Solar Water Heating Projects and Plans Solar water heating systems have a good economic payoff, and are manageable systems to install or build as a DIY project. Some of the solar water heating designs are very simple and low cost. You can save as much as $7000 by building your own system. There are just over one hundred projects with full construction details listed below -- all free. The projects range from simple batch heaters for warm climates through closed loop and drain back systems that will work in any climate. One of the systems is our own $1,000 solar water heating system that has provided a solar fraction in excess of 90% through our cold Montana winter. My thanks to the people who have built systems, and then taken the time to send in pictures and descriptions for others to use. Directory for this page: Information on pumps, heat exchangers, heat storage tanks Controllers, pipe insulation, backdraft dampers and other components for solar space heating systems here... Solar Water Heater kits or packages... Questions?
Encyclopedia of Philosophy El dulce sabor de una mujer exquisita (por Gabriel García Márquez) « Mensajes de Reflexión Si aún no ha pasado el bisturí por tu piel, si no tienes implantes de silicona en alguna parte de tu cuerpo, si los rollitos no te generan trauma, si nunca has sufrido de anorexia, si tu estatura no afecta tu desarrollo personal, si cuando vas a la playa prefieres divertirte en el mar y no estar sobre una toalla durante horas, si crees que la fidelidad sí es posible y la practicas, si sabes cómo se prepara un arroz, si puedes preparar un almuerzo completo con postre, si tu prioridad no es ser rubia a como de lugar, si no te levantas a las 4:00 a.m. para llegar primera al gimnasio, si puedes salir con ropa de gimnasia tranquila a la calle un domingo, sin una gota de maquillaje en el rostro… ESTÁS EN VÍA DE EXTINCIÓN… Eres una mujer exquisita! Una mujer exquisita no es aquella que más hombres tiene a sus pies; si no aquella que tiene uno solo que la hace realmente feliz. Una mujer valiosa no es aquella que tiene más títulos, ni más cargos académicos. Gabriel García Márquez mujer exquisita
This is Marilyn.com - Social Network for Marilyn Monroe Fans From her platinum locks to her glamorous wardrobe, she set a standard for American beauty that no one else could match. This is Marilyn! Marilyn Monroe has spread the word "wow" over the United States and Europe for over six decades. Ever since she was born Norma Jeane Mortensen, everyone around her knew she was not just your average little girl. Marilyn's legal guardian she arranged that she be married to the boy next door, James, when she was only 16. Though she cherished having real biological father’s name, she took the studio’s advice and took the first name Marilyn and her grandmother’s name Monroe. Feeling the need to shed her image as the typical Hollywood shallow blonde, Monroe took some time off to take acting classes. On August 5th, 1962, Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her California home at the age of 36. Somehow her name will always remain sacred; people with the last name ‘Monroe’ will name their child anything but Marilyn, keeping the name sterilized and untouched.
Mystics, Sages, Saints and Gurus | Superconsciousness The Psychophysiological Principle states: Any experience that you have, you have only while you are having a specific brain wave pattern. If your brain wave patterns change then your experience will change. Dr. Brain mapping research studies into different brainwave patterns associated with different states of consciousness has been carried out in major centers throughout the country. In non-sleeping states, these brainwave patterns are associated with various states of “waking” consciousness. Studies here at the Center for Neuroacoustic Research have shown clear and repeated evidence, in patients, of brainwave frequency patterns below the traditionally accepted lowest Delta rhythms of 0.5 Hz. There have also been reports in the EEG literature from other researchers, that there is evidence of extraordinary states of consciousness associated with higher-than-Beta brainwave activity. Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi. This is truly valuable. Pandit Gopi Krishna
Tantric “Sluts” or Living Goddesses: Why it Matters With recent media revelations about ritual sex, nude yoga and “yogasms” – sex has become a hot topic in the yoga world. Well, in honour of Women’s History Month, I’m joining the fray. Because let’s face it, nothing is more juicy or salacious than the forgotten high priestesses of sex, the “debauched” yoginis of Tantra. While much conventional scholarship has designated these women as low-caste “sluts” exploited for ritual purposes, religious scholar Miranda Shaw has unearthed a very different history. Her book is a biographic treasure trove of Tantric women teachers spanning the Pala Period of India (8th -13th centuries). Female Tantrics were called by many names, Dakinis (woman who flies) Vidyadharim (knowledge-holder) Vira (heroine) but the most common term was Yogini (keeper of the occult secrets). Defining the scope of Tantra is well beyond the purview of this post, but suffice to say the “left hand path” was no ascetic practise. Quite the different view of sex than we have today.
Rent the Chicken Project 562 - Project 562- A Photo Project by Matika Wilbur documenting Native America On January 18th 2014, Project 562 joined Quechan leaders and elders in prayerful opposition to the Ocotillo Wind Express Facility, responsible for the desecration of Ocotillo's Sacred Desert. We made a video about it, have a look: Vernon Smith, Quechan Tribal Member Ila May Dunsweiler, Quechan Language Instructor Preston Arroweed, Quechan/Kumni Tribal Member MATIKA will be a TED TALKER in New York CityI will be offering an TEDx talk in NYC dedicated to the topic, "Agents of Change" on Friday, March 28, 2014 sometime between 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (EDT), New York, NY. (I'll let you know when I know a time.) To learn more, please visit: Project 562 is currently accepting donations on Kickstarter until February 20 at 10PM (PST) here: you so much for all of your support!
List of peace activists This list of peace activists includes people who've proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods. Peace activists usually work with others in the overall peace movement to focus the world's attention on the irrationality of violent conflicts, decisions, and actions. They thus initiate and facilitate wide public dialogues aimed at nonviolently altering long-standing societal agreements directly related to, and held in place by, the various irrational, violent, habitual, and historically fearful thought-processes residing at the core of these conflicts, with the intention of peacefully ending the conflicts themselves.
Why I Put My Company on a Year-Long Sabbatical - Simon Cohen by Simon Cohen | 12:00 PM December 30, 2013 Last year, I placed my entire communications agency, Global Tolerance, on a year’s sabbatical. On the surface, it seemed like a crazy decision. I’d spent the past decade building the company from scratch, hiring a talented team, winning high-profile clients, from TED and The Gallup Organization to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Gandhi’s grandson, and increasing revenues every year. Why would I put all that on hold? The answer is simple: So we could come back even better. The very idea of a sabbatical, a rest from work, comes from the biblical sabbath, and a commandment to stop working the fields every seven years. For many years, Global Tolerance had been enjoying a daily 60-second sabbatical through a simple daily ritual. So how did I move from 60 seconds a day to a full year of everyone’s lives? On a personal level, my frenetic work building the company was beginning to take a toll at home. I also realized there was precedent.
Global Tolerance founder Simon Cohen gives away company worth up to $1.8 million Global Tolerance Founder Simon Cohen is giving away the company he took 11 years to build. Source: Supplied IT’S a pipe dream for many people to quit the rat-race and give up work for good. But one founder of a global PR firm, who has worked with clients from the Dalai Lama to Wallace and Gromit and the Prince of Wales, is actually going through with it. Global Tolerance’s founder and managing director Simon Cohen has launched a campaign to give away his company, valued at between $900,000 and $1.8 million. The deal includes 95 per cent ownership, $18,000 in cash, an international reputation with clients in the US and UK, current company assets and a decade’s worth of business contacts. See the full description of the position here. Mr Cohen outlined the reasons for his decision in a video on his website. He said recently becoming a father led to the “biggest growth year of his life” where he thought about his role as a “guardian” as opposed to owning something outright.
Ideas, anyone? Quotes "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Friedrich Nietzsche"Don't count the days, make the days count." - Muhammad Ali"Those who underestimate me, overestimate themselves." -- Pedrum Jamali."Condemnation without investigation is the height of the ignorance." -- Albert Einstein."You don't comb the mirror, you comb your own hair and the mirror changes." -- David Icke "...A REVOLUTION IS COMING....a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough, compassionate if we care enough, successful if we are fortunate enough, but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." -- Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court justice from 1916--1939 "There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. "Is everything a conspiracy?