’200-year-old’ man listed as alive in family register

A “200-year-old” man is listed as alive in his family register at the municipal government, city officials said.

The man, who was born in 1810, would be as old as classic music composer Frederic Francois Chopin. City officials said his birthday and address are unknown.

The Iki Municipal Government computerized family registers it manages in 2006, but did not touch those for such elderly people.

In Iki, there are 72 people aged over 120, who are listed as alive by their family registers but are not registered as residents.

“We’ll conduct an investigation and delete their family registers if they are confirmed dead,” a city official said.

via ’200-year-old’ man listed as alive in family register – The Mainichi Daily News.

Gulf Disaster, Matt Simmons: “Theres another leak, much bigger, 5 to 6 miles away”

Is there still an unplugged leak?

Gene Simmons vs. The Fed

Gene Simmons is a character. His real name is Chaim Witz and he was born in Israel. He co-founded the rock group Kiss in the early 1970s.

I think he is 61 years old now.  I don’t agree with all of his politics, like supporting Bush, but do I like how he messes with people. His net worth is $300 million according to celebritynetworth.com.

He claims to have slept with 4,600 women. (That would be a different woman every night for 12 years.)

Simmons, 56, says, “I have not heard a complaint. That’s because I am straight with them. “I don’t lie, like most men do. I will tell a girl I want her and desire her, but I’ll tell her straight, ‘I want your sister and your mommy as well.’”

He has an interesting lack of embarrassment and a great playfulness.

He claims to have never been drunk because he wants to live a long time. I hope he does “win the marathon”.  He should give Aubrey DuGrey a million dollars. That would improve his chances of having the longest life possible.

If I was a Christian, I’d seriously consider the possibility that he is the devil…  but would the devil want to abolish the Fed? Would the devil donate to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS foundation? I think not.

KISS acoustic:

KISS orchestrated:

‘Blue Flu’ cases spreading around Gulf

“Blue Flu” infecting people along the Gulf of Mexico, other southern states?

Some people are calling it the BP Flu. But it is commonly being called the Blue Flu, because the alleged symptoms include blue lips and skin; and it’s scaring the hell out of people all around the Gulf area –from Texas to Florida.

This Blue Flu is separate from people experiencing something called TILT, or “Toxic-Induced Loss of Tolerance.” TILT is something that hit some of the folks who had been working on the massive cleanup surrounding the oil spill. Symptoms from TILT include eyes and skin being irritated, headaches and dizziness.

People with TILT are typically those who were in the immediate area of the spill, mostly those directly involved with the cleanup. Those suffering from Blue Flu are an entirely different matter. These are people who were not in direct contact with the spill, or the cleanup chemicals. They simply live in the south, near the Gulf.

Symptoms include swollen glands, notably in the neck, fever, vomiting, headache, bluish lip color, numbness in fingers and toes. The most alarming symptom being reported is “severe symptomatic cyanosis.” This is the entire body turning blue, a discoloration of the skin.

Of course this could cause alarm that these are symptoms of oxygen depletion along the Gulf. But could this rather be from all that Corexit that was sprayed everywhere, including dropped through the air from airplanes? This was a lot of chemical deposited in a large area, in a short frame of time. One wonders how the people living in the area could not be sickened from it. …

Whatever the cause the Blue Flu, it is important to note that the oil spill wasn’t cleaned up – it was covered up. As stated in the above quote, the Corexit that was sprayed and dumped all over the place is simply a (rather dangerous) chemical agent that prevented the oil from surfacing.

After all, the government isn’t interested in your safety. Rather, the government is interested in creating the illusion of safety. And the government often harms even more people in the end in their effort to keep up appearances.

Thus, expect the Blue Flu to be kept under wraps as much as possible. In an effort to deflect criticism, I would not be surprised if the government sounded an alarm over another flu bug – an effort at misdirection. The political class wants the oil spill story out of the way and forgotten. …

That article is at worldvisionportal.org. The writer wonders if these are symptoms of oxygen depletion in the air and water. Here’s a little from that one:

Along with the symptoms that mimic flu-like viruses, there are increasing cases of severe symptomatic cyanosis. These rapidly increasing symptoms range from bluish lip color to numbness in fingers and toes. There is also a fast growing increase of pneumonia cases which are being diagnosed as chemical induced pneumonia. Those working on boats and those living directly on the coast are the most effected.

Cyanosis is simply oxygen starvation in the blood. With a moderate case involving such a lack of oxygen, the skin appears to have a blueish colour. Hands and fingers especially show these signs as will other extremities such as toes and lips. A lack of oxygen in the blood can also have a purplish appearance where the skin surface is red from sun exposure but the blood beneath the skin is blue. Red and blue make purple.

If all these BLUE FLU symptoms were temporary, most everyone suffering from them would eventually recover as the blood becomes increasingly oxygenated once removed from the oxygen depletion source.

… The writer goes on to suggest that, “while the Blue Flu symptoms are increasing for more and more people, those who have had 30+ days of direct exposure to the toxic and oxygen depleted Gulf air and water are in immediate danger of permanent and irreversible biological damage… if not death.”

…

COMMENT: Could it be from all the methane that was released into the air displaced the oxygen? That is what methane does. That is what Matthew Simmons was warning the gulf residents about when he said they MUST evacuate. Methane is odorless, but it displaces/replaces oxygen!!! Hence the cyanosis, blue lips!

COMMENT: We’ll be seeing more nasty effects like this – you can’t dump tens of thousands of tons of poison into the environment without hurting a lot of people.

But:
“The writer wonders if these are symptoms of oxygen depletion in the air and water.”

Absolutely not. In order to actually turn people’s lips blue, the partial pressure of oxygen would have to drop to astonishingly low levels, lower than anywhere on the planet. No one could miss this – for example, you’d pass out if you tried to run, everyone with asthma or pneumonia or heck, even a heavy cold! would simply die. ..

via ‘Blue Flu’ cases spreading around Gulf – Dateline Zero.

The photo is of a person with cyanosis, not a person with the blu flu.

In related news: The BP Investigation was Blocked by Senate Republicans after passing in the House almost unanimously. As Senator Bob Menedez (D) said, who are the Senate Republicans protecting and “what are we hiding here?”

COMMENT ON YouTube:  “Like said, left wing right wing same ol bird. Both parties will play us for their own personal gain.”

Farmer sues French MoD after two low-flying fighter planes ‘frighten 4,800 chickens to death’

A French farmer is suing his country’s Ministry of Defence after two low-flying fighter jets caused 4,800 of his chickens to drop dead.

Etienne Le Mehaute said there was an ‘almighty din’ when the planes passed over his farm in Pelguien, Brittany, on Tuesday afternoon.

‘We were having lunch when there this enormous roar of engines,’ said Mr Le Mahaute. ‘We could feel the shockwaves down our back.

‘The chickens were absolutely terrified and thousands dropped dead. We piled their bodies up and there were some 4,800 who did not pull through.’

Mr Le Mehaute, who has around 68,000 birds in total, wants £12,000 from the MoD for his loss.

MoD spokesman Frederic Solano has confirmed two jets were in the area at the time, but denied they broke low-flying regulations. He said an investigation into the deaths had been launch.

The British government regularly pays out compensation to civilians who complain about noisy military jets.

Last year defence chiefs paid out £42,000 to a Staffordshire farmer whose chickens laid fewer eggs because they were frightened by the Red Arrows display team.

And another £117,000 was handed over to a Yorkshire racehorse owner after the animal injured itself when it was spooked by jets.

A total of £7.6million has been paid out in damages over the past four years because of military noise pollution, according to official documents released earlier this year. …

via Farmer sues French MoD after two low-flying fighter planes ‘frighten 4,800 chickens to death’ | Mail Online.

Planets spotted in changing orbits

NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting probe has spotted a system where two giant planets are locked in constantly changing orbits — with a super-Earth potentially pinned down in the crossfire.

Astronomers like to think of planets as a kind of celestial clockwork, keeping regular time. For example, the time it takes for the planets in our own solar system to complete their orbits can be calculated to within fractions of a second, and unless something huge happens, they’ll stick to that timetable for billions of years.

In contrast, the two Saturn-size planets circling a sunlike star now known as Kepler-9, more than 2,000 light-years from Earth, shift their timetable with every go-round. Kepler-9b has an orbit lasting approximately 19.24 Earth days, while Kepler-9c has an orbit lasting a little more than twice as long, 38.91 days. But on average, Kepler-9b’s orbit got about 4 minutes longer every time the Kepler astronomers checked, while Kepler-9c’s averaged about 39 minutes shorter.

That suggests the planets are in the midst of a gravitational push-pull that keeps the orbits close to a 2-to-1 ratio, in what’s known as a planetary resonance. In our own solar system, Pluto and Neptune are in a similar resonance (2-to-3), which is why little Pluto can’t be kicked out of its orbit. The same thing applies to the Kepler-9 system.

“The system is stable in the sense that no planet will be ejected,” said Matthew Holman, an astronomer at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who is the principal author of a Kepler paper being published today on the journal Science’s website.

“The orbits of the planets are changing, but these variations are oscillatory,” Holman told me in an e-mail. “On average, the period ratio will be very close to 2-to-1. However, at any given instant that ratio may be bigger than 2-to-1 or smaller than 2-to-1.”

Orbital variations has long been known to be theoretically possible, but Kepler-9 is the first confirmed planetary system where astronomers have been able to register this type of off-schedule behavior. It’s actually quite a lucky break for the Kepler team. “The variations in what we call the transit times are large enough that we can use those transit timing variations to estimate the masses of these bodies,” Holman said in a Science podcast. …

via Cosmic Log – Planets spotted in changing orbits.

Pentagon: 2008 Cyber Breach, Considered the Biggest Ever, Was Caused By a Simple Flash Drive

In the first on-the-record, official recognition that a foreign intelligence agency infiltrated sensitive U.S. military CentCom networks in 2008, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III has revealed the source of the attack. And it was — drumroll please — a flash drive. A simple flash drive inserted into a military laptop at a location in the Middle East allowed malicious code to install and conceal itself on both classified and unclassified servers, opening them to foreign control.

The acknowledgement that such a simple process set off such an egregious breach of security highlights not only the danger that cyber threats pose, but just how fragile sensitive systems — the systems by which America makes war — can be.

In an article today in Foreign Affairs, Lynn presents new details about the DoD’s cyberstrategy as it pertains to seeking out threats within its own networks, and according to the WaPo he asserts that the Pentagon needs to make efforts to protect important industry networks as well. That means defending not only protecting dot-gov and dot-mil networks, but ensuring that private industries providing critical infrastructure are taking the proper steps to secure their own networks.

But what the Pentagon learned the hard way is also a timely reminder for the rest of us as well.

via Pentagon: 2008 Cyber Breach, Considered the Biggest Ever, Was Caused By a Simple Flash Drive | Popular Science.

Comment: … It’s always a good idea to reformat a new USB drive when you get it.

Space Flight: Application of Orbital Mechanics

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Space Flight: Application of Orbital Mechanics
AVA18245VNB1 – 1994

This video details planetary motion or orbital mechanics. It explains Kepler’s and Newton’s Laws plus terminology including perigee, apogee, eccentricity, orbital inclination, launch window, etc.

Hunter’s Infrared Camera Captures Images of UFO Near Space Surveillance Station

Fort Worth area resident Lisa Brock-Piekarski is a little freaked out by images she discovered on an infrared camera mounted at her family’s favorite hunting spot.

That’s not because of the deer in the foreground but because of the mysterious lights in the background to the left of the animal.

“What I see looks almost like a Frisbee,” Brock-Piekarski told Dallas-Fort Worth NBC affiliate KXAS-TV. “You see a several lights going around, and they’re all symmetrical and lit up, and it just looks like an object in the sky.”

While she hesitated calling it a UFO, Brock-Piekarski could not identify what might have caused the string of lights to appear in the photos, taken over a timespan of almost two hours.

“There’s nothing back there but trees and sky,” she said. “There’s no hills, no buildings, nothing back there. It’s all flat.”

Brock-Piekarski said the pictures were taken by an infrared, motion-activated game camera. The equipment wasn’t moved, and it doesn’t have a flash.

“We’ve seen falling stars, all kinds of stuff out there because you’re away from the city,” she said. “Anytime there’s a meteor shower or anything, you can see it a lot better, but I’ve never seen anything like that.”

The Brock-Piekarski’s hunting land is located in Archer City, which is near Sheppard Air Force Base. The installation did not immediately return requests from KXAS-TV asking if it had planes up the night the images were taken.

Brock-Piekarski added that she was now a little hesitant to go out hunting and to her deer blind alone.

“It’s a little creepy,” Brock-Piekarski said. “I don’t know if I want to be sitting out in my deer stand by myself anymore, hunting.”

via Did hunter’s infrared camera capture images of UFO? | Outposts | Los Angeles Times.

Fort Worth, Tex. — A motion-activated camera at a Fort Worth family’s favorite hunting spot is capturing shots of mysterious objects.

Lisa Brock-Piekarski’s game camera is supposed to take pictures of the deer on her Archer City hunting lease, but the pictures show something she can’t explain.

via Droidzilla

Thanks to Ann for point this out.

Why are there two photos of the same frozen deer and object with the sky showing what seems to be two different times of day? (last photo below).

The camera did not move, but the object definitely did. Compare the 6:06 AM and 6:07 AM images. In the 6:07 AM image, there is a lighter duplicate blurred double of the image. It seems to have been caught in this frame zooming away.  Or is that a cloud. Even freakier thought: Perhaps it is still there in the daylight photo, but “cloaked” by some kind of projector or reflection technology.

The times mentions that this was near Sheppard Air Force Base, but when I did a search on Google I found that the Kickapoo Space Surveillance Station is also in Archer City, Texas.

“One of the lesser-known assets of the US Space Command’s world-wide space surveillance system is the 217 MHz NAVSPASUR “fence” across the southern US.” – fas

UFO caught on deer camera, Archer City TX

Vicinity of Kickapoo Space Surveillance Station Archer City, Texas

Diabetic grandmother urine whisky

A British art student is making whisky from his grandmother’s urine.

James Gilpin collects his diabetic granny Patricia’s pee, boils it, cleans the sugar crystals which are left and then adds them to grain, malt and water to create the alcoholic drink.

He came up with the unusual brewing idea after reading that sufferers of diabetes have a lot of sugar in their urine because of their high blood sugar levels.

James – who is studying at the London Royal College of Art – said: “The urine produces a very nice drink.”

He has also used the wee from a number of volunteers and he puts their names and ages on the labels of his Gilpin Family Whisky, however, he insists he has no plans to sell his odd liquor.

via Wee whisky | Showbiz | STV Entertainment.

James Gilpin is a designer and researcher who works on the implementation of new biomedical technologies. He’s also got type 1 diabetes, where his body doesn’t produce enough insulin to regulate blood sugar levels.

So he’s started a project called Gilpin Family Whisky, which turns the sugar-rich urine of elderly diabetics into a high-end single malt whisky, suitable for export.

The source material is acquired from elderly volunteers, including Gilpin’s own grandmother, Patricia. The urine is purified in the same way as mains water is purified, with the sugar molecules removed and added to the mash stock to accelerate the whisky’s fermentation process. Traditionally, that sugar would be made from the starches in the mash.

Once fermented into a clear alcohol spirit, whisky blends are added to give colour, taste and viscosity, and the product is bottled with the name and age of the contributor.

The original idea came from an (unverified) story he heard about a pharmaceutical company that supposedly set up a factory next to an old people’s home and would swap cushions and soft toys for the residents’ urine. They’d then process the urine to remove the chemicals that had passed straight through the dilapidated endochrine systems of the patients, which could then be put straight back into new medicine.

via wired

Son, when I decided to have children, I didn’t think I’d ever have to say something like this, but apparently I do:

Listen, nothing good can come from drinking your sick grandmother’s urine, m’kay?

…. So, just put the idea back where you got it and, you know what? Let’s use that creativity of yours in some other ways.

I’m glad we had this talk.