Ron Nessman stops a baby stroller that was freely rolling into the path of traffic after being blown by wind in California. Photograph: Still image of A1 Hand Car Wash surveillance video
Having experienced homelessness and unemployment for years, Ron Nessman was leaving a job interview at an Applebee’s restaurant in California when a baby in a stroller rolling into the path of several cars captured his attention.
Nessman sprinted toward the stroller, stopped it before it reached the roadway, saved the child from harm – and landed his first job in years to cap off a story that has interrupted a US news cycle dominated by headlines about mass killings and bitter partisan politics.
“I didn’t even have time to think about it,” Nessman told the local news station KOVR-TV when reflecting on his actions, which many have hailed as heroic. “You just react.”
Unhoused for about eight years, Nessman had reportedly been living with his sister during recent months and was in need of work when he went to an Applebee’s in San Bernardino county to interview for a position washing dishes at the restaurant on 1 May. Nessman had left the interview and was waiting on a bench outside when he spotted an extraordinary emergency unfolding.
A woman had stopped on the driveway of a nearby car wash and loaded her great-nephew into a stroller when strong winds blew the baby away from her. The woman chased after the stroller but fell, and she struggled to get back up as she helplessly watched the baby roll toward a street which was packed with motorists who may or may not have been obeying a speed limit of 40 miles (64km) an hour.
Nessman immediately jumped up from the bench, sprinted to the stroller and stopped it with his right hand as it approached the nearest traffic lane, according to dramatic video captured by a surveillance camera at the car wash. He turned the stroller around and began wheeling it up the driveway as at least eight cars who did not appear to notice the scene zoomed by.
“I said, you know, ‘I got it!’” Nessman recounted as he told KOVR about preventing the baby from being hit and hurt – or worse – by any of the incoming cars. “Because I felt so bad for the lady. I got nephews and nieces. I can imagine something like that [happening].
Ron Nessman gives an interview to KOVR-TV. Photograph: Still image of KOVR-TV video
“I wouldn’t have been able to live with myself if I did nothing, of course. I’m just glad I realized it and was on it.”
The video of Nessman’s leaping into life-saving action circulated widely on social media. Nessman told the California news station KNSD that relatives as far away as Florida and Missouri had seen the footage.
In his interview with KOVR, Nessman said he began experiencing homelessness after becoming deeply struck with grief over his girlfriend’s unexpected death.
“It was sudden and I didn’t want to do anything,” Nessman said.
The former big rig truck driver told the station that he moved to the San Bernardino area recently to reconnect with his family.
KNSD reported on 4 May that Applebee’s subsequently hired Nessman, and his orientation was scheduled for the next day. He has also reportedly received other job offers, including painting and driving big rigs again.
“I’ll earn everything I get so – with that in mind, you know – I appreciate the opportunity that Applebee’s has given me,” Nessman told KNSD. “It’s really cool.”
Astronomers spotted a dying star swallowing a large planet, a discovery that fills in a “missing link” in understanding the fates of Earth and many other planets.
An artist’s concept of the 10 billion-year-old star, ZTF SLRN-2020, absorbing a gas giant planet as it spiraled into the star, eventually plunging into the core of the star, causing the star to expand and brighten.CreditCredit…R. Hurt/K. Miller (Caltech, IPAC)
Astronomers have witnessed a star gobbling up a planet, offering the first direct glimpse of a gnarly process called planetary engulfment that most likely awaits Earth in the deep future.
Scientists serendipitously spotted a gas planet — like Jupiter but possibly larger — as it was swallowed up by an aging sun-like star about 12,000 light-years from Earth. Tantalizing hints of engulfment events have been spotted in the past, but nobody has ever caught a star in the act of devouring a planet until now.
The discovery “provides a missing link in our understanding of the evolution and final fates of planetary systems,” including the one we inhabit, the astronomers wrote in their study, which was published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.
“This is the eventual fate of the Earth,” said Kishalay De, a NASA Einstein fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of the study’s authors. “We are really seeing what the Earth is going to run into five billion years from now.”
The life cycles of stars are linked to their masses. Small stars, like red dwarfs, may shine for trillions of years, whereas the most massive stars explode just a few million years after their births. As stars like the sun start to die after billions of years, they transform into a class called red giants that expand hundreds of times in size, consuming anything within their advancing borders.
Signs of engulfment events are littered across the Milky Way. The light of some stars is polluted with the chemical signatures of planets, suggesting that whole worlds are being digested before our eyes. Scientists have also spotted hundreds of planets with small orbits that are doomed to fall within the radius of red giants in the future.
But while stars clearly consume the occasional planet, capturing this momentis challenging because the light sparked by these events is faint and ephemeral. In fact, Dr. De was using the Zwicky Transient Facility, a camera on a telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California, in May 2020 to look for something completely different — merging stars, called red novas. It was in those observations that he stumbled across a curious burst of visible light.
What unfolded was like a “detective story,” Dr. De said. To identify the burst, his team obtained visible-light observations of the source captured in November 2020 by the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Those images revealed a star chilling at about 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, about 10 times colder than the searing temperatures expected from red novas.
Puzzled, Dr. De and his colleagues observed the star again, this time in infrared light, using another camera at the Palomar Observatory and NASA’s NEOWISE space telescope. The system turned out to be brilliant in infrared, a band of the light spectrum that is ideal for spotting faint objects that don’t emit much energy. It dawned on the researchers that they were most likely watching a star gulping down a planet in real time.
“My first reaction was disbelief,” Dr. De said. “We see the before and the after” of planetary engulfment, he added, but “these observations give us the first glimpse into how that process plays out.”
The initial burst detected by the Zwicky observatory, which lasted 10 days, occurred at the moment that a dying star at last fully enveloped a gas planet no more than 10 times the mass of Jupiter. For more than a year before its luminous demise, the planet skimmed the outskirts of the star, pulling off chunks of its atmosphere, which explains why the researchers saw cool gas and dust hanging around the system. After the burst, the star eerily glowed for about six months as it swallowed the remains of the planet.
Lorenzo Spina, an astrophysicist at the Astronomical Observatory of Padua in Italy who studies planetary engulfment, called the team’s conclusions “very solid” and described the discovery as “groundbreaking.”
“This is a very important missing piece of the entire story,” Dr. Spina said. “Now, we are going to have a more complete understanding of this entire process.”
Such incredible events can shed light on a host of juicy mysteries, including the odds that life might exist elsewhere in the universe. Starlight that contains chemical hints of planetary morsels can be mined for clues about the interior composition of worlds in other systems. Building an inventory of these ingredients can help to estimate the number of star systems with the right materials to support habitable environments.
Now that scientists have seen a real example of planetary engulfment, they can search the skies for similar patterns that fit the blueprint. The new observations also provide a grisly sneak peek of the literal end of the world. When the sun enters its red-giant phase, our familiar home planet is likely to die within its infernal embrace.
“Finding an event like this really puts all of the theories that have been out there to the most stringent tests possible,” Dr. De said. “It really opens up this entire new field of research.”
In this exclusive preview of groundbreaking, unreleased technology, former Apple designer and Humane cofounder Imran Chaudhri envisions a future where AI enables our devices to “disappear.” He gives a sneak peek of his company’s new product — shown for the first time ever on the TED stage — and explains how it could change the way we interact with tech and the world around us. Witness a stunning vision of the next leap in device design.
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After Skool • Sep 13, 2022 Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung’s work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. Jung worked as a research scientist at the famous Burghölzli hospital, under Eugen Bleuler. During this time, he came to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The two men conducted a lengthy correspondence and collaborated, for a while, on a joint vision of human psychology. Freud saw the younger Jung as the heir he had been seeking to take forward his “new science” of psychoanalysis and to this end secured his appointment as president of his newly founded International Psychoanalytical Association. Jung’s research and personal vision, however, made it impossible for him to follow his older colleague’s doctrine and a schism became inevitable. This division was personally painful for Jung and resulted in the establishment of Jung’s analytical psychology as a comprehensive system separate from psychoanalysis. Among the central concepts of analytical psychology is individuation—the lifelong psychological process of differentiation of the self out of each individual’s conscious and unconscious elements. Jung considered it to be the main task of human development. He created some of the best known psychological concepts, including synchronicity, archetypal phenomena, the collective unconscious, the psychological complex and extraversion and introversion. In this video, we explore Carl Jung’s concept of the shadow and how to integrate it into our personality to attain wholeness. This script was written and recorded by Eternalised. Please check out their youtube channel for more insightful videos. / eternalised
“Forget your personal tragedy,” Ernest Hemingway exhorted his dear friend F. Scott Fitzgerald in a tough-love letter of advice. “Good writers always come back. Always.” It is an insight as true of writers as it is of all artists and of human beings in general, as true of personal tragedy as it is of collective tragedy — something Toni Morrison articulated in her mobilizing manifesto for the writer’s task in troubled times: “There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
That is what Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899–June 14, 1986) — born the same year as Hemingway, writing two decades before Morrison — conveys with uncommon splendor of sentiment in Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges: Including a Selection of Poems (public library) — the record of his dialogues with the Argentine journalist and poet Roberto Alifano, conducted in the final years of Borges’s life, by which point he had been blind for almost thirty years.
Jorge Luis Borges
In a passage Susan Sontag would come to quote in her magnificent letter to Borges composed on the tenth anniversary of his death, he reflects:
A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
The Lord of Dominion is an important card when we consider our personal freedom of choice, for it relates to the way in which we live in accordance with our own Will, and the consequent results of this.
The card indicates that we are in charge of the way that our lives are unfolding, and that this happens in the fashion we had anticipated. It does not rule out the occasional nice surprise, nor obstacle, but it does promise us that we are in a state of mind which allows us to fulfil our needs and chase our destiny.
There’s harmony and contentment when we manage to achieve this position in life. Events take place in an ordered and positive fashion. Things unfold around us the way that we want them to. Everything goes according to plan.
In fact, this is probably a natural state for a healthy human being. The fact that we have to struggle so hard to achieve it, and then maintain it, is more a comment on the type of life we lead, than anything else.
When we can bring ourselves in harmony with the forces of our Universe, achieving our dreams becomes far more possible than at any other time. We attain harmony when we are centred and at ease with ourselves.
Careful planning is always important when this card comes up – again there is a need to order our future so that we know where we’re headed. And it’s also important to reconcile any uncertainty or confusion generated within us. Both of these actions will ensure that nothing interferes with the flow of our own Will out into the Universe.
On very rare occasions this card will come up with others like the Star, or the Priestess, to indicate periods of huge spiritual breakthrough. Make the best of them when they arrive!!
On May 16th, 2023 Jupiter enters Taurus. Jupiter will stay in Taurus until May 25th, 2024.
Jupiter’s ingress into a new sign is one of the most important transits of the year. Something in your life (indicated by the area of your life ruled by Jupiter) is about to change.
Jupiter is the planet of growth, expansion, and abundance. Taurus is the sign of resources, money, values, concrete results, consistency and common-sense.
At a mundane level, Jupiter in Taurus will bring focus to resources, financial markets, and innovation. At a personal level, the house Jupiter transits in your chart will shed light on the area of your life where you want to experience growth and abundance.
Jupiter in Taurus will shift our growth focus to material possessions, financial growth, and a desire for comfort and stability, encouraging us to take practical steps toward achieving our goals.
Jupiter in Taurus will bring more clarity around topics connected to your Taurus house. In the last couple of years, Uranus and North Node have come up with a grand idea. Although enticing, this idea may have made us feel too big for our boots.
When Jupiter enters Taurus, we will finally see some real progress.
You may already feel the pull of the unknown… but it’s Jupiter’s ingress into Taurus that will give you the confidence to pursue those wild dreams and opportunities.
Jupiter in Taurus is your wild card for the next 12 months, but keep in mind that at the time of the ingress Jupiter will exactly square Pluto (at 0° Aquarius). Before you’ll see some real progress, take an honest look at what’s been brushed under the carpet and clean up that residual mess.
Jupiter In Taurus – The Aspects
Jupiter in Aries didn’t engage in any major aspects (except for Jupiter conjunct Chiron). This explains why Jupiterian themes went rather unnoticed. The Jupiter in Taurus transit is a completely different story.
While in Taurus, Jupiter engages in a LOT of important aspects:
Jupiter conjunct Uranus (20° Taurus) – April 20th, 2024
Jupiter conjunct Venus (29° Taurus) – May 23rd, 2024
Jupiter’s ingress into Taurus starts with a BANG! On May 17th, 2023 Jupiter is square Pluto in Aquarius.
Jupiter in Taurus square Pluto in Aquarius can create tension and conflict between our desire for material growth and our need for transcendence and transformation.
Pluto will push our buttons and challenge us to look deeply at our values, goals and beliefs, and to question whether they are a reflection of our highest truth.
Jupiter In Taurus And Money
Most people want more money and abundance in their life. But what does money mean? What does abundance mean?
Jupiter in Taurus is here to tell us that real abundance is a reflection of our own value creation. Most people who win the lottery or inherit large sums of money end up broke and miserable.
We are happy and accomplished not when we have lots of money, but when the money we have is a reflection of the value we create in the world.
Money is not something we “win”, it is something we create. This breakthrough is very liberating. When we understand the relationship between value-creation and abundance, we know the exact steps we need to take to create an abundant life that’s an expression of our unique gifts and talents.
If you don’t have money, it’s not your fault. The copy-paste education system and the power structures in place are not very conducive to individual value creation. But this will change when Jupiter and Uranus are in Taurus.
We can all learn about money and abundance from Taurus.
It may seem paradoxical that Taurus is considered both hardworking and lazy. Taurus IS hardworking – probably the most hardworking sign of the zodiac. Taurus is the archetypal cash cow. The Generator in Human Design.
But Taurus also has common sense. Taurus will not get duped into over-delivering (and burning out) like a Virgo does, nor trapped in a meaningless rat race to get to the top (at all costs) like Capricorn does.
If you see a Taurus who doesn’t work, that’s because there’s something fundamentally wrong with the way they are expected to make a living. Taurus will know it in their gut and will not do it.
Taurus works as long as their work 1) makes sense and 2) makes them happy. Taurus works to enjoy the bounty of its hard work. There’s something simple, natural and easy about the way Taurus approaches life.
When Jupiter is in Taurus, our society will start to approach life like a bull does. What can you learn from Taurus? How can you take a more Taurus approach to value creation?
Jupiter In Taurus – 1988, 2000, 2012
Jupiter spends approximately 1 year in each sign, returning to the same sign every 12 years.
To get an idea of how the upcoming Jupiter in Taurus transit may influence you, try to recall what was going on in your life when Jupiter was in Taurus.
The last times Jupiter was in Taurus was from June 2011-June 2012, from July-October 1999 to February-June 2000, and from March-July 1988 to December 1988-March 1989.
From a mundane perspective, Jupiter’s previous transits through Taurus have been rather peaceful and prosperous. A notable exception is the dot.com bubble that burst in March 2000, when Jupiter in Taurus was square Neptune in Aquarius.
Taurus is a down-to-earth, common-sense sign that will always point to what’s obvious.
Whatever is not built on sustainable foundations will no longer thrive during a Taurus transit. Looking back, the dot.com bubble burst for obvious reasons, to counter Neptune’s unrealistic enthusiasm for digitalization (Aquarius).
With Jupiter square Pluto at 0° Aquarius in the 2nd half of May 2023, some similar March 2000 themes may come to our awareness. This time there are some notable differences. Unlike Neptune, Pluto is not unrealistic. Pretty much the contrary. Pluto LOVES to expose the dirt.
So if something goes south when Jupiter enters Taurus, that’s likely because Pluto wants to expose some sort of shady business practices (Taurus) or dark aspects of digitalization and AI (Aquarius).
One of the greatest dangers of AI is blurring the lines between what’s real and what’s not.
AI can now create very realistic images of people or things that are not real. AI can take a sample of someone’s voice and clone it to create a completely new speech. And Jupiter in Taurus (the most down-to-earth Taurus placement) doesn’t like this.
How will Jupiter square Pluto play out? A square is a tense aspect that shows what’s not working and needs adjustment. Jupiter in Tarurus’ common sense and appreciation of the natural world will be at odds with Pluto in Aquarius’ agenda to achieve power and control through the means of technology.
This theme is further emphasized by Jupiter’s upcoming conjunction with the North Node. In May 2023 we are not only dealing with a Jupiter-Pluto square, but with a Jupiter conjunct North Node in Taurus square Pluto in Aquarius and opposite South Node in Scorpio.
This transit is definitely not easy. Some adjustments are inevitable. We first need to fix what’s not working so we can then reap the benefits of next year’s Jupiter-Uranus conjunction (April 2024).
Jupiter In Taurus – The 2024 Vision
Jupiter-Uranus conjunctions are times of extraordinary advancements, progress and innovation. The type of progress a Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in Taurus brings is real, and here to stay.
Jupiter’s transit through Taurus ends triumphantly with a Jupiter-Venus conjunction at 29° Taurus on May 23rd, 2024.
Venus-Jupiter conjunctions are some of the most auspicious transits in astrology. Venus is in domicile in Taurus. This transit screams abundance and prosperity!
We’re truly up for some extraordinary developments 1 year from now… but until then, we want to be mindful of the challenges the Jupiter-Pluto square will bring in the next few weeks.
Jupiter starts its journey in Taurus with an argument with Pluto. And it ends with a Venus celebration.
If we want prosperity and abundance (Venus conjunct Jupiter at 29° Taurus), we first need to release unhealthy beliefs and behaviors that keep us trapped in resentment and fear (Jupiter at 0° Taurus square Pluto).
To work with the upcoming Jupiter-Pluto square, make a list of all your financial and partnership entanglements that keep you trapped and enslaved.
Examples are: unspoken conversations with your partner, escalating debt you’re too fearful to look into, mortgage that needs to be refinanced, properties that need to be sold, or more insidious things like an unconscious fear to earn more because you don’t want to share your resources (or pay more taxes).
The silver lining? 2024’s Jupiter-Uranus and Jupiter-Venus conjunction. Your life CAN take an unexpected turn for the better.
And while it’s important to work with the challenges of the Jupiter-Pluto square, an even better place to start is with a beautiful Venus-Jupiter vision for the future.
When Jupiter enters Taurus, ask yourself:
What is my Venus-Jupiter vision? What would make me truly happy? What’s my idea of a simple, beautiful, prosperous life? In which ways can I simplify my life? How would a Taurus go about it?
FRANCE 24 English • May 7, 2023 • #Turkey #Erdogan #Istanbul”Istanbul!” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shouted to the sea of supporters he gathered for a show-of-force rally ahead of next Sunday’s election – the toughest of his two-decade rule. Kemal Kilicdaroglu is his main opponent.
The Ed Sullivan Show • Jun 26, 2020 • #EllaFitzgerald #EdSullivanShow #EdSullivanElla Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington “It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” on The Ed Sullivan Show on March 7, 1965. Subscribe now to never miss an update: https://ume.lnk.to/EdSullivanSubscribe
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A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
