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Gallery: Loowatt: Toilet Made From Poo Transforms Excrement into Energy
Design gets very literal in this toilet made from poop!
Form follows function to whole new level in Virginia Gardiner's energy generating toilet – which is literally made from poop! Designed for use in developing countries, the Loowatt is a waterless toilet system that transforms human waste into a highly valued commodity – energy. The low-cost mechanical eco commode encourages people to trade in their waste for biofuel, creating an urban infrastructure that encourages proper waste disposal, cuts down on the spread of water-born illnesses, and provides a reliable source of energy (so long as you're regular). Check out Dwell's fantastic video (below) for an interview with designer Virginia Gardiner, and read on for more on the poop toilet!
In designing the Loowatt system, Virginia sought to provide a solution for the 40% of the world's population that lives without toilets. In many developing countries the installation of sewage systems is impossible, and improper waste disposal spreads devastating waterborne illnesses that afflict millions.
The Loowatt aims to solve this global sanitation crisis by creating an entirely new waste disposal infrastructure. The composting toilet is molded from 90% horse dung, and features a biodegradable lining that stores excrement in a sealed, odor-free container. Once the toilet is full, the user takes the poo package to an outdoor biodigestor, which in exchange provides a free source of biofuel for cooking.
The Loowatt has been exhibited around the world, was awarded an honorable mention from the AIGA Aspen Design Challenge, and was a finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. If you'd like to help push the project along, a donation of £17 will net you your very own "poo gem" – a dodecahedron molded from horse manure (makes a swell paperweight, gift or toy!), and £100 or more will net you a lovely deer-head candle holder – just the thing to brighten
dungy dingy interior spaces.
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March 26, 2011 at 10:40 pm
Bravo Virginai for making/creating the (re)connection!! Of inestimable value! Hosannas.
And bravo, Mike Chico for a great and timely article.
And for Inhabitat . . . it's my first time here.
Well done!
December 31, 2009 at 4:57 pm
What about the toilet paper?
August 24, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I love the concept and only wish I could buy one of these toilets right now!
August 14, 2009 at 2:24 pm
That is great!! it reminds me a guy that proposed somthing like that in Oaxaca Mexico in a congress 1995. Every body just said no way…and here we are…this idea is grea!! trying to uses the human waste is sustainable…
July 18, 2009 at 8:22 am
This is an exelent solution for the waste problem on pleasure boats. It is now (in the Netherlands) forbidden to flush waste overboard. The solution is a septic tank often also filled with a chemical where the waste goes. This dry toilet could
be a dry more compact system which also delivers gas for cooking.
So where ca I get one?
June 30, 2009 at 10:26 am
Where do I get one?
June 28, 2009 at 1:00 am
Amazing! A waterless toilet made out from human waste which will transformed into energy. This is a very creative design.
June 26, 2009 at 10:51 pm
To promote this product in the "first-world", governments should give tax incentives to get people off flush toilets. Not only will we have healthy water sources and aquatic life but we will not need to tearup our streets to install/replace sewer pipes and treatment facilities.
Simple is best. Congratulations on a great start.
June 26, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Coupla points- Horsedung is valuable – it sells for $0.50 a kg in India and is extremely good manure, its so expensive that it is adulterated with donkey dung which unfortunately is not so good as manure. Why for developing countries only? Why not for the developed world? Charity begins at home
.. and finally
every a…hole a resource
June 26, 2009 at 7:13 am
Dude now that is one cool stool! I like it!
June 25, 2009 at 12:38 pm
This is awesome. It is an incredible notion to me that these days we think the sign of a great civilization and the height of technology dictates that we must put our cleanest water in toilets while 1.1 billion people on the planet lack access to clean drinking water. Virginia, you are my HERO!


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I found these Dallas jokes on a Raider board at the beginning of this season.
A lady in Dallas calls 911. Hysterically, she says,
"Someone's just broken into my house, and I think he's
going to rape me!" The police officer says, "I'm
sorry, we're really busy at the moment. Just get the
guy's jersey number and we'll get back to you."
Q: What do you call 47 people sitting around a TV
watching the Super Bowl?
A. The Dallas Cowboys
Q: What's Jerry Jones' biggest concern?
A. Does Bail Money count against the Salary Cap?
Q: What do you call a drug ring in Dallas?
A: A huddle
Q: Four Dallas Cowboys in a car, who's driving?
A: The police
Q: Why can't Michael Irvin get into a huddle on the
field anymore?
A: It is a parole violation for him to associate with
known felons.
Doctors say because of Michael Irvin's broken
clavicle, it will be 6-8 weeks before he can videotape
a teammate having sex.
I understand Chicago is trying to sign Michael Irvin.
They got rid of the refrigerator, so now they want a
coke machine.
The Dallas newspapers reported yesterday that Texas
Stadium is going to take out artificial turf because
the Cowboys play better on "grass."
The Dallas Cowboys adopted a new "Honor System".....
'Yes, your Honor; No, your Honor.'
The Cowboys had a 12 and 5 season last year..... 12
arrests, 5 convictions.
The Cowboys knew they had to do something for their
defense, so they hired a new defensive coordinator:...
Johnny Cochran.
Q: How do the Dallas Cowboys spend their first week at
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With millions of galaxies and planets throughout the universe, do you believe in the possibility of life elsewhere?
NASA researchers recently discovered large amounts of water ice and possible organic compounds on Mercury, suggesting the raw materials necessary for life may be more common than scientists believed.
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft announced on Nov. 29, 2012 that Mercury contains more than 100 billion tons of water ice near its poles. In the dark, shadowy areas of the planet, temperatures plummet to minus 370 degrees Fahrenheit (188 degrees Celsius), where much of its ice is found. But Messenger suggests even more water ice can be found in slightly warmer areas.
In those warmer areas of the closest planet to the sun, a strange, dark material has been discovered. It is said to act as an insulator for the ice. According to the data, the dark material is a mixture of complex organic compounds – the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it. Scientist David Paige of UCLA suggests the organic material may be the same type of organic material that ultimately gave rise to life on Earth.
Researchers believe Mercury acquired the large amount of water it possesses in the same way Earth did, through comet impacts and asteroid strikes.
Because of Mercury's close proximity to the sun, the planet doesn't seem to be a good host for living entities. But finding ice and organics on another planet within our solar system lays a foundation for more discovery of how life took root on our planet.


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- Sajid Khan
- New York, NY
- United States
This conversation is closed.
Why America is Emotionally and Physically Tired.
It is the ignored, neglected and undetected emotional baggage in the brain that is the most common cause of all this tiredness.
The most common cause of tiredness is due to our 'emotional baggage belief' of being the best. This is one cause that we as parents erroneously integrate into the physical brain structure of our children. We will be taking a big step in removing so much tiredness from our children's lives if only we did not tell our children that they are the best; and instead took steps to make them become the best.
Consider the Biblical story of Adam and Eve. They were living in total bliss in heaven unaware of their own position, limitations and responsibilities, without any need to worry about their future, or have any ambitions of power or hunger for knowledge. They were blissfully happy with a totally relaxed and happy brain and mind. Suddenly Satan introduced all the elements of fear, jealousy, greed, ambition and their limitations, the chances to disobey and break the laws. Their chance to become god themselves by knowing good and evil drove them to commit evil. Thus Satan introduced evil by telling them their status of being powerless without the knowledge of good and evil.
Similarly by telling our child that he is the best we introduce a personality changing evil that introduces the worst emotional baggage into the brain's physical infrastructure. The child was totally lost in a happy life of living in the now. Becoming aware of being the best raises expectations, introduces an element of status, creates a phony overconfidence, makes the child compare his own self with others. Instead of living in reality the child dreams of being # 1. He expects to come ahead of all others. As this seldom happens in the real world; the elements of jealousy, greed, hatred, anger, confusion, guilt, ambition all become part of the personality. Even happiness gets elusive.
pat gilbert
Jan 7 2013: The only reason people get tired is from being stopped.
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Lets see the cost of education that is absolutely a stop and sure as hell will slow you down some. Regulations are a stop in business. Taxes are a stop, you work your ass off and we give away what you earn. Regulations regarding "political correctness" are a stop. The worst economy since the thirties is a stop. Uncertainty regarding the future thanks to the cowboy POTUS is a stop. Wars that have lasted longer than any in history is a stop to what the future holds. The declining worth of the American people is a stop. The endless charity to immigrants is a stop to American workers. Etc. Etc. Gee I can't imagine why people are tired?
To teach anyone to look for praise is monumentally stupid.
Jan 7 2013: I did not say that the emotional baggage is the only stop. The emotional baggage makes the other stops worse. 'Even in today's economy about 20% people are truly happy and the stops do not apply to them. Ever wonder why? Because they are effortlessly happy as they are their authentic pure selves and not their phony self images. Most of these problems you mention are man made that would be different in a wise society. Emotionally challenged brains cause emotionally challenged behavior that is the cause of all this mess. The solution is massive reeducation wisdom seminars for adults and training for parents and teachers...
Jan 7 2013: I don't think so, the solution is to remove the stops.
Jan 7 2013: 80% of brains are emotionally challenged. The current policies are a direct result of this. Imagine how society will be if 90%+ brains were emotionally super healthy. Even our leaders have emotional baggage which is reflected in the political mess in Washington.Jan 8 2013: Sajid.
Would you please clarify for me what you mean? It appears to me that you would like children to discover themselves without all this "emotional baggage" but you use the phrase in your second paragraph, " make them become the best."
Making someone sounds like an awful lot of pressure not only for the children but for those adults who are doing their best to "make them" become something the adult may want more than the child. I personally don't like the sound of "making them into anything" so I'm not sure what you meant by that. It sounds contradictory to what you want.
As I understand the story of Adam and Eve (though I don't believe in it), this Biker Devil lied to them and that is what split their oneness from God, from themselves and from each other.
Lying, or the act of deceiving (the misrepresentation of reality to another person's conscious mind), creates a split in the psyche, which then leads to doubt about what one knows, their senses, their intuition and thus, not trusting themselves, or what they already know or knew. This leads to neurosis and neurosis are not true. It's emotionally draining because one is always either going against themselves, sabotaging themselves, or not sure of what to do because they are split from everything they once knew, but never had to go through. The constant battle in life seems to be learning to trust oneself, no matter what another thinks or says.
While it is not wrong to lie, I do believe it is wrong to lie to children in their early, formative years and that this is what leads to most kinds of mental illnesses that are not of an organic nature. A study done in 2008-2009 revealed that more parents are lying more often to their children about more things. And the most recent Comorbidity Replication Survey that I read stated that mental illness is in over one-half the U.S. population, is spreading (growing larger) and begins at the age of eleven. Parents pass on the lies they were taught, making them neurotic.
Jan 8 2013: Wow! A 5 star comment.
Instead of telling the child that he is a champion; make the child become a champion. Look at how champions are raised. Tiger Woods dad did not tell Tiger he is a champion, he gave Tiger a golf stick and ball and made him practice, practice and practice. This practical learning process has to be introduced early without telling the child that he is the best.
You got it exactly right. We introduce lies into our child's emotional personality causing the child to become his phony self image. No wonder our lives are partly phony. In fact most of the man made mess is due to our emotionally challenged behavior which results from our emotional baggage planted in us by our own parents and even society.
In my observation the so called normal majority is actually sub-normal and it is due to our trophy self image. All that is required is a shift in the traditional ways in which we bring up our children. We need to bring up our children on truth. We need to know how to create wisdom from early on.
Whether the Bible is true or not but there are lessons in the Bible that explain wisdom and the pure self.
Jan 10 2013: Hi Sajid.
I don't know if the above comment was a reply to me or not but I wished to add something to what you recently wrote.
In my eyes & in my mind, the so-called "normal majority" as you called them, are not (only) sub-normal, but they are seriously mentally ill, bordering on insanity, & certainly headed that way en masse. They seem normal to one another & cannot spot mental illness or insanity because everyone around them is mentally ill if not outright insane. It isn't those shooting people in schools. They aren't the majority.
I add to this: the fact that there is so much lying going on, by the media for decade after decade, by parents (a child's worst enemy), by educational institutions, by government, by religion, by movies, books and other methods of embedding false information into another's psyche, creates or has created and introduced the very first form of Artificial Intelligence into the populations of the world, particularly the Un-united States. AI isn't coming in the form of robots. It is however, coming in the form of humans who are rendered into being mental robots, thus, they have artificial intelligence embedded in their psyche. They are mental robots. It is so common to hear people say, "what was I supposed to think?" Well, You, meaning they, were supposed to think!!!
They were not supposed to just think what they were told or have been told to think, believe, say or do and conversely, not believe, not think, not say or not do, because they were told to.
They should all be reminded that William Casey, the head of the CIA in 1981 stated,
"We will know when our program of disinformation is complete, when everything the American people believe, is false!"
First, people have to wake up or be woken up.
That is a Herculean task.
They have Manchurian Candidates for political office & the citizens are Manchurian Citizens.
And they still believe voting works. Voting is doing the same thing over & over and expecting different results. Insanity
Jan 10 2013: Dear Random: The above was a reply to your comment.
Unfortunately much of the lying is due to ignorance about the very nature of what is wrong. We teach the mind and we miseducate the brain. Parents, teachers, society all create phony self images instead of pure selves. The so-called animal nature of man is nothing but the emotionally challenged brain that is created by our faulty upbringing.
If we can get together ten people from TED and then start a chain awareness we will be able to spread the right knowledge.
Fritzie -
Jan 8 2013: People may get tired from lack of progress in their pursuits after prolonged effort (regardless of whether the obstacle is internal or external) or from seemingly endless repetition of things that seem pointless.
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Many people are not perfectionists and yet get tired.
People use a variety of physical and mental strategies to maintain balance rather than living continuously overwhelmed. Exercise works well for some people. Practices like meditation work for others. Different authors/coaches and so forth propose different strategies for keeping on an even keel. Play, nature, "unnecessary creating,' volunteerism, "artists dates," journaling, "morning pages"...
Jan 8 2013: I fully agree with you but the emotional baggage creates its own problems along with tiredness.
Jan 8 2013: You had asked about tiredness specifically, but the activities I mentioned above are put forward by their many proponents, along with yoga, writing gratitudes, and so forth, to address what you might call emotional baggage.
Anthony Robbins gives one of the TED talks arguably in this area, though not focusing on children,and Martin Seligman another. One might also consider Elizabeth Gilbert's talk on this point.
The most widely read blog in this area, if I am not mistaken, is called Zen Habits. The Greater Good Research Center at Berkeley has a Raising Happiness newsletter you might also find interesting for its focus on raising kids in an emotionally healthy way, though I know there is a wealth of material out there in this area. There is also a lot written about countering perfectionism, so your concern about those who aim to be the best is in good company!
Jan 8 2013: There are many, many experts who have solutions to removing the emotional baggage. I have improved the traditional way myself. Here is one of my paths to wisdom:
Self actualization through locating, identifying and awakening your true self.
The majority of us mankind suffer from an emotionally challenged brain; fortunately most Americans have borderline emotional baggage that projects an overconfident or under confident trophy self image. However the real self is always there and the trick is to locate your true self, identify with it and gradually strengthen and expand your true self's control over your self image. Eventually dissolving the phony self image into thin air and becoming your pure self.
Putting the emotional personality under the microscope from a third person's point of view is a fundamental technique of self improvement through self analysis. One must learn to identify with the so called third person as the person's own pure self. After all this assumed third person is none other than your very own self.
Thus the third person no longer is just an imaginary made up person viewing the emotionally challenged personality; it is the very real person himself who is doing the self analysis. Learn to identify with your true self and then with your true self observe your true self observing your phony self image. Observe and figure out why your true self is not free. Why you have fear, sleeplessness, anger, jealousy, greed or whatever etc. In short figure out what kind of emotionally challenged personality/self you are and what are the reasons stopping you from having an emotionally healthy/pure self.
The emotional baggage is the past emotional hurts and pains that are buried memory 'slaps' to the pure self. Once these unconscious hurts are relived and emotionally re-experienced under the watchful gaze of your true self they disappear faster. Of course as is always the case some may need professional help.Jan 8 2013: I am familiar with this sort of self-reflective approach. It's part of what those in education and psychology call metacognition. Cognitive and emotional self regulation through self reflection and self talk gets a lot of attention in schools here at around grade three through eight, which developmentally is the most important time for it. (The language is different, in the sense that no concept of the "pure self' is invoked).Jan 7 2013: Being tired reminds us of our humanity.
Read Isaiah 40:30-31
Gail .
Jan 7 2013: Your take on the mythical Adam & Eve story is very different from the text.
- +1
Adam & Eve were made in the image of god/the gods (both "I" as God and "we" as gods are used.) This means that Adam and Eve were gods. But when they judged good and evil (ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil) they lost their perspective, thus their ability to use their godly powers. At that point, they saw evil in themselves and each other, and in this way, came to fear death.
The Garden of Eden (the ability to be gods and not see evil) was protected from those who choose to see evil. The story does not say that you cannot re-enter the garden. It says that the way was blocked for those who reject their godliness. The only way to get back into the garden is to stop judging (perceiving) good and evil. The only way for a christian to do that is to walk through his/her fears. Fear is the flaming sword.
The way to help a child is to remind him/her of the birthright of godliness, and help them to see BEYOND silly superstitious notions of good and evil and "specialness" in that context.
If you teach a child that evil exists, and that the child is born with an inexorable seed of evil (that you can overcome but not remove by accepting some else's sacrifice as a ticket to heaven), you inflict gave damage on the child. The child grows up fearful. Those who are fearful cannot enter back into the garden/heaven because the way is blocked.
Those who dare face their fears, find their own inherent perfection, and realize that they actually are made in god's perfect image, can enter the garden.
Why do you think that Jesus talked often and much about "judge not"?
You would be amazed to know how many ex-christians have learned that Jesus is to be taken at his word (except the cut off your hands or pluck out your eyes part - which were obvious additions to his words.) Because of this, we have learned how to use our godly power. We are called evil by xtians because of this.
Jan 7 2013: "Why do you think that Jesus talked often and much about "judge not"?" Exactly right!
Before Satan, Adam and Eve were living the attributes of an emotionally healthy life. Satan introduced emotional sickness by making the brain emotionally challenged. Satan introduced emotional baggage in the form of conscious selfishness. Man changed into ignorance from wisdom. We parents do the same with our children. We introduce all the elements of ignorance by transforming our child into a trophy self image.
The rules are clear for creating wisdom. Postpone self identity as much as possible. Let the child enjoy post natal life engrossed in emotional and physical pleasure as much as possible. Let the child live in the now. Let the answer to the most vital question,'Who am I' get set into the physical brain innately'. Let the self identity of the child build up through love, hugs and kisses. Through a healthy upbringing and not by introducing a phony self image of the child being the best. This nurturing behavior must continue till the child reaches the age of six as the self identity of the child is well set by age six. Let the child learn its self identity effortlessly and innately by experiencing life through a super mature emotionally healthy upbringing.
The mistake we make is we think God made us into gods. He made us His image. It is like an apple in the mirror. The image of the apple is what he made not the apple!
Jesus is talking to us in code only because He wants to make sure we understand
Jan 7 2013: Well, there is no sense going on. YOu have filled the story with your imaginings so completely that it no longer makes sense.
Jesus didn't talk in Code. If you take Jesus at his word, you will find that he is saying something very different from that which your christian leaders want you to hear.
Curious that you use the word "code" to justify your calling jesus a liar.
Jan 8 2013: In the light of the latest research in neuroscience the bible and Jesus is proving to be true. Jesus talks about casting out evil. Evil in science terms is the emotional baggage. And to cure the emotionally challenged behavior the emotional baggage has to be cast out.
The more you put Jesus under the microscope of science the more you will see that Jesus is talking science!Jan 9 2013: Yes, In the light of the latest research in neuroscience the bible and THE TEACHINGS OF Jesus are proving to be true. Too bad that Christianity doesn't like the teachings of Jesus, preferring those of Paul instead. We could solve our world problems in a matter of months.
Jan 9 2013: It is amazing how our Bible experts have mostly missed the true message of the Bible.
The fundamental question that each person has to answer correctly is: 'Who am I?'
God has clearly told us the answer to this most essential question, 'Who am I?'
First, God is saying that He is Wisdom. He is Pure. As opposed to God having wisdom or God knowing wisdom.
God is also telling us that He has made man in God's Own Image. Which means that man too in his pure form is wisdom as opposed to man having wisdom or knowing wisdom.
Jesus has repeated again and again, in fact 83 times, that He is the 'son of man'. Jesus represents what is humanly possible. Jesus is telling us that we too can be like Jesus; pure and wise.
The question is how can man become wise/wisdom?
Note: it is about becoming wise, not having wisdom or knowing wisdom. The reason that our current wisdom education is a failure is because we make no attempt to becoming wisdom as we try to teach wisdom like we teach math and science. All that the current wisdom education does is make the student knowledgeable about wisdom. So man ends up having the knowledge of wisdom instead of becoming wisdom. Which means man with current wisdom education remains unwise while having the knowledge of wisdom. It is the same as man having the knowledge of what it means to be a millionaire while remaining poor; rather than becoming rich and being a millionaire.
It is very clear from the message of the Bible that man needs to be made into his pure self. As the pure self is effortlessly and innately not just wise; the pure self is wisdom. Pure man is exactly the way God made the original man and so wisdom education is about making man physically pure. In science terms it is about making the brain pure, which will project the pure self. A pure brain is an emotional baggage free brain. Thus wisdom education is brain therapy that cleans the brain of all emotional baggage.Jan 9 2013: We take different routes to the same end, but we do arrive at the same end. (I don't relive in God - unless God is "being" as opposed to "a" being).
But we do get to the same end.
Nice to know another wise person
Jan 9 2013: The more science figures out the mysteries of life the more evident it will become that the Word of God is what is telling us the mystery of life in the first place. Science is looking for answers that are already there in the Bible. My focus is trying to uncover wisdom. I have now over 1500 articles, blogs, papers and press releases on it. I am looking for partners like yourself. I have inventions, trademarks, and plans how to make the world wise on a mass scale. If you google, '4th r foundation' you can access my work.
Indeed we get to the same place. Science wants to understand the reality and religion is trying to tell us the truth. They both want to make life happy, healthy and successful.
Take wisdom, which is the equally essential half of human intelligence. Religion has an edge on wisdom but science ignores the religious knowledge on wisdom and is pursuing emotional intelligence; which is none other than wisdom at the super mature stage!Jan 9 2013: I would also add that rather than asking self "who am I", it might be more effective to ask "what am I"
Jan 9 2013: Asking questions from every possible angle is the right way. What am I is very important.
Science is working on solving the question, 'How the mind works'. I turned the question around to, 'Why the mind works the way it does?' I ended up with a US patented theory that explains the cause of human nature and has huge practical applications in philosophy,education and the mind sciences like life coaching, and various mind therapies!Jan 10 2013: I read some of your press releases. Well-written, but I disagree with essential parts. I think that your explanation makes it all too mystical. You essentially say that selfishness is the absence of wisdom, but I disagree. SELF-ishness (self-awareness) brings and end to ego and a beginning of a new way of life where we are powerful creatures who need fear nothing and manifest that which we want. Selfishness, on the other hand, empowers ego.
Selflessness is a meaningless word in the context in which I speak. It is not an act of selflessness to give up one's life on behalf of another, if one is self-aware. A SELF-ish person would simply manifest an alternative reality where the sacrifice was meaningless so it never happens. This is evidence of lack of ego. A belief in one's powerlessness is evidence of an ego in charge.
I could use Jesus' teachings to make my point, but I would have to go to the pre KJV texts to do so fully. Most people have never learned about them, and because they are so fundamentally different from current gospel texts, they are rejected by current christians.
Better than use a verifiably flawed source (Bible), there should be some experimental evidence to support the claims. I suggest proving the incredible POWER of the individual rather than the low EQ might be more effective.
Those who have discovered what you are touching on are not believers in "God". MANY are ex-christians. Perhaps most - I don't know. I just know that the ability to use one's power comes with either giving up on god or redefining the god-concept so that it is no longer a personality.
Use the word God and people will hear what they want to hear. There is no way around that. That's how communication works. It can work no other way.
Jan 10 2013: Please review the following: (please google)
Press Release - 4th R Foundation: Why is Wisdom Selflessness?
Selflessness does not mean powerlessness. It projects an authentic pure power that cannot be explained in words. It is a kind of supreme confidence with an innate awareness of being a part of the whole like a drop in and part of the ocean of consciousness. It is not even ego-less it is just a pure consciousness without any conscious identity.
The Bible is not flawed; it is just not understood correctly. You cannot blame the Bible for it's wrong interpretation. The power comes from correctly understanding God.Jan 7 2013: Good points guys, and as Pat just slightly alluded to - the laws of physics aren't going to be changed anytime soon. I've been enjoying Francis Fukayama's book on the origin of the political order. His book and other history books warn us about such things. I wonder if TED has ever had him give a talk - if not maybe it will.
Jan 7 2013: I wish the laws of education do change. Human intelligence is a compound of intelligence and emotional intelligence. We keep tweaking intelligence education while not only neglecting emotional intelligence education we actually make the emotional baggage worse for those students that come to the classroom with emotional baggage, we brand them as failures. Instead we need to train teachers to detect the emotional baggage in students and start to address it. In fact we should take the so called normal students and make them super normal through wisdom/emotional intelligence education.


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I've made a few bits of progress thus far. I picked up a Cayman driver's license yesterday. I also went grocery shopping two nights ago. And I started the car shopping process. Right now I think I'm leaning towards an Audi A3 but it isn't an overwhelmingly perfect car. I need to see exactly what I can pick it up for and then evaluate the situation from there. I am pretty sure that I'm going with a car though (see comments on my previous post).
I also took a few pictures. I don't really have any of the general island yet because I haven't had my camera with me on my few trips out around the island. These are of the apartment.
This is my TV setup in my room. It's a 23″ Apple cinema display that I brought from Costa Rica hooked up to a Mac mini and some hard drives.
This is my current "workstation" although I admittedly haven't gotten a ton done yet. It's pretty hard to work in that setup so I'm hoping to find a better solution soon. There isn't a good spot for me to put a desk. However, I am moving into my permanent apartment in a few months so it should get better by then for sure.
That's a picture of the grounds looking off the porch. It's pretty spectacular in my opinion. I need to go get goggles so I can swim some laps in the pool.


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Step 1:
Layout your materials on a large sheet cardboard.
Pull out approximately 6 feet of the painter's plastic and cut it forming a sheet 9 x 6 ft. It's important to have plastic that is 1/2 mil (12 microns) or thinner. Thicker plastic is too heavy to fly.
Fold the sheet in half along the 9 ft side forming a two-ply sheet 4.5 x 6 ft. Use a hot knife to seal the two 4.5 ft edges. An electric hot knife makes this really easy, but it can also be done with an old metal knife heated over a flame.
Check your edges and correct any large holes. A few small holes won't cause problems.
I found a "xmas tree bag" and its got me thinking :-) Extra big, white, and infinitely inflatable :-) I can see myself out in sub zero temperatures making a hot air balloon already! Fun Fun Fun!
I'm a High school student .I'm work About the physics of Paper (lanterns)hot air balloon
Please Help me for physics and make a Paper hot air balloon.
Especially About (physics of) Form this Paper hot air balloon.
We flew it on an almost windless day. It went up and drifted away.
I am glad it didn't start a fire in the woods.
Also we'll do them on a 'small' scale with swing bin liners.
If you substituted the candles for a VERY small weight, and used a non-attached hair-dryer as a heat source, you could have several on the go at once, with no fire hazard...not as fun without fire though...


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An abscess is a collection of pus in any part of the body that, in most cases, causes swelling and inflammation around it.
Abscesses occur when an area of tissue becomes infected and the body's immune system tries to fight it. White blood cells move through the walls of the blood vessels into the area of the infection and collect in the damaged tissue. During this process, pus forms. Pus is the buildup of fluid, living and dead white blood cells, dead tissue, and bacteria or other foreign substances.
Abscesses can form in almost any part of the body. The skin, under the skin, and the teeth are the most common sites. Abscesses may be caused by bacteria, parasites, and foreign substances.
Abscesses in the skin are easy to see. They are red, raised, and painful. Abscesses in other areas of the body may not be seen, but they may cause organ damage.
Types of abscesses include:
Often, a sample of fluid will be taken from the abscess and tested to see what type of germ is causing the problem.
Treatment varies, but often surgery, antibiotics, or both are needed.
Call your health care provider if you think that you may have any type of abscess.
Preventing abscesses depends on where they develop. For example, good hygiene can help prevent skin abscesses. Dental hygiene and routine care will prevent tooth abscesses.
Bolognia J. Infections, hyper- and hypopigmentation, regional dermatology, and distinctive lesions in black skin. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2011:chap 449.
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Led Zeppelin's "Celebration Day": "We Were So Happy We Were Actually Getting It Right"
The members of the band dodged questions about their future but seemed to enjoy each other's company, and took a lot of pride in their performance as captured in the film. Jimmy Page expressed relief that the show went as well as it did, saying the band was "uncomfortable" with their reunion performances at Live Aid (in 1985) and the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary Concert (in 1988).
The Rolling Stones' 50th Anniversary Continues With MoMa Film Exhibit
It's difficult to recall where you were last week, let alone 50 years ago. So for fans of the Rolling Stones who have been along for the ride over the last half century, The Rolling Stones: 50 Years on Film is a must-see exhibit.


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After listening to Kevin Henkes' Birds, and Mo Willems', There is a Bird On Your Head, we'll make our own bird in a nest craft.
Join the Committee, preview and take home soon to be published books, and give your opinion on which titles you would like us to purchase.
Mr. Bryce, and three guest readers, will entertain as stories are read in English and then again in Spanish (Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus), Polish (Elmer's Friends), and Italian (Fabirzio's Fable). A coloring activity will follow.
All ages welcome.
Create a colorful sunflower collage craft!
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As the U.S. considers a military strike in Syria, take a look at some of the key things to know about the conflict and the country, according to information gathered by CNN.
Where is Syria? Syria shares a border with Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. It covers 185,180 sqare kilometers, making it slightly larger than North Dakota, and has a population of 22.4 million.
The al-Assad regime is a family affair. Bashar al-Assad's father, then-Minister of Defense Hafez al-Assad, became president after staging a bloodless coup on Nov. 13, 1970. Hafez al-Assad's chosen succesor was his oldest son, Basil, but Bashar was instead groomed to take over when his older brother died in 1994. (Before his brother's death, Bashar al-Assad was in London training to be an opthamologist. Bashar al-Assad was elected president on July 10, 2000, a month after his father died.
The death toll keeps rising. As of August 2013, more than 100,000 Syrians have been killed in Syria's civil war, according to the United Nations.
Long list of nations have condemned violence. The ongoing violence against civilians has been condemned by the Arab League, the European Union, the United States, and other countries.
The rebels are outmatched. Early on in the Syrian conflict, reports surfaced that Hezbollah fighters were helping Syrian government forces. In May, the Lebanon-based Shiite militant group's leader confirmed it. While rebels have won territory in key areas, like northern Syria, they've had trouble purging out pockets of regime strongholds. The Syrian military's air power leaves them vulnerable. And the Syrian government's grip on many areas of the country is tight.
There are several different rebel groups. All told, estimates cited by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry say there are between 70,000 and 100,000 rebel fighters. An organization known as the Supreme Military Council, which formed late last year, now unites many rebel groups. For now, the rebels are working together to achieve a common goal -- toppling al-Assad's government. But if the regime falls, it's anyone's guess what will happen. Here's how one local Jabhat al-Nusra (a group affiliated with al-Qaida) front leader put it to CNN in April: "In the period after the regime falls, our main goal is to create an Islamic state that is ruled by the Koran. It can have civilian institutions, but not democracy. We look at the other Free Syrian Army rebels as one of many groups defending religion, so we support them. In the future, we will handle this differently."
The opposition didn't start out as a military movement. Peaceful protests against President Bashar al- Assad's government are how it all started in February 2011, after authorities arrested 15 schoolchildren for painting anti-government graffiti on the walls of a school in the city of Daraa. Syrian security forces opened fire at one demonstration, killing at least four protesters -- the first casualties, activists say, in Syria's civil war.
Protests quickly turned into violence. As anti-government protests spread across Syria that year, calls for reforms quickly escalated into calls for the removal of the entire al-Assad regime. In July 2011, seven Syrian military officers appeared in a YouTube video announcing their defection, calling themselves the "Free Syrian Army" and promising to wage guerrilla war against al-Assad.
Some rebel groups are closely allied with al-Qaida. Syria's al-Qaida wing is known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and it's been gaining a greater foothold. And analysts say al-Qaida's affiliate in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra, is generally the most effective force fighting al-Assad. The group's name means "Victory Front." It was listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department in December.
There are also a lot of local militias. Imagine the Minutemen during the American Revolutionary War, says Andrew Tabler, a senior fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "It's extremely complicated to deal with them because there are so may voices among the opposition," Tabler says. The rebel militias are composed in large part of defector soldiers. But there are also many civilians, including students, shopkeepers, real-estate agents, and even members of al-Assad's ruling Ba'ath party.
Number of extremists depends on who you ask. Syrian opposition leaders have regularly argued that extremists are a minority within their ranks. Kerry said this week that 15-25 percent of the rebels are extremists, but some U.S. lawmakers, including Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, have been skeptical of that number. How strong the extremists are also depends on what part of the country you look at. Islamist militia are widely believed to have dominant control in rebel-held areas in northern and eastern Syria.
Religion motivates many rebels. The rebels are largely made up of Sunni Muslims battling against al-Assad's minority Alawite sect, which is associated with Shia Islam. Weapons and funds from Iran's Shia rulers have helped the Syrian regime, while Sunni states like Saudi Arabia have reportedly supported Syrian rebels. That doesn't bode well for Syria's future. Studies have said religious civil wars are longer and bloodier than other types of clashes.
Not all rebels are Syrian. Thousands of foreign fighters are believed to have traveled to Syria to join the rebels since early 2011. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy estimates the total at between 2,000 and 5,500. That group includes hundreds of Europeans, the institute says. And there have also been reports of several people from the United States fighting with the rebels.
Rebels have been accused of abuses, too. "Armed opposition groups too have committed serious abuses, including summary killing and torturing captured security forces, militia members and suspected informers," Amnesty International said in a March report. A video posted online in May purported to show a well-known rebel fighter carving out a government soldier's heart, prompting the U.N.'s human rights chief to call for the "atrocious act" to be investigated as a potential war crime. In May, a U.N. official said evidence pointed to the use of the deadly nerve agent sarin by Syrian rebel forces, but the agency later said it "has not reached conclusive findings as to the use of chemical weapons in Syria by any parties to the conflict." In August, concerns over rebels' human rights record surged after The New York Times published a video showing armed rebels getting ready to execute seven captured government soldiers believed to have been recorded in 2012.
Refugee numbers are rising. The U.N.'s refugee agency reports that over 1.5 million Syrians have left their country to escape the war as of May 2013.
Economic sanctions are in place. The U.S. imposed financial sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and six other senior Syrian officials in May 2011, then expanded that to all Syrian government assets in the U.S., among other sanctions, a few months later. The European Union banned the import of Syrian oil, among other sanctions, in September 2011. The Arab League suspended Syria's membership in November 2011, and foreign ministers from 19 member countries announced sanctions the same month. Turkey implemented financial sanctions and other measures against Syria in November 2011.
Violence has hindered outside peace-keeping groups. On June 13, 2012, the U.N. Security Council has authorized up to 300 unarmed military observers for a 90-day mission in Syria, but the mission ended three days later due to intensifying violence. A team of U.N. weapons inspectors that arrived in Syria in August 2013 to begin an investigation into whether chemical weapons have been used during the civil war was fired on, but the team was able to complete its mission.
The Syrian government has been accused of using sarin nerve gas on its citizens.
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