Death Odor - Miasma

I'll be the first to admit that I do not know much about odor or how we perceive life's various gases. I know that the death odor which so many of us fear is called "miasma." Folks ask me to eliminate this odor from their home as fast as I can, and I usually succeed with the help of "professional" tools and chemicals. Some times, though, this odor has permeated fiber board, padding, jewelry boxes, and everything else!

Some people think this odor carries disease -- It does not.

This odor tends to upset just about everyone, except for the coroner's employees and morticians. Many of these folks simply wear paper masks (and clothes) while removing human remains and doing their other duties. Cleaners often enter the scene as if they are on a combat mission in a biologically contaminated battlefield. "Each to his own," I always say. Besides, the battlefield garb looks good for customers and insurance adjusters who also believe in the miasma theory of disease and more.

Getting back to my subject, the death odor will disappear on its own given time. Nature cleans its own; count on it. The issue is, how much time do folks want to give the odor to stop off-gassing?

Eddie Evans

The Drought - Does anyone care?

Apparently, the drought in the US grows more serious.
< Dry episodes have become so persistent in the West that some scientists and water managers say drought is the "new normal" there. Reinforcing that notion are global-warming projections warning of more and deeper dry spells in the Southwest, although a report in last week's Science magazine challenges the climate models and suggests there will be more rainfall worldwide later this century. >

I've already said my piece about the drought in Los Angeles and how we have added to the misery. I have also done my share of complaining about our government's lackadaisical efforts to help the future generations' survival in terms of global warming.

I know too that I placed a story here about a "Happiness Machine" that sure resembles what I am witnessing here at home in Southern California.

Is this drought really related to global warming? If so, is there anything that little old me and others can do about it? Does anyone care?

Keep these ideas in mind. There must be more to be done. Before procreating, give these ideas some serious thought.
Eddie Evans

Get in with the coroner's office if you can.

No kidding. If you want to do trauma cleanup, most of which is from suicides and unattended deaths, then you really need to get in close with the coroner's office. Otherwise, you will be on the outs along with the consumers.

I know about this. I used to get two or three calls about every month to 6 weeks from the Orange County Coroner's Department, but no more. The calls stopped over two years ago because one or more companies started giving kickbacks. I know, this is what I was told by one of the "successful" companies. The department spokesperson will not even consider the impropriety of these schemes. They don't care that government employees (under color of authority) benefit one private company over another, all to the publics' loss.

Can you imagine, your child or spouse dies. The coroner's employee hands you a list of 3 telephone numbers, which is the same list of companies handed out for the previous two years? You, as a consumer, are being set-up by your very own county police system! You and/or your insurance company are going to get screwed. There is no competition. This is Orange County, California, not Tijuana!

If what I say is not true, then how do we explain going from some work from the coroner's office every month or so to zero? We are not alone in this regard.

So I say, if you want to succeed in this business, grease the coroner's employees hands with those big $50.00 bills. It's too late for me, but maybe not for you!

Good luck!
Eddie Evans

I do not hire!

I do not hire!

There is not enough work to go around. Contrary to what the "schools" say, this is an

EXTREMELY COMPETITIVE

BUSINESS.

I am sorry that I cannot help you and the others that call me for work. I receive these calls everyday of the week from all over the USA and beyond. Everyday many people decide to come into the trauma cleaning business. Some of these people already have established businesses, which makes some of them very close competitors.

We live in a capitalist society. This means that everything is a "commodity," everything, including people. When we sell our labor we become "commodities," something bought. It happens that there are up-times and down-times. It now happens that our economy is based more on paper and electoric pulses. The creation of real wealth from the old-style factory system that did create real goods is gone and not to return.

It is all downhill, and I am sorry for you. If I could, I would help you, but I cannot. So please do not call for work. There is hardly enough for me to do as it is. Read, write, diversify your skills, and save your money.

Good luck!

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Eddie Evans

Eve and HIV

Eve, the mother of Humanity, was victimized early on: The serpent tells the woman that she will not die if she eats the fruit of the tree.

As I wrote earlier, the ratio of women contracting HIV from men is about 1:15. I will list my source at another time since this figure is from memory. The point here is that more than a rib comes by way of men.

Men, many serpent-like beings, have manipulated and abused women since the beginning of time. Now women have become incubators for blood-borne pathogens like HIV.

More on these thoughts later. I'm incubating this thread.

Eddie Evans

Lawmakers worry U.S. giving water law short shrift

(To read my blog comment on Los Angeles and drought, tap here.)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration has failed to adequately fund or uphold a 2005 initiative to give poor countries access to fresh water, U.S. lawmakers and nonprofit groups said on Wednesday.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (news, bio, voting record), an Oregon Democrat, told a hearing that the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development misrepresented how they spent $200 million for the plan last year and have given short shrift to sub-Saharan Africa.

The State Department used most of the funds for reconstruction work in Iraq and Afghanistan, where the United States is waging wars, he said. In an earlier letter, Blumenauer wrote that it only spent $10 million for water in sub-Saharan Africa, where the United Nations says 42 percent of the population lacks clean water.