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180° (IDL – International Date Line)

Latitude	Longitude	City, State		Country
51°53′N	176°38′W	Adak,                                                                       Alaska		United States
21°8′S	175°12′W	Nukuʻalofa		Tonga
13°50′S	171°50′W	Apia		Samoa
14°16′S	170°42′W	Pago Pago,      American Samoa		United States
19°03′S	169°55′W	Alofi	Niue

165°W

Latitude	Longitude	City, State	Country
21°12′S	159°46′W	Avarua,      Cook Islands	New Zealand
21°18′N	157°49′W	Honolulu,      Hawaii	United States
19°42′N	155°06′W	Hilo,      Hawaii	United States

150°W

Latitude	Longitude	City, State		Country
61°13′N	149°53′W	Anchorage,      Alaska		United States
17°32′S	149°34′W	Papeete,      French Polynesia		France
64°50′N	147°42′W	Fairbanks,      Alaska		United States
57°03′N	135°19′W	Sitka,      Alaska	United States
60°43′N	135°03′W	Whitehorse,      Yukon	Canada

135°W

Latitude	Longitude	City, State	Country
58°21′N	134°30′W	Juneau,      Alaska	United States
25°04′S	130°06′W	Adamstown,      Pitcairn Islands	United Kingdom
49°15′N	123°06′W	Vancouver,      British Columbia		Canada
38°′N	123°′W	Rabi Island		Fiji
45°31′N	122°40′W	Portland,      Oregon		United States
37°46′N	122°25′W	San   Francisco,        California		United States
47°36′N	122°19′W	Seattle,      Washington		United States
38°33′N	121°28′W	Sacramento,      California		United States

120°W

Latitude	Longitude	City, State		Country
34°03′N	118°15′W	Los Angeles,      California		United States
33°56′N	117°23′W	Riverside,      California		United States
32°46′N	117°09′W	San Diego,      California		United States
32°31′N	117°02′W	Tijuana, Baja California		Mexico
32°40′N	115°28′W	Mexicali, Baja California		Mexico
36°10′N	115°08′W	Las   Vegas,      Nevada		United States
62°27′N	114°24′W	Yellowknife,      Northwest   Territories		Canada
51°02′N	114°03′W	Calgary,      Alberta		Canada
53°34′N	113°31′W	Edmonton,      Alberta		Canada
33°26′N	112°04′W	Phoenix,      Arizona		United States
40°45′N	111°53′W	Salt   Lake City,        Utah		United States
32°12′N	110°55′W	Tucson,      Arizona		United States
27°09′N	109°26′W	Hanga Roa, Easter Island	Chile
52°07′N	106°39′W	Saskatoon,      Saskatchewan	Canada
35°06′N	106°36′W	Albuquerque,      New Mexico	United States
31°47′N	106°25′W	El   Paso,      Texas	United States
28°06′N	106°0′W	Chihuahua, Chihuahua	Mexico

105°W

Latitude	Longitude	City, State	Country
39°44′N	104°59′W	Denver,      Colorado	United States
24°01′N	104°40′W	Durango, Durango	Mexico
50°26′N	104°37′W	Regina,      Saskatchewan	Canada
20°46′N	103°24′W	Zapopan,      Jalisco	Mexico
20°40′N	103°21′W	Guadalajara,      Jalisco	Mexico
25°40′N	100°18′W	Monterrey, Nuevo León	Mexico
19°24′N	99°07′W	Mexico City		Mexico
29°32′N	98°28′W	San Antonio,      Texas		United States
19°03′N	98°12′W	Puebla, Puebla		Mexico
30°16′N	97°46′W	Austin,      Texas		United States
35°28′N	97°32′W	Oklahoma   City,      Oklahoma		United States
37°41′N	97°20′W	Wichita,      Kansas		United States
49°54′N	97°08′W	Winnipeg,      Manitoba		Canada
32°46′N	96°48′W	Dallas,      Texas		United States
19°11′N	96°08′W	Veracruz, Veracruz		Mexico
29°45′N	95°22′W	Houston,      Texas		United States
39°06′N	94°34′W	Kansas   City,      Missouri		United States
44°58′N	93°15′W	Minneapolis,      Minnesota		United States
14°50′N	91°31′W	Quetzaltenango		Guatemala
14°38′N	90°33′W	Guatemala   City		Guatemala
38°37′N	90°11′W	St.   Louis,      Missouri		United States
29°58′N	90°04′W	New Orleans,      Louisiana		United States

[edit] 90°W

Latitude		Longitude		City, State		Country
35°07′N		89°58′W		Memphis,      Tennessee		United States
20°58′N		89°37′W		Mérida, Yucatán		Mexico
13°41′N		89°11′W		San   Salvador		El Salvador
17°15′N		88°46′W		Belmopan		Belize
17°29′N		88°11′W		Belize City		Belize
47°03′N		87°57′W		Milwaukee,      Wisconsin		United States
41°52′N		87°37′W		Chicago,      Illinois		United States
14°05′N		87°13′W		Tegucigalpa		Honduras
36°10′N		86°47′W		Nashville,      Tennessee		United States
12°08′N		86°15′W		Managua		Nicaragua
39°47′N		86°09′W		Indianapolis,      Indiana		United States
38°15′N		85°45′W		Louisville,      Kentucky		United States
39°08′N		84°30′W		Cincinnati,      Ohio		United States
33°45′N		84°23′W		Atlanta,      Georgia		United States
9°56′N		84°05′W		San   José		Costa Rica
42°20′N		83°03′W		Detroit,      Michigan		United States
39°59′N		82°59′W		Columbus,      Ohio		United States
27°58′N		82°28′W		Tampa,      Florida		United States
23°08′N		82°23′W		Havana		Cuba
41°29′N		81°40′W		Cleveland,      Ohio		United States
30°19′N		81°39′W		Jacksonville,      Florida		United States
19°18′N		81°23′W		George Town,      Cayman Islands		United Kingdom
35°12′N		80°49′W		Charlotte,      North Carolina		United States
25°47′N		80°13′W		Miami,      Florida		United States
40°26′N	79°58′W		Pittsburgh,      Pennsylvania		United States
2°11′N	79°53′W		Guayaquil		Ecuador
8°59′N	79°31′W		Panama City		Panama
43°39′N	79°23′W		Toronto,      Ontario		Canada
42°54′N	78°51′W		Buffalo,      New York		United States
35°49′N	78°38′W		Raleigh,      North Carolina		United States
00°15′N	78°35′W		Quito		Ecuador
43°09′N	77°36′W		Rochester,      New York		United States
25°03′N	77°20′W		Nassau		Bahamas
38°53′N	77°02′W		Washington, D.C.		United States
12°02′S	77°01′W		Lima		Peru
17°59′N	76°48′W		Kingston		Jamaica
39°17′N	76°37′W		Baltimore,      Maryland		United States
3°25′N	76°31′W		Cali		Colombia
36°51′N	75°59′W		Virginia   Beach,      Virginia		United States
20°01′N	75°48′W		Santiago   de Cuba		Cuba
45°25′N	75°41′W		Ottawa,      Ontario		Canada
6°14′N	75°34′W		Medellín		Colombia
10°24′N	75°30′W		Cartagena		Colombia
39°57′N	75°10′W		Philadelphia,      Pennsylvania		United States

75°W

10°57′N	74°47′W		Barranquilla			Colombia
39*49′N	74°11′W		Forked   River,      New Jersey			United States
41°26′N	74°08′W		Jersey   City,      New Jersey			United States
4°36′N	74°04′W		Bogotá			Colombia
40°43′N	74°00′W		New   York City,        New York			United States
45°30′N	73°33′W		Montreal,      Quebec			Canada
3°44′S	73°15′W		Iquitos			Peru
39°49′S	73°14′W		Valdivia			Chile
36°50′S	73°03′W		Concepción			Chile
18°32′N	72°20′W		Port-au-Prince			Haiti
13°30′S	71°58′W		Cusco			Peru
10°39′S	71°38′W		Maracaibo			Venezuela
33°03′S	71°37′W		Valparaíso			Chile
16°24′S	71°32′W		Arequipa			Peru
41°49′N	71°25′W		Providence,      Rhode Island			United States
41°09′S	71°18′W		San   Carlos de Bariloche,           Río   Negro			Argentina
29°54′S	71°15′W		La   Serena			Chile
46°48′N	71°13′W		Quebec City,      Quebec			Canada
21°27′N	71°08′W		Cockburn   Town,      Turks   and Caicos Islands			United Kingdom
42°21′N	71°03′W		Boston,      Massachusetts			United States
53°10′S	70°56′W		Punta   Arenas			Chile
33°27′S	70°40′W		Santiago			Chile
23°39′S	70°24′W		Antofagasta			Chile
20°13′S	70°09′W		Iquique			Chile
12°31′N	70°02′W		Oranjestad,      Aruba			Netherlands
18°29′N		69°55′W		Santo   Domingo	Dominican   Republic
10°07′S		69°21′W		Rio Branco,      Acre	Brazil
12°07′N		68°56′W		Willemstad,      Curaçao	Netherlands
22°28′S		68°56′W		Calama	Chile
32°53′S		68°49′W		Mendoza,      Mendoza	Argentina
63°45′N		68°31′W		Iqaluit,      Nunavut	Canada
54°48′S		68°18′W		Ushuaia,      Tierra del Fuego	Argentina
16°30′S		68°09′W		La Paz	Bolivia
54°56′N		67°37′W		Puerto   Williams	Chile
10°30′N		66°55′W		Caracas	Venezuela
45°57′N		66°40′W		Fredericton,      New Brunswick	Canada
18°27′N		66°04′W		San   Juan,      Puerto Rico	United States
45°16′N		66°03′W		Saint   John,      New Brunswick	Canada
19°02′S		65°15′W		Sucre	Bolivia
18°21′S		64°57′W		Charlotte Amalie,      United States Virgin Islands	United States
32°17′N		64°47′W		Hamilton,      Bermuda	United Kingdom
18°26′N		64°37′W		Road Town,      British   Virgin Islands	United Kingdom
31°24′S		64°11′W		Córdoba, Córdoba	Argentina
8°45′S		63°54′W		Porto Velho,      Rondônia	Brazil
44°40′N		63°36′W		Halifax,      Nova Scotia	Canada
17°48′S		63°10′W		Santa   Cruz de la Sierra	Bolivia
46°14′N		63°08′W		Charlottetown,      Prince   Edward Island	Canada
18°13′N		63°03′W		The   Valley,      Anguilla	United Kingdom
16°50′N		62°40′W		Basseterre	Saint   Kitts and Nevis
38°43′S		62°16′W		Bahía   Blanca,      Buenos   Aires Province	Argentina
17°07′N		61°51′W		St. John’s	Antigua   and Barbuda
12°03′N		61°45′W		St.   George’s	Grenada
15°59′N		61°43′W		Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe	France
10°40′N		61°31′W		Port   of Spain	Trinidad   and Tobago
10°17′N		61°28′W		San Fernando	Trinidad   and Tobago
15°18′N		61°23′W		Roseau	Dominica
10°30′N		61°23′W		Chaguanas	Trinidad   and Tobago
13°10′N		61°14′W		Kingstown	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
14°36′N		61°05′W		Fort-de-France, Martinique	France
14°01′N		60°59′W		Castries	Saint Lucia
32°57′S		60°40′W		Rosario,      Santa   Fe	Argentina
2°49′N		60°39′W		Boa   Vista,      Roraima	Brazil
3°06′S		60°01′W		Manaus,      Amazonas	Brazil

[edit] 60°W

Latitude	Longitude	City, State		Country
13°05′N	59°37′W	Bridgetown		Barbados
34°36′S	58°22′W	Buenos Aires		Argentina
6°48′S	58°10′W	Georgetown		Guyana
51°41′N	57°51′W	Stanley, Falkland Islands		United Kingdom
25°16′S	57°40′W	Asunción		Paraguay
46°46′N	56°10′W	Saint-Pierre, Saint   Pierre and Miquelon		France
34°55′S	56°10′W	Montevideo		Uruguay
15°35′S	56°05′W	Cuiabá,      Mato Grosso		Brazil
5°52′N	55°10′W	Paramaribo		Suriname
20°26′S	54°38′W	Campo   Grande,      Mato   Grosso do Sul		Brazil
25°25′S	54°37′W	Ciudad   del Este		Paraguay
33°41′S	53°27′W	Chuí,      Rio   Grande do Sul		Brazil
47°33′N	52°42′W	St. John’s,      Newfoundland   and Labrador		Canada
31°46′S	52°20′W	Pelotas,      Rio   Grande do Sul		Brazil
4°55′N	52°19′W	Cayenne, French Guiana		France
64°10′N	51°45′W	Nuuk, Greenland		Denmark
30°02′N	51°13′W	Porto   Alegre,      Rio   Grande do Sul		Brazil
0°02′N	51°03′W	Macapá,      Amapá		Brazil
22°39′S	50°24′W	Assis,      São   Paulo		Brazil
25°25′S	49°15′W	Curitiba,      Paraná	Brazil
1°28′N	48°29′W	Belém,      Pará	Brazil
15°48′S	47°54′W	Brasília,      Distrito   Federal	Brazil
22°54′S	47°03′W	Campinas,      São   Paulo	Brazil
23°33′S	46°38′W	São   Paulo,      São   Paulo	Brazil
23°11′S	45°52′W	São   José dos Campos,        São   Paulo	Brazil

45°W

22°54′S	43°14′W		Rio   de Janeiro,        Rio   de Janeiro			Brazil
20°19′S	40°20′W		Vitória,      Espírito Santo			Brazil
14º47′S		39º03′W		Ilhéus,      Bahia	Brazil
3º46′S		38º34′W		Fortaleza,      Ceará	Brazil
9º39′S		35º43′W		Maceió,      Alagoas	Brazil
8°04′S		34°52′W		Recife,      Pernambuco	Brazil

30°W

Latitude	Longitude	City, State	Country
38º32′N	28º38′W	Horta, Azores	Portugal
38º39′N	27º13′W	Angra   do Heroísmo,   Azores	Portugal
37º44′N	25º40′W	Ponta Delgada, Azores	Portugal
14°55′N	23°31′W	Praia	Cape Verde
64º08′N	21º56′W	Reykjavík	Iceland
14º41′N	17º26′W	Dakar		Senegal
14º50′N	17º06′W	Thiès		Senegal
13º26′N	16º40′W	Serekunda		Gambia
13º16′N	16º39′W	Brikama		Gambia
13º27′N	16º34′W	Banjul		Gambia
28º28′N	16º15′W	Santa   Cruz de Tenerife,        Canary Islands		Spain
18º06′N	15º57′W	Nouakchott		Mauritania
11º51′N	15º35′W	Bissau		Guinea-Bissau
28º8′N	15º26′W	Las   Palmas de Gran Canaria,        Canary Islands		Spain

15°W

 

 

Latitude	Longitude	City, State	Country
9°31′N	13°42′W	Conakry	Guinea
8°28′N	13°16′W	Freetown	Sierra Leone
27º9′N	13º12′W	El Aaiún	Western Sahara
6º19′N	10º46′W	Monrovia	Liberia
38º42′N	9º11′W	Lisbon		Portugal
41º9′N	8º38′W	Porto		Portugal
51º53′N	8º28′W	Cork		Ireland
31º38′N	8º0′W	Marrakech		Morocco
12º39′N	8º0′W	Bamako		Mali
33º32′N	7º35′W	Casablanca		Morocco
12º59′N	7º34′W	Koulikoro		Mali
34º02′N	6º50′W	Rabat		Morocco
62°0′N	6°47′W	Tórshavn,      Faroe Islands		Denmark
53º20′N	6º16′W	Dublin		Ireland
37º22′N	5º59′W	Seville,      Andalusia		Spain
54º36′N	5º55′W	Belfast, Northern Ireland		United Kingdom
15°55′S	5°44′W	Jamestown, Saint Helena		United Kingdom
36°08′N	5°21′W	Gibraltar		Gibraltar
6°49′N	5°17′W	Yamoussoukro		Côte d’Ivoire
54°08′N	4°29′W	Douglas,      Isle of Man		United Kingdom
36º43′N	4º25′W	Málaga,      Andalusia		Spain
55º51′N	4º15′W	Glasgow,      Scotland		United Kingdom
5º20′N	4º01′W	Abidjan		Côte d’Ivoire
40º24′N	3º41′W	Madrid,      Madrid		Spain
51º29′N	3º11′W	Cardiff,      Wales		United Kingdom
55º57′N	3º09′W	Edinburgh,      Scotland		United Kingdom
16°46′N	3°00′W	Timbuktu		Mali
53º24′N	2º59′W	Liverpool,      England		United Kingdom
43º15′N	2º55′W	Bilbao,      Basque Country		Spain
53º28′N	2º14′W	Manchester,      England		United Kingdom
57º09′N	2º06′W	Aberdeen,      Scotland		United Kingdom
52º29′N	1º53′W	Birmingham,      England		United Kingdom
53º48′N	1º33′W	Leeds,      England		United Kingdom
47°13′N	1′33″W	Nantes,      Pays de la Loire		France
12º21′N	1º32′W	Ouagadougou		Burkina Faso
9°24′N	0°51′W	Tamale		Ghana
39º29′N	0º22′W	Valencia,      Valencian   Community		Spain
5º33′N	0º12′W	Accra		Ghana
51º30′N	0º07′W	London,      England		United Kingdom

0° (Prime Meridian)

Latitude	Longitude	City, State		Country
51º28′N	0º0′	Greenwich,      England		United Kingdom
6°08′N	1°12′E	Lomé		Togo
43°36′N	1°26′E	Toulouse,      Midi-Pyrénées		France
42°30′N	1°30′E	Andorra   la Vella		Andorra
38.98°N	1.43°E	Ibiza,      Balearic Islands		Spain
13°31′N	2°6′E	Niamey		Niger
41°23′N	2°11′E	Barcelona,      Catalonia		Spain
48°52′N	2°20′E	Paris,      Île-de-France		France
6°21′N	2°25′E	Cotonou		Benin
6°30′N	2°36′E	Porto-Novo		Benin
39°34′N	2°39′E	Palma,      Balearic Islands		Spain
36°42′N	3°13′E	Algiers		Algeria
6°27′N	3°23′E	Lagos		Nigeria
7°22′N	3°53′E	Ibadan		Nigeria
52°4′N	4°18′E	The Hague		Netherlands
50°50′N	4°21′E	Brussels		Belgium
51°13′N	4°24′E	Antwerp		Belgium
51°56′N	4°28′E	Rotterdam		Netherlands
45°46′N	4°50′E	Lyon,      Rhône-Alpes		France
52°22′N	4°53′E	Amsterdam		Netherlands
43°18′N	5°22′E	Marseille,      Provence-Alpes-Côte   d’Azur		France
60°22′N	5°24′E	Bergen		Norway
49°36′N	6°07′E	Luxembourg		Luxembourg
46°12′N	6°09′E	Geneva		Switzerland
0°20′N	6°41′E	São   Tomé		São   Tomé and Príncipe
51°14′N	6°47′E	Düsseldorf,      North   Rhine-Westphalia		Germany
50°57′N	6°58′E	Cologne,      North   Rhine-Westphalia		Germany
43°33′N	7°00′E	Cannes,      Provence-Alpes-Côte   d’Azur		France
43°42′N	7°16′E	Nice,      Provence-Alpes-Côte   d’Azur		France
43°44′N	7°24′E	Monaco		Monaco
46°57′N	7°27′E	Bern		Switzerland
9°04′N	7°29′E	Abuja		Nigeria
6°27′N	7°30′E	Enugu		Nigeria
45°04′N	7°42′E	Turin		Italy
48°35′N	7°45′E	Strasbourg,      Alsace		France
12°00′N	8°31′E	Kano		Nigeria
47°22′N	8°33′E	Zürich		Switzerland
50°06′N	8°41′E	Frankfurt am Main,      Hesse		Germany
3°45′N	8°46′E	Malabo		Equatorial   Guinea
48°46′N	9°10′E	Stuttgart,      Baden-Württemberg		Germany
45°28′N	9°11′E	Milan		Italy
0°23′N	9°27′E	Libreville		Gabon
47°08′N	9°31′E	Vaduz		Liechtenstein
4°03′N	9°42′E	Douala		Cameroon
52°22′N	9°43′E	Hanover,      Lower Saxony		Germany
53°35′N	9°59′E	Hamburg,      Hamburg		Germany
36°48′N	10°10′E	Tunis	Tunisia
56°9′N	10°12′E	Aarhus	Denmark
59°57′N	10°45′E	Oslo	Norway
47°16′N	11°23′E	Innsbruck	Austria
3°52′N	11°31′E	Yaoundé	Cameroon
48°08′N	11°34′E	Munich,      Bavaria	Germany
57°42′N	11°58′E	Gothenburg	Sweden
51°20′N	12°23′E	Leipzig,      Saxony	Germany
43°56′N	12°26′E	San   Marino	San Marino
41°54′N	12°27′E	Vatican   City	Vatican City
41°54′N	12°30′E	Rome	Italy
55°40′N	12°34′E	Copenhagen	Denmark
55°35′N	13°02′E	Malmö	Sweden
47°48′N	13°02′E	Salzburg	Austria
32°54′N	13°11′E	Tripoli	Libya
8°50′S	13°14′E	Luanda	Angola
52°31′N	13°25′E	Berlin,      Berlin	Germany
51°03′N	13°44′E	Dresden,      Saxony	Germany
40°50′N	14°15′E	Naples	Italy
48°18′N	14°17′E	Linz	Austria
50°05′N	14°25′E	Prague	Czech Republic
27°02′N	14°26′E	Sabha	Libya
35°53′N	14°27′E	Birkirkara	Malta
46°4′N	14°30′E	Ljubljana	Slovenia
35°54′N	14°30′E	Valletta	Malta

15°E

Latitude	Longitude	City, State	Country
12°6′N	15°3′E	N’Djamena	Chad
4°16′S	15°17′E	Brazzaville	Republic   of the Congo
4°19′S	15°19′E	Kinshasa	Democratic Republic of the Congo
47°04′N	15°26′E	Graz	Austria
78°13′N	15°33′E	Longyearbyen, Svalbard	Norway
45°49′N	15°59′E	Zagreb	Croatia
48°12′N	16°22′E	Vienna	Austria
43°30′N	16°26′E	Split	Croatia
48°08′N	17°06′E	Bratislava	Slovakia
59°21′N	18°4′E	Stockholm	Sweden
43°51′N	18°21′E	Sarajevo	Bosnia   and Herzegovina
33°55′S	18°25′E	Cape Town, Western Cape	South Africa
4°21′N	18°35′E	Bangui	Central   African Republic
54°21′N	18°40′E	Gdańsk	Poland
47°28′N	19°03′E	Budapest	Hungary
42°28′N	19°16′E	Podgorica	Montenegro
41°19′N	19°49′E	Tirana	Albania
50°3′N	19°56′E	Kraków	Poland
44°49′N	20°27′E	Belgrade		Serbia
54°43′N	20°31′E	Kaliningrad		Russia
52°14′N	21°00′E	Warsaw		Poland
42°40′N	21°10′E	Pristina		Kosovo
42°0′N	21°26′E	Skopje		Macedonia
40°38′N	22°57′E	Thessaloniki		Greece
42°42′N	23°20′E	Sofia		Bulgaria
37°58′N	23°43′E	Athens		Greece
61°30′N	23°45′E	Tampere		Finland
49°51′N	24°01′E	Lviv		Ukraine
56°58′N	24°08′E	Riga		Latvia
60°12′N	24°39′E	Espoo		Finland
59°26′N	24°45′E	Tallinn		Estonia
60°10′N	24°56′E	Helsinki		Finland
54°41′N	25°17′E	Vilnius		Lithuania
33°57′S	25°36′E	Port   Elizabeth,   Eastern   Cape		South Africa
17°51′S	25°52′E	Livingstone		Zambia
24°39′S	25°54′E	Gaborone		Botswana
44°26′N	26°06′E	Bucharest		Romania
29°06′S	26°13′E	Bloemfontein, Free State		South Africa
58°23′N	26°43′E	Tartu		Estonia
38°26′N	27°09′E	İzmir		Turkey
11°40′S	27°28′E	Lubumbashi		Democratic Republic of the Congo
29°18′S	27°28′E	Maseru		Lesotho
21°10′S	27°30′E	Francistown		Botswana
53°54′N	27°34′E	Minsk		Belarus
26°12′S	28°02′E	Johannesburg, Gauteng		South Africa
25°44′S	28°11′E	Pretoria, Gauteng		South Africa
15°25′S	28°17′E	Lusaka		Zambia
12°58′S	28°38′E	Ndola		Zambia
20°10′S	28°34′E	Bulawayo		Zimbabwe
47°0′N	28°52′E	Chişinău		Moldova
41°0′N	28°58′E	Istanbul		Turkey
40°11′N	29°04′E	Bursa		Turkey
3°23′S	29°22′E	Bujumbura		Burundi
46°51′N	29°38′E	Tiraspol,      Transnistria		Moldova
31°12′N	29°55′E	Alexandria		Egypt

[edit] 30°E

Latitude	Longitude	City, State	Country
1°56′S	30°03′E	Kigali	Rwanda
59°56′N	30°20′E	Saint   Petersburg	Russia
50°27′N	30°31′E	Kiev	Ukraine
46°28′N	30°44′E	Odessa	Ukraine
17°49′S	31°03′E	Harare	Zimbabwe
29°53′S	31°03′E	Durban, KwaZulu-Natal	South Africa
26°19′S	31°08′E	Mbabane	Swaziland
26°28′S	31°12′E	Lobamba	Swaziland
30°03′N	31°13′E	Cairo	Egypt
26°29′S	31°22′E	Manzini	Swaziland
31°15′N	32°17′E	Port Said	Egypt
37°52′N	32°29′E	Konya	Turkey
15°39′N	32°29′E	Omdurman	Sudan
15°38′N	32°32′E	Khartoum	Sudan
29°58′N	32°33′E	Suez	Egypt
25°58′S	32°35′E	Maputo	Mozambique
25°41′N	32°39′E	Luxor	Egypt
39°52′N	32°50′E	Ankara	Turkey
2°31′S	32°54′E	Mwanza	Tanzania
68°58′N	33°05′E	Murmansk	Russia
35°10′N	33°21′E	Nicosia	Cyprus
13°59′S	33°47′E	Lilongwe	Malawi
44°57′N	34°06′E	Simferopol,      Crimea	Ukraine
31°31′N	34°27′E	Gaza, Gaza Strip	Palestinian   territories
36°48′N	34°38′E	Mersin	Turkey
32°05′N	34°48′E	Tel Aviv	Israel
15°47′S	35°0′E	Blantyre	Malawi
31°47′N	35°13′E	Jerusalem	Israel
37°0′N	35°19′E	Adana	Turkey
33°53′N	35°30′E	Beirut	Lebanon
6°10′S	35°44′E	Dodoma	Tanzania
31°57′N	35°56′E	Amman	Jordan
33°30′N	36°17′E	Damascus	Syria
49°55′N	36°19′E	Kharkiv	Ukraine
1°17′S	36°49′E	Nairobi	Kenya
37°04′N	37°23′E	Gaziantep	Turkey
55°45′N	37°36′E	Moscow	Russia
9°01′N	38°44′E	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia
15°20′N	38°56′E	Asmara	Eritrea
21°32′N	39°10′E	Jeddah	Saudi Arabia
6°10′S	39°12′E	Zanzibar   City	Tanzania
6°49′S	39°16′E	Dar   es Salaam	Tanzania
24°28′N	39°36′E	Medina	Saudi Arabia
21°25′N	39°49′E	Mecca	Saudi Arabia
43°00′N	41°01′E	Sukhumi,        Abkhazia	Georgia
11°35′N	43°08′E	Djibouti	Djibouti
11°45′S	43°12′E	Moroni	Comoros
42°14′N	43°58′E	Tskhinvali,        South   Ossetia	Georgia
15°21′N	44°12′E	Sana’a	Yemen
33°19′N	44°25′E	Baghdad	Iraq
56°20′N	44°0′E	Nizhny Novgorod	Russia
9°30′N	44°0′E	Hargeisa,        Somaliland	Somalia
36°20′N	44°01′E	Arbil,      Iraqi   Kurdistan	Iraq
40°11′N	44°31′E	Yerevan	Armenia
41°43′N	44°47′E	Tbilisi	Georgia

45°E

Latitude	Longitude	City, State		Country
12°47′S	45°13′E	Mamoudzou, Mayotte		France
2°02′N	45°21′E	Mogadishu		Somalia
38°05′N	46°17′E	Tabriz		Iran
24°42′N	46°43′E	Riyadh		Saudi Arabia
39°49′N	46°45′E	Stepanakert,      Nagorno-Karabakh   Republic		Azerbaijan
18°56′S	47°31′E	Antananarivo		Madagascar
30°30′N	47°49′E	Basra		Iraq
29°22′N	47°58′E	Kuwait City		Kuwait
40°22′N	49°53′E	Baku		Azerbaijan
26°26′N	50°07′E	Dammam	Saudi Arabia
53°14′N	50°10′E	Samara	Russia
26°13′N	50°35′E	Manama	Bahrain
35°41′N	51°25′E	Tehran	Iran
25°17′N	51°32′E	Doha	Qatar
24°28′N	54°22′E	Abu Dhabi	United   Arab Emirates
25°16′N	55°18′E	Dubai	United   Arab Emirates
4°37′S	55°27′E	Victoria	Seychelles
20°52′S	55°27′E	Saint-Denis, Réunion	France
58°0′N	56°19′E	Perm	Russia
20°10′S	57°30′E	Port Louis	Mauritius
37°58′N	58°20′E	Ashgabat	Turkmenistan
23°36′N	58°32′E	Muscat	Oman
42°28′N	59°36′E	Nukus,      Karakalpakstan	Uzbekistan
36°18′N	59°36′E	Mashhad	Iran

[edit] 60°E

Latitude	Longitude	City, State	Country
56°50′N	60°35′E	Yekaterinburg	Russia
31°37′N	65°43′E	Kandahar	Afghanistan
24°51′N	67°00′E	Karachi, Sindh	Pakistan
25°22′N	68°22′E	Hyderabad, Sindh	Pakistan
38°32′N	68°46′E	Dushanbe	Tajikistan
34°32′N	69°10′E	Kabul	Afghanistan
41°16′N	69°13′E	Tashkent	Uzbekistan
51°11′N	71°27′E	Astana	Kazakhstan
30°12′N	71°27′E	Multan,   Punjab	Pakistan
34°00′N	71°30′E	Peshawar,   North-West Frontier	Pakistan
40°98′N	71°58′E	Namangan	Uzbekistan
23°01′N	72°34′E	Ahmedabad,   Gujarat	India
18°57′N	72°49′E	Mumbai,   Maharashtra	India
21°10′N	72°49′E	Surat, Gujarat	India
31°22′N	72°59′E	Faisalabad,   Punjab	Pakistan
33°36′N	73°02′E	Rawalpindi,   Punjab	Pakistan
33°43′N	73°04′E	Islamabad,   Islamabad Capital Territory	Pakistan
54°59′N	73°22′E	Omsk	Russia
4°10′N	73°30′E	Malé	Maldives
18°31′N	73°51′E	Pune, Maharashtra	India
31°33′N	74°20′E	Lahore,   Punjab	Pakistan
42°52′N	74°36′E	Bishkek	Kyrgyzstan
34°05′N	74°47′E	Srinagar,   Jammu and Kashmir	India
31°38′N	74°51′E	Amritsar,   Punjab	India

 

75°E

Latitude	Longitude	City, State		Country
26°55′N	75°49′E	Jaipur, Rajasthan		India
30°54′N	75°51′E	Ludhiana, Punjab		India
43°16′N	76°53′E	Almaty		Kazakhstan
28°37′N	77°12′E	New Delhi, Delhi		India
12°58′N	77°34′E	Bangalore, Karnataka		India
17°22′N	78°28′E	Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh		India
21°04′N	79°01′E	Nagpur, Maharashtra		India
6°53′N	79°52′E	Colombo		Sri Lanka
6°54′N	79°53′E	Sri   Jayawardenapura-Kotte		Sri Lanka
13°05′N	80°16′E	Chennai, Tamil Nadu	India
26°27′N	80°20′E	Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh	India
7°17′N	80°38′E	Kandy	Sri Lanka
26°51′N	80°55′E	Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh	India
7°43′N	81°42′E	Batticaloa	Sri Lanka
55°01′N	82°56′E	Novosibirsk	Russia
25°36′N	85°08′E	Patna, Bihar	India
27°42′N	85°20′E	Kathmandu	Nepal
43°48′N	87°35′E	Ürümqi, Xinjiang	People’s Republic of China
69°21′N	88°12′E	Norilsk	Russia
22°34′N	88°22′E	Kolkata, West Bengal	India
27°19′N	88°37′E	Gangtok, Sikkim	India
29°16′N	88°52′E	Shigatse, Tibet	People’s Republic of China
27°28′N	89°38′E	Thimphu	Bhutan

[edit] 90°E

Latitude	Longitude	City, State	Country
23°42′N	90°22′E	Dhaka	Bangladesh
29°39′N	91°07′E	Lhasa, Tibet	People’s Republic of China
23°30′N	91°12′E	Agartala, Tripura	India
26°10′N	91°46′E	Guwahati, Assam	India
22°22′N	91°48′E	Chittagong	Bangladesh
25°34′N	91°53′E	Shillong, Meghalaya	India
11°40′N	92°45′E	Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands	India
27°28′N	94°54′E	Dibrugarh, Assam	India
5°33′N	95°19′E	Banda Aceh	Indonesia
19°45′N	96°06′E	Naypyidaw	Myanmar
16°48′N	96°10′E	Yangon	Myanmar
3°35′N	98°40′E	Medan	Indonesia
7°53′N	98°24′E	Phuket	Thailand
18°47′N	98°59′E	Chiang Mai	Thailand
9°08′N	99°20′E	Surat Thani	Thailand
5°25′N	100°19′E	George Town,      Penang	Malaysia
0°57′S	100°21′E	Padang	Indonesia
6°07′N	100°22′E	Alor   Star,      Kedah	Malaysia
7°01′N	100°28′E	Hat   Yai	Thailand
13°45′N	100°29′E	Bangkok	Thailand
12°55′N	100°52′E	Pattaya	Thailand
4°36′N	101°04′E	Ipoh,      Perak	Malaysia
0°32′N	101°27′E	Pekanbaru	Indonesia
56°10′N	101°37′E	Bratsk	Russia
3°08′N	101°41′E	Kuala Lumpur,         Federal Territory	Malaysia
36°38′N	101°46′E	Xining,   Qinghai	People’s Republic of China
14°58′N	102°06′E	Nakhon Ratchasima	Thailand
6°08′N	102°15′E	Kota   Bharu,      Kelantan	Malaysia
2°11′N	102°23′E	Malacca Town,      Malacca	Malaysia
17°57′N	102°37′E	Vientiane	Laos
25°04′N	102°41′E	Kunming,   Yunnan	People’s Republic of China
17°25′N	102°45′E	Udon   Thani	Thailand
1°29′N	103°44′E	Johor   Bahru,      Johor	Malaysia
36°02′N	103°48′E	Lanzhou,   Gansu	People’s Republic of China
1°22′N	103°48′E	Singapore	Singapore
13°21′N	103°51′E	Siem   Reap	Cambodia
30°39′N	104°04′E	Chengdu,   Sichuan	People’s Republic of China
2°59′S	104°45′E	Palembang	Indonesia
11°33′N	104°55′E	Phnom   Penh	Cambodia

105°E

Latitude	Longitude	City, State	Country
21°02′N	105°51′E	Hanoi	Vietnam
29°33′N	106°30′E	Chongqing	People’s Republic of China
20°51′N	106°41′E	Hai Phong	Vietnam
10°46′N	106°41′E	Ho   Chi Minh City	Vietnam
6°08′S	106°45′E	Jakarta	Indonesia
6°36′S	106°48′E	Bogor	Indonesia
47°55′N	106°55′E	Ulan Bator	Mongolia
6°57′S	107°34′E	Bandung	Indonesia
16°28′N	107°36′E	Huế	Vietnam
16°04′N	108°14′E	Da Nang	Vietnam
22°49′N	108°19′E	Nanning, Guangxi	People’s Republic of China
34°16′N	108°54′E	Xi’an, Shaanxi	People’s Republic of China
0°0′N	109°20′E	Pontianak	Indonesia
1°33′N	110°21′E	Kuching,      Sarawak		Malaysia
7°48′S	110°22′E	Yogyakarta		Indonesia
6°58′S	110°25′E	Semarang		Indonesia
37°52′N	112°33′E	Taiyuan, Shanxi		People’s Republic of China
7°58′S	112°37′E	Malang		Indonesia
7°14′S	112°44′E	Surabaya		Indonesia
23°06′N	113°16′E	Guangzhou, Guangdong		People’s Republic of China
22°10′N	113°33′E	Macau		People’s Republic of China
34°45′N	113°38′E	Zhengzhou, Henan		People’s Republic of China
23°02′N	113°43′E	Dongguan, Guangdong		People’s Republic of China
4°23′N	113°58′E	Miri,      Sarawak		Malaysia
22°33′N	114°06′E	Shenzhen, Guangdong		People’s Republic of China
22°18′N	114°12′E	Hong Kong		People’s Republic of China
30°34′N	114°16′E	Wuhan, Hubei		People’s Republic of China
36°36′N	114°29′E	Handan, Hubei		People’s Republic of China
38°02′N	114°30′E	Shijiazhuang, Hubei		People’s Republic of China
4°53′N	114°56′E	Bandar   Seri Begawan		Brunei
8°39′S	115°13′E	Denpasar, Bali		Indonesia
32°31′S	115°43′E	Mandurah,      Western   Australia		Australia
31°57′S	115°51′E	Perth,      Western   Australia		Australia
5°58′N	116°05′E	Kota   Kinabalu,      Sabah		Malaysia
39°54′N	116°24′E	Beijing		People’s Republic of China
1°15′S	116°49′E	Balikpapan		Indonesia
36°40′N	116°59′E	Jinan, Shandong		People’s Republic of China
39°08′N	117°11′E	Tianjin		People’s Republic of China
20°18′S	118°36′E	Port Hedland,      Western   Australia		Australia
32°03′N	118°46′E	Nanjing, Jiangsu		People’s Republic of China
5°8′S	119°25′E	Makassar		Indonesia

[edit] 120°E

Latitude	Longitude	City, State	Country
30°15′N	120°10′E	Hangzhou, Zhejiang	People’s Republic of China
22°38′N	120°16′E	Kaohsiung	Republic   of China (Taiwan)
36°05′N	120°20′E	Qingdao, Shandong	People’s Republic of China
24°09′N	120°40′E	Taichung	Republic   of China (Taiwan)
14°35′N	120°58′E	Manila	Philippines
14°38′N	121°02′E	Quezon City	Philippines
14°33′N	121°02′E	Makati City	Philippines
31°12′N	121°30′E	Shanghai	People’s Republic of China
25°02′N	121°38′E	Taipei	Republic   of China (Taiwan)
39°02′N	121°46′E	Dalian, Liaoning	People’s Republic of China
10°41′N	122°33′E	Iloilo City	Philippines
6°54′N	122°4′E	Zamboanga   City	Philippines
41°47′N	123°27′E	Shenyang, Liaoning	People’s Republic of China
9°39′N	123°51′E	Tagbilaran	Philippines
10°17′N	123°54′E	Cebu City	Philippines
43°53′N	125°19′E	Changchun, Jilin	People’s Republic of China
8°33′S	125°35′E	Dili	East Timor
39°02′N	125°45′E	Pyongyang	North Korea
7°30′N	126°0′E	Davao City	Philippines
37°58′N	126°33′E	Kaesong	North Korea
45°45′N	126°38′E	Harbin, Heilongjiang	People’s Republic of China
37°29′N	126°38′E	Incheon	South Korea
37°33′N	126°59′E	Seoul	South Korea
39°09′N	127°26′E	Wonsan	North Korea
26°20′N	127°48′E	Okinawa	Japan
3°42′S	128°10′E	Ambon,   Maluku	Indonesia
35°52′N	128°36′E	Daegu	South Korea
35°06′N	129°02′E	Busan	South Korea
62°02′N	129°44′E	Yakutsk	Russia
41°48′N	129°47′E	Chongjin	North Korea
33°35′N	130°24′E	Fukuoka	Japan
12°27′S	130°50′E	Darwin,      Northern Territory	Australia
43°08′N	131°54′E	Vladivostok	Russia
34°23′N	132°27′E	Hiroshima	Japan
7°21′N	134°28′E	Koror	Palau
7°30′N	134°37′E	Melekeok	Palau

135°E

Latitude	Longitude	City, State		Country
34°41′N	135°12′E	Kobe		Japan
34°41′N	135°30′E	Osaka		Japan
35°01′N	135°46′E	Kyoto		Japan
35°11′N	136°54′E	Nagoya		Japan
34°55′S	138°36′E	Adelaide,      South Australia		Australia
35°27′N	139°38′E	Yokohama		Japan
35°31′N	139°42′E	Kawasaki		Japan
35°41′N	139°46′E	Tokyo		Japan
2°32′S	140°43′E	Jayapura	Indonesia
43°04′N	141°21′E	Sapporo	Japan
38°09′S	144°21′E	Geelong,      Victoria	Australia
13°29′N	144°45′E	Hagåtña,      Guam	United States
13°31′N	144°50′E	Dededo,      Guam	United States
37°48′S	144°57′E	Melbourne,      Victoria	Australia
15°11′N	145°45′E	Saipan,      Northern   Mariana Islands			United States
16°55′S	145°46′E	Cairns,      Queensland			Australia
19°15′S	146°49′E	Townsville,      Queensland			Australia
9°28′S	147°10′E	Port   Moresby			Papua New Guinea
42°53′S	147°19′E	Hobart,      Tasmania			Australia
35°18′S	149°07′E	Canberra,      Australian Capital Territory			Australia

[edit] 150°E

Latitude	Longitude	City, State	Country
23°22′S	150°30′E	Rockhampton,      Queensland	Australia
59°34′N	150°48′E	Magadan	Russia
34°26′S	150°53′E	Wollongong,      New South Wales	Australia
33°51′S	151°12′E	Sydney,      New South Wales	Australia
32°55′S	151°45′E	Newcastle,      New South Wales	Australia
7°27′N	151°51′E	Weno	Federated States of Micronesia
27°28′S	153°01′E	Brisbane,      Queensland	Australia
28°10′S	153°33′E	Gold   Coast,      Queensland	Australia
6°55′N	158°11′E	Palikir	Federated States of Micronesia
53°01′N	158°39′E	Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky	Russia
9°26′S	159°57′E	Honiara	Solomon Islands

165°E

Latitude	Longitude	City, State	Country
22°16′S	166°27′E	Nouméa, New Caledonia	France
0°33′S	166°55′E	Yaren	Nauru
29°04′S	167°58′E	Kingston,      Norfolk Island	Australia
17°45′S	168°18′E	Port Vila	Vanuatu
46°25′S	168°18′E	Invercargill	New Zealand
45°52′S	170°30′E	Dunedin	New Zealand
7°04′N	171°16′E	Majuro	Marshall Islands
43°32′S	172°37′E	Christchurch	New Zealand
1°19′N	172°59′E	South   Tarawa	Kiribati
41°17′S	174°46′E	Wellington	New Zealand
36°51′S	174°47′E	Auckland	New Zealand
37°47′S	175°17′E	Hamilton	New Zealand
13°17′S	176°11′E	Mata-Utu, Wallis   and Futuna	France
64°44′N	177°30′E	Anadyr	Russia
18°08′S	178°26′E	Suva	Fiji
8°31′S	179°13′E	Funafuti	Tuvalu
16°26′S	179°22′E	Labasa	Fiji
9°23′S	179°51′E	Nukulaelae	Tuvalu

180° (IDL – International Date Line)

Happy Birthday Mom (Wilma, Aunt Wilma, Nana)

Happy Birthday Mom, (Wilma, Aunt Wilma, Nana)

This is the first birthday that I will miss with her.  My mother passed away last year the day before Thanksgiving.  She was 89 years old.  She is missed.  And not just by me.  Wilma Faye Duvall Duvall Clark is missed by almost everyone who ever knew her.  She
didn’t have a mean bone in her body.

My mother’s mother, Mary Tabitha Isabel Pigg Duvall, died when my mother was five years old.  I think this was the defining event of her life.  People who face early tragedy usually go one of two ways, resentment or a profound understanding.  My mother had
sympathy for everyone, but she was no pushover.  She could be tough if she needed to be, but she manifested a love for all other human beings and it was reflected back to her. Neither the loss of her beloved husband Virgil to the brutal stupidity of war, nor the death of my little brother Paul could diminish her ability to bring joy to those around her.

When I was a teenager I got the date of my mother’s birthday wrong.  I thought it was the 28^th of September instead of the 24^th.  It was a running joke over the years that I would have to ask what was the real date of her birthday.  This 24^th of September will be the first that I can’t ask her which day it really is, and then laugh about it.  My mother was a
joyous person, and that is what I miss the most.  But I truly believe that she is watching over me to keep joy in my life.

Perhaps the most amazing thing that has happened to me this summer in San Miguel de Allende is the friendships that I have made, especially at Cielito Lindo.  Cielito Lindo is an
assisted living center a little ways outside of San Miguel.  It is the place that I have been doing my “every Thursday” volunteering.  On Thursdays I go there to sing, and it has been the most wonderful experience of my life.  The residents and staff are my friends, people who share their joy with me and hopefully vice versa.  It is there on those days that I feel my mother’s presence and the miracle that is shared human joy.

That is what I remember about my mother and why I have not had too much time to miss her, because she’s still here.

Go with God Mom.

Social Medium, Social Median, Social Minimum

The Average, The Middle and The Bottom: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

Much can be said about just about everything, but how it is said and why it is said and by whom it is said really makes a difference.  Discussion is often obscured and distorted by
political, social, and religious advocates by shifting their emphasis between the society as a whole (the average), the man in the middle (the median), and the man at the bottom (the minimum).  The ability to do this is dependent on an ignorant and bigoted populace.  The cure to this is an educated and aware populace.

Everyone in the world should know:

1. What is their share of the total wealth/income in the world.  In other words are they above, below or at average.
2. What is their position in the pecking order.  How many are above them and how many are below them?
3. What is the bottom position?  What share of wealth/income does the least member of society have?

I believe these notions were being addressed at the TEDx conference in San Miguel de Allende on Saturday August 6, 2011.  From the Digital Divide, to the Position of Women and Children in the World, to Education, an awareness of our shared history and culture was demonstrated.  And this was not just a let’s get together so we can feel better about
ourselves meeting of dilettantes.  There were people not just suggesting solutions to the problems they spoke about, these were people who were actually doing things, and they mostly spoke about the things they were doing.  There was an awareness of “privileged position” that most of the speakers and attendees held.  There was also an awareness that
the great middle that holds society together is under assault.  But lastly and most importantly there was a keen awareness of what is happening to those who have not the resources to stand up for themselves and accepting of the roles as advocates for this group.

TEDx, San Miguel de Allende

Attended my first TED event today in San Miguel.  It was great.  Everything I thought about San Miguel becomes truer everyday.  I have never experienced a community like this.  The theme of the conference was Human Energy, Energia Humana.  And human energy was abounding here.  It reminds me of Frederick Soddy who corrected Adam Smith’s three factors of production.  Smith said economic activity was based on Land, Labor and Capital.   Soddy replace those with Human Dilligence, Human Discovery and Natural Energy.  I have seen the new world economy and it is beginning in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.

More tomorrow on the individual presenters and the vast amount of Human Energy that was on display, and thank you to everyone who put on this wonderful event.  I am tired and must sleep, but tomorrow is another day.

World Meet World

Happy Birthday Jonah

Happy Birthday Jonah

My father would have been 92 years old today, August 3, 2011.  He didn’t quite make it to 92 though; he passed away last January 2.  He lasted only about 40 days longer than my mother who died the day before Thanksgiving last year.  It made the Holidays interesting.

I always thought that my father was not a happy man.  But I’m not really sure.  You see before Jonah assumed the role of dour Baptist Deacon, he was a poker player.  Not just a poker player, he used to run poker games in my hometown of Greenfield, California in the late 1940s. Jonah had learned to play poker in the army during World War II.  He had just finished basic training when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and didn’t muster out until 1946.

Jonah was the oldest son, one younger brother and eight sisters, in the family of Jasper and Melvina Clark in Newton County, Arkansas.  I think my Dad had to become a full time farm hand at the age of 9 or 10 in 1929.  I don’t think there was much choice, but I don’t think it was a very sweet life.  He spoke of it little.  Poker players don’t reveal their emotions.

Jonah had come to Greenfield to see to his younger brother Norman who had been injured in a car wreck.  Norman had been too young for the war, or to lighten Jonah’s work load as a youth.  Norman was musician, like my Grandfather Jasper, and I hear he was quite good.  Norman was staying with Maymee and Elmer Padgett at the Greenfield Hotel.  He was in a full upper body cast with a broken neck.  The Padgetts cared for Norman and took in my father in as well.  That’s when Jonah put the main skill he had acquired in WWII to use and ran poker games around town.

Jonah had spent most of the war in Little Rock, at Camp Joseph T. Robinson.  I’m not sure if Jasper had enough pull to keep him there, but his luck had run out.  He got shipped to the Philippines and saw action at Leyte Gulf.  His unit was preparing for the invasion of Japan when Truman ordered the Atomic Bomb drops on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  My father seldom talked about politicians but always expressed gratitude to Truman, because he had seen how the Japanese fought. To the death.  Which would have been the death of many Americans as well.

So instead of invasion Jonah and his fellow soldiers just steamed on into Japan and occupied it.  He stayed for a few months and could have stayed more, but he was dog
tired of the army and he mustered out.  My father had a wife in Little Rock and so he headed back there.  His wife was killed in a car wreck two weeks after he got back, something about which he never said much, poker players seldom do.  So when his parents asked him to go to California to see to his little brother, he went.

Jonah’s poker playing and drinking days have a very vague crossover with my conscious memories.  The Greenfield Free Will Baptist Church was the center of his and my Mother’s lives by the time I was really aware of the world.  The fact that I had any memories of it at all was a source of discomfort to Jonah.  That I could remember him drunk and was able to describe how I remembered it was something we never laughed over.  We avoided it.  A poker player does not like other people to be aware of their weaknesses.

As I grew up in Greenfield I always wondered why all the local farmers and business people knew Jonah, but they did.  And it was from poker.  The late 1940s in America was one big party, and it lasted for years.  It did end, but not without a hangover.  My mother landed in Greenfield in 1946 as a young war widow, with her niece Lily Mae.  My parent’s relationship was cemented in a car wreck on a foggy Highway 101 at the south end of Greenfield.  Maymee and Elmer ended up caring for the other Clark brother and my mother helped and they were eventually married 1n 1949.

It was a few years later, my older brother Leon and myself being additions, that my mother had packed us up and was ready to head to her friend’s house in Los Angeles.  Jonah
promised to change his ways and he left the party and he settled down into the person I knew.  He was the steadiest man I ever knew.  He was reliable beyond belief.  And he kept it all to himself.  He never tipped his hand.

And so I had to learn to live my life without parental approval, because if that was what I was looking for I was in for a big disappointment.  If I was going to do the right thing, I better do it for the right reason.  And the right reason has nothing to do with parental approval.  Just as providing and caring for my brothers and myself was never about the affection he received in return.  Because that love and affection waned over the years.

My father  became increasingly distant from his own family.  In later years he took to griping, but his gripe was general.  He didn’t like anything, or so it seemed at times.  But I think it was the poker player in Jonah that just refused to let anyone have any emotional leverage on him.  He had survived so much hurt that he just couldn’t survive any more.

So I can look back at my father and be truly thankful for the things he was, a dependable, faithful, rock solid provider.  Or I can look back and wish for a little more fatherly affection and approval.  Maybe it is a sign of some maturity and I see the first as a gift that so many people would trade just about anything for, and the second as the grousing of an infant.

So as I walk the beautiful streets of San Miguel de Allende and people see my watch and ask me for the time, it is with great pride and affection that I give them the time from Jonah’s watch.

World Meet World

Simultaneous Global Synergecity

What if the people of the world could share a moment in time?  What would we tell each
other?  What would we show each other?  We hope to find out.    We hope to create a Social Medium that unites our flesh and blood reality with our virtual existence in cyberspace.  We will climb inside time and travel to a whole new space.  We will create a virtual frame of reference for the real world and a real frame of reference for
the virtual world.  We will relate to each other.

Imagine 24 screens arrayed in a circle with each tuned to a live web cam from one of the world’s 24 time zones.  Face the screens outward from the center of the room and you will have a simulated globe.  Or face them inward from the outer edges of the room and you will be able to see the whole world at the same time, but turned inside out.  The technology is not difficult.

But what is does it mean to do or see something at the “same time”?  Simultaneity is relative.  The truth is that we still have trouble defining exactly what is the same time in two or more different place because everything, including ourselves, is moving all the time.  The earth revolves around the sun at the rate of once a year and spins on its axis once a day.  Our spiral galaxy the Milky Way is also spinning.  The 24 Screen World Clock will give everyone who participates 24 points of information that we can examine together.  We can also dance.  For the first time in history the world will have a unified frame of reference in which to ponder all these questions.

World Meet World

Globalization is a term that is bandied about a great deal, but what does it mean?  Does it mean that our world has become nothing more than a playground for multinational
corporations?  Or is there something else going on?  What does it mean to have the
world connected to itself in the manner that the World Wide Web has done?  The world economy has morphed into a distributed computer with individual humans as its processors.  Our individual minds have become part of something larger.  What have we gained and what have we lost?  What is the real nature of Globalization?

We share an orb floating in the vastness of space.  Buckminster Fuller called our planet Space Ship Earth.  Bucky was an optimist.  He believed in the power of human invention
to make our Space Ship a wonderful place.  He was fond of saying that we have the potential to all live as billionaires. Space Ship Earth has come to resemble more what I call Cruise Ship Earth.  On Cruise Ship Earth a huge Casino occupies the upper portions.  The
Players occupy the deck and the cabins with windows.  The gaming tables are surrounded with luxury restaurants and bars.  There are some quite comfortable cabins for the cooks and stewards and courtesans.  The maids and janitors have adequate, if small, lodgings.  But the great bulk of humanity lives in steerage.

On each equinox the sun shines just about the same on everyone on earth.  Our existence on earth is dependent on this powerful light.  We are also dependent upon another powerful force, money.  Unfortunately money does not have the cyclical nature of our beloved sun.  With money it seems that them that has gets, and them that don’t have don’t get, until somebody has it all.  That fellah Jesus said something like that a long time ago.
Buckminster Fuller dedicated his life to “the search for the principles governing the universe and help advance the evolution of humanity in accordance with them… finding ways of doing more with less to the end that all people everywhere can have more and more”.  That is the goal of World Meet World Human Equinox.

The World Meet World Human Equinox is a new type of social medium.  It will let you, the intelligent and ambitious young people of the world, meet each other in a place where it will be apparent that you have far more interest in elevating those below you on the economic ladder than you do in deferring to those above you.  They are your potential customers.  The free market is based on mutual aid.  Rewarding the producer who makes the best television set or the best ice cream is in everyone’s interest but that positive reinforcement has no relation to the withholding of the means of survival until workers will accept any wage that is offered.  Poverty harms us all. In a global economy the well being of the poorest person in the world is the leading indicator of where we are all headed.  We need a Social Medium that will show us that.

I spend a lot of time knocking multinational corporations?  Does it mean that I believe that all the employees and stock holders are evil?  I have used Google ten to twelve times while writing this.  I have used Microsoft Publisher for all my geometric renderings in my company Math for the Ages.  So if they are evil, I share in the guilt.  But there comes a time when we all must face the world as it is.  The World Meet World Human Equinox is this point in time. Twice each year the day and night are roughly equal everywhere in the world.  What if the economy could have an equinox on a regular basis?  How would a Human Equinox change us?  Let’s have a big Global Party and find out.

Take Part!

Think of a human being alone against the elements.  Survival itself would be a continuous and difficult struggle, with the outcome in doubt. Then think of a human being in modern society.  Human identity has become further and further removed from our physical, natural environment.   We have been on the path of personal specialization for several millennia and our virtual world has accelerated that to light speed.  We enhance each other’s productivity exponentially.  The impact of six billion thinking consumers and thinking producers interacting with six billion creators and discoverers so completely outweighs any current conception of “economic value” as to not be comparable.  It is worth more than all of the “money” that has ever existed.

Here’s what we face.  Every day is an auction, but the great majority of people are not
bidders, they are merchandise.  Slavery has returned to the world and is more wide spread today than at any time in human history. Every day is an economy.  Every day every person needs food clothing and shelter.  I believe that our collective intelligence can solve the problem of poverty.  As I’ve talked about earlier in this blog, I have proposed solutions, as well as others.  Let’s make a thorough going knowledge of the nature and functioning of money an important part of our world consciousness.

The Social Dividend/Basic Income is the most promising idea available on the planet today.  The work of BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network) and USBIG (United States Basic Income Guarantee) deserve the attention of everyone on the planet.  Giving an equal grant of cash to every person on the planet is neither politically right nor left in nature.  The impact of channeling a regular, equal payment of money to every person on earth would be astounding.  Free markets would flourish everywhere.  Trade would be based on mutual advantage and not physical dominance.

This would usher in what 20^th century philosopher Walter Russell called Rhythmic Balanced Interchange.  Russell believed that all human minds are but extensions of the single mind of God.  He also believed that God manifests through light.  The internet is nothing less than a global light network waiting for us to put it into its full function as a universal manifestation of God’s love for humanity.  This love extends to every person on this planet.  Our main vehicle of light communication is money.  That light must shine on every person everywhere.

The existing money systems could be left in place, but their principal function of control through deprivation would be destroyed.  This would eventually render them irrelevant.  These systems are telling us that we must all be sentenced to at least a generation of deprivation.  The productive increases created by bringing the full benefit of the free market to everyone would permit a leveraged buyout of the entire current economy with pocket change.

This shared recognition of our mutual value to each other is alive and growing in our world.  It communicates now through a process that Psychologist Carl Jung called
Synchronicity.  It is the process by which seemingly unconnected individuals and unconnected incidents come together in a manner that cannot be explained by our normal matrix of cause and effect.  It is what writer Robert Anton Wilson called Cosmic Coincidence Control.  It is the growing awareness that perhaps human beings are connected at a level that is beyond space and time.  The World Meet World Human Equinox seeks to give this feeling, this idea, this movement a home.  It is a Social Medium that goes beyond holding a mirror to each other and seeks to go through the mirror Alice in Wonderland style to a new Social Context.

It is the Synergecity.

World Meet World.