Re: Copper sulfate
In a message dated 1/2/03 12:08:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve-- What are you trying to do? What is the desired influence? What is your source? Copper sulfate is a potent algaecide I do not mean Cu SO4, but elemental copper and zinc, from the metals. The hammering charges' it and the stirring, well that imprints the pattern energy of it in the water, like the bd remedies. That brings a cumultive influence to the soil if used regularly...sstorch
Water is Becoming a Dangerous Drug
http://santafenewmexican.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2144dept_id=385202newsid=6568246PAG=461rfi=9 Water is Becoming a Dangerous Drug By Melissa Knopper Birth control pills, estrogen replacement drugs, ibuprofen, bug spray, sunscreen, mouthwash and antibacterial soap: all of these products could turn up in your next glass of tap water, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Last summer, USGS scientists sampled 139 rivers and streams, finding hundreds of prescription and over-the-counter drugs and personal care products lingering in the nation's water supply. In many cases, these tiny drug particles were found in river water that is recycled - flowing from one city's sewer plant into another city's drinking water system. Many cities can't afford the charcoal filters required to screen out the final traces of these byproducts, so they end up in the drinking water, experts say. Rural homeowners who use well water are at an even greater risk. USGS researchers also turned up antibiotics in nearly half the streams that were sampled, raising other concerns about the nation's growing antibiotic resistance problem. This study raised a bunch of red flags, says Dana Kolpin, lead author of the USGS study. At these low concentrations, I think there are going to be long-term effects that may take several generations to show up. A Threat to Reproductive Health (Embedded image moved to file: pic05436.gif)he dangers of endocrine-disrupting water pollutants such as dioxin and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are well known - they have been linked to a variety of reproductive health problems, from endometriosis to low sperm counts. Synthetic hormones in the water may have similar health effects - on both people and wildlife - at very low levels of exposure. All of these compounds are going into a chemical soup, says Theo Colborn, senior scientist at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and author of Our Stolen Future. Colborn says she is worried about pharmaceutical estrogens mixing with chemicals already present in streams. You can liken it to side effects you get with a prescription drug - you don't know how it's going to interact with the over-the-counter drugs you're taking, Colborn says. It's the unexpected, interactive effects we never predicted that are a real concern. For example, Colborn says, bisphenol A, a component of plastic that is also used as a fire retardant, causes female mice to reach puberty earlier than normal. Bisphenol A forms a weak bond with the body's estrogen receptors. It can scramble a cell's natural communication system and cause it to replicate too quickly. That, in turn, raises concerns about breast cancer in humans. What happens if this compound, which is active at low levels of exposure, combines with estrogen from a birth control pill in the water? At this point, it's still unclear. Colborn says, It could have long-term health effects. These estrogens also could have an additive effect with chemicals such as PCBs, which are found in animal tissue. A recent study by researchers at Michigan State University found mink that were fed a diet of PCB-laden fish from the polluted Housatonic River in Connecticut had offspring with lower birth weights and higher infant mortality rates. Housatonic Riverkeeper Tim Gray, a member of the New York-based Waterkeeper's Alliance, wonders if PCBs interfere with the mink's reproduction, what will synthetic estrogen and other drugs do? Until recently, people thought the estrogens in birth control pills were rendered inactive by the body because the kidneys tack on an extra sugar molecule before they are excreted, says William Owens, a toxicologist who researched estrogen patches for Procter Gamble. But now, scientists have learned bacteria in sewage treatment plants chew off that sugar molecule. A British researcher, John Sumpter, contributed to this discovery while studying fish living near a London wastewater treatment plant. He found male fish that were producing eggs. After he found the compound estradiol in the fish tissue, he concluded estrogens from birth control pills were part of the problem. Antibiotic Resistance is Growing (Embedded image moved to file: pic32391.gif)nother active area of research and debate is antibiotic resistance. The Union of Concerned Scientists says farmers use 70 percent of antibiotics in the United States. Large factory farms use antibiotics to prevent confined, crowded-together cows or chickens from getting sick. But that practice is creating superbugs, such as virulent strains of salmonella that can be deadly to humans and difficult to treat. Those superbugs typically are spread to consumers through contaminated meat, but people who drink from private wells also are
FW: [globalnews] [starhawk] Women's Call for January Actions
Title: FW: [globalnews] [starhawk] Women's Call for January Actions Starhawk Women Rising for Peace and Justice Friday, January 17, 2003 Womens Anti-War Day of Action Part of a National Week of Resistance for Justice and Peace in the spirit of Martin Luther King War, poverty, and racism, the three evils named by Martin Luther King, are intimately linked to the oppression of women. Together they form strands of a rope binding people worldwide. Untangle that rope by joining in a womens day of action. In conjunction with a week of resistance to the U.S. war against Iraq, we weave a multicolored web of peace, to bind and transform the warmakers. Why a womens action? Because women have a unique stake and a valuable perspective on issues of war and peace. Poverty is a womens issue: The vast majority of people worldwide living in poverty are women and children. The war against Iraq will divert desperately needed funds from social programs, health care and education. Racism is a womens issue: Women of color and women of discriminated groups bear the double burden of race and sex oppression. War is a womens issue: Women die under the bombs, see their homes, families, and ability to provide for the next generation destroyed. War exalts the values of toughness, hardness and aggression that a patriarchal culture assigns to men, and denigrates compassion, nurturing, tenderness, and love. Make January 17 a day to express our solidarity with the women of Iraq, Palestine/Israel, Colombia, and other war-torn areas of the world and call for a shift of national priorities away from war and militarism and toward a national agenda that affirms life. Come to Washington DC for Martin Luther King weekend: ***Hold our women legislators accountable, and support, reward, and generally cheer on the women of courage among our elected representatives. ***Weave a web of peace in a candlelight vigil and ritual at dusk on Friday, January 17. ***Participate as a contingent in the January 18 peace march. ***Form womens affinity groups to participate in the larger, all-genders nonviolent civil disobedience on January 19and use our peace web to bind and transform institutions of war. ***Join the Womens Peace Vigil at the White House. The womens peace vigil was initiated on November 17, 2002 and will continue through March 8, International Womens Day. The vigil is a constant presence directly in front of the White House and a constant reminder to the decision-makers in Washington, DC, that millions of people in the U.S. and around the world oppose a pre-emptive att ack on Iraq. Drop by the womens peace vigil while youre in DC for the MLK Jr. weekend activities or any other day. For more information, call. (202) 393-5016. Consider extending your stay in Washington DC so you can to join the vigil. The Vigil can help you with housing if you are participating in the vigil for at least two days. All actions are women initiated and women led, but men are welcome to join and/or support. Organize in your home communities! ***Organize a women-led candlelight vigil in your community at dusk on Friday, January 17. Encourage participation by the diversity of women and womens groups that make up your community. ***Stand with Women in Black in your community in opposition to the war. ***Organize a meeting, teach-in, speak-out, and/or press conference on how women in your community are affected by the three evils of poverty, war, and racism. ***Lobby your women Senators and Representatives. Set up meetings with your women representatives to ask them to speak out against war and push for a national agenda that reflects the values of peace, compassion, generosity, and recognition of the interconnectedness of the whole human family. We need them to use their positions of power to lobby for our agenda! ***Contact the media. Organize localy a women against war press conference that includes women from the business and labor communities, religious women, women community leaders, and others. Write opinion pieces and letters to the editor and call in to radio talk shows to put out the message that women oppose war and want the $200 billion that would be spend on a war against Iraq redirected to health, education, housing and the welfare of our children. ***Put a light in your window to symbolize your commitment to peace. International Women: We ask for your support and solidarity. Please let us know if you can plan a vigil or activity in support of our actions, and send us your messages of support. Please post your events to www.unitedforpeace.org, and/or www.codepink4peace.org. For more information, contact the Womens Peace Vigil at 202-393-5016. You can also join our organizing listserve by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with subscribe in the subject heading. Mid January is THE crucial time to stop the war against Iraq. Thousands of people are expected to come to Washington, DC on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend to
Re: Water is Becoming a Dangerous Drug
Years ago I received a cassette tape from a guy who was selling some 'health remedy' or other. Liquid Colloidal minerals, i think was the going rage at that time. But one thing he mentioned, that he knew a rental service, the kind that rents jobsite tools, large equipment, even port a potties. He said very often there'll be whole vitamins, gelcaps of various drugs when they have to clean the things out. Not something I really cared to ponder, but it does make you stop and think, Where is this OneADay going to end up?
Re: 3-Kings Merla
Title: Re: 3-Kings Merla Blessed New Moon Gil, You wrote Hi! Markess, Have you worked out the position of the part radii on a Rae Card for the Three Kings, yet? I have not as the Rae Cards are not my primary mode of pattern identification i.e. I use primarily numeric rate and command words. My usual mode of balancing and clearing is a bit unusual in that I broadcast via the SE-5 strings of rates words. I came to this mode via Lute's teaching and reading Tansley. He writes (and pictures) of needing to follow a symptom through the 'delta up the river to the head waters'. I find doing as big of a 'run' at a time to clear the whole path so as to minimize regeneration or the shifting the focus of reductionary piece mealing approach. This of course a a slapdash expression of my work. My reference to the broadcaster was not of the 3 Kings prep but to BD 500 thru Horn Clay. But you picked up on the flow in that the Overlighting Deva of the Moen Creek watershed has expressed interest in my broadcasting the 3-Kings prep thru the pipe to the atmosphere from 2:30 PM to 4:20 PM (we are at the 43rd parallel) on the 6th. Her request maybe honored though I will still use a juniper bow to do Othala's Boundary of ~5.4 acres. To broadcast from the pipe I will use the prep itself or potentized. I have found that in working with the Elementals Devas that answer and proper approach today may not hold tomorrow. Flux is part of their work. So I will take a vial of each and dowse at the moment I insert it in the well. Is you Field Broadcaster one of Hugh's ? Yes Hugh is a personal friend and Lorain a mentor/co-researcher. In Love Light Markess
Biodynamic farm position in Minnesota
-- Forwarding this farm position announcement-- We are a 500 acre biodynamic farm in the diverse landscape of central Minnesota glacial morraine with hills, forest, wetlands, and prairie. We are looking for a farmer to steward our land with its herd of beef cattle and gardeners to grow vegetables (fresh crop production, food processing, winter storage) and to share life with us in our community of 50 people, part of which are mentally handicapped. Farm management includes rotational grazing and herd management, small grain production, hay making, machinery maintenance, and special needs crew supervision. We have been a CSA in the past, would love to be again, and are open to creative ideas with a long term land worker. Life here includes living with and caring for people with special needs as well as being part of a community which celebrates festivals, makes decisions together, and much more. We have a large garden, a new food processing kitchen and bakery, and a woodshop and weavery. Single people and a family are welcome. We offer complete living expenses, including medical and dental, a three week paid vacation, and use of cars and equipment. If you are interested, please contact: Laura Briggs 15136 Celtic Drive Sauk Centre, MN 56378 320-732-1954 || 320-732-6365 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.camphillvillage-minnesota.org === ===
Chef's A Field
PBS is going to be hosting a series of farmer to chef specials. The web site is an excellent presentation of what's to come. It is a slide show, complete with music and voiceover. Takes about 10 - 15 minutes to run, but it starts quickly, you don't have to wait for the whole thing to load up. Whole Foods is one of the underwriters. (When did they get so big?) I remember when they were a hole in the wall hippie joint in downtown Austin G! http://www.sitestories.com/chefsafield/
Re: Chef's A Field
G'day: Good for Whole Foods. They arrived here in Seattle about 2 years ago. Portland Oregon, this year and a second in Seattle in 1-2 years. Great addition to the neighborhood. Cheers Penelope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PBS is going to be hosting a series of farmer to chef specials. The web site is an excellent presentation of what's to come. It is a slide show, complete with music and voiceover. Takes about 10 - 15 minutes to run, but it starts quickly, you don't have to wait for the whole thing to load up. Whole Foods is one of the underwriters. (When did they get so big?) I remember when they were a hole in the wall hippie joint in downtown Austin G! http://www.sitestories.com/chefsafield/ .
