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Things to do in Houston today, this weekend, with kids! February 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 2014
The Houston events calendar is full of fun things to do with the family!
I'm very excited for Detective Days at Bayou Bend. Last summer Alex told us about how much fun it was. The bonus now is that it's not too hot yet! Go to Bayou Bend on any day but Monday, park, cross the fantastic bridge and be given a scavenger hunt list of things to find on the property. The hunt is for kids ages 6 and older, but last year younger kids were able to get the same clip board and magnifying glass without an issue.
I'm also looking forward to the Heritage Family Day at the Heritage Society. This is a free events that with hands-on activities, crafts and refreshments. Kids will be able to learn how Houstonians lived after they began to build a city and create homes of their own.
The full list is below. To plan for Spring Break, go here for events March 8-14 and here for events March 15-23!
Go HERE to get this list delivered to your inbox each week.
Thursday, February 20, 2014:
Free Museum Entry
Children's Museum of Houston – FREE Thursday 5:00-8:00pm
The Health Museum – FREE Thursday 2:00-5:00pm
The John C. Freeman Weather Museum – FREE Thursday 12:00-4:00pm
Houston Museum of Natural Science – FREE Thursdays 3:00-6:00pm
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston – FREE Thursdays 10:00-9:00pm
Detective Days – 10:00-5:00pm – Bayou Bend
Groundbreaking Ceremony – 11:00-11:30am – Mandell Park
Junior Scientists: What's Alive? – 4:00-5:30pm – Nature Discovery Center
Friday, February 21, 2014:
Detective Days – 10:00-5:00pm – Bayou Bend
Saturday, February 22, 2014:
Detective Days – 10:00-5:00pm – Bayou Bend
Don Quixote – 11:00am- InterActive Theater
Dream of Doors – 3:30pm – Express Theatre
Sunday, February 23, 2014:
Heritage Family Day – 1:00-4:00pm – Heritage Society
Studio: Say Cheese! – 1:00-4:00pm – Museum of Fine Arts
Detective Days – 1:00-5:00pm – Bayou Bend
Monday, February 24, 2014:
Go HERE for free things to do any day of the week!
Tuesday, February 25, 2014:
Detective Days – 10:00-5:00pm – Bayou Bend
Curious Kids Preschool Science Class: Predators & Prey – 10:00-11:15am – Nature Discovery Center
Wednesday, February 26, 2014:
Detective Days – 10:00-5:00pm – Bayou Bend
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True folks in adult films – many of you may uncover this hard to feel, but this is a comparatively new idea. Commencing with the launch of Redtube.com in 2005, "Actual Sex" rapidly grew to become the consumer's decision over standard porn which dominated the sector for in excess of a century.
In excess of the final 4 years Australia has been drowned in "reality porn". From Youjizz.com to Porntube.com, there is no finish to list of internet sites to select from when hunting for amateur adult enjoyment. So I determined to do a little analysis, just to see what the fuss was all about.
Almost 3 weeks and 66 coffees later on I had rummaged by means of all the main web sites, taking notes along the way on what was good and undesirable about them all. What I found was fairly surprising. They all lacked the story behind the sex. So on one particular hand there was "classic porn" that advised a story, but was not genuine, and on the other hand there was "reality porn" which was real, but didn't tell a story.
So I set out on a mission to uncover out whether there was anyone…anywhere making films with both, true individuals and a story line. On my travels I only stumbled on a single company that was undertaking it, Comstock Films.
In the report Eyes Broad Open featured in the July 2007 concern of Oprah Winfrey's O Magazine, Violet Blue writes: "Comstock Films, maker of higher-quality, documentary-style, genuine-couples video clips, aggressively markets to women with the simple tagline "Girls really like real sex". Director Tony Comstock demonstrates what it seems to be like when two individuals who are in love have intercourse," says Blue. "It is beautiful—the antithesis of shapeless, boring porn in which absolutely everyone is just going through the motions."
Comstock Films creates films about intercourse – nothing a lot more and nothing significantly less. If you want to see the Television repair guy walking in on an unsuspecting busty blonde, you might want to look elsewhere. There is no airbrushing, no fake orgasms, and certainly no threesomes or orgies for that matter.
These videos inform a story about couples who are passionately in really like with every other, but which is not the best component. Viewers are in a position to watch these couples expand with each other, and locate out how they really feel about every single other through interviews and commentary ahead of viewing them make enjoy. This is groundbreaking stuff. The intimacy amongst these couples is all that issues. No units or unique methods are necessary as there are adoring connections amongst the couples in these films. And with such passion, no sex toys, Kama Sutra, or even sexy costumes are needed to intensify the movie.
Raw, actual sex – that's what Comstock Movies offers… with sizzling benefits.
How True Is Too Real?
Granted, sex with out all of the bells and whistles of traditional pornography can at times seem to be a tiny boring. Occasionally pornography turns into a more wildly sexual encounter due to the fact it delves into the realm of fantasy. Nevertheless, I believe that it can occasionally be tough to relate to the conventional porn films. If a guy or female wants to find a spouse related to the actors on the most current installment of "Debbie Does Dallas" they are going to have to start off frequenting some pretty questionable evening spots.
Genuine sex also has its mistakes, its missteps, and its flaws. Not every single movement is best, at times individuals aren't moving fully in sync, and often the couples are hesitant about becoming too risqué. Even so, as the couples move across the display, viewers understand that although the performances are not ideal – they're also not performers. The imperfections then turn into a big component of the film's realism, producing it all the more fulfilling. In the article "Sex Homework" featured in Women's Wellness in November 2006, genuine existence couple Stacey and Bryce said this about a single of the Comstock favorites, Xana and Dax, "It's a true couple getting intercourse. They looked like individuals we would know and be attracted to. We loved Xana and Dax simply because they're a actual couple, with real orgasms and a sincere admiration for each other. We watched it straight via, and even though we had been as tired as usual, we had sex correct after.
Why Real Lifestyle Needs A lot more Real Folks
75% of all Australian couples we interviewed believed that most pornography motion pictures they had watched appeared fake. They thought that the performers and their orgasms just weren't believable.
There is sufficient strain previously on males and girls to have 'perfect' intercourse, so why should the pornography industry market this unrealistic perfect? With Comstock Films, these that view the films see people just like them – imperfections and all.
Not only is this reassuring, but it's empowering. Seeing someone else with the exact same entire body variety or the very same wishes in the bedroom encourages the viewer to try new things for themselves, to see themselves as a possible porn star as effectively – even if they by no means pull out a camera.
Selecting Porn That Pleases
Men and women observe adult movies for any quantity of causes:
* For stimulation – There is no aphrodisiac like watching other folks have sex to set the mood. A hot adult film can occasionally get a man or female to a heightened state of arousal before sex guaranteeing an orgasm throughout intercourse.
* For bedroom tips – There are a lot of issues you can learn from viewing pornography. The use of sex toys for illustration can develop a total new dimension in the bedroom. Vibrators, dildos, and clitoral stimulators which are employed in a lot of adult films can supply that additional stimulation required to carry your partner to orgasm. Not to mention, these movies showcase a wealth of encounter in Kama Sutra and modern sexual positions.
* To enhance intimacy in a romantic relationship – Couples who watch porn with each other increase their intimacy by breaking down the false concept that pornography is by some means dirty or deviant.
Porn comes in a variety of shapes, sizes, and fetishes. But the one particular fetish that has not been explored as significantly as couples may like is the thought of true men and women getting genuine intercourse.
Thank goodness for Comstock Movies. The documentary design filming can make a viewer feel as even though they are peeking into a bedroom, much like their very own, and acquiring a private demonstrate.
By no means intrusive, although typically intimate, the genuine daily life intercourse films create a connection with the audience in methods that the above-glamorized pornography world are not able to.
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EMC To Acquire Pi Corporation, Developer of Personal Information Management Technology
Pi Founder and CEO Paul Maritz, a Former Microsoft Executive, to Lead EMC's New Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division
HOPKINTON, Mass., and SEATTLE, Wash. – Feb. 21, 2008 – EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Seattle-based Pi Corporation, a privately-held developer of software and provider of services for personal information management. With approximately 100 engineers located in the U.S., Canada and India, Pi develops software and online services to enable individuals to control how they find, access, share and protect their increasing volumes of digital information. Pi is in the process of beta testing its first products.
Joe Tucci, EMC President, Chairman and CEO, said, "The proliferation of information in the hands of consumers, businesses and organizations of all sizes has brought about massive digital information growth on a scale never imagined. As the leading provider of information infrastructure, we are positioned to set a new standard for organizing, accessing and deriving value from this information. Pi's technology is very complementary to our emerging cloud infrastructure strategy. Paul Maritz and his team will provide invaluable vision and leadership as we position EMC at the leading edge of cloud computing and personal information management."
Upon completion of the acquisition, Pi founder and CEO Paul Maritz, will join EMC's executive management team as President and General Manager of the newly formed Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division. Reporting to Joe Tucci, Maritz will continue to directly oversee development and operations for Pi, along with other key elements of EMC's cloud computing strategy, which include the EMC Fortress SaaS infrastructure, the Mozy online backup service and other upcoming EMC cloud infrastructure systems and software offerings under development. Pi will operate as an independent subsidiary of EMC and will continue expanding operations in its Seattle headquarters and other offices in Montreal, Canada, and Bangalore, India. Prior to founding Pi, Maritz spent 14 years working at Microsoft where he had broad development and marketing responsibilities and was a member of the Executive Committee that managed the overall company.
Maritz said, "By uniting the Pi team with a global technology leader like EMC, we'll be ideally positioned to realize our vision of allowing consumers and corporate information workers to create, repurpose, store, share and access personal information in novel ways, taking advantage of the ubiquity of computing power and a new interconnected world."
The acquisition of Pi will be an all-cash transaction and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2008. On a GAAP basis, EMC currently expects the acquisition of Pi will be dilutive by $.01 per diluted share in 2008. No further details of the transaction are being disclosed.
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.
Pi Corporation is a software company focused on creating better ways for people to organize, share and access their data. It was founded in late 2003 by Paul Maritz, a former Microsoft executive, and Warburg-Pincus of New York.
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Inside sports business
Brad Griffith was a paid "Moneyball" intern seeking hidden statistical player value for the Chicago White Sox when they won the World Series a decade ago.
Now, the founder and CEO of Gametime, a San Francisco-based mobile-phone application, sits in a Sodo District cafe explaining plans to capitalize on an undervalued part of an estimated $5 billion ticket-resale industry. Griffith, 36, a former Stanford volleyball player, calls Seattle's response to Gametime "our biggest surprise yet'' in the four months it's been here offering a simplified, handheld way to buy last-minute sports tickets — often below face value.
He proudly holds up his iPhone, displaying a Gametime interface with stadium maps from 35 markets and ticket listings for 150 MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, NCAA and MLS teams. A couple of finger-taps later, a Safeco Field display indicates the best Mariners seats being resold in every section, with high-resolution photographs of how the field looks from their location.
Gametime stores credit-card information, so another finger tap buys a seat and the phone is quickly sent a mobile-optimized ticket bar code that can be scanned directly at stadium entrances without printing it out.
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"In this case, your phone is your ticket,'' says Griffith, who launched the app nearly two years ago in a handful of markets. "You can be standing in line without a ticket and be through the gate 30 seconds later.''
That lets fans make impulse buys, up to an hour after a game starts. Competitors like ReplyBuy and The Experience App also offer handheld ticketing ability, but Gametime's high-res display and simplified purchase process set it apart.
Griffith hopes that simplicity does for ticket resale what Uber did for taxi users.
"Fans can now change plans and go to games at the last minute they otherwise wouldn't,'' Griffith says. "The easier you make it for them, the more likely they are to go.''
Ticket resale no longer involves "scalpers" selling in dark alleys. But today's legal, mostly online industry still forces buyers to often wade through hundreds of listings and confusing layers of brokers and aggregator sites.
The delivery system can also be problematic. Hundreds of Seahawks and Patriots fans discovered that at February's Super Bowl, when websites they'd purchased from weeks in advance failed to deliver promised tickets.
Griffith is really just another broker, but Gametime's bar-coding lets users get "tickets" immediately. And instead of listing hundreds of seats per game, Gametime curates the best "values" from each section according to location and price.
"We're pulling out the bad ones and leaving you with the good ones,'' Griffith says.
Ticket prices can often be cheaper than face value because they're often sold last minute when inventory becomes tougher to move.
Griffith says tech-savvy Seattle millennials have taken to the app.
"Seattle was like our 20th city we went with, but it's now our third largest in terms of volume,'' he says. "I find it's fascinating that Seattle has grown much faster than Chicago, New York or Boston.''
Mariners tickets were first offered on Gametime in March and about 400 per game are now sold. Sounders FC and upcoming Seahawks games are also now offered.
Griffith figures 80 percent of ticket purchases will be mobile within a few years and — armed with a recent $13 million influx of venture capital — wants to secure more of that "undervalued" market.
But many industry giants still view Gametime as a niche product.
Companies like StubHub have vast ticket inventories supplied partly via lucrative contracts with professional teams and leagues. But teams won't deal with just anyone and can employ tactics to squeeze out smaller resale companies.
"The Gametime App is part of the digital revolution that sports franchises and their sales staffs have not caught up to yet,'' says consultant Troy Kirby, director of Ticket Operations at UC Davis and keynote speaker at the upcoming Ticket Summit resale-industry convention in Las Vegas.
"You have big franchises across every league who are shutting off online sales or secondary sites, or creating ZIP code barriers to seating choices simply because they want to control a marketplace,'' he said.
Griffith says a handful of teams quietly supply him discounted blocks of tickets and he'd like a few more, but Gametime relies mostly on resale websites, individual brokers and select fans looking for help moving tickets. Gametime takes a 15 percent cut of any tickets sold.
Rather than focus on major deals with teams, Griffith's strategy is to keep getting couch potatoes out to the ballpark with "last minute" buys.
He's optimistic about growth chances, remembering how few believed in 2005 that the White Sox team he interned for was any good at statistical analysis or winning big.
Then, they won the World Series.
"No ring, but they gave me a watch,'' he says.
Somewhat fitting, given that his latest quest for hidden value in sports lies in saving ticket buyers as much time as possible.


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Basketry is made from a variety of fibrous or pliable materials—anything that will bend and form a shape. Examples include pine straw, stems, animal hair, hide, grasses, thread, and fine wooden splints.
Indigenous peoples are particularly renowned for their basket-weaving techniques. These baskets may then be traded for goods but may also be used for religious ceremonies.
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Area Action Plan Education Workshop 17th March Oak Tree Community Centre
There is another planning workshop open to all to discuss education in Stamford Hill could improve on Thursday 17th March at the the Oak Tree Community Centre Ltd, 77 Bethune Rd, London N16 5ED starting at 6.30pm and finishing at 8.00pm.
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Sometimes my tummy gets an attitude. It doesn't care what I'm doing or what I have planned for dinner, it reminds that I am hungry NOW. On days when the hunger monster in me rises up, I try to make food that will take me less than ten minutes from prep to done because waiting really isn't an option. OM nom nom.
Last night my hunger monster visited. So did stuffed husband's. They're a pair, those two piggies. Made for each other I'd say. In any case, I decided to make NACHOS! I threw this recipe together about a month ago and found it was HEAVEN both in terms of taste and ease. Here's what you'll need…
- 1 bag corn tortilla chips
- 1 can refried beans
- 1 can diced tomatos
- 1 can sliced jalapenos
- 1 can chicken
- 8 0z. shredded cheese
- Sour Cream for dipping
Start by setting your oven to broil. Follow by grabbing a baking sheet. Line it with aluminum foil. This makes clean up easier on that guy you married.
Next, place a layer of corn tortillas onto your baking sheet. Be generous and try not to leave too many empty spaces. Eating chips while you do this will both increase the quality of your cooking and the size of your waist.
Now add a layer of refried beans evenly across the plane. Be sure to get each chip so that every bite has all the yummy flavors in the mix.
Follow by adding your drained dice tomatoes over the plane.
Break up the chicken and distribute evenly. Don't be afraid of canned chicken. I used to be a frightened little weenie as well. It's so easy to use, very cheap, and when it is mixed in with other ingredients you can hardly even tell the difference between fresh and canned. TRY IT!
The smell will already have you weak in the knees. Plus you're only minutes away from nachos now! Sprinkle a generous coating of shredded cheese over every inch of this Pollock-like piece of art!
Now pop this bit of heaven on earth into the oven, set to broil, for about 5 minutes. Keep an eye on it to prevent scorching. No one likes a burnt nacho.
DISCLAIMER: Please ignore my seriously dirty oven. It's on my list of things I need to do but never get around to because I'm a major procrastinator and would rather eat nachos while playing scrabble with stuffed husband. See, I feel better already. Thanks for listening.
After five minutes, you get nacho-heaven. Throw on a few jalapenos for good measure.
Give thanks. Stuff your mouth.
Stuffed husband likes to add sour cream to his nachos.
I try not to laugh when I catch him like this… (TRY being the key word)
He even tried to share with Chloegirl (my lil piggie)
Bellabug was too tired from studying to care.
The next time you need a quick, fun, and SUPER yummy recipe, try making Lick-itty Split Nachos. You won't be sorry! And your hunger monster won't complain either.
Find the printable recipe here!
Peace, love, and lick-itty split nachos~


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World TB Day – how ZEISS is supporting the fight against tuberculosis
Ten years of the tuberculosis test microscope ZEISS Primo Star iLED
Besides Robert Koch's 1882 discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis, ZEISS contributed another substantial technology to the battle against infectious diseases ten years ago: ZEISS Primo Star iLED – the tuberculosis test microscope.
How it all started
ZEISS Primo Star iLED is the result of cooperation between ZEISS and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND). Through the targeted promotion of diagnostic innovations, the Swiss foundation FIND has set itself the target of combating the spread of dangerous infectious diseases. In 2008, ZEISS introduced Primo Star iLED at the Union Conference in Paris. The microscope was developed specifically for tuberculosis (TB) test applications and based on the powerful routine microscope ZEISS Primo Star. From this moment on, fluorescence microscopy for efficient tuberculosis detection became affordable. ZEISS Primo Star iLED is offered at a particularly favorable price to public health services customers in high burden countries. Initially, 22 countries defined by the WHO as countries with high burden of TB had been on the list to get the favorable price. However, ZEISS extended this list with additional countries to support the global fight against TB. Now more than 80 countries worldwide receive support from ZEISS with special pricing conditions.
"The WHO and other organizations fighting TB are extremely hopeful that a robust and powerful fluorescence microscope will make it possible to improve TB testing, especially in the case of HIV-infected patients", says Prof. Dr. Dr. Knut Feldmann, President of the "Tuberculosis in the World" Foundation, Medical Director and Head of the Munich Gauting Pneumology Clinic for many years, and Advisor to the WHO and Secretary of the Bacteriology/Immunology Section of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
In 2017, ZEISS was appointed as a preferred supplier for the initiative "STOP TB" aimed at fighting tuberculosis for the second time.
Fast and reliable fluorescence microscopy
ZEISS Primo Star iLED is the flexible solution for tuberculosis test applications with LED fluorescence excitation and transmitted-light brightfield illumination. Its fluorescent excitation causes mycobacteria stained with Auramine-o or Rhodamine to light up greenish yellow in front of a dark background. You use the 40x objective lens of ZEISS Primo Star iLED and detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis up to four times faster than when using brightfield. Using brightfield, you look for mycobacteria stained with Ziehl-Neelsen dye, using a 100x oil immersion objective lens. The microscope allows you to simply switch between the two modes.
In this video tutorial Dr Harald Hoffmann, Head of Institute for Microbiology and Laboratory Diagnostics, Asklepios Kliniken, Munich Gauting, Germany, demonstrates how to stain smear preparations for diagnosis of tuberculosis with fluorescence microscopy and ZEISS Primo Star iLED:
Even though other technologies, such as gene-based tests at the point of care, are available today, microscopy still remains the gold standard in lab diagnostics. The possibility to easily switch between modes saves valuable time. Thanks to the long-life light-emitting diodes, the running costs are reduced. And the microscope can be run on batteries for many hours and therefore needs hardly any electricity.
"ZEISS Primo Star iLED is the much longed-for answer to the most pressing problems faced by tuberculosis in our partner countries", concludes Hoffmann.
One of the latest developments is so-called digital connectivity service in global health. With ZEISS Primo Star iLED plus the ZEISS camera and imaging software Labscope, you can connect your microscope with a network, create images on your iPad or iPhone and share your findings with your colleagues in the central labs.
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Operating System Management
How much time do you spend on operating system (OS) maintenance…and does it add value to the overall business strategy?
Your operating system manages your resources and provides common services for your applications, so it's key to overall system availability. But managing it to your expectations can take time away from more business-critical initiatives.
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I wrote a few days ago that hubby sat me down, asked me about our bills and debts. I was happy. I thought he got it. Yay!
Today, all of this came down. He got a will kit a few days ago from his work. He couldn't pay for it then, so agreed with his boss that he would when he gets paid next week. He calls me today saying that his boss told him he had to pay for it before next Monday. He's broke (what else is new?) and wants to charge it on my credit card (balance is $5,100 right now and I keep telling him that it's WAY TOO HIGH and I want it GONE!!). I say "No!".
Then I thought: he has a credit card. The limit is only $1,000, but why isn't he using that?
Well, guess why he's not using it? Yes, it's maxed out!!
We've had a gazillion talks about credit cards. He's bad with money, he knows it, I know it. I hate the fact that he has a card because I know he can't manage it properly. He was so happy when he got approved for this one. This meant his credit score and report were almost back to normal. He told me it was his responsibility and he was going to prove to me that he could do it. yaddi... yaddi... yadda... I should have known better.
One of his argument was that it wasn't fair that I have a card and he doesn't. He can't picture himself without a card. I can't make him understand that "you don't have to have a credit card" and that "if you can't afford it, don't buy it".
I want him to give me both cards (mine and his). We're going to have a huge fight over this. I am not looking forward to it tonight.
This is so frustrating...
So much for the breakthrough!!
I wrote a few days ago that hubby sat me down, asked me about our bills and debts. I was happy. I thought he got it. Yay!
7 Responses to "So much for the breakthrough!!"
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May 17th, 2007 at 11:36 amThis may sound harsh, but your balance is over five times what his is, so it sounds like you both have challenges.
May 17th, 2007 at 11:38 amI totally agree Stein... In my defense, most of the charges on it are from him, not me.
May 17th, 2007 at 11:39 amhow frustrating!!! hopefully this CC talk won't be all bad. maybe you could suggest that you both lock up all of your cards/cut them up? that way he won't bother asking for yours when his is gone!
May 17th, 2007 at 08:07 pmWhat about one of those pre-paid card, you know the ones you can't charge if there are no funds; maybe this will help
Hope things works out for you and by the way I love your clock , I think I will add one to my blog
May 18th, 2007 at 08:11 amFirst of all, "fairness" has nothing to do with credit cards. It's about earning the right to carry one through responsible spending and payment patterns.
What exactly is a "will kit" and why would it cost $5,000??? Getting a will drawn up by an attorney costs a few hundred. I must be misinterpreting this.
May 18th, 2007 at 08:36 amAmber - that is actually a great idea. I will look into that today.
yes, Fern... the will kit does not cost $5,000 ($4,800 now actually). The credit card balance is at that. The kit itself costs about $20.
May 19th, 2007 at 06:45 amgood luck


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By Shua Garfield
On July 14, federal environment minister Peter Garrett approved the construction of the Four Mile uranium mine, 550 km north of Adelaide. Along with the three uranium mines currently in operation — Olympic Dam and Beverley in South Australia and Ranger on the Northern Territories — and the Honeymoon mine now under construction in SA, Four Mile will bring Australia's total number of uranium mines to five.
Four Mile mine is a joint venture of Alliance Resources, a Melbourne-based company which will own a 25% share of the mine, and Quasar Resources, based in Adelaide, which will own the remaining 75% share and manage the mine. Quasar is owned by General Atomics, a San Diego-based weapons and nuclear energy company which, according to the July 16 Sydney Morning Herald, holds $877 million in Pentagon contracts and whose billionaire chair, James Neale Blue, "helped devise the Predator unmanned aircraft being used in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq".
Garrett's July 14 media release announcing the approval of the mine said that it highlights "the Australian Government's commitment to world best practice environmental standards". Garrett was quoted in the July 14 Herald Sun as being sure that the new mine "poses no credible risk to the environment." But the recent history of uranium mining in Australia makes a mockery of the government's supposed "commitment to world best practice environmental standards" and suggests that the environment is not just being "credibly risked", but actually damaged by the uranium mines already in operation.
Four Mile mine will be constructed 8 km from the Beverley mine, owned by Heathgate Resources — which is also owned by General Atomics. Waste from Four Mile will be processed at Beverley. Sydney Morning Herald environment reporter Ben Cubby wrote on July 16 that: "The Beverley mine … has recorded 59 spills of radioactive material in the past decade, according to the South Australian Department of Primary Industries and Resources." The largest include a "spill of 62,000 litres of contaminated water in January 2002 after a pipe burst, and the spill of 15,000 litres of contaminated water in May 2002", according to an October 2006 article by Jim Green, national nuclear campaigner for Friends of the Earth — Australia (FoE).
According to Green, the frequency of spills at Beverley is in part due to its use of the acid in-situ leach (ISL) technique, a technique that Four Mile and Honeymoon will also use. The ISL technique involves pumping an acidic solution (usually sulphuric acid) into wells or groundwater bores in uranium ore deposits. Green writes: "This dissolves the uranium ore and other heavy metals and the solution is then pumped back to the surface. The small amount of uranium is separated at the surface. The liquid radioactive waste — containing radioactive particles, heavy metals and acid — is simply dumped in groundwater … [T]he radionuclides and heavy metals are now bioavailable and mobile in the aquifer." Monash University hydrogeologist and environmental engineer Gavin Mudd wrote in a 2007 article published by FoE that: "The aquifers in the vicinity of Honeymoon are known to be connected to aquifers used by local pastoralists to water stock."
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The recent records of Australia's other currently-operating uranium mines do little to add confidence that Four Mile will not pose a "credible risk to the environment". The Olympic Dam mine, operated by BHP Billiton near the town of Roxby Downs, is located on the world's largest known uranium deposit. Olympic Dam's tailings — which now amount to 100 million tonnes and which are growing by 10 million tonnes per year — are stored above ground. According to a summary of the mine's environmental problems published by FoE in May: "The tailings contain a toxic, acidic soup of radionuclides and heavy metals. There have been numerous spills and leaks — most significantly in 1994, when it was revealed that about three billion litres had seeped from the tailings dams over two years.
"The problems have not been resolved. Photos taken by an Olympic Dam mine worker in December 2008 show radioactive tailings liquid leaking from the rock 'armoury' of the tailings 'retention' system. The leaks were ongoing for at least eight months and probably amounted to several million litres, but were not publicly reported by BHP Billiton or the SA government. BHP Billiton said that mine workers taking and releasing photos of the mine would be subject to 'disciplinary action'.
"Large numbers of bird deaths have been recorded in the vicinity of the evaporation ponds — over 100 deaths in one four-day period in 2004. BHP Billiton says 'several measures used to deter fauna from visiting the Tailings Storage Facility over the past decade have met with varying degrees of success, but none have resolved the issue.'" Olympic Dam extracts 37 million litres of water from the Great Artesian Basin every day which, according to Green's October 2006 article "has adversely impacted on the fragile ecology, including unique Mound Springs fed by the underlying basin."
Australia's other currently-operating uranium mine, Ranger — operated by Energy Resources of Australia (ERA), which is majority-owned by Rio Tinto — is located in the Kakadu wetlands of the Northern Territory. According to Green, since it opened in 1981, it "has generated over 30 million tonnes of tailings waste, and there have been more than 120 documented leaks, spills and licence breaches". Green documents some of the worst cases: "In the 1998-99 wet season, high uranium concentrations in water discharged into the Coonjimba and Magela Creeks was discovered. Contaminated water was released into the creeks for three subsequent seasons before the problem was addressed.
"Between December 1999 and April 2000, an estimated two million litres of tailings water containing high levels of manganese, uranium and radium escaped from a broken pipe and the Restricted Release Zone. ERA failed to comply with its reporting responsibilities. One incident which attracted widespread attention occurred in 2004, where 150 workers were exposed to drinking water containing uranium levels 400 times greater than the Australian safety standard."
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Despite the history of environmental damage wreaked by uranium mining in Australia, its promoters have attempted to portray uranium as a "clean" alternative to fossil fuels for electricity generation. Quasar's website features the slogan "clean energy for the world". The claim that nuclear power is "clean" is based on the fact that the fission of uranium and plutonium — unlike the burning of coal, oil or gas — releases energy without producing carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases (GHGs) which lead to global warming. But while nuclear fission produces no GHGs, it does produce radioactive waste and material that could potentially be used in nuclear weapons — the implications of which could be as apocalyptic as global warming.
To meet the world's current electricity demands with nuclear power would require at least a six-fold increase in nuclear power generation. This would lead to the annual production of around 80,000 tonnes of high-level radioactive waste, which remains dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years. No long-term repository for high-level nuclear waste exists anywhere in the world.
A six-fold expansion of nuclear power, using current technologies, would also lead to the production of 420 tonnes of plutonium per year — sufficient for 42,000 nuclear weapons, each powerful enough to destroy a small city. Former US Vice President Al Gore said in May 2006 that: "For eight years in the White House, every weapons proliferation problem we dealt with was connected to a civilian reactor program. And if we ever got to the point where we wanted to use nuclear reactors to back out a lot of coal ... then we'd have to put them in so many places we'd run that proliferation risk right off the reasonability scale."
Despite claims by the Rudd government that it wants to see stricter compliance with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT), Australia sells uranium to "declared" nuclear weapons states — the US, UK and France — which have failed to fulfil their NPT obligation to "pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament". The US, for example, spends US$40 billion a year to field, maintain and modernise nuclear weapons, including an arsenal of 10,000 warheads, 2000 of which are on hair-trigger alert. Proposed exports to the "declared" nuclear-armed states of Russia and China are similarly problematic. Australian uranium is also exported to South Korea, even though nuclear weapons research projects were secretly carried out there from the 1980s until 2000, in violation of Seoul's commitments under the NPT.
A solution to climate change?
A nuclear power plant takes approximately 10 years to build. An expansion of nuclear power on the scale required to replace all fossil fuel-fired electricity generation would take several decades and would quickly deplete the world's easily-recoverable uranium reserves. But, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies director James Hansen, the rapid phasing out of coal-fired power stations needs to begin within the next decade if we are to have a chance of returning atmospheric GHG concentrations to safe levels. Thus, nuclear power cannot currently provide a realistic solution to the problem of GHG emissions.
Meanwhile a number of renewable energy sources are available for immediate utilisation. Proponents of nuclear power claim that renewables cannot provide sufficient power to replace fossil fuel-fired power generation. The promise of "clean" nuclear power — along with "clean" coal — is used by the owners of mining and power corporations to discredit or divert attention from renewables as a solution.
However, an article published in the July 7 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA by Xi Lu from Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Science, Michael McElroy from Harvard's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Juha Kiviluoma from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, paints a very different picture. Assimilating wind data from thousands of meteorological stations, they calculated that "a network of land-based 2.5 megawatt wind turbines restricted to non-forested, ice-free, nonurban areas operating at as little as 20% of their … capacity could supply [more than] 40 times current worldwide consumption of electricity [and more than] 5 times total global use of energy in all forms." According to a 2005 report to the Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development by five CSIRO Energy Technology Division scientists, if solar radiation were "harnessed by existing technology, approximately 1.5 per cent of the world's desert area could generate the world's entire electricity demand".
But under capitalism, it is the profit motive, not rational planning, which determines investment decisions. According to the July 14 Herald Sun, Australian uranium oxide exports are already worth $900 million per year. With the governments of India and China planning to quadruple their nuclear energy capacity by 2020 and with Australia holding 30% of the world's uranium ore, Australian capitalists are drooling over the opportunities to expand exports.
The Four Mile and Honeymoon mines are just part of this expansion drive. Applications for exploration licences are increasing in number and some of these will inevitably lead to applications to construct new mines. Garrett approved the expansion of Beverley in August 2008. On July 20, the Australian Mining website reported that the NT and federal governments have given ERA approval for further drilling and exploration at the Ranger site.
BHP Billiton is currently seeking approval to expand Olympic Dam. While Olympic Dam currently uses underground mining, BHP plans to convert it into an open-cut mine by digging a 14.4 cubic km pit. This would make Olympic Dam the largest open cut mine in the world and would increase annual uranium exports from the mine from 4500 tonnes to 19,000 tonnes. The accumulation of tailings would accelerate almost six-fold, to 58 million tonnes per year. Extraction of water from the Great Artesian Basin would increase to 42 million litres per day.
Radioactive racism
As well as damaging the natural environment, Australian mining companies have also been at the vanguard of the Australian ruling class' unrelenting drive to dispossess and quash the rights of the continent's indigenous peoples. Four Mile's neighbour, Beverley, is one of the worst recent examples. The opening of the Beverley mine in 2000 followed years of divide-and-rule tactics used by Heathgate against the Adnyamathanha traditional owners. Adnyamathanha woman Jillian Marsh explained in a submission to a 2002-03 Senate inquiry how Heathgate "deliberately chose to consult privately with several individuals … knowing fully that these individuals could not possibly be representative of the entire Adnyamathanha community (some 2000 people or more)".
Only one public meeting was held to "facilitate consultation with the wider Adnyamathanha community", according to Marsh, but it "was held under appalling conditions. [Heathgate] censored the entire meeting with the assistance of Graham Gunn (local member of Parliament) and the State Police. One Adnyamathanha man that stood up and asked for an independent facilitator from the floor to be elected was immediately escorted by two armed Police holding him on either side (by his arms) to the outside of the building. The Police took this action at the request of Graham Gunn, who had been appointed by Heathgate Resources to chair the meeting.
"The meeting was orchestrated to intimidate people … [N]o Adnyamathanha were allowed to hold the floor, no person from the floor was allowed to facilitate, and when attempts were made to raise issues that challenged the company or the mining proposal, Heathgate employees savagely intimidated these people … It was clear on the day that this meeting was intended as a one-way information session where the company, Heathgate Resources told the community what they intended to do …
"A public protest held at the mine site shortly after", at which police used pepper spray against an 11 year old Adnyamathanha girl, "became subject to a recent investigation that found Police brutality unnecessary and inappropriate." The 2003 Senate committee report on uranium mining recognised "evidence of inadequate consultation", noting evidence that Indigenous-Heathgate negotiations were characterised by "intimidation rather than collaboration". But the pattern of abuse continues — Adnyamathanha community members have alleged "that their voices have not been heard during negotiations for the Four Mile uranium mine" according to a July 15 ABC news report.
Mass movement needed
Much criticism of the approval of the Four Mile mine — and of other environmentally destructive projects which Garrett has approved since the Rudd government was elected — has focused on decrying Garrett as a "sell out". In his career as singer for rock band Midnight Oil, Garrett sang numerous songs critical of mining companies, the nuclear industry and the dispossession of Aboriginal people. He also spent two stints as president of the Australian Conservation Foundation in 1989-93 and 1998-2004 and was on the international board of Greenpeace from 1993-95. Thus his pro-uranium decisions are certainly a betrayal of the values that Garrett still claims to "hold dear". However, an excessive focus on blaming Garrett for the Four Mile mine approval risks letting the capitalist system, to which Garrett has abjectly prostituted himself, off the hook.
The capitalist media, politicians and reformist environmental activists often promote "working within the system" of pro-capitalist political parties as a better strategy for achieving progressive change than building independent movements. Garrett — whose decades of environmental and Indigenous rights activism was always within the reformist framework — took this to its logical conclusion by joining one of the Australian ruling class' political parties and pursuing a parliamentary career, supposedly to try to influence Labor to be more pro-environment. But there are no long-term career prospects in pro-capitalist politics for those unwilling to do the bidding of the capitalist ruling class — which the mining industry is a powerful component of in Australia. Garrett's sell-out was the result of working within a system designed to maintain the power and privileges of a tiny, wealthy minority.
Victories for the anti-nuclear and environment movements have come not from individuals working within the capitalist power structures, but through building movements independent of these structures. It was mass protest and rank-and-file trade union action that pushed the ALP to adopt anti-uranium mining policies in 1977. However, by the time the Hawke Labor government was elected in 1983, this movement had subsided and fragmented, with many of its leaders being coopted into electoral campaigning and lobbying. This enabled the ALP to abandon its anti-uranium mining policy in favour of the "three mines policy" in 1984, which allowed the uranium mines then operating in Australia to continue. Thus, the uranium industry survived and in 2007, Labor finally abandoned opposition to new uranium mines.
The only significant victory for the anti-nuclear movement in Australia since the 1970s came in 2005, when ERA was forced to scrap plans for a uranium mine at Jabiluka. This was won, not under a Labor government, but under the Howard Coalition government, by a sustained mass campaign, led by the Mirrar people in collaboration with environmentalists throughout Australia, a campaign that included street protests, blockades and occupations. However, as the Four Mile mine approval shows, any progressive victory can only be counted as temporary and vulnerable to reversal as long as the capitalists economically and politically rule society.


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