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Monday, December 15, 2008
Rock dust is at the root of a garden fortune
A couple who transformed the infertile soil of their Perthshire croft by adding rock dust to it have developed the process into an export business. Former schoolteachers Cameron and Moira Thomson saw their first shipment of the crushed quarried rock leave Scotland for Slovakia on Friday.The Thomsons' once-exhausted land now produces football-sized cabbages, massive onions and normally delicate fruits the size of a fist. 'The dust we use has more than 78 minerals and trace elements, and that benefits the produce,' said Moira Thomson, who with Cameron set up the center for Sustainable Ecological Earth Regeneration (Seer) in 1997. 'It's been said that we need to eat five apples to get the same nutrients we used to get from one apple 40 years ago. But when we had one of our carrots analyzed and compared with a shop-bought one, it had 10 times as many nutrients.'
Cameron Thomson said using rock dust mimics the earth's glacial cycles. 'Modern soils are relatively barren and artificial fertilizers are needed, but rock dust accelerates that natural weathering process,' he said.
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ECO-FRIENDLY GARDENING AND FARMING WITH ROCK DUST
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
For Only $15,000
Airboard - the Personal Hovercraft
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What good is a hovercraft that don’t go on water??
Unless you have turbo power
Unless you have turbo power
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1930's Superman
This is the way to impress girls.
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He made everything look so effortless, this guy is great and has no fear.
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Florida prison numbers goes up so do tents
With prisons getting increasingly crowded, Florida is preparing to house inmates in tents. Numbers released Thursday by the government confirmed what state officials already knew, prisons are getting squeezed for space, with Florida locking up more new inmates last year than any other state.
Government statistics show the overall Florida prison population increased by 5,250 inmates in 2007. The growth is more than twice the number of the next closest state, Kentucky. The state's current prison population is now nearing 100,000 inmates.
So far, the state has set up 36 tents in prisons around the state. The tents, which cost $9,000 each, can each house up to 22 prisoners.
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Government statistics show the overall Florida prison population increased by 5,250 inmates in 2007. The growth is more than twice the number of the next closest state, Kentucky. The state's current prison population is now nearing 100,000 inmates.
So far, the state has set up 36 tents in prisons around the state. The tents, which cost $9,000 each, can each house up to 22 prisoners.
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New York man wears sandwich board pleading for job
A former businessman has taken to the streets of New York wearing a sandwich board pleading for a job opportunity as the financial crisis hits the middle classes.
The image of desperate job seekers on street corners is associated with the darkest days of the Great Depression.
However, the scene has become a reality once again as America suffers a deep recession that has left millions out of work.
Paul Nawrocki, 59, took to the streets after nine months of fruitless searching for a new job, with a sandwich board that reads: "Almost Homeless. Looking for employment. Very experienced operations and administration manager.
"Desperately seeking full-time employment with insurance benefits. For self and family. Disabled wife on 15 medications."
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The image of desperate job seekers on street corners is associated with the darkest days of the Great Depression.
However, the scene has become a reality once again as America suffers a deep recession that has left millions out of work.Paul Nawrocki, 59, took to the streets after nine months of fruitless searching for a new job, with a sandwich board that reads: "Almost Homeless. Looking for employment. Very experienced operations and administration manager.
"Desperately seeking full-time employment with insurance benefits. For self and family. Disabled wife on 15 medications."
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