Welcome to Learn WordPress. In this short video, we will get an overview of managing our media settings. If you visit the media library, you are able to view and filter through all your media items. But do you know how WordPress stores images? Well, to gain a deeper understanding of that, we need to make our way to settings and then click on media. When you upload an image to WordPress, it saves four versions of the media item. It saves the original version and also creates three other copies, namely the thumbnail, medium and large image sizes. That means you will end up with four images for every one that you upload. WordPress therefore automatically generates various resizes for you to use. You can of course change these settings if you please. So for example, you may decide to change the thumbnail size to 160 by 160. Below that, you will see the box is ticked that says crop thumbnail to exact dimensions and in brackets it says normally thumbnails are proportional. WordPress is very clever and will crop images for thumbnails if they do not fit into the dimensions set here. Let's see how you can choose between these sizes when you create a page or post. On this page, I have added the same image three times using different sizes. Firstly, we have the thumbnail which is 150 by 150 pixels and will always be a square. The medium size image which is 300 by 200 and then the large sized image which in this case is 1024 by 683. Please take note for medium size images and large size images it won't size to exactly 300 by 300 and 1024 by 1024. These are maximum height set meaning images won't be larger than these settings and will maintain the aspect ratios. And one more thing, you will notice you also have the option to select full size if you wanted to. Let's look at one more example to check out the resizes of another image. The thumbnail which will be exactly 150 by 150, the medium size image 300 by 240 and the large size image in this case 1024 by 819. The last option under media settings allows you to choose how media will be filed in your sites uploads folder in the back end. WordPress will by default save your media in folders according to month and year. And if you deselect this option, all images may end up in one folder. The default image sizes created by WordPress will be suitable for most users. But if you have specific preferences or design needs, you can as mentioned alter these sizes to meet your requirements. Visit Learn WordPress for more tutorials and training material.


Put a lot into it. I'm happy for the players, you know, happy for the coaches and our fans and Organization and everybody included in these games are tough. They're tight. They're close and great to see the defense come out and End it themselves Back in the weeks one game at a time. Stay tuned for next year. Let's go And as a win and talk about how hard winning in this league is you got to keep building on it and keep rolling from there It's a good feeling From the bet MGM studio welcome to the bike vapor show presented by seat geek with the head coach I'm Mike Keith as this football team comes off a 17 to 10 victory over the Carolina Panthers a game where your team Executed in situations like you had to have it had to have the things you've been working on and you come back And you get that victory at home to go for an o at Nice and pretty much all the things that we've been working on red zone End of game situations and a half. That was really cool to put on tape defensively the two-minute being able to get three two-minute stops in that game is You know gonna gonna win you some football games offensively, you know, we know it has to be better on third down We've got to stop beating ourselves, but there was a lot of great examples of good football in all three phases But then there's always just the one little thing that derails at special teams is a 20-yard return Negated by a 10-yard penalty. That's that's 20 yards of field position. That was lost on that particular play So it's a lot of good just got to start, you know chipping away at some of these things that are creeping in there That are making them making it harder than what it should be Is it the same at the pro level as it is at every level that you love to come back to work and Correct things after a win.  He went back out there made a huge play So again, those are the things that we're focused on is you know making corrections getting past things and moving on All right, let's take a look at Mike Vrabel's six pack presented by seat geek and he's already given you the preview teed it up They teed it up. Just beautifully. Here's Arden King and just the ability to corner I thought he was active all game and chase it and good job timing using his length You know getting that ball out. We talked about, you know, just being able to create some turnovers and how Easier the game becomes when you can give the offense a short field we scored two plays later You know Jeff try to scoop and score But just a great job there Forcing them out coverage being tight and then Arden finishing it off with strip sack There's so much momentum that goes with a play like that, too I mean and whether that's a kickoff whether that's a play by the offense I mean we have to continue to feed off each other and you know in all three phases and you know There were some good examples of that and obviously it leads to a score after a Utah pass to Chigacanquil picked up five Here's the king. Yeah, and again, we could go through here There's a lot of things that may or may not be right on that particular play But at the end of the day, we got guys covered up Allow Derek to you know get into his fourth to fifth step and cut it back and you know You see hop trying to cover up a linebacker You see Nick Westbrook of Kine getting things covered up So you know and then obviously somebody's got to make a play Derek made a guy miss and Often often races Derek Henry finishes with 18 carries for 76 yards and two touchdowns Special teams contributing to the final three Titans points Ryan Stonehouse to punt keep your eye number 14 Colton Dow Well, it was just really cool to see Colton continue to develop and we were waiting for him to make a play There he goes down there He stays on his feet and talk about coming to balance and there's you know two young rookies right there Anthony Kendall and Colton Dow and you know, I think that You know, obviously, we know Craig Alcorman's been with us But Anthony Levine and Tom Quinn, you know, I've done a really nice job with some of these young guys They put a lot of work into it and to take a wide receiver and turn them into the special teams played a week for for the Titans This week was pretty cool. And he's tackling a premier returner right there very dangerous man So you not only get a guy pinned but you get a weapon and take that away from Caroline Yeah, it was a huge factor in the game our ability to back them up I think they we had five punts inside the 12-yard line So, you know when we can do that and win the field position game, you know gives our defense We're great opportunities to be aggressive second half is all about Titans defense. Take a look at a couple of quarterback sacks First from Jeffrey Simmons who came out of nowhere. Yeah, you know, I think there was a good bull rush here And then I'd be able to shed the guy and I think this is another example of you know The coverage holding up and you could see Jeffrey working and then being able to to shed But you know, the quarterback is progressing. And so when the quarterback can hold on to it We've got to be able to get there, you know when he hitches and hitches Then we have to win it. So that's an example there of the coverage, you know, helping the pass rush Simmons with five and a half sacks on the year after that one Deneco Autry two more to get him to eight on the season. Here's one of his two sacks Yeah, they went quick on us and they slid and they put the running back on Deneco I'm not sure what the plan was there. That's up to them But you know, they were trying to go quick slid the line, you know, and ended up bringing the running back You know back there on Deneco one of our better players and certainly one of our more savvy pass rushers And he gets his big old paws on them and takes them down Here's the play that ends it fourth and six Carolina has to go with just over two minutes remaining Yeah, I mean we had a third down call and and again just a great job right here of a money coming down here making a huge tackle a lot is actually Blitzen gets a piece of the tackle and You know quarterback felt like he could check that and wanted to check it and you know again You can see a money coming down there making a great tackle for no gain and that's a walk-off a money hooker is a good tackler Really good tackler. You dare jinx him. I'm not jinxing him. He could play when we come back There will be no jinx. There will be the Frapple Street That's next we'll take a look at one of the big plays from Sunday's game as the coach will break it down on the Mike Vrable show presented by seat Welcome back to the Mike Vrable show presented by seat geek. We're in the bet MGM studio, and you know what this is It's the Vrable straighter. It's that time. There it is on the screen. All right Titans had a 15 play 91 yard drive in the first quarter took 936 off the clock for a touchdown This play in particular set it up Titans had moved to the 26 yard line First down 10 yards to go pretty pretty play. We're gonna see here. Yeah, good design. We've done some different things here with chig We've tried to move them around so here, you know, you'll see him in the backfield, you know Sometimes he'll line up in a wing here. He's in the backfield. We've moved him around. We've done some different things We've had some run plays with them Here you get it just a little bit of window dressing with the motion regular pro formation And now chig here with this five down front He's got to do his best we tell him a gap till you can't Here he thinks it's closed. So now he takes a cleanest entry, you know Hop's gonna run off here and what chigs trying to do is we get this good hard sell play action with Derek Now you get these linebackers biting up and chigs slips by him. You're gonna see we need better from Jalen He knows that he wasn't terrible all game, but this is what happens a guy makes a play We're not great on the block. You're gonna see here from the end zone as we get this thing going But here's the block. Okay that we miss. Oh, well, we'll get by it somebody makes a play But the play action here with chig really sets this whole thing up Derek Henry's behind him So again, that's gonna make it easier for everybody involved. Let's take a look at it from the end zone Mike you're gonna see some great sell Okay, you're gonna see this five down front. So chigs thinking about trying to enter through the a gap Okay, when it gets a little cloudy That's when he does a nice job of adjusting These are some things that we've tried to work on with chig so that he can maintain a speed Okay, but you can see here eyes full flow lead here into the will will linebacker Chigs able to slip them and keep his speed we come out of there and We've got a great match up on a guy that can run and a linebacker that's up in and again You could see here with a little better protection That's a touchdown But I thought this was a great play here by chig just tracking the ball staying in bounds And then now we just got to be careful reaching the football. I think that was a touchdown Well, I don't want it to be because I don't want to reach that football. I don't want to get it knocked out That's it. That's a teaching point is that he's you don't want it extended like that for fair He may go through the end zone. It's a touch. Yeah, and then they get the ball at the 20 yard line So again, we're not gonna try to reach the ball unless it's fourth down or we're in a two-point conversion mode just For the for the sake of these guys are hustling the football that ball goes out before the pile on and it's a touch But a nice job by will levis. Yeah, it was I mean again I give him a lot of credit for his toughness again We'd rather not challenge it But being able to stand a pocket stare down Brian Burns and deliver a football here to chig, you know I thought this was well well Executed here by the players good timing there on the call good call by Tim Kelly and the offense Titans get a touchdown out of that Couple plays later as Derek Henry takes it in from a yard out when we come back The epic Western spotlight and I promise you you are not gonna want to miss this one on the Mike Vrapel show stay tuned Welcome back to the Mike Vrapel show presented by seat geek the NFL's league-wide initiative salute to service gives teams a chance to honor the men and women that are this country's true heroes During half-time of Sundays went over Carolina the Titans introduced everyone to veteran Seth Cole and his work with creative vets a Non-profit organization that offers a different kind of therapy to those who've sacrificed the most and now here's his story in this week's Epic Western spotlight We trained up to go to Iraq. We got there. We were doing our missions You know trying to be part of the surge and you know make make things happen win the war, right?  I was learning how to walk and talk and Get out of the military. So by 2009 I Was 25 years old and had no idea what to do with life the military was life Started having seizures started having, you know memory loss issues and 2013 came around and while I was ready to kill myself So it was a it was a pretty hard time having a buddy mind call me and he said hey Would you like to come to this thing called creative vets? We're gonna go out to USC and do an art project and I kind of laughed at him But I was like, you know what you were you were in special forces You had a lot more things that you saw than I did so if you'll give it something I'll give it so creative vets is a non-profit that helps empower wounded veterans to heal through arts and music But we do that in a really cool way We bring combat to sale veterans to Nashville to write backstage at the Greenville Opry with number one songwriters and artists to tell Their story for the first time in that two weeks I was able to find something that I hadn't found in conventional therapy and any of the pills that I had taken That program ended up changing his life And so after that happened he started getting into asking about other programs we had we told him about the Nashville program And he really needed to get his story out So I said yes without even ever hearing the song And and I'm glad I did because it's a great song So Seth's song was a little bit different Although it talked about his war experience talked a lot about his childhood experience too And you could hear just in the lyrics of the song that he had it wasn't easy growing up Not only not only did he make the the decision to to serve his country Just even before that was was not a smooth sailing life if you will And just thinking about all the people out there that that have had Divorce in their life and other things that they could relate to it can grab on to but it was an inspirational story It was a culmination of my life really I had a lot of trauma that I went through as a child I had a lot of traumas that I went through when I was in the military And I had a lot of trauma that I went through after I got out of the military So there was a lot to talk about there and a lot to break down And so I just wanted that song to be heard by so many people not just veterans because I felt like everyone could heal from it I don't want to get into like the mix of it But now he's a single father living here with five children on his own and this just happened less than a month ago So right now it's it's a little bit tight in the house What's happening in my life is happening in a lot of people's lives right now And you know, it's just one of those things that we have to learn how to struggle well and just get through it 330 ish 315 to 335 We're gonna meet the bus back up there again, so we pick up the two little kids and then you know, it's it's good Nice little trek up there to the bus stop every day keeps me keeps me going. So I Need you to go over there and stand behind the camera. Can you do that for me? Singer-songwriter Craig Campbell along with Seth and his five children were on hand for a performance of Seth's song rise above It's last Sunday afterwards the Titans and Nissan surprised him with a new car How about that What an afternoon and what a special moment at Nissan Stadium it was and what a fantastic surprise from our friends at Nissan and obviously Wow Yeah, buddy We're lucky to be just a small part of such an amazing show with amazing people and want to thank everybody that was able to honor those two Those vets and that songwriter That's just That's just phenomenal and to have that moment in the stadium the reaction of the crowd So genuine we had a chance to watch it from the radio booth And we were I think everybody was in shock and so pleased to have it happen right there And I'm glad that you guys were able to put back the pieces for me because they were exiting the field as I was coming on And I'm like what you know, I didn't know if that was a surfboard But apparently now that was the the free car and and now it all makes sense. And so what an amazing piece You know, that's just it's fun to be part of such a cool thing. So Seth, thank you, buddy I appreciate it man. We are here for you Thank you, Seth and thank you to our team for putting that together and the folks at Nissan for making that special moment happen At Nissan Stadium when we come back It's time for kids ask coach Vrable. It's next on the Mike Vrable show From the bet MGM studio we continue with the Mike Vrable show presented by seat geek and it's now time For kids ask Mike Vrable doing my theme And I made my question is what was the Oklahoma drill and why do they don't have it anymore? What a good question. Let's see what's the Oklahoma drill the Oklahoma drill used to weed out some of the The players that maybe weren't back in the day that weren't quite ready for football But I remember the Oklahoma drill being You know two players right would lay on their back right one would have a football one won it and they'd say said Hut you'd get up and you'd run at each other and smash each other the another version was Oh linemen D linemen running back linebacker straight ahead. No fair dodging Um In between two cones. Yeah, and the quarterbacks got to stand there and hand off like they were absolutely But anyways, I think that's a great question and again the game has changed the game has evolved Some of those situations Rarely happen in our game. There's there's so many more angles. There's So many different types of schemes our players are rarely lined up right over top of somebody else And there's combination blocks. There's zone blocking And so they there is really no real reason there's other ways to teach technique fundamentals pad level You know physical toughness Technique and all those things Without just setting up a straight ahead drill and so that's why they did it did away with it and You know rightfully so I wish they'd done away with it about 40 years ago Did you ever catch on the wrong end of oklahoma drill a lot of times? I didn't a lot. I'm sure you didn't It's why you have the mic rabble show You're the host. It's your show I got a funny story about college, but we don't have time. Okay Uh, how about the nissan keys to victory? We'll do those in the next segment on his show because he was good at the oklahoma drill the mic Vrables show presented by seat geek stay tuned Nissan keys to success what we have on tap for you on the mic Vrables show presented by seat geek the opponent Indianapolis they are six and five the titans played them back on october the eighth Key number one is play sound and aggressive defensively. Yeah, and it's going to be a physical game They want to run the football they have run the football Um, very good offensive line, you know, they stay together in combination to handle movement You know, they really give these backs some time and when we say sound We can't start jumping around and peeking around blocks and coming under blocks and Because the backs are patient and they will take it out the back door And that's what got us the last time and we we did pretty well It was some two and three yard gains in there and then we had a had one that got out And they had a couple there in the red zone, but you know, it's about being sound It's about being aggressive. It's about tackling and we tackled well on sunday This will be critical that we do that and then to be able to handle the RPOs that come off the run game and then you got to be physical with your run game as well We have to and again, this is a penetrating front if we let these guys penetrate get into the backfield And disrupt the run game before it gets started, you know, we're going to be in these long third down situations again and But but I think that we can cover them up. I think that we can get into the line of scrimmage I think we can kind of continue to build on some things that we've done And continue to progress through the ball fairly well. We had some success Play action. I'm sure they'll be tuned up for that and we'll have to be ready for pressure on early downs, but Certainly going to need to be physical in in a run game We won't have time to talk about it But the final key is create field position and momentum for special teams, which the titans did on sunday They need to carry that over once again this week to being Successful against the indianapolis Colts for mike drabel. I'm mike keith. Thank you so much for joining us Remind you 1202 kickoff at nissan stadium on sunday titans and colts. We'll see you then. Good night everybody


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Tibet, the roof of our world. Words do no justice to the untouched beauty of this far corner of Earth. A vast, mysterious, and sacred place, embraced and protected by miles of immovable mountains. Monasteries built many hundreds, sometimes thousands of years ago, and in defiance of the elements, precariously placed among the clouds. Many of these very ancient structures are said to have been built on the remnants of once even grander ancient buildings, structures many religions attribute to the gods. Among the seemingly endless mountain ranges lay one mountain which is different, one which is special. It is believed by most of Tibet and even further afield that the god Shiva lay buried within this sacred mountain. According to ancient beliefs, this enigmatic Tibetan mountain represents the axis of the world, the stairway to heaven. In many eastern countries, Mount Kailash is considered the holiest place on Earth. Some ancient sources even suggesting it is where one could find the mysterious city of the gods. It is indeed regarded within the climbing world as unascendable. A route has never been located and probably never will.  There may be some profound reasoning behind these ancient clusters of human beings, regarding this particular mountain over all others as sacred and as the resting place of a god. There may, however, be ulterior motives at play when it comes to the discouragement of climbers in attempting the peak. A team of Russian scientists intrigued by the history and a possible suppression of its true nature have suggested after covert explorations that the top of Mount Kailash is not a natural formation. It is actually the remnants of a giant man-made pyramid of great antiquity. Just how old this pyramid could be currently remains unclear. What also remains unclear is if the entire mountain is a man-made pyramid, disguised by the erosion of many millennia. The research team claimed, quote, the stratum is horizontal with the layers of stone slightly varying in color. The dividing lines show up clear and distinct, which gives the entire mountain the façade of having been built by giant hands of huge blocks of reddish stone. End quote. A mysterious claim put forward in regards to the mountain concerns rapid aging when in the area. After spending twelve hours in the region, the length of nails and hair was equal to two weeks of normal growth in some cases. Several mystics have said that the mountain has a secret entrance within it, leading to the legendary kingdom of Shambhala. Legend also states that when the ice on its peak finally melts, it will reveal the eye. Professor Ernst Muldeshev, PhD, a doctor and explorer who traveled to bed extensively said later in his life, quote, there are two underground countries, the Shambhala and Agartha, which are each part of the gene pool of humanity and civilization. Information provided by the Tully Society shows there is a higher civilization coming from the Himalayas and divided into two branches, the Shambhala and Agartha, the former being the center of power protected by unknown forces and energy. End quote. An understanding of what sort of pyramid Kalash could be, or indeed just how special it is, may take several years to establish. I will, of course, keep you posted. A few months ago we did a video regarding an enigmatic mountain which rests within modern day Tibet. We touched upon the amazing legends, speaking of the mountain actually being that of an ancient man-made pyramid, which according to such legends is placed at the center of the universe. They spoke of a mysterious giant eye placed upon the top of the mountain, an eye which according to said legends will reveal itself when the ice and snow within the area melts away, akin to a story containing the eye of Mordor, yet hopefully not as malevolent. Although Mount Kalash can be found within modern day Tibet, its location is very close to the borders of India, a place which few know possesses one of, if not the most amazing ancient structure to have ever been discovered or indeed built upon our planet. A structure which dwarfs the great pyramids and indeed the great sphinx with artistic wonder. Actually known as the Kalash Temple, it is an exquisitely cut series of supposed praying temples and other communal buildings which was, many thousands of years ago, carved straight out of an enormous horseshoe-shaped rock resting within a hillside. According to mainstream academia, Kalash Temple was somehow built by a primitive people using primitive tools during a duration of 400 years from 200 BC to 600 BC. However, no one seems to be able to explain how such a primitive culture could have possibly created something so awe-inspiring, something so artistically accurate and wonderful, something we would indeed struggle to recreate today. A structure not only architecturally accurate, but also drenched in a masterpiece of sculpture. Largely accepted as a flawless piece of art, no less than 200,000 tons of stone was masterfully carved away, creating several separate temples each drenched in tiny artistic detail. Rediscovered in 1819, is it possible that the Hindu decorations found within were merely later additions? Additions to a relic left actually built by a civilization far more advanced and far more ancient than we are allowed to publicly believe. It is understandable for one to wonder, how did a primitive civilization create such a wonder with primitive tools, attaining such a perfection, such refined finish to each tiny detail? It is conveniently unexplained just how they managed to cut into this single block of rock with such precision and indeed vision, adorning the structure with thousands of animals. It seems as if it were a tribute, a gift depicting what can be found on our planet. Is Mount Kailash, as legends say, really the center of the universe? Is this mind-bogglingly detailed, most intricately built ancient temple by a long way actually a tribute to this fact? Made up of temples which are all now perceived to be shared between three faiths, Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain. Are these multiple faiths further evidence of a re-inhabitation rather than a construction? The 200,000 tons of rock, for example, is nowhere to be found. And as previously covered in the Kailash video, the same is seen with the apparent enormous excavation found around the base of Mount Kailash itself. Compelling evidence for manipulation of the landscape, giving credence to the legends of it being, in fact, an enormous pyramid. Regardless of this, the fact that the temple carries the same name as this mysterious and still inclined mountain within Tibet, we find highly compelling. From all over the planet, ancient legends of a bipedal ape-like creature, far larger, yet apparently incredibly intelligent, have persisted into the modern day. Legends which arose worldwide. Creatures now witnessed by literally millions of souls, yet regardless of the literally global distribution of reports of these said animals, they have remained elusive to modern science. In all but a few, very interesting and curious cases, one of which being the most curious of discoveries made in 1951 on none other than the slopes of Mount Everest. Some argue that such a large creature, no matter the remoteness of its claimed habitat, if in existence would have been captured and or exposed to the wider public by now. This, regardless of their possible intelligence, ability to see an infrared, allowing them to dodge trail cams, and also that there are discoveries of new animals, including large mammals made almost weekly on our planet. It would seem, although modern technology has brought us together, giving the apparent impression that our planet be smaller than it is, in reality, there are still vast stretches of terrain yet to be fully explored, and rarely if ever visited by man. Mysterious events have also occurred during the modern age, like that of the Dietlof Pass incident or the Pangba Sheddy, which still reside within a monastery in Nepal, which all evade explanation without the existence of this creature. As mentioned, in 1951 an incredible fine was stumbled upon by none other than Eric Shipton, an incredibly trustworthy source and man of great integrity. While on the Menlung Glacier, on the west side of Mount Everest, while looking for an alternative route to the summit, Shipton came across a seemingly unending set of tracks, recently left by a barefooted bipedal creature of massive proportions. So stunned was Shipton by this fine. He carefully examined and photographed the best print, laying his ice axe beside it in an attempt to demonstrate its enormous size. According to National Geographic, Shipton and Michael Ward were searching for an alternative Everest route when they came across the prints. Shipton was one of the most highly respected Everest explorers, so if he is bringing back a print, it is a real print. Nobody could ever question that. Thus the question is, what could have made them? Could these be authentic, actual prints of a snow yeti or abominable snowman? A slightly different species of Sasquatch? One adapted to colder, more mountainous environments? Some so convinced that Shipton did indeed encounter authentic prints, they have dedicated their entire lives to the pursuit of the truth surrounding the fine. Believing Shipton not to have been an individual who would have any interest or inclination to fake such a discovery. Daniel Taylor, for example, author of Yeti, The Ecology of a Mystery, has been searching for signs of this particular abominable snowman within the high Himalayas since he was a child. With the world book Encyclopedia even approaching Sir Edmund Hillary to pursue the fine's origins, he was quoted as saying, we shouldn't just go Yeti searching, but should also study how people could live at such high altitudes. The publication was so convinced of their authenticity, as was Hillary himself, that they built a house at 19,000 feet and experimented on how humans acclimatized. With such efforts going into the fine, one must wonder why the possibility of its existence, if you also take into account that Pangbush remains, and also the Dyatlov Pass incident, why the possibility of their reality is so passionately dismissed as impossible by so many. The Shipton prints are a mystery which is undoubtedly incredibly compelling. In 1914, archaeologists found an astonishing location in Ganang Padang in Indonesia. Two ancient stone mountains rest in this region, mountains in the form of pyramids, their size is truly massive. Intrigued by their shape, this 1914 team initiated a series of test digs in the small likelihood that they were man-made. The proposition of these two huge land features actually being pyramids, must have been virtually unthinkable to these initial explorers, their subsequent excavation also concluded that the site was indeed a natural formation. However, fast forward 100 years of technological advances in archaeology, photography, ground penetrating radar and satellite imaging, and we can now take much deeper looks at locations, gaining far greater insight than was possible a century ago. The archaeological societies are currently in a panic, in regards to an expedition which is being undertaken to this very site. Over 100 years after its initial discovery and disregardment. What is interesting to note, a detail this team must be aware of, a detail largely suppressed and rarely discussed, is the fact that very ancient monuments rest upon the tops of each mountain, monuments that were later dated that 2500 years old. And confirmed as artificial megalithic structures. The reason the archaeological community is worrying, is due to their possible size. They would dwarf the great pyramids of Giza. However, the pyramids, in Giza are in a very special location, they in fact rest on the center of the world's land mass, the question would be, why would Indonesia possess such ginormous pyramids? In 2010, geologist Dr. Danineta Wijarja, who earned a doctorate at Kultek, recognized the mountains as possible man made pyramids, and began to explore using ground penetrating radar, seismic tomography, resistivity survey and other remote sensing techniques, as well as some direct excavations and deep core drilling. The results were immediately intriguing, producing evidence of deeply buried man made chambers and yielding carbon dates going back as far as 26,000 years. This would make the construction prior to the last ice age. Such ideas are heresy to mainstream archaeologists, the archaeological establishment in Indonesia banded together against Dr. Naita Wijarja and his team, lobbied the political authorities, agitated locally and succeeded in slowing down, though not completely stopping, the further exploration of Ganang Padang. However Dr. Naita Wijarja fought back, doing some high level lobbying of his own, taking the matter to the president of Indonesia himself. There were further delays to do with elections in Indonesia but just a couple of months ago, the final obstacles were lifted and Dr. Naita Wijarja and his team moved back on to the Ganang Padang site with full approval to go ahead with their work, including permission to excavate the concealed chambers. Although it may not be widely received, this excavation may be the most important currently being undertaken on earth. Mainstream archaeologists are furious and have been lobbying to get the work stopped, fortunately to no avail, preliminary excavations have produced results that prove beyond doubt, that Ganang Padang is indeed a man made pyramid of great antiquity. Even the relatively young layers so far excavated, the second artificial column now rock layer beneath the megalithic site visible on the surface, has yielded dates of 5,200 BC, nearly 3,000 years older than the orthodox dating for the pyramids of Giza in Egypt. They are also firm indications from the original remote sensing and core drilling work, that there is much older layers below. In short, it is now evident to all, that the site is vastly older than the 2,500 years archaeologists had insisted upon for decades. Even the most hostile are now quietly reframing their assessment of the site and referring to it as a gigantic terrace tomb, which was part of the biggest megalithic culture in the archipelago. I will keep you posted.