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Psychologists Tackle Climate Change
by Grier Raggio | on April 24th, 2012 | 0 comments
The American Psychological Association published a "Special Issue: Psychology and Global Climate Change" for distribution at its 119th Annual Convention last August. The book has eight scholarly articles with titles like "The Dragons of Inaction – Psychological Barriers that Limit Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation." Each piece has multiple psychologist-authors and references to about 100 other articles and books. The APA's book is a treasury of insights into understanding our reluctance to acknowledge the effects of excessive human consumption, the psychological underpinnings of resistance to mitigation actions, and how we can move forward.
The authors share a conclusion that human activities have caused and are causing climate changes that pose risks for a "broad range of human and natural systems." They see climate change as "a quintessential commons problem: it involves collective action driven by individuals' short-term benefits that degrades a long-term common good." Several articles explore psychological obstacles to aggressive "adaptation." There are useful insights concerning psychological motors for the material consumption that has put us where we are, and to cultural turns that could mitigate future damages. Janet K. Swim, PhD, the introductory article's lead author, asserts that:
Psychology is essential to understanding the human causes and consequences of climate change. Moreover, psychology can play a significant role to help limit or mitigate climate change.
Dr. Swim and her colleagues seek to move us towards a culture that that will respect "people's attitudes," meet their psychological needs, and at the same encourage actions which are less damaging to the environment. As a target, the psychologists emphasize our "cultural foundation" for "consumerism," defined as "a belief and value system in which consumption and acquisition rituals (e.g. shopping) are naturalized as sources of self-identity and meaning in life, goods are avidly desired for non-utilitarian reasons such as envy provocation and status seeking…."
One way I see to alter "consumerism" is to restrict the advertising industry, whose purpose is to create wants through sophisticated psychology, and then to explicitly – and implicitly – promise that specific purchases will satisfy those wants. Americans halted some cigarette advertising after we, through our elected representatives, decided that the health effects of smoking justified warnings and high taxes. Advertisements featuring public icons such as John Wayne pushing cigarettes stopped. Psychologists call that a "targeted intervention," and it worked: less advertising linking cigarettes with glamour, masculinity and other psychic wants, along with higher taxes on cigarette sales, helped lower consumption as smoking became less "cool" in our culture.
Our country is experimenting with other "targeted interventions" such as those against junk food for school children. The technology is transferrable to a broad range of consumption, once we make the decision that overall consumption must slow to protect higher values.
Climate change calls for a public discussion about moving away from a material-consumption-oriented culture. The psychologists give us no easy path into that future, but their insights are a start. Others can help; I would love to see creative people in communications, including those who do popular television sitcoms, poking fun at consumerism and having us laugh at ourselves. Other popular culture is moving: the April 22, 2012 "Parade" magazine's cover story asks "Is Your Stuff Weighing You Down?" and has author Anna Quindlen's statement that "Now that I'm nearing 60, I understand the truth about possessions, that they mean or prove or solve nothing. Stuff is not salvation."
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May 7, 2020 - Politics & Policy
Trump and Biden respond to alleged shooting video of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery
A cross with flowers sits on May 7 near the intersection of Satilla Rd. and Holmes Rd. in the neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia. Photo: Sean Rayford/Getty Images
President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive contenders for the 2020 presidential election, responded Thursday to a cellphone video that appears to show Ahmaud Arbery being shot and killed on February 23.
What's happening: The death of Arbery, a 25-year-old black man fatally shot by a white father and son, is under investigation by Georgia officials. The men who pursued Arbery were arrested on murder charges Thursday evening, several months after the event took place. They told police they suspected Arbery committed a burglary before pursuing him.
Former Vice President Joe Biden: "The video is clear: Ahmaud Arbery was killed in cold blood. My heart goes out to his family, who deserve justice and deserve it now. It is time for a swift, full, and transparent investigation into his murder," he tweeted Thursday.
President Trump: "So I'm getting a full report on it this evening. My heart goes out to the parents and to the loved ones of the young gentleman. It's a very sad thing. But I will be given a full report this evening," he told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. Trump said he had not seen video of the incident.
Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) tweeted Thursday: "What I saw on the video is disturbing and wrong and looks like a criminal act. It must be thoroughly investigated and I can't imagine why it has taken this long to come to light."
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.): "Over the last few days, through video footage, we have collectively witnessed yet another murder of an unarmed black man fueled by racism. The cell phone footage of the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery would appear to present clear probable cause for first degree murder charges. Justice for Ahmaud requires a full investigation of this crime, beginning with the arrest of all assailants. Given the local response, the Department of Justice must immediately investigate this incident," per a statement on Thursday.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) tweeted Tuesday: ".@GBI_GA Director Reynolds has offered resources & manpower to D.A. Durden to ensure a thorough, independent investigation into the death of #AhmaudArbery. Georgians deserve answers. State law enforcement stands ready to ensure justice is served."
Go deeper: Alleged cellphone video of Georgia shooting sparks outrage
Hans Nichols, author of Sneak Peek
Aug 14, 2020 - Politics & Policy
Exclusive: Biden signals fall strategy with new COVID-19 ads
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Joe Biden's campaign is doubling down on its criticism of President Trump's mishandling of the coronavirus, launching two new 30-second ads today on the heels of Biden's own call for an outdoor mask mandate.
Why it matters: With Biden's running mate, Kamala Harris, now in place to amplify and augment the message, the campaign is signaling it will hit Trump on the pandemic every day until Nov. 3.


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December 2021, Vol. 248, No. 12
Produced Water: Path to Economic, Environmental Gains
By Richard Nemec, Contributing Editor Once a unit of Occidental Petroleum Corp. that went through Chapter 11 bankruptcy since it was spun off in 2014, California Resources Corp. (CRC) is California's largest oil and natural gas producer. CRC is working to significantly increase the volume of produced water reused in its operations involving steam flooding for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). In mid-2021, the medium-sized independent found itself more than halfway toward a goal of using 30% more produced water compared to a 2013 baseline. CRC serves drought-plagued California by reusing, recycling and reclaiming water from the state's extensive oil and gas formations that would not otherw
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A welcome light at the end of the tunnel for Community Pastures. . .maybe?
by Hamilton Greenwood
This morning I received a media release issued by a steering committee representing Saskatchewan's First Nations. The group is led by Roland Crowe, elder statesman of First Nations leadership and the man who was able to unify indigenous and non-indigenous policy-makers around the issue of Treaty Land Entitlement back in the '90s.
The release says that the province's First Nations are advancing an alternative for the former Federal PFRA (Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration) pastures that are being handed back to Saskatchewan. Instead of selling them, as the Saskatchewan Party has said they intend to, the Chiefs and other First Nations leaders behind this proposal believe they have a way of keeping the 1.6 million acres of grassland under the Crown while meeting the needs of local livestock producers and maintaining the high level of ecological integrity established by the PFRA over the decades.
Here is a quote from the release:
"Whenever Crown land is being sold, there are some moral and legal imperatives that cannot be ignored," said former FSIN Chief Roland Crowe. "There are obligations to consider our interests as first peoples and those of all stakeholders. We have an historical and economic interest in the way these pastures will be used and we do not want to see them parcelled up and sold off. Rather than placing them in the hands of a privileged few or worse in the hands of investors and non residents, let's work together to find a way to conserve and manage these grasslands locally and in whole rather than in part for the good of all Saskatchewan people."
People should read the release for themselves (see below) but here are some reasons why I feel this proposal deserves a serious hearing by our elected leaders:
1. Sask. First Nations have some experience in managing grassland. Some of the Qu'Appelle First Nations have grazing lands on their traditional reserves and in fact some of it had been managed by the PFRA until the Feds turned the land over to the First Nation. The transition went well by all reports and local non-aboriginal grazing patrons have had a working relationship with the First Nations managers, and continue to graze their cattle on reserve grasslands.
2. The basics of the proposal sound a lot better than any other alternative at the present time: First, they say they are committed to the idea of keeping all of the former PFRA pastures as Crown land. Second, they have said they will retain the current pasture managers and other on site staff (riders mostly) if they want to continue to work on the pastures. And third, they say they will strive to establish a governance model for the lands that will include non-grazing interest groups as well as the livestock organizations and local grazing patrons. In other words, environmental NGOs will have a place at the table and a chance to influence the decisions on how the lands will be used. Of course, it remains to be seen how that will work in actuality, but no one else--certainly not the provincial government or the livestock organizations--are making any serious overtures toward people and organizations that want to protect the ecological integrity of these grasslands.
3. They have Carl Neggers on their side. Who is Carl Neggers? Well, oddly enough, Carl used to be the Director General of the PFRA. He knows the pastures system, and believes in the value of keeping ecologically sensitive and endangered land like this in the public trust. He understands the PFRA system's origins in the Dirty Thirties, the taxpayer investment over the past 75 years restoring the lands to health and serving local livestock producers, and he was there through the last years when there was increasing pressure from Federal politicians to cut the pastures loose. Carl is a passionate believer in the "triple bottom line" of people, profit, and planet, a big thinker who is convinced that there is a way to bring economic benefits to some First Nations communities while at the same time protecting that long investment Canada has made in protecting some of the largest and best remnants of native grassland ecology.
4. Finally, there are some moral and historical reasons that must be considered, a few troublesome little facts about the way we cleared this land of buffalo and Indians before we could turn it into farms and towns. These 1.6 million acres are the closest thing we have to the way the world looked before our forbears exterminated the buffalo and drove the plains peoples onto reserves. If this proposal contains even a remote possibility of bringing a bit more justice and mutual respect into the relations between settler peoples and Aboriginal people, then it must be given a fair and honest chance to have a moment in the sun. I believe it has at least that and perhaps a lot more.
Who knows? I am just enough of a dreamer to wonder if this could be the start of something restorative and healing not merely for our beleaguered prairie ecosystems, but for the two solitudes of prairie peoples who both need desperately to get back in touch with the real world of grass and sky and song.
Buffalo at Grasslands National Park, Hamilton Greenwood
Here is the actual text of the media release: Community Pastures Cooperative: a First Nations Sustainable Land Management Joint Venture First Nation Chiefs present a cooperative business proposal to keep 1.6 million acres of ecologically sensitive grazing land in the hands of all Saskatchewan citizens.
Saskatchewan's First Nations, lead by various TLE Chiefs, want to bring forward a cooperative business option called the "First Nations Sustainable Land Management Joint Venture" for the federal and provincial government(s) to consider regarding the discontinuation of the Community Pasture Program. Many provincial First Nations are concerned that the Saskatchewan Government intends to sell 1.6 million acres of the province's most ecologically rich grasslands to a select few cattle producers.
With those concerns and that vision in mind, a steering committee representing various First Nations and chaired by former FSIN Chief Roland Crowe has been formed. Crowe is well known nationally for negotiating the Treaty Land Entitlement (TLE) agreement in 1992, which was an inclusive and cooperative approach that considered the interests of multiple stakeholders. The successful TLE approach is the underpinning for this current pasture business model. Crowe has contacted the Canadian and Saskatchewan Governments to present this management approach as a superior alternative to simply selling off the 62 community pastures. Roland Crowe said that First Nations believe that this land--some of the last large remnants of the prairie the way it was before settlement--should remain in the public trust and continue to be managed for both economic and ecological imperatives using an inclusive, transparent and third party based governance model.
Key management proposal elements include:
• The Province of Saskatchewan would retain title to all 1.6 million acres of provincial lands currently being managed under the federal government's Community Pasture Program.
• Pastures would be managed by the First Nations Sustainable Land Management Joint Venture retaining all 62 pastures under one coherent long-term vision, managing each landscape and ecosystem according to its particular needs and at the same high level of management fostered by the Prairie Farm Rehabilitations Administration (PFRA) over the past 80 years.
• An inclusive management board would modulate the balance of economic and ecological imperatives, with representation from First Nations, the federal and provincial governments, cattle producers, bison growers, research community and environmental NGOs.
• The initiative would bring economic benefits for First Nations for their work in managing the pasture system, balancing grazing, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity in ways that are both profitable and environmentally sound.
• The ecological value of the native pasture and the protection of species at risk and biodiversity would be a top priority, along with the current and long term grazing needs of small to medium-sized local stock growers.
• To take advantage of the knowledge base of current pasture management staff, a transitional plan would request that all existing managers and riders be offered the opportunity to be part of the new management system, with protection consideration to both pension benefits and salaries.
To develop this inclusive First Nations' business model, the steering committee has engaged the leadership assistance of Carl Neggers, former Director General of PFRA who has significant experience with the highly successful Community Pasture Program.
"Managing grazing lands used by local cattlemen is nothing new for Saskatchewan First Nations" said Neggers. "In fact; several pastures that were established on reserves by the former PFRA were turned over to First Nations management and continue to serve the economic interests of local livestock producers to this day." Neggers believes that under the proposed third party joint venture approach, enabled through a sound and inclusive business model, this pasture management initiative should appeal to the various stakeholders and still achieve important public policy goals. "History has proven that these lands are better managed and more viable from both a business and ecological perspective as contiguous blocks" said Neggers.
From the First Nations point of view, it is a viable and cooperative joint venture business opportunity that appeals to their traditional understanding of using and sharing the fruits of the land in sustainable ways.
Carl Neggers, SM Solutions Inc
Former Chief – Roland Crowe
Killdeer Badlands, Hamilton Greenwood
Some good news: a politician who gets it
pronghorns on native grassland, by Hamilton Greenwood
Lately, this space has not been much for sunshine and lollipops, particularly since the Saskatchewan government announced its plans to sell off the last functioning grassland ecosystems in Canada. But this week some good news came my way from our more enlightened neighbours to the west in Alberta.
Now, despite all evidence to the contrary, I do not believe that our politicians are villains. For the most part they are just good ol' Saskatchewan boys who still see the province the way it was presented to them in Grade Five. Remember those cartoon maps of Saskatchewan that showed the north half covered with trees where moose and bear stood next to lakes in which fish leaped away from fishermen? And what was down south of the forest covering the rest of the province where most of us lived? Wheat fields of course, with farmers on tractors, grain elevators, and cattle in pastures, maybe a couple of cities, a potash mine or two, some oil pumps.
If there was anything natural and wild and worth preserving on that map it was clearly in the north, the forested area that the good Lord set aside for fishing, hunting, and tourism. Everything else had been divinely ordained for farming as anyone could see.
When you talk to someone who carries such a map in his head and try to argue that grassland has an ecological value and must be protected your words have nowhere to go. Tell them that there should be a transparent public process before disposing of native grasslands and that they should consult with biologists or environmental groups or First Nations and they just look at you with blank stares. Huh? The map says this part of the province is for farming. Look, can't you see the farmers on tractors, the cows?
Dr. Neil Brown, Calgary McKay-Nosehill MLA
Even so, there is hope. There are politicians who get it. Or at least one, anyway. Not here but in Alberta, where Dr. Neil Brown, (PC) MLA, Calgary MacKay-Nosehill is developing a private members bill, Bill 202, that would bring some transparency and public process to protect public lands that are available for sale to private interests in southern Alberta.
If Brown's proposed bill is passed, any government reports documenting wildlife habitat on land put up for sale would have to be made publicly available. Even more important, the public would have an opportunity to comment for 90 days before the land could be sold.
Given our current situation in this province, a bill like this would be most welcome indeed. It does not go so far as to say that some lands should remain in the public trust if endangered species are on the land or if the science available advises the highest level of protection, but it is a good first step toward understanding the ecological value of public lands and letting the public intervene in a sale.
Dr. Brown knows well that if the bill did call for a mechanism to prohibit sale of public lands that he would not be able to get any buy in from his fellow legislators, especially those with the cartoon maps in their heads. As it is, there has already been some push back within the Alberta government about the bill, which will be presented in the legislature sometime in late October or early November.
All in all, we have to be grateful for an effort like this one and support it as a first step. The environmental NGO community has gotten behind the proposal, with the Alberta Wilderness Association, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Ducks Unlimited, Pheasants Forever, and Alberta Conservation Association all so far having endorsed Bill 202. More will do likewise and for what it's worth I have told Neil that he has my support too. I sincerely hope he can get it past the folks with cartoon maps in their heads.
If you are so inclined you can send a letter or email to the Alberta Minister of Enrivonment and Sustainable Resource Development at the following coordinates:
Honourable Diana McQueen
5136B - 52 Avenue
Canada T7A 1S5
draytonvalley.devon@assembly.ab.ca
these guys have no doubts about what prairie is for--image courtesy of Hamilton Greenwood
Out of province investors may be eyeing our pastures
Ten or twenty years after these signs disappear who will own the pastures?
The Saskatchewan government says it wants to sell the federal pastures (until recently known as the PFRA or Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Association pastures) to local farmers. Ag minister Lyle Stewart says that they intend to sell the pastures one by one to the "patrons groups" made up of the cattle producers who have been grazing them.
That sounds so reasonable and nice, tugs at those strings we all keep in our stubblejumper hearts. What could be better than local Saskatchewan people banding together to gain control over the land that they need to raise their livestock? It's almost like those first agricultural co-operatives we remember fondly from before the days of Viterra and NAFTA.
But hold on here. The price of land in this province is leaping well beyond the reach of the small to medium sized family farms that the Sask Party claims to embrace in its messaging. And the prices are expected to go higher. It's tempting to blame the galloping land prices on the current government but unfortunately the Sask Party doesn't have a corner on messing up the conditions small farmers depend on to make a living.
Land prices quickly doubled after the NDP changed the out of province ownership rules in 2003 to allow Canadian buyers to purchase as much Saskatchewan farmland as they like. A few restrictions remain on foreign ownership of agricultural land but who knows? Smart lawyers might be able to help investors get around them.
Paul Hanley's column on the issue in the Star-Phoenix recently used the following quote from an online article titled, "Foreign Ownership of Saskatchewan Farmland", on the website of the MLT law firm.
"Saskatchewan has received a lot of attention in the world press and investment community over the past several years. In particular, investment in Saskatchewan farm land has been on the radar of some of the world's most prominent investors for several years."
The MLT article goes on to say that although foreign buyers can't legally buy Saskatchewan farmland, "there are some narrow avenues that, with careful planning, may allow foreign investors to obtain an interest in Saskatchewan farm land." That should be enough to scare anyone concerned about the way farmland is used in this province.
So what does this mean for the 1.8 million acres of critically endangered grassland that the Saskatchewan government is putting on the market? It could mean that while the prices may be far too high for the local grazing patrons to afford on their own, all that money waiting at the border for those fast return land investments will find its way into the hands of the patron groups. And it won't be a gift.
The investors will have their upside and expect to gain control over the land within a certain time frame or they will have covert control over the way the land is used right from the beginning. Either way, before long, Canada's greatest prairie conservation lands--nurtured through 75 years of publicly funded management and oversight--could end up in the hands of businessmen whose addresses are in Calgary, Toronto, or Vancouver. Or even farther afield if the lawyers at places like MLT are able to find the loopholes and workarounds that will let foreign investors in on the game.
Right now, the Saskatchewan government requests identification from out of province buyers to verify the land will remain in Canadian hands, but as Mark Folk, GM of the Saskatchewan Farmland Security Board, said in the paper this week, some Canadians may already be buying land to hold for foreign investors.
But surely this can't be happening with the pasture lands too. If the local cattlemen in those "patron groups" are being approached by people with out of province money, surely they realize that these investors will sooner or later take control of the pasture and do what they want with it: sell it for a profit, or set terms that will make it impossible for small operators to make a decent return grazing. Either that or the investor-profiteers will push the stocking rates so high they will ruin the land. No one benefits from that. . . .or do they?
A friend reminded me of another factor in this quagmire of unenlightened self-interest threatening to swallow up the PFRA grasslands. The average age of the men in those patron groups is well above fifty. Most of them only need a few more good years before they sell out and retire. Many in the patron groups might be happy just to have a few years of grazing at reasonable rates to bridge them over and whatever happens after that in the long term--well that is out of their hands, isn't it?
Meanwhile, Canada's cattle herd is dropping fast and with rising feed grain prices things are not looking good. Someone showing up with enough money to get the patron groups some cheap grazing for ten years might just look like a savior, and who can blame a man who is just wanting to retire comfortably? It doesn't take a business genius to imagine the kind of quid pro quo corporate investors might propose to a group of cattlemen desperate for cash.
I want to believe that the Brad Wall government is not doing this on purpose, or turning a blind eye as the patron groups make deals with devils from out of province, but it is beginning to look like they could easily make a show of working with "local patron groups" to sell the PFRA pastures, while using or at least allowing them to act as a cover of local legitimacy hiding the fact that the land has been sold (or will ultimately be sold) to out of province land barons.
Lyle Stewart, our Agriculture Minister has assured us that all the lands sold will have conservation easements, but the provision of conservation easements is not enough to conserve the biodiversity and carbon and soil of the grasslands. Conservation easements are never monitored properly and at best might (and only might) prevent the owners from outright ploughing. There are a thousand ways to ruin a pasture and degrade its ecological value that have nothing to do with ploughs and everything to do with human cupidity and ignorance.
If we let the Saskatchewan Government sell the community pastures to groups supported by hidden backers from out of province, the local patrons now being used as tools of capitalization will be soon cast aside. Twenty years from now, how many local farmers with forty or sixty head of cattle will have access to these lands? How long will it take to clear the land of small, local livestock operations and replace them with a kind of agriculture that better serves the interests of investors?
We can be fairly certain that land prices will continue to rise, and when they go high enough the helpful investors from out of province will do what capitalists always do: sell high to cash out. And the highest prices may come from offshore investors, especially if Saskatchewan buckles to pressure to further liberalize restrictions on foreign land ownership. Before long, there could be a new kind of absentee landlord owning the grasslands that have for 75 years been conserved as the crown jewels of prairie conservation in Canada.
This is the central reason the PFRA pastures must be kept in the hands of all Saskatchewan people.
Once the land is no longer part of the public trust and is in private hands, the economic benefits will outweigh any ecological considerations and will serve distant investors instead of the local farm communities. Will land corporations from Ontario or Beijing care what happens to the burrowing owls and Mormon Metalmark butterflies on the pastures?
It is never in the interest of local people to allow the commons to be cleared, to have their access to and benefits from local pastures be thrown aside. If we stand by and let these sales happen, Canada's richest grassland remnants will before too long be cleared of the activities and ecologies that serve the local community so that industrial agriculture and other kinds of development (oil and gas for example) can have exclusive and unimpeded control.
Golden eagles like this one hunt on the pastures, photo courtesy of Hamilton Greenwood
Why the community pastures must not be sold
Mule deer on native grassland, by Hamilton Greenwood
There are many disturbing elements to the Saskatchewan Government's plan to sell the more than 700,000 hectares of grassland habitat and grazing lands (see recent posts here), but the one that I think is most shocking of all is that Canadians no longer seem to even notice when the Government of the day sells off a massive piece of the Commons to private interests.
We sleepwalk while our elected leaders, following their blind faith in the private sector and the marketplace, sell the farm to avoid costs and bring revenue into a treasury that perhaps is not collecting as much potash revenue as they had projected.
If we do not speak out against this kind of action, the Brad Wall government is justified in believing its own ill-founded assumptions: i.e. environmental protection and policy is a hindrance to economic growth, and the economy comes first and if that means other things have to suffer, well that's just the way it is. (Read Paul Hanley's excellent piece in the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix this week for some thoughts on how the pastures might end up in the hands of out-of-province capital.)
In this line of thinking, nothing is as valuable as the revenue and (I would say dubious) economic benefits of privatizing the grasslands: not the endangered species, not the small farmers and local communities who have for generations depended on these pastures, and certainly not the millions of dollars of investment made by Canadians over the years to conserve the prairie and ensure that it will be grazed sustainably. Perhaps worst of all, the ecological goods and services of biodiversity, carbon sequestration and water and soil conservation provided by well-managed native grass seem to have zero value to us compared to the one-time gain of selling the land off.
Sage flats, by the talented and generous Hamilton Greenwood
But that is the important fact to remember here. No matter how many millions the provincial government scoops into the treasury by selling the 700,000-plus hectares, those dollars only happen once. Meanwhile, the annual economic, social, and ecological benefits that Canadians have enjoyed for seventy-five years from these well-managed pastures all begin to erode as the new owners change the way the land is used and managed and the kind of access that is allowed (the pastures have always been open for hunting and fishing, research and other activities by permit).
Research sponsored by the PFRA program a few years ago estimated that each 100 acres in the community pastures program contributed $2109 in value to Canadians. Another study concluded that "the value of private and societal benefits (of the pastures) to all Canadians was 55 million dollars annually." A one time sale will look good in the revenue side of the balance sheet for one year, but after that if the land is misused by the new private owners all of the value to Canadians will disappear into private pockets and the ecological value will be severely degraded.
People often ask me where the meadowlarks have gone or why they never see prairie chickens or crocuses in spring any more. Well folks, we have let the market turn grassland into a cropped world of wheat and canola that is getting rid of even small patches of weedy pasture. We are down to 17% of our native grassland in Saskatchewan and Brad Wall wants to privatize the last and largest remnants for a few dollars on his balance sheet.
Wake up from your slumber, Saskatchewan people: the native prairie is what nurtures us, body and spirit. Think of your mother and the life she gave you. Some things have given so much to us they must never be made into commodities for the privileged few to exploit.
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How to write good: Part II - the expository crap
If you're not writing an intro, and you're not writing the ending, you must be writing all of the crap that happens between them.
In writing, this is where you create drama by revealing the plot as slowly as possible while you endlessly practice "exposition" - pointless and boring background details that ensure you end up with a dull and expensive 200-plus page "novel," not an exciting and much-less-expensive "novella."
Do the math: A novel = move out of your hovel. A novella = you're still eating Nutella.
Let's face it: without exposition, Moby-Dick would just be:
"Call me Ishmael. I was part of a crew that chased a whale and saw everyone else get killed by the big mofo."
As it is, Moby-Dick is 822 pages of "details and background," and not so much one joke about a sperm whale named Dick. Hello, Herman: missed opportunity!
When you bore your reader with pointless exposition, the trick is to be as subtle as possible, so that the reader thinks the problem isn't that the book is boring, but that he or she is too dumb to understand your particular genius (more on making readers feel stupid in an upcoming post!).
How to write exposition goodly:
To see how exposition is done by the experts, have a look at this passage from my soon-to-be-published (not to be confused with "unpublished") book, Kenton Larsen's The Aliens 'Neath My Arse by Sapphire:
"Look who's here," said Ishmael Roscoe, the comedy club owner, whose gruff-but-lovable demeanor betrayed his inner turmoil at having lost his brother, Ahab, to a sperm whale years earlier.
He straightened up, and I heard some of the snaps on his man-girdle pop. "If it isn't Christina Aguilera, the hottest and most dogged website reporter of her generation in all Winnipeg, whose sometimes prim and proper outward demeanor betrays her inner desire to be loved by a rogue comedy club owner."
They embraced and he gave her what from my vantage point looked to be a wet, sloppy, and somewhat hairy kiss.
"Oh, my," she said. "It's not often a young, hot, dogged website reporter-slash-reviewer gets licked by a 250-pound, mustachioed, diabetic, comedy club owner hepped up on Viagra and Preparation H."
"And I'm about to burst!" said Roscoe, who I forgot to mention earlier had dreams of becoming a stand-up comic himself but ended up having to buy his own club with the proceeds of the insurance he received after his brother died.
"Um, OK," she said, awkwardly glancing down at his moist chinos. "Anyway, I'm here to interview the young comedian who became disoriented and committed a pratfall tonight, making an ass of himself, much to the audience's delight and his chagrin."
Notice how I cleverly hide the exposition with things that the reader will be interested in reading about, like moist chinos. Feel free to pepper your writing with as many pairs of moist chinos as possible, and you can't go wrong.
To pre-order my book, please send me $200 and forget all about it until the statute of limitations has expired on any possible claim you may have against me. Happy writing!
J.H. Moncrieff July 13, 2011 at 3:32 PM
I love that you use "Moby Dick" and "mofo" in the same sentence. Classic Kenton.
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A Divisive, Historically Dubious Curriculum
Teachers should reject the 1619 Project.
Max Eden
In 1858, Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln debated the nature of America's soul. Douglas argued that the Founders believed that the claim in the Declaration of Independence—"all men are created equal"—applied only to whites. They were indifferent to the perpetuation of slavery, he said. Lincoln argued that the Founders foresaw an end to slavery, that the words in the Declaration meant what they said, and that no one before Douglas had ever suggested otherwise.
After a bloody civil war and a decades-long civil rights struggle were fought to vindicate Lincoln's position, the New York Times and the Pulitzer Center are urging teachers, with the 1619 Project and attendant K-12 curriculum, to take Douglas's side of the argument.
In her lead essay announcing the project, Nikole Hannah-Jones argues, per Douglas, that the "white men who drafted those words [in the Declaration] did not believe them to be true for the hundreds of thousands of black people in their midst." Hannah-Jones's essay has come under withering attack from eminent historians such as Gordon Wood and James McPherson for its historical distortions. But the 1619 Project's curriculum does more than encourage teachers to ignore key elements of the historical record; it asks students to blot them out.
One recommended "activity to extend student engagement" asks teachers to lead students in transforming historical documents through "erasure poetry," which, the curriculum explains, "can be a way of reclaiming and reshaping historical documents; they can lay bare the real purpose of the document or transform it into something wholly new. How will you highlight inequity—or envision liberation—through your erasure poem?" Students could, the guide suggests, erase parts of the Declaration in order to make it fit Hannah-Jones's essay or amend the Thirteenth Amendment to make it harmonize with an essay arguing that "mass incarceration and excessive punishment is the legacy of slavery."
Historians, journalists, and politicians frequently accuse one another of twisting history to advance political agendas—and the accused parties always deny the charge. By contrast, the 1619 Project's curriculum openly encourages such historical revisionism. Its "reading guide" aims to ensure that students don't miss core partisan talking points. Jamelle Bouie's "Undemocratic Democracy," for example, an essay that draws a line from John Calhoun's nullification philosophy to Eric Cantor's hardball budget-negotiation tactics, asks: "How do nineteenth-century U.S. political movements aimed at maintaining the right to enslave people manifest in contemporary political parties?" Students must not miss the point that everything that Republican politicians do, even if "the goals may be color blind," is "clearly downstream of a style of extreme political combat that came to fruition in defense of human bondage."
For the essay "Capitalism: In Order to Understand the Brutality of American Capitalism, You Have to Start on the Plantation," the reading guide asks: "What current financial systems reflect practices developed to support industries built on the work of enslaved people?" One answer, suggested in the key terms, is home mortgages—because slaves were once used as collateral. Another acceptable answer is the collateralized debt obligation, a complex structured-finance product developed in the 1980s—because slave-traders had securitized assets and debts (though, the author admits, they were not the first in history to do so).
If, as Hannah-Jones argues, the Founders did not believe that the central claim of the Declaration applied to blacks and that in "the Constitution, the framers carefully constructed a document that preserved and protected slavery without ever using the word," then we should view notions of limited, constitutional government with suspicion. Stephen Douglas made this argument, though with different political ends. Douglas's most effective refuter is Frederick Douglass, the former slave who once believed that the Constitution was a "most cunningly-devised and wicked compact." After study and reflection, however, Douglass concluded, in "The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery?", that it was fundamentally antislavery and that "the intentions of the framers of the Constitution were good, not bad."
Today, Douglass has admirers on the left and right. His high regard for America's Founding Fathers and documents, coupled with his unmatched descriptions of the horrors of slavery and fierce denunciations of America's moral failures, provide the grounds for a tempered patriotism and an appreciation of the progress our country has made toward fulfilling our Founding ideals. Yet the 1619 Project quotes Douglass only once—and even then, in the context of a paragraph attacking Kanye West, asking whether West's "blackness is an act . . . under white control?"
To understand their country, students should read America's Founding documents and the works of great figures like Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, and grapple with history's circumstantial and moral complexities—not "reframe" history to make it fit partisan purposes. They should be taught about the moral abomination of American slavery—but not that "slavery is our country's very origin," or that its legacy is baked into all our social institutions, allegations that cannot stand up to any fair-minded examination of American history. The themes and messages of the 1619 Project are not only historically dubious; they will also lead to deeper civic alienation. Conscientious teachers should file the 1619 curriculum where it belongs: in the waste bin.
Max Eden is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Twitter: @MaxEden99.
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Accace: What changes did 2022 bring to the labor market: More days off, additional taxes for part-time employees, mandatory internal regulation
According to Accace, one of the main business consulting and service outsourcing companies in Central and Eastern Europe, the most important legislative changes in 2022 for HR departments of companies aimed at transposing a set of social values and principles already recognized by civil society in Europe.
Among them are: the balance between professional and personal life, the transparency and predictability of working conditions, the consolidation of the budget and the increase of tax revenues, the reduction of tax evasion or the limitation of the effect of inflation on the standard of living by increasing the minimum gross salary per country.
Given the nature of the legislative changes, companies were directly impacted by their effects. Thus, the spectrum of effects felt by employers ranged from secondary aspects such as the restoration of the framework model for individual employment contracts, to the essential ones such as the increase of the gross minimum wage per country, the overtaxing of part-time contracts according to Government Ordinance no. 16/2022 or the additional days off that employees can benefit from (paternal or caregiver leave). In addition, next to these can be listed: the obligation to initiate collective negotiations at the level of units that have at least 10 employees or the obligation of micro-enterprises to have internal regulations and to draw up job descriptions for employees.
According to the representatives of Accace Romania, the legislative changes aim to improve working conditions by promoting more transparent forms of work, namely the minimum rights that apply to all employees in Romania who have concluded an individual employment contract. They also aim at a series of minimum requirements aimed at ensuring equality between women and men in terms of opportunities on the labor market and treatment at work, facilitating the reconciliation of professional life with family life for employees who are parents or carers .
"The main advantage that these legislative changes bring to labor relations is the predictability of the conduct of the parties. Thus, both employees and employers will have a better representation of their contractual rights and obligations. Although it is possible that the harmonization of the amended rules with the contractual procedures and models involves a number of expenses for employers, these are secondary and the benefits outweigh the costs, in our opinion. At the same time, following these legislative amendments and additions, Accace Romania provided support to its clients regarding the drafting of individual employment contracts, additional documents, internal regulations and job descriptions for employees, as well as advice on the applicability and interpretation of labor legislation ", declares Laura Ștefan, Managing Director of Accace Romania.
Internal regulation, opportunity for the employer to establish the general framework of activity
For example, the obligation of the employer to have an internal regulation at the company level should be seen rather as an opportunity for the employer, because through this document he can establish different policies and procedures, such as rules regarding hygiene and safety at work, compliance with the principle of non-discrimination and of removing any form of violation of dignity.
Also within this document, the employer can establish rules regarding the disciplinary procedure or the amicable resolution of individual labor conflicts, requests or individual complaints of employees, such as professional evaluation procedures or the rights and obligations of the employer and employees.
The evolution of the legislative environment in the area of personnel administration and payroll in 2023
This year, one of the normative acts that bring relevant legislative changes for the payroll and personnel administration area is the Government's Emergency Ordinance no. 164/2022. Although the ordinance is already in force, the contained measures will be able to be fully applied with the modification of the methodological rules for applying the provisions of GEO no. 111/2010 regarding leave and monthly allowance for raising children, according to art. II and III of O.U.G. no. 164/2022.
Thus, among the most important changes contained in the previously mentioned normative act are: the simultaneous recognition of income from foreign sources as well as from internal sources, as long as the periods of activity and income do not overlap in the same month. Beneficiaries of allowances will be able to request the recalculation of the amount of the allowance based on final court decisions, certificates, certificates or other documents that correct the determined income as a basis for calculating the allowance.
At the same time, people who obtain income from independent activities, for example authorized natural persons (PFA), copyrights, etc., will have easier access to the allowance, and retroactive differences may be granted or recovered in cases where the recalculation of benefits by a beneficiary has led to an increase or, as the case may be, a decrease in them.
Regarding parental leave, the period of non-transferable leave for the other parent who did not initially request the leave is extended from at least one month to at least two months of the total leave period. Likewise, employees entering parental leave are obliged to notify their employer at least 10 days before the end of maternity leave or, as the case may be, before the estimated start date of parental leave.
At the same time, parents who return to work after child-rearing leave have the right to return to the same position, with the same conditions, and can also collect the reinsertion allowance, in compliance with the conditions established by law in this regard.
Present on the Romanian market since 2007, Accace operates internationally as the Accace Circle, a business community of BPO service providers and consultants that provides its customers with a unified, personalized and high-quality experience. Covering more than 50 locations through our nearly 2,500 professionals, we support more than 15,000 clients, mostly local and international Fortune 500 companies, and process at least 200,000 salary slips per month globally.
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The Sludgelord's 'Sour 16' is back to present another selection of the finest riffs around. You know the deal, each month, you the reader are unwittingly compiling a list of the top 16 records of the month, covering all genres of metal. Is it not a chart, in which reviewers or contributors extol their opinion about their favourite music. To put it simply, the 'Sour 16' are the records that have been trending the most at Sludgelord Headquarters.
The album starts with "Hydroponics," a killer track that pulls out all the stops. This song sets the tone immediately with a rough and tumble riff and monotone vocals. In a nutshell, this is the Burn Thee Insects sound. "Concrete Pillow" carries the torch of the opener into some heavy plodding, reminding a bit of Mars Red Sky, an influence that rears its head again in the slower "Through the Fog." The riffs that Burn Thee Insects bring to the fore are compelling enough that even though we are four months removed from the release date; it's still worth noting that "Droid Intelligence" exists and that it is recommended by us here at The Sludgelord.
Their crunchy take on Pelican's colossal ambition shot through with Mastodon's progressive grit is as potent as ever, particularly evident on the monstrous "Altarpieces". "Old Sunlight" is no retread of former glories though, every track crackles with the energy of the band expanding their horizons."Ordalian" and "Gyre" are riddled with frantic black metal-influenced tremolo picking, injecting an air of grandiose melody to the Latitudes already epic sound. "Old Sunlight" consolidates all that was great about Latitudes and stretches it in intriguing new directions to intoxicating effect. Hopefully they won't leave another four years until the next time.
This is a doom record, for sure, but of the vintage variety and with a distinctly American flavour. Retro in approach, satisfying in content, R.I.P. are a welcome addition to the great tradition of rebel outsiders which litter the US cultural highways; get your motor running: R.I.P. are here!
"Lusus Naturae" is a fine entry into the Book of Doom; and one that points towards great things to come. With the backing of Rise Above Records, the band are sure to become cult favourites. The upcoming April UK tour seems like one to catch while the band is still playing smaller venues. Definitely check this record out and find out for yourself.
I've spent a lot of my life listening to 90s black metal, and those bands seeking to duplicate that sound in the present. There are bands that that can do it well, even if they're outright re-using another band's ideas. That's not Ifrinn. This isn't a clone band. They're a band entrenched in the past creating music that would be revered alongside the classics of that era, were it released at the same time. Instead, "Ifrinn"is one of the great black metal albums of 2016, despite looking backward rather than forward.
"Before The Gates" lets you know exactly what you are in for; thrash metal, no more and no less- resolutely traditional but with strong production, world class hooks and world class performances on display.
The slowness of "All That You Say I Am" or the moment in "All For Nothing" that the bass loses its raunchiness and transforms into a lush swelling of lower tones, define this record. The mood is laid back, the pretense is absent, and the vocals that drift by like a breeze on a cold night add up to something special. "Burial Sunrise" is a record that is musically spot on as well as one that encapsulates the spirit and soul of Desert rock.
The quintet from The Hague deal in a potent brand of Hawkwind-style space rock, driven by relentless krautrock rhythms, coated in a sticky stoner fuzz. The band employs hypnotic repetition to cosmic effect throughout the five tracks that make up new LP"Exo". The languid "Uncharted" begins the voyage, a minimal groove emerging from a cloud of intergalactic synth squall. The highlight of "Exo" though comes in the form of the hulking robotic funk of "LHC", a huge ten minute propulsive groove, powered by layers of pulsing electronics and choppy riffs. Imagine Zombi covering the theme from Knight Rider with a little help from Colour Haze. "Exo" is a compelling journey to the outer limits. Monomyth will have no problems enlisting willing recruits to join them on this trip to the beyond.
Gravelly harsh vocals collide with discordant riffs that get glued inside your mind very quickly and the off centre type riffs remind me of what Hydra Head Records used to do. The weight of this album is intense and at times an immeasurable force that can be uplifting and downtrodden at the same time, which is great to hear in songwriting these days. Things are stirring in the South, that's for sure, and I know for a fact it has more to offer than just NOLA. Keep listening, keep looking. Capsized is one that's moving and gaining momentum!
Whilst the tracks are lengthy, the album as a whole does not feel too long. Not once will you find yourself wanting to hit skip. New Keepers of the Water Towers are a hidden gem of a band, mixing the influences of heroes such as Pink Floyd and King Crimson along with modern day prog masters such as Opeth and Steven Wilson is not an easy trick, but New Keepers …pull it off excellently.
"The buzz saw grind that so powerfully embodies Goya is, on this four track EP, infested with a horripulation that sees the Arizona three-piece sounding creepier and more terrifying than ever before."


The Ithaca College men's soccer team's season has come to a close with a 2–1 loss to the Houghton College Highlanders on Nov. 4 in the Empire 8 semifinals.
The match got off to a relatively slow start with a scoreless first half. The first goal of the game came in the 56th minute from Houghton's sophomore forward Ben Lawrence. Lawrence found the back of the net off off a through ball from a free kick that penetrated the Blue and Gold's defense. Houghton's senior forward Landon Sheaffer and senior defensive player Tyler Inch were credited with the assist.
The Bombers were able to score in the 69th minute with a goal from sophomore forward Alexander Brosnihan. Creating the play, senior midfielder Scott Halpern received a pass from sophomore midfielder Zachary Lichtman and laid it off to Brosnihan. Brosnihan dribbled past Houghton's back line and lofted the ball over its keeper in order to earn the Bombers' lone tally of the match.
Houghton answered back a few minutes later with a goal from junior midfielder Ben Munkittrick, which was assisted by fifth-year midfielder Tyler Ashley. Ashley put in a cross from the opposite side, and Munkittrick sent it past the Bomber's senior keeper Zach Jacobsen into the top corner to score the game-winner.
There was a flicker of false hope for the Blue and Gold in the 88th minute, as what seemed to be a late equalizer was called back due to an offsides call.
With this loss, the Bombers end their season with an overall record of 7–9–1. The Highlanders improve to 11–3–4 and will advance to the Empire 8 championship against St. John Fisher at 7 p.m. Nov. 5 in Hoboken, New Jersey.


KOENIGSSEE, Germany (AP) — Julia Taubitz of Germany won a World Cup luge race Saturday, prevailing on a track where snow piling up befuddled many sliders.
American Summer Britcher was second and Austrian Hannah Prock finished third for her first World Cup medal. German star Natalie Geisenberger was one of many who struggled in the snow and finished eighth on her home track, ending a streak of 25 consecutive World Cup races with a medal for the Olympic champion.
Race officials swept the track after every three sliders, and those on the track immediately following the sweep reaped the benefits. Those who had to plow through the snow lost considerable speed and had slimmer chances of a medal.
Russian Ekaterina Katnikova, who was leading after the first heat and took advantage of clean ice, was 22nd on a snow-covered track in the second heat and finished 17th overall. Geisenberger managed to keep her World Cup overall lead, her advantage over Taubitz trimmed to 17 points.
Britcher remained third in the overall standings after earning her second silver medal of the season.
Conditions were a bit different in the earlier doubles race Saturday, and the results were more predictable.
Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken prevailed for Germany, with countrymen Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt second. Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller took third for Austria. The U.S. sled of Chris Mazdzer and Jayson Terdiman was ninth.
It was the sixth medal of the season for the Eggert-Benecken sled and the fourth gold.


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How to Install Windows 10 Apps Without Making Microsoft as Default Windows Account
Ashish Mundhra
Starting from Windows 8, Microsoft introduced a feature which enables a user to sign in to a Microsoft Account as a default account to manage Windows. Just like we have a Google account for Android and an Apple for iOS, the Microsoft account was introduced to ease up the sync features. The very same account can be used on other devices like a smartphone to sync all the user data seamlessly.
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Users who have upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7, chances are, might still be on a local account. Using a local account ensures your privacy and prevents Microsoft to collect personal data on you. Moreover, using a local account, you can do almost anything on Windows 10, but cannot install apps from the Windows Store. Microsoft makes it mandatory for the users to sign in using a Microsoft account and personalize all the settings to it before a user can download anything from the Store.
Signing in using a Microsoft Account is mandatory, but there's a way around using which you can limit that to just Store and still use the local account in Windows 10. Let's have a look.
Signing in to Windows Store
Step 1: Open the Windows Store on your computer. By default, you will find it on the Taskbar or the Start Menu. Once the Store is launched, click on the sign-in button on the top-right corner, next to the search button.
Step 2: On the page that pops up, you will be asked to sign in using a Microsoft Account. Signing in using a MS account is mandatory as all your billing information, your games and apps record and your history will be recorded. If you don't have one, creating an account using a web browser would be better than using the option of a sign-up you get on the Store.
Step 3: When asked for MS account credentials, sign in. Don't rush, be slow and click the sign in button only once as the next step is very important.
Step 4: Next, Windows will ask you to make the account as your default for Windows 10. Please make sure you don't use the Sign in button, but use the option Sign in to this app instead. That's all, you would be able to install apps from the Store and still using Windows 10 on a local account.
Converting Microsoft Account to Local Account
If you have made Microsoft Account as your default account to manage windows 10 already, here's an easy way to opt out and use the local account.
Click on the notification icon next to the clock and calendar and select All Settings there.
Navigate to Accounts and you will find the option to use a local account. Once you click on it, you will be asked to confirm and type in the password. Finally, you will be logged off and your account will be converted to a local account.
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I've been meaning to overhaul the look of this blog for awhile now, and I've finally been playing around with my blog layout and header image today, kittens. I know chevrons are really trendy and overdone at the moment…but darn if I do not love the look of them. Thanks to this nifty Photoshop tutorial, I was able to make my own this morning. I'm not 100% sold on how I did my new header…a graphic designer I am not. I was going for something more simple but still crafty. I love interesting fonts, but sometimes they are too hard to read. (But at least I didn't use Comic Sans or Papyrus, amirite?!) What do you think?
Not A Podcast: Episode 11 from SewKnitpicky on Vimeo.
This one got away from me, kittens. I recorded late in the day and then was too busy to type up show notes until about bedtime. Keeping them short and sweet this week. I had issues getting words out of my mouth, both on Sunday and today…not sure what was going on there. I haven't had that many issues in awhile.
♥ Birthday Owl– this was very well received.
♥ Not even thinking about it at this time. So much to do with my current projects!
Not A Podcast: Episode 9 from SewKnitpicky on Vimeo.
Again, with the pissed off face*. I think Vimeo is trying to make me look as unpleasant and crazy as possible! One things these podcasts have taught me: I have a very animated style of talking. My goodness. Another short one this week, kittens.
*Though, I will say this: I *should* have a pissed off face since a lot went wrong this week…including losing the video editing software I had and I could not get back. My whole computer had to be wiped and the OS re-installed So I downloaded a trial. It chopped everything to 3 minutes and I didn't realize it until I went to make this post. OH, all the negative feels that ensued from that! So I gave in and bought the software and had to put this post up much later than I had been expecting to. At least this week's video was easy to redo, having been done in a single cut with no real edits to speak of. This has been my week.
♥ This wasn't part of the show because it showed up after I filmed, but here's some more Dancing Dog Dye Dyeworks that I pre-ordered last month. An audible squeal may have escaped me when I opened this. And I may have startled The Boy when I did so. Yeah, I'm totally winning Mother Of The Year today.
Welcome to my second monthly post in Kitten's Pinterest Along! This month, I actually tried out a few new things that I had pinned on Pinterest. Are you all on Pinterest, kittens? I love it; you can find me there as Sew Knitpicky. Visual bookmarking is the bee's knees as far as I'm concerned. I'm jealous that I didn't think of it first.
Let's start off with a Pin that went very well.
I am all thumbs when it comes to doing my hair. I apparently missed the memo about the day when I would acquire the dexterity and coordination needed to do even the most simple things… like French braiding, working a curling iron…anything more difficult than a simple traditional braid or brushing my hair, really. Add to that the fact that my hair has serious Speshul Snoflake syndrome and well…let's just say I wear it back in pony tails most of the time.* I have an entire Pinterest board dedicated to ideas of how to handle my hair and try to fake looking like I know what I'm doing, but sadly, most are too complex for me to manage at this point in time. So imagine my shock and delight when I watched through this video a friend of mine Pinned and I realized that no special tools were used to make those hairstyles! No irons. No teasing sessions. No sprays. No turning upside down or trying to execute maneuvers best left to Indian deities and their many hands. In most cases they require hair elastics and maybe bobby pins if they're buns. WIN.
I love that it has a similar feel to a fishtail braid, but it much more simple to execute. This style took me about 5 minutes to do…with a couple of restarts because my hair was refusing to cooperate. It's chilly but very humid here thanks to Sandy**, so my hair's hackles are raised.
I can not wait to try more of the styles from this video!
*My hair is baby fine but I have tons of it. It has the right texture to curl but won't [it's baffled several stylists now]…unless it's the ever-short hairs in the very front of my head and then they curl into cork screws at the very worst times [I seriously rock the CRAZY look more often than I would like to admit…I look frazzled when it happens]. If it's long, it goes limp. If it's short, it does this crazy poofy thing and even tries to curl upwards. I will not start on all of the cowlicks it contains, or the fact that no perm can tame it. The texture is so fine that man-made intentional curls fall right out. But yes, HOT MESS would very accurately describe my mane.
In my fantasy world in which we win a vulgar amount of money in the lottery, I have someone to do my hair for me every day and I never look like a slob again. I dream big.
** Sandy has passed since I started writing this post.
My food Pins that I tried out were pretty successful as well!
Two from The Prime Pursuit–Lara Balls and the Chocolate variety (minus the coffee)–went over extremely well Chez Knitpicky. They are full of fiber and pretty sweet as-is. I added a half teaspoon of honey to each recipe to sweeten them up just a tiny bit more. I found it pretty amusing that my son–like PP's neighbor–mentioned that the original kind reminded him of cookie dough. Too funny! I bought supplies to make more of these for home, and I think that if I go to any get-togethers in the coming months, I'll make some for those. I'm pretty sure no one will complain about a filling, healthy treat.
Another winner this month was Pennies on the Platter's DIY Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix. The only change I made was a touch more sugar, because I used 70%+ dark chocolate in mine instead of white chocolate chips. This is so yummy when you use milk to make it. Sadly, mixing with water makes it taste like any old cheap packet mix. We're going to head home for Giftmas this year, and I think I may make up a double or triple batch of this to give away as gifts.
Simply Love Food's Southwestern Stuffed Peppers were NOM NOM NOM.
Other food pins were OK, but require further tweaking to be GREAT!
In this category would be Lizzy Write's Korean Beef. It was tasty and I wanted to love it, but it was just a bit too salty for my tastes and it needs something…more. (This may be due to the fact that I do not have low sodium soy sauce, nor do I care overly much for green onions so I left them out that day. I'll probably remake this in the future and then report back at that time.) It was also pretty sweet; I would likely cut that a big when I remake this. Even as-is, I would eat it again, but I wouldn't be raving about it.
Crock Pot Beef Stew was also in this category. It was edible, but I really didn't like the tomato based "stew." My children weren't too hot on this one either. I'm not sure I would try to fix this one though; I think I'll let it go to try another recipe more to our tastes.
I think that covers my last month of Pins pretty well! I hope everyone else was as successful.


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The TSR-2 bomber was a case of aeronautical genius foiled by political foolishness.
For an American teenager, 1963 was a great year to be living in London. Thanks to my dad's job in international marketing, I was a Beatles fan six months before my pals back home knew there was such a thing as a Beatle. And as a budding airplane buff, I had a front-row seat for the emergence of another symbol of British national pride: the TSR-2 supersonic bomber, a twin-engine, low-level hotshot that I thought was the coolest-looking airplane ever.
Shivering in my prep school's unheated library, I'd scan Flight International magazine for TSR-2 progress reports. Although over budget and behind schedule even before it flew, the TSR-2, I read, was going to best the General Dynamics F-111, a nuclear-capable jet being developed for the same terrain-hugging mission. The British bomber was crammed with cutting-edge design features like an automatic fuel-transfer system that maintained the airplane's center of gravity as fuel was consumed, and full-span flaps, made more efficient at low speeds by a system that blew engine-bleed air at high speed across them. With these innovations, as well as state-of-the-art radar and electronics, the TSR-2 would re-energize Britain's weakened role as a world leader in aviation.
It never happened. Dogged by technical problems, cost overruns, political infighting, and bureaucratic ineptitude, the TSR-2 was cancelled after two dozen test flights. The program's cost: half a billion dollars. When I heard the news, I was crushed. British aviation fans have never gotten over what they consider a cold-blooded murder.
Nearly 50 years later, TSR-2 cultists still talk of conspiracies, coverups, and sinister U.S. efforts to sabotage the project. "There was little doubt that America would have a definite interest in seeing the British aviation industry reduced to such a level of ineffectiveness that it would be unable to continue in its present structure," writes aviation historian Frank Barnett-Jones in his 1994 book TSR-2: Phoenix or Folly.
In 1957, the British Air Ministry set down extremely demanding requirements for an airplane to replace the Canberra light bomber: an all-weather, long-range, low-level penetrator that could deliver nuclear or conventional bombs, yet had high-altitude, supersonic dash capability as well. Oh, and one more thing: It would also have to operate from rough, short airfields.
The contract was awarded in 1960 to a consortium of three companies: Canberra manufacturer English Electric; Vickers-Armstrong, builder of the Valiant V-bomber; and engine maker Bristol. In a shotgun wedding, with the air ministry holding the gun, the three firms joined to form the British Aircraft Corporation, or BAC.
English Electric and Vickers-Armstrong, two proud old firms, were former rivals, and from the start there was hostility. Vickers had been named the prime contractor, despite the fact that English Electric had come up with a much more detailed proposal—for an aircraft it called the P.17A—to meet the Air Ministry's 1957 requirements. Moreover, English Electric had already created Britain's two most successful military jets, the Canberra and the rakishly swept-wing Lightning fighter. By contrast, the Vickers' only military jet, the Valiant, had been a disaster.
Muddled construction logistics for the TSR-2 program seemed to be setting the stage for another. The prototype's front half was designed and built by Vickers at its plant in Weybridge, the rear half by English Electric in Warton, 200 miles away. Despite the unwieldy arrangement, when the two halves were mated in Weybridge in March 1963, they miraculously fit together.
The project also suffered from political controversy. The influential Lord Mountbatten, Britain's Chief of Defence Staff and a career Royal Navy man who preferred the Navy's subsonic Blackburn Buccaneer, was a TSR-2 foe. And because the TSR-2 contract was awarded during the reign of the Conservative Party, it became a target of the Labour Party, which railed against the bomber as a white-elephant "prestige" project and colossal waste of the taxpayers' money.
It didn't help that the program was struggling to get off the ground. In February 1964, during a ground run in a Vulcan testbed aircraft, a test TSR-2 engine blew up. The Olympus 320-22R's low-pressure (LP) turbine drive shaft had fractured. Bristol engineers couldn't figure out why, but beefed up the shaft.
Two months later, the first TSR-2 prototype, tail number XR219, was disassembled and the pieces trucked to the United Kingdom's flight test center at Boscombe Down, a messy bit of logistics that delayed the start of testing by three months. During the summer of 1964, pre-flight tests progressed at a disheartening pace. Despite round-the-clock efforts, with engineers and technicians sleeping in tents next to the runway, the complex aircraft was plagued with myriad problems, particularly in the engines and landing gear.
In July, another Olympus blew up on a test stand—the fourth failure of the low-pressure turbine shaft.
Fortunately, the LP shafts held together for the required two minutes, and Beamont made two wide circuits of the field with gear down at 7,000 feet, pronouncing the handling qualities "marvelous." But immediately upon touchdown, a jackhammer vibration in the landing gear so disoriented him that he nearly lost control. Luckily, after a few seconds the vibration stopped, allowing Beamont to pop the drag chute and bring the airplane to a safe stop. Total flight time: 14 minutes.
With the symbolic first flight out of the way and a doubter or two perhaps mollified, XR219 was laid up for engine replacement and landing gear work. In the interim, the Labour government won the election, and new Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Defence Minister Denis Healey paid a visit to the United States. Among the topics of discussion were the future of the TSR-2, Britain's purchase of F-111s, and U.S. support for a desperately needed $8.4 billion loan to Britain from the International Monetary Fund.
Although it has never been proved, some believe the TSR-2's fate was sealed on that trip by an unofficial deal between Healey and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara: Britain would cancel the TSR-2 and buy the F-111, McNamara's pet fighter-for-all-reasons, in exchange for U.S. backing of the IMF loan. "Britain had little option but to comply with America's conditions and cancel the TSR-2," Barnett-Jones concluded darkly.
On the last day of 1964, shortly after Wilson and Healey returned to London, the TSR-2 made its long-delayed second flight. Although Bristol engineers believed they had finally solved the LP shaft problem, they thoughtfully provided Beamont with two red lights in the cockpit to warn of an impending shaft failure. The lights didn't come on, but shortly after takeoff, the updated starboard engine began to vibrate so severely that Beamont's vision blurred. By jockeying the throttle, he was able to stop the vibration, and returned to land immediately. Once again the landing gear shimmied violently upon touchdown.
When no cause for either problem could be found, the test team tried again two days later. This time, right after takeoff, the two LP-shaft warning lights came on. But the preternaturally cool Beamont correctly dismissed them as false alarms. Moments later, engine no. 2 reprised its eye-blurring "other" vibration, and the pilot cut the third flight short; it lasted eight minutes, capped by the now-familiar post-touchdown landing-gear shimmy.
The engine vibration turned out to be caused by a faulty fuel pump. Replacing the pump solved the engine problem, but the landing gear continued to misbehave. On the fifth test flight, both two-wheel main gear struts froze in a position that would have allowed only the front wheels to touch on landing. It was not clear that a safe landing was even possible.
Beamont nonchalantly radioed his backseat systems operator, Don Bowen, "Okay Don, here's your chance to try out your Martin Baker [ejection seat]." After a long pause came the reply: "You're not going to get rid of me that easily." Beamont proceeded to grease a featherlight landing on the front wheels of the dangling gear, which then rotated into the proper position. The descent rate on touchdown was later determined to have been just six inches per second, a combination of piloting skill and aircraft controllability that perhaps saved the airplane, the crew, and the program—for a while, at least.
Due to a daunting array of glitches and misadjustments, it took five more flights to get the landing gear safely up and locked, a milestone that Beamont celebrated with a 550-mph, low pass down the runway. After five frustrating months and 10 white-knuckle test flights, the TSR-2 was finally flying like a real airplane. For all its mechanical malfunctions, the craft had at least one bright spot: It handled beautifully.
By this time, however, the customer was having second thoughts. An October 1964 Royal Air Force report on the airplane noted the high cost of the TSR-2 as its "outstanding and all-pervading shortcoming," but went on to kvetch about other failings, including weapons load and range—though both exceeded the original RAF requirements.
On the morning of April 6, 1965, the second TSR-2 prototype, XR220, was scheduled to make its maiden flight at Boscombe Down, but a bad fuel pump had needed replacement, so test pilot Jimmy Dell went out for lunch at a social club just up the road in Amesbury. There, on a television set tuned to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's annual budget speech, Dell heard the announcement: The TSR-2 program would be cancelled. He rushed back to the airfield, but he was too late. Although XR220 was now ready to fly, the Air Ministry had already impounded the aircraft.
BAC pleaded for a limited test-flight program for the two flyable prototypes, but the Air Ministry refused. The wooden mockup in Warton was transported to the far end of a runway and burned. XR219, the only TSR-2 to have flown, was sent to a gunnery range for vulnerability testing—and was eventually shot to pieces.
Two non-flying TSR-2 airframes survived the cancellation and currently reside in museums in Duxford and Cosford. They are the sole remnants of Britain's most ambitious technological accomplishment in aviation up to that time.
After three decades of reflection, Roland Beamont concluded, "The TSR-2 was simply too much for our industry to cope with." He's probably right; the once-proud British aircraft industry, racked by massive consolidations, was never the same after the TSR-2's demise. With the exception of the subsonic Harrier jump jet, every RAF and Royal Navy combat aircraft since then has been developed jointly with, or bought from, other countries.
Ironically, after killing the TSR-2, Britain cancelled its plan to buy F-111s from the United States because their price had escalated beyond even what the TSR-2 would have cost. It wasn't until 1980 that the RAF finally acquired an aircraft that could match the TSR-2. The Panavia Tornado, jointly developed by Britain, Germany, and Italy, is still a mainstay of the Royal Air Force, along with another multi-nation product, the brand-new Typhoon. But, oh, what might have been.
David Noland, a lifelong TSR-2 fan, writes about aviation from his home in New York's Hudson Valley.
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I Found A Fix - Where Solutions are Found!
Microsoft word goes into configuring microsoft office basic 2007 every time I open it.
Below are a few useful modifications for the Twenty Eleven theme in WordPress.
1. How to remove the Search box.
2. How to remove the Page Title description on each page.
3. How to reduce whitespace below menu and Page Title .
4. How to modify the footer.
My clients new Nokia 920 windows phone could not connect to an SBS 2011 server running exchange 2010. All other smart devices connect no problem.
The solution was to open ISS Manager on the server, navigate to the Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync folder (as below) and in the SSL settings. set Client Certificates to IGNORE.
While trying to encrypt a laptop using Truecrypt, I realised I had no CD drive (or CD's). Luckily there is a simple workaround you can use to bypass this requirement.
To do this I found the following steps were required.
Note: Powershell commands are in bold. Type enter after each line item.
2. Run Powershell as administrator.
4. Enter the admin username and password i.e name@mydomain.com and password.
To finish, enter Y and hit return.
Having recently migrated to office 365, I noticed a lot of resolution messages appearing in my Unread Mail folder in Outlook. These are actually harmless and generally by design.
To red rid of these messages please follow the steps below.
1. Right click Unread Mail folder in Outlook, and select Customize This Search Folder.
2. Click Browse, and then clear the mailbox (the top level) box.
3. Select the folder that needs to appear in Unread Mail folder.
After that, these sync issues messages won't appear in Unread Mail folder.
Some of my recipients were reporting issues that mails I sent to them contained the winmail.dat file ONLY. This issue relates to how Office 365 sets the default attachment format to TNEF. Apple products and other non microsoft email clients in particular seemed to have problems reading my mails. The solution is to run the commands below in from the PowerShell fo Office 365.
1. Run Powershell as administrator.
3. Enter the admin username and password i.e name@domainname.com and password.
If you receive an error with the above command type Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted . Next, try the above command again.
To give Billy full access to Jack's mailbox use the following PowerShell Command.
Or if you wanted to give Billy full access to all of the mailboxes..
how to turn off password expiry on all office 365 accounts.
I wanted to turn off the password expiry on all of my office 365 accounts.
To completely disable the password expiry for all (existing) email accounts you will need to install PowerShell. You will find the downloads along with instructions here.
That's it you're done. Remember that you'll need to redo this for every user added hereafter.
The other day I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows….
Windows would not boot beyond the BIOS. I received the following message " Bootmgr is compressed Press CTRL + ALT + DEL to restart".
1. Boot from a Windows 7 (or VISTA) dvd.
2. Choose to repair and select by command prompt.
– Type EXIT and reboot.