Touring Schedule
We added two dates in New Zealand, in Auckland and Wellington.
Tonight I am doing phone interviews with newsmedia in Australia for 3 1/2 hours. How would you describe your music? How do you feel about the tag “New Age”? What are your influences?
Aqua Technology
Besides the fact that reverse osmosis gives you drinking water which in most cases is far from pure and not what the State of California normally calls ‘purified water’, is one of the most incredible water wasters ever invented by man.
I have blogged this before, but it is an important topic and here it is again.
It’s all about me: Why e-mails are so easily misunderstood | csmonitor.com
Though e-mail is a powerful and convenient medium, researchers have identified three major problems. First and foremost, e-mail lacks cues like facial expression and tone of voice. That makes it difficult for recipients to decode meaning well. Second, the prospect of instantaneous communication creates an urgency that pressures e-mailers to think and write quickly, which can lead to carelessness. Finally, the inability to develop personal rapport over e-mail makes relationships fragile in the face of conflict.
Nothing new there. Just confirmation of what we have probably all experienced.
WHO | Avian influenza (” bird flu”) – Fact sheet
Avian influenza (‘ bird flu’) – Fact sheet.
CBC News Indepth: Avian Flu
In March 2006, seven people in Azerbaijan were diagnosed with H5N1. Five of those seven people died, raising the number of humans killed by avian flu to 103 worldwide. Six of the Azerbaijan cases were from the southeastern part of the country. According to WHO, one possible source of the infection was the carcasses of dead swans found in the region. Residents used the dead birds as a source of feathers.
cnn.com: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld sees growth in Gilead stake – Oct. 31, 2005
NEW YORK (Fortune) – The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it’s proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that’s now the most-sought after drug in the world.
Tamiflu was developed for prophylaxis & treatment of seasonal flu. It reduces the severity of symptoms, but does not “cure” the flu. Avian flu is much more severe & viral replication is more prolonged. In other words the very profitable sale of Tamiflu seems a little bit like selling snakeoil to me. Mostly a way to make a quick buck.
CBC News Indepth: Avian Flu
If you are traveling to a country infected with bird flu, avoid unneccesary contact with domestic poultry and wild birds. Evidence suggests that the risk of infection is greatest in persons having direct contact with live and/or dead poultry including surfaces contaminated with their feces or secretions.
This should promote vegan and vegetarian restaurants which neither serve nor handle any kind of poultry.
Walking to the Kanzeon Zen Center I daily avoided water gushing from many sprinklers.
Salt Lake City has a disturbing amount of grass which seems to be irrigated constantly. Jack Kerouac called it the “City of Sprinklers”. One road had a little river of excess water run down it at all times.
