Do not throw away rice to birds
Why I say so?
1. First reason is animals not domesticated (except perhaps cats and dogs-even that I may be wrong) eat raw food or ripened fruits.
2. There digestive enzymes are able to deal with grains unlike hours.
3. Birds scatter seeds (not rice) helping the ecosystem.
4. Cooked rice get contaminated with bacteria because of the high content of water.
4. One of the nasty one is Bacillus cereus (means coming from cereals)
It causes under 24 hour illnesses (within 2 hours vomiting or food poisoning or after 8 hours infection with diarrhoea).
5. Infectious one was named Cholera cereus decades ago why they gave a respectable name, I am puzzled.
6. The toxins are heat resistant and mild heating does not destroy them.
7. They form endospores which are also heat resistant.
8. Cooling and reheating encourage spore formation and these spores can contaminate other food items in the fridge/freezer.
Rice uncooked can be preserved in dry condition for ages.
Cooked rice can be kept only for two hours the most.
So eat your rice and do not throw away the rice to rot and then expects the birds to eat.
Bird do not eat the stale rice but the ant do take them and store.
9. You have more ants in your pantry or back garden.
My advice is to cook only the desired amount of rice or if you are lazy buy a rice packet.
10. Birds prefer the seeds and better still watch them split the husk before eating.
House sparrows (extinct species) were very clever at that.
Their bills are built for that purpose and for building nests.
If you watch how a parrot takes the bean out of the pods one by one, you will never throw rice at them.
The bottom line is, the stale rice is very unpleasant sight and awful.
Why do want your pantry smelling?
11. Mind you our gecko loves cooked rice (apart from all the insects) and they grow in numbers and are very active at dusk.
I hate gecko specially their smelly droppings but not so much the cockroaches. There is a nasty venomous snake that love geckos as food.
Otherwise we can never exterminate them.
You may have t breed the deadly snake (Thel karawala or the Ceylon krait) instead.
Below is a American lady’s experience with rice.
Yes Americans do eat rice.
Reproduction
4 Signs Your Cooked Rice Has Gone Bad
Rice is one of those pantry staples that seems to have an indefinite shelf life. And while this is mostly true with uncooked rice (the exception being brown rice), cooked rice has a limit to how long it will last. You've done the sniff test, but are you still not sure? Maybe you can't remember how long it's been in the fridge? Here's how to make the call on when to toss it.
As for how long cooked rice lasts, it can vary, and it largely depends on how the rice is cooled and stored. But it's generally a good idea to call it quits if you've had it for three to four days.
Most foods offer telltale signs that they've gone bad, but with rice it's not always quite so obvious. You also need to rely on other (less obvious) signs that your rice has gone bad.
1. It's super hard and dry.
This is your visual clue that the cooked rice in your fridge has reached the end of its days. Leftover rice will dry out more each day it sits in the fridge. But once the grains have become super hard, dry, or even crunchy, chances are that it's been in the fridge well over a few days. Rice is best when eaten a few days from when it's cooked. Any more than that and it's safest to just toss it. Maximize the shelf life of cooked rice by storing it in an airtight container.
2. It was left unrefrigerated for too long.
It's best to minimize the time cooked rice is left at room temperature. The moisture-rich environment offers ideal conditions for bacterial growth. And while refrigeration doesn't stop that growth altogether, it certainly slows it down.
Uncooked rice can contain spores of a bacterium known as Bacillus cereus. Even after cooking, these spores can still survive. When the cooked rice isn't handled, cooled, stored, or reheated properly, the bacteria can cause food poisoning.
So, if you left cooked rice sitting at room temperature for more than two hours before stashing it in the fridge, it might be better to cut your losses and toss it in the compost or trash.
3. It's been cooled and reheated multiple times.
It's best to minimize the number of times rice (and most foods, for that matter) are cooled and reheated. This presents an ideal environment for bacteria to grow. A good rule of thumb is to reheat leftover rice no more than once. After that it's safest to toss any additional leftovers.
Instead, if you find yourself with more rice than you can eat in a meal or two, go ahead and freeze the leftovers for another time.
4. It has an unpleasant smell.
If there's an unpleasant smell coming from your rice, it's a clear sign that it's time to toss it immediately. By this time that rice has certainly been in the fridge for more than four days, and it's no longer safe to eat.
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
The Green Thing
Reproduction
The Green Thing
I wanted to write about good old days and by some stroke of luck this came in today in my email.
It save me writing another.
Even in my twilight years I practice some of them but at a leisurely pace unlike when I was young.
This is a reproduction!
Please consider the environment… do you really need to print this e-mail?
I SAY PRINT IT IF YOU CHOOSE TO SHARE W/ A NON-COMPUTERIZED PERSON!
The Green Thing
Checking
out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that
she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good
for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.”
The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today.
Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”
She was right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day.
Back
then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the
store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized
and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they
really were recycled.
But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.
We
walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store
and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb
into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right.
We didn’t have the green thing in our day.
Back
then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the
throw-away kind.
We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling
machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our
clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their
brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady
is right. We didn’t have the green thing back in our day.
Back
then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room.
And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember
them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
In
the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have
electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile
item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion
it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap Back then, we didn’t fire up an
engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn.
We
used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so
we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate
on electricity.
But she’s right.
We didn’t have the green thing back then.
We
drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a
plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing
pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor
blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because
the blade got dull.
But we didn’t have the green thing back then.
Back
then, people took the streetcar or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to
school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi
service.
We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances.
And
we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from
satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza
joint.
But
isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks
were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then?
Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart young person.
Remember: Don’t make old people mad.
We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to pi= us off.
Constitution, Dhamma and the Lullaby.
Constitution, Dhamma and the Lullaby.
I am sorry for repetition but this has a political impact.
I hate the use of Buddhism as opposed to Dhamma.
Let me make some qualifications.
1. Dhamma has no parallels in philosophy, politics or science.
2. It is boundless and timeless and permeate all spheres of human mental activity.
3. It is not an institution in a religious sense.
4. It does not belong to a particular country or race or a constitution.
5. It belongs to the human race.
6. Having said that it does not disregard existence of the right of other living beings.
7. It accept the presence of extraterrestrial beings of higher or lower order to human beings.
8. It is a way of life with special attention to mental purity (getting rid of defilements).
9. It has a very simple moral code, “Live and Let Live Principle”.
10. It has no rigid rules and bylaws.
11. Above all it is open to Question or inquiry but not at global sense but at Individual Level.
That is why I say it is not a religion but a simple way of life for every individual with an iota of intelligence.
12. It does not exclude mentally weak and that is why it emphasize the “Sardha” or the Devotion or reverence to the exalted one.
If you take all the above qualifications it should be Above of All the World Constitutions and not within a structured articles of intent be that it may be United States or Ceylon.
Constitution in brief, in my opinion is a piece of paper article to govern weak subjects by supposed to be powerful and the elite by coercion or rigidity of laws and bylaws.
It took almost 2500 years for the Human Rights Charter to be declared (only on paper but violated left, right and center depending on the declared sovereignty of a state or government).
We cannot do without it.
It is the political will of a set or group or collection of people.
It got to be simple to interpret.
It should have a practical value.
It should have the political will to harness harmony and disengage discrimination.
On all the above grounds it cannot be called a perfect article of faith.
It is a near enough document but since it is not perfect it should be scrutinized, restructured, revised on a regular basis.
Dhamma does not need any of the above revisions and that is why it should be kept above all constitutions.
That is my view.
By putting it on paper called constitution won’t have any impact on the state or the corrupt people in service or politics, except as a cosmetic exercise.
What I said above won’t apply to Christianity and Muslim religions since they are invariably bound by power, politics, commerce, money and conspiracies to cover up corruption.
In exalted ones and the ones who are on the path of
Dhamma are completely detached from power, money and corruptions, conspiracies of all kinds.
Dhamma is for the Mind and not for an Institution.
That is why Buddha did not appoint a successor and let the boundless Dhamma takes it own course.
It does not mean Dhamma could survive on its own since there is always room for distortion within and from without.
That is the very reason I have penned down my thoughts and the constitution lobbyist (Lullaby) would find a way to insinuate and lower its status of universality.
Repetition below is a previous piece.
Dhamma is boundless and timeless.
It permeates all reams and universes (There is no one world but many worlds).
Four abodes of the enlightenment or the sublime states are;
Metta
Karuna
Muditha (no proper word in English nearest is “Sympathetic Joy”)
Upekka
Way forward is Meditation either;
Samatha Bhavana-Concentration or Focused Attention to the Present
Samatha Bhavana, the development of mental tranquility with concentration, is accompanied by three benefits; it gives happiness in the present life, a favorable rebirth, and the freedom from mental defilements which is a prerequisite for attainment of insight.
Vipassana Bhavana-Insight Meditation
Vipassana bhavana is realization of the three signs of being, anicca, dukkha, and anatta,
My Focus are
Metta Meditation
Moment Meditation or Living in the Present Moment (admittedly very difficult poor memory and attention span)
Memory is redundant in my belief and mere reciting and memorizing Dhamma won’t get one nowhere. It had a historical value passing down the ancient wisdom but in digital age there is abundance of textural messages but very little practice.
That is why I highlight meditation (detached attention) as the only way forward.
One needs a good teacher not BOOKS.
I am sorry for repetition but this has a political impact.
I hate the use of Buddhism as opposed to Dhamma.
Let me make some qualifications.
1. Dhamma has no parallels in philosophy, politics or science.
2. It is boundless and timeless and permeate all spheres of human mental activity.
3. It is not an institution in a religious sense.
4. It does not belong to a particular country or race or a constitution.
5. It belongs to the human race.
6. Having said that it does not disregard existence of the right of other living beings.
7. It accept the presence of extraterrestrial beings of higher or lower order to human beings.
8. It is a way of life with special attention to mental purity (getting rid of defilements).
9. It has a very simple moral code, “Live and Let Live Principle”.
10. It has no rigid rules and bylaws.
11. Above all it is open to Question or inquiry but not at global sense but at Individual Level.
That is why I say it is not a religion but a simple way of life for every individual with an iota of intelligence.
12. It does not exclude mentally weak and that is why it emphasize the “Sardha” or the Devotion or reverence to the exalted one.
If you take all the above qualifications it should be Above of All the World Constitutions and not within a structured articles of intent be that it may be United States or Ceylon.
Constitution in brief, in my opinion is a piece of paper article to govern weak subjects by supposed to be powerful and the elite by coercion or rigidity of laws and bylaws.
It took almost 2500 years for the Human Rights Charter to be declared (only on paper but violated left, right and center depending on the declared sovereignty of a state or government).
We cannot do without it.
It is the political will of a set or group or collection of people.
It got to be simple to interpret.
It should have a practical value.
It should have the political will to harness harmony and disengage discrimination.
On all the above grounds it cannot be called a perfect article of faith.
It is a near enough document but since it is not perfect it should be scrutinized, restructured, revised on a regular basis.
Dhamma does not need any of the above revisions and that is why it should be kept above all constitutions.
That is my view.
By putting it on paper called constitution won’t have any impact on the state or the corrupt people in service or politics, except as a cosmetic exercise.
What I said above won’t apply to Christianity and Muslim religions since they are invariably bound by power, politics, commerce, money and conspiracies to cover up corruption.
In exalted ones and the ones who are on the path of
Dhamma are completely detached from power, money and corruptions, conspiracies of all kinds.
Dhamma is for the Mind and not for an Institution.
That is why Buddha did not appoint a successor and let the boundless Dhamma takes it own course.
It does not mean Dhamma could survive on its own since there is always room for distortion within and from without.
That is the very reason I have penned down my thoughts and the constitution lobbyist (Lullaby) would find a way to insinuate and lower its status of universality.
Repetition below is a previous piece.
Dhamma is boundless and timeless.
It permeates all reams and universes (There is no one world but many worlds).
Four abodes of the enlightenment or the sublime states are;
Metta
Karuna
Muditha (no proper word in English nearest is “Sympathetic Joy”)
Upekka
Way forward is Meditation either;
Samatha Bhavana-Concentration or Focused Attention to the Present
Samatha Bhavana, the development of mental tranquility with concentration, is accompanied by three benefits; it gives happiness in the present life, a favorable rebirth, and the freedom from mental defilements which is a prerequisite for attainment of insight.
Vipassana Bhavana-Insight Meditation
Vipassana bhavana is realization of the three signs of being, anicca, dukkha, and anatta,
My Focus are
Metta Meditation
Moment Meditation or Living in the Present Moment (admittedly very difficult poor memory and attention span)
Memory is redundant in my belief and mere reciting and memorizing Dhamma won’t get one nowhere. It had a historical value passing down the ancient wisdom but in digital age there is abundance of textural messages but very little practice.
That is why I highlight meditation (detached attention) as the only way forward.
One needs a good teacher not BOOKS.
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
All Life Forms be happy!
All Life Forms be happy!
Mind you, Dhamma is for insightful realization (wisdom guide) and not an academic exercise.
Sabbe satva anatta
All life forms (higher or lower reams) are impermanent.
What is Dhamma not;
Greed-Loba
Hate-Dhosa
Deceit-Moha
What is Dhamma is;
No greed-Benevolence
Metta-there is no proper English translation for this Pali word.
Wisdom or Self realization there is no permanent Soul or Self.
Dhamma is boundless and timeless.
It permeates all reams and universes (There is no one world but many worlds).
Four abodes of the enlightenment ones are
Metta
Karuna
Muditha (no proper word in English nearest is “Sympathetic Joy”)
Upekka
Way forward is Meditation either;
Samatha Bhavana
Samatha bhavana, the development of mental tranquillity with concentration, is accompanied by three benefits; it gives happiness in the present life, a favorable rebirth, and the freedom from mental defilements which is a prerequisite for attainment of insight.
Vipassana Bhavana-Insight Meditation
Vipassana bhavana is realization of the three signs of being, anicca, dukkha, and anatta,
One needs a good teacher not BOOKS.
Read Francis Story (his site) for details
I believe this phrase “sabbe dhamma anatta” is introduced by design by other faiths to discredit Dhamma (meaning non existing Dhamma)
A subtle way of destroying the teaching.
Flowers
Flowers are the most beautiful things in the world, so here, we are offering the most beautiful things in the world to the Buddha.
And when they fade, it is also a reminder that things of the world also fade – so it’s reminds us of the teaching that
“Whatever is of the nature to arise is also of the nature to change”.
What is changing is impermanent
life is is a state of flux or ever changing!
It does not say it ceases
There is Sansara with rebirth.
The word reborn is wrong since its connotation is one is born with “repairs”
Merits take one up the reams of life.
Demerits takes one to lower forms
Read the following that I extracted from another site with some reservation.
Mind you, Dhamma is for realization (wisdom guide) and not an academic exercise.
The Meaning of sabbe dhamma anatta
So what does this phrase mean?
sabbe – means “All”
dhamma – means “things” – specifically it means phenomena experienced through your 6 senses
anatta – means “not Atta” – not Self or not the Atta or not the Atman – not me, not what I am, not my self
In the Pali language, the words “Sabbe dhamma” are synonymous with the word “sabba” which means “All” (which the Buddha himself defined as the 6 sense spheres in the Sabba Sutta).
So “sabbe dhamma” or “sabba” means “all things” or “all phenomena”.
The phenomena are related to the mental accompaniments of all sorts.
And “sabbe dhamma anatta” does NOT mean “There is no self”.
What it means is, “All phenomena are not Atta (Self)”. All things (all of the phenomena that you perceive through your 6 senses) are not you. So this applies to everything within the sensory realms – that’s the limit to which sabbe dhamma anatta applies – this is crucial to understand because it does NOT apply to anything beyond the world of the senses.
Finding a Tortoise (not Nemo)
Finding a Tortoise (not Nemo)
A Reproduction
Finding a Book on Turtles / Tortoises
Turtles / Tortoises are now classified in the same species category.
I used to feed tortoises daily.
They were in plenty in Kandy Lake.
One day bystander told me not to do that.
Why?
If you do that the our Kassipu /Toddy / Illicit drinkers will take them and eat them was the answer.
His prediction was right in 1973 when food was scarce and children were dying of hunger our population of tortoises vanished.
This the Buddhist heritage city and that was how we practised Metta to all animals.
Other reason probably was the pollution of its water.
All the cesspits were opened to it with the waste water.
Then they (once the species was exterminated/genocide) pass a law stating it is a protected species.
We are good at closing the stable door once the horse has bolted.
We no longer practice Buddhist virtues.
Animal are food material and then they started catching dogs and cats for food during Perehara festival.
Vanishing species is not FOOD for THOUGHT anymore.
Below is a reproduction from elsewhere for your perusal.
Conservationists have declared 2011 the Year of the Turtle in an effort to raise public awareness of the precarious state of turtle populations around the world.
Nearly half of all living turtle species are considered to be threatened with extinction.
Of the well-known animal groups, turtles are disappearing the fastest.
We are in the midst of a worldwide decline in biodiversity.
A staggering 12 percent of birds, 25 percent of mammals and 30 percent of amphibians are threatened with extinction.
Sadly, turtles offer no exception to this trend towards species loss.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an organization that maintains a comprehensive list of the status of the world’s species, categorizes 47 percent of all living turtle species as Threatened.
Turtles first appeared in the fossil record more than 200 million years ago during the Triassic Period. Since that time, they have changed little and today’s turtles bear much resemblance to their ancestors. Despite their long evolutionary history, turtles are now in danger of disappearing due to a variety of threats including habitat loss, over exploitation, pet trade, hunting for use in traditional medicine, by catch, invasive species, disease and climate change.
Many of the threats facing turtles are derived from human activities. Conservationists look to this fact with optimism—if man can create these threats, we can also reduced or eliminate them. They suggest a number of actions that can help ensure a more secure future for turtles. These actions include protecting rare turtle species and the habitats on which they rely, looking after common turtle species to ensure their populations remain healthy and managing crisis situations such as saving critically endangered turtle species and responding to emergencies such as oil spills.
A Reproduction
Finding a Book on Turtles / Tortoises
Turtles / Tortoises are now classified in the same species category.
I used to feed tortoises daily.
They were in plenty in Kandy Lake.
One day bystander told me not to do that.
Why?
If you do that the our Kassipu /Toddy / Illicit drinkers will take them and eat them was the answer.
His prediction was right in 1973 when food was scarce and children were dying of hunger our population of tortoises vanished.
This the Buddhist heritage city and that was how we practised Metta to all animals.
Other reason probably was the pollution of its water.
All the cesspits were opened to it with the waste water.
Then they (once the species was exterminated/genocide) pass a law stating it is a protected species.
We are good at closing the stable door once the horse has bolted.
We no longer practice Buddhist virtues.
Animal are food material and then they started catching dogs and cats for food during Perehara festival.
Vanishing species is not FOOD for THOUGHT anymore.
Below is a reproduction from elsewhere for your perusal.
Conservationists have declared 2011 the Year of the Turtle in an effort to raise public awareness of the precarious state of turtle populations around the world.
Nearly half of all living turtle species are considered to be threatened with extinction.
Of the well-known animal groups, turtles are disappearing the fastest.
We are in the midst of a worldwide decline in biodiversity.
A staggering 12 percent of birds, 25 percent of mammals and 30 percent of amphibians are threatened with extinction.
Sadly, turtles offer no exception to this trend towards species loss.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an organization that maintains a comprehensive list of the status of the world’s species, categorizes 47 percent of all living turtle species as Threatened.
Turtles first appeared in the fossil record more than 200 million years ago during the Triassic Period. Since that time, they have changed little and today’s turtles bear much resemblance to their ancestors. Despite their long evolutionary history, turtles are now in danger of disappearing due to a variety of threats including habitat loss, over exploitation, pet trade, hunting for use in traditional medicine, by catch, invasive species, disease and climate change.
Many of the threats facing turtles are derived from human activities. Conservationists look to this fact with optimism—if man can create these threats, we can also reduced or eliminate them. They suggest a number of actions that can help ensure a more secure future for turtles. These actions include protecting rare turtle species and the habitats on which they rely, looking after common turtle species to ensure their populations remain healthy and managing crisis situations such as saving critically endangered turtle species and responding to emergencies such as oil spills.
Monday, September 26, 2016
Majestic Elephants
Reproduction
Majestic Elephants
This is a country run with Mega Mania Memorabilia (3 Ms) but unable to look after our majestic elephants.
Three years ago one of the tuskers was dead due to negligence and dehydration after a so called majestic pageant that paraded the hill country.
Then recently a giant tusker was dead in captivity and the popular story circulating round is he was let to die to get the tusks for ornamentation in high office.
Then comes the floods in the East.
A young dead elephant is trapped in a tree.
First of a kind of news item and quite relevant in context.
That tells the sorry story of our majestic heritage and how we care.
It is an eye opener for the world if not for this blessed country.
We had 90% forest cover at the beginning of the last century and had over 60,000 elephants.
By mid last century the estimate was 6000 in the wild.
I do not believe we will have 600 left in the wild now and the the forest cover is less that 20% not enough to sustain vegetation let alone elephants.
We are going to commission two mega coal power units in the near future. The forest cover will be reduced to 10% within a decade of their operation due to acid rain and the environmentalist are hiding behind the saffron clothed M.P.s.
Very soon we won’t have a place in the jungle to meditate in quiet solitude.
Mega mania development will sacrifice the rest of the trees in the name of development efforts. Very soon we have to import coconut timber with coconuts on top.
Last tsunami a few people survived by climbing on top of coconut trees.
We have mega floods after 53 years in the East and there are no coconut (palms) trees grown for 6 years after the tsunami to climb onto.
But we have election after election to elect representative who ruin this country.
Mega Mania Memorabilia at its best!
The carnival goes on!
Majestic Elephants
This is a country run with Mega Mania Memorabilia (3 Ms) but unable to look after our majestic elephants.
Three years ago one of the tuskers was dead due to negligence and dehydration after a so called majestic pageant that paraded the hill country.
Then recently a giant tusker was dead in captivity and the popular story circulating round is he was let to die to get the tusks for ornamentation in high office.
Then comes the floods in the East.
A young dead elephant is trapped in a tree.
First of a kind of news item and quite relevant in context.
That tells the sorry story of our majestic heritage and how we care.
It is an eye opener for the world if not for this blessed country.
We had 90% forest cover at the beginning of the last century and had over 60,000 elephants.
By mid last century the estimate was 6000 in the wild.
I do not believe we will have 600 left in the wild now and the the forest cover is less that 20% not enough to sustain vegetation let alone elephants.
We are going to commission two mega coal power units in the near future. The forest cover will be reduced to 10% within a decade of their operation due to acid rain and the environmentalist are hiding behind the saffron clothed M.P.s.
Very soon we won’t have a place in the jungle to meditate in quiet solitude.
Mega mania development will sacrifice the rest of the trees in the name of development efforts. Very soon we have to import coconut timber with coconuts on top.
Last tsunami a few people survived by climbing on top of coconut trees.
We have mega floods after 53 years in the East and there are no coconut (palms) trees grown for 6 years after the tsunami to climb onto.
But we have election after election to elect representative who ruin this country.
Mega Mania Memorabilia at its best!
The carnival goes on!
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Making Sense with CO2
Making Sense with CO2
I wanted to make the title of this “Zeroing with CO2” as my own simple attempt to contribute to Zeroing with CO2 but it makes very little sense scientifically.
The alternative title was to make 20 or more statements on beauty of nature.
That itself is a daunting task.
Could I make 10 for CO2 to begin with.
Let us see.
Let me try the Zero CO2 emission.
1. I have to kick the bucket immediately, so I want breath out CO2.
But my dead body will rot at burial site or if cremated by my immediate family producing enough CO2 in the process and many other ozone depleting products.
Even at my death there is no zeroing.
2. If I do not travel by motor vehicle (I boycott Colombo as a way of zeroing on CO2 and only visit there if there is a desperate need. Last time when I visited Colombo, the long one and half hour delay at Kaleniya bridge contributed more to CO2 emission.
I told the driver to switch off the engine have a nap on the wheel.
I abandon my car and walk only, still I am not zeroing.
3. If I do not procreate (I have to try it, in the next birth, better still not have another life) but I have not kept that promise.
4. I cannot resist burning all the paper and plastic since there is no recycling machinery in this Buddhist city called Kandy.
That produce more unwanted products both solid and vapour.
5. Worst even in my sleep and dream state I produce CO2.
This zeroing of CO2 is an insult to science in particular and even worse than a political statements of Mahinda Chinthanya converts.
They play a lip service but trade more and more CO2 with more coal power installed.
In any case Mahinda Chinthanaya was never a scientific endeavor.
I give up and announce lost in the battle of CO2 after 5 statements, unlike a politician, my tongue does not bend to adversary.
This CO2 scenario is bunkum and purely hypothetical.
But on a second thought, my water garden does a better job mopping off CO2, the algae problem, I am trying to stop is winning by a big margin but taking CO2 in.
I give up.
Let me try the nature statements.
I wanted to make the title of this “Zeroing with CO2” as my own simple attempt to contribute to Zeroing with CO2 but it makes very little sense scientifically.
The alternative title was to make 20 or more statements on beauty of nature.
That itself is a daunting task.
Could I make 10 for CO2 to begin with.
Let us see.
Let me try the Zero CO2 emission.
1. I have to kick the bucket immediately, so I want breath out CO2.
But my dead body will rot at burial site or if cremated by my immediate family producing enough CO2 in the process and many other ozone depleting products.
Even at my death there is no zeroing.
2. If I do not travel by motor vehicle (I boycott Colombo as a way of zeroing on CO2 and only visit there if there is a desperate need. Last time when I visited Colombo, the long one and half hour delay at Kaleniya bridge contributed more to CO2 emission.
I told the driver to switch off the engine have a nap on the wheel.
I abandon my car and walk only, still I am not zeroing.
3. If I do not procreate (I have to try it, in the next birth, better still not have another life) but I have not kept that promise.
4. I cannot resist burning all the paper and plastic since there is no recycling machinery in this Buddhist city called Kandy.
That produce more unwanted products both solid and vapour.
5. Worst even in my sleep and dream state I produce CO2.
This zeroing of CO2 is an insult to science in particular and even worse than a political statements of Mahinda Chinthanya converts.
They play a lip service but trade more and more CO2 with more coal power installed.
In any case Mahinda Chinthanaya was never a scientific endeavor.
I give up and announce lost in the battle of CO2 after 5 statements, unlike a politician, my tongue does not bend to adversary.
This CO2 scenario is bunkum and purely hypothetical.
But on a second thought, my water garden does a better job mopping off CO2, the algae problem, I am trying to stop is winning by a big margin but taking CO2 in.
I give up.
Let me try the nature statements.
Friday, September 23, 2016
Keeping Pet Fish-02
Keeping Pet Fish-02
1. I said do not put your finger into the fish tank.
Why?
Our hands are the dirtiest possible (as far as the fish is considered).
Fish does not have an advanced immune system.
They do not have neutrophils to kill bacteria.
If there are leftover food and if we introduce our nasty pathogenic bacteria into the fish tank, the fish are dead within 24 to 48 hours.
2. You should not touch the food with fingers especially to grind them to tiny pieces (to feed young fish). Every time you do that one adds a unhealthy dose of bacteria to the food. Use a tiny spoon and put some silica gel into the fish food container.
3. Buy only good quality food and in small quantities, perhaps to last two to three weeks. Do not buy them in bulk. Cheap food are always contaminated and processed badly.
Check to see whether the food has not gone stale, every time you feed.
4. Have lot of water plants including floating plants with roots. The fish would eat the leaves and the plants support a lot of infusoria (one cannot see with the naked eye) as they grow.
Infusoria
These are very small organisms that are ideal for feeding newly hatched egg laying species.
5. Leave fish without food for at least one day in 7-10 day period.
Why?
Fish store part of their fats as brown fat (that have high energy content) in their tissues for use during long periods of starvation. This fat is not used when the fish is well fed (like gold fish who become bloated and ugly).
Brown fat is especially abundant in newborns and in hibernating mammals. It is also present and metabolically active in adult humans, but its prevalence decreases as humans age.
Its primary function is thermoregulation.
Brown fat produces heat by non-shivering thermogenesis.
6. Healthy fish can last two weeks without food if they have sufficient amount of brown fat. Unfortunately not all of your fish will have adequate stores to last your vacation.
7. When changing water one must make sure there is no chlorine in water.
The chlorine will kill your fish within 20 minutes.
One must leave water for at least three days for the chlorine to escape.
My recommendation is minimum of 10 days.
How do you do that.
8. Have a separate water tank which can hold three times your requirement for one change.
9. When changing water each tank should have separate tubing (do not interchange) to tug into the main pipe that comes from your storage tank.
10. Do not use soap or detergent to clean hands or utilities.
Detergent affects the gills of fish and their breathing.
Detergents can have poisonous effects in all types of aquatic life if they are present in sufficient quantities, and this includes the biodegradable detergents.
All detergents destroy the external mucus layers that protect the fish from bacteria and parasites; plus they can cause severe damage to the gills.
Most fish will die when detergent concentrations approach 15 parts per million. Detergent concentrations as low as 5 ppm will kill fish eggs.
Surfactant detergents are implicated in decreasing the breeding ability of aquatic organisms.
1. I said do not put your finger into the fish tank.
Why?
Our hands are the dirtiest possible (as far as the fish is considered).
Fish does not have an advanced immune system.
They do not have neutrophils to kill bacteria.
If there are leftover food and if we introduce our nasty pathogenic bacteria into the fish tank, the fish are dead within 24 to 48 hours.
2. You should not touch the food with fingers especially to grind them to tiny pieces (to feed young fish). Every time you do that one adds a unhealthy dose of bacteria to the food. Use a tiny spoon and put some silica gel into the fish food container.
3. Buy only good quality food and in small quantities, perhaps to last two to three weeks. Do not buy them in bulk. Cheap food are always contaminated and processed badly.
Check to see whether the food has not gone stale, every time you feed.
4. Have lot of water plants including floating plants with roots. The fish would eat the leaves and the plants support a lot of infusoria (one cannot see with the naked eye) as they grow.
Infusoria
These are very small organisms that are ideal for feeding newly hatched egg laying species.
5. Leave fish without food for at least one day in 7-10 day period.
Why?
Fish store part of their fats as brown fat (that have high energy content) in their tissues for use during long periods of starvation. This fat is not used when the fish is well fed (like gold fish who become bloated and ugly).
Brown fat is especially abundant in newborns and in hibernating mammals. It is also present and metabolically active in adult humans, but its prevalence decreases as humans age.
Its primary function is thermoregulation.
Brown fat produces heat by non-shivering thermogenesis.
6. Healthy fish can last two weeks without food if they have sufficient amount of brown fat. Unfortunately not all of your fish will have adequate stores to last your vacation.
7. When changing water one must make sure there is no chlorine in water.
The chlorine will kill your fish within 20 minutes.
One must leave water for at least three days for the chlorine to escape.
My recommendation is minimum of 10 days.
How do you do that.
8. Have a separate water tank which can hold three times your requirement for one change.
9. When changing water each tank should have separate tubing (do not interchange) to tug into the main pipe that comes from your storage tank.
10. Do not use soap or detergent to clean hands or utilities.
Detergent affects the gills of fish and their breathing.
Detergents can have poisonous effects in all types of aquatic life if they are present in sufficient quantities, and this includes the biodegradable detergents.
All detergents destroy the external mucus layers that protect the fish from bacteria and parasites; plus they can cause severe damage to the gills.
Most fish will die when detergent concentrations approach 15 parts per million. Detergent concentrations as low as 5 ppm will kill fish eggs.
Surfactant detergents are implicated in decreasing the breeding ability of aquatic organisms.
How we kill our fresh water fish?
How we kill our fresh water fish?
We dump or divert detergents into the rivers or the Kandy Lake!
But mosquito larvae somehow survive.
How I do not know.
Detergent affects the gills of the fish and their breathing.
Detergents can have poisonous effects in all types of aquatic life if they are present in sufficient quantities, and this includes the biodegradable detergents. All detergents destroy the external mucus layers that protect the fish from bacteria and parasites; plus they can cause severe damage to the gills.
Most fish will die when detergent concentrations approach 15 parts per million. Detergent concentrations as low as 5 ppm will kill fish eggs. Surfactant detergents are implicated in decreasing the breeding ability of aquatic organisms.
We dump or divert detergents into the rivers or the Kandy Lake!
But mosquito larvae somehow survive.
How I do not know.
Detergent affects the gills of the fish and their breathing.
Detergents can have poisonous effects in all types of aquatic life if they are present in sufficient quantities, and this includes the biodegradable detergents. All detergents destroy the external mucus layers that protect the fish from bacteria and parasites; plus they can cause severe damage to the gills.
Most fish will die when detergent concentrations approach 15 parts per million. Detergent concentrations as low as 5 ppm will kill fish eggs. Surfactant detergents are implicated in decreasing the breeding ability of aquatic organisms.
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Are you willing or unwilling partners in Conspiracy?
Are you willing or unwilling partners in Conspiracy?
I think we all are due to many reasons.
My book on “Conspiracies in Religion, Politics and Science” was written with that in mind.
When I write a book, I prefer the digital version (it saves trees) since it is going to outlast my life.
This book was an exception, I deliberately avoided the digital version.
I want it to be somewhere (unlike my other books) in a library, school or "parts of it reproduced", even on newsstand or pass the book from hand to hand.
I have only scratched the surface.
Idea is for it to used to base more elaborate studies.
If not the rot we had been in will continue for another century.
Initial idea was to expose the medical profession and how drug companies conspire to hoodwink initially doctors and later through doctors the worldwide masses.
Late Professor Senaka Bibile’s death was the beginning.
Upali Wijewardane’s death may be another (I am not sure), the chocolate industry.
For the 40 years we have not produced any outstanding personalities in this country.
Why?
There is illegal organ transplantation (I have not discussed this in my book) and illegal drug trafficking are the issues I have deliberately ignored in this book.
Those are two areas nobody will venture to write a book.
But when I realized that conspiracy is universal, even in rocket science (in science, religion and politics) and in human genes, I feel my effort was worthwhile.
That was not the original intention.
I want the malpractices in medical field exposed.
I can now say “we are not alone" (medical guys), the phrase that is used to indicate the existence of alien life.
The next question that comes to my mind, are the aliens conspire or the aliens learned it from us, especially USA.
I think we all are due to many reasons.
My book on “Conspiracies in Religion, Politics and Science” was written with that in mind.
When I write a book, I prefer the digital version (it saves trees) since it is going to outlast my life.
This book was an exception, I deliberately avoided the digital version.
I want it to be somewhere (unlike my other books) in a library, school or "parts of it reproduced", even on newsstand or pass the book from hand to hand.
I have only scratched the surface.
Idea is for it to used to base more elaborate studies.
If not the rot we had been in will continue for another century.
Initial idea was to expose the medical profession and how drug companies conspire to hoodwink initially doctors and later through doctors the worldwide masses.
Late Professor Senaka Bibile’s death was the beginning.
Upali Wijewardane’s death may be another (I am not sure), the chocolate industry.
For the 40 years we have not produced any outstanding personalities in this country.
Why?
There is illegal organ transplantation (I have not discussed this in my book) and illegal drug trafficking are the issues I have deliberately ignored in this book.
Those are two areas nobody will venture to write a book.
But when I realized that conspiracy is universal, even in rocket science (in science, religion and politics) and in human genes, I feel my effort was worthwhile.
That was not the original intention.
I want the malpractices in medical field exposed.
I can now say “we are not alone" (medical guys), the phrase that is used to indicate the existence of alien life.
The next question that comes to my mind, are the aliens conspire or the aliens learned it from us, especially USA.
Keeping Pet Fish-01
Keeping Pet Fish
I will list few of my priorities.
1. No kids under 12 at home.
2. It is one man job and no delegation unless absolutely necessary (on holiday or on a meditation course).
3. Minimum intervention, that you never but your finger to see whether water is too warm.
4. No smoking!
5. No cats or dogs (one item is enough, why you make your house a zoo).
6. One should have several simple thermometers in your household.
Find the coolest room not freezing dungeon!
Fish can tolerate cool weather better than very warm summers.
7. Adequate light either natural or artificial.
No point keeping them in a dark corner.
How can you see their beautiful colours?
8. No artificial chemical sprayers at all, including personal perfumes.
9. Adequate ventilation to the room and a minimum of one air pump (compressor) and a spare in case the working one goes bust in the night.
10. If you do not have 5 minutes in the morning and
10 minutes in the evening to spare, please do not think of starting this exotic hobby.
When I was in the United Kingdom (we did not have all the fancy stuff coming from China now in Ceylon then), I bought all the stuff except a glass tank and never started this hobby while there.
No sooner I was back in Ceylon, I was in full swing.
One thing good about British stuff was they would last 10 years (unlike the Chinese stuff) solid no leaking, no electric shocks and basically no complaints (this 1980s).
Good solid equipments and a firm stand to place the heavy tank is of utmost importance.
Now I will tell you why the above priorities.
No fish should die under my care except for old age and born invalid.
I have kept a gold (I called it the Clown Fish) without air bladder and several blind ones (one left currently).
My best advice is do not start, if you love your freedom.
Children lose interest within six weeks.
Just do not blame them that is there simple nature.
Do not make your kid to do the dirty work.
Let them be free too.
I will list few of my priorities.
1. No kids under 12 at home.
2. It is one man job and no delegation unless absolutely necessary (on holiday or on a meditation course).
3. Minimum intervention, that you never but your finger to see whether water is too warm.
4. No smoking!
5. No cats or dogs (one item is enough, why you make your house a zoo).
6. One should have several simple thermometers in your household.
Find the coolest room not freezing dungeon!
Fish can tolerate cool weather better than very warm summers.
7. Adequate light either natural or artificial.
No point keeping them in a dark corner.
How can you see their beautiful colours?
8. No artificial chemical sprayers at all, including personal perfumes.
9. Adequate ventilation to the room and a minimum of one air pump (compressor) and a spare in case the working one goes bust in the night.
10. If you do not have 5 minutes in the morning and
10 minutes in the evening to spare, please do not think of starting this exotic hobby.
When I was in the United Kingdom (we did not have all the fancy stuff coming from China now in Ceylon then), I bought all the stuff except a glass tank and never started this hobby while there.
No sooner I was back in Ceylon, I was in full swing.
One thing good about British stuff was they would last 10 years (unlike the Chinese stuff) solid no leaking, no electric shocks and basically no complaints (this 1980s).
Good solid equipments and a firm stand to place the heavy tank is of utmost importance.
Now I will tell you why the above priorities.
No fish should die under my care except for old age and born invalid.
I have kept a gold (I called it the Clown Fish) without air bladder and several blind ones (one left currently).
My best advice is do not start, if you love your freedom.
Children lose interest within six weeks.
Just do not blame them that is there simple nature.
Do not make your kid to do the dirty work.
Let them be free too.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
MultiSystem Boot CD-Update
MultiSystem Boot CD
Update
I have written a lot about MultiSystem CD.
It can be used in Windows but I am not going to waste time.
In Linux one can extract the SH file obtained from sourceforge, install it and run with ROOT permission.
It cannot be used as an ordinary user.
If you want to avoid root permission easiest way is to download version 9 from sourceforge, write the image into a CD (make sure it is 700 MiB), (why waste a DVD) and boot up.
It has Gparted too.
One must download all the images (ideally in the hard disk or even an external hard disk) beforehand.
NeBootIn let you download from the sight but it takes lot of time.
It is better test the isos by writing on CD/DVD.
What I do is install it on a FLASH Drive First using the CD. (ms.its.precise r9) or even an external hard disk and boot it on RAM and start adding one image after another to the Graphic Till or Cage.
No terminal!
Suse, Fedora and the new Debian (early 8 version supports live DVDs) do not support it.
Not to bother it tells you if it cannot make a live script.
If any of the distributions does not boot for any reason, what you have to do is to mount the flash drive on a Linux session and delete the live folder.
The name of the distribution remains in the Grub File but do not click the deleted one since the Flash drive or Hard disk hangs out looking for for the script.
If that happens wait a few seconds and PRESS the off button. If you do not wait for few seconds it might burn your RAM.
I did all this with on an old 32 bit IBM for three hours with only 1 GiB RAM, while doing (other) multi-tasks, nothing untoward happened.
That is the beauty of Linux.
Ten or more distributions in a Flash Drive is handy!
The mounting partition has to be FAT.
This was done on Debian 8.0.0
Update
I have written a lot about MultiSystem CD.
It can be used in Windows but I am not going to waste time.
In Linux one can extract the SH file obtained from sourceforge, install it and run with ROOT permission.
It cannot be used as an ordinary user.
If you want to avoid root permission easiest way is to download version 9 from sourceforge, write the image into a CD (make sure it is 700 MiB), (why waste a DVD) and boot up.
It has Gparted too.
One must download all the images (ideally in the hard disk or even an external hard disk) beforehand.
NeBootIn let you download from the sight but it takes lot of time.
It is better test the isos by writing on CD/DVD.
What I do is install it on a FLASH Drive First using the CD. (ms.its.precise r9) or even an external hard disk and boot it on RAM and start adding one image after another to the Graphic Till or Cage.
No terminal!
Suse, Fedora and the new Debian (early 8 version supports live DVDs) do not support it.
Not to bother it tells you if it cannot make a live script.
If any of the distributions does not boot for any reason, what you have to do is to mount the flash drive on a Linux session and delete the live folder.
The name of the distribution remains in the Grub File but do not click the deleted one since the Flash drive or Hard disk hangs out looking for for the script.
If that happens wait a few seconds and PRESS the off button. If you do not wait for few seconds it might burn your RAM.
I did all this with on an old 32 bit IBM for three hours with only 1 GiB RAM, while doing (other) multi-tasks, nothing untoward happened.
That is the beauty of Linux.
Ten or more distributions in a Flash Drive is handy!
The mounting partition has to be FAT.
This was done on Debian 8.0.0
Live Linux CD (below 700MiB)
Live Linux CDs.
There isn't a single bootable functional Linux CD except MX-14.4 available currently.
Linux was known to run on 4 to 8 MiB graphic cards.
Linux was suppose to use limited resources.
It is getting bulky (most of the utilities are never used).
I use Peppermint and it is low on utilities.
Only other Linux distribution may be Absolute Linux.
Arch Linux may have a minimal CD but it only for a Geek-very finicky for a newbies.
Debian has a Mini Version (net Install and Standard) but not easy for a beginner.
Thanks Mepis / Peppermint KEEP UP the Good Work.
It was called AntiX and currently MX.
It is a Mepis Linux derivative.
Thanks guys/Girls at Mepis, please do not terminate this service.
Knoppix has a live CD but hard to find now.
There is Gparted that can be used for partitioning but not for install.
There was DSL-Damn Small Linux only 50 MiB.
There are Finnix, System Rescue,Clonezilla but all these are for guys with knowledge with Linux.
MultiSystem CD is one of my favorite CDS.
It has Gparted, too.
It comes from France and by pressing F2 one can work in English.
The Graphic utility also gives an option to select language, if you forget to press F2 quick enough.
There isn't a single bootable functional Linux CD except MX-14.4 available currently.
Linux was known to run on 4 to 8 MiB graphic cards.
Linux was suppose to use limited resources.
It is getting bulky (most of the utilities are never used).
I use Peppermint and it is low on utilities.
Only other Linux distribution may be Absolute Linux.
Arch Linux may have a minimal CD but it only for a Geek-very finicky for a newbies.
Debian has a Mini Version (net Install and Standard) but not easy for a beginner.
Thanks Mepis / Peppermint KEEP UP the Good Work.
It was called AntiX and currently MX.
It is a Mepis Linux derivative.
Thanks guys/Girls at Mepis, please do not terminate this service.
Knoppix has a live CD but hard to find now.
There is Gparted that can be used for partitioning but not for install.
There was DSL-Damn Small Linux only 50 MiB.
There are Finnix, System Rescue,Clonezilla but all these are for guys with knowledge with Linux.
MultiSystem CD is one of my favorite CDS.
It has Gparted, too.
It comes from France and by pressing F2 one can work in English.
The Graphic utility also gives an option to select language, if you forget to press F2 quick enough.
AVL-Linux-Out
AVL-Linux-Out
Password is here!
Isotester 2016.8.30 version is out.
I tested the 32 bit version.
It is pretty good for Audio and Video Work.
username (not mentioned) is isotster
Password for 64 bits is avl64 and for 32 bits is avl32
Nearly 3 GiB and boots quick.
In my previous (review) testing I said it was slow to boot (64 bit version).
Gparted is there but won't function and asking for authentication!
Enjoy the Linux FUN.
Thanks Guys and Girls from ? Italy I believe.
Password is here!
Isotester 2016.8.30 version is out.
I tested the 32 bit version.
It is pretty good for Audio and Video Work.
username (not mentioned) is isotster
Password for 64 bits is avl64 and for 32 bits is avl32
Nearly 3 GiB and boots quick.
In my previous (review) testing I said it was slow to boot (64 bit version).
Gparted is there but won't function and asking for authentication!
Enjoy the Linux FUN.
Thanks Guys and Girls from ? Italy I believe.
Monday, September 19, 2016
Rubbish-How to Lose Weight?
This was a comment, I made at a site giving food advice!
This is all rubbish!
Another Food Conspiracy to PROMOTE Meats.
Protein causes lot of stress to your Kidneys and Liver.
Excess
protein is converted to new cells (it does not make your liver or
kidney cells -Unless they are damaged-they have finite number of cells
according to body size-not weight).
The only new cells they (excess protein) can make are FAT CELLS!
Above all your URINE will smell badly and your body odour too.
Simple Schedule IS;
1. Cut down on starch especially RICE.
One good meal can last 18 hours in an adult NEVER more.
GOOD Breakfast is essential and one more meal anytime it suits YOU (late lunch or very late lunch or dinner)
2. Substitute all Animal FATS (butter, margarine, hydrogenated coconut oil) with Coconut Milk or Oil.
Mind YOU coconut has short chain or Medium Chain Fatty acids.
They do not add your BULK.
3. Vigorous exercise make you hungry (EAT more after) and YOU lose your body water and salt.
I do not know any beverage that can replace lost water and salt.
May be coconut water but it has high K+ potassium.
Just walking and doing household work is good enough.
4. Mind you mental activity also consume energy.
5. Never try a crash program and plan it over two years and first three months are the most difficult.
Debian 8.6.0-Live DVDs-Now OUT
Debian 8.6.0-Live DVDs-Now OUT
Debian Live DVDs are out now.
It is 9 months since the demise of the Debian's Ian Murdoch and I dedicate this to him.
The spirit of the Debian is kept going with his fellow developers.
Hats off to them.
What I usually do is to boot it and play the card game first.
Booting is smooth, the card game I lost but it was neat arranged.
Then I go to the web and Firefox fires up well.
Then the next thing I do is write a blog post.
Gparted is missing and Debian guys probably do not want the newbies to erase their hard disk inadvertently.
This is live on Gnome and I downloaded the KDE, too.
It should be as good as Gnome.
Lately I have an affinity for the Gnome.
There is Mate, too and there are Live DVDS for Apple guys/girls, too.
Thank YOU very much Guys/Girls at Debian.
Keep up the Good work!
KDE is nice but bit bulky for my computer, with only 1 GiB of RAM in my 32 bits IBM.
It has PAE for both 32 bit and 64 bits.
It can be installed from the same DVD.
It has latest LibreOffice.
Firefox was bit (with cookies) slow compared to Iceweasle without cookies around.
I prefer the latter as a browser.
Debian Live DVDs are out now.
It is 9 months since the demise of the Debian's Ian Murdoch and I dedicate this to him.
The spirit of the Debian is kept going with his fellow developers.
Hats off to them.
What I usually do is to boot it and play the card game first.
Booting is smooth, the card game I lost but it was neat arranged.
Then I go to the web and Firefox fires up well.
Then the next thing I do is write a blog post.
Gparted is missing and Debian guys probably do not want the newbies to erase their hard disk inadvertently.
This is live on Gnome and I downloaded the KDE, too.
It should be as good as Gnome.
Lately I have an affinity for the Gnome.
There is Mate, too and there are Live DVDS for Apple guys/girls, too.
Thank YOU very much Guys/Girls at Debian.
Keep up the Good work!
KDE is nice but bit bulky for my computer, with only 1 GiB of RAM in my 32 bits IBM.
It has PAE for both 32 bit and 64 bits.
It can be installed from the same DVD.
It has latest LibreOffice.
Firefox was bit (with cookies) slow compared to Iceweasle without cookies around.
I prefer the latter as a browser.
Sunday, September 18, 2016
Missed in My Conspiracy Book-Food Industry
This was written in 15th of February, 2009 and was hidden in one of my old computers inadvertently.
If YOU believe in American Food advice, not only YOU become Obese, YOU will have GOUT, Heart Disease,Hypertension, Arthritis and Diabetes, all are disabilities, if they do not kill you prematurely..
This is a good one for 'RAVAYA" Readers!
How come a man who is comparatively small has to consume large amount of animal protein for survival?
Majestic elephants are vegetarians and they consume all their proteins from plants.
How come a man who is comparatively small has to consume large amount of animal protein for survival?
This is where the WHO has committed a global crime of promoting animal food which wastes over 50 to 75% of grain material that could be better used for human consumption.
(8 Kg (grain) fot 1Kg of meat!
They first started the myth with nominating the egg as a reference protein, since it contains all the essential amino acids.
Next logical nexus WHO struck was to equate all staple food including rice as inferior in quality in reference to egg protein and then to destroy the Asian Rice cultivation.
I will prove that rice is much superior and non-allergenic to all other staple foods in a minute but bear with me for excesses and the excuses.
At the same time with the American help they started promoting the second myth that wheat as the best alternative to rice since its relative quantity of lysine was higher when compared to rice.
Now with the American help Western Food Industry got a kick start diminishing the Asian wisdom to the back garden.
With this deliberate ploy to destroy the Rice Industry and all the rice varieties except Uncles Sam's rice which became a house hold name in America.
IMF made the previous government of Sri-Lanka to experiment bread making with rice flour mixture knowing very well it would be a failure.
Wheat flour has the bread making capability because of its gluten content and rice cannot supplement this allergenic food protein.
That is why rice is recommended for infants instead of wheat flour.
There was some always a sinister campaign to implicate rice as a poor quality staple food.
Say this to Japanese they are the only people in this planet who do not believe American propaganda.
Now it is time for some facts and a bombshell.
African Rice variety has the best Quality Protein comparative to all staple foods including Asian Rice.
Thanks to Japan this information is coming from JICA experts and Japan's Genome Project on Rice.
Before I go back to Single Cell Protein from fungi / algae here are some more facts.
It is true that the content of protein in rice is 2% less than wheat which is 10%.
In African rice the protein content is as high as 15%.
As a reference protein of egg is numbered arbitrarily as 100.
Please note no animal survives only on eggs.
Animals including humans eat a mixture of foods.
When the food is mixed the correct amino acid balance is achieved automatically.
Rice has 65 amino acid reference value which is more than twice as corn.
Wheat has 40 and corn has 30.
The quality is actually better for rice.
When rice is eaten with other grains (mung and dhal) it makes up 100 without the addition of any animal products.
If this is supplemented with milk one gets all the ingredients including calcium without the allergic properties of gluten which causes Coeliac Disease.
If rice meal is supplemented with some ripe banana one gets all what is essential.
If the rice is supplemented with soya one has an excellent combination.
It is necessary to mentioned that when WHO published the protein (vary with age and pregnancy) requirement some decades ago, they made some serious mistakes of doing the study on carbohydrate deficient diet that over estimated the protein requirement (this is called the specific dynamic action of food- where protein is wasted as energy).
They had to revise their estimates several times since then and when we were students we were given the wrong information (I of course never believed their estimates) and I never became a beef eater to supplement rice.
How the poor supplemented their diet (as Asians) was to eat more rice (provided the energy which spared the good quality protein and gave power and energy for work) or several meals of rice which made good the sufficient amino acid including the lysine.
However, supplementing with another grain and plant material was the easy choice for me.
My point here is different.
I am writing this here to illustrate that we can produce good quality protein from a single plant cell.
Even though we cannot utilize the cellulose we can very well use the plant protein for food.
In fact these experiments were done by oil companies using cheap oil as a substitute some years ago.
But they never took off the commercial scale due to pressure from beef industry and soya industry.
There was enough lobbying to object this Single Cell Protein production on safety grounds.
I do not intent to go into politics in detail but suffice is to say that these Single Cell Protein were never marketed as human food but only as animal food.
If YOU believe in American Food advice, not only YOU become Obese, YOU will have GOUT, Heart Disease,Hypertension, Arthritis and Diabetes, all are disabilities, if they do not kill you prematurely..
This is a good one for 'RAVAYA" Readers!
How come a man who is comparatively small has to consume large amount of animal protein for survival?
Majestic elephants are vegetarians and they consume all their proteins from plants.
How come a man who is comparatively small has to consume large amount of animal protein for survival?
This is where the WHO has committed a global crime of promoting animal food which wastes over 50 to 75% of grain material that could be better used for human consumption.
(8 Kg (grain) fot 1Kg of meat!
They first started the myth with nominating the egg as a reference protein, since it contains all the essential amino acids.
Next logical nexus WHO struck was to equate all staple food including rice as inferior in quality in reference to egg protein and then to destroy the Asian Rice cultivation.
I will prove that rice is much superior and non-allergenic to all other staple foods in a minute but bear with me for excesses and the excuses.
At the same time with the American help they started promoting the second myth that wheat as the best alternative to rice since its relative quantity of lysine was higher when compared to rice.
Now with the American help Western Food Industry got a kick start diminishing the Asian wisdom to the back garden.
With this deliberate ploy to destroy the Rice Industry and all the rice varieties except Uncles Sam's rice which became a house hold name in America.
IMF made the previous government of Sri-Lanka to experiment bread making with rice flour mixture knowing very well it would be a failure.
Wheat flour has the bread making capability because of its gluten content and rice cannot supplement this allergenic food protein.
That is why rice is recommended for infants instead of wheat flour.
There was some always a sinister campaign to implicate rice as a poor quality staple food.
Say this to Japanese they are the only people in this planet who do not believe American propaganda.
Now it is time for some facts and a bombshell.
African Rice variety has the best Quality Protein comparative to all staple foods including Asian Rice.
Thanks to Japan this information is coming from JICA experts and Japan's Genome Project on Rice.
Before I go back to Single Cell Protein from fungi / algae here are some more facts.
It is true that the content of protein in rice is 2% less than wheat which is 10%.
In African rice the protein content is as high as 15%.
As a reference protein of egg is numbered arbitrarily as 100.
Please note no animal survives only on eggs.
Animals including humans eat a mixture of foods.
When the food is mixed the correct amino acid balance is achieved automatically.
Rice has 65 amino acid reference value which is more than twice as corn.
Wheat has 40 and corn has 30.
The quality is actually better for rice.
When rice is eaten with other grains (mung and dhal) it makes up 100 without the addition of any animal products.
If this is supplemented with milk one gets all the ingredients including calcium without the allergic properties of gluten which causes Coeliac Disease.
If rice meal is supplemented with some ripe banana one gets all what is essential.
If the rice is supplemented with soya one has an excellent combination.
It is necessary to mentioned that when WHO published the protein (vary with age and pregnancy) requirement some decades ago, they made some serious mistakes of doing the study on carbohydrate deficient diet that over estimated the protein requirement (this is called the specific dynamic action of food- where protein is wasted as energy).
They had to revise their estimates several times since then and when we were students we were given the wrong information (I of course never believed their estimates) and I never became a beef eater to supplement rice.
How the poor supplemented their diet (as Asians) was to eat more rice (provided the energy which spared the good quality protein and gave power and energy for work) or several meals of rice which made good the sufficient amino acid including the lysine.
However, supplementing with another grain and plant material was the easy choice for me.
My point here is different.
I am writing this here to illustrate that we can produce good quality protein from a single plant cell.
Even though we cannot utilize the cellulose we can very well use the plant protein for food.
In fact these experiments were done by oil companies using cheap oil as a substitute some years ago.
But they never took off the commercial scale due to pressure from beef industry and soya industry.
There was enough lobbying to object this Single Cell Protein production on safety grounds.
I do not intent to go into politics in detail but suffice is to say that these Single Cell Protein were never marketed as human food but only as animal food.
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Android-Remix for PCs=Update
Android Remix for PC is available in torrent for download in both 32 and 64 bit versions.
I am currently downloading (extracting the ZIP) for testing.
Post you the results soon!
I am disappointed.
64 bit Zip file has an error and does not extract fully.
It does not boot (32 bit version) probably, it is looking for a Touch Screen TV.
I do not bother to buy a touch screen for testing anyway.
I want my TV screen crystal clear without thumb / finger prints.
It does not have Linux or DOS short cuts to see (Ctrl+Alt+F1 or Esc ) what it is currently doing.
So please do not try, if you are hard press for time.
I went to sleep early and woke up early and nothing else to do, just tested it.
My 64 bit computer is down with the fan broken into two pieces.
That is why I tested the 32 bits version on an old IBM.
The Linux Magazine version has 64 bit ISO as a zip.
I won't bother to write an image.
Sorry Android Guys/Girls, I wish I could say something good.
My cardinal principle is never put a Linux Utility without testing thorough!
It kills the interest of the USER.
I am not a user anyway.
I am currently downloading (extracting the ZIP) for testing.
Post you the results soon!
I am disappointed.
64 bit Zip file has an error and does not extract fully.
It does not boot (32 bit version) probably, it is looking for a Touch Screen TV.
I do not bother to buy a touch screen for testing anyway.
I want my TV screen crystal clear without thumb / finger prints.
It does not have Linux or DOS short cuts to see (Ctrl+Alt+F1 or Esc ) what it is currently doing.
So please do not try, if you are hard press for time.
I went to sleep early and woke up early and nothing else to do, just tested it.
My 64 bit computer is down with the fan broken into two pieces.
That is why I tested the 32 bits version on an old IBM.
The Linux Magazine version has 64 bit ISO as a zip.
I won't bother to write an image.
Sorry Android Guys/Girls, I wish I could say something good.
My cardinal principle is never put a Linux Utility without testing thorough!
It kills the interest of the USER.
I am not a user anyway.
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Arthur C. Clarke and UFOs.
Arthur C. Clarke and UFOs.
I am intrigued why Arther C Clerk not writing anything about UFOs.
He
would have been one of the earliest guys to have seen UFOs.
UFO
recording were reported during the latter part of the war and Hitler
had a program which Americans hijacked.
1.
He was in the Air Force.
2.
He was a radar communication officer.
3.
He was a pilot.
4.
He was active when Roswell incident happened.
5.
Why his services were terminated?
6.
He believed in God.
6.
Why did he come to Ceylon (apart from his sexual exploits)?
7.
Did the MI5 ask him to shut his mouth?
No
disclosure of facts and events.
Just
being a gentleman, he probably kept this secret all his life.
Instead,
he put his effort to Science fiction.
I
never read any of his books (simply because they were fiction) to
make my own observations.
Was
he part of the cover up?
Was
he a victim of powerful military?
He had all the credentials including a degree in physics.
We will never know the truth!Second World War
During the Second World War from 1941 to 1946 he
served in the Royal Air Force as a radar specialist and was involved
in the early-warning radar defense system, which contributed to the
RAF's success during the Battle of Britain. Clarke spent most of his
wartime service working on ground-controlled approach (GCA) radar, as
documented in the semi-autobiographical Glide Path, his only
non-science-fiction novel. Although GCA did not see much practical
use during the war, it proved vital to the Berlin Airlift of
1948–1949 after several years of development. Clarke initially
served in the ranks, and was a corporal instructor on radar at No. 2
Radio School, RAF Yatesbury in Wiltshire. He was commissioned as a
pilot officer (technical branch) on 27 May 1943.
He was promoted flying officer on 27 November
1943. He was appointed chief training instructor at RAF Honiley in
Warwickshire and was demobilized with the rank of flight lieutenant.
Post-war
After the war he attained a first-class degree in mathematics and physics from King's College London. After this he worked as assistant editor at Physics Abstracts. Clarke then served as chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946 to 1947 and again from 1951 to 1953.When is the date of the Disclosure of the UFO Scenario?
When is the date
of the Disclosure of the UFO Scenario?
Is it impending?
All my indications are it is impending and the timing of the US
Presidential election has torpedoed everything including who will
declare it.
How Russia will use this election to puts its moles in the next US
administration is another factor.
If it is declared NOW its snowballing effect nobody with the right
mind can predict.
Now what is happening is the Domino Effect?
Since I cannot predict the date I will write about the Domino Effect?
Who will declare it?
That is the driving force for the Domino Effect.
It is actually a bulling scenario where one leader after another
falls, till all the potential leaders withdraws from the context.
It is the “Lame Duck” effect.
This is vital for the outcome.
In other words, all the leaders that fall will become historical
puppets and one who is left has to take the pieces and unite the
world with “Oneness”.
In fact, this “Global” guy or girl has to mount a unified effect
to calm the people and bring order out of disorder (physics term
chaos).
I cannot tell who but I can eliminate guys and girls.
1. First I am out but my contribution is the book which will be out
soon “Conspiracies in Religion, Politics and Science”.
It just gives a preview of the human political psychology which might
prepare one for the scenario and there are two chapters one the
theoretical and the other the historical (conspiracy) perspective.
2. President Obama is out as he is the Lame Duck President now.
He should have done this in 2012 for some strange reason he did not.
3. The Current Pope is out since if he does he has to burn large
amount of archived documents.
Which is a pity.
3. UK Prime Minister out since, if one becomes an accessory to a grand
conspiracy there is no way out.
4. UK Labour Leader is out by the very fact that he is out off power
within and outside.
I pity the Labour Party.
5. What about a South American country?
Out by two counts.
They are dominated by drug lords or the divine lords.
6. What about Israel?
Improbable due to its global financial control.
7. What about Ceylon, the champion of non-alignment of yesteryear?
Out by many a mile, as all the astrologers disagreeing on an auspicious
time to DECLARE by a wide margin.
Reason they think Ceylon is the center of the universe.
They cannot decide, the center within the center be that it may be
Galle, Kandy or Jaffna.
They still work on only 12 planets.
8. What about France?
Very likely candidate given its Renaissance.
9. What about Germany?
Likely candidate but Putin has to brainwash Angela Merkel.
10. What about Japan?
Very unlikely since with the declaration motor industry will come to a standstill.
11. By default I think only Russia can (or will) do it.
There is only one Achilles Heel (Hell) is the current Presidential
campaign with, which horse to back.
He is having a “psychopathic regurgitation” of America and
probably enjoying it all the same.
The timing will be “Christmas Eve” since he will have a bit of a
swipe at the expense of the Holy One!
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