Scratches to Sketches
Saturday 31 March 2012
Filipino farmers decry landgrabbing in PH, other countries
So you wonder why advanced economies have increased money supply so much!
Did Jesus rise from the dead?
It's an amazing claim that no novelist would ever dream up. Real means absurd!
JESUS COMPLEX: Is Jesus God? - Page 4
Mysterious to say the least! One response has been those that claim to be in direct communication with Jesus / God, who are one in the same, a being that forever challenges whatever sense of ethics we try to develop. Christ dealt with the relationships between people in ways that we will alwats find a challenge because they suggest that what we may think about our earthly life is relatively unimportant. Death and life are alternate forms of living!
JESUS COMPLEX: Is Jesus God? - Page 3
So what is one to think? Is one to say Jesus is an absurd concept or is one to say that something within the personality was truly remarkable and unique, certainly for his period and those we have read about!
JESUS COMPLEX: Is Jesus God?
It's possible that after two thousand years, the story of Jesus is nothing at all like the original person. Is Christ too good to be true?
http://y-jesus.com/jesuscomplex_1_x.php?gclid=CJaK49ySkq8CFUrWKgodlVhy0Q
Tiger Woods' hopes for comeback overshadowed by ex-coach's memoir | Sport | The Observer
What makes Tiger tick is the way he controls his emotions while playing. His need to control them socially suggests he has other escapes where he unwinds! What ever might these be?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/mar/31/tiger-woods-redemption-masters-augusta?newsfeed=true
Time running out for diplomacy with Iran: Hillary
War is a very messy business. A war with Iran will be unspeakably messed up! The odds on are growing each day with all the rhetoric and foot stamping. At some point, the tipping point, the world will probably see the conflict explode into all out war that Iran cannot win! But, the consequences for everyone will be unpleasant....
http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/time-running-out-for-diplomacy-with-iran-hillary_767435.html
`Iranian group planned to attack Jews in Turkey`
Suggests that the Iranian Ayatollah is really the head of a semi secret international terrorist group targeting Isreal and Western targets. So he should be arrested and put on trial?
http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/in-turkey-iranian-group-planned-to-attack-jews_767404.html
Physics Experiments To Pay Attention To Other Stuff Besides the Higgs Boson Search - International Business Times
It's the soup that all matter may live in and move against. But, do you really think so? I have my own doubts....
Watercolour of Harbour at Kincardine by Arthur Lake
At the Paint Ontario Competition in Lambton Shores Museum 2012 ...
Indiana Farmers Could See Record Incomes | News - Indiana Public Media
I guess they can afford to pay damages!
http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/indiana-farmers-record-incomes-24356/
Purdue Educates Farmers About Insecticides’ Effect On Bees | News - Indiana Public Media
Punitive damages please against corporate farmers!
http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/purdue-educates-farmers-insecticides-effect-bees-28583/
Corn insecticide linked to great die-off of beneficial honeybees
Who is going to bear the cost of the bees permanently lost? This is a commercial activity killing bees. Who can we claim damages against? Agro business is getting out of hand! Too large scale!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120314170511.htm
Honey Bees Dying From Corn Insecticides
I feel another class action suit coming on! We need to recover the costs of loss of honey bees. Must be many billions of dollars lost permanently or should I be talking in the trillions of dollars? What do you think safe food is worth in the aggregate?
http://www.inquisitr.com/206612/honey-bees-dying-from-corn-insecticides/
Bees Pollinating Corn
It should be recognized as an offense against human kind to kill honey bees! It certainly is an offense against bee keepers....
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJeEYC7oRW8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Real gas cars? : Cleaning up methane will buy 15 years to save the planet
Heh Art take note:
Interesting article in the Financial Post on how virtually all of the pieces necessary for the transportation industry (including cars) to wean itself off the gasoline addiction are in place. What is needed is the political will and decisions by many individuals to make it happen. Apparently Pakistan decided that it needed to move towards natural-gas cars and supported the development of the natural gas station infrastructure. And now there are more than 2.4 million petroleum-free vehicles in Pakistan, the largest concentration of natural gas automobiles in the world. Ontario is aiming for 5% of all its cars to be electric by 2020 and California has even higher goals for emission-free vehicles. The Financial Post is pretty conservative so it's interesting to see this article there - but there is a huge petroleum/ car industry lobby against this evolution. The argument is that once people get a taste of what it is like to deive an electricity-driven vehicle they will never again want an internal-combusiton engine. That is extreme since there is a strong culture around powerful, noisy cars.
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Cleaning up methane will buy 15 years to save the planet
Quantified estimates of how methane influences plant growth suggest a way of buying precious time to cap CO2 emissions and solve the climate problemTHE world could buy itself 15 years of breathing space for fighting climate change, one of the world's top climate modellers argued on Monday.
Peter Cox at the University of Exeter, UK, was speaking at the Planet Under Pressure meeting in London, where more than 2800 scientists gathered to discuss fears that Earth's life-support systems are under intense stress from human activity.
The trick, he says, is to widen our attack on greenhouse gases from carbon dioxide to include the second most significant greenhouse gas – methane. "Methane is a more important control on global temperature than previously realised. The gas's influence is much greater than its direct effect on the atmosphere," says Cox. Curbing methane, he adds, may now be the only way to prevent dangerous warming.
We release methane in many ways – leaks from gas pipelines and coal mines, from landfills, the guts of livestock and rice paddies. Curbing these emissions would bring a manifold benefit for climate, says Cox.
He has studied the way CO2 and methane influence plant growth, and says that these feedback mechanisms mean action on methane could have twice the expected punch.
An atmosphere containing less methane but more CO2 would encourage forests and other vegetation on land to absorb more carbon. This would happen in two ways. First, the extra CO2 would itself act as a fertiliser for vegetation, so it would grow faster and absorb more CO2. Second, less methane would minimise the formation of tropospheric ozone, which damages plant growth.
These mechanisms are well known, but Cox is the first person to calculate their collective impact on the amount of CO2 that can be released while keeping global warming below 2 °C – the widely accepted threshold for dangerous climate change.
He told the conference that a 40 per cent reduction in human-caused methane emissions would permit the release of an extra 500 gigatonnes of CO2 – a third more than previously thought – before we exceeded 2 °C warming. "That is a 15-year breathing space at current CO2 emission rates," says Cox, who admits there are uncertainties in his calculations.
"It looks extremely unlikely that we can stop global warming at 2 °C just by reducing CO2 emissions," he told New Scientist. "That probably requires peaking emissions by 2020. But drastic action on methane would make the task much more feasible."
Cox says most governments have become fixated on combating CO2 emissions, and while that remains essential, the benefits of action on other greenhouses gases have been ignored. He stresses that this is not an excuse to burn more coal. "Nothing in the study contradicts the view that stabilising climate will require large reductions in CO2 emissions, but it does show the unexpectedly large importance of other gases."
Cutting methane emissions is cheaper than cutting CO2 emissions, and brings other benefits. Besides boosting vegetation, reduced tropospheric ozone will increase growth rates for many crops and cut health risks, such as asthma, from air pollution.
John Reilly, an expert on non-CO2 greenhouse gases at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, agrees that a 40 per cent cut in methane emissions is feasible at relatively low costs. It could be done primarily by curbing leaks from gas fields and pipelines, and emissions from coal mines and landfills. But he warned that to limit warming to 2 °C, "we need to accelerate our efforts on everything". Even allowing for a 15-year breathing space, Reilly says, "it's not either CO2 or methane, it has to be both".
It is not a question of CO2 or methane, it has to be both
If the good news is that reducing methane emissions can have a better-than-expected effect on curtailing global warming, then the bad news from Cox's calculations is that a continued rise in methane emissions would have a more damaging effect than previously supposed. If you let methane go up a lot, then less carbon can be stored in land sinks, Cox warns. Methane is, in effect, the unseen control on how much CO2 can be safely put into the atmosphere.
Besides climate change, the conference has flagged up the over-pumping of underground water reserves, soil erosion, acidifying oceans, forest loss and the accumulation of human-made nitrogen in rivers and oceans.
The meeting is expected to call on the United Nations Earth Summit 2012, being held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June, to back the creation of an equivalent of the UN Security Council to put environmental security at the heart of world diplomacy.
Do all scratch lotto tickets offer the same odds? - Finance Blog | How to Budget – Ways to Save Money Blog –YourMoney.ca
These are the sort of scratches it is unwise to make! Unless of course it is for a half billion dollars? Even so ... Nah!
http://blog.yourmoney.ca/2012/03/do-all-scratch-lotto-tickets-offer-the-same-odds.html
Friday 30 March 2012
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Questions for News Corp over rival's collapse | Media | The Guardian
I guess just about establishes what every one feared, an abuse of power!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/mar/26/news-corp-ondigital-paytv-panorama?CMP=EMCNEWEML1355
Bill Gate's One wish
Bill Gate's One wish
26 tonnes of CO2
How do we reduce our annual individual production of carbon dioxide by 26 tonnes each?
Batteries in the energy equation
Creating energy is not the real problem. Storing it is. Pumping water up a hill is a possible solution, but it is marginal!
http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=07487d1456302a286cf9c4ccc&id=514d7ae42d&e=22c26caca0
Do you feel a class action suit coming on against Monsanto?
Think thin and healthy!
Do you feel a class action suit coming on against Monsanto because you are possibly eating superaddictive wheat that causes your body damage, shortens your life expectancy. Is wheat the major catastrophy of the century?
Perhaps, you are suffering bad health needlessly because of new strains of wheat that damage your body and lead to premature death. Are you obese because wheat has been engineered to make you crave it. What dangerous secrets is Monsanto hiding from the public about the addictiveness of the food product, analagous to big tobacco?
Who is most vulnerable. What genes predispose you to ill health because of new wheats designed to make you crave them? Do you crave the wheat in a donut?
Is a class action suit even mountable?
Heh! If the new wheat is a super drug and hyped to make you eat more, it is similar to the nicotine in tobacco. Maybe, the FDA should go after Monsanto or whoever created this living stuff.
If you have a gluten intolerance and studied law, you may have a future cut out for you fighting big farma.
Franken Wheat discussed by Native Strength
As a sufferer of wheat intolerance, you and I have something in common. The only problem is that you may not be aware of it!
Tuesday 27 March 2012
ART CASHIN: We Now Know The True Motive Behind The Bernanke Lectures
Some slide presentations.
Bernanke is right that a return to the gold standard would be foolish. What he doesn't show is some of the wisdom about realistic alternatives, such as a modest but continuous growth in the money supply base. Or, possibly a managed growth in the monetary base.
What frustrates me about the Fed's position is that it talks about inflation being the great evil, but did not manage house inflation as part of that equation. This demonstrates a very partial understanding of very basic economic principles to say the least. Housing now is a wasted industry that should have been more carefully monitored by the Fed.
I hate the rotten stupid sounding excuses coming out of Bernanke's mouth. Retake economics 100 if you must, but get it right, I beg of you!
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Charged With Connection To French Prostitute Ring
One has to wonder what all the fuss is about for such a highly respected Frenchman to be charged with being in the presence of prostitutes. In Ontario, our provincial appeal courts we have just questioned the legality of prostitution law. I don't personally use prostitutes, but as was said by the famous "Christian philosopher," Christ, do unto others as you would wish them to do unto you and be aware of your own failings before judging others too harshly!
Monday 26 March 2012
Higgs boson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prepare yourself for the big discovery later this year!
Sarkozy to bar some imams from entering France - chicagotribune.com
Will this make a hero to some? Certainly!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-france-electionbre82p0bp-20120326,0,4724359.story
What were two Republicans thinking, calling Obama 'tar baby' and 'boy'? - CSMonitor.com
Scratch the surface of America and too too often you find racism, which should be an unpleasant memory of a failed past!
Tiger Woods now the favorite in Vegas to win the Masters | Devil Ball Golf - Yahoo! Sports
Not very surprising! What are the odds of ankle issues?
Extreme weather events increased over past decade, study says | Environment | guardian.co.uk
It's probably the combined effect of increased or positive trend slope activity .... A generic undercurrent of hotter solar spots superimposed on faster upswings / slower downswings of the solar cycle of the sun and humans CO2 polluting ... Takes the two really mess things up.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/26/extreme-weather-climate-change
Thousands of Shark Fins Found on Hong Kong Sidewalk (Video) : TreeHugger
I guess the message is that humans really are not responsible in their behaviour. The waste is staggering. The cost is unimaginable. Stupid!
http://www.treehugger.com/endangered-species/thousands-shark-fins-found-hong-kong-sidewalk.html
Not Only are Single Cup Coffee Pods A Ridiculous Waste of Materials, They Are A Worse Waste of Money : TreeHugger
Coffee in a pod. It has to do with the ability of one's taste buds to distinguish minor variations what makes coffee so special. Perhaps, however, it's time to save the pods for a really special occasion...
James Cameron emerges from 'complete isolation' after solo dive to bottom of ocean - The Globe and Mail
Wow! James you are my hero! Another Cousteau in the making .....
Our new culture of compulsive communication - The Globe and Mail
While our desire for and means of communication are evolving, there is a pent up frustration to present viewpoints meaningfully. We are no longer drowning in a croud, but visibility does entail risks in a world that is subject to technological and social revolution.
The Region: France: Here comes th... JPost - Opinion - Columnists
Is racism in France controllable?
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=263385
Canada’s 30-Story Wooden Skyscraper
Tall wooden structures may be serious options for future buildings. Combine wood with steel and the possibilities frontier gets very interesting. Combine wood, steel and cement and heh presto you have a future!
http://technabob.com/blog/2012/03/21/30-story-wooden-skyscraper/
Whether you are environmentalist or not, these articles make you think!
Put aside your comfort zones fo a few minutes each day to be exposed to the tragedies of blind economic growth...
Where Bacteria Meets The Matrix: Wastewater Could Provide Electricity to Clean Itself Up - Environment - GOOD
I knew there would be something on the horizon. Will products be forthcoming that small communities can use?
And Here's The Secret Reason Apple Is Crushing Google...
Perhaps, you would guess that it has to do with those makng critical product design decisions?
Sunday 25 March 2012
Solar Storms Slow Down Orbital Speeds and so help to Sweep Our Space Junk down to earth
This process will increase as we get into solar flare cycle 24!
http://www.urthecast.com/blog/uncategorized/solar-storms-sweep-atmospheric-space-junk/
Sweep up the junk in earth's orbital space with a Swiss satellite?
Cleaning up the junk in space is a real challenge. It requires a Swiss mentality of cleanliness and precision to begin meeting the challenge.
http://www.urthecast.com/blog/uncategorized/trash-talking-about-space-sweeping-satellites/
Record-Breaking Mars Mission Simulation Planned for ISS | UrtheCast
Breaking into new performance territory, we can gear up to space travel more safely. When we solve the energy issues on earth, we can explore planets and enjoy our solar system as never before. The challenges will alter the human view of what is possible and define goals we never thought possible.
http://www.urthecast.com/blog/uncategorized/record-breaking-mars-mission-simulation-planned-for-iss/
As a child, Hilary Clinton was told there would not be any female astronauts
That is surely a plan of a male domnated activity. So women were not up to the equivalent of the monkeys of soviet space. Now surely, we have women who can do most anything a man can!
Miro's art world
A place where reality meets fiction and form, where nature is examined and where man dominates!
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a7afc2f4-7296-11e1-9be9-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1q5ORhyRG
Brain shock in a resolutionary revolutionary dismembering age of enlightenment
The higher resolution is a game winner. Apple has timed this improvement right and will gain from this big step forward. It does represent a revolution and where it will the drive media and games industries no one really knows. For certain, it means atomizing family life as members retreat to their private patch to be alone with their new friend. Who needs other people when and iPad will substitute. Who on the pad will be your child's next educator. Chances are you won't recognize the symptoms of confusion and disarray as you and your child's brains are organized by the new high resolution reality of the post depression age. Welcome to the world of infinite choice. How will you organize it?
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/03/21/032112-tech-apple-retina-1-2/
Saturday 24 March 2012
Mikhail Gorbachev doubts fairness of Russia presidential vote - chicagotribune.com
Yes! There are too too many unanswered questions!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-fg-russia-gorbachev-qa-20120324,0,6530709.story
Friday 23 March 2012
Article: Review - Apple iPad (2012) Review | Electronista
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Obama says Romney's 'pretending'
Hey, check this out from CNN:
Obama says Romney's 'pretending'
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/22/obama-says-romneys-pretending/
Obama says Romney's 'pretending'
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/22/obama-says-romneys-pretending/
ACLU: Boss can't have your Facebook password
Hey, check this out from CNN:
ACLU: Boss can't have your Facebook password
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/22/tech/social-media/facebook-password-employers/index.html
As we sit around a bonfire and enjoy stories!
Such is a Canadian pasttime, but you don't expect to do it in March! 
As we sit around a bonfire and enjoy stories!
Thursday 22 March 2012
Wednesday 21 March 2012
WildAid | When the buying stops, the killing can too.
Think skink! Think tiger! Think polar bear! PROTECT THEM ALL. BAN NEEDLESS KILLING, EATING, BURNING, CUTTING OF TREES, ETC....
Video: Dutch engineer 'flies' using custom built 'human bird wings' in viral video - Telegraph
Amazing footage of my flying under his own steam! Truly amazing!
If the new iPad is 'hot,' what do you call a MacBook Pro? - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech
We expected it would be! Competitors products hot or cool?
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/03/21/if-the-new-ipad-is-hot-what-do-you-call-a-macbook-pro/
Burt the Grand Bend beaver
Oh the joys of spring!
Burt, the beaver, swam right up to me today, said hello and just enjoyed himself in the smooth lake water.
Air is about 80F 26C? No clouds?
In Grand Bend, we are seeing Balimore Orioles and dozens of tiny bird species stopping by to wish us well!
Literally billions of minnow are swimming the coast line.
People are in the water testing it for the first time this year and lots are sunning... Amazing!
More at http://woohs.blogspot.com
Arthur
OK guys! Water in Lake Huron is warm...
We are sunning it here in Canada! Great day for the beach.... 
OK guys! Water in Lake Huron is warm...
Beaver enjoys warm day on the beach in hot sun!
New iPad runs hotter than previous version, test confirms - The Globe and Mail
How hot relative to other thin devices I wonder? Still, the new iPad has more than satisfied customers.
RBC Economist Lays It Out
We are not out of the woods. That is certain. But, how bad are things? Could they get worse or will we just limp along?
Tuesday 20 March 2012
Art & Graphic
Pitt artist pens are by Faber Castell
http://artgraphic.fabercastell.com/products/catalog.aspx?q=search&a=DB1DF8BC65824E71BE9381C2588D1388
Sit and Die: Get Moving Or Else – Amen Clinics
It's important to get up and out!
http://70.32.73.82/blog/5690/sit-and-die-get-moving-or-else/
Burning Ice: The Next Energy Boom? - Miller-McCune
Guess ice is a thing of the past, what with so much heat!
Prince Charles Shows Us How to Feed 9 Million People Sustainably in 33 Pages : TreeHugger
We all should read this book. Charles does does it again. In my view he is a real genius and a man of our age long misunderstood.
Resolving house price inflation
The American and thereby much of the world economy flirted with house price inflation or the equivalent of long term embodied short term wage/price inflation resulting from monetary expansion. That wage inflation did not keep pace with house prices to make them affordable over the long term is interesting enough. Had wages risen then America would have had to increase productivity correspondngly over the long term. That the increase in productivity was exported to China which did not appreciate its currency meant that the Amercan economy received a double bout of mismatch in its balance sheet. Recovery of a balance is next to impossible with continued monetary expansion that does not translate into higher wages sufficient to pay off the mortgages. Either house prices fall or bankruptcy of the banks occurs. No one expects that a rise in American productivity would bring about a balance, and the problem is that it would require Amercan firms or Chinese irms investing in America and a sufficiently wide distribution of employment gains. This would be too good to be true.
YouTube - a new level of weather forecasting
Science is amazing. Hows our weather today? We now can see it in terms of solar wind and magnetic shield interference!
Monday 19 March 2012
Quantifying Sea Level Fall | Watts Up With That?
Struggling with science is healthy. What we see is the difficulty of squaring the range and scale of influences. Governments make policy based on science, but what may seem good logic may fall apart owing to forces not included in the analysis. In other words, policy or belief may be incorrect over the long term because the analysis is partial and suddenly reversible, as in the sand pile effect. We often can't see around a corner until we create an instrument that allows us to see artificially what is actually hidden from view! A problem science has to deal with all the time, yes all the time!
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/03/quantifying-sea-level-fall/
Global cooling coming? Archibald uses solar and surface data to predict 4.9°C fall (!) « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
The jury is out as to the long term implications of rising cO2 on the climate. We are certainly experiencing global warming, especially now!? What still needs to be understood is what is causing the warming .. trends and cycles of sun spots, changes magnetic fields on the sun, or composition of gases on earth and the green house effect?
Mike Flynn's Journal - Sufficient Causes
Necessary but insufficient yet to establish global warming? The world is in real serious trouble if the sharply rising curve actually happens and global warming is real! How do you separate the CO 2 factor?
Articles: Could Forrest Gump Plan Our Economy?
Scott Mayer is flying high in his critique of Krugman. However, in his analysis he makes a basic flaw. The flaw is that the free market has the answers. It may if you were to assume it repatriated profit back to th US and then distributed a reasonable amount as dividend. Being a good citizen is not th free market which has no citizenship priorities. In fact, the free market is actively involved in destroying the environment never thinking it should pay damages! Mayer is so of he mark on this as to be morally bankrupt!
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/could_forrest_gump_plan_our_economy.html
Note to Krugman: Greece Proves Keynesian Economics Wrong - Forbes
Spending more to get the Greece economy moving is the only policy that will work, but why does it not work. Balance is the key. It's possible to introduce balance by spending but both raising interest rates and taxes on specific activities. The problem Greece has is debt with low interest rates. Borrowing got Greece into a mess, but was it a domestic problem or an international one? Gregory talks one way and Krugman another. The question is really Greece's openness and who is taking or sending money out of the country. Is it a domestic issue or an international one? Overinvestment by foreign interests in dubious acquisition projects often masks real domestic issues.
Tiger Woods tests out Achilles at Tavistock Cup - ESPN
OK! Tiger is once again playing after pulling out of the Cadillac!
http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/7708275/tiger-woods-testing-achilles-tavistock-cup
Spotlight on Iran
War with Iran is not an option!
It would not be prudent nor viable.
So stalemate will cotninue into the long term like Cuba until nations forget the rhetoric and realize the war mongering words of Iranian leaders against Isreal is primarily for domestic consumption.
No sane Iranian could really want war, but most are caught in the iranian political process where such extreme talk is popular!
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/iran_e161.htm
CERN fires most powerful beams yet | ZDNet UK
Finding and verifying the Higgs particle would mean a major leap forward for string theory . It would give greater credence to ideas positing additional dimensions. The higher mathematics of cosmology needs such fields. The assumptions of infinities being resolved as additional dimensions will allow physics to simplify the mathematics of cosmology and string theory.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/mapping-babel-10017967/cern-fires-most-powerful-beams-yet-10025662/
Saturday 17 March 2012
Do French Fries Cause Cancer? - TIME
Enough already? Old news!
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1002381,00.html
Acrylamide is a cancer-causing chemical found in many American products.
Who would think that eating McDonald's french fries represents a serious health rusk because of acrylamide produced during the frying process! There goes another food / poison that I like?
Friday 16 March 2012
Thursday 15 March 2012
Wednesday 14 March 2012
The flip flops of the magnetic field of the sun and earth's weather patterns
The length of time between solar magnetic field flip flops seems to matter!
Trading the Sun : The influence of the sun on the financial markets and the macro economy :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website
How affective / subconciously influentual on human emotions are the flip flops in the sun's magnetic fields. We like to think we are independent of such hidden forces, but sun shine makes people feel good, especially in winter months in the northern hemisphere. Sun certainly influences plant growth and agriculture. The sun's rays are almost pure energy waiting to be tapped by all living creatures!
Magnetic Cycles
Here is a very clear explanation of the flip flop in the solar magnetic field every 11 yeas and why the Mayan calendar calls for a flip flop in 2012 of the Earth's magnetic field. That this may be a significant event this year is still anyone's guess. That the sun's magnetic field will flip this year is pretty well a certainty. Do you know why?
The brutal cold of the Maunder Minimum and the Great Irish Frost « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
Dennis Avery's discussion in the article referenced below on my rereading does not make a whole lot of sense unless you delve deeper into solar machinations. He should be focusing on the disappearance of sun spots emerging in specific areas of the sun and not the totals of sunspots. There is a lag in the upswing of a cycle in the polarward branch of sun spots that lies below a downswing of equatorward branch. The measured count of sun spots is the sum of two parts. If one part is not forming, the lag of its ultimate effect is also not forming.
Avery is in effect warning us that a delay in the polar upswing of sunspots presages a smaller count in total sun spots, at least in the cycle 25. What happens in later cycles to produce a minimum cannot be assumed from such a small sample of data. In other words, it is still too early to be alarmist. The possibility of a cold age has risen, but the probability has remained somewhat the same as always.
Making predictions from such a small data base is alarmist and unnecessarily precient.
http://joannenova.com.au/2011/05/the-brutal-cold-of-the-maunder-minimum-and-the-great-irish-frost/
The brutal cold of the Maunder Minimum and the Great Irish Frost « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
Who would discuss such a concept as a new mini ice age?
http://joannenova.com.au/2011/05/the-brutal-cold-of-the-maunder-minimum-and-the-great-irish-frost/
It's great that science does not have all the answers.
Major Drop in Solar Activity Predicted: Little Ice Age, part II? « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
Wonder what the currents within the sun are really up to? Or, are some scientists creating 'facts' to suit another agenda? Who knows?
http://joannenova.com.au/2011/09/major-drop-in-solar-activity-predicted-little-ice-age/
It's important to see the facts beneath the facts that betray the facts above the facts. This is literally the ase in how the sun creates sun spots that drive the earth's heat cycle. Were the sun to shift into lower gear, we would all wonder why we burned up so much oil. We need to conserve energy for a colder rainy day. Seems odd while the weather is so warm we are convinced of global warming and the need to conserve energy so as not to over heat?
Why NASA will fire five rockets in five minutes - CSMonitor.com
High altitude jet streams are not the usual jet streams mentioned in wether forecasts. At a very high altitude they move at very high speed, more than expected. Scientists want to find out why so fast?
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0314/Why-NASA-will-fire-five-rockets-in-five-minutes
Topic: Public Library of Science - CSMonitor.com
Interesting jumping off point!
http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Public+Library+of+Science
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Graphic.ly - Comics and Friends get connected
If you like comics you will like this site.
http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=bca81159cc86dc66528e39a24&id=f5720e3b3d&e=4f4df67204
Red meat is blamed for one in 10 early deaths - Telegraph
You have been warned! Perhaps, more like 1 in 5 deaths?
Red meat and colon cancer
Preventable by eating nuts instead!
http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/Red-meat-and-colon-cancer.shtml
Huge Harvard study shows red meat boosts risk of dying young
What is red meat? It's a smoking gun! It brings about premature death in too many people!
SpringerImages - Sites pre 5000 cal b.c. with archaeobotanical remains of Panicum and/or Setaria. 1 Abu Ballas; 2 Argissa Magoula; 3 Arukhlo 1; 4 Ayios Epiktitos Vrysi; 5 Bouqras; 6 Březno u Louny; 7 Bruchenbrücken; 8 Bylany; 9 Chokh; 10 Cishan; 11 Dadiwan; 12 Denchen1; 13 Dikhi-Gudzuba; 14 Domica Cave; 15 Durlesht1; 16 Drenkovo-Ploshteko; 17 Eitzum 2; 18 El Kowm 2; 19 Farafra; 20 Glăvăneştii Vechi; 21 Goddelau; 22 Grini1; 23 Hienheim; 24 Hilzingen; 25 Imirisgora; 26 Kapitan Dimitrievo; 27 Karanovo; 28 Khirokitia; 29 Kjultepe; 30 Kovacevo; 31 Krushniki 2; 32 Langweiler; 33 Liubcova; 34 Mala Osnitsa1; 35 Meindling; 36 Mintraching; 37 Mohelnice; 38 Nabta Playa; 39 Obolon1; 40 Olszanica; 41 Otzaki Magoula; 42 Peiligang; 43 Rovno; 44 Sakarovka; 45 Sammardenchia; 46 Šarišské Michal’any 2; 47 Shawoli; 48 Slatina; 49 Sokoltsy 2; 50 Štúrovo; 51 Tell Abu Hureyra; 52 Tell Mureybit; 53 Tepe Gaz Tavila (Dautalabad R37); 54 Toumba Balomenou; 55 Vădastra; 56 Wanlo; 57 Wuluoxipo; 58 Xinglonggou; 59 Xinle; 60 Yuezhuang
Other sites and caves of very early period!
http://www.springerimages.com/Images/Geosciences/1-10.1007_s00334-008-0187-1-0
Small-town mayor stands up to Quebec language police | Sympatico.ca News
Narrow minded Quebec! What is the province really afraid of?
GFT opens London office
Spread betting software!
http://www.e-forex.net/news/e-FX+News/1543/GFT+opens+London+office
Monday 12 March 2012
Opinion: FCC should clear Limbaugh from air
Jane Fonda recommends that we consider Limbaugh as destructive!
Hey, check this out from CNN:
Opinion: FCC should clear Limbaugh from air
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/10/opinion/fonda-morgan-steinem-limbaugh/index.html
How the new iPad stacks up to competitors - The Washington Post
We know how much users will enjoy the software for the new iPad!
Taliban Vow Revenge for Afghans Killed by American
Best way to get a job taken away from you is to show that you are utterly incompetent which is what the American soldiers have demonstrated over the past month! Many are clearly Incompetent. The question remains as to why! The longer the war drags on and the more corrupt the Afghan leadership under K the worse Americans appear!
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/AS-Afghanistan/2012/03/12/id/432152
Sunday 11 March 2012
Cardinal Wuerl to Newsmax: Obama's Birth Control Mandate Unprecedented 'Invasion'
Yep! Let the unmarried man guide you? Why? For some reason the church sees itself as the moral watchdog on everything. It's time for people to assume moral leadership without so much heavy hand. Loving yourself, and others as much, is at least a beginning, but it requires enormous restraint. If you would save a human soul extend that to all, yes all, life around you. That's the real challenge of the modern age. Guilt is a reflection of having standards. They can be improved and adapted.
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Cardinal-Wuerl-Birth-Control/2012/03/10/id/432092
Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?
Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.
Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?
Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!
Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.
Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!
If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.
Anne now has two yoga blogs:
http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com
http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com
RT
New iPad Sparks Drive for 'Novelty-Seeking' Among Consumers | Moneyland | TIME.com
Our world has never seen such a revolutionary device! We applaud the microcomputer, but it was really so much of an ordeal spoilt by negative attacks. It's not really about novelty, but capability.
http://moneyland.time.com/2012/03/08/why-you-want-the-new-ipad-so-badly/?xid=newsletter-daily
Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?
Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.
Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?
Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!
Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.
Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!
If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.
Anne now has two yoga blogs:
http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com
http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com
RT
TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS WEB SYSTEM
We are strange loops
https://sbs.arizona.edu/project/consciousness/index.php
Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?
Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.
Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?
Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!
Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.
Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!
If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.
Anne now has two yoga blogs:
http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com
http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com
RT
Consciosness Conference
What will human kind discover about consciousness through science?
http://consciousness.arizona.edu/documents/TSC2012ProgramE-Releasev112.28.12.pdf
Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?
Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.
Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?
Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!
Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.
Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!
If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.
Anne now has two yoga blogs:
http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com
http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com
RT
Center for Consciousness Studies . Tucson . Arizona
Conference in April 2012
http://consciousness.arizona.edu/
Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?
Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.
Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?
Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!
Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.
Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!
If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.
Anne now has two yoga blogs:
http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com
http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com
RT
Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose
What is the nature of consciousness?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hameroff
Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?
Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.
Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?
Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!
Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.
Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!
If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.
Anne now has two yoga blogs:
http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com
http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com
RT
Saturday 10 March 2012
Probiotics Types, Health Benefits, Side Effects, Research and Food Sources on MedicineNet.com
People need probiotics! What drives your natural space?
http://www.medicinenet.com/probiotics/article.htm
Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?
Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.
Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?
Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!
Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.
Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!
If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.
Anne now has two yoga blogs:
http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com
http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com
RT
Petroleum & Other Liquids - Analysis & Projections - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
Is use of petroleum falling?
http://www.eia.gov/petroleum//reports.cfm?t=164
Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?
Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.
Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?
Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!
Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.
Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!
If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.
Anne now has two yoga blogs:
http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com
http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com
RT
Apple Maps Replace Google Maps In iPhoto For iOS
Ho hum!
Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?
Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.
Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?
Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!
Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.
Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!
If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.
Anne now has two yoga blogs:
http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com
http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com
RT
Friday 9 March 2012
Fwd: Fukushima Anniversary: How Climate Change Endangers Nuclear Safety
Hi!
Watching how Fukushima was unexpectedly devastated was a sobering experience last year as was the destruction of Christchurch in New Zealand.
This got me thinking about our own vulnerability. Fact is that a hurricane hitting Grand Bend and Western /Southern Ontario is more than feasible given past experience! Now its probable and getting distinctly so!
The signs are already there that a freak storm enjoys warm waters such as have been building up this winter over the great lakes and further north! Should we also get a series of Caribbean heat waves, we have to consider that Western Ontario is once again vulnerable to increased threat from hurricane and tornado occurences.
We saw what happened in Goderich last year.
Our biggest threat here is possibly hurricane damage. No one can put a probability on such storms, but my guess is that they have gone up!
1. This week, we have just been bombarded with a record breaking heat generating solar storm and others will continue to hit earth as the sun spot electrical storm cycle rises to its peak in 2012 and 2013! Watch out for sun related cancer!
2. Tornado alley has moved north, and during this spring/summer we may see higher frequency of tornados in our region.
3. There is a history of very large destructive storms hitting Western and Southern Ontario about once in 50 years. We are overdue.
4. A hurricane is so infrequent that no one believes one will ever strike.
What precautions can we take?
It's important just to realize that a hurricane here is feasible and that the likelihood because of warm waters has increased dramatically.
Our biggest concern would be Bruce Nuclear! What are the risks if it were to be hit very hard by 200 mph winds? Can we see the cost of nuclear fall out stretching all the way across Ontario towards the golden horseshoe?
Date: 9 March 2012 10:31:06 AM EST
Subject: Fukushima Anniversary: How Climate Change Endangers Nuclear Safety
Is Ontario, Canada prepared for a hurricane off Lake Huron combined with a hot 2012 summer bringing hot Caribbean air north? I wonder whether Western Ontario will be habitable in three years time? Scratching your fears or scratching at a hidden truth of Bruce Nuclear's vulnerability to a hurricane as occured with Hazel in 1956! Are you ready for such a storm?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/09/fukushima-anniversary-nuclear-disaster-extreme-climate-events_n_1331977.html?ref=mostpopular
Scratch your lawn, garden or field surface to sketch your own future with small plants, reptiles and animals and thereby to sustain natural life in a more balanced, productive and diversified way. Enliven your immediate natural world and strengthen the rainbow of vegetation and creatures that sustain you in a myriad of hiddenways Think and act to renaturalize your homestead and community. For example, that cedar in your garden may be protecting your lungs from cancer?
Wuhlax asks gardeners that they think of new ways that they can further renaturalize your surroundings. You, yourself can think. Do I really need to support as much lawn? Perhaps, in its place, I could create a canopy for wild life by planting a hardwood tree that would actually produce food or provide shelter. Open your seedbank to nature and explore hidden strengths and weaknesses.
Wuhlax asks farmers to discover and let others know what their soil is capable of sustaining without fertilizer? Can your farm reduce it's dependence on energy by self sustaining practices. Does your farm really need a ploughed field? Are there hedge rows that can be nurtured for diversity?
Wuhlax asks everyone whether there are there enough small wild birds and creatures nearby that feed on the flying insects and mosquitoes that bother you? Give your surroundings a chance to rebalance naturally and at the same time help your own health through love of your living spaces. Can you grow food plants, protect the tiny lizard under a log or stone? In what ways can you recapture the strength of the soil around you to feed your natural community. Perhaps, you would share your findings with us here at Scratches to Sketches!
Cut off rather than pull up toxic plants such as wild garlic. Knowing how to control toxic vegetation is as important as knowing how to sustain benign vegetation. As you learn, inform others and share your insights.
Realize that the smallest of birds travel 7,000 kilometers in a single migratory flight across the North Atlantic into deepest Africa. Some fly as much as 14,000 kilometers twice a year!
If you can diversify your landscape for perennials and life that is self sustaining, perhaps you have ideas that you would like to share. If so, I have a gmail address that starts with wuhlax! Or, you can twitter me at @renaturetek.
Anne now has two yoga blogs:
http://www.nearyoga.blogspot.com
http://www.nearbyyoga.blogspot.com
RT
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