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2013年12月12日 星期四

What will it be when pot everywhere?


Last year, residents of Colorado and the state of Washington voted overwhelmingly to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes. This year, Marijuana: Uruguay Allows Full Legalization.  Now, according to a new Gallup Poll, fully 58 percent of Americans believe that pot should be available in a way that’s similar to tobacco, beer, wine, and alcohol, which arguably cause more harm than marijuana. That’s a 10-point increase over last year and the latest indicator that the federal war on weed, which officially began in 1937, is finally drawing to a close. Given the directions things are headed in this country, here are eight things nobody will miss when pot is finally legal everywhere in the U.S.



                                         
1. Ritual apologies by world-class athletes such as swimmer Michael Phelps for smoking dope at a private party. Despite winning 14 Olympic gold medals and completely rewriting his sport’s record books, in 2009 Phelps promised his “fans and the public it will not happen again.”

2. Breath-taking personal hypocrisy by politicians such as Barack Obama who laugh about their own pot smoking (he’s not the only one, the last three presidents have tried it) while increasing funding for the Office of National Drug Control Policy and other drug-war operations.

3. Long federal prison sentences for legitimate business owners like Aaron Sandusky. He ran a medical marijuana dispensary in California that was in full compliance with state laws, but he still got busted by the Obama administration’s Justice Department and is now serving a 10-year stint.

                                     


4. Reading about politicians such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie brushing off parents whose children’s illnesses can be treated effectively with marijuana. Two-year-old Vivian Wilson’s Dravet’s Syndrome responds to a form of pot that doesn’t even get you high but is unavailable in New Jersey. When Wilson’s father asked Christie why he hadn’t implemented the medical marijuana reform already passed by the legislature, the governor huffed that “it’s simple for you, it’s not simple for me.”

5. Tendentious arguments that marijuana is a “gateway drug.” Researchers long ago gave up on the idea that smoking pot inevitably – or even commonly – leads users to harder stuff. Yes, most heavy drug users have used pot. But most pot smokers never develop a taste for or a problem with other drugs.

6. The 658,000 arrests for simple possession of marijuana made annually. That’s equivalent to the population of Boston being handcuffed every year for carrying the wrong plant. What a waste of police resources – and an unconscionable disruption of people’s lives.


                                              
7. Hearing about no-knock drug raids gone tragically wrong, like the one in Atlanta that killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnson in 2006. After three cops broke into her home without identifying themselves, Johnson fired a gun in defense and was shot to death by the cops, who then planted three bags of marijuana in her residence to cover up their mistakes.

Legalizing pot won’t create a problem-free country any more than tearing down the Berlin Wall solved all the problems in East Germany or ending de jure segregation fixed race relations in the U.S. But it would reflect the will of an increasing number of citizens who realize the government has better things to do than tell us what we can and cannot put into our bodies. And it will also consign many terrible things about contemporary America to the dust heap of history.

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2013年12月10日 星期二

Finally, pot to be legalized



Uruguay lawmakers approved a proposal to make recreational marijuana legal for adults and to regulate its production, distribution and sale. Under the proposal, people will have four ways to access marijuana: medical marijuana through the Ministry of Public Health, domestic cultivation of up to six plants, membership clubs similar to those found in Spain and licensed sale to adults in pharmacies. The bill was approved in the Chamber of Deputies in late July and passed in the Chamber of Senators on Monday 2013-12-02.




Why marijuana, why now and why Uruguay? The following three simple reasons have a lot to do with today's outcome:
Because it's the smart thing to do.
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is insanity, and Uruguay knows this. For 40 years, marijuana prohibition simply hasn't worked. Billions of dollars have been spent on repression, but marijuana use has only gone up.

Because the winds are changing, and they're starting to blow in that direction.
In recent years, debate and political will for an overhaul in drug policy has gained unprecedented momentum throughout the U.S., Latin America and elsewhere.This tiny country has a history of remarkable political reforms and a strong human rights ethos.The Global Commission on Drug Policy in saying the time had come to "break the taboo" on exploring alternatives to the failed war on drugs and to "encourage experimentation by governments with models of legal regulation of drugs," especially marijuana.




In November 2012, the states of Colorado and Washington approved the legal regulation of marijuana. In August, the White House announced that the federal government will not interfere with state marijuana laws -- as long as a number of stipulations are adhered to, such as preventing distribution to minors.By approving this measure, Uruguay has taken the broad regional discussion on alternatives to drug prohibition one step further, representing a concrete advance in line with growing anti-drug war rhetoric in Latin America and throughout the world.

Because Uruguay is used to doing exceptional things.
You might hear "Uruguay" and think of football, yerba mate, beef, tango or, now, marijuana. But this tiny country of just over 3 million people has a history of remarkable political reforms and a strong human rights ethos.The consensus is there. Marijuana prohibition hasn't worked, and it's time to try an innovative, more compassionate and smarter approach. Let's hope more countries soon follow Uruguay's brave lead.

                                  


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2013年12月9日 星期一

First in Latin America to legalize marijuana

                                   



The Uruguayan Senate is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a controversial bill that would make the small South American country the first in Latin America to legalize marijuana.The bill was approved by the lower house of parliament in July with 50 out of 96 votes. It also has the support of President Jose Mujica. The bill has generated international headlines because, if approved, the Uruguayan government would have the authority to regulate the production, distribution and sale of marijuana. The legislation also has the support of the Broad Front, Mujica's party. Approval is widely expected.

"More than anything, it's going to give me peace about growing what I like, which is marijuana. That's what I like to consume. It would give me the peace of mind of not having legal troubles for something that should not be illegal," Palese says.

                  


The bill rests on the premise that if "the state assumes the control and regulation of the activities of importation and exportation, sowing, growing, harvesting, producing ... storing, commercializing and distributing," then the ills of drug trafficking would be greatly reduced and the quality of the plants improved, benefiting patients and putting drug traffickers out of business.

The bill would allow individuals to grow up to six plants of marijuana and possess as much as 480 grams for personal use. Marijuana clubs of anywhere from 15 to 45 members would also be allowed and granted permission to grow up to 99 plants at a time.

                                           
1920 wine prohibition in USA

Users would have to register, and those claiming to use cannabis for medical reasons would have to show a doctor's prescription. Marijuana would also be sold at licensed pharmacies.


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2013年12月8日 星期日

Coffee or Beer for relaxing




Although coffee bean currently growing up by hydroponics only stay in ornament status, Coffee has been verified to shorten our lives. So drink more coffee or more beer? Let's take a look at this research.

                           




Now Prof. Martin Kupiec and his team at Tel Aviv University's Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology have discovered that the beverages may also have opposite effects on your genome. Working with a kind of yeast that shares many important genetic similarities with humans, the researchers found that caffeine shortens and alcohol lengthens telomeres — the end points of chromosomal DNA, implicated in aging and cancer.

"For the first time we've identified a few environmental factors that alter telomere length, and we've shown how they do it," said Prof. Kupiec. "What we learned may one day contribute to the prevention and treatment of human diseases." Researchers from TAU's Blavatnik School of Computer Science and Columbia University's Department of Biological Sciences collaborated on the research, published in PLOS Genetics.

Between death and immortality.Telomeres, made of DNA and proteins, mark the ends of the strands of DNA in our chromosomes. They are essential to ensuring that the DNA strands are repaired and copied correctly. Every time a cell duplicates, the chromosomes are copied into the new cell with slightly shorter telomeres. Eventually, the telomeres become too short, and the cell dies. Only fetal and cancer cells have mechanisms to avoid this fate; they go on reproducing forever.

                                          

The researchers set out to expand on a 2004 study by Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Prof. Elizabeth Blackburn, which suggested that emotional stress causes the shortening of the telomeres characteristic of aging, presumably by generating free radicals in the cells. The researchers grew yeast cells in conditions that generate free radicals to test the effect on telomere length. They were surprised to find that the length did not change.


"This is the first time anyone has analyzed a complex system in which all of the genes affecting it are known," said Prof. Kupiec. "It turns out that telomere length is something that's very exact, which suggests that precision is critical and should be protected from environmental effects."More laboratory work is needed to prove a causal relationship, not a mere correlation, between telomere length and aging or cancer, the researchers say. Only then will they know whether human telomeres respond to the same signals as yeast, potentially leading to medical treatments and dietary guidelines. For now, Prof. Kupiec suggests, "Try to relax and drink a little coffee and a little beer."

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2013年12月5日 星期四

China finds fresh dairy industry pattern

                                   



Along with the living standard enhancement, milk already becomes the average person most often one of edible foods, also common demands of human from its security, nutrition. In the milk processing which link is deciding the milk quality? Do the China dairying problems affect the Chinese dairying development? The milk source is the key aspect to affect milk quality, so we visit the modern animal husbandry on the spot to experience the milk source supplier and the enterprise's processing flow to get their characteristics.

Since the melamine event, the milk quality existence problem is exposed, some questions pointed out the national low standards, without international trail connection, the dairy industry admittance threshold not high,and the milk source insufficient became the bottleneck obstacle of the dairy industry development, specially the high quality milk source, “China domestic lacks the high quality, high grade milk, not meaning the domestic enterprise unable to produce the high quality milk. This also is the modern animal husbandry diligently direction.”
                                    



In light of the present circumstances, the high quality milk demand of the domestic market unceasingly increase, and at present China dairy industry original milk supply has dropped, some small scales dealers of 10 breeds more or less are vanishing gradually, for small dealers’ quantity is big, this fact certainly impacts to the milk source supply anxiously, and the milk price getting high, still the main China dairy industry prominent contradiction, the profession milk source demand still has the bigger rising space.

At present, China domestic liquid milk the tendency presents a rise overall, but different from previous years fast growing, now the liquid milk profession at a steady situation. The present development speed is stable, according to the statistical data, the national cow amount of livestock quantity already achieved at about 7,000,000, comparing with the world advanced level. The biggest nation breeding for the cow- US, the cow amount of livestock quantity about 8,000,000, moreover the American cow's milk production quantity was higher than the China domestic level, the Chinese cow's average milk production quantity still waiting for the promotion.



Engaged in the cow cultivation and the milk production enterprise working to the international standard trail connection, China founded the dairy industry “grow and process” pattern, growing cow fodder planter, the cow cultivation and the milk processing in one stop, the realization development, transformed gradually the dairy industry chain with the downstream relations by exterior management into the internal management.

The Chinese dairy industry upstream foundation is not at a good condition, the industrial chain structure unreasonable, so to complete the strong milk enterprise, the scale cultivation with the pasture growing and processing integration would be the key. China biggest cow cultivation enterprise, the modern animal husbandry (group) the limited company up to 2012, has completed the operation 22 ranches of ten thousand scale 180000 caws, the daily production high quality milk more than 1900 tons, planning to complete the cow amount of livestock on hand to surpass 260000, yearly produces the high quality milk 1,000,000 tons in 2015.


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2013年12月3日 星期二

The roof grows vegetables to enjoy the metropolis SLOW life




“The storm rhythm of life” a modern living style, going out for a walk in the countryside to take a vacation has become many urbanite's dreams. In Shanghai, China the metropolis and a countryside without hampering each other is a reality now, the skyscraper roof of the reinforced concrete builds under, wipes out by the green to complement, each kind of fruits and vegetables appearing at their attractive luster, more and more urbanites realized the joy of growing and the harvest.



            
We came to Shanghai a water group office building roof, seeing the bamboo strip knitting in the fence gate, ties the full golden tangerine on the fruit tree, the glossy greens, the bright red small hot peppers which are particularly attractive under the afternoon sunlight illumination, originally thick and arid industry atmosphere in factory district, popping out the vigor immediately.Their staff introduces:“usually when vegetables harvest, we will come up to buy, growing ourselves, no need to worry about fertilizers.”



This piece of charm vegetable garden is from Shanghai Encircles Agricultural, according to their RD center Manager Mr. Yang:“at present, more and more companies to ask us to consult the roof farm, some from Taiwan, Hong Kong to organize a tour group here to inspect.”Mention this green the dream, Mr. Yang speaks frankly: germinates in the Shanghai World Expo. After graduates in 2008, he entered a company to make the design, and in less than half year, he designs and the arrange the world Expo garden participation. After experienced the world projects to whet, the various countries outstanding design charms, Yang who not able to return to the operating and keep design drawing after he left from the world EXPO in 2011.

                                    
“Felt the heart going wild, the needs to enhance our own level”, same with his partner Mr. Huang, also has met the similar question. Then, two people managed Encircle Agriculture. “The choice to make the vegetable garden, compares the sole afforestation, more practical value .....”he said,“we name the company 'Encircles', actually to result in very simply to use the countryside to surround the city”! Facing the separate condition of city and the countryside at the present, with a design background, Mr. Yang saw many questions other people don’t see: for instance , the city has produced the fertilizer, how to supply to the countryside t? The countryside produces green fruits and vegetables, how to carry out on city slicker's dinner table? How does the city high tech pass to the countryside? And the countryside environment how to change the city ......”

Regarding the same life in city, Mr. Yang with many metropolis office workers ask themselves: “What are we longed for? Idyllic life to go back the greens on the weekend and the holidays every time, but we need to drive out the traveling, the back and forth distance for several hours to be tired of ......” therefore, Yang and Huang as well as their companion have made the roof farm, the human who used to live in the city, with their the huge space roofs which often been neglected, roof gardens make the city be able to experience the idyllic life at their own top at zero carbon footprint.


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2013年11月27日 星期三

Plant Factory





Plant Factory closed loop control of the entire production equipments to establish:


                                

A) Clean cultivation space: If it is advertised to be taken for fresh vegetables, cultivation of its production space must be in a closed isolation.

                                          

Inverter temperature control equipment
. B) Environment Climate Control: In an almost closed cultivation equipmented space, as long as the temperature maintained at between 22 ℃ ~ 25 ℃, modest fluctuations in flow, should be able to  produce seasonal or anti-seasonal vegetables successfully.


                                  

The choice between plant growth light :




. C) Artificial light options: artificial light used in the plant scale, has been common knowledge integration; artificial light in practice selective focus (under right wavelength ) - compared to LED lights μmol (PPF) requires 200PPFD (10000LUX) above, then LED lights would have more than 90% power efficiency.



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