Lindi Ortega - Tin Star (Official Video)

Lindi Ortega

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A two year old boy and his dog Toby spend the day together, being friends.- Video

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Dianne Feinstein spots drone inches from face?

This lady has been inhaling too much smoke.  [photo]By KATHRYN A. WOLFE : Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she once found a drone peeking into the window of her home — the kind of cautionary tale she wants lawmakers to consider as they look at allowing commercial drone use.
The California Democrat offered few details about the incident when speaking about it Wednesday afternoon, during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on drone policy at which she appeared as a special witness. But she used the episode to implore lawmakers to “proceed with caution.”...Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/senator-dianne-feinstein-encounter-with-drone-technology-privacy-surveillance-102233.html#ixzz2qcUpLJg2

No Pants Subway Ride 2014: ‘International celebration of silliness’ sees tens of thousands ride underground in their underwear

Adam Withnall:

Tens of thousands of people around the world have taken part in the No Pants Subway Ride 2014, riding subway networks in their underwear in a carefully-orchestrated international prank.

What started with just seven men in New York 12 years ago has ballooned to become an event recognised in over 60 cities in more than 25 countries.
The self-proclaimed “prank collective” group Improv Everywhere first came up with the idea when they performed the inaugural No Pants Subway Ride in 2002.
During the middle of winter, participants wearing winter coats, hats, scarves and gloves – but crucially no trousers, tights or skirts – board the same subway train at different stations, acting as if nothing is out of the ordinary.
That simple prank, which now has its own back story starring an unsuspecting woman caught up in the middle of it all (see video below), has “grown into an international celebration of silliness”, the group said...Continue reading...

Site under Construction and the 'Big Canoe' - update

The Big Canoe

• This place is in need of a facelift, renovation, overhaul, or maybe sent off to cyberspace, as in delete. 'Copy and paste' sounds simple. Searching, google this, google that, read news get more depressed and angry. This is therapy? Pain management? Pain, now there is a  subjective word. When I was in hospital, there was a fella next to me, had his lung removed, cancer. He could feel no pain.[link] Speaking of, now I can hardly move my head because a bolt of pain sobers me up, and pain meds makes me dozy and forgetful. If "Pain" were a field of study I would have a  PhD. Yes, I would have doctorate in pain, also, and so the condition of this blog is all the more distressing.[link] I still don't know how to operate this machine. How do I start a new paragraph without messin up and having to start all over again, it is a plus that Blogger lets you edit after posting. Keep marching on Thomas, just pretend that no one will read this except you. That's not too difficult.
  
  1. • I am reading Atlantis: The Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly. George Catlin writes in a curious and valuable work "North American Indians," writes: "In the centre of the village is an open space, or public square, 150 feet in diameter and circular in form, which is used for all public games and festivals, shows and exhibitions. The lodges around this open space front in, with their doors toward the centre; and in the middle of this stands an object of great religious veneration, on account of the importance it has in connection with the annual religious ceremonies. This object is in the form of a large hogshead, some eight or ten feet high, made of planks and hoops, containing within it some of their choicest mysteries or medicines. They call it the 'Big Canoe.'[Chapter V. The Deluge Legends Of America.] I still read articles or books about the antediluvian world. The 'Big Canoe', stuck in my mind. You can read edition on line Atlantis: The Antediluvian World.

Hank Williams "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (1953)"

          [photo]last.fm/music. Hank Williams

King of Morocco asks local Jews to pray for rain

King Mohamed VI of Morocco. Photo by AP

By JTA 
Prayers were recited at synagogues and mosques across the country at the request of the king upon learning that Morocco may suffer a drought this year.
At the request of the king, prayers for rain were held over the weekend at synagogues throughout Morocco.
The prayers were recited on Saturday, one day after Muslims said similar prayers in mosques at the request of King Mohammed VI, the Moroccan daily Le Matin reported. The king made the request upon learning that Morocco may suffer a drought this year.
Responding to the king’s plea, the Council of Israelite Communities in Morocco, or CCIM, published a statement in which it “invites worshipers to pray in all the synagogues of the kingdom” so that God may “spare our country and help His Highness the King.”...Continue reading...

Aaron Carapella completes third map in series dedicated to compiling 'true names' of Native American tribes

Aaron Carapella’s map of Mexico documents the ‘true names’ of Native American tribes before the groups had contact with Europeans. Submitted photoby Katherine Locke
Reporter Aaron Carapella has added Mexico to his unique map collection that reflects the true names of Native American tribes across the United States and Canada before the groups had contact with Europeans.

Carapella, who is part Cherokee, said he spent 14 years making the continental U.S. map and he has been working on the Mexico map for about the same amont of time, though the final push to get it done took about six months.

"I've tried to stay on a path, first getting the U.S. one done, then Canada, then Mexico," he said. "I am trying to put the puzzle pieces together of what pre-contact indigenous North America looked like...Continue to read...

Our planet to remain habitable for longer than previously thought - Houston Chronicle

[image]By Eric Berger
As our star brightens and heats up during the coming millennia eventually Earth will become uninhabitable. According to one calculation, in about 2.8 billion years the last life on Earth,  single-celled, heat-loving organisms in isolated pools of hot, salty water will die.
For humans, of course, the end of Earth as a habitable planet will come far sooner.
But there’s good news, friends!
Setting aside valid concerns of global warming, and computing the input only from the Sun, previous estimates have pegged the habitable period of Earth at about 650 million years. After that it’s just too hot.
But now a new, much higher resolution model suggests Earth will remain habitable to humans for much longer, perhaps as much as 1.5 billion years.
According to the study, published in Geophysical Research Letters (see abstract), increasing solar luminosity will increase the Earth’s average temperature to about 104 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 1.5 billion years.
The study authors say that’s nearly double the current global surface temperature of 58 degrees Fahrenheit, but areas near and just below the Arctic Circle would be habitable, akin to the tropics today. And there would be a LOT of rain as the oceans evaporated.
If humanity is to survive the next 1.5 billion years, an achievement I consider highly unlikely, the good news is that we’re beginning to find a lot of planets around a lot of other worlds.
In the last 100 years we’ve gone from a 12-second flight by the Wright brothers to living in space.  Given that there are a lot of other worlds, humans will eventually have the capacity to reach them in plenty of time.Read here.http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2014/01/good-news-our-planet-to-remain-habitable-for-longer-than-previously-thought/?cmpid=staffblogshcat

Mighty Maggots - National Geographic

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Van Morrison - "Into The Mystic"

Winter Driving Tipslast.fm.music.Van Morrison

"Keep on talkin’ in the free world" by Warren Kinsella

Press conference against the Athabasca tar sands at Massey Hall in Toronto, Sunday, January 12, 2014. Craig Robertson/QMI Agency

By Warren KinsellaOTTAWA — So a rock star popped up in Toronto on the weekend and pronounced on politics. People noticed.
Some got upset, some were happy.
Happens all the time. This time, it was Neil Young, who was raised in Winnipeg but hasn’t lived in Canada for half a century. Other times, it’s been movie stars or TV stars or other kinds of celebrities — Pamela Anderson on the seal hunt, Robert Redford on the oilsands, Ted Nugent on guns, and so on.
Doesn’t just happen in Canada, either. Last week, one of the biggest stories in the world was about the North Korea visit of former Chicago Bulls star Dennis Rodman, who is stupid, saying stupid stuff. He later apologized for his stupidity.
As a musician — I’ve been playing in punk bands, badly, for decades — I have never really understood why anyone could be persuaded to listen to anything we say. We’re musicians, we play music. (Again, in my case, badly. But I remain proud I could take a beer bottle full in the chest and not miss a beat.) Why does anyone care what movie stars and rock stars have to say about politics? Well, for starters, because stars get more attention than mere politicians do. They’re better looking than politicians are and they’re way more interesting...Keep reading....
Neil Young is a crabby old coot.

"If Neil Young actually walked his talk, we'd see" By Les MacPherson, The Starphoenix Read here.

Man Has Special Bond With Wild Cats [VIDEO]

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How A Little Caffeine Can Boost Your Memory

Concerned about improving your memory function? What might work even better than vitamins or brain supplements would be some java because a new study suggest coffee helps memory loss and wards off forgetfulness.bestpicblog.com
by Alice G. Walton Contributor:
If you’re trying to commit a set of items to memory, you may want to give your brain a bit of caffeine. But how you time it matters, finds a new study out today in Nature Neuroscience. The researchers found that giving people caffeine after they memorized a series of pictures significantly boosted their ability to remember the subtler details, compared to people who’d been given dummy pills. Before you down a six-shot Americano, though, be aware that there’s a sweet spot: A 200-milligram dose of caffeine – about the amount in a large cup of coffee – was the only one to do the trick...Read here...

Tigerfish Lunges Out Of The Water To Eat A Bird Mid-Flight

[image]by Dina Spector:  Researchers in South Africa captured the first video footage of a freshwater fish lunging out of the water and snatching a bird in flight.
The behavior was discovered during a 15-day study on Schroda Dam, which created a man-made lake in the Mapungubwe National Park.
Freshwater fish, including some bass species, eels, and piranhas, have been shown to occasionally prey on birds that are swimming in water, or sitting on land close to the edge of the water, according to report published in the Journal of Fish Biology... Continue reading...