Posted on 07/24/2009 3:37:21 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny
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Did you hear about the guy that lives on nothing? No seriously, he lives on zero dollars a day. Meet Daniel Suelo, who lives in a cave outside Moab, Utah. Suelo has no mortgage, no car payment, no debt of any kind. He also has no home, no car, no television, and absolutely no “creature comforts.” But he does have a lot of creatures, as in the mice and bugs that scurry about the cave floor he’s called home for the last three years.
To us, Suelo probably sounds a little extreme. Actually, he probably sounds very extreme. After all, I suspect most of you reading this are doing so under the protection of some sort of man-made shelter, and with some amount of money on your person, and probably a few needs for money, too. And who doesn’t need money unless they have completely unplugged from the grid? Still, it’s an amusing story about a guy who rejects all forms of consumerism as we know it.
The Frugal Roundup
How to Brew Your Own Beer and Maybe Save Some Money. A fantastic introduction to home brewing, something I’ve never done myself, but always been interested in trying. (@Generation X Finance)
Contentment: A Great Financial Principle. If I had to name one required emotion for living a frugal lifestyle it would be contentment. Once you are content with your belongings and your lot in life you can ignore forces attempting to separate you from your money. (@Personal Finance by the Book)
Use Energy Star Appliances to Save On Utility Costs. I enjoyed this post because it included actual numbers, and actual total savings, from someone who upgraded to new, energy star appliances. (@The Digerati Life)
Over-Saving for Retirement? Is it possible to “over-save” for retirement? Yes, I think so. At some point I like the idea of putting some money aside in taxable investments outside of retirement funds, to be accessed prior to traditional retirement age. (@The Simple Dollar)
40 Things to Teach My Kids Before They Leave Home. A great list of both practical and philosophical lessons to teach your kids before they reach the age where they know everything. I think that now happens around 13 years-old. (@My Supercharged Life)
Index Fund Investing Overview. If you are looking for a place to invest with high diversification and relatively low fees (for broader index funds with low turnover), index funds are a great place to start. (@Money Smart Life)
5 Reasons To Line Dry Your Laundry. My wife and I may soon be installing a clothesline in our backyard. In many neighborhoods they are frowned upon - one of the reasons I don’t like living in a neighborhood. I digress. One of our neighbors recently put up a clothesline, and we might just follow his lead. (@Simple Mom)
A Few Others I Enjoyed
* 4 Quick Tips for Getting Out of a Rut * Young and Cash Rich * Embracing Simple Style * First Trading Experience With OptionsHouse * The Exponential Power of Delayed Consumption * How Much Emergency Fund is Enough? * 50 Questions that Will Free Your Mind * Save Money On Car Insurance
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Town Hall Events to Counter Protest. July, August, September 2009
Please freep your representative and tell them NO to a government takeover of health care!!
Hi, Ruth.
You pinged me earlier about the “Boys in Brazil”. Did you ever read Ira Levin’s book.....same title? (”Boys in Brazil”)
In my trips down there I noticed all the German restaurants, people speaking German, German architecture, etc. Certainly makes one wonder.
Hope your summer is going well and that you are doing Okay. Very busy here helping out with our business. We had to lay off one of our bookkeepers, and I’ve been trying to fill in for her. I found that I still remember the difference between a debit and a credit......rather amazing at my age.
We’ve had a beautiful, cool summer, with above normal precipitation. It’s been very welcome after our seven years of drought and high fire danger. We also have more deer wandering around than I can ever remember. Just saw six beautiful spotted fawns in the back yard. What a blessing to be able to experience this! I don’t think I could ever live in the city.
Please take care of yourself. You are an FR treasure!
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>>>Polycarbonate plastic, 1/4 inch thick, used as a bullet stopping clipboard.<<<
Dr. Bill is also a college professor, Berkley and Chico, he is our are and has young children under 10 and grown kids almost your age.
I have listened to him on and off, he loves solving problems, any problem, from dropping food to war torn counties, a package at a time, instead of the pallets that brought out the terrorists to kill and collect them.
He was very interesting during the New Orleans disaster, for he shared with us some of what he was working on, as a problem solving scientist.
He solved the problem of dropping water to the trapped people, in his bathroom.
As I understand it, from bits and pieces, if the bottle is filled to a certain point with water, then sealed, it can be dropped into the flood zone and will float.
From odds and ends heard, Coca Cola stopped the plants and bottled water for dropping and got it out.
A year or so later, I heard on the news that FEMA was destroying thousands of leftover bottles, and I doubt that the news folks were smart enough to understand that they were not off the store shelf bottles.
Dr. Bill says that the people that stayed in the stadium, could have walked out, a mere 5 miles and the deepest water would have been ankle drip.
There is more, but I am distracted by the scanner, which is calling for a “Broken Arrow Training Exercise.......”, guess it is tonight and now....in Las Vegas.
I go a step further...
Why build a power plant with cooling towers? Why pump waste heat into the rivers, ocean and creating cooling towers to pump the most abundant and most effective atmospheric heat insulation there is - water vapor.<<<
You and Dr. Bill will get along, very nicely.
I have heard him say many times that the next generation of nuclear plants, will not be like the old ones that we have now.
He says that other countries are using the American patents now.
I think he is one of the patent holders for nuclear plants.
I know he designed nuclear weapons and part of the space ships.
LOL, he was born poor, a Caterpillar operator for a dad and lots of going to where the work was.
Dr. Bill has a curious mind and his dad would park him in the library to find the answers and study, all over the west, where ever there was work.
They lived in a Cabin on the Calif. Nevada border, high country and ranching country.
Dr. Bill dreamed of coming of age and being a cowboy.
He was through high school at 14 or 15, not due to being a brain, but from the way he was more or less home schooled.
He had applied for college and Berkley accepted him with a scholarship given to him.
He had it all set to start a cowboy job and then Dad found the letter and asked about it, Bill said I want to be a cowboy and dad said “In 2 hours you will be on the bus to college, get ready...” and he was.
He was also one of the youngest ever professors there.
He would love to talk to you about why your plan will work or will not work, and would encourage you to do it.
Veggie flour is definitely the way to go!<<<
Good, to know, it is something that has been lurking in my mind for a long time.
If one can grind pinto beans real fine and then add hot water and have instant beans, what else can be done with the flours.
Cussing, as I crashed my computer again and lost the googles for the vegetable flours, and there was only one that was worth being excited about, the others pulled so so.
so goes real life.
I am crashing way too much, lately.
Can you hear me laughing?
It is even better after you fixed it, I knew the one in the water was talking.
Thought it might be his wife, bitching because his dives were splashing water and getting her hair wet.
Thank you.
Matricula consulars are official identification cards that are issued by the Mexican government through its consular offices. The cards verify that the bearers are Mexican citizens who are living outside of Mexico with the government’s permission.<<<
Thanks for the link.
when the ID cards came out and made the news some 5 or 6 years ago, lots of people who were fighting to get the borders closed, sent and got them, direct from the mex. gov.
All you had to do was say you were Mexican and none of the ones I heard were.
About the same time, we did a lot of research on this, here and Calperinia mapped enough tunnels that one can almost travel Mexico and far into America, via the tunnels and cave connections.
We had quite a file on their main paths and methods, but I have no idea how to find it now.
Your link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306069/posts
MS-13 SMUGGLES THOUSANDS OF MUSLIM TERRORISTS INTO U.S.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2305267/posts?page=3
Town Hall Events to Counter Protest. July, August, September 2009<<<
An impressive list, it is so wonderful to see folks waking up.
You pinged me earlier about the “Boys in Brazil”. Did you ever read Ira Levin’s book.....same title? (”Boys in Brazil”)
In my trips down there I noticed all the German restaurants, people speaking German, German architecture, etc. Certainly makes one wonder.<<<
It is something to think about, it has been years since I read the book, or several like it.
The simple fact is, the treasure and the nazi leaders went to Brazil, with plans to rise again.
From a lot that I see going on, they are doing it now.
Sorry that you had to go back to work, LOL, it will keep your mind active.
The weather has been odd, one rain here, late heat and then unbearable heat that hangs on.
Like you, I cannot live in the city, better to live under a tree and be free of nosy neighbors.
Be happy.
>>>As I understand it, from bits and pieces, if the bottle is filled to a certain point with water, then sealed, it can be dropped into the flood zone and will float.<<<
Back in the 70’s when I lived in Texas, three of us organized an air-drop of food into the Mexican border area - after 3 years of drought, the U.S. opened the floodgates of our dams and totally flooded out their crops the 4th year. Many were stranded without food and miles from the nearest town.
After experimenting, we found that if you put 3 pounds of bagged pinto beans into a trash bag and inflated it then tied it shut, you could air drop it without breaking the bags inside. It was an amazing project - people said nobody would donate, and I got a call one day from Kimbal Foods asking if we could use some pinto beans - I said sure, and he wanted to know where to deliver them - I gave him my address, and he said, are you sure? A 40,000 pound truckload might be easier to let us deliver it to the border for you... A dentist called and offered dental hygiene kits - 25 - not 25 kits but 25 gross.
Then the nay sayers said that the border patrol would never permit us to do it.... We had 3 Border Patrol agents flying their own planes along with us.
Guess the motto is - ‘Never say can’t’.
How House Bill Runs Over Grandma
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305655/posts
Not directed at you, Granny, but you and I will have targets on our backs if this bill were to pass.
Maybe the sigh of relief over the amendments are misplaced...
I just ran across this:
The Jackasses did it……HR 2749 the Seizure of the US food supply and production passed the House
Despite some really eloquent speeches to the contrary, our “for sale” House of Representatives passed the Food Fascism Act….euphemistically called a food safety act, by a margin of about 140 over the naysayer’s.
True to form, Rosa DeLauro spoke about things she knows nothing about and couldn’t care less; Rosa just loves her some Monsanto!
And that exclusion for farms??? Gone! And that includes you organic idiots who thought you had kissed enough behinds to have your industry excluded.
The newly revised bill that appeared overnight after the original was defeated 29th of July, now includes all those farms we were told would not be affected by this legislation. Of course those big agri-corporations made out like bandits. Biopiracy is going to have a profitable future thanks to the political whore’s in congress we call our representatives.
The entire HR 2749 bill was completely wiped and replaced with an amendment that was the text of another bill similar to, but far more lethal than the first. Now, please tell me again that backroom deals and pre-planned votes don’t happen in congress. To make it look bi-partisan, some Democrats voted no, and some Republicans voted yes. This was to make you think they had actually debated and considered what they all intended to do anyway.
The bill that passed does only two things……..it seizes control of food production and supply and then hands it over to big agri-corporations. The remaining content of the bill is a primer on enforcement……meaning all the powers they have granted themselves to prevent you from claiming Constitutional protections, and enabling them to violate your rights on multiple levels…..all for food safety of course.
There is NOTHING in this bill that will address, prevent or otherwise affect the safety of food. This was federal encroachment which will be extended to the states with the cooperation of state officials. This bill did nothing but establish a police agency, granting it massive and uncontrolled enforcement capabilities allowing it to make up even more rules to benefit its corporate sponsors, as it moves along.
Oh! And did I mention this will be done by expanding the FDA? The FDA for god’s sake!
A November 2007 report titled “Subcommittee on Science and Technology, FDA Science and Mission at Risk” doc was a scathing review of the not only the inadequacies of FDA, but the fact that it in no way can assure the safety of food in the United States.
That report cited the massive failure of FDA to perform even its basic functions, going on to declare the agency’s problems were the result of corporate influence and funding. It should have been declared defunct right then and there, but of course the lobbyists who stalk the hallways of congress on behalf bio-pirates and other parasitic corporations just wouldn’t hear of such a thing.
I can only assume the report on the massive failure of FDA to operate on even a cursory level ended up in the restrooms to wipe the behinds of all those royal asses who hold down seats in the House and who voted today to end competition for industrialized corporate producers while wiping out family and independent operations.
And it wasn’t just the House that sold us out. In the last few months various organic associations and other assorted producers came out with what they described as “myths on the net” about the intention of these bills. Why…..these bills were not going to apply to family and independent farms and ranches and surely not to organic growers. That was just internet hysteria! I wonder who was hysterical last evening as this bill passed specifically bringing them under the expanded FDA authority?
And drinks all around!
I have no doubt that dinner and drinks were being supplied last evening by corporate lobbyists as a way to thank House members for passing this seizure of the US food production and supply. FDA was probably pouring the champagne.
I wonder if anyone thought to invite those organic groups?
Maybe they could give everyone a big dose of Vioxx when they arrive, spike it with a Gardasil shot and then wash it all down with a big giant super sized diet soda loaded with that yummy aspartame. This should all be followed by a meal consisting of gmo infected fruits and veggies with a big slab of genetically altered meat just oozing antibiotics, growth hormones and the residues from chemicals of all kinds, shipped in from a country who gave their word they “inspected” the food before shipping it.
After all, thanks to Henry Waxman and his cohorts in Constitutional Crime, that’s what is going to end up on our plates.
(C) 2009 Marti Oakley
July 31, 2009
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2306275/posts?page=1
My advice - go to every event where legislators are gathering during the August recess! Tell them what you think - As 0bama tells you - get in their faces.....
Already many congress critters are canceling town hall meetings left and right - trying to avoid the confrontations... If they won’t come to us, go to them - visit their offices and tell their staff face to face what you think. Keep the phone lines busy - emails and faxes are treated as an annoyance and pretty much ignored.
Calling them out on something at a public meeting seems to really get under their skin... Take Mike Castle - a Not-Republican from Delaware - went to a townhall meeting in Georgetown - A lady named Eileen from Milsboro, DE (the one you see on Youtube.) called him down on the birth certificate - waving her own and wanting to know where Zero’s was... It even made the MSM. If you go, take a camera - put it on Youtube.
Talking to some of his staff, they vow to never let him call on anyone holding papers again, and only call on people they recognize as siding with you. (sounds like 0bama)
Anyway, here’s more on HR 2749 The bill from Hell!!!
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HR 2749: Food Safety’s Scorched Earth Policy
HR 2749 is being rushed through Congress, and the house may look to suspend the rules and fast track the bill at Obama’s request. Just what can we expect from this legislation? A lot more of the following:
Dick Peixoto planted hedges of fennel and flowering cilantro around his organic vegetable fields in the Pajaro Valley near Watsonville to harbor beneficial insects, an alternative to pesticides.
He has since ripped out such plants in the name of food safety, because his big customers demand sterile buffers around his crops. No vegetation. No water. No wildlife of any kind.
“I was driving by a field where a squirrel fed off the end of the field, and so 30 feet in we had to destroy the crop,” he said. “On one field where a deer walked through, didn’t eat anything, just walked through and you could see the tracks, we had to take out 30 feet on each side of the tracks and annihilate the crop.”
In the verdant farmland surrounding Monterey Bay, a national marine sanctuary and one of the world’s biological jewels, scorched-earth strategies are being imposed on hundreds of thousands of acres in the quest for an antiseptic field of greens. And the scheme is about to go national. (Lochhead, C. )
The question that must be asked is, do we really want to destroy our local organic farming industry by poisoning ponds, bulldozing crops and killing wildlife all in the name of food safety?
Recently someone asked why I thought that the current food safety legislation would jeopardize organic farming. This is why! People who have no idea what it is to farm, and are in collusion with large corporate food producers, buyers, and sellers, draft legislation that is intolerable to the environment and our health, all in the name of food safety, in order to promote corporate profit.
Not one instance in “16 years of handling nearly every major food-borne illness outbreak in America, has Seattle trial lawyer Bill Marler had a case where it’s been linked to a farmers’ market” (Marler, B.). Yet, farmer’s markets and local organic food growers who sell at these markets are included in this legislation, and factory farming scorched earth methods are forced on them.
The Scorched Earth Policy
It is impossible to sanitize the earth. When slash and burn methods are used to supposedly control pathogens in our food supply, nature’s natural balance is destroyed, and with it our health. “Sanitizing American agriculture, aside from being impossible, is foolhardy,” said UC Berkeley food guru Michael Pollan. (Lochhead, C.)
Invisible to a public that sees only the headlines of the latest food-safety scare – spinach, peppers and now cookie dough – ponds are being poisoned and bulldozed. Vegetation harboring pollinators and filtering storm runoff is being cleared. Fences and poison baits line wildlife corridors. Birds, frogs, mice and deer – and anything that shelters them – are caught in a raging battle in the Salinas Valley against E. coli O157:H7, a lethal, food-borne bacteria. (Lochhead, C.)
In fact, in the fierce battle to sanitize the earth, one thing has been overlooked:
Some science suggests that removing vegetation near field crops could make food less safe. Vegetation and wetlands are a landscape’s lungs and kidneys, filtering out not just fertilizers, sediments and pesticides, but also pathogens. UC Davis scientists found that vegetation buffers can remove as much as 98 percent of E. coli from surface water. UC Davis advisers warn that some rodents prefer cleared areas. (Lochhead, C.)
Food Safety Fraud Culprits
So who is behind this massive attack on our food supply? You guessed it – giant food retailers, agri-business, and anyone with a bankroll larger than the state of Texas. It seems that paying “more than $100 million in court settlements and verdicts in spinach and lettuce lawsuits” (Lochhead, C.) as well as realizing a loss in sales is galvanizing these corporate giants to lead the charge in instituting a “quasi-governmental program of new protocols for growing greens safely, called the “leafy greens marketing agreement.””
A proposal was submitted last month in Washington to take these rules nationwide.” (Lochhead, C.) And just what is this proposal? HR 2749 Food Safety Enhancement Act.
A food safety bill sponsored by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, passed this month in the House Energy and Commerce Committee. It would give new powers to the Food and Drug Administration to regulate all farms and produce in an attempt to fix the problem. The bill would require consideration of farm diversity and environmental rules, but would leave much to the FDA. (Lochhead, C.)
The requirements of this bill would put small farmers out of business entirely, but this is not the only threat to the little guy.
Large produce buyers have compiled secret “super metrics” that go much further. Farmers must follow them if they expect to sell their crops. These can include vast bare-dirt buffers, elimination of wildlife, and strict rules on water sources. To enforce these rules, retail buyers have sent forth armies of food-safety auditors, many of them trained in indoor processing plants, to inspect fields. (Lochhead, C.)
Most of these inspectors have little to no experience other than inside four walls. Take for example Ken Kimes, who owns New Natives Farms in Santa Cruz County. He was told that “no children younger than five can be allowed on his farm for fear of diapers” (Lochhead, C.)
Reaping the Consequences
It is this type of micro-management that our entire nation can look forward to if HR 2749 passes. These are rules no-one can comply with other than large factory operations. Not only do they conflict with common sense, but with organic and environmental standards as well. They are causing what they propose to eliminate, and that is, a dangerous, contaminated food supply controlled by no one but the biggest corporations.
And what can we expect to reap from this harvest? Higher prices due to increased costs to implement the measures and ship the food, nothing but factory-produced food that has travelled for miles to get on the shelf, increased pesticide use, the elimination of organic standards and the family farm, and the rape and desecration of nature itself.
The consequences of California’s draconian measures which are scheduled to go nationwide with the implementation of HR 2749 are already resulting in irreparable harm.
…trees have been bulldozed along the riparian corridors of the Salinas Valley, while poison-filled tubes targeting rodents dot lettuce fields. Dying rodents have led to deaths of owls and hawks that naturally control rodents. (Lochhead, C.)
The Fear Factor
Why is the public going along with this?
“It’s all based on panic and fear, and the science is not there,” said Dr. Andy Gordus, an environmental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Game.
Preliminary results released in April from a two-year study by the state wildlife agency, UC Davis and the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that less than one-half of 1 percent of 866 wild animals tested positive for E. coli O157:H7 in Central California.
Frogs are unrelated to E. coli, but their remains in bags of mechanically harvested greens are unsightly, Gordus said, so “the industry has been using food safety as a premise to eliminate frogs.”
Farmers are told that ponds used to recycle irrigation water are unsafe. So they bulldoze the ponds and pump more groundwater, opening more of the aquifer to saltwater intrusion, said Jill Wilson, an environmental scientist at the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board in San Luis Obispo.
Wilson said demands for 450-foot dirt buffers remove the agency’s chief means of preventing pollution from entering streams and rivers. Jovita Pajarillo, associate director of the water division in the San Francisco office of the Environmental Protection Agency, said removal of vegetative buffers threatens Arroyo Seco, one of the last remaining stretches of habitat for steelhead trout. (Lochhead, C.)
The Real Problem
The problem does not lie squarely in the lap of the farmer, where this legislation places it. It lies in the processing that happens after the produce leaves the farm. This legislation pronounces a death sentence on all small farmers, organic growers, and our nation’s very health as well, yet fails to address the real problem. “Industry rules won’t stop lawsuits or eliminate the risk of processed greens cut in fields, mingled in large baths, put in bags that must be chilled from packing plant to kitchen, and shipped thousands of miles away” (Marler, B).
Mass-production is the culprit, not my neighbor down the road who grows strawberries and sells them at the local farmer’s market. Yet the cause of the problem – mass-produced, industrialized food production methods are supported, while the innocent victims – family farmers, organic producers, and neighbors selling fruit at the local farmer’s market – are punished and quite literally put out of business.
©2009 Barbara H. Peterson
Source:
Lochhead, C. (2009). Crops, ponds destroyed in quest for food safety. SF Chronicle
Sorry, above article should have been addressed to you.
Low GI pasta with banana flour, scientists report
By Stephen Daniells, 05-Sep-2008
Related topics: Science & Nutrition, Carbohydrates and fibres (sugar, starches), Fruit, vegetable, nut ingredients
A resistant starch-rich powder from banana powder could boost the nutritional content of pasta, report researchers from Spain and Mexico.
The research, published in the journal Food Chemistry, taps into the trend for development of ingredients with health and wellness functionality.
Addition of flour made from unripe bananas increased the resistant starch content by more than 12 per cent, without adversely affecting quality of the final pasta product, report the researchers from the Centro de Desarrollo de Productos Bioticos del IPN in Morelos, Mexico and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
“Pasta products containing banana flour exhibit a low rate of carbohydrate enzymatic hydrolysis and they could help broaden the range of low-glycaemic index foods available to the consumer,” wrote lead author Maribel Ovando-Martinez.
“Moreover, this food contains increased levels of indigestible compounds (resistant starch and non-starch polysaccharides) that may be beneficial for intestinal health.”
Pasta formulation
The banana flour was used with traditional semolina wheat durum to prepare spaghetti, with durum:banana flour ratios of 100:0, 85:15, 70:30, and 55:45.
“Whole durum wheat is employed in traditional pasta manufacture because of the unique rheological properties of its proteins,” explained the researchers. “Partial or complete substitution of durum wheat semolina with fibre material can result in negative changes to pasta quality, including increased cooking loss.”
In order to ensure a good quality pasta, a cooking loss of no more than eight per cent is considered acceptable, said the researchers.
“Hence, the spaghetti containing different level of banana flour was within the expected values of cooking loss and could be considered as spaghetti of good cooking quality,” they stated.
In terms of indigestible starch, addition of the banana flour increased this, relative to the 100 per cent durum wheat pasta, which had a resistant starch value of only 1.11 per cent. The pasta containing the highest concentration of banana flour contained the most resistant starch, at 12.42 per cent, said the researchers.
continues and other foods info is here.....
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