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Dear Readers;
The third U. S. Democratic Governor who has been critical of the Bush Administration has been removed, this time by federal prosecutors’ accusations. Puerto Rican Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila has stepped aside amid corruption charges:
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He joins recently outted-by-the-Bush Administration NY Governor Spitzer. [See the March 24 Kleiner’s Korner]
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“Donald Siegelman, former governor of Alabama, was ordered released from prison on Thursday [March 27] by a federal appeals court, pending his appeal of a bribery conviction that Democrats say resulted from a politically driven prosecution,” quoting the New York Times.
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Jeepers, what next?
1. “BLIND...ARCHER...MAKE[S] ONE-IN-A-MILLION...SHOT”
“An archer has achieved a one-in-a-million feat of marksmanship after splitting one arrow with another. What makes the shot even more remarkable is that Tilly Trotter is blind.
The 74-year-old grandmother pulled off the shot, known among archers as a "Robin Hood", at a practice session of the Wellington Bowmen in Somerset,” quoting UK’s Independent.
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2. “THE LIGHTBULB OF THE FUTURE”
“Silicon Valley's Luxim has developed a lightbulb the size of a Tic Tac that gives off as much light as a streetlight. News.com's Michael Kanellos talks to the company about its technology and its plans to expand into various markets,” quoting News.com.
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3. “MACHINE MAKES WATER GOOD ENOUGH TO DRINK”
“Auckland engineer Victoria Fray has come up with a new variation on the age-old theme of teaching someone to fish so they can feed themselves forever.
She has designed a mini-desalination plant that is small and robust enough to be sent to remote Pacific islands to provide water for up to 900 people in an emergency - then be hauled back to Auckland and used again in the next disaster elsewhere,” quoting the New Zealand Herald.
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4. “$10 MILLION BOUNTY FOR SUPER-EFFICIENT CARS”
“A $10 million contest to develop super-efficient — and salable — automobiles is getting its official kickoff on Thursday [March 20], with Progressive Insurance providing the purse.
The Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, modeled after earlier prizes for spaceflight and genetic research, is aimed at promoting the creation of cars that get the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon, while at the same time hitting targets for low greenhouse-gas emissions, safety and affordability,” quoting MSNBC.
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5. “A VISIT TO THE DOOMSDAY VAULT”
"60 Minutes is going to take you on a journey to the end of the earth to show you a place that might someday save humankind. It’s a bank built to last 10,000 years. But as correspondent Scott Pelley explains, it's not money or gold that’s on deposit. Currencies rise and fall with civilizations.
60 Minutes was there last month, when the world's most important assets were made safe from climate change and nuclear war, locked deep inside the doomsday vault," quoting CBS News 60 Minutes.
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6. EAVESDROPPING IN THE NEWS
A.”COMPANIES USE SCANS TO TRACK EMPLOYEES”
“Employees at a growing number of businesses around the nation are starting and ending their days by pressing a hand or finger to a scanner that logs the precise time of their arrival and departure — information that is automatically reflected in payroll records.
Employees at a growing number of businesses around the nation are starting and ending their days by pressing a hand or finger to a scanner that logs the precise time of their arrival and departure — information that is automatically reflected in payroll records…
Protests over using palm scanners to log employee time have been especially loud in New York City, where officials are spending $410 million to install an automated attendance tracking system that may eventually be used by 160,000 city workers,” quoting the AP.
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B. “SPY-IN-THE-SKY DRONE SETS SIGHT ON MIAMI”
“Miami police could soon be the first in the United States to use cutting-edge, spy-in-the-sky technology to beef up their fight against crime.
A small pilotless drone manufactured by Honeywell International, capable of hovering and “staring” using electro-optic or infrared sensors, is expected to make its debut soon in the skies over the Florida Everglades,” quoting Reuters.
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7. “ARCHAEOLOGISTS ATTEMPT TO DATE STONEHINGE CREATION”
“Some of England's most sacred soil was disturbed Monday for the first time in more than four decades as archaeologists worked to solve the enduring riddle of Stonehenge: When and why was the prehistoric monument built?
The excavation project, set to last until April 11, is designed to unearth materials that can be used to establish a firm date for when the first mysterious set of bluestones was put in place at Stonehenge, one of Britain's best known and least understood landmarks,” quoting the AP.
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8. GORE LAUNCHES NEW CLIMATE CHANGE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
“Former Vice President Al Gore launched a three-year, multimillion-dollar advocacy campaign Monday [March 31] calling for the U.S. to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
The Alliance for Climate Protection's campaign, dubbed "we," will combine advertising, online organizing and partnerships with grass-roots groups to educate the public about global warming and urge solutions from elected officials,” quoting Newsday.
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“The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection -- a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate former Vice President Al Gore. Our ultimate aim is to halt global warming.”
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See Al Gore’s interview about the project from the March 30th CBS News 60 Minutes Program:
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9. “ELEPHANT PAINTS SELF-PORTRAIT”
This is an amazing video providing more testimony to the intelligence of these grand mammals:
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10. “REACHING THE $5 MILLION CLUB REQUIRES AN OPEN MIND”
“THE OLD SAYING is true: The rich are different. But not only do their values and habits set them apart from the hoi polloi, they're different from their wealthy predecessors of a generation ago. For those interested in joining their ranks, it helps to understand why,” quoting smSmallBiz.com.
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11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
A. “AMERICAN WEST HEATING NEARLY TWICE AS FAST AS REST OF WORLD…”
From Science Daily:
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B. “NASA...THICKEST AND OLDEST ARCTIC ICE IS MELTING”
From Reuters:
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C. “U.S. FIRM LAYS CLAIM TO “POTENTIALLY VAST” ARCTIC OIL RESERVES”
Spare me such ignorant AND stupid folly! From The Ottawa Citizen:
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D. “SOOT MAY PLAY ROLL IN CLIMATE CHANGE”
From the LA Times:
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E. “VAST ANTARCTIC ICE SHELF ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE”
From Live Science:
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12. THE ECONOMY AND THE POLITICAL
A. “SLUMP MOVES FROM WALL ST. TO MAIN ST.”
From the New York Times:
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B. “CITIES GRAPPLE WITH SURGE IN ABANDONED HOMES”
From Reuters:
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C. “WHY SUBPRIME IS JUST STARTING”
From Investor Village:
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D. “AS JOBS VANISH AND PRICES RISE, FOOD STAMPS USE NEARS RECORD”
From The New York Times:
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E. “RICE SHORTAGES CRESTING FEARS OF ASIA UNREST”
From the New York Times:
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RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. “JZ Knight…is delighted to take part in a once-in-a-lifetime celebration: V TO THE TENTH. V-Day’s 10th anniversary event in New Orleans will take place Friday-Saturday April 11-12 at the New Orleans Arena and Louisiana Superdome bringing thousands of women and men to the city to celebrate V-Day’s ten years of ending violence against women and girls and to honor the women of New Orleans and the Gulf South.
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From the V-day site:
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B. RSE is coming to the Twin Cities in May:
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C. Miceal’s work:
1. “Mysterious Ghostly Orbs perplex researchers” from UK’s Newsmonster:
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2. MastersConnection interview Part 3:
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D. Dr. Marvin Kunikiyo announces his office, CLASSIC CHIROPRACTIC, is now located in McKenna!
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LOCAL NOTES
Covered last week on the Yelm Community Blog:
A. Thurston County’s Adopt a Pet,
B. Commercial air service for Thurston County?
C. Board questions city about Yelm’s Library after 2012
D. Think of these options for your cast-offs
E. Olympia moves up to 8th on Forbes list
F. Babes in Belts Emergency Medicine Seminar offered
G. Yelm Ave. West improvements
h. Ian Mardon Violin Concert in Yelm April 1
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the risk and
sometimes you fail. But you only fail if you give up.”
J. Peterman
Owner of the J. Peterman catalog sales company .
Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2008.
For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner, click on "Current Kleiner’s Korner and Archives" at
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Send comments to steve@kleinerskorner.com .
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| KLEINER'S KORNER FOR WEEK OF MARCH 24, 2008
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Dear Readers;
Ed. Note: While I find former NY Governor Spitzer stupid for his sexcapades and he alone is responsible for his own indiscretions, there is mounting evidence that the tar & feathering of this man was a concerted effort by the Bush Administration to get him. Brasscheck says, “It's one of the most amazing displays of journalistic incompetence and malpractice in recent memory."
This writer finds these stories important to put in context as to why Mr. Spitzer was derailed from his post while other prominent politicians doing the same actions were not:
A. “WHY ELIOT SPITZER WAS ASSASSINATED” "The US news media failed to draw the obvious connection between the bizarre federal law enforcement investigation and leak campaign about the private life of New York Governor Spitzer and Spitzer's all out attack on the Bush administration for its collusion with predatory lenders,” quoting Brasscheck:
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AND: “Greg Palast Reporting for Air America Radio’s Clout says “The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked”
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AND: "WHY BUSH WATERGATED ELIOT SPITZER" From Fourwinds10.com:
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1. NEW INFORMATION ON THE BRAIN
A. PBS SPECIAL: BRAIN FITNESS PROGRAM AND NEURO-PLASTICITY
If you missed this dynamic program, you can now buy the DVD online:
"This program presents a workout to help viewers get their brains in better shape. The Brain Fitness Program is based on neuro-plasticity, the ability of the brain to change and adapt — even rewire itself. In the past two years, a team of scientists has developed computer-based stimulus sets that drive beneficial chemical, physical and functional changes in the brain,” quoting the DVD.
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Order from PBS:
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See The PBS special, The Brain Fitness Program:
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B. YOU TUBE: “HOW IT FEELS TO HAVE A STROKE”
“Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.”
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This site has the video & text:
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C. “CAN’T SAVE? BLAME YOUR BRAIN”
“New discoveries in neuroscience labs are helping to explain why it's so hard to resist the allure of instant gratification. It turns out that your brain is much more aroused by $1 today than by $1 tomorrow. And $1 six months from now barely registers,” quoting Money Magazine.
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2. “REGROWING LIMBS: CAN PEOPLE REGENERATE BODY PARTS?”
• “The gold standard for limb regeneration is the salamander, which can grow perfect replacements for lost body parts throughout its lifetime. Understanding how can provide a road map for human limb regeneration.
• The early responses of tissues at an amputation site are not that different in salamanders and in humans, but eventually human tissues form a scar, whereas the salamander’s reactivate an embryonic development program to build a new limb.
• Learning to control the human wound environment to trigger salamanderlike healing could make it possible to regenerate large body parts.”
This report is from Scientific American for April, 2008:
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And this video report from CBS News:
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3. “OLD-FASHIONED PLAY BUILDS SERIOUS SKILLS” IN CHILDREN”
“Organizing play for kids has never seemed like more work. But researchers Adele Diamond and Deborah Leong have good news: The best kind of play costs nothing and really only has one main requirement — imagination…
Self-regulation is a critical skill for kids. Unfortunately, most kids today spend a lot of time doing three things: watching television, playing video games and taking lessons. None of these activities promote self-regulation.
We asked for alternatives from three researchers: Deborah Leong, professor of psychology at Metropolitan State College of Denver, Elena Bodrova, senior researcher with Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning, and Laura Berk, professor of psychology at Illinois State University.
Here are their suggestions:
Simon Says
Complex Imaginative Play
Activities That Require Planning
Joint Storybook Reading
Encourage Children to Talk to Themselves,” quoting NPR.
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4. “THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP”
“Human beings spend on average one third of their lives asleep. We know we need to sleep but most of us have never really given a whole lot of thought to why.
Why do we spend seven or eight hours a night immobile and unconscious? What really happens inside our brains and bodies while we're sleeping?
We've known the purpose of our other biological drives for hundreds of years: we eat to give our bodies energy, we drink to keep hydrated, we procreate to perpetuate the species - among other things. But what is the biological purpose of sleep?
It turns out no one really knows for sure. As correspondent Lesley Stahl reports, why we sleep is one of the biggest unanswered questions in all of science, which is why researchers all over the country are doing studies and coming up with some new and intriguing discoveries,” quoting CBS News 60 Minutes.
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5. “STUDY FINDS 1 IN 4 US TEENS HAS A STD”
“At least one in four teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease, suggests a first-of-its-kind federal study that startled some adolescent-health experts… Only about half of the girls in the study acknowledged having sex. Some teens define sex as only intercourse, yet other types of intimate behavior including oral sex can spread some diseases.
Among those who admitted having sex, the rate was even more disturbing — 40 percent had an STD,” quoting the AP.
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6. “17-MONTH-OLD WHO CAN READ”
March 10: Can’t believe it? Watch baby Elizabeth read and say words live on TODAY [NBC-TV].
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7. NASA’S EARTH OBSERVATORY HEADLINES
“Stories that have recently appeared in the popular press, television, and radio,” quoting NASA.
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8. NEW EVIDENCE SURFACES IN RFK ASSASSINATION CASE
“New evidence underscoring how a ‘rush to judgment’ led to failed justice in the Robert F. Kennedy assassination This book presents, for the first time, exclusive details on the Van Praag discoveries scientifically establishing the presence of a second gun in the RFK assassination. A portion of these discoveries became the basis of a recent Discovery Times Channel television documentary. Since that time, an additional discovery adds a greater depth of verification and understanding to what occurred in that kitchen-pantry 40 years ago,” quoting An Open & Shut Case.
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AND:
This from UK’s Guardian:
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9. “SHINING A LIGHT ON HAZARDS OF FLUORESCENT BULBS”
“Compact fluorescent light bulbs, long touted by environmentalists as a more efficient and longer-lasting alternative to the incandescent bulbs that have lighted homes for more than a century, are running into resistance from waste industry officials and some environmental scientists, who warn that the bulbs’ poisonous innards pose a bigger threat to health and the environment than previously thought...
But while the bulbs are extremely energy-efficient, one problem hasn’t gone away: All CFLs contain mercury, a neurotoxin that can cause kidney and brain damage.
The amount is tiny — about 5 milligrams, or barely enough to cover the tip of a pen — but that is enough to contaminate up to 6,000 gallons of water beyond safe drinking levels, extrapolated from Stanford University research on mercury. Even the latest lamps promoted as “low-mercury” can contaminate more than 1,000 gallons of water beyond safe levels,” quoting MSNBC.
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10. OH BROTHER! NOW THE “VATICAN ‘BANS’ BOOK REVEALING ‘SECRET’ OF POPE”
“Two bestselling authors have accused the Vatican of blacklisting them in Italy after they discovered secret documents that suggest that a pope had funded William of Orange, a Protestant hero… The authors said the problems arose because they found documents in both the Vatican Secret Archive and the Italian State Archives which suggest that William of Orange was receiving huge sums of money from Rome,” quoting UK’s Telegraph. [Ed. Note: must be some truth in this if the Holy Mother Church is banning a book!]
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11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
A. “UN: GLACIERS SHRINK AT RECORD ATE”
From CNN:
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B. “HAWAII VOLCANO EXPLODES FOR FIRST TIME IN 84 YEARS”
From CNN:
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C. "ENJOY LIFE WHILE YOU CAN"
"Climate science maverick James Lovelock believes catastrophe is inevitable, carbon offsetting is a joke and ethical living a scam. So what would he do?" quoting UK's Guardian.
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D. "PLAN TO SPRAY TOXIC BIOLOGICAL CHEMICALS ANNOUNCED OVER SAN FRANCISCO..."
From BBS radio:
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E. "WHY YOUR FOOD IS COSTING MORE MONEY"
From the MSNBC:
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F. "COULD WE REALLY RUN OUT OF FOOD?"
From Sympatico:
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G. "SALMON COLLAPSE COULD LEAD TO PACIFIC COAST FISHING BAN"
From the AP:
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The New York Times:
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H. "DAMS IN RIVERS ARE PREVENTING SEA-LEVEL RISE"
From National Geographic:
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12. FROM THE WORLD OF POLITICS & ECONOMICS
A. FORMER WA. STATE MISSILE BASE ON SALE ON E-BAY AS IDEAL HOME!
From the BBC:
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B. FORMER FED CHIEF GREENSPAN DENIES HIS POLICIES TO BLAME
[YEAH, RIGHT! This writer always said the policies of the Greenspan Fed were eliminating the American Middle Class!] "Greenspan said in his book released last year, ''The Age of Turbulence,'' that the subprime boom would boost home ownership and was 'worth the risk'," quoting the Washington Post:
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C. “OPEN GOVERNMENT PROMISES TOO OFTEN FADE INTO SECRECY”
This is an excellent examination by USA Today of Presidential candidate’s promises that will probably fall by the wayside, to be long forgotten once in office:
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D. “THE BUCK STOPS WHERE?”
From the WSJ:
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E. BOB DYLAN: "THE MASTER$ OF WAR CON$PIRACY VIDEO
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F. "PAUL COULD BE POISED FOR AN INTERNET-DRIVEN COMEBACK"
From Alex Jones' Infowars:
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And: NEWSWEEK'S report about Dr. Paul:
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RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. RSE's March newsletter is now out:
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- See RSE Student Accomplishments:
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- And: Celebrating RSE's 20th Anniversary:
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- 2008's Beginning Retreats and Workshops list:
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B. Salma Hayek will be one of the featured headliners in New Orleans at The Vagina Monologues. The New Orleans event -- "V to the 10th" -- marks the 10th anniversary of the V-Day Project and will be the culmination of thousands of worldwide productions of the play… To date, performances of the play have raised more than $50 million for local anti-violence groups in more than 120 countries. V-Day now raises "more money than any group in the world to stop violence against women,” quoting the New Orleans Times-Picayune:
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See this brief recap of V-day on NBC’s Today Show with a clip of Ms. Hayek:
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C. Fabulous byline from Miceal Ledwith titled The Corruption of Scripture Texts” in the Bleeping Herald:
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D. CSE's report for this week:
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LOCAL NOTES
From the Yelm Community Blog last week:
A. Support our local businesses: Smoke Plus
B. Yelm Library hosts: "Our Past-Our Present"
C. Spring officially arrives in Yelm
D. Support our local businesses: Schafer Gallery
E. Yelm By-pass In-depth Update
F. World Water day debut of film WATER in Yelm
G. Meet our County Commissioner Candidates
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If
you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever
increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires
effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is
about.”
James Clavell (1924-1994)
in his novel "Shogun"
British novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II veteran and POW .
Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2008.
For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner, click on "Current Kleiner’s Korner and Archives" at
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Send comments to steve@kleinerskorner.com .
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| KLEINER'S KORNER FOR WEEK OF MARCH 17, 2008
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HAPPY SPRING!
“The date (near March 21 in the northern hemisphere) when night and day are nearly the same length and Sun crosses the celestial equator (i.e., declination 0) moving northward. In the southern hemisphere, the vernal equinox corresponds to the center of the Sun crossing the celestial equator moving southward and occurs on the date of the northern autumnal equinox. The vernal equinox marks the first day of the season of spring,” quoting Science World.
Spring begins at 10:57pm on March 19 in Yelm & the West Coast.
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1. WORLD WATER DAY THIS WEEK – NEW FILM OPENS ABOUT WATER
“In 1992, the UN General Assembly designated March 22 as "World Water Day" to draw international attention to the critical lack of clean, safe drinking water worldwide.
In 2007, 69 cities across the United States passed resolutions acknowledging March 22 as World Water Day.
World Water Day is an international day of observance and action to draw attention to the plight of the more than 1 billion people world wide that lack access to clean, safe drinking water. Celebrated since 1993, World Water Day was designated in 1992 when the United Nations (UN) General Assembly passed a resolution. With each passing year, the observance has grown larger and stronger," quoting the World Water Day website.
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“THE FILM "WATER" OPENS IN YELM, PORTLAND [OR], SEATTLE, & AUSTIN MARCH 21ST
"This film is about water, the most amazing yet least studied substance. From times immemorial, scientists, philosophers and theologians tried to understand its explicit and implicit properties, which are phenomenal, beyond the common physical laws of nature.”
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More information is on the Yelm Community Blog about these events. Yelm Mayor Ron Harding will commemorate the day with an announcement on the electronic reader board in front of City Hall:
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2. “DRIVING STUDY DEALS BLOW TO HANDS-FREE PHONES”
Simply listening to a cell phone distracts drivers, a study concludes. The finding raises questions about the effectiveness of laws that ban only the use of handheld devices while driving.
California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Washington, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands prohibit drivers from using handheld cell phones, but no jurisdiction bans hands-free phones, says Jonathan Adkins, spokesman for the Governors Highway Safety Association, which represents state and territorial highway safety offices.
Allowing hands-free phones "really gives drivers a false sense of safety," Adkins says. He adds that he has seen no evidence that bans on handheld phones have prevented accidents.
Neuroscientist Marcel Just, director of the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, agrees. Just studied 29 volunteers who used a driving simulator while inside an MRI brain scanner. The volunteers steered a car along a virtual winding road undisturbed or while deciding whether a sentence they heard was true or false.
Listening while driving led to a ‘significant deterioration in driving accuracy,’ Just and his co-authors write in the latest issue of the journal Brain Research. The drivers hit the guardrail and veered out of the center of the lane more often while listening,” quoting USA Today.
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3. “RARE PHOTO DEPICTS HELEN KELLER, TEACHER”
“Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod and tucked inside a family album.
The photograph, shot in July 1888 in Brewster, shows an 8-year-old Helen sitting outside in a light-colored dress, holding Sullivan's hand and cradling one of her beloved dolls.
Experts on Keller's life believe it could be the earliest photo of the two women together and the only one showing the blind and deaf child with a doll — the first word Sullivan spelled for Keller after they met in 1887 — according to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, which now has the photo,” quoting the AP. [Ed. Note: Helen Keller & this writer shared the same birth date, June 1 & I was always fascinated with her life’s work.]
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4. “THE STRONGEST KNOWN MAGNET IN THE UNIVERSE”
[Ed. Note: This is an interesting story from June 5, 2002 sent in by a KK reader.]
“Astrophysicists at the California Institute of Technology, using the Palomar 200-inch telescope, have uncovered evidence that a special type of pulsar has the strongest magnetic field in the universe.
Reporting in the May 30 issue of the journal Nature, Caltech graduate student Brian Kern and his advisor Chris Martin report on the nature of pulses emanating from a faint object in the constellation Cassiopeia. Using a specially designed camera and the Palomar 200-inch telescope, the team discovered that a quarter of the visible light from the pulsar known as 4U0142+61 is pulsed, while only 3 percent of the X rays emanating from the object are pulsed, meaning that the pulsar must be an object known as a magnetar,” quoting Space Ref.com.
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5. “ALCOHOL ‘QUICKLY’ CUTS HEART RISK” – WINE A WINNER
“Middle-aged non-drinkers can quickly reduce their risk of heart disease by introducing a daily tipple to their diet, South Carolina researchers say.
New moderate drinkers were 38% less likely to develop heart disease than those who stayed tee-total, a four-year study involving 7,500 people found.
Those who drank only wine showed the most benefit, the researchers reported in the American Medical Journal,” quoting the BBC.
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6. “BRITAIN MAKES CAMERA THAT ‘SEES’ UNDER CLOTHES”
“A British company has developed a camera that can detect weapons, drugs, or explosives hidden under people's clothes from up to 25 meters away in what could be a breakthrough for the security industry.
The T5000 camera, created by a company called ThruVision, uses what it calls "passive imaging technology" to identify objects by the natural electromagnetic rays -- known as Terahertz or T-rays -- that they emit.
The high-powered camera can detect hidden objects from up to 80 feet away and is effective even when people are moving. It does not reveal physical body details and the screening is harmless, the company says,” quoting Reuters.
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7. “TWIN MIRRORS BRING UNIVERSE A LOT CLOSER”
“The Large Binocular Telescope became the world's most powerful camera this week when astronomers released pictures of a "nearby" galaxy some 102 million light-years from Earth…
Huge dual mirrors on the telescope, located on Mount Graham in southern Arizona, helped an Italian team to focus on the spiral galaxy called NGC 2770…
Having two 28-foot mirrors gather light from distant stars provides twice the power to look deep into space, Green explained.,” quoting the Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch.
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8. “VATICAN LISTS ‘NEW SINS’: INCLUDING POLLUTION”
“Thou shall not pollute the Earth. Thou shall beware genetic manipulation. Modern times bring with them modern sins. So the Vatican has told the faithful that they should be aware of "new" sins such as causing environmental blight.
The guidance came at the weekend when Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, the Vatican's number two man in the sometimes murky area of sins and penance, spoke of modern evils,” quoting Reuters. [Ed. Note: This is the pot calling the kettle black. After all, who would listen to what the Church calls a sin when this same Church has still not apologized for the brutal death of Giordano Bruno in a central Roman market square, his tongue in a gag, tied to a pole naked and burned at the stake, on February 17, 1600 for his view of the plurality of worlds. Spare the world of such further folly foisted on the flock!]
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9. WWII PILOT FELL FROM THE SKY AND INTO THE HEARTS OF ISLANDERS; REFLECTS ON THOSE WHO SAVED HIM
“EDITOR'S NOTE: The story of Fred Hargesheimer is a saga of the human spirit, a parable for a century of war and strife, or any century. A reporter visits the Pacific island where the story began and interviews Hargesheimer [now age 91] California home,” quoting the AP. [Ed. Note: This is a very touching story and worth the read!]
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10. UNIQUE ENTITIES MAKING NEWS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
A. A MAN’S “ABILITIES TO WITHSTAND FREEZING TEMPERATURES”
From America’s ABC News:
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B. “NZ DOLPHIN RESCUES BEACHED WHALES”
“The dolphin communicated with whales, and led them to safety,” from the BBC:
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C. “BORISKA, BOY FORM MARS, SAYS THAT ALL HUMANS LIVE ETERNALLY”
From Russia’s Pravda:
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11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS OF THE WEEK
A. “DRUGS FOUND IN WATERSHEDS OF 28 AREAS”
From Newsvine [Ed. Note: Includes medium-sized cities like Louisville, Ky. & Oklahoma City, OK.]:
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The AP report on this subject:
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B. “GOVERNMENT REPORTS WARN PLANNERS ON SEA RISE THREATS TO U. S. COASTS”
From the New York Times:
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C. “UNFELT SEISMIC EVENT IS TAKING PLACE BENEATH WESTERN WASHINGTON”
From PhysOrg:
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D. “FEDS WARN ENTIRE SALMON SEASON COULD BE HALTED”
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
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E. STUDIES: “CARBON OUTPUT MUST NEAR ZERO TO AVERT DANGER”
From the Washington Post:
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12. NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF POLITICS
A. RON PAUL’S MESSAGE TO SUPPORTERS
From March 6, 2008:
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AND THIS FABULOUS CNN INTERVIEW FROM MARCH 11, 2008:
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B. RFID COMING YOUR WAY SOON
Check-out this book title: “SPYCHIPS: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move” by Katherine Albrecht & Liz McIntyre.
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C. “9/11 ATTACKS HARM FIRST AMENDMENT”
From The New York Times:
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D. “STUDIES: IRAQ WAR WILL COST $12 BILLION A MONTH”
From the AP:
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E. “THE MONKEY MIND”
From Brass Check TV:
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F. "DOLLAR'S CLOUT SINKS WORLDWIDE"
From the AP:
link here
G. THIS NON-SEQUITUR CARTOON COULD BE ABOUT THIS WRITER
link here
H. U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HOLDS CLOSED-DOOR SESSION OUT OF PUBLIC EYE!
This was "only the fourth time in 176 years that Congress closed its doors to the public."
From the Hal Turner Show:
link here
From Truthdig: "...to debate the FISA warrantless eavesdropping bill."
link here .
RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. JZ Knight will be on Live Stream to all current students from her opening Q&A at the Primary Retreat, March 22, 2008.
link here
B. RSE International announces a new World Tour Combination Catch-up / Advanced Retreat in 7 locations:
link here
C. Check-out the CSE children’s archery focus:
link here
D. Louise Oliverio’s book I am Woman is now available as a downloaded e-book:
link here
E. My, oh my! Aren't these CSE students shooting archery just the cutest pictures you have ever seen:
link here
F. THE LATEST BLEEPING HERALD INCLUDES AN INTERVIEW WITH DEAN RADIN:
link here
F. Due to technical difficulties at the radio station, the SuperConsciousness live radio interview on food and preparations originally scheduled for Sunday, March 16, has been postponed until Sunday, March 30.
SuperConsciousness Magazine will be featured on the "What to Eat" radio show Sunday, March 30, 11:00 AM PDT - 2:00 PM EDT. The show is hosted by Dr. Luise Light, author of What To Eat (2005, McGraw-Hill). Publisher Jair Robles and Science Editor Danielle Graham will be discussing emerging food and environment issues.
The show will be broadcast in Vermont on WOOL FM 100.1 and can be listened to live on the internet:
link here .
LOCAL NOTES
Covered on the Yelm Community Blog last week:
A. Follow-up to story on area’s economic slowdown
B. State legislators put Yelm Bypass funding on fasttrack
C. Yelm Community Schools’ Burke on expansion timelines
D. JZ Knight’s unabridged Press Release on her Land Use Petition (Yelm water)
E. Yelm's Longmire Park opens Monday, March 17
F. Noted violinist returns to Yelm for YPAA benefit
G. Support our locally owned businesses: Meta Design Graphics
link here .
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control.
These three alone lead to sovereign power."
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom .
Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2008.
For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner, click on "Current Kleiner’s Korner and Archives" at
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Spring is in the air!
1. “PHYSICISTS SUCCESSFULLY STORE AND RETRIEVE NOTHING”
“It sounds like a headline from the spoof newspaper The Onion, but for physicists, this is actually an achievement: Two teams have stored nothing in a puff of gas and then retrieved it a split second later. Storing a strange form of vacuum builds on previous efforts in which researchers stopped light in its tracks and may mark a significant step toward new quantum information and telecommunication technologies,” quoting Science Now.
link here .
2. “PRICEY PILLS WORK BETTER EVEN WHEN THEY’RE FAKE”
“When it comes to painkillers, many people believe “you get what you pay for,” according to a new study that found patients are actually more likely to get relief if they think they’re taking high-priced pain pills…
‘Placebos work because people expect them to,’ said Dan Ariely, the corresponding author of the paper, a professor of behavioral economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. ‘The interesting thing is that once you have a discounted price, it basically cuts people’s expectations. They don’t expect it to be as good, and then it might actually not be as good,’” quoting MSNBC.
link here .
3. “CHEAP, ‘SAFE’ DRUG KILLS MOST CANCERS”
“It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.
It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.
Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and his colleagues tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but not healthy cells. Tumours in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks,” quoting NewScientist.
link here .
4. “SATELLITES SPOT LOST GUATEMALA MAYAN TEMPLES”
“Archeologists and NASA scientists began teaming up five years ago to search for clues about the mysterious collapse of the Mayan civilization that flourished in Central America and southern Mexico for 1,000 years.
The work is paying off, says archeologist William Saturno, who recently discovered five sprawling sites with hundreds of buildings using a spy satellite that can see through clouds and forest to reveal differences in the vegetation below,” quoting Reuters.
link here .
5. NEW WAYS OF MAKING ELECTRICITY
A. “MICROFIBER FABRIC MAKES ITS OWN ELECTRICITY”
“U.S. scientists have developed a microfiber fabric that generates its own electricity, making enough current to recharge a cell phone or ensure that a small MP3 music player never runs out of power.
If made into a shirt, the fabric could harness power from its wearer simply walking around or even from a slight breeze, they reported Wednesday [Feb. 13] in the journal Nature,” quoting Reuters.
link here
B. “A NEW TWIST ON POWER WALKING”
“MBL scientist invents backpack that empowers wearers to generate their own electricity,” quoting Marine Biology Laboratory.
link here .
6. “A WEARABLE ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY FOR PATIENTS ON THE GO”
“It's light enough to be worn on a tool belt around your waist. You can walk with it, work with it, sleep, take showers - even have sex with it on.
No, it's not an iPod or anything even closely resembling a mobile phone. It's the world's first battery-operated wearable artificial kidney - and it may well be a boon for the millions of people around the world who suffer from kidney failure and must regularly check into a clinic or hospital to purify their blood through dialysis.
Called "WAK" for short, the device has been invented and patented by Victor Gura, an associate clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine,” quoting CyberneticsNews.
link here .
7. “NEW WAY TO KILL VIRUSES: SHAKE THEM TO DEATH”
“Scientists may one day be able to destroy viruses in the same way that opera singers presumably shatter wine glasses. New research mathematically determined the frequencies at which simple viruses could be shaken to death.
‘The capsid of a virus is something like the shell of a turtle,’ said physicist Otto Sankey of Arizona State University. ‘If the shell can be compromised [by mechanical vibrations], the virus can be inactivated.’ …
To expedite this search, Sankey and his student Eric Dykeman have developed a way to calculate the vibrational motion of every atom in a virus shell. From this, they can determine the lowest resonant frequencies,” quoting Live Science.
link here .
8. “U. S. HEALTH CARE GETS BOOST FROM CHARITY”
“One of the decisive issues in the presidential campaign is likely to be health insurance. Texas and Ohio vote on Tuesday, and those states alone have nearly seven million uninsured residents; nationwide, 47 million have no health insurance. But that's just the start: millions more are underinsured, unable to pay their deductibles or get access to dental care.
Recently, 60 Minutes heard about an American relief organization that airdrops doctors and medicine into the jungles of the Amazon. It's called Remote Area Medical, or "RAM" for short.
As correspondent Scott Pelley reports, Remote Area Medical sets up emergency clinics where the needs are greatest. But these days, that's not the Amazon. This charity founded to help people who can't reach medical care finds itself throwing America a lifeline,” quoting CBS News 60 Minutes. [Ed. Note: This is a touching story, yet amazing this is happening in America!]
link here
Remote Area Medical (RAM) site:
link here .
9. "PLANET PROJECTED AT SOLAR SYSTEM'S EDGE"
"Scientists at a Japanese university said Thursday they believed another planet up to two-thirds the size of the Earth was orbiting in the far reaches of the solar system.
The researchers at Kobe University in western Japan said calculations using computer simulations led them to conclude it was only a matter of time before the mysterious "Planet X" was found.
The study by Mukai and researcher Patryk Lykawka will be published in the April issue of the Astronomical Journal," quoting the Discovery Channel.
link here .
10. “SECRETS OF THE INQUISITION”
“Vatican exhibition tries to shed new light on one of the darker chapters in the church's history.
Church authorities have unveiled a temporary "Rare and Precious" exhibition at Rome's Vittoriano Museum to "expose some myths" about this dark chapter of its past. The exhibit is also intended as a modern-day object lesson for governments and armies—particularly those in the United States and Europe—who torture enemies and suspected terrorists, says curator Marco Pizzo. Not only does the church have an obligation to expose its own mistakes, he says, but the exhibit is also meant to help foster understanding of the complex nature of the church's history,” quoting Newsweek.
[Ed. Note: What else is buried deep in the Church’s belly?]
link here .
11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS OF THE WEEK
A. NORWAY’S SEED VAULT OPENS
link here
And CNN’s report:
link here
B. “WILL U. S. BECOME WORLD’S NUCLEAR WASTE-DUMP?”
From the Christian Science Monitor:
link here
C. SEATTLE HAS “ENOUGH WATER HERE FOR AT LEAST 50 YEARS”
From the Puget Sound Business Journal:
link here
D. “AT THE CORE OF SNOWFLAKES, BACTERIA”
From the AP:
link here
E. “U. S. STUDY SHOWS WHY WINTER IS “FLU SEASON’”
From Reuters:
link here
F. THE FILM: “THE VANISHING OF THE BEES”
link here
G. “WARMING MAY HAVE CAUSED SALMON COLLAPSE”
From the AP:
link here
H. “ARCTIC WARMING COULD RESULT IN ARMED CONFLICT”
From the Ottawa Citizen:
link here
I. “SOARING FOOD PRICES PUTTING U.S. EMERGENCY AID IN PERIL”
From the Washington Post:
link here .
12. ON THE POLITICAL SCENE
A. RON PAUL STILL MAKING WAVES!
From MSNBC:
link here
And:
link here
“THINGS I’VE LEARNED FORM BEING A RON PAUL SUPPORTER” echoes this writer’s views:
link here
And, this fabulous video:
link here
B. OPEC BLAMES U. S. ECONOMIC MISMANAGEMENT FOR OIL PRICE RISE
From the AP:
link here
C. “LOCAL CURRENCY IN PORTLAND?”
From The Oregonian:
link here
D. “SURVEY: AMERICAN’S SWITCHING FAITHS: DROPPING OUT”
From CNN:
link here
E. “RULE BY FEAR OR RULE BY LAW”
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
link here
F. “THE FBI DEPUTIZES BUSINESS” - LOOK OUT!
From The Progressive:
link here
G. “IRAQ WAR ‘CAUSED SLOWDOWN IN THE US”
From The Australian:
link here
I. “MORTGAGE DELINQUENCIES HIT 23 YEAR HIGH”
From the AP:
link here
J. “DOLLAR HITS NEW LOW AGAINST THE EURO”
From the AP:
link here
K. STEFAN KLEIN: “TIME OUT OF MIND”
From The New York Times.
He is the author, most recently, of “The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life’s Scarcest Commodity.”
link here
L. "BUSH FAMILY PIGGY BANK RECEIVED DEFAULT NOTICE"
From The Agonist:
link here
M. "US...CREDIT CRISIS HITS NEW DEPTHS"
From UK's The Times:
link here .
RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. Part II: Evening With Ramtha | Truth Reality And Love: Prelude To A Spiritual Journey will be SUNDAY, MARCH 9th at 7pm:
link here
B. The 2008 RSE Reserved Seating Program opens THIS Tuesday at noon PDT:
link here
C. Yelm’s next Beginning Retreat next month:
link here
D. SuperConsciousness Magazine will be featured on the "What to Eat" radio show Sunday, March 16, 11:00 pacific and 2:00 eastern. The show is hosted by Dr. Luise Light, author of What To Eat (2005, McGraw-Hill). Publisher Jair Robles and Science Editor Danielle Graham will be discussing emerging food and environment issues.
The show will be broadcast in Vermont on WOOL FM 100.1 and can be listened to live on the internet:
link here .
LOCAL NOTES
A. Support our local businesses: Gary Craig Garden design
B. Yelm Library to host UFO talk this week
C. Jackie Jo Reid announces County Commissioner Candidacy
D. JZ Knight files land use petition against City of Yelm
E. Retired Minister Banach’s “A 50th Anniversary Autobiography”
F. Yelm area housing prices in for value devaluation
G. Area tourism at all-time high
link here .
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then eat just one of the pieces."
Judith Viorst (1931- )
American Author .
Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2008.
For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner, click on "Current Kleiner’s Korner and Archives" at
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Daylight Savings Time begins Sunday, March 9 at 2am in the USA. Remember to turn your clocks ahead one hour prior to retiring Saturday night.
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1. “COULD THERE BE PROOF TO THE THEORY THAT WE’RE ALL PSYCHIC”
“That is what Dr [Chris] Roe is investigating. A parapsychologist based at the University of Northampton, he is examining whether it could indeed be possible to project your "mind's eye" to a distant location and observe what is going on - even if that place is hundreds of miles away.
And though the research is not yet complete, the results have been tantalising.
His early findings suggest that up to 85 per cent of people may possess some form of clairvoyance - the ability to "remote view."
And he believes that with only a modicum of training we can all sharpen our psychic skills,’ quoting UK’s Daily Mail.
link here .
2. “DID YOU MISS THE LUNAR ECLIPSE?”
“The folks at The Sun News in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, didn't. They even made a cool -- and blessedly brief -- video cut down to 28 seconds for you to experience the total eclipse from your computer. Check it out,” quoting the Olympian.
link here .
3. THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH? DENMARK
“Happiness is that quirky, elusive emotion that the Declaration of Independence maintains we have every right to pursue. And we do pursue it: we are suckers for an endless stream of self-help books that promise a carefree existence for a mere $24.95; and television hucksters of every kind claim they have the key to Nirvana. So the happiness business, at least, is one big smiley face.
As for the rest of us, the main scientific survey of international happiness carried out by Leicester University in England ranks the U.S. a distant 23rd, well behind Canada and Costa Rica. But you'll be pleased to know we beat Iraq and Pakistan.
And the winner, once again as correspondent Morley Safer reports, is Denmark,” quoting CBS News 60 Minutes.
link here .
4. “PRIVATE RACE TO THE MOON (AND MONEY) TAKES OFF”
“Google and X Prize officials have unveiled nine new privately funded teams that will compete for $30 million in the Google Lunar X Prize challenge, a race to the moon…The Google Lunar X Prize, unveiled last September, aims to encourage privately funded lunar exploration — just as the $10 million Ansari X Prize provided a jump start for space tourism three years ago,” quoting Space.com.
link here .
5. “GRAVITY POWERED LAMP GENERATES AS MUCH POWER AS 40 WATT BULB”
“Clay Moulton of Springfield, Va., who received his Master of Science in Architecture with a concentration in industrial design from the College of Architecture and Urban Studies in 2007, created the lamp as a part of this master’s thesis. The LED lamp, named Gravia, has just won second place in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition as part of the Greener Gadgets Conference in New York City.
Concept illustrations of Gravia depict an acrylic column a little over four feet high. The entire column glows when activated. The electricity is generated by the slow fall of a mass that spins a rotor. The resulting energy powers 10 high-output LEDs that fire into the acrylic lens, creating a diffuse light,” quoting Environmental News Network.
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6. “WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE BEES?”
“if you want to grow fruits, vegetables, or nuts in the United States on a commercial basis you have to have soil, sun, seeds, water, and honeybees -- millions and millions of honeybees brought in from all over the country to pollinate the crops. As correspondent Steve Kroft explains, honeybees are the unsung heroes of the food chain, crucial to the production of one third of the foods we eat. So when billions of bees began to mysteriously disappear last year, there was plenty of concern and no shortage of theories, blaming everything from cell phones to divine rapture. None of the usual explanations seemed to fit. Some of the nation's top scientists are trying to understand this phenomenon, but no one is more immersed in the mystery than the man who is widely credited with discovering it,” quoting CBS News 60 Minutes. [Ed. Note: This is a fabulous piece - very thorough.]
link here .
7. WHAT TO DO NEXT AFTER USA’S LARGEST BEEF RECALL?
“’My suggestion would be for people to buy their beef from a small, local, inspected, meat-slaughtering facility,’ Munsell [John Munsell, manager of the Foundation for Accountability in Regulatory Enforcement - a full-time crusader for meat-safety reform, the Ralph Nader of hamburger.] says. ‘I no longer have any confidence in meat that comes from these big meatpacking plants. When I go out in public, I don't order hamburger. I just don't trust it anymore,’” quoting Men’s Health.
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BURGER ALTERNATIVES:
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“CONSUMERS STILL AT RISK, DESPITE RECALL”
From CSPI:
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GO FIGURE: "USA REJECTS 'DOWNER' COW BAN"
From the Washington Post:
link here .
8. “SCIENTISTS INVENT SOLAR CELL SHEET THAT COLLECTS ENERGY AT NIGHT”
“Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory, along with partners at Microcontinuum Inc. (Cambridge, MA) and Patrick Pinhero of the University of Missouri, are developing a novel way to collect energy from the sun with a technology that could potentially cost pennies a yard, be imprinted on flexible materials and still draw energy after the sun has set.
The new approach, which garnered two 2007 Nano50 awards, uses a special manufacturing process to stamp tiny square spirals of conducting metal onto a sheet of plastic. Each interlocking spiral "nanoantenna" is as wide as 1/25 the diameter of a human hair.
Because of their size, the nanoantennas absorb energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, just outside the range of what is visible to the eye. The sun radiates a lot of infrared energy, some of which is soaked up by the earth and later released as radiation for hours after sunset. Nanoantennas can take in energy from both sunlight and the earth's heat, with higher efficiency than conventional solar cells,” quoting
Next Energy News.
link here .
9. “WHEAT HITS RECORD ON U. S. INVENTORY”
“Wheat futures hit a record high for a third day Friday [Feb. 15], soaring near $11 a bushel in Chicago after a U.S. government report confirmed dwindling stockpiles of the grain used to make bread, pasta and other foods.
"There's only one thing going on with wheat and that's a shortage of red wheat that can be milled into bread and pasta," said Elaine Kub, analyst with DTN. "People are just buying up whatever wheat they can."
Wheat for March delivery surged the 30-cent daily limit to settle at $10.93 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade _ the highest ever for that contract. Wheat also hit record-highs on Thursday and Wednesday.
Unprecedented demand for agricultural products from fast-growing countries including China and India has exacerbated the supply crunch for wheat, which has more than doubled in price since last year,” quoting the AP.
link here .
10. U. S.: THE MOST ADVANCED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD? THINK AGAIN!
“For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report tracking the surge in inmate population and urging states to rein in corrections costs with alternative sentencing programs.
The report, released Thursday [Feb 28] by the Pew Center on the States, said the 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less than $11 billion 20 years earlier. The rate of increase for prison costs was six times greater than for higher education spending, the report said.
Using updated state-by-state data, the report said 2,319,258 adults were held in U.S. prisons or jails at the start of 2008 — one out of every 99.1 adults, and more than any other country in the world,” quoting Canada’s Globe and Mail. [Ed. Note: And we boast of our prowess and condemn other’s human rights records. What an embarrassment to the world.]
Oh, and further in this report, “The largest percentage increase — 12 percent — was in Kentucky, where Gov. Steve Beshear highlighted the cost of corrections in his budget speech last month. He noted that the state's crime rate had increased only about 3 percent in the past 30 years, while the state's inmate population has increased by 600 percent.” [Ed. Note: The state where I was born and raised has another black eye, along with one of the lowest levels of spending on public education! This is tragic.]
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The Washington Post weighs in on this story:
link here .
11. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS OF THE WEEK
A. THE TIME HAS COME – A CAR THAT RUNS ON AIR:
link here
B. “OCEANS EYED AS NEW ENERGY SOURCE”
From the AP:
link here
C. WHY ARE THOUSANDS OF BATS DYING IN NEW YORK?”
From the AP:
link here
D. “AS SOUTH AMERICAN RIVERS DRY UP, MINERS TAP OCEAN”
From Planet Ark:
link here
E. “OCEAN MAP CHARTS PATH OF HUMAN DESTRUCTION”
From Science Now:
link here
F. “ANTARCTIC GLACIERS SURGE TO OCEAN”
From the BBC:
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G. “PESTICIDES PREVALENT AT RAINIER”
From the AP:
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H. “DEVASTATION OF TRAWLING VISIBLE FROM SPACE”
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I. "SYDNEY'S WEIRD SUMMER ENDS"
From the Sydney Morning Herald:
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12. POLITICAL ITEMS OF NOTE
A. RON PAUL’S STILL-RELEVANT CNN INTERVIEW ON FEB. 20TH
link here
B. THE NORTH AMERICAN SUPER CORRIDOR COALITION (NASCO)
While our leaders deny the existence of such, NASCO is very real:
link here
NASCO’s site:
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C. UN: NOT ENOUGH MONEY TO KEEP WORLD MALNUTRITION AT BAY
From UK’s Guardian:
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D. “THE MIDDLE IS FALLING OUT OF THE ECONOMY”
“What has happened that has so changed the economic life of the American people? And what changes in public policy can our government undertake to remedy the fact that so many Americans to believe that our best days may be behind us?” quoting The American Prospect:
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E. “ARE U. S. POLICIES KILLING WOMEN?”
From Ms. Magazine:
link here
F. “KUCINICH TO INVESTIGATE 9/11 INSIDER TRADING”
From the Jones Report:
link here
G. “GAS PRICES SOAR, POSING A THREAT TO FAMILY BUDGET”
From the New York Times:
link here
H. WHERE WOULD WE BE WITHOUT HUMOR:
"Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early:
link here
I. WHEW! IT'S FRIDAY!
1. Dollar hit all-time low against the Euro and tanking at $1.52
link here
2. Consumer spending stalls in January
link here
3. Consumer sentiment drops to 16-year low (this is ominous -- consumers have ZERO faith in the economy, Fed or Bush policies)
link here
4. Fed's hands are full fighting recession, inflation
link here
5. Oil hit all time high of $103 and retreated with pre-weekend sell-off
link here
6. Recession-proof food costs rising-
Wheat shortages hitting every small town in America:
link here
7. Gold hit all-time record high and retreated
link here
And, look just who is buying up gold! HMMM!:
link here
8. Major layoffs announced in Detroit:
link here
And:
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9. Seattle takes big hit as US Defense Dept. chooses Airbus over Boeing in Pentagon Tanker deal, offering a surprise blow to Boeing, expected to win the contract. Boeing will close the 767 assembly line in 2012 now. Alot of Puget Sound tears as Boeing layoffs are next:
link here
10. Stocks hammered by corporate earnings downturn --including Boeing's after today.
The major stock indexes fell more than 2.5 percent and the Dow Jones industrials lost 315 points.
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11. $4 gas may hit Puget Sound:
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RAMTHA STUDENT NEWS
A. JZ’s book recommendation from B. C. is now available at RSE online:
link here
B. RSE is holding a Creating Future Mind Workshop in Phoenix/Mesa & New York City later this month:
link here
And:
link here
C. Flora Edmundson’s memorial celebration will be at the Deschutes Grange on Saturday, March 8th at 2:00pm. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Her children are planning a slide show. (You may remember her as the great student who used an oxygen tank and walked the field and worked every break at Charlie’s.).
The Deschutes Grange:
link here
Please visit the obit page of Flora Edmundson and leave your precious story:
link here
D. Dr. Ron Mallett was featured on History Channel’s The Universe: Unexplained Mysteries last week:
link here
E. Michael Knight's report for this week of note:
link here
F. CSE's latest Newsletter is out:
link here
G. Check-out the latest SuperConsciousness Magazine just out for terrific articles of interest:
link here
I. CONGRATULATIONS! TO DANIELLE GRAHAM AND HER TEAM for an RSE-related 2006 published paper receiving 2 more peer-reviewed citations, plus, there is a reference to the paper on Wikipedia now under the listing on Teleportation (sic).
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And:
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And:
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LOCAL NOTES
Covered last week on Yelm’s Community Blog:
A. Yelm Library hosts first person to completely navigate Amazon
B. Support our locally owned businesses: Imagine B + B
C. Yelm visitor Dr. Ron Mallett featured on History Channel
D. Former Yelm resident Joe Bongiorno makes waves in music world
E. Documentary film WATER opening in Yelm on World Water Day March 22
F. Gov. cuts Yelm Bypass funding, House reinstates portions
G. Introducing locally owned business: Cermax engine enhancer distributor Sean Kelly
link here .
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us."
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
26th President of the USA
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Kleiner’s Korner is copyrighted by Stephen R. Klein, 2008.
For archived issues of Kleiner’s Korner, click on "Current Kleiner’s Korner and Archives" at
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