Re: UPDATE ON HUGH IN OZ?
Lovely health-giving soft and gentle rain here in Canberra, still going strong after 16 hours, in our garden perhaps 30-40mm already. Sullivans Creek which runs through the Australian National University grounds was 'running a banker' as the saying goes when I went to collect Robin at 4.30pm. Whether Hugh 'brought' the rain or not is impossible to know. There will always be some people who were at the workshops who will believe he did and some who will believe he didn't. To me, the important thing is that he saw value in coming to Oz and that as a result his ideas will spread thoughout the community. Furthermore, the very fact of his desire to come here enabled BACA to build a substantial workshop around him which will be of considerable benefit to the community. One unwelcome surprise I had (on Day 3) was that the venue had not been checked for adverse energies. This fact came to light when the person sitting to my left complained of a migraine similar to the one she had developed when sitting in the same chair on Day 1. With pendulum and rods I detected a 3-metre wide series of adverse energy flows running diagonally across the room. This was the main meeting room, incidentally, where much of the forum took place. Anyone consistently sitting in the way of the stream could have been affected in one way or another (eg, headache, tiredness, nausea). As it happened I had a chunk of energised quartz in my bag which was sufficient to stop the flow through the wall behind us which was affecting my neighbour, and I was able to alleviate her condition with healing energy. Roger
Re: chicken feed
Hallo, My wife feeds our chicken goat milk, and whey as often as she can, and it's gone very fast. Concerning the Swedish feed information, I'm pretty sure that is available in English on the Euro website( or directly at the Swedish gov agriculture website, they are also describing chicken tractors and other fun large scale chicken projects) or if someone is relay interested I can problem find my copy in Swedish ( in the Barn) and help with some translation of some data/info. If I remember correctly one of the results of the project where that chicken that selected there onne feed ware very healthy compared to others. Per Garp/NH - Original Message - From: Dorothy O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 08:31 PM Subject: Re: chicken feed Martha-- I've been reading about feeding hens lately. Recommendations include: yogurt, greens, buttermilk, kelp and Fertrell. Also a little Heinz apple cider vinegar in the water to increase their calcium absorption. If, as Per says,that the chickens know what's good for them, yogurt is great for them. They gobble it like crazy and sing whenever they see me in hopes of more yogurt. I am using homemade yogurt, which I made using a recipe off the internet. Dorothy __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
Fwd: FOUR SEASONS IN FIVE SENSES
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Re: chicken feed
My chickens don't particularly like liquid milk, but they really gobble up anything solid like soft cheese or yogurt. if I'm going to feed milk to the chickens I curd it up first by heating it then adding cider vinegar to it. They like it ok then. Also, grit and/or oyster shell? I never know which to get. Some years ago I bought a bunch of cement stepping stones from a school project trying to earn money. A couple of months ago I put one on my deck and it immediately started cracking open. Maybe it dried out, I don't know but I kept seeing hunks hopping off down the steps. I kept watching but never saw it DO anything like move on it's own accord, it would just appear more broken, and pieces laying on the various steps. Finally, I saw my cluster of hens all pecking at the inner portion of the block, trying to break off some of the smaller pebble-sized pieces. They have oyster shell available but maybe I also need to supply plain ol grit too? I thought one would do double duty for both, guess they need more.
Development of Biotech Crops Is Booming in Asia - NYT
February 21, 2003 Development of Biotech Crops Is Booming in AsiaBy DAVID BARBOZA HIANG RAI, Thailand, Feb. 16 Worried about falling behind its global competition, much of Asia is rushing forward with the development and cultivation of genetically modified crops. The three most populous countries in Asia China, India and Indonesia are already planting millions of acres of genetically modified cotton. Several other large Asian countries, including Japan, Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia, are earmarking billions of dollars for private and government-sponsored research on biotech crops. Given that there are already 145 million acres planted with genetically modified crops worldwide, mostly in North and South America, these developments in Asia could pave the way for bioengineered crops to dominate the world's food production. "This is a significant development in the acceptance of genetically modified crops," said Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, a professor of agribusiness at the University of Missouri at Columbia. "This is not only a region where most of the population growth is, it's a region where most of the food growth is." Aware of food safety concerns, especially among Europeans, most governments in Asia plan to move cautiously before approving the use of genetically modified food crops, which are much more controversial than nonfood crops like cotton and flowers. China for now is holding off on letting farmers plant biotech food crops, though tests are continuing. But spending on biotech research and development is booming throughout Asia, according to delegates at a biotech policy conference sponsored here by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group. Malaysia is creating a biotech hub outside Kuala Lumpur that it calls "biovalley." Indonesia is setting up its own industrial park, called "bioisland." Even in Japan and South Korea where some consumers have been unnerved by the prospect of genetically modified foods there are investors and others spending heavily to develop biotech products. Experts at the conference said most of these countries must embrace biotechnology or risk seeing their crops lose value in a rapidly changing marketplace that promises a new breed of super crops. "If they don't employ biotechnology, they're going to be left behind," said Dr. Cho Kyun Rha, a professor of biomaterial sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a conference participant. "They would end up buying the seed from others, and that would be biotech colonization." China which after the United States has the most advanced biotechnology programs could come to dominate agricultural production in the region, because it is so far ahead in its research on genetically modified crops. Already, a majority of the cotton grown in China, the world's leading producer, is genetically engineered to resist pests. Besides rice and tomatoes, China has developed genetically modified corn, tobacco, sweet peppers, petunias and poplar trees. Other Asian countries, meanwhile, are beginning to release their first biotechnology products. India and Indonesia recently approved the planting of a variety of insect-resistant biotech cotton that drastically reduces the need for pesticides. Indeed, biotech cotton is so popular with farmers that a black market has emerged in several Asian countries that have not yet approved the products. "There's piracy going on," said Clive James, head of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, an industry-sponsored organization that tracks global plantings of biotech crops. "These farmers think so much of this technology, they will steal it." The enthusiasm extends beyond cotton. The Philippines has allowed the marketing of foods made with biotech corn, a first for Asia. The Philippines is also the site of the International Rice Research Institute, which is working to use biotechnology to develop "golden rice," a variety fortified with vitamin A. Critics of genetically modified crops say these moves in Asia could leave consumers around the world with little choice but to accept them. "It's troublesome, because these countries don't have the regulatory infrastructure to assess the risks," said Dr. Jane Rissler of the Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group that has been critical of biotech crops. But in the absence of any solid evidence that genetically modified crops are harmful
Re: chicken feed - grit
My reading indicates that the calcium in oyster shell is not adequate for grit because it dissolves in digestion. River sand is good grit. DAO __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
Re: intelligence? (OT)
Martha - Most of our peahens sat very well, although often in secret (away from the house and well camouflaged in bracken and brushwood); one, rather exposed, let me build a temporary aviary around her. Another turned up after a lengthy absence, rather nervous and minus tail-feathers, I suppose having just escaped a fox; sadly, also minus chicks. However, we had to put eggs under a chicken on one occasion; she was most indignant when the chicks (being precocial) wouldn't roost quietly under her but insisted on climbing a couple of feet above her. (Even more off topic) We had a similar bedtime experience once, when we heard a tapping at the bedroom window. I opened it and a magpie calmly hopped in, looked around, flew up to the top of the wardrobe and settled down for the night. In the morning, it flew down and waited at the window; I opened it again (closed during the night because we overlook a sometimes noisy road) and it flew away without a word. Obviously, must have been tame. Tony N-S. _
OT: FW: [globalnews] Terror Risk at Chemical Plants; French plantexplosion just after 911 was terrorism, say new investigations
Title: OT: FW: [globalnews] Terror Risk at Chemical Plants; French plant explosion just after 911 was terrorism, say new investigations The Village Voice Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway February 19 - 25, 2003 Without Chemicals, Life Might Be Possible Without Chemicals, Life Might Be Possible Deadly Plants Among the most hellish scenarios for terrorist catastrophes in New York would involve saboteurs blowing up one of the nearby chemical plants across the river in New Jersey. Prevailing westerly winds would waft the toxins across the Hudson over a helpless Manhattan. Next to bioterrorism, reported the U.S. Surgeon General, chemical emissions would be the worst possible eventuality in a terrorist attack. There are 120 major chemical plants in the U.S., each one potentially threatening the lives of a million people. A government investigation reports that their safety precautions run from fair to poor. Worst case scenarios filed with the Environmental Protection Agency reveal just how devastating this could beone plant in New Jersey could emit enough toxic chemicals to poison 12 million people. Even without a terrorist strike, toxic releases pose a horrendous problem in the U.S., with 600,000 accidents reported over the past decade. New York state, with over 25,000 accidents, is fourth highest. The passage of the Homeland Security Act actually has made it harder to protect ourselves against such potentially deadly accidents. That's because the new laws prevent citizens from investigating the chemical industry's operations under the Freedom of Information Act or through government whistle-blowers who discover and report a danger. Under the new set of laws, they will lose their jobs if they blow the whistle. Terrorists are well aware of the possibilities. Just 10 days after the planes hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, a huge explosion rocked the area near Toulouse in southern France, killing 30 people and injuring many others. At first, authorities laid the blame on faulty equipment in the plant. More recently, French publications have unearthed a classified memo from France's super-secret spook bureau, the Renseignements Gnraux, an equivalent to our National Security Agency, that instead points to a network of Islamic terrorists. The plot supposedly stretches its tentacles to Pakistan and Afghanistan in the east, a hidden base in London, and a pot of money in New York, according to investigations by Le Figaro and L'Express . Whether any of this goes anywhere is hard to know, but it has created something of a sensation in Paris. So far, neither hypothesisof an accident or of a terror attackhas been completely discounted. -- If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776.
OT: FW: [globalnews] US plans for mini-nuke arsenal revealed; USwill break all global arms treaties
Title: OT: FW: [globalnews] US plans for mini-nuke arsenal revealed; US will break all global arms treaties US plans for mini-nuke arsenal revealed 13:37 19 February 03 NewScientist.com news service A leaked Pentagon document has confirmed that the US is considering the introduction of a new breed of smaller nuclear weapons designed for use in conventional warfare. Such a move would mean abandoning global arms treaties. The document, obtained by the Los Alamos Study Group, a nuclear weapons watchdog based in the US, describes plans for a gathering of senior military officials and nuclear scientists at the US Strategic Command in Omaha, Nebraska, during the week of 4 August. The meeting would discuss further development, testing and introduction of a new generation of low-yield nuclear weapons. These weapons, with a destructive power of less than five kilotons, could be designed to penetrate an underground bunker before detonating. The Hiroshima bomb dropped by the US in 1945 had a yield of about 15 kilotons. The US military believes mini-nukes may provide a stronger deterrent to rogue states. This is because the US would be more willing to use them than standard nuclear weapons, which have yields of hundreds of kilotons. US government officials have confirmed the authenticity of the document, but say that it covers very long range planning and what-if scenarios. Enhanced radiation Also on the agenda for the August meeting would be enhanced radiation weapons, also known as neutron weapons. These produce a large amount of radiation without a devastating blast and can be used to decimate weapons stockpiles and troops without destroying much infrastructure. Patrick Garrett, an analyst with the military think-tank GlobalSecurity.org, says the document is alarming. It's like looking at the cold war all over again, he told New Scientist . The fact that they're actually going to sit down and to talk about reliability issues and what would need to happen for production, testing and guidance, means these people are particularly serious about deploying these things sometime very soon, he says. Garrett adds that the long-term implications of contaminating a target with radiation may not be well understood. I don't think these people understand that any use of a nuclear weapon is a bad use, he says. Treaty threat The Los Alamos Study Group also condemns the plans for threatening international non-proliferation agreements. Greg Mello, head of LASG, says: It is impossible to overstate the challenge these plans pose to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the existing nuclear test moratorium, and US compliance with Article VI of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, which is binding law in the US. Recent US interest in the development of smaller, more targeted nuclear weapons is well documented. New Scientist reported in October 2000 that the US Defense Appropriations Bill ordered a study of the feasibility of low-yield nuclear weapons. This overturned a ban on research into the development of battlefield nuclear weapons imposed in 1993. In November 2002, New Scientist also reported a further $15m in US government funding for research into a nuclear bunker buster, called the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator. Will Knight - An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. A fight is going on inside me, he said to the boy. It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. He continued, The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too. The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, Which wolf will win? The old Cherokee simply replies, The one you feed.
FW: [globalnews] Wasting disease found in deer in Utah, New Mexico
Title: FW: [globalnews] Wasting disease found in deer in Utah, New Mexico ENN News Story Wasting disease found in deer in Utah, New Mexico Thursday, February 20, 2003 By Reuters SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - Chronic wasting disease, a wildlife illness related to mad cow disease, has emerged for the first time in Utah's deer herd, state officials said in a statement. The disease was confirmed this week in brain tissue from a male mule deer shot by a hunter last fall near Vernal, in northeastern Utah, the state Division of Wildlife Resources said. Separately, two new cases were recently reported in New Mexico, where the disease was found last year. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) causes symptoms in deer and elk that are similar to mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Both disorders involve prions, misshapen proteins that destroy the brain. Unlike mad cow, CWD has never been shown to spread to cattle or humans. However, health exports have advised against eating venison or other parts of infected animals. CWD has been endemic in deer and elk in parts of eastern Colorado and Wyoming for decades, but it was not until last spring that cases were found west of the Continental Divide, near the Utah state line. We've been watching as Colorado's samples have come in for the past few months, and its gotten closer and closer to our border. So we're not terribly surprised to find it, said Jim Karpowitz, the Utah agency's big-game coordinator. Utah has been testing for CWD since 1998. The state collected tissue samples in 2002 from nearly 1,500 deer and elk, mostly from hunters, Karpowitz said. Tests have been completed on nearly 1,400 of those samples. Karpowitz said the state planned to test additional deer soon in the area where the initial CWD case was found. NEW CASES IN NEW MEXICO CWD spread to several new areas in 2002, infecting U.S. deer herds as far east as Wisconsin and as far south as New Mexico, and new cases continue to emerge as affected states test more animals for the disease. Two new CWD cases were confirmed last week in New Mexico, bringing that state's total number of CWD-positive deer to six. All of the New Mexico cases have involved mule deer killed on or around the southern edge of White Sands Missile Range, a sprawling U.S. Army installation, said Kerry Mower, a wildlife health specialist with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. How the disease got there remains a mystery, Mower said. No cases of CWD have been found in northern New Mexico, which is home to the state's largest deer populations. We still have no idea how CWD came to exist at the range. It is 600 miles from the epicenter of the disease in Colorado, Mower said in a statement last week. New Mexico has tested roughly 600 deer statewide for CWD since hunting season began in September 2002, and the state will test roughly 100 more by the end of June 2003, Mower said.
OT:FW: VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE
Title: OT:FW: VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE Era of Peace LATEST UPDATE A Shift of Consciousness by Patricia Diane Cota-Robles The New Age Study of Humanity's Purpose PO Box 41883, Tucson AZ 85717 520-885-7909 -- FAX 520-749-6643 January/February 2003 All of the maladies occurring on Earth can be solved with a shift of consciousness. As simplistic as that statement sounds, it is absolutely true. In order to eliminate war, hatred, violence, abuse of power, crime, corruption, greed, selfishness, poverty, gross imbalances in the distribution of wealth, homelessness, hunger, famine, prejudice, pollution, rampant disease, poor medical care, lack of education, fear-based religious beliefs and every other distorted reflection of the human psyche, all Humanity has to do is lift up in consciousness and remember the Oneness of ALL life. Once a person remembers that all life is interconnected, interrelated and interdependent, it becomes glaringly clear that it is pure insanity to harm another part of life. When people truly grasp the Divine Truth that they cannot have a single hateful thought or feeling or speak a single negative word or physically hurt any other part of life without harming themselves, then they realize to do so is self-destructive and downright stupid. When Humanity remembers the Oneness of all life, it is obvious that if any part of life is loved, healthy, comfortable, happy, peaceful, prosperous and successful, it adds to the collective harmony of Humanity and everyone benefits. With that understanding, it is also obvious that if any part of life is unloved, sick, desperate, sad, unhappy, poor or failing, the collective misery of Humanity increases and everyone suffers. For the past 50 years, the Spiritual Hierarchy has been revealing the fact that Humanity is on the brink of the greatest shift of consciousness ever manifested in the history of time. These Beings of Light have been tenaciously working with embodied Lightworkers to prepare for that mass awakening. During most of that time, it was believed that in spite of our most valiant efforts, there would be many souls who would not be able to withstand the shift and would be left behind. There were actually two Earths created by the mighty Elohim, the Builders of Form, to accommodate both those who would make the shift of consciousness and those who would be left behind. The new Earth and the old Earth coexisted in the same time and space continuum but vibrated at different frequencies. The plan was that when it came time for the shift of consciousness, the new Earth would Ascend into the 5th Dimension, and the old Earth would be left behind in the 3rd Dimension. Due to an unprecedented act of Divine Intervention and the Lightwork of millions of people all over the world, a miracle took place in August 2002 that surprised even the Company of Heaven. The recalcitrant souls who were in danger of not making the shift into the 5th Dimension were taken in their finer bodies into the heart of the Solar Logos of our Central Sun, Beloved Alpha and Omega. These Beings of Light are the representatives of our Father-Mother God in this Solar System. Embraced in the Divine Love of Alpha and Omega, the wayward souls were given one last opportunity to choose to move into the Light. The Divine Intelligence within the Flame of Transfiguring Divine Love had been blazing in their Heart Flames for a year and had softened their resolve to resist the Light. In a stunning moment of Divine Grace, every single soul volunteered to do what is necessary to move into the Light. With that new covenant, Alpha and Omega sounded their Cosmic Keynote, and the Builders of Form breathed the old Earth over the Bridge to Freedom into the frequencies of the new Earth. The two Earths merged and became one, and a new Divine Plan was set into motion to prepare every evolving soul for the impending global shift of consciousness. Now our greatest work ever has begun. 2003 will be a defining year. All life is moving into the Light, and it is up to each one of us to decide how easy or difficult our Ascension will be. Are we going to surrender to the Oneness of all life and move forward on the wings of bliss, or are we going to be dragged into the Light kicking and screaming? The choice is up to us. Since the decision of the recalcitrant souls was made in the Realms of Cause, it takes time for that understanding to filter into the dense consciousness of their outer minds. Obviously many people are still acting out their resistance to the Light and attempting to wreak havoc in the physical plane. The fact that the two Earths have become one, thus enabling all Humanity to move forward into the Light, is a miracle beyond our comprehension. The important thing to understand, however, is that the miracle greatly increased the work the Lightworkers must now accomplish. The Lightworkers must now assist in transmuting the darkest energies that have ever been created on Earth. These
OT: DU munitions
Is the server down? I haven't received any emails from you lately. Off topic: here is a link on depleted uranium from Yes! magazine http://www.futurenet.org/25environmentandhealth/rokke.htm David Robison
Vortex Theory of Everything
Dear Friends, The following recent publication promises to move Steiner's ideas into a mathematically validated context: PRESS RELEASE: MARCH 10 ,2003 AFTER three decades of scientific investigation The theory of everything is being presented to the world TODAY! LOG ONTO: http://www.thevortextheory.com After thirty years of work, a blockbuster discovery of unprecedented importance is being presented to the world via the Internet. Called the Vortex Theory, this new and revolutionary thesis has just passed the refereeing process in Russia. Five of Russia's most distinguished scientists from three of Moscow's most prestigious universities have reviewed, authenticated the mathematical proof of the Vortex Theory Thesis, and have authorized its publication. Shockingly this new and revolutionary vision of the universe has so far explained every great mystery of science it has been applied to. Former mysteries such as the following are now easily explained: · THE GRAND UNIFICATION THEORY · THE EXPLANATION OF THE PARTICLE AND WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT · THE EXPLANATION OF THE PARTICLE AND WAVE THEORY OF MATTER · THE EXPLANATION OF THE DOUBLE SLIT INTERFERENCE PATTERNS CREATED BY A SINGLE PHOTON OR ELECTRON · THE EXPLANATION OF ISOTROPIC SPIN (THE ½ SPIN OF PARTICLES) · THE EXPLANATION OF NEWTON'S THREE LAWS OF MOTION · RESOLVING THE CONFLICT BETWEEN INERTIA MASS AND GRAVITATIONAL MASS · THE EXPLANATION OF THE CONSERVATION OF CHARGE · THE EXPLANATION OF THE CONSERVATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM · THE EXPLANATION OF THE CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM · THE CONSERVATION OF MASS AND ENERGY · THE EXPLANATION OF THE MYSTERY OF ENTROPY · THE EXPLANATION OF THE DARK MATTER and DARK ENERGY EFFECT · ANTI-GRAVITY ENGINEERING? · WHAT THE NEUTRINO REALLY IS AND WHY IT POSSESSES BOTH MATTER AND ENERGY CHARACTERISTICS · THE EXPLANATION OF BUOYANCY · THE EXPLANATION OF HOW THE PROTON, ELECTRON, AND NEUTRON ARE CREATED · THE EXPLANATION OF THE IONIC AND COVALENT BONDS IN CHEMISTRY · THE MECHANICAL EXPLANATION OF THE MICHELSON MORLEY EXPERIMENT · THE EXPLANATION OF THE STRONG FORCE, WEAK FORCE, ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCE AND THE FORCE OF GRAVITY · THE EXPLANATION OF MASS · THE EXPLANATION OF ENERGY · WHAT CAUSES ACCELERATION · THE EXPLANATION OF THE MUON'S (AND ALL SUBATOMIC PARTICLE'S) PROLONGED LIFETIME WHEN MOVING AT RELATIVISTIC VELOCITIES · ALL OF THE PHENOMENON ASSOCIATED WITH THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY ARE NOW EXPLAINED · WHY ALL PARTICLES POSSESS THE SAME AMOUNT OF CHARGE · THE EXPLANATION OF BLACK HOLES · THE EXPLANATION OF PLANCK'S CONSTANT · THE EXPLANATION OF HIGH VELOCITIES AND INCREASING MASS · THE EXPLANATION OF THE STRIKING PARALLEL BETWEEN · NEWTON'S LAW OF GRAVITY AND COULOMB'S LAW · THE EXPLANATION OF THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE · THE EXPLANATION OF TIME AND TIME DILATION EFFECTS · THE REASON WHY ELECTRONS ORBIT PROTONS CREATING ATOMS · GOD? · UNIVERSAL RELIGION? -- With kindest regards, Barry Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2319 Balm Baker City, Oregon 97814 Phone: 541-523-3357 Web Pages: Forest - http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/bmnfa/index.htm ORMUS - http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/whatisit.htm A good man, before he can help a bad man, Finds in himself the matter with the bad man. And whichever teacher Discounts the lesson Is as far off the road as the other, Whatever else he may know. That is the heart of it. -Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. -Matthew 7:3-5
FW: [globalnews] Lester Brown: Restructuring the Energy Economy
Title: FW: [globalnews] Lester Brown: Restructuring the Energy Economy Environmental news service Opinion: Restructuring the Energy Economy By Lester Brown WASHINGTON, DC, February 20, 2003 (ENS) - The key to restoring climate stability is shifting from a fossil fuel based energy economy to one based on renewable sources of energy and hydrogen. Advancing technologies in the design of wind turbines that have dramatically lowered the cost of wind generated electricity to the point where it can be used to produce hydrogen from water, along with the evolution of fuel cell engines, have set the stage for a dramatic restructuring of the world energy economy. The good news is that this shift is under way. The bad news is that it is not happening nearly fast enough to avoid a climate disrupting buildup in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/indicator5.htm The burning of each of the three fossil fuels is now either growing slowly or declining. From 1995 to 2001, the use of oil, the world's leading source of energy, expanded by just over one percent a year. Natural gas, the cleanest and least climate disruptive of the three fossil fuels, grew by less than three percent a year. The burning of coal, the dirtiest and most carbon intensive fossil fuel, peaked in 1996 and has dropped by six percent since then. This historical peaking, marking the first decline in the use of a fossil fuel, may be followed by a similar peaking in oil use within the next five to 15 years. In contrast, renewables, starting from a small base, are growing at an extraordinary pace. Worldwide, wind electric generation grew by 32 percent a year from 1995 to 2001. In 2001 alone it grew by a robust 36 percent. And in the United States, wind electric generating capacity jumped by a phenomenal 66 percent in 2001. http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/indicator10.htm Solar cell sales, growing by 21 percent a year from 1995 to 2001, are likely to grow even faster in the years ahead. Once economically competitive only when used in satellites and pocket calculators, solar cells are now becoming competitive for residential lighting in Third World villages not yet connected to the grid. In many countries, if getting electricity to villages means building both a centralized power plant and a grid to deliver the power, it is now often cheaper for families simply to install solar cells. In Andean villages, for example, the monthly installment cost - with a 30 month payment period - on an array of solar cells to provide lighting is comparable to the cost of candles. A similar price relationship exists for the more remote villages in India that depend on kerosene lamps for light. http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/indicator12.htm Another renewable source, one with a largely overlooked potential, is geothermal energy, which is growing at four percent a year. This is a vast resource and one that is likely to figure prominently in the energy economies of the Pacific Rim, particularly where widespread volcanic activity indicates that geothermal energy is close to the earth's surface. The western coasts of South America, Central America, and North America have an abundance of geothermal energy. Perhaps the geothermally richest region is the western Pacific, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, and the eastern and southern coasts of China. Another rich region is the Great Rift Valley, which stretches through East Africa up into the Middle East. In fact, the entire eastern Mediterranean is geothermally well endowed. Some countries have enough geothermal energy to meet all their electricity needs. Hydroelectricity, which supplies over one fifth of the world's electricity, has expanded by two percent a year since 1990. In contrast to the other renewable sources of energy, the growth in hydropower is losing momentum as suitable sites for new dams are scarce and as public opposition mounts to large scale inundation of land, the associated displacement of people, and the disruption of ecosystems. One of the difficulties in restructuring the energy economy is that doing so typically depends on small, fledgling industries challenging large, well established, often heavily subsidized industries. One way to accelerate the restructuring needed to stabilize climate is to adopt full cost pricing, requiring that those using energy pay the full cost of doing so. Fortuitously, the fastest growing fossil fuel is natural gas, which is the obvious transition fuel from a carbon based energy economy to a hydrogen based one. The natural gas infrastructure, including distribution networks and storage facilities, can easily be adapted for hydrogen as gas reserves are depleted. As the effects of climate change become clearer, the public's desire to avoid extreme climate events will intensify. As this happens, pressure to raise carbon taxes and reduce income taxes may well rise, providing a strong economic incentive for energy
Re: OT: DU munitions
Title: Re: OT: DU munitions This is a very sad and appalling tale by one of our nations warriors who says that war now is obsolete. I recommend this to everyone to read. As usual, it is right on topic in my opinion. Agriculture as we know it around the world is going to have to change to remediate the incredible environmental damage and toll on our earth done in the name of peace. JS From: Dave Robison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:04:48 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: DU munitions Is the server down? I haven't received any emails from you lately. Off topic: here is a link on depleted uranium from Yes! magazine http://www.futurenet.org/25environmentandhealth/rokke.htm David Robison
Re: UPDATE ON HUGH IN OZ?
Whether Hugh 'brought' the rain or not is impossible to know. Tis always helpful to make rain when there are a string of heavy planetary aspects leading me to predict major rain events throughout NZ for this last week period. No doubt rain making efforts could have enhanced these basic influences GA
MAD COW UPDATE
From today's Washington Post: 'Mad Cow Disease' Deemed Unlikely In Deaths of Game-Eating Hunters Hunters who feasted on their prey at a cabin in northern Wisconsin -- and later died of brain diseases -- probably did not contract mad cow disease from their meaty banquets, U.S. health officials said yesterday. Two of the men who died were diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a human version of mad cow disease, but it was likely a naturally occurring form, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. We didn't find any association, said Vincent Hsu, an epidemiologist at the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD, occurs naturally in about 1 in a million people. It is incurable and fatal, and produces holes in the brain that lead to dementia and death. Since the 1990s, a second form has been found in people, almost all of them in Britain, and linked to an outbreak of a related disease in cattle called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease. Doctors have found that people can contract a variant of CJD from eating BSE-infected beef. About 130 people, mostly in Britain, have died from the new variant CJD. Elk and deer in parts of the United States contract a related disease called chronic wasting disease, and federal health officials investigated when hunters in Wisconsin developed CJD. -- Compiled from reports by the Associated Press and Reuters
FW: [globalnews] CREDO [Poetry]
Title: FW: [globalnews] CREDO [Poetry] (From Yes Magazine) CREDO We believe in the one message like a fever chill in each mushroom, inside the chanterelle, the morel, the rose coral and the shaggy mane. We believe plankton travel the seas veins. We believe the movement of a lake trout takes on the sanctity of number as the osprey dives. We believe the towhee. We believe alpine snow water, when it teases the crags and outcrops like clear giggling crystal, is memorizing sunlight to help the oysters grow. We believe in synchronicity. We believe when a poem is conceived the beloved knows. We believe Jupiter touches us with luck as we live and live again, and that Jesus knew. We believe sod holds. We believe there are in each of us particles that once were stars, that matter is thought, and that this belief is the way of breathing in. James Bertolino >From Greatest Hits: 1965-2000. Pudding House
Re: chicken feed
Chickens must have a supply of grit in their cop to grind food up, or they can not handle grains and the like. They should always have access to a supply of coarse sand, river gravel fines or shell grit. This can be in a container in a dry and poo free part of their house. Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, grit and/or oyster shell? I never know which to get. Some years ago I bought a bunch of cement stepping stones from a school project trying to earn money. A couple of months ago I put one on my deck and it immediately started cracking open. Maybe it dried out, I don't know but I kept seeing hunks hopping off down the steps. I kept watching but never saw it DO anything like move on it's own accord, it would just appear more broken, and pieces laying on the various steps. Finally, I saw my cluster of hens all pecking at the inner portion of the block, trying to break off some of the smaller pebble-sized pieces. They have oyster shell available but maybe I also need to supply plain ol grit too? I thought one would do double duty for both, guess they need more.
Re: chicken feed
Thanks. Like I said, mine have found their own source of grit (cement blocks), and they're free ranging so I have to suppose they're getting things to help grind up food particles ok. When I butchered out some young roosters, I found beautiful, perfectly oval and smooth pieces of glass in one of the crops. But John did stop by this afternoon and pick up a bag of grit for them. (And oh, the eggs are strong enough to bounce off the ground.)
Re:Re [Humore]Theory of Everything these daze
Title: Re:Re [Humore]Theory of Everything these daze A major research institution has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest chemical element yet known to science. The new element has been tentatively named Governmentium. Governmentium has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of governmentium causes one reaction to take over 4 days to complete when it would normally take less than a second. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 3 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause some morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to speculate that governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as Critical Morass.
