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The language of loss and love
In her splendid little book Why Rebel, Jay Griffiths despairs of the way we commonly tell the story of climate crisis, noting how it distances us from the urgency and enormity of the ecological devastation unfolding around us. She writes:
"The language we use for this is itself deadly. The mass of ocean writing is a heap of broken plastic words: stock, fisheries, industry, off-shore, tonnage, commercial fleets, sea cages, fish farms, subsidies. Through the language it is hard to see the ocean's true nature, whose vitality needs to be rendered as beautiful as iridescence itself. We speak of an 'extinction event' or 'species decline' because of 'intensive agriculture.' These are lifeless phrases. How easily the eye bypasses them. They are words of tarmac and traffic, not the lovely writhy ivy words of the woods.
"I cannot touch or taste terms like 'habitat loss' or 'pollution' because they are unbeloved words which carry within themselves the toxicity of lifelessness. Humans, we are told, need insects for 'the function and services they provide.' Cold language, cold as coins on corpse eyes, cold as the philosophy that put us here. Words of heart are needed.
"There is a new word in the air: defaunation: the loss of absolute animalness. Defaunation includes the loss of individuals and the loss of abundance. Defaunation, argue researchers in Science magazine, should be as familiar and influential as the word 'deforestation.' Another term for the loss of the world's wild fauna is 'biological annihilation.'
"Please tell me you understand the immensity of this. And if you don't, please think, alone and quietly perhaps, of the unfolding ending. Let me speak simply into the simplicity of your heart, then, and let me just ask you what you love, what makes you happy.
"Is it a child? Is it your partner? Do you love your friend or, Little Prince, do you love your rose? Do you love your dog, your cats, your church, your home, your garden? Your books, perhaps, or the poetry you make, or the music? The meaning you have made of your life, maybe, your health, status, honour or all of these? And this love, then, this happiness that you hold so dear, tell me how it will even exist without the tiniest of beings, the insects, against which we have been so pitiless? Without the insects for the food and the flowers and the soil?"
Barry Lopez is another writer who entwined the language of loss with the language of love in his remarkable and influential books, which changed the way that many of us viewed the world and our place within it. In his essay "Love in a Time of Terror," published shortly before he died (in January), he wrote:
"Evidence of the failure to love is everywhere around us. To contemplate what it is to love today brings us up against reefs of darkness and walls of despair. If we are to manage the havoc -- ocean acidification, corporate malfeasance and government corruption, endless war -- we have to reimagine what it means to live lives that matter, or we will only continue to push on with the unwarranted hope that things will work out. We need to step into a deeper conversation about enchantment and agape, and to actively explore a greater capacity to love other humans. The old ideas -- the crushing immorality of maintaining the nation-state, the life-destroying belief that to care for others is to be weak, and that to be generous is to be foolish -- can have no future with us.
"It is more important now to be in love than to be in power. It is more important to bring E. O. Wilson's biophilia into our daily conversations than it is to remain compliant in a time of extinction, ethnic cleansing, and rising seas. It is more important to live for the possibilities that lie ahead than to die in despair over what has been lost.
"Only an ignoramus can imagine now that pollinating insects, migratory birds, and pelagic fish can depart our company and that we will survive because we know how to make tools. Only the misled can insist that heaven awaits the righteous while they watch the fires on Earth consume the only heaven we have ever known....In this trembling moment, with light armor under several flags rolling across northern Syria, with civilians beaten to death in the streets of Occupied Palestine, with fires roaring across the vineyards of California, and forests being felled to ensure more space for development, with student loans from profiteers breaking the backs of the young, and with Niagaras of water falling into the oceans from every sector of Greenland, in this moment, is it still possible to face the gathering darkness, and say to the physical Earth, and to all its creatures, including ourselves, fiercely and without embarrassment, I love you, and to embrace fearlessly the burning world?"
Griffiths and Lopez, of course, are not the only writers urging us to pay attention to the language we use when speaking of the more-than-human world. In previous posts, Robin Wall Kimmerer explained how the "grammar of animacy" can foster more respectful relationships with plants and animals; Lyanda Lynn Haupt reflected on the language of inter-species communion; David Abram argued that our conception of language itself as a purely human gift is much too limited; John O'Donohue spoke of animals and compassion from a Celtic point of view; N. Scott Momaday reminded us that speech itself is an ancient form of magic ... and there are so many others (fiction writers, poets, mythologists and storytellers included) who are working to re-enchant our words, re-wild our stories, and re-imagine our place in the living world.
Barry Lopez asks: Is there still time, and is this still possible? I have to believe it is. The great work of loving, of rebelling, and of storytelling carries on. It has only just begun.
Words: The passages quoted above are from Why Rebel by Jay Griffiths (Penguin/Random House, 2021) and "Love in a Time of Terror" by Barry Lopez (Literary Hub, August 7, 2020); all rights reserved by the authors. Lopez's last published book was Horizon (Vintage, 2019), which I highly recommend. You can read a post about it here.
Pictures: The fairy tale illustrations today are by H.J. Ford (1860-1941) and Helen Stratton (1867-1961).
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Recommended reading: Why Rebel
Jay Griffiths is one of a handful of writers that I more than admire, I am actively in awe of: writers whose work is so original and so damn good that I just don't know how they do it. Griffith's remarkable books (Wild, Kith, Pip Pip, and Tristimania especially) have stretched my mind, touched my heart, and taught me to perceive the world in new ways. She's braver in her life and prose than I could ever be, and I love her for it.
Her latest publication, Why Rebel, is a small, slim volume of eleven essays published in the "Penguin Special" series. The essays are tied together by the central theme of love for the wild earth, with a clear-eyed look at the forces that undermine our ability to live soulfully and sustainably on this beautiful, ailing planet. I've had my copy for just two weeks and already it's dog-eared, coffee-stained, and scribbled with margin notes. (I carry it on my walks with Tilly, so it's speckled with rain, mud, and leaf-mulch too.)
Griffith's essay "The Forests of the Mind" is one I keep returning to. Here, she discusses the poetic mindset of shamanism, its relationship to art, and the ways that the rise of literalism has eroded our understanding of metaphor, to our great cost. (This is something I've long been worried about too, and I'm glad I'm not the only one.) Shapeshifting, she says, is a metaphorical act performed by shamans and artists both:
"It is part of the repertoire of the human mind, cousin to mimesis, empathy and Keats's 'negative capability,' known to poets and healers since the beginning of time, the beginning of mime. It did not have literal truth, quite obviously, but had 'slanted, metaphoric truth' -- the words I used, when the page was printed, to describe it.
"Shapeshifting is a transgressive experience, a crossing over: something flickers inside the psyche, a restless flame in a gust of wind, endlessly transformative. The mind moves from its literal pathways to its metaphoric flights. Art is made like this, from a volatile bewitchment of self-forgetting and an identification with something beyond. Out of this is born a conviviality with everything alive, the relationship acknowledged and the necessity of its protection vouchsafed....We are what we think, and we humans have a way to become other, in a necessary, wild and radical empathy.
"Shapeshifting involves a willingness to makes mimes in the mind, copying something else. Art, meanwhile, depends on mimesis furthering our desire to know and to understand. In a recent, Ovidian, dance piece, Swan, French dancers performed and danced with live swans, imitating the birds in a mime which alluded to the metamorphosis of all art, and to the artists' ability to lose themselves in order to mirror this something beyond.
" 'But we, when moved by deep feeling, evaporate; we breathe ourselves out and away,' wrote Rilke in his Second Elegy. In making art, the artist expires, breathing themselves out to allow the inspiring to happen, the breathing in of the glinting universal air, intelligent with many minds, electric and on the loose. Artist, shapeshifter, shaman or poet, all are lovers of metamorphosis, all are minded to vision, insight and dream.
"Self-appointed shamanism can reek of cultural appropriation, but even in cultures that have temporarily misplaced their shamanism, the role survives, donning a deep disguise. Joseph Campbell and others believed that artists have taken up the role, and it seems to me that this is true for a particular reason, that both art and shamanism use the realm of metaphor, where emotion is expressed and healing happens. With the metaphoric vision, empathy flows, knowing no borders. Both artist and shaman create harmony within an individual and between the individual and the wider environment, a way of thinking essential for life; poetry works 'to renew life, to renew the poet's own life, and, by implication, renew the life of the people,' wrote Ted Hughes. But ours is an age of lethal literalism which viciously attacks metaphoric insight and all its value...."
Later in the essay she returns to the subject of metaphor:
"If I were asked what is the greatest human gift, I would say it is metaphor. A little boat of metaphor chugs across the seas, carrying a cargo of meaning across the oceans that divide us. Metaphor is how we relate to each other and how our one species attempts to comprehend others. With this gift, humans listen and speak more intensely and the meanings of all things -- ocean or forest, snail or chaffinch -- grow outwards in concentric rings of concentrated word-poems. 'Each word was once a poem,' said Emerson, and 'language is fossil poetry.' So a tulip, for example, ultimately derives from the Turkish word for 'turban.'
"Metaphor works with the legerdemain of the psyche, the lightest of touched to shift the mindscape, transforming one thing into another, leading to new ways of seeing. Metaphor follows Emily Dickinson's injunction to 'tell the truth but tell it slant,' so, slantwise by Saturn-mind running rings around literalism, metaphor is canted incantation, it breathes fact into life, it enchants. And metaphor is the language of the shaman and the artist."
(You can read the full essay online here.)
In subsequent essays, Griffiths turns her gaze on animals, insects, the soil below and the sky above ... on the toxic ideas and forces that threaten them ... and on those courageous souls rebelling on their behalf.
Why Rebel is wise, and fierce, and heart-breaking, and well worth reading. It's good medicine.
Words: The passages above are from Why Rebel by Jay Griffiths (Penguin/Random House, 2021). The poem in the picture captions is from The Woman Who Fell from the Sky by Joy Harjo (WW Norton, 1996). All rights reserved by the authors. Pictures: Morning coffee break down by the leat. The little drawing is by John D. Batten, a fairy tale illustrator from Plymouth, Devon (1860-1932).
Posts discussing Jay Griffiths' previous books & essays include Finding the Way to the Green, The Enclosure of Childhood, Kissing the Lion's Nose, To the Rebel Soul in Everyone, Daily Grace, and Once upon a time.
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Into the woods once again
From The Art of the Commonplace: Agrarian Essays by Wendell Berry:
"We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what was good even for us. We have fulfilled the danger of this by making our personal pride and greed the standard of our behavior toward the world -- to the incalculable disadvantage of the world and every living thing in it. And now, perhaps very close to too late, our great error has become clear. It is not only our own creativity -- our own capacity for life -- that is stifled by our arrogant assumption; the creation itself is stifled.
"We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and to learn what is good for it. We must learn to cooperate in its processes, and to yield to its limits. But even more important, we must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it."
Every morning I leave my desk and my books to cross the stream into the woods, stepping into the mystery at the heart of this rain-soaked and myth-steeped landscape. When the wider world feels harsh and cacophonous, out here I find solace in simple things: the bite of the wind, the damp velvet of moss, the crackle of leaves beneath my boots and the steaming of Tilly's breath in the cold. Inside, news scrolls across digital screens...but the news that I really need is written in light and lichen and thistle and thorn. I am learning the old, slow language of trees, and the quicksilver poetry of water.
''Let us keep courage," said Vincent van Gogh, "and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.''
To which I would add: Let us treat the land with respect. And ourselves. And each other. And go on from there.
The passage quoted above is from The Art of the Commonplace by Wendell Berry (Counterpoint, 2002). The poem in the picture captions is from his Collected Poems, 1957-1982 (North Point Press, 1985). All rights reserved by the author.
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Walking. Dreaming. Breathing.
"What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity," asks novelist and essayist Ben Okri, "when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings?
"The only hope is in the creation of alternative values, alternative realities. The only hope is daring to redream one's place in the world -- a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self-becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another we breach and confound the accepted frontiers of things."
"In a world like ours," he adds, "where death is increasingly drained of meaning, individual authenticity lies in what we can find that is worth living for. And the only thing worth living for is love.
"Love for one another. Love for ourselves. Love of our work. Love of our destiny, whatever it may be. Love for our difficulties. Love of life. The love that could free us from the mysterious cycles of suffering. The love that releases us from our self-imprisonment, from our bitterness, our greed, our madness-engendering competitiveness. The love that can make us breathe again."
The passage by Ben Okri above (and the quotes tucked into the picture captions) are from A Way of Being Free (Phoenix House, 1997); all rights reserved by the author.
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Nurturing hope
The week that has passed since the American election has been exhilarating and alarming in equal measure. The world hasn't suddenly been put to rights by the Biden/Harris win (no single act can do that), and the months between now and Inauguration Day are certainly going to be anxious ones -- but despite the challenges ahead, I feel more hopeful than I have in a long while.
Hope, as Rebecca Solnit pointed out (in Hope in the Dark) is not a passive thing:
"To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on the future, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty are better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk. I say all this to you because hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. I say this because hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency; because hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. Hope just means another world might be possible, not promised, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope."
Later in the book, she reflects on the important differences between true and false hope:
"In The Principle of Hope, [Ernst] Bloch declares, 'Fraudulent hope is one of the greatest malefactors, even enervators, of the human race, concretely genuine hope is its most dedicated benefactor' and speaks of 'informed discontent which belongs to hope, because both arise out of the No of deprivation.' The hope that the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes will come to you, that the American dream will come true, that electoral politics will reform itself, is hope that paralyzes people's ability to rebel, to reject, to critique, to demand, and to make change. False hope can be a Yes to deprivation, an acquiescence to a lie. Official hope can be the bullying that tells the marginalized to shut up because everything is fine or will be. In its dilute forms, false hope is not far from despair, for both can be paralyzing. But despair can also be liberating.
"Blind hope faces a blank wall waiting for a door in it to open. Doors might be nearby, but blind hope keeps you from locating them; in this geography, despair can be fruitful, can turn you away from the wall, saying No to deprivation. And this despair in one institution or one site can lead to the location of alternatives, to the quest for doors, or to their creation. The great liberation movements hacked doorways into walls, or the walls came tumbling down. In this way, hope and despair are linked."
But how do we maintain hope when the challenges ahead are so numerous, so seemingly intractable, so overwhelming? Solnit reminds us of this:
"After a rain mushrooms appear on the surface of the earth as if from nowhere. Many do so from a sometimes vast underground fungus that remains invisible and largely unknown. What we call mushrooms mycologists call the fruiting body of the larger, less visible fungus. Uprisings and revolutions are often considered to be spontaneous, but less visible long-term organizing and groundwork -- or underground work -- often laid the foundation. Changes in ideas and values also result from work done by writers, scholars, public intellectuals, social activists, and participants in social media. It seems insignificant or peripheral until very different outcomes emerge from transformed assumptions about who and what matters, who should be heard and believed, who has rights.
"Ideas at first considered outrageous or ridiculous or extreme gradually become what people think they've always believed. How the transformation happened is rarely remembered, in part because it's compromising: it recalls the mainstream when the mainstream was, say, rabidly homophobic or racist in a way it no longer is; and it recalls that power comes from the shadows and the margins, that our hope is in the dark around the edges, not the limelight of center stage. Our hope, and often our power."
Indeed they are.
Words: The passage above is from Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket, 2004). The poem in the picture captions is from Indigo by Ellen Bass (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). All rights reserved by the authors. Pictures: Tilly with her friend Old Oak. Her leg is still healing but she's feeling better, and the rustle of oak leaves is good medicine.
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It was abundantly clear when watching Super Bowl LIII that the New England Patriots were a more confident group than the Los Angeles Rams.
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US hits Iran with fresh sanctions over space launch
US accuses Iran of violating UN convention after launching a satellite-carrying rocket into space on Thursday.
Iran launched its Simorgh satellite rocket at an undisclosed location in Iran on Thursday. [Handout/Iranian Defence Ministry/AFP]
The United States has hit Iran with new sanctions in response to its launch of a satellite-carrying rocket into space.
The ballistic missiles sanctions, announced on Friday, target six Iranian subsidiaries of the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group, which the US treasury department says is "central" to Iran's ballistic missiles programme.
On Thursday, Iran successfully tested a rocket that can deliver satellites into orbit.
The same day, Iranian state television showed footage of the firing of the rocket, mounted on a launchpad, carrying pictures of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
READ MORE: 'It is in Trump's interest to keep the Iran deal alive'
The US said the rocket launch violated the UN Security Council resolution that endorsed the 2015 nuclear deal and called upon Iran to not undertake activities related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such technology.
The resolution stops short of explicitly barring such activity.
In a joint statement on Friday, Britain, France and Germany joined the US in condemning the satellite-launch rocket test, saying it was in violation of the resolution.
"Iran's programme to develop ballistic missiles continues to be inconsistent with UNSCR 2231 and has a destabilising impact in the region," the statement said. "We call on Iran not to conduct any further ballistic missile launches and related activities."
The six entities being sanctioned contribute to Iran's liquid propellant ballistic missiles, the US treasury department said, including development and manufacturing of engines, launchers, guide-and-control systems and ground support as well as the liquid propellant itself.
The sanctions freeze any assets the entities may have in the US and prohibit Americans from doing business with them.
'US shows bad faith'
Steven Mnuchin, US treasury secretary, said the sanctions illustrate deep US concerns about Iran's missile testing and other actions.
"These sanctions target key entities involved in Iran's ballistic missile programme, and underscore the US' deep concerns with Iran's continued development and testing of ballistic missiles and other provocative behaviour," Mnuchin said.
The nuclear deal does not cover Iran's ballistic missile programme.
Iran has denied it has missiles designed to carry nuclear warheads.
OPINION: Trump and Iran - Scenarios of escalation
On Friday, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister, said his country is complying with the nuclear deal and suggested that the US is not complying with the "letter and spirit" of the deal.
"Rhetoric and actions from the US show bad faith," he said.
"Iran is not and will not be developing nuclear weapons; so by definition cannot develop anything designed to be capable of delivering them."
WATCH: Iranian Americans discuss US-Iran ties two years after nuclear deal (2:55)
The fresh sanctions come as Donald Trump's administration continues debating its Iran policy and whether to scrap the 2015 nuclear deal.
During the 2016 presidential election campaign, the US president promised to "rip up" the "worst deal ever made".
Last week, the US hit Iran with fresh sanctions, designating 18 individuals and entities for supporting what it said were "illicit Iranian actors or transnational criminal activity".
Iran's parliament retaliated by voting for extra funding for the missile programme and its foreign ministry said it would impose its own sanctions against US citizens.
Last week's sanctions came just a day after the US administration declared that Iran was complying with the landmark nuclear deal signed two years ago.
US officials said the "conditions had been met", but Iran is "unquestionably in default of the spirit" of the agreement.
Iran countered the US accusation, saying that it had violated the deal.
Abbas Araqchi, Iran's deputy foreign minister, said the US was "trying to sabotage the situation, to threaten or scare off foreign companies to invest in Iran".
SOURCE: News agencies


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Gothic Voices Concert
Saturday 3 December 2016
A special programme of carols and songs for the season together with festive mass movements by composers such as John Dunstable (c.1390-1453) and Leonel Power (c.1370-1445).
A small consort of four voices formed more than twenty years ago by Christopher Page, Gothic Voices is established as one of the leading vocal ensembles in Europe. As its name implies, the consort specialises in medieval music from all over Europe, but it also performs modern music, much of it commissioned by the group. Gothic Voices has performed in all the great cathedrals at home and throughout Europe and at major early music festivals worldwide. The group has a discography of more than 20 recordings and their recording, inspired by the music of Hildegard of Bingen, is one of the best-selling CDs of pre-classical music of all time. Their singing was described in The Times as �sustenance for the soul � a short-cut to bliss.� A perfect programme for a winter�s evening at Holkham Hall.
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Mandy Cowie, a British welfare queen, says she wants 50 grandchildren so she can continue raking in benefits from the government and become the biggest benefits family in Great Britain. The 49-year-old single mother has 10 children with five different men.
Cowie has lived on welfare for over three decades and is trying to convince her own children to follow a similar path. She currently takes over $34,000 in benefits every year. At least $3,000 of that has gone to covering much of her body with tattoos.
"Ten kids and full of tattoos, mate," Cowie said of herself.
"So what if I'm on the effing dole, mate. Don't like it, eff off. I had my first one at 18 and my last one at 36, and I've told them I want 50 grandkids before I die."
Cowie, who already has 16 grandchildren, will be featured on Britain's Biggest Benefits Family. The television show profiles families that pride themselves on living on benefits.
She also admitted to buying cigarettes for her 13-year-old daughter when she behaved well and letting her drink alcohol at home.
"People may be shocked that I've been on benefits for so long, but I don't care," Cowie said. "I can't work because of the kids, and while the pregnancies weren't planned, I love having a big family.
Three of Cowie's children live with her, while the other seven have moved out. She collects disability benefits for a son, child tax credits, child benefit and a jobseekers' allowance.
According to Express, the British government spends more than $201 million in welfare benefits on 27,000 large families.


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"Plants will talk to you. Start looking at the signs. It's like when you go to the beach. You show up, and you're facing the sun. Before you know it, you're looking away from the sun. Then, you're covering yourself from the sun, and finally walking away, retreating. Plants do the same thing." Craig Johnson's words filter through the phone and echo in the sun. I commit them to memory. My house plants are dying, and my ears turn toward the truth.
"The top leaves will be like a solar panel, pointed at the sun," he said. "Then, the first sign of too much or not enough water, it will slowly turn those leaves away from the sun to start shutting down the need for water. Then, a full wilt, ghosted; the plant just drops away," his voice low, mourning the lost life of a plant.
"Look at the very top of the plant. If it's popped up, looking right at the sun, like a solar panel tracking the sun, you've got plenty of moisture in that soil. That's my biggest initial connection to help people start reading the plants," Craig said. Start looking at the signs.
Craig and Melanie own and operate Alpenglow Farms, home to fully certified, compliant, organic, and fish-friendly cannabis (and food) cultivation. With California's recreational laws taking full-effect in just two months, the entire cannabis community is coming out of the green closet. "The world is looking at us for our cannabis, let's show them our farming practices," Craig said, a humble pride taking tone.
Permaculture and polyculture. Sustainability and efficiency. These are pillars of Alpenglow Farms, whose self-sustaining farmettes spread out across Southern Humboldt hillsides. "Kind of like the mom 'n pop model," Craig noted, "a polyculture model for buildings and garden setups throughout the property." Ant Flat, one of the micro-homesteads, was affectionately dubbed after their daughters' intrigue at the insects who made homes there. "It's important to keep the family feel," explains Craig, describing the land as he weaves between tall weeds. Tahoe, a German Shephard, and Mendo, a little pitbull — the farm's canine guardians — sound-off in the distance.
Alpenglow consists of Huckleberry Flat, Ant Flat, and The Homestead (which has two gardens). The Legacy Garden is right in front of the home and has been a 215 garden since Alpenglow began. Their cats, Glitterbug and Gracey, bask by dramatic dahlias blooming near Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DEM) Pure Certified cannabis.
The other garden, Big Flat, was once a logging flat and is now very fertile ground. At the edge of the cite sits a small home, where guest workers spend their summer learning and living permaculture. This summer it was Kevin and Andrea. They covered daily operations, farm and business management, and integrated technology and innovative processes to streamline the farm's workflow.
I caught up with them by phone, transported to those mountain views. Kevin discussed Alpenglow's notable practices: "One of the things I've enjoyed is taking all the plants and leaf material that has been pulled off or thrown away or died, and putting it through the chipper," he described. " [We] mix it with straw and it comes out like mulch. We return it to the cannabis plants, the soil beds, to keep the soil nice and moist."
"Craig is very much about feeling the plants, connecting on a spiritual/emotional level, understanding by that what they need," said Kevin, who added that though he and Andrea are new to this method, Craig has helped them make that connection and collectively grow as gardeners.
In turn, Andrea and Kevin helped Alpenglow become DEM Pure Certified, an incomparable status achieved only by beyond organic farms that utilize solely regenerative and biologically intelligent practices. At least five closed loop systems are required to be considered for DEM certification, such as soil building and myco remediation. Pure farmers also give back to the community through education, as leaders and teachers of beyond organics for next generation cultivators, be it of food or cannabis.
Alpenglow is equally dedicated to creating high-quality, craft cannabis as it is to enriching the land, water, and air. Corey and Rosie join the Johnsons at Alpenglow, and oversee Huckleberry Flat. The O'Neill's are master growers and provide the build-out for Alpenglow Farm's systems and innovations.
Under the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's (CDFW) cannabis program, licensed cannabis cultivators "must ensure that individual and cumulative effects of water diversion and discharge associated with cannabis cultivation do not affect the instream flows needed for fish spawning, migration, and rearing, and the flows needed to maintain natural flow variability, and to otherwise protect fish, wildlife, fish and wildlife habitat, and water quality."
"Fish-friendly cannabis" as Craig called it. "To be part of [CDFW's] cannabis program, you have to forebear from your surface water for six months. Even though we have several amazing springs on this property, we can't use them for cannabis. They want all that water to go down and keep life vital in the river. And we want to be part of that as well," he said, "we love salmon!"
Hollie Hall and Associates at Compliant Farms helped Alpenglow navigate the permitting process, engaging with CDFW and the state water board. Rainwater, captured via a system of rooftop gutters is used for 100% of the irrigation at the farm, bringing Alpenglow into compliance with the CDFW, the State Water Board, and the Regional Water Board. Hollie confirmed that the farm has been fully Complaint Farms Certified.
"The Alpenglow Farms family is passionate about cultivating a diversity of plants to enhance the nutritional and medicinal productivity of the farm, and also to draw in and support a diversity of beneficial insects that aid in protection of the cannabis from attack by detrimental pest insects," Hall told me via email, in between a busy schedule of soil reports and permit assistance. Committed to protecting resources, the many springs, creeks and waterfalls throughout the property exist in a wild setting, untrampled by development. "By supporting healthy farm and watershed systems, the Alpenglow Farms family strives to produce high quality, artisanal cannabis that supports clean water, healthy ecosystems, and a strong community," she wrote.
Another water conservation technique used at Alpenglow is living mulch, which is a cover crop growing at the same time and in the same bed as the cannabis plants. This is where the story gets dirty.
Sarah Schuette, co-owner of Dirty Business Soil (DBS), an agriculture testing company and consulting firm, explained that living mulch provides a path for nutrient exchange, such as nitrogen fixers, and maintains plant diversity, which can divert pests away from the cannabis. Alpenglow is also piloting DBS' integrated pest management program, a move some farmers view as risky.
"Our main goal [at DBS] is to help increase yields or decrease losses — or both — for farmers based on optics from their soil, [in effect] asking the soil what it needs," Schuette said. They recommend back-to-basics fertilizers, organic commodity products like fish meal, compost and manure. The recipe is to recharge and reuse the soil, which lowers overhead costs like buying new soil. DBS customizes nutrient management plans for each unique soil situation, from smart pots to greenhouses to Hugelkultur beds, like the ones at Alpenglow.
After the light dep cannabis harvest, the greenhouses of Alpenglow rotate from cannabis to nitrogen fixers like fava and bush beans to keep the living soil alive and yield a food crop. Hugelkultur is German for mound culture or hill culture. The steps are simple: 1) Dig trench. 2) Bury wood. Over time, the wood decomposes, releasing nutrients into the soil. In death, the wood also becomes spongy, able to retain a lot of water and defy drought. The water saving method was used for centuries in Germany and Eastern European, and is making a comeback thanks to permaculture influencers like Paul Wheaton, Geoff Lawton, and Alpenglow Farm's own Craig Johnson. "We don't want to shut down our greenhouses when the cannabis is finished. We want to keep producing and putting food back into our community."
Even as trailblazers, Alpenglow aims for better. "We want to be more efficient; that's why we're doing living soils and soil building techniques. We're in an agroforestry situation," Craig noted during one of our calls, "and we're not into clearing more forest on a mountainside to grow more cannabis."
Drawn from the spirit of stewardship, Craig co-founded Humboldt High Five, a cohort of like-minded farmers bringing social and ecological standards and values to cannabis, practices, and community service. Huckleberry Hill Farm, Lady Sativa Farm, Villa Paradiso Farm, and Moon Made Farms are all members of Humboldt High Five.
Rio Anderson of Lady Sativa Farm shared some background on Humboldt High Five. "We went to Columbia to study the coffee co-ops with Flow Kana," he relayed. There, the group discovered the solution to scaling for craft farms. "The small co-ops were able to compete with large Brazilian coffee farms because they scale as co-ops. It's just as efficient if not more efficient than the large independent farms in Brazil," Rio explained. "We have very talented farmers, people I've had a hard time locating before [legalization]. It's exciting to have leadership and unique qualities in all our members," he said. Humboldt High Five members support each other's brands, functioning as a small cooperative system, and also work closely with Flow Kana Institute.
"Cannabis has the opportunity to be such a massive industry with so much breadth and reach from medicine to energy to cosmetics to recreational," said Michael Steinmetz, Flow Kana CEO. "As we grow, we have to be sure to bring along those deep values of community and sustainable cultivation practices. When cannabis is produced in harmony with the land, it is healthier and has less impact on its surroundings."
After years of getting caught in the weeds, the cannabis community is charging out of the green closet. Cannabis information can be shared openly in public forums and conferences, like the Living Soils Symposium, or simply with a stranger on a plane making polite conversation. "Accessibility to knowledge is gained through transparency, as it allows for multiple entities and organizations to openly discuss the possibilities of cannabis and its future," said Melanie, adding "Coming out is about being transparent about our life; what we've accomplished and what we hope to accomplish in the future."
Find Alpenglow Farms at the forefront, setting the tone for craft cannabis through better than best practices. And if you ever get the chance to sit next to Craig Johnson on a plane, definitely ask what he does for a living. As for my houseplants, they're tracking the sun and clinging on for another day.
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- Motivation for an unban: its been so long and i have learnt my lession and i have became a better player.
It has been more than a year since your last ban and I have therefore decided to unban you.
I want you to keep in mind that this is your very last chance in the community and the next tie will be a permanent ban with no chance of getting unbanned.


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Royals Rumblings - News for July 2, 2020
By Max Rieper Jul 2, 2020, 8:00am EDT
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Jeffrey Flanagan talks to reliever Tim Hill, a cancer survivor who never considered opting out of this season.
"I know there are people worried about me," Hill said, "but honestly I don't feel that high risk. I take care of myself through nutrition and working out. I never really considered opting out. I know that's an option but I'm not going to do that."
Royals medical people and Hill's physicians have cautioned him of the risk.
"They weren't trying to freak me out," Hill said. "They just wanted me to be aware. Honestly, I don't feel that my immune system is weakened or compromised."
Flanagan also has four storylines to watch during Royals Summer Camp.
The final five or six spots on the staff get intriguing. Randy Rosario and Jess Hahn are both out of options; the Royals have a chance with the new roster limits to keep inventory there. Greg Holland was having a solid spring minus one shaky outing, but he will have to be added to the 40-man roster. Power righty Josh Staumont was impressive, striking out 10 in six outings with a 0.00 ERA. Rule 5 Draft right-hander Stephen Woods Jr. showed some promise before a high left ankle sprain shut him down, but he's healthy now. Lefty Richard Lovelady was having a fine camp, striking out six in five outings with a 0.00 ERA.
Alec Lewis talks to J.J. Picollo about why Asa Lacy was left off the 60-man club pool.
In our case, you look at a guy like Carlos Hernández, who is on the roster — he's left off. It's just the abnormal situation we're in. This is not exactly your normal spring training, so you start to wonder … what type of experience could this really be for Asa? It would be an unusual first experience.
Also, because we have the depth we have in Double A and Triple A, space was limited. And some players have paid their dues, so to speak. They've pitched a couple of seasons. So to not include one of those players and bring a guy who hasn't pitched yet … that's a tough one. Even though we would've liked to have had him there.
Baseball men are doing baseball things.
The boys are back in town.#AlwaysRoyal pic.twitter.com/H9FXDa6FQ3
— Kansas City Royals (@Royals) July 1, 2020
At Royals Academy, Clint Scoles writes about what it would be like to re-start the Royals Academy.
At UL's Toothpick, Darin Watson looks at the 1980 Royals and a losing skid in July.
Here's how media will have to cover the Royals this season.
The Royals will host a voter registration event at the Urban Youth Academy this Friday.
Former Royals pitcher and Cubs pitching coach Tommy Hottovy shares his harrowing experience contracting the coronavirus.
Rob Manfred admits the owners were never planning on having more than 60 games this season.
The Cardinals will play the White Sox in a corn field in Iowa for the Field of Dreams game.
Teams won't be allowed to publicly identify players that test positive for coronavirus.
Cardinals reliever Jordan Hicks will begin the season on the Injured List.
Will anyone hit .400 this season?
Some former MVPs say it is time to take Kenesaw Mountain Landis' name off the award due to his stance on segregating baseball.
The NFL will cut back the pre-season to just two games.
Six FC Dallas players test positive for coronavirus a week before the MLS re-start tournament.
Amazon's video game Crucible flopped so hard it is being un-released.
NBC and CBS's new Peacock deal shows how complicated streaming rights will be.
Beavis and Butthead are returning to TV, this time on Comedy Central.
Your song of the day is Thin Lizzy with The Boys are Back in Town.


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Daniel Craig in the film Kings: more action films for the actor! 15/07/2016 20:14 (By Etienne Jean de la PERLE)
Daniel Craig in the film Kings: more action films for the actor!
Kings will be the next film Daniel Craig will be involved in. This is one of the first films the actor will participate in after taking of the James Bond mantle he has held for ten years now.
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Kings will be a film using the 1992 L.A. Riot as a backdrop for the main plotline. Daniel Craig will play the role of one of its only white residents living in in South Central in this drama. His character is described by Deadline as being a loner who befriends an African-American woman in this neighbourhood.
Rodney King trial: fiction films blended with true stories!
The Los Angeles riot of 1992 was caused by a trial where four police officers were involved in the beating of an African-American citizen after a high speed chase. Although this part of the story will not be accentuated on, it will set the tone for Kings. The very title of the film is based on the name of the man who was beaten. It is admittedly quite interesting to see Daniel Craig choosing a film such as Kings after his run in the 007 movies.
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Daniel Craig will be supported in this project by Halle Berry, who will play the woman with whom he becomes friends. As stated by Deadline, her character harbours secret feeling for his. Both actors will be directed by the revered Deniz Gamze Erguven. Kings will be the director's first English feature. She has previously helmed the film Mustang, which won the César Award for Best First Feature Film. Kings will therefore be one to look forward to!
Will Daniel Craig star in the next James Bond film?
According to his IMDb page, it is rumoured that Daniel Craig will star in the 25th 007 film. However, news has been spreading like wildfire on the Internet that other actors were being considered for the role. Names such as Idris Elba, Damian Lewis, and Tom Hiddleston have been thrown into the mix, but nothing has been confirmed yet.


It's largely down to Andre Russell's blitzkrieg against opponents that Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have done fairly well in the Indian Premier League (IPL) season so far and on Sunday at the Eden Gardens they will be up against the guile of Dhoni's captaincy and a methodical Chennai Super Kings as the title race reaches halfway point.
Despite the points table reflecting Kolkata at the second spot, it's been a topsy-turvy ride for them. The lost momentum, their second on the trot, after convincingly beaten by Delhi Capitals on Friday at their home ground calls for much needed introspection. They lost their previous match against Chennai.
Also, things may go haywire due to injuries sustained by their crucial players – Chris Lynn, Andre Russell and Sunil Narine. The team must look to plug gaps instead of expecting Russell to steady the sinking ship all the time.
Playing Russell again in the match against Delhi was not the wisest of decision after the wrist injury had already surfaced in the match against Chennai. He struggled with power hitting in his 21-ball 45 against Delhi. Kolkata would have their fingers crossed and hope that he comes out match-fit against the table toppers.
On Friday, Russell had scored his sixth consecutive 40 plus score. The West Indian has so far maintained a brutal strike rate of 212.67. The kind of impact he makes, a match rest would do wonders for him and the team as he can steer clear of any further injury.
On the bright side, Shubman Gill's talent was on display as he looked in fine touch, scoring a well paced half-century against Delhi. Team's skipper, Dinesh Karthik would look to better his performance to remain in contention ahead of World Cup selection on 15 April.
Contrarily, CSK are sitting comfortably atop the charts while the rest –Mumbai Indians, Kings XI and Delhi Capitals – are jostling for the second spot, so clinical have they been in all facets of the game.
The match will be played at the backdrop of Dhoni charging on to the playing area and animatedly pointing fingers to umpire Ulhas Gandhe in a match against Rajasthan after a no ball decision was overturned by the square leg umpire Bruce Oxenford. For this, the former Indian skipper drew criticism from multiple cricketers who thought his behaviour was against the spirit of the game. Dhoni was also charged 50 per cent of his match fees for his invasion act.
Performance-wise, there is no denying how big a difference Dhoni has made to the team's cause by leading from the front. He has scored 214 runs in five matches at an astounding average of 107.
Demoted to middle-order, Ambati Rayudu has finally started to find his groove after his fluent half century against Royals. It came at a time when the team was in dire need of a partnership and someone to stay at the crease. Apart from them, Faf du Plessis, Suresh Raina and Kedar Jadhav have also chipped in.
On the bowling front, Harbhajan Singh has led the spin department well and has the best economy of 5.89 in the IPL. Deepak Chahar (10 wickets) and Imran Tahir (9 wickets) sit on second and third spot respectively in the highest number of wicket takers list.
Chennai Super Kings looks better on paper and are favourites to win the match but if Russell's recent assault on their opponents is anything to go by, Kolkata can pull of a win at any stage against any team in the tournament.


Workshop days, where members can bring their tools, wood and problems and get advice from other members.
Demonstrations at shows, and at a local shopping centre to take woodturning to the general public.
Open Day, the highlight of the year, with a turning competition, demonstrations by club and professional turners, and a range of trade stands supplying turning related tools, materials and equipment.
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Well, Im not much in a blogging mood, but I need to write down what I remember about Disneyland before I forget, cause it was really fun.
We got on the airplane Tuesday afternoon. That was the longest morning of our lives. It took soooo long to get from 8am to 1pm when we left for the airport. There were ants in everyones pants.
We got to the airport and boarded the plane. Crystal and Rooker really thought it was neat to get on an airplane and fly in the air. Crystal was a little scared we wouldnt get back down. I felt so bad that Rooker couldnt see out the window cause he was buckled in, that I just unbuckled him and let him watch as we took off.
We got to Disneyland at like 6pm or something and we went to Croc & Bits place to eat. We played with the remote control boats and stuff while we were there. It was nice and relaxing. Then we went to bed, we were all pretty tired.
Wednesday none of us could sleep, so me and the kids went outside at 8amish and walked through Downtown Disney. What a fun place! We looked in all the windows and saw all the neat toys and stuff. Rooker and Crystal really liked the lego store where they had giant dinosaurs, monsters, robots, people, animals, buildings, airplanes, etc all made out of legos. There was even a lego guy sitting on the bench outside the store and he was snoring. It was pretty cool. At 9amish everyone met up and we went to Wetzel's Pretzel's and got hotdogs and cinnamon pretzels for breakfast, yum! Then we mosied on over to Disneyland.
I cant remember all the rides we rode that day. I think we did Buzz Lightyear which Rooker was just absolutely in love with. Part way through the line a giant Buzz tells you about how Zurg is building some super weapon and Buzz needs your help to fight him. Rooker said "we should help him daddy". The anticipation was killing Rooker. Then you get into a car with 2 laser guns, and it takes you through the ride and there are big targets with the letter Z on them that you have to shoot. Rooker kept yelling stuff at me to shoot, he was just loving it. Then when we got to Zurgs room where you have to shoot a giant Emporer Zurg, Rooker was almost ready to explode with excitement, he kept yelling "shoot him! shoot him!" while bouncing up and down in his chair. Phew, what a blast.
We also did Haunted House I remember and maybe the Tiki Room that day. Then we went over to California Adventure and watched "Its tough to be a bug" in 3D. Its really fun. Giant bugs attack you, spiders drop out of the ceiling, bugs run across your feet. Scared Bailey a little, but it was fun.
Then we went to "Soarin over California" which is a ride with a GIANT wrap around movie screen. A lift picks you up and puts you right in front of the screen, then it shows you flying over different places in California. Truly an awesome ride. Crystal was scared that it wouldnt be able to fly us back to Disneyland. But at the end you see Tinkerbell and watch fireworks. How cool is that?
That night we ate at Rainforest Cafe, which is a totally themed out restaurant in Downtown Disney with giant robotic bugs in the trees, vines everywhere, and every 30 mins or so a giant thunderstorm rolls through the restaurant. The food there is excellent as well.
The next day we ate dinner at Ariel's Grotto where all the princesses show up during dinner and you get to give them a hug and take your picture with them. The girls loved it. Rooker just had on the biggest grin, when the pics are posted youll have to see it, its funny. We rode some other stuff that day and did Pirates and Tom Sawyer island too. The kids absolutely LOVED Tom Sawyer Island, with the mess of caves and stuff.
The next day was pretty relaxing. We watched a parade that night which was fun, and they had fireworks. We also went swimming and down the waterslides at the Disneyland Hotel. Spent alot of time looking in the stores. Bailey got a really soft tigger doll that she just loves. Rooker got a giant alligator toy from Rainforest Cafe, and Crystal went to the build a bear workshop where she made a frog named Hopper. She even helped stuff the bear and put a heart in it. Its cute.
We had some problems with our flight on the way home. About 5 mins before we were supposed to fly out, some lady announced that our airplane to get us to SLC was still in SLC and needed to fly to LA first. There was some computer outage or something that caused it. So the airplane arrived 4 hours late. It was hard trying to find something for the kids to do the entire time, but we somehow managed.
We spent just over $400 ourselves for food and toys. Luckily we had that much to spend, so we didnt have to put anything on a credit card.
And Mom and Dad paid for the entire trip, which is amazing.
But it was a good time. And Bailey got to ride in Dumbo which she had wanted to do for at least a month before we went there.


Detective Comics #111 (DC, 1946) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. We´ve only ever offered two higher-grade copies than this beauty, and who knows when we´ll see another as nice, much less nicer!
Detective Comics #10 (DC, 1937) CGC FR/GD 1.5 Cream to off-white pages. Creig Flessel cover and art. Joe Shuster and Sven Elven art. CGC notes, "Spine of cover completely split re-attached with tape.
Detective Comics #8 (DC, 1937) CGC GD 2.0 Cream to off-white pages. Classic Mister Chang cover by Creig Flessel. Flessel and Joe Shuster art. CGC notes, "Small amount of tape on interior cover."
Detective Comics #43 Twilight pedigree (DC, 1940) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Cream to off-white pages. Once again, Batman comes to the rescue of Robin the Boy Hostage on this cover by Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson.
Detective Comics #47 (DC, 1941) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Cream to off-white pages. A Bob Kane cover leads on this issue, which has adventures of the Crimson Avenger, Slam Bradley, and of course Batman.
Detective Comics #38 (DC, 1940) CGC VG- 3.5 Cream to off-white pages. The first appearance of Robin, one of the 20 most valuable Golden Age comics. Classic cover by Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson.
Detective Comics #14 (DC, 1938) CGC FN/VF 7.0 Cream to off-white pages. Creig Flessel cover art. Overstreet 2012 FN 6.0 value = $2,400; VF 8.0 value = $4,400. CGC census 7/12: 2 in 7.0, none higher.
Detective Comics #27 (DC, 1939) CGC Apparent FN/VF 7.0 Moderate (P) Off-white to white pages. Batman made his first appearance in this issue, which features the famous cover by co-creator Bob Kane.


Do you ever wonder what makes you uniquely you? Do you look at some people and think, "Why are they so different from me, while other people are so similar in how they view the world?" Do differences in personality cause clashes between your colleagues at work or family members at home? Do you sometimes ask yourself "If we understood each other better, would we be able to communicate better?"
I am passionate about Psychological Type. I have always been interested in personality assessments and questionnaires. I was first introduced to Psychological Type and the MBTI in 1993 and have been reading and learning more about it ever since.
My study of Type and Temperament has taught me that there are clear patterns to how different people think and act. When we add knowledge of Psychological Type to our internal toolboxes, we can improve our ability to communicate and bring better understanding and control to our roles in projects and conversations.
In 2012, I discovered and joined BAAPT, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Association for Psychological Type International(APTi).
In 2014, I was certified to administer and debrief the MBTI tool for individuals and teams.
Swiss psychiatrist Carl G. Jung developed his theory of psychological type in the early part of the 20th century. Jung theorized that what appears to be random behavior among people is actually the result of differences in the way they prefer to use their mental capacities. He observed that people generally engage in (and alternate between) one of two mental functions: taking in information, which Jung called perceiving, and organizing that information and making decisions, which he called judging. Jung published this work in 1921.
Two decades later, a mother-daughter team in the US, Katharine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers discovered Jung's work. Determined to make the theory of psychological type easier for people to understand and use, they developed what has become the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® assessment.
Millions of people take the indicator every year. Data on those assessments has been used to revise and improve the questions and scoring many times since its first publication. Applications and research on type have expanded nationally and internationally, with the MBTI® instrument translated into thirty languages.
My experience includes nearly 30 years as a software and content developer in SF Bay Area Internet and Biotech companies. Unlike many coaches and workshop facilitators, I can bring a familiar perspective to Type training for technical teams. I understand the particular mindset of software engineers, service engineers, sys admins, project managers, and technical writers.
If you think you would be interested in discovering how knowledge of Psychological Type can help you in your work and personal life, please contact me to discuss options and rates.


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RICS 2014 National Grand Finalist Awards - Building Conservation
Kay Pilsbury Thomas Architects, Radwinter, were shortlisted in the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors East of England Community Benefit Awards 2014 for our work to Finchingfield Guildhall.
The renovation and conservation of the Grade I Listed Finchingfield Guildhall revitalised the building's relationship with the village. The community, including local school children, were invited to tours of the construction works. Conservation and adaptation works undertaken by specialist conservation designers and craftsmen revealed medieval features. Traditional building materials/techniques were employed throughout. The community was involved in all decision-making. Two apprentices were employed, teaching young people traditional building skills.
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The Precision Printer is the interface through which you control printing in Chasys Draw IES Artist. It allows you to select a printer, printing preferences and the printing mode, which dictates how the image will be fitted onto the paper, and how many pages will be used per image.
It shows you a preview created using information collected from your printer to give you some idea of what the final work will look like.
Center image on actual paper The software attempts to center the image on the physical page (paper).
This is the default if the image does not have a markup attachment with PPI information.
Center image on printable area The software will center the image on the printable area (most printers cannot cover the whole surface of the paper).
Stretch image to fill actual paper The image is stretched to cover the whole physical page indiscriminately. The original aspect ratio is ignored, therefore, the image may be distorted.
Parts of the image that fall outside the printable area will not be printed.
Stretch image to fill printable area The image is stretched to cover the whole printable area indiscriminately. The original aspect ratio is ignored, therefore, the image may be distorted.
Use specified dimensions The software attempts to make sure that the final printout's dimensions are equal to the specified width and height to within an accuracy of a fraction of a millimeter. This mode is especially useful where prints must have a specified exact size, for example 120mm by 239mm for CD-ROM jewel-case inserts.
The Common Paper Sizes button brings up a list of standard sizes that you can use as presets.
This is the default if the image has a markup attachment with valid PPI information.
Tiled printing (multi-print blow-up) In this mode, you can to specify how many pages should used per print; the image is stretched and split as necessary to cover all the sheets. This allows you to print at any size using a normal printer.
See multi-print blow-up for a more detailed explanation.
Precision Printing allows you to make prints of a custom size accurate to a fraction of a millimeter. To use Precision Printing, you set the printing mode to "Use These Dimensions...". You then take the measurements of the target (for example, the measurements of the jewel case if you are designing a CD label) which you specify in millimeters. Chasys Draw IES will then do the rest. Note that all measurements are in millimeters, not inches.
The maximum accuracy attainable using Precision Printing is limited by your printer. Usually, this will be enough for most purposes, so you need not worry about it.
Have you ever wanted to print something huge - say, A2 - and couldn't because the largest paper your printer could take was A4? This could just be the solution to your predicament. Using multi-print blow-up, Chasys Draw IES can split the image into pieces which it then prints separately. You can then join these pieces by gluing them together to get your huge poster.
Posters of any size can be realized easily using ordinary A4 paper, even if "any size" for you means 4 by 3 meters ( a bill-board ) - if your printer can take the punishment, that is.
If you intend to do large blow-ups, it would not be such a bad idea to work at 3 mega-pixels or more - more paper means more dots to print. Having a substantial amount of RAM (at least 1 GB) would also be well advised. To keep your system happy, make sure your system drive has at least 2 GB of free space and keep it de-fragmented (Windows needs up to 560 MB to spool a 2x2 blow-up at 600 dpi, and four times that for a 4x4 blow-up). Or just disable spooling -- Chasys Draw IES doesn't mind.
When printing images, Image Color Matching (ICM) is performed. In some cases, you may want the print to be lighter or darker than what ICM generated. Chasys Draw IES Artist allows you to correct this by adjusting gamma if you wish to do so.
Very deep subtractive color levels consume a lot of ink, while causing very little perceptible color variation. This ink is, therefore, mostly wasted. Chasys Draw IES Artist can help you save ink by limiting the said color levels. The effect of doing so is usually imperceptible.
Match Absolute Colorimetric Maintains the white point. Matches the colors to their nearest color in the destination gamut.
Graphic Saturation Maintains saturation. Used for business charts and other situations in which dithering is considered undesirable.
Proof Relative Colorimetric Maintains colorimetric match. Used for graphic designs and named colors.
Picture Perceptual Maintains contrast. Used for photographs and natural images.
For more information on color management and ensuring consistent color in your work-flows, see the Color Management section.
Digital imaging devices and computer displays are continuous tone devices of fixed resolution; printers, on the other hand, pretend to be, but are not. A dot on a printed page can only have one of a few (usually four) colors, forcing the printer to emulate continuous tones by combining several dots through dithering techniques. Resultantly, a printer only produces its full reported resolution when printing mono-tone material such as text. This is why they say a 200 ppi (pixels per inch) color display is equivalent to a 600 dpi (dots per inch) color print-out for photographic (read continuous tone) material. I believe it's more like 1200 dpi (and, it seems I am not alone according to Wikipedia).
In working with digital images, one of the main concerns is aliasing - the "staircase" effect that appears on diagonal lines. The brute-force approach to solving this problem is to work at high enough resolutions to make it undetectable. Experiments show that the human eye can generally not differentiate detail beyond 300 pixels per inch / 118 pixels per cm (on A4 paper, that converts to about 8 mega-pixels). Given that the monotone resolution of most modern consumer printers exceeds this (600/1200 dpi), but the effective continuous tone resolution falls short (about 1/6 to 1/12 of the reported figure), it then becomes a complicated balancing act. The printer has no way of predicting the effective output resolution, so it will ask for one input pixel for each output dot, i.e. the full reported resolution. Doing so shifts the burden to the printing application, which is then forced to provide more image data than is necessary, most of which ends up not being used.
When working with continuous tone images, the best approach would be to work at between these two extremes, which is to say between a third and a sixth of the printer's reported resolution. For example, to print A4 at 1200 dpi, use 400 ppi at most (about 4096 by 2896 = 12 mega-pixels). A more elegant solution would be to take advantage of anti-aliasing. You can get a better print-out using half the resolution this way. You can, for example, do all your work at 3.0 mega-pixel and end up with a print-out that looks better than 6.0 mega-pixel work if you stick to a culture of anti-aliasing the edges of all cut-outs, text and drawings. Cosmetics can improve the appearance of text at lower resolutions so much that it becomes unnecessary to work at high resolutions.
My recommendation is to use 300 ppi for A4 work that will be printed on a 1200 dpi printer; that translates to an image size of 3508 x 2480 (8.7 mega-pixels). For photo-printing using premium/glossy A4 photo-paper at 4800 dpi, I recommend using 600 ppi, which gives an image size of 7016 x 4961 (34.8 mega-pixels). Anything higher that this will usually be over-kill, but Chasys Draw IES won't stop you.


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Punishment vs. Negative Reinforcement + 9 More Pairs of Psych Terms You're Getting Confused
There are a lot of pairs of terms in psychology that sound as if they refer to the same thing, and can therefore be used interchangeably, when in fact they refer to different concepts that are distinct in important ways. As Emory University professor Scott Lilienfeld and his colleagues point out in their new open-access paper in Frontiers in Education, even experienced psychologists and science communicators sometimes confuse these pairs of terms, which inevitably impedes their understanding of the underlying concepts.
Their new paper outlines 50 "frequently confused term pairs in psychology" from across different fields of psychology and related subjects. "Our list … should hopefully be a modest contribution toward enhancing psychological literacy and critical thinking in psychology more broadly," they write.
Below we've highlighted 10 of the pairs of psychology terms that Lilienfeld and his co-authors believe you might be getting confused (check the full paper for the other 40):
"Negative Reinforcement" versus "Punishment"
A few years ago ABC news reported "British Soccer Players Get Negative Reinforcement". The story was about the players who'd played badly being made to drive around in an old, uncool car. But this wasn't negative reinforcement, it was a punishment: an unpleasant experience intended to deter future bad play. Negative reinforcement, by contrast, is a reward in the form of the removal of a previously unpleasant stimulus or experience, thus increasing the likelihood of the behaviour that preceded it.
"Envy" versus "Jealousy"
A lot of us use these terms interchangeably not realising that envy is specifically about the dynamics between two people whereas jealousy involves three or more. A leading researcher in this area is psychologist Richard Smith. He explains at Psychology Today: "Envy occurs when we lack a desired attribute enjoyed by another" whereas "Jealousy occurs when something we already possess (usually a special relationship) is threatened by a third person".
"Antisocial" versus "Asocial"
Both sound very similar if we're not paying attention. The clue of course is that the prefix "anti" means against, where as the prefix "a" means without. In psychology, anti-social is often used in the context of antisocial personality disorder, which describes a person who behaves against others, engaging "in reckless, irresponsible, and at times illegal behaviours" (to quote Lilenfeld et al). By contrast, an asocial person is "shy or disinterested in interpersonal contact". Lilienfeld and his coauthors give the example of a Huffington Post article that conflated this distinction, stating: "the idea that introverts are antisocial or don't want the company of others is completely false".
"Obsession" versus "Compulsion"
Easy to confuse, but in terms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, obsessions are anxiety-generating repetitive thoughts, urges or images (e.g. "I feel dirty", "I've been contaminated"), whereas compulsions are the behaviours or mental acts that the person performs to try to reduce their anxiety (e.g. hand washing).
"Psychopathy" vs. "Sociopathy"
You might have heard an unpleasant character described as a sociopath and wondered if that's the same or different from a psychopath. At least in the context of clinical and forensic psychology, Lilienfeld et al explain that a psychopathic personality is defined by a specific mix of features including superficial charm and callousness. Sociopathy on the other hand is not a formal or technical term, and it's used to mean different things by different people, for example as a synonym for psychopath or to describe someone with a long history of criminal behaviour.
"Serial killer" versus "Mass murderer"
While we're on the subject of criminal characters, Lilienfeld et al also highlight an important distinction in forensic psychology between types of murderer: Serial killers (e.g. Peter Sutcliffe AKA the Yorkshire Ripper) kill "multiple people in a string of incidents that are separated by 'cooling off' periods," while mass murderers (e.g. Thomas Hamilton, the perpetrator of the mass shooting at a Dunblane school) massacre "a large number of people in a single incident". For completeness, Lilienfeld's team add that spree killers form another group: like serial killers, they kill multiple people in separate incidents, but unlike serial killers their "homicidal episodes are not separated by clear-cut cooling-off periods".
"Mediator" versus "Moderator"
From types of killer to statistical nuance. As Lilienfeld at al explain, "A mediator is a variable, C, that intervenes between two correlated variables A and B, and that accounts at least in part … or entirely … for their statistical association." Mediators speak to the why of an association. For example, a 2011 study found that listening to prosocial songs like Michael Jackson's Heal the World was associated with lower aggression and that this seemed to be partly mediated by the effect of the song on listeners' mood rather than on their thoughts. A moderator, by contrast, "is a variable, C, that statistically affects the direction, magnitude, or both, of the relation between variables A and B". Lilienfeld et al give the example of the association between negative life events and severity of illness, which is stronger for uncontrollable events (e.g. death of a spouse) than more controllable ones (e.g. divorce). "Moderators tend to address 'when', 'for whom', and 'under which' questions," Lilienfeld explain.
"Prevalence" versus "Incidence"
What proportion of the population have a mental health diagnosis? The answer would tell you the prevalence of mental health problems. How many people are newly diagnosed with mental health problems in a given year (or other time period)? The answer to that question would tell you the incidence. "More technically," explain Lilienfeld et al, "prevalence equals incidence multiplied by duration."
"Coma" versus "Persistent Vegetative State"
Lilienfeld's team place this one in their miscellaneous category. Coma and persistent vegetative state (PVS) are closely related, they explain, "but should be distinguished". I covered misconceptions about these states and other disorders of consciousness at length in my 2014 book Great Myths of the Brain. While coma and PVS are both caused by brain damage and are associated with a lack of conscious awareness, there are important differences in the two states: Coma patients' brains show no sign of a sleep wake cycle because of damage to the reticular system; in contrast PVS patients' brains have an intact reticular system and show signs of a sleep wake cycle. Indeed, a PVS patient will usually have their eyes open during the wake part of the cycle (which can be confusing for loved ones and give false hope) and their eyes closed during the sleep phase. Also, coma patients are totally unresponsive whereas PVS patients often move and make sounds, and they may respond to noises and momentarily track moving targets with their eyes. Coma patients who survive but don't wake up may progress to a PVS. If it is believed that a PVS patient has some rudimentary awareness, their diagnosis is changed to "minimally conscious state".
"Relapse" versus "Recurrence"
To grasp the distinction between relapse and recurrence, it helps also to realise the difference between "remission" from a psychological disorder (a full improvement that has lasted at least four months after treatment) and "recovery" (full improvement that's lasted more than a year). According to Lilienfeld and his colleagues, relapse is when a condition returns after the start of remission but before recovery. Recurrence, by contrast, is when the condition returns after recovery.
Remember to check the full paper for 40 more psychological term pairs that you might be getting confused. Also well worth reading, two years ago Lilienfeld and co produced a complementary paper listing 50 widely used psychological and psychiatric terms that should probably be avoided.
—50 Differences That Make a Difference: A Compendium of Frequently Confused Term Pairs in Psychology
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Excellent article. Very clear and concise.
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Good stuff. I often get frustrated at professionals and practitioners casually using terms interchangeably. God knows what it must be like to be a patient hearing multiple erroneous terms for something that's actually quite simple.
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Simone Franchini (born 30 March 1998) is an Italian football player. He plays for Reggina on loan from Sassuolo.
He is the product of Sassuolo youth teams. He made his debut for Sassuolo's senior team on 3 November 2016 in an 2016–17 UEFA Europa League group stage game against Rapid Wien as an added-time substitute for Grégoire Defrel. He made his first bench appearance in a league game in the 2016–17 Serie A match against Inter on 18 December 2016, and appeared on the bench a handful more times in Serie A and Europa League, but did not see any more playing time for the rest of the season.
On 12 July 2017, he was sent on loan to Serie B club Ternana. He remained on the bench for every Ternana's game, and was eventually recalled to Sassuolo in January 2018. He finished the 2017–18 season in their Under-19 team.
On 6 July 2018, he joined Serie C club Reggina on loan. He made his Serie C debut for Reggina on 18 September 2018 in a game against Trapani as a 71st-minute substitute for Gaetano Navas. He started in the next game against Bisceglie and scored his first goal on 15 October 2018 against Siracusa.
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^ "Sassuolo-Inter game report". ESPN. 18 December 2016.
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Liberia: Agriculture Value Chain Will Enhance Job Creation
By David A. Yates
Minister Augustus Flomo addresses participants at the 9th Summit of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific Heads of State and Government and Ministerial Discussion.
... Says Deputy Economic Finance Minister
Augustus J. Flomo, Deputy Minister for Economic Management at the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP) believes that the agriculture value chain will enhance job creation, economic expansion, as well as ensuring the domestic revenue capacity of each country.
Mr. Flomo spoke at the 9th Summit of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Heads of State and Government and Ministerial Discussion which is underway in Nairobi, Kenya.
The Summit comes at an auspicious time for the ACP Group as it prepares to finalize the Post-Cotonou negotiations as well as the revision to its Constitutive Act, the Georgetown Agreement.
Flomo told the gathering that discussions held over the last few days are important in moving the future of ACP and enhancing the ability of member countries to strengthening and developing development programs of the organization activities.
He explained that SMEs are strong pillars of sustainable economic development in ACP countries and the declaration should highlight and support the development and sustainability of SMEs in their respective economies as they serve as the bedrock for economic growth.
"We are aware that SMEs are strong pillars of sustainable economic development in our respective countries and so the declaration should highlight and support the development and sustainability of SMEs in our respective economies as they serve as the bedrock for our economic growth," Hon. Flomo asserted.
He said the ACP agriculture value chain program as highlighted in the declaration will focus on sustainable agriculture to promote especially countries that have survived on agriculture for the purpose of food security.
He noted that private sector development and promoting economic development and growth are critical to the sustaining of countries.
"We would like to encourage that ACP agriculture value chain program, as we highlighted in the declaration, will focus on sustainable agriculture to promote, especially countries that have survived on agriculture just for the purpose of food security. We also believe that private sector development and promoting economic development and growth is critical to the sustaining of our respective countries," he added.
He expressed the need for the enhance program design and development of the ACP execution which supports strengthening the future as ACP countries and, at the same time, strengthening the union.
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He commended the drafters of the declaration, stating that Liberia fully supports the draft declaration with considered inputs.
During the summit, discussions focused on areas including: Value chain development of agriculture; Private sector development and economic growth; the future of our ACP, including the development finance Corporation; and the opportunity that we have now to witness the change of leadership very soon beginning with the selection of our new secretary general which we will also like to congratulate.
However, the Deputy Finance Minister for Economic Management thanked the organizers of the summit for its successful conduct and expressed sympathy on behalf of the Government of Liberia to the people Kenya, for the loss of lives during the challenging time of climate change encountered in that country during the summit.
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