Okavango Challenge

Before urban renewal, low income families in cities often lived in tenement slums. They had to pay rent to absentee slumlords, sometimes living without heat, electricity, or even running water.

With urban renewal, the government seized the tenement buildings and demolished them, then they replaced them with modern public housing projects, up to modern housing standards.

The low income families moved in, and the low income housing projects became high crime areas. And most of the crime was committed by the residents or their guests.

Is this the reality of what happens to the government promise of free public housing and free income on welfare for life?

Is this the real outcome of socialism in the USA?

That is exactly right. Not only is there major crimes but those newly constructed buildings now are in the same condition as the ones demolished. If you work for nothing own nothing you take care of nothing.

In a recent letter to the Washington Post, browbeating it for daring to pen an article on errors in the IPCC report, David Hilfiker complained stridently that ""Climate-change deniers get too much help from Post story"" and that even though the article was accurate the Post was wrong to run it because: [quote]

""The Feb. 15 front-page article "Missteps weigh on agenda for climate" was infuriating, a perfect example of why so many Americans still don’t believe in the coming crisis of global climate change. Read closely, your article was technically accurate, but the language and placement of information gave the impression that the overwhelming scientific consensus on global climate change might be in danger.""

~ So, he acknowledges that the article was perfectly accurate, but inveighs against it on the grounds that it questions the supposed orthodoxy! Is this a healthy attitude?

I was curious about who would write such a ehtically dubious letter, so I checked out David Hilfiker, esq., and found his ’spiritual’ website: www.davidhilfiker.com, where he writes "sermons" on the evils of capitalism, in one of which he says: [quote]

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""As long as profit maximization, the sanctity of private property, and distribution solely by supply and demand remain the unexamined bases of our economic system, we will not be able to feed the hungry or prevent ecological destruction.

Among those who ardently hope and work for change, there is a different opinion. Many believe that without a fundamental re-orientation in power relationships no change will be possible. It is power, they say, that determines the course of society; until those who rule society are replaced, we cannot expect justice or sustainability

We do not have much time left before environmental catastrophe overtakes us. We won’t find environmental balance unless we deal with injustice. The current economic system cannot bring either justice or sustainability""
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- in short, this is a call for revolution to bring about "sustainability". Yet again, you can see the real agenda start to emerge.

IS this letter to WP a good example of the sort of activists we are dealing with on global warming?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021905037.html

http://www.davidhilfiker.com/docs/Economics/Constitutive%20Rules.htm
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Global warming is a joke……but if you want to help Gore’s bank account you go right ahead……..

I am planting an eggplant and cherry plant in my backyard, and I want to know the average amount of water I should give the plants. I fill a whole cooking pot all the way to the top and give my plants that much water in the morning and night.

Am I over watering my plants? Or do they need more water?

You should water your eggplants weekly. Eggplants need an inch of water each week. Be mindful of the rainfall in your area and water accordingly.

Is there a good movie for 5th Graders that shows the water cycle or water pollution or the energy cycle?

Thanks for any help. It really needs to be G rated.

I just watched a movie in my 9th grade class about the water cycle about a week ago. Too bad im too darn lazy to ask my science teacher about it =]

This is a question on my study guide that i couldn’t find my study guide i couldn’t find the answer to

like, "How are you susaiable?"….I recycle, I use a reusable water bottle,I have a compost, I drive a prius….all are examples of bein sustainable.

I can be taking a nice, relaxing shower and -BAM!- someone flushes a toilet in another bathroom and the hot water vanishishes. It stays cold until the toilet tank is refilled (about a minute or two). Why does the toilet need my hot water? It’s a cold water device!

I’ve been in other showers at other’s houses, and the water becomes scolding when a toilet is flush. THAT, to me makes more sense, because the toilet is drawing away cold water for itself, leaving nothing but hot. But that’s not the case in my house. Why?

ONE OF TWO REASONS.
INSIDE YOUR SHOWER ARE TWO SAFETY DEVICES 1 A LOW PRESSURE DEVICE THAT DETECTS WATER PRESSURE SO THAT THE HEATER CANNOT BE ON WITH NO WATER INSIDE THE TANK

2 AN ANTI SCALDING DEVICE SWITCHES OFF THE HEATER IF THE TEMPERATURE GOES TOO HIGH - STOPPING YOU GETTING SCALDED

WHEN THE TOILET IS FLUSHED, THE CISTERN IS LOWER THAN YOUR SHOWER SO THE WATER FINDS IT EASIER TO COME OUT OF THE LOWER OUTLET, REDUCING THE WATER PRESSURE SIGNIFICANTLY

[DEVICE1 CUTS IN?]

AS WATER FLOWS INTO YOUR TOILET CISTERN, THERE IS LESS WATER TO GO THROUGH YOUR SHOWER SLOWING THE FLOW MEANS LESS water IS IN CONTACT WITH THE HEATER BUT FOR A LONGER TIME - THUS RAISING THE TEMPERATURE BEYOND THE SAFE LIMIT

[DEVICE2?]

HOPE THAT EXPLAINS IT
LOCK THE BATHROOM DOORS B4 TAKING A SHOWER
ANDY

Hi.I am currently working a project that needs us to come out with ideas to improve water quality.
Hence,i need opinions that are creative and workable to improve water quality that will then improve the quality of people’s life too.

I don’t know specifically how to improve water quality, but I do know that if you don’t get the people your trying to help to buy into the idea no matter what you try to do won’t work. So what plan you enact must include a lot of education.

and dont say its the pronunciation or the spelling =.=

I didn’t think there was one

Normally I cook brown rice at a 1:2 ratio (1 part rice to 2 parts water). However, I’m sprouting some brown rice now, and saw that it’s already absorbed a lot of the soak water. I know the 1:2 ratio will be too much water, but I can’t find any specific instructions on the internet on how much water to use exactly.

My rice cooker does GABA rice automaticly. I usually just add a bit more water and just push the button.

This is not a new variety of brown rice, but a newly discovered way of cooking brown rice to “activate” it and increase natural occurring gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), an amino acid in brown rice believed to have health giving properties such as lowering blood pressure, improving kidney function and relieving stress. The brown rice is “activated” by soaking the rice at 104 degrees F for 2 hours before the actual cooking begins. This feature is available in select Induction Heating Rice Cookers

We have all the probes to check for water quality.
We have decided to use the probes to test for the water quality in different parts of Singapore and different levels in the HDB flats to see if there is any difference in the water quality.
This would be the idea of our project but how can we link it to benefiting the society and saving the environment?
Or is there any other ideas that we can do about water management with all the probes we have ?

Pauline, I assume that the connection to the environment and benefiting society is a funding issue without which the scheme could not progress. An argument for linking to the environment could be that if the Water was good quality, the users would be less likely to ‘run the tap’ before drawing drinking water, this would reduce waste of fresh water and reduce the need to process the waste. From the society angle, perhaps society would benefit from reduced water charges (meter charges) because they no longer ‘run the tap’ and the water saved would be available to other members of society who may be without running water at present.