Midsummer 2017

Carole Lombard

“The festival of the summer solstice speaks of love and light, of freedom and generosity of spirit. It is a beautiful time of year where vibrant flowers whisper to us with scented breath, forests and woodlands hang heavy in the summer’s heat and our souls become enchanted with midsummer magic.”

-- Carole Carlton, 'Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year'

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"Under Capitalism man exploits man; under Communism it is the other way around." -- Author unknown


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He Really Just Did That Dude Hops On An Ostrich And Takes Off

Golden Guns Media


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Taylor Mitchell 1990-2009

Up-and-coming 19 year old Canadian folk musician was tragically killed by coyotes or coywolves while hiking in 2009.

In memory of Taylor Mitchell: Clarity







Taylor Mitchell: "Shelter From The Storm"

deuxfleuves


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U.S. Olympic Hockey Star Hilary Knight

The Winter Olympics are not far off.... next February. This type of an image is not "sexy" by exact definition, but artistic.

'U.S. Women’s National Hockey Team Star Hilary Knight Heats Up the Ice'

27-year-old USA Hockey player has her sights set on Olympic gold.



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One funny way to respond...

...either to discredit or aid in the humor of a comment in a message board. He's such a tragic figure; I don't know... I just find this meme intrinsically funny.


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Society Is Being Programmed By A Black Box

Truthstream Media

It Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself. Where do we go from here? Data has become the tail that wags the dog; and we are pets, not free individuals in this configuration. And things are growing Darker.


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Cambridge Analytica


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15 Things Poor People Do That The Rich Don't

Alux


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Earth-sized Planet Found Orbiting the Sun's Nearest Neighbor

SpaceRip

European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system — the nearest to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun.

Alpha Centauri is one of the brightest stars in the southern skies and is the nearest stellar system to our Solar System — only 4.3 light-years away. It is actually a triple star — a system consisting of two stars similar to the Sun orbiting close to each other, designated Alpha Centauri A and B, and a more distant and faint red component known as Proxima Centauri. Since the nineteenth century astronomers have speculated about planets orbiting these bodies, the closest possible abodes for life beyond the Solar System, but searches of increasing precision had revealed nothing. Until now.

The European team detected the planet by picking up the tiny wobbles in the motion of the star Alpha Centauri B created by the gravitational pull of the orbiting planet. The effect is minute — it causes the star to move back and forth by no more than 51 centimeters per second (1.8 km/hour), about the speed of a baby crawling. This is the highest precision ever achieved using this method.

Alpha Centauri B is very similar to the Sun but slightly smaller and less bright. The newly discovered planet, with a mass of a little more than that of the Earth, is orbiting about six million kilometers away from the star, much closer than Mercury is to the Sun in the Solar System. The orbit of the other bright component of the double star, Alpha Centauri A, keeps it hundreds of times further away, but it would still be a very brilliant object in the planet's skies.

The first exoplanet around a Sun-like star was found by the same team back in 1995 and since then there have been more than 800 confirmed discoveries, but most are much bigger than the Earth, and many are as big as Jupiter. The challenge astronomers now face is to detect and characterize a planet of mass comparable to the Earth that is orbiting in the habitable zone around another star. The first step has now been taken.



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Taylor Mitchell (†19) - Don't know I got here

AllyMusicful

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