Kalacharka in Philadelphia
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does every one feel under the weather?
small type sort of day … and a person finds herself exhausted. I am so tired I just want to say hello and go back to sleep!
Spices Bloom on HULU
Cause and effect such as If I Run A Red Light The Ticket Will Follow… If I puch a person in the nose I should expect a reaction that is as unpleasant as the punch.
Plant a seed and watch it bloom, it is the action of forms, particles, and electrical pulses and waves of all sorts moving in space.. More about this soon since Karma is very complex and operates on many levels all at the same time or many times called into action for complex reasons that defy pompous intellectualism from mind based knowledge resources. Who actually knows how it happens that some people have heart understanding of things as they really are and other sincere striving students work at refining their minds and bodies in an effort to access the warm hearted understanding of the meaning of their own lives to no avail. If I am not good to myself how can I be good to other beings? It is clear that ‘Love your neighbor as you Love yourself’ is the secret handshake. Love is the key for unlocking then finding the meaning of life and all the forms in this world.
Television is tackling this complex golden warm hearted Gordian Knot:
CERN, Do You Want To Dance?
What is this all about? At last a step by step rap!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
Research into the smallest and largest parts of our form world is always intriguing. I met a surfer at a BIL conference a year or so ago, who has a mathematical interest in the missing particle in the big question that Albert Einstein posed as a Theory of Everything. Construction of a particle collider in Waxahachie, Texas USA never was supported with funds so it did not work. Waxahachie is a picture perfect small town with beautiful county administration building and the best BBQ I have ever before or since tasted. Was it the ranchers who complained about the behavior of their bovine charges that stopped the construction of the circular hadron particle spinning. The Princeton Tocamac went belly up for lack of funds and government non support because of general disinterest in many programs. Real science boarding on science fiction.
Check out the file footage in this you tube video!
Woodstock West
40th Anniversary of Woodstock
Free Concert Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, Sunday, October 25, 2009
Event: “West Fest” Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock.
Attraction: 42 bands, 3 stages and 26 poster artists. Solar domes, Alternative vehicles, Electric bikes, Native American Tipi Village, Sustainable Living Road Show, Conscious Art Gallery, Light Temple, Holistic Healing Section, Hooper Heaven, Rock’n Green Kids Zone and Eco Village vendors. Narada Michael Walden featuring Vernon Ice Black leading 3,000 guitar players and closing the show with the Hendrix Experience reenactment and Superstar Jam
Admission: FREE
When: October 25, 2009, 9am to 6pm
Where: Speedway Meadows, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA USA
Producer: 2b1 Multimedia Inc. and the Council of Light in association with Artie Kornfeld, the original producer of “Woodstock 1969”
Non-Profit: 501-(c) 3
Contact: Boots Hughston, 415-861-1520 www.2b1records.com/woodstock40sf or woodstock40sf@yahoo.com
Acts confirmed with more to come: Jefferson Starship; Leslie West (Mountain); Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) with Ronnie Montrose; Lester Chambers (the Chambers Brothers); Country Joe McDonald; Denny Laine (of Paul McCartney, Wings, Moody Blues); The Original Lowrider Band (with Lee Oskar); Narada Michael Walden featuring Vernon Ice Black leading 3,000 guitar players and closing the show with the Hendrix Experience reenactment Superstar Jam; Greg Errico, Jerry Martini, Cynthia Robinson (From Sly and the Family Stone); David and Linda La Flamme (It’s a Beautiful Day); Michael McClure (Beat Poet) and Ray Manzarek (from the Doors), George Brooks, Kai Eckhardt, Jay Lane; Lydia Pense and Cold Blood; Terry Haggerty (from the Sons of Champlin); Annie Sampson and her band; Nick Gravenites Band; Harvey Mandel and the Snake band; Barry “The Fish” Melton (of Country Joe and the Fish); Jerry Miller and Jim Post; Lost Creek Gang and the Merry Pranksters with Ken Babbs, George Walker, and Mountain Girl; El Chicano; Alameda All Stars (Gregg Allman’s Band); Edwin Hawkins and The New Edwin Hawkins Singers “Oh Happy Day”; David Denny (from Steve Miller) with Prairie Prince (of The Tubes), Diana Mangano (formerly of The Jefferson Starship), Greg Douglas, Carlos Reyes; PF Sloan; Jimmy McCarty (from Detroit Wheels); Peter Kaukonen (from Jefferson Airplane); John York (from the Byrds); Leigh Stephens (from Blue Cheer); Kathi McDonald and Friends; Cathy Richardson band; Joli Valenti and Tony Saunders; Mitchell Holman (It’s a Beautiful Day), Miles Schon Band; Jose Neto and Friends; Rock Hendricks (Bobby Womack, The Jackson 5, The funkidelics); George Michalski; Jeff Jolly; Scoop Nisker – KFOG; David Harris – speaker; Matthew Rosenthal – Prevent Hate; Bettina Aptheker – Free Speech Movement; Ben Fong -Torres (Rolling Stone); David Hilliard – Black Panther Party; Benjamin Hernandez – Hearts and Hands elders; Blue Thunder – spiritual healer, Teton; Dennis Peron and Richard Eastman (Marijuana Initiative); David Rovic; Rabbi Joseph Langer ; Ed Rosenthal; Terence Hallinan (Former SF DA); Gene “DR Hip” Schoenfeld; Paul “Lobster” Wells (DJ), Aron “Pieman” Kay (from the Yippies); Alex Reymundo – comedian; Doug Green MC; Some acts can not be advertised because of contractual obligations.
Poster series: Stanley Mouse, Arnold Skolnick (original Woodstock 69 poster artist), Chris Shaw, Mike Dolgushkin, Wendy Wright, David Singer, Mark Henson, Carolyn Ferris, Dave Huckins, Lee Conklin, Bob Masse, Andrew Annenberg, Victor Moscosco, Michael Moss, Thomas Yeates, Chrissy Costello, Gilbert Johnson and Dusty Hughston, Michael Rios, Burry Olsen, Pat Ryan, Ron Donovin – Fire House Crew.
In honor of Jimi Hendrix, who headlined the festival in 1969,
Narada Michael Walden Featuring Vernon Ice Black will lead 3,000 guitar players attempting to break the World’s Record for the Largest
Guitar Ensemble playing “Purple Haze” — all at the same time!
Players are encouraged to register at:
www.steveroby.com/Jimi_Hendrix_Archives/Register.html
LCROSS: Is There Usable Water On The Moon?
I keep looking up!
As I reported last week, I went to the Science center here in Oakland California, and watched the NASA feed, with hundreds of companion space junkies, as the descent and contact with the surface of the Moon of the rocket laboratory, LCROSS. What a disappointment as the surface of the moon got closer all of the attendees sat up with anticipation but the flash on impact was a blank white screen! ooooppss!
Today, in an email from Space Weather, http://spaceweather.com comes the story of what is being publicized as what happened when the rocket hit the socket valley on the Moons’ surface.
‘LUNAR IMPACT PLUME: NASA has just released pictures of infrared flashes and a visible plume of debris produced by a Centaur booster rocket hitting the Moon on Oct. 9th. The images confirm that the LCROSS experiment was a success despite the fact that the impacts were visually unimpressive from Earth.’
LUNAR IMPACT PLUME: There was a plume after all. Observers on Earth had their doubts after LCROSS and its Centaur booster rocket hit the Moon on Friday, Oct. 9th. The twin lunar impacts failed to produce visible plumes of debris, prompting speculation that something had gone wrong. On the contrary, members of the LCROSS science team are now calling the experiment “a smashing success.” ( HUH!)
Fifteen seconds after the Centaur hit the shadowy floor of crater Cabeus, the LCROSS spacecraft flying 600 km overhead took the following picture of a plume measuring 6 to 8 km wide:
“There is a clear indication of a plume of vapor and fine debris,” says LCROSS principal investigator Tony Colaprete of NASA/Ames. “The ejecta brightness appears to be at the low end of our predictions and this may be a clue to the properties of the material the Centaur hit.”
Nine cameras and spectrometers on LCROSS captured every phase of the Centaur’s impact: the intial flash, the debris plume, and the creation of the Centaur’s crater. “We are blown away by the data returned,” says Colaprete. “The team is working hard on the analysis and the data appear to be of very high quality.”
But did the impact reveal any water at the bottom of Cabeus? The LCROSS team isn’t ready to say yet. Combining their data with those of other observatories and analyzing the full dataset could take weeks. According to NASA, “any new information will undergo the normal scientific review process and will be released as soon as it is available.”
For more information, read NASA’s Oct. 16th press release and browse the gallery of images.
Exploring a Corner of My World
Explore, investigate, expound, and enjoy the zest of life is what I am doing on this earth, at this time, in this body. I construct my life in an artistic form and tell you the stories. I get to water this blossoming seed with my passions with the obsession while using all my senses. I am bursting with creative energy and ideas. For all the years I have walked and talked, I have remained hidden behind a shifting gray curtain shading my light from so many hearts. Simply fantastic!
Last week I walked around the despairing fenced in houses of West Oakland with my daughter. Here the grayness is lifting. It is a slow cumbersome intersection between the past where no one counted and the now where only the counters see a lift. Here the residents’ breath in soot diesel particulate levels five times greater than any other parts of Oakland and 90 times greater than all the rest of California. This is the poorest neighborhood in the entire bay area where more than half of the people living here earn less than 25,000 dollars a year. Just down the block, a medium painted placard marks the dead end street that doubles as a Government Clean-up Site. Aside from the pollution spread by the cars and tires on the freeway, this spot is where the most horrible effluents of our modern world are in storage piles. Death cuts the quiet with three siren rings, pause, three rings, and again siren bells intone the dark possibility just around the corner.
Nighttime is not the right time to go out walking here if you are not street smart. Frenzy and possible collapse awaits those who are not knowledgeable of life’s little survival skills. There are finer gems hiding between houses and empty lots. Bring your fresh eyes. Some bamboo lined large lots shelter creative artists where sculptures might emerge at any moment. Across the narrow street is an amazing ultra large garage type closure framed in a maroon reddish ribbon in the same wide corduroy corrugated construction as the massive squarest building. It spoke in a deep base voice of the creativity inside. All the action is inside in easy to understand single step sitting down on the corner.
Now the neighborhood has colorful coffee shops with little walk to one ‘live-work’ restaurant, which serves delicious sandwiches lovingly prepared for locals and visitors. Just a doorway, this eatery will transform this community.
So much is in flux but you can still feel the sizzle on your nervous system because of the possibility of danger.. The (…Revolution Coffee or Cafe, What a name for the coffee cluttered place?….) is acknowledged as the living room for many people both recent converts and long time residents of this down but not ‘out’ wedge just a highway separation from the Port of Oakland. This morning, 17 October 2009 They had an explosion including an espresso machine surging across the room, putting a hole in the wall, going through a glass window, denting the refrigerator and crashing into a mess. It happened right before someone opened up in the morning – it could have been super dangerous. So they are closed for a couple of days right now.
How To Communicate With Your Elected Officals
Why is writing a letter something to think about? How did we get to have essentially no input or contact unless we are contributors of larger amounts of money? Your letter is meaningless and here is the helpful government site to let you know why. A phone call is better than any other communication! Be short and right to the point. If you have an interest in getting universal one payer health care like the other industrial nations have then it is time to get to the phone: NOW!
When the Congress was created, communication was not as easy as it is today. Technology has been a major force behind increasing citizen engagement with civics. Over the last decade or so, the number of letters to Congress has nearly quadrupled, with more than 200 million emails now received by Congress each year (that’s around one email per adult!). Unfortunately, Congress has kept staff sizes largely unchanged since the 1980s (on average a staff of 15 per representative and 34 per senator), and as a result letters very rarely receive any significant attention, and as the number of letters goes up, the impact of any one letter necessarily goes down. So should you write or phone your rep.?
First take a moment to consider the onslaught of communication Members of Congress are receiving. You should respect your Member’s limited staff time, and for that matter your fellow constituents’ right to have your Member’s staff concentrate on legislating, rather than tirelessly reading letters, by communicating only well-thought-out messages. Certainly don’t communicate with the intent to overload your Member’s staff. That isn’t fair to anyone.
Does writing a letter make a difference?
But is your message going to have any effect? Writing in a form letter provided to you by an advocacy group will probably have very little effect. Especially if it is a fax. Faxes are quickly discarded. Members’ staffs notice when they receive hundreds of the same letter, and they don’t count these letters as important as personalized messages. On the other hand, while the majority of Congressional staff say they believe, according to a CMF survey, that personalized letters can impact their boss’s decision making, it is impossible to know if there is any truth to this.
In the personal experience of GovTrack’s creator, what Congressional staff say is that two things happen with letters and other communications. First, Representatives and Senators use the information essentially like a poll: They tally up responses and use the totals to guide their decision making. Second, on rare occasions they use some letters as case studies in speeches on the floor, to support their point with a little personal touch. A letter turning into a case study is especially rare, especially in terms of the volume of communications received, which means by and large the actual personal content of messages (beyond what can be tallied) is pretty much unread. Moreover, your personal communication is worthless in isolation. As part of a movement, when the tally will add up to something, it might have an impact. I’m sure there are some representatives that take tallies seriously, but I don’t know how many. No House staffer says they actually read the letters carefully: They are frank that they don’t have the resources to do it. (Of course, they can vote on their own resource levels, so there is some mystery there.)
What to include in a letter and how to send it
But if you are going to write, how do you do it? Visit your representative’s website and look for a “Contact” page. You’ll always find either an email address or, more commonly, a form to fill out. Congressional staffers say the following things are important to making your message influential: including your name, address, and ZIP code so the staff can verify you are a constituent of the Member of Congress, referencing specific legislation rather than a general issue by bill number and title, talking about the impact of the bill on the district or state, and your own reason for supporting or opposing the bill. While 90 percent of Congressional staff thought these items were helpful, less than 68 percent of staff thought personal stories were helpful. One well-respected organization recommends being: personalized, short, targeted, and informative.
If you intend to write a letter, we wish you good luck! But, you might consider what forms of communication might better serve the needs of your fellow constituents. That is, if letter writing doesn’t really work all that well, what else might? Does your representative come to your district for town hall meetings? Does he do online chats? Is his local office responsive to communication? Check out these alternatives and get others on board with broadening the landscape of constituent communication.
(Various unsourced facts above are from the Congressional Management Foundation’s Communicating with Congress report.)
Q. Physics: Welcome Home
