Organic Pest Control Recipes There are numerous ways you can keep pests out of your home and garden without chemicals. When making pest control recipes, just be sure to play close attention to whether the recipe is organic or simply non-toxic. Organic Versus Non-Toxic Organic pest control and non-toxic pest control often get lumped into the same category. While non-toxic pest control is much better than the toxic variety, many of the ingredients used to make non-toxic pest sprays contain inorganic materials such as dishwashing soap or non-organic brands of bar soap. These products, while not as dangerous as herbicides and pesticides, still contain toxic or non-organic chemicals. The following are some useful organic recipes to help control a few common garden pests. Spray to Control Nematodes Nematodes are tiny parasitic worms that live in your soil. Ingredients 3 tablespoons of molasses4 cups of water Instructions Mix the molasses and water in a spray bottle and shake vigorously. Slug Remover Spray to Remove Aphids
Paid for by the Council of Elrond. Sorry, we're playing FIFA here... Have a very Murray Christmas. Don't freak out... A reptile dysfunction. My dog is cooler than your dog. Free strips of paper!!! Socrates (In The Form Of A 9-Year-Old) Shows Up In A Suburban Backyard In Washington : Krulwich Wonders... When he rang the doorbell, Zia hadn't planned to step inside. He was there to pick up his fiancee who was babysitting, but she couldn't leave (the parents were running late) so Zia agreed to hang out for a bit. His fiancee said, "Let me introduce you to the kids" — the 2-year-old girl, the 7-year-old boy and, most important, squatting, with no shoes on, surrounded by ants on the back patio, the oldest — the 9-year-old — the one he would make world-famous on YouTube. This is the boy he now calls "The Philosopher." Nine is what fourth-graders are. Wait! The boy looked up, started to answer, and almost immediately Zia thought, "Wait!" The boy didn't mind. We all know smart kids, who are curious, who collect information. But this 9-year-old — what he knows is different. I Could Be Wrong ... Where, I wondered, did he learn about multiverses, free will, the odds of intelligent life in the universe? What's going on in this house? This, he thinks, may be the key.
A Modest Proposal: A Day of Atonement for all the World's Religions | Think Tank 2013 was another year that featured plenty of religious conflict. School of Life co-founder and author Alain de Botton proposes a solution that may seem novel because we happen to act on it so rarely. When you have offended someone, you need to apologize. In Judaism, a day is set aside just for this purpose, and Botton says Judaism is "one of the wiser religions in this regard." Botton says this ritual is so important because we're simply not good at apologizing on our own. And so in the current context we might push Botton's argument to its logical conclusion: should there be a day of atonement between all of the world's religions? Watch the video here: What's the Significance? In the political context, apologies are often seen as signs of weakness. Israel-Loves-Iran is a viral campaign that is made up of Israelis and Iranians alike posting pictures and messages to each other, such as this one from an Iranian soldier: Image courtesy of Shutterstock
2009: A Tale of Two TImelines There have been a number of initiatives, all over the internet, proposing and organizing various gatherings, group meditations, and other collective activities intended to prevent unfavorable events and usher in more beneficial outcomes for us all. We can only applaud these. We encourage ALL activity that has as a genuine intention the betterment of conditions for mankind. As we have often publicly stated, Project Camelot is just part of an enormous worldwide team effort to move Planet Earth away from potential bad times ahead. But some of these initiatives are founded on false premises. Simply put, there's a lot of nonsense out there. Spy satellite programs, such as Misty, launched in 1990 by NASA's STS-36, began putting in place beam technologies that often target New Age channelers and meditators, fooling them into thinking they are in touch with their higher self, or an alien entity. As we've stated clearly many times, of course not all of our witnesses agree fully.
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A.I. Answering Service & Call Center - Mayo and Beer When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar...and the beer. A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. was. into the jar. open areas between the golf balls. the jar was full. box of sand and poured it into the jar. everything else. responded with an unanimous "yes." cans of beer from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. laughed. "Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. important things--your family, your children, your health, your friends, your favorite passions--things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
Cindy Wigglesworth: Ego, Part 1: Ego Is Like a Hyperactive Robot When you are driving along the road, do you sometimes engage in a conversation with yourself? I do. I wish I could run a tape recorder on my brain. My internal arguments would be a bit embarrassing to replay -- but they are part of being human. Watching my mind at work has been such a humbling and wisdom-building process. The robot metaphor is powerful because our egos often run on automatic programming. Here is a theoretical example. The rumor mill is now off and running! Why do we stir up such drama? But there are two serious problems we experience with this ego-fear system: 1. 2. Our ego dumbs us down to keep us safe. So what is the solution? We can learn to calm the ego and put "Higher Self" in the driver's seat of our lives. When I feel my own drama story rolling out, I breathe, and then I thank my ego for being alert and wanting to protect me. Here are some possible alternative stories (interpretations) for the boss's upset: For more by Cindy Wigglesworth, click here.