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<p>US President George Bush has declared a major disaster in Texas and Louisiana after Hurricane Ike flooded homes and knocked out power for millions. <br /><br />Thinking of you all out there..xxx<br /><br />Peace n love&nbsp; Mags&nbsp; </p>]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:41:27 -0400 https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/1120/its-been-a-long-time https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/1120 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:30:04 -0400 https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/1069/a-huge-thankyou https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/1069
<p>I don`t want to add my name to the list, but with my review that makes 15...Not bad eh?&nbsp; ehheee&nbsp; </p> ]]> Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:27:29 -0400 https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/1050/narnia-they-gonna-take-us-by-storm https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/1050 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:10:12 -0400 https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/1032/vergin-on-somethin https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/1032 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:00:14 -0400 https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/941/slow-slow-quick-quick-slow https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/941 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:08:11 -0400 https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/938/favorites-list https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/938 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:53:34 -0400 https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/783/a-sting-in-the-tail https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/783
<p>Here`s a link&nbsp;that Zest sent me too, I really hope that some of you are interested enough to check it out...Here`s the link and what he said...My sentiments entirely...</p>

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<p>If you are serious about passing along the message in your blog..please take a listen to the recording I made of Dr. David Suzuki on May 3 2008 at the Toronto Brick Works on the topic you mention here.</p>

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<p>I recorded it with my Sony voice recorder</p>

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<p>If you want to include in your blog as an addendum, please do. The link is good till Saturday then it expires.</p>

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<p><a href="https://download.yousendit.com/BA0282A73A6241EA" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff9900;">https://download.yousendit.com/BA0282A73A6241EA</span></a></p>

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<p>In Dr. Suzuki's speech, he says if pollinators die off humans die..if humans die, pollinators still continue....there's something to think about eh?</p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-size: small; color: #666666;">A mysterious ailment of honeybees threatens a trillion-dollar industry and an essential source of nutrition.</span></strong></p>

<p>For 3,000 years, farmers in China's Sichuan province pollinated their fruit trees the old-fashioned way: they let the bees do it. Flowers produce nectar that attracts bees, which inadvertently transfer sticky grains of pollen from one flower to another, fertilizing them so they bear fruit. When China rapidly expanded its pear orchards in the 1980s, it stepped up its use of pesticides, and this age-old system of pollination began to unravel. Today, during the spring, the snow-white pear blossoms blanket the hills, but there are no bees to carry the pollen. Instead, thousands of villagers climb through the trees, hand-pollinating them by dipping "pollination sticks"&mdash;brushes made of chicken feathers and cigarette filters&mdash;into plastic bottles of pollen and then touching them to each of the billions of blossoms.</p>

<p>China's use of human bees is only one of many troubling signs of an agricultural crisis in the making. Bees the world over have been dying from a mysterious syndrome termed colony collapse disorder, or CCD. U.S. beekeepers lost 35 percent of their hives this winter, after losing 30 percent the previous year. Similar but less well-publicized losses have occurred in countries as far-flung as Canada, Brazil, India and China, as well as throughout Europe. A recent survey of wild-bee populations in Belgium and France found that 25 percent of species have declined in the past 30 years. Several species of bumblebees common in the United States as recently as 1990 have disappeared. In Britain, the British Beekeepers Association has warned that honeybees could disappear entirely from the island by 2018, along with &pound;165 million worth of apples, pears, canola and other crops they pollinate.</p>

<p>The threat is vast. Most crops&mdash;87 of the world's 115 most important ones&mdash;require pollination to develop fruits, nuts and seeds, says agroecologist Alexandra-Maria Klein at Germany's University of G&ouml;ttingen. Those crops account for about $1 trillion of the approximately $3 trillion in annual sales of agricultural produce worldwide. They also provide 35 percent of the calories consumed by humans each year, and most of the vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Every blueberry, cherry, apple, grapefruit, avocado, squash, cucumber, macadamia nut and almond depends on the ministrations of a bee for its existence. Even crops such as lettuce and broccoli need insect pollination to produce seed for the following year's supply.</p>

<p>Colony-collapse disorder is characterized by the sudden collapse of a full-strength hive in a matter of weeks, with adults leaving the hive and not returning, until the hive is deserted. "I found colonies that had just stopped living," says Borje Svensson, a Swedish beekeeper. "They had given up life without any sign of struggle." No one knows what causes it, but theories abound. U.S. researchers believe a previously little-known disease called Israeli acute paralysis virus is involved, while Spanish researchers suspect a fungus called Nosema. When France lost a third of its bees in the 1990s, beekeepers blamed Imidacloprid, a new pesticide that had been used on the sunflower crop, a honeybee favorite. France banned the use of Imidacloprid on sunflowers in 1999 and expanded the ban to other crops in 2004, yet its bees have not recovered. Despite this ambiguous evidence, many beekeepers around the world continue to blame Imidacloprid&mdash;the best-selling pesticide in the world, with annual sales of nearly $860 million. Others have pointed fingers at malefactors ranging from cell phones to genetically modified crops, with little evidence. The leading theory is that colony collapse is caused by a combination of viruses, pesticides, the parasitic varroa mite, drought and stress triggered by commercial colonies' overwork and poor nutrition.</p>

<p>The meta-culprit is the shift to large-scale agriculture. When most farms were small family affairs, pollinators came from nearby wildlands. But the growth of massive industrial farms has put most crops out of the reach of wild insects. So farmers need to supply artificially large numbers of bees to pollinate their fields in the spring. The European honeybee is the only pollinator that fits the bill: adapted for dense living in tree hollows, it takes naturally to man-made wooden hives, making it the only bee that comes in convenient boxes of 50,000 that can be trucked from crop to crop. Wild insects such as bumblebees and tropical flies still account for 15 percent of pollination, including crops such as cacao (chocolate). Yet these wild insects are declining worldwide due to loss of habitat and increased pesticide use. Farmers the world over now rely almost completely on the European honeybee, one of 20,000 species of bees. Many beekeepers now make more money from pollination fees than from honey production.</p>

<p>The lack of bees has reached crisis proportions in California's Central Valley. Almonds, for years the most profitable crop in the state, expanded in acreage from 550,000 in 2005 to 615,000 in 2007, and are expected to reach 800,000 by 2010. These high-density plantations require more than two hives per acre&mdash;which means a bumper crop of almonds will soon call for nearly 2 million hives of bees. That's as many bees as currently exist in the entire United States, yet just a third of what existed 60 years ago.</p>

<p>Paying for those bees has sapped almond growers' profits. Joe Traynor, a "pollination broker" who matches almond growers who need bees with beekeepers looking to rent out their hives in the Central Valley, has watched the cost of pollination soar in recent years. "When I started in 1960, the price for honeybee rentals was $3 per hive. In 2004 it was $60 per hive. This year it was $160 to $180 per hive." Those runaway prices have made pollination expenses spiral to 20 percent of a California almond farmer's annual budget&mdash;more than fertilizer, water or even labor. In 2008, for the first time, the price for almonds fell below growers' cost of production. "They're really caught in the middle," says Traynor. "It's getting to be more and more of a hardship."</p>

<p>Because crops are now global commodities, their prices are set by the world market; farmers can't easily pass on cost increases to consumers. Instead, as their profits disappear, they go out of business or switch to more profitable crops. That reckoning day may soon come for almonds and many other bee-dependent crops. According to Bernard Vaissi&egrave;re, a pollination specialist with the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, we wouldn't even know if we were currently experiencing reduced yields due to suboptimal pollination, because there is no previous baseline to measure against. "Insect pollination has been totally overlooked as a production factor in Europe until very recently," he says. "Pollinators were taken for granted, just like the air and the light. So if there is a yield loss, it will be attributed to anything but pollination deficit. But there has been a definite increase in pollination-rental fees in many parts of France." Prices of many of the major insect-pollinated crops have soared in recent years. Farmers manage to get their crops pollinated, but at greater expense.</p>

<p>Governments have done little to solve the problem. In June 2007 the U.S. House of Representatives held an emergency hearing on the status of pollinators in North America and allotted $5 million to honeybee research in the ensuing farm bill, but the funding was cut a year later. Earlier this month the U.S. Department of Agriculture made $4 million available to a consortium of universities for research. On April 22, calling on the British government to provide &pound;8 million in emergency funding, British Beekeepers Association president Tim Lovett said, "CCD has not yet crossed the channel from Europe, but we are urging the government that it needs to be prepared should this happen. Does the government want the nation to go without honey on their toast, not have homegrown strawberries to go with cream, and even put their own crusade for the public to eat five portions of fresh fruit and vegetables at risk?" Jeff Rooker, Britain's Food and Farming minister, responded that the government didn't have the funds to help.</p>

<p>That leaves beekeepers scrambling to keep the world in fruits and vegetables. "We can't stand another bug or virus or pest," says Mark Brady, president of the American Honey Producers Association. "Right now the industry is like crystal. It's that fragile. One slip and it will shatter."</p>

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</div> ]]> Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:50:36 -0400 https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/734/verging-on-somethinthankyou https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/734 ROB GRANT,
LUCINDRA,
WHEREWOLF,
THE PHEROMONES,
ESLIDER,
STRATZ,
FUNGUSDACE,
FARRELL JACKSON,
VESA,
JIMS ARTIFICIAL EARTH,
TCP,
RAPSTER,
REAPERSG,
ZEFULDAR,
RICHI...
VESA...
HOOKER GREEN...
WAVE ROOFER...
Thankyou all so very much for your wonderful reviews.. 
I am one very happy lady... Peace and much love  mags    xxx]]> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:12:21 -0400 https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/716/new-kitty https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/716
<p>When I`ve been at the house in the mountains, on several occasions some of the local women have come over to introduce themselves curious to see who the English woman is who`s bought a house in their Swiss&nbsp;village..:-)...:-)&nbsp; They all seem to have cats and I`m really pleased about that as I love them too...Soooooo whilst thinking about the women and their cats the lyrics to this song started to form in my mind...:-)&nbsp; It`s a really fun one, the lyrics are much too young for me really, but I just could`nt resist..eheheeee..."The Ratman" had convieniently just sent me this fabulous hip hop beat to play with....So....Here it is.....NEW KITTY....</p>]]> Tue, 20 May 2008 15:18:30 -0400 https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/711/sssshhhhh-hush-hushhummmmtoo-bad https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/711
<p>So hey,we kind of collabed LOL......</p>

<p>Nice to hear Peter again,miss that crazy aussie.<br />AND...<br />You really have done a grand job of the vocals on this mags.<br />Peter's freeform playing is not always the easiest to go with,but you nailed it,no worries.<br />Excellent.</p>

<p>Nigel<br /><br />:-)<br /><br />I thought that Nigel`s review was amazing seeing as there was no mention of his name anywhere...Pete never once informed me that Nigel had done the drums.&nbsp; For me personally I mention ALL of the people I collab with no matter how small the part.. I do occasionally forget to mention someone, I put that done to age, ehehhe and human error...I don`t see how anyone could forget to mention the person who did the drums for them...It reminds me of an Australian band I sangfor only to find those songs on the net for sale and NO mention of my name...I was the vocalist, and had no mention...Quite unbelievable really...&nbsp; <br /><br />I know Nigel won`t want any fuss here, and that`s not what this blog is about to cause trouble...It`s to get your views and opinions on this very tricky subject...:-)<br /><br />Incase you`d like to hear the song, it`s on page 2 of my songs list, the 8th song down and is called BED OF ROSES, here`s the link to the page..<br /><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/margot_du_bois/music.php?p=2">http://www.mixposure.com/margot_du_bois/music.php?p=2</a><br /><br /><br />Peace n love Mags&nbsp; xx </p> ]]> Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:29:40 -0400 https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/702/thankyou https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/702
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<p>I just wanted to say thanks so much for all the kind messages posted to Joe`s blog..They cheered me up no end..<img src="images/smilies/face-grin.png" border="0" alt="grin" title="grin" /></p>

<p>I got home today and am feeling so relieved to be back though totally exhausted...It was an experience I don`t want to repeat in a hurry...Now I intend to just chill for a few days before I have to get my head back into packing mode......I was three quarters through doing a song to a beat that Ratman sent me just before all this happened...I`d like to finish it before the move...:-)</p>

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<p>Once again thankyou so much for the well wishes..</p>

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<p>Peace and love Mags..xx&nbsp; </p>]]> Sun, 18 May 2008 12:41:10 -0400 https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/676/rob-grant-gary-carciello-and-me https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/676
<p>Our collab song title...This Far</p>

<p>Rob Grant, Gary Carciello and I collabed...It was real fun until Robs computer died....BUT where there`s a will there`s a way, or so they say and we did it anyway...eheheee...We had to use what we had to hand and mixed the ingredients carefully...:-)&nbsp;We like it,&nbsp;&nbsp;hope you like it too.</p>

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Peace n love Margot x]]> Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:48:02 -0400 https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/556/robs-song https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/556


http://www.imusicscene.com/bands/818/audio.php



Peace n Love Mags xx ]]> Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:02:11 -0400 https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/498/thanks-so-much https://mixposure.com/ab2/blog/498


Just wanted to thank all those people who took the time to review my take on, THAT`S IT, IVE HAD ENOUGH......19 reviews !!!, I did`nt expect that...I`m very flattered and proud...ehheeee...Great music WhereWolf....You are one of the best....



Peace n Love



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"Environment Agency officials are investigating what could have killed the starfish, which had been feeding on mussel beds.



They do not believe the deaths were linked to the recent storms because they were first reported to them last week.



They have also ruled out pollution or anything to do with climate change as the cause.



The agency said officials would investigate if the starfish were discarded by fishermen after the mussel beds were dredged.



A spokesman said: "Starfish congregate in vast numbers in some areas and feed on shellfish, so if the seabed was dredged then the starfish would inevitably have been caught in huge numbers."



Another theory is that the starfish had run out of mussels to eat and had moved into shallow water in the search for food.



The starfish bodies are not harmful and will probably be eaten by seagulls, the agency said. "





I think it`s heartbreaking....I would never have thought that so many little creatures could all die at the same time without being poisoned somehow..





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I`ve recently done and am still doing a little collabing with WhereWolf, he gave me the link to his website and I thought it might be nice to share it.......



http://www.tlt50.com/home.html





I found this there, have to say it made me weep...... heheee



The Horse Story



Just up the road from my home is a field, with two horses in it. From a distance, each horse looks like any other horse. But if you stop your car, or are walking by, you will notice something quite amazing.



Looking into the eyes of one horse will disclose that he is blind. His owner has chosen not to have him put down, but has made a good home for him. This alone is amazing.



If you stand nearby and listen, you will hear the sound of a bell. Looking around for the source of the sound, you will see that it comes from the smaller horse in the field. Attached to the horse's halter is a small bell. It lets the blind friend know where the other horse is, so he can follow.



As you stand and watch these two friends, you'll see that the horse with the bell is always checking on the blind horse, and that the blind horse will listen for the bell and then slowly walk to where the other horse is trusting that he will not be led astray. When the horse with the bell returns to the shelter of the barn each evening, it stops occasionally and looks back , making sure that the blind friend isn't too far behind to

hear the bell.



Like the owners of these two horses, God does not throw us away just because we are not perfect or because we have problems or challenges. He watches over us and even brings others into our lives to help us when we are in need. Sometimes we are the blind horse being guided by the little ringing bell of those who God places in our lives. Other times we are the guide horse, helping others to find their way.



Good friends are like that... you may not always see them, but you know they are always there. Please listen for my bell and I'll listen for yours.



And remember... be kinder than necessary - everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle





A Dog's Purpose, from a 4-year-old



A veterinarian was called to examine a ten-year-old

Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog's owners, Ron, his wife, Lisa,

and their little boy, Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and

they were hoping for a miracle.



I examined Belker and found he was dying of cancer. I told the family

we couldn't do anything for Belker, and offered to perform the

euthanasia procedure for the old dog in their home.



As we made arrangements, Ron and Lisa told me they thought it would

be good for four-year-old Shane to observe the procedure. They felt

Shane might learn something from the experience.



The next day, I felt the familiar catch in my throat as Belker's

family surrounded him. Shane seemed so calm, petting the old dog for

the last time, that I wondered if he understood what was going on.

Within a few minutes, Belker slipped peacefully away. The little boy

seemed to accept Belker's transition without any difficulty or

confusion.



We sat together for a while after Belker's death,wondering aloud

about the sad fact that animal lives are shorter than human lives.

Shane, who had been listening quietly, piped up, 'I know why.'



Startled, we all turned to him. What came out of his mouth next

stunned me. I'd never heard a more comforting explanation.



He said, 'People are born so that they can learn how to live a good

life -- like loving everybody all the time and being nice, right?'

The four-year-old continued, 'Well, dogs already know how to do that,

so they don't have to stay as long.'



Remember, if a dog was the teacher you would learn stuff like:



When loved ones come home, always run to greet them.



Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride.



Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be

pure ecstasy.



Take naps.



Stretch before rising.



Run, romp, and play daily.



Thrive on attention and let people touch you.



Avoid biting when a simple growl will do.



On warm days, stop to lie on your back on the grass.



When you're happy, dance around and wag your entire body.



Delight in the simple joy of a long walk.



Eat with gusto and enthusiasm. Stop when you have had enough.



Be loyal. Never pretend to be something you're not.



If what you want lies buried, dig until you find it.



When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by and nuzzle

them gently.



Copied from WhereWolf`s website...





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<p>Here`s a list of my wonderful collab partners since 99/2000...I`m so lucky to have them to work with..xxx&nbsp; Thankyou to all of them..</p>

<p>Some of the people that I made music with in the past ..My good friend, the late "Clint Warwick", original bass player with "The Moody Blues"&nbsp; and along with "Danny King" (of the Birmingham band, &nbsp;"Danny King and The Dukes" also founder member of "The Moody Blues&quot was&nbsp;the inspiration for my song "Paper Lanterns" ...Other wonderful friends&nbsp;and collab partners from the &nbsp;past and present &nbsp;.... steve pearce... sheck... lennie... bigmoon... bop... timmymacdd... jack miller... mixmaster mark... tfolie... jako2k... zauberflute... music1961... Joemagic... kemox... gatchman... g. francis... psyspyder... universalfreedom... dealsaxgtr... herman... rob james... plat... 12T... brodo... robaire... abbeyroad... xiabram... naughtyhill... bombstar... wilhelm... vectorstation... ensoniq... tomben... mart... biggjohn... bop... hawkeyez... snowy... kjell... harry c... mikula... cppmusic... gub... dbm... (Those people were all members of the now defunct "Rocketnetwork", "The Rocketears"...... More recent people are,:- Teecee... ZIGGma... Steve Dinsmoor... Dirt Settlers... D Form... Lil Drizzy... Syngularity... Uncle fester... Violent... Tom KIng... Ratman... Yerrickl... Loren Risker... CBS Productions... Pete Consodine... Dace... Blue Tom... JDK... Sisters... Mick Wilson... Shedman... Beeswing... Jeff and Derek Southerland... Emocion... Khalil... Texas Jake... Talent A.D...Artificial Earth...&nbsp;Syntopia... Nigel Potter... WhereWolf... Rob Grant... Gary Carciello...Allen Warren...&nbsp;last, but always first... My wonderful partner in love, life AND music, RAPSTER... Sorry if I..ve forgotten to mention anyone here.................... ................................................................................</p>

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