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GANJA GRANNY sez CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME! 8/29/11
GANJA GRANNYsez CHARITY begins at home and home is where the Cannabis is! Earth Quakes and Hurricanes will not stop us! We must not allow anything or anyone to prevent or interfere with our efforts to legalize cannabis for all reasons in this country and everywhere else. We must support our brothers and sisters everywhere…. who are trapped in a net of ignorance, prejudice and deception that an uneducated public has cast to take us out. Michigan is definitely in need of our support. Michigan overwhelmingly voted for Medical Marijuana… I find it SUDDENLY mystifying that the appeals court ruled that the dispensaries are illegal and must shut down. Where do the patients go? Where will it be safe to go? The closing of dispensaries is a bad move if society and the court thinks this will be a deterrent. They are sadly mistaken. It is in my opinion, another way to encourage illegal activity. If they can do this in Michigan, they can do it anywhere that we have legal Medical Marijuana. We MUST all stand on those steps in Lansing Michigan on Sept 7th. Our numbers should be so great that the steps will crumble from our combined weight. All supporters in neighboring states should definitely be there. If we let one go down… WHO will be next??????? We must reduce the number of people being harassed, stopped,frisked and jailed.We must reduce the number of people who are being sent to prison, costing valuable tax dollars that can be used otherwise for education or to rebuild the infrastructure of our dilapidated communities throughout the USA.We can do this if we concentrate on reform, challenging the police and prosecutors for misconduct and the general abuse of governmental power.The presidential election is next year…. so I figure… Its business as usual on the governments part as well as ours.. If they are going to step up the action, then we should also step up the action. There can be no more lame excuses. We cannot act as if this does not affect usWe can no longer say we have something else to do. WE must vote, we must write letters, email or call our government reps. We must be there at the protests, rallies and marches in full force.WE must consolidate our efforts. We must support the organizations who are fighting for us. WE must also fight for ourselves. Ganja Granny sez How long are you going to wait???? We all want the same thing! How bad do you want it?????How can we KEEP IT LIT? IF WE DON'T STAY BLAZED… HOW CAN WE PASS IT AROUND??????
The People's Defense of The Medical Marijuana Act
Wednesday, September 7 at 12:00pm
Location: Front Steps of the Capitol. Lansing Michigan


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Originally published Saturday, May 24, 2014 at 4:04 PM
Editorial: Explore what works — preschool for all
Seattle's proposal to create universal, high-quality preschool is a chance for the city to walk the talk on its progressive values.
Seattle Times Editorial
IF public policy were based just on what we know works, universal pre-kindergarten education would already be the law of the land. The public duty to educate children would not, magically, kick in at age 5 for kindergarten. High-quality preschool would be a foundation for school readiness, leveling academic disparities across race and income lines.
But such a utopia is not to be found. The Washington Legislature is moving, slowly, in that direction; Congress, less so. Cities have begun to redefine the public duty to the tiniest of students. That is why the City of Seattle's proposal for a universal, high-quality preschool experiment seems promising.
The Seattle preschool proposal, cultivated over the past year by City Council President Tim Burgess, imports proven models from Tulsa, Okla., Boston and elsewhere.
Envision teachers with bachelor's degrees providing six hours a day of curriculum-based instruction to 3- and 4-year-olds, at a tuition cost that is far less than most middle-class parents now pay for lower-quality child care. For a family of four making $95,000 a year, the annual tuition would be $2,100.
The program would be funded with a four-year, $58 million property-tax levy, which the City Council is likely to put on the fall ballot. Even at that size, the Seattle preschool levy requires an incremental start — growing from about 300 children in 2015-2016 up to 2,000 in 2018-2019.
Once fully implemented, the Seattle preschool proposal would cover about one-sixth of Seattle's 3- and 4-year-olds. While not preschool for all, it is wise to start slowly. Many of the benefits of preschool are based on quality, which is complicated to achieve. Cutting corners — such as on minimum education levels of teachers — negates the gains.
Done well, high-quality preschool provides tremendous civic good. A Rutgers University study last year found that 20 to 40 percent of the achievement gap between white and minority students was closed by two years in high-quality preschool instruction in Abbott, N.J., with the best results in math and science.
A much longer-term study, involving a superb preschool model pioneered in Ypsilanti, Mich., found a cost-benefit ratio of $17 saved for every $1 spent by the time the participants turned 40.
In the coming months, the council should fully vet this proposal, gauging the interest to participate from existing child-care centers and preschools. It should also resist pressure from a group called Yes for Early Success, which is backed by the SEIU local representing in-home child-care workers, to significantly tinker with the proposal.
Adding another levy to Seattle's bulging menu of pending requests — including the proposed doubling, to $48 million, of the local parks levy, a $45 million Metro Transit package and the uncounted costs of a $15 minimum wage — creates an unnecessarily strong headwind for the Seattle preschool package.
Creating universal, high-quality preschool is an opportunity for Seattle to walk its talk about progressive values. It deserves a spot at the top of the list.
Editorial board members are editorial page editor Kate Riley, Frank A. Blethen, Ryan Blethen, Sharon Pian Chan, Lance Dickie, Jonathan Martin, Erik Smith, Thanh Tan, William K. Blethen (emeritus) and Robert C. Blethen (emeritus).

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Feds may assess tree damage
OWENSBORO — State officials have asked the U.S. Forestry Service to send an urban forestry strike team to help determine how much damage an ice storm caused to trees in city parks in Western Kentucky.
The Messenger-Inquirer reports that such an assessment would help Owensboro and other cities in Western Kentucky qualify for reimbursement for tree serv ices from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The devastating ice storm that hit the state Jan. 27 was blamed for 36 deaths and more than 700,000 power outages at its peak, mostly in Western Kentucky.
Sarah Gracey, urban forestry coordinator for the Division of Forestry, said parks south of Owensboro suffered the worst tree damage, citing those in Madisonville, Paducah and Mayfield.
"The bottom line is we would like to help the cities get reimbursed for proper tree care and not (lose) out anymore," Gracey said.
The worst-hit parks in Owensboro included Legion, Moreland and Chautauqua, said Eddie Atherton, horticulturist for the city.
"People were used to seeing those big old trees, and the complexion of those parks has changed," he said.
Newer parks lost some trees that were uprooted by the weight of the ice, but parks with the largest trees suffered the most damage, he said.
The Daviess County parks department director, Ross Leigh, said falling limbs have closed some trails and damaged others.
"Obviously, our biggest concern is just to get (things) open — the trails and the disc golf course" and other park areas closed by debris, Leigh said.
The nature center at Yellow Creek Park lost some large, "beautiful" trees that can't be replaced anytime soon, he said.
"Those trees are not the kind you can go and plant today and expect to be that big today or next year or in 50 years," Leigh said.


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Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Jump in & witness a......
I'm chuffed and very grateful. I've been invited to contribute to Project Life - a photographic journal of being with a number of incredibly inspiring women. It's fun getting to know them through pictures. We're spread far and wide, Canada, Chicago, Montana for starters... others I hope meet along the journey.
Here's to the little everyday miracles. I took this at the top of a playground in St Kilda while racing Z to the top today. Hence he's feeling better....although still not looking flash. It was so funny to be rewarded by this. For jumping in and being childish. If I'd stayed on the ground I'd never have witnessed the 'Miracle'.
I hope you'll pop by, join the ride & say hello over at Project Life. Happy hump x
Labels: photography, st Kilda
4 comments:
- cityhippyfarmgirl said...
How cool is that project life! What a lovely way to start the day, thank you.
I hope being a part of it is lots of fun.
- 14 June 2012 at 08:21
- melindamelou @ stupendous joy said...
Thanks Brydie. It feels like such a great place to be. I really am chuffed and so very grateful for all the fun involved in this Project.
- 14 June 2012 at 13:47
- m.e (Cathie) said...
sounds wonderful,yay, must check it out. ♥
- 25 June 2012 at 15:02
- melindamelou @ stupendous joy said...
Thanks Cathie! It's been a lot of fun.
- 10 July 2012 at 19:38
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Friday, January 03, 2014
A Year In A Jiffy | Farewell 2013
Within the past year much has to be said about how blessed we all have been despite the challenges. Nothing speaks more than the photos I have in my current album. Going through them randomly I realise it has been one of the most eventful year I've ever had and so let me capture the year in one ginormous breath.
So, in 2013, I've baked countless cupcakes by the thousands, built my first Oreos wedding cake, attended my cousin's wedding, gone on a wonderful holiday with Meli, ridden on one of the scariest roller coaster rides of my life! Got upgraded to The Chairman Suite at the MBS. Celebrated and made my first Gangnam styly figurine cake for my darling God daughter Hayley, lost my dear beloved grandfather, attended our crafting Group's 6th Anniversary, watched Nigel train to become a wonderful swimmer and how he managed to score a perfect hundred for his maths exam. Discovered that dengue is such a threat to City folks. Went to Penang for a break, Bangkok next. Made my first photobook in memory of Kung-Kung, sang Titanium countless times it's stuck in my head. Attended my nieces wedding, hosted our family Christmas eve dinner, baked my first leg of lamb and best of all the arrival of Vera Lyn Tan. My God daughter! Congratulations Meow & Victoria on your new baby. She's the happiest little person I know!!!
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happy new year... :)
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This Thursday is our last BBQ Book Club for the summer. We are finishing up with two of Flannery O'Connor's last stories, Revelation and Parker's Back. They are a little different than the others, perhaps more twisted and less clear. She was in great pain from lupus as she wrote them, and she knew her time was short. So, I invite you to come and be with us for this last BBQ—be sure to bring a side dish to share!
Speaking of being wracked with pain, in this week's Gospel our Lord Jesus heals a woman who had been crippled for eighteen years. Everybody seems really happy about it except that one guy that just couldn't stand that Jesus did it on the Sabbath, a day upon which no one should work. Jesus says, "Look—Satan had her bound, but isn't the Lord's day the right day to free someone from bondage?" Hard to argue with that, unless you're worried more about what people might start doing on the sabbath. But I think Jesus was very concerned about making sure people were blessed on the Sabbath, that the day set aside by the Lord for rest and worship was a day anyone can experience the blessing of God's love.
Nowadays, our Sabbath is Sunday. And I'm excited to tell you we are going to do some blessing and celebrating over the next month or so. Here is a handy, easy bullet-pointed list for your perusal:
August 28th: BLESSING OF THE BACKPACKS: During the children's sermon time, all back to school backpacks AND every bag, purse, satchel, briefcase, knapsack, tote, or sack that you use to carry your stuff to work will get blessed. So bring your bag and receive the blessing for the work you are resting from on the Sabbath.
September 11th: Rally Day. Sunday service moves back to 11 am, and Sunday School starts at 10 a.m. We bless the Sunday school teachers and students. Choir starts back up. Coffee hour will be pancakes to celebrate the beginning of Sunday School.
We are going to have a great year this year. I'm so excited to start the year up again in just a few weeks!
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What we should be taxing: greenhouse gases
Bravely, international diplomats, United Nations officials and environmentalists are meeting in Cancun this week to demand that other people use less fossil fuel. Bravely they met in Copenhagen a year ago to make the same demand, after also bravely meeting in Bali, Montreal and similar resort locales in prior years.
I will skip the obvious point about the greenhouse gases emitted by the jets and limos that bring the participants to these annual confabs, where preaching-to-the-choir is the order of the day.
Most of what happens at the annual international conference on climate change has been decided on in advance, so the greenhouse emissions could be avoided by a tele-meeting. But then the delegates won't get a paid trip to Cancun!
Last year, the majority of the world's heads of state, including President Barack Obama, attended the climate change conference in Copenhagen, where they bravely made vague, nonbinding comments about how other people should use less fossil fuel.
Obama ended the conference by declaring the United States would make a nonbinding commitment to engage in future greenhouse gas negotiations — exactly what the elder president George Bush was mocked for saying at the conclusion of the 1992 Earth Summit, in Rio, a place the delegates bravely went.
Nearly two decades after Rio, nothing has changed in the international legal status of greenhouse gases, which are all but unregulated; nothing has changed in the United States, which does not regulate greenhouse gases; and President Obama was even using 17-year-old meaningless boilerplate!
Wait, the 2009 meeting did vote out this extremely vague, nonbinding document, whose only clear conclusion is that the United Nations and its member countries should continue to provide cushy jobs to the kinds of people who attend these kinds of conferences. Amorphous as the 2009 document was, only about half the heads of state present endorsed it. The rest just made hollow speeches then jetted away, after posing for pictures. But they posed bravely! It takes tremendous courage to stand in a fancy hotel in a beautiful locale and demand that other people use less fossil fuel.
This year's conference may not even result in a vague nonbinding memo. Though there is sure to be lots of talk about … next year's conference.
Perhaps you think I am mocking the Cancun event because I believe climate change to be inconsequential. Rather, I am mocking the Cancun conference because I believe climate change is a real threat.
Going-through-the-motions of international gatherings that accomplish nothing other than a luxurious week of travel for climate-o-crats are part of the problem. Such conferences make global warming concern seem the kind of thing only United Nations officials and environmental fundraisers care about. Having the United States president, and other heads of state, attend such conferences and then reach no agreement only makes the climate change concern seem ridiculous — as yet another self-promotion photo-op for politicians.
Greenhouse gases won't cause the instant-doomsday calamities spoken of in Hollywood and environmental literature. But there is real risk climate change will harm agriculture, by altering rainfall patterns; will raise sea levels and change ocean currents; will reduce the global freshwater supply, by melting the snowpack and glaciers that provide most of the freshwater used for farming and drinking. Plus we should be reducing fossil fuel consumption regardless of climate trends.
The above paragraph contains ample rationale for action to reduce greenhouse gases. But wasteful international meetings in resort cites will not get this job done — no matter how fancy the chardonnay and canapés may be.
The United States should drop out of all international negotiations on greenhouse gases — such negotiations are a total waste of everyone's time — and go it alone. Regulate carbon within the United States, on a domestic-policy basis. This will inspire U.S. engineers, inventors and business people to devise clever ways to reduce greenhouse gases cheaply. Once we invent them, we give them to the world.
That is how rapid global progress against smog and acid rain was achieved. The United States regulated these problems on a domestic-policy basis, invented cost-effective engineering and economic solutions, then gave the solutions away. Smog and acid rain are now declining almost everywhere in the world, even with population growth. Yet no international treaty governs these issues, and the United Nations has nothing to do with them.
International negotiation regarding greenhouse gases is not only complex, expensive and goin' nowhere, there is no chance — none, zip, zilch — that the United States Senate ever will ratify a treaty that grants the international community decision-making input into American energy policy.
The Senate ratified the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change, under whose auspices the annual meetings are held. But the Framework Convention has no teeth — basically, it authorizes annual meetings. In 1997, a test vote on the Kyoto Protocol was rejected 97-0. Not even one Democrat voted in favor!
The current Kyoto Protocol is somewhat improved over the 1997 version – it might draw 15 or even 20 votes in the Senate. There is no chance — none, zero, zilch — that Kyoto or a hypothetical better-written Daughter of Kyoto will be ratified by the Senate. Not in the lifetime of anyone reading this column, at least.
So why does the White House and State Department continue to participate in climate change negotiations and send officials to conferences like Cancun to make empty speeches? In order to create the appearance of action, distracting attention from the lack of real change.
The cap-and-trade greenhouse legislation failed last year in Congress, and good riddance to the bill, which was ultra-complex, plus larded with bureaucracy and special-interest handouts.
The United States needs a carbon tax, the simplest and most cost-effective means to address greenhouse gases. Free-market economists such as N. Gregory Mankiw, head of the White House Council of Economic Advisors under George W. Bush, have endorsed a carbon tax — to inspire inventors and business people to seek profit by finding cost-effective ways to reduce greenhouse gases.
Right now Washington is debating raising taxes to fight national debt. Rather than tax labor or capital — all current proposals call for one or the other — let's tax greenhouse gases. This will create a profit incentive to fix the global warming problem. Then we'll give the solution to the world.
That's American can-do spirit, and that's what can protect us against climate change. Not conferences in Cancun.
Photo caption: A member of an environmental organization holds a sign during a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador November 30, 2010, to demand that the U.S. sign the Kyoto treaty on climate change at the United Nations Climate Change Conference that is being held in Cancun, Mexico. The talks are seeking a successor for the U.N.'s 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which obliges almost 40 developed nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-2012. The U.S. never joined Kyoto, believing it would cost U.S. jobs and excluded developing nations. REUTERS/Luis Galdamez
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Gregg, while I don't disagree with you, there is one key difference between acid rain & smog and climate change. Acid rain & smog in general are regional problems. What matters is the pollution emitted immediately upwind/upstream, not the global aggregate. Contrast this to carbon emissions, where it is the total global emissions that matters.
Of course, this is exactly why a tax and carbon offsets are actually a reasonable solution. It doesn't really matter where the net carbon pluses and minuses are, as long as they balance out. This is not the case with acid rain and smog. A more accurate comparison may be the regulation of CFCs, another great environmental success story.
Couldn't agree more. Even if you don't agree that climate change is a true, human-induced threat, getting more energy independent can only be a national plus.
Nice thought, but the problem is the US Congress has said that they are unwilling to take action domestically unless other major economies do too… they are unwilling to let others be "free-riders" in this problem of over-use of the global commons. Politically, going at it alone is DOA. Other countries like China, Japan and Canada have said the same thing about moving without the US.
I'd love it for the US to go alone on this, but the fact is that we can't solve it on our own… the problem is too big, and thus, we send diplomats around the world to beg and plead and cajole to try to get some sort of workable consensus for EVERYONE to take action at the scale needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Now, should the US take on a modest carbon tax that could have great benefits for federal revenue, business innovation, fossil fuel independence, and perhaps a small contribution to beginning to address the climate challenge? ABSOLUTELY!!! It is a MUCH better idea than taxes on capital or labor, as you rightly point out.
But don't delude yourself into thinking a small carbon tax in the US will solve the climate change problem in absense of global agreement to jointly take the really hard actions needed.
I don't know why Mr. Easterbrook thinks that getting a carbon tax through the US senate would be any easier than getting an international treaty with binding commitments through, but I do know that if we accomplished the latter the former would have to be a lot easier. Especially if it included means of monitoring other nations progress on these same issues. I also think it is a pity that the good old Nobel Love and Peace boys turned this into a political football by giving Al Gore and the IPCC a piece of the same Nobel Pie, then following up with Obama.
Absolutely wrong.
What we should be taxing is sex!
Imagine the numbers of sex police volunteers that would work almost for free!
It's this one human trait that is overpopulating the planet and changing the "Environment," but nobody seems to mind.
Other options are war and pestilence, and I'm sure God's getting ready for that.
You are probably correct that a carbon tax is the most likely means of success. However,like any GHG emissions reduction program, it would have to largely exempt food production and disribution, because at this late date, development of carbon-free food production methods sufficient to feed 9 billion people in 2050 is essentially impossible.
The "Green Revolution" was, as its "father," Norman Borlaug, was first to admit, primarily the adoption of high-water-and-nitrogen-input practices that cannot be repeated and cannot even be maintained,without continued extravagant use of fossil energy for manufacture of fertilizers, pumping of irrigation water (to the extent it is not quickly exhausted), fuelling of tractors and fuelling of transportation. FAO's 2010-1019 food report balanced the food/population budget for the decade by hypothesizing a fantasy – that petroleum prices would not go up substantially and petroleum availability would continue to rise. The latter will not happen, and the former will happen only if farmers are heaviloy subsidized rather than taxed for their fossil fuel use.
So the agricultural sector will have to be exempted from ANY GHG reduction program to avoid famine, which indeed requires a combined program of continued fossil use in agriculture, a universal one-child-per-family progam, and prohibition of the use of grain or arable land for production of either biofuels or beef. Unless at very least coupled with those things,programs for meeting the IPCC emission-reduction goals and avoiding massive famine are not both achievable.technically, let alone politically or economically.
Borlaug told us in his 1970 Nobel acceptance speech, that the Green Revolution had done nothing more than give the world thirty years in which to get its population under control. We ignored the warning, instead adopted a conspiracy of silence on population, and failed. That failure has a domino effect, meaning the virtually certain failure of GHG controls by any method.
Will the conspiracy of slence on population be lifted at Cancun? No.
Nicholas C. Arguimbau
I think your argument is bang on, I think climate change threatens the US in the long term and dependence on foreign oil already dictates too much of our foriegn policy. Unlike the Congress who wants a bureaucratic nightmare carbon control mechanism (carbon missions trading) which is not market-based as implemented by in the current bill, I think a carbon tax is far more sensible . It is easily understood particularly if applied at the point of consumption. The initial burden on consumers could even be softened to be revenue neutral through tax credits applied on an mean consumption basis.
"Right now Washington is debating raising taxes to fight national debt. Rather than tax labor or capital — all current proposals call for one or the other — let's tax greenhouse gases. This will create a profit incentive to fix the global warming problem. Then we'll give the solution to the world."
You know what will happen if you tax Greenhouse gases. Energy prices will increase, people paying $2.80 at the pump will get to pay $4-$5 at the pump, heating and power bills will go up, end result is people will have less disposable income. Less disposable income means less spending, and the fragile economy collapses further.
Any remaining factories, or industries will pack up to go to another country that the doesn't have the second highest corporate tax in the world that just added a greenhouse gas tax to that. While I do support efforts to keep the environment as clean as possible, I find the idea that mankind can control global warming via taxes/carbon credits/etc to be laughable.
Sorry, Greg, but though I agree a carbon tax is better than cap and trade, there is no chance (zero, zilch…) that Republicans will approve a gas tax, irrespective of Greg M's position. Too many Republicans (both officeholders and rank and file) think global warmning is a hoax. Cap-and-trade, however, may be adoptable (or maybe not..), and cap-and-trade is largely responsible for motivating the successful smog and acid rain reduction technology you rightly applaud. EPA may be able to regulate greenhouse gases (GHG) under current legislation; which could lead to some type of de facto cap-and-trade and attendant emissions credit market (which already exists and has funded projects around the world, such as burning methane from landfill gas).
Decades of hysterical fear mongering and out right science fraud concerning global warming and climate change have created a sort of "green fatigue." Climate has become a goldmine of scary propaganda to fatten eco-group fundraising. Al Gore would become the world's first "carbon billionaire." Global government regulators have spent (or proposed to spend) hundreds of billions of dollars to control climate based primarily upon U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports and policies.
Last year's "climategate" scandal began with the publication of thousands of U.N. climate scientist e-mails that revealed their eco-biases. These biases may be mitigated by the Inter Academy Council (IAC) reforms that would end the chronic exaggerations about global warming coming from the U.N.
What remains as disturbing about the U.N.'s climate culture is the socialist governance that has now been openly advocated by members of the IPCC. Several members meeting this week in Cancun at the annual conference to replace the 2012-expiring Kyoto Protocols have spoken in pure Marxist-socialist principles – wealth redistribution.
A Chinese member said that multi-billion dollar Western developed-nation payments would be the key to success of the Cancun meeting. And, co-chairman of the IPCC's third working group, Ottmar Edenhofer, has stated, "One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy…. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy."
The IPCC meeting in Cancun is not expected to accomplish much more than to subtly shift the operative regulatory language from "climate change" to "global biodiversity," and attempt to shakedown developed countries for billions in order to fund underdeveloped countries under the guise of environmental and social justice. Karl Marx would be most proud.
It is clear that socialist ideologies and cultish environmentalism have replaced prudent science and economics in U.N. climate policy. Militant environmentalism and green-obsessed bureaucrats have become an "axis of antagonism" that we can no longer afford.
Oh my. Are there people still talking about this rubbish?
Gregg, your said: "But there is real risk climate change will harm agriculture, by altering rainfall patterns; will raise sea levels and change ocean currents; will reduce the global freshwater supply, by melting the snowpack and glaciers that provide most of the freshwater used for farming and drinking. Plus we should be reducing fossil fuel consumption regardless of climate trends."
Your statement is half truth, half speaking from ignorantia. It shows you have not a good understanding of the water cycle. 2ºC or more degrees of warming will not stop snowing during winter, and perhaps will increase snowfalls as it has been doing in Antarctica. After all, a warmer ocean provides more water vapor, hence more precipitations, rains and snow. The spring and summer meltdown will increase the water supply down river with benefits to crops and populations -save periodic or cyclic floods that have been a constant in human history.
High mountain glaciers are not a reserve of water as they rarely melt giving away water. If they were the source of rivers, given the flow that rivers carry, glaciers would have melted completely long ago. They lose mass by sublimation under the sun's rays, as Mt. Kiliminjaro has been doing for many decades, not by melting.
And I have never understood the science behind the claim that man made CO2 will cause an irreversible warming. There has never been such irreversible warming in Earth's history, even when there were much higher temperatures in past eons, eras and periods. Remember that Earth has seen no less than 26 ice advances and retreats, ALL of them related to cosmic and astronomic factors and variations in sun magnetic activity.
As someone said recently in an open letter to Mr. Cameron, "Whilst no one denies that the world's industrialisation has increased considerably the output of greenhouse gases, to ascribe the current phase of our ever changing climate to one single variable (carbon dioxide) or, more specifically, to a very small proportion of one variable (i.e. human produced carbon dioxide – 0.117%) is not science, for it requires us to abandon all we know about planet Earth, the sun, our galaxy and the cosmos."
After all, what's the problem with an increase of 0.117% in the greenhouse effect contributed by mankind's activities? And worse still, even famous IPCC and NCAR scientist, Tom Wigley, already demonstrated long ago that, even if ALL measures in CO2 emissions reduction were fulfilled by ALL countries according to Kyoto, the warming increase spared would amount to 0,06ºC by 2050, or reaching the date of the predicted warming of 2ºC will be delayed by 16 years.
So why all the hassle? Why taxing CO2, an invaluable gas for human and vegetal life, and increase everybody's living costs? CO2 has no influence on climate or a very minuscule one because it logarithmic properties for every doubling of CO2 concentrations. Science already showed that, many years ago (Eric Monnin et al, 2000) and several others. Let's take care of more important environmental issues. Let's get down from the Warming Bandwagon and let the Gravy Train go away…
When a politician calls for a carbon price, what he generally means is that he favours a carbon tax over the flexibility of the market. In a time when Government budget deficits are running at record high levels the temptation to generate new sources of tax revenue must be great, but it should not prevail to the detriment of the environmental objective.
On an environmental basis, there are four good reasons for not favouring a carbon tax over a cap-and-trade solution.
First, a "one size fits all" tax requires an impossible calculation of the average cost of reducing emissions over a given period of time. Compare this with an emissions-trading system that works on the free-floating marginal cost of emission abatement.
Second, carbon taxes would be levied locally and so impossible to properly administer on a global scale. A global carbon-market price is perfectly pervasive.
Third, taxation cannot guarantee a reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions; emitters could opt to pay the tax and continue emitting at will. Conversely, a cap-and-trade solution introduces a carbon ceiling (the cap) and the price acts as no more than a useful barometer of how close we are to achieving that cap; prices will tend to zero as the requisite level of emission reductions are achieved. On this basis, if the price falls too low too quickly, then perhaps the carbon cap should have been set at a more ambitious level.
Fourth, is the issue of financial leakage. Under cap-and-trade, the market decides which are the most viable low-carbon technologies and money flows from one company to another in what becomes a zero sum game for the economy as a whole. However, a carbon tax would see money flow out of the economy and into Government coffers with no hypothecation guarantees. That money will invariably find its way into noble causes including defence, healthcare, education and infrastructure. Only a small part of it will find its way back to fighting the environmental cause which would produce yet further inefficiencies in climate change policy.
The political myth that "we need to establish a fixed carbon price" is nonsense. It matters not if we achieve the requisite volume of emission abatement at $2 per ton or at $50 per ton. In fact, a fixed carbon price is quite counter-intuitive: the environmental objective needs to be balanced with economic policy and the lower the cost of achieving the requisite emission abatement, the better the result for the economy generally.
Politicians need to focus their minds on setting an appropriate cap and then leaving the market to determine the price.


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" NOORUM PALUM"(nagasthanam)
It is the strong belief of the people from ancient times that Naga's are strong bestower of boons. Love for Nagas destroys many varieties of sorrows and diseases. Stone worship and snake worship are different forms of 'linga' worship. Naga and Naga worship have existed in countries like China, Ceylon, Japan, Java, Combodia, Mexico, Egypt and many other countries. In India Nalanda, Kashmir, Kashi, Assam and Kerala are powerful places of Nagas. In historical scriptures we can see evidence of Nagas. During the vedic time there was Naga worship by the people . After the time of Rg veda they realized the defferent Mandras for snakes. History says Kerala was the center of Nagas. Kerala is said to be the 'Ahi Bhumi' and western part is called 'Sahyadri' ( Sa + ahi + adri). Malaya Mountain is said to be the boundry of Naga 'loka'in 'puranas' and 'naganandai 'dramas.
The opinion has come due the fact that Kerala is a low lying area than other parts of the world and previous population were Naga worshipers. Tamil literatures 'Perubanattupada Mani Meghalai' have mentioned Kerala as Naga Loga. It is believed by historians that ancient Naga worshipers of Kerala were Nagas. One section says that 'Nagas became Nayers'. They must have made different 'Kaves' for the residence and worship of Nagas'. But by the advent of followers of Vedas, there might have been a shift in the worship.
'Kerala Udpathi' says that Lord Parashuraman settled Brahmanas here and installed 'Durga Devi, Nagam, and Bhutham' all along the cost. It is believed that for progeny and cure of disease worship of Nagas is the top most. Almost all families in Kerala have 'Naga Kaves'. In these places they built 'Chithrakoodam' for the snakes to reside. Near this they installed Nagas. The Keralites interested in Naga worship can be seen from the attire itself. The women wear the 'Nagapada necklace'. In Vasthu and scriptural Art also these are evident. Naga is worship not only through rituals and folk songs but also in the form of man-women Tantric dance (kolam). Nagabali by Brahmanas, Naga folk songs of Theyyam Patis, Karuthini songs of Mannans, Sarpa songs of Pulluvar, Naga Theyyam by Munnootan, Vannan, Pulayan are different forms of Naga worship.
Nagar Kovil temple, Mannar Shala Illam, Pambinmelkattillam, Peralasheri Temple and Karippal Nagam are few among the many places where Naga worship takes place. A mixture of milk, tender coconut, banana, rice flour, turmeric powder is called 'Noorum Palum' being the favorite offering to Nagas. Important Naga Theyyams are Nagakandan, Nagakanthi, Nagakali, Nagappothi, Naga Bhagavathi, Nagathan, Naga Kanyaka. In Naga Kavu during Ayiliam day there is a sacrificial ritual associated with a Naga folk dance. For the sake of getting relief from Naga dosha, skin disease, to get progeny and for the welfare, devotees offer different types of worship to Naga's at valluvan Kadavu.
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Valluvan Kadavu has gained world-wide attention among
Valluvan Kadavu has gained world-wide attention among
Gulikan Sthanam
"Gulikan", the foremost among the associates of Lord Siva
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2Sketches4You. JustRite Stampers, is sponsoring this week's challenge and has provided the DT with various stamps to create our projects with. I used the Bee Ride - Cling set to create my card:
several images from the Bee Ride set.
Copic markers shown below were used to color the images:
Memento Rhubarb Stalk ink and topped it off with a button.
2Sketches4You site as well as all the 2S4Y DT gals for some awesome inspiration! Hope you join along in the fun :)
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I just had the most startling idea!
We all know how Hugo keeps comparing Enjolras to Saint Just and how Combeferre is supposedly based on Camille Desmoulins. In the same way I have heard it mentioned, albeit less loudly and firmly, that Courfeyrac has a similar relationship with Danton. I have also encountered the idea that, because of his science and frequent illnesses (whether they are real or just imagined), Joly is playing the role of Marat. This is of course all a question of politics and personalities rather than relationships
But then I started thinking: what about Grantaire? If Enjolras is Saint Just, Combeferre Desmoulins, Courfeyrac Danton, Bahorel and Prouvaire Les Bouzingos, Joly Marat, and L'Aigles hometown was a starting place for the French reformation (the first New Testament in French was printed there and the Bishop, even though he recanted when threatened with torture and death, was an important leader for the protestants), then who does Feuilly and Grantaire symbolize? Feuilly I'm still not sure about, maybe he's supposed to be one or all of the foreign revolutionary movements.
But Grantaire:
He's ugly, obnoxious but well meaning, a libertine and a cynic, well educated, knows his way around the cafe's, is grounded in the ABC but is as familiar with other groups, talks and drinks A LOT, doesn't get along very well with Enjolras and only joins the revolution at the very last moment.
Danton's most famous qualities (at least in retrospect) seems to have been his ugliness, his speeches and his passions. He also wasn't impressed by Camille's talk of revolution (or politics at all, really) until it was already happening. He absolutely refused to be told by anyone what to say or do. His relationship with Robespierre was not exactly fluffy and when it came to Saint Just, well...
To me that sound a lot more like Grantaire than Courfeyrac, but then who would he be? *frown*
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It has been a month since I last posted. We have been incredibly busy preparing for our debut at the National Stationery Show this year in New York. Chic+Nawdie will be exhibiting this year in Fresh Section, Booth 1450! Right now, we are building our own booth (hopefully I will post soon about our process), making new products, learning about what it means to do NSS while I am juggling a few freelance projects on the side. That's why February went by so fast and I feel like it's already spring.
For our Eyes On post today, I am having a few "blossom" items to welcome spring: Floral patterns, pastel yet cheerful color palettes, natural ingredients and overall just happy happy atmosphere!
- M.Gemi Penna Block Heels – Block heels are soooo in.
- Ilia Tinted Lip Conditioner in Bang Bang –I switched to all organic natural skincare about a year ago and my skin has had great improvements. It's also great to see more and more natural skincare & makeup brands showing up. Ilia is my go-to for lip products. This one is my favorite lipstick/tinted lip balm, so moisturizing with lovely color that is perfect for spring days.
- RMS Nail Polish in Smile – No harmful chemicals, cruety-free, vegan, charming colors. Win-win!
- Whamisa Organic Flower Oil – I am a big fan of face oil and this all-natural product is on my list after I'm done with my Squalane Oil (which has helped calm and hydrate my skin all winter long.)
- Sydney Flap Clutch – It's fun to see floral pattern on leather which doesn't happen a lot.
- Belgian Flax Linen Pillow Cover – Yes, I do have a thing for watercolor…
- Thank You Purple Bouquet Card or if you need one specifically for your mom this Mother's Day, there is this lovely pink peony one!
- Les Vacances Napkin – Love the watercolor illustrations and the fringe edges!
- + 10. Reformation Corey Dress & For Love & Lemons Pia Rompers – Spring wedding in the garden anyone?


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Bill Gates and the founders of Twitter are among the high-profile investors behind a new company aiming to replace meat in our diet with a product made of modified pea proteins.
Beyond Meat claims that versions of its patented "meat replica" are indistinguishable from chicken and beef in blind taste tests, contain all of the same nutrients as meat and are healthier.
The company says that the product could also help to reduce the effects of climate change, because of the resource-intensive nature of meat farming, and have a positive impact on animal welfare.
It has the target of reducing global meat consumption by a quarter by 2020.
Speaking to the Today show, founder Ethan Brown said: "I sort of bristle at the use of the word 'fake'. I just completely disagree with that. It is an assembly of amino acids, fats and water that is just like what you get out of an animal, so in my view, it is meat.
"It's just very clean, so there's no starch with it, and there's very little fat. It's all protein, so it's been extracted from the pea.
"For me, it's really been about getting the texture right so it's seamless for people. They can put it right in their favorite dish. It's convenient because it's already cooked, so all you have to do is heat it up in a pan with a little bit of oil.''
Bill Gates has invested in the company, as have Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams.
The billionaire Microsoft founder also has a stake in another company, along with Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang, which is working on a plant-based product to replace eggs. Hampton Creek Foods hopes to create an eggless mayonnaise with identical nutrional content to traditional recipes.
Since earning his fortune, Gates has founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fund education, health and world population projects around the world. Earlier this year it donated $100,000 to fund scientists working on a thinner, stronger condom using nanoparticle technology.
Researchers say that condoms have been used for around 400 years and are an effective method of preventing the spread of sexually transmitted infections and preventing pregnancy. But there is a stigma about condoms that they decrease sensation during sex, which scientists hope to solve with nanoparticle technology that will allow them to be made thinner.
The Foundation hopes that improved condom technology could help to limit the spread of HIV in the developing world. More than 33 million people are currently living with the disease, and over 30 million have already died of it since the first cases were discovered in the 1980s.


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Indian Motorcycle
Rebirth of an Iconic 112-year old American Brand: Indian Motorcycle
The Mission
Indian Motorcycle was acquired in April 2011 by Polaris Industries (NYSE: PII), the "800-pound gorilla" in the Powersports industry, and the revival of an American iconic brand began with a singular focus on once again offering "choice" to American motorcyclists. Skyya Communications was engaged as Indian Motorcycle's AOR in October 2012 as a key member of the team chartered with the herculean task of resurrecting one of America's oldest and most storied brands.
2012 - 2013
The Skyya Approach
- Instill "confidence" in the new Indian Motorcycle as a viable alternative to Harley-Davidson.
- Create an aura of "confidence" in parent company Polaris Industries.
- Build "momentum and excitement" for the historic re-launch.
- Drive "retail acceleration" through community building, lead generation and new dealer development.
The Results:
- 229 total stories and more than 1.32 billion unpaid impressions, including virtually every national business outlet along with more than 60 men's, automotive, local and lifestyle publications.
- More than 500,000 website visits in the first five days after the Sturgis reveal.
- An 860% increase in the company's Facebook and Twitter social communities from January to October 2013.
- Strong dealer interest around the world ensuring the company will hit its new dealer goal of 120-140 by December 2013.
- Thousands of consumer test rides occurred at new dealerships across the country.
- Named Men's Journal 2013 "Gear of the Year"
- Broadcast Coverage on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg WEST, CNBC, CNBC Closing Bell with Kelly Evans, CNBC Squawk Box, FOX Business, FOX News, Opening Bell with Maria Bartiroma
- Journalist ride reviews with About.com, AutoWeek, Complex Magazine, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, Motor Trend, New York Times, NYLON Guys, Road & Track, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and to date still booking reviews.
This campaign went on to win two 2013 MN PRSA Classics Awards and one 2014 NY PRSA Big Apple Award, in addition to being named an honoree in the 2014 Platinum PR Awards.
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The End of America's Fake Consensus
We were never as unified as TV made us believe. But is today's fragmented, nihilistic media landscape even worse?
The era of the Great White Father as a unifying American media figure is over.
If we didn't know that already, the news that Tom Brokaw is being treated for cancer is a poignant reminder that those days are long gone.
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Brokaw, 74, is probably the last in the line of American television journalists that began in the fifties with Edward R. Murrow. He has a sonorous, reassuring voice and seems to be, by all accounts, a very decent man. His opinions are moderately liberal, but safely—and banally—within the parameters of the political and media elite. The word "gravitas" was invented for men like Brokaw.
But, while some network anchors are superficially still cut in Brokaw's mold—think, for example, of his successor at the NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams—the visage of a television "newsman" calmly making sense of what Philip Roth once called "the indigenous American berserk" no longer has much purchase on the national imagination. The country is too diverse for a middle-aged white guy in a suit to embody it anymore. It always was, but its political culture can no longer suppress that diversity.
A trip to Austin over the December holidays reminded me of one of Brokaw's most influential predecessors and how an assumption of American cultural homogeneity once prevailed. When you go to the Lyndon Johnson Museum and Library at the University of Texas, you will see, interspersed among videos and exhibits, the image of an avuncular broadcaster, Walter Cronkite, the long time anchor of the CBS Evening News. There is Cronkite cutting into daytime television to announce the death of John Kennedy and barely maintaining his professional composure. Forever after, that clip has exemplified an entire nation's shock and grief.
Another famous image of Cronkite haunts the LBJ Museum. In early 1968, the political war at home against the American War in Vietnam raged, and the Viet Cong had just launched the Tet Offensive. A beleaguered President Johnson saw his approval ratings plummet. Cronkite, the sage journalist, left his studio to tour the Vietnamese war zone. He returned to the United States and hosted a primetime special about the war. On that special, Cronkite intoned that "we are mired in a stalemate," and that Americans should admit that "the only rational way out" was to "negotiate not as victors, but as honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could."
The Great Man was declaring, no mas. And the effect was dramatic. Todd Gitlin, in his book The Sixties, quotes Johnson's press secretary George Christian as saying: "The shock waves rolled through government." Cronkite—mostly a newsreader at this point in his career, with a deep baritone voice (all these guys had great voices)—had social weight. It seemed as if he spoke for the entire nation. Ironically, a country riven by war and social tensions had an elite that looked and thought about things pretty much the same way as Walter Cronkite. When Cronkite said the war was a disaster, many of them knew the jig was up. A month or so after Cronkite spoke those words, LBJ withdrew from the 1968 presidential election. As Johnson was said to remark to an aide, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost America."
Cronkite retired in 1981 with his reputation as Mr. America preserved in amber. A writer for the New Republic gasped that seeing the old anchorman say his final farewell on the air was like "George Washington leaving the dollar bill."
Two generations later, what journalist or other elite would express for all of "us" our public grief or our deep skepticism over government policy? Who do we fantasize is America's singular proxy, as LBJ thought Cronkite to be? Rush Limbaugh? Paul Krugman? Melissa Harris-Perry? Bill O'Reilly? George Will? Rachel Maddow? Oprah? Can anyone quickly name the anchors of the three nightly news shows today? Or the presidents of Harvard and Yale, or the CEO of any company now that Steve Jobs is gone? We no longer even bother to pretend that there are special public figures that are representative Americans; certainly the president—this one or any other—isn't.
Fleeting episodes in the endless, ongoing culture war underscore our national non-consensus. Not long ago, a debate on social media broke out around the question: Who is America's most prominent public intellectual? Ta-Nehisi Coates a writer for the Atlantic, triggered the discussion by calling Harris-Perry, a political scientist at Tulane and host of a weekend program on MSNBC, the nation's "foremost public intellectual." Then Dylan Byers of Politico said the choice reflected badly on Coates's own "intellectual cred." That a prominent African-American writer can bestow this accolade on a prominent talk show host and academic who is an African-American woman shows how far we have come from Cronkite's day. But how can we even talk about a "public intellectual" when we don't even know who the "public" is anymore? In 1968, we at least pretended, regardless of its truth, that there was such a thing as this unified public, with its three television networks, three weekly news magazines and several great, national papers. Today we live in, as the historian Daniel Rogers calls it, the "age of fracture." The elites are as divided as the citizenry, perhaps more so.
All in all, this is a good thing, a necessary step in constructing a more just and humane society. Cronkite embodied a falsely homogeneous universalism. A middle-aged white man can no longer be the default face and voice of America—everybody and nobody is. We never had a unified political culture, but we used to pretend we did. It took the sixties and the post-sixties emancipatory social movements for African-American civil rights, women's equality and gay liberation to destabilize that specious unity. The fallacy that wise white patriarchs unify America has been justly swept into history's dustbin.
The trouble is that, in this age of fracture, we no longer have any shared, consensual intellectual protocols at all. The essence of the culture war is that pretty much every public episode, or personal or institutional intervention is reduced to what the historian Martin Jay has described as "the relativizing of all views as mere expressions of a concrete particularity." It isn't what you write or say that is evaluated—it's who you are.


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Steve Smith's biological clock, like the time clocks of many with the Panthers, is ticking.
After watching his team torpedo seasons with twin 2-8 starts under Ron Rivera, Smith knows his team doesn't have time for a similar beginning.
"I'm more at the point now where if I was a female and 35, I'm looking to get pregnant and married tomorrow," Smith said, via Joe Person of the Charlotte Observer. "So sense of urgency is an understatement."
Smith's gone from an angry and impulsive kid to the old man on the Panthers roster, and he's gained a certain wisdom (which can be colorfully expressed) along the way.
But he knows that if the Panthers don't do something differently this year, many things are going to change.
"Slow starts will get you fired, cut and [bring] change real quick for everyone," Smith said.
The Panthers have a decent base of talent, and young leaders in Cam Newton and Luke Kuechly. But if they're slow out of the gates this year, they might not all make it to the end of the season, and the offseason overhaul by the new General Manager (Dave Gettleman) who didn't hire this coach or pick most of these players figures to be extreme.


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I'm not the first to be interested in neato torpedo ironing board ideas!
If you have an older home you may already have a built in ironing board closet or cabinet. If the original wooden ironing board is missing or unwieldy, you can replace it. Use the space to replace with a modern cabinet. Or use it to hold your regular ironing board. You can use coat hoooks to hold it inside the cabinet.
If it's not located well in your home, then use it as a cabinet for other things. Put some shelves in it.
There are just some things that every household has and I'm not sure why architects, builders and contractors don't include them when they are designing and building or remodeling homes. For instance everyone uses an ironing board. They are unwieldy and a pain to put up and down and yet they are unsightly to leave up and out all the time. My Mom always had one up in her bedroom. I did too for many years. Finally I got sick and tired of seeing it. So I quit ironing. Stan still wants to iron so he still has one up in his bedroom. But I don't iron any more. Then I got to thinking about having a hidden ironing board. I did some Google searches to find some ideas.
I began to think where would be the best place to put one. In the laundry room? In the closet? In the bathroom? In the hallway? In the dressing room? For both of us to use it, it would be best in our hallway outside the bedrooms. But I'm not sure I want it there. The laundry room is too far from the bedrooms and bathrooms. Decide where you would use it. For me, I really could use 2-3 ironing boards to be most convenient. One in the laundry room and one in each bedroom. But I doubt that's going to happen.
If you find an idea that you like, you can do the same Google search I did on "ironing board cabinet", "ironing board closet", "built in ironing board".
I've always wanted a builtin ironing board. I've been doing some Google searches to find all the different kinds of built in ironing boards.
It doesn't always have to be a normal ironing board. If you sew, you could use the wooden top of the cabinet.
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Earth & Sky Farm was born in 2009 when two generations of our family sought a more rural life, which we found in Oregon City. We wanted to live more intimately with nature and share the experience. Our farm name seeks to honor our sense of immense awe for the natural world.
We strive to live in harmony with the Earth and the myriad of life she supports. We are garteful for the oppotunity to grow here. From rich, vital soil to the ever expansive, changing sky above we have infinite opportunity to be reminded of the vastness of the universe.
Sky has additional significance to our historic farm as our beautiful farmhouse was once home to astronomer and long-time Oregon City resident, Harold Haggart and his family. Haggart hand-constructed a sophisticated telescope and observatory which was attached to what is now our home in 1948. Haggart's personal, "Oregon Trail Observatory" was later deconstructed after his death in 1984. The telescope was sold by his wife to the City of Portland while the dome was donated to the Clackamas Community College where it remains currently in use. The dynamic spiral staircase leading to Haggart's observatory runs upstairs and and down to the basement level in our home today.
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Measures approx. 35 x 35 " (90 x 90 cm)
Upcycling means to use waste and transform it into something new, more pleasing and with a new use. It is the process of adding value to preloved items through design. I gather locally sourced recycled wool knitwear for upcycling. There are so many textiles just shipped abroad or thrown into landfill. I am on a mission to recycle waste wool, be it from the second hand clothing sector, or from the few remaining UK factories that manufacture wool knitwear in the UK.
All jumpers have a high wool content, including lambswool and cashmere and have been chosen for their colour and texture. Working from my home in rural West Northumberland, I give all recycled woollies a wash, then choose colours that go well together. The jumpers are then cut into squares and sewn with an industrial overlocker with seams showing for added texture and interest.
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CanWest buys Hollinger
'Get Big Fast!' says the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, the Canadian Cable Television Association and everyone else under the Northern sun, in response to a skyrocketing global economy....
'Get Big Fast!' says the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, the Canadian Cable Television Association and everyone else under the Northern sun, in response to a skyrocketing global economy.
Nobody in Canadian broadcasting has taken that advice more literally and acted on it faster than CanWest Global, which on the heels of acquiring the bulk of wic's eight conventional tv assets, bought up the international distribution arm of Dutch tv giant Endemol Entertainment through its entertainment division (see Endemol, p. 6) just days before striking a $3.5-billion deal to acquire newspaper mega-chain Hollinger.
The newest deal is the largest in the history of Canadian media industry. With CanWest buying 100% of Hollinger's 13 principal metropolitan operations, all of its Canadian Internet properties, its magazine group, 130 of its community papers and 50% of the National Post, it brings the newest national broadcaster in Canada to the height of the Canadian newspaper publishing world.
Under the agreement, CanWest will pay Hollinger $2.2 billion in cash and roughly $600 million in the form of 24.3 million non-voting shares at $25 per share, and 2.7 million multiple-voting preferred shares at a premium of $3.75 over the price of non-voting shares.
Hollinger, which will take back a 10-year subordinated debenture in the amount of $700 million, will acquire a 15% share and close to a 6% voting interest in CanWest, becoming the Winnipeg-based giant's second largest shareholder, after the Asper family.
CanWest president and ceo Leonard Asper describes the deal as 'the ultimate convergence transaction,' as it unites the conventional media of print and electronic content with the 21st century's online, interactive and immediate technology of the Internet.
CanWest has requested that Ravelston, Hollinger's parent company, continue to manage the wholly acquired publications for 17 months to ensure a smooth transition. Hollinger will also continue to manage the National Post for the next five years before turning it over to joint CanWest/Hollinger management.
Conrad Black will remain chairman of the flagship paper and CanWest will appoint a co-chair, with equal representation from both companies. Black will also join the expanded 11-person CanWest board.
Izzy Asper, who conceived and initiated the merger terms with Black, said in a statement, 'We are well-aware of, and sensitive to, the public policy concerns about cross-media ownership. We intend to meet with the crtc immediately to discuss how best to ensure that the public interest is protected, while not foregoing achievement of the corporate efficiencies of this media convergence transaction.'
Prior approval by the crtc is not required as there are no changes in the ownership of broadcasting assets. However, at renewal time – the first quarter of 2001 – 'it is likely that intervenors or the commission will bring up the issue of concentration of ownership, especially in regard to news,' says crtc spokesman Denis Carmel.
In the past, for example when Quebecor's Le Journal de Montreal made a play to purchase broadcaster tqs, the crtc required a watchdog committee be put in place to monitor any breach of public policy. But because this is a reverse deal, the crtc, at least at this point, is less worried.
'Managed well, this [deal] spells opportunity,' says cftpa president and ceo Elizabeth McDonald. 'As long as size doesn't bring abuse with it, there could be great opportunity for content creators….It invites a lot of different people in on a lot of different venues,' she adds.
crtc transactional hearings are expected sometime in spring 2001.
Regulatory approval is also required from the Canadian Competition Bureau, which has reportedly never blocked a media merger.
Meantime, CanWest has no intention of ending its media binge at Hollinger. As part of the company's overall expansion strategy, it plans to move further into the new media and distribution businesses, as well as chart newer territory in the form of sports teams [Blue Jays] and billboard advertising technology. *


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1894 - 1967
Henningsen, is best known for path-breaking innovations with
interior lighting. He is perhaps the best example of lamp-making
mastery. Trained as an architect at the Danish College of
Technology in Copenhagen, he began working in 1920 as an independent
architect designing houses, factories, and theaters. His self-appointed
mission to find "harmony in lighting" was fueled
by this experience. To his mind, the standard lighting solutions
were unsatisfactory for his buildings so he began experimenting
and creating designs of his own.
1924 Henningsen began working with Louis Poulsen, an electrical
appliances manufacturer, to produce what would become his
most famous work, the "PH lamp." The next year
this lamp won a gold medal at the Exposition Internationale
des Arts Decoratifs & Industriels Modernes in Paris. The
"PH" lamp was the forerunner of Henningsen's
multi-shade lamp system that would be developed and elaborated
throughout his career.
original design was based on a strict scientific analysis
of the effects and functions of the lampshade. Henningsen
worked vigorously to resolve or, at least, diminish the problem
of glare. He approached this problem in a number of different
ways. Multiple shades positioned at precise distances from
each other were one approach. Additionally, his lamps were
constructed so that the bulb was not visible and the light
was directed downward so that each ray would be reflected
no more than once. Furthermore, he varied the color on the
underside of each shade element in order to alter the tone
of the light and the level of intensity. He also experimented
with different types of glass as shade materials such as opal.
These extensive efforts had the aim of beautifying "the
home and those who live there" by imitating the warm
glow of the petroleum lamps he grew up with. Poul Henningsen's
success in accomplishing this goal is evident by the fact
that many of his designs are still in production today including
the popular "PH5" from 1958. Additionally, the
original "PH" and the unmistakable "Artichoke"
lamp are considered classics of Danish design.
addition to shaping the history of modern interior lighting
Henningsen was known for sharp cultural critique which he
published in a magazine he also edited called the Critical
Revue. He was also known as a talented poet and playwright
who scripted several productions for Copenhagen theaters.
Though less known for these accomplishments than for his designs,
Poul Henningsen, was a man of various gifts.