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Category: Harmonic Origins of the World
The Geocentric Planetary Matrix
Harmonic Origins of the World inserted the astronomical observations of my previous books into an ancient harmonic matrix, alluded to through the harmonic numbers found in many religious stories, and also through the cryptic works of Plato. Around 355 BC, Plato's dialogues probably preserved what Pythagoras had learnt from ancient mystery centers of his day, circa. 600 BC.
According to the late Ernest G. McClain*, Plato's harmonic matrices had been widely practiced by initiates of the Ancient Near East so that, to the general population, they were entertaining and uplifting stories set within eternity while, to the initiated, the stories were a textbook in harmonic tuning. The reason harmonic tuning theory should have infiltrated cosmological or theological ideas was the fact that, the planets surrounding Earth express the most fundamental musical ratios, the tones and semitones found within octave scales.
* American musicologist and writer, in the 1970s,
of The Pythagorean Plato and The Myth of Invariance.
Ancient prose narratives and poetic allusions were often conserving ancient knowledge of this planetary harmony; significant because these ratios connect human existence to the world of Eternity. In this sense the myths of gods, heros and mortals had been a natural reflection of harmonic worlds in heaven, into the life of the people.
In the Greece before the invention of phonetic writing, oral or spoken stories such as those attributed to Homer and Hesiod were performed in public venues giving rise to the amphitheaters and stepped agoras of Greek towns. Special performers or rhapsodes animated epic stories of all sorts and some have survived through their being written down.
At the same time, alongside this journey towards genuine literacy, new types of sacred buildings and spaces emerged, these also carrying the sacred numbers and measures of the megalithic to Classical Greece, Rome, Byzantium and elsewhere, including India and China.
The Heraion of Samos, late 8th century BC. [figure 5.9 of Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels.]
Work towards a fuller harmonic matrix for the planets
In my first book, called Matrix of Creation, I had not yet assimilated McClain's books, but had identified the musical intervals between the lunar year and the geocentric periodicities of the outer planets. To understand what was behind the multiple numerical relationships within the geocentric world of time, I started drawing out networks of those periods and, as I looked at all the relationships (or interval ratios) between them, I could see common denominators and multiples linking the celestial time periods through small intermediary and whole numbers: numbers which became sacred for later civilizations. For example, the 9/8 relationship between the Jupiter synod and the lunar year could be more easily grasped in a diagram revealing a larger structural network, visualized as a "matrix diagram" (see figure 1).
Figure 1 Matrix Diagram of Jupiter and the Moon. figure 9.5 of Matrix of Creation, p117.
One can see the common unit of 1.5 lunar months, at the base of the diagram, and a symmetrical period at the apex lasting 108 lunar months or 9 lunar years (referencing the Maya supplemental glyphs). In due course, I re-discovered the use of the Lambda diagram of Plato (figure 8.7), and even stumbled upon the higher register of five tones (figure 2) belonging to the Mexican flying serpent, Quetzalcoatl (as figure 8.1), made up of [Mercury, the eclipse year, the Tzolkin, Mars and Venus], Venus also being called Quetzalcoatl.
Figure 2 My near discovery of Quetzalcoatl, in fig. 8.1 of Matrix of Creation
These periodicities are of adjacent musical fifths (ratio 3/2), which would eventually be shown as connected to the corresponding register of the outer planets, using McClain's harmonic technology in my 5th book Harmonic Origins of the World (see figure 3).
Probably called the flying serpent by dynastic Egypt, Quetzalcoatl's set of musical fifths was part of the Mexican mysteries of the Olmec and Maya civilizations (1500 BC to 800 AD). This serpent flies 125/128 above the inner planets – for example, the eclipse season is 125/128 above the lunar year: 354.367 days × 125/128 = 346 days, requiring I integrate the two serpents within McClain's harmonic matrices in Harmonic Origins of the World (as figure 9.3).
Uranus is above Saturn
The eclipse year is above the lunar year
the Tzolkin of 260 days is above the 9 lunar months of Adam
Figure 3 The two harmonic serpents of "Heaven" and "Earth"
By my 6th book, Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels, I had realized that the numerical design within which our "living planet" sits is a secondary creation – created after the solar system, yet it was discovered before the heliocentric creation of the solar system, exactly because the megalithic observed the planets from the Earth. Instead of proposing the existence of a progenitor civilization with high knowledge** I instead proposed, as more likely, that the megalithic was the source of the ancient mysteries. Such mysteries then only seem mysterious because; a kind of geocentric science before our own heliocentric one seems anachronistic.
**such as Atlantis as per Plato's Timaeus: an island destroyed by vulcanism, Atlantis and similar solutions have simply "kicked the can down the road" into an as-yet-poorly-charted prehistory before 5000 BC, for which less evidence exists because there never was any. In contrast, the sky astronomy and earth measures of the megalithic are to be found referenced in later monuments and ancient textual references. That is, megalithic monuments recorded an understanding of the cosmos then found in the ancient mysteries. A geocentric world view was a naturally result of the megalithic, achieved using the numbers they found through geocentric observations, counting lengths of time, using horizon events and the mathematical properties of simple geometries.
Geo-centrism was the current world view until superseded by the Copernican heliocentric view. This new solar system was soon found by 1680 to be held together by natural gravitational forces between large planetary masses, forces discovered by Sir Isaac Newton. The subsequent primacy of heliocentrism, which started 500 years ago, caused humanity to lose contact with the geocentric model of the world: though figure 4 has the planets in the correct order for the the two serpents, of inner and outer planets, this is also (largely) the heliocentric order, if one but swaps the sun and the moon-earth system.
All references to an older and original form of astronomy, based upon numerical time and forged by the megalithic, was thus dislocated and obscured by our heliocentric physical science and astronomy of the modern day – which still knows nothing of the geocentric order that surrounds us.
Figure 4 The Geocentric Model by 1660
The geocentric model entered Greek astronomy and philosophy at an early point; it can be found in pre-Socratic philosophy … In the 4th century BC, two influential Greek philosophers, Plato and his student Aristotle, wrote works based on the geocentric model. According to Plato, the Earth was a sphere, stationary at the center of the universe.
Wikipedia: "Geocentric model"
Author Richard HeathPosted on January 13, 2021 January 15, 2021 Categories Harmonic Origins of the World, Matrix of Creation, Planetary Harmony, Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels, TuningTags JupiterLeave a comment on The Geocentric Planetary Matrix
Agni, the Indian God of Fire
Those new to Ernest McClain and his The Myth of Invariance, should know this book was a seminal work for anyone in my generation, that opened up a Pythagorean vision; of how number operates in the domain of harmony. This world of harmony can be numerically defined in a quite extraordinary and specific way and we, as human beings, can receive it through our mind whilst also through the senses. This relates to the unusual fact that, whilst all notes can be doubled in frequency through the number two, with a perfect consonance, a new population of notes is then opened up, within an octave, of intervals that are also harmonious, through the use the two next prime numbers: three and five. Thus music, so effective upon the human heart, can build a world of meaning, sometimes referenced in myths as sacred numbers, written through understanding harmony as fundamentally generated through numeric transitions within music.
In 2008 I prepared a summary of Ernest McClain's statements about Agni because, in the midst of the perfect symmetry of musical harmony lies something new, born to the world opposite its beginnings and endings. I originally made the pdf below for my friend Anthony Blake, part of our attempt to study the origin of creativity within the existing world. It appears that something important comes into being at the centre of this issue of octaval harmony, just as we ourselves come into existence in the middle of the universe, as conscious beings, conscious then of our incompletion.
It occured to me to include this in an email to Ernest and, all in, he said in reply "I can't imagine anyone improving on your few pages" and "Put it out now on your own website stamped with my approval". Please enjoy this transmission from the centre of the octave:
What Ernest McClain says about Agni in The Myth of Invariance:
Visit Ernest McClain website: Musical Adventures in Ancient Mythology
Author Richard HeathPosted on January 12, 2021 January 12, 2021 Categories Cosmology, Harmonic Origins of the World, TuningTags Ernest G. McClain, tuningLeave a comment on Agni, the Indian God of Fire
The Richard Syrett Interviews on Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels
I recently recorded a podcast with Richard Syrett and will be talking with him again today (January 2nd) on Coast to Coast, starting 10pm Pacific time. In the UK, this is tomorrow (Sunday the 3rd) at 6am GMT. Both these interviews are in response to my new book Sacred Geometry: Language of the Angels, which goes on release Monday 4th of January 2021.
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Author Richard HeathPosted on January 2, 2021 January 2, 2021 Categories Cosmology, Geometry and Metrology, Harmonic Origins of the World, Planetary Harmony, Sacred Buildings, Sacred Geometry: Language of the AngelsTags Gurdjieff, Jupiter, sacred geometry, sacred numbers
On the Harmonic Origins of the World
After the ice receded, late Stone Age people developed the farming crucial to the development of cities in the Ancient Near East (ANE). On the Atlantic coast of Europe, they also developed a now-unfamiliar science involving horizon astronomy. Megalithic monuments were the tools they used for this, some still seen in the coastal regions of present day Spain, France, Britain and Ireland. Megalithic astronomy was an exact science and this conflicts with our main myth about our science: that ours is the only true science, founded through many historical prerequisites such as arithmetic and writing in the ancient near east (3000- 1200 BC) and theory-based reasoning in Classical Greece (circa 400-250 BC), to name but two. Unbeknownst to us, the first "historical period" in the near east was seeded by the exact sciences of the megalithic, such as the accurate measurement of counted lengths of time, developed by the prehistoric astronomers. With the megalithic methods came knowledge and discoveries, and one discovery was of the harmonic ratios between the planets and the Moon.
The idea that the planets were gods had been born before the ancient world, through the data of megalithic astronomy and this megalithic idea was the basis for the religious ideas of the East. Megalithic astronomy and Near Eastern religious and harmonic ideas have both been written out of our history of civilization, leaving us with enigmatic monuments and ill-defined religious mysteries. How this slighting of our real history happened is perhaps less important than our discovering again the purpose of the megalithic monuments and of those religious ideas that sprang from the discovery that the planets were harmonically related to life on Earth.
Le Menec Alignments indicate a profound astronomical work in the new stone age by 5000-4000 BC. Composite mash up by David Blake using Blender, Google Earth elevation and imagery plus Alexander Thom geometry and digitized stone locations.
Is human history lacking something fundamental?
The Harmonic Origins of the World first explores this alternative late stone age, the megalithic, as more culturally significant than the advent of Neolithic farming. But ironically, the megalithic culture has been eclipsed by the history-building developments of the middle-eastern civilisations, all because intellectual histories could only start when written records began within the civilizations. Writing did not make people literate and they still relied on an oral tradition of story-telling which had descended from the stone age. But writing did record the oral stories which became our texts.
Subsequent civilisations changed the civilized soul, through contact with the material cultures necessary to support urbanisation: written records, accountancy, religious ideas, reason and most recently our own science and technology. To get closer to the meaning of the megalithic enterprise, one must recognise that its primary cultural norm was astronomical. Numbers were sublimated as counted lengths, these representing the duration of celestial cycles where days were counted using small standardised units such as a digit or inch. This counting of time, to form a length where numbers were then implicit, enabled the geometry of the right triangle to also sublimate the multiplicative and trigonometrical functions used, in our mathematics, to calculate. Today's methods for studying astronomy are therefore completely different to those of the megalithic: we don't look to the horizon, count lengths or use geometry to compare. Therefore 20th century science has vastly underestimated the scope, sophistication and significance of megalithic astronomical knowledge.
Why was Religion astronomical?
The religious thoughts that subsequently emerged in the ANE were mainly based upon the celestial heavens; where the planets, sun and moon were gods responsible for the creation of the world. Our word religion expresses the notion of a human effort to reconnect with a cosmic world above our heads. Ancient religion had a sacred basis that was kept secret from the ordinary man and this established the division between the secular and the sacred which still exists today. The most direct way of explaining why ancient religions sought to connect with gods, literally in heaven, is to see in it the product of a prior age in which the heavenly world was intensively studied so as to understand the behaviour of the celestial bodies within a heavenly world of time, as where something divine is happening. This work must have predated the earliest historical civilisations. No written record of megalithic astronomy has ever been found so that only the monuments can speak of it, if we understand their astronomical language of number and proportion.
By 3000 BC, the Sumerians had inherited fully developed astronomically-based religious ideas in their oral traditions (such as Gilgamesh, then fortunately written down on cuneiform tablets.) Thus, whilst the megalithic was reaching a zenith in Europe, the great historical civilisations recorded beliefs that could only have evolved from their concrete astronomical knowledge of the heavens, an activity brought uniquely to a high level of sophistication by the builders of the megaliths. But why were astronomical truths used as a basis for religious thought? To understand this requires we re-interpret the megalithic record, a record largely concerned with discovering the time-patterns of the sun and moon.
Astronomical Ratios are the Matrix of Creation
The pattern of time formed by planets can be found within the stories and symbols of the historic period, but the techniques for finding this pattern only existed in the megalithic period as it must have been based upon measuring ratios between time periods. Planetary time ratios naturally lead to a pantheistic insight; that the planets are gods, instrumental in the creation and maintenance of the world.
The megalithic established the ratio (between counted lengths) of the lunar to solar years, as the basis of their astronomy, and this approach was then crucial to understanding the musical pattern of time formed by the planets to the moon (as per figure 3).
Figure 1 The collision with Theia with the proto-Earth leading to the creation of our Moon. [NASA/JPL-Caltech]
The moon was formed after the collision of a proto-earth with a smaller Mars-like planet, as the inner solar system was coalescing its solid matter into the present inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Billions of years later, the moon achieved an orbital distance from the earth that made the lunar year (of twelve lunar months) musically resonant with the three outer planets. The lunar year formed a tone (9/8) to the synod[1] of Jupiter, a diatonic semitone (16/15) to the synod of Saturn and a chromatic semitone (25/24) to the synod of Uranus.
Figure 2 The synods of the outer planets based upon the earth's orbit make it possible, numerically, for the lunar year to evoke three of the most significant musical intervals. Earth's orbit and the Sun's illumination of the Moon have achieved the required lunar year length of 120, where twelve is the number of semitones in an octave, and notes on a keyboard.
For the ratios of these outer planets to relate to the lunar year requires the ratios of their sidereal periods to already have the possibility of achieving this musical resonance, when viewed from Earth's orbital year. Figure 2 shows the situation within which the synods of the outer planets are themselves expressing lesser-known musical intervals between each other. Saturn is the common factor of 128 units of time in length to Jupiter's 135 units and to Uranus's 125 units. It is these numbers in ratio that enable the lunar year to achieve a duration of 120 units and, since the lunar year is made up of 12 lunar months, these units of time are one tenth of a lunar month long or 2.953 days.
Forming the Cosmic Octave
The optical discovery of Uranus in ancient times is dubious, but we can assume that the synods of Jupiter and Saturn became known to a megalithic astronomy which, as already stated, specialised in measuring time periods and in comparing these to other time periods, using trigonometrical triangles.
Figure 3 The harmonic ratios between the nearest three outer planets and the lunar year. The four-square rectangle with long side equal to the lunar year gives, geometrically, the solar year as its diagonal length. The outer planetary synods are longer since the planets have moved ahead of their last opposition to the sun, at which time they appear to perform a loop amongst the stars
Figure 3 shows how megalithic use of triangular comparison would have revealed the common factor, of 1/10th of a lunar orbit, between the outer planets, namely the Jupiter synod is 13.5 lunar months, that of Saturn is 12.8 lunar months (and that of Uranus is 12.5 lunar months.)
The Gods of the Ancient World
This was the principle discovery on which ancient speculation, that the planets were gods, was based. These same lords of time were celebrated in the New World, after the Bronze Age collapse of 1200 BC in the Old World, firstly with the Olmec and subsequently the Maya and Aztec religions of Mesoamerica. Passed on from the Ancient Near East, Olmec religious ideas contained elements soon suppressed in the Old World. Numerical tuning theory was closer to its astronomical origins before 1200 BC so that, the fantastic information placed into mythic stories could still be read with regard to the harmonic numbers referred to in stories. These numbers could be abnormally long ages or reigns, the numbers of things, the number of syllables or stanzas, and so on. Ancient myths hold many astronomical and harmonic allusions which have long puzzled scholars unable to find the missing link in the megalithic.
A couple of seminal books on this subject emerged simultaneously with similarly challenging proposals. In Hamlet's Mill (1969) the Precession of the Equinoxes (and of the earth's Poles) was shown to be a common theme within myths and; in The Myth of Invariance (1976), Plato's tuning theory was shown to be "the tip of an iceberg" of ancient harmonic allegory: both books implied there had been a near world-wide oral tradition that had incorporated such matters in their epic works.
For example, the Bible has a flood hero called Noah, reused from those of Marduk in Babylon and Indra in the Rig Veda. Precession was considered the creator of world ages, that is, of History itself; and the great numbers of India expressed time as a harmonic ceiling for an octave, such as 8,640,000,000 – a number which turns up in many traditions, for example the Edda's final battle of the gods, and the design of Angkor Wat. The Bible significantly starts with a smaller number, the first man is called Adam, whose name in letter-number equivalence is 1 + 4 + 40 = 45 when added whilst in place notation he is 1,440, which is 32 x 45. This takes us back to the Moon.
Music from the Moon
If one wants to generate a harmonic ceiling for the lunar year and outer planets, whose numbers are 120, 128 and 135, Adam as 45 must be doubled twice to 180, the age at which Isaac, son of patriarch Abraham, dies. This implies that the lunar year lies within a harmonic system of 18 lunar months, which is exactly the time period of the Olmec and Maya Supplemental Glyphs, sometimes added to their Long Count marking upon stela (engraved standing stones) as if these cultures had derived from the megalithic. The Olmec appear to carry forth parts of the intellectual life of megalithic times otherwise lost to the historic record. The Bible writers were evidently privy to this harmonic tradition which seems to have travelled alongside an oral tradition, lost though cryptically recorded by the genuine literacy of Plato's age, in texts and secret Pythagorean groups.
If one factorises the numbers 120, 128 and 135, one can place them according to the presence of prime numbers 2, 3 and 5, since it is these primes which form the musical intervals between tones:
Cycle Powers of 2 × powers of 3 × powers of 5 Total
Lunar Year 8 3 5 120
Saturn 128 128
Jupiter 27 5 135
One can see that the lunar year and Jupiter synod both have the factor 5 whilst they differ in two ways; by 9 (3 x 3) and by 8, hence the interval 9/8 between them. Saturn differs in three ways from the lunar year; by 16 (128/8), and by both 3 and 5, hence the interval 16/15 between them.
The writers of the Bible raised Isaac up from 180 through reproductive doubling to 360 (x 2), then 720 (x 4) to reach the fullest extent of Adam's name, namely 1440 (x 8), meaning we must multiply these planetary numbers by 8 to become 960, 1024 and 1080 – numbers which have rich meaning in ancient number symbolism. They can be viewed on a mountain made of increasing powers of 2, 3 and 5 under the 1440 limit (figure 4) and this mountain uses units one 80th instead of one 10th of a lunar month.
Figure 4 Adam becomes 1440 and shows where the outer planets are, harmonically. Such mountains were used to tell a story that maintained the harmonic doctrine whilst providing cultural and religious stories. (http://harmonicexplorer.org#1440)
One 80th of the lunar month of 29.53 days is 0.369 days, which times 1000 is the synod of Uranus (starts 4th row), the air god Enlil, who launched floods to cleanse the earth of human wickedness. The Bible replaced him with YHWH and the seven planetary gods were removed from the week, numbering weekdays rather than deifying them as of the god, as per; "Thou shalt have no other gods before me". And yet, the harmonic doctrine still lay behind the outer biblical narrative, secretly informing it.
This situation is repeated in many ancient texts and in many different ways. The widespread insertion of harmonic numbers within literary texts gives three rows of darker notes around D a special capacity to form musical scales. In this case the gematria limit for Adam of 1440, gives him the ability to play five modal scales, some of the notes having these planetary numbers.
This type of work was originally deduced from some of Plato's dialogues, seen as a codification of the ancient methods by Ernest G McClain, who wrote The Myth of Invariance to illustrate its widespread use in the ancient world. I have continued in this rich vein whilst connecting McClain's work with my own work: on megalithic astronomy and discovery (in 2000) of the musical intervals between the lunar year and the outer planets.
The Harmonic Origins of the World is the latest exploration of this domain, revealing some famous figures in ancient myth, through visualising their "holy" mountains whilst introducing how practical musical scales work on these mountains. The significance of McClain's work is deepened through the restoration of an important missing history which can explain why our oldest texts, often religious, are peppered with harmonic numbers. And part of that missing history is that harmony between the lunar year and outer planets has arisen relatively recently, alongside the modern humans of the last 200,000 years.
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[1] Synodic periods are the time taken for the Earth to again stand between that outer planet and the Sun, longer than a year because the planets are slowly moving during the solar year. These synods therefore only apply to those living on the surface of the Earth. The synods are: lunar month 29.53059 days; lunar year 354.367 days; Jupiter synod 398.88 days; Saturn synod 378.09 days; Uranus synod 369.66 days
Author Richard HeathPosted on December 13, 2020 December 13, 2020 Categories Cosmology, Harmonic Origins of the World, Planetary Harmony, Sacred Geometry: Language of the AngelsTags Ernest G. McClain, Harmony of the Spheres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus
from Book 5: Harmonic Origins of the World
Intelligent Star Systems
The harmony of the spheres can only be found in our world of time, where it is a strong and compelling phenomenon. Such a harmony was no prescientific fantasy. Pythagoras, who coined the term, probably did so based on the geocentric time world, a view lost to history apart from cryptic references that can no longer be interpreted.
In our age of system science, musical harmony is not thought relevant to the design of dynamic systems such as the planets, yet they appear adapted to just intonation seen from the exclusive perspective of our planet. Why should our planet have a harmonious view of time, and what difference does time's harmoniousness make to life on Earth? Is there some other purpose to this harmony or none at all? To answer such questions one has to recognize just intonation as being a holistic system that demands human insight into the nature of whole phenomena (a so-called gestalt). Such gestalts flow from the need to see higher-level relationships rather than the raw complexity of their parts. All higher structures of meaning subsume lower levels of meaning. For example, microclimates are a structuring of meaning higher than trees, water, weather, and topography, usefully integrating these parts within a newly perceived whole. Such insights reveal a higher idea that indicates new potentials within a system. The new level of conceptual order has not changed in the phenomenon but how we relate to it. This profound faculty is the basis of what we call understanding rather than knowing, and it enlarges our "world." The world is already structured, and a sensory insight re-creates that structure as a simplifying aspect, already present, to expand the intelligibility of the sensory world and with it, our present moment. Insight and the world's creation were considered similar acts within ancient cosmologies, in that an insight about the world resembles the structure of the world as it would be conceived by any god in the act of creating it. Such a vision involves a special effort but provides a creative view of the world, in which simplicity and relatedness replace functional complexity with a new appreciation of the sensory world. The celestial behavior in Earth's skies is a prime example of such an action: the rotation of Earth, its orbit around the sun, the moon's orbit, and its illumination by the sun complicate the observed orbital periods of the other planets and yet, that added complexity has produced harmonic simplicity between synodic periods!
Chapter 1 showed how Late Stone Age astronomers used geometrical counts of synodic periods to discover this harmony of the spheres, which modern astronomers have not seen because scientific calculation methods deal instead with planetary dynamics modeled by equations. Simplicity has somehow adapted our solar system without breaking physical laws. At the level of gravitational dynamics, many complexities were required to achieve just intonation seen only from Earth, especially the lengthening of the lunar month as an intermediary to the planetary synods seen from Earth. Any demiurgic preference for harmony (seen from Earth) resembles the human gestalt that revealed the harmony of the spheres to human sensory intelligence in the Late Stone Age, and it must be noted, humanity has become demiurgic since the Stone Age, creating man-made worlds.
Demiurgic intelligences are probably part of each star system and, if our star has a demiurgic intelligence, this action seems to have used the moon to establish a justly intoned time world for the third planet. It adapted the unchanging orbital pitches of an n-body planetary system to present harmonic synodic systems that planetary orbital periods alone could never express. Our geocentric system is harmonically founded between 1, the zeroth power of 2 (the Saturn synod) and the fifth power of 60 (YHWH, as 365-day year), which is the smallest numerical resolution to contain just intonation of both inner and outer planets, as in the implied holy mountains of our ancient texts.
Harmonic Origins of the World
Contents (272 pages, 100 b&w illustrations)
Introduction: The Significance of Planetary Harmony (5)
PART 1: RECOVERING LOST KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD SOUL
1 Climbing the Harmonic Mountain (20)
2 Heroic Gods of the Tritone (19)
3 YHWH Rejects the Gods (15)
4 Plato's Dilemma (22)
PART 2: A COSMICALLY CREATIVE HARMONY
5 The Quest for Apollo's Lyre (25)
6 Life on the Mountain (23)
PART 3 THE WAR IN HEAVEN
7 Gilgamesh Kills the Stone Men (16)
8 Quetzalcoatl's Brave New World (31)
9 YHWH's Matrix of Creation (19)
10 The Abrahamic Incarnation (15)
Postscript: Intelligent Star Systems
APPENDIX 1: Astronomical Periods and Their Matrix Equivalents
APPENDIX 2: Ancient Use of Tone Circles (11)
Author Richard HeathPosted on November 15, 2020 November 15, 2020 Categories Cosmology, Harmonic Origins of the World, Planetary HarmonyTags biosphere, evolution, Harmony of the Spheres, musical harmony
pdf: Astronomical Musicality within Mythic Narratives
Ancient musical knowledge came to Just tuning long before Greek music, in Babylonia. It now seems likely that two sources of musical information, were involved in an early tradition of musical tuning by number: firstly, the early number field is the original template upon which musical harmony is based; and secondly, the prehistoric geocentric astronomy which preceded the ancient world had been comparing counted astronomical time-periods, and had discovered the rational tone and semitone intervals between the lunar year, Jupiter and Saturn . Ernest G. McClain identified a harmonic parallelism within ancient texts in which the anomalous numbers found within mythic narratives inferred a unique array (a matrix) of whole numbers, shaped like a mountain, which could explain plot elements, events and characters of the narrative, as intended parallels to such harmonic mountains. McClain's matrices allowed the author to locate the harmonic intervals found between planetary synods as a reason why religious texts should have employed harmonic numbers, these relating to planetary time as gods alongside ancient systems of tuning. Based on a talk delivered at ICONEA2013, 5th December at Senate House, University College London.
Author Richard HeathPosted on September 29, 2020 September 29, 2020 Categories Harmonic Origins of the World, Planetary Harmony, Sacred Buildings, Tuning, UncategorizedTags Ernest G. McClain, ICONEA


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Installation image of Merideth Hillbrand, Spatial Device no. 1 (impossible core) , 2019. Photo by Josh Schaedel.
Merideth Hillbrand Selected as the 2019 St. Elmo Arts Residency Fellow
The Department of Art and Art History and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin are pleased to announce artist Merideth Hillbrand as the 2019 recipient of the St. Elmo Arts Residency and fellowship. The residency will take place over the 2019-20 academic year and will include a solo exhibition at the Wildflower Center.
The St. Elmo Arts residency aims to support emerging artists and the creation of new work by providing dedicated studio and living space in South Austin in addition to a $30,000 award to a newly minted M.F.A. artist in painting, drawing, print, photo, sculpture or multimedia. The success of the fellowship's inaugural year saw artist Katy McCarthy engaged with the UT Austin community through courses in Transmedia, talks at the Wildflower Center, exhibitions hosted at the South Austin studio, and participation in the city's West Austin Studio Tour.
This year's fellow, Merideth Hillbrand, earned her M.F.A. in Studio Art at University of California, Riverside, this past May, and joins the department this year as a visiting professor in Sculpture.
"Merideth's works exhibit a keen sensitivity to architecture, form, and material as she proficiently involves an abundant number of techniques," said Studio Art faculty and St. Elmo committee member Eric McMaster. "We are very excited for her expertise in making and thoughtful observation to be shared with our students."
Arranging objects to consider the relations between body and architecture, Hillbrand points toward how our constructed environments, in turn, organize us. Her objects serve as surrogates, stand-ins, and models for thinking about the relationships between how different materials and objects relate or differ.
"I use a formal language of construction to build with found and hand-made components that are modular and moveable to speak to the potential for multiplicity within an object," writes Hillbrand. "I find sculpture to be inherently linguistic— mimicking the dialectics, difference, and opposition found in language to investigate wider syntactic meaning."
In the coming year, Hillbrand will embark on a new chapter in her investigation into the transformative qualities of materials while deepening her practice of art as a conversation through public programming and a final exhibition at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
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The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Hon. Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has appealed to the Korean Government to support Ghana with her expertise in rice production in order to help the Ghana reduce the huge amount of dollars spent on importing rice into the country.
Ghana's Agric Minister was of the view that with their knowledge and expertise in modern system of rice production, the Government of Korea should invest heavily in the cultivation of the staple food in order to boost local production.
Hon. Dr. Afriyie Akoto made the appeal when an 8-member delegation led by the Korean Ambassador to Ghana, His Excellency Lyeo Woon-Ki, paid a courtesy call on him at his office on Wednesday.
The visit was mainly to welcome the new Minister and to hold bilateral talks on how the two countries can foster economic relationships, particularly in the agricultural sector.
It also afforded the Korean Ambassador the opportunity to brief the Minister on the various policies and programmes which have been proposed by his country to support the growth of agriculture in Ghana.
Hon. Dr. Afriyie Akoto noted that Ghana is ready to partner Korea in the use of high technology for rice production, stressing that it is the only to help cut import whilst enhancing local production.
His Excellency, Lyeo Woon-Ki, on his part said his country was always ready to partner Ghana in her quest to improve and modernize the agric sector.
The Ambassador said the main target was to increase the production of rice in Ghana by 50% through an initiative set to be rolled out subject to the approval of Ghana Government.
According to him, the project would include amongst other things, the organization of training programmes for some selected Ghanaians in Korea and the construction of rice processing complex.
He noted that Ghana has strong potentials for rice production, adding that the Korean Government, together with some private investors, had already acquired about 20 hectares of land at Okyerenko in the Central Region with about 15 hectares already developed for the production of rice.
His Excellency Lyeo Woon-Ki further noted that his outfit was liaising with the MOFA Directorate in the Central Region for the implementation of the program.
He further appealed to the Minister on behalf of Government to furnish his office with other proposals for consideration, recommending that such proposals could be channelled through the Finance Minister which must then be forwarded to the Korean Embassy.


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1925 - Felice Bryant (d. 2003)
1935 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk (d. 1977)
1936 - Charles Pope (Tams) (d. 2013)
1942 - B.J. Thomas (75)
1942 - Garrison Keillor (75)
1943 - Lana Cantrell (74)
1945 - Kerry Chater (Gary Puckett & the Union Gap) (72)
1949 - Carlo Novi (Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes) (71)
1950 - Rodney Crowell (70)
1952 - Andy Fraser (Free) (d. 2015)
1952 - Richard Joswick (Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods) (65)
1958 - Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) (59)
1959 - Michael Peterson (58)
1960 - Jackie O'Sullivan (Bananarama) (57)
1962 - Alison Brown (55)
1964 - Ian Dench (EMF) (53)
1965 - Raul Malo (Mavericks) (52)
1966 - Kristen Hirsch (Throwing Muses) (51)
1977 - Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed) (40)
1971 - Homer Haynes (Homer & Jethro) - Heart attack (51)
1984 - Esther Phillips - Liver & kidney failure due to drug use (48)
2001 - Larry Adler (harmonica player with Sting, Elton John) (87)
2001 - Billy Byrd (credited as first electric guitar player in country music) - Natural causes (81)
2009 - Mike Seeger - Cancer (75)
2011 - Marshall Grant (Johnny Cash's Tennessee Two) (83)
1948 - Hank Williams made his debut on the Louisiana Hayride.
1963 - The film Beach Party with Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and Dick Dale & the Del Tones premiers.
1965 - Mike Smith of the Dave Clark Five is pulled off of a Chicago stage by rabid fans, breaking ribs.
1970 - Over 200,000 people attended the Goose Lake International Music Festival in Leoni, MI to see acts like Bob Seger, Jethro Tull, Chicago, Mountain, 10 Years After, John Sebastian, Iggy & the Stooges, MC5, Brownsville Station, James Gang, Rod Stewart and the Flying Burrito Brothers.
1970 - Christine McVie joined Fleetwood Mac.
1979 - X-Ray Spex break up after Poly Styrene tries to take the group in a folk direction.
1982 - Sting sued Virgin Publishing saying that he has an unfair deal with the company over his early works.
1985 - Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall become the parents of James Leroy Jagger.
1987 - 24 years after the release of Beach Part, Back to the Beach opens in the U.S.
1997 - An estimated one-million people attended a Garth Brooks concert in Central Park, New York, the largest crowd in history.
1999 - 55 people are arrested for rioting outside of a Dave Matthews Band concert in Hartford, CT.
2000 - The family of Jimi Hendrix won in court, gaining ownership of www.jimihendrix.com.
2002 - Noel Gallagher, Andy Bell and Jay Darlington of Oasis were injured in a car accident in Indianapolis, IN, receiving cuts and bruises.
2003 - The Osmonds received their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2007 - Lily Allen's U.S. work visa was canceled after she arrived in Los Angles over an alleged assault in London.
2007 - It was announced that Vince Gill, Mel Tillis and Ralph Emery had been elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
2012 - Randy Travis was arrested when he was found naked, lying in the middle of a road and smelling of alcohol.
1954 - Johnny Cash and Vivian Liberto
1966 - Xavier Cugat and Charo
1974 - Peter Wolf (J Geils Band) and Faye Dunaway
1995 - LL Cool J and Simone Johnson
2008 - Jewel and Ty Murray
2010 - Robbie Williams and Ayda Field
1971 - Just Another Band From L.A. - Frank Zappa
1962 - Sentimentally Yours - Patsy Cline (final studio album)
1965 - It Ain't Me Babe - Turtles (single)
1989 - The Cinderella Theory - George Clinton
1955 - Ed Sullivan Show - Bill Haley & the Comets
1997 - Garth Brooks Live in Central Park (HBO) - Billy Joel, Don McLean
Number Ones – U.S. Singles
1954 - Sh-Boom - Crew Cuts (7 weeks)
1965 - I'm Henry VIII, I Am - Herman's Hermits (1 week)
1971 - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - Bee Gees (4 weeks)
1976 - Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee (4 weeks)
2004 - Slow Motion - Juvenile Featuring Soulja Slim (2 weeks)
Number Ones – U.S. Albums
1982 - Mirage - Fleetwood Mac (5 weeks)
1993 - Black Sunday - Cypress Hill (2 weeks)
2004 - Autobiography - Ashlee Simpson (1 week)
Number Ones – U.S. R&B Singles
1965 - In the Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett (1 week)
1971 - Hot Pants (Part 1) - James Brown (1 week)
1976 - Getaway - Earth, Wind & Fire (2 weeks)
1993 - Check You Self - Ice Cube Featuring Das EFX (1 week)
Number Ones – U.S. Country Singles
1961 - I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline (2 weeks)
1965 - The First Thing Ev'ry Morning (and the Last Thing Ev'ry Night) - Jimmy Dean (2 weeks)
1976 - Golden Ring - George Jones & Tammy Wynette (1 week)
1982 - Honky Tonkin' - Hank Williams, Jr. (1 week)
2004 - Somebody - Reba McEntire (1 week)
2010 - Undo It - Carrie Underwood (1 week)
Number Ones – U.K. Singles
1982 - Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners (4 weeks)
Number Ones – U.K. Albums
1971 - Hot Hits 6 - Various Artists (1 week)
1982 - The Kids From "Fame" - Kids From Fame (8 weeks)


Yorkshire based Approved Food founder Dan Cluderay is one step closer to delivering his 'dream pitch' to inspirational entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson.
Receiving a staggering 6,299 votes online from supporters in Yorkshire and across the UK, the business received the most support of any of the 500 companies and is now one of only 50 in consideration for the £250k prize fund.
Dan and business partner Andy Needham have thanked the public for their 'overwhelming support'.
Dan, who founded Approved food in 2008 said: "I'm absolutely delighted that we are included in the shortlist and extremely grateful for all of the public support we have received. It's been quite overwhelming.
"I think most people know by now that Sir Richard Branson is a true inspiration to us, and to have the opportunity to deliver a pitch to him – showcasing what makes Approved Food so unique – is a real dream come true.
Approved Food is a Sheffield based business which was established in 2008 by former software developer and market trader Dan Cluderay.
The entrepreneur specialises in selling surplus stock, and products nearing or past the best before date. Since it was founded seven years ago the business has saved over 36 million items from landfill.
Now through to the next stage of the Virgin Media Business Pitch to Rich competition, Approved Food's business submission will now be considered by a panel of judges before learning whether they have been included in the semi-finals.
The 30 semi-finalists, including 10 in the Grow category, will be announced on the 19th of May at which point online voting will be re-opened.


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Breath of the Wild Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Quest Walkthrough
Here's how you can complete the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 crossover quest in Zelda Breath of the Wild.
Guide by Tom Orry, Audience Development Manager, Gamer Network
Additional contributions by Hirun Cryer and	Jake Green
Updated on 5 May 2020
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has a Xenoblade Chronicles 2 side mission to complete. In this Breath of the Wild Xenoblade Chronicles 2 quest guide, we'll be walking you through exactly how to find the location of every red shooting star in the game, all with the end goal of obtaining the precious Salvager armor set.
Lake Hylia Shooting Star Location
Skulls Eye Shooting Star Location
Hebra Mountain Red Shooting Star Location
First of all, if you haven't played Breath of the Wild in a while, you'll need to update the game in order to recieve the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 quest. When you next load up the game, you'll find the new Xenoblade Chronicles 2 quest waiting for you in your Side Quest menu. The quest will tell you to "look to the night sky" and find the three red shooting star locations, based on a series of vague descriptions.
These vague location descriptions are as follows:
"The southern sky from the middle of the largest bridge."
"The eastern sky from the skull's left eye."
"The southeastern sky from the peak of the tall, pierced snowy mountain."
We'll now tackle all of these locations from the top, but we should note that in order for the red shooting star to actually appear from the sky, you'll have to follow the instructions exactly as they're written. For example, with the first location, you'll have to be right in the middle of the Bridge of Hylia, and facing towards the southern sky for the red shooting star to actually fall from the sky.
So, once you've made it to the middle of the Bridge of Hylia any time after 9 pm, simply look towards the southern sky, and after a few seconds the red shooting star will fall from the sky, landing on the shore to the left. Simply head towards the location of the red beam on the ground, and you'll find a chest containing the Salvager Headwear.
For the location of the Salvager Vest item, you'll have to head into Northern Akkala, to the Skull Lake. Simply stand on the eye with the shrine (the quest text is somewhat misleading) and face towards the Akkala Ancient Tech Lab, to see the red shooting star fall from the sky. Head over to the red beam just a short distance to the east, and interact with the chest to recover the Salvager Vest item.
Finally, for the location of the Salvager Trousers, you'll have to head to the very top of Hebra Peak mountain. This could be quite a journey, even if you have discovered the Shrine near to the peak, so we'd recommend wrapping up in warm and/or climbing boosting gear, and make your way up to the very top of the mountain. You'll know you're in the right place if there's a rock with a Korok Seed underneath it at the very peak.
Once again, look towards the southeastern sky from any time after roughly 9 pm, and you'll see the red shooting star fall from the sky and land further down the mountain. Recover the chest at the red beam of light to claim the final piece of the Salvager armor set for yourself.
Just below, you can see Link in all his glory once he's recieved the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 armor set, every item of which provides a nice boost for his swim speed.
If you're looking for more on Breath of the Wild, be sure to read Nadia's op-ed on why BOTW 2 needs to be as weird as Majora's Mask.. Elsewhere, there's Mike's original review of the game.
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Drop Kitchen Secures $8m Venture Capital
/ 9th January 2018 /
Irish smart kitchen company Drop has announced that it has closed $8 million in Series A venture financing.
The round was led by Alsop Louie Partners, and includes investment from Irish company Frontline Ventures, Chapter One owner Ross Lewis, and Domini Kemp of Itsa.
Drop said the money will be used to continue development of Drop's Kitchen'S platform for connected appliances in the smart kitchen of the future as well as to support the company's partnerships with appliance manufacturers worldwide.
In 2017, Drop launched partnerships with Bosch and GE Appliances, making it possible for owners of connected ovens to control them straight from a recipe on the Drop platform.
Adaptics Ltd, the Drop operating company, booked a net loss of €1.2m in 2016, bringing accumulated losses to €3.1m. Funding was categorised in the balnace sheet as a long-term liability, and the deficit in shareholders' funds in December 2016 was €2.6m. The payroll overhead in 2016 was €900,000, up from €540,000 the year before.
Drop co-founder and CEO Ben Harris commented: "This investment will allow us to accelerate our trajectory towards becoming the de facto platform for the smart kitchen, empowering anyone to make delicious food at home.
"We found the perfect investor in Stewart Alsop and the team at Alsop Louie, who bring experience in growing global platforms such as Twitch. Stewart himself has a wealth of indispensable experience, leading NEA's investment in TiVo and sitting on Sonos' board for seven years."
Stewart Alsop said he's investing in Drop Kitchen because Harris and his team "have a real vision for how to transform the basic cultural experience of cooking and consuming food in the home, as well as making it more entertaining and engaging".
Ross Lewis added "I have always known that smart technologies were going to become incredibly important in the kitchen — so much so that I built my own digital recipe system for Chapter One's kitchen. When I saw Drop's app, I knew it was the future and I wanted to integrate it into our kitchen here. I am working closely with the team to share my culinary expertise to guide all future developments, and look forward to adding recipes myself."
Alsop Louie Partners is an early-stage technology venture firm based in San Francisco. The firm says it looks for outstanding entrepreneurs who want to start and grow companies that will be significant drivers of the next technology cycle, which it calls the Evernet. The firm was founded by Stewart Alsop, industry pundit and venture investor, and Gilman Louie, video game entrepreneur and cybersecurity investor.
The Drop app is available for free on the App Store and Google Play and has thousands of recipes from partners like Food 52 and Good Housekeeping, plus top chefs like Donal Skehan and Jessica Entzel.
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Press Release Issued on the Proscription of 'TPLF' and 'Shene' as Terrorist Organizations (May 10, 2021)
In the last three years, there have been violent attacks perpetrated against civilians in various parts of the country. Those who have orchestrated these attacks were motivated by the desire to reverse the reform measures that have been implemented in these three years. These attacks were intended to endanger the very existence of the state by undermining public trust and confidence on the government. The attacks have been perpetrated against innocent citizens and public infrastructure to advance the political ideology of division and in the pursuit of political goals or objectives.
Although these attacks have been carried out by different actors in different parts of the country, there have been groups that have played a leading role behind the scenes by planning and financing the attacks and by providing training, media and technical support in the commission of the violent crimes. It is also clear that these groups are working with foreign forces who want to destabilize, weaken and destroy Ethiopia.
It is to be noted that prior to the reform, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) was in power since 1991. However, the top leadership of the TPLF, whose illicit personal interest have been affected by the reform measures, chose to stand against the reform and obstruct the process in order to protect their hegemony and privileges. Though they took all sorts of measures to derail the reform from its course, they did not succeed. In pursuit of their sinister interest, the TPLF Executive Committee decided in 2011 E.C. (2019 G.C.) to form an illegal armed force, known as the "Tigray Central Military Command", believing that it was necessary to overthrow the government that brought about national change by any means including armed force. In order to organize the military command, a new unit called the Force Deployment Unit was established under the Regional Security Bureau. This unit was led by retired generals and colonels from the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF). The military officers prepared a military doctrine to build the Tigray Defense Forces (TDF) and presented it to the TPLF Executive Committee. The committee discussed on the doctrine and decided to implement it. TDF recruited members from the Tigray Regional State Special Forces police and VIP guards and provided them with extensive military training to prepare for war. The regional government divided the militia into different grades or levels and organized a high-level military unit called Grade One militia, which was provided with advanced military training. This militia unit, consisted members who are less than 40 years of age, fully fit, and able to engage in war. This unit is organized to move from place to place under any circumstances, and its members were paid while they were on active duty.
In addition to extensive training in the region's Special Forces and Grade One militias, the Unit continued to organize and recruit members who retired from the ENDF and the Federal Police for various reasons on a temporary and permanent basis. In particular, they mobilized veterans with various military skills to organize a Mechanized Weaponry Unit. All of these activities were wantonly and manifestly in grave violation of Ethiopia's constitutional order and all relevant laws. This force was equipped with the different weaponry including artillery and rockets.
In the meantime, the Executive Committee of the TPLF was closely following the level of preparation of its rogue forces and provided directions. Besides the military preparations, TPLF mobilized its cadres for a series of war propaganda directed on the People of Tigray. In the early months of 2012 E.C., TPLF publicly declared its intention to wage war, claiming that the time had come to mobilize the people of Tigray so that to make sure the federal government has no control over the region. They set up checkpoints to prevent the ENDF from operating properly in the region.
Realizing that the TPLF's acts in Tigray region alone will not weaken the federal government, it began working with rebel groups operating in different parts of Ethiopia in order to weaken the federal government, In this regard, TPLF begun providing fund and weapon for the Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF) to destabilize the Afar region. TPLF was also working with various groups to also destabilize the Amhara region. They provided financial support and weapons to Qemant committee to intensify the conflict in the area. At the same time, TPLF has tried to provoke conflict in Gambella region by providing weapons and financial support to a group called Peace, Development and Democracy, in an attempt to provoke civil unrest in the region. The Benishangul-Gumuz People's Democratic Movement (BPDM) and the Benishangul Gumuz People's Liberation Movement (BPLM) have also been financially and materially supported by TPLF. These groups are responsible for the death, bodily injury and displacement of innocent civilians and destruction of public infrastructure in the region. TPLF committed all these with a view seizing the power of the federal government by force and violence against the will of the people.
On October 29, 2020, the TPLF Executive Committee convened a meeting of the party's central committee. On this meeting a document was presented which showed TPLF's plan after the fall of the federal government. According to this document, a transitional government for two to three years will be established and then election will be conducted by which TPLF will return to power with a coalition of so called "federalist forces" under its control. It was explained that the war itself would start earlier. Finally, on the night of 03 November 2020, TPLF force launched an offensive attack against the Northern Command of ENDF, while cutting of electricity and telecom services in the entire region. Group of Youth organized by the TPLF in the city of Maikadra had also lodged gruesome attacks against innocent civilians of Amhara ethnic group, claiming hundreds of lives and injuring many more.
TPLF also launched rocket attacks into populous metropolitan cities of Bahir Dar and Gondar of Amhara Regional State. Similarly, TPLF had also launched rocket attacks on Sovereign nation's capital, Asmara. These attacks resulted in the killing of innocent people and damaging civilian infrastructure.
On the other hand, a group called Shene which was implored by religious and community elders to lay down arms had intensified its vicious, cowardly and heinous attack against civilians and local administrators. For instance, on 2020/21 alone, 463 people were killed by the attacks of this group in the Oromia region. 112 police officers, 57 militia members and 18 government leaders at various levels were killed. 76 police officers, 36 militia members and 2 leaders were injured. 160 houses, 44 vehicles and 84 government offices were set on fire. The criminal investigation established that on November 01, 2020, in the West Welega Guliso Woreda, Gawa Kanka Kebele, in an attempt to harm innocent civilians, the group killed 36 civilians and burned several houses, displacing a large number of people. This so-called Shene group, which claims to be fighting for the people has formed an assassination squad called Abatorbe to kill and attack civilians residing in cities. The squad targets government officials and innocent people who they perceive as being opposed to the objective or the tactics of this group.
In line with the findings of our criminal investigation, significant number of criminal cases were brought before courts of law against members of this group. The defendants in these cases are believed to have been involved in various illegal activities as leaders and members of a militant group commonly known as Shene. They are being prosecuted for Organizing an armed force to oust the current regional government and the federal government, and arming Abatorbe, an urban death squad in the region, particularly in the West Welega Zone, East Welega Zone, Kelem Welega Zone, and Horo Gudru Zone.
From the above-mentioned, it is evident that the aforementioned acts of TPLF and Shene are clearly acts of terrorism. In this regard, in accordance with the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation No. 1176/2012, it has become an imperative measure to designate these two groups as organizations of terror in order to better maintain peace and security of the country, its inhabitants and the region at large. The purpose of designating these entities as terrorist organizations is primarily to stop the ongoing terrorist activities in the country and to create more capacity for law enforcement agencies to prevent and control the crime. It is a criminal offense to support and assist an organization designated as a terrorist group, and to participate in it. Therefore, when we designate an organization or group as a terrorist organization, it is important to remind the public not to cooperate with the organization and to refrain from providing any support to it. Recognizing this can help prevent people from collaborating with such an organization, since individuals who provide various forms of support to a designated terrorist organization and those who provide assistance or members to the organization will face criminal liability. If an organization is designated as a terrorist organization, its assets will be confiscated, creating an opportunity to weaken the terrorist group's financial capacity. Pursuant to Proclamation No. 1176/2012, the House of People's Representatives has the authority to proscribe organizations as terrorist. Procedurally, a group will be proscribed as a terrorist organization when a resolution to this effect is presented to the Council of Ministers by the Federal Attorney General and approved by a two-thirds majority of the members of the House of Representatives. An organization can be designated as a terrorist organization if it fulfills the alternative conditions set out under Article 19 of the Proclamation.
The first condition is that when a terrorist organization operates by carrying terrorist activities as its objective or
The second condition is if the management or the decision-making body of an organization practices or officially accepts the crime of terrorism or leads its operation or
The crime defines the organization's nature through its operation and conduct or most of its employees carry out its activities with knowledge of the crime.
Although meeting just one above-mentioned requirement suffices to proscribe an organization as a terrorist, TPLF and Shene met all the three conditions. Therefore, they have been duly designated as terrorist organizations by the House of Peoples Representatives and are hereby considered proscribed organizations.
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Casting for Meatloaf's Bat Out Of Hell
Baz Bamigboye has just announced the cast for Meatloaf's Bat Out of Hell which will play at London's Coliseum from 5th June-22nd July next year - opening at the Manchester Opera House between 17th February- 29th April 2017.
Pennsylvania actor Andrew Polec (pictured) will play the angry young Strat (the teenager who chases what he wants: girls, motorbikes, and lots of rock 'n' roll').
And Belfast-born Christina Bennington (also pictured) will play Raven, who is willing to risk everything to be with Strat — the boy from the wrong side of the tracks.
Rob Fowler and Sharon Sexton will play Raven's parents Falco and Sloane; and the cast will also include Aran MacRae, Danielle Steers, Dom Hartley-Harris and Giovanni Spano.
They will be joined by Patrick Sullivan, Jemma Alexander, Emily Benjamin, Stuart Boother, Georgia Carling, Natalie Chua, Jonathan Cordin, Amy Di Bartolomeo, Jordan Lee Davies, Olly Dobson, Hannah Ducharme, Phoebe Hart, Rosalind James, Michael Naylor, Eve Norris, Tim Oxbrow, Andrew Patrick-Walker, Benjamin Purkiss, Anthony Selwyn, Courtney Stapleton and Ruben Van Keer.
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Our Treasurer, Neil Jefferis, won the Player of the Year award as he hung on to his slender five point lead over David Green to pip him to the winning post.
Seven youngsters turned out to compete in this year's Under 16s event at Riley's club in Gillingham. Once we finally got the table lights working we were under way with two groups of three and four to play a round robin best of three matches. Michael Loveridge-Greene, Jay Ricketts and Callum Haughin in one group, Ben Sizer, James Addison, Jordan Ravenhill and Andy Caine in the other. There were a few closely fought matches in the group stages notably the game between Jay and Callum which saw three black ball games with the winner being decided by a foul to see Jay win the decider.
Michael and Ben proved to be the strongest competitors in their respective groups and they went through to the final to play for the trophy and prize money. Ben took the first with some confident potting and looked set to take the title as he had a healthy lead as we got to the end game. But Michael pulled out all the stops to clear from green to black to nick it right from under Ben's nose. It appeared at this stage that Michael's experience might pay off come the final frame as he is the reigning champion and this being Ben's first season. The decider was again closely matched and finally Ben managed to edge a slight lead and then just hung on ball by ball until he potted the decisive pink and collect the £20 for his efforts. A great match and with both players being just 14 we may even see them in the final next year!
A magnificent full house of 64 players turned out once again for the Kent County Cup. This time we were sold out three weeks in advance and we even had 9 reserves on standby! A very high quality field of players from Kent and surrounding counties and because we had a full quota we were able to do the draw in advance and get underway at 10.20am.
Just about twelve hours later we were left with just two, Michael Georgiou from Forest Hill and John Parkin from Romford. These were probably the form players of the day as Michael had won most of his matches up until the final quite convincingly whereas John had the highest break of the day with a perfect ton!
The final was closely fought but a terrific 79 saw Michael take the first and then he stole the second with a clearance of the colours. However it was John's consistency that saw him win the third frame before Michael proved to have the edge as he won the fourth frame to claim his second County Cup. A terrific return to the Kent snooker circuit! Mr Georgiou took home our top prize of the season, a very acceptable £300 whilst Mr Parkin was content with £150. Losing semi finalists were Steve Crowley and John's brother Paul Parkin. See the completed drawsheet here.
In the Plate event, a formidable Ryan Causton swept all before him, cleaning up every match without dropping a frame. He took the £40 prize money after beating John Woolcott in the final.
Another great tournament draws to close and if there is one thing to be learnt from this it is that you really do need to get your entry in for this event very early in the season to guarantee your name on the draw sheet.
We had a very respectable 52 entries for our most prestigious competition, the Kent Amateur Championships held once again at Jordan's Club in Rainham. Eight more runners than last year which was a good turnout bearing in mind all the entries must live in Kent. The closely contested final saw Steve Crowley claim victory 3-1 over Matthew Howard and collect the £250 first prize, Matt took home £110 for his efforts. Steve was thrilled to win the Kent Amateur for the first time having been runner up in 2009.
In the Tom Ashton Memorial Plate we saw Glenn Winter (pictured right) pip Mark Rotherham to the post 2-1 and he picked up £40 for his efforts.
The Player of the Year is hotting up and Neil Jefferis has raced into the lead after collecting a terrific haul of 30 points. With just one big event left to play the POTY prize must surely be a two horse race between Neil and David Green.
We now move on to our Open competition, the Kent County Cup also to be held at Jordan's on Sunday March 17th. If you are interested in taking part, you should get your entry in soon as this comp sold out last year.
We had six teams enter this year and from a wide spread of Kent locations. The Committee entered their usual team together with Hartley Club but we also had teams from Bromley (Dream Team II), Canterbury, Margate and Sidcup. We split into two groups and played a Round Robin format so each team would get at least two matches. Margate won their group convincingly, beating the Committee team 5-1 and Canterbury 6-0 to take their place in the final. The other group was a lot closer but Bromley's 4-2 win over Sidcup proved decisive and they won the group by just one frame.
In the final though, Margate didn't have it quite so easy and it was the Dream Team II that raced away to a 3-0 lead. Margate pegged two back but the Dream Team II held on and got a deserved 4-2 victory to take the title and the £90 first prize. Margate received £30 for their efforts.
This win puts David Green clear at the top of the POTY table with the two big events still to come. Can anyone come out of the pack to challenge him? We'll find out on Feb 10th.
We returned to Northdown Snooker Club for the Pairs competition this year. We had 12 entries and 4 of these were from the club's membership so a good support from the host venue. We ran it as a knockout tournament with each match being best of 5 frames. Dave Manley and Andy Sage breezed into the final from the bottom half of the draw but David Green and John Woolcott had some much closer battles in the top half on their route through.
David and John started reasonably well in the first frame of the final but Dave and Andy managed to turn it around and take what was a good quality quick fire battle. They continued with that momentum and took the second and then Andy Sage finished off the match with an impressive 73 break to take the third and claim the title for the pair at their first attempt. They also got £120 between them for their win with David Green and John Woolcott picking up £60.
Runners Up for David Green puts him joint top of the Player of the Year points as the competition starts to warm up.
We had 8 entries this year for the Billiards Championships. This number is lower than recent years which was a shame but at least it made it an easy choice as to the format for the day. We had two groups of 4 playing a Round Robin with each match lasting an hour. The final tables can be seen here. Neil Jefferis won group 1 with Leo Hare runner up and Michael Wright won group 2 with David Smith runner up. That meant that Neil played David in one semi-final and Leo played Michael in the other. Neil and Michael both won and then played the final. Michael started very fast with a 48 break and kept that momentum throughout the match. Neil got a consolation 47 break towards the end of the hour but Michael was too far in front and claimed the £100 first prize and title for the first time, eventually winning 192 points to 167.
Just before this event we had the Billiards cup re-silvered and retitled the "Archie Wood Trophy" as a tribute to the dedication Archie had given the three ball game over the years. You can read more about Archie on our Former Members page.
After the disappointment of last years event the Under 21's competition this year has to go down as a success. We only had 4 players but they were all 16 years old or younger so hopefully they will be returning to compete again for a few years to come. We ran the competition as a Round Robin format so each player got at least 3 games, each one best of 3 frames. The top two from the group stage were Michael Loveridge-Greene, our current Under 16's champion and Jordan Grimshaw. It was a very close final but Michael came through winning the tense deciding frame to take the match 3-2. Jordan had the consolation of getting the highest break of the day, a 34.
We had 10 entries for the Veterans competition this year. We ran a knockout tournament with each match best of 3 frames. The semi-finals saw Johnny Wan beat Tony Pink 2-1 and last year's champion, Stephen Hills overcoming Ron Goodwin also by 2 frames to 1. Stephen was finding it hard work trying to defend his title with each match going to a deciding frame. The final against Johnny Wan also went to the decider but it was Johnny who triumphed to claim the title for the first time.


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Here at the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy, we are always pleasantly surprised by the caliber of people which are drawn to this work. Their inspirations, stories, and relationships to nature continue to propel us forward as we spread the importance of connecting to the Medicine of the Forest around the globe. We now have guides throughout the United States and Canada in North America, New Zealand in the Southern Hemisphere, and several countries throughout Europe. We recently conducted an interview with Forest Therapy Guide Alex Gesse of Portugal. Here Gesse shares with us what drew him to Nature and Forest Therapy and some of his inspiring experiences as being a Guide.
What led you to become a Forest Therapy guide?
I was looking for information for a project that involved mature forests. I got in contact with an expert from the university and at the end of our conversation she mentioned to me about the Japanese concept of Shinrin-Yoku.
The forest called me! A few days later I applied for the training.
How are people in Portugal responding to Forest Therapy?
We are working in Portugal and Spain. In both cases, if I would have to summarize it in one word: gratitude.
We are following different approaches in both countries. In Portugal, not so many people know about Forest Therapy. We work on direct contact between people and forests, participating in events or working with the media. On the other hand in Spain, there are a lot of companies or individuals that are offering Forest Bathing. In Spain, our work is more about explaining what Forest Therapy means for us: a practice structured on the Standard Sequence.
Can you share a memorable experience from one of your walks?
We are in a program with teens from dysfunctional families and every experience, every moment with the teens, is memorable. What characterizes all these memorable experiences is their own transformation. We can see that by the end of the walk, they have gained a new light and they enlighten the elders as well.
I´ve noticed two changes. On one hand, I've noticed the teen's personal change. There is something growing in their self-confidence, self-acceptance or knowledge and accept their own identity by questioning their habits and their own way of living. They have discovered a way to express themselves.
I was in a process of deep change when I found Nature and Forest Therapy. At this time, I noticed that my natural skills were being used to define objectives and goals within my professional life, yet they were no longer making sense. I realized they were not useful to society. When you are a leader of a team that trusts you, it does not feel good to be taking them in the wrong direction. With this realization, I resigned.
Being a guide has not only changed me, it has provided me with tools that I can use to guide my own journey. Being a Forest Therapy guide allows me to express myself in a more true way…a way which I believe in.
In general, people are beginning to realize that we need to make fundamental changes in our contact with nature. As humans, we must change the way in which we think and act in relation with nature and we must reintegrate into the ecological cycles. This opens up infinite possibilities for Forest Therapy in Europe and other regions.
In personal terms, for me the discovery of opportunity was found when I began working with children from dysfunctional families. This project brings opportunities to get in contact with schools since we are proposing Forest Therapy as regular practice for the children. Another group with great growth potential is with large corporations, which we are already beginning to work with. This approach can produce great changes in how we reintegrate ourselves into natural cycles not only on a personal level but also at the level of the current productive system.
The Andes from Colombia, and the Tierra del Fuego lands of Argentina and Chile.
Halong Bay in Vietnam- this place makes you notice the strength of the dragon.
The third one is a forest in my small country, Catalonia. Over the years it has become an idealized forest: A forest that in time grew in my imagination and was rooted in my heart. This is the forest where I really grew up andwhere I spent hours and hours just wondering, discovering, noticing.
Do you have an animal spirit? If so, would you like to share your story?
I must say that before embarking on this journey as a guide I was not prepared to speak with my animal spirit. One day after spending long hours in the forest, he appeared in my Sit Spot. I asked him many questions and he did not give me the answers. He shared with me his wisdom: the questions themselves are the answers! From that moment together we are walking the guide path, our way. My animal spirit is the Bear.
Alex Gesse is a Forest Therapy guide in training with ANFT. He lives and walks between Barcelona and Lisbon. He is a nature enthusiast and truly believer that the forest has ability to provide welfare. One of his passions is working with organizations and companies in wellness programs linked to nature. He is co-founder with Maria do Carmo Stilwell of Shinrin-Yoku Barcelona & Shinrin-Yoku Portugal. You can find more on: http://shinrin-yoku.pt/.
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Ekurhuleni – The matter of former apartheid police officer Joao Rodrigues – implicated in the death of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol – was again postponed after the state's instructing attorney and counsel for the acting National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) failed to appear in court on Monday.
Rodrigues made a brief appearance in the South High Court, sitting at the Palm Ridge Magistrates Court in Ekurhuleni.
Judge Ramarumo Monama, who was visibly upset, lashed out at the state attorneys' absence.
Monama said the State attorneys had not bothered to let him know they would not be present.
"This is unacceptable," he said.
He ordered that all parties involved need to have their written arguments completed by February 18 to ensure that the matter was heard on March 28.
"One would hope by that time….we shall receive the full co-operation of the state attorney as far as possible," Monama said.
Rodrigues, 80, has asked for a permanent halt of prosecution citing this age and saying he would be prejudiced in a trial where many witnesses have died.
Rodrigues is the last person who saw Timol alive. His testimony was the driving force in the 1972 inquest which ruled that Timol committed suicide by jumping to his death from the 10th floor of the John Vorster Square building in Johannesburg.
The verdict was overturned by Judge Billy Mothle in October 2017 after a long campaign by Timol's family.


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Level-Headed Yankee Fans To Take Curtis Granderson's Excellent Season Into Account Should He Struggle Down Stretch
NEW YORK—The New York Yankees fanbase, known for its level headed and reasonable disposition, released a collective statement Monday claiming that, should MVP candidate Curtis Granderson begin to slump come September, they would carefully take into consideration his excellent season before determining exactly how they should treat him. "He's had a career year for us, so if he goes a couple games without a hit or strikes out during a clutch situation in the bottom of the 8th inning, we won't abruptly turn on him by booing him or questioning his sexual orientation," said Yankees fan John Pompa, adding that fans of the pinstripes are practical people who understand that every baseball player goes through a slump. "It's our responsibility to realize, especially in situations where Curtis' play may hurt our record, that he was a major component in making us a World Series contender in the first place. So we're not going to fly off the handle and shout things at him that either degrade his family or could be construed as racially insensitive." While Yankees fans stated they would be pleasantly surprised if the team could win its 28th World Series this year, they admitted that winning isn't everything.


Augustine's classical philosophical argument that 'the effect of the universe's existence requires a suitable cause' is unambiguously applicable here. After a while, it will drop spontaneously back down to its ground state, or some other lesser radius, giving off a photon as it does so. So while Planck proposed quantized oscillators, Einstein proposed that electromagnetic radiation was quantized. His theories corresponded with observation. In 1925, Erwin Schrodinger and Werner Heisenberg separately worked out the mathematics of Quantum Mechanics.
The observed Se-O ordering in Fe2SeO inspires for further explorative investigations and opens up a new field in inorganic chemistry. The valence bond method and the concept of resonance were his primary tools. Let the substrate be at a potential Us. part of the layer and releases some of the large molecules, which are then ionised by a beam of UV light. Up until a decade or so ago, most biologists would have said no. And now, scientists have for the first time made an advanced machine known as a quantum computer simulate these so-called virtual particles.
This diagram is only an approximation, but it gives you some idea of the 'secondary' wavelength (the 'electromagnetic' wavelength of light) caused by the interactions of the In and Out-Waves of the two Electrons/Wave-Centers. However, these courses can be excellent resources if you are considering an on-campus or online physics degree and want to gauge your interest in the subject and your ability to meet classroom requirements.
When molecules become more complex, that is when they contain more than two atoms and are no longer linear, a complete analysis of their band spectra including the entire rotational structure becomes much more complicated. The NGR (Nuclear Gamma-ray Resonance) spectrum of this crystal structure appears as follows (click to enlarge): NGR Spectrum for crystallized Al-Mn alloy, Image from Swartzendruber et al. 1384. All of the possible consistent states of the measured system and the measuring apparatus (including the observer) are present in a real physical – not just formally mathematical, as in other interpretations – quantum superposition.
We also have strong, collaborative research links to the Oxford Condensed Matter Theory Group in The Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics. Instead, as matter was already assumed to be a particle, he was looking for wave properties of matter to complement the known particle properties. As there are N! permutations of the quantum numbers We now consider the case that the operator Q refers only to a single electron, the one with the index io: Due to the orthogonality of the wavefunctions, the relations = k J, k; = k2, ... io, ... k'tv = kN unprimed quantum numbers only by a permutation, but all quantum numbers must be the same except for those with the index io, it follows automatically that the last pair of quantum numbers must also be the same.
Quantum field theory, as its name suggests, is the theory of fields, not only electromagnetic fields but other fields that were subsequently discovered. In other words, the possible states are points in the projective space of a Hilbert space, usually called the complex projective space. Quantum physics, via the Uncertainty Principle, forces the particle to spread out both in position and velocity and so causes it to have an energy somewhat higher than the classical minimum.
I've looked as What is the Quantum and Who is Fourier in bookstores and they look like a good introduction for somebody say in AP calculus in high school. nc, I don't see how Bohm's theory is ruled out by Aspects experiment, as it is a non-local theory. FIELDS will involve the following partner institutions besides UC Riverside: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the California State University system and the state's two-year community colleges. "This is excellent news for students who will receive 80 percent of all the funding," said Michael Pazzani, the vice chancellor for research and economic development at UCR. "We anticipate the collaboration with JPL will lead to additional joint research projects between UCR faculty and JPL science staff, enormously benefiting both education and research." Students participating in the research project will be underrepresented minorities at all educational levels, with undergraduate students being selected from physical, biological, computer science and engineering disciplines at UCR and partner institutions – all Hispanic-serving institutions like UCR – nationwide.
In the following years much progress was accomplished by Edward Teller, Robert S. Collapse of the wave function never really happens. The modern world of physics is notably founded on two tested and demonstrably sound theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics —theories which appear to contradict one another. But to Alan Nathan, home-run hitting is a physics problem. It is believed that a quantum is the smallest chunk of energy possible. In collaboration with Professor Saurya Das of the University of Lethbridge, Canada, Ali has created a series of equations that describe a universe much like Hoyle's; one without a beginning or end.
Rutherford inexplicably missed out on the Nobel Prize for Physics—instead, the Nobel Prize committee magically transformed him into a chemist, awarding him the Chemistry Prize instead, "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances." 16 However, classical physics predicted that orbiting charged particles like electrons would lose energy to electromagnetic radiation.
This has nothing to do with science's ability to detect the properties of momentum and position as some anti-science and pseudoscience proponents suggest, it is merely an intrinsic property of the Universe. Properties of Hydrogen and Hydrogenlike Wavefunctions. D. from Yale University and carried out postdoctoral research at Harvard University. Quantum mechanics does not admit a completely precise description, in terms of both position and momentum, of an initial condition or "state" (in the classical sense of the word) that would support a precisely deterministic and causal prediction of a final condition.   In this sense, advocated by Bohr in his mature writings, a quantum phenomenon is a process, a passage from initial to final condition, not an instantaneous "state" in the classical sense of that word.   Thus there are two kinds of processes in quantum mechanics: stationary and transitional.