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Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:34:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Affordable Community Resources for every business.

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EPA attachs Lawnmowers

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:16:19 GMT

clipped by: mklosinski
clipper's remarks: These folks are out of control. When will this madness stop. How many MPG is my lawnmower required to get?

Clip Source: www.cnsnews.com

Washington - Gasoline-powered lawnmowers blamed for summertime air pollution will have to be cleaner under new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The regulation issued Thursday requires a 35 percent reduction in emissions from new lawn and garden equipment powered by engines under 25 horsepower. It takes effect in 2011 and is expected to save approximately 190 million gallons of gasoline each year.

Environmentalists welcome the regulation. It had been delayed for years by opposition from small engine manufacturers and their congressional supporters.

Tags: epa

A House Fit for a Hobbit?

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:46:44 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: Why are we doing this?
1.It's fun
2.Our society is almost entirely dependent on the availability of increasing amounts of fossil fuel energy. This has brought us to the point at which our supplies are dwindling and our
ecological catastrophe. We have no viable alternative energy source and no choice but to reduce our energy consumption. The sooner this change can be begun, the more comfortable it will be.

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A House Fit for a Hobbit?

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It takes a little self belief and a lot of determination to make eco-building work. Fortunately for Welsh family members Simon, Jasmine, Cosmo and Elfie, this self belief resulted in a self-built eco-home, both close to nature and cost efficient. Features of The Low Impact Woodland Home include a skylight to allow natural light in, solar panels to fuel lights and electronics, a refrigerator cooled from underground air, water supplied from a nearby spring, and a roof water collection for use in the garden.

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Take one baby, a toddler and a building site. Mix well with a generous helping of mud, combine with 6 weeks of solid welsh rain whilst living under canvas.

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Why are we doing this?

It's fun. Living your own life, in your own way is rewarding. Following our dreams keeps our souls alive.

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Minneapolis Gestapo try to sqelch Protest planners

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:58:31 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Sickenin to see this happenin but no surprise to me since I saw it in Berkeley in '68-9-'70 for a patch of garden in a parkin lot.

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Report: Massive, warrantless raids on peace protesters in Minneapolis, ahead of RNC.

Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com reports that protesters in Minneapolis, where the Republican National Convention will soon begin, have been subjected to massive, pre-emptive police raids. Those arrested include members of Food not Bombs, and a group calling itself the "RNC Welcoming Committee," and a group that uses video to protect civil liberties by documenting p

involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes, seizing computers, journals, and political pamphlets. Last night, members of the St. Paul police department and the Ramsey County sheriff's department handcuffed, photographed and detained dozens of people meeting at a public venue to plan a demonstration

A Thousand Drops of Light - wonderful photos...

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:07:53 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

(William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence")

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I like to go out to my garden after a rain and look around at whatever is blooming and discover natural teeny-tiny views of it through nearby drops.

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You just can’t control where drops will form

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The physics of it all, is that when water forms a drop, it no longer reflects back what is in front of it, but acts as a lens and refracts what is behind it

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If you still don’t think water drop shots are real, just go out after a rain and hold a brightly colored piece of paper behind some drops and you will see the drops take on the color.

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The "hearts" inside these water drops are refractions of some coral bells

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I like the focus of the petals in both the background and refraction in the drop.

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teeny-weeny perspective

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The wonderful cool crisp autum days are approaching fast, so I thought I better try one more water drop shot after the last hot humid rain. The sun was out and bright and created a glare on the edge of the drops, but it also lit up the yellow nicely.

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fox caught napping on family sofa

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:29:42 GMT

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Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

These unique photos show the moment a fox was caught sleeping on the sofa of a London home.

The fox did not run off as soon as it was rumbled but remained on the settee until it was coaxed off with the use of a rolled up newspaper.

Ian Young,77, took the photos of the young fox after leaving the back door of his house open so he could work in the garden.

He came back inside to discover the fox asleep in the front room of his home in Feltham, London.

Mr Young, a retired well driller, said: "It was just like a pet lying there asleep and wasn't frightened of me at all.

"I grabbed my camera and expected it to shoot off like a tornado when I started taking pictures but it didn't.

I managed to get 18 shots in the end.

"It just lay there quite happily and

"I had to get a paper and hit him up the behind to get him off the settee.

"I had to shoo him out of the house where he stood trying to come back in again"

The fox even sniffed the lens of Mr Young's camera when he tooka close-up shot.

Stunning Garden Sculptures by Bruno Torfs

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:38:56 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

Clip Source: www.lifeinthefastlane.ca

gift from GOD

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:11:18 GMT

clipped by: zadoz
clipper's remarks: i believe him

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Pot-growing priest says crop is a gift from God

A CATHOLIC priest is being watched by police around the clock after they uncovered a field of cannabis he claims is a gift from God.

Father Cyril Papudov, of Petrich, Bulgaria, has been arrested seven times but police have never caught him actually cultivating the crop.

He claims the cannabis seeded by itself and is part of God's gift of nature and nothing to do with him.

A police insider said: "There has been a great deal of suspicion over the years about what is going on with these plants.

"He is a man of the cloth and so a lot of people don't want to think badly of him but frankly if someone has a huge crop of cannabis in their back garden it's highly unlikely they are just sitting there admiring its horticultural properties."

Police are now planning a 24-hour surveillance operation.

The police insider added: "Although the man involved is a member of the clergy we feel this surveillance is necessary.

Tags: priest, god, cannabis

Wheelie Bin Murder

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:12:22 GMT

clipped by: Monkfishy
clipper's remarks: Only the British could write such a tongue-in-cheek article about a man murdering his father.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Benjamin Holding, 29, killed his 70-year-old father by repeatedly smashing his head against the floor and a metal cat bowl at their home near Banchory, Aberdeenshire.

When he realised what he had done, he wrapped the body in a sheet and dumped it head-first in a wheelie bin in the garden shed, where it went unnoticed for nearly two months.

Advocate-depute Alastair Brown, for the prosecution, told the court: “The accused had begun to commit fraud within, at most, an hour and a half of the murder.”

Holding, who was described by police as a “skilful and accomplished liar”, claimed that he had been driven to the killing by his “domineering” father who, he said, viewed him as a “waste of space”.

The judge told Holding yesterday: “I appreciate there may have been an atmosphere of tension between your father and yourself.

Benjamin Holding confessed to his wife and later told detectives: “Two months ago I had an argument with my father. I killed him and he's in the shed.”

Tags: crime, british, humor

WATTS LIGHTING UP YOUR GARDEN !

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:13:10 GMT

clipped by: jt3600
clipper's remarks: FOR MY BUDS ,TRYING TO SEE THEIR BUDS !

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Quick n' dirty garden lights

This week's EMS Labs project is about creating a set of temporary garden/outdoor lights using LEDs, coin cell batteries, and Mason jars. Easy. Cheap. Perdy.

Understanding Food Labels

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:34:15 GMT

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Clip Source: www.which.co.uk

Understanding food labellingLabelling made easy

Have you ever found yourself confused in the supermarket? Do you want to buy the right foods for yourself and your family? Fed up wading through the small print on the back of food packaging?

You’re not alone. We’re strongly in favour of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) ‘traffic light’ colours on the front of their labels. The traffic light front-of-pack nutrition label uses red, amber and green to indicate whether fat, saturated fat, sugar and salt levels are high, medium or low.

Asda, The Co-operative Group, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, M&S, McCain, New Covent Garden Food Co, Budgens/Londis, Avondale, Moy Park, Bombay Halwa, Brittania and S&B Herba have already agreed to use the FSA system.

A red light on the front of the pack means the food is high in something we should be trying to cut down on. It's fine to have these occasionally, or as a treat, but try to keep an eye on how often you choose these foods, or try eating them in smaller amounts.

Digital Blasphemy

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:32:13 GMT

clipped by: ChaosSyren
clipper's remarks: Amazing Art

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Welcome to Digital Blasphemy!

Inside: Hi-res original 3d rendered computer desktop wallpapers and links to some of the best computer art sites on the web.

Enter Here

digital blasphemy

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Tropical Moon (2007) (2007)

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Fluorescence [6] (2000)

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Planitia (2007)

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Tropic of Capricorn (2006) (2006)

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Reverie (2006)

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white magic

gotham garden

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free gallery

Tags: digital, art, graphics

The joy of taking some time out

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:22:40 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks:

Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.Go to the shed with the intention of tidying up and instead fall asleep. Make mental notes. Read every single word of the newspaper - even the job ads - before getting down to work. Lose yourself in erotic reveries. Pat your pockets. Resolve to be more organised in future. Be useless.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

A new report says that we waste three hours a day faffing around, doing nothing in particular

The survey was carried out by the Learning and Skills Council, who, not surprisingly, argued we should instead use those three hours to Learn some Skills.

I beg to differ.

Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.

Faffing of course does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.

Clearly these sorts of ideals are designed to make us faffers feel bad. Well, don't.

Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.

Tags: self, time, well-being, health, body, work, survey, opinion, advice, rest

A Garden Of Healing That Can Divide

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:06:17 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: “Setting up these little gardens for people to stroll around and feel nice is one of these feel-good California-style exercises,” said Michael Arata, a member of the diocese from nearby Danville. “And I don’t see a practical benefit for something like that.”

What makes the debate in Oakland all the more fragile is that the garden was developed by two women who were both sexually abused as children by a priest from the Oakland Diocese.

Those victims are Jennifer Chapin, 35, and Terrie Light, 57, who says she is not surprised that the garden has met with skepticism.

“Look, 99 percent of survivors might think this is stupid and meaningless,” Ms. Light said. “But there might be a few people who say, ‘This is everything to me.’ And then for them, it would be worthwhile.”

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

OAKLAND, Calif. — Rising on the shores of Lake Merritt, the Cathedral of Christ the Light in downtown Oakland is striking. Its glass exterior shimmers, its nave is ringed in Douglas fir, and a high-tech image of Jesus floats above its marble altar.

But for all that, what may be most remarkable about the $190 million Roman Catholic cathedral, now nearly completed, is a small garden devoted to a group whose very existence was long hidden from view: victims of sexual abuse by priests.

While some parishes have offered exhibits, small memorials or apology Masses dedicated to victims, the “healing garden” here will be the largest and most prominent recognition of the scandal ever built at an American cathedral.

“To me, it’s an empty gesture,” said the Rev. Thomas Doyle, who has fought sexual abuse in the church since the early 1980s

Gnome sweet home

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:07:23 GMT

clipped by: queerty
clipper's remarks: More of the tale at source.

Clip Source: www.ananova.com

A gnome taken from it's owners garden seven months ago has been returned accompanied by a photo album showing his adventures.

In the album Murphy the gnome is picutred on a beach and hiking down a mountain.

On his adventures he travelled to South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong and Laos reports Daily Mail.

The gnome and album were placed on owner Eve Stuart Kelso's doorstep accompained by a note.

The letter said: 'Hello! First of all I feel I should explain my prolonged absence. A gnome's life is full of time for reflection, and whilst surveying your garden one summer morning, I began to get itchy feet.

'There have been high points, low points, and positively terrifying points. But I have survived - small thanks to the companion with whom I have shared all these moments.'

Tags: gnome, home, travel