Milk Bottle Wondering

Big Brother has been trying out putting Plastic Tubes around Vegetable Plants after seeing a British T.V. program and it certainly seems to make his plants grow better.

I could not afford the heavy plastic plumbing tubes which he uses so tried cutting "fizzy" and Milk Bottles down to make tubes for my plants.

Note the results in the photo.

I know many people empty their waxy plastic milk bottles into glass jars a ssoona sthey get home because they say the milk tastes alot better stored in glass.

However I bet you cannot even start to imagine my horror,( having watched Formalin Solution in minute quantities kill Plankton samples over many years and never considering it may do the same to me until it was too late) at finding that plants placed in waxy Milk Bottle "tubes" die very well as compared to those nearby in fizzy tubes.

Methinks putting Milk into glass bottles as soon as we can may be a good idea after all.

I guess the next step is to try again and watch just how wide an area the plastic milk bottles effect spreads among nearby weeds as well.

Self or Elf promotion

Houstin we have a problem!

Every New Zealander is forced to pay ever increasing compulsory levies in return for having the right to sue over injuries removed.

Unfortunately it seems over recent years particularly under Labour vast amounts were spent on trying to deny claimants their entitlements.

Seemingly by employing Private providers to research the history of claimants and destroy any information which may have shown evidence of injury or entitlements.

Vast sums seem to have been spent on getting preferred providers to disentitle claimants by changing diagnosis to mental illness or age related deterioration.

Seems compulsory levies were diverted to saving ailing New Zealand Corporations rather than paying entitlements to claimants.

The recession has not helped.

So now we have a situation where many long term claimants now find they are being compensated for injuries they never had and not covered for expertly diagnosed injuries.

Now that the bubble has burst the New Government is hell bent on saving costs and face and therefore all long term claims are to be ended.

I have a suspicion also that an analysis of the number of ACC claimants who committed suicide or died unexpectedly during treatment or were recovering well then died would make for an interesting study.

Unfortunately we cannot abdicate from the scheme and it seems w ehave a scheme hell bent on destroying injured people no matter what the costs.

for example I have often wondered what the motive is for an organisation such as ACC blocking or destroying any rehabilitation attempts claimants make.

On many occasions we have found ACC Staff have gone behind our backs and told people not to employ me.

I had, particularly after one incident thought this was simply a retaliation for raising issues or criticizing the actions of ACC.

Nowadays I concentrate on developing my ability to paint Painting which are beyond the norm and in demand.

I get a great deal of satisfaction from each completed painting.

To me it is not only a Masterpiece but also at times when people would destroy you it is nice to be surrounded by beauty which they cannot block or stop.

I have recently discovered that marketing and developing a market is just as important as producing the paintings.

Toward that end I on occaision place paintings for sale on the local Auction site, it costs me quite a substantial amount to place the auctions and I carefully keep records of each one.

In much the same way as I now use a GPS data logger to keep track of my every day movements

So it is some interest that I note that ACC is now apparently paying Private Investigators to track down auctions made by ACC clients.

Once again with the aim of showing clients are acting illegally in claiming compensation and atempting to rehabilitate themselves to the fullest extant possible.

Could assisted-suicide be the first step on a slippery slope towards the persecution and genocide of disabled people?

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0910/S00111.htm

ACC’s $4.8 billion loss unsustainable Friday, 9 October 2009, 1:23 pm Press Release: New Zealand Government

Hon Dr Nick Smith
Minister for ACC

9 October 2009
Media Statement
ACC’s $4.8 billion loss unsustainable

ACC has become financially unsustainable and reform is required to ensure its future for New Zealanders, ACC Minister Nick Smith says.

ACC’s 2008/09 Annual Report was today tabled in Parliament showing a loss of $48 billion.

“This $4.8 billion loss for the 2008/09 year comes on top of a $2.4 billion loss for the year before and shows the ACC scheme is financially unsustainable,” Dr Smith says.

“The Government’s major concern is the growing gap between ACC’s assets and liabilities. It comes as no surprise that ACC’s investment returns have been lower through the recession and we are quite confident these will recover. The grave concern is the huge growth in the outstanding claims liabilities from $9.4 billion to $23.8 billion in just four years.

“ACC cannot sustain the huge ongoing increases in claim costs arising from greater claim numbers, deteriorating rehabilitation rates, and unfunded scheme extensions. The underlying problem is that ACC has drifted from being a state insurer to a welfare provider.

Back!

We vanished for almost two weeks and few people noticed.

No computer access and no phone contact we stayed with a fabulous Potter in her magnificent garden.

I have decided I need desperately to find better markets for my paintings and more importantly to dedicate more time and determination to my paintings and produce more.

Toward that end I watched a water colour expert at work as she painted Bird paintings and want to learn more about her technique which appears to involve liquid paints or dyes.

I also watched people producing "lost wax" molds for Bronze Sculptures, each of which takes up to two years of work to complete, a bit beyond my concentration length methinks.

Big Sis insists that Potters are merely painters who cannot paint, something I would smile at but dispute.

We were Weather bound by unexpected Heavy snow falls for a few days, so much for Global warming!

Although some years ago I attended some lectures by a Scientist who predicted that as the equator heats up more and more fierce storms would be drawn up from the Polar regions, seems he may be right.

Another Scientist I world with was convinced we are entering the next Ice Age, he may also be correct.

On the disability front I discovered that people working in the health system appear to have adopted or been indoctrinated into believing that people with disabilities do not have much quality of life and would be better off not being alive or extrapolating from that and adding my experiences with Accident compensation it appears there is a certain amount of belief that people with disability of any kind need punishing.

More and more it seems if injured or having disabilities one is best by far to withdraw as far as possible from any Government Agency and rely on their own resources and good people to get ahead.

Those sorts of people who declare that you are "allowed" to have the various problems and pain associated with injury or disability which the system Denys or punishes you for.

So upward and onward my paintings must improve dramatically and I must search for markets for them.

Another lesson learned, having watched real live crocodiles for the first time is that crocdiles are not nice animals

Artistic expression

We pass this place occasionally, apart from the Helmets on top of the fence posts, the Motor Bike Hanging in the tree appeals to Granny

Reflections

Reflections in windows of the city.

Paint.net is absolutely MAGIC.

I have just downloaded the Raw file dlls and can now take photos and download them in raw format.

Mr Spring's Tropical Island Adventures

Happy Trio