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From the loft, Kaden could look out upon the farm, seeing blue sky and golden grassland meet on a seemingly infinite horizon.  For this reason, the loft was his favorite spot on the farm.  From his vantage point he could sit for hours and watch white-tailed deer graze on the forest's edge, just out of range of his human scent.  He watched the wind blow through acres of hay as tall as himself.  Soon it would time for the midsummer harvest.

"Work," Kaden pondered aloud as he stood and turned to gaze upon all that his family owned, "the least mysterious and most necessary of all the sacraments, has produced this."

Barns ready to be filled, silos towering five stories tall, land enough for sowing and an orchard, and a farmhouse and a root cellar large enough to house his father, mother, and six of his ten brothers and sisters.  Kaden considered this as he descended from the loft and upon touching the ground, paused and reverently whispered "Creativity is life."

He turned toward the barn doors and contemplated the Confirmation of Loyalty soon to come.

Behind your eyes burns an all-consuming fire; a ferocious rage, righteously indignant.

Within your body is contained the fullness of your lineage.  Yet unrealized is the creed they shall follow; therein lie rituals yet to be observed.

The discerning edge of selection has honed the very framework of your mind, the depths of your emotions, and the cravings of your body toward a singular end...

The survival, expansion, and advancement of your race.

I found, by accident, something called a "Photocarcinogen" when looking at some research reguarding sunblock.

It seems these chemicals are harmless until they are activated by energy...  light, x-ray, etc.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photocarcinogen

Tidbit:

"A photocarcinogen is a substance which causes cancer following illumination. This destructive effect often results from free radicals generated by the photocarcinogen. Many chemicals that are not carcinogenic can be photocarcinogenic. This can easily be understood from a photochemical perspective: The reactivity of a chemical substance itself might be low, but after illumination it transfers to the excited state. This excited state is chemically much more reactive and therefore potentially harmful to biological tissue.

Melanin is not a photocarcinogen, because it dissipates the excitation energy into small amounts of heat (see photoprotection). Oxybenzone (a component of some sunscreens) is suspected owing to its skin penetrating qualities and its production of free radicals."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i-984D1ngsomP8WjB3h_sYtM6iag 


" Van Jaarsveld said the test puts South Africa ahead of Australia in the race for the SKA "


Point:  I think it would be best if AU had this, not so much for the prestige and useablitiy but because of the HUGE bucks it could bring in renting its usage and selling copies of it's raw data world wide to anyone who was curious.


S.Africa builds its case for mega-telescope contract
By Joshua Howat Berger (AFP) – Mar 30, 2010

THE KAROO, South Africa — A remote spot in South Africa's Karoo desert has taken a first step toward hosting one of the most powerful scientific instruments in history, to shed light on how the universe began.

Driving the dirt road to the Karoo Array Telescope site, the FM radio searches in vain for a frequency it can catch, scanning the dial bottom to top and back again.

This very quiet corner of South Africa's sparsely populated Northern Cape province seems an unlikely place to build such an instrument, but its silence is precisely what makes the Karoo an attractive site for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope project.

Scientists hope the SKA, a massive new radio telescope linking 3,000 antenna dishes, will shed new light on fundamental questions about the universe, including how it began, why it's expanding and whether it contains life beyond our planet.

To do that, the SKA will need a quiet radio spectrum, clear skies, high altitude and low seismic activity, according to Albert van Jaarsveld, president of the South African National Research Foundation, which is helping mount the country's bid to build the ultra-powerful new telescope.

"The remoteness of this location is its strength and not its weakness," Van Jaarsveld told journalists Tuesday on a visit to the proposed site.

South Africa is competing with Australia to win the contract for the SKA, a multi-billion dollar instrument that will be 50 times more sensitive than today's most powerful radio telescopes.

The countries are the last two candidates in a five-year competition that has seen an international steering committee narrow the field from five proposals to two.

South Africa, which plans to spend 234 million rands (31.6 million dollars/23.4 million euros) on the project by 2015, has built seven antenna dishes and recently linked two of them together, the first time a multi-receptor radio telescope has been tested, officials said Tuesday.

Van Jaarsveld said the test puts South Africa ahead of Australia in the race for the SKA.

If South Africa wins the bidding, engineers will connect antennas in the arid Karoo region by remote link to a network of dishes stretching across southern and eastern Africa and as far away as Ghana.

Australia's bid puts the core site at Mileura station, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Meekathara in western Australia. Other antennas would be distributed across Australia and New Zealand.

The SKA steering committee, which represents a consortium of 17 countries involved in the project, is expected to make its final decision in 2012.

Scientists hope when the SKA is complete -- sometime around 2021 -- it will pick up radio waves emitted by the first stars and galaxies to emerge from the "Big Bang" that created the universe.

It will also trace the effects of the so-called dark energy that is driving the universe apart and hunt for Earth-like planets orbiting other stars.

South African officials hope the project will help make the country a hub of scientific activity and reverse the "brain drain" that has seen Africa lose much of its top scientific talent to the rest of the world.

"If we succeed in bringing the SKA to Africa, it will be a major catalyst for the development of science and technology on our continent," said Science Minister Naledi Pandor.

"I can tell you from speaking to scientists and academics regularly that unless we have the facilities that make the study of science attractive, we will not keep scientists in our country," she said.

"Through this project, what we've begun to do is reverse the brain drain."

You don't need to go to college or anything to teach what you know.

Here's an idea. Is there a topic or two that you feel you are worthy of teaching?

Start a workshop on your topic.

Hang up some flyers outside or leave them half under people door mats.

After the workshop you will have time to suggest your students look into N.E.R or other Klassen books.

I bet you will get more of a reaction then just hanging up Creativity flyers, and you will be giving an educational edge to your fellow white who need that to survive in this competitive life.