There is a lot of confusion about uranium enrichment in Iran.

In natural uranium, only 7 atoms out of 1000 are chain-reacting uranium-235. The other 993 atoms are, for the most part, uranium-238 atoms – not a chain-reacting material.

Uranium enrichment refers to any technology that increases the percentage of the chain-reacting U-235 beyond the 0.7% level (i.e. natural uranium). But there is a good deal of misinformation and/or misunderstanding about enriched uranium in the media recently.

Nuclear Explosions

It is often reported that 90% uranium enrichment is “needed” to have a nuclear weapon. This is not true. The Hiroshima bombs had only 80% enrichment. Iran has a good deal of 60% enriched uranium, and you can make a bomb from 60% enriched uranium — it would be bulkier than a bomb with 90% enrichment and therefore harder to deliver, but not so very much harder.

Also, the mechanism needed for making a uranium bomb is very much easier than what is needed for a plutonium bomb. It can be done with a lot less effort and taking very little time. It’s called a “gun-type” atomic bomb rather than an “implosion-type” atomic bomb.

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The gun-type bomb just fires one chunk of uranium into another chunk (the target) so that the two chunks add up to more than a “critical mass”. It is so simple it cannot possibly fail – as a result they never had to test this type of bomb before using it. They dropped it on the city of Hiroshima with no testing. There is a need for a precision timed “neutron source” but that is very old technology that has been well known for ages.

The implosion-type bomb is much more sophisticated, requiring a perfectly spherical

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To paraphrase, most of us spend our lives hanging on for dear life to the old until something calls us to let go and take a leap of faith into the unknown. It can be terrifying, yet we know we must release our hold on the past (the old trapeze bar) and soar across the vast void of unknowing to reach the new one.

We may feel scared, excited, vulnerable, unsure of ourselves, confused, or disoriented, but this is where the real change happens… When feeling unsure of ourselves, we can reject our rigid thinking and make new choices that may bring unexpected benefits. As we give ourselves permission to hang out in this transition between trapeze bars, we learn to fly!

A good affirmation to say each day is “My life is filled with new opportunities, and it is safe for me to learn new things.”

As we move into the last few weeks of 2024 I invite you to spend some time looking back on what 2024 was about for you. Just BE present with what is. We are moving into 2025-a year of major change, right now we are in the growing pains of this shift of consciousness.

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With just 21 days left in 2024, let’s make them count. Together, we’ll reflect on the lessons of this past year and prepare for the higher vibrational energy of 2025.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

I will be doing a few events early January to prepare you for Vision 2025. Stay tuned for dates!

Tuesday, December 10th: In-Person End-of-Year Celebration: Rituals to End the Year Consciously with Special Guest Astrologer Rebecca Gordon
6:30 – 8:30 PM
At Knosis: 7 West 22nd St, 8th Floor, NYC

Join me and special guest astrologer Rebecca Gordon as we close out 2024 with ritual, reflection, and wisdom to guide us into 2025.

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Sunday, December 29th: Spiritual Practices and Rituals to Open Up for 2025
2:00 PM
Unity of NY: St Michael’s Recital Hall, 225 West 99th St (NYC)

Free Attendence

Saturday, January 4th: Rituals for the New Year
2:00 – 4:00 PM
The New Center of Holistic Learning, NYC: 135 West 15th St
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I invite you to join me for VISION 2025, an in-person retreat designed to help you create, manifest, and transform your life while aligning with a shared vision for a brighter, more unified world.

Imagine a weekend immersed in spiritual teachings, astrology, powerful rituals, vision boarding, and movement—all crafted to connect you with your highest potential and a community of kindred spirits committed to making a difference.

This isn’t just a personal journey; it’s an opportunity to co-create a collective future built on clarity, connection, collaboration, and purpose.

January 10 – 11th: VISION 2025 in Malibu
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These transformational gatherings will take place live (and possibly hybrid). I am looking for help to do the live stream so please contact us if you are interested in helping: info@barbarabiziou.com.

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SoHarmoniums 2024 Winter Concert!
MONDAY, DEC 16, 2024 8:00 PM

SoHarmoniums Women’s Choir will present its holiday concert this December at the beautiful Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York. Experience the joy of the holiday season!

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Jim founded Energy Management, Inc. in 1975 to focus on developing energy conservation and pollution control projects. In 1984, the company transitioned to developing electric generation projects and the company successfully developed, owned, and operated natural gas fired cogeneration plants and some of the first gas fired Merchant electric facilities in the United States. In 2000, the company sold its portfolio of natural gas fired power plants and began to focus on developing renewable energy facilities. Jim’s company developed the two largest biomass electric generation facilities in the US each producing over 100 Megawatts of renewable electricity utilizing forest residues and clean municipal wood waste.

Energy Management, Inc. also develops large energy storage battery projects and ground mounted and roof top solar energy projects. The company successfully developed and operates the first energy storage systems providing energy and ancillary services to ISO New England as well as Behind the Meter energy storage projects for Municipal electric companies. Its affiliated company, SmartFlower Solar, manufactures and distributes the world’s first patented dual axis tracking solar energy system for commercial, institutional, and residential clients searching for iconic design, superior performance, and ease of installation. The product line consists of the Smartflower, Smartflower Plus with integrated battery storage and the Smartflower EV for charging electric vehicles with solar energy.

In 2001, Jim began the development of Cape Wind, America’s first proposed offshore wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod. His company worked with seventeen federal and state agencies through a comprehensive permitting process and helped evolve the regulatory framework for offshore wind. A wealthy and politically influential NIMBY group fought the project every step of the way through serial and relentless litigation and political lobbying. After 14 years, Cape Wind finally obtained its permits, but the opposition group’s continuous delaying tactics ran the clock out on Cape Wind’s Power Purchase Agreements. Jim’s battle to develop Cape Wind and call attention to America’s enormous and harvestable offshore wind potential became the subject of a book and a theatrically released documentary film.

From CNN:  Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) — Jim Gordon struggles to lift a book. It’s 4,000 pages, more than a foot thick and one of the dozens of government reports over the last decade assessing the nation’s first offshore wind farm.
“It’s thicker than the health care bill,” chuckles Gordon, the 56-year-old CEO of Cape Wind.
Gordon’s laugh has now turned into a celebratory smile. After a vicious nine-year fight on Cape Cod, Gordon has finally won approval of his wind farm to be built in the iconic waters of Nantucket Sound. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday signed off on the project.
“We’re trying to pioneer a new path to move America forward in obtaining cleaner energy, a healthier environment and putting people to work to harness the inexhaustible winds that we’re blessed with off the Cape,” he said.

It has been anything but easy. Cape Wind has spent more than $45 million — most of it from Gordon’s own pockets — since 2001, when the project first sought a permit.

His opponents have vilified him over the years as a greedy corporate energy man pillaging the pristine waters of the Sound. They say he’s interested, not in green energy, but the green of the U.S. dollar.
Gordon has refused to disclose potential earnings for his company; critics say Cape Wind stands to gain hundreds of millions in tax credits and subsidies.

Gordon’s hair has gone from black to gray since the fight began. And while the Cape has debated the project, countries like China have built their own offshore wind farms, forging ahead of the U.S. in wind energy.
Gordon’s opponents have come from the left and right. They have ranged from one of the most powerful senators in the nation’s history — the late Sen. Ted Kennedy — to billionaire fossil fuel heavyweight William Koch. “I’m for wind energy,” Kennedy famously said. “But we ought to do it right.” The Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port will have a view of the 130 wind turbines, located several miles from the shore.

See how the views on the Cape will change
Koch, founder of the Oxbow Group and a resident of the Cape, sits on the board of Gordon’s nemesis, the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound. He’s reportedly contributed more than $1.5 million to try to stop Cape Wind. Koch and his Oxbow Group have accused Gordon of duping the region, saying the Cape had better prepare for skyrocketing electricity prices. The price per kilowatt hour offshore is far higher than on land.

“This will only benefit one individual, and that’s the developer himself, Jim Gordon,” said Brad Goldstein, Koch’s chief spokesman. “Jim Gordon can try to wrap himself around wind all he wants. That dog will not hunt here.”
Who is this wind man who challenged the nation’s biggest power players — and won?

The son of a Boston grocer, Gordon says he decided to get into the energy business while waiting in line to get gas during the OPEC energy crisis of the 1970s.

It was a wise decision: He consulted for power plants and made tens of millions of dollars by converting old power plants to natural gas facilities. He won over communities and brought in hundreds of jobs. In all, his group, Energy Management Inc., had seven New England power facilities; six of them were natural gas plants. He sold out in 2001 and with his millions turned his focus, and energy, to wind.

“He didn’t buy an island in the Caribbean. He didn’t sit on his money,” said the Rev. William Eddy, a co-founder of Clean Power Now, a Cape Cod-based organization that has supported the wind farm. “He decided to do something noble with it. You have to admire him for that.”

Added Kert Davies, the research director for Greenpeace: “He’s amazingly tenacious and knows that it’s a good project in the right place and a good thing for the economy and the planet. … We’re going to throw a party and toast Gordon.”

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Remembering Gordon Parks With Janelle Monáe, Usher, and More
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Swizz Beatz, Usher

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Although noteworthy African-American Renaissance man Gordon Parks passed away in 2006 at the age of 93, his creative and philanthropic legacy persists. Perhaps the fact that Parks was at various times throughout his life a photojournalist, musician, writer, and film director is what resonates with such a wide cross section of the creative class. Supporters in attendance at the 10th annual Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street last night included Swizz Beatz, Usher, Victor Cruz, and 1990’s MTV icon Fab Five Freddy. And if Karl Lagerfeld lends his name to your event’s host committee every year—despite not always attending—the cause must have a certain degree of gravitas. In his absence, however, Lagerfeld did donate for the evening’s auction a trip to Chanel’s Spring/Summer 2017 show and private tour of Coco Chanel’s Rue Cambon apartment. That lot alone brought in $16,000 for an arts education scholarship.

This year’s honorees were Bryan Stevenson (founder of the Equal Justice Initiative), photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier, Janelle Monáe, and Public School’s Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow. Leonard and Judy Glickman Lauder received the Patron of the Arts award. “It’s such a joy to be honored tonight, and almost undeserved,” Osborne said. “Gordon Parks did so much with his mediums and his works. But for me and Dao-Yi tonight, we haven’t quite achieved that level—yet. But it makes us want to work that much harder. It’s hard to change the world!”

After the ceremony, we caught up with the foundation’s executive director, Peter Kunhardt, Jr., about what makes Gordon Parks so perennially important to New York’s creative communities. “We’re in a time when the country is having so many issues not only politically but also with discrimination and race and gender and identity,” he said. “We’re an organization that’s about celebrating arts and creativity, looking at these issues through Mr. Parks’s photographs. But the point isn’t just to honor Gordon Parks’s legacy, but to inspire the next generation of artists.”

Twenty-one scholarships were given out last night, but in the middle of the program, Usher and Swizz Beatz interrupted the live auction to announce that they had decided to give 27 more.

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It was sung on the soundtrack of the 2002 film The Good Thief by Bono, and the Sinatra version was featured in the film A Bronx Tale. Sinatra’s version was included on the in-game soundtrack to the video game Tony Hawk’s Underground 2. Choreographer Twyla Tharp used the Sinatra version in her ballet “Sinatra Suite,” originally performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov.

FRANK SINATRA LYRICS

“That’s Life”

That’s life (that’s life), that’s what all the people say
You’re ridin’ high in April, shot down in May
But I know I’m gonna change that tune
When I’m back on top, back on top in June

I said that’s life (that’s life), and as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks stompin’ on a dream
But I don’t let it, let it get me down
’cause this fine old world, it keeps spinnin’ around

I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
I’ve been up and down and over and out and I know one thing
Each time I find myself flat on my face
I pick myself up and get back in the race

That’s life (that’s life), I tell you I can’t deny it
I thought of quitting, baby, but my heart just ain’t gonna buy it
And if I didn’t think it was worth one single try
I’d jump right on a big bird and then I’d fly

I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
I’ve been up and down and over and out and I know one thing
Each time I find myself layin’ flat on my face
I just pick myself up and get back in the race

That’s life (that’s life), that’s life and I can’t deny it
Many times I thought of cuttin’ out but my heart won’t buy it
But if there’s nothin’ shakin’ come this here July
I’m gonna roll myself up in a big ball a-and die

My, my!

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