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Mar 29, 2009 19:05:59 GMT 4
Post by towhom on Mar 29, 2009 19:05:59 GMT 4
Immigrants cut costs to keep up remittancesNewsDaily Posted 2009/03/29 at 8:46 am EDTwww.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52s0tw-us-financial-usa-remittances/NEW YORK, NY — The meager pay Tembeni Fazo earns from occasional housekeeping work was never enough to support one household, let alone two, but now the U.S. recession is forcing the African immigrant to make more sacrifices. "If I don't send money to my family, nobody will," said Fazo, 30, who financially supports her mother, brother and son in Zimbabwe, none of whom have jobs in a country where unemployment is around 90 percent.The burden of supporting family members abroad is weighing more heavily on immigrants in the United States, and many, like Fazo, are having to cut costs to keep up the remittances. "Migrants are trying to stay on as long as possible and skipping meals or sharing accommodation with others to save money to send remittances," said Dilip Ratha, lead economist with the World Bank. "A lot more hardship for them, but then every dollar saved here can mean a meal for many back home."But remittances are dropping despite the sacrifices. The global rate of growth for such payments to developing countries slowed in 2008 after hitting double digits in 2007 and was expected to fall between 5 and 8 percent this year, according to the World Bank's recent projections. Francisco Lopez moved into a shared apartment with three other migrant workers to save money after he was laid off from his job at a power company eight months ago in Phoenix, Arizona. Lopez, 43, has tried to find work as a day laborer but is barely able to scrape together $350 to send to his family in Mexico, a far cry from the $800 a month he would send during better times. Jobs are particularly hard to find in construction, an industry hard hit by the recession and one with a high proportion of migrant workers. According to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), 17 percent of Latin American immigrants work in the industry. SENDING SAVINGSFor most immigrants in the United States, remittances are an obligation in good or bad times. "It's not an option not to send money," said Fatou Diop, a Senegalese immigrant who works as a community liaison at African Services Committee, a non-profit group in Harlem, New York. "When it's hard here, it's horrible in Africa."Some immigrants appear to be dipping into their savings to keep the financial pipeline home going. Cash savings among Latin American immigrants, for instance, dropped from $3,500 in 2007 to $2,500 in 2008, according to the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based policy center."That's why you haven't seen as big of a drop in remittances in the past two quarters as you would have predicted given the unemployment," said Francis Calpotura, the executive director of the Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action, another non-profit group. Audrene Rowe moved to Brooklyn, New York, from her native Jamaica three months ago in hopes of finding a job. But she has had not luck despite possessing a master's degree in human resources and health services. Rowe, 31, is using her savings to support herself and her 4-year-old daughter, who is staying with relatives in Jamaica. Discontinued remittances can have dire consequences, including less spent on education and health care and other expenses that contribute to development and enhance quality of life."When there is a crisis like there is now, people spend more money on the daily necessities," said Robert Meins, a remittances expert at the IDB. Jose Pineda, 36, is among those who have been unable to keep up payments since losing his job as a landscaper -- he used to send $200 a month to his wife and four teenage children in El Salvador. "They have sold the car and they are now thinking of selling the house," Pineda said. Take a good long look at this, G20 Summit participants. It's not happening in just the US - it's happening in all countries. People are working or looking for work to support sub-poverty levels of existence - which, by the way, is a luxury level to them up from starvation and death.
So while you're posturing and sputtering, dining in your deluxe restaurants and sleeping in your 5-star hotel accommodations just remember others are skipping meals, living in single rooms, foregoing medications, etc. so others can have a chance at life.
Please - these are the people you claim to represent. Isn't it time to work together for them? Join THEIR efforts to nuture life.
PLEASE.
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Mar 29, 2009 19:13:23 GMT 4
Post by redhead57 on Mar 29, 2009 19:13:23 GMT 4
I have been keeping an eye on the eagles disobey forum ever since the announcement of Dan's work on the journals. I must say how much I appreciate the efforts of these courageous people on behalf of the people of this planet and not for the "elite"!
One year ago I would never have believed the things i know to be true now. Thanks to the program stumbleupon I discovered an article about Dan and his work at area 51. Since that day I have truly fallen down the "rabbit hole" and done more reading and research on the topic of extra terrestrials than any other thing, ever.
THANK YOU DAN AND MARCI, though I have never and likely will never meet you I feel a real kinship with you and a sincere affection for you too. red
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Mar 29, 2009 19:17:41 GMT 4
Post by towhom on Mar 29, 2009 19:17:41 GMT 4
Does Prebiotic Material Exist In Outer Space?ScienceDaily Mar. 28, 2009www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326152507.htmMuñoz and his French colleague Emmanuel Dartois, from the Institute of Space Astrophysics in Paris (France), have recreated these interstellar conditions in the laboratory by mixing various gases at a very low pressure and temperature (-263ºC), and then irradiating the interstellar ice which is formed with ultraviolet light. As a result yellow stuff is generated, a yellowish substance rich in carbon but with hydrogen, nitrogen and a lot of associated oxygen. This material is composed of numerous organic molecules, such as carboxylic acids, glycine and other aminoacids (molecules that are essential to the composition of proteins). (Credit: Guillermo Muñoz y Virginia Souza-Egipsy (CAB) / SINC.)Both a Spanish and a French astrophysicist have identified a band in the infrared range that serves to track the presence of organic material rich in oxygen and nitrogen in the interstellar dust grains. Should any telescope detect this band, the presence in space of aminoacids and other substances, which are the precursors to life, could be confirmed. "We have proved in the laboratory that an organic material of prebiotic interest known as yellow stuff possesses a very characteristic absorption band that can be searched for in zones in space which have dust grains in order to try and identify similar substances", Guillermo Muñoz, a researcher at the Centre for Astrobiology (INTA-CSIC), points out to SINC. The scientist explains that the dust grains observed in the interstellar clouds and around the young stars are usually "surrounded by tiny mantles of ice rich in water and other simple molecules, such as carbon monoxide (CO), methanol (CH 3OH) or ammonia (NH 3), upon which light and cosmic rays fall". Muñoz and his French colleague Emmanuel Dartois, from the Institute of Space Astrophysics in Paris (France), have recreated these interstellar conditions in the laboratory by mixing various gases at a very low pressure and temperature (-263ºC), and then irradiating the interstellar ice which is formed with ultraviolet light. As a result yellow stuff is generated, a yellowish substance rich in carbon but with hydrogen, nitrogen and a lot of associated oxygen. This material is composed of numerous organic molecules, such as carboxylic acids, glycine and other aminoacids (molecules that are essential to the composition of proteins).The yellow stuff absorption band is situated within the 3.4 micrometres of the mid-infrared spectrum and when represented on a graph its profile has two characteristic peaks. "This makes it possible to detect this band in planet-forming regions similar to our solar nebula and Solar System bodies", Muñoz points out. "Moreover the synthesis of organic compounds by ice irradiation could be related to the presence of this substance in comets, such as the Halley comet, and could explain also the isotopic composition of the carbonaceous material detected in interplanetary dust and in types of meteorities rich in carbon which are known as carbonaceous chondrites", he adds.Until now scientists have not observed the yellow stuff infrared band in interstellar space, and the same is true for Solar System bodies, but they do postulate that this could be due to the limitations in present techniques. In the case of carbonaceous chondrites and interplanetary dust, both contain carbon associated with heavy hydrogen isotopes (deuterium above all, 2H) and nitrogen (15N) characteristic of chemical reactions at very low temperatures, such as those generated in irradiated ice, but that type of meteoritic carbon is different to yellow stuff. The prebiotic substances derived from the irradiation of ice lose their organic character and high hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen content when heated at more than 300 ºC; this occurs in the proximities of the Sun. "That type of heated yellow stuff, which still maintains a high content of heavy isotopes, could be the sort that is found to form part of the carbonaceous chondrites and interplanetary dust", Muñoz points out to SINC. The Rosetta space probe belonging to the European Space Agency will try to detect aminoacids and other molecules of prebiotic interest in the central core of the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, when the probe arrives there in 2014. Adapted from materials provided by Plataforma SINC, via AlphaGalileo.
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Mar 29, 2009 19:24:04 GMT 4
Post by ubleck on Mar 29, 2009 19:24:04 GMT 4
when cycles cross down the wide underbelly of the toroid into its waspish waist and bloom back out again where the magnetic structure is large and wide humanity can be pulsed onward to infinite unknown structures or repulsed back again into the highly compressed matter without thought or personality the rhomboid breathing the bellows enfyring
we hear the mighty inrush and exhalation of its breathing
on we go, voyaging to circumnambulate the toroid within the crystalline communication structure vast beyond sight where many-eyed watchmen dial dials munch on cosmic snacks and catch up on the news on we voyage and yes are voyaging now like pri matives up the amazon to find either golden cities or simple gatherings around campfires where angels meet
the mighty elephant trumpets the quickmoving mercurial scouts run afleet shiva danses calimba ba doom ba doom and the children are admitted to the museum at the end of the world
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Mar 29, 2009 19:39:56 GMT 4
Post by ubleck on Mar 29, 2009 19:39:56 GMT 4
Fly Me to the Moon - as performed by the inimitable Frank Sinatra
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
In other words, hold my hand In other words, baby kiss me
Fill my heart with song Let me sing for ever more You are all I long for All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true In other words, I love you
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its a wonderful world would ya like to go and open the door to sesame street?
come on, lets go!
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Mar 29, 2009 22:14:33 GMT 4
Post by annemarie on Mar 29, 2009 22:14:33 GMT 4
As for news on the 29th of March, am I the only one here??? I am a new member of the site, and am a long-time follower of any and all news of Dr. Dan Bursch, and Dr. Marcy.
I am very anxious to read their "Statement of March 28th" which has not yet appeared.
Do you know when this news will be announced?
I signed onto The Golden Thread, hoping that you would be addressing this information, which is of the utmost importance!
Please respond... send to my personal email address, if that is possible.
Thanks from Anne
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Mar 29, 2009 22:25:41 GMT 4
Post by towhom on Mar 29, 2009 22:25:41 GMT 4
As for news on the 29th of March, am I the only one here??? I am a new member of the site, and am a long-time follower of any and all news of Dr. Dan Bursch, and Dr. Marcy.
I am very anxious to read their "Statement of March 28th" which has not yet appeared.
Do you know when this news will be announced?
I signed onto The Golden Thread, hoping that you would be addressing this information, which is of the utmost importance!
Please respond... send to my personal email address, if that is possible.
Thanks from Anne Hi annemarie,
Welcome to the forum.
Please see this link:the-goldenthread.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=2&page=50#1156This contains the information of what transpired yesterday.
Peace and Joy Always
Sally Anne
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Mar 29, 2009 23:59:13 GMT 4
Post by magusadhana on Mar 29, 2009 23:59:13 GMT 4
What about England? The English here would like to know? ;D Oh Paul!! Are you chastising me?!!! Sorry, I only said Brit because that's how I think the rest of the world thinks of us! I am English and proud of it BUT I also have Welsh and Scots friends And Irish ones as well - don't want to upset anyone !! LT No, I just use the words English,British as interchangeable. So no, nothing meant on purpose.. LOL... ;D Paul...
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Mar 30, 2009 0:01:37 GMT 4
Post by magusadhana on Mar 30, 2009 0:01:37 GMT 4
Space smells funny, astronauts say Likened to burnt gunpowder or the ozone smell of electrical equipmentMSNBC updated 7:36 p.m. ET, Fri., March. 27, 2009www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29921131/The smell of space will linger for the seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery long after they return to Earth on Saturday. "One thing I've heard people say before, but it wasn't so obvious, was the smell right when you open up that hatch," Discovery pilot Dominic "Tony" Antonelli said after a March 21 spacewalk. "Space definitely has a smell that's different than anything else." The odor, Antonelli said, could be smelled once spacewalkers locked the station airlock's outer hatch and reopened the inner door. Discovery is set to land at 1:39 p.m. EDT tomorrow at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida after a 13-day mission that delivered a new crewmember and the final set of U.S. solar wings to the International Space Station. It was after each of the three spacewalks performed by the shuttle crew that the spaceflyers detected the distinctive odor of space. Like ozone, or gunpowderJapanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, who launched to the station aboard Discovery and stayed behind when it left to join the outpost's crew, said he also could smell the odd odor that wafted in from outside the station. But both Antonelli and Wakata, who helped Discovery's spacewalkers climb in and out of their spacesuits, could not put words to the distinctive out-of-this-world scent. Former NASA astronaut Thomas Jones, a veteran of three spacewalks before retiring from spaceflying in 2001, thinks the odor could stem from atomic oxygen that clings to spacesuit fabric. "When you repressurize the airlock and get out of your suit, there is a distinct odor of ozone, a faint acrid smell," Jones told SPACE.com, adding that the smell is also similar to burnt gunpowder or the ozone smell of electrical equipment. "It's not noticeable inside the suit. The suit smells like plastic inside." The smell, he adds, only occurs on a shuttle or the space station after a spacewalk and is unmistakable to astronauts working with the spacesuits and equipment that was used in the vacuum of space. "In those tight spaces, your nose gets right next to the fabric," Jones said. "I like to think of it as getting a whiff of vacuum!" Headed homeThe three spacewalks performed by Discovery's crew occurred between March 19 and Monday as the astronauts installed the space station's final set of solar arrays to boost the orbiting laboratory to full power. The shuttle ferried Wakata — Japan's first long-term resident — to the space station, where he replaced NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus as a member of the outpost's three-person crew. Magnus is returning home aboard Discovery to complete a 4 1/2-month mission to the space station. The shuttle undocked from the space station on Wednesday. Discovery astronauts spent Friday checking the shuttle's systems for its planned landing tomorrow and speaking with students at Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, President Barack Obama's high school alma mater. The spaceflyers spoke with President Obama before departing the space station. Thats the negative ions that are injected into the spaceships/station. Nasa started doing this a long time ago, it keeps the astronauts mentally alert. Paul...
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Mar 30, 2009 1:36:50 GMT 4
Post by ubleck on Mar 30, 2009 1:36:50 GMT 4
robert zimmerman waxes prophetic about some of the apparitions he's encountered on the last time linez. apparently he's gone to vist the Old Ones as well, something i used to do frequently over in eastern oregon. often they were not all that happy, but that's life.
onna flipside you can go to sedona and everbuddy's happy, walkin 'round wit permasmile.
let's hope this next go 'round brings us some clearing in the fog...
Floater - Bob Dylan from the Love and Theft album
Down over the window From the dazzling sunlit rays through the back alleys, through the blinds another one of them endless days
Honey bees are buzzing leaves begin to stir I'm in love with my second cousin I tell myself I could be happy forever with her
I keep listening for footsteps but I ain't never hearing any from the boat, I fish for bullheads I catch a lot, sometimes too many
A summer breeze is blowin' a squall is setting in sometimes it's just plain stupid to get into any kind of wind
Well the old men 'round here sometimes they get on bad terms with the younger men, old, young, age don't carry weight it doesn't matter in the end
One of the boss' hangers-on Sometimes comes to call At times you least expect Tryin' to bully you, strongarm you, inspire you with fear It has the opposite effect
There's a new grove of trees on the outskirts of town the old one is long gone 10 foot, 2 foot, 6 across Burns with the bark still on
They say times are hard if you don't believe it you can follow your nose it don't bother me, times are hard anywhere we'll just have to see how it goes
My old man, he's like some feudal lord he's got more lives than a cat I've never seen him quarrel with my mother even once things come alive or they fall flat
You can smell the pine wood burnin' you can hear the school bell ring got to get up near the teacher, if you can if you wanna learn anything
Romeo, he said to Juliet, you got a poor complexion it don't give you an appearance or a youthful touch Juliet said back to Romeo, why don't you just shove off, if it bothers you so much
They got outta here any way they could Cold rain can give you the shivers they went down the Ohio, the Cumberland, the Tennessee, all the rest of them rebel rivers
If you ever try to interfere with me or cross my path again, you do so at the peril of your life I'm not quite as cool, or forgiving as I sound I've seen enough heartache and strife
My grandfather was a duck trapper, he could do it with just dragnets and ropes my grandmother could sew new dresses out of old cloth, I don't know if they had any dreams or hopes.
I had 'em once, though I suppose To go along with all the ring dancing, Christmas carols and all the Christmas eves I left all my dreams and hopes buried under tobacco leaves
Not always easy kicking someone up got to wait awhile, it can be an unpleasant task sometimes somebody wants you to give something up And tears or not, it's too much to ask.
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Mar 30, 2009 2:18:43 GMT 4
Post by ubleck on Mar 30, 2009 2:18:43 GMT 4
while we're on the subject. the trouble with belief systems is so far all the major ones have fallen flat on their faces as far as the delivery part.
5,000 years of crud, to put it bluntly. sorry about your loss. sorry about my bluntness.
doesn't matter if its new age sophorisims wiccan oaken pole danses hindi blind us with hallucinogenic multifaced visions
catholic popist eating offa gold plates and all the rest of the cartoonery
might as well have worshiped Jean Genet for all the good it has done us
unless a religion emerges that simply and quickly moves us into a healthy group mind and on a clear short path to world peace
it is basically and will be recorded
as nutless.
ibid.
if there are indeed saints, they ain't comin 'round until we solve this part. they are not required to respect us. yes of korse they love us.
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Mar 30, 2009 2:30:38 GMT 4
Post by ubleck on Mar 30, 2009 2:30:38 GMT 4
no i'm not leaving out islamofascists. mohammed was a ruthless alpha male that porked decent young girls hynotized his male followers into chaos and war mongering. allah is a mudgolem creation of a powerful man's diseased dream, imho, like dr. mesmer.
very close to hitler, again, imho. jackasses braying about nothing until the Wind comes and carried them away.
if one has enlightenment, why would one advocate violence? that is horrible. that is like denying your own original face.
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Mar 30, 2009 3:28:40 GMT 4
Post by towhom on Mar 30, 2009 3:28:40 GMT 4
"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men."
"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss."
Quotes from Black Elk, (Hehaka Sapa), Wichasha Wakan (Medicine Man or Holy Man) of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux).
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Mar 30, 2009 3:37:07 GMT 4
Post by ubleck on Mar 30, 2009 3:37:07 GMT 4
god bless you towhorn and the boat you rowed in on. may ten thousand butterflies blow like firewind through your door.
i am an idiot wind blowing from the north and the south its an idiot wind babe blowing out the corners of my mouth.
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Mar 30, 2009 3:46:34 GMT 4
Post by ubleck on Mar 30, 2009 3:46:34 GMT 4
wakan tanka? would he put up wit assholes like me?
he accepted the white trappers far in the rockies.
he didn't like um. but he accepted them and sat wit them and shamokem da all important peace pipe
the brige between white and black.
los indios noteamericanos.
some went from shoshone medicene circle walked not rode to bostom sataya on the hills
walked not rode all way back to black hills and sayud yes theyare heres an no stoppin then big chief broke arr0w spit anna gerrrouwound and that was it
shoshone medicene folks walked (they was alraydee daid) to the west coast and narthwards woke up floating corpses moving ustream giants pullum by the hayers then they walked to the great hall
your world is your world my world is my world
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