Very very late

I haven't blogged for, 6 days, and I just realized that. So I've decided to, you know, blog.

So I decided to once again look at someone else's blog. This time I looked at Danielle's post for Sep 18, 2007. She said that she had found a website for pesticides and their effects on the human body, so I checked it out (
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/environment/RATE/pestfact.html). After looking and reading the website I guess I learned a little. It wasn't exactly shocking, but its interesting. What kind of harms come from pesticides, what pesticides do, which type of people pesticides attack and other information. I mean, pesticides can actually give you cancer. Thats real bad. But I guess its only normal. Pesticides are deadly to insects after all, so aren't they going to have to be at least mildly toxic to everything?

On a different topic, well, different part of this topic.
I've completed the 1.5 draft of our script. Why 1.5? I'm going to run it past 2 people then myself once again before I can say 2, so its 1.5 right now. And finally I've edited the flash some so it looks more gloomy and less happy. Also I took the scene transaction that looked like an explosion out.

Other people's blogs

For no reason linked to an assignment or deadline, I decided to look at other people's blogs to see where their research has taken them.

The first person's blog I looked at was Adrian's blog at http://othersidepage.blogspot.com. Then I looked at the post for Sep 20, 2007. When I read the article Adrian was talking about (http://www.hfa.org/factory/index.html) it made me feel sorry for the family businesses that were being tossed aside by the bigger companies. Of course nothing can be done about this and nobody can stop this, but at least some people know about it.

Then I headed over to Coco's Blog at http://coletteconover.blogspot.com.And looked at the post for Sep 23, 2007. When I read her post I had to agree that if a pesticide is dragged into the water supply of humans, then it will be hard to get out, but also shouldn't our water filters be able to get the chemicals out of the water? Also what happens to fish that live in the water? Coco's post made me think about these things.

AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand.. I got an interview set up at my house at 4:00pm on this coming Wednesday. Oh boy. :O

Whadaya know, another site

I've gotta stop saying that...

And for the site.

http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1988/10/mm1088_06.html

This site talks about how its all nice and happy up here in the U.S., but in Mexico, it a lot rougher in the pesticide business. Its anything goes, no harmful chemicals are illegal down there in Mexico. This means that companies can, 1) Make pesticides that are harmful towards the environment and 2) Make pesticides that will wind up on the plates of the Mexicans and possible poison them. Both of these are bad things. Along with that, the government is so corrupt that they don't mind as long as the companies who make pesticides keep paying them. Another bad point is that there are tons of pesticides, and the farmers don't care that much, so they could end up picking the worst of the lot. Bad news indeed, but a good source.

On a similar but slightly to the left and down note, I finished the script on time. :D

(Post for Wednesday) Whadaya know, script

Yes, in fact, did work on the script. Also I found another website that was small, but was helpful.

http://www.livingwithbugs.com/organic.html

What I found interesting about this website was that it said that synthetic pesticides will keep growing and becoming more effective than natural pesticides. And after thinking about this, I concluded that the author was probably right, which is why I list his website.

What do you know, script

Almost done with the rough draft now. And yes, I did work on the script.

(Post for Monday) Website

http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/retrieve.do?subjectParam=Locale%2528en%252C%252C%2529%253AFQE%253D%2528su%252CNone%252C18%2529Natural%2Bpesticides%2524&contentSet=GSRC&sort=Relevance&tabID=T001&sgCurrentPosition=0&subjectAction=DISPLAY_SUBJECTS&prodId=SRC-1&searchId=R1&currentPosition=1&userGroupName=sand07018&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&sgHitCountType=None&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28SU%2CNone%2C18%29Natural+pesticides%24&inPS=true&searchType=BasicSearchForm&displaySubject=&docId=EJ2121000066&docType=GSRC

Talks about what a pesticide is, what they do and how they are used and also what effects we can get from them. It talks about Synthetic vs. Natural and other useful topics that can and will be helpful to our group.

It also has an experiment that can be done, but it takes quite a while, so we probably will not do it.

Once again, the script

I've kept working on the script. Jotting down ideas and such.

(Post for Saturday) Script

I've been thinking/working on our rough draft of our script. Nothing else really.

(Post for Friday) Change of plans

Turns out that the 18th is a bit to soon and we are going to have to residual our interview. I talk to him and it turns out it won't be for another 3 weeks or so. At least he didn't completely leave us.

Interview

I got an interview set up for Tuesday after school. Hooray.

(Post for Wednesday) LAZY!

Yes, I admit. Yesterday I did just about nothing. This is because I finished the Aztec project and 'gave myself the liberty' of taking a day break. BUT! I won't be doing that again.

Last post on Indians. D: (Probably )

http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC073887/Webpages/tech_page_3.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/27981/farming.html

Randoms bits and facts:

• The Aztecs used water all around them to water and grow their plants faster.
• They had quite a few medicines.
• They used the humans they sacrificed to learn more about human anatomy.
• They had a stable market.
• Their calender predicted when which crops were good to grow at what time, accurately.
  

Last 2 subjects of Aztecs

http://www.aztec-indians.com/aztec-technology.html
http://www.native-languages.org/composition/aztec-food.html
http://archaeology.about.com/od/aztecarchaeology/a/aztec_sg_3.htm
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/mesoamerica/aztec.html

Technology:

• Many tools were made out of obsidian and chert.
• Axes where made out of stone or copper.
• Drills were made out of reed or bone.
• Bows and arrows.
• Spears and clubs.
• Canoes.
  
• Pots to carry water.
• The main food the Aztecs ate was maize, which is basically corn.

Expansion/Conquest:

• In 1519 AD the population was guessed to be near 1 million.
• The Aztecs conquered a bunch of neighbor tribes.

Checking for interview

Didn't find any information, per-say, but I did look around and have a general idea who to call for our interview about Natural vs. Synthetic Pesticides.

(Post for Saturday) Aztec Q's.

http://www.native-languages.org/composition/aztec-art.html
http://www.umfa.utah.edu/?id=NTcy
http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/latam/aztec.html

Art:

• The forms of art for this culture were:

1. Pottery.
2. Making sculptures out of clay.
3. Drawing using volcanic stone, basalt and other hard stones, feathers, paint, leather, human and animal bones, turquoise, jade, starfish, sea urchins, gold, colored shells, amethyst, agate, opal, jasper, onyx, vegetables, insects, shells, minerals and oils.
4. Also decorating pottery with bird feathers, beads, flowers and metals.
5. Song and poetry
   

• Some Aztec symbols:

http://www.ancientscripts.com/images/aztec_days.gif

• Themes of Aztec art:

1. Symbols of fertility, which is the jaguar and pregnant women.
2. Serpents.
   
3. Death.
   
4. Deities.

Music:

• Interments include:

1. Rattles
2. Whistles
3. Trumpets
4. Drums
5. Flutes
6. Copper bells
7. Shells

• Music was directly linked to religion.

Religion:

• Their religion was based on the destructive force of nature, and they wanted to avoid it. So they made religion to please nature.
• There are many gods making it a polytheistic religion.
• Their gods are: http://www.tqnyc.org/NYC051399/list_of_gods_and_goddesses.htm
• Some ceremonies include:

1. Sacrificing.
2. Offerings.
   
3. Prayers.
   
4. Performing symbolic acts.
   
5. Games.

• They pray for their food and give thanks for it every day.
• Their religion is different from any religion today for many reasons. Sacrificing is frowned upon. There are not many religions with multiple gods in the present. Such things as those.

Technology:

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Expansion/Conquest:

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(More information will be added when gotten)

(Post for Friday) List of stuff

Natural Pesticides:

Pros:

• Natural Pesticides are less toxic to humans because we are around them all the time and they are just naturally weaker.
• They come from nature, so they are considered to be safer.
  

Cons:

• They can not be altered, so they can not become more or less toxic.
• They can never improve, because they can not be altered.

(More will be added as I find them out)

REAL info now. :D

http://www.ecoworld.com/home/articles2.cfm?tid=351 <-- Best site. Probably the one that will be most used.

Notes:

• Natural Pesticides are considered 'Safer for the environment' because they are from nature, when this is not necessarily true. Because Natural Pesticides can not be tampered with, they can not be changed, while with synthetic Pesticides if it is too strong it could be made to be less strong.
• Synthetic Pesticides have become more and more controlled over the years, and are less harmful to use.
• In our bodies are toxins. Humans eat produce that is laden with Pesticides already, but the levels of toxins are small enough so that we are not effected by them.
• 'Natural Produce' has pesticides used on it.

These are just some key points I might want to refer to later.

Some chemicals in natural pestisides

Rotenone = used for caterpillars and somewhat toxic.
Nicotine sulfate = toxic to humans.
Pyrethrum = not very toxic, but somewhat weak.

Kinda small information, but I'll do more tomorrow.
Also, I have some more information written down.

Websites that = useful.

Pesticides:
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/06/synthetic-v-natural-pesticides/

Mandava, N.B. (ed.). 1985. Handbook of natural pesticides: Methods. Vol. I Theory practice, and detection. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.?

http://www.ncpa.org/studies/s214/s214c.html

http://coopext.colostate.edu/4DMG/PHC/psticid2.htm

Aztecs:
http://www.indians.org/welker/aztec.htm <--Ugly text. D:

http://www2.truman.edu/~marc/webpages/nativesp99/aztecs/aztec_template.html