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Above: "The Nirvana-Shaped Hole in My Heart," by Danny J. Gibson.
More high-resolution images of the art from The Stained-Glass Kaleidoscope can be found here.
About the Book
Author Chad Thomas Johnston's The Stained-Glass Kaleidoscope: Essays at Play in the Churchyard of the Mind is an essay-driven creative memoir that explores life through the lenses of theology, pop culture, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Seattle-based literary agent Jenée Arthur is currently shopping Chad's book to major publishing houses. Writing about The Stained-Glass Kaleidoscope, Arthur says "Chad's personal essays are presented with a humor and wit that parallel David Sedaris's tongue-in-cheek reenactments of childhood and adult life. Johnston's renaissance approach to merging pop culture and religious faith is both refreshing and entertaining." Visit Chad's page at the Jenée Arthur Agency, LLC Web site.
Chad's main writing influences are his dad, growing up as the son of a Baptist minister, his friendship with artist Danny J. Gibson, C. S. Lewis, Anne Lamott, The Innocence Mission, music journalism, film, childhood, cats, coffee with too much creamer, and the darkly whimsical works of Stephin Merritt, who fronts multiple recording acts, including The Magnetic Fields, Future Bible Heroes, and The Gothic Archies. He is also quite fond of Flannery O'Connor, but he doubts he is fortunate enough to have been influenced by her tremendous talent.
Chad began writing his debut in October 2007, shortly after dropping out of his PhD program in film studies at the University of Kansas. He suspected only five people would ever read his dissertation, and he also knew that researching for it and writing it would result in something like mental constipation (for which there is no known laxative). Convinced he could coerce six people into reading a work written on his own terms, he set out to write his magnum opus. After drinking as much coffee as there is water in Lake Michigan, he completed his book on February 5, 2011.
Chad commissioned Kansas City-based artist Danny J. Gibson to create original art for his book. The resulting 8-foot-wide piece is visible below.
Book Table of Contents
NOTE: Chapter titles are in red boldface. Subheads are listed below chapter titles in regular font typeface. Titles in parentheses are short-form essays (i.e. interludes, oases, vignettes).
Foreword: Kicking Dead Horses Until They Live Again
Preface: The Milk Crate Incident
Chapter 1: And Key Largo Begat Montego: A Rock 'n' Roll Genealogy
Musical Vegetarianism
Mötley Crüe & Ecclesiastes
Vulcanized Rubber Soul
The Flannel Lost and Found (or "Sheepless in Seattle")
Beneath the Wings of Angel In Utero
Chapter 2: Looking the Trojan Gift Horse in the Mouth
Good Tidings of Great Boredom
A Case of Existential Static Cling: OCD and Me
Suffering: The Gift That Cannot Be Returned (Even with a Receipt)
(Purple Horseshoes)
(Rapture and Banana Bread)
Chapter 3: White Sabbath (or "Sabbath, Snowy Sabbath")
Frosty Takes a Leak
When Life Interrupts Living
Burying Our Darkness in the Snow
Chapter 4: Animals Marching Two by Two into My Heart
When the Cows Come Home, the Cats Will Be Waiting
Van Gogh Visits the Zoo
Where Angels Fear to Treadwell: The Fall of a Grizzly Man
(Fast-Food Funeral Procession)
(To Teotihuacan, Accidentally)
(Boys Go to Jupiter to Get More Stupider)
Chapter 5: The Simplicity Complex
Toy Store Terrorists
Bland Faith (or "Temple for Simpletons")
A Friendly Story about the Annihilation of Mankind
Chapter 6: We're All Normal and We Want Our Freedom
The Sonic Soothsayer
Dissecting the Beauty Out of a Butterfly
Olympian Overlords
Of Dentists and Other Abominations
Lipstick Graffiti
Toil!: A Triumphant Triptych
(Reveille [Rhymes with "Heavily"])
Chapter 7: Living in the Desert of What We Deserve
Wetlands (Bachelor Pad, Lily Pad)
Rooted in Sand: The Origins of Entitlement
Evergreen Hearts
When We Are Blind to the Beach
The American Dream, Stillborn
Chapter 8: The Water Buffalo Herdsman
Bathroom Reading
Setting the (Ob)Scene
In Defense of Ancient Egyptian Hygiene
To Yucca Mountain, Pronto!
Chapter 9: Hell Knoweth No Flame-Retardant Souls: A Devil of a Good Time at the Cinema
Spared Death Because of Spare Change
Diet and Exorcize
Realtors for the Afterlife
When Evil Speaks Esperanto
(The Doghouse Is a Wonderful Place to Repent)
(The Bat vs. The Snow-Mummy)
Chapter 10: Abra-Chad-abra!: Marital Magic (or "How to Transform a Woman into a Teapot")
A Revelatory River
Through the Yuletide Loophole
Purple Alligators
Chapter 11: Minds and Mops: Custodians of Creativity
James Hampton's Throne of Trash
Henry Darger: Broken Transmitter of God's Glory
Man Falls Again (This Time from a Lesser Height): Danny J. Gibson
Conclusions (In Heaven Everything Is Fine)
1. No contractions were used (or harmed) in the writing of this book, with the exception of any that might appear in dialog or quoted material.
2. Chad sent a digital copy of his book to author Philip Yancey, whose works were a great comfort to him in 2001 when he was suffering from a protracted, particularly bad bout of OCD-related anxiety. Chad was diagnosed with the disorder in 2004, so in 2001 he was still trying to figure out why his brain's circus was short on clowns. After receiving the book, Yancey replied to Chad with a short letter, which made Chad leap momentarily like a fish from a lake. Yancey is the author of delightful, church-challenging books such as What's So Amazing About Grace? and Disappointment With God.
3. After considering the possibility of writing a book for quite some time, Chad jotted down ideas for potential chapters on an airline napkin at 30,000 feet. The resulting napkin can be seen here. Several of the ideas made it into the book.
4. Danny J. Gibson's cat Porchie can be seen rolling on the book art in the video below, adding her own feline flare to the resulting work. The music in the background is Elliott Smith's "The Ballad of Big Nothing," from his Either/Or LP.


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WASHINGTON–The World could be as little as 50 or 60 years from a disastrous new ice age, a leading atmospheric scientist predicts. Washington Post, July9, 1971.
WASHINGTON–Fifty U.S. scientists called yesterday for a high priority study of everything man dumps into the oceans, "beforewe are surprised by a disaster". Washington Post , January 15, 1972
ROME–The U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization just issued a report for the coming Stockholm conference saying that the human race is going to run short of water within a century. Washington Post, February 28, 1972.
A as in Apocalypse
In earlier, more placid times, one would come across the above clippings only by chance . . . say at the dentist's office while leafing through the austere (and boring) pages of SATURDAY REVIEW. Now such stories are splashed continually across the fronts of newspapers in every part of the world and cannot be ignored.
Predictions of environmental doom are reported more frequently these days for a variety of reasons. First, there are many more predictions to announce. Second, today's forecasts usually represent a consensus of opinion among a large group of scientists rather than (as formerly) the views of an individual. Third, the predictions are now generally backed with a thick volume of research and the media is impressed. Which is to say that, in the past, reporters usually had to hoodwink reluctant scientists into making sensational remarks. Now those remarks are both well-documented and freely made.
Although stories like those quoted above all pack a wallop, the layman still finds himself wishing for something more . . . one longs for the complete picture, the consummate report that puts the Apocalypse into proper perspective. And that complete picture is now here . . . not once, but twice.
In the past few months two reports have been published that set their sights deadringer on the Big-A. Both papers lay it right on the line and — in effect — claim that unless man radically reduces the rate of industrialization and worldwide population growth, our children's children will witness the Second Coming: "Mere anarchy," as Yeats put it, "loosed upon the world."
The first report, entitled "Blueprint for Survival," appeared in mid-January in the British journal, THE ECOLOGIST. In 22 pages of text and graphs, the magazine's editors and consultants pointed out in considerable detail that the demand for resources and food is growing exponentially (that is, multiplying at a rapidly increasing rate) and that the pressures arising from such growth can only lead to war, mass starvation and general chaos.
"If we allow the present growth rate to persist on a worldwide basis," say the authors, "the total ecological demand will increase by a factor of 32 over the next 66 years . . . if current trends are allowed to persist, the breakdown of society and the irreversible disruption of the life-support systems on this planet, possibly by the end of the century, certainly within the lifetimes of our children, are inevitable."
To avoid catastrophe, the authors recommend that the British people stop building roads and having so many babies… and start taxing the use of power and raw materials Britain should seek to stabilize its population at around 30 million within the next two centuries . . . in other words cut its present population of 55 million in half.
Above all, Blueprint for Survival states that Britain and the rest of the developed world must curb its ravenous appetite for continuous growth. The Gross National Product, it is implied, should become subject to Gross International Welfare
The report, of course, has received a good bit of criticism. The editor of the rival scientific magazine, NATURE, called the Blueprint "half-baked" and "simplistic". Others said was it "naive . . . overstated". But 33 leading British scientists, including biologist Sir Julian Huxley, endorsed the paper-basic principles of reducing population growth and challenging indiscriminate technology.
Six weeks after the sensational Blueprint for Survival was published, the Club of Rome–a prestigious group of 75 scientists from 25 countries–issued its first in a series of documents on the predicament of mankind. The paper is entitled LIMITS TO GROWTH (Potomac Associates/Universe Books) and the highly readable study is not being ballyhooed as a radically new theoretical study of the biosphere.
The authors of LIMITS TO GROWTH (the majority are from MIT) have reduced trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production and resource depletion to simple mathematical models and stuck them into a computer. After examining the results of several different computer runs, the scientists concluded that, if the five trends continue unchecked, "the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years".
In what it calls "the standard world model run" in which the present social, economic and physical relationships remain unchanged, the Club of Rome report predicts a fantastic collapse of society. Like the British study, the computer envisions hundreds of millions starving to death as countries suddenly discover that their supplies of food and medical services have been overwhelmed.
Even in an "optimistic" run, in which technological advance enable man to expand his base of food and energy sources, the computer still envisions calamity as pollution finally does us all in.
In cool, calculated solemnity the Club of Rome report calls for fundamental change in the values of society. Spelled out politically, this means a deliberate, long-term policy of anti-growth. The familiar phrase in the '60s, "Let's Get America Moving Again," should become in the '70s, "Let's Slow the World Down".
Nearly two hundred years ago economist Thomas Malthus shocked his British readers much as the Club of Rome and the editors of THE ECOLOGIST are shocking their readers today. The first to apply the concept of growth on a global scale, Malthus predicted mass starvation within decades as the population increased geometrically while food supplies expanded only arithmetically.
Malthus, of course, failed to take a few things into account: the development of cheap transport among nations, invention of the steam engine, the ability of industrialized cities to absorb millions within their confines, new agricultural techniques to increase a farmer's yield. But Malthus' initial pessimism about man's growth still looms over us. As his successors seem to imply, he may have only missed the "overshoot" mark by a few centuries.
In WORLD DYNAMICS, still another book that delves into the future, Professor Jay Forrester echoes another of Malthus' beliefs when he suggests that birth control might only postpone the inevitable. As food supplies and living standards stabilize along with the birth-death cycle, Forrester reasons that masses of people would renew a basic desire for more children . . . and the rate of population increase would once again soar out of hand. This time for keeps.
So far at least, this last suggestion does not conform with recent events around the world. Birth rates in America, Europe and Japan have not risen in the last decade despite increases in the general availability of food and capital. If anything, the Zero Population Growth idea seems to be gaining in these countries.
But what of the other conclusions and their effect on the important U.N. Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm next month?
"Garbage in, garbage out," replied one American working with the U.N. advisory committee when asked what he thought of the quality of the Club of Rome's computerized analysis.
Others were less cryptic. Delegates among developing countries were outraged. They protested that the two studies amounted to a manifesto for the superpowers to keep the less advanced nations "down on the farm" while the industrialized countries continue to enjoy the fruits of technological progress.
But at least one official–Tom Wilson, a consultant to Conference Secretary-General Maurice Strong–said he thought the net effect of the Club of Rome study would be beneficial. "Those who dismiss out of hand the grim predictions of many conservationists will have to take a second look at the Club of Rome report. It's written in the language of the computer. It's got numbers. It's something the skeptics can understand.
"if nothing else," said Wilson, "the study is bound to stimulate an interdisciplinary systems analysis of the biosphere . . . a major goal of the U.N. conference."
Amchitka Update
Many readers have pointed out that–in MOTHER NO. 13–I ignored a new Alaskan study which indicates that as many as 1,100 sea otters may have died following the nuclear test on Amchitka Island last November.
Our story, written before the Alaskan study became public in early December, quoted the Atomic Energy Commission . . . which at the time put the death count at 18 otters (the official AEC total has since risen to 23).
Allan Frank, the reporter for the Anchorage Daily News who broke the story about a possible large otter kill, told MOTHER that Alaskan officials plan to conduct a census of otters next month to verify the results of a survey taken immediately after the blast.
According to Frank, three biologists spent a week last November inspecting the otter population near the blast site and found no more than 155 of the animals in an area that had contained 1,200 sea otters last summer.
"The animals may have left naturally, but there's no biological reason why things shouldn't be the same as before the test," Jim Estes, an otter expert, told Frank.
Where could all the bodies have gone? Estes suggests that the dead otters may have been blown out to sea by a severe storm that followed the test or they may have sunk permanently to the ocean floor due to pressure from the blast.


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Switzerland is decided by a referendum on Sunday on whether to make it easier for third-generation immigrants to become citizens, after a campaign tainted by anti-Muslim messages and charges of religious prejudice.
Familiarity with foreigners living in their neighbourhoods has aided integration within communities and this step towards citizenship will help quell the far rights efforts to exploit anti-Muslim sentiment in Switzerland.
The government, as well as most politicians and political parties, support the proposal that would allow the grandchildren of immigrants to skip several steps in the lengthy process of securing a Swiss passport.
It was never a Muslim issue, but perhaps with the #Muslimban from the USA, far right parties exploited the medium to extend their cause. Political analysts said the SVP had overreached in its campaign which put issues of Islam and national identity at the centre of the debate. However, according to the official figures, approximately, only 25,000, out of the 8 million Swiss population qualify as third generation immigrants; out of which 60% are Italians.
Under the old system, they faced a lengthy and often expensive naturalisation procedure. Now they will go through the same streamlined process as foreigners who marry Swiss citizens.
The new constitutional amendment simplifies – but does not automate – naturalisation for integrated people no older than 25 who were born in Switzerland, share Swiss cultural values, speak a national language and do not live off state aid.
"I think the opponents aggressive posters were rather counterproductive," Ada Marra, a Social Democrat MP whose parents moved to Switzerland from Italy and who holds passports from both countries, told the Tages-Anzeiger paper. The SVP, a party repeatedly accused of demonising Islam, that focused on the risks of more Muslims becoming citizens and the possibility of losing the Swiss identity campaigned repeatedly on the rhetoric of a Muslim woman in a Burkha and the frail National identity.
Around a quarter of Switzerland's population is foreign, a relatively high rate in comparison with other European countries that make it easier for the children and grandchildren of immigrants to be naturalised.
After voters rejected similar proposals in 1983, 1994 and 2004, the swing followed efforts to tone down the proposal to make a clear distinction between second- and third-generation immigrants and ensure naturalisation was not automatic, it said.
As in some other parts of Europe, being born in Switzerland doesn't automatically confer Swiss citizenship.


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The Honorable Reed E. Hundt
Federal Communications Commission
1919 M Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20554
Re: Amendment of the Commission's Regulatory Policies to Allow Non-U.S. Licensed Space Stations to Provide Domestic and International Satellite Service in the United States, IB Docket No. 96-111
Dear Chairman Hundt:
I am writing as the head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which is part of the Department of Commerce and responsible for promulgating and advocating policies regarding the Federal Government's use of the radio spectrum. This letter responds to the spectrum management issues raised in the Commission's Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) in the above-captioned proceeding, which is often referred to as "DISCO II." NTIA plans to file additional comments in the near future pertaining to other aspects of the NPRM.
The NPRM proposes changes in U.S. policies for addressing applications from non-U.S. satellite earth stations. Based on a reading of the NPRM in its entirety, it is our understanding that the Commission intends to apply these policies to commercial satellite systems that are subject to other Commission rules, such as those found in Part 2 and Part 25 of the 47 CFR. This is not explicitly stated in the NPRM. Interference to incumbent Government users may result in frequency bands allocated for exclusive Federal Government use if the reach of the proposed rules is not clarified.
We therefore recommend that the Commission make explicit the frequency bands and services to which the rules adopted in this proceeding will be applicable. Accordingly, the Commission should specify that the rules will apply to frequency bands that are allocated for exclusive non-Government use and to bands allocated for shared Government/non-Government use only (provided that rules for shared use are adopted, as discussed below). The Commission should also state explicitly that the DISCO II rules will not apply to frequency bands allocated for exclusive Government use.
In addition, we wish to remind the Commission that it must coordinate with NTIA before it implements any rules that permit the use of bands allocated for shared Government/non-Government use to prevent any interference with Government uses in these bands.(1) As part of this effort, the Commission should work with NTIA to adopt technical standards for earth stations operating with non-U.S. space stations in shared Government/non-Government bands to ensure efficient and interference-free use of the spectrum.
We look forward to working with you and your staff to reach a satisfactory conclusion on these spectrum issues. If you have any questions, please call William Gamble, NTIA Deputy Associate Administrator, at (202) 482-1850.
Larry Irving
cc: The Honorable James H. Quello
The Honorable Susan Ness
The Honorable Rachelle B. Chong
William E. Kennard, General Counsel
1. See 47 U.S.C. 305(a); 47 U.S.C. 904(a)(1).


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Inspired By: Maria Montessori
Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.
Development is a series of rebirths.
Maria created a new system of education that transformed how we understand child development. Her focus on disabled and impoverished children set her apart from the average educator at that time. Read more about her here.


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But I have had a double whammy blessing! Ruth Klein was my marketing person in the early 90's when I owned a beautiful Spa in California, we had a blast working together! I left California and had not spoken to or seen Ruth in 18 years and as life would have it, things happen right when you need them. Ruth just happens to be in Austin Texas speaking and doing her magic. It was as if I had seen her yesterday. I have a new career now and needed sound advice on how to proceed and was stuck on how to do that.
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The controversy around the possibility that SNL may have plagiarized a sketch from comedian Tig Notaro won't die.
To recap: Notaro made a short film called "Clown Service" in 2015 that was screened at Vulture's Comedy Festival in New York City and regularly at Largo in Los Angeles. The film is about a bummed out woman (played by Notaro) who hires a clown to help her get over a breakup. The April 8 episode of SNL included a sketch that involved host Louis C.K. hiring a clown to perform for him when he's alone on his birthday.
We've now learned, based on a comment Notaro provided to Entertainment Weekly, that one of the creatives who worked on the Louis C.K. sketch was also aware of "Clown Service." Though Notaro and C.K. used to work together, they haven't spoken in a year-and-a-half.
"While I don't know how all this actually happened, I did find it extremely disappointing," Notaro said.
Notaro's statement is measured but firm. Read it in full below.
"It has been impossible for me to ignore the cacophony of voices reaching out personally and publicly about the potential plagiarizing of my film Clown Service (a film that I screened at Largo in Los Angeles for over a year and it premiered at Vulture's Comedy Festival in NYC as well as numerous film festivals around the country and I am currently screening on my national tour).
While I don't know how all this actually happened, I did find it extremely disappointing.
Here is what I can tell you:
First off, I have recently learned that a writer/director who was fully aware of Clown Service when I was making it, actually worked on Louis C.K.'s clown sketch that is in question.
Secondly, Louis C.K. and I have not communicated in any way for nearly a year and a half.
And finally, I never gave anyone permission to use anything from my film.
I hesitated to even address any of this, but I think it is only right to defend my work and ideas and moving forward, I plan to continue screening Clown Service with the joy and pride I always have."


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This is by far the hardest photo i have ever taken. I had just got back to my tent after the summit window had squeezed away, and i knew that it was more than likely i would not get another shot at the summit on this trip. I was both mentally and physically beaten and feeling like a failure after 3 weeks of hard work. But what is the definition of failure?? oxford says "an unsuccessful person, enterprise, or thing"
This leads me to ponder the more important question: what is the definition of success? again referring to oxford "The accomplishment of an aim or purpose" but i believe success is to learn something that results in a positive change in ones views or lifestyle.
For me this photo now represents 'success' in the way that i will never forget how devastated i felt at that moment but i would not change any of the decisions i made that day. At that moment i learnt, in the great words of Dr Kelso from Scrubs "nothing in this life worth having, comes easy"


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Bounce - Resilience... The Essential Ingredient When You Have To Make A Comeback
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The road to the top can be treacherous. Throughout our careers we can all, hopefully, expect to experience periods of great success and prosperity. But, we should also expect a healthy dose of challenging times when we slip, fall or things come crashing down around us. Those of us with high levels of resilience and resolve, and who have the ability to continuously Bounce back from struggle and adversity, are the ones who will survive, thrive and find their way back to the top.
In this talk we discuss people's ability to Bounce or - to use a more conventional term - make a comeback. We go beyond the single comeback and move toward the development of a Bounce mindset. We focus on the comeback skills that provide a small group of professionals with a significant competitive edge over the rest.
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Taking the First Step with Recording Personal Information
Having the discussion about the type of funeral services that you or your loved ones would like is not an easy discussion to have. Most people shy away from even thinking about the topic of death, let alone actually discussing it.
One tool that can help get a conversation started and ease into this discussion is preparing a personal information list. Sometimes referred to as an In Case of Emergency or ICE document, this compendium of personal details will help organize important documents and information in one place. Having an ICE document for family provides emergency contact information and makes it easier for members to manage your affairs if you are not able to.
An ICE document can be as simple (a single page) or as detailed (a folder or booklet) as you would like. Recording this important information will provide your family a helpful guide in case of emergency and can often open the window to a larger discussion about what your family would want for a funeral service and memorial.
Personal Information to Include
Each ICE document will be a little different, but here's a general list of information that you should consider including: personal details such as family member contacts, social security numbers, military service; healthcare provider contacts; medical and life insurance policies; banking and investment accounts; logins, passwords for online accounts and subscription services. To help you get started, the Buch Family of Funeral Homes has created an ICE document template.
You can also add a category for Funeral Arrangements which would include details about final wishes for your arrangements, such as cremation/burial, open/closed casket, type of memorial service, etc. Once this document is created, it is a good idea to update it at least once a year, since details could change. Once your document is created, make sure to let a family member know where this document can be found if it is needed.


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Naturally in the home of a large family, this is an undertaking of huge proportions.
This week I said goodbye to my last boy pre-schooler. He's all grown now and ready to run with the big ones.
I even managed to shed a tear on the eve of school for him. There was one big, sincere hug that he threw my way just before bed. It was a little longer than usual and came with a serious expression on his part. As I gazed down at him, those emotions just welled up...sob...sob...
My last little boy is getting bigger...
I have to say, I don't think I have ever cried before the others commenced school; not because I loved them any less (God no!), just because there was always a little army of creatures behind each of them. In the case of the boys, there was always another to go home with.
But now there is not.
Taite was so excited to start school and Mum was fine on the day after all - thrilled for him even.
I took some special photos of the boys in their only year of primary school together; all four of them.
They are a sweet bunch when they are getting along.
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My big daughter, Indiana; finally she has cleaned her room over the long weeks of the holidays. (I wrote a post about that here.) It seems she has turned a new leaf too. A growing maturity seems to radiate from her, evident in the organisation. She has prepared herself well for the start of year eight this year.
My fingers are crossed that this change is a permanent one.
I am seeing a new independence in my baby girl. She is getting into the toy box, digging deeper than ever before to discover things unfound. There are cupboards to explore; bits of flotsam and jetsam to consume off the floor, plucked from places difficult to clean but accessible to little fingers.
Then there are the cheeky grins. Flirty games of peek-a-boo and still lots of clingy moments.


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There will still be people working in the stores of the future, but technology is still going to make a profound impact on the retail industry. This is what retail workers think about how their job will transform in the near future.
According to a new report by Epson (opens in new tab), 70 per cent of retailers think technology will never be able to fully replace people in stores, but it will revolutionise the shopping experience.
Four in ten (40 per cent) think they'll no longer hold stock. Instead, they will create customised products on demand. Sixty-seven per cent think automatic ID of customers will create an extremely personalised shopping experience, while a third (62 per cent) believe this will improve security, as well.
More than half (55 per cent) think shopping will be faster, too, with automatic transactions fuelled by mobile POS systems. Half (47 per cent) think queues will be a thing of the past, and 36 per cent expect AI to make an impact soon enough.
One thing retailers don't agree on, is what technology will do regarding high street shopping. A third (36 per cent) thinks technology will bring people back to stores, while 38 per cent think that same technology will actually kill the traditional high street shopping.
"The survey demonstrates that there's widespread enthusiasm for revolutionary technologies like AR among retail workers," says Rob Clark, Epson's Managing Director for the UK and Ireland.
"Employees clearly know about the benefits for the shopping experience, making the time spent in store more enjoyable and accelerating purchasing processes".
"To ensure retailers reap the rewards from the technological revolution", Clark continued, "companies must stay aware of the latest developments and invest in the right technologies. Smart glasses, for example, need to come with collaborative features that allow them to fit in seamlessly with a store's IT infrastructure. There also needs to be a rethink regarding store layouts. With queuing becoming less important and mobile POS systems allowing customers to make instant purchases around the building, shop designers need to respond accordingly".
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Kevash, Peter and Sudakov, Benny (2005) Set Systems with Restricted Cross-Intersections and the Minimum Rank of Inclusion Matrices. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 18 (4). pp. 713-727. ISSN 0895-4801. doi:10.1137/S0895480103434634. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:KEEsiamjdm05
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A set system is L-intersecting if any pairwise intersection size lies in L, where L is some set of s nonnegative integers. The celebrated Frankl-Ray-Chaudhuri-Wilson theorems give tight bounds on the size of an L-intersecting set system on a ground set of size n. Such a system contains at most $\binom{n}{s}$ sets if it is uniform and at most $\sum_{i=0}^s \binom{n}{i}$ sets if it is nonuniform. They also prove modular versions of these results. We consider the following extension of these problems. Call the set systems $\mathcal{A}_1,\ldots,\mathcal{A}_k$ {\em L-cross-intersecting} if for every pair of distinct sets A,B with $A \in \mathcal{A}_i$ and $B \in \mathcal{A}_j$ for some $i \neq j$ the intersection size $|A \cap B|$ lies in $L$. For any k and for n > n 0 (s) we give tight bounds on the maximum of $\sum_{i=1}^k |\mathcal{A}_i|$. It is at most $\max\, \{k\binom{n}{s}, \binom{n}{\lfloor n/2 \rfloor}\}$ if the systems are uniform and at most $ \max\, \{k \sum_{i=0}^s \binom{n}{i} , (k-1) \sum_{i=0}^{s-1} \binom{n}{i} + 2^n\}$ if they are nonuniform. We also obtain modular versions of these results. Our proofs use tools from linear algebra together with some combinatorial ideas. A key ingredient is a tight lower bound for the rank of the inclusion matrix of a set system. The s*-inclusion matrix of a set system $\mathcal{A}$ on [n] is a matrix M with rows indexed by $\mathcal{A}$ and columns by the subsets of [n] of size at most s, where if $A \in \mathcal{A}$ and $B \subset [n]$ with $|B| \leq s$, we define M AB to be 1 if $B \subset A$ and 0 otherwise. Our bound generalizes the well-known result that if $|\mathcal{A}| < 2^{s+1}$, then M has full rank $|\mathcal{A}|$. In a combinatorial setting this fact was proved by Frankl and Pach in the study of null t-designs; it can also be viewed as determining the minimum distance of the Reed-Muller codes.
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Prop 8 has been struck down. I will blog more about this later; 'til then, revel in this:
"Plaintiffs do not seek recognition of a new right. To characterize plaintiffs' objective as "the right to same-sex marriage" would suggest that plaintiffs seek something different from what opposite-sex couples across the state enjoy — namely, marriage. Rather, plaintiffs ask California to recognize their relationships for what they are: marriages."


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JJO Band Camp
an interview with WJJO Program Director Randy Hawke
by Rökker
August 2010
WJJO program director Randy Hawke with calendar girls Jess & Shilo
Willow Island at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison becomes JJO Band Camp on Saturday, August 14th. The outdoor music festival has been growing since it's inception in 2003, attracts some of the world's biggest names in modern metal, and is put on by Madison's solid rock.. er ahhh.. metal radio station… 94.1 WJJO and promoters Frank Productions.
Randy Hawke is program director for WJJO, a station that went from classic rock to "solid rock" around 13 years ago. He has been in radio for 19 years and has also been PD of WAPL in Appleton as well as WLUM in Milwaukee.
MAXIMUM INK: How did Band Camp get started?
RANDY HAWKE: The name came about when Blake Patton and I were brainstorming what we wanted to call our show and we made a deal that the title could not end in Fest, Stock or Palooza. The location was Fred Frank. He starts a lot of sentences with "Hey Randy what do you think about …." One of those sentences were completed with "having a huge festival on willow Island next to the Alliant." Band Camp was born. Crazy thing was for the first year we had to spend more time telling people where Willow Island was than who was playing. No event of Band Camps magnitude had ever been held out there. Band Camp put Willow Island on the map. LITERALLY!
MI: How has it changed since the original incarnation?
RH: It has changed every single year. From increasing the number of bands, to improvements on the island. When we started there was not even a power outlet on that island. Some things people notice, like the 25 foot video screen so you don't miss a thing. Other things like a paved road backstage so busses don't get stuck mean a huge amount to the success of the event, but kinda go unnoticed. Now look at it. We had a little tiny tailor for the second stage. Of course, it used to take about 3 months to plan, now it is a year around job.
MI: What is better about Band Camp this year?
RH: First of all the line up. We have 3 bands that can headline in this city with Godsmack, Sevendust and Buckcherry. Secondly, the mainstage will blow people away.
MI: What are your best memories/stories from past Band Camps?
RH: I could talk for about an hour about this question but I will try and boil it down. Damageplan at the first Band Camp will always be a huge memory for me. At the time we had no idea that that would be the last time Dime played Madison. It was a special day. He was so gracious that day. To fans, bands, security. He deserves his legendary status.
The lighting scare was just that for me last year. Having the safety of 15,000 people in your hands is SCARY. I am trying to make sure everyone is safe and they are chanting back rain or shine, rain or shine. Hind sight I laugh. That day I was like come on. Just go inside for 20 minutes so no one gets hurt. No one got hurt and every band played. For the record it was not a rain delay. IT WAS A LIGHTING delay. Band can not play on a giant pile of metal that is filled with electricity during a lightning storm.
MI: What is your WORST memories/stories from past Band Camps?
RH: You forget the bad things pretty fast. The vibe both in front of the stage and backstage is so great. The JJO audience is my extended family. They truly take such good care of me. When I get to the post show at Rev Jim's, sit on a bar stool and talk with a few hundred listeners and hear how great the day was for them I totally forget all the BS it took to pull it off. I enjoy a cold one… or ten.
Even the mud. It SUCKS when the rain and mud happens, but you end up laughing about it at the end of the day. There are some listeners that have complained to me on the one or two times we have had good weather. They say, No rain, no mud. This sucks. It's not Band Camp without mud. YES IT IS. Trust me I can do without the mud.
MI: How many days does it take you to recover from Band Camp?
RH: There truly is no down time anymore. The minute the show stops, the post show starts, and tear down and clean up begins. That takes a few day. By then we have the recordings from the day and we are producing the live radio show. We do wrap ups with sponsors right away and they want to sign up for next year right away, so it is time to create sponsorship packages for the next year. We have honestly already started working on the date for 2011. So recovery? Does not happen. But I don't want it to. I love it.
MI: Who is your favorite band to ever play?
RH: WOW that is tough. You know they will all read this and everyone but one will be pissed at me. I already talked about Damageplan. That was special. I really like seeing bands like Stone Sour and Mudvayne play it because those guys came up through the ranks with us. I really loved the crowds response to Jada Pinkett Smith and Wicked Wisdom. They did not expect her to rock that hard and she did. Dope is just a tradition that is a must see every year. I guess my favorite though was _____.
MI: Any Advice to local/regional bands who are trying to get on the bill?
RH: Do the right thing for your band and local music year around. Treat clubs and club owners with respect. Work on your craft and do it so well that we can not help but know you matter. Last year Silence Is Broken played both nights of the pre and post show and were so cool that I promised em one of the local spots for 2010 at the 2009 post show. It has been theirs for a year.
MI: How do you like the new Godsmack album? and Sevendust's? Any good Sevendust stories from past?
RH: The new Godsmack is great. I like that they are not afraid to put a song like Love, Sex, Pain out. Something with a different texture. They are a great blue collar rock band. The new Sevendust is amazing. Produced by UW Grad Johnny K ya know? Clint is back and every song is strong. The thing I like about both bands is even after all these years they are not phoning it in. They are trying to make great records every time.
Good Sevendust stories? I do not want to cause any fights with the wives… kidding of course. Best time I have had with them was when I took a couple JJO listeners down to Atlanta to hang in the studio with em and watch them record. Let's just put it this way. Morgan and I may have been over served that day, night and morning.
MI: Is Madison a "Heavy Metal" town?
RH: YES dammit. YES. I have wanted to answer that question for years. The trendy deal is to promote the granola, hippies and hipsters. But at the core this is an AMAZING and world renowned metal town. Ask any band JJO plays. They love this town and it is because of the passion of the people. They love the music, know the music and support the music. YES THIS IS A METAL TOWN filled with METAL PEOPLE. Take that to Willy Street and smoke it bitch.
MI: How do you see the next five years for WJJO and Madison in general regarding music?
RH: Madison is a blue collar music town. Three chords and a cloud of dust. JJO will still simply shut up and rock. Don't look for us to go all Dépêche Mode anytime soon. We have been playing real rock for 13 years and we play to play it for many more. My kids are 6 and 4, I need to make a living at this for a lot more years.
MI: What's in your CD Player/Car Stereo?
RH: Brother Clyde Lately. The lyric "Lately I feel like crashing. Like the hold world is coming to an end." ENOUGH already. Clean up that fuckin mess in the gulf and lets make sure it never happens again. I want our soldiers to have what they need to protect themselves and win. If we can't supply them with it, don't send 'em. When they get home take not good care of them, take AMAZING care of them. How about all these pretty, new bridges. Do you we really need to tear down a perfectly good pedestrian bridge to build a prettier one? How about we leave the other one up and put that money into the two struggling neighborhoods that bridge connects. Music programs are being stripped from schools yet we have enough money to tear down perfectly good bridges so we can make a sexier one? REALLY? The song just really simplifies what we are seeing in the world and makes you say WTF? Oil and Wall Street are making 100's of millions off of destroying the world.
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In late 2015, Steve co-founded the ASK Charitable Foundation in his beloved adopted home of Austin, TX. Since that time, he has been actively involved with local organizations such as Nobelity, RBI Austin, JFON and with the Parker Lane United Methodist Church.
Prior to devoting his time to the Foundation and its local partnerships, Steve was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Pine River Capital, where he focused on seeking new opportunities for the firm. Steve served on both the Executive Committee and on the Charitable Initiatives Committee. Prior to joining Pine River in 2008, Steve was a Portfolio Manager at Goldman Sachs. Based in New York and Beijing from 2002 to 2007, he was part of the mortgage portfolio management team. From 1999 to 2002, Steve was a Japanese convertible bond trader at Citadel Investment Group in Chicago. Prior to that, he was head of mortgage backed securities trading at Cargill. Steve received an AB cum laude in Economics from Harvard University in 1991.
Steve serves on the board of the Andy Roddick Foundation, Immigrant Justice Corps and the Young People's Chorus of New York. He was instrumental in bringing the Chorus to Austin in the newly formed Austin YPC, which seeks to replicate the incredible academic and artistic excellence of the world renown Young People's Chorus of New York.


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I used for more than 30 years a different method, that needs no turning or flipping and I am very satisfied with the end product. Il add clay to the vegetal debris (and/or human excreta with sawdust) and just see that the pile does not dry. It takes more time (months) but less work. If the clay is acid and contains no calcium (I discovered such a soil 5 years ago), you need to add calcium (marl) or iron. Those cations will make the bond between the negative charges of humic acids and clay.
You do not need to investigate the compost but if you do, you will also find thermophilic worms, not so numerous, in the recent layers of the pile. If you see many wood lice (Isopod crustaceans) it means that the compost is not wet enough.
Making a good hot compost pile is like baking a cake with no specific recipe. Yeah you know the ratio's of butter to sugar, flour to eggs, but you throw it together hoping that the ratio will turn out some good German chocolate cake, nice and crumbly, full of texture and rich smell. Well, that is similar to hot composting as the end product we want it to look like good German chocolate cake; crumbly, 70% cacao dark brown, producing the stable carbon compound known as humus. Unless done in a round cage with specific cage link interspaces as measuring tools, the recipe is done mostly by hand and feel. Even then seasonal variations and materials will produce different end results so it truly is an artisanal experience. It's quite a science but a really fun farm task to take on and perfect over time. Having built countless compost piles in my ten plus years of Permaculture as well as studying and working with Dr. Elaine Ingham, I feel quite versed in this particular topic and urge you to bake the cake thus creating soil!
Basic Pattern Process of Hot Compost:
Materials are gathered and a pile is heaped together in layers in one or two days to achieve the ideal size and hot compost conditions. Ratios of materials are used to
formulate a pile that will heat up and produce a quality compost aimed at improving soil fertility and seeding the whole soil food web. The pile is monitored for moisture content, temperature and overall quality throughout the duration of the pile. When needed the pile is turned, or often called flipped, to decrease temperature and increase oxygen content. The pile goes through a hot process then turns to cold compost, which is aided further by compost worms. The compost is used in a myriad of ways in the garden, nursery, or broad acre applications through a liquidification process.
Materials of a Hot Compost:
All hot compost piles are made of the following four basic ingredients:
- Green material or those that are nitrogen rich
- Brown material or those that are carbon rich
- Water
- Oxygen
The first ingredient, nitrogen or green material, is often broke into two categories within hot composting. First is your cut green material done so by hand primarily as machine shredding, like lawn clippings, has so much edge it becomes the second kind of nitrogen material, high nitrogen. Those cut by hand, with say a rice knife or scythe or hand-pulled garden weeds, break down much more slowly than the finely chopped clippings. Other high nitrogen materials include plant material from legume family if it is properly fixing nitrogen (check the nodules in the ground, should be tip of the pinky size and bright red when opened). This ensures that the plant is actually fixing nitrogen and in disturbed soils sometimes the rhizobium bacteria in charge of this fixation are simply not present in great enough numbers to push those legumes into high nitrogen status. Other high nitrogen material is animal manure, in particular horse and chicken. However from past experience (argentina 2012-2013), if animals are corralled for long periods of time like goats, they finely break down their pellets by stepping on them also giving them more edge. Moreover they also urinate on these heavily pushing it to a high nitrogen material especially when not bedded down with straw or sawdust.
Brown material, not manures even though they are brown, are carbon rich and based off of dead plant material that lived its full life cycle. For example straw is a brown material because it is cut when the plant has fully lived its life cycle. Perennial weeds that leave their stalks behind in the winter with their pithy stems are a great brown material example. This is part of the reason I always keep wild edges on the gardenscape and a healthy patch of Jerusalem Artichoke. However if hay is cut green, which it usually is and turns brown, then technically technically it is a green and can be a detriment to proper pile ratios of all of these materials. Other sources are wood chips (if chipped during the summer they will be have a green content as well), sawdust, and leaves. A tip for brown material in the pile is to soak it beforehand in wheelbarrows, buckets, pits or ponds as it becomes much more active in a pile if activated by a thorough water quantity.
Water is vital to a pile and its balance must be strictly monitored. As the pile develops and the green material starts to break down, it is easier to get a reading on the pile moisture. When you pick up a handful and squeeze tightly, one to three drops should fall out. If it is much more than that the pile can easily go anaerobic and the organic material begins to putrefy. If it is too little, decomposition and heat production will slow or even halt completely. In the drier summer months when turning, water is often added and piles sited in the shade or by a windbreak. Furthermore, in humid times the pile is covered but the tarp must rest slightly above the pile through adding vertical stakes so that anaerobic conditions do not occur. Water acts as a lubricant and life source for the microorganisms thus making it a vital observation during the life of a pile.
Air: These thermophilic compost piles are meant to facilitate aerobic decomposition which of course has a precursor of oxygen being present. Without air, the pile loses its potency as the by-product of the microorganisms that thrive in these conditions are not what facilitates the best growing conditions. In fact those by-products are a bit toxic and are easily identified through unwelcoming smells. Air is in relation to temperature and the hotter the pile gets the more oxygen is being consumed by the decomposing microorganisms. Bacteria are the main players here which feed mostly on the green material and the more high nitrogen there is the easier it is for a pile to overheat and oxygen levels decrease completely. Turning the pile facilitates the addition of air and also cooling temperature readings. Moreover, air stays in the pile around more chunky plant material, which I always add for this specific reason. However if materials are cut finer they will breakdown quicker so do take some time to cut some of the materials finer. For example straw or stringy perennial greens can be cut with a machete and a cutting block. This gives them more edge for the microorganisms to colonize but be careful of finely cut materials by machine as mentioned earlier.
Temperature Regines of a Hot Compost:
A hot compost pile is meant to get hot but too much heat is detrimental as is stated above. This heat is generated not from the sun but rather the by-product of microbial life. Their eating, movement, and reproduction all cause heat too build and when the proper "party conditions" are presented the compost pile heats up accordingly. Composting temperatures should reach 160 F (72 C) but not go any higher. This is when you know to flip the pile or better yet when it is approaching that temperature. If it goes higher than that, there is a small window where facultative anaerobes will proliferate, as the pile swings from aerobic to anaerobic at this edge. Once above this threshold, then the pile will go anaerobic and piles that are too high in nitrogen have actually been known, although rare, to actually catch fire. Piles will have a warmth to them for around 35 days and getting them above 130 F helps to kill pathogens and weed seeds. This is one of the main reasons why we hot compost besides accelerating succession and evolution in and through the pile. If the pile spikes to 160 F or 70 C within one or two days you most likely added too much high nitrogen. This is ok but requires near daily turning and can lead to anaerobic piles. It should get to that peak temperature in day three or four but a spike to maximum temperate in one or two days says that you put into much high nitrogen material. However, if the pile didn't heat it could be from not enough green material or high nitrogen and also insufficient water content.
Monitoring the Hot Compost:
The temperature of the pile and its overall health is measured through various scientific and sensory measurements. For the most accurate portrayal of compost pile temperature, which again corresponds to oxygen content, is a compost thermometer. Usually they are sold as 1 meter or yard long and give very accurate readings. The pile should be read from various angles and depth to find out what is the peak temperature of the pile and a different times of the day. Getting it right in the center is a bit of an art but overtime you learn how to do this easily. Without the thermometer you can also of course measure with your hand. I find that if I wiggle may hand into the pile about a foot (30 cm) and I have to pull it out right away, well its time to turn the pile. Also smells are one of our best indicators. If you are smelling high amounts of ammonium, sulphur, rotten eggs, or that of vomit, turn the pile immediately as those are indicators of imbalance and probably anaerobic conditions. Ammonium smells often happen the first day especially if you put lawn clippings in. Also again you want to monitor for water content so do your squeeze test every time you turn the pile and add water accordingly. If it is too wet open the pile up on a sunny day and slowly turn the pile as to extract moisture content. Again it's a feeling thing. These factors of temperature and moisture content should be recorded to begin to get an overall pattern on any particular site. I like to put mine in bar graphs for temperature and record each pile in PowerPoint, which allows you to easily interface with bar graphs. To compliment this, I note the pile ratios and my observations as the pile is built and matures thus creating a system of documentation and analysis. See slideshow below.
Size of the Hot Compost:
To achieve proper temperature for fast breakdown and killing of pathogens and weed seeds, a pile of at least one cubic meter or yard should be built. This requires quite a lot of material so collecting the material beforehand, especially the carbon material and getting it wet, greatly helps getting the size in one day. Green material should be collected just prior to building the pile but a weed pile from the garden maintenance can also be tapped into. If lots of hands are available such as when we teach this technique in PDC's, all material can be collected at once. If you can build the pile slightly bigger than the one cubic meter or yard as part of the size in the beginning is lots of air pockets between materials. This will diminish quickly as materials breakdown. By having a pile this size it will create conditions of thermal mass and insulation to keep the pile hot enough to achieve proper temperature for an extended time period. I normally build these piles in a near perfect rectangular shape rather than inside a wire cage and feel the process out for the right recipe. By building it in a rectilinear fashion, the pile edge has been decreased so heat can not escape through an increased surface area from the normal oval shaped heap.
Ratios with the Hot Compost:
As stated before the pile is layered with green material, brown material and contains oxygen and water. Proper ratios will ensure success and can be geared to specific farm needs. If you are looking for a compost for the kitchen or market garden, soil biology succession dictates a balanced pile but slightly higher on the green side. For forest gardens and other agroforestry systems, piles with a higher carbon content will help to increase fungal counts when measured under the microscope and better support that level of succession. Pasture systems are slightly more fungal than gardens and in between the two above as we are relying on perennial grasses and forbs to feed our livestock. Thus a basic ratio is below and again the ultimate measuring tool for complete accuracy would be to build the pile inside a wire fence that has a way to use the fencing spaces as a calibration:
Gardens: 40 % GREEN, 10% HIGH NITROGEN, 50% BROWN
Flipping OR Turning the Hot Compost:
The maintenance of the pile for proper oxygen, temperature and water content requires turning or flipping the compost. This means that all material is moved from the initial location and reassembled in a spot next to the original. I like to build the pile on higher ground and turn downhill if possible as it exemplary of the slope part of energy efficient planning. Garden forks and curved hay forks aid in this process. Done properly, the pile contents from the outside should be first removed and moistened if need be. Then begin to turn the other part of the pile and put those ingredients from the outside onto the inside of the pile. This ensures all material is heated to the pathogen and weed seed killing temperature. Take a moisture test once you remove that first layer which often dehydrates in the warmer, drier months. If you need to add water do so gently but ensure you don't overwater as this can lead to anaerobic conditions. If it is too wet because of over watering or intense rains and not covering the pile from that, then the flipping process should be done slowly over hours to let wind and sun pull moisture out. Also when turning the pile you should monitor for smells which anything foul means things are beginning to go or have gone wrong and are leading to anaerobic conditions. If you see lots of white ashy material, then you are getting to that threshold edge and the pile should be turned slow to let it really cool down. This will indicate that you need to turn the pile more often if you are not using a compost thermometer.
Cool down:
After around 35 days the pile will cease to have any marked temperature and will continue to cool down to ambient temperature. Keep monitoring the pile and if dry or too wet moderate conditions for that. This is also where I like to take a few handfuls of compost worms from the vermicopmposting bins and shove them in the center. Some people use compost after six weeks but I prefer to wait another six weeks and let the worms further work it. Also fungal counts can increase as they begin to work the remaining higher carbon materials.
Monitoring with the Microscope:
Beyond smell, texture and attentive monitoring during the initial compost phase the ultimate way to gauge your success in proliferating the complete and
diverse soil food web is to look at it under the microscope yourself or contract this service out to a soil food web lab. This allows you to accurately see if your compost contains the much-needed fungus that is far too often lacking in our modern soils. Also if you take this compost and potentialize it through making a tea or extract, it is a very good idea to examine it under the microscope. While this may seem a bit pretentious, it is part of the biological revolution that is unfolding as how we evaluate soils now is very Cartesian and materialistic to say the least. Examining the web present under the scope is pattern based all the while representing and giving voice to the critters that are unlocking the minerals and nutrients. Thus we should aim to stimulate them more than simply adding mined minerals because of a chemical reading.
Ultimately we go through all of this trouble to get a finished product. To keep costs down on the Permaculture farm we should aim to produce some or all of our own compost. Accordingly this important function should be supported by many elements and so one of those is hot compost. In a typical farm year I will build between four to eight of these piles depending on materials and labor. It's a very involved process straight from the beginning and I have flipped piles that spiked suddenly on Sunday nights at dusk to ensure success. But in the end we get rich compost that can be used as a top-dressing for gardens and agroforestry plantings for direct fertility purposes. I also love to use it in seedling or potting mixes thus reducing our dependence on outside inputs such as commercial compost and peat moss.
Furthermore, the finished product can be put into a liquid solution known as compost
extract or compost tea. The difference is the brewing type and time but essentially they concentrate microorganisms by the billions for you to spread through the wonderful, life giving solution known as water. This facilitates the broad acre application in forestry systems and pastures but I regularly do this in gardens as well. Also after earthworks are implemented this is a wonderful way to rebalance the disturbance that would have taken place. This also includes any tilling that happens for new garden implementation. Hot compost and its liquid spreading is one of the most powerful regenerative agriculture tools we have in accelerating succession and evolution. This contributes to landscape healing, nutrient cycling that ensures plant and animal health, and completion of the hydrological cycle.
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I used for more than 30 years a different method, that needs no turning or flipping and I am very satisfied with the end product. Il add clay to the vegetal debris (and/or human excreta with sawdust) and just see that the pile does not dry. It takes more time (months) but less work. If the clay is acid and contains no calcium (I discovered such a soil 5 years ago), you need to add calcium (marl) or iron. Those cations will make the bond between the negative charges of humic acids and clay.
Yeah cold composting is a great alternative as well. Build soil with multiple elements for sure- worm bins, cold compost, hot compost, pit gardens, chop and drop.
Thankyou Doug ! Read this article this morning, before starting to make our hot compost! Appreciated the amount of detail in the concept by concept layout.
Great Read ! Great Refresher !
Hope you are doing well : )
Hi Doug,
as we can't use our rainwater catchment for a while (some work needs to be done there) we only have the water from the tap to water the compost pile. But this water contains quite a lot of chlorine (sometimes the smell and taste is quite strong). So I was wondering if this could be a problem for the compost and the organisms in there? As it is quite hot and dry (too dry for January anyway) we have to water the compost almost every day.
Thanks for your posts by the way, always good to read…
yeah chlorine can be quite tough on the microbes, hope you can sort out another water resource!
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When you think you are taking loads of action but it turns out it's all going on in your head, how do you pull yourself out of the dark, negative, scarce place and work out what to do next? In this week's vzine I share what works for me and my Clicks And Leads Academy clients…
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Hey, Nicola here, how you doing? I'm delighted to report some positive results from gearing up my marketing efforts again.
I've been releasing a series of one-minute videos and within three days of getting those out and disseminating on social media, I have attracted a one year client to Clicks And Leads Academy which is really cool. He said he was just thinking about me and then a video went past and it just reminded him that I could help him and he came and joined up! So welcome back Mark.
The first Vzine has just been edited and crushed down and is ready to go, so we are up to speed with that again. I'm recording next week's Vzine today so Phoebe's got plenty of time to work on it.
I'm going to share in the middle section a long conversation I had with a client about all of this and how she is not doing her own marketing because of what's going on in her head. I hope that will help you like it helped her.
Lets get on with the show, shall we?
There's a big difference between thinking about something and doing something. I had a long call today – one of the Clicks and Leads Academy video webinar Q & A sessions. And just one person turned up so she got me all to herself for an hour, which I'm sure she was delighted about!
She was having a right old flap because, as she said in her own words, "Nothing's happening." So I had a long conversation with her about how nothing happens without you making something happen. And sometimes the thing that you do, directly results in something completely different to what you expected. But that wouldn't have happened, unless you did something in the first place.
I got her to list out everything she'd done. She's supposed to be creating a video a week for her ideal customer or client and she knows exactly who that ideal customer or client is because she's got a few of them already. So she wants to attract more people like that.
She's analysed what their problems and pain and passions and purpose are and she's got a list of topics ready to go. But for some reason, she keeps overthinking things.
Looking back, she was able to see that she'd only produced one video a month and two of those were not directed at her ideal clients.
So we had a long conversation about that and I said I was trying to help her to put processes, simple processes, in place to get her through producing a video a week, at least.
And I said, you know, the thing is batching is so good. I'm doing these daily videos at the moment and I find it so much easier if I record seven at a time. And I do the thumbnails for seven at a time. And then I get the captions done for seven at a time. And then I upload seven at a time to YouTube. And get the transcriptions done from Rev.com. And then I can go off and I can delegate the sharing of them on social media to someone else.
In fact, I can delegate quite a lot of that to someone else. So that's the key, is having a simple batching process, where you do the same activity over and over again seven times. And that gets you into the flow of that activity and you get quicker doing it like that.
And then think – who can I delegate this to? Who can I hire who's perhaps from the Philippines, or from America, or from England who is looking for work and who would be happy to do this work for you? Because really ideally, the idea is that you only ever do the stuff that only you can do. And that frees up a lot of your time.
As I said to this client today, you should either be delivering to your high-end clients – she's a branding expert – or marketing to your high-end clients. Those are the only two activities you should be doing yourself. And of those, you should only be doing the things that only you can do and delegating the rest which will enable you to do more high end marketing yourself.
So, lets recap.
If nothing's happening, it's because you're not doing anything to make it happen. So why don't you just write up on your wall behind your computer,
"Nothing's happening? What can I do to make something happen?"
And it doesn't matter what you do, as long as you take positive action. That's the thing, that's the key. Because that gets the ripple in the pond effect. I think of it as like throwing a pebble in a pond and it gets the ripple in the pond effect working. You don't know where those ripples are going to come back. You don't know where they're going to go, but something will happen. Because you've changed the energy around yourself and your business.
So, I think that pretty much sums it up. Realise that if it is to be, it is up to me. Realise if nothing's happening it's because you're not making anything happen. Realise that batching is a really good way to do lots of high level activities all at once. And you get in the flow, so that makes it easier for your brain and you get faster, practically speaking.
As I said in the first section, you might want to try meditation as well because on top of all that practical stuff, that action orientated stuff, the doing stuff, you also need to be thinking about being.
Who do I need to be to make my business more successful?
And I'm pretty sure that a lot of business leaders nowadays, take time out for themselves and recharge their batteries by meditating. I know a lot of the people that I follow do, and now I do it myself too. It's really great, it just makes you feel better.
So because I'm a bit ahead of myself this week, there's not a new blog post to tell you about. So I thought I'd just let you know about a couple of the blog posts that you missed while I was away and there was no Vzine.
We revisited on Own It The Podcast. The Law of Attraction, so Part Two, and this is where Judith explains to me exactly what the law of attraction really is about as opposed to what I thought it was about.
And we discuss how science is catching up with the beliefs of people like Wallace D. Wattles and Napoleon Hill and what it means for everyone else, what it means for entrepreneurs and what it means for how your daily practices can be improved to give out better vibrational energy and to attract the things you want into your life.
I was a real sceptic at the beginning of this, but as the years have gone by, I've seen it with my own eyes. I've experienced it myself.
Basically, the energy you give out, is what you attract back. And there's a bit a delay, because as my friend Andy says quite eloquently, "Shit travels at the speed of shit, which is exceedingly slowly."
So his point is that you have to be giving off a good vibrational energy for a little while. Not as long as you think, it's not months, it's not even weeks, it can be days. And if you give off the right vibrational energy for a few days or a week or so, then good stuff will start to show up in your life.
But all the time you're working from a place of scarcity and fear and negativity, that's the kind of things you'll be attracting to you. So I do believe this 100 percent nowadays. And just a few practical experiments can help you prove it to yourself too.
I like Vishen Lakhiani's Six Phase Meditation.
He's the guy who started Mind Valley, so he knows what he's talking about when it comes to keeping control of your mind. So go and check that out, it's on YouTube and also you can download the Mind Valley app. And you can get the Six Phase Meditation for free.
I started listening to it when I was feeling very anxious about something a little while ago and it really helped me. And I notice that whenever I do it regularly, I must be giving off better vibrations because I attract nice stuff into my life. Nice people, nice things and new clients every time. So give it a go, give it a try. Give the Six Phase Meditation a try and I'll love to hear, do tell me in the comments if you've given it a go and it's worked for you or if it's made any difference at all.
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I made this cake a week or so ago but I couldn't get myself to post the whole thing here.
Since the cake was really good and it looks fancy in pictures I will try to gather all my patience and be a good girl and write everything down.
Don't get scared by what I just wrote, the cake it's really easy to make, solo que me da flojera to write all the steps. But I will and I really hope you'll try it because it's really light and delicious.
Happy Birthday A.!
STEP ONE: The cake batter
You need:
6 eggs
1/2 cup powder sugar (or 3/4 if you like your sweets sweet)
1 tbs vanilla extract
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup corn starch
1/4 cup cocoa powder
2 tbs baking powder
Mix all the ingredients together and put the batter in a cake pan (with removable bottom; mine was medium size).
I covered the bottom of the pan with parchment paper, if you don't want to do that you can cover it (and the sides of the pan) with some butter and then sprinkle some flour on top.
Bake the batter for 15- 20 minutes at 360 F (stick it with a toothpick; if it comes out clean the cake is ready to be taken out the oven).
Let it cool completely and cut it in two equal halves.
STEP TWO: The caramel syrup
Prepare a caramel syrup using:
1 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
1 tbs rum extract
Melt the sugar in a sauce pan and pour the water over.
Add the rum extract and let it boil on low heat until the caramel is completely melted.
Let the syrup cool and using a spoon soak the 2 halves of the cake with syrup.
STEP THREE: The cream
You need:
1/2 cup powder sugar (again, add more sugar if you like it sweet-sweet)
1 pack mascarpone cheese
1 cup sour cream
1 cup greek yogurt
2 1/2 packs raspberry
2 tbs corn starch
1 tbs vanilla extract
1 cup whipping cream
Mix the mascarpone with the sugar until smooth.
Add the sour cream and the sugar and continue mixing.
Add the vanilla extract and mix.
Whip the whipping cream with 2 tbs powder sugar.
Add the whipped cream to the cream mixture and mix well together.
Add the corn starch and mix.
Last add the raspberries and mix with care(try not to squish the raspberries).
Cover the pan you used to bake the batter with plastic foil.
Put the bottom half of the cake into the pan (try not to break it).
Cover the first half of cake with the raspberry cream.
And top the cream with the second cake half.
Now the fun part…
I decide to freeze my cake 'cause it seemed like a good idea. And it was!
So, you can either put it in the freezer for the night or you can just let it cool in the fridge over the night.
STEP FOUR: Put something on the cake!
I whipped some more whipping cream and covered the upper part of the cake.
After that I used some more raspberries and some shaved milk chocolate to make the cake even prettier.
I left the last piece in the fridge until completely defrost and I really like it like that too!
So… either frozen or not
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Here is an update on the three Baby Boomers stocks we've recommended so far this year.
General Electric (GE)
GE's last earnings report for the 1st quarter for 2008 disappointed investors and the stock had a dramatic sell off. It's latest report was better and ahead by one cent of the consensus.
The consensus price target for the stock is still above $37.
Below is the chart for GE:
In our recommendation in June, we did mention that we might be getting in early for GE. It needed to find a bottom and then base. Let's review the chart:
- It looks like GE is finding a bottom close to $26 and is starting to form a base, a must for a bull market in the stock and market.
The MACD did not confirm the last pullback to the $26 level, a positive for the stock.
- The stock is still bearish as prices are below both the 50 and 200-day moving average. Both averages are trending downward, also bearish.
- The Choppiness indicator looks like its ready to trend. The dominant trend is down, so the stock is not out of the woods yet.
We recommended selling short the GE July $29 put, symbol GESB for $.79
We will assume it was assigned over the week so we will add to the SSI portfolio with a cost adjust basis of $28.21.
Because prices need to base and the stock is off its low, let's write an option to lower our costs basis. We will write options our stocks to lower our cost basis to enhance our returns.
We do own 200 shares of GE now, but let's sell only one contract.
"Sell to open the August $29 call, symbol GEWHC at the market." The current price is around $.37.
We now own 200 shares with a cost basis of $28.91.
If you have not invested in GE, the current price is a good entry point.
Automatic Data Processing (ADP)
ADP is our latest recommendation and not much has changed for ADP.
We did sell short ADPTH at $.70. The option is currently at $.55.
Kimberly Clark (KMB)
So far, KMB has been a disappointment, but longer term we should be fine.
KMB recently guided earnings down by about 4c for the year or about 1%, but the stock was hit by about 10%. The market over reacted. They are expected to report this Thursday, July 24th and the bad news should be in the stock price.
Investors are not only concerned about price inflation but the potential that consumers may trade down to generic brand paper products.
Price targets have also come down from around $70 to the low $60 area. The stock is down around 24% from its high and the above concerns are more than in the stock.
We will remain with the stock, as we believe things could change over the next few years and the stock can move to its old highs. We have reduced our total return expectations from 20% per year to the low teens.
Here is a chart for the stock:
Let's review the stock:
- We're not sure if the stock has reached a bottom, too early to tell. It needs to find a bottom and then base.
- The choppiness indicator suggests that the downside trend has exhausted itself.
-It would help if volume was lower, a sign that the selling has dropped up.
We do want to take advantage of this low price and "Sell short a put, the August $55 put, symbol KMBTK at the market".
It is currently selling for about $1.50. If we are exercised we would bring down the average cost of our shares, if not we'll keep the premium.
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"I think the one mistake leaders make, not just women leaders, all leaders, is to react too negatively or strongly. We need to not take things so personally, but, rather, sit back and process what has just happened before doing anything too extreme."


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