laser eye surgery dangers exposed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1334246/Tempted-laser-eye-op-So-Lois-ruined-sight-.html

UK chalk reef discovery link

Living fossil link

Sea Urchin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_urchin

            The sea urchin, as stated on the above link, is related to the crinoids, which are the subject of some previous posts on this site, along with images of the crinoids.                It has been speculated that the entire body of the sea urchin is one big eye.
              It has also been theorized that the crinoids evolved an ability to up their moorings and walk along the sea floor, in order to avoid being nibbled by sea urchins.   Broken off bits of crinoid stem found scattered around are evidence of sea urchin snacking.
                Sea urchins are sometimes considered a pest but are alright where they are a natural part of the ecosystem if kept under control by other predators, such as otters, which like to eat them.

seaweed information

http://www.mdidea.com/products/proper/proper082research.html

The above website link details research data on seaweed's nutrient value for medicine and food.

 The idea that people could be living close to the cures for their maladies and nutrient deficiencies and be in ignorance of this is unsettling.   Yet if the water is contaminated and people consume the harvest of the sea, the effect on health could be negative.           Every human activity on or near the ocean has a consequence for the bio resource.

house of tradition

 Prince William and Kate are to be wed in 2011.   As they have lived together for a number of years before taking this step, they are a good example to others not to hurry into life changing commitments and not to reproduce in the first few years of a relationship.            
 This is very modern and appropriate of them.  People feel uncomfortable with some of the aspects of royalty that seem archaic. The system seems so controlling and unhealthy. Was it their idea to wed or are they being pushed into it?  Are royals regarded as baby machines and their bodies tools of a fertility mad state that seeks to manipulate the people?     
 What if the couple change their mind now that plans are underway?    Is it plausible that they could cancel even at the altar when the questions are asked? Does royalty forgo autonomy?   Princess Diana was pathologized when she wanted to get out of her marriage.    Her ability to draw people into her world and empathize, inspired people to ask questions.     Is this institution safe for the people in it?   Is it a healthy mirror for society to look at itself in?          Are we all like these people? Are most females viewed by the state as just walking bags of reproductive organs to be used for making the future soldiers and workers to serve the state?
 In 2010 it is very good to see that at least this is one couple who have established a sustainable life with a house of their own before thinking of babies.           If they choose to wed and not to have babies everyone should be accepting of this and what a wonderful example to the world that would be. Otherwise, one child would be a good limit.
 

cement superstructure

http://www.kinokultura.com/specials/10/laaniste-torim.shtml

cement- is it an overused material?   i asked myself this question because a sculpture in progress(a cement staircase), was being constructed at one of my favorite beaches.    It is not a good look for the beach or any beach, as they are beautiful only to the degree they can be kept natural.     They had already harmed the appearance of this beach by tarmac surfacing and landscaping the parking area, which was lovely before with interesting freestanding stones delineating space and just needed a bit of seamless resurfacing of the loose grit surface.         
 These new glaring hues and constructivist spaces re sculpt Tasmania's landscape  in the design direction of an English seaside slum park styled to get money off the proletariat in exchange for cheap paramilitary style holidays ie Butlands, Pontins and are also reminiscent of supermarket and kidi equipment design styles with their lunatic legoland grabrail design aura and obliteration of all visible tree limbs.

safe renovation

Renovations can be pretty unsafe for beautiful furniture, fixtures, fittings and buildings when intrinsic qualities are sometimes destroyed to follow popular style trends. For example: the late 20th century mindless acid stripping and staining of wooden furniture and fittings which destroyed many nice but unfashionable original french varnished surfaces.           
      Human health and safety is also at risk from renovation, yet should be of paramount consideration.       Clearly, renovators should be very sure that they are not just following a trend when renovating as costs can be way too high both to heritage and human health.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1327910/Paint-fumes-trigger-asthma-cancer-Hidden-dangers-decorating.html

Inside the beautiful house

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tudor_Revival_architecture

Recently, I viewed -Murder On The Links- a Poirot DVD from The Agatha Christy Collection. Some exquisite interiors, exteriors and gardens featured throughout the film set in the 20's'30's.

 Whilst these were not Tudor Revival, but some other style present on the landscape of the 1920's/30's, The Arts and Crafts Movement influenced many buildings of the era.                                

  Tudor Revival architecture came into media prominence this week when Joanne Brown, owner of a 3million pound Tudor style cottage backing onto Great Windsor Park, went missing, suspected murdered, precipitating a crime investigation and search for her body.   Her husband who her friends claim, wanted the house, was arrested.
  She had been running part of the cottage as a B&B to pay legal costs in the couple's bitter ongoing divorce proceedings.  She owned the cottage prior to her marriage to Mr Brown, an airline pilot.
  Whatever the facts of the case, in fiction and in life, people definitely murder for houses, both beautiful and plain.      Is there something about the Tudor style that inspires lust in the male?        Perhaps they see stays and corsets in the architectural wooden exterior binding and internal support beams, the lattice leadlights and tied down thatching.   Yet these were creations of structural necessity in the 1500's when the style was conceived.    Perhaps the analytical male mind just likes to be able to see how a building is constructed by sussing out the outside.     Industrial style buildings with exposed workings, sometimes labelled brutal, perhaps are a post modernist reflection of an identifiably male labelled design desire ascended from Tudor origin. 

   How many people see an enchantingly beautiful house and think- I've got to have that house-  It seems humans are a predatory animal and this is never more obvious than in the quest for housing.   

They flew so far to die

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2009/11/18/110481_tasmania-news.html
  The migratory birds are arriving and dying again.        I have just returned from a walk on a beach and whilst observing the desertification and eroding dune habitat created by the sand mining of the other year, which stole massive quantities of sand, trucking it away in a disruption to the nature reserve ecosystem that went on for months and months, I saw over 20 dead birds in clusters and all the way along the beach from the headland cliff rock pool area to the point.   Some partially buried, so others are probably there but obscured by drifting sand.           Past mass bird deaths are attributed to exhaustion and starvation.     Has human activity got any influence on this phenomena?