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Deloitte Immersive 3D Designer in Rosslyn, Virginia

We are looking for the next generation of innovators and dreamers to join our Unlimited Reality team helping our clients imagine a future of augmented experiences, virtual worlds and mixed reality applications. The Unlimited Reality team is composed of designers, developers, producers, and business managers-all working together to conceptualize and build out experiences that enable audiences to explore, learn, and access information through immersive platforms such as AR, VR, and games. If you are passionate about the growing landscape of immersive technologies and experiences, love working with creative and driven teams, and are dedicated to serving clients through thought leadership and delivery of excellence please join us in our journey!

You will play an integral role within our fast-paced interdisciplinary team to design interactive, immersive and engaging solutions for clients. Working with technical and creative leads, you will be responsible for bringing design continuity and expertise to all aspects of a project lifecycle. From supporting early concept exploration with visualizations, to creating final art assets for multiple platforms and devices, at various levels of fidelity. You should be prepared to interact with clients regularly, understanding their goals and determining the best approach to meet their needs.

What you'll do:

  • Work with stakeholders and design leads to understand project needs and translate them into objective-driven designs and 3D assets

  • Participate in client ideation sessions, create supporting visuals that communicate 3D visual direction for real-time experiences such as mixed realty (AR/VR) and immersive, computer-based applications

  • Explain 3D stylistic choices and 3D design principles to clients in a way that is meaningful and applicable to their given industry

  • Develop aesthetically pleasing and optimized 3D models that are technically accurate and/or stylized, while actively participating in technical and artistic problem solving

  • Work closely with a diverse team of designers (experience design, visual design) and engineers to iterate and implement assets in real-time engines

  • Work within an Agile methodology to support rapid prototypes and iterative builds throughout the design and development process

    Required Qualifications:

  • 3+ years of experience in 3D modeling, texturing, lighting, rigging, and basic animation (education/internships may be considered)

  • Experience Maya and the Unity game engine

  • Experience integrating and testing art assets in Unity

  • Experience lighting interior and exterior environments in Unity

  • Experience in level art (designing, building, and maintaining a complete Unity scene) and cohesive integration of 3D assets from multiple sources

  • Experience in high- and low-poly modeling, and asset optimization within real-time engine constraints

  • Experience working on a 3D asset from concept art through development, to polish and final delivery

  • Ability to work from concepts and images to produce accurate and consistent models

  • A portfolio that demonstrates well-rounded knowledge of 3D design principles and techniques, showing a variety of 3D environments, asset types, or styles; with an emphasis on optimized, real-time asset creation

  • Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud (CC)

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

  • Strong presentation and group collaboration skills

  • A self-motivated, problem-solving attitude

  • Ability to travel 20 - 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

Bonus points

  • Understanding of the Unity development pipeline and/or Git version control tools

  • Experience implementing and optimizing models for XR applications

  • Experience in basic scripting

  • Experience with real-time visual effects, such as particle systems

  • Experience with the Substance Suite (Painter/Designer) and PBR material principles

  • Experience with character modeling (realistic or stylized), rigging, and animation

  • Additional skills in illustration and visual design, 3D rendering for video, and/or game design

  • Willingness to learn new things and teach others what you know

  • Desire to research and develop eminence in the area of 3D design

  • Belief that all things can be better

  • The team

  • Deloitte Consulting LLP's Government & Public Services (GPS) Digital Government team is creating a new model for a new age: we're a creative agency and a consultancy. Understanding the digital space and preparing for what's next is at our core. Data is our heart, Agile is our passion, and user experience is our soul. We help government deliver next-generation citizen experiences, reshape how work gets done, and rewire the way government intersects with technology. That's the power of driving disruption. That's Digital Government.

    All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.


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Saturday, March 27, 2021

Djooky Spring 2021 - Winner Has Option to take $20,000 in CASH

Gina Brooklyn, the first winner of the Djooky Music Awards, has made it to LA, where she is to record her new song at LA Capitol Studios with an all-star technical team led by Brian Malouf, the Multi-Platinum US Producer.

As part of her trip, Gina already took part in 2 co-writing sessions, has written 6 new songs, and has had 3 coaching sessions with the world's best experts.

Gina commented: “I am so incredibly grateful for the Djooky team & what they’ve done for me thus far. This trip has been so much fun and so productive, and I’m so excited for what’s to come!”

In The Djooky Music Awards - Spring 2021 season, the winner’s cash prize will increase two-fold to $20,000. The Winner will be presented with two options: either to record a song with an all-star team at LA’s Capitol Studios OR receive $20,000 cash.

The dream trip to LA’s iconic recording studio also comes with a money-cannot-buy opportunity to attend coaching sessions with the best music experts globally.

One of the experts they get to work with is Brian Malouf, a multi-Platinum LA-based producer, and Djooky Co-Founder.

The second and third place prizes remain the same. Artists are to receive $5,000 and $2,000 to upgrade their music equipment. Alongside the main winners, every season there are also 12 Genre winners, who each receive a $1,000 prize to further their music careers.

Register your song TODAY at

Source: this content was first published on the Djooky platform and republished here courtesy of Nam Radio's Talent Showcase Africa artist development platform.

Join our Djooky Africa WhatsApp Group (if it's full join Djooky Africa Telegram Group) to promote your Djooky listed music, and to get the support you need from within the group's membership base.

If you've enjoyed this article, please share on your social media. Thank you.

Monday, March 8, 2021

The Djooky Music Awards Winter Edition 2021 has ended

The Djooky Music Awards Winter Edition 2021 has ended, and you can watch the entire event which was broadcast live on YouTube, here.

Our winner is a band called Ulyatau from Kazakhstan, and you can view their interview right after their win, here.

Djooky wants to thank every artist who participated in the Winter Season of the DMA. It is time to Meet The Winners Of The DMA Winter Edition, where I'm proud to point out you'll find Nigerian Tam Ben's song Electric Vibe in 3rd position overall; and in our all new Afrobeat category  Make You Mine by Laydon from Zimbabwe takes the number one spot.

These are truly exciting times for emerging talent right across the planet, and I have to say, Africa is so well represented and our artists are doing us proud.

I've created a Djook Africa WhatsApp Group wherein we lend support to African talent by working from within the community to boost and promote our own. And we've had some success. The third overall winner in the Winter Edition is Tam Ben from Nigeria, whilst the first winner in the Afrobeat category is Laydon from Zimbabwe. Both of these artists are in my WhatsApp group.

What I'm trying to do now is to push the Djooky weekly charts to encourage artists to go for the weekly cash prizes, thereby organically building this incredible movement exponentially. We've had tremendous success in recent weeks with Tam Ben, who's won the top chart position multiple times. You'll find out more about this weekly chart here

So we suggest you submit your song entry as soon as possible!

If you've enjoyed this article, brought to you courtesy of Talent Showcase Africa's Nam Radio in partnership with the Djooky Music Awards, please share it on your social media.

Wishing you all the success in the world,

JOETT - Voice Coach & Author


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The Runway to Hell

Even four years after the Paris climate agreement, politicians, businesses and consumers are still in denial what this means for our future and what we must do today. At best, we’re all paying lip service while trying to postpone making real changes.

Two examples: Narita airport is planning for a major expansion in flight capacity in the 2020s and Tepco and Chubu Electric Power are trying to open a new coal fired power station in 2023.

One of the greatest concerns behind climate change goals are climate feedback loops, where any amount of additional global warming triggers new causes of global warming. A few examples:

  • If arctic temperatures rise enough for the ground in permafrost regions to thaw in the summer this will lead to CO2 and methane releases from frozen ancient organic matter that starts to rot and decay.
  • Warming oceans may release methane trapped in icy slush as methane clathrate on the sea bed.
  • If summer air temperatures on the Greenland ice sheet rise enough to melt snow during daytime before freezing again, it changes the albedo of the frozen surface to absorb more sunlight and melt again more easily.

So if we want to avoid runaway global warming, we have a very tight CO2 budget that we can still release before the world has to run on 100% non-fossil energy sources.

What we would need is a moonshot-like project, with our brightest minds and financial resources focused on switching all power generation to non-fossil energy, expanding it to take over from other uses of oil and gas such as transport while minimizing release of CO2 outside of power generation. That means not just electric cars and trucks but also fewer cars, less air travel, no more deforestation, minimal consumption of cement and steel and more recycling.

While the Japanese government has formally committed itself to fighting climate change, the reality looks different. Last year the Narita International Airport Corp., government ministries and local government agreed to a plan to increase annual takeoff and landing slots from 300,000 to 500,000. To this purpose, a 2,500 m runway will be extended to 3,500 m to handle bigger planes and a third runway of 3,500 m will be built in the 2020s. Currently, there is no practical alternative to kerosene-based jet fuel. More flights and bigger aircraft mean more CO2 emissions from fossil fuel. Instead of making it possible for more people to fly more often, we should be looking for ways to discourage and avoid flying wherever possible.

JERA, a joint venture between Tepco and Chubu Electric Power is trying to build a coal-fired power station at Kurihama near Yokosuka, with plans to start operating in 2023. Coal is the most carbon-intensive of all fossil fuels. One kWh generated by burning coal even in the most advanced coal-fired thermal power stations releases about twice as much CO2 as the same amount of electricity generated from a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power station running on natural gas. With a limited carbon budget it makes no sense to burn any coal if we still have gas. If we really still must expand fossil fuel power generation (and we probably don’t in Japan), coal is by far the worst choice of all fossil fuels available!

Instead of expanding airports and building coal power stations, we should expand offshore wind power and geothermal energy while raising taxes on air travel, for example by taxes on jet fuel. A recent International Energy Agency report estimated the worldwide potential for wind energy production at 11 times the annual electricity consumption of the world. Japan has almost completely blocked offshore wind power. It has a huge Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), yet in 2018 Britain’s installed offshore wind power base was over 120 times that of Japan, Germany’s about 100 times and China 70 times. Even Belgium which controls only 0.5% of the North Sea had 20 times more installed offshore wind power capacity than Japan in 2018.

Some air travel can be shifted to trains or to less energy intensive ships. Eventually we will develop technology to fly airplanes with non-fossil fuel, such as methane produced from CO2 with renewable electricity in reverse fuel cells though that won’t be cheap or particularly energy-efficient. But until then we need to make hard choices that take us closer to our goals, not further away from them.

Future generations will struggle as coastal land where hundreds of millions of people worldwide currently live or where they grow food will disappear in the sea as warming oceans expand and glaciers melt. They will have to deal with it.

Whole countries will disappear in the next couple of centuries, including the Netherlands and Bangladesh. The same will happen to most of the ten largest cities in the world. The sea level rises projected until 2100 are by no means the end of the story: Sea level rises for several centuries to come are already locked in with the emissions of the last 200 years. The last time this planet had more than 400 ppm of CO2 in its atmosphere (as opposed to 280 ppm before the industrial revolution) was 3 million years ago, when sea levels where 20 m higher than today. So that’s going to happen again, even if we stopped burning all coal, oil and gas today. But because we are still going to keep doing that for a number of years or decades, the ultimate sea levels will be even higher than they were then.

Maybe in some ways it’s easier to speak truth if you’re a 16 year old school kid, not a politician who wants to get campaign finance from friendly businesses or to get reelected by voters who still want to fly on vacation to Thailand, or a business leader trying to please shareholders instead of saving the planet. But reality is reality, even if we look away. We, or our children and their children, will have to face it eventually and it will be what we make it today.

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August 8, 2022
The worldwide mobility as a carrier marketplace is projected to succeed in USD 40.1 billion

The worldwide mobility as a carrier marketplace is projected to succeed in USD 40.1 billion by way of 2030 from an estimated USD 3.3 billion in 2021, at a CAGR of 32.1% from 2021 to 2030. With 12 towns within the area score some of the best 25 on the earth, Europe remains to be the most efficient situated geographical house for good towns.

In line with the Ecu Fee, the good towns undertaking marketplace is predicted to exceed USD 2 trillion by way of 2025, with Europe alleged to have the easiest funding globally. Copenhagen, Amsterdam, London, Vienna, Paris, Barcelona, Stockholm, Berlin, and Helsinki have already initiated the advance of good town platforms.

But even so good town projects, different elements riding the MaaS marketplace come with bettering 4G/5G infrastructure, the penetration of smartphones, and the will for diminished CO2 emissions. Alternatively, the combination of quite a lot of MaaS stakeholders and restricted web connectivity in creating international locations will limit the mobility as a carrier marketplace within the coming years.

Peer-to-peer phase is predicted to sign up the easiest CAGR as folks may use peer-to-peer products and services to hire out their cars when now not in use sooner or later, which gifts alternatives for progress

In a peer-to-peer (P2P) ride-sharing carrier, drivers use their very own cars to offer a carrier to registered customers by way of an app. Every other style is peer-to-peer leases the place homeowners hire out their cars. More than a few modes of shipping can also be built-in into one virtual cellular app that covers the method from begin to end, together with reserving, commute making plans, and digital cost.

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As an example, Uber, a peer-to-peer transportation supplier, is branching out into non permanent automotive condominium and public transit price tag buying. In a similar way, Turo, a peer-to-peer condominium corporate, permits personal homeowners to hire out their vehicles to others. The corporate just lately partnered with Porsche to release a pilot program in San Francisco and Los Angeles that permits drivers to hire sports activities vehicles for round USD 100/day.

Adventure making plans phase is predicted to carry a dominant percentage right through the forecast length as customers can choose their most well-liked mode of transportation

Adventure making plans comes to offering adventure choices to customers via a mixture of real-time, predictive, and scheduled information in accordance with an information set of rules. Adventure making plans contains offering a listing of carrier choices and combines the optimum use of shipping modes in accordance with consumer personal tastes and shipping infrastructure. Thus, the consumer could also be granted some degree of personalization on the subject of choice for shipping mode and accessibility.

Generation platform phase is predicted to account for the biggest marketplace percentage from 2021 to 2030

The era platform phase is more likely to command the biggest marketplace percentage in the course of the forecast length because it supplies built-in products and services for experience hailing, automotive sharing, micromobility, bus sharing, and educate products and services. In July 2020, Google introduced a digitization fund of USD 10 billion to spice up India’s virtual financial system. Google plans to allow inexpensive web get right of entry to for each Indian as the rustic has the second-highest collection of web customers on the earth. Such projects are anticipated to create immense alternatives for high-growth area of interest markets just like the mobility as a carrier marketplace.

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Asia Oceania is predicted to carry the biggest marketplace percentage by way of 2030 whilst Remainder of the Global is projected to sign up the quickest progress throughout the forecast length

Asia Oceania is projected to carry the biggest percentage of the mobility as a carrier marketplace by way of 2030 on account of the expanding adoption of MaaS in China, Singapore, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Myanmar. The area has began making a sustainable ecosystem for MaaS. 5G deployment is gaining tempo in creating economies to spice up good mobility. As an example, in July 2020, Reliance Industries Restricted introduced that Reliance Jio has designed and advanced a whole 5G resolution for India. It stated it’ll be in a position for trials as quickly because the 5G spectrum is to be had and can also be in a position for box deployment in 2022. Therefore, the area is predicted to carry a lion’s percentage within the MaaS marketplace.

The Remainder of the Global is estimated to be the fastest-growing marketplace for mobility as a carrier throughout the forecast length. One of the crucial Latin American international locations similar to Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Peru, and Mexico are anticipated to pressure the marketplace within the subsequent decade. The presence of a number of mobility corporations and their partnerships within the area has created massive alternatives for MaaS. Grin, an e-scooter corporate, has partnered with Rappi to cater to the Columbian marketplace. It additionally merged with Yellow, a bike-sharing start-up in Brazil, to cater to the Latin American marketplace.


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The Definitive, No-BS Guide to Increasing Conversions (PHASE IV)

quantitive analysis

Step 8: Quantitative Analysis

Google Analytics Health Check

The main things to look for during a GA Health Check are:

  1. Does it collect the data I need?
  2. Can I trust the data?
  3. Are there holes in the data or inaccuracies?
  4. Is there anything that can be fixed?
  5. Is anything in GA broken?
  6. What reports or reporting periods should be avoided?
  7. Have annotations been added for the bad data periods, launches etc..?
  8. Do I have the reports and goals I need to report on the data that matters?
  9. How has the current setup been created and why?

With these questions in mind, review the Google Analytics account again using the GA Health Checklist. It is critical that each part of the GA account is setup properly.

Do not base successful tests on bad data. – Click to tweet

When everything is in order, collaborate with the client or Project Manager to identify areas of focus and the metric (reports + data) that will be used to determine the success or failure of each test. If this isn’t for a client and you are optimizing your own site, bring together your team and hash-out which data points will mean the most.

Use the GA report to highlight issues that need further analysis. Remember, that GA reports cannot identify the specific issue with a page, only that an issue exists.

Content Reports

Use content reports to identify:

  • High-traffic pages with low conversion rates, high bounce rates and exits
    • Does the traffic landing on the page match the page’s messaging?
      • Conduct split testing until your conversion rates on the page(s) improves; indicating that you have landed on the right copy/message for the audience.
  • Pages that have lower than site average conversion rates
    • Is the value proposition stated clearly and does it differentiate you from competitors?
      • Include a value proposition for both your product and your company. Convince readers that you not only have the best product but are also the best place to get that product.
    • Does the traffic landing on the page(s) match the page’s message?
  • Landing pages with higher than site average bounce and exit rates
    • Does it take longer than 4 seconds for the page to load?
      • Any longer than 4 seconds means there is room for improvement.
    • Are there too many alternative offers and ads?
      • Do not use auto-play – if someone wants to see your hilarious video, they will click on it.
      • Consider banner ads carefully – they need to be relevant to your visitor and related to the material on the page.
    • Can users skim the page and quickly get their answers?
      • This isn’t a novel. No one wants to read it cover-to-cover. Make the facts easy to find.
  • Landing pages with lower than site average conversion rates
    • Have you addressed objections?
      • List all of the possible objections your reader may have and add enough information or links to address each one.
    • Are you using jargon? Stop!
      • Write to people. Real breathing humans want clarity, not a bunch of meaningless corporate-speak.

Use this report to learn:

Screen Resolutions, Browsers & Devices

A light review of this area was accomplished during the GA Health Check; anything “major” that jumped out from a technical standpoint should have already been repaired before reaching this stage.

Now it is time for a more in-depth and revealing analysis.

  1. Which browsers and browser versions have lower than site average conversion rates? (need 100+ transactions or goals to be somewhat accurate)
  2. Which browsers have high bounce and high exit rates? (and at which specific stages in the funnel?)

  1. What is the distribution between desktop, tablet and mobile?
  2. What has the device trend been over the last 3, 6 and 12 months? (used to determine if this segment should be taken seriously)
  3. What are the lowest converting devices? Why are they converting low?
  4. Which pages have the highest bounce and exit rates on which devices (need page views over 1000+ views)

  1. What is the segmentation of users on Mac versus Windows? (add to overall market data – specific OS users do have common traits)
  2. What is the most common screen resolution? (add to overall market data)
  3. Which resolutions have lower than site average conversions? Are there usability issues on these resolutions?
  4. Which pages are showing the highest bounce rate and the highest exit rate for each resolution?
  5. Where is the biggest drop-off on the lower than site average conversion resolutions?

Walkthrough the main user journey of the lowest-performing (low conversion rate or high bounce-rate) device, browser and/or resolution using the specific device, browser or resolution in question. Identify potential issues and add each to the optimization requirements sheet.

Don’t have a library of devices and browsers at your disposal? No worries, these guys have got you covered:

  • Remote TestKitRemotely access over 350 Android and iOS smartphones from around the globe

  • PerfectoTest web and mobile apps on multiple devices, browsers, networks, locations and operating systems in the cloud – even offers testing using real-user conditions based on user personas

  • SoastaCloud-based emulator that enables testing on more than 300 devices

  • MacinCloudA pay-as-you-go solution for remotely testing on rented Mac servers

  • BrowserShots: Provides a super-quick look at how your pages display on almost any browser

There are a handful of companies that rent-out physical devices or provided a simulated environment for testing. In some cases, testing must be completed on-site; in others, the company will mail you a device ready to test.

The providers of physical hardware are location-specific and generally charge a per-a-minute fee for use of a carrier’s network or a flat-rate if the device will be connected to Wi-Fi.

Site Search

When conducting a site search, use this report  in conjunction with the following questions:

  1. How is search being used on the site? Could an FAQ section answer this need?
  2. What are people looking for on the site? Does the content need to be displayed better or is it incomplete?
  3. What new business opportunities can I glean from this information?
  4. Are the visitors that are searching the site converting higher than other traffic? If yes, should site search be more prominent?

Add the results to the Research / Analysis Sheet and rank it according to the overall conversion impact it will have on the site.

Key Audience Insights

The goal of key audience insights is to gather information about the market. Look for insights on possible conversion uplifts and data to add to the persona profiles.

Before running the reports, filter-out all regions without 100 goal completions or transactions.

The resulting reports answer the following:

  1. What are the top traffic regions/locations?
  2. What regions/locations have lower than site average conversion rates?
  3. What is the split of new versus returning visitors? (does this site have a high volume of return visitors?)
  4. Is the conversion rate for new visitors lower than the site average? (may indicate possible usability issues)
  5. What are the ages of the market? Which age groups are converting lower than the site average? Which age groups are converting higher than the site average? Why?
  6. Which Affinity Categories have high conversion rates? (create more of this type of content)

The key audience insights provide a better understanding of the targeted marketplace and highlights which groups of visitors are converting and which are not. This information is needed to dig into the “why” of low converting groups.

The results also reveal which content is working in the targeted market place.

Mouse Tracking

Implement mouse tracking on the site and use it to answer the following:

  1. What gets noticed and what doesn’t?
  2. Where do people click and where don’t they click?
  3. How far do visitors scroll down any given page?
  4. Are people clicking an area expecting it to do something?
  5. What issues are users encountering? (answer this by reviewing recorded User Sessions to see how are visitors are filling out forms on the site)

After collecting this information from the mouse tracking maps and recorded User Sessions, add key areas of interest to the  Research / Analysis Sheet.

Ring Model Check

When the Google Analytics Health Check is complete, conduct a quick ring model analysis using this template.

Use the analysis to determine which page in the sequence will have the most positive impact on increasing conversions. This approach is especially effective if there is bad data in the analytics tool.

For example, if there are 3,000 product pageviews; 5,000 cart-adds and only 1,000 checkouts there is clearly a problem at the cart-add stage. However, if the total checkouts were only 100, the problem is at the checkout stage.

Stay tune for updates on Phase V: Content and Testing.

Updates will be posted next week. Cheers!

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Parents as Rulers – scope & limits

Parents as Rulers is the title of the second chapter or essay in Charlotte Mason’s book, Parents and Children. The idea that we rule our children sounds almost strange to our modern ears. Isn’t that what controlling, legalistic parents do?
To rule means to have authority over or to govern – that is, to direct and control; to keep within the prescribed limits; to regulate, to influence, to restrain.

When children are very young, we have to exercise control over them until they learn some inner restraint. To do otherwise would be neglectful, not to mention dangerous. But while we recognise the principles of authority and obedience in the home, there are parameters to be aware of:

* Parents are under God’s authority; they are His deputies i.e. they have authority to act on His behalf. ‘Order is the outcome of authority.’ On the other hand, children are quick to discern if parents are being arbitrary (making rules for their own convenience) and are not governing by fixed principles.

‘I am a man under authority…’ Matthew 8

In School Education, Pg 15, CM distinguishes between authority and autocracy and defines the latter as ‘independent or self-derived power.’ Authority, on the other hand is neither of these. It isn’t harsh or indulgent and operates on fixed principles.

* Parents represent God to their children – the child makes his first approach to the Infinite through his parents.

…a human being comes into the world, not to develop his faculties nor to acquire knowledge, nor even to earn his living, but to establish certain relations…
To complete his education, I think there is but one more relation to be considered – his relation to Almighty God.
School Education, Pg 89

* Parents hold their children as a public trust to be trained as is best for the welfare and blessing of the community

* The authority of parents is provisional (temporary; for a set time) and has limitations

* Parental authority encourages autonomy – children should be gradually acquiring the ability of self-government

Charlotte Mason said that no parent escapes the call to rule. He may abdicate or give over his functions and authority to someone else, but in so doing, he hands over his rights as a parent to that person.
She writes about the practice of giving the training of infants into the hands of institutions or ‘Maternal Schools,’ (which I mentioned here) and said that it was a new thing in the history of the world and that even the Spartans left the children to their parents for the first seven years!

Perhaps such public deposition of parents is the last calamity that can befall a nation. These poor little ones are to grow up in a world where the name of God is not to be named; to grow up, too, without the training in filial duty and brotherly love and neighbourly kindness which falls to the children of all but the few unnatural parents.

CM uses strong language to describe this practice – alienation, desecration of the home, children growing up orphaned…

The Abdication of Parents

Parents may abdicate their authority formally or by default and such abdication is immoral. In  Towards A Philosophy of Education there is an interesting observation about anarchyit is a mere transference of authority. The causes of this are:

* Parental desire for approval or popularity results in them allowing children from an early age to do what is right in their own eyes.

* Busyness and pre-occupation – one day the parent wakes up to find the authority he has neglected to use has been taken up by others not as competent.

* The love of an easy life lures parents into letting things take their course. Their children seem to be doing fine, they can relax…

The Limitations of the Parent’s Authority

* Parental authority is solely for the advantage of the child – I really like the examples CM gives here: a mother makes her adolescent daughter go outside and get some exercise, rather than allow her to sit around inside reading or whatever – because it’s in the best interests of the daughter. The introverted dad who discourages his children from social interaction because he is a man of quiet habits, is not considering their needs, but only his own, and is using his authority unlawfully. Bringing up children is not about parental comfort and when I’ve taken that road the temporary peace is soon overtaken by longer lasting consequences.

* There comes a time when the parent’s right to rule is finished and they need to abdicate gracefully – even if the grown up son or daughter still lives at home. And if the parents think their offspring are not to be trusted in ruling themselves, CM has a an opinion on that –

…most likely their parents are to blame for not having introduced them by degrees to the full liberty which is their right as men and women.

Mmmm…we have young adults still living at home, and while I agree that children need to be eased into this liberty over time, I also think it’s difficult for them to fully attain this while they’re still at home. They can contribute financially, but until they have the responsibility of their own homes, they don’t really appreciate all it entails.
There’s a tension between many parents who still have their grown-up children at home, and we’ve certainly felt it at times, but we’ve also noticed that it wasn’t difficult for them to adapt to having their own households when they did finally leave home. They came into full liberty when the final responsibility was on their shoulders and not ours.

‘…the highest art lies in ruling without seeming to do so…Happy is the household that has few rules…’

11 thoughts on “Parents as Rulers – scope & limits

  1. I enoyed reading these wise opinions of CM. The section encouraging a child to play out side really rang a bell.How many times I thought to myself: \”Why do the boys next door just sit on the couch with their Playstation? Why doesn't their mother send them outside to play? And I had to laugh \”happy is the household that has few rules!\”. Immediately many 'mother said so' rules flashed through my mind: No piano playing when I'm on the phone. – Wash your hands after you play with the cat. – Make your bed in the morning. Don't leave knives full of peanut-butter in the sink, wash them! Good times….and carefree times. 🙂

  2. Those rules sound very familiar! I remember when I was a child that on Christmas day all the neighbourhood kids would be outside playing with their presents – bikes etc. Now everyone is inside playing on technology…

  3. Brandy recommended this chapter in Start Here and my CM Group was in this chapter this week. I skimmed through it with the intention of coming back and reading more closely. Thanks for helping a girl out 🙂

  4. We're still going through Start Here so read this chapter also but it's been good to go back over it more intentionally & write out my thoughts as I read through it again 🙂

  5. It is a real problem when parents abdicate their authority over the kids. Even as kids approach adulthood guidance and care is needed to ensure children are able to make the transition from childhood to adulthood. Charlotte Mason has wise commentary and parenting advice. Thank you for sharing!

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Nikon DP-20 finder for the F4

Recently, as part of a beautiful, practically unused, late model Nikon F4s which (ahem) came my way, I immediately noticed a problem with the DP-20 finder. There was quite a heavy infestation of fungus on at least one of the internal eyepiece surfaces which was so bad it made viewing the lower meter readout difficult, blurring the LCD. I’d already knocked the seller down quite a bit (without knowing about this issue, of course) and so my initial reaction was not to demand a refund. I’ve fixed this kind of thing before – in lenses and more simple finder pieces – so how difficult would it be to eliminate the fungus from this otherwise pristine DP-20 and restore it to minty condition?

Well, as it turns out, quite difficult. But feasible, given care and patience.

This project required some careful planning, given the condition and obvious complexity of the finder. I got hold of the service manual for this finder which, unfortunately, is an x-generation photocopy scanned by an ancient scanner (probably) and so the image quality gives rise to a fair amount of guesswork. I was so determined to get this right that I bought a well-used finder for a cheap price, so that I could practice and note any caveats before working on the “real thing”. At worst, I’d spam it up completely and learn something in the process; at best I’d have a working spare finder that I could use for parts if need be. The practice run went very well in the end; a very grubby, fungus-infested DP-20 (though not nearly as badly affected as the minty one) with decomposing foam seals is now very clean, fungus-free, re-sealed and functioning perfectly, with just a few external scratch marks. I’m keeping it as a spare.

Now much more confident that I could do this, I set to work on the minty one. I’ll describe the steps I took in case this is of use to anyone else who wants to have a go at restoring their own finder. Note that this doesn’t require a complete disassembly but it’s worth mentioning that the finder optics and areas around are quite complex and fragile. With care there should be no need to de-solder any wires, but some patience is required.

The finder optics comprise three separate lenses in front of the prism (not including the screw-in eyepiece on the outside of the casing). The first lens is held in place by two small screws, whereas the second, which is able to travel forwards and backwards, is held in only at the top by the dioptre adjustment mechanism. The third and final lens, before we reach the viewing edge of the prism, is attached to the meter cell unit and is the most difficult to work on. The worst possible area for an infestation of fungus, if we were to try to remove it, would be the back-side of the third lens. Guess where it was in my finder.

Step one, a challenge in itself, is to remove the centre parts of the dioptre dial and meter selector dial without causing too much damage. These plastic discs cover the screws that need to be removed in order to remove the dials. They are held in with glue and are, frankly, a pig to remove because it’s likely that there will be some degree of marking to the outer parts of the dials during removal. To minimise this I covered the outer dials with insulation tape and then gently levered the covers out using a very small screwdriver. Once the screws are exposed both dials can be removed. Take care with the two washers for the meter selector dial: the white plastic one goes against the inside of the dial and the black foam one goes against the case.

After removing the four black screws of the outer case, the top can be lifted away from the body. A little bit of wiggling may be required here. The wires attaching the flash shoe to the main body are quite long and I didn’t need to detach them at all. With the main cover off the first lens can be seen directly, with the two screws holding it in place.

Take the first lens off and inspect both surfaces; with luck any fungus will be here (this is where it was, mostly, in the “scruffy” finder with a tiny bit also on the front surface of the second lens). If there’s some on the back surface of the second lens then this can be taken out by first loosening the dioptre adjustment unit which sits on top. Notice the two small screws holding this part down (not the larger one; that can stay in place) and loosen them a a bit. Be careful here as the two mercury switches are held by this unit and they are glued to the unit underneath, yet there’s some play to take advantage of. The top adjustment unit may be lifted just enough to wiggle out the second lens, which is held there by the pin of the swinging arm. Again, inspect both surfaces.

If there’s fungus on the front surface of the third lens, it can be treated in-situ. If it’s on the back side, though, then the meter cell housing needs to be taken out. There are two screws holding this in place – a small one and a larger one, but this unit is the most difficult to get out so take extra care here. Remove both screws. Facing the lens, first lift the left side and then lift the right side a little. It may not appear to want to move much but persevere here, gently lifting either side and twisting slightly, firstly at the top, outwards, and then push up, swinging out at the base. Watch for wires snagging and gently lift them out of the way so that the lens/cell unit can swing outwards. Don’t pull it too far out. To clean the back side of this lens it will be best to turn the whole lot upside-down and move the unit out far enough to get at the surface, but no more.

DP-20 insides
Lens no. 3 of the eyepiece group – clean and clear. Nearly half of the inside surface was covered in fungus.
DP-20 eyepiece lens group holder- side view
Side view. Notice one of the mercury switches and wires going into one of the meter cells in the lower left of the picture.

Once clean, re-assemble everything in reverse and look for any wires that may have become detached. I had just one such casualty – the black wire of one of the mercury switches – which was a simple fix with a soldering iron.

Neither the fungus in scruffy nor that in minty had etched the glass coatings at all and so I was able to remove it completely, using my usual method. There’s no secret to this, although people tend to have their preferences as to which tools and compounds to use. I have cleaned fungus from photographic optics for a few years and I’ve never had any return, using simple, easily obtainable isopropanol, cotton buds, cocktail sticks and certain brands of optical cleaning wipes which are, specifically, impregnated with alcohol. It’s the cocktail stick wrapped in an optical wipe which really does the trick, with gentle rubbing over the affected area. If necessary, the area can be finished off with an optical-grade microfibre cloth. Perhaps stronger chemicals, such as hydrogen peroxide, may be required for very well-established fungus but I’ve yet to encounter any.

Pentax ME

Not the ME Super, but perhaps the ME Better!

Pentax ME

I think I struck lucky with this one. Found, by chance, when searching for a Pentax-M 50mm lens, the description of this item detailed the lens only and was priced at about the same as the lens alone would go for. But all the pics showed the camera too, so I asked the seller to confirm what was included in the sale. The answer: everything! I snapped it up even though I wasn’t sure I’d need the lens (see previous post) because the camera looked so clean. No knowing whether or not it would work, though, so it was another cheap punt.

This is the camera that led to the later, and much more popular, ME Super. The latter has many refinements but, as I have discovered, also involved some cost and weight reduction by replacing some of the metals with plastics. One of the reasons I prefer the look of the plain ME is the metal top cover with the ASAHI stamp; the Super has a top cover which is mostly plastic but plated with a metallic outer and, as such, has a slightly different appearance. There are no buttons near the shutter dial on the ME because it’s not possible to set manual shutter speeds on this model; it’s aperture priority only apart from a purely mechanical speed of 1/100s (x-synch for flash) and B. The shutter dial itself is more robust on the ME, compared with the all-plastic affair of the Super, and I prefer it even though it results in a more fiddly process to remove the top cover. Most of the remaining differences between the ME and the Super are inside.

So, upon arrival, the lens seemed fine apart from the fact that it was very dusty inside. No fungus (unlike the one that had arrived just prior to this) and mechanics were fine. This was a simple, half-hour job to dis-assemble, separate the main groups either side of the aperture blades and blow out the vast majority of the dust that had settled onto the two surfaces there.

I noticed immediately that the camera’s wind-on lever was loose when near the end of its travel and it didn’t click closed. The shutter, though, seemed fine as did the electronics and meter display. I knew what this meant: the “click spring” had broken off inside. The purpose of this spring is to secure the wind-on lever close to the camera body to, firstly, switch off the meter and, secondly, prevent accidental partial wind-on. Easily overlooked but should not be; the broken-off bit of metal can travel down into the workings or even shutter and seriously jam or permanently break something. I decided to resist the temptation to check shutter speeds any further and see if I could fish out the broken spring. Luckily, after removing the camera base plate, a few short shakes resulted in the piece in this picture falling out.

Broken click spring
Broken-off click spring. Better out than in!

Safe now to carry on testing, I figured all seemed well apart from the usual need to replace the mirror buffer and light traps.

I ended up harvesting a click spring from a parts-only ME Super (the springs are identical) and installed it into the ME. The Super has a refinement, though, where a second, coiled spring is used to strengthen the main click spring and presumably make it less likely to break off. The coiled spring is held around a post and is sprung against a second post, neither of which are present in the ME. I discovered that both posts are direct replacements for plain screws in the ME and so I gave the ME the Super’s full click spring refinement job! Perfect.

With the top cover still off, all that was left was to remove and replace some crumbling old foam which was meant to cover the open area where the meter LEDs go, leading straight into the area between prism and top surface of the screen. This was a very fiddly job and resulted in more cruddy bits than I wanted to see when looking through the viewfinder, so when all was sealed again I removed the prism and cleaned the underside, the viewfinder side, the back of the viewfinder lens and the top surface of the screen. The prism itself is held in by two tiny screws – one on each side – and removal requires the electronic boards to be carefully lifted away from the top surfaces first of all. After loosening the two prism screws the entire prism will then lift out. It’s the same situation in the ME Super and it’s the only way to remove debris that has found its way into the space between prism and screen, since screens are not user-removable in these cameras. The eventual replacement for the ME Super – the Super A (Super Program in the U.S.A.) – does have user-changeable screens which, if nothing else, makes cleaning much easier.

I have renewed the mirror buffer now and will soon replace the light traps in and around the rear door so that I can run some film through. I love the mirror/shutter sound and feel of this camera; there’s something very reassuringly 1970s about it and that’s only meant in a good way. It’s ever so slightly less dampened in movement compared with the Super but it’s certainly no Spotmatic in terms of noise or vibration. And that’s not to say that the Spotmatics are bad, either – far from it.

Something worth mentioning is that I get the distinct impression that the ME suffers much less from the very common shutter and wind-on issues that many Supers will suffer from now, if not serviced. Perhaps because it’s slightly less refined internally, with fewer plastic parts. My Super had the wind-on issue (film winds but shutter won’t charge), which I appear to have fixed without the need for a full service, and my (much more shabby) parts body has the same issue which can’t be fixed in the same, relatively simple, way.

So, is the ME better than the ME Super? Purely in terms of functionality, not really, and yet I prefer it. If you’re on the lookout for a fully working ME Super and don’t care much about manual shutter speeds, give the ME a go.

How did this happen?

I blame it partly on my discovery of Vivian Maier a year or two ago but, if I’m to be honest, medium format has been in the back of my mind for many years. I’ve seen the odd Hasselblad when scouring various camera shops over time but admiration was really as far as it went. The desire to try a larger format than 35mm never went away and it seems the Maier effect must have accelerated the inevitable. Drawn more to 6×6 than any other (645 too much like 35mm, 6×7 too bulky) I purchased a TLR* quite cheaply, restored it and love the results on film. Square format it would be, then, so a Hassy was bound to happen eventually.

This is a 501CM which was made in 1997 and came as a boxed kit with A12 film back, 80mm Zeiss Planar T* “new-C” f/2.8 lens, Acute-Matte-D crosshair screen and waist-level finder. It was less expensive than expected, partly due to the lens and partly the external condition. The lens is essentially a CF with the F bit removed (to distinguish from the original C-type), introduced to cut costs at the expense of a feature that not many would apparently need. Both body and lens were coated in a layer of grime which, thankfully, I was able to remove thanks to my OCD-fuelled cleaning but, unfortunately, years of filth has caused some pitting in the chrome. There’s nothing much I can do about that but I’m satisfied that both body and lens are now clean (the lens looks almost new now).

Of course, no auction-site purchase would be complete without an issue or two (OK, perhaps I exaggerate) and the first of these was immediately apparent: the screen was distractingly grubby and no attempt at cleaning would make it good. After some research I discovered that the shockingly-expensive AM-D screens are made of two layers, and it became clear that the dirt was in between. “Don’t ever take the screens apart or you’ll ruin them” was the message I was reading over and over, so I took it apart and very gently but thoroughly cleaned both layers. Whatever it was has actually permanently etched the top glass layer, sadly, although I was able to drastically improve things. I can only imagine that the screen had become wet at some point and some glass-etching fungus had grown in-between, where it had stayed damp for some time. Anyway, re-assembly was much more difficult; it can be done as long as swearing is permitted.

Issue #2 was more tricky because I was still getting a feel for how the camera operated as a unit. I put the occasional wind-on jam and A12 winder looseness down to my inexperience but more research indicated that there could be problems with sticky old grease in the back’s mechanics. Off came the cover (with this latest A12 the dark slide holder needs to be removed first: four screws hold it on to the rear of the magazine casing) to reveal no sticky grease but one gear wheel with two missing teeth! Said teeth were floating around inside but hadn’t caused any mischief themselves; the problems were down to the gap in the gear, resulting in it sometimes catching and sometimes another cog free-wheeling inside the gap. No idea how two teeth were sheared off without causing damage to another cog as well, but that was the situation and I can understand why the seller had missed it. I actually managed to glue the teeth back on – talk about intricate – and everything worked perfectly, but it didn’t last, of course. And, because I’d taken the back apart to check and fix what was meant to be a common issue, I couldn’t return the kit even if I’d felt inclined to. I couldn’t find any A12 parts here and the alternative seemed to be to pay for a full service and repair.

Whilst away on holiday I managed to find a service manual, the cog part number and a nice chap in the U.S. who happened to have one new. The part was waiting for me when we returned home a few days ago. I used SPG to lubricate the teeth of the new wheel, because the description is similar to that of the grease specified in the service manual (and I already have SPG!) and spent an hour or so fitting it and making sure all the bits were working properly. Success!

I’ve fixed the light trap (temporarily: it needs a new foil part but don’t have that yet, so I trimmed a small breakage to stop it catching on the dark slide) and I’ve adjusted the film progress indicator because its rotation was slightly off. This indicator should be red when no film is in, white when it’s freshly loaded, and should gradually turn to red as the film is used up; mine was slightly off and fixing it was more difficult than it sounds. Not essential, but since it’s there I want it working properly.

One last thing has been done prior to the imminent film test. I bought an extra screen (pre- Acute-Matte as I’m not made of money!) with a split prism. This confirmed my suspicion, when using the AM-D screen, that infinity focus (and, therefore, everything else) was ever so slightly off. At the lens infinity stop a distant image was still not quite aligned. I’ve corrected for this with a tiny adjustment of the mirror stop (right side whilst facing front of body).  I’m aware of the factors which can contribute to focus alignment in Hasselblads and have confirmed that focus is correct across the whole screen, so I’m quite confident. Aside from impact damage (no sign of that) the mirror stop is the most likely factor following hundreds or thousands of shots and there are, thankfully, no foam pads to deteriorate under the gliding mirror of this model. Testing will confirm. If something such as body length needs adjustment, I’ll send it to a specialist. If it’s instead the lens, I’ll soon find out. Optimistically, though, I think this mechanical marvel is all good to go now.

*TLR = Twin Lens Reflex. Eg., Vivian’s Rolleiflex or, in my case, a Yashica Mat.

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Georgios Balarjishvili wins first ever commonwealth games gold for Cyprus

Georgios Balarjishvili wins first ever commonwealth games gold for Cyprus

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At the first day of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Georgios Balarjishvili of Cyprus won the men's U66kg title after seeing off Scotland's Finlay Allan in the gold medal match with the bronze medals going to Northern Ireland's Nathon Burns and Australia's Nathan Katz. Balarjishvili claimed the first ever gold for Cyprus in the Commonwealth Games judo history. The judo tournament is held in Coventry’s Building Society Arena. Balarjishvili became the second youngest winner ever, just behind the late legend Craig Fallon in 2002.

South Africa's Michaela Whitebooi celebrates Judo gold

The 26-year-old judoka effected a Waza-ari to win the final.

South Africa's Michaela Whitebooi celebrated Judo gold in the women's -48kg competition with victory over India's Shushila Devi Likmabam at Coventry Arena on Monday.

In the golden score round, the 26-year-old judoka effected a waza-ari to win the final, with England's Amy Platten and Katryna Esposito, who claimed Malta's first medal Birmingham 2022 - sealing bronze and second medal ever for Malta at the Commonwealth Games since 1990 by Laurie Pace.

Whitebooi was delighted to keep her focus to claim gold, saying: "I knew I had to go out, nothing to lose. I pushed and I’m happy obviously at the end with the result.

"It's really big because I am showing I can get results internationally and I’m proud of myself - even without my coach being here.”

On her match-winning throw, she added: “You know what, it was just body reaction but I think I envisioned that throw even before I went on to the mat. I really wanted to win with that throw and I’m really happy that I did.”

Ashley McKenzie wins his second CWG gold

England's Ashley McKenzie successfully defended his 2014 title - with Judo missing from the Gold Coast programme - as he beat compatriot Samuel Hall in the U60kg division.

The 33-year-old top seed's victory was confirmed by ippon (combined techniques) as Australia's Joshua Katz and Vijay Kumar Yadav of India claimed the bronze medals.

I’m going to have a chilled night and I’m happy. I’ve done my job, what I’ve come to do

McKenzie was proud to keep his title and was looking forward to a quiet celebration, saying: “It feels amazing. Eight years ago I won it and I’ve won it eight years on. Everyone says I’m the old one in the group but look - I’ve got a gold baby and I couldn’t care less.

“I’m happy, I’ve done it in front of my family, I’ve done it in front of Luke, one of my coaches, my family, my girls. “I’m going to have a chilled night and I’m happy. I’ve done my job, what I’ve come to do.”

Tinka Easton takes gold for Australia

Tinka Easton claimed gold for Australia in the U52kg competition with victory over Canada’s Kelly Deguchi as Charne Griesel of South Africa and Yasmin Javadian of Northern Ireland sealed bronze.

Easton admitted she was over the moon to see her dream come true, saying: "It's so exciting.

"It's something I've been dreaming about for the last few years. It's very exciting to make it happen.

"I was falling behind the pace a bit and picked up a few penalties. It came to a point where I knew I had to switch it on and go - and it turned out OK."

Christa Deguchi expected gold U57kg

In her first appearance at the Commonwealth Games, Christa Deguchi won gold in the U57kg category. She capped off her clean run with an ippon in overtime against Britain's Acelya Toprak, who was battling in front of her fans.

“I am very happy to have won this gold medal as a Canadian. This is my first medal at the Games, I am very proud of myself!” expressed Christa Deguchi as she left the tatami.

From the start of the final, the 26-year-old athlete set her pace. The author of a spectacular point halfway through the confrontation believed that she had taken the lead in the fight, but she had to start from scratch when the officials erased it from the board.

Deguchi was undeterred and eventually scored again with an ippon after just over a minute of extra time to claim victory.

“A great medal for Christa, who was participating in her first major Games experience. This medal is part of her preparation for the World Championships in October and towards the 2024 Games!“, described her coach, Antoine Valois-Fortier.

This gold medal is the first for Canada at the Commonwealth Games since those of Nicolas Gill and Carolyne Lepage, in 2002, also disputed in England, but in Manchester. The maple leaf has only participated in four editions of the Commonwealth Games in judo, in 1990, 2002, 2014 and presently in 2022.

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Friday, September 23, 2011

Off to kitty-sit

First off, Happy Fall to all of you.
Today was back to being a busy day of cat-sitting. Remember the little moochers that wait on the deck of the house where I care for Josephine? They were there again today. The two of them waiting with their mouths open when I arrived. Lucky for them I just so happened to have some treats with me. The kind they love.

I picked up keys today to start a few days of cat-sitting 6 kitties in one home. This should be a lot of fun.

Off to water plants and do a check on a gorgeous log home. I think I could live in one of them. Two new clients called today for cat-sitting. I just love meeting new cats.

These 3 little kittens that keep me from getting anything done at home are now 2 weeks old.. They seem to change every day. I was told to keep the light limited in the closet while the eyes are developing. This makes it hard for photos plus they move around constantly but next week I will bring them out for some photos in the daylight.
Annie had a treat of salmon tonight so she is busy washing up and taking a break from motherhood for awhile.

I'm adding flowers to the kitten room today. I knew there was something missing.  I'm filling up the cat-bag as the weekend gets closer. Better add more treats for the 2 moochers. Busy time ahead with cat-sitting.

I'm pilling cats on Saturday. It's similar to putting your hand in a garbage disposal. If it's off you're safe. If it's running.........well, you get the picture. Pray for me!

hugs, Deb

  1. Amazing how big these guys have gotten in only 4 days!!
    Keep up the good work Annie (and you too Deb)!!

  2. Mwaaaa! I need a kitten fix!! I want to give these little sweeties a kiss! Perhaps you could kiss their little noses for me...

    Happy Weekend Deb!
    xo Catherine

  3. I love those sweet babies! Maybe I should think about doing something like this in Tulsa: cat sitting.

  4. Oh the babies are growing so fast! Love the pictures Deb! Enjoy your cat sitting and the moochers...pills, yikes not so much!

  5. I am so enjoying this kitten photos, and hearing how Annie is coming along. What a wonderful opportunity for us to share vicariously with you.

    BTW, do you know of anyone who cat sits in the White Rock, BC area? I know of a few people that are looking for sitters.

    Jen @ Muddy Boot Dreams

  6. I'm not sure why....., but I'm wanting to cry as I look at those 'new' eyes and fat little bellies.
    Someday when there's not so much stress in my life..... I want and need a kitten!
    Thanks for sharing your sweet pictures

  7. Own! Soooooooo cutiessssssssssss!

  8. So you *just* happened to have the correct treats? Hmmmm. Good luck with the pilling...
    The babes appear to be getting a few stripes!

  9. My tiny 6 lb tortie turns into a rabid monster when she needs pilled!

    Pink kitten bellies..gasp!

  10. I love the kitten tummies =)
    Hope the "pilling" goes OK--you have my sympathy!

  11. Love those KITTEEEEZ!

    Ah, pilling cats, such fun. My vet gave me device for that that I find helpful. Maybe you've seen them before. The pill is held in a rubber tip, and you depress the plunger, which shoots the pill down kitty's gullet. But I'm guessing you are an expert at the barehanded cat-pilling technique! :)


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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Pampering my orchid & one eye on Audrey

Is this ok? Should I straighten this shoot so the buds will bloom and not be damaged? I have attached it to another shoot and I'm hoping this is the right thing to do.

Audrey was put on a bus with a note attached to let her off at the first camp-ground and I'd pick her up in a week or so but she was returned by the bus-driver because of her bad language. I can't win.

                                  "I'm  reporting you, you maniac"
Anyway, she's back and I will just have to keep a 24 hour watch on my very brave orchid.

I've been dusting again. I live with 7 furry bodies and a messy retired-guy who is always 'fixin' something so you can imagine it does not get done at one fell-swoop.

Then I came face to face with dishes and you know what happens then.

I'm nursing a head-ache so I'm enjoying a second cup of coffee. Have a great day.

hugs, Deb

  1. Oh, Audrey...I think you need more security ,Deb.
    Jane x

  2. Maybe Audrey needs a pot of catnip to keep her occupied! I can see where that stem with orchid buds would be inviting to a mischievous cat:-D

  3. I know how you feel cats are always up to mischief ...and I have to place plants out of reach ...its always a treat to have an orchid in flower...Good luck !! Gail x

  4. Audrey you remind me of Emily and what a bundle of energy she was! Love that you got to play with dishes today! Hugs, Linda


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Agriculture reforms in England

Case Study

Policy Repurposing

On 31 January 2020, the UK left the European Union and therefore also left the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

Agriculture is devolved in the UK. This means that the governments of each UK nation (the UK Government for England, the Welsh Government, the Scottish Government and the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland) are able to introduce agricultural policies which suit their particular circumstances.

This case study looks at the new system which is being introduced in England. This is the most significant change to farming and land management in England in 50 years. Our vision for sustainable farming is for a thriving agricultural sector where the majority of farms are profitable, productive and economically sustainable without subsidy through basic payments, and are all making a significant and widespread contribution to environmental, biodiversity and climate change goals.

Between 2021 and 2028 we will gradually reduce and then stop untargeted Direct Payments in England. We will invest the money that we free up to support farmers to improve the environment, improve animal health and welfare, and reduce carbon emissions.

England’s reforms

Environmentally sustainable farming is fundamental to our new approach to England’s agricultural system, and we are introducing three schemes that reward the delivery of environmental benefits: the Sustainable Farming Incentive, the Local Nature Recovery scheme and the Landscape Recovery scheme.

In mid-2022 we will start to roll out the Sustainable Farming Incentive, followed by the other two schemes. We expect they will be fully running by 2024, but we will continue to adapt them based on the learning we derive from user testing and regular use. We are working with farmers, land managers and other partners to co-design these schemes. Piloting of the schemes, starting in late 2021, will provide a critical opportunity to test and refine them as part of their rollout.

There will be three levels of support aimed at paying for sustainable farming practices, creating habitats for nature recovery and making landscape-scale change such as establishing new woodland and other ecosystem services. Some options will be universally open to all farmers and land managers, while others will be more targeted at a smaller number of large projects.

Our aim is to design and administer schemes in a way that:

  • will support farming and the countryside to make a significant and widespread contribution to environmental, biodiversity and climate change goals including by reducing greenhouse gas emissions;
  • is trusted by the sector;
  • attracts wide participation – we want to increase participation rates in environmental land management schemes from the current 30% to more than 70% of farmers by the end of the transition, with even higher participation in the Sustainable Farming Incentive;
  •  supports a sustainable and vibrant sector.

More information about each of the three schemes that will reward farmers and land managers to produce public goods is below.

Sustainable Farming Incentive

The Sustainable Farming Incentive will pay farmers for actions they take (going beyond regulatory requirements) to manage their land in an environmentally-sustainable way. Actions will be grouped into simple packages set out as standards, to make it as easy as possible for farmers to identify those actions that are best suited to their land and their business. We’ll support these farmers to develop a whole-farm plan to help make their land and their business sustainable.

Our aim is to make it attractive and straightforward for everyone to take part, including the many farmers who are not currently in an agri-environment scheme.

We are working with a range of stakeholders from farming and environmental backgrounds to design and develop the Sustainable Farming Incentive.

Local Nature Recovery

The Local Nature Recovery scheme will be focused on securing significant environmental benefits across the country – empowering farmers, foresters and other land managers to build bespoke agreements that meet their local priorities.

The types of activities that will be paid for under Local Nature Recovery include:

  • Creating, managing and restoring habitats such as woodland, wetlands, freshwater, peatland, heathland, species-rich grassland, and coastal habitat, as well as connecting isolated habitats to form networks;
  • Natural flood management;
  • Species management;
  • Rights of way, navigation and recreation infrastructure;
  • Education infrastructure, events and services; and
  • Geodiversity and heritage asset management.

Landscape Recovery

Landscape Recovery will support the delivery of landscape and ecosystem recovery through long-term, land use change projects, including projects to restore wilder landscapes in places where that is appropriate, large-scale tree planting and peatland restoration projects. These projects can deliver a wide variety of environmental outcomes and support local environmental priorities while making an important contribution to national targets. We expect that this component will be competitive.

Starting from 2022 we will begin piloting Landscape Recovery through initiating ten long-term projects. These projects will help us restore wilder landscapes and will commence between 2022-2024. The focus will be on large-scale sites, typically around 2000-3000 ha, where there are opportunities to significantly enhance the landscape to deliver a diverse range of environmental outcomes.

This will support the delivery of our ambitious national targets and commitments, such as the Government’s pledge to protect 30% of the UK’s land by 2030 and the establishment of a Nature Recovery Network. Eligible projects could focus on creating woodland, restoring wetland and peatland, enhancing bogs, fens or saltmarshes, or other valuable land-use change, and they could create, expand or link nature reserves.

Other Support

Productivity, innovation and R&D

We know that innovation and technology are key to boosting productivity while, at the same time, enhancing the environment and feeding a growing global population.

In order to achieve productivity growth, we are putting forward an ambitious package of measures which will focus on enabling investment, supporting innovation, facilitating structural changes, and increasing capability and skills.

Farming Investment Fund

The Farming Investment Fund will launch in autumn 2021. It is made up of the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund, and the Farming Transformation Fund. This funding will pay out grants for agreed items and larger scale projects which support improvements in productivity. The kinds of things grants might be awarded for could include:

  • on-farm water storage infrastructure, including reservoirs;
  • precision agriculture equipment;
  • robotic or automated technology; and/or
  • equipment and technology for storing, sorting, or processing products.

Agri-Tech Strategy and Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund

We have committed significant funding for agri-tech and innovation through the 2013 Agri-Tech Strategy (Innovation Centres and Agri-tech Catalyst Fund) and currently with the £90 million Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund ‘Transforming Food Production’ R&D Funding programme.

The ‘Transforming Food Production’ challenge’ is supporting groundbreaking research and development so farmers will be able to harness the latest technology to produce high quality food, increase their productivity and move towards net zero emission productive farming systems by 2040. This £90m public investment aims to support the development and use of precision agricultural technologies that boost the efficiency and productivity of UK agricultural systems.

Defra has recently funded Farming Innovation Pathways, a new collaborative agricultural R&D competition delivered through UKRI’s Transforming Food Production challenge fund, aimed at developing new and existing farm-focused innovations.

Soil health

Soil is one of our greatest natural assets, underpinning a range of benefits, including food production, biodiversity, carbon storage, and flood protection.

The 25 Year Environment Plan (25YEP) sets out the Government’s ambition to have sustainably managed soils by 2030, helping soils to function better to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services. In order to meet this ambition, we are developing a healthy soils indicator as part of 25YEP. The indicator will have a suite of parameters that reflect soil type and land use as well as key attributes of healthy soil, including its chemical, physical and biological characteristics.

We are also funding the research and considering the development of a renewed soil health monitoring scheme, designed to effectively measure and report on the soil health parameters needed to inform effective policy. The future monitoring scheme through the soil indicator will be able to inform us on the impact of changes in land management practices, including the wider take-up of bioenergy crops in rotations.

We are investigating the scope for a potential soil health action plan and whether an action plan would be an appropriate means of driving policy which supports land managers and farmers in achieving our goals for sustainably managed soils.