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COSMIC CAF MAGAZINE

FEBRUARY 2007

We must learn to respect Mother Earth.
YOU ARE A PART OF THE SOLUTION, OR
YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.
Take a stand and make a choice today



Welcome to FEB the month of love. For me its a FULL packed month. The end of the
month Feb 25 to march 3
rd
is the UFO CONGRESS in Laughlin. I know I will be seeing
many of you there. http://www.ufocongress.com/For those that have not already signed up
to join us there is still time to do so. Click on the web page and see the line up of fantastic
speakers.
On Feb 26
th
from 4pm to 5pm I will be on the JERRY PIPPIN RADIO SHOW doing a talk. I
will be talking on ET Astrology Charts. Have you had a connection or not. If you make it to
the show make note of this magazine to me to receive a free thank you gift.

I'm so busy getting ready for the UFO Congress that this issue is going to be a short one.
Here it is Feb 6
th
and I'm still trying to get this out the door.
However if you make it to the UFO Congress, I am doing some readings as well as Betsy
Carlsen will be doing readings, and check out the goodies at the booth I have made and
bought for your pleasure and fun. There is something for Everyone. We are BOOTH 31
right next to Wendelle Stevens at BOOTH 30.

Speaking of Wendelle he has some DVDs now for sale.
http://www.ufophotoarchives.com/ The contact movie is back, as well as the out takes and
a few others. Also there is a few extra ebooks out, look for NEW EBOOKS on the page,

The COSMIC CAF web page is up finally, and lots of great links to go to and find FREE
things. Let see how many can become the ripple in the water and make a difference in
YOUR life and the life of OTHERS.
http://www.cosmiccafe.us
Do you have a interest to have a full years worth of issues, you can buy the year for
$15.00 for back issues.
2004 HOT SPRINGS IN AMERICA issue
2005 GENERAL IINTEREST
2006 ASTROLOGY issue
http://www.cosmiccafe.us/ for back issues

I have added more things to the INTERNATIONAL ASTROLOGERS page, lots of interest
items there. Finally the 2007 calendars are ready for your order at
http://www.ufophotoarchives.com/

I'm am making a different type of post here. School education has become dangerous at
best, and more people are looking to home school their children.
Now this is where it gets really interesting, and I'm going to go a step further with it.
Do you have children K to 12, and you would like to home school them?
Think about this, I have teachers who want to TEACH children and give them the
education that will send them to college one day. Home school is the key word here.
Now if you and say another family had kids and wanted to have them home schooled, no
more then 6 kids total, I have teachers who are interested. Now I am talking Licensed
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Educators who want to teach. Lets face it, they are just afraid of the schools now as you
are. But here we can come together and start something new and old. Remember the
1800s, little house on the prairie, small school, and a teacher to educate them all.
If your interested in Private Homes School and youre a PARENT or youre a EDUCATOR
then let me know and Ill post a place on my web page to connect you all up.
Its time to TAKE BACK our Children, and HELP THEM to be come BETTER PEOPLE. And
lets face it, the schools are not offering that anymore. When Drugs, Guns, and Gangs
become common words for education and schools. Then what happened to the 3 Rs as
well as Creative arts? Home schooled kids now are smarter, and can go on to Stanford,
Harvard, Yale. When I look at what is at school now, I would NEVER send my kids into that
snake pit. Change needs to be made, and soon it will, but right now it is at the cost of your
child education. All Teachers MUST agree to being SCREENED by a POLICE CHECK as
well as references. Let me know if anyone is interested.

Keep those Email coming, I love to hear from each of you. Safe travels in 2007.. Blessings
for the New year Cece Stevens


Solar Pioneer Homeland Security Report

By Ted Denmark, Jan. 25, 2007, Dowds Hill, CA

The basic needs that most people have today are for food, water, shelter,
electricity and solid, liquid or gas fuels whether they are urban, suburban or rural
based. In America our inherited democratic freedoms for lifestyle choice, to the
extent they still exist, allow us to pursue a way of life that we feel is desirable and
suitable for ourselves, our families and perhaps our friends and associates. I
think one of the main reasons why many Americans still feel so vulnerable is that
they (we) are nearly completely dependent for virtually all of these necessities on
the complex and possibly fragile interactions of large, distant market-driven
corporate or multinational enterprises with often equally distant, unpredictable
government bureaucraciesthis is the post WW II pattern of fear, uncertainty and
occasionally (?) paranoia raised to new heights and depths by more scary
circumstances like 911 in the digital brave new world of Century 21.

Many lifestyle advantages have accrued from new technologies and the resultant
division of labor to exploit those efficiencies since the beginning of the industrial
revolution, and the complex sorting and evaluation of these various advantages
and disadvantages will continue for the duration of our efforts to survive and
prosperif we are able to continue to do so. As a designer, technologist and long
time advocate for as much self-sufficient, independent living as can be made to fit,
I have been engaged for more than three decades in developing an approach to
achieving a high quality lifestyle that is both sustainable and as self sufficient as
possible relative to the current level of available appropriate technologies. Today
this topic continues to gain currency as additional puzzle pieces have appeared
for integration: advances in utilization of the solar power cell, newer storage
battery technologies (they need to get better still!), more trouble-free wind energy
turbines, the networked personal computer, the hybrid power train for
transportation, water purification technologies, and many others in rapid
development or becoming available such as wide area wireless broadband
connectivity.

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These small-scale enabling technologies have begun a kind of revolutionary
decentralization and democratization of energy generation and utilization that will
undoubtedly continue to progress as additional technologically driven social,
economic and political breakthroughs occur. But we have already come to a point
where existing off-the-shelf products have evolved beyond the early adopter stage
to that of general availability and suitability. If you are genuinely interested in
what you can do for yourself and your culture that might be helpful as part of the
solution for the energy crisis and the mounting threat of global warmingthat
goes beyond just buying a new hybrid car, even if that might be a really good
ideathen it may be time for you to participate in one of the great adventures of
the post modern world: becoming a local producer of your own lifestyle
necessities on the solar homestead as part of your main job description. It would
be Ok too if you are very busy and just want to put solar power panels on your
house as a future investment payoff, wholly maintained by someone else, but its
not as much fun.

If we combine the new decentralized energy technologies such as solar and wind
power with the appropriate technologies of an earlier era, that of small-scale
farming or gardening, then we have what forms the core of a self-sufficient
producer lifestyle whose time has come for those who have not fallen completely
into the condition of passive consumerism in trade for outside the home,
commuting to full-time or multiple job employmentor who want to try to rebound
out.

Our subject here is complex with many side issues, but giving a short account of
my own modest personal effort would likely add detail to make the picture clearer.
I have an off-the-grid solar home that I've been building and working on for 16
years, which I call a Solar Homestead Mini-farm or Solar Farmette; it's located just
below 4,000 feet on about 6 moderately steep acres with a small orchard of 40
trees (apple, pear, cherry, persimmon, peach, and a few odd nut trees, berries and
grapes), a 2500 square foot garden with plans for an eventual green house
attachment that I'm getting much closer to building now that the house itself is
nearing completion (unless I get more ambitious plans ). It is all organic,
making the quality of the fruit and produce as good as any I've ever eaten. I'm in a
very pretty area of the California Mother lode in a little banana belt just inside the
river canyon of the middle fork of the Stanislaus with views of the high ski ridges
near Big Trees State Park, a short distance from the towns of Murphys and
Arnold. The prize of the place is a year round spring that produces about 500
gallons of water a day which I solar slow pump up the hill to a storage tank that
gravity feeds both domestic and irrigation water back down. It is a virtual
paradise on earth not in greatly abundant supply at any price, and I realize Im
very lucky to have found such a place after a dedicated search.

I grew up mostly on a small family farm in central Oklahoma, so I got the green-
thumb basics early from my hardworking grandfather and have attempted to apply
it here on a smaller scale to reach a compromise between growing something
oneself that is both valuable enough to justify the effort and also suitable to the
bio-region (tree farming on steep terrain) but yet not becoming a slave to full
agricultural production with large animals and tilled crops the way he wasall on
a small residential scale for couple, family or small community group (you might
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not get to think of yourself as a cowboy or cowgirl, but itd still work for you in
your western wear outfit). I wouldnt mind having the raw milk and cream of those
dairy cattle we had on our farm, but, oh, the sacrifice required of the dairyman and
baker It could be that a community level of co-operative work sharing might
apply to get dairy product, but this could turn out to be tricky to organize, even
among motivated friends. Fortunately raw dairy is still legal in California if
somewhat expensive, and we have a near-local supplier of raw dairy products
from grass-fed cattlethe story of the value of raw dairy is itself an interesting but
too long detour.

We have plenty of sun here in our heavily forested Central Sierra foothill area
(even if the commercial clear cutting loggers with governmental assistance are
legally decimating the area at a rapid pace) so my solar-electric power panel array
with passive solar space heating and wood stove backup works out fairly well
(yes, Im aware of the woodstove pollution problem, but we can still tolerate it out
here in our low density area, though there may be a pellet stove in my future).
The soil, though shallow and thin like typical mountain soils, is reasonably fertile
with a few amendments like organic turkey manure, so it's a fair game (we have
wild turkeys in the area too) to keep up with essential soil building while limiting
erosion. Altogether this is a rather more productive place providing its own water,
electrical power, some food and recycled sewage and compost, than the ordinary
urban/suburban houseor rural ranch housebut also relatively comfortable
with the usual amenities (with plans for including an eventual dance, music and
video studio) and the usual communications suspects: telephone, radio,
television and dial-up Internet with satellite dish or eventual Wimax (long distance
radio frequency Wifi) broadband as an eventual option. Im still holding out on
satellite television because I get good enough broadcast reception from my
amplified hilltop antenna from the Sacramento PBS channel and the Monterrey
NBC channel even though they are both more than a hundred miles away. I
probably wouldnt have time or really want to spend more than a couple hours a
day watching television anyway. It would be nice to have the faster satellite
Internet upgrade here in the dialup ghetto, but dialup is still good enough except
for video transfers, and they may turn out to be best sent as blu-ray disks via the
paper mail trail (like Netflix) unless you are a working video producer (one of my
ambitions). The two buried telephone lines were the essential starters already in
place when I arrived to purchase this property that will probably always be off the
grid, though the power poles are less than a mile awaythe cost of bridging even
this short distance runs to several thousands of dollars. I wouldnt mind if an
eventual larger local community wanted to ante up and pay a shared costpower
grid connectivity will always be a good option (as long as it is there and I sincerely
hope it will not be targeted and disrupted by terrorists of any persuasionone of
the probably most subliminally feared things today).

Admittedly this attempt at a more energy independent, self sufficient lifestyle has
been a lot more work than most people would want or could manage, but the
physical exercise gained has been of some significant value to me compared
to ordinary sedentary urban/suburban day job occupations like office work with a
need for "going to the gym" to maintain fitness (of course you might meet
someone interesting there, but ). But on those days when I find out that the
electrical power is down and out in the local Highway 4 corridorwhich usually
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happens at least once every winter, I am able to feel a bit more justification for all
those times I had to go out to sweep snow off my panels in wintertime (they are
tipped down to shed snow, but there is often some frozen residue that sticks).
Ive never had a self-inflicted power outage at my place in all the time Ive been
here, even though I didnt have quite enough of the best quality power in the early
days when I was still building up my system of panels and equipment. One of my
finest moments as a solar pioneer occurred when I upgraded my original square
wave power inverter to a smart sine wave four-kilowatt power plant with in-
house remote controlall the radios, TVs, stereos and electric motors gratefully
stopped their subliminal sixty-cycle hum that my sensitive ears had suffered from
the beginning. And I can turn this power system completely off at night or as I
need to during the powerful lightning storms we sometimes have in our area.

This kind of arrangement does have its own learning curve and is probably more
suitable for someone who is sufficiently mechanical and technically savvy while
managing home-based employment for essential cash income, but I am close
enough to a small local job market to take various outside jobs as they arise. I
still feel much too dependent on gasoline for our car and two trucks, but the
availability of plug-in hybrid transportation appears to be getting closer (Toyota
admits to be working on this as a priority). When it does arrive, it will be just a
matter of adding enough solar panels to the one and a half kilowatts I currently
have on line to charge the additional batteries. Since we dont usually drive more
than 50 miles on a typical day, unless we go to the San Francisco Bay Area on a
shopping/mini-vacation trip, an eventual stable of two plug-in hybrids and maybe
one old four cylinder gas sipper as backup would be optimal. I havent yet
gotten involved with bio-diesel fuels (there arent many fast food places out here
in the sticks to get the deep-fry discard oil) and for the time being will leave that
for Willy Nelson to trouble shoot.

I have been collecting glass from fogged sliding glass doors and windows for
several years now with an eye to eventually cobbling them together into a near all-
year-round food and heat producing greenhouse adjoining the eastern and
southern sides of the main house. In fact this has been the driving force of my
expectation almost from the beginning. When I am feeling temperamentally
impatient or unhappy, it is this lack that seems the most in need of assuaging.
Such a solarium/greenhouse (which I had built early in the cycle of my first solar
owner/builder house in the Colorado mountains during the 1970s), in addition to
being of great utility, is also a magical environment to just experience in the
middle of a bed of leafy salad greens on a cold but sunny winter day (and also
another bunch of work). Sitting at the dining room table in the comfort of bright
morning sun for breakfast after a cold winter night is not too bad either, not to
mention not having to start a fire in the woodstove till the Sun goes behind the hill
in late afternoon. Seeing a real fire through the glass doors of the upstairs living
room wood stove in winter provides a warmth that ducted central heating will
never begin to match (maybe not video games or a screen saver showing a
burning video fire either).

Our climate here is relatively mild, particularly since the advent of global warming,
and has gotten noticeably warmer in the last seven years. Mostly gone are the
days of windy blizzards and heavy snows that predominated when I first arrived
just sixteen years ago. Most local folk that I know like the short-term milder
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weather but realize that the long-term results may be the greatest challenge we all
face. For example the hottest day I ever witnessed in the area occurred last
summer with a reading of 106 F (a record 116 in the big valley in Modesto!). In
previous years it had only reached near 100 degrees here on a few of the hottest
days. The solar-powered swamp cooler will probably be just as important in
Summer for minimal comfort as the Sierra snow pack declines, just like the solar
space heating/woodstove combo in Winter. I believe that the advantages of
essential energy and food production are inherently valuable, but if there is an
additional benefit of environmental preservation, then it becomes that much more
desirable for early solar pioneers like myself to try to demonstrate the viability
of such an arrangement.

I have also been enamored of wind power, and purchased one of the small
wattage wind genies with built-in charge controller to put atop a long steel pipe
anchored in a big chunk of concrete, and though it is an admirable piece of kinetic
sculpture above the vineyard just uphill from the house that makes me happy
when I see it spinning up in a windstorm, the amount of power produced by the
prevailing light southerly breezes is usually negligible. Larger scale wind power
on my hilltop would probably be feasible but the difficulty of raising a tower at a
distance of about three hundred yards uphill from the house with the resulting
need for AC power transmission back down is still too costly.

Even though these modest stepping stone technologies such as the flat plate
silicon solar panel and the small wind turbine, are currently worth implementing in
many locations with sufficient hours of sun and wind, eventually there will appear
more efficient panels and optically enhanced devices, making for smaller sized
arrays, and marginally more efficient wind turbines. But beyond that I feel
confident that we can look forward to a number of radically new technologies that
will go far beyond these early practical inventions. Its already a vast worldwide
effort, mostly still secretive, to produce power with novel physical effects with
permanent magnet and capacitive discharge motors up to truly exotic cold fusion
and superconductivity spin-offs that leverage a small direct current voltage such
as that produced by a solar panel or wind genie, to provide a continuous power
stream ten times greater in return. It is only a matter of time before some of these
demonstrated laboratory effects of quantum energy phenomena and the like,
become available for experimentation and eventual commercialization. Naturally
the powerful commercial/industrial/governmental complex does not want to see
these potentially revolutionary technologies competing fairly for dollars in energy
markets with their mega-investments in existing energy infrastructure so the
prospects for implementation will remain dicey for some time yet. Home-based
electrical power production that runs the utility meter backwards in competition
with the regional established utility remains a political hot button issue as
Californias recently re-invented superhero governor now attempts to blaze a new
trail with solar power subsidies obviously at variance with the corporate lobbyist
dominated Washington power structure. The worldwide demand for solar panels
continues to increase so the prices are not coming down either as earlier hoped
while Germany and Japan purchase the lions share of the current production
along with California and the sunny Southwest.

But in the meantime the needed experience to be gained from this preliminary
decentralization of power and food production will allow for the start of a number
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of forces acting in favor of increased autonomy and democratization of cultures
around the world, just as early space exploration with missiles using chemical
rockets have allowed the needed early infrastructure of novel engineering
technologies to gain the necessary foothold for initial exotic materials
development, satellite communications, space medicine, etc. in preparation for
future propulsion technologies (which, as we know, have also not officially arrived
yet).

The last decade of the 20
th
Century may have lulled us into believing that an
inevitable abundant technological future lay just a few years ahead for our nation,
if not so soon for the world at large, on a continuous path of rational decision
making towards increasing efficiency and wealth. Today we are much more likely
to be aware of the unexpected irrationalities and dangers of world conflict
generated by competition for existing non-renewable energy resources. If
anything, this awareness should probably accelerate the keenness of our move
towards renewable energy sources such as solar and wind that can be
managedon an individual residential basisas a major lifestyle issue. Of
course not everyone (probably not even very many as we have observed) can
become solar pioneer food and energy producers in the short term, but a cultural
bias towards independence and self-sufficiency will induce more Americans, and
indeed people all over the world, to explore this approach. The many millions of
people who are now able to make use of cell phone communication without a
need to pay for installation and maintenance of copper wire to their residences
will also see the advantages of producing their own electric power locally, also
without having to pay for the additional copper wire transmission infrastructure
above or below groundnot to mention paying for more centralized power plants
with their deadly pollution from nuclear or fossil fuels. This goes over again for
local food production when it comes time to pay the increasing costs of distant
transport. There are even problems with centralized hydroelectric power, which
surprised me at first blush, though it still retains a major cost advantage in the
Pacific Northwest region (witness the location of the new Google mega-server
farm beside the Columbia in rural eastern Oregon).

The marriage of newer and older appropriate technologies together in this idea of
a Solar Homestead has been a viable option since the enthusiastic expectations of
the late Sixties and early Seventies, though progress has been slower than most
of us thought would likely occur. For a while it looked as if it could be a possible
resuscitation for the long-failing family farm and the consequent rise of
agribusiness with rural to urban population flight across the country and around
the world. One of the more notably depressing observations I can remember
when I first arrived in California in the early Sixties, was that nearly all the
agricultural workers appeared to be Hispanicincluding many Mexican
immigrantsthe dominant class of non-Hispanic white European-Americans no
longer did food production farm work even on the worlds most valuable and
productive farm land! We must be grateful for their hard work, but the loss of
socio-economic status for food production work, whether because of the dangers
of widespread pesticide use in the fields or just the hardship of dusty repetitive
work all day in the hot sun compared to the air-conditioned office, leading to the
consequent production of an easily identified underclass, seemed ominous for
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our future. But pioneers of any generation have to pay the dues of early adopter
status somewhere just as our early wagon train and seafaring pioneers did.

As usual most things turn out to be more complicated than anyone could have
imagined, and there is no telling if we will remain on this slow transition plateau,
as we have been, for very many additional years or whether new technologies will
continue to appear to compete with the older more familiar deliverables, making
the delay an advantage after all. Or whether anyone, particularly the younger
generations who will soon be in charge when the Boomers retire, will even be
interested enough to take time from their entertainment agendas if it doesnt
garner obvious double digit short-term profitability (I am confident they will find
their niche if only by necessity). It may take $100 a barrel oil to finally shock us
into a realization that unless the American military can guarantee the continued
flow of cheap oil to the multinational conglomerates and retail consumersnow
increasingly in questionthey, and we, will have to make some serious lifestyle
choices that mainstream American exceptionalism has so far been able to avoid
realizing. It was only last year that a congressional leader from Oklahoma was
able to openly maintain that global warming was a hoax before his defeat in the
fall midterm elections.

World population has been able to accelerate to its current level of around six
billion largely because of abundant cheap oil, and it is likely that it will increase a
good deal more before it begins to stabilize (if it ever does). If we are close to the
historical peak of oil production as many believe, then we must begin to counter
the irresponsible pattern of waste and greed now afflicting the privileged,
decision-making classes in all countries. The alternative, now in evidence in
some marginal economies and conflicted societies (Rwanda, Bosnia, Somalia,
Haiti, Darfur, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon), appears to be genocide perpetrated on
the weak and unarmed have-nots by the aggressively armed and anxious haves.
This human wolf pack mentality, whether in individuals or accumulated to a nation
state level, has already shown its fanged teeth in the new incivility at home as well
as in agonizing bloodshed and massacres abroad.

The truth is that at the present time there is not even enough awareness or
interest on the part of the majority of American consumers to make the transition
from the 19
th
Century technology of inexpensive but short-lived disposable
tungsten filament light bulbs to the initially expensive but long-lived and very
efficient compact fluorescents. If we could only convert our obsolescent lighting
to this more energy efficient type at a reasonable pace (not to mention LEDS
which go the next step to ultra-efficiency), we would not be forced to continually
bring new centralized power plants online. We used to have a national
government without an energy policy; now we have one with an energy policy
overtly blocking conservation (did they used to call themselves conservatives?)
and favoring increased production of combustible fuels at any cost for rapid
uncontrolled growth insuring continuing short-term financial profits. It is the
strategy of the feeding frenzy of mutated cancer cells ravishing their host into
oblivion. Can the pitiful helpless giant apply the brakes before driving at full
speed over the cliff? We will undoubtedly learn the essential aspects of this
response decision in the next decade. Changes of a fundamental or revolutionary
nature can probably not be delayed much longer, and we will see many
unavoidable consequences of action and inaction, with the usual manifold of
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unintended consequences. I dont know anyone who is optimistic that it will be a
solution we, or the real hardworking pioneers, our American forefathers and
mothers, can or could be completely proud of yet.

It may just be that it is still too early in the evolution of homo lupus to homo faber
to expect rational decision making on an appropriate time scale horizon, but Im
afraid it may also be a while before the needed DNA upgrade, spiritual realization
or whatever is required, might become available. The old-fashioned feedback
loop of pain and suffering may continue to rule in the human-animal kingdom until
we can decode the virtual message. In the meantime it will surely and securely
behoove us to find our own place in the sun, cultivating our solar powered kitchen
gardens on the home front while watching the world wag by on our big screen
(LED?) TVsif the revolution is indeed televised, contrary to some early hippie
ludditesor at least see our wind genies spinning in the breeze. This is self
empowerment that is not just a metaphor. Let us hope we can continue to use it
to draw sufficient peace of mind that we can do something that will help us
muddle through just in time.

DOME HOMES

No current updates on the dome home, Desierto Cpula in Southern Arizona
http://www.doliferight.com/domehome/domehome.php
I'm sure our young couple will be getting back to us in the Spring again.

ON a happy note, I have had several readers ask about already built Dome Homes
and are looking to buy one. So if you have one and your wanting to sell it, please
email the information so I can post it here.
Same with Ram built homes.
MLS might carry these unique homes, but they dont really know how to list them
correctly. So since this year is about GREEN and living GREEN., then feel free to
list your GREEN home here for FREE. Now how is that for a gift?

MONOLITHIC DOME HOMES UPDATES

Conference time is almost here! Our 13th annual Monolithic Dome Conference will be held on
February 23-24 at the DFW Holiday Inn in Irving, Texas. Reserve your spot now!

2007 Conference News: FEMA Manager Will Address General Session Here's a sneak preview
of what you will hear at the Conference when Chuck Gregg, Program Specialist with the
Mitigation Division, Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment, FEMA Region VI, does his
presentation.

Domes For The World Foundation (DFTW) Continues Its Mission This article defines DFTW's
mission, what it's struggling to provide for people in developing countries and how the Monolithic
EcoShell answers needs.

Warnings and Solutions: Is Anyone Listening? Max Mayfield, retiring Director of the National
Hurricane Center, voices his concerns about future natural disasters and how we are handling
and mishandling the threat. David B. South, president of Monolithic, agrees and comments.

Cloud Hidden Sold A Monolithic Dome luxury home sells during the winter, in about nine months,
for more than its appraised value. Read the details.
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Algeria, Africa -- planned 3000 student Monolithic Dome university See pictures of the artist's
conception of this facility.

Editor's Circle: Installing an ERV in my Home Mike South gives us a step-by-step description of
the process he went through when he installed an Energy Recovery Ventilator in his Monolithic
Dome home.

Downloadable Brochure on Monolithic Dome Bulk Storage Structures You can download the
color brochure, "Cement Fly Ash Clinker," published by Dome Technology Inc. of Idaho Falls,
Idaho.

UCSC Advanced Applicator Certification Training UCSC will be conducting a training program for
the spraying of polyurethane foam in Phoenix, Arizona, February 19-22. For more information and
to register, please call 800-buyucsc by Feb. 2, 2007. http://www.ucsc.com

Check It Out - For the latest on Monolithic Domes and related topics, check our website. New
articles, profiles and discussions, as well as updates of old ones, are posted often.
http://www.monolithic.com/
David B. South, President, Monolithic Dome Institute 177 Dome Park
Place Italy, TX 76651 (972) 483-7423, Fax (972) 483-6662
mailto:president@monolithic.com
NEW! Photo Journal: A Monolithic Dome in Weatherford, TX This collection includes 26
photos of the building of a 50' x 18 Monolithic Dome that has 4 large augments and 2
standard-size ones.
http://www.monolithic.com/gallery/construction/leehome/index.html

NEW! Almost Everything You Wanted To Know About Monolithic Dome Churches This
very detailed article answers many questions for people contemplating a Monolithic
Dome church.
http://www.monolithic.com/gallery/churches/buy/index.html

NEW! The Road to a Home with Start of Construction Checklist Thinking about a
Monolithic Dome Home? This is a must-read.
http://www.monolithic.com/gallery/homes/getting_home/index.html

Al Schwarz's Robot Ranch Make a virtual visit to a complex of 7
interconnected, earth-sheltered Monolithic Domes.
http://www.monolithic.com/gallery/homes/robot/index.html

SCIENCE , SPACE AND TECHNOLOGY

Science/Astronomy:

* New T-ray Device to Explore Obscure Cosmic Radiation
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=76FA:39643

A miniscule sensor could lead to a better understanding of the formation of new
stars, planets, and the hole in the ozone layer by studying an obscure wavelength
of radiation.

* Neptune May Have Thousands of Escorts
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=76F8:39643
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Neptune may be escorted in its orbit by thousands of asteroid-like objects,
perhaps more than exist in the entire asteroid belt.

* Andromeda Involved In Ancient Galactic Collision
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=76FB:39643

Streams of glittering stellar gems on the outer edges of Andromeda are remnants
of an ancient galactic collision that helped shape the spiral galaxy.

* Study: Surface of Mars Devoid of Life
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=76F9:39643

The last refuge for Martian life, if it exists, might be deep below the planet?s
surface and beyond the reach of any currently planned missions, according to a
new study.

* Image of the Day: COROT Sees First Light
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=7701:39643

The first light detected by COROT comes from the constellation of the Unicorn
near Orion, the great ?hunter? whose imposing silhouette stands out in the winter
nights.

* Finding New Worlds: Theoretical Conjecture Versus Hands-on Astronomy
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=7CAF:39643

There is ongoing theoretical debate regarding how and where to spot other worlds
circling distant stars. And there are new ground and in-space observational tools
that are locking into real-time data.

* The Moon and Saturn Get Together
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=7CB8:39643

Watching the full Moon rise over the east-northeast horizon on Friday evening,
Feb. 2, you will probably notice a rather bright yellowish-white ?star? shining
sedately just above and to the Moon?s right. That object is not a star, however,
but the planet Saturn.

* Mammoth Cloud Engulfs Titan?s North Pole
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=7CB5:39643

A mammoth cloud half the size of the contiguous United States and spotted on
Saturn?s moon Titan might be what?s filling up lakes discovered there last year,
scientists say.

* Image of the Day: Jupiter From Mars
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=7CB7:39643

The most powerful camera ever sent to Mars has gas giant envy.
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Spaceflight:

* LIVE Coverage: Spacewalkers to Overhaul ISS Cooling System Today
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=7700:39643

Spacewalkers Michael Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Williams have completed their
pre-breathing activities for today's planned extravehicular activity (EVA) outside
the International Space Station (ISS).

* Sea Launch Rocket Explodes During Launch
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=76F7:39643

The first launch of 2007 by Sea Launch Company LLC ended in failure when the
Zenit 3SL launch vehicle carrying the SES New Skies NSS-8 telecommunications
satellite was destroyed as it was lifting off from the company?s mobile launch
platform in the Pacific Ocean.

* NASA Chief Cleared in One Probe, Florida Spaceport Faulted in Another
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=7706:39643

A federal watchdog agency has closed its investigation into whether NASA's chief
administrator violated the law when he urged an audience to support former
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

* NASA: Hubble Space Telecope's Main Camera Offline, Some Science Lost
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=7705:39643

The Hubble Space Telescope?s primary camera is offline, with some science
capabilities likely lost for good, NASA officials said Monday.

* No Free Ride to Space for Contest Winners
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=76FF:39643

Brian Emmett's childhood fantasy came true when he won a free trip to outer
space. He was crushed when he had to cancel his reservation because of Uncle
Sam.

* NEW! Daily Space Trivia
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=7711:39643

One of Today's 5 New Questions: What is used as a reflective coating on the
space suit helmet visor?

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NEW! LiveScience.com
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=7713:39643

* Europe's First Stegosaurus Discovered
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=76F5:39643
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The find supports the idea that Europe and North America were once connected
by a series of temporary land bridges that allowed dinosaurs to cross.

* Geologists Watch as African Continent is Torn Apart
http://bcast1.imaginova.com/t?r=2&ctl=76FC:39643

Seismic activity is tearing Africa apart and scientists are geared up to watch the
ripping landscape in an unprecedented set of observations.

HUMOR IN LIFE

A man and woman had been married for many years. They had shared everything. They
had talked about everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the
little old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her
husband never to open or ask her about.

For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but one day the little old
woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover.

In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took down the shoe box and took it to
his wife's bedside.

She agreed that it was time that he should know what was in the box.

When he opened it, he found two crocheted dolls and a stack of money.

He asked her about the contents. "When we were to be married," she said, "my
grandmother told me the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that
if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and crochet a doll."

The little old man was so moved; he had to fight back tears. Only two precious dolls were
in the box. She had only been angry with him two times in all those years of living and
loving. He almost burst with happiness.

"Honey," he said, "That explains the dolls, but what about all of this money? Where did it
come from?"

"Oh," she said, "That's the money I made from selling the dolls."










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SOLAR COOKING, RECIPES, AND SOLAR OVENS

Using your Dutch Oven

The Ultimate Dutch Oven is the hottest,
fastest cooking accessory on the market.
Combining old-style outdoor flavor and
modern cooking technology, this
advanced cast iron black pot is quickly
becoming known as the outdoor
microwave. Cast iron is a great heat
conductor, transferring and holding heat,
or cold. The convection-style Ultimate
Dutch Oven has taken traditional meals to gourmet levels. These simple tips will help
you get the most from your new Ultimate Dutch Oven.
Preparing Cast Iron for Use:
Place your cast iron upside down on your Camp Chef outdoor cooker, a barbecue, or in
your home oven. When burning off the wax on your cookware the wax will smoke. This
step is best done outside to avoid excess smoke in the kitchen. When smoking stops,
remove from heat.
When cool, wash your oven thoroughly with a citrus based soap and water. Be sure to
rinse and dry completely. (Note: Soap can remove the seasoning of your cast iron if you
dont restore it after cleaning.
Saturate a clean cloth rag with Camp Chef Cast Iron Conditioner. Coat all surfaces of
the cast iron. Place on or in heat source upside down and heat to 375 - 400F.
Cookware will smoke as the seasoning bakes. As smoking begins to slow remove from
heat. Use or let cool and store.
After each use, apply a small amount of Camp Chef Cast Iron Conditioner, and thinly
coat all surfaces of the cast iron. Over time, this will make your cast iron blackcreating
a finish called a patina. This enhances your cast iron by creating a glass-like finish,
giving it a non-stick surface.
Temperatures:
Avoid rapid changes in temperatures. cast iron will crack and break if taken directly from
hot to cold or cold to hot conditions.for recipes requiring both hot and cold temperatures,
allow the oven to slowly cool and adjust. Store your Dutch oven in a safe, dry area. We
recommend using a Camp Chef Dutch oven carry/storage bag.
Convection style cooking relies on the unobstructed flow of hot air. The vent cone in the
center of the oven allows the hot air from the burner to enter and flow around the inside
of the Ultimate Dutch Oven; cooking the food more quickly and evenly than traditional
Dutch Ovens. The center cone also allows the food to cook from the middle outward.The
deep dish lid gives plenty of head room for added air circulation while doubling as a
deep skillet.
The heat cone drives heat into the center of the oven, dispersing and circulating heat
throughout, giving superior convection cooking. The heat cone eliminates the use of
charcoal for top heat for the majority of dishes.
Another great benefit of the convection style design is HEALTHY COOKING. Because
the Ultimate Dutch Oven incorporates convection style cooking, it needs no oil or lard to
perfectly roast and cook any meal. Your meals are healthy and low in oil when you use
Camp Chef's Ultimate Dutch Oven.

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Baked, Stuffed, Chicken Rating
Gary Smith
Ingredients:

1 roasting chicken (approximately 3 lbs.)
Wash well and pat dry.

2 cups bread crumbs
3 strips bacon cooled & crispy (crumble in Dutch oven)
1/4 cup celery diced
1 chicken broth
1 whole onion diced
1 1/2 cups water

How to Prepare:
Stuff chicken. Place in a 12inch Dutch oven. Place 15 coals on top and 10 underneath.
Cook 1 1/2 hours.

Dutch Oven Potatoes Rating
Gary Coleman & Colleen Bonner
Ingredients:

20-25 medium red potatoes
fresh parsley
1 - 1 1/2 cubes butter

How to Prepare:

Quarter potatoes and layer in a greased 12 inch Dutch oven. Salt and Pepper as you
layer the potatoes. Cook for approximately 30-45 minutes. Check every 15 minutes to
see that they are not cooking too fast. Add 1/4 cup of water if necessary to keep moist.
After potatoes are cooked, cover with butter and chopped fresh parsley.


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them. http://www.campchef.com/new_products.html














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