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Would you want a tattoo embedded with all your medical & financial information?

Would you want a tattoo embedded with all your medical & financial information?

So many candidates for the Mark of the Beast! Here’s the latest. Some of us may soon willingly carry a tattoo embedded with a person’s financial and medical information. CBS New York reports, Jan. 29, 2016, that a software company called Chaotic Moon has developed a “tech tattoo” that gets embedded into a person’s arm and can track a person’s financial and medical information. Eric Schneider, the…

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Danville: Police Looking for Missing 8-Year-Old Boy

Danville: Police Looking for Missing 8-Year-Old Boy

Law enforcement officers are currently searching for a missing eight year old boy believed to be near Camino Tasajara and Blackhawk Road in Danville. The individual is Eric Schneider, a white male, five feet tall and weighing approximately 65 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes. He is wearing a green shirt and grey sweatpants. He was last seen riding a scooter on Monte Carlo Way. Eric is non…

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Matthias Goerne singing Schubert's Wandrers Nachtlied II, accompanied by Eric Schneider.

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Moesson is de titel van een theaterstuk gebaseerd op het boek van Eric Schneider ‘Een tropische herinnering’. Het speelt in de La Mar, ik was er bij, keek en luisterde er naar en het viel mij tegen. Niet het spel van Kitty Courbois, Bram van der Vlugt of Thom Hoffman, maar hun teksten. Bram probeerde nog enige luchtigheid aan het spel te geven door de ongemakken van de ouderdom soepel door de…

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Matthias Goerne singing Schubert's Wandrers Nachtlied, accompanied by Eric Schneider.

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Several measures of ecosystem efficiency exist. One that we discussed earlier is the measure of the production required to maintain a unit of biomass. Mature ecosystems and adult organisms have lower entropy production per unit weight although they process more energy (and produce more entropy) overall. Mature ecosystems and adults peak in size. Children run higher temperatures, corresponding to higher growth rates, but over time they become adults who require fewer calories per unit mass. No longer growing, they funnel energy into continuing operations; they use energy more efficiently. Stress, however, can send an organism or ecosystem reeling back to earlier, less efficient modes of managing energy flow. Consider forest fires, destructive but not fatal. The large trees of late-stage forest ecosystems are vulnerable to winds and pets. Mature temperate forests accumulate dry biomass on the ground; when lightning or a match strikes, they burn. But burnt mature forests come back; they regenerate from seeds and shoots, beginning again the successional process. Nor do forest fires burn everything. Even after the ugly coastal oil spills of the Amoco Cadiz off France and the Exxon Valdez off Alaska, marine ecosystems in these areas revived. Toxic oil forms t a surface digestible by communities of bacteria. Then plankton and other organisms arrive to further revitalize the ecosystem. But if the stresses are relentless, ecosystems can suffer drastic declines in their ability to degrade available gradients. ... Metabolism is linked to ecosystem "health." Adult organisms in some ways behave much like ecosystems. Both developing organisms and ecosystems reach their full energy-handling capacities and suffer declines in their ability to integrate new materials. Metabolic reactions give off heat and material waste. A quick sprint up a set of stairs will raise our metabolic rate and body temperature; it will induce fermentation - an older, less efficient metabolic pathway replaces respiration in our muscle cells as lactic acid accumulates and sugar does not burn to carbon dioxide and water. An increase in metabolism linked to temperature accompanies many illnesses, which is why one of the first thing physicians, parents, and emergency room nurses do is take a patient's temperature. She may not be aware of it, but the physician gauges the patient's thermodynamic condition. She seeks a temporary telltale increase in metabolic rate, an increase in specific entropy production. If she finds it, she rightly concludes that the patient may be sick. In the sick organism or ecosystem, gradient reduction may have temporarily increased. But the increase is not sustainable. It is a function of the inability to maintain the superior, longer-lasting means of gradient reduction achieved by the healthy adult or mature ecosystem. ... With a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of over $1 million per year for five years, a consortium of universities intensively analyzed the effects of petroleum products on marine ecosystems. Marine scientists, among the best in the world, followed the fates of various radioactively tagged isotopes through oil-stressed ecosystems. A team of plankton experts looked at surface-dwelling microbes (algae, zooplankton) and animal larvae; another team tracked the sea bottom, or benthic system. The experiments were conducted along Narragansett Bay at the Marine Ecosystem Research Laboratory (MERL) of the University of Rhode Island. The facility consisted of fourteen fiberglass mesocosm tanks, each holding 13,000 liters of Naragansett Bay water and a carefully captured benthic community that was 30 centimeters thick and 2.5 square meters in area. The sediment communities were collected in box cores and laid carefully in the bottom of these enormous tanks. Special lift pumps carried floating marine algae (phytoplankton), larval forms of zooplankton, and fish from the bay into the mesocosm tanks without harming their delicate structure. Benthic surface dwellers were also included. Tank water was continuously pumped so its turnover mirrored the flushing time for Narragansett Bay. This continuous careful replacement seeded new organisms in to the tanks. About 90% of the species of Narragansett Bay were represented in the mesocosms (Oviatt, Walker, and Pilson 1980). ... After filling the MERL tanks with healthy organisms, the tanks were left undisturbed and allowed to stabilize for one hundred days. During that time the phytoplankton produced almost all the food. This was eaten and stored by the benthic organisms - the amphipods, worms, mollusks and microorganisms that made up most of the ecosystem's biomass. After the initial stabilization period, the production/biomass ratios in the tank were near one - almost all productivity was converted to biomass. The system converted photosynthetically fixed carbon into biomass at a very high efficiency. The specific entropy production was very low. Then the mesocosms were dosed with number 2 fuel oil at 190 parts per billion for 160 days. This quantity of oil is not acutely toxic to most marine organisms, but it poses potentially fatal problems if the exposure is chronic. One hundred days after exposure the P/B ratio soared to 230 - the production of new matter greatly exceeded what could be stored as biomass. The mesocosm lost weight. Indeed, it looked anorectic. Even after the oil stress stopped, the P/B rose to 250, a very inefficient metabolic rate. Although many other changes were recorded, the changes in efficiency, the weight-specific entropy production, and P/B ratio were drastic. After one hundred days researchers discontinued the chronic oil dosing. But then something strange happened. By eighty days after exposure, almost incredibly, the P/B ratios of the ecosystem had reverted to their original levels. On thermodynamic criteria, the mesocosms had returned to their steady-state dynamic equilibrium, their status quo ante. At first, and much as in a sick animal, metabolism (as measured by high P/B ratios and stepped-up specific entropy production) increased. After relief from stress, the ecosystem reverted to its dynamic but stable state of minimum dissipation per unit weight. It got rid of its "fever."

Schneider & Sagan, Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life

This book slipped back and forth between dull and revelatory but the good parts were so. damned. good.