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Ray E. Stovall Jr., 58, of Amarillo died Friday, Oct. 24, 2008.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Memorial Park Cemetery with Dr. Jeff Raines of First Baptist Church officiating. Arrangements are by Cox-LaGrone Funeral Home, 4180 Canyon Drive.
Mr. Stovall was born Oct. 20, 1950, in Amarillo to Ray E. and Jacqueline Stovall. He grew up in southwest Amarillo and graduated from Canyon High School in 1969. He also attended Amarillo College. Ray married Ruth Moore on June 25, 1970, in Canyon. He worked for Asarco for more than 27 years in Amarillo and Missouri.
He enjoyed golfing and fishing on the Gulf Coast at Port Aransas. He was dearly loved and will be dearly missed.
He was preceded in death by his father in 1987.
Survivors include his wife, Ruth; a son, Stacy Stovall and fiancee Rhonda Vaughn of Albertville, Ala.; a daughter, Jennifer Forshee and husband Larry of Keystone Heights, Fla.; his mother, Jacqueline Stovall of Melbourne, Fla.; two sisters, Nancy Ellen Taylor and husband Bruce and Laura Sherffius and husband Norman, all of Florida; four granddaughters, Taylor, Maddison, Kaitlan and Hannah; a grandson, Matthew; and many other loving family members.
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This season, the trade deadline came and went without much action. Fans were left disappointed at the lack of movement on a day that is usually one of the more exciting for the people. The week prior saw many big names such as Tomas Kaberle, Erik Johnson and Chris Stewart move.
The big name on the market around the deadline was Dallas Stars superstar center Brad Richards, as many rumors saw him going to the New York Rangers, but Richards remained in Dallas and will have a decision to make on his future in the off season, as he is a free agent.
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Gov. Chris Christie was involved in a heated exchange with a public school teacher during a campaign stop in Somers Point on Saturday. The teacher, Melissa Tomlinson, attended the stop to protest the governor's education policies. According to Tomlinson, the governor cut short their conversation about education by telling the teacher he was "tired of you people." A spokeswoman for the governor explained that he had said that "no matter how much money we spend, it will never be enough for you people." A photo of the confrontation buzzed around Twitter this weekend.
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The best thing he could do is ignore confrontations like these.
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Dave Ramsey is a polarizing figure. Some people love him and swear by his advice and others think he's a hack. Which one is he? Unfortunately that's a question only you can answer but hopefully I will provide you with enough information about his flagship book to make your own decision.
The problem with personal finance is that there are multiple solutions to any one problem. If you think it's simply about math, you're wrong. Someone in credit card debt understands that when you use your credit card and don't pay your entire bill, you'll go into debt. They aren't stupid, they know how interest works, but there is a non-math reason why they're in debt.
If you had to boil down the book into a single sentence, then I'd say that Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover is a book that gives you a good framework to get yourself out of debt and back on solid financial footing.
Dave Ramsey's "Baby Steps" to Financial Freedom
At the core of Dave Ramsey's advice is his "baby steps" towards financial freedom:
- Save $1,000 cash as a starter emergency fund
- Start the debt snowball
- Finish the emergency fund – accumulate 3-6 months of expenses
- Invest 15% of your income in retirement
- Save for college
- Pay off your home mortgage
- Build wealth – Invest, donate, enjoy life (without going into debt)
Debt Snowball Strategy
The debt snowball strategy is one that has received a lot of ink throughout the years. The strategy states that you should list all of your debts and their monthly payments. If you have extra cash to put towards debt, put it towards your smallest amounts first. When that debt has been repaid, take the amount you would've sent them and add it to the payment you make to the second smallest debt. This way, as you pay off your debts, your monthly payments to the other debts increases like a snowball.
Why does this strategy work? It comes down to motivation and celebrating successes. It makes more financial sense, mathematically, to put your extra cash into the debt with the highest interest rate. However, by paying off the smaller debts, the number of debts you do have decreases. These successes give you the motivation to continue your payments and put you back on the right path.
The brilliance in this methodology, specifically the much maligned debt snowball strategy, is that it takes into account human psychology. That's the non-math part of personal finance. Like I wrote earlier, people don't get themselves into debt because they don't understand math. No matter what you say about the inefficiencies in his strategy, the reality is that it works. I'd venture to guess that thousands of people have pulled themselves out of debt with the advice he's given in just this one book.
The book is routinely in the top three in Amazon's Personal Finance category, so if you're struggling with debt, I think you might want to give this book a try. The book also contains a lot of motivational stories of people who probably were in more dire straits than you and were still able to pull themselves out.
One final recommendation, if you are in debt, borrow this book from the library and put that cash towards your smallest debt. 🙂


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Elements of Change
Wind from the east
brushed my cheek
breath of fresh air
nostrils flare.
Fire in the south
warms my heart
drum beat steady
dancing my part.
Water in the west
harbor emotion
singing ancient whales
mother ocean.
Earth, cold north
cave of silence
dark void, introspection
sheltered resilience
Centered, spiraling round
let me spin
new season blessing
I begin once again.
….Sue Nosker
Maketh mine the Eye of the Eagle
Discerning, revealing,
Encompassing all
Maketh mine the Heart of the Warrior
Unflinching, undaunted
Courageously full
Maketh mine the Manner of the Deer
With gentleness and grace
So swift and so sure
Maketh mine the Dance of the Roses
Blooming, unfolding
So perfect and pure
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Even before your name
was spoken
Before the women
gathered to chant
and lay out
your tiny clothes
Somewhere beyond the
mark and text of time
Your song began
to softly call you
Waiting for your
soul to awaken.
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She who is in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger.
She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great pain, because she has found peace in her heart.
Music or the smell of good cooking may make people stop and enjoy.
But words that point to the Tao
seem monotonous and without flavor.
When you look for it, there is nothing to see.
When you listen for it, there is nothing to hear.
When you use it, it is inexhaustible.
….lesson 35, Tao Te Ching (trans. Stephen Mitchell )
I love to love,
love to be loved.
Holding your hand as
we walk in the misty rain,
not a care in the world.
I love to love, simply.
Why can't we stay inside?
Gazing at one another
as if there is no tomorrow
only this moment, the only moment.
Why can't I let go and be loved?
I want you one more time,
looking back I cried as I just
want to love to love,
love to be loved
loving you, loving me, each breath, the hush
of the simple words,
I love you.
Marion Ann L. Berry
Dear Great Hearted One, This day we honor and celebrate the women who have given life to us, the women who give life to ideas, the women who died giving life, the women who wanted to have a child, but didn't get to, the women who right now are tilling their fertile soil for new seed, the women who choose not to have a child but have many children, the women who are in captivity, the women who are free, those who were mothered well, and those who had crazy mamas, because any mama that did not love you well, was not well enough, the women who are struggling this moment to care for their babies, and the women who right now snuggle with little ones under feather comforters, for those whose mamas have gone on, and for those who are mamas to be, for women who miscarried precious life, and those who carried many, for single mamas who want their mate, and for married mamas who want to be seen and heard, for those who never got to have a mama hold them, and for those mama's whose children will not speak to, for happy mamas and sad mamas and the Great Mama of all, and most of all... for all women who need re-mothering, we unite in our love for you and your quest for wholeness, connection, belonging and home. All women today, we honor. All life today, we celebrate.
(Printed by permission: Eckhart Tolle TV)
During my travels, one of the most frequently asked question is "What is it like to be in relationship with an enlightened being?" Why this question? Perhaps they have the idea or image of an ideal relationship, and want to know more about it. Perhaps their mind wants to project itself to a future time when they, too, will be in an ideal relationship and find themselves through it.
What is it like to be in relationship with an enlightened being?
As long as I have the idea in my head "I have a relationship" or "I am in a relationship," no matter with whom, I suffer. This I have learnt.
With the concept of "relationship" come expectations, memories of past relationships, and further personally and culturally conditioned mental concepts of what a "relationship" should be like. Then I would try to make reality conform to these concepts. And it never does. And again I suffer. The fact of the matter is: there are no relationships. There is only the present moment, and in the moment there is only relating.
How we relate, or rather how well we love, depends on how empty we are of ideas, concepts, expectations.
Recently, I asked Eckhart to say a few words on the ego's search for "love relationships." Our conversation quickly went deeper to touch upon some of the most profound aspects of human existence. Here's what he said:
Eckhart Tolle: " What is conventionally called "love" is an ego strategy to avoid surrender. You are looking to someone to give you that which can only come to you in the state of surrender. The ego uses that person as a substitute to avoid having to surrender. The Spanish language is the most honest in this respect. It uses the same verb, te quiero, for "I love you" and "I want you." To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change. The ego singles someone out and makes them special. It uses that person to cover up the constant underlying feeling of discontent, of "not enough," of anger and hate, which are closely related. These are facets of an underlying deep seated feeling in human beings that is inseparable from the egoic state.
When the ego singles something out and says "I love" this or that, it's an unconscious attempt to cover up or remove the deep-seated feelings that always accompany the ego: the discontent, the unhappiness, the sense of insufficiency that is so familiar. For a little while, the illusion actually works. Then inevitably, at some point, the person you singled out, or made special in your eyes, fails to function as a cover up for your pain, hate, discontent or unhappiness which all have their origin in that sense of insufficiency and incompleteness. Then, out comes the feeling that was covered up, and it gets projected onto the person that had been singled out and made special - who you thought would ultimately "save you." Suddenly love turns to hate. The ego doesn't realize that the hatred is a projection of the universal pain that you feel inside. The ego believes that this person is causing the pain. It doesn't realize that the pain is the universal feeling of not being connected with the deeper level of your being - not being at one with yourself.
The object of love is interchangeable, as interchangeable as the object of egoic wanting. Some people go through many relationships. They fall in love and out of love many times. They love a person for a while until it doesn't work anymore, because no person can permanently cover up that pain.
Only surrender can give you what you were looking for in the object of your love. The ego says surrender is not necessary because I love this person. It's an unconscious process of course. The moment you accept completely what is, something inside you emerges that had been covered up by egoic wanting. It is an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself. When that happens, a completely different kind of love is present which is not subject to love / hate. It doesn't single out one thing or person as special. It's absurd to even use the same word for it. Now it can happen that even in a normal love / hate relationship, occasionally, you enter the state of surrender. Temporarily, briefly, it happens: you experience a deeper universal love and a complete acceptance that can sometimes shine through, even in an otherwise egoic relationship. If surrender is not sustained, however, it gets covered up again with the old egoic patterns. So, I'm not saying that the deeper, true love cannot be present occasionally, even in a normal love / hate relationship. But it is rare and usually short-lived.
Whenever you accept what is, something deeper emerges than what is. So, you can be trapped in the most painful dilemma, external or internal, the most painful feelings or situation, and the moment you accept what is, you go beyond it, you transcend it. Even if you feel hatred, the moment you accept that this is what you feel, you transcend it. It may still be there, but suddenly you are at a deeper place where it doesn't matter that much anymore.
The entire phenomenal universe exists because of the tension between the opposites. Hot and cold, growth and decay, gain and loss, success and failure, the polarities that are part of existence, and of course part of every relationship ".
The Violets are by my side,
the Robin very near,
and "Spring"...they say...
Who is she?
going by the door.
Spring is a happiness so beautiful,
so unique, so unexpected,
that I don't know what to do with my heart.
I dare not take it,
I dare not leave it,
What do you advise? ...Emily Dickinson.
In my heart I see a light, the light of conscious day
In my heart I see the love, a love that cannot stray
In my heart the song is sung with words of strength and grace
In my heart I let it go, the love, the words, the way
In my soul I feel the truth, the universal call
In my soul I feel the peace of nothing left to long
In my soul the music plays, I'm following the path
In my soul I let it go, the call, the words, the song
In this world I am the song, the soul, the heart, the way
In this world I am the light
The light of conscious day
...Christine Goyer-Swift
Elizabeth Gilbert has said that human beings possess "the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment." Isn't this the infinite search we all employ at one time or another, or even all the time? Our minds are so restless, turbulent and unyielding, continually chasing happiness and contentment. Is there a better way? I'm reminded often, just by day-to-day living, how much better I feel when I spend time in meditation, bringing my monkey-mind with me in acceptance of its ways, and slowly become refocused within rather than "out there" in busy-mind.
While I've been away from sitting meditation practice for a few years, I do to check in at various times of the day to ask: Where is my attention right now? So if I'm driving, I become acutely aware of my hands on the wheel, my butt in the driver's seat and my eyes on the road and periphery. There's a ton of experience going on. Why not keep attention here? I'm so out of practice that focus doesn't stay – so I bring it back. Where is my attention? When I'm paying attention, there are no thoughts about what will my workday bring with all the changes happening there or how is our relative who is ill. When I'm at work, then I can be aware of the chaos and when I'm visiting, I will be present with my relative.
By being acutely, perpetually aware of our thoughts we can see that the main cause of unhappiness is not the events that happen but our thoughts about them, which has been said by many a spiritual teacher. Awareness in right-now- this- minute creates the space, clarity and calm to encompass every potential future action. Experiencing stillness within by focusing thought and by doing this – with practice - all the time brings inner peace and serenity. We can all do this. Teachers abound: The Dalai Lama, Eckhart Tolle, Sri Ramana Maharshi, Jesus, Mother Meera; and focused mindful traditions point the way: yoga, meditation, dance.
Experiencing peace and serenity I believe is attainable by everyone. Focusing the mind, through inquiry into the self, breath, mantra, ecstatic dance, vision quests, yoga – pick your path – can help us to let things be as they are which in turn allows life to unfold naturally and to have peace, inner knowing and joy – all natural states that have been habitually forgotten. Where is my attention now?


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For those of you who follow my blog, you may remember that I put up some cordials and Brandies in August from Berries I picked or bought locally. Some of the Blueberries and Raspberries are from my own yard and the rest were picked or sourced in New Hampshire while on two separate berry gathering trips last summer. I documented the making of them at: http://www.gloucestergourmet.com/2012/08/making-blueberry-cordial-and-blackberry.html
It is now over three months since mixing the brandy and vodka in with the berries and it was time to decant some of the stuff for Holiday Gifts. I use some funnels I got at the Dollar Store and use a coffee filter to separate the liquid from the berries. I tried doing the berries, whole, in some of my experiments and in others I used a blender to blend the berries into the alcohol. I have to say that the blenderized berries decanter quickly and I got more liquid out of the bath. The whole berries are a bit harder to decant, I know some people like to re-use those berries for baking, fruit salads, or putting over ice cream. I am not a huge fan, I tried the whole berry technique and I have to say that the blenderized berries worked better for me.
I mixed some of my Abbott Honey, (http://www.gloucestergourmet.com/2012/09/the-world-of-melissas-east-gloucester.html)
with the Brandies to give it a little Sweetness. I heated the honey slightly and poured it into the bottle with the brandies and gave it a good shake. The Blueberry Cordial already had sugar mixed in it so all I had to do was decant that into a bottles.
|Raspberry and Blackberry Brandy in a Snifter
I serve the Brandies in snifters and sometimes heat the Brandy a bit first to release the aromas. A heated and flavored Brandy in a snifter on a cold evening is fantastic. The color is ruby red and the flavor is sublime.
People ask me about serving the Blueberry Cordial. I use it as an after dinner drink when I have company and I serve it in small crystal glasses. Since it is basically flavored Vodka, you could easily shake it with some ice and serve it straight up in a martini glass as a cocktail. Blueberry Freeze Cosmo or something.
|Small Waterford Crystal Glass with Blueberry Cordial
This makes a fantastic gift during the holidays or you may just want to keep it for yourself! Last summer I found some pretty decanters to give as gifts with it too. It is best to let the fruit soak in the alcohol for 3 months as it imparts the best flavors that way.
Blueberry Cordial
Glass Quart Jar container
2 cups Vodka
1-2 cups Chopped Blueberries (I put them thru the food processor on a quick pulse)
1 cup Sugar
Mix together and shake every couple of days for 2 months, strain thru cheese cloth or coffee filter and then decant into a pretty decanter or glass container. Serve in small crystal glasses as an after dinner drink. You can also flavor a champagne or sparkling wine cocktail with a bit of the Blueberry Cordial.
This makes a fantastic Holiday Gift and now is the time to plan it when berries are in season. I know you can make it with frozen berries in a pinch but what could be better than your own hand picked Blueberry Cordial. I happen to know that the berries I picked in New Hampshire were Organic which is a nice thing too!
Blackberry Brandy
Glass Quart Jar container
2 cups of Brandy
1-2 cups of chopped blackberries (I put them thru the food processor on a quick pulse)
optional: You can add sugar to this if desired or you can wait and flavor to taste with a sugar syrup after the two months of shaking. Personally, I don't really like sugar in my brandy and enjoy the tart Blackberry taste without it. It is a matter of personal taste.
Mix together and shake every couple of days for two months, strain they a cheese cloth or coffee filter and then decant into a pretty glass container. Serve in Brandy Snifters. You can warm the Blackberry Brandy and serve it in the snifter warm. It is really a wonderful after dinner drink! The Warmed Blackberry Brandy is the perfect dark winter drink after a wonderful meal, best enjoyed in front of a roaring fire!


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dosing pump Companies serving American Samoa
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Verderflex Peristaltic Pumps - part of the Verder Group
based in Castleford, UNITED KINGDOM
Verderflex Peristaltic tube and hose pumps from Verder have gained worldwide prominence particularly in dosing applications involving abrasive, highly corrosive, viscous, high density and shear sensitive products within industries such as water and waste water, food & beverage, chemical, biofuel, print & packaging and ceramics. Verderflex peristaltic pumps have a ...
Tefen Flow & Dosing Technologies
based in Hof Hacarmel, ISRAEL
Tefen, the manufacturer of MixRite - cutting edge dosing pumps used mainly for livestock, irrigation and industrial applications, and it`s flow product line, used in applications where quality and reliability is the key factor.
Dosatron International Inc.
based in Clearwater, FLORIDA (USA)
Dosatron is the original inventor of the water-powered dosing pump. Since the first Dosatron was first manufactured in 1974, Dosatron has grown to be the world leader in water-powered dosing technology. Today, Dosatron manufactures and sells a wide variety of chemical injectors in over 100 countries worldwide.
based in Sta. Perpetua de Mogoda, SPAIN
ITC was set up in 1988 and is dedicated to making dosing pumps and dosing control equipments. It is placed in Barcelona, one of the main logistic centres in the Mediterranean Sea. It uses the synergy of being placed in a city which is a reference point for creativity, design and technology, to strengthen its commitment towards innovation, quality and service in the ...
Albin Pump SAS
based in Goteborg, SWEDEN
The company`s history originates from Albin Verken and is since 1928 an independent company. Albin Pump develops and manufactures sealless pumps that facilitate our customers processes through innovative solutions. The knowledge of development and production of pumps for the industry is built on many years of experience. We take pride in delivering efficient and ...
Seko SpA
based in S.Rufina - Rieti, ITALY
SEKO has been a significant manufacturer of metering pumps and dosing systems for over 40 years. It has gained a worldwide leader position in many fields by supplying innovating products and offering reliable solutions for the dosing, injection and transfer of liquids, together with an efficient control of the related chimical parameters.
Lutz-Jesco GmbH
based in Wedemark, GERMANY
Lutz-Jesco has been manufacturing dosing equipment and the related components with innovation and quality in the field of metering technology and disinfection. For about 60 years, the brand Jesco has been associated with strong, extensive product lines with successful installation and operation of dosing installations worldwide.
Water Engineering Services
based in UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Water Engineering Services FZE is dedicated to contribute to the creation, supplying and maintenance of a high standard for the quality of the environment and life worldwide, with a special focus on water treatment. This is achieved by innovative solutions for municipal and industrial applications in the area of water, waste water and process technology and chemical ...
Aqua industrial Group SpA
based in Reggio Emilia, ITALY
AQUA Italy has specialized in injection moulding of plastic materials and components for the water treatment industry. Over the years we have progressed and added to our range, making us a top manufacture, able to offer a comprehensive and extensive range of high quality products. We are an Italian group that produces filters and cartridges, ultrafiltration cartridges, ...
Roto Pumps Ltd
based in Noida, INDIA
Leading manufacturers of Progressive Cavity Pumps and Twin Screw pumps.
Etatron GB Ltd
based in Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM
Etatron GB Ltd has been established with ambitions to be the lead UK Chemical Dosing Equipment company offering high quality Solenoid Diaphragm Dosing Pumps, Motor Driven Dosing Pumps, Controllers and Equipment. Etatron D.S. is a key manufacturer of Solenoid Metering Pumps, Controllers and Equipment. Etatron has achieved an established status in worldwide chemical dosing ...
Sartorelli Depurazione S.r.l.
based in Novellara, ITALY
Sartorelli Depurazione S.r.l. is currently one of the Leaders in the TREATMENT OF PRIMARY WATERS thanks to thirty years` experience in the design, production and marketing of a wide range of systems and components that can completely satisfy the most varied and specific requirements in one of the most sensitive sectors. All our services are supported our GLOBAL SERVICE, ...
Fraccaroli & Balzan s.p.a.
based in Pescantina, ITALY
The Officina Meccanica Fraccaroli & Balzan, which has been developing into a joint stock Company as Fraccaroli e Balzan S.p.a., was created in 1969 upon the uniting of its two partners, Tiziano Fraccarolli and Carlo Balzan. The Company realizes very soon that environmental protection is the main requirement for all Companies to continue their activity without any problem. ...
Nova Rotors srl
based in Sossano VI, ITALY
Nova rotors was fonded in 1990. Nowadays we are a national benchmark in the manufacturing and selling progressing cavity pumps, wobble pumps, flexible impeller pumps and barrel pumps. Our pumps are distributed throughout the world and applied in different sectors, from waste water treatment plants both civil and industrial, to oenological and the food sector. They ...
NETZSCH Pumpen & Systeme GmbH
based in Waldkraiburg, GERMANY
For 60 years, NETZSCH has manufactured positive displacement pumps worldwide. Designed specifically for difficult pumping situations, NETZSCH pumps range in size from the industry's smallest metering pumps to high volume pumps for applications in the oil and gas or mining industries. With a production of over 50,000 pumps per year NETZSCH underlines the technology and ...
Grosvenor Pumps Ltd.
based in Camborne, UNITED KINGDOM
Grosvenor pumps has supplied a quality range of pumps and pumping solutions for over fifty years to customers in the UK and throughout the world. Our pumps are typically used for chemical dosing/metering, boiler feed and pressure testing and are extremely reliable. Our mission is to deliver profitability through service and durability to our customers. Our company is ISO ...
Filtration Technology Ltd.
based in Manukau, NEW ZEALAND
Filtration Technology is fortunate to have a group of highly qualified and motivated people able to work with you to achieve the most cost-effective solution to your process filtration or water treatment problems.
Minimax Pumps
based in NASHIK, INDIA
Since our inception in the year 1996 we have been a leading name amongst the manufacturers and exporters of hi-tech pumps and systems. Under the able guidance of our directors, we have been monitoring a creditable hike in the production of our range of pumps and systems.Leveraging on a state-of-the-art infrastructural unit, we are designing and developing technically ...
Castle Pumps Ltd.
based in Eastwood, UNITED KINGDOM
Established since 1982, Castle Pumps have longstanding experience in the industrial pump market. The specialist technical knowledge we have gained, combined with the relationships that we have built with many manufacturers, enables us to specify pumps that meet our clients' exact requirements. Some of the clients we deal with know exactly the pump they require, some know ...
Process Control Services Pty Ltd
based in Strawberry Hills, AUSTRALIA
MEASUREMENT & DOSING Equipment for Australia, N.Z. and S.E.A. with specialty measurements, general instruments and dosing equipment for liquid and gas for the control of water and wastewater treatment processes. Specialty measurements include dissolved oxygen, turbidity, suspended solids, streaming current (zeta potential), sludge blanket level, chlorine and open channel ...


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strategy+business Top Business Books of 2005
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strategy+business is a quarterly magazine that seeks to "bridge the gap between theroy and practice in contemporary global business." I personally have never read the magazine but a good friend of mine and reader of this site, Tony, pointed out a great article of the Best Business Books of 2005 which is a must read for those of you who have ever considered getting an MBA. It's really a series of articles pointing out the best in the following categories: The Future, Strategy, Globalization, Management, Work and Life, Marketing, Media, and Leadership. The commentary that accompanies each pick, and its alternatives, is especially thorough and thought-provoking (read it!). This isn't your typical list.
I've listed all the books mentioned in each of the articles as a quick reference (with an affiliate link to Amazon.com):
The Future –
- The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by Howard Kunstler
- Joel Garreau's Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — and What It Means To Be Human
- Daniel H. Pink's A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
- Steven Johnson's Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
- In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World by John Thackara
- Massive Change from Bruce Mau
Strategy –
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne (Harvard Business School Press, 2005)
- MarketBusters: 40 Strategic Moves That Drive Exceptional Business Growth, by Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan (Harvard Business School Press, 2005)
- University of Michigan professor C.K. Prahalad's The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits (Wharton School Publishing, 2005)
Globalization –
- The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs
- Capitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World's Most Difficult Problems, by Cornell University Johnson School of Management professor Stuart L. Hart (Wharton School Publishing, 2005)
- The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C.K. Prahalad (again)
- John Perkins's Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Berrett-Koehler, 2004)
- Pietra Rivoli's The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade (John Wiley & Sons, 2005)
Management –
- Winning (HarperBusiness, 2005), by Jack Welch with Suzy Welch
- Will Your Next Mistake Be Fatal? Avoiding the Chain of Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Organization (Wharton School Publishing, 2005), by Robert E. Mittelstaedt Jr.
- Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story (Broadway Books, 2005), by Kurt Eichenwald
- Blood on the Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors (Free Press, 2005), by Charles Gasparino
- Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend (Random House, 2005), by Mitchell Zuckoff
Work and Life –
- Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality (Harvard University Press, 2004), by sociologists Jerry A. Jacobs and Kathleen Gerson
- Journalist Carl Honoré's In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed (Harper San Francisco, 2004)
- Mary Lou Quinlan's Time Off for Good Behavior: How Hardworking Women Can Take a Break and Change Their Lives (Broadway Books, 2005)
- Creating the Good Life: Applying Aristotle's Wisdom to Find Meaning and Happiness (Rodale, 2005), by organizational behavior expert James O'Toole
Marketing –
- All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World, by Seth Godin (Portfolio, 2005)
- Brand Hijack: Marketing without Marketing, by Alex Wipperfürth (Portfolio, 2005)
- How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market, by Gerald Zaltman (Harvard Business School Press, 2003)
- ProfitBrand: How to Increase the Profitability, Accountability & Sustainability of Brands, by Nick Wreden (Kogan Page, 2005)
I skipped Media.
Leadership –
- Michael Lewis's Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life (W.W. Norton, 2005)
- Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries's Lessons on Leadership by Terror: Finding Shaka Zulu in the Attic (Edward Elgar, 2004)
- Dennis W. Bakke's Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach to Fun on the Job (PVG, 2005)
- John C. Whitehead's A Life in Leadership: From D-Day to Ground Zero: An Autobiography (Basic Books, 2005)


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Blogging the road 2 Timbuktu
Wandering wonderings...
Roads Less Travelled From Here to Timbuktu.
Paris Night Bamako Morning: Are We Being Followed In a Tale Of Two Cities
War and Peace and Hamlet in an East and West Side Story
Warnings coming out of the desert and out of the blue
Back at the flat on The Caledonian Road, the night before Bamako morning, Petra and I wander over to Africa in our discussion on the war.
From 2004 to 2007 I travelled west Africa and eventually left behind my life as an actor to set up From Here 2 Timbuktu. I wanted to show travellers the kaleidoscope of random places and communities I had discovered over a lifetime of travelling in Africa. My first official group trip was to The Festival In The Desert, in Timbuktu in January 2008.
After trekking along the Dogon Escarpment and a delicious journey up the river Niger by traditional "pinasse" we arrived in Timbuktu for the festival when I received a message from a travel industry colleague telling me the British Foreign Office had put a travel alert on the Festival. She gave me the personal number of the British Consulate representative in Mali. I called and left a message saying I was taking 14 tourists, predominantly British, to the festival and needed more information. I found an email address and another telephone number and communicated the same. I got no reply.
War and Peace and Hamlet in an East and West Side Story
"If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war."
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
(Post follows Paris Night Bamako Morning: Are We Being Followed in a Tale of Two Cities?)
Romantically, our stroll up the Cally Road through war and peace the night before Bamako morning began in Paris.
Vive La Revolution! Bastille, January 1990.
A new decade a new world for us both. Petra was getting used to being a teenager in Czechoslovakia with a broken Berlin Wall, natioanl identity crisis and French literature, films and art flooding east into Petra's bedroom in the mountains of Moravia. I was getting used to a post-Thatcher Britain as a student abroad in Paris, living between two of the scenes of the recent attacks, Place de la Republique and Place de la Bastille.
Ah Petra! Those crazy youthful peace marching days!
Paris Night Bamako Morning: Are We Being Followed in a Tale of Two Cities?
Bamako Day
We awoke to find it was Bamako Day. Bamako is a sometime home for me, Paris was once my home too. We're going to Bamako in January, Petra and I and a few new chums.
Weirdly, the night before Bamako morning, as Petra and I were wandering home from King's Cross along the Caledonian Road discussing the trip to Bamako and mulling over the "War", as you do, wondering what to call it these days, when it actually started, whether it was an "it" or a "them", reminiscing over where we'd been for the great battles - "Republique and Bastille" thrust I, "King's Cross and Tavistock Square" parried Petra. As we neared home all of a sudden we had a stange sensation that we were being followed.
Bamako day confirmed our suspicions.
A taste of the Sahara Overland and Mali for Jan/Feb 2016
Let us take you on a journey to another world just down the road...
Looming wintery blues? Give yourself something to keep you going until January!
From Here 2 Timbuktu is re-launching in January with our signature tune trip Sahara Overland journey across the desert to Mali.
We cross continents and the Med at the Pillars of Hercules and roll on through the Rife mountains and down to the ancient trading cities of Fez, Marrakech and Rabat. Submerge into the sweet fragrances, rich colours and exotic tastes of the orient: souks, kasbahs and hamams, Tiznit Taroudant and Tantan; Berber and Saharwiri villages, high Atlas passes, camping with fishermen on the wild Atlantic coast, musk and silver, jewels, spices and coffee, oranges and melons: Morocco is fresh, delicious and addictive.
On across the greatest desert expanse in the world. Hundreds and hundreds of miles and hardly a soul, just a passing nomad here and there, a car or a truck flashing by, lost in thought and music on the straight and empty road.
Camp out on the beach or under a desert rock with the brilliance of the night sky shooting you stars until you sleep a living dream...
...and wake in Mauritania on a cold desert morn, and you see it was a sort of dream, now there is all change, a new and very other other world - blue and white flowing "boubou" robes, black and white Moors of the ancient stories, a blue blue sea meeting yellow and red dunes of the great desert.Tents and camels, wind and sand, mountains and plateaus and more endless space even than before, Chingettitti, Atar, Tadijikija, dates and milk and honey, fish and meat and minty tea, we are way out of our time here!
Then, as suddenly as the desert was upon us, so we pass out into the Sahel, the fringe, the edge, where desert meets Africa. The sign? You see those trees!
Now we enter town and the hush of the desert wind has receded and a blast of colour takes its place, strange patterns and music everywhere - we are nearing Mali. Gradually another world, the same but different, takes us over: vibrant colours, music music and music that gets under your skin! The motherland is calling, you are back in the cradle of humanity!
And now, sit back, let the river flow, we'll now take you down the most beautiful river in the world, the Niger, all the way to Timbuktu and give you The Festival On The Niger ÂÂ as your treat for achieving your goal.
Upcoming re-launch of From Here 2 Timbuktu
I must apologise for my long absence.
The successful return of Radwan Ag Ayouba and his family from their refugee camp in Burkina Faso to their lands of Ewet on the River Niger near Timbuktu on my project Return 2 Timbuktu: A Caravan of Courage and Hope (also see under Caravan Of Courage and Hope and return 2 Timbuktu under tags) in March 2014 was euphoric but had one draw back: I was exhausted and needed a complete break.
I am happy to announce that after a year of living on my houseboat in London and contemplating the river I now feel re-energised and raring to go again. My rehabilitation is largely down to having met a wonderful woman, Petra, whose patience, understanding and listening ear have seen me through and given me the energy to re-launch From Here 2 Timbuktu with some really exciting new ventures which I will be publishing soon. These include:
Self Drive Sahara Overland
The From Here 2 Timbuktu Caravan
London 2 Timbuktu Rally (Nov/Dec 2016)
Get a taster of these with this flyer
I am also in discussion about offering trips to Iran which i am really excited about.
With Radwan and the family I am busy planning and looking for investment for The Ewet Project, an exciting development project on Ewet. This will be a trading partnership between From Here 2 Timbuktu, Radwan and the people of Ewet.
Get a taste of The Ewet Project.
In the coming months I will be re-organising the website to reflect the new direction of the company.
Most exciting of all is that Petra will be joining From Here 2 Timbuktu from December 2015.
Back very soon with more information.
Do They Know It's Safer In Africa... than munching turkey this Christmas?
Ceuta, Spain.
One of two land borders between Africa and Europe. Going south towards the bright light of Africa!
I am happy to be leaving Europe again. With the onslaught of ebola this year, again I have battled against western perspectives on Africa that have again been thrown towards a celebrity fever pitched tune of fear. The past seven months, my longest stint there for many years, have been a welcome rest and were blessedly sun, home and love filled, so I left reluctantly. But now I'm leaving behind the 24/7 rolling politics and news pouring out its fear and terror that poor westerners live with, and I am thankful: the perspective back there of the other is truly terrifying, bring on the warm bosom of Africa!
With the shores of Europe behind me and the sands of the Sahara ahead, again I look back at home thankful to be leaving my windmills and Canute-esque struggle against the tide behind. I am reminded of when I left on this same journey a year and a half ago the day Lee Rigby was hacked to death with a meat cleaver on the streets of London. Did anyone cancel their journey to London that day, that month, that year? Plus ça change!
Yet again I head towards a disease in Africa that has risen and foiled the might of all the world's unions of power present on the ground from the beginning: the UN, the WHO, the IMF and the World Bank, the African and European Unions, and combined powers of the American, British and French militaries and aid industries.
Again your only option from your apparent safety back home is to turn to Sir Bob and Bono to orchestrate X Factor pop stars to sing of Christmas and snow and mistletoe and wine to black muslims living in the heat, hopefully bringing tears to your eyes so you reach guiltily in your pocket to buy our old tired tune to play over the fattened turkey and so aid Africa this festive season.
But be careful! Don't sit back too comfortably: you may be in more danger from that turkey than travelling to Africa this Christmas!
CONAREF ban me from entering the Burkina Faso refugee camps
The Doctor and Betsy at Fatimata's compound, Boni Mali
Feb 2014
Before I take you on from Boni in Mali across 90kms of sahelian bush to Burkina Faso, Djibo and the Mentao refugee camp with Radwan to talk to the family post arrest and liberation, about returning back again with him to Timbuktu and their land of Ewett, let me remind you of the context that I was aware might greet me in Burkina Faso.
A week to 10 days previously, when I was en route to the refugee camps for the first time from Bamako, I had been alerted by an incident that happened to Hannah, a tourist client of mine, that I might run into problems at the Mentao refugee camp with the Burkina police and CONAREF, the Burkina Faso authority in charge of the refugee camps.
Hannah had been in Burkina and the camps with guides and friends of mine for about a week. During this time the Festival in the Desert came to town with their Caravan of Peace and she was now awaiting my arrival as she wanted to join the return of Radwan as she worked with refugees in Canada.
Hannah had called me as I was en route for the camp to say the Burkina police had taken her passport away and were accusing her of working with me to repatriate the refugees - crime of crimes! I assumed this was prompted by CONAREF.
Oddly the police "knew all about" my project and had been following the movements of my Landcruiser "the doctor" that Hannah was using. Given I had not been to the camps for four months how did they know that the car was mine? Someone will have had to have pointed out that the vehicle Hannah was using was mine. The police for some reason thought I was already in the camps - why would the police on their own suspect this? They reported that "I had no right" to take any refugees home. Again, this is not the Burkina police's domain, it is CONAREF's.
Hannah and Mohammed were ordered to leave Burkina without returning to the camp and without taking anybody else with them. So they left for Boni, 90 kms north of Djibo in Mali, and we arranged to meet there.
Hannah and Mohammmed in Fatimata's camp, Boni Mali
This had to have come from CONAREF, but where had the tip off to them come from?
I had been aware that the rumour mill had been working overtime in the camps about a white man coming to take everyone home and I knew that there were certain interests inside and outside the camps who didn't want me to succeed with my Radwan plan for their own self interest. Anyone profiting personally or politically from the refugees was against any return. People and families with a position of responsibility in the camps, perhaps getting paid, have an interest in the refugees remaining as back in their real world they have no position. CONAREF themselves will be without purpose once the refugees go home, the UN funds will stop, all the benefits of hosting refugees will disappear.
CONAREF had very specific information on me that had to have come from someone who knew my program well and had a personal interest for me not to succeed. Many other groups of refugees had already returned. This was not about CONAREF or the police not wanting individual families of refugees returning, it was about not wanting me to succeed with my own project.
Now, around 16 Feb 2014, we were back in Boni, 60 kms from the Burkina border and 90 kms from the camp, freed from the gendarmerie and about to take Radwan and Ishmael back to Djibo and the Mentao camp to address the family.
Radwan and Ishmael arrested in Timbuktu but the lion of Ewett returns
As the various uniforms - military, gendarme, plain - and shades approached the car Reservoir Dogs style Radwan stared straight ahead unflinching. Ishmael, in the back seat next to me, was uneasy - he had not his father's experience of the battlefield to fall back on. The foot passengers looked on waiting for the action and were sent on their way. An element waved me to put down my camera.
"You and you" pointing to Radwan and Ishmael "get down from the car".
Ismael had gone into an automatic trance and was doing as ordered. I got out. "I'm the group leader, what's going on?"
"You are to be escorted to the gendarmerie. These two must go in the pick up".
"All of us to be escorted?"
"Then why can't they stay in my car to the gendarmerie?"
"These two are going in the pick up"
"The old man is 86, he's weak and frail and can't walk."
"Today he will walk".
Radwan is greeted back by an old friend on the ferry moments before his arrest
Nouakchott to Timbuktu
I have been quiet on my blog since departing Nouakchott, Mauritania with Betsy loaded up with her new diesel Mercedes 608 engine in mid January That was ... hmmm ... must be 2-3 weeks ago now. For the last stretch I had to concentrate on the job in hand and keep things under the radar.
Today, from Timbuktu, I can break my silence. The first stage of the Caravan of Courage and Hope is complete - Radwan is home on his lands near Timbuktu. We still have his family to persuade and bring home and things are far from perfect but something has been achieved, and with that comes a relief and a sense of freedom.
From now it is time to speak out, to lay bare the truth as it has been for Radwan and as it has been for me and my team. We have separately proved to ourselves that we will prevail. Now we have nothing to fear. We have achieved nothing much - just a journey home of an old man and his son and an escape from the clutches of the gendarmerie, but the symbolism of Radwan's journey will live on for a while. If that is our only legacy that is something at least, a statement has been made, a small battle has been won.
Radwan is back home, on his lands that look across the Niger river to Koremi, the port for Timbuktu 15kms to the north. It was at Koremi just over a week ago as we arrived off the car ferry after Radwan's journey from the Burkina Faso camp, where Radwan was welcomed home by the Malian military with humiliating arrest hardly befitting not only an 84-96 year old man (I've lost count of the guesses) but a family elder, a chief of the Kel Hajatassafan clan and, because of his age and warrior experience, overall chief of the wider tribe of the Tuareg from the river Niger region.
Today he is free and back under his tree on the banks of the Niger. The journey has been long and full of problems, and it is not over yet, for Radwan as for Ishmael and the family and as for me. But today we sense that these problems will work for us, because today, with Radwan's humiliating reception out for all to see, all relevant authorities - MINUSMA, UNHCR, the Mali state, the Governor of the region and the Mayor of Timbuktu - are informed, ORTM, the Malian state television witnessed Radwan's arrest, word has spread through the refugee community like wild fire. Even if it has become clear that none of these authorities will help us, nor that the media will support us, none can deny what happened to Radwan Ag Ayouba on his return to Timbuktu. Radwan and Ishmael's courage has paid off, and now we can speak openly and truthfully about what is going on in Radwan's beloved country.
To describe what this means, to tease out the implications, to give a reaction Radwan's few words to the cameraman present, as ever, suffice: "that is for tomorrow, today I am here and tired."
When then asked if he had any message or anything to say on his return to his lands the old man, who had revived himself after our pirogue journey across the Niger, lay back wearily from sitting and said simply: "I fear politics, not people. I am with my people, I don't want to say anything".
Radwan had summed up perfectly everything about the Caravan of Courage and Hope from its idea to execution. On hearing this I understood this strange deep relationship I have with an old chief with whom I cannot converse. Its our instincts that match. It's that moment when we were alone in his tent after our first meeting 8 months ago in the camps when he pulled me back from exiting with the others and fixed my eyes fast to examine my soul. In that look he sought trust, then gave it and guaranteed it.
Now back in Timbuktu, me a stranger, he not wanted, between us the gulfs of generations and continents, cultures and languages, worlds and experience, after a mutual journey mostly spent apart, we both can only conclude from what we have seen and experienced, and now feel and think of the past years in Mali that we fear politics - all of it.
Radwan was the first and most important chief to believe in the idea of returning home being the only solution to the refugee situation, declaring 100% support. His trust of me has never wavered, as my respect and trust of him has remained firm. It is the politics, both domestic and international, that caused Radwan to flee his lands for the first time in his life. Now the domestic and international politics re-grafts itself to re-establish its mutually preferred status quo, continues to re-circulate its money and its jobs, but on the ground, for the people of Mali, both those inside and outside the country, it continues to do nothing.
To begin to understand this specific journey, mine and Radwan's and ours, or the journey of Mali over the past 5 years, will take, for me, a book to write.
For now, to explain today, I need to take you back to Nouakchott, because only the journey to here can explain anything at this strange moment of great joy in achievement but deep, sad and tired emptiness at the context in which we all, in Mali, still find ourselves.
Reading Other Worlds and Strange Ways
15 January 2014
Today is Mohammed's birthday.
Not one of my many friends called Mohammed, or either of the three Mohammeds that have saved my sanity and this whole journey, THE Mohammed, the prophet, the one who received the Quran, who spawned the fastest growing religion in the world, the religion that is ubiquitous in the Sahara and West Africa and that has given this part of the world its ways, and of course, some would say, the religion at root of many of the problems in the world today.
Mohammed received the Qur'an (meaning recitation) in suras (chapters) over many years. When he received the suras Mohammed would go into a trance and recite and his words were taken down by scribes. "Read" is the first word of the first sura Mohammed received. Throughout the Quran the reader or listener is instructed to be reasonable and to use reason to interpret the world.
Betsy towed 500km across the Sahara to find a messenger had arrived in Nouakchott
My attempts to find a tow in the freight lorries' park where the truks await for their escort across Mauritania to Senegal came to nothing - too loaded up or foreign trucks that could not take the chance - so that night Betsy and I were pushed across the final frontier. I decided to hang with her rather than return to Nouadibou with Cheick who would look for a local truck going to Nouakchott.
I eat chicken and chips and salad that was about an hour and a half late, slept in my tent in the back of Betsy 10 meters on from the gate which consisted of a chain across the road, to be awoken at dawn by the morning's border traffic lining up to go to Morocco.
High Tailing it out of Morocco and not a jolly Christmas on the Mauritanian border
Dawn. Boxing Day. Nouadibou, Mauritania, after the worst Christmas Day on the Morocco Mauritania border. No family, no friends, no food, a little water, not a tinsel or coloured light to be seen, no telly, no games, no alcohol and not a wrapped present awaiting.
I spent the day explaining Betsy's drastic situation to officials: why I had no engine, why Betsy had to be carried to the border on the back of another truck, why I was alone...
Why am I doing this and why should you care?
10 Dec 2013, Rabat Morocco
Now I have broken the barrier and am finally in Africa proper I can see the journey ahead and turn my attention again to its purpose: the refugees in Burkina Faso, Radwan and his family, my friends and the people I have grown to know this year.
Why should you care if I get across the Sahara, through Mauritania, into Mali with an old truck so I can help some friends? A hundred or so people I can hope to help - it's a drop in the ocean! There are 50,000 in Burkina Faso alone. What impact can this possibly have in the greater scheme of things in Mali?
And why should it concern you anyway that some obscure dispossessed people go home? Hey shit happens, the world is a complicated place and this is Africa after all!
Mohammed "Mouss" and Parking Marmeta to the Rescue
1 Dec 2013, Ceuta, Spain on the African continent
We rolled into a maelstrom of parked cars and laughing smoking men ushering us into a wired off parking lot perched on a windy hillock between the coast road to the Morocco border. Cars tables, people had to be moved so intricate backing could be performed. When all was done we were ushered out of the strengthening wind by the main man with brown stained front teeth (those left) into an old van that was now, he explained a sitting/dining/tv/office for him and his staff. "Mohammed Mouss welcome to Parking Marmeta".Â
The third blow in 24 hours and everything grinds to a halt.
I must apologise for my silence. I have been writing, but as may become clear in the following pieces, as well as being trapped physically in a corner of Europe on Africa my computer began playing up which meant attempting to overhaul my opertaing system whilst stuck outside cyber space. On all fronts I've been cornerered! Plus as will become clear, major re-thinking about how to go forwards has been going on daily.
Events of my last post seem a lifetime away. I will try to catch you up.
28 Nov 2013, Ceuta, Spain
Oddly, I slept well in Betsy the night the border prevented our military convoy passing, better than I had since we left England. With the stress of worrying about Joe and Emma gone and having reconciled the thought of going forwards without a mechanic, the border issue seemed a minor obstacle.
Betsy and Maud cause more problems...
Photo ©Michael Meredith.
The border lights loom ahead. It's midnight as our metal convoy rolls up and joins the queue of loaded up cars returning with Spanish goods to Morocco. Ancient elephants amongst burdened donkeys.
Borders, arbitrary scars across the landscape of human history, symbols of conflict and "security", mankind's crossing points from one system of control to another, restrictions to our primal urge: migration.
A Story of Two Fat Ladies as the Return 2 Timbuktu Departs
All photos © Michael Meredith
This is Betsy and Maud.
They have got me into a bit of trouble at the southernmost point of Europe and the northernmost point of Africa. From here I can see Morocco, Spain and a piece of Britain. But to reach my goal and achieve my aim I know i can no longer do this alone, I now need to garner support.
So I must tell our story. Over the next few weeks I will be telling the story of Return 2 Timbuktu: a Caravan of Courage and Hope. Here's the first installment:
All quiet on the Burkina Frontier as Presidential Election Day takes place in Mali. Where is everybody?
Election day went by with hardly a ripple in the Malian refugee camps in Burkina Faso, though the wind did pick up in the evening followed by a wall of sand and dust and a quick African storm.Apart from that, a lazy day was had by all.
The momentous democratic date in Mali's history passed us by. Probably because no one seemed to care - either inside the camps or outside. No state functionary, no interim government minister, no UN monitors, no ECOWAS representative, no presidential candidate, no international or domestic journalists or media came in the lead up to the election nor indeed for the day itself.
No one seemed to know where they were to vote and nobody had their voting cards. Some had receipts which should deliver a card on polling day. At the Malian embassy in Ouagadougou a few days before the election the Ambassador was going through a few pages of electoral lists. He admitted the camps had all been mixed up and asked my friend to help identify those he knew and explain where they were.
Rift Valley Safari - A True Serengeti Experience
We offer trips to the Serengeti that go beyond the expected, taking travellers closer to the beating heart of the region. Many trips to Tanzania focus solely on the animals which, glorious though the wildlife is, do not form the entire picture. On our Rift Valley Safari Trip we venture far off the beaten track, around the very edges of the park to where the Maasai live. Thus the travellers on our trip also come to see the Serengeti in its human context.
"It is here that the pristine natural world of the Serengeti begins to co-exist with the pastoralist world of the Maasai and the hunter-gather Hadzabe bushmen. This dynamic goes back thousands and thousands of years."
Finger Prints and Alliances in the Sand
"Tell me" said Mufta as we are discussing , "we the Tuareg are a God fearing people. We live for our desert, our camels and goats, our families and our music. All we need is milk, meat and water - we don't even need houses!" he laughs. "Our rebellions have been about development, about having a hospital, schools, perhaps a tarmac road in the north of Mali would be nice. But we have no allies and no friends in the world for our cause. Why does the world hate us?".
I pause. There is a complicated answer and a simple answer to this. I opt for the latter.
"The world doesn't hate you, it just doesn't care. It is nothing personal. It is not about who you are but where you are. I'm afraid you are in the middle of some very powerful interests."
Mufta sits back in his cane chair and looks out from his home in exile towards the sahelian bush and the rising moon, full deep and orange. He is not satisfied. Having taken me through his Kel Ansari family history he wants more from me.


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Smoke Signals
Films like "Smoke Signals" are supposed to enlighten us as to the inner and outer lives of Native Americans, not muddy the waters even further.
For instance, I thought the indigenous people of America wanted to be called "Native Americans," yet the press kit for this film refers to them as "American Indians." Did we not just spend most of the '90s having it hammered into us that the term "Indians" is taboo? On my various travels through reservations I have tried using each, and found that neither meets with universal acceptance. So now I simply refer to "American Indians" or "Native Americans" as "those guys in the Costner movie." This referent has gone over well with everybody except one group of tough-looking Iroquois who slammed me up against a wall and said, "You'd better not be referring to 'The Postman.'"
Albeit the first to be written, directed and co-produced by "those guys in the Costner movie," this film doesn't seem very interested in examining the whole "American Indian" condition. Instead, director Chris Eyre and writer Sherman Alexie insist on telling a peculiar story about Victor Joseph (Adam Beach) and his trip to Phoenix with Thomas (Evan Adams). Victor's father, Arnold Joseph (Gary Farmer) has died, and Victor needs to go get his truck and his ashes. You'd think that, after hundreds of years of oppression, they'd try for something more substantial.
The only other notable feature of "Smoke Signals" is that it steals from John Sayles' "Lone Star" in the way it transitions between past and present. If ripping off an established white filmmaker is going to give Eyre a tiny sense of revenge for centuries of injustice, I suppose we'd be well-advised to grant him that. If that doesn't settle the debt, we'll throw in Kevin Costner.
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Gyroscope by Woolly Wormhead
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A simple yet effective beanie with vertical stripes. The colourwork in this Hat is made much easier due to it's sideways construction. Ideal pattern to introduce the knitter to the techniques used throughout this book.
Correct sizing is dependant on row gauge for width and stitch gauge for length, with row gauge being the most important aspect to consider when subbing yarns.
For the sample knit for the book of this Hat, a round of single crochet was worked on the brim in MC to neaten up the edge, as suggested on page 6 of the book.
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