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I have been thinking about this question a lot lately. It's a complex question. It means a lot of the same things it meant 20 years ago. 30 years ago. 100 years ago.
Farming as a main source of income is scary. Money comes into the operation in unpredictable ways. Sometimes, things are hopping. Orders are frequent and all a farmer can do is try desperately to keep up. Often, money comes into the operation in spurts. Little bits here, little bits there. One thing that is always predictable is the bills. The bills are always due no matter whether you are facing feast or famine.
The smart farmer puts a little something away for the lean times. He pays bills ahead when money is plentiful. He stocks up the pantry with some extra groceries and he pads the savings account. This is a great way to help even out those slow times. However, how do you predict how long that slow time is going to last? How do you know how much to stockpile to get you over the rough spot? The short answer is, you don't. It's all a gamble.
Sometimes the slow time outlasts the reserves. Sometimes all of the feed is gone, the bills come due again, the pantry runs low and there is no income in sight. Now what does the farmer do? He makes some tough decisions.
The farmer must feed his flock and family. He must keep the electricity on, pay the mortgage, pay the taxes. Now its gets gritty. The farmer can look for extra work. He can take on a full or part time job to bring in some extra cash to tide him over. This sure helps out the old bank account, but it can hinder the farm. Who takes care of the chores while the farmer is away? Do the animals stop eating? Do the weeds take a break from growing? Nope. So now the farmer is burning the candle at both ends. He is trying to do justice to this job so that he can keep everyone in bread and butter while still keeping the farm running to at least a minimum degree.
Another option is to sell of some livestock or equipment. Helpful friends and family always suggest this option first. They reason that by not having as many mouths to feed or that implement to maintain expenses will go down and the money earned by selling will go further. And, this is true to some degree. However, production also goes down. Without the implement, some chores can't be done. Or maybe they can, but they take extra people or time to do them. There is less product available to sell which means less income which means the bills don't get met....get the picture? What about selling off livestock? Fewer breeding animals means fewer babies which, in turn, means fewer dollars at market.
The farmer could try and increase business. Making more sales means making more money. The farmer can advertise his wares. He could have a sale. He could ask his friends and neighbors to shop in his shop, market stall, etc. He could attend a trade show. All of these things are good and could help his business to grow and prosper. However, usually these are things that the farmer is already doing. After all, he has wanted to sell his goods all along. Also consider, most of these things cost money. Money is the thing that was in short supply to begin with. It's a real conundrum.
The long and the short of this whole exercise is there is no one right answer here. What works for one farm or in one situation may not work for the next. Each farmer has to make their own decisions. They may be the right ones. Or they may be very wrong. The only way to know is to take the plunge and find out.
Friends, this farm is in month 15 of a famine. We have used up all the resources we stored up during the last milk and honey time. The pantry is played out. We are down to brass tacks. No, we are not starving. The livestock is not going without. But we are at the point where we are now living hand to mouth and we don't know for sure where the next extra little bit of income is coming from. We are lucky that one of us does work a full time job. We do have some steady money coming in. It's not enough. Without the farm income to help fill in, we just can't keep up.
We will persevere. God will look out for us and we will find a time of feasting again. The farm will go on and we will get over this rough patch. We have faith. Thank you once again to all who have supported us in this journey. Thank you to those who cheer for us, pray for us, hold us up and shop with us. We appreciate each and every one of you.
Please understand that we are not complaining. We are not seeking business advice or looking for handouts. We are simply sharing a little bit about what it means, on a daily basis, to be a farm that depends upon farming income. We are hoping to shed a little light on how all of this works for those who have never experienced it themselves. Hopefully, by sharing a little of our experience, we can help someone else to learn and grow. By putting our hearts out in the open, maybe we can offer comfort and solidarity to another family in similar circumstances. And, finally, maybe we can learn and grow from this earthly existence while coming to appreciate what it has to offer us.


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Thursday, May 29, 2014
The Pro's
One one facebook exchange, a man criticized some of the assumptions of the "pro-choice" arguments, and two women who were his facebook friends immediately asked if he is or isn't "pro-choice." It was asked diplomatically, and I felt myself wanting to respond, but not for either the "pro-choice" or "pro-life" position. I object to the way this topic has been "framed" as a policy position, and how that has obfuscated the complexity of women's decisions that raise the question of abortion in the first place. Not only that, the reduction of any issue, but of this issue in particular, to a policy (demanding a kind of pro-or-con "position") has led both polarized sides into complementary forms of dishonesty and manipulative speech.
How have we come to the point where one must be pigeon-holed, or pigeon-hole oneself, as a policy reification? Why must you or I or anyone else be identified as "pro-life" or "pro-choice"? How did we come to occupy a figurative "position," whether we like it or not? "Framing" the subject of abortion ("framing" is a weasel-word used by public relations experts that implies the intent to manipulate perceptions prior to the presentation of a subject) as this either-or "position" smuggles in a conclusion disguised as a premise. . . that this question or topic or subject (rather than the existential reality of any actual woman facing this so-called "choice") is nothing more or less than policy, that the law has the last word, and that the moral arguments (which generally share completely incommensurable premises) must be made to (instrumentally, manipulatively) fit the goal of getting the right law and-or policy in place.
How is it that we have become blind to all the ways that reducing the millions of often terrifying, mind-fracturing, soul-wrenching decisions of women, who find themselves pregnant in situations too numerous to count, to an up or down vote on a legal policy. The tail certainly is wagging the dog here. At least from the point of view of Christians who believe we are to emulate the compassion of Christ, who refused to resort to rule-books but placed his hands on actual lepers, corpses, and dusty feet. . . in person, one at a time. Oh, the scandal of particularity!
Some focus-group organizing, statistics-studying, instrumental-psychology exploiting, message-controlling, public relations PhD somewhere told those who had determined that this was ultimately a "policy issue," that in the "marketplace of ideas" all moral considerations before the implementation of policy are negotiable in order to "win" in the policy arena; and this public relations expert then told them that in order to more effectively manipulate "public opinion," we (whichever of the two "we"s) need to recognize that people want to be for something, not against it, so the "issue" (which is now part of a focused political competition) needed to be "framed" as for-something, that is, pro-something. Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative. The question of whether this kind of selectivity of language is in any way dishonest, from either side, is no longer an ethical consideration, because the "good" of the right policy is a higher-good than the good of scrupulous and uncomfortable honesty.
Alasdair MacIntyre once observed that modernity is characterized by the loss of any general ability to distinguish between manipulative and non-manipulative relations and speech. Here we have a perfect example. Politics has become, truly, the "marketplace" of ideas, and as such it is governed by the marketplace's utter amorality in practice. The policy end always justifies the rhetorical means.
We are not in favor of legalizing abortions (abortion is a scary word). We are "pro-choice" We are not in favor of criminalizing abortion (if every woman in the US who has had an abortion were thrown in prison, we would see the greatest demographic shift since the European plague). We are "pro-life." It is not a child in the womb, but a "fetus" (a modern word, which will find no referent in the Scriptures); because our argument hangs on the dehumanization of whatever that is in there until some arbitrary threshold arrives (based on the invention of "trimesters"). The unborn citizen is to be protected "from the moment of conception" (another phenomenon that was not understood then as it is now); because women's wombs will not cooperate with our "pro-life" agenda by standardizing any other moment during pregnancy.
If we are "pro-choice," it is best not to mention how many women are pressured into abortions, as opposed to pressured against them. Doesn't fit the polemical template. If we are "pro-life," we can't follow through with the argument that abortion is "murder," because -- as we noted above -- 35 out of 100 adult women stand to be imprisoned before they reach menopause. So we'll redirect the arguments back to the babies (including the "babies" who are comprised of 16 cells) rather than answer the embarrassing question, what would criminalization do to women? Neither side wants to acknowledge the actual circumstances of individual women, because the emotional anguish that accompanies most abortions is inconvenient to the policy arguments of one side, and the impossibility of any good answer to life's complex dilemmas and crises for many women is inconvenient to the policy arguments of the other side.
My objection is not to policy. I don't take lightly any woman's situation where pregnancy poses a potential or actual crisis; and I do take very seriously women's objections to men trying to retain the power to make these decisions for women. If asked whether I believe the state ought to criminalize abortion, I have to say, absolutely not. I'm not going to call that pro-choice, though, because that's PR bullshit-speak. My position on the law has everything to do with my profound mistrust of the the state (and men in general as a dominant sexual class) and nothing to do with the liberal legal fiction of disembodied "choice."
My objection here is to our inability, as Christians, to talk about this in any manner except that which has already been dictated by campaign managers and their ilk, apart from considerations of policy, and apart from the considerations of the competition for "public opinion" that characterizes such competition. Can we talk about this without the rulebook in view? Can we think about this as it relates to the actual women we may know? Can we, at last, relinquish both control and the illusion of control over everyone everywhere, and try compassion, healing the sick, clothing the naked, visiting prisoners, casting out demons, and washing feet?
With that, I'll leave with a recommendation, and that is to read Barbara Duden's exceptional history of the perception of pregnancy, Disembodying Women, for a kind of dislocative epistemological jolt out of the world of "framing" and "messaging."
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Yes, the label "Pro-choice" is very misleading. There are many "choices" for a woman in a pregnancy, and it depends a LOT on individual circumstances, or context, if you will; something the law, in its glorious duality & remove from reality, refuses to see.ReplyDelete
This little tome is a good analysis of "PR Bullshit"-think---much more concise and shorter than George Lakoff's books. I highly recommend it for both Christians & non-Christians :
"Frankfurt argues that bullshit either can be true or can be false; hence, the bullshitter is a man or a woman whose principal aim — when uttering or publishing bullshit — is to impress the listener and the reader with words that communicate an impression favorable to the speaker, with no concern for the truth of what they're saying. Likewise, the bullshitter is not concerned with consistency between what they're saying at the moment, and anything they've previously said. Consequently, "the bullshitter is faking things, but that does not necessarily mean he gets them wrong." He simply doesn't care. In contrast, the liar must know the truth of the matter under discussion in order to better conceal it from the listener or the reader being deceived with a lie, while the bullshitter's sole concern is personal advancement and advantage to his or her agenda. Bullshit thus is a greater enemy of the truth than are lies."
SCOTUS Reinterprets Religious Liberty to Justify Corporate DiscriminationReplyDelete
Thoughts? Systemic, yes, but a good thing?
Thank you for this. Rare, an intelligent discussion thereof. Abortion IS a scary word, it should stay legal and be rendered unnecessary by birth control and employment/aid.ReplyDelete
Big news here in Oregon....in this particular sense, I AM "pro-choice"ReplyDelete
" Brittany Maynard's mother responded angrily to criticism from the Vatican of Maynard's decision to end her life early under an Oregon law written to let terminally ill patients die on their own terms.
Days after Maynard's Nov. 1 death at age 29, the Vatican's top bioethics official called her choice "reprehensible" and said physician-assisted suicide should be condemned.
On Tuesday, Maynard's mother, Debbie Ziegler, issued a sharp written response. She said the comments from Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, came as the family was grieving and were "more than a slap in the face."
Her response was made through Compassion & Choices, an advocacy group that worked with Maynard in her last days.
Maynard had terminal brain cancer and in the spring was told she had six months to live. She moved to Oregon from Northern California with her husband and parents because Oregon allows terminally ill patients to die using lethal medications prescribed by a doctor."

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REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Icelanders, not satisfied with the departure of the prime minister and a promise to hold elections this autumn, took to the streets again on Thursday to demand the government quit over the Panama Papers leaks.
About 2,000 people showed up at parliament for another day of demonstrations, banging pots and pans and calling for immediate elections.
Iceland fell into political crisis this week after documents leaked from a Panamanian law firm linked the then Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson to an offshore company that held millions of dollars in debt from failed Icelandic banks. He stepped down on Tuesday.
The centre-right coalition tried to appease Icelanders by naming Fisheries Minister Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson as prime minister and calling for early elections in the autumn.
But many Icelanders, who have a deep distrust in government following a 2008 banking crisis which wrecked the economy, are saying it is not enough that Gunnlaugsson step aside.
Saga Stephensen, a 33-year-old multicultural adviser who showed up at Thursday's protest, said others should resign.
"They act like nothing happened and don't bear responsibility and don't apologise. I am fed up with their arrogance," Stephensen said.
Johann Bjornsson, a 50-year-old teacher, called for elections as soon as possible.
"To appoint Sigurður Ingi as Prime Minister is no solution," he said.
Earlier on Thursday, the head of Iceland's anti-establishment Pirate Party - which polls show would win an election if held today - filed a vote of no-confidence motion in parliament.
The motion is seen however as largely symbolic since the coalition of the Progressive and Independence parties has a solid majority in the 63-seat parliament with 38 seats.
"How are we going to reclaim our reputation if things just go back to normal?" Birgitta Jonsdottir, head of the Pirate Party, told Reuters. "We are the laughing stock in the international community because of the former PM. It's too little and too late."
A poll by Icelandic media outlet Visir showed this week 43 percent of those polled would cast ballots for the Pirate Party if elections were held now, a stunning victory for a group set up by opponents of copyright enforcement rules.
Writing by Mia Shanley in Stockholm; Editing by Angus MacSwan


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The peak of summers is here and most of us would just want to stay at home just to avoid the extreme heat (and well, sweaty armpits). The wrath of the heat and the sunlight takes a toll on our skins unlike any other time of the year.
While heavy pan-cake makeup is a strict no-no for these sultry months, there are some products that you ought to carry with you.
The sun is at its brightest and hottest, and obviously you require protection from the harmful ultra violet rays whether you are indoors or outdoors. Get a water based sun screen (SPF 30+) for the summer but make sure that you try them out before buying a big tube just in case they trigger a break out.
My Favourite – Lotus Herbals Safe Sun Uv Screen Matte Gel SPF 50 PA+++
Hydrating body mist:
The days maybe sweaty, but your skin loses out on essential moisture in the heat. A body mist is a must have, even if you just want it for feeling refreshed.
My Favourite – Forest Essentials (Oudh, Green Tea and Musk)
Lip stain:
What's summer without colour? While pastels will rule your wardrobe almost every summer, a hint of colour on your lips would work wonders to brighten up your face. I like lip stains because they tend to stay longer and don't look like they are about to melt off in the heat.
My Favourite – Lakme Absolute Lip Tint/ L'oreal Baby Lips
Aloe based gel:
Summer months can be harsh for the skin and and many products can easily cause a breakout. Also sunburn is a commonality in India. Aloe vera is the perfect solution to healing and soothing any kind of sunburn and also helps to cool your skin after day in the sun.
My Favourite – Aroma Treasures Tea Tree Aloe Gel
Classic red polish:
Add drama to your attire with a bright classic red nail polish. Don't forget to use a base coat to avoid yellowing of the nails.
My Favourite – Colorbar Quick Finish Nail Lacquer
Waterproof Eyeliner:
Lining your eyes is an essential part of make up. But chose a waterproof eyeliner to avoud mishaps.
My Favourite – Lakme Absolute Gel Addict Eyeliner
A Fruity fragrance:
Get a fragrance that is citrusy to feel refreshed all day. Deos might feel good, but alcohol in them mixed with the sweat are not a very good combination. Go for fruity soft flavour.
My Favourite – L'Occitane Citrus Verbena


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Naomi Kutin seems like a typical Orthodox Jewish pre-teen, until her extraordinary weight lifting talent changes her life and that of her family. Supergirl follows Naomi's unique coming-of-age story as she fights to hold on to her title while navigating the perils of adolescence—from strict religious obligations to cyber-bullying, and health issues. This at times disturbing film is a fascinating expose of the challenges and consequences of high-level athletic competition. Film will be followed by a discussion with Rabbi Carolyn Braun and Su Langdon of Bates College. Free. If you have not signed up on-line you can still attend — just come to the JCA in time for the program.
Free admission and program made possible by the Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust.
"a really wonderful documentary that made me feel like I'm actually with this family rather than watching them" ThatMomentIn.com Review
"Mesmerizing" Village Voice
"a film about creating one's own identity" The Forward
Film Details
Documentary / Dir: Jessie Auritt / Canada / 2016 / 80 min
Slamdance Film Festival; Twin Cities Film Fest; Cleveland International Film Festival; Cucalourus Film Festiva; DocNYC; Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival
Jewish Community Alliance
1342 Congress Street
Portland, ME
Sunday, March 18, 1:30pm
Running Time
80 minutes


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Should you wait for home prices to go up?
February 28th, 2012 categories: Seller Tips
A week ago I asked the question, Should you Downsize Before You Retire? Today Steve Harney asked the question, Is it the Price of your Home or the Price of your Happiness? Both blog posts relate to doing what's right for your life today rather than holding out for more dollars.
Yes, this is simplistic and yes, sometimes you don't have the option of selling today to go on to the next phase of your life. Steve related the story of someone who wanted to move to Florida to with his daughter and grandchild. We had an opposite situation – a young couple with a baby who wanted to move back north to where their families were. In both of those situations, family won over price.
If you've decided you'd be happier living somewhere else, make your current home as appealing as possible to potential buyers and price it to sell. We'll be happy to meet with you and discuss your options.
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Does your real estate agent play well with others?
November 27th, 2010 categories: Seller Tips
Does your real estate agent play well with others? That should be something you check out when you're choosing an agent to market your home. There is a large inventory of homes and condos on the market so there's no way an agent can show all of them on the first round of homes to show or the second. When an agent is choosing which of comparable homes to show, they'll consider the following:
- Is the property easy to show?
- Can I rely on the description in the MLS to be accurate?
- Will the agent return my call promptly to confirm the showing?
- If it's an "agent accompany" showing, will the agent be there promptly at appointment time?
- Will that agent make my buyers comfortable or uncomfortable?
- Will the agent help or hinder the showing?
Yes, your choice of agent does make a difference in how often the property will be shown, and yes, your choice of agent will help or hinder an offer or contract.
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Short Sales
August 5th, 2009 categories: Buyer Tips, Real Estate Tips, Seller Tips, Terms and Abbreviations
Short sales are sales at a price that's not high enough to pay off the mortgage. So – the money is short. Sadly, the time to complete a short sale is anything but short. USA Today had an article this morning on short-sale frustrations. We've represented both sellers and buyers in short sales and it's generally a case of Wait – Wait – Wait. We've had buyers that didn't get a lender response for 6 months. Many times buyers will get tired of waiting for months for an answer to their offer and will withdraw. Sometimes the lender will counteroffer and the buyer will decline. Back to the starting gate. USA Today cites a study that says just 23% of short sale offers actually close. If I had to make a guess from experience, I'd say perhaps only 5% of the offers actually close – perhaps 23% of the offers that get a response from the lender close.
The timing and complexity gets more complicated if there is more than one loan. If it's a home equity loan, even with the same lender, it's a totally separate department. Sometimes there are second or third mortgages. Sometimes FNMA needs to approve. Sometimes a guarantor needs to approve. Sometimes the mortgage is owned by multiple investors. And yes – by the time the lender responds, the market may have changed and the buyer may not longer be willing to pay the once-offered price.
It helps if the real estate agent and/or title company checks to be sure the original documentation (financial statements and hardship letter from the owners, brokers price opinion, etc) is complete, as the package will keep getting rejected if anything is missing, so the time line doesn't even start.
We hear that the government has plans to streamline the short sale process.
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The 3 Ps of selling your property quickly
May 10th, 2009 categories: Seller Tips
There are 3 Ps to selling your home quickly: Price – Prepare – Present
Price it right. It doesn't matter what you paid for it or how much you have in it. It doesn't matter if it's "fair". It doesn't matter what you could have sold it for 2 years ago. It's all about what's actually selling – which do include short sales and foreclosures – and also what other homes are on the market. If you want to sell quickly, price it below those. If you Read the rest of this entry »
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Reverse mortgages and the new housing bill
July 29th, 2008 categories: Buyer Tips, Financing, Seller Tips
Reverse mortgages are for older homeowners – the owners are allowed to mortgage their home for cash or for monthly income, all according to a formula based on the owners ages and the home value. The lender does not need to be repaid as long as the borrower continues to live in the house.
One of the provisions in the housing bill just approved by Congress, awaiting President Bush's signature, is an increase in the maximum mortgage amount for a reverse mortgage – it is more than doubling to $417,000. In some high cost areas of the country the amount can be as high as $625,000.
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Is your agent internet savvy? Google them.
June 23rd, 2008 categories: Buyer Tips, Seller Tips
Many real estate agents will tell you that they post lots of places on the internet and that they're internet savvy. Why not check them out? Just google them (go to the google search box, enter their name, and hit enter). This isn't the only way to check, of course, but when one agent has 86,600 links and another one has 346 links, that should tell you to check further. Unfortunately, this can be complicated when the agent you're checking has a common name and the number of references refer to more than one person.
As Bill Gassett said:
** In the Real Estate world it is crucial to have an online presence. I know if I was selling my home I would not want to be using a "secret agent". I would want someone in my corner who knew how to expose my home to the masses online. One of the easiest ways to see if a Realtor will do a good job marketing a home is to see if they have a good online presence.
This can be accomplished by Googling a Realtors name. There should be pages and pages of results!! If you Google a Real Estate agents name and don't come up with much information it means they don't know how or have not invested the time to market themselves on the internet. If they don't know to market themselves, how could you possible expect them to do a good job marketing your home?
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There is a multitude of UK health and medical resources on the internet, and the best websites can be a handy first port of call when you are trying to find out information about a medical concern, or local healthcare services.
The NHS
The NHS has several websites that are available to the public for free, providing a wide variety of information. A popular one is:
www.nhs.uk – This is known as NHS Choices and provides comprehensive information on health (A-Z), how to live well, what care and support is available to the public, topical health and medical news and what services are available in your area. The health encyclopaedia is a useful reference tool for members of the public.
The former NHS Direct telephone number has recently been updated to 111, and if you cannot speak to your GP surgery or an out of hours GP, it is often recommended that you call NHS 111 to access urgent assistance or arrange for an out of hours GP to visit you.
In addition there are local websites affiliated to your local trust, which provide more detailed information about your local NHS services.
Here are some very useful NHS quicklinks:
- Click here to find out how to find out your NHS number
- Use the NHS service finder to find dentist services
- Information about choosing a GP
- Acess GP online services to book appointments, order repeat prescriptions and access GP records
Stay healthy with this guide on the flu jab. If you are 65 years old and over this is a free service, look for a pharmacy near you by clicking on the link below.
Other NHS websites:
- For NHS Wales, click here.
- For NHS Northern Ireland, click here.
- For NHS Scotland, click here.
You can register to give blood online and you can also register to be an organ donor.
This is one of the most highly used medical sites in the world, and exists in several versions, the American version (www.webmd.com) and the UK version supported by Boots the Pharmacist (www.webmd.boots.com) are the two most popular in the English speaking community.
There is a health A-Z plus a symptom checker that is a useful resource for checking any areas of concern. The Boots UK site features detailed information about men, women and children's health with current information and relevant news stories. Guidance about key life stages such a menopause is informative and there is medically validated information about various health conditions.
Social media accounts:
Quick links:
Net Doctor
The Net Doctor website, www.netdoctor.co.uk, is a comprehensive site that offers articles about healthy living, information on conditions and treatments and a symptom checker.
One of the most useful areas is the health services section – in which readers can find factsheets and advice about how to make the most of a GP appointment and offers information on the changes that are happening in the NHS. There is also an 'Ask the Dr' service if you wish to post a quick query online.
Patient.info is the web's leading independent health platform, established for 20 years. With more than 18 million visits a month, it is a trusted source of information for both patients and health professionals across the globe.
For more websites check out the Gaurdian's guide to health websites you can trust.
Here are some great tips to staying fit and healthy this winter. If you are interested we also have a guide on medical apps that you can download on your iPhone or Android - just click on the link in the Next Steps list below.
Finding reliable health information online
Be aware of the websites you visit by checking the URLs and only trust results from the NHS.UK or from UK charities that you recognise such as Diabetes and UK or Mind.
This guide was last updated on 07/08/2018


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British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) are holding a Marine Mammal Medic training event at Ullapool's MacPhail Centre on the 29th March that teaches trainees how to help rescue stranded whales, dolphin and seals.
BDMLR was formed in 1988 in response to a mass mortality of Harbour Seal in East Anglia and in the years since has become active in rescuing whales, dolphin and seals around the coast of all the UK. The course and techniques have been led by developments in New Zealand and Hawaii and has resulted in thousands of people being taught how to take part in rescuing stranded whales, dolphin and seal that can be injured or become washed up on the coast of the UK. A voluntary network of trained marine mammal medics respond to call outs from the general public, HM Coastguard, Police, RSPCA and SSPCA and are the only marine animal rescue organisation operating across England, Wales and Scotland. As well as trained medics, the organisation has a wide range of equipment strategically placed throughout the country to deal with strandings of marine animals, oil spills, fishing gear entanglement and any type of marine animal in trouble. This includes rescue boats, equipment trailers, whale and dolphin pontoon sets, a whale disentanglement kit and each area has a medic kit with essential supplies.
A mass stranding of almost 70 Pilot Whales at Durness in 2011 saw the volunteers successfully return 44 whales to sea, a record for Europe and still deemed an international achievement. Despite the success of this rescue, the incident highlighted the fact that despite having some of the highest cetacean activity in Europe, the Highlands are one of the least well equipped and have few trained medics to assist in such incidents. BDMLR teams are based throughout the UK but time is often critical in whether or not a rescue will prove successful and having local medic on hand is vital for the chances of saving animals in difficulty around the coast of Scotland.
Newly appointed BDMLR Skye and Wester Ross Area Co-ordinator Noel Hawkins who is based in Ullapool is appealing for anyone interested in wildlife to consider attending the Ullapool course later this month.
"Living in the Highlands we are very connected to our wildlife and environment and am sure most of us realise how fortunate we are having regular visits from whales and dolphin in our waters as well as resident porpoise and seal colonies along the coast. Not only are we privileged to have such animals on our doorstep but there can be no doubt that these animals are an asset to the region in terms of attracting visitors and tourists who come to see and share our wildlife. The risk of a serious stranding occurring without adequate numbers of trained medics would prove a tragedy for the animals but also be detrimental to how the Highlands are perceived in terms of caring and looking after our nature and environment. A recent mass stranding in New Zealand saw over 500 trained people attend and assist within hours. In the Highlands just now we would be lucky to achieve over 20 but have the potential to experience a similar situation at any time. I know and meet hundreds of walkers, divers, kayakers and other nature lovers who enjoy their spare time exploring and appreciating our coast, beaches, shores and wildlife and I would like to invite them to consider taking part in our training and assist contributing to safeguarding our natural heritage. Not only is the training invaluable if we were to have a stranding but is also fun and informative, teaching trainee medics more about the animals we have here and provides a great opportunity to meet others that share a love of our wildlife and nature."
The course offers a classroom based morning session followed by an afternoon rescue simulation at the beach using life sized whale and dolphin models with actual rescue pontoons. Despite the name, medics do not require diving experience. Medics come from all backgrounds and the only requirement is a passion for wildlife and desire to help protect it. Wet and/or dry suits are required and under 16 year olds will only be considered if accompanied by an adult and cannot take part in actual rescues until over 16.
For more information or to book a place on the Ullapool course or any of the other courses held elsewhere in Scotland and UK, please visit the charity's website at www.bdmlr.org.uk


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Real SMB IT: Collaboration And Tech Services
January 27, 2010
Let me tell you about a problem that most smaller businesses have!
You pay boat loads of money, either on retainer, or time & materials services for IT support – But, well, you wonder – what are you getting for all of that money?
Have you ever fit that description?
For small businesses that said yes to the above, I bet I can guess how your IT support processes currently operate too!
If a problem occurs, someone telephones or e-mails Your IT support supplier. Simply enough, that supplier tells you that they will fix it. I would also bet that if your supplier needs to physically visit your facility -they probably get hit with comments such as; "while you are here, Bill over here has not been able to print all week!"
Sound familiar?
And know with a huge inductive leap of logic, I can also guess that if you asked yourself (or your staff) about their perception of your IT support vendor, the perception will be at least neutral, and possibly even quite negative.
And perception is key!
Your IT support provider may be doing a great job – but if you cannot see it, if it is not regularly communicated, that negative perception will not go away.
In your business, who owns that IT relationship?
Right now? If you are like most smaller businesses, probably no one owns that relationship. And when I state owning that relationship, I don't mean who is assigned to sending the e-mail or making the phone call when something needs to be fixed.
Owning that relationship means that along with sending that e-mail, that follow up information is updated and documented.
Owning that relationship means being able to see that you called for IT support 5 times last week, and that all 5 issues were either taken care of quickly and effectively, or maybe they were not. (but then you will know!)
And How?
It can be as easy as an Excel spreadsheet.
The negative part about documents such as a spreadsheet is that emailing that document around can grow to be a nightmare. And the goal is visibility!
There are also simple, hosted tools that for a couple of hundred dollars per year will provide on-line dashboards of your tech services.
The SMB Takeaway
There is that tired old adage; Is everybody on the same page?
We can truly say that it has never been easier to keep everybody on that same page when true collaboration and communication exists with your technology services supplier.
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Real SMB IT: Don't Use Windows Autoupdate For Servers
January 25, 2010
If you run a Microsoft Windows Computer you are already familiar with the autoupdate feature that automatically installs the latest security patches and software updates.
I call it unfortunate, but if you use Windows servers, that auto update feature will do the same thing to your servers.
It sounds like a time saver right? All updates and security patches installed on your servers automatically with no human intervention required?
But here is the problem!
I am sure that you have noticed that for some of these automatic update patches or upgrades, that your computer tells you that it needs to reboot to finish that installation? – and that sometimes it just starts shutting down without warning?
Do you really need that to happen to your servers?
There you are typing an email and your MS Exchange Server decides it is time to reboot…..
Another issue with this automatic rebooting when it occurs on your servers, is that if several servers start to reboot at close to the same time, there can be errors or service failures depending on which servers start rebooting and in which order. For example, a Microsoft SQL Server with a Domain Services account would fail to start properly if the Domain Controller servers are still rebooting.
And the second problem I have with the auto update feature on a server; The Microsoft automatic update software has no idea what you are using each server for. So it installs all updates and all patches regardless of whether or not you need it.
Do you want that server rebooting for a patch to the Media Player application? – When no one will ever use it on that server and it is blocked behind firewalls? Of course, if a server is publicly accessible, needless risks like Media Player should be removed anyway.
The SMB Takeaway
When it comes to servers, review all the patches and updates that Microsoft publishes every month. They are published on Microsoft Technet, and you can even subscribe to security alerts via e-mail.
If the update applies to your environment, it may be critical to install it, but schedule it on your time. Schedule it after hours so servers don't start rebooting during business hours.
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IT & Social Marketing
January 22, 2010
Interesting article at ITWorld Canada: IT shops to become social marketing gurus in 2010
I found it amusing, since I guess I have been preaching that for a while.
If this is your first foray here, I have been doing a little of that myself! introduced in this post; IT In Marketing?
I guess I am not alone ….
UPDATE: Ron Shevlin as another great look at this; The Fourth Skill
Slow Down, You're Movin' Too Fast
January 18, 2010
In small business IT, things can happen too fast. While speed can be a good thing in some circumstances, when something has gone wrong, well?
Slow down a bit!
A server has crashed, or maybe e-mail is not working, whatever it is, there is a tendency to panic, a tendency to rush around. This problem can be exacerbated when senior execs are breathing down neck of their IT staff as they try and fix the problem.
But rushing around may not be the best option. A 5 minute bandage job may fix the problem, at least temporarily.
But sometimes taking the extra time to review, to dig a little deeper, and then to fix it permanently the first time, is the better way to go.
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Ian Lurie: On Web Professionals
January 15, 2010
In many places on this blog I have written that it is critical for SMB's to maintain all of the the key data relating to your Web Site. 'Key' data being access names, passwords and the like. (one example is here)
Marketing expert Ian Lurie puts it very succinctly in; 11 ways to not get screwed: Your guide to working with a web pro
The SMB Takeaway
Read Mr. Lurie's article, and get acting on that information!
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Landlords should consider taking out insurance that covers them if their tenants have accidents in the home, it has been suggested.
In general landlord advice, financial website MoneyWise claimed that one of the greatest financial risks a property owner faces is being sued for negligence by those who reside in their homes.
Getting the right cover is one of the most important landlord responsibilities, the portal stated.
Other issues they must consider, especially in the current economic downturn, include finding the right mortgage.
MoneyWise said that private landlords need to be aware of when their buy-to-let mortgage deals are running out, because the payment options may be different from original contracts.
It also indicates that property owners should ensure they are up to date with all regulations and that they keep communication channels open with tenants to make sure problems can be dealt with.
The Association of Residential Letting Agents set out proposals to help tenants in its Budget submission this week. It hopes the government will take on board the comments ahead of chancellor Alistair Darling's speech on April 22nd.
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2014 was a kind of rough year for me, health-wise, so I'm glad to be rolling over a new year with new hopes and (of course) resolutions to get myself back into shape and take better care of myself mentally and physically. One way for ME to do that is by allowing myself to do more of the things I love…like crafting. My best "therapy" is generally wrapped up somehow with a pair of scissors. So I stayed home and nursed a bit of a cold…and listened to some good music and the neighbors' fireworks…and played with shiny paper!
Lots and LOTS of shiny paper!!
This golden-champagne-glimmerfest was inspired by the Hand Stamped Sentiments Blog's HSSIC202, which offered up a very glittery inspiration photo with a New Year's theme. No problem with the glittery glow going on here! I've got shiny 5/8″ Gold Satin Ribbon, Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder on the 2009 SU A Brand New Year stamp, the Gold Fancy Foil Vellum, and Glimmer Paper–which I chose to do in the Champagne color, instead of gold, because…well because it's New Year's, and a little champagne was in order! I punched out some stars and some "champagne bubbles" circles to scatter about, just in case it wasn't shiny enough already. Just about went blind from the glare trying to photograph this thing, so I think I may have succeeded in the shiny department! I'm pretty sure I chose the Basic Black Card Stock for my card base just so my eyes would have someplace to rest while I put this together!
I didn't stop with "just" a shiny card. I chose to mount my card on top of another piece of the gold vellum (more champagne bubbles here for sure!)…which I attached to the front of an antiqued-gold-framed square mirror that I've had sitting around as a project starter for a good while now. This idea is thanks to a random comment from a friend, which encouraged me to "frame my works of heart". And I've done it in such a way that I can change it out each month (or holiday or occasion) to suit my time and tastes-at-the-moment.
I'm going to keep this framed piece in my office/crafting space as a very bright reminder of all the inspiration and opportunities around me. For me, this is a 3-D representation of the perfect way to start out my shiny new year. This is a year that I pray is filled–for all of us– with many blessings, much joy, and many more inspired moments of love, beauty, laughter, GOOD health…and the overarching gratitude for all this wondrous glow! Thanks for visiting my Little Corner today!


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Daughter's death sparks Mike Winters' zeal for fundraising
Mike Winters knows it was an unusual case of breast cancer that took his daughter's life just four months after she gave birth. She was only 30, and her doctors had attributed the symptoms of her rapidly spreading cancer to a difficult pregnancy.
But his grief propelled him to help other women who might still be saved. Just a few months after Kristi's death four years ago, Winters' law firm pulled together a team that raised more than $30,000 for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure's annual NC Triangle Race for the Cure. The next two years, Kristi's Crew was the top fundraising group and broke consecutive records for the amount raised.
On Saturday, Kristi's Crew was again a top fundraiser. In all, the group has contributed more than $200,000 to Komen over the past four years.
But Winter's involvement goes beyond the annual race and fundraising drive, says Kathy Burns, interim director for Komen's Triangle affiliate. Winters also volunteers on the development committee, and last year worked on handing out grants.
"He's done a great job with his team, but more than that, he's just so dedicated to this cause," says Burns, also a longtime volunteer and board member.
New energy for charity
Winters, 59, grew up in Raleigh and Cary, attending Cary High School and earning both his degrees at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar. He has a longtime interest in sports, and met his wife, Anne, at the Hillsborough Street YMCA in Raleigh, where they both worked with youth sports programs in the summer while they were in college.
It was in Chapel Hill that his interests moved from the ball field to a wider stage. The draft ended just before he would have been drafted for the Vietnam War, and the entire country was mired in protests. He also became more acutely aware of how fortunate his upbringing had been.
"When I got to school, it really opened my eyes to a lot of things that were going on," he says. "I got the idea that I was blessed, and should share my blessings with others."
He worked at a large law firm out of college, and then left with several colleagues to form their own, smaller firm, which now has about 35 attorneys at locations in Cary and Greensboro.
Winters and his wife had always given money to charity. But it was their daughter's sudden death in 2009 that gave them a new focus and energized them to give time in addition to money.
"Our giving had always been to lots of different things without a particular focus or motivation," says Winters. "And then all of a sudden it was so personal."
Kristi was in the midst of her third pregnancy when she started having terrible backaches and headaches. Her doctors thought she had a liver disease that would resolve itself after she had the baby.
They delivered the baby early, and it was only then that doctors discovered the cancer. By the time they diagnosed her, it had spread to her liver and bones. She lived only a few months, undergoing treatments while Winters and his wife took over the care of Kristi's small children.
Competitive in fundraising
Winters says his co-workers, who saw him through the time when he spent many days at the office in tears, organized the first Komen team on his behalf. The firm also sponsors an annual golf tournament for the Pretty in Pink Foundation.
The first race was emotional for Winters. Only a few months had passed since Kristi's death, and the tragedy was still raw.
The sight of 20,000 people gathered at Meredith College, including breast cancer survivors, some healthy and others still suffering, put his tragedy in a larger perspective.
"You look at Hillsborough Street and there's jam-packed people, and it's just astounding," he says. "It brings it home in a way you just can't appreciate otherwise."
The fundraising side of it also piqued the competitive instincts of the law firm and the circle of donors they had recruited. They were the second-highest fundraisers the first year, and aimed to make it to the top the second year.
They succeeded, and have kept that as their goal ever since.
"It's healthy competition," he says. "If someone raises more than we do, that's great. It's more money for a good cause."


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Seriously People, You Should Be Paying More Attention to Marty Stuart
There is a great injustice going on in country music right now, and I am mad as hell about it.
I'm not talking about the gross objectification of women in today's country songs and the systemic exclusion of female artists from radio. I'm not talking about the continued undeserving of traditional country music through the mainstream industry or the under-appreciation of quality songwriting. Though all these issues and many more chap me like you won't believe and have been pontificated upon at length for years, this is an issue that is way more specific.
We love to speak long and loudly about the virtues of younger, upsurging artists such as Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Cody Jinks, Margo Price, and others, and how they're turning the country industry upside down with their successes. Saving Country Music does this more than anybody. But what does Marty Stuart have to do to get some of the incredibly deserved attention that his new album, and frankly, his last seven or eight years of stellar output deserve?
Why is Marty Stuart's efforts going systematically overlooked? Is it just because he's an artist in his late 50's, so folks think he must not have much left in the tank? Is it because everybody thinks he's a known quantity, and is incapable of setting the creative pace in country? Whatever it is, it's wrong-minded and a travesty, and bordering on an embarrassment at the lack of attention he is receiving by everyone involved.
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives latest record Way Out West is nothing short of astounding in the way it re-imagines the Bakersfield Sound and the country rock insurgence of the 60's. Now I know that's an opinion, but if Sturgill Simpson or Jason Isbell had released this record, we'd all be falling all over ourselves right now. Granted, that's exactly what Marty Stuart's hardcore fans are doing at the moment, with Way Out West on the tip of their tongues for being in contention for one of the greatest albums in a good while. How is it resonating beyond Stuart's rabid fan base though? Way Out West came in at #44 in the Billboard Country Albums charts in its debut week. Sales for this thing are deplorable. And this is in the era when independent and traditional country artists young and old are regularly weaseling their way into the Top 10, or even into #1 slot on at albums chart.
This really is a travesty. This isn't about showing respect to a country music legend, though Stuart definitely deserves that distinction. This is about recognizing the efforts of one of the most creatively dynamic and forward-thinking country music artists of our time, right here, right now, who also happens to be a country legend, who played with Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash, is a member of the Grand Ole Opry, and is at the forefront of preserving country's history.
I'm not asking you to support this guy out of guilt. If you're not exposing yourself to Marty Stuart's creative output at the moment, you're flat missing out on some of the best musical enjoyment the greater country music realm has to offer. And I don't care if you're a traditional country fan, and Americana alumnus, a classic rock guy or gal, Way Out West has something for everyone. I already reviewed the damn thing and said about all I could about it. But apparently the country music public needs the hard sell. And meanwhile it's not just the mainstream that needs to look long in the mirror and confront its ageism. So do a lot of these independent fans.
I'll get off my high horse now, but do yourself a favor and find a copy of Way Out West or pull it up on Spotify, and find out what you're missing. Go back and listen to some of his more recent albums like Ghost Train: The Studio 'B' Sessions or Tear The Woodpile Down. Then tell a friend. This is not fuddy duddy country music, this is guitar-driven, creatively-dynamic, forward-thinking country music that can bridge generational gaps and have a lasting effect on the human spirit.
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By the "Anna Maria Area", we mean the towns of Anna Maria, Holmes Beach and Bradenton Beach. Anna Maria Island is connected by a bridge to Longboat Key, which is covered in our Sarasota Area section.
There is a live webcam showing the beach on Anna Maria Island, it is located at Harrington House Beachfront Bed & Breakfast.
Anna Maria Island still has a small-town feel to it unlike many other places in Florida. From north to south, it is only seven miles, but it divided into three separate towns: City of Anna Maria (approx. 1,900 residents), the City of Holmes Beach (approx. 5,000 residents) and the City of Bradenton Beach (approx. 1,700 residents).
At the south end of the island, you will find Coquina Beach County Park, a mile-long public park with free parking and lifeguards. Great for travelers on a budget, who can't afford beach-front accommodations, and great for those who perhaps feel reassured by the presence of lifeguards.
We have to also tell you about the new Village of the Arts in Bradenton. It is a small area in downtown Bradenton where over 30 artists can be found within walking distance of each other. There is a once-a-month Art Fest, but you can visit at any time. Village of the Arts is a true grass-roots effort that is worth seeing and appreciating.
Desoto National Memorial: the mission of De Soto National Memorial, a National Park, is to commemorate Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto. With an army of 600 soldiers, Soto came to the new world with a license from the King of Spain to explore, colonize and pacify the Indians of the area known as "La Florida". Programs at the park explain the prevailing 16th century Spanish cultural values and the inevitable clash with the native cultures the expedition encountered.
Bishop Planetarium: Located on the Manatee River waterfront and taking up an entire city block in downtown Bradenton, the South Florida Museum, Bishop Planetarium, and Parker Manatee Aquarium is a unique educational and entertainment resource where you can experience Florida from "Astronomy to Zoology" all under one roof! Attendance to the Museum, Planetarium, and Aquarium grew from 30,000 visitors in 1979 to nearly 200,000 in 1995.
For information on attractions, see the Anna Maria / Sarasota section of our attractions page for more information.
You can obtain a printed vacation guide by contacting the Anna Maria Chamber of Commerce (Beachdirectory.Com is a member).
Please refer to the Beach Directory accommodations section for some excellent lodging providers.
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Kim Burnett - Osteopaths
Kim Burnett has been practising as an osteopath in Aldbourne since 1997 and has recently been joined by local girl Clare Caskie (nee Osborne).
Osteopathy, although mainly thought of as a treatment for back pain, is effective for many muscular skeletal problems and uses a combination of massage, mobilisations, manipulations, exercises, along with alterations to posture and lifestyle. Most problems get better with only a few treatments but occasionally conditions may benefit from ongoing treatment.
Osteopathy can help with a variety of problems including:
- Back Pain
- Neck Pain
- Sciatica
- Headaches
- Joint Problems
- Muscle spasms
- Arthritic Pain
- Rheumatic pain
- Repetitive Strain Injury
- Problems During Pregnancy
- Sports Injuries
- Problems Caused by Stress
- Postural Problems
Kim also uses cranial osteopathy in her practice. This is often used to relieve tension in the head and spine in babies, and young children, and can be used on adults too. This is a very gentle form of osteopathy which uses pressure on the skull and ligaments to realign and rebalance tension and distortions which may be present.
For further information please visit her website, or contact her using the details shown below.
Contact Details
Kim Burnett
Beech Cottage, Crooked Corner, Aldbourne, SN8 2EJ
Telephone: 01672 541198
Website: http://www.kimburnett.co.uk


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Lex Thomas' primary concern is the idea of belief. A mistrust in the nature of reality drives this as well as an interest in the stories we tell ourselves. In surveying fictional realities Thomas has examined a range of unexplained natural phenomena, such as the supernatural and paranormal as well as altered psychological states, magic, cults and UFO religions.
Recent work has come about from a combination of automatism, subconscious association and chance. The Prisoner's Cinema series of drawings was inspired by the phenomena whereby those confined in dark cells for long periods report visual hallucinations. The works were made on the reverse side of photographic paper in reference to experiments in spirit photography.
Working in a similar vein, the starting point for the IFIF paintings are intuitively made clay fetishes that reflect on previous studies in Anthropology and Sociology. The title derives from the International Federation for Internal Freedom, a psychedelic cult founded for the purposes of scientific research, expansion of human consciousness and religious awakening.
Working instinctively to give physical form to a stream of consciousness continues in the series Djinn, named after the spirits from Islamic mythology that take form to influence humankind for good but usually ill.
The Third Person series is an attempt to make portraits from the inside out, employing accidental and serendipitous ways of working to visualise unconscious chatter and to give form to things one cannot put into words.
Thomas utilises the freeform gesture as a vehicle to make things one cannot see, that are on the edge of becoming and in an attempt to find some recognition in the unknowable.
Lex Thomas (b. 1972, London) read Sociology at the University of Greenwich before studying Fine Art for three years at the University of the West of England. She subsequently gained a Postgraduate Diploma from Chelsea College of Art and is currently studying for a Masters degree at the Royal College of Art. She has exhibited in Europe and the States and widely throughout the UK including at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, the Princes Foundation Gallery, the Mall Galleries and Orleans House Gallery. Solo exhibitions have been Of Truth of Clouds, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire (2013) and Future Proof, Opus Gallery, Newcastle (2011). She has been shortlisted for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, the Rising Stars Prize and won third place in the Woolgather Art Prize. Her work is held in private collections in the UK, USA and Germany as well as the Cill Rialaig Arts Collection, Ireland. In 2016 Thomas published an artists' book In Search of an Author (ArtCircus Books).


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text: City Malthouse (Former) 71 Colombo Street, Beckenham, Christchurch City Malthouse (Former). Copyright: NZ Historic Places Trust. Taken By: Melanie Lovell-Smith. Date: 1/12/2001. List Entry Information List Entry Status Listed List Entry Type Historic Place Category 2 Public Access Private/No Public Access List Number 1902 Date Entered 24th June 2005 Locationopen/close Extent of List Entry Registration includes the building its fixtures and fittings, and the land on CT CB15F/957. City/District Council Christchurch City Region Canterbury Region Legal description Lot 1 DP 18904 (CT CB15F/957), Canterbury Land District Summaryopen/close In 1864 English resident Charles Simeon sold 42 acres at the foot of Colombo Road (now Colombo Street) to brewer and landowner Richard Packer. Packer built a homestead 'Somerfield' on part of the block, and in July 1866 leased 5 acres beside the Heathcote to his brother-in-law Rogers Deacon and the latter's business partner William Vincent (1832-1901), for 21 years at £75 p/a. In November 1866 Deacon and Vincent took a mortgage for £1,200, probably to fund the construction of a malthouse on the site to provide for their City Brewery (1861 or 1862), a mile further north on Colombo Road.The malting of barley is central to the production of beer. The traditional malting process had three stages: steeping, germination and kilning. Barley was initially soaked or 'steeped' in water in large vessels. Then it was spread on long malting floors, to be turned frequently by shovel until germination took place. Germination converts the barley's starch to sugar. After about five days the sprouted barley was spread on a drying floor in a kiln or 'oast', where heat from a furnace flue stopped germination and developed flavour and colour. The finished product was removed after about a day, to serve as one of the constituent ingredients of beer. Some breweries maintained their own malthouses on site, but it was not uncommon for malt production to be outsourced.The Deacon/Vincent partnership was dissolved in March 1867, but resumed in July of that year. In the intervening period, Deacon took a mortgage with Packer for £500 - perhaps to complete the malthouse building. The Lyttelton Times reported in 1869 that the partners had spent in excess of £2,000 erecting 'one of the finest malthouses in New Zealand'. Deacon and Vincent renewed their lease on 30 May 1870, and on 1 June took a mortgage with Packer for a further £1,000. In 1869 or 1870 an additional oasthouse was added beside the existing one on the south elevation. This increased the capacity of the malthouse to 20,000 bushels per annum, and may have been built to provide for the Victoria Brewery in Windmill Road (Antigua Street) that Deacon acquired around this time. Deacon and Vincent's partnership was dissolved again - this time permanently - in March 1871, with Vincent carrying on the business on his own account under the moniker Vincent and Co.Packer died in 1872, and the following year Vincent and new business partner Charles Todhunter (1838-1916) purchased the freehold of the malthouse and its five acre block. At the time Todhunter had just returned from an extended sojourn in Britain, where he had studied brewing. The pair rebuilt the City Brewery in 1875, but in 1877 Todhunter departed for another extended trip. In 1878 the partnership sold the malthouse and half an acre to the manager of Wards' Brewery, Richard Steele. Steele sold to Arthur Empson and Alexander Boyle in 1882. Boyle, a founder of stock and station agents Pyne and Co., and later chair of the board of Pyne Gould and Guinness, bought Empson's share in 1884. A corrugated iron lean-to with a stone and concrete basement was added to the north elevation about 1887.In 1889 the Wigram Bros. maltworks in Heathcote secured several large contracts with brewers in Australia. This increased demand exceeded the capacity of the Wigram works, and a number of other malthouses were leased. In 1891 Boyle leased the City Malthouse (as it was by then known) to Henry Wigram for three years with a right to purchase. With extensions, Wigram's own works were eventually able to meet demand, and the other malthouse leases were given up. Brewer Samuel Manning and Co. bought the property from Boyle in 1903; a purchase that coincided with a national upturn in malting after several years of slump.In 1923 ten breweries throughout the country merged to form New Zealand Breweries. In Christchurch, Mannings' joined with Wards' and Crown. The old City Malthouse thus became part of the nationwide conglomerate. In 1947 the Canterbury Malting Co. Ltd. was formed at Wigram's old Heathcote maltworks, and a rapid expansion of that site took place. Following the opening of a new malthouse at Heathcote in 1953, major shareholder New Zealand Breweries was able to close its own obsolete malthouses down. Malting at the City Malthouse ceased about this time and the building was sold in 1955 to grain and seed merchants Aysons Seed Co., to be used for storage. Aysons lowered the oasthouse ventilators and removed the brick furnaces. Part of the building was also used as a depot by building firm S. A. England.In 1965 amateur theatre group Canterbury Children's Theatre purchased the building, naming it The Malthouse. The Canterbury Children's Theatre was founded in 1952 with the objective of presenting theatre to families. Over the last 50 years the company has introduced live theatre to thousands of Christchurch children. Between 1966 and 1969 architect John Hendry remodelled the interior and made a concrete block addition to the north elevation to create performance space, storage and toilet facilities. Following a QEII Arts Council grant in 1975 extensive renovation of the two oasthouses was undertaken during 1976, again by Hendry, to provide wardrobe storage, set construction areas and a greenroom. During 1984 a window opening was enlarged, and a new interior access stair and sprinkler system installed. Major internal renovations were proposed in 1993. A resource consent was issued in 1994 but the project was not implemented. Part of the roof of the 1887 addition was raised in 2000 to provide more space. Seismic strengthening was undertaken in 2003 by architects Wilkie and Bruce. The remainder of the roof of the 1887 addition was also lifted at this time. The former manager's cottage sits adjacent to the south elevation of the building, and has been owned by the theatre since 1966. Assessment criteriaopen/close Historical Significance or ValueHistorical significance as New Zealand's oldest surviving malthouse; as a monument to the important place of brewing in New Zealand's early industrial development, and the once central role that independent maltsters and malthouses played in brewing. Architectural and technological significance as an early and now the only known example of an intact stand-alone malthouse. There are two individually identified malthouses on the register, but these (in Blenheim and Wanganui, both Cat. II) are only portions of what were full brewery complexes. There are several other surviving malthouses that also constitute parts of such brewery complexes (such as Ward's Brewery, Christchurch), but these were never stand-alone malthouses and are therefore not registered independently of those larger complexes. Social significance as the home of the Canterbury Children's Theatre, Christchurch's premier children's theatre company, for forty years. (a) reflects the significant place of malting and brewing in New Zealand's industrial history, where the industry and its buildings were among the most substantial in colonial towns.(e) is held in high esteem by the Canterbury Children's Theatre, who have maintained the historical integrity of the structure whilst adapting it for their purposes.(i) is the oldest remaining malthouse in New Zealand.(j) is the only intact, remaining, stand-alone malthouse left in New Zealand. Linksopen/close Current use Civic Facilities - Theatre Construction Professionalsopen/close Hendry, John No biography is currently available for this construction professional Wilkie & Bruce No biography is currently available for this construction professional Additional informationopen/close Physical DescriptionA large rectangular three-level stone industrial building, with two oasthouses projecting from the southern wall. Each oasthouse has a pavilion roof. The walls of the building sit on concrete foundations, and are 28 inches thick at the base, decreasing to 18 inches at the top. Most openings have dressed quoins and lintels. The flat lintels are supported from above by solid relieving arches. The interior was originally plastered throughout. Rafters are totara. A corrugated iron extension was added to the north elevation in c1887, and a concrete block addition to the west between 1966 and 1969. The roof of the c1887 addition was raised in 2000 and 2003 to provide more space. Construction Dates Original Construction1867 - Addition1869 - Addition of a second outhouse. Modification1887 - Lean-to added to north elevation. Modification1955 - Lowering of outhouse ventilators and removal of furnaces. Modification1965 - 1969Alterations for Canterbury Children's Theatre, including concrete block addition to west elevation. Modification1975 - 1976Alterations in outhouse areas. Modification1984 - Window enlarged, new interior stair and sprinkler system installed. Modification2000 - Raising of part of roof of 1887 addition. Modification2003 - Earthquake strengthening and raising of remainder of 1887 roof. Construction DetailsThe original malthouse is shaped rubble brought to course, with a corrugated iron roof. Later additions are in corrugated iron and concrete block. Completion Date20th August 2001 Report Written ByMelanie Lovell-Smith Information Sources Christchurch City Council Christchurch City Council Heritage Unit File, Building and Planning File Collins, 1981 E. Collins, Malting in the Heathcote Valley 1871-1981 The Canterbury Malting Co Ltd, 1981. Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) Land Information New Zealand Titles, Deeds, Applications and Instruments MacDonald Biographies G.R. MacDonald, Dictionary of Canterbury Biographies, Canterbury Museum, n.d. McLauchlan, 1994 Gordon McLauchlan, The Story of Beer: Beer and Brewing - A New Zealand History, Auckland, 1994 New Zealand Historic Places Trust (NZHPT) New Zealand Historic Places Trust NZHPT File 12009-245; NZHPT Field Record Form Thornton, 1982 Geoffrey G. Thornton, New Zealand's Industrial Heritage, A.H. & A.W. Reed, Wellington, 1982 Other InformationA fully referenced version of this report is available from the NZHPT Southern Region Office.Please note that entry on the New Zealand Heritage List/Rarangi Korero identifies only the heritage values of the property concerned, and should not be construed as advice on the state of the property, or as a comment of its soundness or safety, including in regard to earthquake risk, safety in the event of fire, or insanitary conditions.


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The quote below is attributed to Col. Edward House, a Rothschild agent and adviser to American President Woodrow Wilson. It's taken from an essay written by Paul Verge and posted on Henry Makow's site. Although written from an American perspective the system described was adapted from the existing one already (and still) operating in Britain. For me it's not only an insight into that system but also into the hearts and minds of the 'people' who devised, operated and benefitted from it.
"[Very] soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a National system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging.
By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer not being able to work and earn a living.
They will be our chattel, and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions. Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges.
They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be none the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two would figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability.
After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor or to this fraud which we will call "Social Insurance."
Without realizing it, every American will insure us for any loss we may incur and in this manner; every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and, we will employ the high office of the President of our dummy corporation to foment this plot against America."
Paul Verge then notes:
"If you can decipher what this means, you will truly understand a massive piece of the Global Agenda.
Essentially, House's quote illuminates the multiple "need" for imposing Legal Person's status upon us by the Satanic (Ego Worshipping) Elite.
The 'Strawman', also known as the Legal Person or Natural Person is the idea that a Fictitious Legal Entity, called a PERSON, exists for purposes of Law and Commerce.
This PERSON is similar to a Company or Corporation in that it exists as a construct of the imagination - it has no real body, and no soul to save, but for legal purposes, carries similar rights and attributes to that of a Human Man or Woman."
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Now that we have light evenings, between weekday showers, I have been catching up in the garden: part post-Chelsea therapy, part in recognition of the fact that the garden has been neglected for over a month. The continuous rain has been beneficial in some respects; fast rates of growth and quick seed germination. But it has been detrimental in other respects, namely peach leaf curl. Never have I seen it so bad - there is barely a leaf left. The strawberries have just about every fungal disorder possible and we have plague proportions of asparagus beetle. I spent the evening vigilantly removing diseased vegetation and offending insects.
Mixed a new batch of comfrey tea. My wife swears that I make this to annoy her, as it's quite obvious when I've made a new batch: the lingering smell will not wash off one's hands that easily. But the tomatoes are thriving and appear to grow before my eyes.
I have a strategic water butt hooked up to the greenhouse just for tea making facilities and the rain has obliged. There's something very fulfilling about the fact that these tomatoes are fed using a rampant weed in the garden and watered with pure, free rainwater.
Yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor), has populated the wildflower meadow quite well and started making inroads into weakening the grasses. Being a hemi-parasite to grasses, it is quite clear where the wildflower is doing well due to the stunted growth of perennial grasses. However, species diversity is still minimal - mainly yarrow, knapweed, oxlips, ragged robin and thistles. Yes, lots of thistles that are dangerously close to flowering. It will be some weeks before I cut the meadow, so I spent a few hours undercutting the plants with a small spade. I'm not sure how this will work long term. I also brought the sheep into the barn to dry off overnight for shearing.
Fly strike is our sheep's biggest enemy and the rubbish summer has, so far, kept the fly at bay. Yet there have been reports locally. I had been reluctant to shear yet as one ewe still has not lambed and the potential manhandling could induce her prematurely. Our friendly shearer Will handled her most delicately. Post-fleecing it was clear she is not in lamb - she's just fat.
I wormed the sheep and put on anti-fly strike treatment: a liquid that you spray onto their backs to repel flies for three months. It's not very organic I know, but when you've seen maggots literally eating into the flesh of a sheep ... Put the sheep back out and got my wife to help lift the children's trampoline into their field for some respite from the rain. A woolly jumper was the best joke we could come up with.
The Lots in Pots auction held by the Garden Museum in London is approaching and I have been asked to submit a pot for auction to help raise funds for their horticultural internship programme.
I planted up my pot using my favourite colour combination: orange, blue and lime green. I love dahlias. To some they might be a bit 1970s, but to me they deserve more respect. None more than Dahlia 'David Howard': a dark leafed sport of the Bishop of Llandaff family discovered by its namesake David Howard at Howard Nurseries. It has dark orange perfect flowers as though created by Spirograph and will not need any staking – perfect as a main feature in my pot.
For blue, I used Salvia 'Indigo Blue' and uplight the combo using lime greens of Deschampsia flexuosa 'Tatra Gold' and Euphorbia cyparissas 'Orange Man'. It should flower for a long time and give much pleasure to a successful bidder. Mind you, I hope they like dahlias.
Time had run out: the lawn will have to wait until Sunday evening, or I could put the electric fence up and stick the sheep in?
Thomas Hoblyn is a Chelsea Flower Show gold medal winning landscape and garden designer. This is the latest in a series of posts on the ups and downs of a life spent creating beautiful gardens.


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To make French onion soup in a slow cooker, combine onion, broth and spices. The soup is cooked on low for 10 hours before being placed in serving bowls and topped with French bread and melted cheese.
Spray a slow cooker with cooking spray and add 14 cups of thinly sliced onion, and 1/4 cup of melted butter. Sprinkle in one teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of pepper and 1/4 teaspoon of dried thyme. In a small mixing bowl, blend 3/4 cup of sherry, five tablespoons of flour and 1/4 cup of water with a whisk until smooth. Add the flour mixture to the slow cooker, cover and cook on low for 10 hours or until the onions are tender and dark brown.
Add four cups of beef broth to the onions in the slow cooker and increase heat to high. Cook on high for 10 minutes or until hot. While the soup is finishing, line a baking pan with foil and place several thick slices of French bread on the pan. Allow one slice of bread per bowl of soup. Place the baking sheet in an oven set on broil and broil for 2 minutes per side or until lightly toasted. Sprinkle 1 1/2 cups of Gruyere or Mozzarella cheese over the toasted bread slices and return to broiler for one minute, or until the cheese is melted.
To serve, place soup in serving bowls and top each bowl with a slice of toasted bread.


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