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Undulatus asperatus

A new cloud form called Undulatus asperatus appears.
Undulatus asperatus

From Wikipedia: The clouds are most closely related to undulatus clouds. Although they appear dark and storm-like, they tend to dissipate without a storm forming. The ominous-looking clouds have been particularly common in the Plains states of the United States, often during the morning or midday hours following convective thunderstorm activity. As of June, 2009 the Royal Meteorological Society is gathering evidence of the type of weather patterns in which undulus asperatus clouds appear, so as to study how they form and decide whether they are distinct from other undulatus clouds.

@wikipedia: undulus asperatus

study done sometime back also shed some light on this particular V formation. This study discovered that birds flying in a V format had lower heart rates than bird flying alone. Why? The aerodynamic V shape formation reduces the air drag (air resistance) that each bird experiences when in flight in comparison to a bird flying solo. This allows them to cover longer distance (thousands of miles) with much less effort.

There are other benefits of flying in this V position. Every bird in the group fly in the field of vision all other members. This helps in keeping track of each other in the group. This also makes it conducive to the members in the group to communicate with each other while in flight. For example, if one bird should become sick or has been injured by some means such as being shot, then, that bird will fall out of formation. This will then result in two other geese falling out with the wounded goose to help and offer protection and will remain until that bird recovers or dies before rejoining the others.<

Great article! Did You Know?: Why do geese fly in a V formation?.

Mahler

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Balkan Baroque

BALKAN BAROQUE: SYNOPSIS

Experimental fiction. The autobiography, both real and imaginary, of Marina Abramovic, Body Art artist. The film composes the life aesthetic of a woman in her era, with a personal history strongly marked by the Yugoslavia of Tito, everyday violence, the experience of physical and psychic limits… The voluntary evocation of the past makes something more secret, more intimate crop up: an unknown evolution that is embodied in fictions felt like authentic fragments of truth. Balkan Baroque jumps from one identity to another, from a true story to an imagination, from a dream to a ritual… – the language of the body often taking over from the word, interrupting it or, on the contrary, stimulating it.

Take a look at http://www.ubu.com/film/coulibeuf.html

Breaking news: If your morning shower doesn’t wake you up, this sure might: Dangerous bacteria may be spraying out of your shower head and right into your face, … Study finds dangerous bacteria in shower heads

Those people that worrie about getting sick and die from taking a shower should look at the stuff they put in their mouth, and their general lifestyles. That’s whats going to kill you and make you sick. Human body heads home to chemical waste dump, Idiots!

More here:
http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=0z&pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=shower+head&oq=shower

BDTo add a religion or supernatural enthusiasm to your life is to diminish your life. What you gain in ceremony, ritual, fellow feeling, and the comforts of a metaphoric system you lose in integrity, freedom, and dignity. Against the epic metaphor of religion is the Buddha’s better epic metaphor that all Buddhas must be killed – that religion itself is the danger. Not only are you not to believe in gods, according to the Buddha, you are not to believe in systems that distance you from a personal reckoning with the facts of existence. Personal means personal: to chant with robed monks robs you of your inheritance just as surely as praying to a bearded god does.

www.theatheistsway.com
The Atheist’s Way: Living Well Without Gods: Living Well Without Love

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