Tree is a ...

Heather, Interesting metaphor with the tree. I'm going to be too critical now only because I am UBER aware of trees at this moment. My cousin lost 17 trees on Saturday this week to the Storm with hurricane winds that reeked havoc across Long Island, and NJ. Two of the trees were a 100 feet tall, 5 Cypress were 40 feet tall, 3 Pines were 30 feet tall, and the other 7 were 60 foot Gum Trees. I'm 27 years old, and my cousin's 45 years old. The trees at his house took between 2-4 generations to grow, that's 60-100 years, and they were rotated 90* to a horizontal sleep while they were uprooted in one night. Heather you said the trees were stretching out from the trunk, but the tree,and plants for that matter, grow from the apical bud. I'm simply saying that Rationally each part of the tree (Made up of all its cells) serves a purpose in seeing the cellular growth, all the way to the organ growth of the plant as virtuously egalitarian as possible. And just to entertain to you with one more piece of info. A Plant's form of IPM (Integrated Pest Management) Is disputably the most sophisticated defense mechanism on the planet. The one method I'm referring to is "Compartmentalization" This is a biochemical hormonal process of problem thinking. When something attacks a plant the plant defends itself. For example, say a car drives into an oak tree: The second the car impacts the tree the cells in the tree calculate precisely where the impact was, how much damage has been done to it's bark, it phloem,xylem. The bark is the organ that is the main life of defense to invading pests (Japanese long Horn Beetles for i.e.), also The Phloem and The Xylem in a tree/plant are the vascular tissue which provides nourishment from the root (Water entering the roots through the imbibing system) up the phloem and across the xylem through the branches and eventually the developing buds. So Heather once this is compromised without the compartmentalization system the tree has no chance at nourishing itself, or even defending against pests. The tree has this skill of compartmentalization to determine where it's going to internally fuse cells to form a bark about 30% inside, close to the middle of the tree, and this shuts down everything outside of this new bark created through stimulated chemicals. The tree now is going to sustain itself by living through the vascular tissue inside outside the compartment it created, and compensate its networks of xylem and phloem intensely around the compartmentalized area of the tree. Ultimately on the outside it may look like nothing ever happend depending on the attack which confronted the tree. With all of this sophisticated critical thinking skills, that whether you believe it or not, Trees do have, The trees lying on my uncles yard, and driveway are still alive nine days later. If something was strong/graceful enough to simply place them vertically in the earth again, they would go on living according to their individual needs, and objectives.

Bio-Dynamics pertaining to Global Conservatism

What about those like me who are extremely internal locus control, but are extremely external locus control too? Take for example.. I rely on my horticultural capabilities to germinate, cultivate, maintain, harvest (The cycle continues) my plants for work which I value at the market, but my system of horticulture is Bio-Dynamic. Bio-Dynamic horticulture is a thousand year old system all over the world. The reason North America hasn't much knowledge of it, is simply because of the abundance of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, corporate marketing, etc which have deformed values of quality sustenance. The system of Bio-Dynamic horticulture has every plant characterized in 5 parts. "Roots" "Stems" "Leaves" "Flowers" "Fruits". Whichever plant's organelle is most desired that's what determines what category it goes into. This sounds very controllable right now, but the secret of Bio-Dynamic growing is going to be surprising to you. According to the astrological position our planet is in relation to other planets, and galaxies we treat each category of plants distinctly. Each mineral (Gypsum, Quartz, Limestone, Potassium, Phosphorous, etc) provide beneficial affects for the plants. These minerals are also organic, and complete natural quality. Perfect example : The mineral quartz will be applied to a root plant (carrot) in the first Saturday of an Aquarius moon. Different minerals have different affects to other plants at other times not only because of seasons, but because different minerals have different gravitational fields which are pulled when certain planets are aligned accordingly. This is a science. Don't take it personally if you feel that astrology is make believe, Planetary and mineral gravitational forces are real and true. There is substantial benefits to these planting methods; this is one reason foreigners Never EVER Go anywhere near any produce harvested from a western civilization. The technique is thousands of years old, and is integral for innovative organic gardening. My predicament is when I least expect it, I can be harvesting a ton of berries, and all of a sudden I'm stressing out because Jupiter could be in transit, or mercury could be in retrograde and I sense my once harmonious/egalitarian garden could be compromised.

IBM Leads with Amount of Patents.

So If you're saying that there's a company who's fiscally irresponsible, the signs point to Microsoft. There aren't millions of big blue's that IBM had to subsidise, but every single Xbox in American homes are subsidised. Just like the Auto Industry dug itself with subdising all of it's labor, and lack of integral innovation, Microsoft is diggin itself a hole including the Mobile O.S. being suspended from a winter release, Bing's failure, and MS 7's upcoming competition with Google Chrome. Not to mention Microsoft being found to have stolen MS. Office from a Canadian tech company last month in a Federal patent court. IBM is a serious player. Microsoft is and always will be a joke in the tech sector. Do you realise that IBM is currently a 130.00 per market share, and Microsoft is at 30. (Which is pretty much it's top share value in over a decade? Microsofts highest value was 60 (Only double of what it is today) and that was for a single month of Jan. 1999 When Y2k was at it's height. Microsoft is a dog without tricks. If anyone tries to claim the Xbox saga as profitable, you would be mistaken since they've subsidised its entire market.