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Before Paul Langlois joined the band, the boys played with Davis Manning: an older, more experienced musician. Davis was The Hip's saxophone player. As The Tragically Hip began to seriously pursue a career in music: running demo tapes to record execs in Toronto and slowly expanding beyond their Queen's University fan base with limited touring; Davis Manning was faced with a decision. Manning, being more mature and settled than his band mates, had a girlfriend and an established life in Kingston. Manning had to choose either the girl and the comfortable life playing music in his home town, or the rocky and risky road to rock and roll success.
As legend would have it, late one evening before Davis made his decision known, he walked to the corner of King and Princess Streets in downtown Kingston. There, in an alley that now stands beside a tattoo parlour, he painted a huge mural featuring a weeping eye and a shooting star. He painted "The Hip Live Between Us" in large letters across the wall, in apparent reference to he and his lover.
In the end, Davis chose the girl, left the band, and continues to be an active musician to this day. His mural stood until the summer of 2005 when it was painted over by local business owners. His artwork was used as the CD art for the Hip's 1997 live release. The disc, in a clever turn of phrase, was called "Live Between Us."
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Well, there's really no point of this post but to finally do the obligatory back-to-school recap that I delayed until every last one of them started school...today.
Bennett and Blakely are in a two-day/week Mother's Day Out program in Austin.
Riley is in public elementary school.
Tyler Bree is attending a homeschooling academy 2 days/week and then at home for the rest.
Between three different schools, multiple extra-curricular activities, and managing the schedules of six people...this year is gonna be a doozy for both my planner and gas consumption, as well as my sanity.
Of all the back-to-school excitement that's ensued the past several weeks...new outfits, backpacks, school supplies, etc...the ONE thing that my kids have gone crazy over are new water bottles of all things! Right now Costco has three Contigo kids bottles for around $13, which if you've seen any at Target, that's basically a 3 for 1! Now I've just got to figure out how to make it "fair" sharing 3 bottles with 4 kids.
Adorable kids...adorable pictures! We don't have a Costco anywhere near us...ahhh!!! I need to find some cute water bottles for the boys.


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» Literature
» Poetry
Themes to Note
Propertius
8 poems
His philosophy to life
Love of beautiful women
Pride in his poetry
Attitude to death
Attitude to war
Questions asked are usually about your opinion of his character, based on the poems on the course, his attitude to women, love, death and war.
He is a pacifist 'Love and Peace'. The only wars he belives in are the wars between two lovers. He enjoys beautiful Women 'Two requests' and Susceptilility'. He sees woman as having the power to hurt him. 'Two Requests' 'The God of Love'. He also appears to be interested only in women's physical appearance and never mentions their personality or type of person they are 'Two Requests' 'Susceptibility' 'Gone' and 'Cynthia'. He is addicted to falling in love 'Susceptibility'. He can also be very jealous and distrusting in love, Gone to Clitumnus' In Cynthia he believes that love can overcome death. In 'Love and Peace' we learn much of his philosophy of life. He believes in enjoying oneself when young, drinking, dancing and singing and when old, he will then have the time to learn all the things he didn't have time to do like, why we have four seasons, why the stars are in the sky, why we have rainbows. Riches do not interest him, he does not want land, animals or Corinthain gold. You cannot take wealth with you into the Underworld.
1.Two requests
In this poem Propertius makes two requests as follows
He addresses a beautiful woman and asks her to allow him to see her more often.
He says "you were born to hurt me, to be loved, to be beautiful"
Is this the way that he views all women that he could love? As people who are beautiful to look at, but he expects them to hurt him.
In the second stanza, he tells her that his poetry will make her famous, showing that he has a certain amount of pride in his work, and then he makes his second request.
He asks that his poetry be better than Calvus and Catallus
Love of beautiful women and the belief that he sees women as having the power to hurt him. Also there is the theme of pride in his poetry, he boasts that his poems will make this woman famous, and he also makes the plea to write better poetry than two other leading poets Calvus and Catullus.
2. Susceptibility
In this poem Propertius writes about his weakness for falling in love.
In stanza one he addresses a friend Demophoon and tells him that yesterday he looked at many girls everywhere and every one of them he loved. He says that this gets him into trouble.
In stanza two he says that even when walking down a street he is sure to to come out the other end in love. He also meets women in the theatres to fall in love with and he says that once a girl lifts up her arms or sings he will fall in love.
In stanza three, he asks Demophoon why it is that any girl can catch his eye and answers that love has never heard that silly word WHY.
In the next stanza he says that other men do what he sees as a madness, that is in their worship of the god Cybele they slash their arms or thighs with knives, apparently they like it.
In the next stanza he says that all of us have a madness in us, and in his case its wanting many women "It's wanting an infinity of wives"
He says that even if he goes blind like the minstrel Thamyras he will always keep an eye out for beautiful girls.
Love for beautiful women
3. Love and Peace
Proertius attitude/philosophy to life
His hatred of war
Stanza one he says that Love is a god of peace, that he is not interested in war except the wars between lovers. He does not want gold, jewels rich farmland with animals or bronzes from Corinth.
In the next stanza, he says that Prometheus gave us perfect bodies but out minds are not perfect and men like to make war against each other. "And now the tempests throw us anywhere, any foe will do. War, War,! For death we cry.
In stanza three he says that you cannot bring your money with you to Hell, it will make no difference if you are the victor or the vicim there, you will all be togther. The only good death he sees is one where you have lived a full life
He then tells us his own particular views on how to live a good life. He says that in youth he loved singing, dancing and drinking.
In the next stanza he tells us that when he becomes old he will then learn about all the things he did not have time to learn about, like the gods, the seasons, why the moon changes shape, the winds, the clouds, why we have rainbows, the stars, these are some of the things he will settle before he dies.
In the last two lines he mentions his attitude to war again
"But all of you who are so mad on battle,
Get off and bring the standards of Crassus home.
4. Gone
Love and the expectation that women can hurt him
In this poem Propertius adressess a friend but gives him no name.
He says that the girl that he loved has left him and tells his friend not to tell him that he has no cause for distress. He says that there are no enemies except those that we love and that he is very angry.
In the next stanza he says that he can see her with another man. He says that Love comes and goes, he does not expect it to last and compares it to the great kings that have lived and are now gone, he also mentions the powerful city of Thebes that was destroyed, and he also mentions Troy that also had been destroyed.
The last lines remembers the gifts and songs that he gave her, but says that all the time she never had loved him, again a reference to the idea that he expects women to hurt him.
5. Gone to Clitumnus
Themes Love and jealousy within love
Country living V City life
In this poem Propertius addresses his mistress Cynthia who has left him in Rome and gone to Clitumnus in the country.
He tells her that he hates her leaving him in Rome, but that he is glad that she will be in the country because she will not meet any men to seduce her. He calls the farmlands chaste, they will not have any seducers to turn her mind to vice, there will be no rivals under her window and she will be alone with Propertius gazing at the lonely hills, cattle and the peasants poor houses. There she will not be corrupted by theatres, temples, but will watch the bulls ploughing the land and see the vines being tended. She will sacrifice at the shrine, join in the dancing chorus but "will catch no possible lover's roving eye."
While she is doing this he says he will go hunting, and is quite looking forward to the kill. He will not hunt lions or boars but will hunt hares or birds.
He tells her that when ever she has any wild ideas to remember that in a few days he will be there. Nothing will keep him from seeing her, every absent man has enemies again showing his jealousy and distrust of her.
6. Cynthia is Dead
Propertius sees Cynthia's funeral and sees her buried beside the roadside. He says he cannot sleep thinking of her funeral and says "I loathed the chilly empire of my bed"
He remembers her hair, her eyes and her dress, Her lips were pale. He remembers her voice speaking, full of life and passion and her hands quivering, but then her frail knuckles snapped.
7. The God of Love
Propertius speaks about Cupid the god of love.
He says that the person who first pictured the god of love as a boy was a genius. He knew that lovers never allow small problems to get in the way of enjoying love. He also gave Cupid a human heart and tempestuous wings well knowing that lovers often quarrel. He says that we never know when, we will be struck by an arrow from Cupid. Once we're hit we're never free from pain. Propertius says that Cupid's arrows are still in him and that he sees Cupid's image everywhere.
In this poem Propertius addresses Cynthia his mistress.
He tells her to take her clothes off before going to bed or he himself will do it. He also says that if his temper grows too hot she will have bruises to show her mother in the morning. He says that physically she is looking good and that childbirth has not marked her body. He then says that they should make love now while they can, they will be dead for a long time. "A long night with no day following" But he does say that their love for each other will outlast even death.
"Bind us with a chain so strong
That time will not dissolve it"
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World Cup Qualifiers - Europe
Cristiano Ronaldo: I promised to be always looking for more and more!
By	Sports Desk	October 12, 2021	667
Cristiano Ronaldo said he promised to "always be looking for more and more and more" after scoring another hat-trick in Portugal's World Cup qualifying rout of Luxembourg.
Ronaldo netted his 58th career hat-trick – his 10th for Portugal – as the Selecao eased past minnows Luxembourg 5-0 on Tuesday.
The five-time Ballon d'Or, 36, winner scored two penalties within five minutes early in the first half before completing the treble three minutes from the end of the match after Bruno Fernandes and Joao Palhinha had also found the back of the net.
Portugal are one point behind Group A leaders Serbia, though they have a game in hand, heading into next month's crucial showdown on the road to Qatar 2022.
Ronaldo – who extended his all-time men's international goals record to 115 – wrote via Instagram: "Another victory, another step towards our goal, another historic night in defence of our colours!
"Everything becomes easier when we play at home and in front of an audience that cares for us from the first to the last minute…
"I had promised that I would always be looking for more and more and more!
"It's in my DNA and in our DNA, we're never content, we never lower our arms and we always go."
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Matt Chapple, winner of last year's Great British Sewing Bee, has written a new book. It is a mixture of alteration techniques, making clothes and how to look after what you've made.
The book starts with straightforward information on what types of kit you need, the items you might 'grow' into and basic fabric information. Which is all useful stuff to know.
It then goes into some simple sewing processes broken down into projects; hems – how to shorten jeans, seams – slimming trouser legs, for example. What I really like about this section is that it also encourages you to customise and alter an item of clothing, one of the features of the GBSB. Using a specific sewing technique you can transform a particular item of clothing, such as using gathering or pleats to change a dress or tunic. This is a great way of showing how to use an abstract technique and then make it relevant to everyday sewing.
Once the basic sewing techniques have been explained, the book then goes into creating items of clothing from scratch. It includes simple and easily put together projects that are great for beginners but also act as a reminder for the more experienced sewer that just wants a short, sharp sewing fix.
The last sections of the book hark back to an almost forgotten age of 'repair and maintain'. When we take so much trouble to sew and make something, surely it is worth looking after. These sections describe how to fix a missing button or repair a fallen hem and how to launder and care for the things we make.
The photography is excellent, and all the 'how to' steps are shown as well drawn and clear images. A mixture of illustrations and photos is interesting visually.
I think this book will be of most use to beginner sewers, although those with a little more experience will greatly enjoy some of the projects. This is Matt's first book, and I'm sure his next books will explore more advanced techniques and projects.
Matt and the team behind the book have done a fantastic job in putting this book together. As Matt says in his introduction – this book "showcases something extremely close to my heart, the fact that we can all create something unique, whether it be from scratch or as a part of a customisation." A sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with.
This is a delightful book. More than just a beautifully photographed coffee-table book, it has relevant and interesting information about creating your own sewing projects and how to care for them, definitely worth buying.
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This book looks great, just right for beginners like me. The sewing bee has brought great advocates of this most noble art and in spreading the sewing love. Cant wait to read a copy, if I've been a good boy.
Really interesting review. Having attended more than one of your workshops I'm confident that the review is unbiased and will be adding this to a list of gifts for Christmas for a friend. Travelling overseas GBSB and the GBBO are the only 2 programmes I make sure I can watch somehow. I'm still making the zippy bags that I learned in your workshop on my tiny Janome 140m.
I love it when people happily and generously share their passion and especially when it helps new people. It makes the world a little bit happier.
I love the fact that he talks about customizing of already made garments! It's one of my favorite things to do. This truly looks like a great book!
I enjoyed Matt on the GBSB and the book is already on my Amazon wish list.
Big hints to Santa – love the idea of customisation of existing garments. Enjoy watching someone who is so totally passionate about his work.
This book sounds fantastic!!! Can't wait to get my eyeballs on it!
After reading the review I will be adding this to my wish list. I loved watching Matt on the gbsb. I now have my fingers crossed and toes in the hope I win this.
Looks like a great book, just what I need to kick start my sewing.
I thought Matt did a wonderful job on sewing bee. So nice to see his passion for sewing made into this wonderful book.
The book is very well put together with lots off advice and help.
Loved him on Sewing Bee. Sounds from your review that this would be a great book for beginners.
I'll be adding this to my wish list!
This would be an ideal book for my daughter…she loves to stalk charity shops and vintage fairs for her clothing!! Now she can make them fit!!
Thought he was great in the sewing bee.
Looks a great book, would love to win it!
Well done Matt on what looks like an excellent book – I love the idea of a 'repair and maintain' section….. I'm sure this will be a great addition to the bookshelf of any sewist however experienced they may be.
Repair – maintain – upcycling! Something I have been waiting for! Book looks great!
Looks like a great read, and hopefully will inspire more people to sew!
Made my own wedding dress in 1972 & later children's dresses' not much till I bought the Helena pattern in Harrogate. Matt's book looks like the next step for me, bought clothes have never fitted me properly but I don't know where to start to alter them. Great Christmas present for both me and my daughter, good luck to everyone who wants one, a real treasure.


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Tag: worms
Pigs Root Out Evil Bugs
Apple grower Jim Koan has discovered that baby pigs are best for taking care of fallen wormy apples in his orchard. He says they have very tender noses. The adult pigs like to root around in the dirt and tend to tear up the orchard. (Photo by Rebecca Williams)
Jim Koan's Berkshire pigs, enjoying the early spring mud. (Photo by Rebecca Williams)
Berkshire pigs like to investigate visitors. (Photo by Rebecca Williams)
Some of the guinea fowl that Jim Koan first tried to use to tackle the apple pest, plum curculio. It was working, until hawks found out the orchard was full of tasty little birds. (Photo by Rebecca Williams)
Jim Koan says being an organic grower means thinking ahead. Once you have an infestation - it's too late. (Photo by Rebecca Williams)
There are a lot of insects that love to eat
apples. A harmful insecticide that kills some of
those pests is being phased out. So farmers are
looking for other solutions. Rebecca Williams visits
an apple grower who's counting on pigs to get some
help with his pest problem:
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(farm animal sounds – turkeys, etc)
The spring rains have started, and at Jim Koan's pig pen that means mud.
(sound of shoes squishing in mud and piggy snorts)
Of course, these pigs don't really seem to mind that.
"These Berkshires, you can see, are really friendly, they're just coming
right up to you."
Jim Koan really likes his pigs. That's because he's hoping the pigs will
take care of one of his worst pests. It's a beetle called the plum
curculio. In early spring the beetles lay eggs in the little green apples.
The larvae hatch and eat the apples from the inside out.
Then the tree drops the bad wormy apples on the ground. And the worms just
keep on eating.
For a long time, farmers used an insecticide called azinphos-methyl to kill
the beetles. But the Environmental Protection Agency is phasing it out.
That's because the EPA says the pesticide is very toxic to some wildlife and
it can make farm workers sick.
Jim Koan hasn't used the pesticide for 10 years, ever since he became an
organic grower. So for years now he's been trying to find a perfect
predator to stop the beetle larvae.
The chickens were too lazy. Hawks ate the guinea fowl that he tried.
So, finally, Koan says he had a flashback. His grandpa used to have hogs in
the orchard.
"When I would climb up to go up in the tree in the summertime to get a green
apple to eat all the hogs would come running over there and my granddad
always told me you stay away from those hogs they'll eat you up! I'd be
really scared and be up there for an hour or two until the hogs left again."
(laughs)
Koan says he knows now that the hogs were just hoping for a snack. So last
year he decided to buy some hogs and see if they would eat the wormy apples
on the ground. He says baby pigs worked best.
"And they'd just go up one row gleaning it, kinda like little vacuum
cleaners (makes sucking sound) and suck up all the apples!"
Koan says the baby pigs ate 98% of the fallen apples with beetle
larvae in them. But he still needed to know that the beetles were actually
gone, so they wouldn't come back to attack his apples next year.
That job
was up to researchers at Michigan State University. Koan says they fed a
mix of beetle larvae and apples to pigs on campus.
"Then they put diapers on the hogs – truly, diapers!! It was unbelievable.
They took special superglue and velcroed it on their butt so then when they
defecated they caught all that. Then they took these poor students and made
them go through there and wash all that and look for worms."
Koan says out of 200 worms that were fed to the pigs, they only found one
worm at the other end. That means, so far it looks like pigs are a
pretty good predator.
But the researchers don't want to let pigs run wild – just yet. David
Epstein is the lead researcher on the project.
"Jim and I are scheming all the time. I have great expectations that this
could be a good management tool in the future but we have to figure out how
to do it properly."
Epstein says they need to make sure the pigs don't cause any contamination
problems. Something like E. coli. He says so far there isn't any
evidence of that, but it's the kind of thing you have to be sure about.
If this all goes well, the farmer and the scientist will be writing a book
together. It'll be sort of a self-help book: getting pigs to take care of
what's bugging you.
For the Environment Report, I'm Rebecca Williams.
A story on the pigs from MSNBC
The Almar Orchards website
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Safer Wiggly Worms
People who go fishing might be attracted to a new environmentally friendly lure. Chuck Quirmbach reports:
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Soft plastic lures such as wiggly worms are often made more flexible by adding chemical compounds called phthalates. These chemicals have been linked to adverse health effects… and when the lures are torn off a hook, the compounds pollute waters.
Tim Osswald is a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin. He's helped a manufacturer come up with a process that uses tiny plastic fibers inside the lures. Osswald says the microfibers make the lures stronger.
"Using this technology they would no longer end up at the bottom of the lake. Or at least at a much, much smaller rate."
Oswald says the lures no longer stretch like a piece of rubber but still turn and wiggle and have that 'worm-like feel.' He says the reinforced lure might cost a little more in the stores. But he says they're likely to last longer.
For the Environment Report, I'm Chuck Quirmbach.
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Study: Anglers to Blame for Earthworm Invasion
Earthworms invading forests throughout the region are probably being introduced by anglers. That's the conclusion of a new study. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Stephanie Hemphill reports:
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Earthworms invading forests around the Great Lakes are probably
being introduced by anglers. That's the conclusion of a new
study. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Stephanie Hemphill
Earthworms are good for gardens. But in forests they eat up the
thick layer of leaves on the forest floor.
Lee Frehlich is with the University of Minnesota. He supervised
the study.
"Many of the tree seedlings and the wildflowers that live in the
forest are actually rooted in all of this leaf material. So when
the worms eat that, their rooting material is literally eaten out
from under them, so a lot of them die."
The study found in some areas infested with worms, there were
half as many young sugar maples as in worm-free areas. Birds
that use leaves for nests on the ground could also decline.
Frelich says anglers should bring any unused earthworms back home
with them, rather than dumping them in the lake.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I'm Stephanie Hemphill.
Author Stephanie HemphillPosted on August 18, 2003 Categories News SpotsTags angler, anglers, animals, biodiversity, ecosystem, forest, forests, plants, wildlife, worm, worms
Apple Growers Trim Pesticides From the Farm
Bill Erwin and a number of other Michigan apple growers are involved in a huge project to reduce pesticide use in orchards. Erwin says he's among those who will continue the practice.
No one likes the idea of pesticides in baby food. But nobody likes the idea of a worm in an apple either. So apple growers have been involved in a three year project to reduce pesticides, but still turn out a crop that's not plagued by insects. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Lester Graham reports:
No one likes the idea of pesticides in baby food. But nobody likes the idea of a worm in
an apple either. Apple growers have been involved in a three year project to reduce
pesticides, but still turn out a crop that's not plagued by insects. The Great Lakes Radio
Consortium's Lester Graham reports:
Gerber makes baby food. A lot of those little jars of fruit use apples in the mix. A few
years ago the Consumers Union, an arm of the magazine Consumer reports, called for the
end of the use of many of the pesticides that end up in children's food. And the
Environmental Working Group issued a scathing report on pesticides in kid's food. Like
other baby food makers, Gerber knew it had to do something. It started with improving
methods to wash off or peel off pesticide residue on apples. But, there was only so much
that could be done in the plant.
Todd DeKryger is with Gerber Baby Foods. He says Gerber's plants did what they could
to get rid of pesticide residue, but it wasn't enough.
"Our customers were telling us, 'We don't want residues in the products we buy from
Gerbers.' We turn around and tell our growers 'We need a product without pesticide
residues.' And it's really been amazing how they have really bought into that whole idea
of providing a product. You know, and they say 'Hey, look. We fed our kids Gerber and,
uh, yeah, okay, this makes sense. Now, how can I help?'"
Gerber got some help from a firm based in North Carolina. The Center for Agricultural
Partnerships contacted Gerber at its main plant in Michigan as well as Michigan State
University's Extension Service and apple growers. They had money to pay for
publications and free consultants for three years for growers who wanted to try a way to
control bugs in the orchards called 'Integrated Pest Management' or IPM.
Larry Elworth is with the Center. He says IPM. has worked for other types of fruit
growers, but expertise was needed for the particular climates and growing conditions in
Michigan's apple orchards to make IPM effective.
"It's become a way of managing pests that gives growers way more information to use so
they can actually outsmart the insects rather than always relying on a chemical as the way
to control them."
(apple picking sound)
That all sounded good, but no one had tried it in the apple orchards on a large scale.
"Well, our main concern was whether it was going to work or not."
Bill Erwin operates Erwin Orchards and Cider Mill.
(sound of rolling apples)
Apple pickers are plucking fruit and gently rolling the apples into a big wooden crate for
shipping to retailers. Erwin says it seemed risky to change farming methods in the
orchards.
"We've been used to the chemistries. We've been used to the program and, uh, we
weren't sure that using lighter chemistries was going to work and we weren't sure that we
were going to be able to control the bugs."
Erwin says pesticides are reliable. They kill bugs. The fruit looks good. And the orchard
is nice looking in that there's no wildlife, bugs, birds or otherwise in the area for very
long. But Erwin says all the beneficial insects, such as ladybugs and spiders that eat bugs
that ruin fruit were also gone. Erwin says he noticed something else that bothered him –
humming bird nests – but no baby humming birds.
So, Erwin and a lot of other Michigan apple growers gave Integrated Pest Management a
shot. Erwin says they found using tactics such as mating disruption of pests works. The
worm in the apple is actually the coddling moth's larvae which burrow into the fruit.
Apple growers used the female coddling moth's pheremones against the insect. By
saturating the orchard with pheremones, males didn't know which way to turn to find a
mate. No mate, no eggs. No eggs, no worm in the apple. And Erwin says he noticed
"Now we find humming birds. We find little baby humming bird nests everywhere in this
orchard. We see bluebirds out here. You never used to see those. And, so, we know we're
doing something good with the environment and that makes us feel good about this
program. They've taught us something and it's gonna be something we're going to keep
going with."
And it appears the results are good.
The Center for Agricultural Partnership's Larry Elworth says the three year project was a
"Growers had at least as good if not better quality apple crops than they had before. Fewer bites
from insects chewing on the surface. A lot fewer worms that had burrowed inside the
apples which gave them a higher quality crop and they actually got more revenue for
their crop than they'd been getting before. And they were also able to reduce their overall
costs for controlling insects."
Gerber Baby Foods is relieved. By getting orchards closer to its plant to reduce pesticide
use, it's ensured a local supply of apples. Otherwise, it meant trucking in fruit from
farther away and paying more for fruit that met consumers' demands for pesticide free
baby food.
Author Lester GrahamPosted on October 21, 2002 Categories FeaturesTags agriculture, birds, bugs, chemicals, consumer reports, consumers, crop, crops, environmental working group, farmers, farming, farms, food, food chemicals, food contaminants, food contamination, food industry, food products, fruit, human health, insects, integrated pest management, ipm, michigan, michigan state university, orchard, orchards, pest, pests, wildlife, worms
Earthworms Alter Forest Ecology
Most of us think of earthworms as beneficial creatures. Gardeners are always happy to spot a worm in the flowerbed because they add fertilizer to the soil. Many anglers say they're the best thing for catching fish. But scientists are beginning to learn worms aren't so friendly to Great Lakes forests. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Stephanie Hemphill reports:
Most of us think of earthworms as beneficial creatures. Gardeners are always happy to spot a
worm in the flowerbed because they add fertilizer to the soil. And many anglers say they're the
best thing for catching fish. But scientists are beginning to learn worms aren't so friendly to
Great Lakes forests. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Stephanie Hemphill reports.
(fade up Girl Scouts)
This Girl Scout troop is learning about worms. Judy Gibbs is a naturalist at the Hartley Nature
Center in Duluth. She shows the girls how to coax worms out of the soil. They pour water laced
with powdered mustard into the worms' burrows.
It irritates the worms and they come squiggling up by the hundreds.
"Pour it in. Wait a minute. Here it comes. It doesn't like the mustard and it comes right up.
Look at this one (laughter). oh, there's another one. Look at it go!" (shrieks)
On their walk through the woods, the girls look for dead leaves. There aren't many. Judy Gibbs
explains why.
"Here's a leaf stem that's being pulled into this hole. Who's doing this? Ants! No. Worms.
There's big night crawlers. You know what a night crawler is? They grow straight down into the
ground, and they come up at night and pull leaves down into their burrows. And they eat the leaf
right off. That's why we're not finding any leaves."
Worms eating leaves might seem natural, but it turns out these worms aren't native to these
woods. The last glacier buried most of what is now the Great Lakes region. When it melted,
plants and animals returned to create a community of maples, pines, songbirds, and tender plants
growing on the forest floor, like trillium…but not earthworms.
Cindy Hale is a biologist who studies the native wildflowers that grow in northern hardwood
forests. She loves the spring bloomers that take root in the spongy layer of decaying leaves on
the forest floor. Trillium, bloodroot, solomon's seal.
Hale says many of these plants are disappearing.
"Sites that forty years ago were carpets of trillium have been slowly over the last two decades
declining to almost nothing, and people were scratching their heads, trying to figure out just
what's going on."
Earthworm populations are thickest close to cities. But Hale says people bring worms with them
when they come to the woods.
At first, settlers carried them in, along with the animals and plants they brought from Europe or
the east coast. These days, worms are spread by people who drive in the woods – loggers, ATV
"But in particular, fishing bait is a huge way that worms get moved around in our region.
Because there's so many lakes and so much fishing."
Hale and her colleagues set up test plots along an advancing line of worms in the Chippewa
National Forest in central Minnesota. The worms crawl about three yards further into the forest
each year. Hale is studying how the soil and the plants have changed as the worms advance.
Worms eat the decaying leaves on the forest floor. They mix that organic matter into the mineral
soil beneath it. And in time, they can use up all the organic matter and leave only mineral soil
That means the plants that have evolved to take root in the leaves on top of the soil have lost their
Hale says these changes could affect every plant and animal that lives in the woods. She says,
for instance, even birds have declined by nearly 50% in the last fourteen years.
"Because ovenbirds nest in that forest floor, so if you lose the forest floor, then you may well
affect ground-nesting birds such as that. So when you start thinking about it, the potential
ramifications across the ecosystem get really wild."
Hale says one of the big challenges in studying this problem is that there's been very little basic
research – like how many worms are there are and where.
To gather more information and to get more people involved, Hale created a web-based learning
program. She's asking teachers from around the country to have their classes do worm counts
and other research. Hale plans to add their data to the web page.
In Minnesota, the Department of Natural Resources is working with interest groups to try to slow
the spread of worms. Next year's fishing regulations will include instructions not to dump your
worms at the end of a day of fishing.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I'm Stephanie Hemphill in Duluth.
Author Stephanie HemphillPosted on September 23, 2002 Categories FeaturesTags bait, bird, birds, dnr, duluth, earthworm, ecosystem, ecosystems, fertilizer, fertilizers, fishing, fishing bait, forests, garden, gardener, gardeners, great lakes region, leaves, minnesota, naturalist, nature, plants, soil, trees, woods, worm, worms
Hunt for Slug-Eating Nematodes
A $5,000 reward is being offered to anyone who finds a tiny, parasitic worm in the U.S. that kills leaf-eating slugs. The gray garden slug is notorious for destroying crops and ornamental plants in the Midwest. Researchers at Ohio State University have been looking for the worm that eats the slugs. So far, they've examined thousands of slugs sent to them in the mail … but they haven't been able to find the worm. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Natalie Walston reports:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2001/12/walston_121701.mp3
A five thousand dollar reward is being offered to anyone who finds a tiny, parasitic worm in the United States that kills leaf-eating slugs. The gray garden slug is notorious for destroying crops and ornamental plants in the Midwest. Researchers at Ohio State University have been looking for the worm that eats the slugs. So far, they've examined thousands of slugs sent to them in the mail, but they haven't been able to find the worm. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Natalie Walston reports.
(Natural sound of guinea hens)
The Kingwood Center in Mansfield, Ohio is made up of 50 acres of well-tended English gardens. Paved trails lead through rows of perennials and peonies, around fountains and a duck pond. Hundreds of hostas grow beneath shade trees, but the plants leaves have holes chewed through them. John Makely is Kingwood's head gardener. He says the conventional methods to kill the slugs eating his hostas are out of the question here.
"The problem that we have here with slug bait is that we do have birds roaming around, peacocks and guinea hens that roam around freely. They sort of grouse, browse I should say, the grounds and we would be afraid that they would pick up some of those pellets and poison them."
Slug bait consists of a poison that can harm more than its intended target. But right now, it's the only commercial method available to control slugs. So, now there's a big push by large, commercial nurseries to find a chemical-free way to kill the gray garden slugs that eat ornamental plants. Ohio State University researcher, Pavinder Grewal says there's a major economic reason to find a good control method.
"Last year we had a lot of rain here when the corn was emerging. And there have been several fields in Ohio that were totally wiped out by the slugs. Basically zero corn production in some fields."
Grewal has found a natural slug killer. It's a tiny parasitic worm, known as a nematode. It is native to England and parts of several countries in South America. Farmers and gardeners in those countries buy them in bulk in powder form and sprinkle the worms on their fields. Scientists think the worm will work in this country as well. But if the worm is imported, it must first undergo years of testing to make sure it will not harm native plants and animals.
"We don't see any problem because some of the tests that we have performed with the nematode…we find it to be pretty safe to non-target organisms. And, we find that this nematode does not infect all slugs."
To prove this to the federal government could be difficult. Grewal is looking for the worm, in the United States he took out an ad in various publications. He studies more than twenty thousand slugs, but has yet to find the worm he's looking for. Now he's sending people off to remote areas of the country to find it. He hopes to be successful because it could take years of testing before the worms can be brought into this country. For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I'm Natalie Walston.
Author Natalie WalstonPosted on December 17, 2001 Categories FeaturesTags corn, crops, england, farmers, federal government, gardeners, guinea hens, midwest, nematode, nonnative species, ohio, ohio state university, parasite, parasites, parasitic, perennials, pest, pests, plants, worm, worms
Global Worming
Remember when you were a kid, how you'd spend hours poking around,
looking for creepy crawly things? If one woman has her way, a lot more
of us will rediscover that joy…And as adults, also appreciate some
practical benefits. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Wendy Nelson
explains:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/1998/12/nelson2.mp3
Author Wendy NelsonPosted on December 28, 1998 Categories FeaturesTags appelhof, business, canada, castings, compost, economics, food waste, garbage, garden, gardening, insects, kalamazoo, landfill, manure, mary, michigan, pollution prevention, redworms, solid waste, vancouver, vermi, vermicomposting, waste, worm bin, worms
Worm Dispensing Machines?
When vending machines were first introduced, they mostly dispensed
coffee, soft drinks, and cellophane-wrapped sandwiches. But today, some
vending machines are offering up a very different kind of grub; they
dispense fishing bait. It's a growing trend in vending. There are now
about two-thousand bait machines across the country, with the largest
concentration in Michigan, Ohio, and New York. The Great Lakes Radio
Consortium's Wendy Nelson reports:
Author Wendy NelsonPosted on November 30, 1998 Categories News SpotsTags anglers, angling, bait, business, fisherman, fishing, fishing bait, lures, minnows, vending, vending machines, worms
Remember when you were a kid, how you'd spend hours sitting in the yard,poking around, looking for creepy crawly things? If one woman has herway, a lot more of us will rediscover that joy…And as adults, alsoappreciate some practical benefits. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium'sWendy Nelson explains:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/1998/06/nelson_060198.mp3
Author Wendy NelsonPosted on June 1, 1998 Categories FeaturesTags appelhof, business, canada, castings, compost, economics, food waste, garbage, garden, gardening, insects, kalamazoo, landfill, manure, mary, michigan, pollution prevention, redworms, solid waste, vancouver, vermi, vermicomposting, waste, worm bin, worms


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#76 01/17/19
RogueLibrarian steals into 2019
By RogueLibrarian,
January 2, 2019 in Assassins
RogueLibrarian
Happy new year, Assassins!
So, here's a thing. This is the year in which I'll turn 50.
But we all know that Assassins continue to kick ass a lot longer than that.
It's been a really good year. I discovered martial arts, I made some career strides, and I'm generally getting my shit together. The eternal boss fight against middle age continues as I strive to level up in strength and resilience and looking good naked.
Salad once a week.
Healthy meal prep every weekend.
I gained a few pounds over the holiday break; time to work on getting lean around the middle again.
3 workouts a week: probably karate class, kickboxing class, and a freestyle
Don't miss a karate class
Another belt test in two months.
Something something writing. Let's say writing at least once a week this challenge. I didn't get very far with this last month, but I really want to jump-start this habit again.
SIDE QUESTS
Set some big 2019 goals
Probably one of these will be writing related, and one about doing some work with the Handstands & Rings pack I bought a few months ago
Backstory, if you're just joining us: I'm a vegetarian bi librarian sometimes author who loves rogues thieves and assassins and Ninja Warrior and I just earned my first karate belt a few weeks ago and I like hitting heavy bags and doesn't rock climb as much as I'd like to and I'm trying to write a novel and I meditate every day and I think you're caught up.
"We can be heroes"
LET'S DO THIS WEEK 0 wooooo
I have the rest of the week off work.
Kettlebell class on the calendar for about four hours from now. Tomorrow I'm taking kickboxing in the morning. LET'S SEE HOW WELL THOSE TWO GO BACK TO BACK
Healthy lunch of the traditional southern New Year's collard greens and black-eyed peas. Making a big-ass salad for dinner and some hummus to have around as a snack. The holiday desserts are almost gone and I'm almost back to my habit of fat-free yogurt for dessert.
Karate class starts up again next week.
54 minutes ago, RogueLibrarian said:
Look forward to seeing you keep kicking butt this year!
Whaaat so soon?!
22 minutes ago, Mad Hatter said:
I will strive to give satisfaction!
Well, there's one every eight weeks at the end of a class cycle. I don't have to test every time. But I think advanced gold test (my next one) is pretty similar to the previous test, so I'll probably do it? I'll find out next week what's up.
Cool! If you're ready you should absolutely go for it.
raptron
Another week off? Cushyyy.
Raptron, alot assassin
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1 hour ago, Mad Hatter said:
I didn't think I'd be ready for the last one and I was wrong, so I'll talk to the instructors about it first. But I haven't seen anything to indicate that there's new material to be learned for advanced; I think I just have to ... be better at it? We'll see.
35 minutes ago, raptron said:
Right? We took off three days before my break due to Ms Rogue's work schedule, so I've had an extra long one this year. Not a complaint.
karinajean
Ooooh it's YOUUUUUUU. Yay!
(Ps that's a song I am singing to you.)
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mermaid ninja assassin. on a motorcycle. with swords. and knitting needles. and kittens.
41 minutes ago, karinajean said:
Where's the Love button
Kettlebell class down. Big-ass salad (two servings) eaten for dinner.
WhiteGhost
12 hours ago, RogueLibrarian said:
strive to level up in strength and resilience and looking good naked
Seems we're both in same fight against middle age
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NOPE that was a wildly optimistic plan. Not up for kickboxing today. Kickboxing Saturday. Today I'll try to take a walk if it's not raining.
Following!
Rebooting Ranger and Legionary
"Only a Dead Legionary Gives Up" - Day of the Starwind
"It always seems bad at first, but then I find a way" - Samurai Jack
You're an inspiration to everyone... I'm hitting 40 this year and am definitely aiming for still lifting at 100. Keep on owning it.
Asa Pond
Fallaces sunt rerum species et hominum spes fallunt.
more detail about salad please --> I am expecting it is as fancy as you are.
^me except I know what I'm doing much, much less
5 hours ago, Moros said:
3 hours ago, Asa Pond said:
heyyyyy pretty lady how YOU doin'
Aw shucks. I'm fancy?
Lettuce, artichoke hearts, tomatoes, olives, chickpeas, red onion, spinach. Not sure that's fancy. I just made some hummus to snack on this afternoon and I'm making goulash (zucchini and tomatoes and beans) for dinner, a recipe I haven't tried before. Ms Rogue is working late (she works in TV and has a broadcast tonight) so I'm on my own for the evening.
I slept poorly last night so I took a glorious nap after lunch today, enjoying the extra vacation very much. I think this is a sweatpants on the couch day; I always forget how intense their kettlebell classes are, especially after a break. (They're short, so somehow I always think they'll be easier, but they are like 150% of a kickboxing class and I discover new muscles the next day.) And now: Netflix or Xbox? There's really no wrong answer.
Tomorrow I'm headed out to have lunch with my tattoo artist over in Athens. We usually have a beer but I've gotten pretty good at stopping at one.
4 minutes ago, RogueLibrarian said:
I mean to be fair you do seem to be a lot more well adjusted than living like a hermit in the middle of nowhere.
Keepin' the bar low, baby
17 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:
sames. don't buy into the luke skywalker hype. you generally don't whine that much or resist making the right decision.
traaki
Here for salads (it's fancy if it has artichokes in it), belt tests, birthdays, and assassin gifs!
Traaki, Level 23 Half-Orc Assassin
Current challenge: traaki gets some sun. Just a little. * Respawned on June 25, 2018
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Hello, Rebels -- let's have that last week 0 check-in:
Kickboxing class this morning. Man, that's tough to come back to after a break of a couple of weeks, but I made it through at something close to full steam. How much am I going to hurt later? Interesting question.
Big-ass salad for lunch. I made pizza for dinner last night, only had one piece with a salad, and am saving leftovers for dinner tonight. We've got lots of veggie leftovers for lunches the first part of the week. I don't need to do meal prep today as a result, but I will have to start that routine again next weekend now that I'm going back to work tomorrow. (sob)
I can't take a gym break tomorrow at work, but I might do a Monday night karate class; if not, I will do a Tuesday workout. I need to get a regular schedule on my calendar again now that the semester is starting back up. I'm not looking forward to the January gym crowds!
Some potentially exciting 2019 adventures are taking shape. For one thing, we're talking about trying to do a Thailand trip to visit my family there, with a side stop in Hong Kong first. And another possible creative/adventurous/fun project with some travel later in the year that I'll talk about if it starts to materialize.
PS: I just did a quick follow-back pass; if I didn't post on your thread it's because I missed it.
Ooh adventures ahead, how exciting!


Even billionaire businessman Richard Branson has predicted the end of the five-day workweek saying "it won't be in the future."
Trendy offices with beanbag chairs and ping pong tables won't keep workers from quitting in a tight labor market. According to a new survey, the most coveted work perks let employees control their time — and not all employers have caught up to the demand.
Overwhelmingly, employees surveyed asked for perks that helped them control their time. "In the past few years, there's been a lot of employee interest in perks that offer greater control over where and when work is done, such as flexible schedules, compressed workweeks and telecommuting options," Paul McDonald, senior executive director for Robert Half tells CNBC Make It.
The desire for a compressed workweek revealed one of the survey's biggest gaps between what employees want and what their bosses provide. Approximately 66 percent of workers said they wanted to work less than five days a week but just 17 percent offer that option.
The tight labor market could force gaps like these to narrow. U.S. workers continue to quit their jobs at some of the highest rates in 18 years. Last year, there were more unfilled jobs in the United States than there were unemployed workers.
Even billionaire businessman Richard Branson has predicted the end of the five-day workweek saying, "The idea of working five days a week with two day weekends and a few weeks of holiday each year has become ingrained in society. But it wasn't always the case, and it won't be in the future." Branson argues that technology will allow workers to be more productive and to work more flexibly.
"Offering employees a designated time to take care of personal responsibilities alleviates worker stress, allows them to focus their attention on key projects while in the office and also leads to a decrease in unplanned absences," says McDonald.
Still, some experts say this more flexible future is not far away. "I believe that in this century, we can win a four-day working week, with decent pay for everyone," Frances O'Grady, general secretary of British labor union organization Trades Union Congress predicted in September.
This article was first published by CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/10/66percent-of-workers-want-a-4-day-workweekjust-17percent-of-employers-offer-one.html and is republished with its permission.


Hungry? You should know MY friends!
Being a Low Carber myself, this book is one of my "go-to" cookbooks (and I DO love to cook – and, um, eat, too). While there are many fantastic recipe sites on the internet (and certainly plenty that copy and paste Dana's recipes without attribution), you can't really be sure that a recipe that sounds great has actually been tried and true. You can relax, though, with Dana's recipes. She has tried them six ways from Sunday and the results are recipes that work every time, even when you don't think they are going to.
But that's for another day. My hubby is off working hard today, and I always reward his hard work with a good dinner, especially on the weekends. Lately, I have had a hankering for old-fashioned Buffalo-type wings, without the bones….so I am going to take Dana's well known Heroin Wings recipe from her cookbook and adapt it for chicken tenders (won't be hard). Just because they are so good, I'll make more than enough to have for leftovers during the week. That's another "secret," which I'll talk about later. I cook up food during the weekend, so all we have to do is reheat during the week. Saves time, saves, energy (both mine and the planet's) and we never have to come home from work tired and hungry, wondering what are we going to eat!
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Business News›News›Economy›Indicators›India enters 37-year period of demographic dividend
India enters 37-year period of demographic dividend
Atul Thakur
, TNN Last Updated: Jul 22, 2019, 10:33 AM IST
Studies show such periods are often marked by rapid economic growth. The bulge in the working age population is going to last till 2055.
Since 2018, India's working-age population has grown larger than the dependant population
Since 2018, India's working-age population (people between 15 and 64 years of age) has grown larger than the dependant population — children aged 14 or below as well as people above 65 years of age. This bulge in the working-age population is going to last till 2055, or 37 years from its beginning.
Many Asian economies — Japan, China, South Korea — were able to use this 'demographic dividend', defined by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) as the growth potential that results from shifts in a population's age structure. This transition happens largely because of a decrease in the total fertility rate (TFR, which is the number of births per woman) after the increase in life expectancy gets stabilised.
Japan was among the first major economies to experience rapid growth because of changing population structure. The country's demographic-dividend phase lasted from 1964 to 2004. An analysis of the first 10 years since this phase shows how such a shift in the population structure can propel growth. In five of these years, Japan grew in double digits; the growth rate was above 8% in two years, and a little less than 6% in one. Growth slid below 5% in only two of these 10 years.
China entered this stage in 1994 — 16 years after Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms started in December 1978. Although its growth accelerated immediately after the reforms, the years of demographic dividend helped sustain this rate for a very long period. In the 16 years between 1978 and 1994 (post-reform, pre-dividend) China saw eight years of double-digit growth. In the 18 years since 1994 there have been only two years when China could not cross the 8% growth mark.
Analysing the demographic dividend data for two of the four Asian tiger economies shows similar patterns. (Taiwan has been excluded as historical growth rate data is not available).
Health and edu key for growth
In Singapore the dividend years started in 1979 and in the next 10 years there were only two years when its economy grew at less than 7%. The island country saw double-digit growth in four of these 10 years. South Korea entered this phase in 1987 and in the next 10 years there were only two years when its growth rate fell below 7%. In Hong Kong, it was 1979 when the dividend years kicked in, and the growth rate dipped below 8% in only two of the next 10 years.
It is, however, important to note that this change in population structure alone cannot push growth. There are many other factors. In the late 20th century demographic dividend in Asia resulted in a seven-fold increase in the GDP of many countries. In Latin America the growth was only two-fold, the UNFPA points out in its explanatory note on demographic dividend. The UN agency further states that countries can only harness the economic potential of the youth bulge if they are able to provide good health, quality education and decent employment to its entire population.
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Here's a $5M Seed Fund to Support Higher-Ed Innovations Besides MOOCs
By Tony Wan Jul 28, 2015
Believe it or not, there are innovations in higher education beyond the headline-grabbing MOOCs that have soaked up so many investment dollars in recent years.
And now those non-MOOCs may get some funding, too.
Today, New York City-based University Ventures announced a $5 million seed fund for investing in startups focused on serving the higher education industry, particularly around "needs that colleges and universities have around connecting students with employment," says Ryan Craig, managing director of University Ventures.
Along with unveiling the fund, University Ventures said it's already invested in four companies:
CampusLogic, which helps colleges manage the financial aid process;
Entangled Ventures, a "studio" founded by Paul Freedman that connects universities with startups (one of which recently merged with ApprenNet);
ProSky, a training platform for specific skills in demand from employers;
Portfolium, which allows students to showcase digital portfolios to potential employers.
Craig expects some of these tools will help students prepare for jobs through on-demand, competency-based training; others promise to lower operations costs for colleges and universities.
Other than CampusLogic's $4.1 million round, no funding details for other deals have been publicly disclosed. Craig declined to shed light, or share how much of the seed fund has been invested in these startups. He tells EdSurge "we're looking to have a total of 10 to 20 companies within the next two years." This fund, he adds, will "not lead deals but participate as strategic investors."
University Ventures started in 2012 as a $100 million investment fund supported by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG and the University of Texas Investment Management Company. In 2014, the group raised a fresh $136 million fund, which has not been publicly disclosed until now. The money from this seed fund comes from this second pot, which University Ventures can tap if they want to make follow-on investments.
Among the more than 10 companies in the University Ventures portfolio are UniversityNow, Galvanize, and Qubed, which has partnered with the likes of Wired and Parsons School of Design for online programs in design and fashion. These investments are education service providers (as opposed to tools and apps) and involve bigger dollar amounts, such as UniversityNow's $17.3 million Series B round.
While much has been made about the "disruption" looming for colleges and universities at the hands of MOOCs, Craig believes the institution will remain—but only after "treating students like customers and reducing their overhead costs."
Craig doesn't mince words; he's compared MOOC hype to the short-lived Spice Girls mania of the mid-90's. He writes: "...in two years, MOOCs have gone from the most important development in higher education in a generation to trying to remain relevant by linking up with the more substantive success of online education."
But all's not lost, he adds: "...by quoting 'zigazig ha!' [from the Spice Girls song] I really really may have achieved my purpose here on earth."


You might think that there's nothing odd about Orangeville, Utah, but this is a city where the living dead pace the lanes during the dark hours. Things occur in this town that cannot be explained. Disbelievers don't believe in the local spirit accounts, but terrifying things undoubtedly occur here in Orangeville in the night time.


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The sites of Tireighter and Tirnony in Derry County, Ireland mark Sagittarius.
at the cairn of Trefignath and the megaliths of that cairn.
along with a turtle and eels and a dolphin.
One of the megaliths appears to have a group of seals pictured.
Several megaliths are marked with human faces.
of Corona Australis, Indus, Telescopium, Pavo and Ara.
in the form a woman's head with her hair tied in a bun.
would seem to represent the brightest stars of Sagittarius.


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The Ehvam - International Spiritual Center for Peace () also known as the Arava Spiritual Center (), which is located in the southern Arava region in Israel, is a non-profit, non-governmental, and non-political organization founded in 2007 by Dvora Tzvieli. It is funded by donations through the "Shita Vechochma" () (Method & Wisdom) NPO.

History
The Ehvam - International Spiritual Center for Peace was established in 2007 by Dvora Tzvieli, known to her students as Lama Dvora-Hella, a student of Lama Sermey Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tarchin, whom she met in 1998. Tzvieli, a veteran of the Diamond Mountain Retreat Center in Phoenix Arizona where she spent 3 years in solitary retreat in the late 2000s, has devoted her life to the study, teaching and practice of Buddhism and traditions of the Far East.

Goal
The main focus in the establishment of the center was to act towards sustainable peace in the Middle East and thus contribute to World Peace.

The meaning of Ehvam
The name "Ehvam" is composed of two Sanskrit syllables and has a deep symbolic meaning in the Buddhist tradition. Amongst other things it conveys the ultimate enlightened state of complete freedom, purity, and wisdom. It also conveys the inseparability of a pure and peaceful world with peace and purity in the hearts of its inhabitants and the attainment of inner purity and peace which is ultimately reflected in the environment around us.

Activities
The center facilitates study programs on the topic of Buddhism, Yoga and Meditation courses and workshops, workshops led by both local and guest speakers, retreats, joint activities between Israeli Jews, Arabs, Palestinians and people from around the world.

In 2019, the center hosted Lama Gyume Khensur Rinpoche Lobsang Jampa, a Lama globally-known for his Buddhist teachings. That same year, the center hosted world-renowned meditation researcher B. Alan Wallace.

On January 8, 2021, the center initiated a year-long silent retreat workshop which will conclude in January 2022. During this silent retreat, participants are completely devoid of any communication with the outside world. This workshop is thought to be the first of its kind conducted in Israel.

Controversy
A report published in Haaretz highlighted criticisms, made by at least ten past students and students' family members, of the unconventional methods endorsed in the center. Those include the unreserved loyalty demanded by Tzvieli, services students felt expected to provide to the teacher, such as feeding, cleaning, massage, and monetary donations, and a practice of boycotting students who decided to leave. Some students turned to the Israeli Center for Cult Victims after a period in the center. The report described an incident in which a student's marriage nearly terminated following an episode of "tantric relationship" with Tzvieli.

Further reading
 Buddhism
 Yoga
 Meditation

External links

 Method & Wisdom NPO website
 Arava Spiritual Center

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My dearly beloved daughter, watch now as the faith of My children begins to grow and blossom.
While there is much darkness in the world the light of my followers becomes brighter by the day because of the flame of the Holy Spirit, which has descended over the whole world.
Today, My daughter, I wish to remind all of my followers of the importance of prayer to ease suffering in the world.
Your prayers are now helping to avert many global disasters foretold.
Prayer is the most powerful mitigation and when said on behalf of others, they will be answered.
While I am happy with those of strong faith; I am still fearful for those who are adverse to My Divine light, the truth.
Many people now wander around the world as if in a stupor.
No amount of material comfort eases their pain.
Their empty souls are lost.
My daughter, please pray for my vicar, Pope Benedict, for he is surrounded by masonic forces who are now making every effort to dethrone him, these evil forces have been infiltrating My Church since Vatican ii and have diluted My Teachings.
Many laws were passed which offend me, especially the presentation of my Holy Eucharist by lay people.
The lack of respect shown to me and my Eternal Father, through new laws introduced to facilitate modern society has made me cry with sadness.
The most Holy Eucharist must be received on the tongue and not soiled by human hands.
Yet this is precisely what My Sacred Servants have done.
These laws were not passed by me in spirit.
My Sacred Servants have been led down a path not in line with the teachings of my Apostles.
Today my sacraments are not taken very seriously, especially those who seek the sacraments of matrimony and the first holy communion.
The vow of matrimony is very serious, for remember it is a sacrament and is made in the presence of God the Father, yet for many it all about materialism and the exterior trappings.
Many who receive the sacrament of matrimony do not acknowledge its importance thereafter.
Many break their vows so easily.
Why pay lip service to this most holy union only to part soon afterwards?
This is a mockery of one of the most important unions blessed by the hand of my Eternal Father.
Many people do not pay any heed of My Father's will that no man shall pull asunder such a union thereafter, yet many people divorce, which is a law not recognized by My Father.
Divorce is an easy way to run from your responsibilities.
All marriages are made in Heaven.
No man can destroy a marriage without offending My Father.
Receiving My Body in the sacrament of the Eucharist for the first time is another example as to how I am mocked.
So many parents pay no heed to the importance of their children receiving the bread of life.
They are more concerned as to how well-dressed their children are, rather than the wonderful gift they are receiving.
This gift will lead them to salvation.
Yet the materialism, which surrounds the event, has nothing to do with their souls.
For me the saddest part is that these little children are not being told about me.
The love I have for little children is all-encompassing.
When they receive the Holy Eucharist, in the full knowledge as to what they are receiving, then their souls become pure.
The more they receive me in this way, the stronger will their faith be.
All faith in me and my Eternal Father disappears in time with only a tiny flicker of recognition flaring up from time to time.
Return to me through the sacraments.
Show respect for the sacraments in the way you are supposed to and you will truly feel my presence again.
Remember, the sacraments are there for a reason, for they are the nutrients you need for eternal life of the soul.
Without them your soul will die.
Please embrace me properly, by respecting the sacraments given to you as a gift from God the Almighty Father.


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Bob Franceschini (* 15. Dezember 1961 in New York City) ist ein US-amerikanischer Jazz-Saxophonist, Komponist und Arrangeur.

Er ist Multiinstrumentalist, sein Hauptinstrument ist aber das Tenorsaxophon. Er spielt aber alle Arten von Saxophonen, Flöten unterschiedlicher Art, Klarinette und Keyboard.

Franceschini spielte schon in früher Jugend Klavier und Saxophon und war auch schon als Jugendlicher in Bands aktiv. Gleich nach der High School spielte er zwei Jahre im Club Breezin Lounge von George Benson in Harlem, in der Hausband mit Marcus Miller, Omar Hakim und Gitarrist Bobby Broom. Die Hausband bildete auch den Kern der Tour- und Aufnahmeband des Funk-Jazzers Tom Browne. Er spielte mit Eddie Palmieri und tourte mit der Band von Mike Lawrence. Er spielte auch mit Michael Brecker, Bob Berg und Lenny Pickett und nahm Unterricht bei  Steve Grossman, Eddie Daniels und Joe Henderson.

Er tourte 1982 zwei Jahre weltweit mit Chaka Khan. 1986 bis 1991 tourte er mit Willie Colón, mit dem er auch viel aufnahm (Franceschini war hier auch Ko-Produzent von Alben und Arrangeur). Er wurde musikalischer Direktor von dessen Band und war auch ab 1994  in dessen Salsa-Band Seis de -Solar (ursprünglich die Backup-Band von Rubén Blades). Mit ihr nahm er Alternate Routes auf und tourte weltweit. Sie wurden auch von Paul Simon in dessen Broadway Show Capeman engagiert (Album Songs from the Capeman).  Außerdem arrangierte er für andere Latin-Jazz-Musiker wie Mario Bauzás Band.

Ab Ende der 1990er-Jahre war er im Quartett von Mike Stern. Er spielte auf den Grammy-nominierten Alben Voices (Atlantic Records 2001), These Times und Who Let The Cats Out sowie Big Neighborhood von Mike Stern und vielen anderen seiner Alben und tourt mit ihm regelmäßig (wie auch Dave Weckl, Tom Kennedy, Victor Wooten). Aufgrund seines Hintergrunds im Latin Jazz gründete er in den 2000er Jahren mit Wynton Marsalis und Arturo O'Farrill das Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra im Jazz at Lincoln Center. Für das Orchester schrieb er The Soul and Culture Suite (An Afro Latino Ballet), das 2005 Premiere hatte und auch als CD erschien.

Franceschini nahm häufig als Sideman auf. Neben den bereits erwähnten Musikern nahm er unter anderem mit Céline Dion, Tito Puente, Lionel Richie, Ricky Martin, Victor Wooten, der Bigband von Chico O'Farrill, Ralph Irizarrys Band Timbalaye (für den er auch komponierte und arrangierte), Bebo Valdez und Anthony Cox (A factor of faces 1992 mit Ralph Peterson, Michel Caine). Er spielte auch im Background von Sex and the City des Komponisten Doug Cuomo. Im Fernsehen und bei verschiedenen Konzerten spielte er Flöte mit Jennifer Lopez.

Er spielt mit der Band Metro (mit Chuck Loeb, Mitch Foreman, Dave Weckl, Gerald Veasley, Randy Brecker) und in der letzten Formation der  Yellowjackets als Ersatz für Bob Mintzer.

Weblinks

 Allaboutjazz
 Porträt als Teil von Yellowjackets bei j-word
 Porträt beim Montreal Jazz Festival

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The Cave Singers – Welcome Joy
Matador, 2009
[7.5/10]
Surprise, surprise. Another west-coast, indie-rock amalgamation of unshowered, folk-lovin' hipsters. The adage for the aughts could be "Momma don't let your babies grow up to be folkies…" if there were a grizzled and grayed trouveur around today worthy of carrying such a mantra. Fact is, the stereotype has preceded the music; if you're carrying three or more of the following: doe-eyed lead singer, plaid button down shirts, band name that involves anything organic (including floral or fauna), two or more acoustic guitars, lengthy harmonica solos, fiercely loyal fans who heard about you on National Public Radio and who like to think of themselves as auditory trailblazers, or a cloud of cannabis resin that pre- and proceeds each of your shows… you'll be pigeonholed.
Welcome to the business. For every Nirvana there'll always be a Live, and the cycle of the Simon-says music profession continues. To this day, there seems to be only one true way to break through the anything-you-can-do-I-can-do-better musical trap. Don't suck. Lucky for The Cave Singers, they're pretty damn good.
Welcome Joy pulls no punches; it's about as straight-forward of a folk-rock album as straightforward folk-rock albums come. Lead singer Pete Quirk's vocals are full of thistles and briers, the guitars chug while percussion explodes. There's nothing new under the sun, granted, but sometimes originality is all in the presentation. "Leap" will be your new favorite Gram Parsons song that Gram Parsons never wrote. It's a sidewinding melody encased in giddy guitars and a delightfully tactful mouth harp. Half of the album, you'll swear you're listening to old Neil Young outtakes, such as the joyful tambourine shaker "Beach House" or the acoustic-tinged "VV".
The album's full of this kind of rock veracity, microwaved brothers of the denomination of tunes that took a whole generation to form; however, it's the adamant sincerity of The Cave Singers' intonations that turn parody into proficiency. One of the record's most exciting tracks, "At The Cut", is a song to raise tents and start revolutions with, at home just as much in a field full of late-'60s, forward-thinking hippies as it is on some poor college student's Pandora playlist, and the 'Singers make it seem effortless. Neither rock facsimile nor tribute, they've breathed something new into this old technique and completely enveloped it in their ambitious voice.
Perhaps it's true that folk is the new punk. We may be witnessing the next incarnation of popular music, and soon, as Kings of Convenience so adeptly noted, quiet will be the new loud. If it takes a thousand cookie-cut MySpace folk-mongering bands to wade through before stumbling across an act like The Cave Singers, it'll be worth it.
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HomeImmigrationIllegal immigration into Europe is surging again
Illegal immigration into Europe is surging again
The invasion is heating up again
The European Border and Coast Guard Agency [FRONTEX] is an EU agency that coordinates border controls between member states. A new report from the agency claims there was an increase of 86% in illegal immigration between January and July of 2022.
The so-called "Balkan corridor" has been most active in 2022. In the first seven months of 2021, approximately 70,770 illegal aliens have entered the EU using this route. Nearly 15,000 in July alone. This is almost three times the number of illegal aliens using this route during the same period in 2021.
Another 42,500 illegal immigrants entered the EU using the "Central Mediterranean corridor," from Libya and Tunisia to Italy, a 44% increase compared to 2021
Another 22,601 used the "Eastern Mediterranean corridor." Cyprus is now the leading EU country of choice to enter using this route. Cyprus has seen illegal entries double. Most entering Cyprus are from Syria, Nigeria, and the Congo.
The English Channel also experienced a 55% increase in illegal crossings.
The number of illegal aliens crossing the EU's eastern borders fell by 32%. This is because Poland took significant action to stop the infiltration of its eastern border.
Note that the report does not include any Ukrainians.
US Congressman Marjorie Taylor talks about anti-White discrimination in the workplace
Jared Taylor on anti-White bigotry
Three illegal aliens hospitalized during mob fight at Dublin transit hub
Illegal aliens are arriving in Ireland like never before following a mass amnesty program that was introduced last year. Unlike the Ukrainian refugees, primarily women and children, the illegals coming are predominantly young males. This […]
Flashback: Biden sounded exactly like Trump on Mexico and Immigration in 2006
Whistleblower: Tucson Hospital is wall to wall non-English speakers in Covid-19 ward
This is a segment from The Morning Ritual with Garret Lewis on KNST AM790. The allegation is that Banner University Medical Center in Tucson had a nearly empty Covid-19 ward for a month. Now it […]


Last week we were late to cook for dinner, so we decided to go for a quick dinner in a restaurant instead of home cooked food, and while passing by Sulemania area we noticed that Teriyaki started their store operation (it was the same location as Papa John's Pizza about 5 years ago). So we tried out the teriyaki meals on their menu. BTW Family are welcome in this restaurant, (the store seems small for family dining). They used partition to cover any family dining. I don't know until when they will use this setup since I have not seen any other restaurant having the same set up here in Riyadh. Anyway let's talk about the food preparation.
If you are a type of person who want to know how your food is being prepared, well this place is good for you. They prepare your food in a way it is visible to customers. Don't worry about the smoke produced by the stove and the frying surface, the restaurant is properly ventilated that is why you can't smell the food while they are cooking.
I could say that the amount of food is good for 2 individuals. It is a combination of Noodles rice and beef (Beef Teriyaki). Just for your information Teriyaki is a cooking technique used in Japanese cuisine in which foods are broiled or grilled with a glaze of soy sauce, mirin, and sugar.
The teriyaki meal taste good. I remembered Yummy Wok while eating in this restaurant probably because of the noodles they served.
Soft drinks is not bottomless. So be sure to estimate your drinks or else you need to buy more due to the quantity of food they serve.
Me and my family enjoyed the food, they tried chicken and shrimp. Price is not low compared to other fast food chain in Riyadh, it is almost the same as my expenses when I am dining at BBQ, but of course they have different taste.
Have you tried dining at Teriyaki?
Thanks for the post. Would be helpful if you could also include the street name or tag it on Google Maps or GPS coordinates, anything that can guide you to the place.
I think you had a great dining at Teriyaki. Me also will try to have dine with Teriyaki.


Penkhull Wassail and a processional Morris in January. Apple and fruit-tree wassailing is an ancient tradition, taking the form of a New Year procession. I was pleased to see it revived recently in Stoke-on-Trent, and it's happening again in January 2017. Traditionally, the apple and fruit trees of a district are each visited in turn. The men sing to them, toast their health in cider and the boys tap their trunks with whippy sticks in a sun-wise direction, in order to 'wake up' the trees and 'turn them back toward life'.
What's slipping into the public domain in the UK in January 2017? Of course H.G. Wells leads the public domain pack, in terms of science-fiction.
* Otis Adelbert Kline who "contributed numerous stories to Weird Tales magazine", wrote some pulp novels in the Edgar Rice Burroughs 'planetary romance' style, and who was later a literary agent for the great R. E. Howard.
* Lionel Atwill who was a horror and supernatural screenwriter for RKO, Fox and Universal, with films like Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man and House of Dracula.
* Walter S. Masterman, a British mystery novelist whose titles seem to put him on the 'macabre' shelf.
* Cyril G. Wates, who had a number of pulp stories in the science fiction pulp Amazing Stories in the late 1920s.
* Albert Leffingwell, an American author of quality mystery novels.
* Booth Tarkington, author of The Magnificent Ambersons and many others.
* Karl Hans Strobl, Austrian fantasy and horror writer. The English translations would, of course, not be going into the public domain. But the plots and approaches will be. Some of his youthful stories have been hailed as classics of the genre. Probably little published now, because in his old age he became a member of the Nazi Party.
* Ernest Thompson Seton was an American fore-runner of Baden-Powell and the Scouting movement. Lots of wood lore books, such as How to Catch Wolves, Animal Tracks and Hunter Signs, as well as some heart-tugging wild animal stories which might be suited to graphic novel / fantasy-makeover adaptation.
* Ernest Rhys, the British scholar and author of English Fairy Tales (1913). Some of the books he wrote might become the basis of a graphic novel, such as his concise historical introduction to London: The Story of the City and his novel Blackhorse Pit.
* Damon Runyon, a punchy and slick professional American short-story writer and newspaperman. He appears to have had a vast output over several decades. The slangy American wise-crack language may not be to today's taste, but it seems likely that many of his plots would still hold up today.
A fascinating New Scientist iconographic, showing the archaic symbols that appear to have been used in-common by prehistoric cultures around the world. Possibly most are the result of mimicry of common natural forms, in combination with the limitations of very similar types of early tools. But they also tantalisingly suggest a shared mental 'vocabulary' of the environment. One wonders if these symbols can also be traced through into the historic era, via a study of the symbols of frontier hunters and trappers, nomad bands etc, something which might be discovered by scouring the 19th and early 20th century ethnography?
from "Hidden Symbols", 12th November 2016.