I am like an old classic car.The outside is a little shabby and worn, but the engine runs just fine.Every man just knows that with enough time and energy, I could be restored to my former glory and be a prize to own.
Friday, June 29, 2012
CLASSIC CARS
I am like an old classic car.The outside is a little shabby and worn, but the engine runs just fine.Every man just knows that with enough time and energy, I could be restored to my former glory and be a prize to own.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
PROMISED HEAVEN
Teekay Akin
Africans, History has shown this isn't working, Why don't we try something else before we finally self-destruct!!
''They promised you heaven so that they can steal the world'' - Anonymous
''And foolishly you believed them! Blindly you jumped on the bandwagon and trotted around like pigeons and dalmatians!How greedy and ignorant could you be?You haven't owned the world you live in today, you haven't secured a place for yourselves and your future, you haven't made it a better place for yourselves and future and then you masturbate about some heaven.
He has taken the last and only loaf of bread you've got while telling you that Santa will bring you a cake! And blindly these full-blooded human adults fell for it?
How can you?
You have traded your lives and futures for an intangible illusion!Your greed and laziness have been your downfall!And year after year, the heaven NEVER comes but what do you do instead of waking up and breaking free?You crawl back into that hole, dragging your families with you in fear and arrogance, still awaiting some wonder!
Your recent fathers before you died as slaves awaiting some wonders, ever since they swallowed this madness. And on that same path you have towed and are dragging your families down it.
Africans WAKE UP!!!!
On earth they enslave, discriminate and murder, exploit, oppress you, what do you expect in their heaven? [if any of such exists?] Their god that championed them to battle conquering and invading your lands and people, enslaving you - you still expect the same to bring you salvation?
Damn! This is just sad! Sad because it's so simple, clear and rational, BUT the ego of the majority, their arrogance born out of ignorance would drive them off the cliff to their demise rather than they be humble, break free and return to their damn senses!
In love and the unity of who we are I plead with you - WAKE UP!!!DUMP THIS MADNESS AND LET'S FINALLY MAKE A HEADWAY IN THIS LIFE!
For centuries we have tried your tactics and prayed to your gods - NOTHING has gotten better, Now let's try something else is all we say!! It surely can't be worse that this that isn't working and worsening daily!
By Teekay Akin [Akin Adeseye]
26/06/12
''They promised you heaven so that they can steal the world'' - Anonymous
''And foolishly you believed them! Blindly you jumped on the bandwagon and trotted around like pigeons and dalmatians!How greedy and ignorant could you be?You haven't owned the world you live in today, you haven't secured a place for yourselves and your future, you haven't made it a better place for yourselves and future and then you masturbate about some heaven.
He has taken the last and only loaf of bread you've got while telling you that Santa will bring you a cake! And blindly these full-blooded human adults fell for it?
How can you?
You have traded your lives and futures for an intangible illusion!Your greed and laziness have been your downfall!And year after year, the heaven NEVER comes but what do you do instead of waking up and breaking free?You crawl back into that hole, dragging your families with you in fear and arrogance, still awaiting some wonder!
Your recent fathers before you died as slaves awaiting some wonders, ever since they swallowed this madness. And on that same path you have towed and are dragging your families down it.
Africans WAKE UP!!!!
On earth they enslave, discriminate and murder, exploit, oppress you, what do you expect in their heaven? [if any of such exists?] Their god that championed them to battle conquering and invading your lands and people, enslaving you - you still expect the same to bring you salvation?
Damn! This is just sad! Sad because it's so simple, clear and rational, BUT the ego of the majority, their arrogance born out of ignorance would drive them off the cliff to their demise rather than they be humble, break free and return to their damn senses!
In love and the unity of who we are I plead with you - WAKE UP!!!DUMP THIS MADNESS AND LET'S FINALLY MAKE A HEADWAY IN THIS LIFE!
For centuries we have tried your tactics and prayed to your gods - NOTHING has gotten better, Now let's try something else is all we say!! It surely can't be worse that this that isn't working and worsening daily!
By Teekay Akin [Akin Adeseye]
26/06/12
WHOOPI GOLDBERG DOCUMENTARY
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Friday, June 22, 2012
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Monday, June 11, 2012
QUITSTORM
QUITSTORM ~ Micheal Pgagi
Remember if it's not about Respect,Justice,human rights, Understanding, and Peacefulness,it is not worth talking about.Be attentive. Be intelligent. Be reasonable. Be responsible. Be in Love. And, if necessary, change.
Remember if it's not about Respect,Justice,human rights, Understanding, and Peacefulness,it is not worth talking about.Be attentive. Be intelligent. Be reasonable. Be responsible. Be in Love. And, if necessary, change.
Atheist Association of Uganda -"My country is the world and my religion is to do good" Tom Paine
Sunday, June 10, 2012
'Sexual depravity' of penguins
"Sexual depravity" are strong words to use, especially in regard to other animals of which we know little. Seems the scientists were using human standards to judge these penguins. After reading this report, it occurred to me that the penguins were behaving in much the same way as some humans. Like it or not, animals (humans included) behave in a myriad of undesirable ways, i.e. necrophilia, rape, murder and attacking the offspring. The problem lies in romanticizing the animal, and then being shocked to discover that it is just an animal like all animals.
'Sexual depravity' of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal | World news | The Observer
'Sexual depravity' of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal | World news | The Observer
Thursday, June 7, 2012
The History of Drive-In Theaters
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Richard Hollingshead was a young sales manager at his dad's Whiz Auto Products, who had a hankering to invent something that combined his two interests: cars and movies.
Richard Hollingshead's vision was an open-air movie theater where moviegoers could watch from their own cars. He experimented in his own driveway at 212 Thomas Avenue, Camden, New Jersey. The inventor mounted a 1928 Kodak projector on the hood of his car, projected onto a screen he had nailed to trees in his backyard, and used a radio placed behind the screen for sound.
The inventor subjected his beta drive-in to vigorous testing: for sound quality, for different weather conditions (Richard used a lawn sprinkler to imitate rain) and for figuring out how to park the patrons' cars. Richard tried lining up the cars in his driveway, which created a problem with line of sight if one car was directly parked behind another car. By spacing cars at various distances and placing blocks and ramps under the front wheels of cars that were further away from the screen, Richard Hollingshead created the perfect parking arrangement for the drive-in movie theater experience.
The first patent for the Drive-In Theater (United States Patent# 1,909,537) was issued on May 16, 1933. With an investment of $30,000, Richard opened the first drive-in on Tuesday June 6, 1933 at a location on Crescent Boulevard, Camden, New Jersey. The price of admission was 25 cents for the car and 25 cents per person.
 The design did not include the in-car speaker system we know today. The inventor contacted a company by the name of RCA Victor to provide the sound system, called "Directional Sound." Three main speakers were mounted next to the screen that provided sound. The sound quality was not good for cars in the rear of the theater or for the surrounding neighbors.
The largest drive-in theater in patron capacity was the All-Weather Drive-In of Copiague, New York. All-Weather had parking space for 2,500 cars, an indoor 1,200 seat viewing area, kid's playground, a full service restaurant and a shuttle train that took customers from their cars and around the 28-acre theater lot.
The two smallest drive-ins were the Harmony Drive-In of Harmony Pennsylvania and the Highway Drive-In of Bamberg, South Carolina. Both drive-ins could hold no more than 50 cars.
An interesting innovation was the combination drive-in and fly-in theater. On June 3, 1948, Edward Brown, Junior opened the first theater for cars and small planes. Ed Brown's Drive-In and Fly-In of Asbury Park, New Jersey had the capacity for 500 cars and 25 airplanes. An airfield was placed next to the drive-in and planes would taxi to the last row of the theater. When the movies were over, Brown provided a tow for the planes to be brought back to the airfield.
The drive-in theater movie experience cannot be beat.
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Meet the Folks
Skeletons in the cupboard
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Illustration: Ivan Allen
2 HOMO SAPIEN ~ NICKNAME: Human LIVED: 200,000 years ago to present HABITAT: All DIET: Omnivorous - meat, vegetables, tubers, nuts, pizza, sushi
3 HOMO FLORESIENSIS ~ NICKNAME: Hobbit LIVED: 95,000 to 13,000 years ago HABITAT: Flores, Indonesia (tropical) DIET: Omnivorous - meat included pygmy stegodon, giant rat
4 HOMO ERECTUS ~ NICKNAME: Erectus LIVED: 1.8 million years to 100,000 years ago HABITAT: Tropical to temperate - Africa, Asia, Europe DIET: Omnivorous - meat, tubers, fruits, nuts
5 PARANTHROPUS BOISEI ~ NICKNAME: Nutcracker man LIVED: 2.3 to 1.4 million years ago HABITAT: Tropical Africa DIET: Omnivorous - nuts, seeds, leaves, tubers, fruits, maybe some meat
6 HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS ~ NICKNAME: Goliath LIVED: 700,000 to 300,000 years ago HABITAT: Temperate and tropical, Africa and Europe DIET: Omnivorous - meat, vegetables, tubers, nuts
7 HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS ~ NICKNAME: Neanderthal LIVED: 250,000 to 30,000 years ago HABITAT: Europe and Western Asia DIET: Relied heavily on meat, such as bison, deer and musk ox
For Louise Leakey, hunting for fossils is an exciting puzzle game for the whole family, writes Deborah Smith.
As a child, Dr Louise Leakey spent her holidays wandering the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya, one of the richest fossil sites in Africa. While her famous parents, Richard and Meave Leakey, went off excavating for the remains of ancient human ancestors, the little girl would sit piecing together bits of bone. "They were our jigsaw puzzles," she says.
It was a talent Leakey put to use later in life when she uncovered the pieces of a battered but almost complete 3.5-million-year-old skull near Lake Turkana.
The young palaeoanthropologist knew immediately it was important - the oldest skull of a hominid ever found.
Leakey's discovery of Kenyanthropus platyops, announced four years ago, caused a stir, with some scientists describing it as a "party spoiler" because it laid to rest any simple story of our origins.
Dubbed Flat Face, it had a brain the size of a chimpanzee, yet looked surprisingly human. Most significantly, it was evidence that nature had experimented with a variety of designs for human-like creatures as far back as 3.5 million years ago, when Lucy, or Australopithecus afarensis, a completely different species of hominid with heavy brow and jutting jaw, also walked the earth. It provided the earliest example of two kinds of humans being in the same place at the same time. And it raised the question: Did we come from Flat Face or Lucy?
Other recent fossil finds, including the discovery of miniature human "hobbits" on the Indonesian island of Flores announced last year, have turned the tree of human evolution from a few twigs into a thickly branched bush.
It makes sense, says Leakey, who features in a National Geographic channel documentary,Ultimate Survivor: The Mystery of Us, airing tomorrow night, that profiles our motley line-up of ancestors, big and small.
"Why should hominid evolution be different to that of pigs or monkeys, where there were lots of different experiments in form?" she says.
Now, however, for probably the first time in human history, there is only one branch left on the tree - us.
"Human evolution is like the ultimate game of Survivor, except the loser gets voted off the planet," says Dr Lee Berger, of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, who has uncovered the remains of a Goliath, Homo heidelbergensis, in South Africa.
Why are we still here? Was it our superior intelligence, language, creativity, cooking, the ability to run long distances, our size, or simply luck?
Leakey points to the apparent early development of a very human quality - compassion. The 1.8-million-year-old remains of an adult Homo erectus found at Lake Turkana reveal the early human had an excruciatingly painful bone disease. Members of no other species could have survived a similar illness, she says. They would have been left to die.
Australians have played key roles in some of the biggest recent finds in this twisting story of evolution, extinction and survival. They have provided the surprising evidence that we have been alone for a much shorter period than was thought, that the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis survived until at least 13,000 years ago, and perhaps as recently as a few hundred years ago.
It was Leakey's grandparents, Louis and Mary, who put Africa on the fossil map. Before their work in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, it was believed that humans had evolved in Asia.
Mary Leakey's discovery in 1959 of the remains of a 1.7-million-year-old early human dubbed Zinj and now called Paranthropus Boisei, or Nutcracker Man, made the family famous.
Professor Ian McDougall, of the Australian National University, has been working with the Leakey family in Kenya for 27 years. Louise's father, Richard, first called on McDougall in 1978 to help him work out the age of a contentious skull he had found.
The Australian went on to develop a technique for dating fossils in east Africa based on the area's volcanic past. When Flat Face's discovery was announced in 2001, the only thing that was not contentious was its age.
While Richard, who lost both legs in an air crash in 1993, switched from fossil hunting to wildlife conservation, Meave and Louise continue to search for fossils in the Koobi Fora region of the Turkana Basin.
And maintaining the mother-and-daughter tradition, Louise Leakey, 33, last week flew to the site in her single-engine Cessna with her baby girl in the back.
Fossil hunting is hard and frustrating work. "The chances of finding something are incredibly remote," says Leakey. "But . . . a new fossil comes along and makes you rethink things. That's science. That's why it's so exciting."
Genetic evidence suggests the number of modern humans, Homo sapiens, fell dramatically about 70,000 years ago and we came close to being a dead branch.
"It's often just chance on which a species survives," says Lee Berger of Witwatersrand University.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Monday, June 4, 2012
Sunday, June 3, 2012
WORLD OLDEST BOAT / NIGERIA
Everybody HasTo Be Involved In Project Africa.
World oldest Know Boat Discovered In Yobe Nigeria
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World Oldest Known Boat
8000 years ago, Nigeria. "World oldest known boat" the Dufuna Canoe was discovered near the region of the River Yobe. The Canoe was discovered by a Fulani herdsman in May 1987, in Dufuna Village while digging a well. The canoe’s “almost black wood”, said to be African mahogany, as “entirely an organic material”.
Various Radio-Carbon tests conducted in laboratories of reputable Universities in Europe and America indicate that the Canoe is over 8000 years old, thus making it the oldest in Africa and first oldest in the World. Little is known of the period to which the boat belongs, in archaeological terms it is described as an early phase of the Later Stone Age, which began rather more than 12,000 years ago and ended with the appearance of pottery.
The lab results redefined the pre-history of African water transport, ranking the Dufuna canoe as the world’s third oldest known dugout. Older than it are the dugouts from Pesse, Netherlands, and Noyen-sur-Seine, France. But evidence of an 8,000-year-old tradition of boat building in Africa throws cold water on the assumption that maritime transport developed much later there in comparison with Europe.
Peter Breunig of the University of Frankfurt, Germany, an archaeologist involved in the project, says the canoe’s age “forces a reconsideration of Africa’s role in the history of water transport”. It shows, he adds, “that the cultural history of Africa was not determined by Near Eastern and European influences but took its own, in many cases parallel, course”.
Breunig, adding that it even outranks in style European finds of similar age. According to him, “The bow and stern are both carefully worked to points, giving the boat a notably more elegant form”, compared to “the dugout made of conifer wood from Pesse in the Netherlands, whose blunt ends and thick sides seem crude”. To go by its stylistic sophistication, he reasons, “It is highly probable that the Dufuna boat does not represent the beginning of a tradition, but had already undergone a long development, and that the origins of water transport in Africa lie even further back in time.”
Egypt's oldest known boat is 5000 years old.
P. Breunig, The 8000-year-old dugout canoe from Dufuna (NE Nigeria), G. Pwiti and R. Soper (eds.), Aspects of African Archaeology. Papers from the 10th Congress of the PanAfrican Association for Prehistory and related Studies. University of Zimbabwe Publications (Harare 1996) 461-468.
8000 years ago, Nigeria. "World oldest known boat" the Dufuna Canoe was discovered near the region of the River Yobe. The Canoe was discovered by a Fulani herdsman in May 1987, in Dufuna Village while digging a well. The canoe’s “almost black wood”, said to be African mahogany, as “entirely an organic material”.
Various Radio-Carbon tests conducted in laboratories of reputable Universities in Europe and America indicate that the Canoe is over 8000 years old, thus making it the oldest in Africa and first oldest in the World. Little is known of the period to which the boat belongs, in archaeological terms it is described as an early phase of the Later Stone Age, which began rather more than 12,000 years ago and ended with the appearance of pottery.
The lab results redefined the pre-history of African water transport, ranking the Dufuna canoe as the world’s third oldest known dugout. Older than it are the dugouts from Pesse, Netherlands, and Noyen-sur-Seine, France. But evidence of an 8,000-year-old tradition of boat building in Africa throws cold water on the assumption that maritime transport developed much later there in comparison with Europe.
Peter Breunig of the University of Frankfurt, Germany, an archaeologist involved in the project, says the canoe’s age “forces a reconsideration of Africa’s role in the history of water transport”. It shows, he adds, “that the cultural history of Africa was not determined by Near Eastern and European influences but took its own, in many cases parallel, course”.
Breunig, adding that it even outranks in style European finds of similar age. According to him, “The bow and stern are both carefully worked to points, giving the boat a notably more elegant form”, compared to “the dugout made of conifer wood from Pesse in the Netherlands, whose blunt ends and thick sides seem crude”. To go by its stylistic sophistication, he reasons, “It is highly probable that the Dufuna boat does not represent the beginning of a tradition, but had already undergone a long development, and that the origins of water transport in Africa lie even further back in time.”
Egypt's oldest known boat is 5000 years old.
P. Breunig, The 8000-year-old dugout canoe from Dufuna (NE Nigeria), G. Pwiti and R. Soper (eds.), Aspects of African Archaeology. Papers from the 10th Congress of the PanAfrican Association for Prehistory and related Studies. University of Zimbabwe Publications (Harare 1996) 461-468.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
W.E.B. Dubois, I Won't Vote
W.E.B. Dubois, I Won't Vote
This declaration by W.E.B. Dubois sounds as fresh as if it had been written in 2012 instead of 1956, with a few name changes.
This declaration by W.E.B. Dubois sounds as fresh as if it had been written in 2012 instead of 1956, with a few name changes.
Friday, June 1, 2012
EXTINCTION??
As has been shown by lab experiments, animals who are forced into close contact with each other, such as over population, turn on each other in savage actions and act out their stress through many bizarre behaviors. Behaviors that would be unknown in normal situations.
I think that the human animal is undergoing just such a period. A time of overpopulation, high stress, uncertainty, and general unrest. People are escaping, if not physically, then mentally with drugs. As a result, many bizarre behaviors are being noticed around the globe. Behaviors that leave us with our mouths open in astonishment and shaking our heads with disbelief that humans could act in such strange, savage ways.
But, if you take the time to think it over thoroughly, it is not strange at all. It is just the animal reacting to the highly-stressful environment in which it finds itself.
Now, it is not pretty to watch or easy to accept, but it is the way of (for lack of a better word) nature. Evolving does not always mean surviving. Humans just might be in the early stages of extinction. And, we have brought all of it upon ourselves. We have proven by our behavior that we cannot exist upon this earth in harmony. We are a threat to every living creature on this planet and to the planet itself. Just like billions of other species, maybe we are on our way out.
The world will not miss us.
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