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Mollyanna Weighs in on Woolly Times

People ask me why I don’t write much anything about worldly events.

If I did, it would probably be variations on the good news, bad news, who knows? genre. One reason for this is that I have noticed that whenever I weigh in with some sour judgment about anything, I find myself walking in the shoes of the opposite point of view in the next nano second. Instant karma! Just add judgment! Elizabeth also seems to experience this syndrome with great regularity. No sooner does she say she is not interested in traveling and thinks she is done with Europe than she finds herself on a plane to Spain.

There is another reason for my growing conviction that I have no idea if anything is ever bad news.

I spend much of my time either out in the garden up to my elbows in Flowers or talking to Flowers as I write about them. In either case, I do whatever I am doing while also sipping the vibration of Flowers from a mason jar of water and Flower Essences. This makes me a honeybee an advertisement for how poorly all these new eco detergents work a Flower Child.

As a Flower Child, I find myself immersed in the Flowers’ constant joy and optimism to the point where it becomes my own vibration as well. This makes for odd cocktail party chat as most people think a Pollyanna like me is deranged. Therefore, it is probably a good thing I am no longer invited to any cocktail parties ( though this comment will no doubt bring in a few invites- Whatever will I wear? Something with grass stains.)

Okay, I really DID have a sensible reason for writing today.

This morning I worked on the Desert Flower Essence section in the next Guide. We plan to reprint the Guide in early 2009. This gives me the next few months to rewrite the whole book, section by section. Part of our work is to create new logos for each collection. I give you a sneak peak of the logos for the Desert Flower Essences.

This is a photograph of a computer print out of the art so it doesn’t do the logos justice at all, but it does give a hint of the exciting artistic adventure we are on with the help of our new graphics person, Jessica Miller.

As I worked on the Desert Flower Essence section, it was hard to miss how helpful these Flower Essences are for these times. I thought I would share with you the photos of just a couple of these Desert Flower Essence gems and also mention their timely strengths once again.

Desert Gold helps us know the abundant flow of the generous universe even in what appear to be times of scarcity or lack.

Purplemat helps us know less can be more and experience contentment with what is.

Desert Chicory helps us to trust the healing flow of our lives, collectively and individually.

Arizona Lupine helps us make the most of available resources in circumstances of apparent lack and also tap more deeply into our own inner strengths.

Desert Forget-Me-Not helps us remember our selves before difficulties left their mark, and helps us reclaim our joy and delight in the world and our sense of the world as a gift unfolding before us, not a punishment to be endured.

And then there are the Woolly Woolly twins, Woolly Easter Bonnets and Woolly Margiold. These two are certain support for these Woolly Times.

Woolly Easter Bonnets, shown here, helps us find the divine gift of cheerfulness when daily life is difficult while Woolly Marigold helps us not only acclimate but flourish and thrive with grace and generosity in seemingly barren or desolate circumstances.

Really, is it any wonder I keep my nose buried in Flowers and hydrate with Flower Essences? Tough times call for more Flowers. That’s my story and I am sticking with it.

Cider Press Blues

The greenhouse plants that sit in these peat moss filled frames in the summer have all been moved into the greenhouse. The front porch is piled with boxes of bulbs to be planted and the kitchen is filled with bushels of potatoes that need to be sorted and stored in the cellar.

The Red Shiso is safely hung in the drying shed. After the harvest, Lizzy and I weeded and limed the bed where the Red Shiso grew this season. Then yesterday, Jim covered this garden in hay.

Jim wins the Green Hope Farm hero of the week award for this work. One reason this job made Jim the hands down winner is because he had to haul all the hay in a wheelbarrow. This is because we no longer have a truck. Our farm truck was part of the big recall and buy back by Toyota. Apparently the frames on 800,000 Toyota Tacomas were made from defective steel. We are missing our rusty truck a lot anyways. A truck holds a lot more hay than a wheelbarrow and plus, wheelbarrows are dangerous.

A second reason Jim deserves the award is because he hauled all this hay and spread it on the garden in the pouring rain.

Jim’s interface with our cider press also made him the clear winner of this week’s award.

A bumper apple crop motivated us me to order a new grinder for our cider press. Up until now, we used a homemade grinder that required us to cut up the apples before grinding and then grind these quartered apples over and over and over again. We I finally decided to spring for a big heavy deluxe grinder, one I had had my eye on for more years than I can count. It looked to me like it would be easy to install.

Ordered in early August, the new grinder arrived with only one of two needed support brackets. It was late August when the other bracket arrived and Jim got to work on the easy assembly that basically required him to rebuild the press. After a happy Saturday afternoon attaching the new grinder, Jim’s moment of installation victory was short lived.

Within moments of the first turn of the grinder, the roller jammed and split. Now on a first name basis with the folks that made the grinder, Jim called and a new roller was shipped. Meanwhile, the apples on most of our trees had ripened and were beginning to drop from the trees. The heaving buckets of apple drops that we had collected were now moldering next to the press. Call it good times for yellow jackets.

Late September and the new roller finally arrived. Conveniently, Jim had to dismantle the press he rebuilt in order to install the replacement roller.

And the installation has not been a piece of cake, though I made Jim apple cake to take his mind of his installation woes.

Yes, just a day or two from October and not a drop of cider has been pressed. Instead the grinder is in a multitude of pieces all over the kitchen table.

In fact, I think JIm went out to spread hay in the rain to take his mind off the problems with the grinder.

It’s sort of the theme of these times, isn’t it? Things that sound easy to install but aren’t.

Which leads us to the technology front where Jim further secured himself the hero of the week by installing new memory in our UPS computer. Not that any of us thought we needed more memory in this computer, but it was a requirement for a new software upgrade from UPS. Anyways, this memory installation required Jim to go to Staples twice between a session jamming what turned out to be a defective memory chip into the bottom of the computer.

Who am I kidding? This guy is not the hero of the week. He is a hero of the ages. I would toast him with a nice hearty glass of cider………if I had any.

A Visitor from Foreign Parts

An old friend visited this weekend, Jim’s college roommate, Jake. Roommates for their sophomore, junior, and senior years, these two share a lot of funny stories and a lot of very unusual expressions created during their years together. This language, JakeJim speak, is still the basis for most of their present day conversations, leaving the rest of us in the dark as to exactly what is meant by such phrases as, “de guy goes by so goes the guy.”

Jake’s career path has been a bit different than Jim’s. Jake works for the state department as the consul general and chief of mission in Jerusalem. Jim teaches sixth grade.

Here is how this all breaks down.

Jake has drivers, bodyguards, maids, and a cook. Jim is the maid. He is married to the cook.

Jake speaks Arab, Hebrew, Dutch, Greek, English and JakeJim speak. Jim speaks sixth grade, a very arcane dialect and one he can understand only because of his deep understanding of JakeJim speak.

At the consulate, Jake has two gardeners. At the farm, Jim is married to the gardener.

Jake knows pretty much everyone in government and has pictures of himself meeting these people. Jim has these pictures of Jake.

Jake attends too many meetings. So does Jim.

Jake takes part in many meetings between factions that disagree with each other. So does Jim.

Jake had a meeting this morning at the UN. Jim had a meeting too.

Jake has top secret clearance and reads top secret documents on a routine basis. Jim intercepts notes passed in class.

Jake has flown in Marine One, the president’s helicopter with various presidents. Jim sees an occasional helicopter fly over the farm.

After thirty years in the diplomatic service, Jake has one degree of separation between just about everyone on Earth. Because of Jake, Jim has two degrees of separation from everyone.

I knew both Jake and Jim when they were in college. Their career trajectories are of little interest to me because I am more amazed that they have gray hair. After all, to me, they are still those twenty year old guys who spoke a strange language, invented a new holiday called Dada Day and did serious research to see if they could survive on a diet of pop tarts and kraft macaroni and cheese.

Jake and Jim, during their senior year in college, take a pause in their argument about what the big building in the valley below is.

Another historic moment, the handshake signals the beginning of the JakeJim accord wherein Jake and Jim agree to disagree on what that building was in that valley, an argument that has been a constant in their relationship, thus giving Molly the first breather she has had from this inane argument in thirty years.

Wabi Sabi

A Camino friend of Elizabeth’s sent her pictures of his world. It was a quirky group of shots from his european hometown. When he asked for pictures of her world, Elizabeth sent a group that I found unexpectedly different, yet true of the farm.

Some part of me will always be a fifth grader. If asked to do this “assignment”, I would have sent factual shots in an effort to literally convey what this place looks like. Probably my shots would have been dull like postcards. Lizzy’s pictures had an unvarnished quality to them that spoke more deeply of the farm and the season and life in general than any informational shot ever could. They followed Emily Dickinson’s dictum to “Tell all the truth, but tell it slant.”

Her tomatoes were no sanitized red orbs to meet our freakish standards for perfect produce, but tomatoes as they often look this time of year.

It was no coleslaw ready cabbage she photographed, but one before the battered outer layers were peeled away, reflecting the actual effort required to become a cabbage.

In a neighbor’s farmyard, there was the eloquent suggestion of use

and disuse.

Her shot of the “peloton” was no roadmap photo of this screened porch building at the edge of our hayfield where all the kids sleep, but a picture of Will making the most of his Saturday morning in said building.

Lacking in artifice and in my earnest fifth grade sensibility, Elizabeth’s pictures suggest there is no obligation to strive for something other than what is or to strive to explain everything fully. They have an acceptance of transience. the illusive, and the natural processes that break down everything except the loving eye that bears witness to this brokenness.

I was deeply comforted by her wabi sabi view of our hilltop.

Most growing seasons, I spend much of my time in the gardens working to bring the plants to their full and ripest point. I love this peak moment when I find it in a Flower, but these pictures reminded me of the beauty of things past their peak, broken, or imperfect.

Flowers never try to hold onto this peak moment, because going to seed is as important to them as their peak moment of beauty. Unlike our culture, they make no effort to hold onto some impossible moment of eternal youth. And this surrender is not a loss. The gardens have a deep beauty and gravitas as they pass into fall and winter. Plant architecture may be broken, but in fall, the gardens have great heart and wisdom. One could argue they have more substance than on that perfect summer day.

Which is all very reassuring to those of us in the fall of our lives or to someone who not only is in the fall of her life but finds herself with an arm that may not work as well again.

I was more witness than participant in the gardens this summer. Even when I thought I could start fiddling in the gardens again, the Angels asked me not to pick up my clippers. I think they knew my enthusiasm to return to gardening tasks would outstrip my abilities and result in a lost digit or too.

Benched as I was, I had to get over my desire to have the gardens the way I wanted them. I couldn’t orchestrate much of anything by myself. My children scattered like the wind when they saw me coming, because they knew contact with me in daylight hours would involve some plea to, “just tie up that rose,” a task that would invariably take longer than the word “just” suggests. I had to embrace mess and weeds and the presence of all the seed pods I would normally have deadheaded. I had to sit around and enjoy it just as it was.

I was surprise by what happened. After twenty years of endless surprises brought to me by these gardens, you would think I would cease to be surprised, but not me. I never seem to grasp the obvious I still am surprised by nature’s generosity. I am still overwhelmed by the love.

And the untended gardens were a symphony of love this summer. They didn’t just ride on the momentum of our twenty years of joint effort so much as sail off into exuberant, over the top self expression. In the thinly planted main vegetable garden, masses of Calendulas filled in for missing vegetables. Borage sprawled across every square inch not covered in Calendulas, much to the delight of every bee at the farm. Who could complain about that yin and yang? It was gorgeous and nobody much missed that broccoli.

In the Venus Garden Sophie and Emily expanded from the original design for the garden to squeeze in every annual we had started that was now in need of a home. This resulted in so much unplanned playfulness and joy.

And the surprise about my own reaction? I loved sitting around enjoying all the garden surprises. In previous growing seasons, I too often fixated on “garden problems”, racing from one to another to clean things up. This year, I had to go wabi sabi on myself. In my brokenness, the path of least resistance was to look for the beauty in things just as they were. This proved so much easier than expected. The untended beauty of gorgeous volunteer Flowers as well as weeds reminded me, just as my broken arm reminded me, that sometimes the light shines best through a crack in the vessel.

No matter how much our minds might tell us the glass is half full, when we are forced to stop and really look at it, the glass is always overflowing. Nature always overflows our cup. Life always overflows our cup.

The New Me

It was high noon Monday. The gig was up inventory was low. I had fantasized predicted that Emily’s late summer bottling marathon was going to last forever until her October break. But it didn’t take a psychic person who could count to five to see that since Emily departed back to her life at college, a large number of our Flower Essences had vanished into thin air done what our Flower Essences do. They had been sent off into the wider world into your hands.

So this morning, I dove back into the job that, up until I broke my arm. had been mine.

I began to bottle again. I think I can safely say that I will no longer need to do the arm rehab exercise that required me to do 10 reps X 4 times a day with a two pound arm weight.

An average day of bottling requires me to lift a two pound box of bottles up and down to the bottling gizmo twenty times to fill twenty bottles. Then this is repeated with fifty more boxes. That makes for 1000 reps with a two pound arm weight. I think that is enough.

And my rehab putty activities to help me improve finger strength and dexterity? Also now unnecessary. Will is going to be a very happy camper tonight when he inherits my putty collection. I may not be able to use my left hand with any skill, speed, or dexterity yet, but bottling is going to give me a lot of practice. And that makes me optimistic about my long term recovery of most of my arm and hand skills. I may never want to move as fast as I used to (having found genuine joy in moving slower this summer), but someday I probably will have a choice about that again.

But let’s go back to the stuff of legends where we left me at the bottling sink……….. Because I had fiddled while Rome burned done other things instead of bottling these past few weeks, pretty much everything required extra steps. There were no 2 ounce red shisos bottled. There were also no 2 ounce bottles washed. There were also no 2 ounce bottles racked in boxes ready to be washed. There were also no 2 ounce bottles out to be racked….. You get the picture.

By necessity, I was moving further and further away from what I had originally thought of as the task at hand….. and everything I was doing to get myself back to square one I was doing at the speed of a terrapin. Because that’s my new speed! And generally, I am loving my new speed. But not so much this morning. There were just toooooooo many hovering faces.

I began to think I needed a four hour coffee break in town needed to pull a Sarah Bernhardt with a dramatic scene about my arm needed to learn how to bark, needed to wave a white flag of surrender, because every time I saw one of today’s three shippers, they were standing in front of me with their heads tilted and sympathetic smiles on their faces, telling me most earnestly, “Molly we are out of Baby Blue Eyes.” “Molly we are out of Sage.” “Molly we are out of Chamomile.” Molly we out of A LOT of the new Camino Essences.” “Molly we are out of Anxiety.”

Basically we were out of everything.

While I let my fingers do the walking began to fill in the inventory gaps, the shippers read me excerpts from the mail. This always lifts me up. What lovely, lovely letters you write! It always makes me feel so grateful that I get to be here. Yes, even today, when I was more turtle than hare. Your letters took me from half glass full to cup overflowing in a nano second. And that is a pretty remarkable thing for a terrapin like me.

PS We are having problems with the archives on the blog. My apologies! While Ben tries to figure out how to fix this, please know that all the past blogs are there and can be accessed if you just keep scrolling down through the current blogs. I am particularly loathe to have you lose easy access to the Camino blogs, so we are trying hard to fix this problem. Like so many computer events, this seemed to happen out of the blue and yes, fixing this problem has been another more turtle than hare moment for us……… While we all wait for the fix, can I read you an excerpt from your dear letter to us?


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There is a long and distinguished literature involving demand analysis using international cross-section data. Such models are widely used for predicting national per capita consumption. However, there is nothing in this literature testing the performance of estimated models in predicting demands across the income spectrum within a single country. This paper fills the gap. We estimate an AIDADS model using cross-section international per capita data, and find that it does well in predicting food demand across the income distribution within Bangladesh. This suggests that there may be considerable value in using international cross-section analysis to study poverty and distributional impacts of policies.

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    What to wear: comfortable clothing and shoes. Please bring rain gear if wet weather is predicted as tours take place rain or shine.

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Israel Unveils New 'Green Index' for Country's Hospitals

Health Ministry to set aside NIS 1 million budget for making Israel's hospitals more sustainable, in accordance with OECD standards.

Israel's Health Ministry has instituted new regulations designed to green the country's hospitals, in accordance with OECD standards for sustainability at health care institutions.

Israel joined the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a group made up of 34 of the world's free-market democracies, in May 2010.

As part of the project, NIS 1 million will be set aside from the Health Ministry's budget for a "green index," with the goal of making the country's hospitals greener.

Among the goals of the project are prevention of noise pollution, energy savings, encouraging alternative forms of transportation within hospitals, installation of water-saving faucets and landscaping, ecological community gardening and setting a maximum level of water consumption at every institution.

The new regulations, published a month ago, were drawn up by a team led by Dov Pest of the Health Ministry, and will go into effect in 2013.

In recent years, Israel's hospitals have begun taking steps toward becoming more environmentally friendly.

In February, Kfar Sava's Meir Hospital became the country's first to gain certification for environmental management from the Standards Institution of Israel.

Ahead of its certification, the hospital launched a series of steps including reduced water and energy consumption, the installation of a solar water heating system and a 50% reduction in the amount of cooking oil it consumed.

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Obama could be placed in the spiritual and moral mainstream of American liberal Judaism, says Goldberg - and that’s why his relationship with Netanyahu is so complicated.

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There are two good reasons for East Anglian gardeners to make their way to the Royal Norfolk Show next week - both our very own horticulturist and photographer Martin Fiddes and pest control expert Julian Ives will be in attendance!

But you'll have to look hard to find them both - Martin will be in his alternative guise of a Master Composter on the Norfolk County Council stand whilst the science section of the Easton College display is where pest guru Julian will be appearing.

Martin will be helping to spread the home composting word and will be complimenting the Master Composter line-up on the stand, a course which is run jointly by NCC and Garden Organic, the country's leading charitable organic gardening organisation. You can find out all about recycling, composting at home and how composting can benefit you, your garden and the environment in general. The kids will love finding out what lives in a compost bin too!

But you'll have to be quick - Martin's only on the stand on Wednesday morning so make that your first port of call if you want to quiz him!

And if a hiveful of bumblebees is more your thing, then head to the Easton College display where Julian will be accompanying around 100 of these extraordinary garden pollinators. He'll be explaining just how beneficial these indigenous UK bees are to the garden and can answer all your questions on bees' lifecycle, setting up the colony and anything bee or garden pest-related you can think of!

In excess of 50,000 visitors are expected to descend on the Norfolk Showground over the two days the show takes place - Wednesday June 29th and Thursday the 30th - at the very well appointed and easily accessible Norwich venue. The Norfolk Show is the largest two day agricultural show in the country and showgoers can expect to see - in addition to Martin and Julian - livestock, farm machinery and local produce.

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Rambling Ruins

An exploration of the architecture of Nazi Germany.

Through moldering archways and crumbling columns wind grim and mossy paths, streaking their way past ancient Corinthian capitals and decayed statues and all the detritus of the ancient world. This is the ruin archetypical, the classic picture of the remnants of the classical world, assembled for future generations to stare at and journey through, overawed at the grandeur of the empires that once were. Aesthetic comment aside, however, the architects and engineers of both past and present do not design their buildings with this ideal directly in mind: indeed, ruins for them stand as much a symbol of impermanence, of the fleeting nature of even the greatest human constructions, as of the endurance of empires past. For one uniquely modern regime, however, the idea of the ruin held great promise not only for its ruler, but for its chief architect as well. Before tearing through Europe in a spree of conquering, Nazi Germany in general and Adolf Hitler in particular were obsessed with the preservation of their thousand-year Reich in brick and stone. And in the architecture they left behind lies the same lessons inherent in all ruins: a reflection of culture, of occasional triumph, but inevitably also of downfall.

Certainly Hitler had at least some more background than most in the arduous task of designing a comprehensive architectural style for the Third Reich — the classic portrait of Hitler as art-school-failure-turned-dictator already does enough to support such an idea. Indeed, even his failure to enter art school was in some ways fueled by his own interest in architecture: the pastoral unpopulated watercolors of buildings and cottages he submitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna were ultimately rejected for being an architectural rather than artistic portfolio. These early paintings do reflect Hitler’s future predilections for both the pastoral and the grand, with rural landscapes jostling with grand and florid renditions of the aging landmarks of Vienna, the last trappings of the once-great Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hitler renders both with a meticulous eye, carefully delineating rustic bricks and fading facades, with the few people present merely dabbed in, splotches of rogue paint inhabiting the landscapes and buildings of Hitler’s Vienna.

The influence of these early artistic exercises in nostalgia is clearly visible in the stylistic guidelines he envisioned for the Germany he came to rule in the 1930s. Although Hitler came to power just as the flourishes of Bauhaus German modernism were emerging, his choice of architect for the new infrastructure of the Third Reich was the young Albert Speer, whose imposing neo-classical visions appealed to Hitler’s ideas of grandeur. Among the many ideas Speer fed Hitler, the concept of ruin value — of designing buildings with their future ruins specifically in mind — was among the most prominent, and Hitler eagerly took it to heart as the best expression of the permanence of his soon-to-be empire. The idea was certainly not a new one: though Speer states that he originated the concept, ruin-mania in the 18th century culminated in the construction of a new castle-like ruin to appeal to the rulers of one vassal state of the Holy Roman Empire.

The commissions Speer was able to execute for Hitler, however, were designed to turn ruin-value into a national architectural paradigm. To preserve continuity between the Greco-Roman ruins of yore, Hitler and Speer forbade the use of modern reinforced concrete and steel in Nazi Party constructions, with historically-appropriate marble and stone as substitutes. The style in which these materials were to be assembled was a strict-laced classicism, with solid columns and arches that would stand picturesquely a thousand years onward as testaments to Aryan strength. The first Nazi Party commissions of the empire evinced this much: the Nuremburg Parade Grounds featured huge planes of amphitheater-style seating fronted by grand arches and flags, all sprawling over a site some 12 square kilometers in area. The Berlin Olympic stadium was of similar construction, with Speer adding a stone façade over a previous design Hitler regarded as impudently modern. All over Nazi Germany, this same style predominated: even the German autobahns were constructed as much as an aside to the ancient Roman network of viaducts as out of military necessity.

These constructions, however, were but minor trifles compared to the Nazi vision for a reinterpreted Berlin. Speer and Hitler created grandiose visions of the Berlin of the post-war world, comprehensively tearing up the fabric of the old city in exchange for a new world capital. The centerpiece of this German city for the ages was an enormous People’s Hall, a huge governmental gathering hall to feature a dome as tall as the Empire State Building supported by endless avenues of colonnades stretching over a thousand feet in length. Such buildings had been attempted in small scale in both architectural and engineering terms, the former through Speer’s own Reich Chancellery expansion and the latter through the building of several enormous concrete piles designed to simulate the stresses of such enormous buildings. The former was adored by Hitler for its luxurious trappings and materials; the latter, however, quickly demonstrated that any attempts to build his People’s Hall would end in a mess of subsumed soil and collapse. Such smaller-scale experiments, however, were all Speer’s dreams ultimately amounted to: the outbreak of World War II siphoned off the materials Speer so desperately needed to attempt any more constructions, and he was ultimately reassigned to manage armament production.

Like most modern ruins, what remains of Speer and Hitler’s imposing buildings never managed to acquire the historical patina of beauty characteristic of the ruins of empires past. Buildings such as Hitler’s beloved Reich Chancellery which survived the plundering of materials for war were soon themselves victims of bombing raids, artillery bombardments, and air-strikes — forces far more destructive and far less romantic than sweeping winds and the slow decay of nature. Those buildings that survived the sacking of the once-great German cities now for the most part stand desolate and empty: the hastily-assembled concrete edifices of the Nuremburg Parade Grounds now rot away in fields, their former glory starkly eviscerated by museums and history books. Some buildings, however, stand not with the same ignominy: Berlin’s Olympic stadium survived the war relatively unscathed and has hosted multiple soccer cups, and the German Autobahn still connects an ethnically-diverse and fully-integrated Germany. And with that spirit, the spirit of repurposing and reuse of the old for the expression of the best in humanity, ruin value and the ideology of empire is perhaps best refuted.

Andrew Lin ’17 ([email protected]) writes this from Mather library, whose bare concrete columns bear a rather striking resemblance to the square columns of Speer.

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    Hitler hated Berlin….but recognized its present and future importance as the Reichs capital and seat of power. The grandiose plan was to ensure a legacy and backdrop to a future successor. Hitlers heart was actually in the redevelopment and new construction of, galleries, libraries, museums in Linz by his architect Giesler.

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    Great article from Harvard to support their anti-semitic slant.
    It’s a must read for all the jew haters.


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AHL’s new Atura Blacktown in Western Sydney has a feature that guests might skip past when they walk into their rooms for the first time.

The property features Australia’s first installation of the world’s first invisible door lock crafted by VingCard Elsafe.

Known as Essence by Vingcard, the lock encases all electronic components inside the door itself to make the access devices practically invisible to hotel guests, apart from a colour blended-in indicator on the door above the handle.

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Atura Hotels’ Director of Operations and Development, Geoffrey York, says the locks are a great fit with the hotels’ industrial warehouse-style design.

“The moment I was introduced to the Essence by VingCard lock, I was struck by the minimalistic design and I realised that it would help the Atura hotel perfectly fitting into our urban industrial, art inspired ‘edgy designed’ guest rooms,” he said.

“Essence has allowed us to create a clean design in our hallways, giving it a modern sophistication that is simply unmatched by any other hotel in Australia,” York said.

VingCard Elsafe’s General Manager for Oceania, Julian M Good, said hotel door locks have “long posed a challenge to hotel design professionals tasked with blending the locking hardware into the hotel décor”.

“Lock manufacturers have made strides in recent years by minimising the hardware and incorporating new technologies such as RFID and NFC, but visible card readers had remained on the door exterior, giving hotels a distinctly commercial feel in the hallway,” he said.

Good said Essence by VingCard solves that dilemma, by “hiding the locking components from the user and allowing designers to align the guestroom doors with the current trend toward a more residential look in hotel design, without compromising security in any way”.

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Discussion in 'HOWTO-Related Questions' started by granade, Jul 8, 2010.

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    Hello all,

    I have followed the guide below and now i am unable to browse to any site. I followed the guide verbatim and even did the command suggested by a user in the comments section.

    Here is the suggested command by a user:
    update-rc.d command syntax correction:
    sudo update-rc.d tproxy defaults

    So after initiating this command im now receiving page cannot be displayed error. I have tried rebooting and restarting network and squid but no use. Im trying to get this going for my kids laptop.

    I still new not familiar with all the commands of ubuntu so im not sure what logs to share with you to help resolve this issue.

    Thanks in advance for any help!

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    Just wanted to bump this as i still am not able to browse.

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    Unfortunately I'm no Dansguardian expert... :(
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    No prob.

    Looks like karmic and dansguardian dont play well right now. There is a bug from what im seeing on the interwebs. I went with 8.04 Hardy Heron and got it going for my kid.

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Isobel Ross was a lovely, spirited witch who lived in a small village in the Highlands of Scotland. Isobel was an outstanding student at Hogwarts. She was top of the class in Charms and Captain of Quidditch. She fell in love with a Muggle from the town, the Reverend Robert McGonagall, and they eloped. It wasn’t until the birth of their first child, a daughter she insisted to be named Minerva after Isobel’s grandmother, that Robert was told the truth: that his wife was a witch.

Although Robert’s love for Isobel never wavered, the fact that she’d kept such a secret from him for years damaged their relationship. The loss of trust between them and the need for living a double life took its toll on the couple. They had two more children, both boys, and all three children were magical.

Highly proficient in Charms and an excellent Quidditch player

Isobel McGonagall (née Ross)
Gender Female
Dates fl. early 1900s
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School Hogwarts - Student
Affiliations Captain of Quidditch
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H.R. 5175/DISCLOSE Act:
Another Congressional Attempt to Muzzle Free Speech

William A. Estrada, Esq.
Director of Federal Relations

June 22, 2010

The U.S. House of Representatives is considering an imminent vote on the DISCLOSE Act.

The DISCLOSE Act, H.R. 5175, was intended to roll back the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC. However, the legislation places severe disclosure requirements on corporations and organizations that decide to use corporate funds to make statements about candidates for federal office. Organizations that use funds for campaign activities (such as taking out an advertisement in a newspaper urging people to vote for a candidate who supports the U.S. Constitution over international law) would have to include the names of every single person who has given over $600 to the organization, even if the person didn’t know that the organization was going to take out these newspaper ads.

The bill does not appear to apply to organizations such as HSLDA because we do not spend membership revenue on campaign activities, and we only send political communications (such as endorsements of federal candidates) to our membership. Additionally, the DISCLOSE Act does not apply to organizations that only engage in advocacy and do not get involved in political activity. However, we believe that the bill as written will create a chilling effect on free speech. Organizations will have to comply with onerous red tape and disclosure requirements, which will likely mean that they will cease to provide valuable and informative statements on candidates and elections.

Furthermore, this legislation may lead to even greater restrictions on the free speech of organizations such as HSLDA in the future.

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Please call your U.S. representative right now and urge him or her to vote against the DISCLOSE Act. You can call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 or use HSLDA’s Legislative Toolbox to find the name and contact information of your U.S. representative. There is no need to identify yourself as a homeschooler. You can make your message as simple as:

“Please vote against H.R. 5175, the DISCLOSE Act. Congress should not take away the free speech rights of organizations and corporations that are made up of ordinary American citizens.”

Campaign finance reform is a complicated issue. While maintaining the integrity of the campaign and election system is important, we believe that the DISCLOSE Act goes too far toward discouraging free speech through its imposition of severe disclosure requirements.

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A gripping story of buried truths, deceit, and sudden, brutal death featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont fromthe New York Times bestselling author of Betrayal of Trust

J. A. Jance

Minor in Possession

All manner of sinners and sufferers come to the rehab ranch in Arizona when they hit rock bottom. For Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont, there is a deeper level of Hell here: being forced to room with teenage drug dealer Joey Rothman. An all-around punk, Joey deserves neither pity nor tears--until he is murdered by a bullet fired from Beaumont's gun. Someone has set Beau up brilliantly for a long and terrifying fall, dragging the alcoholic ex-cop into a conspiracy of blood and lies that could cost him his freedom . . . and his life.

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Flower Power Coco Beach (2CD)

Love, Peace & Flower Power by Coco Beach is a selection of all 60’s and 70’s most popular songs that brought our best memories back and we love it. CD1 starts with the gentle pop melody written by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas and made world-class by one of the singer, Scott McKenzie; “San Francisco – Be Sure to Wear Flowers In Your Hair” that is one of the best-selling singles of the 1960s. It is followed by Dusty Springfield “Son Of A Preacher Man”, Joe South -“Games People Play”, The Guess Who “American Woman”, Small Faces “Lazy Sunday”, The Fifth Dimension “Aquarius Let the Sunshine In” (The Flesh Failures), The Animals “House Of The Rising Sun”. But it won’t be complete without Janis Joplin legendary “Mercedes Benz”, registered on October 1st 1970, 2 days before her death at the Sunset Sound recording studio in Los Angeles when she asked producer Paul Rothchild to roll tape because she has a song she’d like to sing and that’s it. Let’s go on now with Fleetwood Mac “Albatross” and Humble Pie “Natural Born Bugie.”

Now you can feel the simple beauty of The Moody Blues “Nights In White Satin” song and be transported to the thoughts of an old lover, before listening to Melanie “Ruby Tuesday”. The next one “Like a Rolling Stone” was released in 45 singles on July 20, 1965. Despite its length, twice the maximum recommended by the radios at the time, it became Dylan’s greatest hit so far, remaining in the charts Americans for three months and reaching second place behind Help! of the Beatles.  “Like a Rolling Stone” transformed Dylan’s image from folk singer to rock star, and is considered one of the most influential compositions in postwar popular music. At an auction in 2014, Dylan’s handwritten lyrics to the song fetched $2 million, a world record for a popular music manuscript.

And we go on with The Easybeats “Friday On My Mind”, Albert Hammond “It Never Rains in Southern California”, Santana “Samba Pa Ti”, Eric Burdon & The Animals “San Franciscan Nights”, and before ending this so perfect collection, if you’re not already singing, it’s time to start with the famous lyrics “How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man…” and the warmth of the voice of Joan Baez featuring “Blowin’ In The Wind”, Norman Greenbaum “Spirit In The Sky”, Donovan “Atlantis” definitely ends this first CD.

CD2 by far surpasses the expectations featuring the hippie wave and the summer of love best songs starting with The Lovin’ Spoonful “Summer In The City” and Pete Seeger “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”. To talk a little about Simon & Garfunkel “Mrs. Robinson” that was completed in 1968, and released some months after the film The Graduate, there is a special history running around after Paul Simon and the producer. Because of the character in the picture they just began using the name ‘Mrs. Robinson’ to fit and one day while they were sitting around talking about ideas for another song. Art Garfunkel said « What about Mrs. Robinson? », and  Mike shot to his feet. ‘You have a song called “Mrs. Robinson” and you haven’t even shown it to me?’ So they explained the working title and sang it for him. And then Mike froze it for the picture as ‘Mrs. Robinson’.

Some other famous follow like The Flowerpot Men “Let’s Go To San Francisco”, The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man”, Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade Of Pale”, The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations”, Marmalade “Reflections Of My Life”, The Kinks “Lola”, The Lemon Pipers “Green Tambourine”, The Monkees “I’m A Believer”, Barry McGuire “Eve Of Destruction”, Sonny & Cher “I Got You Babe”, The Spencer Davis Group “Keep On Running”, The Tremeloes “Silence Is Golden”, Vanity Fare “Hitchin’ A Ride”, The Walker Brothers “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”, Zager & Evans “In the Year 2525”, The Mamas & The Papas “Monday, Monday”, Ten Years After “I’m Going Home”.

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 San Francisco  Scott McKenzie
 Son Of A Preacher Man  Dusty Springfield
 Games People Play  Joe South
 American Woman  The Guess Who
 Lazy Sunday  Small Faces
 Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)  The Fifth Dimension
 House Of The Rising Sun  The Animals
 Mercedes Benz  Janis Joplin
 Albatross  Fleetwood Mac
 Natural Born Bugie  Humble Pie
 Nights In White Satin  The Moody Blues
 Ruby Tuesday  Melanie
 Like A Rolling Stone  Bob Dylan
Friday On My Mind  The Easybeats
 It Never Rains in Southern California  Albert Hammond
 Samba Pa Ti  Santana
 San Franciscan Nights  Eric Burdon & The Animals
 Blowin’ In The Wind  Joan Baez
 Spirit In The Sky  Norman Greenbaum
 Atlantis  Donovan
Title Performer / Composer
 Summer In The City  The Lovin’ Spoonful
 Where Have All the Flowers Gone?  Pete Seeger
 Mrs. Robinson  Simon & Garfunkel
 Let’s Go To San Francisco  The Flowerpot Men
 Mr. Tambourine Man  The Byrds
 A Whiter Shade Of Pale  Procol Harum
 Good Vibrations  The Beach Boys
 Reflections Of My Life  Marmalade
 Lola  The Kinks
 Green Tambourine  The Lemon Pipers
 I’m A Believer  The Monkees
 Eve Of Destruction  Barry McGuire
 I Got You Babe  Sonny & Cher
 Keep On Running  The Spencer Davis Group
 Silence Is Golden  The Tremeloes
 Hitchin’ A Ride  Vanity Fare
 The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore  The Walker Brothers
 In the Year 2525  Zager & Evans
 Monday, Monday  The Mamas & The Papas
 I’m Going Home  Ten Years After


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The DB2DEMO program demonstrates the functionality of IBM® DB2® 10.1 for Linux®, UNIX®, and Windows®, including:

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While the SAMPLE database is the default database used by the DB2DEMO program, any database can be accessed by the program on all of the DB2 supported platforms, including:

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  • HP
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  • Linux (all platforms)
  • Windows Vista® Windows XP®, Windows 2003, Windows 7

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Creating European market demand for responsible soy

The IDH soy program works on increasing both market demand for and responsible production of soy. On the demand side IDH aims to gradually raise the bar (of sourcing guidelines) to reach zero-net deforestation and further move towards RTRS (or equivalent) compliance. IDH aims for 50% of European soy import being responsible by 2020. On the production side, IDH supports responsible soy production and creating a physical connect between the end buyer and the producer via Area Mass Balance.

We exercise two approaches to drive this process simultaneously.  The first approach supports retail and other front running buyers to source RTRS (or equivalent level) compliant soy from a jurisdiction in which we support all producers to become RTRS compliant (or equivalent).

The second approach leverages legality requirements in Brazil to raise the bar in mainstream sustainable soy production and trade and bring it gradually towards RTRS (or equivalent) standards.

Concerning the first approach, we convened 4 front running European retailers to conduct a materiality assessment to determine the appropriate scope of the soy sourcing policy. This is followed by creating a physical connect between the sourced soy and the producer via an Area Mass Balance system. It is important that a physical connection exists between what is sourced in Europe and what is produced in South America, as this not only supports the individual farmer, but especially his region to produce sustainably.  Our pilot project will facilitate the transactions between end buyers and producers via long term contracts between a region and a retailer, in which both agree to reach RTRS (or equivalent) through continuous improvement in a pre-determined amount of time. An example of such a long-term contract will be presented soon.

To leverage legality, IDH is bringing mainstream European market demand and soy production in Brazil together, to build a market system that rewards and incentivizes more sustainable practices. The end goal of this market system is to move the entire soy sector towards an RTRS (or equivalent) level of sustainability. The recently announced Memorandum of Understanding between FEFAC, Fediol, Aprosoja and Abiove and IDH is part of that approach.

The IDH soy program is fully integrated with the landscape program in Mato Grosso, where we work as a part of a coalition of public and private sector stakeholders led by the Government of Mato Grosso and including leading cattle and soy companies and civil society organizations to address deforestation and forest degradation in the state. Our role here is bringing international investment to the landscape, co-funding farmer trainings and creating innovative financial solutions to incentivize farmers to conserve the forest through intensification and reforestation. Read more on our landscape page here.

As part of the MoU, a program with Aprosoja will be launched in the first week of May. This includes the benchmarking of SojaPlus against the FEFAC Soy Sourcing guidelines, greatly increasing transparency and adding continuous improvement. The program consists of two main elements

  1. Improving production practices by restoring 400 hectares of APP, ensuring all participating farmers have a PRADA and a 10% annual sustainability increase.
  2. In an 80-kilometer radius around Sorriso, Mato Grosso, a verified sourcing area is being developed. By enabling end buyers to buy soy from a region in which the sustainability performance can be tracked, their market commitments can be linked to increased sustainability.

On the European end, IDH is supporting FEFAC to include a definition of zero net deforestation in their guidelines, develop a monitoring tool and annexes on supply chain models. Besides the project with FEFAC, IDH actively convenes traders, retailers and other supply chain members.

In 2011 an agreement was reached between stakeholders in The Netherlands which stated that by the end of 2015, all processed soy would be responsible. This target was not fully achieved; in 2015 44% of the 1.8 MMT of soy processed by the Netherlands was responsible (RTRS), covering all the soy consumed in the country and a small part of the exports. The dairy sector is the only sector that sources 100% responsible soy.

In 2011, only a few producers were RTRS certified. So to create sufficient supply of responsible soy, IDH started the Soy Fast Track Fund I + II, a producer support program. This ended mid 2016, achieving 2.4 million hectares under sustainable management, of which 0.5 million hectares RTRS certified in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Over 1.000 producers received support, and IDH proved that producing in an environmentally and socially sustainable way is also economically viable, as certification is a great management tool, it mitigates risks and has proven to be very positive for real estate value. Please find a selection of learning documents here. In 2014, IDH initiated the Soy Fast Track Fund III projects, which are seven projects prototyping a landscape approach in Brazil and Paraguay.

To accelerate cost efficient sourcing of responsible soy, IDH supported the development of the Fefac Soy Sourcing Guidelines and benchmark. The Fefac Guidelines are a list of 57 criteria, with a baseline of legal compliance and a structure that promotes continuous improvement on the farm. Currently 13 schemes have been benchmarked.

During this period, three key insights emerged that would change the shape of the program. Firstly, a study with KPMG made clear that 95% of the RTRS compliance costs in Brazil are related to legal compliance. Secondly, on farm certification does not guarantee that deforestation in the region will stop. And lastly, a physical supply chain connect between market and production is needed to drive improvements – book & claim is not enough. This is why the soy program is now integrated with the landscape program in Mato Grosso

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At last, more research on violent video gaming

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Those Americans hoping for tighter gun control laws are consistently frustrated.

Now researchers may have some fresh ammunition. The University of Arizona and the University of Connecticut have released a joint report suggesting that young people who spend significant time playing violent video games, particularly the firstperson shooter kind, are more likely to defend the right to bear arms.

After determining 779 participants’ violent video game habits, researchers posed a number of statements, including “anyone who wants to own a gun should go through a mandatory background check” and “armed citizens are the best defence against criminals”. Study subjects were asked to give their opinions.

The researchers concluded: “Students who spend more time playing violent video games, first-person shooter games, and use gun controllers more are less likely to support gun control policies.” Political ideology did not appear to significantly alter participants’ opinions.

The research was published in the Psychology of Popular Media Culture journal, and authors admitted that violent video games may end up repelling students just as much as they may turn them into gun lovers.

The study has been hailed as important, because it indicates that intensive research into the impact of violent video gaming on cognitive decision-making is finally being done. It has already been firmly established that those youngsters who compulsively play violent video games tend to manifest antisocial behaviours.

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