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Traditional Living, Self-Reliance & Emergency Preparedness
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Acorn: Processing & Preparing the Forgotten Food
Acorn has long been a staple food for indigenous people
all over North America and around the world, and is definitely worth the time it takes
to make. (Which is not nearly as long as you think!)
When properly prepared, acorn tastes DELICIOUS, and is a highly nutritious and extremely versatile food that can be incorporated into a whole list of breads, baked goods, main dishes and deserts. High in protein, amino acids and healthy fats, acorn increases the nutrition and decreases the glycemic index of any food to which it is added; and we add it to almost everything!
In this workshop you'll learn to harvest the best acorns, how to dry, store and preserve them, the benefits of storing in vs. out of the shell, and most important, how to quickly and easily remove the bitter tannins right in your own kitchen with no special equipment and in very little time. You will discover how easy it is to process and prepare Acorn into incredibly nutritious and protein-rich flour which you will use to make a variety of tasty treats, including griddle cakes, dumplings, pizza/pie crusts, pasta, tortillas, crumbles, biscuits, cereal and our famous Acorn banana bread!
You will also learn just how easy it is to incorporate Acorn into your everyday baking to increase both fiber and nutritional values, and deliver a nutty punch that can't be beat. Once you've tasted the results we know you'll agree that Acorn is definitely worth it!
|September 24
|Great Meadows, NJ
|$47 Deposit
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Putting Food By: Pickling, Canning, Fermentation, Storage & Preservation
In today's economy we are always looking for new and better ways to make our dollars go farther. "Putting food by" during the time when gardens are bursting at the seams or berry bushes are overflowing or meat lockers are stuffed full and friends are begging us to please take some of this extra bounty off their hands is the perfect time to dry, store, can and preserve your way to extending your food dollars, and increasing the quality of food you eat!
This workshop will teach you the many different ways — both with electricity and without — that you can preserve your food now for the coming months and seasons.
You'll learn everything from the most simple methods of drying, storage and using root cellars, to canning, pickling, jams & jellies, as well as the amazingly versatile art of fermentation (or favorite preservation method!), and many other ways of "putting food by" in all different forms. You will leave with a much broader understanding of the many ways that people, both past and present, have stored their food, extended their budget, and prepared for winter or leaner times, and with all the knowledge and experience to put these methods to work in your own kitchen.
|August 4
|Great Meadows, NJ
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Medicinal Plant Preparations: Making Tinctures, Salves, Syrups & Lozenges
Plant medicines and herbal antibiotics have become more and more common as average folks are taking their health care back into their own hands. Concerns about side-effects, over-use, unnecessary perscribing, sky-rocketing costs and super-bugs have sales of medicinal tinctures, syrups and other plant medicines increasing every season. In this workshop you will learn how easy and inexpensive it is to make your own herbal tinctures, syrups, lozenges, oils, salves and more. You'll
process many different parts of several safe and common plants as you prepare
your own herbal medicines to take home with
You will begin your own herbal first aid kit and be prepared with options to help strengthen your immune system and assist your body to better use it's own resources, as well as natural options to combat both the symptoms and the underlying causes of many common bugs, including cold, flu, sore throat, cough and many other common ailments. You'll also learn where to find your materials and ingredients, both in nature and online, and discover just how easy and inexpensive it is to create your own Medicinal Plant Preparations.
(For more on exactly how and why medicinal plants work and plant identification, check out our Medicinal Plants: Herbal Antibiotics & Nature's Pharmacy workshop.)
The Photos: Our Medicinal Plants workshop in Texas was a great day of discovery and fun! Everyone left with the beginnings of their own "natural medicinals kit", and the knowledge to keep adding to it! Check out some of the photos to see for yourself.
Skill of the Month: Our September '08 newsletter profiled one of the easiest (and tastiest) natural cold remedies around. Pine Needle Tea is high in vitamin C and the expectorant and decongestant qualities can be very helpful when fighting a cough and cold. See these step-by-step instructions to try it for yourself.
|November 4
|Great Meadows, NJ
| Sorry this workshop is now FULL.
If you would like to be placed on the Waiting List,
let us know.
Natural Plant Dyes
Goldenrod, Red Osier Dogwood, Osage Orange, Black Walnut, Indigo, Cochineal...
The art and alchemy of using plants and other natural materials to dye fibers is both simple and fun! In this workshop you will process a variety
of plants and use them to produce beautiful dyes
in a multitude of vibrant colors. While dying wool is the most common use of natural dyes, you will also learn the additional steps and added secrets to using natural dyes
on plant-based fibers like cotton and linen, with spectacular and beautiful results! You will learn how tannins may be used to increase the color-fast qualities of your dyes, and how to add naturally-sourced mordants (no heavy metals or difficult to obtain ingredients) to create beautiful variations in color from the same dye material. No dangerous chemicals, no heavy metals, safe and easy to do in your kitchen, natural plant dyes allow you to create the exact color you want and get those creative juices flowing!
›› Great for Holiday Gift-giving!
›› This workshop is not currently on the schedule, but we'll let you know the next time it's offered.‹‹
NEW! Making Dye from Black Walnuts
Dyes from natural plant materials can make beautiful colors, and Black Walnuts make some of the most beautiful of all. Using crushed black walnuts in a simmer dye make a beautiful dark brown dye that is color fast, light fast and wash fast, and will last and last and last. Easy to make at home in your own kitchen, dye from black walnuts can be used on all sorts of materials, including clothing, bone, buckskin, and much more. Join us for this evening workhops to see just how simple Making Dye from Black Walnuts can be! (7 - 9:30 p.m.)
|February 10
|Great Meadows, NJ
|$35 Payment in Full
Modern Soap Making: The Hot & Cold Processes
With all the additives, chemicals and allergies that plague our world today,
natural soaps have begun popping up in more and more mainstream stores. But
why pay a premium to have a soap that contains ingredients you can
pronounce when you can make your own? Creamy soap with lots of lather
that will leave your skin soft, smooth and never dry is easy to make right in your own kitchen.
In this workshop you will make both cold- and hot-process soaps, using all-natural, all-vegetable ingredients. You will also learn how to incorporate essential oils and natural botanicals that will allow you to personalize your soaps, based on your own preferences or allergies, how to fix any batches that don't work out exactly how you wanted. You'll take your hot-process soap home with you, your cold-process soap will be mailed to you once it is free from the mold.
Great for holiday gift-giving!
|November 18
|Great Meadows, NJ
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››NEW! Constructing a Primitive Backyard Kiln
As anyone who has been to the Primitive Pottery workshop knows, we usually fire our pots in a campfire, not a pit or a kiln. But primitive, open fire, firing techniques can only get so hot, limiting what can be done with clays and colors and glazes, so it's time to build our brand new Primitive Backyard Kiln!
Eddie has been experimenting with primitive kiln designs since the mid-90's and has constructed several different sizes and styles, all made with locally-sourced materials of mud, bricks and straw. The kiln we will be building in this workshop is a perfect "backyard" size that will be idea for firing one large or two small pots at a time. One of the beautiful things about this design is that it can be scaled up to fire more pots, if you want to make a larger kiln in your own backyard at home.
You will spend the day working hands-on through the entire kiln-building process so that you will be able to re-create this same, easy-to-use design at home.
This is a ONE-TIME-ONLY workshop, so we hope you can attend!
|May 19
|Great Meadows, NJ
|$47 Deposit
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NEW! Healthier Corn: Making Hominy at Home
(Special Guest Instructor, Jorga Brana)
Corn is one of our favorite foods, and in-season, same-day, straight from the farm corn is one of the most wonderful things about summer! Many people think that corn is not digestible, so don't bother with it as a vegetable. But this is not true! Corn is a valuable source of insoluble fiber, as well as Vitamins B & C, magnesium and potasium. So why do we call this workhop "Healthier" Corn? Because by turning corn into hominy we make corn even BETTER for you! Hominy makes corn even healthier by making the normally trapped niacin available to your body, and hominy, being made from field corn, is also lower in sugar and higher in fiber than the normal canned or frozen sweet corn; two other healthy advantages!
A delicious and versatile food, Hominy can be eaten as is, canned for later, or dried for long-term preservation. Once hominy has been dried it can be fine-ground into masa (for making your own tortillas) or coarse-ground for making your own grits. During this evening workshop, co-taught by our good friend and special Guest Instructor, Jorge Brana, you will learn how to make delicious and healthy hominy in your own kitchen! 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
|March 3
|Great Meadows, NJ
|$35 Payment in Full
Powerful Probiotics: Making Kimchi and Other Live-Culture Foods at Home
(Special Guest Instructor, Jorga Brana)
Not all bacteria are bad. In fact, MOST bacteria are vitally important to our heath and well-being! Good bacteria take up a lot of the space on our skin and in our bodies, especially in our guts. Without it, we become sick, often requiring the use of antibiotics, which then kill off the small amount of good gut bacteria that may remain. Probiotics can help to restore this imbalance, but the helpful ones are EXPENSIVE! and often don't contain as many (or any) of the healthy bacteria strains listed on the bottle.
It doesn't have to be that way! You can make your own healthy, live-probiotic foods at home. During this evening workshop, taught by our good friend and special Guest Instructor, Jorge Brana, you will learn how to make Jorge's own delicious Kimchi, as well as other types of live-culture foods. Both Kimchi and our own "Who Shot John" are well-loved and highly requested during workshop lunches, and now is your chance to learn to make you own, quickly and easily, in your own kitchen! 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
|October 27
|Great Meadows, NJ
|$35 Payment in Full
Felted Soap Bars
Used long before loofahs, shower poufs and even wash cloths, felted soap is a great way to extend the life of your soap bar and still get that great exfoliating scrub. Quck and simple to make, felted soap bars can be done easily in your own kitchen. You'll choose one of our wonderful smelling, all-natural Practical Primitive soaps, and each bar can be individualized with favorite colors, designs, even initials. Perfect for everyday use, they also make great Holiday gifts and fun stocking stuffers! 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
›› This workshop is not currently on the schedule, but we'll let you know the next time it's offered.‹‹
Felt Making: Learning to Wet Felt
Hats, shoes, rugs, placemats, clothing, shelter, decorative objects…
All of these items and many more can be made using the ancient
art of Felt Making. "Wet Felting" is the process of binding
fibers together with water, heat and soap — a simple and extremely
effective way in which to create strong, usable material for a multitude
of purposes.
In this workshop you'll go through the entire felting process, make pre-felts to incorporate into your design, then you'll "felt and "full" your entire project to take home with you. You will also learn how "needle felting" can be used to fix or mend wet felted pieces, as well as to create entirely new projects. Your beautiful felted bag will be strong, durable and a real show piece!
(This workshop, or similar wet felting experience, is required prior to taking either our 3-D felting or Felted Footwear workshops.)
›› This workshop is not currently on the schedule, but we'll let you know the next time it's offered.‹‹
››NEW! Seamless 3-D Felting: Making Hats & Mittens
One of the great things about felt is that it can be molded, felted and fulled into any shape you desire, to create whatever item you wish, all in once piece! Hats, mittens, bags, shoes almost anything you need can be felted in its finished shape, with no seams or sewing required!
This type of seamless, 3-D felting will be the focus of this workshop, where you will make either a custom-fitted hat or a pair of perfectly-sized mittens that will keep you warm and toasty all winter long!
›› This workshop is not currently on the schedule, but we'll let you know the next time it's offered.‹‹
Felted Footwear: Boots & Slippers
For those of you with some previous experience with the Wet
Felting process, this workshop will take your ability to create felted clothing
to a whole new level!
Felted insoles and removable felt liners have long been standard in shoes and heavy winter boots, but your felted boots or slippers will go a step above and beyond these common pieces of felted footwear.
Your pair of "3-D" felted boots or slippers will be perfectly form fitted to YOUR foot, and made from a single piece of felt — no sewing or seams anywhere! Warm, comfortable and perfectly fitted, the final step will be adding rubberized soles to keep your new slippers protected and provide traction on all surfaces.
Please Note: You
must have prior experience with the Wet Felt process to attend this
workshop. This is a project-based workshop and we will not be covering
the basics of how felting works. To learn wet felt, please join
us for our Felt Making: Learning to Wet Felt workshop
on December 6!
›› This workshop is not currently on the schedule, but we'll let you know the next time it's offered.‹‹
Possibles Bags
"What's in the bag?" Easy question to answer in this workshop, because anything is Possible!
Possibles Bags go back hundreds of years and are a time-honored wilderness tradition. In this workshop you'll make your own bag out of tough and durable bison hide. Hand-sewn and decorated, you'll take home your own beautiful and hand-made Possibles Bag
Pattern, tools and equipment are all provided. Bison hide leather and all other supplies
are included in the price of this workshop.
|February 4
|Great Meadows, NJ
Moccasin Making
are a traditional Native American footwear and
anyone who has worn them will understand why they are still so popular
today. In this workshop you will make your own pair of custom-fitted moccasins from
American Bison hide — tough enough to take some real wear and tear,
but soft & supple enough to feel the earth through your feet. The Salish side-seam moccasin can be made in iether the high-top or ankle-height style, and to keep your moccasins wearable even longer, you will have the option to add an extra layer of rubberized protection to the sole.
Pattern, tools and equipment are all provided. Bison hide leather and all other supplies are included in the price of this workshop.
|December 10
|Great Meadows, NJ
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Making Fiber Sandals
Taking care of your feet is of paramount importance in a survival situation, and these quick and easy sandals can be made from an abundance of different materials found in the wild. During this evening workshop you will make your own custom fit sandal with your choice of way to attach it onto your foot.
Aside from
being used as a simple sandal, this easy-to-make footwear can also be worn over top of a moccasin to keep the sole from wearing out so quickly, add some extra traction, or to keep it from getting wet in the rain or snow. Join us for this evening workshop to learn to make your own woven fiber sandals, and keep your feet forever safe and dry! (7 - 9:30 p.m.)
|February 17
|Great Meadows, NJ
|$35 Payment in Full
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Preparing for Emergencies: House Kits, "GO" Bags, and Being Ready when the Lights Go Out
There is no excuse for being unprepared in an emergency
situation, whatever it may be. The ability to move quickly and easily,
knowing that everything you need is ready to be picked up on a moment's
notice, can make all the difference. Self-reliance is about
knowing that you are prepared for virtually any type of emergency,
and while a thorough knowledge of survival strategies is indispensable,
a well-prepared emergency kit at home, work and in the car can make the
unexpected far less dangerous, and increase your odds of safety and survival
GO Bag — Bug-out Bag — GOOD Bag (Get Out Of Dodge) — Emergency Survival Kit — Whatever you choose to call it, this indespensible equipment is something that EVERYONE should have. Along with our fully stocked In-home Emergency Kit, we each have our own Bug-out Bags that GO everywhere we do, and so should you and every member of your family (including pets!)
This workshop will teach you how to put together your own House Kit that will prepare you & your family to Shelter-in-Place for a week or longer during an emergency situation, or can be picked up and packed without fuss or muss should an evacuation become necessary.
We will also go through other important emergency kits to have prepared, of which the GO Bag is the main portable module. You will learn what to put in your kits, how to use each item in various survival and emergency scenarios, and methods of packing your emergency supplies that will keep the items in a safe and useable condition over the long term.
While the odds of having to use your House Kit and GO Bag are (hopefully!) slim, never forget the old saying: "Failure to Plan is Planning to Fail."
›› This workshop is not currently on the schedule, but we'll let you know the next time it's offered.‹‹
The "GO" Bag Practicum Weekend -- Putting Your "Bug-Out" Bag to Use
So you've pulled together your Emergency supplies and made up your GO
Bag — Do you know how to use it??? The time to discover if your kit
really provides for your needs is BEFORE you need it! And this weekend
is a perfect time find that out.
You will arrive Saturday morning with your GO Bag as complete as you feel it needs to be for a weekend "Bug Out" scenario. Each participant will present their kit for review of what they carry and why, after which we will discuss the good, the bad and the ugly; the positives and negatives of each kit, where each one excels, makes the grade, or falls short, as well as specific suggestions on how to make improvements.
But this is not just a "show and tell" weekend! Once we've been through everyone's bags you will be sent out on to the landscape with a series of tasks to perform, using only the equipment you are carrying.
You will stay outside overnight in your improvised shelter and have an opportunity to work the items in your kit to discover how they really work for you. Eddie & Julie will be there to answer your questions, offer suggestions and help you to use unfamiliar items in order to make the best of your bug-out experience.
Sunday afternoon we will debrief, so that we can all share in each others experiences of what you will be keeping, changing, modifying or just plain throwing out of your GO Bag.
It is our goal that this will be a true practicum weekend for you — the opportunity to put into practice that which you have previously known only in theory. So grab your Bug-Out Bag and get ready to give it a GO!
›› This workshop is not currently on the schedule, but we'll let you know the next time it's offered.‹‹
Backwoods Hygiene & Improvised First Aid
Good hygiene is even more important when you are out in the woods than it is when you are at home, and the importance of proper sanitation in a survival situation can not be overstated! More people become sick from a "casual" attitude toward hygiene and sanitation than from almost anything else. This brand new workshop will teach you how and where to dig a latrine, ways to keep your perishables safe, plants that can be used as soaps and simple rules that will help you keep your food, your camp and your self in a state of safe cleanliness.
But what if you're out in the back country and something DOES go wrong? Learn how to improvise bandages, splints, casts and build a travois, how deal with serious cuts, burns and puncture wounds using some "must-know" medicinal plants and basic medical know-how, and amazing alternative uses for common items that should always be in your backpack or GO Bag. Calling in the cavalry is always the best choice, but what about when you can't? When your cell phone has no signal, when you're lost, your body is broken, you're bleeding, and rescue is not coming. Knowing how to take care of yourself or the people you're with using improvised first aid techniques is vital information to EVERYONE who spends time in the back country!
NOTE: The improvised first aid techniques taught in this workshop have been used and proven effective by our good friend Mark Wright throughout his 20 year career as an Independant Duty Corpsman with the US Navy. As with all of our workshops, we only teach what we KNOW!
The Photos: See the pictures that we took during this workshop at our Texas location in June '09
|July 30
|Great Meadows, NJ
|$47 Deposit
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Building a Reed Boat
In this workshop we will construct a simple boat using commonly available reeds that are easy to find in any coastal environment. Begining with the freshly harvested materials, the group will work together to make a full-sized reed boat approximately 12-15 feet in length.
You will be a part of the entire boat-building process, and will also learn variations on the building style that originated in several different parts of the world.
At the end of the day we will head to the coast, when you will have the opportunity to climb aboard the newly finished vessel and test the day's handiwork for yourself!
›› This workshop is not currently on the schedule, but we'll let you know the next time it's offered.‹‹
Out of the Darkness: Primitive Candles, Lamps & Illumination
The ability to create their own light is one of the greatest unsung advances
of our ancient ancestors. Without artificial illumination the winter nights were VERY long indeed, and many necessary tasks went undone. No
baskets made, no nets mended, no pottery formed, no cordage processed… just
sitting and waiting until the sun rose again.
There are many ways to bring in light and break out of the darkness, and in this workshop you will learn how to make a variety primitive lamps, torches, candles and other forms of illumination from all different natural materials. You'll make candles from beeswax, render fat to make lamp oil, discover what you can use for wicks, as well as which materials will last the longest, produce the brightest flames, and the least smoke. Never worry about a blackout again!
|January 14
|Great Meadows, NJ
|$47 Deposit
|Pay in Full
Making Your Own Shelf Stable Foods & MREs
You've got your GO Bag, your Hunting pack, your Backpack for hiking and biking, your emergency stashes in your house, office and car, but what do you do about food? Forget expensive MREs and packaged bags of dehydrated food filled with chemicals. Healthy, nutrient-dense, and tasty food that won't go bad, get stale or cost a fortune can be created by you in your own kitchen.
Instant rice, powdered eggs, beef bullion, potato flakes... all these and more can be made by you at home, where YOU can control the content, quality, salt and flavor. You'll learn to create your own dehydrated foods that contain all of the nutrient content of the originals, but are lighter, smaller and shelf stable. You will discover just how easy and inexpensive it can be to create many different kinds of shelf-stable foods that are both perfect for your emergency stashes and your home pantry, or to sustain you on the trail, in your tree stand, or during a late night in the office.
In this workshop you will also learn about the wonders of old fashioned trail bread; Hard Tack has been around in one form or another since man could grind flour and has sustained travelers on journeys around the world and back again. But why stop there? You will move on to making different versions of our popular Paleo Power Bars, and create your very own Pocket MREs. These unique Practical Primitive inventions are not only nutritious, delicious and shelf stable for many years, but are also compact, easily transportable and bug & rodent proof, so they can be kept anywhere without fear of attracting pests or of you returning to find your food stash nibbled on or carried off by unwelcome furry friends.
Join us for this one-day workshop to discover just how easy and inexpensive creating your own Shelf-stable foods can be!
›› This workshop is not currently on the schedule, but we'll let you know the next time it's offered.‹‹
Making Jams, Jellies & Preserves
One of our FAVORITE times of year! Jams & jellies are
a wonderful way to preserve both the flavor and memory of summer throughout
the rest of the year. Scheduled during peak berry season, we will use
both fresh and frozen berries to make jams and jellies, and other available
in-season fruits to make canned preserves of all sorts. We will cover
both "hot process" and freezer jams, the role of pectin and when you
can do without, sugar-free and natural sweetner options, and how to choose
which is the best option for your fruits.
Jam, jellies and preserves are easy to make, DELICIOUS to eat and make a wonderful and welcome gift any time of the year. Making them is one of the things we love the most, and we look forward to sharing that passion (and the "fruits" of our day) with you!
›› This workshop is not currently on the schedule, but we'll let you know the next time it's offered.‹‹
NEW! Blacksmithing Basics
You'll get hands-on in this workshop by forging the two most important tools you need in the woods; a knife and an axe-head. You'll learn all the basics of blacksmithing, including how to build a simple backyard forge, how choose, manipulate and shape metal and how to temper metal based on the needs of the piece you are making. You will also finish and sharpen your pieces and attach handles so they are ready to use when you take them home!
Guest Instructor, Tom McDonald, has been forging and selling knives, tomahawks and other metal pieces for decades, and even made the knife Eddie carries in his Possibles bag. Based in Ohio, Tom is looking forward to coming back to New Jersey to offer this exciting new workshop!
All tools and materials are provided, and you will take your finished pieces home with you.
›› This workshop is not currently on the schedule, but we'll let you know the next time it's offered.‹‹


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The latest issue of the Spectator is full to bursting with sparkling and varied book reviews. Here are some extracts from those reviews:
Sam Leith reviews two new books (one by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young, the other by Dick Legend) that, to some extent, debunk the Tory legend of Benjamin Disraeli.
'Disraeli…, as Hurd and Young see it, was … 'one of the first career politicians', for better and for worse. For better: he understood the importance of party discipline; it was on his watch that Conservative Central Office came into being to manage elections and water the grass roots, and on his watch that the parliamentary party started to be briefed on the contents of the bills that the government was to bring forward. Also, he was a parliamentary tactician of brilliance.
For worse: he was in it for himself. He wanted to be famous. He was a fantasist — extravagantly reinventing his own background. He was a liar — flatly denying in parliament that he had ever petitioned Peel for a job. He was an egregious flatterer and a shameless sponger. He was a potboiling novelist and an occasional plagiarist. As a young man, he was involved in a disreputable if not outright fraudulent scheme to pump shares in non-existent mines, and there's even a charge of petty theft to answer (he made off with the chancellor's robe worn by Pitt). His vanity and ambition, and his oratorical panache, invite comparisons with Boris Johnson (Hurd and Young make the comparison). But he also resembles nothing so much as a 19th-century Jeffrey Archer.'
Victoria Glendinning talks about the special Christmas editions of The Charleston Bulletin, a family run newspaper by Quentin Bell and his aunt, Virginia Woolf.
'The Charleston Bulletin was a family newspaper produced between 1923 and 1927 by the teenaged Quentin Bell and his elder brother Julian — who soon dropped out, leading Quentin to recruit his aunt Virginia Woolf. At that time enjoying her most prolific period as a novelist, she collaborated with him on special issues which they called Supplements, for circulation at Christmas among the family and friends whose foibles and mishaps are chronicled in its pages. Professor David Bradshaw in his preface suggests that 'it may not be ridiculous' to link the 'skittish abandon' of the Supplements with the sense of liberation that Woolf felt in having found her fictional voice and critical recognition.
Quentin did the funny drawings, and mostly Virginia dictated the words to him, though sometimes she wrote them in her own handwriting round the edges and underneath. There is an ample explanatory introduction by Claudia Olk, with dropped-in family snaps. The Supplements are, according to Olk, 'very likely the last remaining of Virginia Woolf's unpublished works'. The bottom of the golden barrel has at last been reached.'
Eric Christiansen's high expectations are met by the penultimate volume of Isaiah Berlin's letters.
'Those who met him in this period met an intellectual superstar, a celebrity courted by princes, politicians and plutocrats, thirsting for his company and his approval. Not so many philosophers — but, my! he was a big orange. Many of those taught by him were changed for life.'
A.N. Wilson cannot praise Daisy Hildyard's first novel, Hunters in the Snow, enough.
'Above all this is a passionate book. One of the things about which it is passionate is the soil of Yorkshire, the farm where her grand-father lived so unhappily with Liv, his wife. The narrator finds out about the past from Jimmy, the grandfather. But it is from Liv that she learns to shoot, to identify species, to watch a cow calve, to appreciate the seasons. These are lyrically, beautifully brought to life. This book is not just a promising first effort by a bright young writer. It is a considerable work of literature.'
Clare Mulley reviews Carole Seymour-Jones' biography of Pearl Witherington, dubbed 'the real Charlotte Gray', and how she came to have 2,000 men under her command while trying to be reunited with her fiancé.
'What makes her story exceptional is that she achieved all this as a woman in the 1940s. When the 52 women who served as special agents in the second world war were recruited, their mobilisation was kept secret for fear of adverse public reaction. Even SOE did not always seem to grasp the reality of the situation for the women they had sent in. When Witherington asked for clothes because her bags had been lost when she parachuted in, she was surprised to receive a parcel containing 'several silk negligées and nightdresses in pink and peach satin'. Sleeping in a dripping tent surrounded by soldiers, she quickly organised some pyjamas instead.'
Lewis Jones has mixed opinions of George Packer's The Unwinding, the latest addition to the 'thriving genre of American apocalypse porn'.
'…his short biographies of celebrities are equally depressing. Oprah Winfrey's unimaginable self-willed success leaves her worshippers with no excuses. Sam Walton's Wal-Mart has killed the soul of the small-town heartland. Newt Gingrich ended civil discourse in Washington. Colin Powell had his arm twisted to sell the Iraq war to the UN. When it began, the President declared that he was sleeping like a baby. 'I'm sleeping like a baby, too,' said Powell. 'Every two hours, I wake up screaming.
The Unwinding is a far from perfect book, but it is an honest and interesting one, and exhilarating as well as depressing, and not entirely hopeless. 'There have been unwindings every generation or two,' writes Packer. 'Each decline brought renewal, each implosion released energy, out of each unwinding came a new cohesion.'
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Keys To Success In Choosing A Quality Locksmith
Do you know how to locate a locksmith ? Waiting for the emergency is foolish. Read the following article to learn how to screen locksmiths and you'll always have one available for when you need them.
If you're not able to get into your home, you shouldn't listen to people that tell you to replace your lock right away. Talented locksmiths can unlock almost every door without needing to replace a lock. Replacing your lock will just end up unnecessarily costing you money.
Cover locks when you are painting. It may take a bit of time to cover all the locks, but it will prevent you from having to replace all your locks.
Do not use any locksmith that changes their quote upon arrival. There are plenty of honest locksmiths out there, so do not do business with someone who isn't straight with you.
Be skeptical of any locksmith who quotes one quote only to raise the price when they arrive. This can be a ploy to squeeze more money from a person in desperation.
When you call a locksmith for the first time, always ask how long they have been in business for. It is also important to ensure that they have been working from the same location for these years. You are likely to find that a locksmith is reputable if they have been operating in the same location for 5 or 10 years.
You should prepare yourself even if you don't really think a locksmith. Research before you need one and find someone that can be contacted for emergencies. Put their number into your cell phone for easy access.
Make sure you have checked the credentials of any locksmith that you are going to let in your home. This can be done by cross-checking the business address with the phone number. With easy online access, you can double check anyone you want to hire.
One of the first questions to ask a new locksmith is how long their business. Make sure they've been operating from the same location all this time. A locksmith with more than a few years of experience in one area is probably on the up and up.
While you may want to get a great deal on services from a locksmith, the last thing to get is a service from someone not charging a competitive rate. The locksmith may not be qualified. Get multiple quotes and then discard both the smallest and biggest ones. Choose from among the middle of the pack.
There are a number of reliable websites online that can be found online. Make sure review website itself isn't actually associated with a locksmith. You should also check to see if the locksmith you are considering has a locksmith.
Use the web to begin your search for a locksmith. There are many places where people share their experiences both good and bad with different services. The types of reviews tell you about the locksmith. Both types of reviews can be a tremendous help when determining who to hire.
Check the credentials before letting him enter your home. This can be done by cross-referencing the business address with the phone number. With the World Wide Web at your fingertips, it has become increasingly easy to look someone up and make sure that they are trustworthy, so don't skip this step!
One of the easiest ways to check on a locksmith is by simply Googling them. This shouldn't make you feel embarrassed because it's part of making sure you're protecting your home. If you find something about them you don't like, call the company and ask for someone else to come out.
Find a good locksmith prior to needing one.Waiting until after an emergency may lead you to hiring someone less than savory. You also risk someone who is less than reputable having your keys.
Using a locksmith after hours tends to be quite pricey. Some people take advantage of this in order to charge unreasonable rates. You can often avoid these price gougers by obtaining quotes from multiple locksmiths.
Ask any locksmith you are considering how long he or she has worked. If it has been a significant amount of time, most likely the company is one that you can trust. While experience does not equal trustworthiness, very little experience is a sign that you should be cautious.
If you are unhappy with the service in some way, tell them your problem immediately. Otherwise, you might be out of luck in terms of a remedy. Ask the consumer protection agency in your area for help if you are unable to receive what you want.
Do not hire the first locksmith you talk to. You should always get at least three to five locksmiths before choosing a locksmith. This can help you understand what the going rate.
Most people tip a locksmith when they are happy with the work done, so remember to slip the locksmith a few extra dollars when he is finished. This is certainly the case if you are dealing with an emergency call. Fifteen percent is a decent tip, but go for twenty percent for an after-hours job.
You can always do a Google the locksmith that is going to be providing services to you. Don't feel embarrassed to do it – protecting yourself isn't just installing additional locks! If you find something about them you don't like, let the locksmith know that you will not be needing their services.
Ask if the locksmith can provide you with a firm price quote for performing a simple task, such as unlocking a door for which you do not have an available key. If you can, it's a good bet the locksmith is right to hire. Locksmiths that are unwilling to give firm quotes should be avoided.
Ask for an ID when the locksmith come to you. Make sure you compare both so that the license is legitimate. A qualified locksmith will have a license.
Ask for quotes from several companies, if possible. Even when locked out, use your phone to get estimates. While you don't necessarily want to choose the cheapest option, checking prices can give you an idea of what the average cost is.
Do not forget that you are providing access to your home. If you get any sort of bad feeling, follow your instincts. You might feel better arranging a meeting at their business before letting them access to your home.
Consider a locksmith for all your security needs. You can have them inspect your current security set-up to see if it is strong enough, or they could install a safe for all of your most important valuables. They can make your home or business totally secure.
Call your local police to see if there are hiring has complaints. You will be able to quickly ascertain if the complaints that are on file.Do not select a locksmith that has complaints against him.
Ask what the job. Will they be filing away a second copy of the keys for their files? This could be a major issue if it ended up in the wrong hands! Ask about this before you give the green light for any work is started.
Don't get a locksmith unless you have to. You can change your locks yourself in a professional.
If they are wishy washy about the topic, call a different locksmith.
Find a locksmith with emergency services as part of their plan.Emergencies are unpredictable by nature, and having a reliable locksmith on hand will put your mind at ease. Inquire about the rates for such services too. There can be extra fees, so it is useful to know ahead of time what to expect.
Ask your locksmith about your home is. Locksmiths know a lot on home security. They may have great advice on how to make the neighborhood you live in. They could also install upgrades for you.
Don't hire a proof of the insurance they have. If something isn't going right and you have damage done to your car or home, their insurance is what will cover the replacement and repair costs. Only use a fully insured.
Select a locksmith who is familiar with situations like yours. For instance, someone who specializes in commercial work might not have the skills necessary to open your car for you. Residential locksmiths may not do commercial issues like problems with automatic doors.
Your locksmith should be professionally dressed and professionally. How someone dresses is a good hint of the professional they are and what their services will be.
If you find an ad that claims to beat any other locksmith's price, ask for it in writing. You may want to get a written quote to compare prices with another locksmith.
You should take the time to get over-the-phone estimates if when you are in the stressful situation of being locked out. While you shouldn't pick the cheapest open just because of its price, a lot of quotes will allow you to get an average price.
Having a locksmith that's reliable can save you a lot in any emergency. You will probably save yourself lots of time and money down the road. It definitely pays to keep yourself well-educated on how to find the perfect locksmith and keep him on speed dial. These suggestions will help you to always have a locksmith available when you need one.
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At the docks here, the stacks of shipping containers that used to loom above the highway overpass are gone. Logistics managers say they negotiate deeper discounts every week on ships that are leaving half empty.
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Archive for the 'gif rescue' Category
IDGI Guy, posted by ryder on dump.fm
IDGI Guy, posted by streakinbits / globochem on dump.fm
IDGI Guy, posted by ryder on dump.fm
IDGI Guy, posted by psludump on dump.fm
first of a short series of commemorative posts on the "I Don't Get It" Guy
Joe Milutis Eulogizes Dump.fm
On Hyperallergic, Joe Milutis discusses the recently-deceased website Dump.fm, in an essay titled In Memory of Dump.fm: An Endlessly Collaborative Image Poem.
Neither an art-world-ish "internet surf club" nor a monetized zeitgeist sump pump, dump seemed to harken back to a pre-1997 internet era, when it was possible to imagine that the users you met online were a small enough cohort to seem communitarian, but not large enough to merely replicate the social structures and hierarchies of the world at large.
Milutis' treatment of the site as a poetic language is appreciated:
Weird fragments, heavy dithering, pieces of images or text floating without context. Inaction gifs as opposed to reaction gifs. The quasi-syntactical combinations of these crappy objects were only possible if participants were more interested in treating the combinations like a language — one for which they would both have to amass the vocabulary and then be willing to speak with it. The rapidity of these combinations allowed for the unexpected, as if Breton's automatic writing had finally found its imagistic counterpart.
Milutis avoids the political in discussing the Rene Abythe GIF below, except in the sense of dump-vs-tumblr politics and dump's intriguing disconnections with the rest of the world ("real" or online). For the record, it depicts Hillary Clinton's "pointing to the right and the red" logo crudely morphing into the Outback Steakhouse logo. (Electors asked Where's the Beef and gave us Trump.) The geek joke is that that the red arrow, when compressed, becomes a jagged outline resembling that familiar outdoors-y mountain range, helpfully rotated so we can see it.
GIF Rescue - Angelo Plessas
Above is the final GIF we'll be rescuing from this GIF-off ladder competition: the humanitarian impulse has flagged along with pageviews, RSS subscribers, and twitter followers as this series has progressed.
Angelo Plessas' Op Art clouds with blinking rainbow "lost" horrifically in the first round after his opponent rallied friends and grandparents to ramp up the vote (OK, likely not true, but we'll never actually know what happened - no hanging chads will be counted). Such an elegant, happy little GIF did not deserve the obscurity. What a lift if this underdog had made it to the final four.
GIF ladder - and we have a winner
Am not supposed to have these results so soon but as an exclusive for long time RSS subscribers, this is what's upcoming in that GIF competition we've been covering. Here are the final four and the final two:
And a winner:
Garden, by Pitchpot. It's exciting when work you like wins.
GIF Rescue - Anna Thompson
Another undeserving also-ran in an ill-considered GIF-off competition.
In his book Untwisting the Serpent, critic Daniel Albright wrote at length on a theory of "gestus," particularly in reference to Brecht/Weill musicals: "A gestus... might be defined as an entity intermediate between a gesture and a narrative; a sort of schematic of a human figure that defines or epitomizes a whole discursive context in which such a contortion might come into play," he ventured.
If we had a theory of GIFs (and we barely do) that would be an important aspect of them to consider: the extent to which they are suited to iconic moments symbolizing a larger story. In the case of Anna Thompson's GIF above, of the three-frame cinema variety, one might well ask what the larger story is. A tale of Brooklyn hipster failed romance set against a background of gentrification. The man is a primal spirit, beating out a tattoo on building sides wherever he goes, but such an airhead. The woman is smarter than that and waves him off, but somehow keeps his nervous energy bottled in a magical hand movement that she can take wherever she goes.
Or whatever. One noteworthy point about this GIF is that while it mimics the pompous style of a cinemagraph, the whole thing is in jerky, spastic motion, adding to the comedy of the arrested romantic development.
GIF Rescue - Tony Luciana
You have to admire an artist who goes into arena full of noisy chest-thumpers and does something quietly stupid. Possibly Luciana didn't think this thimble-sized animated Mondrian with an illegible signature in the corner was dumb and that's just a critic projecting an ironic view. On its merits, even given that Mondrian parodies are an entry-level fine art joke, there is appeal to watching this one draw itself. Where will this line go? How many more lines? Which squares will be filled in with color? Will balance be preserved? Surely Piet himself, sitting in his studio of austere rigor, asked much the same questions as he was working.
Saved from competitive environment by GIF Rescue Service.
GIF Rescue - Scary Attack
An early casualty of the GIF tournament we've been discussing is this one by Scary Attack (GIFs larger than 300KB go to my "wider blog" for shelter -- this one's an ungainly 3.5 MB).
When you open it up in a GIF program you see it's 99 frames, about a third of which are blank or transparent. The frame rate is set to zero, which means in a GIF program it moves with a stroboscopic flicker. In a browser it moves at one-tenth to one-twentieth of a second, so the eye can see what's going on. And it appears rather simple: a Mondrian-style grid of blue, black, white and pink.
There are a zillion or so Mondrian-style grids on the web but my feeling is you can't have enough of them. It's an enduring form the way certain arpeggiated chords always sound good. Scary Attack makes his erratic and glitchy, kind of the opposite of the obdurate universalism of de Stijl's horizontals and verticals, more like a badly wired neon sign. The pink is something Mondrian would have self-immolated before using. The piece also has a bit of an Ad Reinhardt flavor (except for that pink): very faint sub-grids of smaller rectangles (blue on black, blue on blue) can be seen, much as Reinhardt played with low contrast adjacent values. The main appeal is something Reinhardt couldn't or wouldn't do: the constant cartoon-like intrusions of one rectangle's space into another's. This happens in an unpredictable way, with enough variation over 99 frames to keep the work engaging. Sometimes the little pink rectangles get "stepped on," which is humorously pathetic.


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News reports say an immigrant from Africa was shot dead in Louisville by a police officer Saturday. The action was captured on security video.
The crazed savage can be seen attacking the officer with what appears to be a seven-foot flag pole. The cop defended himself with deadly force.
The African collapsed on the pavement.
The predatory left is adept at slaughtering black people.
By convincing blacks they are oppressed by police, the left exacerbates already strained perceptions and, in so doing, compels some blacks to attack cops. The outcome is dead black people.
The left willfully sacrifices occasional blacks to 'confirm' the false narrative that blacks in America are the oppressed proletariat and whites -- cops in particular -- are the oppressing bourgeois.
• So why was thirty-five-year-old Deng Manyoun in Louisville being oppressed by white people rather than fleeing to the security and safety of his home in South Sudan?
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Thirty-five-year-old Deng Manyoun didn't speak English—but he did swing at a Kentucky patrolman with a 7-foot pole, with its 'Open' flag attached. He paid with his life.
He swung a flagpole at a Kentucky cop, and it cost him his life.
Deng Manyoun, a 35-year-old African immigrant who didn't speak English, was fatally shot by a Louisville police officer Saturday after he charged at the patrolman with a 7-foot pole.
In surveillance footage released by WHAS-TV, Manyoun is seen outside a smoke shop as Officer Nathan Blanford pulls up in a squad car. The two begin arguing, and the man walks away and returns with a pole, which has a business's red-white-and-blue "open" flag attached to it.
Manyoun—suspected of assaulting a woman moments before—charges at Blanford and wildly swings at him with the pole, which is made of two pieces and breaks in half.
Within seconds, Blanford makes the fatal decision to shoot. He fires twice at the crazed man, who falls backward, out of view of the security camera. Manyoun was rushed to the hospital and later died.
The 40-year-old officer is on administrative leave pending an investigation by the Louisville Metro Police Department.
On Sunday, Louisville activists denounced what they called a national trend of police using excessive force against people of color. They questioned why Blanford didn't first try to subdue Manyoun with a Taser, mace, or baton.
Manyoun didn't speak English, according to neighbors and the police chief.
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This issue has been solved. Thank you to everybody who helped find out what happened to Mr. Langosh.
I am worried about a reader of my Blog, Stephen J. Langosh, from Vista, California 92081. I have reason to think that he might be in trouble. Mr. Langosh was one among the readers who permanently posted comments on my Blog as "Steve in Vista". He was also re-publishing my posts on his own blog "Palestine Cry". Mr. Vista was a special reader among the many readers who wrote me. He was remarkably sympathetic with Palestine and Palestinians. He was against the US occupation of Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well against the zionist regime. I did not know Mr. Langosh beyond his writing.
The last comment which Mr. Langosh posted on my blog was on January 13th, 2011. Since then, his comments stopped, and his writing on his own blog stopped too. I started to worry about Mr. Langosh because he posted some very disquieting information in his last article "The Second Coming of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" which was posted on Saturday, January 15, 2011. Under the article I found a note posted on Friday, January 14, 2011 (A word to my friends: "When you see this post, with this note, it means that they have finally murdered me"). I wrote him three times asking if everything was OK, but I have not received an answer.
Mr. Langosh wrote me several e-mails last year 2010 in which he stated that both of his life and his mother's life were in big danger. He said that he had been attacked several time by retired colonels from the US military, and names Marine Corps Colonels Dennis Damon and Angel Luna Rodriguez saying that he received several death threats from these officers and the people around them, and this with full help and support from the police, which according to Mr. Langosh had ignored all of his complaint against the officers.
Langosh wrote: My mother's and my life was threatened repeatedly by the local neighborhood thug and his accomplice, a retired Marine Corps Colonel, Dennis Damon and Angel Lunarodriguez. We complained to the police — the San Diego County Sheriff's Department, repeatedly, including Sergeant Marc Ramirez and Captain Robert Ahern, demanding that these criminals be arrested.
More on Colonel Dennis Damon, Chief of Staff of Camp Pendleton during Desert Storm, Marine Corps Killer, Hitter, Genocide Planner – As the Chief of Staff of Camp Pendleton during Desert Storm, Col. Dennis Damon was one of the chief military architects of the genocide against Afghanistan and Iraq and Pakistan.
He sent me several links as references to his story, and he asked me politely to publish this information. Since my interest is Palestine and I did not know Mr. Langosh, I declined to publish to his story. I re-opened his e-mails and references last week after his disappearance. I want to share with you some of what Mr. Langosh wrote.
I would like to ask if anyone among my readers who lives near Vista, California, would be able to find out if Mr. Stephen J. Langosh is OK or not. Did he disappear? Is he alive? Is he sick, jailed, dead or murdered? I would be grateful if anybody could let me know if Mr. Langosh is OK.
If possible, please contact the police, the US media which you know, TV stations, radios, newspapers, bloggers etc. and ask them to republish what Mr. Langosh writes about the death threats which he received. He had been stating in his writings that the US military and CIA lead the mafia gangs and the trafficking of drugs around the world.
Langosh wrote: This all started when they murdered my Dad, a professional pilot, because he saw their CIA-Israeli-IDF/Mossad/San Diego County Sheriff's Department/Kolender friend of Israeli generals drug dealing helicopter and could indentify it due to the fact that it was unmarked. They have forever covered up their drug dealing any way and every way they can. The base of it – my Dad murdered for innocently witnessing CIA/U.S. Military Drug Dealing Flight
I think that he put himself in danger with these statements. If what he wrote is true, I can ONLY conclude that the US regime is a dictatorial and corrupt regime worse than the Arab regimes in Middle East, where the CIA has planted their thugs and criminals puppet to lead the nations to oblivion.
Thank you to anybody who can find out more about Steve Langosh.
Here is some of what Steve Langosh wrote:
My Dad was a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps in WWII and then a professional Airline Pilot until he retired in 1981. A few years back when we were driving down Palomar Airport Road in San Diego County (San Marcos, Vista, Carlsbad area) I saw a black UNMARKED helicopter lifting off from Palomar Airport in Carlsbad and pointed it out to him (visibility was unlimited). He saw it clearly and told me that: unmarked like what that was, indeed meant only one thing, that it was CIA. He then told me that during the Vietnam War, for instance, Air America (read CIA airlines) flew the only unmarked aircraft that are ever allowed in this country. Locally, a very Senior DEA agent told me the CIA is the drug trade throughout the world, those helicopters and other CIA Aircraft are part of the illegal drug transport along with U.S. Military Aircraft.
CIA = murder in America
It was shortly after that my Dad was, for no medical reason, given Aricept by his doktor (probably a close relative of Herr Mengele). Three and one half years later (fall, 2002) he died of a heart attack which his internist said was not even remotely possible for normal reasons in his case.
On August 2, 2000 My Dad and mom and I attended the services and wake we were invited to by the family of Brig. General John Carroll Miller.
Fake criminal cop phone call threatening us.
PALESTINE CRY: Just got a threatening call from criminals –
Just got a threatening call from criminals – turns out nobody knows this caller as someone from the number he called from and the person he is imitating, or is and doesn't want to be known on record. Another setup for murdering thugs to murder us. More details later. After the fake cop call from the unknown caller who didn't even know my last name, we checked and the supervisor of that department said it was not their number and not a proper number for that department and the supervisor said he had assigned no one and no one was assigned from that department including the name the fake caller was using. The fake cop call from the unknown caller spoke with a feigned lisping queer perverted accent.
I called the person at that department that the caller had used the name of, and left a message to call me – he never did.
The supervisor made it clear that no one there had any business contacting me.
After the fake cop call from ***-***-**** and we checked and the supervisor of that department said it was not their number and not a proper number for that department and the supervisor said he had assigned no one and no one was assigned from that department including the name the fake caller was using.
Just a few minutes before the fake cop call on November 18, 2010, a contractor, in collusion, called and promised someone was going to contact us in a very few minutes, but they did not, we got the fake cop call in its place. The contractor then proceeded to try over-bill us by a huge amount.
November 18, 2010
Real Estate theft by criminal cop(?)
On the heels of every unlawful attempt on the part of Real Estate Agents and a criminal complicit Home Owners Association to drive down the price of my Mother's house and steal it from her, a crooked cop(?) and/or false cop criminal joined in to harass us. He has NO lawful business calling and threatening us. He calls himself [name withheld, but the way the caller used it, it sounded like the name of a male porn actor from years ago of notoriety] and is certainly in the employ of the local hoodlums who are attempting to steal my Mother's house from her. Dennis Damon is the neighborhood chief criminal in this and is part of and is behind the whole criminal plan of these hoodlums. By attacking me they hope to force her into a position where she has no recourse but to let them steal her house from her. We will NOT let that happen.
From below:
"The shill Parks, prior to trial, said that if I wanted this to go away, that no matter how much Colonel Dennis Damon had threatened and assaulted my Mom and me, that I was to start being very nice and friendly to Dennis Damon who was behind the ongoing assaults from others (including conspiring with the police and judges and neighborhood spies) on me and my Mom as well as his own, Damon's, assaults upon us. I refused. After trial Dennis Damon assaulted my mother and Jew judge Maas covered up for Damon saying that since my Mother did not go to the hospital it wasn't serious enough to matter."
In all of it, the fake criminal cop phone call threatening us and all the rest the psychopath Damon is always involved manipulating all of it.
Pretended cop who used a false phone number and lies about the phone number he called, saying it was not from a proper source and instead it was just left for him, tried to set us up for a hit on us. He used his calling the number he did and claiming at the same time that he didn't have that very same number that he called us on and was talking on, as an excuse. Nonsense. Tried to get us to go somewhere under these unlawful false pretenses. Supervisor in charge where he was trying to get us to go, said they had not ordered it and had not given the person, whose name the caller used part of, any instruction to do so and had no knowledge about it. We aren't stupid and we won't have anything to do with this criminal nonsense of this person. We have been trying to sell our house to get out of this hell hole of a militarist Nazi neighborhood for quite some time and the bastards have used every illegal dodge imaginable to keep us here and prevent the sale of our house. The reason is to keep us here where they can set us up, which they are now doing with this garbage, to murder us by false-cop/cop. Dennis Damon and others are part of their criminal plans and fully complicit with them actively to set us up by their garbage throughout all of this.
Also, this is typical when they are going to do a grab (criminal kidnap) and unlawfully and criminally to the extreme kidnap someone under color of real or fake authority and take them to a prison arbitrarily and bury them there. Even a judge can't do that. He has to have cause and notify in writing and give several weeks for a response and appearance. Of course there is NO CAUSE.
The fake cop phone call came on November 18, 2010 and the repeated shadowing us with helicopter and criminal cop car came on November 19, 2010 – now sometime will come the attack and total obliteration of me and Mom – me, a 60 year old man who declares his religious and political beliefs and his Mother by the criminal cops and Marines, after years of assaults and attempts against us
To reiterate and this won't change.
We won't be intimidated.
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Russell Nicoll is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the TN Dept. of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities (DIDD), and serves as the Director of the DIDD Information Systems Division. Russell provides technical leadership, vision, and experience in order to identify and implement technological solutions that support the agency's goals of maximizing operational efficiency and providing individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities with an opportunity to lead healthy, secure and meaningful lives.
Russell has more than 10 years of experience in the Healthcare IT field, and is a graduate of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
The Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (DIDD) is the state agency responsible for providing services and supports to Tennesseans with intellectual disabilities.
For many years DIDD has struggled to upgrade its existing computer information systems. These systems are used to track:
Most of these systems were developed in an outdated software platform, known as FoxPro, and in many cases were meant to be short-term solutions that became permanent. As these legacy systems continue to age, the older FoxPro applications are no longer being supported by our technology partners; posing a risk to business continuity and increasing operational costs for the Department.
DIDD will replace these legacy systems with a single integrated database solution built on Microsoft's Dynamics CRM framework.
For DIDD the decision to host the CRM solution on premise came down to two major factors:
Other factors that impacted this decision:
TN already has a centralized data center capable of hosting the CRM application.
Funding for the project was already available.
2004: Internal Development Effort – Project cancelled in 2008.
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Anglo American sees headline earnings decline
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[DATA AMS:Anglo American Platinum Limited] is set to report underlying earnings in respect of Anglo American Platinum Limited of 25 million US dollars for the year ended 31 December 2014, which takes into account certain adjustments.
According to the mining group, due to the industrial action, total lost production amounted to 424 koz equivalent refined platinum (equivalent ounces mined expressed as refined ounces) in the strike period to 24 June 2014.
(READ MORE: Strikes put Anglo American platinum in the red)
"Rustenburg operations lost 165 koz; Amandelbult 167 koz; Union 87 koz; and affected third-party purchase volume situated at Rustenburg and Amandelbult concentrators lost 5 koz," reported the company.
The company said the industrial action created an unprecedented environment of heightened risk operationally, financially, socially and in particular with regard to health and safety.
The company said it successfully managed the safety risks associated with the protracted period of industrial unrest, performing a safe shutdown once the strike notice was received.
It added, these measures ensured safety of working areas was maintained and making sure post-strike start-up plans were strictly enforced to prevent the occurrence of safety incidents.
"Affected operations were also inspected on a regular basis by available employees during the strike."
(READ MORE: Anglo American platinum HEPS set to drop)
The company's lost-time injury-frequency rate (LTIFR) dropped significantly over the past year to 0.69 from 1.05 in 2013.
"Although the months on strike contributed to the reduction, the average of the month prior, and the six months post the strike, resulted in a LTIFR of 0.84 and a TRCFR of 1.41," added the group.
The group said, despite short-term volatility in the market, all indications suggests that platinum is in its strongest position since 2005.
"The cumulative oversupply from 2006 has been eliminated in the past three years, and signs point to demand increasing. Supply is unlikely to increase materially in the next few years, and this could lead to an increase in the price for platinum and palladium," added the group.
"We are now in a position to focus on value and not volume and will continue to reduce costs and improve operating efficiencies. By repositioning our portfolio and exiting the assets that no longer fit the future strategy, we can optimise our business and grow at the appropriate time."


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Man you guys are off topic... arguing about CRF in the case of hunting dangerous game. What, is he going to go cape buffalo hunting with his 270? The only thing I can think of in terms of danger that he would even consider using a 270 would be black bear or mountain lion. Most people don't hunt mountain lion, and black bears are generally pretty docile, besides, I'd want something bigger for a bear. I guess you could use a 270 on leopard, but I doubt any PH would recomend it.
So, back to the topic at hand. I agree with dugaboy that the ruger m77's have a slight advantage over the remington 700. However, I am currently involved in a rifle building project. Not really building, just turning an -06 into a 35 Whelen. For this rifle, which I plan to use as my work horse all around rifle, I chose the remington 700 mountain rifle, partially because I thought the laminate wood pattern was aesthetically very appealing. Remington also has a great reputation regarding accuracy, and in my book, that's a big deal. However, I wouldn't suggest getting one in the caliber you have selected, but that's a personal opinion and a discussion for another topic.


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Live Commentary
Two goals from Robin van Persie got them there, and what Andorra would give for a striker like him as they again failed to find the net in this qualifying campaign. For the Netherlands though, they now know they will be in the hat for the World Cup draw later in the year. I've been Tom Maston and thanks very much for joining me this evening.
NETHERLANDS QUALIFY FOR WORLD CUP 2014! The final whistle blows and a 2-0 win in Andorra coupled with Romania's loss to Turkey means the Dutch can begin to prepare for a trip to Brazil. Plenty of celebrating amongst the visiting supporters as they take another step towards their first World Cup win.
90' + 2'Lima has had a good game at the heart of the Andorra defence, and he almost marks his display with a goal, but his 40-yard free-kick is straight at Vorm who catches the swerving effort well. Into the final minute.
90'Into three minutes of stoppage time in Andorra la Vella. Can van Persie get that third goal for his hat-trick?
89'The Oranje supporters are beginning to unveil their 'Brazil 2014' scarves as they get ready to celebrate their side's passage to the summer finals. Not a vintage display to get them there but the result is all that matters.
87'Kuyt almost gets lucky as an Andorran clearance bounces off van Persie's head into his path. The Fenerbahce man can't control though, and the home side eventually get it clear.
85'SubstitutionMarc Pujol José Manuel Ayala
Third and final substitution for the home side as Pujol is replaced by Ayala for the final five minutes.
83'The Dutch continue to keep possession as they move ever closer to World Cup qualification. Andorra have provided a test but van Gaal's side look like passing it at present.
81'Van Persie is still searching for that third goal as Vlaar plays a through ball down the middle looking for the striker. The pass is just too heavy though and Pol can collect.
79'Yellow Card Ron Vlaar
First Dutch yellow card of the evening as Vlaar is penalised for bringing down Martinez.
78'SubstitutionWesley Sneijder Dirk Kuyt
Another decent save from Pol, and this time it is Lens who is denied as his shot is parried by the goalkeeper before the winger's follw-up is volleyed wide. Kuyt replaces Sneijder in the meantime.
77'Still no hat-trick for van Persie as Pol again pulls off a fine save. This time he gets down well to his left to push away a powerful downward header from the former Arsenal man.
76'Vorm comes, and though his punch is unconvincing, he wins a free-kick after Moreira barges into him.
75'Andorra still pressing for their first goal of the qualifying campaign, and Pujol is over another free-kick out wide on the left.
73'The final whistle has gone in Romania where Turkey doubled their lead in stoppage time. That result means a Netherlands win would see them qualify for the World Cup as Group D winners. They have 17 minutes to hold on. Should be a formality.
72'SubstitutionGabi Riera Victor Moreira
Another Lens cross evades everyone as Andorra make their second change. Riera is the man to come off, with Moreira on in his place.
69'Another chance for van Persie as Schaken's cross finds him but his header is directed wide. Those five minutes early in the second half apart he hasn't been at his absolute best tonight.
67'Van Persie is searching for the match ball now, and he goes close to securing it as Sneijder's pass finds him in the box. His shot with his weaker right foot is sliced, however, and is well wide.
65'Lens has been a real handful this evening, and he tests Pol this time as his cross from the byline is tipped away from under his crossbar by the goalkeeper. Dutch dominating and creating plenty now.
63'Van Persie has really stepped it up since the break, and he plays a wonderful pass into the path of the onrushing Lens on the left-hand side of the area. The winger can't get the ball out of his feet though and his scuffed shot dribbles wide.
61'Netherlands happy to just keep the ball now. There is little time left in Romania and with the home side still behind the job may be already done for van Gaal's men.
59'SubstitutionIvan Lorenzo Sergio Moreno
First change for the home side as Lorenzo is replaced by Moreno.
58'GREAT SAVE! Andorra's defence is all over the place now, and after van Persie fails to connect with a Lens cross, Sneijder strikes a wicked effort that Pol gets down well to turn behind. Made up slightly for his earlier error there.
57'Yellow Card Marcio Vieira
Bookings aplenty for Andorra as Lorenzo and Vieira both go into the referee's book. Andorran frustrations now starting to show after such a good first half.
55'Yellow Card Ivan Lorenzo
54'Goal Robin van Persie
GOAL!!! The floodgates may have opened now both for the visitors and van Persie. This time he has Pol in the Andorra goal to thank as he parries a Janmaat cross straight to the striker who can tap into an empty goal. Should be a formality now for the Netherlands.
53'Andorra respond by winning a corner, but the Netherlands defence can easily clear as they look to take full control of this one.
50'Assist Kevin Strootman
50'Goal Robin van Persie
GOAL!!! Finally a breakthrough for the Dutch and it's that man van Persie who finds the back of the net with a superb curling effort from the edge of the area. Despite a frustrating evening that moment of magic could be the goal that qualifies the Dutch for the World Cup in 2014.
48'Sneijder, Strootman and van Persie link up well on the edge of the Andorra area, but the offside flag is raised just as Lens breaks through. Dutch still finding their feet here.
46'SubstitutionJetro Willems Adam Maher
Netherlands get us underway and they have made a change at the break, with Maher replacing Willens.
The players are making their way back out onto the field of play. Romania remain behind against Turkey, so a win for the Dutch would see them through as it stands.
Van Gaal's side have had the better of the chances, but they haven't tested Pol anywhere near enough. Andorra have threatened from set-pieces and they will be delighted with their evening's work thus far. I'll be back in ten minutes for all the second half action.
The half-time whistle blows and somewhat surprisingly the deadlock is yet to be broken between these two sides.
45'One minute of stoppage time added on at the end of the first half.
44'Andorra look to create something as a ball over the top finds Martinez. He cannot find space though and the move breaks down. Into the final minute of normal time in the first half.
42'Again the Netherlands pass it well but just as they look to create some space Schaken is unable to latch onto van Persie's pass. Van Gaal will have plenty to say at the break you feel.
40'Strike it he does, but it is deflected out for a corner which is eventually cleared by the resolute Andorra defence.
39'Yellow Card Ildefonso Solo Lima
Opportunity for the Dutch here as Lima dives in on van Persie but only takes the man. The Andorra skipper is booked and the free-kick is in a good position for van Persie to strike.
38'A short stoppage as Martinez stays down after a challenge from Willens. He remains on the ground for some time but eventually gets to his feet.
36'Sneijder seems determined to score tonight as he again threatens Pol's goal. The midfielder goes for goal from a long range free-kick but the goalkeeper can watch it fly harmlessly over the top. Dutch getting frustrated now.
34'Van Persie wins a free-kick in a central position just outside the Andorra box, but the striker cannot find the target from the dead ball as his side-footed shot flies wide. A let-off for the hosts.
32'Action at the other end now as Lorenzo fires in from outside the area, and though his shot is a weak one, Vorm needs two bites of the cherry to get it under control.
31'Sneijder is certainly causing a goal threat for the Dutch as his corner is cleared back to him. The former Inter man decides to shoot from a tight angle but his effort flies well over the bar.
30'A first sign of right-back Janmaat in an attacking sense, and the defender shows he can be dangerous with an excellent cross into the area. Sneijder is the man on the end of it but his header trickles harmlessly wide.
28'Andorra are certainly proving a tough nut to crack, with the Netherlands repeatedly being forced to play the ball back into their own half. Good possession for the visitors but little to show for it.
26'At last some god interplay from the Netherlands allows Sneijder to cut inside from the left. The midfielder makes room for a shot but Pol gets down well at his near post to save with his feet. Lens' follow-up then goes wide, though the winger was offside anyway.
24'Yellow Card Moisés San Nicolás
22'Good chance for Anodrra as Pujol whips in a corner and Garcia gets up almost unchallenged. He can't control his header, though, and it loops well over the bar. More encouragement for the unfancied home side.
21'Van Persie is certainly not having things his own way as yet. The prolific forward tries to turn towards goal but Garcia shuts him out and Andorra move forward themselves.
19'The corner is delivered to the back post where Sneijder is waiting, but good pressure from the Andorra defence wins a goal kick. The hosts will be enocuraged by their start to this one.
18'Schaken wins a corner on the right-hand side as the visitors continue to press for an opening goal.
16'Even though we are still early in the game you feel Dutch sides of old would have been provided much more of a goal threat against such lowly opposition. The current vintage aren't quite at that level yet as another move breaks down.
14'The Dutch remain dangerous on the break, though, and Lens this time pops up on the right and lays a cross back for van Persie. The Manchester United man's shot is well blocked though and the resulting corner is cleared.
12'Andorra certainly creating enough in these opening stages. They go close again as Pujol's free-kick from the right is met by the head of Lima, but his glanced effort is off-target and wide of the post. Andorra fans strike up a rendition of 'You'll never walk alone' as their side grow in confidence.
11'Half appeals for a penalty from Andorra as Riera breaks into the box, but de Vrij clearly won the ball and the referee correctly waves the request away.
9'Lens is again causing problems on the left, and he again tests Pol as he cuts inside and takes a low shot with his right foot. The goalkeeper is always behind it and easily holds on. Van Persie was waiting in the middle and may have been a better option.
8'Andorra win a free-kick within shooting distance of the Dutch goal, but Pujol's effort is very poor and curls well wide of Vorm's post. If they are to score their first goal of the qualifying campaign their finishing will have to improve on that.
6'Finally the home side get their foot on the ball, but as they look to create something in the visitors' half Riera's touch is poor and Netherlands can clear.
4'Sneijder wins a free-kick around 30 yards out on the left-hand side, and the Galatasaray man picks himself up to take the kick, but his low effort is just wide of Pol's near post. Not sure if Andorra have had a touch as yet.
2'Already Lens is causing a problem down the left for the Dutch, with the winger first seeing a cross cleared before making a run for goal that is stopped by a lunging Pol in the Andorra goal.
1'Andorra kick-off and we are underway.
There is a good atmosphere in Andorra despite the status of the home side. A good number of away supporters in as the players line-up and await the referee's whistle.
The players have made their way out onto the pitch in Andorra la Vella, and with the national anthems now over, we are very close to getting underway. Can anyone see a shock this evening? I, for one, certainly can't.
In total Netherlands make two changes, with Schaken replacing Robben while Vlaar comes in for Martins Indi, who disappointed against Estonia earlier in the week.
So no Robben for the Netherlands, but Wesley Sneijder retains his place while Robin van Persie, whose last minute penalty resuced a point against Estonia, again starts up front. It wouldn't be a shock to see him fill his boots this evening.
Netherlands: Vorm, Janmaat, Willems, Vlaar, de Vrij, Strootman, Schaars, Sneijder, Lens, Schaken, van Persie.
Andorra: Pol, Martinez, Miramontes, Nicolas, Renom, Lima, Vales, Lorenzo, Riera, Vieira, Pujol.
The teams are in ahead of this one....
The Oranje know that a win coupled with anything other than a victory for Romania over Turkey will see them secure their place in Brazil for the summer, and despite their shock draw in Estonia on Friday, they will be confident of defeating an Andorra side without even a goal in qualifying. Arjen Robben is suspended for the Dutch, but they should still have more than enough to win comfortably.
Hello and welcome to live commentary of Netherlands' trip to Andorra as the Dutch look to book their place at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. A win for Louis van Gaal's side could see them qualify today, and they are hot favourites for victory against one of the minnows of European football. I am Tom Maston and I will be guiding you through all the action from this Group D encounter.


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The school was founded in June 1952 and named as "Training preparation class of medical workers in the Southern Taiwan". In August 1953, it was promoted to "Taiwan provincial Tainan vocational high school of nursing". During fifty years the school nurtures more and more outstanding nursing talents who work in and out of the country and receives deeply praises.
Recently, because that the living standards of people were to move up and the requirements of the nursing quality grew with each passing day, under the eager expectations of the society, the school was approved by the Ministry of Education to promote to National Tainan Junior College of Nursing (formerly known as NTIN) in August 1, 2000. It establishes the five-year division, the two-year division, the two-year evening division, and the two-year on-job division, where the first one enrolls graduates of the junior high schools, the second one enrolls graduates of the department of nursing of vocational high schools, and the third one and the last one enroll graduates of both the senior high schools and the vocational high schools. The teaching purposes and visions of the school are to nurture students into practical nursing talents who have international views, science and humanity disciplines and are also able to aspire the self-learning.
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Discussion in 'Football' started by rworkman83, Aug 3, 2010.
That was a bad, bad day...
College Football: House of Pain - ESPN
Damnit! I almost had that blocked out of my memory!
Mac would still be coaching ISU if he'd won that game or the following season @KU when we blew the north again.
that's a nice series they're doing. very entertaining.
Yeah, that was a program changer.
they had to bring that up........ :no:
Wonder if the FSU 2002 game will make it in there? Or the '92 NU game.
Was at that '04 game. Was it De'Andre Jackson who got the turnover to setup the FG? When he didn't score, I got that pit in my stomach. You just knew with the wind and our kicking woes, it wasn't going to go good.
Believe it was Steve Paris.
The sad part was trying to guess which game this was without following the link. Uconn, at NU overtime game, last year KSU... We've had some painful losses.
I played the same game. You could lump 1/3 of ISU's football history into the painful category and you might be underestimating it.
Probably was. Thx.
Most painful one I recall while in school was '92 versus KU, I believe. Had an insane lead in the 4th just to whizz it away. Insignificant game, but still painful the way it went down.
For me, the KU game in 05 was even worse because we had a chance at redemption and blew it in almost the exact same way.
This is a pretty cool list. Its funny that they list it as the most painful losses, that is only looking at it from one side. It could also be a most glorious win depending on what angle you are coming from.
My bet for #1 is the NU/Mia game where Osborne elects to go for two and the win and fails. Only to lose the NC. Probably one of the gutsiest calls ever made. I can only imagine the pain and agony that one caused.
2005 @ KU to go to the Big 12 championship.
That is my worst. Mac never recovered from that loss.
Almost all of our most painful losses came by playing not to lose down the stretch. Only exception I can think of at the moment was 2002 FSU.
You'd think the program and HC would learn from his own history - but it never happened.
I followed up the KU loss with a trip to Hilton to watch Stinson and Blalock get shellacked by Iona. Tough day to be a Clone.
Notice, they aren't anywhere close to being done with that list.
Look for us to make it again. My prediction: 2005 KU, and they show the picture of D-Jack dejected at mid field as KU fans storm the field.
The really sad thing is that we have about 7 games that could make this list
People remember the 2005 KU game but to me the tougher loss was the 2005 Nebraska game. We had a chance to win that game in Lincoln but lost in OT. Win that game and the KU game doesn't even matter.
Of course, we also lost to Baylor at home that year.
Whenever we hear shot about last years Nebraska game we should bring up number 43.
'05 was a season full of painful, self-inflicted losses. ISU '05 was a perfect example of a bottom-feeder program with a lot of potential, that simply still didn't know how to win.


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"A chewy coconutty macaroon, with added almond! This recipe arose when I found myself with five spare egg whites, after using the yolks to make ice cream. I thought I would make the children some coconut macaroons, but half-way through the recipe I found that I didn't have enough coconut. On the other hand, the kitchen seemed to be bursting with an over-supply of ground almonds, so I threw in a generous couple of handfuls. Please note that the proportion of coconut and almonds is a matter of taste, and that both may vary according to the size of your egg whites. The eggs I used were quite small."
Coconut-Almond Macaroons
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- 5 egg whites
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 cup sugar (or more if you like things very sweet)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1⁄2 cups desiccated coconut (or more or less, according to the size of your eggs)
- 1 1⁄2 cups ground almonds (or more or less, according to the size of your eggs)
- 12 glace red cherries
- Line three baking sheets with baking parchment, and pre-heat the oven to 160ºC.
- Beat the egg whites with the pinch of salt until they form soft peaks.
- Add the sugar, vanilla, coconut and ground almonds, and stir in well. You need quite a stiff mixture, so add a bit more coconut and/or almond if your mixture is too slack. If you like very sweet things, you may wish to add more sugar as well - taste a tiny bit to see if it is sweet enough for your liking.
- Divide the mixture into 24 blobs on your lined baking sheets, and pat into shape, pressing half a glacé cherry into the top of each blob. The macaroons will spread out when cooked, so leave a bit of space between them.
- Bake the macaroons for 15 minutes or so, until they are nicely golden brown. Remove from the oven and leave to cool on their trays. They will firm up as they cool.
- Peel off the paper, and enjoy!
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Metsaülikool Campers to Focus on 'Crisis in Capitalism' ({{commentsTotal}})
Metsaülikool, a five-day summer camp where many of the country's decision-makers will appear to lecture on all things Estonian, will be held in Kääriku for the 10th time starting today.
Founded by Canadian Estonians in 1968, the event, which translates as "Forest University," was introduced to Estonia in 2005. It is structured as a mix of intellectual discourse and sauna parties in the evening.
This year's theme will be "Crisis in Capitalism - why is it my business?" with lecturers such as Ardo Hansson, governor of the Bank of Estonia.
Participants will discuss the course of Estonia's economic development and the ideology behind it. Other topics on the agenda - all circulating around how to build a better Estonia - include agriculture, higher education, CSR and human resources.
Lecturers include Priit Perens, Robert Kitt, Raul Eamets, Margit Sutrop, Mart Raukas, Marju Lauristin and others.
"Estonia has been independent for a long time, so it is the right time to focus on economic management more broadly," the event's head organizer, Triin Käpp, said in a press release.
The event ties up on August 11.


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