Renewable Energy Advocates for Obama

"An Open Prayer": Something we normally do in private

"NERVIE" — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:25:38 EST

Dear Heavenly Host, We understand, and see "up close" and in a personal way, how leaders of banks and other financial institutions do not want to see the economic stimulus that President Obama developed to work. We see how they are making Obama appear "less attractive" to the future American voters. Obstructionist don't want him to go down in history as the President who released the economic, healthcare and financial hold on American's lives. They are trying to save this anointment for their next "Presidential" pick, inspite of the eight years they held the pulse, fear, chaos of American thinking in their hands. It is the same cat and mouse game that was played with President Jimmy Carter and the release of American captives in Iran. We still hear "how fantastic Ronald Reagan was" in doing this. The same with the Berlin Wall. We know the elements were already in place before Reagan became President.It appears no matter how hard President Obama may insist on bipartisan participation, the harder the other side comes up with excuses to not work as a collective. And this is what is causing many to say, don't worry about the other side anymore, they are obstructionist, the "party of no", serious denial and don't want to admit "their prior selfish leaders got us in this mess in the first place". Now they want believers in Obama to own up to Democrats being part of Republican bad decisions. Lord we see the split in their party's attitude. We see how they are using your name to feather their beds more. We see the fear mongering and hatred being used to divide us. We know some in their party feel they were blindsided by the other side in creating a war with one nation that had nothing to do with 9/11. Yes, there were Democrats who voted with them. Many Democrats say now they were doing the immediate, efficient, "patriot vote" for political survival and not asking enough questions and exploring the options. We Lord these individuals lost sight of you and the human purpose, for the "selfish purpose", and hence we are where we are. There may be little new under the sun to you Lord, but if you know where we should look to learn more about "the past" so we don't continue to make the same mistakes, please guide us. The support that President Obama needs now is "tantamount". The Gridlock is increasing the closer we get to "voting time". To make us disheartened and walk away is the goal. Then they can say the American people are disappointed in President Obama and he doesn't deserve a second term. We hear the negative repetition like drum beats but we know they are not drum beats from you Lord. Right now, the media is hungry, looking for any "missteps", "mistakes", or any "hesitationon the Obama Administration's part and they believe they are our "little Gods". Obama, Lord, selected individuals who had been part of the Bush and Clinton Administrations to find peace and understanding in where we have been to rectify the present. May the Lord's wisdom continue to be Obama's guide and we pray that Obama does not lose sight of the most needed elements of the American people knowing the world is too as dependent on his walk to progress. AMEN! Minerva & Todd, "The Communicators" of Santa Clarita

Open Research Sharing Notes.

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:06:13 EST

Societies Failure to provide adequate treatment programs for mentally disturbed inmates.

"Do you know that - mental disorders are found in a fairly large number of the inmates in correctional institutions. There are no exact figures as to the inmates who are mentally disturbed and this is partly because it is hard to draw a precise line between "mental disturbance" and "normality"

Do you know that expers find that somewhere between 15% and 25% of inmates are suffering from disorders that are obvious enough to show up in routine psychiatric and sociological examinations.

Society has not yet really come to grips with the problem of what to do with mentally disturbed offenders because there is not enough money available to set up treatment programs for all the people indentify as mentally disturbed. Moreover, there would probably qualify psychiatric personnel available to run such programs even if they could be set up.

Moreover, most mentally disturbed offenders are therefore left to serve out there time in correctional institutions."

Psalms 109:8

"NERVIE" — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:17:42 EST

It may be considered a Bible war going on in the internet but ladies and gentlemen when someone markets teddy bears, t-shirts, with Psalms 109:8 on it in reference to President Barack Obama, it is time to turn up the serious valve and ask is this an American Jihad and where are the religious leaders when you need them to stand up and exhibit contentiousness against such a decree!

And what is the CIA, FBI and Secret Service doing about any of this?

FOX, IS IT NEWS?

"NERVIE" — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:19:24 EDT

Journalist Jeff Greenfield responded to the ongoing battle from the media this week, when reporting, that the FOX NEW’S DEPARTMENT is being accused of being the research and communication’s arm of the Republican Party. He also says that “. . . Fox’s bottom-line has increased 13% since Obama came into office. So perhaps they are crying all the way to the bank”.

Obama accuses Fox News as appearing “to be more like a talk show format and not a news format”.

There is no question that the Rupert Murdoch owned conglomeration’s opinions predominately favor the far Right Republican agenda. So when the White House decides not to give more fuel to Fox’s perceived negativity and refuses to be on their programs, is this an exercise of free speech? On the other hand, is it an exercise in futility? The points of views coming from the White House will be interpreted as the voice of the Obama Administration no matter what the administration representative says when they appear on FOX. Being fair however, MSNBC has been called the most left in their presentation of Obama’s opinions. So to whom do we listen for the “true news story”? Nevertheless, who would that be?

Where do we find a news source that is truly balanced? Personally, I find I have to listen to them all and weigh what seems “logical”, but I was taught in journalism school and at the LA TIMES that politics are highly hinged in “manipulating emotions and the illusion”.

Oct 28 Wed, Bipartisan Educational Discussion w/Hart School Board candidates

"NERVIE" — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:10:10 EDT

*Come join our JOINT BIPARTISAN SESSION

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:00PM

Please note the correct date for the William S. Hart School Board Forum is Wednesday, October 28, 2009. The Democratic Club of Santa Clarita Valley and the Democratic Alliance for Action and residents of the 37th and 38th Assembly District in the Santa Clarita Valley area will be hosting a joint candidate forum for the Hart School Board Race. We will be meeting at Vincenzo’s Pizza at 24504 ½ Lyons Avenue in Newhall on Lyons Avenue, please arrive early to socialize. Each candidate will be given an opportunity to talk about their campaign and priorities for the Hart School Board.

As of press time: Bob Jensen, Joe Messina, Suzan Solomon, and Linda Valdes confirmed that they will be present.

More importantly, you will have the opportunity to ask some of those burning questions, so you can decide who you want to “vote smart” for on Tuesday, November 3rd Election! We hope to see you there. For questions leave message at (661) 295-9318 or write: minwilli@gmail.com. All Polls open at 7AM and close at 8PM. Absentee ballots can be dropped off at the polls. You can bring your children with you when you vote. Question on where your polling site is call 800-481-8683 or visit: http://www.lavote.net

FREE FLU SHOTS . . .

"NERVIE" — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:07:52 EDT

Saw this in yesterday's Business section of the L.A. Times, CVS and Walgreens promote free flu shots for the unemployed.

CVS will immunize 10,000 individuals that are jobless and Walgreen will give the shot to the uninsured. For a list of the vaccination locations visit www.cvs.com <http://www.cvs.com/> or call (888) FLU-SHOT. Walgreens will also give out vouchers to eligible people. Go to www.walgreens.com <http://www.walgreens.com/> or call (866) 484-TOUR for further information.

Peace out, Minerva

Frank Schaeffer: Crazy for God . . . and some

"NERVIE" — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:01:24 EDT

Frank Schaeffer will be here on November 17, Hammer Museum, UCLA at 7:00 PM. * He’ll provide his firsthand account about the moral majority and the 20,000 conservative religious right ambusing of the Republican Party and 3.5 million Americans. He and his parents Anita and Frank Schaefferr created the concept in the 1970’s and 1980’s! Scary? “Bush was unqualified to be president”, says Schaeffer, “the behavior of his administration has almost pushed the entire US of America over a cliff, it will probably take a longer period of time to bring us back to the where we were” and he believes President Obama will get us there. Schaeffer like Obama is a Christian, but no longer a fundamentalist. He said he palled with the Bush family in their Switzerland Chalet, discussing pro-life issues. He offered his father would recognize the abortion stance however, “he wouldn’t be pleased with the Christianity movement, gay bashing and creating the war in Iraq”. “In the last eight years of “Focus on the Family”, Dobson, Jerry Farwell, Anne Coulture, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh for example were an absolute period of craziness [to me they still area] And today’s republican leaders are either neo-conservatives or panders to the fundamentalist religious right. Anyone not in these two camps to them are considered their enemy”. “These Americans are never going to stand behind Obama … and would rather see the entire country and Earth scorched before having an African American male president who is liberal and believe in the right to choose life style and life issue choices”. He offered no apology for the “Open Letter to President Barack Obama”. He said he told Obama personally that he is “red meat of hate”… “A village can’t reorganize village life around fundamentalist Christians”. He says that there aren’t any Republicans leaders who have the moral courage or willing to risk their majority position to reclaim the Republican party”.Schaeffer warned Senator John McCain first http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/an-open-letter-to-john-mc_b_133489.html Schaeffer is author of: Crazy for God; Faith for God; Saving Grandma and Portofino* You have to get there an hour early because the tickets are free and first come, first serve with the Museum members getting a priority over any other community members. Parking is usually a mess at UCLA, so wear tennis shoes. See you there . . . Minerva L. Williams

A Discussion on Israel . . .

"NERVIE" — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:13:04 EDT

As we all know, the situation in Israel is still being discussed by The Obama Administration and individuals are anxious that the Iran has a nuclear program. We need to know the facts behind the battling in Israel. This is not my event, however, I encourage those seeking answers to meet this great groups of folks and attend:

Global Exchange

Ventura County Supporters

present

A Recent Visit to Gaza

Wednesday, October 28

7:00 P.M- 8:30 P.M.

Thousand Oaks Library

Laila Al-Marayati, MD, will share her experiences of her recent visit to Gaza and will address some of the major political issues that impact the ongoing situation.

Dr. Al-Marayati is the chairperson of Kids in Need of Development, Education and Relief (KinderUSA), a non-profit humanitarian organization dedicated to helping Palestinian children and their families in Gaza, the West Bank and refugee camps in Lebanon. And on behalf of KinderUSA, she traveled to the Gaza Strip in May of this year where she had the opportunity to witness first hand the degree of destruction caused by the Israeli offensive in December of 2008. She visited with numerous Palestinians who continue to suffer under a regime of collective punishment that targets all members of society including those most vulnerable, children. The effects of the ongoing siege of Gaza combined with the trauma caused by the Israeli attack have imposed serious challenges on Palestinians living in Gaza. Yet their resourcefulness and faith help them survive and endure, hoping against all hope for a better future.

Dr. Al-Marayati has served on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom as an appointee of former President Bill Clinton. She is a practicing obstetrician-gynecologist and is the Medical Director of Women's Health at the Eisner Pediatric and Family Medical Center. She serves as the spokesperson of the Muslim Women's League based in Los Angeles which seeks to strengthen the role of Muslim women in society by disseminating accurate information about Islam and women to Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

A question and answer period will follow the presentation.

The program is free and open to the public.

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Public Infastructure

Jimmy Zhou — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:44:00 EDT

Public Infastructure is key to our independence from fossil fuels. Look at Japan and Europe, most people there depend on the public infastructure. America doesn't have to achieve that but what America does have to do is create more funding in order to be on top of the game.

Is Nuclear Energy the Future?

Jimmy Zhou — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:58:35 EDT

Some people believe that the only way towards energy independence is nuclear power. Some experts such as chemical engineer Joseph Shuster (you can check out his website at http://beyondfossilfools.com/) say that nuclear energy is the only energy source currently availible to achieve energy independence. They say that nuclear power has by far the safest record out of all the major energy sources, they argue that it is very cheap and declare that nuclear power is currently avalible. All of those is true but just like fossil fuels, nuclear power depends on a finite energy source, uranium. So if we ever do run out of uranium, what will we do? Future generations would be stuck with the same problem that we have right now.

Funding for Renewable Energy

Jimmy Zhou — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:08:31 EDT

Money, money, money. Nowadays money is a very important resource, you can use it to buy just about anything. But in this case, money can be used to support research for renewable energy sources. If no money is put into research for renewable energy sources, then once we do run out of fossil fuels, we will have less advanced technology to generate electricity therefore making it harder and more expensive. So we must do our part and donate money to the Obama administration in order to support renewable energy. You can also go to my fundraising page at http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/obama4energy.

Fact

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:30:23 EDT

Parliament granted the vote to women over the age of 30 in 1928, in Britan.

Before that time, women were not allowed to Vote.

Practical Yoga

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:00:44 EDT

nBhakti Yoga = It is a philosophical concept of complete love and devotion to the Creator/God/Goddess – as it is stress in the Veda Holy book of Verses known as the Gita. nRaja Yoga = It is an ancient philosophical concept of one being in complete union with God = The Supreme Soul - through meditation and pure actions and complete total devotion to God the Father. This method of Yoga concentrates on meditation and is known to be a good technique for beginners, because it concentrates less on strength. Raja Yoga. nThis Yoga teaches us balance. nWhen you start this path of spirituality you gain this power of wisdom so that you can transform the world. nGod give you the power to transform the people and the world – with qualities such as: nGentleness nPeace nPurity nInnocence nSo, God will give you the strengths and courage and power to stand up for the Truth. nComplete spiritual development – it is the Goal for self and others – so that others can live in Peace and Harmony. nYou have to experience – the truth – which than changes your vibration – and the vibration of the Human Soul even affects the Vibration of nature – and this good Vibration of purity affects everything around. nThe Vibration spreads and everything even plants and animals catches that Vibration of Purity from the Human Soul. nMoreover, when a human being becomes pure – The Vibration of that individual can have an impact in changing the people and the world. nIn order for a person to transcend spiritually to a level of purity, one must: nChange attitude nStand out for the Truth nHabits have to change nThoughts have to change nSo, that as a result of practicing this Yoga path, one can develop spiritually. nGod passes His Vibration to us through meditation, – and we pass that vibration of God and purity to others. nRules of Wisdom: nStick to the Truth. nFallow God’s instructions and directions. nIf you reach the stage of purity and of Godlikeness and qualities – then you will become a demigod – and you can affect nature through your vibrations of: nPeace nHarmony nSo, you will be able to affect others with these good Vibrations of Purity and promote wellness to others by first healing the spirit. nHuman Being = Body, Mind, and Spirit. nWhen one becomes contented and satisfied – and have a good relationship with God – The Supreme Soul takes care of everything and fulfills all your desires. nThen, God comes to teach us, but to become Godly we have to obey him =The Supreme Soul our father -The one and only God. nOnly when your Soul becomes Pure and Peaceful, - and thoughts – and attitudes change, – Then, and only then – It is when we become worthy by observing all the laws that God teaches us – then we can become part of Gods coven and share the Vibrations of Goodness and purity to others – so that others can change and one can give those good Holy Vibrations to nature – so that nature can change also for the better. nNature serve us and it is affected by the Human beings Vibrations, which also affects plants and animals. nYoga = Union with God nOne must do this Yoga to have a relationship with God and to understand it more. nOne side of the tree of life is the awareness of God the father and the Philosophy of Karma, – and the other side of the tree the other side is not concern with love for God the father = like all religions that were created and the ignorance of religions against other religions. nThe Yoga of the intellect needs to have the connection with the Seed. nEvery religion is but a branch of the tree of life. nOne must open his/her intellect to other religions, so that one can understand everything. nWhen you have The Seed, then, you can understand The Whole Tree. nThe Seed is God. nThere must be a connections with God so that their could be complete salvation of The Soul and other Souls. nWe learned from each other even though we are all different, and we learned to cooperate. nIn this way, you can see the beauty of all those Souls for all The Souls come from the same tree – from the same seed which is God the father – and we all Souls are one family – brothers and sisters Souls belonging to the same tree no matter what color or race we are all from the same family – the family of God – The Same Tree.

Practical Yoga

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:55:01 EDT

üWords of Wisdom
Community = a place for you = a place to belong. Together we make a difference, because we all are one person, one community, and one world. üTheology is a formulation of knowledge about the Nature of God, and its laws and or requirements of human beings.
It is the study of the Creator (the one with many names and many ways) and of Gods relations to the Universe, and it is the study of religious truth.
nThe Yoga of Writing and Sharing Wisdom – Famtrad
n
A Study conducted by the North Dakota State University found that “people who have asthma and arthritis markedly improved their health simply by setting aside time from twenty minutes a day to three days a week – to write (I call it the Yoga of free writing). Of the seventy patients that participated in the one moth research study, 47% show definite improvement,” as opposed to only 24% who showed improvement without writing. So, the researchers concluded that putting your thoughts and observations on paper relieves stress and eases the mind.”
nA research at the University of Pennsylvania School of medicine showed that by doing some Yoga exercises, some people can reduce pain in the wrist, and improve flexibility, and even reduced numbness, by practicing some simple Yoga posture exercises. These postures are believed to increased blood flow. -References – Maramatha Christian Journal – Medical School to examine role of Religion – Social Science and Medicine American Journal of Public Health – Book Natural Cures and Gentle Medicines. nThis Yoga is a method which is known to unite ones, mind, body and spirit. nYou see, free writing is a form of relaxation, of transcendental meditation, and of visualization, and of developing the practice of Yoga writing as a form of increasing the awareness of ones creative mind. nYoga writing helps one to developed patience, persistence, and or self-discipline as well self-acceptance.

Good Health = means not just freedom from disease-but it means a state of complete Physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:09:11 EDT

The power from God = The Supreme Soul gives one the strengh to fullfill pure action fill with the love and power from the Supreme God, and this knowledge spreads and benefits many.

Soul = a redient light that is sitting in this Human body.

Pure thoughts are the most valuable lesson to ones life.

When you help someone spiritually you help the whole person - body, mind, and spirit = Human Being.

Cycles of the Soul

1- Golden age

2- Silver age

3- copper age

After the copper age the Soul gets a body - a material body and impurity beggins to pull the Soul down from the supreme level of spiritual heaven, and that is how the soul falls to this material level also known as:

4- The Iron age = Dominated by body conciussnes and evil, and this age comes with sickness, pain and sorrow, bondaged.

At the end of the Iron age is when The Supreme Soul interferes -This is when God Comes - This age is the down of the Golden age all over again- and for those who recognized The Supreme Soul=God and the knowledge=wisdom -then and only then they get to move on to what is called:

5- The Diamond Age = It is when the Soul knows and now understands the whole drama and clarity and wisdom and that Soul prepares to serve so that it can move on to the Golden age of the Circle of the cycles of the Soul - The Golden Age = the age of perfection also known as Spiritual Heaven.

In other words The Souls have a Cycle that is round like a wheel - all souls are children of the Supreme Soul God and The whole Cycle of the Souls takes about 5000 years from the Golden age -all the way down to the Iron age and then the diamond age and back to the Golden age again. So, This means that Our Souls are like angels pure with a body of light and they go through decending cycles - we are the fallen angels -when we finish going down the cycle wheel we get to the end of the wheel where is the Iron age and we materialized by getting a physical body, then God The Supreme Soul interferes at that point and comes and picks us up and prepare us with wisdom after the drama of purification - the drama of purification is the fire the souls go through so that they can become purify the fire is not a hot fire but a cold fire of God that purifies the human heart and mind and spirit also known as the fire of yoga. Well after the drama of purification God interferes making us wise and when we aknowledge and recognized God and become pure enough we say we are in the Diamond age the dawn of the Golden age all over again. Then in The golden age are souls become angels again and start the Cycle of the souls all over again.

A Healthy Lifestyle

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:00:04 EDT

1- Nutrition

2- Relaxation

3- Exercise

4- Creativity

5- Appropiate Sleep

6- Avoiding overindulgence

7- Trust and communication

8- Decision making

9- Personal responsibility

10- Worthiness

Good Health = A state of complete physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Dear Honorable Mr. President May You Grant Me a Pardon to Sponge The Ex Tax Problem Record I Had Back In 2004-2006 So That I Can Have A Second Chance To Get On With My Social Service Career And Be Able To Earned Enough So that I Can Repay Higher Educatio

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:35:43 EDT

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem ha publicado una nota en tu perfil Ver nota Publicar una nota “ Can you imagine Striven all your life to get a college education get your degrees in debt with higher education 30,000 dollars and finally you have your own office, your own bussiness Then, not having it any more because you trusted the wrong people to run your bussiness now having to start all over again and even if you are a well educated person because of the ex tax problem you are marked for life not being able to get the Job or career, 3 years of your life gone down the toilet and 20 years of college....
I Wish for a miracle that President Obama will Pardon the tax problem I had back in 2004-2006 I did my time, I learn from my mistake, I want a second chance so that I can get a Job as a Social Worker So that I can repay higher education. ”

Ohm Shanti = I am a Peaceful Soul.

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:58:44 EDT

Baba = A term of close relatioship with God The Supreme Soul.

Maturity of the Soul = Understanding Right and Wrong.

Course or Blessing = result of ones own actions on one-self.

Self = Soul

Every action = an imprint or a record for eternity.

Karma Law = Action and Reaction

Sharing Wisdom

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:42:43 EDT

When I Was Growing Up -(by Nellie Wong)

"When I was growing up, I read magazines and saw movies, blonde movie stars, white skin...

When I was growing up, I was proud of my English, my grammar, my spelling - until I went to high school, and then I discovered the rich white girls, and a few Indian girls like me....

When I was growing up, I felt ashamed not to fit in eventhough my skin was light and fair, and I thought that God made white people clean and no matter how much I bathed, I could not change, I could not shed my skin in the gray water.

I know now that once I too longed to be white.

How many more ways? you ask.

Haven't I told you enough?"

PS. Say no to racism. Racism hurts humans souls.

The Super Soul

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:07:51 EDT

Raja Yoga means in Unity With The Supreme Universal Soul God.

Sharing Wisdom

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:04:06 EDT

"Sister" - by (Cris Williamson)
"Born of Mother Earth
Child of the Goddess
Just one among the family
And you can count on me
To share the load
And I will always help you
Hold burdens
And I will be the one
To help you ease your pain
So, Lean on me, I am you sister
Believe on me, I am your friend
I will fold you in my arms
Like a white wing dove
Shine in your soul
Your spirit is crying
Born of Mother Earth
Child of the Goddess
Just one among the family
And you can count on me
To share the load
And I will always help you
Hold burdens
And I will be the one
To help you ease your pain
Lean on me, I am your sister
Believe on me, I am your friend
Lean on me, I am your sister
Believe on me, I am your friend."

Sharing Wisdom - Raja Yoga

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:47:50 EDT

This is a beautiful article I read today and I want to share with you all.

"A self -sovereign is someone whom God Himself made His/Her child and then taught him or her to be a master of the Self. To rule oneself, one needs peace, love, happiness, purity, and the power of truth no matter what, for these innate qualities are our spiritual rights, the rights the rights we all can claim from God - The Supreme Soul - Our Sweet father God (Baba). We can claim these rights at the time of our spiritual realization and that we are not the body but a Soul. All Souls are Self-Sovereign because we are all the Sons and Daughters of God The Supreme Soul. The Spiritual flame of the Soul opens our third eye of enlightenment, and at that point the spiritual light becomes steady, stable, and sparkling, and from just a thin line, the spiritual light increases (during meditation focusing on the spot between your eyes where the Soul resides and has direct contact with God the Supreme Soul like a tiny star of light) within the soul the spiritual light increases until it becomes complete and full. At this point is the celebration of a new direction in life. It is the time of both farewell and congratulations. Farewell to the old ways and congratulations to the new you. Farewell to old patterns of thinking, tendencies, and habits, and congratulations to new zeal, enthusiasm, and pure, elevated thinking. This is the age to use time and thoughts in an imperishable way and to celebrate long-lasting results." -(Adapted from A periodic publication of Global Harmony House-The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University.

The Seven Warning Signs Of Cancer

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:57:10 EDT

Warning Signs Of Cancer:

Change in bowel or bladder habits

Indigestion or difficulty swallowing

Thickening or lump in the breast or other place in the body

An Obvious change in a wart or a mole

Unusual bleeding or discharge from a body opening

Nagging cough or persistent hoarseness

A sore that does not heal

Some Risk Factors For Cancer.

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:50:57 EDT

Major Risk factors for cancer:

Too much exposure to sunlight

Smoking

Too much Alcohol use

Lack of Physical activity

Obesity

Not eating fruits and vegetables

Poor nutrition

Radiation

Some food additives - such as substitude sugar

Exposure to some chemicals and or industrial agents

When helping the ill or eldely relatives or friends.

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:41:18 EDT

Remember: Always, help promote self care as well as independence - respect their privacy - hear what they have to say and be sensitive to how the illness is affecting the person. Always promote (the ill person's) health and comfort and assure the person safety or in other words make the person fell safe. Help maintain the person's dignity as well as their self-worth, and always have a positive attitude and be ready to respond to their needs. Remember is not about you, but it is about the elderly or ill person who needs the assistence, they come first, and one must have a lot of patience and show concern. Also, use simple, clear statements and a normal tone of voice and donot ever talk to adults as if they were children.

Serving Friend and Family 'As Jesus did, and Promoting Wellness.

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:26:34 EDT

The applications of heat and or cold to injured areas can have multiple good effects. You know, heat relieves pain as well as muscular tension, and it also reduces the swelling, elevates the temperature in the tissues, and as a result increases the flow of blood.

Increase blood flow can bring more oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and help them heal.

Also, cold applications help to stop bleeding and prevent swelling and reduce the pain, also bring down the fevers.

Do you know that... the electric heating pads can also be used as heat applications. Also, electric heating pads donot cool down and if you have it too hot can be very dangerous for the ill person.

So, make sure that the heating pad is working just fine, and donot use it if the wires are exposed. One must always use safety precaution methods with a heating pad.

Some Amazing Facts about Nuclear Power

Nevada — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:21:32 EDT

American public has been led to believe that nuclear power is extremely dangerous and that nuclear waste disposal is an unsolved problem. Those beliefs are based on preposterous distortions perpetrated by irrational environmentalists and an irresponsible mass media. In reality, a reactor meltdown would have to occur every two weeks to make nuclear power as deadly as the routine emissions from coal-fired power, from which we get about half of our electric power in the United States. (Note: some newer nuclear power plant designs cannot possibly meltdown.) And if the United States went completely nuclear for all its electric power for 10,000 years, the amount of land needed for waste disposal would be about what is needed for the coal ash that is currently generated every two weeks.Anti-nuclear activists like to scare us with horror stories about the "thousands of tons of nuclear waste" that have been produced since nuclear power began some four decades ago. That sounds like a lot -- until you put it into perspective, which anti-nuclear activists and the mass media never do. Consider that one pound of plutonium can produce as much energy as the Yankee Stadium full of coal. And coal-fired power generates something like 100 million tons of waste annually in the United States, or about three tons of ash per second. Every few hours, more coal ash is generated than high-level nuclear waste has been generated in four decades!Oh, but nuclear waste is far more dangerous than coal waste, isn't it? Actually, it isn't. For a given amount of energy produced, coal ash is actually more radioactive than nuclear waste. How can that be? Simple. The quantity of coal ash is literally millions of times greater than the corresponding quantity of nuclear waste, so even though the radioactive intensity of the coal ash is much less, the overall amount of radiation and radioactive matter is greater.But nobody worries much about the radioactivity of coal ash because the chemicals in it are far more dangerous. They include several thousand tons per year of mercury and other heavy metals, along with huge amounts of lead, arsenic, and asbestos, for example. Yet even the huge quantities of chemical waste in coal ash are of little concern compared to the gaseous emissions from burning coal, which kill an estimated 10,000 to 50,000 Americans every year, depending on which study you believe. As a point of reference, even the lower estimate approaches the rate at which Americans died in the Viet Nam war, and the higher estimate greatly exceeds it, yet the media rarely report on those deaths.So let's get this straight. For a given amount of energy produced, coal waste has more radioactive matter than nuclear waste, yet the radioactivity of coal waste is nowhere near as dangerous as the solid chemical waste, which in turn is nowhere near as dangerous as the gaseous emissions. Are you starting to get the picture yet?But even those staggering figures fail to capture the major environmental advantages of nuclear power over coal-fired power. Why? Because the solid and gaseous emissions from coal burning are generated in such a huge quantity that they cannot possibly be contained. They can only be spewed into the atmosphere and dumped into shallow landfills. There is no conceivable way to isolate waste that is generated at the rate of three tons per second. Nuclear waste, on the other hand, is so miniscule in comparison that it can be almost completely isolated from the environment at a very modest cost. And even though that cost has been greatly inflated by the anti-nuclear hysteria, it is still very manageable.If all the high-level nuclear waste that has ever been generated were simply dumped into the middle of the ocean, it would be many thousands of times less harmful than the coal waste generated over the same period. But the nuclear waste is so miniscule in quantity that it can be isolated almost completely from the environment. In fact, that is exactly what is being done all over the world. Basic technology exists to convert nuclear waste into a solid, water-impermeable glass form, encase it into stainless-steel-lined concrete containers, and put it thousands of feet underground where water hasn't flowed for hundreds of thousands of years. And nuclear power produces no gaseous emissions, of course.Yet, amazingly, a large percentage of the American public has been hoodwinked into believing that nuclear waste disposal is an "unsolved" problem. In order to perpetuate the absurd mythology of nuclear waste, anti-nuclear extremists have concocted the absurd idea of a "nuclear priesthood" to warn people of the dangers of buried nuclear waste thousands of years in the future. Never mind that coal waste contains more overall radioactivity and is not contained at all. The idea of a "nuclear priesthood" is based on another absurd anti-nuclear distortion: the idea that nuclear waste is "dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years."Oh yes, nuclear waste would indeed be "dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years" if we were stupid enough to leave it lying around untreated, but did someone forget to mention that coal ash is dangerous forever? That's right: solid chemical waste never decays. It will be as dangerous in ten million years as it was the day it was generated. And there is so much of it that we have no choice but to leave it lying around untreated. So do we need”coal-ash priesthood"? Only if we've lost our sanity and common sense. Note, incidentally, that uranium comes from the ground in the first place, where it is neither encased in stainless-steel-lined concrete containers nor isolated from groundwater.The whole notion that nuclear waste is "dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years" is fundamentally misleading. Nuclear waste contains a combination of many radioactive materials with a wide range of half-lives, ranging from a fraction of a second to millions of years. The short-lived materials radiate very intensely but for a short period of time (they are safely dissipated at the power plant long before they are ever put into long-term storage). The long-lived materials such as uranium and plutonium, on the other hand, radiate for a very long time but at an extremely low level -- so low that their danger is essentially chemical. The materials with intermediate half-lives on the order of a few decades are the most problematic, but even they are easily manageable.Coal-fired power is many thousands of times more dangerous and harmful to the environment than nuclear power. Does that mean coal-fired power should be stopped? Absolutely not. Even coal-fired power is far better than no power at all. Without economical electric power, we will rapidly degenerate into a third-world nation, and average lifespan will drop precipitously. Even though emissions from coal-fired power cost many lives, the net effect of coal-fired power is to extend average lifespan. The point is not that coal-fired power is bad, but rather that nuclear power is thousands of times cleaner and safer. And the fact that so many so-called "environmentalists" vociferously oppose nuclear power -- even while they agitate for draconian measures to stop "global warming" -- should tell you something about them: they are either ignorant or they have ulterior ideological motives -- or both.

We did Bo proud at the "Health Care Has Gone to the Dogs" Dogwalk!

Marjorie — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:09:50 EDT

We had a wonderful National Health Care Service Day together, raised $105 plus a waist-high box full of precious supplies for Casa De Los Ninos (a local children's transitional crisis housing center with a warm, supportive environment), saw adorable dogs sporting their Obama gear and shared from the heart about our health care stories and why we care so much!

Bo, the President's new furry companion, would have been proud of his canine brothers in Reid park!

Great job everyone! I cannot thank you enough for making this a wonderful event!

Sharing Knowledge. - Drink From The River Of Knowledge -

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:06:54 EDT

nOur Solar system formed about 5 billion years ago from a giant cloud of gas and debris. The Solasystem consist of nine large planets, their satellites, and a variety of smaller objects, ranging from asteroids, meteors, and comets to tiny particles of dust and gas, all in orbit around a central star, our Sun. n Our Sun is a medium-sized star within a spiral galaxy of stars known as the Milky Way. nSun- It is the star around which Earth revolves and the gravitational center of the solar system. Our sun is a G-type dwarf, about 4.6 billion years old, and about 270,000 times closer to us than the next nearest star. nOur Sun consists largely of hydrogen 71% by mass, some helium 27%, and heavier elements. It puts out 400 trillion trillion watts of energy, produced by the fusion of hydrogen to helium by the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle in its core, where the temperature reaches 15.6 million K. nOur Sun is as wide as 109 Earths, and it spins on its axis with a period that varies from 25 days at the equator to 33.5 days near the poles. The visible surface, or photosphere, is surrounded by the chromosphere, and beyond this, is the corona. nImportant features of the chromo sphere of our Sun include the chromospheres network, plages, prominences, filaments, and spicules. nThe Important features of the corona of our Sun includes coronal holes, coronal loops, coronal mass ejections, helmet streamers, polar plumes, and solar flares. nDuring the formation of the solar gravity cause Earth and the other planets to became layered according to the density of the materials of which they were composed. The distance of each planet from the Sun was a key factor in determining the planet’s characteristics. Powerful emissions from the Sun drove off most of the nearby gases, leaving behind the small, dense, rocky terrestrial planets. The more distant Jovian planets had sufficient gravity to retain much of the gas that surrounded them, and thus evolved into the large, low-density, gaseous planets. nThe formation of the Solar System left numerous smaller objects, such as asteroids, comets, and meteors, orbiting the Sun. Moreover, from time to time, these objects collide with planets, and impact craters from such collisions have been identified in Earth’s crust, and impact events have been correlated with mass extinctions and global climate change on Earth. nSupernova – It is the death explosion of certain types of stars, (the future of what will happen to our sun) resulting in a sudden, vast increase in brightness followed by a gradual fading. Moreover, It is a stellar explosion in which the entire outer envelop of a star is blown away in a violent outburst , leaving behind a dense core. nAt peak light output, a supernova can outshine an entire galaxy. Most of the star is blown into interstellar space at speeds of several percent of the speed of light, eventually forming a supernova remnant. nSupernovas are the primary suppliers of heavy elements for the Universe. Elements necessary for life, such as carbon and oxygen, as well as heavier elements like iron, are produced by nucleosynthesis within the star. nIn the explosive death of the star, these elements are thrown out so that they may be recycled by other stars and gases. The amount of heat and pressure released from a supernova explosion may create new regions of star birth by compressing the surrounding interstellar medium. nIn addition, Supernovas are used as light beacons to measure cosmological distances. Important as they are, few supernovas have been observed nearby. The last one in our Galaxy exploded in 1604 and was observed by Johannes Kepler before the invention of the telescope.

Big Bang Theory = Creation

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:01:16 EDT

nBig Bang Theory – It is the theory that teach us that all matter and energy in the Universe was once compressed into an extremely small volume that suddenly, billions of years ago, began expanding in all directions. nIt is said that this theory explains how the Universe was born with one gigantic explosion, and that this is the reason why everything is in motion also that the Universe is constantly growing. nThe Universe is vast and is estimated to be over 10 billion years old. The current theory is that the Universe was created by an explosion called the big bang. Evidence for this theory includes the red-shifted spectra of distant galaxies and cosmic background radiation. There are several possible models for the future of the Universe , depending upon its total mass. The Universe Befo nIt is believed that at some point before the beginning of creation the Universe was about 100 million trillion times smaller than a proton. nDuring this time known as the Plank Era, quantum gravitational effects dominated and there was no distinction between the four fundamental forces of nature which are: nGravity nElectromagnetism nStrong Forces nAnd Weak Forces re Creation nIt is believed that at some point before the beginning of creation the Universe was about 100 million trillion times smaller than a proton. nDuring this time known as the Plank Era, quantum gravitational effects dominated and there was no distinction between the four fundamental forces of nature which are: nGravity nElectromagnetism nStrong Forces nAnd Weak Forces

Grassroots In Humanism

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:43:08 EDT

nPhilosophy of Religion - This involves the application and analysis to the concepts and ideas which are characteristic of religion. nMany aspects of religion are sociological in nature, for example, issues about the power exercised by organized religions. nOther features are psychological, for example, in terms of the cognitive attitudes which might tend to encourage someone to join a particular religious groups. nThe nature of religious knowledge is a fundamental issue in the philosophy of religion. nMuch of the analyses of religious knowledge has centered on the supposed difference between natural and revealed religious experience. nPhilosophy of Religion - A natural religious experience is one which develops from a natural experience, such as the feeling of peace or well-being that might result from a long walk in the country. nOne might feel a sense of unity with nature, with the stream of life. nOne might have a sense of being part of the natural progression of things and that the Universe is being directed by an external power. nEven if one does not conceptualize this as involving God, then it is still arguably a religious experience. nReveled Religious Knowledge – derives from the from the particular insights of a religious teacher or mystic. nSometimes such a person is part of a long religious tradition, such as Buddhism, where there is a clearly established body of received wisdom - Famtrad, and the teacher interprets it to the adherents of that tradition. nIn the case of both natural and reveled religion one wants to established the status of the experiences which people claim to have had. n Universalistic Religions: Are Religions that their spiritual messages applied to all groups of people

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Oskowitz Words Of Wisdom

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:38:07 EDT

My labor of love is teaching, educating, and making a difference in the world by sharing wisdom with family, friends, helping others without reserve, and willing to guide them towards enlightment and spiritual development. nCivic Humanism – It is a type of humanism that stresses the thought that human beings achievement and education is totally uttered merely if groups apply their talents to serve their cities. nThe Covenant I will protect the unity of my church=community and nature (Mother Earth):
Caring about other people
Refusing to gossip
Following the leaders
Sharing responsibilities of my community and city and praying for it.
Sharing wisdom with others.
Discovering my gifts and challenges
Being ready to serve others and my community
Living a Godly Life.
High Priestess - It is a full – time consecrated well trained, female religious professional and researcher who cares wholeheartedly on the subject of self and others, and is always willing to facilitate, for her rewards are not of this world but divine. A High-Priestess is also known since ancient times as a Wisdom Woman, Medicine Woman, as well as a fable advice-giver who teaches others from her vast experience and social research and can be sympathetic to the community unconditionally.

Ephesians 4:12

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:35:04 EDT

nEphesians 4:12 “…Building up the church, the body of Christ, to a position of strength and maturity.” (The Church, The body of Christ = Human Beings Wellness of Body, Mind, and Spirit)

BaBa - Means Sweet Father God

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:30:25 EDT

BaBa = Means Sweet Father God
(When You understand this concept your third eye will be open) nGod is the Super Soul and The Father of Jesus as well as the father of all souls. nWe human beings are souls – God is the Super Soul – God do not have a human body – We are souls put in a human body for the purpose of learning and purification of the body. nThe Soul is a tiny dot of energy within the body, smaller than a subatomic particle, – and it exist, right between your eyes, in the place typically known as the third eye. The Soul is eternal. nThe Soul has direct contact with God the Super Soul – through meditation, and thoughts. nGod is a dot of energy smaller than a subatomic particle and we are connected with him as long as we know how to turn on the switch of direct connection. nBy concentrating and focusing on God the dot of energy Super Soul through meditation, with eyes closed you can see God with your third eye – the one in the middle of your eyes – between the two eyes. Ones you see God during meditation – He will look like a tiny light of energy – and when you see him know that he is God the father and that now you are connected with him because know you know him and have seen him face to face. nYes God is in Heaven in a higher different dimension than ours – also known as the third plane- and Heaven it is a spiritual world that exist beyond this world, and beyond the moon and stars – and beyond this Universe – Heaven is a far away spiritual world where God exist – we are souls like a radio we are directly connected to God but we can only turn on the switch of the direct connection – when we now him and acknowledge him, and allow him to purified our souls, and allowed his energy to flow like rivers of peace through our human bodies – this is the river of spiritual water that Jesus mention and said come and drink of this water and never thirst (spiritually) again. nJesus was a Yogi – during the time he dissapered, from 13 years old to about 30 he was in the Himalayas meditating and becoming a Yogi. nWhen Jesus said pray Our Father Who are in Heaven – He meant pray to BaBa our God Sweet Father in Heaven.

Caring for one another.

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:55:14 EDT

Ideas of how people can serve and give back in the community - helping friends, neighbors, family members, the ill or elderly, doing outreach and also promoting Universal Health and the concept of a Health Reform - remember when you help someone it can mean at times a difference between life and death for some people - it is so easy to help, for instance you can pick up your phone and call a relative or friend and remind them to take their medicines - offer to help put the eyedrops to an elderly relative or ill person who can not do it themselves - offered to buy groceries to someone ill who can not go to the supermarket or grocery store - offered someone ill or elderly to take them outside to get some vitamin D from the sun and help them by walking guarding so that the person don't fall and sit next to them out side the house or building and say hello to others in the community. - You can help buy offering an elderly person or ill person to assist in showering them or give them a sponge bath - also you can help by doing foot care like making sure the skin of the person or diabetic person is not red and broken, help them wash their feet and put some cream and or oil in the foot. - you can help some one by doing little low impact exercises together, exercise is always beneficial - such as holding to a chair and moving the leg side to side 8 times - moving the foot a little - breathin in and out - moving the hands and arms a little 8 times - simple easy exercise can help strenghen the lungs and heart of anyone at any age and reduce the effects of diabetis, and make the bones stronger - you can help someone change their clothes and get dress or help them put their sacks on - wash their hear and comb it - remind someone to eat their fruits and vegetables, be a companion for a few hours to someone ill who has nobody - you can watch tv with the person and talk about the program you both have watch - also you can help prepare a meal for someone who can no longer do it. We all can find ways to help others and give back to our community and yes together we can make a difference.

The Way I See It.

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:50:49 EDT

Arobic - yoga - Meditation Exercises benefit the body, bones, lungs, and hearts in multiple ways.
You see, Exercise like arobics can streghten the heart, lungs, and bones and it also helps to improve the blood circulation. Moreover, it also helps one breath better, and helps to reduce the effects of diabities in people, and it also reduces fat plus replaces it with more muscles, exercises also help the body rid of stress and depression. Well, exercise can also help people live a healthier, longer, happier life, plus it also helps to reduce the effects of the aging process and prevent many diseases, and it helps older people live more active, healthier and longer lifes. Exercise promotes healing - it helps the body to recuperate faster from illness - by strenghening the inmune system - also exercise is known to reduce insomnia and help people sleep better, and improves the appetite and when one exercises at least 3 to 4 times per week will get a feeling of wellness all over and a more positive and less stressful sensation, plus exercise can help one live a healthier - more positive life style.

The Changeble Liberal

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:35:29 EDT

Syncretism
It is the blending of indigenous religious beliefs and practices with those introduced by outside groups.

The Changeble Liberal

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:34:25 EDT

The Navajo Indians Creation Myth -
Human mortals, called Earth Surface People, emerged.
Then, first man also first woman were formed, from the ears of white and yellow corn.

The Changeble Liberal = Progress

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:33:08 EDT

Creation - It is said that as time went on, quarks and anti-quarks destroy each other, and either because of a slight asymmetry in the behavior of the particles, the mutual destruction ended with a surplus of quarks. Merely for the reason that this discrepancy took place back then, the stars, planets, and people exist in the present day. It is also believed that human beings are the result of star dust.

Hello y'all

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:19:19 EDT

My daughter Melbicita graduated from JHS today and the Graduation took place at Brooklyn College over 800 Kids graduated from the Ozone Park Junior High School of Heros. My daughter Graduated from the honor class. My Kids Cesar, Eliza and Melbicita are my treasures.
I went to the Graduation with my daughter Eliza and my dad - The Wello. My Mom the Wella she stay home because she can't walk much with her walker she has bone sickness and my dad needs an eye operation and the insurance Metro plus wont pay for it, they also have diabeties and heart problems. My husband John is very sick he had open heart surgery a few years ago he is in and out of hospitals and his foot was cut when they operated him to put a vein from his leg in his chest, the blood did not circulated and he got gangrene and lost his foot, he is also burned over 75% of his body he got burned some years back working as a plumber in a furnace, He did not go to the graduation of Melbicita his daughter well you know he is sick may be the Universal Health coverage will help him. Thanks for caring President Obama God Bless you and your family always.

Happy Fathers Day to my President Obama and to all the Courageous Women who are Mother and Father to their kids like Me.

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:41:15 EDT

Happy fathers day My dear President Obama You truly are a man of wisdom who cares about the people like us. God Bless you always.
Also, Happy Mothers day to all the women who just like me are mother and father to their kids.
Sincerely
Yb-lem

The Changeble Liberal = Progress -Caring for oneself.

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:15:15 EDT

•“Alzheimer’s disease = It is a common type of dementia, or decline in intellectual function. •Alzheimer’s disease is now known to affect more than 4.5 million people in USA. •It afflicts 10 percent of Americans over sixty-five and 50 percent of those over eighty-five. •However, the disease does not affect only the elderly, but may strike when a person is in his or her forties. “No one should accept a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease without first undergoing a trial of intensive nutritional therapy, using Zinc, vitamin B3 and vitamin B12 or vitamin B12 injections.”
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The Changeble Liberal = Progress -Caring for oneself.

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:11:52 EDT

“Strange prickly or tingling sensations, loss of coordination, and dementia can be caused by B12 deficiency even if the person does not have pernicious anemia, the classic sign of that deficiency.
If a person response to vitamin treatment, then Alzheimer's disease can be ruled out.”

Serving the community unconditionally and caring for others unconditionally all religions are one

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:09:30 EDT

n-Mark 10:21
“Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him,
One thing thou lackest:
Go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.”

A Day Of Awareness For The Misconceptions Of Witches.

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:07:14 EDT

“Vitamin B12 functions in numerous metabolic processes affecting nerve tissue, including the synthesis of neurotransmitters and the formation of the insulating sheath surrounding many nerves, and it may play a role in the fight of Alzheimer's disease.”

Bring Back the Road Gang

Southern Cross — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:27:53 EDT

It's without doubt the y3000 desert reforestation is going to take massive amounts of money. As I sit and watch the global economic crisis unfold across the world I see a similar characteristic of uncertainty overwhelm politicians across the planet.

How will we get through this? For the time being we are settled in relying on our governments bail out multi billion dollar companies. Trillion dollar bail out packages are the supposed Holy Grail used by politicians lacking the intelligence and imagination to create newer more effective cash flow solutions.

Continue reading Bring back the Road Gang

We Love Our President Barack Obama, For He Is A Role Model for All.

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:49:42 EDT

We are Indigenous Native Americans and and Proud.

The Best Way To Prepare Healthy Meals

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:02:46 EDT

Boiling = Cook the food in boiling water until it is tender; this is known as the best way of cooking pasta, rice, eggs, and noodles.

Roasting = you can use this way of cooking with vegetable or meat or poultry, by roasting it is the best simplest way to cook. You know, dry heat roasting = food is roasted in an open pan in the oven, and meats or poultry are basted, or coated with juices or other liquid, during roasting.

The Answer To Our Prayers A Good President, Our President El Obama.

Rev. Dr. Yb-lem Cueva Oskowitz — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:46:23 EDT

• Ying= According to Chinese truth-seeking viewpoint –

• Ying is one of the two fundamental principals that must be in balance in order to craft harmony as well as balance within the human body.

• Yin is cold, shadow, and moisture.

• Also, Yin organs include the heart, liver, kidney, lungs, and bones.

• Yang = in the ancient Chinese theoretical thought –

• Yang is one of the two very important principles that are significant to ones wellness; furthermore it must be regulated and well balanced in order to maintain and craft a well harmonized balance within the human body.

• Yang is heat, light and dryness.

• Yang organs include the spleen, gallbladder, intestines, and the skin.

Naturopathy
it is a form of health care that uses diet, herbs plus other natural methods to cure illness.
The goal of naturopathy is to produce a healthy body state without the use of drugs by stimulating innate defenses.

Purpose

Caring for your love onesKeeping them wellKeeping them healthy• Gain knowledge of all you need to know about health and nutrition. • Gain knowledge of widespread diseases and how one can make use of natural foods to assist fighting ill-health and promote wellness. • Promote wellness in Body, Mind, and Spirit. Ancient Yoga • Yoga was developed in India more than 5,000 years ago, and was used to unite the body mind and spirit.• The progress of learning to still the mind and unify consciousness is also important in yoga exercises.

Hatha Is a Sanskrit Word Meaning Willful and Yoga is translated Union or Communion.
This is understood as meditation in action.
Hatha Yoga is a term familiar to many who practice Yoga, but is not actually a particular style of Yoga.

Kundalini and Tantra Yoga
Focus on activating the energy centers in the body that are called the Chakras
the Chakras are seven cores of energy in the body.
This type of Yoga involves exploring the core of the body rather than the limbs, and moving to the center, and seeing the body as rivers of energy.

Sevananda Yoga

• Is a holistic approach.• There are five basic principles that unite the body, mind (intellect), spirit and heart. • They Include:• Breathing =Pranayama• A vegetarian diet and proper relaxation =Savasana• Study of the Vedic Sacred Scriptures

• Meditation

Meditation - • Meditation which has been practiced since ancient times is a helpful way to treat stress as well as managing pain. • Generally, meditation is a craft that calms the mind also keeps it focused on the present.

• In the meditative state, the mind is not cluttered with thoughts or memories of the past, nor is it concerned with future events.

• There are hundreds of meditation techniques, most of which fall into one of two categories:• Concentrative

• And Mindfulness

• During concentrative meditation, attention is focused on a single sound, and object, or one’s breath, to bring about a calm, tranquil mind.• One simple common technique involves sitting or lying comfortably in a quiet environment• Closing your eyes• And focusing attention on your breath as you inhale through your noise for a count of three,• Then exhale through your mouth for a count of five.• This focus on your breathing rhythm • And if it is slow, deep, regular breaths,

• And allows your mind to become tranquil and aware.

• Autogenic training – It is a training technique in which an individual disciplines his or her mind to focus on relaxing thoughts.•

  •         The Cosmic Christ         [G1]    •         Healthiness - as well as - well-being affects how well the psychosocial needs are met.
Furthermore, constant worry - stress – frustration - disappointments occur when essential needs are not met.
These circumstances, can lead to hopelessness, worry, and lose of sleep, nervousness, anger, fear, antagonism, withdrawal, indifference, sadness.
Stress = can also, cause physical problems that may eventually lead to illness. •         Abraham Maslow, a researcher of human behavior, wrote about human physical and psychosocial needs.•         He arranged these needs into an order of importance.•         He thought that physical needs must be met before psychosocial needs can be met.•         His theory is called “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.” •         Another word for Survival needs is basic needs.

When a person accomplishes something, that person feels fulfilled.

The most important quality of good communication is active listening.•         The responsibility of the family is to pass on the culture and systems of values to the next generation.

• When we are loved and care for, our needs for love, feeling loved, accepted, belonging are met.

• • All people have physical and psychological needs – according to Abraham Maslow research of human behavior – he thought that – “physical needs must be met before psychosocial needs can be met.” • All Human Beings have the same basic physical needs:• Food and water• Protection and shelter• Activity• Sleep and Rest• Safety• Comfort - especially freedom from Pain • All people have psychosocial needs:• Love and Affection• Acceptance by others• Security• Self-reliance and independence in daily living• Interaction with other people • Accomplishments and self-esteem

• Dithiolthiones – Are Phytochemicals that are found in broccoli that increase levels of enzymes that help protect humans against certain types of cancer.

•         Cruciferous – It is a term used to refer to a group of vegetables which includes Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, turnips, and rutabagas which have characteristically cross-shaped blossoms and that contain substances that may help to prevent colon cancer. •         Elastin = It is a protein that gives tissue its elasticity.
Note: As people age the muscles in the body loose elasticity, and that includes the heart and lungs because are made of muscles. •         Ellagic Acid = It is a phytochemical that is found in strawberries and grapes that helps rid the body of free radicals.•         Free Radical = It is an atom or group of atoms that is highly chemically reactive because it has at least one unpaired electron, because they join so readily with other compounds, free radicals can attack cells and can cause a lot of damage in the body.
Free radicals form in heated fats and oils, and as a result of exposure to atmospheric radiation and environmental pollutants, among other things.•         Free Radical Scavenger = Are substances such as strawberries and grapes that remove or destroys free radicals.

• Genistein = It is an isoflavone which is a type of phytochemical that is found in alfalfa sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, collard greens, kale, and soybeans.
It aids with symptoms of perimenopause and may prevent some cancers.

• As we age the sense of thirst becomes dulled, and at the same time, we have a lower percentage of reverse body water than we had when we where younger. This is why it is important to drink water even when you do not feel thirsty.
Moreover, headaches, anxiety attacks, food intolerance, heartburn, muscle pain, colitis pain, hot flashes, and many other discomforts can be easy quickly by drinking a full glass of water. (Water flushes out toxins). • • The human body is two thirds water, and water is an essential nutrient that is involved in every function of the body. Water helps to transport nutrients and waste products in and out of the cells digestive, absorptive, circulatory functions, as well as for the utilization of the water-soluble vitamins. Water is also needed for the maintenance of proper body temperature. Moreover, by drinking ten 8 ounces glasses of water, you can ensure that the body has all it needs to maintain good health. The body’s water supply is responsible for and involved in nearly every bodily process human beings can not survive without water.• Hydration

• It is the absorption of water plus other liquids which allows for sufficient perspiration to meet the needs of exercise while maintaining appropriate liquid levels and blood volume.

• A drop in the body’s water content causes a decline in blood volume.
The lowering of blood volume in turn triggers the hypothalamus, which is the brains thirst center, to send out the demand for a drink.
This causes a slight rise in the concentration of sodium in the blood.
These changes quickly trigger a sensation of thirst, but unfortunately, most people often don’t drink enough water to cover all of their water loss, and as a result they can become dehydrated.• The Way I See It • The way I see it –In this day and age, tap water does not taste right to drink, plus it contains many chemicals and pollutants, and what's more, you can more or less taste the old rust from the old tubes that conduct the water from under the streets to your homes. So, the community have to spend a lot of money in purchasing water bottles specially in the summer time; this moneys that are spend in purchasing water from the supermarket, can be actually use in healthy must needed food. Besides, at the present time that the country is going through a recession, and water is a critical must have element for the wellness of each citizen, we all should Remember the fact that Water=Life and that drinking tap water should already be filter, of good drinking quality, so that everyone can enjoy safe drinking water.• Water = Life • Water is part of the blood, the lymph, and the body secretions that aids in digestion, regulates body temperature, and transports nutrients and body wastes.• Water is one of our bodies most important nutrients.• • Shock• It is a collection of symptoms that result from an inadequate volume of fluid circulation through the body to maintain normal metabolism.• Shock is marked by:• Hypotension=low blood pressure.• Pale, cold skin• Weak or rapid pulse • Anxiety

• Cardiogenic Shock = results from a greatly diminished cardiac output, such as may occur in a massive heart attack.

• The body is a complex organism that has the ability to heal itself, but only if one provides it with proper nourishment and care.• If we do not give ourselves the proper nutrients, we can impair the body’s normal functions and cause ourselves great harm.• One problem most of us have is that we do not get the nutrients we need from our diets, because most of the foods we consumed are cooked and/or processed.

• Moreover, cooking foods at high temperatures and conventional food processing destroy vital nutrients that the body needs to function properly.

•         If the person has hypertension he/she might need a special diet:•         Low sodium or no Sodium diet.•         Foods that are high in sodium Are:•         Hot dogs •         Anchovies •         Sauerkraut •         Pickles. •         Protein is a compound of amino acids that is essential for tissue growth and repair.
Animal foods high in Protein=Poultry, Eggs, Milk
Vegetable foods high in protein=Lentils, Peanut Butter, Tofu.•         Foods that are high in vitamin A are = Milk, Cream, Pumpkin, Carrots, Leafy Greens Vegetables, Apricots.
Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin.•

• Vitamin A = Fat Soluble Vitamins
Beta Carotine is a Precursor to Vitamin A, and the Precursor is converted to the vitamin by the body.
Function of Vitamin A = Vision, Healthy Skin, Bone and Tooth Growth, and Immune system Health.
Sources: Retinol (Vitamin A): Milk, Cream, Beta Carotine, Leafy Green Vegetables, Orange Fruits, and Vegetables.

• Vitamin B Is A Group of Vitamins=Vitamin B Complex.

• Vitamin B Complex = Water Soluble Vitamins – Vitamin B is a group of Vitamins:• Thiamine – B1- Bread, Cereals• Riboflavin - B2- Milk, Vegetables• Niacin - B3- Meat, Fish, Bread• Pantothenic Acid – Widespread• Biotin - Widespread, produced by Intestinal Bacteria.• Pyndoxine – B6 – Meat, Fish, Vegetables, Fruits.• Folic Acid – B9 – Leafy Green Vegetables

• Cobalamin – B12- Is Only in Animal Products (People that don’t eat animal products need B12 supplement, specially the elderly because they don’t absorbed as much B12)

• • The Most Important Of The B Vitamins Are:• Thiamine = B1• Riboflavin = B2• Niacin = B3• Cabalamin = B12 (Is only in Animal Products)• Folic Acid = B9• • Vitamin C = It Is A Water Soluble Vitamin. • Functions of Vitamin C: Antioxidant=Protects The Cell Walls• Protein Metabolism• Immune System Health• Iron Absorption• Sources of Vitamin C = Citrus Fruits, and Vegetables (Vegetables are cooked in a small amount of water in order to preserve water soluble vitamins). • Vitamins D and K Are Fat Soluble Vitamins • Vitamin D Function = Proper absorption of calcium stored in bones.• Sources of Vitamin D = Fortified Milk, Margarine, Supplements.• Vitamin K (Is Very Important)• Vitamin K = Cumadin• Vitamin K Function = Proper Blood Clotting, Blood Thinner (good to prevent blood clot)• Sources of Vitamin K = Leafy Green Vegetables• (If you don’t eat vegetables you are in big trouble – No vegetables = Missing a lot of vitamins and minerals)• (A person needs to eat fruits and vegetables to stay healthy). • Vitamin E = Fat Soluble Vitamin• Functions of Vitamin E • Antioxidant• Protects cells walls• Source of Vitamin E = Vegetable Oil• • Fiber• It is the no digestible portion of the complex carbohydrates which provides bulk in the gastrointestinal tract.• Soluble Fiber • It is a substance that includes pectin and gum and is found in oats, dry beans, and peas, and some fruits and vegetables.• This type of fiber is dissolvable in a liquid and stimulates the functioning of the intestines.• An orange = has too much sugar and no fiber.
An apple = has sugar but also have fiber.
Warning – Alcohol has lots of sugar in it and brings sugar up – Sugar is what makes a person gain weight. • • Ideal – A person should have dessert only once a year, because sugar and chocolate is addictive and you’ll want to have more of it = Gain weight + increase the risk of diseases – Best is not to have any chocolate (chocolate improves your mood and provides endorphins to your brain making you happy for a little while in your brain, but you will regretted later). • Selenium • It is a nonmetallic element that works with vitamin E as an antioxidant.• • Folic Acid• • It is a water-soluble vitamin which helps form red blood cells and genetic material within every cell, and also it is called folate or folacin. • Food Guide Pyramid• It is a visual graphic illustrating the relative amounts of food to eat from each of the major food groups.• • Drink low fat or skim milk and use it to Sprinkle sesame or poppy seeds over salads to boost your calcium and magnesium levels and build healthy bones.

• Make cool fruit smoothies.

• Cabbage, mango and kiwifruit are high in vitamin C, which is important for healthy bones.

• Fructose – It is a sugar that is found in the fruits and honey.• Simple Carbohydrates • Are sugars that occur naturally in fruits, vegetables, and milk.• They also come from processed sugars such as table sugar, honey maple syrup, and molasses.• Simple carbohydrates are made up of one or two sugar units.• Sucrose

• It is a sugar that is found in sugarcane and sugar beets.

• Glycogen – It is a storage form of carbohydrate that is found in the liver and muscles.
Glycogen is changed into glucose as the body needs it.•

• Glucose – It is a simple sugar that occurs naturally in fruits and honey.

•
Glucose is the usual form of carbohydrate absorbed by animals.•         Gluten – It is a gray, sticky, nutritious substance that is found in the flour of wheat and other grains.
Gluten gives dough its tough, elastic quality.  •         Strengthen muscles and bones by eating grilled salmon with lemon juice for vitamin D, selenium and omega-3 and -6 fatty acids.•         Eat eggs, poached or boiled, with whole grain toast for calcium and vitamin D. Add a cup of yogurt on the side for extra calcium.•         Drinks containing caffeine can delay healing by narrowing blood vessels. Caffeine – It is a substance found in coffee, tea, and cocoa that stimulates the central nervous system and cause marked physiological effects.•         Calcium – It is a mineral that aids in the development and maintenance of strong bones and teeth. Calcium also assists in normal blood clotting, muscle action, nerve function, and heart function.•         •         High-calorie foods, such as candy and chips can lead one to obesity.•         Sodium –negatively affects post-menopausal bone health.
Celery is high in sodium
Hotdogs are very high in sodium, also Smoked or preserved meats, Anchovies, Sauerkraut, Pickles. (Sodium is a mineral and salt is the product of sodium)•         Oatmeal, bran, corn and seeds, such as pumpkin and poppy seeds, has phosphorus which also helps bones.•         Carbohydrates.•         Carbohydrates are = Sugars and Starches that are found in breads, cereals, fruits, and starchy vegetables.•         •         Foods that have a high concentration of sugar are:
Juice, Soda, Vitamin Water, Jelly, Honey

• Foods that have a hidden sugar content are = Mustard, Ketchup, Mayonnaise, and Barbeque Sauce.

• Fish with edible bones, such as sardines and mackerel. They contain calcium, selenium and omega -3 and -6 all good for bones.• • Dairy products and eggs have calcium, phosphorus and vitamin D to help bone growth.• Fats• Fat is a compound of Glycerin and Fatty Acids.• (Bad Fats for the heart) Saturated Fats = Butter, Lard, Liver, Tropical Oil.
(Good Fats)
Unsaturated Fats = Avocado, Olive Oil, Margarine.• The best way to prepare meat is by braising, baking, and Roasting. • Cholesterol = is a waxy fat-like substance that is needed for normal body functions.• Carbohydrates and Fats produce in the body = Heat and Energy.

• Coffee – is a natural laxative, and it is good to use just once as a laxative but not often, because coffee is very addictive and one have to increase the amount of the time to keep you awake etc… (Note – if you don’t sleep, you’ll get stress – if you get stress – most diseases are caused by stress – If one get stress – then, one gets sick).

• Warning – if you eat 3,500 calories you will gain 1bl. of fat.
Cancer is tie to obesity
When you lose weight = no more Pre-Diabetes, The Blood Pressure Regulates, and The Risk of Cancer is Reduce.
Sugar –Disserts = Lose your teeth - get rotten, Gain weight, Increases the Risk of Cancer. • Reduce Calorie• It is a nutrition claim suggesting that the product contains at least half the calories of the regular product.• Open Dating• It is food labeling that helps inform the consumer about the freshness of food products.• (Don't use damaged, bulging cans)• (Food that spoil easily are = Raw Meat, Eggs, and Milk)• Protein• It is a nutrient that is necessary for the growth and development of the human body. • Supplement• Are nutritional additives most often ingested in the form of pills or powders containing essential vitamins and minerals. •

• Exercise and Diet = Are the best ways to stay healthy.

• Allergies – Are Overreactions of the immune system to a previously encountered, ordinarily harmless substance, resulting in rash, swelling, sneezing, or other abnormal conditions.• • Alfalfa = is rich in minerals that are necessary for proper regulation of heart rhythm.• Black Cohosh, Passionflower, and Valerian root = Are calming herbs that may help to regulate arrhythmias.• Cayenne, Ginger root, and Ginkgo Biloba =Are believed to help strengthen the heart and are helpful for chest pain. (Warning: If you take prescription blood-thinning medication, consult your health care provider before using Ginkgo Biloba) • Cordyceps is a Chinese herb that is believed to lower both blood pressure and LDL bad cholesterol levels.• Gotu Kola, and Rosemary = are helpful in managing angina.• Green tea = has antioxidant properties, and it is believed that drinking 10 to 20 cups a day can provide protection against heart disease and many other illnesses. (Warning if you take prescription blood-thinners, consult your doctor before taking green tea in capsule form. Green tea capsules , not the tea itself, contain fairly large quantities of vitamin K, which promotes blood clotting).• Turmeric = contains curcumin, an anti- inflammatory that also is believed to lower blood cholesterol.• Probiotics – Are elements that encourage the growth of beneficial bacteria in the body.• • Onion Poultices = Are good for ear infections. (Do not blow your nose if you have an ear infection). If you suffer from a chronic cough that last more than three weeks, see your health care provider. A chronic cough, believe it or not, can be caused by impacted earwax that exerts pressure on a nerve in the ear canal, stimulating the coughing reflex. A physician can easily see if you have excessive earwax buildup and can remove it using careful suction or warm water with a slender blunt curette, plus a special microscope to aid in guiding the removal.• Astralagus = It strengthens the body’s resistance to disease.• • Garlic has been used since biblical times, and it is also mentioned in the literature of the ancient Hebrews, Greeks, Babylonians, Romans, and Egyptians.• It is said, that the builders of the pyramids ate garlic daily for endurance and strength.• Garlic lowers blood pressure through the action of one of its components called methyl-allyl-trisulfide, which dilates blood vessels.• Garlic can be eaten fresh, taken in supplement form, or used to prepare garlic oil.• Garlic = contains an amino acid derivative, alliin.• When garlic is consumed, the enzyme alliinase, which converts alliin to allicin, is released.• Allicin has an antibiotic effect, and it exerts an antibacterial effect estimated to be equivalent to 1 percent of that of penicillin, and because of its antibiotic properties garlic has been used since ancient times to cure wounds, infections and it was even used to prevent gangrene during the World Word l. • Garlic = It is also effective against fungal infections including athlete’s foot.• It is believed that garlic can destroy certain viruses, such as the ones that are associated with fever blisters, the common cold, small pox and even influenza.• • Garlic Oil = It is good for the heart and colon, also good and effective in the treatment of arthritis, candidacies, and for circulation problems. • Add peeled whole garlic cloves to a quart of olive oil.• Experiment to find the number of cloves which gives you the degree of flavor that you like.• Wash your hands thoroughly then rinse the garlic after peeling and before putting it in the oil. • Peeling the garlic is important, for the peel may contain mold and bacteria which can contaminate the oil. • Garlic oil can be used in salad dressing, and also in many other ways.• After you eat garlic chew some parsley or mint. • Monoterpenes – Phytochemicals that are found in citrus fruits, eggplant, green vegetables, tomatoes, and yams that act as antioxidants and help protect the immune system. • Immunotherapy – It is the treatment of disease by using techniques to stimulate or strengthen the immune system.Immunity – It is the condition of being able to resist and overcome disease of infection.Diuretic – Tending to increase urine flow, or a substance that promotes the excretion of fluids.Detoxification – It is the process of reducing the buildup of various poisonous substances in the body.

Antioxidant – It is a substance that blocks or inhibits destructive oxidation reactions; some antioxidants are in vitamins C and E, the minerals selenium and germanium, the enzymes catalase and superoxide dismutase, and some amino acids.

Allyl Sulfides – Phytochemicals found in leeks, onions, garlic, and chives that act to detoxify the body.

Anemia – It is a medical condition caused by a deficiency of red blood cells and hemoglobin. Anemia often leads to pulsating noises in the ears, dizziness, fainting, and shortness of breath. Absorption • It is nutritionally the process by which nutrients are absorbed through the intestinal tract into the bloodstream to be used by the body.• If nutrients are not properly absorbed, nutritional deficiencies can result. Acid • Acid = It is any of a class of compounds that share certain basic chemical characteristics.• Acids have low pH, are usually sour to the taste, and, in their pure form, are often corrosive.• They can be either organic or inorganic compounds.• Acids found in plant tissues, and especially in fruits tend to prevent the secretion of fluids and shrink tissues.• Acidosis = it is a condition that is characterized by the excessive acidity of bodily fluids.Bioflavonoid – Are water-soluble nutrients that often appear in fruits and vegetables as companions to vitamin C. They are essential for the proper absorption and use of vitamin C but can be fund in adequate amounts as part of a healthy diet.Carbohydrate – It is the chief energy source for all body functions and muscular exertion. Carbohydrates assist in the digestion and absorption of other foods. Carob – It is a Mediterranean evergreen leguminous tree. It has a sweet pulp and is often used as a dietary substitute for chocolate.

Organic – It is a term used to describe foods that are grown without the use of synthetic chemicals, such as pesticides, herbicides, and hormones.

Amino Acid – It is an organic compound with an amino group and a carboxyl. Its presence is essential for growth and development. Anarobic Glycolysis – It is an energy system in which the breakdown of glycogen and the production of ATP from carbohydrate sources occurs. Anaerobic glycolysis produces short spurts of energy, also called the lactic acid system. Bulimia – It is the compulsive overeating followed by self-induced vomiting and the use of laxatives or diuretics to help control weight.Dietary Fiber – It is the non-digestible portion of complex carbohydrates that provides bulk in the gastrointestinal tract.Dietary Guidelines – Are the principles that emphasize balance, variety, and moderation in the overall diet; these guidelines include eating a variety of foods, maintaining a desirable weight, and avoiding too much fat and cholesterol. Creatine Phosphate – It is an energy rich by-product of ATP that combines with ADP to supply energy needed for exercise of very short duration, such as a golf swing or tennis serve. Cueing – It is a command given to students in an aerobics class by fitness professional.Cycle Ergometer – It is a stationary bicycle used for measuring the effects of exercise on the body. • Aerobic Capacity – It is the maximum amount of oxygen that can be transported through the bloodstream to all parts of the body. • Biomechanics – Are the application of mechanical laws to the movements of the human body.• Body Composition – It is the percentage of an individual’s body fat tissue compared with the lean body weight (bone, muscle, vital organs, and fluid).• Brachialis – A muscle located on the upper arm beneath the biceps brachii that’s used in flexing the arm. • Brachioradialis- It is a muscle located on the inner forearm that’s used in flexing the arm. • Bursae – Are closed sacs usually found or formed in areas subject to friction for example: where a tendon passes over a bone, commonly in the shoulder area. • Bursitis – It is an inflammation of the bursae.

• Calisthenics – Are various physical exercises performed for physical conditioning. No special equipment is necessary.

•         Electrolyte – It is a solution that is a conductor of electricity in the body; acids, bases, and salts are common electrolytes.•         •         Calorie:
1) It is a unit of heat that measures the energy produced by food oxidized in the body.
2) It is a measure of the energy expended in physical activity.•         Deltoid – It is the large, triangular muscle of the shoulder that raises the arm away from the side to the shoulder and assists in overhead movement.
Posterior Deltoid – It is the posterior section of the deltoid muscle, at the shoulder; the posterior deltoid raises and draws the arm backward.•         Diaphragm – It is a membranous wall that is located between the chest and the abdomen.
It plays a primary role in the act of breathing.•

•

• Abduction – It is the movement of a limb away from the middle of the body.

• Abductors- Are muscles that move or pull one part of the body away from the midline of body.• Adduction – It is the motion of a limb toward or across the middle of the body.• Adductor Longus – It is one of the powerful muscles in the human thigh that draws the leg to the center of the body and squeezes the thighs together. It’s attached along the femur (thighbone).• Adductor Magnus – It is one of the powerful muscles in the human thigh that pulls the thigh in toward the body and rotates it outward.• Adductors – Are muscles that move or pull one part of the body toward the midline of the body.

• Adenosine Diphosphate (ADP) – It is a product of adenosine triphosphate, and an energy resource available for muscular work.

•         Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) – It is a complex chemical compound that is formed with the energy released from food. It is stored in all cells, particularly muscle cells, and consists of a molecule of adenosine bonded to three phosphates. •         Aerobic Exercises – Are a variety of exercises that stimulate heart and lung activity for a time period of at least 20 minutes in which the heart rate is raised between 55 and 90 percent of its maximum rate.
The movement must be continuous throughout the time period to achieve aerobic results.•         Aerobic Training Heart Rate – It is the percentage of maximum heart rate at which training effect is achieved. The following formula reflects the basic method of calculating the training heart ranges:
(220 – age) x 55% for fat burning
(low end of target heart rate range)
or
(220 – age) X 90% for cardiovascular endurance (high end of target heart rate range)•         Alignment – It is the positioning or arrangement of body parts in a straight line, which maximizes the use of intended muscles and minimizes the potential of injury to those muscles. •         Inflammation – It is a reaction to illness or injury that is characterized by swelling, warmth, and redness.•         Contracture – It is the permanent and often painful stiffening of a join and muscle.•         Anaerobic Exercise – It is exercise that involves short, intense bursts of muscular strength with little or no cardiovascular conditioning and does not increase the efficiency of the body’s oxygen intake for example, weight lifting.•         Anaerobic Power – It is the capacity to sustain or repeat small or large muscle activity of high intensity for less than two minutes.•         Anaerobic Threshold - the point at which the metabolic demands of exercise can’t be totally met by available aerobic sources.•         Anatomy – It is a branch of human biology dealing with the shape and internal structure of the body.•         Biceps – A muscle with two heads, or points of origin. Commonly used to refer to the biceps brachii in the upper arm. The biceps femoris is located in the upper leg. •         Biceps Brachii – It is a muscle with two points of origin located on the front Biceps – A muscle with two heads, or points of origin. Commonly used to refer to the biceps brachii in the upper arm. The biceps femoris is located in the upper leg. Side of the upper arm. It flexes the forearm and rotates it outward and adducts the arm. Often simply referred to as the Biceps Femoris – It is a muscle with two points of origin that is part of the hamstring muscle cluster on the back of the thigh. It flexes the leg, rotates it outward, and aids in extension.•         Dorsiflexion – It is a muscular action in which the toes are pulled upward toward the ankle and the heel is pushed out. •         Elevation – It is raising a body against gravity, and it is believed to relieve swelling pressure.•         Edema – It is the swelling due to abnormally large amounts of fluid in the tissues of the body.•         •         •         Ectomorph – It is a body type noted for its linear appearance, thin face, high forehead, receding chin, narrow chest, long thin arms and legs, and a large nervous system. •         Endomorph – Short and thickset body type that is characterized by a round head, round abdomen, large internal organs, short and thick arms and legs, and a high percentage of body fat.•         •         Psychology – The common sense views that any animal is a physical object - in a world of physical objects.Psychology – assumes that all these objects act upon each other in the ways described by physics, chemistry, and physiology.

Psychology considers human beings behavior as a physical event that can be analyzed into bodily movements.
In this sense human behavior is mechanical and the body is a machine.

The nervous system = it is the control center and message center of the body.It controls and coordinates all body functions.

The nervous system also senses and interprets information from the environment outside the human body.

• The eyes, nose, tongue, and skin are the body’s major sense organs. • They are considered part of the central nervous system because they contain receptors that receive impulses from the environment.

• They relay these impulses to nerves.

• The Circulatory or Cardiovascular System• The circulatory system is made up of the heart, blood vessels, and blood.• The heart pumps blood through the blood vessels to the cells.• The blood carries food, oxygen, plus other substances that cells need to function properly.• The Respiratory System • Respiration, the body taking in oxygen plus removing carbon dioxide, involves breathing in = inspiration, and breathing out = expiration.• The lungs accomplish this process.• The respiratory system has two functions:• It brings oxygen into the body.• It eliminates carbon dioxide produced as the body uses oxygen.• The Urinary System• The urinary system has two vital functions:• Through urine, it eliminates waste products created by the cells.• It maintains the water balance in the body.• The Gastrointestinal System• • The gastrointestinal system has two functions digestion and elimination.• Digestion is the process of preparing food physically and chemically so that it can be absorbed into the cells.

• Elimination is the process of expelling solid wastes made up of food waste products that are not absorbed into the cells.

•         •         The Endocrine System The gastrointestinal system has two functions digestion and elimination.
Digestion is the process of preparing food physically and chemically so that it can be absorbed into the cells.
Elimination is the process of expelling solid wastes made up of food waste products that are not absorbed into the cells.•
The endocrine system is made up of glands that secrete hormones.•         Hormones are chemicals that control many of the organs and body systems.•         They are carried in the blood to the various organs, where they perform the following functions:•         Maintain homeostasis •         Influence growth and development•         Regulate levels of sugar in the blood •         Regulate levels of calcium in the bones •         Determine how fast cells burn food for energy. The Reproductive System •         The reproductive system = it is made up of the reproductive organs, which are different in men and women.•         The reproductive system allows human beings to reproduce, or create new human life.•         Reproduction begins when a man’s and woman’s sex cells = sperm and ovum join.

• These sex cells are formed in the male and female sex glands, called the gonads.

• The Immune and Lymphatic System • The immune system protects the body from disease-causing bacteria, viruses and organisms.• The immune system protects the body in two ways. • Nonspecific immunity protects the body from disease in general.• Specific immunity protects against a particular disease that is invading the body at a given time.• The lymphatic system removes excess fluids and waste products from the body’s tissues.

• It also helps the immune system fight infection.

• The elderly person needs increased fiber and water because of changes in the digestive system, and so that he/she won’t dehydrate.
Moreover, as we age, many systems of the body may start decreasing in function. Physiology

• It is a branch of biology that deals with the functions and activities of living matter.

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The lungs are part of the respiratory system.

Hemoglobin – It is the substance in the blood that carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues, and carbon dioxide from the tissues to the lungs. • Air is what we breathe.• It is made up almost entirely of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon, dioxide, some water vapor, and tiny amounts of inert gases such as krypton, neon, and helium.• The part essential for life is oxygen, which makes up about 21 percent of the air.• The nitrogen component is basically 78 percent and argon is less than 1 percent.

• The remaining gases are found in very small quantities, measured as parts per million.

• Water vapor can exist in varying amounts (0 to 5 percent) in any given location, depending on the air temperature and other factors.• Without getting too technical, it is enough to say that as the air temperature rises, its ability to hold water vapor increases.• Nonstandard components can include particulates chemical vapors, methane, sulfur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, ammonia, and carbon monoxide, among others.• Levels of these compounds can vary from place to place, and are collectively called air pollution.• Air pollution is basically contamination of the air caused by the discharge of harmful substances.• It can cause immediate health problems, such as burning eyes and nose, and itchy irritated throat, and or breathing difficulties.• Over long periods, exposure to some of the chemicals and particulates found in polluted air can cause the cancer, birth defects, brain and nerve damage, and injury to the lungs and breathing passages.• Dust and particulates from smoke-stacks, and especially from diesel exhaust, are suspected of increasing the number of deaths from heart attacks by affecting the heart’s ability to maintain its rhythm.• &

Deforestation

Southern Cross — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:42:16 EDT

Between May 2000 and August 2006, Brazil lost nearly 150,000 square kilometres of forest?an area larger than Greece?and since 1970, over 600,000 square kilometres (232,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed.

Deforestation practices around the world are NOT going to stop no matter how bad the figures look. The truth is we need the timber for houses, furniture paper etc. The only thing that's going to slow the deforestation of the Amazon forest is the Y3000 Plan.

Continue reading Deforestation

Cap & trade, or Cap & tax? Who's spinning, and why?

Tom Hayes, working for change — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:09:51 EDT

The way for the U.S. to secure a leadership role in the 21st century is by leading on all the issues that confront the world, to exhibit thoughtful strength and realistic ideas. It will require more than military strength, diplomacy, reversing the current economic chaos, and strong alliances. Our place in the world, our rights, and our freedom depend on leading based on principles we don't just preach, but practice.

In the case of our reckless, decades-long descent into a position where we are addicted to fossil fuels mostly coming from abroad, the time for new ideas is past due. Clean new energy sources aren't just good for our children and the environment, they're a key to our national security. Now more than ever our leaders must partner with innovative businesses and entrepreneurs to make the United States more self-reliant again. The President and the Congress must resist the insidious temptation to do nothing about energy while dealing with the various other domestic and global challenges.

Of course, no matter if the business is banking or big oil, well-funded special interests don't want to give up the loopholes they've lobbied for over the years. They work to preserve their special deals with Congress, while lobbying the media into misleading Americans with catch phrases such as "Cap & tax" to keep us from thinking about what's at stake.

While most Americans support a cap on carbon pollution there's now a flood of "talking points" and sound-bites circulating about the supposed short-comings and dangers of any new plan. The real threat of cap-and-trade is that it doesn't favor the mega-corporations, and the ultra-rich energy barons. Changing to new and cleaner energy sources changes where the money goes - more of it stays in the U.S., in smaller, newer companies; it creates jobs that we desperately need to recover from the fiasco of letting the financial giants "self-regulate."

"It looks like green jobs are real. Recently, two solar energy companies — Hemlock Semiconductor Corp. and Wacker Chemie AG — announced billion-dollar investment plans to build plants near Clarksville and Chattanooga."
U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN)

In fact, a cap and trade system simply uses pure capitalism to reward efficient, innovative businesses while it effectively penalizes out-moded industries. Used world-wide it plays to American strengths, conveying tremendous economic advantage to industries and countries ready to innovate, and results in domestic job growth. Only somebody making lots of money off the existing rules could possibly deny the benefits of a global cap and trade system.

Don't let D.C. insiders off the hook.

Many members of Congress benefit from huge campaign donations from energy companies. They'd be happy if we'd all stop paying such close attention to how energy policy intertwines with national security. They smile and want you to "trust" them to get it right, and the longer they've been there the more they want you to just trust, and not verify, that they're working for you. Uh huh.

President Obama's Energy Plan For America..OR.."There's A Bailout Coming, But It's Not For You. Smile

Al Boek — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:50:20 EDT

Greetings President Obama lovers and supporters: We do love him, do we not? What a ride that was, it's taken me nearly 4 months now, to come completly back to my senses, sort of.

It was a real out and out dog fight, but we prevailed. One for the good guys. So I felt I'd just give a couple of my thoughts on what has taken place so far. For my local hamlet here in Northern CA called

Redding, CA.

Unemployment here must be 20% by now. The figures, I'm told do not count those that have already

fallen from the unemployment rolls, or the nearly 30,000 GI's returning home nearly every month. I'm sort of happy about the winding down of the Iraqi war but the gearing up in Aftganistan concerns me, as war is not peace, is it.

I applaud President Obama and his crew. No president has done so much, so fast with so little. Of course locally he is under attack in the local Record Searchlight paper's opionion section, "he will spend us to death" they say. Well I have to continully remind them, so we each owe $45,000, but we owed $39,000 of it before Bush even got out of office, at least this time some money went for

health, welfare, transportation, education, conservation and renewable energy generation, Instead of some big black hole somewhere in the world.

Cheney is really pissing me off. Someone needs to tie a can to his tail and send him back to the

hole he crawled out of. I hope Joe keeps banging on him everytime he resurfaces.

As to the energy plan for America. I found a project, sent info to to Whitehouse, Sent info to the

Progress for America people, sent info of my renewable plan to the people spreading stimulus funds around in St. Louis County and then to the Democratic party in St. Louis...All communication

went unanswered, in spite of the fact, I, a 30 year pioneer in conservation and solar generation

actually had a plan, I'm sure could put thousands of Americans back to work...I get no answer from anyone. Not too impressed with that response. We did better by them, when they asked us to

respond to their needs...

Make sure you all check out my Energy Blog at <http://yeswecansolveit.blogspot.com> that's

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keep the faith

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Through The Baptism of Bankruptcy

CJM — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:13:33 EDT

The American people have been watching the US Auto industry closely for a number of months. America must have an Auto Industry. We are America for crying out loud. We buy more cars than anyone. But we must have industries that compete in every way from technology, safety, productivity to efficiency and cost.

It is a very hard time for many in the industry that have done all they can do to build the best cars industry has allowed them to build, but these folks are survivors and will overcome. They will lead the new American auto industry with the experience and continuous process improvement cultures that they know are critical to quality.

Our nation is at a crossroads. An eight lane crossroads at rush hour with train tracks to-boot! Now is the time for our government & manufacturing industries to manhatanize the change over away from foreign oil. We cannot just keep kicking it down the road. It cost way to much with each kick. Look at us now, the big three in danger of survival. High efeciency & electric cars should have been the norm for at least five to ten years, but they are not. Had they of been we would be looking at a very different picture. We cannot unscramble that egg, but we must take heed, learn from it and start anew. We must not squander our last chance. Yes, I say last chance. Because the path we are on is not sustainable for another 20+ years.

At this point I believe that it is in the best interest of the nation and the auto industry for GM & Chrysler to go through a pre-packaged bankruptcy, a protected bankruptcy that will let us start fresh with a clean cost effective slate. And what I will add is for this to take the highest of national priority and to make sure it happens right and quickly, so that GM & Chrysler can get back on track and head for better days.

This is the perfect storm for breaking the back of foreign oil dependency and for re-tooling industry over to USA natural gas and electric cars and trucks. The government can play a role in determining a DVEI (dollar value to energy independence.) There are cost factors like national security on dependent energy vs potential independent energy, current greenhouse cost vs more efficient and renewable alternatives. There are other factors as well. Bottom line, there is a dollar value to energy independence and it can be used to assist the nation in a changeover. Even if we are only talking a 5 to 10% change over, that would be the start, and would grow exponentially from there as the cost would also become more affordable.

What I envision is the government working with private industry like trucking companies, UPS, FED-EX, etc.. and companies like BP & Philips to add natural gas to existing stations. Converting existing engine components for tractor trailers and other transport vehicles is where the Auto industry comes in. This and new natural gas engine conversion kits. Re-tooling and building fuel tanks and pumping stations also. Industry would do this as they continue to move forward on advanced electric vehicles. This would also feed a host of different new jobs/demands nationwide.

Tax breaks based on DVEI can be used to leverage and incentivise transport & energy related industry to be a part of the solution and make the switch. In addition the federal government can lead the way by converting government transport vehicles to natural gas and electric.

What we cannot do is to continue to do what we have been doing for the last 20+ years, expecting that we can do it for 20 more. The end of that era is NOW. If it is through the baptism of bankruptcy that will free the US Auto industry to rise again then so be it! Americans are great people and we are intelligent people. We will buy the cars again! They will be better, and we know it. We know when there is sustainable change and we will not allow some false stigmas of bankruptcy to influence us without cause.

If industry turns around and does so in an unprecedented way, as we know they can, then Americans will do their part and step to the plate. Trust me, Americans want to buy American made products. We want to take care of our own, We've had enough. So lets get on with the business of turning our auto industry around and let's seize the opportunity to use it as a vehicle :) to save our nation from the destructive addiction of foreign oil.

Save The Environment

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State of the Union - Calling us Forward

David — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:37:48 EST

Barack is set to hit the airwaves in one hour with his first keynote address to both houses of Congress. This is why we elected him, because he knows how to tell everyone what needs to be said, even when the truths are difficult to hear. He knows how to express himself quite well-- so much more clearly and credibly than our recently departed Duuhbya. It's been so long we almost forgot what it could be like to have a President we can believe in. Well, we're finally on the journey now.

I realize the times are tough because of the mess we've inherited from W's 8 long years of ineptitude and slamming the national ship from shoal to reef and back again. It will take time and collective work, some sacrifices and faith in our ability as Americans working together for the common good, to patch the hull and get our ship of state out into the main channel where she belongs. Bailout is a good analogy here... If we work together, we can get this job done!

For those who haven't been there, I encourage you to check out the Recovery.gov website!

http://www.recovery.gov/

Acomplishments so far

dfillingham — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:43:35 EST

President Obama has done a lot in his first few terms. He has outlawed torture, pledged to close Gitmo and give a real trial to each persons there. He has announced sunshine laws for all gov't activity, and he is not ducking the committments to unions and to gay and lesbian people. He is struggling against a terrible legacy, and he has my sympathy for all the people trying to go backward instead of forward with green energy and green jobs, stop giving away money to groups that do not care about the country or the people who live in it. He is trying to stimulate the economy, and we all know that tax cuts for businesses are no stimulus. So many unemployed, so many homeless, we need to focus on basics like healthcare, housing, infrastructure, and hunger/poverty.

I support Obama and I wish him peace and love from his family as he goes through this terrible time. May we all have hope as we go into a future we did not make, but we now have to deal with.

One add to: Media - Friend or Foe? - Arm yourself against lies! (7)

! Steffen from European Union, Dr. - Together We Can! Yes. We. Can. — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:32:22 EST

Let's use the member of campaign of change to help Obama and get the change.

Cable news and right wing blogs are swarming with the revisionist history on the New Deal. Arm yourself against lies, spin and propaganda by reading info from a number of sources.

Here down a article about this topic. [Media Matters is a progressive media watchdog and fact checking organization which has received accolades from numerous sources (except the right wing media which often gets debunked by Media Matters).]

The link to digg it and for article: Conservatives Cherry-Pick 1930s Unemployment Figures

Conservatives cherry-pick 1930s unemployment figures in continued assault on New Deal

Summary: Columnists Mona Charen and George Will continued a trend among conservative media of responding to comparisons between the current economic situation and that of the 1930s and between Barack Obama and FDR by attacking the New Deal. In separate columns, both Charen and Will cherry-picked unemployment figures to assert that the New Deal did not reduce unemployment. But historians and progressive economists have noted that unemployment fell every year of the New Deal except during the 1937-38 recession; further, Nobel-laureate Paul Krugman has said it was a reversal of New Deal policies, not a continuance of them, that contributed to rising unemployment in 1937 and 1938.

Yes we can! Best wishes, Steffen

http://changeforbetterworld.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-way-to-say-goodbye-to-neocons-bush.html

Formal Petition to Attorney General-Designate Eric Holder to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute any and all government officials who have participated in War Crimes.

Wireless Energy Transfer Should Replace Some Power Lines

Jordon McClain — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:08:28 EST

Wireless energy transfer or wireless power transmission through satellite broadband instead of through power lines that we use today is safer , less hazardous and is the way of the future.

Going Green Can Bring Back The Gold To America

Al Boek — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:29:46 EST

Greetings From Northern California:

Our local utility company will red tag your home and see that you and your family are thrown into the streets, if you do not pay your bill when it's due. Thier thinking is, It's unsafe for your family to live

in a Redding home without electric service from them. My God, wondered how or forefathers and thiers and thiers, ever survived without the help of Redding Electric Utility Company on the job.

So thier thinking here is...What if you light a candle to see at night..you could burn down your apartment, (most being red-tagged) or those of your neighbors. Your using a coleman, battery

powered light, well then, what if you use a gas oven to heat with. We care about you, have love

and concern for you, we don't want you do die or kill someone else..just because you cannot pay your bill.

So GTFO of your house, go live in the park, or your car, or take yours kids to the homeless shelter, were they can sleep amongst God knows who. We want you to be safe...BS.

Now, We read today in the local Record Searchlight...one of our local hospital filed for BK protection and stuck REU with a $300,000 bill. When it became past due...I guess they did not worry about

these people using candles to live and work by, in fact, they never attempted, I assume to cut off and kick these folks into the street. The result? The hospital has sold to another hospital holding and operational company. REU did not see that the bill was covered in the transfer of sale of the hospital and is now short $300,000 and a spokesperson for REU just issued a statement saying the loss will be added to my mom's, a widow now, utility bill. I call BS. No Way...No how.

This same city that owns it's on public utility, has a multi-million dollar income stream from it's

rate payers has been telling it's local customers, it will take up to 16 years to pay back a solar

investment. That was before now..Now this past month the same company has announced a

annual rate increase of about 7-8% meaning their average customers bill will increase and double

in about the next 5-7 years. So now solar is feasible. To bad they were telling them it wasn't

and not taking into consideration the increases, they had to have known were coming. Why did

they lie or misrepresent the facts to my fellow citizens?

Now this same city is laying off everyone, freezing the wages of many and stopping all projects

including a badly needed, recently approved local Police Station. They are preparing for failure.

What could be done, as I've already mentioned at local city council and board of supervisor meetings, WE COULD EMBRACE THE NEW GREEN ECONOMY....We could have a super effect

on our own local economy, our state, the nation and our planet. Why don't they just get real

and get with the program? I wonder?

Al Boek, Founder

American Energy Conservation Group

Redding, CA 96003

530-549-4315

americanenergy@frontiernet.net

www.yeswecansolveit.blogspot.com

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My way to say GOODBYE to neocons, Bush and Cheney! ( 7)

! Steffen from European Union, Dr. - Together We Can! Yes. We. Can. — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:52:03 EST

You can Digg it: My_way to say GOODBYE to neocons, Bush and Cheney!

A picture from me to say goodbye from most bad president of US and all neocons.
We can only hope many people will long enough remember. Bush had a lot bad gifts for the change! Let's take care the poor and normal people will not have to pay now too much after the rich made profit in good time!
And what's with impeachment now?! What's with hidden knowledge of Sept. 11 2001?
[ Maybe an explanation of picture: it's made like an "egg laying wool milk sow" a metaphorical-idiomatic term in Germany]

Yeah, and here you can see something new about neocons were bringing to us - for me to say: don't forgive Bush and neocons and there is still a lot to work of. We will and can do this too - Yes we can!
I got now message too like "If anybody can clean up the mess bush left, it's President Obama." - Yes and Obama likes people helping still to do the work - help him! We were a big and strong movement and so people got knowledge back how strong people can be together!
Whistleblower: Bush's NSA spied on EVERYONE
(already 4255 Diggs) The NSA had access to ALL YOUR COMMUNICATIONS, regardless of who you were or whether or not you were communicating internationally.

Hokey Green Car Commercials

Robin Williams — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:47:48 EST

Look at this link on how those green car companies can do little to help the environment http://www.newenergyearth.org/greencarcommercials.

Where are you calcars.org? Show these ole hokey green cars how you roll

10 Years is Too Long

Robin Williams — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:25:19 EST

I like some of the details of the Barack Obama 10 year energy plan, but it is too long for us. We need to implement some changes right now. If we don't, this world will not be here too long. This is not a game. We have destroyed the arctic wildlife to the point where the polar bears are becoming extinct. Now to some it would be easier to just ignore it and say that it won't affect us. But don't you understand that one species affects the other? If one dies off, it affects others. If we let the earth die, we die with it. It is not up to us to determine how we are to affect life on this planet. It is up to the man above. How are we to become stewards of the land if we don't care.

We think we have 30 years before the melting of the arctic affects the human race. But how do we know that? Don't you know that the speed at which ice melts increases with time? This means that the arctic is melting at an exponential rate. We must plan to live in a different climate. Some land that is dry will become non-existant.

Share your stories of our movement with a Canadian community organizer and writer!

Marjorie — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:39:20 EST

Hi all! I just got off the phone with a wonderful woman who is visiting from Canada...she will be attending our neighborhood meeting tomorrow night.

She wanted to hear more personal stories about this amazing grassroots movement for Obama, as in her country she feels people have a need to understand what this was like for each of us on a local level.

She will be returning to Canada January 3rd and would love to talk with some of us on the phone before then. She is happy to cater to your availability.

If you would like to talk about what this experience has been like for you on a personal and local level, feel free to email me (marjorie_alexander@yahoo.com) or call me (520-240-2978) so I can take your contact info down and connect her with you. She is a delightful person with a sincere desire to bring a better understanding of our Obama movement back to Canada! There is nothing more powerful than our individual stories, emotions and even how we have changed as this grassroots movement has found importance in our lives. Please share yourself and your amazing journey!

Peace,

Marjorie

Come share what you feel needs to change in our health care system!

Marjorie — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:49:49 EST

President-Elect Obama and his team have asked us to gather in our communities and share our ideas, stories and feelings regarding changing our health care system for the better. We are holding a small gathering here in the Blenmann neighborhood in Tucson. Please consider coming out on Tuesday, December 30th if you would like to contribute. Our gathering should only last about an hour and you are welcome to talk to me more afterwards if you have more to share. I will be summarizing and submitting what is shared at our gathering to the Office of the President-Elect. Meetings like this are happening all over our Country up until December 31st. At that time, Barack's team will begin reviewing what America has shared.

During the election, we all held on to our beautiful passion for change and together made an amazing difference. But we all know that the real work is just beginning...we are needed more than ever right now to step up to the plate and take responsibility for what we want to happen next! Can we do this? Yes we can!

Peace,

Marjorie

Foreign Oil? No Such Thing

Robin Williams — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:59:24 EST

So if being at the mercy of the cost of a barrel of oil is hurting us, why don't we become less dependant on foreign oil? Foreign oil? Well I hate the break the news to you honey, but there is no such thing as foreign oil. Oil is a commodity. The price of oil is the same accross the whole wide world honey. And when the dollar is "worth" less than half of what it was 3 years ago, you can't pay the same amount for a barrel of oil as you did then. Please don't be fooled by low gas prices now.

Alternative Energy - The Real Economic Stimulus Package

Robin Williams — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:10:06 EST

Gas prices are low. So who cares about alternative energy. As long as we can put put gas in our cars for less than two bucks a gallon, who gives a damn about the environment or anything else?

Many have heard and felt that the above statement rings true for them. When you have only two dollars left in your savings account after bills are paid, who cares about what some tree hugging hippie has to say. Less money at the pump means more money in your pocket. That's real life when you have barely enough money to feed your family. That's real life when you own a small trucking company that will go bankrupt from rising fuel prices.

But we must learn to look beyond the here and now. I may sound like I am taking a jab at oil companies, but it must be said. When you depend on mainly one source of fuel, you are at the mercy of that one source. Our economy is heavily affected by what we and the transportation industry pays for fuel. Trucking can do all they can to keep the consumer from getting hit, but they can only do so much. It is the trucking company and owner operator that deliver the loads to the grocery and department stores. The trucking companies must eventually pass the cost to their customer which are your local grocery stores. Then the grocery and department stores pass the extra cost directly to the consumer. Wether gas is 10 cents or $10 a gallon, why take that chance?

Some analysts say oil will definitely go back up to $100 a barrel sometime next year. So you say, let's wait until it goes back up again, then maybe we'll know for sure that the governmnet will be so concerned that it will do something other than have a 10 year plan that will have little or no effect on the current situation.

Well who do I think I am? Do I think I can do a better job than the president of the United States? OK honey. Just pretend that my name is President Robin V. Williams. President Robin V. Williams will take a good chunk of those billions of dollars and invest it in companies that have already looked into alternative sources of energy and food production. Look at http://www.calcars.org, look at http://www.wheelabratortechnologies.com/ and look at http://www.solarcity.com . I will invest in programs that would offer paid training those who have lost there jobs in this economic mess and put those people to work in the type of companies that will make the future safer, our economy strong and our environment better. Billions of dollars will be invested in local transportation that has more frequent and efficient routes. Well, people hate to use mass transit, they say. Well, I don't mean to oversimplify this, but I believe more people will ride the bus if the bus came more than once an hour.

But there is a whole lot more out there than green cars and alternative energy for homes and businesses. Visit New Energy Earth's home page at http://www.newenergyearth.org for more information.

President-Elect Obama's Science Team Rollout Radio Address

Jill 4 Obama — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:15:40 EST

Remarks of the President-Elect Barack Obama
Science Team Rollout Radio Address
Friday, December 17, 2008
Chicago, Illinois

Over the past few weeks, Vice President-Elect Biden and I have announced some of the leaders who will advise us as we seek to meet America’s twenty-first century challenges, from strengthening our security, to rebuilding our economy, to preserving our planet for our children and grandchildren. Today, I am pleased to announce members of my science and technology team whose work will be critical to these efforts.

Whether it’s the science to slow global warming; the technology to protect our troops and confront bioterror and weapons of mass destruction; the research to find life-saving cures; or the innovations to remake our industries and create twenty-first century jobs—today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It is time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and worked to restore America’s place as the world leader in science and technology.

Right now, in labs, classrooms and companies across America, our leading minds are hard at work chasing the next big idea, on the cusp of breakthroughs that could revolutionize our lives. But history tells us that they cannot do it alone. From landing on the moon, to sequencing the human genome, to inventing the Internet, America has been the first to cross that new frontier because we had leaders who paved the way: leaders like President Kennedy, who inspired us to push the boundaries of the known world and achieve the impossible; leaders who not only invested in our scientists, but who respected the integrity of the scientific process.

Because the truth is that promoting science isn’t just about providing resources—it’s about protecting free and open inquiry. It’s about ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology. It’s about listening to what our scientists have to say, even when it’s inconvenient—especially when it’s inconvenient. Because the highest purpose of science is the search for knowledge, truth and a greater understanding of the world around us. That will be my goal as President of the United States—and I could not have a better team to guide me in this work.

Dr. John Holdren has agreed to serve as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. John is a professor and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, as well as President and Director of the Woods Hole Research Center. A physicist renowned for his work on climate and energy, he’s received numerous honors and awards for his contributions and has been one of the most passionate and persistent voices of our time about the growing threat of climate change. I look forward to his wise counsel in the years ahead.

John will also serve as a Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology—or PCAST—as will Dr. Harold Varmus and Dr. Eric Lander. Together, they will work to remake PCAST into a vigorous external advisory council that will shape my thinking on the scientific aspects of my policy priorities.

Dr. Varmus is no stranger to this work. He is not just a path-breaking scientist, having won a Nobel Prize for his research on the causes of cancer—he also served as Director of the National Institutes of Health during the Clinton Administration. I am grateful he has answered the call to serve once again.

Dr. Eric Lander is the Founding Director of the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard and was one of the driving forces behind mapping the human genome—one of the greatest scientific achievements in history. I know he will be a powerful voice in my Administration as we seek to find the causes and cures of our most devastating diseases.

Finally, Dr. Jane Lubchenco has accepted my nomination as the Administrator of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is devoted to conserving our marine and coastal resources and monitoring our weather. An internationally known environmental scientist and ecologist and former President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Jane has advised the President and Congress on scientific matters, and I am confident she will provide passionate and dedicated leadership at NOAA.

Working with these leaders, we will seek to draw on the power of science to both meet our challenges across the globe and revitalize our economy here at home. And I’ll be speaking more after the New Year about how my Administration will engage leaders in the technology community and harness technology and innovation to create jobs, enhance America’s competitiveness and advance our national priorities.

I am confident that if we recommit ourselves to discovery; if we support science education to create the next generation of scientists and engineers right here in America; if we have the vision to believe and invest in things unseen, then we can lead the world into a new future of peace and prosperity.

Thank you.

Upcoming Events The Agenda

On the Stimulus: Show me an Investment Plan

Jawad — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:51:57 EST

When the Detroit big three came to Washington asking for a loan to rescue their companies from pending bankruptcy, the Congress was steadfast on demanding a business plan. And they were right to do so.

MEET THE PRESS/CHURCH with David Gregory

CJM — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:16:37 EST

At church this morning (Meet the Press). Yes I call it church, because it is where I go on Sunday morning to get informed. David Gregory did an outstanding job, Russert is smiling down on you :) So what did I get out of it?

I think that what was impressive was the level of consensus on much of what America is dealing with and what we must do to take advantage of this opportunity. In the second segment I find it refreshing to see people around a table with fundamentally different core beliefs wrangle politely and ad value to the conversation. I certainly hope that President elect Obama and Vice President elect Biden were at church/meet the Press this morning.

Who am I? I am middle class America. I went to buy my groceries at Walmart this morning, keeping an eye on my time so that I would not be late for church/Meet the Press. I got home and put the groceries away and made coffee, a Jimmie Dean breakfast bowl, toast and an orange juice with less than a minute for the beginning of church!

The first part of the show on Chicago politics is something that we Americans are sick and tired of being sick and tired of. Over and over all you hear is how someone is trying to screw or shakedown someone else about something or another. It is a cultural flaw that we need to eradicate, we are the United States of America not Mogadishu. But that will take lots of work and time.

So what did I get out of Meet the Press this morning with David Gregory? He was on message and in control. Great facilitating, he helped America today! His guest in the second round brought much to the American Sunday morning table.

Gov. Granholm was right in the fact that we need to keep an auto industry in America and she also pointed to the ties of cost to our failed health care policy. What I think is important here is that when we are comparing data and statistics in the US Auto industry to the Foreign Auto industry, we are comparing apples with apples and not apples with pineapples. She also thanked Bush for looking forward to helping the auto industry, but then when asked about Obama she praised Obama and slammed Bush for not being there for the last eight years. While that might have been true, I found it to be not in the spirit of "fixing it" and tainting the very praise to the president elect. Bridling the tongue is an art, one that I too have yet to master!

Gov Romney Also agreed and echoed America in saying that we do not want to be without an American Auto industry, but his approach is closer to what most of us believe. We have to KNOW, not believe, (there is a difference), that the money we provide as tax payers are solving the problems. That being said we need guarantees that the needed change WILL happen. He also pointed out that the President, BUSH you are still the president! And the current congress need to DO, not talk but DO. As they say on SNL "FITS IT" "JUST FITS IT" DO RIGHT NOW!!! What part of that phrase do they not under stand??? Is it the DO or the RIGHT NOW?

Eric Schmidt's comments work well with the others, He brings us back home to remind us that "YES WE CAN" and he tells us how and what. We need to do in Washington, what I did in Walmart this morning. Look for the two-fer. We need to start creating solutions that solve multiple problems at one time. Energy independence, Auto industry, Infrastructure, technology, healthcare, etc He is right the sky is the limits, but we have to DO IT.

Carly Fiorina's comments today also ad value as I am employed by one of those small businesses she speaks of. But what she really cracked the whip on was the banks that are not lending our money that we gave them to lend. Why aren't they lending to the auto industry? It is amazing, I guess we really are in this together, not surprising to our astronaut friends as they pear down at the blue an brown molten mud ball we call Earth.

Lee Scott (Walmart CEO) had some interesting thoughts. He reminds us that now is not a time to do what was discussed in the first segment of the show (self Interest ahead of National interest) but to come to the barn raising with your work boots on and ready to break a sweat! He knows where he came from and refuses to forget. That alone serves America. It is when we are self indulgent and forget the struggles that gave us health & wealth that we drive off into the ditch. America we have driven off into the ditch, and while you may not have been driving this bus you are on this bus and it will take everyone getting off of this bus to help and get it out of the ditch. We can change the driver, and we have! But this is the only bus we have! BUS, Hmmmmm, B.U.S. Beautiful United States!

So, that is what I got out of church/Meet the Press today!

January 20, 2009

Walt — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:12:16 EST

It will be a new day dawning
On January 20, 2009
One presidency ending, another beginning
On January 20, 2009
The challenges are many, burdens heavy
Barack will not fail us
We must not fail him
He will need our support and our prayers
On January 20, 2009
... and beyond.

It has begun

Tearing Down the Walls of Hate — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:44:09 EST

I watched, barely breathing, as the totals started coming in state by state. Tears flowed down my face when the announcement was finally made that Barack Obama would be our next president. I know that this country did not get this far out of control over-night and that there will be no quick-fixes to restore our prosperity. Never before in my nearly 53 years though, have I ever believed in someone so much. I see the brilliance in the choices he is making for his supporting cast and my conviction that he was the right choice is reaffirmed. I watch and join in as he motivates the masses to remain engaged and involved and I continue to feel the hope he brought to life during the campaign. I see people of all races, faiths, nationalities, and cultures unite to work for the good of the many and I truly believe the future holds great promise for us all. This holiday season, I wish you all blessings according to your faith and look forward to a woderful new year beginning January 20, 2009!

Sick of this campaign still asking for money

Gabi — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:31:17 EST

Is anyone else getting sick of the constant "PLEASE DONATE" e-mails from this campaign? Well, if not, then I AM. I am a single mother with two kids and a deadbeat dad, and I have reached deep into my pocket and time to elect Obama. NOW IT IS HIS TURN TO DELIVER ON HIS PROMISES!!! The campaing is sitting on 30M surplus that they can distribute to other democratic candidates, yet I just got another e-mail begging for money to help Hillary pay off her campaign debt. I am sick of this nonesense!

Answer to Bail-Out/More Crack Request: NO, NO, NO!

CJM — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:45:37 EST

Answer to Bail out request: NO

Why: Do not trust and believe they can fix it, (history.) They will not change ENOUGH.

Alternative Solution: Pre-Packaged Bankruptcy with Government help (guarantee) after and during the Bankruptcy restructuring.

Argument: People will not buy a car from a company that goes into bankruptcy.

Rebuttal: People are not buying the cars right now and People will still not trust them after a bail-out/crack fix. On the contrary, People will trust more that the big 3 will still be around after the prescribed bankruptcy that has government guarantees for a a few years, sorta like the banks with FDIC but not permanantly. And people will also know that the change is real and to the core and not just another fix on crack.

DO NOT GIVE MY TAX DOLLARS IN A BAIL OUT PRE BANKRUPTCY To BIG 3.

Energy Efficiency is a Growth Industry in America's Recession!

CJM — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:05:12 EST

Energy Efficiency is a Growth Industry in a Slow Economy

This story/link above is way cool, there are so many opportunities to reduce energy use and it's cost! I know that companies all over the US have been going "LEAN" and reducing unnecessary steps in their processes with initiatives like Six Sigma & Lean manufacturing (process improvement cultures.) In turn reducing manufacturing cost and Inventory cost and even finding markets for manufacturing by-products/waste.

I wonder how many of them even have a clue as to what they are loosing dollar wise in unnecessary energy consumption and a lack of a coherent energy management strategy? This is the sort of thing that can and should be done NOW by Americans everywhere, and does not need our President Elect or Congress to pass anything. It's about the American people taking charge and doing what is smart and saves/makes money!

What is fun to do with actual savings from something like this is to figure out how much your business has to do in sales dollars to produce the equivalent in net profit! So let's say you save $1,000.00 a year by implementing energy efficiency and let's say you sell widgets for $10.00 each and at the end of all your bills your company net profit is 10%. Your energy savings dollars are like selling an extra 1000 of your widgets minus the entire process & time, although you will have some process and time in the initial implementation. But then the next year/s you don't! Unless you improve even greater!

A response to a "Nuclear Options" group post

Dianne — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:53:42 EST

It is unfortunate that due to the dangers of climate change and America’s dependence on foreign oil that anyone, anywhere, would be speculating about the expansion of nuclear power/energy.

You are writing on a subject that needs to be presented honestly and I cannot imagine that you can honestly say the things that you do in just your first paragraph.

Uranium mining takes up a tremendous amount of land area and whether it produces 100 times less radioactive or toxic waste than coal power plants is not a positive point. That it produces and leaves behind both radioactive and toxic waste in the very high volumes that it does is what should be considered when dealing with nuclear power/energy. This is not a compare and contrast situation.

If you are fully informed and willing to be honest with your readers you would not, or better yet; could not say that nuclear power produces no greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases are emitted by the production of nuclear power/energy. Plutonium does not miraculously appear at a nuclear power reactor. There is a process that gets it there and you, nor anyone else, can separate the process from the product.

You are apparently not considering the carbon emissions created during the use of very heavy equipment while engaged in the mining process, the mining process itself, the coal fired plants used in the uranium processing, or transporting the nuclear fuel to the reactor site.

Uranium ore is the source of the plutonium that is used in our nuclear reactors. Uranium ore has to be mined, like coal, to be used as a fuel source for the production of nuclear power/energy. Uranium is both radioactive and a chemical toxin. Additionally, numerous heavy metals are present in uranium ore.

Uranium milling consists of chemically separating uranium from other ore components. A thousand tons of ore must be processed to get just 2 tons of uranium. The waste produced is known as “mill tailings” which are often left near the land surrounding the mine, creating another dangerous legacy of the mining process. For typical uranium concentrations, the tailings contain 85 percent of the radioactivity in the original ore along with toxic chemicals and heavy metals. Furthermore, the volume of mill tailings is enormous and the majority of the radioactive components are extremely long-lived. Unfortunately, a large portion of mill tailings in the United States were “grandfathered” when more protective standards began to be implemented in the late 1970s, leaving behind more than 100 million tons of uranium waste with limited regulatory oversight.

The mill tailings can infiltrate surrounding waterways. {In 1979, near Churchrock, New Mexico, a United Nuclear uranium mill tailings dam broke, dumping nearly 100 million gallons of liquid radioactive tailings and 1000 tons of solid tailings into a surrounding area, spreading nearly 60 miles from the facility. The Rio Puerco River was contaminated and the local Native American tribe was devastated since their water source was forever rendered toxic by the tailings. Please don’t say that 1979 was a long time ago. When some of the waste has a 200 million year half life, 1979 was not that long ago}

After the uranium ore is milled, it is converted to uranium hexafluoride. It is then further enriched through a chemical process known as gaseous diffusion. Enrichment is required to increase the percentage of Uranium-235, the isotope of uranium needed for nuclear power or nuclear weapons. In natural uranium, U-235 concentration is too low, even after milling and conversion. The end results of gaseous diffusion are called a) the “product,” in which the percentage of U-235 has been increased and b) the “tails,” which is predominantly U-238, also known as depleted uranium, in which the percentage of U-235 has been decreased. Uranium Enrichment has been the largest contributor of wastes to the DOE’s materials inventory.

Nuclear power would not be considered cheap by any stretch of the imagination without our tax dollars supporting it with subsidies. See if any investor would touch it if it were not so subsidized by our federal tax dollars.

How you arrived at your numbers stating that nuclear power produces 70% of the non carbon dioxide polluting electricity in the U.S. is flawed if you did not include the full process of producing nuclear power/energy, i.e. mining, milling, transport, waste storage. It seems that proponents and supporters of nuclear power/energy are very willing to skew numbers and statistical data when promoting it to the general public. If it is so great, why is that necessary?

You might want to look into the realities of reprocessing spent fuel. No matter what you do, or how many times you run it through, there will be hotter, dirtier radioactive waste each time. It will never be a closed fuel cycle, never.

No, it is still not easy to see why numerous countries around the world are interested in nuclear power. There are reasons that there are financial and political obstacles for nuclear power here in America. The biggest reason is that the majority of people have a voice and all voices have the opportunity to be heard. And for those who don’t have the opportunity to be heard, there are people willing to speak up and speak out for those Americans who suffer from the effects of nuclear power/energy expansion who may be in a minority, and who, for whatever reason, cannot speak for themselves. This is America and we tend to not be willing to make one group of people suffer for the comfort and financial enhancement of others. This is America and we prefer to look for solutions that do no harm when we have the option to do so.

The U.S. is not behind the rest of the world, we have moved on ahead of the rest of the world. We are a civilized nation attempting to move into the future with our energy policy, we are not trying to revive a dirty, dangerous dinosaur from the past.

It is unfortunate that you think that the problems that we face with spent fuel and nuclear waste are largely political. I read your four point solution to nuclear waste in your article Short & Long Term Solutions for Nuclear Waste and they were not only farfetched, they were very expensive and not very practical.

I am not sure that you are considering the full breadth of the nuclear power/energy issue. There are a number of areas to which you don’t seem to give any consideration. There are a number of reasons beyond technology that nuclear power/energy is wrong for America and Americans.

It is environmentally wrong because the nuclear fuel cycle is dirty, extremely and irreversibly polluting. The long-term radioactive wastes that are produced on both ends of the fuel cycle are so harmful to this environment we may never recover if you continue on this path. Every aspect of our environment is adversely affected.

The air, with toxic uranium mining and milling emissions which include but are not limited to CO2.
Our water when only one third of it is returned to our waterways and what is returned is thermally affected, and surface and underground water that has been affected by plutonium runoff and tritium's radioactive contamination (once that is done you cannot undo it), the fish that ingest the radioactive water and subsequently the local people who consume the fish as one of their food sources.
The earth with the radioactive materials being buried and seeping into the soil affecting vegetation, the animals that eat the vegetation and subsequently, the people who eat the vegetation and the animal

Can you tell us:

How uranium mining and milling needed to produce the new nuclear power/energy that you propose will not adversely affect communities, which are primarily minority and poor, their water supplies, and their land?
How uranium mining and milling needed to produce the new nuclear power/energy being proposed will not adversely affect the climate with its release of toxins, including but not limited to CO2, into the atmosphere, in any way, (including all emissions that take place with the use of coal fired plants used to process the uranium) ?
How any health study related to the nuclear power industry develops its health effects data, has researched and compiled data and statistics on how nuclear power/energy waste, or any other nuclear materials affect the most vulnerable of Americans, including children, pregnant women, the elderly, and those with compromised health? Does it not matter to you that by not using the most vulnerable when developing this data that these toxins and contaminants may be causing the rise that we see in our country in birth defects, developmental defects such as autism, and chronic childhood asthma? You [should] know that tritium passes through the placenta and can cause defects that affect that family through more than one generation if the fetus is female, because the eggs are within that female fetus already so they are also adversely affected. Why is the promotion of nuclear power/energy worth that?
How the nuclear power/energy industry intends to deal with the radioactive waste materials generated by the creation and production of expanded nuclear power/energy and new nuclear weapons? (Right now they depend on an agreement with the federal government that the taxpayers pay for it.)
How the nuclear power/energy industry intends to deal with the radioactive waste materials already generated by the creation and production of the existing nuclear power/energy and nuclear weapons?
How, with a shrinking water supply in the regions targeted for expansion of the nuclear power/energy industry, the communities affected will not be compromised in any way by the amount of water used by these facilities?
How tritium releases will be monitored and by whom?
How tritium releases will be halted?
How transport of any of this nuclear power/energy materials needed in this process will be safely executed whether by road, rail, waterway, or air?

Expansion of the nuclear power/energy industry is morally wrong for a number of reasons:

Morally wrong because we don't need new and efficient ways to indiscriminately kill millions of people at once to be secure as a nation. That comes with the nuclear weapons proliferation aspects of nuclear power/energy development.
Morally wrong because you know that mining and mill tailings have ruined Native American lives, lands and waters.
Morally wrong because these toxins and contaminants may very well be the contributors to the cause of the increases that we see in chronic childhood asthma, autism, and other physical & developmental disorders in our children.
Morally wrong because you know that nuclear industry workers who are not executives and engineers are still riddled with work related illnesses.
Morally wrong because these nuclear expansion projects are being kept alive, (even though the people of this country have spoken out in huge numbers against them whatever name you tag on it), because some government insider wants these contracts and the lions share of the money related to these nuclear projects to go to affiliated entities. (My heart sank over and over again when I read who the contractors were for a nuclear industry Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that was done; after almost every name, Haliburton was listed as who he or she was affiliated with. I am sure that you recall all of the closed door, secret meetings that Dick Cheney had with the energy corporations.)

Expansion of the nuclear power/energy industry is fiscally wrong for our country in any economic scenario.

Fiscally wrong because this country does not have the money for, nor do we need, anymore nuclear expansion. It is backward looking and is not the best use of our limited resources.
The money that is being spent on this process could be used for unmet human needs that we currently face in this country. Our health care systems, our education systems, our diplomatic corp, our rapid (and thorough) responses to our natural disasters, our enlisted military pay and family care, our research and development into a number of areas including alternative energy sources, and our advancements in non-war related science and engineering.
Again, with the debt that we are carrying, you know that we cannot afford to carry this dinosaur into our future beyond the yoke that it has already burdened us with.

Referenced: Appendix C of Code Red Alert: Confronting Nuclear Power in Georgia 1 (published by Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, May 2004. (Copyright 2004 Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. All rights reserved.) www.cleanenergy.org/Code%20Red/FinalCodeRed.pdf

Gasoline from Air and Water

Marcel F. Williams — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:49:10 EST

by Marcel F. Williams

Fossil fuels are predominantly responsible for putting excess carbon dioxide and methane intothe Earth's atmosphere, greenhouse gases that are melting our polar ice caps, raising global sea levels, and causing more extreme climate conditions around the world. The coal and natural gas power industry has looked looked towards future technologies for the on site capture of flu gas in order to recover and sequester carbon dioxide. However, there is no cost effective technology for capturing the CO2 from the mobile producers of carbon dioxide: automobiles, trucks, aircraft, and sea craft.

But there are new technologies that are rapidly being developed that may eventually divorce carbon dioxide polluting sources of energy from the need for on site capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide. These devices are sometimes referred to as mechanical trees. But what they do is to simply extract and recover carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. And these future technologies appear to be far more efficient at extracting CO2 from the air than the plant life on our planet.

Some argue that these carbon dioxide from air extracting technologies could be the saviors of the fossil fuel industry. Ironically, such future technologies could also eventually lead to the complete extinction of fossil use on this planet if the CO2 taken from the atmosphere is used in combination with hydrogen from water to produce hydrocarbon fuels such as: gasoline, methanol, diesel fuel, jet fuel, and dimethyl ether.

Hydrogen

Because the combustion of hydrogen produces only energy and water, hydrogen via the electrolysis of water through hydroelectric, nuclear, wind, and solar has often been proposed as a replacement for hydrocarbon transportation fuels. Liquid hydrogen fuel has been used in US space craft since the days of the Apollo Moon program. And liquid hydrogen has also been frequently proposed for future generation subsonic and hypersonic airliners and aircraft. Hydrogen fueled buses now transport commuters in many urban areas in the US. And hydrogen automobiles have been demonstrated by many automobile companies around the world .

However, hydrogen automobiles have a substantially shorter range than hydrocarbon fueled vehicles and are a lot less efficient than electric vehicles. Refueling hydrogen vehicles also takes much longer than refueling with gasoline, ethanol, or methanol. Because of the hydrogen embrittlement of metals like steel, hydrogen pipelines are more expensive to maintain than natural gas and oil pipelines. Aircraft, seacraft and ground vehicles, and the infrastructure associated with these vehicles, would also have to be completely replaced if we completely replaced our fuel economy with hydrogen.

Hydrocarbon fuels from CO2 and hydrogen

Alternatively, there are several demonstrated methods for synthesizing hydrocarbon fuels by utilizing carbon dioxide in combination with hydrogen which could allow a country to avoid any major overhaul in its transportation energy infrastructure.

Chemist have known how to produce methanol from hydrogen and carbon dioxide for more than 80 years:

CO2 + 3H2 → CH3OH (methanol) + H2O

Methanol is mostly used as a feedstock for making other chemicals. But methanol can be converted into dimethyl ether (DME), a fuel that can be effectively used in diesel engines equipped with new fuel injection systems. The fact that dimethyl ether produces no black smoke, soot, or sulfur dioxide is an clean advantage it has over diesel fuel.

Methanol can also be converted into high octane gasoline via the Mobil Oil methanol to gasoline (MTG) process. Back in the 1980's, the New Zealand government produced 600,000 tonnes of gasoline a year from methanol derived from natural gas using the MTG process.

Methane gas can also be synthesized from hydrogen and carbon dioxide:

CO2 + 4H2 → CH4 (methane) + 2H2O

And methane can also be converted into diesel and jet fuels via Fischer-Tropsch and hydrocracking processes.

Mechanical extraction of atmospheric CO2

Plants capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere while utilizing sunlight to convert the CO2 into starch. During photosynthesis, trees, for instance, convert carbon dioxide and water into starche molecules and oxygen through a series of oxidation and reduction reactions:

6 CO2 + 6 H2O + sunlight ---> C6H12O6 + 6 O2

Some farm crops and trees can produce up to 20 metric tons per acre (4047 square meters) of biomass a year. One tonne of dried tree consist of 0.45 tonnes of carbon which would translate into the extraction of 1.65 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually extracted from the atmosphere. That's 33 tonnes of CO2 per acre extracted on an annual basis.
Even though the concentration of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere is a meager 0.04 per cent, companies like GRT (Global Research Technologies) in Arizona and Canadian researchers at the University of Calgary have already built machines that can extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere far more efficiently than any tree or any other source of biomass. GRT claims that its carbon dioxide air extraction system is a thousand times more efficient than a tree of equal size.

GRT CO2 absorbent material

The University of Calgary team has shown that they could capture CO2 directly from the atmosphere with less than 100 kilowatt-hours of electricity per tonne of carbon dioxide. Their carbon dioxide from air extraction tower was able to capture the equivalent of about 20 tonnes per year of CO2 on just one single square meter of air scrubbing material. Astonishingly, this suggest that even the most conservative estimates would allow these CO2 extracting machines to produce more than 80 thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide per acre annually.

University of Calgary carbon dioxide extraction machine

Because of the need for cheap electricity for hydrogen production, only nuclear and hydroelectric facilities would be currently viable for hydrocarbon fuel production utilizing carbon dioxide from air extraction technologies. Hydroelectric facilities currently produce electricity at 0 .85 cents per kwh while electricity from nuclear facilities currently cost 1.68 cents per kwh. Wind and solar thermal electricity, however, is much more expensive and ranges from over 4 cents per kwh to over 6 cents per kwh.

At the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, F. Jeffrey Martin and Williams L. Kubic, Jr. have developed the Green Freedom concept for using the cooling towers of nuclear reactors to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for the production of gasoline and methanol.

They argue that a 1 GWe power plant using their Green Freedom method could produce 18,000-bbl/day of gasoline or 5000 tonnes a day of methanol.

Carbon neutral hydrocarbon synfuel production at nuclear and hydroelectric facilities would not only allow such power facilities to produce transportation fuels and industrial chemicals, they would also allow them to pump methanol and oxygen up to 80 kilometers away to high efficiency power plants for the production of peak-load and back-up-load electricity and commercial waste heat. Nuclear power plants could therefore not only produce base-load electricity but could also supply methanol fuel to replace greenhouse polluting natural gas power plants which are used for daytime peak-load energy and back-up energy for wind and solar power plants.

In 2006, the US consumed nearly 21 million bbl/day of petroleum for transportation fuel and industrial chemical use. If we assumed that nuclear power plants replaced all of the petroleum used in the US in 2006, that would roughly require more than a thousand new 1Gwe nuclear reactors, over 1000 GWe of electrical capacity. Existing nuclear sites that already have nuclear reactors could probably on add an additional 200 to 300 Gwe of capacity. However, if one large centralized nuplex (nuclear park) with about 30GWe of average electrical capacity were set up in every state in the union, then that could add an additional 1500 GWe of electrical capacity, more than enough to replace all of our petroleum needs today and probably our needs 30 years from now.

If the new Obama administration is going to invest substantial R&D money into new energy technologies, I would strongly suggest investing in the fast tracking of these carbon dioxide extraction from air technologies that could revolution synfuel production by helping to achieve US independence from the petroleum fuel economy while protecting the global environment from the dangers of global warming and climate change.

Links and References

1. Green Freedom: A concept for producing carbon-neutral synthetic fuels and chemicals, Los Alamos Labs, November 2007 F.J. Martin and WL Kubic,

2. GRT (Global Research Technologies, LLC)

3. Giant Carbon dioxide Vacuums

4. Snatching Carbon dioxide from the Atmosphere

5. CO2 capture from air

6. First Successful Demonstration of Carbon Dioxide Air Capture Technology Achieved:

7. First Successful Demonstration of Carbon Dioxide Air Capture Technology Achieved by Columbia University Scientist and Private Company, (2007) Earth Institute News Archive, 04/24/07

8. Carbon capture and storage:

9. Researchers Scramble to Create CO2-Busting Technologies:

10. CO2 capture from ambient air: a feasibility assessment:

11. Carbon Capture and Storage A False Solution

12. The Case for Carbon Dioxide Extraction from Air

13. Klaus S. Lackner, Patrick Grimes, Hans-J. Ziock, Capturing Carbon Dioxide From Air

14. K. Schultz, L. Bogart, G. Besenbruch, L. Brown, R. Buckingham, M. Campbell, B. Russ, and B. Wong HYDROGEN AND SYNTHETIC HYDROCARBON FUELS – A NATURAL SYNERGY General Atomics Poster

15. G. Olah, A. Goeppert, and G. Prakash, (2006) Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy, Wiley-VCH Verlang, Weinheim, Germany

Gratitude and Thanksgiving

Jill 4 Obama — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:37:45 EST

Gratitude and Thanksgiving

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. --Jackie Windspear

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. --Estonian Proverb

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" --William A. Ward

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness! -- William Shakespeare

Gratitude consists of being more aware of what you have, than what you don’t. –Unknown

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. --Cynthia Ozick

To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others. --Eugene Cloutier

How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative—or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people. -- Sir John Templeton

Gratitude ... goes beyond the "mine" and "thine" and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy. --Henri J. M. Nouwen

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. --Thornton Wilder

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it --William Arthur Ward

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. --Melody Beattie

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. -- Aesop Fables

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. --H.U. Westermayer

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? --George Canning

Some complain that roses have thorns—others rejoice that thorns have roses! --Unknown

Would you know who is the greatest saint in the world: It is not he who prays most or fasts most, it is not he who gives most alms or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice; but it is he who is always thankful to God, who wills everything that God wills, who receives everything as an instance of God’s goodness and has a heart always ready to praise God for it. --William Law

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. --W.T. Purkiser

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. -- Cicero

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference.

--President-Elect Barack Obama

Chickens

Walt — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:12:58 EST

Everywhere you look, the Bush chickens are coming home to roost. They are everywhere, on the farm and in the city, on Wall Street and Main Street, on banking institutions and on your new cars. They leave a mess of white stuff and discarded feathers. It will be up to team Obama and the rest of us to clean up the mess. Eventually there will one or more chickens in every pot. And let's not forget that there are Greenspan chickens among the Bush chickens.

Tell me they can't change, they have no choice!

CJM — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:03:01 EST

The answer to the Big 3 Bail Out!

Pre-Packaged Bank-O is the answer for Auto

CJM — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:54:11 EST

I don't completely buy the notion that if GM goes into Bank-O that they will not be able to sell cars. First off what are they comparing this notion/scare tactic to. Are people going to be likely to buy their cars if we throw bail out money to them? I would not. If you have a friend on crack and he wants help do you give him more money and ask him to promise not to buy crack or do you drive him down to the rehab/Bank-O? After which scenario would you be more likely to trust him with your life, after he completes rehab or while he is trying to fight an addiction that is bigger than him by his own means and your money.

At this point I like most Americans believe that the answer is a "Pre-Packaged Bankruptcy Plan" that will kick out those that are not part of the solution but rather the problem and really protect the auto workers with a sustained conversion in US manufacturing.

At the same time I think that the American people need to remember the opinions and stances of our elected officials concerning this matter, because it will be our responsibility to determine if they are competent enough to retain their status as their terms end and new elections come about in the years to come.

Help make the Grassroots BAll a reality, an underwriting opportunity.

Mary R. Il. — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:25:38 EST

Hello MYBO People,

The very first Grassroots Inaugural Ball 2009 -- originating right here in MYBO -- has a challenge for 40 people in our network of campaign volunteers.

We are trying to secure a venue in Washington that is convenient, on the Metro with space for more than 1000 people, and we are trying to do this for what is regarded as the inauguration that will be the most widely attended in our nation's history. Everybody wants to be there to witness this historic event and celebrate, and maybe nobody more so than those of us here on the MYBO listservs. Obama's Internet Army soldiers.

It's really, really hard to get space in Washington right now, and MYBO has done it. Almost.

So, The Challenge.

We are on the verge of signing a contract for a venue, and to do it we need 40 people to kick in $1,000 so that we can be ready with our check for the down payment before someone else beats us to it.

Your underwriting of the down payment not only assures us the space to hold our very own Grassroots Inaugural Ball 2009, it will cover $40,000 of our total budget. Think of yourselves as part of Barack's tax plan. That top 5% that will help to reduce ticket prices and make our ball more affordable for everyone--most especially for the 95% of MYBO who need a break after all the donating to the campaign!

What else will you get? You will receive:

assurance of the purchase of two tickets -- yes, the guarantee that there will be two tickets reserved for you to purchase and use or give away -- to what is shaping up to be the most sought-after party in Washington for our candidate's installation in the office of The President of The United States of America [we can all shout for joy right here, right now before going on],
mention on our website and advertising or publicity space in an eventual program,
a very special sponsor gift, and
a once in a lifetime chance to show Washington what MYBO is and what it means to American politics.

The Electronic Republic is here, and it works. You betcha'!

What else, you ask?

The undying thanks and devotion of everyone who wants this ball to happen. You can also choose one of our sponsor gifts, once we figure out what they will be.

We need this as quickly as possible. Don't think it over. Reply right away to Russell Miller, our treasurer, at Russell@grassrootsballdc2009.com, and we go to contract to have a ball!

You don't have $1,000? That's okay.

If you have $500 to help us underwrite the ball, we can guarantee you:

1 ticket to purchase,
mention on our website and in an eventual program,
and a sponsor gift.

And If you don't have five hundred dollars to get the ball rolling, don't worry. We'll be rolling out other sponsor levels, and tickets will be available shortly at a range of prices that make sense for every working American. (We revere the Constitution, but we're breaking the law of supply and demand.)

This ball is going to be for EVERYONE—or at least as many as the fire codes allow.

Thank you!

Jacqueline Ashton de Floris, Mary Ritter, Russell Miller

Members, Organizing Committee

PS: Money Where Our Mouth Is Department—All three of us are already in as sponsors. It's lonely out here, but we know it won't be for long. Join us!

PPS for shy folks: You can be anonymous sponsors if you like!

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Hello MYBO People,

The very first Grassroots Inaugural Ball 2009 -- originating right here in MYBO -- has a challenge for 40 people in our network of campaign volunteers.

It's really, really hard to get space in Washington right now, and MYBO has done it. Almost.

So, The Challenge.

What else will you get? You will receive:

assurance of the purchase of two tickets -- yes, the guarantee that there will be two tickets reserved for you to purchase and use or give away -- to what is shaping up to be the most sought-after party in Washington for our candidate's installation in the office of The President of The United States of America [we can all shout for joy right here, right now before going on],
mention on our website and advertising or publicity space in an eventual program,
a very special sponsor gift, and
a once in a lifetime chance to show Washington what MYBO is and what it means to American politics.

The Electronic Republic is here, and it works. You betcha'!

What else, you ask?

The undying thanks and devotion of everyone who wants this ball to happen. You can also choose one of our sponsor gifts, once we figure out what they will be.

We need this as quickly as possible. Don't think it over. Reply right away to Russell Miller, our treasurer, at Russell@grassrootsballdc2009.com, and we go to contract to have a ball!

You don't have $1,000? That's okay.

If you have $500 to help us underwrite the ball, we can guarantee you:

1 ticket to purchase,
mention on our website and in an eventual program,
and a sponsor gift.

This ball is going to be for EVERYONE—or at least as many as the fire codes allow.

Thank you!

Jacqueline Ashton de Floris, Mary Ritter, Russell Miller

Members, Organizing Committee

PS: Money Where Our Mouth Is Department—All three of us are already in as sponsors. It's lonely out here, but we know it won't be for long. Join us!

PPS for shy folks: You can be anonymous sponsors if you like!

PPS: Sorry, your sponsorship is not tax-deductible

A Plan for the US Auto Ind.

CJM — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:49:37 EST

I put together some ideas for a plan to revitilize the 3 million jobs that will be lost when the big 3 bite the dust. While my plan may not be the end all, it might provide some ideas to move forward in a productive way. What the CEO's need to read is the very book they push down the ladder "Who moved my cheese." In the book it clearly points out that sometimes you just have to change, and change to new and strange ventures, strange because they are not familliar, but serve the need and maybe even better than the previous!

Now, I have a plan.

The big three go into Bank-O with the Gov right there over the process, ready to implement the program below:

1. A restructuring that immediately starts conversion to Natural Gas for heavy equip. City Buses, trucks, Big rigs and UPS trucks.

2. They also develop the pumping stations and conversions for existing vehicles

3. advance the design and build of High efficiency Hybrids, Hydrogen and full electric cars

4. Give tax credits to people and companies that convert to natural gas, i.e. UPS, Roadway, City Buses, Gas Stations, and all those that convert.

5. Where does the money come from? Determine the national security value of what it is worth to America in converting to Natural Gas via the percentage of change over and instead of just giving the money to the Car companies, use some of these moneys/tax credits to expedite the change in those that participate and complete the cycle.

6. Conduct the changes to the sectors that will allow for the quickest implementation, i.e. like trucking companies and truck stops, UPS, Municipalities.

Bridging the Gap: Individual/American Exceptionalism vs Social Responsibility

Linda (in her own voice) — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:04:35 EST

Today in reading a review of Andrew J. Bacevich’s “Limits to Power: The End of American Exceptionalism” on the Daily Kos, The End of American Exceptionalism, I was confronted again with my own personal conflict in bridging the gap between my desire for individual freedom and my need for being a responsible family or group member. Allowing the personal introspection to guide me in the political discovery process I’ve been pursuing (Finding my own Voice), I came to a more enlightened understanding of the purpose behind the system of checks and balances our founders built into the Constitution.

It's very basic: Individual freedom is a desired state of being which 'should' only be limited by social responsibility. Social responsibility necessarily limits the expression of individual freedom under certain conditions, the condition of needs for the social good--the "common good” or “commonwealth".

All the ills being discussed in the book and in the review about America, as a Power, and Presidents/Chief Executives, as Powers, originate in this one conflict. Power can and will be misused in human systems. Individual, executive, imperial power will/can be used to dominate and control others for private advantage. At the same time, concerns for the good of the whole can suppress and smother individual freedom and excellence by giving undue focus to the need for preserving the social order, which results in bringing the full range of individual differences down to the lowest common denominator.

Both these principles, these characteristics of human nature are necessary for our survival--human survival--the survival of life on earth. Yes, Life.on.Earth! These are the principles of competition and cooperation, of opportunism and altruism. Humans are the only species on earth who have the power of discernment and choice--and the ability to misuse that power in such a way as to upset the balance of life on our planet.

When individual excellence/achievement/ambition, or imperial exceptionalism/dominance/avarice get out of hand, the social order, the living system of nature is put at risk. When a repressive social order, such as that of Lenin and Stalin is over-built and forced onto the people--when all individual freedom and opportunity are squelched in lieu of the so-called good of the state (whole), then the 'living system' is also out of balance. It is the first imbalance mentioned here, that of individual/national exceptionalism vs the survival of the whole/planet, that plagues us today and is the premise of this discussion.

Systems growing out of balance become dysfunctional at greater degrees until they push past the "tipping point" and collapse into chaos and disorder. It's up for grabs then who or what controls the next form of order and rule--and the results of the collapse limit the conditions under which that new order is established.

The "middle way", was the advice of Daedalus to his son, Icarus, upon gifting him with the wings he'd fashioned for him. Held together with wax, they would not be sustainable soaring at great heights (too near the heat of the Sun). Father cautioned son not to fly too high, but to go the "middle way" across the tumultuous waters or be at risk of falling into their grasp to be tossed and torn apart.

We all know Icarus, in his hubris, in his greedy desire for exceptionalism, did fly too high and so fell to his fate.

Aristotle, too, cautioned us that "the secret of happiness is in the moderation of all things." I'm thinking he meant a functioning system has checks and balances that allow it to run homeostatically. Alas, systems do wear out and lose energy--they fall into collapse and restructure themselves according to a new and more efficient and effective order. Different principles come into play during such a first order change as that.

We are going through such a first order change. I’m not sure we have learned which principles will guide us through. Perhaps they will be new ones--a challenge for the next step in our evolution of knowledge and ability to govern ourselves sustainably.

Only a wise and benevolent leader and an awake and aware, educated public, or citizenry can take the rudder and guide our ship of state, our planet earth through this maelstrom and into a sustainable future. At least now, I have hope.

NO AUTO BAIL OUT WITHOUT...

CJM — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:52:31 EST

I do not support the bail-out of the big 3 in the current form. There has to be a what I call a "Come to Jesus Meeting." Meaning the root causes MUST be dealt with and solved in any bail-out that involves my money.

What I expect is: 1. The Union must get to the basics. The basics means getting down to the bare bones on benefits and labor cost that are comparable to Non-Union American plants.

2. The management must have a "Manhattanized" restructuring/retooling to make electric, natural gas, hydrogen, and hybrid cars and their support systems, i.e. fuel pumping and recharging systems, with a signed commitment/law to push extremely hard away from building gasoline run cars by 5 years. Yes 5 years, NO B.S.

We Need a real plan before we give them any tax payer money. We need to tell them to produce a serious turnaround plan that drives us to energy independence or they can go into Bank-O and we will work with the Japanese and others on investing more in the US to fill the Vacuum by building the cars, trucks and equipment that we will need to become energy independent.

Toyota is the business model for the auto industry, in the US & abroad. The Big 3 and unions refuse to adapt to "the lean/sigma culture" completley Yes, they have implemented the lean philosophy at work, but they don't buy it, they do it because they have to. They don't believe in it like the Japanese do, and that is why they have failed and are failing, that and the weight the unions have placed around their neck concerning pay & benefits. And unless they are willing to make the complete turn around (Complete Restructuring Baptism) then they can go to the "Bank-O Baptism" and not waste my tax payer money that we do not have.

grassroots ball 2009, Help Make it Happen

Mary R. Il. — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:59:37 EST

Hello MYBO People,

The very first Grassroots Inaugural Ball 2009 -- originating right here in MYBO -- has a challenge for 40 people in our network of campaign volunteers.

It's really, really hard to get space in Washington right now, and MYBO has done it. Almost.

So, The Challenge.

What else will you get? You will receive:

assurance of the purchase of two tickets -- yes, the guarantee that there will be two tickets reserved for you to purchase and use or give away -- to what is shaping up to be the most sought-after party in Washington for our candidate's installation in the office of The President of The United States of America [we can all shout for joy right here, right now before going on],
mention on our website and advertising or publicity space in an eventual program,
a very special sponsor gift, and
a once in a lifetime chance to show Washington what MYBO is and what it means to American politics.

The Electronic Republic is here, and it works. You betcha'!

What else, you ask?

The undying thanks and devotion of everyone who wants this ball to happen. You can also choose one of our sponsor gifts, once we figure out what they will be.

We need this as quickly as possible. Don't think it over. Reply right away to Russell Miller, our treasurer, at Russell@grassrootsballdc2009.com, and we go to contract to have a ball!

You don't have $1,000? That's okay.

If you have $500 to help us underwrite the ball, we can guarantee you:

1 ticket to purchase,
mention on our website and in an eventual program,
and a sponsor gift.

This ball is going to be for EVERYONE—or at least as many as the fire codes allow.

Thank you!

Jacqueline Ashton de Floris, Mary Ritter, Russell Miller

Members, Organizing Committee

PS: Money Where Our Mouth Is Department—All three of us are already in as sponsors. It's lonely out here, but we know it won't be for long. Join us!

PPS for shy folks: You can be anonymous sponsors if you like!

PPS: Sorry, your sponsorship is not tax-deductible

The Newsroom at Change.com

Jill 4 Obama — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:00:03 EST

The Newsroom Saturday, November 15, 2008 06:00am EST / in Blog Your Weekly Address from the President-elect For the first time, the weekly Democratic address has been released as a web video. It will also continue to air on the radio. Friday, November 14, 2008 07:00pm EST / in Press Releases Former Sec. of State Albright and Former GOP Congressman Leach Meet with Delegations at G-20 Summit

President-elect Obama and Vice President-elect Biden announced that former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Republican Congressman Jim Leach would be available to meet with delegations at the G-20 summit on their behalf. Congressman Leach and Secretary Albright are holding these unofficial meetings to seek input from visiting delegations on behalf of the President-elect and Vice President-elect.

Friday, November 14, 2008 06:25pm EST / in Blog Advice for the President-elect Across the country, people are already writing to us with their advice for the Obama Administration. Friday, November 14, 2008 03:21pm EST / in Press Releases Obama-Biden Transition Team Announces Broad List of Agency Review Team Leads

The Obama-Biden Transition Team today announced a broad list of Agency Review Team leads that will complete a thorough review of key departments, agencies and commissions of the United States government, as well as the White House, to provide the President-elect, Vice President-elect, and key advisors with information needed to make strategic policy, budgetary, and personnel decisions prior to the inauguration.

Friday, November 14, 2008 10:32am EST / in Press Releases President-elect Obama to meet with Senator McCain Monday

Obama-Biden transition spokesperson Stephanie Cutter released a statement on a planned meeting between President-elect Obama and Senator McCain Monday.

Please Help Stop the Reactor Expansion at Plant Vogtle,et al

Dianne — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:33:35 EST

Greetings Everyone,

Because the agencies whose missions have been to protect us and our interests as citizens of this country have allowed themselves to be dictated to by political interests rather than there assigned duties as directed by their mission statements, we find our health & well-being, our environment, and our federal and local budgets are in jeopardy.

I am not just referring to the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but I am also talking about agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission.

The nuclear power industry has been allowed to tell the American public that it provides safe and clean energy to our country. Though nuclear power is neither safe nor clean, it has been allowed to do this by the FCC and the FTC and SEC when it engages in its advertising and when it engages in its business activities. The nuclear power/energy industry has been allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Agency, the Department Of Energy, and state public service commissions to be heavily involved in setting the standards and regulations that govern it. Those standards and regulations, for the most part, do not protect human health or the environment.

The current as well as previous administrations have allowed these regulatory agencies to be run by, and in most cases rendered impotent by having them run with, political appointments and agendas. This has been unfortunate, because now we have an American public who is working from a well ingrained position of ignorance when it has been led to believe that nuclear power is clean, safe, less expensive, and needs to remain 'on the table' as part of our energy solution.

These agencies that were designed to protect us have allowed the nuclear power/energy industry to get away with false advertising in its commercials and publications, they have been allowed to misinform investors with this same false and incomplete information.

Always keep in mind the massive subsidies given to this mature industry by our government using our tax dollars, most of which are freely given to foreign owned companies in the nuclear power industry. France, Japan, England, and Germany.They are the primary benefactors of our tax dollars assigned to Research & Development in the nuclear industry. These foreign companies are responsible for our safety and our nuclear energy production. In addtion, the heavy manfacturing jobs that our tax dollars subsidize don't take place in this country so those jobs are also off shore (over seas).

A nuclear power reactor/plant is not a stand-alone entity that acts as the sole source provider of nuclear power. It is only one segment of the process of getting nuclear power generated electricity to the public. It is only one link in the fuel chain.

We have to face that we are being led down a path that is false from it beginning. Nuclear energy is one of the most egregious emitters of CO2, toxic heavy metals, and other poisonous emissions and we have to stop being led by the nuclear industry to believe that nuclear power is clean, safe energy.

The electricity produced by nuclear power in and of itself is relatively benign, however the waste, including high levels of CO2, which has been created to get us to the production of that electricity will harm you, your children, your grandchildren, and generations after them.

You should also always keep in mind that CO2 is not the only toxin that we have to deal with or be worried about.

The nuclear industry itself uses enormous amounts of electricity in their gaseous diffusion plants, (created by coal-fired power plants). Enormous amounts of cooling water are needed and used, and the highly corrosive and radioactive uranium hexafluoride gas is produced. All have adverse human health and environmental impacts.

The waste is pervasive in its movements through our earth, air, and water. It has proven itself to be more than difficult to contain. It has proven itself deadly. Sometimes it will kill you slowly; sometimes it will kill you quickly. The nuclear power/energy industry has of course chosen to do its damage primarily on Native American lands as well as in poor and minority communities. The people who until now had no voice, no say.

But don't be fooled. Nuclear waste is not just a byproduct created at the end of the nuclear weapons, nuclear fuel, or nuclear energy production cycle. The ugliness begins at the beginning and it's not all radioactive.

The Uranium ore needed to produce nuclear power or nuclear energy has to be mined. Uranium is both radioactive and a chemical toxin. Part of the uranium mining process is milling which consists of chemically separating uranium from other ore.

The waste produced is known as milling tailings. In some cases these highly radioactive tailings are left on and near the land surrounding the mines creating another legacy of dangerous waste.

For typical uranium concentrations, the tailings contain an extremely high percentage of the radioactivity in the original ore, along with toxic chemicals and heavy metals, such as lead and arsenic which adversely affect the environment and human health.

After being converted to uranium hexafluoride it is further enriched through the process of gaseous diffusion. Enrichment is required to increase the percentage of Uranium-235 (half-life of 700 million years). Considered to be the "product", it's the isotope needed for nuclear power and weapons.

Uranium-238, aka depleted uranium, another byproduct of gaseous diffusion, is a heavy metal and radioactive. Uranium-238 can be used to breed plutonium-239.

These radioactive and toxic wastes are process and production outcomes. Remember, all of this and we haven't even gotten to the nuclear reactor for the production of the first nuclear energy generated kilowatt.

We really have to let our representatives know that we are not going to continue to allow this industry to control our conversation on our energy needs and our national security. We can look forward to being carbon free and nuclear free if we make that commitment to ourselves, our families, and our environment.

We have to start now to look toward a new type of future, a future that considers all of us, not just one group of people. We have to stop this unsafe practice of giving quick money more importance than sound judgment and survival.

It is time to change how we live in this world, we have to start somewhere, at some point in time. Now is that time.

Peace,

Dianne

The change - Obama Acceptance Speech - Change is come to America (7)

! Steffen from European Union, Dr. - Together We Can! Yes. We. Can. — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:30:08 EST

next post in my main blog about "Change for better world" - here i collected some movies from this day and shortly before.

(And i saved it to hard disc too. If some original will not be longer responsible in YouTube i will bring it new.)

Please, ckick this link to see the movies:

The change - Obama Acceptance Speech - Change is come to America

[But of course - it's just beginning with the change, there is a lot to do. Please stay in touch, however we do that, through these groups or some other way. ]

Barack

Walt — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:11:13 EST

O-BA-MA

While Waiting for America to Decide

Jawad — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:26:50 EST

After months of campaigning, canvassing, and phone-banking, the moment of truth has arrived. Today is the day all those who have put their heart into this campaign take a big breath and put their trust in the good sense of the American People. This has been a remarkable campaign and most of those I have encountered in it, volunteers and campaign staff alike, just feel privileged to be part of it.

The Fat Lady is Singing!

Beverly — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:42:50 EST

This is it - the day we have all been waiting for. The proverbial Fat lady is singing. Go out and vote now or miss the boat all together.

This has been a long race and I suspect emotionally challenging for Obama with his grandmothers illness and final transition.

Now is the day to see if it was all worth it. My prediction is that Obama will win by a landslide. He has brought us hope at a time when everything seems upside down and nothing makes sense. When people are profoundly impacted on many fronts by issues they have no control over.

So do not be complacent, send a solid message to Washington and the world (yes, they are watching). Go out and cast your vote today.

Peace and Prosperity to all.

Electoral Predictions

Marcel F. Williams — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:12:18 EST

As the final tabulation of votes are revealed on Wednesday morning, I predict that Barack Obama will win the presidency of the United States by winning a total of 318 electoral votes-- including Florida.

The fatal flaws of the McCain campaign, IMO, were:

1.) Picking Sarah Palin, a woman who clearly lacks the foreign policy experience to be the Commander-in-Chief. If McCain really loves this country and cares about the safety of this country more than he wants the presidency, he certainly didn't show that by picking Palin as his VP nominee!

2.) McCain's failure to focus like a laser beam on the energy re-industrialization of America through both private and public investment in order to end our dependence on foreign oil and to create jobs here in America. McCain did best in his campaign and even in the debates when he talked about energy and especially nuclear energy even though I strongly disagree with him on off-shore drilling. It was a huge mistake, IMO, that he didn't make energy independence through nuclear and renewable energy the primary focus of his campaign.

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3.) Trying to instill fear and division in America through negative campaigning with phrases like 'paling around with terrorist', 'socialist', folks at his rallies referring to Obama's middle name and screaming for Obama's death. Sorry but that's not what America is all about, or at least it shouldn't be about that.

But if for some tragic reason, McCain and Palin do win the White House, I'll pray (and I'm an atheist:-) for McCain's good health because a Palin presidency, IMO, would put this country and the rest of the world in an extremely dangerous situation thanks to her total lack of foreign experience. The woman got her first passport in 2006!

McCain's picking of Palin is simply an unforgivable act. Unforgivable!!!!

Marcel F. Williams

http://newpapyrusmagazine.blogspot.com/

Obama Support Pack

Arizona Educators, Teachers, and Students — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:13:21 EST

I have signs, stickers and buttons for any one who wants to have some, first come gets what they want to have and pass out. Let me know how to share with you and others to support Obama for Tuesday.

Arizona Daily Star Steps Up

Arizona Educators, Teachers, and Students — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:05:43 EST

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/politics/265275

Barack Obama for president Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.02.2008advertisement We see America the way Barack Obama sees America. Our future requires a steady, intelligent and, as former Secretary of State Colin Powell said, a "transformational" leader to guide us into a new era. Obama brings deep intellectual curiosity, equanimity and discipline. The ground under America is moving. A generational change is under way with or without Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., or Barack Obama, D-Ill. The core concerns are more about the future than the past, be it eight years ago or one day ago. They are about the moment and the movement to engage Americans in ways not seen before, especially against a backdrop of economic strife unmatched since the Great Depression. McCain is correct that it's time to stand up. "Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. Nothing is inevitable here. We're Americans, and we never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history," he said at the Republican National Convention. However, the ways of the past, which we believe McCain understands, will not work in this new America. The future requires new tools and new expertise. A premium must be placed on more than just love of country. We must re-embrace American ideals and lead the world on a stronger path to prosperity and peace. The time is now and the leader is Barack Obama. The Star endorses Obama for president of the United States. Like a race car driver going into a turn, a leader must see not only what confronts our nation today but envision where we come out on the other side. Obama sees how the United States is connected to other nations through our economic, immigration, national security and energy policies. No one can thrive alone. Obama sees a foreign policy where force is but one tool. He envisions countries collaborating to confront bad actors and shared challenges such as global warming, poverty, terrorism, disease and religious extremism. Obama sees a health-care system in which children can go to the doctor and families aren't forced into bankruptcy by medical bills. He experienced the same hardships many American families face. While his mother was dying of cancer, she battled her insurance company for care. He embraces the strength of the free market, but sees that, in the United States today, the market doesn't meet people's health-care needs. He knows the heavy toll that inequitable public policies take on people's lives. We agree with Obama that health care should be as affordable and accessible to as many people as possible. Obama sees an economy creating jobs through innovation, helping families stay in their homes and lifting the middle class and small businesses. He would reduce taxes for the majority of Americans and not raise taxes on those making less than $250,000. Obama sees education as an investment in America's prosperity, political system and national security. He would expand early childhood education and protect funding for public schools. A college education is out of reach for many Americans. He would help make it more affordable through tuition tax credits. He's proved himself with his nuanced understanding of complicated issues. His vision is not built on rhetoric. He offers substantive, detailed policies and the acumen to make these changes a reality. He demonstrates leadership by surrounding himself with smart people who will strengthen his administration. For vice president Obama chose Joseph Biden, a U.S. senator with 35 years of experience, a foreign policy expert qualified to be president. Obama made a responsible, pragmatic and intelligent choice that shows us he puts the nation above party politics. This moment in history requires courage to change. Our nation must find a way to restore the confidence that our government is of the people, by the people, for the people — all of our people. We share Obama's vision of America. And we share his urgency.

A Better Energy Alternative

Jordon McClain — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:47:57 EDT

By the second half of the 21st century fusion could make significant contribution to the world’s energy production. If we harness the power of fusion here on Earth, we will not only benefit America, but humankind.

Its in the Little Things...

Kristi, "Song" — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:09:54 EDT

As the election nears, I am mindful of all the little things we can do to help support Senator Obama's successful election. As a professor, I am mindful of how some of the students are so educated on making wise decisions when voting, yet too, others seem to vote primarily on the "commercials" and lack sophistication in the issues. Now is the time for us to help "get out the informed vote". A mere call, discussion, or education of a friend can help. I have made attempts to talk with friends who may otherwise be undecided, another friend is assiting at the polls, another close friend has volunteered to be a driver... how wonderful.

Yes, we can all help out; I encourage each of us to consider how the "little things" can make such a difference and lead to bringing Senator Obama into office and then creating real change!

Blessings,

Song

" Obama for President" - today's Anchorage Daily News editorial

Pamela Thompson — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:35:57 EDT

Alaska's largest newspaper, "Anchorage Daily News" supports Barack Obama for President:

http://www.adn.com/opinion/view/story/567867.html

Alaskan's for Obama have not given up hope that Alaskan's will show up at the polls and vote Obama, voting against the Alaska's Palin celebrity tide.

Pro-Obama Get out the Vote Economy Video

Bryan K. Long — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:13:16 EDT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YN-5zpVeVo. This is a four minute video discussing the financial crisis as part of a larger economic crisis: insufficient investment in infrastructure and education. Viewers are encouraged to vote (for Obama, of course). See it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YN-5zpVeVo