:-D

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

Large island, plenty of rain, huge wind resource. What's the best quick growing wind break ? Leylandii ?
Can they grow straw in that wind ? And barley of course :-))
Large number of polytunnels for veggies. Millions and zillions of sheep and goats

Sorted.

So long as they have broadband ?


keep to the Fen Causeway

Any bets ? Thoughts ?

Personally I think MU have been pretty ropey in the last few games so I think Chelski will shade it, but suspect it could be high scoring, 3-2 something like that.

keep to the Fen Causeway

The vice-chancellor had strategically planned the protest around commuting hours in one of the main streets that runs parallel to the main campus. Banners and signs were included. My ears are still ringing from the hooting we got in support from the passing traffic. Of course there was the occasional dickhead (or edickhead in isiZulu), but what can you say. Finally some uniting spirit. A next, general rally will be held on Sunday. It would not surprise me if turnout will be massive.

Violence wise, it was a quiet day. Charities offering support and food can now operate more easily; donation rallies are getting on steam. I don't know if this will be the end of it - last week also had these lulls - but the important thing is that SA, as a country, is starting to speak up, which is exactly what was missing.

No internet for me for tonight; I'm exhausted. And I really should do some work.

Waste Treatment Plants: Favour Reusable Diapers

One child's diaper years cause some 400 kilos of diaper waste. The production and transportation of disposable diapers further burden the environment.

"When we find ourselves believing that killing a man makes us more of a man, but loving a man makes us less of a man, it's probably time to reexamine our criteria for manhood."

h/t Feministe

keep to the Fen Causeway

The New American Century Has Ended

Apparently for financial reasons, the new American century has prematurely ended.

In a symbolic act, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), run by Bill Kristol and other neocons, has lost its internet presence.

When accessing www.newamericancentury.org one now gets redirected to the webhosters 'account suspended' page.

It says:

Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.

The website was hosted by btnaccess.com which is a subsidary of Hong Kong based PCCW Global.

from MoA this day, with hat tip from B to Jim Lobe.

well, there's little enough to laugh about these days, you gotta get a small giggle wherever you can...

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

http://www.amherst.edu/~jwreyes/papers/LeadCrimeNBERWP13097.pdf

From the conclusions

"This paper shows a significant and robust relationship between lead exposure in childhood
and violent crime rates later in life. The estimates indicate that the reduction in lead exposure in
the 1970s is responsible for a 56% drop in violent crime in the 1990s and will likely produce
further declines in the future, up to a 70% drop in violent crime by the year 2020."

go figure.....can someone check please the effects of multiple food additives on social structures?

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

There will be no liveblogging of the game, since everyone can see it, but there might be somecommentsifyouwantoheaerthem.

Skennah Kowa

you are the media you consume.

http://www.foodnews.org/   Click on 'get the guide'

http://www.foodnews.org/index.php

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. --Charu Saxena.

The bad note is that predator Buffett is in Madrid, bragging he has $200 billion! to buy companies, although he admitted he ´got here too late´ for the growing stage.

Why here?  Why now?  I´m not getting the whole picture at all.

In home news, our Poz. socialist party has been in a coma until a month ago and suddenly ´insurgents´ are coming out of the woodwork at the weekly meetings.  They are being diplomatic when they use words like ´activate, dynamize´, but the committee is in trouble, (they seem to have already picked their own sacrificial lamb) and the fireworks will be awesome  Sat. morning at the ´extraordinary´ assembly vote.

And I have been just listening quietly so far, but it´s good to see a pulse as high as mine, in the group.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. --Charu Saxena.

This is the author of the Hirsch Report

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes