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Benin: History
For the first time, women farmers in the rural villages of Bessassi and Dunkassa in northern Benin are able to grow vegetables and fruits during the six month dry season, improving food security and nutrition for themselves and their families. Farmers are also increasing their income by selling excess crops in the market. Now entering its third year, SELF's Solar Market Garden project has proved that solar energy can provide long term solutions to hunger, malnutrition and poverty in developing nations.
The Kalalé District of Benin is a poor, dry region in the northern part of the country with approximately 100,000 people – none of whom have access to the electric grid. The economy, as in most rural districts, is mainly based on agriculture with more than 95% of the population involved with farming. Despite its great potential, crop production in Kalalé remains weak and easily influenced by natural conditions. There is precious little rainfall during the six-month dry season that runs from November through April each year.
During the dry season, the land of Kalalé is parched and its people are hungry. Malnutrition is widespread, as evidenced by the many children with distended bellies – a telltale sign of kwashiorkor, a condition caused largely by a lack of protein and micronutrients. The most pressing challenge for all the people of Kalalé is having enough food to eat.
SELF's involvement in Benin began in 2006 when we were first contacted by Dr. Mamoudou Setamou, a native of Kalalé who had received a Ph.D. in agricultural entomology from the University of Hanover in Germany. Mamoudou, now a Professor at Texas A&M University, had recently participated in a Kalalé district council meeting to explore options for electrifying the region's villages since the national grid would not be extended to this remote part of Benin anytime in the foreseeable future.
Believing that solar power might answer the needs of his people, Mamoudou turned to SELF for help. Over the next few months, we put together a plan to generate solar electricity for a wide range of end-uses – including schools, health clinics, water pumping systems, street lighting, and wireless Internet access – in each of the 44 villages that comprise Kalalé District.
In terms of priority, however, an on-the-ground needs assessment revealed that the first concern among the local communities was food security: to find a way to overcome the endemic lack of water and agricultural produce that condemn the people of Kalalé to an endless cycle of poverty and poor health.
Objectives & Solutions
To address the problem, SELF approached Professor Dov Pasternak, at the time a leading drip irrigation expert with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRASAT). Pasternak had developed the "Africa Market Garden" – a simple but highly effective method of using drip irrigation to grow high-value fruits and vegetables on small plots of arid land in the Sahel region of Africa.
Prior to working with SELF, Pasternak used diesel generators to power the water pumps used in his drip irrigation systems. We proposed solar as a more viable alternative, both economically and environmentally. (In a SELF white paper, it is shown that the payback period for solar pumping – as compared with diesel – can be less than two years, and that's at today's diesel prices which are going up, and solar prices which are going down.)
Finally, in November 2007 SELF partnered with Association pour le Developpement Economique Social et Culturel de Kalalé (ADESCA) to launch a remarkable pilot project, installing an innovative solar-powered drip irrigation system to pump water for food crops. SELF engineers developed a 1.2 kW solar electric power supply that provides 100% of the energy for the pump. SELF secured seed funding for the project by emerging as a winner in the 2006 Global Development Marketplace competition, sponsored by the World Bank.
Bob Freling, SELF's executive director, returned to Dunkassa and Bessassi with a French television crew in June 2009 to spend time with the people and film their progress. Bob immediately noticed a difference in the women, who have filled out since his last visit. Not only are the women better fed, but so are the children and the rest of the villagers who now have year-round access to a steady supply of highly nutritious fruits and vegetables.
What's more, the women are earning an extra $7.50 per week from the sale of fresh produce at the local market. Bob was there on market day, and was delighted to see the women march proudly into town with their baskets filled to the brim with leafy green vegetables.
Stanford University's Program on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) conducted an economic and environmental assessment of our multi-sector intervention in Benin, beginning with the pilot phase. FSE published its findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in January 2010. Researchers found that income and nutrition have improved significantly for women and their families since SELF installed three solar irrigation systems in 2007. The study also concluded that SELF's Solar Market Garden is cost-effective and environmentally sustainable. The systems should pay for themselves in approximately 2.3 years; and they are durable, emissions-free, and more economical over time compared with gasoline- or diesel-powered water pumps.
National Geographic has awarded a grant to SELF through its "Great Energy Challenge" program. This grant will enable us to move forward with our plans for whole village electrification in the villages of Bessassi and Dunkassa.
The Great Energy Challenge is an important three-year partnership between National Geographic and Shell, designed to help all of us better understand the breadth and depth of our current energy situation. National Geographic has assembled some of the world's foremost researchers and scientists to help tackle the challenge. Led by Thomas Lovejoy, a National Geographic conservation fellow and renowned biologist, the team of advisers will work together to identify and provide support for projects focused on innovative energy solutions.
Future Needs
SELF's solar installation has made a dramatic impact on the health and quality of life for the people of Bessassi and Dunkassa. But there is much more work to be done. While SELF has begun drilling wells in each of these two villages – ensuring access to clean, safe drinking water – there are 42 more villages anxiously waiting for solar-powered drip irrigation.
By bringing solar energy to power schools, homes, health clinics, street lights and microenterprise centers, we can empower Beninese women and their families to lift themselves out of poverty, ensuring a brighter future for all.


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There were extra kids playing in all of our extra snow.
And, not even the arrival of chicken pox...
could keep this girl from her regular business hours.
We tried something new.
Today- freshly milled flour for cookies. (Tasty failure.)
Tomorrow- freshly milled flour for bread. (Wish me luck!)
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Carl W. Kenney II is an award winning columnist and novelist. He is committed to engaging readers into a meaningful discussion related to matters that impact faith and society. He grapples with pondering the impact faith has on public space while seeking to understand how public space both hinders and enhances the walk of faith.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Green Space Feeding On Old School Ways
"We act as if all of this is brand new," Melanie Wilkerson says when discussing the labels used to describe food. "We capitalize on something that is not. Whatever is natural, whatever is organic, whatever is native, that is nothing new."
Those labels cost big bucks. Shucks, a trip to Whole Foods will take your whole paycheck. It's sad that it cost so much just to eat the right way. That's why Wilkerson and her partner Kifu Faruq have teamed up with Tahz Walker and Christina Rivera Chapman of Tierra Negra for a fundraiser to be held on Friday, September 9th from 5-8pm. They hope to move food justice and food insecurity to the forefront of the food movement in Durham.
"Both of us come from a small black business tradition," Faruq says when asked about the motivation behind Green Space Initiative, the company she and Wilkerson formed. "There was always someone in our house or in our family with a side hustle. Be it doing hair, doing nails or cooking food that they then turned into a lucrative business."
Faruq and Wilkerson began thinking about creating their own side hustle in 2009. Faruq was doing clinical research at Duke and Wilkerson did hair at Perfection, a salon owned by her family. They wanted to quit their jobs by finding a way to pay their bills while supporting the community at the same time. The inspiration came when they picked up two magazines-Mother Jones and Yes.
On the cover of both magazines was Will Allen, founder and CEO of Growing Power. Allen, the son of a sharecropper and a former professional basketball player, has worked to transform communities by supporting people from diverse backgrounds and the environments in which they live through the development of community food systems.
"We wondered why couldn't we do this in North East Central Durham," Faruq says. "Why couldn't we help create an alternative food system that is for people of color, run by black and brown folks and our leadership comes from people who are most affected by food insecurity and food scarcity?"
Allen's work in Milwaukee and Chicago reminded the couple of how their families made the ends meet in the 70s. Wilkerson grew up in Durham on Plum St. Every family living in her neighborhood had a garden.
"They had no idea of what it meant to go without food," Wilkerson says. "They only brought sugar, coffee, things to clean the house and meat, and sometimes there was someone who still lived out in rural Durham who would slaughter the meat and bring it in."
Faruq's mother moved to Durham from California as a vegan. "She wasn't going to be able to get tofu, beans, organic rice cornmeal and oatmeal," Faruq says. "So, she contacted Tree of Life and told them she had to have food delivered to her." She discovered others with the same needs-Muslims, Jehovah's Witness, Amish and people from Jewish communities who wanted to maintain their kosher lifestyle-and formed a buying club.
Faruq and Wilkerson formed Green Space Initiative to connect urban Durham communities back to their agricultural roots. So much has changed since life in the 70s in Durham. Processed foods and meat laced with hormones has helped rouse increases in obesity, diabetes and heart disease among African American, Latino and Native Americans. Green Space hopes to create an infrastructure to manage gardens within Durham's urban community. The fundraiser will help support that effort. The end result is affordable food not laced with pesticides.
Wilkerson and Faruq have come a long way since they saw Allen on the cover of those magazines. Faruq's Kukia's Cookies is the rave among those in love with her organic, chocolate chip, lavender cookies. Wilkerson has a catering company-Chow Chow- which she describes as Diaspora inspired soul food. "It's everything from Soul Food to Thai Food," Faruq says. "It's food from wherever black folk have been."
They have called on friends to help support their vision for connecting community gardens. Thomas Justin Robinson, Shirlette Ammons and Shana Tucker will perform at the fundraiser. Tickets are $20. A cadre of local chefs will create a menu using vegetables and herbs from the garden and meat from local farmers. It will take place at the community garden at 2158 Charles St. For tickets call Kifu Faruq at 919-949-4195.
I'm planning to get my vegetables and herbs at Green Space. It's cheaper than Whole Foods. Besides, it reminds me of my daddy's garden. I didn't have to pay two bucks for a pound of tomatoes back in the day. I pulled it from our garden.
They call that old school.
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We were pedaling a little more and found our way to the Gay Head Lighthouse, which is one lighthouse you have to see if you are in this area! Not only has some historical significance and some stories to tell, but is one of the oldest in the country! It is a thing of beauty, and one thing that adds up to the whole thing is the spectacular view it offers of the New Englander coast. The night was falling a bit and that's when we saw the lighthouse gear into action, and that was something unexpectedly gratifying. To see the beaming light crossing the sky toward the ocean, you cannot go wrong, not only for lighthouse lovers but also as a romantic spot cause when we arrived there were few couples having a picnic dinner, I saw a few with caviar and crackers and a bottle of wine, I thought for a moment in making another trip to bring Alejandra Ms Hotness here!
It was getting late and we have enough time to have a nice little dinner and getting into the ferry boat. We heard from some of the locals that the Italian restaurant Lattanzi's Restaurant was pretty good, so we decided to go there. All the pedaling was getting into my stomach and pretty much everyone was starving to death! This place has a very nice atmosphere, and we saw a couple of plates and we definitely realized that all the reviews were well deserved it. I got the Vongole con Blanco, which is clams with a white wine alfredo sauce, it was to lick your fingers! My aunt got the Ravioli that had lobster and let me tell you that everyone was talking about her choice, I decided that next time I am getting that one!
We have so much fun in Martha's Vineyard, the place has its charmed and we said how wonderful it would be to live here, but the real estate here is very pricey though. However, you have to come here to Martha's Vineyard cause you can have a really good time!


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text: One of the traditions of United Methodism is outreach into the community and the world. The Gaylord church donates money as well as many hours of volunteer time to a variety of causes. Prayers and Squares This group meets on Wednesdays at 6:00 to make quilts that are used for prayer quilts within our church as well as provide quilts for other groups. Crop Walk The church participates in the annual community Crop Walk. Church members get pledges for walking and the proceeds go to help end hunger. Food Pantry Many members of the congregation work at the local Food Pantry, as well as monies that are donated to this local charity. Relay for Life The church has for many years taken part in the annual Relay for Life. Monies pledged are used for cancer research. This last year, the youth walked all night to support this cause. Shelly Hildebrant is the chairman for this event. The Refuge FUMC and several other churches have joined to provide housing and food for the homeless of Gaylord. Contact Linda Ryan if you would like to volunteer for this outreach project. Emmaus House This home established for women recently released from incarceration has been the recipient of money as well as many donations of clothes and household goods.


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Let me describe the station: annexed to the Grand Central Terminal is a platform for the 42 Street Shuttle. It's an open air station, in that the token booths...I guess I have to call them Metrocard machines now, c'est dommage...are on a mezzanine, and there are four open stairways leading down to the train platform.
This mezzanine is shaped like an "H" and overhangs the platforms on one end. Along these corridors are office buildings with stairways that lead to the subway, one of New York's many hidden attractions.
One corridor leads to two buildings, and is lightly travelled, so lightly that the shops along this walkway have shuttered. There was a locksmith and a shoe store, both long gone and gated now.
Down this corridor, dimly lit with greying grimy walls, stands a emaciated man with an unkempt fro and the wisp of a beard. Usually, he's wearing some bizarre combination of clothing. Today, it was a pair of running tights, and a hoodie sweatshirt.
I understand why he wears what he wears: he gets these clothes donated by the overpriced clothing stores in the terminal itself, who probably throw clothes at him, rather than have him linger in their stores with the high priced running shoes and the double-mark-up shirts. Even his shoes speak of high end, albeit leftovers.
Sometimes I see him practicing karate katas, waving his hands with force and purpose, kicking high over his head, but nearly silently.
I'm sure the cops have warned him. There's usually a cop or three on the platform or on the mezzanine. You could say this is ground zero for the anti-terror forces of the NYPD.
Maybe he practices these forms because in his head he imagines kicking bin Laden in the teeth when he shows up wired and strapped with explosives.
Maybe he feels he needs to keep in shape because down in the subway, when things get tough in the city, is where death happens. Certainly, the number of homeless, which has crept steadily upward since the 90s, is beginning an inexorable geometry of expansion.
Maybe he's just insane.
Sometimes he just stands there. In the summer, he wears worn jeans cutoff at the knees and held up with a rope like Lon Chaney's Wolfman.
Sometimes he sings, but not very often and not very loud.
Sometimes, he's scary, screaming and ranting at everyone and everything, including me when I need to walk past him to get to the bank. I ignore it, of course. I've seen how high he kicks.
He holds court in this corridor, this dingy remnant of better days in corporate America. The fence that separates the mezzanine from the platform is embedded in a concrete knee wall, tiled with, well, white ceramic tile laid in the subway pattern.
A long banquette for his imaginary court.
He never harasses anyone who walks by, apart from the occasional angry running commentary. He never asks or demands spare change, which sets him apart from his homeless brethren and their imitators. He never accepts a handout. I know. I've tried.
And he never looks lost. He always seems to know that he is precisely where he needs to be, when he needs to be there, even when I've seen him patrolling the vaulted main room of the terminal, rummaging through the bins for leftover food.
This is his home, his castle, his palace, this grand and glorious monument to man's inability to remain in one place for very long.
Ironic, ain't it? He tolerates we many, we unhappy many, we band of bummers, because we cook for him, we clean for him, and we entertain him; hundreds of thousands of jesters a day, regaling in our finery. What must he make of us?
The station nominally closes its doors at 2AM for cleaning, but I know, I mean, I know, he's found a spot where he can't be seen and watches his staff cleaning his mansion.
Or maybe he doesn't care to hide himself. Maybe he's allowed by the MTA to wander freely, picking up the leftovers of the food court, sleeping on a bench somewhere because it's warm. I'd like to think so. I'd like to think that this man, whom we might pity, has been allowed the dignity by the bureaucrats and governance to remain in his home.
And yet, I can't help but feel that he deserves better than this Fisher King-like life he leads. Yes, he seems happy enough, and yes, he's refused help from me, but how can we know for sure that he isn't simply overly suspicious? How can we know he doesn't know how to ask for help? Indeed, how can we be certain that anyone's ever been able to ask him properly?
In a country overseen by Republicans for six of the past eight years, in a state run until recently by Republicans, in a city run by Republicans for decades until one finally had the sense to say basta! and became an independent, this man stands as his own monument to the torment and torture of the poorest of the poor, the meekest of the meek, the most trod-upon of our society.
A shining example of Republic-tude. Mental health be damned! We have wars to fight and cronies to enrich! Economic royalists, we say!
For this man's sake, and for the sake of others like him who have no voice, who hold no seat at the table of American politics but who have to live with our laws and our government, I truly pray that the new hope that Obama promises will include him.
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Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
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Enemy of the state
First, they came for the oil.
Happy new b'ak'tun.
It's been feeling for a while now that we're splitting off from each other, and that feeling has just kept getting more powerful for me. If you look at the media, you could certainly be convinced for yourself. The muppets in america are clearly being driven to each other's throats, caught as always in utter terror. Turns out parenting interferes with pawing away hours at your cell phone, now we have to ban all the things so that the adult world can become a child-friendly version of itself to accommodate the worst examples of ourselves; pretending that the utterly exceptional is the norm. No doubt they're lobbying to get oprah and dr phil inserted as a suppository for every man, woman and child, because accepting their programming via the teevee has clearly done so much already. It doesn't satisfy much that I put in the words early.
A couple of years ago, I benefited from a borderline psychedelic experience thanks to some magic mushrooms that had mostly gone off by the time they reached me. I asked what was ahead for us, vis-a-vis the new b'ak'tun, and my subconscious answered in the form of the semi-vivid, symbolic vision that my mind appears to favour. It showed two spirals, or maybe two directions in the same one. The rotations on one keeps getting smaller, while the ones in the other direction keep growing outwards. It showed me that most of us were in the shrinking one, but that by now, most of us would have migrated out of there. The implication was that chasing the shrinking spiral was a result of acting in fear, and the further implication was that the shrinking would eventually mean for everyone on that path a kind of spiritual death, if not a physical one. I realised what that meant for me personally, and found it difficult to believe that I would in the interim give up my (fear-induced) habit of tracking and saving important world news, or trying to front-run the future via the reports of a "rickety time machine", but now that's already happened.
If you haven't noticed the spiral getting smaller, you haven't been paying proper attention. Most people have been pulling into themselves, trying to live in a fractal of things that were once tiny; getting all worked up and interested in things like coffee and food, then hiding there. Watch satellite teevee and you'll find prison and cop shows trying to convince you that big brother is everywhere and that not even a gram of weed could escape the "great eye". Switch the channel and you'll find people trying to convince you to spend hours a day preparing meals. Be only afraid of al CIA-da, the other channels beg: "Don't worry that the most terrified nation on earth murders their own citizens in false flag attacks for an excuse to secure other people's resources and your own: We got people whose job it is to worry about that, and they seem quite satisfied, sleeping on mattresses made of stolen oil money."
The propaganda is only going to get clearer and more self-defeating as time drags on. Satirists have been out of work for years now, their jobs taken away by people who thought they were being serious. A once (relatively) reputable south african news site spammed this into the headlines, like it wasn't an ad. I wonder what they think they will be left with once people spent all the energy they had left on getting worked up at summer, coffee, cat pictures, or the left-hind leg of big potato moths. Probably willing shells with which to make war on the rest of us.
I am not afraid.
Hau, and dancing on the edge of a blade
It should shame any sentient being to say that fully seven years passed before they could see 9/11 for what it is, as was the case with me, but luckily most people who would judge me are still unable to hold the necessary concepts in their heads long enough to form a picture. It is my opinion now that this event was intended not only for sale of the terrorism surveillance state and what will probably turn out to be the last terran-only war, but also to divide the people of earth between those who can see what is in front of them, and those who cannot or will not. Divide and conquer may be an old trick, but as you may note from much the same people responsible for funding new hollywoodland films, originality and creativity comes not when your motivations are fear first and profit second.
What most often comes first to someone who is fortunate enough to have all those trees suddenly click to form a forest, is the impulse to go off crusading to free your co-humans from this most cowardly of world orders. Frustration is then encountered as you begin to notice the utterly obvious way in which most people, including yourself, are accustomed to think and act along the rigidly-defined lines as supplied by years of being surrounded by matured media. Indeed, it is this frustration that is meant to divide the people into "sheeple" and a new harvest of "illuminated ones".
Another fallacy that the newly-sighted have to deal with is that of centralised control, and I think that the impulse to free all is partly or completely derived from this line of thinking. You will inevitably observe this riding on the back of the truth movement: "Every bank turned out to be stealing, therefore we should have a centralised institution to monitor them." What the hilarious euro should have already demonstrated is that even a subset of life's problems are far too complex to have a single solution. Already this manner of institution is being attempted to regulate the universally-evil carbon dioxide. They do try so very hard. Never mind that everything these institutions do will happen behind closed doors, and include in its governing body people that no one and nothing except the requirements of capital elected. Never mind that every cent from the trillions of the first global tax will be spent in secret, until leaks open up a scandal of the oldest kind, to be buried behind some celebrity's sudden death.
No. It is no-one's duty to free everyone from themselves. It is my lifelong duty to free myself from my own stupidity. It's not the state's duty, and it is most certainly not that of the new world order. Giving up every ounce of life force to a pyramidal control structure in return for the protection of a police state is an extension of every person's right to make their own choices. Is someone a prisoner while they cannot perceive the bars on their cell and would never think to venture near them?
But let's not consider only the lowest common denominator, the state's staple diet. There are many who will need help, and that just might make the difference between their continued destruction under the current world order and the start of their lives as free human beings. Knowledge, for one thing, is something that can be shared without being diminished. In fact, it only improves with the assistance of another mind.
Still, many people will die here whose most admirable achievement will have been to paw at their tablets after gratification like some cosmically disappointing hamster seeking its next food pellet. There will be a reality show where someone comes to tie the shoes of those too voluminous or mentally deficient to do it themselves. The choice of this destiny is every person's right.
Here then is a useful word for everyone who insists on a police state to protect their infantile features:
Hau (haʊ)
Hau is a word used in southern Africa, and it can be translated to mean "I don't know". Most of the time "how this happened/works" can be suffixed. It is notable in that it often represents the the final step in the most ambitious attempt the user will make in understanding a problem. I suspect it will become much more widely useful than it is even now. Examples:
In order for a building to collapse into its own footprint at free-fall speed, all its load-bearing supports need to be severed at close to the exact same moment. How could this happen due to fire?
If all liquidity is introduced into the system as a loan from a bank, having interest, which means the amount that needs to be repaid is more than what was created, how could you expect anything other than infinite debt or collapse?
Having accepted that they are not capable of producing even possible hypotheses to relatively simple questions, even if their thought pattens are ruler-straight (like this dipshit), people are then free to proceed in giving all of their labour and love to the first charlatan or shill that are capable of speaking the loudest and producing the most shiny false dichotomies and straw man arguments. They have my blessing to continue in banging their heads against trees, trying to jetpack away from within what is actually a dense forest. In a moment of weakness during frustration I may still mark them with the name of sheeple. But that's not because their life is worth less than mine, only because it's apparently worth more to me than it is to them.
9/11: A Conspiracy Theory
I'll just leave this here.
If you stumbled into this conspiracy theorist's blog unintentionally, if you happen to be someone who thinks that our distributed white or almost white civilizations are the highest peak of human progress we're currently able to conceive of, I would ask you when we voted to let certain private banks control the issuing of currency. It is my duty to inform you that, no, currency creation is not in fact in the hands of government in most countries. I feel you should know that privately-owned businesses have acquired, through a process we're never told about, the right to say that there is now x amount of money, where there was nothing, which they then loan to non-cabal banks and governments, with a percentage of interest. When, in our supposedly free society that we're told we love and respect so much, does the assignment or removal of this most crucial economic ability ever appear on the ballot?
Politicians and all manner of economic experts feign ignorance, when that ignorance is not real, at the ungraspably many layers of obfuscations that no one but their own kind have covered this systemic monstrosity with. Their presented solution is always to centralize power, and their promise is always to rid the world of anything bad ever happening again. Taking the long view of our economic history, it becomes clear that our economies are controlled, and monopolies increased, by the peristaltic or rhythmic expansion and contraction of available debt, as issued by the world's central banks. Centralisation of control only serves to simplify this action. You should not take my word for this, but neither should you swallow whole anything coming from An Expert™, especially when they resort to personal attacks towards anyone who challenges their conjecture.
I believe I've logged sufficient hours trying to front-run the planned actions of the scum of this world. To do this, you need to access your own inner darkness in order to project, and putting myself in their shoes has covered my feet in something I don't want it covered in. Attempting to do this is a symptom of fear, something I would like to think no longer has the grip on me it once did. Just because excessive fear is bad, that does not mean any percentage of fear is bad, contrary to what our mainstream media's polar left-right thought system would like us to believe. Being able to access fear is healthy, as well is it necessary to not only be aware of, but able to exploit the darkness in all of us, to a small extent, to recognise when a cloud of it is waiting for us.
I don't really care any more what control-obsessed, ultra rich, inbred crime families have planned for us. Life is the only media I know of that is interactive enough to consistently surprise you when you think you have figured out what happens next. Suffice it to say that these parasites feel so unable to cope with the lessons life inevitably teaches all of us, that they are still trying to attain enough power through money to prevent it. We are able to understand this now, because even since before the royal heads started to roll down the hills, most of us have wanted to be just like them.
They are a function of evolution, to blatantly demonstrate to us that part of ourselves we must be willing to admit we have, before we can avoid it controlling us. To answer the question I posed, on when we vote on who gets to produce money: We cast our ballots every time we pass a currency note of their issue in exchange for something else. The only ability they have demonstrated over us is to make us think we have none of our own. Like I said: It's not in the hands of government.
If there is anything I would say we should be to face our future, however boring or active it may be, it would be able. Able of body, mind and spirit. Most importantly, able in that elusive extra dimension that enables us to realise that the aforementioned three are actually all part of the same thing. There is no one less able to meet their own challenges of life, since we all got the same amount of character points when we started, they were just spread out all in unique ratios for diversification. Life, of which we are both part and observers, speaks to us from the inside and out, and we need to be able to recognise what it is trying to teach us, what we are trying to teach ourselves, and respond to the best of our abilities.
In the previous incarnation of this blog, before it had a kind of theme, and the corruption of this world was only an occasional guest star, I wrote that finding one's Mojo meant being ready to deal with anything, even if you are not prepared for it.
60% chance of a perfect storm
Heed these words if they ring true for you, or better yet, just add them to the ol' brain list, because there's a non-zero chance that I may be off my bloody rocker. I am unable to provide an objective reckoning about which side of my sanity coin has landed face up, because the magnet that used to hold my reverse side to the fridge we call our so-called modern society has become a slightly disoriented Koala and is subsequently far more attracted to tree branches.
Even if the aforementioned coin has landed with its "good" side up, whether that side is actually the side most "well adjusted" to our world is up for a fractal debate. In the most optimal of cases, my research is spotted with guesstimates to make up for a lack of time, and my reasoning stained with gut feelings in case of an even split in cognitive dissonance.
It would seem, from the point of view of someone who has been accused of wearing tin foil hats, that now is a kind of prime time, top of the show opportunity for another false flag. This episode, the role of Osama will be played by no one, and those lovable characters invented to strike utter fear into the hearts of Christians everywhere have to, for real, be pissed off about that. I have been quite taken aback by the apparent approval some Internetians have shown to a theoretical future invasion of Pakistan, owing to the fact that, in the least, it's accepted that they have nuclear weapons. I checked, they weren't kidding that invading another country seemed reasonable. Then again, that's more than it's taken in the past, and maybe this time we'll be spared the wrath of Rumsfeld the reptile's vector art department.
No, this time much of the painting might indeed be left to the theatre of the mind, guided by a heavy helping of that crowd favourite, fear, laced with all manner of preservatives, artificial sweeteners, compounds more toxic than lead, and other things they'd otherwise need a hazardous materials permit and a man dressed like Darth Vader to dispose of properly.
Since I started paying attention in 2009, I've been constantly surprised and re-surprised at how much closer the global economy, resting in large part on that of the U.S. and the Eurozone, can come to collapsing, and at how many more holes can be blown by reality in the "debt as viable economy" lie before people take a step back and go, "hang on...". This week, courtesy once again of the excellent disobfuscated financial commentary at Zero Hedge, we have plunged industrial production and auto assembly numbers and the absurdity of the housing bubble up by another order of magnitude. Remember when politicians and all other manner of con-men and -women used to bother at least talking about a recovery, and the possibility of double dip was something only discussed by the "weirdos"?
With the royal parasite wedding now over, with it's impossibly long hype-up and assumed blatant flaunting of what was once your money, "they" need the next best ill-advised scheme to rekindle their once tight grip of illusory control on the general population. Options are rather limited when you are filled with hate and fear, so my bet would be on all-out war. The way I see it though, the chances of a false flag happening as described here are significantly decreased because of me writing this. Interestingly, I first saw a billboard in early May that said clearly "21 May - Judgement Day", and now there's a dessicated old chap with the job title of "Doomsday Leader" saying that'll be the actual end of the world. Whatever it ends up being, you can be sure that it will be someone trying to make or maintain a profit.
False flag incoming
I should probably disclaim that whatever I write are my beliefs and deductions only. I don't expect anyone else to conform to them, and just because I criticise members of any group, that doesn't mean I'd like the global death dance to be continued against them just because some of them are not currently capable of compassion. I would certainly appreciate any lost traveller correcting my faulty reasoning where they find it. My purpose here is learning through sharing.
Arms companies receive metric fucktons of money for selling tools to commit murder, and the highest body count determines their premium offerings. Governments tax us to buy these implements at insane prices, and in return they no longer fix our roads, but fondle children at security checkpoints, just in case any of them got by the priests. When business gets slow, they execute Newton, live, in 3D, and you better eat that shit up or else you'll never work in this town again, you crazy tin-foil hatter, you. The suckers of this slimy octopus don't quite cover the whole planet yet, and that's why they just don't seem to be able to help themselves.
It's coming, it will be ugly, and I don't know how the world is going to react. It will be designed to knock us on our asses so that all capability for rational thought will bounce out of us, but I suspect it may wake quite a few people up. Others will not be able to handle the unfolding world, and either way we need to prepare for some rather rude awakenings. I've learned that people who make predictions should not provide dates, and you'll see none of that silliness here. I have no idea when it will happen, but I suspect sooner rather than later, because things are getting crazy(er) quickly. I accept that I may be completely incorrect about the entire modelling of how the world works, but it functions a damn sight better than "I'm surrounded by idiots". We're all idiots, based on how wrong we are most of the time, but sometimes experiencing the world with a blindfold provides you with new insight.
Israel seems a likely target for a false flag, or it may happen to many countries simultaneously. Chicago may get false flagged too, since a story I found on the 'net once about some guy's girlfriend identifying a nuke going off there as 9/11 2.0, through an incredibly vivid and prophetic dream, seems about as likely as anything else I've read. That, and a number synchronicity once suggested that Rahm Emanuel is the antichrist, and he is currently being positioned under that rock. Synchronicities are of course odd little things, coming up at odd times. I'm not completely convinced they have any importance, but I'll take their word over anything that comes from the anus of the monetary-dependent media.
I don't think that the interconnected protests in the arab world which started right around the December solstice are completely organic in nature, though they seem to be making the best of it. In some ways they have already provided a shining example to the rest of the world how hands can be joined for change, or at least awakening and cooperation for a start, without a lot of military spending and lending. Nevertheless, they will likely be blamed, and that old chestnut may not stand up to a second viewing.
UPDATE 2011/05/19: Added the link to the Chicago nuke dream prophesy.
Conspiracy reality
The accumulated propaganda against the phrase "conspiracy theorist" is failing, but it's the strength of it which I found perhaps the most surprising of all. I discovered that many intelligent people—the likes of which hang out at places like Slashdot, or even busy themselves on Reddit trying to make others understand that the actions of israel against palestine are inhuman—are unable to cross the proverbial Rubicon into that sort of territory where they could be accused of theorising about conspiracies.
"Just about everyone except me is stupid," is what they've been told, and to them every action on planet earth can be explained from that basis alone. If the economy fails like it has many times before, it is simply because those in charge don't know what they're doing. This is not even to mention the broken logic of the voting public. A case could be made for this kind of behaviour, because there must be a certain kind of honour and nobility in being meek enough to be food for something else. Cows are generally defenceless, yet are very useful for their plodding strength, which is why Hinduism regards them as sacred, gentle souls. There is also a undeniable fear of being removed from one's peers that is employed in the conspiracy theorist meme, and I can't blame others for their choices, because that fear has never had an opportunity to really find a hold on me. Truthfully I've always been a bit crazy (our new word for not assuming everything you're told is true), and throughout my life I have found it more important to be true to what I believe than to have friends who are only acquainted with a façade I could generate.
I've met the most amazing people, greater than myself, in the freedom movement. To be there they also have had to be true to themselves beyond where society would nominally allow, but also because they were shown a world where an organised group with all the resources and social control must be opposed by those lone souls who necessarily have none of these things. It is a battle of near-impossible odds, and in it many of us finally found an enterprise worth engaging in.
I've been thinking about what my part is that I could do to make this world a better place to live in, because writing about it has been a start, but ultimately inadequate. No kind of employment I know of is a worthy endeavour, because the corporate environment by design inevitably moves toward the interests of profit, and after a certain point that imperative becomes more accurately identifiable as theft. Give a man a fish or teach a man to fish is key to serving others in their best interests, and this sheds much light on the goals of so-called charity. What happens anywhere these charitable organisations operate is; first the grain prices fall through the floor because the market is flooded with hand-outs. Farmers in that area lose their livelihoods, and of course the market for land goes into the toilet because nobody wants it. You can guess who then buys it up at a bargain because you don't get to be filthy rich by acquiring things honestly. It's just one of the many ways that people are made to lose their self-sufficiency and their land, and at least the great bulk of humanity must be lauded for not even being able to conceive of such a level of evil.
9/11 is the loose thread anyone can pull to unravel the tapestry of bullshit we've all been wrapped up in, and without such a glaring mistake I don't doubt that most of us would still be lost in uncertainty. It's something that had to happen to bring an increasingly loving and peaceful world to war, and you can admire life its elegance in bringing to the fore the unfinished garbage that necessarily has to be revealed for us to move on. WTC7 is the clear and unambiguous smoking gun of this latest in a long line of false flags, going in the face of all we're still allowed to know about the laws of physics. Get it while it's legal.
There is only the correct way to honestly evaluate what happened on 9/11, and everything else like glaring omissions and flat-out lies in the official accounts and investigations is an optional extra, unnecessary to determine that some group must have conspired to spur another profitable war. Using even the most accepted methods of crime investigation implicates those with motive, and the events that have transpired since then points clearly to arms manufacturers and oil companies. The former cannot exist in a state of peace, and the latter cannot exist with an acceptance of truth. I've often thought about producing a satire to illustrate the absurdity of this world, but ultimately nothing can match the satirical finesse of what we're meant to believe.
World Whore 3.0
The truth is everywhere and it's free, but some assembly is required. The problem is people don't like doing stuff, and when I say people, I include you and I, because we're the sheeple. We get bored of things because of the same mechanism that allows us to spot a green leaf in a pile of brown ones, and helps us pretend that the moment that just passed still exists. We also generally don't like being wrong, because that may make us seem ridiculous.
What happened is that, one day, some men showed up and suggested we should trade some of that bread for this bit of shiny rock they found. Some speculate whether these men emerged like that, top hat and all, from the ass hole of the planet. Today the world is starting to run out of bread, and we don't even have the rocks any more. We long ago started using little pamphlet vouchers which represent a certain amount of the rocks, but by now the stamped papers only represent a value inversely proportional to the amount of them in circulation. While the food keeps getting harder to come by, the amount of good toilet paper wasted on this endeavour keeps increasing, and the real value of this idea called money keeps getting smaller. It may be possible that these things are connected.
We're slow learners, though. We've known that the emperor has no clothes since the 1300s, and most of us still don't get it. In comic fashion, the new lie has gotten more impossible to stop the more we've invested in it, until now we're forced to watch it blow up in our faces. That's where the shit that's hitting the fan is coming from. I suspect that it's landing on the arab states first because israel is our modern day faecal super volcano, and that's the direction the wind is blowing. The original israeli eruption probably didn't make it to the news because the atmosphere over there has apparently always been shitty and people didn't notice the change.
If you follow any of the more accepted news networks, you may know that you're now authorised to really start trembling in your boots, because something called the muslim brotherhood™ is taking over the arab world. Look anywhere else, however, and you may realise that the people doing the actual work out there don't actually appear to give a shit about any of that crap, and may in fact just be bone tired of watching their children go to bed hungry. Look at history, and you may learn that it has been relatively easy to make people go to war by first inducing famine, and now more than ever the beast needs to be satiated. When the teevee news starts talking about food shortages in a self-destructing economic environment where you can speculate on food prices like you can on tulips, software companies and badly built houses, you can be sure that it's going to happen.
We may witness israel being turned into the world's largest glass quarry soon, because like world trade center 7, that's probably where all the bodies are buried. What you're not supposed to realise then, is it's just a way to grease the wheels for another cycle of jewtopia. It doesn't work so well any more to accuse someone of being an anti-semite when they accuse you of stealing, so the term may go all 2.0 on us. They may actually execute six million jews this time or they may not, but you can bet it'll be the ones they don't like. From the looks of their apparent lack of ability to like anything, it might be the entire population, and as a bonus they get to blame all the people that accused them of stealing.
The best part is that there are no tragedies in life, and natural disaster is a bit of an oxymoron. We may think all this is important and that we're special, but we're just another manifestation of life, and the only part of us that is immortal is what is constantly changing. If we do decide to let ourselves be destroyed by another war we've been sold, or we eventually just work ourselves to death, it will be nothing but the experienced hand of natural selection telling us we should maybe try again in a few thousand years.


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Claire Rush, one of Sophia Network's Steering Group members, caught up with Lindsay Bruce and learnt about the work she is involved in with A Way Out a project helping young women and girls in Stockton-on-Tees.
Tell us a bit about yourself, Lindsay -
I am 33 years old, a wife, mummy, pastor, writer and former journalist, and also now work full time for A Way Out. I am passionate about seeing injustice stamped out, empowering women and preaching the Gospel. Not always in that order. I am also a Scot living in England, therefore I am an avid Irn-Bru drinker and relish any excuse to cross the border.
How and why was A Way Out charity founded? –
A Way Out began 10 years ago by a small group of women including our now CEO Jessie Jacobs. Jessie had just become a Christian and had begun helping with some youth work at her church. One night she met a 15-year-old girl who was working as a prostitute to pay for her and her boyfriend's drug habit, and an 11-year-old boy on methadone after becoming addicted to heroin age 10. Although shocking it wasn't until the following week that Jessie's heart was broken. On that occasion she had been invited to help at a large Christian youth event. In the midst of her joy in experiencing worship, and surrounded by young people happy and safe, God brought back to mind the little girl on the streets, and the little boy addicted. She couldn't shake the juxtaposition of kids happy and safe within the walls of a local church, and less than a mile away other young people were broken, lost and in danger. That's how A Way Out started. What began as a prayer meeting and a drop-in has become an award-winning charity with more than 20 staff now reaching out and coming alongside the most at risk women, young people and families trapped in poverty, abuse, addiction and exploitation.
What type of work and projects is A Way Out involved in?
We run several projects – and it just keeps growing. We have youth work in some of the most isolated communities in our area; Women's Recovery work, helping females from 16+ who are already caught in a cycle of addiction / abuse / exploitation – some will be active 'working girls' – to coming alongside those who almost certainly are heading onto that pathway, this includes therapy, life skills classes, advocating in court, a daily Heart2Change programme and weekly drop-in times; Families work – raising aspirations and helping bring stability to those families who struggle with truancy, unemployment and deprivation; Food Plus – creating community wellbeing hubs where a food bank is not just a provider of food but a hub where cooking classes, parenting courses and community can be built and taught.
What is the biggest challenge that you have faced?
The challenges are always great. Our vision will always exceed our finance because the more people we help, the greater knowledge and understanding of the complex situations we have, so more work is needed to fully tackle the problems. We come from an area badly hit by public sector cuts and high unemployment – aspiration can be low. A challenge is always to help young people believe that there can be more and to instill hope. One story that sticks out for me is of a young girl who came to us week in, week out for years. She had an addiction she couldn't break and a boyfriend who helped her stay that way. Every week she would come in and see that help was available, she would be spoken to and shown such value and love, but would walk out to a heavy-handed partner who would encourage her onto the streets to keep them both in their habit. It broke the hearts of the team to see her in a constant place of abuse, bruised, wounded, and scarred from the horrendous experiences she was encountering They would see him waiting for her as she left the sessions with the recovery workers. The challenge was to keep walking with her, to keep hope and believe that one day it would happen, one day she would be free. Thankfully our incredible team didn't give up, and one day it clicked for her. She came in and said, 'that's it, I want to be free.' We helped her. She is now happy, free, safe and whole again.
The grooming of young women has been profiled in the news quite a lot recently, yet many people still don't believe that it is happening in their own communities. Can you provide us with some facts on sexual grooming across the UK?
Last year the Government issued a report that said a conservative estimate of how many young people had been affected by grooming and sexual exploitation was around 10,000 (under 18s) in the UK, with around 16,000 at risk. In an interview I did with a former police chief for Cleveland (the area where we are based) he said that if people don't think it's happening they just aren't looking hard enough. He also said the problem the police have is that young girls don't even know they are victims. That shocked and appalled me, but I needed to realise that groomers are very clever people indeed. In a nation where we have somehow lost all sense of value, we have people preying on young men and women who need love and acceptance. In just our area alone last year, there were 140 under 18s, the youngest of whom was 11, who were victims of sexual exploitation. This means they have gone through a grooming process and had actually been used for sex for the gain of another. Some were even trafficked within the UK. This is not an exhaustive figure. This is just figures relating to cases dealt with.
How can people help A Way Out to bring hope, freedom and wholeness to at risk young people?
There are lots of ways you can help.
Please pray for us. We work with people with very tough exteriors, but who are deeply hurt and broken inside. We need to carry God's mercy and grace at all times. Pray for our team and those we reach out to.
You could become an A Way Out freedom fighter, to help us champion the right for every person to have a happy, whole and free life away from addiction, abuse, poverty and exploitation. You do this by signing up to become a regular financial giver either for just £1 a week, or for £10 a month (or any amount you like really!). In fact, if you do this, as a special thank you to Sophia Network readers, if you sign up to £1 we will post you an A Way Out T-shirt, and if you do £10 we will send you a hoody!
Just email email@example.com with ref SOPH/FF and your contact details and we will be in touch.
You can join our mailing list and keep in touch, maybe responding to volunteer and gift appeals. Email email@example.com to join the A Way Out family.


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This is an interesting dress that depending on how the light shines on it you see brown or green or both.
Mom's green/brown organdy/organza dress
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Added lace to gingham dress
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For got to take a picture of the lace before I added it to the dress but I found this old picture that has two of the laces in it the antique ones.
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Mom's purple froth
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The dress is open on the side in this photo i just wanted a straight on shot of the dress and did not dare close it up for fear of hurting it.
This is the smallest dress I am guessing mom wore it about 7th-9th grade at the most which seems sort of odd considering the style of the dress.
Little gingham dress done but not done
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I finished sewing the gingham dress on Sunday but I as most know can not leave something plain Jane or the way a pattern tells me to do. I have to add something to make it a little more special or a little more me.
5 generations…1 little gingham dress
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Mom's screaming pink and purple plaid
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This is the largest of the dresses and I would guess she wore it when she was pregnant with her oldest two children by the fact that the waist and chest measurement are the same.
Mom's cream wool suit
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This looks like a two piece woman's wool suit but it is actually one piece that buttons up the back.


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ASTM to review glycerin use in antifreeze
Glycerin from the biodiesel production process could have a new use, and it's coming from a likely place: engines. ASTM is currently reviewing a series of new standards for glycerin that would allow the product to replace ethylene glycol in antifreeze. The standards are currently in the Subcommittee D15.93 on Research and Long Range Planning. In the 1920s glycerin was used in antifreeze but in the '30s it was replaced based on higher costs, according to a statement by ASTM.
The biodiesel industry has been searching for economically viable uses for the product for a number of years, and companies like Renewable Energy Group Inc. have also recently stated their interest to pursue use of glycerin as an additive in biobased chemicals. Deborah Baldwin, product manager for glycerin at Vantage Oleochemicals, said in a statement on the glycerin standards that the committee needs to determine what the appropriate grade of refined glycerin would need to be to ensure engine compatibility and use with engine seals. "We settled on 99.5 percent pure glycerin," Baldwin said. In addition to engine compatibility issues, she also said the committee still needs to determine the impurities present in the glycerin that "need to be controlled and measured."
To this point the committee has developed two test methods to look at the glycerin, ASTM WK22966, Test Method for Determination of Glycerin Assay by Titrimetric (Sodium Meta periodate) and ASTM WK22967, Test Method for Determination of Fatty Acids and Esters in Glycerin. The inter-laboratory studies have already been completed and are currently on ballot.
Along with these two standards, ASTM has also formed studies to look at specifications for engine coolant grades 1,2,3 propanetriol, specifications for glycerin base engine coolant for automobile and light-duty service and even specifications for fully-formulated glycerin base engine coolants for heavy-duty engines.
The glycerin committee is meeting May 18-19 in St. Louis to review the standards relating to glycerin as a possible option for antifreeze applications.


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I said I would talk about colour this week, didn't I?
Coloured jeans then.. By now you have likely seen all the coloured jeans around. I prefer the red J Brands.
With a belt, a good belt is key, Rag and Bone.
A flawless black t shirt, Aexander Wang.
Ooooh and the wedge.. I love these, I know they are high, and they may be too much for some of you.. But trust me, they are so cool. Marc Jacobs.
Or you could do the Rachel Comey bootie, another favourite.
I realize that besides the jeans everything is black, if you take issue with this you could always wear a grey t-shirt..
Or you could just include the medium PS1 bag, in Military. Such a great bag..
For all of you who came out to the Opening Night at The Room, thank-you!! It was so lovely to see everyone.


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WILLOWS — The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development"s Community Facilities Program has obligated a $14.5 million loan to Glenn Medical Center.
The funding will be used for the construction of a new medical facility in Willows, said Sam Ruma, an administrator at Glenn Medical Center.
"They have been working on it several years and we finally satisfied all the requirements," Ruma said.
The loan is secure, but the medical center still has to develop a working plan and take the development to the Willows city Planning Commission and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
It may be more than a couple of years before the new facility is built, but Glenn Medical Center representatives remain enthusiastic.
"It can take a year to a year and a half before they give you your approvals and you can start building," Ruma said. "I"m shooting for two years, but I"ve been told I could be optimistic."
The USDA Rural Development"s Communities Facilities Program helps finance community facilities for public use in rural areas, ensuring that such facilities are available to rural residents.
The new facility will benefit the community by improving the region"s access to critical medical care and related support services.
"It"s like any new hospital benefits any community," Ruma said. "It brings a state-of-art replacement facility which enhances the availabilities of any community and adds for growth."
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RevuDo 0.5.0.24 – Another fix
Many thanks to Robin for reporting that exporting your Nozbe data will fail if there are characters in either your project names, or in any files you have attached to those projects, that Windows will not allow in a file name. A colon is a great example and I am surprised this was not caught before. Certainly once I saw the problem I kicked myself for not realizing that it could happen.
So there is a new version, RevuDo 0.5.0.24 available. Please keep those bug reports and any ideas for improvement coming.
RevuDo 0.5.0.2 – Tasks at last!
We all want to see prompt results. For things to go fast in the direction we want to go.
But life has other plans, and the key to getting what we want is to match our dreams to the world we find ourselves in.
Back in April I posted an update to RevuDo that allowed edits to everything but tasks. It took me two months, but with version 0.5.0.2 that limitation has finally been removed.
With this update, Tasks can be added, updated or completed (with handy check marks on the task list to make completion fast and fun).
Some bug fixes and performance improvements round out the update.
The next step will be to smooth out the rough edges, and enable offline mode. What else would you like to see?
A bug fix and some small improvements – RevuDo 0.4.8.1
I had hoped that this would be version 0.5, with the ability to edit tasks, but the details of that have been taking longer than I expected, so it was time to release a bug fix and some small feature requests.
Erica pointed out that RevuDo would crash when using a team account on Nozbe. Tomasz Kapelak, the CTO at Nozbe, very helpfully gave me some team accounts on their test server to simulate working as a team and the problem was very quickly revealed. This is now working correctly.
Charles commented that printing his lists enabled him to do a review away from the computer. I understand well how getting away from the computer can open up new perspectives. In order to make this easier, Charles suggested a few improvements. And so, the following new features have been added:
- The printed tasks now include their due date.
- Since printing task comments can use up a lot of paper, there is a new option to print only the last comment. I am considering taking this further to limit how much of that comment is printed. If you would like that option added, let me know your thoughts on what the cutoff should be. Charles suggested an option to remove them entirely. That will be in the next release.
- The total estimated time for the printed tasks is now shown at the top of the printout, below the header. I plan to add the time required for each task, but a sheet of paper is only so wide, and I have to give some thought to printing more than one line per task.
Charles also requested a way to print just the tasks completed in a certain date range. I will probably add a shortcut for this, but it can be done now. Select All Tasks, and then select Show Done. Click the Completed column to sort on the date completed. Highlight the range you want to print, and click print, selecting the option to print only selected tasks.
Many thanks to both Erica and Charles for the comments. This is why I am developing RevuDo in public. Please keep those comments coming!
RevuDo 0.4.8.1 can be downloaded on the RevuDo page.
Nozbe Desktop 1.0
Some history
Almost a year ago, on April 26th, 2011, I posted some thoughts on why the future of the cloud was the Evernote model. There will always be issues that take down a web service, but a local app that syncs with the web service allows work to continue with the local copy. Further, a Mac or Windows client can still do so much more than a web page can. Working offline is just one.
On June 6th, 2011, I released my first step to providing a Windows app that would provide that for Nozbe. Early early days, but it was a first step.
On July 15th, 2011, Nozbe released their first beta of the new Nozbe desktop client for Mac and Windows.
On February 27th, I released ReVuDo for Nozbe 0.4.8, another step toward the goal of a fully functional Windows client for Nozbe.
Finally, yesterday, Nozbe released version 1.0 of their desktop client.
In one year the Nozbe world has come a long way. I know how hard Michael, Tomasz and Delfina have worked to get to this point, and I see the foundation for great things in the new app.
Desktop 1.0
I like a lot about the new desktop app. Working offline is a big help, and the ability to filter Next Actions by project or context is one of those things that drove me to write my own client! Not everything is there, but I can see where the missing items would fit. The new type # to enter context, project, date whatever is a wonderful addition (I have to add that to ReVuDo!). I am going to be switching to the new desktop app on Windows and leaving the web version for times when I am not at my own computer.
The biggest negative for me is that there are not enough ways to work without a mouse. The keyboard is so much faster, and a tool like Nozbe has to be fast and easy. I hope this will be addressed in 1.1. Performance has gotten a lot better, but I would like to see it be even faster. Finally, better filtering, adding sorting and other things are long anticipated, but I know they needed to build this foundation first.
This is an exciting time. Just think what another year will bring!
RevuDo 0.4.8 – Edit Projects, Teams, Almost Tasks
I really hoped to get editing Tasks into the next public release of RevuDo, but I reached the point where I felt it was time to release a new version, even if you can only look, not touch, Tasks.
First, let me thank Emanuele who reported that RevuDo was crashing for some types of Nozbe accounts. This is resolved in this version. If you tried RevuDo before and it crashed after logging in, please try this version and let me know how it goes.
Another thank you is owed to Paul for pointing out that completed tasks where appearing in the last version. This led to a complete re-do of handling completed versus incomplete tasks that I will describe more below.
Editing Projects is now supported as you can see:
The Add and Edit button also appear on the Task window tool bar, but there is no way to save the changes yet. It's actually half built, but I removed the Save button for this release. The main reason is I have to finish creating a way to edit the related project, contexts, team members, and such that will allow searching, selecting one or more, or adding a new one as needed. This is in progress and will be the focus of the next release, but I did not want to hold the release any longer. After all, the whole point of this was to release new updates as I went along so you could take advantage of the features as they came.
You will also notice that the Task windows now includes a Show Done button on the tool bar that will include tasks marked as done in the list. The button will toggle to Hide Done if clicked, and clicking it again will hide tasks marked as completed. This was added both as part of fixing the issue reported by Paul, and to set the stage for marking tasks done in the next version. As a result of this change, I had to change how RevuDo syncs with Nozbe as I was not fetching completed items, only retaining them after they were marked done in Nozbe. So after installing this new version, RevuDo will reload the local cache from scratch and pull all your completed projects and tasks from Nozbe. This will take a little extra time. I will add a Show/Hide Done button to the projects window in the next version.
Finally, RevuDo 0.4.8 adds support for teams. Both the Projects windows and the Tasks windows have added columns that you can sort or filter on for who created the item and who is assigned to the task. This is an area where I need your help. I am not a member of a team using Nozbe, so I cannot fully test this feature.
Please download RevuDo 0.4.8, give it a try and let me know where I need to do better.
Edit Contexts and A Fix for Printing – ReVuDo 0.4.1
Working on ReVuDo for Nozbe in my spare time means that I rely on you to help with finding all the bugs. Many thanks to George for reporting that I broke printing in version 0.4. ReVuDo 0.4.1 corrects that.
In addition to this bug fix, take a look at the new Contexts window.
You can now Add new contexts to Nozbe from ReVuDo, Edit existing ones, or Delete them (from the Edit Window).
Now you may be wondering why contexts and not projects or tasks. I had to start somewhere to work out the details of updating Nozbe, and contexts were the simplest thing. Only a name, a description and an icon. With that worked out I will now turn to projects and tasks for the next update.
I'm excited to have this first part of editing Nozbe working and can't wait to have the rest added so I can move to adding even more features.
Thanks again to George and everyone else who have helped me along the way!
Download ReVuDo 0.4.1 and let me know what you think!
We're in Sync! ReVuDo 0.4
Finally! ReVuDo will now sync with Nozbe without restarting. Get version 0.4!
My goal is to provide a full Windows client for Nozbe, so being able to synchronize with Nozbe is a major step. Back in April I mentioned that I was putting my Nozbe.Net library on hold in order to develop ReVuDo because I felt that I needed to develop ReVuDo in order to decide how best to synchronize with Nozbe, the last part of Nozbe.Net to develop. Wow, was that an understatement.
The last two months have been marked by my learning a lot, and ReVuDo's code changing a lot. I looked at my initial design notes (in a Nozbe task comment) the other day and was compelled to update the comment to note that the actual design looked nothing like what I initially imagined. The good news is that ReVuDo became a lot smaller in the process. When developing software, it is always a good sign when the code gets smaller and more clear. ReVuDo has done both, which is a good place to be for the next step.
The next step is to allow updating Nozbe. I will be focusing on this after Christmas. I mentioned in my last post that I though I might be done by Christmas. I have just made it!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone! May 2012 bless you and your family!


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Besides the majestic Mount Etna, in fact, thanks to the agreement that our 3-star hotel in Catania has with Etna Tribe, you can choose a daily trip in the beautiful Syracuse and Taormina from Catania and take advantage of 25% discount on the price of excursion (from € 45).
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This excursion includes a visit to the Archaeological Park of Neapolis, which homes the main monuments of Greek and Roman Syracuse: Greek Theatre, which is still used for classical performances, the Roman Amphitheatre, the Latomia of Paradise with the Ear of Dionysius and the Cordari Rope, the Altar of Hieron and the Church of St. Nicholas at Cordari.
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