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EY ITEM Club Special Report on Exports
In detail
A disappointing export performance ...
The recent modest growth in UK exports is particularly disappointing in light of the sharp fall in the sterling in 2008–09, which should have helped to rebalance the economy towards exports. In the four years since global trade collapsed in Q2 2009, the UK's merchandise export volumes have risen by 24%, whilst services export volumes expanded just 8% – giving overall export growth of 17%, compared to Germany's 34% over the same period. This performance from the UK has only been strong enough to maintain the country's share of global exports of goods, following many years of decline. And the slower growth of services exports means that the UK's share of total exports has continued to fall.
… reflecting patchy demand in key overseas markets …
The UK's underperformance in exports has been partly due to weak demand in key markets such as the US, which has been labouring under the after-effects of the financial crisis (and more recently fiscal uncertainty), and the EU, where demand has been weighed down by the sovereign debt crisis. But, especially disappointingly, the muted growth in exports also reflects comparatively slow progress in penetrating fast-growing emerging markets. In addition, the UK's comparative advantage in services, the demand for which is less price responsive than for goods, has limited the positive impact of sterling's depreciation.
… and structural deficiencies at home
Alongside weak demand abroad, UK exporters also face a number of structural problems that hamper competitiveness and export growth. Despite the fall in sterling, the rise in UK competitiveness between 2006 and 2012 lags well behind the US and Germany, as does the UK's performance on relative wage costs. Specific issues facing UK exporters include a mismatch between the supply and demand for skills, including foreign languages; the UK's relatively poor transport infrastructure, with the World Economic Forum's global competitiveness ranking putting Germany and France ahead of the UK in road, rail and air transport; and relatively limited access to credit for smaller UK firms.
Our baseline forecast: gradually accelerating growth in exports
Whilst recent performance has been disappointing, our baseline forecast for UK exports sees a gradual acceleration in growth over the medium term. These gains will be underpinned by growing demand in key markets – especially the EU and US – and the knock-on impact of previous gains in competitiveness. As a result, we expect export volume growth to average 3.6% between 2013 and 2023, and for export values to grow by 5.7% over the same period. We project that the strongest growth will be in exports to emerging markets, notably larger economies such as India, China and Pakistan. Growth in sales to developed economies will be more muted, but will pick up as economic growth and demand continue to recover.
Targeted improvements could generate significant economic gains
If the government can implement reforms and increase investment to address the structural deficiencies we have identified, both exporters and the wider economy would benefit. Using an analysis conducted by the IMF, we estimate that reducing the cost of opening a business to the lowest available in Europe, raising the average level of schooling by two years (a step the Government has already implemented), and investing an additional £20bn in infrastructure would increase export growth by 0.4 percentage points a year. This is equivalent to £13bn more exports by 2023 (at 2010 prices), 1.9% higher than our baseline forecast. As a result, GDP growth in the long run (2018–23) would average 2.7% a year, up from 2.6% in our baseline. Reforms in other areas would build on this, and could increase export and GDP growth further.
Emerging markets: turning underperformance into opportunity
As the UK strives to revitalise exports, its priority should be to improve its performance in penetrating fast-growing emerging markets. Demand from emerging markets has grown strongly in recent years, but sales of goods to the BRICs account for just 4.9% of total UK goods exports in 2012, up from 2.6% in 2000. In contrast, Japan, the US and Germany have all expanded their goods exports to these markets significantly faster, with – for example – the proportion of German exports going to the BRICs surging from 3.9% in 2000 to 9.2% in 2012. Whilst UK companies clearly need to target these markets more effectively, the UK Government can also help by working to improve the UK's image abroad – a need that makes the current UK trade mission to China particularly well-timed.


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Shanghai's Faux World Cities Fail to Catch On
Sarah Wesseler pays a visit to Luodian New Town, a Scandinavia-themed town on the outskirts of Shanghai. She found the stores and streets mostly deserted, and cracks appearing in many of the facades.
The One City, Nine Town project was initiated in 2000 by Shanghai mayor Ju Huang.
Wesseler writes, "By providing unique architectural identities for some of the new satellite communities, the government hoped to lure wealthier residents to expensive, exotic new homes, and, for the less well-off, to provide recreational centers that would serve as community anchors and tourist attractions.
It didn't quite work out this way."
Thanks to Sarah Wesseler

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|Ingleby Gallery - New Books & Editions
Ingleby Gallery is delighted to confirm the four artists for Billboard for Edinburgh: Year 4 and to announce the following new books and editions stock.
Cornelia Parker launches Billboard for Edinburgh: Year 4
The 13th billboard in Ingleby Gallery's unique public art project has just been unveiled. Cornelia Parker's Hot Poker will be on display for three months until the end of October 2011. Like many of Parker's works, her billboard image is born from an initially destructive process. Parker folds layers of A4 paper, then pierces the paper with a burning hot poker. Once unfolded, a brutal yet strangely beautiful image is revealed.
As part of the project, Parker has created an elegant and playful limited edition print exploring the traditions of trompe l'oeil using new laser-cutting technology.
The three other artists participating in Billboard for Edinburgh: Year 4 are Ryan Gander, Ruth Ewan and Anya Gallaccio. For more information or to subscribe and receive all four prints from the year for a special price, please contact the gallery.
New Prints by Charles Avery
Six new prints by Charles Avery are currently on display in the Print Room at Ingleby Gallery. Published by Pauper's Press in London, Avery's new prints feature strange characters from his fictional town of Onomatopoeia. All six prints from the series can also be viewed on the Ingleby Gallery website.
100 Billion Suns by Katie Paterson
Katie Paterson's work is multidisciplinary and conceptually driven with an emphasis on nature, ecology, geology and cosmology. This new print by Paterson is based on a her 100 Billion Suns performance project launched in Venice this Summer to coincide with the 54th Venice Biennale. The performance features a confetti cannon with thousands of brightly coloured pieces of paper whose colours correspond to those of Gamma Ray Bursts that have occurred in our universe. Gamma Ray Bursts are the brightest explosions in the universe and they burn with a luminosity 100 billion times brighter than that of our sun.
Sol Sans by Ian Whittlesea
Ingleby Gallery's current exhibition Mystics or Rationalists? takes its inspiration from sentence number one of Sol LeWitt's Sentences on Conceptual Art a sequence of 35 statements defining LeWitt's personal parameters for making and understanding conceptual art. These were first published in 1969 as series of handwritten sentences. Ingleby Gallery is delighted to stock a new limited edition print by Ian Whittlesea which uses Lewitt's original handwriting to create a new typeface called Sol Sans.
New Book - Richard Forster: Fast & Slow Time
Fast & Slow Time is a new hardback publication produced to celebrate Richard Forster's major solo exhibition at the Middlesborough Institute for Modern Art (mima). The publication features excellent reproductions of the 52 drawings that Forster has made over the past calendar year as well as a new short story by writer Colm Tóibín.
The publication is available for the special price of £10 plus p&p for the duration of Richard Forster's mima exhibition.
New Book - Ian Hamilton Finlay: Two Gardens
A new photographic book published by the Wild Hawthorn Press contrasting Ian Hamilton Finlay's two major gardens, Little Sparta in the Pentland Hills, Scotland and Fleur de L'Air in Provence, France.
For further information about visiting Little Sparta, please visit www.littlesparta.co.uk
To purchase any of the items, please contact Ingleby Gallery on firstname.lastname@example.com or +44 (0)131 556 4441. To see our full stock of books, prints & editions, please visit the Ingleby Gallery website.
Current Exhibition at Ingleby Gallery:
Mystics or Rationalists?
4 August - 22 October 2011
Susan Collis, Iran do Espírito Santo, Cerith Wyn Evans, Ceal Floyer, Susan Hiller, Jeremy Millar, Cornelia Parker, Katie Paterson & Simon Starling
Edinburgh's finest commercial show... where works by nine conceptual artists tread a line between logic and lyricism - The Financial Times
An elegant group show brought together with a tender touch... these artworks are not just visually beautiful, they contain beautiful thought. They are the taking apart and putting back together of logic, with a little magic hidden inside - The Herald (Catriona Black)
Cornelia Parker
Hot Poker, August - October 2011, 10 x 13.5ft billboard installation


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An "ultra mega" coal-fired power plant is proposed for the coastal state of Tamil Nadu in India, on the shores of the Cheyyur Lagoon. The plant would churn out 4,000 megawatts of power and 25 million tons of carbon dioxide per year, according to the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW), which is aiding communities in India in their fight against the plant and 11 other ultra mega coal proposals.
A measure coming up in the November election proposes a state-created endowment fund to help Oregon students pay for college. Coined the Oregon Opportunity Initiative, Measure 86 amends the Oregon Constitution to allow the creation of an Opportunity Fund that would go towards paying for students going to college within the state.
The current state-funded program, Oregon Opportunity Grant, only reaches one out of five students that apply for money, according to Measure 86 founder State Treasurer Ted Wheeler.
Mikhail Gorbachev says that CNN creator Ted Turner "has set a new standard for what a single individual can do to address the most challenging problems threatening our survival." That is according to the blurb on the back of author Todd Wilkinson's Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save a Troubled Planet, published by Lyons Press in 2013 and copyrighted to Turner Works, LLC.
In Afghanistan
• 2,349 U.S. troops killed (2,343 last month)
• 20,023 U.S. troops wounded in action (19,984)
• 1,559 U.S. contractors killed (1,530)
• 16,179 civilians killed (updates NA)
• $754.9 billion cost of war ($747.9 billion)
• $297.4 million cost to Eugene taxpayers ($294.6 million)
Against ISIS
• $909.8 million cost of military action ($692.9)
• $358,352 cost to Eugene taxpayers ($272,900)
• Dr. Jim Sallis, a national expert on active living, will speak at a meeting between 5 and 7 pm Thursday, Oct. 9, at the LCC Downtown Center. Other speakers will include Claire Syrett, Dr. Rick Kincade and Shane MacRhodes. Sponsored by the American Planning Association's Healthy Communities Speaker Series.
Ring of Fire has closed and may reopen later in a new location, according to a message on the restaurant's phone service. The Thai and Pacific Rim restaurant, bar and catering service at 11th and Chambers is owned by Josh Keim, and has been a Eugene favorite since around the turn of the century.
From Life in Color to Run or Dye and Color Me Rad, getting blasted with gouts of bright color has become part of the joy of dancing and fun runs. Fun runs have been criticized for misappropriating the Hindu festival of Holi on which they are based, and more recently there have been concerns about the massive amounts of nontoxic paint blasted at the Cuthbert Amphitheater at Life in Color Oct. 4.
More than three million people have watched the sad but hopeful video of a pitbull who was left to die in a remote location in California. Named Bunny and shy and wary of strangers, the dog was lured into a live trap with some cheeseburger by her rescuers. Now Bunny has made her way to Eugene, where she is searching for a forever home.
Women make up 50.5 percent of Oregon's population as of 2013, and yet Oregon does not have an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in its Constitution.
While the fight for a federal ERA continues, Oregon has a chance on Nov. 4 to vote for its own ERA, which would amend the Oregon Constitution to include specific language establishing equal rights for all, regardless of sex.
Dolly Parton is making sure the kids of Eugene are getting the books they need to improve their literacy, regardless of their family's income. Parton's Imagination Library, which partially funds the monthly mailing of age-appropriate books to children ages birth to four in communities nationally and internationally, has come to Eugene. The response from residents has been enthusiastic.
ODOT recently sprayed Highway 126 and Territorial Highway. For daily information call ODOT Herbicide Application Information Line (888) 996-8080. You may also call Tony Kilmer at the Springfield office at 744-8080 for herbicide and additives information and to ask what time a highway was sprayed.
Hailing from merry old England, Brighton's Fujiya & Miyagi play up-tempo, minimal electro-pop that is addictive and danceable but, most of all, very, very British. Listen to the group's 2014 release, Artificial Sweeteners, and you'll hear UK dance-punk, house and hip-hop music as well as the sort of heady minimalism practiced by German bands like Can and Neu, groups that came to be known as Krautrock.
On their first ever trip to the United States, prominent Russian literary figures Ivan Akhmetev and Tatiana Neshumova will present a series of lectures at the University of Oregon, starting Friday, Oct. 3. Here's a taste of what they have to share. For more details see our What's Happening Calendar.
Russia has a rich history of samizdat, or reproducing forbidden literature by hand. What shape does that take now?
• Jennifer Freyd and Carly Smith will speak on "Addressing Sexual Assault — From Institutional Betrayal to Institutional Courage" at City Club of Eugene at noon Friday, Oct. 3, at the Downtown Athletic Club, 999 Willamette St. Freyd and Smith will explain how they measure institutional betrayal and what they have learned from their research, which has focused on institutional response to military and campus sexual assault. $5 for non-members. See cityclubofeugene.org. The Oct.
At least three new hotels are popping up on the drawing boards for Eugene and some might actually get built. One hotel is included in proposals for redevelopment of the EWEB surplus property, a seven-story hotel is back on the expansion plans at Oakway Center and a third hotel was revealed in tentative plans for the Civic Stadium property.
About 230 trees will be cut down as part of the west Eugene expansion of LTD's EmX bus rapid transit system, including a pair of stately big cedars by Hollywood Treasures on 7th Avenue. But Friends of Trees is not protesting. In fact, Erik Burke, director of Eugene's FOT, says he welcomes what he sees as LTD's long-term investment in Eugene's urban tree canopy.
• ODOT recently sprayed Highways 36, 126 and Territorial Highway. For daily information call ODOT Herbicide Application Information Line, (888) 996-8080. You may also call Tony Kilmer at the Springfield office at 744-8080 for herbicide and additives information and to ask what time a highway was sprayed.
Oregon DEQ is accepting comments through 5 pm Wednesday, Oct. 8, on the proposed issuance of a water quality permit for Lane County's Underground Injection Control System (UICs), which consists of 88 stormwater drywells in the Eugene-Springfield area that collect stormwater from municipal rights-of-way and direct it into the ground. Studies indicate that such stormwater contains pollutants such as metals from brake pads and chemicals associated with incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. For more information go to goo.gl/GWZX96.
With a disarming smile and a lilting baritone made for public radio, Rick Steves has been making traveling the world less frightening for the past 30 years. Through his European travel guidebooks and public radio and television programs, he has introduced Americans to a kinder, more accessible world outside of our own.
This October, Steves is taking a different kind of trip — a six-day tour around Oregon to calm our nerves in regards to November's Measure 91, which would legalize, tax and regulate recreational marijuana.
Thirty-five percent of female and 14 percent of male participants in a UO campus survey had at least one nonconsensual sexual experience during college, and 10 percent of female and 0.3 percent of male participants were raped.
Weeks after President Obama deemed immigration reform too contentious to act upon until after the November midterm elections, local advocates for Oregon's Measure 88 are trying to keep the debate from dissolving into another divisive scuffle over immigration. The measure is a referendum on an Oregon Senate bill that makes four-year driver licenses available to those who cannot prove they are in the country legally.
"Buffalo, for Lakota people, are our relatives," Goodshield Aguilar says of his tribe's origin story. "Because if it wasn't for the buffalo, we wouldn't exist." Around 30-60 million bison (often referred to as buffalo) once thundered through the Great Plains of North America. Today only 4,900 unfenced, wild plains bison remain, most of them huddled within the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park.
After eight months and 11 meetings, the Bethel School District and its teachers union are still at a standstill in their bargaining process and will need a mediator to continue. The teachers union is asking for a 2 percent cost of living adjustment and a 3 percent insurance adjustment, but the district says it needs to reduce furlough days and lower class sizes before adding back dollars to the salary schedule.
Tsunami Books is in a pickle. Owner Scott Landfield tells us the building that has housed Tsunami Books on South Willamette for 20 years is up for sale through Evans, Elder & Brown. Landfield says he has decided to keep the business going, "but where and how are now up in the air." Ideally, he says, someone would buy the building and keep him as a tenant. "We here at Tsunami Books are totally focused on having our best holiday season ever, beginning today," he says.
Did you drive to the Eugene People's Climate March? That's one of the questions being hotly debated in web comments and listserv discussions following the climate rally and march in Eugene Sunday, Sept. 21, corresponding with rallies in New York City and in 130 countries around the world. Some Eugeneans even flew to New York for the massive march there.


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If you put three beads onto a tens/ones abacus you could make the numbers 3, 30, 12 or 21. What numbers can be made with six beads?
Lee was writing all the counting numbers from 1 to 20. She stopped
for a rest after writing seventeen digits. What was the last number
she wrote?
Follow the clues to find the mystery number.
When you arrive in the classroom on Monday morning you discover all the numbers have fallen off the class number square and they are in a heap on the floor. All that is left on the wall is a blank grid!
There's five minutes to go before the lesson starts and you need the number square.
Can you find a quick way of putting the numbers back in their right places on the grid?
Where will you start?
To help you think about this there is a blank grid and number tiles here doc, pdf.
Before you start think - does your class number square start with $0$ or $1$? Or a different number?
Some of your friends may want to have a go too.
What different ideas are there about how to put the number tiles back as quickly as possible?
Click here to see how Jonah started.
Let us know what you think is a 'smart' way of putting the number square back together.
How quickly can you achieve this using your 'smart' strategy?
After a little while, discuss different approaches together such as:
See if the children can devise some good strategies between them and then encourage them to experiment with different ones to see which ones help them put the number tiles back as fast as possible. You may find that different children find different strategies useful. Encourage them to articulate how they know where to put a particular number tile. Encourage explanations that focus on
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Tim Thomas gets fifth shutout as Bruins beat Flyers
|12.01.10 at 9:30 pm ET
It didn't advance them to the Eastern Conference finals, but the Bruins beat the Flyers, 3-0, in Philadelphia on Wednesday. Patrice Bergeron and Tyler Seguin had goals in the first period, while Milan Lucic added an empty-netter to put the nail in the coffin. Tim Thomas turned in 41 saves for his league-leading fifth shutout of the season.
The Bruins won in a rather flashy manner, receiving sprawling saves from Thomas and Tyler Seguin's latest eye-candy goal, a top-shelf tally on Flyers' goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky. Thomas also stopped Flyers winger Scott Hartnell on a penalty shot in the second period.
With five shutouts, Thomas tied his career high, which he had reached in each of the last two seasons.
The Bruins will return to TD Garden on Thursday night, where they will face Steven Stamkos and the Tampa Bay Lightning.
– Bergeron's goal marked the first time in five games that the Bruins have scored the first goal of the game. The team remains undefeated when scoring the first goal, and in the last four games, the team had been 1-3-1.
– Claude Julien said following the home opener on Oct. 21 that Tim Thomas had played so well that the only way he could have allowed a goal was if he caused it himself.
It was rather apparent early on in the second period Wednesday that Thomas was having that type of night once again. The 36-year-old stood on his head, making seemingly-impossible saves and recovering well when caught out of position. Unlike that home opener, where Thomas did pass a puck to Jason Chimera for the Capitals' lone goal, there wasn't a single error on Thomas' part in his fifth shutout of the season.
– The special teams had a better statistical night after their recent slumps. The Bruins were 1-for-2 on the power play and stopped the Flyers on all four of their power plays.
The B's penalty kill had allowed goals on four of their opponents' last sic power plays entering the game.
– The Bruins took a positive step with a win over one of the best teams in the league, but the slump continued for Nathan Horton. The winger has now gone eight games without a goal and has no points in his last six games.
The posts also continued to haunt Horton, as a third-period opportunity rang off the post of Bobrovsky.
– Here's a case of sneaking a "what went right" into the "what went wrong" area: David Krejci was all over the place but had nothing to show for it until his assist on Lucic's empty-netter. The center tied Blake Wheeler for the most shots among Bruins forwards, including an impressive between-the-legs bid in the second period.


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Discussion in 'Photo & Video Gallery' started by Jimmeh, Feb 19, 2012.
Two Summers ago i had a air mattress in the back of mine so i could camp out at parties haha.
I started a blog post for a project of mine coming up which is to build a raised bed in the back of mine for camping. Mine is purely function over form. It is just a bonus that I like the look of it
With mine being a long box, we used to camp in it all the time. We would load the quad in the back and then throw a queen size mattress in on its side beside the quad. When we got to where we were camping, we'd pull the quad out and drop the mattress flat in the middle of the box. It worked great - other than that was before I got the truck from my stepdad and the company that we bought the canopy from wired it wrong so the light didn't work.
That's the way to do it man!
I must have missed this thread before. I admit, I haven't been as active as I want to on here. I'll try to do better!:money:
I guess I'm the official "Grandpa" of the group since I'm 34. I get a lot of use out of my top though, and can't imagine not having it. Besides being great for frequent camping trips, it keeps cargo (and my daughter's wheelchair) out of the weather and out of the hands of undesirables. I only wish GM would offer the half ton crew cab with a longer bed option...it's a little short for sleeping in, plus I keep a permanent air tank and my spare tire in there which take up a bit of room.
Ok you asked for it... The Cap I found on the side of the ROAD.. If you don't belive me ask Al He was with me when I picked it up..
And a Pic of the inside.....arty:
New Kayak. Going on a trip to WA next month, and will be hauling three of them up there. Now I just gotta figure out how, lol. I know I can fit two side by side laying upside down. I've got a couple of vertical racks but I haven't used them before.
Personally, I think the stereotype of "old" and "shell" is dwindling. These days, so many of them are being crafted to compliment the truck as a whole and not just be stuck on there. I pondered it for some time actually, but what it really came down to is loving the look of my truck and being able to more easily store a tonneau when I need to take it off. Of course, that could be my "old" speaking. I only just turned 32 though so I don't think I'm that old, lol.
Well, I see something there that I wouldn't mind picking up off the side of the road! :money:
Has anyone used a soft collapsible topper? I don't want one for daily use but occasionally I carry some large things that I would like to cover.
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A linoleum mural in Timberline Lodge depicting people talking at a dining table. (Photo No. clacDA0085)
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Dimensions: 2076 x 3127 pixels (300 dpi version); Date created: September 2010; Camera: Nikon D80 Digital SLR; Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED; Photographer citation: Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives; Keywords/Tags: vertical, Oregon, Clackamas County, Timberline Lodge, historic building, interior, linoleum mural, eating, talking, drinking, dining table, New Deal, public art, public works, Mt. Hood, Cascade Mountains, history.
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This mind, body communication workshop is designed for health professionals and people in high stress environments... Take time to renew and restore yourself and you will have more to offer yourself and others. Experience the collaborative magic of Neha and Bev as they guide you through a variety of interactive exercises that will transform and nurture you physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Join us for a week in this unique and special place, integrated in nature and free of responsibilities of your daily life. A place where you will engage in creating and recommitting to your passions as well as intentionally aligning your daily actions with your highest values. After attending this workshop, you can expect to return to your professional and personal life renewed and inspired. California Board of Registered Nurses approves this workshop for 24 CEUs upon successful completion of the course.
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Join Sue Brantley for a week of yoga, chi kung, pranayama and meditation. Each morning there will be a 3 hour active asana class, which includes some Pilates. There will also be 4 evening sessions of gentle asana, chi kung, pranayama and meditation. That leaves plenty of time to explore the beautiful and unspoiled island. Sue structures retreats to include meaningful yoga work combined with the feel of a true vacation. Her clear, supportive instruction and joyful demeanor result in a relaxed yet deep experience.
Sue Brantley is a certified yoga and Pilates instructor. She comes from a diverse movement background that includes many styles of yoga, therapeutic yoga and Pilates, many forms of dance, tai chi, and chi kung. Sue began practicing yoga in 1985, and has studied with Rodney Yee, Judith Lasatar, and Elise Miller. Sue brings an eclectic approach to her retreats and workshops.
6 days
Hui Ho'olana Staff
PO Box 280, Kualapuu, HI 96757
(808) 567-6430
This week of community building, education and family fun is dedicated to enjoying each other's company as we playfully work, learn and mindfully create together. There will be carpentry, planting and maintenance projects as well as cooking opportunities. Teams will work together in the garden, on the land and on building projects while forming relationships and learning from each other.
We will divide into teams and make a schedule (working about 4 hours in the morning and 3 in the afternoon) with a day and a half off for beach and play.
This reunion fills quickly, so please register soon. It is open to friends, family and people who have participated in a workshop here in the past. We look forward to music and singing so please bring musical instruments!
View 2011 camp videos -
video 1
video 2
Call, write or email for an application to attend.
10 days
Mary O'Malley
908-3rd Street
Kirkland, WA 98033
Web site:
Mary O'Malley
The focus of the retreat is on learning how to show up for whatever life brings in each moment. In that process, we will have times of silence and times of exploring together ideas - the smells, the colors, the sounds and the wildlife all conspire to invite you back into the magical presence of life.
We will share both our wisdom and the challenges of learning to quiet our minds and open our hearts. This is an invitation to take time out of your busy schedule to reconnect with yourself and with life. There will be some meditation. The emphasis, however, is not on meditation techniques, but rather on using meditation practices to experience each moment of our lives more fully - learning what it means to be fully alive. And there is no better setting than the Hawaiian Islands, where life makes love to life.
Mary O'Malley is a speaker, author, group facilitator and counselor in private practice in Kirkland, Washington. Her work focuses on curiosity, compassion, trust, and the ability to be with whatever is showing up in our lives in a spacious and attentive way. Mary shares her awareness born out of her own life experiences with life-transforming wisdom and understanding. She is author of
Belonging to Life
The Gift of Our Compulsions
, both endorsed by Eckhart Tolle.
6 days
16th Annual PAINTING INTENSIVE
The Painting Experience
Stewart Cubley
PO Box 309
Fairfax, CA 94978-0309
Phone: 888-639-8569 Toll Free
Web site:
Process Arts
Ten days of in-depth painting with a small community in the pristine setting of Hui Ho'olana provides the opportunity to make a lasting investment in yourself and your life. The foundation of this intensive is personal attention in the painting process, in the nurturing environment, and in the small group interactions. This is Stewart's longest and most personalized group program. It has proven to be a powerful catalyst for change by all who've experienced it.
10 days
RADICAL COMPASSION: The Heart of Intimacy
Cultivating a Loving Relationship
Jim & Jori Manske
Come play together in paradise on the island of Molokai, Hawaii!
Explore your relationship to intimacy with your partner in the adventure of what it means to be the love, the lover, and the beloved.
Awaken your natural capacity for empathy and authentic connection to enjoy:
nurturing connection and trust
healing and sustaining a fulfilling relationship
spiritual awakening through relationship
freedom and flow rather than fighting or submitting
asking for what you want in ways that encourage co-creating and mutual satisfaction
compassionate listening no matter how your partner expresses
integrated life-long practices to "recharge your batteries" even in the midst of daily stress
Jori and Jim Manske have been blissfully married for over 31 years. They share their passion for compassion, offering training, coaching and mediation inspired by decades of spiritual practice.
6 days
A fundraiser for the Hui
Rik Cooke, Dewitt Jones, Theresa Airey, Jonathan Kingston
PO Box 280, Kualapuu, HI 96757
(808) 567-6430
Rikki Cooke
Dewitt Jones
Jonathan Kingston
This workshop is a collaboration between authors and photographers Rik Cooke, Theresa Airey, Dewitt Jones, motivational speaker/photographer, and photographer Jonathan Kingston. Rik will take students on photographic excursions discovering the unlimited beauty of Molokai and exploring the creative process. Theresa and Jonathan will help you turn your files into unique images through Photoshop and third party softwares. Dewitt will lecture on creativity and 'the inner self'; Rikki speaks about 'seeing simply'; Theresa teaches about 'interpreting the subject creatively'; and Jonathan will help us to polish our digital techniques. Together they will show you new possibilities in the art of photography. There will be time to reflect, relax and rejuvenate your inner spirit in the calming lovely atmosphere surrounding the Hui.
Prerequisites: The workshop is intended for intermediate to advanced digital photographers. You must have a good working knowledge of Photoshop. Bring a digital or film camera you know well and come with a laptop computer that you are proficient in your navigational skills. This workshop is primarily for MacIntosh users. If you are bringing a PC, we will not be able to answer your computer navigation questions.
Theresa Airey, author of
Beginner's Guide to Digital Photo Art, Creative Digital Printmaking
Digital Photo Art
is an international fine art photographer. Both Rik and Dewitt have shot extensively for National Geographic Magazine and their book division. Jonathan Kingston is a documentary photographer, contributor to the National Geographic Image Collection, and competent teacher with high technical skills. See their websites above for more information.
For more workshop information, see
April Photo Workshop
For information on the daily schedule, see
last years blog info
by Jonathan Kingston
Proceeds from this workshop go to Ho'olana's native plant and photographic projects.
7 days
Denise Benitez
Seattle Yoga Arts, 109 15th Ave E.
Seattle WA 98112
The Sanskrit word 'anusara' means "to open to Grace," to align ourselves with the wisdom of nature. The Anusara method teaches an elegant system of movement principles which enable us to obtain optimal benefit from our asana practice while cultivating compassion and patience toward ourselves. With the abundant life force of Molokai as our teacher, we will delve deeply into our yoga. Each day of the workshop will have two yoga classes. The week will include many varieties of practice such as vinyasa, restorative yoga, chanting, meditation and other surprises!
Denise Benitez
is the founder of Seattle Yoga Arts and is a Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor. Her teaching arises from a lifetime of investigation into creating nourishing meaningful movement, and a commitment to cultivating curiosity, spaciousness, and softheartedness in life and practice.
"Yoga is a path to wholeness, and that path is both challenging and sublime. There are times when there is actually pain when moving through to a new place and there are times when things flow like a sweet river. Yoga is my beloved community of people who are on this path with me, these beautiful students, and the container that we all make together helps us become the best that we can be in this lifetime." - D.B.
6 days
Karen Wilhelm Buckley
238 E. Blithedale Ave, Suite 9
Mill Valley, CA 94941
These annual in-depth leadership development programs activate evolutionary wisdom and unleash your ability to lead, both locally and globally. As women, we feel that much more is possible, for our selves and our world. And we're right! Yet, there can be a gap between the potentials we sense or the calling we yearn to follow, and what we live each day.
In this final chapter of the 6-month program you discover your wise feminine core and improve your ability to lead change - the kind of change you most want to see in the world. The program opened in San Rafael, California, and each month included personal coaching, workbooks, resources, and support in a mature community women.
Led by The Wisdom Connection Founder and Director, Karen Buckley. For over 20 years, Karen has partnered with leaders and organizations with powerful missions and helped them accomplish their mission. She is a published author and international speaker on wise leadership, organizational change, spirit in business, and the invisible sides of leadership.
6 days
Scott Shannon, MD / Nita Gage, MA
Information & Registration - email:
This workshop is an open invitation for individuals to take time-out and reconnect with their core values. The program will provide tools to evaluate and understand the issues of emotions in all of your life. We will combine discussions and experiential days to rejuvenate mind, body and soul. You will leave with an understanding of your unique stresses, a greater understanding of your soul's needs and practical methods for changing the balance of your life and the lives of those you care for.
Designed as a learning & healing vacation for singles and couples, this week long retreat is for both healthcare professionals and lay people alike. There will be ample time to relax and enjoy the beauty of Hui Ho'olana and the exquisite island of Molokai.
"This was the best seminar experience of my professional career of 30 years plus." - Juan B, MD
Nita Gage, PhD, CSAC
is a psychotherapist and retreat facilitator with 25 years of experience. She co-created and led the
Healer Within Retreats
with Lee Lipsenthal for 15 years. She has been a senior director of numerous hospitals and healthcare organizations, including Executive Director of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. She is the author of
The Women in Storage Club: How to Reimagine Your Life
, which will be released in January 2012. Nita has a personal practice of mindfulness meditation, contemplative writing and dance. She leads retreats, coaches and counsels individuals and groups and teaches mindfulness and personal development classes for graduate students at University of Cambridge, England.
Scott Shannon, MD
has been central to the development of a holistic perspective in psychiatry over the last 15 years. He published the first text in this field in 2001. Scott joined the American Holistic Medical Association in 1978 and served as President from 2000-2001. Currently, he serves as President of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado. Scott has been trained in homeopathy, acupuncture, bodywork and Jungian dream analysis. Board certified in three specialties, Scott speaks to physician groups all over the world. Norton will publish his third book,
Wholeness: a new psychiatry for children, teens and young adults
. A meditator for thirty years, Scott feels that his greatest skill is his ability to listen.
6 days
Paula D'Arcy
Austin, TX
This educational retreat (by invitation only) will be a "summit" of men and women willing to ask the question: What is the world asking of us at this moment in history? Using art, music, writing, movement, discussion, and silence we will listen together for the best ways that caring hearts can use their energies and capabilities to move forward toward peace and open spaces in the world for the unleashing of a greater love.
Paula D'Arcy is a writer, retreat leader, conference/seminar speaker, consultant, former therapist, and playwright. She is President of the Red Bird Foundation, which supports the growth and spiritual development of those in need, especially those in prison or living in disadvantaged cultures. In 2007 and again in 2010 she sponsored WOMENSPEAK, an international gathering of women from around the world (all races and creeds) to encourage them to become a voice for peace and world-wide awakening. The author of nine books, Paula is recognized for her teaching and dedication to the transformation of human suffering.
6 days
Flint Sparks & Donna Martin
Flint - (512) 458-2900 - Texas
Flint Sparks
email Flint:
Donna - (250) 374-2514 - BC, Canada
Donna Martin
email Donna:
Enter the very heart of meditation. To create an integrated experience, we'll offer a variety of practices including mindfulness, yoga, zazen, silence, and the Hakomi Practice of Loving Presence. Amid the peaceful beauty of Molokai, the island known as the "heart" of Hawaii, we'll weave these practices into the tapestry of our lives.
Flint Sparks
is a Zen Buddhist teacher at Appamada, a center for Zen practice and inquiry in Austin, Texas. He is also a Clinical Psychologist and Hakomi Trainer. He leads retreats internationally with an emphasis on the interface between psychology and spiritual practices in personal transformation.
Donna Martin
has been a student and teacher of yoga and meditation for thirty-five years. An international Hakomi trainer, Donna teaches Hakomi and the Practice of Loving Presence (psychotherapy as spiritual practice) at various centers internationally. Together, Donna and Flint offer an integral approach combining physical, emotional, and spiritual health practices.
6 days
Hui Ho'olana Staff
PO Box 280, Kualapuu, HI 96757
(808) 567-6430
Great Fullness Camp
Opening camp is a sweet treat for returning friends and family who come to help us prepare for the workshop season. This is a smaller camp than the one next February, a time dedicated to enjoying each other's company as we playfully work and mindfully create together. There will be carpentry, planting and maintenance projects as well as cooking opportunities as we open the Hui.
We will divide into teams and make a schedule (working about 4 hours in the morning and 3 in the afternoon) with a day off for beach and play.
This retreat fills quickly, so please register soon. The camp is open to people who have participated in a workshop here in the past. We look forward to music and singing so please bring musical instruments!
Call, write or email for an application to attend.
9 days
Jack Davis with Dewitt Jones and Rik Cooke
To Register, email:
Or Visit Jack's website:
This retreat is about exploring the art in our lives and within ourselves. It is a week dedicated to sharpening the eye, expanding the mind and opening the heart - giving ourselves permission to fall in love with photography all over again! Recapturing that eagerness and enthusiasm of a child as we explore the endless ways we can integrate creativity into our lives!
Renowned artist, author and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer Jack Davis, with National Geographic alumni and Hawai'i "Kama'ainas" (locals) Dewitt Jones and Rikki Cooke, will once again teach a creative photography and digital imagery workshop at the beautiful Hui Ho'olana Center on the incredible island of Moloka'i. Whether you are a professional photographer, an addicted amateur or someone just deliriously giddy about your cellphone camera (as we are ;), this week is for you! And while we explore Moloka'i, you'll explore new ways to shoot and shape your photography by allowing your eyes to play through the camera, and your hands to work through the computer (or Apps for that matter) to shape your images in ways you never thought possible. Learn new methods to craft that visual "story" you've always wanted to tell but may never have had the time, opportunity, or permission to before. Learn steps to optimize, enhance and creatively interpret your images using everything from the latest Lightroom and Photoshop, to the plethora of mobile apps that are daily introducing new ways to stretch the creative photographic process.
Jack Davis
is one of the world's leading experts on Photoshop, Lightroom and iPhonography, and is himself an award—winning photographer. He is coauthor of a dozen books on digital imagery including one of the bestselling guides to Photoshop, The Photoshop Wow! Book, with over a million and a half copies in print in 12 languages. His most recent book, How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography, showcases the process of going beyond what was shot, to crafting what was experienced. For over 25 years Jack has been an internationally renowned spokesperson on digital imagery, and routinely teaching at conferences and workshops around the world. Davis is part of the "Dream Team" at the Photoshop World Conferences and was one of the first inductees into the Photoshop Hall of Fame for his lifetime contributions to the industry. He graduated suma cum laude with a BA in Graphic Design, and received his MA and MFA in Digital Imagery.
Rikki Cooke
worked for National Geographic for sixteen years; his latest article on Hawaii is in the December 2002 edition of National Geographic Magazine. His assignments included shooting two books: America's Ancient Cities and The Blue Ridge Range as well as work in other National Geographic publications. He also photographed a book for the Smithsonian on Hawaii. His experience touches the full spectrum of photography, from lighting pyramids to photographing polar bears in the Arctic as well as national advertising campaigns for commercial clients. He and his wife Bronwyn are the authors of the award-winning book, Molokai, an Island in Time. And yes... he is an iPhoneaholic!
Dewitt Jones
is a National Geographic photographer of many years. He and Rikki have taught together for 15 years. Dewitt has done five books, which include, What the Road passes By, Canyon Country and Visions of Wilderness. He is also known for his commercial photographs for Dewer's Scotch, United Airlines and Canon Cameras. In recent years he is most noted for his talks on creativity that have inspired many corporations and large audiences. He brings the gifts of humor, insight and celebration of being alive to our time together. And yes... he (and his wife, Lynette Sheppard) is also an award-winning and published iPhoneaholic!
7 days
Donna Martin, MA
(250) 374-2514 - Kamloops, BC, Canada
Donna Martin
Psoma yoga therapy is an integrated approach to working with emotional and spiritual issues through yoga and applied mindfulness: the Hakomi Way. Anyone interested in an embodied approach to self awareness and stress management is welcome. Yoga teachers will learn how to support students to practise yoga for self awareness and to understand and explore the emotions triggered in the practice. Therapists will discover ways to incorporate the body as a resource and to support clients to be more in touch with their own body wisdom.
Donna Martin
has been a teacher of yoga and meditation for forty years. An international Hakomi trainer since 1996, Donna now integrates yoga and Hakomi as what she calls psoma yoga therapy - her original mindfulness-based approach to self discovery, healing, and embodied wellness.
6 days
Exploring Photography, Creativity and Spirit
Rik Cooke, Dewitt Jones, Jonathan Kingston
(707) 838-4379
Rikki Cooke
Dewitt Jones
Jonathan Kingston
The Art of Photography is the Art of Seeing Deeply. Every photograph is a moment of personal expression and self-discovery.
Join Dewitt and Jonathan on the magic island of Molokai for a 7-day seminar as they teach both the technique and the spirit of photography.
Photograph from the highest sea cliffs in the world, wander through ancient rain forests, swim in the warm waters of secluded beaches. Explore the reasons why we photograph and discover new ways to see - more and more deeply. Live together as a family of photographers searching for both images and insights.
Dewitt Jones
(perhaps better known as "Basic Jones" of Outdoor Photographer Magazine) will be your guide into the soul of photography. The "Why" of taking pictures that is so often overlooked when we focus too much on the "How". Dewitt spent 20 years as a photographer for National Geographic; another 10 years shooting major national ad campaigns. He makes great images. He is also a great teacher who will inspire you to create your own extraordinary visions, both in your photography and in your life.
Jonathan Kingston
will be your digital guru. Today, the computer has replaced the darkroom as the final step in the photographer's creative process. It is here where images truly come alive. Jonathan will teach you the methods that will enhance your vision. These techniques will be explored in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. He will also share exciting new photographic frontiers opening to photographers with the iPhone. Jonathan is not only one of the best young photographers in the country, he is also a highly sought after digital consultant. Some of the most established names in photography have relied on Jonathan for his digital expertise. His great love of photography is matched by his great technical knowledge. He will share both with you during the week.
Rikki Cooke
will be our guest lecturer and our island guide. Rikki has shot extensively for National Geographic Magazine, and has taught at many photographic workshops over the last 20 years. He is a resident of Molokai, and will lead us to places far beyond the snapshot spots, he will lead us to the hidden places tourists never see.
More Seminar Details
7 days
Hands-on Therapy
Hui Ho'olana offers opportunities for massage and bodywork by Heather James of
Massage on Molokai
Introduce A Teacher
Hui Ho'olana enjoys sponsoring new and innovative teachers, especially from Hawaii. If you know of a teacher you would like to have us support, please have them contact us.
Introduce A Friend
Do you have a friend who might be interested in our teaching and reforestation projects? Give us their name and email address and we will gladly send them an application.
Programs 2017
April Photo Workshop
Molokai Virtual Tour
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Job, 1631
Jan Lievens
Dutch, 1607 - 1674
oil on canvas
171.5 x 148.6 cm
Gift of the National Art Collections Fund of Great Britain, 1933
National Gallery of Canada (no. 4093)
Lievens's depiction of Job follows the biblical account although he has modified his presentation in order to draw parallels with the life of Christ in the New Testament. By placing the cursing wife and the demons in the darkened background and omitting any reference to the three consoling friends, Lievens depicts a more solitary, Christ-like figure than usual. Worn and ravaged, he sits on a dung heap with a single reminder of his former affluence - an elaborate plumed hat held by his wife. \Frame: carved wood, gilded. Britain, second half 17th-early 18th century after a French model
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Monday, June 27, 2016
Brexit: It's not us, it's EU
A simple majority from the UK
Declared independence from that wobbly EU
"Our pound remains free, and soon we will be too."
No thanks, we're British! United we stand!
(just don't ask those stirrers, the Scots and Ireland).
Our life's getting worse; our economy's tanking
For this, all in all, it's the EU we're thanking
When decisions are made without our consultation
The tyrants should be from our very own nation
It's all of these immigrants causing the mess
Bordering doom for our nation's success.
So, so long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, pet
The lawyers will sort it somehow – no clue yet
The markets may tumble, but what can we do?
It just isn't working – it's not us, it's EU
Democracy's triumph, in bright royal blue
Take care what you vote for, it might just come true.
(c) 2016 Jessica Parsons
Friday, December 18, 2015
The SAFEty of New Zealand
SAFE are threatening us all with further ads and actions like that one in the picture if the MPI and/or the government don't do what they want about this "animal abuse".
Who do they think they are? Our government does fine if everyone would trust them and leave them alone. Anyway, here's a roundup of what the country has to say about this so-called animal activism!
Is that from SAFE too? Someone had better warn the farmers.
Who do they think they are? Our government does fine if everyone would trust them and leave them alone. Anyway, here's a roundup of what the country has to say about this so-called animal activism!
- These naive treasonous economic terrorists haven't thought for a second about what happens if everyone goes vegan but are deviously planning to ruin NZ and then move to their second Hawaii homes.
- All the farm animals will die off because they can't raise their young without our help, while overrunning the entire planet due to uncontrolled breeding. And the farmers will never work again, because they have no other skills and nobody has ever retrained for a second career.
- The filming was illegal and staged, and they should have immediately gone onto the farms, stopped the workers, and rescued the animals while they were being abused on hidden unmanned cameras. That would have been legal, right?
- We already know for a fact there are only a few who abuse animals (real farmers hug their cows!) so why didn't they immediately hand over their first footage instead of looking for more widespread evidence to selfishly grab headlines? This is all about their ego. And bringing down NZ farming by making us all go vegan. But mostly their ego.
- They only saw 0.000001% of NZ farms and let's face it, to us townies all farms look alike anyway. It was probably just one farm. And it was staged. With animals that "sanctuary owners" pretend to "rescue"! Because that's just how much sanctuary owners hate farmers...and animals.
- Why didn't they send their evidence to the SPCA who everyone knows is the agency for, duh, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, or even our police who are animal experts and would have done something right away, instead of the MPI? Who's the MPI??
- Why did they go to the media instead of waiting for our government to do its job properly? The media is only supposed to be for sports and the movie star news. They just wanted more media attention and donations to waste on paying salaries. Everyone knows that only a few abuse animals, so why did the media even air it? Nobody wants to know if a few people abuse animals - just keep quiet and report it to the SPCA!
- We'd be a third-world country without dairy exports. Why did they take an ad in the UK? What's the UK got to do with the NZ dairy industry? Hello, they're different countries, stupid SAFE. Our PM is even helping us take the Union Jack off our flag.
- The filming of abuse by transport workers and a slaughterhouse worker was clearly an attack by SAFE on all dairy farmers! So those great dairy farmers struck like a cornered snake against SAFE in self-defense, pointing out it wasn't them on the video that wasn't said to be them. We haven't heard from the transport workers or slaughterhouse workers against SAFE yet - they're probably still on shift trying to feed their families on those casual rates instead of browsing the web or making a FB page.
- Do they only care about cows? What about the pigs and chickens? If they really cared, they'd have campaigns for them too! Then that would really be attacking the NZ economy! Good thing SAFE won't be a charity for much longer - we have a petition.
- Mmmmm bacon.
Is that from SAFE too? Someone had better warn the farmers.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Mother's best old-fashioned vegan oatmeal porridge recipe
The best thing about porridge is that you can add anything!
The best thing about becoming a mother is that you learn to go with the flow...
Morning Oatmeal
(or whenever my day allows time for eating with utensils)
- Boil the kettle.
- Take kids' leftover bowl with some extra soymilk and cold cereal sloshing in the bottom.
- Add random crumbs from yesterday's bags of kids' car snacks
- Add organic wholegrain oats
- OK, ran out of wholegrain oats. Add some instant oatmeal and some of that cornmeal I bought months ago when I was going to start making fresh cornbread.
- Add some raisins, or shred some dates with bare hands, or just decide the soymilk will be sweet enough.
- Cinnamon? Ginger? Nice if you have a few extra seconds.
- Pour boiled water over the ingredients in the bowl.
- Cooking time - 1 shower, 5 answered emails and 1 shopping list (don't forget organic wholegrain oats!)
- If in a super hurry, just add more soymilk to cool and eat right away as limp muesli
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
5 upsides of the Farmwatch expose
It's very easy to get caught up the immediate anger, denial, and polarisation when whistleblowers expose what we'd prefer not to see. Social criticism can be violently unpopular, and "killing the messenger" is a cliche for a very good reason.
But undeniably, whistleblowers get us talking about the important stuff instead of sitcoms and sports. No other way works like it. And beneath the painful arguing, this is our common ground...
1. Compassion
New Zealanders love animals, and we don't want to see what we all had to see. Nobody. The farmers, the businesses, the animal activists, the consumers. Not even the perpetrator of the worst videoed violence would enjoy that footage. Animal industry workers have a stressful, traumatic job that is generally insecure and badly paid, and as such are another victim of the system, as well as being the convenient scapegoat for the offenses.
2. Public pressure
The government and MPI now know without a doubt that New Zealanders want action for better treatment for farm animals. This is the only sort of pressure that really works. Simply reporting the abuses was not working.
3. Awareness
Many more people, including townies, now know the open secret of what happens during industrial farming to produce milk for the shops. Don't they say education is key? Of course it doesn't have to be this bad. Let's look for short and long-term solutions together to acknowledge that animals as economic objects are at risk.
4. Memories
So many people from rural New Zealand backgrounds have shared their memories of how farming was back on their family farms and how unbelievable it is that these traumatic scenes could be widespread. For better or for worse, caring for their animals is the common theme.
5. Vision of the future
New Zealand's economy doesn't need to depend on industrial dairy so desperately that we accept welfare compromises for financial success. Even if New Zealanders didn't care about animals (we do!), we'd be wiser to diversify our rich land into more sustainable operations.
The future could be cruelty-free, if we decide we want it.
Monday, November 30, 2015
Shocking abuse of New Zealand dairy calves
Shocking footage, as published on TV. And further unaired footage, from Farmwatch.
Of course, it's only shocking if you haven't been paying attention. For decades, investigative psychic geniuses, I mean, animal activists like those at Farmwatch always manage to find the only tiny .0001% of farms where terrible, horrible, no-good very bad things are happening.
When the government organisations like MPI in New Zealand somehow can't find them. Or do anything about them.
The news has gone worldwide. And the reactions come flying. All versions of:
"Please please don't make me feel guilty about this."Everyone wants to blame somebody else for those adorable horrible dead-eyed baby animals.
Sick twisted individuals
Those 99.99999999% of dairy farmers who naturally love their animals flap their hands accusingly at the transport operators who have let them down. Who knew that animal transport workers leave the calves for hours at the side of the road? Or fail to cuddle the baby calves gently into padded baskets in the backs of trucks?
Something must be done to those bad people! (And now it will, thanks to the media attention.)
And the farmers post kissy pictures of themselves with animals...who are still alive and conscious enough to enjoy their photo op.
Biased troublemakers
Actually, it's the activists' fault, for publicising the covert pictures. That's illegal! Fonterra is "very disappointed". No, it's the TV station's fault, for not presenting "the other side". After all, it's not fair to just show the tiny tiny minority of bad stuff found by the investigative psychic geniuses.
Blinkered consumers
This is the price of your cheap milk and cheese.
Now we see the violence inherent in the system. And it's ugly. Luckily, there are so many options instead of cows' milk.
Friday, August 14, 2015
TPPA Day: Public protest may be hazardous to your health!
Trending and apparently news to some politicians - the US Consulate regularly warns citizens in foreign countries about large organised political actions. I've received a generous handful of these in recent years. I worry very little about it.
This is the country that invented "those warnings" on product labels.
In the latest example I received, gone viral in the news: [translated loosely]
Is it the cop or am I the one who's really dangerous?
The New Zealand police are no angels. But let's get real. For 2015 so far:
I reckon I'll be pretty safe today, even should I be in the middle of Queen St in today's protest, dressed in a prescription drug costume (or draped fetchingly in a new flag design) and waving a big banner with TPPA GO AWAY!
This is the country that invented "those warnings" on product labels.
- On a hair dryer: Do not submerge in water.
- On a bag of peanuts: Contains nuts.
In the latest example I received, gone viral in the news: [translated loosely]
The U.S. Consulate General in Auckland alerts U.S. Citizens that [TPP march is happening] [Lots of scary people][Stay away or you might hurt]Contrary to popular comments, it's not an indication of an organised police backlash or terrorist action. At least, it wasn't the 6 times before when I got a warning about dangerous protests. But it is beyond hypocritical.
[We care about y'all. Be careful out in those foreign places]
Is it the cop or am I the one who's really dangerous?
The New Zealand police are no angels. But let's get real. For 2015 so far:
- 8000+ US gun deaths
- 700+ US people killed by police
I reckon I'll be pretty safe today, even should I be in the middle of Queen St in today's protest, dressed in a prescription drug costume (or draped fetchingly in a new flag design) and waving a big banner with TPPA GO AWAY!
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Mother Nature Sends a Pink Slip
|Destroying Mother Nature by William Orihama
To: Homo Sapiens
Re: Termination
My business is producing life.
The bottom line is
you are not cost effective workers.
Over the millennia, I have repeatedly
clarified my management goals and objectives.
Your failure to comply is well documented.
It stems from your inability to be a team player:
* you interact badly with co-workers
* contaminate the workplace
* sabotaged the machinery
* hold up production
* consume profits
In short, you are a disloyal species.
Within the last decade
I have given you three warnings:
* made the workplace too hot for you
* shaken up your home office
* utilized plague to cut back personnel
Your failure to take appropriate action
has locked these warnings into the Phase-Out
mode, which will result in termination
No Appeal.
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Unraveling these networks is critical to understanding human diseases, especially cancer, and to predicting how cells will react to potential treatments. Using a "fuzzy logic" approach, a team of MIT biological engineers has created a new model that reveals different and novel information about these inner cell workings than traditional computational models.
The team, led by Doug Lauffenburger, head of MIT's Department of Biological Engineering, reports its findings in the April 3 issue of the journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) Computational Biology.
This is the first time that scientists have used fuzzy logic to model cell biochemistry, and the approach should be applicable to any kind of cell signaling pathway, said Lauffenburger.
Developed in the 1960s, fuzzy logic can take inexact inputs and produce accurate predictions, based on sets of rules rather than mathematical equations. It has been applied in auto-focusing cameras, automobile cruise control and home appliances.
Fuzzy logic mimics the way humans make everyday decisions -- for example, deciding when to eat lunch. The decision depends on what time it is, what is in the refrigerator, how hungry you are, etc. All of this information is integrated to come up with a decision, with no math required.
The new MIT model works the same way. Each component of the cell-signaling network (which could be a receptor, enzyme or transcription factor) has its own set of rules that determine how it responds to a particular stimulus. Adding up all of these stimuli and responses leads to an outcome, such as death, cell division or migration.
In contrast, traditional computational models use physics-based equations to calculate precise values for each interaction. To create such models requires more specific biochemical knowledge and they do not offer the same insights as the fuzzy logic models.
While both types of model accurately predict outcomes of a pathway, fuzzy logic models also generate a graphical representation of each step along the way, allowing scientists to visualize what is happening inside the cell. With fuzzy logic models, "you can actually see the drawing and say, 'Aha, I see what this enzyme is doing,'" said Lauffenburger.
The researchers' model allowed them to discover some previously unknown interactions in a pathway regulating programmed cell death. The pathway, called MK2, is generally believed to promote cell death and produces cell-to-cell communication factors involved in inflammation-based tissue destruction. However, the model showed that inhibiting MK2 can actually favor cell death, because it indicated that the pathway may also control another signal that is pro-survival.
This finding demonstrates that molecular components in the cellular network governing survival-versus-death decisions can promote diverse outcomes, so simple intuition cannot readily predict the effects of possible drug treatments.
Without the fuzzy logic model, "you wouldn't have found that connection and would not be able to properly understand what an anti-MK2 drug might do," said Lauffenburger.
This general modeling approach should be useful in identifying potential new targets for drugs against cancer, inflammatory diseases and infectious diseases, he said.
Lead author of the paper is Bree Aldridge, a recent MIT PhD recipient in biological engineering (BE). Other authors are Julio Saez-Rodriguez, research affiliate in BE and postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School; Jeremy Muhlich, research scientist at Harvard Medical School; and Peter Sorger, Harvard Medical School professor of systems biology and MIT professor of BE .
Funding support was provided by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences Systems Biology Centers of Excellence program and the Department of Defense Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies.
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