High Five; Twice ~~~~~ ~~~~~Two Hands

Everything I touch nourishes my soul.

Thank you to all who have helped me!!!

Seaweed is also my friend, my friend

When the Ocean calls me
It's not just the breeze
The smell of the ocean
The call of the seas,

The taste of it's vegetables
Always contents
When spending some time
In the old circumvent

Eat them,
greet them in the mother’s aquarium
Row them, through them
Dry them fast.
Don’t wash them with plain water, they won’t last
Life’s the dulse palmaria
©Allisonians

Some Tasty Kinds;
Bullwhip Kelp (Nereocystis leutkeana):
The World's Tastiest and Easiest Kelp To Eat
This scrumptious easy to eat beautiful green annual kelp grows only in moving cold water of the Northeast Pacific Ocean, from northern California north to southeast Alaska.

It forms dense 'kelp forests' in areas of fast currents usually in channels between the islands. Its long strong stipes grow from attached holdfasts on rocky seafloors at depths of up to 100 feet. Its many 6-12 inch wide thick tender leaves grow out of a large hollow bulb at the top of each solitary stipe; these leaves can grow to 60 feet in length. The bulb is filled with Carbon Monoxide for flotation.

Only the leaves are harvested, very carefully, one at a time by hand; the leaves are not rinsed, but do drain off all of their surface seawater as they dry in full sun hanging from stainless wire for 6-8 hours. Any salt or salty taste on this kelp comes from within the kelp, and, is predominantly Potassium, rather than sodium. The leaves' mineral content is 25-50%; they contain all necessary trace elements.

This kelp can be eaten and enjoyed as is; it can also be added to salads, soups, baked or steamed vegetables, oatmeal, and any cooked dish from cookies to pancakes to scrambled eggs to ice cream.

This particular batch was harvested from a cluster of small uninhabited islands near the US-Canada border.

This kelp is very sensitive to moisture. To keep it from becoming less crunchy or even damp, it MUST BE STORED IN COMPLETELY AIRTIGHT CONTAINERS. because of its very high mineral content it is extremely hygroscopic; it will pull moisture out of seemingly dry air if left out. The plastic bag in which this kelp was shipped is no longer airtight. Many small holes were punched through the plastic bag by the sharp dry kelp pieces.

When this kelp becomes even a trifle moist, it can be easily dried placed in an open pan in a low (110-140 degrees F) heat oven for about 30 minutes. Use or store quickly. ENJOY !! ~~Ryan Drum~~

And one of his amazing insights; {I am no seafaring stranger, wish, wish}

The terms "seaweeds" and "sea vegetables" are used interchangeably herein and refer to the large, visible macroalgae growing attached to each other, rocks, and the seafloor in the intertidal zone and shallow seawater. Microalgae, phytoplankton, cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) and eel grasses are not included. The term "sea herbs" is not used and not recommended since it compromises the true cryptogamic identity and phylogenetic classification of the macroalgae, even though it is used affectionately by herbalists. The term "seaweed" is a bit misleading: with a few notable exceptions, seaweeds are actually saltwater-tolerant, land-dependent plants growing almost exclusively at the narrow interface where land and sea meet. Most must be firmly attached to something to stay in the "photic zone", where they can receive sufficient sunlight.

All seaweeds are photosynthetic. The best-known truly "pelagic" seaweed (pelagic means living and growing at sea, independent of land) is Sargasso weed, a prolific brown seaweed of the genus Sargassum. This lush plant covers an area of 7000 square miles near the Bermuda Triangle, with a floating layer 1-2 feet thick; modest wave action sorts it out into long even rows that resemble a carefully-planted field on land. After several days of slowly chugging through the Sargasso Sea while taking transatlantic transect vertical plankton tows, I experienced a common visual hallucination and urge to jump off the boat and walk around on the Sargasso weed as had many mariners before me. The urge was compelling. I nearly had to be restrained.
~Ryan Drum~
This link redirects you to the rest of the article. (There is some interesting info on bulk harvesting vs. hand harvesting,,,Hmmmm)Anyhow,,, you decided :)
http://www.ryandrum.com/seaxpan1.html

Respectfully yours~Allison

Resources;

Here's one of the experts I've read on the subject
Ryan Drum
http://www.ryandrum.com/
Island Herbs
P O Box 25
Waldron, WA 98297-0025


& another
Susun Weed

& another

John Kallas
http://www.botanicalmedicine.org/Tapes/Bios/Drum.htm

here's the latest off of Comcast news; More BP FOR SURE~~~What else is there, right?

By GREG BLUESTEIN and BEN NUCKOLS, AP
ROBERT, La. — As BP labored for a second day Thursday to choke off the leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, dire new government estimates showed the disaster has easily eclipsed the Exxon Valdez as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.

The company announced late in the day that it had suspended shooting heavy drilling mud into the blown-out well 5,000 feet underwater around midnight Wednesday so it could bring in more materials.

The procedure known as a top kill was expected to resume Thursday night, but it could be late Friday or the weekend before the company knows if it has cut off the oil that has been flowing for five weeks.

As the world waited, President Barack Obama announced major new restrictions on drilling projects, and the head of the federal agency that regulates the industry resigned under pressure, becoming the highest-ranking political casualty of the crisis so far.

BP insisted the top kill was progressing as planned, though the company acknowledged drilling mud was escaping from the broken pipe along with the leaking crude.

"The fact that we had a bunch of mud going up the riser isn't ideal but it's not necessarily indicative of a problem," said spokesman Tom Mueller.


Early Thursday, officials said the process was going well, but later in the day they announced pumping had been suspended 16 hours earlier.

The top kill is the latest in a string of attempts to stop the oil that has been spewing since the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20. Eleven workers were killed.

If the procedure works, BP will inject cement into the well to seal it permanently. If it doesn't, the company has a number of backup plans. Either way, crews will continue to drill two relief wells, considered the only surefire way to stop the leak.

A top kill has never been attempted before so deep underwater. BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said the company is also considering shooting small, dense rubber balls or assorted junk such as golf balls and rubber scraps to stop up a crippled five-story piece of equipment known as a blowout preventer to keep the mud from escaping.

The stakes were higher than ever as public frustration over the spill grew and a team of government scientists said the oil has been flowing at a rate 2 1/2 to five times higher than what BP and the Coast Guard previously estimated.

Two teams of scientists calculated the well has been spewing between 504,000 and more than a million gallons a day. Even using the most conservative estimate, that means about 18 million gallons have spilled so far. In the worst-case scenario, 39 million gallons have leaked.

That larger figure would be nearly four times the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster, in which a tanker ran aground in Alaska in 1989, spilling nearly 11 million gallons.

"Now we know the true scale of the monster we are fighting in the Gulf," said Jeremy Symons, vice president of the National Wildlife Federation. "BP has unleashed an unstoppable force of appalling proportions."

BP spokesman Steve Rinehart said the previous estimate of 210,000 gallons a day was based on the best data available at the time. As for the new figures, he said: "It does not and will not change the response. We are going all out on our response."

The spill is not the biggest ever in the Gulf. In 1979, a drilling rig in Mexican waters — the Ixtoc I — blew up, releasing 140 million gallons of oil.

In another troubling discovery, marine scientists said they have spotted a huge new plume of what they believe to be oil deep beneath the Gulf, stretching 22 miles from the leaking wellhead northeast toward Mobile Bay, Ala. They fear it could have resulted from using chemicals a mile below the surface to break up the oil.

In Washington, Elizabeth Birnbaum stepped down as director of the Minerals Management Service, a job she had held since last July. Her agency has been harshly criticized over lax oversight of drilling and cozy ties with industry.

An internal Interior Department report released earlier this week found that between 2000 and 2008, agency staff members accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography.

Polls show the public is souring on the administration's handling of the catastrophe, and Obama sought to assure Americans that the government is in control and deflect criticism that his administration has left BP in charge.

"My job right now is just to make sure everybody in the Gulf understands: This is what I wake up to in the morning, and this is what I go to bed at night thinking about. The spill," he said.

Obama said he would end the "scandalously close relationship" between regulators and the oil companies they oversee. He also extended a freeze on new deepwater oil drilling and canceled or delayed proposed lease sales in the waters off Alaska and Virginia and along the Gulf Coast.

Fishermen, hotel and restaurant owners, politicians and residents along the 100-mile stretch of Gulf coast affected by the spill are fed up with BP's failures to stop the spill. Thick oil is coating birds and delicate wetlands in Louisiana.

"I have anxiety attacks," said Sarah Rigaud, owner of Sarah's Restaurant in Grand Isle, La., where the beach was closed because blobs of oil that looked like melted chocolate had washed up on shore. "Every day I pray that something happens, that it will be stopped and everybody can get back to normal."

Charlotte Randolph, president of Louisiana's Lafourche Parish, one of the coastal parishes affected by the spill, said: "I mean, it's wearing on everybody in this coastal region. You see it in people's eyes. You see it. We need to stop the flow."

"Tourism is dead. Fishing is dead. We're dying a slow death," she added.

The Coast Guard approved portions of Louisiana's $350 million plan to ring its coastline with a wall of sand meant to keep out the oil.

___

Associated Press Writers Seth Borenstein, Matthew Brown, Jason Dearen, Andrew Taylor and Matthew Daly contributed to this report.

~~~
OH, and there's a video so you can really get the feel...Can you hear me sarcasim?
Not joking, just wondering~~~
Ticking the title will redirect you to the article...

The lowdown from DNR on Tuesday’s earthquake near Carnation

By Ear to the Ground

It wasn’t DNR’s mapping that caused it of course, but, just by coincidence, a geology team from the department had recently completed seismic mapping in the area of last Tuesday’s minor earthquake east of Seattle.

On Tuesday morning, May 25, at 5:21 a.m., a moderate 3.4 magnitude earthquake rattled residents near Carnation in eastern King County. We have heard no reports of damage or injuries, though there were stories of family pets acting oddly shortly before the quake occurred (but if you own cats, how can you tell?). A lot of people slept through the quake. The epicenter was about 3 miles east of Union Hill Rd. and Novelty Hill Rd., at a depth of 3.9 miles below the ground on a segment of the Rattlesnake Mountain fault.

It just happens that at least one homeowners’ association we know of in the area has an aggressive program of earthquake preparedness. The Trilogy at Redmond Ridge homeowners’ association takes part in the Map Your Neighborhood program from the Washington State Emergency Management Division. They have trained and educated 68 percent of residents in the community’s 1,600 homes. Tonight, Timothy Walsh, DNR chief hazards geologist, is speaking to Trilogy residents at a previously scheduled emergency preparedness meeting. Tim is one of the experts featured on a four-part series on earthquakes in the Northwest, “On Shaky Ground,” scheduled to air June 8 through 11th on KUOW-FM.

More about earthquakes is on the web page of the DNR Division of Geology and Earth Resources, which maps and assesses earthquake faults so homeowners, businesses and goverments know where the risks are.

My Tale for Tuesday; Is Sad, But, I fear, True!

NATION:
by Doug Simpson
titled
Relatives Fear the Dead Oil Rig Workers Are Forgotten

~~~and I infer here
The 11 who lost thier lives the day that the Gulf of Mexico Died~~~

Adam Weise, 24;
Jason Anderson, a father of two;
Aaron Dale Burkeen, 37, of Philidelphia;
Karl Kleppinger Jr., 38, of Natchez;
Shane Roshto, 22, of Liberty;
Dewey Revette, 48, of State Line;
Gordon Lewis Jones, 28;
Donald Clark, 49;
Stephen Curtis, 39;
Roy Kemp, 27;
Blair Manuel, 56;

God's Speed~~~

here's the link;
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/relatives-of-dead-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-workers-feel-forgotten-in-the-spill/19488058?icid=main|main|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2Fnation%2Farticle%2Frelatives-of-dead-deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-work

Another one from Greenpeace; I've missed my callin' ;)

Tell Secretary Ken Salazar to Just Say "No" to Shell's Alaska Drilling
If you are so move~~~
here's a link;
https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=665&s_src=FB&s_subsrc=up&JServSessionIdr004=9a1wdaftk1.app334a

Make your voice heard even louder. Follow-up your message to Secretary Salazar with a phone call. It will really help amplify your message and will let him now just how serious you are. Below are some simple instructions as well as a sample script. There's nothing to it and it'll only take a couple of minutes.



1) Call (202) 208-7351. If it's between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm ET you should be able to talk to a person. If you aren't calling between those hours and don't speak to a person, skip step #2 and simply leave the message below.



2) The phone will be answered by a staff person in Secretary Salazar's office. Tell them your name, city and state you are calling from, and then tell the staffer you are calling to leave a message with Secretary Salazar about Shell's proposed drilling in the Arctic. You will then be asked if you would like to use the Interior Department's comment line, politely say no, and say that you would prefer leaving your comment with the staffperson you are speaking with so that he/she can give that message to the Secretary directly.



3) Leave your message. Here's a sample:



"Hi, my name is _________________, I live in [city, state], and I want Secretary Salazar to stop Shell’s Alaskan drilling and to ban ALL new drilling off US coasts."



4) Last, let us know that you made the call by clicking the button below.

Here's the link;
https://secure3.convio.net/gpeace/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=OnScreenThanks&id=665


Greenpeace
702 H Street, NW, Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20001 (202) 462-1177

Micro Fiction Monday

From Susan of Stony River@Blogspot.com
Tick the title to redirect there.
Microfiction Monday the shortest of short stories. Think Aesop's fables, comic strips, or even jokes: complete stories that can be told in under a minute. For this game, the limit is a tweetable 140 characters or fewer.

Here's a counter design 215

On Your Mark;
Here's mine

Oh, no, no; you're good Ruldopho! It rolled over there under Toe. That cross should have been painted like everybody elses. Now help me up!
©Allisonians

SWS; my gulf issues~~tissues and resolutions~~~Go go go go!!!!

This doesn't exactly discribe me, but I have to say,
Kevin's outdone himself. As well as, these other boys~~~
!!!!!!!!!!!!
If this were a movie, it would be too unbelievable. Since it's real life, well…it's even more unbelievable.

Ready for this one? We may have Kevin Costner to thank for solving the Gulf Coast's oil spill crisis. Of course, Mr. Dances With Wolves isn't working alone. James Cameron and Robert Redford are also lending some much needed (albeit curiously qualified) hands to the cause…

Here's the deal: Earlier this month, Costner unveiled an oil-cleaning device to which he has devoted 15 years and $24 million to a mightily impressed and, let's be honest, somewhat flabbergasted, public. Costner came up with the device, which basically filters oil out of water—novel idea, huh?—while filming Waterworld.

(He purchased the technology, first developed by the Department of Energy after the disastrous Exxon Valdez spill.)

This week, since it has no other ideas, BP OK'd preliminary testing on "the Costner solution." The company and the U.S. Coast Guard will test six of the oil separators next week.
from http://www.comcast.net/articles/entertainment-eonline/20100521/b182270/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
HEre's Mine;


Thanks Kevin Costner!
You're a genious!

©Allisonians

Intro Please; Excerpt of...C. M. Woodhouse; The Times Literary Supplement, London, August 6, 1954

Why it was called a fairy story;
"...In fact Orwell was a deep lover of words who never consciously misused them. If he said he had written a fairy-srory with a political purpose, we cannot lightly suppose he spoke lightly. A political purpose suggests some kind of moral, and that suggests rather the fable, the medium of Aesop or la Fontaine or even Thurber. There have been fairy-stories purporting to have morals before now: Rimsky-Korsakov called Le Coq d'Or "a fairy-tale with a moral," though no one except possibly the Russian Imperial Censor (who objected to the original version of the opera as subversive) has ever been able to detect what it was. There is something freakish about the idea, anyway, which makes it seem unlikely to stir the emotions of the common reader; and it is impossible to attach a moral to any familiar sense to Animal Farm, where wickedness ends in triumph and virtue is utterly crushed. There is perhaps a moral for farmers: don't take to drink and let your animals get out of hand; but even so the villains will be comforted to find that everything comes out all right for them in the end. For the downtrodden animals there is nothing but misery, cruelty, and injustice; and in place of a moral there is only the tragic chorus of the donkey Benjamin, who held that "life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly." This is not like the kind of moral that tells us to look before we leap or not to count our boobies before they are hatched. For the animals never had a chance to choose, and if they had it would have made no difference.
It is just the sense of purposeless cruelty, though, that gives the clue to Orwell's purpose, as well as to his deadly serious reason for calling Animal Farm a fairy-story. The point about fairy-stories is that they are written not merely without a moral but without a morality. They take place in a world beyond good and evil, where people (or animals) suffer or prosper for reasons unconnected with ethical merit--for being ugly or beautiful respectively, for instance, or for even more unsatisfactory reasons. A little girl sets out to do a good deed for her grandmother and gets gobbled up by a wolf; a young rogue escapes the gallows (and gets an old Jew hanged instead) by his talent on the fiddle; dozens of young princes die horrible deaths trying to get through the thorn-hedge that surrounds the Sleeping Beauty, just because they had the bad luck to be born before her hundred-year curse expired; and one young prince, no better or worse, no handsomer or uglier than the rest gets through merely because he has the good luck to arrive just as the hundred years are up; and so on and so on. Even when Grimm's stepmothers are called "wicked," it is well to remember that in German their Bosheit is viciousness and bad temper, not moral guilt. For all this is related by the fairy-story tellers without approval or disapproval, without a glimmer of subjective feeling, as though their pens were dipped in surgical spirit to sterilize the microbes of emotion. They never seek to criticize or moralize, to protest or plead or persuade; and if they have an emotional impact on the reader, as the greatest of them do, that is not intrinsic to the stories. They would indeed only weaken that impact to achieve it. They move by not seeking to move; almost, it seems, by seeking not to move.".
C. M. Woodhouse

aka ~~~ end quote.
Thank you for your insights Mr. Woodhouse

I have said throughout the blogsphere that my posts are sometimes, if not, mosttimes just for my reference(and in our era, blogshperically~publicly so), and merely for my journal and with that I will now add that they are entering the league of fairy-story. If you are so moved, please join me.

I would like to clarify; this excerpt spoke mountains to me about six months or a year ago. Just as Don Miguel Ruiz did.
Namesta!

Mental Floss; for Music Monday~Behind the Lyrics: The Inspirations for 6 Famous Songs

by Mark Arminio
1) Hey Man, Nice Shot; In the late 1980s, Pennsylvania was embroiled in a bit of an accounting crisis. Employees of the Commonwealth had overpaid millions in FICA taxes and the state legislature began to search for an outside accounting agency to calculate the appropriate refunds. Harrisburg native John Torquato, Jr. eventually won the $4.6 million contract for his Californian-based firm, Computer Technology Associates, through a series of well-placed bribes.

A few months and an investigation by the US Attorney later, the trail led back to Budd Dwyer, State Treasurer, who was indicted for receiving $300,000 in kickbacks to help Torquato secure the business. Dwyer vehemently denied the charges, refused to step down from his post, and even passed on a plea bargain that would have carried a relatively light sentence. In December of 1986, he was found guilty of racketeering, bribery, fraud and conspiracy. After the verdict, he continued to proclaim his innocence and even wrote President Reagan asking for a pardon.
The day before his sentence was handed down, Dwyer called a press conference. After reading a prepared statement, he handed a series of sealed envelopes to staffers, pulled out a .357 Magnum, placed it in his mouth and shot himself on live television. While most of the local and national TV stations debated how much of the suicide to air (some played it in its entirety, others with only the audio), Filter used it as the inspiration for “Hey Man, Nice Shot,” which garnered a fair amount of radio play in 1995.

2)Turns out 1986 was an interesting time for musical inspiration. Early that year, newsman Dan Rather was assaulted on the streets of New York by a man who kept yelling “Kenneth, what is the frequency?” as he pummeled the shocked anchorman. At the time, no one could quite explain the attack.

In 1994, R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe wrote “What’s The Frequency Kenneth?,” a song exploring the effects of the media, deliberately written in slightly unintelligible lyrics. The track became a huge hit off R.E.M.’s album Monster. But what happened to the strange man who inspired it?
The assailant was later identified as William Tager. He was arrested nine years after battering Rather when he murdered a stagehand outside The Today Show studios. Tager was a mentally disturbed individual who believed television networks were beaming secret messages into his brain using a specific frequency. Convinced if he found the correct frequency he could stop the incoming transmissions, he jumped Rather.

Dan Rather later appeared with R.E.M. on Letterman to help belt out the song,

Meanwhile, Tager is currently serving a 25-year sentence for manslaughter in Sing Sing. He is eligible for parole later this year.

3)Thom Yorke was born with a paralyzed left eye and underwent a series of surgeries before the age of six, the last of which left him with a drooping eyelid. Due to his condition, during the majority of his childhood Yorke wore an eyepatch. This series of events left him awkward and shy around members of the opposite sex.
While at school, Yorke and his classmates eventually formed a band called On A Friday, as Friday was the only day of the week they could rehearse. The band continued to rehearse together as they earned university degrees, with Yorke enrolling at Exeter College.
While at Exeter, Yorke began to follow around an attractive female. Not exactly in a binoculars-from-a-tree way, just sort of admiring from a distance. However, the tables were turned one night when this girl he had been psedo-stalking showed up at one of the bands’ shows. Yorke was truly unsettled.
You’ve probably heard his tale, because the song about it became the band’s first major hit. In 1991, On A Friday changed their name to Radiohead and released it under the title “Creep

4) Often considered to be one of the first concept albums, The Beatles spun out Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967. Appearing as the sixth song on side one is “She’s Leaving Home,” a track about a young girl who slips away from her comfortable life in the dead of night, leaving her parents stunned and grief-stricken.
Turns out the song had a very real inspiration; 17-year-old Melanie Coe. Paul McCartney saw the news of her disappearance on the cover of The Daily Mirror, a British tabloid, and wrote the verses (with bandmate John Lennon crafting the chorus). In the article, Coe’s parents confess they simply couldn’t understand why Melanie would leave. “She has everything here,” her father said.
Although McCartney took some liberties with the story, Coe later confirmed the majority of the details. Coe, who was pregnant at the time, was found ten days after her disappearance with her boyfriend (who was not the father of her child) in a nearby town.
Oddly enough, Coe and McCartney had crossed paths before. Melanie appeared on a show called Ready, Steady Go! in which Paul was a judge.
Coe was crowned the winner of a mime contest. This was three years before she would inspire McCartney to pen “She’s Leaving Home,


5)
James Taylor’s beautiful, haunting and personal song “Fire and Rain” is composed in three parts, each with a separate story. Furthermore, the track as a whole is a tumultuous autobiography chronicling Taylor’s struggle with depression, substance abuse and fame.

During his later years in high school, Taylor began to experience clinical depression. He didn’t go to college (though he did later earn a degree), instead checking himself into McLean Hospital, a renowned psychiatric facility in Belmont, Massachusetts.
The first section of “Fire and Rain” describes Taylor coming to grips with the sudden death of a close friend, Suzanne Schnerr (“Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you”). At the time of her death, Taylor had just signed to The Beatles’ new label, Apple Records, and was working on his first album. However, Taylor didn’t find out about her death until months after she had passed away. His family and friends kept the information from him, worried he would slip back into depression.
Part two describes Taylor’s struggle with alcoholism, drug abuse and depression. After checking himself out of Belmont, Taylor moved to New York to pursue a music career and became addicted to heroin. During this time, he formed a band named The Flying Machine, a short-lived project that was derailed because of his addictions. Broke and depressed, his father eventually flew in to NYC and drove him back to North Carolina, where Taylor entered a drug rehab center.
The final stanza is a retrospective on how far Taylor had traveled. Many people falsely believe the line “Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground” somehow refers to a plane wreck. However, it actually references Taylor’s previous band The Flying Machine and his regret at their demise

6)Not posting this one. It's too, well you can check it out yourself. Ticking the title will get you there temporarily. The magazine moves on and so should we. It's good to write some new songs! With the number of musicians out there, let us give it a whirl!!! Mucic with some meaning!!!!!!

Greenpeace Gulf Oil Spill Photos; The Slide show on flicker/the link/ is worth the time, if you take it...

Greenpeace sent out a photo gallary of the Gulf Oil spill;







here, this ship in the rainbow of orange/brown is one of the ones that stuck out. They all do.



I am attaching the link. You can look at the photos in a slidshow or individually. If you watch the slideshow there are a few more with some graphics on the breach. I couldn't find that one otherwise. Worth th...e time, in my humble opionion.
:)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenpeaceusa09/sets/72157623829446075/

Tuesday Energy informational; From Qigong Energy Healing Blog@blogspot.com

http://qigongenergyhealing.blogspot.com/

Free Distant Healing Session Sunday May 23, 2010
La versión en español de este mensaje está a continuación de la versión en inglés.

I'm doing another free distant energy healing session for everyone who wants to join and all their friends, families, and anyone else who reads this. The main healing session will be on Sun. May 23, 2010 from 7-8pm Pacific Time-same as Los Angeles (PDT), 8-9pm MDT, 9-10pm CDT, 10-11pm EDT-same as New York.

You can join this free distant energy healing session by using your intention to be included. If you wish to join, just close your eyes for a minute when you read this and mentally say that you intend to join the session and want to be included. That is all you have to do to connect with the energy and you don't have to do anything else. Healing energy can begin to flow to you once you do this as many people who have done this before have reported. I'll be doing unscheduled energy adjustments leading up to the May 23 main session and you can receive a lot of healing energy before the main session on Sun. May 23.
You can include other people by following the instructions later in this newsletter. For those in other countries you can search for a World Time Clock to convert the time; http://www.timeanddate.com You can also use this to convert other US cities.
For those who want to know more about this work you can read my website http://www.QigongEnergyHealing.com . I was the past Secretary of the International Tibetan Qigong Association and found I had a gift for distant energy healing after recovering from a serious spinal cord injury.

So if your interested in this

MicroFiction Monday; What can Corexit 9500 do for you?

From Susan of Stony River@Blogspot.com
Tick the title to redirect there.
Microfiction Monday the shortest of short stories. Think Aesop's fables, comic strips, or even jokes: complete stories that can be told in under a minute. For this game, the limit is a tweetable 140 characters or fewer.


COREXIT® EC9500A

TECHNICAL PRODUCT BULLETIN #D-4
USEPA, OIL PROGRAM CENTER
ORIGINAL LISTING DATE: APRIL 13, 1994
REVISED LISTING DATE: DECEMBER 18, 1995
"COREXIT® EC9500A"
(formerly COREXIT 9500)

Today, improved weather aided in boom laying efforts. But air quality, according to the Air Quality Index (AQI), a number used by government agencies to characterize the quality of the air at a given location, is expected to jump tomorrow. Today's AQI on the Gulf was 100, or moderate. Tomorrow, it is expected to reach above 100, or unhealthy for sensitive groups, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2010/chem_dispersants_work_at_cost
Nalco Energy Services, L.P.
P.O. Box 87
Sugar Land, TX 77487-0087
Customer Services:
Phone: (800) 333-3714
Product Management:
Office: (281) 263-7336
Mobile: (281) 202-8126
Email: kapreston@nalco.com
(Ms. Kathryn Preston)



Here's mine;

"Milly, have you heard about the new chemical preserve C9500?"
"No"
"It's EPA approved. Chicken of the sea is saved!"
"No gas mask then?"

©Allisonians

Moral; We'll see

Dedication; 1K Thank yous to Morgaine for the always insightful information!

Natural News Reports on Jupiter; I always love their take on news, or at least find it interesting...

I am sorry that I missed a couple of hyperlinks and haven't linked back to the article. Will do asap....
:)


(NaturalNews) Here at NaturalNews, we normally report on Earthly events, but right now some rather grand events are taking place in our solar system that you may want to know about.

For starters, there's the odd fact that one of Jupiter's huge red stripes -- which is really a massive storm system many times larger than planet Earth -- has suddenly disappeared (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...). Known as the "Southern Equatorial Belt", this storm system isn't exactly permanent: Jupiter's belts undergo striking transformations every 10 - 15 years, according to astronomers.

Far more bizarre and mysterious is something that NASA's Cassini spacecraft first noticed in 2007. There is a large rotating hexagon circling the north pole of Saturn. (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/c...)

This isn't some conspiracy theory. It's not some sort of far-fetched interpretation of random organic structure. It is quite clearly a massive hexagon, and it's circling the north pole of Saturn as we speak. And by "massive", I mean this hexagon is larger than the planet Earth.

Straight from the NASA website: "This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides," said Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and member of Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We've never seen anything like this on any other planet. Indeed, Saturn's thick atmosphere where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate is perhaps the last place you'd expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is."

The hexagon, according to NASA, is 60 miles thick (deep) and an astonishing 15,000 miles wide.

That means four Earths would fit inside it. Yes, it's really that big. And of course, it seems entirely unnatural. Clouds don't form hexagon shapes and then maintain those structures as the edges orbit the center. Looking at this shape, it is difficult to explain it as "natural."

But that's not all there is to see here.

The all-seeing eye pyramid inside the hexagon

As I was studying this animation from NASA, something struck me as particularly interesting. Inside the hexagon there's a three-sided pyramid shape. It appears quite clearly as a lighter-shade triangle set against the background of the hexagon. Imagine a pyramid placed on top of the hexagon and you'll see it.

There's even more: Inside the pyramid is the shape of the all-seeing eye. You can clearly see it in the center of the pyramid shape, which is inside the hexagon.

Here's a still image from the NASA animation: http://www.naturalnews.com/images/S...

In it, you can just barely make out the shape of an inverted pyramid, plus two concentric circles in the center. Here's an overlay of lines showing the structure of the pyramid, plus the all-seeing eye: http://www.naturalnews.com/images/S...

Now here's where this gets even more bizarre...


The all-seeing eye and the pyramid
Do you recognize this all-seeing eye with the pyramid? If not, just whip out a dollar bill from your pocket and glance at the back. There it is!

Yes, your U.S. currency contains the exact same image: An all-seeing eye, centered inside the top of the pyramid, looking over you from the back of a dollar bill.

Here's a zoomed-in image showing you this from the back of a U.S. dollar bill:
http://www.naturalnews.com/images/Dollar-Bill-Annuit-Coeptis.jpg

Reality check
Please note what you're thinking right now as you're reading this. So far, I have not presented anything other than what is evident. There is a spinning hexagon of clouds on Saturn's north pole. Inside the hexagon is a triangle (pyramid). Inside the triangle are two concentric circles that look a lot like a human eye.

This shape looks a whole lot like the pyramid with the all-seeing eye on the back of the U.S. dollar.

Notice I haven't mentioned anything about any conspiracy, or aliens, or anything of that kind. These are just observations of the world around us.

Granted, they are fascinating observations. In fact, if you told most people what I've printed here in this article so far, they would think you were absolutely nuts.

And yet all I've done so far is republished NASA photos from the Cassini spacecraft and shown pictures from the back of U.S. currency. I've also pointed out some eerie similarities between the two.

But anyone with half a brain, upon seeing these pictures, would begin to wonder: Is this just a coincidence? And why is there a 15,000-mile wide spinning hexagon on Saturn in the first place?

I've mentioned this to quite a few people, and no one I talked to was even aware of this. So what's it doing there?


Natural phenomenon or intelligent design?
There are really one two possibilities for explaining the giant hexagon on Saturn: It is either a natural phenomenon or it was intelligently designed. (Well, I suppose there's a third possibility: That the whole thing is some sort of grand NASA hoax and the pictures were faked... but to what end?)

I can't wait to see the debates about this on our Facebook page, by the way, because "intelligently designed" could include anything: God, an alien race, a supernatural being, a previous Earthly civilization, a civilization from a parallel universe... who knows?

"Intelligently designed" means some conscious, intelligent being (or group of beings) intentionally created it. If so, you'd have to wonder: For what purpose? What would a giant spinning hexagon on Saturn actually accomplish?


Cymatics and the physical structure of sound
The far more likely explanation for the giant hexagon on Saturn may be that it is a natural phenomenon. And the only phenomenon I'm familiar with that might explain this involves the field of cymatics.

Cymatics is the study of how sound can alter the physical structure of materials, creating interesting structural patterns. To see this for yourself, you can turn a stereo speaker on its edge (with the speaker facing up), then place a liquid pudding of corn starch and water on top of a layer of plastic wrap, on top of the speaker. When you crank up the music, the corn starch creates bizarre and fascinating shapes due to the expression of the structure of the sound.

See an example of this "DIY cymatics" on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaYv...
I've been thinking that the giant hexagon on Saturn could theoretically be caused by very low-frequency sound waves emanating from some sort of geological action on the planet's surface. Perhaps these sound waves are being focused toward the north pole of the planet in much the same way that earthquake shockwaves can "bounce" off subterranean geological features. These sound waves could theoretically create a "cymatic" effect that we're seeing as a giant hexagon swirling around the pole.

It sounds far-fetched, I know. But not nearly as far-fetch as "aliens built it." When it comes to bizarre phenomena like this, all the explanations sound far-fetched.

You can come up with your own theory to explain all this, of course. But make no mistake: There is a giant hexagon of clouds 15,000 miles wide swirling around the north pole of Saturn, and even NASA has no idea why or how it got there. Who or what maintains the hexagon structure and keeps the clouds swirling in a six-sided geometric pattern?

Or is this a "natural" event taking place on a massive scale? If it's natural, it would demonstrate that nature can create some astonishingly complex (and large-scale) designs in the worlds around us. That's particularly interesting because the FDA believes nature is incapable of creating even a single plant-based nutrient that has any beneficial effect whatsoever on the human body.

There's a lot of denial in Washington about the power and "creativity" of nature. Maybe those folks should look toward the heavens and take note of what's really happening in our universe... because some of it is pretty darned spectacular.

Just ask NASA.

Please let us know YOUR thoughts on this giant hexagon on Saturn. Is it a NATURAL event? Was it created by MAN? Was it put there by GOD? Is it an elaborate NASA HOAX?

Chime in with your own thoughts at http://facebook.naturalnews.com where our readers love to discuss and debate fascinating ideas!

Wild Living with Sunny: Episode 16 - Mallow Plant S'mores

Double Fault; W33k 3nd Funni3s :)

Krapooy; w33k3nd funni3s (or at least kind of weird and cute)

Insight: another w33k3nd funni3s hosted by shakira

found this on YouTube looking for Tim Burton's works

Tim Burton Speed Painting; on YouTube his selfportrait

Hair Boom

Lisa Gautier & Paul Stamets Response to SF Oil Spill- DAY 1

These are my kind of people!

I am an Orphan Girl; from another angle at the same concert! Sounds soo better and different. I had to post it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CDuFvFd8Eo

My Hippy Hick Chick Desires United; I Wanna Sing that Rock 'n Roll by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

Link was disabled.
They are all dress up. David has a haircut. His hair was short when I saw them, but I'll take it either way..
Here's the You Tube link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AchmYEqztWg

Here is one about Dirt~~~sung by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

Red Clay Halo

MIcrofiction Monday on Wednesday: Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are music in motion

I was honored to be present at one of their concerts. She is now on the east coast touring.....
I Am An Orphan
I am an orphan on God's highway
But I'll share my troubles, if you go my way
I have no mother, no father,
No sister, no brother,
I am an orphan girl

I have had friendship pure an golden
But the ties of kinship, I have not known them
I know no mother, no father,
No sister, no brother
I am an orphan girl

But when He calls me I will be able
To meet my family at God's table
I'll meet my mother, my father,
My sister, my brother
No more an orphan girl

Blessed Savior make me willing
And walk besides me until I'm with them
Be my mother, my father
My sister, my brother
I am an orphan girl

They moved me, Played music and sang every minute of freetime I have had... Something in the air made me want to be part of that universal language I wish we all could share. Could it be that choir we all need?
Just thunk.... Mea Blessings

Excerpt From one of Robert Fulghum's books 1988

Somewhere out there in the world is a young woman who, if she reads the letter that follows,, will sing out, “Hey, that’s me—that’s my story!” This letter is written out of gratitude—from me and all those who have heard her story from me. Out of one person’s moment of comic despair has come perspective for all.

Dear Fellow Pilgrim:
There you were, Hong Kong airport, end of the summer of 1984, tensely occupying a chair next to mine. Everything about you said “Young American Traveler Going Home.” You had by then exchanged jean and T-shirt for a sarong and sandals. Sensible short hair had given way to hair long and loose. The backpack beside you bore the scars and dirt of some hard traveling, and it bulged with mysterious souvenirs of seeing the world. Lucky kid, I thought.
When the tears began to drip from your chin, I imagined some lost love or the sorrow of giving up adventure for college classes. But when you began to sob, you drew me into your sadness. Guess you had been very alone and very brave for some time. A good cry was in order. And weep you did. All over me. A monsoon of grievous angst. My handkerchief and your handkerchief and most of a box of tissues and both your sleeves were needed to dry up the flood before you finally got it out.
Indeed, you were not quite ready to go home; you wanted to go further on. But you had run out of money and your friends had run out of money, and so here you were having spent two days waiting in the airport standby with little to eat and too much pride to beg. And your plane was about to go. And you had lost your ticket. You cried all over me again. You had been sitting in this one spot for three hours, sinking into the cold set of despair like some torpedoed freighter. At moments you thought you would sit there until you died.
After we dried you off, I and a nice older couple from Chicago who were also swept away in the tide of you tears, offered to take you to lunch and to talk to the powers that be at the airlines about some remedy. You stood up to go with us, turned around to pick up your belongings. And SCREAMED. I thought you had been shot. But no…it was your ticket. You found your ticket. You had been sitting on it. For three hours.
Like a sinner saved from the very jaws of hell, you laughed and cried and hugged us all and were suddenly gone. Off to catch a plane for home and what next. Leaving most of the passenger lounge deliriously limp from being part of your drama.
I’ve told the story countless times. “She was sitting on her own ticket,” I conclude, and the listeners always laugh in painful self-recognition.
Often when I have been sitting on my own ticket in some what—sitting on whatever it is I have that will get me up and on to what comes next—I think of you and grin at both of us and get moving.
So, thanks. You have become, in a special way, my travel agent. My you find your tickets and arrive wherever it is you want to go, now and always.
From his book;
'It was on Fire When I Lay Down on It'

Recycling Sunday; Here I am dedicating Sunday to Post Ingenious Recycling Ideas and Plain Old Regular Standard Stuff. My meme

REcycling is Key
To help mother nature, you and me;
We don't have recycle waste service in this town
Which is way beyond my reasoning.

So, I devised a plan, a community devis-a-nation
When we were young
We all did stand
On the corner with our elderly neighbors,
And
We'd take all their old newspapers, magazines, and cereal boxes
in hand.
We'd take it all down to the land of recycle
To be put to another use
We are glad our refuse could be used.

Now all our old neighbors they are all gone, but one.
I miss them the whole day long, they are sorely missed!
We, in their honor, take our recycle down yader where is belongs.

Like life our recycling has cycles.
We used a wagon, then walk to the station
Now we pick up our local store vegitation.
They were of the tree catagory
And as clean up, we pass on the story!

Now, my new plan is to have no recycle at all.
To use glass and not plastic, no plastic at all!
This is a mighty mighty test because I live in the US
But all in all we will work this plan until
It is just like any other plan
Learning new tasks is quite delightful
This one for sure because landfills are frightfull!


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the company Halliburton is the company that completed the "rig cementing" just 20 hours before the rig exploded. A federal study, meanwhile, shows that most rig blowouts are caused by problems with rig cementing. So now it appears that Halliburton may be implicated in this environmental disaster. (http://www.sfgate.com.../cgi-bin/artic...)
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W33K3ND FUNNI3S! #8 Hosted by Sh@kir@, Here are mine

Funick #28

"The future of humankind is dictated by technology an those that control it."


Funny Cartoon
Harold L. George is an illustrator born in Dominican Republic and raised mostly in NYC. Harold has been drawing since he was 6 years old, and says he has always loved cartoons, so it's no wonder he loves cartooning. Harold has been fervently trying to establish himself as a cartoonist and illustrator for the past year and has started The Funnicks in order to do that. One of his main goals is to eventually get The Funnicks to be recognized so he can start implementing them in things like shirts and greeting cards and hopefully animate them.

The Funnicks started as a simple idea inspired by his girlfriend and friends who's mundane everyday comments gave him material to utilize in marionettes and even one panel skits. The name The Funnicks is a play on the old newspaper Funnies. When his little cousin was younger, he was not able to pronounce the word "funny" correctly. He used to say "funnick" and Harold thought it was funny so that is what it became. The Funnicks are a compilation of characters whose attitudes and personalities could possibly be compared to those of the Looney Tunes characters, although they have their own personas, Looney tunes were one source of inspiration when he created them. The Funnicks are whimsical, sarcastic, and with their sometimes dark humor can touch on things like conspiracies, controversy, government issues and many more real life dilemmas. Harold looks forward to developing The Funnicks and its characters to entertain the public.
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Math Aha Jokes
Not really funny but, wow, what factor is gooood=+
Theorem : All numbers are equal to zero.

Proof: Suppose that a=b. Then
a = b
a^2 = ab
a^2 - b^2 = ab - b^2
(a + b)(a - b) = b(a - b)
a + b = b
a = 0

Furthermore if a + b = b, and a = b, then b + b = b, and 2b = b, which mean that 2 = 1.
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Poem of English
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!

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{Does sound like me, but it's not. The title of the joke/poems redirects to the sites they were found on.....Have a great weekend!!!
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Thank you Sh@kir@ for making me laugh!!!!
Tick the title to redirct to her fabulously funny
W33K3ND FUNNI3S #8 and an Amazing Blog to boot!
:)

SWS

Six Word Saturday. Tick the title to redirect to our lovely host. Thank you!
I did six;
1)
I do not think that way.

2)
I don't know what you mean?

3)
You did not say what happened.

4)
I can not read your mind.

5)
Do not treat me like that.

6)
I do not think like that.

©Allisonians

Moral;
The mastery of love is ours;
Six times I have tried not to be concerned and to simply discern. Now I am not.