RAW Skin Food

Okay so you are wondering who this is? and how it relates to me

Well it is the company I own.

http://www.rawskinfood.co.uk

This business has been running under 6 months and it will continue to grow so I would like you to know about it.

I am not selling timeshares, shares or any deals that wish to force you to invite people to a secret building how to make millions or such and such.

This is the Real Deal

RAW Skin Food is a organic vegan cosmetics company.

OUR MAB-FAB Range

Contains Avocado Butter, Almond Oil, Rosemary, and Rose Water

That is it! You ask?

All our products have 5 ingredients or less-not many can beat that….if anyone could?

When people consider using beauty products due to cleaning the daily grime of their faces or body.

They buy and will waste/spend money on fancy products, be recommended by fashion magazines/blogs, plus use any products to make their skin or body feel and smell great.

However when most people do this they react to these products, or their skin can feel worse.

Why?

Well read the ingredients in any skin care product you use which you buy…you will see these ingredients

Water
Alcohol
Sodium Laureth Sulfate/Palm Oil
Parrabens
Petroleum
Glycerin
Gelatin

The list is endless of bad products

Plus don’t discount the The Body Shop, Neals Yard, Green People, Origins  as those ingredients is in their stuff too.

Now apart from water all these other products in your skin care is used for cleaning glass, floors, windows, cars, boats, cutlery and everyday items you use.

However these items mentioned above are solid wood, glass, metal and pretty indestructible materials so why would you use this to clean your skin?

Exactly the problem I have faced for years, being allergic to dairy, and other foods and having suffered with rashes, blemishes and no matter what product I use from cheaper supermarket brands to high end skincare such as Creme De La Mar-my skin was still poor.

Not anymore however, because through months of research and preparation and testing on select people groups-I  have created my own skin care system.

I don’t have dry skin, blemishes, rednees, flakes, dryness, irritated skin….GREAT your thinking, where do we get this product from ……LOOK BELOW and click on the link…

www.rawskinfood.co.uk

Non of our products contain any of the following

Water, SLF or Palm Oil, Petroleum, Parrebens, Dairy, Gluten, Wheat, Added Alcohol, Colorants, Artificial chemicals or synthetic replicas of ingredients, Glycerin, Gelatin,

This means that we vow to only use ingredients that are plant, fruit & vegetables. No Animal produce , by-produce or fish will ever be used.

Below are some of the ingredients used in our products

Rice Oil

Avocado Butter

Sweet Almond Oil

Lemon Grass Oil

Mango Butter

This month only for October 2010 we are not including P&P on any of our products so from London to Japan-Serbia to Milan you can order our products and get free P&P.

Check out the site, contact us, read the information on the site to find out your skin type and which range suits you.

http://www.rawskinfood.co.uk

I hope you will be our future customers.

Richard James Clark

Managing Director of RAW Skin Food

           P.S. By the way, when you buy within the next month the products will remain the same price for you always….(Only P&P will be added in the future)

What next tax on AIR?

There are articles that make me mad and want to gather a demonstration and overthrow the UK governemnt like the French Revolution did.

I think this current Government want to go out like Margaret Thatcher did, they are going the right way about it.

This is one of them articles to a F*ck up your sunday rest …ENJOY and read in disgust

From the Sunday Telegraph

The feasibility of introducing the food tax is being raised informally (means it is going to happen-whether you like it or not) between civil servants, industry bodies and retail insiders.

So politically-sensitive is the move that all the talks are occurring “under the radar”, according to retail industry insiders.

Basic supermarket groceries are currently immune from VAT, along with books, newspapers and children’s clothes.

However a VAT levy on food of between three and five per cent would raise billions of pounds in tax and help reduce Government borrowings, which are expected to hit £180 billion this year.

Food sales from supermarkets are estimated to total £120 billion a year.

The tax would be controversial as it would disproportionately affect poorer families. Any move to impose it would be vehemently opposed by the UK’s large food retailers, who argue that it would be a ‘tax on living’.

Justin King, the chief executive of J Sainsbury, said this weekend that a tax on groceries would be a “very bad idea”. Another supermarket executive said last night that the tax would be “political dynamite”.

The topic is being tentatively brought up in Whitehall as politicians, lobbyists and civil servants examine possible ways of raising revenues, according to multiple retail industry sources.

An increase in headline VAT above its current 17.5 per cent level is also being mooted.

One senior industry executive said: “VAT on groceries is being talked about in very tentative terms, rather than as a formal consultation. But it is happening in all parts of Whitehall. It is informal and sensitive. It is such a red hot topic.”

“They are thinking the unthinkable. It might not happen, but don’t think that people are not having that conversation. They are.”

A Treasury spokesman said that there was “absolutely no question” of the current Chancellor imposing VAT on groceries.

“It is not remotely on the table,” he said.

However civil servants are examining all the permutations available to the next government to bring in revenue following the election.

The food industry is against the move. Mr King said: “On food, VAT acts in a very regressive way. The poorer you are, the higher the proportion of your household income you spend on food.

“So if you were to introduce VAT on food that would be very damaging for the poorest in our society. So I think that would be a very bad idea and I think most governments would understand that.”

A second supermarket chief executive said: “My view is that it would be totally inappropriate. You are taxing what people have to eat to live. Groceries are not discretional spend.”

He added that if the new tax were imposed, retailers would have to pass it on to customers in the form of higher prices.

It is understood that the British Retail Consortium (BRC) is in the process of compiling a major report into the impact on the consumer economy on both direct and indirect taxation. The report will be published prior to the election.

Stephen Robertson, the director-general of the BRC, said that a tax on food could be damaging to the economic recovery.

“My feeling is that it could be dangerous to apply a break on spending at this point in a very fragile recovery,” he said.

On Friday, John Lewis Partnership (LSE: LJPA.L – news) warned that shoppers are already wary of higher taxes.

“Consumers will also be wary that further out they are very likely to face higher taxes as part of the major corrective action that will be needed to rein in the government finances. It has been mooted for example that VAT could rise to 20pc,” the retailer said.

Late last year the National Institute of Economic and Social Research said that families face the prospects of income tax increases and having to pay VAT on previously exempt goods such as basic food if the Government’s budget is to be balanced.

Education is not looking bright if the Tories get in, I have read an article how an incentive is being prepared to increase better homework from pupils and attainment.

The original article is Published in The TES on 19 February, 2010 | By: William Stewart

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Dave Levin says round-the-clock availability is essential to success

No shit sherlock but how will this work.

Okay so your wondering who is Dave Levin, until I read this article I had no idea either so…I read the article, which will be reprinted below for you.

So the first statement was the following

Teachers should give pupils their mobile phone numbers and be available “24/7” if they want to succeed under Conservative plans allowing them to set up their own schools.

The message comes from Dave Levin, the American teacher who inspired the Tory scheme.

First of all this is an American teacher, the education system is very different. It is more progressive, ours is regressive (trust me work in a school and you see this all day long!)

So Mr Levin, is the co-founder of the lauded Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) schools, told The TES that teachers wanting to emulate him in England need to “reach the hearts and minds of kids”. And that means visiting them at home and being constantly available at the end of a telephone.

“All of our teachers give out their cellphone numbers so they are available 24/7,” he said.

Now when teachers are already vulnerable to accusations this doesn’t sit well with me.

But Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said it would lead to teacher “burn-out”.

Again teachers and pupils need separation as alot of pupils can report teachers for their outside behaviour too, thanks to the GTTR and other busy bodies getting involved.

Teachers are paid a average salary for the amount of hours they work, it could work out at just over minimum wage due to meetings, lesson planning and the rest of it, and that is for a good teacher not a great one.

Mary Bousted, said home visits could work if they were properly organised. “But the idea that teachers could give out their mobile numbers to every pupil is ridiculous.”

Plus my view is most teachers are told to protect children, and themselves, this discards that theory completely.

“Why should teachers have to become missionaries rather than professionals all of a sudden?” Dr Bousted said.

“They have a right to a private life and they have a right to time off and having those things makes them better teachers.”

I couldn’t agree more, and at last someone is mentioning this at top level.

This week the Conservatives expanded their plans for teacher-run schools when George Osborne, shadow chancellor, revealed that teachers would be among the public sector workers allowed to form co-operatives to take over their own services.

In November, when the Tories first said they would encourage teachers to set up schools, Michael Gove, shadow schools secretary, cited the “phenomenally successful” KIPP as the example they should follow.

Mr Levin, an elementary and middle school teacher, said the mobile phone tactic had been “pretty essential” to the success of KIPP.

The chain now has 82 schools across the US, exceeding expectations for predominantly disadvantaged pupils.

“It goes back to that point about reaching to the heart,” he said. “When you do home visits, when you give out cellphone numbers, when you are just accessible for people it is easy to build relationships. People want to believe.

“All of this is applicable across the pond. It is all the same reaching the hearts of kids – it doesn’t matter whether you are in England, Sweden, Nigeria or Chile. Kids are largely kids.”

Mr Levin said home visits also helped to get parents to buy in to their children’s education. (again not all parents are interested so you should allow for that!-watch the film:Precious-extreme I know but not as uncommon as people think)

“The point is how are you going to convey that you truly care about building relationships?” he said.

“Schools are always telling parents ‘You gotta come into school, you gotta come into school’. And you have to. You have to come in for report cards, for parent conferences, for this, for that.

“But when do we ever go to the parents? When do we ever say ‘Hey look, we are willing to meet you on your home turf’?”

Access all areas

Giving pupils 24-hour mobile telephone contact with teachers is at the extreme end of increasing home school links.

But the development of new technology such as “virtual learning environments” (VLEs) means growing numbers of teachers are likely to be communicating with pupils after school.

VLEs are online spaces where pupils can upload their own work, teachers can post homework tasks and, crucially, that allow pupils to e-mail questions to their teachers. (this is present in schools but not utilized properly)

Technology is also likely to lead to more contact with parents out of hours.

One pilot scheme in Northumberland was reported to have seen parents encouraged to email teachers’ personal accounts to ask for regular updates about their children’s progress.

Here is an article from TES…the official teachers website where teachers look for work and read articles about teaching.

Read this and weep plus again more propaganda.

A DCSF toolkit for schools on preventing violent extremism is available from www.dcsf.gov.uk/violentextremism/toolkitforschools.

Published in TES Magazine on 19 February, 2010 | By: Nick Morrison

The authorities claim that schools are a fruitful recruiting ground for those involved in extremism of all types. The Government wants teachers to take an active role in identifying children at risk, but is it a responsibility too far?

When Linda Tempest heard the news that one of her pupils had been arrested, her first reaction was disbelief. “It came as a bit of a shock that anybody from the school could be implicated in something like that,” she says. “I thought ‘That is not the boy I have known for five years’.”

Hammaad Munshi, in Year 11, had been walking home from school after a science GCSE exam when he was picked up by police. They found two packets of ball-bearings in his pocket, but it was what they found on his computer that really interested them.

As well as an internet history that showed he spent hours surfing jihadist sites, he had downloaded files on how to make napalm, detonators and explosives. A note under his bed indicated that he wanted to die a martyr; his online profile was “fidadee”, meaning a person ready to sacrifice himself. He had also been in email and telephone contact with a man believed to be the ringleader of a terrorist cell.

Just 16 when he was arrested in 2006, Munshi was 18 when he gained the dubious distinction of becoming Britain’s youngest convicted terrorist, sentenced to two years for compiling information likely to be used for terrorist purposes. His trial heard that ball-bearings were commonly used as shrapnel for suicide bombers.

“He was a very quiet boy; he didn’t really join in with many school activities,” says Mrs Tempest, associate headteacher at Westborough High School in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. “It made issues that were of national significance very local, very suddenly. It was a bit of a wake-up call.”

It is rare for a school to discover that one of its pupils is a terrorist, but teachers are being asked to play a growing role on the frontline in combating extremism of all types. This may mean preventing pupils from becoming radicalised or identifying children at risk of falling under the sway of extremists.

There is a growing awareness that children can start on the wrong path while still at school. David Copeland, who was convicted in 2000 of murder after a 13-day bombing campaign in London – in Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho – that left three people dead and 126 injured, was thought to have developed a hatred for ethnic minorities while at Yately School in Hampshire, including refusing to play with an Asian boy in his class.

The Government’s Preventing Violent Extremism (Prevent) strategy is a wide-ranging programme that aims to stop individuals becoming terrorists or supporting violent extremists. A key part of Prevent is to provide teachers with a toolkit to help them identify, and work with, any pupils they have concerns about. A report on the programme’s progress late last year found that some schools had successfully followed this guidance to identify pupils who could be vulnerable to extremism.

In one instance, a girl at a school in the South East gave a class presentation about aspiring to join an extremist organisation, including graphic images of terrorist atrocities.

Teachers visited the girl’s home, where the family reported that she had come under a negative outside influence. The school worked with police and community leaders to counter the negative messages.

In another, a teenage girl in the north of England was found to be being “groomed” by a man identified as a “radicaliser” she had met at a mosque. Violent images were found on her computer. A support plan involving police and her teachers was put in place and the “radicaliser” was investigated. Neither girl is now considered to be a concern.

The Government’s toolkit, “Learning Together to be Safe”, covers not just Islamic extremism but also Irish republican terror groups, animal-rights extremists and the BNP – in short, any pupils they fear may be at risk of radicalisation.

According to statistics from the police anti-terrorism project known as Channel, about 200 school pupils nationwide have been identified as potential violent extremists, including one aged seven. Yet there are concerns that schools have been slow to accept what the police and Government consider to be their responsibilities in this area.

A report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) last year said there were “low levels of recognition” of the risk, and the exchange of information with schools was “inconsistent” in one-third of police force areas.

The role of schools in combating extremism has a particular resonance in Dewsbury. As well as Hammaad Munshi, two other former Westborough pupils have been charged with terrorist offences, though both were acquitted. The town was also home to Mohammad Sidique Khan, believed to be the ringleader of the July 7 London bombers.

But Islamic extremism is not the only threat. The town elected a BNP councillor in 2006 and in last year’s European Parliament elections for the Kirklees constituency, which includes Dewsbury, the far-right party was placed fourth with 11.4 per cent of the vote.

But while it may have been a shock, Munshi’s arrest and conviction have not derailed Westborough’s efforts to counter extremism. Making sure every child is included and working closely with the local community is at the heart of the school’s ethos.

“Combating extremism is in everything we do, but we don’t think of extremism as the only issue; it is about inclusion for everybody,” says Mrs Tempest, who is responsible for the school’s work with the community.

A central plank of the school’s approach is making sure no child is left out. In one scheme, a group of six Asian boys who were thought to be at risk of disaffection were encouraged to take part in a project to put together a radio programme. Two of the boys are now involved in deciding where future funding for inclusion projects should be spent.

“We take quiet Asian boys to camp, we take them into youth clubs, we get to know them,” Mrs Tempest says. “The more you get to know about children the less likely they are to turn to extremism.”

The school’s catchment area includes 13 mosques and Mrs Tempest has built close links with seven of them. English and maths teachers from Westborough run after-school classes at the mosques, and all new staff have a two-hour induction at a mosque. As a result, teachers can confront extremist views from a position of knowledge, she says.

“The school has worked very hard but the community has worked very hard with us,” she adds.

Waseem Riaz, of Kirklees Faith Network, says the links have helped promote a greater understanding of Islam among teachers. “It is about myth-busting and making sure staff are sensitive to their pupils,” he says. An awareness among staff of issues such as removing shoes or covering heads when visiting Muslim homes helps promote a positive attitude in the community towards the school, he adds.

Zara, a Year 11 pupil at Westborough, says the link between the school and mosque provides reassurance to parents. “They know the teachers are not just here for us in the six hours we are at school but they are going out into the community. It gives them a real sense of security,” she says.

Westborough also encourages parents to get involved with the school, through English classes, keep-fit and sports activities and regular contact. As a result, parents’ evenings have a 95 per cent turn-out. “It is about breaking down barriers,” says Gayna Goalby, Westborough’s extended schools co-ordinator.

Akbar Rasool is one of a number of former pupils who visit the school to talk to pupils. Mr Rasool, a solicitor in the town, provides a role model for Asian children. “I was born in the community, I have lived here all my life and I understand what the issues are,” he says.

Year 9 pupils all undertake a week’s work in the community and the school aims to ensure that white children spend it in Asian areas, and Asian children in white areas. The school council is made up of a white boy and girl and an Asian boy and girl.

This approach has been built into the curriculum, and not just for citizenship or PSHE classes. All Year 11 pupils study Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, with its message of confronting prejudice, in English classes. History includes a module on Moghul India, presented as an example of an empire other than the British Empire.

Janet Pruchniewicz, headteacher at Westborough, where 70 per cent of pupils are of Asian origin, believes that some schools have been reluctant to embrace this aspect of their statutory duty. “We’re very proud of the work we have done on community cohesion and we feel that a lot of schools can learn from us,” she says.

While there may be concerns that some schools have been slow to pick up on the Prevent agenda, one school singled out for praise by ministers is Highcrest Community School in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. While the school has not had any incidents with pupils, the town has its own place on the map of Britain’s home-grown terrorists. High Wycombe was the home of Assad Sarwar, who in September last year was convicted of his role in a plot to blow up at least 10 transatlantic airliners in 2006.

Headteacher Shena Moynihan says promoting links with the community is a key part of the school’s ethos, with about half its pupils from ethnic minorities. Projects include workshops for Muslim women, partnerships with schools in India, Africa and the Caribbean, and an annual carnival where all the school’s 34 ethnic groups are represented.

“We can only prevent extremism if we can get pupils to embrace their community and make them feel they have a stake in it,” says Ms Moynihan. “If they do that they are not likely to go down the radicalised route.”

She believes raising aspirations is an effective way of preventing one group from feeling alienated. “It’s very important that you give each child a sense of connecting at an early age,” she adds. It is also important to involve the whole school community, she says: focusing on one group risks fragmentation.

Teachers in Derby have also been involved in attempts to identify potential extremists, in conjunction with the city’s mosques and imams. Concerns raised in schools trigger a formal mechanism under safeguarding procedures, says Angela Cole, head of schools and learning at Derby City Council. Children will usually be seen by the city’s behaviour panels, who can then refer them on to specialist agencies. A graduated response depends on the nature of the concern, she adds.

There have been fears, however, that the role of schools in identifying prospective terrorists involves collecting information on people who are not involved in criminal activity. Liberty, the civil rights campaign group, has described the Prevent agenda as the biggest modern spying programme in Britain. The Institute of Race Relations has also expressed concerns about the impact of monitoring on Muslim communities.

Westborough has been determined to confront the issues raised by a pupil’s terrorist conviction. The morning after Munshi’s arrest Mrs Tempest asked all form tutors to discuss the issue with their forms. “We don’t push these issues under the carpet,” she says.

This open approach is a crucial part of preventing young people from moving towards extremism, says Toaha Qureshi, chief executive of Stockwell Green Community Services in south London, and one of the first to set up counter-radicalisation programmes for Islamic extremists in Europe.

“Schools need to encourage positive and healthy debate so young people can find a safe space where they can channel their anger and frustration. If they express themselves and feel they are being heard it gives them a sense of satisfaction,” he says. “We don’t want them to think there is nobody on their side.”

Zara, whose mother is one of the women receiving English lessons at Westborough School, says the school helps parents “understand the way the community works”.

Asma, a Year 11 pupil at Westborough, says the opportunity to take part in interfaith activities at the school, such as a recent video project, promotes understanding between different cultures and religions. It is when people are young, she says, that it is easier to influence their views.

This can work both ways, of course. Shahzad Hussain, learning mentor at the school, says some Asian boys can appear more vulnerable than others. But it is important to treat them the same as everybody else. “They are shy and can be manipulated so we try to get them involved in something,” he says, adding: “There is no difference between the Asian boys and the white working-class boys: they all need attention.”

Although teachers at Westborough are aware of the potential risk, Mrs Tempest says the school’s work is not about spotting budding extremists. “We don’t ever say to people ‘Look out for the child who sits looking surly and doesn’t engage in class discussions.’ There isn’t such a person and you can’t stereotype,” she says.

“It isn’t about finding individual children and thinking that they might be terrorists. It is about getting out into the community and making people happy to live in their community.”

She believes that it is at times of transition that people can be most vulnerable, which perhaps explains why many pupils fall under the spell of terrorist groups when they leave behind the security of school and go on to college or university.

Where there are concerns over an individual child, Mrs Tempest says the nature of the issue dictates the response. Children may be unaware of the meanings or symbolism of particular phrases or images, but if there are concerns then the pupil’s parents could be asked to come in to discuss what has happened, or they could be referred to the Channel project, which combines community groups and anti-terrorism police.

S ome school referrals end up with Mr Qureshi in south London. Depending on where the individual lies on the spectrum of disaffection and alienation to convicted terrorist, a tailored programme is drawn up, lasting between 18 and 36 months. This can include religious and social mentoring, education and training opportunities, involvement in sport, and anger and stress management and empowerment techniques.

“We are very proud of the work we do,” says Mrs Tempest. “But that doesn’t mean there are never going to be any problems.” For Zara, it is a question of overcoming the barriers between different communities. “There is just this big wall of prejudice that everybody has to get over,” she says. It may be one more responsibility on already over-loaded schools, but combating extremism is one that has to be taken seriously.

Article by Rachel Zupek and Stephanie Loleit, CareerBuilder.co.uk

Most of us spend more time at the workplace with colleagues than anywhere else (unfortunately!). So it just comes natural that we talk about many other things than simply work. In fact, this is even essential in order to build a good relationship with your co-workers. Maybe you go down the pub with them on Fridays and some of your colleagues you even count as real friends.

However, it is important to know where to draw the line. There are certain things co-workers need not know about each other, including religious and political views as well as personal issues, but some folks just can’t seem to keep their mouths shut.

Plus don’t forget — a casual conversation can easily turn into office gossip, which again can easily turn around to the one who spreads it — including yourself.

To avoid risking your professional image, here are 10 things to never share or discuss with your co-workers:

1. Salary information

What you earn is between you and Human Resources. Disclosure indicates you aren’t capable of keeping a confidence.

2. Medical history

Aches and pains, your latest operation, your infertility woes or the contents of your medicine cabinet, can be serious worries to you — and only you. To your employer, your constant medical issues make you seem like an expensive, high-risk employee.

3. Work complaints

Constant complaints about your workload, stress levels or the company will quickly make you the kind of person who never gets invited to lunch. If you don’t agree with company policies and procedures, address it through official channels or move on.

4. Cost of purchases

The spirit of keeping up with the Joneses is alive and well in the workplace, but you don’t want others speculating on the lifestyle you’re living — or if you’re living beyond your salary bracket.

5. Intimate details

Don’t share intimate details about your personal life. This is no one’s business other than yours and your partner’s. It also makes people uncomfortable. So keep your personal bedroom details private or people will snigger about you behind your back.

6. Politics or religion

Both faith and politics are very sensitive issues and people can be very passionate about them. You may alienate a co-worker or be viewed negatively in a way that could impact your career. Be discreet and don’t force your views on others.

7. Lifestyle changes and personal problems

Breakups, divorces and baby-making plans should be shared only if there is a need to know, and then maybe only to selected people in private. Otherwise, others will speak for your capabilities, desires and limitations on availability, whether there is any truth to their assumptions or not.

8. Blogs or social networking profile

Be careful about what you say in a social networking community or in your personal blog. This may be even more damaging than what you say in person as it could show a totally different side of you. Comments online can be seen by multiple eyes. An outburst of anger when you are having a bad day … can blow up in your face.

9. Hangovers and wild weekends

It’s perfectly fine to have fun during the weekend, but don’t talk about your wild adventures on Monday. That information can make you look unprofessional and unreliable.

10. Off-color or racially charged comments

You can assume your co-worker wouldn’t be offended or would think something is funny, but you never know. Don’t take that risk. Furthermore, even if you know for certain your colleague wouldn’t mind your comment, don’t talk about it at work. Others can easily overhear.

With oil and fossil fuels dying out.

We need to power the world with an ever going population

Here is some suggestions and companies which are willing to change the way forward.

ALLIANCE FEDERATED ENERGY

There resolutions/revolutions and ideas towards future energy is inspiring and inspirational

The main idea is the following

Plasma Gasification

Question: So What is Plasma Gasification?

Answer : Plasma Gasification harnesses the power of plasma to convert waste into an energy rich synthesis gas that can be used to produce clean energy

Question: How is this done?

Answer: Using waste disposal and creating energy for use i.e Petrol and so on

Question: So in other words using landfills rubbish and general household rubbish into fuel, hence making a better and cleaner environment.

Answer: Correct

For more information and support copy the following link below into your browser

http://afeservices.com

Another idea is being thought out which is using energy from ICE-yes frozen ICE.

How is this done, well I will explain more.

Ice on fire: The next fossil fuel

This technique is different to create fuel from and benefits some Countries who didn;t even relaise they could have the fuel power and bargaining tools in the next century.

DEEP in the Arctic Circle, in the Messoyakha gas field of western Siberia, lies a mystery. Back in 1970, Russian engineers began pumping natural gas from beneath the permafrost and piping it east across the tundra to the Norilsk metal smelter, the biggest industrial enterprise in the Arctic.

By the late 70s, they were on the brink of winding down the operation. According to their surveys, they had sapped nearly all the methane from the deposit. But despite their estimates, the gas just kept on coming. The field continues to power Norilsk today.

Where is this methane coming from? The Soviet geologists initially thought it was leaking from another deposit hidden beneath the first. But their experiments revealed the opposite – the mystery methane is seeping into the well from the icy permafrost above.

Picture below shows frozen deposits of energy-rich clathrates could make the Siberian permafrost the new Gulf

If unintentionally, what they had achieved was the first, and so far only, successful exploitation of methane clathrate. Made of molecules of methane trapped within ice crystals, this stuff looks like dirty ice and has the consistency of sorbet. Touch it with a lit match, though, and it bursts into flames.

Clathrates are rapidly gaining favour as an answer to the energy crisis. Burning methane emits only half as much carbon dioxide as burning coal, and many countries are seeing clathrates as a quick and easy way of reducing carbon emissions. Others question whether that is wise, and are worried that extracting clathrates at all could have unforeseen and perilous side effects.

If countries and companies are exploring the potential of clathrates only now, that’s not for lack of scientific interest over the years. Research over the past two decades has shown that the energy trapped in ice within the permafrost and under the sea rivals that in all oil, coal and conventional gas fields, and could power the world for centuries to come. Oil and gas companies have been slow to catch on, however, believing methane clathrates to be unreliable and uneconomical. Feasibility studies and the diminishing supplies of conventional natural gas are changing that, making commercially viable production realistic within a decade, says Ray Boswell, who heads the clathrates programme at the US Department of Energy.

“Just a few years ago no one was thinking about clathrates as an energy source,” Boswell says. “Now there is a great deal of interest in them.” It is not just the US. Canada, China and Norway are entering the race too. The governments of Japan and South Korea have given the green light for full-scale production. The first intentional commercial exploitation may come as early as 2015.

So what are methane clathrates, and where do they come from? As with all natural gas, the story starts with rotting plants. As these plants decay, they release methane, which permeates through porous rocks underground. If the conditions where the methane ends up are just right – temperatures close to 0 °C and pressures of roughly 50 atmospheres – ice crystals form that trap the gas in place.

For the rest of the article read the link below

Now we have no excuse to keep polluting the environment.

As some of you may know FACEBOOK is now 6 years old, and Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire at 25 years old.

He does have a lot of power at his fingertips, pictures he can bribe people with, information he can sell to any organisation and you can’t do a thing about it due to disclaimers you ticked.

Anyway their are bigger fools on this social networking site-MSN has come up with 10 of them, I suspect their is more but frankly I ain’t that bothered.

So update your status, tag a picture, link a comment to Twitter in delight and read these 10 idiotic moments in the history of Facebook.

We’ll admit it: we’ve never been on the run from the police. But despite our lack of that particular life experience, we like to think we’d be a little better at keeping a low profile than 28-year-old Roy Boodle.

While evading detectives who wanted to quiz him on a number of burglaries, Boodle chose not to bother laying low. Instead, he kept himself at the top of Greater Manchester Police’s wanted list by using his Facebook page to provoke them with taunts along the lines of, “You’ll never catch me, copper!” That proved a little hasty.

Boodle, of no fixed address, was nicked just before Christmas and has just been jailed for three-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to three counts of burglary and one of handling stolen goods.

He’s not the only one to get carried away with social networking. Anyone can get a Facebook account, you see, even burglars who think nothing of logging on while robbing a house, or jurors who think it’s quite acceptable to set up a public poll so others can make their decision for them.

Barely a month goes by without such ‘what were they thinking?’ stories as these emerging: here are some of our favourite Facebook farces.

Number 1

US fugitive busted via Facebook

Maxi Sopo is another criminal who forgot the golden rule when on the run from the law: keep your mouth shut. Instead, he decided to boast on his Facebook profile about his new life in Mexico.

Sopo, wanted by US police for bank fraud charges, led detectives right to him after adding status updates from Cancun declaring his new home to be like ‘living in paradise’. Their job was made even easier when it emerged that Sopo had unwittingly added a former Justice Department official to his list of friends

Number 2

Bungling burglar

If you’re planning a clean getaway after robbing a house, you would have thought logging onto your Facebook page midway through the burglary would be a bit of a no-no. Unfortunately for 19-year-old Jonathan Parker from Pennsylvania, that was a thought that apparently did not occur.

Police said Parker not only booted up his Facebook page while looting a neighbour’s house but also forgot to log out, something which rather inevitably led to a court appearance on burglary charges.

Number 3

Call Facebook in emergency? Like that will help you?!?!

When two Australian girls aged just 10 and 12 found themselves trapped in a storm drain, they must have been understandably frightened. But does that explain their bizarre decision to update their Facebook status to ask for help rather than call emergency services?

Fireman Glenn Benham didn’t think so, telling ABC News he was baffled why the girls should turn to social networking rather than dial Aussie emergency services number 000.

“If they were able to access Facebook from their mobile phones, they could have called 000,” said Benham. “The point being they could have called us directly and we could have got there quicker than relying on someone being online and replying to them and eventually having to call us via 000 anyway.”

Number 4

Playing the lying down game

Here’s perfect proof that what might seem funny at the time is suddenly not so humorous once your boss sees it. Seven accident and emergency staff from the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, Wiltshire, found themselves suspended after they allegedly played the ‘lying down game’ and posted the pictures on Facebook.

Said game involves being photographed lying down in unusual locations, with the doctors and nurses said to have photographed themselves lying on resuscitation trolleys, ward floors and a helipad. Word spread as far as their bosses at the hospital, who took a rather dim view of the entire episode, though all seven were eventually reinstated.

Number 5

Number 6

Skiving employee fingered on Facebook

Australian call centre worker Kyle Doyle became a minor web celebrity after being caught out skiving off work via Facebook. Doyle had claimed to be unable to come to work on a day when his Facebook status announced he was pulling a sickie. When challenged to prove the sick leave was not genuine, his boss produced a screenshot of Doyle’s Facebook profile.

Number 7

Number 8

Happy splasher Facebooked-One word IDIOT!

A female motorist put herself in line for possible prosecution after she was filmed drenching children at a bus stop by driving through a puddle. Video taken inside the car was posted on Facebook and YouTube, where it soon came to the attention of the distinctly unimpressed police. Still, at least she could console herself with the creation of a new buzzword: happy splashing.

Number 9

Number 10

Last but not least, and please never insult your boss on facebook-Never a good idea?!?!

Unwise insult

A young woman found herself looking for a new job after adding an insulting post about her boss to her Facebook profile. Perhaps this may have escaped her employer’s attention but, sadly for this new jobseeker, she had already added him to her friends list.

The worker, known only as Lindsay, posted the provocative Facebook status update: “OMG I HATE MY JOB!! My boss is a total pervy w****r, always making me do s**t stuff just to p**s me off!! W****r!”

We can only imagine how her heart must have sunk a few hours later when boss ‘Brian’ added a response, beginning: “Hi Lindsay, I guess you forgot about adding me on here?” After reminding her that her trial period at the company was not yet complete, Brian offered Lindsay her P45.

So word from the wise, watch out what you post or say and it may come back t haunt you one day!

The Occult Roots of The Wizard of Oz

Oct 8th, 2009 | By Vigilant | Category: Vigilant Reports

With its memorable story and its cast of colorful characters, the Wizard of Oz quickly became an American classic. More than a hundred years after the release of this book, kids everywhere are still enchanted by Oz’s world of wonder. Few, however, recognize that, under its deceptive simplicity, the story of the Wizard of Oz conceals deep esoteric truths inspired by Theosophy. Here we’ll look at the Wizard of Oz’s occult meaning and its author’s background.

The Occult Roots of The Wizard of Oz

With its memorable story and its cast of colorful characters, the Wizard of Oz quickly became an American classic. More than a hundred years after the release of this book, kids everywhere are still enchanted by Oz’s world of wonder. Few, however, recognize that, under its deceptive simplicity, the story of the Wizard of Oz conceals deep esoteric truths inspired by Theosophy. Here we’ll look at the Wizard of Oz’s occult meaning and its author’s background.

Although the Wizard of Oz is widely perceived as an innocent children’s fairy tale, it is almost impossible not to attribute a symbolic meaning to Dorothy’s quest. As in all great stories, the characters and the symbols of the Wizard of Oz can be given a second layer of interpretation, which may vary depending on the reader’s perception. Many analyses appeared throughout the years describing the story as an “atheist manifesto” while others saw it as a promotion of populism. It is through an understanding of the author’s philosophical bckground and beliefs, however, that the story’s true meaning can be grasped.

L. Frank Baum, the author of the Wizard of Oz was a member of the Theosophical Society, which is an organization based on occult research and the comparative study of religions. Baum had a deep understanding of Theosophy and, consciously or not, created an allegory of Theosophic teachings when he wrote the Wizard of Oz.

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I have been reading a few of these online and it amazing how the last ten years in music has changed dramatically.

Downloading has become more prominent and I will be honest I will download albums to listen to them before buying a CD albums; this method has saved me a lot of money.

The albums I have chosen for the best albums of the decade are very different but I will be honest I listen to these albums still after they were released and that is the difference between my list and publicized lists.

My listening tastes, which are very varied compared to a lot of peoples, I recommend these for you to maybe re-listen to or acquirer and if you have any comments please feel free to leave them.

1 Voodoo-D’Angelo-2000

One of my favourite albums of all time, all the songs are strong as one another, something I don’t find on many new albums which appear nowadays. I remember buying Brown Sugar when it came out in 1995 in America and always admired D’Angelo to make me listen back to old R&B music and hear his influences of Marvin Gaye especially his 70’s albums with their complex vocal arrangements, Stevie Wonder’s musicality, Prince’s forward thinking music experimentation, Curits Mayfield’s spiritual and holistic lyrical approach to music, Sly Stone’s complex arrangements and groove based early 70’s work and many more.

Voodoo goes another stage further then Brown Sugar ever did and could, by bringing soul and proper R&B music to the future.

With Voodoo the sound contains an experimental, groove-based funk sound with live instrumentation and a vintage production style, which contrasts the more conventional structure of D’Angelo’s debut album Brown Sugar (1995) that was really a hybrid of New Jack Swing and mid 90’s R&B.

It is to me the best R&B (meaning Rhythm and Blues not crappy pop R&B we hear nowadays) for the last 15 years and in the last ten years the album I still regard very highly.

The themes within the album have a mature outlook in D’Angelo’s songwriting with lyrical themes such as spirituality, sexuality, love, growth, and fatherhood.

But an interesting quote from an interview sums up D’angelos attitude to music and his way of working towards an album,

D’Angelo discussed his role as a musician and his influences in an interview with Ebony’s Kimberly Davis, stating “I consider myself very respectful of the masters who came before. In some ways, I feel a responsibility to continue and take the cue from what they were doing musically and vibe on it. That’s what I want to do. But I want to do it for this time and this generation”

I think D’Angelo succeeded at this and it’s a shame more artists don’t take risks like this in the genre or in music generally, only Radiohead come to mind trying to push boundaries. In the genre of R&B and Hip-Hop, Dwele and Maxwell and many more could have done this and have never been up to the task. Personally only Outkast, Q-tip, Erykah Badu, The Roots, Raphael Saddiq and Sa-Ra have tried to carry on this legacy, but they still lack the human spiritual/holistic and emotional response, which D’Angelo presents in his music.

2. Speakerboxx/The Love Below-Outkast 2003

Most people remember the successful hits from this very unorthodox album in comparison to what was released a he time and since, Hey Ya, The Way You Move, Roses, Prototype, but this album especially ‘The Love Below’ has a great theme with music that equals the great work of Prince, Sly Stone, George Clinton and many others. This two set album was experimental and very groundbreaking, being the first Hip-Hop album to win a Grammy.

Outkast had already for the last 10 years been developing a sound, which was and still is different from the other music around the genre of Hip-Hop. Stankonia a very successful album with the public and critics paved the way for Andre 3000 and Big Boi to write separate albums but eventually through record company intervention collide their efforts together. This should be in most peoples record collection as a album in future best of lists.

3. Kamaal/The Abstract-Q-Tip 2002

This album was officially released in 2001/2 and pulled off the shelves twice by Arista (L.A Reid) who believed the album was not commercial enough for the record buying public (and especially the Hip-Hop community) and low and behold Outkast’s new album was released a year later in 2003 destroying that ethos. Q-Tip now has this album released in 2009 independently.

Well what is the album like? It is a mixture of jazz, stripped down funk and Hip-Hop MC’ing in a spoken word form. It is a shame it wasn’t highly regarded in the first place, however you now can check it out by acquiring the album in shops everywhere.

4. Back to Black-Amy Winehouse 2006

Amy Winehouse has had a few later rough years (no doubt brought on by herself) but when you listen to this album you remember what she was famous for. Back to Black contains catchy songs, which appeals to older and young music listeners alike. Songs such as Rehab, I Know I’m No Good have long lasting appeal, and hopefully she can come up with another album as good as this next.

5. A Rush to The Blood Of The Head- Coldplay 2002

Coldplay have been one of the most successful groups in the 00’s, and when you think of Coldplay one album sticks to mind, with songs such as Clocks, The Scientist, In My Place. This album still shows the influence this group has on many British and US Indie groups of recent years, and shows what the group and Chris Martin’s songwriting has in high regard. Which others fail to achieve.

6. Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not – Arctic Monkeys 2006

For a debut album what a way to enter the music listening public, becoming the best selling debut British album for first week sales, and becoming one of the groups to look out for in the future, the new album Humbug is fantastic, perhaps the album of the year 2009. The Arctic Monkeys indie/styled punk with intelligent lyrics, great melodies and stark arrangements, came out in the midst of Myspace popularity, deserved hype through performing exhilarating gigs, quirky ditties about inner city Northern England life, with the energetic venom of punk. Probably one of the most important albums in British music history and still sounds fresh,

7. Silent Alarm-Bloc Party 2005

An underground group which came from the Goldsmith’s/New Cross London area, with a fresh forward thinking Indie album and which they have never equaled though they have tried. Bloc Party’s music became known through word of mouth and critical appeal, and sounds as great as the day it came out and well worth revisiting.

8. State Of Mind-Raul Midon 2006

An artist with amazing musical talent mixing flamenco, jazz, soul and great songwriting burst onto the scene in 2006 and is one of the best artists to watch live by the name of Raul Midon.

This album produced by the late Arif Mardin who actually signed him and showcases all self-written songs with the appeal to jazz and old R&B listeners alike. This album has beautiful songs with a positive overall message and is as important to jazz music to create crossover albums as Norah Jones Come Away With Me did and in my opinion this album is better.

9. Happenstance- Rachael Yamagata 2005

Her music is on alot of adverts and in the background of US Teen-aimed Television programs. But the British music listening public may not even know her, and probably doesn’t however this is the modern day equivalent to Joni Mitchell with beautiful written songs and a sleeping giant in creativity. Try to acquire this and listen to an artist who in my opinion is better then Norah Jones, Tori Amos Fiona Apple put together.

10. As I Am – Alicia Keys 2007

As talented as Roberta Flack back in her day, Alicia Key has dramatically led her own path of success and at the start of the decade came up with the highly regarded Songs In A Minor but for my personal listening her last album in 2007 really showcased Alicia Keys strong songwriting and great songs. A strong thematic album, which takes a while for, the first time to get used to but has outstanding songs, which are as fresh as when first heard.

Key Albums to Check out from the last ten years (in No Particular order)

Stankoina-Outkast 2000
Echoes-The Rapture 2003
The Rise and Fall of-Keite Young-2007
The Inner Beauty Movement – Lina 2004
Who Is Jill Scott-Jill Scott 2000
Mama’s Gun-Erykah Badu 2000
The Grey Album-Dangermouse 2004
Is This It? The Strokes 2001
New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) Erykah Badu 2008
Instant Vintage-Raphael Saadiq 2002
Late Registration-Kanye West 2005
Ruby Blue-Roisin Murphy 2005
Fleet Foxes-Fleet Foxes 2008
Down In Albion-BabyShambles 2007
Untrue-Burial 2007
Elephant-The White Stripes 2003
Drukqs-Aphex Twin 2001
Come Away With Me-Norah Jones 2002
The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams-Meshell N’degeocello-2007
The Blueprint-Jay Z -2001
Sea Change-Beck 2002
Medulla-Bjork 2004
Boy In Da Corner-Dizzee Rascal 2003
Humbug-Arctic Monkeys 2009
Kid A-Radiohead 2000
Lungs-Florence and the Machine 2009