,000 men from 127 populations spanning Asia; they focused on that region because lots of data were available and there was already evidence of such lineages. The team identified 11 Y-chromosome sequences that were each shared by more than 20 of the 5,321 genomes. The researchers used DNA differences in the shared sequences, which accumulate over time from random mutations, to determine approximately when the founder of the lineage lived. They tracked back the geographical origins of the lineages by assuming that the founding men had lived in the regions where their genotypes were most prevalent and diverse.
Genghis Khan’s paternal lineage again stood out, as did Giocangga’s, Jobling’s team reports in theEuropean Journal of Human Genetics1. The other nine lineages originated throughout Asia, from the Middle East to southeast Asia, dating to between 2100 bc and ad 700. Jobling warns that these dates come with huge margins of error, but he notes that the estimates for the lineages attributed to Khan and Giocangga are very close to those of past studies.
Legacy of power
The founders who lived between 2100 bc and 300 bc existed in both sedentary agricultural societies and nomadic cultures in the Middle East, India, southeast Asia and central Asia. Their dates coincide with the emergence of hierarchical, authoritarian societies in Asia during the Bronze Age, such as the Babylonians. Three lineages dating to more recent times were all linked to nomadic groups in northeast China and Mongolia. These included the lineages linked to Genghis Khan and Giocangga, plus a third line dating to around ad 850.
All three lineages seem to have expanded westwards, possibly along the Silk Road trade route. Historians have documented a series of polities based in inner Asia between 200 bc and the eighteenth century, such as the Qing Dynasty. Jobling says that these civilizations could have fostered dominant male lineages after the sons of a fecund founder decamped to satellite outposts, where they, in turn, fathered powerful descendants.
The researchers identify several candidates for the lineage dating to ad 850, but say that more research is needed. Recovering DNA from the candidate or or a long-dead descendant would be the ultimate proof.
“Looking for these links is fascinating. When we did it, we were using pretty indirect lines of reasoning, and you could try and do that with each of these lineages,” says Tyler-Smith. “What I really hope is that at some point someone will find Genghis Khan's tomb and remains.”
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Appendix B
Giocangga (ManchuGiocangga.pngChinese覺昌安pinyinJuéchāng'ān) (died 1582) was the grandfather of Nurhaci, the man who was to unify the Jurchen peoples and begin building what later became the Manchu state. Both he and his son Taksi went to the aid of Nurhaci's uncle Atai (阿台 Ātái) whose city was being besieged by a rival Jurchen chieftainNikan Wailan (ᠨᡳᡴᠠᠨᠸᠠᡳᠯᠠᠨ; 尼堪外蘭 Níkān Wàilán), who promised the governance of the city to whoever would kill Atai. One of Atai's underlings rebelled and murdered him. Both Giocangga and Taksi were originally under the command of the Ming general Li Chengliang who was siding with Nikan Wailan. In the mist of battle Li thought they had mutinied as they were left in the battlefield. They were killed in the aftermath by Nikan Wailan.
His temple name was Jǐngzǔ (景祖).
In 2005, a study led by a researcher at the British Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute suggested that Giocangga might be a direct male-line ancestor of over 1.5 million men, mostly in northeastern China and Mongolia.[1] This was attributed to Giocangga's and his descendants' many wives and concubines.[1] It was estimated that the average man in the time of Giocangga would have only 20 offspring as of 2005.[1][dubious – discuss] Gioncangga's descendants in the patrilineal line are concentrated among several ethnic minorities who were part of the Manchu Eight Banners system, and are not found in the Han Chinese population.
Family[edit]
·         Brothers
1.   Soocangga (索長阿 Suǒcháng'ā)
2.   Boosi (寶實 Bǎoshí)
3.   Desikū (德世庫 Déshìkù)
4.   Leodan (劉闡 Liúchǎn)
5.   Boolungga (包朗阿 Bāolǎng'ā)
·         Children: (5 sons)
1.   Lidun Baturu (禮敦巴圖魯 Lǐdūn Bātúlǔ)
2.   Argun (額爾袞 Éěrgǔn)
3.   Jaikan (界堪 Jièkān)
4.   Taksi
5.   Taca Fiyanggū (塔察篇古 Tǎchá Piāngǔ)
References[edit]
1.     Jump up to:a b c "1.5m Chinese 'descendants of one man'"BBC. 1 November 2005. Retrieved 15 March 2013.

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Appendix C
The Uí Néill (Irish pronunciation: [iː ˈnʲeːl̪ʲ]descendants of Niall) are Irish and Scottish dynasties who claim descent from Niall Noigiallach(Niall of the Nine Hostages), a historical King of Tara who died about 405.
The first generation of the Uí Néill were his sons, seven in all:
·         Conall Gulban, ancestor of the Cenél Conaill dynasty.
·         Éndae, ancestor of the Cenél nÉndai
·         Eógan, ancestor of the Cenél nEógain dynasty.
·         Coirpre, ancestor of the Cenél Coirpri dynasty.
·         Lóegaire, ancestor of the Cenél Lóegaire dynasty.
·         Conall Cremthainne, ancestor of the Clann Cholmáin and Síl nÁedo Sláine.
·         Fiachu, ancestor of the Cenél Fiachach.
All these men were in their lifetime known as members of The Connachta dynasty, or as "the sons of Niall." The term Uí Néill did not - by its very nature - come into use until the time of Niall's grandsons and great-grandsons.
Dynasties descended from the Uí Néill, such as the Cenél Conaill and Cenél nEógain, held power in Ulster until their defeat in theNine Years War in 1603. Many of the heads of the families left for Catholic Europe in 1607, an event known as the Flight of the Earls.
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Appendix D
The other nine lineages originated throughout Asia, from the Middle East to southeast Asia, dating to between 2100 bc and ad 700.
The Bible's internal chronology places Abraham around 2000 BCE. Despite this, "there is nothing specific in the Genesis stories that can be definitively related to known history in or around Canaan in the early second millennium B.C.E."

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Appendix E
Mohammed and Jesus .
Presumably superior genes . Thus prevalent in the population .
Complex feedback system .
So , power laws apply . The form is y=ax^k   see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law

Mohammed
According to the sixth edition of The Columbia Encyclopedia (2000), Muhammad is probably the most common given name [in the world], including variations.[3] It is estimated that more than 150 million men and boys in the world bear the name Muhammad.
About 11% of Islamic descent
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Jesus.
Etymology & Historical Origin - Jesus
The given name Jesus obviously needs very little by way of explanation; the origin is clear – Jesus is the central figure in Christianity. However, Jesus as a given name is distinct to Spanish-speaking cultures and usually rendered with an accented “U” as in Jesús and is pronounced hay-SOOS). In the English-speaking world, Jesus is not used as a given name. The name originates from the Hebrew “Yeshua” which made its way to the Greeks in the form of “Iēsous” and then to the Latin “Iesus.” From there, the “J” was added and became “Jesus” in most of the European languages. The name’s etymological origin is found in the Hebrew words “ys” (to save) and “yesua” (salvation). In Matthew 1:20-21, an angel appears to Joseph in a dream informing him that Mary’s pregnancy has been divinely orchestrated and that he is to name their son Jesus, “for he will save his people from their sins” – indicating that the name had not been selected arbitrarily.
Popularity of the Name Jesus
As mentioned above, people of English-speaking origin won’t use Jesus as a personal name; it makes them squirm with discomfort. Somehow taboo. The closest they come to using Jesus is by way of the name “Joshua.” People of Hispanic decent, however, fully embrace the given name Jesús for their little boys as a genuinely heartfelt demonstration of their reverence to Jesus. The name has become so popular within the Latino-American culture, that “hay-SOOS” feels like just another boys name with Spanish flair so in some cases, it may not even be tied to religion. In any case, it’s clearly the Spanish-speaking Americans, or those of Hispanic/Latino origin, driving the popularity of this name. Jesus has been on the U.S. popularity graph for over a century. The name received moderate usage at the turn of the last century, but fast-forward to this century with the growing Latino population in America, you'll find that Jesus sits squarely on the list of Top 100 most favored boys’ names
About 3% of Christian descent .
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Appendix F
General calculation :
Y=D * D^kt
Where Y is population after t years , D= Dunbars Limit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number) , usually 150 and k is the feedback factor .
We find k by seeing the percentage of the gene in a relevant descendant population .
Meme-descendants : names are taken as a good a-priori indicator of gene penetration in conqueror populations .
This might not seem obvious . Think it through .
Y(t)=D^(kt+1)
Yfraction = Y(t)/Y(0)
            = D^(kt)
k = ln(Yfraction) / (ln(D) *t)
k only has meaning in a competitive environment .
It has to be compared , as it is a measure of the fitness of a meme structure .


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Appendix G
Table of local influences .
1.Genghis : t ~ 800 , D=150 , Yfraction = 0.08 ,   k =  -0.0006300
2. Giocangga t~500 , D=150 , Yfraction = 0.01,   k =  -0.0018381
3. Uí Néill t~1600 , D=150 , Yfraction = 0.01 ,     k =  -0.0005744
4.Abraham t~ 3000 , D=150 , Yfraction = 0.9 ,     k = -0.00000700
5.Jesus  t~2000 , D=150 , Yfraction = 0.03 ,          k= -0.00035000
6.Mohammed t~1400 , D=150 , Yfraction ~ 0.11 , k = -0.0003147

In Descending order :
(Multiply by -10^4 to get some meaningful numbers)

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Giocangga   18.4  (Northern china)
Genghis        6.3   (Asia)
Uí Néill        5.7    (Western Europe)
Jesus            3.5    (Christian)
Mohammed 3.1     (Islamic)
Abraham      0.07  (Semitic)
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