NorwayLights; New Mobile App Shows You to the Best Northern Lights Display

OSLO, Norway, November 27, 2013

"To see the Northern Lights dance across the Arctic sky is a 'once in a lifetime experience'. We want to enable more people to experience the Northern Lights in Norway this winter by making it more accessible," says Per-Arne Tuftin, Director of Tourism at Innovation Norway. Today he launches a brand new mobile app, Norway Lights, making it easier to predict the appearance of the Northern Lights.

According to scientists, 2013 is said to be a record year for the Northern Lights. Now researchers predict the winter season of 2014/2015 to be another good year for spotting the Northern Lights as well.

"Arctic Norway is the best place in the world to see the Northern Lights," according to the director of tourism in Norway, Per-Arne Tuftin. He promises a spectacular display this winter.

Norway - the best place in the world to see the Northern Lights

If the conditions are right, you can experience the Northern Lights all over Norway; however, the northern lights appear much more frequently across the Arctic Circle in the northern parts of Norway.

"Norway is in the centre of the Northern Lights zone, so the probability of seeing the lights are very likely on any cloud-free night between October and March. Though the Northern Lights are visible in other countries, Northern Norway's easy accessibility and optimal conditions make it one of the best places on Earth to see them," Tuftin claims.

"Accessibility and climate conditions make Northern Norway a great destination for experiencing the Northern Lights. There is no other place in the world where chances are higher," adds Per-Arne Tuftin.

New, free and easy-to-use, app: NorwayLights

During the last decade it has become easier to predict the weather and upcoming Northern Lights conditions. Visitnorway wants to make this knowledge available to anyone interested in experiencing the Northern Lights for themselves and launches a brand new free mobile app, called NorwayLights.

"We are happy to see that an increasing number of tourists are coming to Norway to chase the mysterious Northern Lights for themselves. We hope that our new free app, NorwayLights, will make it even easier to spot the northern lights this winter," says Tuftin.

Download the free app here:
http://www.visitnorway.com/en/Games-and-more/New-app-from-visitnorway/

Boiler Plates

The boiler plate is an area on the bottom of a press release that shares the highlights and useful information about you. Think of it as the information you will stamp on every press release you write. Also, include this on your email under your signature.

This is one way I use to leverage my influence on Google+. One of the great things about being on G+ right now . . . we are at the top . . . all of us . . . who are active on G+ rank well!

Please post your boiler plate below if you want to show it off, or if you want to ask advice to improve it.

KrisTen is an Independent Reviewer, Communications Coach, and Editorial Writer. Taking a unique approach to reviews, she has developed a loyal following of over 16,500 on Google+ and growing. CircleCount.com ranks KrisTen in the top 1% of all profiles on Google+, and among the top 600 US women on Google+. Kristen appears as a guest personality on YouTube Shows, Google Hangouts, and community discussions. Kristen, as owner of over 60 Google Communities, including the international G+ Network, is texually teaching people how to network locally and globally. Kristen’s innovative approach to communications coaching, starts with a custom designed engagement blue print for each client to streamline and maximize communications with customers, investors, staff and social media. www.google.com/+KrisTenK10

Entry Level Social Media Jobs

Google+ is taking over! When I am planning a night out, I often research and Google to make sure I know where I am going, and see if there are any reviews. Google is linking everything. A few months ago, I Googled for directions to this grocery store. I noticed that someone tagged them with the comment to instruct people to shop at the store next to theirs. I posted about this on Google+ and tagged King Kullen. I never received a reply from them, AND they never took it down.

Companies are SO FACEBOOK TRAPPED, and are missing the entire Google+ ship!

What other things are companies missing?
How about the point, that when anyone who is following me does a Google search and it is something I have posted about, my post comes up towards the top of their search. That is 15,000 people who want to know my opinion first. That is pretty amazing.

I love it, because the people I circle have posts of information that are far more relevant to me, than the usual Google search results.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR JOB SEEKERS
If you are serious about breaking into the pool for paid social media positions, you need to start building your resume now. A few tips:

1 - Check your profile, and make sure it is acceptable for an employer to creep. Typos are not a big deal. What is a big deal . . . the temperament in your posts. Remember these people dropping in to see your profile do not know "who you are." Employers are looking to see if you are real, honest, down to earth, fold well in to the company culture and identity.

2 - The smaller your following, the more important each person is. If you have a following of less than 300 people, you need to look through them to be sure that they all accurately reflect you. A following of 300 is easy for a recruiter to creep.

3 - Create a Google+ Page for your business! If you don't have a business, create one for a hobby or philanthropy. Grow your page, and grow your resume at the same time. Once again, keep in mind that your page should be employer appropriate. If you live in Colorado, a page for medical marijuana use is completely acceptable. However, same page based out of New Jersey may not be looked at so favorably.

4 - Create a Google+ Community, or Moderate in a reputable one. There are already paid community moderators on G+, but they are kept secret. People don't want other people to know what they are paying for. I have been ghost writing for years. This means, people pay me to write something for them, and never get credit for it. They get to use my work as their own. The ghost writers are coming to social networks. They are building followings and then NOT DISCLOSING when they are paid for their comments etc. We just have to accept that this IS PART of the culture.

5 - Create a BLOG and learn how to publish your BLOG to your Google+ Page.

6 - Extra credit . . . create a YouTube channel and learn how to navigate it.

FINAL THOUGHTS
You are already ahead of the pack. You are on Google+ learning this social platform at your own pace. Every time you see a website, or company promoting to LIKE them on FB or FOLLOW them on Twitter, or Pintrest, or Instragram . . . and G+ is missing . . .you know . . . there is an opportunity for you! You are in the KNOW! I am here to happily assist any of you as you peruse a career in social media and hope you call upon me if you need any help :)

MTFBWU

HELP HELP HELP - HELP YOURSELF!

Any decent piece of software has a help menu. Sometimes the help menu is hidden on the bottom of the screen or in the index. Learning how to navigate help menus can be your greatest tool for staying Texually Positive. Empower yourself by being a master of most any software program by teaching yourself how to use it through the help menu!

First pic a software application that you are already comfortable working in. This may be Microsoft Word or Excel, Google Docs, or even Google+.

Finding the help menu is often the most difficult part about using a help menu. There have been times, when I could not find the link at all in the application, and Google searched for it.

Most help menus are arranged in two ways. First by topic, like an index, and the second, using a search box to sort though the index. When learning how to use a help menu, I suggest starting from the beginning of the index and reading it through.

Help menus have come a long way. They are interactive, and intuitive. Some include problems to solve, and test your proficiency in what you just learned. There are others that have step by step video instructions. If you are having a hard time grasping a concept, you can always research and get more help by looking up the topic on YouTube.

I cannot stress the value of reading and using help menus. I recommend learning on an application that you are already comfortable with, because you WILL be AMAZED to discover things YOU DIDN'T KNOW you could do!

FINAL THOUGHTS
Software applications are always evolving. A LOT OF PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE, are simply MS Office programs on STEROIDS. I bet most you don't know that MS Outlook can be customized to look however you would like. Run a puppy business, and want to have entry fields about which puppy shampoo you need to use on your client? Yes, you can do that on MS Outlook, and export the information into spreadsheets. That is just one example. MS Navision is a program I use often, and that is a perfect example of people paying TENS OF THOUSANDS too much on a "template" based on Excel.

PEOPLE MAKE MONEY ON WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW
This is why I encourage everyone to be texually active!

MTFBWU

Texual Electricity

When was electricity discovered? When did we learn how to harness it and use it? How many years ago was that? 

This is the best timeline I could find to share with you. I would like to know:

How old do you think you will be when you die?

How many years ahead do you plan?

What invention would you love to see in your lifetime?

Many times people tell me that I am crazy for thinking that things like world peace, or free energy are possible. Look at the discoveries in this timeline. This about how these people were received by their peers. 

What would have happened if Ben Franklin harnessed the lightening and said it a gift from Zeus. Just saying . . .

Think on it. 

MTFBWU

Timeline of Electronics

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/electricity_timeline.htm

By Mary Bellis

600 B.C.

Thales of Miletus writes about amber becoming charged by rubbing - he was describing what we now call static electricity.

1600

English scientist, William Gilbert first coined the term "electricity" from the Greek word for amber. Gilbert wrote about the electrification of many substances in his "De magnete, magneticisique corporibus". He also first used the terms electric force, magnetic pole, and electric attraction.

1660

Otto von Guericke invented a machine that produced static electricity.

1675

Robert Boyle discovered that electric force could be transmitted through a vacuum and observed attraction and repulsion.

1729

Stephen Gray's discovery of the conduction of electricity.

1733

Charles Francois du Fay discovered that electricity comes in two forms which he called resinous(-)and vitreous(+). Benjamin Franklin and Ebenezer Kinnersley later renamed the two forms as positive and negative.

1745

Georg Von Kleist discovered that electricity was controllable. Dutch physicist, Pieter van Musschenbroek invented the "Leyden Jar" the first electrical capacitor. Leyden jars store static electricity.

1747

Benjamin Franklin experiments with static charges in the air and theorized about the existence of an electrical fluid that could be composed of particles. William Watson discharged a Leyden jar through a circuit, that began the comprehension of current and circuit. Henry Cavendish started measuring the conductivity of different materials.

1752

Benjamin Franklin invented the lightening rod - he demonstrated lightning was electricity.

1767

Joseph Priestley discovered that electricity followed Newton's inverse-square law of gravity.

1786

Italian physician, Luigi Galvani demonstrated what we now understand to be the electrical basis of nerve impulses when he made frog muscles twitch by jolting them with a spark from an electrostatic machine.

1800

First electric battery invented by Alessandro Volta. Volta proved that electricity could travel over wires.

1816

First energy utility in US founded.

1820

Relationship of electricity and magnetism confirmed by Hans Christian Oersted who observed that electrical currents effected the needle on a compass and Marie Ampere, who discovered that a coil of wires acted like a magnet when a current is passed thorough it.

D. F. Arago invented the electromagnet.

1821

First electric motor invented by Michael Faraday.

1826

Ohms Law written by Georg Simon Ohm states that "conduction law that relates potential, current, and circuit resistance"

1827

Joseph Henry's electromagnetic experiments lead to the concept of electrical inductance. Joseph Henry built one of the first electrical motors.

1831

Principles of electromagnetism induction, generation and transmission discovered by Michael Faraday.

1837

First industrial electric motors.

1839

First fuel cell invented by Sir William Robert Grove, a Welsh judge, inventor and physicist.

1841

J. P. Joule's law of electrical heating published.

1873

James Clerk Maxwell wrote equations that described the electromagnetic field, and predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves traveling with the speed of light.

1878

Edison Electric Light Co. (US) and American Electric and Illuminating (Canada) founded.

1879

First commercial power station opens in San Francisco, uses Charles Brush generator and arc lights. First commercial arc lighting system installed, Cleveland, Ohio.

Thomas Edison demonstrates his incandescent lamp, Menlo Park, New Jersey.

1880

First power system isolated from Edison.

In Grand Rapids Michigan: Charles Brush arc light dynamo driven by water turbine used to provide theater and storefront illumination.

1881

Niagra Falls, New York; Charles Brush dynamo, connected to turbine in Quigley's flour mill lights city street lamps.

1882

Edison Company opens Pearl Street power station.

The first hydroelectric power station opens in Wisconsin.

1883

The electric transformer is invented. Thomas Edison introduces the "three-wire" transmission system.

1884

Steam turbine invented by Charles Parsons.

1886

William Stanley develops transformer and Alternating Current electric system. Frank Spraguebuilds first American transformer and demonstrates use of step up and step down transformers for long distance AC power transmission in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. TheWestinghouse Electric Company is organized. 40 to 50 water powered electric plants reported on line or under construction in the U.S. and Canada.

1887

In San Bernadino, California, the High Grove Station, first hydroelectric plant in the West is opened.

1888

Rotating field AC alternator invented by Nikola Tesla.

1889

Oregon City Oregon, Willamette Falls station, first AC hydroelectric plant.

Single phase power transmitted 13 miles to Portland at 4,000 volts, stepped down to 50 volts for distribution.

1891

60 cycle AC system introduced in U.S.

1892

General Electric Company formed by the merger of Thomson-Houston and Edison General Electric.

1893

Westinghouse demonstrates "universal system" of generation and distribution at Chicago exposition.

In Austin, Texas, the first dam designed specifically for hydroelectric power built across Colorado River is completed.

1897

Electron discovered by J. J. Thomson.

1900

Highest voltage transmission line 60 Kilovolt.

1902

5-Megawatt turbine for Fisk St. Station (Chicago).

1903

First successful gas turbine (France). World’s first all turbine station (Chicago). Shawinigan Water & Power installs world’s largest generator (5,000 Watts) and world’s largest and highest voltage line—136 Km and 50 Kilovolts (to Montreal). Electric vacuum cleaner. Electric washing machine.

1904

John Ambrose Fleming invented the diode rectifier vacuum tube.

1905

in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan the first low head hydro plant with direct connected vertical shaft turbines and generators is opened.

1906

In Ilchester, Maryland, a fully submerged hydroelectric plant is built inside Ambursen Dam.

1907

Lee De Forest invented the electric amplifier.

1909

The first pumped storage plant is opened in Switzerland.

1910

Ernest R. Rutherford measured the distribution of an electric charge within the atom.

1911

Willis Haviland Carrier disclosed his basic Rational Psychrometric Formulae to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The formula still stands today as the basis in all fundamental calculations for theair conditioning industry.

R. D. Johnson invents the differential surge tank and Johnson invents hydrostatic penstock valve.

1913

Electric refrigerator is invented. Robert Millikan measured the electric charge on a single electron.

1917

Hydracone draft tube patented by W. M. White.

1920

First U.S. station to only burn pulverized coal is opened.

Federal Power Commission (FPC) is established.

1922

Connecticut Valley Power Exchange (CONVEX) starts, pioneering interconnection between utilities.

1928

Construction of Boulder Dam begins.

Federal Trade Commission begins investigation of holding companies.

1933

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) established.

1935

The Public Utility Holding Company Act is passed. The Federal Power Act is passed. The Securities and Exchange Commission is established. The Bonneville Power Administration is established.

The first night baseball game in major leagues is played made possible by electric lighting.

1936

Highest steam temperature reaches 900 degrees Fahrenheit vs. 600 degrees Fahrenheit in early 1920s.

287 Kilovolt line runs 266 miles to Boulder (Hoover) Dam.

The Rural Electrification Act is passed.

1947

The transistor is invented .

1953

The first 345 Kilovolt transmission line is laid.

The first nuclear power station ordered.

1954

The first high voltage direct current (HVDC) line (20 megawatts/1900 Kilovolts, 96 Km).

The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 allows private ownership of nuclear reactors.

1963

The Clean Air Act is passed.

1965

The Northeast Blackout occurs.

1968

The North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) is formed.

1969

The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 is passed.

1970

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is formed. The Water and Environmental Quality Act is passed. The Clean Air Act of 1970 is passed.

1972

The Clean Water Act of 1972 is passed.

1975

Brown’s Ferry nuclear accident occurs.

1977

The New York City blackout occurs.

The Department of Energy (DOE) is formed.

1978

The Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) is passed, and ends utility monopoly over generation.

The Power Plant and Industrial Fuel Use Act limits the use of natural gas in electric generation (repealed 1987).

1979

The Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurs.

1980

The first U.S. windfarm is opened.

The Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act establishes regional regulation and planning.

1981

PURPA ruled unconstitutional by Federal judge.

1982

U.S. Supreme Court upholds legality of PURPA in FERC v. Mississippi (456 US 742).

1984

Annapolis, N.S., tidal power plant—first of its kind in North America (Canada) opened.

1985

Citizens Power, first power marketer, goes into business.

1986

Chernobyl nuclear accident (USSR) occurs.

1990

Clean Air Act amendments mandate additional pollution controls.

1992

The National Energy Policy Act is passed.

1997

ISO New England begins operation (first ISO). New England Electric sells power plants (first major plant divestiture).

1998

California opens market and ISO. Scottish Power (UK) to buy Pacificorp, first foreign takeover of US utility. National (UK) Grid then announces purchase of New England Electric System.

1999

Electricity marketed on Internet.

FERC issues Order 2000, promoting regional transmission

#K10Ad Theory - My Answer To Life After Death

#K10Ad Theory

Energy exists. It never begins or ends, it only transforms.
Star Trek Halo Deck powered by peoples thoughts.
When people think (pray) for the same thing they create a "Heaven Deck."
When people start to think (pray) something different they create an alternate "Heaven Deck."
Eventually when no one thinks about the previous "Heaven Deck." That program ends. No thoughts to power it.

The #K10Ad Theory validates every God Theory ever in existence.

While this does not explain why we are here or what our purpose is; it does provide an answer.
You can accept the #K10Ad Theory as your new belief.
You can use the #K10Ad Theory to bring people from different belief systems together.

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How Far Have We Come!

I am almost 37.

I first started to explore technology in elementary school.

My dad gave me and brother an Intellivision and Pong game from radio shack. 

Oh that Intellivision with the skins that you would slide in and out.

My school had a computer before I did at home.

By the time I was in middle school introduction to computers was a required class.

Oregon Trail!

At home we just changed from a typewriter to a word processor. 

Can still hear the loud banging when it was printing.

My HS Biology teacher told the class that in our lifetime children will no longer carry books.

That teacher said that children will go to school with hand held computers. 

I believed him, but still it sounded impossible to imagine.

When I went to college, I pledged.

We ran around the hallways dragging those word processors so we could work on projects. :-) 

The college had a huge computer lab, and free email.

In the dorms, only about 20% of the people I knew had a computer. 

Post college, and in the workforce I needed to know both Word Perfect and MS Office.

I took one adult education course in MS Office at a local community college and was set.

I have never had any issue finding employment because of my computer skills.

Today almost everyone I know has a computer.

I can talk or video chat with someone around the world in real time, for FREE.

THAT WAS MY PAST and WHAT I SEE IN THE FUTURE

I see two people emerging on our planet: Texual and Non-Texual.

Texual people see that human beings have been building idea upon idea, and rapidly making improvements to sustain our world. While Non-Texual people see technology as an intrusion. 

Think of life as a 100 story building. Each floor is a year of your life. We all start on the bottom floor, and we grow into each new floor. Floor number 37 looks totally tech crazy to me. I plan on being there. It is my choice. I could decide to stay on floor 36, but I want to do more, share more, and be more than I am today. I must continue to grow as a human. There are horrible things happening to humans, being done by other humans, and Texually Active Humans are going to have to find a way to fix it all.

You heard me right, the Texually Active Humans HAVE to find a way to fix ALL THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS before the non-texuals with trigger happy hands mess this entire world up for all of us. 

ALL THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS?

Yes "all the world's problems!" I can hear my mother now saying, "Kristen you can't solve all the world's problems, just focus on you and what you can change."

Well here is the thing . . . I never thought I would feel this good and be this healthy at this age. I never thought my mind would process things the way that it does. I never thought I would feel so much outrage when I read an article, from a place on Earth I have never been to; where people I have never met, are being enslaved. That is NOT OKAY!

In lieu of a laundry list the world's problems, I ask you to take a moment to pause and think of your own.

People don't trust the mainstream media. Why should they? Today on G+ you can find thousands of different editorial writers. People are searching for the truth. 

Texually Active Humans see the big picture through the internet. We see where we have come from and where we are going. We understand that language is a barrier, and words can mean different things to different people. We start with binary and build from there. We understand relevance. When asked to check ourselves; we will.  We admit when we are wrong when proven wrong.  

Now there are two sides of the force. I chose to speak of the force because it is something that people relate to. Those of us on the light side, know that with knowledge comes responsibility. Every day I see people waking up to the conclusion that we are all human. 

When I was little I was Chinese and oriental. Eventually I became Oriental and Korean. Then I was American Korean. Today I am Human, from Earth living in America, my ancestors are from Ireland and Korea.

If you are Texual, you believe that being human means putting human beings first.

FINAL THOUGHT

What is everyone fighting for in the world? GOD & RESOURCES

The ANSWER "The #K10AD Theory"