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Sing Them Home
Stephanie Kallos
Digital Audiobook (11/19/2008)
Hardcover, Large Print (12/1/2010)
MP3 CD (1/1/2009)
Compact Disc (11/20/2008)
Compact Disc (1/1/2009)
Audio Cassette (11/1/2008)
Audio Cassette (1/1/2009)
January 2009 Indie Next List
"When a tornado dips into Emlyn Springs, Nebraska, it swoops up Hope Jones and never sets her down. Decades later, her grown children are still looking ... for the lives left incomplete. This epic moves expertly between the pre- and post-tornado years, and among the three siblings and the townspeople. As in her debut novel, Broken For You, Stephanie Kallos carefully weaves a complex tale featuring quirky, sympathetic characters."
— Cheryl McKeon, Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, WA
Sing Them Home is a moving portrait of three siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother's disappearance when they were children. Everyone in Emlyn Springs knows the story of Hope Jones, the physician's wife whose big dreams for their tiny town were lost along with her in the tornado of 1978. For Hope's three young children, the stability of life with their preoccupied father, and with Viney, their mother's spitfire best friend, is no match for Hope's absence. Larken, the eldest, is now an art history professor who seeks in food an answer to a less tangible hunger; Gaelan, the son, is a telegenic weatherman who devotes his life to predicting the unpredictable; and the youngest, Bonnie, is a self-proclaimed archivist who combs roadsides for clues to her mother's legacy, and permission to move on. When they're summoned home after their father's death, each sibling is forced to revisit the childhood tragedy that has defined their lives. With breathtaking lyricism, wisdom, and humor, Kallos explores the consequences of protecting those we love. Sing Them Home is a magnificent tapestry of lives connected and undone by tragedy, lives poised--unbeknownst to the characters--for redemption.
Praise For Sing Them Home…
"Sing Them Home constantly surprises, changing voices, viewpoints, and tempos, mixing humor and pathos, and introducing a big cast of vividly portrayed characters, major and minor. Readers who admired Kallos's first novel, Broken for You, will likely embrace Sing Them Home, and it will embrace them in return. It's that sort of book."--Diane White, Boston Globe
"[Sing Them Home] is a book written for cold winter nights by the fire. . . . Kallos excels at teasing out the emotional damage wrought by [the Jones siblings'] absent mother and remote father. . . . [She] is working in a vast landscape here, both emotional and physical [and] she handles it all with grace, giving each character and plotline a satisfying finish, like chords resolving themselves."—Shawna Seed, The Dallas Morning News
"With empathy and wit, Kallos weaves together the stories of the living and the dead, creating a world in which love trumps loss and faith can summon redemption. The result is a magical novel that even cynics will close with a smile."—Michelle Green, People (3½ out of 4 stars)
"[Sing Them Home] is a welcome reminder that good contemporary writing can still move slowly. . . . The reader is left with a feeling that the author, the story and the characters have somehow been uncommonly generous in their presentation. . . . Death, loss and remembering are integral parts of the story, and the language of the book can be, at times, wonderfully elegiac and ruminative. . . . [Kallos's] own genuine emotion infuses and drives the story."—Holly Silva, St. Louis Dispatch
"Fans of Ann Patchett and Haven Kimmel should dive onto the sofa one wintry weekend with Stephanie Kallos's wonderfully transportive second novel, Sing Them Home. . . . [A] keenly empathetic description of life in . . . . Emlyn Springs, one of those all-too-rare small towns in literature, rich in personality but mercifully free of broad, condescending cliché. . . . As the novel floats back and forth from past to present, Kallos patiently reveals the hurt and longing that's pounding beneath the surface . . . [and] the ending may leave you feeling so wistful for these strange, sad people that you find yourself fantasizing about a trip to Nebraska."—Karen Valby, Entertainment Weekly (A-)
"Not since the Wizard of Oz has a tornado been used to such potent literary effect. . . . Dorothy may have thought that there's no place like home, but what happens when there's no house left at the old address, and no real parent figure to go home to? The Jones siblings take a further step down the road to enlightenment: They learn that home is where the heart is. . . . Kallos performs ample wizardry in blending both tears and quirky humor in this tale of lost souls."—Barbara Lloyd McMichael, Seattle Times
"A compelling portrait of three adult siblings struggling to come to terms with their father's sudden death. . . . Kallos writes with sympathetic insight into the quirks of each of the survivors, bringing her readers a family saga tinged with mysticism, humor and pathos, and peopled with characters not soon forgotten."—Deborah Donovan, Bookpage
"Sing Them Home ushers us into small-town life, with all its distinctive cultural nuances, eccentric personalities, and homegrown secrets. With the same beauty and lyricism of her first novel, Broken for You, Kallos stitches together a colorful patchwork of memories and images, creating a rich narrative fabric that develops and changes as it passes through each character's hands."—Heather Paulson, Booklist
"[A] fresh, invigorating novel . . . Kallos tenderly shows us [her characters'] failings as they stumble, in a realistic and satisfying manner, toward better selves. Highly recommended."—Library Journal (starred review)
"Kallos's enthralling second novel takes the reader by storm. . . . [Sing Them Home] will find a welcome audience in anyone who has experienced grief, struggled with family ties or, most importantly, appreciates blossoming talent."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Brilliant . . . A richly textured, deeply satisfying, and enduring read—a whirlwind of aching sadness, secret histories, sex that's by turns empty and angry and sloppy and transformative, moments of great sweetness and joy that are never saccharine, and ultimately, resolution and redemption that are well-earned and in no way false or forced. Before Sing Them Home, Kallos was already, arguably, the best first-novelist of the Aughts; now it's abundantly clear that she's becoming quite a bit more than that."—Stephan Nathans-Kelly, First Look Books
Atlantic Monthly Press, 9780871139634, 560pp.
Publication Date: January 1, 2009
Stephanie Kallos spent twenty years in the theater as an actress and teacher, and her short fiction has been nominated for both a Raymond Carver Award and a Pushcart Prize. She is the author of the highly-acclaimed novel, Broken for You, which won the 2005 Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association Award and was selected by Sue Monk Kidd for Today's Book Club, going on to become a national best-seller.
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Tornados frame this whirlwind of a book, those of 1978 and 2004 in Nebraska. How are these events both apocalyptic and miraculous? See pages 531-533 for a dizzying tornado experience.
What does the title mean? How is the Welsh singing a lifeline for Emlyn Springs? Are music and tornados linked in some kind of magic realism? Look at pages 162-163: a whole town sings to a stranded child in a wind-carried, upside down cedar tree.
After she is miraculously rescued, still on her bicycle seat, Bonnie believes she has seen her mother swirled into the atmosphere into the arms of an angel. "The event shaped Bonnie Jones to believe in the improbable, that's sure, and in magic" (p. 163). Is Bonnie's oblique angle on life a curse or a gift for her?
"It's grotesque, Hope. . . . It's part Irish wake, part Jerusalem wailing wall, and entirely morbid" (p. 131). Is Llewellyn's view of "singing them home" accurate? "In Emlyn Springs, no one is said to be truly dead until they've been sung to in this manner" (p. 139), in chorus, in shifts, for seventy-two hours. Is this a stunningly appropriate ceremony for the passing of a human life?
What kind of person is Llewellyn Jones? How soon does Hope see their marriage as a mismatch? Do we credit her early opinion that he was closed and incommunicative? (Does he seem to be the same person with Viney?) How is he as a father? What does Hope see as his treacheries? How much does she care about his infidelity? How do Dr. Jones's medical ethics come into question?
Another natural disaster is the lightning bolt that strikes Llewellyn down. Do you accept Viney's theory that he was complicit in his own death? That he was bringing a judgment on himself? "He wanted to die. He was not hers. They never really belonged to each other" (p. 72). Yet the children assure Viney that their father and she had made a marriage together.
What are some of the interpolated stories that might at first seem diversions but actually give insight into central concerns of the book?
Both Gaelan and Larken achieve success in their careers. How do both suffer humiliation and debacle?
What can we say about the nature of friendship in the book? Hope and Viney? Larken and Jon and Esme? Bonnie and Blind Tom? Others? What is suggested about relationships that begin in friendship and end in romance?
How do hate and love coexist in friendship, love affairs, and marriage in this book?
Were you surprised by the Hope that emerged in her diary? Does this Hope seem different from what you expected? Does she continue to reveal new facets as the story goes on? Does this repeated device of the diary bring the past to life again? "I have the disease to thank for this clearsightedness" (p. 500).
How much do the characters know about each other? Larken's secret vices must be obvious from her shape, but can anyone in her department or family understand the magnitude of her addiction? Gaelan, too, displays outwardly his workout obsession, but who really assesses his promiscuity before he is investigated? Does Bethan take his measure? How does the quilt work both for and against him?
"Unique to midwesterners, Larken has observed over the years, is an uncanny ability to make a statement of absolution insinuate blame and incite guilt" (p. 112). Is it unique to midwesterners? (Some who read Joy Luck Club thought, yes, it's Chinese mothers, but also Texas mothers, Jewish mothers, Italian mothers, etc.). Here it's Viney, with all her virtues, turning the screw.
"Hope makes a few quick notes in her diary, characterizing her children: Larken: Heavy, judgmental, fraudulent, afraid. Gaelan: Closed, disconnected, libidinous, un-self-aware. Bonnie: Imprisoned, silent, obsessed. Liars, all of them. And so humorless!" (p. 68). Are these evaluations just?
Why do we care about these people? What is it that makes us curious about their motives and their fates? As neurotic and demon-driven as the three siblings are, how are they also sublimely human and happily inconsistent? Although they are unlikely heroic material, each has moments of real contribution to other people. Give examples.
Some of the most dazzling writing in Sing Them Home shows us the pathological addictions of Gaelan and Larken. Find examples of compelling portraits of a weight-lifting serial seducer and a frantic compulsive eater. Is there hope at the end for the three driven characters, Larken, Gaelan, and Bonnie? Any sense of liberation from their demons?
"The witch remains firmly affixed to her seat, feigning frailty and trying to simulate a compassionate expression. She must be ninety if she's a day, Larken reflects. Why do the mean ones always live the longest? 'Hello, Miss Axthelm'" (p. 113). Where else does Kallos give us this kind of refreshing malice?
"Even Blind Tom knows that his eccentricities put him at the fringes of normalcy. How lucky that he landed here, in this small, benevolent, provincial place insulated by geography and human will, where such eccentricities are more than accepted: They are ignored" (p. 332). Describe Emlyn Springs. In some small towns, we recognize people from afar by their walk or the pet on a leash or a favorite baseball cap. In this Nebraska town, people are identified by the quality of their voices, their singing parts, bass, alto, tenor, soprano. Does it seem a protective atmosphere or a claustrophobic one? "There's a special kind of pretending that goes on in small towns. It involves neither willful ignorance nor blindness. It is the opposite of gossip: a pretense of not knowing" (p. 408).
"The gift of bones is a profound comfort to the living—little else satisfies . . . Their mother went up. She never came down" (p. 3). Does this explain why Larken feels more gratitude than grief when she views her father's body? How was Viney's grief about her dead son protracted (some bones and teeth) and yet still somehow better than the anguish of mothers of MIA soldiers in Vietnam?
There are numerous personal symbols in the novel, e.g. Larken studies the symbols of the Merode; Gaelan uses symbols in his forecasting; Bethan refers to the symbolism of the Welsh love spoon she gives Gaelan. What purpose do symbols serve in the lives of these characters? Do you have any personal symbols in your own life?
How is the image of the Merode used as a template throughout the book? Larken talks about weaving the stories of the six characters in the Merode: how does this apply to Larken's personal life? What roles does each character take on at various times in the book? (i.e. Who plays the Gatekeeper? The Virgin? etc.) Are there any images in the novel that reflect particular aspects of the Merode painting?
How do signs, whether literal or metaphorical, influence the lives of the main characters, particularly Bonnie and Larken? Are you a person who looks for signs when making significant decisions? Do you believe in such things? What "signs" have you encountered in your own life?
How does the idea of sight factor into the novel? In what way do unseen elements of the story affect observable events and actions? Name some examples of how characters view the past, present, and future, and what serves to hinder some from seeing what's right in front of them.


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MediaGuardian 100 2012 1-100
MediaGuardian 100 2012
12. Jeff Bezos
The Amazon founder continues to innovate, taking the battle to Apple, Netflix and Google in the digital marketplace
Sun 16 Sep 2012 17.38 EDT First published on Sun 16 Sep 2012 17.38 EDT
Job: founder and chief executive, Amazon
Industry: digital media and online retail
2011 ranking: 12
Almost 20 years after he launched Amazon in his Seattle garage, Jeff Bezos's fervour to innovate and stay one step ahead of opponents remains undimmed.
Earlier this month Bezos unveiled new versions of its best-selling Kindle Fire tablet and e-reader, called Paperwhite ("thinner than a magazine, lighter than a paperback"), stealing Apple's thunder ahead of the launch of a rival mini-iPad.
Since launching in 1994 the online retail giant has rewritten the rules of traditional bookselling and publishing, and made the decisive move to dominate the wider digital content market with the launch of the first version of the Kindle Fire "iPad killer" last autumn.
Since then, the Kindle Fire has hoovered up 22% of tablet sales in the US and it was jingle all the way at Christmas with 95% of the 1.3m e-readers sold over the festive period in the UK.
Trade title the Bookseller reckons that Amazon controls at least 70% of the UK ebook market, which will be worth an estimated £500m in 2012, but Bezos's masterplan is to dominate a digital marketplace for content akin to Apple. Bezos is also moving into video on demand (Amazon Prime, LoveFilm), music streaming (Cloud Player) and digital storage (Cloud Drive). The Amazon Prime subscription targets fans of US online film service Netflix. This was underlined earlier this month in a major deal with premium movie channel Epix, which includes titles such as Avengers and Iron Man 2.
Sensing the threat of Netflix's international expansion, Bezos moved to take total control of LoveFilm – Amazon owned a 42% stake since 2008 – to move the UK business beyond its DVD-by-post roots to streaming video.
Netflix arrived in the UK and Ireland in January to find a well-prepared opponent hurriedly sewing up digital rights for movies.
Amazon is also waging digital war on the music front, with ambitious and controversial streaming service the Cloud Player, and is not afraid to tackle Google in the digital storage stakes with the Cloud Drive.
The 48-year-old has also kept himself busy beyond plotting digital media domination. Bezos and his wife MacKenzie pledged $2.5m to supporters of gay marriage in Washington state, in what is believed to be the largest-ever single donation to the campaign for same-sex unions in the US, after an employee emailed him asking if he might cough up just a 10th of that figure.
His other passion is space; he created a private aerospace company called Blue Origin in 2000 with an aim to make space travel more affordable, and earlier this year announced he had found the long-submerged F-1 engines used in the Apollo 11 moon mission. He hopes to raise one or more of the five engines from 4,300m below the Atlantic ocean's surface.
Never one to think about slowing down, Bezos is also spending millions to create a clock that is meant to last for 10,000 years in the wilds of west Texas.

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Crime Networks and Governance in Cape Town The Quest for Enlightened Responses
Charles Goredema
Khalil Goga
Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
Criminal Governance
Crime Networks
The enduring nature of organised crime in Cape Town is explained in this paper. It explores the impact of crime networks on systems and formal structures of governance. It confirms the findings of earlier research that crime networks may be more integrated into the sociopolitical disparities among its inhabitants in terms of income, living conditions and access to services, which in turn influence the way in which the formal systems of governance in the city are perceived. The state cannot exercise its authority in many areas of Cape Town where organised crime wields significant power, has capitalised on economic opportunities, and can manipulate and corrupt the state. Solutions to eradicate organised criminal networks generally do not acknowledge the underlying context that sustains them and also stress stronger policing and repression, while paying insufficient attention to deficiencies in other state capacities. State interventions need to be more holistic, more carefully considered and should acknowledge that much organised crime reflects a dysfunctional society in Cape Town. Without an overarching strategy of reform, organised crime will continue to plague affected communities.


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Audit: Less than 20 percent of Kansas Economic Development Fund money spent as intended in fiscal 2018 Featured
By	Chuck Samples November 25, 2019	264
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A recent audit report from the Kansas Legislative Post Audit Division says a only small percentage of certain economic development funds are being spent as indicated, and the state either needs to step up its oversight or change its approach to how those dollars are allocated.
The Post Audit Division recently released its findings about the Economic Development Initiative Fund, which uses proceeds from the Kansas Lottery and spent around $42 million in fiscal 2018. Post Audit Manager Kristen Rottinghaus says the state should be following a set of so-called best practices to ensure the money is spent as indicated. It's not.
Post Audit says only about 18 percent of lottery proceeds sent to the EDIF in fiscal 2018 was appropriated as intended by lawmakers. Thirty-four percent was related to economic development but not as intended, while 48 percent was not related to economic development at all. The report does not offer details on which projects received funding as intended and which ones did not.
Auditors are recommending either the creation of an oversight committee to make sure expenditures follow state law or change the law to follow current practices. Click here for a link to the report.
Delay in Kansas Lottery vending machine installation affecting mental health agencies
Separately, lawmakers are paying close attention after delays for installing Kansas Lottery vending machines in different businesses -- which may cut short money earmarked for mental health programs and facilities.
The vending machines should have been installed in stores last year, but the process didn't start until August and the first round of installations may not be complete until March 2020. The Topeka Capital-Journal says the state's network of mental health crisis centers were among several agencies not receiving a dime from vending machine revenues after expecting upwards of $4 million. The law allowing this equipment said mental health centers would get up to $6 million a year through net profits from the vending machines.
The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services received less than $150,000 by mid-November for its Clubhouse suite of programs. It was supposed to get up to $2 million per year in net profits.
The Kansas Lottery could install around 500 ticket machines in 1,700 businesses statewide by March 2021. Around 270 machines could be installed by next spring.
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Genetic genealogy leads to arrest in sword-stabbing cold case
Scott Martinez (left) was killed in 2006. Police have arrested a distant relative of Martinez, Zachary Bunney (in mug shot at right).
(Photo of Bunney courtesy of the Washington County Sheriff's Office)
By Teri Figueroa
For more than 12 years, police searched for a killer, one who ambushed and repeatedly plunged a sword into a La Mesa man, likely as soon as the victim walked into his own apartment.
Police found blood from an unknown source — possibly from the killer — at the scene. But leads in the June 2006 slaying of Scott Martinez ran dry. Searches of DNA crime databases yielded no matches.
Then last fall, armed with crime-scene DNA data, a team of four genetic genealogists working with Parabon NanoLabs took on the case. It took about a weekend of digging for them to come up with the name of a suspect: Zachary Bunney.
On Thursday, La Mesa police announced they had arrested 39-year-old Bunney in the death of 47-year-old Martinez. They did not discuss a motive and declined to go into detail about the investigation. Bunney has not yet been arraigned in El Cajon Superior Court.
The arrest came out of nowhere and also came as a relief to Martinez's adult daughter, Angelina Martinez, who said Thursday her dad had been her best friend and that he died on Father's Day weekend.
"It's finally over," she said. "I can breathe."
The arrest marks the second known local case in which genetic genealogy has led police to publicly identify a murder suspect. In November, Carlsbad police cited the method when naming a suspect in the 2007 killing of Jodine Serrin. (The suspect killed himself in 2011.)
When genetic genealogists came up with Bunney's name, it was "news to me," said La Mesa police Det. Ryan Gremillion, the lead investigator on the case. It had not been a name on his radar.
Genetic genealogy came to the forefront as a crime-solving tool in April with the announcement that it had been used to catch the suspected Golden State Killer — so named for a crime spree that included at least 13 murders and more than 50 rapes in California from 1974 to 1986.
After that case made headlines, Gremillion asked his bosses for permission to give the method a try in the Martinez case.
How genetic genealogy works
Here's how the method works: Police upload DNA from a crime scene into a public repository of DNA profiles in hopes that the evidence shares markers with what exists in the database. If there is enough of a family connection between the crime-scene DNA samples and a profile in the database, experts might be able to figure out whose DNA was left at the site of a homicide.
Police do not use or have access to databases of consumer DNA sites such as Ancestry or 23andMe.
Instead, law-enforcement-based searches are done in public databases — GEDmatch, with 1.2 million DNA profiles, is the biggest.
Consumers must intentionally upload their data into sites like GEDmatch to be a part of its database. Many of the users are eager to figure out who their ancestors were. But some are genetic genealogists working with police to solve a violent crime.
In the Martinez slaying, the name genealogists came up with was not that of a close family member, said CeCe Moore, chief genetic genealogist with Parabon. It was a more distant relative.
"We had to do quite a lot of work to pull the pieces together," Moore said.
Traditional methods cement the case
Once armed with a name, Gremillion followed up with more traditional investigative methods.
The detective learned that, at the time of the killing, Bunney was a 26-year-old La Mesa resident. He had since moved to Oregon and was living in Hillsboro, outside metro Portland.
Gremillion secured a warrant that allowed him to obtain a DNA sample from Bunney.
La Mesa Police Chief Walt Vasquez said investigators found a lot of evidence at the crime scene, including blood they believed came from the suspect. Testing revealed that the DNA Bunney provided matched DNA left at Martinez's slaying scene.
A judge issued a warrant for Bunney's arrest. He was picked up Jan. 10 and jailed in Oregon on a charge of murder.
It was not immediately clear whether Bunney had an attorney.
As of Thursday, Bunney was still in an Oregon jail. La Mesa police said he would be brought back to San Diego County and was slated to be arraigned Friday.
"Justice may have been delayed," San Diego Dist. Atty. Summer Stephan said, "but we will do our best to make sure it is not denied."
Although an arrest has been made, the case is still under active investigation, authorities said.
Tipsters with information about the case can contact Gremillion, the lead detective, at (619) 667-7537 or rgremillion@ci.la-mesa.ca.us.
Anonymous tips can be left by calling San Diego Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477, or go to SDCrimeStoppers.org.
Figueroa writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Waste perpetuum
Adam Generator
If I scratch the back of my head,
it's okay!
There is only sawdust in it,
yeah, yeah, yey!
But although there's only sawdust,
All these shouties & those screamies,
And also the noisies, pantloudies and sighpuffies...
I compose them rather nicely on some days!
Plan of the paper.
1. Philosophy of the process. The idea of continuous movement - Garbage billow- Waste civilization.
2. Practical pyrolysis - A fresh look.
3. Fast pyrolysis of the new. The idea of Adam.
4. Explosive pyrolysis - high-speed technology from slowpoke.
5. Isle of cooperation - clean technologies.
6. Flying thoughts - Fiction or nonsense. World state.
7. Generator Adamov - list of ideas of the first echelon:
7.1. Wheel of Adam. Ideas - The energy of movement
7.2. Russian hybrid car - the generator on the cheap fuel.
7.3. Company Amer - Armenian (hard-won) the idea of life.
7.4. Detonation generator - real, eco-friendly small, complex energy industry.
7.5. Gas breakthrough - Russian economic idea and strategy.
7.6. Russ forward - Spiritual Unity, non-violent expansion of the Russian world.
7.7. Empire Adamov - Russian Spirit in the Rainbow world.
This article should be regarded as advertising, where, without legal registration ideas and inventions are fixed, if you are an individual western type person, or as a trial, where the open, in the light of the Russian world view, dealing with specific versions of the technical solutions to the urgent problems of modern, diverse society, if you are a classifies this world.
The question: "Why is so that the Russian Worldview is opposed to individualism and private?" we will leave open for the first ones, and will offer jointly conceive, to comprehend the laws of all of the diversity that surrounds us for the rest.
An introduction to Russian culture and system of values is possible only in the unique and unrepeatable Russian language, the best guide to the depth of knowledge and a holistic review of the space.
It's preferable to enjoy the experience of our wised and enlightened our fellow, whose names and works little by little will appear in the links to my articles. In this, the particular case, we will look more closely at one of the most painful problems of modern civilization; lack of resources, habitat destruction and garbage billow.
All three factors are common result of reckless, irresponsible and ugly (free) development and insatiable (market) consumption, brought together with a raging crowd, restless devotees of democracy (self-herd govern), progress (baseless faith of unbelievers in a positive future) to the place of moderate, severe and sensible living by strict rules laid down in the traditions of the race, arising from one faith in God the Father, creator and benefactor of the whole created world, and Homo sapiens.
This confrontation between the forces of chaos and order is a formula of life and all things living. Steady, periodic structuring of general and indifferent mass, with the pledged protection program and reproduction - incomprehensible, for easy understanding, the phenomenon - the eternal way of using the device - perpetuum from God.
1 Continuous movement - the essence of space device - its basic principle of existence, which is based on another amazing givens - the substance is packaged form of motion (energy) E = MC2. These semi-timeless categories, matter and space (within the observable horizon of practice and science) allow us to make a bold assumption that the substance is a form of the existence of energy, and the observed universe - infinite game of vortex, fractal structures, nested.
Search and thoughts on this subject are a natural urge for scientific minds and amateurs. Inner conviction about the "absolute" reason rule, "naturalness" of any physical content, "honesty" of all occurring interconversion is the basis of the scientific worldview. "Nothing can come out of nothing and become nothing" - this concise formulation at the same time contains the paradox of unity and unexplained rational - a self-contained beginning and a noble, harmonious world order with arising consequent conclusions; of boundaries for seemingly infinite time, infinity of seemingly finite life, of limited seemingly open universe.
Nature - the brainchild of (creation) of the Supreme – is diverse and beautiful; there is music - soul and rhythm - the hidden patterns, where all events are combined in a common matrix dance, which always pairs the will of chance and divine providence, the beginning and the end. This demonic dance is seen as a Divine Providence, the other as sinful, frail and temporary peace.
And one should slowly learn the laws of nature with the aim of understanding more universal laws, and after receiving more extensive picture, to move away from the disturbing, painful life, to gain peace of mind, to indulge in creative expression and emotional, eventful life. However, real life does not obey the righteous spells, does not meet the writer's review and cannot be described by mathematical formulas - it pushes us, drives and bents.
Flow of time, which is likely the result of multiplication of the human race, cross-breeding and technical progress made, has forced a large part of humanity stepping aside from the traditional, measured way and go to the primitive, market system of relations, where suitability and management are cornerstones, instead of sustainable community of well-being and harmony.
In commodity-money relations all aspects of life were standardized, brought satiety and vanity, saddled with thousands of life absurd innovations.
Miserable, arrogant urban civilization, armed with the ideology of short perspectives safely crushes the well-established foundations of culture, family, nations and overlooks the main thing - the unnatural existence isn't consistent - the urban people are dying, the number of population is supported from the outside, giving way to more and more of all sorts of perversion.
Modern, urbanized city is the opposite to natural, living elements.
Nature and all living things, as a single, integer, rational, flexible and reflexive obedience to the circumstances following the plan of the Creator, claims and keeps life in all corners of our common home - a healthy and colorful life. This natural and perpetual system that runs on solar energy requires no administration and maintenance (but it would not be a burden), it has no waste and wear - there is variability, rebirth and complementarity.
The principle of harmonious coexistence of different systems in unity is a law of nature, which, rootless and mongrel devils neglect with particular zeal, arranging global revolutions, world wars, new malware technology, creating crazy theories - dethroning anything and everything into chaos. Ruining living sphere by half, a quarter of population (prosperity is not enough for all) have met their demand and have arranged a benefit and comfort. Our self-shredding civilization is a hybrid - a mutant of reason and intelligence, has downgraded the great space concept to edible, individual, earthly things.
Freedom "subdued" the will, the law "presents" the honor, and the quality has given way to the quantity, "ownership" turned into "property", "oath" has cut "prayer", the state (kingdom) was reorganized into the country (public clamoring crowds), with country head sitting on the throne - narcissistic, arrogant and smug.
The main consequence of this civilization was the destruction of the natural harmony in places of settlement, the degradation of the human spirit and waste billow. The closer to people - the more of eternal waste. Grand landfills became satellites of big cities. The same hell is going on in the media field, the noise, the buzz (and shameless commercials) – complete mess - people get sick, whales and dolphins suffer - bees die.
Risk of current trends in environmental issues recognized and taken some measures to counter. Efforts of «green" and some "white" state give local fruit, but to reverse the terrible trend of global pollution and deterioration of the natural environment, when you create the actual technical solutions, applied everywhere, and changing the lifestyle of the individual, society and the whole of humanity - requires interaction. To build Communism at once didn't work with us (in Russia), but it was a rich experience, and therefore we will try to begin to solve the problem in portions, but in line with the general plan. Special competitive advantages; endless spaces, multiple resources, simple-minded, mischievous people, ready for any daring project, good experts accustomed to a modest life and strong, and thank God, wise and finally Russian in spirit Tsar suggest the next stage of Russian factor in world history, giving us hope on a way to a constructive, just, prosperous, conscientious world.
The first step to health and well-being - its cleanliness and order in the home. You cannot make a mess and the more accumulate any man-made crap. Something should be abandoned, and the rest is processed into useful or safe, neutrals. Pyrolysis will help us to cope with the huge quantities of waste paper, cardboard, cellophane, organics, rubber and plastics, sludge and junk.
Me, like many others, is an advocate of simple solutions, where practicality is preferred to any frills and unnecessary complication for which, one way or another, have to pay the new, bleak concerns.
2. Practical pyrolysis. Technological revolution - the third level.
Revolution are spontaneous and organized, bloody and quiet, sexy and orange (perversion of some sort), "French" and "Russian" depending on time, place and composition of freezing and uneducated rabble, who by virtue of their weak character strikes "to change for the better", meaning to destroy. This flashy brethren, not being capable of anything else, uses primitive chants and directs the enraged masses to the main goal - structure of power, ignoring perished and ruined souls, total damage and, even more, long-term consequences of their "creative" activities.
There is another (mirror) version of the transient changes - Technical revolution, when the amount of certain engineering innovations, essentially turns your everyday life, production or transportation. At the same time, in the foreground we have the obvious advantages in cost and convenience, but in the long run, there are new challenges associated with the new conditions. Technological revolution, as a rule, is a joint activity of a large number of specialists in different fields and backgrounds, and therefore has an international and democratic character. It is more humane because lesser by ideology and is undertaken by people educated, moderate in their approach and responsible for professional training. The best examples of those Revolutions became electric and steam engines, internal combustion engines, diesel, aviation, telephony, atomic energy, mobile communications, computers, internet.
All these achievements are required to step through the development, which eventually turned into a systematic education, transmission and processing of information, funding for science and research. Now, as we stand on the threshold of semi-fairy, semi-devilish innovations, such as "intelligent machines", "virtual reality", "warriors cockroaches", "chip in the head", "Cyborg" and other horror, frightening and worrying engineers themselves, requires rethinking and restriction of the self-propelled and formidable mechanism called "civilization". Feeling as if we together in the track of progress are moving towards a bright future, is deceptive. Technical civilization only increases its power and extends the submission of environment in its favor. This greedy multi-headed and fire-breathing monster, ramming and burning out a nursing ground, requires more and more resources and space. Any unmanaged and rapidly growing process eventually exhausts itself. Continuous (natural) processes are cyclical, economical and have circular trajectories. That's why in Russian language (natural) words are filled with physical, deep meaning.
Such as; round out - ends the cycle - finish. Look over - look - outline. Outlook – look around – draw image. In Russian culture the emphasis is on self-restraint and modesty, and is combined with the collective spirit and ancestral way of life, the most fundamental and therefore our preference is "we", "our" and "homeland" above "I," "my" and "mine" preference which transcends any time any circumstances.
Let's grope, but will not expand, the divine essence of the number three (3 letters), and the third level in Russian world order. (World Number are 3-letter words in Russian)
Holy Trinity-Father, Son and Holy Spirit
Russian tricolor (reality, Nav, rules) [1]
Three heroes (god, Thor, Tur)
Three girls under the window
In the Far Far Away kingdom three decades away State
Tripod (three points of support - balanced)
Three time thinking not to get lost in three trees let's go to the third level of development (beginning, extension, termination)
The final stage - the most important to ensure the continuity of the system.
Man should be conceived, given birth and raised.
Earth is to conquer, to inhabit and protect.
Traditions should be created, enriched and passed further on.
And the most simple in this series: anything produced, after use, should be dismantled, desirable to use wisely and for subsequent cycles.
Pyrolysis decomposition (destruction) fire is the purest and accessible. In the pyrolysis process, we obtain oil, coal, gas, heat and sterile ash. In order this technology may become a part of life, more refinement and technology will be required together with "blue blood".
Comrade Adam proposes to use the most powerful fire, explosion, detonation or thermite.
Purifying fire -to these processes has the literal meaning. Let's consider the options from simple to complex.
The idea is to reverse the trend of increasing pollution simple and inexpensive installation pyrolysis proceeds from the following:
1. It's more simple, smarter and cheaper to recycle garbage at the first point of the cluster. For this event you need to make process practical and profitable.
2. Equipment should be priced so as not to cut off most of the people (which by the grace of our civilization, yet is shamefully poor) from the opportunity to live in a clean and well-being.
3. The device, service and reliability must be related to the conditions of operation: remote farm, a small village a closed suburban greenhouse, the military part of the school. In the big cities - is a versatile company which unites the boiler room, recycle, greenhouse and a correctional institution, where petty thieves, hooligans and alcoholics are treated with occupational therapy.
The design takes into account the following skills and requirements:
1. Maximum simplification of the design, with a minimum of moving parts to ensure reliability and availability of equipment for the price and the geography of the application - the first requirement.
2. Integration of the pyrolysis process with greenhouse farming or utilities where there is a demand for heat will help to make recycling a profitable enterprise.
3. Combination in a single installation of thermal radiation and the vortex created by the superheated steam, qualitatively transforms the process.
Rural option. Continuous, combined with processing and heating.
Principle of operation.
Vertical design, phallic symbol "AR" (Tyurin M.)
Functioning of the natural cyclic movement of the material under its own weight as the expansion.
Afterburning of carbon in the combustion chamber due to the taper of a simple controlled shutter.
Preparation of the liquid fraction and direct combustion of the gas fraction.
Uninterrupted reload of a new portion of the material (neglecting weak outgassing when opening the hatch or more technologically use an auger, a continuous supply of raw materials)
Visual control of fire - fuel can be added at any time through the door. The air is regulated by mechanical dampers fixed to fans blowing the combustion chamber.
Exhaust fan, reduces the requirements for sealing the top of the door and forcing cone of the flame.
A little worry is over the reliability of the gate, located in the inferno, but modern materials and advanced solutions, this site overall design (it is easy to process combustible waste into fuel and heat).
Pilot device operates powerfully and efficiently. Video
3. Fast pyrolysis. Russian option- Arktyusha
Detonation combustion for the majority of the educated layman of the minority that is in general about what is heard - well, what is there burning. For the few specialists in this profile is a special burning with its rules, to elect a nuclear reaction, where fuel is a catalyst. Detonation tube (DT) is the minimum equipment, the maximum technology. This is the most efficient combustion. Detonation is accompanied by a loud noise, vibration, thermal (photon) radiation and exhaust pressure. All these disruptive and inconvenient factors highly relevant in the decomposition of the substance - pyrolysis. Version of the application from Adam.
1. DT is mounted inside the chamber radiation heats the material and powerful oscillating vortex on exhaust circuit (vibration, vortex, and radiation - Best destroyers) containing water vapor assist the rapid degradation of the material fed to the reactor.
2. Raw material is dosed and fed continuously into the through-passage within the pipe and downstream of continuously decomposes the output is a carbon mass which, in turn, under the action of the outgoing pipe superheated water vapor is converted into synthesis gas.
3. The liquid fraction is retained in the water -Gas used for combustion or electricity generation. Fig.
Expected benefits: utilitarian design of small size, there is nothing to spoil.
The heat input is much higher than the flame heating, continuous feeding of raw materials, the process is cost effective - heat and fuel produced, the unit uses fuel produced from waste, (naphtha, low-octane gasoline mixed with a wax)
Mobile version - Arktyusha, universal, pyrolysis-generating plant, on the basis of the rover will be a great base for small business and engineering rescue teams. The name is composed of three major semantic syllables; Ar (Arius, Armenia), Arch (Arch, Arctic, Bear) and Katyusha (Russian, victorious jet weapon). The equipment itself has a military nature (use low-maintenance and easy to deal with complex and dangerous tasks) and will be designed to produce electricity, heat and pure water from the wood, peat, sludge and any debris in the autonomous and mobile mode. When equipped with a minimum of complex construction and rescue equipment (drills, jack, welding machine, crane, and so forth), we obtain a new and unique system for development and livelihoods in remote areas of Siberia and the north. These units, with good communication and military bearing, become reference points for learning, management, and security in the province.
4. Explosive pyrolysis - Impact (breakthrough) technology. Chinese version.
The explosion of a substance with a sharp energy impact of the long-known phenomenon (explosion of metal, the anomalous behavior of uranium, high-speed projectiles)
The proposed idea - a valuable revolutionary and surprisingly harmless. Wedge - wedge knock. Solid construction is not dismantled and destroyed by impact, explosion or better hooking power elements detonation cords. Release of energy (power) at metallothermal reaction, most of controlled reactions, free of foreign gases and compounds, the result of the reaction solid, stable, reversible in the initial substances. Guiding assumption: the ultrafast photonic effects on the substance should be explosive self-destruction of the substance into its component with minimum energy expenditure, without the need for drying and sorting. If the idea is correct, then the arena breaks available, revenue, high ecological technology allows everybody and everywhere to recycle waste into money (oil) and heat. To do this, you need to rehearse this explosive process for "little -lot" ready to start production of thermite mixtures, compact reactors and forward to the development of the vast landfills.
This version, as a tribute to the myth of the Chinese invention of gunpowder and the real state, technical cast, called the Chinese (we hope that with the Chinese comrades, we will turn it into a new energy paradigm)
The production costs of termite repaid tenfold by the resulting energy and fuel.
Possible options for the reactor:
1. Cylindrical - layered reaction
2. Spherical - a one-time reaction. Refractory high-pressure reactor, immersed in an underground pool.
3. Ultra version - underground, waste gulping dragon - a large-scale and powerful combination of the preceding ones.
In the third version of all the processes and components are working in the most simple technical execution and maximum sizes, high efficiency and safety. To the average engineer and readers will appreciate the beauty of ideas, we'll do the necessary explanations:
GENERATOR - DRAGON. Garbage perpetual Adam.
1. The processing of raw materials in a huge pit with a water jacket, where giant DT is placed.
2. Starting and idling is provided by compressed gas produced in the pyrolysis process
3. Detonation tube has a thermal emission in both parties - net (photon) toward the entrance, we use for heating the reactor synthesis - gas consumable itself DT. For this purpose, paraffin and watered sludge is pumped from the first vessel into the reactor. This process is regulated by additional injection of cold water.
4. All the thermal energy of the process, superheated (acute) steam from the outside, heat exchange loop through line wrapped around the pipe is supplied to the steam-gas turbine, producing electricity and heat.
5. Outgoing hot gases passing through again a second vessel with water purified and sent to the greenhouses or the production of algae, and hot water is circulated for heating purposes.
6. The system consists of simple standard components with increased reliability.
7. The only disadvantage - the event is noisy and hot, so, ideally, need to go down entirely underground, with minimal support staff.
The complex allows organizing life anywhere in the world using only the waste. All processes are rounded and closed in cycles. Degradation of heat, coupled with the pulsating detonation produces energy, heat, and fuel for the needs of the economy and transport from the inexhaustible source - garbage, domestic, ordinary. In a simple sense - it is the perpetual motion - waste perpetuum. Organic waste and plastic, as long as we are alive, do not lose anything.
5. Island cooperation. New high-quality combination.
Pioneers and pensioners.
Quality - a generalized property of things to find and maintain meaningful (target) Sustainable complication and of course, directly related to an increase in the amount does not have, but rather the number of substitutes; the number of items, labor, "metal", and energy consumption for a specific process. This occurs at the junction of the elements; energy (fast) processes, ethnic clashes, with the threat of the existence of an individual or a community in the art, it is a tricky weaving in the old structure with a new purpose and properties at the level of science - a new pattern consisting of a combination of the preceding. Itself the "quality" of high-energy - requires "Upload" of a certain amount of material, energy and information in a special design, but in the future it is always preferable, advantageous in its properties –more consistent and economical. Movement to a new level is a cyclic, a new level is based on the old (previous absorbing) - so built up and multiplied life.
Island in our subconscious, has sacred meaning - a heavenly solitude while reunification with virgin nature, where there is peace and harmony, pristine idyll, unencumbered necessity and concerns. Lush colors, intoxicating smells evoke a man's bodily sensuality. He organically feels in unity, its dual (the devil) entity - the divine plan and the earth (animal) origin. Here, every sensual nature, the sound of the sea waves, hears the cosmic symphony harmony of nature.
Many harried souls, at least in their dreams, mentally willing to hide in the woods or on the island thus returning to the first-born, natural bosom. But serene and carefree contemplation and enjoyment of bird chanting - is not life, but rather - a short break in the campaign to catch his breath. Life - a strong feeling, uncontrolled movement and change, and the struggle to overcome the circumstances and chance, predetermine our actions, a series of historical events, and new forms for eternal categories. Therefore, the life of the individual, we must be held accountable, but the existence of a temporary bridge kind and nature. Only aggregate being, should be taken as "real" (significant), timeless (eternal) - the absolute existence.
For me the ultimate dreamer and visionary, an ardent anti-Bolshevik, but a convinced "adviser", the idea of the future of human society begins with the small, away from the hectic hustle and Southerners, somewhere in the Altai, in the east, in Siberia, in the North. Where there is no falsehood and haste, where breathing is free, where healthy thoughts are born, feelings are very frankly, where the sacred spirit of white civilization dwells.
Russian, the skeleton of the white race, the military wing (in the presence of a small detachment peasantry, the Old Believers and special troops - clergy, the Church Fathers), preserved in spite of the heavy historical fate, divine form of radiant faces in healthy bodies and folding - with a clear mind and open hearts are in his melodious language and customs, cult Urs, grandparents and demigods, and in particular the respect for nature and the spiritual, compassionate towards all living things.
Japanese are direct opposite to Russian - painfully polite at first (rough) look "score and enchanted" - special, concealed (concentrated and very stressful) life form, obviously, which was the result of a brutal struggle for existence, Alien, "Russian-ness" appearance, movement , impulsive speech, huge overcrowding and the consequent activity outgrow as usual in aggression or depression, if the latter contained. And, given the cruel historical confrontation could enroll them into enemies of the Russian world, if not a few "funny" misunderstandings. Japanese (after our Old Believers) is the system (collective) people - living according to strict traditions and verified, with a special (refined to painful) feeling of nature and beauty. In the blood of the Japanese, and also a sense of duty, honor and responsibility for the actions. Be truthful and calm - subordinate rules, especially the unwritten - streaming Japanese feature, along with a fantastic ability to work, makes the concept of "Japanese economic miracle" an honest and endorses phenomenon in world history for the Russian heart. Before our eyes, a small country has transformed into a leading economic power, while maintaining, at the same time, their national identity. "Japanese quality" - is the pinnacle of human development in depth. There is a lot to learn and a wide field for fruitful cooperation. The deeper we delve into the culture and society of the Japanese unit, the darker introduce us, our home, "Vladimir Central" (like a bombed area) with horrible picture of ruined and disappeared villages with population of losing their roots and traditions, is in the amorphous state of the slow extinction.
Modern Russia, torn by wars and the Bolshevik experiment over the people, slightly recovered, but the recovery is still far. Social perpetuum - creative interaction of diverse energies, instead of useless confrontation will lead our progress towards a peaceful and joyful cohabitation, less strained and more meaningful to have curative effects on the economy and the state of mind of both nations. Russian and Japanese, of course, complement each other, the high-energy and very cheap to, like wheat (Russian) field and irrepressible (Japanese) bees that collect nectar from flowers and recycling it in the most useful products, promote fertility. For purposes of clarity, I propose the following formula friendship, based on reciprocity, in the title of the article. Pioneers (valiant solar energy) and pensioners (concentrated experience) playfully designed birdhouse (building a new type of human lives settlements existing on higher laws of creation, without straining the natural environment and evolving into the depths and breadth of the natural universe).
In practice, it should look like a large-scale eco project with Komsomol enthusiasm - construction JapanCity in the reservations - in the Altai, where, apparently, is the source of Slavic and Turkic families that gave rise to the Eastern world. These places - mystical and beautiful unique (beauty - a sign of divine content). The initiative must come from the awakening of Russia - from the King, and I hope the idea will appeal to Japanese pensioners, full of strength and knowledge.
Preference for the old Japanese is easily explained; Old age is not a biological misunderstanding (as considered idiotic, Western culture) and the highest form of personal development, which combines real life experiences with the acquired knowledge. The elder is always closer to the wisdom and God, he full of responsibility and understanding of the complex relationships of the events, he is cautious and prudent, unpretentious, he hears the breath of eternity. Word of the Elder in the Caucasus is a rule. "A wise old man... Wizard, beloved of the gods," in Russian culture, was the bearer and custodian of all the deep and holy to mass intoxication and poisoning revolutionary. In Japan, the glory of God - the veneration of age and seniority in the family, the community - the norm. A Japanese pensioner - to paraphrase Comrade Saahov (Caucasian Captive) – is a "warrior" and "environmentalist" and "noble reaper." Expanding areas of cooperation, we get away from the nipped problem of ownership of the islands inhabited since ancient times, sweet and pacified the Ainu in the direction of universal values. Islands in anticipation of the new, tight-knit world of "The Sea" – seafood – world ocean as a new life area of growing humanity.
Bulk list of a dozen local, self-sustaining, starting projects;
1. Russian-Japanese research center, which will be studied Soviet inventions and Japanese technology - Technology Center combined with education and innovation activities in the form of modern cluster - city of young scientists and technicians (Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Russia)
2. State Company "recycler", "industrial waste", "wasted technical devices" the exchange, processing under a single management.
3. Seafood for every day diet, a large-scale study and development of marine resources (ships, programs, institutions) and the Isle of Vladivostok.
4. Robots with a human face (live robot with human control, which will replace the physical presence and lead to the explosive development of Siberia).
5. Ethno - civilization. The idea of a decent life in harmony with the environment in the national culture - the city-state of the villages. Return to natural, high-quality (without noise and dust).
6. Institute of living life - biotechnology aimed at replacing the "chemistry" on the whole.
7. "Home - Garden" - the house in which the beauty is cultivated and products are grown with their own hands - creating new standard of living in daily communion with nature. ("Ikebana" in the housing and communal services).
8. Transport of the future.
It is important to note that all this must be done at the state level and with decent financing.
Natural to assume that participation will comprise all nations.
Japanese - a people of tradition and hidden (protected) entities. Russian - is combined with God's Word and spirit, open and beautiful community, located in the eternal (fearless) campaign to new heights. "Free Spirit" and "sense of proportion" - not contradictory, and different quality and blends well.
6. Chinese project. Labor – Quite a billion. Economic perpetuum.
Energy of the masses to the creative and economic development.
It's time to make a normal, human well-being, pure technology. It needs; revolution, the mantra of success, well, the more a declaration of war dark forces ("poor Jews" for his ability to make money and manage bad masses suffer the inconvenience). Too much honor - will make do with simple neglect. Increasing technical power, advanced technology and experience of life, allow converting all mankind to the next level - reasonable sufficiency within the cultural traditions and a healthy reproduction peoples.
Every time has its place and specificity. The present is predetermined content of the previous imposed, events. Future - is formed by our deeds as a complex game of plans, will and chance. The ability to anticipate and invent the future is given the fortune-tellers and good experts. The need to participate in the structuring of your future today and now, due to the increased number of human and dangerous, uncontrollable processes in finance and international relations, with a heap of the current problems in the field of environmental, labor, and distribution. Urgent task is to overcome confrontation and to save mankind from the perspective of planetary catastrophe. As the top task - we must unite in an honest society, albeit with different faces. At least we have to overcome poverty, hunger and disease - that cruel necessity which irritates and makes us miserable and helpless. The first task should be delegated to the higher people; educated, responsible and gifted by God. To our great regret, money rules the world, under the guise of the newly elected demagogues who do not care for real life. Since I had not the honor to be among the "higher", and "happiness" to be in the range of "selected", the fate decrees pull heavy burden of uncomfortable life together with the bulk of the workers. In this regard, the idea of honest labor and life in the big and just state, for me, the most dear and fascinating.
Project World State - New World - a version of a simple Soviet engineer. Constructed based on the Soviet experience (the most ambitious and largely successful, global project) - economic (economic) perpetuum.
A world where there is a place for all living things - the order and beauty, harmony and creativity, joy and health.
The Russian idea. Live according to conscience and in harmony, content with natural, sufficient, use simple, according to the rule - the most useful is the best. Russian prehistoric life and customs – free from such items of miserable necessity as money, profit, and customer demand – continue to live in the minds of the Russian people today. Therefore, Russian world with all my heart opposes "capitalismus" and mercantile individualism.
So; our large construction teams, focused to build fair and prosperous society; modern, but traditional settlements in the new lands, will require:
Faith, backed by the will, the desire to learn and to join forces and capabilities..
Chinese - energy (Russian have suffered through, we need, easy, creative idea - "Northern Lights")
American money (Jewish) as the mutual contributions are allowed and welcome.
German standards and the state machine..
Japanese quality.
Korean performance.
Universal Principle - reasonable sufficiency.
Military structure and vertical subordination of the security forces.
We need to follow the way of an amazing, unique, natural, human-machine, where all systems are subject to a single organism by function - there is free will, but there is no freedom of action. Person acts necessarily and rationally, but the joy of life is not alien to him, so the song is in the process now, and the chorus of the feast, dance, and magic rites - later - as later as possible. Life by the tradition of the most reasonable and intact.
Consider a general sketch of the model of universal (without spatial registration) interethnic progressively developing state-based anti-poverty, the creation of a system of affordable education and social inclusion of people in useful work, using techniques that exclude damage to nature and to human health.
Plan for the mass overproduction - mass overproduction according to plan. The larger the system, the easier it is to plan and manage, the more opportunities to substitute, combining and complementing - in this way, along with the socialist educational system is the secret of Stalin's industrialization, and creatively modified caught by the Chinese comrades.
The basic principle – if there is a person - there is land, housing and decent work. The rest to the best of wishes.
The man is not looking for something to do and how to feed your family, but is in the public service, arranged through the best planning process that combines high quality and performance, through involvement in the system of the best private companies - state order. If a person is creatively active and capable of more - the better, it will complement the system with his solutions and deeds.
The state, according to a unitary plan, creates a modern enterprise - settlements, taking into account national, geographical and religious backgrounds, where each member of the community is involved in active practice for decent wages, much of which goes through a unified social package- nutrition, health care, education, housing, family support, and pensions.
The supreme body - the council of elders - the best people, the sons and patriots, nominated by the people and history, approved by vote. All decisions on them.
The main tool of management - Planning Institute, manufacture, consumption and development as one and the whole. On the spots, the headman and the Cossacks (in the Russian version). Reporting – Industrial basis, Management – Regional basis. Officials outside the case, speculators and loafers - none.
Convertible unit - ruble, Yuan cash, reserve euro. In the future, a firm rate of exchange with the ruble, rupee, euro and dollars.
The system starts with concentration of will and spirit, strong people in a single, slim, healthy, reasonable body, knowing moderation, conscience and God. Knightly Order of people of business- and honor.
They are not hard to find from the general series, they have a different opinion, thoughts and deeds.
The State Order out from the center, which is based on the new (honest) money, sets in motion the wheel of life.
Where to take the finance? It is necessary to remember that the money reflects the needs and wishes of the people, for calculating standard units, in the form of goods, services, now more and more applied to entertainment, created by labor, using available resources and established technologies. As you can see; category is dynamic, highly complex, irrational.
To establish, for a successful start, tidy (refreshing) the amount of $ 30trln. Taken from the "ceiling", but not by an accident.
As a reminder, a rough estimate of the raw wealth of Russia is exactly the same amount. Let's risk on venture (print raw the first 10trln "conversion" roubles) and let in circulation (We will take them as payment for our resources to new development projects and developed infrastructure in exchange of resources). Around 4 trillion are Chinese currency reserves. Interested countries-India, Iran, Brazil, Japan, Korea and other solvent countries will complement the total cash to the second ten. Given unclaimed human resources in the amount of 100 million (at the initial stage, further -more), at 1000 currency units salary per month (averaged over the added value in the process of modern labor), for 10 years of the project we will obtain approximately another virtual gold coin. And this big and appetizing gold coin will be used to come to terms with the Jews, for them to hand over the new management against our honest word. Instead, they receive shares in the new strong, state-owned companies, and confidence in the future. Fortunately, they have the experience of converting future growth in their personal wealth by distributing of papers, with gloomy faces of the dead, American presidents at "divine" interest rate. We share only what was earned in compliance with the contract and the extent of participation. Everyone's invited: countries and companies, capitals and intellect.
Simplistically, it looks like this; International - a supranational system, with symptoms of the state, creates a new comfortable territory for quality life, booking the required from the best manufacturers. Each region has the public sector (government order), and complete freedom of action in the rest. To plan and to build at a large scale - is easier and cheaper and faster. Structuring is a profitable business - people who are in poverty and inactivity will acquire education, employment and property due to the state and raised funds. This requires land, resources, and interaction. Let's start with the barren land (painful experience makes even smarter and stronger). Bank of resources will be Russia, Kazakhstan, Iran, Venezuela - a united front. Chinese, Japanese and Korean economic power with the support of the American dollar in the trinity (resources, finance, and cooperation) will be a powerful force for change and development.
Mobilization of the economy, backed by national unity have proven to be the highest efficiency in the examples of explosive change in the recent history. America and Germany, the USSR and Japan, Israel, Korea, China, Brazil, India and other countries transformed within just one generation at the expense of self-organization and the target, tough decisions. As practice has shown in Stalin, Soviet period - the rise of the spirit of collectivism, for the Russian people is more productive and optimistic force, rather than a market economy. Now, when the world is open and transparent, it is necessary to overcome the state individualism, national opposition and move to a new, less dramatic and more humane development based on knowledge and good will. Combining, the world of technology, energy, mass, mixed with good education and state planning we get a new race - statesmen, living according to the norms of honor and respect to all foreign. Consent and cooperation – are the basis of such a community, must be understood as mutual understanding and jointly overcome. The primary task of the leaders of modern times, on the way to such a union should be the preservation and development of their land, culture, faith and priorities left us by our long-suffered ancestors. To ensure the continuity of generations, spiritual principles and identity, avoiding confrontation and strife - perpetual civilization – is a task for the most powerful and Responsible leaders.
If we will make it properly, we will get a powerful new nonprofit wing, supra-state sector of the economy and development. Let's start with the arrangement of Siberia and northern China, habitation desert (Sahara, Mongolia. Australia) - and the employment of millions of young people, the peoples of the East. Huge desert territories with irrigation systems will be the first audacious and ambitious development projects.
Growing honest and healthy economy, in case of the use of emerging, wonderful technology, will reshape vain capitalism into the community of well-being, peace of mind, the new transnational structures and social projects - simple human happiness with family and friends, with free travel and cultural exchange. Unity and promotion of diverse civilization should be based on the development of indigenous culture of ethnic groups and orders adopted in various existing states. Breaking is impossible - to attach neatly and complete construction is correct. After a decade, the costly development, it is expected to transfer the system to a permanent "space" orbit, because, thanks to the Almighty - water, land, energy and opportunities galore.
I suggest listening to the mumbling that lives in my "trash" consciousness without any editing. Muddled thinking (the result of electrocution brain injury in childhood) in addition to a mixed national origin and suffering (Russian) soul - that's what has lead to such ugliness. At the same time we'll manage to clarify the diagnosis.
Attic is slightly cornering at turns. But I try my best; compose stoves and "draw" articles, devise generators (not to be considered a parasite), and I do my public service, to feed the children.
My alarm rap (delusional chatter)
"We the People, even though the animals, understand the Word; feel Kinship,
No goals - there is a way and the life.
Do not look for the meaning, but scan a plan.
The substance grows out of the ether, the mind perceives worlds.
The road narrows - louts come on,
Fate thickens - people mute and turn nailed to asphalt.
Energy springs raw materials in bulk and a sea of water.
Sewage clogs - civilization smears,
Nature is torn - the soul trembles.
Walk astray - getting lost in the ideas, lose the rest - deafened by the noise.
Will raise head, hands joined,
Eyes on God, in unison for Space flight."
Out of this lump of discrete thoughts, I had a hard time organizing the knowledge and experience under the uplifting music of Bach (Christmas Oratorio), and have compiled an article so that these heavy thoughts would not oppress me anymore, and young friends may use it as amusing and useful tool for expanding horizons and interests. Do my ideas will become a real life? Time will show.
The eternal question: Is there life on Mars? (can there be an option of "gratuitous" energy generation?) the reply in Russian will be - yea, of course! Without dreams and freebies there is no way for us.
As for the Russian question - when are we going to live in a human way? – I will suggest an answer - start with yourself, and do it (find yourself).
Energy, as well as its living form - the Spirit of God - within us, is around us - everywhere. World is a space of self-organized energy (motion), having a way to sustainable existence in the form of matter and development method, featuring complexity and management of in living cells programmed initially, but out of time. Cells are living communities that are united in the body and in uniform, complex (joined) creatures. Use of these flows of energy and spirit of peace, requires the assistance of reason, faith and will. And the resources, money and prosperity are mere derivatives. The main (the only continuous) mode of motion is circular (vortex) with the possibility of the integration of individual, stable vortices in a scale movement. The reverse process - destruction, explosion should not be ruled out. In the mad flow in a straight line - we are moving nowhere, into the abyss, with a high probability to disappear.
If we want prosperity, health and happiness - we must, first of all, stop the shootout race and go to a moderate, peaceful form of existence, returning to our roots (to our circles), in harmony with the earth's nature and in harmony with the heavenly spirit. Amen. (aoum)
[1] Jav, Prav and Nav Yav (Jav), Prav and Nav (Navi) are three worlds described in the Book of Veles. References to them became popular among Ukrainians and Russian neopagans. All three combine into Triglav that governs the Universe. Yav is the material world in which we are right now. Gods however are equally part of Yav. Yav is contained within Nav. Nav (Navi) is the immaterial world, the world of the dead. Stars, which are the souls of the dead, as well as Svarga and Irij, are parts of Nav. Prav is the law of Svarog that governs both Yav and Nav. Modern parallels to this concept are laws of physics, but there is one big difference. The law that says that a stone falls when dropped is not only a mere observable fact: it is rightful, good and just that stones fall to the ground when dropped. A somewhat similar belief today is anthropic principle, but it only states that laws of physics are useful. This concept is similar to Dharma in Hinduism and Buddhism. Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jav,_Prav_and_Nav
Moscow - Yerevan 27.08.2014


Companies like OrCam are redefining the way those with visual handicaps interact with the world around them. Exciting to see such technology put to good use.
Check out the Huffington Post article here: How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping The Visually Impaired.


The internal of the hall contains several floors 'cubical spaces, each of which has different features, so the visitor is easy to get lost. To help visitor locate and provide guiding service, reduce the workload of Hall stuff, the client want a Guiding App.
As the Hall is cubical and with multi-floored structure; besides the map of each floor is different. so it cannot be located by GPS. Our solution is that we put several QR codes in the key locations of each floor, then visitor can be located by scanning the QR code, and then the app displays the content of the hall, and the souvenir as well.
For the frontend, we use the hybrid method of native UI and HTML5 & CSS, while backend is implemented with ASP.NET WEB API & MS SQL.
2. The QR code needs to cover the whole pavilion, while it should not be overmuch.
1. The exhibition hall changes with times, it realized the concept of Internet Plus.
3. It reduced the stuff's workload and improved the service quality.


While I was working in Bhuj in Gujurat I headed off to explore the desert villages famous for their embroidery. Bouncing along in our jeep we picked up local tribals that squashed in the back with me. Dressed in purple and hotpink turbans,gold and ruby earrings,dhotis and curly toed shoes with chiseled faces and piercing eyes I couldn't stop staring at them and they at me. A riveting experience. And these were just the men.
The men are shepherds, always looking after their sheep and goats using their crooks to herd them into line as they slowly meander over the road. It is such a pleasure to just follow them at snails pace checking out every detail.
When we finally arrive at a village taking endless detours the first person we see is the head woman with her cows. She is a blast of colour, embroidered head to foot in swirling skirt, jewels, tiaras and anklets....not to mention the cows with beaded necklaces and horns. She takes us into the village which are mud and thatched huts on the outside and inside the walls are sculptured mud designs inserted with tiny mirrors everywhere. All sublime.
No electricity or running water. It's down to the well with the earthenware pot on the head and a good old gossip with the girls. Some villages are just starting to get running water and the women don't like it as they are shut up inside their huts and can't meet and gossip at the well anymore. The temperature is over 50 and I can barely cope with the heat. The women have little embroidered fans made with fabric and mirrors.
It was monsoon when we were there - mozzies and malaria are common. The women only have the neem leaf and their light cotton shawls to protect themselves.Flooding regularly causes the mud huts to disappear. Rebuilding damaged huts is always necessary after the monsoon.
The children, who are drop dead gorgeous, make their own beaded jewellery. There are no schools in the area, so they help out at home.
All the beautiful work in the village is done on synthetic fabric using synthetic threads. They buy it in the market and it is cheap. For the women to afford cotton thread and fabric requires an NGO organisation to work with them. This is a very slow process. The tourist industry is just starting to open up again since the devastating earthquake of 2001. And tourists want to buy cotton not synthetics.
After being served delicious tea in saucers we said our goodbyes and the wonderful head woman, with tears in her eyes, said to the translator I was too short in their lives. This of course broke me up totally.


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Q: Proving that the torque is equal the vector product of the magnetic moment and the magnetic field Supposing that $B$ is a uniform field over the space, i want to prove that the torque $\tau = M \times   B$
$d\tau = r \times dF = r \times (I dl \times B ) = I [r \times (dl \times B)] = I[ dl (r \cdot B) - B (r \cdot dl)] $
$\tau = \int_{C closed} I[ dl (r \cdot B) - B (r \cdot dl)] = \int_{C closed} I[ dr (r \cdot B) - B (r \cdot dr)] = \int_{C closed} I[ dr (r \cdot B) - 0.5 B d(r \cdot r)] = \int_{C closed} I dr (r \cdot B) = I \int_{C closed} (dr) (r \cdot B)$
Now my motivation to go thought this way was believing that i could use stokes theorem in the end. But as you can see, i have a vector (dr) and a scalar $(r \cdot B)$, so there is no way to use stokes. How to go on from where i stopped to get the answer?

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by nonnie9999 | January 28, 2020 · 12:11 am
R.I.P. Irony
So, kids, are you watching the impeachment trial? I'm having a little trouble doing so, because my cable company keeps changing the channel. Instead of the Twitler impeachment trial, I have seen the impeachment of Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and everyone else who is not Twitler.
Original DVD cover
So far, I have not seen any of the talking heads on TV take notice of the multiple crimes that took place on the Senate floor today. Ken Starr murdered irony. Then he desecrated its corpse as he lectured us on how impeachment is used too much these days and for the wrong reasons, not important stuff like blowjobs. I missed what happened next, because I was trying to retrieve my eyeballs from the back of my skull. After poor irony suffered all of that, Bribery Barbie Pam Bondi resurrected poor irony and flogged it to death once more as she complained about conflicts of interest and nepotism pertaining to Joe and Hunter Biden. Once again, I was on eyeball retrieval duty. Forgive me if I am not recalling the correct order of Twitler's defenders. Patrick Philbin spoke, but I have no idea what he said, because he triggered an immediate coma. There was also Jane Raskin. She was apparently hired as Rudy Giuliani's defense attorney, because she spoke of little else. She said that Democrats are using FruityRudy as a distraction, but I really think she was just trying to distract us. Eric Herschmann dug up irony once again and chastised Hunter Biden for trading on family connections to make money. He also tried to impeach Barack Obama retroactively. He said a lot of other shit, too, and all with a straight face.
Who wasn't mentioned even once all day? The mustachioed elephant in the room. From THE HILL:
Former national security adviser John Bolton is adding fresh uncertainty to President Trump's impeachment trial.
Bolton's accusation, made in a forthcoming memoir, that Trump tied $391 million in aid to Ukraine to the country helping with investigations into Democrats — including former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden — ricocheted across the Capitol.
Democrats quickly characterized the allegation as a "thunderbolt," a "bombshell" and "gut check time" for Republicans, arguing that it underscored the need for additional witnesses and documents.
Republicans, caught flat-footed, struggled to get on the same page, as some GOP lawmakers indicated Bolton's allegation strengthened the need for witnesses, while others argued the memoir offered nothing that would change the outcome of the impeachment trial.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) set off alarm bells for Republicans when he told reporters that he thought it was "increasingly likely" that other members of his caucus would support hearing from Bolton. He threw in the caveat that he hadn't spoken to his GOP colleagues.
"My thoughts about how we may all react are personal," he said.
His statement earned him a public roasting by new Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), who previously donated to a 2012 pro-Romney super PAC. She accused the Utah senator of trying to "appease the left."
But Romney was quickly backed up by [Susan] Collins, who said in a statement that she thought Bolton's allegations "strengthen the case" for witnesses. Collins reiterated that she will wait until after opening arguments and questions from both sides before she makes a decision but said she is "likely" to support calling witnesses.
Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), two other potential swing votes, were tight-lipped as they made their way through crowds of reporters.
"Well, I read it. I've said before I was curious what Ambassador Bolton might have to say, and I'm still curious," Murkowski said Monday when asked by The Hill about her reaction to a New York Times story about Bolton's forthcoming memoir.
A rotating cast of Republican senators was spotted going into [Mitch] McConnell's office ahead of the start of the trial on Monday as the caucus grappled with how to handle Bolton. In addition to normal members of leadership such as [John] Thune and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.), part of a group that's taken over messaging for the caucus during the trial, were spotted heading into the leaders office.
Monday, the start of the second week of the trial, had been expected to be focused on Trump's legal team, which is making its defense of Trump after a short two-hour preview on Saturday.
Instead, senators, House managers and Trump allies found themselves besieged with Bolton questions, underscoring how completely he had taken over the debate in the Capitol.
No word on the other elephant in the room, Lev Parnas Gump.
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15 responses to "R.I.P. Irony"
Hello mikk2. The gaslighting by this administration is at a level never seen before. The US has to stop this or we can never trust any statement from the government. Hugs
Hi Scottie! Call me Nonnie. What is really frightening is that the Rethug side of the Senate will either buy this bullshit or not believe a word of it but will swear it is the gospel truth anyway. They are so short-sighted. All the crap they are putting forth now is bound to come back and smack them in their smug faces later. If this doesn't make Dems get off their asses and vote, then nothing will.
Hello Nonnie. Well said, very well said. I agree totally. Hugs
Hugs back, Scottie! ❤
Sherry Shirk
You're a genius. Should be working for Colbert. Hate to say it because I love him but his material is getting stale. Needs a dose of nonnie.
Awwww. Love you, Sherry!!! ❤ The Rethugs make it so easy.
I agree with Sherry Shirk. Love her name. I am trying to remember what the psychology was of the people that refuse to admit the truth. Well I suppose I can begin with my own two cents. For a start: party loyalty, a type of brain washing, refusal to admit they are wrong and the opposing party has been right all along, inability to accept that they have been snockered by a loser because "they" would have egg on their faces, love of money more than moral conviction, inability to stand up to a bully, no moral compunction, fear of not getting reelected by a base that believes Twilter's every word, etc. I have more, but Ken Starr who was Baylor University's president in my town really takes the cake Just what is in it for him? He was head of a Baptist University, and oh dear, that is supposed to be so upright and Bible fearing. I can not believe the level of deceit that the republican party has stooped to. There appears to be no depth too low that they will not stoop. Surely history books will reveal this, but who knows, maybe history books will be cooked too.
There's a difference between knowing the truth and admitting that you know it. The Rethugs, with the exception of a handful who are delusional mouth-breathers, know what Twitler did, know that it was illegal and know that he should be convicted. However, they cling to power. I don't know what they are so afraid of. They will all be able to use their political careers as launchpads to lucrative positions in lobbying enterprises or just as a picture on the wall of some company that thinks it will gain some gravitas by hanging the picture. I have to wonder how many are being blackmailed, either by Russia or Twitler's hoods. They put all their eggs in the basket of a pussy-grabbing moronic loudmouth with an inability to listen or learn. Now, they are putting their eggs in the baskets of Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz and Jay Sekulow. Ken Starr only got the job at Baylor because he was famous for the Clinton impeachment (talk about hiring someone just for the name). He had no affiliation with Baylor. Then he got fired for looking the other way when sexual assaults were occurring on campus. We know Alan Underpants Dershowitz's sordid history. I've said before that I don't blame lawyers for what their clients are accused of. Everyone deserves the best defense they can get. However, Dershowitz takes cases, not because he reveres that concept. He takes the cases that will get him the most media attention and money. The little bow he took at the end of his speech today tells the story. As for Sekulow, he's under investigation for a scam in which his organization Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism (CASE), which is supposed to be nonprofit funneled $60 million to him and his companies and relatives. Then there's Bribey Barbie Bondi. I'm sure there's dirt on the rest of Twiter's apologists masquerading as attorneys.
P.S. I changed the font after someone said the old font was too small and hard to read. Do you like it? I can change it again.
Yes, I like the larger font size. My easier for my eyes since I wear glasses but I am presently using readers since I just got a current refraction after laser cleaning of the artificial lens post cataract surgery two years ago.
Good. I didn't know I could change the font or I would have asked way earlier if anyone was having trouble reading it. I hope this makes it easier for everyone.
therub
i like the larger image and larger font. of course i do, i'm an old fart who can't see anymore. but what i really enjoy is your wit and humor to help get us thru this horrible chapter of history. rethugs no longer represent the people. they've designed a system that benefits the wealthy and powerful. our government is broken and needs to be put back together again. i'm hopeful this will happen as gen-xers and millennials replace baby boomers. let's hope the people of the future refuse to put up with any of this crap. otherwise, we're toast.
Perception is a funny thing. While the font is a lot bigger, the image is actually the same size as always, though it really does look bigger. Someone on Twitter said she wasn't able to read the small font, and I aim to please (second child syndrome).
I think the Rethugs are unbelievably short-sighted, and in this case, they completely miscalculated. They should have known there would eventually be a Bolton, and now a Kelly, hiding in the shadows ready to emerge. Now, Mittsie Romney is the bad guy, according to the appointed senator from Georgia. Lou Dobbs is already painting Bolton as a tool of the Democrats. They are turning on each other, and this will be even bloodier than the Bowling Green massacre.
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Yes, irony died here — as the alien Republican plant pod split open and released its evil twin, hypocrisy.
Not sure what Bolton would be bringing to McConnell, but definitely not flowers. Poison ivy or a bombshell, perhaps. In any case, his consternation is well merited.
Bolton is very clever. He has a hand grenade he nicknamed Rudy hidden in the bouquet, and he's going to pull the pin as soon as he's in the door.