Just letting you know that I'll be gone for awhile... when I come back, it will be with vigor or not at all. (Empty promise, I know, but good intentions and all that.) I'm tired of feeling too guilty to even visit folks...
Love to all... Chris
I think that when learning about science, an open mind is required, as well as an open heart, dear Salix .
From Page: " Largely intact, the flute had been constructed from the hollow wing bone of a giant vulture using stone tools, according to the study.
Nearly 22 centimeters long (8.7 inches), the instrument roughly resembles its modern equivalent. Five holes were carved into it to alter the pitch.
Fragments of three ivory flutes were uncovered at the same site, in the Ach Valley in southern Germany, along with other instruments that are not quite so old.
Previously, a carved figurine from the same period had been discovered just a few steps from the cave where the instruments were found, suggesting that culture was important to the people who lived in the region during the Upper Palaeolithic period (approximately 40,000-10,000 years ago).
The bone and ivory flutes were dated using radiocarbon dating techniques; they are some 5,000 years older than the previously oldest known instruments."
I wonder if I would be a mouse or have courage? What would it take to put my life on the line? Would I???
From Wall Street Journal:
"The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale.
Interviews with technology experts say Iranian efforts at monitoring Internet information go well beyond blocking access to websites or severing Internet connections.
Instead, in confronting the political turmoil that has consumed the country this past week, the Iranian government appears to be engaging in a practice often called deep packet inspection, which enables authorities to not only block communication but to monitor it to gather information about individuals, as well as alter it for disinformation purposes, experts said.
The monitoring capability was provided, at least in part, by a joint venture of Siemens AG, the German conglomerate, and Nokia Corp., the Finnish cellphone company, in the second half of 2008, confirmed Ben Roome, a spokesman for the venture. "If you sell networks, you also, intrinsically, sell the capability to intercept any communication that runs over them," he said.
The Iranian government had experimented with the equipment, but its capabilities weren't fully displayed -- until the recent unrest, experts said. "We didn't know they could do this much," said a network engineer in Tehran. "Now we know they have powerful things that allow them to do very complex tracking on the network.""
I just love that I can take comfort from First Post. (ironic statement.) But, seriously, folks, I'm willing to take the blame (as a '60's Boomer) for the start of the radical Left/Right shifting that we now experience as one party comes in and the other is shut out. I keep hearing about a rise, in the next generation, of Centrism, and I truly can't wait to see it. We need extreme views to push change, but I believe that we need a Middle to actually get anything accomplished.
Taiko is the Heart of percussion/thunder/Drum. Mu Daiko holds the Soul. If you live in Minnesota, go, run to the next performance. Yup, I'm a groupie, no doubt about it.
I like them
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