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Hemp Can Remediate Fukushima Radiation Dprogram.net: Deprogram Your Mind – Revolutionary News. March 13th, 2014 Jack Herer, known as the “Emperor of Hemp”, said: “I don’t know if hemp’s gonna save the world, but I’ll tell you this…it’s the only thing that can”. (NeenahPayne) - Dr. Masaru Emoto, author of The Miracle of Water, proposes the use of hemp to clean up the radiation. The US Must Legalize Hemp! Page of the site links to the video Dr. Masaru Emoto talks about Industrial Hemp as a solution to Fukushima. Emoto says: It is the suggestion to plant a lot of hemp in the land of Fukushima. Watch full video with English subtitles below: In 2012, Activist Post published my article Hemp Can Save America and the World!

The updated video Hemp Revolution 2014! In 2013, President Jose Mujica of Uruguay ended the failed War on Drugs with the legalization of industrial and medical hemp and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Source: Activist Post. Sequoias: Scaling a Forest Giant. On a gentle slope above a trail junction in Sequoia National Park, about 7,000 feet above sea level in the southern Sierra Nevada, looms a very big tree. Its trunk is rusty red, thickened with deep layers of furrowed bark, and 27 feet in diameter at the base. Its footprint would cover your dining room. Trying to glimpse its tippy top, or craning to see the shape of its crown, could give you a sore neck. That is, this tree is so big you can scarcely look at it all. It’s not quite the largest tree on Earth. Trees grow tall and wide-crowned as a measure of competition with other trees, racing upward, reaching outward for sunlight and water.

They are so old because they have survived all the threats that could have killed them. Another factor that can end the lives of big trees, of course, is logging. One thing to remember about them, as Steve Sillett explained to me during a conversation amid the trees, is that they withstand months of frigid conditions. “Gesundheit,” I said. The Tunnel | concrete_aperture. (If you like this post you can follow me on twitter @markjamesdos or check out my gallery here.

My newest article is The Foundry about the Dussault Foundry in Lockport, NY.) Beneath the streets of Buffalo’s East Side there is a buried waterway that stretches for miles unseen. Back in the 1920s the city decided that the section of the Scajaquada creek that was next to residential properties needed to be covered up and replaced with scenic asphalt. Regardless of the rather strange city planning habits of Buffalo it did create a unique urban exploration opportunity. Abandon All Hope Ye Who Urbex Here This storm drain/sewer begins in Forest Lawn Cemetery and runs for three miles underground before opening up again around St. Villa Maria College. You can go North or East > I’ve mentioned before how bad an idea it is to go in these storm drains when there’s a chance it’ll rain. We had to dress a little differently than we usually do for this trip and bring different supplies. Nope. 11 Books That Will Definitely Disturb You | Nick Cutter. Scary novels? I've read a few. Heck, I've even written one myself!

That puts me in a peculiar position when it comes to breaking out my Top Disturbing Reads. One, because as I said, I've read a whole schmeer of 'em. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. ... and if you'd like to turn it up to 11 ... 11. Stephen King says: "The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn't put it down. Scott Smith (The Ruins, A Simple Plan) says: "The Troop reads like a comic book, and I mean this in the best possible sense. 22 Books You Should Read Now, Based On Your Childhood Favorites. Viral Forest - Trending Stories on the Web.

Adventure Filled | Live an adventure-filled life. 6 Trees Every Survivalist Should Know. Facebook. Finding Adirondack First-Growth Forest « Tracker. Have you ever wondered what the Adirondacks looked like before logging? Would you like to learn how to identify the remaining stands of first-growth forest and how to map them? Then this is an opportunity for you. Michael Kudish , a retired professor from Paul Smith’s College, is returning to give a lecture on April 25 on how to identify and map first-growth forest in the Adirondacks.

He will explain techniques that are useful in the field. After completing his Ph.D. at the school of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, Kudish taught at Paul Smith’s College from 1971 to 2005. “My interest in first-growth first came from the Catskills, where I did my dissertation on that region’s forest history. “As for the acreage of first-growth in the Adirondacks, no one knows.

If you’re asking whether old-growth is the same as first-growth, it isn’t always the case. The lecture begins at 7pm, Wednesday, April 25 th in the Freer science building auditorium and is free and open to the public. Michael Kudish Natural History Preserve, Inc. - Home. Adirondack Life Blog Archive » Finding the First Forests. Finding the First Forests by Mary Thill The 1675 Grove in the town of Brighton Michael Kudish says nobody knows how much virgin forest the Adirondack Park contains.

And if anyone knew, it would be him. Kudish is working on a project to identify and tally Adirondack first-growth forest. If it’s anything like his previous work the effort will be definitive, if not exhaustive. I sometimes wondered how the forest historian could master two apparently divergent subjects: railroads and plants. First-growth, primeval, virgin, original: all are terms for woods untouched by people. By studying aerial photographs, reading historical records, and by walking the land to look for sign of human activity, Kudish has determined that 60,000 acres of New York’s Catskills are first-growth.

His mentor, Edwin Ketchledge, thought the Adirondack Park encompassed 200,000 acres of untouched cover (about 3 percent of its 6-million-acre area). The Tongue, a peninsula on Lower St. Adirondack Life Blog Archive » New York’s Tallest Tree. New York’s Tallest Tree by Mary Thill A 1675 Grove white pine, photograph by Sandra Hildreth Just above eye level, a tag the size of a quarter is tacked into thick, red-gray plates of bark. It is engraved with the number 103. The trunk is architectural: massive, straight and branchless for five or six stories. Then it disappears through limbs and needles, rising another 10 stories into blue sky. Out of my pack I pull a spreadsheet that Howard Stoner, a retired mathematics professor from Troy, e-mailed to me.

Fifty white pines at this trail-less site a short hike from Easy Street, in the town of Brighton, are 330+ years old. They germinated in the wake of a windstorm or some other disturbance that cleared a wide swath, according to “Doc” Michael Kudish, professor emeritus of dendrology at Paul Smith’s College. The 1675 Grove trees are among the oldest in the East. The woods on every side of the 12-acre grove have been cut at some point.

If you go: Links: The Wanakena Pine. NoodleTools : MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian Bibliography Composer, Online Notecards. Plug Status, Granted: To the Racist Fans of the Boston Bruins… « TheBeautyStatus. The largest collection of lean-to pictures ever (probably) (image heavy) - Adirondack Forum. Hydrofracking Exposed. Day 2: Silver Lake It was so hard to get up on Saturday morning. Ellie and I barely got six hours of sleep and didn’t know if we were ready to handle another emotional day. However, we knew that water is delivered to four families on Carter Rd between 8 and 10:30 every morning, so we forced ourselves to get up. One thing Ellie and I immediately noticed during our time in Dimock, was the number of trucks on the road.

There are constantly huge trucks on the road. Because of the amount of heavy trucks, the roads are destroyed. There are potholes half the size of the road all over. One of the things that broke my heart about Dimock, was how such a beautiful, rural town was turned totally industrial. This creek, which runs along Carter Road has been contaminated by a number of diesel spills from the trucks. The Sautner’s get their water delivered every morning by this truck. The Sautner’s gave us a few phone numbers of other people we could contact. Adirondack Almanack: Indentifying Adirondack First Growth Forests. The Adirondacks are home to the largest known contiguous tract of unlogged forest in the Northeast.

Located in the Southern part of Five Ponds Wilderness Area (Herkimer and Hamilton Counties), estimates of this patch of ancient forest range from 42,000 to 50,000 acres. According to researcher Mary Byrd Davis, “The state bought the tract to settle a claim for damages brought by a land owner who charged that construction of a dam had prevented his shipping and therefore selling the timber on his land.” The results of that purchase are dramatic, with enormous upland conifer stands dominated by White Pine, “some of which are huge and form a super-canopy,” according to another researcher. Among the most notable stands are those on Pine Ridge, south of High Falls, and along the Five Ponds and Cranberry. Fire and storms have impact this enormous tract of old growth, as have outbreaks of spruce budworm and beech scale.

One of the problems is determining what qualifies as old growth. Submarine Lumberjacks Harvest Underwater Forests. The underwater forests of the world are waiting to be harvested. When massive hydroelectric dams are created, huge areas of forest are often flooded, submerging habitats and displacing whatever human communities happened to call that place home.

But the forests that become part of the underwater landscape can be well preserved for decades, and are still viable stocks of timber. Harvesting underwater lumber from rivers and man-made lakes is not a brand new idea, but Triton Logging Co., the "underwater harvesting specialist", has a bit of an edge. The Sawfish is a 7,000 lb, unmanned logging submarine that is remotely controlled from the surface. The robotic lumberjack latches onto the trunk of a submerged tree, attaches inflatable airbags to the trunk, deploys its chainsaw, and then releases the tree to float up to the surface.The Sawfish is powered by electric motors, sports eight video camera eyes as well as sonar, and uses "biodegradable and vegetable oil-based hydraulic fluids. " The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men | Techcitement*

Blogger shows the world how to sneak anything past TSA's body scanners. The United States Transportation Security Administration recently invested $1 billion in body scanner technology it claimed would make air travel safer, but the scanners have come under fire since the agency first revealed its intentions. Some people argued that the nude scanners were an invasion of privacy while others were concerned with radiation emitted by the machines.

Now, however, it appears as though past arguments pale in comparison to recent information brought to light by scientist and blogger Jonathan Corbett. Read on for more. According to Corbett, who was the first person to sue the TSA when it introduced the scanners in early 2010, people can bypass the devices by simply fixing items they want to hide to their sides. The scanners bounce electromagnetic waves off of a subject to create an image that shows metallic items in black against the human body, which appears in bright white on the TSA’s equipment. Corbett’s video follows below. Cocktail of Popular Drugs May Cloud Brain. Tim Robinson Many people are unaware that dozens of painkillers, antihistamines and psychiatric medications — from drugstore staples to popular antidepressants — can adversely affect brain function, mostly in the elderly.

Regular use of multiple medications that have this effect has been linked to cognitive impairment and memory loss. Called anticholinergics, the drugs block the action of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, sometimes as a direct action, but often as a side effect. Acetylcholine is a chemical messenger with a range of functions in the body, memory production and cognitive function among them. The difficulty for patients is that the effect of anticholinergic drugs is cumulative. Doctors are not always aware of all of the medications their patients take, and they do not always think to review the anticholinergic properties of the ones they prescribe.

Now a spate of new research studies has focused on anticholinergic medicines. He added: “These are very, very common drugs. Fearing Climate Change’s Effects on the Adirondacks. 50 Life Secrets and Tips | High Existence - StumbleUpon. Memorize something everyday.Not only will this leave your brain sharp and your memory functioning, you will also have a huge library of quotes to bust out at any moment. Poetry, sayings and philosophies are your best options.Constantly try to reduce your attachment to possessions.Those who are heavy-set with material desires will have a lot of trouble when their things are taken away from them or lost. Possessions do end up owning you, not the other way around. Become a person of minimal needs and you will be much more content.Develop an endless curiosity about this world.Become an explorer and view the world as your jungle. Stop and observe all of the little things as completely unique events. Try new things.

Read “Zen and the Art of Happiness” by Chris Prentiss.This book will give you the knowledge and instruction to be happy at all times regardless of the circumstances. Edible Wild Plants | Wild Backpacker. Discover edible nuts, mushrooms, berries & more while backpacking Your backpacking trip runs longer than planned, a bear went through all your things, or you just plain didn’t bring enough. What do you do when you run out of food while backpacking?

Bushes, weeds, roots, and trees can offer many options for food whether you need it for survival, or if you don’t want to pack as much in. Throughout the world, you can find edible plants that are safe to eat. Here we will give you some safety tips, overall edible items, and specific plants that might be native to the region you’ll be hiking in. Edible Plant General Safety Always practice caution while harvesting and eating plants you find along the trail. The location of the plant is also an important factor. You should always take the necessary precautions before eating the plant, by at minimum rinsing it in clean water, and even boiling it to kill any possible bacteria. Universal Edibility Test Edible Fruits and Berries Edible Nuts. Hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. For most visitors to Peru, the thought of leaving without seeing Machu Picchu is practically inconceivable.

This “lost” Inca citadel has captured the world’s imagination since its discovery by Hiram Bingham exactly 100 years ago, in 1911. It is now very easy to reach the sacred site, with shuttle buses running from the town of Aguas Calientes to the entrance almost constantly. The shuttle service takes about 15 minutes and costs $9 for a return ticket, with buses departing from outside the train station. Trains run between Cuzco and Aguas Calientes (Machu Picchu Town) regularly, a journey which takes 3-4 hours. This makes it is perfectly possible to stay in Cuzco and visit Machu Picchu in a day. It’s shuttle service is a good option if you are not in perfect health, particularly given the altitude, or if you are seriously short on time. But it couldn’t be more different from how Hiram Bingham originally discovered the site. The Inca Trail Choosing A Tour The Challenge Why Do It? 25 Things You May Not Know About 'Donnie Darko.

Everything you were afraid to ask about "Donnie Darko" - Movies.