As Sir Edmond Burke once observed, this country’s founders were always ready to “snuff out the approach of tyranny with every tainted brief.” And yet, it seems we are now resigned to live subject to the vast, multi-layered, and robust surveillance infrastructure that is the envy of every totalitarian regime? We can no longer trust the companies that build and manage our internet infrastructure, the companies that create and sell us our hardware and software, or the companies that host our data. And, our integrity challenged government is hell-bent on betraying every trust.
Now, more than ever, we need ethical stewards. It is time to purge those executive, legislative, and judicial bodies that have become infested with the kind of self-serving parasites that can only thrive in the decay products of democracy. Since our constitution has apparently been reconstituted by these “representatives” to serve as their own bureaucratic toilet paper, I think we should respond by recommissioning the old style, mechanical voting machines. Sure, the paper based audit trail has clear value. But the imagery, the ability to pull the handle and flush, now that’s priceless! — Robert H. Kalk

When the exhaust from a typical engine is expelled, it contains a lot of unburned fuels. Besides being wasteful, the exhaust is so hot that in Oklahoma, (USA), firetrucks can not have a catalytic convertor or they may start more fires than the crews are trying to extinguish.

GEET (Global Environmental Energy Technology) offers a long suppressed, fuel efficient solution that includes a Self Induced Plasma Generator. The GEET Fuel Processor (GFP) begins by taking the newly vaporized fuel to the engine through the center of the path of the exhaust that’s leaving the engine, while maintaining a constant vacuum. There is a rapid exchange of heat from the exhaust into the “new fuel”. The “New Fuel” is called “GEET GAS”. GEET GAS implodes, pulling heat from the block of the engine. This serves to reduce the heat buildup in the engine, allowing the oils used for lubrication to last much longer.

The technology can be adapted to fit anything that uses fuel. During a demonstration for scientists at BYU, in 1994, the GFP was running on crude oils and saltwater. The results were zero HC; zero CO; zero CO2, and more oxygen coming out the exhaust pipe than in the ambient air. The system can be fueled by gas, diesel, kerosene, crude oil, floor cleaner, lacquer thinner, and as much as 80% water.

Despite corporate rejection, ridicule from the media, hostile take-over attempts, political corruption, blackmail, torture, and patent infringement, Paul Pantone and his 1983 invention have slowly gained acceptance. There are an estimated 5000 vehicles world-wide running on GEET. This includes cars, tractors, other farm equipment, and a helicopter. Generators, kit’s, components and other equipment are available proving that consumer sovereignty is a powerful, innovation sustaining force.

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The tech vertical of crowdfunding sites are like candy stores. They’re packed with new businesses that have a pressure to deliver and a willingness to experiment.
Not that crowdfunding isn’t a big enough business on its own. It has also helped jump-start a small secondary industry around servicing crowdfunded projects. There are crowdfunding-specific PR companies, advertising products, fulfillment centers, pledge management software, and online stores.
It’s a market segment where potential is everything. And, forward looking service providers are paying attention.
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Sustaining Life with micro-algae and flat panel reactors. This is where so-called life-sustaining circulatory systems come into play. Already, on the International Space Station (ISS), researchers have started reconstituting all kinds of things.

But the ISS has it easy: it’s relatively close to Earth. Several times a year it receives fresh provisions of food and water. But if people start traveling farther away from Earth, they’ll have to survive without the luxury of regular, fresh supplies.
And that’s why Jens Bretschneider at the Institute for Space Systems in Stuttgart is looking for new solutions. His team thinks the answer lies in biological systems, like micro-algae: “They make it possible to collect exhaled CO2 and create new oxygen, and at the same time build up biomass stocks.”

Brettschneider is working with a see-through plexiglass tank through which green water runs which bubbles away as exhaled air passes through it. “This tank is a flat panel reactor, with which we can cultivate algae on Earth in an efficient way,” Brettschneider says. “The advantage is that the gas is mixing with the algae constantly. That gives us a large contact area. We agitate the algae so that they move towards the light, and then move away from the light again – and that encourages them to grow faster.”

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Tooling Up for Hydroponics

Dear Folks,
A loving atmosphere in your home is so important. Do all you can to create a tranquil, harmonious home.
Be gentle with the earth.
— Author Unknown (Internet Wisdom, 1998)
I hope you have a sweet loved one you can Sooth (& be soothed by) and Snuggle.
The physical and emotional connection between couples is fundamental to the mental and spiritual connections.
Peace,
Jim
            SOOTHING
Definitions: (1) restored to a quiet, calm, or normal state; (2) mitigate, soften, or relieve <as pain or grief>; (3) gratifying; pleasing <soothing clarinet>
Synonyms: allaying, appeasing, assuaging, composed, pacifying
Colors: blue, violet
            SNUGLY
Definition: comfortably close and safe <especially of a loved one>; characterizes one who cuddles with affection; cozy
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Like many architecture students, Hank Butitta was frustrated. Frustrated that the projects he and his fellow classmates were painstakingly, time-consumingly crafting at architecture school resulted—almost always—in nothing. But Hank Butitta, unlike many architecture students, decided that, for his thesis, he would buy an old school bus and turn it into a flexible living space. The result: a 225 square foot mobile home—complete with reclaimed gym flooring and dimmable LED mood lighting.

On his website (www.hankboughtabus.com), Butitta says, “This project was a way to show how building a small structure with simple detailing can be more valuable than drawing a complex project that is theoretical and poorly understood.” Since the project (which was envisioned with a nod to the tiny house movement) was picked up by the media last week, fans and commenters have flooded the site, asking Hank how he resolved certain problems and where he sourced the materials.

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“The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head,” and so it is today for many of his followers. Despite all the warnings about the snares laid by moneylenders, despite the fact that gage mort is literally translated as a pledge to give up one’s life, millions have lost their homes through mortgage exploits, and their quality of life through the service of debt.

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A downsizing dream has been stalled for one Anderson County man who spent his entire life savings building a tiny home that the state says is not certified to move into a mobilehome park.

Bob Pritts built the 208-square-foot home himself. It’s only 8-feet wide and 26-feet long, but is equipped with a bathroom, kitchen, and living room with a couch that converts to a bed.

“This is all I need. I just want to finally move,” said Pritts. “The movers are ready to go. The mobile home park is ready to go. I’m ready to go. But the county says ‘no.'”

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“The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head,” and so it is today for many of his followers. Despite all the warnings about the snares laid by moneylenders, despite the fact that gage mort is literally translated as a pledge to give up one’s life, millions have lost their homes through mortgage exploits, and their quality of life through the service of debt.

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Dear Folks,
He who attains his ideal, by that very fact transcends it. — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) Philosopher
Mental preparation precedes action. In order to be Expeditious, either in an instant or in a planned project, one must give some thought to the nature of the steps to take, store them in the mind, and then when it is time, bring them back to conscious Awareness. Even a spontaneous action is based on our mental, emotional, and spiritual foundations.
Peace,
Jim
          EXPEDITIOUS
Definition: done with prompt efficiency; speedy; quick
Derivation: Latin, “ready for action”
Balancing Quality: inventive
How to Live This Quality Today: Set yourself a job. Figure out how long it would normally take, and then do it in less time, while still doing it professionally.
            AWARE      
Definitions: (1) having knowledge or realization; conscious; cognizant; (2) informed; alert; (3) keenly perceptive
Synonyms: acquainted, apprised, sensible
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Dear Folks,
Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object. — Georg W. H. Hegel (1770-1831) Philosopher
A healthy mind cannot be Shipshape without continually Stretching it’s limits. A stagnant mind is a dying mind. Hopefully your rut is not so deep as to need a ladder to climb out of, but make the effort of discovering, learning, and growing in an interesting and new direction.
Peace,
Jim
            SHIPSHAPE
Definition: in good order; tidy; trim
            STRETCHING
Definitions: (1) expanding; reaching <stretching the limits of imagination>; (2) opening the mind beyond its previous boundaries <resulting in new extents>; (3) elongating something that has the ability to return to its original shape; (4) going beyond an original ability <usually with effort>; (5) extending over a distance <stretching your thoughts even to the heavens>
Quote:
Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimension.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American Physician and Author
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Humans have grown plants atop structures since antiquity. The ziggurats of ancient Mesopotamia (4th millennium BC–600 BC) had plantings of trees and shrubs on aboveground terraces. An example in Roman times was the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii, which had an elevated terrace where plants were grown. A roof garden has also been discovered around an audience hall in Roman-Byzantine Caesarea. The medieval Egyptian city of Fustat had a number of high-rise buildings that Nasir Khusraw in the early 11th century described as rising up to 14 stories, with roof gardens on the top story complete with ox-drawn water wheels for irrigating them.

A study at the National Research Council of Canada showed the differences between roofs with gardens and roofs without gardens against temperature. The study shows temperature effects on different layers of each roof at different times of the day. Roof gardens are obviously very beneficial in reducing the effects of temperature against roofs without gardens. “If widely adopted, rooftop gardens could reduce the urban heat island, which would decrease smog episodes, problems associated with heat stress and further lower energy consumption.”
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Tooling Up for Hydroponics

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“The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head,” and so it is today for many of his followers. Despite all the warnings about the snares laid by moneylenders, despite the fact that gage mort is literally translated as a pledge to give up one’s life, millions have lost their homes through mortgage exploits, and their quality of life through the service of debt.

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