What man has ever felt that all his thinking powers were absorbed, even by the most poignant mental misery that could occupy them?  In moments of imminent danger, the mind can still travel of its own accord over the past in spite of the present—in moments of bitter affliction; it can still recur to everyday trifles in spite of ourselves. Suffer any wrong that can be done to you, rather than come here! Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, so it is not difficult to understand why variations in ocean surface temperatures affect climate around the World. However, only within the past decade has numerical modeling begin to show how dramatic the effects maybe. In the winter 2013-2014, rainfall was below normal along the California Coast, and by Spring of 2014, strict water conservation and rationing programs were in the works. People were taking quick showers, instead of baths, cutting back on flushing the toilet, and running the dishwasher, and no longer deep-watering lawns and gardens because of the drought. However, drought is a relative term. This legality is not able to set thee free from thy burden. There are chords in the human mind. Health is everything.  If you live in Tucson, Arizona, or another desert city like Los Angeles, California, drought is what you expect nearly year around. If you live along the Western Coast or the Mid-Western states of America and other interior continents, where semiarid conditions prevail, prolonged drought conditions can be disastrous. 

As of 18 September 2014, the King fire in Placer and El Dorado, California has burned more than 77,000 acres, 3,000 people have been evacuated, 12,000 houses are being threaten, but no homes have been destroyed yet, as 4,000 fire fighters battle this blaze that is suspected to be a case of arson. Wayne Huntsman, age 37, has been arrested and charged with willfully and maliciously starting the King fire, in California. Wayne Huntsman, from Pollock Pines, has 4 prior felony convictions and a misdemeanor.  The King fire is costing $5,000,000.00 a day to fight and is destroying beautiful land and wildlife, as a result, Wayne Huntsman has been book, in jail, in a $10,000,000.00 bond for arson and desertification. Desertification refers to the conversions of grasslands. Misery generates hate. Arson, at one time, used to be punishable by death, especially if human life was lost in the fire. Special agents trained to investigate violent crimes of arson. Arson is typically committed with a carefully calculated plan to minimize the chance of detection. Arson is the act of intentionally setting fire to a building or other property, land, nature, Earth or structure. Setting off an explosive that causes a fire also qualifies as arson.  Originally, the person who started the fire had to mean to destroy the building completely. However, today, when states prosecute someone for arson, they no longer have to prove such intent. Partial damage, such as smoke damage or charring, is sufficient evidence that arson was intended. Arson is a felony, punishable by imprisonment. The length of the sentence depends on the extent of the damage and is usually longer if the building is one in which people live. Therefore, because arson is a crime, and the season is abnormally dry; be sure not to start a fire. Drought is nothing new. Yet, abnormally dry seasons may be part of a recurring feedback relationship between sea surfaces.

 Rain-fed cropland, or irrigated cropland to a more desert like state, with a drop in agriculture productivity of 10 percent or more. Worldwide, about 9 million square kilometers have become desertified over the past fifty years. At least 200,000 square kilometers are still being affected each year. Prolonged drought may accelerate desertification, as it did in the American Great Plains and The Yellow River, in China, many decades ago. Desertification could also be a result of overgrazing and over farming. In Africa, for example, there are too many cattle in the wrong places, Cattle require more water than the wild herbivores that are native to the region. This means the cattle have to move back and forth between grazing areas and watering holes. As they do, they animals trample grasses and compact the soil surface. In contrast, gazelles, elands, and other native herbivores obtain most (if not all) of the water they require fro, the plants they eat. They also are better at conserving water; little is lost in feces, compared to cattle. Research indicates, under federally regulated standards, ranches started and are composed of antelope, zebra, giraffe, ostrich, and other native herbivores, but cattle as a controlled group had some impressive results when it came to compared cost and yielding meat. Also, the range conditions were noted to have improved, not deteriorating.  So far, results are exceeding expectations. Native herds are also increasingly and steadily and yielding meat, without harming the environment. There are still some vexing problems to overcome.

African tribes have their own idea of what constitutes good meat, and some tribes view cattle as the symbols of wealth in their society. Most of the World’s prime agricultural land has long been exploited for crop or livestock production. Almost 21 percent of the Earth’s land is being used for agriculture, and another 28 percent is reported to be potentially suitable for cropland or grazing land. However, it potential productivity is so low the conversion may not be worth the cost. By the year 2050, nearly 80 percent of the Earth’s citizens will live in urban settings, and the human population is expected to increase by about 3 billion people. America will need about 25 percent more lands to grow enough food on to feed the citizens. However, if traditional farming practices continue as they are practiced today, most of our food will have to be imported from other countries. At present, throughout the United States or America, over 80 percent of the land that is suitable for raising crops. Historically, some 15 percent of that land has been laid waste by poor management practices, drought related conditions on land, and drought-sustaining atmospheric circulation patterns. However, many innovators are now using warehouses, abandon buildings and high-rises structures as a place to get beyond the obstacles of climate change. These projects are called Vertical farms.  Vertical farms are here to solve inherent issues of growing food crops in unpredictable climates, in drought and disease prone fields, and reduce pesticide usage and death from farm workers getting heat stroke.

Food can be grown year-round, in high-rise urban buildings, reducing the need for the carbon emitting transport of fruit and vegetables. The planting racks, represent crops, in a vertical farm and can be fed nutrients, by water conserving, soil, which is free hydroponic systems, and lit by LEDs that mimic sunlight, and will dramatically reduce evaporation of the water, from the soil.  These vertical farms are easy to control by drones or other management software, to ensure choreograph rotating racks of plants, so each member gets the same amount of light, and direct water pumps, to ensure moister and nutrients are evenly distributed. It could make food supplies more secure because production can continue even when extreme weather strikes, which will prevent price shock and supply shock. And as long as farmers are careful to protect their indoor farms from pests, vertical farming needs no herbicides or insecticides. They also conserve water far better than earthbound farming. Meanwhile, until American learns to use technology to control their problems, instead of letting problems control them, Mother Nature might look out for them. This winter rainy season , of 2014-2015, is expected to bring California some much needed rain, as we will experience Southern Oscillation. Southern Oscillation is basically a fluctuation in atmospheric pressure, at the Earth’s surface—specially, at Indonesia, Northern Australia, and the Southern Pacific. This area of the Southern Hemisphere is the World’s largest reservoir of warm water, and warmer, moisture-laden air raises here than anywhere else. Rainfall is also heavy here, and it releases much of the heat energy that drives the World’s air circulation system. 

Periodically, warm surface waters, of the western equatorial Pacific move eastward. The massive displacement of the warm water affects the prevailing winds, which accelerate the eastward movement. The movement is enough to displace the cooler waters of the Humboldt Current and prevent upwelling, causing a supply shock to the fishing industry because, and has catastrophic effects on anchoveta-eating birds as well as on the anchoveta industry. The interactions among the atmosphere, oceans, and land profoundly influence the World of life. There is an interrelatedness of ocean surface temperatures, the atmosphere, and the land is especially clear through studies of the El Nino Southern Oscillation. This recurring phenomenon is accompanied by abnormal drought conditions, in many parts of the World. Every two to seven years, the warm reservoir of water located in the Southern Hemisphere, which is the World’s largest supply, and the associated heavy rainfall move eastward. This causes the prevailing surface winds, in the western equatorial Pacific, to increase speed. The stronger wins have a more pronounced effect on dragging the ocean surface waters eastward. Upper ocean currents are affected to the extent that the westward transport of water slows down and the eastward transport increases. More warm water, in the vast reservoir moves east—and so on in a feedback loop between the ocean and the atmosphere. The rainfall pattern in the Pacific Ocean and Indian Oceans are massively dislocated when El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) warm episodes occur.

The first two months of 1998 were the warmest and wettest, at the time, in the 104-year record of temperatures and precipitation measurements for the contiguous 48 states. In the rainy season of 1997-1998, for the three-month period (December – February), the normal precipitation value for the city of Sacramento, California is 6.35 inches. California experienced vital monsoon rains. Month after month (December, January and February), record rainfall drenched the arid and semiarid coast and valleys of California in the winter of 1997-1998. This winter’s figure was 7.96 inches, compared with the record 8.5 inches in 1932-1933. To continue show the power of Southern Oscillation–California and North Dakota had their wettest February on record for the winter of 1997-1998. Florida, Maryland, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Virginia had their second wettest February, since records began in 1895. And the warmest February, on record, too place in much of the upper Midwest and parts of the East, for this time period, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Due to the temperature increase, during historically cool months, there was a Nationwide energy savings were estimated at 10 percent (i.e., 10 percent lower heating costs as compared to normal winter). These are the patterns one would typically expect the strong El Nino on top of the continuing gradual increase of temperature and precipitation set the stage for many all-time state records. Numerical models are now being used to study these and other episodes of climate change a few seasons in advance. More reliable forecasting should follow when more and better observations are made of the interrelated systems of the ocean, land, and atmosphere.

Forecasters are still calling for a 65 percent chance of El Nino conditions being met, in the next few months of 2014, by the Northern Hemisphere this winter–with a 55 percent chance El Nino Southern Oscillation will start during September, October, or November.  El Niño might increase rainfall, in California, and bring relief to the severe drought there. In the western United States, drought often brings a double punch: water shortfall plus wildfires. The West of America, as a whole has experienced a relatively quiet fire season thus far, with fewer than 3 million acres burned between January 2014 and September 2014, compared to the 10-year average of 5.4 million acres typically consumed by fire. However, California is well ahead of its five year average fire patterns.  A substantial increase in fire size and area burned in the Southwest over the past 30 years; these trends are projected to continue increasing in the future.  The reason is intuitive: warmer temperatures, earlier springs, and faster snowmelt are driving the increases, and these trends are expected to continue along with increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. One day, humans are going to have to grow up and learn to manage themselves and the planet.  Law and all forms of law are only deductions made by the intelligence from the right instincts of the people’s heart. The crime of having been maligned unjustly–resources are scares, in all countries, and very few materials are discarded, expect for in America. Affluent counties, like the United States of America, especially, has a throwaway mentality, which prevails.

Human capital uses something once, discards it, and then buys another one. Also, instead of repairing cars, many consumers drive them until they fall apart and buy a new one. In some countries, a person is lucky just to have one car, and in China, the license plate alone cost $5000.00 and many cars cost more than some homes. Only the wealthy people in China have nice cars. As a result of consumer mentality– I have to have the best and newest product, billions of metric tons of solid wastes are dumped, burned, and buried annually, in the United States alone. In 2013, Americans generated about 255 million tons of trash. All of this trash is then taken to a landfill, where it is stored, until it decomposes. However, the problem is that much of the trash is toxic and is polluting the land and the water and making animals sick, who are feeding off of the waste.  In addition, it is estimated that 60 billion beverage containers are part of the 255 million tons of trash, and one half of solid waste are paper (so much for the politically motivated plastic bag ban). Many people believe that paper bags are an alternative to plastic, but half of the waste in landfills is paper. Furthermore, it takes more than 500,000 trees, which produce oxygen that cleans the air, just to supply the Sunday newspaper. Every week, if everyone in the United States of America recycled even one out of ten newspapers, we could save 25 million trees a year. Besides this, using recycled paper reduces air pollution that results from paper manufacture by 95 percent. And recycling paper takes 30 to 50 percent less energy than making new paper.

 Associated with the throwaway mentality is a serious issue that is unique in the World of life what to do with solid wastes. I thought it will be a good idea to haul solid waste into space, and drop it back down to Earth, so it could disintegrate when it hits the atmosphere, but I am not sure if NASA or American Airlines likes this plan, as it could have some unintended consequences. Instead of recycling materials, as is done in natural ecosystems, we bury them in landfills or burn them in incinerators. Incinerators add some toxic pollutants to the air and leave a highly toxic ash that must be disposed of safely. In any event, land available and acceptable for landfills is scares because landfills eventually leak, and pose a threat to groundwater. A transition from a throw away mentality to one based on recycling and reuse is feasible. Find ways to repurpose items before you end their lifecycle. It is affordable, and we have the technology to do it. Citizens can influence manufactures by refusing to buy good that are lavishly wrapped and boxed, packaged in indestructible containers, and designed for a one-time use. Remember McDonalds burgers used to come in those cute boxes? Well, now they are simply wrapped in wax paper. Individuals can ask the local post office to turn off their daily flow of junk mail (if we really want to save the environment, it goes beyond banning plastic bags). Unsolicited mail wastes an astounding amount of paper, time, and energy—and it means higher postage rates and gasoline prices for everyone, also adds more pollution to the air and landfills.

Finally, individuals can urge local governments to develop well-designed, large-scale resources recovery centers. Such a plant has been operating in Saugus, Massachusetts. With such systems, existing dumps and landfills would be urban mines, from which usable materials can be stored. After all, the will of sovereigns is generally admitted as a law. Bitter is the agony of self-reproach, where misery follows hardness of heart! Crack Cocaine is known as the humble man’s cocaine. It is a central nervous system stimulator. Crack Cocaine became popular in the 1980s mostly in urban areas because of marketing, availability, and affordability of the substance. Crack cocaine has been reported to have a powerful and fast intoxicating effect. The high from crack cocaine is descried as immediate, intense and euphoric, it is said to make one feel powerful, and it is extremely addictive.  Crack cocaine is made from powder cocaine, water, ammonia or sodium, and bicarbonate also known as baking soda. The mixture is then boiled, filtered, clouded, dried, and cut into small rocks or pebbles.  These small rocks, crack cocaine, are typically white or tan. Crack cocaine is generally ingested by crushing the rocks into a fine powder and snorting, mixing with water and using an instrument to inject the solution in the bloodline, and it can also be smoked in a glass pipe. People who use needles to inject crack cocaine run the risk of getting diseases that can be deadly from sharing unclean instruments.

 Crack cocaine is most often smoked. Crack cocaine got its name because of the crackling sounds it makes when it is being smoked in a glass pipe. It makes some feel energized, and they do not know the dangerous impact from the drug. Crack cocaine or rocks increase the body temperature, blood pressure and heart rate.  Use of rocks or crack can cause heart attacks, respiratory failure, stroke, seizures, abdominal pain and nausea.  Crack can also cause sudden death, upon first use, or shortly after. Crack rocks are between 75 up to 90 percent cocaine. Because of the low cost crack cocaine, it is also of interest to young suburban kids and young adults. Crack cocaine has been used by 8.6 million people 12 and over and 6.9 percent of people between the ages of 18 -25 admitted to using this dangerous substance.  Crack cocaine is dangerous because it causes a short intense high, and shortly after is followed by a forceful downheartedness, which leaves the users with a robust and ceaseless thirst for more of the drug. Within four years, 25 percent of the people who use cocaine become addicted. Crack cocaine also has some very powerful side effects.  Smoking crack cocaine is dangerous because of the toxic fumes, the damages it can do to the lungs and body, and because the pipe can burn one’s lip. There is no safe way to ingest crack. Crack can also cause long term damage to the heart, liver and kidneys.  It is also said to cause sleep deprivation, loss of appetite and malnutrition. 

People who use crack cocaine are said to behave aggressively, violent, and bizarre.  It has been suggested that people will go as far as murdering someone just for another rock.  Crack cocaine also cause hallucinations, irritability, panic, and psychosis, shortness of breath, constricted blood vessels, and bleeding.  Furthermore, Crack cocaine has been illegal since the 1914 tax act because it can be destructive, highly addictive and extremely dangerous. 90 percent of cocaine that makes it to the United States comes from Columbia. There are about 567,000 known users of crack cocaine in the United States. It has been reported that yearly about 42,000 people are admitted to hospital emergency rooms because of injuries from crack cocaine. Crack cocaine is also associated with prostitution, violent crimes and gang related crimes. Another warning about using crack cocaine is it comes with other harsh punishments. Since the war on drugs went into effect, the sentences for those who abuse crack cocaine more stringent than it is for those who use pure cocaine. Cocaine users are generally more affluent, so they can afford pure cocaine, snow. It is called snow because it is so pure and white, as it does not have fillers in it like crack cocaine does.  In fact, if one is arrested with 28 grams of crack cocaine, they will serve a mandatory minimum five-year prison sentence.  However, if cocaine users are arrested to trigger the threshold for the mandatory minimum five-year prison sentence, that person must be caught with 500 grams of pure cocaine.  Some say the higher penalty is to teach a lesson, but others believe that this is economic discrimination.

Critics say that the law goes easier on cocaine offenders because they are typically well-off, whereas users of crack cocaine are considered less important to society because they generally earn less, and may not contribute as much financially to the system. Many youths are addicted to Marijuana these days. The drug is viewed as cool and safe because it is natural, but it may be a very dangerous drug. Marijuana can make a pre-existing mental problem worse, it could create a new psychotic mental issue, or it may cause a drug-induced psychosis. Marijuana causes a dysfunction in the brain, which cause a person to feel intoxicated, or unstable. Marijuana can make a person feel a loss of inhibition, confusion, unable to concentrate, and it can also affect motor skills, which make it unsafe to drive or operate heavy machinery.  Marijuana can also make one’s breath smell foul and cause one to extremely over eat, even when they are not hungry. It can basically put you in a trace, where you are unaware of what you are doing and you may not even remember the next day. A lot of marijuana is laced with even more dangerous drugs like PCP, speed, cocaine and more. There have been cases of people ending up in the hospital from smoking a bad batch of marijuana. Some have never even regained their total cognitive function. Marijuana also causes people to hear things and see things that are not there. So it can be very dangerous. People who smoke marijuana all the time are called burnouts. They do not notice it, but others can tell that their minds are gone because they cannot control the drug, and they are slow and lethargic. And marijuana is addictive. The more you smoke it, the more you will crave it. Also, if you are stopped while being high on marijuana, you can go to jail and lose your license.

Marijuana can cause mental problems or make mental problems worse. Please be safe, and if you need to relax, talk to your doctor, they can help. “Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster,” William Randolph Hearst. Tyra Banks, and American Supermodel will tell you, if you have to pay to get a job, it is a scam. Therefore, does it make sense to go into debt over an education? You can simply get a job, work, save money, and when you have enough money to pay for college, you can decide if you are happy with your career, still want to go to college, or you could use the money you saved as a down payment on a house or for a new car. College is a Gamble, much like playing the stock market, it can be risky and there is no guaranteed pay off.  Students are graduating college, strapped with up to $100,000 in debt from education loans, and unable to find jobs. 13.5 million people in America are actively seeking jobs. Many of these people thought going to college means they have a right to jobs and are better qualified than others, but that many not be the case. Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple, only attended one semester of college, but helped Apple to reach record high profits and under his direction, many new and innovative products have been produced. Dean Kamen is another great example; he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and dropped out right before graduation. Mr. Kamen went on to invent the Segway and hold more than 80 patents. Furthermore, David Karp, at the age of 15, dropped out of the elite Bronx High School of Science and went on to develop Tumblr, which is a very popular social networking tool.

In China, the reality that college may not be a great investment is also starting to set in. 6.8 million students are graduating from college in China this year, and many of them are learning a few new lessons.  Expects are unsure if the job market can support so many graduates, and these new graduates have to compete with the 2 million graduates, who did not find jobs last year.  However, the Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS) said 89.6 percent of graduates found jobs within 6 months. CASS also reported that the salary for these jobs was 2,500 yuan, which is slightly under the 3,000 yuan a month these graduates expected. Nevertheless, some are saying it is very hard to find a job because of the 1999 Education Expansion Program, which sent millions of new students to the University. Inadvertently, these graduates have flooded the job market, as the economy has not grown enough to support them. Professionals are saying, it may be necessary to lower one’s expectations, take the lower wages, gain experience, and learn skills and adapt to working with others. With the job markets in America and in China not able to fulfill everyone’s expectations, Occupy Wall Street is spreading to China.  8 December 2011, 3,000 workers from Southern China’s city of Shenzhen, fearful of benefits not being guaranteed because of a recent acquisition of U.S. Company Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, demonstrated their concerns by walking off the job. Typically, in China, Chinese people do not oppose the government; it is unheard of to go up against the government, so this is very concerning.

  China would like for the U.S. and E.U. to take a more aggressive and long-term approach to their debt issues, so they do not keep spreading to the rest of the world.  In contrast to the complaints of some, China still appears to be doing well. In fact, China was imported $750 Billion, which created 18 million jobs worldwide.  China has also attracted more than $700 Billion from 347 foreign companies to invest in China. While American is losing jobs, China is still growing. Perhaps instead of the American government spending $121.2 Billion on an unemployment fund, that fund should be used to create government jobs, so if and when people are laid off, they can turn to the government employment fund and get a job. That way, displaced workers are contributing to the economy, learning skills, and paying taxes and able to pay their bills. Also, college does not guarantee success. With Universities like California State University being $650 Million and debt and fees keep going up, I would worry about the quality of education my child is receiving.  If you want to go to college, go, but understand, you may not find a job upon graduation.  In America, 22.4 percent of college graduates are not working, 22 percent are working in jobs, which do not require a degree, and 55.6 percent of graduates are employed at skill level. College is a great tool, but some of the World’s most successful people have not graduated from college. It is important to keep your options open, so if you can find a great job, without going to college, take it.  It may also be a benefit to get a certificate or learn a trade. All I am saying is do not gamble, if you have other options. Not only do you have to study in college, but it is a competitive environment.

Along with other students, the administration, staff and some of the professors may not want to see you graduate and they will go through extremes to may obtaining an education a very unpleasing and almost impossible situation.  If the work does not challenge you, and they want you to drop out, students, staff and professors will team up against you. If they cannot get you to react, they will cut your funding. So just keep that in mind. If you go to college and collect debt, you may not be able to buy a home later in life, student loans can also mess up your credit and it may delay starting a family. “We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others,” says William Randolph Hearst. No one can send his time properly who does not live by some rule.  You guys are rude, you will see someone crossing the street in the cross walk and will almost run them over and wave as if you did nothing wrong. You hit someone, you could kill them. Also, you guys act like heathens, you wake up in the morning cursing and saying rude things, even if women and children are around. And then many of you act stupid. And I must say, with how close you guys are to dogs, sleeping with them, kissing them in the mouth and putting wigs and dressed on your dog, leaves me to believe you guys are participating in bestiality. The Bible, which is the word of God, your creator reports, “Cursed is the person who has sexual relations with any animal,” Deuteronomy 27:21.

Supposing that all human souls are equal; yet the very design of the different machines in which they are enclosed is to super-induce a temporary difference on their original equality; a difference adapted to the different purposes for which they are designed by Providence in the transitory state. When those purposes are at an end, this difference will be at an end. Both God and Nature have designed a very apparent difference in the minds of both sexes, as wee as in the peculiar beauties of their persons. Were it not, so their offices would be confounded, and the women would not perhaps so readily submit to those domestic ones in which it is their province to shone, and the men would be allotted the distaff, or the needle. Remember back in the day, when you wanted the contact information for a business or person, you would pick up the telephone and dial 411? Well, you will really understand this next passage after we tie the conclusion with that statement.  “Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as you were told to, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody, reports ” Thessalonians 4.11.

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