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Nov-22-24
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  MissScarlett: < What bad dreams are made of, <Missy>>

The song was inspired, in part, by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_B...

Full poem: https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/th...

Nov-22-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  harrylime:

Thing is

When you're posting on your mobile ..

Itz like a straight jacket ...

You can only say

Fook you to certain zzzzz boring posters on here loike ...

Just saying .

Carlsen whacked it in India coz the Indians were too busy getting off to him ... Embarrassing ..

Nov-22-24  stone free or die: When the <hazz> is away the mice will play.
Nov-22-24  Schwartz: If Venus was just bigger, and thus had 10% more gravity a cloudy habitat could reliably sustain ecosystems, thanks to its low rotation.

"Namacalathus and Namapoika are the first metazoans to form reefs, especially Cloudina with its weakly calcified shells, documented in the Nama Group of Southern Africa and elsewhere. Cloudina lived at a time when the oceans may have had salinity similar to those of today because of the formation of the rare “saline giants” around 540-550 million years ago, which formed major salt deposits globally. Thus low salinity combined with the rapid degradation of a lengthy mountain chain spanning much of Rodinia (Squire et al., 2006) may have supersaturated the global oceans with both oxygen and the building blocks of hard parts [ Me: “This would be on Earth with a highly stable gyroscopic like daily cycle through of about 21 hours” ]. Higher temperatures, too, would have favored the deposition of calcite. So, both ocean chemistry and temperature may have played a role in the origin and expansion of the metazoans and the first development of shells in the “ocean playgrounds of summer” (Kanuth, 2005; Vickers-Rich, 2006,2007)."

- The Rise of Animals, Mikhail A fedonkin, James G. Gehling, Kathleen Grey, Guy M. Narbonne, Patricia Vickers-Rich

The same passage and others from this book highlight “Cold Cradles” and mention of theory about bio weather is made, associated with evident pre-ediacaran/cambrian cryogenic extreme ice ages. I find this all highly fascinating, and could do with a book on “Movements of Fungi.”

Nov-22-24  Schwartz: Lastly, P.Vickers-Rich and M.A. Fedonkin use the term “Saline Giants”.

“These were not the first of the Precambrian glacials, which
date back into the Archean. But these younger glacials and
global refrigeration may have given significant advantages to
eukaryotic organisms, which could have developed before in
isolated cold areas near the poles when the Earth was warmer
(Fedonkin’s [1996] “cold cradles”). Another possibility, or even \a “parallel-possibility,” for such “cradles” of metazoans could
have been in fresh waters or in less saline environments, the \interface between fresh waters and the “salty,” open marine
conditions, which could have had twice the concentration of
salt of modern seas (Kanuth, 2005). Both cold and less saline estuarine or fresh waters would have had another advantage,
with their higher oxygen supply (Kanuth, 2005; Vickers-Rich,
2006, 2007).
Between 610 and 605 million years ago massive \ accumulations of salts were laid down globally, preserved
today in Australia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan
(Kanuth, 2005). Before this rather dramatic removal of NaCl
from the oceans, salinity could have been as high as 1.6 to 2
times what it is today - a problem for most living metazoans,
but certainly not an issue for cyanobacteria (Kanuth, 2005).
Increased salinity also rudeness oxygen solubility, and so with
decreased salinity, oxygen levels would have risen in the
global oceans. Further enhancing oxygenation may have been
a marked change in weathering styles, highlighted by Kennedy
and colleagues (2006). With a greater input of weathered
clays, enhanced perhaps by the development and expansion
of an early terrestrial biota, greater volumes of carbon would
have been sequestered, bumping up free oxygen levels in
the environment. This terrestrial input could also have been
increased by tectonic activity at this time that generated a
lengthy mountain range, forcing the burial of organic carbon
that occurred in the late Neoproterozoic (Des Marais et al.,
1992; Squire et al., 2006).
Then, with Earth-wide refrigeration, which lowered ocean
salinity and increased oxygen content (both because of the
cold and the lower salinity), the isolated “cradles” could have
provided the sources of metazoan biodiversity. Metazoans
could have expanded into ore inviting, less saline, well-
oxygenated environments - the “cold playgrounds” of the
global oceans (Vickers-Rich, 2006, 2007) and new ecospace
that provided the chance to construct the new niches that
Douglas Erwin (2005) termed the inventions that let to
innovation - of body plans and diversity. This could explain
why the Ediacaran fauna appeared rather abruptly and long
after genetic studies predict that metazoan body plans should
have arisen (Blair & Hedges, [Me: I only read people theorizing, lining up interesting measurements, but I am interested in the idea of a global clock] ). Condon and Bowring
(2005) also note that there was a major perturbation in the
global carbon cycle (the Shura anomaly) at around 560 to
551 million years, unrelated to glaciation, but “consistent with
progressive oxidation and re-mineralization of the organic
carbon reservoir.” They note that this coincides with the
appearance of such macro-Ediacarans as Kimberella.
These early macro-metazoans are preserved in the
siliciclastics laid down in marine waters, reflected by the
sediments in the White Sea region of Russia, the Flinders
Ranges of South Australia and the Avalon Peninsula of
Newfoundland, suggestive of cool waters. Even in the
carbonate-rich, siliciclastic deposits of southern Namibia,
Ediacara-type microfossils are preserved in the quartzites
that may have been deposited during relatively cool
episodes. In contrast, in the carbonates of Namibia, Cloudina,“

Cloudina: <https://i.ytimg.com/vi/twOcs6BYQrg/...>
Namacalthus: <https://cdn.sci.news/images/enlarge...>

Nov-22-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  harrylime:

I've written a poem

Itz called

Boss

Black eyes
Stare at me
Wondering
Why

Nov-22-24  Schwartz: Qanun with Syrian virtuoso Maya Youssef, who shows us her unique instrument, and chats about Middle Eastern scales.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81...>

Nov-22-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: <Itz called

Boss

Black eyes
Stare at me
Wondering
Why>

Not bad, not good, but not bad. Now give us the poem.

Nov-23-24  Schwartz: The Mesmerising sound of the OUD (Ancestor of guitar!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLb...

Nov-23-24  Schwartz: Aufgang · Nebelung

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5D...

Nov-23-24  Schwartz: Iannis Xenakis - Achorripsis

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEy...>

list=PLXuiIsVnD8V0NXMP_2JbNUKplBHzAQ5lH&index=6

Nov-23-24  Schwartz: Tenor Contrasts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sb...

Nov-23-24  andrewchicha: https://www.thewebverge.in/ watch now
Nov-23-24  areknames: A few weeks ago we talked about the heavy prog band Sabaton's historical song <Poltava>. It was the decisive battle of the Great Northern War with the main belligerents being the Swedish Empire led by King Charles XII and the emerging Tsardom of Russia under Peter the Great but many other countries were involved. These two remarkable monarchs clashed outide Poltava, a city in the heart of Ucraine which, 300 years later is sadly still a theatre of war. The Swedish Army was annihilated, leaving 7000 dead on the battlefield and most of the survivors dying in captivity as POWs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M65...

I think the video is excellent, the footage is taken from a relatively recent Russian movie.

Nov-23-24  cormier: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readi...
Nov-23-24  purrrpurrr: could anyone tell me whether guess-the-move works on android? i tried it now but i can only use the next move button. thanks in advance
Nov-23-24  Schwartz: Mozart - Horn Concerto No. 1 in D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g4...

Nov-23-24  Schwartz: Andrea Gonzalez Caballero plays Tango en Skai by Roland Dyens on a Dieter Müller Doubletop 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRX...

Nov-23-24  Schwartz: Traditional Syrian Music (Aleppo) الموسيقى التقليدية من حلب

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsZ...

Nov-23-24  Schwartz: Bizet, George - Habanera of Carmen · Rafael Méndez trumpet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpz...

Nov-23-24  Schwartz: Ives - Symphony No.3, S.3; K.1A3, 'The Camp Meeting'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caN...

Nov-23-24  stone free or die: Here's <Hazz> in his moose disguise, dealing with the big cheese:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqB...

<"Then after exhausting every other possibility, <Harry> begin to think. The strain was terrific. And impossible though it seemed, he got an idea">

(Watch the end of the episode to the beginning of the next)

Nov-24-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: Martin Scorsese's <Beatles 64>

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INX...>

Smokey Robinson "They said they grew up listening to BLACK music!"

Smokey still active, believe it or not. He recently did shows at the Apollo on 125 st in NYC.

Nov-24-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: On Saturday, Man City destroyed by Tottenham, 4-0

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOv...>

City punters should not have been paid today. I say the owners withhold a game check, give it to charity.

Premier League has players who dribble like Isiah Thomas, pass like Larry Bird and score like Michael Jordan. Team USA needs such players on our World Cup team *SIGH*.

Nov-24-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: There was a time when Alec Baldwin was considered a very interesting fellow, very talented, an heir to Pacino/DeNiro

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VD...>

The voice, the acting chops, the looks, the whole package. Sadly, it got weird. Baldwin is just a foot note, now.

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