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News, Notes and Photos from the Field (Craig and Pamelia's Blog)
A taste of the Maine coast, in case you aren't lucky enough to be up here right now.
Maine Summer
Teen phenoms: Violinist/fiddler Emma Walsh and cellist Melanie Ambler performed on the deck at The Naturalist's Notebook on Thursday.
One of the nature collages from Kathy Coe's Tuesday kids' art workshop at the Notebook.
A 10-year-old boy saw a crowd of grown-ups gathered outside the Notebook trying in vain to identify this large flyer attached to an upstairs window screen. He declared, "That's a polyphemus moth!" He was right, of course, as 10-year-olds so often are. I love moments like that at the Notebook.
Our Wednesday-morning Earth News kid-reporter program has begun. Last week we went to the green in Seal Harbor to shoot video segments on bees, bugs, and each other.
So You Want to Write a Book?
One of the many titles Regina Ryan has published as either an editor, a book packager or a literary agent.
Pamelia and I met Regina Ryan in 1995, when we bought a tiny 1780 farmhouse set on a beaver pond in Sherman, Conn. Regina and her husband, Paul Deutschman, the former Life magazine writer and author, owned the only other house on our little dirt road. Regina had been the editor-in-chief of Macmillan Adult Books (the first woman to hold so high a position at any major hardcover publishing house) and also had been an editor at Alfred A. Knopf. She had launched her own literary agency, Regina Ryan Books, based in New York.
When we heard that Regina was taking a trip north to Nova Scotia this summer, we asked if she would stop in to visit us and give a talk. We love to promote creativity and writing, and we sell several of Regina's many titles, including The Garden Primer, by Barbara Damrosch (who lives in Maine), the Acadia National Park Pocket Guide, and America's Medicis, by Suzanne Loebl (who summers up here, along with the famous family she writes about in the book).
Regina will give a talk at the Notebook, called "So You Want to Write a Book," on Monday, Aug. 1, from 5 to 6 p.m. She'll tell stories about how some of her books came together and offer tips to would-be authors. Please stop in for a fun and enlightening hour.
In advance of her talk, Regina offered us a few behind-the-scenes stories about three books that we sell (or, in one case, will sell as soon as it comes out):
THE GARDEN PRIMER by Barbara Damrosch
It all began when I was dive-bombed by a hummingbird. I had just moved to a lovely little farmhouse in the woods in Sherman, Conn., and was working in the garden. I was astonished by the bird – I somehow thought they were tropical birds. That led me to come up with the idea for the book Theme Gardens, which included a hummingbird garden, a colonial garden, a moonlight garden and many others. At this time I was working as a book packager or developer, and so had to put the book's team together. I approached Barbara Damrosch, a young woman who was the editor of the tiny local paper, to write it. I had read her funny essays in the paper, and I knew she worked designing gardens for folks. I then sold the book to Workman and it was published. What struck me most about Barbara was her ability to write about gardening so clearly that anybody could understand it. So I thought a beginner's guide to gardening would be perfect. We proposed a couple of ideas to Workman for our next project, including the beginner's guide. Peter Workman jumped at the idea of the primer and the rest is history. Barbara and I began work in l986 – with her writing and me editing. The first edition came out in 1988; it was completely revised in 2008. It has sold just under 400,000 copies. Theme Gardens is still in print as well.
AMERICA'S MEDICIS: THE ROCKEFELLERS AND THEIR ASTONISHING CULTURAL LEGACY by Suzanne Loebl
I was at a professional writers' conference in New York, doing what we call "speed dating" – where an author has ten minutes to pitch ideas to an agent. Suzanne Loebl, whom I knew, appeared at my table. She quickly ran through a few ideas that were nice but not very exciting. Then, towards the end of our allotted time, she told me a story that hooked me immediately. She said that in the course of traveling around the country to write her previous book on America's art museums she had been startled to realize how many museums and collections in America had been funded by the Rockefellers. Yet no one had brought it all together. Did I think it was a book? Absolutely, yes. Here was an important family, making a great contribution to our country, that was little acknowledged and hardly known. It was a wonderful subject, and clearly she was the right author to do it. That was in 2005. The book was published just this past year – in 2010. Happily, it is getting an amazing amount of attention and is selling well.
THE ROOF AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD: DISCOVERING THE TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS by Edmund Stump
The first I saw of this book was when two large black portfolios of photographs landed on my desk unannounced, with a text to go with it. I thought the photos were spectacular, but the text was lame. I told the author the problems I had with the text, and sent the portfolios back, thinking that was the last of that. A year later, the portfolios arrived again – unannounced -- on my desk.. This time, the text was excellent. Ed Stump had, amazingly enough, taken my advice and spent a year reworking the manuscript. However, now there was another obstacle in its way. I had decided not long before that I would no longer represent heavily illustrated books because they just weren't selling. But looking at the incredible beauty of the photos of places that almost no humans had ever seen, at the astonishing views taken from the tops of mountains that the author had climbed, at the maps with overlays showing the routes of Amundson and Scott and Shackleton – and then seeing photos of the unchanging landscape that was still the same as what they saw – convinced me that this was such an important and original and wonderful book that it just had to be published. Ed Stump and I agreed to work together in 2007 and spent a lot of time perfecting the text and the proposal (an art form in itself). It then it took me a number of years to find a publisher. The book will finally be published by Yale University Press in January 2012. The advance quotes are terrific. I am extremely proud of this book, and of my friend and author, Ed Stump.
Hot Streak
Fact of the Day: June was the 316th consecutive month with a global temperature above the 20th-century average. July, it's safe to say, will extend that streak to 317. The last month with a below-average world temperature was February 1985.
Answer to the Last Puzzler:
Lizards are not amphibians, invertebrates or mammals. They are reptiles.
Today's Puzzler:
True or false: One way to tell moths from butterflies is that butterflies have thin antennae that are club-shaped at the end while moths tend to have feathery or comb-like antennae.
By: Craig Neff
Tags America's Medicis, Amundsen, average world temperature, Barbara Damrosch, Edmund Stump, Life magazine, Maine in Summer, Paul Deutschman, polyphemus moth, Regina Ryan, Scott, Shackleton, Sherman Conn-, so you want to write a book, Suzanne Loebl, The Garden Primer, The Roof at the Bottom of the World, transantarctic mountains
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Mar 31, 2016 April Fools' Day and the Stories Behind Eight Animal Hoaxes Mar 31, 2016
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Mar 24, 2016 Burrowing Owls in Florida Mar 24, 2016
Mar 23, 2016 Welcome to Spring Mar 23, 2016
Mar 22, 2016 A Pause to Think of Brussels Mar 22, 2016
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Mar 13, 2016 50-Foot Waves, the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica Mar 13, 2016
Mar 3, 2016 Naturalist's Notebook Guest Post: Photographing the Endangered Spirit Bear Mar 3, 2016
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Jan 26, 2016 Antarctic Adventures (Cont.): Grytviken and Jason Harbor Jan 26, 2016
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Dec 15, 2015 Don't Mess With a Fur Seal Dec 15, 2015
Dec 13, 2015 Time-lapse Painting a Chinstrap Penguin on a Ship in the Antarctic Dec 13, 2015
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Nov 28, 2015 Setting Sail for the Antarctic Nov 28, 2015
Nov 27, 2015 The Road to Antarctica: First Stop, Argentina Nov 27, 2015
Nov 26, 2015 A Thanksgiving Wish Nov 26, 2015
Nov 22, 2015 How the Two of Us Ended Up On an Adventure In Antarctica Nov 22, 2015
Oct 25, 2015 Common Mergansers on Our Maine Bay Oct 25, 2015
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Apr 26, 2015 Our First London Marathon: From Dinosaurs to Prince Harry Apr 26, 2015
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Jul 16, 2014 Our Full Day-by-Day Schedule of Summer Workshops and Events Jul 16, 2014
May 17, 2014 The Forest Where 3 Billion Birds Go Each Spring May 17, 2014
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Feb 22, 2014 Day 21 in Russia Feb 22, 2014
Feb 19, 2014 Day 18 in Russia (and Quite an Owl Sighting) Feb 19, 2014
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Jan 1, 2014 Pictures of the Year Jan 1, 2014
Nov 20, 2013 Our Holiday Hours and the Road to 2014 Nov 20, 2013
Jul 11, 2013 The Notebook Expands to Northeast Harbor Jul 11, 2013
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May 29, 2013 Images From a Turtle Pond May 29, 2013
May 25, 2013 What Is a Boreal Forest and Why Is It Important? May 25, 2013
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May 2, 2013 Porcupine Couch Potatoes and a Vernal Pool Adventure with Bernd Heinrich May 2, 2013
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Apr 13, 2013 How to Become an Astronaut, Or Have Fun Trying Apr 13, 2013
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Mar 31, 2013 'Chuckie's Back Mar 31, 2013
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Mar 2, 2013 Physic-al Comedy Mar 2, 2013
Feb 28, 2013 Why Is Pamelia Painting a Billion Stars? Feb 28, 2013
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Feb 1, 2013 The Notebook Heads to California Feb 1, 2013
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Jan 17, 2013 Hunger Games: A Sharp-Shinned Hawk, Two Goshawks and A Poor Red Squirrel Jan 17, 2013
Jan 10, 2013 Fishing Boats, Sea Creatures and Four Seconds of Human History Jan 10, 2013
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Jan 3, 2013 Happy 2013—Our Big Bang Year Jan 3, 2013
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Jun 16, 2012 Eye Pod and Egg-Laying Turtles Jun 16, 2012
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Jun 5, 2012 Glimpse of What's Coming Jun 5, 2012
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May 25, 2012 Tribute to a Friend May 25, 2012
May 15, 2012 How an Abandoned Navy Base Became a Mecca for Scientists, Naturalists, Artists, Educators... and Porcupines May 15, 2012
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Apr 17, 2012 Up Cadillac Mountain Apr 17, 2012
Apr 15, 2012 A Shell In Wonderland Apr 15, 2012
Apr 14, 2012 Rube Goldberg in the 21st Century Apr 14, 2012
Apr 12, 2012 Woodpeckers in Love Apr 12, 2012
Apr 7, 2012 Take Two Hikes and Call Me In the Morning Apr 7, 2012
Apr 4, 2012 Great Blue Heron Eggs and Nest Apr 4, 2012
Apr 2, 2012 Jon Stewart, Chemistry Buff (And Other Surprises) Apr 2, 2012
Mar 26, 2012 Painting Science and Nature Without a Brush (And a Super-Slo-Mo Eagle Owl) Mar 26, 2012
Mar 22, 2012 Inside the MDI Biological Lab Mar 22, 2012
Mar 19, 2012 Through the Lens Mar 19, 2012
Mar 17, 2012 500 Years of Women In Art In Less Than 3 Minutes (and Other March Madness) Mar 17, 2012
Mar 14, 2012 The Barred Owl and the Tree Lobster Mar 14, 2012
Mar 10, 2012 Observe. Draw. Don't Mind the Arsenic. Mar 10, 2012
Mar 8, 2012 Crow Tracks In Snow Mar 8, 2012
Mar 7, 2012 Hello...Sharp-Shinned Hawk? Mar 7, 2012
Mar 4, 2012 The Grape and the Football Field Mar 4, 2012
Mar 1, 2012 Leonardo Live (A da Vinci Quiz) Mar 1, 2012
Feb 28, 2012 What Do Dogs Smell? Feb 28, 2012
Feb 25, 2012 The Mailbag Feb 25, 2012
Feb 22, 2012 Moody Maine Morning Feb 22, 2012
Feb 20, 2012 Who Was That Masked Naturalist? Feb 20, 2012
Feb 14, 2012 Biking on Siberian Pine Feb 14, 2012
Feb 13, 2012 Of Farm, Food and Song Feb 13, 2012
Feb 9, 2012 The Truth About Cats and Birds Feb 9, 2012
Feb 7, 2012 Just the Moon Feb 7, 2012
Feb 4, 2012 Tweet-Tweeting, A Porcupine Find and Algae for Rockets Feb 4, 2012
Feb 1, 2012 Harry Potter Sings About the Elements Feb 1, 2012
Jan 30, 2012 Painting On Corn Starch (Or How to Have Fun with a Non-Newtonian Liquid) Jan 30, 2012
Jan 28, 2012 You've Just Found a Stranded Seal, Whale or Dolphin. What Do You Do? Jan 28, 2012
Jan 23, 2012 Art + Science + Vision = Microsculpture Jan 23, 2012
Jan 20, 2012 An Amazing Bridge Jan 20, 2012
Jan 18, 2012 Ice, Football and Smart Women Jan 18, 2012
Jan 12, 2012 Where a Forest Once Stood Jan 12, 2012
Jan 10, 2012 The Blue Jay and the Ant Jan 10, 2012
Jan 7, 2012 How Do You Mend a Broken Toe? Jan 7, 2012
Jan 3, 2012 Marching Back to the Office Jan 3, 2012
Dec 31, 2011 Happy 2012 Dec 31, 2011
Dec 21, 2011 8 Hours, 54 Minutes of Sun Dec 21, 2011
Dec 17, 2011 Sloths Come to TV Dec 17, 2011
Dec 10, 2011 Charitable Thoughts Dec 10, 2011
Dec 6, 2011 Show 20 Slides, Talk for 20 Seconds Per Slide, Tell Us Something Fascinating. Go! Dec 6, 2011
Nov 26, 2011 Science-Driven Fashion (As Envisioned in the 1930s) Nov 26, 2011
Nov 23, 2011 Day at the Zoo Nov 23, 2011
Nov 19, 2011 Otherworldly Dry Ice Art Nov 19, 2011
Nov 15, 2011 Gymnastic Gibbons Nov 15, 2011
Nov 12, 2011 Cockles and Starlings Nov 12, 2011
Oct 19, 2011 Off to England Oct 19, 2011
Oct 5, 2011 Double-Double Total Rainbows Oct 5, 2011
Oct 1, 2011 Welcome to October of the Year...13,700,002,011? Oct 1, 2011
Sep 23, 2011 The Seal Harbor Roadblock Sep 23, 2011
Sep 17, 2011 Birds, Dark Skies, Doc Holliday and the New Honey Champion Sep 17, 2011
Sep 11, 2011 Sea Dogs and Seahawks, 'Novas and 9/11 Sep 11, 2011
Sep 2, 2011 Crazy Sneakers and Changing Seasons Sep 2, 2011
Aug 29, 2011 Wild and Windy Aug 29, 2011
Aug 27, 2011 Hurricane Irene Aug 27, 2011
Aug 24, 2011 Come to Our Thursday Night Talk: Saving the Chimpanzee Aug 24, 2011
Aug 21, 2011 How to Draw a World Map in 30 Seconds Aug 21, 2011
Aug 18, 2011 Coming to the Notebook On Saturday: An Eco-Smart Gardening Workshop and a Greenhouse on Wheels Aug 18, 2011
Aug 14, 2011 Quite a Week, Grasshopper Aug 14, 2011
Aug 7, 2011 The Sweet 16 Is Here Aug 7, 2011
Aug 3, 2011 Thuya Garden Aug 3, 2011
Jul 29, 2011 Maine Summer Jul 29, 2011
Jul 23, 2011 Guest Blog: Harvard's Michael R. Canfield On What Naturalists Carry Jul 23, 2011
Jul 20, 2011 Earth News Is Here Jul 20, 2011
Jul 18, 2011 Margaret's Workshop Jul 18, 2011
Jul 14, 2011 Lost in Space? Jul 14, 2011
Jul 13, 2011 Shadows Jul 13, 2011
Jul 11, 2011 An Extraordinary (And Inspiring) Young Birder and Artist Jul 11, 2011
Jul 7, 2011 Margaret Krug Workshop Jul 7, 2011
Jul 4, 2011 Venturing Inside the Notebook Cave Jul 4, 2011
Jul 2, 2011 Stand Back—Volcano! Jul 2, 2011
Jun 29, 2011 Look What Landed Jun 29, 2011
Jun 26, 2011 Sign Up for Workshops Jun 26, 2011
Jun 23, 2011 "The Inspired Garden" and Other Fun Jun 23, 2011
Jun 20, 2011 We're Open Jun 20, 2011
Jun 13, 2011 Notebook Countdown Jun 13, 2011
Jun 3, 2011 New Summer Program: Earth News for Kids Jun 3, 2011
May 27, 2011 Amazing Bird Fallout May 27, 2011
May 24, 2011 Signs, Sightings and Bird-Friendly Coffee May 24, 2011
May 18, 2011 Science Winners, Butterfly Chasing and Chickens In a Vending Machine May 18, 2011
May 11, 2011 Movie Preview: Wings of Life May 11, 2011
May 6, 2011 Teenage Scientists and Ambitious Ants May 6, 2011
Apr 29, 2011 Maine Morning Postcard Apr 29, 2011
Apr 27, 2011 Vegetable Orchestras and Birds Who Imitate Saws and Power Drills Apr 27, 2011
Apr 23, 2011 What's On the Other Side of the Earth? Apr 23, 2011
Apr 19, 2011 Exploring at Night Apr 19, 2011
Apr 15, 2011 Decoding da Vinci Apr 15, 2011
Apr 12, 2011 Jumpin' Jake Apr 12, 2011
Apr 8, 2011 Sweet Incentive Apr 8, 2011
Apr 6, 2011 Life In Slow Motion Apr 6, 2011
Apr 2, 2011 CSI: Maine Apr 2, 2011
Mar 31, 2011 Ninety Seconds on Mercury Mar 31, 2011
Mar 29, 2011 Aristotle's Robin and Joe Torre's Heron Mar 29, 2011
Mar 26, 2011 The Play's the Thing Mar 26, 2011
Mar 23, 2011 Blue Birds and Blue Devils Mar 23, 2011
Mar 19, 2011 How a Nuclear Plant Nearly Was Built Next to Acadia National Park (Part I) Mar 19, 2011
Mar 16, 2011 Inside an Ant City Mar 16, 2011
Mar 12, 2011 Earthquake Artists and the Countdown to Pi (π) Day Mar 12, 2011
Mar 9, 2011 The Rhino Who Painted (and the Elephants Who Still Do) Mar 9, 2011
Mar 5, 2011 From Bumblebees to Michelangelo Mar 5, 2011
Mar 1, 2011 The Chipmunk Who Thought He Was a Groundhog Mar 1, 2011
Feb 26, 2011 The Creature in the Fridge Feb 26, 2011
Feb 23, 2011 Evolution in Bar Harbor Feb 23, 2011
Feb 21, 2011 Bearing Up in New York City Feb 21, 2011
Feb 19, 2011 Ahoy! Sea Turkeys Feb 19, 2011
Feb 15, 2011 Music, Moscow and the Mailbag Feb 15, 2011
Feb 11, 2011 The Valentine Heart Feb 11, 2011
Feb 8, 2011 RIP, Barred Owl Feb 8, 2011
Feb 4, 2011 Groundhog Fever, Pluto, and the Hidden Chemistry of the Super Bowl Feb 4, 2011
Feb 2, 2011 Snow Joking Around Feb 2, 2011
Jan 31, 2011 Of Mice and Moon Jan 31, 2011
Jan 29, 2011 Yellow Journalism? A Look at the Color of the Sun, the Super Bowl and Nat Geo Jan 29, 2011
Jan 26, 2011 Final Hours of a Duck Jan 26, 2011
Jan 24, 2011 How Cold Is It Where You Are? Jan 24, 2011
Jan 22, 2011 Rabbits' Luck Jan 22, 2011
Jan 20, 2011 Numbers, Doodling and Football Jan 20, 2011
Jan 19, 2011 Birds and the "Scary Movie Effect" Jan 19, 2011
Jan 17, 2011 Cold and Colder Jan 17, 2011
Jan 16, 2011 London's Olympian Fish Plan Jan 16, 2011
Jan 15, 2011 Whooping Cranes and Swimsuit Sands Jan 15, 2011
Jan 13, 2011 Iodine Contrast Jan 13, 2011
Jan 10, 2011 Bart Simpson and Acidic Words Jan 10, 2011
Jan 8, 2011 North Pole Shift, Whiz Kid Astronomer... Jan 8, 2011
Jan 6, 2011 Margaret Krug in American Artist Jan 6, 2011
Jan 4, 2011 James Bond and the Genius Jan 4, 2011
Jan 2, 2011 Water Hazard Jan 2, 2011
Dec 31, 2010 The 2011 Crystal Ball Dec 31, 2010
Dec 28, 2010 Danger, Will Woodpecker! Dec 28, 2010
Dec 27, 2010 The Blizzard Theory Dec 27, 2010
Dec 23, 2010 Green Acres Dec 23, 2010
Dec 20, 2010 Naturally Frosted Dec 20, 2010
Dec 15, 2010 Let's See...How Many Turtle Doves? Dec 15, 2010
Dec 11, 2010 Real Dog Sledding Dec 11, 2010
Dec 11, 2010 Just Follow the Arrows Dec 11, 2010
Dec 9, 2010 Light Show Dec 9, 2010
Dec 6, 2010 Foxes in the Snow Dec 6, 2010
Dec 1, 2010 Ready for December Dec 1, 2010
Nov 25, 2010 Turkey Day Trot Nov 25, 2010
Nov 21, 2010 We're Open Again Nov 21, 2010
Nov 10, 2010 Last Days in California Nov 10, 2010
Nov 9, 2010 Day at the Museum Nov 9, 2010
Nov 7, 2010 Land of the Giants Nov 7, 2010
Oct 31, 2010 Oregon to California Oct 31, 2010
Oct 28, 2010 Checking Out Oregon's High Desert Oct 28, 2010
Oct 27, 2010 Boise and Birds Oct 27, 2010
Oct 26, 2010 A Day in Utah Oct 26, 2010
Oct 25, 2010 Blowing Into Idaho Oct 25, 2010
Oct 24, 2010 Welcome to Montana Oct 24, 2010
Oct 19, 2010 Big Cats Playing With Pumpkins Oct 19, 2010
Oct 17, 2010 Last Blooms Before the Frost Oct 17, 2010
Oct 12, 2010 The End of Our Regular Season Oct 12, 2010
Oct 8, 2010 Coming Saturday: Arthur Haines Oct 8, 2010
Oct 6, 2010 India's Pollinator Problem (and Other News) Oct 6, 2010
Oct 5, 2010 October at Eagle Lake Oct 5, 2010
Oct 3, 2010 Happy Bird Day Oct 3, 2010
Oct 2, 2010 Did a Mushroom Lead to the Word "Berserk"? Oct 2, 2010
Sep 30, 2010 A Budding Naturalist at Age 14 Sep 30, 2010
Sep 25, 2010 A Rays Runaway Sep 25, 2010
Sep 23, 2010 Good Morning, Maine Sep 23, 2010
Sep 13, 2010 Whole Foods' Smart Move Sep 13, 2010
Sep 13, 2010 Three Months Later: The Great Sun Chips Bag Composting Test (And More) Sep 13, 2010
Sep 11, 2010 Stargazing and Other Fall Treats Sep 11, 2010
Sep 8, 2010 Big Numbers Sep 8, 2010
Sep 7, 2010 Maine. The Magazine Sep 7, 2010
Sep 4, 2010 The 2010 Honey Champion Sep 4, 2010
Sep 1, 2010 Newspaper Story on Pamelia and Her Tidal Photos Sep 1, 2010
Aug 31, 2010 Disneynature's Pollinator Movie Aug 31, 2010
Aug 30, 2010 Migration Time Aug 30, 2010
Aug 28, 2010 What Happened to My Lunch Aug 28, 2010
Aug 25, 2010 Look Who Crawled In Aug 25, 2010
Aug 21, 2010 Scandal at the Sweet 16 Tournament: Did Fritz the Dog Influence the Outcome? Aug 21, 2010
Aug 12, 2010 Back to Work Aug 12, 2010
Aug 1, 2010 Next Stop: London Aug 1, 2010
Jul 29, 2010 The Climbing Grey Fox Jul 29, 2010
Jul 28, 2010 Tonight's Maine Moon Jul 28, 2010
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Interview with Daniel H. Ruckriegel, Sr., January 23, 2001
Project: Kentucky League of Cities Oral History Project
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In this interview Daniel H. Ruckriegel, Sr., (Mayor of Jeffersontown, 1981-2001; former Vice President, Kentucky League of Cities), discusses growing up in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, his family's deep ancestral ties to Jeffersontown and their long history of community involvement. He talks about the nature of his Jeffersontown education and his early career as an electrician. Ruckriegel also notes the major changes he observed in the fifties--harbingers of the extensive industrial, urban, and suburban development to come, development that would signal the end of Jeffersontown's small-town status and mark the beginning of new infrastructural challenges. He also speaks of the strong sense of place that ultimately motivated him to run for mayor. Ruckriegel outlines the major political and infrastructural challenges faced, and changes implemented, during his tenure, one of which was the Louisville-Jefferson County merger. Other topics include annexation, race relations, and the installation of public recreational facilities.
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2:14 Their eyes, 1 full of adultery, 2 never stop sinning; 3 they entice 4 unstable people. 5 They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children! 6 2:15 By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, 7 who loved the wages of unrighteousness, 8 2:16 yet was rebuked 9 for his own transgression (a dumb donkey, 10 speaking with a human voice, 11 restrained the prophet's madness). 12
2:17 These men 13 are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness 14 have been reserved. 2:18 For by speaking high-sounding but empty words 15 they are able to entice, 16 with fleshly desires and with debauchery, 17 people 18 who have just escaped 19 from those who reside in error. 20 2:19 Although these false teachers promise 21 such people 22 freedom, they themselves are enslaved to 23 immorality. 24 For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved. 25 2:20 For if after they have escaped the filthy things 26 of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, 27 they 28 again get entangled in them and succumb to them, 29 their last state has become worse for them than their first. 2:21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them. 2:22 They are illustrations of this true proverb: 30 "A dog returns to its own vomit," 31 and "A sow, after washing herself, 32 wallows in the mire." 33
1 tn Grk "having eyes." See note on "men" at the beginning of v. 12.
2 tn Grk "full of an adulteress."
3 tn Grk "and unceasing from sin." Some translate this "insatiable for sin," but such a translation is based on a textual variant with inadequate support.
4 tn Grk "enticing." See note on "men" at the beginning of v. 12.
5 tn "People" is literally "souls." The term ψυχή (yuch) can refer to one's soul, one's life, or oneself.
6 tn Grk "having hearts trained in greediness, children of cursing." The participles continue the general description of the false teachers, without strong grammatical connection. The genitive κατάρας (kataras, "of cursing") is taken attributively here.
7 tn Although many modern translations (e.g., NASB, TEV, NIV, CEV, NLT) read "Beor" here, this is due to harmonization with the OT rather than following a variant textual reading. The Greek text of NA27 reads "Bosor," an otherwise unattested form of the name of Balaam's father.
8 tn "Wages of unrighteousness" in Greek is the same expression found in v. 13, "wages for harmful ways." The repetition makes the link between the false teachers and Balaam more concrete.
9 tn Grk "but he had a rebuke."
10 tn The Greek word ἄφωνος (afwno") means "mute, silent" or "incapable of speech." For reasons of English style the word "dumb" was used in the translation. Despite the potential for misunderstanding (since "dumb" can refer to a lack of intellectual capability) more dynamic glosses were judged to be inelegant.
11 tn Grk "a voice of a (man/person)."
12 sn Balaam's activities are detailed in Num 22—24 (see also Num 31:8, 16).
13 tn Although some translations have simply "these" or "these people," since in v. 14 they are described as having eyes "full of an adulteress," men are in view.
14 tn Grk "utter darkness of darkness." Verse 4 speaks of wicked angels presently in "chains of utter darkness," while the final fate of the false teachers is a darker place still.
15 tn Grk "high-sounding words of futility."
16 tn Grk "they entice."
17 tn Grk "with the lusts of the flesh, with debauchery."
18 tn Grk "those."
19 tn Or "those who are barely escaping."
20 tn Or "deceit."
21 tn Verse 19 is a subordinate clause in Greek. The masculine nominative participle "promising" (ἐπαγγελλόμενοι, epangellomenoi) refers back to the subject of vv. 17-18. At the same time, it functions subordinately to the following participle, ὑπάρχοντες (Juparconte", "while being").
22 tn Grk "them."
23 tn Grk "slaves of." See the note on the word "slave" in 1:1.
24 tn Or "corruption," "depravity." Verse 19 constitutes a subordinate clause to v. 18 in Greek. The main verbal components of these two verses are: "uttering…they entice…promising…being (enslaved)." The main verb is (they) entice. The three participles are adverbial and seem to indicate an instrumental relation (by uttering), a concessive relation (although promising), and a temporal relation (while being [enslaved]). For the sake of English usage, in the translation of the text this is broken down into two sentences.
25 tn Grk "for by what someone is overcome, to this he is enslaved."
26 tn Grk "defilements"; "contaminations"; "pollutions."
27 sn Through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The implication is not that these people necessarily knew the Lord (in the sense of being saved), but that they were in the circle of those who had embraced Christ as Lord and Savior.
28 tn Grk "(and/but) they."
29 tn Grk "they again, after becoming entangled in them, are overcome by them."
30 tn Grk "the [statement] of the true proverb has happened to them." The idiom in Greek cannot be translated easily in English.
31 tn The quotation is a loose rendering of Prov 26:11. This proverb involves a participle that is translated like a finite verb ("returns"). In the LXX this line constitutes a subordinate and dependent clause. But since the line has been lifted from its original context, it has been translated as an independent statement.
32 tn Or "after being washed." The middle verb may be direct ("wash oneself") or permissive ("allow oneself to be washed").
33 tn The source of this quotation is uncertain. Heraclitus has often been mentioned as a possible source, but this is doubtful. Other options on the translation of the second line include a sow, having (once) bathed herself (in mud), (returns) to wallowing in the mire, or a sow that washes herself by wallowing in the mire (BDAG 181 s.v. βόρβορος). The advantage of this last translation is that no verbs need to be supplied for it to make sense. The disadvantage is that in this context it does not make any contribution to the argument. Since the source of the quotation is not known, there is some guesswork involved in the reconstruction. Most commentators prefer a translation similar to the one in the text above.
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What is it they say about home advantage?
When the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series rolled into Las Vegas at the weekend, the USA made it count, steamrolling past Samoa in a 27-0 hammering to bring to an end a run that had seen the team lose all four finals so far this season.
Defeats in the showpiece matches against New Zealand in both Dubai and Sydney and to Fiji in Cape Town and Hamilton meant that the USA had ended every meeting of the 2018/19 season as runner-up, leaving the Eagles as the league's midseason pacesetter. Yet, the team still remained without that elusive victory.
However, that changed at Nevada's Sam Boyd Stadium on Sunday, with Ben Pinkelman scoring twice in a five-try victory, managing to shut out a Samoan side which had plundered 33 points in its semifinal against Argentina.
"There's something about singing your national anthem at home," Pinkelman told the Las Vegas Review Journal after lifting the trophy in front of an American crowd. "It's so passionate. So emotional. It just gets everybody on the same page."
Captain Madison Hughes, Matai Leuta and Martin Iosefo also touched down for the Americans in what was a repeat of the 2010 Adelaide Sevens final — the occasion, nine years ago, of team USA's first ever final.
These days, though, reaching the latter stages of competitions is something of a regular occurrence; this Pinkelman-inspired triumph followed a similarly dominant display in the 2018 Las Vegas event. A year ago on March 4, the USA beat Argentina 28-0 — the first time the USA had won a World Series tournament since the 2015 London Sevens.
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Франц Виттманн (; родился 7 апреля 1950 года в Рамзау) — австрийский раллийный гонщик, участник чемпионатов мира по ралли.

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Виттманн начал выступления в ралли в 1970 году, большая часть его карьеры прошла на национальном уровне. Виттманн выиграл чемпионат Австрии по ралли 12 раз в период между 1976 и 2001 годами. Он также выиграл 32 этапа чемпионата Европы по ралли, заняв второе место в турнирной таблице в 1978 году. Он дебютировал в чемпионате мира по ралли за рулем Audi Quattro в 1981 году. В 1987 году он выиграл Ралли Новой Зеландии за рулем Lancia Delta HF 4WD.

Сын Франца Виттманна, Франц Виттманн (мл.) — так же как и отец пилот ралли.

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As the mayhem continues in Iraq and international terror seems as potent as ever, condemnation of the Bush administration's policy has mounted. Leon Hadar, a scholar of US foreign policy at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington and an especially strong critic of the war on terror, has written in Sandstorm a far-reaching indictment of America's approach to the Middle East going back to the end of the Cold War. Hadar argues that whereas during the Cold War, US involvement in the region was justified by the need to counterbalance the Soviet Union, since then it has done considerably more harm than good. America, in his view, should pursue "constructive disengagement" from the Middle East, shifting most of the responsibility for containing terror and rogue regimes to Europe and also, eventually, Russia, China and India. America's relationship with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, Hadar argues, relies on the myth of US dependence on their oil. Actually, America gets more of its oil from Latin America and other sources; it is Europe and Northeast Asia that are truly dependent on Middle Eastern oil, and America's real aim in the Gulf is to maintain its geo-strategic leverage over them. As for what Hadar calls the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is now a "local," "tribal" affair that does not need US diplomatic "micro-management"; instead it should be managed by the parties themselves, the Arab states and Europe.


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Welcome to the Popular Consultation in East Timor Information Center. The Center is a collaborative historical archive of reports, documents, photographs, videos, and personal testimonies on the 1999 Popular Consultation. It is intended to fulfill two functions. First, it serves to provide the Timorese people with a consolidated repository of information about the electoral event which enabled the founding of their country. And, second, it provides a detailed information archive for researchers examining territorial status referenda.
Original sources of historical recollection were consulted in building this archive including Timorese participants, United Nations staff, and international election observers. These sources contributed documents, visuals, and oral testimonies about their experience in the process. The site has been organized by topic and chronology through the aftermath of the voting.
The Center is also to be considered a dynamic site with viewers having personal experiences during the Popular Consultation urged to contribution their insights into the archive. The site has been created and maintained by graduate students in Georgetown's Democracy and Governance Program under the academic guidance of Jeff Fischer, an Adjunct Professor in the Program who served as Chief Electoral Officer for the United Nations Assistance Mission in East Timor (UNAMET).
The Center is part of Georgetown University's Government Department's Political Participation Project.
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"… The ultimate achievement belongs to the East Timorese people, whose sustained determination would not allow the international community to close the file on the denial of their right to self-determination". Ian Martin, former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the East Timor Popular Consultation
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Jessie J Shuts Down Channing Tatum Split Speculation Once and For All
by Cydney Contreras | Thu., Jan. 2, 2020 1:07 PM
Channing Tatum & Jessie J Break Up
Jessie Jis more than just her relationship status.
The singer's breakup from Channing Tatum may be making headlines left and right, but there are other things the Brit is dealing with, like grieving the loss of her longtime friend and security guard Dave. This December marked the first anniversary of Dave's death by suicide, a matter which she discussed at length in one of her latest Instagram posts.
In the somber and honest caption, the 31-year-old revealed she is "healing" after her friend's death. "Sending LOVE to anyone who feels alone. We need you around. You are stronger than you know, and are capable of finding your happy time again," the performer shared. "Talk to someone who can give you professional advice."
To the average reader, this may seem cryptic or ominous coming after news of her split, but to her many fans it was clear that she was speaking out in respect to her friend's passing.
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However, since she didn't name Dave or mention his passing, it seems some people assumed her caption was related to her breakup with Channing. One outlet wrote about her "healing" message and shared the article with the caption: "Nothing heals a broken heart better than time, and Jessie J knows alllll about it. After her split from #ChanningTatum, the songstress got real about heartbreak and healing in a candid Instagram post."
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Jessie J saw this Instagram post and ended up calling out the site for misconstruing her words. "The songstress got REAL about her best friend she lost this time last year," she responded. "Lying isn't journalism. They taught you that right?"
The outlet has since revised their caption to reflect that Jessie is mourning the loss of a friend and not her relationship to the Magic Mike star.
Nonetheless, it was too late and many people rushed to the defense of the pop singer. One Instagram user wrote, "Not everything she posts is about Channing or their relationship."
In reality, the Brit has said very little about her split from Tatum. In mid-December, a source revealed she and Channing parted ways, but remain good friends. Since then, the singer has shared that she was feeling "not so fun" around the holidays, but that's about it.
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Thinking Small
July 12, 2012 By: NCVeditor Category: Culture, Ecology, Family, Nancy Mattina
"Go to the Ant, O Sluggard"
Thinking small doesn't come naturally to an American. Even in straightened economic times we urge ourselves incessantly to swing for the bleachers, reach for the stars, be ready for the big break. In the Far West, our daily landscapes conspire with our propensity to dream large. We get ten-gallon-hat ideas about life and liberty whether we are hiking above the clouds in the Rockies or streaking across the limitless deserts in our half-ton trucks.
With just an average amount of human imagination, it is easy to extract a can-do spirit from towering volcanic cones, glaciated valleys, and great canted slabs of the Earth's crust. Never mind what must be done merely to survive, the preoccupation of all of the non-human species that surround us. We yearn to be so much more than mere survivors.
You could say that grandiosity itself is eclipsed by the majesty of the American West. Novelist and historian Wallace Stegner famously described our western wildlands as being part of "the geography of hope." A modest man with a legendary work ethic, Stegner figuratively explored this territory in dozens of stories and essays including The Big Rock Candy Mountain, the cautionary tale of his father's all-too-human delirium in the face of so much earthly promise. Living in the West, land of mythic heroes and gargantuan dams, you do have to step back, away even, sometimes, to take in the big picture. Even Stegner left the West most summers to hole up in Vermont. Me, I retreat to Sicily, thousands of miles east of my home in Arizona.
Sicily is big for an island, the biggest in the Mediterranean Sea. It shelters over five million people nestled strategically in mountain villages or crowded seaports, many of which were first settled in the Late Bronze Age. Yet at just under 10,000 square miles, Sicily would fit many times over into any western state I've lived in for the last 35 years. Since marrying 27 years ago, I have travelled often to my husband's Sicilian birthplace, Palermo, to spend weeks at a time in the nearby seaside town of Cefalu'. Getting there requires many hours strapped into a winged bullet. All pretense of a classless society is banished in that flying machine. My view of life shrinks to the upholstered headrests ahead and behind for long hours as we glide blindly over the Atlantic ocean.
The tedium of the trip may explain why, when I step out onto the tarmac of the Falcone-Borsellino International Airport, I don't remark on the shift in physical scale of the scene before me. There are petite but sinewy men in headphones, sunglasses, shorts and neon vests slinging luggage into dainty trolleys. Some days later I remember them as insect-like in their efficient, synchronized movements. The Fiat 500 we rent should fit in the cargo bed of a Ford F450. Still, neither the noisy clatter of glazed demitasses in the airport bar nor the subtle maneuvers needed to negotiate narrow bathroom stalls get me thinking about relative size.
Once settled in our apartment in Cefalu' the proportions of daily life — physical and metaphysical — gradually become topics for conversation. The kitchen is a miniaturized model of the American culinary ideal: dual-fuel stainless steel stove and hood flanked by paneled cabinets that tactfully conceal the bother of meal-making. The Yankee dogma of the kitchen work triangle is superfluous in a space this small. It is one step or less to all kitchen destinations, including a corner banquette that would delight a pair of six-year-olds setting out a tea party with their dolls. Beyond la cucina, several door frames and a shallow stairwell threaten to knock my head. I instinctively adjust my posture downward.
The apartment was lately fashioned out of the ruined interior of a 15th century palazzo, which was itself built atop medieval foundations along Roman-era pavements. The weight-bearing walls are a solid meter thick. The others divide the square footprint into five separate compartments that serve different functions, based on their considered furnishings. Tiny shuttered windows allow me to peak out into two shaded courtyards where the neighbors keep pots of basil and jasmine beside their scooters and mailboxes. Close quarters by American standards. The effect is an aura of concentrated habitation, an absorbent interiority and conclusive space you try to imagine when you visit equally ancient but abandoned cliff dwellings of the American Southwest. Here you can still occupy the space and feel its buxom embrace in your cells. It relaxes the mind.
From the street, our apartment is subsumed by a single patched but stout masonry structure that fills the entire block, some 120 meters long but just 30-40 meters wide from street corner to street corner. One narrow pedestrian lane and a couple of open archways pierce the façade of this three-story compound. Otherwise, the outer wall is a continuous mezzo-rilievo: sculpted lintels, wooden doors with hand-forged pulls and hinges, shallow balconies draped with curtains or laundry, modest shop windows, PVC drain pipes and electrical conduits, kiln-fired house numbers, wrought iron wall lanterns, and hand-cut stones peeking out from the layers of stucco, whether by art or accident. Restrained, not a riot of craft or color like you might see in the Far East. But there are clear signs of human bustle and enterprise going back centuries.
A huge set of elaborately embellished wooden doors on our side of the block mark the former entrance to the aristocratic home dozens of regular folk now inhabit. The palazzo was built, stone on stone, by malnourished peasants — leathery men, many no doubt bent from fishing, tilling, or battling their landlord's foes — to precise specifications. The ground floor was shaped for animal stalls, carriage berths, an iron forge, food and water storage, privies, brick-lined ovens, and vermin-infested servants' quarters. This was the staging area that materially supported the brocaded and perfumed life of the Sicilian nobles wintering above.
Hundreds of years of incremental social change and state-sponsored despoilments later, the padlocked palazzo doors hide what hasn't been converted into modern apartments; the last few blackened beams and crumbling ceilings must still belong to rueful descendants. What you surmise from leaning back in the warm shade of the adjacent building is a sense of slow but steady human progress. That the common man has won out over the pitiless forces of oppression to which human society inclines. Our way of organizing ourselves seems better than it once was.
Like all the other multi-family buildings in Cefalu', or anywhere else in the world for that matter, this defensible habitation would never have been built were it not for the fact that even before Homo sapiens spread out of Africa into Europe some 90,000 to 70,000 years ago, humans were a eusocial species. Only eusocial species, according to biologists, maintain fortified nests containing multiple generations. To sustain the nest, individuals in the colony divide the labor. Some may even sacrifice their lives in defense of the colony, a behavior that runs counter to the natural instinct for self-preservation. Few species that have populated the Earth have evinced eusociality or its concomitant, altruism. Most evolutionary biologists don't view altruism as something spiritual that sets humans apart from the animals; it is merely the flexible expression of certain genes that cause us to interact with our environment in a particular way. When altruism increases a group's ability to thrive, that species or group is rewarded with time.
Ants are the eusocial insect par excellence. Everyone knows that certain species of ants gather themselves in carefully designed underground pueblos that they defend ferociously from interlopers. Some members of the ant colony forage for food, while others tend to the needs of the young, the queen, and the working caste back home. They communicate by means of pheromones and are a model of predictability and social order, with little evidence of widespread deviance regardless of the size of the colony. They evolved into existence more than 150 million years before H. sapiens did and are going strong on every continent save Antarctica, despite relentless competition from humans and other species for territory and resources. We know these facts, in part, due to the efforts of entomologist and natural historian E.O. Wilson, who has been studying insect and animal behavior for most of his 83 years.
As Wilson makes clear in his latest book, The Social Conquest of Earth, humans didn't learn eusociality from the ants. We came by it the old-fashioned way through random mutation and natural selection. Due to fundamental physiological differences between insects and mammals, our path to eusociality depended on distinct evolutionary forces. Once some early hominins began to gather around fixed campsites and establish extended-family groups, our distant ancestors became subject to what Wilson and his colleagues call multi-level selection. "Survival of the fittest" applied not only to the individuals within a colony or nest, through individual selection, but to the group as a whole, through group selection.
Over time — lots of time — the ever-changing environment favored groups with a particular genetic make-up that allowed them to be more successful than their rivals in a given place. That's what happened when H. sapiens strode into Europe some 42,000 years ago and became neighbors to Homo neanderthalensis. Group selection was decisive in this case: we wiped out or absorbed our sister species in 15,000 years or less. Since then, as the sole surviving species of our clade, we've been blasting other species off the planet with staggering abandon.
How did our H. sapiens forebears vanquish our meat-eating, tool-using, language-speaking rivals and conquer the Earth? Writes Wilson:
To play the game [of survival] the human way, it was necessary for the evolving populations to acquire an even higher degree of intelligence. They had to feel empathy for others, to measure the emotions of friend and enemy alike, to judge the intentions of all of them, and to plan a strategy for personal social interactions. As a result, the human brain became simultaneously highly intelligent and intensely social. It had to build mental scenarios of personal relationships rapidly, both short-term and long term. Its memories had to travel far into the past to summon old scenarios and far into the future to imagine the consequences of every relationship. Ruling on the alternative plans of action were the amygdala and other emotion-controlling centers of the brain and autonomic nervous system.
It's pretty sobering to consider the consequences of our empathy, judgment, and out-sized imaginations. The same neural equipment that allows us to paint the Mona Lisa and marvel at the Grand Canyon holds the key to our demise. For while multi-level selection has allowed humans to act both selfishly and selflessly, to both cheat and cooperate on the way to conquering the Earth, the other player in the game of life, the Earth itself, will not fold.
Perhaps that explains the hollow ring of slogans like "Save the planet" and "Protect the environment." Both the fossil record and our deepest instincts tell us that it is not the planet that needs our assistance. It is our species that is imperiled, as ever it has been. The Earth was born 4.9 to 4.5 billion years ago and the evolution of life began not long after. Mammals began to flourish 65 million years ago and the average lifespan of a mammalian species is between just one and ten million years. Compared with the insects, Earth's mammals have been particularly vulnerable to climate change. While humankind has been a recent natural disaster for other species, that role doesn't protect us from losing the game of life as did the Neanderthals before us. We may do ourselves in through internecine warfare rather than wait for another species or environmental change to annihilate us. Either way, the world will look very different without us. But it will go on.
Being human, we may have mixed feelings about that scenario.
The ants, whose combined weight Wilson estimates to be equal to the weight of all living humans, even though an average ant weighs one millionth of an average human being, are instinctively, altruistically focused on their group survival every day. They have conquered the invertebrate world by evolving with it, slowly insinuating themselves into new ecological niches without simultaneously destroying them. They are unconcerned by the fate of life on Earth. Nor are they hellbent on re-imagining it.
So when I walked into my diminutive Sicilian kitchen one morning with Wilson's book on my mind, I was delighted to see a thin line of miniscule, nearly transparent ants hoisting fingernail-sized sheets of orange pith across my countertop. I admit I killed a few, defending my state-of-the-art nest from a competitor. The fact is, my individual life depends directly or indirectly on the deaths of many individuals of numerous species every single day. There's no sense pretending that I am not a natural-born killer, like every other creature who eats to survive.
What I and my fellow humans might consider, though, is that our grand dreams — of scaling huge peaks, saving the planet, making the desert bloom, conquering space, or even radically transforming our social order — helped to get us in the pickle we face today. Once in a while we can use our big, nimble brains for a moment's meditation on our actual puniness relative to the history of life on Earth. We won't resolve our biological inheritance of selfish and selfless instincts by doing this. Yet thinking smaller may be an art that we need to cultivate to help keep us alive, remembering the ants.
Nancy Mattina, Ph.D., teaches writing and linguistics at Prescott College in Arizona.
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Marcia Molnar says:
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
j.kelvyn richards says:
Thinking smaller; eating less; drinking a few litres; not wasting water in machines; working where we live; protecting our nests; living in cooperation ; not trying to assert our superiority, but accepting our interdependence.
All this will involve major changes to our ways of life.
go to http://www.kelvynrichards.com
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Today is the last day of school and I got the kids involved in creating a Job Wheel. Gibson created the wheel and Emma colored the pictures. I decided to have a daily job and a weekly job which will rotate every week. Some of the jobs like taking out the trash and watering the plants will be easy for the kids, but some of the other jobs will require training. I have to admit that I am a little worried about the laundry job. I have visions of all my long-sleeve shirts shrinking to my forearm, and don't get me started on what will happen the first time they wash a pair of pants with a half empty bag of skittles in the pocket. YIKES!!!
Brad, found you through Jane Nelsen posting your blog on the Positive Discipline Facebook page. I'm following you now (blog and twitter)and am totally psyched to find another Positive Discipline parent. I try to write a parenting article a week (or so) on my blog (or as a guest blogger) to try to get the word out about this great parenting technique. Love the chore chart! My little ones are still really young, but I'm fully prepared to start this in the next year or so as my oldest is starting help around the house.
This is a great idea! I will have to make one of these!


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Who's ready to garden? We've passed the spring planting season, but that doesn't mean we can't talk tools! A little while ago, we began our journey into starting our very first kitchen garden. In that blog post, we discussed some of our dreams and plans for how we wanted our garden spaced out, ideas on budgeting, and which fruits + vegetables we were hoping to grow. Since then, we have planted four berry bushes (blueberries and red raspberries) and have decided to begin building our raised vegetable beds in the fall, when the weather cools down, and we can save up some money. This weekend we may even look into pricing some fruit trees! We will talk about planting our berry bushes soon, but for now, we would like to go over some gardening tools that we have collected! If you are following along on our kitchen garden journey in hopes that you too can start yours, we have some great tool finds for you!
We began growing giant sunflowers from seeds in clay pots during the spring. Since then, they have sprouted quite tall, but their leaves were beginning to turn yellow, a sign of needing more room to grow. Perfect timing for a little photo shoot! You will see below that the sunflowers growing in the littlest pot are much smaller in proportion. Poor little loves! Let's hope they grow big and strong.
When gardening, it's smart to wear the proper gear! And why not look cute while you are at it? A sunhat, apron, and gloves are all great pieces to have. Nobody said they had to be completely for utility, right? (; The nice thing about our linen tunics is that they can substitute for pretty much anything and are incredibly durable. If you're a fan of linen, you'll know this to be true. This tunic has been through quite a lot! And the best part was when Tad decided to throw dirt at my chest, my white t-shirt was completely protected. Score!
This forged trowel by The Freckled Hen Farmhouse is the perfect tool for any gardener, beginner or experienced. You can tell that it was made well, with the intention to be lightweight, durable, and perfect for plant transplantations. I was in trowel heaven! This little baby dug up the surrounding dirt and was small and precise enough to loosen the sunflowers from their clay pots.
First thing was first, we needed to soften up the dirt and pull as many grass roots as possible from the area where we wanted to transplant the sunflowers. The perfect tool for that is a cultivator. With its three steel tines, we could easily loosen up the soil. Tad was quick to come in and help with his own shovel. Of course, all he did was stick his feet in the mud. Do not ask me how he kept his romper clean throughout all of these photos because I do not know! Then we found a worm, which Tad gingerly picked up and tossed back into the dirt. Go back where you came from!!
Then came the time to put the sunflowers into the ground. The forged trowel really came in handy here. Because the sunflower's soil and roots were so tightly packed, I was able to insert the trowel around the edges, as if loosening a cake from a pan, and pour the sunflowers out, roots in tact. We placed the sunflowers into the ground and covered them with the soil we had initially removed.
When we were finished patting in the soil it was time to water the sunflowers and then go plant a few more from seeds that Natalie and Luke had sent us! We used our watering can to sprinkle the flowers, and Tad loved it. He kept sticking his hands in the stream of water. It was much more entertaining than the hose!
When we received our trowel, Natalie and Luke also sent along these ornamental blend sunflower seeds! We were so happy to have more sunflowers to plant; now our two raspberry fence posts can match! We decided to plant these seeds in eco-friendly seed cups, so that we can just plant the entire container into the ground when the seeds have sprouted. You could just plant the seeds directly into the ground, but we find its better to check on their growth this way. We also received the small package of Wildflower seeds from Savage Seeds when we ordered a couple of shirts from them! So cute! We cannot wait to see the beautiful blossoms from both of these packets.
Some other great tools to have, but aren't completely necessary might be some gardener's soap, hand cream, and a vegetable brush. Gardening can be rough on your hands! And a vegetable brush may help to get all of the dirt and grime off your fresh veggies.
And there you have it! We found it was nice to gather up most of our tools now instead of right when we want to plant our kitchen garden. This way, when next spring rolls around, we will be ready to go without having to worry about spending so much money all at once. And it was late in the season, so most of the tools we purchased were on sale. This would probably be even more true if we went right before the garden center closed shop! Have fun grabbing up your gardening tools; when we bought ours Jill was having a time laughing at me saying, "You're officially a mom now. If we had gone shopping for gardening supplies a couple of years ago, you would have been rolling your eyes!" She's probably right. Ha!
This post was sponsored by The Freckled Hen Farmhouse.


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