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There are many families both from the lower and the higher classes who have embraced the benefits if playing games together. Game playing is a beneficial way that the families can relax and do recreational activities together. There are many different games that families can participate including poker, chess, mahjong and many others that can make them spend time together. To ensure that all the family members and friends have good fun together you have to find the right game table so that all the members can be involved and at the same time feel comfortable when playing the game.
In the Game rooms is where you will gather as a family and be able to enjoy different activities, and you can invite friends over and so ensure that all the invited people are comfortable is very important. You have to be sure about your game room space before you find the most suitable one. Depending on the different games that you want to play you have to find the right game table. Choose the game tables well as some would require large space for them to fit in.
There are different types of Game tables, and they come in different sizes and shapes. Depending on the choice that you make for your game table will always be a personal choice not unless you have loads of space. There are many different games, and there are many reasons as to why you can prefer playing one game over the other. Buy the game tables depending on what your family members love doing together and so you have to involve everyone.
Consider the family members and also the children in the family who will be using the game table most. The young ones too will be able to join in with the family, and you have to think about their alternative for them. You and your family can have vast amounts of fun by simply hitting the ball hard and fast.
There are many different styles and also types of game table that you can choose from some will suit all the needs that you are looking for. When you do not have adequate space you can buy a multi-game table where you can play more than one game.
Choose the appropriate game table depending on how long you and your family spend enjoying the game, if you do it frequently invest in a good table, but if you do not frequently play the game then you can invest in a less expensive table.
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Is indy league baseball dead?
Is indy baseball dead?
Do independent teams have the local support to continue their existence?
Do they have sufficient sponsorship to maintain a promotional presence?
Do they have sufficient political backing to maintain quality facilities?
Do the surrounding communities actually care about the teams? Is there enough civic pride in these teams?
Follow the money trail and find the answer. Because when the local paper doesn't even cover your team with more than a cursory glance, it's time to think about jumping ship.
If player contracts aren't being purchased by affiliated clubs on a regular basis, then these teams mare suffering. When Atlantic League teams trade players, are they doing so for the benefit of their team, or for the future financial prospect of selling out to MiLB?
There's even a bunch of dead MiLB leagues from years and years ago, and there were rumors just a few years ago that MLB was going to get rid of the rookie league level. So indy ball shouldn't feel singled out.
All the attempted new leagues end up stillborn, there's certainly leagues whose gravestones are familiar...
...and what we're seeing spring up is the collegiate wood bat summer leagues. We'll see how many of those end up dead in 5 years, but it certainly bypasses the issue of, say, paying kids to play, no?
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I was just at our local indy team's game the other night (Wichita Wingnuts, American Association). There was a decent crowd for a Monday night. The team is struggling to stay in first place as a number of key players were sold off to MLB organizations this season
There are a couple of teams that don't look so great, averaging right around 1,000 (Grand Prairie's attendance is way down and the team is not very good on the field). On the other side, St. Paul just opened a new stadium and attendance is up and the team is on fire.
I don't see the AA going away anytime soon, but I wouldn't be surprised if there is some contraction. For the most part, the teams in the AA get decent media coverage in their markets.
We also have two summer college wood bat leagues in our area. One is fairly high budget (Jayhawk League), the other is low budget (Kansas Collegiate League, formerly the Walter Johnson League). Both leagues have lengthy histories. Both leagues did very well in the post-season.
We also have the National Baseball Congress (which both leagues are members of), which hosts a two-week, 30-team tournament which just wrapped up. Attendance was up at the NBC this season (despite the death of a bat boy from injuries suffered in a game). The NBC is struggling with keeping some of the member leagues sending entries (no Alaska League teams this year because of budgetary constraints) even though it changed its format to encourage more distant leagues (a 16-team first-week bracket, followed by a 14-team second-week bracket. Two teams from the first week advance to the second week. The format was done that way so teams don't have to book hotel rooms for two weeks).
While the NBC has challenges, again I don't see it going away anytime soon (it's 81 years old). It has decent sponsor support. It has a new organizational structure. The tournament is owned by the city of Wichita (after being owned by the Rich family for several decades). It was operated by the local minor league team, but it is now operated by a new civic committee (the AA team's books jumbled the income and expenses of the tourney with its own, which torked off the city).
Indy baseball is doing well overall. The big three (Atlantic League, Frontier League and American Association/Can-Am) have all added teams or are planning too and attendance is up overall. Even the tiny Pecos League where players only make $50.00 a week is in good shape.
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November 2016
Today we attended ukactive's National Summit, the leading political event for the physical activity sector and the launchpad for ukactive's latest report, Blueprint for an Active Britain: Milestone Review (which we had the pleasure of designing).
Building on the foundations laid by last year's Blueprint report, the review recognises the progress that has been made and turns the focus to how we can develop and deliver practically on its vision for an active nation.
Having also been involved with producing last year's report we feel very proud to see it taken forward and developed, and we feel incredibly fortunate to be part of a community so passionately dedicated to getting more people, more active, more often.


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Meatless Mondays - A New Year
Hello and Happy New Year to all! On behalf of the Young family, I can report a very relaxing holiday with lots of great meatless meals. We tried some new recipes and returned to some old favourites, many of which will make their way into our weekly messages. The results are in on our stir fry sauce contest and it was a tie. Seems like there are an equal number of lovers of spice as there are lovers of sweet. Dead even. And that would be zero votes for both. Nobody left any comments here at all. Hello? Is there anybody out there? Sheesh.
I was looking at our cookbook shelf recently and I stopped to count the number of meatless cookbooks we own. They currently number around 45. That is a lot of recipes. One of them is called "1001 Vegetarian Recipes," so you know there are just thousands and thousands of recipes up on that shelf. If you were ever thinking of purchasing a (maybe your first) meatless cookbook, I would recommend "The Conscious Cook" by Tal Ronnen. It is subtitled "Delicious Meatless recipes that will change the way you eat," and he is not kidding. This guy never settled for a ho-hum concoction--all his dishes could be on a restaurant menu.
Ronnen has cooked in many restaurants, taught meatless cooking at Le Cordon Bleu schools, been a personal chef to Oprah Winfrey and catered the wedding of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi. He is like a kind of meatless master, celebrity tamer, chef guru. His cookbook is full of beautiful pictures that make you hungry, as well as great advice on stocking your pantry with some of the ingredients that make this kind of cooking easier and tastier. Way worth it.
This week's vegetable of the week is the onion. These little bulbs of pungent goodness aren't only tasty and a staple of many a great recipe, they are also high nutrient, low calorie (ANDI score of 47, middle column), anti-cancer, anti-oxidant and, as if all that wasn't enough, they are also anti-arthritis, for all you sufferers out there. And you can include its cousins garlic, shallots and leeks in the above estimation. Good eatin' and good healin'!
The recipe of the week is what we brought for our contribution to Xmas day dinner and it was well received. It is a dairy-free version of scalloped potatoes which uses a vegan cheese product called Daiya, which is Canadian, it turns out. We used to get this only at Whole Foods Market, but now we have found we can get it at a couple of our local health food stores, so it is going more mainstream (thanks to appearances on both Oprah and Ellen, as the above linked article mentions). A food processor or mandolin will make this recipe much easier. Enjoy!


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The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) established the Stanner Award in 1985 in recognition of the significant contribution of the late Emer. Professor W.E.H. (Bill) Stanner to the establishment and development of the Institute.
The Stanner Award comprises a certificate and a prize of $1,000 to the author of the successful publication.
One award may be given each year for the best published contribution to Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Studies that is considered by Council to be a significant work of scholarship in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Studies and which reflects the dynamic nature of Professor Stanner's life and work.
2008 - Professor Paul Memmott, Gunyah, Goondie & Wurley: the Aboriginal Architecture of Australia
2007- Quentin Beresford, Rob Riley: an Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice
2006 - Allan Marett, Songs, Dreamings and Ghosts: the Wangga of North Australia
2005 - Roslyn Poignant, Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle
2004 - Steve Kinnane, Shadow Lines
2004 - Ian Keen, Aboriginal Economy and Society: Australia at the threshold of colonisation
2003 - Ann Curthoys, Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers
2002 - Heather McDonald, Blood, Bones and Spirit: Aboriginal Christianity in an East Kimberley Town
2001 Anna Haebich, Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800 – 2000
1999 - R.M.W. Dixon. & Grace Koch, Dyirbal Song Poetry: the oral literature of an Australian rainforest people
1999 - Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission (Ronald Wilson), Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families
1996 Ian Keen, Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion: Yolngu of north-east Arnhem Land
1996 - Andrew Sayers, Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century
1996 - Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita
1994 - Ronald M. Berndt and Catherine H. Berndt, with John Stanton, A World that was: The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia
1994 - Deborah Bird Rose, Dingo makes us human: life and land in an Aboriginal Australian culture
1992 - Mudrooroo Narogin, Writing from the Fringe: a study of modern Aboriginal literature
1992 - Howard Morphy, Ancestral Connections, Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge


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Filed under: Copyright, Creative Commons, DRM, Enthusiasms, Imagination, Industry Change | Tags: Copyright
This Week in Copyright
This week is the all copyright, file-sharing, DRM week from hell with a sick kitty thrown in (not literally thrown in, 'course) for good measure.
On Thursday the Canadian Government is set to introduce a new bill that will seek to address and update our copyright law.
Then on Friday I'll be interviewing Cory Doctorow via skype from Toronto where he'll be touring his new book, For the Win.
Then on Saturday I'll be skyping in to Bookcamp Halifax to present a session called Simplicity and Control: Digital Potential Beyond DRM.
So, it's a watershed week where we determine whether law, behavior and the digital landscape can coexist without litigation and acrimony.
Smart money says not a fricking chance.
First Things First.
We're going to get a new copyright bill in Canada one way or another and really, why not? Let's just get it done and move on.
There's been a lot of windmill jousting on all sides of the debate – thank god that analogy is in the public domain! – and I agree that it's time for our elected representatives to put up or shut up on this.
It's not a stretch to suggest that a lot of the pressure for this new bill to be introduced in Canada is coming from foreign politicians and from companies who desire to have their content and oil-based distribution chains protected from digital incursion.
That does not make these companies or the politicians "evil": it makes them companies and politicians.
It is what it is.
The new bill is certainly not being put forward after a deafening hew and cry from creators in this country, though admittedly most will welcome it if only to know where they stand.
And, of course, everybody needs money: countries need money, political parties need money, creators need money, executives need money, we all need money.
I think that it's obvious that companies with huge amounts of money invested in licensed creativity, content, product, etc… will naturally try to exert as much pressure as possible in order to protect and monetize their assets to their maximum ability. Many of the creators in their 'stable' expect no less.
All of this is understood just as it's understood that ability and willingness to change and adapt to new business models is very very low on the priority list.
Politicians want to stay in office and donations help to fund election campaigns. Investments, locally or federally, from big companies or other countries help to make our politicians look good, to grease the economic gears, maybe create some jobs.
These kinds of influences and relationships have occurred since before the invention of fire.
Content creators/licensees want to protect their abilities to maximize their return on investment. Politicians want to stay in power and also want to be able to fund their next election campaign.
Those are some of the fundamentals.
P2P Filesharing & Bit Torrent: A Digital Apocalypse or a Huge Opportunity?
The problem is this: creative content is worth something to the creator, the licensee, the fan and everyone else in the ecosystem that facilitates taking the product from creator's mind to audience.
Digital innovations have created an opportunity for files – potentially carrying creative work whose copyright provisions do not allow for any kind of non-monetized electronic dissemination – to be transmitted quickly and efficiently all over the world.
P2P File Sharing Networks and Bit Torrent technologies are the most efficient distribution system we have invented for getting information – digital files containing anything from scans of a shopping list, to Shakespeare's sonnets, to a photo of your mom in front of the Louvre, to leaks of patent pending inventions, published unpublished and unpublishable novels, songs, your wedding photographs, etc… – from one computer to other computers quickly and practically instantaneously.
Fortunately or unfortunately these tools for sharing files and data don't care what those shared files contain. To them it's all just information to be transferred.
Hurt Locker or Ishtar are the equivalent of Lady Gaga, a photo of a llama, episode 3 of Rock of Love Season 2, an excel file, a scan of a Mark Danielewski novel, Twilight, whatever. It all has the same basic value.
That value is zero.
* (The zero value is based on the file itself – infinitely replicable and basically indistinct for others – and not the work that went into what the file contains. The value of creation, editorial, design, etc… is invaluable. Unfortunately, these super efficient distribution tools are not designed to monetize in a way that we traditionally link to these kinds of exchanges.)
If you wrap your digital content in a protective layer – DRM – it is easily hacked open and shared regardless.
Even though there no evidence to support the notion that downloading digital content from P2P sites equals a lost sale or in any way negatively impacts revenues for content creators or licensees that does not prevent the appearance of a general assumption that something has been lost, taken, stolen or pirated that should have been rightfully monetized.
As though the 100,000 people (random figure, possibly too low) who have downloaded and watched Iron Man 2 from a practically infinite number of torrent sites around the world would have otherwise paid money to see that movie.
Surely there's at least a ghost of logic to that statement, right? But can we monetize based on the ghosts of logic?
Probably not.
So… to distill it down to an essence: people are experiencing kinds of content all over the world for free. This content is being acquired via P2P file sharing sites and is being seeded and further leeched by others around the world via an impossible to track bit of perfectly legal software called Bit Torrent.
Though this content is being experienced and shared by many more people than would otherwise have experienced and shared it previously this is a problem because there's a perceived loss of revenue attached to this file sharing behavior.
The monopolized traditional distribution chain has been subverted and the digital efficiencies are built on the same logic that brought us the "genius" of the Amazon personalized algorhythm and effectively destroyed north American independent bookstore culture but is now wreaking havoc a little further up the food chain.
Rather than see this technological development as an opportunity to develop new ways of communicating, collaborating, community building and discovering new markets through innovation and imagination our government has decided that we need to legislate protections around ineffectual digital locks.
Digital locks that even the very politicians in our ruling minority federal government admit they broken many times in the average use of their iPods and PVRs.
Digital locks that have never worked, that don't work even for well-meaning citizens but that will potentially criminalize them regardless.
My Proposal to End the Copyright Debate:
Like most of my favorite ideas this one is overly simplistic, possibly idealistic and probably impossible.
But here goes:
Copyright holders should lock up their content to the maximum limit if they want to.This is not mandatory, it is a conscious choice.
If copyright holders want to deprive their readers of the ability to widely share the content that they purchased or to transfer the same content between devices or whatever, that is their right.
And if the readership doesn't like it, well then they can choose from some of the super-abundant alternative content available that doesn't possess those same law bound restrictions.
Lock it up and throw away the key, maximize that revenue. It's what copyright is all about, right?
The locks on this content should also not be broken and the content should not be shared on the P2P sites.
Just let it sell from the standard online channels. Peddle it from websites and Amazon and iBooks, wherever.
If, however, you understand and are excited by the potential of these P2P sites for all of the digital benefits that they possess and you're inclined to use other technologies like POD, paypal, skype, social media platforms, mixing tools, Adobe/Apple content creation software to augment your own stories, products or non-fiction writing then you should make that known and freely embrace the potential.
The traditional methods – paper books, vinyl records, prints, dvds, etc… – will continue to support, augment and quantify the work.
That's it. It's that simple.
By taking control of the means of dissemination to build your audience, to collaborate and cross-pollinate media, to explore potentials for new markets and to reach those markets with real product you control your ability to do some really original work and to find ways to get paid that your audience agrees with.
So, pass a law if you want to. But it won't take long before it becomes insignificant and/or irrelevant as the true creators of the present and the future go to the places that give them the maximum freedom to create and collaborate with the maximum audience and influences.
Taking 'copyrighted' content away from the networks won't stop that it will only serve to create a whole other self-sustaining market based on concepts of creation, sharing, remixing that are outside our common notion of copyright.
And that's ok.
There is nothing wrong with the traditional model and how it has helped create our current notion of what copyright is and how we should protect it.
But that notion of copyright no longer has exclusive rights to reality.
Filed under: Enthusiasms, Imagination, Interview | Tags: Cancult.ca, Harper Collins, Peter Darbyshire, Trotsky, Warhol Gang
Click here to listen to Peter Darbyshire discuss the Warhol Gang.
There's a scene in the movie Office Space where one of the characters – played by Ron Livingston – has finally had enough of his soulless boss and the mindlessness of his workday cubicle existence.
Stolen power drill in hand, he rampages through the office, tearing down cubicle walls and gutting a fresh fish at his desk (to a Geto Boys soundtrack). It's a scene of liberation for the character, a scene where he finally asserts himself and starts to control his own destiny.
This scene is not replicated in Peter Darbyshire's new novel, The Warhol Gang.
The Warhol Gang begins and ends with what seems like death.
The book's protagonist is given the name Trotsky on page 4 by a man named 'Nickel', his new boss. Trotsky has just been hired at Adsenses, "a neuromarketing company that scans his brain to test new products".
Trotsky spends his days at work cocooned in a special 'pod' where he experiences heightened sensory episodes and imaginary scenarios designed by neuromarketers to test prospective products.
In the pod he may see himself in scented rooms, in his own expensive apartment with beautiful women, wearing designer clothes, with a sense of family, fulfillment and certainty.
Nothing could be further from the reality of Trotsky's existence.
These holograms reflect a deep loneliness in the character and an abundant sense of absence surrounds him.
He searches for some kind of genuine experience and in the course of doing so meets a woman who dreams of stardom but who makes her living faking accidents for insurance money.
And from there the story continues one surreal inversion of desire after another until the characters' reality becomes an embodiment of a rebel mythology.
Warhol, Trotsky, Che, Holiday, Thatcher – the names evoke a sense of recent pop culture – and 'real' culture – history. Each name signifying real historical people but when overlaid on the book's characters the names create a surreal and eerie effect.
Truth is that I'm going to have to go back and read this book again.
So many ideas and tangents are coming back to me as I write this and I know that there's a lot more in this book than I got the first time thru.
Peter is addressing the absurdity and hopelessness of life when it's met by a world that devours flesh and blood dreams with marketed illusions of reality.
What happens when your dreams come not from within but are insinuated upon you via incessant external stimulus?
What happens when your desires are the desires that others desire for you to have?
What difference does anything make? Why not go in for the kill?
Filed under: BookCamp Toronto, Enthusiasms, Interview | Tags: Bite-sized edits, BookCamp Toronto, BookOven, Hugh McGuire, Librivox
There's a whole bunch of transformation happening at Books on the Radio these days.
My exploration of Skype video and Final Cut video editing software is progressing apace as you can see from this clip taken from a conversation that Hugh McGuire – Bookoven, Bite-Sized Edits, Librivox, BookCamp Toronto – and I had recently.
Also, I'm finally being joined by the Books on the Radio Street Team, a loosely organized group of passionate book lovers who will be helping to launch BOTR into its next iteration.
The website will be re-launched in the next few months and will be better able to showcase the many different types of media and storytelling platforms that we intend to use.
Filed under: Enthusiasms, Imagination, Interview | Tags: 9/11, Colum McCann, Guinness, Harper Collins, Interview, Let the Great World Spin, National Book Award, Ryan Report, Terrorist Attack
I had the great pleasure of speaking to Colum McCann this past week.
Unfortunately, we only had a little more than 10 minutes to talk as he was ripping thru a media junket in Toronto on his way to meet with the dudes at the Afterword.
It was still an excellent conversation and I'm grateful to the folks at Harper Collins Canada for making it happen.
I have filled out the half-hour time slot on CJSF 90.1 FM (Simon Fraser University Independent Radio) with some found audio of Colum talking about the book and also reading from the first chapter.
Let me know what you think.
Filed under: Enthusiasms, Imagination, Industry Change, Interview | Tags: Book of MPub, BookCamp Toronto, Dragon Problems, Hur Publishing, Kathleen Fraser, Masters of Publishing, SFU, Tracey Hurren
Listen to Tracy and Kathleen talk about Hur Publishing.
The 2010 Cohort for SFU's Masters of Publishing Program are a stone-cold bunch who have really stepped out and shown the industry that they're ready to accept the challenges that are affecting publishing.
I have discussed this previously on Julie Wilson's BookMadam & Associates site.
Their collaborative print on demand work entitled Book of MPub is essential reading for anyone interested in discovering new ideas for book/magazine publishing. The book totally levels the playing field and brings the publishing conversation back to a deep discussion of essential ideas and offers no time for weak fear-based arguments.
Tracy Hurren and Kathleen Fraser are just two of the bright lights from the SFU MPub program who are now spending their summer getting some experience interning at a couple of Canada's finest independent publishers.
Tracy is ripping it up in Montreal at Drawn and Quarterly while Kathleen keeps it closer to home with a gig at Arsenal Pulp Press in Vancouver.
But that's not what we're talking about here.
What we're talking about here is Dragon Problems, the first book to be published by Hur Publishing.
Hur Publishing is a joint conspiratorial effort of Tracy and Kathleen that involves publishing new engaging stories as well-designed books – including some of Tracy's amazing handmade books.
Dragon Problems is an excellent example of what can happen when you have the convergence of good story + great art + sweet design skills + keen editorial eye.
The story was written by Chris Carrier and the art was created by Stacey Buchanan.
Both Chris and Stacey are lucky to have had their work brought to life by Tracy and Kathleen. It's a great first effort and I cannot wait for their next book to drop.
Please check out the Hur Publishing website for more info and also to order your copy of the book.
Also, I believe that both Tracy and Kathleen will be presenting at BookCamp Toronto 2010 this coming Saturday as part of their Book of MPub throwdown.
If you're attending BookCamp Toronto 2010 then I highly recommend that you attend their session – it's designed to blow minds and to drag the unwilling kicking and screaming into the here and now.
Check out our interview and let me know what you think.
Filed under: Enthusiasms, Events, Imagination | Tags: Book Launch, Drawn and Quarterly, Sonja Ahlers, The Selves, Western Front
One of my favorite artists, writers and people, Sonja Ahlers, will be launching her new book tonight at Vancouver's the Western Front and I encourage you to make the time and show some hustle to be there.
Sonja is one of the finest poets that I know and her last book, Fatal Distractions, is constantly on loan from my personal library.
Check out Kevin Chong's review of the book for the CBC and this snapshot from Bust Magazine.
As you can see from the image that I captured from an advance pdf of her new book, the Selves, she works in a kind of visual collage overlapped by hand written seemingly tangential stream of consciousness style that evokes a multitude of voices simultaneously.
Voices that chatter up like a sudden flock of surprising little birds.
Like scraps of paper ideas caught in the wind, the sort of thoughts that you might put out of your head for being too frivolous when you're trying to have a serious thought, those magazine moments of the mind, are separated from their original sources and powerfully recontextualized, remixed and reimagined as a kind of new mythology.
And I don't even know what that means, but to me it's all about the evocation and the persistent desire to find new ways to express ideas.
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I can remember visiting Sonja at her house a few years ago before she moved to Dawson Creek for the first time. We sat out back of her house and talked. She showed me some things that she had been working on, there were a few Wishbone Ash (yes, Wishbone fucking Ash!) and Fleetwood Mac records on the floor in the living room, remnants of a recent party.
She told me that she was working on something new, a new book maybe. We kept in touch here and there over the years.
Then her work appeared on the cover of Lisa Foad's The Night Has a Mouth which was amazing.
And now, years later, she returns to the old neighborhood, east Vancouver to reveal her new book, the Selves.
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Submitted by sproutingforth on Wed, 2011-01-12 08:58
We find the house via a combination of directions from McGregor's locals and the ability to follow our noses once we have the rather obvious house in sight – there are not many homes in McGregor that look quite like it. Outside is a sign – cobbits cottage. It's an apt description of what stands before us, built completely out of earth and serving as MAT's headquarters.
Jill is larger than life. She would have to be. After building her own house out of cob she is the walking epitome of what it is to live sustainably, off grid – no link-up with Eskom at all – perched on the edge of McGregor where the town joins the Krans Nature Reserve. She is also, when we finally meet after having been virtual friends via email for a while, a wonderfully warm individual who is only too keen to show us around her home, and drop pearls of wisdom about how best to go about building your own home out of earth into our ears …
Jill runs the McGregor Alternative Technology Centre . There is CAT (centre for alternative technology) in Wales, and then there is MAT in McGregor, and now that we've visited Jill, we can tick both off our list of very desirable places to visit. What I love about MAT though is its total lack of pretention and its down-to-earth owner.
Jill has really only just properly finished building her house – it's taken her twelve years, in stages, and now it has a second storey and even a roof out of cob (something even she admits is a bit of an experiment). There are photos on her website that reveal it wasn't always this way. Initially it was just one floor and to start with, she had to content herself with living and cooking on her verandah whilst sleeping in what is now her study.
One of the anecdotes she entertains us to is when, leg broken and in a cast and lying on the bed whilst her sister hastily packed her underwear in order to take her back to convalesce in Cape Town, there was a knock on the door and various 'important people' arrived to see an example of a cob house. And see it they did, as well as her underwear. In her enthusiasm for a more sustainable way of living, Jill will stop at nothing to share her knowledge.
Cob building, for those who are initiates, is that wonderful type of clay-looking, rough finished type house that is slowly becoming more and more trendy, particularly in small towns like McGregor. Cob is a mix of clay, sand, straw and water and involves a lot of foot stomping in order to get it to a dough-like consistency so that it is ready to make walls, cupboards and other parts of the house. The idea too, when building sustainably, is that most of the materials come from just 'outside your back door', using as little factory-produced material as possible.
Normally local invader trees are used for the house's structure and Jill shares with us the secret of cutting three days before a full moon when the sap is still in the ground and won't attract woodborer. Lying around her property are the offcuts that still remain from building the cottage down the bottom – there is a cottage at the end of the garden, a rather modern cob rendition that now serves as a B&B, that is known simply as the cottage. Most people use local grasses to thatch the roof, but I see that Jill has used tin for the cottage, which includes a couple of recycled motor car windows and coloured wine bottles in the windows.
MAT has been promoting alternative living via a series of cob, strawbale, dry stone walling, wattle and daub, permaculture and alternative energy workshops for the last twelve years. Jill can be found in places like Hogsback and in her home town on a regular basis giving workshops to the avid followers of sustainable building – sustainable in the sense that if you simply leave the house to 'rot' it will eventually return to the earth with but a few car windows and bottles left for someone else to use in a hundred years or so.
But Jill is about ready to slow down now. Her efforts have produced an entire following of the age-old methods of building and others now carry on the traditions that she has played a huge role in initiating. The little cottage down at the bottom of the garden – only her vegetable garden, chickens and compost heap to separate it from her own – is a recent acquisition.
It is modelled on one of the architectural designs a local architect drew as examples for RDP houses – the inner dimensions of the house are the same 40 sqm required for housing specs – only the verandah adds something extra. And it's made completely out of cob, wattle and daub, and adobe brick. It took 121 days to build and 19 days to decorate, and is a living example of how all people could live, if government were only prepared to spend a little more on RDP homes (and not a whole lot more either).
It is also incredibly pretty, surprisingly spacious, and beautifully furnished. Jill has already had two parties of guests to stay who have enjoyed their time here immensely. We wander through and get a pleasant surprise in the bathroom – the shower is a gorgeous mosaic where it stands at the end of the room beyond the compost toilet (Jill's personal design, which is a lot cheaper and easier to implement than some on the market, involving a black bin..but that's another story).
Jill's cat has taken quite a shine to me by now and she and I sit a while and connect whilst Jill shows my other half around the grounds – they bond over chicken sh** and natural pool designs. There is something about the McGregor magic that is starting to work its effect on me. Next thing I'll be moving here and building a cob house…
To book an evening (or two) in Jill's cob guest cottage contact her on firstname.lastname@example.com
The cottage is plus minus 80% carbon neutral, off the grid, with a dry compost toilet. It is on the edge of the Krans Nature Reserve, so close to nature walks up to the dam, but also close to all the restaurants and shops in McGregor.
For more on MAT visit www.mat.org.za or simply drive to McGregor and ask the locals where Jill, the local cobbit and alternative building expert, lives.
To see cob houses visit McGregor, where there are numerous, or if in Cape Town head to Muizenberg to visit
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We are delighted to share the news of the summer baptisms which have recently been celebrated in Aquitaine…10 children baptised in one month!
A wonderful baptism service was held in Bordeaux on 20 August, at which Bishop Martin Seeley led the service and Chaplain Revd Tony Lomas baptised the two boys assisted by their Uncle Mitchell visiting from Scotland.
The following Sunday, 27 August, Revd Deacon Charlotte Sullivan baptised a baby boy at the service in Limeuil, at which the choir sang 'Look at the World'.
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Dealing with the government in anything we do can cost more than it is worth. Who among us would get a replacement drivers license when we moved until we absolutely had to? Dealing with government is like getting a tooth pulled, a relief once it is over.
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Oh! Bama and the democrats have killed the private airplane business after criticizing Detroit's executives for flying to congressional meetings last December. Now it is Nevada and Florida's turn. Why do government bureaucrats need meetings at resorts anyway? One government employee asked, "Do you want to take everyone to Fargo (N. Dakota) in the middle of winter? Just because they're federal employees you don't need to mistreat them." I love it, it is "mistreatment" to spend time in Middle America, with the great unwashed.
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How a Nun found God and Healing in the Rainforest Hot
Sister Judy Bisignano, a Dominican nun, and Sandra Morse coauthored "Sister Jaguar's Journey," their book and DVD about how participation in the sacred rituals of the Achuar people helped in Sister Jaguar's transformation from self-rejection to self-forgiveness.
Sister Judy Bisignano, is a Dominican nun, a fierce educator, and a rebel. SISTER JAGUAR'S JOURNEY (both the film and the book) tells the story of her difficult childhood, and her attempt to avoid family life, marriage and motherhood by entering the convent, where she was met with an even more abusive situation. Ever the survivor, she worked with children and founded two alternative schools. Yet when the school she started for the Mexican-American community was closed, she was forced to confront the devastating affects of her lifelong anger. Sandra Morse, her friend and mentor, asks Sister Judy to go with her to the rainforest of Ecuador and participate in the sacred rituals of the Achuar people. It was here in this moment, in this place, with these special people, that she found God, healing and forgiveness.
Sandra Morse is a communications philosopher with a private practice in Tucson, Arizona. Simply stated, she shows people how to listen! Sandra will soon be guiding her 15th eco-retreat to the Amazon jungle. There, visitors from the North immerse themselves in the ecology of the rainforest and the spirituality of the Achuar people. Participants return home with a new perspective of their place on the planet and in the universe.


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Maastricht window drawing
Bring a little Maastricht home with this fun 'street' window drawing with a few of the famous buildings: Dinghuis, Bonnefantenmuseum, Stadhuis, Sint Servaasbrug en Mooswief, Helpoort, Bonbonnière, Sint Janskerk and Centre Céramique.
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The Roar Meter is a weekly story in numbers.
- According to a 2014 PEW study, Americans by self-declared religious affiliation:
- Christian: 70.6%
- Non-religious: 22.8%
- Jewish: 1.9%
- Muslim: 0.9%
- Buddhist: 0.7%
- Hindu: 0.7%
- Other: 0.3%
- Religion that is the largest percentage female: Jehovah's Witnesses (65%)
- Religion that is the smallest percentage female: Islam (35%)
- Religion nearest gender parity: Buddhism (49% female)
- Runner-up is Judaism, which is 48% female
- More women than men absolutely believe in God's existence (69% vs 57%)
- More men than women absolutely do not believe in God's existence (12% vs. 6%)
- Women are more likely than men to say religion is important in their lives, to attend religious services, read scripture, and to pray, meditate, or attend religious group meetings.
- Men are slightly more likely to feel a sense of wonder at the universe than women (by 1%)
- Women are both more likely to take the scripture literally than men (34% vs 27%) and more likely to say it should not be taken literally (28% vs 25%).
Annika Barranti Klein is a writer, knitter, women's banked track roller derby referee, and radical homeschooling mother. Her work has appeared at The Toast, The Establishment, and on Book Riot. She is a cis, white, bi-furious intersectional feminist.


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Rowing in Mainz (Steffen Hauth)
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Like the other alumni, I will continue the tradition and also report from my rowing life outside Jacobs.
After my time in Bremen at Jacobs I found a job in the R&D Department at Sirona Dental Systems in Bensheim and hence, I returned to my home and joined the rowing club in Mainz. In Mainz we row on the river Rhine and sometimes on the river Mainz.
The current is very strong and the water is often choppy. So rowing on the Rhine makes only fun in Gig-Boats. For rowing in racing boats, we use branches of the Rhine. In general the Acker or the Querdamm. Here the water is flat and has almost no current, so rowing is a lot of fun.
Mainzer Ruderverein is a large Club with round about 500 Members and strong commitment to competitive sports, so that regularly members from Mainz emerge victorious in national and international competitions. This philosophy shapes the organization of the club. Roughly one can say, that it is divided into competitive and leisure rowing, whereas the latter contains everything from really really leisure rowing up to competitive rowing but not going to international regattas. In spite of the large number of members, I feel comfortable about rowing and always enjoy the time on the water.
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Surrounded by woodland, next to a tranquil stretch of canal in a little-visited Paris suburb, sit the quietly astonishing remains of a gunpowder factory. Continue reading "The Parc de la Poudrerie"
Half An Hour From Paris
Many guides claim to be for and by insiders, but this one truly is. Annabel Simms—living in Paris since 1991—delights in exploring the Paris countryside by train and sharing ideas with her friends for discovering little-known travel gems. Her previous book "An Hour from Paris" is a popular go-to classic enjoyed by a generation of expats and seasoned Paris visitors. Continue reading "Half An Hour From Paris"
Robert Adams. Our Lives…
One day, in the 1970s, the photographer Robert Adams noticed a column of smoke rising above the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant near Denver, Colorado and decided to document the potential destruction of a nuclear disaster. The resulting series "Our Lives and Our Children" is exhibited this summer at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson (to July 29, 2018). Continue reading "Robert Adams. Our Lives…"
Best Paris Baguette 2018
Among the things we love about Paris is the wonderful fresh bread at our local boulangerie… especially the Baguette. President Emmanuel Macron agrees. He recently declared that Unesco should include "la baguette au patrimoine mondial de l'humanité." Continue reading "Best Paris Baguette 2018"
Gilles Caron, Paris 1968
The iconic photo of Daniel Cohn-Bendit with a mocking smile facing a policeman taken by the French photographer Gilles Caron (1939-1970) is one of the most famous images of Paris 68. For the 50th anniversary of those events, Paris' City Hall and the Gilles Caron Foundation present the first major exhibition in Paris dedicated to this remarkable photographer. Continue reading "Gilles Caron, Paris 1968"
Paris Exhibition Explores Data Visualization
With the Cambridge Analytica scandal one might not be in the mood for seeing an exhibition about visualizing data while visiting Paris, but the "123 data" exhibition at the Fondation EDF is a "smiley face" showing what creators are doing with data. The exhibition is both fun and informative while making the argument that data is not just a threat to our private lives and means to enrich powerful corporations, but also a source of inspiration for artists. Continue reading "Paris Exhibition Explores Data Visualization"
Rethinking Monet's "Water Lilies"
French impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) once said "My finest masterpiece is my garden." He was referring of course to his garden in Giverny, where for thirty years he painted his famous "Water Lilies" (Nymphéas) exhibited at Paris' Musée de l'Orangerie. The eight monumental panels—which Andre Mason called "The Sistine Chapel of Impressionism" —were commissioned by Paris and installed after the artists death in 1927. Now, the museum is hosting a new temporary exhibition "Water Lilies. American Abstract Painting and the Last Monet" (to August 20, 2018). Continue reading "Rethinking Monet's "Water Lilies""
Delacroix Louvre Retrospective
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) is one of France's most celebrated painters. Coming of age after the fall of Napoleon, he produced an extraordinarily vibrant body of work setting into motion a cascade of innovations that changed the course of art. His best-known painting, Liberty Leading the People—inspired by events of the July Revolution of 1830— is an unforgettable image of Parisians, having taken up arms, marching forward under the banner of the tricolor representing liberty, equality and fraternity. Continue reading "Delacroix Louvre Retrospective"
Willy Ronis Revisited
Black and white photography fans remember Willy Ronis (1910-2009) for his lyric post war photographs depicting working class Parisians of the Belleville and Ménilmontant neighborhoods. His photo book "Belleville Ménilmontant" is a beloved classic. Now, nearly a decade after his death, Ronis' photographs are being exhibited back in Paris' 20th arrondissement where many of the pictures were originally taken (at the Pavillon Carré de Baudouin until Sept 29, 2018). Continue reading "Willy Ronis Revisited"
Roman Cieslewicz Retrospective
"I wanted to leave Poland to see how my posters would stand up to the neon light of the west. I dreamed of Paris." Roman Cieslewicz (1930-1996) came to Paris in 1963 and quickly became one of France's leading graphic artists. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs revisits this major figure in late 20th century graphic design with a retrospective Roman Cieslewicz, la fabrique des images (until Sept. 23, 2018).
Icons of May 68
They painted slogans in the streets such as "sous les pavés la plage" and "soyez realiste demandez l'impossible." Some carried Chairman Mao's red book others took inspiration from Guy Debord's "La Société du Spectacle." Change was blown' in the wind in May 1968 as students and workers took to the streets with demonstrations, massive general strikes and occupying universities and factories. For many "soixante huit" remains a major French reference point. And as Alain Geismar —one of the leaders of the time— later pointed out, the movement succeeded "as a social revolution, not as a political one." Continue reading "Icons of May 68"


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Alternative Career Plans if College Doesn't Come Through
If college was your first plan, but now it's not, you need an alternative plan. The difference between low wages and a good paying career is having a plan.
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معیارهای طراحی محیط حرارتی ساخته شده برای منطقه تابستان داغ و زمستان گرم چین
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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Building and Environment, Volume 88, June 2015, Pages 97–105
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Driven by guiding passive architectural design and HVAC system design, the present study is aimed to propose design criteria of built thermal environment for Hot Summer & Warm Winter zone of China. During the four years from 2008 to 2012, thermal comfort field studies were conducted on 32 urban buildings and 270 rural buildings, more than 500 persons were involved and 3894 sets of raw data that contain thermal acceptability, thermal behaviors and physical parameters were collected. Data of using split air-conditioners was also collected in living rooms, bedrooms and dorms. Based on the data, the acceptable range was determined for environments of naturally ventilation, using fans and using air-conditioners respectively, and accordingly the design criteria of built thermal environment were proposed. The 80% acceptable range of indoor air temperature for naturally ventilated spaces was specified as 18.0–29.5 °C for urban buildings and ≤29.5 °C for rural buildings under the air speed conditions provided by opening windows and using fans. The upper limit of the range can be raised by 1–2 °C by effectively improving indoor humidity and radiation conditions through architectural design. The setting conditions for air-conditioned spaces were obtained as indoor air temperature of 24–28 °C and relatively humidity of 50–70%. The proposed criteria provide solid and essential bases for passive and active designs of built thermal environment in Hot Summer and Warm Winter zone of China.


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Jacob Marley's Ghost is the best flier, leaping atop Ebenezer Scrooge's canopy bed at one point and later wailing as he soars to the rafters. But then all of Marley's big scene is quite dramatic; he makes his entrance through a trap door that appears to lead to the fires of hell.
Hartford Stage's 16th annual production of "A Christmas Carol," from Michael Wilson's largely traditional adaptation, would be a work of quiet enchantment even if the ghosts just stood around, feet on the ground. I first saw the show in 2005 and am happy to say it still works its magic.
Much of the language from Dickens's novella is intact, with tasty sentiments like Scrooge's complaint "A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every 25th of December" and Marley's lament "Mankind was my business!" Although Tony Straiges's basic set is spare, it evokes 19th-century London vividly. An old-fashioned bridge overlooks the action, and caroling children stroll over it now and then. The production is heavy on thunder, lightning and ominous clock sounds, presumably a team effort by John Gromada (sound) and Robert Wierzel (lighting). Naturally it snows.
The story is as well known as it is beloved. Scrooge (Bill Raymond) is a grouchy old miser who has put wealth management (his own) above personal relationships. On Christmas Eve, the ghost of his longtime business partner, Marley (Noble Shropshire), comes to warn him to be nicer or he'll end up unhappy in the afterlife. Three spirits visit Scrooge that night and transform him by showing him his past, other people's merry present and his depressing future. The character who melts his heart is Tiny Tim (a role shared by Ethan Pancoast and Fred Thornley IV), the crippled, possibly doomed son of Scrooge's gentle, underpaid clerk, Bob Cratchit (Robert Hannon Davis).
Like a majority of Scrooges in the scores of films, television movies and stage productions based on "A Christmas Carol," this one falls apart pretty easily for a supposedly hardened codger. Mr. Raymond, who has done the role in Hartford for 14 years, frequently plays to the groundlings (not the common folk of Shakespeare's time but, in this case, small children, who can be counted on to have similarly broad senses of humor). This Scrooge assumes goofy postures at every opportunity. He plays in the snow with a huge raw turkey. When he drinks cider, he belches.Continue reading the main story
But Maxwell Williams, the director (supervised this year by Mr. Wilson, who directed the original Hartford Stage production), asks his other characters to take their various dramas very seriously. That results in some beguiling scenes like the breakup between young Scrooge (Curtis Billings) and his neglected fiancée, Belle (Gillian Williams); Scrooge's nephew, Fred (Mr. Billings), pleading with Scrooge to celebrate the holiday with him; and the aftermath of a death in the Cratchit family.
The production is lovely to look at, with scenes played on a mostly bare wooden stage punctuated by flashes of glamour. For 170 years, the Spirit of Christmas Present (Alan Rust) has been portrayed as a grandly festive figure, and this one makes a spectacular entrance in his green robe and Santa Lucia-ish headdress in a flurry of shimmering gold. His ensemble is probably the costume designer Alejo Vietti's finest creation here, although the women's dresses at Fred and his wife's Christmas dinner party deserve mention.
The party scenes are energetic and sparkly, with chandeliers, candelabra and fancy screens in a Victorian dining room. This is the young man who Scrooge says is too poor to have gotten married, so Mr. Straiges has an interesting vision of poverty. Or Scrooge does.
The nameless, voiceless ghosts who haunt Scrooge are a scary but elegant bunch. Someone — possibly the original costume designer, Zack Brown — was smart enough to consider that in the 1840s, when "A Christmas Carol" was published and is set, a lot of the dead people who were still tortured enough to be roaming the earth probably lived in the 1700s. So these ghosts, dressed in head-to-toe white, including skull faces, look as if they could have been in the court of George III or Louis XVI.
Sometimes it seems that characters fly just because they can, thanks to ZFX Flying Effects, but the airborne exit of the Spirit of Christmas Past (Johanna Morrison) plays well.
There are snippets of several Christmas hymns and carols, and audiences may want the cast to keep singing — at least a verse of each, please. But if they did, the show would be far longer than its two hours, and the groundlings could revolt.Continue reading the main story