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The individual who clings tenaciously to unverified beliefs confuses his beliefs with fact, and often inflicts this confusion on others in his struggle to resolve it in his favor. When many people are persuaded to subscribe to the same pretense, of course, it can gain the aura of objectivity; as British psychoanalyst Ron Britton has observed, "we can substitute concurrence for reality testing, and so shared phantasy can gain the same or even greater status than knowledge." The belief doesn't become a fact, but the fact of shared belief lends it the valuable appearance of credibility. The belief is codified, takes hold, and rises above the level where it might be questioned. Bush on the Couch, Justin A. Frank, M.D., page 61.
Sign forbids photography of lousy statue   http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/14-week/ Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, January 19, 2007 9:05 PM permalink The sign mounted on this hideous sculpture of a typewriter eraser scarring a new Seattle neighborhood sculpture park says, "Sorry, photography of this statue is not permitted." So, you're not allowed to make a copy of something the artist copied? (Update: I don't really think the sculpture is hideous. But it's not as playful or interesting as his other work, I think. Also, here are 134 photos of the sculpture on Google Image Search, found by Boing Boing reader Aaron.) Link Reader comment: David says: For readers who want to know more: The eraser is a sculpture by Swedish sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who is best known for his oversize sculptures of everyday objects. A gallery of his large scale projects can be seen on his website. It reminds me of the quote by designer Paul Rand, who said something like: "If you can't make it good, make it big. (And if you can't make it big, make it red.)" http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/14-week/
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Ok I can't help it ... Do the math... http://quantumfieldtheory.org/x.htm Above: the Standard Model particles in the existing SU(2)xU(1) electroweak symmetry group (a high-quality PDF  version of this table can be found here).  The complexity of chiral symmetry - the fact that only particles  with left-handed spins (Weyl spinors) experience the weak force - is shown by the different effective weak  charges for left and right handed particles of the same type.  My argument, with evidence to back it up in  this post and previous posts, is that there are no real ’singlets’: all the particles are doublets apart from  the gauge bosons (W/Z particles) which are triplets.  This causes a major change to the SU(2)xU(1) electroweak  symmetry.  Essentially, the U(1) group which is a source of singlets (i.e., particles shown in blue type in this table which may have weak hypercharge but have no weak isotopic charge) is removed!  An SU(2) symmetry group then becomes a source of electric and weak hypercharge, as well as its existing role in Standard Model as a descriptor of the isotopic spin.  It modifies the role of the ‘Higgs bosons’: some such particles are still be required to give mass, but the mainstream electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism is incorrect. There are 6 rather than 4 electroweak gauge bosons, the same 3 massive weak bosons as before, but 2 new charged  massless gauge bosons in addition to the uncharged massless ‘photon’, B.  The 3 massless gauge bosons are  all massless counterparts to the 3 massive weak gauge bosons.  The ‘photon’ is not the gauge boson of electromagnetism because, being neutral, it can’t represent a charged field.  Instead, the ‘photon’ gauge boson  is the graviton, while the two massless gauge bosons are the charged exchange radiation (gauge bosons) of electromagnetism.  This allows quantitative predictions and the resolution of existing electromagnetic anomalies  (which are usually just censored out of discussions). http://quantumfieldtheory.org/x.htm http://quiztimeuk.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html 31.7.07 How does a human calculator do it? Root of all easy: Lemaire did this sum in 2004 in less than four seconds Alexis Lemaire has broken the record for finding the 13th root of a 200-digit number. It's an incredibly hard calculation so how does the  "human calculator" do it? Fancy yourself as a bit of mental arithmetics buff, one of those who relishes totting up the bill after a restaurant meal for 12, one of those who looks down their nose at calculator users? Well try this for size. The task is to find the 13th root of 85,877,066,894,718,045, 602,549,144,850,158,599,202,771,247,748,960,878,023,151, 390,314,284,284,465,842,798,373,290,242,826,571,823,153, 045,030,300,932,591,615,405,929,429,773,640,895,967,991, 430,381,763,526,613,357,308,674,592,650,724,521,841,103, 664,923,661,204,223. The answer's 2396232838850303. Multiply that by itself 13 times and you get the above. Even with a calculator you wouldn't beat Alexis Lemaire doing the calculation in his head. http://quiztimeuk.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html FINE ART  VERSES http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-propaganda.html Propaganda and Debating Techniques by A. Orange                  http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-propaganda.html "I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian-Social movement, especially in Lüger's time, achieved a certain virtuosity on this instrument, to which it owed many of its successes." -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Volume 1, Chapter 6, "War Propaganda" "Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise" -- Adolf Hitler "Propaganda," Goebbels once wrote, "has absolutely nothing to do with truth." "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-propaganda.html                                1              BIG Opportunity!!!  Smithfield Foods pig's and other big slaughter house's waist is valuable bio-mass which should be mandated as municipal resource along with sewage such as human biological  waste and used as fuel as fuel source thanks... just found it . Besides ours wants photo voltaic  or wind turbine airflow generators powered to be for personal use. Autonomous. Not part of this group. http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/Vapaire.htm http://www.aquamaker.com/index.html1 2 .BIG Opportunity!!!  Smithfield Foods pig and other big slaughter house's waist is valuable biomass which should be mandated as municipal resource along with sewage such as human biological  waste and used as fuel as fuel source
One of our,Bigest sources of bio mass...
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BIG Opertunity!!! Smithfield Foods  & pig shit as fule sorce.
Big factory pig farms are some of America's worst polluters Posted by Xeni Jardin, January 20, 2007 11:04 AM permalink http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Newton+Grove,+North+Carolina&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=35.295635,-78.347733&spn=0.008914,0.027122&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Newton+Grove,+North+Carolina&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=35.281877,-78.338673&spn=0.004458,0.013561&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr Rant - February 19, 2007 - Joanne http://www.forkandbottle.com/rants/food/putdown_bacon.htm Put Down That Bacon...
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Big factory pig farms are some of America's worst polluters Posted by Xeni Jardin, January 20, 2007 11:04 AM permalink      I decided to try out veganism a little over a week ago -- so far I feel great, and it's a lot easier than I thought. A number of things inspired me to give it a go, including Joi Ito's blog entries about his own vegan bodyhacking experiment, and this Rolling Stone article by Jeff Tietz. A friend had a copy sitting on the couch, open to this page, and I couldn't take my eyes off the story. It's an investigative piece on how Smithfield Foods, America's largest hog slaughterer, circumvents law, pollutes like crazy, and creates antibiotic and vaccine-laden pork products that feed our country. I don't intend to become one of those annoying vegangelicals who tries to convert everyone to tempeh, but this was just a fascinating read: Smithfield's holding ponds -- the company calls them lagoons -- cover as much as 120,000 square feet. The area around a single slaughterhouse can contain hundreds of lagoons, some of which run thirty feet deep. The liquid in them is not brown. The interactions between the bacteria and blood and afterbirths and stillborn piglets and urine and excrement and chemicals and drugs turn the lagoons pink. Even light rains can cause lagoons to overflow; major floods have transformed entire counties into pig-shit bayous. To alleviate swelling lagoons, workers sometimes pump the shit out of them and spray the waste on surrounding fields, which results in what the industry daintily refers to as "overapplication." This can turn hundreds of acres -- thousands of football fields -- into shallow mud puddles of pig shit. Tree branches drip with pig shit. Some pig-farm lagoons have polyethylene liners, which can be punctured by rocks in the ground, allowing shit to seep beneath the liners and spread and ferment. Gases from the fermentation can inflate the liner like a hot-air balloon and rise in an expanding, accelerating bubble, forcing thousands of tons of feces out of the lagoon in all directions. The lagoons themselves are so viscous and venomous that if someone falls in it is foolish to try to save him. A few years ago, a truck driver in Oklahoma was transferring pig shit to a lagoon when he and his truck went over the side. It took almost three weeks to recover his body. In 1992, when a worker making repairs to a lagoon in Minnesota began to choke to death on the fumes, another worker dived in after him, and they died the same death. In another instance, a worker who was repairing a lagoon in Michigan was overcome by the fumes and fell in. His fifteen-year-old nephew dived in to save him but was overcome, the worker's cousin went in to save the teenager but was overcome, the worker's older brother dived in to save them but was overcome, and then the worker's father dived in. They all died in pig shit. Link to "Boss Hog," by Jeff Tietz. Photo by doveimaging.com. (thanks, Sputnik!) Previously on BoingBoing: Time-lapse video of decomposing piglets Reader comments: Cowicide says,                                (Unintentional?) Smithfield Ham Pron? Check out the screenshot in my post. It's from this part of the  Smithfield website here: Link. Damn, now that's some juicy ham pron if I've ever seen it.... I just want to stick my tongue right in the midd... (OK... I'll stop). Cropped thumbnail of porkse.cx above, here's a JPEG link to full screenshot. Daddymem says, Here's an employee site regarding Smithfield Farms' labor practices: Link. Kelly says, B..b..but Smithfield can't possibly be a polluter. They have a web page that shows they got an Environmental President's Award award! Link. Anonymous points to a blog post by a writer named David Kekok who claims his work on a different story  was once plagiarized by Jeff Tietz, who wrote the Rolling Stone article cited in this post. I don't know anything  about the dispute other than what's on Mr. Kekok's site here, and another blog, but it appears that Mr. Tietz  strongly disputed the claims. numlok says, I dig your post about Pig farms and Smithfield Foods in particular. I only want to ad that if you really want to turn people off to their products, I can think of no better way than their own (vintage drive-in) advertising. Enjoy! Video Link.          Manuel says, Here's a link to the pig farm in google maps for the site referenced in the "Pork's Dirty Secret" article. [Ed note: those big, pink "lakes" in that map detail above, next to what look like housing for the pigs? Filled with pigshit.] Mark says, If you go through the Smithfield site, they link to worldwatermonitoringday.org. They said they were  involved with this for the last three years. However if this is going on for the last several years, where are the result from before? There is no link to previous years result. Also will the actual data  be made public or will it get filtered? Paul Jones says, Just saw your pig postings about the trouble Smithfield plant in Tar Heel, NC as I got back from the Science Bloggers Conference where folks from OnlineNewsHour began their talk with a bit from their  2004 show called "Pigs and Politics": A snip from the transcript: "North Carolina's ten million hogs produce twice as much feces and urine as the populations of  the cities of Los Angeles, New York and Chicago combined. Industrial farms, most with thousands of hogs each, store the waste in open-air pits, called lagoons. They spray the waste, untreated,  as manure on adjacent fields." Tasty. John Alderman says, Look at these crazy pictures of a festival in Taiwan where it appears they sacrifice 2,000 pigs: Link. Ian Hogben says, I was reading about the (horrific) pig farm article and couldn't believe there was no mention of the unintentional goatse of the farm's aerial map. From the user comment "Here's a link to the pig farm in google maps for the site  referenced in the "Pork's Dirty Secret" article.", the photo is SO TOTALLY goatse it's hilarious. Nate says, *sigh* I've never been so conflicted about eating meat after reading that post. So I hope Choppy the two faced pig  either brings a smile or a WTF. Reminds me a bit of Cy the kitten. Link. Andrea James says, Speaking of the poor pigs, ever seen a state of the art Jarvis bung dropper? Link. Be sure to watch the vid at upper right:  Link. Not to be confused with a bung cleaner: Link. Or bung ring expander: Link. Or lung gun: Link. Or spinal cord remover:  Link. Other fun links for kill floors and carcass prep: Link. Go veggie! I attached a pic of the best way to taste a pig. UPDATE: Many more of you wrote in with strong opinions on pigshit, economic activism, and braised tofurkey. Your comments after the jump. Continue reading Big factory pig farms are some of America's worst polluters.
Solving global warming with giant vacuums Email Picture Stonehaven Productions An artist's rendering of towers that would remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The technology works, but it would require millions of carbon dioxide filters across the planet at a cost of trillions of dollars a year. By Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer April 29, 2008 Here's a simple solution to global warming: vacuum carbon dioxide out of the air. Klaus Lackner, a physicist at Columbia University, said placing enough carbon filters around the planet could reel the world's atmosphere back toward the 18th century, like a climatic time machine. Related Content Scrubbing the air After a decade of work, his shower-sized prototype whirs away inside a Tucson warehouse, each day capturing about 10 pounds of the heat-trapping greenhouse gas as air wafts through it. Only a few billion tons to go. In the battle against global warming, technology has long been seen as the ultimate savior, but Lackner's machine is a clunky reminder of how distant that dream is. He estimates that sucking up the current stream of emissions would require about 67 million boxcar-sized filters at a cost of trillions of dollars a year. The orchards of filters would have to be powered by complexes of new nuclear plants, dams, solar farms or other clean-energy sources to avoid adding more pollution to the atmosphere. Despite the scope of the proposal, the allure of high technology is irresistible for modern humans. Salvation has arrived again and again over the last century: the automobile, the jet, the Internet, the iPod. That dream has pushed scattered groups of scientists to work on massive schemes to reengineer the planet. One idea is to block sunlight, either by constructing artificial volcanoes to blast sulfur particles into the atmosphere or by launching millions of tiny satellites into space and arranging them into a giant mirror. Another concept is sprinkling iron over the oceans to nurture plankton colonies that would absorb carbon dioxide from the air and transfer it to the depths. But while the science of dialing back the planet's thermostat is straightforward, the execution is fabulously expensive, complex and grandiose on a scale that boggles the mind. "Nobody doubts it is possible to take CO2 out of the air," said David Keith, a professor of engineering and economics at the University of Calgary in Canada and one of several scientists around the world working on the problem. "The issue is, 'What does it cost?' " Some policy experts argue that blind faith in technology is a harmful distraction from the hard sacrifices needed to control global warming. "The temptation is to say, 'Let's get John Wayne on horseback or Bill Gates . . . and solve this problem,' " said Dale Jamieson, director of environmental studies at New York University. But some scientists say that the potential of such ideas cannot be ignored given the world's political paralysis on controlling emissions and its myopic addiction to cheap and dirty coal. "There are not that many alternatives," Lackner said. The attraction of a technological silver bullet lies in the failure of the world to solve global warming through the obvious solution: reducing emissions. The 1997 Kyoto accords were supposed to bring the world together to address the problem, but the two biggest polluters, the United States and China, have refused to cap their emissions, and Europe is failing to meet even its modest targets. Worldwide annual emissions of carbon dioxide -- the main culprit in global warming -- have climbed 28% over the last decade, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The rise has been largely driven by industrializing countries, such as China and India, which argue that they have the right to exploit their coal reserves to catch up with the West. It is clear that cheap energy is a drug that civilization will not give up. But big technological solutions could allow society to keep its drug. Among the options, carbon filtering is the most direct and best understood. If industrialization is a process of transferring carbon stored in the earth to the atmosphere, filtering seeks to put it back. The technology is decades old. Bottled oxygen used in hospitals started out as plain air before nitrogen, carbon dioxide and other gases were filtered out. Space capsules and submarines extract carbon dioxide to maintain breathable air for crew members. The process for removing atmospheric carbon involves putting one compound, usually a hydroxide, in contact with the air, setting off a reaction that grabs CO2 and incorporates its carbon atoms into a carbonate compound. Then, in a reaction that requires a large input of heat, the carbonate compound is broken apart, reconstituting and trapping the carbon dioxide. Researchers propose pumping the captured CO2 into the ground, a practice already used to increase the pressure in oil wells. Geologists say there is room in subterranean rock formations to lock it away forever. The beauty of carbon capture is that it scrubs the planet without intruding on it, unlike artificial volcanoes and sun reflectors, which could cause enormous planetary damage in the form of acid rain or giant shadows that stunt crops. The filters could be placed anywhere in the world, since carbon dioxide disperses throughout the atmosphere. For all its appeal, the process is hideously inefficient. Carbon dioxide makes up less than 0.04% of the atmosphere, and removing climate-changing quantities of it requires filtering massive amounts of air. Lackner calculated that sucking up all 28 billion tons of CO2 released worldwide each year would require spreading out his machines over a land area the size of Arizona. That seems like a reasonable sacrifice to save civilization, until you consider the expense. Experts estimate that it would cost up to $200 a ton to filter and store carbon dioxide from the air. That means the yearly vacuuming bill could reach $5.6 trillion. Even filtering the greenhouse gas from smokestacks, where it is hundreds of times more concentrated and thus much cheaper to capture, is still deemed too expensive for commercial use. The enormous cost raises the question: Who would pay? It is the same impasse that has stymied efforts toward a global agreement to reduce emissions. China argues that the West should foot the bill because it created the problem over the last two centuries. The United States says China must accept its share of responsibility as the world's new top polluter. The cost of the technology will surely fall over time, but without government action that is unlikely to happen soon enough to stave off the worst effects of climate change. Without at least a 50% cut in emissions by mid-century, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that the temperature rise will exceed 2 degrees, resulting in worsening drought, a dangerous sea level rise and widespread extinction of species. Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, said that the failure to cut emissions might force the world to reshape the environment through drastic use of technology. The risks could be enormous, but the risks of failing to reduce emissions could be greater, he said. Crutzen said that only out of a "sense of despair" had he come to favor the last-ditch option of spewing more than a million tons of sulfur a year into the air. It's a dirty proposition that, in some ways, is its own environmental crime. But it works, as shown by the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines, which temporarily cooled the planet by almost 1 degree Fahrenheit. "It might be the last escape route from the problem," he said. The power to reengineer the planet raises another question: Who gets to control the thermostat? Despite the perception that climate change is a global problem, it is in reality a series of regional transformations that benefits some places and harms others. Countries in the far northern latitudes have less incentive than tropical countries to counteract the warming. Russia has already laid claim to the North Pole in hopes that the arctic thaw will open access to new oil reserves. Canada is pondering the possibility of its vast expanse of tundra becoming a breadbasket. With enough carbon filters, a single country or even several rich individuals would have the power to set the world's temperature. "No matter how you go about it, there will be a lot of politics," Lackner said. For now, his machine, a solitary prototype, continues to hum away in the Tucson warehouse. With no good place to store the carbon dioxide it traps, the gas is simply released back into the air. alan.zarembo@latimes.com
Environmental Law Prof Blog A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/environmental_law/biodiversity/index.html March 17, 2008 Drink Water for Life This article is written by Denise Olivera, Columbia School of Journalism, about the Drink Water for Life Challenge originated by 1st Congregational Church, U.C.C. of Salem, Oregon.  The article was covered by the Great Reporter newsservice link The congregation pledges to give up some of its lattes, sodas, etc. during Lent and give the money to our Pure Water Fund.  In celebration of Lent, spring, or World Water Day, please chose to follow this lead. March 17, 2008 in Africa, Agriculture, Air Quality, Asia, Australia, Biodiversity, Cases, Climate  Change, Constitutional Law, Economics, Energy, Environmental Assessment, EU, Forests/Timber, Governance/Management, International, Land Use, Law, Legislation, Mining, North America, Physical Science, Social Science, South America, Sustainability, Toxic and Hazardous Substances, US, Water Quality, Water Resources Permalink TrackBack March 14, 2008 Environmental Law Prof Blog A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/environmental_law/biodiversity/index.html Omani water not posh enough A recent trend in Oman's more posh restaurant: serving exclusive or designer still water. We went to lunch at The Chedi on the second day of eid. The waiter served us water from a brand I've never seen before. When I asked to see the bottle it turned out to be Speyside Glenlivet "quality" Scottish mineral water. When we were done with our bottle I asked the waiter if we can get some local mineral water instead. Quality or not, it didn't taste any different than any other water and didn't justify being 3 rials a bottle. The waiter  disappeared for 5 minutes and came back to apologize that "we don't serve local water." How very uncouth of me to ask. http://greatreporter.com/mambo/content/view/1638/1/ One of our,Bigest sources of bio mass... pink lagoons http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Newton+Grove,+North+Carolina&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=35.295635,-78.347733&spn=0.008914,0.027122&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr the lagoons pink.overapplication. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12840743/porks_dirty_secret_the_nations _top_hog_producer_is_also_one_of_americas_worst_polluters   http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/14-week/ 1 BIG Opportunity!!! Smithfield Foods pig's and other big slaughter house's waist is valuable bio-mass which should be mandated as municipal resource along with sewage such as  human biological waste and used as fuel as fuel source thanks... just found it . Besides ours wants photo voltaic  or wind turbine airflow generators powered to be for personal use. Autonomous. Not part of this group. http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/Vapaire.htm http://www.aquamaker.com/index.html1 2 .BIG Opportunity!!!  Smithfield Foods pig and other big slaughter house's waist is valuable biomass which should be mandated as municipal resource along with sewage such as human biological waste and used as fuel as fuel source Big factory pig farms are some of America's worst polluters Posted by Xeni Jardin, January 20, 2007 11:04 AM permalink http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Newton+Grove,+North+Carolina&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=35.295635,-78.347733&spn=0.008914,0.027122&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Newton+Grove,+North+Carolina&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=35.281877,-78.338673&spn=0.004458,0.013561&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr Rant - February 19, 2007 - Joanne http://www.forkandbottle.com/rants/food/putdown_bacon.htm Put Down That Bacon... ...or at least sit and ponder it's pedigree. Yes, it's come down to that – pedigree. Do you know where your food comes from? If not, do you want to know? I'm not just talking about carrots and lettuce. I mean beef, poultry and pork. The recent exposé by Rolling Stone Magazine really got to me. I was outraged that factory farms, like the huge Smithfield pig ones, can be both so horrible to the pigs involved and so destructive  to the environment. Yet it's far too easy to pick up that pound of bacon and drop it into your supermarket cart and not think about it, or the eggs or the nicely wrapped up steak. How did things get this far out of control? What are we, the consumer, thinking (or  not-thinking)? Why aren't we thinking? I knew the situation was bad and, more than a year ago, we started to source better choices for everything from sausage to steak.  But the sad truth was that, after reading the Rolling Stone article, no one that I sounded-off to that day knew what I was talking about (save for Jack). That's just it, the average American mind is not thinking about where the meat in their steak, burger or taco is coming from. They never give a thought to the history or origin of their bacon and eggs. Is it really that most Americans care only  that food tastes good and is cheap? Well the good news (?) is: It's not a sustainable form of farming, and eventually it will break (unless all the factory farms move to  Eastern Europe or elsewhere where they can continue to be nicely hidden). That's the thing, too - all of this is hidden from the American eater - that alone should peak outrage by the American public, but it doesn't seem to. It's like this huge environmental disaster, which is swept under the carpet but remains living and mutating there. Those factory farms are scared, too - they won't let anyone in to see them. I'm sure they are afraid that, some roving reporter might actually expose the truth and that Americans  might start to understand and care about their food chain. But not all Americans are ostriches. There's a minority who still use the thing above their shoulders: Like Dairy Queen at The  Ethicurean,, who posted a satellite photo of a pink lagoon of pig poop in North Carolina, and who outed Sysco's "White Marble  Farms"; like the minds behind the Meatrix (brilliant stuff); like Michael Pollan who taught us about chicken farming (and I have  *yet* to find a local non-stewing chicken to buy which meets my standards - anyone?); like Fast Food Nation's Eric Schlosser. So what do I want you to do? First, just think about food that doesn't come from the ground (– I'm hoping you are already thinking  about lettuce, tomatoes, etc.). That deli turkey, the taco, the rotisserie chicken, the steakhouse hunk o' meat - does it really "meat" your standards? Was the animal it came from healthy and somewhat happy? (Can it turn itself around in its pen? Does it have to stand in excrement all day?) Are you listening, yet? Did you eat that unknown bacon? Did you? Ideas for Action - Take the next step How to use awareness in practice: Use your dollars to make your statement on this issue. Buy local first – when you can. Choose grass-fed, or the new "pasture-raised" label at the very least. Know where the local farms are. Be choosey. Change brands... go ahead take a risk. (And recognize the origins of  brands that you see, Smithfield, Tyson, Sysco, Perdue etc.) Look for a place of origin on a package or sign - is it USA? Know the Local sources. Join or form a group and buy a part of an animal (1/4 cow, 1/2 pig, etc.) directly from the farm and use your freezer to store real food, not processed. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12840743/porks_dirty_secret_the_ nations_top_hog_producer_is_also_one_of_americas_worst_polluters/1 Boss Hog America's top pork producer churns out a sea of waste that has destroyed rivers, killed millions of fish and generated one of the largest fines in EPA history. Welcome to the dark side of the other white meat. 12840865-12840868-slarge.jpg photo by doveimaging.com Smithfield Foods, the largest and most profitable pork processor in the world, killed 27 million hogs last year. That's a number worth considering. A slaughter-weight hog is fifty percent heavier than a person. The logistical challenge of processing that many pigs each year is roughly equivalent to butchering and boxing the entire human populations of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Columbus, Austin, Memphis, Baltimore, Fort Worth, Charlotte, El Paso, Milwaukee, Seattle, Boston, Denver, Louisville, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Las Vegas, Portland, Oklahoma City and Tucson. Smithfield Foods actually faces a more difficult task than transmogrifying the populations of America's thirty-two largest cities into edible packages of meat. Hogs produce three times more excrement than human beings do. The 500,000 pigs at a single Smithfield subsidiary in Utah generate more fecal matter each year than the 1.5 million inhabitants of Manhattan. The best estimates put Smithfield's total waste discharge at 26 million tons a year. That would fill four Yankee Stadiums. Even when divided among the many small pig production units that surround the company's slaughterhouses, that is not a containable amount. Smithfield estimates that its total sales will reach $11.4 billion this year. So prodigious is its fecal waste, however, that if the company treated its effluvia as big-city governments do -- even if it came marginally close to that standard -- it would lose money. So many of its contractors allow great volumes of waste to run out of their slope-floored barns and sit blithely in the open, untreated, where the elements break it down and gravity pulls it into groundwater and river systems. Although the company proclaims a culture of environmental responsibility, ostentatious pollution is a linchpin of Smithfield's business model. A lot of pig shit is one thing; a lot of highly toxic pig shit is another. The excrement of Smithfield hogs is hardly even pig shit: On a continuum of pollutants, it is probably closer to radioactive waste than to organic manure. The reason it is so toxic is Smithfield's efficiency. The company produces 6 billion pounds of packaged pork each year. That's a remarkable achievement, a prolificacy unimagined only two decades ago, and the only way to do it is to raise pigs in astonishing, unprecedented concentrations. Smithfield's pigs live by the hundreds or thousands in warehouse-like barns, in rows of wall-to-wall pens. Sows are artificially inseminated and fed and delivered of their piglets in cages so small they cannot turn around. Forty fully grown 250-pound male hogs often occupy a pen the size of a tiny apartment. They trample each other to death. There is no sunlight, straw, fresh air or earth. The floors are slatted to allow excrement to fall into a catchment pit under the pens, but many things besides excrement can wind up in the pits: afterbirths, piglets accidentally crushed by their mothers, old batteries, broken bottles of insecticide, antibiotic syringes, stillborn pigs - anything small enough to fit through the foot-wide pipes that drain the pits. The pipes remain closed until enough sewage accumulates in the pits to create good expulsion pressure; then the pipes are opened and everything bursts out into a large holding pond. The temperature inside hog houses is often hotter than ninety degrees. The air, saturated almost to the point of precipitation with gases from shit and chemicals, can be lethal to the pigs. Enormous exhaust fans run twenty-four hours a day. The ventilation systems function like the ventilators of terminal patients: If they break down for any length of time, pigs start dying. From Smithfield's point of view, the problem with this lifestyle is immunological. Taken together, the immobility, poisonous air and terror of confinement badly damage the pigs' immune systems. They become susceptible to infection, and in such dense quarters microbes or parasites or fungi, once established in one pig, will rush spritelike through the whole population. Accordingly, factory pigs are infused with a huge range of antibiotics and vaccines, and are doused with insecticides. Without these compounds -- oxytetracycline, draxxin, ceftiofur, tiamulin -- diseases would likely kill them. Thus factory-farm pigs remain in a state of dying until they're slaughtered. When a pig nearly ready to be slaughtered grows ill, workers sometimes shoot it up with as many drugs as necessary to get it to the slaughterhouse under its own power. As long as the pig remains ambulatory, it can be legally killed and sold as meat. The drugs Smithfield administers to its pigs, of course, exit its hog houses in pig shit. Industrial pig waste also contains a host of other toxic substances: ammonia, methane, hydrogen sulfide, carbon monoxide, cyanide, phosphorous, nitrates and heavy metals. In addition, the waste nurses more than 100 microbial pathogens that can cause illness in humans, including salmonella, cryptosporidium, streptocolli and girardia. Each gram of hog shit can contain as much as 100 million fecal coliform bacteria. Smithfield's holding ponds -- the company calls them lagoons -- cover as much as 120,000 square feet. The area around a single slaughterhouse can contain hundreds of lagoons, some of which run thirty feet deep. The liquid in them is not brown. The interactions between the bacteria and blood and afterbirths and stillborn piglets and urine and excrement and chemicals and drugs turn the lagoons pink. Even light rains can cause lagoons to overflow; major floods have transformed entire counties into pig-shit bayous. To alleviate swelling lagoons, workers sometimes pump the shit out of them and spray the waste on surrounding fields, which results in what the industry daintily refers to as "overapplication." This can turn hundreds of acres -- thousands of football fields -- into shallow mud puddles of pig shit. Tree branches drip with pig shit. Some pig-farm lagoons have polyethylene liners, which can be punctured by rocks in the ground, allowing shit to seep beneath the liners and spread and ferment. 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Cited by 5 - View as HTML - Web Search - BL Direct CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 87, NO. 4, 25 AUGUST 2004 455*For correspondence. (e-mail: dcecri@csir.res.in)Biological fuel cells and their applicationsA. K. Shukla 1, *, P. Suresh 2 , S. Berchmans 1 and A. Rajendran 11 Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi 630 006, India2 Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore 560 012, India One type of genuine fuel cell that does holdpromise in the long-term is the biological fuel cell.Unlike conven-tional fuel cells, which employ hydrogen, ethanol andmethanol as fuel, biological fuel cells use organic pro-ductsproduced by metabolic processes or use organicelectron donors utilized in the growth processes as fu-elsfor current generation. A distinctive feature of bio-logicalfuel cells is that the electrode reactions arecontrolled by biocatalysts, i.e. the biological redox-reactionsare enzymatically driven, while in chemicalfuel cells catalysts such as platinum determine theelectrodekinetics. This article provides a brief intro-ductionto biological fuel cells along with their envis-agedapplications.A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that continuouslyconverts chemical energy to electrical energy for as longas fuel and oxidant are supplied to it. Beginning with thespace programme of the sixties and followed by the energycrisis of the seventies, we have seen a truly substantialimprovement in generic fuel-cell technologies 1–3 . Albeittheir high operational-efficiency, the advantages of thesefuel cells are partially offset by the high cost of catalysts,high operational-temperatures, and the corrosive electro-lytesemployed with them. In this regard, biological fuelcells 4–6 are both attractive and promising. Unlike chemi-calfuel cells, biological fuel cells operate under mild reac-tionconditions, namely ambient operational temperatureand pressure. They also employ neutral electrolyte and useinexpensive catalysts such as platinum. In biological fuelcells, the catalyst is either a microorganism as simple asBaker’s yeast or an enzyme 7–11 . Biological fuel cells con-vertthe chemical energy of carbohydrates, such as sugarsand alcohols, directly into electric energy. As most or-ganicsubstrates undergo combustion with the evolutionof energy, bio-catalysed oxidation of organic substancesby oxygen at the two electrode interfaces provides ameans for the conversion of chemical energy into electri-calenergy. In normal microbial catabolism, a substratesuch as carbohydrate is oxidized initially without partici-pationof oxygen, while its electrons are taken up by anenzyme-active site, which acts as a reduced intermedi-ate12 , described as follows.C6H12O6 + 6H2O ® 6CO2 + 24H + + 24e – ,E 0 = 0.014 V. (1)(Intermediate)ox + e – ® (Intermediate)re. (2)In the absence of oxygen, the electrons are diverted to theelectrode by some means and made to pass through theouter circuit, and ultimately combine with an electronsink, namely, molecular oxygen as follows.6O2 + 24H + + 24e – ® 12H2O, E 0 = 1.23 V. (3)If a continuous fuel flow to the aforesaid microbial fuelcell is maintained, it acts as a biological fuel cell. A typicalbiological fuel cell is shown schematically in Figure 1.After a brief outline of the long and winding history ofbiological fuel cells, this article deals with the operatingprinciples of various types of biological fuel cells andtheir technological applications.History of biological fuel cellsFor centuries, microorganisms, which transform food intoan electron flow, were only a biological curiosity; but nowscientists have made it possible to use them in watchesand cameras as power sources 13 . Luigi Galvani, who noti-cedtwitching of isolated frog leg when a brief electricaldischarge was passed through it 14 , was the first to observethe bioelectric phenomenon as early as in 1790 and theterm bioelectricity was coined after that observation. In1910, Michael Cresse Potter, a professor of botany at theFigure 1. A typical biological fuel cell representing current genera-tionwith the help of microorganisms. The fuel generated by microbialmetabolism gets oxidized at the anode and usually oxygen is reduced atthe cathode. http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/aug252004/455.pdf2.Fuel Cell with SUGAR as fuel  http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&safe=off&q=Fuel+Cell+with+SUGAR+as+fuel3.Fuel Cell with SUGAR IN BLOOD  as fuel http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=Fuel+Cell+with+SUGAR+IN+BLOOD++as+fuel++&btnG=Search Hey kids! It's robot bug killer time! Raw notes! 4 my Electronic Venus Flytrap or Pitcher Project Inoculating Raccoons with medicated food has worked what about bats. Healthy Rabies free Bats eat huge amounts of mosquitoes There is a connection to Maple syrup & long horn Beatles The effectiveness of several commercially available chemical insecticides is currently under investigation. Though these compounds would not be appropriate for use in a maple forest used for producing maple syrup, they may be suitable for eradication or slowing the spread of this pest. Both systemic and topical  insecticides are being tested. Efficacy of Pesticides on the Asian Longhorned Beetle Anoplophora glabripennis Toxicity and Efficacy of Imidacloprid to Anoplophora glabripennis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Evaluation of Systemic Insecticides to Control Anoplophora glabripennis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Asian Longhorned Beetle Research Semiochemicals of Anoplophora glabripennis, the Asian longhorned beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) · Aggregation Pheromone for the Asian Longhorned Beetle, ... www.uvm.edu/albeetle/research/index.html Pheromones Longhorned Beetle http://www.google.com/search?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=Pheromones%20Longhorned%20Beetle%20%20&btnG=Search&sa=N&tab=iw http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=bio+mass+battery&btnG=Search http://images.google.com/images?q=Furby+Series+4+&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&start=20&sa=N&filter=0 Big site on the target http://www.uvm.edu/albeetle/research/index.html You are here: Partnering / Patent Title: Aggregation Pheromone for the Asian Longhorned Beetle Beltsville Area Plant Sciences Institute  See also: US Patent Office Full Record Patent Number: 6177073 Docket Number: 22799 Serial Number: 9347907 Date Patented: 01/23/2001 Agricultural Research Service Date Issued: January 23, 2001 Abstract: The invention relates to compositions and methods for attracting, trapping and/or killing the adults of the Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis, or for interfering with their reproduction. The Asian longhorned beetle is a member of the largest and one of the most advanced subfamilies, the Lamiinae, whose species usually attack living trees. The aggregation pheromones, 4-(n-heptyloxy) butanal and  4-(n-heptyloxy) butan-1-one, in combination with a trap or toxicant, provide means for monitoring, killing,  or inhibiting the reproduction of these insects. Inventors: Aijun Zhang Insect Chemical Ecology Laboratory Beltsville, MD 20705 (301) 504-6085 / Fax: (301) 504-6580 E-mail: azhang@asrr.arsusda.gov  James E. Oliver (Same address as first inventor) (301) 504-8639 / Fax: (301) 504-6580 E-mail: joliver@asrr.arsusda.gov   Jeffrey R. Aldrich (Same address as first inventor) (301) 504-8531 / Fax: (301) 504-6580 E-mail: jaldrich@asrr.arsusda.gov   Last Modified: 06/02/2006 Electronic Venus Flytrap or Pitcher Project The question was (borne, spawned, hatched, contrived, triggered, launched) All revolves around Pheromones. http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=Pheromones+for+a+Beetle+Longhorned+&btnG=Search http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q= Pheromones+Longhorned+Beetle++&btnG=Search And Fuel cells for biomass Batteries that I am sure exist. And concept related to there use... Is Pesticide free bug and pest removal Which If you think about it would need more than likely need to be regulated  for ecological reasons. And that may not really solve the dilemma of which pests and when as with the case of DDT poisoning pointed out by Rachael Carson connecting the dots of bird eggs shells cracking too soon which aborted the eggs killing the birds chicks as exposed embryos. Original reference from a story I received in an email from composer Chris Mann RE: Fuel Cell (Battery to you) on blood make electricity in experiment ( in of all places vegetarian) India laboratory by removing sugar from blood, which  prompted the thought that an Artificial Pancreas using the properties of the fuel cell  would soon follow. Fuel Cell with blood as fuel makes electricity in experiment in India. Sugar is fuel not blood. Blood is cleaned… Fuel Cell with blood as fuel Sugar is fuel not blood. Q:  I asked the question, is there a low cost Bio Mass Battery what powers them and remembered also last year found a web site that had this headline.  Answer: Tiny Aircraft that Just Eat and Go. http://www.ch2bc.org/index3.htm The above project is funded and runs on Mill spec. I think I can do this similar task cheaper and the specific application has wider implications than blue-sky weapons 10? Years off… Hey kids! It's robot bug killer time! Perhaps this is a nice idea. I hedge because this is not a  primary focus of mine and I am just beginning to think about this seriously... It is about a method to get rid of specific insects, which is pesticide free, & hopefully without negative effect on the environment. A:  By using a Bio Mass Battery to trap host insect & used it as food  (fuel, power) for the trap(s) operation. The Electronic “Venus Flytrap” designed to eliminate specific insects pests.  The Trap Killer operates in a series of cycle it.  1.Attracts 2. Captures 3. Kills 4. Turns it (the dead insect or it s usable parts)  into fuel charging a Bio Mass Battery which  in effect Digest the insects & converts the Bio Mass into fuel    IE: Electricity. That is the general concept for the  “Electronic Venus Flytrap” Bio Mass Battery    Pheromone    Tree Beatle killer  Driven electronic bug killer (lets say also mosquito eater which would be able to fool Mosquitoes and capture them IT could be Solar or wind powered. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Beautiful Killers   http://www.treecanada.ca/shop/killers.htm No two insects are more beautiful…or more deadly to Canadian trees…. One a beautiful iridescent green… The other - a black and white spotted marvel. Read on as to why the Emerald Ash Borer and the Asian Longhorned Beetle are Public Enemy #1 to Canadian trees and forests…. Act now to donate money to re-plant trees destroyed by these exotic pests. 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Or a Tree Beatle killer Pheromones Or a Tree Beatle killer  Confusing there Cue’s with Pheromones sex or food or directions Bated traps that kill  specific insects Cary with you  Hang in yard  Attach to tree  or wall Timing is every thing Bio Mass Battery   Cutter off hands or legs or mouth  parts Whole mouse traps  multy mouse traps bate Attract the bug Call the bugs using Sound & Pheromones  Collect the bug(s) Store it in the Battery(s) “Fuel Resavoure” convert it to “fuel” For the Bio Mass Battery. Which Attract more Bug collect more bugs. 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It has not been possible to get any official information about the destiny of the bonsai from the museum. http://www.bonsai.dk/side2.asp?kat=94&act=spalten        This is a house centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata), common throughout much of the United States and Canada. They often are found indoors, especially in basements and bathrooms. They are much faster movers than most  centipedes, and are predators on many other arthropods. See http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/housece.html for a fact sheet. http://www.pestcontrolcanada.com/Questions/what_is_this_pest_photo_3.htm #103  HELP!!!!  These pictures were taken with a very high powered microscope where my friend works.  It’s one of those million-dollar scopes that not many places have.  With the human eye, these pests are about the size of a speck of pepper and seem to attack at night.  He has had his place fumigated and sprayed by professionals twice and nobody can seem to give him an answer as to what they are. He collected these samples by applying tape to his arm where he felt them biting him.  He lives in a basement  apartment.  There is a drain outside that has water standing in it sometimes.  He has taken his dog to the vet and they can’t find anything. He has also used every cream and spray known to man.  This has been going on for about a month.  It seems that when he sprays or fogs, he gets one or two days where things aren’t that bad, but no lasting relief.    I have done so much research online and the only bug I can find that  resembles this ugly thing is a Midge.  The weird thing is we are in the US, and midges are normally in  Scotland around bodies of water.  They have wings and the females bite. We have contacted a bug scientist but his Microscope is not powerful enough to see the bug on the samples he gave him. The scientist is hinting at the fact that my friend is crazy.  This is very frustrating.  If anyone could help I would appreciate it.  Thank you.  Bobbi          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I and many others in Ontario, Canada call them No-See-Ems. They can get through screen doors,  tent windows and other small holes(very small holes). Don't take your bug to a "bug scientist".....lol.  Take your friend to a head scientist. I think he is crazy. Willy                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Re #103, I remember reading years ago a story about a woman with a similar problem - they thought she was nuts because she had a weird rash. Eventually it turned out she had been sleeping under  an air conditioner which had an old bird's nest in it. The bird had some kind of extremely tiny parasites  and they were getting blown into the room. Nobody could see the parasites. The itching was driving  her crazy.   R.F. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Answer Tiny Aircraft that Just Eat and Go. http://www.ch2bc.org/index3.htm          http://www.ch2bc.org/index3.htm TINY AIRCRAFT POWERED BY BIO-FUEL CELLS TO "LIVE" OFF FRUIT AND INSECTS Tiny Aircraft that Just Eat and Go PhysOrg.com    November 30, 2004       Aircraft the size of bees that get the energy they need by feeding themselves a diet of dead flies could be buzzing around the battlefields and motorways of the future, thanks to research in southwest England. The aircraft, up to 15cm long and equipped with sensors  and cameras, could have a number of uses in civilian life and modern warfare, including reconnaissance missions, traffic monitoring or fire and rescue operations. By "digesting" its own fuel, the aircraft could become autonomous and operate without the need for  refuelling, changing batteries or recharging from the mains.    Professor Chris Melhuish, Director of the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory  at the University of the West of England, says, “We are interested in developing robots  that are intelligent and autonomous which means they do the right thing at the right time and without human intervention. One of the big problems with autonomy is that of  energy; they have to get their energy from somewhere. “To do this they need to get energy from their environment which could include sunlight or water, but in our case it is organic matter”.  The 1kg Ecobot doesn't move at any significant rate, about 30 metres per hour, but its ability to power itself by digesting its fuel is a major advance in the way such units have  been designed so far.  Insect-sized aircraft could be possible in the future, says Professor Melhuish, “The biological fuel cell would have to be made into a soft system which might, in the future, be able to do some sort of movement at a small level, a small insect level.” University of the West of England Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory The Intelligent Autonomous Systems Laboratory (IAS) researches ways in which autonomous robots - large and small; walking, climbing and flying - can be developed to 'do the right thing at the right time'. 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