Re: Hauschka reprint
Unfortunately, this site is not available from Oz. Anyone able to help with another address? Gil Allan Balliett wrote: Great news! One of my favorite biodynamic books has now been reprinted, Dr. Hauschka's The Nature of Substance, and also (one I haven't read) Nutrition (same author). Both are available from JPI, or http://www.anthroporess.comwww.anthroporess.com Christy Thanks, Christy! Important stuff!! -Allan
RE: Hauschka reprint
Try https://www.anthropress.com Zoran -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gil Robertson Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hauschka reprint Unfortunately, this site is not available from Oz. Anyone able to help with another address? Gil Allan Balliett wrote: Great news! One of my favorite biodynamic books has now been reprinted, Dr. Hauschka's The Nature of Substance, and also (one I haven't read) Nutrition (same author). Both are available from JPI, or http://www.anthroporess.comwww.anthroporess.com Christy Thanks, Christy! Important stuff!! -Allan
Re: Greg Willis: Fwd: Fixing Steiner Agriculture #2 The Power OfMyth
Hi Merla There are excellent in depth horn clay articles in the BDNOW archive - Greg Willis, Hugh Lovel, Glen Atkinson, If you start 2nd June 1999 and go through to mid 2000 you should have all the info you are looking for. Cheers Lloyd Charles Lloyd - A man asked me the other day if I had a recording of Elaine Ingham's presentation at Santa Cruz last year. I had to ask him why he would want that because, through experience, what Elaine has to say has changed a lot a lot in the past year. How would one feel comfortable with ANY of that old information if one knew that the science of compost tea was in flux and was that much of what was gospel last year is absolute - - or maybe forbidden! - - by this year? My favorite example of this sort of thing is the New Alchemy information. One can read ecstatic reports on the success of their composting greenhouses. If one doesn't read ALL the literature out there, one would not know that the nitrogen artifacts in their winter greens were so high that some european governments would not allow their produce to be imported! Subsequent studies found ways of avoiding or remediating the nitrogen buildups that come from too much nitrogen and too little sunshine. An enthusiastic but careless reader could, perhaps, run out and start poisoning more people, convinced that they were operting with information from a reliable source. For me, the same is true of the BD Now! archives. This is an active, evolving, experiential group. The body of information we have changing daily. Better, with an email, a person has access to many active practitioners where one can gather both facts and opinions. Incidentally, I don't know if this was sorted out, but it was my impression that SS was saying that Courtney was/is working with horn clay. I'd like to hear more about this from someone/anyone. -Allan
Re: Hauschka reprint
Terrible, I spelled it wrong!! www.anthropress.com Christy - Original Message - From: zoran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 6:26 AM Subject: RE: Hauschka reprint Try https://www.anthropress.com Zoran
Maria Thun, Working with Stars, Hauschka reprint, etc
Working with Stars 2003 is in stock and shipping at JPI. I highly recommend using Maria Thun's work with the always fun to use and read STELLA NATURA. You want to have a copy Brian Keat's calendar around also, because it can help you get things 'just right.' As usual, be sure to tell JPI that BD Now! sent you. Thanks -Allan
FW: [globalnews] How The Economics of SuperSizing Created ObeseAmerica
Title: FW: [globalnews] How The Economics of SuperSizing Created Obese America Portion Distortion -- You Don't Know the Half of It By Shannon Brownlee The Washington Post December 29, 2002 It was probably inevitable that one day people would start suing McDonald's for making them fat. That day came this summer, when New York lawyer Samuel Hirsch filed several lawsuits against McDonald's, as well as four other fast-food companies, on the grounds that they had failed to adequately disclose the bad health effects of their menus. One of the suits involves a Bronx teenager who tips the scale at 400 pounds and whose mother, in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, said, I always believed McDonald's food was healthy for my son. Uh-huh. And the tooth fairy really put that dollar under his pillow. But once you've stopped sniggering at our litigious society, remember that it once seemed equally ludicrous that smokers could successfully sue tobacco companies for their addiction to cigarettes. And while nobody is claiming that Big Macs are addictive -- at least not yet -- the restaurant industry and food packagers have clearly helped give many Americans the roly-poly shape they have today. This is not to say that the folks in the food industry want us to be fat. But make no mistake: When they do well economically, we gain weight. It wasn't always thus. Readers of a certain age can remember a time when a trip to McDonald's seemed like a treat and when a small bag of French fries, a plain burger and a 12-ounce Coke seemed like a full meal. Fast food wasn't any healthier back then; we simply ate a lot less of it. How did today's oversized appetites become the norm? It didn't happen by accident or some inevitable evolutionary process. It was to a large degree the result of consumer manipulation. Fast food's marketing strategies, which make perfect sense from a business perspective, succeed only when they induce a substantial number of us to overeat. To see how this all came about, let's go back to 1983, when John Martin became CEO of the ailing Taco Bell franchise and met a young marketing whiz named Elliott Bloom. Using so-called smart research, a then-new kind of in-depth consumer survey, Bloom had figured out that fast-food franchises were sustained largely by a core group of heavy users, mostly young, single males, who ate at such restaurants as often as 20 times a month. In fact, 30 percent of Taco Bell's customers accounted for 70 percent of its sales. Through his surveys, Bloom learned what might seem obvious now but wasn't at all clear 20 years ago -- these guys ate at fast-food joints because they had absolutely no interest in cooking for themselves and didn't give a rip about the nutritional quality of the food. They didn't even care much about the taste. All that mattered was that it was fast and cheap. Martin figured Taco Bell could capture a bigger share of these hard-core customers by streamlining the food production and pricing main menu items at 49, 59 and 69 cents -- well below its competitors. It worked. Taco Bell saw a dramatic increase in patrons, with no drop in revenue per customer. As Martin told Greg Critser, author of Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World, when Taco Bell ran a test of its new pricing in Texas, within seven days of initiating the test, the average check was right back to where it was before -- it was just four instead of three items. In other words, cheap food induced people to eat more. Taco Bell's rising sales figures -- up 14 percent by 1989 and 12 percent more the next year -- forced other fast-food franchises to wake up and smell the burritos. By the late '80s, everybody from Burger King to Wendy's was cutting prices and seeing an increase in customers -- including bargain-seeking Americans who weren't part of that original hard-core group. If the marketing strategy had stopped there, we might not be the nation of fatties that we are today. But the imperatives of the marketplace are growth and rising profits, and once everybody had slashed prices to the bone, the franchises had to look for a new way to satisfy investors. And what they found was . . . super-sizing. Portion sizes had already been creeping upward. As early as 1972, for example, McDonald's introduced its large-size fries (large being a relative term, since at 3.5 ounces the '72 large was smaller than a medium serving today). But McDonald's increased portions only reluctantly, because the company's founder, Ray Kroc, didn't like the image of lowbrow, cheap food. If people wanted more French fries, he would say, they can buy two bags. But price competition had grown so fierce that the only way to keep profits up was to offer bigger and bigger portions. By 1988, McDonald's had introduced a 32-ounce super size soda and super size fries. The deal with all these enhanced portions is that the customer gets a lot more food for a relatively small increase in price. So
Re: Northern Star Calendar ?
Laura - JPI is carrying this calendar. This calendar does not become effective until easter, so there is time -Allan I would like to order a copy, could some please post the URL ? thanks Laura Sabourin Feast of Fields Inc Demeter Certified Vineyard Farm http://feast-of-fields.ca EcoVit Aerobic Compost Tea http://compost-tea.ca R R # 1 St Catharines, Ontario L2R 6P7
BD Now! Audio Files
Folks - I haven't noticed a lot of interest in the audio files that are posted at www.ibiblio.org/biodynamics I've agreed to post the rest of the recordings from Sally Fallon's 2002 Weston A. Price conference, so there's another 7 or so files about to go up. Posting files takes a very long time. One one hour presentation can tie my computer up for 3 hours and myself up for almost that long. Don't get my wrong, I'm excited to make streaming sound available to students of biological farming and healthy eating, but I don't want to invest any more time and effort into this project if people are not able to utilize it. Case in point: I made a call for other people's tapes and have received to replies. Let me know, ok? We'll count lurkers in this poll also.
Fw: PANUPS: USDA Sued to Stop GE Grasses
=== P A N U P S Pesticide Action Network Updates Service === USDA Sued to Stop GE Grasses January 15, 2003 Recently, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) was sued over its failure to recognize the dangers associated with grasses genetically engineered to be resistant to herbicides. On January 8, 2003, the International Center for Technology Assessment (CTA) and the Center for Food Safety sued USDA arguing that creeping bentgrass and Kentucky bluegrass, both of which are being engineered to resist Roundup (glyphosate), are already serious problems in some natural areas and would become super weeds if herbicide resistance was built in. Monsanto, maker of Roundup, and Scotts Company, a home garden and pesticide products company, have asked for USDA approval to commercialize a genetically engineered (GE) variety of creeping bentgrass popular for golf course greens and commercial and residential lawns. Once released into the environment, the herbicide tolerant grasses could proliferate at will. Because gasses are wind-pollinated species with pollen that blows for hundreds of yards, they hybridize easily. Some species' seeds can remain viable for 10 to 15 years. Turfgrasses are ubiquitous in and near almost every type of habitat in which the U.S. populace lives, works and plays, including an estimated 40,000,000 residential lawns and parks, at least 40,000 athletic facilities, more than 17,000 golf courses, and countless other landscapes where they have been planted or invaded on their own. CTA's complaint termed the GE grasses a unique, man-made form of biological pollution with the potential to both out-compete native grasses and genetically pollute native vegetation. Concerned about the risks of biotech super weeds, CTA petitioned USDA in July 2002 to list genetically engineered varieties of these grasses as noxious weeds. Instead, since last July, the agency has continued to allow open-field testing of the Roundup resistant grasses on approximately 100 acres in 15 states. Turfgrass is the second largest seed market in the United States after hybrid corn, with annual sales estimated between US$580 million and US$1.2 billion. The U.S. turfgrass seed export market amounts to US$70 million per year. Scotts Company executives are reported to believe the eventual market for GE lawn products will reach US$10 billion. Prominent organizations including the American Society of Landscape Architects (more than 14,000 members nationally), the Foundation on Economic Trends and The Nature Conservancy (the largest holder of private land preserves in the world) have also submitted comments to USDA urging a moratorium on release of GE turfgrasses. Biotech grasses represent a very real environmental and economic threat to communities and natural areas throughout the country, said CTA Executive Director Andrew Kimbrell. Going to court was the only way to ensure that these 'super weeds are not released into our neighborhoods. According to CTA, beyond their impacts as weeds, other potential impacts of GE herbicide resistant grass include: ** increased glyphosate use, misuse, and resultant foreseeable chemical pollution, damage and injuries; the very purpose of the product being to allow turfgrass managers and landowners of all types to spray more Roundup weed killer on a broadcast rather than a spot basis; ** increased glyphosate resistance in weeds such that they will be more harmful in the future; as more and more glyphosate is sprayed the selection pressure on weeds to develop resistance will increase (see PANUPS, 12/20/02 http://www.panna.org/resources/panups/panup_20021220.dv.html ); ** economic harm due to genetic contamination of fields of non-GE turfgrasses intended for conventional markets, and the necessity for the impacted turfgrass farmers to use more expensive, environmentally damaging, and even more dangerous herbicides instead of glyphosate to kill GE infestations; and ** economic harm to organic farmers near any GE grass plantings because of the increased presence of adventitious GE materials in their crops and the potential for increased herbicide contamination, both of which are rejected by premium markets for organic products. Sources: Press Release, International Center for Technology Assessment the Center for food Safety, Lawsuit Filed Against USDA to Halt Commercialization of Genetically Engineered Lawn Grass, Center for Technology Assessment's original legal petition is available at: http://www.icta.org/petit-grass.htm; the legal complaint is available on line at: http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/. Contact: International Center for Technology Assessment, Center for Food Safety, 660 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, Suite 302, Washington, DC 20003; phone (202) 547-9359; fax (202) 547-9429; email [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Web site http://www.icta.org/. PANUPS is a weekly email news service
Distant Dowsing Field Trial
Everyone who has applied to take part in this trial has been signed up. Also I have two 'applicants' who want to learn more about dowsing itself. I hope to get both of these projects off the ground next week so I'll be in touch roger
Re: Greg Willis: Fwd: Fixing Steiner Agriculture #2 The Power OfMyth
- Original Message - From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:18 AM Subject: Re: Greg Willis: Fwd: Fixing Steiner Agriculture #2 The Power OfMyth Hi Merla There are excellent in depth horn clay articles in the BDNOW archive - Greg Willis, Hugh Lovel, Glen Atkinson, If you start 2nd June 1999 and go through to mid 2000 you should have all the info you are looking for. Cheers Lloyd Charles Lloyd - A man asked me the other day if I had a recording of Elaine Ingham's presentation at Santa Cruz last year. I had to ask him why he would want that because, through experience, what Elaine has to say has changed a lot a lot in the past year. How would one feel comfortable with ANY of that old information if one knew that the science of compost tea was in flux and was that much of what was gospel last year is - - or maybe forbidden! - - by this year? Allan If what you say above is really the case (I dont think so), then we are running a dangerous game taking any notice of what is said now! I dont really think Elaine's BASIC message will change that much over time, maybe fine tuning changes to brewing tactics, and maybe some greater acceptance of energetics will creep in over time, better application of the technology if you like, but the basic biology message behind Soilfoodweb is sound - thats not going to change much? My favorite example of this sort of thing is the New Alchemy information. One can read ecstatic reports on the success of their composting greenhouses. I bet if we dug deeper into this we would find basic flaws in the biology and/or chemistry. For me, the same is true of the BD Now! archives. This is an active, evolving, experiential group. The body of information we have changing daily. Better, with an email, a person has access to many active practitioners where one can gather both facts and opinions. Agreed, but I dont think that changes the value of basic information, such as how to prepare horn clay or, the Greg willis post explaining how to use bentonite clay as a soil application in the absence of prepared horn clay, - maybe I just enjoy dredging through the archive to see what I can find! Incidentally, I don't know if this was sorted out, but it was my impression that SS was saying that Courtney was/is working with horn clay. I'd like to hear more about this from someone/anyone. -Allan
GREG WILLIS: Fwd: Fixing Steiner Agriculture #3
Dear Allan, In the first two emails, I laid some of the groundwork for fixing Steiner Agriculture. In #1, I pointed out that the Anthros and BDidiots have taken a truly great, revolutionary idea, a world saving concept and destroyed it. They've kept it to themselves cloaked in mysticism, greed and ignorance. The world has not benefited from their administration. Steiner's ideas have not been accepted by mainstream agriculture. The same can, sadly, be said about Anthroposophical medicine. Both a bust under the current and past leadership. I pointed out that in the real world, in the free market of ideas, anyone who can make Steiner's ideas work will prevail and the rest will end up in the dust bin of has-beens. In #2, I made the case, beyond any reasonable doubt, that biodynamics is swiss cheese. Full of holes. These holes make it unworkable and unsuccessful. Such lunacy as the agriculture calendars don't lend any credibility to Steiner's reputation. Stirring Steiner's remedies by hand is a drag for most people. There's no hard science supporting what they claim, which, despite your misgivings, can readably be attained through a local laboratory (as I do). Now that we have Glen Atkinson and Peter Bacchus' homeopathic approach, a resurrection of the work of the Kaliskos, added to the proper sequencing of the remedies, new and old, we have the means to achieve even this scientific plateau as we never had before. I mentioned how the Kaliskos were denigrated and attacked by the Anthros and BDidiots to such a point that they gave up their research, despite the fact that Steiner himself had encourage their work. In short, I made the case that, beyond any reasonable doubt, biodynamics has a well deserved reputation for not just junk science or pseudo-science, it has a reputation for NO SCIENCE AT ALL! And, that the blind Anthros and BDidiots are leading the blind lemmings over the cliff into the ocean of disrespect and unfulfilled potential. The result is that untold numbers of people - men, women and children, as well as animals and plants, all of whom would benefit remarkably from Steiner agriculture and it's attendant products, suffer and die needlessly at their hands. Sins of omission and sins of commission. That may come as a surprise to many people. who never thought it through. Now would be a good time to do so. Steiner was asked by farmers to save agriculture. He gave them what they asked for. Then the Anthros and BDidiots squandered it for their own purposes. The result, spiritually unenriched food. Steiner was very clear about the consequences. He stated flatly that the chemical food being grown in 1924 would show up as disease, genetic and mental disorders in three generations. He said that by the year 1999, the asylums would be full of lunatics and degenerative diseases would be pervasive. He said that if they wanted to stop it, they'd better get started right away using his remedies. He said to spread it all over the world. They failed. Miserably. What do we face today? All 10 leading causes of death are degenerative diseases, linked directly to diet. The world is in turmoil. The lunatics have taken over the asylum. We're facing World War III. Korea, Iraq, Iran, China, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Ukraine, Russia (to a lesser degree) and others have all fallen into the materialistic trap. Religions, instead of individualized expression of Love for God, have deteriorated into one-ups-manship and terrorism in the name of God. Just exactly what Steiner and the Holy Bible predicted. In Europe, secular humanism has taken over from a Faith/God based civilization. Worldwide, some 100,000,000 people were slaughtered in the 20th Century. The four cornerstones of the Apocalypse are upon us. The center of Anthroposophy and biodynamics are in Dornach, Switzerland, the center of Europe. The secular humanists hijacked the Anthroposophic and biodynamic movements. They've removed God from Steiner's ideas and replaced them with their own. Without Guidance from The Divine, without the Insight and Love that only our Beloved Heavenly Father/Divine Mother/Friend can bring to His/Her children, how can one expect to live a happy, healthy, spiritual life? Is it any wonder that the Dornach Anthros and BDidiots backed registering the trademark in the U.S when they knew, or should have known, it would destroy biodynamics and Steiner's vision? Inside Anthroposophy and biodynamics, the forces of evil and destruction are seen everywhere. If you don't believe that statement, I ask you: what have they accomplished other than to destroy the reputation of Steiner while portraying themselves as the acolytes and keepers of the secret doctrine? I ask you and everyone else reading this, what have the Anthros and BDidiots accomplished that would have changed the course of history and saved millions of lives and stopped the sufferings of millions of people, not to forget too many animals
Re: Greg Willis: Fwd: Fixing Steiner Agriculture #2 The PowerOfMyth
Allan If what you say above is really the case (I dont think so), then we are running a dangerous game taking any notice of what is said now! I dont really think Elaine's BASIC message will change that much over time, maybe fine tuning changes to brewing tactics, and maybe some greater acceptance of energetics will creep in over time, better application of the technology if you like, but the basic biology message behind Soilfoodweb is sound - thats not going to change much? So, Lloyd - You monitor Elaine's work. I ask you, given changes in brewers (as recently as last year pumping water was held on par with pumping air as a means of aeration), food for brews have changed substantially and there is the e-coli concerns. Does this mean anything to you? This is not static work. It is not only work that is being refined but it is also work in which, perhaps, problems have been detected and corrections offered. (e-coli) this is an evolving work. How does one know how to evaluate a piece of archival data if they are operating in a vacuum. (Reading the archive without working with the BD Now! group) Why avoid the living organization? I really don't understand.
Re: BD Now! Audio Files
Wow, Allen! I've sent people to the site to listen to Percy Schmeiser. I think you have the makings of a good site if you can get more items. Even if you can't I hope you leave what you have up. Patti Berg Allan Balliett wrote: Folks - I haven't noticed a lot of interest in the audio files that are posted at www.ibiblio.org/biodynamics I've agreed to post the rest of the recordings from Sally Fallon's 2002 Weston A. Price conference, so there's another 7 or so files about to go up. Posting files takes a very long time. One one hour presentation can tie my computer up for 3 hours and myself up for almost that long. Don't get my wrong, I'm excited to make streaming sound available to students of biological farming and healthy eating, but I don't want to invest any more time and effort into this project if people are not able to utilize it. Case in point: I made a call for other people's tapes and have received to replies. Let me know, ok? We'll count lurkers in this poll also.
Notes on the archives
Hey, the archives exist. Use them or don't use them. Sure, use some discernment as far as what you come across. Technology from 2 years ago may be different today. Yet, the same can be said printed literature; articles in magazines and scientific journals. Yet, if you create a bibliography and point to these literature citations, it is considered value-added organization of information. Why should email postings -- especially the good quality posts from the thinkers and practitioners present on BD-Now --be of any lesser value than their printed counterparts in this Information Age? I am a big user of Information Technology; i.e., all the various web tools and technology. Archives are a dynamic tool which help us organize all this information. That's my view on the matter. Here, I'll prove it. Two ways to use archives: 1. Read about two dozen email lists. Go to web archives and read what you want, and don't read the rest. No sense in analyzing this and insisting that I take all email directly to my inbox, is there? 2. Create a resource list based on pointers to web archives. Like this, as one example:: SANET Web Posts on Compost, Humus, Rock Dusts, Mineralization, Solubilization, Cover Crops, Soil Health http://ncatark.uark.edu/~steved/SANET-posts.html Notice that it also contains the thread on electrolyzed water. Friends, here you can access the complete thread super fast. Did you know this thread with Keishi Matsumura and Hugh Lovel exists in these few web archives only? The thing that intrigues me about Keishi Matsumura's post on electrolyzed water is that oxidized water makes good sense as a fungal and bacterial controlling mechanism. Many of these pathogens are surface-dwelling organisms on fruits and vegetables. If you can disrupt their membranes, throw off their ability to attach to the cuticle layer, or otherwise 'trip them out' with oxidized water, it apparently results in an eco-friendly pest management tool for the farmer. The same thing can easily be done for topical material in BD-Now, if you catch my drift on the value of the archives. Other uses of web archives exist, such as the search engine methods, but no need to go on and on. Warm regards, Steve Diver
Re: BD Now! Audio Files
Allan - When you posted the note about htttp://www.ibiblio.org/biodynamics a short while back, I went and listened to Percy Schmeiser. He was quite sincere and interesting to listen to. He struck a chord in my heart, and the activist spirit got to boiling about Monsanto police tactics. Seed is primal. We have got to protect farmers' rights to save seeds!! So I think the compilation of audio materials in a central location is well worth your effort, and over time the usage will grow and grow. In fact, I want to learn more about audio techniques and blend slides with audio for web-based delivery. Steve Diver
Re: BD Now! Audio Files
Allan, I've got a tape of Fred Kirschenmann at the IFOAM conf. last summer. Let me know if you'd like it. My connection is slow, so theyare hard to listen to since it keeps stopping to reload. I reset the buffering time to a longer time, and that helps, butthat just makes it longer when it does stop... Anyone else having trouble listening or is it me... Is there a way to save the file? I thought I could right click -"Save target as", but it only saves the link and then reloads to RealPlayer to open. Perry Wow, Allen! I made a call for other people's tapes and have received to replies. Let me know, ok? We'll count lurkers in this poll also.
Re: BD Now! Audio Files
- Original Message - From: Perry Clutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:44 PM Subject: Re: BD Now! Audio Files Allan, My connection is slow, so they are hard to listen to since it keeps stopping to reload. I reset the buffering time to a longer time, and that helps, but that just makes it longer when it does stop... Anyone else having trouble listening or is it me... Is there a way to save the file? I thought I could right click - Save target as, but it only saves the link and then reloads to RealPlayer to open. Perry Hi Perry I have the same problem - i think my computer is not up to the job - i get about one minute play then about four minute reloading the buffer (whatever that is) Lloyd Charles
Re: Greg Willis: Fwd: Fixing Steiner Agriculture #2 The PowerOfMyth
Allan I know I'm a stroppy old sod but thats me - one more try OK but the basic biology message behind Soilfoodweb is sound - thats not going to change much. - I believe I'll stick with that - Elaine got it right first time So, Lloyd - You monitor Elaine's work. I ask you, given changes in brewers (as recently as last year pumping water was held on par with pumping air as a means of aeration), most of this info (anti pumping water) came from people selling or intending to sell brewers - where is the science ? - did any of them do comparison trials with ONLY the pumping system changed and TEST the numbers of microbes produced with each method - maybe I missed something but I did'nt see it. (I have no doubt that brewer technology has improved but there are still some of us trying to do things with equipment already on hand) I put this in the same category as the OPINION widely held by BD operators that a rotary pump is somehow inferior to a diahphram pump for pumping preps. Nobody ever provided science - such as the G forces involved internally or accelleration velocities for the various pumps - someone just decided that one was better than the other - there are to many other variables involved for this to be a black and white decision. food for brews have changed substantially - mainly because they are trying much harder to get increased fungal numbers in teas - Elaine talked at length about the type of foods for the different organisms in her original lectures - people are having a lot of fun 'finding' new food sources - but I'm sure they all conform to that basic information she gave us in 1999 Does this mean anything to you? This is not static work. It is not only work that is being refined but it is also work in which, perhaps, problems have been detected and corrections offered. (e-coli) this is an evolving work. How does one know how to evaluate a piece of archival data if they are operating in a vacuum. (Reading the archive without working with the BD Now! group) The archive is a great source of basic information - can we really expect Atkinson, Willis and Lovel to come back and rehash the detailed discussions they had about horn clay and the preps - it went on for weeks and would have taken days of their time to write all that stuff Why avoid the living organization? I really don't understand. I'm living in a vacuum and avoiding the living organisation!!? and here's me thought I was almost a part of it!! Lloyd Charles
FW: [globalnews] Experience of vision is mind: This culture iscrazy
Title: FW: [globalnews] Experience of vision is mind: This culture is crazy This beautiful and poignant message was forwarded to me from a dear friend, Dean Janoff, a Buddhist practitioner, graphics designer and videographer who has traveled the world studying with the high lamas. Curtis -- Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. - Kahlil Gibran Someone just sent this to me and I want to pass it along. RINPOCHE'S EXPERIENCE OF VISION IS MIND - an edited excerpt from oral teachings given by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche during the Tenth Annual Summer Retreat, July 19, 2002 With regard to vision is mind, I'll give this example about one of my first experiences in America. One of the culture shocks for me coming to the West was first opening a big refrigerator. Late one night after just arriving in the United States, I was with friends and we were saying to each other, Let's cook something. There was a huge fridge, the kind you only see in the United States - and you'll find them even in single small houses! In most other places in the world there are refrigerators but none that big. When they opened the fridge, I saw that there was so much food. Yet, the person who opened the door said, Oh, there's no food. We need to go to the grocery store. For a moment, it was a total shock for me. I thought maybe I was seeing things incorrectly! How is it possible, I thought, that we are looking into the same fridge and somebody is seeing that there is no food, yet I am seeing a fridge full of food? But, then when we went to the grocery store I saw that what we bought were just the few extra things we needed to cook with that were not there. Where I grew up in India, though, we made lunch from the leftover breakfast. And the leftover lunch would then be our dinner. So it was never an option that if the onion was missing, we would skip the whole dinner plan and run out to the store. So, even if something is missing in the refrigerator, still, you don't have to run to the grocery store every time. This is a crazy culture. [laughs] When you continue to live here, though, you tend to forget that and not see the different perspectives. But when you're coming here from other places and looking freshly from another point of view, it's just amazing. So, using the fridge as an example, just as you open the fridge, so do you open up your life. And when you open your life, what do you see? There is the opportunity to see, Oh, life is full. We have milk. We have yogurt. We have this. We have that. You can see it's full, so full! Or, you may open it and see, The onion is missing; my life is empty. [laughter] You aren't able to see how full it is because the absence of the onion is so powerful. This is absolutely due to our own vision. Clearly, we have experiences in our lives of the feeling of abundance regardless of what we may actually have or not have. It is simply due to our vision. One of the greatest experiences of this that I have had, which brought me almost to tears, was in Dolanji (India) when a few Tibetans came there from Tibet. The conditions that we were living in there were very poor, but the people who came there from Tibet were basically poorer than us. They didn't have anything. So these few Tibetans arrived in Dolanji, and one day I went to visit them in their room where they stayed. They greeted me, Oh, come in! They were so happy, so happy. As I visited with them there in their room they said, Okay, let's fix something! Of course, in that situation, it was the opposite of when I looked into the fridge in America. They had nothing. I mean nothing in the sense that they had only one plate of dried pieces of bread, leftover bread from maybe a week earlier, and then only boiled water. When we think about how our vision can create a feeling of abundance, it's just amazing that someone could experience it with just this. When they first said, Have something, I thought there would really be something. Then, they brought out the dried bread and a glass of water. They had excitedly offered it, though, and the amazing thing was their joy. Just so much joy. And this generosity, this giving of their dried bread and boiled water. It was a truly amazing experience. Relaxing loosely, letting go --- original wisdom holds its ground. In the river of awareness the mud settles down and the brightness shines! from - Looking Nakedly, Resting Still by Milarepa
Re: BD Now! Audio Files
It's my understanding that internal settings in the Real Audio player will make it effetive with connections as slow as 48k. Have you guys set up all those prefs to let the software know how slow your connection is? Have you tried doubling the memory allotment see how that affects the performance? And, if the above fails, howabout one or the other of you contacting Real Audio to see if we can find a solution. Myself, when I was doing this stuff on a modem, making those custom settings made all the difference. llan, My connection is slow, so they are hard to listen to since it keeps stopping to reload. I reset the buffering time to a longer time, and that helps, but that just makes it longer when it does stop... Anyone else having trouble listening or is it me... Is there a way to save the file? I thought I could right click - Save target as, but it only saves the link and then reloads to RealPlayer to open. Perry Hi Perry I have the same problem - i think my computer is not up to the job - i get about one minute play then about four minute reloading the buffer (whatever that is) Lloyd Charles
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Wow, Allen! I've sent people to the site to listen to Percy Schmeiser. I think you have the makings of a good site if you can get more items. Even if you can't I hope you leave what you have up. Patti Berg Good to hear of your good work, Patti! Thanks for passing the word! -Allan
Archives was Re: Greg Willis:
I'm living in a vacuum and avoiding the living organisation!!? and here's me thought I was almost a part of it!! Lloyd Charles Sorry, Lloyd. As much respect as I have for you, I don't understand your point of view at all. Let me repeat: at all. All I keep thinking is A wiseman profits by the mistakes of others and cannot help but wonder why you find value in reinventing the wheel. But never mind. In response to Steve's points, and perhaps yours: I'm not looking to remove the archives from use by members. That's never been an issue. The archives continue. My issue with the archives are that they are used by people who take without returning anything. If they came to the list and asked the same questions, they would either be referred to the archives because the question is often asked or the answer is stagnant, or, hopefully, some practitioner on this list would have an answer from their own experiences. In this regard, the archives actually stifle discussion on this list and they definitely encourage some people to not bother to join the list. Being steeped in AP at the moment, I think it's a crying shame to even imagine that there are people working on learning biodynamics who think they can learn it without working with a group. Participation is a function of health. I find it very discouraging that through our recorded dialogues that we are enabling individuals who are avoiding participation and are by-passing the sort of exchanges that occur on this list. When someone like Merla (I hope you don't mind being used as a good example) joins the list and asks every question that she needs to ask, it stimulates EVERYONE who cares about Merla's circumstance to search their own experience for ways to advise her to handle the situations in her county. It's a great stimulus. All I'm 'regretting,' Lloyd and Steve, is setting up a way of short changing reciprocation and an effort toward co-evolution while enabling those who avoid working in community. You know, the whole 'bowling alone' thing. Of course want to slide with the times. That's luxury cannot befall traditionalists, however.
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I've got a tape of Fred Kirschenmann at the IFOAM conf. last summer. Let me know if you'd like it. This w.b. awesome. A copy of your tape is preferred. Allan Balliett POB 3047 Shepherdstown, WV 25443
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In fact, I want to learn more about audio techniques and blend slides with audio for web-based delivery. Steve Diver YOu mean a recording of a speaker with the accompanying slides? That's the next step here. If you mean set up your powerpoint presentations with voiceover, then I recommend reconsideration. Everyone wants things to move faster, and all that. Thanks for the feedback. -Allan
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Steve - It dawns on me that you, of all people, would probably have tapes to contribute to this effort. -Allan
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Allan, The settings on Real Playergo as low as 28.8... however, I usually log on at 24.. sometimes getting to 26.4 if I'm lucky!!!I did see a toggle that will allow the whole file to download before playing. I'll give that a try tomorrow. That would at leastbe a better way to hear it without distraction. I'll write Real and get their suggestions for slow connections too. Perry internal settings in the Real Audio player will make it effective with connections as slow as 48k.And, if the above fails, howabout one or the other of you contacting Real Audio to see if we can find a solution.
