Rock @ MindSay

The sound of rock often revolves around the electric guitar or acoustic guitar, and it uses a strong back beat laid down by a rhythm section of electric bass guitar, drums, and keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, or, since the 1970s, synthesizers. Along with the guitar or keyboards, saxophone and blues-style harmonica are sometimes used as soloing instruments. In its "purest form", it "has three chords, a strong, insistent back beat, and a catchy melody." In the late 1960s and early 1970s, rock music developed different subgenres. When it was blended with folk music it created folk rock, with blues to create blues-rock and with jazz, to create jazz-rock fusion. In the 1970s, rock incorporated influences from soul, funk, and latin music. Also in the 1970s, rock developed a number of subgenres, such as soft rock, glam rock, heavy metal, hard rock, progressive rock, and punk rock. Rock subgenres that emerged in the 1980s included New Wave, hardcore punk and alternative rock. In the 1990s, rock subgenres included grunge, Britpop, indie rock, and nu metal.

Like many others around the world, I was alerted to the the fact that Michael Jackson had died by a text message from a friend.  So I turned my computer back on and watched online as the first reports broke across the world news.  Yet it all seemed surreal, unexpected and sudden - making it hard to really take in.  This icon, this musical legend, was gone. Of course, to many he had been lost for years.  Michael Jackson's career had waned from it's 1980s heyday as child abuse allegations and his changing appearance helped to undermine his stardom.  Added to this was the ongoing media barrage and the simple fact that the world had seemingly moved on from the time when he unleashed his signature 'moon walk' while performing 'Billie Jean' at the Motown 25th anniversary show.    After releasing three of pop music's greatest albums back-to-back in 'Off The Wall', 'Thriller' and 'Bad' - not to mention securing the best selling album of all time in 'Thriller' - Michael Jackson seemed to struggle for the same levels of relevance.  Not to say that he didn't still see success, as continued number ones testified, but rather that his all-conquering superstardom became sullied. Despite being found not guilty and having taken the generally accepted and advised option of an out-of-court settlement it was perhaps the child abuse charges that hurt his career the most.  He never quite seemed to be able to escape the spectre of the allegations and Michael Jackson the man became somewhat seperated from his musical legacy as his almost child-like purity and innocence was lost to the world.  Michael also struggled with his personal appearance as his skin-tone lightened considerably leading some to speculate that he was looking to distance himself from his African American roots.  Perhaps the truth will finally be revealed, although it is just as likely that Michael Jackson's secrets will go with him to the grave. There is, however, something about Jackson that could never be kept under wraps, his talent.  it is his talent as a singer, performer, dancer and entertainer that we shoudl really try to remember him for.  Michael Jackson became arguably the most famous man in the world - his music crossing social, ethnic and geographical boundaries.  He had his own distinct style of movement, one that was not classically trained, but rather one that seemed to come from within.  Jackson seemed to move instinctively, his performances apparently lacking organized choreography, except where his dancers had to keep up with him.  Fittingly for a chilld born just four years after the end of segregation and signed to Motown the same year as Martin Luther King was killed,  Michael Jackson's songs helped break down racial barriers as he heralded African American inroads to MTV.  Yet he seldom seemed to play upon his heritage, becoming an everyman even as his appearance changed.  Through all of the controversy, Michael Jackson's work will live on as his impact continues to be felt through the work of others.  His music will continue to be played at parties and in clubs and it seems that with his death Michael Jackson's legacy may grow stronger than it was even during his lifetime.  There will be many feeling a strange sense of loss for a man they never knew.  Perhaps it is a feeling of personal loss too as a constant part of the lives of many is gone.  Another piece of childhood lost with the man that was himself like a boy.  A true legend, Michael Jackson's impact cannot be over-stressed and perhaps now, with his untimely death, we can all once again appreciate the talent above the failings of the man.  Many more words will be written before Michael Jackson can truly rest, there will no doubt follow legal battles and more controversy.  But finally Michael Jackson can rest and for him only three words are now needed; rest in peace.

Slim – www.grindmodeconnect.com

 

While I, likemost other people around the world, don't know what really happened that night I would wager that the argument was not strictly one-sided.  I would go on to say that the violence was not necessarily all one way either.   If my guess is correct then I would hope to see justice served with this kept in mind.  It is perhaps a shame for Chris Brown and Rihanna that it is their argument that has caught the attention of the world press.  I just hope that the court can settle this without the prejudices of the media circus intruding (too heavily) on the need for a calm decision... – Slim, Managing Editor, Grind Mode Media, LLC – WWW.GRINDMODECONNECT.COM  or WWW.GRINDMODEPRESS.COM

QuakeFinder Detects Quake: Pre-Quake Signatures Detected by QuakeFinder and NASA

By: Marketwire .
Jun. 19, 2009 04:14 PM





PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/19/09 -- QuakeFinder, the Humanitarian R&D division of Stellar Solutions, Inc. has analyzed data gathered from the Alum Rock earthquake in October 2007. QuakeFinder has one of their specialized ground sensors located approximately 2 miles from the epicenter of the Alum Rock earthquake. The Natural Hazards and Earth Systems Science journal recently accepted a paper by QuakeFinder which details both satellite and ground sensors detection of three independent electromagnetic signals two weeks prior to the October 30, 2007 Alum Rock M5.4 earthquake. QuakeFinder detected ultra low frequency magnetic pulsations and large changes in air conductivity near the ground during the two weeks prior to the quake. In addition, collaborators at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory detected nighttime infra-red signatures in the same area simultaneously from the GOES-West weather satellite. These three signatures were compared with normal signals collected over the previous two years, and it was noted that the changes followed a similar timeline (two weeks) which occurred prior to the 1989 Loma Prieta M7.0 earthquake. The Alum Rock earthquake analysis has been discussed in California Space Authority's Winter issue of SpaceBound! ( http://www.californiaspaceauthority.org/spacebound-08-v25) and covered by NBC's Bay Area News(http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Bay_Area_Centers_in_on_Earthquake_ Prediction_Bay_Area.html). QuakeFinder currently has 55 ground sensors in the CA area, and plans to increase the network in California and internationally, allowing the capture and analysis of more earthquake data, thereby providing additional corroboration earthquakes could be forecast by monitoring electromagnetic changes around fault zones.

For additional information on Earthquake findings by QuakeFinder, contact Tom Bleier, VP of Humanitarian R&D at Stellar Solutions, or visit www.quakefinder.com.

QuakeFinder conducts pioneering research in the area of earthquake forecasting and is the Humanitarian R&D division of Stellar Solutions, an award winning aerospace engineering services company located in Palo Alto, CA. The initial goal to develop a monitoring network (CalMagNet) has progressed into a broader vision -- to save lives by conducting research with the aim of making global forecasts of major seismic activity a reality within the next decade.

About Stellar Solutions, Inc.

Stellar Solutions distinguishes itself by satisfying customers' critical engineering services needs on diverse projects such as defense-related intelligence programs, international telecommunications satellites, commercial imagery satellites, and NASA's planetary and earth science missions. Stellar Solutions' high-caliber team of aerospace professionals has decades of applied mission experience and provide high impact technical solutions to programmatic challenges. Stellar Solutions' offices are located in all major space development and operational hubs in the US: California, Colorado and the Washington, DC area, and our international affiliate, Stellar Solutions Aerospace Ltd., is based in London, England.

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June 20, 2009
Quake jolts California

LOS ANGELES- A 4.6-MAGNITUDE earthquake jolted central California shortly before dawn Saturday, the latest in a series of quakes that have rattled the most populous US state, the US Geological Survey reported.
The temblor struck at 5.32 am local time (8.32 pm Singapore time) about halfway between the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco, and 22 kilometres east of the town of San Simeon, site of the historic Hearst Castle built by media magnate William Randolph Hearst.

The quake registered at a depth of six kilometers.

A 4.7-magnitude earthquake shook the region May 23, less than a week after a pair of similar temblors rattled the highly populated southern part of the state.

Geologists say an earthquake capable of causing widespread destruction is 99 percent certain of hitting California within the next 30 years. -- AFP


The following text written as an open letter to president Obama by three prominent German physicians provides details on the adverse health effects of digital broadcasting.

OPEN LETTER Bamberg, February 12, 2009

To the President of the United States of America

To the Citizens of the United States of America
To the Members of the House of Representatives
To the Members of the Senate

Warning Against Adverse Health Effects from the Operation of Digital Broadcast Television Stations (DVB-T)

Dear President Obama:

Dear Members of the House of Representatives:
Dear Members of the Senate:
Dear Citizens of the United States of America:

In the US, digital broadcast television is scheduled to start operating on February 17, 2009. We write to you today because we wish to save you from the significant negative health consequences that have occurred here in Germany. In Germany, analog broadcast television stations have gradually been switching to digital broadcast signals since 2003. This switch over first took place in metropolitan areas. In those areas, however, the RF exposures in public places as well as at home continued to increase at the same time. As a result, the continuing declining health status of children, adolescents, and adults in urban areas could not be attributed to any single cause. On May 20, 2006, two digital broadcast television stations went on the air in the Hessian Rhoen area (Heidelstein, Kreuzberg), which until recently had enjoyed rather low mobile phone radiation exposure levels. Within a radius of more than 20 km, the following symptoms that occurred abruptly were reported: constant headaches, pressure in the head, drowsiness, sleep problems, inability to think clearly, forgetfulness, nervous tensions, irritability, tightness in the chest, rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, depressive mood, total apathy, loss of empathy, burning skin, inner burning, leg weakness, pain in the limbs, stabbing pain in various organs, weight increase.

Birds had fled the area. Cats had turned phlegmatic and hardly ever went into the garden. One child committed suicide; a second child tried doing it. Over time the same unbearable symptoms showed up in other locations—most recently in Bamberg and Aschaffenburg on November 25, 2008. Physicians accompanied affected people to areas where there was no DVB-T reception (valleys, behind mountain ranges) and witnessed how these people became symptom-free only after a short period of time.

The respective agencies responsible in Germany were approached for help, but they declined to follow up on the strongly suggestive evidence in the actual locations. The behavior of the government agencies disregards the fundamental rights of affected people guaranteed in the German Constitution.

In Germany, DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial) uses Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex Modulation. The fundamental principle of this type of modulation works by spreading the information across several thousand carrier frequencies directly adjacent to each other. A channel is 7.8 MHz wide. The amplitude also changes constantly. The WHO, the German Radiation Protection Commission, and the German Federal Ministry of the Environment rely on the Guidelines for Limiting Exposure to Time-varying Electric, Magnetic, and Electromagnetic Fields (up to 300 GHz), (Health Physics 74 (4): 494-522; 1998) published by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). In this document, it says: p. 495: "These guidelines will be periodically revised and updated as advances are made in identifying the adverse health effects of time-varying electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields." p. 507: "Interpretation of several observed biological effects of AM electromagnetic fields is further complicated by the apparent existence of "windows" of response in both the power density and frequency domains. There are no accepted models that adequately explain this phenomenon, which challenges the traditional concept of a monotonic relationship between the field intensity and the severity of the resulting biological effects." Why are the German agencies in charge not willing to help identify the adverse health effects? Since immediately, after digital broadcast television stations had started transmitting, adverse health effects have occurred, the review of the Guidelines announced by the ICNIRP is imperative. Obviously, there are response windows contained within the broad frequency bands with their several thousand frequencies that change constantly and whose amplitude also changes constantly. The ICNIRP had already pointed out this possibility.

In 1992, Dipl.-Ing. Rüdiger Matthes, member of ICNIRP and of the Geman Radiation Protection Agency (BfS), emphasized the preliminary status of the exposure limits in a hearing on the health risks of electromagnetic radiation: "…They (electromagnetic exposure levels) are several orders of magnitude higher than the natural background radiation levels of nontechnical sources…In parallel to this development, findings of scientific studies according to which long-term exposure to such fields may trigger adverse health effects keep accumulating.…In this context, it is also important to recognize that there are large differences in exposure levels within a given population. A small child, for example, absorbs much more RF energy than an adult person…There are several findings on low-level exposures, which are considered scientifically validated because they have been reproduced often but which are rather difficult to interpret.

The impact of mostly pulsed or ELF modulated RF radiation on cell metabolism, for example, counts among them. It has been observed that the efflux of certain ions (e.g. calcium) from a cell increases during exposure to such fields. The occurrence of this effect is described almost completely independent of the actual field strength. It can be found at extremely low absorption levels.…With all the currently available scientific findings, there remain some crucial questions unanswered. …There are gaps in the so-called body of evidence. That means that the biological effects, for example, have only been investigated for individual frequencies. Data (e.g. effect thresholds) on the various biological effects across the entire frequency spectrum are not available.

The exposure limits, therefore, are based on an approach that greatly simplifies the very complex reality whose details are unfathomable. It should also be noted that concrete data on possible effects of long-term exposures are mostly lacking." Real life teaches us that it was wrong to simplify. In Germany, we see strong evidence of a direct temporal association between the start-up of terrestrial digital broadcast television and the occurrence of severe health symptoms. Dr.-Ing. W. Volkrodt, former R&D engineer at Siemens, recognized the danger of electromagnetic fields for humans, animals, and plants. He pinned his hopes on policymakers who would listen to reason when he wrote in 1987: "Future historians will refer to the RF dilemma during the period from around 1975 to 1990 as a short, time-limited ‘technical incident.' Owing to the introduction of fiber optic technology, this incident could be remediated quickly and effectively." Satellites and cable provide the US population with television services. By contrast, the risk associated with terrestrial digital broadcast television transmitters is unacceptable.

We, therefore, ask you, dear Mr. President, who has the wellbeing of his citizens at heart, to stop the scheduled introduction of this new technology in the United States of America and to save the people from the negative health consequences that have occurred in our country.

Dr. med. Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam

Dr. med. Christine Aschermann

Dr. med. Markus Kern

http://d.scribd.com/docs/1a34bitqwcergnuko29s.txt

Dr. med. Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam Founding Member of the Bamberg Appeal

Dr. med. Christine Aschermann Neurologist-Psychotherapy Founding Member of the Freiburg Appeal Dr. med. Markus Kern

Psychosomatic Medizin Founding Member of the Physicians Appeal Allgäu-Bodensee-Oberschwaben

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12596

See Article posted by GnoseBob on Rumor Mill News:
More Evidence that Mandatory HD TV Conversion is a Set Up for Mind Control Psychotronics

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=146317