Ontogeny Recapitules Philogeny
April 18th, 2006
20 Nissan 5766
Pesach 6
Chol Hamoed 4
Tomorrow is a Yom Tov.
Candelighting this evening 7:32. Good . I get to do candles again. I love to do candles. Light and all that. After you do the prayer with your eyes closed and then you look at the flame, you are supposed to observe the blue flame at the center.
Omer 5.
During the days of the Omer, each day the energy is different. No stop for 50 days. Boom boom boom. From one to the next. Be observant. Be aware. Motion.
Just musing out loud here, because today the energy is very palpably different to me. And I want to record it here in blog dom. I love blogging.
The UK IS remembering Chernobyl. They should. They were close.
What is it about nuclear reaction? The most powerful energy force human's have discovered thus far. We, of course ,have used it as a tool for destruction. Remember J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Today's Daily Dose, and I haven't posted one in a long time, is about Emunah. Faith.
B"H
A World Becoming
The times our generation lives in are not ordinary times.
We dwell on the interface between two worlds -- a world as it was and a world as it is meant to be.
The story of the cosmos does not go on forever.
Just as your own life and the life of everyone you know has a beginning and a conclusion, so too does this entire cosmos.
And since its Creator is innately good, so too the conclusion of His creation is the ultimate of good.
We know a world in the process of becoming. Soon will be a world where each thing has arrived.
Arrived at the Essence of All Things.
That's Chabad.
.....
It moved me.
News Remembering Chernobyl.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4917526.stm
Greenpeace rejects Chernobyl toll
Health effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine 20 years ago have been grossly under-estimated, says an environmental charity.
Official UN figures predicted up to 9,000 Chernobyl-related cancer deaths.
But Greenpeace says in a report released on Tuesday that recent studies estimate that the actual number of such deaths will be 93,000.
Stressing that there is a problem with diagnosis, it adds that other illnesses could take the toll to 200,000.
"Our problem is that there is no accepted methodology to calculate the numbers of people who might have died from such diseases," Greenpeace campaigner Jan van de Putte told Reuters news agency.
READ THE REPORT
Greenpeace Chernobyl study [2.1 MB]
"The only methodology that is accepted is for calculating fatal cancers."
The explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in April 1986 was the world's worst nuclear accident.
It spread a cloud of radioactive particles across a huge swathe of Europe.
Several million people still live in contaminated areas.
Disputed figures
The UN figure - of between 4,000 and 9,000 extra cancer deaths - came from a report released last October by the UN-led Chernobyl Forum.
How the disaster unfolded
In the report, the World Health Organization dramatically lowered the estimated Chernobyl death toll, suggesting confusion had been caused over the accident's impact.
Many emergency and recovery workers, the report suggested, had died since 1986 from natural causes which could not be attributed to radiation exposure.
But in its report, Greenpeace suggests there will be 270,000 cases of cancer alone attributable to Chernobyl fallout, and that 93,000 of these will probably be fatal.
Blake Lee-Harwood, campaigns director at Greenpeace, told the BBC that cancer was likely to be the cause of less than half of the final fatalities.
"We're also looking at intestinal problems, heart and circulation problems, respiratory problems, endocrine problems, and particularly effects on the immune system," he told the BBC's World Today programme.
Child victims
Mr Lee-Harwood cited technical reasons for the discrepancy.
However, he also alleged that the nuclear industry had a "vested interest in playing down Chernobyl because it's an embarrassment to them".
Doctor Oxana Lozova, who works at a children's hospital in Rivne district, 300km (190 miles) west of Chernobyl, said many generations appeared to be affected.
"I think the fallout from Chernobyl has affected the immunity of those who were young children at the time of the disaster," she told the BBC's Moscow correspondent, Damian Grammaticas.
"We now have to deal with people who are a lot weaker than their fathers and grandfathers were.
"They're falling ill at an age when they really should still be quite fit."
'Apples and oranges'
The WHO said comparing the Chernobyl Forum and Greenpeace reports was like "comparing apples and oranges" when it spoke to the BBC News website.
A tendency to attribute all health problems to exposure to radiation have led local residents to assume that Chernobyl-related fatalities were much higher
Chernobyl Forum report, September 2005
"The Greenpeace report is looking at all of Europe, whereas our report looks at only the most affected areas of the three most affected countries," said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl.
"The WHO felt it had recourse to the best national and international scientific evidence and studies when it came up with its estimates of [up to] 9,000 excess deaths for the most affected areas. We feel they're very sound."
Mr Hartl rejected accusations of bias toward the nuclear industry in the report.
"We acting as [neither] an apologist or an attacker of the nuclear industry," he said.
The original report found more than 600,000 people received high levels of exposure, including reactor staff, emergency and recovery personnel and residents of the nearby areas.
.....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4918742.stm
The Chernobyl nightmare revisited
By Stephen Mulvey BBC News website
The world's worst nuclear accident, at Chernobyl in April 1986, was all the more alarming for taking place under a veil of secrecy, behind the Iron Curtain.
One of four reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, 70 miles (110km) north of Kiev, exploded at 0123 local time on Saturday 26 April.
.....
We certainly do have a lot of effect here.
Causality? Energy? effect cause effect cause effect cause effect cause effect. the ripple effect, which is what nuclear fission is anyway.
if the cause is the effect and the effect is the cause, then where do we go? It has already been done you see. And from the midpoint, in this case cause, the effects reverberate above.
We're consistantly reminded. We consistantly forget. Change is constant.
hmmm
Coincidence that Iran's uranium fission is in the news NOW, when the accident at Chernobyl happened.
It is the energy available now that is the first cause.
It is also the 100th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, the Big One, but not the last. Lots of disaster films on the tellie now. And lost of talk about the Next One. Earthquake. The Earth fissioning.
hmmm
Make Love Not War
No Nukes
Blue Peace
20 Nissan 5766
Pesach 6
Chol Hamoed 4
Tomorrow is a Yom Tov.
Candelighting this evening 7:32. Good . I get to do candles again. I love to do candles. Light and all that. After you do the prayer with your eyes closed and then you look at the flame, you are supposed to observe the blue flame at the center.
Omer 5.
During the days of the Omer, each day the energy is different. No stop for 50 days. Boom boom boom. From one to the next. Be observant. Be aware. Motion.
Just musing out loud here, because today the energy is very palpably different to me. And I want to record it here in blog dom. I love blogging.
The UK IS remembering Chernobyl. They should. They were close.
What is it about nuclear reaction? The most powerful energy force human's have discovered thus far. We, of course ,have used it as a tool for destruction. Remember J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Today's Daily Dose, and I haven't posted one in a long time, is about Emunah. Faith.
B"H
A World Becoming
The times our generation lives in are not ordinary times.
We dwell on the interface between two worlds -- a world as it was and a world as it is meant to be.
The story of the cosmos does not go on forever.
Just as your own life and the life of everyone you know has a beginning and a conclusion, so too does this entire cosmos.
And since its Creator is innately good, so too the conclusion of His creation is the ultimate of good.
We know a world in the process of becoming. Soon will be a world where each thing has arrived.
Arrived at the Essence of All Things.
That's Chabad.
.....
It moved me.
News Remembering Chernobyl.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4917526.stm
Greenpeace rejects Chernobyl toll
Health effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine 20 years ago have been grossly under-estimated, says an environmental charity.
Official UN figures predicted up to 9,000 Chernobyl-related cancer deaths.
But Greenpeace says in a report released on Tuesday that recent studies estimate that the actual number of such deaths will be 93,000.
Stressing that there is a problem with diagnosis, it adds that other illnesses could take the toll to 200,000.
"Our problem is that there is no accepted methodology to calculate the numbers of people who might have died from such diseases," Greenpeace campaigner Jan van de Putte told Reuters news agency.
READ THE REPORT
Greenpeace Chernobyl study [2.1 MB]
"The only methodology that is accepted is for calculating fatal cancers."
The explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in April 1986 was the world's worst nuclear accident.
It spread a cloud of radioactive particles across a huge swathe of Europe.
Several million people still live in contaminated areas.
Disputed figures
The UN figure - of between 4,000 and 9,000 extra cancer deaths - came from a report released last October by the UN-led Chernobyl Forum.
How the disaster unfolded
In the report, the World Health Organization dramatically lowered the estimated Chernobyl death toll, suggesting confusion had been caused over the accident's impact.
Many emergency and recovery workers, the report suggested, had died since 1986 from natural causes which could not be attributed to radiation exposure.
But in its report, Greenpeace suggests there will be 270,000 cases of cancer alone attributable to Chernobyl fallout, and that 93,000 of these will probably be fatal.
Blake Lee-Harwood, campaigns director at Greenpeace, told the BBC that cancer was likely to be the cause of less than half of the final fatalities.
"We're also looking at intestinal problems, heart and circulation problems, respiratory problems, endocrine problems, and particularly effects on the immune system," he told the BBC's World Today programme.
Child victims
Mr Lee-Harwood cited technical reasons for the discrepancy.
However, he also alleged that the nuclear industry had a "vested interest in playing down Chernobyl because it's an embarrassment to them".
Doctor Oxana Lozova, who works at a children's hospital in Rivne district, 300km (190 miles) west of Chernobyl, said many generations appeared to be affected.
"I think the fallout from Chernobyl has affected the immunity of those who were young children at the time of the disaster," she told the BBC's Moscow correspondent, Damian Grammaticas.
"We now have to deal with people who are a lot weaker than their fathers and grandfathers were.
"They're falling ill at an age when they really should still be quite fit."
'Apples and oranges'
The WHO said comparing the Chernobyl Forum and Greenpeace reports was like "comparing apples and oranges" when it spoke to the BBC News website.
A tendency to attribute all health problems to exposure to radiation have led local residents to assume that Chernobyl-related fatalities were much higher
Chernobyl Forum report, September 2005
"The Greenpeace report is looking at all of Europe, whereas our report looks at only the most affected areas of the three most affected countries," said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl.
"The WHO felt it had recourse to the best national and international scientific evidence and studies when it came up with its estimates of [up to] 9,000 excess deaths for the most affected areas. We feel they're very sound."
Mr Hartl rejected accusations of bias toward the nuclear industry in the report.
"We acting as [neither] an apologist or an attacker of the nuclear industry," he said.
The original report found more than 600,000 people received high levels of exposure, including reactor staff, emergency and recovery personnel and residents of the nearby areas.
.....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4918742.stm
The Chernobyl nightmare revisited
By Stephen Mulvey BBC News website
The world's worst nuclear accident, at Chernobyl in April 1986, was all the more alarming for taking place under a veil of secrecy, behind the Iron Curtain.
One of four reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, 70 miles (110km) north of Kiev, exploded at 0123 local time on Saturday 26 April.
.....
We certainly do have a lot of effect here.
Causality? Energy? effect cause effect cause effect cause effect cause effect. the ripple effect, which is what nuclear fission is anyway.
if the cause is the effect and the effect is the cause, then where do we go? It has already been done you see. And from the midpoint, in this case cause, the effects reverberate above.
We're consistantly reminded. We consistantly forget. Change is constant.
hmmm
Coincidence that Iran's uranium fission is in the news NOW, when the accident at Chernobyl happened.
It is the energy available now that is the first cause.
It is also the 100th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, the Big One, but not the last. Lots of disaster films on the tellie now. And lost of talk about the Next One. Earthquake. The Earth fissioning.
hmmm
Make Love Not War
No Nukes
Blue Peace
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