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Planetary Health: Why Reversing Global Warming Is Important For Human And Ecosystem Health
December 11, 2018 May 27, 2019 Heidi Edmonds 0 Comment
Two friends, an environmental scientist and a medical doctor, recently realised that their areas of interest in raising awareness of the need for a safe climate for current and future generations overlapped.
For Heidi, an environmental scientist, the dual wake up calls alerting her to the urgency of preserving a safe climate came when pictures of the Great Barrier Reef bleaching events flooded the news, and when she realised her young children could be impacted by climate change. For Tammra it was the increasing realisation about connections between environmental and human health that alerted her to the urgency of taking action to spread the message to keep our planet's climate liveable in order to keep us all healthy.
Here they share two perspectives, one medical and one scientific, to illustrate the connections between accelerated deterioration of ecosystem health and its effect on human health, a simple but powerful connection known as planetary health. They also share their insights into the solutions to reversing global warming. Many of the solutions are within our immediate reach and are good for our health, and our bank balances!
The medical practitioner's view on why we want a safe climate for ourselves and future generations: Dr Tammra Warby
When I was 12 I gave a talk at a local speech competition titled "Our Dying Oceans". Fast forward nearly three decades and, arguably due to the effect of unarrested climate change on human health, today's equivalent could be "Our Dying Species".
The Lancet Commission introduced the concept of planetary health as human health depends on "flourishing natural systems and the wise stewardship of those natural systems". The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling the effect of climate change on human health the "Greatest Health Threat of the 21st Century". Let's look at why.
The basics of human survival include water, food and air – all of which are affected by climate and ecosystem health. According to the CSIRO MegaTrends report, serious health impacts will be felt by the next generation in the form of water scarcity and reduced food security.
Climate sensitive infectious diseases may also emerge with serious impacts on people's heath, according to the inaugural Lancet Countdown report. There will be an increasing burden placed on finite planetary resources including demand on freshwater and land, especially for the raising of livestock. Already only 0.3% of the world's freshwater is available for human use and up to 70% of it goes towards use in agriculture.
Regarding air quality, the 'Asian brown cloud' kills millions per year. In Australia there has been a direct negative effect on the health of asthmatics, in the form of the Thunderstorm asthma event 2016, with a 3000% increase in emergency asthma presentations. In the WHO report Preventing Disease through Health Environments it was shown that, in 2012, an estimated 12.6 million people died as a result of living or working in an unhealthy environment.
An agent for positive change is the Australian Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA). They have spearheaded the development of A Framework for a National Strategy on Climate, Health and Wellbeing for Australia to increase disaster readiness, improve carbon emissions from the healthcare sector, raise awareness within the community and support health professionals in recognising, preparing for and responding to the health impacts of climate change.
You can learn more about international research into planetary health at the Planetary Health Alliance co-housed by Harvard University.
Tammra's suggestions for how to reverse global warming and protect human health:
The message is that climate change is not something happening 'around us' but 'to us' and is essentially caused 'by us'. Luckily, the changes we can make to reduce our carbon footprint and increase the health of our surrounding ecosystems, have some overlap with personal health benefit. For example, riding a bike, increasing the plant-based portion of your diet and reducing meat intake (with 1 in 6 bowel cancers also caused by excessive red meat intake). Besides these changes we should all conduct an energy audit of our home and buy carbon offset when flying. Visit CAHA and lobby your local politician about adopting the proposed National Strategy. If we all make small changes they will add up and increase the likelihood of a sustainable and healthy ecosystem for future generations.
The environmental scientist's view on why we want to reverse global warming to maintain a safe climate for our kids' futures: Dr Heidi Edmonds
To reduce the impacts on human health, we must keep warming to 2°C as the Paris Agreement calls for or, even better, the more optimistic 1.5°C. To put this in context, the world has already warmed by around 1.1°C since the late 19th Century. With 2°C of warming of global mean surface temperature we lose the coral reefs and the Arctic is unlikely to refreeze properly again, not only altering local ecosystems, but increasing the occurrence of extreme weather events (such as drought) further afield, and contributing to global sea level rise.
Globally, yields of some crops and freshwater supplies will decrease while heat wave duration will increase. But if we head towards 4°C, large parts of the world, especially the tropics, are likely to become unliveable for humans due to heat stress and other factors.
Sea levels would rise by up to a metre, flooding large areas of many cities, including Sydney, Brisbane, New York, London and Shanghai. Food and water scarcity become even more serious and human civilisation itself may be threatened by food and water shortages and extreme heat events.
Children born today, who will be in their 80s in 2100, (when a 4°C rise is predicted for, if we don't globally get our acts into gear), could see riots in the street over food and suffer the threat of extreme heat stress while witnessing growing inequality and social unrest.
Heidi's suggestions for how to reverse global warming and protect human health:
Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement and protecting our climate for our children's health and wellbeing demands that we work towards living sustainably and that we advocate for a safe and healthy climate for our future.
A recent project, Drawdown prioritises 100 of the best ways to reverse global warming with available technology. The top 10 of these include three that we can personally act on (that also have potential to save us money):
reducing our food waste,
adopting plant-rich diets, and
utilising rooftop solar energy.
The 100 solutions are predominantly made up of "no regrets" actions – ones that have intrinsic benefits for communities and economies now, as well as benefiting the future climate. Such solutions can improve lives, create jobs, restore ecosystem health and advance human health.
Getting involved in advocacy for reversing global warming is one of the most powerful ways you can make a difference to protect our safe climate.
So here are the other seven solutions that made Drawdown's top ten (and which you might like to encourage government and industry action on):
managing refrigerants,
increasing use of onshore wind turbines,
protecting and reforesting tropical forests,
using the education of girls and improvement of access to contraception for families, especially in developing countries, to slow global population growth,
solar energy farms,
and silvopasture (an ancient approach to raising livestock that integrates trees and pasture).
Keeping warming to 2°C may also require carbon capture technology to draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, such as seaweed farming, soil sequestration and bioplastics.
To summarise:
Based on our current emissions, we will reach 2°C of warming by 2036 if we continue with a business-as-usual approach. With such short time frames, you can see why leading climate voices are calling for major intervention over the next few years, especially in the areas of renewable energy, buildings and infrastructure, transport, land-use, heavy industry and finance.
In light of this urgency, there are plenty of inspirational stories to motivate us to play our parts. For example, Elon Musk's Tesla electric vehicles and big battery in South Australia; ClimeWorks carbon capture project in Switzerland; and the 30% of Queensland dwellings with rooftop solar.
Climate change doesn't belong just to the scientists. The ability to help reverse global warming belongs to all of us. We don't want a world with increasing incidences of heat stress and less food on the table.
We want a safe climate for our kids and for future generations. We are already seeing more extreme heat waves, droughts and fires. It's time to do all we can to protect our kids' liveable world.
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Heidi Edmonds is an eco-blogger with a passion for simple, sweet and inspiring stories about science and the environment. She has a love of maps, data and good stories. Check out her blog at climatekiss.com.
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High-end audio manufacturers Bang & Olufsen have launched their first dedicated 5.1 surround sound system, the BeoLab 14. And, in typical B&O fashion, it's as expensive as it is stylish.
Consisting of a subwoofer and five satellites, they're primarily made from aluminium, giving the round speakers (sitting on the end of aluminium poles) a retro sci-fi aesthetic. Those poles can be adjusted in height, while the speaker units themselves can be detached for wall mounting or even hung upside down from the ceiling.
The system will be sold in two separate packages, one intended for owners of Bang & Olufsen televisions that comes with only four satellites and the sub (with the B&O TV's own built-in audio making up the centre channel) and a package intended for all other AV enthusiasts, with a standard 5.1 configuration. "It's a balance between the fight between the designer and the sound engineer," said CEO Tue Mantoni at the system's launch in London.
"It's for someone who want's great sound, but does not want technology to take over their home. It's been a wish for the designer side of our team to create a product that is well designed, without any seams or join lines, and without comprising on audio quality. In terms of manufacture we start with a solid piece of aluminium and are able to avoid welding lines as a result." In terms of tech specs, the system makes use of a 280-watt subwoofer with a downward-facing 8-inch driver, housed in a cone-like casing, with five separate 140-watt amplifiers for the satellites. Low-end frequencies hit 26hz. Each satellite is houses 2.5-inch active treble and midrange drivers, with the whole unit measuring just 16-cm in diameter. As you'd expect from Bang & Olufsen, a selection of different coloured speaker grilles allow you to customise the look to suit your home preferences.
In typical Bang & Olufsen fashion, the systems don't come cheap. Starting at £2495 for the 4.1 system and rising to £2,795 for the full 5.1 set-up, they become available as of today from Bang & Olufsen dealerships. The optional stands themselves cost an additional £190 a pair, so start saving.


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FRANKIE BANALI's Wife Says QUIET RIOT's Former Singers Were Unprofessional, Unjustifiably Ego-Driven Assholes
The wife of QUIET RIOT drummer Frankie Banali has weighed in on the band's new singer, James Durbin, calling him "a real frontman in every sense of the word."
Durbin, who became known as the "metal guy" on 2011's season of "American Idol" after performing "Living After Midnight" and "Breaking The Law" with JUDAS PRIEST, joined QUIET RIOT last week after the dismissal of Seann Nicols (a.k.a. Sheldon Tarsha; formerly of ADLER'S APPETITE). Nicols was with QUIET RIOT for just a few months, but long enough to record the vocals for the band's upcoming album, "Road Rage".
Regina Russell, who wrote and directed the QUIET RIOT documentary "Well Now You're Here, There's No Way Back: The Quiet Riot Movie", offered her opinion of the band's latest addition via a public post on her Facebook page. She wrote: "I don't weigh in on Frankie's band business often, but I just have to say FINALLY after many false starts (post Kevin) with singers that were unprofessional, unjustifiably ego- and power-driven, think they know everything about the music biz even through they have done NOTHING, or just plain assholes, the band have James Durbin. He is not only talented but also a pro, that is motivated, positive, and grateful for the opportunity. He finished fourth place on 'American Idol' and has his own following and made a name for himself. Yet he also knows his role and doesn't have a drop of 'Lead Singer Disease.'"
She continued: "They don't make old-school rock stars like they used to and it's harder than ever to find a real frontman in every sense of the word, but James is it. (He is also 28 and HOT. Am I right, ladies?)
"QUIET RIOT shows are going to be FUN again!
"I am so happy for Frankie Banali and Chuck Wright and Alex Grossi. Congratulations, boys!"
Durbin, who recently collaborated with QUIET RIOT guitarist Alex Grossi on the "Maps To The Hollywood Scars" EP, will make his live debut with QUIET RIOT on March 18 at The Cotillion in Wichita, Kansas. A handful of additional North American dates will take place during the next two months.
"Road Rage" will be released on April 21 via Frontiers Music Srl.
Banali revived QUIET RIOT in 2010, three years after original singer Kevin DuBrow's death, along with Grossi and bassist Chuck Wright. The group went through two vocalists — Mark Huff and Scott Vokoun — before settling on Jizzy Pearl in 2013. Pearl announced his exit from QUIET RIOT last October.
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In this paper, an empirical application of the generalized maximum entropy estimator in a stochastic production frontier model with a translog specification is discussed to investigate technical efficiency in a wine region of Portugal. The empirical results indicate technical progress over the time period of the sample and an increasing technical inefficiency over time. All production units are technically inefficient, although wine cooperatives are less inefficient than private firms.


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Philo & Robert Indiana in front of cut paper "Speakers Platform" maquette for "Mother of Us All" 1976
Speakers Platform
Cut paper maquette for set design, "The"Mother of Us All" Santa Fe Opera
Indiana Elliot & Herman Atlan
The Mother of Us All production at the Santa Fe Opera, New Mexico
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"THE MOTHER OF US ALL " Project / Working with Robert Indiana
I worked as a studio assistant, 1975-77 (New York studio, on the Bowery & Spring) to artist Robert Indiana when he was commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera to design the set & costumes for a Bicentennial project,
"The Mother of Us All" (1976)
The Mother collaboration between Gertrude Stein and composer Virgil Thomson tells the story of Susan B. Anthony's fight for Women's Suffrage as it mixes characters, fictional & non fictional from different time periods in American History.
We created the maquettes in papier colle (or cut paper) a medium well suited to express the early American art form popular during the time in which the story unravels. The costume designs were in turn translated by the set shop into cut out felt and sets painted in hard edge style emphasizing the graphic quality of the original work.
I embraced this papier colle medium which I continue to develop in my work- plus being surrounded at the studio by Indiana's bold paintings of words and numbers in which he infused his own autobiographical messages altered my vision on how to see my own "signs." I returned to Coney Island to find them.


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Do you really want to be a sheeple?
It is paramount right now to stand your ground and think for yourself and stop following the herd. It takes great courage to stand out from the others, to say no I do not believe in what you are saying or trying to promote. So many do want to make waves out of fear of not being liked or accepted. Unfortunately in these times of great insanity if we choose to follow the crowd into the insanity the ending will not be a happy one.
It is so important to wake up and pay attention. Once you become aware of the lies, you begin to see them everywhere at which point you join the others in walking between the worlds. By this I mean you see the lies at the same time you know the truth. It is not an easy path to follow watching the great deception while otherwise knowing the truth. It is frustrating and often creates anger within and there is a great deal to be angry about just now. We must wake up and realize what we had considered our reality is anything but.
Find the strength and courage to face the truth, be your own person and think for yourself. Be proud to be you!For eons we have followed along, unobservant to life's happenings. Life was good and all seemed to be going well as we followed along being lied to and not knowing it. We even bought into the sick illusion that we were free! Turns out nothing could be further from the truth. Even when we finally awaken to the illusion we call life, many will be too fearful to separate from it and go their own way.
I believe these are the souls who wish to remain in the third dimension and not move on to higher consciousness. Of course this is their choice and all choices will be honored and not judged, all I ask is that you make sure you make the correct choice for yourself.I see quick flashes of the lies as I switch channels on the television and pass by the blathering of CNN and FOX news stations. It truly amazes me to hear the constant drone of Obama versus Romney, the manipulation of information to suit the need. What amazes me even more is knowing the masses are out there falling in step behind this fantasy. There is NO voting that takes place!
We do not choose anybody, they are decided upon by the dark ones, only those willing to go along with the dark agenda get chosen. So why all the hoopla about who did what, who didn't do what, whose legit and who isn't? What difference does it make?This two-party squabble is nothing more than a distraction to keep humanity separated and thinking they make a difference when in fact they do not!
If we don't chose to wake up for ourselves, we need to at least wake up for our children and become aware of what schools are doing to them. Their spirits are being destroyed and their brilliant young minds are being programmed to become consumers and followers. Their creativity is shunned and if outspoken, they will be forced to comply.
The beautiful free thinking minds they came into this world with begin to wither and die and their spirits are sent to prison. We must save our children and save their essence from being controlled.Everyday we hear of new laws being put into place without much opposition unfortunately. These laws are now telling you what you can and cannot eat, what size drinks you can purchase, what kind of clothes you can wear, if you can grow a garden or not, if you can purchase raw milk or not, eat organic or not.
And we call ourselves free?
They slip these laws in continually in the hopes you will become used to having your freedoms taken away supposedly for the good of all. The walls are closing in around everybody and the sooner we realize it the better off we will be in the end, hopefully before the cell doors slam shut with a loud clunk and they keys are tossed away.We are free spirits and children of Creator, we are not the slaves of the dark ones. It is time to fight for our freedom while we still can. We must stand firm in our beliefs of love and peace and the good of all mankind.


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Unity3D is Already Working on a Linux Port
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Recently we reported that Wasteland 2 will use Unity3D game engine and Brian Fargo has been supplied the source code to make a Linux port.
Now, Brian has talked about this in details on inXile blog. Unity3D devs are already working on a Linux port which is currently in Alpha stages of development. Brian and Unity will work together to port Wasteland to Linux.
Some of you may remember that there were some leaks in past suggesting a Unity3D port for Linux.
We also wrote about this but the situation was not quite encouraging:
It's not a secret that people have been working on/off on Linux support during FAFF (Fridays Are For Fun) for a while. We've confirmed that a couple of times on the forum and elsewhere.
The fact remains though, that we're not ready to dedicate the required time and resources to take on the linux platform at this point in time.
In our last article about Unity3D, another Unity3D dev shared similar views that Linux version is not a priority.
So its not clear if this Linux alpha version is still being actively developed by Unity or it is merely result of FAFFs. But better late than never, lets hope these new efforts by Unity and Brian Fargo will finally bring support for Linux.
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Well, Pam at 365 Cards tried to convince us that we are long overdue for a Sports theme card. Our orders from headquarters were to use a ball on our cards. No problem! I had a choice of a golf ball, a baseball, and a football. Since the football was the biggest, and I would have less card to fill with 'other stuff', I chickened out and chose the football! Pam, if you are reading, we tease you a lot, but your ideas are endless and fun! Keep on keepin' on!!!
My card is really simple. I started with Gina K. Design's downloadable paper (on Stamp TV, in the Freebies section - really!). The football is Inkadinkado, and the stopwatch is clip art. The sentiment is a fun quote from Erma Bombeck.
If you can't read the sentiment, it says, "Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-time takes twelve minutes. This is no coincidence".
And...can you believe that football season is upon us already? I think I would love football as much as I love baseball if the Referees would let the players play ball. I get tires of those flags flying on every play!
Baseball players really are smarter than football players - how many times have you ever seen a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field?
DD took a fairly longish hike the other day (before AND after camping out in a tent on the ground!) on the Ozark Trail here in Missouri.
She apparently had a close encounter of too many kinds with arachnids! You can read about it and see icky pictures here.
I am always telling DD that she is SO brave, and she always argues that she's not at all brave. Well, DD, I can PROMISE you that when I happened onto the very first spider, I would have been so totally OUTA THERE!!! You, my dear, are SO brave!!!
Anyway...when I realized I hadn't yet done the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge for this week, I knew exactly what I had to do! Melissa, this card is for you!!!
Supplies: DCWV Matstack, K & Co. Matstack, Versafine Black, Spiders from Sandylion.
Sheesh, now I'm creeped out all over again!
Pleasant dreams everyone! I'm off to work on announcement inserts! Very nearly finished!!!
~Beware of things that go squish in the night!
Ouch! The theme today at 365 Cards is White Space. We were given the following sketch, and were told that the only stamping, designer paper, embellishments, etc., must be contained within the black lines. Well, this might be easy for some, but YIKES! That whole clean and simple thing just freaks me out!
I probably 'stretched' my black lines a tad here, but I either had to do so, or sit on my hands, and if I had sat on my hands, the card would be unfinished! Actually, if I'm going to be honest, I did really mean to trim down the bottom line, and had everything adhered before I remembered to do so!!!
Hope you like it - I am stuck on fall right now. I love the colors of fall and spring! They are so much fun to work with.
I saw this sign outside a nearby church yesterday, and I liked it! "If God is your co-pilot, you should change seats"!
Gotta love it...Vintage, that is! I remember those days! Lol. Just kidding! Not quite that old yet!!!
When today's challenge at 365 Cards came in with a "Going Vintage" theme, I remembered this great Graphic 45 paper I had. It was left over from a vintage cigar box class I took at For Keeps Sake a while back.
The second card is for Stamptacular Sunday's challenge, which was to create a card that was three dimensional. This card uses the Papertrey Ink's Everyday Button Bits set. Both the piece with the stamping and the buttons are adhered with dimensional dots.
DD and I are going to meet up sor supper in a bit, so I'm off to the shower for now. Hope that your Thursday has been full of blessings!
Hmmm....why do we sing "Take me out to the ballgame" when we are already there???
First a quick shout out to my special friend, Chat Dump Girl, who is feeling quite puny today. Hope you feel better very soon, my friend!!!
Gosh, the days are flying by! It's day 179 already at 365 Cards, and the challenge today was to use a checkerboard pattern on our cards. This is one thing that I love about these challenges...I am 'challenged' (imagine that!) to do something that I would never get up this morning and decide to do on my own!
I used Copper embossing powder, and a retired TAC square stamp, and heat embossed a pretty fall background in checkerboard fashion (don't look too closely at my crooked squares!). Decided that I should keep this simple, so just added some fall leaves and a couple of inches of fallish colored ribbon.
Well, I am supposed to be working on monthly reports, so I guess, perhaps I should get to them!!! Have a great evening, and I'll try to get around to your blogs and see what you are up to before I turn in tonight!!!
Next is a shot of the calendar. I didn't have a lot of back to school related stamps, so I used my Printmaster Program for some of the graphics, and for the calendar page.
Here's a better view of the little 6 x 6 cork tile. I stamped a couple of TAC apples, and a TAC sentiment, which reads "these are the days to remember".
Finally, a ginormous paperclip finishes the project. These I purchased a long time ago at our local office supply store, and just haven't used them until tonight.
I hope that you all have pleasant dreams! I fought a naggy headache all day, and I'm going to give in to it soon and go to bed!
Shirley, if you are reading, I apologize for not calling you back. DS, DH and DH again, all called, and by the time they hung up the last time, it was 10:20. I will talk to you in the a.m. Enjoy your walk!
Worries are like golf strokes - those with the fewest are the winners!
help keep the card closed.
Here is the card, fully closed, and this is the back view!
This is just a 'little something' for a friend. I'm putting it in the mail tomorrow morning, but I thought it turned out cute, and didn't want to send it without posting pictures.
Feel free to email me if you ever want the EASY details!
If the 'recipient' of this little card is reading, the little note in the bottom right square is attached with removable two sided tape just in case you want to 're-gift' the card! I'm sorry to say that I forgot to attach the stamp that way! I will include an extra piece of the printed stock for that corner!
Well, hope this gives you all a smile this evening! We don't do much around here for Halloween, so it's fun to create for others!
This first card is for 365 Cards and for Mojo Monday. As always, Mojo's challenge is the sketch, and the challenge today at 365 Cards is to use a monogram on your card. Well, believe it or not, I was a monogram-virgin until today!!! TRUE! I had never made a card with just a monogram on it ever, ever, ever!!! I kept it simple, stayed with the sketch, and used up a few scraps!
The second card is for the Cuttlebug Spot. This is my first time to play their challenge. The challenge was to make a card using the word "hot". Wowzers, that was a hard one!!! Anyway, I stamped up my Riley in his cute little car (he's a little "Hottie" you know...), and colored him with Kooh-I-Noor pencils and Tombow Markers, used a few scraps and a cuttlebug embossing folder, and whew....a tough one behind me!!!
Hope that you all had a perfect day, and wish you a good evening. DD and I are headed to a Pampered Chef party where I'm sure we will be pampered beyond belief!
~Seek and you will find...sit and you will forfeit!
I have this amazing pad of Basic Grey June Bug papers (thanks Lisa!) that I can't seem to keep my hands off of! It is going to be gone before I know it! (sad face here) However, I love all things BG, so I couldn't resist using it, along with a wonderful Unity stamp, and this fun sketch!
I followed this sketch exactly, which is not my norm (as you know I usually flip or rotate), and even included the cute little triangular pieces at the top! I punched a circle from the DP, and popped it up for a 3-D effect. Ink is Colorbox Olive Green Chalk Ink, and distressing was done with Palette "Haystack". The darling little yellow flat pearls are Kaiser's.
The colors don't photograph as well as I'd like, but overall, this is one that when finished, I was quite pleased with. It will make someone a nice card!
Well, peeps, I must go get ready for a trip to the airport to pick up DH. He's flying in from LA today, we drive to Branson, Mo. AND back tomorrow (4.5 hours each direction) to check on a jobsite, and then he flies out to Phoenix on Tuesday a.m. for some safety meetings. He's had a wonderful visit with DS, and they have been to several Cardinal's (sorry Caryl) games together. It will be good to see him!
I hope your Sunday is blessing filled, and will probably be MIA until Tuesday night! Take care all!!!
Wow...the weather today was like a special order day. The sky is clear and beautiful, a bit of a breeze blowing, and about 78 degrees. Absolutely heavenly.
When we got home, DD and I had yesterday's leftovers for lunch. She had fixed us homemade salsa, black beans, cheese, and whole wheat chips. Oh my goodness, it was delish!!!
365 Cards challenge was all about layering. We were to "layer" our stamps!
The challenge at Papercutz was to use something on our creation that "flies"!
And...the Lots to do challenge was to "use paper on our creations"!
Oh, baby - these were great for me! I reached right for my TAC Script Background stamp and the Beautiful Day set, and voila! The stamping was done with Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Peeled Paint, and Old Paper. Stamped on K & Co. CS., onto DCWV CS.
Now, it's back to my announcements! Hope your Saturday is as wonderful as mine has been! My DH and DS are hitting yet a third Cardinal game tonight, again in San Diego. I hope my beloved "Birds" do better tonight!
Gosh, how do you folks routinely do multiple challenges with one card? Yikes! I'm still tired from my Skater Ian!!! lol!
I was too tired and too busy to post yesterday, so I have lots for you today! The first is a little card I'll call Just Because... this is for the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge, which was to use a bear on our cards! How much fun are bears??? No problem!
Next up, "Dream", is a card that I made for the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge 15. We had a sketch to follow. Below is the sketch, followed by my card! The main image was a $1 stamp from the bin at Joanne's this week when I took DH to the airport!
Stamps: Stamp Dimensions Crafts & Inkadinkado Inchies, Tim Holtz's Black Soot Distress Ink, Just a touch of Sakura's Starburst Pen on the stars, and that most fabulous soft and fuzzy trim, I found at For Keep's Sake this week!
This bright and cheerful card is one that I made for two challenges (hooray for two-fers!). Corrosive Challenges had a sketch this week, so I started by following it. 365 Cards had this incredibly difficult challenge (sorry Pam!), Mixed Message, of using 3 different ways to express your message. Folks, with 110 birth announcements in various states of creation, this one nearly put me in that white jacket that buckles in the back. Really....!
So Grateful is a set that Gina K. Designs sells, that is designed by Rupa Shevde. What a gorgeous set it is! This is another two-fer! The new challenge at Stampin' Sisters in Christ, had a theme of "FOOD", plain and simple!!! With Thanksgiving approaching, when I think of food, I think of plenty, and from there, this set came out... I followed Monday's Mojo Monday sketch for this card.
Stamps: Gina K. Designs, Kooh-I-Noor Pencils, Crystal Laquer, DCWV Indian Summer Fall Matstack.
I used the Mojo Maria sketch (Tuesday's) for the layout. As usual, I was the rebel that turned the sketch up on its end!!! lol...can't help myself.
Stamp: Shine Anya (from the Greeting Farm set of Rain, Snow, or Shine Anya), Kooh-I-Noor Pencils, Tombow Markers, and the DP is by Provo, found at Big Lots!!!
So, today, I created my first ever 4-fer! Whew! My brain is smokin' - I'll sleep like a baby tonight! I have re-vised this! I have created my first ever FIVE-fer!
First up, is the Mojo Teresa sketch for today. As Mojo turns 100 this week, the DT are posting sketches every day this week! I'm one for three.... got some catching up to do! Anyway, below is the sketch. Note that, as usual, I turned the sketch on it's end - sorry! I really tried not to!
Last (really!) thanks to Maria, I have also posted this on the Lots to do Challenge. This week is an open theme - post anything, so I posted this darling little Ian!!! He's too cute NOT to share!
Well, hope you are all well. I am going to blurf for a few minutes, watch the Cardinals play ball (DH flew out today to watch some baseball with DS), and work on my birth announcement order!
~Is a hot car cool, or is a cool car hot??? lol... just food for thought!
Well, here is my very first Halloween card!
For those of you that aren't aware, Barb Foster has started a new Halloween Challenge Blog! You can find it here! She's calling it the Macabre Monday Challenge. For the challenge this week, we were to dig out our flower/foliage stamps, and instead of making them pretty, we were to make them spooky looking, or 'dark'... I had a bit of Halloween DP on hand, and used a new TAC stamp, spritzed it with water, added a sentiment from TAC and done!!! Barb, I promise to work harder next week!!! lol!
The next card is for the 365 Cards challenge for today. The challenge was a trio - use a triangle, a sticker, and a button. Pretty self -explanatory! This card also works for the Artful Inkables Challenge, which was to use Black, White, and Red on a card! Also, self explanatory!
Have a great night everyone! I'm off to cut out more baby blue things and glue them on brown things!
I have a 6 a.m. run to the city to the airport tomorrow, so I'll see you whenever I can get here!
Blessed is the person that is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too tired to worry at night!
Cardinal's are trying to win the ball game! DS lives in California, and DH is flying out tomorrow to go to some games this week out there - they should have a good time, hopefully!
Used cardboard covered with Provo DP from Big Lots, Sentiment is from Great Impressions, Cute little butterfly, once again, is a Megan (Shirley's granddaughter) creation!, and used Colorbox Chestnut Roan Chalk Ink to stamp image. Cute little scallop at the bottom of image was a gift from Jan MacGowan, who is a Stampin' Up Demonstrator.
Hope you like my little project!
See you all tomorrow, and hopefully, with brain cells working!
The challenge at Our Creative Corner this week is: Christmas in August! Well, thanks to OCC, I now have my first Christmas Card finished! Woot Woot!
The photograper (me...) didn't do a very good job - it was hard to photograph, with the gold glossy cs reflecting. This was actually done without a flash, but the ceiling lights were reflecting!
DCWV CS, DP's were scraps, used alcohol inks...Staz on ink, misc. gold strings and fibers. Stamp unknown.
I have spent most of today just hangin' out with my peeps... we BBQ'd, watched the Cardinal's win the ballgame, etc. I didn't even go to town!
I worked on only one craft project, and that was the 365 Cards Challenge for today. It is Sunday, so that means Sunday Sketch Challenge!
I used DCWV CS, DP by Provo that I found at Big Lots last week, and a scrap of rick rack. The only embellishment was a silk flower, topped by a punched (Martha Stewart punch) flower and brad.
Paper Inspiration dragonfly stamps are old, old, old! (1999) , but are some that I just drag out over and over as they work so well!
The sentiment is a Verve Plain Jane, which I love to pieces!!!
I stamped all images first with Color Box Pastel Lime Chalk Ink, and then with Versafine Brown, moving the stamp slightly for a shadowed effect.
Sure hope you had a great day! Can't believe tomorrow's already Monday.
Take care, sleep well, God bless!!!
Don't you just love a new challenge? Hannah told of an ABC challenge starting up for the third time, and it just happened to be at 'A' this week! So... I'm going to give it a try and see if I can keep up!
I had this adorable little retired/revived TAC stamp that has never been inked. I thought with holidays fast approaching, this would be a good one to bring out and ink up! I am so pleased with how much fun it was to color!
Supplies: Stamps are TAC, Stampin' Up, and Katie & Co., Versafine Black Ink, Kooh-I-Noor Pencils, Watercolor Paper, Provo CS, DCWV CS.
Friday's challenge at 365 Cards, was to make your card look like a "gift"! Well, as I was on my way out the door for a trip to Michael's and Hobby Lobby, actually MAKING a card took a back seat to shopping for more fun stuff to make cards with! Lol... So this one is "falling off a log easy"! DP and some ribbon and a touch of glitter! Period. 5 Minutes tops! Not totally happy with it, but my priorities were definitely gathering wool in a shopping cart in another city an hour from my work table!!!
Whew....sure wish I'd known today's theme prior to shopping yesterday! Oh well, perhaps there is a scrap of toille DP in my bin!
Supplies: DP (unknown), Ribbon (unknown), Inkadinkado, Color Box Chalk Ink, Burgandy.
I'm back! Rather than make an additional post, I'm posting today's 365 Cards challenge, which is to use toille on our cards! I did have a piece in my bin, so with a bit of ribbon, adhesive, and a Hero Arts sentiment, this card is finished! I thought I'd combine the Mojo Monday sketch with it, as I hadn't managed to make anything yet for it! So....here's a last minute two-fer! Cheers!!!
I wish you all a good day! I'm going to go immediately to Wal-Mart, and hopefully avoid at least some of the trauma involved in going there on a Saturday morning on the first week of school! Tee Hee!
Hope you all have a great weekend! Think positive, happy thoughts! If you get time, please drop by Shirley's blog and wish her a happy birthday! I'm sure she will shoot me when she finds out that I divulged this top secret info, but she is 19 today! Looks pretty darned good for her age, too!!!
Back to School....this post is for Lisa!
Colorwheels... and a front porch view!
There is Magic in the Air!!!
Crop till you drop, and Lace!


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Грейгем, або Грем () — місто () в США, в окрузі Аламанс штату Північна Кароліна. Населення —  особи (2010).

Географія
Грейгем розташований за координатами  (36.056302, -79.389374).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 25,08 км², з яких 24,91 км² — суходіл та 0,17 км² — водойми.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкали  особи в  домогосподарстві у складі  родин. Густота населення становила 564 особи/км².  Було 6523 помешкання (260/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 2,4 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 15,7 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 25,2 % — особи молодші 18 років, 60,2 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 14,6 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 37,5 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 88,0 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 84,1 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  долари США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  доларів для чоловіків та  доларів для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 29,1 % осіб, у тому числі 41,1 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 17,5 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило  осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 25,6 %, виробництво — 17,6 %, мистецтво, розваги та відпочинок — 10,3 %, науковці, спеціалісти, менеджери — 10,2 %.

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Джерела

Міста Північної Кароліни
Населені пункти округу Аламанс (Північна Кароліна)
Окружні центри Північної Кароліни

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Q: cmake cygwin make.exe error I have got a problem with CMake 2.8.9. I use the GUI.
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When I try to "Configure", CMake logs the following error:
The C compiler identification is unknown
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Check for working C compiler: G:/cygwin/bin/gcc.exe
Check for working C compiler: G:/cygwin/bin/gcc.exe -- broken
CMake Error at G:/Program Files/CMake 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/CMakeTestCCompiler.cmake:52 (MESSAGE):
The C compiler "G:/cygwin/bin/gcc.exe" is not able to compile a simple test program.

It fails with the following output:

Change Dir: H:/Ogre/gcc18/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp

Run Build Command:G:/cygwin/bin/make.exe "cmTryCompileExec2682355191/fast"

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GNU Make 3.82.90
Built for i686-pc-cygwin
Copyright (C) 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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My cache looks like this:
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My client asked me to install DMS, Please help me to know what DMS is ..? and how do we install it.
We are having ECC6.0 Installed on our servers.
Anticipating the reply at the Earliest...Thanks.
DMS is Document Management System. It can be either implemented in R/3 or through KW. Other option is 3rd party software.
After the decision, you will select a platform - depending on your licensing.
Hello, I think the fact that the client is running on ECC6.0 the logical reference would be to that of SAP DMS, (CA-DMS).
SAP DMS is a cross application componet, and thus is not installed, as it ships with the R/3 Core.
You will need to do some configuration for DMS using transaction SPRO.
DMS can requires db for it to store images/documents. I can be through KPRO. Nothing but a Content Server CD with has SAP DB or MAXDB to help store the data. And needs configuration to talk with SAP R/3. The common transactions are CSADMIN, OACT, OAC0.
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Manchester United legend Sir Alex Ferguson showed his class with Rafa Benitez gesture
Man Utd legend Sir Alex Ferguson has not seen eye to eye with Rafa Benitez at times - but that has not always been the case.
Ciaran Kelly
Rafa Benitez has revealed that Sir Alex Ferguson let him spend a week observing his methods when he was Manchester United manager back in 2000.
The Newcastle United boss was between jobs at the time after leaving CF Extremadura and spent a year working as a commentator and learning from other managers in England and Italy.
Ahead of taking charge at Tenerife, Benitez watched how both Ferguson and former assistant Steve McClaren whipped the treble winners into shape at Carrington.
And while the pair have endured a frosty relationship since - who could forget that infamous facts rant back in 2009? - Benitez has never forgotten what both Ferguson and Tony Pulis have done for him.
"I came here to England to see Alex Ferguson for one week when Steve McClaren was his assistant," he said.
What Manchester United must do to win the Premier League - Gary Neville
"I went to see Tony Pulis at Stoke as well, he is my friend. He (Ferguson) had a different of working compared to Tony.
"But it was a really good experience for me, I was very open minded to learn. It is good to be like that, especially when you come to England and you play in the European cup competitions (with a foreign team). They play in a different style, you have to understand what they do and how they do it.
"Sometimes you are the better team, but they have a way of playing and they do it really well - I had to learn."


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School and parents are figuring out the nuances of California's new vaccination law, which went into effect July 1. Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law on June 30, 2015 Senate Bill 277, which says parents can no longer refuse to vaccinate their children in public or private schools and child care centers based on their personal opposition.
As of Jan. 1, 2016, parents can no longer obtain a personal belief exemption to 10 school-required vaccinations. As of July 1, 2016, students must meet the vaccination requirements at certain vaccination check points, unless they have a medical exemption or are attending school at home or independently with no classroom instruction.
Most school districts in California are affected, with 47 out of 58 California counties in 2014-15 reporting they had kindergartners with personal belief exemptions to school-required vaccinations. Still, the numbers are small. Statewide, more than 13,500 kindergartners held personal belief exemptions in 2014-15, a sliver of the state's kindergarten enrollment of 500,000. And the numbers ranged widely across the state, from two kindergartners in Colusa County to 2,100 kindergartners in Los Angeles County.
The California Department of Public Health, in conjunction with the California Department of Education, has issued guidance to schools, but its most recent guidance in April didn't clarify the issue of whether students enrolled in special education are exempt from the immunization requirement, some lawyers said. At this point, here are answers to frequently asked questions, as explained in the text of the legislation, analysis by the lawmakers and the latest guidance.
ARE THERE EXEMPTIONS TO THE NEW LAW? WHAT ABOUT SPECIAL EDUCATION?
Yes, there are at least two: a medical exemption and an exemption for students who are enrolled in homeschooling or independent study without classroom instruction. It is unclear how the law will apply to unvaccinated students who receive special education services. Some districts may consider those students exempt.
Homeschooling or independent study: Starting July 1, 2016, students who attend a home-based private school or an independent study program without classroom-based instruction are not subject to immunization requirements for entry. Home schools and independent study programs are obligated to maintain records of students' immunization status.
Independent study with classroom instruction: As of July 1, 2016, students in independent study programs that include classroom-based instruction must meet immunization requirements.
Special Education: Senate Bill 277 states that it "does not prohibit" a student with an individualized education program from "accessing any special education and related services required by his or her individualized education program." Exactly how the federal right to special education services will mesh with the state immunization law has yet to be fully clarified by the California Department of Public Health and the California Department of Education. Districts have beensorting this out on their own. The Los Angeles Unified School District has said the number of unvaccinated students in special education is low and they will be allowed to attend school. The Orange County Office of Education has said all students at school must be vaccinated, unless they have a medical exemption.
Some district lawyers said they were hoping the guidance would state explicitly whether students with individualized education programs must be vaccinated to attend school.
Not unless the student is entering a vaccination checkpoint grade span — a child care facility or preschool; a transitional kindergarten or kindergarten; or seventh grade. Personal belief exemptions can be transferred between child care facilities and schools in California, both within and across school districts, according to the state. Personal belief exemptions from another state or country are not valid.
Parents who do not want to vaccinate have two options for their kindergartners and seventh graders in fall 2016: obtain a medical exemption to vaccinations or enroll in homeschooling or independent study without classroom instruction. If children receive special education services, they may be exempt from immunization requirements, but that policy varies from district to district. See the special education question above.


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Tag Archives: David Brooks
The Return of the Hick Factor and It's Implications for Extension
Part of our nation's greatness stems from the fact that it has never erected a high wall of separation between so-called academic and practical knowledge.
Auburn, Clemson, Michigan State, Purdue and Texas A&M universities, all of which started out as agricultural and mechanical institutions but now command topflight rank along with their state-chartered counterparts, are a testament to this longstanding American openness to practical knowledge.
Our British cousins held a similarly high regard for practical knowledge, which perhaps accounts in large measure for why they rose in the 19th century to become the world's first global economic superpower.
Quoting economic historian Joel Mokyr, New York Times columnist and author David Brooks maintains that Britain's and later America's phenomenal economic achievement stemmed from a changed state of mind.
"Because of a series of cultural shifts, technicians started taking scientific knowledge and putting it to practical use."
To put it another way, Britain and its cultural and political offshoot, the United States, developed a respect, if not passion, for practical knowledge.
Other advanced nations initially did not hold practical knowledge in such high regard, including Germany. Peter Watson, writing in his superb history of intellectual thought, Thought: A History of Ideas from Fire to Freud, described the prevailing disdain for practical knowledge among the educated German upper and middle classes.
Watson cites as a prime example the ambiguous public standing of Max Planck, the physicist who discovered the quantum, the idea that energy comes in small packets, or quanta.
"Despite the fact that his discovery rates as one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time, in Planck's own family, the humanities were considered a superior form of knowledge to science," Watson writes. "His cousin, the historian Max Lenz, would jokingly pun that scientists (Naturforsher) were in reality foresters (Naturforster) – or, as he would say, hicks."
In an earlier piece, I referred to such historical bias against practical knowledge as the "hick factor."
Ultimately, as Brooks writes, upper-class Britons followed suit, as "the great-great-grandchildren of the empire builders withdrew from commerce, tried to rise above practical knowledge and had more genteel attitudes about how to live."
It appears that this hick factor, prevalent among 19th century elite Germans and, later, British elites, is gaining a toehold among American in the 21st century – and not just among elites.
"The shift is evident at all levels of society," Brooks writes. "America's brightest minds have been abandoning industry and technical enterprise in favor of more prestigious but less productive fields like law, finance, consulting and nonprofit activism."
That raises a disturbing question: Within this rapidly evolving social context, what are the implications for Cooperative Extension and the land-grant system in general?
These land-grant institutions helped elevate knowledge to a preeminent place not only in the United States but throughout the world.
Through tens of thousands of hours of classroom instruction, applied research on thousand acres of cropland, and countless field tours, this system played an indispensable role generating and purveying much of the practical knowledge on which the modern farming system is based.
Equally important, what role, if any, should Extension and other land-grant institution serve in helping restore industry and technical expertise – practical knowledge – to a preeminent place in American life?
Posted in Future of Cooperative Extension, Technology
Tagged David Brooks, Jim Langcuster, Joel Mokyr, land-grant university, Max Lenz, Max Planck, Peter Watson, practical knowledge, The Hick Factor, Thought: A History of Ideas from Fire to Freud
The "Lean Years:" A New Mission for Cooperative Extension?
A lot of what I do as a member of Alabama Extension's Marketing Team is to think out loud, usually after digesting an article or op-ed about a topic that raises major implications for the Cooperative Extension mission.
The New York Times's David Brooks's most recent op-ed is one example — a piece appropriately named "The Lean Years."
Writing about this severe recession, he paints an especially gloomy picture of the years of hard slogging that lie ahead for millions of Americans, particularly men and young people, before some semblance of normality returns.
He cites an essay in The Atlantic, which reports that almost a fifth of all U.S. men between 25 and 54 are without jobs — the highest such figure since the labor bureau began collecting and reporting these numbers in 1948.
America's young people are also being disproportionally affected by this downturn. Brooks cites a gloomy statistic from a previous severe recession: College grads who entered the job market in 1981 earned 25 percent less than those who entered in more prosperous periods. And this earnings gap persists for decades. Over their lifetimes, recession kids will earn approximately $100,000 less than those hired during more auspicious periods.
Brooks fears that these trends will exact a heavy social cost among men and young people alike.
Among chronically unemployed men, this effect is often reflected by enhanced levels of alcoholism and child abuse, with millions of unemployed men sustaining what Brooks describes as "debilitating blows to their identity."
Young people are also psychologically altered, less likely to switch jobs later in their career, even when greater opportunity beckons.
The burgeoning federal deficits will only contribute to further fraying. Deficits will command roughly 11 percent of the country's entire economic input this year, leaving little room for expanded domestic initiatives.
As Brooks observes, the social fabric, which has served throughout U.S. history to mitigate the effects of hard times, has begun to fray.
These hard realties present Cooperative Extension educators with a challenge.
As one long-tenured Extension county coordinator related to me several months ago, Cooperative Extension has served a useful role within the last century providing people, often people on the margins of society, with basic skills to cope in difficult times. The coming lean years, which will be characterized by both chronic unemployment and underemployment as well as fewer federal domestic initiatives, present Americans with a unique set of challenges — challenges that Cooperative Extension System is especially well-equipped to meet.
Working through its 4-H youth empowerment, home gardening, nutrition and community develop programs, Cooperative Extension educators are poised to build and new and enduring legacy of self-empowerment. How? By providing the most hard-pressed among us with the vital coping skills they require to endure the next few years. By empowering them, we also lend a hand in helping restore this nation's vital, but frayed, social fabric.
Posted in 4-H, Cooperative Extension Identity, Extension Programs, Future of Cooperative Extension, Nutrition
Tagged 4-H, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Community Resource Development, Cooperative Extension, David Brooks, federal deficits, home gardening, Jim Langcuster, underemployment, unemployment
Sustainability: The Future of Cooperative Extension Programming
Okay, I'm convinced: The biggest issue for Extension for the foreseeable future will be sustainability. The recent columns of three New York Times writers helped close the sale for me.
First, persistent concerns about the carbon threat. Granted, I'm not entirely convinced that global warming is real. But then again, I'm no expert. And the fact remains that a majority of this nation's policymakers and pundits believe it to be true. Thomas Friedman perceives it not only as a real but even as an immediate threat, especially considering the possibility that
… the next emitted carbon molecule will tip over some ecosystem and trigger a nonlinear event — like melting the Siberian tundra and releasing all its methane, or drying up the Amazon or melt all the sea ice in the North Pole in summer. And when one ecosystem collapses, it can trigger unpredictable climate changes in others that could alter our entire world.
And there is the added threat of chronic debt and especially of its long-term implications for America's future. As Friedman observes,
…One need only look at today's record-setting price of gold, in a period of deflation, to know that a lot of people are worried that our next dollar of debt— unbalanced by spending cuts or new tax revenues — will trigger a nonlinear move out of the dollar and torpedo the U.S. economy.
The worst-case scenario: A future in which U.S. national and local governments, faced with insurmountable debt levels, will no longer be able to make the public investments necessary to secure the future of younger generations of Americans.
If these factors have not yet bred a culture of malaise, they have put Americans into what Roger Cohen describes as a "different mental place."
They're paying down debt. They're not hiring. They've gotten reacquainted with risk. They're going to have to survive without Gourmet magazine.
And in the future, this will force Americans, whether they live in red or blue states, to put aside obsolescent cultural warfare and to embark on what David Brooks describes as a "crusade for economic self-restraint."
Indeed, to an increasing degree, the elites as well as ordinary people fear that humanity is dealing with an ailing economic model that may even be teetering on collapse.
Add to that the concerns about the appalling state of American health, which to an increasing degree are ascribed to the current U.S. farm production system. But there is an even bigger sustainability issue associated with health: The growing strains within the U.S. medical system that inevitably will force a greater emphasis on preventive health care – sustainability by any other name.
Simply put, for a variety of reasons, there is a growing, if not full-blown sense of malaise in 21st century America — which brings us back to that word again: sustainability.
Some elites and ordinary people alike are more disposed to this term than ever before.
Sustainability affords Cooperative Extension the opportunity to burnish our image, demonstrating to our clients and stakeholders how we will play an integral role helping build new production systems that factor in growing economic and environmental concerns. As one of my Extension colleagues pointed out recently, we played a major role in building the so-called factory farming system. Now we must demonstrate how we are helping people move toward production systems that are more environmentally sustainable.
Sustainability also empowers us in another way: It presents us with a golden opportunity to undertake one of the most important challenges of this century: to close the circle, showing how sustainability relates to all of us. Yes, we help the planet by doing everything from recycling to adopting greener production systems, but we also help humanity – and, ultimately, our strained medical system — by adopting sustainable lifestyles that emphasize prevention.
Yes, I know, we've been promoting health lifestyles for years, but now the stars are aligned in a way they have never been before.
While I'll confess to some bias, I believe no other organization is better equipped than Cooperative Extenison to educate people about what is undoubtedly the most important challenge of the 21st century— building systems that will sustain our planet as well as our personal well-being.
Yes, sustainability is the future of Cooperative Extension.
Posted in Cooperative Extension Identity, Crops, Future of Cooperative Extension, Nutrition, Technology
Tagged Cooperative Extension, David Brooks, Jim Langcuster, Roger Cohen, sustainability
Dignity Lost, Dignity Regained?
Years ago, an elderly lady shared with me a photocopy of a card carried around in the wallet of her long deceased uncle, Luther Duncan, a 4-H pioneer, Alabama Extension administrator, and Auburn University president. The card essentially functioned as a wallet-sized catechism —a summary of the ethical standards that Duncan held most dearly.
The frayed edges and smudged ink apparent even in the photocopy testified to the seriousness with which Duncan regarded these ethical standards. I imagined him perusing them time and again on those long train rides between 4-H meetings and farm demonstrations.
For me, this frayed card attested to the intense preoccupation, if not outright obsession, many 19th and early 20th century Americans had not only with high ethical standards but also with another attribute they closely associated with ethics — personal dignity. In the view of most, acquiring these attributes involved a lifetime commitment and encompassed every bit as much of an inward as an outward transformation.
My parents were not born in the 19th century, though they could have just as well been. They were sticklers for everything from posture and reasonably refined manners to grammar and diction. They never failed to note the slightest breaches of etiquette or moral lapses. My father, who was born in abject poverty but went on to earn bachelor's and master's degrees, solemnly informed my brother and me that neither of us would drag the Langcuster fortunes back into the squalor out of which he had struggled.
What I hated then with a passion — those straight talks and dire warnings — I recall today with a sense of profound and abiding gratitude, though I confess that I remain a work in progress.
From an early age, I suppose I intuitively understood that ethics and dignity went hand in hand. Likewise, in dealing with others, I tended to assume that one attribute was accompanied by the other: One who comported oneself with dignity likely evinced high ethical standards and vice versa.
I suppose my upbringing accounts for why I read and zealously forwarded to friends David Brooks's recent op-ed: "In Search of Dignity."
While observing that Americans continue to recognize and appreciate dignity where it can still be found — in public icons such as Joe DiMaggio, Tom Hanks, Ronald Reagan and, it now appears, Barack Obama — Brooks nonetheless believes that any objective understanding of dignity has been lost.
What are the factors that account for this loss?
First, there is capitalism. We are all encouraged to become managers of our own brand, to do self-promoting end zone dances to broadcast our own talents. Second, there is the cult of naturalism. We are all encouraged to discard artifice and repression and to instead liberate our own feelings. Third, there is charismatic evangelism with its penchant for public confession. Fourth, there is radical egalitarianism and its hostility to aristocratic manners.
If dignity has been lost, how can it be regained? More important, how do we reacquire something so intangible — something, much like humus, which is acquired only after long passages of time and only through the most careful and assiduous nourishment and stewardship?
Are you listening, 4-H?
Tagged 4-H, Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Auburn University, David Brooks, dignity, Ethics, Luther Duncan


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Geschiedenis
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Q: Using Hunspell With Heroku I'm building a Rails app that uses Hunspell and the hunspell-ffi gem so that Ruby can interface with it. I'm deploying the app to heroku, but unfortunately it needs Hunspell to be installed on the server in order for the gem to work.
Is there any way for me to install Hunspell on Heroku? Or am I going to have to migrate to EC2?
Thanks in advance :)

A: You need to build the required Hunspell library and include it in your Heroku project directly.
Heroku runs on 64-bit Ubuntu therefore the binary has to be compiled under that system. The best approach is to simply use Heroku's Vulcan build server to compile on a Heroku instance.
Compiling for Heroku

*

*gem install vulcan

*vulcan create vulcan-compile-me last argument is your own app name.

*Download Hunspell source

*Extract

*vulcan build -v -s ./hunspell-1.3.2 Tells Vulcan to build it and downloads the finished product automatically to /tmp/hunspell..

The build server requires the cloudant add-on, this is installed automatically but you have to make sure to have a verified (credit card added) Heroku account. If you get errors in step six of no build output then do heroku addons:add cloudant --app vulcan-compile-me
Adding to Your Project

*

*Extract the Heroku Vulcan build tar from /tmp

*Copy the entire lib folder to vendor/hunspell in your project root directory

*Tell Heroku where to look for libraries: heroku config:add LD_LIBRARY_PATH=vendor/hunspell/lib.

Install Dictionaries
Download some dictionaries from Open Office and add them to your project. A good location is a folder called dictionaries at root level. This path is then referenced when initializing Hunspell in Ruby.
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/dictionary
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/mirror/OpenOffice/contrib/
Using
Install your favorite Hunspell gem, I use hunspell-ffi. There is a newer gem for Hunspell but I prefer the previous FFI gem. To use initialize the Hunspell object with your dictionaries folder path and language (language match the dictionary file name).
dict = Hunspell.new("dictionaries", "en_US")

if dict.check('caribean') == false
    suggestions = dict.suggest('caribean')
    if (suggestions.size)
        correction = suggestions.first # returns 'caribbean'
    end
end

Vendoring for More Complex Projects
You can also vendor the library into your project by putting the tar built by the Vulcan server in the first step into a public accessible server such as Google Storage and then changing the Heroku build pack to download the tar on each instance startup.

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*heroku config:set BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/peterkeen/heroku-buildpack-vendorbinaries.git

*The vendor build pack looks for a .vendor_urls file at the root level with HTTP links to the tar balls to install (needs to end in a new line to work).
 http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/developer.you.com/hunspell-heroku-1.3.tgz

*Vendoring unpacks the tar into the root folder so the lib path for the Heroku settings would then just be "lib". heroku config:add LD_LIBRARY_PATH=lib

A: Checkout this url: http://gems-summary.heroku.com/2011-07-19
It's freaking amazing how much support Heroku has for the gem community. So all you need to to is add the gem to your bundle since Hunspell is on rubygems, bundle install, and then deploy.
Gemfile
source 'http://rubygems.org'
gem 'rails', '3.0.5'
gem 'hunspell'

Then add to git:
git add .
git commit -m 'added hunspell'

Then bundle:
bundle

And deploy:
 git push heroku

A: Unless I am mistaken or something has changed (I cannot find any evidence of this), you cannot install external native libraries on Heroku. If the library is not already installed (this is the case, I think, for ImageMagick, and perhaps others), you will not be able to use the gem.

A: With Bundler, you should be able to install any gem.  According to http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/how-do-i-install-gems-for-my-app, "Almost any gem - even those with native dependencies - can be installed using Bundler. If there's a specific gem that won't install on Heroku, please submit a support ticket."
AFAIK, when your app is spun up, gems in the Gemfile are installed on-the-fly to the server your app is spun up to.
The Aspen stack has pre-installed gems, but you still should be able to add gems not pre-installed.
The bamboo stack has no pre-installed gems, so all gem dependencies must be declared explicitly.  I believe that is the same for the Celadon stack.


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