ALIEN DEATH STAR?

THIS IDEA CAME FROM JASON WRIGHT,PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PENNSYLVANA,AMERICA HE THINKS THAT ALIENS ARE HARNESSING SOLAR ENERGY RAYS similar TO DEATH STAR IN STAR WARS.THIS CAME FROM STUDIES OF DATA FROM N.A.S.A KEPLER TELESCOPE SHOW LIGHT FROM THE SUN KIC 8462852 KEEPS  GETTING BRIGHTER BEFORE DIMMING BY 22 PER CENT.THE STAR IS  1,480 LIGHT YEARS AWAY AND IF DEATH STAR? EXISTED IT WAS BUILT IN 500AD .BUT THIS COULD BE A HUGE DUST CLOUD?

SAVE A LIFE

CALL  999.PUSH HAND HARD AND FAST  IN THE CENTRE OF CHEST 30 TIMES FASTER THEN ONE PER SECOND .THE BEAT OF STAYIN ALIVE IS A PERFECT BEAT.GIVE 2 RESCUE BREATHS BY PINCHING THE NOSE AND BLOWING INTO THE MOUTH.CONTINUE  PUSHING THE CHEST  3O  TIMES AND GIVING 2 RESCUE BREATHS UNTIL AMBULANCE ARRIVES.

GENRE PEAK -ABOUT MARTIN BIRKE

Martin is an electronic percussionist and composer of electronic/experimental and ambient music who started out as a gifted drummer at age 7 playing in talent shows, church bands and eventually his own bands. In his mid-twenties, Martin's instrumentals began appearing on several CD samplers from labels Ladd-Frith, The Music Independent, Priority, and AP. In the mid-90's Martin (with recording partner Aaron Kinney) was hired by The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre to score several pieces for the company and at the same time both his original and experimental bands Sandbox Trio and Casualty Park were signed to the Frank Mark Arts label in Germany. With that label he toured and recorded with both bands yielding several well received albums including many one-off and side projects with various artists. Sandbox Trio did many unique live shows and independent film scores and industrial TV commercials. The band utilized artfully handcrafted instruments combined with the latest in electronic and acoustic drums and has been Martin's favorite project through out his career. Sandbox Trio continued until the sudden tragic death of Chuck Ehlis in 2000 who was vital to the trio's sound creation and performance capabilities. Casualty Park was the duo of Aaron and Martin who created three albums, performed many live shows and together scored director Joe Carnahan's first feature film, "Blood Guts Bullets and Octane" in 1998. Casualty Park's electro-pop/rock music was also featured on the Oxygen Network with their video "West Texas" directed by Emmy Award winner Michael Maas. Martin and Aaron also scored original pieces for Complextions Dance Company directed by former Alvin Ailey choreographers Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson. The bands both received very good press reviews and even the praise of Martin's idol, former Depeche Mode music director, Alan Wilder. In 2005, Genre Peak was born as a trio including longtime bandmates Daniel Panasenko and Stephen Sullivan, with co-producer and recording engineer Christopher Scott Cooper. 

The trio embarked on many live performances around northern California and San Francisco featuring Martin on lead vocals and electronic percussion, Daniel on Chapman Stick and Stephen Sullivan on guitar-synths and backing vocals. Ends of the Earth was Genre Peak's first album in 2006, but fell short of Martin's expectations receiving mixed reviews. While GP was a tight professional trio doing excellent recordings and gigs they disbanded in late 2006.

In 2007-2008 Martin, not wanting to sing lead vocals anymore and being the songwriter and director of the project, realized that Genre Peak would work better as a total collaborative project using guest musicians and singers including former Japan bassist Mick Karn, Canadian singer Tara C. Taylor, violinist Benito Cortez and bassist Gustaf Fjelstrom. Along with Stephen Sullivan and producer/guitarist Christopher Scott Cooper, with wonderful remixes from UK band Stereoskop and French band Kiss & Fly, Genre Peak's second album Preternatural was a much more well received album garnishing good press reviews. A video for the album track Hell on the Surface was showcased at the Sacramento Film & Music Festival. READ MORE-http://www.genrepeak.net/GPabout.htm

Caffeinated plants give bees a buzz

A morning caffeine dose is something that so many of us find irresistible, and according to research, foraging bees seek a similar buzz.

Many plants produce caffeine, primarily as a naturally bitter deterrent against plant-devouring insects, like caterpillars.

But an experiment with caffeinated nectar has now shown bees are attracted to and even "drugged" by the compound.

The research is published in the journal Current Biology.

Prof Francis Ratnieks from the University of Sussex, a senior member of the research team explained that previous research had shown that caffeine boosted bees' memories of the location of a flower.

"So people [already] thought it would affect their perception of nectar," he told BBC News.

To find out if this was the case, the research team set up two artificial flowers for -READ MORE- BBC LINK-http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34532636

Ancestors 'had less sleep' than we do

Our ancestors may have got less sleep than we do, a study suggests.

US researchers studied the sleeping patterns of traditional societies in Africa and South America, whose lifestyles closely resemble ancient hunter gatherers.

They monitored 98 people for 1,165 nights, and found that they slept for an average of 6.5 hours per night.

By comparison, the scientists said that most people in the US get about seven hours, according to a large sleep poll.

The new study, published in the journal Current Biology, also finds that temperature played a greater role than light in shaping sleeping patterns.

Prof Jerome Siegel, from the University of California, Los Angeles, said: "The issue is: what is the data on how sleep has changed?

When the temperature hits bottom, they wake up

Prof Jerome Siegel, UCLA

"And it occurred to me that these groups, which are rapidly disappearing, give the last opportunity to really know what human sleep was like before we all created our various civilisations.

"What is absolutely clear is that they don't sleep -READ MORE ON BBC LINK-http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34544394

CHARITY -DONT PESTER ME.

NO,I AM NOT ANTI-CHARITY OR CHARITY STARTS AT HOME BRIGAND.THIS IS THE FACT THAT EVERY YEAR MAINLY EASTER OR CHRISTMAS PERIODS THE POST ,T.V,RADIO,NEWSPAPERS,SOCIAL MEDIA ARE FULL OF VARIOUS CHARITIES ASKING FOR MONEY ,YES TIMES ARE HARD AND THEY DO NEED HELP BUT THE PRESSURE  TO SOMETHING IS LIKE A MASSIVE  GULIT TRIP.NOW IF YOU GAVE SAY 3 POUNDS -EXAMPLE-TO EACH ONE YPOU WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO LIVE ON-SOMEWHAT DEFEATS THE OBJECT.I PERSONALLY GIVE ANY SMALL CHANGE IN TIN OR BOX-NORMALLY ON A COUNTER IN SHOPS OR TO ONES I SUPPORT .THIS IS MY CHOICE ,I HAVE EVEN HEARD OF PEOPLE GETTING TO  STAGE OF BEING VERY UNWELL DUE TO CONSTANT PRESSURE FROM TEM ,SO YOU GIVE WAHT YOU WISH WHEN YOU CAN.

Bideford witch trial

The Bideford witch trial resulted in hangings for witchcraft in England. Temperance Lloyd, Mary Trembles and Susannah Edwards were tried in 1682 in the town of Bideford in Devon. Much of the evidence against them was hearsay, although there was a confession by Lloyd, which she did not fully recant even with her execution imminent. They often get labelled as the 'last' witches to be hanged in England but there are several not so well documented cases after this.
It is sometimes said that Alice Molland was the last person to be hanged for witchcraft in England; the only evidence for this comes from a single book, Side-lights on the Stuarts by J Inderwick; although Molland was sentenced to hang, there is no evidence that the sentence was carried out.

Investigation of Temperance Lloyd

On Saturday, July 1682, Thomas Eastchurch, a Bideford shopkeeper, complained to some of the town’s constables that Temperance Lloyd had been practising witchcraft. The constables arrested Temperance Lloyd and locked her in the old chapel at the end of the bridge, where she remained until taken before the justices, Thomas Gist, Mayor of Bideford, and John Davie, Alderman, on the Monday morning.^[1] The charges were: "suspicion of having used some magical art, sorcery or witchcraft upon the body of Grace Thomas and to have had discourse or familiarity with the devil in the likeness or shape of a black man." Grace Thomas thought that Temperance Lloyd was responsible for her illness, because the previous September, Lloyd had wept with joy and expressed pleasure in seeing that Thomas had regained her health.READ MORE ON WIKI LINK-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bideford_witch_trial