, Page 22 RAIN Eebruary/March 1976 GO ·- ~=~.- The.UCLA Acupuncture Research Pro~ ject, after administering 20,000 treatments with a near 50 percent long-range improvement percentage with pain syndromes, has concluded: "We recommend that ,acupunct\_lre no longer be considered experimental for the treatment of chronic pain. When properly administered it is extremely safe and effective." (David Brester & Richard Kroeing, Franz Hall, Suite A-181,.UCLA School of Medicine, Los·Angeles, CA 90042) . ... Booklegger Press has announced plans to publish a sequel to '!'Revolting Librarian," "Revolting Librarifn Rides Again." ... When Tasmania's Latherwood forests were to be cut by the state for timber, beekeepers produced recor~s showing that the value of honey produced from the flowering trees was worth more than the value of the timber if the forests were cut. The decision was mad~ to stop cutting. (From "Organic G~rdening & Farming'.'). ... The U.S. has grown by 10 million persons since the 197 O· census and 85 percent of the growth occurred in the South and West.... A good summary of the Minneapolis cooperative food warehouse crisis, where two groups struggled for control ·of probably the largest such warehouse and food co-op network in the country (the warehouse doing a $1 million a year business), is in "New Harbinger," Vol. III, No. 1, Box 1301, Ann Arbor, MI 48106. ... A new group has been founded to promote the use of alternative methods of energy resources in Nebraska. Contact: Lincoln B. Justice, Maretell, NE 68404... .,An interesting parallel to our last mon'th's "geo-regions" map can be found in the "People's Almanac," p. 545, under.''the 38 state plan." ... "The Price of Death," a survey method and consumer guide for funerals, cemeteries and grave markers; is.available from the Seattle Regional Office, Federal Trade Commission, 2840 Federal Bldg., Seattle, WA 98174. It's a 48-pag~description of prac,tices with guides for do~it-yourself survey of alternatives . . . . Milan Zeleny is editor of the new journal to be put out by the Human Syste·ms Management Circle, which will work.towards the restructuring of managerial roles in society to be more like facilitators or helmsmen. Zeleny, in tracing the historical basis of holistic managing, quotes the Boer general, Jan Christian Smuts, "We·have to return to the fluidity and plasticity of nature and experience in order to find the concepts of reality ... around every luminous point in experience there is a gradual shading off into haziness/' (Milan Zeleny, 419 Uris Hall, Columbia l]niversity, New York, NY 10027). ... U1:1derneath the Army Street Freeway in ,San Francisco there's some people de_- veloping the abandoned land. The open space has been approved for acquisition by the city. Instead of vacant lots and ruins, the farmers are trying to turn the place into a park and garden with ponds and amphitheater, as well as indoor_ ' !spaces for a cafe, theater, barn, craft • workshop, kiln, print shop and windmill. (1499 Potrero Ave., San Francisco, CA) .... The Fifth Annual Conference of the National Association for Environmental Education will be held Apr. 2526 in Atlanta, Georgia. The •theme is "New Values for a New Century." Contact: Bonnie McCabe, NAEE, 5940 SW 73rd, Miami, FL 33143.... The Network Center is compiling a nationwide directory of learning and skills exchanges. If you are one, know one, have ideas, write to them: P.O. Box 492, Elkton, MD 21921. ... For a free list of endan~ered species, state ,by state (and whales), write National Wildlife Federation, 1412 16th St., N.W., Washington, DC' 20036. ... "Much of the rising blood demand is being filled by a rela- ' tively small number of the poorest people in developing countries. These peo- . ple s~pply vastly disproportionate ·amou~ts of blood by submitting to plasmapheresis, a technique for extracting as much as five or more pints of blood a week from a single donor (t'he human body contains an average of only 10-12 pints of blood). For an interesting article on the world blood trade, see Jan. issue of "The Elements," 1901 QSt., N.W., Washington, . DC .20009 . . . . "L-5" is the newsletter about space coloniza-· tion that follows such developments as Gerald K. O'Neill's space manufacturing facilities/colonization approach to solar power sateliites. (See "Physics Today," Sept. '74, or Fall '75 issue of "Co-Evolution Quarterly") .. . :_"'And _then I had this vision, sort of, of life at that time.' I don't know whether it's fantasy or whether it's in a way true. It was ·a vision of the world as being infinitely- , existing in the present infinitely. There are millions of other worlds, in which you and I exist, and ~e do different things, just a little bit differently, make different choices. In other words, any time you could do one of two things, the choice you didn't make would ckcur on some other world. And I saw this infini_ty of other worlds·, all at·the same time. So I was threatening them that if -that if they didn't let me go·, or if they didn't treat me right, or,·you knowthat I would come back fro'm another world and curse them all." Michael Mooney, Jr. talking abou_t h,is mental outlook before he was put into Bellevue Mental Hospital. ... Arachibu ·Tyrophobia-a f~ar of getting-peanut butter stuck to the roof of one's mouth. ... Rubelia is an evolving castle compound in the1 San Gabrid Valley (California) • that has a windmill irrigatjng a smfo vegetable garden and running an old washing machine. Another machine, a 14-ton single-cycle gas engine, operates a birdbath. A similar 4-ton engine turns a barbecue. You enter the compound through a 4,500 pound gate topped off with menacing ,metal letters that spell "Rubelia." Inside a road of railroad ties . leads under a water tower that holds a 2,000 gallon storage tank. To the right is a.garage containing a fleet of 18 old cars, tru'cks and,tractors which Rubel (lord of Rubelia) says will be ready for a local bicentennial parade.... Who will live longer, a bird who is afraid of flying or a fish who is afraid of swimming? ... The house in the background of Grant Wood's well-known painting, "American Gothic," Wood later found out was a brothel. ... The old thinking faster than you thought you could think. . .. A , man was photographed leaning over the edge of the Grand Canyon,7 years before he a·ctually visited the site. The camera he would buy in 19 5 5 is clearly visible in \he film exposed in 1948.... Ask your mind to give you a word and ~ it will . ... Say Perth Amboy for 2-3 minutes.
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