I left work determined that it should not rain.

I still had to ride home before I could leave again to meet up for the evening’s ride. It rained on me the whole way home. I was gritting my teeth, frustrated that it had been nice all day long, but now our ride would be called off. My phone was ringing before I could even get home. I knew it was people wondering if we were canceled. I ignored them.

At home I gathered up a few things, purposely not looking outside. Finally, back in the car, all loaded up, I had to return some calls. It wasn’t raining now, and I was going. I was impressed, everyone else was still anxious to ride.

At the gathering point, we looked at each other, looked west for coming weather, hesitated, and smiled. It was over, we were going to have a spectacular night, and a beautiful sunset. Thanks, Jesus!

Art by Haley Ann Robinson

*Ahhh, Rain*

Ctrl.Alt.Shift short films at Raindance Film Festival 2009

Wednesday 7th October will see Ctrl.Alt.Shift host a special event at Raindance Film Festival 2009, screening 5 provocative short films, followed by a Q&A and after party. 

The short films include 1000 Voices, War School, HIV: The Musical, Man Made and No Way Through. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Fern Berresford (Man Made) and Ben Newman (War School), Andy Noble (Producer, Extraordinary Rendition), Heydon Prowse (Don’t Panic), Chantelle Fiddy (Ctrl.Alt.Shift) and special guests.  The after party will include a DJ set by Matchstick (Warner) and live acoustic performance by MPHO.

The short films were created as a result of a national competition hosted by Ctrl.Alt.Shift which saw aspiring filmmakers aged between 18 and 25 write a treatment based around three key issues – War + Peace, Gender + Power and HIV + Stigma.

Ctrl. Alt. Shift Event at Raindance Film Festival:

Date: Wednesday 7th October

Location: Raindance Cafe, Vinyl Factory, Entrance at Phonica, 51 Poland Street, W1F 7LZ

7.00pm: doors open

7.30pm: 5 short films screened

8.15pm: Q&A panel discussion with Fern Berresford (Man Made) and Ben Newman (War School), Andy Noble (Producer, Extraordinary Rendition), Heydon Prowse (Don’t Panic), Chantelle Fiddy (Ctrl.Alt.Shift), plus special guests

9.00pm: Music with Matchstick (to DJ) and MPHO (acoustic set)

11.00pm: ends

Tickets are available to buy for £5 from www.raindance.co.uk  or are free to Raindance Film Festival passholders.

In a “report card” presented on Wednesday, Massachusetts Life Sciences  Center (MLSC) President and CEO Susan Windham- Bannister, PhD, shared both good news and caution following the Center’s first full year of operation.

MLSC was funded in 2008 to steward the  10-year, $1B  Massachusetts Life Sciences Initiative– launched by Gov. Deval Patrick in 2007 to accelerate  biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics and bioinformatics in the state.

The good news, Bannister told an audience of approximately 100 over lunch at the Cambridge Innovation Center,  is that investment of $48.5 M in public dollars has attracted nearly $359M in matching investments from companies, foundations, government, institutes and other private investors—an 8-fold return.  “There’s still capital out there and life science is a good place to put your money,” she said.  “By putting state money into the pot, we have ‘de-risked’ investment that the state would have had to find elsewhere”.

Bannister pointed out that the funded projects  could lead to some 950 permanent or building-trade jobs in the near future.

She cautioned, however,  that in the current economic downturn, tax revenues are “iffy” and it’s not yet clear how much money will be available for the Initiative in 2010.

Headquartered in Waltham, the MLSC provides grants for public infrastructure products; tax incentives to encourage corporate growth and expansion; a loan program for early-stage companies, an “innovation fund” to promote potential job creation, revenue enhancement and   scientific advancement; and funds to encourage workforce development.

Bannister said that over the past year, MSLC has invested:

*Nearly $25M for capital projects including:

• $5.2M for construction of a new wastewater facility to serve the Framingham Technology Park. The project, she said, will allow Genzyme Corporation to build a new facility expected to create 300 new manufacturing jobs in 2009.
• $10M to renovate part of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. The investment leveraged an additional $15 M in funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and is expected to create 200 jobs in the building trades and up to 50 permanent jobs.
• $9.5  M to support construction of the New England Regional Biosafety Laboratory at the Tufts University’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine in Grafton. The $33.6M project is projected to create 56 full-time equivalent construction jobs and 29 long-term positions—and one of just three comparable facilities in the nation.

*Accelerator” loans totaling $3.4 M for 7 companies, an expansion grant of $7.4M to a Canton company, and $12M to research institutions for collaborations with industry or other universities, attracting new faculty and funding young scientists.

*$695,000 in continued funding for the International Stem Cell Registry, a joint initiative between the Center and the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

(In 2008, the MLSC invested $570,000 in the registry and $7.7 million in the affiliated Massachusetts Stem Cell Bank, which maintains and provides stem cell lines to the research community. The MLSC’s stem cell investments should help Massachusetts compete for new federal research dollars and provide stem cell lines to national and international academic commercial organizations, according to MLSC documents.)

*Funds  to companies for student internship opportunities, and is in discussions with several universities about new degree programs aimed at professional training that will combine business and science.

In 2009, Johnson and Johnson donated $500, 000 to MSLC—with no strings attached, Bannister said.

By adding employment opportunities,  these  investments and incentives could help to absorb some of the job losses expected in other sectors, according to Bannister.

Frank Reynolds, CEO of InVivo Therapeutics, which is developing stem cell/ polymer technology aimed at halting the effects of traumatic spinal cord injury, said that receiving a $500 thousand loan just as  venture capital possibilities tanked this fall made a tremendous difference in his company’s ability to proceed. ”  It’s a great program,” Reynolds said. (Disclosure:   I work with InVivo).

MLSC also provided loans ranging from $400,000 to $500,000 to:

• Eutropics Pharmaceuticals ($500,000), a Dorchester company that is developing cancer drugs
• Good Start Genetics of Boston, which is developing a low-cost pre-pregnancy test for 50 genetic disorders
•  PluroMed of Woburn, for  pioneering injectable plugs that occlude blood flow to provide surgeons with bloodless fields
• SpectraAnalysis of Marlborough, for  developing instruments to analyze the molecular structure of each compound in a complex mixture
•  Wadsworth Medical of Westborough, which is developing a painless, needless wound closure system without anesthesia or sutures and
• Wolfe Laboratories of Watertown, which provides quantitative testing, formulation and strategy for biotech and pharmaceutical companies.

Co-operative research grants were awarded to:

• U Mass Lowell and Boston Scientific for new polymer materials
• The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science and Physics and Rain Dance Technologies for development of a functional fluorescent-activated cell sorter
• Massachusetts General Hospital and Idera Pharmaceuticals for targeting of toll-like receptors in auto-immune diseases
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Biomeasure for design and testing of a new regenerative protein for delivery
• UMass Medical School and RXi Pharmaceuticals for development of orally-delivered RNAi therapeutics.

—Anita M. Harris,  Harris Communications Group,  Cambridge, MA         
Copyright: Anita M. Harris

Massively tired, was up at the crack of…and was very disappointed to find we have a slow news day, the BBC is not dishing too much info today.

However, I am pleased that despite the distinct lack of gripping headlines this morning, no one seems to have overly focused on the new Swine Flu pandemic. As far as Swine flu and hype goes…stick a fork in it, it’s done!

I am passionate about current events and news, and enjoy being up-to-date with what is going on in our world; It is massively important to me, however…I do hate unwarranted, negative hype that whips up national panic. Mainly because when the nation panics sadly it does rub off on me slightly and I do not like to feel uneasy. So the lack of “Death is Coming for YOU” headlines is a good thing.

As for what is going on in my little world of journalism…Well I am currently trying to get a press pass to this years raindance film festival. If this comes off, excited is not even close to how I would feel.  I am a film nerd and have got to get to the festival this year, after all it is events like this that began my passion for writing…but more about that another time.

For now, I must get in touch with the local media types…

Adieu

Humility is her greatest magnetism, courage her inspiration, innocence her strength, surprise is her most beloved tool, wisdom her compassion, humour her love, loyalty her truth, gratitude her power, patience her deliverance and candleflame her companion, for it is a light in the darkness, a pearl amidst the tears. Her purity comes from her love for her creator. For he who finds her breathtakingly beautiful. Her only desire, to please her creator – to be all that she can be in her highest form.

The Goddess holds the Universe within her. Her home the all embracing Andromeda Lotus – the lotus within ones heart. She is the one-in-a-million-chance. The epitome of the anomaly. Herain comes to anyone to teach them to follow their heart. Her energy, all pervading, all encompassing. Thunder is the messenger of the Goddess, water her element, rain dance her ritual, the Leopard her Guardian beast. You will find Herain within everything that exudes feminity. She is in every woman, your mother, your sister, your beloved.

Herain holds the wisdom of Aloneness, and she walks her own path. She caresses the Gods but is subservient to none. Bound by nothing – only existing to love and be loved. She is the gentlest of Gods, like a light drizzle in the midst of spring – the delicate unflowering of lotus. Yet, she holds within her the power of a thunderstorm – always expressed in the most vulnerable and fragile, insightful and intentful, loving and sensuous, nurturing and abundant, expressive and original, surprising and gregarious, wise and wittiest of ways.

Her Magik works in subtlety, and is obvious at the unique moment of truth – where its manifestation can effect the highest teaching – the deepest learning, the most innermost realisations.

She journeys often to the Purelands to learn from the Buddhas. Attaining great satisfaction from the very act of learning about Ultimate Truths and freedom from Illusions. About providence and purpose, the warrior and the monk, the householder and the philosopher, the Ruler and the Ruled. For every being who gave their lives to doing the undone, walking the unwalked, standing apart by pure purpose and not by choice, this is your Goddess.

The secret to life isn’t hidden. It’s the most obvious of the truths. It’s the one that stares you in the face, and because of this, we don’t notice. The Goddess Herain is the embodiment of the miraculous nectar or life. The very same principle that has been the cause for such a thing as romance. To watch chaos locked in a cell of order. The illusion of the silence, the tranquility in the jungle, the divine nature of both birth and death. The experiencing of those inexplicable moments that subtly reveal a greater purpose. These are the origins of the Goddess Herain.

If you wish to be one with the Goddess, walk in the rain, meditate upon the raindrop, for the core of her qualities are inspired by the very purpose of the tears of the sky. She is elemental water and elemental fire – the two working in co-existance.The Goddess manifests through the feminine energies. She takes multiple forms, and visits you through every woman you meet. She is the freedom in ones heart, and when you see the Goddess in others, in yourself, it is a source of immense aspiration, inspiration, and cultivation to be truer to yourself. Be a lamp onto yourself.

Herain is that sensation deep inside of you that whispers about freedom. That sends chills up your spine everytime you break away from your imprisonment. Everytime you make the right choice. She is the spark that teaches you the meaning of liberation, of being complete, being free, self-sustaining.

Herain is the antidote to loneliness. She holds the wisdom of Aloneness. She shows you that you are the entire Universe, that you are immense love itself, that your purpose is simply that – pure purpose.

She most reveals herself in the midst of the free-spirited, of the ever aware, and in those surfacing from the darkness. A lamp to your soul, she is most precious when you are in the darkness, striving effortlessly to rain upon you a plethora of kisses, caresses, embraces, lovebites, sweet surprises, and the wisdom of the Awake.

The essence of the Goddess, and the majesty of her boon, is to show you your own self-sustenance. Your own completeness. In accepting her gift, her healing, you attain liberation from suffering. From Attachment. From Loneliness. She places you in the most fortiduous situation to gather all courage and continue your quest for wisdom.

In every woman, is the mother, the wife, the lover, the sister, the whore, the friend. Each of these qualities is equally precious, and equally to be treasured. When you can see the mark of femininity in this light – when you understand the power of its vulnerability – the profoundness of it – then you will see the Goddess in All things.

Bei offenem Fenster und Regen einschlafen.

This is great- rules of thumb for negotiating your own deals. I have seriously made some dumb negotiating mistakes in my time. This one time I agreed to work in exchange for a pat on the head. And the hand that patted me was all the way across town and I hadda take the Queen Streetcar and I got leered at on the way, and at the end of it all they didn’t even reimburse my transit fare. And to top it all off, I think that patting hand had, like, some gum stuck on it, because later I found some gum stuck in my hair and the flavour was almost gone.

So, uh, these rules should really help me.

2. Never go to money

By this I mean you should try to get the person who you are pursuing with your script to come to your place of work. If they don’t ever come to you, you are essentially dealing with an onanist. The theory is that, if the person will not leave their yacht, penthouse or mansion to come to visit you, then they will never take you seriously.

More here, on the Raindance site, which is full of good articles and kicks in the pants for filmmakers.

I arrived in Berlin a day later than planned. With both Severn bridges closed on Friday, I took the train to Bristol and then a taxi to the airport, as the bus wasn’t running because of the snow. I was sat in the bar when my flight’s status changed from ‘delayed indefinitely’ to ‘cancelled’. A refund was promised, with no alternative flights available. Back to Cardiff via bus and train.

The next day, we caught the lunchtime flight from East Midlands airport over to Berlin and arrived there mid-afternoon, having already missed a meeting with a sales agent, the screening of the only film I planned to see, and meeting up with that film’s director. Sorting out the accreditation was easy, despite my debit card being declined. My inclusion on the list of attendees finally justified.

The market at Berlin is a much more compact version of Cannes. It all takes place in two buildings, and I get the impression that there are a lot fewer people there without business to do. I’ve wandered around Cannes without a real agenda and just taken in the atmosphere, but there didn’t seem to be anyone doing that in Berlin. Turning up here without any meetings or contacts would be a waste of time and money.

Despite missing a day, we had just enough time to do what we needed to do. We met a few sales agents, pitched Avoiding Christian Bale and showed the trailer and some scenes to interested parties. We also met up with the people behind Raindance, and had some advice from the Head of Production at Screen Yorkshire, who happened to be sat next to me on the flight out. From what we were told, I’m hopeful that ACB will have a good run in festivals and has a decent chance of finding an audience in the UK and abroad.

Even though we’re being told independent film is in crisis in terms of both finance and distribution, there seemed to be a lot of business going on in Berlin. Sales agents were more than happy to tell us about the sales they were making, some people were prepared to talk figures and I learned a lot more about what makes a film ‘sellable’. There are people out there to buy your film if you can get it made.

I missed out on both parties that we blagged invites to because of arriving late and leaving quite early, and I left Vivien in Berlin, catching the train back out to the airport late on Monday. My flight to Bristol was delayed, and it seemed like every other passenger on the flight was an extra from Skins returning from a school trip. We were airborne quickly enough, and twenty minutes before we were due to land, the captain announced that because of the snow on the runway at Bristol, we would be redirected… to Cardiff.

A quick taxi ride and I was in bed within an hour of getting off the plane. Einfach klasse.

Are you ready?  Experience has shown that  good soaking rains and yesterday’s snow will lead to a very colorful spring bloom.  Depending on the amount of rain and the depth of water soaking in we could see flowers and grasses that have been dormant for the past several years.  The forecast for the next week or two gives us hope of more rain and now is the time.  My good friend, Jim the botanists , has told me this truth over the last several years. He is a park planner for the NPS, plus was born and raised here.

So the point of this post is to get you fired up for the spring bloom of 2009.  Should start in mid-March and last through May.

You can do you part by going out on the trail on every cloudy day and do the River Mountains “raindance”.

PAGE CONTENTS

ME DRIVING AROUND TOWN – MEN AT WORK – MILITARY – MINNIS AT WORK – MUST WORK – NICSCICS “NICKED”

Don’t forget my other pages, links and comments are one click away at the top right of the page…

ME DRIVING AROUND TOWN

TheChemTrailReport
Dude, the writing is on the wall, give us all a break!

jazzroc
Contrails ARE a man-made cirrus. The daily dumping of a MILLION TONS of ICE into the very cold and rarefied stratosphere is LIKELY to SATURATE it. The WAVE VORTEX of each passing plane is a powerful STIRRER. It would be unreasonable for you to expect blue skies as a consequence. Do you ever travel by air?

If that writing on that wall weren’t an incoherent scrawl of mistakes, myths, lies, and deceit, without a SINGLE evidential trail, I WOULD give you a ‘break’.
But there is NOTHING there…
I quote: “Let us stop the fakers & hoaxers who ruin the credibilty of certain subjects with their moronic videos who spread lies, hate & deceit, catching people in their web of delusion. We are against doom and gloomers & UBDCT’s: “uneducated basement dwelling conspiracy theorists.” It is not a crime to expose the slanderous lies these people tell, and debunk their videos with conclusive evidence, more like a social duty.”
MeDrivingAroundTown
like planes leaving long “clouds” that linger for hours and turn nice days into shitty ones, and speaking of shitty, watch you tone with me pal, you are coming off as a total asshole.
I thought you said you watched the whole 9:56 of the video. I am talking about about those black clouds at the end of the video the planes left behind. let me explain a simple fact to you, I live in Las Vegas, you might not know this, but Vegas is like a small island surrounded by desert, we have one major airport, and one major air force base, and outside of the city limits there is no other major cities for hours. its like living in a fish bowl, its easy to notice things

DontSprayMeBro
personally, i think they have turned the atmosphere into a huge plasma screen. it ought to get interesting around the 17th of this month when we switch to all digital delivery of television signals.

wow makenwaves, you got hit by epoxynous and jazzroc! that puts you in the bigs! keep posting, and keep watching the sky and the weather for more freak tornados, downpours, droughts, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.
p.s. thanks to jazzroc for bagging the soda pop line…

MeDrivingAroundTown
I am going to post a new video every Sunday night, because I have noticed Chem trails every Sunday Morning, and from this week forward, I am going to document it, and along with it I am going to post numbers and address to local and national offices that people can use to express their thoughts on the matter. its time to start asking the right people some serious questions, and don’t worry, Jazzroc will not be listed.

gnorville
Contrails mon. Go to wikipedia and type in “contrail”, for a pretty good explanation of the mechanism. The planes in your vid that did not have contrails were too low for them to form. It’s thought that contrails affect the weather, but I’m not sure it’s been proven positively.
There are NO chemtrails. That’s bs from the fringe. They want you to buy their books and videos. Of course, if you’re a true believer, I’ve wasted my time typing this. Truth, reason and logic does not apply to them.

 MEN AT WORK

Men at WORK…
DUST in air,
Pollens flying everywhere…

City smogs,
Sun, wind, air,
Distribute “poisons” everywhere.

See a trail…
‘Tis but a CLOUD,
It’s IGNORANCE that shouts so LOUD!

 MILITARY

“pictures prior to 1998 hardly showed vapor trails” – Wrong. First seen 1943 US B17s daylight bombing of Nazi Germany from 29,000 feet. All stratospheric flights since.

“identified as military KC-135 planes” – ALL planes leave vapor trails, short to long, dependent on stratospheric humidity.

“why do they appear when humidity v. low” – THERE’S NO CONNECTION between troposphere and stratosphere. It can be (and often is) DRY down here and WET up there.

“why can’t they be tracked on flight explorer?” – KC-135s? Why can’t you track the MILITARY on flight explorer? Are you serious?

MINNIS AT WORK

www.forum.planeta.com – The difference has led to some surprises, said Patrick Minnis, a senior research scientist.

www.greenbug.synthasite.com – From those isolated contrails, unmixed as they were with the usual dozens of others, Patrick Minnis, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, and his colleagues were able to gain valuable insight into how a single contrail forms. Those once-in-a-lifetime data sets are so useful that Minnis is about to analyze them again in an expanded study.

Briefly Empty Skies Offer Climate Clues
The ideal way to measure such an effect would be to look at the same piece of sky when air traffic is heavy and when it is absent, said Dr. Patrick Minnis, a senior research scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
But the skies are never devoid of aircraft. At least that was the case until Sept. 11.
Since then, Dr. Minnis and others have been reviewing satellite images of clouds and contrails. “Near dusk on the 11th, the only contrails in the East were three streaks heading from Nebraska to Washington, almost certainly Air Force One and its escort taking President Bush from Offutt Air Force Base to the White House”, Dr. Minnis said.
Everything matched, he said: “the trajectory and timing and the fact that nothing else was flying.” The most valuable data were collected the next day. Only nine military flights crossed a region from Ohio to Virginia, an area normally cloaked in cirrus clouds from the 700 to 800 jets crossing daily, Dr. Minnis said.
With those images, his team was able to chart precisely how those nine threadlike contrails fanned out over five hours to form a shield of cirrus clouds covering 24,000 square miles.
Dr. Minnis provided other satellite views of the area on a more typical day which show a broad area of clouds fringed by fading contrails. Having an isolated view of individual contrails spreading into clouds should allow scientists to refine computer systems that scan satellite images for contrails’ effects, he said. “Ultimately,” he said, “the observations will refine computer models of the overall effect of aviation on climate”.

AGU newly elected Fellows
Patrick Minnis NASA/ LARC, Hampton, VA

AReCO in the News
NASA scientist Patrick Minnis has studied contrails and believes they may have a prominent role in global warming. A 2002 report by the British Scientific Commission agrees, concluding that “aviation-induced cirrus clouds will be a significant contributor to warming.” But Minnis says another NASA study concludes that the contrails have little effect on global warming. Further research is being done.

ATCA
Contrails, the thin, white clouds that planes leave behind in the sky, are responsible for a portion of the warming recorded in the USA from 1975 to 1994, says Patrick Minnis of NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia. During that period, the USA’s average temperature rose by 1 degree – hardly a heat wave, but significant by climate standards.
Minnis acknowledges that it’s difficult to calculate exactly how much of the U.S. warming is attributable to contrails. It could be only a small fraction. Even so, he says, the contribution is “significant.”

Air Traffic
A research team of American and German scientists, headed by Patrick Minnis of the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, reports evidence that contrails cause a warming of the Earth’s atmosphere.
From those isolated contrails, unmixed as they were with the usual dozens of others, Patrick Minnis, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Langely Research Center, and his colleagues were able to gain valuable insight into how a single contrail forms. Those once-in-a-lifetime data sets are so useful that Minnis is about to analyze them again in an expanded study.
In a study published in 2004, for example, Minnis and colleagues reported that contrails are capable of increasing average surface temperatures sufficiently to account for a warming trend in the U.S. between 1975 and 1994.

But some climatologists believe Minnis and his colleagues may have overestimated the contrail warming effect.
For his part, Minnis intends to keep his eye on condensation trails and their aftereffects.

why.michaelpatrick.org
“This result shows the increased cirrus coverage, attributable to air traffic, could account for nearly all of the warming observed over the United States for nearly 20 years starting in 1975, but it is important to acknowledge contrails would add to and not replace any greenhouse gas effect,” said Patrick Minnis, senior research scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
The study was published April 15 in the Journal of Climate.”During the same period, warming occurred in many other areas where cirrus coverage decreased or remained steady,” he added.
“This study indicates that contrails already have substantial regional effects where air traffic is heavy, such as over the United States.As air travel continues growing in other areas, the impact could become globally significant,” Minnis said.

www.newspath.cbs.com
Patrick Minnis NASA Contrail Scientist “IT COULD BE AN INFLUENCE WE REALLY HAVE TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT”
When air traffic was grounded after September 11th — NASA scientist Patrick Minnis was astonished to see contrails from just 6 fighter jets cover more than 11-thousand square miles.
“WE LEARNED THAT ONE CONTRAIL CAN PRODUCE A VERY LARGE CLOUD ALL BY ITSELF.”
Other scientists noticed that without commercial traffic show thermometer readings with the red temp range increasing from 80 to 78 … to 80 to 75) to temperature swings between daytime highs and nighttime lows widened by as much as 5 degrees. Minnis now believes contrail clouds increased surface temperatures in the United States up to one full degree between 1975 and 1994.
“IT’S JUST ONE OF A NUMBER OF AIRCRAFT EFFECTS THAT TOGETHER COULD RELEASE A SIGNIFICANT SIGNAL … “

www.themonsterguide.com
Patrick Minnis, an atmospheric researcher with California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES) and ardent chemtrails critic at NASA’s Langley Research Center, reports that cirrus cloud cover over the US is up 5 percent overall because particulates in engine exhaust are acting as cloud-forming nuclei.

www.geotimes.org
in their limited airspace, says Patrick Minnis, an atmospheric scientist at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. Contrails form and then disperse to look almost exactly like cirrus clouds.
Minnis and his co-workers tracked them to see how they spread, presenting their results at a 2002 meeting of the American Meteorological Society and incorporating the data into models.
On a global scale, Minnis’ team reported in the April Journal of Climate that from 1971 to 1995, cirrus coverage increased over the northern oceans, the United States and Western Europe, matching growth in air traffic over those regions. Eastern Asia also saw an increase. Humidity measurements incorporated into the study, Minnis says, indicate where contrails (and cirrus) were likely.
“When it comes to human impacts on climate”, Minnis says, “contrails are one of the most visible.”

www.newsvirginian.com
On this point of fact, the program’s government expert, Pat Minnis of NASA claimied that all exhaust, commercial and military, was perfectly normal.
The Associated Press distributed a lengthy article, praising the findings of Minnis.

www.themonsterguide.com
‘This result shows the increased cirrus coverage, attributable to air traffic, could account for nearly all of the warming observed over the United States for nearly 20 years starting in 1975, but it is important to acknowledge contrails would add to and not replace any greenhouse gas effect,’ said Patrick Minnis, senior research scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
The study was published April 15, 2004 in the Journal of Climate. ‘During the same period, warming occurred in many other areas where cirrus coverage decreased or remained steady,’ he added.
‘It indicates that contrails should be included in climate change scenarios,’ Minnis said. Minnis determined the observed one percent per decade increase in cirrus cloud cover over the United States is likely due to air traffic-induced contrails.
Using published results from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (New York) general circulation model, Minnis and his colleagues estimated contrails and their resulting cirrus clouds would increase surface and lower atmospheric temperatures by 0.36 to 0.54 degrees Fahrenheit per decade. Weather service data reveal surface and lower atmospheric temperatures across North America rose by almost 0.5 degree Fahrenheit per decade between 1975 and 1994. www.agu.org/inside/fellows2009.html

www.mydomainwebhost.com
“The jury is out on the impact of contrails,” said Patrick Minnis, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Langley, Virginia.

www.climatechangedebate.org
Project scrambling for funds “We’re scrambling trying to find other funding,” so far unsuccessfully, says Patrick Minnis, a NASA atmospheric scientist who is a leading figure in contrails research.
Meanwhile, scientific data are growing ominous: *Cirrus cloud cover has increased an average of 5 percent over three National Weather Service stations in Northern California since 1971, says Minnis, who is based at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
It is presently impossible to know how much, if at all, Minnis said. But he says that much increase in cirrus cloud cover would cause anywhere from 0.5 to 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit increase in temperature “if all things held equal.”
The amount of global aircraft emissions is expected to increase by up to six times by the year 2050, based on studies by the International Civil Aviation Organization, Minnis says.
Says Minnis: “You’re going to see more contrails because the number of airplanes is increasing”.

www.paranoiamagazine.com
During the days after 9/11, when the FAA grounded all commercial flights, Smith tells us that it provided an opportunity for Dr. Patrick Minnis of NASA’s Langley Research Center to perform some research.
Minnis was able to study the affects of a single contrail’s movement from the Washington, D.C. corridor tracking it through the mid-Atlantic states.

www.solcomhouse.com
A research team of American and German scientists, headed by Patrick Minnis of the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, reports evidence that contrails cause a warming of the Earth’s atmosphere.
“If you try to pin these people down and refute things, it’s, ‘Well, you’re just part of the conspiracy,’ ” says atmospheric scientist Patrick Minnis of NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. “Logic is not exactly a real selling point for most of them.”

www.ufodewaarheid.com
According to AFP, Patrick Minnis, a senior researcher at Langley, stated that the man-made “cirrus clouds are already having an impact on climate, increasing temperatures on regional levels as much as two to five percent. “Hmmm …I wonder how long it will take my chemtrail debunker knuckledraggers to smear and eat their own? Think they’ll be calling Minnis a kooky conspiracy theorist anytime soon?

www.wischemtrail.newffl.net
Travis’ results are difficult to argue with, says Patrick Minnis of NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. He and his colleagues will report their analysis of satellite images of contrails at the same conference. In a series of photos taken Sept. 12, individual cloud trails of high-flying military aircraft stand out clearly in a nearly cloud-free region west of Washington, D.C. In just a few hours, six contrails, each of which started out a few meters wide, spread to cover more than 20,000 square kilometers. The observations of these single contrails along aerial highways normally crowded with dozens of aircraft may help scientists develop better models of how contrails spread and affect climate, says Minnis.

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Patrick Minnis (N.A.S.A.), Ayers, Rabi Palinkonda, and Dung Phan from Analytical Services and Materials, Inc., of Hampton, Va.
‘As air travel continues growing in other areas, the impact could become globally significant,’ Minnis said.

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It indicates that contrails should be included in climate change scenarios,’ Minnis said. Minnis determined the observed one percent per decade increase in cirrus cloud cover over the United States is likely due to air traffic-induced contrails.
Using published results from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (New York) general circulation model, Minnis and his colleagues estimated contrails and their resulting cirrus clouds would increase surface and lower atmospheric temperatures by 0.36 to 0.54 degrees Fahrenheit per decade.
Weather service data reveal surface and lower atmospheric temperatures across North America rose by almost 0.5 degree Fahrenheit per decade between 1975 and 1994. Minnis worked with colleagues Kirk Ayers, Rabi Palinkonda, and Dung Phan from Analytical Services and Materials, Inc., of Hampton, Va.
As air travel continues growing in other areas, the impact could become globally significant,’ Minnis said. ‘This result shows the increased cirrus coverage, attributable to air traffic, could account for nearly all of the warming observed over the United States for nearly 20 years starting in 1975, but it is important to acknowledge contrails would add to and not replace any greenhouse gas effect,’ said Patrick Minnis, senior research scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The study was published April 15, 2004 in the Journal of Climate. ‘During the same period, warming occurred in many other areas where cirrus coverage decreased or remained steady,’ he added.

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Presenting on March 2 will be Dr. Patrick Minnis of the NASA Langley Research Center.His lecture is titled “Global Warming – A Cool Appraisal.”
Currently their impact is currently small as compared to other greenhouse effects. They predict, however, that it may grow by a factor of six over the next 50 years. The researchers emphasize that these are conservative estimates, which take into account only the thicker contrails that can be readily observed.
“If you try to pin these people down and refute things, it’s, ‘Well, you’re just part of the conspiracy,’ ” says atmospheric scientist Patrick Minnis of NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. “Logic is not exactly a real selling point for most of them.”

Air Traffic Blues – Popular Science
Patrick Minnis, the senior researcher of the NASA study, admits that the outlook is gloomy. ‘It’s not like you’re never going to have a blue-sky day, he says, but you’re certainly going to have fewer and fewer’.

AirHead : News
Dr. Patrick Minnis, a senior research scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, reported that his team was able to use satellite photographs to track the nine contrails as they spread out to create a layer of cirrus clouds covering 24,000 square miles over five hours.

MUST WORK

“you must work for the gov” – NO I MUSTN’T. Perhaps I’m on a beautiful sub-tropical island and my sky is BLUE.

“can’t believe the rationale” – I CAN’T BELIEVE YOURS. We live in a marvellous age of invention and design, where BEAUTIFUL passenger aircraft can take people all around our Earth at affordable prices and fabulous efficiencies, and you lot are staring up at the WET skies (an obvious and natural consequence of this) thinking you are being poisoned – by WATER.

“defence mechanism’s working overtime” – NO, YOURS IS. YOU ARE BECOMING MENTALLY UNBALANCED BY FALSE WORDS – “CHEMTRAIL”, for instance.

“what covers our skies” – IS WATER.

“phoney stars” – CLIFFORD CARNICOM?

“underground military bases” – Have been around since WW2.

“chemtrail video troll” – Another FALSE WORD.

“same comment” – SAME DELUSION.

“spend 24 h/day” – Well, you are self-deluded 24 h/day.

“Do you get paid for this shit” – “this shit” is SCIENCE and GOOD ADVICE. No, I don’t get paid by ANYONE. The only SHIT round here is your paranoia.

“Our skies go to shit” – What do YOU know? They are merely becoming WETTER.

“global level” – YOU ARE SO EASY WITH THAT IDEA. You know what? The WORLD IS FIFTY TIMES BIGGER THAN THE US. REPEAT TO YOURSELF FIFTY TIMES! COUNT UP TO FIFTY, IMAGINING THE US EACH TIME!

“play the fiddle” – THAT’S WHAT CHEMTRAILS ARE DOING WITH YOUR MIND.

“get paid” – STOP RUINING YOUR LIFE. THAT’LL BE PAYMENT ENOUGH.

Look up http://www.contrailscience.com and/or MY BLOG and go get yourself a life…

MxMxSxDx is an “inside job”

It’s not the volcanoes my friend…it’s the idea of the New World Order pumping chemicals down on our damn heads guy! Just as they fluoridate our water…sounds like you’ve been living in a jazz fantasy, you need to wake up and smell the globalisation man, over here we are moving towards total enslavement.

MxMxSxDx, If you consult my blog you’ll discover that persistent contrails have been photographed since 1940, and that “chemtrails” simply do not exist at all.

“Proof” of “chemtrails” is EXPOSED as mere confirmation of persistent contrails, the existence of which is CONSISTENTLY DENIED by “chemtrail” conspiracy theorists… but they have NEVER marshalled a SINGLE scientific argument in their defense.

So if the MEANS doesn’t exist, then “New World Order pumping chemicals down on our damn heads” is HARDLY LIKELY TO OCCUR, is it?

It’s like you saying “He is going to shoot me!” and my replying “He hasn’t got a gun“. He could still STAB you! But HE HASN’T GOT A GUN SO HE CANNOT SHOOT YOU!

And anyway, if FLUORIDE is so damn effective, why doesn’t he poison you via THAT vector?

Get a LIFE!

NICSCICS “NICKED”

This is about a video purporting to be the inside of a government chemtrail aircraft made by an Italian “gentleman” calling himself nicscics. His preamble goes: “Look at the luggage drawers on the right side in the photo. Let’s consider the operations necessary to dismantle something. If you get an assembly of the interior of an aircraft for tests, you don’t have to mount the luggage drawers, because you do it after. Vice versa, when you dismantle, you remove only what you need to remove. On my opinion, it’s clear that this is not an aircraft used for some test, as many people guess, even if the furniture is similar to what is used for flight test. We can see that in an aircraft used for flight tests, there are not luggage drawers. It’s logic: this furniture is not assembled, before tests are over. But in the photo you can see this furniture, i.e. four luggage drawers. So I think that this is a dismantled airplane. Any other “information” against this hypothesis is, in my opinion, very suspicious.”

And then Tim White, Viet Nam Vet (USAF), “Concerned Citizen” writes: “The C.I.A.-N.S.A facility at Pinal Airpark-Marana, (Arizona) is the most important centre that modifies a wide range of aircraft types to conduct the chemtrail spray operations that began the entire United States in November of 1998. Prior to this, selected areas of the U.S.A. had chemtrails operations to test all the technology employed in these chemtrails spray operations and to determine parameters related to aircraft performances and atmospheric conditions. The program is conducted under different code names: “Operation clover leaf”, “Operation raindance” and so on. It is now spread in many countries in the world.
The photo shows the inside of a chemical tanker, that may be was a civil airplane, in which the original furniture was substituted by hydraulic structures, managed by an automatic and computerized system. In the photo, look at the containers probably used to stock chemical liquid compounds (trimethylaluminum) connected by means of a complicated tubes system. Look at the writings: over the black and yellow square, you can read “Sprayer!!”, below “Hazard inside”. Upon a container on the right, you can read “Lock care”.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghoaomHQB2g 

(The above video, titled “Inside a Chemtrail Sprayer”, remained in YouTube after I was ejected for a further six months, disappeared, and then reappeared under a different title “Chemtrails from the Inside”.)

I was startled and concerned by this, for I couldn’t see how this would come about, knowing as I do that in general, the physics of “chemtrails” would require tanks that would not be at all like these “barrels”, and wondered whether they weren’t, perhaps, a device for varying the CG of a prototype aircraft.

I happened across a YTer calling himself ToniEvola who appeared to be knowledgeable in this area, and asked him what he thought this might be. Although he thought he was talking to a “chemtrailer” he came up with this stunning revelation, which it delights me to share with you, seeing as SCIECHIMICHE are generally a stunningly professional bunch of liars.

“hi jazzroc – Please man, think with me for just a second. Use your brain and leave all the incoming external media channels apart that try to influence your brain, just for a second. (I know its probably my wasted time since I know you want to believe it’s really happening.) With commonsense ask yourself these questions:
Do the barrels contain chemicals? If so… then why did they bother to put the “hazard inside” placard only on that “cabinet”?
Also, according to nicscics, one of the “containers” reads: “Lock care”. Same question, why did they bother to put it only on that particular “container”, while all the other “containers” are identical?
I’ve been asking other simple questions that any one can answer with a little bit of effort. Thing is… do you want to answer the questions, and find yourself looking at the whole deal from a different point of view? Or do you want to dismiss everything straight away? And believe what you are forced to believe. I hope you can continue to read this as I will show you my side of the story, like you asked.
The first thing that came in mind was: new build aircraft in testing phase. The “containers” are water tanks that are filled to weigh, trim and balance the aircraft, and the avionics computer in the back monitors all the test data. I then searched on the net to find a clear copy of the photo myself.
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/inside%20chemtrail%20plane1500w.jpg
I managed to find the one I posted here above and immediately you can notice some differences. Instead of “Lock care”, this photo clearly shows “Load bank” written on the tank. And instead of “Hazard inside” it shows “Hazmat-inside”. Also the cabinets appear to be lavatories and you can see people working in the back. But let’s keep on searching for more, since the “sprayer” part still seems odd.
Nice thing to know is what kind of plane it is. There are 2×3 seats installed on both sides of the aircraft with still space left in the middle. This means that it has to be a large wide bodied aircraft. With my experience I can clearly see that it is not an Airbus, because they use different tanks and setups. So it has to be a Boeing and that leaves only 2 wide bodies that are wide enough to seat 9-10 people on one row, the 747 and the 777. I’ve worked most of my career on 747 aircraft and I know one when I see one, so this has to be a 777. The last couple of years Boeing have built them newer, larger, and with a longer range. Plenty of testing had had to be done on them.
Here are pictures that I found, that I want you to look at. You probably won’t like to see them: From the official Boeing website, here are some photos from the first ever build Boeing 777-200LR (Longer Range). This was the aircraft that broke the record of longest non-stop flight ever:
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/777family/200LR/photos.html
And then please specifically take a look at these pictures that start to answer your question:
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/777family/200LR/people.html
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/777family/200LR/WDOO1_interior.html
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/777family/200LR/WD001_group_interior.html
You can see some familiar things on these pictures. It must be strange when a “secret, dismantled” chemtrail plane starts to look like a brand new Boeing 777 that is being prepared for test flights, don’t you think?
That leaves one thing still unanswered. What does the “hazmat-inside” placard mean? I decided to search on airliners.net for more photos. What I found was the photo that explains it all:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Boeing/Boeing/0855967/L/
You can scroll down for yourself on this page to find the original photo where “suddenly” the placard is “gone”. There’s also another photo taken from the opposite side. I hope this will clear things up for you.”

WHAT A STAR!

Los Bastardos wins best picture at Morelia, reports John Hecht for the Hollywood Reporter. The film about two Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles was directed by Amat Escalante and produced by Carlos Reygadas’ company Mantarraya.

Other winners were:

Best documentary – Trazando Aleida (Christiane Burkhard)
Audience award – Cinco días sin Nora (Mariana Chenillo)
Best fiction short – La canción de los niños muertos (David Pablos)
Best animated short – Jacinta (Karla Castañeda)
Best documentary short – Zoogocho (Bernardo Arellano)

Father and son Alfonso and Jonás Cuarón were also present at the 16th edition of the UK indie Raindance Film Festival which closed last week. Among the winners were…

Best UK feature: The Blue Tower (Smita Bhide)
Best UK short: Red Sands (David Proctor)
Best international feature: Estomago (Marcos Jorge)
Best international short: A Juicy Turkey (Benoit Ameil)
Best debut feature: Production Office (Deborah Marks & Steve Solomos)
Best documentary: Indestructible (Ben Byer)

Read more.

Saw Karosta at the Raindance film festival. Produced by Rowland Kimber an NTU Multimedia Graduate. Karosta is a 50 mins documentatry directed by Peter King. It’s a really strong film that looks fantastic (shot on HD), is very well structured and has managed to find an interesting angle on the breakup on the ex-soviet union. Karosta is a town in Latvia.

Check out the Ivory Tower Pictures site here, (Rowland’s company) and the film’s site here.

funny, i didn’t really like old skool when it wasn’t old. i thought most of it sounded scary. now it reminds me of boy racers who you could hear ten minutes before they arrived, underage nights out and sounds a hell of a lot better than the ish kids have to put up with now.

i used to go the clubs, sterns in worthing usually, with my boyfriend. i never enjoyed it as it was usually on a thursday night and i had school the next day and I was slightly worried that my parents would discover that I was 1. not really staying with a friend 2. off my head 3. a good hour away from my hometown.

fortunately they were ‘hey, we used to go clubbing when we were 15, its cool just don’t get too drunk/arrested/into a car with anyone you don’t know’. so they were happy enough to let me go clubbing (sort of) but trusted me a bit too much.

i recently revealed all on my clubbing years to my mum, more than 15 years on, and if we still lived in the same house, I think i would be grounded for the next 15 years…

download cheesy quaver mix

liquid – sweet harmony

bizarre inc – playing with knives

convert – nightbird

dj seduction – hardcore heaven

shades of rhythm – extacy

cubic 22 – night in motion

sy-kick – nasty

urban shakedown – some justice

house crew – euphoria

phuture assassins – future sound

sonz of a loop da loop era – far out

awesome 3 – don’t go

2 bad mice – bombscare

zero b – lock up

shut up and dance – art of moving butts

altern 8 -evapor8

rhythm section – coming on strong

t99 – anasthasia

Wanted to mention a couple of stories from students who graduated from the Multimedia course at Nottingham Trent University over the years. Not sure why posting this now but the variety of the jobs is perhaps the reason.
Amit Dhamu is now working as a multimedia eLearning designer for the NHS Leicester University trust. http://www.amitdhamu.com for his portfolio.
Rowland Kimber, Ivory Tower Pictures (site here) has produced a documentary film that’s showing in the Raindance film festival. http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/index.php?id=300,2745,0,0,1,0 f or booking or here for information about the film.
It’s always nice to hear from graduates and there are lots of stories I could tell, andy roberts (Freelancer), Matt Towell Assistant Producer in advertising for BBH, Tom Dunn working for Google, Nicola Bolton- web designer for NTU, the list goes on and on

Just a quick post to highlight a couple of very good short horror films I’ve seen in the last week or two.  (I’m too busy to do more but I’ll do a bigger round up later)

First up is probably easily the most simple but effective short I saw at the Frightfest over August Bank Holiday weekend.  It’s called He Dies At The End and I think it’s a brilliant example of what you can do with a simple, well executed idea – regardless of the money or resources you can get your hands on.

I met these guys (including writter/producer/director Damian McCarthy) in the bar after FrightFest and they were a little surprised (I think, I was drunk) at the overwhelmingly positive reaction but I wasn’t.

The second is quite different but no less brilliant at executing a simple and effective idea in a very short space of time.  I don’t even know what it’s called of who it’s by (poor research on my part, I’ll update when I’ve got time to look into it) but it’s the trailer for this year’s Raindance Film Festival (1-12 October, London).

Unfortunately, Raindance have (perhaps unintentionally?) not made this available to embed so here’s a link: http://www.raindance.co.uk/site/raindance-independent-film-festival

Really Raindance, sort it the fuck out. You should know better.

Anyway, as I said, no time to go into any more detail on any of this now but I’ll be posting a review of the 2 days I was at FrightFest soon, plus (hopefully) a bigger post on some short/low-budget film stuff.

for those who were too young, think the flashback scene in ‘human traffic’. whistles, vicks, big fish little fish cardboard box.

actually i was too young but on the odd night i managed to sneak out to a rave, at legendary south coast club sterns, with my older boyfriend who had delusions of dj grandeur.

this mix is a nod to the inbetween years – post-acid house but more balearic and trippy than hardcore. when rave wasn’t a dirty word.

this was true warehouse rave. dancing in a field until 6am before that idiotic criminal justice act. the prodigy, autechre and orbital all protested by releasing non-repetitive beats and printed digs at the new law. where is it now?

download here

final cut – take me away

bug kahn and the plastic jam – made in two minutes

rhythm on the loose – break of dawn

cartouche – feel the groove

turntable hype – set you free

digital boy – gimme a fat beat

cola boy – 7 ways to love

oceanic – insanity

bizz nizz – don’t miss the partyline

adamski – n-r-g

bowa – different story

nomad - i wanna give you devotion

t99 – anasthasia

lfo – lfo

plez – can’t stop

lennie de ice – we are ie

bizarre inc – playing with knives

quadrophonia – quadrophonia