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Yes, we are still here but it's been hard to find time to write anything for the blog lately.
Winter will be with us soon and we use our open fire a lot. We had a few trees chopped down last year and the wood has been drying near our garage over the summer. I didn't take a "before" shot of all of the wood on the driveway but I did manage to dig up a photo from last December when we were netting the Mulberry tree. It's not that clear from the photo but there are two full rows of wood there.
The plan was to make our wood shed a bit more weather proof, then put all of the wood in the shed. This is the woodshed from behind as we were starting. First we put up some reinforcement mesh and tied it to the woodshed frame and the garage to give the back of the woodshed some more strength. We then measured out the black plastic that will make up the back wall.
This is the woodshed nearly finished. We used gaffer tape for some extra strength then nailed it to the garage and the posts - hopefully this lasts the distance. We also hooked the plastic to the roof of the woodshed so that the wood is completely protected from the winter rain.
Once it was finished we moved all of the wood into the shelter so that it stays dry over the winter.
And here is the driveway looking all nice and clean. While we were moving the heap I also discovered that chickens love to eat skinks. One of them would catch a skink then they would chase around fighting over it.


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by Francis M. Nevins
If you looked for a January column and couldn't find one, the reason is very simple. There wasn't any.
Early in the morning of the day before Christmas I went into the hospital for something relatively minor and was told that I had suffered a silent heart attack and needed bypass surgery. As you can imagine, the news hit me like a ton of bricks. The operation was performed on January 3. I was told afterwards that I came very close to death. I was discharged from the hospital on the 16th of the month and since then have been recuperating at home. I'm getting stronger by the day but am still nowhere near 100%.
Before my medical adventures began I had written much of what I thought would be my January column. A month later, here it is.
It was more than half a century ago, either 1962 or 1963, an early Sunday morning around 1:00 or 1:30 A.M. I returned home from a date with the first love of my life to find my brothers still up and the TV tuned to the Late Show, or maybe the Late Late Show. The movie looked interesting so I sat down to watch the last 20 minutes. It was about a Nazi spy ring based in a Manhattan skyscraper.
The spies are holding a young woman prisoner but she manages to get a message out. Feds raid the building. A couple of spies escape into a nearby movie theater. The gun battle with the Feds coincides with a gun battle on the screen. An unlucky moviegoer falls over dead. One spy gets out and into a cab and heads for the Battery, followed by the hero whom I recognized as Robert Cummings.
They both wind up at the Statue of Liberty. The spy tries to escape again, crawls out onto one of the statue's arms. Cummings reaches for him, grabs his coat sleeve. The spy starts to fall as Cummings tries to haul him in to safety. Then we get a close-up of the stitches at the shoulder of the spy's jacket starting to give way. An unearthly scream. The End.
Recognize the picture? It's Hitchcock's Saboteur, made in 1942, back when I was busy being a fetus, roughly twenty years before I caught the end of it on the small screen. Remember the name of the man who played the spy? It was a Broadway actor 27 or 28 years old named Norman Lloyd.
Now let's time-travel in both directions at once, forward ten years or so from when Hitchcock made that movie, back a decade or so from when I watched its climax. The year was 1952, or maybe '53. My parents had recently bought their first TV set and already I was an addict. One Sunday afternoon I happened to be watching the cultural program Omnibus, which was running a made-for-TV movie in five (I think) weekly installments.
The title was Mr. Lincoln. The voice of the actor playing young Abe was one of the most distinctive I've heard in my life: biblical, prophetic, patriarchal. At the end credits I learned his name: Royal Dano. An unusual name, easy to remember. (Trivia question: Anyone know who played Ann Rutledge? It was Joanne Woodward.) I don't remember noticing who directed the film and the name wouldn't have meant anything to me at age 9 but, as if you haven't guessed, it was Norman Lloyd. A cut version is now available on DVD.
Lloyd was born in 1914, when my parents were small children. His career began in the early 1930s with the left-wing Group Theater. Later he joined Orson Welles' Mercury Theater and went to Hollywood with the company but returned to New York when the movie Welles was planning got cancelled. Had he stayed awhile longer, he would have had a part in Citizen Kane. As it was, his film debut was in Saboteur, and later he appeared in Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) and Chaplin's Limelight (1952).
His first television role was in one of the earliest TV dramas ever broadcast, an experimental program that dates back to 1939. In the late Fifties and early Sixties he served as associate producer on Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-62) and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962-65). He also directed several episodes, usually based on short stories by John Collier, Ray Bradbury, Stanley Ellin, or literary figures like John Cheever and Philip Roth. But he never stopped being an actor, and among today's audiences he's perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Auschlander in St. Elsewhere (1982-88) and for playing opposite Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society (1989).
I bet you thought I'd next give you the year of his death. I can't. He's still alive today. At age 102 he's the oldest working actor in the U.S. and probably in the world. For 75 years he was married to the same woman, who died in 2011, the same year my own wife died. Until recently he played tennis, the game which was his passion for generations. In the 1950s he played regularly with Charlie Chaplin and usually beat him, mainly because Chaplin was too vain to wear his glasses and often lost sight of the ball. His memory remains sharp as ever, and the Internet is full of reminiscences of him by himself and others. If ever there was a person with an awesomely long life and creative career, it's Norman Lloyd. In the first months of this new year, let's celebrate him.
I can't guarantee a March column but my health is improving so nicely that it's far more likely than not that there will be one. They may never see the column you're now reading, but my deepest thanks to all the people — doctors, nurses, family, friends – who helped me through this crisis.


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I hope you are all having a great week! I meant to be packing today but I am crafting instead! We leave for Scotland on Thursday yikes! I have an excuse though! It was my birthday yesterday and guess what I got?? Yes new stamps and paints from my hubby :)
I just love this Angel so much I kept eyeing her on the Unity site. Then my husband asked me what I wanted for my birthday and I said stamps of course ha :) She is from the October 2014 Kit of the Month called Love & Joy For the Holidays. So I inked her up as I wanted to squeeze in another card for the Be Inspired Challenge. I used the Peerless water colours that I got too they are so lovely to work with. I will write more about them later.
I made another one with more vibrant colours. I love how this one turned out too :)
I hope you like my cards how pretty is she I love her so much :)
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today.
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The new challenge is up on the blog now.Hope to see your crafty creation again :)
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Prime Minister Zapatero, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Thank you, Prime Minister Zapatero, and the Government and people of Spain, for calling us here to Madrid to focus on the shocking problem of ever-increasing world hunger and the fragility of our food security systems.
During 2008, a chain reaction pushed up food prices so high that basic rations were beyond the reach of millions of people. By the end of the year, the total number of hungry people in our world approached an intolerable one billion.
The statistics are startling, but the stories of each household affected by hunger, and each malnourished child, are truly appalling. I saw it myself in my village when I was younger. I see it now when I travel, and it never ceases to disturb me.
Parents cutting down on the food they eat to ensure their children have enough.
Households selling their animals, land or even homes to buy food
Mothers struggling each day to protect their children from the physical and mental scars of malnutrition.
World poverty cannot be reduced without improvements in agriculture and food systems. Most poor people are farmers. Most farm work is done by women. And those efforts contribute significantly to the domestic product of poor countries.
Farmers can produce more, but not without help – credit, seeds, fertilizers and land security.
During the past year, many of the 400 million farmers who produce food from small holdings could not respond to growing demands. They lack the inputs they needed to make the most of their land, animals and rivers. Moreover, many cannot get their produce to market. Far too many joined the ranks of the hungry.
Food prices may have come down for the time being. But the number of hungry people is set to rise again. And the prospects for smallholders remain grim.
With the spreading misery of shrinking economies, communities that were starting to emerge from poverty must wrestle instead with fewer jobs, limited access to credit, and restricted market opportunities. The increasing numbers of urban poor are being hardest hit.
Poor people are constantly being put to the test by food and nutrition insecurity, the impact of climate change, water shortages and animal diseases. We need todo far more to strengthen social protection systems that promote community resilience and prevent long-term despair and destruction.
Much good work has been done in the last year. Farmers' groups, community organizations, private enterprises and governments in many of the affected countries have worked hard, often together, to tackle the crisis.
Many nations increased their domestic programmes to ensure food security.
Donors increased their assistance as best they could.
And members of the international community came together and committed to do more to help – at the high-level conference in Rome, at the African Union Assembly in Sharm el Sheikh, and at the UN General Assembly in New York.
The UN system and international financial institutions established a High Level Task Force, and committed to work together and to enable others to track our performance.
The result is an unprecedented effort to support nations and respond to the impact of the food crisis on the world's most vulnerable people.
As food prices rose and brought the number of hungry people close to one billion, we achieved the largest emergency scale-up against hunger and malnutrition in human history.
We continue to work for coherent partnerships involving the members of my High Level Task Force, governments, the private sector, civil society, and NGOs, including tens of thousands of dedicated people, many who are risking their lives under difficult and dangerous conditions.
With generous support from many nations including Saudi Arabia, we have delivered urgent food and nutrition assistance and safety net support to more than 100 million hungry people, mostly women and children, including 20 million children in school feeding programs.
We have developed robust programmes and plans to help smallholder farmers gain access to markets, credits, seeds and fertilizers. The support of the European Commission has been crucial in this regard, as was the engagement of private partners such as the Gates and Buffett foundations. Tens of millions of farmers have been helped to produce more food.
Our institutions – including FAO, WFP, IFAD and the World Bank – spared no effort to stand with those in need. Make no mistake, when funds are available, our system delivers help to where it is needed.
But Mr. Prime Minister, I understand your sense – indeed, the sense of this meeting – that we must all do more.
We worked hard to bring food assistance to those who needed it in 2008. I expect we will have to work even harder in 2009, this year of recession. In 2008, for example, we were unable to get the seeds and fertilizers to all the smallholders who needed them in two planting seasons. We must do better in 2009.
We must build on what was done last year, sustain our successes and scale up our responses, especially as the financial crisis compounds the impact of the food crisis. We must continue to meet urgent hunger and humanitarian needs by providing food and nutrition assistance and safety nets, while focusing on improving food production and smallholder agriculture. This is the twin-track approach taken in the Comprehensive Framework for Action. We should be ready to add a third track – the right to food – as a basis for analysis, action and accountability.
Mr. Prime Minister, I agree that we should reach out even more and forge a broad and inclusive movement that draws on the best available knowledge and spends money wisely, through a better coordination mechanism.
I met with members of the task force this morning. Based on their briefing and your clear messages, I have reached a number of conclusions.
First, the way forward must link actions to reduce hunger, improve food and nutrition security, broaden social protection for the vulnerable, improve agricultural production, and make trading systems work for the world's poor. We must raise the political profile of actions in all these areas, advocating for finance, action and results,
Second, we must support consultations for inclusive partnerships that help generate sustained national, regional and global level commitment for the movement against hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity. I welcome the suggestion of a Global Partnership for Agriculture and Food Security that is truly inclusive and broad based. In supporting the consultations to develop this partnership I will be guided by the views expressed by the range of stakeholder groups in this conference, and by follow-up discussions that involve countries, civil society and members of my High Level Task Force.
Third, countries need easier access to external assistance for their food security and smallholder farming programmes. If we can mobilize and move funds, know-how or private investment in a more consistent and predictable way, the volume of resources will increase. But if we do not get our house in order, if we do not build a responsive consortium that serves as a viable and coordinated financial mechanism for food security, the money will not come through. Our choice is as simple as that.
We have enough institutions to ensure that needs are prioritized, that proposals are assessed and that funds are made available in a coordinated, efficient and accountable way. What we need is more effective coordination within countries in the framework of the Comprehensive Framework for Action, underpinned by significantly greater resources.
I urge all of you, and those you represent, to move forward within the spirit of the Comprehensive Framework for Action in all its aspects. I also call on you to engage with WFP, FAO, IFAD, the World Bank and others in carrying their vital work.
Mr. Prime Minister,
You and the team that organized this meeting have provided a valuable forum in which to assess our progress and identify what needs to be done. Indeed, this meeting signals that there is strong collective will to support and sustain a lasting movement. I pledge that members of our High Level Task Force will do our part to make this happen.
I know you all agree that continuing hunger is a deep stain on our world. The time has come to remove it – forever. We have the wealth and know-how to do so. Let us do our utmost to keep hunger at the centre of the political lens. History will judge us on our response.
Thank you again for your commitment to this cause.


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1. Does any of you people ever exercise physically?
2. What kind of exercise/sport are you into?
3. How long have you been regularly exercising?
4. How often do you exercise?
5. What is your experiences so far? Do you feel better?
I myself have been going to my local gym for 20 years 4-5 days a week. I lift weights and use different machines to keep in good physical shape. This has helped me a lot in my daily life. I feel energetic and can handle stress quite well, and I think I owe it to the fact that I`m exercising.
I used to play alot of basketball for the city, county and the regional teams as well. Dont have alot of time to play any more though :(
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I share Dino's regime of pub visits, but I am on the San Miguel programme.
ps Stress? C'mon folks its not like we have stressful jobs... ;)
Weekends I drink lots of liquids... beer mainly. :)
Definetely time to do more exercise. Maybe if we powered our computers with kinetic (exercise) energy we wouldnt surf WW to death and get stiff in the process ;) ;)
Is that as effective as the Fosters Diet which has been sweeping round all my mates for around 12 years.
I do however couple that with the gym 3-5 times a week which stops me becoming an FB (work it out :)) by dong aerobic and resistance stuff.
Would you like to see my biceps?
Taekwondo - 3 hours/week
Ballroom Dancing - 3 hours/week
Weight Training - 2-3 hours/week
Walking - 2 hours/week
5. What is your experiences so far? Do you feel better?
I'm pretty serious about excercise. I've got 15 years of smoking to make up for. Do I feel better? In Oh so many ways!
Nutsandbolts, badminton is great exercise when played properly. Competitive indoor badminton is a better workout than tennis and probably almost as good as racketball. Unfortunately, I don't know of any leagues or facilities in my area and haven't played in years.
I still fence, and I like to sit on the back of a horse, and if you ride seriously, it is exercise for the horse and for the person riding.
I try to play basketball once a week, go rock climbing every so often, and, in the summer, do a lot of golfing. Walking the golf course is great exercise, probably about 3-4 miles of walking up and down hills with a 20 pound bag on your back. Plus all the foraging in the bushes for lost balls helps as well.
I also do a lot of walking, partly becauase I like it and partly to stop my legs bulking up weirdly from the riding. If you only ever exercise in one way you only build up strength (and muscle mass) in certain directions. Also brisk walking is just as good for you as running (in most ways) but without the impact problems.
And it's just nice to be able to walk around the buildings where I work, climbing stairs and carrying stuff and whatever, all without getting short of breath or tired like I did when I had an office job for a year and just sat all day without ever exercising at all.
Counts for more excercise than I get in a day. ;)
I actually lost weight while I was in England for pubcon... regardless of the eggs and sausages every morning for a week (it's amazing all Brits don't keel over of heart-attacks at 30!), and beer every evening, etc. I blame it on the public transportation system... I think I walked more during my 3 days in London than I had in the 6 months prior.
Goes to prove my theory that my metabolism didn't go to h*ll when I hit my mid-twenties... my excercise level went there when I got a "good" computer job. Which is a mixed blessing... at least I know I could get in shape quickly if I actually ever did anything but sit!
I'm a tennis addict. I've been getting out a lot this week (it's really hot and sunny in LA). I try to get to the gym 3 times a week as well.
In a month I start water polo for my college team, can't wait!
Dante, I just clicked the mousewheel, then moved the mouse about a quarter of an inch down, then back up...
Are you sure that's effective?
You'll get far more out of the regimen if you're using a calibrated resistance mousewheel.
After just a few weeks, people will cower at the mere threat of being poked by your fantastically forceful finger.
Dante you had me going there for a few minutes.
Sorry 2_much, but you'll need to keep at it for more than a few minutes if you want significant results. ;)
When I get away from the monitor (usually when the power goes out every few weeks) my preferred exercise is the daily practice of Tibetan and Hatha Yoga. I also go dancing on a regular basis.
Do I feel better - two hundred percent. More lucid and able to focus for longer periods of time. I love my morning routine of being up at 6AM and out by 6:30. A few cars, a couple of other runners, but mostly the hillsides, forests, and neighborhood streets are all mine. And there are the gems.
This past Monday I was up at 5:30 to watch the Leonid Meteor shower (if you missed it - you've MISSED it cause it won't be back until 2099!). Lovely show for about 25 minutes. I counted somewhere between 40 and 50 shooting stars. Then I went for my run and passed a house with white candles in the windows. The street was quiet and the sky was just beginning to lighten with the rising sun. And I had the whole moment to myself. It's one of the reasons I get out there. Puts the rest of the day into perspective.


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Whenever I go on holidays to India with parents, there is always a temple trip. India trip wont be a fulfilling one without visiting some ancient temples and getting to know its history and specialities. Either visiting the kulam deivam or on the way to relative's house, we drop by a temple.
Most of the huge and popular temples draw devotees who do Angapradhakshanam. I thought it to be a silly deed till I found the significance behind it. People rolling on the ground while another person dropping water or tumerica water to cool their body off. It's all a sacrifice, doing this motion (rolling) around the temples' praharam (circumference) under scorching heat and rough stoned ground.
Angapradhakshanam is actually a sanskrit word accepted in Tamil also. 'Angam' means body and 'Pradhakshanam' means coming round in the clock-wise direction. The scientific reason behind walking clock-wise is that the Earth goes around the sun and on its own axis clock-wise. We shouldn't go against the planetary positions.
It is a prayer which has good effect in many cases. This will be done in the temples' praharam with wet body and cloths after bathing in the temple's tank or well. It is being done by many people after fulfilling their requests or prayers.
This is very similar to carrying kavady. I've done another blog on Kavady. Please view that alongside this post. Angapradakshinam is when devotees lie prostrate, and then roll around the temple, chanting the Lord's name. The objective is to show their devotion to the Lord, and thank Him for protecting them. It is performed in the Vimana Pradakshinam, one of the pathways around the main deity's temple, in wet clothes, after having had a dip in the temple pond or purified turmeric water which is purified by the temple pujaari. This is done by some to wash away their sins and by some as they have pledged to do it when their wish gets fulfilled. any pledge to do angapradakshanam if they or someone in the family is seriously ill also.
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Bolton based Landmark Investments Group today announced it achieved profits of just under £1.2 million to year end September 2013, up 162% (from £458,000) on the previous year.
Set up in 2000 by, then aged 19, Mark Hawthorn, Landmark Investments Group main area of activity is the purchase of ground rents, also known as the freehold, of residential and commercial properties.
Mark Hawthorn said: "Last year was the most successful yet for Landmark Investments Group, we achieved several major deals including our first commercial ground rent portfolio and diversified outside of property with our ThermaVein operation."
Highlights of the year included:
- The purchase of the 42 acre site at Strangeways, Manchester from a private investor. The first commercial property investment by the company.
- The portfolio of property increased from £8.5 million to £15 million, with ground rent purchases made on residential schemes across the Northwest and London.
- A major investment into medically acclaimed aesthetic treatment product ThermaVein, is the first non-property investment for Landmark Group and it is already providing rewards as the treatment sales are expected to top £2 million. ThermaVein is already international across a range of territories with major ongoing demand.
Mark said: "While profit is pleasing we are an investment company and are long term thinkers, our real focus is to grow the portfolio which is now pushing £15m (excluding non-property) and likely to exceed £20 million within the next 12-15 months.
"We are starting to make real progress with the development of a commercial ground rent model which will allow owners to release additional funds from assets whilst retaining them for the long term"


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The acquisition of BDC follows Bupa's announcement in July of a multi-million-pound investment that will see Bupa UK become one of Britain's largest private dental chains. In Spain, a £57m (€70m) investment in Bupa's dental business will expand the company's Spanish network, as well.
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Release date : 11 Aug 11
This download contains an improved version of the firmware found on your Creative ZEN® Style M300 player.
File Name : ZENFWUpdater_M300_v1.00.16.exe
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• Bluetooth will be turned ON automatically upon restart when it is detected that it was ON prior to shutdown
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I usually reserve my views on parenting as it is a subjective term. While on one side it is very fulfilling, as a parent I am aware of its pitfalls too. It's a constant battle to make one's children's world a better place. But today I felt the distinct urge to express something.
'Disturbed' is the word that comes close to describing my state of mind after reading an essay written by a teen. I realise not a lot of thought or planning had gone into the written work because he'd written explicitly about all that he does on the net to while away his time. I also realised that he obviously didn't think he was doing anything wrong or else he wouldn't have expressed all that he did. And trust me, I was disturbed. Considering the fact that in my line of work I have to go through a lot of creative writing pieces, and deliver corrected ones within a set deadline, this one made me put down the paper, close my eyes to shut out the world, let out a deep breath because it had suddenly caught in my throat and lean back to mull.
The teen who is all of 12, talks about a game he plays online that is not for children below 18, contains bad language, violence, drug intake and nudity. He goes on to say that the graphics is splendid and how the game is addictive and how it takes time to master it. He ends by saying he has mastered it!
I am sure no parent who knows what such things are about would allow their children anywhere near it. My question is do they? Most of them prefer to believe their wards are incapable of such things. In most cases it is probably true, but there are a few who live in denial. While I understand the state of mind of the parent, and their belief that children have to pave their own path, I believe it is solely the responsibility of the parent to protect them until they can fend for themselves. Some do think they need to trust their children. Having faith in the child is one thing, but being blind to reality is another. The world our children are living in is not a safe haven it was for us. It is a darker, murkier place! We read about so many dreadful things happening to children across the world and sit in our living room sipping coffee and shaking our heads in disgust reading about it believing that such things happen to people far away, while it is probably happening in your own child's bedroom across your hall!
Our children will be the parents of tomorrow. Have we equipped them sufficiently to be a good one? How many of us really know the contents of the games our children play online? Have we checked it and okayed it? Yes we trust them not to do it, but have we explained the dangers and the negative influences of such games? If we have, if we have faith in the values we have instilled, and if we know for sure that it has registered, then yes we can rest assured that our children will not cross lines. But we need to ask ourselves, honestly, as parents, have we? Have we found the time to do so? Or do we prefer to live in denial? I also wish to implore, are we as parents leading by example? Let us remember, that is how children learn, by watching us.
My dear parents! You cannot walk the path of your children, true, but I am sure you can walk behind them to ensure they are walking down the right path. We want the best for them. Let them find their path yes, but let us be there in case they stray, to pull them back.
Goes without saying, they didn't ask to be born!


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All Star Western #32:Out now!
The latest issue of All Star Western from DC Comics to feature my work of Jonah Hex is out this week. Features a fabbo cover by Dan Panosian, a script by Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin grey, & art by Fabrizio Fiorentino (who drew the second half of the Hex strip).
Here's a few preview pages.
Here's a few preview pages.
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So after the last Kane novel I was determined to start reading a different genre and I did, but I did not venture far. I had mentioned Lin Carter in a previous post and that got me to thinking about his works. I had read a number of his books years ago but was wondering how much he had written.
While looking at his bio on Wikipedia I found that he had a much larger body of work than I had expected and in more genres. So I was looking at some of them on Amazon and found the Zanathon Megapack, and I mean who can resist a pack, much less a MEGAPACK!!?? It is a series of five books about the exploits of adventurer Eric Carstairs and Professor Percival P. Potter (multiple Ph.Ds) in Zanthodon, an underground world that they discover in the Sahara.
It is much in the vein of a lot of Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard and other authors' lost world type stores. Action comes fast and furious and you don't have time to think about the last cliff hanger because another one is just pages away. Good mindless fun, aimed at a younger audience.
As with any reader, particularly of Sci-fi and fantasy, I am pretty good at suspending disbelief. If the writer has created a world that has a good overall system where people's actions make sense, the use of magic follows rules and a host of other items I can believe a great deal in the context of the book's world environment. I think Carter failed with Journey to the Underground World, the first book in the megapack.
Ok, due to the type of adventure I can believe that they took a helicopter through a narrow hole in the earth and few100 miles straight down. Harder to believe that in a few seconds the pilot trained a non pilot how to fly so that he could take a nap, but ok, it crashes in the end so I can swallow it.
Dinosaurs from different periods of the earth. Ok that is part of the basic tenant of the book. Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals living in the lost world. Check. Ice age animals. Ok. Eternal sunlight. Gotcha. I mean it is all context driven and this is really just a fast action adventure story.
However the one item that really threw me was the day that Darya, one of the most beautiful women to ever live (and a Cro-Magnon) has. First she escapes from slavers (Neanderthals), and then is sexually assaulted but fights the man off, to be captured by a pterodactyl and carried to its nest to feed its young. She manages to escape only to be cornered by a cave huge cave bear, from which she also escapes. Then she escapes from the seemingly inescapable mountain that she is on, locally called one of the Peaks of Peril. Ok I can suspend my disbelief for this because it's this type of action that makes these adventure books flow.
It is what she does next that throws me. Alone, no shelter or food, unarmed in an area controlled by the slavers, an area that she can only have the vaguest idea of where she is and how to get home. What is his first action? Well to strip naked and take a bath of course. And then be captured by Barbary Coast pirates. Nope you lost me there.
Sadly it could just be that I am too old for this type of story. O well, I got the entire MEGAPACK for less than a buck so I think I did get my money's worth.


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They have a conference from July 14 -17, 2009 here in Toronto/Markham and Seneca College is helping to host it.
I haven't really read much about them but I know that they have this conference twice a year and there are representatives around the world.
Part of their agenda today was a visit at Seneca College's campus at Buttonville Airport. I helped with the tour of the hangars and simulators around and I got to meet some people. They probably won't remember me but it's a good thing to volunteer for these kinds of things...networking is key!
The very few people in my group that I toured around came from Boston, Missouri, Seoul Korea, umm someone from FRASCA...and so on. Most of them are representatives of other aviation colleges/universities around the world.
I didn't get to take any pictures but it was a good experience overall. A lot of them were amazed at how many hours we get for our four year degree program for the tuition we pay...and that our airplanes are highly maintained, and our simulators are state of the art and available for use 24/7.
I was actually looking through the website of an aviation university in the states and they offer a Masters degree there in which I am currently interested in pursuing after (but maybe not right after) Seneca. However I am also thinking something along the lines of studying Meteorology further, because the weather is just an exciting thing to study.
Just this past weekend, the weather forecast was thunderstorms the whole morning. However, the thunderstorm (which was a good one) passed and was gone in about an hour or so..and after that it was blue skies (with some clouds of course). Which actually allowed our trip to Wasaga Beach near Collingwood with my family to continue and actually enjoy the sun...and just as we were leaving the cold front was approaching and more thunderstorm headed our way.
One thing I learned..weather can either:
One thing I learned..weather can either:
get better
get worse
or stay the same--but not for long.
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My story in a nutshell...
I'm a born and bred New York City girl. The unique culture and current of this town is the fiber that my world was built on. Starting from a young age I was taken to museums, galleries, shows and concerts.
My father was a self-taught artist/musician and encouraged me to pursue art all of my life. I attended art-centric schools starting in Junior High School and went on to attend LaGuardia High School for Performing Arts and Music & Art (aka The Fame school). Finally graduating from Brooklyn's Pratt Institute with a BFA in Advertising Art Direction, I was trained to become a corporate artist but felt it couldn't be further from who I am.
I left the advertising field to chase after more bohemian pursuits while getting a ho-hum 9-5 job to support my free spirited nature. I ran my own costume making business and became a gypsy-like vendor at Renaissance Faires and Pagan Festivals. I explored sculpture, painting, photography, costume design, Middle-Eastern & flamenco dancing and guitar playing. After I left the roving travelers lifestyle, I settled into burlesque performing for a few years. All the while getting the token tattoo here and there to mark special passages in my life.
My creative soul needed more. Returning to drawing and painting , I ultimately found my perfect professional artistic path in tattooing. I always loved tattoos but as the years went on, my intent with them became more focused. I began to collect more serious tattoos and finally knew what I needed to do. For so long, I went outside of my comfort zone in search of everything else I wasn't familiar with for "the answer". Turns out, it was always at the very root of my natural talents: drawing. My style of drawing/illustrating would have lent itself to tattooing if I thought of it way back in college. But it took this entire magickal journey for me to find the right time to surrender to it.
It's good to be home.


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FACT! He JOINED it the same weekend he wrote SEPARATION CHURCH-STATE letter!
FACT! Jefferson ALLOWED several groups to have Church in the US Capitol!
FACT! He oversaw other Churches in the US TREASURY and SUPREME COURT!
FACT! Jefferson hired MARINE BAND to play each Lord's Day...
FACT! ... And President Jefferson paid them with TAX DOLLARS!
FACT! FEW...WHO EVER LIVED...were better Disciples of Christ than Thomas Jefferson!
"THEN" by inherent definition - it must be "GOD-BREATHED!"
DEDUCTING the above from the simple fact: That GOD EQUATES HIS WORD WITH HIMSELF!
And "IF IT BE NOT" - true in ALL subjects mentioned above; and And "IF IT BE NOT"
"THEN" . . . it cannot be 'The Eternal and Incomparable Word' of the Great Creator God!
SCRIPTURE: "The 'Devil' ... walketh about seeking whom he may DEVOUR." 1 Pet 5:8
SCRIPTURE: "The 'Thief' (Devil) cometh not, but for to steal, to kill and to DESTROY." John 10:10
QUESTION: Do you Believe the Devil Succeeds?___ Or Fails?___
God the Father's Goals:
SCRIPTURE: "For God sent NOT His Son into the world TO CONDEMN the world, but that THE WORLD though Him might BE SAVED! John 3:16 John 3:17
SCRIPTURE: "Beloved, be NOT ignorant of this ONE THING, ...The Lord is... NOT WILLING that ANYshould perish, but that ALL should come to REPENTANCE. 2 Pet 3:9
QUESTION: Do you Believe Father God Succeeds?___ Or Fails?___
God the Son's Goals:
SCRIPTURE: "For the Son of Man is come to seek and to SAVE that which is lost!" Luk 19:10 "For I came NOT to judge the world, but to SAVE the world. John 12:47
SCRIPTURE: "And I, if I be lifted up from the Earth, I WILL DRAW ALL men unto Me." John 12:32
QUESTION: Do you Believe God the Son (Jesus Christ): Succeeds?___ Or Fails?___ center>
God the Spirit's Goals:
SCRIPTURE: Jesus declares: "'I 'WILL'' send Him (Holy Spirit) unto you, and when He is come 'He 'WILL'' testify of Me: John 14:26
SCRIPTURE: "He 'WILL' reprove the world [convict, convince, correct] of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment: John 16:7
SCRIPTURE: (1)Of Sin, because they believe not on me; ... (2) Of Righteousness, because I go to my Father; ...(3)Of Judgment, because the 'Prince of this World' IS JUDGED![A] John 16:8-10
QUESTION: Do you believe God the Spirit Succeeds?___ Or Fails?___
The Willow Creek Community Church, Pastor Bill Hybels, claims to be one of the fastest growing and most popular church in America today. The Willow Creek church attracts 20,000+ to its Evening Midweek, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning services.
What makes Willow Creek such a phenomenal church spectacular on the American religious scene?
The answers to this question and numerous others are found in one Willow Creek publication. It is titled Willow Creek Community Church: Church Leaders Handbook (New, Expanded 1996 Edition).
Here is much of the story of how and why the Willow Creek Community Church has grown into a large American denomination in twentyfive years.
An article was printed January 23, 1991 in the Christian Century, written by Anthony B. Robinson titled "Learning from Willow Creek Community Church" that tells a part of the story. The Willow Community Church is located on 120 acres of a manicured campus in South Barrington, Ill., a northwest suburb of Chicago. A cluster of low lying buildings in the distance looks like a prosperous corporate headquarters.
There are no crosses or religious signs to suggest this is a church.
Willow Creek Community Church began in 1975 in a rented theater, with an unpaid staff, borrowed equipment, and a vision for reaching unchurched people in the Chicago area.
Willow Creek Pastor Bill Hybels and a few associates conducted an informal house survey in the Chicago suburb to locate and identify the unchurched in the area who did not attend any church, and to learn why they did not.
Willow Creek Pastor Bill Hybels and his associates with a list of the unchurched started the Willow Creek Community Church. The first Willow Creek meeting took place in the rented Willow Creek Theater located in Palatine, Illinois. This was the church Pastor Bill Hybels built designed for people who did not go to church because of indifference or suspicion.
The first gathering numbered 125 people. With this list of the "unchurched," Willow Creek Pastor-Bill-Hybels and his group reached out to this large segment of people who did not go to church, or "do church."
Today some 20,000 attend the midweek and Sunday services of the Willow Creek church located in a white affluent "baby boomer" community. (Two generations ago, we would have in mind WASP [White AngloSaxon Protestant] neighborhood.)
The services which take place at Willow Creek church today are unlike all other church services on American soil. The well lighted and spacious auditorium with glass ceilings looks like a plush theater with theater seats and wide aisles. The luxurious furnishing attract those who are uncomfortable in traditional churches.
As the people file into the auditorium for the weekend "seeker services," a band is playing subdued contemporary jazz or rock. The worship service begins with the drawing of curtains across a huge stage while the tempo of the lively upbeat music gradually engages the audience. The worship services gets underway.
The band plays contemporary rock and jazz with religious lyrics flashed on a wide video screen accompanied by 16 vocalists and dancers. Actors stage dramatic skits. Congregational singing is minimal and simple. The performance has all the pizzazz of a professional stage show. A thunderous applause greets the conclusion of the entertainment phase. The people are told their applause is for God.
The sermon begins - it is a statement of faith consistent with American evangelism. A knowledge of theology or the church's history is not needed. The sermons address such themes as love, compassion, mercy, and other Christian virtues. The sermons also address the religious needs of the unchurched-the seekers who have come to Willow Creek.
It is easy to understand why "copy cat" models of Willow Creek church in the Nashville area do not even come close to the entertainment flamboyance of the "mother community church" e.g., the Hendersonville Community Church, Woodmont Hills Family of God, and the Madison and Franklin Churches of Christ.
The mission of Willow Creek is to reach the indifferent and turn them into fully devoted followers of Christ and make them feel good about themselves.
The weird scenes in a Vineyard charismatic church where worshipers in prolonged fits of uncontrollable laughter, roar like animals, and fall out in swoons on the floor are not seen in South Barrington.
Since 1992, the Willow Creek Association (WCA) has been linking innovative, outreach-oriented church leaders with one another and with strategic vision, training, and resources.
Now a worldwide network of over 12,000 Member Churches from more than 90 denominations, the WCA works to equip Member Churches and others with the tools needed to build prevailing churches.
Our desire is to inspire, equip, and encourage Christian leaders to build biblically functioning churches as modeled in Acts 2; churches that build believers while reaching increasing numbers of unchurched people — with innovations from any church in the world that has experienced God-given breakthroughs with widespread potential.
The WCA is fundamentally about church transformation. This is not a movement dedicated to replicating any one church or model. This is a movement committed to helping churches own and express core biblical values within their own context. Membership in the Association requires a commitment to the historic, orthodox understanding of biblical Christianity. Member Church leaders are also committed to build prevailing churches that reach their redemptive potential.
"We are determined to help churches communicate the gospel to all people — from cynics to seekers — and help them develop into fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ," says WCA President Jim Mellado. "As Member Churches of the Association share ideas, strategies, and resources, each of us will increase the impact of our ministry.
WCA Member Churches are marked by a deep commitment to the cause of Christ, and their leaders possess a pioneering spirit that pushes them toward innovation in furthering the cause of the local church. That's why WCA's ministry is defined less by what we do, than by those we serve
The WCA began in 1992, with just over 300 Member Churches. By 1993, Membership had grown to nearly 3,000 churches and the WCA began extending its work around the globe through WCA International, which now reaches into 35 countries, 13 with Affiliate offices.
In recent years WCA Membership worldwide has grown by about three new churches per day, and now includes over 12,000 Member Churches, about half in the United States. Research shows that these churches are different than the average church in several ways:
During the 1990s, the average attendance at Protestant churches in the United States declined nearly 10 percent. During that same time period, average attendance at WCA churches more than doubled, placing attendance at WCA Member Churches at nearly six times the national average.
The average rate of church growth through conversion in the U.S. is about three people per church each year. Half of U.S. churches don't see even one conversion in a year. WCA Member Churches experience an average of more than 40 new conversions per year—more than 10 times the national average.
WCA Member Churches have a budget nearly 10 times greater than the average church in the U.S.
In WCA Member Churches around the world, we also see greater vitality and growth than in the average church in their country.
The annual membership in WCA which is separate from the Willow Creek Community Church is $199. The WCA is in no sense a structured denomination with a central authority.
The purpose of WCA, as stated, is to turn irreligious people into followers of Christ. Currently some
1400 churches are members
18 foreign countries.
65% percent of the WCA affiliates are denominational, and 35 percent are nondenominational.
27% percent of the churches are mainline denominations, e.g., Methodist, Baptist, and Assemblies of God.
Churches of Christ are not listed. However, we are confident that churches such as the Hendersonville Community Church of Christ are WCA card carrying members. That the Woodmont Hills Family of God and the Madison Church of Christ are "copying" the worship and practices of the Willow Creek church is obvious.
The WCA offers advice and instructions in their Annual Church Leadership Conference where they tell the associate leaders of membership churches how they got the job done at Willow Creek, and how to go out and do likewise. The WCA provides its associate members with a wide variety of religious how-to-do-it kits.
For all their saying, "our scholars" who delivered several CSC papers in 1989 and 1990 on the old hermeneutic and the new hermeneutic never got around to setting up the model.
Gary Holloway and Michael Weed have filled in a part of that gap providing a second reason for this article. They have rendered a distinct service to conservative churches of Christ in that they now propose counter alternatives to replace the New Testament patterns for worship and practices in churches of Christ with three proposed church models widely adopted in denominations.
A paper coauthored by Gary Holloway and Michael Weed, titled "The Gospel in Urban Vessels: Churches of Christ Face the TwentyFirst Century" was read May 1995 before a meeting of the Disciples of Christ Historical Society in Nashville.
Both Holloway and Weed subscribe to the view that the churches of Christ are the creation of societal influences over the passage of two hundred years. Holloway and Weed mention two clearly definable optional replacements for the New Testament pattern for the faith, worship, and practices of churches of Christ. They write:
Two models for worship changes are most evident among Churches of Christ. One is the seeker service model of the Willow Creek Community Church ... The other model influencing Churches of Christ is third wave charismatic worship described by church growth expert Peter C Wagner and others [the Vineyard Movement and the Kansas City Prophets-JEC].
The readers of this article will hardly believe their senses after they come to an understanding that Holloway and Weed are saying these influence the worship of the churches of Christ which should be influenced only by apostolic pattern.
And even more startling are the implications of these words which identify the third model identified with postmodern theology: "'Certain cultural trends, such as restorationism,' or 'conservative postmodernism,' may aid in this recovery of traditions, but by far and large there is little sociological perspective to encourage optimism about the future of Churches of Christ. "
All we need to do for explanation is to translate this scholarly gobbledygook into ordinary "baby boomer" rhetoric of the marketplace.
They are suggesting there are three models out there - Willow Creek, the Vineyard Movement, and postmodern theology - which are viable options for churches of Christ to adopt in lieu of what the liberals say is the outofdate New Testament pattern of the church and the old hermeneutic.
There is much more to this story which must wait for time and copy space for the telling. Much of the liberal side of this story is already in print in Wineskins, and CSC papers especially in 19891991.
(Editor's comment: Thank you, brother Choate, for outlining yet another goldencalf syndrome among those hankering for the "leeks and the onions" or Egypt. It is abnormal to turn away from the divine pattern given in Godbreathed scripture to follow a human pattern that has no higher authority than the glass ceiling of the Willow Creek building. "[T]here arose another generation after them, that knew not Jehovah" - H. A. (Buster) Dobbs .)
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Swap Day 3: Mary's Polka Dot Top
11 comments:
- Ariana said...
Love your pattern mixing here! You almost match the steps lol!
- July 28, 2011 at 9:17 AM
- Christine said...
That's a really great pattern mix! Love it!
- July 28, 2011 at 9:56 AM
- Mary said...
That top consistently garners the most compliments out of any one thing in my closet! I love how you've pattern-mixed with it here, no wonder you got so many compliments! If I ever decide that it doesn't have a place in my closet anymore, I'll know who to send it to ;)
- July 28, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- Frannie Pantz said...
Also a sucker for some good polka dots! This look is fantastic! No wonder you got all those compliments! The bag and the heels just add even more elegance.
- July 28, 2011 at 10:47 AM
- Kimberly said...
Love this look, and it is so fun to see you swapping with some of my fav bloggers!!
- July 28, 2011 at 7:45 PM
- Ms. Peach Plus said...
How beautiful. I love the pattern mixing!
- July 28, 2011 at 9:49 PM
- Tabitha said...
I love how you paired the 2 patterns. Looks fantastic.
- July 28, 2011 at 10:09 PM
- Viktoria with a K said...
I love the pattern mixing! Perfect outfit :)
- July 29, 2011 at 8:27 AM
- From Suns To Moons said...
I love how the pop of color in this outfit mainly comes from... your gorgeous hair!
- July 30, 2011 at 1:24 AM
- Emily said...
I just bought a snake bracelet and I LOVE it. I wore it to a wedding this weekend and got a ton of compliments all from dudes. Seemed strange but apparently something about the snake speaks to them.
- July 31, 2011 at 12:59 AM
- Jess said...
This is a really cute outfit. I love the mix of the patterns and the pop of red from the shoes!
- August 1, 2011 at 11:30 PM


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Born in Belfast, intensely handsome actor Shane Brolly comes from a family of Irish actors, although he's done most of his film work in the U.S. He started his career in made-for-cable crime dramas in the late '90s. After some independent films, he played a small role in the sci-fi thriller Impostor, based on a story by Philip K. Dick. In 2002, he starred as the billionaire playboy Henry Brooke in Zalman King's erotic Showtime TV series Chromiumblue.com. As the owner of the yacht "Chromium Blue," his character leads stylish women and men onto his pleasure ship to fulfill their sexual fantasies. The show was made into a feature film of the same name in 2003. The same year, he seemed fit to play the aristocratic vampire leader Kraven in Len Wiseman's action fantasy Underworld.
Shane BrollyActive - 1997 - 2009 | Born - Mar 6, 1970 | Genres - Horror, Drama, Action, Crime, Science Fiction
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Session 6: Mobilization for and against fossil fuel development
Moderator: Georgia Piggot
The American Petroleum Institute and Global Warming: Industry Knowledge, Denial, Obstruction, and the Potential of Lawsuits for Supply-Side Policy
In the past, litigation has been crucial as a supply-side policy pathway for regulating polluting industries including tobacco, asbestos, and lead. Today, climate-related lawsuits are being filed against fossil fuel producers as a strategy for recovering damages incurred through fossil fuel use, identifying and curtailing deceptive actions by industry, and catalyzing a decline in fossil fuel supply and use. A central element of these lawsuits is the history of fossil fuel producers, in particular their knowledge of the dangers of global warming and their public communications downplaying or denying the threat. This talk examines the history of the American Petroleum Institute (API) -- the primary trade association for the oil industry in the United States -- and its involvement in global warming science, policy, and communication since the 1950s. Drawing from newly uncovered archival documents, interviews, and other sources, I discuss the API's efforts in the 1950s to measure the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from fossil fuel sources using carbon isotopes, the existence of a newly discovered climate research program established by the API in 1957, and the physicist Edward Teller's direct warning to the heads of the US oil industry about global warming in 1959. I also examine the API's knowledge of global warming science in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s using internal industry documents, including the API's use of scientists at Stanford Research Institute, memos from the API's CO2 and Climate Task Force, and API-commissioned research that exaggerated uncertainties in climate science. I then track the API's role in leading the Global Climate Coalition, the primary industry coalition that denied climate science and fought climate policies from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, and the API's strategic funding of a small group of scientists and economists in order to fabricate scientific uncertainty and promote inaction. This research advances our understanding of fossil fuel producers' knowledge of global warming, their public communications, and the state of evidence that may be brought to bear against fossil fuel producers in supply-side climate lawsuits.
Switching Tracks: Opposition to Coal Exports in Canada and the United States
As US electricity generation has shifted from coal to gas, coal producers have looked to ship their surplus to foreign markets. Proposals for Asia-facing coal terminals have emerged in all US states and the one Canadian province on the Pacific coast. Campaigns against transport infrastructure enjoy an advantage over efforts to restrict production, particularly when the proposed infrastructure crosses into non-producing jurisdictions, where economic benefits are outweighed by costs (Harrison 2015). Consistent with this analysis, all US proposals were either rejected or withdrawn. Surprisingly, the Canadian project was approved.
This paper focuses on comparison of the fate of the Gateway Pacific Terminal in Washington and Fraser Surrey Docks, 50 kilometres north in BC. Both proposed to ship coal from the same US mines along the same rail line. Both faced opposition from local residents, Indigenous communities, and local governments. Both campaigns focused on local rather than global risks. If anything, the balance of costs and benefits were more heavily weighted against the Canadian project given minimal benefits of shipping US coal. The explanation for the difference lies in three institutional "switches" that routed coal trains to Canadian rather than US ports: the greater role of local governments in the US decision, stronger rights of Washington than BC Indigenous communities, and a commitment by the Obama Administration to consider downstream combustion emissions.
The paper addresses several conference themes: providing insight into the politics of opposition at a mid-point in the fossil fuel supply chain, examining the role of litigation, examining the strategies and impact of social movements, and documenting synergy with other policy objectives, including local air quality. As a litigant against the Canadian project, the author also will reflect on tensions but also mutual reinforcement of scholarship and activism.
Disrupting carbon lock-in: The catalytic impact of the fossil fuel divestment movement
Noel Healy, Gregory Trencher, and Geoffrey Supran
The rapidly diminishing carbon budget for holding global warming below 2 °C requires more explicit interventions to curb fossil fuel extraction and supply. Whilst demand-side policies are acknowledged and utilized around the world, restrictive supply-side strategies are generally underappreciated and underexploited by policy makers and scholars. As such, the urgent necessity to limit fossil fuel extraction is not driving significant policy change in coal mining nations like China, India, USA and Australia (Blondeel and Van de Graaf, 2017). The "keep it in the ground" ideology and objective of the fossil fuel divestment (FFD) movement is therefore a critical societal effort to tackle inaction from governments.
By focusing on the politics of decarbonization, this paper analyzes how the FFD movement (U.S. and worldwide) disrupts three types of carbon lock-in: (1) infrastructural and technological lock-in (2) institutional lock-in, and (3) energy cultures lock-in. We highlight how the FFD movement shifts attention to the resistance by the incumbent fossil fuel regime and its key actors as the most significant obstacle to fundamental changes in energy systems. By stigmatizing fossil fuel regime actors and investors and actors who serve them, the FFD movement is establishing new norms for energy investments and catalyzing powerful supportive political coalitions, and conflict dynamics, which are central to disrupting carbon lock-in (Bernstein & Hoffmann, 2018). We demonstrate how FFD adds to the pressure on governments to implement supply-side climate-related energy policies and is encouraging societal acceptance and demand for policies that foster lower carbon emissions trajectories. This study reinforces the critical and catalytic role that anti-fossil fuel politics and sub-national climate actions ultimately play within the new paradigm of global climate governance embodied in the Paris Agreement.
Challenging status quo through supply-side initiatives in Norway: Way out or far out?
Berit Kristoffersen and Bård Lahn
Environmental mobilization against oil and gas production is as old as the activity itself in Norway, where access to new areas for oil and gas has been the longest standing political conflict. Over the last ten years, political debates have shifted, where climate and oil have become increasingly interlinked, and the dependence upon the oil and gas is sector is challenged by a broader set of actors. Deliberatively leaving oil in the ground for climate reasons is thus a new strategy, where the Paris agreement is being used to question whether there is space for more 'Norwegian' oil in the global carbon budget and its links to potentially l stranded assets. The political and economic fossil fuel dominance of the Norwegian state is thus being challenged by the realization that Norway is facing a post-petroleum era sooner rather than later. The environmental movement does not have a unified strategy, ranging from the Greenpeace initiated court case, to broad compromises where some areas can be granted to the industry. This paper analyses the evolution of the Norwegian Environmental movement's strategy in efforts to limit oil production, in light of the movement's historical embeddedness in the Norwegian corporatist model of state-civil society relations.