Stargazers: Venus Transit of the Sun 2012

The next transit of Venus occurs June 5 or 6. Key highlights include the four "contacts" near the beginning and end of the transit when Venus appears to touch the edge of the sun.  Most of North America sees the beginning of the transit in the afternoon and evening on June 5, whereas much of Eurasia sees the end of the transit in the morning on June 6., 2012, depending on your location.

Locations and dates of best viewing of Venus transit

If you miss this opportunity to view the transit there won't be another chance until 2017.

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Obama Oversees al-Qaeda 'Kill List'

 President Obama is personally overseeing a top-secret process for determining which Al-Qaeda suspects should be placed on a “kill list."

This “kill list” comes as part of a stepped-up fight against Al-Qaeda and
its affiliates in Pakistan and Yemen. “He is determined that he will make these decisions about how far and wide these operations will go,” National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon said. “His view is that he’s responsible for the position of the United States in the world... He’s determined to keep the tether pretty short.”

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Nothing else in Mr. Obama’s first term has baffled liberal supporters and confounded conservative critics alike as his aggressive counterterrorism record. His actions have often remained inscrutable, obscured by awkward secrecy rules, polarized political commentary and the president’s own deep reserve.

Keep Out! NASA Claims Squatter's Rights Around Apollo Moon Landing Sites

In the next few years several countries, including China, India, and Japan, are looking to put unmanned probes on the lunar surface. But more unprecedented are the 26 teams currently racing to win the Google Lunar X Prize—a contest that will award $20 million to the first private company to land a robot on the lunar surface, travel a third of a mile, and send back a high-definition image before 2015.

The moon is about to become crowded.

With all this activity, NASA is somewhat nervous about its own lunar history. The agency recently released a set of guidelines that aim to preserve important heritage locations such as the Apollo landing and Ranger impact sites. The report, available since 2011 to members of the private spaceflight community, was publicly posted at NASA’s website and officially accepted by the X Prize foundation on May 24.



NASA’s proposed radius around the Apollo 17 landing site, which would prevent damage to any historical artifacts from future missions.

Though NASA has no way of enforcing the requirements, they are designed to protect materials and scientific equipment at historical lunar sites as well as future landing sites. The guidelines have been made available internationally, and the agency welcomes other nations to participate in and improve upon them, said NASA.

Celebrating Memorial Day 2012

Thank you all for all you have given

Hurricane Season 2012: What Can We Expect This Year?

The 2012 season hasn't officially started yet and we've already had two tropical storm incidents.

Interested in hurricanes past, present, and what may happen this year in the Atlantic?

OK, I know you can go to the weather channel and get all you need from them. Well, I say let's cut through the commercials and hype and get to the meat of the thing! I suggest that you go here!

click image of Deegle the Weather Dog!

Deegle the weather dog lives here on the east coast and is very astute when it comes to the weather stirred up by the Tropics. For several years now she has been predicting hurricanes and their paths into the east coast with uncanny precision. That girl's nose knows!

When compared with the predictions given by the professionals at Weather.com and most regional weather stations I notice that Deegle's predictions are more precise and more on the point than they are!

On this one I say don't take my word for it, click on her picture above and see for yourself! 

It is all right there for you to critique. 



Featured:'Soul Surfer' Movie Trailer-The Bethany Hamilton Story

Soul Surfer is about a spunky teenager named Bethany Hamilton (AnnaSophia Robb, Bridge to Terebithia)of Kauai, Hawaii with a gift for riding the monster Hawaiian surf. But anyone familiar with Bethany’s true story knows what comes next: A shark attack severs her left arm at the shoulder, derailing her promising surfing career before it really had a chance to begin.

But Bethany has proven that a mere shark attack wasn't going to slow her down!

Check out these professional surfing stats!

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Click here for 'Soul Surfer' movie trailer on EW.com

Female Astronomers:Scientists with Beautiful Faces as well as Beautiful Minds!

Here are four of my favorite astronomer/scientists. I would find these scientists very interesting, learned and well informed even if I were blind. Thank God for my good vision; I am totally captured when I see them speak!

Dr.Pamela L. Gay

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scientist, astronomer, writer, podcaster, teacher

Dr. Pamela L. Gay is perhaps best known for her work on the Astronomy Cast and Slacker Astronomy podcasts. Combining a solid background in astronomy with a sexy voice, this young astronomer is working to bring the cosmos to the masses, one download at a time. In addition to communicating astronomy to the public, Pamela works to engage people in doing science through the citizen science activities with CosmoQuest. This new citizen science community makes the public part of the scientific community, one NASA image at a time.Pamela lives in a historic house in southern Illinois with her husband, two dogs, and a lot of books and technology. When she is not online or teaching, you might be able to find her gardening or riding her horse.

Dr. Laura Danly

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Laura Danly, Ph.D. is an American astronomer and academic. Currently, Danly serves as Curator at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. Prior to her current positions, she served as chair of the Department of Space Sciences at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.Laura Danly is a spectroscopist specializing in ultraviolet observations from space satellites.

Dr.Amy Mainzer

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Amy Mainzer is currently at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Astrophysics and Space Sciences Section.

Dr. Mainzer  has earned a Ph.D. in Astronomy from UCLA, an M.S. from the California Institute of Technology, and a B.A. from Stanford University. Also, she’s one more beautiful smile to brighten the doorstep of NASA headquarters; she held a research fellowship between 2001-2003 there.

 You may have seen her on the History Channel series The Universe.

She built the First Light Camera for SOFIA (FLITECAM) and observed brown dwarfs (stars, not people) with it. She is the WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) Deputy Project Scientist and principal investigator of a project to enhance WISE’s ability to find new asteroids.

Dr.Lucianne Walkowicz

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Lucianne Walkowicz studies the inscrutable faces of the stars for clues to the inner workings of their hearts. She got her taste for astronomy as an undergrad at Johns Hopkins, testing detectors for the Hubble Space Telescope’s new camera (installed in 2002). She also learned to love the dark stellar denizens of our galaxy, the red dwarfs, which became the topic of her PhD dissertation at University of Washington. Nowadays, she works on NASA’s Kepler mission, studying starspots and the tempestuous tantrums of stellar flares to understand stellar magnetic fields. She is particularly interested in how the high energy radiation from stars influences the habitability of planets around alien suns. Lucianne is also a leader in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a new project that will scan the sky every night for 10 years to create a huge cosmic movie of our Universe.

For more on beautiful scientists go to Guy.com

(you'll be pleasantly surprised just how many there are!)

NASCAR: Danica Patrick Races Coca-Cola 600 instead of Indianapolis 500

Patrick will commit totally to NASCAR this year.

Fox analyst and Hall of Famer Darrell Waltrip dubbed Patrick "the face of NASCAR" when she made her Daytona 500 debut in February and hailed her Darlington Raceway debut as among the best ever at one of NASCAR's trickiest tracks.

Her absence from Indianapolis Motor Speedway (where her familiar GoDaddy.com-sponsored ride will start second with James Hinchcliffe) is perceived as a negative for the Izod IndyCar Series, which will lose the featured attraction of its signature race to NASCAR, but there also is a downside for Patrick. Even during the seasons in which she struggled, Indy offered a chance to shine on auto racing's grandest stage, where she had six top-10 finishes in seven starts, including a third-place.

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There almost certainly will be more watching her drive the No. 10 Chevrolet for defending series champion Tony Stewart at Charlotte than if she were racing at Indy, which has been trumped in TV ratings by NASCAR's 600-mile event in four of the last five years.

The huge bump in exposure (millions more watch NASCAR than IndyCar on a weekly basis) is among the many reasons Patrick made the full-time switch to stock cars this year. She also enjoys the competition and increased opportunities for passing., though she hasn't charged to the front often. She scored the best finish by a woman in NASCAR history with a fourth at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March 2011 but hasn't scored another top-five in 35 starts in the second-level Nationwide Series and has an average finish of 20.9 in 10 races in 2012 (and 17.4 in 12 races last year).

 Patrick is attempting a difficult transition that many IndyCar drivers (perhaps most notably four-time IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti) have failed to accomplish. Stock cars are heavier with narrower tires and lack the space-age technology that keeps Indy cars glued to the track with much more precision braking. Dale Earnhardt Jr. described the challenge Thursday as "trying to get a four-year degree in a short period of time."

Swamp People: Liz and Kristi, Two Toughest Females on TV!

There is a 30 day alligator hunting season where hunters try and fill their boats with as many gators as they can using all sorts of methods and History Channel is right there to capture it all.

While I personally believe that Swamp People is one of the best shows on cable TV, there is no denying that hunting alligators is a very dangerous job. So you wouldn’t usually expect to see a woman doing this kind of job in a Southern town. Much less a two-women team but on this years’ show, you get exactly that.

 Liz, who was on the last season of Swamp People paired up with other favorite swamper Troy, is now paired up with another girl, Kristi. Both women are extremely skilled at what they do and proved it so in last week’s episode when they stalked a gator from the top of their truck, shot it, swam in the water to retrieve it, only to to find out the gator was still alive. The pair then jumped out of the water, shot the gator again and finally the gator was able to be tagged and recorded.

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If that doesn’t get your 'girls can do this job too!' blood boiling, during the season premier both Liz and Kristi caught the biggest gator of the day, out doing all the guys, with a 13.6 foot long gator.
That's right, over 13 feet and almost 1000 pounds these two women hunted, killed and dragged into the boat.

The Question arises:

Are Liz and Kristi Gay?

What do you think? Is it that important, or do you feel slightly emasculated.

Willy kills gator w/pocket knife

SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Delivers Ashes to be Buried in Space

Two men who made space their lives are also making space their final resting place. Their ashes - and those of about 300 others - were aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket that blasted into orbit Tuesday as part of an in-space for-profit burial business.

James Doohan, Scotty from "Star Trek," spent his acting career whizzing through the cosmos.

Gordon Cooper was one of America's famous Mercury seven astronauts.

Some people's ashes that flew Tuesday, including those of James Doohan, were also on a botched 2008 SpaceX launch that didn't get the remains into orbit and dropped into the Pacific Ocean. This is a makeup flight for them.

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The ashes were in a special container, which SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell confirmed Tuesday was in the second stage of the Falcon rocket. That section of the rocket was jettisoned about 10 minutes after launching a capsule full of supplies for the International Space Station. It will remain in orbit for about a year then burn up as it returns to Earth.

American Idol: Phillip or Jessica, You Decide! Vote Online!

Is it Phillip Phillips' to lose or has Jessica been saving her best for last?

You decide, vote here. 

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Obama-Clinton ticket in 2012?...No Way!

Not even if you see swine go airborne!

Not even if the Pope does deficate in the woods!

Not even on the coldest day in Hades!

Yes, the White House is all but publicly grousing about the way the vice president forced the president’s hand on gay marriage.
And yes, Biden has proven to be a much juicier target for the late-night comedians than the more phlegmatic president.

Still, dumping a sitting VEEP is not, if rarely done!

How would Barrack explain such a flip flop?

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When have presidents who are up for re-election dumped their vice presidents, and why have they done it?

In modern times,a president has dumped his veep only three times.

F.D. Roosevelt twice,

 and G.R. Ford once.

Franklin Roosevelt did it in 1940.

 His two-term vice president, the former House Speaker John Nance Garner, was far more conservative than his president, and had broken with him on issues like the packing of the Supreme Court. The Democratic Party’s liberal wing despised Garner. At a congressional hearing, labor leader John L. Lewis called him "a labor-baiting, poker-playing, whiskey-drinking, evil old man." When Garner showed signs that he might challenge FDR’s nomination for a third term in office with his own presidential candidacy, the Democrats replaced him on the ticket with Henry Wallace, the secretary of agriculture. (Garner retired to Texas, his place in history assured by his famous aphorism–often censored–that the job he held was “not worth a bucket of warm piss.”)

Four years later, it was Wallace’s turn to say goodbye. His liberal views on race and social justice, along with a very sympathetic attitude toward the Soviet Union, unsettled Democrats who were well aware that FDR might not survive his fourth term.

Out went Wallace, in came Harry Truman.

 Wallace got the consolation prize of secretary of commerce, until his increasingly open hostility to Truman’s Cold War policies got him booted. In 1948, he ran for president as a member of the very-left Progressive Party; he got 2.4 percent of the vote, but the 8 percent he captured in New York likely cost Truman that state, and he surely made the results in California and Ohio far closer than they otherwise would have been.

The other time came in 1976, when Gerald Ford was facing a strong challenge to his renomination from Ronald Reagan. Ford had to have the support of prominent conservatives such as Strom Thurmond–and the price of their support was the dumping of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. To help Ford, Rockefeller fell on his own sword by taking himself out of the running early–in November 1975–saying, "I didn't come down (to Washington) to get caught up in party squabbles which only make it more difficult for the president in a very difficult time, when the problems of the country require his fullest possible attention.” He left the political stage dramatically, caught on camera giving the middle-finger salute at a campaign rally; and left life even more dramatically, having given up the ghost while engaged in intercourse–perhaps social, perhaps otherwise–with a woman 45 years his junior.

past post on Obama-Clinton ticket

Asteroid Collisions: NEOs, Why Are We So Paranoid?

'We're paranoid for a reason' collision chronology:

 65 million years ago -- A 10-kilometer asteroid strikes north of the Yucatan Peninsula, causes a global firestorm, then a cold snap and finally a global warming that extinguishes the dinosaurs. Mammals move to center stage.

3.3 million years ago -- An impact in Argentina precedes numerous extinctions and a global cooling trend.

 50,000 years ago -- An iron meteorite a few dozen meters across gouges the famous 1 mile wide Barringer meteorite crater in Arizona.

1490 -- About 10,000 people die in China when an asteroid breaks up overhead resulting in a mid air explosion.

1908 -- An asteroid estimated at 50 meters across explodes above Tunguska, Siberia, blowing down trees across 2,000 square miles and killing a thousand reindeer, but apparently no people. Because the stony object exploded in the atmosphere, there's no crater.

1937 -- Asteroid Hermes -- about a mile in diameter -- misses Earth by 600,000 miles. Hermes, although smaller than the asteroid that supposedly wiped out the dinosaurs, could have been a true "category killer," able to cause epic devastation and kill millions.

1980 -- Spacewatch program starts at the University of Arizona, intent on cataloging asteroids. The goal is to get a statistical picture of orbiting rocks anywhere in the solar system.

1994 -- Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 breaks apart, then smashes into Jupiter under the watchful eye of dozens of telescopes. The resulting zone of chaos is estimated to be as large as the Earth and lends urgency to the search for asteroids and comets. Shoemaker-Levy was a turning point, if it can happen in front of your nose -- practically in your backyard -- it can also happen on Earth.

1998 -- Greenish glass bodies found in Argentina associated with the extinction of 36 local animals (including one we'd love to see, a carnivorous, flightless bird). The glass contains iridium, the same chemical that helped prove the impact theory of dinosaur extinction. Still, correlation is not proof. The climate change -- the sudden, dramatic cooling came immediately after the impact, still we were careful to call this a coincidence.

2000 -- NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking System announces new data about large asteroids. "Until now, scientists thought the population of large, near-Earth asteroids was between 1,000 and 2,000, but we've downgraded that number significantly.We now believe there are between 500 and 1,000 near-Earth asteroids larger than one kilometer in diameter.

2000 --An Australian engineer, announces a new computer analysis of asteroid impacts indicating that asteroids may cause considerable chaos over a 100,000-year period. Most disturbing was a 5-kilometer asteroid, which exploded with a power of 23 million megatons, easily enough to wipe out the human population. It is estimated the annual risk of a fatal asteroid impact at one in 90, and concluded that an average of 120,000 people died per event. A particular concern was tsunamis. When an asteroid hits the ocean, which covers about 70 percent of the planet, it can trigger a tsunami. According to the simulation, the average tsunami would kill 470,000 people.

The Apophis pass in 2029

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Bee Gee's Robin Gibb Dies:2nd Disco Star to Die of Cancer Within a Week

Disco fans are feeling their mortality this weekend, as the death of one of the principal voices of the 15-times-platinum Saturday Night Fever soundtrack follows the passing of Donna Summer by a mere three days.

Robin follows Maurice (a fellow Bee Gee) and Andy (a solo artist) in death, leaving eldest brother Barry as the sole survivor among the legendary Brothers Gibb. The Bee Gees had officially retired as a group in 2003, following Maurice's passing, although Barry announced in 2009 that there were tentative plans to revive the act as a duo -- a potential reunion that never came to be after Robin fell seriously ill in 2010.

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Some of Robin's health problems seemed to echo the maladies suffered earlier by Maurice -- who was his twin. The cause of Maurice's death nine years ago was attributed to a twisted intestine. Robin first underwent emergency gastro-intestinal surgery in August 2010. In January of this year, he revealed that he'd been diagnosed with colon cancer, which had spread to the liver -- noting that "the strange thing is, I've never felt seriously ill."

Past post on Robin Gibb

Rare Solar Eclipse Can Be Seen in Western United States on Sunday

People in the western part of the United States will get a rare glimps this Sunday: a solar eclipse, often only visible to a small portion of the world, will be visible to some parts of United States, including California, Nevada, and Arizona, but not the East Coast. And, remember, if you are watching the eclipse, make sure to use some kind of safety beyond normal sunglasses, otherwise you could go blind.

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A solar eclipse May 21 is the first of its kind since 1994, visible from a wide area of Earth. The phenomenon happens twice a year, but is usually only visible by a small fraction of the Earth's surface. This eclipse will be visible in China and Japan on May 21 and for the first time in 18 years by continental western states, California, Nevada, and Arizona on May 20, but not on the East Coast, where the sun will have already set. Those in the Northeast will have to wait for the total eclipse in 2017.

For those who will get a glimpse of the annular eclipse this weekend, though, don’t forget mom’s advice. If you don’t have a solar filter, a pinhole projector, or some special solar-safe viewing glasses, you better refrain from staring—otherwise the next eclipse might be a lot harder to see.

The Kennedy Curse, Victims of



Listed here are the many tragedies that have struck the Kennedy family, including John Kennedy's assassination and the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in a plane crash.

1941-Rosemary Kennedy, who is mentally ill, is institutionalized following a failed lobotomy. She is the eldest Kennedy daughter of Joseph and Rose.

1944-Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., the oldest Kennedy son, dies in a plane crash over the English Channel during World War II. The pilot was 29 at the time of his death.

1948-Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish dies in a plane crash in France at age 28. Her husband, William John Robert Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington, died in World War II.

1963-Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, the second son of President Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, dies on August 7, two days after he was born almost six weeks premature.

1963-President John F. Kennedy is assassinated on Nov. 22 in Dallas. He was 46.

1964-Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the youngest Kennedy child, escapes death in a plane crash that claims an aide, Edward Moss.

1968-Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated on June 5 in Los Angeles. The 42 year old had just won California's Democratic presidential primary election.

1969-Edward M. Kennedy, drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on Massachusetts' Chappaquiddick Island. Mary Jo Kopechne, an aide who was in the car with him, dies in the accident.

1973-Edward M. Kennedy, the senator's son, loses his right leg to cancer.

1973-Joseph P. Kennedy 2d, the son of Robert and Ethel, is the driver in a car accident on Cape Cod that leaves one passenger permanently paralyzed.

1984-David A. Kennedy, son of Robert, dies of a drug overdose in a Palm Beach, Florida, hotel. He was 28.

1986-Patrick Kennedy, the teenage son of Sen. Edward Kennedy, undergoes treatment for cocaine addiction.

1991-William Kennedy Smith, the son of Jean Kennedy Smith, is accused of raping a woman at the family's Palm Beach, Florida, vacation home. He is tried and acquitted.

1997-Michael Kennedy, the son of Robert, dies in a skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado. He was 39. Prior to the accident, Michael made headlines for allegedly having a long-term affair with his children's babysitter.

1999-John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and his sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, die when their plane crashes in the waters off Martha's Vineyard, Ma. Kennedy was flying the Piper Saratoga plane that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean.

2002-Michael Skakel, nephew of Ethel Kennedy, was found guilty in June by a Connecticut jury of the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley. Skakel was 15 when Moxley, also 15, was found bludgeoned to death outside her Greenwich, Conn., home. Skakel was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison in August.

2005-Rosemary Kennedy dies on January 7 in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, at age 86

2008-Sen. Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy is diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor on May 20.

2009-Sen. Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy dies on August 25. His sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, died two weeks earlier, on August 11.

2012-Mary Richardson Kennedy, the 52-year-old estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is found dead in the barn of her Bedford, N.Y., home. She died of an apparent suicide.

John, John Jr., Robert

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9/11 Attacks Claim Another Life: Disco Legend Donna Summer Dies after Battle with Cancer

Donna Summer, 63, has died after her battle with Cancer.The 63-year-old disco legend reportedly passed away Wednesday morning (May 17) in Florida.

She was my favorite Disco artist and in my youth I danced many hours to her sexy, captivating voice. My favorite song was the extended version of "I feel Love".

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 Summer is known for her many hits, including "Hot Stuff," "Last Dance," "She Works Hard for the Money" and "Bad Girls," among many others, and won five Grammys over the course of her career. Summer had lung cancer, which she believed came from inhaling particles after the 9/11 attacks in New York. She was reportedly working on a new album up to the time of her death.

I feel love-Donna Summer 

Lung Cancer Staging: Methods by which Assessments are Made

 Lung Cancer Staging

 Is the assessment of the extent to which a lung cancer has spread from its original source. As with most cancers, staging is an important determinant of treatment and prognosis. In general, more advanced stages of cancer are less amenable to treatment and have a worse prognosis.

There are several methods by which this assessment is made. They are broadly classified into non-invasive techniques, which generally involve medical imaging of the lungs such as computer tomography (CT) scans, and invasive techniques such as biopsy. Invasive techniques provide additional information because tissue samples can be seen microscopically to determine the type of lung cancer and its grade.

Pattern of progression.

Lung cancer can start in various portions of the lung. From there it spreads in fairly predictable pattern. Typically, if lung cancer spreads, it first goes to close-by lymph nodes, followed by lymph nodes further away located between the lungs in a space called the mediastinum. In the mediastinum, the lung cancer tends at first to stay on the side where the original tumor started. Once it crosses the mediastinal midline, it denotes more advanced, surgically unresectable disease. Lung cancer can also spread to distant organs, for example, the liver or adrenal glands, which constitutes the most advanced stage of the disease called stage IV.

Staging is the process of determining how much cancer there is in the body and where it is located. Staging of lung cancer is of paramount importance as treatment choices are often highly complex, even for physicians with much experience in the field, and the options largely depend on the stage of the disease. The underlying purpose is to describe the extent or severity of an individual's cancer, and to bring together cancers that have similar prognosis and treatment.

Staging information which is obtained prior to surgery, for example by x-rays and endoscopic ultrasound, is called clinical staging.

Staging by surgery is known as pathological staging.

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Unconditional Love - from the Novel 'The Trinket and other Short Stories published by 'PublishAmerica Baltimore'



                                                           Unconditional Love

She is all I think about. She is my Queen. The reason I exist is because of her. I am captivated. I am consumed with what she means to me. My wants lead me to be near her. I am anxious to serve her. Her wish is my command. Yes, I am definitely in love, because this is how I really feel about my Queen. She is from a great and powerful dynasty that has existed for as far back as anyone can remember. She rules over millions of her subjects with a natural ease. I am one of the lucky ones. My job is to attend my Queen. I am a member of her entourage. I am blessed with the duties of concubine and lover.

Oh, don't be taken aback. This is as common in our society as falling of a rose. My splendid lady is the mother of our kingdom. She has birthed many heirs and I have fathered not a few. Again I say that I am blessed. She is omnipotent in our society; her wants are automatically seen to. I share her with many other males in her consort. I could and should be all that she needed if only she could be monogamous but, her desires are more than I alone can quench. I suffer my love to her and still I see no wrong in the way God made her. I love her because she loves me. She has told me many times. I don't fool myself thinking that she hasn't whispered these amours when in the throws of another's embrace. I just feel myself lucky to have my time in her presence. My queen is not cruel. She never acknowledges that there is any other but me in her life. She prefers to live for the moment and never concerns herself with the present or the past. With the Royal Duties she is constantly concerned with, I am grateful when she turns her love to me. My chest thumps with anticipation when we make eye contact. With just a slight gesture she summons me. I feel that familiar rush as I am consumed into her pheromone attraction.

M'Lady, I am here, I am at your whim. May I please you? She always finds it quaint when I am nervous, I find it discerning. I am sexual putty in her embrace. I turn and flow with her silent direction. I swoon. I am dizzy with desire! I become engaged and am enwrapped with my gentle lover, I fell her humming with pleasure more than I hear it. She is enchanting and beautiful in her heightened state. I am climaxed to exultation. I lay trembling at my queen’s side, she strokes my head. I slowly recover from the ecstasy and I come back down to earth. I am complete for another day; I have been loved by my goddess. Then as easily as she called me to her; she dismisses me with a loving push to my bottom. Off I go and I begin to miss her already. I try to think of a way once more to get Her Majesty's attention .I have pleasure in completing my duties to my Queen and harvesting our fields is one of the ways to accomplish this. I fly from her chambers and head for the outer environs. I harvest all that our plants have to offer, the bounty is great this season. Gathering as much as I can carry, I rush back to the Royal Chambers with my gift to my Queen.

Like all of my fellow concubines I vie for her attention as she lies back on her throne and attends to her Royal Duty. She is approached constantly by someone offering her food or nectar. She is often serviced and preened and brushed .She accepts or refuses at her leisure. This action in itself is enough to please the servant to the point of singing usually followed by dancing with excitement. I have joined in the dance many times. I wriggle my butt just as intently as anyone of her males. If this is what pleases her then this is what I am driven to do. I love my Queen unconditionally and under no condition will I stop loving her. I would follow her to the ends of the earth.

I find myself moved to again be next to her. I rush to her only to be stopped by another! I am being attacked! No way has he loved her more than I have! I dive into the fray and counter-attack feverishly! I am young and fast, my opponent hasn't a chance, I sever his head in one great sweep of my weapons and he falls before my queen. Her Majesty ignores the vanquished as if he had never existed. Yet, she doesn't acknowledge my love! Did she not see that I would kill to please her? The dead were swept away and the dance began again. I to joined in and began dancing once more for her attention.

That's what a honey bee does.

  End                                                                              

 Gary Cox

copyrighted by PublishAmerica Baltimore

Top Ten Stories, Including 'Long Island Medium Renewed' on Gary Cox, Science Fiction Novelist

Although the G.C.S.F.N. blog has only been active for about nine months there are over 300 articles posted here and as of this week it has been viewed over ten thousand times.  Below are the top ten most visited posts and the number of times they have been viewed.

Thank you all for your repeated visits. Look forward to more thought provoking posts in the coming months here on Gary Cox, Sci-Fi Novelist !

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The Universe, Are We Here by Accident or Design?

First there was the big bang.

Then a massive soup of sub-atomic particles numbering in the uncountable trillions and trillions. These sub-atomic particles were matter and anti-matter. When they came into contact they exploded into energy.

Luckily there were slightly more particles of matter than anti-matter(one in a billion parts).

Eventually, an imbalance in these left over particles allowed gravity to pull these particles together.

As time went on they became clumped and compressed enough to go nuclear. This light and heat shone across the early cosmos. 

These early stars lived, died, then exploded, and seeded the universe with the heavy elements needed to develop life.

Around nine billion years ago one of these newer clumps of seeded gas nebulae developed a star that was just the right size to have a very long life and a very stable nuclear process.

About four and a half billion years ago, around this star, at just the right distance(Goldilocks zone) a planet coalesced. This planet would be a rolling, tumbling, gyrating ball that could not sustain life if it hadn't been for another proto planet colliding with it around four billion years ago. It hit at just the right glancing blow to cause the resulting rubble to reform into Earth and the Moon. The Moon is the Earth's stabilizing partner in space, without it the young Earth would have been too unstable to produce life.

On Earth molecules moved, collided, and meshed with each other until eventually one combination arose that could reproduce itself.

This led to billions of years of evolution culminating in us. 

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Is this all an accident or grand design?

What say you? 

Lucianne Walkowicz: Stargazer, Scientist

The more I look into scientists of  today the more I find beautiful women. These scientists may not be as renowned as Einstein, but they sure make him look like an old shoe.

Two of my favorites are Lucianne Walkowitz and Dr. Amy Mainzer. Wow, these are a couple of  the most beautiful scientists I've ever seen!

Lucianne Walkowitz studies the faces of stars to discern what is going on inside of these behemoths. She is also involved with Kepler the planet hunting satellite.

Go here to see what she does. 

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Lucianne Walkowitz at the TED talks conference

I can't decide which is the more beautiful, Lucianne or Amy. My guess is that they both have more brains in their little finger than I have in my whole head. On top of their beauty they study space stuff! Man oh man, geeks have come a long way, baby!

Featured: Freelance Photographer John Crouch

My friend John Crouch is one of the best Freelance Photographers in North Carolina. He specializes in sports and wildlife photography.

Below you will find some of his best and most intriguing images.

I'm sure that if you would like him to do any photographic work he could put you on his list.

John is an amicable, witty, good looking kinda guy :) and although his work is all over south eastern North Carolina, one would be hard pressed to find a photo of him without a camera in his hands. He is humble and non intrusive, yet he sees the world as a wonderful place to be preserved in pictures.

It is obvious that he considers a picture to be worth a thousand words!

I met John several years ago when he found it necessary to drive a taxi to supplement his income. I was his dispatcher and I found him to be dependable and a hard worker. When my father died in 2008 John got me off to myself and gave me his booking for that night; a considerable amount of money and refused to hear anything about me paying him back. This I will never forget.

When I became a published author John was one of the very first to purchase my books.

Sorry John, I know you would not care for me bringing this up, but you do deserve to be bragged upon,my friend.

OK, on to the beautiful photography of John Crouch, photographer extraordinaire.

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