Thanks, JusticeMan... I like it!

Ubuntu: "An anthropologist studying the habits and customs of an African tribe found himself surrounded by children most days. So he decided to play a little game with...them. He managed to get candy from the nearest town and put it all in a decorated basket. at the foot of a tree.

Then he called the children and suggested they play the game. When the anthropologist said "now", the children had to run to the tree and the first one to get there could have all the candy to him/herself.

So the children all lined up waiting for the signal. When the anthropologist said "now", all of the children took each other by the hand ran together towards the tree. They all arrived at the same time divided up the candy, sat down and began to happily munch away.

The anthropologist went over to them and asked why they had all run together when any one of them could have had the candy all to themselves.

The children responded: "Ubuntu. How could any one of us be happy if all the others were sad?"

Ubuntu is a philosophy of African tribes that can be summed up as "I am what I am because of who we all are."

Foot Launchable/Ground Towable/Aerotowable/Foot Landable Sailplane.

A hop, skip and jump and you're off!

Fwd: Economy 101

Subject: Fwd: Economy 101

 

A little humor...a lot of truth.

SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbor

COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk

FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk

NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you

BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then
throws the milk away

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy
grows.
You sell them and retire on the income

ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND (VENTURE) CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by
your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption
for five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.
The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States , leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release.
The public then buys your bull.

SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to
produce the milk of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why
the cow has dropped dead.

A GREEK CORPORATION
You have two cows. You borrow lots of euros to build barns, milking sheds, hay stores, feed sheds,
dairies, cold stores, abattoir, cheese unit and packing sheds.
You still only have two cows.

A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want three
cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce
twenty times the milk.
You then create a clever cow cartoon image called a Cowkimona and
market it worldwide.

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows,
but you don't know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.

A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.

A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You worship them.

A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad.

AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
No-one believes you, so they bomb the ** out of you and invade your country.
You still have no cows, but at least you are now a Democracy.

AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.

A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION
You have two cows.
The one on the left looks very attractive...

EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning | Top Green Cleaning Products

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More Than Honey: How Dwindling Bee Populations Impact Global Food Supply – EcoWatch: Cutting Edge Environmental News Service

24 Facts You (probably) Didn't Know About Beer

24 Facts You Didn't Know About Beer:

KIDS IN CHURCH

From 3-year-old Reese :  "Our Father, Who does art in heaven,  Harold is His name.  Amen."  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  A little boy was overheard praying:  "Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it.  I'm having a real good time like I am."  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  After the christening of his baby brother in church, Jason sobbed all the way home in the back seat of the car. His father asked him three times what was wrong.  Finally, the boy replied, "The preacher said he wanted us brought up in a Christian home, and I want to stay with you guys."  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  One particular four-year-old prayed, "And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets."  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  A Sunday school teacher asked her children as they were on the way to church service, "And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?"  One bright little girl replied, "Because people are sleeping."  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin 5, and Ryan 3.  The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake.  Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson..  "If Jesus were sitting here, He would say,  'Let my brother have the first pancake, I can wait."  Kevin turned to his younger brother and said,  "Ryan, you be Jesus."  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  A father was at the beach with his children when his four-year-old son ran up to him, grabbed his hand, and led him to the shore where a seagull lay dead in the sand. "Daddy, what happened to him?" the son asked.  "He died and went to Heaven," the Dad replied.  The boy thought a moment and then said, "Did God throw him back down?"  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  A wife invited some people to dinner. At the table, she turned to their six-year-old daughter and said, "Would you like to say the blessing?"  "I wouldn't know what to say," the girl replied.  "Just say what you hear Mommy say," the wife answered.  The daughter bowed her head and said,  "Lord, why on earth did I invite all these people to dinner?"  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  And if you don't send this to at least 8 people ----- who cares!  Peace, love and happiness.

The Folly of Technological Solutionism: Evgeny Morozov

http://www.amazon.com/Save-Everything-Click-Here-Technological/dp/1610391381

Check this out, great premise and writing quality to affirm the message and messenger.
HOWEVER.... We would not be in such a formidable technical boat if the issues of the times would retract, fold back into the menacing, manipulative, Übermensch schemes perpetrated on the worlds population of love-abiding people; the 98% that scheme to rise above the traps laid for thousands of years of civilization, and more recently, the last century. We praise our own genius at ferreting out wizard solutions to off-planet testosterone... But we would have gotten there anyway, maybe even faster and higher, without having to scheme to survive the blackout imposed on humanity.
~A.

A Reinvented Condom You Actually Want to Wear, Coming Soon from the Gates Foundation: Scientific American

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-reinvented-condom-you-actually-wa-2013-03&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_TECH_20130326


OFC Demo from ORIGAMI Condoms on Vimeo.

Innovative Study Examines Whether Marine-Protected Areas Can Save Fishermen as Well as Fish: Scientific American

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=innovative-study-examines-marine-protected-arears-can-save-fisherman

• Marine protected areas (MPAs), which limit such activities as fishing, are increasingly popular and seem to protect fisheries and biodiversity, but little research exists on whether they help communities.
• Extensive work to answer that question is now under way in Raja Ampat, a large region of hundreds of islands, coral reefs and mangroves in Indonesia.
• Two lessons already seem clear: smaller reserves are more likely to benefit the local fishers because small areas are easiest to defend and are therefore more likely to flourish and to be managed sustainably. 
• Second, the community must end up devising rules and policing compliance if MPAs are to succeed. Otherwise inhabitants may flout MPAs, and tensions can rise between locals and outsiders.

The 12 (economic) States of America - The Atlantic

The 12 States of America - The Atlantic:

2 the One I love

no greater sadness.