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But I would have then to conclude that today we live in the pre-anthropocene. We could of course move into the anthropocene, but this would be a necessarily revolutionary act. via Some notes on the anthropocene (or, welcome to the pre-anthropocene!).
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Ecological Perception: Seeing Systems – 2nd Paper for the DRS 2014
Image-makers have the unique ability to make hidden ecological processes visible by revealing relationships, patterns and dynamics in complex socio-ecological systems. This paper describes how communication design can support relational perceptual practices and even nurture ecological perception. It presents specific methods to harness the latent potential of graphic design to communicate the context, causality and complexity of ecological processes and systems. Visual metaphors function to establish meaning. Furthermore, aesthetics experiences can provoke deep perceptual insights supporting new ways of perceiving our relationship to the environment. In these ways, graphic design has the potential to nurture the ability to 'see systems' – supporting both ecological perception and ecological literacy.
A second paper to be presented at Design Research Society's conference DRS 2014. Download the paper here.
The Colorado Flood: On Risk + Climate – What we can learn from natural disasters.
As some of the readers of this blog will know I recently moved from London to Nederland, Colorado (a small town outside of Boulder – where I work). I arrived just in time for the Colorado flood last week. My tiny home up at 8500ft elevation was undamaged, but the water ran down the canyon ripping up both roads and houses down stream in Boulder and beyond.
Water from the mountains flowed down Boulder Creek at up to 25 times its normal intensity. The canyon road from Nederland into Boulder was badly damaged not only by mud and rockslides but by the erosion of its foundations as the earth dissolved into the river. Early this week I attended the town of Nederland post-flood recovery meeting where I witnessed the community coming to terms with the fact that the road we all depend on to get to Boulder has been partially washed away. Still we reminded ourselves that Nederland was lucky relative to many of our neighbours.
Behind the statistics are thousands of stories and personal tragedies: 8 people killed, 11,750 people evacuated, 18,000 homes damaged, 1,600 homes destroyed, at least 30 bridges lost and an unknown quantity of roads and railway tracks severely damaged. Even more serious environmental disasters are in process as oil, gas and toxic fracking chemicals (including known carcinogens and endocrine disruptors) spills have become apparent at the site of at least 10 of the hundreds of fracking sites in the flood zone.
Confronting Despair in an Age of Denial – with Joanna Macy
This is a blog about strong emotions and how these impact our actions. I was inspired to write it by my encounter with ecopsychologist, Buddhist scholar and activist Joanna Macy – a woman who has pioneered working with despair since the 1970s. Despair in this blog will refer to a combination of feelings including grief, anger, powerlessness and fear. Continue reading
Re-Imaging the Commons as 'The Green Economy'
The paper Re-Imaging the Commons as 'The Green Economy' was presented at the International Environmental Communication Association's 2013 conference Environmental Communication: Participation Revisited: openings and closures for deliberations on the commons in June. This paper can be downloaded on www.academic.edu and on the EcoLabs website.
ABSTRACT: The United Nations' green economy programme radically re-imagines the commons as a space where ecosystems services will be quantified, marketised and traded. This paper will examine issues with this version of the green economy for environmental communicators. It will review the etymology of the concept, examine contested ideas on what a green economy would entail and situate these proposals in relation to different economic approaches to the environment. It will suggest strategies for communicating the contested nature of the proposals and exposing obfuscations. This paper will argue that in stark opposition to green economics with its focus on participation and democratic processes, the UN's GEP will close deliberations on the commons by privatizing 'ecosystem services' – thereby taking environmental decision-making out of a political sphere and into the marketplace.
Re-Imaging the Commons as 'The Green Economy'
The United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) (2011) flagship document titled "Towards a green economy: Pathways to sustainable development and poverty eradication" and accompanying UNEP reports at the Rio+20 in June 2012 launched the green economy project. The reports use strong environmental language as a means of presenting their version of green economy as a far-reaching programme of reform to address environmental problems on a global scale. While the rhetoric suggests that the UN is serious about addressing the biodiversity crisis, green economists and a wide variety of social movements are less convinced by the proposed policy mechanisms. Civil society responded at Rio+20 with a plethora of critical responses: condemning what they claimed amounted to the corporate capture of the United Nations (Joint Civil Society Statement, 2012); condemning the UN's "Natural Capital Declaration" (Banktrack, 2012); condemning 20 years of Greenwash (Bruno, 2012); and indeed, condemning the entire green economy project (Nadal, 2012; Brand, 2012a; Patel & Crook, 2012). The Indigenous People's Global Conference on Rio+20 and Mother Earth (2012) issued a strongly worded "Kari-Oca 2 Declaration" (2012) describing the UNEP's green economy as "a continuation of colonialism" (p. 1) firmly rejecting market-based solutions, REDD, and intellectual property rights over genetic resources and traditional knowledge. In the wake of the polarized positions at Rio+20, the conference ended with both civil society and the United Nations unimpressed with the outcomes. The New York Times claimed Rio+20 "ended here as it began, under a shroud of withering criticism" (Romero & Broder, 2012); The Guardian's headline read: "Rio+20 outcome a focal point for frustration among campaigners" (Ford, 2012); and London's Financial Times announced "Rio+20 lacks ambition, says UN chief" (Clark, 2012). The conference failed to achieve binding targets, but more significantly the conference launched the UNEP's green economy programme, which aims to redesign the processes through which the global commons will be managed. Clearly the green economy is a fiercely contested idea and the UNEP's version is strongly opposed by a wide variety social movements concerned with both ecological conservation and environmental justice.
In naming its programme the green economy, the UNEP implies a reframing of the entire economy along green lines. The language even suggests a connection to a particular school of economic thought concerned with the environment, that of green economics. However, the programme itself is largely concerned with attempting to protect the environment by establishing policies that will quantify and trade "ecosystem services". This will be done in ways that reflect specific policy prescriptions of different schools of economic thinking on the environment, namely environmental economics and ecological economics. Since green economics is a field with radically different policy prescriptions to what is proposed, the naming of the new project creates severe confusion with contested definitions of the "green economy". In this paper, the UNEP's green economy programme will be referred to as "UN's GEP" to avoid confusion with what green economists have been describing as "green economics" for over a decade.
EcoLabs is moving!
In Colorado, I will be working on visualising issues of the green economy and climate communication discourses. This work would be situated in the Integrating Activities research theme at CIRES will focus on the visual communication of complex ecological problems. This practice-based research would facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations and learning thereby contributing to greater capacities to respond effectively to environmental problems.
Review of DRS//CUMULUS Oslo 2013 – 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers
Designing Learning for Tomorrow: Design Education from Kindergarten to PhD
DRS//CUMULUS Oslo 2013 – 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers
Oslo Opera House and skyline
I travelled to the DRS//CUMULUS Oslo 2013 – 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers with some trepidation. While I have high expectations of the content produced by the Design Research Society (DRS) and was already intrigued by some of the papers and keynotes, my concerns emerged from what I am witnessing in design education in the UK. I was travelling to Oslo supported by a crowd funding campaign rather than the institution where I had been working when I wrote my paper. As an advocate of sustainability literacy and an early career researcher witnessing (and feeling) the impact of the austerity agenda in higher education in the UK, I wondered if the conference would rise to the challenge of confronting the most serious issues in design education.
EcoLabs: Ecoliteracy at the Manchester International Festival
Ecological Literacy at MIF
Dr. Boehnert from EcoLabs will be talking how ecological literacy transforms the ways we understand sustainability at a free public talk for the The Biospheric Project at the Manchester International Festival.
Thurs 11 July
Designing the City
Designing the City considers how innovative design and architecture can tackle the need for more sustainable and ecologically efficient cities. Our speakers Jody Boehnert from Eco-Labs and Michael Pawlyn from Exploration Architecture, will discuss their different approaches to embedding ecological principals into education and using nature's models within architecture through bio-mimicry. Chair: Gavin Elliott Chair of BDP Manchester
Re-Imaging the Commons as 'The Green Economy' – Posters, images and new resources
I am publishing two new posters associated with the paper Re-Imaging the Commons as 'The Green Economy' that will be presented at the International Environmental Communication Association's 2013 conference Environmental Communication: Participation Revisited: openings and closures for deliberations on the commons in Uppsala, Sweden June 6th-9th 2013. The posters can images can be downloaded here (as low resolution jpegs) or higher resolution posters to print on the EcoLabs website.
Above – Overview of problems associated with the UNEP's 'green economy'.
Ecological Literacy in Design Education: A Foundation for Sustainable Design
The paper 'Ecological Literacy in Design Education: A Foundation for Sustainable Design' has been accepted for the Design Research Society // CUMULUS 2013 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers in May 2013. This paper is available for here for free but it will only be published and presented at the conference proceedings if I am able to find sponsors. THANK YOU to everyone who helped raise the money for this presentation! The crowdfunding campaign worked and I will present this paper in Oslo next month.
Ecological Literacy in Design Education: A Foundation for Sustainable Design
Abstract: Responsible design in an era of scarcity and risk associated with environmental problems must be ecologically informed. Ecological literacy is necessary in order to both understand the nature of environmental problems and to respond effectively by designing sustainable ways of living. Embedding ecological literacy into design education is happening at the most progressive institutions – and yet for many others, sustainability education is still virtually absent from the curriculum. Progress is slow despite the fact that natural scientists warn that risks will escalate if we do not take dramatic action. Ecological literacy is a severe challenge as it disrupts educational cultures and challenges basic assumptions about what constitutes good design. While sustainability can seem profoundly difficult, ecological learning is the basis for sustainable design and thus it is a basic imperative in design education. Design education needs to expand its scope of inquiry to include a range of disciplines in order to address complex environmental problems. This paper will present an introduction to ecological literacy for design education, describe six ecological principles including associated concepts in systems design, and explain why critical thinking is necessary to make the work of transforming structurally unsustainable systems possible.
Keywords: sustainability, philosophy, design education, knowledge, ecological literacy, epistemology, philosophy of design education, multidisciplinary design education
The paper can now be downloaded from the EcoLabs website here.
The slideshow of the presentation can be accessed here.
BIG THANKS to everyone who made it happen by supporting the crowdfunding compaign. On Twitter you are: @Ian_Willey @blindspotting @hugh_knowles @karinjaschke @sDesignLabs @paul_chandlerUK @sorafferty and @jenboehnert. Some of you are not on Twitter (as far as I can tell) and you are Richard Owen Frost, Prof. Gregory Stock, Jonathan Crinion, Joel Davis, Ali Hodgson, Chris Kitchen and a few Anonymous contributors.
Design Culture Salon 3 – Design Activism: how does it change things?
Tuesday 26 February 1900h-2030h
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre, V&A
Jody Boehnert (EcoLabs)
Jonathan Chapman (University of Brighton)
Noel Douglas (Occupy Design)
Paul Micklethwaite (Kingston University)
Climate change, resource scarcity, economic crisis and struggles for social justice have given rise to new movements in design that seek more than creative and commercial fulfilment. What models of design practice support this? How might design work with other activist practices? What role do universities and museums have? How can design activism work with marginality?
Free, but booking is essential:: http://www.vam.ac.uk/whatson/event/1971/date/20130226/
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Jody Boehnert is an environmental communicator, designer, educator and activist who lives in Brixton. She is founding director of EcoLabs (http://eco-labs.org)
– a non-profit studio visualising complex environmental issues and recently completed an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded PhD titled: 'The Visual Communication of Ecological Literacy: Design, Learning and Emergent Ecological Perception' at the University of Brighton…
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A Critical Look at RSA and TSB's 'New Designs for A Circular Economy'
In the UK social institutions maintain their legitimacy with claims that they are responding the environmental crisis with initiatives capable of transforming our economy into something that could exist in perpetuity. The single most important factor in the continued failure of the vast majority of initiatives is the dismal lack of ecological awareness demonstrated by those who put these projects into practice. A technologically advanced civilization that is not ecologically informed simply has no long-term prospects; it will not even understand the ways in which it is destroying itself. Businesses are keen to project the image that they are working towards a circular economy and dramatically lowering both pollution and quantitaties of natural resources needed in the industrial cycle. Are these flashy claims an honest representation of progress, or simply a new front for business as usual?
Re-thinking Progress: The Circular Economy by made2bemadeagain – The Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Denial in Environmental Communication
People tend to deny information that they find uncomfortable. In the seminal book States of Denial sociologist Stanley Cohen states that a proclivity to deny disturbing facts is the normal state of affairs for people in an information-saturated society. Cohen's book is based on wide-reaching cross-cultural studies including Nazi Germany, South Africa, Israel/Palestine, Rwanda and others zones of human rights abuse, genocide and state sanctioned or institutional violence. Cohen describes strategies of denial on a personal level as psychological and cognitive, and on societal level as communicative and political. Denial can function psychologically below levels of awareness; denial is a 'high speed cognitive mechanism for processing information, like the computer command to delete rather than save' (Cohen 2001:5). On a cultural level, communication breakdown works to support denial. Relativism reinforces denial strategies in popular culture and in political debate. In its most extreme form, relativism makes all value systems equal, even those responsible for human suffering and the destruction of the natural world. In this way, relativism is corrosive to moral action.
Although Cohen's analysis of how disturbing information is avoided is based on violence against people, this work on denial is relevant for environmental communications as first suggested by climate communicator George Marshall (2007, 2009) and further developed in this thesis. Understanding the psychological and communicative processes at work inform strategies to break denial in order to facilitate acknowledgement of environmental crisis – the essential first step towards transformation. This chapter will examine how environmental communication can break the numbing effects of denial of ecological self through a greater understanding of associated psychological and social processes.
Denial is complex and multi-faceted and a primary communicative obstacle in environmental communication. Cohen describes the psychological and cognitive processes supporting denial in individuals. The ability to block out, remain passive, apathetic, indifferent and unresponsive is, an unconscious defence mechanism for coping with guilt, anxiety or other disturbing emotions aroused by guilt. The psyche blocks off information that is literally unthinkable or unbearable. The unconscious sets up a barrier that prevents the thought from reaching conscious knowledge (Ibid:5).
According to Cohen, denial manifests in three different ways (although each of these has endless characteristics):
1) Literal (nothing happened)
2) Interpretative (what happened is really something else)
3) Implicatory (what happened was justified) (Cohen 2001:99)
Each of these strategies for denial must be circumvented with care. These types of denial are further complicated by levels at which they become evident within individuals:
1) Cognition (not acknowledging the facts)
2) Emotion (not feeling, not being disturbed)
3) Morality (not recognizing wrongness or responsibility)
4) Action (not taking steps in response to knowledge) (Ibid:9)
Each of these states of denial is also a stage towards acknowledgement as part of a strategy to break denial. The processes that occur in individuals are multiplied across cultural groups where denial becomes institutionalized and systemic (Ibid:94).
Denial in social groups is exacerbated by communication failure and by powerful interests that benefit from keeping denial working in their favour. On a cultural level, multiple individual cases of denial leads to normalization, then ignoring which develops into collusion: 'People trying to look innocent by not noticing' (Ibid:xii). Here cultures of 'splitting' develop characterized by dissociation and psychic numbing (Ibid:93). Cohen describes how cultures plagued by high levels of denial escape into a state that he calls 'innerism', defined as an 'escape from the public sphere into private life and consumer interests' (Ibid:156). The spectacles of consumer capitalism clearly provide sufficient distractions.
Cohen's work on denial has useful insights for the communication of ecological literacy. Collective acknowledgement must become an explicit goal. Cohen explains that 'acknowledgement is what happens to knowledge when it becomes officially sanctioned and enters public discourse' (Ibid:225). Collective acknowledgement is transformational as it 'makes previously normalized conditions into social problems… [and]…social institutions, policy strategies, and, even a new language are in place to undermine denial and encourage and channel individual acknowledgement' (Ibid:250). This dramatic change comes about through the work of social movements and public discourses that aim to chip away and eventually shatter denial. Strategies for breaking denial involve creating the individual and social capacity for acceptance of circumstances. Social movements use processes of consciousness-raising or politicization to effect this change (Ibid:11). Tactics for breaking denial aim beyond merely presenting the facts and invoking moral arguments to directly addressing the social and psychological mechanisms that support denial.
Learning to accept denial as a natural phenomenon and not demonize those who perpetuate denial (despite the destructive consequences that are a result of the lack of political will and motivation for change) must be a foundational concept for effective environmental communication. Understanding the psychological processes of denial can help communicators assist individuals through the difficult process of acknowledging and reacting to disturbing environmental information. Getting to the point where denial is acknowledged and actively addressed is key. Cohen explains:
Instead of agonizing about why denial occurs, we should take this state for granted. The theoretical question is not 'why do we shut out?' but 'what do we ever not shut out?' The empirical problem is not uncover yet ever more evidence of denial, but to discover the conditions under which information is acknowledged and acted upon. The political problem is how to create these conditions. This reframes the classic studies of obedience: instead of asking why most people obey authority so unthinkingly, let us look again and again at the consistent minority – nearly on-third, after all – who refuse to obey (Ibid:249).
Communication strategies can be designed to turn denial into a category of social deviance. For example, drawing analogies from the feminist struggle, compare the social acceptability of misogyny in 1950 versus 2011. Environmental communicators must work to make denial of ecological conscience as socially unacceptable as misogyny.1 Pressure groups and social movements work on shattering denial to end the normalization of ignoring and help create collective acknowledgement. Cohen's work is based on denial of human rights abuses rather the harm humanity perpetuates on the natural world but the lessons learned from these struggles can inform an understanding of denial of ecological relations. History has witnessed radical social change in the past where new moral codes were created and we have consciously changed power dynamics, laws and institutions accordingly (obvious examples are the civil rights, feminist and anti-colonization movements). Similar strategies are now needed to encounter denial of ecological relations in order to move to acknowledgement and action.
This text is re-published (slightly edited) from my 2012 PhD 'The Visual Communication of Ecological Literacy: Designing, Learning and Emergent Ecological Perception', which is available here.
2012: 'The World is Not Ending. It is the Opposite'
Over the holidays I have read the latest Club of Rome report Bankrupting Nature. I did this not because I enjoy reading non-fiction over Christmas but because I am grateful for the time I have to celebrate and I am compelled to consider how others will be able to do the same considering the deterioration of global ecological systems.
Two things became apparent: 1) the extinction crises is accelerating, 2) we have more knowledge and understanding than ever to address ecological and social crises. That second point was the good news. The bad news is that I can say with some confidence, as someone who works in London at the interface of environmental communication, ecological informed design and sustainability education, that we are simply not making the ecological crises a priority. Instead of using the wealth that is still abundant in this country to address environmental problems – we are squandering the opportunities we now have to catalyze transformation.
With severe ecological destabilization, possibilities for future prosperity disappear. Yet in education and economic policy, the basic fact that we depend on the stability and abundance of the Earth is largely ignored. We are simply not building the social institutions that would enable social transformation. Part of the problem rests with the educational establishment; ecologically literacy is still marginal in higher education. For this reason, the capacity to understand, much less respond to current problems is extraordinarily low. This blog will review the state of our capacities for cultural transformation in the UK at the end of 2012 by looking (very briefly) at social institutions and social movements. I will start by proposing that we take note of the words of the Mayan people.
In 2012 we survived the final of all the anticipated 'end of the worlds' and the media typically simultaneously mocked and commercialized what became the spectacle of the end of Mayan Long Count calendar, the 5,125-year cycle that ended on 21 December 2012. A film called '2012 The Mayan Word' documented the voices of the Mayan people who had some potent things to say:
"The world is not ending. It is the opposite: we are finishing ourselves off…The prophecies are given for us to check ourselves. What are we doing? It's clear that if we don't do anything to recover the equilibrium of Mother Earth, we are digging our own grave" (Maria Amalia Mex Tu'n, 26 mins). Continue reading


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Transdev Human Resources Generalist in South San Francisco, California
Transdev is the largest private sector operator of multiple modes of passenger transit in North America, providing bus, rail, paratransit, shuttle, sedan and taxi services. We manage over 200 transportation contracts for cities, transit authorities and airports, providing safe and sustainable mobility solutions. Our mission is to improve public transportation, to enhance quality of life and combat global warming. Assists unit leadership in understanding and communication of HR policies and procedures, and handling compliance issues.
Conduct all pre-employment screening such as but not limited to drug testing and back ground verification.
Organize and manage the corporate employee new hire process including all onboarding and orientation.
Responsible for managing benefit enrollment for all employees.
Responsible for the completion of employee related paperwork, including, employee status changes, pay changes and other confidential employee data.
Assist with the termination process, including completion of paperwork and collection of employee equipment.
Consults with operations management on human resource issues related to hiring, compensation, training and development, disciplinary actions and terminations
Assists with the understanding of human resource policies and procedures
Handles compliance issues
Coordinates the hiring process including candidate screening, hiring, new employee set-up, payroll, and leaves of absence
Serves as the liaison between the unit and the Regional Human Resource Director
Maintains confidentiality of all information
Maintain an understanding of policies, procedures, and regulations relevant to HR. Provide HR policy guidance and interpretation.
Responsible for FMLA/ADA issues.
Travel requirement: 25% between locations (San Jose, South San Francisco, Stockton).
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Strong written and oral communication skills; strong presentation skills
HRIS, ADP, and investigative experience preferred
Travel requirement (as a percent): Frequent travel to meet the needs of the business
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100% of work is accomplished indoors and in air conditioned or well ventilated facilities
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The 50 albums we agreed whipped the most ass this year.
Our favorite tracks from the past year.
Twenty-five albums that hit the hardest from the past 12 months.
Two metal heavyweights on tour together this fall.
The records that made the first six months of the year worth remembering.
Celebrating a label that helped to change the metal landscape.
Hear our Album of the Week, and one of the best metal albums of the year so far.
A densely layered metal triumph that's also a lot of fun to listen to.
Hear the third single from the band's new album, <i>Down Below</i>.
Hopes for the coming year in metal.
Franz Ferdinand, Panda Bear, The Soft Moon, Lucy Dacus and more.
Hear the second single from the Swedish metal band's upcoming album.
Watch the new video for "The Lament."
Tribulation have announced their fourth album. On January 26, the band will release Down Below via Century Media. Before that, on December 22, the band will release a new 7-inch titled "Lady Death," which is the first single from the album. The full details of Down Below haven't been revealed, though the band has said […]
Following a spring jaunt on the Decibel magazine tour, Swedish dark metal outfit Tribulation will return to North America for another round of tour dates in support of 2015′s Children of the Night. The band kicks off the fall U.S. tour with an appearance at Psycho Las Vegas, which features a bunch of other great […]
Dumb flesh, Afrofunk and the best live band in the world.
There's only a couple weeks left in 2015, and we're ready to call it. As years go, this was a pretty dark one for the planet, and it's reflected in the music that we listened to. The best hip-hop records of the year reflected the racial divide that still exists no matter how much progress […]
The best of what was heavy in 2015.
Abbath and Skeletonwitch also on the bill.
Band on tour with Envy, Tribulation.


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Peak District
Ashbourne (1.3mls S), Peak District
Ashbourne (1.9 mls N), Peak District
Guests staying at this cottage will be spoilt for choice with options to keep them entertained during their stay. A delightful location with nearby pretty villages and expansive walks across the valleys and dales.
Guests staying at this barn will be spoilt for choice with options to keep them entertained during their stay. A delightful location with nearby pretty villages and expansive walks across the valleys and dales.
Enjoy this countryside escape in the Peak District, benefitting from a fantastic location and an abundance of park facilities within easy reach of the property.
Bradbourne, Peak District
A delightful picturesque property offering guests an intimate rural retreat in a lovely quiet village with easy access to the whole of the Peak District. Exposed beams give this property a real sense of character.
Parwich, Peak District
An enchanting 1850's stone cottage nestled in a village with great access to the Peak District National Park. The enticing woodburner and charming exposed beams create an intimate atmosphere for cosy nights in.
Ashbourne (3.7 mls NE), Peak District
This lodge is nestled in a special spot, the views have to be seen to be believed. Perfect romantic retreat with a wood burner for those chillier evenings. One bedroom, open-plan lounge/kitchen/dining.
Ashbourne, Peak District
An attractive cottage with original features, an interesting character and plenty of space. Located within walking distance of the local pub, shop and post office in the village of Ashbourne.
Situated on the Bentley Brook, the most prominent building is the Old Hall, now called Cherry Orchard Farm, dating from the late 15th century. Also explore around the Church of St Edmund which has a bizarre monument to Thomas and Agnes Beresford who, together with their 21 children are shown totally covered in a shroud. For walkers and cyclists the Tissington Trail and Dovedale are nearby.
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Blog: (VIDEO) Critical Q&A 54 - 2016-04-24
The show where I answer your questions. Please leave any comments or feedback in the comments section here below. I see everything and want to hear from you. This week, the questions I take up are:
(1) Chris, your explanation of how you recovered people by first acknowledging that they had suffered a legitimate wrong got me wondering if those wrongs were ever redressed? Like, if they got bad auditing, were the auditors ever forced to apologize? If they were defrauded by desperate regges, were they ever refunded? Was anything other than an acknowledgement of what happened to them being wronged ever doled out on your authority or the authority of those you reported to, that you know of?
(2) I am very curious about this cult. I have seen many videos and read many articles. However I am still confused about how the financial portion works. If a person is earning pennies in the church how do they pay for auditing and books? And how could those employed outside the church spend hours auditing and studying while still maintaining their jobs? Could you please spend time explaining how the money works.


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Wait... money > Constitution??
Politics gets to be a real hairy issue when money is involved. I've always placed the Constitution ahead of money, but my living isn't based on spending it to get elected to office... an office which ironically is sworn to protect and obey the Constitution. Hmmmmmm... we gotta get these rat bastards out. Not only the corporatist DINOs but the Bush crime family as well.
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Director: Assurance and Accounting
Simone's background in Accounting and Tax started with a B.Com degree in Accountancy attained at Stellenbosch University, thereafter completing her BCompt (Bcom) Honours and articles, as well as passing both SAICA board exams at first attempt to qualify as a Chartered Accountant with leading accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Johannesburg.
From 2009 she worked as Relationship Manager for private wealth management firm Stonehage Financial Services, while also heading up the South African Accounting department for the same firm.
Simone started Acredo Accounting (Pty) Ltd (then called Simone Coetzee Consulting) in 2012.


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Great start to day one of #RUL10DoT here at Regent's university. I posted the first task on the course blog in the morning which was to set up a Twitter account or for those who already had one to update their biography and photo. Subsequently, I've had a couple of emails saying people hadn't received their confirmation emails fro twitter but I think their up and running so I guess all is fine now. Also their has been some discussion about the type of photo to use…should it be a personal shot (on holiday)? and how would this be perceived if the twitter account to be used mainly for work
The #RUL10DoT course was launched with a Twitter workshop on 'Getting stated with Twitter' in the morning which I jointly ran with Andy Horton. We had 10 people in the workshop and 4 of them had never used Twitter so by the end of the session they had all set up their accounts. The others had accounts but hadn't really used them or knew what to Tweet about.
During the workshop we gave a brief overview of Twitter covering:
- Notifications
- Discover
- 'Me'
- Search
- Direct Messages
- Profile
- Seding a Tweet
- Hashtags
We then gave them a pack of cards adapted from Sue Beckingham's slideshow and asked them to send a Tweet using the course hashtag #RUL10DoT. Their second task was to send a 'Selfie' using the Hastag #RULselfie:) Below are a couple of examples:
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Fans of the Memorial Garden at the Birmingham Museum of Art are in for a big surprise. Renovations of the garden, which is managed and cared for by the Red Mountain Garden Club, are complete after almost seven years of work.
The garden was built almost 60 years ago at the museum's then-entrance, but many things have changed in that time.
Garden club member Elizabeth Poynor said that when she "inherited" the garden in 2007, it wasn't in the best shape. She and her crew began working to bring more sculptures out of museum basements and storage to spruce up the garden while also employing Mountain Brook landscape architect Norman Kent Johnson and the New York-based Charles Stone as a lighting designer.
All in all, it was a project that cost more than $125,000. Poynor said the club first turned to the Collat family and then to other families and businesses in Birmingham to make the renovation a reality.
Now, eight years later, the renovations are finally complete and the club debuted the garden's fresh look at a cocktail party in November. Garden club members and guests enjoyed wine and tapas while watching the garden's new lights come on at sunset.
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The sale will be Dec. 2, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., on the first floor. Parking will be plentiful in the underground deck and visitors can purchase wreaths, mailbox decorations, kissing balls, garlands and boxwood trees in addition to a curated selection of gifts and arrangements. The sale is being co-chaired by Amy Ager and Kimberly Bean. Pre-order forms are available online at www.redmountaingardenclub.com.


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Michael Cheika is not expecting an apology from the New Zealand Rugby Union for inferences that the Wallabies were behind the bugging of the All Blacks' hotel room in Sydney last year.
Cheika said he was "surprised" to hear an All Blacks security consultant was charged over the discovery of a listening device hidden in the foam of a chair in a meeting room at the Intercontinental Hotel.
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I'm 34 years old and I've never experience any pleasure while having sex with with any of the 3 women I've slept with, including a girlfriend I had sex with a hundred or more times. I recieve little pleasure with or without a condom. My penis is capable of pleasure when I masturbate, however, I require rough surfaces or significant friction to derive pleasure. The most pleasure I get is if I put lots of lube inside a condom and masturbate by sliding the condom tightly over my penis. I've only had a brief problem with ED when I was 19, but never had any problems with ED with the 2 other partners after that point, whom I met several years later at age 27 onward.
I believe the cause of my lack of sensation is 20+ years of rough masturbation techniques, which included porn involving obsessively looking for specific types of women's bodies. While I've always desired deep meaningful romantic relationships and respected women for 'who they are' rather than just their bodies, I've had this 'other world' of porn and I think it may be a big contributing factor to my lack of enjoyment with women. I never got into any bizarre types of porn, just basic standard sex, but I think the constant flipping around to different videos in search of 'ideal' women might also have had a negative effect. Though, I'm not completely sure to what degree the porn is responsible since I can still get masturbation pleasure with the rough methods even without any porn or fantasy.
I've come across the YourBrainOnPorn site a few months ago and have decided to abstain from all porn, masturbation, and fantasy for a period of 84 days. I'm going to abstain from porn permanently, and will see how I feel after the 84 days about the rest of the stuff. Perhaps this will turn into a longer experiment. I'm considering only pursuing real sexual experiences once the 84 days is done and forgo any masturbation indefinitely. I'll see how things go in that regard.
I haven't had sex in about 3 years so I can't be sure if I am healed at all. What tells me that I'm not is that if I put a condom on and put lube on the outside and stroke my penis I feel very little sensation with any level of tightness. A friend of mine says that light stroking in that way gives him significant pleasure. So, it would seem I'm still desensitized.
I'm currently at day 37 of my experiment and I tested my penis using the condom method described above, with just a few strokes to see if anything changed, but there was still very little pleasure, so it would seem there has been no change. Perhaps it is too early expect any different, however, part of me is worrying that the problem is purely the nerves of the penis and not in the brain.
I'm wondering if anyone has had similar experiences and success in restoring penis sensation in the regard. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
Day 83
So, I made up this far, with no porn or orgasm. I masturbated today without any porn using a light grip and lube, to make sure I did't use prior tight and rough methods. Unfortunately, I didn't experience any pleasure at any point including orgasm. So, it seems 83 days is not enough, provided there's no other issue at work. Going to continue the abstinence, this time I'm going to try to reduce any fantasy since I had engaged in it here and there.
I just wanted to follow up and bump this post, because I'm curious if anyone has experienced the situation of not having ED but having no sensation, and if anyone's aware of stories regarding this. It seems most people are ED sufferers, so it's hard to find my specific issue. If anyone has anything to share regarding this, thanks in advance. Best of luck everyone in their rebooting efforts.
Sorry you're not yet seeing the improvements you're seeking
There are a couple of good techniques for "waking up Mr. Happy" on this page: Tips For Former Fappers
Let us know how it goes.
Thanks for the link
I'll definitely share my results for others who may be experiencing the same issues.
taking any medications?
just wondering if that could be involved.
Fantasy can really hold your brain back from rewiring so it's good you're addressing that.
Great going so far!
It had occurred to me...
Though, my fantasizing wasn't too elaborate. Basically, seeing women in public would create the strong desire and I would yearn to attempt to hit on them. However, I didn't go so far as imagining intercourse with them. I kept having fantasies about future sex with a woman after the experiment, though. My original plan was to go 84 days, then seek out a woman to see if things had improved. Of course, this led me to keep thinking about that event, which perhaps wasn't helpful. Mostly I'd imagine the buildup to the intercourse and not too much more than that, so I'm not sure how much that would effect things.
I did often engage in the feeling of desire/attraction I'd feel towards women when I saw them, without necessarily imagining sex. This abstinence experiment made that feeling to be quite more intense and pleasureable than normal. I'd almost call it a 'high', like a drug. It's quite impressive what abstinence does. Even after I heal myself, I might abstain just to recieve those sensations. :)
Anyhow, perhaps this time I will try to just not engage any thoughts or glances at women at all, and see if that speeds things up.
if you are going to fantasize...
...it's best to fantasize by rehearsing the process of asking a woman out, than it is, say, having sex with a woman or some "goal" being reached. Studies revealed that contrary to positive thinking gurus, students who imaged themselves as acing a test studied less and did poorly compared to students who didn't image that. But when you image yourself DOING a process that WILL lead to success, you are more likely to actually do that process. If you feel yourself mentally asking a woman out, approaching a woman cold, approaching a group of girls in a club, etc., you are more likely to actually be able to do that successfully. In other words, use fantasy to imagine the process you want to be able to do, rather than the result you want to achieve.
my take (I'm 27)
I felt like my penis was de-sensitized until Day 90-100. I had gotten in the habit of some pretty rough masturbation techniques that had left some noticeable skin damage on my unit (you can still see a little, thought it's mostly healed- I'm on Day 119 of no PMO). I felt a noticeable change in the sensitivity one day- I described it at the time as my brain starting to feel "softer". One day I woke up and had just turned a corner and it's continued to improve. Basically, when I touch it (going to the bathroom or something), it just feels like a kind of soft tender thing with lots of sensation. Which is good because my biggest problem was delayed ejaculation and weakened erection strength, not ED (only happened once in my life). So, based on my experience, I would say don't start PMOing until you feel the sensitivity come back to your brain. You'll know when it happens. Give it another month and see where you are.
Thanks for sharing
My current idea was no sexual thoughts or activities for 30 days (not being too strict becase sometimes it seems unavoidable). So, I will see if the same thing occurs for me as you describe.
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Wow this is a lot of insightful Information. I like what Emerson said about imagining the process and not the goal. I believe that I was masturbating in all the wrong ways also.thanks and good luck


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Description of problem:
I used currently available files from 'isolinux' directory and
tried to start anaconda booting over a network. I see on my
anaconda installer init version 220.127.116.11 starting
mounting /tmp as ramfs... done
running install...
running /sbin/loader
Now I would expect to see that usb-storage module is loaded
followed, in my case, by ahci. Nothing happens. Anaconda just
sits there. On other screens I see, as the last thing, "USB hub found"
and "2 ports detected" which follows messages for other USB ports.
FC6 installer does boot on the same hardware although it requires
considerable coaxing (pci=nommconf irqpoll all-generic-ide).
Adding such options does not change a picture here.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
on every try
Additional info:
Files used have dates from 2007-Feb-21 and this is x86_64 hardware
and 2.6.20-1.2936.fc7 kernel.
Does this happen with today's rawhide?
> Does this happen with today's rawhide?
I am afraid so. The only difference is that now I see
anaconda installer init version 126.96.36.199 starting
and a kernel version used is 2.6.20-1.2947.fc7 but the rest
looks exactly the same as before.
I see that I did not mention that before - this is x86_64
machine I am trying to boot that way.
I will be not able to hold to that machine which refuses to boot
for too long. Hence I tried the same experiment with quite a bit
older box (my regular test machine). This one boots; at least well
enough that a server directory which I try to feed it for further
loading is of a wrong version - which is correct. :-) But a machine
which boots is using sata_via and sata_promise controllers.
While trying to boot a machine which gets into trouble when I look
what I ended with on "INFO" screen I see this:
found USB controller ehci-hcd
modules to insert ehci-hcd
loaded ehci-hcd from /modules/modules.cgz
inserted /tmp/ehci-hcd.ko
load module set done
found USB controller ohci-hcd
modules to insert ohci-hcd
loaded ohci-hcd from /modules/modules.cgz
inserted /tmp/ohci-hcd.ko
load module set done
found USB controller ohci-hcd
modules to insert
load module set done
found USB controller ohci-hcd
modules to insert
load module set done
found USB controller ohci-hcd
modules to insert
load module set done
found USB controller ohci-hcd
modules to insert
load module set done
After that the boot is stuck.
On that other machine, if I will stop boot in the right moment,
I can see on "INFO" screen roughly the same thing as above but
with "uhci-hcd" replacing "ohci-hcd". That is followed by
modules to insert hid keybdev
load module set done
no firewire controller found
modules to insert mii e100 skge libata sata_via sata_promise pata_via
followed by correspondig "loaded" and "inserted" messages for all
modules on that list and "load module set done" and we are on
a merry way to continue that process.
An attempt to boot with "nousb" passed to a rawhide kernel
changes the picture somewhat. It looks like that:
no firewire controller found
modules to insert skge libata ahci pata_atiixp
loaded skge from /modules/modules.cgz
loaded libata from /modules/modules.cgz
loaded ahci from /modules/modules.cgz
loaded pata_atiixp from /modules/modules.cgz
inserted /tmp/skge.o
inserted /tmp/libata.o
and I am stuck again with "Loading ahci driver ..." displaying
on a main screen. On "syslog" screen I have a bunch of
"failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x104) and
"SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)" even if there
was "SATA link up 3.0 Gbps" a number of times earlier on that
If I will pass "irqpoll", which was required on that machine
to install FC6, then everything locks up including a keyboard.
Option "all-generic-ide" seems to be ignored. I am getting
with it the same "SATA link down" errors like above.
BTW - the current kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6 from FC6 just boots
and runs on this machine without a need for any additional
boot parameters (a need to turn off MMCONF is autodetected).
Created attachment 148843 [details]
dmesg from 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6
Before will anybody ask. :-) Attached are dmesg from a succesful boot,
an ouput from 'lscpi -tv' and an output of dmidecode for the system
in question
Created attachment 148844 [details]
tree of PCI devices
Created attachment 148845 [details]
dmidecode output
I also tried to boot as described earlier using 'pci=nomsi'. It did
not help. It does not go away like with 'irqpoll' but I could not
squeeze past 'ahci' driver either.
I checked how far I can get with booting kernel-2.6.20-1.2949.fc7.x86_64
on the hardware in question. With various boot options I can
think of, or without, I see on my screen:
Setting up hotplug.
logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 1
input: PS/2 Logitech Mouse as /class/input/input1
and nothing after that. It just sits and waits. Alt-Ctr-Del at that
moment gives "md: stopping all md devices" and reboots.
Created attachment 149228 [details]
2.6.20-1.2962.fc7 booting with 'acpi=off irqpoll'
With anaconda-188.8.131.52-1 boot images (after raid.py) got fixed,
which are using kernel-2.6.20-1.2962.fc7, I can boot the hardware
in question __provided__ I will use 'acpi=off irqpoll'. A kernel
will lock up without 'acpi=off' and if I will skipp 'irqpoll' then
disks are invisible.
Disks in question now show up as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
I attach a full anaconda syslog from such boot (and another one
with 'irqpoll' taken out).
Created attachment 149229 [details]
2.6.20-1.2962.fc7 booting with only 'acpi=off' - no disks
This is an excerpt from anaconda.log from this boot
22:58:53 INFO : inserted /tmp/libata.ko
22:58:55 INFO : inserted /tmp/pata_atiixp.ko
23:02:06 INFO : inserted /tmp/ahci.ko
23:02:06 INFO : modules to insert usb-storage
Note over three minutes gap between inserting pata_atiixp.ko and ahci.ko.
It corresponds to 'ahci' module probing interfaces and getting nowhere.
That corresponds to lines in syslog like:
<6>ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
<4>ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
<4>ata3.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x104)
and more of the same kind.
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported
against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no
longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are
flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer
maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now,
we will automatically close it.
If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or
rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change
the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version
or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.)
Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled
these issues to this point.
The process we're following is outlined here:
We will be following the process here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this
doesn't happen again.
That is really related to bug 436591. I have doubts about NOTABUG
resolution there but no better ideas.


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Before the war he had been doing "educational work" in Huddersfield and was hoping to be called to the Bar. When war broke out, he enlisted as a Private in the Royal Fusiliers, later becoming a Second Lieutenant in the 13th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was killed in action on 25 January 1917 on the Tigris, and is commemorated at the Amara War Cemetery in Iraq, as well as on the memorial in St Jude's Church, Tettenhall.


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Hello! Well I've been here before (and maybe some of you, if you have followed me for a while) I think I've tried to start a blog/website more times than I can count haha. So why am I bothering now when I know I might not commit to it? Who knows, maybe this time is different, but lets see how we go.
I write a lot and think a lot and have a lot of solid interests, although I think this may be the first time I really understand and know what my interests are. I don't think I even knew what I was truly interested in before, because to be honest, I didn't really know me. So how could I give honest content to others when I probably wasn't even being honest with myself.
2017 was a strange year for me, it was the first year in my life where I didn't run around, go crazy and basically do whatever I wanted. It was a grounding year for me. I moved out from home and suddenly had responsibility, so my usual sporadic holidays kind of went down the drain, or what maybe could be better known as, my constant escapisms. It was the first year where I spent most of the year not doing a lot, working at my job, practising yoga and spending time on my own, a lot of time on my own. I feel like I had the time to really visit myself and ask myself questions, what makes you happy Laura? What's important? What do you need? How do you want to spend your time here on this planet we call Earth, how do you REALLY want to live? …I'm not sure I have really ever truthfully asked myself these questions without my ego answering them for me or without pushing them to the side and thinking well this seems good, this is what I should like/should be doing etc. However this time she (ego) wasn't there; it was just my soul wondering why life suddenly feels so different and things that we are told we should be aiming for aren't actually the things I want and learning that actually, this is me, speaking to me, for what feels like the first time.
Yoga honestly changed my life intensely in 2017.
Learning to not worry so much, understanding what being calm truly is, made me realise how damaging a lot of things I was doing/am still doing are. The modern world forces us into this cycle of work work work, make more and more money (then spend it all) and then think about time for yourself later. This needs to be flip reversed. You are way more important than your pay check. Live your truth, make the time to do the things that make you feel alive. Breathe, love, be and stop the glorification of busy (its nice to take time out) Be love, so then you can love others.
I am writing this in our spare room, under the velux window with the blue sky bursting through. It's windy and that's all I can hear. I am home alone, I am happy. I feel calm, content and excited for what is to come in 2018 and I randomly felt like this year I wanted to share that a lot more, I want to talk about my interests, I want to connect with like minded souls and I want to bare all, because life is about connection, unity, sharing and loving so we can all support each other to live healthy, happy and beautiful lives. So here I am, hoping you will join me.
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The US ambassador to Russia has announced he is stepping down after two turbulent years in Moscow.
Michael McFaul is considered the architect of President Barack Obama's effort to improve relations with Russia.
McFaul can point to many successes in US-Russian relations, including the negotiation of a new strategic arms treaty and co-operation on the Nato-led military campaign in Afghanistan. But his tenure also has brought disappointments in the face of the rising anti-Americanism in Russia that accompanied Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency.
The ambassador announced his departure in a blogpost on Tuesday, saying he would leave after the Sochi Winter Olympics. He explained that, having lived apart from his wife for seven months, "it is time for the family to be reunited".
"I love my job here. It has been a tremendous honour to represent my country in Russia and I made this decision with a heavy heart," McFaul said. "I will greatly miss interacting with my partners in the Russian government and with Russians from all sectors of society and business. I also will miss being part of a fantastic team at Embassy Moscow."
A longtime Stanford University professor, McFaul said he would be returning to California. His wife and two sons had returned home last year.


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Beyonce, Queen B, Bey–whatever you wanna call her–likes to keep her personal life private. You won't see her posting unedited shots of her on vacation or photos of her making goofy faces at Blue Ivy on her public social media accounts. Luckily for us, we have the next best thing: her mom's Instagram account.
Yes, Tina Lawson (formerly Knowles) is an open book and we can't get enough of her. Everything she posts is unfiltered–full of hilarious bloopers, angry faces and random commentary.
Here she is modelling her new vacay outfit & then almost tripping
Um, Tina Turner… is that you?
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