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osakanone · 9 months ago

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Hi, I'm Osaka

I write articles mecha and design -- and occasionally I use human-factors-engineering and psychology to make deeply invasive reads of what the future might be like.

The writing is simultaniously equal parts thesis to microfic a lot of the time, so your milage may vary.

I'm also building a very experimental mecha sim which aims to solve long-unresolved problems in the mech-game genre, and in game-design as a whole.

Scroll through the mess below and find what suits you best.

Please.

Mecha Theory Writing

A comprehensive explanation of the evolutionary path from conventional ground and air vehicles, including a comprehensive outline of a functioning control-design based on the inceptor/software model seen in unmanned drones and 5th gen aircraft, complete with explanations.

The evolution of the walking thing called “mecha" (original)

Chapter 0: Establishing terminology & Concepts Part 1: Defining "the mechaness" of something: the 8 principles of mecha Part 2: Feisability: Mecha aren't realistic, but not for the reason you think

Chapter 1: How does "mecha" come into existence/why would you want one? Part 1: An evolution from ground vehicles of today Part 2: Skating, to walking, to running, to flight Part 3: “Why transform in the vacuum of space?”

Chapter 2: Cockpit & Software Design Control Theory Part 4: On Mecha Control Theory: Considerations Part 4a: On Mecha Control Theory II: OKAWARA Part 4b: On Mecha Control Theory III: TOMINO Part 4c: On Mecha Control Theory III: NAGANO

The World of Armored Core

An exploration of the world of Armored Core, using research into real phenomenon and engineering systems to infer how the world may itself function

Kojima particle physics (part 1): What are they? Kojima particle physics (part 2): The Human Consequences NEXT cockpit design (part 1): AMS and Lynx NEXT Cockpit Design (Part 2): G-force Tolerance Technocrat is SpaceX, and the legacy of Musk’s father (lmao) I am a 4th gen douchebag, and I love it (love-letter to ACFA) 4th gen shitpost: white gopnik

How To Domesticate Your Pilot [ongoing]

A husbandry guide for handlers, consisting of opinions and thoughts from various trainers and operators, as well as pilots. Includes practices, procedures, articles, stories and snippets.

I'm currently testing the waters with snippets and will likely be posting it out of order. I am extremely hungry for any and all possible feedback

If anybody knows the original source of the image of the eyes (which I first saw in a youtube ad) I'd love to know. I very much would like to commission them.

Inspired by mechposting

Chapter 3: Do not Abuse Your Wolves (Psychological patterning) Part 1: Action patterning (Initial Phases) Part 2: Action Patterning (Risks)

On visual mecha design: My personal thoughts on the assemblies of shape, form in the context of motion, action and function 1. Does anybody else have physical characteristics they find the most appealing? 2. Thoughts on self-altering dynamic form, and proportion designs 3. Shoji Kawamori and Armored Core: designers hallucinate, but do they hallucinate too?

Mechsploitation thoughts

#Mechposting

My personal thoughts on piloting culture, and mechanical design

1. The eroticism of the machine: Megastructures 2. Crew Attire for piloting a giant robot (includes #mechposting patch list) 3. Crew attire for things other than piloting a giant robot 4. Beyond pilebunker: The Grind-blade and the legacy of Overweapons 5. FLAT/Touchscreens are an act of hate: I will teach you love 6. You do not need to pick between a big hammer or daggers if you are a robot 7. O'Socks combat mix (tw: substance abuse) 8. Team dynamics, addiction, conflicts of interest and marketing 9. Commuication is hard, and mecha feet are cool 10. Morrigan Aensland is mecha and you cannot change my mind 11. re: Last Exile is not dieselpunk; its post-steampunk deleuzian dreams 12. Mecha PMC promotion is back, in pog form 13. Crew attire 3: Onesie jacket 14. Bodies, corporeal schema, and the body language of pilots

# Miscposting: Immacullate vibe-topia Pilot, for you: Love. Love. The sound of the ideal cockpit Left Hand/Right hand [gone]-- Mechposting vibes soundwall 🇸🇮🇨🇰🇧🇪🇦🇹🇸 🇹🇴 🇸🇪🇪🇰 🇦🇳🇩 🇩🇪🇸🇹🇷🇴🇾 🇹🇴: A #mechposting playlist [ongoing] Cicatrix: A writing playlist Sounds for violence: Mecha games vs FPS games

Growing and learning

Reading this will help you grow as a person, or ask questions

"I experience depression as a failure of resource allocation systems" Adult social skills 101, because the world broke our ability to understand eachother Mental health: Things I wish I knew in my teens, my 20's or even my early 30's Sex-positivity, associations, critical thinking & deradicalization Crossing the hrt libido event horizon without libido heat-death by making biscuits Fool!: Your nostalgia isn't real: Your past has been stolen from you! Why Linux diehards are morons, and so is everybody else too On the ecology of slurs and the evolution of language Individualism can mean many things.

Nothing, but content for contented malcontents

Insightful, but stupid.

The collapse of the anime ecology's biodiversity Cycles of Nostalgia: Nobody is going to be nostalgic for Corporate Memphis Europe doesn't teach the Odyssey: Americentricism's fetishism is already its downfall Feeling used: The eternal disappointment of the Sawano Drop Lame? Bitch please: Clubbing deserves to go extinct The reviewer made a major error The Maid's Paradox Bread

The horrors

Robo ComBAT: Cactus Jaque (original)

The Fear

Concerning plunges into the ne plus ultra culture of tomorrow

Humbert complex: When people prefer what they imagine to what's really there White Diamond, fascism, projection, ego, how Steven Universe botched its end. Sandwich names: the internet sucks now and smartphones are to blame! Gatekeeping is weird and knowledge-checks are arbitrary nonsense "The internet feels gross now", a trajectory of human events AI isn't evil but it does embolden the worst people economics is just twitter brain for worth Do you?

Things I make

Art (I'm kind of private about my output and don't post often, sorry)

Pixelart: A very silly computer design that makes me smile idk

Games:

Project Force: 6dof aerodynamic high speed robot action [ongoing] Inspired by Armored Core For Answer, Freespace 2, Zone of the Enders 2 & Ace Combat 3, this game aims to merge their elements into a high speed mech sim.

e: yeesh this pinned post is getting kinda huge, I should break it into sub-pages or something so nobody can ever see any of it lol

#giant robot #mecha #mechposting #indie game

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zooterchet · 3 months ago

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Shai Halud: Creationism, "God"; a plant husbandry or animal husbandry investment, out of enlargened crops (Yucatan ponds), cross drawn farms (opium poppy sampling), fruits jungles (marijuana hairs to evaluate quality of grass in fauna), livestock and poultry (Selection of small, as impreferable, to male, through large, being removed as limit), and fish (placement as lower life as seasonal, hence shellfish, freshwater fish, and ocean fish will be calculated by boats license inveestment).

Bene Tleilax: Clones, "Magna Carta", a semenal sample taken from a spy, police officer, or corporate executive, having failed cohesion test of basic visual coherency of bones and muscles, fed into a woman to produce a "series". Mothers held in chains for childbirth, otherwise destitute, without monetary sum and feeding meats and pigs and sausages, for test of treachery as those children fed on vegetables (low intelligence quotient, inhuman), fed from swine (sow betraying mothers in ring, priests), from veal (cow fed board instead of sow, politicians), or public trial (KY jubricant given to homosexuals, anchor or tribunal case, publicity).

Bene Gesserit: Mass Communication, "Westminster Project", a method of the leader having an audience, to hear from subjects, inside room of hall distributed, with tracking numbers of common press having reported on sports numbers, from game tracked and distributed; cribbage, the old city intelligentsia game, played with dice; unless a high family, a Swordsmaster trained line, cards as draw for cribbage peg movement.

Ginaz: Romalians, "OPEC", the oil bearing powers as having an advantage, Gaia, for their Romalians to function as soldiers, through Microsoft, the internets poles and polar advantages, with enhancements allotted per major five set of intelligence; CIA, ignorance of other power attempting to influence, IDF, reuniting with child outside of wedlock with marriage and training child as Israeli services assassin, KGB, the homosexual without practice of Lotus inside ages 8 to 12 on regular meditative basis, and IRA, the Zen-Brahmin ritual, conversion to Jewish assassin, outside of Catholic Hebrewism, homophobia; Zen-Buddhism.

Spacing Guild: Carnegies, "Mossad", the international shipping lines and data storage devices, allowing any idea, to privately pass outside spy satellite, bedouin, aircraft, or telegraph line, without radio or telecommunications affecting any important shift in divisional orders sitting on same oil well.

Sardaukar: Filipinos, "Liberty", the Ginaz isles of the Phillippines; impossible to hold, and administrated in each base, out of a "Ward", the cities devoted to the psychics claiming as an ethnicity from alliance military as last war on note with Asians involved on import to America as empatriated labor. Efficient, fast, and effective, running their work in recruits and removals, taking someone off the board placed too high, to recruit the individual that's placed them highly, as a lowly operative.

Landsraad: House of York, "Harvard University", the five points of each leaves of five flowers; Gast, Cromwwell, Boelyn, York, Lancaster, of England, Aensley, O'Neill, Gaetano, Lennox, Carnegie, of Ireland, Hapsburg, Giroux, Hecate, Caesar, Trump, of Rome, and Sparta, Macedon, Phoenix, Mycenea, and Samhain, as Prehistory.

CHAOM: Connacht, "Crime Council", the five nation embassy in Northwestern Ireland for the five major assassins forces; high profile assassinations, are required to be handle out of Ireland, or else "vice control" officers get involved; making arrests for prostitution, for having "seen" a "nefarious character", someone with a larceny charge for a homicide or assault and battery in exchange for a claimed charge of "offense", instead of a direct mission on high profile spy. Sitting members, CIA, IDF, MI-6, ExSec, and MSS.

#dune

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hipcosuperbuild · 2 years ago

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Common Applications of Pre engineered Buildings in Nepal

In the last few years, PEB applications gradually gained popularity and increased in approval rate as it has been the most flexible solution for owners and builders. An increase in construction projects, and infrastructure development in developing countries like Nepal, has resulted in great demand for Pre-engineered buildings in Nepal. Alongside great benefits like fast erection, less cost, high durability, and perfect quality control, PEBs are suitable for any project- big or small.

Six Applications of Pre-Engineered Buildings in Nepal

Steel structure buildings in Nepal are widely accepted, so the applications of Pre-engineered buildings are boundless now. PEB structures can quickly expand in any location for residential, industrial, or commercial applications. PEB has made it easier for any business to plan for any projects without labor-intensive and economic processes.

Among the various applications of PEB, let us discuss below :

Industrial applications

The industrial sector needs to flourish in a developing country like Nepal. Industrial development leads to economic development within the country so several Industrial areas need to grow and be established in Nepal in order to maintain economic stability. Industrial areas can use PEB designs to construct industrial buildings such as factories, warehouses, cold stores, car parking sheds, bulk product storage and administration buildings in a less investment.

Institutional applications

While many remote areas of Nepal are still lacking the development, due to unavailability of various services. Even if the project was initiated the difficulty to supply raw materials and cost was a barrier. But now with the PEB system, institutions such as schools, hospitals, theaters, auditoriums and sports halls can erect any of it safely and effectively wherever the location is.

Commercial applications

Commercial areas of Nepal are mushrooming so the areas like showrooms, distribution centers, supermarkets, restaurants, offices etc. are the projects that require completion within the shortest time possible. Competition is visible among each commercial sector, so PEB is the best solution where you get to design your project at a fair price that ultimately tends to return your investment shortly.

Heavy industrial applications

No worries about products, cost, time period, and durability of building heavy industrial projects. Now, any of the heavy industrial projects can be designed simply anywhere in Nepal too. Such projects will be beneficial for the country’s production and economy. With PEB cement plants, steel rolling mills, sugar mills, ceramic factories, aircraft hangers, etc, projects can be achieved better than expected.

Recreational applications

Suppose you are designing a structure for gymnasiums halls, swimming pool enclosures, indoor tennis halls, residential barracks and support facilities, and opting for the PEB application is a good choice as it gives the final result quicker than going with other building options.

Agricultural applications

Nepal is an agricultural country where most of the local people still depend on agriculture to earn. Agriculture not only is limited in working in fields and farms but related to horticulture, animal husbandry, and many more. So PEB structures can be used in any agricultural application too. Whether for poultry or dairy farms, greenhouse, grain storage, animal confinement, pump stations, etc., PEB is suitable for any of your dream projects.

Plan for a Pre-engineered Building with HIPCO

Despite being an earthquake-prone country, conventional structures are the most practiced trend in Nepalese society. Though everyone dreams to construct one, it's hard for normal people to initiate the project as it will cost significantly more and take a longer period of time. Planning for construction may be a dream or necessity.

But now as people have come over the importance and convenience of steel structures, today PEB emerges as a trend and needs of people over traditional buildings. PEB is suitable for everyone and for any area as everyone can afford the cost. While people dream of any residential building or any business-related building, PEB has made it a lot easier for them to fulfill their desire since PEB is easily available and is much easier to erect at any of the locations, unlike traditional buildings.

The primary focus of every construction project is faster and more efficient construction. The shift from in-situ construction to PEB high-quality construction has transformed the requirements like skills, materials, engineering, etc. With the increase in the trend and demand for PEB in Nepal, there is an abundance of PEB manufacturers in Nepal to choose from. So, the availability of pre-engineered building manufacturers in the market is growing too. While the competition among steel structure suppliers is visual to offer people a wide range of PEB solutions.

You can choose to design your PEB with HIPCO , a one-stop solution where you can instantly customize your design and prepare PEB structure the way you have visualized. You can check out the HIPCO Superbuild PEB and carry out plans for PEB more effectively and rapidly at .

Is HIPCO the right call to invest in?

HIPCO is Nepal's First PEB manufacturer in Nepal and pioneer PEB structural steel fabrication company dedicated to providing quality modern structural steel solutions to its clients at the best cost and value. HIPCO, providing a wide range of production facilities, has been at the forefront of industrial and commercial development in Nepal.

So, if you require a quality PEB solution, HIPCO is the perfect stop for your needs in terms of designs,costs, time, fabrication and erection. Also, encounter the premium services with a professional management system where anyone can get proper guidance and support. So collaborate with HIPCO and discover all your needs to begin projects.

Feel free to contact us anytime if you have any queries.

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fatehbaz · 4 years ago

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Interruptions of these relations and habits threaten existence itself. When efforts are made to wipe out the American bison [...], it is not just a habit or practice that changes. The interruption of a form of life kills people and frequently cascades into genocides and extinctions [...]. It was not just the bands and nations of the Great Plains whose precarity was leveraged for the strategic goal of genocide and settlement. The entire prairie ecosystem was targeted, moving on from human inhabitants to predators such as wolves and big cats to make way for leisure hunting and grazing practices that created the dust bowl and the subsequent collapse of riparian habitats throughout the United States. [...] [W]hen form of life is seen ecologically, what becomes apparent is how many different species, practices, histories, cosmologies, habitats, and relations come to constitute what we might call a form of life. Form of life is a particular origami in the “fabric of immanent relations” [...].

Geopolitics is [...] a husbandry of global life [...] structured to be selective, and to ensure that selectivity by lethal force. [...] However [...] with an often zero-sum game over form of life at its center, global war [...] is not primarily about direct killing. The violence of geopolitics is an ecological principle of world making that renders some forms of life principle and other forms of life useful or inconsequential. [...] Geopolitics as a European-led global project of rendering, in the way that fat is rendered into soap, or students are rendered pliable and obedient subjects, is the driver of our epoch and the obstacle to any other version of our world, whether plural or differently unified. [...]

[T]he point is not to [...] declare the kind of “end of history” of the Eurocene or the inevitability that homogenization will prevail. Instead [...], on every continent [...] the technics and waste of geopolitics connect every space to every other space, whether by satellite feed, radioactive isotope, aircraft carrier, unexploded ordinance, [...] or tragic absence of forced removal. The global network of open wounds, bruises, and scar tissue that runs over the surface of the planet, through its water table and abandoned mine shafts that sprawl out on the vast ocean floor, exceeds the migratory and circulation patterns of [...] other species [...]. Five hundred years of geopolitics has built a global savage ecology. [...]

At the half-millennium of the [European] geopolitical epoch [...]. Coastlines, rivers, gravitational fields, and the atmosphere are elements that have been altered in addition to whole populations and individual bodies. The scale of these alterations is not recent. The decimation of continent-wide populations and global temperautres have been in the fabric of geopolitics since its beginnings. [...]

The point of saturation has taken on the feel of an end of history; however, it is not an end. It is something else. [...] The question of apocalypse for whom [...]. Rather than seeing apocalypses as inevitable [...], [they can be] transformations or bifurcation points where other ways of life become possible.

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Jairus Victor Grove. Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World. 2019.

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cecilspeaks · 5 years ago

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162 - “Alpha”

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Fear makes the heart grow louder. And death makes the heart grow flowers. Welcome to Night Vale.

Amelia Anna Alfaro was always the best at everything. On the day she was born, she was named the healthiest baby at Night Vale General Hospital. The doctors had never seen a healthier baby. “What a healthy baby,” they said from behind a bullet proof two-way mirror, as they operated the robotic arms that carefully held the infant aloft. The doctors high-fived each other, missing slightly. The trick, by the way, is to keep your eye on the other person’s elbow. That or glue high-powered magnets to each person’s hand. And all of the nurses cheered from dozens of feet down the hallway, where they were playing with a standard Tarot deck, common in most neonatal units. This cheering was unrelated to Amelia’s birth. The nurses had drawn the ten of swords, which is everyone’s favorite card. It features a relaxed man receiving acupuncture by a river.

Amelia learned to walk at 4 months, and to talk at 6 months. She read Plato’s “Republic” for the first time at age 4. She taught herself German and began to write sonnets in that language at age 7. At age 10, she won her first engineering competition after designing a concrete canoe that could float even on the most turbulent water. There is no body of water in Night Vale, so she had to prove her work using a software she wrote that generated three-dimensional models to corroborate her advanced mechanical physics formulas. She even won the state spelling bee five years in a row, from ages 9 to 13. Her streak was only broken when the spelling bee was canceled, after the sponsors lost their dictionary.

Amelia was always the best, and her mother knew it. Her mother was proud of her daughter, or rather, her mother was proud of herself for producing such a daughter. Or rather, she was proud of both, in a way that was difficult for them to untangle. Amelia’s mother was named Yvette. Yvette could not afford much for her daughter. She worked long hours to earn the respect of her bosses, which (-) [0:04:32] her promotions and larger paychecks, but Yvette had hit the glass ceiling. She did not want this limitation for her daughter. Her daughter would need to be smarter, more talented, and more driven than she. Yvette wanted Amelia’s value to the world to be so great that no one could deny her success.

Yvette recognized Amelia’s specialness and pushed hard to make her even more special, signing Amelia up for athletics and adult learning classes and piano lessons. Amelia sometimes pushed against this. “Mother, I don’t want to” was met with, “But you will, Amelia.” “Why?” was met with, “Because I said so.” “I hate you for this” was met with, “You will love me for it later.”

Begrudgingly, Amelia fulfilled her mother’s wishes. It wasn’t because she understood her mother’s motivation to secure her child a better life, nor was it because Amelia did not have the stomach to fight back. No, Amelia did it because it all came so easy. She was a black belt, a sharp shooter, an academic decathlon champion. She wrote her first novel at age 12, it was called “A Golden Age for Parachuting”, in which an all-Jewish female parachute team wins Olympic gold in 1936 Berlin in front of Adolf Hitler. In the publisher’s rejection letter, the editor said the novel was “immaculately written, however parachuting stories are out of vogue. Do you have anything about magical baseball players?” Amelia did. It was a novel called “One Last Swing for the Tuesday Boys”, but she had written it in German and did not have time to translate the “Dienstag Jungen” manuscript, because she was currently taking a course on bird husbandry.

Yvette enrolled the teenage Amelia in night classes at the community college, where she took English 113, “Sonnets are for lovers”; structural engineering 212, “Buttress is a funny word”; and meteorology 301, “Clouds y’all, amirite?” She earned all As and scores for college credit before she even graduated high school. None of these challenges were difficult for Amelia. She was the best at everything.

But her life was not perfect. Because of the voices. It was the voices that made life hard for Amelia. From birth, she heard the constant chatter of dozens of people. None of the voices spoke directly to Amelia, they just talked and talked about their lives, and Amelia was afraid of the voices and what the voices might imply about herself. She found solace in puzzles, crosswords, nonograms, acrostics, cryptics, Sudoku, which I think is the one where you have to catch a bunch of marbles with a lever operated hippopotamus. Her mother hated Amelia’s puzzle vice. If she caught Amelia doing puzzles, Yvette would make Amelia go practice archery or write poetry or at least listen to classical music. Amelia’s favorite was Van Cliburn’s masterful 1961 record of Rachmaninoff’s “Piano Concerto nr 13: Knuckles on the Black Keys”. When she was thinking through the solution of a puzzle, the voices did not speak to her. All was silent. It was her only time of peace. It was the only time her body could rest and curl up comfortably into her own thoughts. Anything that took her away from her logic problems including music, no matter how soothing, invited the voices back into Amelia’s thoughts.

Amelia was accepted to several top colleges across the country, including MIT, Stanford, Rice and The University of What It Is, but she wanted to stay near her home town and her family, so she went to State. Hey, that’s where my brother-in-law went! Go State! [chuckles] Ahem. She was elected the youngest president of the student body ever at age 17, and graduated valedictorian two years later. Her friends, her professors, her mother all knew the world was Amelia’s. She could become poet laureate or a senator or a supreme court justice or a quantum physicist. But she became none of those. This is not to say Amelia was not successful or that she amounted to nothing. It is to say, the semantics of success were her own and no one else’s. Amelia became an air traffic controller. The voices never told Amelia to become an air traffic controller, they were never that specific. The voices did not tell her to do anything, they simply talked about first dates, about apartment hunting, about their grandmothers’ improved health, about a bad movie they sort of loved. None of the voices talked directly to her, it was simply as though she overheard conversations from lives lived somewhere else. Other people and their quotidian hopes and worries and interests. She tried seeing therapists and psychiatrists. She tried medication to stop the voices, but nothing worked. Eventually she decided they were not harmful voices and that she was not dealing with schizophrenia. She simply heard people talking at all hours about all things, having nothing to do with her. And they never told her to become an air traffic controller. Amelia chose her own career, her own path. Others though the reason was that it was the fist job opportunity to present itself for her. Maybe it was her admiration of aircraft, maybe a moral sense of serving humanity through public safety and comfort. In fact, it was none of these reasons. But it should not be surprising to know that Amelia was very good at air traffic control. She was calm, clear, and efficient. The Night Vale international airport, although when Amelia started it was just a commuter hub, has never had a high volume of plane traffic and almost all of those are departures. There are very few arrivals. My husband Carlos, he’s a scientist and he is also very good at his job, tells me that it’s impossible to have far more departures than arrivals, but I told him, not everything has to make sense all the time.

So, in some ways, air traffic control in Night Vale was easier for Amelia than just about any other class or job or task she’d ever attempted. It appeared from the outside to be far below her capabilities. She held that job for 20 years, even taking over as president of the Night Vale chapter of air traffic controllers’ union. In 2004, she was featured in the cover of “Afformative”, a monthly trade magazine for air traffic controllers. The headline of the article was “You’re cleared for success”. In 2006, she was asked to deliver the keynote speech at the annual Roger Con, a conventional for air traffic controllers and fans of air traffic control. It’s a huge deal, held every year in Orlando. People dress like their favorite airline pilots and wait in long lines for autographs from top flight attendants. There are even panel discussions about everything from the best textiles for seat cushions to secret first class meal offerings. Amelia was the best at what she did. She probably would have been the best poet laureate or senator, but this was the path she chose. She chose this path because of the voices, not from what they said, but what they didn’t say. When Amelia was in the control tower, when she was communicating with captains and co-pilots and navigators, her head was clear. All was silent. It was like those many nights, sneaking a copy of the crossword from the newspaper on the kitchenette and solving it by flashlight under her covers. She became an air traffic controller to be by herself, to become her own person. Her mother was disappointed, but loved her in spite of it. Her professors were let down, but still had many fabulous of their greatest student. Her friends were just happy she was happy.

Things changed on June 15, 2012, when Delta flight 18713 made radio contact. In her tall tower, at her tiny airport, in the middle of a vast desert, in the middle of the American Southwest, an airplane appeared on Amelia’s radar. It was carrying 143 passengers and 6 crew members and was flying from Detroit to Albany over the great lakes of the American Northeast. It appeared briefly, the green dot blinking in and out of existence like the sun glinting off a water ripple. It was almost unnoticeable. But everyone noticed it. Later, Amelia was the only one who admitted to noticing it. The radio transmission was equally brief, a surge of static and only one word, difficult to discern but she heard it. “Alpha” was the single word. The letter A in the Nato alphabet. It was garbled, so maybe it wasn’t that word, maybe it was some more adult variation of “Oh fudge”. Alpha. Oh fudge. It was unclear. Amelia requested identification of the aircraft. She requested further communication, but nothing came. As soon as it had squawked, it had gone silent. But while the radio communication was silent, the voices were not. On June 15, 2012, upon hearing a word that sounded like “alpha”, these myriad conversations returned. No one else in the tower could hear them, but Amelia Anna Alfaro could. And for the first time in her life, she began to speak back to them. Everyone else in the tower could hear that. The voices did not cease. The voices continued for days and days and Amelia tried to talk back with them. As one voice said: “I have an interview on Monday,” Amelia would ask “for what job” or if a voice said, “We went to Palm Springs on vacation,” Amelia would say, “Did you also travel out to the Salton Sea?” But over and over, no response. The voices did not affect the quality of Amelia’s work, but it did affect the perceived quality of her work, and her colleagues became uncomfortable with and distrusting of Amelia.

A month later, Amelia heard that word again from one of the voices. “Alpha”. The same voice that radioed in June. But upon hearing it again, she realizes that they didn’t say “alpha” at all. What they said, coming up.

But first The weather.

[“Skinchanger” by Skeptic skepticdeath.bandcamp.com]

The voices said “Alfaro”. The word had been truncated just as the airplane’s appearance in Night Vale had been truncated. The voice saying the word was the captain of the aircraft, and he had been trying to tell Amelia something. The pilot was trying to tell Amelia that he knew her, had always known her since her birth. He didn’t know how he knew her, just that he did, and he wanted to tell her he had found her. And she should find him. “Where are you,” Amelia asked the captain. “No Where,” the voice said. “Did you land?” Amelia asked. “Yes,” the voice said. “Were there injuries?” Amelia asked. “Minor,” the voice said. “Do you hear the other voices too?” Amelia asked. “Yes,” the captain said. “I’m with them right now. Find us, Amelia.” “Where are you?” Amelia asked again, louder, more scared than before. “No Where,” the voice said, not like the vague concept of in no place but No Where, two words capitalized like the name of a specific place. Amelia felt a tap on her shoulder. It was another air traffic controller. “Uh, boss wants to see you, Amelia,” they said. But Amelia did not go to see the boss. She knew. She knew her time in the tower was done. She grabbed her belongings and walked to the elevator, out across the tarmac to a shuttle to a parking lot and into her car, and no one saw her again. Her friends said she always talked about going back to school to get an advanced degree. Maybe she went to Stanford. Or Rice, or The University of What It Is. Other friends said she had lost all touch with reality, talking to people who were not there, and maybe her mother checked Amelia into the Night Vale asylum.

Yvette says Amelia knew too much, that agents from a vague yet menacing government agency had been to their house and that Amelia must have been taken to a secret location. Representatives from the National Safety and Transportation Bureau in Washington, DC, came to Night Vale two months ago to investigate the disappearance of flight 18713. They are on an undercover mission inside the Night Vale asylum right now, on a tip from Sheriff Sam, to discover more clues into this mystery. Perhaps Amelia is in there too. But I don’t think so. I think she went to find the plane. I think the voices were the passengers on Delta 18713. I think she set out looking for them. Perhaps wandering the desert, the great No Where, to find the people who had been a part of her life since birth.

Amelia. Anna. Alfaro. was always the best at everything. And if anyone will find the plane, she will.

Stay tuned next for our new investment advice show “Billionaire Roulette”.

And as always, Good night, Night Vale, Good night.

Today’s proverb: Love means never having to say “you’re a werewolf”.

#welcome to night vale #wtnv transcripts #episode 162 #alpha

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macgyvermedical · 6 years ago

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Top 10 Public Health Triumphs of the 20th Century (in the USA)

Have you ever gotten stuck in an elevator with me? Because let me tell you, it would be a good time. We would talk about all kinds of fun stuff, like this top 10 list of awesome public health things.

A lot of people think of “Public Health” as a new field, but its been around for a long while, and it actually has a lot of power when it comes to law and people’s behaviors. This list was compiled by UC Berkley based on information from the CDC and Johns Hopkins, and is pretty interesting. I even put pictures in to keep it lively!

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1. Vaccine (and Vaccine Mandates)

Even if you personally have never been vaccinated, there’s a good chance a vaccine has saved your life. There are currently 17 vaccine-preventable diseases that are targeted by US vaccination policy. Studies say that every year, 42,000 people are born (annual cohort) who won’t die of vaccine-preventable illness. And that’s not even looking at the 20 million cases of illness that straight up won’t occur in that same annual birth cohort because of vaccines. Check out this handy before-and-after chart from the Association for Ohio Health Commissioners:

For those of you more monetarily-minded, the use of vaccines saves each annual cohort $14 billion in direct healthcare costs, and $69 billion in lost work and other societal costs.

2. Motor Vehicle Safety

Cars and other motor vehicles have been a massive technological advancement in the last century. Unfortunately, crashing those motor vehicles into each other also causes a lot of death.

But don’t fret! Even though we travel more than 10 times the number of total miles yearly in motor vehicles that our 1920′s counterparts did, we’ve seen a dramatic decrease in death rate. In 1925, for example, 18 people would die per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT). In 1997, that number was down to 1.7 people per 100 mil VMT.

How did we do this? Those fuddy-duddies over at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration figured out they could use epidemiology to track causes of traffic death, and came up with some cool interventions. These included things we take for granted today, including speed limits, road improvements (reflectors, breakaway signs, etc..), DUI laws, and vehicle improvements (seatbelts, airbags, head rests, etc...).

3. Workplace Safety

In 1913, 67 workers out of 100,000 died in workplace accidents. By 1997, that had dropped to only 4 per 100,000. While some of this is simply that people moved to less dangerous work (heart disease from sitting at a desk for 30 years is not counted), some really does have to do with increased safety measures on the job site. Some workplaces are inherently dangerous- Loggers, fisherpeople, and aircraft pilots among the most likely to die today as a result of their work. Even the most dangerous industry today, logging, with about 135.9 worker deaths per 100,000, doesn’t even touch one of the most dangerous jobs of 1911- mining, at 329 deaths per 100,000.

This decrease in workplace deaths comes from a variety of interventions. In the later part of the century, organizations like OSHA, NIOSH, MSHA, and USBM began to study workplace practices, publish standards, and inspect workplaces for compliance. They required the use of safer equipment (better ventilation systems), safer workplace practices (like dust suppression and wearing hard hats and other PPE), safety training for employees (OSHA certification, first aid training), and specialized training for healthcare professionals who might see occupational injuries.

4. Sanitation and Hygiene (and Health Department Police Power)

Do you like food? Water? Do you like not getting sick because you consumed it? Do you like flushing a toilet? Do you like not worrying about whether people with known cases of active TB are running around in public? Me too!

I want to be very clear that these weren’t always things you could count on. In fact, about 33% of deaths (of which, 40% were children under 5) in the US in the early 1900s could be traced to poor sanitation and lack of outbreak investigation and control. Today, that number is down to less than 4.5% (and that’s including HIV as an ongoing pandemic).

You may not be aware of this, but your local health department has a staggering amount of both legislative and judicial “police power.” For one thing, they are a separate entity from local government (under the health commissioner), and can therefore make their own decisions, even if the mayor orders otherwise.

They can...

Decide which restaurants, schools, businesses, and childcare centers are meeting health safety standards and therefore can stay open

Decide what the vaccination requirements for entrance to the schools and certain other public places are (and why you might have to wear a mask at work during flu season if you’re a medical professional who hasn’t gotten a flu shot)

Mandate the construction of public health infrastructure like sewer lines

Enter private property for reasonable suspicion (of a potential threat to public health)

Subpoena medical records

Issue mandatory quarantine, isolation, and vaccination orders

Detain people under police guard in a home or hospital if they have a significant communicable disease like active TB, meningitis, or ebola and are trying to escape (called a Code Brown in my area... thats a terrible name tho).

This is a really good thing. It allows the health department to do things that decrease the number of deaths from spoiled food and poor food handling procedures, as well as chlorinate your drinking water so you don’t get cholera, and make sure other people making poor choices aren’t going to be a threat to you personally.

5. Reduction in Heart Disease and Stroke (recognition of the role of risk factor management in disease)

You might recall from the Vaccine part of this post that Heart Disease and Stroke are leading causes of death today, so the idea that we somehow significantly reduced these deaths may not immediately compute. That’s because of 2 main things. One, just a staggering number of people were dying from infectious disease back then. Like, unless your name is literally Steven Grant Rodgers you have no freaking clue how many people were just... dying. All the time. From stuff you just straight up don’t see today because of vaccines and sanitation. And two, the peak for heart disease and stroke deaths came in the 50′s (307.4 deaths out of 100,000 due to heart disease in 1950), long after those initial measurements were taken, and have since decreased by about 56% (134.6 deaths out of 100,000 in 1996).

This decrease came, mostly, from a recognition of risk factors as a way to manage and prevent disease. The idea that there were certain things that you could do or not do that would make you more or less likely to end up sick or dead was unheard of before this. Studies done by a man named Ancel Keys of populations’ dietary habits throughout the US and the famed Framingham Heart Study determined that high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, and dietary factors played roles in the development of heart disease. This list was later expanded to include socioeconomic status, obesity, and physical inactivity.

The recognition that modifying risk factors (like changing one’s diet, increasing physical activity level, and quitting smoking) could prevent morbidity and mortality, and that screening for blood pressure and cholesterol could allow disease to be managed early before it resulted in a heart attack, is credited with saving those lives.

6. Food Safety and Nutrition

Can you imagine a time before we knew what a vitamin was? Or even, that food was made up of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates? Or a time before we were well aware that poorly handled or packaged foods caused illnesses like typhoid fever, botulism, TB, and scarlet fever?

Well, there was one, and it was only the early part of last century. In 1940, 16% of the population had trichinosis, a disease of the muscles caused by eating under-cooked, infected pork. By 1996, only 38 cases were reported yearly. Similarly, typhoid fever occurred at a rate of about 100 per 100,000 in 1900, only to drop to a mere 1.7 per 100,000 by 1950. There are many, many more of these statistics, but I didn’t want to type them out.

Basically, we made food safer and healthier in many ways, including but not limited to:

Pasteurization of milk and other products

Use of prompt refrigeration

Hand washing before food prep/processing

Application of pesticides and insecticides

Control of application of pesticides and insecticides to prevent harm to humans and the environment

Improved animal husbandry and processing systems

Introduction of preservatives

Better antimicrobial solutions to sanitize food prep areas

Fortifying staple foods with vitamins and minerals to prevent nutritional deficiencies like rickets, beri-beri, and scurvy

Improved surveillance of food-borne disease outbreak

7. Maternal and Infant Mortality

Listen, the US hasn’t totally got this figured out compared to other countries, but we’ve gotten better over the last century.

Overall, in 1900, 100 children out of 1,000 live births died before their first birthday (that’s not a typo, folks, that’s 1 in 10) and the mothers of 8-9 out of 1,000 live births died in childbirth or infection afterward. At the same time in many US cities, up to 30% of infants would die before their first birthday, mostly due to infections. By 1996, that number had been reduced to less than 0.1 death out of 1,000.

Along with the decline of infectious and foodborne disease through improved sanitation, the introduction of vaccination schedules, antibiotics, oral rehydration therapies, and pasteurization greatly decreased both maternal and infant mortality.

A lot of the problems for the mothers had to do with poor hygiene in those attending the birth (resulting in sepsis before the invention of antibiotics), excessive use of medical intervention (including operations and induction of labor) in labor, and bleeding. The invention of cleaner and safer operative deliveries, safer induction medications, and safer blood transfusions improved this considerably.

Its also worth mentioning that the availability of safer, legal abortion starting in the 1960s reduced mortality from sepsis after illegal abortions by 89%.

8. Family Planning

Following right along, family planning- the ability to literally plan how many children you want to have and when you want to have them, is also a major public health triumph.

In 1900, not a lot was known about conception and family planning, and what was known was actively suppressed. By 1912, through the work of Margaret Sanger and others, it became legal for healthcare providers to discuss contraception and family planning methods with married couples, including use of condoms, diaphragms, douches, and withdrawal methods. The rhythm method was introduced in 1928 with the understanding of the menstrual cycle and fertile period, and by 1933, the average family size had decreased from 3.5 to 2.3 children.

The number of children increased in the post-WW2 era to 3.7, but in 1960, two major breakthroughs- hormonal birth control and the IUD- further granted women the freedom to more effectively plan their childrearing. In 1965, it finally became (federally) legal for married couples to use birth control (again, not a typo, it really took that long).

By 1994, a combined effort of hospitals, Planned Parenthood clinics, and health departments were preventing an estimated 534,000 unintended births, 632,000 abortions, and 165,000 miscarriages annually through the use and education of contraception.

9. Fluoridation of Drinking Water, Toothpaste, and Other Products

This is another controversial one (why are interventions that save lives, decrease disability, and improve health so controversial in the US? Nothing is perfect, but we have the research to show this stuff works. Do you at least see how frustrating this is to healthcare and public health peeps by now? Your entire life has been saved and improved by these measures in some way or another. Stop it.)

No one likes going to the dentist. And whether you like it or not, if you drink tap water from many places in the US, you’re passively avoiding doing so! Yes, I’m talking about the fluoride in your water.

How did that fluoride get there? Well, its a much longer story than this, but, turns out, many water sources in the US already had fluoride in them- ranging from less than 1ppm to about 12ppm. A dentist named Frederick McKay noticed that people in Colorado Springs had an odd discoloration to their teeth. McKay found that there were other places in the US that had similar discolorations and hypothesized that there might be a connection to something in their drinking water. He had the water tested, and found that what these areas had in common were high levels of fluoride in their water. Another thing they had in common were lower rates of tooth decay. This sparked the possibility of controlling the amount of fluoride in drinking water to 1ppm- high enough to prevent cavities, but low enough so as not to cause the discoloration.

In communities where fluoride is added to drinking water, there are about 18% fewer cavities. This may not seem like a lot, but it results in a savings of up to $53 dollars per person per year in dental care, which is heavily skewed towards savings in lower-income communities. Compare this with an average cost of between $0.31 and $2.12 per person, per year to fluoridate the water, and you see significant savings. At least partially because of this (as well as increased access to dental care and the addition of fluoride to other things, like toothpaste), baby boomers are the first generation expected to reach their 60s with the majority of their teeth intact!

10. Recognition of Tobacco as a Health Hazard

Okay, folks, almost done! No one is happier than I, who has spent over 8 hours straight researching and writing this tumblr post. But I committed to it despite having (ironically public health) homework to do, and finished it shall be! Onward, Public Health!

I don’t think many people would be surprised when presented with the fact that inhaling smoke is bad for humans. I think the CDC said it best when they typed “Smoking- once a socially accepted behavior- is the leading preventable cause of death and disability in the United States.”

I sh*t you not, in the US in 1963, the average PER CAPITA consumption of cigarettes was 4,345. That’s the equivalent slightly more than of half the total US population being pack-a-day smokers that year. It is now (in 2015 at least) about a quarter of that, at 1,078.

Tobacco use contributes to many cancers, heart disease, COPD, low birth weight, asthma and many other diseases, either because of how damaging it is to lungs and blood vessels when smoked (smoke particles less than 2.5 microns enter the blood stream and damage the vasculature, and therefore all tissues with blood vessels in them), or because of the effects of nicotine and other toxic substances on blood pressure, intrauterine growth retardation, and substance dependency. Death by lung cancer was 4.9 deaths per 100,000 people in 1930 vs 75.6 per 100,000 in 1990.

By recognizing tobacco as a health hazard, public health and healthcare professionals were able to initiate widespread anti-tobacco education in schools, which has drastically reduced teen and young adult smoking rates. They could also restrict advertising of tobacco products, increase taxes on those products, and introduce counter-advertising campaigns. It also allows physicians and other healthcare workers to be a part of the smoking cessation process (if you smoke, you’ll be offered cessation resources at every doctors appointment and hospital visit). This from only 60 years ago when doctors actively encouraged smoking and were used in advertising.

Fortunately, with these campaigns and reduction in overall tobacco use, we are seeing a decrease in death rates from tobacco-related illnesses listed above. Indoor air quality laws and the prohibition of smoking on many college campuses have reduced public exposure to second-hand smoke, and also helped decrease smoking as a norm.

The jury’s still out on newer nicotine-containing products like vapes and juuls. They’re probably better for you than inhaling smoke, and nicotine by itself is not known to be cancer-causing, but they can contain other substances humans also probably shouldn’t be breathing. Like everything, we’ll know in about 50 years.

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sandip-university · 2 years ago

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Top engineering courses for a secure career

As soon as a physical science candidate passes out class 12, he or she has one question in mind: ‘Which course shall I take up as a career?’ Even though there are a thousand of good careers existent for the students, a vast majority of them opt for Engineering. The obvious reason being, they have secured job options in the future.

But now the challenge comes in selection of the best engineering courses, that shall be fruitful in future. The new industrial era has made engineering a diverse area to study with many specializations emerging with the advancement of technology. Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Learning, Cyber Security, Gaming and Graphics Technology, and Big Data Analytics are some of the areas in which the best engineering courses can be found. Since the trend is shifting from industry era towards the information era, the major focus is upon Computer Sciences and Information Technology. But this doesn’t at all mean that other branches are desolated and do not have any good career options. All the engineering branches take students on a road of opportunities and it depends on students to choose an engineering branch which they are passionate about. Some of the top engineering branches that open numerous doors for a fruitful career are written below:

Computer Science Engineering-

Integrating the field of electrical engineering and computer science in a very intriguing way, Computer Science and Engineering is all about the development of hardware and software. The sudden boom in the industry in the last decade has given a commendable rise to opportunities and pay band as well. Among the best engineering courses, Computer Science and Engineering offers good placement to students in marquee companies. Amazon, LinkedIn, IBM, TCS, Adobe, NXP Technologies, Samsung R&D, Kraftly etc are some of the top companies which hire computer science professionals. It is one of the most promising careers for engineering students.

Aeronautical Engineering-

Aeronautical engineers are considered to the highest paid engineers in the industry and are experts in dealing with the design and development of aircrafts and spacecrafts. They can also take up the job profile of mechanical design engineer, aircraft production engineer, aerospace designer checker, consultants, and graduate engineer trainees.

Electrical and Electronics Engineering-

The field equips young students with the acumen to develop, test and repair electrical components. B.Tech Electrical and Electronics Engineering and B.Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering are the top courses of this engineering branch.

Biotech Engineering-

Predicted to grow by 30.46 CAGR by 2025, the biotech sector of India is growing leaps and bounds. India is among the top biotech destinations in the world and offers a wide range of opportunities to the biotech engineers. Aspirants can choose specializations in biotech for their study: Immunology, bio-statistics, ecology, virology, genetics, microbiology, animal husbandry and more. Biotech engineers can find employment in animal husbandry, agriculture, disease research, eco-conservation, development of medicines, fertilizers, and insecticides.

Mechanical Engineering-

A great blend of all the engineering technologies, mechanical engineering is among the top of the list of best engineering courses. Mechanical Engineers can find employment in government organizations like Railways, SAIL, Metro Projects, BHEL and others, and private organizations like TATA Motors, BAJAJ, Honda, ISRO, COAL INDIA, NAVY, Ford, Design Tech System Ltd, and many more.

The aforementioned are one of the most secured careers in engineering for the students of physical science, after 12th. Just like most other institutions in the country, Sandip University, School of Engineering and Technology also provides the best Engineering courses in Nashik, Maharashtra and in Madhubani, Bihar. There are some of the best faculties from the best institutions of the nation, that guide the students. We have the finest of laboratories and industry-based projects. A student comes out as a highly trained engineer, with a guaranteed placement, as per his or her chosen course.

About Sandip University:

Nashik Campus:

Sandip University is a thriving hub of 21st century higher education. It is a UGC-approved University in India, located in Nashik, Maharashtra. The University is set in a picturesque lush green Wi-Fi enabled campus spanning across 250+ acres and is home to cutting-edge infrastructure for a holistic student experience. At Sandip University, students have access to world class facilities including well-maintained hostels, hygienic canteens, high-tech classrooms, saloon, gymnasium, swimming-pool, on-campus ambulance, and 24x7 security facilities. As a top private university in Maharashtra, Sandip University attuned to the pulse of global educational standards, and so provides students with an education that takes them places. Students at Sandip University have access to Value Addition and Global Certification Programs at no extra cost to gain industry-synced skills and training. We provide students with 100% placement assistance through a dedicated placement cell. The placement cell also trains students through mock interviews and helps them write a dynamic resume. Sandip University prepares students of today to become leaders of tomorrow on the global stage.

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planefarmer · 1 month ago

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Hot take. Stretched 737s aren't cute. That amount of fuselage isn't healthy for them and their engines are way too big, they're supposed to be a small-medium breed. If you want a bigger working plane why not get a 757 or A321? They're way healthier and they're SUPPOSED to be that size. Forcing a 737 to do the work of a 757 is borderline aircraft cruelty.

#aircraft husbandry #unreality

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polyuniversal · 3 years ago

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Difference between latex gloves, nitrile gloves, and PVC gloves

Second, their characteristics are different

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Third, the three types of gloves are used for different purposes

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2. Dingqing gloves: mainly used in medical treatment, medicine, hygiene, beauty salon and food processing and other operating industries.

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POLYUNIVERSAL specializes in the manufacture of gloves and aprons of various materials. Has a very rich experience in the field, worthy of consideration by all users.

#Nitrile gloves

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dailyshare · 3 years ago

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How blindfoldedly we kept trusting western culture that led to us vanished.

https://gurukulamhistory.blogspot.com/2021/07/how-blindfoldedly-we-kept-trusting.html

After the establishment of convent schooling system in India dharma almost vanished. But some how, now, social media has taken the responsibility of bringing Dharma back to life.

More than the politicians and many social reformers, social media is a lot capacitive of using their power.

Despite, many ill-effects of social media, using it as a platform to make people aware about Dharma is the best part of it.

Nonetheless everything has some drawbacks but we must know how utilize it's capabilities and lessen the harms.

Many handles on insta, twitter post enormous quotes about Dharma in such a beautiful manner, so that all could understand and relate it.

But the misery is, when i see how numerous Gurukuls have been destroyed and now we are left with no option rather to send our kids to Coventry schools.

Whole education system has changed into coventry schooling system.

The first school in England opened in 1811 . At that time India had 732000 Gurukuls. Find out how our Gurukul got closed?

How did Gurukul end?

First tell you what were studied in Gurukul of our Sanatan culture tradition! It is necessary to know what was studied in Rishikul after Aryavarta's Gurukul.

Change your thoughts with this education and remove the popular delusions!

01 Agni Vidya (Metallurgy)

02 Vayu Vidya (Flight)

03 Water Education (Navigation)

04 Space Science (Space Science)

05 Prithvi Vidya (Environment)

06 Surya Vidya (Solar Study)

07 Chandra and Lok Vidya (Lunar Study)

08 Megh Vidya (Weather Forecast)

09 Substance Electric Education (Battery)

10 Solar Energy Vidya (Solar Energy)

11 Day/ night vidya

12 Srishti Vidya (Space Research)

13 Astronomy

14 Geography knowledge (Geography)

15 Kal Vidya (Time)

16 Geology Education (Geology Mining)

17 Gemstones and Metals (Gems & Metals)

18 Attraction Vidya (Gravity)

19 Prakash Vidya (Solar Energy)

20 Vidya (Communication)

21 Aircraft Vidya (Plane)

22 Jalayan Vidya (Water Vessels)

23 Agneya Astra Vidya (Arms & Ammunition)

24 Biology Sciences (Zoology Botany)

25 Yagna Vidya (Material Sic)

This is the talk of scientific education. Now let's talk about professional and technical education!

26 Commerce (Commerce)

27 Agriculture (Agriculture)

28 Animal husbandry (Animal Husbandry)

29 Bird Keeping (Bird Keeping)

30 Animal Training (Animal Training)

31 Yan Machine (Mechanics)

32 Chariot (Vehicle Designing)

33 Ratankar (Gems)

34 Gold Car (Jewellery Designing)

35 Clothing Man (Textile)

36 Pottery (Pottery)

37 Blacksmith (Metallurgy)

38 Takkas

39 Dying (Dying)

40 Khatwakar

41 Rajjukar (Logistics)

42 Architect (Architect)

43 Cuisine (Cooking)

44 Chariot (Driving)

45 River Manager (Water Management)

46 Indicators (Data Entry)

47 Cowshala Manager (Animal Husbandry)

48 Garden Tents (Horticulture)

49 Forest Pal (Horticulture)

50 Measured (Paramedical)

All this education was taught in Gurukul, but with time, when Gurukul disappeared, this knowledge also disappeared! Today, the future of the youth of our country is being destroyed by the Macaulay method, then in such a time, the redemption of Gurukul is needed.

How did Gurukul end in India?

Convent schools ruined. Indian Education Act was formed in 1858 It was drafted by 'Lord Macaulay'. Even before he had conducted a survey of education system here (India), many Britishers had given their reports about India's education system. One of the British officer was G.W. Luther and the other was Thomas Munro! Both of them had surveyed different areas at different times. Luther, who surveyed North India, wrote that there is 97 % literacy here and Munro, who surveyed South India, wrote that here there is 100% literacy.

Macaulay had clearly said that if India is to be slaves forever, its ′′ indigenous and cultural education system ′′ must be completely demolished and replaced with ′′ English education system ′′ and only then only in body Indians but English will be born from the brain and when they leave the university of this country, they will work in our interest.

Macaulay is using an idiom - ′′ Just as a farm is thoroughly plowed before a crop is planted, so must it be plowed and brought in the English education system. ′′ That's why he first declared Gurukuls illegal. Then he declared Sanskrit illegal and the Gurukul's of this country he finished it by roaming around setting them on fire, beat the teachers in it and put them in jail.

Till 1850 there were ' 7 lakh 32 thousand ' Gurukul in this country and at that time there were ' 7 lakhs 50 thousand ' villages in India. Meaning every village had an average Gurukul and all these Gurukuls used to be ' Higher Learning Institute ' in today's language. 18 subjects were taught in all of them and these people of Gurukul Samaj used to run these together, not by the king.

Education was given free in Gurukuls. This is how all Gurukuls were abolished and then English education was legalized and the first convent school opened in Calcutta. That time it was called 'free school'. Under this law, Calcutta University was created in India, Bombay University was created, Madras University was created, these three slavery-era universities are still in the country!

Macaulay had written a letter to his father. It is a very famous letter, in it he writes:

′′ These convent schools will bring out children who look like Indians but are English by brain and they don't know anything about their country. They won't know anything about their culture, they won't have any idea about their traditions, they will not know their idioms, when such children are there in this country, even if the British go away, English will not leave this country. ′′

The truth of the letter written at that time is clearly visible in this country now and see the misery of the act that we are ashamed to speak our own language. Speak in English to be called an educated. We feel inferior of ourselves who are ashamed to speak our own language.

People argue that English is the international language. There are 204 countries in the world and the English language is spoken, read and understood in only 11 countries, then how is this international language? Even in terms of words, English is not rich but poor language. The bible of these British was not in English and Jesus Christ did not speak English. The language of Jesus Christ and the language of the Bible were Armec. The script of Armek language was similar to our Bangla language. That language went extinct in the time cycle.

The language in the United Nations is not English, all the work there is in French. A society that is cut off from its mother tongue never gets good and this was Macaulay’s strategy! In which almost they have conquered because today's youth knows more about Europe than India. Considers Indian culture as dhakosla but imitates western countries. Supports the leftist despite not knowing the importance and characteristics of religion.

A pricking question to all the brothers, we all should know about religion. Because religion teaches us nationalism, religion teaches us socialism, religion motivates us to sacrifice our life for parents, teachers and nation. Tradition is a spiritual science, spirituality is the richer science than the science we all know today...

Lets think.

May be time answers.

#dharma #western culture #gurukul education #gurukulam

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shrimadbhagwadpuran · 3 years ago

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Find out how our Gurukul got closed? How did Gurukul end?

https://dharma-basics.blogspot.com/2021/07/find-out-how-our-gurukul-got-closed-how.html

The first school in England opened in 1811 . At that time India had 732000 Gurukuls. Find out how our Gurukul got closed?

How did Gurukul end?

First tell you what were studied in Gurukul of our Sanatan culture tradition! It is necessary to know what was studied in Rishikul after Aryavarta's Gurukul.

Change your thoughts with this education and remove the popular delusions!

01 Agni Vidya (Metallurgy)

02 Vayu Vidya (Flight)

03 Water Education (Navigation)

04 Space Science (Space Science)

05 Prithvi Vidya (Environment)

06 Surya Vidya (Solar Study)

07 Chandra and Lok Vidya (Lunar Study)

08 Megh Vidya (Weather Forecast)

09 Substance Electric Education (Battery)

10 Solar Energy Vidya (Solar Energy)

11 Day/ night vidya

12 Srishti Vidya (Space Research)

13 Astronomy

14 Geography knowledge (Geography)

15 Kal Vidya (Time)

16 Geology Education (Geology Mining)

17 Gemstones and Metals (Gems & Metals)

18 Attraction Vidya (Gravity)

19 Prakash Vidya (Solar Energy)

20 Vidya (Communication)

21 Aircraft Vidya (Plane)

22 Jalayan Vidya (Water Vessels)

23 Agneya Astra Vidya (Arms & Ammunition)

24 Biology Sciences (Zoology Botany)

25 Yagna Vidya (Material Sic)

This is the talk of scientific education. Now let's talk about professional and technical education!

26 Commerce (Commerce)

27 Agriculture (Agriculture)

28 Animal husbandry (Animal Husbandry)

29 Bird Keeping (Bird Keeping)

30 Animal Training (Animal Training)

31 Yan Machine (Mechanics)

32 Chariot (Vehicle Designing)

33 Ratankar (Gems)

34 Gold Car (Jewellery Designing)

35 Clothing Man (Textile)

36 Pottery (Pottery)

37 Blacksmith (Metallurgy)

38 Takkas

39 Dying (Dying)

40 Khatwakar

41 Rajjukar (Logistics)

42 Architect (Architect)

43 Cuisine (Cooking)

44 Chariot (Driving)

45 River Manager (Water Management)

46 Indicators (Data Entry)

47 Cowshala Manager (Animal Husbandry)

48 Garden Tents (Horticulture)

49 Forest Pal (Horticulture)

50 Measured (Paramedical)

How did Gurukul end in India?

Macaulay had written a letter to his father. It is a very famous letter, in it he writes:

Lets think.

May be time answers.

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771 – Austrasian king Carloman I dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne king of the now complete Frankish Kingdom. 1110 – The Kingdom of Jerusalem captures Sidon. 1259 – Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels. 1563 – The final session of the Council of Trent is held. (It had opened on December 13, 1545.) 1619 – Thirty-eight colonists arrive at Berkeley Hundred, Virginia. The group's charter proclaims that the day "be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God." 1676 – The Danish army under the command of King Christian V engages the Swedish army commanded by the Swedish king Charles XI at the Battle of Lund, to this day it is counted as the bloodiest battle in Scandinavian history and a turning point in the Scanian War. 1745 – Charles Edward Stuart's army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the Second Jacobite Rising. 1783 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington bids farewell to his officers. 1786 – Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara). 1791 – The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published. 1829 – In the face of fierce local opposition, British Governor-General Lord William Bentinck issues a regulation declaring that anyone who abets suttee in Bengal is guilty of culpable homicide. 1861 – The 109 Electors of the several states of the Confederate States of America unanimously elect Jefferson Davis as President and Alexander H. Stephens as Vice President. 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman's campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic Ocean from Atlanta. 1865 – North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks. 1867 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange). 1872 – The crewless American brigantine Mary Celeste, drifting in the Atlantic, is discovered by the Canadian brig Dei Gratia. The ship has been abandoned for nine days but is only slightly damaged. Her master Benjamin Briggs and all nine others known to have been on board are never accounted for. 1875 – Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison; he is later recaptured in Spain. 1881 – The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published. 1893 – First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland. 1906 – Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. 1909 – In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6. 1909 – The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association. 1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office. 1939 – World War II: HMS Nelson is struck by a mine (laid by U-31) off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940. 1942 – World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends. 1943 – World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile. 1943 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States. 1945 – By a vote of 65–7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.) 1949 – Sir Duncan George Stewart was fatally stabbed by Rosli Dhobi, a member leader of the Rukun 13, in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia during the British crown colony era in that state. 1956 – The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time. 1964 – Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest of the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property. 1965 – Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A. 1967 – Vietnam War: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta. 1969 – Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. 1971 – The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi. 1971 – The PNS Ghazi, a submarine belonging to the Pakistan Navy, sinks during the course of the Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971. 1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire. 1977 – Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100. 1978 – Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor. 1979 – The Hastie fire in Hull kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee. 1981 – South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei "homeland" (not recognized by any government outside South Africa). 1982 – The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution. 1983 – US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian Missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. 1 American pilot was killed, one was rescued and one is captured. 1984 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107–150 civilians in Mannar. 1991 – Terry A. Anderson is released after seven years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut; he is the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon. 1991 – Pan American World Airways ceases its operations after 64 years. 1992 – Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa. 1998 – The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched. 2005 – Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage. 2006 – Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana. 2014 – Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed. 2015 – A firebomb is thrown into a restaurant in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing 17 people. 2017 – The Thomas Fire starts near Santa Paula in California. It eventually becomes the largest wildfire in modern California history (at that time) after burning 440 square miles (281,893 acres; 114,078 ha) in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.

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Lolita may never go free. And that could be what’s best for her, scientists say

Chabeli Herrera - Nov. 20, 2017

For nearly 25 years, the Miami Seaquarium’s killer whale, Lolita, has been the star of a sequel that has never been made.

In 1995, inspired by the original tale of Keiko, the whale in the 1993 film “Free Willy,” a Washington state governor sought to make Lolita the next captive killer whale returned to the ocean. A fundraising campaign ensued, and soon it seemed that Free Lolita could be the next real-life Free Willy. Former Gov. Mike Lowry’s vision has since spawned thousands of dollars in donations, several lawsuits and annual protests at the Miami Seaquarium on Aug. 8 — the anniversary of Lolita’s 1970 capture off Puget Sound. Moms with their kids, college students in whale costumes and out-of-state advocates turn up on Virginia Key each year to support the Free Lolita movement.

But often lost in the well-meaning attempts to return Lolita home is one central question: Is freedom really what’s best for her? The orca, now about 50 years old, remains the last known survivor of the group of more than 50 whales captured 47 years ago. Since her mate died of a brain aneurysm in 1980, she has become the only solitary orca in captivity, where she lives in the smallest killer whale tank in the nation. As the years have passed, the likelihood of her return to the sea — and her ability to adjust to that change — has become less likely, said Russ Rector, a long-time marine mammal advocate. Lolita’s identity as a living being has been usurped, he said.

“She is just a casualty of captivity and the activists. She has become an icon that quite frankly, nothing has been done for her except a slogan: ‘Free Lolita, Free Lolita,’ ” Rector said. “I’m sure Lolita appreciates that.”

In recent years, Lolita’s story has been awash in a tidal wave of public opinion that has crashed against marine parks that house captive animals. Kick-started by the release of “Blackfish,” a 2013 documentary detailing the plight of orcas in captivity, the change in public perception has caused shares of marine theme park company SeaWorld to sink by about 40 percent this year alone. Key to that shift was the death of trainer Dawn Brancheau, who was killed by an orca following a performance at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010. SeaWorld has since announced it would end its breeding program for captive orcas.

The “Free Lolita” movement has outlived even its creator, Lowry, who died in March. But the donations keep piling up, the protests go on, and plans for her release continue to resurface.

Just last month, former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine and the Miami Beach City Commission unanimously passed a resolution urging the Seaquarium to retire Lolita based on the recommendations of a long-standing retirement plan originally created in 1996 by the nonprofit Tokitae Foundation (Tokitae was given the stage name “Lolita” by the Seaquarium) which later became Orca Conservancy. It involves transferring Lolita to a seaside sanctuary in the Pacific Northwest, in her native home, teaching her to fend for herself, and eventually releasing her back into the wild.

But at this point in her life, Lolita may never get to test her retirement plan. She may never be the sequel.

And that’s probably in her best interest, some experts say.

It was late one night in 1989 when Craig Pelton, then a young whale trainer, snuck into the whale stadium at Miami Seaquarium after it closed and waded into the 50 degree water.

After-hours whale swims were categorically prohibited, so, naturally, the trainers did it from time to time, Pelton said. It was a time before “Blackfish,” before a trainer had been killed by a captive whale, before the “Free Lolita” movement started making waves.

In the water, Pelton watched as Lolita swam over. The orca was in her mid-20s by then, about 20 feet long and 7,000 pounds. A full moon illuminated the stadium below.

Lolita paused and put her pectoral fin under his body — then she snuggled to his side. On Pelton’s other side, Lolita’s tank mate Makani, a Pacific white-sided dolphin, did the same.

“I laid there for about five, 10 minutes, all three [of us] at the surface,” Pelton said. “She was just a sweet animal that was just amazing to work with.”

By the time he left the park in 1991, Pelton said he learned how limited Lolita’s ability to adjust to new surroundings already had become. Pelton, now an assistant clinical professor at the University of Florida’s veterinary college, recalls the day he started at the Seaquarium, when the park installed a slide-out platform to her tank for performances. Lolita struggled to adjust to the change, Pelton said.

“The running joke was that if you were going to build her a new whale stadium, you have to build it next to the old one and put a gate between them to come home at night,” he said. “Even then, her ability to change to new things wasn’t that great.”

Change and assimilation are at the heart of the argument against Lolita’s release.

The Miami Herald spoke to a dozen experts on killer whales around the nation. They included experts without a stake in Lolita’s case, some who worked on the Keiko release project, scientists currently working on seaside sanctuary projects for aquatic mammals and her caretakers at the Seaquarium.

The vast majority said they would advise against moving Lolita to the Pacific Ocean or a seaside sanctuary.

“You have to face the fact that this is not a theoretical animal. This is one real animal that I think people on both sides of the conversation have to step back and say, ‘What’s best for this particular animal at this particular stage of her life?’ ” said Douglas Wartzok, professor emeritus and professor of biology at Florida International University, who has a Ph.D. in biophysics. “It’s not an easy answer, [but] my opinion is it’s probably better to leave the animal where she has lived for the past 47 years.”

Wartzok and others argue that the stress of moving Lolita could be catastrophic. Together, the costs involved in building her a new facility, the kind of veterinary care necessary for her at this stage in her life, the risks she could pose to the wild population and the negative impact a new environment could have on her health are, they say, insurmountable.

They point to a test pilot for this kind of release: Keiko.

Known as “Willy” to film buffs, the real life Keiko was captured when he was about 3 years old and lived in a small tank in a Mexican amusement park until the time pictured in “Free Willy,” a film about a boy who trains the whale to jump to freedom at a marine park. Following the film, scientists worked for years to ween Keiko off his dependency on human interaction, preparing him for his eventual release to the wild.

A study of his case released in 2009 in Marine Mammal Science, a peer-reviewed journal, found that Keiko repeatedly swam back to his caretakers’ boat, even though his caretakers tried to ignore him to encourage him to swim off on his own. Alone in a Norwegian fjord, Keiko eventually died of pneumonia about a year after his full release. The study concluded his release was “not successful.”

“The release of Keiko demonstrated that release of long-term captive animals is especially challenging and while we as humans might find it appealing to free a long-term captive animal, the survival and well being of the animal may be severely impacted in doing so,” the study found.

Keiko, who died at about 26, struggled to adjust without human contact and was unable to assimilate to the wild population, said Mark Simmons, who was the director of husbandry on the Keiko project before leaving it after disagreements over wildlife practices. Lolita has been in captivity nearly twice as long, he said, making it far less likely she will be able to adjust to a new environment.

“You would have to be just so incredibly careful about how you approximate that change. You can’t control the heavy metal toxicity in the water that is prevalent in our coastal regions. You can’t control the pathogens, the bacteria; her immune system is not adept,” said Simmons, who also authored a book on Keiko’s death called “Killing Keiko.”

“If you gave me a blank check and said, ‘You can do whatever you want to Lolita,’ personally I wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole.”

Seaside Sanctuary?

But some believe Lolita could thrive in a controlled, more natural environment — even if that means she may never be released to the ocean.

Maddalena Bearzi, president and co-founder of the California-based Ocean Conservation Society, said a seaside sanctuary could be an option. Bearzi has a Ph.D. in biology.

“It’s true that the psychological damage of Lolita’s sensory and physical isolation and deprivation of social bonding due to captivity is probably somehow already permanent in her,” Bearzi said via email. “Nevertheless, I have no doubt that Lolita would highly benefit from being released to a more appropriate environment such as a sea pen in her native waters.”

Some scientists working on seaside sanctuary projects agree. They’re working on the world’s first permanent sea pen projects.

Washington-based nonprofit Orca Network, for instance, has been updating Lolita’s retirement plan in recent years. The detailed, $3.6 million plan would first have Lolita swim into a sling at the Seaquarium that is then lifted by a crane and lowered into a large container half-filled with ice water. The container would be transported to Miami International Airport and loaded onto a military transport aircraft approved for animal transport, which would make the seven-hour flight to Bellingham International Airport in Washington state. Her container would then be transported via truck to a sea-pen site at Eastsound, Orcas Island.

There, she would be cared for by her current staff of trainers and veterinarians, and be given the same medications and the same cuts of fish she eats at the Seaquarium, Orca Network suggests. The cost of the plan, without her release into the wild, is about $2.9 million and an additional $1.4 million annually for upkeep.

“Lolita’s close kin will be nearby and she’ll be offered ample human care and companionship indefinitely if she so chooses,” said Howard Garrett, co-founder, director and president of the board at Orca Network. Garrett, who has a degree in sociology and has been working on whale research since 1980, believes Lolita could be safely transitioned to the new site.

A more recent plan seeks to build a sea pen in the Pacific Northwest or Nova Scotia to house six to eight orcas in the coming years.

The site, in development from not-for-profit organization The Whale Sanctuary Project, is seeking a netted-off cove or bay about 100 acres in size, with good water flushing, said Lori Marino, president of the Whale Sanctuary Project. Once the location is chosen, the organization plans to build a full-service marine mammal veterinary clinic and an education center where visitors can see the whales from afar. No breeding would be allowed.

The project would be an enormous undertaking, with a cost of $15 million to $20 million to build and another $2 million a year in operating costs, Marino predicts. Whether Lolita would be a good candidate for the sanctuary is still unknown.

“There is absolutely no doubt that if she were to be successfully transferred to a seaside sanctuary, the circumstances of her life would just be enormously changed,” Marino said. “That doesn’t mean there isn’t a risk and before any kind of decision like that we would have to really see what her health was, what kind of pathogen load she was carrying. You can’t just take the whale and transfer her into a new environment and say, ‘Well, she is going to thrive.’ ”

There is also critical concern that Lolita may harm an already overstressed Southern Resident killer whale population, an endangered community in the Northwestern Pacific whose numbers have been declining rapidly in recent years because of pollution, vessel noise and food shortages.

“The last thing we would want to do is introduce a whale into that environment where it could have a negative impact on the Southern Resident orca,” Marino said.

And, the same issues that pose a threat to the orca population may also pose a threat to Lolita were she to be retired to that region, said Shari Tarantino, president of the board of directors at Orca Conservancy, the Washington-based nonprofit organization involved in developing Lolita’s retirement plan.

“The Salish Sea is a primary shipping route for fossil fuels, and a sanctuary facility could trap her in an oil spill. It is an area used for military exercises that may have resulted in fatalities of wild killer whales. There have been disease outbreaks that have resulted in unusual mortality events of other cetaceans at a time when killer whale mortality was also high. Smoke and ash from fires currently pose risks to respiratory health,” Tarantino said via email.

While the organization advocates for Lolita’s release, she said, it also is concerned about Lolita’s ability to survive in a new environment.

“Killer whales and other cetaceans that have been in a facility for more than about two years have exhibited increased mortality rates when moved to a new setting,” she said. That holds true whether the orca was captured from the wild, transferred between aquariums, or released to the wild.

“Thus she would be a bad candidate for moving out of her current facility.”

Closed Window

Lolita may have had a window of opportunity for release 25 years ago, when the “Free Lolita” movement began, said Rector, the activist who has been working for decades to shut down the Seaquarium and similar facilities.

“Lolita has missed her window because of activists that have blown it. They have used her for a funding source.”

As for unfulfilled plans to build sanctuaries, he said, “If you haven’t done something in 20 years, you are probably not going to do it.”

Garrett of the Orca Network said the nearly $13,000 in annual donations the organization has received in the past five years, plus about $4,000 annually from 2002 to 2013, has gone to raising awareness for Lolita’s plight. Any donations for her sea pen reportedly have gone to a fund in her name created by the Lummi Tribal Nonprofit Foundation, not Orca Network, Garrett said. Figures were not available.

But the window for Lolita’s release was officially shuttered in 2015, Rector said.

Until then, Lolita was not covered under the endangered species listing for the Southern Resident Killer Whale because she was captured in 1970, before the Marine Mammal Protection Act was passed in 1972. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and other advocacy groups fought to include her in the listing, a move they hoped would bring her new protections from alleged harm and harassment.

Instead, the designation made it more difficult for Lolita to be moved from the Seaquarium.

Prior to the designation, a group could have retired Lolita by acquiring her from the Seaquarium, Rector said. Now that she is included, any move would require a permit from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, which would have to ensure that releasing Lolita would not pose a serious risk to her livelihood.

“Any future plans to move or release Lolita would … undergo rigorous scientific review,” said the National Marine Fisheries Service, the federal agency that overseas Lolita, in its ruling. “Releasing a whale that has spent most of its life in captivity raises many concerns. Previous attempts to release captive killer whales and dolphins have often been unsuccessful and some have ended tragically with the death of the released animal.”

The Tank

All arguments about Lolita end up dwelling on the size of her tank. The 80 by 60 foot concrete pool, bisected by a work island, is part of what fueled the Free Lolita campaign to begin with. It remains a source of consternation for activists and sympathizers.

Pelton, the former whale trainer, said he hopes to see her in a bigger pool one day. Wartzok, the FIU professor, called her tank “not a very good environment for a whale to live in.” Bearzi said Lolita’s current environment has “deprived [her] from expressing all aspects of her social and ecological complexity.”

While the legality of the size of Lolita’s tank has been questioned numerous times, including by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Inspector General earlier this year, a 1999 ruling by the USDA stands. The tank meets the necessary requirements.

“I don’t think space is relative to the overall health of her,” said Robert Rose, curator emeritus at the Miami Seaquarium, who has been working with Lolita for more than 22 years. “Having that bigger pool or that large ocean isn’t going to help her in any way shape or form. … Sometimes change is very hard, especially when you get older.”

The Seaquarium strongly refutes that the tank is too small or that Lolita is unhappy, though it did try to build her a larger enclosure in the 1990s.

Then, the park battled the village of Key Biscayne to begin a $70 million expansion, which called for a new $9 million to $10 million whale stadium. The fight lasted nearly a decade.

“[We spent] millions of dollars in legal battle with Key Biscayne and we want to Tallahassee twice before the master plan was ultimately denied, and a new killer whale stadium was a part of this plan,” said Eric Eimstad, assistant general manager and chief marketing officer of the Seaquarium. “But today we have an animal that is [more than 50 years old] and what is really in her best interest? Changing her environment I don’t think in any way would be to her benefit.”

But former village attorney Stephen Helfman claimed that the Seaquarium hid behind its expansion legal battle to avoid building the tank, which was permitted without village approval because it is a marine exhibit.

“That’s the old red herring they love to throw out there, that the village of Key Biscayne won’t let them build a new tank for Lolita,” Helfman told the Herald, as reported in a 1998 article. “We have no problem with them building any size tank they like. They can build away at their whim with regard to a new tank for Lolita.”

But the Seaquarium said it obtained financing and building permits for a new tank groundbreaking scheduled for Sept. 24, 2001. After 9/11, tourism took a nose dive around the country, making it “impossible” to move forward with the plan, the park said in a statement.

While the Seaquarium, a private entity, won’t say how much of its profit is tied to Lolita’s popularity, she is something of a rarity. Only three other parks in the country feature a headline killer whale act: SeaWorld Orlando, SeaWorld San Diego and SeaWorld San Antonio.

In SeaWorld Orlando, the orca tanks are about twice as deep as Lolita’s, according to SeaWorld, which would only discuss the depth of its tanks.

“You could take Lolita’s tank and grandstand and put it in the pool in Orlando and still have pool left over,” Rector said. “That should tell you something.”

After decades following Lolita’s case, he is now convinced she is out of options.

“Lolita is going to die in that tank and there is nothing anybody can do about it,” he said.

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