AFTER THE RISE OF DIGITAL DOWNLOADS AND THE FALL OF THE TOWER/WHEREHOUSE/SAMGOODY’S
ENTER STAGE LEFT, BEATSWAPMEET RECORD SHOW MADE IT COOL TO HAVE TANGIBLE DUSTY RARE MUSIC TECHNOLOGY..
NOW LIKE 5 NEW RECORD STORES HAVE OPENED IN THE LAST YEAR…
Here’s one that looks interesting…
June is more than a friend, she’s family…
I met her through the mother of my son, who shares w/ June, a love for crafts and cooking.
She’s proven to be one of the most active and creative individuals in LA.. ask around..
I was honored when she asked me to design a logo for her HIPHOP CATERING venture called ‘RAPPER’s DELIGHT’.
http://abuggslife.wordpress.com/category/rappers-delight/
She’s a beast on the graphic design tip. Junebugg did the 2009 http://www.beatswapmeet.com flyers and a gazillion other projects..
She has been known to rock a party behind the turntables for as long as i’ve known her, and spins vinyl and Serato.
I love her snaps though.. She loves to travel and document all the fly shit..
Check out her food shots…
She makes SPAM look like a gourmet salmon cake.. dam
You call that camping??? Dam she don’t know how to ruff it!! lol
And washing it down with some bomb ass Chicha, Peru..
CHECK OUT HER BLOG FOR ALOT MORE GOOD FOOD, GOOD MUSIC, AND GOOD TIMES!!
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I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting the lovely young black woman on the other side of this camera and these snaps but I must say:
You have to be an artist to capture a moment, that otherwise would have been overlooked and or forgotten, and scribe it into the memory of all who come across it.
What a job to have, traveling the world capturing beauty, that could be ugly to the average passer-by… but to a lover of all that is all? .. Snap!! another piece of this big ol’ little world to examine / imagine / and experience..
Its been a full month since I’ve blogged, Been Updating My Portfolio Blog @ http://warpnt.com,but I NOW have a “blogworthy” topic.
NNENNA( Nen-uh ) STELLA..
ThanxVizionheiry http://yesterdayspoem.blogspot.com/
Who sent me her link on TWITTER! lol
Gotta document this social network because it continues to change my life.
I look forward to meeting ya’ll..
If you wanna see more beautiful snaps
Creative Picket Signs are Common at Protest..
This one caught my eye caught my eye..
Pretty Clear
NEW SAYING:
“IF YOU DON’T STAND FOR SOMETHING,
THEN BEND OVER AND TAKE UP THE…”
you figure the rest…
J-ROCC ( WORLD FAMOUS BEATJUNKIES )
COLLECTORS, DJ’s, AND PRODUCERS DIG IN SECRET LOCATIONS AROUND THE WORLD…
…BUT NEVER HAVE YOU BEEN ABLE TO SPEND THE DAYAT A 2 FLOOR BAR/CLUB, DRINK & DIG, INSIDE AND OUTSIDE, ENJOY 3 DJ’s SPINNING IN 3 LOCATIONS , (OUTSIDE, UPSTAIRS & DOWNSTAIRS)…
…OUTSIDE IS LIKE A LARGE UNDERGROUND STREETWEAR SAMPLE SALE, WITH AN AMAZING FOOD VENDOR ” RAPPER’S DELIGHT ” WHERE THE AMAZING JUNNEBUGG SERVES UP DISHES LIKE “MAKAVELI & CHEESE” , “OL’ DIRTY CUSTARD” , “CEELO-GREENS” , WU-TANG FLAN” AND SO ON… CANT WAIT…
WE’VE SEEN THE TRUE VINYL LOVERS COME OUT FROM ALL OVER TO ENJOY THIS DAY OF FELLOWSHIP….
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WITHOUT GETTING TOO DEEP INTO RETERIC , I DEAL WITH WHAT I KNOW AND THE ULTIMATE RESPECT FOR INFINITE POSSIBILITIES. WE SHOULD KNOW THE REIGNING GOVERNMENT HAS RULED THROUGH PSYCHOLOGICAL, BIOLOGICAL, AND SPIRITUAL GENOCIDE. ALSO WE MUST REMEMBER, THE SYSTEM IS NOT DESIGNED FOR ONE PERSON TO MAKE A DECISION FOR ALL PEOPLE. PLUS THE GOVERNMENT IS RULING WITH THE CONSENT OF THE FEDERAL PRESENCE IN OUR ECONOMY.
SO, IF OBAMA IS ENTIRELY DETATCHED FROM THE IDEOLOGY AND MISSION OF THE ELITE FEW, THEN HE STILL ISNT IN A POSTITON TO “CHANGE”
OUR CONCERNS SHOULDNT BE CHUCKED AT OUR LEADERS, WE MUST ONLY CONCERN OURSELVES WITH LIVING HARMONIOUSLY WITH THE EARTH. EDUCATE YOURSELF ON BLACK/AFRICAN HISTORY BEFORE SLAVERY AND EUROPEAN CONQUEST. REALIZE CIVIL LIVING DIDNT BEGIN WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE “NEW PLAN” TO THE “NEW WORLD” IN FACT ANYTIME WE STRAY AWAY FROM WHAT WORKS, WE CAUSE POLLUTION, CONFUSION, AND PAIN. ALL INDEGENOUS PEOLE KNOW AND RESPECT THIS.. AND HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LIVE OFF THE EARTH ABUNDANTLY …
WETHER OBAMA IS GOD OR THE DEVIL, REMEMBER YOU NEED TO SAVE YOUR ENERGY TO BATTLE YOUR OWN GOD & DEVIL INTERNALLY…
A METAPHOR I ALWAYS USE IS, WHEN YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE GENERAL EDUCATION OF THE YOUTH, YOU DONT ATTACK THE TEACHERS, YOU CHANGE THE CURRICULA.
In formal education, a curriculum (pronounced /kəˈrɪkjʊləm/; plural: curricula, /kəˈrɪkjʊlə/) is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow and mature in becoming adults.
DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE “LEADERS”, CHANGE THE SYSTEM,YOUR WAY OF LIVING . RELY LESS ON A CONCEPT OF EXTERNAL GOVERNING. MASTER SELF, YOU’RE MADE OF ALL THE OUTER ELEMENTS THAT BRING YOU HARMONY AND SUCCESS . OUR LEADERS ARE THE ONES WHO SHOW US AN ORGANIC WAY OF LIVING OR MORE HARMONIOUS APPROACH TO HUMAN AND CREATION RELATIONS… THE SO-CALLED “WORLD-LEADERS” ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO BE THE “CHEIF”.. first of all… how you gonna rape, pillage, kill, dis-ease, and move a people out of a land, then give your leader their leaders title???? thats ganksta!!….. OKAY SO THE CAMMANDER GUY HAS TO i would think BE SOME WHAT OF AN AMBASSADOR SLASH PROTECTOR OF THE PEOPLE SLASH GENERAL, not an old concept… I GUESS IT SOUNDS LIKE A COOL JOB, SO……. HOW MANY OF US ARE EXAMINING WHAT THIS JOBS REAL DUTIES ARE… SINCE THESE STATES ARENT THE UNITY THE PREZ WORKS FOR….whether his heart is in the right place or not….
lets build l8r
-BLESS
On a mission to clear my head do some work in the Beach.
Whenever I’m in the beach I have to swing through the BEATSWAPMEET.COM “Mansion” and build with Utmos & BP anem. Its a must, we’re fam , plus they’re always building over there, so i come with my own tools…
Fresh off a 3month studio benge@ SECTION8STUDIO.WORDPRESS.COM, I was looking to regenerate my creative energy. ButtonPusha’s lab for production and design is perfect.
Its a basement nook type deal with everything wired and spaced to functional perfection.
Heres is where he ODDsequence recorded THE HI’s & LOWs, so there’s alot of energy down there. Not to mention the vinyl collection holding up the wall with soul power.
The 2-way fan propped between the seal of the quarter window facing the garden… So a smoke break is just a couple flicks away.
The functional boomboxes and tapes holding up the other wall for nostalgia, and reference…hint hint
and ofcourse the cascading BEATSWAPMEET staff passes…..
And the usual suspects, 2-turntables and a mic + MPC200xl & LogicPro…
Young brotha Vex from Supercrew was in the spot and we all collaborated on a funk track. I layed some drums, and we plugged up th MICROKORG then i added a basic bassline & progression. Vex layed some spacey synth melodies , and i came behind him to fill it up , then Bp made it move with the space pad…link coming…..
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- TIME MAGAZINE, MEXICAN DRUG WARS
June 24, 2009 U.S. Teenagers: Paid Assassins In The Drug Wars Although the Obama Administration insists that drug cartel violence has not spilled over from Mexico into the United States, the paramilitary Los Zetas, an enforcement arm for the Gulf cartel, is recruiting American teenagers to do its killing on both sides of the border as reported by James C. McKinley for the New York Times: Rosalia Reta was 13 when he was recruited by the Zetas, the infamous assassins of the Gulf Cartel, law enforcement officials say. He was one of a group of American teenagers from the impoverished streets of Laredo who was lured into the drug wars across the Rio Grande in Mexico with promises of high pay, fancy cars and sexy women. After a short apprenticeship, the young men lived in an expensive house in Texas, available to kill whenever called on. The Gulf Cartel was engaged in a turf war with the Sinaloa Cartel over the Interstate 35 corridor, the north-south highway that connects Laredo to Dallas and beyond, and is, according to law enforcement officials, one of the most important arteries for drug smuggling in the Americas.
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June 09, 2009
Federal Cops Bust Local Cops
Mexican federal police in recent days have been sweeping through local police precincts in the northern Nuevo León state to root out those allegedly corrupted by the Gulf drug cartel according to a report by David Luchnow for the Wall Street Journal:
Several dozen federal police and scores of local police squared off for several hours Monday afternoon at a busy intersection in Monterrey, aiming at each other with semiautomatic assault weapons and threatening to kill one another. In the end, no one was hurt, but images of the two forces aiming guns at each other stunned Mexicans. The standoff took place amid a crackdown on allegedly corrupt local police across the state. In the past nine days, some 78 police officers, including a local police chief, have been detained on suspicion of being in the pay of Mexico’s powerful drug-trafficking groups. Army troops and federal police have raided police stations across Nuevo León almost daily, interviewing officers and inspecting their weapons and cellphones.
February 02, 2009
News: Mexican Drug Cartels
Despite huge enforcement actions on both sides of the Southwest border, the Mexican marijuana trade is more robust — and brazen — than ever, law enforcement officials say. Mexican drug cartels routinely transported industrial-size loads of marijuana in 2008, excavating new tunnels and adopting tactics like ramp-assisted smuggling to get their cargoes across undetected. But these are not the only new tactics: the cartels are also increasingly planting marijuana crops inside the United States in a major strategy shift to avoid the border altogether, officials said. Last year, drug enforcement authorities confiscated record amounts of high potency plants from Miami to San Diego, and even from vineyards leased by cartels in Washington State. Mexican drug traffickers have also moved into hydroponic marijuana production — cannabis grown indoors without soil and nourished with sunlamps — challenging Asian networks and smaller, individual growers here.
The Mexican drug cartels — including the Federation, the Tijuana Cartel, the Juarez Cartel and the Gulf Cartel — have established relationships with street and prison gangs in the United States, and they operate in 195 American cities.
*** Killings in Sinaloa for the month of January are down by 2/3 from last December, and two rival drug gangs in the state — the Sinaloa cartel and the Beltran Leyva brothers — may have reached a truce:
A truce would be welcome in Sinaloa, where ambuses, shootouts and kidnappings have occurred day and night. More than 120 people were killed in the state in December, according to Mexican news media; January looks set to end with about 40 deaths.
U.S. law enforcement is skeptical on the word of a truce, and in any event “any cease-fire could be fleeting”: “killing continues in most of Mexico; even in Sinaloa last week, a top drug-gang lieutenant and alleged money launderer, Lamberto Verdugo Calderon, was killed in a gun battle.”
*** President Felipe Calderón dispatched 45,000 military troops to battle the drug cartels upon taking office in December 2006, and Gen. Alfonso Duarte Múgica believes “this year will be decisive for the decrease of violence and kidnapping“:
Scarcely a week goes by without a major announcement: Soldiers rescue kidnap victims, detain suspect police officers, catch dangerous cartel members. Soldiers seize loads of narcotics and caches of automatic weapons, displaying them at the foot of the giant flagpole that rises from the Morelos military base near downtown Tijuana. * * * “President Calderón understood more clearly than anything the fact that if he didn’t take on the cartels, the cartels were going to be running the country in the next five years,” said Michael Braun, former operations chief for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The military, one of Mexico’s strongest and most respected institutions, has long been known for its role in disaster assistance. Its anti-drug efforts have historically focused on eradication in drug-producing states such as Michoacan and Sinaloa. Its new role has it taking on duties traditionally carried out by civilian forces, but Duarte stressed that his troops are acting in a supportive role. This is ”a stopgap measure to enhance the capabilities of law enforcement” while the civilian agencies are rebuilt, said Arturo Sarukhan, Mexico’s ambassador to the United States. “Once these newly vetted, restructured civilian units are in place, the armed forces will be pulled out of their law enforcement role.”
*** Victor Clark Alfaro, head of the Binational Center for Human Rights in Tijuana, says the “violence by the cartels is going to continue in 2009,” and they further are expanding into other rackets:
“I don’t know who is going to win between them and against the government,” he says. “The fact is that the high levels of impunity and corruption let these people work more easily on the streets of our city.” Since the beginning of the year, dozens of people have been gunned down in Tijuana, including five police officers. And nationwide, the body count since New Year’s stands at more than 450. Clark, who’s also a lecturer in Latin American studies at San Diego State University, has studied Tijuana for decades. He says the current cartel members are younger, more brutal and more entrepreneurial than in the past. And Clark says they’re expanding beyond drugs, levying taxes on street drug dealers, running kidnapping rings and extorting “protection money” from bars, hotels and restaurants. “So they are going to the formal economy to control sectors, and to control specific sectors of the informal economy related to drug selling on the streets,” Clark says. “They are going to these economical spaces to charge taxes. It is a new phenomena in our city.”
Young women in northwest Mexico are dazzled by the glamorous “narco wives” who laze in beauty salons, draped in designer gear as they get Swarovski crystals glued to their fingernails. Each year, dozens of teenagers compete in beauty pageants in the sun-baked hills of Sinaloa state, where their legendary good looks draw wealthy drug traffickers ready to pluck one out and spirit her off to a mountain hideout. Career prospects are few for Sinaloan girls, and landing a prominent drug trafficker means entering a world of untold riches – luxury mansions, endless spa sessions and a closet full of the priciest labels on the planet. The dangers of getting sucked into the gangland world have jumped, however, as a crackdown ordered by President Felipe Calderon has sparked new turf wars and hit men ignore old codes against slaying their enemies’ wives, girlfriends or children. In a sobering reminder of the risks they run, the reigning Miss Sinaloa beauty queen was arrested last month with her smuggler boyfriend and six other men in a truck full of guns and cash. Days earlier, a top drug boss’s former lover was found dead in a car trunk with the letter “Z” – the mark of a rival gang’s hit squad – cut into her breasts, belly and buttocks. * * * [M]ore and more women are being murdered in a drug war that killed around 5,700 people nationwide last year.
June 23, 2009 — As the Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA) heads to the floor of the House of Representatives this week for an historic vote, The Nature Conservancy is highlighting several provisions in the bill. This comprehensive legislation — the first climate change bill to reach the House floor — signals to the world a readiness to fully engage in global climate change negotiations.
“It is remarkable that Chairmen Waxman and Markey have put together a deal that has earned the respect and support of environmental organizations, power companies and major manufacturers,” said Eric Haxthausen, Director of U.S. Climate Policy at The Nature Conservancy. “This pragmatic, solutions-based approach is what is needed to tackle this difficult challenge.”
Haxthausen continued, “Of note: this week’s vote would establish significant and sustained support for halting the destruction of the world’s tropical forests, which play a direct role in reducing emissions. The bill recognizes this with an innovative combination of market-based credits and a dedicated fund for forest protection and capacity building in other nations. At last, we have an opportunity to slow or halt forest destruction on a global scale, while providing critically needed emission reductions to stabilize our atmosphere.”
“Nature-based strategies to help communities and wildlife around the world cope with climate change offer some of the easiest, most cost-effective and common-sense solutions in the bill,” added Bob Bendick, Director of US Government Relations at The Nature Conservancy. “The funding provided through H.R. 2454, though not fully addressing the needs, will be essential for the protection of natural resources for people as well as fish and wildlife in an already warming world. It is critical for the future stability of economies around the world, as well as public health and safety. We are grateful to Representative John Dingell for advancing funding for these purposes and look forward to continuing to work with the House on these provisions.”
A key question for future legislative consideration will be how quickly a final bill reduces the emissions that are causing global warming, and the Conservancy urges legislators to continue to reach for bold emissions reductions that will be a strong signal to other countries and help protect future generations.
The Conservancy will be working actively during the weeks ahead with members of both parties and in both houses to assist them in enacting legislation that delivers the investments and emission reductions that will be needed in time to provide a strong basis for a U.S. negotiating position at the international climate talks in Copenhagen in December.
Andrew Deutz, Director of International Government Relations at The Nature Conservancy, concluded, “A cap on emissions, provisions for forest carbon offsets, and financial commitments to help people and nature adapt to climate change: these are the trifecta the U.S. needed to deliver to be a credible leader in the crucial round of international climate negotiations in Copenhagen. These measures show both a commitment to change and an understanding of the incentives needed to assure engagement of developing countries in crafting a global climate agreement.”
The Nature Conservancy is also pleased that the bill largely reflects the recommendations in the USCAP’s Blueprint for Legislative Action and looks forward to continuing efforts to refine the legislation as it moves toward a floor vote in the House.
Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Mark Godfrey (the Adirondacks); Photo © Lynda Richardson (Gulf Coast).
January 19, 2004
Isotope analysis shows exposure to depleted uranium in Gulf War veterans
By Tim Stephens
U.S. veterans who were exposed to depleted uranium during the 1991 Gulf War have continued to excrete the potentially harmful chemical in their urine for years after their exposure, according to a new study published in the journal Health Physics.
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| These 30mm munitions (jackets and penetrators) are made with depleted uranium. Photo courtesy of the United Nations Environment Program |
The study indicates that soldiers may absorb depleted uranium particles through inhalation, ingestion, or wound contamination, said Roberto Gwiazda, an environmental toxicologist at UCSC and lead author of the study.
Fine particles of depleted uranium are created when munitions made with the material strike a target. The new study did not address the health effects of exposure to depleted uranium, a subject of ongoing debate, but focused on a technique for detecting past exposure.
Low concentrations of uranium in the urine are normal due to ingestion of naturally occuring uranium in food and water. Depleted uranium is a by-product of the enrichment process used to make nuclear fuel, in which one isotope of uranium (235U) is extracted, leaving behind material depleted in that isotope. Depleted uranium is still weakly radioactive and, like other heavy metals, can be toxic in high doses. Because of its high density and other properties, it has been used in armor-piercing ammunition and in armor for fighting vehicles.
Gwiazda and Donald Smith, professor of environmental toxicology, developed a sensitive analytical technique to detect depleted uranium in urine samples. By measuring the relative abundances of different isotopes of uranium in the urine samples, the researchers were able to distinguish between natural and depleted uranium.
“This is the only unambiguous way to determine past exposure and uptake of depleted uranium,” Gwiazda said.
The analysis of samples from Gulf War veterans was performed in collaboration with the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Depleted Uranium Follow-up Program, which is assessing, treating, and monitoring veterans who may have been exposed to depleted uranium during the war.
The researchers applied their technique to three different groups of Gulf War veterans. The first group of soldiers had shrapnel in their bodies as a result of “friendly fire” incidents in which their tanks or armored vehicles were hit by munitions containing depleted uranium. The second group consisted of soldiers who did not have shrapnel in them but were involved in the friendly fire incidents to different degrees, either because they were in the vehicles that were hit or because they participated in recovery operations. The third group was a reference group and consisted of soldiers who participated in the war but not in combat operations.
As expected, the soldiers with embedded shrapnel had high concentrations of uranium in their urine, and the isotope analysis showed that it was depleted uranium, presumably being released into their bodies from the shrapnel.
A more striking finding was the presence of depleted uranium in the urine of a significant number of soldiers in the second group, without embedded shrapnel but with potential exposure through inhalation, ingestion, or wound contamination. The uranium concentrations detected in this group were, on average, six times higher than in the reference group, but were still within the normal range for the U.S. population. Nevertheless, Gwiazda said, it was remarkable that the signature of depleted uranium could still be detected so many years after the exposure. “These samples were taken six to eight years later,” he said.
The Veterans Affairs (VA) monitoring program has not reported any findings of clinically significant health effects related to exposure to depleted uranium, even in the highly exposed soldiers with embedded shrapnel.
Any health effects of exposure to depleted uranium may not be detectable without studying a large number of exposed individuals. The technique developed at UCSC could be used to screen a large number of people to identify those with past exposure to depleted uranium.
In addition to possible health effects in soldiers exposed during combat, concerns about depleted uranium include environmental contamination of battlefield sites. Civilian populations may be exposed through contact with depleted uranium fragments and dust left in the soil or with contaminated military equipment left behind after a conflict.
“We don’t know if that kind of exposure will have any health effects. But now we have a technique that enables us to detect past exposure to depleted uranium,” Gwiazda said.
The paper was published in the January issue of Health Physics. The authors include Katherine Squibb and Melissa McDiarmid of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in addition to Gwiazda and Smith.
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GLOBAL WARMING??
What happens when too much carbon dioxide gets omitted into the Earth’s atmosphere? The condition known as Global Warming occurs. Global Warming is the rising of the Earth’s surface temperature due to chemicals in the atmosphere. Global Warming has many threats on the climate and even the health of the people on this planet. Some of these threats include the altering of crop seasons and even effect the way organisms survive on the planet. The first thing I think I should discuss when talking about global warming is what causes it to occur. Gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, which are known as greenhouse gases, all build up in the atmosphere of the earth. All these gases make it so that it becomes harder for the radiation that the sun shines into the atmosphere to escape. The heat continues to build up and this is what causes the temperatures to increase. I know this seems like the temperatures increase massively but in the last hundred years the average temperature of the Earth has gone up between 0.8 and 1.0 degrees farenheight. Also in the last fifteen years, we have had the ten warmest years in record. Global Warming also helps the Earth and it has been for many years. Without global warming, the Earth’s temperature would be a lot lower than the 60-degree average. Unfortunately due to there being many more harmful “greenhouse gases” being placed into the atmosphere, instead of the temperature staying at a constant, its rising. What are many of the dangers of the Earth’s temperature rising? First of all it cause many of the glaciers that are floating in the Arctic and Greenland to melt. This in turn causes the sea levels to rise around the world. In the last hundred years alone the seas around the planet have risen anywhere from four to ten inches. I know it does not sound like a massive change but being able to raise all the seas in the world a whole ten inches is a huge problem. Sea levels also continue to rise is because the hotter temperature cause the ocean water to expand. An example of the sea level causing problems could happen on a little Native Island in the middle of an Ocean. On these islands usually where native tribes live, if the sea level rises three fourths of a meter then half of the island will sink. This could happen in many different islands around the world and if the water keeps on rising as it is, then farming land near the seashores will be flooded and the crops will be destroyed and many farmers will be left without much to live off of. The melting of the glaciers are also causing some problems in the Himalayas. Many of the tips of the mountain’s in that area. Massive flooding and rivers that are well above their normal levels are threatening the crops and homes in the area. Many of the locals that live in the area and many of the scientists that are surveying the area are saying that the glaciers are melting at a phenomenal rate. Another danger that comes with the changing of the climate is that the increased heat causes more evaporation to occur in the hotter climates. This causes there to be more precipitation in many other climates that are not used to handling massive rainfalls. The increased rainfall also leads to speeding up the process of the sea levels rising. Health is also something that becomes threatened because of global warming. Heat becomes a huge factor in the health of humans, especially the elderly. Incidents such as heat stroke head exhaustion and diseases increase drastically. The heat makes it possible for mosquitoes and other insects to transmit diseases. This is something that happened in New York during this summer. A very rare disease called St. Louis Emphyitis (spelling?) that would spread in puddles of water that mosquitoes would drink out of due to the heat. These mosquitoes would then bite humans and infect them with this disease. I don’t recall how many people, if any died due to this, but it did cause a bit of a panic in the New York Metropolitan area. Heat is not the only weather problem. Global Warming doesn’t only increase temperatures in hot areas. It also decreases temperatures in cold areas. An example of this has been the cold spell that struck the Midwest. In Montana, temperatures plummeted to 30 degrees below and stayed there. The coldest weather ever recorded plagued our country’s heart for over three weeks and still hasn’t returned too normal. A related incident has been the blizzards of the East Coast. Some places in New York State got over twenty feet of snow. So what is in store for Earth in the future? Possible nothing. There are many people that believe global warming is nothing more than the normal rise of temperature around the world. So if this is the case, we have nothing to really worry about. Unfortunately, this scenario of normal raise in temperature might not be the case. If it isn’t, Scientists estimate that the global temperature will rise between five and nine degrees by the middle of the 21st century accompanied by a sea-level rise of one to four feet. Once the temperature reaches a certain threshold, the polar ice caps will began to melt. While those living in the Arctic may find that a nice surprise, the implications for the rest of the world are serious. Even a partial melting of the polar ice caps will cause sea levels to rise so much as to completely wipe out most coastal cities. This includes such big cities such as San Francisco and New York. Those cities that are not totally wiped out by the water will eventually be hit with hurricanes much more severe than any other one in history. Of course, inland cities are not safe either. Rather than surging seawaters and hurricanes, they will face drought. So what can be done in order to keep from all of that from happening? We need to stop putting so much pollution in to the air. No matter what there will always be a little bit of Carbon Dioxide omitted into the atmosphere. If we could just limit all the coal and fossil fuels that we burn, there will not be so much “greenhouse gases” and it would keep all of that from happening so quickly. There have also been many attempts by the United States Presidents Administrations in order to help slow down the effect. In my lifetime I know that I won’t see anything too drastic happen due to global warming, but there is a chance that my children and grandchildren will. Hopefully they wont.
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“Produtor de Água” é lançado em Joanópolis e Nazaré Paulista
Comitê da Bacia Hidrográfica do PCJ direciona receitas da cobrança pelo uso da água para o Pagamento por Serviços Ambientais
Brasília DF — 22 de maio de 2009
A The Nature Conservancy (TNC), com o apoio da Agência Nacional de Águas, Prefeitura Municipal de Extrema, Coordenadoria de Assistência Técnica Integral (CATI-SAA-SP) e o Projeto de Recuperação de Mata Ciliar (PRMC-SMA-SP, lança o projeto “Produtor de Água no PCJ”em Joanópolis no dia 16 de junho, às 18h30, no Bar do João Verona, e em Nazaré Paulista no dia 17 de junho, às 18h30, no Saguão da Capela São Benedito.
O projeto “Produtor de Água no PCJ” visa a remuneração dos produtores rurais que adotam práticas que contribuem para a proteção e/ou recuperação de mananciais, em Áreas de Preservação Permanente (APPs) e Reserva Legal (RL). Os recursos para o pagamento pelo serviço ambiental prestado pela floresta do produtor rural vêm da cobrança pelo uso da água, direcionados pelo Comitê das Bacias Hidrográficas dos rios Piracicaba, Capivari e Jundiaí (Comitês PCJ). O projeto tem apoio do Comitê PCJ e da Caterpillar.
Junto ao lançamento do projeto “Produtor de Água no PCJ”, será lançado o primeiro Edital de Pagamentos por Serviços Ambientais, que define os procedimentos para a adesão dos proprietários das microbacias de Moinho e Cancã aos objetivos principais do projeto: a conservação do solo, a restauração de Áreas de Preservação Permanente e a conservação de remanescentes florestais existentes.
A partir do lançamento, proprietários rurais das microbacias do Cancã e Moinho poderão se cadastrar nas casas da Agricultura de Joanópolis e Nazaeré Paulista através de Ficha de Cadastro. O Edital receberá propostas para o Pagamento por Serviços Ambientais até o dia 03/11/2010. Através do Pagamento por Serviços Ambinetnais a expectiativa é estimular técnicas de conservação de solo em 390 hectares, recuperar 208 hectares de APP e conservar 540 hectares de floresta Espera-se que todos produtores rurais das microbacias do Cancã e Moinho façam a adesão ao projeto.
Mais de 80% da Mata Atlântica é ocupada por propriedades privadas. “Embora muitos deles estejam interessados e comprometidos em conservar ou restaurar as áreas naturais em suas propriedades, a falta de incentivos econômicos é um dos principais fatores que restringem o engajamento da maioria dos proprietários em ações que levam à conservação da biodiversidade”, comenta Fernando Veiga, coordenador de Serviços Ambientais da TNC. O produtor rural que aderir ao “Produtor de Água” também receberá assistência dos técnicos do projeto, e os pagamentos, que poderão chegar a até R$125,00/hectare de APP recuperada/ano mais R$75,00/hectare de conservação de solo/ano para, mais R$125,00/hectare de floresta conservada/ano. O projeto visa ainda a geração de renda na região, uma vez que novos empregos serão criados nas atividades de recuperação florestal e conservação de solo.
Os eventos de lançamento contarão com a participação, em Joanópolis, do prefeito do Município, do secretário de Agricultura, Abastecimento e Meio Ambiente; do presidente do CMDR (Conselho Municipal de Desenvolvimento Regional); do presidente da Associação de Amigos das Bacias dos Rios Cancã e Correnteza; e a apresentação da Orquestra de Violeiros Matutos da Mantiqueira; e em Nazaré Paulista, haverá a presença de lideranças e instituições locais, e a apresentação de dupla sertaneja.
O pagamento por serviços ambientais no âmbito do Projeto Produtor de Água já está ocorrendo com sucesso no município de Extrema (MG) e em Rio Claro (RJ), e demonstra que pode ser replicado para outras bacias hidrográficas do Brasil. Os parceiros locais são responsáveis pelo acompanhamento e monitoramento do projeto por meio de uma Unidade de Gestão do Projeto, formada pelas insitutições parceiras deste projeto (TNC, ANA, SMA, SAA e PM Extrema).
O Sistema Cantareira, pela sua importância no suprimento de 50% da água da Grande São Paulo, cerca de 9 milhões de pessoas, e mais 5 milhões de pessoas nos municípios a jusante da bacia do rio Piracicaba, tem sido motivo de preocupações com o equilíbrio e a recuperação de suas fontes alimentadoras de vazão. A bacia do rio Piracicaba ocupa uma área de 12.746 km2, com 45 municípios paulistas e cinco mineiros. Por tratar-se de uma região crítica quanto à quantidade das águas subterrâneas, os mananciais superficiais são os responsáveis pela sobrevivência regional. Fazem parte deste sistema os reservatórios Cachoeira, Atibainha, Juqueri e Águas Claras, e a estação elevatória Santa Inês.
SERVIÇO:
Lançamento do projeto Produtor de Água e Edital de Pagamento por Serviços Ambientais em Joanópolis
Data: 16/06/09, terça-feira
Local: Bar do João Verona (Can Camping)
Endereço: Bairro do Cancã em Joanópolis – SP
Horário: a partir de 18h30
Mais informações com Vinícius e Elder (ca.joanopolis@cati.sp.gov.br) – 11 4539 9248
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