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The Belize Times
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
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Living Waters - Japanese Scientist Finds Water Reacts to Words
Over a decade ago Japanese scientist Matsaru Emoto released the first photographs of water crystals from his twenty five years of research on water. His book of photographs of water crystals entitled “Messages from Water” contained hundreds of photos taken under the microscope of crystals from numerous water sources. Emoto got to this discovery along a very conventional scientific research path. He was actually trying to find a way to scientifically establish the quality of the various water and water sources he was studying. He began by placing the same small amount of each water sample in 100 petri dishes and then allowing them to crystallize in the freezer under well controlled conditions. Whenever the quality of the water was good, perfect crystals formed, with distinctive details in symmetry and color. Photographs from the Sanbujchi Spring in Nagasaka for example had natural, perfect crystals formed from its unpolluted waters. Crystals from the famous fountain at the shrine at Lourdes in France, the site of some miraculous healings, showed “a stunningly beautiful, asymmetric crystal”. By contrast, the photographs of rainwater from big cities showed poor crystallization as most urban centers have acid rain. Then earlier this year Emoto hesitantly released some new findings in his water research. During the years since his 1999 book, he had discovered that water had the ability to “react to sound” ranging from voices at various pitches and tones to a full range of musical compositions from Bach to Elvis Presley and Tibetan monks chanting. Using a Magnetic Resonance Analyzer developed by a biochemist from Berkley, Emoto and his colleagues collected water from various sources: distilled water, a variety of spring water, sea water and from rivers all over the world and exposed a sample of each to different types of music. What happened next turned the heads of even the most sceptical scientists globally. The crystals that formed from waters exposed to certain types of music definitively reflected the type of music! Bach’s string music water in G had a light airy lilt and the crystals that were exposed to it seemed to be dancing. Water crystals from Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” gave three types of crystals: “one which had a crystal that looked like a heart broken in two; the second crystal had two parts trying to fuse together and the third had a newly formed heart”. Those with some physics background would say that it is conceivable that music, which is sound and a physical energetic entity could generate some vibrations that could affect crystallization. Now you the reader might wonder is this science, and how will this affect “the price of rice?” Well, the scientist took the response to music a little deeper and went on to find out that water will give crystals even in distilled water - devoid of any minerals or other substances from the environment - in response to WORDS . That’s right. Words written on the outside of a glass
tube containing distilled water seems to affect not just whether it crystallized but also the quality and symmetry of the crystals. Words/phrases were written on the outside of the tubes in various languages as a means of scientific control. Here are the results: Using the same distilled water to start with, one tube had the message, "Thank you" written on it, while the other one had, "You fool!" The one
with "Thank you" gave nice crystals, whereas the one with "You fool!" gave no crystals at all, and was very similar to the results produced by exposing the water to heavy metal music. And it did not matter which language was used: Japanese, Korean or English. The results were very similar. "Love/Appreciation" gave a most elaborate, decorous crystal, so did "Soul". "Demon" (removing the left part from the Chinese character for soul) led to something that looks like a disintegration of the soul crystal. "Angel" made the crystal burst forth in a multitude of flowers, while "Devil" looked distinctly sinister. Even names were read by water. "Adolph Hitler" looked like "You make me sick" or "I will kill you".
And pictures too were registered. When shown the photograph of an innocent child, the water came back with a crystal that looked to me like pure joy itself’’. Which brings us back to our day and time - too often we speak careless, harsh words with never a thought to the effects it can have on the outcome of our day. If it has been proven that water, a seemingly inanimate element can respond to words and manifest a crystal accordingly, then the power to hurt or heal, to create or destroy as God created in Genesis 1:2 “And the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters and God said, ‘Let there be light’”…is in our WORDS. Science now agrees: the power of life and death is in the tongue…
Citrus – Where Are We Heading Contrary to misleading, mischievous and inaccurate accounts being circulated from certain quarters, the Citrus Products of Belize Limited (CPBL) posted robust and healthy net profits, starting in 2005 with the exception of 2009 and likely this past year 2010, financials for which are not as yet finalized. During the years that preceded 2003, when the company was under the ownership of Del Oro/CDC, it posted chronic losses of approximately $9 million annually. It was not until the new management under Dr. Henry Canton in 2003 and a vibrant Board of Directors that CPBL showed a remarkable resurgence and actually began making a profit. This turnaround on the fortunes of CPBL was further enhanced by the investment of the strategic investor, Banks, to clear out some hardcore debt from the company. Although the past two years have posted some losses, the last 7 years taken collectively, reveal a significant net profit. The losses of these past two years (2009 and 2010) are due to the combined factors of significant investments in the factory to process new value-added products while at the same time poor quality, low yields and reduced production from growers, especially this past year which, at 3.8 million boxes of oranges, was the lowest in the past 12 years, have jointly contributed to the recorded losses of the past two years. Nevertheless, this current year, despite the recent hurricane losses, another profit is expected from CPBL. This last point highlights, and it cannot be further underscored enough, that it is essential for growers to start producing more and better quality fruit to ensure that the processing can become more efficient and profitable for the long term. Certainly orange production must increase by at least 60% over last year’s production of 3.8 million boxes to at least 6 million boxes. This level of production is definitely possible since the industry produced 6,264,847 boxes of oranges in the year 04/05. Since the start of Canton’s management at CPBL in 2003, a cumulative net profit of $13,467,000 has been earned to date. Out of this profit, dividends of $4,186,039.83 have been paid to the CGA and the Orange Trust for the years 05/06 and 06/07 while the strategic investor, Banks, chose to forego dividends for itself for the year 05/06 in an act of good faith to the new partnership. In addition to these recorded and unprecedented profits in the industry, shareholders’ equity in the company has more than doubled from $48,489,000 to $97,122,000 from 2003 to the present. Certainly this critical juncture in the citrus industry is not a time to change the leadership in CPBL from tried, proven and successful management to experiment with an untested and inexperienced newcomer who will be manipulated by former industry old timers who can only point to failed records of perpetual losses of the past. Is this latest move by the CGA another desperate attempt to prop up their financially sinking ship by trying to take over CPBL and acquire its resources? Perhaps the real issue that needs to be examined by citrus farmers is the financial status of the CGA and its financial viability as it is collapsing deeper into debt, adding an additional $3 million to $4 million over the past two years alone in operational losses. It is known that the CGA owes the European Investment Bank and the Belize Social Security Board sums in excess of $10 million and their total indebtedness is over $20 million with no clear means of servicing these tremendous debts. Who will pay for it – the government, the growers or both? Farmers seriously need to consider the ability of individuals who now seek to manage CPBL, which is about 50 times the size of CGA, when they have proven themselves to be grossly unsuccessful in managing the CGA’s finances.
Concerned Growers of Belize Citrus Mutual
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