Wayuu Taya , Patricia Velasquez , Urea

Venezuelan model and actress Patricia Velasquez (was) appointed UNESCO Artist for Peace ..Velasquez was born in 1971 in La Guajira, one of the poorest regions in Venezuela... she was spotted by a model scout .. (The Jaguar, The Mummy, The Return of the Mummy, etc... She founded the Wayuu Taya Foundation in 2003 to help the indigenous people of her region, to whom she is related through her mother.

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Hugo Chavez is saying that if Colombia President Uribe allows a USA base on La Guajira peninsular, near Venezuela, He,Hugo, will re-assert historical claims to the entire region

wayuutaya
wayuutaya
gwu

Uribe seems like a thouroughly indecent, unkindly sort of chap:
u.s. intelligence listed colombian president uribe among
"important colombian narco-traffickers" in 1991


"President Uribe said he would consider having Colombian workers have microchips implanted into their bodies before they are permitted to enter the United States to work on a seasonal basis,"
foxnews


carolinapeace
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srmaxclass
On morning of April 18, 2004, paramilitaries rolled up to this and two other houses. They proceeded to massacre the men, women and children at the houses using bullets, burning and dismemberment.
..What are the reasons behind this massacre? The killings followed a Wayuu report to the authorities of drug trafficking in the area. El Cerrejon corporation operates the largest open pit mine in the western hemisphere right in the middle of Wayuu territory. It's pretty obvious that the Wayuu are in the way of the coal interests. Another la Guajira coal company, Drummond, is currently in court defending accusations of hiring paramilitaries to kill union leaders
consortiumnews

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Hillel (1st century BCE) “what is hateful to you, don’t do to your neighbor. That is the whole of the Torah; the rest is commentary –- go and learn it.”

al-Nakba anniversary, passed on 15 May, rather too close to my birthday
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Isis
isis, pulsed neutron source (600 mW protons slammed into tungsten)
rather grander than "A simple device that fits into a lab-coat pocket can be used to achieve deuterium-deuterium fusion along with its associated neutron flux under desktop conditions" - apparently a chilled 'egg sized' device warmed in that pocket could produce an unhealthy amount of neutrons as it warmed.
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scotese
tectonics
uky
There still does not appear to be my ideal atlas: projections chosen from Robinson to sphere etc, global to local scale,
smoothly zooming, overlays of population, crops, mineral production etc. Guess I oughta write it myself.
Shades of Bucky Fullers big globe, which he imagined before Computer Graphics...
Starting with something like this

from
btinternet

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Eidetic memory
5yo Chimp >> college student > Old chimp
nationalgeographic
just watch the first few seconds of this video.. astounding how fast the chimp operates, way faster than any college student....

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AG Plus, Matt Henry, said its two main fertilisers,
MAP or monammonium phosphate and DAP or diammonium phosphate, were worth between $420 and $450 a tonne two years ago. "Then last year they got as high as $780 to $800 a tonne," The price is now above $1400 a tonne.
theaustralian
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because the Chinese Government has imposed a 100per cent duty on exports of the most common fertilisers, urea and MAP and DAP.
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So Aus is exporting LPG at cheap-Howard prices to PRC then importing Haber-Bosch fetrliltisers back ???
How daft is that? What is an economic size for a fert. factory for Auz? Does that size change with 3x rise in fert. cost?
Why is the PRC only now causing (being blamed for??) price rises ?

(27.8 MBtu/tonne) 30390MJ = 3.04E10J/Ton
World production 130 million tonnes. = 3.95E18J

The entire fertilizer industry uses less than 2% of world energy consumption, and this is overwhelmingly concentrated in the production of ammonia. The ammonia industry used about 5% of natural gas consumption in the mid-1990s.

“Production of 1 ton of ammonia requires about 30 to 33 million Btu of natural gas—about 90% of the raw material cost,” he

4 out of 5 children Asia LatAm MidE have Haber-Bosch Nitrogen in their proteins

natural gas is increasingly being liquefied and shipped abroad in huge tankers as liquid natural gas—which now accounts for about 22% of global energy use.

1 million Btu in the fertilizer sector= an additional 218 kg of grain—= minimum caloric intake for one person for a year.
1 kcal = 4.187 kJ


By 2020, energy used for fertilizer production and distribution ...to 8,494 trillion Btu

usatoday

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Wayuu Taya , Patricia Velasquez , Urea

Rainforest Action Network, Hizbullah, al-Nakba, Royal Albatross, Pithecophaga jefferyi

Rainforest Action Network Defends Support for Old-Growth Logging

RAN indicates industrial first time logging of centuries old trees in primeval forests the best that can be expected, censors further discussion on their web site, and faces renewed global call for members to cancel until withdraws from FSC
After six months of evasions and personal recriminations, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has officially answered the question "how does Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified logging of primary and old-growth forests 'protect endangered forests'"? RAN has been the target of protest by thousands of forest conservationists from eighty countries concerned with how RAN's support for FSC legitimizes continued loss of ancient forests, their biodiversity and the climate. This is there answer:

"Simply, FSC certification isn't the ultimate protection for endangered forests, but it is a vastly superior alternative to standard industrial logging. In forests that would otherwise be logged without third party oversight, FSC promotes practices that preserve ecosystem functions (like habitat and water quality) and safeguards the most ecologically valuable areas." -- RAN statement, 4/1/08.

.. further discussions on their web site will be censored.
...Notably absent from RAN's statement is any scientific evidence or quantification of FSC being "vastly superior". They fail to acknowledge conflicts of interests by certifiers and the slew of problematic certifications. ..For years RAN has even suggested first time industrial logging of primary and old-growth forests is "sustainable".
...Ecological Internet calls upon Rainforest Action Network to withdraw from FSC, ending their involvement in the destruction of the Earth's last primary rainforests and the climate. By doing so, they join the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, which has recently done so, and Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland, which has announced they no longer standby FSC and are reviewing their membership.
It is simply unacceptable that America's largest recipient of rainforest protection monies continues to support heavy industrial logging of ancient rainforests. If RAN does not withdraw from FSC, they can expect long, sustained protest including web sites urging members to cancel their support, and physical protests at their events. Sadly, this is necessary to put the RAINFOREST back in the action network.

whew! I recall RAN meetings in the 1980's in Sydney - those radical greenie guys must be long gone if RAN is now for the removal of big old trees, and against discussion thereof

HT to scoop,
scoop
This controversy/betrayal doesnt show up in the first few pages of Google ... somehow the googlefix is in
[googlefix = successful removal of controversial news fro first few pages of Google & Google News]

also see
climateark
May 5, 2008
Environmentalists Reject "Clean" Coal Greenwash (but not "Certified" Ancient Forest Logging)

What is so mystifying is why generally rigorous environmental groups like Greenpeace -- along with so many other groups including Rainforest Action Network -- are so visionary on coal while continuing to insist that logging of ancient forests, equally antiquated and damaging to not only the climate but also biodiversity, can be certified as being environmentally acceptable. The economic dislocation caused by ending ancient forest logging... would be much less than ending use of coal

And
earthmeanders

Greenpeace and others named promote and otherwise support (GP actually holds the head of the board of directors ) of FSC, the organization that has certified some 60-80 million hectares of primordial rainforest logging -- and wants to do so for 120-160 million more;

['holds the head of' as distinct from 'bring me the head of' ??]

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Burma's junta must have been reading Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine.
"The 2004 tsunami enabled the government of Sri Lanka to force the fishermen off beachfront property so it could be sold to hotel developers."
- if I was on the Irrawaddy Delta right now, I would gladly sign away my rights for a litre of drinking water.
A Grotesque standoff, whereby the Junta want videos of them dispensing aid, and the InternationalAidIndustry want their Logo's on the screen
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Chaitén volcano Chile
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Fisk on Beirut 5/9/2008 8:13AM
independent
Ironically, the Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora now rules – or tries to rule – his nation from a building which was once the Beirut cavalry stables of the Ottoman army.

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albawaba
Hizbullah has installed a private non-commercial fiber-optic land-line telephone network to provide secure communications between its leaders and the cadres. The network is extensive, stretching from Hizbullah's headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut to south Lebanon. Since the summer 2006 war with Israel, the system has spread further into the Bekaa Valley in the east and even into mainly Christian and Druze areas of the Mount Lebanon district, according to Marwan Hamade, the minister of telecommunications and a close ally of Mr. Jumblatt.
csmonitor
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Israel declared itself an independent state on 14 May 1948, three years after the end of World War II, and the death of six million Jews in the Holocaust.
Palestinians are due to mark the occasion, al-Nakba, on 15 May.

What amazes me is the existance of so many old Palestinian village sites, within 'Israel' but not used, simply abandoned. The Palestinian owners prevented from return

nytimes
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An Iraqi family look from the wreckage of their home in eastern Baghdad hit by an airstrike during clashes between Shia militiamen and Iraqi and US forces.
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At that difficult age of 59 when Virginia Woolf checked out
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DeSmogBlog manager Kevin Grandia emailed 122 of the scientists yesterday afternoon, calling their attention to the list. So far - in less than 24 hours - three dozen of those scientists had responded in outrage, denying that their research supports Avery's conclusions and demanding that their names be removed.
desmogblog
Heartland blame [credit?] DeSmogBlog with 'persuading' scientists to bale from the denialist paper (I havnt viewed it, its pdf, so doesnt respond to searches ... how naf is pdf, how great that denialists use crapp technology
desmogblog
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Now:
Blue Whales, cold seas more CCN (Cloud Condensation Nucleii)

Gaias biggest pet, Gaia loves cold seas?
... 30 Ma, the first toothless baleen whales .. Right whales 20 Ma, and rorqual-like .. 15 Ma.


Right Old Whales
.. rare bowhead whales ...can outlive humans by generations—..one male pushing 200 years old.
"About 5 percent of the population is over a hundred years old and in some cases 160 to 180 years old," said Jeffrey Bada, a marine chemist at the Scripps Institution - seems that some Rights are turning up (sic) with stone harpoon heads.
nationalgeographic


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Then:
Brachiosaurs, hot dead seas, less CCN - Gaia's previous love affair with tree ferns and 60 Ton herbivores

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nationalgeographic
pictures

Royal Albatross Adolescents break dancing
{most pics are bigger if right clicked & 'view image']
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nationalgeographic




When I visited the eagle centre, a couple of hours from Davao, in 1988, the keeper hadnt perfected the breeding. They were getting a few parthenogenic chicks, but they are not fertile (birds parthenogenic progeny are male I think).
The big cage was rather grand, but not big enough for birds to mate on the wing, which was believed to be the only way. I recall one big female flying the length of the cage (60M?) and landing a few inches from my nose, a shock to the soul, I have the picture of her eye somewhere.
In those days in Mindanao, the PLA/communists were the declared problem, not AbuSayef as now. On the way to the centre we passed a patrol of skinny teens in tees with M16s. My companion dissuaded me from taking a picture. They were apparently the Army, uniforms not provided.
The bird keeper said he didnt mind giving a bit of rice occasionally to the NPA when they came by the centre, but he drew the line at lending them his truck. The Army has been firing shells over the cages, which disturbed the birds a lot.
The breeding problem was eventually solved, it involves sperm collection. A junior keeper dresses up in an eagle suit and the male swoops down... one of the more extreme jobs...

Back in the outskirts of Davao where I was staying with a poor family, lots of orchids, in the evening a jeep came down the lane - the Christian Militia ("Iliwag" - Visayan for rats, they called themselves) they asked me if I liked communists. I cravenly replied that I had met any.

Rainforest Action Network, Hizbullah, al-Nakba, Royal Albatross, Pithecophaga jefferyi

Heartland, Peak Oil

Last year, the Heartland Institute (a US climate-change denial thinktank) published a list of 500 scientists they say disagree with the central theses of anthropogenic global warming (that the climate is changing and that it's our fault)... The five New Zealand scientists listed today took the extraordinary step of issuing a joint press release demanding to be removed:

\Associate Professor Chris Hendy (University of Waikato), Dr Matt McGlone (Science Team Leader, Landcare Research), Dr Neville Moar (retired DSIR,), Dr Jim Salinger (Principal Scientist, NIWA) and Dr Peter Wardle (retired DSIR, FRSNZ). Other eminent scientists around the world, also included in the list of 500, have publically distanced themselves from the Heartland statement

niwa
scoop
Good to see my old high-school buddy Matt McGlone getting himself off that list
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Exon funded 'think-tanks' anti-AGCC - quite a scary chart
exxonsecrets
How many lying pseudo-science 'institutes' can $40B profit fund?
With Oil companies making record profits, we might expect a 'plateau' rather than a 'peak' in oil. Plateaus have a steeper eventual fall.
But Exxon's greed (Oil is $122 today) and the fundamental inability to support decency in eg Nigeria and Iraq, mean that the ride down is on.
Some things (North Sea Unions? Saud family?) may be to some extent beyond Exxon's control?

Its not clear why so much effort is put into obfuscating carbon-climatechange, whereas much less propaganda seems around against Peak Oil which is a more immanent danger.
Somehow Peak Oil hasn't caught in the public imagination, so less counter-propaganda required?
There must have been a successful campaign, which we just cant discern, to marginalise PO.
Oddly with Texas crude at $122 the popular reaction, such as it is, seems to be
1) the Oil Companies could lower the prices
2) the Govt should lower taxes on petrol
3) we oughta delay carbon-capping-trading mechanisms on petrol

now, 3) has just been announced (NZ)
1) and 2) are true, to the extent that profits and taxes, rising at fixed proportions, are much higher now. But all 3 claims amount to abandoning 'Market' signals.
If we are going to abandon the Market, we oughta just promulgate oil saving decrees. eg 30kW power limit on cars......


For those who have just joined: PO is not about the end of oil, its about the end of Cheap oil.
All the nifty replacements; algae, solarcells, battery cars, are fine, its just that they are not Cheap, so they involve a different sort of civilization.



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cenospheres. The microscopic spheres can form only when fossil hydrocarbons such as coal and crude oil burn. The team reports in the May issue of Geology that it found cenospheres at eight of 13 sites it examined around the world, and the objects were present only at the K-T boundary, not above or below it. [Dinosaurs drove SUVs???]
sciencemag
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nasa
"We have more planes"
over USA
Heartland,Oil

Nargis, Clouds, Methane, Keith Haring,

nasa
Nargis Burma floods - a huge amount of Burma underwater
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ABSENCE OF CLOUDS CAUSED PRE-HUMAN SUPERGREENHOUSE PERIODS

In a world without human-produced pollution, biological productivity controls cloud formation and may be the lever that caused supergreenhouse episodes during the Cetaceous and Eocene, according to Penn State paleoclimatologists.
.. the Cretaceious and Eocene atmosphere never exceeded 4x the current CO2 level, which is not enough for the models to create supergreenhouse conditions. .. Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, looked for another way .. where mean annual temperatures in the tropics were above 100°F °F and polar temperatures were ca 50°F Changing the Earth's albedo – .. by changing cloud cover will produce supergreenhouse.. (April 11) issue of Science.
Normal cloud cover reflects about 30% of the sun's energy .. looking for a scenario that allowed in 6 to 10% more sunlight.
..human generated aerosols, pollutants, serve as cloud condensation nuclei," ..
Today, the air contains 1,000..cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) in a cc.. Pristine ocean areas ..algae produce dimethylsulfide that eventually becomes the CCNs of sulfuric acid or methane sulfonic acid.
Algae's productivity depends on .. nutrients.. come to the surface by upwelling.. Warming would lead to ocean stratification and less upwelling.
"The Cetaceous was biologically unproductive due to less upwelling in the ocean and thermal stress on land and in the sea," says Kump. "That means fewer cloud condensation nuclei."
What they found was that the clouds were less bright and that there were also fewer clouds. If they lowered the production of biogenic CCNs too much, their model created a world with remarkable warming inconsistent with life. However, they could alter the productivity in the model to recreate the temperature regime during supergreenhouse events.
"The model reduces cloud cover from about 64% to 55% which lets in a large amount of direct sunlight,".
nasa
April 10, 2008
[looks like increasing clouds may be the easiest way to cool the Earth]
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Methane
.. the first glacial/interglacial record of the carbon isotopic composition of methane (?13CH4)..
Glacial concentration.. 350 ppbv ... 700 ppbv during the last glacial/interglacial transition superimposed by rapid shifts of.. 200 ppbv ..
..human methane emissions..CH4 concentrations to .. 1750 ppbv.

..tropical wetlands emitted substantially less CH4 during glacials; most likely caused by changes in monsoonal.. Together with a reduced atmospheric lifetime, this explains major parts of the glacial CH4 reduction. In addition, boreal methane sources located in wetlands .. switched off during the glacial ..However, ..quickly reactivated when rapid climate warming
..forest fires emit a considerable amount of CH4,..surprisingly constant over time.
..no signs of CH4 emissions by a destabilization of marine gas hydrate reservoirs when climate was warming..

.. .European Science Foundation (ESF), EPICA .
nasa
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youtube
vulcan project video CO₂ pumping out of USA
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Marijuana may block Alzheimer's
...Dr Susanne Sorensen
...a dramatically reduced functioning of cannabinoid receptors in diseased brain tissue.
.. effect of cannabinoids on rats injected with the amyloid p.rotein that forms Alzheimer's plaques.
Those animals who were also given a dose of a cannabinoid performed much better in tests of their mental functioning.
..rats that also received the cannabinoid showed no sign of microglia activation.
Using cell cultures, the researchers confirmed that cannabinoids counteracted the activation of microglia and thus reduced inflammation.

Drug target
Researcher Dr Maria de Ceballos said: "These findings that cannabinoids work both to prevent inflammation and to protect the brain may set the stage for their use as a therapeutic approach for Alzheimer's disease."
22 February, 2005

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youtube
Keith Haring
In 1980 on the A train I noticed these chalk drawings, done on the black paper placed over expired ads in the subway stations.
I planned to photo these barking dogs and radiant children, but got sidetracked. What a brilliant calendar thay would have made


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PSUSENNES I,
what ease, or unease underscores this perfection?



TUTANKHAMUN’S GOLDEN SANDALS



xkcd gets weird


LHC (large picture of)
via
nasa

Nargis, Clouds, Methane, Keith Haring

Cllimate Change, Waihopai , Rice, Colossal Squid

Global Warming has been cancelled:
...just kidding, folks. What this may mean is that absent record high temperatures soon, Climate Change campaigns may well falter. Which leaves us with the much more immanent Peak Oil crisis, the fear of which is causing food riots right now, even after a high global grain crop.
It seems civilization will fall due to fear of oil shortages, long before the crops wither they will lack trucks, or be converted to chimpy's ethanol.

we make the following forecast: over the next decade, the current Atlantic meridional overturning circulation will weaken to its long-term mean; moreover, North Atlantic SST and European and North American surface temperatures will cool slightly, whereas tropical Pacific SST will remain almost unchanged. Our results suggest that global surface temperature may not increase over the next decade, as natural climate variations in the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic warming.
Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector
N. S. Keenlyside1, M. Latif1, J. Jungclaus2, L. Kornblueh2 & E. Roeckner2

nature
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Felt my first home-coming earthquake
# Reference Number: 2902957# NZST: Sat, May 3 2008 3:12 am# Magnitude: 4.0# Depth: 30 km# Details: 10 km west of Porirua
Only 2 seconds, but I definitely got shook...
geonet
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BLENHEIM, New Zealand, April 30 Waihopai spy base on a foggy night
Anzac Ploughshares spokesperson Manu Caddie said the three used wire cutters to cut through an electrified fence and razor wire, then evaded motion sensors before deflating the dome covering the satellite.
dishes.
Dominican Friar Father Peter Murnane, organic gardener Adrian Leason and Hokianga farmer Sam Land.

"Waihopai is not a US base but forms part of a US-led global intelligence sharing network known as the UKUSA alliance."
aka "echelon" - the absurd response of authority here is that Waihope doesnt collect NZ phone/emails. Only 'other nations' - so The Aussies collect ours from Intelsat 703 and its all sent to Room 641A in Folsom Street,
"ironically, using violent means to disable warplanes and military equipment. (NZHerald)"

- Nothing ironic here, the NZHerald evidently doesn't grasp the concept of non-violence. The only irony perhaps, is that the Dominicans 16th century were the torturers for the inquisition, and destroyers of indigenous cultures.
Father Murnane is redeeming this history by this magnificent act against the USA war machine. NZ is one of the very few nations that has no USA bases or ship visite, but some bases are local in name only.



Two 2m cuts were sufficient to deflate the dome. - the cost is claimed as $1M - perhaps its a Haliburton no-bid replacement? why not $20 of rubber cement, the cuts were presumably low, at the horizon level for the dish
fas
scoop

one word people: PGP. Actually since intercepts are kept based on automated key-words, any simple cipher would do.
Yesterday I heard someone tallkng on RNZ about Blackberrys, or rather he said "we wont talk about that", when the interviewer mentioned encryption.
So Balckberries are encrypted. It would be interesting to know if its more effective than GSM phones, which are almost real-time breakable, its said.
Blackberry state "Data remains encrypted in transit and is never decrypted outside of the corporate firewall." ... who would trust 'TotalInformationAwareness" not to suborn that corporate firewall. ie it seems you have to trust the key that youre given. I have no idea what users are doing vs point-to-point. I dont know how open theBerry OS is.
Blackberry also say
blackberry
"End-to-End Mode connections most appropriate for applications where only the transaction end-points are trusted."
which sounds good.

freeprotocols claim that BBerry being closed OS, cant be secure, but mobiletracker claims that "While there will be an extra cost associated with the service, PGP provides sender-to-recipient email security in the form of high-grade public key encryption." which sounds great. Caveat: I have never laid eyes on a BBerry.

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wordpress
Global rice stocks have halved since hitting a record high in 2001 while demand is continuing to rise
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RP, Philippines
The government aims to achieve 92.38-% sufficiency in rice production this year, rough rice production is projected 17.32 million metric tons.

..yield 4.04 metric tons per hectare from 3.07 metric tons in 2000. And rice production reached a record 16.24 million metric tons last year..
manilastandardtoday
RP spends $1.6B on rice subsidies, hoping to keep those 84M people quiet
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In Asia rice prices have almost tripled this year alone

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Russia is doing too little to reverse a critical decline in its population driven by increasing alcohol abuse, poor diet and social change, a United Nations report said. Karl Kulessa, the United Nations Population Fund’s chief in Russia, said Russia’s population could fall to 100 million, from 142 million, in 40 to 50 years. Russia lost 400,000 to 650,000 people a year from 1992 to 2006. Life expectancy for men among the population of 142 million was 55 years in the 1990s,
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"Ahmadinejad examined a carbon rotor for a new generation of centrifuges known as the IR-2,"
I hope this is a demo model.. The NYT goes on to say that some rotors failed due to imbalance from bacteria from ungloved workers hands.
- a terrific series of pics in the NYT, rubbing the USA's nose in it.
nytimes
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New Lead Level in USA
On Thursday, the E.P.A. proposed a standard between 0.1 and 0.3 micrograms per cubic meter, or one-5th to one-15th of the old level.

Senator Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat who is chairwoman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, said the proposed standard was not strict enough to protect children. “Once again, the Bush administration has failed to heed its scientists,” Mrs. Boxer said.
NYT
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yet another herb I've never smokled:
Subjective effects of Salvia divinorum
ncbi
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Collosal Squid thawes in Te Papa. Some disappointment it wasnt '20000 leagues' big but I got impressed by the rotating teeth on its tentacles
Te Papa webcams at
r2
- I havnt seen them, my phone bill is unpaid so my bandwidth is choked
Change, Waihopai , Rice, Squid,

Monsamto, Miley, xkcd, LHC

Even as the company is pushing its G.M. agenda, Monsanto is buying up conventional-seed companies. In 2005, Monsanto paid $1.4 billion for Seminis, which controlled 40 percent of the U.S. market for lettuce, tomatoes, and other vegetable and fruit seeds. Two weeks later it announced the acquisition of the country’s third-largest cottonseed company, Emergent Genetics, for $300 million. It’s estimated that Monsanto seeds now account for 90 percent of the U.S. production of soybeans...the largest seed company in the world.
[what happened to Cargills?]
vanityfair
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Miley
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xkcd
Hamiltonian
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xkcd
cinema

xkcd
crypto


Feynman

xkcd
dreaming

xkcd
Hamiltonian



pi


losanjealous

The Nietzsche Family Circus on war
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Professor Dr. Otto E. Roessler, Theorist Dr. Raj Baldev and others are warning of a very real, very possible, very present danger to the planet from the Large Hadron Collider.
wired
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Monsamto, Miley, xkcd, LHC

Fongoli chimp, Patti Smith, Eric Kande, Pepe Escobar

Meanwhile, Tumbo nonchalantly continues on her way, stopping frequently to eat (as is typical for her - I swear she eats more than any chimp I know!), seemingly without a care in the world for these 8 guys following her around. She does pay them a bit of attention at times, if you get my drift, but I wanted to write today about something else the males were very interested in.
One thing that makes the Fongoli chimps unique, compared to chimpanzee communities that have been studied elsewhere, is that they use caves for resting, feeding and socializing during the hottest times of the year
Jill Pruetz

Senegal Chimps in thet news:
(actually data from 2007, just now in Nat Geog.)
google

40 year old, too old to hunt, survives by cracking open fruit


They also cool off in caves


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bbc
the journal Current Biology.
.. 22 cases of chimps fashioning tools to jab at smaller primates sheltering in cavities of hollow branches or tree trunks.

The report's authors, Jill Pruetz and Paco Bertolani..Fongoli, Senegal, between March 2005 and July 2006.
..13 different hunting bouts. So it really is habitual."

Adolescent females exhibited the behaviour most frequently..n one case, Pruetz and Bertolani, from the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies in Cambridge, UK, witnessed a chimpanzee extract a bushbaby with a spear.

..Some chimps also sharpened the tip of the tool with their teeth.
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neurophilosophy
and tiling patterns
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pbs
ape genius
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nationalgeographic
the_hunting_chimpanzees

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Greene on Strings
brian_greene
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dreamoflifethemovie
Patti Smith
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Eric Kandel who won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning and memory in the sea slug Aplysia californica.
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Al Sadr interview via Pepe Escobar a top journo
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Jellyfish explosion...
searchforvideo

Fongoli chimp, Patti Smith, Eric Kande, Pepe Escobar

Anzac day, Armenian Genocide Day, Song of Roland, El Cid, Dolly Gray, Hojatoleslam Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr, Hayaniya

Anzac Day 2008
Why glorify those young men who followed Churchill's Anatolian adventurist folley? For that matter why are we now so chummy with Turkey, no mentioning of April 24,Armenian Genocide Day
Why glorify those thugs who volunteered for USA's invasion of Vietnam?

Did the 39-45 affair produce freedom?
The two men who did most to win it were hounded to death. Without the code-breaking of Alan Turing, Rommel would have swept over the desert rats to Cairo. Turing Saved 2 years of European war, was hounded to suicide aged 42, because of his sexual orientation. Robert Oppenheimer managed the A-Bomb, saved 2 years of the Pacific War. Hounded out of Govt service because of pinko friends. Smoked 40 cigs a day, throat cancer at 62.
More Freedoms were won in the Cultural Rev. 67-76 Paris, Berkely, Shanghai, etc by dint of dropping out, than by lead and steel.

Says Oliver: "Companion, I beliee,
Sarrazins now in battle must we meet."
Answers Rollanz :"God grant us then the fee!

Song of Roland 1098
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How we are weary of heroes, Roland
or Ruy Díaz de Vivar (El Cid) (the honourific, if derived from Sayyid is surely unwarranted)

"In 1081, El Cid, now a mercenary, offered his services to the Moorish king of the northeast Al-Andaluz city of Zaragoza, Yusuf al-Mutamin, and served both him and his successor, Al-Mustain II."

[Yusuf al-Mutamin wrote a treatise on the measurement of the parabola. He wrote Kitab al-Istikmal ( Book of Perfection) on mathematics.
Beat that Charlton Heston.
Yusuf al-Mutamin was the son of the previous ruler, Ahmad ibn Sulayman al-Muqtadir, name ring a bell?]

[El Cid's sword Tizona, on display in La Real Armería Madrid, tested positive for Damascus steel]
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from
llizo
a blog favouring Charlton Heston anf the Tridentine Rite

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While weary of Anzac day, lets not forget.
Especially my grandfather Lewis, who went off to fight the Boers, and 60 years later called his wife Anastasia by the pet name "Dolly"

I have come to say goodbye, Dolly Gray,
It's no use to ask me why, Dolly Gray,
There's a murmur in the air, you can hear it everywhere,
It's the time to do and dare, Dolly Gray.


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As of last Saturday 20Apr the USACoalition seems to be in Ayaaniya, Basra

air and artillery strikes by American and British forces cleared the way for Iraqi troops to move into the Hayaniya district
nytimes
"It was a hard day for us. The sounds of the bombs were terrifying the children and women, from morning until this afternoon," said Radhi Daraji, a Hayaniya resident. By late Saturday, he said, the situation was calm, but most Mahdi Army members had fled the previous night after getting wind of the offensive. "All of them escaped to outside Hayaniya."
nytimes

Hojatoleslam Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr, has threatened an uprising, The Iranians may prefer him to stay in Qom. However they dont like the wall the USA are building in Sadr City, so the Mahdi Army may rise again
rferl

Anzac day, Armenian Genocide Day, Song of Roland, El Cid, Dolly Gray, Hojatoleslam Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr, Hayaniya