Robber fly - Nature photographer Thomas Shahan specializes in amazing portraits of tiny insects. It isn't easy. Shahan says that this Robber Fly (Holcocephala fusca), for instance, is "skittish" and doesn't like its picture taken.

Nature by Numbers (Video)

"The Greater Akashic System" – July 15, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Caroll) (Subjects: Lightworkers, Intent, To meet God, Past lives, Universe/Galaxy, Earth, Pleiadians, Souls Reincarnate, Invention: Measure Quantum state in 3D, Recalibrates, Multi-Dimensional/Divine, Akashic System to change to new system, Before religion changed the system, DNA, Old system react to Karma, New system react to intent now for next life, Animals (around humans) reincarnate again, This Animal want to come back to the same human, Akashic Inheritance, Reincarnate as Family, Other Planets, Global Unity … etc.)

Question: Dear Kryon: I live in Spain. I am sorry if I will ask you a question you might have already answered, but the translations of your books are very slow and I might not have gathered all information you have already given. I am quite concerned about abandoned animals. It seems that many people buy animals for their children and as soon as they grow, they set them out somewhere. Recently I had the occasion to see a small kitten in the middle of the street. I did not immediately react, since I could have stopped and taken it, without getting out of the car. So, I went on and at the first occasion I could turn, I went back to see if I could take the kitten, but it was to late, somebody had already killed it. This happened some month ago, but I still feel very sorry for that kitten. I just would like to know, what kind of entity are these animals and how does this fit in our world. Are these entities which choose this kind of life, like we do choose our kind of Human life? I see so many abandoned animals and every time I see one, my heart aches... I would like to know more about them.

Answer: Dear one, indeed the answer has been given, but let us give it again so you all understand. Animals are here on earth for three (3) reasons.

(1) The balance of biological life. . . the circle of energy that is needed for you to exist in what you call "nature."

(2) To be harvested. Yes, it's true. Many exist for your sustenance, and this is appropriate. It is a harmony between Human and animal, and always has. Remember the buffalo that willingly came into the indigenous tribes to be sacrificed when called? These are stories that you should examine again. The inappropriateness of today's culture is how these precious creatures are treated. Did you know that if there was an honoring ceremony at their death, they would nourish you better? Did you know that there is ceremony that could benefit all of humanity in this way. Perhaps it's time you saw it.

(3) To be loved and to love. For many cultures, animals serve as surrogate children, loved and taken care of. It gives Humans a chance to show compassion when they need it, and to have unconditional love when they need it. This is extremely important to many, and provides balance and centering for many.

Do animals know all this? At a basic level, they do. Not in the way you "know," but in a cellular awareness they understand that they are here in service to planet earth. If you honor them in all three instances, then balance will be the result. Your feelings about their treatment is important. Temper your reactions with the spiritual logic of their appropriateness and their service to humanity. Honor them in all three cases.

Dian Fossey's birthday celebrated with a Google doodle

Dian Fossey's birthday celebrated with a Google doodle
American zoologist played by Sigourney Weaver in the film Gorillas in the Mist would have been 82 on Thursday (16 January 2014)

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Mudflow ball plan 'rather funny'

Alvin Darlanika Soedarjo, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

A plan to plug the Lapindo exploratory gas well at the heart of the East Java mudflow might be ineffective and dangerous, an expert said Tuesday.

The national mudflow response team plans to drop high-density chained balls into the well in an attempt to curb the pressure from below, a move that is also hoped to reduce the volume of the mud coming out of the well by 70 percent.

"Plugging the well with chained balls made of sand and iron pellets might have repercussions from below and create a strong burst of balls (from the well) afterwards," said Dodd Nawangsidi, an engineer from the Bandung Institute of Technology, at a seminar on the mudflow.

Doddy, speaking at the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BBPT)'s two-day International Geological Workshop on the Sidoarjo Mud Volcano, said the plan would not last long as a strong burst was likely to occur within a few months.

"The plan actually sounds rather funny as it's generally unfeasible," he said of the project, which could cost up to Rp 4 billion (US$442,000).

Soffian Hadi, a geologist from the national team, said that the project would be completed in several careful stages should it go ahead, with 25 to 100 balls being placed in the well each day.

"However, this resolution still needs to be studied further so as to check its feasibility," he told reporters.

He said the balls, measuring 20 and 40 centimeters in diameter and weighing up to 350 kilograms each would be attached four at a time to chains.

"A solid crane will lower the balls down the well from between two towers," he added.

The team has been dealing with the mud by channeling it to the Porong River, which then carries it out to sea.

Relief walls have also been used to stem the flow, although critics have said that they are not enough.

BBPT said the efforts to try to stop the mud from below ground were unprecedented and that no one had tried to block up a mud volcano before.

"Indonesia is unique because in other countries, what we call a mud volcano occurs far away from the people's residences or infrastructure," said Yusuf Surachman, a BPPT researcher.

Yusuf said people should continue to be concerned about the issue.

"Just because time passes does not mean that we should be aloof to the problem," Yusuf said.

A professor from Kyoto University in Japan, James Mori, who oversees the university's disaster prevention research institute, said that there was no technology available to properly curb a mudflow.

"There's no way to stop it now. However, many people have tried to stop it. If anyone has a new idea then they should go ahead and try it," he said.

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