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		<title>Global Warning?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Climate change is in the news.  And it&#8217;s not just the UN Climate Change Commission in Bali, which recently completed negotiations for its new Bali Roadmap, the successor pact to the Kyoto Protocols regarding greenhouse gas emissions, slated to go into effect in 2013.   News about all sorts of crazy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Climate change is in the news.  And it&#8217;s not just the UN Climate Change Commission in Bali, which recently completed negotiations for its new <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071216144144.htm"><strong>Bali Roadmap</strong></a>, the successor pact to the Kyoto Protocols regarding greenhouse gas emissions, slated to go into effect in 2013.   News about all sorts of crazy weather patterns and climate-related disasters seems to be dominating much of the mainstream.  Devastating floods and droughts worldwide.  Rising sea levels.  Wicked storms.  Sunburns in <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/4326380a11.html"><strong>Antarctica</strong></a>.  Italy&#8217;s <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/12/17/eaitaly117.xml"><strong>woodlands dying</strong></a>.  The <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/bees.cfm"><strong>vanishing</strong></a> of the bees – <a href="http://www.vanishingbees.com/trailer.html"><strong>here&#8217;s a trailer</strong></a> for a documentary about that.  At this point few are denying that there is something going on.  But when <a href="http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/286908"><strong>Presidential candidates</strong></a> are lining up for the opportunity to use climate change to their advantage, and when <a href="http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2007/05/09/murdoch/index.html?source=daily"><strong>Rupert Murdoch</strong></a> is vocally pushing the issue on us, I must cry <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord"><strong>fnord</strong></a>.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">What&#8217;s causing the apparent changes  is up for debate everywhere except <a href="http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19626354.800-news-review-2007-reality-of-climate-change-hits-home.html"><strong>in the mainstream</strong></a>, which insists global warming is our own fault and that reducing emissions and going green is the only answer.  Those who dare debate this anymore are accused of creating propaganda for the oil industry, or being mean-spirited Al Gore-haters; or perhaps, of  just being <a href="http://www.junkscience.com/"><strong>crazy paranoids</strong></a>.  Certainly I would never argue with going green; fossil fuels <em>are</em> dangerous and polluting, not to mention ridiculous (free energy, anyone?) and very expensive nowadays – which also makes me wonder; why would these guys push the cause if they&#8217;re only going to lose their precious oil dollars?  Are they all looking to make their next fortunes in corn-based ethanol instead (or poised to rake it in on wheat futures when <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/17/europe/food.php"><strong>world food supplies </strong></a>are depleted), or just falling onto the politically-correct bandwagon; or, is there some other agenda lurking in the background?</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Usually, if there&#8217;s hype, there&#8217;s also cover-up.  <a href="http://www.knowingtruth.com/"><strong>Here is a site </strong></a>that lists articles about many other climate change opinions which I found it interesting, especially the articles about cosmic rays, the sun and other planets in our solar system also heating up.  Could it be, perchance, something much larger going on?  Something that might cause global panic if it made the news?  Better sweep those notions into the lunatic fringe &#8211; no room for that in the mainstream.  Too messy.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">However, as this gentleman points out in <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article3074943.ece"><strong>The Times</strong></a>, “chaos theory rules.”  With all the various potential contributors to climate change, how to know for sure what the exact cause is, especially since we&#8217;ve only been keeping records for a relatively short period, compared to vast geologic time?  Even a large volcanic eruption can throw off the climate, as evidenced by this slice of history picked up by The Economist about the extraordinary <a href="http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10311405"><strong>summer of 1783</strong></a>.  Or how about <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071212201437.htm"><strong>this article</strong></a> about ancient global warming?</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">So, maybe it&#8217;s just a minor blurp in the climate cycle; an exchange of gases or just a combination of elements that&#8217;s causing only slight deviations which seem larger due to our limited scope in time, or the huge population now present on the planet.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Or, maybe it&#8217;s not.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Maybe there really is a Dark Star, a Nemesis <a href="http://surfingthetao.com/2007/05/24/cosmic-perturber/"><strong>sister sun</strong></a>, an extra planet or some other celestial body on it&#8217;s way towards us, threatening our Earth&#8217;s delicate balance like a spinning top.  Laura Knight-Jadczyk&#8217;s <a href="http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/sitchin2.htm"><strong>intriguing article </strong></a> caught my eye, especially her point involving the fractal and multidimensional structure of space-time and the concept of cosmic, quantum jumps within it.  And yet, it&#8217;s only part of the <a href="http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0107/x-approach3.html"><strong>lunatic fringe</strong></a>, at this point, to be sure.  All I&#8217;m suggesting is – pay attention.  Read up on everything, and don&#8217;t be fooled.  Sure; buy a hybrid, recycle and install solar panels.  <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/4323956a19716.html"><strong>Head off to the hills,</strong></a> if you must.  But notice unusual puzzles, like <a href="http://starbulletin.com/2007/12/15/news/story06.html"><strong>comets going missing</strong></a>, controversial pyramids in <a href="http://www.bosnianpyramid.com/"><strong>Bosnia</strong></a> or <a href="http://www.philipcoppens.com/nap_art10.html"><strong>Russia</strong></a>, and even the Mayan calendar 2012 end date.  Just be prepared, be wise to the hype and resistant to the propaganda.  Maybe the ancients were trying to tell us something – something the powers-that-be don&#8217;t want us to know.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">From the <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/surthetao-20/detail/1597720054/104-3607646-1863118"><strong>Kolbrin Bible</strong></a>:</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">MAN:3:1 Men forget the days of the Destroyer.  Only the wise know where it went and that it will return in its appointed hour.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">MAN:3:4-6 When blood drops upon the Earth, the Destroyer will appear, and mountains will open up and belch forth fire and ashes.  Trees will be destroyed and all living things engulfed.  Waters will be swallowed up by the land, and seas will boil&#8230;The people will scatter in madness.  They will&#8230;seek refuge within dens in the Earth.  Terror will eat away their hearts&#8230;They will be eaten up in the flames of wrath and consumed by the breath of the Destroyer.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">MAN:3:7  Thus it was in the Days of Heavenly Wrath, which have gone, and thus it will be in the Days of Doom when it comes again.  The times of its coming and going are known unto the wise.  These are the signs and times which shall precede the Destroyer&#8217;s return: A hundred and ten generations shall pass unto the West, and nations will rise and fall.  Men will flying the air as birds and swim in the seas as fishes.  Men will talk peace one with another&#8217; hypocrisy and deceit shall have their day.  Women will be as men and men as women; passion will be a plaything of men.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">GLN:4:24-26 &#8230;There, riding on a great black rolling cloud, came the Destroyer, newly released from the confines of the sky vaults, and she raged about the Heavens, for it was her day of judgment.  The beast with her opened its mouth and belched forth fire, hot stones and a vile smoke.  It covered the whole sky above and the meeting place of Earth and Heaven could no longer be seen.  In the evening, the places of the stars were changed, they rolled across the sky to new stations; then, the floodwaters came&#8230;The pillars of Heaven were broken and fell down to Earth.  The skyvault was rent and broken; the whole of creation was in chaos.  The stars in the Heavens were loosened from their places, so they dashed about in confusion.  There was a revolt on high; a new ruler appeared there and swept across the sky in majesty.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in">CRT:4:5-9 Then came the day when all things became still and apprehensive, for God caused a sign to appear in the Heavens, so that men should know the Earth would be afflicted, and the sign was a strange star&#8230;The star grew and waxed to a great brightness and was awesome to behold&#8230;He was clothed with smoke and fire.  He carried lightnings in His hand, and His breath, falling upon the Earth, brought forth brimstone and embers&#8230;the sun and moon hid themselves in fear and there was a heavy darkness over the face of the Earth&#8230;Great fires and smoke rose up from the ground and men gasped for air.  The land was rent asunder and swept clean by a mighty deluge of waters.  A hole opened up in the middle of the land; the waters entered, and it sank beneath the seas.</p>
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		<title>Notes from the Surf XII</title>
		<link>http://surfingthetao.com/2007/09/27/notes-from-the-surf-xii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
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The lava flow from Kilauea is still slowly making its way towards a local community.  For more, updates are posted at this site.


Check out this cool video Galactic Alignment, Floyd and the Hyperdimensional Bees by Through the Looking Glass and Labyrinth of the Psychonaut&#8216;s Steve Willner, aka Soundlessdawn.  Some interesting things to think [...]]]></description>
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<li>The lava flow from Kilauea is <a href="http://starbulletin.com/2007/09/24/news/story02.html"><strong>still slowly making its way</strong></a> towards a local community.  For more, updates are posted at <a href="http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/maps.html"><strong>this site</strong></a>.</li>
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<li>Check out this cool video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1o_P-u1yXA"><strong>Galactic Alignment, Floyd and the Hyperdimensional Bees</strong> </a>by <a href="http://peeringthrough.blogspot.com/2007/09/galactic-alignment-floyd-and.html"><em><strong>Through the Looking Glass</strong></em></a> and <a href="http://labyrinthofthepsychonaut.blogspot.com/2007/09/birds-and-bees.html"><em><strong>Labyrinth of the Psychonaut</strong></em><strong>&#8216;s</strong></a> Steve Willner, aka <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/soundlessdawn"><strong>Soundlessdawn</strong></a>.  Some interesting things to think about to say the least.</li>
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<li>The <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/70f2a23c-6b83-11dc-863b-0000779fd2ac.html"><strong>Financial Times reports</strong></a> the Chinese, including senior level government and business officials, are shocked by the revelation that our Federal Reserve is a privately held bank in close relationship with the Rothschild banking dynasty.  Keep an eye on financial markets and China.</li>
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<li><a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/09/russian-mind-co.html"><strong>Russian mind control to be tested for U.S. Airports</strong></a>.</li>
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<li>Jenny McCarthy <a href="http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/features_julieshealthclub/2007/09/jenny-mccarthy-.html"><strong>caused a buzz</strong></a> when she appeared on Oprah talking about her son&#8217;s autism and the much-debated MMR vaccine which many parents believe is responsible for the sudden onset of the condition in their previously unaffected children.  Ms. McCarthy&#8217;s opinion that she&#8217;s not against vaccines in general, but believes more studies should be done regarding the &#8216;one size fits all&#8217; approach, is sensible in my opinion.</li>
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<li><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070920/sc_nm/arctic_crops_vault_dc"><strong>Doomsday seed vault</strong></a> under construction in Norway.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57762"><strong>Mexican official urges</strong></a> North American Union; <a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/113706.html"><strong>French President urges </strong></a>New World Order.</li>
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<li>Update on the strange, illness-causing meteorite in Peru; <a href="http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/feedback/20-09-2007/97410-american_spy_satellite-0"><strong>the Russians think</strong></a> it&#8217;s radiation from a downed spy satellite, while <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070921-meteor-peru.html"><strong>National Geographic reports</strong></a> it&#8217;s arsenic poisoning from an unusual meteor.</li>
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<li>National Geographic <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070919-sunken-city.html"><strong>also reported</strong></a> on Japan&#8217;s mysterious underwater pyramids.</li>
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<li>Been researching <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voip"><strong>VoIP</strong></a> quite a bit lately; the latest involves <a href="http://www.which.co.uk/reports_and_campaigns/computers_and_internet/reports/internet/internet_phone_ads_news_article_557_122553.jsp"><strong>Big Brother eavesdropping</strong></a> and placing appropriate ads on your screen.  Though I&#8217;m all for the technology that is a little much.</li>
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<li>And last but certainly not least, a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118999288641229392-95G0Ue1f7TUZOJoD8v3ZgLndq0k_20080916.html?mod=rss_free"><strong>Phillipines judge revealed</strong></a> he “regularly sought counsel from three elves only he could see.”  Wha????</li>
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		<title>Organic Bees</title>
		<link>http://surfingthetao.com/2007/05/08/organic-bees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 04:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">I want to pass on the latest on the bees.  An excellent series of articles are making their way around the Internet with another point of view on the Colony Collapse Disorder phenomenon.  Sharon Labchuk is an organic beekeeper (and longtime environmental activist) from Canada who has given us all a heads [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">I want to pass on the latest on the bees.<span>  </span>An excellent series of articles are making their way around the Internet with another point of view on the Colony Collapse Disorder phenomenon.<span>  </span><a href="http://www.isn.net/%7Enetwork/earthact.html">Sharon Labchuk</a> is an organic beekeeper (and longtime environmental activist) from Canada who has given us all a <a href="http://www.gnn.tv/articles/3044/Colony_Collapse_and_Honeycomb_Size">heads up</a> as to what is really going on with those commercial beekeepers, such as spraying pesticides and forcing them into unnatural sized combs, comparing it to the beef industry.<span>  </span>She notes none of the organic beekeepers are reporting losses.<span>  </span><a href="http://www.gnn.tv/articles/3063/Please_Lord_not_the_bees">Please Lord, not the bees</a> is a great overview of the debate.</p>
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		<title>Bee Colony Collapse Disorder in Hawaii</title>
		<link>http://surfingthetao.com/2007/04/27/bee-colony-collapse-disorder-in-hawaii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">In the past week I’ve received several links from friends about the missing bees.  The media continues to report on current research into the cause of the disappearance of bees from their hives around the world.  Taiwan just announced the loss of over 10 million bees.  The other day The New [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">In the past week I’ve received several links from friends about the missing bees.<span>  </span>The media continues to report on current research into the cause of the disappearance of bees from their hives around the world.<span>  </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Taiwan</st1:country-region></st1:place> just <a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&amp;storyid=2007-04-26T104754Z_01_TP162481_RTRUKOC_0_US-TAIWAN-BEES.xml&amp;src=rss&amp;rpc=22">announced</a> the loss of over 10 million bees.<span>  </span>The other day <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/science/24bees.html?_r=3&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin">The New York Times</a> reviewed various theories.<span>  </span><a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece">One</a> involves radiation from cell phone towers, and rumors abound as one might expect; people are blaming everything from terrorism to a ‘bee rapture’.<span>  </span>(BTW, did you know the military is testing the use of bees for <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1986769.stm">sniffing out bombs</a>?)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yesterday a <a href="http://www.ecbc.army.mil/pr/download/042507_honey_bee_pathogens.pdf">press release</a> from the Army announced several pathogens had been found to be potential culprits.<span>  </span>Some have found evidence of a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-bees26apr26,0,896792.story?coll=la-home">fungus</a>; in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Hawaii</st1:state></st1:place>, the news is centering on a harmful <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070426/ap_on_sc/bee_parasite">mite</a>, and bee colonies are now <a href="http://www.hawaiibeekeepers.org/index.php">quarantined</a> to prevent its spread.<span>  </span>More information on current research can be found <a href="http://www.bvs-inc.us/honey_bees.htm">here</a>.<span>  </span>What’s interesting is that while most of these articles claim <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder">Colony Collapse Disorder</a> is yet to be found in Hawaii, <a href="http://southwestfarmpress.com/news/041907-beekeepers-malady/">this article</a> claims otherwise, and I’m going to pay attention especially since my neighbor lost 20 of his 60 hives here on the Big Island just in the past two or three months.<span>  </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.konalowell.com/">A friend</a> reminded me of the importance of bees to our local <a href="http://www.hawaiicoffeeassoc.org/">coffee industry</a>, among other crops.<span>  </span>I can’t even begin to comprehend the disaster.</p>
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		<title>Hawaiian Bees are Missing Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Regarding my post yesterday on our neighborhood bees, I just spoke with my neighbor and got an update.   Although the beehive in their yard is still buzzing away (behaving strangely, though, he said they are circling in unusual ways for some reason), they have 60 other hives up north on the island, and are confused [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Regarding my <a href="http://surfingthetao.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/missing-the-bees/">post yesterday</a> on our neighborhood bees, I just spoke with my neighbor and got an update.<span>   </span>Although the beehive in their yard is still buzzing away (behaving strangely, though, he said they are circling in unusual ways for some reason), they have 60 other hives up north on the island, and are confused as to why 20 of them are suddenly gone, just in the past couple of months.<span>  </span>Nothing’s left, he said, no queen, nothing; just the cockroaches.<span>  </span>He didn’t actually realize it was happening all over the world and I think he was a little stunned.<span>  </span>He promises to talk to other island beekeepers to see if it’s happening to anyone else.<span>  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Scary.</p>
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		<title>Missing the Bees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">I live in Hawaii in a relatively rural place so we are used to seeing things like wild turkeys wandering around our neighborhood.  Yesterday a wild goat scampered across the street in front of my car to join its family on the other side.  The Big Island has wild pigs, cattle, goats, horses, mongoose, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">I live in Hawaii in a relatively rural place so we are used to seeing things like wild turkeys wandering around our neighborhood.<span>  </span>Yesterday a wild goat scampered across the street in front of my car to join its family on the other side.<span>  </span>The Big Island has wild pigs, cattle, goats, horses, mongoose, parrots and even donkeys.<span>  </span>(Not to digress, but Hawaii even has its own Bigfoot myths – two of my family members have personal stories about that.)<span>  </span>In suburban neighborhoods it’s not unusual for people to keep chickens or goats; the best eggs I ever had were from a friend’s backyard.<span>  </span>In fact the people across the street from us keep a goat as a lawnmower and have a beehive.<span>  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They’ve given us some honey before; it’s wonderful.<span>  </span>I used to have a patch of mint that flowered and the bees just took over my garden.<span>  </span>One time a few months ago they swarmed, coming right up our driveway next to our porch.<span>  </span>We all ran inside, including the dogs, at a loss as to what might have upset them.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the evenings lately I’ve noticed there is always one lone and angry bee buzzing around our porch light rather frantically, as if it’s bound and determined to go somewhere.<span>  </span>With all the talk about the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/business/27bees.html?ex=1330232400&amp;en=3aaa0148837b8977&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss">bees disappearing</a> lately, I always hope it will find its way home.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder">bee apocalypse</a> is hot news right now – truly a sign of the times.<span>  </span>So far no one is sure what’s going on &#8211; a virus, genetically modified crops, insecticides or maybe the effect of an increase in UV radiation which bees use to navigate.<span>  </span><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,473166,00.html">People are quoting</a> Einstein as having said, &#8220;If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.&#8221;</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Next time I see my neighbor I will ask about the bees.<span>  </span>It’s important to know if they are still around, and we would miss them very much indeed if they weren’t.</p>
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