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The Somali Congress of Trade Unions (SOCOTU) has today marked the international day for Labour  in a colourful ceremony attended by the Prime Minister of Somalia. May 1stevery year Workers all over the world observe this day as a public holiday. The ceremony was organized by the SOCOTU and attended by high level personalities including ministers, members of parliament, foreign ambassadors and public servants.

The minister of Labour Hon. Salah Jama who spoke at the occasion emphasized the need for legislation and amendment of existing laws to ensure that equal employment opportunities are guaranteed to the Somali Nationals. He also promised to protect the interests of Somali workers and swore that no jobs shall be given to foreigners in the presence of Somali workers who can do the job.

The chairman general of Somali Congress of Trade unions Brother Mohamed Osman haji who spoke in length of the challenges facing Somali workers emphasized the need for the government to take action and prevent private sector employees from exploitation. He congratulated Somali Workers all over the country for this great day and broke to them the good news that the Somali workers got a new headquarter after 25years. Brother Haji asked the government to return the previous headquarters of the Somali Workers which is now in use by the Immigration department.

The prime minister of the federal republic of Somalia Hon. Hassan Ali Kheyre who was the chief guest in the ceremony declared his government’s commitment to safeguard the interests of the workers .He mentioned that his government will strengthen tripartite dialogue between workers, employers and government. PM Kheyre who is in office for only 53days proudly announced that his government has paid the salaries of workers in full for the period he was in office. The prime minister speaking on foreign aid encouraged the Somali workers to increase their productivity and forget about depending on external aid.  He said, “no country has ever developed on external aid and I tell you that the workers are the backbone and we must produce to sustain ourselves”

Happy Labour day to workers all over the World.!!!

SOCOTU Marks International Day of Labour

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PR1000.10: Create a Basic "Password Counter" in Python
A very enthusiastic Python 1000 student asked for the creation of a few more practice activities.

We decided to share our first design as an official project.

Destined to be the first in a series of follow-on activities for our increasingly popular Python 1000 & Python 2000 training opportunities, we hope other new Python students will enjoy the sharing, as well.

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Backing Up Files Across Multiple Devices
There you have them - sitting in a box. --From lots of CDs / DVDs, to far too many USB sticks to contemplate.

Rather than sitting there - waiting for us to toss them out - wouldn't it be nice if we could use them to backup our 'stuff?

Backup Splits

Much like in the days when we had lots of drive-tapes, the challenge is to split a `too-big` collection of files, across a `too-small` series of media. A problem almost as old as computing itself, fortunately all POSIX systems come with a program called `tar`!

sudo mkdir /d_backup 2> /dev/null
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The team & I had some fun over the weekend adding a coin-cell LED to a 3D model:

The challenge involved reverse engineering an STL so as to experiment with soft-drilling hex-holes, as well as using clear filaments.

The process was to import the STL, then rendering as a "mesh", so as to convert it to a "shape", then a "solid" in "Part" mode (phew!)

Fortunately, there is a plethora of information on how to do such things using FreeCAD.

(Yea - Testing GUI's is easy, by comparison =)

Then, of course, we had to "map" a "sketch" to the solid in "Part Design" mode so as to start soft-drilling the thing to accept a standard sized CR2032 coin cell battery, plus either a 5 or 6mm LED.

The neat discovery de-jure was centered around how using faceted drill holes scatter light far more brilliantly (pun intended) than simply drilling things out.

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--You could even have them print one up for you!

p.s: A few days later, we remixed another - this time with a video to show off the internal wire frame.

Unlike the above, this one allows several Moai to be wired together in a series.

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Or maybe the real question is, “Do you want to see what I see?”

Or even “Would you want to see what I see?”

Because if you do, you can.

My friend Ethel has gotten me hooked on yet another internet time vacuum fun way to share those random vintage moments that pop up throughout the day and if you’d like to come along, you can see photos of them as they happen.

That’s right! For example, when I spy a piece of rare vintage barkcloth and it's not for sale, you can feel my pain in real time!

I can only guess that the question you’re now asking yourself is, “Where in the world do I sign up for that?!”

On Instagram.

It’s a great way to feel confident and assured that you’ll never miss an exciting moment such as this:

Or this:

Or even this:

All with riveting captions from me and occasional comments from the internet.

I’m addicted.

So if you want to see what I see, just follow along on your smartphone. It’s easy to download the free Instagram app and follow IntoVintage. The app also allows you to leave comments and to heart the photos that you, well, heart.

The other option for viewing photos on Instagram is to use it on your computer via the Instagram website.  You can also take a sneak peek of my photos by clicking here.

I follow lots of my favorite bloggers along with new-to-me vintage loving folks I discovered while exploring Instagram.

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

VSA Headlines - July 2014

Tributes to Brixton man who drowned at festival in the south of France: Tributes were today paid to a 25-year-old who drowned at a festival in France after allegedly inhaling laughing gas.

More evidence 'poppers' may damage eyesight: A club drug and aphrodisiac since the 1970s, inhaled “poppers” are increasingly linked to eye damage - possibly due to a new formulation - according to a short report from the UK.

Man who went from sniffing petrol to shoplifting for heroin will take part in Recovery Festival: A man who went from sniffing petrol fumes aged 13 in Wiltshire to shoplifting in Plymouth to fund a heroin addiction is taking part in the South West's only recovery festival after living clean for three years.

Prolific offender stole nearly £200 of aerosol cans from Ilfracombe Co-op to feed addiction: A prolific offender with a solvent addiction stole almost £200 worth of aerosol cans to feed his habit.

Solicitor says Asbos 'are almost used as a way of tidying up the streets' after woman was remanded in custody for possessing aerosol cans: She was treated by paramedics for the effects of inhaling the hair spray aerosol cans.

Laughing gas vendors - having a laugh at the law's expense? For a fee, they'll get you high - and they'll do it right under the noses of the police who can't touch them. But is the party coming to an end for those making a fortune selling laughing gas?

TOWIE star Arg sparks controversy being pictured with deadly legal high Hippy Crack: James Argent has sparked controversy after posing with a balloon, believed to be a legal high dubbed Hippy Crack, in a nightclub.

Lethal laughing gas op targets illegal Shoreditch street sellers: Potentially lethal “laughing gas” with a street value of about £6,500 was seized in just one night by police outside the pubs and clubs of Shoreditch.

Rise in use of laughing gas in Carshalton and Coulsdon prompts police warning: Officers have warned children and their parents against sniffing any small metal cannisters they find in public spaces as these are likely to have been left over by people using laughing gas in the area. The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead are also engaged in an awareness-raising programme.

Other legal highs

We can 'only educate' people on dangers of legal highs: Legal highs are so popular the only option is to "educate people who are using them" about how they can make safer choices about the drugs they take, an addiction specialist told Good Morning Britain.

Man dies after smoking legal high: A man has died after smoking herbal incense, police said.

Torfaen AM welcomes legal high inquiry: Torfaen AM, Lynne Neagle, has successfully persuaded the Assembly’s Health and Social Care Committee to undertake a full inquiry into legal highs.

Northern Ireland in grip of legal high 'Magic Dragon' epidemic: Ulster risks a lost generation unless government bans the sale of so-called ‘legal highs.

'Legal high' man set fire to flats after 'hearing voices in head': A man who endangered residents by torching a block of flats claimed he did it after hearing voices in his head as a result of taking a so-called legal high.

Legal highs stories this month also included bans on legal highs at festivals, including T in the Park and Brownstock and raids made on a number of legal highs shops including those in Perth, Angus and Kent. Police warnings were also issued in ScotlandCumbria (also covered in an ITV story) and Cheshire.

Mineral turpentine, heavy fuels raise risk of Alzheimer's disease: A new study suggests that exposure to certain petroleum based solvents and fuels can drastically boost the risk of Alzheimer's disease - a disease that affects an estimated 5 million Americans.

Huffing driver can't be charged with DUI (NE): Two months after being hit by a huffing driver Lindsey Anderson says Nebraska D-U-I laws need better balance.Lindsey says, " Penalties for driving under the influence of alcohol and driving under the influence of huffing should all be the same."

Twin Falls Man Runs Into Sign after Inhaling Canned Air (ID): A three car pileup Monday morning, has led to the arrest of one of the drivers.

Driver inhaled nitrous oxide just before crash on Rt. 22, say police (NJ):  Investigation of a one-car crash led to the arrest of two Summit residents on charges related to inhaling nitrous oxide.

Newport man hospitalized after inhaling whippets (OH): A Newport man is in a critical condition Friday after his wife says he inhaled a gas commonly found in aerosol cans.

Recent huffing cases in Warren, Hunterdon counties raise concerns among experts (NJ): Huffing, the practice of inhaling common household items for a brief blast of euphoria, has for decades been a problem. And those who track it say there's at least circumstantial evidence that it's become an even greater problem recently in certain pockets of the country. A similar story ran in Marathon County, WI

Legal highs

Far North queries 'legal high' ban: Far North District Council says it's impossible to ban all "legal highs" and instead wants local government control over where they can be sold.

Law without enforcement will not curb glue-sniffing among teenagers: Drafting a new or amending an existing law will not be able to help curb glue-sniffing activity, especially among teenagers in this country, according to crime analyst Kamal Affandi Hashim.

Enforce ‘rugby boys’ ordinance (Bacolod): There is a steadily increasing and rampant use of rugby and other volatile substances by minors, in spite of the passage of City Ordinance 328, the resolution said.

Eight children inhaling adhesives land in de-addiction centre in Amritsar (Punjab): These boys, who work as rag-pickers, were spotted by the Amritsar police at different locations in the city, including the railway station, on Monday.

Most correction fluid addicts are students, finds PGI study: Correction fluid (inhalant addicts) addicts are mostly students belonging to middle socio-economic class families. A recent study conducted by the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, has found.


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Women In the Ranks -- Intro

Female Civil War Soldiers
Although I've started revisions on my time travel romance, Erin's Rebel, I'm also revising an outline for a new Civil War romance I'm calling, Katie Rose. Katie is a widowed Irish immigrant who takes up the rifle while disguised as a man in the Confederate ranks.
Through my research for this upcoming book, I've learned many interesting facts and have read biographies of the women who actually served in both the Union and Confederate armies pretending to be men.
Since women weren't allowed to join the army during this period in history as they can today, this was the only way they could serve as soldiers.
How did so many accomplish this and hide the fact that they were women?
A few of the women I'll highlight include: Sarah Emma Edmonds, Jennie Hodgers and Sarah Rosetta Wakeman. Although these three all served in the Union Army, I'll also include stories of female Confederate soldiers.
The main reference book I'll be using is All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies by Elizabeth D. Leonard, but I'll also use a few other source books as well as supply interesting links for further reading.
In past blogs on this site, I've talked about women who served as nurses and even one who was a Union surgeon. But through this series of blogs, I plan to highlight the true stories of these brave, unsung women heroes who fought alongside the men in battle. I'll talk about why and how they hid their identities, as well as their day to day challenges. I'll also provide interesting links for further reading.
Hope you enjoy.
Source: All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies by Elizabeth D. Leonard: Penguin Books, copyright 1999: ISBN: 0-14-029858-4

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Kristin-Marie said...

Terrific blog. I'd only heard rumor of women in soldiery during the Civil War until now.


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Thursday, February 18, 2010

home sweet motel

On our trip back from Canada we stayed in a rather shaggy motel... we were tired and didn't really care much to look for a different motel.

Jakey LOVES staying in hotels and he was so exited and thought this was our new home... it only can get better from a dirty little hotel room, right?

He documented the whole stay and I discovered today that he was able to take 133 pictures of one room!!!

I narrowed them WAY down to show you how Jakey loved our stay at the Motel 6!

the pool was a major hit... who cares if it was closed

essentials in every hotel room

the "magic key" to open our door was another big attraction and a reason to choose this motel over any home

yeah these are beautiful too.. and hey they worked

the oscar nominees were anounced that morning

i love the concentration on his face

we actually had ONE towel

another essential ;)

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With this application you can create your own keyboard shortcuts for whatever you want

Those of us who write we know how heavy it can be to not stop typing in an entire day. Sometimes we may use the same phrase over and over again. In the case of programmers it is even worse, but they fortunately have IDEs that, among other functions, autocomplete the text as we discussed in a previous note.

Going back to typing almost the same thing many times every other day too, would not it be great to save yourself beats? What if we could automate this process? Is there any easy way to do it? There is, it is called AutoHotkey and we are going to show it in this article.

And what exactly is AutoHotkey? Well, in a nutshell, this is a scripting program that is then associated with certain key combinations. It is not difficult to use or configure, but keep in mind that some characters are a bit atypical. When I saw them I could not help thinking about the Vim Cheat Sheet.

Of course, it’s not so difficult to use Vim with ease as with AutoHotkey. In fact, getting on with this program is just a matter of minutes (and more so we’re going to use it). In this article we are going to give some brushstrokes about assignment of keys, for more advanced topics we recommend to take a look at the extensive documentation of the program.

First things first: let’s create a script

Suppose you have already downloaded AutoHotkey and you already have it on your computer. Now run it. You will see that no window appears on the screen: quiet, nothing happens. If you want to use the program you will have to right click on the desktop, select New and AutoHotkey Script . A file will be created on the desktop, put the name you want and save it.

Now right-click on the file you just created and open it with any text editor. In this example we have used Notepad ++.

Where :

  • The character “^” is equivalent to the Ctrl key.
  • The character “j” is equivalent to the letter with which the previous one is combined.
  • The characters “::” denote what we want the combined keys to do.
  • The “Send” command writes the script text on the screen.
  • The “Return” command prints a line break after the text.

Now try the script . To do this, close the text editor, go to the desktop and double-click the file we just edited. If we now reopen Notepad ++ and press the key combination.

Now, “^” is not the only key with a special assigned . “!” Is equal to the Alt key and “+” is equivalent to Shift.

Keep in mind that to assign functions to each key combination you have to create a script at a time. The commands can not be concatenated as if we were programming in any language, unfortunately.

Composing long messages

Another utility that can have AutoHotkey in your day to day can be to save a lot of time by writing emails. In office work, mailing is one of the most time-consuming and tedious parts by far. T

In this example, what we are telling the program is to insert a certain text after clicking certain characters (in this case “ncm”).

The documentation explains much more advanced processes. You can even open programs or reassign combinations by default, such as the well-known Alt + Tab, but for now and to show a couple of basic features, this already serves us. If you want to try more advanced tasks we encourage you to do it, but before you know how AutoHotkey works at this most basic level.

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Oklahoma State and Oklahoma men’s basketball teams must put last weekend’s Bedlam matchup behind them. The 14-4 Sooners are reeling from two straight losses last week. They also lost to Kansas State last Tuesday in Manhattan. Oklahoma dropped from fourth in the national rankings to 11th in the USA Today poll and 12th in the AP ranking. Now, OU hosts No. 5 Kansas (16-3. 6-1), winner of the last 13 straight conference regular season titles, at 6 tonight (ESPN). More

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Oklahoma and Alabama: Comparing two college football dynasties
Alabama’s football team won its fifth national championship last week with a victory over Georgia. Bama coach Nick Saban also claimed his sixth national title (five with the Crimson Tide and one with LSU in 2003). More

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

My Favorite Christmas Flicks

I have a long list of movies that I consider to be Christmas-related (even if Joseph thinks I'm crazy half the time) and that I must watch over the holiday season.  I love Christmas movies!  Here they are, in no particular order:

This is Joseph's favorite, so he'll always watch this one with me.  I love it, too, for so many reasons.  ("My mouth's bleeding!"  "Zuzu's petals!"  "Merry Christmas, Bedford Falls!  Merry Christmas, you old Building and Loan!")

"White Christmas" is another must-see that I've watched every year since my childhood.  What's not to love?  Great singing, great dancing, hilarious lines (thank you Danny Kaye!), and filled with Christmas spirit.  Love this one.

"Holiday Inn" is a companion movie to "White Christmas" where the song "White Christmas" was actually first sung (because it was made first).  Another Bing Crosby classic, it actually covers all the holidays, but starts and ends with Christmas.  AND it has Fred Astaire dancing, so you can't go wrong with this.

Now here's where Joseph starts to think I'm crazy.  Why is this a holiday movie he asks?  Because it includes several holidays I answer.  Sometimes that's all it takes.  (Kind of like "Sleepless in Seattle" is another Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan flick that I occasionally watch during the holidays.)  And I haven't faithfully watched this one every year since it came out, just the past couple since I acquired it, but I love it.  I also love the movie it was based on, "The Shop Around the Corner", (which is another great Christmas movie) with the incredible Jimmy Stewart.  Go check that out if you've never seen it.

"While You Were Sleeping" is another one that seems like a strange holiday choice, but it actually all takes place over Christmas and New Years, so it really is a Christmas movie (and it gives me a good excuse to watch it once a year, because it's one of my faves!)

"The Polar Express" hasn't always been a favorite, but it is now that I have kids.  I didn't even grow up reading this book, but I think the movie is very well done and has a great message.

"The Preacher's Wife" isn't my favorite, and I actually don't always watch it, but it's still a cute story that I enjoy.  Plus, it's got easy-on-the-eyes Denzel Washington in it as well as some great songs by Whitney Houston, so it's a fun one.

I love this movie.  Joseph and I actually just went to see it last week on the stage and really enjoyed it.  The actual Tootie from this movie, Margaret O'Brien, was there signing autographs which was fun because she was so great in the movie.  While it's mostly about the World Fair that came to St. Louis in 1904, it's also a sweet love story that occurs over Halloween and Christmas, so I consider it a legitimate Christmas movie.  Plus, Judy Garland sings "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" at the end, so that seals the deal.

This is our newest favorite Christmas movie, and another that Joseph will always watch with me.  We laugh out loud so many times watching "Elf".  It's one of the only Will Ferrell movies I can actually stomach, and we think it's hilarious.

I know some of you are shaking your heads that I didn't include "A Christmas Story" or "Charlie Brown's Christmas" or other classic favorites on here, but I didn't grow up with those so I just never loved them like I know some of you do.  I guess I'd also include in this list "Miracle on 34th Street", but we don't own it so we don't watch it that often.  I like it a lot, though.  If there's any other movies that you think I have to see at Christmastime, however, I'm open to suggestions (though I barely have enough time for all of these as it is!)  And I hope that maybe I've given someone an idea for a new movie to love at the holiday season.

Jessica said...

love, love, LOVE white christmas. scott had never seen it so i bought a few christmas's ago and we watched it on christmas eve and i decided it has to be a tradition from now on! AND i was actually just talking about while you were sleeping this afternoon! i also think of it as a christmas movie. another one i always love to watch around christmas (or at least while it's still winter) is little women -- the one with wynona ryder.

what a fun list! i'll have to check out some of your other ones.

Karene said...

Well, now you've got me all excited about Christmas movies. I've seen most of these and love them. There are a few I haven't seen that I'll have to check out based on your recommendation. Thanks!!

The Hurley's said...

Love it. Those are all my favorite and I just love Christmas because I get to watch all those movies. So fun!! I am still like a little kid when it comes to Christmas.

Alan and Jeni said...

I love your list. I'd have to say that "It's a Wonderful Life" and "White Christmas" are our favorites as well as "Miracle on 34th Street". I can't handle "A Christmas Story", but we'll have to find a way to watch "Elf" this year since you mentioned it before when we were playing games.

m said...

Oh, but Becky, you didn't include "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol" (pout, pout)! Well, at least you need to put one of the versions of that movie on your list. I'm guessing you must not have a copy. Good thing you have a December birthday (hmmmm). Also, your girls must see "Small One" when they come this year. I ordered that last year so that we now have a genuine one, not only a broken, taped-off-the-TV version. Yea!

Holly or James said...

I think that "Home Alone" is a great Christmas movie too. For some odd reason, I've felt it necessary to watch it every Christmas for the past few years. (:

Annie said...

there's a few on there i'll have to try!

but we too include while you were sleeping in our list. : )

meli said...

I don't think I've ever seen It's A Wonderful Life in it's entirety, just bits and pieces. We always watch Christmas Vacation ( with Chevy Chase). I like Love, Actually too. They usually play it on TV during Christmastime.

shelly said...

I agree with the person who commented that you have to watch "Little Women" (with Wynona Rider) each year. I agree with you on "You've Got Mail" because I always think of that random scene where they're hanging "twinkle lights" and that's just so festive. I haven't seen a bunch on your list so now I'll have to. The first and only time I saw "White Christmas" was in Maclin's choir class. Anyway, my last opinion here is that you have to own "A Christmas Story"!! It's the best!

Holly or James said...

what about scrooge?

Holly or James said...

and what about National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation?

Holly or James said...

and what about A Christmas Story? you gotta include the Red Rider BB-gun!

Brian&Pam said...

LOVE the list Becky! Most all of those are on my favorite list too (and you gave me a few new ones to check out :) We must be related or something :) Wish we lived closer so we could do a movie marathon together...maybe someday :)


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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Bliss on the bus

Yes, you heard it right.

I'm enroute to New York, sitting in my favorite place on the bus, two seats to myself, reading about Paris' demimonde listening to Murray Perahia play Bach keyboard concerti very loudly in my earphones.  I am seriously rocking out.

I don't know how, but along the way somewhere bus trips to NYC went from dread status to seriously fabulous time to myself.  If I do this enough, I'll get through all six solo concerti, and the double, triple and quadruple ones too!  Utterly amazing and they block out all the annoying video game sounds from the kid in the next row.

Listening to Bach couldn't hurt my Verdi and Puccini, could it??  If anything I will be metronomically more powerful when I arrive.

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Just wanted to inform you that our recent cd release of 'None of This Was Ever Real' is available at some very kind record shops around the Metro Detroit area. You can find them at stormy records, Dearborn Music, UHF, FOUND SOUND, Street Corner Music, and Lo & Behold! Records & Books. We highly recommend you to shop at these fine establishments, they are owned and operated by some great folks!
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Slump in Farmland Values Continues

Dan Industry News Release

By Cortney Cowley, Economist and Matt Clark, Assistant Economist

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FOURTH QUARTER 2016 Farmland values and cash rents declined moderately in the fourth quarter of 2016. Bankers across the Tenth District noted that persistent weakness in farm income continued to weigh on farmland values. Although most farmland purchases in the quarter were financed with new debt, the portion of new loans with a cash down payment decreased. The persistent and widespread deterioration in farm income has occurred alongside increasing loan demand and lower repayment rates. These trends are expected to continue in the first quarter of 2017.

Farmland Values and Cash Rents

Farmland values continued to wane in the fourth quarter, according to the Tenth District Survey of Agricultural Credit Conditions. On average, nonirrigated and irrigated farmland values dropped 6 percent, and ranchland values fell 7 percent from the same period last year (Chart 1). These downgrades were the largest since the Great Recession of 2007-09 but were relatively small compared to declines in the 1980s. The largest changes in District states occurred in Kansas and Nebraska (Table 1). The value of nonirrigated farmland fell 13 percent in Kansas, and irrigated farmland in Nebraska was 8 percent lower. Decreases in ranchland values in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri were the largest since 2002.

Farmland values fell alongside moderate declines in the volume of farmland sales. A majority of bankers reported that fourth-quarter farmland sales were lower than a year ago, following a similar trend that has occurred since 2013 (Chart 2).

Moreover, bankers expected the downward trend in farmland values to continue. Seventy-five percent of bankers responding to the survey indicated they expect the value of nonirrigated farmland to decrease further in 2017, while only 5 percent expected an increase in nonirrigated farmland values (Chart 3). More specifically, a majority of bankers expected a decline of 6 percent to 10 percent in nonirrigated farmland values by year-end 2017.

Amid the slump in farmland values, cash rents also edged down. Cash rents for nonirrigated and irrigated cropland each fell 8 percent while ranchland cash rents fell 12 percent from the fourth quarter of 2015 (Chart 4). In fact, cash rents for each type of farmland were down from 2015 in each quarter of 2016. All District bankers surveyed in the fourth quarter expected cash rents to remain unchanged or decline in the first quarter of 2017.

After falling steadily for several quarters, cash rents in the fourth quarter were down sharply from their peak values. In the Mountain States, for example, cash rents on non-irrigated cropland have fallen 40 percent from their peak in the fourth quarter of 2012 to the fourth quarter of 2016 (Table 2). In Oklahoma, cash rents on non-irrigated cropland have decreased 2 percent from peak values. Although total declines from peak values vary by state, annualized changes are more similar. For producers, a reduction in cash rents could help alleviate some pressure on profit margins because cash rents account for a large share of production expenses.i

Farm Income

Farm income also weakened in the fourth quarter. In fact, farm income fell for the fifteenth consecutive quarter, the longest such streak in survey history (Chart 5). Moreover, 70 percent of bankers expected the downward trend to continue in the first quarter of 2017. Capital and household spending extended declines to 15 and 10 consecutive quarters, respectively. Although the pace of decline lessened somewhat for all three measures, the persistent nature of the downturn continued.

Persistently lower farm income has been felt across the Tenth District. Bankers in each District state have, on average, logged at least six consecutive quarters of declining farm income. Furthermore, at least 50 percent of bankers in each state indicated they expect farm income to decline in the first quarter of 2017 (Chart 6).

Evidence of tightening farm income is seen in the declining use of cash down payments on farmland loans. Since 2012, the share of farmland purchases that required new debt financing has remained little changed. However, the portion of farmland purchases made with cash down payments has dropped steadily from 23 percent in 2012 to 14 percent in 2016 (Chart 7). Additionally, the portion of farmland purchases with pledged existing equity has increased about 9 percent since 2012, suggesting that persistent declines in farm income have led to reduced liquidity in the farm sector.

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Caney Fork Regulations

I have had several folks ask me my opinion on the new regulations for the Caney Fork. First off I was surprised anyone would ask. But hey, it's good conversation and when we can't be out there fishing, we might as well be talking about fishing. Let's take a look at the new regulations, specifically for the Caney Fork and hopefully this will spur something for the Elk as well. Yep, I said it hopefully this will spur something for the Elk as well!

Here they are as I see them....or might I say copied and paste from some other website:

Rainbow and brook trout-14-20 inches PLR with 1 fish of each species over 20 inches.
Well, I guess this one is OK. But only if you like to fish for larger fish and don't mind getting away from the Hatchery Brats that have been in the upper part of the river most of the Summer. We will give this one 3 out of 5 stars. (non-scientific rating)

Brown Trout-24 inches Minimum Length Limit (MLL) with 1 fish over, (changed from 18-inches MLL with two over)
There go all the 17 &1/2" brown trout. Now those fish will make their way up to 23 & 1/2". Gosh just when we thought we had these fish figured out, TWRA goes and increases the size of the browns. I am going to have to spend even more time on the water trying to figure out these even bigger browns...It's crazy, just crazy, I know my wife is gonna love that! We will give this one 4 out of 5 stars (non-scientific rating)

The daily creel limit has been changed from sev
en to five trout per day, per person
This sounds like a good thing to most. There is talk of decreasing the stocking rate for the river, but at this point it is just talk. But, just in case I am going to continue to eat only fresh salmon that I catch at the Kroger River just down the street. We will give this one 2 out of 5 stars and see how this shakes out. (non-scientific rating) The fish in the Kroger River will still fear me!

Alright, there's my take on the new regs for the Caney Fork River. Hopefully you can tell I have put a bit of humor in there to ease the pain of hearing the same old take on a good change that has been a long time coming. Until we see March 1st, which is supposed to be when the new regs go into effect, I am going to spend as much time on the water as I can. Hope to see you there as well!

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

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What is the hottest thing anyone has said to you?

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I would to lick you in every spot until you nut all over yourself...

That was the one ex-boyfriend that make be orgasm without any hands.

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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Betty Wright - After The Pain

A classic is a song that never goes out of style; it's always good whenever you hear it.  Well, Betty Wright's After The Pain is one of those classics that I love.  I remember when Will, my brother-in-law, gave me this song and album on a cassette more than 20 years ago!  Betty - no surprise - started in gospel when she was real little but the first song I remember is Clean Up Woman.  That came out 40 years ago!!!  Wow!  I've seen Betty Wright in concert and she puts on a fantastic show.  She is so good.  There are so many songs of hers that are great but for right now I want to give you After The Pain.  My favorite lines are:

After all I've been through
I should be through with love
But there's a God up above
That keeps sayin', "Betty try
Don't give up, you know why
The sun is gonna shine
'Cause you are mine, all mine"
You just keep doin' your best
And I will do the rest
'Cause I love you, love you, Betty, like I do

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Thursday, January 27, 2011

O.V. Wright - "That's How Strong My Love Is" Live In Japan

I always loved O.V. Wright's song, Blind, Crippled, and Crazy.  He told everyone that he'd rather be blind, crippled, and crazy, somewhere pushing up daisies, than to let you break his heart all over again.  Now that sounds serious... you know he meant what he said!   He was so talented and had some awesome music.  Like most blues artists, he started singing in the church when he was a little boy.  He lived a tough life but did you know he was only 41 years old when he died?  So young.

I fly a lot and have to have my iPod when I'm in the air.  One of the songs I listen to is a medley of O.V. Wright's songs that he did at a live concert in Japan.  To me, this live version is better than the same songs that were done in the studio.  This first video below is the live in Japan version of God Blessed Our Love.  It's 6:48 minutes long but it's great.  I love when he starts out with "wait one minute...ah, wait one minute."  The second video is the continuation of the first video.  It's also a medly which consists of When A Man Loves A Woman, That's How Strong My Love Is, and You Gonna Make Me Cry.  Together, both videos make up one very long song.  I think they split it up because it was too long for youtube.  The second video is 9.25 minutes and when you put these two together, you have a 16-minute song.  It is worth every minute of it.  Believe me, listening to this when you're in the air makes the time zoom right on by.  It's also great to just sit back and listen to it when you're chilling at home.

I hope you like the music of these two videos; buy them if you ever get a chance.  They're worth having in your collection.

P.S. Youtube has removed the two live songs, but you'll enjoy this ten-minute version:

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Monday, January 24, 2011

Southern Soul Show

I've noticed that there are plenty of southern soul/blues shows in different places.  They are being held in Tallahassee, New York, Cleveland, St. Louis, Houston, Nashville, Detroit, Augusta, Greensboro, Roanoke, and all over Missississippi (Clarksdale, Greenwood, & Oxford).  If you ever hear about a show in the Washington, D.C./Maryland/Northern Virginia area, please email me at  Thanks!!

Sunday, January 16, 2011

King Floyd - "What Our Love Needs"

I know you know Groove Me by King Floyd; it’s a classic. It’s another case of southern soul that crossed over into mainstream R&B and took the soul music world by storm. All I knew back then was that I loved the song, the beat, and the sound. I had the 45 (you old schoolers know what I’m talking about) and, as you know, we always flipped the record over and listened to what was on the other side. In some cases, the B-side also became a hit. I recently read that Groove Me was originally supposed to be the B-side to What Our Love Needs, but things have a way of changing and the roles were reversed. Life will do that to you sometimes.

I recently heard What Our Love Needs and remembered how much I loved this beautiful song. Take a few moments and listen. I hope it will bring back memories for you like it did for me.

Till next time...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Southern Soul versus The Blues

A few of my sisters recently asked me the difference between southern soul and blues. I didn't realize how hard the question was until I tried to come up with a definition that was clear and concise. When I think of blues, I think of traditional music from artists such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and others. Southern soul takes me to the music of Johnnie Taylor, Tyrone Davis, and the new artists on the scene. Southern soul started in the south and, to me, is a by product of the blues. Daddy B. Nice, one of the best southern soul researchers/writers I've seen, has a great description - see You may also want to take a look at the Southern Soul Evolution at

I'm still working on a solid definition but these two say it way better than me.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

I Want Both of You by O.B. Buchana

I really love O.B. Buchana and enjoy listening to his music. But, I just heard "I Want Both of You" and O.B., I just have to say it - you know you're wrong! I know infidelity is a major theme in a lot of the music, but I don't want my husband to tell me he wants me and his other woman - and expects us both to live with it. O.B. says he wants his wife and his woman and he doesn't mind admitting that he wants to have his cake and eat it, too. Ladies, if you're in this situation, tell your man to make a decision: if it's not you, find someone who deserves you.

I do love you but I'm sorry O.B. Ladies - and men - if you think I'm wrong (or right), listen to the song, email me at and let me know what you think. I'd love to have another opinion....

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Lewis Dee and Saturday Mornings

As much as I love all of the online southern soul music (and I can't live without it), there is nothing like listening to it live from a local radio station. The dee jay makes all the difference in the world and, in my opinion, makes the show. On Saturdays, I listen to WKXN (www.thebigstationfm/) as soon as I get up on Saturday morning until about 8:00 p.m. Lewis Dee is the on-air personality on the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Saturdays (6:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. CST) and he is one of the best around.

Lewis Dee, Southern Soul Paradise thanks you!!


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Can You Gag Down What We Are Serving?

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logo - stump countyBy the time you read this in the real world, the elections will be over and one of the losers will be the new president of the whole dadgum United States of America.

This weekend in Stump County all of the political parties had parties trying to get votes. Both the Republicons and the Democraps had catered picnics. Without the elephant and the donkey it would have been impossible to tell which was which.

The theme of both was “Can you gag down what we are serving?” and “Our food may look bad, smell bad and taste bad BUT what the other side is serving is worse.”

The Republicons built a wall around Manuel La’bors Mexican restaurant. The Democraps tried to register him to vote.

Both parties offered groping of women. At one party the candidate groped. At the other party the candidate’s spouse did the groping. Libby, our only women’s libber, said it was less offensive to be groped by a candidate’s spouse than the candidate and that all women should support her.

Both party’s parties stated, “Our candidate is mean but not as mean as the other candidate.” Both stated, “Our candidate has bad hair but not as bad as our opponent.”

A spokesman for each party stated, “Our candidate lies pathologically but not as bad as our opponent.”

Both attempted to sell the idea that this is an historic election. One played up Maggie Thatcher. “It is time we elected a woman as president,” she said.

We almost choked on our chitlin’s. The idea of comparing a conservative to a liberal based purely on their “plumbing” was just more than we could take with straight faces.

Both candidates supported BIG Gov’mit. Both believe the president should force people to behave the way they believe they should behave.

Meanwhile, down by the crick, the Liberterian Party was also holding their own party. They were serving potluck like you have at church dinners. What they offered was exactly what most people liked but the party was small. The folks at the Democrap party wouldn’t come because there were a few dishes on the right end of the table they didn’t like. The Republicons wouldn’t come because there were a couple of dishes on the left they didn’t like.

It didn’t matter that they chose their party as “not as bad as the other one.” They said they just couldn’t support a party that couldn’t win even if it had more to offer.

According to Professor, if just one third of the folks supporting each party had visited the Libertarian party because they liked most of what was on the table they would have won.  One man, (as he tossed back another beer) said he wouldn’t attend because he’d heard some Libertarians smoked marijuana and he didn’t believe in using mind-altering substances. The crowd cheered him with a toast and passed around several jugs of Ludd’s finest moonshine.

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SWCHR is proud to announce the 2017 Hans F. Koenig Award for Excellence in Herpetological Photography is now accepting entries!  Current members of SWCHR can enter for free. Non-members may enter upon receipt of a $10 entry fee payable via PayPal to

- Entrants may enter up to 3 photos.

- Photos must be emailed to A confirmation email will be sent when photos are successfully received.

- Each photo entered must include species name, county and state where the photo was taken, and the date the photo was taken.   Preference is given to photos taken in 2017.

- Must be an animal occurring naturally in the six-state SWCHR region of interest (AZ, CA, NM, NV, TX, UT).  While we support research on introduced species, the intent of this award is to showcase native species.

- Captive specimens may be used as subjects but must be photographed in a natural setting.

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- Deadline for submissions is Friday, Feb 16th.

- Winner will be announced no later than March 1st.

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Some volunteers come to us as part of a course or for work experience. Students in the fields of social care, mental health, psychology, art and education will find the experience gained working with service users valuable in their development of working face to face with individuals or groups.

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Early Hardware Stores (Alsdorf / Burt / Thompson / Hilliker)

Hardware stores have served an important role in all small communities by providing those items that could not easily be crafted by individuals on their homesteads.  Spartansburg has had many merchants who met the needs for various types of hardware.

Blacksmiths were among the first to provide help with production and repair of metal tools and they would work with the merchants selling metal goods.1874AlsdorfHW

One of the first hardware stores recorded in Spartansburg was the store built by Abram Alsdorf (Alsdurf) in 1874.  This store was among those lost to the 1978 fire that destroyed all of the business district.

An article in 1882 reported that Mr. Alsdorf was still in business, with a partner, Mr. Hilliker.  It describes the types of items sold in the hardware.

In that same article, a hardware owned by Thompson and Burt is mentioned.  Mr. Burt had also been a partner with Mr. Alsdorf in 1880.

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Claudio Ranieri sacked by Leicester less than a year after Premier League title

Leicester City has sacked their manager Claudio Ranieri. The difficult decision to dismiss the man who lead them to the greatest triumph in English football history was made after Wednesday’s 2-1 Champions League defeat in Seville.

The club confirmed his departure on Thursday night, calling the decision ‘painful’ but ‘necessary’. Assistant Manager Craig Shakespeare and First Team Coach Mike Stowell will be in charge until a replacement is found, starting with the upcoming game against Liverpool at the King Power Stadium on Monday.378B149100000578-4253994-image-a-14_1487879134405

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Leicester City Football Club has tonight (Thursday) parted company with its First Team Manager, Claudio Ranieri.

Claudio, appointed City manager in July 2015, led the Foxes to the greatest triumph in the Club’s 133-year history last season, as we were crowned champions of England for the first time. His status as the most successful Leicester City manager of all time is without question.

However, domestic results in the current campaign have placed the Club’s Premier League status under threat and the Board reluctantly feels that a change of leadership, while admittedly painful, is necessary in the Club’s greatest interest.

Vice Chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha said: ‘This has been the most difficult decision we have had to make in nearly seven years since King Power took ownership of Leicester City. But we are duty-bound to put the Club’s long-term interests above all sense of personal sentiment, no matter how strong that might be.

‘Claudio has brought outstanding qualities to his office. His skilful management, powers of motivation and measured approach have been reflective of the rich experience we always knew he would bring to Leicester City. His warmth, charm and charisma have helped transform perceptions of the Club and develop its profile on a global scale. We will forever be grateful to him for what he has helped us to achieve.

‘It was never our expectation that the extraordinary feats of last season should be replicated this season. Indeed, survival in the Premier League was our first and only target at the start of the campaign. But we are now faced with a fight to reach that objective and feel a change is necessary to maximise the opportunity presented by the final 13 games.’

First Team preparations for Monday’s Premier League fixture against Liverpool will resume on Saturday, with Assistant Manager Craig Shakespeare and First Team Coach Mike Stowell taking charge of the squad until a new manager is appointed.

Assistant Manager and First Team Coach Paolo Benetti and First Team Sport Science and Conditioning Coach Andrea Azzalin have also parted company with the Club and leave with our thanks for their service and best wishes for the future.

The Board will now begin the recruitment process and will make no further comment until that process is completed.

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Thursday, December 30, 2004

After Christmas Blues

The news: my home phonelines are down, I drive my mom back home today, this weekend I will blog in earnest and I am planning a makeover for truegrit. My son thinks my pic looks "disturbing". Maybe I can get a new pic taken today in the fog before I brave the roads.

I am on my old computer in my husbands filthy office. I tell you I don't think he wipes any thing off ever. He has my old IBM and it is coated with dark gray. The offscouring of a thousand grimy work days. YUK. He dreads that I am out here because I have already said some things portending a cleanup. "Don't you wipe anything off?" were the exact words I used. He ignored them... but that is only temporary. The holiday gloves are off. :) the Mr. Clean gloves are now on.... it is a new year.

Anyway, I feel like doing some graphics and promised the hubbydubby-do ( no I don't call him that...just playin' on the blog) some business cards. I feel like icy blues and something cool for colors. So I will probably redo truegrit in something like that unless a pic inspires another color scheme.

Drinking lots of tea maybe some theme-worthy blog or two on that. None of us likes Stash Earl Grey. I think the Twinings is best, myself, but Bigelow is ok. Did get some green Chai to try. And my mother loves the red box Stash Chai. so I bought some for her to take home.

I have wasted food this week... try to not feel guilty.

I do not want to drive in this dense fog.... but I miscalculated the conditions for this week; should have driven yesterday.

I hate that about myself. I must learn to follow my instincts and to strike while the iron is hot. I am a hesitater/procrastinator par excellance.

Hopefully they fix the phones soon- I want my own computer and my graphics progs.

that reminds me... I was thinking about how spoiled we get and how ungrateful- it is positively sinful, and exposed as so in light of the devastations that the news has reported daily since Christmas- the tsunami damage is horrific enough, but has dwarfed other calamities that we would normally have front-center in the news. Mucho bad news.

Does the news create more compassion or does it inurr us? I am not sure. It is hard to digest the enormity of the reports.

Still foggy. Must get going anyway. ciao.

You know those nice leather gloves I drove around town with my son to get? Yes. Yesterday he used them to make a snow man. That's right... sopping wet leather gloves drying by the stove. I calmly told him that if he ruins those gloves using them that way he never should buy anything as nice like that (or have others buy them, ahem!)

He turned his nose up at the weather-proof gloves... and those are what he should have if he wants to build snowmen! It bugged me because we have many pairs of said snow-worthy gloves around here. and he likes to go around in a leather jacket and complain about how cold it is. This is the twenty-somethings gauge of how to live life? I have no pity. I told him he should wear a decent jacket meant for the freeze- we have those available for him as well. It takes time to listen to mom's- he is hte one who bought me a cute sign...that is prominent by the back door. I have to refresh on the quote ( see I don't even pay attention). Ok, we are getting to the root of the problem here, I see.....

Monday, December 27, 2004

Today my mother is in hypermode. Talking a mile a minute with the kids... the older ones mostly. I am getting ready to get off the computer and get ready for my dr. appt.

I am glad to get out for a bit altho' I hate doctor appt.'s

I went to the appointment. Everything is stable. I am over that hurdle for the next few months.

My mother's talking has upped and -if possible- speeded in numbers of words per minute. I, in turn, get quieter....

It makes my mind mind spiral out into space.

I was out driving and took my son shopping. He wanted gloves- so we hit several stores until we found what he wanted. I bought chocolate:)

I will have to exercise for sure... it is needful to bring down the eye pressure. I tell you, if I don't start on my own by the middle of the month I will join Jazzercise or something. No more excuses.

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

I have lots of things I do not want to talk about... as well as those which I do not wish to think about....

I am not in angst over that, and wouldn't have thought about it except for reading a blog that had many posts on the thoughts one woman had on her mother's death.

I realized that I do not feel like talking much about my father but that unpleasant thoughts come up every once in awhile lately. I try to push them down since they are intermingled with extremely unpleasant thoughts about the Evil Woman. Who I really should not label that way. I think of how -don't want to dwell on it. It is the one thing I really question God on, but not deeply. I pretty much realize that there are unaddressed injustices in this world. I know I am not going to be exempt from this. I know I have nothing to do with how my parents were with each other or with me.

but when I happen across thoughts it bothers me just the same, so I try to ignore it...except for when reading someone elses thoughts on the subject. Then I do my usual thing of comparing how I feel with how that person does.... sort of a contrast and compare exercise. Just habit.

That habit often makes other people angry with me when I forget and express. I once had a guy, a neighbor,Christian friend who was pouring out something or other, and what I most remember about that time was the adamant way he caught me up short when I tried to say my usual point of identification with what he was saying. He said "This is about me, not you". Golly, that is still pretty fresh in my mind and it was many years ago. I was a little taken back just cause I never meant to make it about me.... but it wasn't the first time I had a reaction like that. People often don't want to know what you think about their experiences. They just want an audience. My trouble is that if I am only an audience and not actively joining in your recounting, I am probably not paying much attention to you. I am not assimilating your expression to me. And that seems a waste of everyone's time. But I have learned that sometimes a mildly agreeable and sympathetic encounter is what someone else most needs. And I am willing to accomodate that... if you need it. Sometimes that is all that is appropriate.

How did I get here? doesn't matter.

Monday, December 20, 2004

This morning I wrote a poem and posted it on the garden journal. It is really rare for me to write poetry- but the muse was at work today. I don't write well, so I son't attempt much that is expressive very often. Just every once in a great while.

Usually it comes out of depression of a certain sort... kind of a sad reflective mood.

Good thing I wrote it when I did or at this point it probably would have evaporated in the irritation I am feeling with the cacaphony of the kids. I need to get them busy on something.... the Christmas season seems to wire them into little spring loaded sprockets bouncing off each other.

Probably I am obsessing over things in an unproductive manner, as well. I kept waking up throughout the night with all sorts of meaningless worries that go nowhere. I don't usually do that, but last night was filled with it. And it has gotten very cold. I dislike cold, with the dislike deepening with the thermometer drop.

I have dwelt too much on my losses of the past couple years. I can't seem to put these things to rest in a permanent way. That makes me mad at myself. I am at the point of trying to force myself to put a lock on the book of thoughts. Which is a very hard thing to do. I'd rather come to a more natural resolve, but maybe that isn't possible for me.

Well. That is all the venting for now.... I suppose I could rant about my shopping experiences, but they weren't totally bad. I am afraid I want something for the holiday that I cannot possibly have: I want to make the people in my life act right. That is right: act right -and there is such a thing and it isn't just right according to me. Which is more of the blah blah that I am entirely tired of . Stompstompstomp.. I guess I did have a little rant hiding in there.

but I am on to other things...... looking for some positive thing to get involved with.

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

too true

Saturday, December 11, 2004

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Ilona, your subconscious mind is driven most by Peace

You are driven by a higher purpose than most people. You have a deeply-rooted desire to facilitate peacefulness in the world. Whether through subtle interactions with love ones, or through getting involved in social causes, it is important to you to influence the world.

You are driven by a desire to encourage others to think about the positive side of things instead of focusing on the negative. The reason your unconscious is consumed by this might stem from an innate fear of war and turmoil. Thus, to avoid that uncomfortable place for you, your unconscious seeks out the peace in your environment.

Usually, the thing that underlies this unconscious drive is a deep respect for humankind. You care about the future of the world, even beyond your own involvement in it. As a result, your personal integrity acts as a surrogate for your deeper drive toward peace and guides you in daily life towards decisions that are respectful toward yourself and others.

Though your unconscious mind is driven most strongly by Peace, there is much more to who you are at your core.

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Friday, December 10, 2004

I am a little put off with the truegrit blog server... it is out again after I wrote this really long blog that took alot out of me to write. I saved it on Notepad but still.... I will have to format it correctly once the host is back online.

I'll try to contain my irritation, after all it is a free server, and they are transferring their system to wordpress, I think. I suppose I will put up with this over the next couple months, one to get it in place and one to work the bugs out...... SIGH.

They could be like upsaid and dump my whole blog AFTER NOT LETTING ME RETRIEVE IT.

Oh. I'm sorry. Was I yelling?

Obviously I am not in the mood to post to "Happy Thoughts"

LOL WILDLY...can you imagine? Like the specter of an evil clownClown: Circus clown, Coulrophobia, Bouffon, Clown society, Evil clown, Jester, Mime artist, Rodeo clown, Grotesque, Cosmetics, Costume, Footwear, Physical theatre, Jacques Lecoq... that is what that post would promise to be.....

Thursday, December 09, 2004

People infuse meaning into all sorts of things, that is the our spiritual nature without its compass. In the light of that the Teamuse newletter has an article on "Tea and Superstition".

Find out more about Darjeeling tea, its history and its qualities.

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Wednesday, December 01, 2004

I've been shopping more often at my nearest Wild Oats, and comparing it with where I usually shop for groceries, Krogers. I have to say that Wild Oats has it over Krogers in the fresh produce portion, especially, and since they carry all Organic brands of cereals, Wild Oats usually has better buys on those types of cereals. And their yams during the Thanksgiving season were awesome. Big fat ol' things piled high in the bins. I also stopped at Andersons which was once my favorite stop for said produce.... the puny little yams were just sad. I usually got fresh breads there, too.... but now Wild Oats has won out in that dept. also. The clerks are kinda cool, :) I just like interesting people....

I guess I am paying more attention to grocery shopping,etc., since I feel our family really needs to eat healthier and practice that type of prevention. Don't you just get tired of feeling sluggish and tired? The only thing I really need to add in is more exercise.

I also was a very good womanish cronish kind of female. I made an eye appt. Long overdue and I was putting it off. I have been very remiss since last year.

Last night I also did the mom/family prayer time. No one ever joins me in this although I had invited some old friends. And last night -while I did pray- seemed very uneventful. I am just going to take it on faith that somehow God is hearing me. I struggle with doubt because I find myself so full of anger and unbelief. So much has gone badly for me in the past few years. Yet, there has been good, I don't want to discount the good. I just don't understand my life in light of what I thought I knew about God and prayer. Very confusing time.

The the end of this update.... do I write this for you or for me? My writing maximizes boring writing style while minimizing depth. That reminds me.... I have happened upon many aspiring nano-whater it is who write novels and record things about it. It made me realize how I would be so unlikely to ever desire to do that... I just do not have the writing gene. I glop through my blogging and web page writing and that is all for the sake of conversational like communication. I do love a good read, however, and find numerous talented writers on the web. I admire them... and totally without envy:) You have to think you could do something better to envy another their talent. I just enjoy.

the actual end.


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Dosa Varieties

Vegetable Chopusey Dosa

Dosa is a common breakfast among South Indian people. There are varieties of dosa prepared such as Masala Dosa, Mysore Masala Dosa, Neer Dosa, Mollaga Dosa, Paper roast Dosa etc…… But today I have tried something different which we normally don’t find in restaurant menu card. Vegetable Chopusey Dosa – a combination of South India with Chinese flavors. Believe me it is really yummy!!!!!!Very simple & easy to prepare. Kids will love this dish due to its color, stuffing & taste. Soya sauce and Chili sauce spreaded on dosa along with some tempting noodles rolled out and served hot during breakfast, kid’s lunch box or evening snack.

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  • Dosa batter – 1cup
  • Hakka Noodles – 1 cup
  • Cabbage – 4 leaves (shredded)
  • Carrot – 2 nos (juliennes)
  • Onion – 1 no (sliced thinly length wise)
  • Soya Sauce – 3 tsp
  • Chili Sauce – 3 tsp
  • Tomato Sauce (Ketchup) – 3 tsp
  • Oil – 3 tsp
  • Salt as per taste

  • Heat a vessel with 1 1/2 glass of water. When the water starts to boil, add the Hakka noodles & cook for 3 mins. Drain the noodles completely & toss it with cold water so it doesn’t become sticky. Keep it aside.
  • Heat a kadai & pour 1/2 tsp of oil. Add all the vegetables & little salt & sauté for 3 mins in high flame. Do not overcook the vegetables. Keep it a side.
  • Heat a tawa & grease it with little oil. Pour 1 ladle of dosa batter & spread it in a round shape to make a thin dosa.
  • Then keeping it on a medium flame add little oil, chilly sauce 1 tsp, tomato sauce 1 tsp, soya sauce 1/2 tsp. Add 1/4 cup of cooked vegetables & ¼ cup noodles& mix well very lightly.( See to it that the dosa layer is not damaged while mixing all the items)
  • Cook till the dosa turns golden brown in color & fold it pressing slightly to make a roll & with the sharp edge of spatula cut it into three pieces.

In the same way repeat the process for making more dosa.

Vegetable Chopusey Dosa is ready to serve,  goes well with Coconut chutney & Tomato Ketchup.

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India cricket team's another record performance

Performance of Indian cricket team is really rising high these days. They best Sri Lanka in test series very brutally and level the series of 20 - 20.

Now in ongoing One Day International series, in first one day they bat first and set the mammoth score of 414. Sehwag made highest runs 146 off just 102 balls. Virendra Sehwag smashed 17 fours and 6 sixes. His opener friend Sachin Tendulkar also show some hands and made smashing 69 off just 63 balls.

This is highest score by India in one day international.

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Saturday, September 14, 2013

Commission Work: Arco Evisorators

John Blanche commissioned me to make couple of Stryderre-kind arco ghouls (Or Arco Evisorators as John calls them) for him. I tried my best to catch the feeling of the original, but wanted to add something special in them, something that is usually pretty absent in my work - movement; after all, these "striders" are murderous fast sons-of-bitches.

I think I managed to pull them out pretty well. The bases were sent to me by the man himself, so the credit for those goes to him. They were painted in orange ink and layered with a nice coat of crackling varnish. Really neat idea which I'll definitely loan in some of my future projects.

With this post I'd like to tell you that I'm now OPEN FOR COMMISSIONS. Yep, that's right. I've been pondering this for quite some time now and believe that this is just what I'll be needing to expand my hobby experience to another level - Creating beautiful and soulful miniatures and letting them go to those who appreciate my style and creativity. So, people, please drop me an email if you're interested. Cheers!

But where the hell is that post about the last weekend?! Rest assured, we'll be writing a summary from our last weekend trip to Nottingham, England, at some point. I believe we both are still recovering from the amazing trip we had. There are plenty of pics to share too!

- Kari

Friday, September 06, 2013

Calling All Passengers

The Spikey boys have packed their backpacks with their favourite miniatures and are ready to hit the airport. It's time to play some Confromunda. Stay tuned!


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On the balcony of the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Bourbon St. New Orleans.

Coaching Little League baseball, 1975.

On the deck of the Sun Princess Cruise Ship going to Alaska.

High school graduate, 1965.

At the Hermit's Rest at the Grand Canyon, south rim.

Thoughts And Beliefs And Blitherings

My belief is that of course we are not alone. Absolutely impossible that we would be. Just in the sheer size of the living cosmos is enough proof that we could not possibly be on the only celestial body with sentient life. The possible explanations of what and who are out there are as many as there are places out there. Were we capable of being out there too, and when we do get capable, we too will explore and study what we find. The disbelievers are just showing the blind arrogance of the unthinking. On the question of the visits of extraterrestrials here, I think they have already come. But if beings out there wish us harm and have now the ability to have traveled here, they certainly have the ability to have harmed us. Since they have not, it is likely that that is not their purpose. I don't fear them and it would serve no purpose to do so. It is also glaringly apparent that there are none there now who will 'save us'. We have nothing to be saved from. The cosmos is still unfolding and birthing as it has been for billions of years and likely to continue for billions more.

The religions of the world all have differences of belief or supposed belief, even in different groups of the same sects, but all have a thread or belief in common. That is that after meeting whatever criteria of the chosen faiths 'salvation' we will have eternal life in the presence of the Supreme Being and Creator. Think about that a little. Unless we are just the dream creatures of some other being, we do have life now and of course if there be a Creator we are in his/her/its presence. That leaves only the eternal question. I can not say I remember a past life but have some sense in me that says I have had. I have always had an instinctive belief in eternity. So for me the promise of all those religious groups has already been given and the gift recieved. To us a rose smells good and flesh under our hands feels heavenly and we can rejoice at the smell of new cut grass and melt at the grip of a baby's fist on our forefinger. We know the sheer unadulterated love of our own child in our arms and in our keep, and can find soul/spirit connections with each other in making music or dance or love. Our minds can create us a hell with all our fears and doubts and questions of 'why me' but if we look closely none of those hells are Creator made. We were given this life on this place that has roses and flesh and grass to cut and ears to hear music. Also on this place are hurricanes and earthquakes and thorns on the roses and grassburrs in the grass and viruses and bacteria that kills. They are not curses nor punishment for wrongs done but rather just natural things here as we are. If our Creator took away all the things that could cause us pain he likely would be forced to take away those things we treasure. This is just the real world we were given for this and perhaps many other lives. I kinda feel all those other places out there that will support this kind of existance are also ours to explore and those that life as we know it now can not exist may very well support us in another form. I have no anger at the Creator. In fact I find this place an incredible wonderful gift and I will experience all of it I can til I can't. When I can no longer survive here my body will become dust and I will become whatever I do. If it is a void then at least I will have been thankful for the gift of this one short but full life.

I get very wordy at times and like to hear the sounds of my own thinking, but here for your amusement or for food for thought are some of my thoughts. Be at peace if you can. It cost no more than not being and seems better to me.

Richard RBoots

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Listening to the DVD Commentary for Home Movies, “Get Away From My Mom”

Columentary (title sadly not pending) is a weekly feature, in which I’ll listen to the commentary track of a sitcom, and divulge, through pretty pictures and less pretty words, the behind-the-scenes secrets the creators, writers, and cast discuss about their show. If you’ve ever wondered what the Home Improvement crew was eating when they came up with the idea to have Tim Allen grunt, this is for you.

Show: Home Movies

Episode: “Get Away from My Mom” (S01E01)

Original Airdate: April 26, 1999

Episode Plot: Eight-year-old Brendon, who spends his days making home movies, discovers that his mom, Paula, is dating his soccer coach, Coach McGuirk.

Players Involved: Loren Bouchard, creator and writer; Brendon Small, creator, writer, and voice of Brendon; and H. Jon Benjamin, voice of Coach McGuirk.

The blue dot you see above ends up moving all crazy like across the screen — which it wasn’t supposed to be. Bouchard calls it a “happy accident,” just one of many throughout Home Movies. The next scene reveals the dot to be Brendon, the show’s main character.

At the beginning of the show, all the characters, including Brendon and Coach McGuirk, have higher voices than they would later on in the series, when they’d get progressively lower. It’s especially noticeable with Coach, which Benjamin attributes to “hard living.”

Fans of the show recognize this character as Shannon, Brendon’s bully-turned friend voiced by Emo Philips. But in the first episode, Shannon was an unnamed background character. Bouchard and Small eventually turned the background blob into a foreground squiggle with FEELINGS to save money. Why design someone new when you can just reuse one of your old creations?

Bouchard voiced Brendon’s baby sister, Josie, but they auditioned tons of “old character actors,” like “that guy who played Dracula” and “that guy who played the thief in Conan the Destroyer,” who came really close to getting the role. I assume they’re talking about Tracey Walker, who also played Sheriff Walter Chechekevitch on Reno 911!

“[UPN] was very nice. They just canceled us.”

There was “a sweatshop above” the studio where they filmed, according to Benjamin, in Watertown, Massachusetts. Like most things that come from Benjamin’s mouth, I have no idea if he’s kidding or not.

When they were developing the first eight minutes of this episode, Loren & Co. had no idea what they were doing. Essentially everything was written and illustrated on the spot, with tons of improvisations. This technique is called “retroscripting.” Coach McGuirk wasn’t even originally intended as a recurring character. Also, there is no violin in that violin case.

“If you’re an artist out there, notice the use of red.”

Benjamin: “Look at what she’s eating. I think it’s a shrimp and a Goldfish.”
Small: “I think it’s a candy cane and a little shoe.”

During this scene, Benjamin reminiscences about how he negotiated his Home Movies salary with Bouchard at a bar. He was not very good at it. He was paid in peanuts and shoelace toppers. I made that last sentence up.

This was the final scene of the first eight minutes Bouchard and Small showed to UPN. The network (FORMER network) liked it so much that they gave Home Movies a “five, count ’em five episode” production order.

Like Coach McGuirk, Melissa (voiced by Melissa Bardin Galsky) wasn’t originally intended to appear in more than one episode, but “she was so funny” with Small and Benjamin, according to Bouchard, “that she earned a spot on the show.” Good thing, too, because before she got the gig, Galsky was working as a talent scout for Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, as well as Jonathan’s assistant, too.

“If you look closely in that shot, you can see him scratching his buttocks a thousand times.”

Bouchard: “This whole scene was originally animated in all gold and some yellow, and we had to redo it because they were like, ‘Why does he have such a girly, metrosexual office?'”

Benjamin: “I swear to God, I have never watched a whole episode of Home Movies.”

Benjamin: “This whole show is about selling pills to people.”

During this scene, the guys are talking about when UPN flew out Paula Poundstone (who voiced Brendon’s mom, Paula, for the show’s first five episodes, before being replaced by Janine Ditullo) to record an in-person electronic press kit with Small & Co., and somehow the conversation switches over to discussing a Dilbert party, presumably thrown by the network. (Dilbert aired on UPN from 1999-2000.) And by somehow, I mean Benjamin brings it up, and adds, “There was an ice sculpture for Dilbert. Which if you ever seen that, you know what waste is all about.”

Small: “A lot of telephone talk on Home Movies. Why’s that, Loren?”
Bouchard: “Phone scenes, always funny.”

Bouchard: “That’s the first time anyone ever ran in Soup2Nuts,” the production company founded by Tom Snyder, known for its use of “Squigglevision.” Other notable Soup2Nuts series include Dr. Katz and WordGirl.

That’s history, folks.

Josh Kurp wishes he was H. Jon Benjamin

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I’ve been in LA for over two months and it’s about time I head back to NY. I miss my family and I need to spend some quality time with my brand new nephew. However, I will be out here another two weeks overseeing the edit and post. I found out that a storm is coming through the east coast that is supposed to dump snow everywhere. We are almost in April. That’s absurd. So… Maybe I shouldn’t be in such a rush to get back there.

I also found out that I will be the Godfather to my nephew. Pretty exciting stuff. Can’t wait to take him to a cage and work on some lax skills. And then the mats to teach him to fight. He needs to be well rounded, ya know?

Working on a Music Themed Project

I just recently wrapped the shoot for a project I’m producing, being done by Dirty South.  It is based on his upcoming album, sort of like Pink Floyd’s The Wall (but for EDM, and not quite as epic in scale).  It looks beautiful and we can’t wait to get going on post – which starts today.  There are some amazing people involved and as Dirty South releases pics and info then I will as well.  That’s why I’ve been so silent – but now I’m back (and going on a tour of conventions in April – so stay tuned).  Here are some stills to give you a taste…

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• The radical ex-hippie who infiltrated Ontario’s health-care establishment

    His improbable trajectory has taken him from firebrand to respected senior hospital executive. Along the way, he has established himself as one of Canada’s strongest advocates for disadvantaged patients… a skilled, hard-working, team-playing professional. He is credited with using his leadership roles to help develop a multitude of programs and services for disenfranchised patients. But when conventional means of addressing gaps in their care didn’t work, a different Philip Berger would emerge

  • Canada has the highest rate of multiple sclerosis. Now St. Michael’s Hospital is launching a $30M centre to fight MS

    “The intent is to build the best clinical facility for MS in the world… And the way you do that is you make sure it’s a facility that offers the best in education and research as well.” … The facility will be known as the Barlo MS Centre — after John and Jocelyn Barford and Jon and Nancy Love, who donated $10 million per family to the project… “It’s the most frequent cause of disability in young adults in a number of western countries,”

  • Health-care spending projected to jump nearly 4% this year, report finds

    The CIHI report states that… aging is only a “modest driver” of increasing health-care costs, estimated at nearly 1 per cent annually… among the three largest spending categories – hospitals, drugs and physicians, which together account for more than 60 per cent of the overall expenditure – pharmaceutical costs continue to increase at the fastest pace. This has been true since 2015, due partly to the increased use of high-cost patented drugs.

  • It’s time for a data-driven approach to health care

    … the Big Three – hospitals, physicians and drugs – gobble up more than 60 per cent of total spending, and they have since we started compiling national health data in Canada in 1975. That is a sharp reminder that, despite all the talk about the importance of community care and the need for care to be delivered by multidisciplinary teams, we have a hospital-centric, physician-driven health system.

  • Bernie Sanders lauds Canadian health-care system in Toronto speech

    “if you want to expand and protect health care or education, there are people out there in every country in the world who think it is more important to give tax breaks to the richest people … what we need to do is take those oligarchs on.” … What went mostly unsaid during Mr. Sanders’s speech is that while Canada’s health-care system can look great compared with that of the United States, it can still fare poorly next to comparable countries.

  • To solve the opioid crisis, stick to harm reduction

    Stiff trafficking penalties already exist and clearly aren’t working – an outcome supported by research. One summary of the findings by experts at the University of Toronto in 2014 concluded that “crime is not deterred, generally, by harsher sentences.” In contrast, harm-reduction strategies such as legalization, opiate substitution (or prescription) and supervised injection have proven their effectiveness

  • It’s time for a smarter approach to drugs

    The harm-reduction approach cannot fully succeed until we stop treating people addicted to drugs as criminals… The war on drugs has driven up the cost of policing, contributed to a national crisis of court delays, compounded racial and class inequities and unnecessarily criminalized people living with physical and mental illness. All that, without delivering any of the promised benefits for public health or public safety.

  • Price tag on national pharmacare will dissuade Ottawa

    A national pharmacare program could save $4.2-billion a year, according to a new report by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer… But the 93-page report is math-heavy and politics-light… No government in its right mind is going to take on $20-billion a year in additional costs – especially when it involves the federal government absorbing $13-billion in provincial expenses… If Canada is, like most other Western countries, going to embrace pharmacare, it’s going to have to be a national program, not a federal one.

  • The War on Drugs has been lost. It’s time to try something else

    Portugal has not taken the logical next step of shouldering out the dealers and taking over controlled distribution of drugs itself. This is the path that Canada and the American states of Colorado and Oregon have embarked upon with marijuana… As it prepares the rules for marijuana sales and use, the federal government should examine the Portuguese model, as well as the disastrous drug war in the U.S.

  • Universal drug plan could cut more than $4-billion a year: PBO

    The savings would come largely from the impact of bulk purchases of drugs, allowing Health Canada to negotiate better prices for most pharmaceuticals, as well as an increase in the use of generic drugs. However, the plan – which would replace all provincial and private drug plans – would still carry a price tag of more than $19-billion, and the federal government isn’t exactly jumping up and down with excitement to do it.