They are taking innovation to whole new level, but hey we are in
a recession, so you got to work with ya got!
Monday, May 3, 2010
Funny Picture Of The Day!
They are taking innovation to whole new level, but hey we are in
a recession, so you got to work with ya got!
Is This Period Or Time Speeding Up?
WHAT'S THE TIME? ...
...Time, in my life anyway, and I know for others too, is just flying this year. What's happening?
It made me recall something that was said to me through the psychic I met in 1990 at the start of my amazing journey of the last two decades. I was told of a vibrational change that was coming - what I call the Truth Vibrations - and that 'time would eventually pass so fast it would be almost frightening'.
Well, it's not reached a frightening stage yet, but an astonishing one, certainly.
...It is interesting, and very relevant, when I look 'back' at how I was told through various psychics in the earliest days of my own conscious awakening that the speed of 'time' would eventually appear to be 'moving' so fast that people would have to simplify their lives, discard the irrelevant and concentrate only on what really matters.
Unless they did this, I was told 20 years ago, they would burn out and even go crazy trying to do all that they did before in the light of time appearing to pass quicker and quicker. There would 'not be enough hours in the day'.
I can see the wisdom of this even more clearly in the last few months as I have become more aware than ever at the way I am interacting with the phenomenon of time.
I began simplifying my life in the Summer of 2007, quite probably because my subconscious mind was preparing for what it knew was coming in the information construct of the Metaphysical Universe.
It is by tuning into the Metaphysical Universe, the vibrational/waveform level of this reality, that we can have subconscious, even conscious, premonitions of 'future' events. We access the vibrational information 'before' it is decoded into holographic reality and therefore we can 'see' or 'feel' the 'future'.
Anyway, from the summer of 2007 I cleared my life of everything I either didn't need in terms of possessions etc., and anything that was negative or detrimental to what I am doing. I kept only what I needed and what was positive and supportive to what I am doing.
I still do that and it has made a dramatic difference in the ease with which my life comes together these days compared with the constant battle of the 'past'. This simplification has meant that I can focus on my work virtually all of every day without the distractions or complexity that was taking up focus and ... time.
This really is a period for people to look at their lives and decide what is holding them back, diluting their focus and wasting their time. The great transformation is about freeing ourselves of the perceptions, rules, regulations and 'norms' of the passing energetic era and connecting with the new one.
It is a moment to clear out our lives - spring clean them - and the same with ourselves, because one is an expression of the other.
What are we mentally and emotionally attached to that is either irrelevant, time consuming or downright destructive in our lives? Do you really need that? Do you really have to do that? Is this relationship serving either party?
These are important questions for all of us because time is not going to slow down, nor even stay at the same rate. The Quickening is only going to quicken and its fellow traveler will be time.
My God, is that the time? Must rush ...
...Time, in my life anyway, and I know for others too, is just flying this year. What's happening?
It made me recall something that was said to me through the psychic I met in 1990 at the start of my amazing journey of the last two decades. I was told of a vibrational change that was coming - what I call the Truth Vibrations - and that 'time would eventually pass so fast it would be almost frightening'.
Well, it's not reached a frightening stage yet, but an astonishing one, certainly.
...It is interesting, and very relevant, when I look 'back' at how I was told through various psychics in the earliest days of my own conscious awakening that the speed of 'time' would eventually appear to be 'moving' so fast that people would have to simplify their lives, discard the irrelevant and concentrate only on what really matters.
Unless they did this, I was told 20 years ago, they would burn out and even go crazy trying to do all that they did before in the light of time appearing to pass quicker and quicker. There would 'not be enough hours in the day'.
I can see the wisdom of this even more clearly in the last few months as I have become more aware than ever at the way I am interacting with the phenomenon of time.
I began simplifying my life in the Summer of 2007, quite probably because my subconscious mind was preparing for what it knew was coming in the information construct of the Metaphysical Universe.
It is by tuning into the Metaphysical Universe, the vibrational/waveform level of this reality, that we can have subconscious, even conscious, premonitions of 'future' events. We access the vibrational information 'before' it is decoded into holographic reality and therefore we can 'see' or 'feel' the 'future'.
Anyway, from the summer of 2007 I cleared my life of everything I either didn't need in terms of possessions etc., and anything that was negative or detrimental to what I am doing. I kept only what I needed and what was positive and supportive to what I am doing.
I still do that and it has made a dramatic difference in the ease with which my life comes together these days compared with the constant battle of the 'past'. This simplification has meant that I can focus on my work virtually all of every day without the distractions or complexity that was taking up focus and ... time.
This really is a period for people to look at their lives and decide what is holding them back, diluting their focus and wasting their time. The great transformation is about freeing ourselves of the perceptions, rules, regulations and 'norms' of the passing energetic era and connecting with the new one.
It is a moment to clear out our lives - spring clean them - and the same with ourselves, because one is an expression of the other.
What are we mentally and emotionally attached to that is either irrelevant, time consuming or downright destructive in our lives? Do you really need that? Do you really have to do that? Is this relationship serving either party?
These are important questions for all of us because time is not going to slow down, nor even stay at the same rate. The Quickening is only going to quicken and its fellow traveler will be time.
My God, is that the time? Must rush ...
Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe
The world may be on the brink of biological disaster after news that a third of US bee colonies did not survive the winter
historyDisturbing evidence that honeybees are in terminal decline has emerged from the United States where, for the fourth year in a row, more than a third of colonies have failed to survive the winter.
The decline of the country's estimated 2.4 million beehives began in 2006, when a phenomenon dubbed colony collapse disorder (CCD) led to the disappearance of hundreds of thousands of colonies. Since then more than three million colonies in the US and billions of honeybees worldwide have died and scientists are no nearer to knowing what is causing the catastrophic fall in numbers.
The number of managed honeybee colonies in the US fell by 33.8% last winter, according to the annual survey by the Apiary Inspectors of America and the US government's Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
The collapse in the global honeybee population is a major threat to crops. It is estimated that a third of everything we eat depends upon honeybee pollination, which means that bees contribute some £26bn to the global economy.
Potential causes range from parasites, such as the bloodsucking varroa mite, to viral and bacterial infections, pesticides and poor nutrition stemming from intensive farming methods. The disappearance of so many colonies has also been dubbed "Mary Celeste syndrome" due to the absence of dead bees in many of the empty hives.
US scientists have found 121 different pesticides in samples of bees, wax and pollen, lending credence to the notion that pesticides are a key problem. "We believe that some subtle interactions between nutrition, pesticide exposure and other stressors are converging to kill colonies," said Jeffery Pettis, of the ARS's bee research laboratory.
A global review of honeybee deaths by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) reported last week that there was no one single cause, but pointed the finger at the "irresponsible use" of pesticides that may damage bee health and make them more susceptible to diseases. Bernard Vallat, the OIE's director-general, warned: "Bees contribute to global food security, and their extinction would represent a terrible biological disaster."
Dave Hackenberg of Hackenberg Apiaries, the Pennsylvania-based commercial beekeeper who first raised the alarm about CCD, said that last year had been the worst yet for bee losses, with 62% of his 2,600 hives dying between May 2009 and April 2010. "It's getting worse," he said. "The AIA survey doesn't give you the full picture because it is only measuring losses through the winter. In the summer the bees are exposed to lots of pesticides. Farmers mix them together and no one has any idea what the effects might be."
Pettis agreed that losses in some commercial operations are running at 50% or greater. "Continued losses of this magnitude are not economically sustainable for commercial beekeepers," he said, adding that a solution may be years away. "Look at Aids, they have billions in research dollars and a causative agent and still no cure. Research takes time and beehives are complex organisms."
In the UK it is still too early to judge how Britain's estimated 250,000 honeybee colonies have fared during the long winter. Tim Lovett, president of the British Beekeepers' Association, said: "Anecdotally, it is hugely variable. There are reports of some beekeepers losing almost a third of their hives and others losing none." Results from a survey of the association's 15,000 members are expected this month.
John Chapple, chairman of the London Beekeepers' Association, put losses among his 150 members at between a fifth and a quarter. Eight of his 36 hives across the capital did not survive. "There are still a lot of mysterious disappearances," he said. "We are no nearer to knowing what is causing them."
Bee farmers in Scotland have reported losses on the American scale for the past three years. Andrew Scarlett, a Perthshire-based bee farmer and honey packer, lost 80% of his 1,200 hives this winter. But he attributed the massive decline to a virulent bacterial infection that quickly spread because of a lack of bee inspectors, coupled with sustained poor weather that prevented honeybees from building up sufficient pollen and nectar stores.
The government's National Bee Unit has always denied the existence of CCD in Britain, despite honeybee losses of 20% during the winter of 2008-09 and close to a third the previous year. It attributes the demise to the varroa mite – which is found in almost every UK hive – and rainy summers that stop bees foraging for food.
In a hard-hitting report last year, the National Audit Office suggested that amateur beekeepers who failed to spot diseases in bees were a threat to honeybees' survival and called for the National Bee Unit to carry out more inspections and train more beekeepers. Last summer MPs on the influential cross-party public accounts committee called on the government to fund more research into what it called the "alarming" decline of honeybees.
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has contributed £2.5m towards a £10m fund for research on pollinators. The public accounts committee has called for a significant proportion of this funding to be "ring-fenced" for honeybees. Decisions on which research projects to back are expected this month.
WHY BEES MATTER
Flowering plants require insects for pollination. The most effective is the honeybee, which pollinates 90 commercial crops worldwide. As well as most fruits and vegetables – including apples, oranges, strawberries, onions and carrots – they pollinate nuts, sunflowers and oil-seed rape. Coffee, soya beans, clovers – like alfafa, which is used for cattle feed – and even cotton are all dependent on honeybee pollination to increase yields.
In the UK alone, honeybee pollination is valued at £200m. Mankind has been managing and transporting bees for centuries to pollinate food and produce honey, nature's natural sweetener and antiseptic. Their extinction would mean not only a colourless, meatless diet of cereals and rice, and cottonless clothes, but a landscape without orchards, allotments and meadows of wildflowers – and the collapse of the food chain that sustains wild birds and animals.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/02/food-fear-mystery-beehives-collapse
Oil spill disaster is now 'out of control'
President Barack Obama will today visit the Gulf of Mexico coastline threatened by the giant oil spill, as experts warn that the spill from a ruptured oil rig might be growing five times faster than previously estimated.
The oil is gushing from BP's sunken Deepwater Horizon rig at 25,000 barrels a day and could reach 50,000 barrels a day, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Earlier estimates had put the leak at 5,000 barrels a day.
Professor Ian MacDonald, an ocean specialist at Florida State University, said the new estimate suggested that the leak had already spread 9 million gallons of heavy crude oil across the Gulf. This compares with 11 million that leaked from the Exxon Valdez tanker when it hit a reef off Alaska in 1989.
Hans Gruber, a Miami University researcher, said that satellite images of the slick on Friday showed that it was three time bigger than estimated, covering an area of 3,500 sq miles (9,000 sq km), similar in size to Puerto Rico.
At the current estimated rate of leakage, it would take less than eight weeks for the huge spill to surpass the Exxon Valdez disaster.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that deteriorating conditions on the sea bed could result in a flow of 50,000 barrels a day, sufficient to produce one of America’s worst ecological disasters
Experts and officials said that their greatest fear was that a disintegration of pipes close to the rig could produce an “unchecked gusher” that would ravage America’s southern coastline.
High winds and rough seas hampered efforts to prevent the slick from reaching the coastline on Saturday, raising fears that there was no way to protect the fragile wetlands of Louisiana and its neighbouring states.
While the leading edge of the slick appears to be little more than a sheen, Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana Governor, warned that the millions of gallons of crude being driven into shore by southeasterly winds formed a potential catastrophe.
"This spill threatens not only our wetlands and our fisheries, but also our way of life," Mr Jindal told reporters. "They originally thought we would see heavier oil hitting us today. They've pushed that back until tomorrow."
Environmentalists said it could take decades for the maze of marshes — more than 40 per cent of America's ecologically fragile wetlands — to recover if waves simply wash the oil over miles of boom set up to protect the coast.
"The surface area is huge," said Mark Floegel, a researcher with Greenpeace. "There probably isn't enough boom in the world to protect what needs to be protected."
Commandant Admiral Thad Allen of the US Coast Guard said the adverse weather conditions meant that a major shore impact was inevitable.
"There's enough oil out there, I think it's logical to assume that it will impact the shoreline. The question is when and where," he told reporters.
Meanwhile criticism of BP was intensifying for apparently underestimating the scale of the disaster.
The British oil giant faces questions over how much it knew about previous problems with “blowout preventers”, the giant underwater valves designed to shut down oil flow in the event of accidents.
The valves on the rig failed to work after it exploded on April 20. BP technicians have been unable to activate them even though they appear to be undamaged by the blast.
BP has calculated that it might take up to three months to sink a new well that could cut off the flow of the Deepwater Horizon’s oil.
The worst oil spill affecting US waters was caused by a 1979 blowout aboard the Ixtoc, a Mexican rig that discharged at least 130 million gallons, 600 miles south of the Texas coast. It took nine months to plug the leak.
Now Watch Gas and seafood go up rapidly.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7113708.ece
Man claims to have had no food or drink for 70 years
Indian patient Prahlad Jani (Mataji), who claims he has survived without food and water for more than seven decades Photo: AFP Prahlad Jani is being held in isolation in a hospital in Ahmedabad, Gurjarat, where he is being closely monitored by India's defence research organization, who believe he may have a genuine quality which could help save lives.
He has now spent six days without food or water under strict observation and doctors say his body has not yet shown any adverse effects from hunger or dehydration.
Mr Jani, who claims to have left home aged seven and lived as a wandering sadhu or holy man in Rajasthan, is regarded as a 'breatharian' who can live on a 'spiritual life-force' alone. He believes he is sustained by a goddess who pours an 'elixir' through a hole in his palate. His claims have been supported by an Indian doctor who specializes in studies of people who claim supernatural abilities, but he has also been dismissed by others as a "village fraud."
India's Defence Research Development Organisation, whose scientists develop drone aircraft, intercontinental ballistic missiles and new types of bombs. They believe Mr Prahlad could teach them to help soldiers survive longer without food, or disaster victims to hang on until help arrives.
"If his claims are verified, it will be a breakthrough in medical science," said Dr G Ilavazhagan, director of the Defence Institute of Physiology & Allied Sciences.
"We will be able to help save human lives during natural disasters, high altitude, sea journeys and other natural and human extremities. We can educate people about the survival techniques in adverse conditions with little food and water or nothing at all."
So far, Mr Prahlad appears to be standing up to scrutiny. He has not eaten or drunk any fluids in six days, and similarly has not passed urine or a stool in that time. He remains fit and healthy and shows no sign of lethargy. Doctors will continue observing him for 15 days in which time they would expect to see some muscle wastage, serious dehydration, weight loss,and fatigue followed by organ failure.
It is common in India for Jains and Hindus to fast, sometimes for up to eight days, without any adverse affects, as part of their religious worship. Most humans cannot survive without food for 50 days. The longest hunger strike recorded is 74 days.
According to Dr Sudhir Shah, who examined him in 2003, he went without food or water for ten days in which urine appeared to be reabsorbed by his body after forming in his bladder. Doubts were expressed about his claim after his weight fell slightly at the end of the trial.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7645857/Man-claims-to-have-had-no-food-or-drink-for-70-years.html
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