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The Indonesian fires blanketed the entire region with haze and emitted more carbon dioxide than the U.S. Here is a good summary. I know you are busy and you probably will not devote 31 minutes of your time to watching something that might impact negatively your country and you. Please look at least at the first 10 minutes of this hard-hitting Coconut TV program. At nine minutes and 41 seconds you will hear about personal threats and thugs sent to dissuade activists from ever mentioning the criminals who run the largest Indonesian racket and pay off the government officials. These criminals work for several large corporations controlled by other nations, mostly rich Western democracies. In many ways, they represent you and me, and our pension plans. And so it goes...
|An image taken from NASA's Terra satellite on Sept 24, 2015, shows smoke from fires in Indonesia over the coasts of Borneo and Sumatra. I used similar images from the same satellite at the OECD meeting in 2007.
Eight years ago, I gave an impassioned speech at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Ministerial Round Table in Paris. I also left a paper manuscript, and told the hapless, unimaginative European bureaucrats that the burning of Indonesia and equatorial Africa is our problem that can be quantified from satellite images. Surprise, surprise! The glossy-paper manuscript disappeared within two hours grabbed by everyone in the room. It was the most popular publication of the conference, I was told. Of course almost nothing has been done since then to address the problem of environmental degradation of Africa and Asia Pacific and the ensuing massive human migration that has already begun.
Since 2007, the list of transnational corporations that eat alive Indonesia and many other places has been growing longer by the year. These corporations give us cheap soybeans from Brazil and Argentina and palm oil products from Indonesia, Malaysia, and equatorial Africa. We then devour the planet without ever thinking about it. Got lipstick? Want a hamburger?
The current mythology does not allow most to even see the problem in all its seriousness and complexity. The standard free-market line is: "Oil palm plantations in Indonesia create jobs, perhaps 6 million jobs." Yes, true, but these six million people and their families will not want to live in a devastated country, surrounded by pollution and starvation. Lack of tropical forest cover will exacerbate the effects of global warming more that the current giant emissions of carbon dioxide from burning peat and wood.
China's experiment in exchanging their environment for cities and money is sputtering out as I am writing these words. In their zeal to pursue unchecked capitalism, Chinese rulers forgot that first people breathe, drink, and eat, and only then they watch TV or buy things on the internet. In other words, we are a part of the environment, not the other way around, as our insane current narrative would have it. An unhealthy damaged environment means no highly organized humans societies, just roaming gangs and warlords. Please look at the broader Middle East after 4000 years of agricultural civilizations. But that's a completely different story...Or is it?
P.S. 11/12/2015. As serendipity would have it, my dear friend, Dr. Charlie Sing, the just retired human geneticist from Ann Arbor, Michigan, emailed me an essay by another dear friend, Wendell Berry, a famous American poet, writer, and philosopher. Here is one of many possible quotations pertinent to this blog:
"...But once greed has been made an honorable motive, then you have an economy without limits. It has no place for temperance or thrift or the ecological law of return. It will do anything. It is monstrous by definition."
Wendell Berry, "Faustian Economics, Hell hath no limits," Harper's Magazine/May 2008, page 36.
In 2008, Wendell was thinking the same thoughts as I did after a five-year quest against biofuels and planetary destruction. In August 2008, I resigned my Berkeley faculty position after concluding that my beloved university went mad. In 2007, Berkeley signed a 500 million dollar Faustian bargain with BP to fund a new Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI). This genetically-modified switchgrass-for
-biofuel Institute was headed by a Monsanto representative, Dr. Chris Somerville, who was hired by Berkeley's Chancellor with no consultation with the Academic Senate. After more than 5 years of happy activities, EBI delivered nothing - as science predicted at the onset - and the BP funding stopped.
Otherwise, almost nothing has changed since then, only the universal destruction of ecosystems has progressed nicely, just in time to amplify the negative effects of global warming. In the next blog, I will comment on us, the human pack-men and other monsters trashing the planet everywhere.


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For a Republican who once called himself a "head-banging conservative," Jeb Bush has said some surprisingly nice things about President Obama lately.
He endorsed Obama's proposed trade deal with Asia. He praised Obama's tough policies on terrorism, including the National Security Agency's collection of bulk data. He called on balky Republicans in Congress to confirm Obama's new attorney general, Loretta Lynch. He even applauded Obama for tightening sanctions on Iran, although he also criticized the president for making concessions in nuclear negotiations.
"I'm not a big Obama fan, but when he does something right, we need to give him credit," he told an audience in Denver.
Those aren't Bush's only departures from conservative orthodoxy. On immigration reform, the former Florida
governor still thinks immigrants who entered the country illegally should eventually get a path to citizenship. He continues to defend the Common Core
education standards, even though right-wingers loathe them as "Obamacore." And he told voters in New Hampshire that he backs international negotiations to reduce carbon emissions.
All that moderation has pushed hard-line conservatives toward some head-banging of their own.
"Why would Jeb Bush say this?" radio host Rush Limbaugh fumed after Bush spoke in favor of the Lynch nomination. Limbaugh's answer: "He's not a conservative."
"Why don't we just call it quits, and Jeb and Hillary can run on the same ticket," jibed Laura Ingraham, another radio host.
"A lot of people are noticing," Erick Erickson, founder of the conservative website RedState, told the Washington Post. "He has said in the past he is concerned about the tone and rhetoric of the primary season, but I think he has overcorrected to the point of sounding more closely aligned to the president than Hillary Clinton."
GOP voters seem wary of Bush too. At a recent town hall meeting in New Hampshire, a voter asked whether he was a RINO — a Republican in name only.
"My record is a conservative one," Bush replied. "It's an I'm-not-kidding conservative one."
That's true. Bush favors lower taxes, fewer regulations and a smaller federal government than Hillary Rodham Clinton or any other leading Democrat. He's trimmed his sails on immigration reform and now calls for tougher border enforcement as a first step before opening a path to citizenship. He's criticized Obama for cutting defense spending, for relaxing economic sanctions on Cuba and for being too diffident on foreign policy in general. Still, unlike his rivals in the Republican presidential race, Bush gets asked to prove his ideological credentials almost every day.
One of Bush's problems, of course, is that the GOP has moved well to the right since the days when he was slashing budgets in Florida. When Bush left the governor's office in 2007, the tea party movement was three years in the future and Ted Cruz was an obscure Texas lawyer.
His other problem is one of tone: At gatherings for potential GOP candidates, like the one in New Hampshire this month, he sounds like a visitor from an earlier era, when politicians occasionally praised their opponents. It's as if Bing Crosby turned up at a Slayer concert. (OK, that's unfair. It's as if James Taylor turned up at a Slayer concert.)
Bush knows this. "Perhaps moderate in tone is misinterpreted as moderate in core beliefs," he acknowledged recently.
But it's who he is. Like cutting the budget, it's a matter of conviction, and maybe of breeding.
"The person that doesn't agree with you, they may be wrong and you may disagree with them, but do it with civility," he told that voter in New Hampshire. "It's not that their motives are bad; it's just that they have bad ideas."
A serious politician, he said, shouldn't try to win an ideological war; he should try "to rebuild personal trust" and "forge consensus."
The question is whether Bush's civility will turn his presidential campaign into a suicide mission. After six years of the Obama presidency, many Republicans — not only the ones on talk radio — want a fighter, not a lover. Polls by the Pew Research Center have found that most conservatives want their leaders to stand by the party's principles, not to compromise with the other side. (Liberals break the opposite way, in favor of compromise.)
There's a path for Bush to win the GOP nomination, beginning in New Hampshire, whose contrary voters often embrace civility. It helps that independents can vote in the GOP primary there.
The path requires Bush to win solid support from a silent majority of non-tea-party Republicans, who make up a little more than half of the party. It probably requires several of the more conservative candidates — Scott Walker, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz — to knock each other out. (That's partly how Mitt Romney won the nomination in 2012, although he faced less formidable challengers.) And it probably requires one more ingredient: a flash or two of unwonted pugnacity from the candidate.
It's an unusual challenge: Can Jeb Bush live down his reputation as a reasonable man?
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Levels of Risk
To some degree, each disaster risk is location-specific. But, for a more realistic assessment of the actual risks you and your loved ones face, we have established four Levels/Zones of Risk:
LEVEL 1 – The National Zone:
This zone encompasses the whole country. Admittedly, there are only a few disasters of this magnitude (global pandemics fall into this scope).
LEVEL 2 – Your Regional Zone(s):
Consider this your town, city, or county…roughly anywhere within a 20-mile radius, or 32.2 kilometers, of your home.
(If you have a long commute, identify a second regional zone for your place of employment).
LEVEL 3 – Your Neighborhood Zone(s):
A 3-mile radius (4.8 kilometers) of your home that might include your workplace and any schools your children attend.
LEVEL 4 – Your Address Zone(s):
Your actual home
Determining your Regional and Neighborhood Zones will require some effort but it's easier than you might think. Now let's develop the levels of risk in greater detail.
LEVEL 1 – The National Zone
The quickest way to get an overview of major natural hazards is to look at the maps provided by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency). Caution: These maps are large-scale and regional in scope, meaning they do not provide a lot of detail. They are meant to provide general risk-assessment information and guidance only. For example, just because your address is slightly outside an area that is subject to wildfires doesn't mean you are safe from them. FEMA has also written a book called "Are You Ready? An In-Depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness" (FEMA Publication IS-22). It is available in both English and Spanish and you can get your copy one of two ways:
Call 1-800-480-2520 to order a free single copy. Be patient; it will take several weeks to arrive. Despite the wait, the booklet is likely your best format because it will be more portable (the downloadable file is huge!)
- The full document (204 pages) can be downloaded from:
http://www.fema.gov/pdf/areyouready/areyouready_full.pdf (English)
http://www.fema.gov/spanish/pdf/areyouready/areyouready_full_sp.pdf (Spanish)
Because these files are large, be sure you have sufficient time and space available (up to 21MG) to fully download them. (They are also available under "Hot Links" and individual threats in "Identify Your Risks" under the tab you are currently viewing.)
We know you are anxious to get started, so we recommend you download the first two parts of "Are You Ready?" The first section helps you determine local risks in the context of the following natural hazards: floods tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms, lightening, extreme storms, and cold:
The second section of natural hazards considers extreme heat, earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, debris flows, mud slides, tsunamis or tidal waves, fires and wildfires:
Each hazard section has a map of the country that indicates, in a general way, where that risk is found across the country. (Note: fires can affect everyone but not all fires are natural hazards, therefore, there is no map for fires.) We recommend you print out each map that applies to you, or if you are using the book, mark each map that applies to your potential risks.
We strongly urge you to look at every map to get a rough idea of your exposure to each hazard. You may think you are not susceptible to earthquakes or volcanoes but, with one look at the map, you could be in for a surprise. This is especially true with respect to flooding. If you are not sure your property lies outside a flood plain, go to our "Hot Links," click on "FIRMette" and follow the directions on the FEMA site. By submitting your street address you will identify your flood designation as well as the area that surrounds you. Print a copy of the map and keep it in your files to confirm your property's flood status.
Sections related to Technological Hazards and Terrorism can be downloaded at:
http://www.fema.gov/pdf/areyouready/technohazards.pdf and http://www.fema.gov/pdf/areyouready/terrorism.pdf
LEVEL 2 – Your Regional Zone(s)
A good first step in determining risks within your region is to ask yourself, "What does everybody know about this area?" Chances are you already have some insight into highways, manufacturing plants, dams, rivers, etc. Ask people around you, especially if they have lived in the area for a while, what they know about regional risks. You may learn about a previously unknown hazard.
Get a decent map (not a tourist map) of your city or town. With a pencil and a piece of string, use the map's scale to mark off a 20-mile radius. (Holding one end of the string at your address. and the pencil at the appropriate distance, encircle your address.)
Note on your map the locations of major highways and railroads (sources of possible hazardous waste spills and explosions) military installations, major airports and skyscrapers (potential terrorist targets), river beds (possible floods) and any other features that catch your eye as a potential source of problems.
Wrap-up by using your regional maps and new knowledge to make a list of all the risks that apply to you.
A good resource for printable maps is http://maps.google.com. Download a free program of Google Earth at: http://earth.google.com/. Here you can see your address and neighborhood in much greater detail. Google Earth will help you understand the physical lay of the land: geography and topography.
LEVEL 3 – Your Neighborhood Zone(s)
If your family's home, school(s) and work locations are outside a 3-mile radius of one another, do the following for all locations that pertain to you. You will need one map per 3-mile radius.
Start with the general list of risks you thought of in "Begin to Access the Actual Risks You Face."
To discover specific risks in your neighborhood, walk it. Do this more than once to get a better sense of it.
If you have access to a car, drive slowly around this zone for a different perspective. Take your maps along and note the distances you are from major highways, railroad tracks, warehouses (storage of hazardous materials), power plants and airports of any size.
- Note whether these locations are up or down-wind from your home, school/s or work.
Be aware of the direction of the wind over time so you are aware of which way it typically blows. If chemical spills, explosions or biological threats materialize in your zone, you could be affected by winds carrying toxic vapors.
Other things to consider:
- Is a lake nearby? If so, is it above or below you geographically?
What about a river or even a dry stream-bed that might be subject to flooding in severe weather?
- Where are major water and gas lines located?
- How close are large power lines or transformers?
- Are any service stations close enough to be a threat if a gasoline storage tank blows up?
- How far are you from help?
- Where is the nearest fire station, police station, hospital?
Could a collapsed bridge prevent you from getting out of harm's way or to your desired evacuation location?
LEVEL 4 – Your Actual Home,
Workplace and/or Any Schools Your Children Attend
- Look around you…what's next door to you (on all sides):
- Businesses? Find out what they do at that particular location.
Green belt? Determine if it is a watercourse that might flood in severe weather.
A major street? Dangerous commercial traffic could frequently travel this route.
Locate the gas lines on and near your property. Do they go directly to the street or under your house?
Locate the power lines on and near your property. Do they go directly to the street or under your house?
Speak with your neighbors to learn more and/or share with them what you have discovered yourself about the risks within your immediate vicinity. Each of you may have something to add to the others findings that will make you both better prepared for any eventuality.
On the "Risks You Face" form, make a concise list of all the risks you found in each Zone/Level. (It would be a kind gesture to share this list with your neighbors.) Now, with your list of risks, and using the resources suggested earlier, add detail about the actions you plan to take during each type of disaster. Each risk should be paired with specific actions you plan to take for that potential disaster. Review this information with your family and put the list in your Personal Preaction™ Plan Notebook.
Don't get depressed or feel stuck at this point! The whole purpose of making this list is to put you in control. You can't prepare well for an emergency if you don't know your vulnerabilities. What have you accomplished? You've prepared yourself to get prepared.
—Congratulate yourself on a job well done!—


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Format: Musical
Genre: Drama
Date: June 21 2016
Location: Liverpool Empire Theatre
American Idiot, as the name suggests, uses the music of American punk-rock band Green Day to tell a story, one involving three young men and how their lives changed in the aftermath of 9/11 (which several songs on the original American Idiot album referred to). Their tales cover everything from fighting on the front-line to drug addiction to romance. This was definitely a unique show; having been advised that this would be different from any other musical, that goal was certainly achieved, although I'm not sure if this was entirely a good thing.
There are some strong aspects about this show: for Green Day fans, all of the big hits are included, including (of course) American Idiot, Know Your Enemy, Wake Me Up When September Ends and Time Of Your Life. The singing performances (from a cast that boasts Amelia Lily and Newton Faulkner) are very good on the whole, with the group rendition of Wake Me Up When September Ends being the highlight of the show. The background music consisting of fast-paced guitar and drum notes is authentic and perfect for a show of this nature.
There aren't much in the way of dance moves for this production, so I can't really judge this as a positive or a negative, but the acting performances, brief as they are (more on the acting shortly), are strong if a little basic at times. There are a few nice comedic touches dotted throughout the show. Rounding off the high points, the settings seem simplified but have a grungy feel to them, and at times are assisted by props to take us into a different environment, and the costumes are typical of both Green Day and their legion of followers, from the hairstyles to the style of shirts to the chain-accompanied jeans.
On the downside, the non-musical scenes are very brief, meaning that the main storyline is only partially told as what would normally be key scenes in the development of various plots are left out (and one such scene lasts two minutes with almost no dialogue, resulting in an awkwardly quiet theatre). So, one cannot really judge the acting because the performers get so little chance to demonstrate such skills. The show is a little on the short side, but without scenes that properly move the story arcs along, this isn't really a bad thing (which actually IS a bad thing if you think about it). My main gripe with the show, though, concerned some aspects of the content.
There is a significant amount of strong language throughout, several scenes involving drug use and one extended scene whereby the lead male and female characters have sex (well, we don't see them completely naked, but it's more than just implied). Granted, Green Day's songs feature a certain amount of swearing, but it carried over into the regular dialogue, and were the full-on drug and sex scenes really necessary? They were very strong, and not in a way that necessarily denigrated such behaviour in the case of the drug scenes. I'm not generally offended by such things, but it all did seem a little heavy. And whilst there were minor warnings about the content, they weren't obvious enough as there were younger children in attendance, which can't have been a good thing (and who knows what their parents were thinking during those scenes).
Which is not to say that this was a bad show; it definitely had its moments, and the performances were of a high standard. I would, however, suggest that there should be firmer warnings about the adult content in this show, and that more time should have been allocated to move the story along to ensure that the audience knew what was going on. This was a worthy tribute to the music of Green Day, but outside of the band's fanbase, whether one would enjoy the show is truly down to one's personal tastes (and age). So, a good show for Green Day fans, but it's definitely not for everyone.
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Well, now that it's Monday, it's the big day. It's the day that Kevin Durant is defining his career in one respect or another, either to stay with the team that he's been with since his first day in the league, or follow a new adventure to another location.
Back in 2008, when the Seattle Supersonics relocated to Oklahoma City, I started watching the games casually. They were a close team and it was a big deal. Not much time passed before I fell in love with the team. Since that year, when they were a miserable 23-59, I've been glued to this franchise. Through the James Harden trade, Scott Brooks firing, among all the other external noise.
Today, the Oklahoma City Thunder face the biggest day in the history of the Franchise, and it's not any longer in their control.
Does KD stay? Does he go? Who knows.
This team will still be my team regardless of the decision, but it's sure going to make a tough pill to swallow if Durant goes to a fellow West power.
After spending the last four days stressing over the decision, fighting back and forth on which way he would lean, I had convinced myself he was leaving OKC. Convinced he was going to be swayed by the lights and money offers from elsewhere, but then I started thinking about what he means to Oklahoma City and what Oklahoma City means to Kevin Durant.
I don't own this tweet, but it sure resonated with me earlier.
Now, we just wait to see if KD realizes that he is OKC.
I then read about the connection that he's made with the kids of the community.
From there, I read his mom's connection and love for this Franchise and the reciprocated love from the fans to her. Durant is a sentimental guy, not like most superstars. This all means something to him. So while this is the toughest day on OKC, its fans, staff, and players, this is also hard on KD. Do you stay with the good thing that you've been a part of for eight years, or do you take a new path?
I hope that Durant loves OKC as much as the city loves him. Same for Mama Durant.
Yes, this was just after the Thunder were eliminated; however, I don't think it's just an emotional tweet. This team and city has embraced both KD and Wanda Durant.
I've been terrified to even put it into words, but I've got to for my own sanity, just to stop bouncing back and forth on what the decision will be. After reading about it, thinking about it, and watching predictions and salary cap projections, I really think that my prediction is ready.
Prediction: Kevin Durant STAYS in Oklahoma City.
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Gosh I must be on a roll ... another card today this time a thankyou card for the wonderful hospital team that is looking after my mum at the moment.
Retro Sketches #152
Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge blog
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Beautiful card Janet - I love your stamping and the feathers are a super fun touch!
OMG OMG OMG!! I LOVE this Sweet Card!! =) I LOVE all of your stamping!! THANKS SO MUCH for sharing and for joining us in the Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge!! I hope you'll join us again next week!! Have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)


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It was a Friday night when I got the call from Lizzy Rutten. "I have a story for you. We're taking Shaun Meehan from Wyndham to the east coast to help promote the program."
The program Lizzy was referring to was Grow the Music which is a community based music education program that she and her partner, Emily White, started together. They have been running the program in several remote Indigenous communities. In Wyndham, at the very tip of Western Australia, the program has delivered several positive social outcomes including reducing crime rates by those participating in the program as well as increased school attendance rates.
I remember being told about Shaun and having him pointed out to me when I had interviewed Lizzy for the Kimberley Echo (WA Regional Newspapers). He was a young poet that their predominantly youth focused community music program had engaged with. I remember bumping into Shaun shortly after my interview with Lizzy that morning on the street.
"You are Shaun, Shaun Meehan?" I had asked.
The young man turned to look at me almost alarmed. He turned to one of the Grow the Music's staff nearby for reassurance.
"People know you, you're famous" came the affirmation.
For some reason, perhaps out of a want to encourage the aspiring musician, I added:
"Shaun it's true...you're famous...glad to have finally met you."
Six months later, the same young man would be traveling to Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney and he would become famous, and this time I wasn't just saying it - it is true. He would be interviewed by a variety of radio stations including the ABC, he would appear in newspapers, and people would travel from far and wide in capital cities to hear him perform live.
Over the past fortnight, from festivals to smaller venues, Shaun Meehan has been establishing a name for himself as an emerging Indigenous talent from the East Kimberley.
I had an opportunity to capture some of his story, the week before he left his community. It was a nerve wracking period for Shaun. He had hardly ever left the state previously, let alone travel to the other side of the country.
The experience introduced me to people, spaces and a social environment that gave me a good understanding of where it was, that Shaun Meehan had been raised. I would see his primary school, where a young Shaun Meehan would first discover his love for words, which would blossom into a love for poetry. I would see him engage with a variety of members of his community, moving amongst various groups and circles.
Being able to share Shaun's story has been very rewarding. This video has been edited from its original to provide the audience of ABC Open with an insight into the trials, tribulations and experiences, of a talented young man on the verge of success and on the cusp of grabbing what were at one stage, opportunities out of his reach.
This a young man who we might all now pass by on the street and know: "There goes Shaun Meehan, poet and musician."
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Shaun!! Looks like you caught the bus this time...Big Spirit - big story to tell ;-)
Shaun Meehan you should be so proud of yourself, your community and what you do - you are an inspiration. Once you do allow yourself to see your own worth - you can do anything. Keep up the good work.
Shankar this is very beautiful stuff! I need to speak to you re the footage we have taken on Shaun's tour. Please ask Lizzy for my number or I will get yours from her. Wonderfully put together!! Gratitude !!! Xxxxs
I will certainly be looking out for Shaun's work, I really liked what I heard.
Shaun, lovely words. I hope I get up there soon so I can see hear you play.
Powerful words, beautifully spoken - thanks for telling poet Shaun Meehan's story
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MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- A restaurateur has gone to great lengths to tackle the spread of the H1N1 virus in his eatery, including taking staff's temperatures before they start work and preventing them from touching plates directly.
Kitchen staff at Silk and Soya restaurant in Spain wear face masks and gloves while preparing food.
Silk and Soya, a Thai-themed restaurant in Madrid, Spain, implemented the measures to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, in the upscale locale.
"We implemented these measures so that our employees would serve only food, not a virus," restaurant owner Cipri Quintas told CNN.
As well as employees having their temperatures taken before starting their shifts, windows are opened to aerate the restaurant before meals. Each table is set at least one meter -- 3.2 feet -- from any other table.
Any member of the kitchen staff involved in food preparation must wear a mask and gloves, and waiters are required to hold napkins when carrying plates to avoid touching them directly with their hands.
Upon entering the elevators leading to the top-floor restaurant, customers find an automatic disinfectant gel dispenser.
At each table, diners find a packet of gel next to their silverware. The restaurant's restroom doors are propped open, the lights turn on automatically and the faucets are hands-free -- measures intended to keep customers from having to touch surfaces after they've washed their hands.
Similar initiatives are under way around the world. Last spring, during the peak of the scare in Mexico City, restaurants were closed for 12 days. When the restaurants reopened, the government ordered owners to put extra space between the tables and not to allow more than half of seats to be filled at any given time; cooks and waiters were mandated to wear surgical masks.
The World Health Organization's Web site states that hand-washing is one of the best ways to prevent infection and provides instructions with drawings that can be printed and posted in public places, such as restaurants.
Silk and Soya's Quintas started his anti-H1N1 measures in August and has already proved popular with some customers.
Simona Savin, who was having lunch, told CNN, "These are measures you don't see everywhere. Here you have everything. They are great because there's a need for hygiene."
Another diner, swimming coach Fernando Barea, said, "We came to the restaurant because we heard good things about it and I wanted to see these measures against the H1N1 flu. These measures should be used by other restaurants."
Quintas predicted they soon will be. "People from other businesses like hotels and theaters have called us asking, 'What have you done? Can we come see your setup?' There's been a big response," said Quintas.
He insisted that his goal is not solely to garner publicity, but to protect his customers and staff -- a responsibility, he said, that the business community at large should undertake.
One expert on the disease applauded the efforts and recommended they be broadened.
"They should implement them every winter against all respiratory diseases," said Dr. Tom Jefferson, a medical epidemiologist with the Cochrane Collaboration. The international organization reviews health care interventions and "promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions," according to its Web site.
As of September 13, the WHO had tallied more than 296,000 cases worldwide, 3,486 of them fatal.