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NEWSLETTERS Modern Homesteading Movement
You may have a fresh start at any moment you choose, for this thing
we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. ---Mary Pickford 1) Carla's on the Road Again 2) News Bits a) Bargain Health Care b) Bhutan Outlaws Plastic Bags, Secondhand Cars, Tobacco c) Silicone Breast Implant Rupture Rate 93% d) Panasonic Announces Improved New Battery e) China Continues Artificial Cheap Currency f) Most Homeschool Friendly States? g) Bankruptcies Rise After Casino Comes to Town h) Kids, Psychiatric Drugs, Violence? i) Wages Fall; Gas Prices Rise j) Spammer Goes to Jail k) New Books on Bees l) Firefighters Ask Builders to Avoid PVC Materials m) History of Polio 1) Carla's on the Road Again Hello, Friends! You won't be receiving another MHM newsletter for several weeks. Thursday morning, we'll be on the road again headed for speaking events, first in California, then Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Utah. Go to www.carlaemery.com to see the latest schedule. There are lots of interesting new details. It's been a busy week: getting Donna, our housesitter (found this jewel through the Caretaker Gazette) and her six-year-old daughter, Cheyenne, settled in and familiar with our garden and livestock care routines has taken time. I see how much Donna is learning about gardening and livestock care. I see how much Cheyenne is enjoying the rabbits (buck, does, teenagers, babies), and poultry--guinea, 15 different kinds of chickens, geese, turkeys--some of which are babies, some half-grown, some adult. It got me to thinking... Is it possible that any of you readers might like to make your family vacation this year a visit to our homestead? We could offer our guest room, plus enough spare mattresses to sleep any number of additional bodies in our living room. (Having raised seven children myself, I'm comfortable with the logistics of a big family.) I could teach the basics of my system of Radical Gardening, plus how I care for the critters at their various ages and stages. Thus we could house you (humbly), and feed you (mostly from the homestead). What might that be worth to you? You can see from the itinerary which weeks we would be home to host you. Let me know if you're interested and which week or weeks you want to come for. If I don't get your e-mail before we leave, I'll answer it in early May, after we get back. 2) News Bits a) Bargain Health Care Pregnant women "are by necessity and ingenuity paving the way" in the consumer-driven healthcare trend, the Wall Street Journal reported this week. According to the Journal, an increasing number of women do not have health coverage for pregnancy services so they independently hunt for the best price and quality care. http://bcbshealthissues.com/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=154897 The AP/Las Vegas Sun and the New York Times recently published articles about how uninsured patients get lower-cost healthcare, such as traveling abroad (India) for healthcare. http://bcbshealthissues.com/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=155370 b) Bhutan Outlaws Plastic Bags, Secondhand Cars, and Tobacco Along with outlawing plastic bags and secondhand cars, Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom nestled in the clouds between China and India, has become the first country in the world to completely ban tobacco sales. http://www.emagazine.com/view/?2298 c) Silicone Breast Implant Rupture Rate 93% Health regulators estimate that up to 93 percent of silicone breast implants ruptured within 10 years. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/07/politics/07breast.html?th&emc=th d) Panasonic Announces Improved New Battery In June, Panasonic will introduce Oxyride batteries: AA and AAA disposable batteries that the company calls "the most significant developments in primary battery technology in 40 years." According to Panasonic, these batteries last up to twice as long as premium alkaline batteries like Duracell Ultra ($5 for four), yet cost the same as regular alkalines ($4 for four). Oxyride batteries are also supposed to deliver more power. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/07/technology/circuits/07pogue.html?th&emc=th e) China Continues Artificial Cheap Currency "Since China is willing to spend about $200 billion annually to prevent its currency from rising against the dollar, there is little prospect that the bilateral U.S.-China trade deficit will decline." This means that we'll continue to have Chinese goods flooding into the U.S. and growing U.S. trade deficits. "Experts are guessing that Wal-Mart alone will increase imports by $75 billion over the next five years, many of those goods coming from China." http://americaneconomicalert.org/news_item.asp?NID=1483077 Made in China, Sold Everywhere... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/business/worldbusiness/09yuan.html?th&emc=th f) Most Homeschool Friendly States? "Ten states have no reporting requirements and are considered the most homeschool friendly; 13 states and Washington, D.C. are considered low regulation states only requiring parents to notify the state or district of their intent to homeschool; 16 states are considered moderate-regulation and require registration and test scores or evaluation of progress; and 11 states are considered high regulation, requiring notification, testing and additional measures, such as evaluation by a state-approved educator." http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/ps-hng040605.php g) Bankruptcies Rise When Casino Moves Near A new study finds that, after a casino has come to town for several years, personal bankruptcies rise. http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0408/p02s01-ussc.html?s=hns h) Kids, Psychiatric Drugs, Violence? http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn04022005.html i) Wages Drop. Gas Prices Rise. Wages for the average American worker fell last year, after adjusting for inflation - the first such drop in nearly a decade. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/business/12wages.html?th&emc=th "The government projected on Thursday that gasoline prices would surge even higher in coming weeks and remain high through the summer..." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/08/politics/08bush.html?th&emc=th j) Spammer Goes to Jail Jeremy Jaynes, who was convicted in November in the nation's first felony case against illegal computer spamming, was sentenced late last week to nine years in prison for bombarding Internet users with the junk e-mails. His attorneys plan an appeal, claiming the sentence is unduly harsh for a violation of a 2003 Virginia law that had only been on the books weeks before Jaynes sent the spam e-mails. k) New Books on Bees http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0412/p15s01-bogn.html?s=hns l) Firefighters Ask Builders to Avoid PVC Materials http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/how-to-find-and-avoid-toxic-vi m) History of Polio http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/health/12essa.html?th&emc=th Back to Newsletters |
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