Sunday, 29 January 2012

More on timing of psychic experiments

Technique: Sidereal Time as it influences trans-etheric phenomena

....and, for anyone very technically-minded (errr...that's not me then...ahem..) - the link above is to the scientific research behind the below-mentioned effect. My head hurts at the thought of trying to "get it round" such technical language as that - but some might like to try...

Best times for psychic research??

Local Sidereal Time - Daily experiment scheduler and clock for PSI research

Amazing what one finds sometimes on scooting round t'internet.

Above is a link to one of the websites where one can find out about Local Sidereal Time. Apparently psychic "results" (eg past life regression sessions??) are 3-4 times better than normal within the 1 hour "time slot" each side of 13.30 LST.

LST being the time when the constellation Sagittarius is overhead and LST is what astronomers use to calculate where to aim their telescopes.

There's some scientific type experiments going on to see if this is true. Hmm....thinks...maybe time to work out what LST would be for me here in Britain.

Other websites giving LST times are:

http://www.jgiesen.de/astro/astroJS/siderealClock

http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/sidereal.html

Well - it may be all a bit "off the wall" - and then on the other hand...you never know...

Sunday, 22 January 2012

StopAtTwo

StopAtTwo

A new group campaigning against overpopulation. A very helpful thought there - in that they have provided a suggested curriculum for teaching about this in schools (we could have done with this a couple of generations ago - but it's welcome now it's finally here).

Saturday, 7 January 2012

Outsourcing and offshoring

Outsourcing and offshoring

Take particular note of this bit of the above document:

http://www.unitetheunion.org/pdf/TUPE_guide09.pdf

Most of the outsourcing that central/local government wanted to do has already been accomplished by them in recent years - boo!! But, there are still employees in the public sector that have their employers looking at them through "hopeful eyes" and wondering if they can manage to outsource them as well.

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

HOUSING BENEFIT CUTS

Housing Benefit: Will you be affected by the cuts?...

So - the housing benefit changes are now starting to affect even "new" claimants.

Obviously - I don't believe in people being paid huge amounts of rent (eg some of those London rent levels) and I believe its totally fair to cap rent at 4 bedroomed houses.

The thing that concerns me is if someone receives less money than they need for a perfectly "ordinary" rent level and/or is underpaid because they are under 35. I've been warning for some time that many under 35s will be forced out of one bedroom flats they ALREADY live in and made to go into bedsits or shared houses - should they have the misfortune to become unemployed. Guess thats one little side-effect of the retirement age being pushed up and up and up steadily - it makes it easier for the Government to claim that those in early middle age are still "young" (and we all know its okay - apparently - to expect young people to have to share accommodation, whether they want to or not).

Anyways....I give above a link to a good article on this for anyone in this position.

Saturday, 3 December 2011

FREE EDUCATION

Apple - iTunes U - Learn anything, anywhere, anytime.

Duly downloaded the I-Tunes thing onto my computer now. Didnt realise it's possible to pick up some free courses this way - so will investigate that one later...

UNEMPLOYMENT BLOGS

...and another one...unemployment blog that is...

Jobless and Less: The Blog for the Employmentally Challenged

Just goes to show "You can take the gal off the Dole Queue - but you cant take the Dole Queue outa the gal". Once you've been there - and got over the shock of this happening to you..."Errr....who...ME?...you musta got the wrong person here...." then you never forget it. What's that old hymn? You know the one - ie "Jerusalem"....so the former DQ person thinks "I will not cease from mental strife...nor will my sword sleep in my hand....."....till I'm retired and know I'm no longer at risk of it happening again ever.