If the thought of starting (and maintaining) a blog makes you shudder, don't worry. You're in good company.
Many business owners are intimidated by the idea of starting a blog. After all, who is going to write it? What is it going to say? How often does it need updating? Is it even worth the time and trouble?
The truth is that yes, it is very much worth the trouble but it's actually not that difficult to do. The trick is tapping into your expertise.
In fact, if you set up the right type of blog, it can become one of the best ways of generating new leads and sales.A well run blog can build your fanbase of potential customers and the return on your investment can be invaluable.
Well-written blogs that contain valuable information build an audience, usually among people who are interested in your service. So, for example, if you are a cake decorator, your blog would benefit from talking about the different styles of cakes, the different styles of fillings or decorations, as well as, perhaps, recipes for cooking basic cupcakes or a basic cake. Why? Because, not only does it highlight your expertise and portfolio, it also delivers value.
Sharing a cupcake recipe won't mean everyone who reads your blog will opt to do it themselves and, therefore, not hire you. The fact is, most people won't do it themselves and, for those who do, well, they were probably never going to be your customers anyway. In the meantime, your generosity and sharing of knowledge and advice – or even entertainment – will help build a base of people who like coming back and reading your wise words or seeing your beautiful creations and when they're after a cake, guess who they'll contact first?
Yes, it sounds very 1984-ish, but it's the truth. You want search engine robots to like your site and a blog gives them plenty of pages to crawl and register in the search engines. Every day, robots (called "crawlers") search through Internet content to find new and relevant sites. This is called "indexing." When you have a blog that has been Search Engine Optimized (SEO), and is posting at least once per week, these computers see you as a valuable source of information. Because of that, they place you higher on search sites like Google and Bing. Better placing leads to more clicks and more clicks leads to more potential customers.
Having a blog allows you to better interact with your potential fans directly and allows you to build a (loyal) follower base. Every time you create new content and post it, you are showing the world that you have something to say that is of value – and that builds your brand online.
Not only can you connect with potential customers, but you can build a reputation with other professionals in your field. When you are delivering great content, you're providing value for your customers, but you're also making a name for yourself as among your peers. In addition, you are establishing yourself as an expert, which can come in handy during business transactions with well-known clients.
Now that you know how important a blog is and how it can help you, here are the most important things you need to do in order to be successful at it. If you follow these tips, it's inevitable that more more traffic will find its way to your website, that you'll have more interaction with your customers and, hopefully, better sales.
Unless your blog is highly technical, keep it simple. Though you may be tempted to make it a busy or fancy or filled with the latest web design bells and whistles, don't. Instead, make your blog easy to navigate and eliminate any extras unless you absolutely need them. The goal is for visitors to read what you write rather than getting distracted (or frustrated) with all the fancy stuff.
If you don't want to do the research and write the articles yourself, you need to find someone who can do it for you. Spend a little time and money finding a freelance writer on a site such as Odesk or Elance. A good writer can give your blog a personal tone and provide you with unique content ideas on a weekly basis.
As with all social media, schedules make followers and fans feel confident in your ability to provide them with something new each week. Although the best blogs post 2-3 times per week, you may be smaller and could get away with one post per week, but that is an absolute minimum. Be sure to post consistently and regularly.
A blog doesn't have to be dry and boring or highly technical. It needs to provide value and some return on the time and effort your readers invest by visiting it. Your blog is a great place to show off your sense of humor and personality. Even very content-rich industries like IT and finance benefit from a blog that is simple, down-to-earth and entertaining.
Many times, all a potential client will see about your blog is the title of a blog entry, so ensure it's a title that sells! There are many websites (like Cracked.com and Upworthy.com) that have made bucketloads of money using excellent blog titles. Top 10 lists, how-to articles and titles that leave the audience in suspense are some of the most engaging ways to get people to your blog.
Social is the name of the game. You should be writing blogs that encourage comments, feedback and linking. Make sure you have icons for social media sites on every blog post, so that readers can easily Tweet, Like and Share your articles. Promote your posts on sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, but also interact with individuals on these sites as well. The more you personally connect with people on social media, the more interested they will be in you and your products.
This step is actually easier than it seems, especially if you've already read our article on keywords. If you set up your blog with a platform like WordPress, you can download an app that walks you through it. Yoast is an excellent helper for getting your SEO done quickly. Pick some keywords that people who search for services should be able to find your business with. Then, focus your blog entry around that word or phrase. Be sure to also link out to sources, and encourage people to link to you. All of these elements make your site more attractive to the robots, which brings up your search rankings and leads to better traffic.


If you follow me on Snapchat, you would already know that the Essie Gel Couture Polish is literally the best nail polish of all time. You would also already know that basically every nail polish ever chips on my nails within 24 hours of me applying it. I have super brittle nails, so nail polish just doesn't ever last past a day (or two, max) for me… until now.
Essie is my favorite nail polish brand, and not because their regular polishes last really well on me or anything, but basically just because I love their packaging and colors and everything that is the brand. With this new Gel Couture line, though, Essie has officially given me the very best reason to love their brand so much: these polishes DO. NOT. CHIP.
Don't believe me? Here are some of my results below. I've tried several different shades now, and they all perform the same. On average, I'll get about 6 days of wear out of the polish before wear starts to show at the tips of my nails. And note that I say wear, not chips.
You can see an example of this in the last image- the polish has worn away at the tips a bit from doing everyday stuff (I even did some serious gardening when I had that last polish on and got NO chips) like cooking, cleaning, etc, but they aren't actually chipped. Yes, I have experienced chips a few times with this polish (it would be totally insane if I didn't), but they usually don't happen until around the five day mark, and it's usually the tiniest little corner of my thumb from opening packages or whatever.
These polishes are a simple three step process: two coats of color, and one coat of topcoat. That's it. They dry pretty fast, too. There are 42 shades in this collection, and I own like ten so far. I originally received the shades shown in this post as press samples, but I have gone out and bought several more since then because they are THAT good.
The Essie Gel Couture Polishes retail for $11.50 at ULTA (and something like $13 – $14 at Shopper's Drug Mart, if you're in Canada), and I promise you- they are worth EVERY penny.
I've been wanting to try these!! Gonna have to go pick some up!
I love the colors! I will have to use my nail polish and see if I can accomplish a semi-decent at home manicure tonight.
This sounds fab! I always find with regular nail polish it chips or I mess it up within a few minutes – will have to keep an eye out for this line!
I haven't tried these yet, but I'm always looking for a polish that doesn't chip. I might have to check these out! I love Essie so it should be a win.
All I ever use is Essie nail polish. I would love to try this, but I just don't know if I can spend that much on nail polish.
I haven't tried the gel like line yet. I do like the new bottles even if they don't match the old ones.
Wow those are beautiful! Definitely want to try them out.
Oh my gosh, this is like GREAT. I need this in my life, I took off my fake nails so I will be switching polishes weekly, maybe daily. I like that it looks so great after 7 days! So amazing.
These are gel-like manicures. I find I only get about a week out of them just like regular polish sadly.
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Specifically, it's very vexed question that Flvto is legal or illegal. For suppose, if you can't download a video file from particular website without using any additional programs that must be legal. Before thinking of Flvto is Illegal or legal, you need to go through the specific copyrighting laws in your own country or state or city. As a user, you have the right to download the music from video websites and listen to it wherever you go until distribute or sell it for your own advantage. The music owners has a relationship with Google in order to protect their copyrighted intellectual property.
They can demand on their rights to be protected. The right holders of the music content continually insist blocking upon constantly growing amount of music downloading sites. It allows everyone download their content for free and illegally. It is logically Google should pay attention to these complaints as they take responsibility for all the content that allows to publish and comply with the law. All sites are created for people and all the people are free for their choice whether to download the videos or not. In relevant to this, many different video websites are available to download the content that is 100% legal to obtain.
Google doesn't have any right to close such websites which have legal rights to exist. Based on Federal law, you have the unquestionable right to create a private copy of certain media. Therefore the downloading of content or music is relied on the country where you live. No matter what your country law says but you can freely download the music from particular online video websites and listen to it wherever you are until you're going to distribute or sell the content.
A music downloader is the place where you can create downloads from places like online video websites. It includes video downloads like mp4 or other relevant downloaders. This music downloader is illegal when you're using it to download copyrighted music. Copyrighted covers most popular music that you are care about whereas non-copyrighted works are fair game for downloading.
You need to download Flvto converter app and install it on your mobile device.
Later, copy the URL of a video file which you want to convert it into MP3 format.
Paste that URL on opened program and open directory folder.
Choose the downloaded songs which you're desired to listen to and create a new playlist folder.
In the final stage, drag and drop the converted songs to playlist and kill the done button.
Now, you can enjoy a new playlist of songs.


Songs Featured in this video: "Fireflies of Montreal" by Laurena Segara, and "A Handful" by Matthew Gaydos.
I finally finished the video for Part 2, showing even more pages and sketches from the sketchbook!
The songs featured in this video are "A Handful" by Matthew Gaydos, and "Freckles" by SHEL.
Part 3 will be coming…at some point. I don't have a release date for it yet.
There are actually a few more vlogs in the making, so you may see those before I release part 3. We'll see what happens.
What do you think of these sketches? Let me know in the comments!


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Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip dies.
Of course we all knew it was coming but it still seems so sudden. It's 12 months since that last nation wide televised concert. There have been a lot of tributes on the news last night (Wednesday, 2017/10/18) including a very tearful farewell from the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. Perhaps among the tributes this one below will rank high on the list.
"Allan Holdsworth (6 August 1946 – 15 April 2017) was a British guitarist and composer. He released twelve studio albums as a solo artist and played a variety of musical styles in a career spanning more than four decades, but is best known for his work in jazz fusion. Holdsworth was known for his advanced knowledge of music, through which he incorporated a vast array of complex chord progressions and intricate solos; the latter comprising myriad scale forms often derived from those such as the diminished, augmented, whole tone, chromatic and altered scales, among others, resulting in an unpredictable and "outside" sound. His unique legato soloing technique stemmed from his original desire to play the saxophone. Having been unable to afford one, he strove to use the guitar to create similarly smooth lines of notes. He also become associated with playing an early form of guitar synthesizer called the SynthAxe, a company he endorsed in the 1980s.
Check the full Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Holdsworth for more info.
Well, he obviously has a bucket full of credentials so I went to YouTube to get a taste of what he is about. There are lots and lots of clips. This is not relaxing music. It offers very significant challenges for a potential audience and I for one am not sure I am up to the challenge. The one I have selected is interesting because it was recorded April 3, 2017. He died on April 15, 2017.
I remember it like it was yesterday. I was ten and learning how to play guitar. In front of me were the lyrics and chords for his song "Suzanne." I remember thinking, "How does someone write something this beautiful?" It seemed like a miracle to me.
So when I got the supreme privilege of sitting down with him myself to talk about songwriting, I told him exactly that. That since I was just a kid, I have been pondering the mystery of "Suzanne" and other miracle songs he wrote. He smiled that warm, gentle Leonard smile when I said this, and did not demur.
And in that one answer is the crystallization of this man's greatness. With just a few words, he gives us humility, humor, reverence, mystery and dedication. Dedication to the mystery itself, to the realm into which all songwriters reach to find their songs.
He spoke in parables. Unlike most humans who rarely finish entire sentences, he spoke in perfect paragraphs, with language at once beat and biblical, ancient and modern. Never was this more evident than when I asked him what he thought about the current quality of popular song, and the widespread conviction of many from previous generations that meaningful songs are no longer written.
One time I interviewed Anjali, the singer-musician who loved and lived with him for years, and did a whole album of his words with her music. We met at a café in mid-L.A. and the great man himself, Leonard, accompanied her. Of course, being him he knew right away I would be unable to conduct a meaningful interview with him sitting there. So he immediately assured us that he would sit elsewhere while we spoke.
We did the interview, and afterwards I made an admission to Anjali. Which was that it was hard to fathom actually living a regular life with Leonard. I did know he was a man, after all, as I told her. But to songwriters, I said, he is a God.
Now with his mortal life complete, it seems she must have been right. But there are very few men I have ever known who did what he did. Even when the industry as he knew it essentially collapsed, never did he waver from the thing that mattered most: the work. If it took him seven years to perfect a song, even to the extent of writing forty or more verse, he would take seven years. There was no rush. Nothing mattered more. When he would be up at Mt. Baldy, serving time as a Buddhist monk, he would be working on songs in his head. During his last year, when he was in severe pain and immobilized, he worked on songs. The work never stopped. Songwriting was for him, as miracle songs like "Hallelujah" made so clear, more than a job. It was a calling. His highest calling. And he built a beautiful and indestructible tower of song, brick by brick, day by day, year by year. Like all of his songs, it has been built to last.
So, I asked, do any of these things work better than others?
Nothing but pure dedication to this art and craft so impacted by his own work. "Dylan blew everyone's mind when he started," said the poet Allen Ginsberg. "Everyone except Leonard Cohen." It's true. Leonard was on his own path from the start. Never did he sway from the conviction that the only true mission was finding a way to get there, to reach that realm from which the great songs come. It's where he is now.
PAUL ZOLLO is the author of eight books, including several on the craft of song writing. His book Songwriters On Songwriting has been expanded three times and features in-depth interviews with many of the world's greatest songwriters, including Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Randy Newman, Laura Nyro, Pete Seeger, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young and Frank Zappa. It has been called "the ultimate book about songwriting" and "the songwriter's bible," and is used as a textbook in songwriting courses in many universities.
On October 18, 2016, the sequel to Songwriters On Songwriting was published, More Songwriters On Songwriting featuring all new interviews with a vast range of legendary songwriters, including Leiber & Stoller, James Taylor, Loretta Lynn, Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, Randy Newman, Brian Wilson, Matisyahu, Patti Smith, Chrissie Hynde, Kris Kristofferson, John Prine and many more.
Special thanks to Doug Mitchell for sending this to me.
RECORDING ENGINEER RUDY VAN GELDER DIES AT THE AGE OF 92.
Only a non-jazz fan would ask "Rudy who?". Rudy was a renowned recording engineer and the principle sonic architect of the "Blue Note Sound". A specific sound that is associated with the classic recordings of the golden jazz era of the last 50 years. He worked with many recording companies but is best known for his work with Alfred Lyon's Blue Note Recording company. He recorded all the jazz greats, including Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and just about every other major jazz artist of the past 50 years.
He wasn't always a sound engineer. He trained as an optometrist and that was his "day job". He went off to work in the morning to his optometry practice to earn his "daily bread" and after hours he spent his time recording jazz. At first in his parent's living room, then in the iconic studio he designed and built at Engelwood Cliffs in Hackensack, New Jersey. He eventually ditched his day job and became a full time recording engineer.
Here is a Wikipedia quote: "When I first started, I was interested in improving the quality of the playback equipment I had," Van Gelder commented in 2005; "I never was really happy with what I heard. I always assumed the records made by the big companies sounded better than what I could reproduce. So that's how I got interested in the process. I acquired everything I could to play back audio: speakers, turntables, amplifiers". One of Van Gelder's friends, the baritone saxophonist Gil Melle introduced him to Alfred Lyon, a producer for Blue Note Records, in 1953. Within a few years Van Gelder was in demand by many other independent labels based around New York, such as Prestige Records, Impulse and Savoy. Bob Weinstock, owner of Prestige, recalled in 1999, "Rudy was very much an asset. His rates were fair and he didn't waste time. When you arrived at his studio he was prepared. His equipment was always ahead of its time and he was a genius when it came to recording". According to a JazzTimes article in August 2016, "jazz lore has formed the brands into a yin and yang of sorts: The Blue Note albums involved more original music, with rehearsal and the stringent, consistent oversight of Alfred Lion; Weinstock was more nonchalant, organizing what were essentially blowing sessions for some of the best musicians in jazz history". Van Gelder said in 2012, "Alfred was rigid about how he wanted Blue Note records to sound. But Bob Weinstock of Prestige was more easygoing, so I'd experiment on his dates and use what I learned on the Blue Note sessions". He also worked for Savoy Records in this period, among others. "To accommodate everyone, I assigned different days of the week to different labels". Rudy was also a pioneer in the development of live "on site" jazz recordings. In the 1950s Van Gelder also performed engineering and mastering for the classical label Vox Records. Thelonious Monk composed and recorded a tribute to Van Gelder entitled "Hackensack".
Van Gelder resided in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey where he died at his home on August 25, 2016.
Three more music legends pass away……….
"Ralph Edmund Stanley (February 25, 1927 – June 23, 2016), also known as Dr. Ralph Stanley, was an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing. Stanley began playing music in 1946, originally with his brother Carter as part of The Stanley Brothers, and most often as the leader of his band, The Clinch Mountain Boys. He was part of the first generation of bluegrass and was inducted into both the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honour and The Grande Ole Opry." – Wikipedia. To the general public he was probably best known for the sound track of the film O Brother Where Art Thou in which he sings the Appalachian dirge O Death. At the age of 88, following a musical career that spanned 70 year Stanley died on June 13, 2016 as a result of skin cancer.
At the age of 74 Clark died in Nashville on May 17, 2016, following a lengthy battle with lymphoma.
Alirio Díaz (12 November 1923 – 5 July 2016) was a Venezuelan classical guitarist and composer and one of the most prominent composer-guitarists of his country. A guitar competition named Concurso Internacional de Guitarra Alirio Díaz has been held in his honor in Caracas and other cities in Venezuela (the April 2006 contest was held in Carora). Many compositions have been dedicated to Díaz including Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo's Invocación y Danza…. Wikipedia.
That short paragraph hardly does justice to the magnitude of his status in the classical guitar world. Prior to him emerging on the scene Andre Segovia was "the man". Alirio Diaz, John Williams, Julian Bream and others that followed Segovia and were part of the changing of guard in the classical guitar world. Segovia was the bench mark of an "old world" approach to the music. His recordings and performances exhibited a mellow, stately approach that demonstrated that guitar music deserved to be taken seriously. Segovia toured and recorded relentlessly throughout the 20th century and that certainly opened doors for the guitarists that followed. He invented the genre of classical guitar and paved the way for guitarists like Alirio Diaz that allowed them to gain an audience and, ultimately, perform in a different way with an expanded repertoire. Diaz's sound and technique were way more dramatic than the Segovia school and on the standard pieces like Fernando Sor's Variations on a Theme by Mozart ("The Magic Flute") he virtually reinvented the music. I was most fortunate in my youth to attend concert performances by Segovia, Julian Bream, John Williams and Alirio Diaz and the one that left the most lasting impression was Alirio Diaz. At about that same time I acquired a LP called Guitarra De Venezuela that included the following tracks: Recuerdos de la Alhambra / Dos Valses Venezolanos / Guaso / Canción / Quirpa / Asturias / Dos Canciones Populares Catalanas / Minuet / Pavana y Folia / Sonata / Gavota / Fuga / Variaciones Sobre un Tema de Mozart. Here we are a half century later, the recording is still in the catalogue (complete with the original cheesy cover) and is still probably the finest recording of classical guitar music out there. One of his most notable achievements was the introduction of the music of Antonio Lauro (a fellow countryman) to a wider audience. The Valses Venezolanos are part of the modern day standard repertoire. You may have a perception of waltzes as being some what stately affairs, that will change once you hear the Venezuelan waltzes of Antonio Laurio.
Paul Bley and Pierre Boulez – not really famous but …….
There are entertainers who are just that – entertainers. There are entertainers who are musicians and musicians who are entertainers. Sometimes it is hard to tell exactly which is which. Then there there are musicians who are just that – musicians. Then again there are those musicians who go beyond the accepted artistic norms of their era and create their own categories. Two such musicians are the Canadian Jazz Pianist Paul Bley and the French modern classical composer Pierre Boulez. Both of these exemplary musicians passed away this month (January 2016).
Paul Bley is a Canadian Jazz Pianist born and raised in Montreal. He was essentially a child of the Be-bop era who performed with some of the jazz greats of the era (including Charlie Parker). He started studying violin at 5 and piano at 8, and as a teenager began playing piano professionally as Buzzy Bley. In 1949, as a senior in high school, he briefly took over Oscar Peterson's job at the Alberta Lounge in downtown Montreal. Mr. Bley left for New York in 1950 to attend the Juilliard School of Music. During his early years there, he played with the saxophonists Lester Young and Ben Webster. Keeping a hand in his hometown jazz scene, he helped organize the Jazz Workshop, a musician-run organization in Montreal that set up out-of-town soloists with local rhythm sections; in February 1953 he booked Charlie Parker for a concert and accompanied him. That concert was recorded, one of his first extant recordings before his first album as a leader, made nine months later with a trio that included Charles Mingus on bass and Art Blakey on drums. Through the mid-'50s, he was an adept bebop player with a spare style.
As he matured he went further afield in his musical explorations to become involved in what became known as "free form jazz". In my opinion, what set him apart from the frenzy and frantic performances of other "free form" artists was a more melodic and measured approach. During his time in New York playing with the saxophonists Albert Ayler and Sonny Rollins, he defined as well as anyone the blurry line between the scratchiness of free improvisation and the virtuosity of the jazz tradition. His solo performances are said to have had a significant impact on the extended solo performances of Keith Jarrett.
He often talked about being eager to get outside his own habits. In the 1981 documentary "Imagine the Sound" he professed not to practice or rehearse, out of what he called "a disdain for the known." He did not stake his work on traditional notions of acceptability, or the approval of the listener. With that particular musical philosophy it is easy to see why he is not a household name even in his own country.
Paul Bley was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2008.
Although I don't have an extensive collection of his music I do treasure and enjoy the recordings he made in 1961 (Fusion and Thesis) with the Jimmy Giuffre 3 (Jimmy Giuffre on Clarinet, Paul Bley on Piano and Steve Swallow on Double Bass). The albums were re-released as a double CD by ECM records in 1992. For that I am forever thankful. Another CD of interest is the 1993 duo recording he did with fellow Canadian, saxophonist Jane Bunnet called Double Time (released by Justin Time). Although Jane is better known for her extensive explorations of Cuban music the album shares some of the "spacey" textures of the Jimmy Giuffre 3. I am sure these albums are only the tip of the iceberg.
Here is an audio clip from the Jimmy Giuffre recordings and a clip of Paul Bley in an interview.
To be honest I am more familiar with his reputation than with his music. Classical music of the 20th century was mostly overshadowed by the music of the Romantic Era and that made it extremely difficult for musicians and composers who tried to create a new vocabulary. Pierre Boulez was one of a number of musicians trying to create a "new music". Among concert goers "the new music" tends to alienate audiences and it is only though the dedicated efforts of musicians like Pierre Boulez that the music moves forward and, possibly in time, develop a dedicated audience.
This short YouTube video of his most famous composition LE MARTEAU SANS MAITRE will give listeners some idea of the challenges they face when exploring the music of Pierre Boulez. This is not your typical symphonic fare.
These two musicians may not be well known and they played music that, by and large, most audience would chose to ignore. However, they have demonstrated that there is more to music than three guitars and a back beat.
Last, but not least it was the year that Ornette Coleman exploded onto the scene with his album The Shape of Jazz to Come. It wouldn't be too hard to arrive at a majority consensus on the first three albums but Ornette Coleman's contribution to the jazz lexicon and the innovations of The Free Jazz Movement was controversial in 1959 and here over fifty years later the dust has not yet settled.
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of an album. Coleman's timbre was easily recognized: his keening, crying sound drew heavily on blues music. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. His album Sound Grammar received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Music …….. From the beginning of his career, Coleman's music and playing were in many ways unorthodox. His approach to harmony and chord progression was far less rigid than that of bebop performers; he was increasingly interested in playing what he heard rather than fitting it into predetermined chorus-structures and harmonies. His raw, highly vocalized sound and penchant for playing "in the cracks" of the scale led many Los Angeles jazz musicians to regard Coleman's playing as out-of-tune. He sometimes had difficulty finding like-minded musicians with whom to perform. Nevertheless, Canadian pianist Paul Bley was an early supporter and musical collaborator. In 1958, Coleman led his first recording session for Contemporary, Something Else!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman….. Wikipedia. In 1959 he followed that up with a series of albums and engagements in New York that literally hit the jazz world like a tornado.
Coleman was never really accepted by the mainstream jazz world. Most patrons and a significant percentage of musicians shied away from his music. There were exceptions of course. John Coltrane, John Lewis, Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden, Lou Reed, The Grateful Dead and Don Cherry were among his champions. However, they were the exceptions. However his influence and statue continued to grow throughout his career.


EYG are delighted to have helped raise more than £10,000 for the HEY Smile Foundation to support local projects across the region through the 2017 Golf Day at Hull Golf Club.
Hosted with our partners at the HEY Smile Foundation, and supported by MKM, Hull Golf Club and Arrival Design, the annual event has grown in statue year by year and was once again a great success, with 23 teams competing.
Funds have already been used to support Smile's garden transformation project at Sunshine House, a Hull-based centre for children, providing respite and end of life care.
The winning team were Athena Signs, who claimed the prize of a trip to Celtic Manor Golf Resort, provided by AluK.
Second place went to Santander, with each team player receiving a £50 voucher for the Pro Shop at Hull Golf Club.
The play-off finalists who battled for the title of 1st placed individual were Mark Barningham (KCOM); Eliot Grant (Rollits); Tony Robinson (Martin Dixon Ltd) and Steve Howson (Athena Signs).
Steve Howson eventually came out on top and took home a Hugo Boss watch and cuff links donated by Hugh Rice, alongside the coveted Golf Day trophy.
As ever, the day ended with a BBQ dinner and entertainment.
Nick Ward, joint managing director of EYG, said: "The Golf Day is a major highlight in the East Yorkshire golfing calendar. As always, EYG is delighted to host this event and support our local community at the same time.


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Five years ago when Donald Trump rode that escalator and announced his candidacy, everyone including most people who are now Trump-for-lifers, believed it was a stunt, and he was clearly unqualified. In the subsequent year-and-a-half of the campaign, one-by-one candidates dropped until one candidate remained, The Donald. Along the way, he gained a loyal following, and in the final months of the 2016 election, even many Republicans who previously mocked him were now onboard, even some people who proclaimed themselves to be "Never Trumpers."
So, what's the deal with Trump followers? I do call them followers for a reason, because his base of support is cult-like. It doesn't matter what he does or says, they are with him until the end, whatever end that may be. How is this possible? How does a human being become so enamored with another human being who they hardly know, and certainly don't know personally?
This is the question I've ruminated on for the past five years because it's simply incompatible with my cognitive functions. I don't understand the level of hero worship required to make one hear Trump's violent and appalling words and think they are virtuous and worth cheerleading. How can you idolize someone who treats others so badly?
But there it is.
Who is the target of Trump's vitriol? It's Democrats. It's liberals. It's Nancy Pelosi. It's Joe Biden. It's those "others" in society who are, in his words, tearing down what makes America great. For his flock, what will "Make America Great Again" is a more authoritarian, more Christian, and more white society, or at least a society where "others" continue to be second-class citizens.
For many Trump followers, it's not about policy. It's not about less taxes. It's not about healthcare. It's not about making lives better. Hell, it's not even about the Supreme Court. No, for many Trump followers, their fetishization of their leader is due to one simple thing. Trump hates who they hate. Trump mocks who they mock. Trump spews toxic energy in the direction of the people who his followers believe are un-American. But why do they so despise so many fellow Americans?
One look at Trump's base reveals a largely white, middle-age or older populace who believe America is being ripped from their grasp by a less white, socially and racially inclusive populace, who in their view is ungodly.
In other words, it's fear, with a heaping serving of racism and xenophobia.
We should have seen this coming. In fact, for a while now I've had this thought that the slowly but surely declining white majority would go "supernova" before they relinquished their authoritarian need to control people's lives, particularly people who do not look like them. This sentiment has existed for as long as we've strived to make this country live up to it's founding, not just for white people, but for all people. Trump's 2016 candidacy and election triumph was the catalyst needed to give the white-aggrieved among us their much desired excuse to show us their true colors. They no longer needed to hide in the shadows. They no longer needed to hold their tongue. Its now a no holds barred quest for white, Christian authoritarian rule.
2020 is when we must send a decisive message to the regressive movement in this country that we will no longer reward bad behavior. We will no longer tolerate their intolerance. There is no redeeming quality, excuse, or argument left to gift another four years to Donald Trump.
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Using the programs in Family Connection, students will be able to link to useful websites, surveys, and many relevant career and college topics. Family Connection will serve as the main access point to receive news updates, college representative visiting schedules, scholarship postings, enrichment opportunities and other important communication from the school college counseling office, so you are encouraged to visit often.
The NCCS Counseling Office now submits through Naviance eDocs all application documents (transcripts, counselor and teacher recommendations, school profile and secondary school reports) electronically to colleges and universities. In addition, faculty members are also submitting their letters of recommendation electronically through the Naviance program. This is a tremendous step in helping our families in the college admission process. This allows us to send our materials directly to those colleges that accept the electronic format and eliminate delays that are evident in the "snail mail" system. In the cases where the college has not gone to the electronic process, we will continue to send out the materials through the postal system. Seniors will still make their requests through their Family Connection account.
For seniors, your Family Connection account will be used to manage, request and send documents requested by college application offices. *Resources for filling out applications are available in the "document library" on the home page of your Family Connection account by Naviance.
Colleges/universities keep an application file with all information they receive from you. Allow yourself time, plan ahead, and be organized and thorough in everything you do for the application. Your goal is to complete applications to at least three schools by October 1 of your senior year.
Today, nearly every college accepts (and many "prefer" and some even "require") that college applications be submitted online. Specific information about applying to a college can be found on each college's website.
Five Hundred plus (500+) colleges and universities have agreed to accept a generic application called the Common Application. This allows students to submit applications to many schools using the same forms. The Common Application is only available online at www.commonapp.org. Note that, in many cases, the school will accept the Common Application but will also require additional information given by way of a supplement to the application (also found on the Common Application website). Check the school's website for the most current information regarding any necessary supplements. The Common Application form for students applying to college for the fall of 2014 will be online and available starting August 1, 2014.
An Early Decision agreement means that if a student is admitted, the student will attend that school (in many cases, regardless of the amount of financial aid offered by the school). Most colleges have three options for Early Decision applicants: they will admit you, defer your admission for further review, or deny your admission. Some colleges may not "defer" from the Early Decision applicant pool, meaning that you will be either admitted or denied (check with the individual college if their stated policy is unclear). Submitting an Early Decision application is a commitment to attend that school if you are accepted; therefore, you may only submit one Early Decision Application, and, if accepted, you must withdraw any applications submitted to other schools. It is the student's responsibility to know the rules ED applications for the school to which they are applying. Some colleges accept a larger number of students from their early decision pool than their regular decision pool. However, a student should only use this method of application if (1) the applicant is absolutely certain that the college is their first choice, and (2) the applicant is absolutely certain that they can afford the cost of attendance (advance conversations with the college's financial aid office may be very helpful in making this determination).
Early Action plans allow the student to receive the admission decision from a college or university early, but also allows the student to apply to other schools and to wait to make a final decision until May 1. Under this application program, colleges may admit you, defer your admission for further review, or deny your admission. In a few instances, schools accepting EA applications will restrict students from applying to other schools by EA or ED (this sometimes referred to a "Restricted Early Action"). It is the student's responsibility to know the rules of EA applications for the specific school(s) to which they are applying.
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Complete the appropriate online application. Take your time to complete it to the best of your ability. Do not 'submit' until you have completed the essays and thoroughly reviewed all the information. You can save and return to it later to continue working on it.
For colleges/universities not accepting the Common Application, complete the online or paper application available on the college/university website.
It is the applicant's responsibility to request test scores to be sent to the colleges they are applying to. Visit the College Board website to request SAT scores. Visit the ACT website to request ACT scores.
Compile a list of extracurricular activities, awards, community service, and leadership involvement. Every college application requests this information in some form. Complete the majority of your resume prior to starting your senior year. *See a recommended resume style in the 'Resources' folder in the "document library" on the home page of your Family Connection account by Naviance.
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If the letters are for scholarship applications and not for admissions, the letters should be mailed all together in one scholarship package with all requested documents by the Registrar.
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Complete any 'optional' essays in addition to required essays. It is hard for an admissions officer to believe that this school is high on your list if you leave an optional essay question blank. Write the draft of your essays for the application in a Word document. Use every resource available to you to ensure you submit your best writing to express unique information about you with the word count restraints. Cut and paste the final version of our essay into the online application. Writing essays during the summer of the junior year is beneficial.
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The Fed's New Bubble
"Most valuation parameters are either the richest ever or among the highest in history. In the past, levels like these were followed by downturns. Thus, a decision to invest today has to rely on the belief that 'it's different this time.' I'm convinced the easy money has been made." (Howard marks, Oaktree Capital, WSJ, 1/29/18). The legendary investor, Baron Rothschild famously said, "I got wealthy never waiting for the peak." …Read More
Fed Likely to Put Economy at Risk
Market volatility finally showed up in the popular indexes (DJIA, S&P 500, NASDAQ). These were down two weeks in a row as of November 17 on rising volume (never a good sign when markets are falling), and they are no higher than they were a month earlier (October 20). The VIX, a measure of market volatility, rose to 13.13 on November 15, from a near record low of 9.14 earlier …Read More
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The headline numbers, for jobs and GDP, and most of the sentiment indexes, would lead one to conclude that the economy was robust and accelerating. Even the Fed agrees, as they upgraded their view of the economy to one now in "solid" growth mode. The reality is that much of the data was distorted by the hurricane rebuild effort, and Q4 data will also be plagued by distortions due to …Read More
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Deflation is the Order of the Day The Fed was established in December, 1913 after the Panic of 1907 (the latest in a series of financial panics dating back to the middle of the 19th century) put the economy into a severe recession via bank runs and subsequent bank failures. The Fed's original purpose was to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial …Read More
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For the first time since the industrial revolution, the U.S. faces two significant growth issues: 1) a declining labor force; and 2) a job skills mismatch. The declining labor force is demographic in nature and is occurring in every industrial economy; likely a function of the long-term success of capitalism. The skills mismatch is a function of technological change that is so rapid that the skills of the existing labor …Read More
Investing in a slow-growth world
The first quarter provided quite a ride, featuring a rapid equity downdraft and chaos in the high-yield bond market accompanied by irrational fear about another implosion in the financial system and a resulting recession. All of this was brought on by the rapid fall in the price of oil, something that ordinarily would be a positive for the economy. Indeed, it still is likely to be a positive for consumers …Read More


This week, news broke out that Cincinnati police officer Kevin Brown had shocked 11-year-old Donesha Gowdy with a Taser inside of a Kroger grocery store. Even more disturbing is the fact that, according to department policy, he was technically allowed to do it. Cincinnati police are allowed to use a Taser on people as young as 7.
Despite the policy, Police Chief Eliot Isaac and Vice Mayor Christopher Smitherman have expressed concern over Officer Brown's use of force given Donesha's age and the circumstances of the encounter.
Please sign this petition demanding that the Cincinnati police change this policy now and fire Officer Brown for excessive force now.
The incident occurred on Monday night, when Office Brown — who was off-duty at the time — approached Donesha Gowdy for allegedly putting a soda and snacks in her backpack without paying. She ignored the plainclothes officer and tried to walk away. That's when Officer Brown used his Taser to shock Donesha from behind.
That's right. There was no threat of harm to to the officer or bystanders, and he still decided to send a 50,000 volt shock to subdue a fifth grader for stealing some candy.
Luckily, Donesha survived the shock, but that's not always the case. According to Reuters, over 1,000 people have died after being shocked with Tasers. Axon, the company that manufactures the stun guns, admits that high-risk groups like children are especially susceptible to the dangerous effects of Tasers.
Police officers have a duty to protect kids, not send them to the hospital over small errors in judgment. This abuse of power must end now.
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So even when my stock was at its highest, the phone only rang once. But there were as many stereotypes about black managers. I was a black guy from south London called Leroy, of course chairmen had an image about that.
An unsuccessful spell at Brentford was his second and last Football League appointment. Well, unless you count the farcical time back at Torquay when he created the unwanted record of the shortest managerial reign in British football history: And he never got another job in the League.
By then I knew I wanted to work in the media. You know what they say: H e grins at the memory. In fact, the year-old Rosenior does a lot of grinning.
Despite some of its subject matter, his book too is filled with comedy incidents and anecdotes. We have to be brave. Managers, assistants, coaches, physiotherapists, doctors, analysts: We have to encourage black people in all of those areas.
As for the player who subjected him to such demeaning abuse over 30 years ago, Rosenior has no wish to seek revenge and his adversary will remain nameless.
Discrimination because of the colour of your skin has historical connotations as for centuries people felt superior to other people due only to the colour of their skin.
The slave trade was based on such prejudices and so to suggest that redheads or overweight people have suffered the same is factually incorrect.
England had a red-haired, overweight king once. Maybe one day when there is a black king, we can talk. One Saturday we went to Portsmouth.
We were walking from the pitch and I caught the eye of a boy, no older than 10, who was behind the fences. He was accompanied by an adult whom I presumed to be his father.
As I got closer and walked past the fans, the boy spat at me, covering my red actually it was pink as it had faded in the wash — money was tight at the time Fulham away shirt with phlegm.
I stopped in amazement. I was speechless and as I stood there, the adult with the boy began to laugh, then another fan laughed and then another until a group of human adults were all laughing because a child had spat at another human adult.
I froze in disbelief but my team-mate John Reeves, who was close by and had seen the incident, started to berate the fans, telling them what he thought of the kid and them.
My point was that because the spitting incident had happened right in front of a team-mate, because it was visible and he had seen it directly, because it was isolated and based around just a few fans, he had reacted.
The things that happened every week around our football stadiums were ignored by everyone. Out of sight, out of mind.
Karen would tell me about the abuse she would get when walking to the shops with Liam from people objecting to the colour of her son.
On our television screens, comedy shows such as Love Thy Neighbour and Mind Your Language laughed and poked fun at the otherness of non-whites living in England.
The Comedians was hugely popular and had stand-ups telling gag after gag. I remember Charlie Williams, a black comedian and former footballer from the north-west who would tell all sorts of jokes about black people.
After Viv Anderson had made his debut for England in he was followed firstly by Laurie Cunningham and then, in , by Cyrille Regis.
A big, bustling, determined No9, he was everything I hoped to be and he did it all with a swagger that belied the abuse he received from racist fans.
Famously prior to making his England debut, he received a bullet in the post and a letter that read: To think that some sad and lonely individual went to the bother of doing this should invite our pity but it screamed of the way many racist young men felt threatened by change.
This was an act of fear from a man somehow taught along the way to be fearful of the likes of Cyrille. Big, powerful, confident, black and ready to turn white England upside down.
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With rising inflation and increasing prices on all utilities, it's no wonder that many Americans today are looking for ways to cut costs wherever they can.
In addition to being a great alternative for those looking to slash costs on their utility bills and annual heating and cooling costs, wind, solar, and hydro power offer an attractive power source to the prepper or the steadfast homesteader interested in maximizing their self-sufficiency or general ability to live off the grid. Alternative energy can also be used in areas where the power grid is prone to failure.
Solar power is of course the most well-known alternative energy source, but it is not always a viable option for everyone, especially those who live in northern climates where daylight hours are short or sunlight is scarce. If you live closer to the equator and have sufficient sunlight and the necessary do-it-yourself skills, though, solar power can be some of the cheapest of alternative energy systems to set up.
In addition to being lower cost and easier to set up, a standard solar panel array is very low maintenance and has an extremely long lifetime. Such panels can be left unmonitored for extended periods, their operation is silent and unobtrusive, and they offer reliable, predictable levels of power output based on the amount of sunlight they receive.
Standard components for a solar panel system include not just the solar panels themselves but also the controller, which protects the batteries by regulating the flow of electricity from the panels, the batteries for storing electricity for later use, and an inverter, which converts the energy stored in the batteries to the voltage needed to run standard electrical equipment. As a do it yourself project, solar panels average $3.00 – $6.00 per watt or more to install.
Small, preassembled solar panel kits are also available from many retailers and are capable of producing anywhere from 45 watts to 150 watts of energy, and range in price from $200 – $600 and higher.
All solar panels will come with a standard rating from the manufacturer for the wattage they should produce per square foot; for most solar panels production averages approximately 10 watts per square foot, or approximately 12% efficiency. This translates into needing approximately one hundred square feet of solar panels to produce one kilowatt of energy under ideal, full sun* circumstances.
When purchasing from most retailers, however, it's important to remember that in the world of solar panels you largely get what you pay for. So, when a deal seems too good to be true, it probably is. Quality solar panels and other materials for a DIY project will generally range in price from a minimum of $500 to upwards of $5000.
Costs include the price of setting up the actual panels as well as the batteries to store the electricity they generate, the battery chargers, the inverters, the monitors, the cables, fuse protection, and generally some form of backup generator as well.
Compared to the cost of a professionally installed, full house system, a do-it-yourself solar panel system can save you tens of thousands of dollars. Although government subsidies and lucrative tax credits can reduce the cost of the $50,000 – $60,000 solar panel installation for your on the grid home to anywhere from $25,000-$45,000.
In addition to the reduced cost, if your solar panel array produces enough electricity to put energy back into the power grid, your power company will actually send you a check each month for the energy produced. Such systems are also guaranteed for 20 years or more by the installing contractor.
If the cost of a full-scale solar power set up is off-putting or simply beyond your budget, however, wind power may be just the alternative you're looking for. With small wind power generators increasing in popularity and falling in price in recent years, it's now possible to set up a wind power generator for as little as $1.50 per watt.
You have to live in a very windy climate for this generator to be of true use, but assuming you have the wind this is one of the cheapest alternative energies available and can prove more reliable than the sun in some locations.
Wind generators also have the advantage of operating day and night, but location is critical to achieve maximum production, and because of their moving parts, they do also require increased maintenance. Larger wind generators can also incur additional mounting costs in order to be mounted on towers where they can catch the best wind current.
Low wind speeds can also lead to little or no power output, and larger wind turbine arrays may pose a hazard to passing birds, particularly birds of prey. There is also a slight chance for noise pollution, especially if your wind turbine is particularly productive, resulting from the whirring sound of the blades.
Small wind generators designed to produce anywhere from 50 watts to 200 watts are available from a variety of manufacturers and range in price from approximately $700 to upwards of $1200.
Another option you may consider for alternative energy generation is hydropower or micro-hydro generation. This is a great option to take advantage of if you have a fast-moving, reliable source of water to make use of, and it comes with several advantages including being able to operate 24/7, much greater reliability than solar or wind power under most circumstances and cheaper cost for initial implementation.
On the downside, hydropower generators are not the most portable of units (of course neither are most wind power generators) so solar power is generally a better option for powering portable objects such as calculators, laptops, flashlights and batteries, etc. and freezing temperatures can affect the ability to harvest energy from free-flowing water.
In a stationary location, such as that of semi-permanent bug out location or on a homestead or family farm however, hydropower is exceptionally cheap, abundant and reasonably easy to maintain.
Ranging in price from roughly $1000 to upwards of $30,000 based on their power output, hydroelectricity generators are one of the most reliable power sources on the planet. Although a fast-moving body of water is generally preferred for use in hydropower generation, some manufacturers have developed hydropower generators specifically designed for low speed currents.
Hydropower generators do require some additional maintenance, especially when it comes to cleaning the screens for water intake to maintain strong and steady flow, but are otherwise rather low maintenance and can operate quietly and rather unobtrusively depending on how you install them.
Alternative energy sources look good on paper, but how about a reliable gas or diesel backup system that can be retrofitted to existing homes for essentials like CH/A and refrigeration?
I HAVE STARTED MY OWN ALTERNATIVE POWER SOURCE. I HAVE THE SOLAR PANELS, APP. 175 WATTS, A WIND TURBINE, 600 WATTS, IT WILL SERVE AS A BACKUP. I have a 5500watt backup generator as well.
Anyone know much about solar generators? How long do the batteries hold out. I would like to run my small ac unit all he time on it, to help pay off the solar equipment.
How about using waste veggie oil, bio-fuels, etc… to run generators. This would be effective when "nature" isn't available. How long would the bio-fuel hold up in storage. I know that manufacturing isn't that complex. You have probably already addressed this and just a referral to those sources would be fine.
I agree that a back-up natural gas generator, if you have natural gas available at your home and the money to buy the generator, is a good idea. Natural gas generators are highly reliable as long as you put a new 12 volt battery (the Achilles heal of the system) in every 3 years (even if the existing battery is not worn out) because natural gas is becoming a more dependable supply as horizontal drilling and fracking continues in the U.S. I recommend Generac back-up generators and that you use the local Generac dealer to do the installation for you. Electricians can do the hook ups but I have yet to find one that understands the generator/machine itself even though they will all tell you they do. This is from several first-hand experiences. Also, some of the back-up generators have load shedding capabilities so that if you have alternative power capabilities such as solar, wind, etc. you may be able to set up the system so that the alternative systems will supply power first and the back-up generator last (this has to be researched to make sure it can be done with the alternative power source(s)) but ours works this way when just the generator is running. For example, in the summer if the electricity goes out our generator turns on and supports part of the home including the HVAC system. When the air conditioner turns off electricity becomes available for other parts of the home or other systems that are not as crucial to our comfort or living.
My wife and I have lived off the grid for many years. We installed the solar system ourselves via New England Solar – a great company. We hired an electrician for a few hours when we were done to check out our work. All tolled we spent a little over $3,500 for everything in 2005. The estimate we were given for a, "professional," installation…. $18,000 to $20,000 give or take a few. Learn what to do, get a good resource person and guide and save yourself thousands…. and you will know your home system inside and out when done.
Re: Michael Upper's comments on 6 June…here in Australia we have a big movement against Coal Seam Gas Fracking. One small child in Qld. has suffered permanent neurological damage, after his parents bore well water was poisoned with fracking fluids. All they did was put him and his siblings in the bath, without knowing what had happened to the bore that day. There are many other cases of chronic illness near Gas Fields. They can now set their tap water alight, that is how toxic it is. Under these circumstances, is gas a viable (but definitely not ethical) alternative?
Sounds like the enviro-whackos from the USA have invaded Down Under. Since that is a more liberal government, that should be easier pickings for their scare tactics, which have proved to be demonstrably false here. Even the rabid, ultra-left, anti-drilling EPA has had to admit that there is no pollution from fracking.
The other sensational trick, flaming tap water, has in every case been proven to exist BEFORE there was drilling, and also in areas where no drilling has ever occurred. Whatever affected the child mentioned, if that is a legitimate case, is not fracking. There is nothing in the chemicals that would have that level of toxicity. The people protesting fracking are anti-capitalists first and foremost, challenging them scientifically is like shooting fish in a barrel, not even sporting. Solid scientific analysis will prove that fracking is not responsible for the pollution, real or imagined, just as it was shown in the USA.
Got the guts to stand behind your palaver, Go drink some well water from Tioga North Dakota not the specially treated city water. But say 10 gallons From a random nearby farm and ask the farmer about the quality of his well and how long has it been that way. Use this water exclusively for your drinking water , and finish it. It will only take a few weeks. I dare you . You must be a Fracking knumbskull. Let us know how you feel after that.
I am very interested in a do it yourself approach to solar energy. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Some people like to debate the cost/payback models of alternative energies. e.g. It would take 30 years for a full-home solar electric system to payback itself versus energy-saved from the local utility system. So, people allow this to influence them away from installing a system.
WHY are you considering an alternative energy system in the first place?
So… "WHY" by and install an alternative energy system?
Sure, there's also the "green factor" advantages, too. Or, and the self-satisfaction of creating your own mini powerplant. Even bragging rights to friends and neighbors.
But, the FINANCES are somewhat of a "wash" — e.g. invest in your own electric system; or invest in The Man's electric system.
Back to topic #1: Having power when it's unavailable.
We lived in a hurricane zone. It didn't take a direct-hit of a full-blown CAT4 hurricane to knock-out our power for days, even WEEKS. Even a near-miss by a tropical storm could send us back to the dark ages for a few days.
It doesn't take long for all that stockpiled food in your freezer to spoil when the power goes offline.
Sure, we're preppers, and we have generators, and stockpile fuels, etc. "Yes," we fired-up the gennys, and survived our blackouts, and saved our supplies.
But, what happens when this is an outage that outlives your fuel supply? What happens when there isn't ANY fuel supply anymore?
Also, a running genset is NOISY, and a dead giveway to anyone/everyone that you have power. It makes you a target. Maybe just a target of curious conversation? Maybe the target of a needy neighbor? Or, maybe the target of someone who wants your genny more than you do?!!! If you have the spare $$$ to spend on a genny, then you probably have enough spare $$$ for other (more expensive) items, too!!! TARGET!!!!
Thus, a solar system would be a bit less conspicuous. Nice an quiet.
But, the same storms that blacked-out your town, could also blow your solar panels off your roof, or bring a tree down upon them, too!
If you are fortunate enough to live near a small creak, a hydro-electric system would be the way to go!!! You can generate a HEALTHY amount of energy from even the smallest of streams! But, these include moving parts (which will eventually fail.) My guess, they will fail when you need them most.
Back during the Great Depression, people who owned their homes free & clear too often lost them to the tax man and rich predators, because they couldn't afford to even pay their annual property taxes. If you can't pay your annual property taxes, then you can't pay your electric bill, either! Heck, I remember my elderly grandmother falling upon difficult financial times, and she would stop paying her electric bill, and nearly freeze to death in the winter (prior to the dollar-help days.) But, even dollar-help programs won't help you when EVERYONE needs them!
Nowadays, our society is addicted to electricity. When the grids go down, people will line-up like needy customers to people who have alternative energy supplies. Thus, your excess can be used to recharge deep-cycle batteries for people; or recharge AA batteries; etc.
As others like to point out, it took them three days to get water to the Super Dome after hurricane Katrina. How long do you think it would take our "leaders" to resolve hyperinflation? Or, to socialize the utility companies?
Personally, I've also created somewhat of a "mini" power station for our bug-out trailer, too. It has a stack of several solar panels, that I can string-out across the ground of the campsite. (No fancy racks required.) I also have a telescoping pole mounted to the corner of the trailer, that I can attach a marine-grade wind generator onto — and raise it up to collect winds.
Generally speaking, it's usually either sunny (solar panels,) or cloudy/windy (wind system.) Also, the wind system works at nights, whereas the solar systems don't do much at night. (Sure, on a CLEAR night with a full/bright moon, the still trickle a little bit of power. But, not the amount of power WE like to consume!) Our trailer also has a series of 6-volt Trojan golf cart batteries to help store our energy, and spread it out over time and across the lulls.
Personally, MY justification or alternative energies, is power. Literally. POWER to the people!!!
A hydro-electric system can be damaged or destroyed by the same kind of storms that take out your solar and wind. Hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, flooding, all can knock trees into your hydro system, wash it out or plug it with trash, mud. etc.
Also if you live in an area that they say is too cloudy for solar don't believe them. It just means you need more solar panels to get enough power. probably something like 5 or 6 six times of what you would need if it was sunny, so unless you have deep pockets may not be worth it especially if you have other choices, and no the extra power when it is sunny won't hurt the panels or charging system. The only way it could, would be if the charging system is not made for the no load voltage of the panels (bad design).
I live in the country, I don't have a stream, and I am on a fixed income. I am a 65 year old female so I couldn't do the work myself..Would you tell me please how much I can look to pay for solar panels that would generate enough power to accommodate a 1200 sq ft house with 2 stories and a tin roof. Also if I decided to add wind how much extra would that be? And how long does it usually take to erect all this? ……Thank you for your wonderful and informative articles..
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in. She also needed to be able to see into the room when it was dark or with low light.
of people and hence, have more probability of being robbed by burglars.
Anyone know about free energy, like magnetic generators? Is someone making them and selling them in the USA, I know the patent office would never allow such a product to be mass produced because the Government is afraid it would effect national security.


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The "Other" in the Mirror | Halcyon Management Group, Inc.
I apologize for the long absence between my posts. The reason is actually a good one—and good news for our agency. Since I have last written to all of you, our agency has proceeded to within one piece of paper from the state of getting our Medicaid license, we have received our first state contract (which means opening and licensing two new offices within a 30 day period), and we are engaged in discussions to open our first office outside of the state of Florida. As Chief Operating Officer for the agency, implementation of all of these new projects falls to me. I just have to keep reminding myself that these are "good" problems. However, the difficulty that I am experiencing is that with all of the new responsibilities, none of my old responsibilities have gone away. So today, I am sitting in one of our new offices waiting for the cable installer to show up (the old sometime between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.). Why do I keep getting images of Jim Carey in my head?
Today, I want to talk about relationships, and some of the things that I have learned in the last couple of weeks in leading our Anger Management groups. First, as I have written elsewhere many times, I believe that the majority of the anger that we experience in our lives occurs within our closest and most intimate relationships. I believe that this is truth for three reasons. First, we care more about our close and intimate relationships than we do about other relationships in our lives. It has often been written that the opposite of love is not hate—it is indifference. We really have to care about someone to build intense emotions, either love or hate. Our emotional investment in these relationships means that we will experience our frustrations and disappointments more acutely, and are more likely to express these as anger. Second, we simply spend more time in our close and intimate relationships than we do in any other. And by spending more time with one another, we have a greater opportunity to experience our differences. We may be slow to realize it, but no two people are going to agree about everything. And so when we spend more time together, we run into more disagreements—which may end up being expressed as anger. Finally, our expectations are higher in our close and intimate relationships. We expect more out of these people in our lives, and when we expect more, we are likely to be disappointed more often—which we may experience as anger.
I don't believe in falling in love. I think that most of us fall in lust, and the early part of nearly all intimate relationships is characterized by intensely physical experiences with the other. This period may last a couple of weeks or a couple of years, but it will eventually end. When that intensely physical period ends, we are left looking at this person trying to decide whether we want to have an emotional relationship with them or not. And if we decide that we do want to have an emotional relationship with them, we start the process of "falling in love." However, love is a powerful image in our lives.
All of us grow up with an image of what our love relationship will be like. That image is influenced by watching our own parents as we grow up, by our own experiences in our early relationships, and even by the images of relationships in television and movies (think "When Harry Met Sally" or "Sleepless in Seattle"). All of us have our expectations about what our loved one will be like, how he or she will treat us, and how our life together will go.
So we wake up one day, we look across the bed at the person next to us, and we decide that we do want to have an ongoing emotional relationship with this person. Unfortunately, when we were in the process of falling in lust, we were not evaluating this person according to those expectations that we have about what our loved one would be like. But as soon as we decide that we want to have an emotional relationship with that person, we place all of those expectations on him or her. So in reality, we are not in a relationship with that person at all—we are in a relationship with what our hopes and dreams about a relationship will be. We are actually in a relationship with our own image of who we want that person to be (and to extend the metaphor of the title I use, we are in a relationship with our own reflection in a mirror).
We find out fairly quickly that the person that we are with is not that image that we had about what we wanted in a relationship. It is not possible for the real person to live up to that image, because it is one that we have created in our heads. So when we discover that the real person is not who we hoped and dreamed that they would be, what do we do? Do we change our hopes and dreams? Do we accept that person for who he or she is? Never!!! Instead, we set out on a lifelong campaign to make that other person be who we hoped and dreamed that they would be. So in reality, we are still in a relationship with that other in the mirror—we are just doing our best to make the real person look as much like that mirror image as possible. And whenever the real person sticks his or her head out from behind the mirror, and we see the real person, we bop the other on the head and tell them to get back behind the mirror. And the sad reality is that the other person is doing exactly the same thing.
And so the power struggle begins. Each one of us in the relationship begins the process of trying to change the other person into who we want him or her to be. At the same time, the other is trying to change us into who he or she wants us to be. We start out trying to be nice, and maybe even subtle with our requests that the other change. When those efforts are not successful, we ramp up the power and control elements, and start using behaviors such as criticizing, complaining, nagging, threatening, and punishing (five of the seven actions that William Glasser calls the Seven Deadly Habits). And when these behaviors don't work to change the other, we give up on the relationship, telling ourselves that the other person somehow changed, when in fact the other never changed—they just never were who we hoped and dreamed that they would be, and we were unsuccessful at making them change.
One of the definitions for anger that William Glasser gives in his book, Choice Theory, is "the emotion humans experience when they are starkly confronted by the realization that they cannot control others." I started this post with the statement that I believe that the majority of the anger that we experience in our lives occurs within our closest and most intimate relationships. The reason that I believe as I do is that it is within these relationships that we try to make the other person become someone that they are not, and we are starkly confronted with our inability to control them. Surprisingly (said completely tongue in cheek), the other person continues to be who he or she is rather than becoming who we want him or her to be. And all efforts to make that reality be any different fail. And so we get angry at the other person simply because he or she is who he or she has always been.
When I was doing a significant amount of family and couple's therapy, I learned that most couples did not come into counseling to learn how to make their relationship work. Instead, they came to counseling either to get me to tell them which one of them was right or to learn how to make the other one do what the first one wanted. I couldn't tell them which one of them was right, because in most situations, both of them were right, based on their own beliefs and experiences. And I could not give them any magic to make the other do what they wanted because (and this is a hard lesson for us to learn) there is absolutely nothing that anyone can do to make someone else do anything.
One behavior that Glasser lists in his "Seven Caring Habits" is acceptance, and this behavior is essential for the success of any relationship. Acceptance means allowing another to be who they are and deciding to be in a relationship with him or her anyway. It means giving up any fantasy of making the other person change. It means giving up our expectations about what a relationship "should" be, and developing a real relationship between two people—with the understanding that we are two different people who have two different lives and who have two different sets of beliefs. It means learning to tolerate and appreciate differences.
My hope for all of you who read this is that you can find relationships in your life that are based on acceptance and not expectations. We all know how powerful the experience of being accepted just the way we are can be. If you haven't experienced it, get a Golden Retriever puppy.