I have a strange question, or problem, relating to the toyrun this year.
I'll end up posting everything in due course, but i've got a problem planning a mass ride, where certain people are expected to behave badly.
Perhaps you have ideas that can help .... i'd like to get ideas before i shoot my mouth off here :D
peace
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Monday, 28 September 2009
911
OK so i need to post, something anything i guess. As ever, so much to say, which comes first, last, not at all?
Now a lot has happened in the news, from the sublime to the ridiculous. And while there is much that impacts me, and us, i feel no desire to say anything about it.
Remarkably little in my personal life, except teeth and pain. They have become synonymous in my mind :)
There is a small series of incidences worth mentioning though, and i hesitate to mention it, due to the "nut factor" involved ... i offer only as a small personal experience, true to myself and myself alone.
So i have a cell phone, as most of us do, except mine is problematic, and annoying, so mostly it lies in a corner with it's power off. It's useful for two things mostly, telling time, since i do not wear a watch, and reporting to me who has tried to contact me.
So in a typical day, i'll maybe look at the phone 3 times maximum. So imagine my surprise, when 4 times in one week, i pick up the phone, and it shows me the time as, you guessed it, 9:11.
I've read about this phenomenon, and as i said, it carries a nut factor. But what do you do, when you pick up the phone at night, and it says 911, and the next morning, cheking sms's, you notice it says 9:11. When it happens four times in one week, well that is strange, strange for any time, if it had said 9h15 every time, it would be as strange. But it hasn't been something arbitrary, it's been 911, the magic numbers.
I have no opinion on this. I am very specifically not having an opinion. Due a google search on this phenomenon, there is plenty about it. The fact that i experienced it is well ... odd.
Peace and love
Now a lot has happened in the news, from the sublime to the ridiculous. And while there is much that impacts me, and us, i feel no desire to say anything about it.
Remarkably little in my personal life, except teeth and pain. They have become synonymous in my mind :)
There is a small series of incidences worth mentioning though, and i hesitate to mention it, due to the "nut factor" involved ... i offer only as a small personal experience, true to myself and myself alone.
So i have a cell phone, as most of us do, except mine is problematic, and annoying, so mostly it lies in a corner with it's power off. It's useful for two things mostly, telling time, since i do not wear a watch, and reporting to me who has tried to contact me.
So in a typical day, i'll maybe look at the phone 3 times maximum. So imagine my surprise, when 4 times in one week, i pick up the phone, and it shows me the time as, you guessed it, 9:11.
I've read about this phenomenon, and as i said, it carries a nut factor. But what do you do, when you pick up the phone at night, and it says 911, and the next morning, cheking sms's, you notice it says 9:11. When it happens four times in one week, well that is strange, strange for any time, if it had said 9h15 every time, it would be as strange. But it hasn't been something arbitrary, it's been 911, the magic numbers.
I have no opinion on this. I am very specifically not having an opinion. Due a google search on this phenomenon, there is plenty about it. The fact that i experienced it is well ... odd.
Peace and love
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Justice Goldstone, i salute you
New York Times Op-Ed
Pursuing justice in this case is essential because no state or armed group should be above the law. Western governments in particular face a challenge because they have pushed for accountability in places like Darfur, but now must do the same with Israel, an ally and a democratic state.
[edit] The Jewish Week
The Obama administration is ready to use the U.S. veto at the U.N. Security Council to deal with any other "difficulties" arising out of the report, the White House official said Wednesday.
Pursuing justice in this case is essential because no state or armed group should be above the law. Western governments in particular face a challenge because they have pushed for accountability in places like Darfur, but now must do the same with Israel, an ally and a democratic state.
[edit] The Jewish Week
The Obama administration is ready to use the U.S. veto at the U.N. Security Council to deal with any other "difficulties" arising out of the report, the White House official said Wednesday.
SUNSPOTS!!
I heard about it a few days ago, the big one in the bottom left corner. It was there, just not visible to us. But wow, it's nice and big. There also appear to be 2/3 smaller ones scattered.
Enjoy the energy rush people ;D
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Song of the Sausage Creature
by Hunter S. Thompson
There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them - but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one. That is why they are dangerous.
Everybody has fast motorcycles these days. Some people go 150 miles an hour on two-lane blacktop roads, but not often. There are too many oncoming trucks and too many radar cops and too many stupid animals in the way. You have to be a little crazy to ride these super-torque high-speed crotch rockets anywhere except a racetrack - and even there, they will scare the whimpering shit out of you... There is, after all, not a pig's eye worth of difference between going head-on into a Peterbilt or sideways into the bleachers. On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
When Cycle World called me to ask if I would road-test the new Harley Road King, I got uppity and said I'd rather have a Ducati superbike. It seemed like a chic decision at the time, and my friends on the superbike circuit got very excited. "Hot damn," they said. "We will take it to the track and blow the bastards away."
"Balls," I said. "Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers."
The Cafe Racer is a different breed, and we have our own situations. Pure speed in sixth gear on a 5000-foot straightaway is one thing, but pure speed in third gear on a gravel-strewn downhill ess-turn is quite another.
But we like it. A thoroughbred Cafe Racer will ride all night through a fog storm in freeway traffic to put himself into what somebody told him was the ugliest and tightest decreasing-radius turn since Genghis Khan invented the corkscrew.
...
Hot damn, go read, THIS is the shit!!!! :-D
There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them - but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one. That is why they are dangerous.
Everybody has fast motorcycles these days. Some people go 150 miles an hour on two-lane blacktop roads, but not often. There are too many oncoming trucks and too many radar cops and too many stupid animals in the way. You have to be a little crazy to ride these super-torque high-speed crotch rockets anywhere except a racetrack - and even there, they will scare the whimpering shit out of you... There is, after all, not a pig's eye worth of difference between going head-on into a Peterbilt or sideways into the bleachers. On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
When Cycle World called me to ask if I would road-test the new Harley Road King, I got uppity and said I'd rather have a Ducati superbike. It seemed like a chic decision at the time, and my friends on the superbike circuit got very excited. "Hot damn," they said. "We will take it to the track and blow the bastards away."
"Balls," I said. "Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers."
The Cafe Racer is a different breed, and we have our own situations. Pure speed in sixth gear on a 5000-foot straightaway is one thing, but pure speed in third gear on a gravel-strewn downhill ess-turn is quite another.
But we like it. A thoroughbred Cafe Racer will ride all night through a fog storm in freeway traffic to put himself into what somebody told him was the ugliest and tightest decreasing-radius turn since Genghis Khan invented the corkscrew.
...
Hot damn, go read, THIS is the shit!!!! :-D
Monday, 21 September 2009
Why I Threw the Shoe
From: InformationClearingHouse
I am no hero. I just acted as an Iraqi who witnessed the pain and bloodshed of too many innocents - Muntazer al-Zaidi
By Muntazer al-Zaidi
September 19, 2009 "The Guardian" -- I am free. But my country is still a prisoner of war. There has been a lot of talk about the action and about the person who took it, and about the hero and the heroic act, and the symbol and the symbolic act. But, simply, I answer: what compelled me to act is the injustice that befell my people, and how the occupation wanted to humiliate my homeland by putting it under its boot.
Over recent years, more than a million martyrs have fallen by the bullets of the occupation and Iraq is now filled with more than five million orphans, a million widows and hundreds of thousands of maimed. Many millions are homeless inside and outside the country.
We used to be a nation in which the Arab would share with the Turkman and the Kurd and the Assyrian and the Sabean and the Yazid his daily bread. And the Shia would pray with the Sunni in one line. And the Muslim would celebrate with the Christian the birthday of Christ. This despite the fact that we shared hunger under sanctions for more than a decade.
Our patience and our solidarity did not make us forget the oppression. But the invasion divided brother from brother, neighbour from neighbour. It turned our homes into funeral tents.
I am not a hero. But I have a point of view. I have a stance. It humiliated me to see my country humiliated; and to see my Baghdad burned, my people killed. Thousands of tragic pictures remained in my head, pushing me towards the path of confrontation. The scandal of Abu Ghraib. The massacre of Falluja, Najaf, Haditha, Sadr City, Basra, Diyala, Mosul, Tal Afar, and every inch of our wounded land. I travelled through my burning land and saw with my own eyes the pain of the victims, and heard with my own ears the screams of the orphans and the bereaved. And a feeling of shame haunted me like an ugly name because I was powerless.
As soon as I finished my professional duties in reporting the daily tragedies, while I washed away the remains of the debris of the ruined Iraqi houses, or the blood that stained my clothes, I would clench my teeth and make a pledge to our victims, a pledge of vengeance.
The opportunity came, and I took it.
I took it out of loyalty to every drop of innocent blood that has been shed through the occupation or because of it, every scream of a bereaved mother, every moan of an orphan, the sorrow of a rape victim, the teardrop of an orphan.
I say to those who reproach me: do you know how many broken homes that shoe which I threw had entered? How many times it had trodden over the blood of innocent victims? Maybe that shoe was the appropriate response when all values were violated.
When I threw the shoe in the face of the criminal, George Bush, I wanted to express my rejection of his lies, his occupation of my country, my rejection of his killing my people. My rejection of his plundering the wealth of my country, and destroying its infrastructure. And casting out its sons into a diaspora.
If I have wronged journalism without intention, because of the professional embarrassment I caused the establishment, I apologise. All that I meant to do was express with a living conscience the feelings of a citizen who sees his homeland desecrated every day. The professionalism mourned by some under the auspices of the occupation should not have a voice louder than the voice of patriotism. And if patriotism needs to speak out, then professionalism should be allied with it.
I didn't do this so my name would enter history or for material gains. All I wanted was to defend my country.
© 2009 Guardian News and Media Limited
I am no hero. I just acted as an Iraqi who witnessed the pain and bloodshed of too many innocents - Muntazer al-Zaidi
By Muntazer al-Zaidi
September 19, 2009 "The Guardian" -- I am free. But my country is still a prisoner of war. There has been a lot of talk about the action and about the person who took it, and about the hero and the heroic act, and the symbol and the symbolic act. But, simply, I answer: what compelled me to act is the injustice that befell my people, and how the occupation wanted to humiliate my homeland by putting it under its boot.
Over recent years, more than a million martyrs have fallen by the bullets of the occupation and Iraq is now filled with more than five million orphans, a million widows and hundreds of thousands of maimed. Many millions are homeless inside and outside the country.
We used to be a nation in which the Arab would share with the Turkman and the Kurd and the Assyrian and the Sabean and the Yazid his daily bread. And the Shia would pray with the Sunni in one line. And the Muslim would celebrate with the Christian the birthday of Christ. This despite the fact that we shared hunger under sanctions for more than a decade.
Our patience and our solidarity did not make us forget the oppression. But the invasion divided brother from brother, neighbour from neighbour. It turned our homes into funeral tents.
I am not a hero. But I have a point of view. I have a stance. It humiliated me to see my country humiliated; and to see my Baghdad burned, my people killed. Thousands of tragic pictures remained in my head, pushing me towards the path of confrontation. The scandal of Abu Ghraib. The massacre of Falluja, Najaf, Haditha, Sadr City, Basra, Diyala, Mosul, Tal Afar, and every inch of our wounded land. I travelled through my burning land and saw with my own eyes the pain of the victims, and heard with my own ears the screams of the orphans and the bereaved. And a feeling of shame haunted me like an ugly name because I was powerless.
As soon as I finished my professional duties in reporting the daily tragedies, while I washed away the remains of the debris of the ruined Iraqi houses, or the blood that stained my clothes, I would clench my teeth and make a pledge to our victims, a pledge of vengeance.
The opportunity came, and I took it.
I took it out of loyalty to every drop of innocent blood that has been shed through the occupation or because of it, every scream of a bereaved mother, every moan of an orphan, the sorrow of a rape victim, the teardrop of an orphan.
I say to those who reproach me: do you know how many broken homes that shoe which I threw had entered? How many times it had trodden over the blood of innocent victims? Maybe that shoe was the appropriate response when all values were violated.
When I threw the shoe in the face of the criminal, George Bush, I wanted to express my rejection of his lies, his occupation of my country, my rejection of his killing my people. My rejection of his plundering the wealth of my country, and destroying its infrastructure. And casting out its sons into a diaspora.
If I have wronged journalism without intention, because of the professional embarrassment I caused the establishment, I apologise. All that I meant to do was express with a living conscience the feelings of a citizen who sees his homeland desecrated every day. The professionalism mourned by some under the auspices of the occupation should not have a voice louder than the voice of patriotism. And if patriotism needs to speak out, then professionalism should be allied with it.
I didn't do this so my name would enter history or for material gains. All I wanted was to defend my country.
© 2009 Guardian News and Media Limited
Friday, 18 September 2009
Russian Submarines
A short while ago i posted some pictures of some strange ice circles in Lake Baikal in Siberia. I can't find my post, but these Nasa images give the story.
Imagine my surprise yesterday while reading Pravda (in english) to come across the following information:
"The expedition to Lake Baikal started in 2008. This summer, researchers sought new species of flora and fauna, and dove down more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) to the deepest point of the lake, near Olkhon Island.
At the beginning of the summer, Mir-1 and Mir-2 worked in the southern part of the lake, and in early August the expedition moved to Baikal's north, where gas hydrates, cristalline solids where large amounts of methane are trapped within a cage of water molecules, were found. Gas hydrates are considered a possible alternative fuel."
The story relates to their next mission in the Atlantic, including the wreck of the Titanic. Very cool submarines i have to admit.
But beteen them, and the neutron telescope, Lake Baikal is a VERY busy place it seems. Pretty place too.
Imagine my surprise yesterday while reading Pravda (in english) to come across the following information:
"The expedition to Lake Baikal started in 2008. This summer, researchers sought new species of flora and fauna, and dove down more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) to the deepest point of the lake, near Olkhon Island.
At the beginning of the summer, Mir-1 and Mir-2 worked in the southern part of the lake, and in early August the expedition moved to Baikal's north, where gas hydrates, cristalline solids where large amounts of methane are trapped within a cage of water molecules, were found. Gas hydrates are considered a possible alternative fuel."
The story relates to their next mission in the Atlantic, including the wreck of the Titanic. Very cool submarines i have to admit.
But beteen them, and the neutron telescope, Lake Baikal is a VERY busy place it seems. Pretty place too.
Thursday, 17 September 2009
I can't resist :D
1. The roundest knight at king Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
3. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
6. No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.
7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, ‘You stay here, I’ll go on a head.’
14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: ‘Keep off the Grass.’
16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, ‘No change yet.’
17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
18. It’s not that the man did not know how to juggle, he just didn’t have the balls to do it.
19. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
20. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
21. A backward poet writes inverse.
22. In democracy it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count that votes.
23. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
24. Don’t join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects!
4, 15 and 24 .... absolute classics!!!
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
3. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.
6. No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.
7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, ‘You stay here, I’ll go on a head.’
14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: ‘Keep off the Grass.’
16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, ‘No change yet.’
17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
18. It’s not that the man did not know how to juggle, he just didn’t have the balls to do it.
19. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
20. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
21. A backward poet writes inverse.
22. In democracy it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count that votes.
23. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.
24. Don’t join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects!
4, 15 and 24 .... absolute classics!!!
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
The Tytler Cycle
The Tytler Cycle is a theory of democracies formulated by the Scottish historian Alexander Tytler that states:
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”
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Now i know whats wrong with south africa The average cycle is 200 years. We've burned through this in about 20 years. We are already at "apathy".
The US is due for collapse. Overdue, i should say. But in my reading there seems to be a cut off date for all the BS that side. September 30th. Fiscal year end.
China has given the go-ahead for companies to NOT honour derivatives. Japan and China are siding together against the states, in what can only be described as economic war. It's on. Obama capped trade on a number of chinese items, including steel and rubber. China is pissed off. Really.
And on another front, the state archives of russia were attacked earlier this month. 15 minutes is all it took for whatever special forces troops to reach the centre, and start attacking the vault doors. Oh, did you know that was about 2 weeks after Isreal threatened Russia over the return of information relating to CIA/Mossad activities, including the recent hijack of a ship, and of course activities relating to 9-11, which i want to remind you was a mossad operation.
It's happening.
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”
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Now i know whats wrong with south africa The average cycle is 200 years. We've burned through this in about 20 years. We are already at "apathy".
The US is due for collapse. Overdue, i should say. But in my reading there seems to be a cut off date for all the BS that side. September 30th. Fiscal year end.
China has given the go-ahead for companies to NOT honour derivatives. Japan and China are siding together against the states, in what can only be described as economic war. It's on. Obama capped trade on a number of chinese items, including steel and rubber. China is pissed off. Really.
And on another front, the state archives of russia were attacked earlier this month. 15 minutes is all it took for whatever special forces troops to reach the centre, and start attacking the vault doors. Oh, did you know that was about 2 weeks after Isreal threatened Russia over the return of information relating to CIA/Mossad activities, including the recent hijack of a ship, and of course activities relating to 9-11, which i want to remind you was a mossad operation.
It's happening.
Betelgeuse Supernova?
Fox News Thursday, June 11, 2009
The nearby, well-known and very bright star may soon explode in a supernova, according to data released by U.C. Berkeley researchers Tuesday.
The red giant Betelgeuse, once so large it would reach out to Jupiter's orbit if placed in our own solar system, has shrunk by 15 percent over the past decade in a half, although it's just as bright as it's ever been.
"To see this change is very striking," said retired Berkeley physics professor Charles Townes, who won the 1964 Nobel Prize for inventing the laser. "We will be watching it carefully over the next few years to see if it will keep contracting or will go back up in size."
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The red giant ... estimates are, that if it does go supernova, it would be as brightas the full moon ... from 460 light years away. Techically it would already have happened. But of course, 460 years ago, kind of thing. What cannot be ignored is the massive amount of various radiation that is heading our way too.
Another very good soutrce of info:
scienceray.com
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Feast of the Cross
Wiki
In the Christian liturgical calendar, there are several different feasts known as Feasts of the Cross, all of which commemorate the cross used in the crucifixion of Jesus. While Good Friday is dedicated to the Passion of Christ and the Crucifixion, these days celebrate the cross itself, as the instrument of salvation.
The cross ...
In the Christian liturgical calendar, there are several different feasts known as Feasts of the Cross, all of which commemorate the cross used in the crucifixion of Jesus. While Good Friday is dedicated to the Passion of Christ and the Crucifixion, these days celebrate the cross itself, as the instrument of salvation.
The cross ...
Monday, 14 September 2009
Toothpaste
So i made my own toothpaste, since shop bought was obviously not doing much. After 1 weekend my teeth are NOTICABLY cleaner, and feel better too. I gave it to my family, without any warnings, just here, try this.
All were surprinsingly enthusiastic about it. Baby took about 2 seconds to pull te toothbrush out her mouth and told me "it's nice".
I'm stunned really. So simple easy and frankly obvious, why haven't i done this years ago?
Simple: Bicarbonate of soa, about 1 teaspoon, mix with a similar amount glycerine. 2 generous pinches of salt, and thats about it. I've added cinammon, which is also a good anti-bacterial, and a drop of honey, because i can, because it adds flavour and well hey why not.
I got some peppermint essence, i'd prefer oil but of course you can't find it in the shops, i'll have to dig. So i am now a toothpaste manufacturer, cool huh?
Try it.
All were surprinsingly enthusiastic about it. Baby took about 2 seconds to pull te toothbrush out her mouth and told me "it's nice".
I'm stunned really. So simple easy and frankly obvious, why haven't i done this years ago?
Simple: Bicarbonate of soa, about 1 teaspoon, mix with a similar amount glycerine. 2 generous pinches of salt, and thats about it. I've added cinammon, which is also a good anti-bacterial, and a drop of honey, because i can, because it adds flavour and well hey why not.
I got some peppermint essence, i'd prefer oil but of course you can't find it in the shops, i'll have to dig. So i am now a toothpaste manufacturer, cool huh?
Try it.
Friday, 11 September 2009
Justice
From: IOL
Taxi driver Percyval Matji foresaw the possibility of Bernadine Kruger being killed and persisted in his conduct with indifference to the fatal consequences, a Pretoria Regional Court magistrate yesterday ruled, and convicted Matji of murder.
State witnesses testified that Bernadine was driving in the left lane when the taxi came from behind at high speed, hooting continuously. She looked over her shoulder and in the mirror, put on the indicator, and moved to the right lane.
However, the taxi followed, still driving fast and hooting. Bernadine tried to swerve back to the left lane, but the taxi hit the scooter. She landed in front of the taxi. It drove over her head.
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It doesn't bring her back, but it does re-inforce the existance of basic law and order. I hope, that this prevents similar incidents in the future, such stupidity and carelessnes HAS to be stopped.
Taxi driver Percyval Matji foresaw the possibility of Bernadine Kruger being killed and persisted in his conduct with indifference to the fatal consequences, a Pretoria Regional Court magistrate yesterday ruled, and convicted Matji of murder.
State witnesses testified that Bernadine was driving in the left lane when the taxi came from behind at high speed, hooting continuously. She looked over her shoulder and in the mirror, put on the indicator, and moved to the right lane.
However, the taxi followed, still driving fast and hooting. Bernadine tried to swerve back to the left lane, but the taxi hit the scooter. She landed in front of the taxi. It drove over her head.
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It doesn't bring her back, but it does re-inforce the existance of basic law and order. I hope, that this prevents similar incidents in the future, such stupidity and carelessnes HAS to be stopped.
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Stone age tribe defends themselves
Against drunk fishermen .....
These guys should have known better, but they got drunk and their boat drifted over to the island. So the islanders did the only smart thing. Killed them and buried them on the beach.
Good for them.
Sydney morning Herald
"The Sentinelese, thought to number between 50 and 200, have rebuffed all contact with the modern world, firing a shower of arrows at anyone who comes within range."
These guys should have known better, but they got drunk and their boat drifted over to the island. So the islanders did the only smart thing. Killed them and buried them on the beach.
Good for them.
Sydney morning Herald
"The Sentinelese, thought to number between 50 and 200, have rebuffed all contact with the modern world, firing a shower of arrows at anyone who comes within range."
Grace
Hello sun.
Hello bird.
Hello my lady.
Hello breakfast. May I buy you again tomorrow?
Thank you Ian Anderson.
Hello bird.
Hello my lady.
Hello breakfast. May I buy you again tomorrow?
Thank you Ian Anderson.
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Doggy wisdom
If a dog were your teacher these are some of the lessons you might learn…
When loved ones come home, always run to greet them
Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride
Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure ecstasy
When it’s in your best interest practice obedience
Let others know when they’ve invaded your territory
Take naps and stretch before rising
Run romp and play daily
Thrive on attention and let people touch you
Avoid biting, when a simple growl will do
On warm days stop to lie on your back on the grass
On hot days drink lots of water and lay under a shady tree
When you’re happy dance around and wag your entire body
No matter how often you’re scolded don’t buy into the guilt thing and pout
Run right back and make friends
Delight in the simple joy of a long walk
Eat with gusto and enthusiasm
Stop when you have had enough
Be loyal
Never pretend to be something you’re not
If what you want lies buried dig until you find it
When someone is having a bad day
be silent …..
…sit close by.
…and nuzzle them gently.
Thank you to Ara and Spirit for this. Oasis of my Soul
When loved ones come home, always run to greet them
Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride
Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure ecstasy
When it’s in your best interest practice obedience
Let others know when they’ve invaded your territory
Take naps and stretch before rising
Run romp and play daily
Thrive on attention and let people touch you
Avoid biting, when a simple growl will do
On warm days stop to lie on your back on the grass
On hot days drink lots of water and lay under a shady tree
When you’re happy dance around and wag your entire body
No matter how often you’re scolded don’t buy into the guilt thing and pout
Run right back and make friends
Delight in the simple joy of a long walk
Eat with gusto and enthusiasm
Stop when you have had enough
Be loyal
Never pretend to be something you’re not
If what you want lies buried dig until you find it
When someone is having a bad day
be silent …..
…sit close by.
…and nuzzle them gently.
Thank you to Ara and Spirit for this. Oasis of my Soul
South Africa Medically Speaking
Among other issues highlighted in the The Lancet online on August 25, 2009, are the following (for the full article, click on the link at the end of the article):
Since 1994, average life expectancy in South Africa has dropped by almost 20 years, mainly because of the rise in HIV-related mortality. Average life expectance at birth is only 50 years for men and 54 years for women.
South Africa has 0,7% of the world's population, but carries 17% of the global HIV burden. HIV prevalence seems to have reached a plateau, but there are 5,5 million South Africans living with HIV/Aids.
The overall injury death rate is 157.8 per 100,000, twice the global average. Road carnage plays a significant part: there are about 16,000 road traffic accident deaths every year. Around 7% of all deaths are alcohol-related.
The homicide rate is five times the global average: 38.6 per 100,000 people, with the highest rate among men aged 15 to 29 years. Still, the female homicide rate is six times the global average, and half of these women are killed by their partners.
It is estimated that a woman is killed by her partner every six hours in South Africa.
Although South Africa and the then minister of health, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, were signitories of the Millennium Development Goals, which were particularly focused on child and maternal mortality, our children continue to be victims. Far from reaching goals set then, South Africa has gone backward: it is one of only 12 countries in the world where infant mortality has risen since 1990. Every year, 23,000 babies are stillborn, and almost 75,000 children die in SA – 23 000 in their first four weeks of life. 12% of our children under 5 are underweight. Each year 37 200 children could be saved through improving coverage of the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission and safer infant feeding practices.
There are 4.9 physicians, nurses and midwives per 1,000 South Africans, double the World Health Organisation standard of 2.5, but most South Africans are still under-served: medical staff are clustered in urban areas. Not only that, but 79% of doctors in South Africa work in the private sector, where 60% of health spending happens, but which is accessible to just 14% of SA citizens.
Depending on what province they live in, only 9% to 28% of South Africans are covered by medical schemes.
Though the state's focus on health is significant, comprising 10,8% of total goverment spend, the price the population pays for mismanagement is dire: if the policy of free antiretroviral therapy provision in public health services had been adopted in 2003, 330,000 lives could have been saved between then and now.
the burden of TB has more than doubled since the year 2001. KwaZulu Natal is the hardest hit with an HIV prevalence of 39,1% and a TB notification rate of 1,066 per 100,000 people.
Find more at the Lancet
Since 1994, average life expectancy in South Africa has dropped by almost 20 years, mainly because of the rise in HIV-related mortality. Average life expectance at birth is only 50 years for men and 54 years for women.
South Africa has 0,7% of the world's population, but carries 17% of the global HIV burden. HIV prevalence seems to have reached a plateau, but there are 5,5 million South Africans living with HIV/Aids.
The overall injury death rate is 157.8 per 100,000, twice the global average. Road carnage plays a significant part: there are about 16,000 road traffic accident deaths every year. Around 7% of all deaths are alcohol-related.
The homicide rate is five times the global average: 38.6 per 100,000 people, with the highest rate among men aged 15 to 29 years. Still, the female homicide rate is six times the global average, and half of these women are killed by their partners.
It is estimated that a woman is killed by her partner every six hours in South Africa.
Although South Africa and the then minister of health, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, were signitories of the Millennium Development Goals, which were particularly focused on child and maternal mortality, our children continue to be victims. Far from reaching goals set then, South Africa has gone backward: it is one of only 12 countries in the world where infant mortality has risen since 1990. Every year, 23,000 babies are stillborn, and almost 75,000 children die in SA – 23 000 in their first four weeks of life. 12% of our children under 5 are underweight. Each year 37 200 children could be saved through improving coverage of the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission and safer infant feeding practices.
There are 4.9 physicians, nurses and midwives per 1,000 South Africans, double the World Health Organisation standard of 2.5, but most South Africans are still under-served: medical staff are clustered in urban areas. Not only that, but 79% of doctors in South Africa work in the private sector, where 60% of health spending happens, but which is accessible to just 14% of SA citizens.
Depending on what province they live in, only 9% to 28% of South Africans are covered by medical schemes.
Though the state's focus on health is significant, comprising 10,8% of total goverment spend, the price the population pays for mismanagement is dire: if the policy of free antiretroviral therapy provision in public health services had been adopted in 2003, 330,000 lives could have been saved between then and now.
the burden of TB has more than doubled since the year 2001. KwaZulu Natal is the hardest hit with an HIV prevalence of 39,1% and a TB notification rate of 1,066 per 100,000 people.
Find more at the Lancet
Monday, 7 September 2009
Water
We had a child drown in our pool a while ago. After life had moved on a little, i went for a swim. It remains one of the most horrifying experiences i've ever had.
It TOLD me what had happened. I felt the fear, felt the terror, anguish, helplessness and the silence. The immediacy had past, it was, like watching a snuff film. Almost. More real. It was more real.
Water has memory, since then i've never doubted it.
I found this article, origionally russian, of course.
Do Not Offend Water - It Remembers Every Word You Say
By Vladimir Borovoy
Translated by Anastasia Pulich
Pravda.Ru
1-17-6
QUOTE
One day theoretical science will no longer have doubts about water's memory while high tech specialists will be making "water" computers controlled by telepathy
There seemed nothing to be as simple and as well studied in the world of science as water, until recently. The proverbial chemical description, temperature metamorphoses from ice into steam, solvent properties - that is about all. Deeper studies into the Nanoworld are ready to shake faith even in the water's simplicity. Just for one fact that it turns out water has memory and understands human emotions and words.
According to physics that we study at school water does not form any long-lived structures (if there is no other substance taking part in the process). Of course, there is so called hydrogen bond, due to which molecules are joined in chains, but such formations exist a tiny moment of time. Theoretically it means that water is hard to structure: at least all the stories about magnetized water or water that "remembers" substance once dissolved in it have been labeled as asientific for a long time. Nevertheless, it has been several years already since quite serious-minded scientists with the help of ultraprecision instruments began to study the ability of water to form those long-lived structures.
Russian scientists are among the leaders. In 2003 at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russian scientist Stanislav Zenin upheld a thesis on water's memory. The thesis' author owns a laboratory and studied clathrates, stable compounds (that can live up to several hours!) consisting of 912 water molecules of half-micron or micron in size. You can even see them through the phase-contrast microscope. Clathrates are almost electrically neutral in distilled water. However, Zenin found out that their electroconductivity could be changed. Bonds between the clathrates' elements can be broken with the magnetic stirrer and then water becomes dead and unordered mixture.
If a tiny amount (even one molecule) of any other substance is added into water clathrates start "adopting" its electromagnetic properties. In the end Zenin engaged psychics and healers - people who do not enjoy respect in the world of science - in his work on thesis. He found out that some representatives of this dubious occupation can change water's electroconductivity drastically with the power of their thought. Zenin defined water as substance in phase-informative state with a structure suitable for data storage. He called it a biological information tank. He distinguished water's primary and long-term memory.
Primary memory becomes apparent after a single impact. It is a reversible change in water's structure and a reflection of the new electromagnetic picture on clathrates' surface. As for the long-term memory, it is a complete transformation of the matrix clathrates' structural elements as a result of long information influence. This means that you do not have to be a psychic to form a certain structure of water. It is enough to pass a certain emotion to water for some period of time.
The same conclusion was made by Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto. He discovered that water can really form ordered structures that turned out to be crystals. Each of them is unique and reflects the electromagnetic properties of water. Microcrystals are studied with the help of photographs. First of all, water drops placed into Petri dishes are quenched for two hours. Then they are placed into special apparatus that is a sort of refrigerator combined with microscope and camera. Here the newly-formed crystals are examined at temperature of 5C below zero. The most characteristic ones are photographed.
Dr. Emoto and his team study water from different sources of the world and also water that was effected by music, image, television, thoughts of a single person and a group of people, prayers, words typed or pronounced in different languages etc. Emoto discovered that there was a significant difference between crystals that listened to Beethoven and heavy-metal. Words "angel" and "devil" form structures that are similar and completely opposite at the same time.
Of course, Dr. Emoto can be also called a person with vivid imagination who uses equipment for purposes that have nothing to do with science. The Japanese scientist thinks that everything in this world possesses common vibration frequency, resonance wave (hado) that is able to transfer human emotions onto all surrounding objects.
That is why one has to thank food that he/she eats, avoid negative emotions and pray more often. Such conclusions make scientific community laugh. But that is not always the case. Many researchers show interest in the findings of Dr. Emoto. Some are looking for the ways to transform processes that occur in water under the influence of electromagnetic radiation of the human brain into signals that are comprehensible for computer. In other words, they want to invent a computer that would be operated by thoughts.
Others want to teach water storing the binary code. There are also those who try to find out if it is possible to change physical and chemical properties of water for special purposes (for instance, making it viscous in order to cool nuclear reactors with less energy consumption).
Such tendencies can one day result in the situation when theoretical science will no longer have doubts about water's memory while high tech specialists will be making "water" computers controlled by telepathy.
It TOLD me what had happened. I felt the fear, felt the terror, anguish, helplessness and the silence. The immediacy had past, it was, like watching a snuff film. Almost. More real. It was more real.
Water has memory, since then i've never doubted it.
I found this article, origionally russian, of course.
Do Not Offend Water - It Remembers Every Word You Say
By Vladimir Borovoy
Translated by Anastasia Pulich
Pravda.Ru
1-17-6
QUOTE
One day theoretical science will no longer have doubts about water's memory while high tech specialists will be making "water" computers controlled by telepathy
There seemed nothing to be as simple and as well studied in the world of science as water, until recently. The proverbial chemical description, temperature metamorphoses from ice into steam, solvent properties - that is about all. Deeper studies into the Nanoworld are ready to shake faith even in the water's simplicity. Just for one fact that it turns out water has memory and understands human emotions and words.
According to physics that we study at school water does not form any long-lived structures (if there is no other substance taking part in the process). Of course, there is so called hydrogen bond, due to which molecules are joined in chains, but such formations exist a tiny moment of time. Theoretically it means that water is hard to structure: at least all the stories about magnetized water or water that "remembers" substance once dissolved in it have been labeled as asientific for a long time. Nevertheless, it has been several years already since quite serious-minded scientists with the help of ultraprecision instruments began to study the ability of water to form those long-lived structures.
Russian scientists are among the leaders. In 2003 at the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russian scientist Stanislav Zenin upheld a thesis on water's memory. The thesis' author owns a laboratory and studied clathrates, stable compounds (that can live up to several hours!) consisting of 912 water molecules of half-micron or micron in size. You can even see them through the phase-contrast microscope. Clathrates are almost electrically neutral in distilled water. However, Zenin found out that their electroconductivity could be changed. Bonds between the clathrates' elements can be broken with the magnetic stirrer and then water becomes dead and unordered mixture.
If a tiny amount (even one molecule) of any other substance is added into water clathrates start "adopting" its electromagnetic properties. In the end Zenin engaged psychics and healers - people who do not enjoy respect in the world of science - in his work on thesis. He found out that some representatives of this dubious occupation can change water's electroconductivity drastically with the power of their thought. Zenin defined water as substance in phase-informative state with a structure suitable for data storage. He called it a biological information tank. He distinguished water's primary and long-term memory.
Primary memory becomes apparent after a single impact. It is a reversible change in water's structure and a reflection of the new electromagnetic picture on clathrates' surface. As for the long-term memory, it is a complete transformation of the matrix clathrates' structural elements as a result of long information influence. This means that you do not have to be a psychic to form a certain structure of water. It is enough to pass a certain emotion to water for some period of time.
The same conclusion was made by Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto. He discovered that water can really form ordered structures that turned out to be crystals. Each of them is unique and reflects the electromagnetic properties of water. Microcrystals are studied with the help of photographs. First of all, water drops placed into Petri dishes are quenched for two hours. Then they are placed into special apparatus that is a sort of refrigerator combined with microscope and camera. Here the newly-formed crystals are examined at temperature of 5C below zero. The most characteristic ones are photographed.
Dr. Emoto and his team study water from different sources of the world and also water that was effected by music, image, television, thoughts of a single person and a group of people, prayers, words typed or pronounced in different languages etc. Emoto discovered that there was a significant difference between crystals that listened to Beethoven and heavy-metal. Words "angel" and "devil" form structures that are similar and completely opposite at the same time.
Of course, Dr. Emoto can be also called a person with vivid imagination who uses equipment for purposes that have nothing to do with science. The Japanese scientist thinks that everything in this world possesses common vibration frequency, resonance wave (hado) that is able to transfer human emotions onto all surrounding objects.
That is why one has to thank food that he/she eats, avoid negative emotions and pray more often. Such conclusions make scientific community laugh. But that is not always the case. Many researchers show interest in the findings of Dr. Emoto. Some are looking for the ways to transform processes that occur in water under the influence of electromagnetic radiation of the human brain into signals that are comprehensible for computer. In other words, they want to invent a computer that would be operated by thoughts.
Others want to teach water storing the binary code. There are also those who try to find out if it is possible to change physical and chemical properties of water for special purposes (for instance, making it viscous in order to cool nuclear reactors with less energy consumption).
Such tendencies can one day result in the situation when theoretical science will no longer have doubts about water's memory while high tech specialists will be making "water" computers controlled by telepathy.
Friday, 4 September 2009
We are ...
Unless we take off the blindfold, toss away the yarmulke, set fire to the veil, and behold ourSelves as we truly are - divine in all our parts.
We are the whore and the holy one, yes.
We are the ground and the depths of space.
We are the wave and the particle, yes.
We are the zero point and the circumference.
We are god - together, making and shaping and creating.
And the moment we really awaken to this, there is no going back.
We hold the internal fires of the stars and the destiny of all life within us, for there is no part of Us that is not of the Gods.
Thanks to Aquila ka Hekate for this reminder.
We are the whore and the holy one, yes.
We are the ground and the depths of space.
We are the wave and the particle, yes.
We are the zero point and the circumference.
We are god - together, making and shaping and creating.
And the moment we really awaken to this, there is no going back.
We hold the internal fires of the stars and the destiny of all life within us, for there is no part of Us that is not of the Gods.
Thanks to Aquila ka Hekate for this reminder.
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Happy Spring Day
If you go down in the woods today
You're sure of a big surprise.
If you go down in the woods today
You'd better go in disguise.
For ev'ry bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain, because
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
Ev'ry teddy bear who's been good
Is sure of a treat today.
There's lots of marvelous things to eat
And wonderful games to play.
Beneath the trees where nobody sees
They'll hide and seek as long as they please
That's the way the teddy bears have their picnic.
Picnic time for teddy bears
The little teddy bears are having a lovely time today
Watch them, catch them unawares
And see them picnic on their holiday.
See them gaily gad about
They love to play and shout;
They never have any cares;
At six o'clock their mummies and daddies,
Will take them home to bed,
Because they're tired little teddy bears.
If you go down in the woods today
You'd better not go alone.
It's lovely down in the woods today
But safer to stay at home.
For ev'ry bear that ever there was
Will gather there for certain, because
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
Peace and love
Image from here
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