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  • DOES WINSTON KAYANAN REALLY CARRY THE WORD OF GOD (PART 1 OF 2)?

    Posted by admin on November 29th, 2009 and filed under economic livelihood | 1 Comment »

    It is very ironical for people to ignore our life history of biological existence in the way God created the world. The author Winston Kayanan from the Philippines presented a greenery solution of land rehabilitation of the 60% desertified soils worldwide by engendering large-scale organic matter cycling to obtain massive photosynthesis (the taking of CO2 as food material & production of O2 to repair the environment). This will dramatically rejuvenate earth against global warming & climate change towards O3 layer recovery, normal weather & climate, food abundance, fuel reserve deposits, among others. But instead, most governments continued to subscribe on UNEP’s carbon emission reduction by which they swore when it will only oppress people from livelihood & suppress economy from growth. It has no living spirit, i.e., without curing capabilities because it cannot breath to filter the air. It cannot catalyze, synthesize, ionize or even neutralize compounds. Others say that we can explore current warming (as free energy) for economic development & recovery when it can flame earth more fiercely than fire to destroy plants & forests, to cause heat stroke & other illnesses, to create epidemic and so on. And UNEP found protection in their lifeless invention from NGOs like 350.org, Oxfam, and many others. As it became a pitfall for everyone to bend down, it is the beginning, cause & effect of the greatest deception in the history of mankind that was rooted on false sciences and hence it is fraudulent & invalid. Since nothing came about on the author’s action to divert the attention of the world to another path (his technology with the same purpose as mentioned above), people have remained blind for they could not still see that, if the depleted O3 layer & melted glaciers are not repaired, the horrors of climate change will continue wreaking havoc & chaos.

    For having acquired God’s revelation of the 4-beast vision in Daniel 7, the author continued his pursuit in the global campaign to save people & earth, given with confidence after abandoning his offered solution many times. As a consequence, people could not also perceive that the author had established a true religious knowledge with God as answer to our ailing environment. Dubbed as the 3rd interpretation in the world, he was able to decipher & translate more than 20 codes to reality in just 2 minutes on June 28, 2004 (within 5 days), overshadowing the empirical studies of the Catholic Church as the 1st interpreter (or even USA 1999 version as 2nd) unless, of course, it comes true or has happened. Critics in the yahoo Q & A entirely showed negative responses – generally stupidity came on in their minds and, for such reaction, God specifically mentioned them in Daniel 12:10.

    The author further claims that it is very clear in the scriptures (Daniel 12:8) when it said, “These words are secret & sealed until the appointed time of the end,” which means it will be revealed at present times rather than the past. Since there are two existing versions: one, before Christ made by the Catholic Church (the period of King Antiochus) and the other, after Christ made by USA (war in Europe), then the meaning of the 4-beast was not revealed, i.e., untimely interpreted. The fact that the dream of Daniel was preserved & retained in the Bible thru thousands of years, the dream remains to be a mystery, i.e., still open for things to happen. No one was officially recorded or confirmed holder (as author &/or witness) to tell & account its meaning thru or beyond world experience and therefore, the event did not occur at present times (still considered to be a myth according to one replier in May 2009). Reading the two conflicting interpretations of the Church and USA, these are purely guesswork being fabricated, presented in concoctions of historical events. Another replier in the yahoo Q & A did his best to research & to answer the author but sorry, it is not the era of King Antiochus (despite voted as best answer) because, contrary to scriptures, the son of man (who is Jesus Christ) did not exist in that period – the puzzle in which the church could not conclusively explain. In other words, the author found the theological studies of the Catholic Church & USA (1999 version) likewise invalid, together with the scientific studies of UN (protecting Kyoto Protocol).

    Well no, because gods aren’t real, they’re fictional.

    How does flood affect the livelihood of the fishermen?

    Posted by admin on November 26th, 2009 and filed under livelihood | 1 Comment »


    A flood carrys diseases and can get in to fish
    Also many fish can get killed.

    Some prawns and other small sea creatures come on to land and fishermen can get a lot off money.

    I’m having trouble with the length of my paper, What else can I add?

    Posted by admin on November 22nd, 2009 and filed under livelihood development | 1 Comment »

    The instructions for the first 1/3 of the paper is this: "A. You will go to standard online references such as the United Nations Economic and Social
    Development site (http://www.un.org/esa/) and the Central Intelligence Agency’s World
    Factbook (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/) to gather background
    information on the economy and social structure of this country. (approx. 1/3 of the paper) "

    My research paper is titled "Climate Change’s Impacts on the Bangladeshi People". The first part of my paper isn’t quite 1/3 of the paper, I’d be happy with just one page. I don’t know what else to add with the above requirememnts for this first part to make it longer. Here’s what I have so far:
    "Bangladesh is situated in Southern Asia between Burma and India. It is a relatively young country who gained independence from West Pakistan in 1971 and its people are still struggling to build the country. It borders the Bay of Bengal and is on deltas of many large rivers. It is tropical with a normal 30-70% of the country flooded each year during the monsoon season. The population is greatly at risk from natural disasters as the country is densely populated with a estimated 156 million people in 144,000 sq km. Comparatively, the country is a little smaller than Iowa. This high population density increases the people’s vulnerability to climate change because the opportunity for migration within Bangladesh is limited. Since much of the population lives in poverty, the average life expectancy is 60 years. They face droughts, cyclones, waterborne diseases, deforestation, coastal erosion, back water effect, malaria, rabies and avian influenza. Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to the affects of global climate change because it is mostly flat and low-lying and has low economic development. Its economy depends on agriculture and natural resources that are greatly put at risk by natural disasters. 45% of the population is estimated to be below the poverty line and that percentage will only increase as flooding and severe weather continue to threaten the country’s major industries. The farming community produces tea, sugar, rice, potatoes, tobacco, spices and fruit. Many farming family’s livelihoods are at risk and many are all ready suffering."

    Right now I’m just worried about content, not grammar or citations yet. I’d appreciate it if someone could give me a few ideas on how to lengthen this first part. Thanks in advance!!!! :)

    I have answered a similar question a while ago, and I would like to repeat the same here for the benefit of other users who may answer. I am also starring this question so that my Contacts may be able to contribute, if they can manage time.

    Hi I’m from Bangladesh. I wish I could have contributed in your research paper on "Climate Change’s Impacts on the Bangladeshi People".

    All I can recall is that there were clearly ‘felt’ seasons in the past, like Winter (Dec-Feb), Summer (Mar-May), Monsoon (Jun-Sep) and Autumn (Oct-Nov). In these days of post-climate times the seasons seem to have overlapped a bit. We can see raining during winter times and also floods occurring at ‘odd-times’ or at regular basis, instead of some decade long spacings (frequency) of the past.

    I got the following from Internet search:

    1. In recent times climate change is resulting in gradual sea level rise, repetitive disasters such as cyclone, flood, land slide, river erosion are also increasing. Now Bangladesh has floods two times a year. A data shows that- ‘over the next 40 years, 17 percent of the land will be lost to the sea resulting 20 million climate refugees because of climate change’. With a very high density of river systems, large parts of Bangladesh remain submerged during five months of monsoon so that millions of people living in river basins lack basic facilities since development have been concentrated around paved roads. Issues like this need local solution by the local people. So inspired by the lifestyle of the Bede community we realized that the rivers do not have to be barriers to development rather they can be communication channels where services will be taken to the people by boats. So an attempt was made to transform the waterways into path ways for education, information and technology and in the process adopt and mitigate climate changes. We believe that it is possible to deal with this climate change, and at the same time, to lift people out of poverty. Thus in the macro level we hope to initiate sustainable water way development which will be adaptive to the present climate crisis.

    2. Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha realized that the rivers do not have to be barriers to information, they can be communication channels. Shidhulai is working to improve quality of life in flood prone areas by taking services to the people by boats.

    Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, a non-profit organization, is working to improve quality of life in northern Bangladesh watersheds by taking services to the people by boats. These services include children’s education, libraries, training on sustainable agriculture, healthcare, adaptation strategies for climate change, waste management, computer education and Internet access.

    Through the work of Shidhulai 88,000 families of hundreds of riverside villages are benefiting from improved education, sustainable agricultural practices, increased income, clean solar-powered lighting and communication with the outside world.

    Hope above helps.

    WOULD LAND REHABILITATION BE A BETTER CURE THAN SUPPRESSING TRANSPORTATION & INDUSTRIES?

    Posted by admin on November 16th, 2009 and filed under economic livelihood | 1 Comment »

    Climate change has already destroyed the lives of people and for that, authorities recommend to mitigate & adapt. If the treaty succeeds, livelihood will naturally be threatened too year after year since the projection is up to 2020 or to 2050 but there is no guaranty or assurance of environment recovery. The delusion of reducing GHG emissions wanders on the inductive theory of controlling pollution from transportation & industries but does not stay reasonably close to nature upon which the O2 regeneration & replenishment of the author’s antithesis deductively found its postulates vogue, empirically derived, defined & supported. This is simply because no GHG reduction can stop the ultraviolet sun rays without repairing the O3 layer. It cannot stop the heavy precipitation & the rising sea levels without bringing water vapor to the Antarctic & Arctic to rebuild the glaciers & ice caps. It cannot make natural gases of nature (N2, O2, water vapor) work without restoring the desertified soils to fertility. In contrast, the long-ignored Philippine technology attacks directly the problem by curing than preventing. It will employ massive organic matter cycling. One cognizable feature is its richness in chlorophyll production with abundant carbohydrates and hence, it has a higher level of O2 production (via photosynthesis & chemosynthesis).

    A diversified action of reconstruction & rejuvenation in the environment begins simultaneously in land, air & water, ferreting out the hidden curing capabilities & therapeutic wonders of what nature can do & help in return. It orients people to the reality of nature which will release & reduce their tension & fear for the Philippine technology will play an important part in restructuring ecology. It can similarly perform the function of plants & trees, utilizing N2 & CO2 thru absorption (particularly the displaced CO2, representing the excess 50 ppm of the 350 ppm as food material). It can physically capture pure carbon and can physiologically absorb CO2 in quadrillion metric tons per hectare a day and, in turn, O2 will be released equivalent to the amount of CO2 absorbed. It can eliminate wastes (like urban, agricultural & animal, among others), rehabilitate wastelands to fertility (to be planted thereafter) and cure the environment. Revitalizing soil, agriculture & forestry could then help earth to recover & make living better. The world could now gauge & decide that, if agriculture & forestry have not been abandoned & neglected respectively, global warming & climate change will not be experienced.

    Based on the foregoing, UN & its scientists committed an elementary fallacy in our basic sciences before reaching their conclusions. UNEP, the master creator of carbon emission reduction theory which laid its foundations & guided the course of its development, is the weakest link in the entire UN organization. They were not concentrating on curing the environment but rather suppressing life. Instead of UNEP being blamed from negligence & imprudence due to non-disclosure of land desertification as root of warming, they directed the blame on transportation & industries. For 12 long years, the treaty never acquired 100% consent from its members when economy was always the primary reason & defense. As the treaty was stalled, the world suffered the effects of warming & climate change. Although there is a plan to revise the treaty, yet the concept remains preserved. Isn’t it proper for UN to know what is right when the author has proven them wrong? Why push & lead the world to the wrong path made by fools over the right road towards the order of nature? Now UN has become dictatorial & authoritative, contrary to its charter (as God’s commandments since UN was established) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. God will not allow anyone to take a stand inconsistent with that of His entrusted laws & the order of nature, particularly the well-settled scientific laws. However, most repliers of the author are unaware of these false sciences. They believed that the treaty is politically motivated, giving some thoughts of economic competition to worse, sabotage. Without proof of such, the false science will make the treaty unenforceable. Following the international law (i.e., lex celebrationis), this is a good reason & ground to invalidate the carbon emission reduction in the making of the treaty.

    It’s the same thing.

    Never look at one solution or you will miss all the others. Combos are the best.

    A better way would be not to wreak stuff in the first place.

    Bangladesh Climate Change research paper, any ideas on how to lengthen the first part of my paper?

    Posted by admin on November 13th, 2009 and filed under economic livelihood | 3 Comments »

    The instructions for the first 1/3 of the paper is this: "A. You will go to standard online references such as the United Nations Economic and Social
    Development site (http://www.un.org/esa/) and the Central Intelligence Agency’s World
    Factbook (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/) to gather background
    information on the economy and social structure of this country. (approx. 1/3 of the paper) "

    My research paper is titled "Climate Change’s Impacts on the Bangladeshi People". The first part of my paper isn’t quite 1/3 of the paper, I’d be happy with just one page. I don’t know what else to add with the above requirememnts for this first part to make it longer. Here’s what I have so far:
    "Bangladesh is situated in Southern Asia between Burma and India. It is a relatively young country who gained independence from West Pakistan in 1971 and its people are still struggling to build the country. It borders the Bay of Bengal and is on deltas of many large rivers. It is tropical with a normal 30-70% of the country flooded each year during the monsoon season. The population is greatly at risk from natural disasters as the country is densely populated with a estimated 156 million people in 144,000 sq km. Comparatively, the country is a little smaller than Iowa. This high population density increases the people’s vulnerability to climate change because the opportunity for migration within Bangladesh is limited. Since much of the population lives in poverty, the average life expectancy is 60 years. They face droughts, cyclones, waterborne diseases, deforestation, coastal erosion, back water effect, malaria, rabies and avian influenza. Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to the affects of global climate change because it is mostly flat and low-lying and has low economic development. Its economy depends on agriculture and natural resources that are greatly put at risk by natural disasters. 45% of the population is estimated to be below the poverty line and that percentage will only increase as flooding and severe weather continue to threaten the country’s major industries. The farming community produces tea, sugar, rice, potatoes, tobacco, spices and fruit. Many farming family’s livelihoods are at risk and many are all ready suffering."

    Right now I’m just worried about content, not grammar or citations yet. I’d appreciate it if someone could give me a few ideas on how to lengthen this first part. Thanks in advance!

    Hi I’m from Bangladesh. I wish I could have contributed in your research paper on "Climate Change’s Impacts on the Bangladeshi People".

    All I can recall is that there were clearly ‘felt’ seasons in the past, like Winter (Dec-Feb), Summer (Mar-May), Monsoon (June-Sep) and Autumn (Oct-Nov). In these days of post-climate times the seasons seem to have overlapped a bit. We can see raining during winter times and also floods occurring at ‘odd-times’ or at regular basis, instead of some decade long spacings (frequency) of the past.

    Edit:
    In recent times climate change is resulting in gradual sea level rise, repetitive disasters such as cyclone, flood, land slide, river erosion are also increasing. Now Bangladesh has floods two times a year. A data shows that- ‘over the next 40 years, 17 percent of the land will be lost to the sea resulting 20 million climate refugees because of climate change’. With a very high density of river systems, large parts of Bangladesh remain submerged during five months of monsoon so that millions of people living in river basins lack basic facilities since development have been concentrated around paved roads. Issues like this need local solution by the local people. So inspired by the lifestyle of the Bede community we realized that the rivers do not have to be barriers to development rather they can be communication channels where services will be taken to the people by boats. So an attempt was made to transform the waterways into path ways for education, information and technology and in the process adopt and mitigate climate changes. We believe that it is possible to deal with this climate change, and at the same time, to lift people out of poverty. Thus in the macro level we hope to initiate sustainable water way development which will be adaptive to the present climate crisis.

    —-

    Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha realized that the rivers do not have to be barriers to information, they can be communication channels. Shidhulai is working to improve quality of life in flood prone areas by taking services to the people by boats.

    Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha, a non-profit organization, is working to improve quality of life in northern Bangladesh watersheds by taking services to the people by boats. These services include children’s education, libraries, training on sustainable agriculture, healthcare, adaptation strategies for climate change, waste management, computer education and Internet access.

    Through the work of Shidhulai 88,000 families of hundreds of riverside villages are benefiting from improved education, sustainable agricultural practices, increased income, clean solar-powered lighting and communication with the outside world.

    How true is it? The natural learners of weather are the farmers & the fishermen…their livelihood, correct?

    Posted by admin on November 13th, 2009 and filed under livelihood | 1 Comment »

    Can you give the reasons for being so.

    I sail, in fact I live aboard a sailing yacht. The weather is vitally important to me (and fishermen and farmers) so I (we) pay a great deal of attention to it. When you watch anything for long enough you begin to see patterns and connections that you otherwise wouldn’t notice. For example, most people when they look at clouds see only two types: fluffy white ones (that usually mean fine weather) or big black ones (that usually mean rain). In fact there are dozens of cloud types and after a while you get to see how the changing clouds foretell weather that’s headed your way. Sometimes even the shape of the clouds is important because it tells you about the high-altitude winds and that can also foretell approaching bad weather.

    Like anything, it’s just practise. The first thing I do every single morning is look at the sky. Of course I use conventional weather forecasts, but you can learn to "read the sky" and those of us for whom weather is critical eventually learn to do just that.

    What is each zodiac signs livelihood (by literal definition)?

    Posted by admin on November 10th, 2009 and filed under livelihood | 3 Comments »

    Aries is innovation i think…
    if it’s opposite is libra what would be the opposite of innovation, convention?

    "Aries= entrepreneurs/police officers
    Taurus= arts/ stable job
    Gemini= teachers/writers/engineers/ intellectual jobs
    Cancer= nurse/ anything with children
    Leos= performers/ interior decorators
    Virgos= service oriented jobs/ researchers/ teachers/ critics/ medical profession
    Libras= artists/dancers/judges/lawyers/ ambassadors
    Scorpios- detectives/scientists/ surgeons/psychiatrists
    Sagittarius= athletes/ trainers/ professors
    Capricorn= managers/ bankers/ administrative positions
    Aquarius= humanitarian jobs/ writers/ musicians
    Pisces= veterinarians/ musicians/ photographers"

    copied from here:

    http://horoscopes.aol.com/astrology/career-tips-aries-taurus-gemini-leo

    by the way "innovation" is not a profession, maybe you meant inventor….which is not a typical Aries job(but really those are just generalizations anyway)

    need help writing APA reference these sources?

    Posted by admin on November 8th, 2009 and filed under rural livelihood | 1 Comment »

    Journal article

    Author: Faith, Rebecca
    Article Title: Poverty, A History Of
    Journal Title: Journal of Rural Studies
    Year: 1996
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 2
    Pgs: 212-214
    ISSN: 0743-0167

    Book

    Authors: Brian Friedmann, Rebecca Coy, and Lilian Wilson (editors)
    Title: Emergences: Gender struggles for livelihood in Latin America
    Year: 1977
    Publisher: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, University of California
    Publisher location: Los Angeles
    Pgs: 207

    Book chapter

    Authors: Warner, Jens; Harris, Randal
    Title: Narrative: Problems with Poverty in Third World Countries (pp. 39-58)
    Book Title: Poverty and identity: Studies in self and culture…
    Publisher location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Publisher: Daryl Benjamins Publishing Company.
    Pgs: 307

    http://citationmachine.net/

    and click on APA!!!!

    That should give you the citation. :)

    Do "Lunchpail" Democrats and "Joe Six-pack" Republicans deserve to lose their homes and livelihoods?

    Posted by admin on November 5th, 2009 and filed under economic livelihood | 9 Comments »

    The voted for Dubya twice and they are likely not going to vote for Obama. However, irresponsible Republican economic practices are the reason these people’s homes are being repossesed and is the reason that their jobs are being outsourced.

    So, if they vote for a continuation of these practices and they deepen their own sufferring, aren’t they just getting what’s coming to them? Or, are they somehow victims?
    Republican economic policies that contributed to the mortgage crisis and the phenomena of outsourcing:

    1) Destroying labor unions: if the US was 100% union, and working people had a real place at the bargaining table with the masters of corporate industry, do you think these people would vote to downsize themselves? No, they would more likely try to find a compromise to allow the company to stay competitive without annihilating the economies of local communities.

    2) Unnecesary war, for adventure and (for a choice few) profit: borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars from China and the EU and Saudi arabia in order to finance this war has succeeded in driving down the value of the dollar making most commodities more expensive (including gasoline and housing). I don’t think anyone was ready for the massive devaluation of the dollar and that’s why I think our economy is gasping right now.

    No, they do not deserve to lose their homes and livelihoods.
    But the economic policies of the Republicans is not at fault. People are losing their homes because they got into mortgages (from two French words meaning death pledge) that they could not afford.
    As far as jobs being outsourced, that has been happening for years. It is part of the global economy, something that Obama is very much in favor. Voting for him will probably ship more jobs oversees, not fewer. The Democrats may try and force companies to keep jobs here, but that is counter-productive. The American economy is service and information based, and people need to change with the economy. It may not be "fair" and "easy", but it is part of real life.

    Opinion on the following Issue?

    Posted by admin on November 3rd, 2009 and filed under rural livelihood | 1 Comment »

    I just wanted to get your opinion on the following issue (and what you think about what they are planning on doing). I’ll post a link to the article so you can see the issue more in depth (what the article says is basically U.S.-based processors refuse to buy Canadian swine and cattle, so it will ultimately kill the producer’s in Canada, and it will threaten the livelihood of Canada’s rural economy). I just wanted to get your opinion on this issue if you were answering from a Canadians point of view:

    Article: http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=1479423

    -thanks

    Meat consumption is down worldwide, so I doubt that this law has been the only reason for the decline.

    The point of the law is to give consumers a choice in their foodstuffs.. as some countries have far less stringent health & feeding requirements for their livestock than do the US or Canada.

    It’s unfortunate that it causes this much red tape for our favorite neighbor, but with technology, I’m sure there are ways to streamline it.

    I’m against rampant & forced globalization & very much like truth in labeling laws, especially concerning imports. I’d like the packaging to state which US state things were produced in, personally.