Castlehom Chronicles

Lakes of Gasoline

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/titanlakes.htm

“Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.

“The new findings from the study led by Ralph Lorenz, Cassini radar team member from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md., are reported in the Jan. 29, 2008 issue of the Geophysical Research Letters.

"Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material — it’s a giant factory of organic chemicals," said Lorenz. "This vast carbon inventory is an important window into the geology and climate history of Titan."

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Maybe and of course there is a lot we don’t know about Titan but thanks to the probes “we” know a lot about Titan and the outer Solar System – it’s all about the more we know the less we know.

Given the common history of Titan and the earth – those Lakes of Oil challenge the stories most of us were told about the origin of oil being “like the origin of coal” – a geological storage of dead organic material.

The “fact”  of its existence gives weigh to belief that oil here (and on Titan) is a data supporting the abiotic origin of oil. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin

The amount of the oil  Titan and here on earth is too much Oil to be explained by abiotic process alone. 

As per the links below biotic process can make oil but it can also consume it as per the “where has all the oil gone”

http://minx.cc/?post=304054

below two more links to add to the confusion which comes with knowing.

 http://eyrie.shef.ac.uk/will/eee/cpe630/comfun9.html

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n1/origin-of-oil

Of course “the tuth is out there”.

Maybe BP sold a lot of it. 

Maybe it’s “sweet crude”.

THINK

Google is a game changer!

http://pipl.com/search/?FirstName=Brenda&LastName=Toner&City=&State=&Country=&CategoryID=2&Interface=2

http://pipl.com/search/?FirstName=Irene&LastName=McEvoy&City=&State=&Country=&CategoryID=2&Interface=2

http://pipl.com/search/?FirstName=loree&LastName=Larratt&City=&State=&Country=&CategoryID=2&Interface=2

http://pipl.com/search/?CategoryID=2&Interface=19&UserCountry=US&DayPart=A&LastName=Larratt&FirstName=ashleigh&Hint=&City=&State=&StateFullName=&Country=&Country3=&CountryFullName=&QueryString=%22asheigh+Larratt%22&QueryStringQuoted=%22asheigh+Larratt%22&QueryStringUnquoted=asheigh+Larratt

http://pipl.com/search/?FirstName=Gordon&LastName=Lucas&City=Toronto&State=ON&Country=CA&CategoryID=2&Interface=2

http://pipl.com/search/?FirstName=Alex&LastName=Lucas&City=Toronto&State=ON&Country=CA&CategoryID=2&Interface=2

http://pipl.com/search/?FirstName=Sara&LastName=Larratt&City=Edmonton&State=AB&Country=CA&CategoryID=2&Interface=2

http://pipl.com/search/?FirstName=Devon&LastName=Larratt&City=&State=&Country=&CategoryID=2&Interface=2

http://pipl.com/search/?FirstName=Eberhard&LastName=Vowinckel&City=&State=&Country=&CategoryID=2&Interface=2

http://pipl.com/search/?FirstName=Thomas&LastName=Vowinckel&City=&State=&Country=&CategoryID=2&Interface=2

http://pipl.com/search/?FirstName=Otto&LastName=Heilingbrunner&City=&State=&Country=&CategoryID=2&Interface=2

Wall Charts

http://www.intelcenter.com/wc.html?gclid=CLL0-rGLj6MCFZsM2god-FoYWA

Afghan Taliban Organizational Link Analysis Wall Chart v1.1
NOW AVAILABLE

The Afghan Taliban Organizational Link Analysis Wall Chart v1.1 shows the organizational structure of the Taliban in Afghanistan. The upper portion of the chart displays the broad organizational structure which is comprised of 10 committees. The 10 committees address both logistical and operational aspects and provide support to the regional military commands.  The lower portion examines the four regional military Shuras which operate out of Pakistan, and direct operations throughout Afghanistan, depicting regional command structures. Following the Feb. 2010 arrest of Taliban Deputy Emir Mullah Baradar, Mullah Zakir was promoted from head a regional military Shura to head of all military operations. While there is likely further overlap between the committees on the upper portion, and those operating at the provincial level, it is unclear how these commanders fit into the overall structure of the Taliban. Networks within the Taliban, such as the Haqqani network, are depicted here as well. The chart is 44"x36" and costs US$29.95.

WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks

“… could become as important a journalistic tool
as the Freedom of Information Act.” — Time Magazine

Stanley A. McChystal

“Service in this business is tough and often dangerous,” he said. “It extracts a price for participants, and that price can be high. It is tempting to protect yourself from the personal and professional cost of loss by limiting how much you commit, how much you believe and trust in people, and how deeply you care.”

In conclusion, he said: “If I had it to do over again, I’d do some things in my career differently, but not many. I believed in people and I still believe in them. I trusted and I still trust. I cared and I still care. I wouldn’t have had it any other way.”

Then he added, “To the young leaders of today and tomorrow, it’s a great life.”

http://www.lougehrig.com/about/speech.htm

FAREWELL SPEECH Lou Gehrig

"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.

"Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn’t consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure, I’m lucky. Who wouldn’t consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball’s greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I’m lucky.

"When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift - that’s something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies - that’s something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that’s something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it’s a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that’s the finest I know.

"So I close in saying that I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for."

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THANK GOD WE CAN’T SEE THE FUTURE

IT IS BAD ENOUGH WE CAN’T FORGET THE PAST

WE ONLY HAVE NOW THIS MOMENT

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Beaumont Cup

http://shortlink.info/?0c0d9f04

Next to the Wilson Challenge Trophy the Beaumont Cup is one of the oldest athletics trophy awarded annually at the University of  Alberta.  I won it 50 years ago.

1960–1961
Richard Larratt

Google has changed everything.

One of my best friends -

Gordon Lucas Strategy Consultant

same story

goto google type in his name and there he is

It isn’t just kids telling their stories on Facebook.

If you’ve had a life it is out there – even a popular name like lucas won’t hide you – and what about google maps.

It’s a game-changer.  You’re on camera.  It’s not 15 minutes of fame.  It’s your life.

I was talking to Gordon the other day about this.  It’s a pride and a shame that while the past is gone the record is anything but…

tragedy then comedy

http://vimeo.com/8290990

As per the 1st link (sic: above) that was how i first heard Jacques Brel, Alive and well in Paris, ~forty year ago at the National Art Centre in Ottawa with Tiu.

Now according to the Citizen it’s a sequel but still the best of this year’s Stratford musicals says Jamie Portman, Canwest News Service June 24, 2010 as she gushes

. “Take a bare stage, four performers, a small orchestra in the background and 26 glorious songs celebrating a late 20th-century rebirth of the troubadour tradition —and what do you get?

“Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris is a musically intense and emotionally involving celebration of a legendary Belgian cabaret artist who explored virtually every facet of the human experience through a group of remarkable contemporary art songs”.

http://shortlink.info/?562951c1

Somehow it reminds me of a kid telling me I was obsessing about wwii and then i realized he thought america had been allies with germany against russia and what was my problem with Arabs.  It’s so Lawrence of Arabia.

I have stopped crying.

Sometimes I laugh.

JCFROG is funny.

http://vimeo.com/3518906

He has ~2600 following his twitting. He is not a sequel.

Hubble

http://vimeo.com/13195191

Ben Hillman Bach of the Antarctica

http://vimeo.com/4915499

IBM

http://vimeo.com/2245119