People harvest wood, mushrooms and berries from those forests, not knowing that they are subjecting their health to serious radiation risk. The samples are 10-25 times more radioactive than the limits set by the European Commission for defining a substance as radioactive waste.

In animals, we have seen very serious genetic consequences coming not only in the first generation but in further generations.

Denying the real implications is not only insulting to the thousands of victims but it also leads to dangerous recommendations and the relocation of people in contaminated areas.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery . . .

And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law: / And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD: / Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God: / And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

Some people have a specific plan when they start out. I like to put a piece of wood on the lathe and have an idea of what I think I want, but design something as I go along.