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Ben West & Felix Heyes

Ben West & Felix Heyes Work from Google “If a picture says more than a thousand words – and current internet dynamics tend to agree – what would a visual guide to the English vocabulary, contemporary and ‘webresentative’, look like? Ben West and Felix Heyes, two artists and designers from London (UK), found out when […]

Justin Kemp

Justin Kemp Work from Adding to the Internet “My art is kind of like listening to someone speak with an English accent, because at first, it sounds kind of smart, but after a few minutes it just sounds a little funny.  Sometimes people laugh at someone with an English accent instead of laughing with them, […]

Yunior Mariño

Yunior Mariño Work from his/her oeuvre. “The immensity of the sea, the sound, its utopic dimension and such mixture between the instant and the eternity. Yunior Mariño has built a language that moves around paintings photography and installations establishing a connection between the micro moment, the instant and the eternity, the nothingness and the absolute, […]

Jared Ragland

Jared Ragland Work from his oeuvre mostly Aggregates. Also, check out his blog. “There may come to be new places in our lives that are second spiritual homes–closer to us in some ways, perhaps, than our original homes. But the home tie is the blood tie. And had it meant nothing to us, any other […]

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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Asterias vulgaris

I seem to have an endless supply of long narrow strips of watercolour paper from cutting down full sheets to sizes I want to fit into frames.

As a result, I'm using the left over pieces as little slices of printed ocean or lake life.  This is a section of the third piece with is a little more narrow - 4 x 22 approximately.  A series of these hung as a stack on the wall could be quite interesting.

The addition of watercolour and sand creates an almost abstract piece for these sea stars.  This started with a print of a Boreal Asterias sea star, which is common in the waters around the province and starts life as a pale purple colour drying to a sand colour.  I have been lucky to access more sea stars of different varieties, one with six legs that is very red and another with nine legs.   Sea stars or starfish as they are commonly known are amazingly aggressive in their habitat of the sea floor and can decimate sea urchin and mussel populations.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Blog adjustments

 Large mouth bass trio
gyotaku and watercolour   22" x 6"

In the everyday scramble that is called life, we often throw a post or image onto our blogs then forget about them again for a day or two.   The overall look or feel of the blog becomes as important as the content and can entice viewers in or chase them away.

Over the last couple of days I've been tweaking my blog to try to make it easier to navigate and read and have removed and/or changed some elements.   One of the major changes I've made is a move over to Fine Art America for on-demand reproductions and greeting card printing.   FAA is one of the leaders in the field of POD (print on demand) and has the highest traffic levels of the current POD leaders which translates into more visbility for your art and more potential for sales.

Original pieces have moved from Etsy for the moment and reside on their own separate page on this blog.  Its simply easier to track where things are and to avoid confusion.   You can browse the art available for reproductions through the slide show on the right side of the blog.

A sign up button for my newsletter makes it simple to ensure that you get the October copy which is building nicely and will be chock full of reading goodies, with a few Halloween treats thrown in for good measure!   Sign up and try out the next issue of Jeanette Jobson Fine Art.

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These little largemouth bass were printed onto the left over piece of 200lb watercolour paper from the cut down of another sheet.  I have one more left of these strips and thought that long narrow pieces make good windows into the watery world.

Monday, September 27, 2010

Sand and water

I've been trying different fish prints on different papers to see how they work.   I can't reveal the whole piece as I want to keep it as part of the final exhibition, but you can see enough here to understand the technique and what I'm trying to achieve.

This is a peek at a long narrow piece with bluegills printed on watercolour paper in raw sienna ink.  I then flooded the paper with watercolour that enhanced the natural colours of the fish and while it was wet, I sprinkled fine sand over the lower surface.

The sand doesn't absorb pigment and water as salt grains would, but disperses it evenly giving a soft effect to the piece.  The sand does stick to the paper and adds texture, but I'll need to rub it off before framing or it will have its own little beach behind glass!


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August 18, 2014

Designing Better Surfaces for Energy

Bilge Yildiz explores the dynamics of surface interfaces to help design more resilient materials for applications in high-intensity environments.

Steve Calechman

Solid core material is almost a given for technology. But just because the guts are right doesn’t guarantee success. It’s the surface layer that can hold the key in some applications, but its importance is still easy to overlook. This area is where Bilge Yildiz keeps her focus. The Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and PI of the Laboratory for Electrochemical Interfaces looks at the surface and how it acts in harsh environments.

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High temperatures, reactive fluids and mechanical stresses all conspire to alter material behavior, and, with it, performance. When it comes to something like clean fuel production and energy conversion, bad surfaces slow down reactions and lower output. With a nuclear power plant or oil pipelines, the consequence is faster rates of corrosion. Yildiz wants to reverse those processes, and through her laboratory and computational work, she and her research group have been making inroads by being able to study and understand the interaction of material and environment on the atomic and nanoscale, and ultimately make better, more resilient materials for energy technology.

Looking at the Outside
The key to mitigating the corrosion of materials is to understand the passive outer layer of film that natively forms and serves to protect the base material. If that can be done, the layer can be engineered to last longer. And while it sounds obvious, industry testing and predictive models on corrosion have been rudimentary, relying mostly on empirical data rather than solid physical mechanisms, Yildiz says. One obstacle has been the difficulty of probing these very surfaces in inhospitable, hard-to-reach environments. In answer to that, Yildiz has designed a specialized instrument, a scanning tunneling microscope, which works in situ, in temperatures up to 600 degrees Celsius, and which offers a new way of visualization at the nanometer and atomic scales.

She’s used the device to study pyrite, which has brought an essential finding. The mineral is insulating in its bulk, and relying on just that information, which essentially has been the standard course, would lead to the conclusion that the corrosive process would be slow. But by looking at pyrite’s surface, Yildiz found that it easily transfers electrons, forms defects and can accelerate corrosion. This gap exists, and, by knowing this, smarter choices can now be made. “It’s very important input in designing and developing models to predict the rates at which these materials would corrode and ultimately degrade and fracture,” she says.

Blowing Off Hydrogen
A side product of metal corrosion caused by water is that the water splits and releases hydrogen. One of two things then happens. The hydrogen can leave the surface or it becomes incorporated into the bulk of the material and degrades the load-bearing properties via hydrogen embrittlement. The former is desirable; the latter isn’t. “Hydrogen in the bulk of the materials has been studied for a long time, but the key may be to just not let it enter through the surface,” Yildiz says. Again, it’s a confined interface in a harsh environment, but those qualities make understanding the hydrogen entry process, and the potential to control it, even more necessary.

Yildiz has performed computational work on how hydrogen absorption and transport can take place through this surface layer from the environment into the bulk metal. Surveying different compositions that could be used to alter the physical properties of the passive surface film, the results predicted physical descriptors that are tunable by composition to stop or minimize the entry of hydrogen through this critical interface. While this work was performed for zirconium alloys, it can now be extended to a wide range of metals that suffer from hydrogen embrittlement, and Yildiz is collaborating with industrial partners to implement the new materials. “The aim is to make materials that are more durable by stopping hydrogen at the surface and avoid its entry into the metal,” she says.

Boosting Energy
Yildiz also works on electrochemical energy conversion in high temperature fuel cells and electrolytic cells. In this field, she’s looking at the same properties as with metallic interfaces, namely how the oxide surface chemistry affects either efficiency or degradation. For fuel cells, the goal is to enable clean and sustainable electricity generation. With electrolyzers, the goal is to connect them to nuclear reactors or concentrated solar plants in order to provide the necessary heat to electrolyze steam and carbon dioxide, and generate hydrogen or synthetic gas. Such potential would be of interest to the nuclear industry, she says, because it’s one means to expand the applicability of nuclear energy beyond electricity to making fuels that would work for something like transportation.

Furthermore, these systems can run reversibly, i.e. both as a fuel cell and electrolyzer, providing for large-scale energy storage capability, in conjunction with renewable and nuclear energies. Currently, American nuclear plants run with a base load that can’t respond to fluctuations in demand. The cell would not only generate electricity, but also store energy in the form of produced fuel. Add that to the plant’s existing electricity, and peaking behavior in the demand curve can be addressed and supplied, she says.

Again, it comes down to understanding the material surfaces, in this instance for improving the productivity and durability of the device. It is desirable to have faster reaction and conversion rates for these technologies to produce electricity and fuels. But without knowing what’s on the surface of the material, since that’s where reactions occur, the rates can’t be accelerated. Through her work, Yildiz has been able to identify the surface behavior and design materials to accelerate reaction rates for better performance and also increase the lifetime. This means that the technology can be made more efficient, more durable and more economical when coupled to other energy sources such as nuclear, solar or wind.

“While this is a new technology,” Yildiz says, “it can become a game-changer in large-scale energy storage.”


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Local Businesses Key to Rebuilding New Orleans’ Economy, Study Finds

| Written by Stacy Mitchell | 3 Comments | Updated on Sep 18, 2009 The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at

By Stacy Mitchell and Justin Dahlheimer

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, many of New Orleans’ locally owned businesses reopened within weeks and even days of the floodwaters subsiding. National chains, meanwhile, kept their distance. Some abandoned New Orleans altogether, while others waited months and even years to see if the population would rebound before deciding whether to open their doors again.

“Locally owned businesses came back first when they were needed most,” recalled Dana Eness, executive director of the Urban Conservancy, a New Orleans-based nonprofit. In the aftermath of the storm, local cafes, bookstores, hardware stores, and the like played a pivotal role in drawing people back to their neighborhoods. They provided much-needed goods and services, and offered places where residents could gather for solace and mutual support.

Yet, despite their resilience and loyalty, locally owned businesses have been largely ignored in the city’s recovery and redevelopment plans. City officials have instead doled out multi-million dollar subsidies and tax breaks to finance big chains, including Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and Lowe’s.

Now a new study finds that independent businesses are not only more reliable, but generate twice the local economic impact of big-box retailers, while consuming a fraction of the land area. The Urban Conservancy, which commissioned the study and runs a public education initiative called Stay Local, hopes the new data will prompt the city to revisit its economic recovery policies and shift its focus to developing and strengthening locally owned businesses.

The Study’s Findings

The study, Thinking Outside the Box: A Report on Independent Merchants and the Local Economy, which was conducted by Civic Economics and is scheduled to be released next week, examined financial data from 15 locally owned businesses, which sell a wide variety of goods, from food and apparel to home furnishings and sporting goods, on Magazine Street, a vibrant, traditional business district in the heart of New Orleans. For comparison, the study analyzed revenue and expenses at an average SuperTarget store.

The study found that only 16% of the money spent at a SuperTarget stays in the local economy, primarily in the form of wages paid to local employees. In contrast, the locally owned retailers in the study returned more than 32% of their revenue to the local economy, in the form of local wages and profits, as well as goods and services purchased from other local businesses.

This difference has profound implications when considered across the breadth of spending in the New Orleans metropolitan region. If residents and visitors were to shift 10% of their current retail spending from chains to locally owned businesses, it would generate an additional $235 million a year in local economic activity, creating many new opportunities and jobs. Likewise, a 10% shift in the opposite direction – less spending at local stores and more at chains – would lead to an economic contraction of the same magnitude.

Another noteworthy finding of the study is that locally owned businesses require far less land to produce an equivalent amount of economic activity. The study found that a four-block stretch of Magazine Street provides 179,000 square feet of retail space, hosts about 100 individual businesses, and generates $105 million in sales, with $34 million remaining in the local economy.  In contrast, a 179,000-square-foot SuperTarget generates $50 million in annual sales, with just $8 million remaining in the local economy, and requires an additional 300,000 square feet of space for its parking lot.

Rebuilding a City

Large swaths of the city of New Orleans remain desolate and, although the city’s population has been growing, it is still only about 60% of pre-Katrina levels.

After Katrina, the city faced a choice: build neighborhood business districts, where homes and businesses are mixed together in dense, walkable settings, or pursue big redevelopment projects that would convert the city to large-format chain stores and a more auto-oriented land use pattern.  So far the city has favored the latter. Although there has been some modest financial support for local business recovery, the city has lavished far more on big-box projects.

Two Wal-Mart supercenters have been built in New Orleans with tax-increment financing, a subsidy program that diverts sales tax revenue to pay for private development. A Lowe’s store was built with another type of subsidy called PILOT. Then in 2007, shortly after Home Depot gave a lucrative countertop installation contract to a firm owned by Mayor Ray Nagin and his sons, the city approved a long-term property tax break for a new Home Depot store. The deal allows Home Depot to escape hundreds of thousands of dollars in property taxes every year.

Now the city is weighing a controversial $120 million subsidy to fund the redevelopment Lake Forest Plaza, a shopping center on the east side of New Orleans. The new center would include a Wal-Mart and other big-box stores.

“It seems more glamorous to give tax subsidies to big boxes. The city does nothing for small businesses. In fact, they raise my taxes,” said Bruce Foret, owner of Oak Street Hardware, which was founded in 1929 and reopened shortly after Katrina, not because there was any money to be made, but, “I felt like the neighborhood needed us.”

Jake Wagner, a former New Orleans resident and professor of planning at the University of Missouri, believes the city’s focus on large chains is a mistake. What will bring people and prosperity back, he believes, is recovering the city’s distinctive feel. “If you look at what happens to a city after a disaster, people make a decision to come back or not, and that decision is based on place – whether there is local character to come back to,” he explained. “A big part of that is local businesses.”

Stay Local

The Urban Conservancy hopes the study’s findings will prompt the city to reconsider its policies and make the question of local businesses vs. big-box stores a major issue in the upcoming mayoral race (the election is in February).

Since 2003, the Urban Conservancy has been building public awareness and rallying support for independent businesses through its Stay Local initiative, a citywide educational and advocacy campaign.

One feature of the campaign is a popular online, searchable directory of the over 1,800 locally owned businesses in New Orleans. Businesses are listed free of charge as long as they are owned by an area resident and all of their major operational decisions are made locally.

Stay Local has also produced and distributed several neighborhood guides, which list and map each neighborhood’s independent businesses, along with photographs and a short history of the area. The guides have had a huge positive impact, helping residents visualize the recovery of neighborhoods and documenting the sheer number and diversity of the city’s locally owned businesses.  The guides have also fostered more mutual support and connections among local businesses. “The maps were our excuse to spend a lot of time talking with people and getting to know [the neighborhoods],” said Eness.

In July, Stay Local released A Guide to Commerce and Culture, a glossy color magazine that includes a business directory, along with articles on the economic and cultural value of locally owned businesses.

Business owners say Stay Local’s efforts have made a difference, helping people find independent businesses and encouraging them to choose local more often. “A lot of customers mention Stay Local,” said Foret.

“Stay Local’s been that support base to keep me going in this recovery,” said Christy Williams, owner of Teacher’s Stop, an educational supplies store founded in 1996. “The publicity has been vital, keeping everyone aware that we are still here.”

“It’s the concept of wealth generation and retention in the community that really resonates,” added Eness.

As Stay Local has grown in visibility and public support, the Urban Conservancy has begun to make inroads with local and state policymakers. This year, the city’s Economic Development Fund provided a $50,000 grant to help finance production of three more neighborhood guides. The Urban Conservancy is also been working with the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism to implement the Main Street Program in several New Orleans neighborhoods.

Now, armed with hard economic data, it hopes to influence the city’s economic development and planning policies. “You still see a lot of empty commercial spaces and cleared lots,” said Eness. “I would hope that, when presented with these numbers, there may be more of a concerted effort on the part of the city to facilitate local business as the expedient and cost-effective solution.”

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Stacy Mitchell is co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, and directs its Community-Scaled Economy Initiative, which produces research and analysis, and partners with a range of allies to design and implement policies that curb economic consolidation and strengthen community-rooted enterprise.  She is the author of Big-Box Swindle and also produces a popular monthly newsletter, the Hometown Advantage Bulletin.  Connect with her on twitter and catch her TEDx Talk: Why We Can’t Shop Our Way to a Better Economy. More

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  • Kerry DesHotels

    This article is refreshing, and it clears the air of the fog surrounding the politics behind supporting the generification of our communities. New Orleans’ hard-working, independent, local business owners deserve better treatment, and more respect than they receive from this administration. Hopefully, this new evidence, and the quantification that it illustrates, will turn the tide in their favor.
    Every city in every state, and every community, should be keeping an eye on their progress, and emulate the efforts of StayLocal to unite their locals into a power base that functions as a beacon to others that can also join in and voice a common message. The large corporations thrive on apathy, silence and disorganization to gain their clout. Let us be heard!

  • mike landry

    I talked to a fellow co-worker during lunch and it kind of summarized the ignorance that exist in the mindset of most big retail shoppers. I shall do my best to Quote him “If Wal-Mart is selling an item for a dime less than it’s competitor I’m going to Wal-Mart”. Even if I would have enlightened my co-worker with all the above info, I’m not sure it would of changed his mind. I sometimes believe the majority of these shoppers are not only ignorant of the facts but willfully so.


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TitleSoldier's Club Room, Camp Sheridan, ALA
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Friday, June 10, 2005

Year of the Zodiac (and stuff)

Although I don't really take much of an interest in astrology, zodiac signs and other such quackery, I did notice the description of the 'boar' that is supposedly my zodiac sign:
People born in the Year of the Pig are chivalrous and gallant. Whatever they do, they do with all their strength. For Boar Year people, there is no left or right and there is no retreat. They have tremendous fortitude and great honesty. They don’t make many friends but they make them for life, and anyone having a Boar Year friend is fortunate for they are extremely loyal. They don’t talk much but have a great thirst for knowledge. They study a great deal and are generally well informed. Boar people are quick tempered; yet they hate arguments and quarreling. They are kind to their loved ones. No matter how bad problems seem to be, Boar people try to work them out, honestly if sometimes impulsively. They are most compatible with Rabbits and Sheep.
Well, it's accurate in some ways but I love arguing with nearly everyone and anyone. I'm always amazed though at how seriously some people take this sort of thing however, even if it sometimes rings somewhat true. Got to put your faith in something I suppose.


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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Baby love

When you're a parent, you can't really boast too much about your child's beauty/intelligence/virtue, can you? You know in yourself that your child is the most amazing infant ever produced, but you have to be a bit modest about this.

However, when you're a grandparent it's much more socially acceptable to pontificate about your grandchild's amazing qualities. Or at least, I'm hoping it is... . Grandson is such a sweetie. His skin is so peachy soft and his smile is so bright and his giggle is so giggly and he's so cute when he waves his hands and bounces up and down with excitement. I'd half forgotten the physical pleasure of being around small babies - it's almost like being in love and you adore the round little arms, firm bouncy cheeks and shiny eyes.

It does make me a bit sad to realise that when he grows up, he'll only ever think of me as an old lady. When he's 15, I'll be 76. When I was 15, my grandmothers were 70 and 80, and even the 70-year-old seemed ancient and a bit wobbly to me (though lovely).

Still, at the moment I imagine he sees me as big and strong and able to do things for him. And he's much too small to object to being picked up and cuddled. I shall continue to take advantage of this as long as possible.

  1. He is absolutely adorable... keep the pics coming and exclaim about him all you like. :)

  2. He is adorable! And you will still hug him when he's 15, even if you have to chase him down for it--he'll secretly love it.

    My late mother-in-law once said to her sister about my daughter "Isn't she the prettiest baby you've ever seen?" Her sister, who had granddaughters of her own, smiled non-committally. I laugh any time I remember that!

  3. What a darling little boy! I have four grandchildren myself and they grow up too fast, even though the oldest is only seven. And as for 19 month old Stephen - he's certainly the sweetest dearest in the world. We
    re not prejudiced, are we?

    Alas, I'm a few years older than you and appreciate your arguments. I'll be 82 when Stephen is 15........So I don't plan to miss a moment along the way!

  4. My daughter has always loved her grandmother and has never really notoced that she is old until now (she is 18, and my mother very frail at 76!) and she really loves old people.
    You grandson has no prejudices against old poepl, he will just always love you no matter what.

  5. oops typos galore. It's late

  6. Yup, cuddle him before he learns to roll his eyes. And you are just being accurate about Grandson - he looks like one of those implausibly perfect babies you see in adverts and assume don't exist in real life. Except he does. Good genes, you see!

  7. Well, he is gorgeous, we all agree! With our children having their families so much later a lot of grandparents will be in their 70's and 80's before their grandchildren reach adulthood, even if, like me they had their children in their 20's. My parents were in their 40's when I was born - a late addition, my next brother is 11 yrs older, and 3 of my grand parents had already died. My remaining grandmother lived well into her 80's but died well before I had a child. We'll have to all hope that we're going to reach a good age still hale and hearty! I'd better start walking the hills and using the Wiifit while I can...


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Proper wound care can prevent the risk of amputation or death.

A Wound as Small as a Dime: Improper Care Can Lead to Death in Diabetics

Eisa Ulen

For an alarmingly high number of Native Americans, a diagnosis of Type II Diabetes is the first in a series of preventable conditions that result in premature morbidity. The second is Diabetic Neuropathy, a nerve disorder caused by the uncontrolled blood sugar levels associated with diabetes.

Neuropathy damages nerves throughout the body. Burning, numbness, pain or tingling in the feet or legs are common symptoms of neuropathy—all of which signal that  more serious problems may develop, like a foot sore the size of a dime. As any untreated foot sores grow, they can lead to the next serious complication, amputation. The final destination in this series of conditions is loss of life.

According to Carlyle Begay, board president at the Phoenix-based American Indian Health & Management Policy and member of President Barack Obama’s National Tribal Advisory Committee, diabetics who lose a limb have a “substantial mortality risk.”

But, of course, none of this has to happen. Not only is Type II Diabetes completely preventable, if caught early enough, it is also be completely reversible, he says. “Most of us are taught that diabetes is not reversible and that we are destined to be diagnosed with diabetes,” Begay, a Navajo from Arizona, laments. “Although diabetes is prevalent in our American Indian communities, diabetes can be prevented, treated and reversed if you are pre-diabetic.”

Even at the stage when the foot ulcers associated with neuropathy develop, loss of life is not inevitable. With proper wound care, the path to wellness can be walked—with both legs, both feet and all ten toes intact.

The key, according to Begay, is access to quality care. “If you are diagnosed with diabetes, you are at an increased risk of developing a wound if:

  • your blood sugar levels are high,
  • you have nerve damage that causes a loss of feeling in your feet, or
  • you experience changes in the shape of your feet.

It is important to see your doctor and monitor and manage your disease. Healing wounds is a complicated matter and a simple bandage is not likely to result in wound healing. Therefore, it is important to seek treatment by a wound care program that helps to avoid the risk of foot infection, actually heals your wound and reduces any risk or possibility of an amputation. Time is of the essence; the longer a wound remains unhealed the greater the risk of infection and amputation.”

Unfortunately, too few Natives seek quality care in time to save their limbs—and their lives—because they have limited access to primary care and comprehensive wound care.

The wounds associated with diabetes won’t disappear when wrapped in homemade bandages and hope. If an open wound is not properly healed in the first five weeks, the risk of infection is substantially increased. At that point, Begay says, the chance of amputation increases 155 percent. “A wound," he adds, “is a threat to a life or a limb.”

Most Native patients with the wounds associated with diabetes are referred to non-Indian health care providers using Contract Health Care, a program that compromises care coordination and continuity of care. A new Indian Health Service initiative, a best practice model for wound healing, hopes to eliminate the need for Contract Health Care and generate better outcomes for diabetics throughout Indian Country.

This wound care program gives Indian Health Servicers providers the training they need to adequately treat the wounds associated with diabetes, saving millions of dollars. The shift within the Indian Health Service, according to Begay, is from a “cost to treat model” to a “cost to heal model,” and aims, ultimately, to achieve “cost avoidance” through early intervention. “You’re more cost efficient to treat simple wounds and reduce the waste in spending,” Begay adds. Saving lives—and limbs—has the added benefit of saving the Indian Health Service money.

“The fact that our people suffer at a higher rate than others from diabetes and other related co-morbidities, coupled with the fact that Indian Health Service facilities are continually challenged to provide quality patient care despite decreasing resources, makes chronic wounds an almost fatal condition for our people,” Begay concedes. He thinks that, with 16.3 percent of Native adults suffering from diabetes, a frustrating mindset  has developed.

“In our American Indian communities,” he says, “diabetes is almost becoming a culture and a belief that no matter what we do we will be diagnosed with diabetes at some point in our lifetime.”

This sense of inevitability and lack of adequate health care has had grave consequences. Begay says that American Indians with diabetes have a greater risk (greater than two-fold) for developing neuropathy when compared to the adult U.S. diabetic population and adds that lower extremity amputation increases the risk for death by 4-fold in diabetic American Indians. Toe amputation corresponded with a 2-fold death risk.

The Best Practice Model aims to change all this and offer diabetics their limbs—and their lives. “The cornerstone of this approach is consistency; consistent application of clinical guidelines and practice, supplies/medications, and increased access,” Begay says. This model also provides patient education not only on wounds, but also on co-morbid conditions such as smoking and obesity, and provides opportunities for prevention with community outreach.

“The program demonstrates that wound care is cost effective and is economically feasible as a direct care program within Indian Health Service,” Begay says, then adds this: “Most importantly, the average patient would receive wound care that can actually heal their wounds.”

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On A Filibuster Down in Texas, and White Men Behaving Badly

Steve Russell

If something called “political science” exists, it’s not necessary to relate general principles of political behavior to Indians specifically.  That said, the following political eruption took place in Texas, and Texas has the fourth largest Indian population of any state.

Some say the Republican “war on women” is a political meme invented by Democrats.  Others point out that in states where Republicans run the show, abortion rights are in jeopardy, access to birth control is in jeopardy, and equal pay for equal work is in jeopardy.

Texas already has a law that requires a woman seeking an abortion to have and pay for a medically un-necessary ultrasound.  As a judge, I’m particularly offended by the parental notification requirement for a minor to get an abortion.

I have two daughters and four granddaughters and, yes, I would hope they would talk to me about such a thing.  I raised them to believe they could.  But if they feel they can’t, it’s not up to the government to rescue my poor parenting.

Without what is called a “judicial bypass,” parental notification is unconstitutional.  A minor who fears her parents or who is the victim of incest has to have a way out.

Hence a law that requires me to decide if a teenage girl is “mature enough” to choose an abortion.  The absurdity is that if I hold she is not “mature enough” to have an abortion, then I am deciding that she is mature enough to be a parent!  Seriously.

This was not enough for Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who called a special session of the legislature to completely ban abortions after 20 weeks.  This violates the standards set out in Roe v. Wade.  Texas would be the 12th state to take this position, all driven by Republicans who claim not to be warring on women.  Courts have stopped enforcement in three states so far, with the certainty of more to come, particularly since the new trend is to neglect exceptions for rape, incest, and protection of the life of the mother.

The Texas bill would also require abortion clinics to meet the same standards as surgery centers and have a doctor admitted to practice at a local hospital, a provision that has shut down clinics in entire states but is expected in Texas to leave 5 of the current 42 clinics still in operation.  Unfortunately, none would survive in the Rio Grande Valley, where there is already a brisk trade in dangerous abortifacients from Mexico.

Those who don’t remember how it was before Roe v. Wade will learn that women will die.

When the legislature took up this bill, people came from all over the state to testify at the committee hearings.  Each speaker could have only three minutes.  Hundreds of people took their three minutes but the lines to testify did not noticeably diminish.  Some called this a “people’s filibuster,” after the tactic of talking a bill to death.

The Republican House committee chair responded by cutting off citizen input.

When the bill arrived in the Senate, it was the subject of a real filibuster by Sen. Wendy Davis of Ft. Worth.  Davis, the first woman to filibuster in the history of Texas, took the floor at 11:18 a.m. on June 25, 2013. To kill the bill, she would have to talk until midnight without so much as leaning on furniture.  No water, no food, no bathroom breaks, and no speaking about anything not germane to the bill.

Contrast this with the US Senate, where all you do is say “I filibuster.”

Thousands of Texans filled the Senate gallery to watch.  They filled the stairs to the gallery.  They filled the rotunda.

Traditionally, a senator can make three mistakes before losing the floor.

First strike: Sen. Davis mentioned Planned Parenthood’s budget, which was deemed not germane to the bill by the presiding officer, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst.

Second strike: a male colleague helped Sen. Davis adjust her back brace.  Apparently, that was accepting outside help, sort of like leaning on a desk.

Sen. Davis was called out at 10:07 p.m. for mentioning the Texas sonogram law, which was also deemed not germane.

All of these calls against her were highly questionable, but plainly the days of reading the phone book to keep the floor are long gone in Texas.  Many colleagues argued in her defense, without result.

Sen. Leticia Van de Putte of San Antonio, who represented me when I taught in San Antonio, and who had missed most of the proceedings because she was attending her father’s funeral, attempted to make a motion to adjourn, which is by rule not debatable.  Dewhurst pretended she was invisible.

At ll:45 p.m., Sen. Van de Putte approached the microphone and demanded to know “At what point does a female senator have to raise her hand in order to be recognized over a male senator?”

At this point, the pent up emotion in the gallery erupted in a mighty roar of catcalls and shouts of “Shame!” and chants of “Wendy! Wendy!”  Understanding that the skids were greased on the Senate floor and the rules no longer counted, the second citizen’s filibuster continued for 16 minutes.

The vote was finally time stamped 12:02 a.m., meaning the session had expired and the bill failed.  The Senate leadership proceeded to roll back the clock to produce a fake document showing the vote ended before midnight.

This tactic was rendered untenable by the fact that approximately 180,000 YouTube viewers were streaming the entire fandango live.  Twitter and Facebook lit up like Christmas trees.

At 2:04 a.m., the Texas Senate website put up the lie that the vote was taken before midnight, but Mr. Dewhurst reversed himself at 2:45 a.m.  There were just too many people out there.  The eyes of Texas (and the nation) were on the Senate.

Dewhurst accused the people of Texas of using "Occupy Wall Street tactics” to derail his attempt at cheating. Just so. Precisely true.

Mr. Dewhurst is perhaps still addled by the thrashing he took from the Tea Party primary candidate for the U.S. Senate, Ted Cruz.   Perhaps he does not remember that Occupy Wall Street was correct on the substance of the matter. Government failed because people cheated and nobody went to jail. The taxpayers took losses from Wall Street that dwarf the losses from all the street muggers in the nation combined. And nobody went to jail.

Occupy Wall Street was a rational response to the 1% cheating the 99% on a massive scale.

The people's filibuster, which saved the day on June 25, was a rational response when the presiding officer of a deliberative body cheats on that body's rules.

Now, Gov. Perry can still shut down the abortion clinics in Texas for as long as it takes to get to the federal courthouse if he's willing to declare another fake emergency and spend a boatload of taxpayer money to stroke the Tea Party some more.  At this writing, he has already done so.

Mr. Dewhurst and Mr. Perry are making Bozo the Clown look like a statesman. If the late, great Bozo were here, he would point out that timing is everything in politics as it is in comedy.

On June 25, the eyes of Texas were upon the capital as they seldom are. The people spoke as they seldom do.

Yes, Mr. Dewhurst, precisely like the Occupy Movement.

What, Mr. Dewhurst, will the historians say about the, as you put it, "unruly mob" that thwarted your attempt to deny Wendy Davis her victory and deny the people their constitutional rights?

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us..."

Remember exactly what Charles Dickens was describing: revolution. That's all people have left when the powerful refuse to play by their own rules.

This is a situation any politically active Indian knows first hand.  They beat you with their rules, and then when it looks like you might win anyway, they ignore the rules.  When government officials cheat, they put the people in a position where they have nothing more to lose than what has already been stolen.

This is a rule of political science just played out in Texas.  Is it coming soon to a reservation near you?

Steve Russell, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is a Texas trial court judge by assignment and associate professor emeritus of criminal justice at Indiana University-Bloomington. He lives in Georgetown, Texas.

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all i can tell you is that abortion, from 1 week to 20 weeks is cold blooded murder...speculation aside that unborn children dont feel pain, blah, blah, blah....i am fully cognizant of children of rape, and unwanted children in general, but somehow, murdering them is not the solution...
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Is it 'War on Women' or is it war on the unborn? Is it 'right to life' or right to kill? All the discussion of the rights of the women and minor children....what about the rights of those unborn? The part I find the most laughable is the statement about a minors ability to get an abortion without parental knowledge? Can't give a minor an Aspirin without parental consent, but lets go ahead and do a procedures that can KILL them and the unborn without even telling the parent?! Do a google search of the various methods of killing the unborn....it will make you sick...and that isn't even talking about the likes of Dr. Gosnell that make it even sicker. Change the headline: 'Creepy @ss Crackers behaving badly and skins joining in'. Steve
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I told my editors this would happen, but I saw no way to prevent it. This column is not about abortion. It's about people in power changing the rules in the middle of a fight they are about to lose under THEIR rules. It so happens they violated the rules in the service of a law I disagree with, but I would be no less outraged if I were on the other side. I will answer those who want to talk about abortion briefly. Some mullahs say a non-viable fetus is a human being. Some mullahs say an embryo unused during in vitro fertilization is a human being. Some mullahs say male masturbation is mass murder. Mullahs don't get to make law in countries of religious pluralism. My knowledge of tribal traditions other than my own runs only to low double digits, but of those I do know, none give men any say in what a woman does regarding her pregnancy. And do I need to point how how Indians suffer when religious pluralism is not honored?
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Steve, Thanks for your follow up comment. I did kind of miss that point, or I am so use to the powers at hand invoking the rules when it fits them and not bothering with them when they don't fit their needs. I admit I missed a your point as I focused on the stick you chose that has blood on it....in my humble opinion. I do agree with the thought that the 'rule of law' was bent. But, sadly, that happens all too often at the national level to the rulers of the Tribes. Hypocrisy is a horrible disease. Steve


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The Bill Kutik Radio Show® #171, 2/15
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The Bill Kutik Radio Show® #145, 1/14
Workday Predict and Prepare Webinar, 12/10/2013
The Bill Kutik Radio Show® #134, 8/13
CXOTalk: Naomi Bloom, Nenshad Bardoliwalla, and Michael Krigsman, 3/15/2013
Drive Thru HR, 12/17/12
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Webinar Sponsored by Workday: "Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Business Value," 5/3/12 Audio/Whitepaper
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Adventures of Bloom & Wallace

a work in progress

2012 Was Workday’s Year; Who Will Own 2013 In HR Technology?

And the winner is?

[Shout-out to my colleague Lisa Rowan at IDC.  Her recent guest post was the impetus for my finishing this post, which I had started right after Workday went public on 10-12-2012.]

1987:  Bloom & Wallace and PeopleSoft Founded

1987 was a big year in the history of HR technology.  That’s the year I founded my solo consulting practice, but Bloom & Wallace warrants little more than a footnote.  Much more important in the history of HR technology, 1987 was the year that PeopleSoft was founded by Dave Duffield and Ken Morris.

PeopleSoft changed the way that HR leaders thought about technology by giving them the ability, without programmer involvement, to add a data element here, write a report there, and use the software directly without a data entry shop.  But PeopleSoft also changed the way in which software company cultures were created and sustained, and that may have been just as important as the contributions that PeopleSoft made to the technical foundations of HRM software.

Building upon the foundations of their last company, Integral Systems, Dave and Ken’s PeopleSoft challenged the then conventional wisdom that only mainframes could run the HR and payroll applications of large organizations.  With hindsight, we now know that the then dominant pre-PeopleSoft vendors, including Tesseract, Genesys, Integral, MSA, Cyborg and more, went from dominant to chopped liver practically overnight — and they never recovered.

All these code bases and their historical peers live on in the back rooms of various aggregators for their still meaningful maintenance revenue streams.  But their heyday ended when PeopleSoft changed customer expectations, buyer behaviors, and our perceptions of how much fun it could be to hang out with an enterprise software vendor.

For all the bad habits that PeopleSoft’s flawed data and process designs brought to HRM for the last twenty-five years, we learned a ton from this company and its software architecture.  And many customers (not to mention industry watchers) shed a tear when Mr. Ellison succeeded in his hostile takeover of PeopleSoft in 2005.

2012:  Workday’s Year

When someone writes the history of the next twenty-five years of enterprise computing, I think that they’ll mark 2012 as just as important as 1987 for HR technology.  It would be nice to think that they would be celebrating the 25th year of my solo consulting practice, but no such luck.  Rather, 2012 will go down in history as the year that SAP and Oracle became more concerned with newcomer Workday than with each other — and with considerable  justification.

From the surprise Saturday announcement in December 2011 of SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors, and the strategic about-face that marked their all-in commitment to true SaaS,  to the very much expected acquisition of Taleo by Oracle in early 2012, we’ve been struck by how much of the coverage of these two bastions of enterprise software has been about the real or perceived threat of that upstart Workday.  And you only had to listen to Larry Ellison’s comments on Oracle’s last quarterly earnings call to know just how focused he is on Workday as a competitive threat.

Not only have discussions/coverage of Workday dominated the HR technology landscape this year, but discussions of Workday have included everyone from financial analysts to cloud aficionados, and from SaaS pioneers likes (with whom Workday is deeply partnered) to the computer science super geeks.  And Workday customers — let’s not forget that customers are the folks who really matter in the HR technology industry — have added their voices to this discussion, supporting Workday with their enthusiasm, published case stories, and intense collaboration.

2013:  Who’s On First?

But what about the future?  What stories will dominate the large/global market, core HRMS/TM and related HR technology conversations in 2013?

  • Will Workday’s momentum continue to build as  industry observers and buyers appreciate more fully the considerable moat they’ve built with their architectural innovations, organizational culture, customer collaboration and expanding functional footprint?
  • Will customers residing on aging ERP/HRMS platforms consider fully their true SaaS options, including Workday, when they realize that moving to their current vendor’s next generation platform will be just as much of a new implementation as moving to Workday or another vendor’s next gen HRMS/TM, especially if they plan to get any business value from these investments by revisiting their business rules, processes and data designs?
  • Will Oracle commit themselves completely to a true SaaS future and to all the customer benefits beyond TCO savings that go with it?  With they bring all of their considerable resources to bear on driving a true SaaS future for their extensive and maturing Fusion product line?  Will they achieve the deep integration needed across their Taleo and Fusion assets?
  • Will SAP deliver a true SaaS HRMS/TM which includes an all-in SaaS payroll, going beyond hosting their on-premise payroll application?  Will Employee Central’s evolving design and broadening functionality be deeply integrated with SFSF’s talent management capabilities?
  • Will Infor’s investments in their own true SaaS HRMS/TM capabilities emerge as a major contender for larger/global organizations?  Will they achieve the architectural innovations, deep integration, customer collaboration, and pricing advantages needed to challenge the market leaders?
  • Will ADP’s (with Vantage) and Ceridian’s (with DayForce) investments in their own next generation true SaaS HRMS/TM for larger/global organizations demonstrate strong enough TM and global capabilities, as well as deep enough integration and architectural innovation to compete head to head with their ERP/HRMS competitors?
  • Will it matter that some comprehensive HRMS/TM vendors don’t offer a complete ERP when the installed base of ERP/HRMS customers look around for their next generation move?  Will that move be limited to the next generation from ERP/HRMS vendors or will those buyers be willing to piece together their HRMS/TM of choice from one vendor and the rest of their ERP suite from another?
  • And what about a range of other potential HRMS/TM market disruptions?  Will Microsoft get serious about HRMS/TM and buy one of the more capable middle-market providers?  Will a non-US-based HRMS/TM vendor land on our shores with real market impact?  Will Kronos go all-in with a true SaaS, full-scale, global HRMS/TM for larger organizations?  Will SilkRoad or SumTotal or Brand X deliver deep integration, scale up for larger/global organizations, advance their architectural and build-out commitments to include a global payroll engine or ???  Will any of these vendors — or others not mentioned here — achieve an architectural or product vision breakthrough that we won’t know about until we see it?

Of two things we can be certain.  2013 is not going to be dull in our neighborhood at the intersection of HRM and IT.  And InFullBloom appreciates your readership and will do our best to an eye on these developments and many more as 2013 unfolds.

[Full disclosure:  Workday is a current client, ADP and Ceridian are recent clients, as are various other US and non-US-based HRMS/TM vendors.  Oracle and SAP, from an HRM perspective, as well as several other mentioned firms, although not clients, are followed as closely as time permits and are led by highly respected and very capable colleagues.]

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اسبوع مرحبا — Marhaba Week

الجزء الاول — Part One

One bus carrying students from the airport arrived at around 8 AM. A colleague of mine (let’s call him America) decided that the best way to give out keys would be the tried and true read-names-from-a-list method, which, despite certain snags, is one of the world’s simplest ways of getting things to the right people. Bad choice, bro.

A “global university” offers two things: the first is an intellectually stimulating international crossroads that puts in conversation different perspectives, competing ideals, and opportunities for cooperation unparalleled in a more homophonic context. The second is hard to pronounce first names.

And on this bus populated entirely with students fresh from South Korea and China, we had that in spades. Usually a teacher might stumble on the pronunciation of one weirdly spelled version of “Kate,” but after a few Jihees and Haorans, America hit a Xiaomei and could tell he’d made an especially poor choice.

With a list empty of Bobs and Sams, America was stuck behind enemy alphabets without an exit strategy. And it was hilarious.

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his name.
“Ha!” he said.
I looked questioning.
“Ha! Ha!” he repeated.

“Hak” is his name and means study, new learning,

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Social gatherings always give way to coats messily thrown on chairs. To inspire guests to hang their coats properly, Joey Zeledón has made the experience engaging by displaying the hangers. Aptly dubbed The Coat Check Chair,  Zeledón’s design cleverly uses colorful hangers stacked on a metal frame to provide unique seating, while also promoting coat storage. The chair also uses only found objects – tubular steel from a closet rod and standard plastic hangers – so there is no new material used in its creation.

The Boston-based Zeledón conceptualized, prototyped, and even made a short animation to explain the thought behind the design of the chair. The simple form is so appealing, that is easy to see why it Zeledon’s concept was selected for a Design Distinction in this year’s I.D. Magazine’s Annual Design Review. We can also imagine that guests would be drawn to the whimsical appearance, and might even test out the chair’s comfort before taking a hanger off to hang their outer wear.

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    handsome, yes!
    comfortable, too?

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As we’ve reported in recent weeks, Beijing has been suffering from staggering air pollution. Light Park is designed to provide infrastructure, housing, and commercial and recreational spaces that are free from Beijing’s traffic congestion and air pollution. It is presented as a utopian city that leaves the over-populated, smog-choked city behind and seeks to start from scratch. The mushroom cap-like structure takes the future of urban development to the sky, offering Beijing’s residents a chance to escape the crowded city.

The technology behind the Light Park is based on existing helium balloon designs. It uses solar-powered propellers, airbags and atmospheric pressure for takeoff and cruise flight. Solar power is utilized to power the uses below, with translucent solar panels located on the top of the aircraft. In order to avoid additional weight and decrease wind resistance, the skyscraper uses a cable-suspended structure to attach the slabs to the mushroom-like cap. The planting slabs are irrigated with rainwater collected on the large cap surface and are distributed in a way which allows maximum exposure to sunlight on each level.

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Growing plants can be tricky enough, but growing bones seems altogether impossible. Yet that’s exactly what scientists at Columbia University recently accomplished. A group led by Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic recently used stem cells and liposuctioned fat to grow — yes, grow — actual human bones. Once the process is perfected, it could eliminate the need for titanium bone replacements and painful bone grafts.

To create a particular bone, researchers use digital images to direct a machine to carve a bone replica, or scaffold. Scientists place the scaffold in a bioreactor and add in human cells from bone marrow or liposuctioned fat. Adding in oxygen, growth hormones, sugar and nutrients allow the cells to flourish, eventually growing into bone. By using this process, scientists can create an exact copy of any bone in the human body.

The lab breakthrough is a huge step forward for bone-replacement procedures. Being able to grow any bone from actual human tissue could eliminate the need for bone grafts, a painful procedure that requires harvesting bone samples from other parts of the body. Growing human bones could also replace titanium bone implants, which aren’t as biocompatible as human tissue.

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    Wow. A joint replacement made out of your own bone.

    None too soon since metal-on-metal hip replacements are being un-recommended.

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    this takes “big boned” to a Whole…….notha…….leva……

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Comments on: Burp Catching Backpack Traps and Contains Methane Released by Cows! Green design & eco innovation for a better world Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:18:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: david beard Sat, 02 Aug 2014 19:05:07 +0000 Ignoring the benefits of a purely “Vegan” lifestyle for a moment. The article say the average cow produces 25-30 cubic ft of gas. An average dairy herd has about 600 cows. So using simple math….30 x 600 = 18,000 cubic feet a day of gas.

There are 135 cubic feet of gas in a “Diesel Gallon Equivalent” or DGE….meaning 135 cubic feet can replace one gallon of diesel fuel.

18,000 /135 = 134.33 DGE a day

The average Class 8 tanker truck gets 5.8 miles to the gallon….on “Compressed Natural Gas” or CNG.

So on 134 “DGE” the truck could travel 134 / 5.8 = 777.2 miles….

Enough to deliver the milk to market a couple times a month….

If diesel is $3.40 a gallon this would equate to $544.00 month in fuel savings

For one days “Gas Production”…Gas from the remaining days of the month could be used for “process heat” in the pastuerization process, Shop heat for the dairy, or even some electricity production to run the milking machines…..Tractors, farm vehicles, cars and pick-up trucks….

Changing the bags would only be a minor addition to the daily routine as the cows are being milked anyway…….

By: Simply Logic Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:04:23 +0000 This is such BS. What is the concentration of CH4 in those balloon?

By: timatlightbox Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:03:08 +0000 Hmm, how much Oil is used to produce one of those bags? How much oil is used to produce 14 KG of feed to feed the cow for 1KG of meat. It all simply doesn’t add up, yes sure great idea, a few people could use it in a vehicle, it’s not very practical, ever heard of a thing called Wind? and how many ‘man hours’ does it take to maintain say a heard of 2000 cows? 2000 cows would produce (according to this) 1.6 Millions litres of part methane gas which is useful. I am a very ‘Green’ person I eat a little meat though, I love it, but not very often, probably 10% to what everyone else eats. However a type of solution defined above isn’t solutions at all, they are simply more things which make someone else money, and when someone makes money it generally turns out to be bad for the environment. It’s like trying to fix a leaky pool with a band-aid but knowing that once it rains the water will get to heavy and all the band-aids use to fix the pool will pop off at the same time creating a flood… if ya get where I’m going…

Solution #1 EAT WAY LESS MEAT!

Solution #2 Build a resource based economy where everything is provided for us by mechanization and we stop working then we can leave the poor cows alone. Check out Zeitgeist Moving Forward on Youtube: /watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w

By: blobbles Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:35:20 +0000 Aha haa haaa… I am laughing at the backpacks (imagine the uproar from NZ dairy farmers having to buy and use these!) and from clairsearch’s awesomely ignorant comment: “Plants and animals are part of a closed system and can’t *add* CO2. People really don’t seem to understand this for some reason.”

Uhhh… so you think if we chop down all the worlds trees, turning the forests into farmlands for cows, this will have zero effect on the environment? Let me educate you a little… the world found a natural equilibrium between plants and animals a few thousand years ago and it was changing slowly. More recently, resource hungry humans have changed this equilibrium through our ability to massively change the environment faster than mother nature can adapt (well, arguable as the current adaptation strategy by mother nature – climate change – may result in the death of billions, possibly rebalancing). The plant/animal emissions equilibrium that you refer to is being changed faster than our planet can adapt. Hence the planet is suffering a slight sickness we call climate change.

By: kingericscot Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:16:20 +0000 you guys are way over dramaticizing this backpack.( no it’s not an ostomy) it is simply a backpack that collects methane that would otherwise go into our atmosphere. 90% + actually comes from the belches ( not flatulence ) because cows have a ruminant digestive system. this is said not to be uncomfortable to cows and is changed once daily. this would be a good more forward to conserving our earth so stop worrying about stupid things, do a little research, and look at the big picture. thanks

By: halfmoose Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:57:06 +0000 Color me vegan…feed me a bowl of greens and plug a hose in my side which leads to the methane combustion engine in my eco friendly vehicle…i need to get to town!

By: JonZed Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:51:51 +0000 Having recently witnessed a cattle \”city\” in Nebraska on a cross-country drive I agree the problem lies not with the cow, but the humans who penned them. A cattle city looks like a bovine Darfur, sans the tents. On the same drive I saw free-range cattle in Wyoming who fed off grasses and were allowed to roam as nature intended.

While I cannot advocate strict vegetarianism being one reluctant to give up the luxury of the occasional Neiman-ranch burger, I can definitely side and agree with those who wish to massively reduce our production and consumption of meat. The question is, what will be done to educate the majority that eating meat in the quantities they are used to is unhealthy, and more importantly what will be provided as a healthy, (and tasty) cost-conscious alternative?

In the late 1970s a Wisconsin senator pushed the FDA to educate the US populace about over-consumption of Beef, only to have his career destroyed by Big Beef lobbyists. The only concession the FDA made? The creation of the \”food pyramid\” and pushing the meme of \”nutrients\” which to this day are used to mis-educate people regarding the importance of different foods.

By: Carbon tax Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:38:41 +0000 Inhabitat should exercise more ethical judgment in glamorizing this inhumane rubbish!

“the hypothesis that some people have a genetic requirement for meat is, at its basis, unscientific. There’s been a lot of work done on nutrition for well over a hundred years; countless nutrients have been identified; countless foods have been analyzed; and there is every ideological predisposition for meat-eating scientists, in a meat-eating society, to identify nutrients that meat has that other foods don’t.

Yet despite all this, no necessary nutrient found only in meat has been identified. All the evidence that we have so far indicates that there is no nutrient which any human requires which can only be found in meat. Temple Grandin and the Dalai Lama are in abundant company. Many (perhaps most) people have a vague belief that meat is somehow necessary, at least for them — that’s why the frenetic slaughter of 300 animals a second is going on worldwide. However, it is not very likely that this is the case.”

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By: klevine Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:28:20 +0000 I agree with cpine and jeanX. The problem is not the cows, it’s the people. It is not fair to punish the cows for our practices. If I were a cow, I would be very upset if someone put a hose in my stomach and made me carry my excess gas on my back, even if the container is a pretty bright pink. I would moo, and they probably wouldn’t understand what I was saying, and I’d be forced to carry around this flipping backpack for who knows how long. But is this a problem at I, as a cow, have created? No.

Cows have always produced methane. And they always will. Humans, however, produce the bulk of our noxious gases by choice. As such, we should not force other species to pay for our choices. We should instead evaluate our lifestyles.

Poor cow indeed.

By: fest Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:44:18 +0000 It is the worst idea concerning the ecologie. Make suffer an animal
for CO2? it is dismaying.Do it for you!

By: cpine Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:58:26 +0000 Poor cow! They’ve turned it into a walking bomb! Non-farm types commenting on this….Cows produce methane out their you-knows regardless, because of the way their multiple stomachs digest stuff. So do people, without the multiple stomachs. So, letting all the existing cattle die back to some ordained level and then upgrading people’s vegan diets will produce — guess what? More methane-spewing people with more disposable income to overheat the planet in some other fashion! The problem is too many people, not cows…

By: jeanX Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:56:24 +0000 This cow has an ostomy?
This is unethical.

By: Gary Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:09:59 +0000 Do you see that streak of filthy, matted hair where the hose is inserted through the cow’s side into it’s stomach? Clairseach is correct that plants don’t make “extra” CO2, but it takes 16lbs (7 kilos) of plants to raise 1 lb (.5 kilo) of beef, so all that grain is raised to very inefficiently create hamburgers. If that grain was used to feed people, we’d need to grow less and raise fewer cows (less methane) and we wouldn’t be raising cows to live short, miserable lives; now with a crazy backpack and a hose stuck through a hole in their side. greymasse is justifiably defensive about an ethic based on nothing more than what his or her mouth wants.

By: Chys Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:04:52 +0000 People, let me enlighten you a little bit. In Argentina less than 5% of the cows are fed in feed lots. Cows are fed mainly by grass in the open field. Usualy cows are brouth to the field where there used to be something planted, so they can fertalice the ground again.
And Clairsearch, nobody talked about CO2, we are talking about Methane.
I think this is a good initiative.

By: greymase Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:29:42 +0000 clairseach, you raise a point I\\\’ve been noodling around for awhile – especially since I\\\’ve been counseled to give up cheeseburgers for the planet: if the cows don\\\’t eat the grass (or other biological material) grown on a specified plot, won\\\’t some other organism do so and convert the stored carbon into carbon dioxide or methane in similar, if not identical amounts? It would seem that the growth of a given plot would decompose and release whatever it captures, unless it is buried or otherwise isolated from decomposition.

I am otherwise extremely green, and fairly well versed in alternate energy sciences, but have to admit, I don\\\’t know this bit – and I am hungry for a burger!

(PS – Please do not berate me for using a food product that takes more resources and that we could feed more people if I were vegetarian instead…hate me if you will, but more people on the planet is not part of my personal mission. We may differ, but that\\\’s my view after due consideration.)

By: clairseach Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:29:53 +0000 The only way you can add CO2 to the atmosphere is by burning fossil fuels. Plants and animals are part of a closed system and can’t *add* CO2. People really don’t seem to understand this for some reason.

It’s ironic that this comes from Argentina where as a rule, cattle is grass fed and mostly organic with feedlots being a recent addition.

By: eightdouble Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:34:14 +0000 mia, i think you may be reverse engineering the problem as well.

adopting a plant based diet is the real engineering solution here. even without considering the greenhouse gases it makes ecological sense. from water used in beef production to the number of people we could feed in the world if we didn’t cycle our grain through livestock, then eat the livestock. people need to realize that vegetarianism is environmentalism.

By: Mia Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:22:58 +0000 The best way to combat this problem is to go back to pasture-raised beef. The real problem is that we are concentrating the animals on feed lots where they are fed grain — particularly corn. Cows were meant to eat GRASS, and that\\\’s why it is so hard for them to digest corn, and hence the gas (not to mention copious other health problems, but that\\\’s another story). This project sounds a lot like reverse-engineering a problem that we created ourselves. Why not just go back to the way nature meant it to be?


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ACD-200 Bobcat Air Sampler with Rapid Filter Elution Kit

The Bobcat is a lightweight, portable, dry filter air sampler with a unique rapid filter elution kit. It is ideally suited for the collection of bio-aerosols and particulate matter; including sub-micron sized particles, airborne molecular contamination, and particulates. This system has been developed to address a broad range of air sampling requirements.

Attributes of the Bobcat

  • *Lightweight, only 7.8 lbs with battery
    *Built-in tripod
    *Built-in omni-directional aerosol inlet
    *Easy to read status display
    *Built-in carry handle
    *Rugged mil-spec design
    *Built-in mass flow sensor for consistent sampling rates
    *4 programmable run modes allow the user to balance collection rate with battery life
    *Disposable, single use filter  cassette and elutor components– no need for decontamination
    *No liquids in the collector allow for use in extreme temperatures
    *Eluting captured particles from the filter takes only 5 seconds; sample is ready for analysis in less than one minute
    *Easy to use– operators can be trained in 10 minutes
    *Controls can be manipulated with gloved hands, while in full NBC gear
    *Designed for use in high-stress environments
    *Single electrical port allows for  remote triggering, data acquisition, and external power supply with one connection

The Bobcat aerosol collector takes up little more than one-quarter of a cubic foot, has an internal battery, built-in tripod, and can run continuously at 200 liters per minute for up to 18 hours. The system uses a dry 52 mm electret filter as the collection media. Electret filters are produced from diaelectric polymer fibers that develop an electrical charge when air flows past them. This substantially increases the collection efficiency of the filter and allows for the use of lower pressure drop filters which, in turn, allows for higher sampling rates for extended periods using battery power. Additional advantages include low consumable costs, ease of use, and high durability. This gives it the ability to operate at low temperatures; a limitation for most wet-

wall cyclone type collectors.

Rapid filter sample recovery

Following aerosol collection, the Filter Cassette is removed from the Collector, capped on one side, then snapped onto the sample cup; this provides a primary container for transport. To extract the captured particles from the filter, a Can containing the elution foam is simply Pressed to a fitting on the Elutor Cap. The elution foam is released from the Elution Can evenly through the filter. The wet foam passes through the interstitial spaces of the filter to efficiently extract any captured particles. Sample elution takes approximately 5 seconds and produces 6 to 7 milliliters of liquid sample. The foam immediately collapses back to a liquid in the sample cup, making it available for sample processing and analysis.


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Opening: All start out walking:
1st Boy: (stops) I’m thirsty. (All get a drink.) (Continue Walking.)
2nd Boy: (stops) I’m hot (All wipe off face.) (Continue Walking.)
3rd Boy: (stops) I’m hungry (All get something to eat) (Continue Walking)
4th Boy: (stops) My shoestring is undone (All tie shoestrings) (Continue Walking)

Make up as many more things as you need so that every boy in your den has a part

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go of the string. No matter how hard they try, they will not
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How to do it: Cross your arms, bend over the string, and grab
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But none of those are the case right now. You see, life doesn’t always go as planned and sometimes you just have to roll with the punches. Even if that means you look like you’ve actually been punched.
Today started out beautifully. It was sunny, winds were low, and I had an appointment at 6:00 pm to get my permanent eyeliner done. Yes, that’s right. Needles to my eyes so that I will NEVER have to be without eyeliner again. If you know me at all, you know that being without makeup, at any given time, is not acceptable. I was going to pay to make sure this would never happen again. It’s how I roll.
But the forces worked against me today. The winds picked up, it got cold, AND the stupid stye that I thought would relieve itself before my appointment that I made 3 weeks in advance just hung on and refused to reveal its ugly head and move on.
Yup, that stye indeed took over. I have a lump on the inside and outside of my eye. My lid is sagging like there’s no tomorrow (seriously, like I’m 100 and there’s no tomorrow). And the freaking thing HURTS. LIKE. HELL!
I’ve tried all of the home remedies. Hot packs and compresses. Tea bags. Baby shampoo in my eye…thank you very much. Nothing is making this stupid beast go away.
It’s not pretty, it’s painful, and I’m not happy.
And horror of all horrors, I had to call to cancel my appointment today. No permanent liner for me. Sad face!
I want this beast to move along. Next victim please. Seriously would not wish this discomfort on my worst enemy. Want to know who my worst enemy is? Ask my friends, they know. I won’t go in to that here.
But I give. I’ve booked an appointment with an eye doctor tomorrow afternoon. This should be fun since I have to bring both of the babies. It’ll be fine (in my head). I’m hoping he can fix this thing and let me get back to normal.
And I’m hoping it will get warm soon, and that the winds will stop, and most importantly (because I’m all shallow and stuff) that I’ll be able to reschedule my permanent liner in the next few weeks.
Bring on the permanent makeup. This momma needs a break. Now what about those lashes? Once I heal, the possibilities are endless!

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  2. I’m sorry you had to will happen soon.

  3. clgossett says:

    I’m sorry I look like the old swollen lady that lives in the shoe that has so many children she doesn’t know what to do. Wait, that 2nd part is true.

  4. I’m not sure why you thought being tea bagged would help your eye, but OK.

    I hope your eye feels better really soon!

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