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Sarah Palin is a Self-Proclaimed "Energy Expert" Because There's Oil in Alaska, Just Like She's a Foreign Policy Expert Because Russia is Next Door.
I hate to keep harping on Governor Palin, but unfortunately she deserves it. It is imperative that the middle America that she somehow appeals to understands how utterly inappropriate she is as a Vice Presidential Candidate, making the otherwise reasonable McCain ticket a no-deal (I'd still vote for Obama, but McCain isn't a bad guy). In the vice-presidential debate, Palin called herself an "energy expert", which, it seems, is a moniker earned in a similar manner to her supposed foreign policy prowess. By her reckoning, she is close to Russia, making her a foreign policy expert, and there's oil in Alaska, making her an energy expert.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Actually, none of our candidates fully understand the dire nature of our global energy crisis. It's not just climate change that we should be worried about – it's peak oil. Just like the economy taking a downward spiral in a "perfect storm" of deregulation, risky mortgages, bad decisions on consumer's behalves, industry greed, and bipartisan legislative ineptitude, climate change and peak oil are intimately intertwined and we are heading straight into the eye of yet another perfect storm. By nearly all estimates, peak oil, or the time when we cannot pump anymore oil from the earth in a day, is either happening now or will happen within the next 5-20 years. What this means practically is that as daily oil extraction levels off and starts to decline, as long as demand continues to rise, we will see an astronomical spike in oil costs and worldwide shortages. Let me repeat – if we continue to use oil as we do today, within the next few years to few decades, we are guaranteed to see huge oil shortages and massive price increases. This is not supposition, it is supported by oil industry insiders, geologists, and energy experts alike and if we do not shift to alternative forms of energy quickly, starting right now, civilization as we know it, fueled by oil, will grind to a halt. Not only that, but once the oil is gone, if we haven't prepared ourselves, we'll likely fall back on the other, dirtier fossil fuel that is still plentiful – coal. This, in turn, will accelerate the already unstoppable threat of climate change.
The fact is, that offshore drilling and drilling in ANWR will give us a few measly percent of our annual oil use. The rest must still be bought from unstable Middle Eastern dictatorships, some of whom continue to funnel oil money into the hands of the very terrrorists that we are trying to defeat. We can pour money into drilling for more of a dying paradigm and building multi-billion dollar nuclear plants, neither of which will yield any power for a decade. Or, we can focus our efforts and resources on researching and building a renewable energy infrastructure for our entire country, which will protect us from the global economic collapse that will occur as peak oil hits. We will be actively fighting climate change, we will generate domestic jobs, we will wean ourselves off of foreign oil, and we can reclaim our role as a leader and innovator in the world.
Not one of our presidential or vice presidential candidates has even mentioned peak oil, and we've barely heard a peep about the environment or climate change. None of these people are energy experts, especially not Governor Palin, who continues to spew her "Drill, baby, drill" mantra. She will not bring you lower gas prices, nobody will. If you calculate the true cost of a gallon of gas, including extraction, refining, transport, and environmental impact, it should be around $12/gallon. For the better part of a century, we have enjoyed cheap gas subsidized by government tax breaks, political power plays, and even war, and now that we're starting to see fuel prices rise towards what a true and fair market price would be, Americans have cried in outrage rather than taken action to become part of the solution.
At least Senator Obama and Senator McCain recognize the importance of climate change and renewable energy, at least they have an inkling of the true crisis at hand. Governor Palin is still in denial about climate change and is proposing to waste more of the taxpayers dollars on what will become a nearly obselete energy source within our lifetimes. Sorry, but this "Joe Six-Pack" needs a leader who has the intelligence and foresight to set aside their preconcieved notions, objectively evaluate the evidence and take steps to lead us into a prosperous and sustainable future, and Sarah Palin is not that leader.
2 Responses to "Sarah Palin is a Self-Proclaimed "Energy Expert" Because There's Oil in Alaska, Just Like She's a Foreign Policy Expert Because Russia is Next Door."
I liked this post as well. Glad to see the word's getting out about Peak Oil. One thing I did dislike though was that you stated that Obama and Mccain were both good guys. I have to disagree with you there. Otherwise excellent article, well written.


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The School For Diaconal Formation (SDF) aims to equip postulants and candidates for the diaconate with the skills and sensitivities that their vocation demands. The School concentrates on teaching the narrative of God's relations with human beings. It stresses developing skill in theological thinking and in applying such thinking practically. And it regards with utmost seriousness the process of spiritual formation through worship, community, individual prayer, and direction.
The SDF consists of a three-year curriculum of courses, spiritual formation and practical experience. With the growing emphasis on the ministry of the diaconate in the Episcopal Church beginning around the mid-1980s, dioceses found they needed to provide their own education and formation programs for people accepted as postulants. Most postulants for the diaconate are already fully involved in a career or are retired. Some have family commitments. In each case, moving from their present location and attending a school at some distance is not an option. Local programs, therefore, provide the necessary preparation for the diaconate.
The School's directors work with each student to formulate a Learning Plan that includes three weekends of formation within the diocese each year, online and intensive classes taken at Seabury-Western Divinity School and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP), and special conferences and trainings that can fulfill Association of Episcopal Deacons (AED) learning competencies. After the first year in the program students engage in field education. This hands-on experience most often takes place in a congregation, but other communities of Christian practice can and do provide appropriate environments for formation in the field.


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Gareth Bull, a builder from Aspley, Nottingham won an amazing £40,627,241 simply because he ducked into a shop hoping to avoid getting wet from the rain outside. His was the only winning lottery ticket to match all five main numbers and both lucky stars in the recent EuroMillions rollover drawing!
At a champagne celebration, Gareth and his wife thanked God for the rain while accepting their full payment of £40,627,241. Then the new celebrity told the media that he was simply waiting in his work van for the rain to stop when he noticed a Nisa store on the corner and decided to grab a Lucky Dip lottery ticket to help pass the time. "I just wanted to kill a bit of time while I was waiting for it to stop" he said.
'Thank God for the rain': Lotto winners Gareth Bull and his wife Catherine with their Euromillions cheque
It wasn't until Saturday, that the forty year old father of two had the moment all lottery players dream about. He walked into his bedroom and paused for a long moment before telling his wife Catherine, 35, the life-changing news of their new found financial security and guaranteed monetary success!
"Gareth's face was white and he was shaking," said Catherine. "The ticket was shaking in his hand. I thought he was pulling my leg. I accused him of lying to me – then checked myself. My head was in bits and I thought the numbers matched and we had won £4,000. Then I thought it was £40,000, but the zeros and commas were all in the wrong place. At one point we thought it was as much as £4million – we couldn't see straight."
Now the new multi-millionaires will have professional accountants and advisors available twenty-four hours every day to help them count their money correctly. The couple plans to buy an Old Trafford executive box for all Manchester United games so fan Gareth and his boys can enjoy every match together in style. Then a trip to Disneyworld with his sons Declan, nine, and Joel, 10... and finally a new holiday villa for Catherine.
The couple claims their new wealth won't change everything. They still plan to keep their jobs and continue living in the dream home Gareth built in Mansfield Woodhouse. However, we have heard that sort of thing before from new winners and it isn't very likely that health insurance worker Catherine would really keep showing up each morning before preparing to take their boys to football practice.
The most interesting moments came over the weekend. Catherine had contacted Camelot to confirm their winnings but was waiting to get their full authorization. Meanwhile the couple told their sons to get ready for football practice and they chose not to tell anyone what was going on, in case there had been some kind of mistake. "I felt I was going to explode – I kept walking around the football pitch. I met a lady who was thrilled because she had won £500 on the HotPicks lottery – I told her that was fantastic" said Catherine.
It all goes to prove that you can win any time, any place, as long as you have a live ticket. Had Gareth sat in his van and skipped his intuitive decision to get a new lottery ticket he would have missed the opportunity of a lifetime!


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Kimberly Coryea of Hummingbird Bake Shop first hit the Something New Entertainment radar at this past year's Boutique Bridal Bazaar, where DJ AJ9 was serving as the fashion show Master of Ceremonies.
Something New Entertainment's DJ Anna-Jeannine "AJ9" Herman: What first interested you in baking?
Hummingbird Bake Shop's Kim Coryea: Most of my family traditions and favorite life memories generally involve food. For me, food means celebrating, comfort, getting closer to friends. I think my earliest memory of really enjoying the process of baking started with making Christmas cut-out cookies. It was at least a two-day event. I would spend a day with my mom and brothers preparing and baking them. Then we would spend hours decorating them: coloring the bowls of icing, using toothpicks to make eyes for the angels and ornaments on the trees. Each year, my mom would declare that we could only make four icing colors and then give us a deadline for completing the cookies. I remember protesting that we needed more colors in order to finish them appropriately. She had to be so exhausted by the time we were finished. Everyone else would have given up on decorating, Mom would be slapping on icing just to get the cookies finished and I would still be decorating. . . slowly. I suppose I've always been a sucker for details. I watched my mom spend a lot of time in the kitchen. When I was little, she did fun things like take me for tea with Mother Goose. I still remember those mini cakes baked in tiny flower pots at that tea.
KC: Custom cakes are my specialty. I am a French-trained pastry chef, so I like to do a variety of things and experiment with different flavors. Although I love a traditional wedding cake, I would hate for a couple to limit themselves to a tiered cake if they would prefer something different. Let's get creative! Some examples of what I've done for events include: handcrafted cake toppers, jarred salted caramel sauce, individual caramel squares, mini cakes, cake parfaits, cupcakes, tarts, pies and cookies. I love making seasonal jam as well. Once the baking is complete, I also enjoy helping clients come up with creative ways to present their desserts.
DJ AJ9: How long have you been creating sweets for weddings?
KC: I have been officially operating my own business, Hummingbird Bake Shop, for two years now. Until then, I was baking cakes and holding down another job for several years. I completed my pastry education at the French Pastry School in 2007. I made my first wedding cake for a friend who got married on New Year's Eve 2005. A friend and I decided to take it on together and we actually traveled to Milwaukee from Chicago with that cake. I'm not sure what we were thinking, but it worked out. Boy, were we lucky. I've learned a lot since then.
DJ AJ9: What do you enjoy most about creating cakes and sweets for wedding clients?
KC: Your Answer I guess because I have such an emotional connection to food and the baking process, I love making that same emotional connection with clients. It's truly a privilege to have someone trust me to play a role in one of the most important days of their lives. And, it's dessert. It should be fun. Even if it's formal, it can still be comfortable. There are so many details to consider when planning your wedding day. It's my hope that I can make the cake process a little easier and enjoyable for the client.
DJ AJ9: What is the most important consideration couples should make when choosing a bakery for their wedding?
KC: I think clients will be happiest working with a bakery or person they trust and connect with. There are a lot of people who are good at what they do and are great people, but your personality and style might not make you a good fit and that's okay. You're inviting them to participate in an intimate day. You want people there who want to be there and are invested in wanting to help you have a fantastic day, so you want to get along. It's my job to make the best cake or dessert for you. If we connect on some level, it will make it easier and more enjoyable to achieve that goal.
Make sure it's someone you trust. I know there are a lot of great home bakers, but they might not know what they are getting into when they agree to make your wedding cake. I know from experience that in addition to sourcing and baking, there are many other details that go into making a wedding cake. Just like your other vendors, your baker has to communicate with family members, the venue, the caterer, the florist – all to make the construction, taste, delivery and presentation a success.
Taste their work and look at their portfolio. When I say I make Swiss meringue buttercream that might not mean much to a client. I want to set clear expectations for them. When I say my buttercream is off-white because I use real butter, I want you to see the color and taste the buttercream. Work with someone who is willing to provide you with as many details as he/she can.
DJ AJ9: How many flavors do you offer, and what is the process for choosing flavors with Hummingbird Bake Shop?
KC: I start by asking the couple if they have a strong feeling about a certain flavor or if they have a flavor in mind. It gives me some idea of their taste preferences. I have a menu of approximately 10 flavor combinations that I then give clients as a starting point. I find that having too many flavor choices becomes confusing and overwhelming. I customize flavors as well, so if they had their heart set on something that isn't there, I am willing to work with them. Not every flavor is a good choice for a stacked wedding cake. Season, weather, size and guests all factor into the flavor decision.
DJ AJ9: Do you do custom design work? What about display stands and towers? Delivery?
KC: Most everything I do is custom. I often spend hours and hours in the design phase of the cake in an effort to provide the most personal and well-constructed finished product. That's one of the reasons I decided to remain an appointment-only business. For me, it's been the best way to connect to clients and give them one-on-one attention as we work to create their celebration cake. Even if you know exactly what you want in a wedding cake, there is still an element of customization involved. I don't want to leave people with the impression that I only do cakes with tons of design work. Custom does not necessarily mean a lot of design elements, it means doing what's best for you.
I do have a cupcake tower and other stands available. I am happy to make recommendations on where to purchase stands if a couple would like to buy their own as well. If clients do provide their own, I have them give me with their stands prior to the wedding and then I bring them with me when I deliver the cake. I prefer to have them ahead of time because there are all kinds of things to consider when displaying your cake on a stand: weight of the cake, size of the base, size of the display table.
I handle all delivery and set-up for weddings. For other events, I prefer to deliver delicately designed and constructed cakes because I have the most control over protecting the cake until it arrives at its destination. As much as I work to ensure the structural integrity of the cake, when a client chooses to pick it up, it is ultimately out of my control whether it makes it in one piece to its destination.
DJ AJ9: What's the question I'm not asking you but you wish I would, or What's the question that clients usually don't ask you but you wish they would?
KC: Can those custom-designed cakes really look and taste good? The answer is Yes. If a client would like to have a conversation about ingredients, I am happy to do that. I read wedding articles that reference this topic and I hear more people say that they love the look of fondant-covered, custom-designed cakes but they know they won't taste any good. If there are any compromises made on the flavor of the cake due to the design elements, a good baker will let you know and discuss options. A lot of my cakes are covered in fondant, but I love doing buttercream finishes on cakes. I would never force someone to choose one over the other and never would suggest that one is more beautiful than the other. I like people to know their options and educate them on the differences. It's about making something that tastes great and fits you and your event.
Kimberly Coryea, Owner and Executive Pastry Chef at Hummingbird Bake Shop, has a lifelong love of baking, but her professional pastry journey began in Chicago when she left her sales and marketing career in the television industry to pursue a career in the pastry arts. She attended the French Pastry School where she was taught classic French methods by some of the world's best pastry chefs. She continued to train at bakeries in Chicago and ultimately chose Cleveland to start her own relationship-driven bake shop. "I take great pleasure in the details and enjoy building relationships with clients in order to hand-craft the perfect sweet accompaniment to fit them and their event." Her first priority is ensuring her products have great flavor but her interest in design and hopeless desire to turn something ordinary and tired into something "new" also finds her performing creative duties outside of baking for clients, friends and family. When she's not working, you can find her enjoying a good meal with her husband or friends and adding countless DIY projects to her to-do list.


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496. Storylines
April 29, 2015
In this last post to my blog on consciousness, I want to clinch my argument that loops of engagement are evolution's gift to us all by providing evidence of the many ways we engage our surroundings every day of our lives.
First of all, let me remind you that humans are a species of storytellers. For most of our history, we have survived by telling stories around places of fire that offered us comfort and warmth. Stories have beginnings, middles, and endings. From the opening "Once upon a time," to the concluding "lived happily ever after," one thing leads to another by a particular order of events. This happens, then this, then this, making up the succession of engagements in the time and place of particular characters of which a story is told.
We all want to hear what happened to the little girl when she walked into the woods to visit her grandmother. Or to the brother and sister when invited into her home in the forest by an old woman. We are driven to sit still and listen, even if we've heard the tale many times. We become captivated by the unfolding of events according to the plots we are all familiar with. Once the story is told, we can't wait to hear it again. To live it again. To experience the drama again. To feel the tension in our own bodies as if it were our own story being told.
Stories are narrations of specific engagements we can identify with. It makes little difference if they are fact or fiction or documented history. What they offer is to put us imaginatively in someone else's shoes so we can share what life feels like to be them on particular occasions. That is powerful magic.
We gauge that magical effect by how closely it follows our expectations. We don't like it if the happy ending turns sad. Or the tragic ending turns sickeningly sweet. Details of character and form and plot are what we remember because they govern how we feel at different times during the narration.
That is, we listen to stories to see how they measure up against our own life engagements. Do they expand or diminish our horizons? Do they hook us or turn us off? Shaggy dog stories lead us on and on and on, leaving us stranded right where we were at the beginning, making a mockery of our expectations, as in a bad joke.
Sheer violence draws some crowds and offends others. The news is made up of episodes of rape followed by shark attacks by beheadings by school collapses by tornadoes by typhoons by earthquakes by forest fires by nuclear disasters by collisions by busloads of schoolchildren tumbling end-over-end into ravines. We are surrounded by the shock and awe of chaos every day of our lives. Which makes us glad for the humdrum lives we actually lead—until disaster strikes in our midst.
Whether real or fanciful, our engagements are writ large in films, operas, ballets, plays, sporting events, songs, and every other aspect of our culture. What is a musical score but the latent storyline of audience engagement? What are songs, lyrics, poems, paintings, travelogues, biographies, adventures, novels, recipes, jokes, anecdotes, videos, picture puzzles—what are any of these media of intense concentration but opportunities for meaningful engagement?
What are everyday conversations around the watercooler at work or table at Starbucks but occasions for human engagement? What is syntax but the turning of a felt situation into a sequence of words that others can experience in a meaningful way?
Think of the milestones of life: learning to walk, talk, dress yourself, count, spell, write. These are the essential engagements of civilized human life. Think of getting engaged, getting married, building a house, having a baby, getting a job, getting a better job, having another baby, putting on a new roof, getting a divorce, traveling to Maine or Alaska or Italy or Cambodia or Kenya or Tierra del Fuego—all major episodes of engagement that connect our minds to our surroundings in specific ways according to certain narratives, schedules, and itineraries.
Plots and stories: that's what life is made of. Birth to death, beginning to end, experiences strung together on the storylines by which our lives are told. That's what we are to one another, tellers of stories, enactors of stories, recallers of stories, garblers of stories, forgetters of stories.
We are companions in storytelling, believing, doing, leading our lives. Our commonalities of engagement bind us together; our differences split us apart. Either way, our stories-narratives-engagements make us human. To be a blank slate is to be sub-human, a kind of zombie. Even animals engage. We know that by watching their eyes, smiles, tails, the hairs on the back of their necks. Some in greater detail than others, more consciously than others.
Even trees engage sunlight, rain, snow, wind, and predators, so engage their habitats and survive differentially. Are they conscious? I would say in their own way. In the way of life on Earth in its local precinct of the larger whole that supplies the matter and energy by which Earthlings can be said to live by bridging the gap between inside and outside.
My blog is devoted to the inside picture of our human engagements with one another and the outside worlds we share in common. Perception, memory, comparison, judgment, goals, actions—all play their parts in telling the story of consciousness that makes us possible.
Our stories tell who we are in doing, going, being, seeing, playing, writing, singing, dancing, shopping, driving, knitting—engaging—as we do by living the lives that we do.
To me, consciousness is the story that begins and underlies all other stories. It is the story of all stories. If we ignore it, can we claim to be alive on that most fundamental of all levels?
I have no doubt that the pains I have taken in these posts to tell my version of the story of consciousness have been—if uninvited—necessary for me to live as myself. By telling it, I am paying my dues to the planet that has given me birth, and shared its energies and resources so that I could be conscious in this particular day and age.
As I see it, I owe the Earth nothing less than this account of my mental endeavors. For me, finishing that work is, indeed, a happy ending. The best I could have hoped for because, with the recent deaths of my two brothers reminding me of the imminence of my own, I haven't been sure I could do it until now.
As I wrote in my post 394 on New Year's Day, 2015, "Happiness is being the person you most want to be, doing the things you most want to do." I followed that with "Happy New Year, everybody!"
Now, 102 posts later, I say: May your own story reach the ending you have strived for all these years.
Because that (your own) ending may be in doubt, I feel an unplanned afterword coming on. I refer you to my next post.
Thanks for engaging my words and ideas to the extent you have been consciously interested.
495. Know Thyself (without Subterfuge)
April 28, 2015
How do we see our inner selves without subterfuge?
After thirty years of wayfaring as directed by my own mind, I have come to realize that I can turn my attention from my footsteps to the mind that is plotting them in advance to suit itself.
Mindfaring, that is, reveals the same journey from inside the black box that shelters its workings from view, workings that become evident by turning my attention back on itself.
What that takes is a mindset of self-reflection that makes such a turn not only possible or desirable, but essential in opening onto the next stage of my journey. The true adventure is not in the world; it is in my own head, the only adventure I have immediate access to if I but choose to take it on.
As I now see it, my mind hosts my situated intelligence in engagement with its world. It is the navigator essential to the art of wayfaring itself. Minds are evolution's gift to those who remember the impact of patterns of energy from previous rounds of experience, then act appropriately in the now. We all build our minds by noticing, comparing, judging, and acting as we make our way day-by-day, dreaming our way night-after-night, remembering the highly-charged and often-repeated moments for future reference.
In drawing this series of posts on consciousness to a close, my last suggestion to those who read these words is that you develop your mindfaring skills by noticing what you pay attention to, and how, when, and why.
That is, by placing yourself-as-subject at the focus of your own engagement. Also, by tracking what you remember, and what brings that to mind. And by appreciating the respective dimensions of each engagement, as well as how those dimensions collectively frame the flowing situations that shape your inner life and outer actions.
Too, when you act, I suggest that you notice the depth of your concentration at the time so that you feel the true power of your awareness. And as you engage the worlds of nature, culture, community, or family, that you track the situations developing in the core of yourself as you move ahead.
In particular, be aware of your successes and setbacks, and how they feel on the inside. I predict that in short order you will be reaching toward the world with greater confidence (based on more solid self-understanding), and be less-dependent on the world to do your work for you.
In short: know thyself from a neutral perspective, then practice that knowing on a daily basis. Learn to know others, then engage with them on caring, respectful, yet familiar terms.
Strive to balance despair with hope, fragility with durability, forethought with spontaneity. Live a sensitive and an intentional life, being ever-mindful of the personhood of those around you, and the planethood of Mother Earth. Steer clear of nicotine, alcohol, and other mind-altering or numbing drugs.
If you do this, you will become a true mindfarer, which may not be your measure of success, but is sure to keep you gainfully employed for many years, and bring you closer to yourself and to those with whom you actively engage.
As for myself, with one more post to go, this is my penultimate try at depicting my mind. In the end, I strongly believe in setting the stars free from their ancient bondage to illusory gods; with Roget, I believe in striving to know my own mind; and I also believe in practicing like a baseball player to do the best I can in the time I am allowed with whatever tools I've got, even if only a ball and a stick.
These are distinctly low-tech efforts, based not on artificial intelligence (AI), but the real thing.
It is time for me to move on. After adding one last post, an outline of my journey in writing this blog, and an abstract after-the-fact, I am gone.
494. Beyond Acting on Our Beliefs
April 27, 2015
Nothing matters. Everything matters. Both statements are true to equal degree. Clearly, our job as individuals is to pick and choose the engagements that are most meaningful to us. Which puts us in an awkward position because those around us want us to engage in ways that are most meaningful to themselves.
It is the nature of mindfarers to occupy public spaces where such conflicts are out in the open. The only thing we can do is pay attention to the forces acting on all of us and select the issues we as individuals find most personally meaningful, letting go of the others to be dealt with by those who choose to do so.
We each serve as helmsman of our own ship, correcting our course as we go. The choosing of a course is why we are here, how our ancestors got us to this point by navigating under their own stars. We owe it to them to do the same under the stars that shine most clearly for us.
As to the relation between mind and brain: consciousness is not contained in either our brains or minds but in our engagements as they couple perception to meaningful judgment and on to purposeful action in nature, culture, community, and family. Our minds do not fit neatly into our brains but extend to include our sensory and behavioral engagements as well.
You might expect an octogenarian to issue generalities of that magnitude. But as a unique individual, I am at the core of my own generalities. I am speaking for myself, trying to use fitting, encompassing words to do so.
However you take my words, your unique person is at the core of those same words as they speak to you as you know yourself. I read them my way; you read them your way. The main thing is to maintain our intelligent judgement as we consider our own minds.
Those in the truth-seeking professions—philosophy, psychology, history, anthropology, theology, forensics, and law, for example—already know this. Each person is primarily out for himself, and can justify whatever act she commits in the name of private (not public) service.
To simply act on our beliefs is not good enough. We must catch ourselves sharpening, emphasizing, distorting those beliefs for personal advantage. Throughout this blog, I have drawn attention to the self-serving nature of our mental processes. In rounds of self-reflection, it is essential to keep a neutral perspective.
Robert Bly advises us to follow our bliss. Thoreau says to follow our dreams and imagination. I say we should engage as we must the situations we get into as the ones having most to teach us, while remaining somewhat remote as if we were truly impartial, not agents of our own beliefs and opinions. It is that critical faculty that is essential to self-reflection. Without it, we become little more than lobbyists or apologists for our subjective beliefs.
As children we do as we are told because our parents are not only bigger and stronger, but also likely to be wiser than we are. We have neither the strength nor the wit to resist. But as adults, to do as we are told binds us to the will of others who have not lived our lives or thought our thoughts, so are addressing their own motives from their own perspectives, not ours.
Too, those others are likely to be dealing with situations different from those we face at the time. The problems we work on are best answered in the context of our unique repertory of personal options.
To ask what Jesus (Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Mohammad, et al.) would do assumes that we understand the situation he was in when he did what he did, and that that situation is the same as the one we are facing today. Which, given the vagaries of time and place, is a highly questionable assumption.
We learn most from situations we analyze and address as our own. When we make mistakes, as we surely will, they are our personal mistakes, leading to our personal learning. The essential thing is to engage our inner selves without subterfuge.
493. Consciousness Matters
April 25, 2015
The brain is a facilitator. It enables perception, meaning, judgment, and action as an ongoing flow of engagement. Its genius is in guiding selection of what we pay attention to, evaluate in comparison to other options (that is, judge), and subsequently act upon.
When a routine is effective, the brain makes it easy for us to do more of the same. We come to think in terms of routines in our repertory so we don't have to keep reinventing the wheel. The essence of consciousness is in turning new problems into effective routines we can count on when one such problem comes up again.
Speech is a tremendous saver of brain space, whenever possible substituting fine muscle movements of jaw, tongue, and lips in place of gross movements of trunk and limbs. Language is a code for reducing the brain space we need to get by with, using a limited set of words over and over again in new contexts, always with new shades of meaning.
Which is what Peter Mark Roget did in producing his Thesaurus. And Plato did in pondering the parallels between the stars in their heaven and the activities of people on Earth below. He was working on that question for the rest of us, and did his best to come up with a workable understanding.
The Timaeus is a record of the trouble Plato went to on our behalf. As every World Series game is a record of the skill and effort players on each team expend on behalf of their fans in particular, and all fans of stellar performances beyond them. The same is true for Olympic athletes. And outstanding thinkers and doers of all kinds.
Individual minds matter. Consciousness matters. Brains matter. Engagements matter. Families matter. Communities, cultures, and nature matter. All as aspects of a planet that matters in a solar system that matters in a galaxy that matters in a cosmos that matters. Not to fulfill a set of universal laws, but to make an effective response to conditions and situations that come up and need to be dealt with.
None of these levels of interaction and engagement are governed by rules or laws. Each is determined by the energy available and forces bearing on fraught situations of every size and nature throughout the whole system.
We are all parts of that system: particles, nuclei, atoms, molecules, bases, chromosomes, amino acids, proteins, cell walls, plasma, organelles, organs, organ systems, organisms, species, genera, families, orders, classes, phyla, kingdoms, life, planets, solar systems, galaxies, universes, and whatever lies beyond.
We can do nothing but respond to the situations and conditions that put pressure upon us in every ways from every direction with whatever energy is available. We strive to do the best we can under those conditions in those situations.
And what we do best is engage the world around us on as many levels as we can manage because that is what we have evolved to do because we don't have a choice. Either we make it or we don't. The system will go on without us.
We are the leading edge of a spreading and evolving wave of energy that spurs us to be who we are in our own time and do what we find it best to do. That is our job; our only job. To be good citizens of the precinct of the universe we find ourselves in at the time—on the playing field, in the library, out at night ogling the stars in their sky.
So, yes, minds, brains, bodies, engagements—all matter, whether we understand them or not. The particular piece of the puzzle I have claimed for myself is nothing less than the challenge of understanding my own mind as well as I can.
This blog is the best I can do. It is my performance in the last play of the last game of the World Series for mindfarers. There will be Series after this one, with fresher farers as players.
Having come this far, I can't add anything to this discussion with myself that I haven't said several times over. I will move on to whatever conclusions I can take from my journey this far.
492. We Engage or We Die
April 24, 2015
My claim in this series of posts is that consciousness is not fully contained within the brain, but is a distributive property achieved by an organism's collaborative engagement with its planetary environment.
Take the brain out of its normal range of ambient stimulation, as in solitary confinement or other forms of sensory deprivation, and consciousness suffers a morbid decline. In a depleted environment, consciousness develops to a lesser degree.
Those who survive in depleted sensory environments learn to engage with ants and spiders crawling in the corners, or to fall back on the store of memories they bring with them, building upon them by planning what they will do when they get out.
An Sang Suu Kyi, the Burmese opposition leader, suffered fifteen years of reduced engagement under house arrest; Nelson Mandela survived twenty-seven years of confinement in three different prisons, actively pounding rock into gravel during the day, later playing football, gardening, reading, studying for his law degree.
No matter what conditions we live under, we find ways to engage—or we die. The other night I was falling asleep and became aware I could not lift my head or move my body. Yet my mind was dimly active. I distinctly remember my last, fading thought, "Friends, I feel I am slipping away," that is, dying. That's what death is: a state of non-engagement, forever. Not just unconsciousness, but utter oblivion.
Engagement brings us to life. It is precisely what it means to be alive. To be both perceptive and active, with judgment thrown in between them, if we're lucky.
We engage to build models of our situations in the outside world by analyzing the patterns of ambient stimulation delivered by our sensory receptors. That is, by finding meaning in those patterns, gauging our options, then judging which option is best as a guide to making an appropriate response.
The problem being that the inner realms our minds create on the inside are never accurate models of the world we inhabit on the outside. Our attention is highly selective, so we can only take in ambient patterns in fragmentary form. Our inner models are made of bits and pieces, dribs and drabs, not replicas of the world.
So we do a lot of guessing, estimating, and interpolating in trying to piece together the world puzzle, the big picture of what's going on that is likely to affect us. Our sensory abilities may be amazing, but the world is always more complex than we can imagine. We must commit ourselves to a lifetime of continuous engagement or we'll never keep up.
As babies, we are in way over our heads, so require nurturing care from others on a twenty-four-seven basis. That is called parenthood. But if our significant others stick with us, our situation gradually improves, and eventually we learn to stand on our own by backing our engagements with commitment, concentration, and dedicated campaigns of perception-judgment-action for ourselves. We stumble around a lot at first, but slowly straighten up and set our sights on far horizons.
Life is a matter of matching our inner possibilities to the possibilities offered by the world. Consciousness, together with loops of engagement, are our most basic tools for accomplishing that feat. All of which is made possible jointly by our minds, brains, and worlds working together.
That is my crucial point in this blog. We can't do it by ourselves—survive, that is. Our success is a collaborative effort between mind, brain, and planet. It takes a planet to evolve a brain, and a brain to evolve a mind. In the brief window of life available to us, we are beneficiaries of all three. If, that is, they truly engage in mutual interaction from one moment to the next, one situation to the next. Encouraging us to evolve throughout our lives, infant to senior, getting better day-by-day at whatever it is we are doing with our fleeting gift of life.
As I pointed out in the dissertation quotes I bulleted in post 488, "I Am Not Making This Up," the nuts and bolts of engagement are made possible by the workings of the limbic system as a finely-tuned comparison between perception and memory, between the present state of the hippocampus as compared to a coded remnant of earlier experience. That comparison is at the heart of our loops of engagement.
If that comparison between present and past results in a disparity, then consciousness springs into action to get a more detailed picture of the situation through further exploration. That's what trial and error is all about, figuring out a way to get a better fix on what's going on in order to make a better, more appropriate response. All solutions are pending, not certain.
That's what learning and education and experience are all about. Our growth and survival depend on doing better under highly variable conditions. There's no way ahead but to take the plunge, make a mistake, and try again. And again. And again.
I've got one more post to go before ending this discussion. Then it's on to my final conclusions, and wrapping up this blog as a whole.


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The bell rang, and students filed into the classroom, along with Principal Jeremy Wolfe, who gave a cheery wave before retreating to the back corner with his clipboard. Another bell signaled the start of Burman's lesson on cell structure, which began auspiciously.
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Honestly, it was an administrator's dream. Surely Wolfe was huddled in the back corner drawing enormous gold stars on Burman's evaluation form. But what was he actually up to?
Counting. Wolfe was counting. In a pencil-swishing frenzy, he made one tally every time a student craned his or her neck toward the analog clock on the east wall. And, after closer inspection, I realized that he was also tracking the number of times that Burman tilted her (bright yet dangerously sleep deprived) eyes toward the clock.
"It's like a game," Wolfe whispered to me. Without slowing his pencil or swiveling his eyes away from the students, he added, "A game with the power to revolutionize teaching as we know it."
In this "game," officially called Clock Management, the administrator identifies whether or not students are oblivious to the passage of time. During a successful lesson, students will show no interest in the clock, and, when questioned, they will demonstrate a lack of understanding about what time means to them on a personal or practical level.
Skilled educators should, according to the Clock Management rubric, be able to produce learning experiences that disassemble individual realities and subvert the laws of physics. The bell is the only signal that should have the power to wake the class from its Trance of Learning.
"Revolutionize," Wolfe whispered again, momentarily focusing his gaze on the tally-filled rubric in front of him.
Burman's students completed their cell models—which demonstrated an impressive blend of authentic creativity and scientific accuracy—with two minutes left in the period. In those 120 seconds, the students threw away trash, returned supplies, and lined their projects along the windowsill.
"Excellent work, everyone! Review your notes tonight since you'll present the models tomorrow for a quiz grade," Burman announced. The bell rang. Students filed out of the room.
When the final adolescent straggler crossed the threshold, Wolfe shot Burman a broad smile and plopped down in a chair near her desk. "Wow!" Wolfe said, "Honestly: wow. Burman, that was so much fun! I feel like I finally understand you as an educator." Burman choked on a swig of coffee, but placed her hand over her mouth in time to avoid spewing lukewarm spit-coffee onto Wolfe's clipboard.
Burman sank in her chair and said, "Well, I'm glad you…had fun." Wolfe smiled again and gave her a sneak peak of the rubric he was finalizing. Burman squinted at the page and managed to maintain a facade of professional neutrality.
"Shoot me an email when you're ready to discuss this irrefutable data that will give you crystal-clear insight about your pedagogical strengths and weaknesses," Wolfe said. He wished her a pleasant afternoon and took himself and his clipboard out of the classroom.
Burman fixed her eyes on the clock and let out a sigh that was deeply ancient and tragically modern. The palpable gloom that emanated from her being was too much to bear. "Thanks for your, eh, time, Ms. Burman," I said before slipping into the hallway.
One week later, I contacted Burman about the results of her observation. She said, "It will be fun to add 'clock-watching' to the list of behaviors to discuss during parent-teacher conferences. I'm looking forward to this productive use of my time and expertise."


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We went to the People's Assembly March in London on Saturday and had a great time. So many people, so many conversations: it was like an ambulatory night in the world's friendliest pub without the booze. I have, at last, heard Jeremy Corbyn speak live, and it was a belter, but we also heard Diane Abbot, Suggs, and, though the tone was triumphant and optimistic, it was overshadowed by many horrors: prominent among them, the Grenfell Tower massacre, although the speaker who talked about anti-muslim hate crime left me devastated by her description of the recent acid attack, of which I hadn't yet been aware. Excuse a little outburst: SICK BASTARDS!
Perhaps most depressing for the long-term, however, is the drift towards fascism represented by Theresa May's £1.5 Billion bribe to the DUP to prop up her discredited regime. Speaker after speaker pointed out the hypocrisy of it, and how it lays bare the lie of austerity, particularly coming, as it does, in the same week that the imploding government managed to strap itself together to vote down the repeal of the 1% pay cap for public sector workers. For me, though, it shows that the swivel-eyed fascist is determined to hang on, to do the maximum damage, and ignore the pain her illegitimate government is doing.
I want to write about some things that happened on the march, including the conversations I had, but it is a work day. For now, I'll leave you with another cartoon. Theresa May is an open target for satire, and our political cartoonists are not missing.
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Will WPA2-PSK keep wireless networks safe from war drivers? Find out from network security expert Michael Gregg.
We plan to secure our small business wireless network using WPA2-PSK. Does this keep us safe from war drivers? Are there other things we need to do?
This depends on what you mean by safe. Being in the security business I tend to be skeptical of any one single protection. I prefer defense in depth. Think of your bank as an example: strong, layered security: guards, cameras, locks, safes, etc. Deploying many layers of security makes it much harder for an attacker to overcome the combined security mechanisms. This is the concept of defense-in-depth. It is about building security in layers. If one layer is breached, you have multiple layers beneath it to continue protecting the assets of your organization. Defense-in-depth is about finding a balance between the protection cost and the value of the informational asset.
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Over the last few years, David Cook's life has been punctuated by extraordinary highs and devastating lows. In short order, the 28-year-old singer, songwriter, and musician won the seventh season of America's most popular television show, American Idol, rewrote chart history with a record-breaking 14 debuts on Billboard's Digital Songs chart, released his self-titled major-label debut album in November 2008, watched it debut at No. 3 on the Billboard album chart, spawn two Top 20 singles (the platinum "Light On" and "Come Back To Me"), and sell more than a million copies, reaching platinum status. He immediately hit the road for his year-long "Declaration Tour" to support it. In May of that year, Cook's older brother, Adam, who had been fighting a battle with brain cancer, died of the disease. On December 2009, one day after the tour ended, Cook traveled to New York City to begin writing the songs that would become his second album, This Loud Morning.
"I got off the road and all the things that happened that I hadn't been dealing with while I was on the road reared their head," Cook says. "So as I began writing these songs that would eventually make up This Loud Morning, the act of using these songs as therapeutic outlets became a major release for me, and I think the end result is a bit of up, a bit of down, and a lot of honesty."
The result is a batch of deeply honest, emotional songs that "allow whomever's listening to look through a window at the past two years of my life," the Texas-born, Missouri-raised Cook says. "It's probably the most therapeutic album I've ever written." As Cook was writing the songs, a theme began to emerge. "There were mornings where I woke up and all I wanted to do was pull the blanket back over my head and try again tomorrow," Cook says. That feeling inspired the album's opening track, "Circadian," as well as its closing track, "Rapid Eye Movement," which includes a line from which the album's title is taken: "Give me one more quiet night before this loud morning gets it right and does me in." "I think everyone's been at that point where they just feel, 'Man, the world is loud,' Cook says. "The only reprieve you get is when you're asleep. I wanted to blend that feeling with the romantic idea that you can live your entire life during the hours you're asleep — that there's this pause button you can use to make sense of the world around you."
Which is to say that just because This Loud Morning deals with some heavy themes doesn't mean the album is a downer. "It's actually more musically up-tempo than any of my previous album," Cook says. "I felt like we created a decent base with the last record (2008's David Cook) about where my heart was at musically. I've always enjoyed big sweeping choruses, stuff that kind of kicks you in the chest and knocks the wind out of you a bit. So with this album, I wanted to take that ideal and expand upon it — make the bigs a bit bigger and the smalls a bit smaller. I wanted it to be more intimate, but also more grandiose, and really stretch the boundaries of those two ideals."
Cook's growth as a singer, songwriter, and musician can be heard in every facet of This Loud Morning. "I feel that we were able to find the perfect landscape for these songs," Cook says. "Each one is its own living, breathing thing. I've always approached making records the same way I've approached putting a band together: I'm not concerned with the best songs or the best musicians. I'm concerned with the right songs and the right musicians. My focus is to make great records and having something real and truthful to write about really helped. I feel like the growth in this record is musical, it's lyrical, it's emotional, and that what I've hit on is something that a lot of people can relate to."
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Man consumes wine for a variety of reasons and it is one of the world's most favourite drinks. Wine is good for health and happiness of man but wine beyond limits is not a very good friend. It is a fermented product that is obtained from grapes and it is known to contain alcohol in different concentrations and they have different effects on the human body. The production of wine varies mainly due to the type of grape used while making and the species of grapes used with also some effect of alcohol. Today, we are going to see one of the best varieties of wine and also from the best places where everyone would love it to come from. The place is California and the wine is the world famous Sonoma County pinot noir.
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Many of us may not be aware of pinot noir but actually it is a grape for the production of red wine from the species Vitis vinifera. It is known to produce some of the best wines, that is, red wines in the world and it is not lacking in any place that wishes to produce some good quality red wine. And so it is not a thing to be searched for in the Californian county of Sonoma. Sonoma is a part of the Napa Valley and so it does not lack reputation in the wine industry. They also have such wonderful growing conditions and they are taken good care of in the making process. Here are some of Sonoma County's pinot noir that one shouldn't miss out:
- Landmark Vineyards Grand Detour Pinot Noir.
- Balletto Vineyards Burnside Pinot Noir.
- Siduri Keefer Ranch Pinot Noir.
- Poseidon Vineyard 'Primo's Hill' Pinot Noir.
- Patz & Hall Jenkins Ranch Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir.
- Russian River Vineyards Appian Way Pinot Noir.
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In the hunt for revenue in the digital era, news publications have tried everything from putting up paywalls to soliciting donations.
The digital magazine Slate, nearly two decades old, plans to experiment with a strategy somewhere in between. Starting Tuesday, it will market a new membership program called Slate Plus.
The initiative, said David Plotz, Slate's editor in chief, will try to coax revenue from its most committed readers and devoted listeners of its popular podcasts. A membership — costing $5 a month or $50 a year — will allow special access to Slate's writers and live events.
Mr. Plotz said that this did not equate to a paywall and that all content on Slate's website would still be free. In its infancy, in 1998, Slate erected a paywall and signed up 20,000 subscribers, but the experiment ultimately failed.
Slate's approach is unusual but not unheard-of, said L. Gordon Crovitz, a co-founder of Press+, a technology business that builds paywalls for online publishers. Mr. Crovitz questions whether a membership program could generate a meaningful revenue stream.
"All of our data from 500 clients shows it works best when you give all people some access to the best of what you have to offer and let them sample it," Mr. Crovitz said. "And then for the most active readers you ask them to pay for full access."
Mr. Plotz said he and his colleagues had considered various pay possibilities, but had ultimately decided that they did not want to risk undermining Slate's core business, which he said was growing and profitable.
"Advertising remains central to our success, but we think we'd be better off if we were less dependent on it," he said. "We also think it's important to give readers a stake in the journalism they value, which is why we're asking them to pay for membership."
Slate is a division of Graham Holdings, a publicly traded conglomerate with broadcasting, cable and education assets. Graham changed its name last year from The Washington Post Company after it sold The Washington Post to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.
A Slate Plus membership will give readers special access to the site's editors and writers, as well as members-only discussions with Emily Yoffe, Slate's Dear Prudence advice columnist. Members will also be invited to give advice on which politicians or entertainers they would like to see profiled.
In addition, they will be able to listen to the site's podcasts, including Culture Gabfest and Political Gabfest, free of advertisements. They will also gain access to additional audio segments and reserved seating at Slate events at discounted prices.
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When reports emerged that a life-saving HIV drug Daraprim went from $13.50 per tablet to an exorbitant $750 overnight, the bulk of the blame landed squarely on the founder and CEO of Turing Pharmaceutical, the company that purchased the drug. Much like the price of Daraprim, 32-year-old Martin Shkreli went from being a regular citizen to one of the most reviled people in the country overnight.
Criticism abounded from all corners of the country, and it didn't help that Shkreli seemed to relish his new role as villain. After sitting through a Congressional hearing about drug price hikes at which he repeatedly pleaded the Fifth, he taunted Congress members on Twitter afterwards, calling them "imbeciles." Shkreli purchased the sole copy of a Wu-Tang Clan album for $2 million, then embarked on a feud with its most prominent rapper, Ghostface Killah. In the wake of the price hike backlash, Shkreli said he would lower Daraprim's price, but never did.
But Pharma Bro, as he's known in some circles, isn't having the last laugh, after all. A group of high school students in Sydney, Australia, recently successfully recreated Daraprim's key ingredient for a mere $20, a fraction of the price Turing sells it for.
The Sydney Grammar School students, all 17, said they embarked on the year-long experiment to recreate the drug after hearing what Shkreli had done. James Wood, one of the students involved in the reproduction of this ingredient, told BBC of Daraprim's price hike:
It seems totally unjustified and ethically wrong. It's a life-saving drug and so many people can't afford it.
Many people on social media cheered the students' success, though Shkreli himself seemed to feign indifference, noting that drug prices also account for labor and equipment costs (although that still doesn't explain Daraprim's 5,000 percent price hike.)
A research chemist at University of Sydney, Dr. Alice Williamson, lauded the students' work.
"They've transformed starter material that's worth pennies into something that has a real monetary value in the States," she told the BBC. "If you can obtain it cheaply in schools, then there's no excuse for charging that much money for a drug. Especially from people that really need it and probably can't afford to pay for it."
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Cayuse Ranks in 36 Hours in Jackson Hole
Cayuse was recently named as one of the must-do's in the New York Times' favorite travel series "36 Hours" – this one in Jackson Hole. While several other worthy retail establishments were mentioned (congrats to Made and Bet the Ranch), Cayuse was the only one with its own entry and time slot.
Here's what they liked:
A font of local knowledge, Mary Schmitt started collecting cowgirl memorabilia before most people even knew there was such a subgenre. Now she supplies vintage Western and national park paraphernalia to the likes of Ralph Lauren stores, the Cowgirl Hall of Fame and Western museums around the country. Go to the source at her fascinating store, Cayuse Western Americana, where cowpoke, National Park Service and Native American vintage artifacts and contemporary crafts compete for space. Especially exquisite are the elaborate horsehair belts woven by inmates from Wyoming and Montana penitentiaries ($850)."
It just goes to show you that if you hang around this old musty stuff long enough, you'll be there when it's new again, and people discover what you've always known about it. History is cool. Culture should be preserved and celebrated. We're glad for all of you who support us on our quest to promote and preserve our great heritage. Thanks! PS – the author used a term coined by Mary which attempts to describe the unique character of a mountain/cowboy community. Let's see if CowPine enters the lexicon….
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Things You Need to Know When Ordering Your Belt
- Understated or Let 'Er Buck?: As discussed, there are many types of belts from subtle calf, to highly tooled and carved, to complex horsehair patterns. Decide where you'll wear this belt the most. Golf course? Office? Weekends with jeans? Cocktail parties and art openings? While a good buckle and belt should go anywhere, YOU are the one who is wearing it so your comfort level is paramount. Your buckle selection will also reflect the same criteria.
- Select the Right Size: Belts are measured to the MIDDLE hole, giving us all an inch, to an inch and a half of leeway to go smaller or larger. Belt length is usually 2″ longer than pants size. Ladies, you have more decisions. We wear our belts low, high and in between. Decide which area of your anatomy this belt should fit. Don't try to make a belt fit your waist and your hips. It never works unless you're Olive Oyle. Note: buckles can affect belt length – if your buckle is unusually long from side to side, you may want to reduce belt size by an inch.
- Wait – More on Size: You also want to decide how wide you want your belt, from top edge to bottom edge. Consider the pants you'll wear this with most – Dockers have smaller loops than Wranglers. Women's designer jeans are even less consistent. 1 3/8″ seems to be a size that fits most loops. 1 1/2 may not fit some designer wear – check first. If you're ordering a belt that has a nice pattern (horsehair, tooled, filigreed) you don't want the belt so narrow that the pattern is hardly apparent.
- Still Not Done With Size: You want to make sure your buckle fits on your belt. Each end of the belt is called a billet. Your buckle attaches to one side (the fold) and the other end goes through the buckle. Sometimes your buckle is 3/4″ wide, or 1″ wide, while your belt is 1 3/8″ wide. In this case, we create a taper, making the belt narrower at each end to accommodate your buckle. In some cases your belt will require NO taper, as when you have a one-piece, or trophy buckle. We may ask you to measure your buckle to ensure proper fit; in many cases it will be best if our craftsmen and women have your buckle in their possession to ensure perfect fit.
- Loops are Last: You may have a buckle set – a buckle consisting of a main buckle, one or two belt loops (aka keepers), and a tip. To set the belt up properly, the belt maker needs to know if there are one, or two, loops so that the proper setup is on your belt. This keeps the loops in place. Again, it is best if our craftsmen have the buckle in their possession to ensure proper fit.
Basic Belts - Very Complicated!
So you want a belt. They've been around for centuries and they're low-tech. All you have to do is decide if you want black or brown, right? Then you look for one. You find that there are wide ones, narrow ones, cheap and expensive. Leather, pleather, woven of climbing rope, belts with silver and gold buckles, belts that have big cowboy buckles, belts that are all business. And they come in every color. Maybe you'll just adopt the Jethro and Ellie Mae method of twine around your pants.
But let's face it. A well-crafted belt is as important to your wardrobe as fine footwear or a great shirt – and it's no different out here in the west than in the offices of New York or Los Angeles. We westerners notice the quality of boots, shirts, belts, buckles and hats. And it's not limited to men – women in the west can spend as much on a good belt and buckle as they would on the latest bag from Chanel.
So how do you choose? Western belts are no different than others – there are costume-like inexpensive belts from your local western wear store that probably include a cheap nickel buckle, all the way to the best alligator or French calf that are as comfortable on Wall Street as they are at the cattle barn. There are a host of choice in between. In our business of selling vintage and antique western items, we notice that the belts that hold up over time are those that were hand crafted by artisans known for their skills; these are sought by knowledgeable western collectors. And for westerners today, it's no different – they look for skilled craftsmen and women that can custom craft a handmade piece, usually for a high quality or custom buckle (more on buckles later). Belts like these can be found at small saddle shops, or at higher-end western gear shows. Some boot makers will craft a belt to go with your boots. But many independent craftsmen choose to work with buckle makers and buckle retailers, because we know how to properly fit and order a belt – it will fit not only you, but your buckle and your lifestyle. So go ahead, untie the twine and get started on ordering a belt of your own.
The Right Thing to Do
The recent fracas over the sale of sacred Hopi masks in Paris has caused me to do some thinking. For those who don't know the backstory, here's a brief synopsis: Approximately 24 antique masks, formerly used for ceremonial purposes, were set to be auctioned in Paris this week. Many attempts by tribal members and celebrities were made to stop the sale and return the masks to the Hopi. The tribes claim the masks were acquired illegally (long ago); the French courts said the current owner had established a good record of ownership. They went on to say that selling the masks was no different than selling a rare Bible or Koran. Suffice it to say that none of this would be in the news if the pieces were not highly valuable to collectors, as well as to their original creators – who cannot possibly afford them.
Now, the allegation that the masks were "taken illegally" has not been fully explained. Certainly, items of this type were acquired in many different ways: they could have been the objects theft and subjugation, they could have been given as gifts of honor, they could have been traded or sold for items of equal value (value being relative depending on when they were initially collected, which also has not been revealed). If you throw out the first two extremes, theft and gifts given, what you are left with is most likely close to the truth. The masks were probably sold or traded. Who knows if the person doing the selling had the right to do it…there are all sorts of questions one could ask. Also not revealed is, once the initial transaction occurred, how many times did the masks change hands? Was the present owner the first owner, or did he or she pay someone else in good faith for the collection? Could the collection have been put together piecemeal over a period of years or decades? These are all valid questions, and each should affect anyone's opinion of The Right Thing to Do. But the French assertion that the masks are the same as a Bible or Koran is incorrect. They would be better compared to a priest's vestments or a chalice used during a religious service – which would probably make the Vatican squirm if ever offered at auction. Conversely, Bibles and Korans were specifically designed to spread the word of the religion, and were purchased by the original owners unless given for free by a missionary.
So, if you were the owner of the masks, and you were faced with the prospect of legal action that would essentially remove them from your possession, how would you feel? If you were the Hopi, who have an opportunity to restore fragments of culture for future generations, would you expect the owner to give them up? Thorny issues indeed. The notion of fairness is being pulled asunder. Is it fair to take away objects from someone who has legal title and investment? Is it fair not to return them to the people who revere them?
Thankfully, the good fairy in this story is the Annenberg Foundation, who stepped up and bought the masks in order to return them to the Hopi. This makes me feel good. I don't believe the seller of the masks was evil, and as a good American I believe in a free market system and personal property. In fact, whoever it was seems to have cared for them well, if not properly in accordance with religious standards. Perhaps, if the original collecting had not been done, the masks would be lost to time or decay or accidental destruction. Now the Hopi have a portion of their religious artifacts returned to them. The previous owner was compensated for his or her investment and care of the masks; and the masks are going back to their origins, to a people who would have been hard pressed to find the money to purchase them.
But where does that leave the rest of the collecting and dealer community, and their Native American counterparts? These are the same thorny issues – a significant investment and clear title to objects that COULD be of extreme importance to another group? What is The Right Thing to Do when there is no advocate for one side or the other? Would it be fair to offer a donation upon the sale of each item to the tribe of origin? Would it be fair to hold up each and every item for public scrutiny in order to make a permanent decision on its cultural significance, or its ability to be acquired by collectors in perpetuity? I don't have the answers to these questions – yet. Let me keep noodling this and I'll get back to you. In the meantime, feel free to give us your two cents' worth.
Lucky to Be Here
Olive Fell and her work seem to be a theme this spring. A wonderful customer came in to buy herself a retirement gift. She ended up picking out four Olive Fell etchings. One is a rare mule deer limited to 10 copies (according to the pencil notation on the piece). Three are Fell's playful bear cubs.
Of course, the two of us were chatting about Olive's work. My client let me know that the work reminded her of her visits to Wyoming when she was young, when she saw scenes just like the ones Olive set to paper. It reminded her of "how it used to be". I assured her that life around Jackson Hole really is still how it used to be in the grand scheme of things. Sure, there are more people, more modern looking structures, fewer cowboy hats. But the pulse of the season beats consistently, and spring brings the bison, elk and moose calves, the fawns, the pups, and the cubs. The circle continues as it has from the beginning of life.
As if the world needed to hammer the point home, I ran into a friend on the Old Pass Road who said he'd heard that famous Teton Park grizzly mama 399 has once again overachieved, having been spotted with three brand new cubs. "399″ has publicly raised three rounds of cubs since she first came to our attention. It's as if she has a contract with Grand Teton National Park as the Grizzly Ambassador – she's calm, unflappable, unperturbed by hordes of gaping onlookers and photographers, and her cubs grow up to be the same. Her daughter, 610, is equally visible and has had her own set of twins. Additionally, she adopted one of her mom's brood last year in a quirky turn of events.
While Olive's bears are generally of the black bear variety (the grizzly population was in serious danger at that time), there's no doubt she would have delighted in the three cubs and their superstar mother. And if anyone doubts that these little bears are as precocious as Olive's depictions, well, let's just say a certain construction zone wants their markers back….
God Bless Wyoming and Keep It Wild -Ms. Hellen "Becky" Mettler, Bar BC Ranch, Jackson Hole Wyoming 1926.
The Natural World of Olive Fell
One of my favorite pieces is heading to its new home today, thankfully in Jackson (where maybe I can visit it). It's not one of the knock-your-socks off rarities that Cayuse has a reputation for finding, but it encapsulates the essence of western Wyoming. The piece is called "Wading Moose", an etching by Olive Fell.
This particular etching is rather hard to find, but Olive Fell, who died in 1980, is under-appreciated, making common works less painful to collect.
Fell's early years were rumored to have been hard ones, with an abusive father. Not much is known, but her mother remarried after moving to Cody, Wyoming. Fell studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 'teens, where we have heard that she was roommates with Georgia O'Keefe and apparently got to know John Steauart Curry. She had a brief and unsuccessful marriage, after which she took up living on her own on an 1800 acre ranch called the Four Bear. It was this immersion in the natural world that really seemed to feed her art. She won many awards for printmaking, including one for this etching called Fenced Sagebrush.
Olive Fell seems to have developed a deep sense of time and space in her isolation. Her work ranged from tourist souvenirs sold in many of the National Parks (including Yellowstone, of course) to downright metaphysical, with a little mysticism thrown in for good measure. We have heard that she made many of her own prints. In the later years, Fell painted romanticized Native American children and created her "Fuzzy Bears" sold overwhelmingly to tourists.
But it is the work inspired by the natural world that really grabs you and takes hold. This is someone who knew her subjects. You get the sense that she just watched silently for hours while creatures got on with their lives around her. Elk, bears, moose, ducks, antelope, horses, deer, even flowers…I'm still discovering wonderful images preserved by Olive Fell. And the backstory, the knowledge that she really GOT it, lends depth to the work and makes it that much more enjoyable.
More of Olive Fell's work can be seen here.
Limited Jack Walker Inventory
We have only four items from Jack Walker in our display case, but as you know his work is wildly popular and makes wonderful gifts. While contractual obligations don't allow us post the items on our website, we thought we'd let you know through the blog that we have these available for purchase. They include:
- Two braided leather bracelets with ingot silver clasps. One fits a size 7 1/4″ wrist, the other fits a 7 1/2″ wrist. $250/ea
- One linked ID bracelet with ingot silver panel, links, and clasp. It fits a 7 1/4″ wrist. $300.
- One ingot silver flower charm, on an adjustable leather lanyard with ingot clasp. $210.
Call us at 307-739-1940 to secure any of these pieces.
New Gift Galleries!
We've created a way for you to find items in your price range. Simply select from Great Gifts 1 to 5 on the left side of any page. Just for grins we included our version of the Neiman Marcus catalog….one-of-a-kind gifts that will surely thrill the recipient. We're adding to these daily, so keep checking back, or call us if you need some help with ideas…
Always glad to hear from you!
Southern Plains Silver
The Southern Plains group of Native Americans includes Southern Cheyenne, Kiowa, Arapaho, Caddo, Comanche and some other smaller groups. An argument can also be made that the Osage are in this group, although they are often combined into the Prairie people. The Southern Plains groups were generally adept horsemen, and strong enough to survive through most of the government's push to subjugate them. This is perhaps because they encountered Spaniards long before, who also tried to contain them – they learned a thing or two. But they also picked up some new materials and techniques from the Spaniards. One of these was the ability to work metal. Quickly, the metal ornamentation became a signature of Southern Plains culture: earrings and arm bands, hair ornaments, belts, bridles, and pectoral necklaces can be seen on the Southern Plains people more than on any other except the Navajo (also exposed to metalsmithing due to close proximity to Spanish conquerors). The metal was plentiful – pioneers were casting off extra weight on their wagons, so cooking pots, containers, and other items could be found laying along the trails. The metal was also obtained through raids on the wagons. And, it could be acquired in trade for items these travelers really needed. Largely it was nickel silver, dubbed "German Silver" because of its production in Germany. Sometimes it had a pattern on it; other times, a chisel was used to create a pattern using a zig-zag process called rocker engraving. Eventually, enterprising anglo manufacturers and traders supplied pre-decorated pieces to be incorporated into the work.
Our show includes examples of Southern Plains work, including two hair drops (worn by men), and a bridle. These are hard to find and are highly collectible. We've also included examples of earlier coin silver items made by anglo silversmiths. The trade cross and the gorget were made specifically to trade to Native Americans in exchange for food or furs. The Hudson Bay Company trappers and the Astorians would routinely carry these items with them as currency, along with glass beads and other exotic goods. These earlier pieces certainly influenced the desire among Native Americans to adorn themselves in metal since it was not easily obtained.
Cheyenne Chief Little Robe, showing a large cross with crescents. Crescents were a legacy of the North African Moors, who conquered the Spaniards and influenced Spanish design. The Southern Plains and Navajo adopted some of the same symbology.
Expedited Shipping through December 22nd
As the gift giving season gets closer, we wanted to let you know a few things about getting your items fast. You can select expedited shipping during checkout to make sure you get your products. Please be aware that our UPS cutoff is 3pm, and in order to give us enough time to pack your items, you should make a purchase by 2pm MST, Thursday, December 22nd. If UPS guarantees arrival on Friday (sometimes they don't, right before Christmas), you will receive your purchases in time for Christmas. We can also send items through other carriers. Just contact us before making your purchase to discuss shipping options. We're happy to help!
New Ways to Browse Our Collection
We've just added the ability to look at your search results or category selection in several different ways. You can pick the view that suits your preference. On the right hand side of the page near the top is a box to select a view. You can choose Grid, which shows results in thumbnails. You can also select two different list formats, Simple, and Expanded. These give you a no-nonsense top to bottom list of items. You can still click on the item or photograph for the full view of all photos and description, and then go back to your group list. Try it now on our vintage Native American jewelry group.
Some Thoughts on Giving During the Holidays
I heard an editorial the other day by Adam Frank on NPR. He called it "Pepper Spraying the Holidays", and in it he wondered if the emphasis on producing more, and buying more, was so ingrained in our psyches now, that we are unable to change. Lest you think he's just another bleeding heart, however, he offers this insight: "I like my stuff as much as the next guy. I embrace the technologies I use and the capacities for their production. From a solidly made rake to a brilliantly designed app, making things is what we do. That being said, we desperately need to figure out if a balance can exist between how much we take (from the planet) and what we make." This struck a chord.
I left a solid job marketing high tech electronic equipment due to similar misgivings. It was not lost on me, that the company I worked for was in the business of producing "better" things so that the last thing you bought from them was thrown in the trash. What I do now is so much more rewarding, and it's the original Green industry. I know there are some folks out there who just don't "get" antiques. Most of us, though, find the examination of a vintage item thought provoking, wondering about the path that brought it to the here and now. I pretty much always learn something new from something old. Sometimes an object reminds us of someone we love, who may be gone, but it evokes a fresh memory that otherwise may have gone unremembered. Sometimes a piece looks like it was tailor made for someone we know, even though it's gone through other hands before now. My favorite days at Cayuse Western Americana are when a client comes in, looks around, and then something triggers about one piece in particular. It's usually very spontaneous and visceral, and that's when I know I've done my job well. The piece will sell itself without any intervention from me, simply because it speaks to the client. I can't remember the last time a flat screen tv made me react that way (although GM* Tom seems to have had heart palpitations when he saw "the one"). Among Mr. Frank's suggestions for this season's gifts was "see if you can find things that will last, things that are made really well". We suggest that you take this search to thrift stores, consignment shops, high end antique galleries (shameless plug), Craig's list, Ebay, garage sales – whatever floats your boat. I can guarantee that as you sift through the millions of items consumers have valued in the past, you will find something worthy of being loved yet again. It will be made really well. It will last. And you'll be a good citizen of the planet. Happy Hunting! *Gallery Manager Tom You can read Adam Frank's full essay here.
Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays from everyone here at Cayuse Western Americana!
We appreciate you taking the time to check out our new website, feel free to look around, and make sure to contact us if you have any questions!


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Meteorites are rarer than gold on the earth's surface and only very few of them are Pallasites – a unique structure of metal and gemstone. They come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the material is 4,60 billion years old and are the part of the transition zone between the mantle and the core of an asteroid. The first one was discovered in 1749 at Krasnojarsk/Russia and described by Peter Simon Pallas, a German scientist. Consequently, the meteorite group was named Pallasites in honour of him. Over the last centuries only 36 pieces of the Main Group have been found, half of them are less than 20 kg. With reference to his weight Jepara is the five largest Main Group Pallasite.
Jepara ist the only meteorite worldwide ever produced gemstones possible to be cut and polished.
The meteorite was discovered in May 2008 during excavation activities at Jepara/Indonesia. A new hall for producing furniture had been under construction and Jepara has been dug out while building the foundation of this premises.more
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As a bookshop, we are often asked about books by customers, and also asked to review them, so we have added this page to share our views which we hope you may find helpful.
The second book from traditional angler Stuart Harris has long been anticipated by many.
This is the first of two books John Angus has written about his time spent fishing for billfish; marlin and swordfish.


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