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Those of you who follow @McLarenF1 on Twitter will doubtless have noticed a Tweet on Thursday of this week, hashtagged #ThrowbackThursday, depicting Patrick Tambay giving Jacques Laffite a lift on the sidepod of his McLaren M29, in the Watkins Glen pit lane, in 1979.
In the 1970s and '80s, Frenchmen were as common in Formula 1 as vineyards are in Bordeaux, owing to the concerted efforts of Renault, Matra and Elf to make it so. The man charged with the task of managing the 'get French drivers into Formula 1' campaign was Francois Guiter, a marketing director at Elf.
The list of Frenchmen to have started grands prix in the 1970s and '80s is long indeed. In addition to Tambay and Laffite, take a deep breath and try to read this little lot aloud without gasping for air: Jean Alesi, Philippe Alliot, Rene Arnoux, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Eric Bernard, Francois Cevert, Yannick Dalmas, Patrick Depailler, Jose Dolhem, Pascal Fabre, Bertrand Gachot, Patrick Gaillard, Olivier Grouillard, Francois Hesnault, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Jean-Pierre Jarier, Max Jean, Gerard Larrousse, Michel Leclere, Francois Mazet, Francois Migault, Henri Pescarolo, Didier Pironi, Alain Prost, Pierre-Henri Raphanel, Jean-Louis Schlesser, Johnny Servoz-Gavin and Philippe Streiff.
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Granted, not all of them were all that rapide in Formula 1, but some of them most certainly were. In addition to Tambay and Laffite, who won twice and six times respectively in their Formula 1 careers, Alesi, Arnoux, Beltoise, Cevert, Depailler, Jabouille, Pironi and of course Prost all won grands prix, 51 of them (and four world championships) in Alain's case.
Interestingly, and in my view astonishingly, only three French drivers have ever started grands prix for McLaren: Prost, Tambay and Alliot.
Alliot, we should discount straight away. Of the 109 grands prix he started in his long and, it has to be said, undistinguished Formula 1 career, in only two of them was he at the wheel of a McLaren, in Hungary and in Belgium in 1994. At the Hungaroring he qualified 14th and retired after 14 laps; at Spa he qualified 19th and retired after 11 laps. Let's move on.
About Prost, I could write a book. Correction: about Prost, I have written a book. That being the case, and because his glorious exploits at McLaren have been described in loving detail not only by me and every Formula 1 scribbler you could ever be tempted to shake a stick at but also at length and often on this very website (mclaren.com/formula1), I'll limit myself to saying the following here and now.
In my opinion, Prost is the fourth-greatest driver in McLaren's history, eclipsed ever so slightly by Mika Hakkinen in third place and Ayrton Senna in the runner-up spot.
In my opinion, Prost is the fourth-greatest driver in McLaren's history, eclipsed ever so slightly by Mika Hakkinen in third place and Ayrton Senna in the runner-up spot. The father of the team, Bruce McLaren himself, to my mind occupies a unique position, pre-eminent above all other McLaren drivers not because of his in-cockpit ability, which was excellent but not majestic, but because of what he stood for and indeed stands for still. All at Woking bow their heads to Bruce, and rightly so.
Which leaves Tambay, which is where I kicked off this week's pleasant saunter down memory lane.
Patrick's first Formula 1 foray, a wild card entry for the 1977 French Grand Prix, was distinctly unpromising. Given a third Surtees TS19 to grapple with, conspicuous as it was in Durex-branded livery, he failed to qualify, as did one of his team-mates, Larry Perkins. The team's number-one driver, Vittorio Brambilla, aka the Monza gorilla, qualified 11th, by virtue of a lap 2.5 seconds quicker than Tambay had managed to produce. And that, I remember remarking to one of my neighbours in the Dijon press room, was probably that, as far as the urbane young Frenchman's Formula 1 career was concerned.
Not for the first time in my long career, I was wrong. Patrick turned up at Silverstone for the British Grand Prix two weeks later, now in an Ensign N177, looking far more comfortable, qualifying a respectable 16th, just six-hundredths of a second slower than Laffite, alongside whose Ligier JS7 he would line up for Saturday's race (yes, Saturday's race). Patrick retired with electrical failure after just three laps, but that wasn't his fault; he was clearly making progress.
A fortnight later, at Hockenheim, Germany, he was better again, qualifying his Ensign 11th and finishing a superb sixth, just 2.5 seconds behind Brambilla's fifth-placed Surtees at flag-fall. Again, progress was clearly being made.
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Two weeks on, the Formula 1 circus arrived at the Osterreichring, Austria, which was in those days a formidably daunting racetrack. Patrick attacked its flat-out curves with skill and sang-froid, wringing from the little Ensign a 1m40.290s qualifying lap, which was good enough for seventh on the grid. He was still seventh on lap 42, when his engine blew.
By the time we all rolled into Zandvoort for the Dutch Grand Prix at the end of August, Patrick's performance in Austria two weeks previously was causing tongues to wag up and down the pitlane. Little did we know that the best was just about to come. He qualified 12th, and was a little disappointed with that, but on race day he drove stupendously well, and would have finished third, behind only Niki Lauda's Ferrari and Laffite's Ligier, had not his Ensign run out of fuel in the closing laps, dropping him to fifth.
At that point, it was fair to say that most Formula 1 pundits would answer "Tambay" if asked "Who's the most promising young driver in Formula 1 today?" - yes, despite the fact that Gilles Villeneuve had made his grand prix debut in the same race as had Patrick just six weeks previously: the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. And that's why McLaren's then boss, Teddy Mayer, quickly snapped up Tambay to be James Hunt's team-mate for the 1978 season, despite the fact that Villeneuve had made his debut in a McLaren and would therefore have been a more obvious catch.
Ferrari tried and failed to sign Patrick at that point, incidentally, which is how Gilles came to be hired by the Scuderia to partner Carlos Reutemann for 1978.
My thesis is not, dear reader, that Ferrari made a balls-up. Undoubtedly, Gilles' talent was sublime, and I rate him as one of the most naturally gifted drivers in the history of all motorsport. But, at the time, as we drove out of Zandvoort towards Amsterdam Schipol Airport on the evening of Sunday August 28th 1977, it was Patrick whom most of us regarded as the more promising of the two.
Sadly for him, however, in 1978 the ageing McLaren M26 was more or less obsolete, completely outclassed by the beautiful and super-fast ground-effect Lotus 79, in which Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson won a combined total of eight grands prix that year, Mario taking the world championship at Monza - at which race, coincidentally and tragically, Ronnie lost his life in a freakish start-line accident.
By the end of the season Patrick and James had scored just eight points apiece, McLaren languishing a lowly eighth in the constructors' world championship.
The irony was that Ferrari - who had courted Patrick before signing Gilles, remember - had had a very good season, scoring five wins, four to Carlos and the last of the season, at home in Montreal, to the visibly jubilant Gilles. In that race Patrick qualified 17th and finished eighth.
The following season, 1979, was for Patrick worse still. Partnered now at McLaren by John Watson, he was outclassed. The team began the year with the large and ungainly M28, but after a couple of grands prix it was clear to everyone that there was nothing wrong with that car that a new car wouldn't cure. Its midseason replacement, the M29, was an improvement, but nothing special, and by the time it arrived Patrick was a pale shadow of the confident young superstar-in-the-making about whom we'd all been waxing so lyrical just two years previously.
Wattie, as quick and as gritty as ever, scored a series of good results with the new car - fourth at Silverstone, fifth at Hockenheim, sixth at Watkins Glen and Montreal - but Patrick failed to score a single world championship point all year. At season's end, McLaren bade him au revoir.
By contrast Gilles had finished a brilliant second in the drivers' world championship, winning thrice in splendid style.
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Again, I admit I thought that that was that as far as Tambay and Formula 1 were concerned, because no team hired him for 1980 and he was forced to try his luck in Can-Am instead.
In North America, however, away from the stresses and strains of Formula 1, he relocated his mojo, and remembered how to win. Indeed he became Can-Am champion.
As a result of his fine Can-Am form, he was back in Formula 1 for 1981, albeit driving for the lowly Theodore team. At the season-opening United States Grand Prix at Long Beach, he qualified 17th, which attracted no-one's attention, but then drove hard and well the following day to a fine sixth at the flag.
By midseason he was once again attracting the attention of the better teams, and so it was that he was paired for his home grand prix, at Dijon, alongside Laffite, the man to whom he'd given a lift on his McLaren M29's sidepod at Watkins Glen in 1979, which @McLarenF1-Tweeted image started me off on this blog in the first place.
Would Patrick's Ligier chapter be the start of a long-awaited renaissance? It would not: in the eight grands prix that he and Jacques drove for Ligier in the second half of 1981, Jacques scored two wins and two third places, while Patrick recorded eight consecutive DNFs.
This time, as Patrick sadly turned his back on the Formula 1 paddock after the Caesars Palace Grand Prix, the last race of the 1981 season, having crashed out on lap three, I was almost certain I'd never see him in racing's premier league ever again.
And as we flew to South Africa for the first grand prix of the 1982 season, it looked as though I was being proven right, for Patrick was nowhere to be seen. Nor was he present in Sao Paulo or Long Beach or Imola or Zolder or Monaco or Detroit or Montreal. Duly, as is cruelly often the case in such circumstances, the Formula 1 world began to forget he'd ever existed.
Ah... but please re-read that last paragraph, dear reader, if you will. Re-read in particular the list of grands prix that Patrick missed: Kyalami, Sao Paulo, Long Beach, Imola, Zolder, Monaco, Detroit and Montreal. Do you notice anything? No? Well, you should do: at Zolder, in qualifying, the great Gilles Villeneuve was killed.
At Monaco, Detroit and Montreal, Ferrari fielded just one car, for Pironi, unable as 84-year-old Enzo Ferrari was to bring himself to replace his dearly beloved and bitterly mourned French-Canadian ace.
By the next grand prix, however, the Dutch at Zandvoort, the still-grieving Commendatore had at last decided who Villeneuve's replacement would be: Tambay. At last, albeit in tragic circumstances, Patrick would get his chance to race for the Scuderia.
Now 33, but as coltish as ever, he was determined not to waste his opportunity. More than that, he wanted to do well for Gilles.
At Zandvoort (Netherlands) he qualified sixth and finished eighth; Pironi won in the other Ferrari. But at Brands Hatch (UK), despite qualifying only 13th, he finished an impressive third, just 13 seconds behind second-placed Pironi, his team-mate. At Paul Ricard (France) he qualified fifth and finished fourth.
Then, just as it was beginning to look as though Ferrari's season was coming together again, recovering as the Italian engineers and mechanics still were from the deep bereavement caused by Villeneuve's death, tragedy struck again. In qualifying for the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim, Pironi had an almighty accident, sustaining serious injuries from which he would never recover sufficiently ever to be able to race again. Tambay qualified a plucky fifth.
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On race day morning, it was evident that Patrick was shouldering a huge amount of responsibility, the grief-torn Italian team having now lost its two superstars, Villeneuve and Pironi, to death and serious injury respectively.
Patrick started conservatively, ending lap one in fourth position. But then a very special narrative began to unfold, and if you can read what follows with a dry eye then you're a harder cove than I am. On lap four he passed Prost's Renault, and on lap 10 he overtook Arnoux's Renault; he was second, only Nelson Piquet's Brabham ahead of him.
As Piquet began lap 19 he was 20 seconds ahead of Tambay, the Brazilian world champion looking set for a comfortable victory. Then, as Nelson shaped to lap Eliseo Salazar's ATS, their two cars touched, both of them spinning off into a gravel trap. Piquet, incensed, marched over to Salazar and begin to aim kicks and punches at him. Meanwhile, almost unnoticed, Patrick was leading the race.
Twenty-five laps later, he'd won it, crossing the finish line with both arms held aloft.
After the race, as we flocked around him on his day of days, he could speak only of Villeneuve and Pironi. "As the end of the race came near, and I realised I could win it, I was thinking only of Gilles, and of Didier," he said.
We all knew exactly what he meant.
Are you still with me? Good. Give me a minute to catch my breath. Thanks.
Okay, what more should I tell you? Well, Patrick also won the 1983 San Marino Grand Prix, also for Ferrari, carrying to victory number-27, the number that Gilles had made so famous, and delighting the tens of thousands of adoring tifosi who had watched Villeneuve and Pironi finish first and second in their beloved red cars at Imola just a year previously.
Now 64, Patrick is the deputy mayor of Le Cannet, a town near Cannes, on the French Riviera.
He's godfather to Gilles' son, Jacques, the 1997 world champion.
His son Adrien races for Audi in the DTM championship.
Oh, and you're unlikely ever to meet a nicer man.


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|Urban Wastewater Projects - A Layperson's Guide (EEA, 1998, 124 p.)
|Chapter 2. An Introduction to Urban and Rural Wastewater Management
2.7.1 What are the options for effluent disposal?
Treated effluent from a wastewater treatment plant is normally discharged into the nearest water body capable of accepting it without detrimentally affecting it. This can be a drainage ditch, a river, stream or torrent, a lake or the sea.
Fig. 2.5 Agricultural re-use of treated effluent
In some cases, to ensure adequate and effective dilution of the effluent in the receiving water, an underwater pipeline must be constructed, equipped at its discharge end with a diffuser system. This is particularly so, when treated effluent is discharged into the sea and acceptable bacterial levels are required at the shoreline and inshore waters without resorting to disinfection. The issue of mixing zones is important and the environmental/economic balance of several small discharges versus one large discharge needs careful assessment.
In addition to providing dilution, a long offshore outfall provides time for natural bacterial die-off to occur before the considerably diluted effluent reaches the shoreline. Techniques exist for predicting the dilution, dispersion and die-off that will be achieved.
2.7.2 Under what circumstances is it worthwhile to reuse treated effluent for beneficial use?
Recycling treated effluent for further use is unlikely to be either necessary or worthwhile where natural water resources are sufficient to satisfy all normal demands placed upon them by an area, e.g. satisfactorily serving the needs of the population, commerce and industry, the public services, landscaping and agriculture.
However, if water resources are either periodically or continually unable to satisfy water demands in the area, the recycling of treated effluent for beneficial use should be considered.
It is generally possible to reuse effluent for use as irrigation water in agriculture, landscaping and forestry, although, unless it has been either disinfected or stored for some time, care should be taken in its use on crops eaten raw, or where spray irrigation techniques are used.
Treated sewage effluent can be used for secondary industrial purposes such as cooling and quenching without treatment other than disinfection and dosing with algaecides.
Some water deficient areas have insisted on dwellings and public buildings being provided with dual plumbing systems for the water supply, one for toilet flushing and the other for all other water uses. It is possible to use treated effluent in the toilet flushing system as long as suitable precautions have been taken against cross-connection with the potable supply, e.g. colour coding of pipes and labelling of the effluent, and the effluent has been disinfected and dosed with algaecide.
If other uses are under consideration, such as in industrial processes or for drinking purposes, it will be necessary to subject the effluent to considerable further treatment as for any other primary quality potable supply. As effluent is generally of lower quality than natural water sources, this can be very expensive and has been practised in very few locations.

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What if you don't know which Halachos fall under which of the four categories in the Halacha section? (I even learned it in school, and I still don't have it completely straight; all the more so someone who never learned it wouldn't have a clue!)
Posted 02 May 2012 - 09:22 PM
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On this very lovely morning, walking out and feeling the sun hit my face (more like a friendly slap) Then I look around and see people all dressed for work whizzing past me…
For the first time in a long time(Yes…Example… never!), I decide to leave my boss waiting in the office(I hope he never sees this) when I see this lady, looking colorful and her color mix was EPIC!(Can't really describe it because I was stunned and I sound like a geek!) Then a lot of color ideas come up in my head and I feel like bursting… here they are (remember, this is just my opinion) :
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Saturday, July 7, 2012
Egyptian Occultism in Childrens-Pop-Culture
Randy Maugans from Off-Planet-Radio wrote a sister essay to the one above titled: Child Ritual Abuse Cults, The Media MONARCHy, and Far Too Late Disclosures
(expect more on this soon)
7 comments:
- Annalie aka ArtemesiaSpeaks said...
Thanks for the link Mike! Also a follow up article on this article of mine is at Off Planet Radio, written by Randy Maugans:
- July 8, 2012 at 12:10 AM
- Red Pill Junkie said...
It was an interesting article. Although personally I'm not ready to demonize Sesame Street —one of the first TV programs to try show a mixed-race cast which helped promote social integration.
- July 9, 2012 at 5:28 PM
- Mike Clelland! said...
I am presently writing an essay about the Sesame Street episode. Big Bird meet Osiris!
I ma not out to demonize Sesame Street like the author of the blog post is doing.
I want to explore the murky zone of something welling up from the unconscious, and presenting itself (unknowingly) to the audience. I am quite certain that the episode wasn't written as a way to mind-control children.
But - it was written with an ancient occult ritual as a plot element. And, it was meant to be moody and evocative of a mysterious lost realm. I feel the creative process will force these memes to the surface, in a spontaneous way.
THere is a hidden message in this episode, but I don't think it was inserted by some controlling illuminoti-like group. (That said - it might have been)
Mike C!
- July 10, 2012 at 9:02 AM
- Red Pill Junkie said...
>But - it was written with an ancient occult ritual as a plot element. And, it was meant to be moody and evocative of a mysterious lost realm. I feel the creative process will force these memes to the surface, in a spontaneous way.
Agreed completely. Creativity taking a life of its own. Which doesn't mean there can't be a 'co-participation' between the creative energies and an artist. Like Jeffrey Kripal says: First needs to come the 'Realization' (that we're being written in a story) before there can be 'Authorization' (trying to intervene in the plot of your own story).
- July 10, 2012 at 10:02 AM
- Annalie aka Artemesiaspeaks said...
I guess I 'get' that my post is being seen as an attempt to 'demonize' Sesame Street.
I'm often accused of this, being a 'firestarter' of sorts. Something for me to look at, for sure. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Or am I feeding the chicken with my work? I'm still in the process of answering that for myself.
In the meantime, I'm not the only one pointing out the Henson crowd's involvement with the insertion of occult memes in pop culture and what these are reflecting as signs of a greater agenda.
See Vigilant Citizen's article about the film Labyrinth with Illuminati-made rock icon David Bowie:
Or analysis of Henson's son Brian's involvement with 'Sid the Science Kid' and the NWO vaccine agenda:
To quote Lennon, 'you may say I'm a dreamer [or a demonizer], but I'm not the only one.'
Its not an easy role to play, I can tell you that. Its hard to know what else to think when you sing a song in your head for 30 years and the shadow beings keep showing up when you do. To deny the correlation, to me, would be the very definition of cognitive dissonance.
That's just me. No offense taken, or meant to be given, I'm just trying to understand and explain what I've come to know and live for myself.
- July 10, 2012 at 1:56 PM
- Red Pill Junkie said...
Annalie, it's not that we deny the inclusion of occult symbols in different manifestations of pop culture. With little effort we can find myriads of examples.
When we start to differ in our opinion, is in the assumption of whether these symbols repeat again and again in human culture due to factors outside human awareness or volition, or are indeed planted there by someone with an ulterior motive in mind.
I personally lean to the former. My opinion is that many people prefer to invoke a secret cabal of malignant puppet-masters, because the alternative —that human beings are not always in control of what happens in the world— is far more disquieting.
Better to think there's someone with a plan behind it all —even if the plan is horrifying...
Now, this alternative DOES NOT deny the possibility that there forces outside the human sphere that are trying to control events, maybe for the better, or for the worse.
Then again, I could be wrong...
- July 10, 2012 at 2:12 PM
- Lucretia Heart said...
My own opinion on this sort of thing is still up in the air...
On the one hand, conspiracy theory thinking can lead almost anything to seem suspicious and under the ultimate control of nefarious organizations. Magickal/occult icons or rites are not necessarily inserted for the purpose of indoctrination. They can simply make for some pretty interesting stories. Mystery and ritual are not automatically evil. Knowing history as I do, such things can go either way. It all depends on why such things are being done, and how.
On the other hand--! (See, I didn't forget I wasn't sold on this issue either way.) I've had some experiences that I'm starting to believe might have had a human element that would sort of fit in with the 'secret agenda' thing. I'm still trying to figure it all out. I've also met a couple of people I feel certain were telling the truth about ritual abuse that happened to them in connection with either the psuedo-military or through elite societies.
Thus far, I'm refusing to either believe or disbelieve. I'm choosing instead to listen, consider, rule out some things but keep other things in mind as I go along.
I have no objection to someone pointing out the possibility of a connection there.
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Now this is what you call #UncleGoals
We don't have a particularly huge family. But the more I grow older, the more I appreciate the family members I have in my life. We might not always get along, but we don't always fight, either.
I mean, you've only got one family in this life. If you mess up that first impression, you've got a lot of work ahead of you to fix it.
That's why one certain 18-year-old man from Ohio has gone viral for the simple, yet very respectful thing he did for his newborn niece. Whereas I'm sure a lot of people would walk into a hospital with their pajamas on (you know you've seen it before), he's done a little something different. And now the entire Internet is applauding him for this wonderful gesture.
Grant Kessler
This is something we absolutely need to kick off 2017 right, thanks to one adorable photo a Twitter user posted of her brother dressed to the nines to meet their sister's newborn baby at the hospital.
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Grant Kessler, 18 from Pickering, Ohio, wanted to look as smart as possible as he went to meet his sister Olivia Kessler's new addition.
The proud uncle said he got dressed up to meet his new niece "because first impressions matter."
"He was serious enough about it to wear a suit, but I think it was mainly just a joke to calm my sister down before surgery," Grant's other sister, Iris Kessler told InsideEdition.com.
"Grant was really excited about meeting her and wanted to make a good impression."
"My sister was kind of in shock because my brother had joked that he was going to do it but we didn't know he was serious," Iris said. "Everyone just thought it was really funny and typical Grant behavior."
So far the photo has gone viral with will over 41,000 retweets. Grant has gotten a lot of love from the Internet with comments such as, "What a gentlemen. This is the sweetest thing," along with, "Interviewing for the uncle position."
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What a kind, loving and respectful Uncle. His little niece might not know what's going on, but she will definitely cherish these photos one day.
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Posted on 1st July 2016 in Learning, News
Conversations about learning have been a major feature of life this month. Our oldest grandson has just attended taster days for the move up into the world of secondary school in September. Another is in the process of working out with family, teachers and their colleagues how we can best support him to overcome some of the challenges he finds at primary school. The rest are sharing their hopes and fears for the move into a new year group.
I attended two open days with our god-daughter who is just at the start of choosing a secondary school. The move into a bigger campus, with five times the number of children, and a different structure of learning, is like entering another world for most children. It was interesting to see how the schools decided to introduce their particular learning world to prospective families.
Both schools involved pupils in showing us around the campus and it was valuable to ask them about their school experience. They were all positive and when I asked them why they thought their school was good, the things they most commonly mentioned were:
- the teachers are friendly
- they take bullying seriously and they deal with it
- there's lots of different things you can do – art, sport, music, trips
- it's like a big family/community
- teachers make things interesting and fun
- there are some good facilities
So in our straw poll being happy and safe were top of the young people's list. Academic results didn't get a mention!
The head teachers at one school also talked about being like one big family, despite the size. Then they used evidence from recent "outstanding" Ofsted reports to highlight the good behaviour of pupils and excellent academic results. Both schools mentioned their range of extra-curricular activities and the importance of a holistic curriculum. But it was the other headteacher who really picked up on the pupils' priorities. He told parents the most important question to ask is "will my child be happy?" And the pupils were saying that warm, caring relationships are what makes them happy.
One of my favourite quotations says "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire" (Often mis-attributed to Yeats, but appears to be derived from Plutarch). So is happiness a pre-requisite to lighting the fires of learning? Daniel Goleman in Emotional Intelligence thought so – he wrote that "happy, calm children learn best". Now we know that fire needs fuel, heat and air to burn. Perhaps relationships are the oxygen of education?
A colleague in my course team at university went further. He said his goal for our students was that by the end of the course they should know they have been loved. That meant everything from how we cared pastorally for the students to the care and attention we put into our academic tasks. It was about our relationships and also about our pedagogy; being learner-centred not just knowledge-based.
I hope that I contribute to learning worlds that are kind and happy as well as effective teaching environments. What is the most important feature of your learning world?


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How do I drink Justice? or, Odds n' Ends
I have Jury Duty on Friday.
On the one hand, I'm a little excited, because Jury Duty is part of being a Real Adult and a Productive Citizen; on the other hand, oh, god, I'm going to listen to people debate traffic law for eight hours. It's times like these I wish I'd spent my geek money on something a bit more portable than the hulking gaming brick currently sitting at my doorstep (yes, I've been checking Amazon Shipping all day).
But something struck me as I pondered my inevitable boredom: what kind of drink can I write about after being in Jury Duty all day? What epitomizes our justice system in a single glass of booze? I'm at a loss. Maybe something interminable, like an unpleasantly strong bitter cocktail that takes a million wincing sips to finish; something somehow flawed but still better than a lot of things, like a really good mixer missing one ingredient; something blind, like, uh, wood alcohol? I can't decide. I hope one of you has a suggestion.
Oh, and in other news, eating food might kill us. Yes, again. Fortunately for those of you affected by the recall, we've got plenty of chicken burger recipes like this one to tide you over until all the germs go away. Bagged salad and spinach lovers are currently on probation.
Lastly: what should I eat to christen my new car? I'm thinking black bean quesadillas, because my car is black and looks delicious.
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Herbs have made our lives easier in so many different ways. Burnet is one such herb. Burnet can be defined as an herbaceous plant with round green flowers with pinkish stamens and toothed leaves … [Read more...]
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I am certain that many of you add coriander to the shopping list before grocery shopping. It is a commonly used spice in most households. What people don't know is that coriander is considered an herb … [Read more...]
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Lavender – it's not just a color. Neither is it merely a fragrance. Nor is it just a flower. Some people say this heavenly herb has come down from the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve used to reside; … [Read more...]
Bee Balm – A Gardener's Guide to Flowers
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On Sunday, February 15th, 2009, Big John McCarthy's Ultimate Training Academy held tryouts for its MMA fight team. During a grueling eight-hour workout that included two conditioning circuits, plus grappling, wrestling, boxing and MMA rounds, Felicia was the only woman in a field of thirty-two competitors. Demonstrating dominance on the ground as well as stand-up capabilities and spectacular conditioning, Felicia was among the fifteen applicants selected for the fight team. Congratulations to all who participated!
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a Little and Getting a lot Back Through Volunteerism
I have been a cadet in the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) for over four years.
We meet every Thursday from 6:45 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. My CAP squadron
annually participates in various community activities for children
and the elderly. We partner with the local Shriners Organization for
most of these activities. My CAP squadron also participate in the
Wreaths Across America program by collecting funds which are then
used to purchase wreaths. During the annual Wreath Across America
day in December the wreaths are laid on the graves of our fallen
soldiers. I have always found this activity very moving emotionally.
During the summer of 2015 I volunteered every Tuesday at the Eastside
Medical Center Day Surgery Department and every Wednesday afternoon
at the Laurel Grove Independent Living Retirement Home. At the
hospital I assemble form packets for new patients, restock supplies
and assist personnel with the preparation of recruitment information.
At Laurel Grove I assisted with facility set-up and decoration,
resident activities and spoke one-on-one with residents. I have found
all these activities very rewarding, and educational. There is a
sense of accomplishment and wellbeing that comes from assisting
someone who clearly appreciates the help. Also the feeling that one
gets from assisting someone and helping to make their life more
enjoyable, if only for a few hours, is truly amazing.
During my senior year I completer 206 voluntary hours and was awarded the
Voluntary Service Ribbon during the Senior Awards Ceremony
I see volunteering as a form of on-the-job training. Advantages of
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It is a wonderful opportunity to make a valuable contribution in an
institutional environment and can lead to life-long relationships.
It is an opportunity to give back to ones community by helping not only
those who are ill but also employees of the organization or
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exposure to what goes on in the work place.
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By volunteering I have been exposed to some of what goes on in a
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Learning how to work collaboratively in an institutional setting as well as
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A New, Low-Water Sod?
You probably know how much we love succulents here at Re-Nest. So it comes as no surprise that we're intrigued by this particular incarnation of the easy-care plants...
Take a look at this succulent mat, still in the development stages, from Altman Plants. It's a possible replacement for some uses of thirsty, traditional grass sod; while it's a piece of succulent art not appropriate for walking on, imagine part of your yard covered in these mats with modern concrete steps to create a path. They'd be great for green roofs, as the LA Times points out, as well as the less-walked-in front yard.
We definitely see this as a beautiful low-water solution, but can imagine that it wouldn't be the appropriate answer for just any yard (on account of the don't-walk-on-the-succulents part). What do you think? Should this product hit the market, will you be in line? Or might you consider making your own?
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David Cameron is avoiding a head-to-head television debate with Boris Johnson or Michael Gove because he is concerned about turning the EU referendum campaign into a "Tory psychodrama".
Senior figures at Vote Leave, the official campaign for Britain to leave the EU, in which Johnson and Gove play leading roles, were infuriated by the prime minister's decision to appear in an ITV programme with Nigel Farage but not to debate either of their men face to face.
In an interview with LBC radio, Cameron said: "I want to prove the breadth of the campaign and I don't want this to become a sort of Tory psychodrama between me and Boris or me and Michael Gove." However, he hinted that he may appear at a BBC event that could place him alongside one of his pro-Brexit colleagues.
Conservatives, including cabinet ministers, on either side of the debate have clashed repeatedly throughout the campaign, exposing the deep rift in the party over the issue, with Johnson accusing the prime minister this month of "totally demented scaremongering".
Cameron said he was keen for the debate not to be reduced to one among his own side. "I want to demonstrate that those arguing to stay in the European Union … include the Labour party, the Green party, the Liberal Democrat party, the trade union movement, most of British industry, the majority of small businesses," he told LBC's Iain Dale.
Asked whether he was "furious" about Johnson's decision to throw his weight behind the campaign to leave, the prime minister said: "I am human so obviously I was disappointed." He added of Johnson: "He says he was torn. He's told a lot of people that he'd never been a leaver. But look, it's for him to say."
Cameron condemned Johnson's decision to compare the EU's attempts to unite Europe to the actions of Hitler. "I just I think he's wrong," he said. "Hitler wanted to snuff out democracy across the continent and the European Union is basically an alliance of countries that share a view about democracy and liberal values."
Johnson later hit back, saying he was a longstanding Eurosceptic. He said negotiations over Cameron's promise of new legislation to entrench the sovereignty of the British parliament – in the hope of persuading Johnson to back staying in the EU – had descended into "farce".
"It became ever clearer that the government's exercise of trying to produce a so-called sovereignty bill – in which I was involved – was a farce and would achieve nothing. That is obviously why it has been dropped from the Queen's speech," he said.
Some backbenchers have become increasingly frustrated at the tone of the campaign, which is being closely coordinated by Downing Street. Steve Baker, the MP who chairs the pro-Brexit Conservatives for Britain group, accused Britain Stronger in Europe of pursuing a "scorched earth" policy.
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Samuel L Jackson Signs To Play Nick Fury Nine Times
Samuel L. Jackson has made a deal with Marvel Studios to play S.H.I.E.L.D agent Nick Fury in as many as nine upcoming films.
According to DarkHorizons.com, these films include "Iron Man 2," "Captain America," "Thor," "The Avengers" and "The Shield". This would also include any sequels that may be released.
"Iron Man 2" will begin shooting this spring and will be released in the Summer of 2010.
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Timely equity infusion props up MFI's capitalisation: Icra
Mumbai, Dec 7 (PTI) Timely equity infusion in most micro finance institutions (MFIs) has helped in improvement of their asset quality even as delinqu...
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Mumbai, Dec 7 (PTI) Timely equity infusion in most micro finance institutions (MFIs) has helped in improvement of their asset quality even as delinquencies pressures continues to persist, says a report.
The sector received a capital infusions of Rs 1,500 crore in the first half of FY18 as against Rs 4,700 crore in FY17 indicating continued support for the MFIs and investor confidence in the growth potential of the sector.
"The shock of a sharp and sudden dip in asset quality post-demonetisation has so far been absorbed by equity infusion into most MFIs, the pain is not fully over yet as reflected by the analysis of collection efficiencies, delinquencies, profitability, capitalisation and solvency position during the first of FY18," Icra said in a report here today.
Given the MFIs' growth targets of 25-35 per cent over the next three years and the expected higher provisioning over the next three-four quarters, the rating agency retains the capital requirement estimates of about Rs 7,000-9,000 crore till FY 2020.
It said the overall collection efficiency in the micro finance sector continued to improve, increasing to 94 per cent in September 2017 from a low of 87 per cent in December 2016, the report said.
An encouraging trend is that the improvement was wide spread across almost all affected districts except the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra and some districts of Madhya Pradesh, it said.
Several MFI players reported over 98 per cent collection efficiencies for the loans disbursed after January 2017.
"Consequently, fresh slippage of loans has been arrested," the report said.
The rating agency group head (financial sector ratings), Karthik Srinivasan, said increased disbursements in first half have helped in expanding the portfolio and reducing the 0 days past due delinquency (dpd) percentage from the peak of 23.6 per cent in February 2017 to 17.9 per cent as on September 30, 2017.
The report said in the past joint liability group(JLG) mechanism was considered to be a mitigant against the asset quality related concerns for the sector and the group members expressed willingness to repay on each other's behalf in case of default by any member.
However, it has been observed that while group guarantee works well in case of temporary cash flow mismatches, in events of prolonged stress situations impacting a large number of borrowers, the members may not be able to honour the group guarantee, the report added. PTI HV NSK .
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The gameplay of "Garry's Mod" involves players manipulating and modifying objects in the game world at their leisure. As such, there are no true rules for how the game is played, though certain etiquette rules are in place to ensure a positive experience for all players.
One of the only rules of using "Garry's Mod" is to not hack, modify or exploit parts of the game to hinder the enjoyment of the game for other players. This is called "griefing," and typically consists of creating mods to interfere with other players intentionally, often in a way that is uncontrollable. The moderators of "Garry's Mod" have the ability to suspend or ban players believed to be griefing other users.
Other than rules meant to enforce etiquette, "Garry's Mod" is entirely rule-free, with players able to play the game however they choose. The developers at Facepunch Studios specifically designed "Garry's Mod" so as to have few rules. "Garry's Mod" began as a mod for the PC game "Half-Life 2" in 2004. It was released as its own game on Steam in 2006. As of July 2013, "Garry's Mod" had sold over 3 million copies, with numerous new updates having been added over time.


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Bouncing Back After a Hard Fall
Few ousted chief executives appear more committed to reinventing themselves than Stephen F. Wiggins. Recalling the end of his tenure at Oxford Health Plans in 1998, he said: ''There were class-action lawsuits and S.E.C. investigations. I was the Kenneth Lay of the moment.'' Well, it was bad, but hardly an Enron. There were no fraud indictments, although Oxford, the insurer, suffered staggering losses on Mr. Wiggins's watch. At the urging of Gov. George E. Pataki of New York, Oxford agreed to suspend $5.4 million of Mr. Wiggins's $9 million severance package five weeks after his departure.


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A pop singer from the 2000s has reemerged after an unrecognizable mug shut went viral, proving that fame and fortune are not all they are cracked up to be.
Singer and performer Aaron Carter, 29, was arrested on Saturday night on a Georgia highway after a motorist called 911 to report a vehicle "driving all over the road," according to the The Associated Press.
Police also arrested Carter's girlfriend, Madison Parker, who was also in the car, according to the AP.
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The arrest reportedly occurred in Cornelia, which is about 75 miles from Atlanta. Carter was reportedly headed to Kansas City, Missouri for a performance.
Habersham County Sheriff's Office spokesman Capt. Floyd Canup told the AP that a deputy spotted Carter driving the vehicle as he turned into the parking lot of a local auto parts store.
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Carter was charged with driving under the influence, possession of less than one ounce of marijuana, possession of paraphernalia and obstruction of law enforcement officers.
A mug shot taken after his arrest shows how far the 29-year-old has fallen since his days as a young pop star.
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Why do all good things come to an end? #AaronCarter pic.twitter.com/BfoESxM17R
— Connor Malbeuf (@ConnorMMalbeuf) July 17, 2017
According to TMZ, the singer refused to submit to a breathalyzer test as well as a blood and urine test to determine if he was intoxicated.
Carter, who spent a month in rehab in 2011, also said that he wasn't behind the wheel of the car and that he planned to sue Habersham County police because they had no right to arrest him.
In a statement released on Twitter on Sunday, he said he felt his "celebrity" was targeted when deputies arrested him.
Thank you ALL for your prayers & well wishes. I am so sorry to all my fans that I missed. The truth will come out! Read my statement here: pic.twitter.com/XaiKqUeXxh
— Aaron Carter (@aaroncarter) July 17, 2017
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The singer was released on bail Sunday.
Below is a video of Carter just last week saying he would never get any DUIs after being asked about Shia LeBeouf's recent arrest.
Apparently, those are famous last words — for Carter anyway.
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The banyan tree got its name when Europeans started trading with Indian merchants (who are called "banyan" in the Gujarati language) 400 years ago. The Indian traders would find shade under this sprawling tree, and the name of the tree became synonymous with the traders themselves. As global trade has evolved, we now live in an incredibly interconnected economy with over $12 TRILLION worth of goods circling the globe each year. But half the world (that's 3 billion people!) still lives on less than $2 a day.
When you choose to purchase one of our handcrafted products from the developing world, you are making a statement that the poor should get to participate fully and benefit from global trade. But more than that, you are giving a mother a dignifying work option that enables her to support her family. You are empowering an orphan to rebuild the economy of a country ravaged by genocide and disease. In short, you are helping the world become what it ought to be, an interconnected global family. That's our dream and that's what it means to buy paper with a purpose.


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This medical marijuana user might have to get his head out of the sand before he can bury his stash.
A Sebastopol man who tried to get 7 pounds of marijuana through San Francisco International Airport security earlier this year said he wasn't planning to smoke all of it during a five-day trip to Boston.
The more reasonable plan, according to testimony from 46-year-old Kenneth Gibson during his fifth day of a jury trial Tuesday, was to bury most of the weed in the yard of a home he planned to buy.
Gibson was found guilty Wednesday on charges connected to his Feb. 1 arrest at SFO. He reportedly attempted to bring seven 1-pound sacks of pot — each double-bagged, vacuum-sealed and neatly lined up alongside each other in his luggage — through the X-ray machine at the security area. A security screener flagged the "biological material" and Gibson was detained, according to prosecutors.
Gibson produced a valid medical marijuana card from a Sonoma County doctor and stated the 7 pounds were for personal use.
Prosecutors didn't buy that claim and charged Gibson with possession with intent to sell. They said the brief trip and elaborate packaging raised red flags.
On Tuesday, Gibson testified on his own behalf that he was traveling to Boston in search of property to buy. Once he had purchased the property, he planned to bury all of his medicine.
That answer stumped prosecutors, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
On cross-examination, Wagstaffe said, Gibson was asked why he would bury the marijuana and whether he had talked to anyone about buying property.
"He did not have good answers," Wagstaffe said.
The district attorney likened the response to that of a child who is "caught with his fingers in the cookie jar and with chocolate on his face."
Massachusetts had legalized medical marijuana for adults just one month before Gibson's arrest, but the commonwealth does not accept prescriptions from other states.


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Discussion in 'Membership Sites' started by olalawal, Nov 5, 2010.
Is there still room for other dating websites that are free ala plenty of fish ?
Well, The place is already over crowded!
And if you still dare to enter inside, You should feel too hard to get it promoted!
Promotion will be a hard job
yah thats what I am worried about , I was thinking google addwords
plus my site uses silverlight and is very clean will that help me ?
Silverlight wont help you Coz, People Doesnt know what specialty you have got, unless your site is well promoted
Adwords Should Help You!
I think there is always room for any kind of membership site. I just think you need to be niche specific. People on plenty of fish go there because it is 100% free. You can talk to other people through email and chat without having to pay.
Anyways, why don't you start out small offering it to a specific niche of people.
Here are some ideas I have...
1. Christians, you can even narrow that down to a specific religion.
2. Gays guys and girls.
3. A specific race. Like Italians, Irish, or whatever.
I really think you should make it niche specific. You could even do it just as a college only dating website. Like for people in college. They are like minded and looking for the same thing.
Anyways, good luck.
what do you mean by specialty
its still in early beta right now I have all the pages done I just need to populate stuff : anewluv dot com
any feeback on the site would be great
thanks man, I already created a niche site to test my codebase and I got it up to 900 members or so. but i was only making a few dollars a month off addsense. Mostly becase I only had one add I think? This time I am spamming adds on the website although not intrusively.
There is no niche that is too crowded to enter...
you can work in any niche you like...you just have to be competitive enough and you Definitely need to think outside the box...
don't go by their techniques... try thinking of your own techniques...new un-thought of design... a new fun way for meeting people...
you'll always make it if you're creative!
Site review: looks good but home page is slow to load. when I put in my zipcode it froze up.
I am also think of starting a site. What is the best way to promote to get people in the beginning?
I agree with nitrex
You can try. Pick a niche. Work it hard. Getting started and attracting a critical amount of people is paramount in the beginning.
And the page does load very slowly (like a date site for seniors... ),
the width of the girl's face should not be extended nor compressed to window size. Think of maintaining the picture ratio during auto-fit, or it does not look good.
The bigger question is the biz model
DO you charge a one time or annual fee ?
OR go the freemium route as in games and put ads and offers on site and let people in free?
For example one company with an Iphone game does the freemium model and apparently they make (from their own mouths) around 80 thousand US dollars a month from game upgrades and ads however how much from the ads is of course unknown.
And this you see is why I want to get my games done however its very complicated to do more than 1 player Iphone game as you need a server and all sorts.
Why is life so fucking complicated and cruel to me all the time?
There are a few plugins that enable the membership site on WordPress. And I think you can find them in our forum.
There are some enabling several levels of membership - free and various paid ones - (silver, gold platinum).
You can get everybody on the free level first and then tease them to upgrade. And the latest word is to make them with regular payments, but with a fixed term, say 10 weekly or 6 monthly payments (Russell Brunson introduced a term micro-continuity for this). It gives the customers a feeling of a more determined outcome.
I would go for Plygamists Niche!!
ure logo is grainy, looks cheap.
yah i'm going with the free model with tons of adds , the site only loads slow becase its on a temp server i need to get it moved when my designer is finisghed thanks for the comments.
what if you collected peoples emails thats signed up for your dating site and sent them Diet and Biz Op Offers..
PM if you need a redesign, the site doesnt look that good
POF has really taken over the competition
It is my experience that there is no such thing as too crowded. I have a rule that the more competition there is, the better - it means that there is money being made in that market. High competition means that people are investing too. I'd steer clear of markets that have no competition.
Yes, you're absolutely right, but it's also true that it will be hard to promote...
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Wildcrafting: Dos and Don'ts
wild crafting
Food prices are rising, in fact, it seems as though the cost of everything is going up, what can you do?
Well you can supplement you food supply by becoming an urban forager, this simply involves identifying food sources, often fruit and berries, growing wild around your community or fruit trees and berry bushes on lands where you can gain permission to harvest.
You can complement this activity through wild crafting which means you go out into the wild which maybe a nearby field or forest and collect fresh herbs for your uses.
Wild Crafting Herbs
Herbs have many uses in both the culinary (for the kitchen) and the medicinal fields. Herbs are also used for landscaping to lend beauty and in some cases fragrance to the landscape.
Herbs are also frequently sought out by wild crafters who prefer a freshly gathered herb from one they have just purchased fresh from a local grocer. Some people think that the herb that they have collected in the wild is more potent than the same herb that they have purchased fresh.
Follow these basic guidelines and you will be off to a great start.
1. Do not take from diseased habitats, from the side of roads or the vicinity of factories and other scars on the landscape which may have polluted the earth.
2. Give back instead of just taking, bring some seeds with you and plant them after your have harvested.
3. Do not take more than you can use; others will also be seeking the same plants you do and you will want to leave some for them. You will also want to leave some for the pollinators who help the plants grow and for seed production.
Now wild crafting does not have to be limited to herbs, there is one plant that grows abundantly and all over your front and back lawn and yoru neighbours and so on. That's right the dandelion, nutritious and versatile.
Now if you spray the lawn with poison to kill dandelions and other plants you call weeds, well don't pick them for lunch.
Dandelions are good for tea or a coffee substitute, wine and the young leaves are great in salads.
Other Edible weeds
Lamb's quarter (Chenopodium alba, Chenopodium quinoa) grow in urban waste spaces and if the area is not sprayed regularly will provide fodder for yoru family. The young leaves can be used in salads. While the older leaves and tender stalks are cooked.
The leaves can be dried and ground into flour (replaces up to half the flour in any recipe; the seeds dried and cooked in soups, porridge.
Chickweed (Stellaria media), The young leaves and stalks and even the flowers are tasty in salads. You can add the seeds to porridge.
These are only a few examples of the plants that you can find, in town, that help you provide healthy food.
Get to know the empty lots and fields around town; take a trip into the country looking for the bounty that is waiting.
You will need to be able to identify the plants so invest in an edible wild food guide or drop by your public library and borrow one.
It can be useful to get a notebook and keep records of what you saw growing where. If the property is owned by the municipality, ask them if it is a lot they spray. You will also want to know if there was a gas station, for example, on the site, or any other potentially toxic activity took place there.
This is important to know as the plant's roots could well have sucked up whatever toxic material got into the soil and by eating that plant, you will be transferring that toxin into your body. If the site is clean, harvest away always remembering to leave plants growing for the future and for others to enjoy.
The potential toxic threat in urban centres is the main reason people choose to travel tot eh countryside and forests to gather their wild food. However, with some common sense you can take advantage of the bounty that grows around town.
If wild crafting is an activity that you are interested in undertaking, then educate yourself first, know what you are picking and planning on eating.
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importance of proper identification
wildcraftng plant id
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his page serves to help identify edible plants featured on the website.
collect all tubers in spring firewwed, milkweed, evening primrose, burdock i can go on.
Here I am it is 12:30am and I cant fall asleep. Which is how I stumbled on to your hubs. I have learned a great deal just by reading them tonight and now I am craving getting back to my garden which I have let fall by the wayside. Im realy interested in learning about wildcrafting. I know in the spring we have fiddleheads that come up. Iv bought them in the grocery store and think it would be fun to forage for them. Do you know anything about them?
very useful survival info. We have orange groves around here, now we'd get arrested picking from them, but in dire times, maybe. I will definitely be more alert and start getting familiar with this hot place.
Many orange groves have become overgrown as owners could not keep them up, probably due to market or upkeep. But, it's sad to see them die.
I remember living near McAllen, and Edinburg Texas and many farmers would plow up their crops of carrots and onions and let them rot in the ground if the price wasn't right. Sometimes we could "glean" the field but many times we were told no. It was always horrible to see the food go to complete waste.
That'd be great. I know ZERO about what to eat off of them, how to prepare it... when to pick it... tell if it's "ripe?" etc. Rock on man, keep doing what you're doing.
Bob! Just wanted to share a sweet memory. My Gandparents used to have some "friends" that only showed up for a visit to my Mom & Dads house when the dandelions were just tender shoots. (They always just happened to have small knifes and two large apple crates in their backseat.) On one of these visits I had been roped into cutting the 2.5 acre lawn. My back was turned to the lane so I didn't see them arrive. I was doing my evil deed of decapitating dandelions, quite happily singing to myself. (I loved using the riding mower.) When I felt a tap on my shoulder, that scared to behesus out of me. Both the husband and wife in their upper seventies are out of breath shouting and scolding me for not "harvesting" all that beautiful "Salata". 10 hours later my older daughter was born. When she was little I always used to tease her by saying that her legal name was Dadelionna Salata.
I've since mended my wasteful ways and will have an occassional dandelion salad.Thanks for reminding me of a really nice memory Zsuzsy
This is another good one. You should write one about just dandelions, since you've mentioned it twice so far in the hubs I've been reading today. I can tell you know a ton about this stuff, but I think you might not realize how little some of us actually know. We got tons of dandelions around here. Might be fun to mess with those.. you know, just get started on this foraging thing slowly to check it out.(unless you already wrote one on that and I haven't got to it yet as I'm still reading through your list, lol)
Good article, Bob!
My dad used to cook us Lambs quarter, tasted like spinach as I recall. I didn't know that you could make flour with it, I find that very interesting.
The dandelion leaves are good, but only if they're young and small in my opinion. The wine made from the tops is very sweet. I also like violets in salads.


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I took my daughter to the YMCA this morning and picked up a flier on composting that caught my eye. It's a great way to save energy because you don't have to buy fertilizer, which has natural gas as a raw material, as I wrote about in a previous post.
Our town, Montclair, NJ, is trying to make composting easier for its residents, and it's sponsoring a composting event Saturday, October 17 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Edgemont Park.
Now this blog has readers from as far away as New Zealand, so, obviously a lot of you aren't going to make it. But read on anyway because you might pick up some ideas that you can use wherever you live!
Not only is Montclair offering free compost for your garden (but you have to bring your own bags and shovels), but you can also learn about composting and purchase a compost bin and turning tool at a bargain price.
The bins can be purchased for around $52, about half of what they would cost if bought retail. They're cylindrical (narrower at the bottom) and can hold about 1 cubic yard of compost. They come in two pieces, so they can easily fit in the back seat of most cars.
Visitors to the event will also be able to buy turning tools, very helpful in aerating compost. I'm told that turning your compost once a week is extremely important if you want to produce the best quality organic material. The tools, which usually cost about $25 retail, will be available for around $15.
The event will also give participants tips on "green" yard care/gardening, water conservation, backyard bird and butterfly habitats and related topics. More information can be obtained from the Department of Environmental Affairs "Compost Hotline" at +1 (973) 509-5721.
Also in Montclair this Thursday October 15, at 6:30 pm at the main public library will be a showing of two energy-related films: Kilowatt Hours and Unlimited. The first film explains where electricity comes from and also gives valuable tips on how to save energy in your own home.
The second film, which was made by a local resident, talks about our unlimited opportunities to cut carbon emissions. After the films, which take roughly an hour in total to watch, there will be an opportunity to ask questions and discuss energy-related issues.
So, if you can't make it to the event, how about sharing some of your ideas or questions, and we can have our own educational event right here on this blog!


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Public Health Model | Primary Prevention
Socio–Ecological Model & Spectrum of Prevention
9 Principles of Prevention Programming
STOP SV: A Technical Package to Prevent Sexual Violence
Sexual violence prevention is a dynamic and evolving field. For many years, "prevention" efforts have focused on telling individuals what to do to avoid being raped. While there is some value in such strategies – commonly referred to as "risk reduction" – true prevention of sexual violence would happen long before an encounter with a perpetrator. Additionally, focusing only on what a person can do to avoid rape has led to victim blaming in our responses to survivors.
The challenge in doing sexual violence prevention is a lack of evidence showing what is most effective to prevent first time perpetration and victimization. In the absence of research, practitioners focus on other resources to help inform their work. A good place to start is to understand the theoretical frameworks that guide prevention work. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have provided an overview of sexual violence prevention in Sexual Violence Prevention: Beginning the Dialogue.
This section includes some of these frameworks that are often relied upon to help plan for prevention activities using the best available research and resources. You can learn more about prevention framework in this section and by checking out this WCASA webinar:
- Introduction to Prevention (WCASA, 2016)
Public health is a field dedicated to approaches that address the health of a population rather than one individual. Public health is a population-based approach and is one of the principles that distinguishes public health from other approaches to health-related issues. In contrast, the more common Medical Model, focuses on diagnosis and treatment of the individual.
A key reason that the public health model fits for use in the sexual violence field is that it is a community-oriented approach. Similar to efforts in the criminal justice response to put the responsibility for accountability on the community, rather than the individual survivor; the public health approach encourages the entire community to prevent sexual violence.
The public health model has been proven effective to address a wide variety of issues – including smoking and HIV – which is why this framework is being utilized for sexual violence prevention.
Step 1: Define the problem
Step 2: Identify risk & protective factors
Step 3: Develop & test prevention strategies
Step 4: Assure widespread adoption
For more information about the public health approach to violence prevention, check out the following resources:
- The Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention (Centers for Disease Control)
- The History of Violence as a Public Health Issue (Centers for Disease Control)
- Putting Social Justice at the Heart of Public Health (PreventConnect)
Public Health and Prevention professionals define three levels of prevention: primary, secondary, and tertiary. Historically, the sexual assault movement centered much of its efforts in the secondary and tertiary levels – responding to the crisis, supporting survivors who had already been sexually assaulted, and raising awareness of available resources. Over the last decade or so, the movement has shifted toward focusing more on primary prevention or addressing the root causes of violence in order to prevent it from happening in the first place.
See River Story & Primary Prevention Activity.
Socio–Ecological Model & Spectrum of Prevention
Individual behavioral choices are affected by one's own individual identity and belief systems as they relate to messages, beliefs, boundaries, and expectations expressed by significant others and other family members, parents, peer groups, school or other social community, and the culture at large.
Two models that help us understand this concept are the "social ecological model" and the "spectrum of prevention":
Download a description of the spectrum of prevention (Prevention Institute).
Read more and download resources at the Prevention Institute Spectrum of Prevention page.
9 Principles of Prevention Programming
The prevention of violence can take many forms; as the field has grown, practitioners have begun to identify best practices in terms of those things that make programming most effective. The CDC has identified "9 Principles of Primary Prevention", concepts borrowed from other prevention efforts (substance abuse, risky sexual behavior, school failure, juvenile delinquency & violence) which have proven successful in shifting people's behavior over time. To be successful, when planning prevention programming your organization should consider the following:
To learn more about each of these principles, read the paper Applying the Principles of Prevention: What Do Prevention Practitioners Need to Know About What Works? (Nation, Keener, Wandersman & DuBois, 5/12/05)
You can also view the CDC's Veto Violence project - Principles of Prevention online course
STOP SV: A Technical Package to Prevent Sexual Violence
In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a Technical Package to support the implementation of sexual violence prevention in communities.
Information provided in the resources includes: This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to reduce sexual violence (SV) and its consequences. These strategies focus on promoting social norms that protect against violence; teaching skills to prevent SV; providing opportunities, both economic and social, to empower and support girls and women; creating protective environments; and supporting victims/survivors to lessen harms. The strategies represented in this package include those with a focus on preventing SV from happening in the first place as well as approaches to lessen the immediate and long-term harms of SV. Though the evidence for SV is still developing and more research is needed, the problem of SV is too large and costly and has too many urgent consequences to wait for perfect answers. There is a compelling need for prevention now and to learn from the efforts that are undertaken. Commitment, cooperation, and leadership from numerous sectors, including public health, education, justice, health care, social services, business/labor, and government can bring about the successful implementation of this package.
- STOP SV: A Technical Package to Prevent Sexual Violence
- STOP SV: A Technical Package to Prevent Sexual Violence Webinar


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Today, [Pioneer Meats president Bob File], whose business has been increasing more than 10 percent a year for the last four years, sells more than one million of the approximately 2.5 million pounds of the processed shanks sold in the nation each year.Reading this, Gut Check had a profound flash of deja vu. Also, some tummy rumblings. But mostly deja vu. It wasn't our imagination, either. At least one St. Louis restaurant was ahead of the pork-wing curve.
Under various noms de porc, the shanks are being served at restaurants and bars across the country. Farmland Foods, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, has begun selling KC Wild Wings to wholesale restaurant accounts.
The "wings" don't look like wings so much as individual ribs, each a plumpish hunk of deep-fried meat surrounding a bone roughly six inches long and no thicker than a finger.The deep-fried morsels of pig shank are undeniably tasty, if simplistically so. Like chicken wings, they can serve as the ballast for any number of sauces. But can they make the leap from trend to appetizer mainstay?


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August 15, 2011, seemed like just another day for MaryLou Krippner. The Lisle, Ill., resident had already worked a full day when she received a phone call: The new kidney she had awaited since 2006 might become available that night. Six hours later, she learned the kidney would be hers, and by the end of the next day Krippner was at the University of Chicago Medicine with a new, functioning kidney. Five years of home dialysis and kidney failure had come to an end.
No one knows why Krippner's kidneys stopped working, but for 25 percent of kidney transplant patients, kidney failure is a complication of diabetes. And of the growing number of patients who receive a combined kidney-pancreas transplant at the University of Chicago Medicine, almost all have diabetes.
Kidneys clean the blood by continually filtering out waste products, which then leave the body as urine. But when kidneys fail, wastes build to life-threatening levels. Patients eventually have only two options: have a dialysis machine clean their blood for the rest of their lives or pursue a kidney transplant.
When it came time to select a transplant center, Krippner, 54, knew she wanted to be at "an institution on the leading edge where they develop the next innovations in transplants." She chose the University of Chicago Medicine.
"The University of Chicago Medicine is a transplant leader, which is important because patients -- especially those with diabetes -- may need many options, including multi-organ transplants like kidney-pancreas and even heart-liver-kidney," said J. Michael Millis, MD, chief of transplant surgery.
Every transplant patient is assigned to a personal transplant coordinator starting with the initial evaluation and continuing through the wait for a donor organ. "We create a personalized schedule for updating each patient's testing and visits so when the organ becomes available, we can move immediately," said Katrina Harmon, RN, MSN, CCTC, pre-transplant nurse coordinator. "This personalized care continues through the eventual hospitalization and follow-up with dedicated team members."
Yolanda T. Becker, MD, director of the kidney and pancreas transplant program, says this individualized approach is a University of Chicago Medicine hallmark. "We are growing our kidney-pancreas program, but not beyond providing this level of personalized, team-based care to complex patients," she said. "This is major surgery, and most patients gain profound quality of life improvements after the initial recovery."
This is what Tim Kramer, a kidney-pancreas transplant recipient from Lakewood, Ohio, experienced. The 38-year-old social worker, who has type 1 diabetes, had been waiting for donor organs for three years and on dialysis for five months.
"Dialysis was really hard. All I could do was work, dialysis and sleep," he said. Now, "I've already run a 10K and half-marathon since surgery. Running again has been the best gift of all."
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