The Alaska state government for several decades has vacillated in pursuit of various options to bring in oil or gas revenue to pay for the government operations as the North Slope oil fields are depleted. Even during the 1980s research and development studies for state or corporate financed construction of pipelines to bring more oil or natural gas to tidewater in south central Alaska or Chicago through Canada were main political interests. Nothing ever was constructed from those studies.
Former Governors from Wally Hickel to Tony Knowles and Sarah Palin along with countless candidates have made the construction of a natural gas pipeline a political plank. The simplest thing to build would be an LNG plant at Valdez or Anchorage and a pipeline to it, yet the practical is always set aside for the pursuit of ecological boondoogles.
Former Governor Sarah Palin ram-rodded through a half billion dollar state subsidy to a Canadian Corporation-Trans-Canada in an effort to get an oil corporation to build a pipeline and jobs for Canadians. With the discovery of new methods of fracturing natural gas from formations in the 48 states, the price of natural gas has decreased the interest in building a pipeline from the North Slope through Canadian pipeline infrastructure by special corporate interests. Environmentally that may be a collateral improvement.
The city of Anchorage also has a former state Governor-Bill Sheffield, in a powerful job as a Port Director implementing a construction project over cost, over time and budget. A Port of Anchorage expansion that is sputtering on with building errors reportedly could cost hundreds of millions of dollars too much for completion. The City must close libraries and forgo building warm pedestrian and bike transit malls for winter to finance construction errors.
The global price of gas and oil fluctuates as a regular instability adversely affecting U.S. economics. Building a pipeline and/or gas liquefaction plant at Valdez or Anchorage from the North Slope via Fairbanks flowing through the existing trans-Alaska pipeline corridor might at any given time bring in low or high revenues and royalties as empirical reciprocal values vary. The state and corporations wish to build when the price of natural is high or when supply is diminshed, yet of course the market is partly manipulated and supplies and applications are distorted to maximize corporate profit. The state might find an unreliable market price a reciprocol of political as well as geophysical supply factors. Yet as the state can afford to build the line itself and auction liquefied natural gas to world buyers generally at low or high prevailing market prices it has little reason to produce more rhetoric than gas.
Environmental effects for fracturing basement rock formations in the 48 states have already generated new pollution, toxic water reserves and flaming faucets. War in the Middle East can cut off oil supply and quickly drive up fossil fuel prices. A state government should build a pipeline infrastructure for gas carefully and in compliance with advanced ecological synergy concepts ahead of price fluctuations on the global market. A retarded construction rice changes in a volatile market has a good chance of being out of step at any rate. In a national emergency the pre-existence of a local gas pipeline and LNG plant would mitigate the supply issues. Needless to mention it is important to expect federal investment in lightweight car batteries without rare earth metals and a policy of electric cars without use of fossil fuels.
If Alaska has extra liquefied natural gas it can sell to China on the spot market perhaps a number of Chinese global warming gases producing coal fired power plants could be replaced with some burning cleaner natural gas. Natural gas spent in power plants instead of developing fuel cell generators, superconductors, wind and solar energy input) too quickly reduces national natural gas reserves.
1/14/11
Reince Preibus Moves Ahead of Michael Steele in RNC Chair Voting
After three rounds of voting Reince Preibus has moved well ahead of Michael Steele in the election of a new Republican National 'Komiteh' Chairman. Steele is so far losing votes and ground with each round of votes and seems likely to lose the job.
We search for a new Ralph Nadir on the political horizon yet will need to look elsewhere than in the Republican Party.
Let us remember the warning words of Yogi Berra apropos for national economic and environmental management; 'You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there'.
We search for a new Ralph Nadir on the political horizon yet will need to look elsewhere than in the Republican Party.
Let us remember the warning words of Yogi Berra apropos for national economic and environmental management; 'You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there'.
Blood Libel or Bloody Libel; Sarah Palin Didn't Pull the Trigger
Politics beyond the Pale of Settlement comprised 20% of European Imperial Russia. Jews were allowed to live 'beyond the pale' (pale derives from the word stake in Latin) and on to the border with Prussia. Sarah Palin has denounced as a 'blood libel' partisan efforts to interpret her rifle shooter's scope worldview and crosshairs placed upon American political districts with unfriendly politicians (including Arizona). Blood libel is itself an unusual term for an American of this century to use. It is a term associated with historical persecution of European Jewry.
Phonetically 'blood libel' resembles 'blood liberal' or splatter liberl--it is sometimes helpful to navigate linguistically farther away from shoal waters of double entendre to convince good people that you aren't a closet Nazi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/beyond-the-pale.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement#Jewish_life_in_the_Pale
It is difficult to conceive of Sarah Palin as any sort of an historical scholar aware of the origin of the term. It is also tough to understand how such an idiotic choice of a term with obvious polemical potential could be used as a follow up to the assassin's targeting criterion (that is if we are not using shooter's crosshairs as a metaphor of picking flowers). Maybe Sarah Palin considers hunting herbivores as a manly activity that will prove her tough with voters, yet if a man used such imagery in contemporary politics he might be regarded as a fascist.
We do not suspect Sarah Palin believing the Mexicans are some kind of Jewish element beyond the pale. I personally believe three saltwater desalinization/border control canals should be built across the nation's Mexican border yet Mexicans in Mexico are not segregated-they have their own nation and should improve it as ought the U.S.A. including full employment for Americans (including myself).
Obviously giving a verbal interpretation of a symbol is difficult to do precisely. A swastika can be taken as a sign of the Hindu religion and the way Brahma stirs up reality as well as a symbol for the Nazi party. A presidential candidate in the United States ought to be far better informed than Sarah Palin in her choice of symbols for political tools. If she were a hillbilly talking about blood feuds it would be far better than using the term blood liberl, for then we might regard it as an historically usual expression of the megalomaniacal will to consolidate political power for her family as royalty-a common enough historical theme we suspect the Bushes and Clintons of a little bit every now and then.
As a well known charismatic churchgoer she must have been influenced by some nut job yakking about Jews spilling the blood of Christian children to use in Passover ceremony or something such. Such an idiocy might have its origins in an anachronistic and warped Russian pogrom creator's way of thinking perhaps (the tsar used to order a pogrom every now and then for social distraction when his citizens became restive of his tax rates), yet not in an Alaskan or American social setting at all. I wonder who actually picked that term for former Alaska Governor Palin? Probably we shall never know.
No reasonable people should believe that the crosshairs stimulated Lochner to shoot 19 people. According to Michael Savage's reports the killer used an hallucinogen named salvi divinorum that creates out of body experiences. Besides social rave, bad video games, high unemployment and being 4-F the kid was under the influence of movies like The Matrix and an hallucinogen reportedly more powerful than L.S.D.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_divinorum
Gov. Palin's importunate antique European terminology notwithstanding, she is not the Mexican border problems, drug war and use of a Mexican herb with hallucinogenic powers to alter the reality of the not-too-bright.
Phonetically 'blood libel' resembles 'blood liberal' or splatter liberl--it is sometimes helpful to navigate linguistically farther away from shoal waters of double entendre to convince good people that you aren't a closet Nazi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/beyond-the-pale.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement#Jewish_life_in_the_Pale
It is difficult to conceive of Sarah Palin as any sort of an historical scholar aware of the origin of the term. It is also tough to understand how such an idiotic choice of a term with obvious polemical potential could be used as a follow up to the assassin's targeting criterion (that is if we are not using shooter's crosshairs as a metaphor of picking flowers). Maybe Sarah Palin considers hunting herbivores as a manly activity that will prove her tough with voters, yet if a man used such imagery in contemporary politics he might be regarded as a fascist.
We do not suspect Sarah Palin believing the Mexicans are some kind of Jewish element beyond the pale. I personally believe three saltwater desalinization/border control canals should be built across the nation's Mexican border yet Mexicans in Mexico are not segregated-they have their own nation and should improve it as ought the U.S.A. including full employment for Americans (including myself).
Obviously giving a verbal interpretation of a symbol is difficult to do precisely. A swastika can be taken as a sign of the Hindu religion and the way Brahma stirs up reality as well as a symbol for the Nazi party. A presidential candidate in the United States ought to be far better informed than Sarah Palin in her choice of symbols for political tools. If she were a hillbilly talking about blood feuds it would be far better than using the term blood liberl, for then we might regard it as an historically usual expression of the megalomaniacal will to consolidate political power for her family as royalty-a common enough historical theme we suspect the Bushes and Clintons of a little bit every now and then.
As a well known charismatic churchgoer she must have been influenced by some nut job yakking about Jews spilling the blood of Christian children to use in Passover ceremony or something such. Such an idiocy might have its origins in an anachronistic and warped Russian pogrom creator's way of thinking perhaps (the tsar used to order a pogrom every now and then for social distraction when his citizens became restive of his tax rates), yet not in an Alaskan or American social setting at all. I wonder who actually picked that term for former Alaska Governor Palin? Probably we shall never know.
No reasonable people should believe that the crosshairs stimulated Lochner to shoot 19 people. According to Michael Savage's reports the killer used an hallucinogen named salvi divinorum that creates out of body experiences. Besides social rave, bad video games, high unemployment and being 4-F the kid was under the influence of movies like The Matrix and an hallucinogen reportedly more powerful than L.S.D.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_divinorum
Gov. Palin's importunate antique European terminology notwithstanding, she is not the Mexican border problems, drug war and use of a Mexican herb with hallucinogenic powers to alter the reality of the not-too-bright.
1/13/11
Global Warming & Cooling May End Civilizations
A scientific study finds that historical records of rapid climate change coincides with the decline and fall of empires.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19968-fall-of-roman-empire-linked-to-wild-shifts-in-climate.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
Other interpretations are possible. Yet it was probably Attila the Hun and the Goths combining to assault a decadent Roman Empire in the same time period that led to the end of the Roman Empire. One might speculate that rapid climate change drove the Goths out of the North and the Huns off from the step, yet we like to think that it was the wild debauchery on wealthy estates and pretty jewels that stimulated the pagan hordes to attacks and plundering of conspicuous wealth.
With more than 30,000 people killed in Mexico in the drug wars the past 4 years perhaps Mexico is becoming more like a pagan host readying to attack an empire with climate change, or maybe not. If draught overtakes China because of global warming they will be motivated to attack Alaska and cooler places in Siberia and North America with hundreds of millions of soldiers and stealth fighters.
I still prefer to believe that dumb, uncreative political leadership is a better reason for the end of civilization as well as a factor in anthropogenic climate change including global warming. Throughout the past fifty years U.S. political leadership has avoiding taking the turn toward anti-ecocide insinuation of our society into a green peace with a stable population motivated toward quality rather than quantity growth with full employment and a fair, free standard of living for all.
For some reason homo sapiens sapiens believe that as the sole surviving species of the hominid line we are excellent survivors, instead, it may be a reason for less than optimism regarding human prospects on Earth-unlike varieties of ants, only one kind of human species exists and its prospects for destroying itself and the global ecosystem are excellent.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19968-fall-of-roman-empire-linked-to-wild-shifts-in-climate.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
Other interpretations are possible. Yet it was probably Attila the Hun and the Goths combining to assault a decadent Roman Empire in the same time period that led to the end of the Roman Empire. One might speculate that rapid climate change drove the Goths out of the North and the Huns off from the step, yet we like to think that it was the wild debauchery on wealthy estates and pretty jewels that stimulated the pagan hordes to attacks and plundering of conspicuous wealth.
With more than 30,000 people killed in Mexico in the drug wars the past 4 years perhaps Mexico is becoming more like a pagan host readying to attack an empire with climate change, or maybe not. If draught overtakes China because of global warming they will be motivated to attack Alaska and cooler places in Siberia and North America with hundreds of millions of soldiers and stealth fighters.
I still prefer to believe that dumb, uncreative political leadership is a better reason for the end of civilization as well as a factor in anthropogenic climate change including global warming. Throughout the past fifty years U.S. political leadership has avoiding taking the turn toward anti-ecocide insinuation of our society into a green peace with a stable population motivated toward quality rather than quantity growth with full employment and a fair, free standard of living for all.
For some reason homo sapiens sapiens believe that as the sole surviving species of the hominid line we are excellent survivors, instead, it may be a reason for less than optimism regarding human prospects on Earth-unlike varieties of ants, only one kind of human species exists and its prospects for destroying itself and the global ecosystem are excellent.
An Extra Essay on Calibi-Yau Space Cosmology
Calibi-Yau geometrical analysis constructed a six dimensional manifold serving as a model for the way six small dimension underlying our three dimensions of space that are 'full' size could mathematically exist. Such a construction need be mathematically consistent yet hasn't an implicit requirement that is actually is the representation of the structure of this Universe.
If it is the best and a fairly accurate representation that tweaked up with string or m-theory eventually supplants the standard model of quantum mechanics, what about the dimension of time?
Is time one dimension without limits that is fully extended as eternity in all directions in which emantaed spatial dimensions flow like leaves in a divine wind of omni directional yet compacted dimensions and potential? Is an omnipresent eternal time through which spatial dimensions journey a 'host' for the motion of atomic and chemical recombinant physics?
Toward the end of Yau-Nadis' 'The Shape of Inner Space' I have found a few more interesting ideas that I can add to my notes on the topic of string, M-theory, cosmology and Calabi-Yau space before closing the cover.
Extra-dimensional mathematical modeling arrives through algebra and geometry. Many avenues of approach exist to construct extra-dimensional shapes. Some of the shapes are useful for modelling how extra-dimensions may be formed in our Universe.
Preponderantly it is believed that our four dimensional universe may have six more dimensions compacted tightly and on which our four larger dimensions of space-time are attached. One of the interesting conjectures is that these smaller dimensions have a lot of intrinsic energy and are bound up by powerful membranes. The acceleration of space-time may be a consequence of these smaller dimensions 'flexing' their energy. It is also thought that eventually the smaller dimensions may suddenly become unbound and expand into full scale dimensions and the universe will then have ten dimensions fully expanded rather than four.
The smaller dimensions may have energy that warps the four dimensional space-time unevenly. A new kind of geometry may need to be developed in order to describe very small spaces less than a Planck length in size. Will such geometries map quantum uncertainty as compact potential scalable into warped space-time/mass-energy equivelences?
Within the context of Yau's technical knowledge helpfully put into plain language by Nadis this cosmological speculation seems utterly reasonable. The CMB or cosmic microwave background is a source for continuing research for traces of evidence such as polarization that could support string theory as a cosmological explanatory tool.
The possibilities for cosmology with string theory are increasing very swiftly rather than decreasing-good news for us philosopher-Christians interested in a complex Universe issued by God rather than a simple one such as some physicists regarded as possible a few years ago.The more numerous the possible varieties of Universal past, present and future are brought to mind the more intriguing is the power of God to issue a Word for the conservation of mass and energy to start. A zillion to the zillionth power of potentials arose from one creative will to be and become;its juxtaposition in a geometry of space-time phenomenal configurations is too interesting not to marvel at for its beauty of composition.
If it is the best and a fairly accurate representation that tweaked up with string or m-theory eventually supplants the standard model of quantum mechanics, what about the dimension of time?
Is time one dimension without limits that is fully extended as eternity in all directions in which emantaed spatial dimensions flow like leaves in a divine wind of omni directional yet compacted dimensions and potential? Is an omnipresent eternal time through which spatial dimensions journey a 'host' for the motion of atomic and chemical recombinant physics?
Toward the end of Yau-Nadis' 'The Shape of Inner Space' I have found a few more interesting ideas that I can add to my notes on the topic of string, M-theory, cosmology and Calabi-Yau space before closing the cover.
Extra-dimensional mathematical modeling arrives through algebra and geometry. Many avenues of approach exist to construct extra-dimensional shapes. Some of the shapes are useful for modelling how extra-dimensions may be formed in our Universe.
Preponderantly it is believed that our four dimensional universe may have six more dimensions compacted tightly and on which our four larger dimensions of space-time are attached. One of the interesting conjectures is that these smaller dimensions have a lot of intrinsic energy and are bound up by powerful membranes. The acceleration of space-time may be a consequence of these smaller dimensions 'flexing' their energy. It is also thought that eventually the smaller dimensions may suddenly become unbound and expand into full scale dimensions and the universe will then have ten dimensions fully expanded rather than four.
The smaller dimensions may have energy that warps the four dimensional space-time unevenly. A new kind of geometry may need to be developed in order to describe very small spaces less than a Planck length in size. Will such geometries map quantum uncertainty as compact potential scalable into warped space-time/mass-energy equivelences?
Within the context of Yau's technical knowledge helpfully put into plain language by Nadis this cosmological speculation seems utterly reasonable. The CMB or cosmic microwave background is a source for continuing research for traces of evidence such as polarization that could support string theory as a cosmological explanatory tool.
The possibilities for cosmology with string theory are increasing very swiftly rather than decreasing-good news for us philosopher-Christians interested in a complex Universe issued by God rather than a simple one such as some physicists regarded as possible a few years ago.The more numerous the possible varieties of Universal past, present and future are brought to mind the more intriguing is the power of God to issue a Word for the conservation of mass and energy to start. A zillion to the zillionth power of potentials arose from one creative will to be and become;its juxtaposition in a geometry of space-time phenomenal configurations is too interesting not to marvel at for its beauty of composition.
'The Great Theologians' by Gerald R. McDermott
This page turner of a little more than 200 pages is well worth reading. It is succinct coverage of just eleven theologians from Origin to Von Balthasar who have shaped the way Christians think about God and Jesus Christ. Especially in America we tend to overlook to what extent our basic Christian beliefs have been defended and conserved and on occasion liberated by the efforts of these individuals.
A notable point for simple clarification is the argument made for Biblical literalism today. It simply isn't as simple as that. In the 3rd century (born in the second), Origen wrote 'the first systematic treatment of Christianity as a whole' called De Principiis (first principles). Origen also explained the fourfold root of Biblical interpretation.
McDermott explains that Origen described four different yet complimentary ways of interpreting Biblical scripture. First is the literal reading (historical). Second is the allegorical (what you should believe). Third is the tropological or moral (what you should do) and fourthly there is the anagogical (leading up). This last interpretation has that interesting word anagogical. This category of interpretation points to the future with Jesus Christ for the elect. We may find meaning throughout the Bible in each of these senses of interpretation very often in the same scripture.
McDermott writes that Athanasius in the 5th century basically saved Christianity from the Arian heresy that Jesus Christ was not fully God and co-eternal with the Father. As a short, dark Egyptian monastic alive in the time of the Eastern Roman Empire of Constantine and later his son Constantinius who each tended to favor the followers of Arius that was no easy task.
Athanasius also developed the theological concept of theopoiesis (it means divination) relating that Christians develop an increasingly Christ like character as they move farther away from the sin nature of fallen humanity. Satan may of course continue to nag Christians and try to draw them back into the human maelstrom of the fallen material condition (possibly enticing them to illicit sex, global warming denial and ecological ecocidal politics), yet Jesus Christ having overcome death and providing a model for Christian right social relations brings the faithful (without becoming godlike) to be more perfect, as He is perfect, through the power of His blessing (shed blood atoning vicariously for all those of faith).
McDermott's breezy treatment of these serious subjects is an excellent reminder of the provident grace provided by a lifetime of sober scholarship. Many of these theologians were themselves dedicated to learning of Jesus Christ and the Biblical truth in trying times of continuous political turmoil. Often they wrote well outside academia and state sponsorship. Today's Christians can find inspiration in that as a generation of spiritual homelessness co-generated by church and state compels conformation to consumerism and globalism in a hierarchical corporatism commercialization; more intelligent and contemplative use of ecological and spiritual resources ought instead to prevail in ecclesiastical structure, economics, ecological and political renewal.
A notable point for simple clarification is the argument made for Biblical literalism today. It simply isn't as simple as that. In the 3rd century (born in the second), Origen wrote 'the first systematic treatment of Christianity as a whole' called De Principiis (first principles). Origen also explained the fourfold root of Biblical interpretation.
McDermott explains that Origen described four different yet complimentary ways of interpreting Biblical scripture. First is the literal reading (historical). Second is the allegorical (what you should believe). Third is the tropological or moral (what you should do) and fourthly there is the anagogical (leading up). This last interpretation has that interesting word anagogical. This category of interpretation points to the future with Jesus Christ for the elect. We may find meaning throughout the Bible in each of these senses of interpretation very often in the same scripture.
McDermott writes that Athanasius in the 5th century basically saved Christianity from the Arian heresy that Jesus Christ was not fully God and co-eternal with the Father. As a short, dark Egyptian monastic alive in the time of the Eastern Roman Empire of Constantine and later his son Constantinius who each tended to favor the followers of Arius that was no easy task.
Athanasius also developed the theological concept of theopoiesis (it means divination) relating that Christians develop an increasingly Christ like character as they move farther away from the sin nature of fallen humanity. Satan may of course continue to nag Christians and try to draw them back into the human maelstrom of the fallen material condition (possibly enticing them to illicit sex, global warming denial and ecological ecocidal politics), yet Jesus Christ having overcome death and providing a model for Christian right social relations brings the faithful (without becoming godlike) to be more perfect, as He is perfect, through the power of His blessing (shed blood atoning vicariously for all those of faith).
McDermott's breezy treatment of these serious subjects is an excellent reminder of the provident grace provided by a lifetime of sober scholarship. Many of these theologians were themselves dedicated to learning of Jesus Christ and the Biblical truth in trying times of continuous political turmoil. Often they wrote well outside academia and state sponsorship. Today's Christians can find inspiration in that as a generation of spiritual homelessness co-generated by church and state compels conformation to consumerism and globalism in a hierarchical corporatism commercialization; more intelligent and contemplative use of ecological and spiritual resources ought instead to prevail in ecclesiastical structure, economics, ecological and political renewal.
1/12/11
A Year After the Haiti Quake-800,000 Still Tenting-What Would M.L.K. Do?
Haiti was a good example of modern sales ptiches and pr. After a year the 5 billion dollars in promised financial help is generally still undelivered. There has been a tremendous volunteer effort, yet the prospects for innovative, competant adequate long term housing at low cost for most seems another unrealized dream.
One might believe that a year after the Earthquake the reverend martin Luther King actually would have had something to say about the state of affairs in haiti if he were alive. Well, we have Sean Penn-perhaps not quite as inspirational of a speaker but a guy who is trying, and Sarah Palin visted for a day to lift the spirits of the Haitians.
Buckminster Fuller's dome institue actually has well laid plans for emergency steel pipe dome housing. With a pipe bender one can make a variety of shape including a martian lander looking structure with a floor off the ground for comparatively peanuts. Why modern hyper-shape technology cannot be used for Haitian relief I cannot understand except with the application of some cynicism regarding the inability of society to pervasively modernize methods except perhaps in war.
http://synchronofile.com/geodesic-domes-and-earthquakes/
http://www.bfi.org/news-events/domes-for-haiti
http://www.domelivingmagazine.com/DomebuildersP.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2381118/posts emergency shelters
http://www.miqel.com/fuller_design_science/emergency_habitation_dome.html
There are some efforts to send domes to Haiti. Upgraded and reintensified design and application efforts should be coordinated by FEMA if only for the sake of practice for an American emergency. We recall how badly the toxic trailers went for Hurricane Katrina.
Solar, wind power, methane production from human waste and planting of crops-maybe Haiti should be carved up like Antarctica amidst nations with areas of responsibility in order to provide competition to get the best job done quickest. Even President Obama should want to field a crack low-cost alternative housing team to put together a quick 100,000 four person homes-why not?
One might believe that a year after the Earthquake the reverend martin Luther King actually would have had something to say about the state of affairs in haiti if he were alive. Well, we have Sean Penn-perhaps not quite as inspirational of a speaker but a guy who is trying, and Sarah Palin visted for a day to lift the spirits of the Haitians.
Buckminster Fuller's dome institue actually has well laid plans for emergency steel pipe dome housing. With a pipe bender one can make a variety of shape including a martian lander looking structure with a floor off the ground for comparatively peanuts. Why modern hyper-shape technology cannot be used for Haitian relief I cannot understand except with the application of some cynicism regarding the inability of society to pervasively modernize methods except perhaps in war.
http://synchronofile.com/geodesic-domes-and-earthquakes/
http://www.bfi.org/news-events/domes-for-haiti
http://www.domelivingmagazine.com/DomebuildersP.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2381118/posts emergency shelters
http://www.miqel.com/fuller_design_science/emergency_habitation_dome.html
There are some efforts to send domes to Haiti. Upgraded and reintensified design and application efforts should be coordinated by FEMA if only for the sake of practice for an American emergency. We recall how badly the toxic trailers went for Hurricane Katrina.
Solar, wind power, methane production from human waste and planting of crops-maybe Haiti should be carved up like Antarctica amidst nations with areas of responsibility in order to provide competition to get the best job done quickest. Even President Obama should want to field a crack low-cost alternative housing team to put together a quick 100,000 four person homes-why not?
Christian Spiritual Homelessness
Many Americans today, including youth, experience a sense of alienation, of spiritual homelessness in the midst of tremendous material prosperity accreting to the rich. Traditional Christian Churches have largely failed the challenge of evolving from a feudalism mirroring hierarchical structure historical established to function to enrich a separate and unequal clergy.
Even in today's troubled economy more than 13% of Americans relocate annually in search of opportunity. With the change of city and state they too often find a franchise and television neo-realism providing their roots to philosophy and faith. The displaced or dispossessed experience, hip hop, football and pop shows as a temporal home beside their car.
Post-modern spiritual homelessness has developed in America for a nation trained by an impersonal media to rave and consume. Seventy-five percent of the economy is said to rely on consumerism. More that 35% of the workforce is employed in financial related services. More than a quarter of all rental properties in the United States are foreign owned and multi-national corporations made a joke of national competitiveness. Social anomie grows amidst high unemployment and millions of illegal alien immigrant displacement workers.
Churches too often are drive in tithing centers for people with SUVs to bring their children to for moral refuge if not true faith. Christians are second rated spectators in churches that forget their name and contribution when they leave town to search for a job.
Unequal network financial advantages pervasive today allow some to earn several lifetimes’ earnings with quick currency trading, and others labor if able to find work for what amounts to a fraction of the interest earned each day by non-workers with capital advantage. The Book of Deuteronomy 25 verses 13 through 16 warns against this;
13 “You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. 14 You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God is giving you. 16 For all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.
Spiritual homelessness in the United States brought several generations to search for meaning in an increasingly meaningless social environment. Meaning in consumerism without rational regarding to environmental consequences, social injustice and national dissipation cannot replace an activist priesthood of Christian believers wherein a Church may have a wise bishop and a congregation of priests sharing the tasks and tithing as peers more or less in a structured context.
Spiritual homeless may be remedied with a spiritual home generally available for Christian in a nationwide priesthood of believers. A structured Christian social welfare safety net should be created with a network of emergency saving (perhaps $3000 dollars), employment and service credit banks, medical help from members and a lifetime record of church attendance and participation prevents the erasure of a ‘laity’ and their work.
Youth in America should know that they really aren’t alone, as should everyone else, as Christian outsiders looking in toward isolated SUV congregations of the middle class that at best may consider it generous to cast some charity toward the spiritually homeless. Christian churches must be as interested in providing structured, material emergency support for every Christian account as well as that of a hierarchical clergy.
The Apostle Paul believed that Deuteronomy 25:4 “4 “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” meant that a preacher should receive sustenance for his Christian work. That may be so; however it does not imply that an exclusive priesthood was best. At most a priesthood of believers should have beginner, intermediate and elder status in assembly with roles within the sphere of competence of each. Christians should be encouraged to mature and welcome to participate fully in worship service, perhaps rotating roles. As every Christian is a priest, the absence of any one would be meaningful. The national church would be a real spiritual home capable of transcending the national chaos anomie and spiritual homelessness that is a derivative of the development of post-modern American society.
http://www.providentplan.com/831/tithing-in-the-bible-malachi-38-12/
http://www.intothelight.org/tithing.asp
http://www.helium.com/items/1627919-deciding-whether-tithing-should-be-based-on-gross-income-or-net
We may learn that today’s clergy are overpaid by 3000% according to the pay scale of the book of Deuteronomy. The faithful were to save ten percent of their annual produce and bring it to a sacred spot to feast once a year to honor God. In such practice of saving poverty would be avoided. Every third year the 10% was to be given to widows, orphans and materially non-productive priests. Thus the clergy were to receive 1/3rd of ten percent of the faithful’s income every third year.
Today’s priesthood of believers could save their material abundance and annual invest it in church projects honoring God from which they personally share the benefit.
Creating a practical social organization-an ecclesiastical organization-that realistically offers a national spiritual home for all Christians is no simple task. Probably it would require several prominent hierarchical priests supporting publically the innovation of such a church. The need for a priesthood of believers is plain and possible in an era of universal literacy; the unwillingness of those earning a comfortable living from the present structure is also hard to change. Jesus said ;
(Matthew 7-12) “7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! 12 Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”
One must believe that the better perfect of the spiritual church of Jesus Christ will in time advance.
Even in today's troubled economy more than 13% of Americans relocate annually in search of opportunity. With the change of city and state they too often find a franchise and television neo-realism providing their roots to philosophy and faith. The displaced or dispossessed experience, hip hop, football and pop shows as a temporal home beside their car.
Post-modern spiritual homelessness has developed in America for a nation trained by an impersonal media to rave and consume. Seventy-five percent of the economy is said to rely on consumerism. More that 35% of the workforce is employed in financial related services. More than a quarter of all rental properties in the United States are foreign owned and multi-national corporations made a joke of national competitiveness. Social anomie grows amidst high unemployment and millions of illegal alien immigrant displacement workers.
Churches too often are drive in tithing centers for people with SUVs to bring their children to for moral refuge if not true faith. Christians are second rated spectators in churches that forget their name and contribution when they leave town to search for a job.
Unequal network financial advantages pervasive today allow some to earn several lifetimes’ earnings with quick currency trading, and others labor if able to find work for what amounts to a fraction of the interest earned each day by non-workers with capital advantage. The Book of Deuteronomy 25 verses 13 through 16 warns against this;
13 “You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. 14 You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. 15 You shall have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure, that your days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD your God is giving you. 16 For all who do such things, all who behave unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.
Spiritual homelessness in the United States brought several generations to search for meaning in an increasingly meaningless social environment. Meaning in consumerism without rational regarding to environmental consequences, social injustice and national dissipation cannot replace an activist priesthood of Christian believers wherein a Church may have a wise bishop and a congregation of priests sharing the tasks and tithing as peers more or less in a structured context.
Spiritual homeless may be remedied with a spiritual home generally available for Christian in a nationwide priesthood of believers. A structured Christian social welfare safety net should be created with a network of emergency saving (perhaps $3000 dollars), employment and service credit banks, medical help from members and a lifetime record of church attendance and participation prevents the erasure of a ‘laity’ and their work.
Youth in America should know that they really aren’t alone, as should everyone else, as Christian outsiders looking in toward isolated SUV congregations of the middle class that at best may consider it generous to cast some charity toward the spiritually homeless. Christian churches must be as interested in providing structured, material emergency support for every Christian account as well as that of a hierarchical clergy.
The Apostle Paul believed that Deuteronomy 25:4 “4 “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” meant that a preacher should receive sustenance for his Christian work. That may be so; however it does not imply that an exclusive priesthood was best. At most a priesthood of believers should have beginner, intermediate and elder status in assembly with roles within the sphere of competence of each. Christians should be encouraged to mature and welcome to participate fully in worship service, perhaps rotating roles. As every Christian is a priest, the absence of any one would be meaningful. The national church would be a real spiritual home capable of transcending the national chaos anomie and spiritual homelessness that is a derivative of the development of post-modern American society.
http://www.providentplan.com/831/tithing-in-the-bible-malachi-38-12/
http://www.intothelight.org/tithing.asp
http://www.helium.com/items/1627919-deciding-whether-tithing-should-be-based-on-gross-income-or-net
We may learn that today’s clergy are overpaid by 3000% according to the pay scale of the book of Deuteronomy. The faithful were to save ten percent of their annual produce and bring it to a sacred spot to feast once a year to honor God. In such practice of saving poverty would be avoided. Every third year the 10% was to be given to widows, orphans and materially non-productive priests. Thus the clergy were to receive 1/3rd of ten percent of the faithful’s income every third year.
Today’s priesthood of believers could save their material abundance and annual invest it in church projects honoring God from which they personally share the benefit.
Creating a practical social organization-an ecclesiastical organization-that realistically offers a national spiritual home for all Christians is no simple task. Probably it would require several prominent hierarchical priests supporting publically the innovation of such a church. The need for a priesthood of believers is plain and possible in an era of universal literacy; the unwillingness of those earning a comfortable living from the present structure is also hard to change. Jesus said ;
(Matthew 7-12) “7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! 12 Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”
One must believe that the better perfect of the spiritual church of Jesus Christ will in time advance.
Stars and Empty Space (poem)
The sun chases around empty space
leaving its past behind in perpetual recurrence
near emptiness with virtual particles and cosmic rays
crenellated dimensions; six extra small ones they’ve said
one star in a metaphor of warped space
time a fully extended direction processing space force fields
Stars burning hydrogen in the darkness
abyssal night of non-being
attuned to the transformation of ideas
stars move like unit cartridges in a river flow
packaged to burn with nowhere to go
Like past season’s tent pitched
aslope of soggy moss over a log
the water is unfrozen and leaves undead amidst early snow
thoughts of God we believe set everywhere similes of pre-formed patterns
determinism of constructed universes strung together
As the Lamb of God was slaughtered from the first moment intelligence became lost
recovering the beginning of time with a Word for Himself and for others
we’ve asked pardon for misunderstanding
everything subject to analysis and reasoned theories
that seems beautiful topographically and for-itself
stars in greater movements in a space-book of pages turned.
leaving its past behind in perpetual recurrence
near emptiness with virtual particles and cosmic rays
crenellated dimensions; six extra small ones they’ve said
one star in a metaphor of warped space
time a fully extended direction processing space force fields
Stars burning hydrogen in the darkness
abyssal night of non-being
attuned to the transformation of ideas
stars move like unit cartridges in a river flow
packaged to burn with nowhere to go
Like past season’s tent pitched
aslope of soggy moss over a log
the water is unfrozen and leaves undead amidst early snow
thoughts of God we believe set everywhere similes of pre-formed patterns
determinism of constructed universes strung together
As the Lamb of God was slaughtered from the first moment intelligence became lost
recovering the beginning of time with a Word for Himself and for others
we’ve asked pardon for misunderstanding
everything subject to analysis and reasoned theories
that seems beautiful topographically and for-itself
stars in greater movements in a space-book of pages turned.
1/11/11
Exeperimental Superconducting Cities; Anchorage and Fairbanks Alaska?
The scientific quest for room temperature superconductors made progress in 2010. Scientists using a variety of material including plastic discovered new materials and methods for creating superconductivity. As the temperature increases for superconducting materials the cost of cooling the wire to create the superconducting effect decreaases. Presently the baseline for 'what works' is about 321 degrees below zero. That sounds cold, yet one needs good insulators to contain a liquified gas coolant.
2G HTS (high temperature superconductor) wire has allowed superconduction with less than .5% loss of electrons because of resistance at temperatures as high as -77 degrees Kelvin.
Because global warming effects the north more extremely than temperature areas it is worthwhile liberating Alaska cities first from reliance upon coal, oil and gas fuel sources. Electrical energy created by non-traditional alternative energy technologies coupled with extremely efficient, low resistant super-conducting wire networks should be particularly developed in locations in Anchorage, Fairbanks and other Alaskan cities esopecially contributing to high latitude global warming gassing/emmissions. As when summoning help from a crowd to call for emergency medical relief, it is best to address one particular person rather than to just general ask of all for none are then responsible sometimes. Without developing complete cities to alternative energy power to serve as national examples of fossil fuel-free energy living, it is likely that congress will pettyfog the needed transition for decades or at least until the New World Order owns all of the newer infrastructure for their profit and the nation's wage servitude.
Temperatures of minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit are readily achievable with liquid nitrogen and hydrogen. It would be helpful is some global warming greenhouse gases could be extracted from the atmosphere and used for cooling superconductors-though improbable.
Regular power lines lose as much as 7% power to resistance in the line. Superconductor independence effectively means national energy independence. Wind, solar, and fuel cell electric power input to super-conductor storage loops should be able to meet U.S. energy needs without redundant wastage through use of inefficient power lines. Select corridors and urban areas would most effectively respond to increased energy transmission efficiency.
The cities of Anchorage and Fairbanks Alaska could be used for federal experimental 100% superconducting and alternate energy input cities.
http://www.superconductors.org/
http://www.suptech.com/hts_coated_conductors.htm
http://ewh.ieee.org/tc/csc/europe/newsforum/announcements.html
http://www.superconductors.org/276K.htm
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110105/full/469009a.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_applications_of_superconductivity
http://www.sumitomoelectricusa.com/scripts/products/scc/apps.cfm
2G HTS (high temperature superconductor) wire has allowed superconduction with less than .5% loss of electrons because of resistance at temperatures as high as -77 degrees Kelvin.
Because global warming effects the north more extremely than temperature areas it is worthwhile liberating Alaska cities first from reliance upon coal, oil and gas fuel sources. Electrical energy created by non-traditional alternative energy technologies coupled with extremely efficient, low resistant super-conducting wire networks should be particularly developed in locations in Anchorage, Fairbanks and other Alaskan cities esopecially contributing to high latitude global warming gassing/emmissions. As when summoning help from a crowd to call for emergency medical relief, it is best to address one particular person rather than to just general ask of all for none are then responsible sometimes. Without developing complete cities to alternative energy power to serve as national examples of fossil fuel-free energy living, it is likely that congress will pettyfog the needed transition for decades or at least until the New World Order owns all of the newer infrastructure for their profit and the nation's wage servitude.
Temperatures of minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit are readily achievable with liquid nitrogen and hydrogen. It would be helpful is some global warming greenhouse gases could be extracted from the atmosphere and used for cooling superconductors-though improbable.
Regular power lines lose as much as 7% power to resistance in the line. Superconductor independence effectively means national energy independence. Wind, solar, and fuel cell electric power input to super-conductor storage loops should be able to meet U.S. energy needs without redundant wastage through use of inefficient power lines. Select corridors and urban areas would most effectively respond to increased energy transmission efficiency.
The cities of Anchorage and Fairbanks Alaska could be used for federal experimental 100% superconducting and alternate energy input cities.
http://www.superconductors.org/
http://www.suptech.com/hts_coated_conductors.htm
http://ewh.ieee.org/tc/csc/europe/newsforum/announcements.html
http://www.superconductors.org/276K.htm
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110105/full/469009a.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_applications_of_superconductivity
http://www.sumitomoelectricusa.com/scripts/products/scc/apps.cfm
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