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memorable people november certainly zoomed by now we round out the year with the most wonderful time of the year thankfully all of my shopping for the holidays is complete having surfed the interweb top to bottom and visited many malls stores from europe to the americas this is about what it looked like song space age love song by flock of seagulls 1980 video career opportunities a k a one wild night 1991 happy december crash posted in uncategorized the art of christmas begins this sunday posted on november 30 2019 by crash macduff crash course holiday landmark series three sundays december 1st 8th 15th spanning five centuries of art two thousand years in the making c posted in uncategorized st andrew s day 2019 posted on november 30 2019 by crash macduff st andrew carrying his cross near the main altar at st peter s basilica in rome whilst it is unlikely scotland s patron saint ever actually visited the country we have been celebrating st andrew s day for centuries st andrew was born in the biblical village of bethsaida on the sea of galilee in between the years 5ad and 10ad he was one of jesus 12 disciples and was as a fishermen in galilee andrew was a christian preacher and is thought to have traveled to greece on a christian mission however when there he is believed to have been killed by crucifixion on a diagonal cross shaped crucifix at patras painting of st andrew artus wolffort 1581 1641 between 1596 and 1641 oil on canvas 116 2 cm x 91 4 cm private collection his links to scotland are unclear but one particularly well known story centres on st andrew s role in battle betweel the scots and picts and the angles in the 9 th century according to legend st andrew appeared to the pictish king óengus mac fergusa óengus ii in a dream and told him his army would be victorious on the day of the battle the symbol of a saltire reminiscent of the diagonal cross st andrew was crucified on appeared in the sky and óengus ii and his army were triumphant frans francken ii antwerp 1581 1642 the crucifixion of saint andrew scotland s flag was chosen in honour of that moment and it is also how the ancient town of st andrew s got its name the tradition of celebrating it on this day was conceived by 18 th century ex patriots in the united states who were keen to reconnect with their scottish roots different regions of scotland have their own traditions and events to commemorate the day east lothian hosts the annual saltire festival with a 10k night run golfing tournament crafting workshops and traditional music performances elsewhere you can find a stunning torchlight procession through the glasgow s west end this excerpt from a homily on the gospel of john by st john chrysostom is used in the readings for november 30 the feast of saint andrew the apostle son of zebedee and brother of st peter andrew was a disciple of john the baptist before he left john to follow jesus the gospel of john tells us that it was actually andrew who brought his brother peter to christ with philip he presented the gentiles to christ and set the stage for the feeding of the 5 000 in the wilderness by bringing the boy with the loaves and fishes to jesus after pentecost tradition tells us that he preached the gospel to many nations and was put to death by crucifixion at achaia a famous statue of the martyred apostle carrying his cross can be seen near the main altar at st peter s basilica in rome a fter andrew had stayed with jesus and had learned much from him he did not keep this treasure to himself but hastened to share it with his brother notice what andrew said to him we have found the messiah that is to say the christ notice how his words reveal what he has learned in so short a time they show the power of the master who has convinced them of this truth they reveal the zeal and concern of men preoccupied with this question from the very beginning andrew s words reveal a soul waiting with the utmost longing for the coming of the messiah looking forward to his appearing from heaven rejoicing when he does appear and hastening to announce so great an event to others to support one another in the things of the spirit is the true sign of good will between brothers of loving kinship and sincere affection notice too how even from the beginning peter is docile and receptive in spirit he hastens to jesus without delay he brought him to jesus says the evangelist but peter must not be condemned for his readiness to accept andrew s word without much weighing of it it is probable that his brother had given him and many others a careful account of the event the evangelists in the interest of brevity regularly summarise a lengthy narrative saint john does not say that peter believed immediately but that he brought him to jesus andrew was to hand him over to jesus to learn everything for himself there was also another disciple present and he hastened with them for the same purpose when john the baptist said this is the lamb and he baptizes in the spirit he left the deeper understanding of these things to be received from christ all the more so would andrew act in the same way since he did not think himself able to give a complete explanation he brought his brother to the very source of light and peter was so joyful and eager that he would not delay even for a moment i cannot think of a better song music video for this day than scotland s very own big country slainte mhath crash posted in uncategorized new stunning image of the milky way posted on november 28 2019 by crash macduff astronomers using a radio telescope in western australia have captured a stunning new view of our milky way galaxy the image taken of the heart of the galactic center is from the murchison widefield array and reveals what humans would see if our eyes processed radio waves this new view captures low frequency radio emission from our galaxy looking both in fine detail and at larger structures said astrophysicist dr natasha hurley walker from the curtin university node of the international centre for radio astronomy research icrar crash posted in uncategorized eerie beam of light appears in canada posted on november 28 2019 by crash macduff residents of the canadian city of edmonton were bewildered on tuesday evening when an eerie beam of light appeared in the sky and sparked some truly fantastic theories for what had created it the wondrous sight was reportedly first spotted at around seven o clock at night and remained visible for hours as is often the case with such events numerous puzzled observers posted photos of the odd illumination on social media and speculated about what it might have been it would seem that the two most popular possibilities offered by amused witnesses were that the beam was an indication that aliens had arrived or failing that the illumination was demonic in nature more serious minded individuals raised concerns that the strange light was coming from a disaster of some kind and proceeded to flood the phone lines of the fire department who eventually took to twitter to offer an explanation for what people were seeing in the sky fortunately it turned out that the beam of light was neither alien nor demonic and had a much less sinister origin according to the edmonton fire rescue services department the beam of light was coming from a nearby refinery which was burning excess and unusable gasses in a process known as flaring they went on to thank residents for reporting the seemingly strange event and assured them that this is not a fire event and for those in edmonton who may have missed all the commotion the department said that the flaring will continue for the next two days so they may get a chance to catch a glimpse of the alien beam tonight crash posted in uncategorized tagged edmonton light the strange unusual old favourites posted on november 25 2019 by crash macduff if you are accustomed to my blog or even my past tweets for that matter you are no doubt used to several daily features i post these will all return to my blog in december meanwhile you can always see past posts on the topic by doing a quick search puppy friday horse sunday caturday aviation monday red panda monday bird monday flower friday throwback thursday art wednesday astrofotos crash posted in uncategorized compass cows posted on november 25 2019 by crash macduff researchers have discovered that cattle have a good sense of direction and tend to point in a northerly direction it has long been observed that cows appear to have a talent for weather forecasting and are able to predict when rain is on the way but until now their navigational abilities have been largely ignored and considered utterly ridicules their innate ability to find north is believed to be a relic from the days when their wild ancestors needed an accurate sense of direction to migrate across the plains of africa asia and europe dr sabine begall and colleagues from the university of duisburg essen a public university in duisburg and essen north rhine westphalia germany looked at thousands of images of cattle on google earth in scotland england ireland india and the usa they also studied 3 000 deer in the czech republic the deer tended to face north when resting or grazing although in many cases the images were not clear enough to determine which way the cattle were facing they were aligned on a north south axis the scientists concluded that they were behaving in the same way as the deer huge variations in the wind direction and sunlight in the areas where the beasts were found meant that the scientists were able to rule out those factors as being responsible for the direction they were facing we conclude that the magnetic field is the only common and most likely factor responsible for the observed alignment the scientists wrote in an article published in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences journal it is already known that many species use the earth s magnetic field to navigate across the planet examples include migratory turtles salmon termites and birds animals are thought to use their own internal magnets made of crystals of magnetite homing pigeons have a small amount of the substance on their beaks which gives them their uncannily accurate powers of navigation crash posted in uncategorized tagged animal instinct cows deer earth s magnetic field google earth magnetite proceedings of the national academy of sciences university of duisburg essen sacred sunday paul s shipwreck on malta posted on november 25 2019 by crash macduff a crash course historical perspective of acts 27 28 paul is shipwrecked on malta woodcutting by gustave dore 1832 1883 tracing the apostle paul s missionary journeys he was arrested in judea tried and then transported as a prisoner to rome from the standpoint of historical evidence the account found in the book of acts recording saint paul s voyage and shipwreck is supported by a wealth of detail history provides us with a striking meteorological and nautical confirmation of the biblical record acts 27 12 28 1 luke records that the ship drifted for fourteen days in the gale and then shipwrecked on the island of malta halfway across the mediterranean this account of a fourteen day gale followed by a shipwreck on a remote island reads like a tall tale however the meteorological and nautical evidence demonstrates and in rather spectacular fashion that these events must have occurred just as luke records them the most important piece of evidence is the exact compass bearing of the gale this bearing can be established by means of three separate calculations first luke states that euraquilo struck shortly after they left fair havens in other words the ship must have been less than halfway to their intended destination at phoenix they must have been somewhere between cape matala and a point seventeen miles w n w of the cape when the gale struck second there is the relation of the island of clauda or cauda to this start point cape matala is on a bearing of east 7 degrees north from the eastern edge of clauda while the halfway point to phoenix is east 40 degrees north for the ship to get behind clauda euraquilo must have been blowing from a point somewhere between these two bearings the point midway between these two figures is east 25 degrees north or e n e 1 4 n this cannot be more than a point and a half off the actual direction of the wind shores of malta third luke states that when they got behind clauda the sailors were afraid that they would be blown onto the syrtis sandbanks of north africa however for them to have been blown onto those banks from clauda euraquilo would have had to have been blowing from a point somewhere between east 18 degrees north and east 37 degrees north the point midway between these figures is east 27 degrees north this figure is only 1 4 point off the mean figure of the previous calculation these three calculations establish that the direction from which the wind was blowing could not have been more than a point off the designation e n e 1 2 n this brings us to a another dramatic piece of evidence as the ship drifted west from clauda it would have been pointed due north we know this because it could not have been pointed directly into the wind without capsizing in other words it had to have been pointed north just off the direction from which the wind was coming using this information we can calculate with some precision both the direction and rate of the ship s drift to the west ancient records reveal that egyptian grain ships were the largest vessels of the time being about the size of an early nineteenth century sailing vessel this size is implicitly confirmed by luke s statement that there were 276 people on board since their ship was pointed due north while the wind was from the northeast we can roughly calculate the direction of ship s lateral or sideways drift shores of malta the azimuth or direction of the ship s drift from clauda would have been approximately west eight degrees north the island of malta is not directly west of clauda instead malta s bearing from clauda is exactly west eight degrees north this brings us to yet another piece of evidence luke states that it took them fourteen days to drift to malta the distance from clauda to the easternmost point of malta is 476 6 miles to calculate the westward rate of drift of their ship it is necessary to know two things the size of the ship and the force of the gale we know the approximate size of the ship and it is possible to establish the mean intensity of the gale we can then calculate an average rate of drift for paul s vessel this calculation reveals an average westward drift of one and one half miles per hour thus it would take paul s ship about thirteen days to drift to malta luke records that it took them fourteen days this nautical and meteorological evidence provides us with an astonishing confirmation of the historical accuracy of luke s narrative italy 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