De bumbity bumb of the energy :D :P

I forgot to remember.
Yes I did. I forgot to remember Israel Memorial Day - Yom Hazikaron, and Israeli Independence Day- Yom Ha'atzmaut.
Can you imagine that.'
I was up in New Jersey, Ocean County, Atlantic City, looking at the houses , staying at Bally's on the Boardwalk and being on home turf. And I forgot. There is no excuse for the forgetting.
However,
constantly
we forget
to remember.
Especially during Iyar because the level of comfort during this month is high.
The Omer was not forgotten.
This phenomonon interests me very much. Humans seek companionship among their own kind. Yet each individual mind is an isolated universe.
I keep on repeating to myself, Vav. Pei. Pei Vav.
That's the energy flow. And I love the ritual of the Omer. Yuppers. I was told that you aren't supposed to love it, that it is supposed to be horrible. I disagree. It is a wonderful opportunity for understanding. And we need understanding. Binah now.

In Torah reading we are in Leviticus, or Vayikra, the third of the five Books of Moses, connected to the Sephira Binah. Binah is Understanding. Chochmah Wisdom, Binah Understanding.
This is the book that has all the strict laws. I really don't understand the metaphor in play. I need to constantly remember Vayikra = Calling, and it shoul be called the Book of Calling.
The Understanding part, the connection to Binah is in the Calling of the Letters.
And the laws are really strange, and the portions are about oozing discharges and gunky stuff. I don't understand :(. But, then again, you aren't supposed to understand Binah, you are supposed to connect to Binah to access understanding.
Oy. I love a good paradox.
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News about re-creation.
It seems that as species are disappearing, new ones are replacing them.
The Eternal Cycle in play. It really is an honour to be here, in the now, experiencing it all.
Everything is being revealed. And, this is only the Beginning. Just Wait.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4973240.stm

Deep ocean trawl nets new 'bugs'
By Richard Black Environment Correspondent, BBC News website


Catches from the deep include a possible new species of dragonfish
In pictures

A three-week voyage of discovery in the Atlantic has returned with tiny animals which appear new to science.

They include waif-like plankton with delicate translucent bodies related to jellyfish, hundreds of microscopic shrimps, and several kinds of fish.

The voyage is part of the ongoing Census of Marine Life (CoML) which aims to map ocean life throughout the world.

Plankton form the base of many marine food chains, and some populations are being disrupted by climatic change.

Zooplankton are tiny marine animals. Many live on floating plants (phytoplankton), and many are in turn eaten by fish, mammals and crustaceans.

If you say 'how do you sample the oceans and see what global climate change is doing?', you've got to have the background data .

One of the aims of the Census of Marine Zooplankton (CoMZ), part of CoML, is to provide a global inventory of these tiny organisms which will help scientists look for changes induced by climate variations or other factors.

"The deep ocean below 1,000m (3,300ft) is rarely sampled," observed Peter Wiebe, from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US, lead scientist on the recent voyage.

"It's very difficult; you need many thousands of metres of cable," he told the BBC News website. "We were able to sample at 1,000m intervals down to 5,000m (16,500 ft)."

Gooey creatures

Thousands of specimens were captured during the cruise, of which 500 have been catalogued.

They include shrimp-like copepods and ostracods, swimming worms, and tiny jellyfish - some of the gooiest and most fragile animals in the sea.

Most are adjusted to living in the cool deep, where temperatures hover around one or two Celsius.

Samples were caught in nets which could descend several kilometres.

Bringing them to the surface meant transporting them through a layer of much warmer water, around 27C.

As soon as they came on board ship, they were plunged into ice-cooled buckets to restore a semblance of their usual habitat; even so, many perished before they could be studied.

This was one of the first projects to sequence DNA at sea, a process which Dr Wiebe believes will become much more common as scientists seek quick and easy ways to identify species.

"Many of these creatures occur in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and you can't tell them apart visually, but maybe we'll discover that genetically they are different," he said.

"If you say 'how do you sample the oceans and see what global climate change is doing?', you've got to have the background data."

Several more voyages are planned in the next two years specifically to examine zooplankton, and scientists involved in CoMZ are also finding places on other cruises in relevant areas.

By the time CoML ends in 2010, it hopes to have found and studied every zooplankton species in the ocean.

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News release close enough to the Parting of the Sea to be synchronistic to me.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4963526.stm

More species slide to extinction
By Richard Black Environment Correspondent, BBC News website

A decline in hippo numbers has led to Red List classification

The polar bear and hippopotamus are for the first time listed as species threatened with extinction by the world's biodiversity agency.

They are included in the Red List of Threatened Species published by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) which names more than 16,000 at-risk species.

Many sharks, and freshwater fish in Europe and Africa, are newly included.

The IUCN says loss of biodiversity is increasing despite a global convention committing governments to stem it.

"The 2006 Red List shows a clear trend; biodiversity loss is increasing, not slowing down," said IUCN director-general Achim Steiner.

"The implications of this trend for the productivity and resilience of ecosystems and the lives and livelihoods of billions of people who depend on them are far-reaching."

WHAT ARE THE THREATS?
Human activities threaten 99% of Red List species
Habitat loss and degradation are the main threats, affecting more than 80% of listed birds, mammals and amphibians
Climate change is increasingly recognised as a serious threat

Other issues relating to human activity include introduction of alien species, over-exploitation and pollutionOverall, 16,119 species are included in this year's Red List, the most detailed and authoritative regular survey of the health of the plant, fungi and animal kingdoms.

This represents more than a third of the total number of species surveyed; the list includes one in three amphibians, a quarter of coniferous trees, and one in four mammals.

"The more species we assess, the more threatened species we find," commented Jean-Christophe Vie, deputy co-ordinator of IUCN's species programme.

"And because it is such a massive effort to assess a species, to gather all the data, get it all peer-reviewed and so on, 16,000 is a massive underestimate of the true problem," he told the BBC News website.

Climate and hunting

Polar bears are particularly affected by loss of Arctic ice, which the IUCN attributes to climatic change.

{I love Polar bears. When you see them in the San Diego Zoo, they're green because algae grows on their fur. :( Polar bears are White on White. I love Polar Bears. }

They need ice floes in order to hunt seals and other prey; without it, their food supply will decline. There is also evidence that the snow caves where they raise their young are melting earlier in the year.

See species on the brink
In pictures

Polar bears are listed as Vulnerable to Extinction based on forecasts that their population will decline by 50% to 100% over the next 50 to 100 years.

In the tropics, the common hippopotamus has entered the Red List for the first time because the population in the Democratic Republic of Congo has declined spectacularly - by about 95% in a decade.

The country's turbulent political situation has allowed unregulated hunting for meat and for the ivory in their teeth.

"Regional conflicts and political instability in some African countries have created hardship for many of the region's inhabitants, and the impact on wildlife has been equally devastating," said IUCN chief scientist Jeffrey McNeely.

The common hippo's decline in DRC has led to a Vulnerable listing even though other African populations including the largest, in Zambia, have held up well.

The much less well known pygmy hippo has suffered from illegal logging and poor protection in several West African nations, leading to an upgrade in its status from Vulnerable to Endangered.
British threats

Included on the Red List for the first time is the black-tailed godwit, a bird familiar to British and European enthusiasts, which gains a Near Threatened classification.

RED LIST DEFINITIONS
Extinct - Surveys suggest last known individual has died
Critically Endangered - Extreme high risk of extinction
Endangered - Species at very high risk of extinction
Vulnerable - Species at high risk of extinction
Near Threatened - May soon move into above categories
Least Concern - Species is widespread and abundant

Click the link above for more story.
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This is something that Sci Fi has been aware of for a long time now. Nano creations. They take on consciousness you see.
Check it out.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4968346.stm

Toxic warnings for nano industry
By Jonathan Fildes BBC News science and technology reporter

Carbon nanotubes are a basic building block of nanotechnology

{Human binks are Carbon Based life forms you see, as opposed to silicon based, which would be the Positronic Brain of Isamov and Clarke, the science fiction writers. But the visual current science fiction has been doing nano warnings for a number of years now. uh huh. And being a science fiction person, I knows it blah. }

Industry should disclose how it tests products containing nanoparticles, the Royal Society of the UK has said.

Public information was needed because of uncertainties over the safety of some products that contained particles engineered at small scales, it added.

A new inventory of consumer goods lists over 200 items that are already available and contain nanotechnology.

Enta (European Nanotechnology Trade Alliance) responded by saying that safety was its top priority.

"There are strict regulations to check that products are safe and suitable for the public to use and our members follow these," Del Stark, the chief executive of Enta told the BBC News website.

"The members of Enta are committed to developing new nanotechnologies in a safe and responsible manner and are working closely with the government to ensure this."

Unanswered questions
I
n 2004, the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering published a report that urged tighter controls in Europe and the UK on some aspects of the industry.

In particular it highlighted the potential risk of "free" nanoparticles that might escape to the atmosphere and have an effect on health.

{Uh huh. }

Particles on this scale already exist in the air - produced by the burning of fossil fuels and by volcanic eruptions, for example; but scientists are now able to engineer materials at these tiny sizes to give them specific, useful properties.

Some studies show carbon nanotubes have a toxic effectFor example, "free" nanoparticles are used in cosmetics and in some food supplements.

"This is one particular area where there is some uncertainty about safety," said Professor Ann Dowling, chair of the report.

The Royal Society statement was made in the same week that a leading UK researcher also said there had been a failure to act on the recommendations of the royal societies' report.

Professor Anthony Seaton of the University of Aberdeen told a conference that specific questions raised in the report about nanoparticle toxicity and how to measure it in the workplace had still not been adequately answered.

{Sheesh}

"There is very little evidence that anyone has put any thought or money into answering these questions," he told the conference.

Carbon tubes

But Enta believes that the perception that industry is dragging its feet is wrong.
"I don't think that it is anything to do with industry not being interested or government not being interested," said Mr Stark.
Instead, Mr Stark believes that both are waiting for a new European law known as Reach (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) to be passed.
Any single incident could jeopardise the whole future of the industry

The law has been described as the most important EU legislation for 20 years and puts the onus on businesses to show that the chemicals they use are safe.

It will also start to address the lack of standardised tests for assessing the toxicity of nanomaterials in some industries.

Currently standards vary depending on which industry regulations a product falls under or how the tests are done.

A recent paper in the journal Nano Letters reported that experiments done to assess the risk of inhaling carbon nantotubes, a common manufactured nanoparticle, sometimes showed strong toxic effects and sometimes did not, depending on which methods were used.

"Once [Reach] has been agreed, we will move forward," Mr Stark said.
Tighter controls
Professor Seaton made his remarks during the Nanoparticles for European Industry conference in London.
The event allows nanotechnology companies to showcase new ways of fabricating the tiny particles and to discuss how laboratory processes can be scaled up for manufacturing consumer products.
During his address he also warned that "very little" was still known about the health impacts of nanoparticles engineered at small scales and that industry should take his comments as a "warning shot". He said his concern covered lab workers as well as consumers.

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And I get pulled out at Orlando International Ariport and have to submit to a dispicable body search.

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Another double Torah Portion, Achrei Mot-Kedoshim.

Candelighting 7:45, + 4.

Shabbat Shalom.

Think Peace, Be Peace.