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Bipolar disorder (also known as "manic depression") is a disorder characterized by mood swings from feelings of great highs to those of great lows. Because it has both highs and lows, bipolar can sometimes be misdiagnosed as simply depression by the patient, relatives, friends, and even physicians. An early sign of bipolar disorder may be hypomania — a state in which the person shows a high level of energy, excessive moodiness or irritability, and impulsive or reckless behavior for at least 4 days. The symptoms associated with hypomania tend to feel good. Therefore, even when family and friends learn to recognize the mood swings, the individual often may deny that anything is wrong.
In its early stages, bipolar disorder may masquerade as a problem other than mental illness. For example, it may first appear as alcohol or drug abuse, or poor school or work performance.
Bipolar disorder in children is different and has a different set of symptoms. In children, bipolar disorder is known as disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.
If left untreated, bipolar disorder tends to worsen, and the person will often experience full-fledged manic episodes and depressive episodes.
One of the usual differential diagnoses for bipolar disorder is that the symptoms (listed below) are not better accounted for by Schizoaffective Disorder and is not superimposed on Schizophrenia, Schizophreniform Disorder, Delusional Disorder, or other Psychotic Spectrum Disorders.
And as with nearly all mental disorder diagnoses, the symptoms of manic depression must cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. Symptoms also can not be the result of substance use or abuse (e.g., alcohol, drugs, medications) or caused by a general medical condition.
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- Essential feature of Bipolar I is that the person experiences one full manic episode (though the manic episode may have been preceded by and may be followed by hypomanic or major depressive episodes).
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- The occurrence of the manic and major depressive episode(s) is not better explained by schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder, delusional disorder, or other specified or unspecified schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorder.
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- Bipolar II requires occurence (or history) of one or more Major Depressive Episodes and at least one Hypomanic Episode. Additionally, there has never been a full Manic Episode.
In both Bipolar I and II disorders, a person can have a mood episode (i.e., primarily manic or depressed) with mixed features, wherein a manic/hypomanic episode there are significant depressive symptoms, and in a depressive episode there are some manic/hypomanic symptoms.
Additionally, both bipolar and unipolar depression (i.e., in major depressive disorder) can occur with anxious distress, with a seasonal pattern, with psychotic features, with peripartum onset, with melancholia, and with atypical features. See additional information on these DSM-5 specifiers here.
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During a depressed phase, symptoms include:
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- loss of energy and constant lethargy
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The main method used to diagnose bipolar disorder is a thorough interview with a psychiatrist, psychologist or other mental health professional. Although there are written methods for documenting the severity and number of symptoms, those tests only complement a complete interview. They do not substitute for a face-to-face evaluation by a professional. There are not yet any blood tests or other biological tests that can be used to diagnose bipolar disorder.
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Food facilities must alert the FDA within 24 hours of finding any contaminant in a product that might severely sicken or kill people or animals. The system is intended to foster a quicker response to food-borne outbreaks, and was required under a 2007 law after the FDA was criticized for its response to a number of problems with food and drug safety.
In some past recalls, the FDA has been notified only when people get sick, said Michael Taylor, a senior adviser to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg.
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Chicken/Fish/ Prawn Chaat
Total Time
Prep 1 min
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This is the quickest curry style dish that you can cook. It works well with chicken or fish, prawns taste wonderful this way. Start to finish in FIVE MINUTES. Serve as a starter or main course.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 lb peeled cooked prawns
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons turmeric powder
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons coriander powder
- 1 lemon, juice of
- Heat the oil in a non stick pan over medium heat.
- With the blade of a knife cream the garlic with the salt.
- lightly brown the garlic in the oil.
- Add the spices and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add the prawns, stir and cook 2 minutes
- Stir in the lemon juice.
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Poznan Travel Guide: 346 reviews and 922 photos
Poznan is the large city in Western Poland, that is situated on Warta River on the way between Berlin and Warsaw.
Poznan is famous as trade city. In Middle Ages it played important role in trading. Thanks reach history today Poznan became popular city of fairs in Europe.
The city was founded in 8 century, when duke Meszko I built castle here.
Mieszko I's son, Boleslaus the Brave, was crowned king in 1025 and the Kingdom of Poland was formed. Poznan became capital of Poland. - One of the first capitals of the state (Gniezno was the first capital of Poland).
In 1253 Poznan got city rights. At this time town had fortifications and defence walls. The XV, XVI centuries were the time of city's fast development - it was also time of Renaissance in Poznan - "Golden time". Many new churches and city buildings were built.
In 1519 the second university in Poland was established.
Poznan is called also as economical capital of Poland.
World's best shoping centre in 2005 is situated in Poznan and name of it is Stary Browar. And it is not a wonder - why just in Poznan.
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Poznan is in my wish list
Thankyou for your tips !!!
You can take the elevator to the second from top floor (I can't remember which floor that is!) and there is an area to see panoramic views of the whole city!
Thanks for your kind comments on my Poznan page, Jevgeni! You have a wonderful page here, with a wealth of information! I wanted to go on the Lech brewery tour, but we didn't have enough time unfortunately.
Poznan seems to be a charming city with many sights to see!
Jevgeni, fabulous page with gorgeous tips and photos. I especially like your tips about the different architectural styles in teh city. Also the idea of a sidetrip to Lichen sounds tempting to me. Very well done.
Great page, Jevgeni! Will visit at Easter :)
Nice page, i also loved visiting Poznan a few years ago
Nice page, great tips! Poznan really seems worth a visit!
Poznan is definitely a place where I need to come back soon! :)
Great updates since I read it last. Yes, I quite agree with you, Jevgeni, Poznan is a beautiful city with interesting history and great architecture. Last time it seemed to me we have been walking in different parts of the city... Now it's the same!
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OUISTREHAM, France – Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Friday face-to-face with Ukraine's incoming president about ending the violence in the former Soviet state, a diplomatic turning point that played out along the Normandy beaches where the Allies battled for Europe's peace 70 years earlier.
The meeting, which lasted some 15 minutes, came on the same day Putin spoke with President Barack Obama, who had been keeping the Russian leader at arm's length over the Ukrainian crisis that has rekindled Cold War-era tensions.
Speaking after the meeting with Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko – who is to be sworn for office on Saturday – Putin called for an immediate cease-fire in eastern Ukraine ahead of any further talks, and said he expected Poroshenko to show "state wisdom" and "good will."
Putin also said Moscow is ready for constructive discussion with Ukraine on settling its gas debt to Russia.
"I can only welcome Mr. Poroshenko's position that the bloodshed in eastern Ukraine must be stopped immediately," Putin told reporters in Normandy.
The Russian president said he liked Poroshenko's approach, but added he will be waiting for the Ukrainian leader to deliver it in detail to the nation.
"If it continues like that then conditions will be created for developing our relations in other areas as well," he added.
Face-to-face conversation
In a secluded chateau between ceremonies, Obama and Putin huddled by a doorway for their first face-to-face conversation since Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in March. Some say the land grab carries uncomfortable echoes of the border-crossing aggression that Moscow and Washington joined forces to defeat in World War II.
The then-Soviet Union suffered an estimated 24 million dead, more than any other country in the war. About 420,000 Americans were killed.
The Obama-Putin meeting Friday was brief and unscripted, the White House said, lasting about 15 minutes after a lunch hosted by French President Francois Hollande. But it marked another twist in the drama-filled relationship between two leaders with no love lost and no way to work around each other.
According to Ben Rhodes, the U.S. deputy national security adviser, Obama urged Putin to recognize the newly elected president of Ukraine, Poroshenko, as the legitimate leader, "ceasing support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, and stopping the provision of arms and materiel across the border." Rhodes said Obama "made clear that a failure to take these steps would only deepen Russia's isolation."
Moving back into the fold?
Frozen out of G-7 talks Thursday in Brussels, Putin appeared to be moving incrementally back into the fold of the West following his first direct talks with the man elected to lead Ukraine after the previous pro-Kremlin president was ousted in what Putin said was a coup.
Russia, which had recalled its ambassador from Ukraine, said he will return to Kiev to attend Poroshenko's inauguration Saturday. That appeared to be a recognition of Ukraine's election, Hollande said.
Obama and Western allies opened a pathway for Russia to ease tensions in Ukraine Thursday but pointedly warned Moscow it could face new sanctions within weeks if Putin fails to go along.
The leaders said the Russian president could avoid tougher penalties in part by recognizing the legitimacy of the new Ukrainian government and ending support for an insurgency in eastern cities that is widely believed to be backed by the Kremlin.
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Half of worlds population could face climate-driven food crisis in second half of the century
Science study warns: "Ignoring climate projections at this stage will only result in the worst form of triage."
[I'm on travel, so I'm updating this timely 2009 post on food insecurity.]
The quote above is the powerful final sentence from a 2009 study in Science, "Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat." The University of Washington news release release explained:
Rapidly warming climate is likely to seriously alter crop yields in the tropics and subtropics by the end of this century and, without adaptation, will leave half the world's population facing serious food shortages, new research shows"¦.
"The stresses on global food production from temperature alone are going to be huge, and that doesn't take into account water supplies stressed by the higher temperatures," said David Battisti, a University of Washington atmospheric sciences professor.
Yes, this 2009 study is a serious underestimate of the speed and scale of likely impacts for two reasons.
First, the conclusions are solely based upon projected temperature rise. They don't even consider the potentially more devastating impact from more extreme drought and Dust-Bowlification (See NCAR analysis warns we risk multiple, devastating global droughts by mid-century even on moderate emissions path) — let alone the combination of heat stress and water stress together.
Second, as is common in such analyses, the authors based their simulations on "the 'middle of the road' emission scenario, A1B." In 2100, A1B hits about 700 ppm with average global temperatures "only" about 3°C (5 F) warmer than today. In fact, on our current emissions path, a 3C temperature rise will happen much sooner (see Hadley Center: "Catastrophic" 5-7°C warming by 2100 on current emissions path and M.I.T. doubles its 2095 warming projection to 10°F "" with 866 ppm and Arctic warming of 20°F). And remember, the worst-case scenario is that this happens by mid-century (se Royal Society special issue details 'hellish vision' of 7°F (4°C) world "" which we may face in the 2060s!)
Figure. "Histogram of summer (June, July, and August) averaged temperatures (blue) observed from 1900 to 2006 and (red) projected for 2090 for (A) France, (B) Ukraine, and (C) the Sahel. Temperature is plotted as the departure from the long-term (1900-2006) climatological mean (21). The data are normalized to represent 100 seasons in each histogram. In (A), for example, the hottest summer on record in France (2003) is 3.6°C above the long-term climatology. The average summer temperature in 2090 [assuming A1B] is projected to be 3.7°C greater than the long-term climatological average."
The results are still alarming:
We used observational data and output from 23 global climate models to show a high probability (>90%) that growing season temperatures in the tropics and subtropics by the end of the 21st century will exceed the most extreme seasonal temperatures recorded from 1900 to 2006. In temperate regions, the hottest seasons on record will represent the future norm in many locations.
If the authors had modeled the Hadley or M.I.T. or other current business-as-usual scenarios, then I suspect even in the temperate regions, growing season temperatures in 2100 would exceed the most extreme temperatures recorded in the past century "" while the tropics and subtropics will be utterly brutalized.
In the tropics, the higher temperatures can be expected to cut yields of the primary food crops, maize and rice, by 20 to 40 percent, the researchers said. But rising temperatures also are likely to play havoc with soil moisture, cutting yields even further.
Indeed, along with the temperature rise, we face desertification of one third the habited planet and moderate drought over half the land mass. Soil moisture drops over large parts of the planet will exceed that of the 1930s Dust Bowl! And lasting a long, long time (see NOAA: Climate change "largely irreversible for 1000 years," with permanent Dust Bowls in Southwest and around the globe).
"We have to be rethinking agriculture systems as a whole, not only thinking about new varieties but also recognizing that many people will just move out of agriculture, and even move from the lands where they live now," Naylor said.
Currently 3 billion people live in the tropics and subtropics, and their number is expected to nearly double by the end of the century. The area stretches from the southern United States to northern Argentina and southern Brazil, from northern India and southern China to southern Australia and all of Africa"¦.
"When all the signs point in the same direction, and in this case it's a bad direction, you pretty much know what's going to happen," Battisti said. "You are talking about hundreds of millions of additional people looking for food because they won't be able to find it where they find it now."
The study warns that the rich countries will also suffer:
Severe heat in the summer of 2003 affected food production as well as human lives in Europe. Record high daytime and nighttime temperatures over most of the summer growing season reduced leaf and grain-filling development of key crops such as maize, fruit trees, and vineyards; accelerated crop ripening and maturity by 10 to 20 days; caused livestock to be stressed; and resulted in reduced soil moisture and increased water consumption in agriculture. Italy experienced a record drop in maize yields of 36% from a year earlier, whereas in France maize and fodder production fell by 30%, fruit harvests declined by 25%, and wheat harvests (which had nearly reached maturity by the time the heat set in) declined by 21%.
Yet, by century's end, the European summer of 2003 will be considered relatively cool. What do the authors recommend?
It will be extremely difficult to balance food deficits in one part of the world with food surpluses in another, unless major adaptation investments are made soon to develop crop varieties that are tolerant to heat and heat-induced water stress and irrigation systems suitable for diverse agroecosystems. The genetics, genomics, breeding, management, and engineering capacity for such adaptation can be developed globally but will be costly and will require political prioritization. National and international agricultural investments have been waning in recent decades and remain insufficient to meet near-term food needs in the world's poorest countries, to say nothing of longer-term needs in the face of climate change.
Rather lamely, the study never mentions the possibility of mitigation, of keeping total global warming to far less than 3°C, as a strategy. Why? The final paragraph of the release states:
"You can let it happen and painfully adapt, or you can plan for it," he said. "You also could mitigate it and not let it happen in the first place, but we're not doing a very good job of that."
Okay. Fine. Another understatement of the year.
But since the authors clearly assert in the study that we're also not doing a very good job of adaptation or investment in agriculture, I'm not sure why it makes more sense for them to push adaptation as a solution than mitigation. In fact, we'll need to do both, but absent serious mitigation, "climate adaptation" may be little more than cruel doubletalk for most of the world [see Real adaptation is as politically tough as real mitigation, but much more expensive and not as effective in reducing future misery; Rhetorical adaptation, however, is a political winner. Too bad it means preventable suffering for billions].
[Note to authors — if you ignore mitigation, than you need to model an emissions scenarios that does not have much if any mitigation. Try A1F1 next time.]
If we end up with 5.5°C warming or more by century's end, and if you throw in the desertification and sharps drops in soil moisture "" plus the loss of the inland glaciers that act as reservoirs for so many major river systems around the globe "" then simply developing crops "that are tolerant to heat and heat-induced water stress" along with better irrigation is likely to prove utterly inadequate and irrelevant for billions of people.
And let's not forget where we're ultimately heading — Science stunner: On our current emissions path, CO2 levels in 2100 will hit levels last seen when the Earth was 29°F (16°C) hotter
The only genuine hope for avoiding "the worst form of triage" is aggressive and immediate greenhouse gas mitigation.
For more, see the posts under the category "food insecurity."
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We need to do everything Joe talks about…PLUS start adapting our agriculture to the new climatic and energetic realities we face.
Check out: http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2010-12-13/agriculture-stands-chance-perennial-polyculture-hard-limits-post-carbon-farming
'Choose life so that you may live.'
As I've said here before: Welcome to Planet Triage.
It's all timing, pure and simple. If we take appropriate (i.e. drastic) action immediately, we can avoid a lot of the impacts and human suffering that lie along our BAU path, even with the warming that's not yet realized but can't be avoided. If we continue to let the deniers steer us around in a way that trades off future suffering for their short-term profits, then the impacts we eventually feel will be much worse.
Prediction: Our complacency and inherent divisiveness (some would say tribalism) will keep us from acting in our own best interest to the degree that facts demand. This will continue right up to the point where we experience an inciting incident — WAIS collapse, or perhaps simply the endlessly rising costs of food and other commodities coupled with relentless media reports of climate refugees and starving populations.
Food and fresh water shortages are the ultimate effects in this causality chain, short of the limiting feedback of our response to them, and they're the only things that will override our collective arrogance and shortsightedness. But they will only do so at a horrific price.
How I wish that many of the people involved in pushing us ever faster toward the precipice ahead would live long enough to see what they've caused and be put on trial for crimes against humanity. But nearly all of them will live out a long life, proud of their actions, and pass on before things really hit the fan.
Thousands left homeless as rains cause floods in Bolivia
"We need to do everything Joe talks about…PLUS start adapting our agriculture to the new climatic and energetic realities we face."
My question is, how do you adapt food crops to a fast changing climate?
The goal post keeps moving. Sustained agriculture requires a steady climate. What grows in the Midwest today, may not grow there tomorrow even with hybrid strains or adaptive techniques. While moving crops to areas where the climate is acceptable, one might find that other variables are not conducive to growth, such as soil ,water conditions and the availability of energy.
Then there is the nemesis of devastating and unpredictable weather events, wiping out generations of crops.
Carlos dropped about 300 millimeters of rain in 24 hours and caused "significant flooding" on the island, Guy Houston, a Chevron spokesman, said in a statement.
dan allen said "start adapting our agriculture to the new climatic and energetic realities we face."
THE LARGEST no-till group in Australia and a leading organic waste management business have formed a partnership that aims to provide farmers with new investment opportunities while protecting their traditional agricultural interests.
The joint venture, between the South Australian No-Till Farmers Association and the Jeffries Group, also has the potential to help secure future fertiliser stocks, with biochar set to be one of many commodities produced at the plant.
With the backing of the State Government, through a recently- announced $274,000 Renewables SA grant, Clean Carbon Capture will complete a feasibility study during the next 12-months.
It will determine whether a profitable pyrolysis plant to convert organic waste into renewable energy at Buckland Park, north of Adelaide, can be established.
Jeffries already operates a state-of-the-art composting facility at the site. If the business is given the go-ahead, it will have the capacity to process up to 50,000 tonnes of additional green waste a year. As well as biochar, the business will focus on the production of renewable energy, syngas, that can be used for direct heating or electricity, if run through a generator. http://biochar.be/everything-biochar/projects/111-waste-deal-offers-farm-options.html
The ways events are unfolding now, would in my opinion seem to point to a sooner rather than later timeline.
#5 Lore: Totally agree. But…unfortunately it's the only chance we've got. The other option, of course, is to go all Derrick Jensen on our civilization — but that's unpalatable to most.
The UNEP released a report that has been picked up by the media, including CP, stating among other things that global warming can be significantly curbed by reining in emissions of black soot, precursors to tropospheric ozone, and methane.
Most of the coverage neglects the even more urgent message in their work, which is that ozone is toxic and severely damages crop yield and quality, and it crosses boundaries.
This could be because the report also makes a direct case for implementing the Polluter Pays Principle, described as: "PPP is an environmental policy principle recognised as fundamental to international environmental law, which requires that the costs of pollution be borne by those who cause it."
Ooh, I don't think the Chamber of Commerce or the Koch Brothers are going to like that idea!
Many more excerpts from the UNEP posted here;
David B. Benson might particularly like this one:
"One obvious health-related issue is the combined effect of heat waves and high ozone levels. Recent studies in France and elsewhere suggest that the overall contribution of ozone to mortality in cities may range from 2.5% to 85.3% in periods of high temperature."
Couple this with the findings from Dai et al 2010 and you have the recipe for disaster.
All of this is further is supplemented by the findings of a new study:
Drought variability in the Pacific Northwest from a 6,000-yr lake sediment record
(I summarize the results here)
Study after study, stunner after stunner, shows that our current Business-As-Usual course of emissions is driving us off the proverbial cliff… (cue theme music from Thelma and Louise)
Thanks for the post, Joe.
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It wont happen if we do something about it.
From The Economist today:
"A special report on feeding the world
No easy fix
Simply using more of everything to produce more food will not work"
"Water…is crucial. At the moment it is probably agriculture's critical limiting factor."
"By 2030, on most estimates, farmers will need 45% more water. They won't get it. Cities are the second-largest users of water, and those in the emerging world are growing exponentially. They already account for half the world's population, a share that will rise to 70% by 2050. In any dispute between cities and farmers, governments are likely to side with cities. Agriculture's share of the world's water used to be 90%, so it has already fallen a long way. It will surely decline further."
This is a very good article and concludes with:
"When the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) tried to work out the impacts of climate change on the main cereal crops, almost all its results suggested that yields in 2050 are likely to be lower than they were in 2000, sometimes much lower. Almost half the forecasts showed yield reductions of 9-18% by 2050. One came up with a drop in rainfed-maize yields of 30%. The most vulnerable crop turned out to be wheat, with the largest losses forecast in developing countries. The Indo-Gangetic plain, home to a seventh of mankind and purveyor of a fifth of the world's wheat, is likely to be especially hard hit."
Most reports I have seen show that drought due to climate disruption will be wide spread by 2030. Asia, Africa, and North America are projected to suffer the most. At the same time, according to the National Geographic article on population from January this year, the largest group of adolescents in history will be entering their child bearing years. These are the little children we see around us today and the ones shown suffering around the world on news broadcasts. These young adults will be looking for education, jobs, food, water, and energy. This generation will determine whether world population growth will reach 8 billion or 10 billion by 2050. In 2030 will they find a world unable to meet their basic needs for food and water? The Economist article does not mention the great demand the world also puts on food from the ocean and does not mention what might happen to the food chain if acidification, warming and reef collapse causes widespread collapse of important fish populations. I fear that what ever we do, when we finally decided to do something, will not be enough to avert disaster.
One major shortcoming of studies like the above is their complete neglect of financial markets as a driver of global economic growth, which in turn is a major climate-change forcing.
As a close follower of financial markets for many years I am convinced that long before the above scenarios play out, financial markets (both debt & equity) will cease to function and put the global economy into unprecedented decline. The sooner this happens the better because it may turn out to be the most effective climate-change mitigation measure of all.
Could this be a bLeak glimpse into what our future will look like in many places…
Robyn O'Brien, with her husband and two children, was among them. She said people had pulled together, bringing camping equipment and stocks from larders and freezers to share, but it was difficult to stay upbeat. "Every time we go back to our home we think, is it liveable, is it not liveable?" she said. "And today we're thinking it's probably not liveable. But you've got to stay positive."
Another resident of the makeshift camp, who asked not to be named, said the school grounds had become something of a psychological refuge. She was relieved to be cut off from the news, she said, and could not bear to even look at the local newspaper. "I don't want to know what's going on out there. I just want to stay in these tents, in our bubble here," she said.
Having followed the financial markets and being somewhat of a judge of humanity for many years myself; I believe the inevitable decline of world economies will only exacerbate the move towards more destructive alternatives to cleaner solutions. Worrying about what's on your dinner plate today usually takes precedent over concerns about tomorrow.
Recent research claims that Monsanto's Roundup Ready genetically modified crops contain an organism, previously unknown to science, that can cause miscarriages in farm animals. This disturbing find comes on the heels of Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack's decision to deregulate Roundup Ready Alfalfa (RRA). Roundup Ready is designed to survive Roundup, Monsanto's weed-killing chemical.
Fortunately some countries in Europe realise the pressing urgency of now. the Danish strategy for energy independennce from fossil fools is very impressive, and I hope the UK will follow
Financial market collapse is not far away. As more come to realize just what climate change (and PO) now means for the future, the markets are going to collapse. This is looking more like it is already starting to happen….
Meanwhile, the UNDP is projecting that production of meat, dairy, eggs and chicken will double from 2000 levels by 2040 to meet rising demand among affluent consumers. At a recent gathering of livestock industry experts, they vowed to improve the efficiency of livestock production to satisfy the appetites of the future. They are no doubt dreaming up crueler versions of Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) to squeeze out the "inefficiencies" that exist today.
Our predatory consumption habits are hastening our civilizational collapse. We are literally eating ourselves to a catastrophe, which is truly ironic given our pretensions of being the most intelligent species to ever exist on the face of the earth! After all that language, art, poetry, literature, dance, music, science, medicine, technology and other whiz-bang accomplishments such as walking on the moon and dreaming up missions to Mars, we are literally acting dumber than bacteria in a petri dish. We are deliberately eating high up in the food chain to project a vaster footprint than necessary to hasten our own demise.
If we can't even figure out how to stuff our faces sustainably, something that every species in a pristine ecosystem knows how to do, then we have no business puffing ourselves up, pretending to be wiser than them. Or, to bully them needlessly in crueler versions of CAFOs.
The markets, world events and food production, basically our whole way of life in this industrial society is predicated on predictability. On the belief, and the fact up till now that tomarrow will be pretty much the same as yesterday, this year will be pretty much the same as last year, small changes in the seasons have always followed a predictable pattern 1 bad year but than 5 or 6 good years, both in terms of climate affecting weather and the world events that shape the economic picture. We no longer live in that world. Unpredictability is the new normal, our society has shown itself to be unresponsive in dealing with this new reality. Without stability, the markets can't cope and revert to the old paradigm of growth at any cost,the affect of which is higher costs for energy, food and everything else. The industrial Agri-mega types are doing the same thing when it comes to growing the food that every human can't live without. Fossil fuel inputs needed for the currrent way we grow food will not increase yield only cost. Until we look at agriculture as how do we grow food without oil,and diversify what we grow where, the problem of yield will only get worse no matter how many new variety's the Monsanto's of this country come up with. Mono cropping as in Monsanto's idea of owning all seed variety and restricting the use of any others and the kill gene that they employe in their seeds to insure no one can use seed from this years crop to grow the next years crop is infecting non-kill gene plants so that they too will not produce the following year. These are the kinds of methods being used to try and grow food around the world. In a Climate setting that will be changing the rules every year, we will not be able to produce enough food that is affordable for most people. This is without even taking into account the water problems we face, or growing crops for fuel.The cost of growing our food, raising livestock and producing dairy products under the current mega size fossil fuel intensive ventures will soon become unsustainable. When a two year drought destroys hay and alfafa crops for two years in a row,in just 25% of the country and ranchers have to sell off hugh protions of their herds, what will meat cost the next year? This will also affect dairy farms when the price of feed goes up, so do dairy product prices, grain for feed crops are also affected by this drought, yeilds fall below those needed to maintain poultry and pork at an affordable price. Oil hits 100.00 a barrel that next year than what? How much will it cost to truck any of these food items from the giant Agri-farms to our local stores? Add that to the amount of oil that goes into producing it, $5.oo for a gallon of milk, a loaf of cheap bread is $3.00 and you stop eating meat and poultry all together because the price really won't be affordable to most of us. We really need to downsize and diversify our food production. Local will rule when the price to truck it, meets the loses from Climate Change. Welcome to the new age of Living on the Edge. It's time to wake up and taste all that oil in our mega-farm food.
Half of world's population could face climate-driven food crisis in second half of the century
Is that half of the current population or half of the population by 2050?
Also, why do most projections assume that there will be a larger population in the future than at present?
@20 Sailesh Rao.
Sailesh, I appreciate where you're coming from. However, going vegetarian to increase the amount of grain that can feed people directly, is going to be ineffective if nothing is done to solve the population problem.
Any advance in food growing capabilities or increased efficiency in food consumption, like vegetarianism, will automatically increase the world's population.
Then we'll be back at square one with a population of 20 billion or more pure vegetarians straining the Earth's environment.
Bob Lang #14, you are, in my opinion, correct concerning the financial markets because they are a giant Ponzi. The only problem is that, as the actions taken by the US Government and the Federal Reserve after the sub-prime rackets precipitated the 'GFC' in 2007 show, the powers that be will do anything to protect the rich grifters who are the real rulers in capitalist economies. If it means throwing the steerage passengers, ie the rest of the population, overboard, so much the better. It's even more stark in Ireland, where the population is being crucified to protect the banksters, and the one 'untouchable' is not wages, social welfare or pensions, but the kleptocrats' dream, the rock-bottom corporate tax rate. That is inviolable. In Latvia, even more of a triumph, the society is being destroyed, birth-rates plummeting, migration, anywhere, rocketing, to protect Swedish banks. In the USA Helicopter Ben's money conjuring has proved so successful that new asset bubbles are already emerging in commodities, thus starving the 'useless eaters', and other necessities of life like junk bonds. Unemployment and underemployment remain high, which is a market good, as it helps drive down the wages of the rest of the rabble, aided by Republican ideologues with union-busting, pension destroying and wage reducing class war tactics, all ready to go, thanks to the Kochtopus. Market capitalism is a wonderful system, alright, for spreading misery and concentrating wealth and power.
Villabolo #23: Prof. Edward O Wilson already addressed your concern. He says that the one good thing going for humans is that the female of our species naturally limits her fertility if given a choice and when assured that her offsprings have a great chance to survive. This is why well-off women who can easily afford to breed by the dozen based strictly on the food available to them, deliberately choose not to do so.
As an example, the population statistics in India bear him out. When India gained independence from the British in 1947, the Life Expectancy at birth was 36, while the number of children per woman, i.e., the fertility rate was 5.8. The comparable figures for the British were a Life Expectancy of 65 and a fertility rate of 2.7 in 1947. Leaving aside the question of why there was such a discrepancy between UK and India – if the British had the means to extract natural resources from remote regions of India, surely they had the means to supply childhood vaccines and neo-natal care to improve life expectancy – sixty two years later, in 2009, the Life Expectancy at birth in India was 64 while the fertility rate was 2.68.
From a population growth standpoint, India was doing better in 2009 than the UK was doing in 1947.
Paulm, don't always believe Huffpo.
Excellent analysis on future food supplies if action is not initiated to avert impending climate change.
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore (AP), India
26 Pete I dont believe anything until proven. However, one must always keep up with the issue…just in case.
JR, what do you think of the proposition that peak oil might, paradoxically, "save us", by making greater emissions impossible (due to economic collapse)?
[JR: Tar sands, coal to diesel, shale, natural gas liquids….]
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JR, what do you think of the proposition that peak oil might, paradoxically, "save us", by making greater emissions impossible (due to economic collapse)?
[JR: Tar sands, coal to diesel, shale, natural gas liquids….]
Since those alternatives are more expensive than conventional oil and coal they may make the way for solar power to be more competetive. But only if the oil and coal industries don't interfere with the "free market".


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I don't know Florida's CD law, but in Utah, you're still covered. If they enter "by stealth" which this BG did, you are covered. (again, in Utah)
This is a discussion on Two legged critter in the garage... within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Hi DC buddies, Just wanted to let you know what happened to us yesterday. On Saturday I filled up the kids sandbox with new sand ...
Hi DC buddies,
Just wanted to let you know what happened to us yesterday. On Saturday I filled up the kids sandbox with new sand and painted the security gate at the back. I had the truck at the back with the sand and so on. My wife was going to leave early Sunday morning for her half marathon. She woke me up saying she heard noises in the garage thinking it may be a raccoon or something. I took my pistol and went towards the attached garage door to investigate. I was contemplating turning on the garage light and/or opening to investigate. I felt uneasy and decided to do neither. My wife and I looked out the front window and there was an unknown car parked in our driveway. I told my wife to immediately call 911 and get the Sheriff's department to come out quickly. I had left the garage door open by accident the previous evening by walking around to lock the side gate and then got distracted once inside. Now someone was in our garage.
Even though I've been trying to prepare myself mentally for things like this, I still almost couldn't believe it was happening at first. My wife stayed on the phone in the bedroom while I made sure the door to the garage was locked which it wasn't and I locked it slowly. He didn't seem to hear it. I stood guard from behind the counter pointing pistol towards garage making sure my line of fire didn't endanger family members while we waited for the deputies. I wasn't about to confront the BG unnecessarily while I could be waiting for backup. I wasn't sure how many persons were involved. I didn't know if he/they were armed. He/they didn't know we knew he was there. He wasn't yet threatening me or my family by stepping inside the main part of the house.
I think it took about 6-8 minutes for the first deputy sheriff to arrive, of which about 5-7 units responded, at which point I went to the bedroom as the dispatcher instructed and put away the pistol. The deputy sheriff took him into custody and asked me to open the garage door so they could come inside and check around all with guns drawn of course and my wife being the good mom she is reminded them we have two little ones still sleeping behind the closed doors.
This guy had packed up most of my tools into his Honda Accord had bicycles outside and was still busy returning for more when the deputy cornered him. I think he is a drug addict and was looking to get more money to support his habit and this was a crime of opportunity.
No-one got hurt, I didn't have to shoot anyone, we got our stuff back and he is in jail so we were blessed and protected by the Lord. I'm thankful for the way it ended. Our deputies did a superb job and were very professional.
I understand I was dumb to leave the garage open. Got it. I understand that I was getting complacent around the house. Got it. Never let your guard down at home. Got it.
I just wanted to share this with ya'll as a reminder to always be vigilant about safety. It's hard to keep up all the defensive rituals 24/7 but the moment you relax or forget to do something it'll bite ya.
One question I'm trying to resolve though (maybe aimed more at our LE folks and other knowledgeable persons). At the risk of this sounding like a dumb question to some, since he did not have to open the garage door to enter and start taking things, are you still protected under the FL castle doctrine law in that part of the house? If you left your door to the house unlocked are you still protected? Is it still considered breaking and entering if he didn't have to break something or even open something to gain access?
He did open one of the car's doors to take things out so I was told there would possibly be two counts of burglary and multiple counts of theft. I suppose I'm just unsure of the potential murkiness and the legalities involved when you did not lock up properly.
Ok I suppose it is time to rip into me.
Have at it.
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I don't know Florida's CD law, but in Utah, you're still covered. If they enter "by stealth" which this BG did, you are covered. (again, in Utah)
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Hard to think about how it could have turned out better for you. Fast LEO response too! Nice work.
The garage thing is something I'm always harping on. We've had issues with that in our area as well. The family is pretty good about it now.
We're all in favor of reducing violent crime. It's just that pro-gunners have a method that is proven effective. Anti-gunners don't.
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'Not a leo, and not gonna rip into you. On the contrary, given the situation, I commend you on how you handled that and not "Rambo'ing" into your garage with gun drawn. You kept you and your family safe, while arranging for the dirt-bag to get picked up. Mission accomplished.
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I think you handled it very well. You stood your ground to defend your family. You had no idea who was on the other side of that door or what he may be armed with. Had you gone in and ended up shot, you wouldn't be able to defend your wife and kids.
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Sounds very well handled. I doubt I'd have the self-control to not go in there.
WE keep our garage door up almost all the time when we are not sleeping, unless the weather is nasty.
Because of this we keep motion detectors and cameras on in the garage.
It is pretty nervy to go into the garage of an occupied house. Here, once they step across the threshold of the garage entrance it is considered burglary of a habitation-- 20 years in daytime; up to 99 at night. I don't know with certainty if our "castle" doctrine" would apply, but here for sure, if the act were at night lethal force could be used to stop it.
I think the great take home lesson you provided is to have the patience to stay locked in safety, prepared in case they tried to enter, and wait for the troops.
Glad that everything ended well! I might be wrong about this, but I was always told that if my door is not locked the BG is just trespassing and not breaking; I can kick him out, but I am not allowed to use lethal force. However, if the door was locked then I am protected under the FL castle doctrine. I have been thinking for a long time about contacting an attorney and asking about this matter, but I have not done it yet (). I always lock my door
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As Hopyard said, I'm not sure I'd have the self-control to not confront him with a "big evil black rifle" after calling police and surveying the surrounding area for accomplices.
Glad everything turned out well and kudos to the wife for hearing the commotion!
All things considering I think you handled it well. smart that you didn't try and confront, You have no idea what is on the other side of that door, just called for help and protected your home and family. glad LEOs got there soon enough to catch em
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you did good. Considering response time where I am at is upwards of 45 minutes I would have grabbed the AK, let the dogs in the garage, and defended my home.
That's a good question. I never have anything locked and have some goodies in an open pole barn. Plus farm implements just sitting outside. My neighbor's a cop. I should ask him what the laws are around here just to know myself.
And good job!
You did the right thing. Good job. If you did not invite (and we know you didnot) him into your home, once he broke the plane of the garage doorway he committed burglary of a residence. You leave your car unlocked and do not invite someone to enter your vehicle and they enter then that person has committed auto burglary. There was intent to enter to commit a crime (theft) . Now if he had knocked on your inside garage door to tell you that you had forgotten to close your door and was legitament in this regard then no crime was committed as he was acting in good faith. Glad it all worked out well for you and your family.
"Violence is seldom the answer, but when it is the answer it is the only answer".
"A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves".
An attached garage is considered part of the house.
AS far as your question about whether entering through an unlocked door is kosher under FL Castle Doctrine (I mean, it isn't really "forcible" entry, and I'm sure we have a "stealth entry" clause), I do not know. I have wondered about that myself.
Scary situation - glad you were ok and that the LEOs got there on time. I bet that wait felt like forever, huh? I'm glad they also appreciated the opportunity to actually stop a crime in progress, rather than always getting there after the action occurred.
A-Z you handled it perfectly. From quietly locking the garage door to block further access into the house, to having the wife call 911 from a safer distance to positioning yourself behind the counter with gun aimed at the door....GREAT JOB!
Best part...imho...
"I felt uneasy..." That was your gut instinct talking and you listened. Just as everyone should.
No rips here either, no one was hurt and you learned from the experience.
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