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1 http://opioids.com/heroin/heroinsong.html http://opioids.com/index.html There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman." André Malraux (1901-1976) MAN'S FATE "If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise." ALDOUS HUXLEY 1894 - 1963 sineadoconnor http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=sinead&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj8A3G -j6DE&feature=related http://opioids.com/heroin /heroinsong.html http://sineadoconnor.safeway.sk/news2007.html  http://opioids.com/index.html http://stupidd.blogspot.com/2008/01/sinead-o-connor-3-albums.html http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=sinead&um= 1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi sineadoconnor 2 http://missinesamaro.blogspot.com/ 3 Kara Walker at the Whitney  Museum through Feb. -http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=kara+walker++at+the+whitney+museum+through+Feb.+&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi http://flavorpill.com/newyork/events/2007/10/11/ kara-walker-my-complement-my-enemy-my-oppressor-my-love http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=kara+walker++&btnG=Search http://tang.skidmore.edu/4/exhi bitions/doc/582/  http://www.dailyserving.com/illustration/   http://www.barbarakrakowgallery.com/bkg/index.php  http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/walker/index.html# [PDF] Press Release File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML KARA WALKER'S FIRST AMERICAN MUSEUM SURVEY. 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A stranger was seated next to a little girl on an airplane. When the plane took off and settled into its climb, the stranger turned to the little girl and said: 'I've always found that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.'    The little girl, who had just opened her book, closed it slowly and said to the stranger, 'OK. What would you like to talk about?' Oh, I don't know,' said the stranger. 'How about nuclear power?' 'Yes,' she said. 'That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow and a deer all eat grass -- the same stuff. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose  that is?' The stranger thought for a few moments, then said: You know, I've never thought about that. I have no idea.' The little girl began to open her book again, saying: 'Do you really feel qualified to discuss nuclear power when you don't know  shit?' 7 [Fwd: Dr. King: "Equality means dignity"] Dear friends, I felt moved to share this information with folk whom I know. Feel free to take whatever action, or inaction, your feel motivated or not, to take. When President Bush and others insist on permanent tax cuts for corporate entities  and the rich, supposably to stimulate the economy, it's for oppressed folks like Henry Kravis, that he is "selflessly" advocating for. If you were not aware of KKR before, this stuff will really open your eyes I signed the petition.  Then thought to share the following with you. If you are a member or sympathizer  of this privileged class, and this sort of message or content disturbs or offends you, please accept my sincere apologies. The following, is a message I received from Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Films crew: Dear activists, colleagues and friends, Today we honor Dr. King's birthday. We all know him because of his historic impact on civil rights, but many don't realize that later in life he fought just as passionately for the rights of workers and against the entrenched institutions of injustice. "Equality means dignity. And dignity demands a job and a paycheck that lasts through the week." The War on Greed is exactly this kind of fight. The livelihoods of families have been directly attacked by the actions of buyout billionaires like Henry Kravis putting Wall Street's special interests ahead of his 800,000 employees... and pocketing $51,000  an hour in the process. [Fwd: Dr. King: "Equality means dignity"] Watch the video: http://warongreed.org/dreams.php?utm_source=email The first step must be taxing these buyout billionaires at a fair tax rate. It will not solve all the problems, but it is a strong and forceful beginning. With the presidential campaigns underway, it is the perfect time to force this issue into the campaigns the way we did with Wal-Mart and Iraq for Sale. As our friend Rev. Yearwood, leader of the Hip Hop Caucus, has said: "We are facing a lunch counter moment for the 21st century." Please join us at our virtual lunch counter by signing the petition to presidential candidates demanding they pledge to close the loopholes and tax the tax dodgers. Buyout billionaires are a menace to our economy. People are hurting, badly, and we must take beginning steps to bring the issue of corporate greed and economic equality to the nation's attention. Robert Greenwald and the Brave New Films crew 8 Save for Watercolor Mandala In memory of Be Routhenbloucher 5. OM! may all beings find happiness >From Rainbow To: DailyDose_Gratitude@yahoogroups.com From: kenjo@unwired.com.au Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:19:12 +1100 Subject: [DailyDose_Gratitude] Your Daily Dose of Gratitude ~ Day 592 To: DailyDose_Gratitude@yahoogroups.com From: kenjo@unwired.com.au Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:19:12 +1100 Subject: [DailyDose_Gratitude] Your Daily Dose of Gratitude ~ Day 592 ------------------------------------------------- Gratitude For Your Life In General ------------------------------------------------- I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 – 1936) -------------------------------------------------------------- Cherishing  Your Challenges & Challengers -------------------------------------------------------------- It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you. (Zig Ziglar) ------------------------------------ Cherishing The Moments ------------------------------------ Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me  of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.  (Anne de Lenclos) ------------------------------------ Embracing Who You Are ------------------------------------ Each time you choose to feel good about yourself, even when someone is criticizing you, putting you down, or  acting in a way that you used to respond to with pain, you are choosing joy. Each time you do so you create freedom in your life. You are free from having to have other people act in certain ways for you to be happy. (Orin & DaBen through Sanaya Roman, from the book, Living With Joy) - www.orindaben.com ------------------------------------------------------------- What We Say, Be, & See – We Become ------------------------------------------------------------ In every moment, you are offering a vibrational output, not so different from a radio signal, and the entire Universe responds to your output and matches it with things like it. Most humans are not aware of their own vibrational output and so are not deliberate about the signal they are transmitting. Most humans offer their output predominantly because of that which they are observing. So, if they are observing something they like, the Universe delivers back to them a vibration match. And, if they are observing something they don't like, the Universe delivers back to them a vibrational match. Most people exercise little or no creative control over their own vibrational output, and therefore have little or no control over what comes back to them. A very fast and effective way to guarantee that you will like what comes back to you is to stay in the mode of appreciation. Appreciation is a pure positive Energy vibration that always matches things you want in your experience. The vibration of Appreciation is the closest vibration that can be experienced by a human being to that of his Non-physical core Energy. Appreciation feels good in your powerful and important now — and it guarantees wonderful future experiences as the Universe responds again and again to your signal. (Abraham through Esther Hicks, 10/27/96) - www.abraham-hicks.com --------------------------------------------------------------- Neutralizing Negativity & Preferring Positivity --------------------------------------------------------------- Ego can be positively embarrassing when it keeps bringing up the "old" you. It will present you with thoughts that tempt you to forget your promise to self to remain in the Light. It can be a source of inner concern, as you try to cleanse yourself of that which no longer has a permanent place within your consciousness. Ego will not let you forget how you were, and has sometimes been described as the child within. It wants your attention and like a young child will not let you forget that it is around. It will take time, but you can placate your ego self by telling it that it no longer has a prominent place. The ego is that instinctive reaction to something that may well have caught you unawares, and is how you have programmed yourself to re-act. It is when you take full charge of your thoughts and actions that it becomes but a reflection of the past. Instead of telling yourself, that you cannot help being what you are, you become what you desire to be with full responsibility. If you are honest you will admit that at times, dark thoughts scurry around your mind, and they may in fact worry you because they exist. There is certainly no reason to feel guilty about that which is a normal process of refining your thoughts.  The secret is not to give them any life of their own, and simply let them go as quick as they arrived in the first place. If you reject them sufficiently often, they will have less and less effect on your thinking. For example, could you in a moment of loss of self-control destroy something, and then perhaps recognize that your anger was a lack of patience. That would have been a throwback to times when you responded as you have seen others re-act, and when it was considered to be quite normal behavior. When you aspire to lift yourself up, these are the type of emotions that you recognize as undesirable, and work to remove. (St. Germain through Mike Quinsey) - www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/new_subscribe.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kindness Is The Greatest Way To Display Your Gratitude ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a  lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen. (Loretta Girzartis) ---------------------------------------------- Daily Gratitude Affirmation/Intent ---------------------------------------------- Repeat this affirmation as often as possible throughout the “nows” of your day. Write it on a piece of paper and carry around to re-mind yourself I consciously choose love by seeing this day full of wonders and blessings. --------------------------------------- The Daily Phrase Of Praise --------------------------------------  (1) Apply this “phrase of praise” to all the nouns you encounter throughout your day. Write it on a piece of paper & keep it where you’ll repeatedly see it & it’ll re-mind you to remember to “spend your days in praise.” You will feel yourself filling up with the energy of gratitude as you consistently use this phrase throughout your day. Fill your nows with “wows” by routinely using this phrase of praise. I consciously choose love by ???? (2) Use this “phrase of praise” as a mantra in the “nows” throughout your day. Concentrate on your breath as you visualize filling up with the essence of this phrase and then breathe out and imagine releasing all that is NOT who you truly are – returning it to Source with gratitude, for all the lessons attained and the many strengths gained from the polarity initiation process of its passing presence as a chapter in your life. Now breathe in your next chapter, breathe in this “phrase of praise,” turn the page and let it in. I consciously choose love I consciously choose love I consciously choose love I consciously choose love ----------------------------------------------------- A Daily Gaze To Arouse Your Praise ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------- Gratitude ----------------- AKA Acceptance - Acknowledgment - Appreciation - Approval - Benediction - Christ Consciousness - Counting your Blessings - Grace - Gratefulness - Happiness - Honoring - Kindness - Love - Namaste - Optimism - Passion - Positive Perception - Positive Thinking - Praise - Recognition - Respect - Reversing "stinkin thinking" - Enjoying "Here & Now" - Receptive to All That Is - Joyfulness - Thankfulness - Thanksgiving - Finding The Silver Lining - Expecting Miracles - Savoring Life - My Cup Overflows ------------------------------------------------------------ Go Here to Access Previous Issues www.groups.yahoo.com/group/DailyDose_Gratitude ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please Forward to Whoever Might Appreciate These Wisdoms ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- Invite Your Friends -------------------------- Could one of your friends benefit from receiving a daily dose of Gratitude? 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A pox on both there houses what a shell game... I am obliged to comment who ever writes  this corn ball crap propaganda  is 2 years behind Bull shit coney shagging out of office nether point if bush applies The Reco statute and rehashes the no knock laws etc. what's the difference we are forcing democracy via black water goons up Arab bum's and loosing rights left and right at home with the prissy thought police of Orwellian bent.  Kind of Moronical don't you think... its over there just getting started but most people view it all as USDA approved Psy-Ops propaganda from the but we want smaller government whiners...   The cant catch the light of day in the crack of there ass & wouldn't know the Truth if it bit them. Why oh! Lordy ALL mighty are there so many sniveling privileged pinheads and busy bodies? Why... We was flipping paradigms like they was so many short order rhetorical flap jacks.Yummy! Gota go now !That Crack wont smoke itself. Reco-Statute replaces Geneva convention and Nuremberg Accords or was that the Geneva Accords & Nuremberg Laws which US of A  steadfastly refused to sign so we can say we are above the laws condemning Genocide in Post Nazi Germany so we can snuff Africa which is all this bull shit about Arabs n Terrorism it's a smoke screen for AIDS Genocide, otherwise they would have Interpol going after OBL and COMPANY ALL OF THEM FREEZE THERE GLOBAL HOLDINGS AND WATCH OBL DELIVERED IN A BOX , GET IT It's good enough for Mediane Cartel and international "terrorist" so why can some low level EUrotrash have his funds Seized in Sting Frame-UP in the US Of A and back at his home in his father land and even his Mom's bank accounts was seized without trial rendering him penniless lawierless and Motherless (his mom succumbed to a Stroke when her prodigal sons activities wound him up the creak without a paddle and Inter pole FROZE HER MONEY! Even though she had no dealings with her hapless off-spring for 5 years and knew nothing about any charges there was no trial just a "legal global Go to hell button" pushed by some bank functionary and funds seized zip Nada REC HO HO Global finical death.   SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooo! Why the fuck not do the same to all ALL the Ben La Deen KLAN??? Du ah! They like him for the crime mass murder er Salobadon Teflonivich What a porker didn't they catch him. Who is that guy kidding ,thinks he's Jezus just another pimp promising virgins sex in Muslim heaven or booring Christian funny mentalist boring trumpets blown by a bunch of blonds What's a person to do gotta chose one from coulomb a: & 1. from coulomb B: 4 or 5 virgins or maybe just one worldly parterner for eternity with some common sense. Heaven or hell this is it. keep them cards and letters coming in...

From the pages of Design News http://www.designnews.com/index.asp?layout=talkbackCommentsFull&talk_back_header_id=6493907&articleid=CA6510516#88802 Composites Develop Dramatically with Solar Impulse Doug Smock, Contributing Editor -- 1/7/2008      The most advanced project for lightweight aircraft production may be a Swiss project to develop a manned solar-powered plane. “We will take composite technology two to three times beyond where it is today,” says Andre Borschberg, a former Swiss air force pilot and CEO of the project, called Solar Impulse. The wing span on the final model will be 80 meters, the same as the Airbus A380, which weighs 560 metric tons. The craft Borschberg will help pilot around the globe will weigh just two tons. That’s about the same as a typical car. The craft will require about 12 hp to provide daylight power and to charge onboard lithium batteries, or about the same amount of engine  power on the Wright Brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk. The density of the developmental batteries must approximate 200 wh/kg (watt hours  per kilogram), despite temperatures ranging from +80C to –60C. The solar cells will be made of monocrystalline silicon about 150 microns thick, with about 20 percent efficiency. They will require 200 square meters of wing and tail surface, creating an aircraft that Borschberg says will be challenging to control in flight, particularly considering its very low speeds, about 70 km/hr (43 mph).   The photovoltaic units will be encapsulated in a composite “sandwich”. The structures will be carbon-fiber-reinforced composite skins bonded to a low-density core, such as balsa, polymer foam or honeycomb. They provide high mechanical strength but very low weight. Stretching carbon sheet just a few tenths of a millimeter thick over lengths of 20 meters is one of the major tests of the project. The official composites supplier for the Solar Impulse is a Swiss company called Decision SA, which provided materials technology for Americas Cup-winning yacht Alinghi. The Alinghi composites have a weight of 10 kg/m2, but the materials in the Solar Impulse must weigh less than one-fifth of that. Borschberg says the solution will be very high-modulus carbon fibers with optimized integration, starting with small-scale prototypes. New structures will be tested at the The Composite and Polymer Technology Laboratory  of the  École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. A small prototype was recently shown at a Swiss airfield. The first day flight will take place later this year, and the first night flight will be attempted in two years. The first flight will take place just meters above the runway at Duebendorf airport in Switzerland to confirm, as safely as possible, nearly two years of computer simulations. An initial transatlantic night flight will be attempted in 2010, or later. One of the biggest problems will be pilot sleep management since the  Solar Impulse will have no autopilot capabilities. Four to five days is considered the maximum sustainable period for a single pilot. One of the primary sponsors of the close-to-$100 million project is Solvay, which presented Borschberg at its K 2007 stand in Düsseldorf, Germany. Solvay Advanced Polymers is developing lightweight thermoplastic applications for the Solar Impulse, including a shielded throttle housing that will be made in Radel R polyphenylsulfone. The Solar Impulse will attempt a manned transatlantic flight in 2010. © 2008, Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved.TalkBackPost a comment   Return to article   View other article discussions      Submitted by:   Blaise Paul HOFER (bphofer@gmail.com) 1/14/2008 7:22:30 PM PT Location:  bangkok/hongkong Occupation:  business man I would like to have Mr Borschberg's email address to get in touch with him ,as he is an old friend of mine and we lost track for the last 30 years Yhanks for your cooperation kindest regards B.P.Hofer   Submitted by: Philip Johnson  12/10/2007 6:29:06 AM PT Location:    Huntsville, AL  Occupation:  Systems Engineer This looks and sounds a lot like NASA's Helios prototype.It used solar cells during the day and fuel cells for night flight.   Submitted by:     Robert Godes (dntalkback@profusionenergy.com) 12/7/2007 10:49:10 AM PT Location:     Berkeley, Ca Occupation:     CTO Profusion Energy ??? For 2% of the stated development cost of that plane,Profusion Energy will complete pre-product development testing of a Quantum Fusion Reactor. http://www.newenergytimes.com/news/2007/NET21.htm#apsreport http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1214733147725965006

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Developed by Limitless, the global real estate arm of Dubai World, the project will transform the arid terrain that stretches from the outskirts of New Dubai to Jebel Ali. <>“Arabian Canal will, without question, be one of the wonders of the engineering world,” said Saeed Ahmad Saeed, chief executive officer of Limitless. Up to 150 metres wide and six metres deep, the canal will flow inland from Dubai Waterfront, passing to the east of the new Dubai World Central International Airport before turning back towards Palm Jumeirah. At a glance    http://propdubai.com/news/1071/index.php ----------- Phone in http://www.magicjack.com/site/index.html http://jocowash.blogspot.com/2007/05/magic-jack.html ----------- Retro PC http://www.8bit-micro.com/trs-laptop.htm  http://www.8bit-micro.com/index.html the little laptop shop The Little Laptop Shop - Best Used Cheap Laptops, New Batteries ... 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"For 2% of the stated development cost of that plane,  Profusion Energy will complete pre-product development testing  of a Quantum Fusion Reactor." http://profusionenergy.com/ http://www.newenergytimes.com/news/2007/NET21.htm#apsreport GS   http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Profusion+Energy&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Extra the material could be used in solar energy conversion New material pushes the boundary of blackness Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:30pm EST By Julie Steenhuysen <>CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers said on Tuesday they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so  black it absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light.  Made from tiny tubes of carbon standing on end, this material is almost 30 times darker than a carbon substance used by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology as the current benchmark of blackness. And the material is close to the long-sought ideal black, which could absorb all colors of light and reflect none. "All the light that goes in is basically absorbed," Pulickel Ajayan, who led the research team at Rice University in Houston, said  in a telephone interview. "It is almost pushing the limit of how much light can be absorbed into one material." <>The substance has a total reflective index of 0.045 percent -- which is more than three times darker than the nickel-phosphorous alloy that now holds the record as the world's darkest material.Basic black paint, by comparison, has a reflective index of 5 percent to 10 percent. <>The researchers are seeking a world's darkest material designation by Guinness World Records. But their work will likely yield more than just bragging rights. Ajayan said the material could be used in solar energy conversion ."You could think of a material that basically collects all the light that falls into it," he said. It could also could be used in infrared detection or astronomical observation. THREE-FOLD BLACKNESS <>Ajayan, who worked with a team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, said the material gets its blackness from three things.It is composed of carbon nano-tubes, tiny tubes of tightly rolled carbon that are 400 hundred times smaller than the diameter of a strand of hair. The carbon helps absorb some of the light. These tubes are standing on end, much like a patch of grass. This arrangement traps light in the tiny gaps between the "blades." The researchers have also made the surface of this carbon nano-tube carpet irregular and rough to cut down on reflectivity. <>"Such a nano-tube array not only reflects light weakly, but also absorbs light strongly," said Shawn-Yu Lin, a professor of physics at Rensselaer, who helped make the substance.The researchers have tested the material on visible light only. Now they want to see  how it fares against infrared and ultraviolet light, and other wavelengths such as radiation used in communications systems. "If you could make materials that would block these radiations, it could have serious applications for stealth and defense," Ajayan said. The work was released online last week and will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Nano Letters. The Indian-born Ajayan holds the 2006 Guinness World Record as co-inventor of the smallest brush in the world. (Editing by Maggie Fox and Xavier Briand) © Reuters 2007. All rights reserved.   _____________________________NASA's Origins study NASA's Origins study follows the 15-billion-year-long chain of events from the birth of the universe at the Big Bang, through the formation of chemical elements, galaxies, stars, and planets, through the mixing of chemicals and energy that cradles life on Earth,  to the earliest self-replicating organisms — and the profusion of life.  http://origins.jpl.nasa.gov/library/roadmap97/science02.html  [ BACK INDEX NEXT ]    +++++++++++++

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