Limestone Fabrication

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"WHERE'S MY CIGARETTE??" The Wolf's main source of communication comes from the facial expressions.  

This wolf is showing aggression by curling it's lips back,  exposing the fangs and holding the ears erect.   MIRROR MIRROR in the water.....

Wolves don't avoid water (unless it is too turbulent). In fact some wolves have been seen  swimming for no particular reason but perhaps just to have fun.   Look! I signed up for the Angel Patrol Staff Spirit Contest! *G* Please click the banner above and give my site a vote. *batting wolfie lashes*      Here is a great site to see if you have an interest in wolves!!! It has many wonderful pictures as well as some helpful tips for chatters.Check it out... Click on the picture button!    

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The new archaeological Park of Côa Valley has been officially opened on August, 10 (+351-79-764317) Two reception centers has been prepared at Vila Nova de Foz Côa and Castelo Melhor Tourist can visit most important sites by guided tours For the first time a Rock Art area encourages the institution of an economical development plan (called “Pro-Côa”), actually funded by Portuguese Government and European Union. The Palaeolithic style of many scratched figures has been confirmed by the first tracings of Vermelhosa site, with many animal and the great discovery of two noticeable female figures (Gravado no Tempo - Etched in Time  International project). A poster will be presented at UISSP meeting at Forli' (I) September 9-15 The entire question continues having many effects on Portuguese Archaeology. Recording methods (washing - cleaning - digging) at Canada do Inferno, Penascosa and Barca will be examined by an IFRAO commission

ONE EARTH ONE HUMAN FAMILY ONE PLANETARY HOME    On one side is the  desert.Dry and cold,with a wheezy thin atmosphere and a perpetual rain of dust,the desert once had water.With that water there may have been life. Now the water is gone. Now there are only red rocks,red dust, and the dry cold.    On the other side is hell.A runaway greenhouse effect sends temperatures high enough to melt lead.Clouds of corrosive sulfuric acid block the sun. The pressure is so high even the mountains are deformed.

There may have been life here once,but now there is only the heat and the suffocating blanket of an atmosphere out of balance.    In the middle is the garden.

Welcome to the site that addresses all environmental, ecological, endangered species, animal rights & earth related issues. It not only encourages, but allows you to become involved and do something about them. Information on how to contact your lawmakers, how to become involved & lists of other environmental organizations are within these pages.

We are not spokespersons for any environmental group (though we do support a lot of them!), so we haven't created this page for the purpose of personal gain. We, very simply, want to be able to say that we've made a difference, no matter how large or small. This site is constantly being updated, so come back often!!!

Well-being means to be fully born to become what one potentially is; it means to have the full capacity for joy and for sadness or, to put it still differently, to awake from the half- slumber the average man lives in, and to be fully awake." Erich Fromm Welcome! Ahlan Wa Sahlan! Namaste! Vitajte! Bienvenu! Wilkommen! Bem-vindo! Shalom! Yasos! Benvenuto! Salve! Boasvindas! Fáilte! Y'gas Dynergh! Bienvenedos! Välkommen! Jambo! Tervetuloa! Selamat Datang! Croeso!     Badge of Knight of the Grand Cross  "Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves." Italian Proverb Greetings!! You have stumbled upon the Homepage of The Priory of Arianrhod and The Green Man. The Priory is a local 'chapter' of The Noble Order of Tara (an order of chivalry based on Irish nobility), which is a sister society of The Fellowship of Isis . We are dedicated to local ecological activity towards the conservation / restoration of Nature and Our Mother Earth. We hope this site will be informative, educative and often entertaining to all. Come on in and see just what we're up to. After you've checked out my page, come back here and check some of these links to people and places I like.

Commercial painters with the experience and know how to properly handle the industrial and large scale painting projects lag behind the expertise of a painting company from Lawrenceville Ga called Layton Painting Co. Parinting water towers, petroleum tank farms, factory floors, office buildings and shopping centers are regular fare for this Painting Contractor serviing the Southeastern United States.

Layton Painting Company is also doing large houses in Lawrencceville and Suwanee, especially when both exterior and interior painting is involved. Commercial painters for a large victorian home, McMansion or antebellum Atlanta home are a good idea to assure the finest workmanship in restoration and to create a long lasting paint job. Layton Painting Company takes on these sort of jobs also in Dacula and Bufgord Georgia.

Also serving the industrial painting needs of Gainesville Georgia, Layton painting paints factory floors and entire shopping centers as well as shopping centers and office building remodeling projects. Property managers and building owners rely on us to handle all their commercial real estate refinishing and polishing needs. Commercial property managers use Atlanta Commercial Painters Layton Painting for all their commercial and industrial painting needs.

This is your true, unchanging, eternal identity.   67. On seeing inner nothingness You see it's great beyond compare Though many find it curious That you would even care I have three treasures that I keep The first is friendliness The second is to stay behind The third is wanting less For if you're friendly and you care You can dare to do what's needed And if you always stay behind The lead will surely be conceded And if you're satisfied with less You have everything to give Keep these treasures in your heart Then you will truly live  Here are Lao Tzu's famous Three Treasures. These treasures are values that arise naturally from abiding in your inner nothingness. They certainly aren't the values that most people cherish.  

The first treasure is love, compassion, or friendliness. Being nothing, you are open. You embrace all creation by your very nature.  The second treasure is humility, staying behind. Seeing that you are nothing, you allow all others to go ahead. You do not struggle for superiority.  The third treasure is frugality, wanting less, wanting only the void of awareness. Wanting nothing above all else, you can be generous and giving. You do not need to contend.  68. Violence is not the way The greatest warriors know That treachery and anger Will not defeat the foe You only win if you don't strive And gain if you do not oppose This is the certain victory Simplicity bestows  Lao Tzu is concerned with the values that arise naturally from abiding in inner nothingness. He is also concerned about the values that arise from ignoring this inner void. He warns us that we cannot push ourselves on the world. Victory does not mean opposing and overcoming others. True victory is receiving others into your own simplicity, into the clarity at the center of our being.  69. In conflict just be cautious And always on your guard Rather than advance an inch Instead retreat a yard In this way you go along And make your gain without advancing You deal with the rival As your position is enhancing Remember that it's possible Your rival just may yield So don't advance on such a foe Let differences be healed  Notice that, as Tao, you are the source and substance of the world out there. You are in no way separate from the myriad things and events of the world. You contain these things and events. They are really not out there at all. They occur within you. You can't ignore them. So you must deal with them. Lao Tzu tells us to go easy and gently. Be cautious. Don't push and force your way. Allow time for problems to resolve. Wholeness comes in its own time. And the more you see the wholeness of being, the more quickly it comes to all experience. Seeing wholeness is seeing the clarity that contains all existence. Look within for the Tao.   What is the Tao? Who am I? I am pure presence, and I am all that is present in that presence. I am pure awareness, and I am all that exists in that awareness.

I am nothing and everything. It's all me. Everything is me and exists in my light. Everyone is me. There are no others. I am the one alone. I am the Seer.  I am the Seer, and I am the Seen. And these are not two. I am the vacuity at center, and I am all that occupies this vacuity. And these are not two. Only This is. Only I am. Nothing exists apart from me, and I am not divided into parts. All exists in me and as me. And This is the Tao of the gone-head.   70. Embarrassingly obvious And always near at hand It is this nothingness you see But never understand Though truth within is ageless Very few will ever see My face is what I give to you The jewel within is me  Lao Tzu's teaching is based on the ageless Tao within each of us, the gone-head. Though this truth is glaringly obvious, few can see it. Few even bother to look, to attend to attention, to be aware of awareness. We imagine a head where there is only awareness. We imagine a face where there is only absence. We imagine a limited thing where there is only the jewel of absolute eternity.   Douglas Harding says that headlessness is embarrassingly obvious. I have freely used Douglas's expressions when they coincide with Lao Tzu's meanings. In this verse Lao Tzu is saying that his words are very easy to follow. His words are pointing to the Tao, the jewel, the absolutely obvious absence within.   71. You cannot understand the truth Claim to know and show you're ill Just see that you are missing That truth is bare and nil Unknowing is the final cure When knowledge takes its heavy toll Pure presence is totality And absence makes you whole  Tao is not a thing or an object to be known or understood. Tao is naked awareness. Let go of knowing. Unknowing is the cure of the disease of understanding. The Tao, the truth, is not to be understood but to be seen, and to be seen as an absence at that. It is our real identity.

The absence of a head is the presence of pure awareness. Within this awareness is all that occurs moment by moment. Nothing is missing!  72. When the sense of wonder goes Disaster is not far behind Don't intrude in people's lives And they won't think you are unkind The seer sees both this and that But doesn't ask for praise Finding this immensity With just a simple inward gaze  Here is Lao Tzu's principle of reversal one more time. Disaster follows when you interfere in the lives of others. People resent meddling. Your intentions may be unassailable, but your reward is rebellion. You cannot impose your will. It would be far better to adopt the seer's stance. See that your own inner immensity is room for the will of totality, for what is actually happening each moment.  73. The way is very easy Its purposes prevail When all is done in silence Intention cannot fail Its net is vast and over all With meshes large and wide Yet it loses nothing Holds everything inside  What is the intention of the way, of the whole? Just what is happening right now! You are made to contain everything, not to pick and choose. Nothing can be lost or rejected or abandoned. Resistance is futile. You are pure open awareness, made for acceptance. What a relief to realize this. All that happens is meant to happen by the Tao, by totality, by you in reality. All is as it should be.  74. You truly are what isn't born You need not be afraid to die Just live your life and know that you Will never lose the inner eye You can't control what is to be In using tools you don't command Unlike the master carpenter You're bound to cut your hand  You are the one who was never born. You are the witness of what is born and eventually perishes. Remain the witness. Let things take care of things. Everything happens on its own, spontaneously. Does this mean you are not free to choose and decide? No, it means that even your own decisions occur spontaneously. You can't interfere in the world of things, because that world occurs within your being.  75. The people starve when taxes take The bulk of what they earn When leaders interfere too much They get rebellion in return The people do not fear to die If leaders rob them of their lives But taking no more than you need You see that everybody thrives  Very little is needed for a happy and abundant life. No-thing is needed for bliss. Allow others to have what they need. You don't need to accumulate things. You are totality, nothing and everything, nothing containing everything. You are the absence that is pure presence.

More is not possible. More things and more control over others means more trouble! Let go of excess. Accept totality.  76. We're soft and supple when we're born Hard and rigid when we die Living plants are pliable Deadwood is brittle and dry This way life befriends the weak But death draws near the strong The hard and stiff are bound to break The supple bends and goes along  Lao Tzu contrasts the softness and receptivity of our true nature as awareness with the hardness and severity of our false identity as a name, a person in a world of persons. As a person, we are hard and impenetrable. As awareness, we are open and clear, receptive and flexible. We accept whatever comes to us. We don't resist. Those who resist are broken. Those who accept are whole.  77. Nature's way of doing Is like the bending of a bow For pulling on a bow you see The low go high and the high go low Nature takes from those who have And gives to those who lack When nature takes from human beings They fight to get it back But if you see you have it all You're not afraid to give away Expecting nothing in return It all comes back with no delay  Here's a revealing statistic for the year 2000. Earth's population is 6,000,000,000. The 200 richest people in the world have more wealth that the poorest 2,000,000,000 combined. Has anything changed since Lao Tzu's day?  Everyone is entitled to life's necessities. Where is your wealth? Do you see that you have all that you need and more? You have the Tao, total awareness. Allowing nature to have its way, you don't claim more than you can use. You claim your real riches instead. You see that you are totality, and Tao takes care of the rest. All are equal in this regard.   Have you noticed that all of the definitions of the Tao and the Seer are identical? The Seer is the Tao. The Tao is the Seer. The Tao is the presence of awareness that is seen as the absence of a head. The Seer is the same!  You, as the Seer, are in no way separate from the world. You are all that is. And what a joy it is to see how all is given - here and now and forever. See the Tao. See the Seer. See the Truth.   78. Water is so very soft It overcomes because it yields By wearing down the hardest rock It shows what power weakness wields The weak can overcome the strong The soft can overcome the hard Everybody knows it's true So hold the low in high regard The seer sees serenity Where others see affliction The seer sees the inner truth Where others only see a fiction  Water flows as life should flow. It goes around all obstacles, and, doing so, wears them down by its persistence. Water does not oppose. Water merely goes the way of its own nature. It remains calm and serene. Can you do the same? All power lies in such a course. Your victory lies in not distorting your true and original nature.  And what is this nature? What is your inner truth? It is the serene and open presence at the center of your being. Can you see this? Can you see the creative emptiness where others see your face?  79. There's little good in making peace If resentment lingers You'll never see an end to blame If everyone is pointing fingers It's better to be pointing At the peaceful and creative place Where you see naught but emptiness And others say they see your face  Let's point a finger one more time at the empty face, the gone-head. Point here rather than there. Notice the arrangement. See how existence is presented in non-existence, how everything appears in nothing. Existence emerges from this no-thing at your center. All peace is here at center. All opposition is out there in the world of heads and faces. Where do you prefer to live?  80. If a land is small and the people few And the rulers recognize what's needed The simple ways of courtesy Are happily and gladly heeded For people need so little To live their lives aright Are food and home and clothing Not enough for pure delight?

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What sustainability is, in my view.   Visualising a better Future     How we live at home,part of "Should one work hard?",

 We may retire to an autonomous house; I now have the PVelectrical system.    Discussing some details of my life.    our family travels in Malaysia and India;  ( what we learnt )            

I believe the human race passed a comfortably sustainable population in about 1950, at 2.5 billion, but now there's twice as many of us, and three times as many in twenty years, with a most influential minority using FAR too much. The middle-class and rich have the wrong goals (largely induced by Big Corporates' advertising), if the world is to remain as civilised as it was between '55 and '77 (not including Stalin and Amin).

      __ The more-than-1-billion car-using, meat-eating destructive people (CuMeDs) will need to drastically reduce both their consumption and what they do! Doing too much, while there are too many people, should be reduced since this is the origin of most of our excess consumption.  Job-and-income-sharing would be a major step in the right direction.

I have reduced my demands on the Earth to a bare minimum by spending US$950 p.a. TOTAL; including no more than US$450 a year, or $8.65 per week, on food (all of it bought at the supermarket).  I buy as close as I can to nothing from Big Corporates.   I pay for my share of the rates on our mortgage-free house, and I walk or (occasionally) take the bus, e.g. to buy the groceries. I walk barefoot year-round (at latitude 37, maritime climate), wearing thongs/jandals if the road is rough or my pack is heavy. I haven't thrown out clothes for a couple of decades, and I'm now gradually using up that capital investment.  __ I am now free, from the boss's pressure to produce more and from "keeping up with the Jones's"! It's not exactly a religious decision, but it's based on some of the same basic impulses.    

defining the Green vision: a decent standard of living  The rational process of figuring out how out to achieve a sustainable world must begin with a nonrational act of imagination. As Donella Meadows has pointed out, most discussions of sustainability focus on implementation and ignore the critical questions of what the world of our dreams would actually look, feel, and smell like. The trouble is, the  sustainable world generally offered by environmentalists is based on 'restriction, prohibition, regulation and sacrifice. ... Hardly anyone seems to envision a sustainable world that would be nice to live in.' This is a self-defeating lapse of imagination that could dim the prospects for achieving sustainability. There seem to be only two visions on the table. In the conventional vision, the human economy and population keep growing vigorously, and everyone eagerly chases the dream of greater consumption. The environmentalist point of view rightly denies the workability of this vision but offers in its place a kind of lifelong global celery diet. It is hardly surprising that most people choose the first path." Though I don't agree with this analysis completely — it's a bit glib for starters — it does give some plausible reasons for the difficulty of convincing more people of the need for change. We've been talking about what constitutes a "decent standard of living" (see below). I think this means we're on the way to describing a sustainable world that would also be "nice to live in". The above quote would suggest that this is an extremely important step.

Any more contributions to defining the "decent standard of living"? regards

Three pairs of shoes: winter, sneakers, >summer; plus a pair of thongs (shoes). Obviously, this >would change for people living in different kinds of climates. Along with >that, two sets of bedding, extra blankets and other such linens, a table >setting, a teakettle and assorted crockery. > >Decent, healthy food (not sure how to measure this) — plus access to the >niceties of life: shampoo, soap, toothpaste, sanitary pads, toilet paper, >razors for those who want them, and other toiletry items. > >a way to cook and preserve food > >Public libraries in all their glory — > thank goodness we have achieved that here. > >Access to organized recreation for those who want it — in other words, >no-fee team sports > >Winter heating when necessary, fans in the summer when necessary > >One comfortable chair to sit in, a comfortable place to lie > >A radio > >Running, clean water piped to your house > >A bathroom > >21st C. version of a hope chest, with all your personal mementoes (- I later gave my minimum household necessities list :   important subject and worth the effort to try to get the Green movement to think on it. ... the "global celery diet" remark ... could be irritating (or worse), especially out of the context of the entire book. However, when I read the piece it resonated instantly with Diane's idea of a decent standard of living. What Diane sees as the simple necessities of living comfortably, help map out a sustainable world "that would be nice to live in". Personally I have reached no definite conclusions on where the threshold of sustainability lies and it might well be lower than Diane's list would demand. At the moment, the significant thing seems to be that anyone is giving any thought to this issue. If someone like Donella Meadows (as quoted within the piece by Prugh) thinks this matter has not been properly addressed, and if it is as serious an omission from the Green political programme as Prugh suggests, then what you and Diane are doing here is very significant. It is, I think, fundamental practical politics for the following reason. What Greens are saying to millions of people in the developed world is that we must all give up our way of life in favour of something much more modest. The only way we can convince them to do so is with a convincing critique of present-day society — which I think we possess — and, hand in hand with that, a convincing vision of our alternative. The Green vision is hard enough to grasp at the best of times, and it becomes even more difficult when people start asking practical questions, like "what will my life be like in your sustainable Green future?" I titled my posting "defining the Green vision" because that is what you are helping to do. It is indeed important.

 Herpetology of Indonesia         Since 1988 or so the trade in live reptiles for the 'pet' trade has grown exponentially and then stabilized at the present level. However, there seems to be a lack of information regarding these beautiful creatures. With this page I will try to present some information which may be trivial to some but important to others. My apologies for not updating this site in last few years. I have not been involved with reptiles since 2000.     Don't forget to add this page to your list of Bookmarks/Favorites!      Varanus indicusSorong (Vogelkop/Bird's Head Peninsula, New Guinea/Irian Jaya) type Photo by Frank Yuwono.    

 Indonesian Reptiles on CITES Appendices: Indonesian Reptiles NOT listed on any CITES Appendices:  Crocodiles Snakes ( still empty )  Monitor lizards (under construction) Lizards ( still empty )  Pythons and Boas (under construction) Turtles (under construction)  Cobras ( still empty ) Amphibians ( Under construction )  Turtles and Tortoises (under construction)    Topics:      

The Trade of Live Reptiles from Indonesia my paper (no pictures yet)       Indonesian Herps in Traditional Medicine    Indonesian Herp Photo Gallery  (Fixed!)    Herps in the Indonesian news