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Cornmeal Cake
1¾ cups blue cornmeal
½ cup yellow cornmeal
1 1/3 cups cold water
3 cups boiling water
¼ cup bulghur wheat
¼ cup raisins
¼ cup brown sugar
In a large bowl, combine the two types of cornmeal.
Slowly add the cold water to the cornmeal mixture, stirring to avoid lumps. Mix well.
Slowly add the boiling water to the cornmeal mixture, stirring to avoid lumps.
Add the bulghur wheat, raisins and brown sugar, and mix well.
Line an 8 x 8 inch baking pan with foil. Pour the batter on top of the foil. Cover with more foil and bake at 250° for 4 hours. Remove the foil cover and bake an additional 30 minutes. Cake will be very moist, similar to densely cooked cereal.
Cut cake into 9 squares.
Flavors of Fiesta
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City of Lincoln
Mayor's Office
Media Release
Mayor Coleen J. Seng today presented the Mayor's Award of Excellence for September to Cori Huenink of the Parks and Recreation Department and for October to Nancy Brienzo of Aging Services. The monthly awards recognize City employees who consistently provide exemplary service and work that demonstrates personal commitment to the City. The awards were presented at the beginning of today's City Council meeting.
Huenink has worked for the City since May 2001. She is the Lead Supervisor at the Air Park West Recreation Center. She was nominated in the category of customer relations by Doug Kasparek, Director of the Air Park Recreation Center, and Terri Krejdl, Neighborhood Center Supervisor.
After a resignation, Huenink served as Acting Director of the Center until Kasparek was hired. In addition to staff supervision, building maintenance, rule and policy enforcement, program reports, budgeting, billing and other duties, Huenink added a Teen Night to the schedule. The nominators said Huenink deserved the award for her skills, effort, initiative and desire to serve the community. Parks and Recreation Director Lynn Johnson said her enthusiasm and experience were very valuable during the transition period.
"During this time, Cori demonstrated an outstanding commitment by doing all of her work without one complaint," wrote the nominators. "She performed the responsibilities above her position as Lead Supervisor and encouraged and promoted excellence in others with her attitude, direction, ideas, passion for doing a good job...." The nominators also noted that while Huenink's work hours increased, her pay rate did not, and as a part-time seasonal employee, she is not eligible for benefits from the City.
Brienzo has worked for the City since 1993. She is an Aging Specialist III in the Lincoln Information for the Elderly (LIFE) Division of Aging Services. She was nominated in the category of productivity by Joyce Kubicek, manager of the LIFE program.
The LIFE program was asked to collaborate on an application for a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Community Health Endowment. Brienzo volunteered to work with LIFE Director DeLayne Peck to develop a plan for a team to reach out to the elderly who could not leave their homes to receive medical care.
The successful grant application resulted in the Black Bag Project, which addresses the health needs of homebound, chronically ill individuals. Brienzo served as the project's first geriatric care manager, working with physicians and nurses to provide home-based care and developing the required forms and record-keeping,
"Nancy provided excellent care management to the elderly clients enrolled in the project, and because of budget constraints, Nancy performed her regular duties at LIFE and also staffed the Black Bag Project," wrote Kubicek in her nomination. "When we were able to hire new staff, she trained and served as mentor to the next Black Bag care manager."
More than 100 elderly people in the community benefitted from the program, which was featured in "Roll Call" newspaper in Washington, D.C. and received the Horizon Award from the Community Health Endowment.
The other categories in which employees can be nominated are valor, safety and loss prevention. All City employees are eligible for the Mayor's Award of Excellence except for elected officials and some managers. Individuals or teams can be nominated by supervisors, peers, subordinates and the general public.
Nomination forms are available from department heads, employee bulletin boards or the Personnel Department, which oversees the awards program. All nominations are reviewed by the Mayor's Award of Excellence Committee, which includes a representative with each union and a non-union representative appointed by the Mayor. Award winners receive a $100 U.S. savings bond, a day off with pay and a plaque. Monthly winners are eligible to receive the annual award, which comes with a $500 U.S. savings bond, two days off with pay and a plaque.

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How Old Is Old?
by Kathiann M. Kowalski
At a mammoth sandstone boulder called Jinmium, in what is today known as Australia's Northern Territory, ancient people painted figures and carved designs in the rock's crevices and sheltered areas while camping at the site. Just how old is Jinmium's art? Scientists used a complicated process called luminescence dating to find out.
Luminescence dating calculates age by measuring light energy (luminescence) released when minerals in soil sediments or old pottery are re-exposed to heat or light after being covered for long periods of time. At Jinmium, blowing sand eventually covered and buried the tools used by ancient people at the site. In 1996, scientists used luminescence dating to date soil sediments found at the same depth as the buried tools. Assuming the tools are the same age as the sediments they are buried in, scientists should have been able to determine the age of the art itself. The process, however, surprisingly dated the soil sediments at between 116,000 and 176,000 years old—that's more than twice as long as anyone thought people even lived in Australia!
At Katanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo, similarly startling results said sediments containing carved harpoon points were 80,000 years old. However, archaeologists thought people hadn't started making such tools until 40,000 years ago. In Siberia, luminescence dating gave stone artifacts an incredibly old age of 260,000 years!
Why such weird test results? What can scientists do to ensure accurate dating of ancient objects?
Luminescence dating uses heat (thermoluminescence, or TL) or light (optically stimulated luminescence, or OSL) to date pottery and soil sediments. The pottery has to have been previously heated in fire, and the soil sediments have to have been previously exposed to sunlight, and then covered or buried, for the dating process to work. Microscopic defects, which occur naturally within common mineral crystals in the pottery or sediments, act as "traps" for energy released from trace amounts of natural radioactive elements in the surrounding ground where they are buried. These traps were emptied by the original exposure to heat or sunlight. During burial, energy was again trapped. After excavation, re-heating the mineral or re-exposing it to light in the lab empties the traps, releasing light energy.
"So the longer the grain stayed buried, the more light is emitted in the lab," explains Bert Roberts at La Trobe University in Australia, because there was more time for energy to accumulate within the traps.
Scientists measure luminescence with an instrument called a photomultiplier tube. Information about the trace radioactive elements available where the soil sediments were collected tells how much energy was stored each year. "This energy is derived from the nuclear decay of radioactive elements," explains Roberts, referring to the rate at which radioactive isotopes of materials such as uranium, thorium, and potassium "degrade" to stable, nonradioactive elements. Total energy stored, divided by energy stored each year, equals the number of years since the last heating or burial away from sunlight.
When used correctly, luminescence dating can date from almost the present back to 150,000 years or more. In contrast, carbon dating methods can go back only about 50,000 years.
Rubble Trouble and Other Problems
But luminescence dating, like other measurement methods, has limitations. "For sediments, the main problem is whether the sediment at the time of deposition [burial or placement away from heat or light] was exposed to sunlight or heat for long enough to empty all the traps," says Jim Feathers at the University of Washington. If the traps' "clocks" haven't been reset to zero, luminescence dating overestimates the age.
"This is the definite cause [for the error] at Jinmium," agrees Roberts. After reanalyzing those sediments, Roberts concluded earlier this year that the real age of Jinmium's rock art is closer to—and probably even less than—10,000 years.
At Jinmium, Roberts believes unexposed grains of sediment came from chunks of sandstone that fell from the rock and were covered, along with the ancient people's tools, by windblown soil. Although the chunks' outer layers were exposed to sunlight along with the sediments they fell on, their insides might never have had their "clocks" reset by sunlight. When the covered sandstone chunks eventually crumbled, those unexposed sandstone grains mixed with the surrounding sediment being tested by thermoluminescence dating, causing wild overestimation of the sediments' age.
To neutralize this problem, which he calls "rubble trouble," Roberts developed OSL methods that can date single sediment grains.
"It was no surprise to me when the Jinmium TL dates started tumbling as soon as I started dating single grains," he says.
Roberts first used the method to date sand embedded in a fossilized mud-wasp nest in Australia. Since the fossilized nest lay over part of a rock painting, this enabled him to date the oldest known painting of a human figure anywhere in the world—more than 17,000 years old!
Reality Tests
How can scientists tell if laboratory results are correct? "Simply, the first 'test' is whether or not the results appear plausible in the light of all the other collected knowledge of the site or problem being tackled by dating," says archaeologist Nigel Spooner at Australian National University. Is that socket wrench really from Babylonian times, or could it have been buried accidentally in older soil sediments?
Internal checks are another test. Some crystal traps are more light-sensitive than others. "The more sensitive ones are more likely to have been fully emptied by sunlight," explains Jim Feathers, meaning their "clocks" are reset to zero more quickly. "Agreement in age determination from both kinds of traps is one indication the sample was well exposed to sun in antiquity." Reproducibility—getting the same results when the test is repeated—is another sign of reliability.
"The best test of any dating method is to compare the answer with some independent form of evidence," says Roberts. Carbon dating and nearby fossil evidence are two possible crosschecks.
As laboratories fine-tune luminescence dating, the technique promises to benefit archaeologists, geologists, and other scientific disciplines. "Always keep in mind the shortcomings of the various methods and the materials and situations in which they are applicable," recommends Spooner. Indeed, with any scientific measurement, double check your results, and don't just blindly accept the numbers.
Radioactive Rocks
Low levels of radioactivity occur practically everywhere. Elements such as uranium, radium, and thorium are found in soil and rock in tiny concentrations, called trace amounts, in many areas. Other elements that are not normally radioactive, such as potassium or carbon, have some radioactive isotopes. An isotope is a form of an element that has the same number of protons but differs in its molecular weight because of one or more extra neutrons.
By giving off energy in forms including alpha rays and beta rays, radioactive materials "decay" over time to stable, nonradioactive elements. A radioactive material's half-life is the time in years for half of a quantity of that material to decay, or change. Generally, each type of radioactive material has its own constant rate of decay. For example, the half-life of U238, an isotope of uranium, is 4.51 billion years. By knowing the specific type of radioactive materials present at a site, scientists can calculate how much energy was given off and trapped in crystal defects per year.
- isotope: One of two or more atoms having the same atomic number but different mass numbers.
- nuclear: Of, relating to, or using energy that comes from the nuclei of atoms.
- radioactive: Of, caused by, or having the process or property by which certain chemical elements, such as radium, give off energy in the form of rays.
- In Lesson 2, you learned about the different soil layers. In which soil layer do you think the scientists found the boulder called Jinmium? Why?
[anno: Answers may vary but could include that the scientists probably found Jinmium in the subsoil layer. The article says that over time Jinmium was covered by sand, so this would put Jinmium under the topsoil layer.]
- What is the name of the process scientists used to date Jinmium?
[anno: The scientists use a method called luminescence dating.]
- How does this process measure time?
[anno: Luminescence dating measures the amount of heat or light trapped within a particle of soil.]
- Why is this method of measuring an object's age not always accurate?
[anno: This method is not always accurate because sometimes older soil gets mixed in with newer soil when something is buried. If scientists are measuring trapped heat and light in older soil, they will think an object is older than it really is.]


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Although the Christmas season is a fun time of year, there are some Christmas safety tips that should always be adhered to so that your family can enjoy the season.
Christmas Tree Safety
A decorated evergreen tree is a long-standing Christmas tradition. However, Christmas trees pose a safety hazard because they can dry out and easily catch fire. Here are 3 Christmas tree safety tips:
- Purchase A Fresh Christmas Tree. A tree that was cut too long ago will already have begun to dry out, making it more of a fire hazard. How to check if the Christmas tree is fresh:
- Pull on the needles. They should be hard to pull back from the branches and should not easily break off.
- The needles should be a fresh, beautiful green.
- The tree trunk should be sticky when you touch it.
- Bounce the trunk on the ground. If a lot of needles fall off, the tree is too dry.
- Christmas Tree Care.
- When you set up the Christmas tree, set it away from heat sources. This includes fireplaces, heat vents, and stoves. Not only will the heat cause the tree to dry out, but a flyaway spark could set the tree on fire.
- Do not smoke near your tree.
- Don't set the tree up too early and don't leave it up too long. Leave your tree up for about 2 weeks total, if possible.
- Make sure the tree stand is full of water at all times. You may need to check it multiple times a day. If you're concerned about spills, you can add a Water Guard Christmas Tree Skirt that will protect your floors from water spills.
- Dispose Of The Christmas Tree Properly. When you notice that the tree is dry, dispose of it immediately. Check for local recycling centers or see if your community has a Christmas tree pick-up service.
If you don't have time to practice all of these Christmas tree safety tips, you can always invest in an artificial pre-decorated artificial Christmas tree.
7 Easy Christmas Light Safety Tips
Lights are another long-standing Christmas tradition in many homes across the nation. In addition to dry Christmas trees, Christmas lights are another leading cause of holiday fires. The following are some ways that you can observe safety at Christmas when decorating with lights.
- Do not use a strand of lights if bulbs are missing or broken. Instead, purchase new lights or replace the bulbs.
- Inspect your lights for frayed wires, cracked sockets, and gaps in the insulation. Throw them out if they are damaged.
- If you have lights that are over 3 years old, purchase new ones. Look for the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) seal of approval on any lights you buy.
- Unplug the lights before you put them up or take them down.
- When you are linking strands of lights together, try to keep it to a minimum of 3 strands. If you need more length, hook the strands into an extension cord and begin with a new strand.
- Do not place strands of lights on the ground where someone could step on them or trip on them.
- Touch the wires every couple days to see if they are warm. If they are, there could be a problem with the strand and you should replace it.


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André Bazin's Writings
Dudley Andrew's essay on Bazin and Sartre in the new Film Quarterly opens with a shocking fact:
Stacked nearly a meter high in my attic are photocopies of all--or nearly all--Bazin's published writings. This amounts to over 2600 items, of which, scandalously, less than seven per cent are available in French or English.
To which Andrew appends this uncertain note: "Cahiers du Cinéma has rights to all Bazin's published writings. They hope to bring out a complete works some day." For someone who is often thought to be cinema's best-known theorist and critic, and who further was instrumental in the eventual creation of the film studies discipline, this seems baffling.
I've been doing a Bazin immersion the last few weeks, and I'm amazed especially by two things. First, his writings are not about developing a "theory of cinema" in an abstract and 'systematic' manner. Instead, he puts in motion a process of continual exchange between film criticism and film theory. He begins with the films themselves, and their details--formal, stylistic, thematic, etc. His theoretical reflections then arise from a scrutiny of these details. Second, it's striking to see how he did all his theory and criticism work in full public view. As Bert Cardullo points out, Bazin's writings were produced for a range of publications that were variously aligned: liberal (L'Écran Francais); socialist (France-Observateur); left-wing Catholic (Esprit and Radio-Cinéma-Télévision, now Télérama); non-religious and state-run (L'Education Nationale); and conservative (Le Parisien libéré). In addition, of course, he co-founded and wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma. It's staggering to be reminded of how much he accomplished before he contracted leukemia at 36 and died at 40 in 1958.
Today I've been inventorying all the English-language translations of Bazin's writings on my shelves:
-- The two volumes of What is Cinema? (1967, 1971), translated by Hugh Gray. They contain many of his best-known pieces like "The Ontology of the Photographic Image," "The Evolution of the Language of Cinema," "The Virtues and Limitations of Montage," "In Defense of Mixed Cinema," and his essays on Italian neo-realism, the Western, Rossellini, Chaplin, Bresson, De Sica, and so on. (I wonder: do these two volumes of translations contain all the essays from the original 4-volume set of Qu'est-ce que le cinéma?)
-- Bazin at Work (1997), edited by Bert Cardullo, with essays on Wyler, Pagnol, adaptation, cinema and theology, Citizen Kane, etc.
-- Jean Renoir (1973), edited by Truffaut.
-- Orson Welles (1978), translated by Jonathan Rosenbaum.
-- The Cinema of Cruelty (1982), with separate sections on: von Stroheim, Dreyer, Sturges, Buñuel, Hitchcock and Kurosawa.
I'm curious: Am I missing any of Bazin's writings available in English?
Starting in the late '60s, the rise of a certain brand of theory--ideological, psychoanalytic, semiotic--was inhospitable and downright hostile to Bazin and his theories of realism inflected by Catholicism and existentialism. In retrospect this was understandable but since the 1980's cinema studies has witnessed the rise of a 'historical turn'. I'm wondering: Has the discipline seen a consequent return to and recuperation of Bazin? Are there signs this might come to pass?
Any ideas you may have on Bazin are welcome.
And now ... fashion? There's a side of me that doesn't get out too much on this blog: a 'foreigner' who's lived in America for two decades but still finds its culture endlessly fascinating (and 'other'). The new issue of Entertainment Weekly has a list of pop culture moments of the last 25 years that influenced fashion. I've gathered here some of the interesting items on it:
Early Madonna (fingerless gloves, lingerie-styled wedding dress, crucifixes); Michael Jackson circa Thriller (Jheri curls, loafers with white socks); Ally McBeal (microminis); Miami Vice (roomy linen suits, sockless loafers); mid-'80s mall pop like Tiffany and Debbie Gibson (biker shorts, skorts, scrunchies); Jennifer Beals in Flashdance (scissored sweatshirts); Gwen Stefani circa No Doubt (white tanks, studded bra straps, bondage pants); Kanye West (those sunglasses); Rihanna (the bob); Janet Jackson circa Rhythm Nation (the military look--epaulets, cadet caps); Pretty in Pink (Molly Ringwald's DIY prom-dress, Duckie's bolo tie); Reality Bites (Lisa Loeb's cat-eye frames); Mr. T in The A-Team (a sort of proto-bling); The Golden Girls (shoulder pads, sequins); early Shania Twain (bare midriffs enter Nashville music culture); Puff Daddy and Mase's "Mo Money Mo Problems" (bright, baggy tracksuits); and Beverly Hills 90210 (sideburns).
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum on Pedro Costa: "I found that, even though I simultaneously loved and had to struggle in diverse ways with all of Costa's films, Casa de Lava, his only landscape film, was the one that blew me away the most."
-- Two fascinating interviews by Michael Guillen: Catherine Breillat and Elvis Mitchell.
-- David Phelps has been on a roll. At his blog Videoarcadia, he has a post with some reflections and links to his writings including his new piece on Ken Jacobs's Razzle Dazzle at Auteurs' Notebook.
-- Glenn Kenny: "Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Brasillach, and Anti-Semitism: Some observations."
-- At his site Jigsaw Lounge, Neil Young on the Edinburgh film festival.


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Here is a list of events of interest to the whole of the North Cornwall Area, future, present and past.
Please add your own events, just click on 'add new comment' and fill in the 'Post a comment' form.
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7Jun2015: Open Farm Sunday @ award winning organic farm
7Jun2015: Open Farm Sunday @ award winning organic farm
Open Farm Sunday, 7th June 2014, registration is LIVE at https://thefoodassembly.com/en/assemblies/169 (under crafts)
So, come get inspired at an Open Day on a
Local Organic Farm powered by renewable energy
on Sunday 7th June, start 2pm, duration 3-4 hours, Cottage Farm, Jacobstow, EX23 0BU
Interested in making your home more environmentally friendly?
Interested in sustainable, organic, environmentally friendly farming?
This is your chance to talk to someone who has done it already!
Cottage Farm is the first SuperHome in Cornwall, a real home where real people have drastically reduced their carbon footprint and their energy bills. Cottage Farm is also a prize winning organic farm powered entirely by renewable energy as well as Farmer of the Year finalist at the BBC Food and Farming Awards and multiple winner at the Cornwall Sustainability Awards.
Since last year Cottage Farm have also gained another prize:
WINNERS of the Cornwall Renewable Energy Awards, Best Integrated Renewable Energy Scheme in Cornwall.
Located in Jacobstow, just 8 miles South of Bude, the farmhouse demonstrates insulation, renewable energy for water and space heating, cooking, electricity, water, transport and the latest in LED lighting. The farm shows off farming powered by renewable energy with near zero use of fossil fuels, farming without fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, routine preventative medication of farm animals or other harmful practices. Instead organic and permaculture principles are applied to all aspects of farming, from selection of old native breeds, rich mixture of deep rooted grassland species matching productivity of chemical farming without any of the destructive side effects, to productive management of hedges and trees for mineral rich fodder and energy from wood.
We show our visitors why and how we live and farm with near zero use of fossil fuels and how they, too, may be able to benefit from much lower energy bills. Visitors will be able to touch and feel, see and ask questions about
· the many energy saving steps taken
· the various methods of renewable energy generation employed and its benefits
· followed by a farm walk and discussion of organic farming methods, localised sustainable food production and carbon free distributions of farm produce.
· We may also discuss the Superhomes charity and the Transition Movement and their contribution to increasing local resilience in North Cornwall as well as our motivations and prospects for the future.
This year we have something new. Not only is our new 50kW turbine be up and running, but also we will be featuring the immerSUN device that is a MUST for every PV or wind renewable energy system. This device ensures that the energy you produce gets used in your own house, rather than being exported to the grid, only to be imported back later when you actually need it. All will be explained!
Arrival time: 14:00 – 14:30 Start time: 14:30
14:00 – 14:30 – coffee and cake
14:30 – 15:15 – presentation and questions – what we do, why we do it and what the benefits are (as given at Royal Agricultural College, Transition Conference, other conferences and in the House of Commons)
15:30 – 16:00 – The Low Carbon House tour: insulation, devices, water heating, space heating, heat store, inverters, electrical energy storage device
16:00 – 16:30 – External tour: PV panels, wind turbine, solar thermal panels, wood processing, bore hole water, bio diesel production
16:30 – 18:00 – Organic farm walk: sheep, cattle, geese, wood, hedges and trees, orchard and more
Attendance will be limited to 16 participants, so it is essential to book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. A voluntary donation would be appreciated- £8/ person, £15/ couple (to include refreshments)
Hope to see you soon, but hurry and book your place quickly as space is strictly limited. Booking Essential. Contact 01840 230 548 or email@example.com
or book on-line at https://thefoodassembly.com/en/assemblies/169 (see 'crafts' section for tickets)
Paul & Celia


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Micromechanics of ice and other materials
Research is conducted to determine physical processes that underlie brittle failure on scales large (Arctic) and small (laboratory). The current goal is to relate failure of the arctic sea ice cover and fracture during ice interaction with off-shore engineered structures to processes such as wing-crack and comb-crack formation and the development of shear faults. The underlying hypothesis is that brittle compressive failure is a scale-independent process driven by intermittent frictional sliding and stable crack growth. The hypothesis is applicable to other brittle materials as well, such as ceramics, rock, and minerals.
Faculty contact: Erland M. Schulson


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The Rough Guide says these two Heartbeat comps' are "the most convenient way of acquiring nearly all of [DEB]'s work for Niney", so what songs are not included ?
Some Like It Hot:
Here I Come (Extended Mix)
Westbound Train
Some Like It Hot
Lightning And Thunder
My Time
Tenement Yard
Africa (Extended Mix)
Wolf And Leopards
So Long Rastafari
Yagga Yagga
Ride On / Wild Goose Chase
No More Will I Roam
You're No Good
Why Must I
Truth And Rights
Studio Babble
Open The Gate:
Open The Gate
Rock It With Me (Keep On Moving)
Whip Them Jah Jah
Here I Come (Featuring Dillinger)
Take A Trip
Show Us The Way
God Bless Our Souls
Run Too Tuff
Only A Smile (Version Two)
Silver Words
Cassandra (Live)
Let's Get Together
Give A Helping Hand
Travellin' Man
Tenement Yard (Ext. Version)
My Mama Say
Blood Sun
Love Jah
Moving Away
Mr Thô


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Atleast 50 killed in Nigeria ethnic clashes
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70 killed as violence sweeps Karachi city
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Malaysia police teargas Indian protesters
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From The PHP Blog today, there's this tutorial covering the creation of a "pastebin" style website of your very own. Pastebins are a simple collaboration tool allowing the posting of textual data (most commonly code) to a public place anonymously.
This post will show you step by step, how to create your own personal pastebin. If you don't know already, a pastebin is a website that lets people share text. These kinds of sites are useful when collaborating with project members who are in different locations, because it lets you quickly share pasted data with all members, instead of emailing the text back and forth. Some popular pastebins are pastebin.com, and pastebin.ca.
They develop the backend first, creating a simple MySQL database to hold the information. From there, it's just a bit of PHP away from allowing users to post their information. It's a very basic kind of interface (no feedback capabilities or anything), but with a little tweaking, it could definitely do more.


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Sherry Weddell's book "Forming Intentional Disciples" (OSV, $16.95) is, I think, one of the most important Catholic books of this decade.
In it, she addresses the core issue facing the Church in our time: How to foster a culture in which all Catholics consciously see themselves as disciples of Jesus Christ living according to his will and as apostles sent into the world to proclaim him to others.
Weddell also outlines five stages of spiritual growth that typify the experience of conversion.
Conversion is, in the Church's thinking, not simply for "converts" — i.e., non-Catholics joining the Catholic communion — but for everybody. In the Church's thinking, not just Scott Hahn, G.K. Chesterton or Saul of Tarsus experienced conversion.
"Cradle Catholics" like Ignatius of Loyola, Francis of Assisi, Blaise Pascal and Teresa of Avila also had profound conversion experiences that transformed them. So must we.
Where a person is able to have a positive association with Jesus Christ, the Church, a Christian believer or something identifiably Christian. Trust is not the same as active personal faith. Without some kind of bridge of trust in place, people will not move closer to God.
An example of initial trust is shown in the experience of a young garage-band pagan at the University of Washington in the late 1970s. He had almost no grasp of even the most basic aspects of the Gospel and had long ago learned the crucial truth of social life in the already heavily anti-Christian culture of Seattle: Christians are to be treated as social lepers. His perception of them was of fundamentalists obsessed with nutty "end times" theories, creationism and mysterious code words. His exposure to the Gospel consisted of a brief stab at reading Genesis and Revelation, coupled with some anti-Catholic Chick tracts, plus a few pious types he remembered from high school who might as well have spoken Greek for all the sense their lingo made to him. He knew essentially nothing about Christ and did not trust Christians.
I know this guy's story because he is married to my wife. And when I was 20 years old, I went home for Thanksgiving break only to return to my dorm with a case of Martian Stomach Flu so virulent that I found the prospect of a quick death rather appealing for a day or two. In the midst of this, I received a phone call from a friend living on "the Christian floor" of my dorm. I mumbled something about my illness and hung up. About a half an hour later, there was a knock at my door and I heaved myself up from my bed of suffering, my face smeared with drool, and answered it. It was a young woman named Sandy MacKinnon, who I did not know from Eve, but who lived on the Christian floor. She said, "I heard you were sick. I brought you this" and brandished a bottle of Pepto-Bismol.
It's been 35 years, but I have never forgotten that. With that one act of kindness to a stranger, done simply out of generosity, she won my trust. And eventually, by the integrity of their lives as Christians, the rest of the fellowship of Christians on her dorm floor did likewise. Lives lived in joy, generosity and integrity — not for show, but for the glory of Christ — can and do break down walls of distrust and give off a sweet aroma of beauty that people follow.
When a person is intrigued by or desiring to know more about Jesus or some aspect of the Christian faith. This can range from mere awareness of a new possibility to something quite intense and proactive. Nevertheless, a person at the threshold of curiosity is not yet open to personal change. Curiosity is still essentially passive, but it's more than mere trust.
The spiritually curious, often shyly and in fits and starts, find themselves drawn toward wanting to know more about Jesus, the Church, the Bible and the whole "Catholic thing." This can be a protracted and complicated affair, as the Catholic Faith encompasses the whole universe, and the human person is massively complex and approaches the Faith from all over the map.
One thing to bear in mind is that such curiosity is not the same as spiritual seeking (that's two steps down the road). It is, as yet, a passive approach. A person who is spiritually curious is interested in learning more.
He or she will not dismiss "God talk" but will not initiate such conversations. They will be quietly "taking it in." They are intrigued and may find themselves surfing the Web furtively to explore something or other about Jesus or the Faith, or wondering about some theological question prompted by anything from a half-remembered Bible verse to a speculation prompted by a science-fiction story they saw on TV.
Interestingly, Jesus' pedagogy with the spiritually curious is often the deeply Jewish method of answering questions with questions or with answers designed to provoke more questions. "Why do you call me good?" (Mk 10:18). "Who do you say that I am?" (Mt 16:15). "What do you want me to do for you?" (Mk 10:51). "Was John's baptism of heavenly or of human origin?" (Lk 20:4). "Whose image is this and whose inscription" is on this coin (Mt 22:20)? All these questions and many more were asked by Jesus in order to force the curious more deeply into their curiosity. This is important for us, as it can be a temptation to accidently put out the small fire of newly kindled curiosity with a gallon of hasty, pre-processed answers. Sometimes it is better to let the curious work through things themselves for a while and make the answers their own.
In our own lives, it is good to cultivate an attitude of curiosity as well so that we can pass it on to others. Some have foolishly said, "What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears." The truth is not that simple. Typically, what the mind doesn't understand it either ignores or wonders about. Those who cultivate spiritual curiosity in themselves and others are on a trajectory, not only to learn more about God, but about everything, because God is the author of everything. But they are not yet worshipping, for they are not yet acting as intentional disciples.
If they make the choice to follow their curiosity, then exploration, not fear and worship, is typically what happens next. Moses at the Burning Bush was not afraid or worshipful, but curious. Worship (and fear) only began when he learned who was there, not when he didn't know who was there. In short, wonder is the common root of all art, philosophy, science — and religious experience.
But it is not the flower.
The critical point when a person acknowledges to him or herself and to God that he or she is open to the possibility of personal and spiritual change. This is one of the most difficult transitions for a postmodern nonbeliever as it can feel dangerous, crazy and out of control. Openness is not a commitment to change. People who are open are simply admitting they are open to the possibility of change.
Here we are concerned with the most important form of curiosity: a desire to know more of God. And that desire will, if all goes well, lead to the crisis of spiritual openness.
I call it a crisis because spiritual openness is the stage in the spiritual journey that is most difficult for commitment-averse postmoderns to navigate because it represents the point in the journey where serious choices need to be made. It is the moment when it dawns on us that we are going to have to be active somehow, not merely passive — that God might not merely be an abstract "what" or a "why" we are studying with growing philosophical interest, but a "who" that is calling to us with incalculable demands and desperately beautiful promises. We realize, however dimly, that Jesus Christ and the Church that speaks to us of him may indeed require something of us.
That can be scary in a civilization that is consumer driven, that believes in keeping all its options perpetually open, that fears commitment to all relationships. Because of this jitteriness (and because we ourselves may share it even if we are cradle Catholics), some rules of thumb might be helpful both in helping others and in passing this threshold ourselves.
As we struggle to open ourselves to God's will in Christ, we can practice nonjudgmental truthfulness, speaking plainly of the places in our own lives where we find the Gospel challenging. This was, after all, the method of the apostles, who give us a full accounting of their failures of nerve, their inability to understand and even their betrayals of Christ. We do this not with a view to finding excuses for ignoring the Gospel, nor with a view to cudgeling others who are struggling, but with a view to opening ourselves to the leading of Jesus and supporting one another in our struggles.
As mentors to people who are struggling with openness, we can help them connect the dots between their experience and the revelation of the Gospel. Because grace builds on nature, and it is Christ who chooses us first and not we him, there is always a way to arrive at the realization that God is not some remote, far-off object, but has already been at work in us and through us. He has already used us in some way for the good of others, or given us gifts, or helped us down the path we might only now realize we are on. Often, we can help others by using their own words, and connecting them with the Gospel will help them realize God is not a threat to our freedom, but the ground of it, and help them get past the fear of openness.
At this stage, it is often beneficial to frankly and openly encourage those struggling with openness to ask God for a sign to direct them, to encourage them to pray and profess to God their openness to pursuing him, and to encourage them to enter into a life of regular prayer both alone and together with others.
This might be a good time to invite them to Mass or to begin reading the Gospels together. Also, the inquiry phase of RCIA can be helpful here.
The threshold in which a person moves from being essentially passive to being one who actively seeks to know the God who is calling him or her. Seekers are asking, "Are you the one to whom I will give myself?" At this stage, the seeker is engaged in an urgent spiritual quest, seeking to know whether he or she can commit to Christ and his Church.
Once past this crisis of openness, people often find they are no longer able to simply wait for the tide of life to wash events to them. They become active spiritual seekers.
Weddell describes spiritual seekers as "dating with a purpose." They are no longer merely passive participants in a relationship. And that relationship is not primarily with religion or theology or music or the Bible or a saint or Catholic aesthetics or liturgy or any other mere creature (though those things may well play a vital role and be inextricably bound up with the relationship). Rather, the core relationship is now with God revealed in the person of Jesus Christ. In short, the seeker is seeking Jesus, not a creature or an abstraction.
If you are mentoring somebody who is a seeker, this is the perfect time for them to enter the catechumenate. If you are yourself a seeker who is undergoing a deeper conversion as a Catholic, this is a good time to undertake a closer study of the Faith, specifically with the goal of using the gifts and graces of the Church (especially the sacraments) in order to seek the guidance and the grace of the Holy Spirit.
Ask the Spirit to help you cultivate your gifts and offer them (and yourself) to Christ with greater and greater freedom. At the core of this stage of conversion is the experience of a soul that, like the psalmist "followeth hard after thee" (Ps 63:8) and can no longer be content with passivity or neutrality.
Intensified prayer, a fruitful pursuit of reading the classics of Christian spirituality and a sense of growing hunger for the sacraments can characterize this stage of pre-discipleship, as well as a desire to explore the ways in which the Faith is lived out in the works of mercy, different liturgical expressions and ways in which the virtues can be pursued.
This is the decision to "drop one's nets," to make a conscious commitment to follow Jesus in the midst of his Church as an obedient disciple and to re-order one's life accordingly.
The mention of "pre-discipleship" brings us to our last challenge: namely, the need to finally pass from exploration of Jesus and his Church to full and complete commitment. This is what Weddell calls the "dropping the net" moment. The image comes from the story of St. Peter dropping his nets, leaving behind his former life and livelihood, his social connections, his home and even his family and choosing to follow Jesus Christ wherever he went, come what may (cf. Lk 5:4-10). It is the single most important decision a person can possibly make (which is why Jesus calls us to count the cost). But it is the goal of the Christian life — all Christian lives, not just converts.
It can be as dramatic as St. Paul getting knocked off his horse or as unseen as a quiet resolve arrived at during a sleepy Sunday morning Mass. But however we arrive at it, that resolve to follow Jesus consciously and intentionally with our whole heart, soul, mind and strength is what the whole of the Christian call to discipleship is all about. Once made, that decision will henceforth be the controlling decision that will drive and coordinate everything — absolutely everything — in the life of the disciple of Jesus Christ and, as Paul says, "destroy arguments and every pretension raising itself against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive in obedience to Christ" (2 Cor 10:5). Here begins the New Life.
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Its trivial
Well, yes, in the computer science sense it is. We all know that any algorithm can be written in any turing-complete language, and the Lambda Calculus is turing-complete. QED.
However when I read court judgements related to patentability this never gets mentioned, not because judges are too stupid to understand the point, but because as far as I can tell no lawyer has ever tried to put it in front of a judge. I'm not sure exactly why this is, but I suspect that it is a combination of the general squishiness of the law (see below) and the fact that you want to base your case on a tried-and-tested legal theory rather than building something completely new. From a lawyer's point of view an obscure mathematical theorem (most lawyers have never heard of Turing) looks like a very shaky foundation for a legal argument.
So it seemed to me that if I could convert this abstract theoretical point about turing-complete languages into a practical demonstration that directly addressed a key point of law then it might make a big difference. Sure its a small step for computer science, but it could be a giant leap for legal thinking.
The law is squishier than that
Eben Moglen has said
... the hacker belief that laws are form of code [creates] a particular frame of analysis for legal questions. [...] one thing which lawyers around the world all share is an awareness of the squishiness of law, it is by no means the hard arthropod carapace for internal soft organs that non-lawyers have a tendency to assume it isMoglen is undoubtedly correct, and when I look at legal judgements I often seem to discern a judge trying to construe the facts and law in a way that will deliver what s/he believes to be justice in the wider human sense as well as in the strict legal sense.
But judges are still constrained by the law; however much they might want to, they cannot look at evidence conclusively showing fact X plus a law saying "if X then Y", and then deliver a judgement of "not Y". The trick is to provide incontrovertible evidence for X. To extend Moglen's metaphor, the law may not have an arthropod carapace, but inside the squishy flesh it still has a rigid skeleton of of laws that judges cannot bend at will.
The law / lawmakers are too corrupt; they'll just legislate around this.
I don't believe the application of the law in the US is anything like corrupt enough for this to be an issue. The worst one can say about the application of American law is that effective legal representation can be bankruptingly expensive for the little guy. But that's not a problem here.
Lawmakers are an issue; the leadership of America is routinely for sale to any sufficiently large campaign contribution. But the limits on patentability are long-standing and fundamental, and until the State Street decision in 1998 it was generally understood that computer software and other information-processing algorithms were not patentable. For the US legislature to change this basic principle of patent law seems unlikely.
Everything in the patent is prior art anyway.
Prior art is one of the most misunderstood things in patent law. Each claim in a patent is an entire invention; there may well be things in the invention that are prior art, but unless you can show that everything in the whole claim existed in a single entity previous to the patent priority date then you don't have prior art.
So the fact that hash tables and linked lists were well known before this patent is irrelevant. Of course if anyone can show actual prior art that includes everything in one of the claims then I imagine that the Red Hat lawyers would like to hear of it.
But all patents can be reduced to a formula / number, so this argument would abolish all patents.
This misunderstands patent law.
USC 35 II 10 defines a patentable invention as
... any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof ...This definition excludes mathematical formulae and physical facts from patentability. Leaving aside the fact that it is also well known, the quadratic formula is not patentable because it is not a useful process, machine etc.
The patent covers the physical realisation of the idea, not the idea itself. So publication of the patented material in any form is fine in theory; that is the whole point of the patent system. What you can't do is make and sell the patented invention. (An exception has been carved out here for ready-to-run implementations of software patents on the grounds that they contribute to infringement by the users, which is bad law but not part of this argument).
The 120 patent recites a computer running the algorithms to create a useful improvement in performance, so that makes it patentable.
In the State Street case the Court decided that a mathematical formula could form part of an invention, as long as the whole thing was a new and useful process, machine etc. This was a radical departure from previous US decisions, but it matches current European law (I don't know which came first) where mathematical formulae and computer programs cannot be patented "as such", but can be patented as part of an invention that achieves a "technical effect" (which seems to mean the same as "new and useful improvement" in the US).
However Bilski has now blown all that out of the water. The Court in Bilski specifically declined to endorse anything in State Street, and instead decided that patentability should be decided in line with three other cases. For more details see my post on this, but in essence it means that while a mathematical formula or algorithm can form part of a patented invention, it doesn't contribute anything to the novelty of that invention. Even if the formula or algorithm is completely new, for the purposes of the patent it is treated as "well known". Hence in the Diehr case (the rubber curing method) the invention was the use of a calculation to tell the mould when to open rather than a predetermined time interval. The formula to do this was part of the patent, but the invention was its use in a new kind of machine; one that opened based on temperature readings rather than a timer. On the other hand in the Flook and Benson cases the only novelty was in the formula; everything else was held to be already known, so the patents were disallowed.
In Bilski the central component of the invention was a formula for hedging bets in energy markets. All else was well known, so the patent was disallowed. The Supreme Court said:
Claims 1 and 4 explain the basic concept of hedging and reduce that concept to a mathematical formula. This is an unpatentable abstract idea, just like the algorithms at issue in Benson and Flook.In this case the patent application itself contained the reduction of the concept to a mathematical formula. But clearly if the claims had left the formula unstated and merely listed an equivalent series of steps or assemblage of "means" (e.g. "a multiplication means connected to an addition means") then this would have merely been a change in the drafting, and it is well established that you can't make something patentable just by changing the words in the claims. So this leads to the following conclusion: any element of a patent claim that can be reduced to a mathematical formula is not patentable material, and the subsequent Section 102 analysis (to determine if the invention is new and non-obvious) must ignore it.
So in the case of the 120 Patent, all the claims come down to "a general purpose digital computer running software that implements a bunch of mathematical formulae". Running software on a computer is prior art, so there is no new invention here.


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April Is National Child Abuse Prevention Month
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This month and throughout the year, Fulton County Center for Families encourages all individuals and organizations to play a role in making Fulton County a better place for children and families. By ensuring that parents have the knowledge, skills and resources they need to care for their children, we can help promote children's social and emotional well-being and prevent child maltreatment within families and communities.
Research shows that when parents possess six protective factors, the risk for neglect and abuse diminish, and optimal outcomes for children, youths and families are promoted. The six protective factors are nurturing and attachment, knowledge of parenting and of child and youth development, parental resilience, social connections, concrete supports for parents and social and emotional developmental well-being.
"April is a time to celebrate the important role that communities play in protecting children," said Jamie Taylor, family support coordinator. "Everyone's participation is critical. Focusing on ways to build and promote the protective factors, in every interaction with children and families, is the best thing our community can do to prevent child maltreatment and promote optimal child development."
In support of these efforts, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau, Office On Child Abuse and Neglect, its Child Welfare Information Gateway, the FRIENDS National Resource Center for the Study of Social Policy – Strengthening Families have created Preventing Child Maltreatment and Promoting Well- Being: Network for Action 2012 Resource Guide. The guide, designed for service providers who work throughout the community to strengthen families, at http://www.childwelfare.gov/ preventing/ preventionmonth/guide2 012.
Activities in Fulton County are:
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Government data shows that the U.S. is being bombarded with Fukushima radiation 1,000 times higher than normal.
In the months following the 2011 meltdowns at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, residents of Los Angeles were being exposed to levels of dangerous alpha radiation nearly 1,000 times above normal levels, a government study found.
The data came from a July 2012 presentation at the National Conference on Radiation Control. The presentation was given by Joji Ortego, Principal Radiation Protection Specialist for Los Angeles County Radiation Management.
Following the Fukushima meltdowns, Los Angeles county heard many concerns from residents about the potential health impacts of radiation crossing the Pacific Ocean from the disaster. So they commissioned a study of radiation levels in the area. The report notes that federal agencies delayed in providing information to the county, and that the state Radiologic Health Branch was unable to provide inspectors due to budget constraints. The state lab was unable to provide a reasonable turnaround time for sample analysis, so the county instead hired a local radiation monitor manufacturer for the analysis.
Radiation levels exceed federal thresholdsSamples were taken between April 29 and May 2, 2011, approximately seven weeks after the radioactive releases from Fukushima. The county found that gross alpha radiation levels at a location in Los Angeles were 300 femtocuries per cubic meter (fCi/m3), and levels at a Hacienda Heights location were 200 fCi/m3.
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"Only when the last tree has died,
Cree Proverb
Grow your own, for security and fun
By Nancy Oden, Special to the BDN, Published in Bangor Daily News, April 3, 2012
Since most of us don't visit food banks and the poor are not very visible, it's pretty easy to ignore their lack of necessary food. We're all busy, after all.
New Concept Proposal from Clean Earth Farms – April 2010
Most families in Washington County used to grow food gardens, but as grocery store food became less expensive, people stopped growing their own food. Now people are dependent on food from far away, requiring long transport to our region. Grocery stores have only 1-2 days worth of food, at most, and in an emergency, shelves empty within hours.
Long-term drought in California's prime growing region, as well as in China, India, Saudi Arabia, et al, which, combined, have billions of people, means less grain to feed the world's people. Wheat, corn, and rice are in demand world-wide. The above-named countries, and others, are buying up American grains.
Americans are literally competing with these huge populations for our daily bread. Therefore, our food supply is not stable; prices have gone up and are expected to continue to rise. Also, people no longer put much food by for winter or emergencies. We are not food secure. But we can fix this.
Several extant programs tell people how to garden, but none we know of actually helps people build a garden in their own yards. This program allows people to simply step out their door into their garden, making it easy and enjoyable for them to grow their own food. This way they don't have to travel to garden, and they can grow foods their families like.
Growing one's own food enables people to lower their food bills, eat healthier out of their own gardens, acquire the critical survival skill of providing for themselves, thereby becoming more self-sufficient.
The hope is that once people find out how much good food can be grown in a raised garden, they will expand to become local farmers who can sell/donate food to others. Few Washington County farms currently grow food for local consumption, e.g., most blueberries are shipped away, including all the way to Asia. These crops are not for us. But we believe we can supply most of our year-round food needs right here within Washington County.
Because the TIF funds are to be used exclusively for the benefit of Washington County's Unorganized Territories (U.T.) residents, we're proposing to send out a mailing to county U.T. households to discern their interest in acquiring a high, raised-bed garden. Each garden bed would be 20 feet long, 4 feet wide and 2 feet high.
We would ask the property owners to contribute what they can to the project, since the materials are not free. Perhaps they have some old lumber or can handle the carpentry skills themselves, or perhaps they have loam they can put into the raised-bed garden, or they may be able to contribute cash.
High raised beds are our focus because anyone who isn't bed-ridden can garden in them by simply walking along the bed, or riding along in a wheelchair, if necessary. Children, elders, mentally and physically disabled people, and those of us who prefer not to crawl along the wet, cold ground will benefit from these high, raised garden beds.
Raised beds warm up sooner in spring, water doesn't sit in them, they're very efficient and convenient, and lend themselves well to interplanting, crop rotation, and food diversity.
Also, no machines are ever needed, which keeps gardening costs, once set up, to a minimum from year to year. All they will need are seeds and a small hand fork to ruffle up the soil so they can pull up weeds and plant the garden. Plus some non-stressful, healthy exercise and time outdoors.
Once there are numerous home gardens, there will be a need for small businesses to supply seeds, soil amendments, lumber for more raised garden beds, gloves, blackfly nets, books and magazines on gardening, greenhouses and their accoutrements (because gardeners always want a greenhouse), and more.
Some gardeners will choose to sell their excess food and flowers at new farmers' markets to be established within the Unorganized Territories. We will help them get connected with Washington County's existing network of farmers' markets.
Gardeners can create value-added products such as jellies and jams, relishes, soup mixes, dried foods for campers, glass-jar canned goods, herbs (fresh and dried), sauerkraut, home-made breads and cookies, candies, eggs, plus many other food products, which can then be sold at their door or in local stores or farmers' markets.
Fledgling small businesses could work with WHCA's incubator without walls to help bring their products to market.
After their gardens are established, CEF will help people who want to raise small livestock such as chickens, rabbits, turkeys, and ducks, and teach them humane animal husbandry and butchering. This creates the need for out-buildings (work for carpenters), and skilled butchers are always in demand to help put meat in the freezer for winter.
These U.T. gardeners will also be encouraged to plant trees—fruits, nuts, sugar maples--for permanent food supplies, to stop erosion or flooding on their properties, for wildlife habitat, and to provide windbreaks and shade for their houses.
Greenhouse seedling/plant/tree suppliers can be asked if they will donate trees and perennials that did not sell each year, and neighbors will likely be happy to donate excess seedlings that grow on their property.
The idea is to help U.T. residents have more and better food grown naturally in their home gardens, and to help them create permanent food supplies in their yards and fields.
In gardens which are miles away from commercial, poison-sprayed fields, people will be encouraged to keep honeybees. Honeybee populations have been decimated by pesticides and we need bees for good pollination of many food plants.
Beekeeping can lead to more small business opportunities. Some products include honey, beeswax candles and hand creams, propolis and pollen for health food store sales, sales of beekeeping equipment, queen bees, and new colonies. Bee colonies could also be rented out to (organic only) blueberry and other growers wanting good pollination. This would save large growers from using the sickly, mite-infested, migrant bees which carry diseases affecting our native bees.
One more item goes along with the raised bed gardens: composting household food waste with grass clippings, chipped dead branches, garden spoilage, and so on. Rotted compost is the best medium for growing food plants.
CEF proposes we also supply enough chicken wire and stakes to make a 4'x4'x4' compost enclosure, divided in half with another piece of chicken wire. One half would be filled up, then left to rot while the other side is filled up. The finished compost will then go on top of the raised garden bed(s) as the best soil amendment possible.
Composting food and yard waste reduces the garbage waste stream by around 30-50 percent.
Raised garden beds are permanent, never needing replacement until the boards rot, which will take years, or even decades. "Treated" lumber cannot be used for food gardens since it leaches toxins into surrounding soil. Number 4 lumber does the job well at only $1.00 per linear foot, and we may be able to get some scrounged/donated lumber to help with costs as the project grows.
Project Director, a full-time, year-round job, will enlist some volunteer help sending out mailings to all U.T. residents, and will complete the following tasks: keep track of who wants a garden, hire contract workers to construct the beds, visit each site to ensure quality work and help recipients plant their seeds, order all garden and related supplies, do contract worker payroll, hold classes/meetings for recipients, write news stories on project for Washington County media, respond to questions or discussion year around via email or telephone, as well as do fund-raising for this and future years' gardens to make U.T. residents more self-sufficient and food secure.
In-kind contributions include telephone, computer equipment and software, office space, printing instructional materials, and an extensive garden library from which recipients may borrow books or periodicals. We also expect to get at least 200 hours of volunteer labor, which we estimate at $10 per hour.
Further in-kind contributions include: charging the Project a lesser gas mileage rate than either state or federal standards (believed to be about 52 cents per mile), lowering the normal salary for the Project Director from $37,500 to $27,500 leaving $10,000 cash contribution for the project. We will also continue fund-raising to get more in-kind or cash donations to help meet the 50 percent contribution for this project.
Proposal to WCDA could add to cash contributions. Looking elsewhere, as well.
This project will create ONE full-time job (director) and 1-2 part-time jobs building the raised-bed gardens and compost bins, as well as workers bringing in loam from supplier.
Eventually, having many gardens will create several small businesses to supply them and sell their products. Then, too. those who choose to expand once they've experienced the joys of gardening, will need helpers part of the year, which will create part-time job opportunities. Gardening/farming is addictive, always leading to more plants and/or animals one can try one's hand at growing.
Given that we get a lot of rain which makes working outdoors impractical a good deal of the time, we estimate the season for building these beds and compost bins to be from mid-March through mid-November, an eight-month season. If about three gardens with compost bins are built per week, it will take about eight months to build 100 of them, get them filled with loam, and get them ready for next spring's growing season.
If there are more than 100 respondents, we will interview them via telephone to gauge which are most likely to actually work in the gardens and which are most needy.
Respectfully Submitted,
Project Cost / Benefits:
The summary below tabulates the one year cost for a project to install one hundred (100) raised beds for the Unorganized Territories (U.T.s) of Washington County. The concept is to provide raised beds at 100 residences for the production of garden products while providing employment opportunities and establishing food security. Estimates have been provided for the purchase and placement of loam including the cost of fabricating the raised beds throughout the UT. An estimate of $1,125.00 has been used for printing and postage for a mailing to approximately 1,500 households in the U.T.
The total cost of the twelve month project is $67,375.00 which represents a per unit cost of $673.75 for raised beds which will exist for a minimum of ten (10) years.
The value of the anticipated crop is estimated below based on typical growth rates in Washington County. Project benefits are listed for 100 homesteads for ten typical garden products. By applying a per product value for the garden mix, an estimated benefit of $101,150.00 is calculated based on a total growth of 220 pounds of garden products at each raised bed. This translates in a per unit value of approximately $1011.50 or a net gain of $348.00 for an investment of $665.50 for each raised bed for the first year, and net gain of full value, excepting cost of seeds, for succeeding years.
The raised beds are expected to remain intact for at least ten (10) years. After the first year, an investment of approximately $20.00 in seeds and effort will result in the production of approximately $1,000.00 in fresh garden products. In addition, to this obvious return in investment, the project will also create the following benefits:
Clean Earth Farm is committed to the use of Washington County labor and products. The project also will teach people how to grow food without unnecessary inputs, and how to store food for winter.
|Do right, and risk consequences.
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The following piece appeared on January 28, 2008, in Counterpunch.
by Nancy Oden
Our country has been bankrupted by wars, corporate and political corruption, and tax breaks for the rich. Times are getting harder and harder. We know all this. What can we do to survive?
States can help their people by:
But, in order to effect Real Change, we need to have Real Democracy where We, the People, make the decisions that affect our lives.
This country has been disgraced by the actions of a few in the eyes of the world. We. the People, can help restore the respect of the world by our good works.
Do right, and risk consequences.
Nancy Oden is an environmental and political activist. She lives in Jonesboro, Maine and can be reached at .
Her website is www.cleanearth.net.
She welcomes your ideas for how we can survive the coming difficult times.
Bangor Daily News, August 9, 2007
by Nancy Oden
Drug- and alcohol-related crimes, plus mandatory, lengthy sentences have caused serious overcrowding of Maine's jails and prisons.
Simply locking inmates in cages, where they loll about, eating, sleeping and watching TV, is terribly expensive and does not help them get ready for the outside world.
Our idea is to create a 100-acre-plus organic farm where inmates grow their own food (saving us money), as well as food for the needy.
On this organic farm, called Clean Earth Farms, inmates can learn organic farming and gardening, carpentry, plumbing, electricity using solar and wind, building with sustainable materials, first aid, and other survival
Since virtually all inmates are going to be released, they can use these skills to start small, independent businesses or organic farms in their communities. Maine needs thousands more small farmers to grow enough food for our food security.
We want them to be good, productive members of society, not in-and-out-of-prison career criminals.
The inmate residents of Clean Earth Farms can help prepare us for the economic and environmental problems we'll soon be facing: extreme weather, shortages of food, oil, clean water, wildlife, fish and so on.
The expectation is that these inmates, mostly young males, former drug addicts and alcoholics, will go back into the communities and live the life they've learned, passing their newfound skills to others so we can live mostly free of big oil and pesticide-poison agriculture.
Inmates can, as part of their community service while at Clean Earth Farms:
Clean Earth Farms should have a 24-hour hotline for people overdosing or panicking while on drugs or alcohol, and they should be taken in immediately, if that's what is needed. The point is to help both the addicts and the community at the same time.
There should also be a section for veterans so they can be with others who will understand their particular problems.
There could also be a section for long-timers (those who committed more serious crimes) who are not problem inmates, most of whom would jump at the chance to do something useful instead of simply rotting away in a cage.
We might also consider having inmates build simple, plain, low-cost housing for poor and homeless people, and for themselves when they're released. Since prisoners often have a difficult time finding jobs and housing, they could live there and earn their keep by doing continuous community service for others in need.
Clean Earth Farms' buildings could be of concrete with greenhouses attached to the entire south walls to help heat the buildings and grow seedlings for the farm and community gardens. Solar and wind arrays could provide most of the energy needs, along with the energy-efficient buildings' use of natural light.
Gardens would be raised beds, which are worked by hand, so that no machinery would be needed.
The facility should be easily reachable by workers, who could also grow and gather food for their families. This should minimize boredom, the bane of prison guards.
Work would not be optional at Clean Earth Farms. Everyone works, everyone eats.
Many inmates do not know how to work, never having done so. If we teach them how to read and how to work and give them the skills to survive out in the world, then we will have lessened the number of inmates who come back, and we will have created productive citizens who are a credit to their families and the community.
This facility would create many good jobs, especially since it could be built to handle as many inmates as necessary.
We probably won't save them all, but we will have tried, and I'm confident we can help many lead healthy, good lives.
Let's not let the private, for-profit prison corporations take over. To them, more prisoners equal more profits at taxpayers' expense.
No, we want fewer prisoners, lower taxes and people with needed skills coming out of our jails and prisons.
Time to do what's best for Maine people, not wealthy corporations. These are our young people; it's up to us to help them as best we can.
Nancy Oden lives in Jonesboro.
Her e-mail is
Bangor Daily News, May 2007
by Nancy Oden
"Economic development, " indeed! Washington County is treated like a Third-World country. That is, stripping and extracting natural resources, along with poisoning the land and waters-and thereby poisoning all creatures who live here--are what opportunistic self-servers call "economic development" for Washington County.
Here are current and proposed so-called "economic development" projects for Washington County:
So, is this "economic development," or is it self-serving on the part of some State bureaucrats and the same "good old boys" crowd? You decide.
Better to expend our energies saving our natural beauty and natural resources, rather than letting opportunistic self-servers destroy what's left.
We need to change society's (actually, corporate) priorities from "anything for money" to "what's the best way to solve this problem" and then figure out how to do what's best, what's right, without considering who's going to get rich.
If we keep on this path, we'll get where we're going. None of us will like that future.
We can slow down climate catastrophes, but only if you and you and you speak out and keep speaking out until we get it right.
Please enter the fray against corporations' creed of "money over all." Either We, the People, take over and start making good decisions, or we will get where we're going - faster than anyone thought.
Nancy Oden of Jonesboro, is coordinator of Clean Water Coalition.
(207)497-5727, , www.cleanearth.net.
Clean Water Coalition had a great Public Hearing in front of the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission on Thursday, November 9. (Read the Clean Water Coalition intervenor testimony to LURC.)
Over 100 Washington County citizens came to speak out against a huge toxic dump proposed for beautiful woods and waters in Township 14, Washington County. We got their geologist to admit, on the record, that ALL DUMPS LEAK!
Now we wait for LURC's decision whether they'll re-zone 190 acres for a dump within an 8-square-mile parcel.
We will keep you posted. You can call 497-5727 or email .
We need to work for Real Democracy, where We, the People, not corporations, make the decisions that affect our lives: decisions regarding our woods, waters, wildlife, fisheries, as well as major projects and anything else which might affect our peace and quiet should be decided by us.
Clean Water Coalition has been working to keep other people's garbage and nuclear waste out of Washington County, stop pesticide spraying, and keep corporations and get-rich-quick developers from turning Downeast Maine into a place where we wouldn't want to live.
(Read the Clean Water Coalition intervenor testimony to LURC.)
Positive alternatives have always been offered, and some have been put in place, but we're still being threatened by harmful schemes (see below).
Severe international crises loom: economic meltdown, climate change, shortages of clean drinking water, and more. We in Downeast Maine can survive these crises if we:
Some ideas for good, clean, satisfying livelihoods are in the piece right below.
Our woods are stripped and shipped away, wildlife decimated for lack of habitat and pesticide poisoning, Maine's fish are not to be eaten due to poisons in their flesh, even the oceans have been taken over by foreign boats over-fishing and corporations growing sickly fish in cages so that we cannot throw in a line and catch supper anymore.
These destructive acts have taken place without citizens' knowledge or consent.
Several harmful proposals are now in process. We have time to stop them (call 497-5727 to help) with concerted efforts, and we need YOU:
Other problems: need more decent, affordable housing, curtail drug use amongst our young (keep them busy with good projects), health care for all, no more poison spraying, too high property taxes for low-income people, etc.
Being too pessimistic is not healthy; we can survive if we do what needs to be done. We need to elect those who will work for PEOPLE first, rather than corporate profits, people who know what they're doing and who cannot be bought.
Many more good, knowledgeable, brave people will be needed to change what is into what should be. We hope you will join us in that formidable, but necessary, task.
Democracy: we want the real thing.
Nancy Oden
by Nancy Oden, Jonesboro, Maine
Enough hand-wringing over Washington County. We live here because we want to, and no one is starving in the streets. If they were, we'd help them.
Yes, salaries are lower here, but if that's what people care most about, they can move to the cities where pay is higher. So is rent, and traffic, crowds, and noise are rife. They would miss the wild beauty we share Downeast.
However, anarchy rules as our woods, waters, wildlife, and fisheries are looted and poisoned by paper mill corporations, chemical-dependent growers, and thoughtless individuals.
Since these natural resources are necessary for our lives and livelihoods, we have to save them.
Here are some ideas for good, productive, satisfying livelihoods for Washington County. to the Maine Senate, I would promote legislation to do the following:
All of the above ideas would save taxes, create good, satisfying livelihoods, keep Maine clean, and give us food, energy, and health independence, especially Downeast Maine since we seem to be on our own most of the time and we like it that way.
We need to fight for our woods, waters, wildlife, and fisheries against the monied interests who would use them all up for their own selfish gain, leaving us to feed the blackflies.
Nancy Oden lives in Jonesboro. She can be reached at 207-434-6228 or e-mail . Her website is www.cleanearth.net.


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David L. Mahoney, 46, of 41 West Cardott St., Ridgway, died Saturday morning at Elk Haven Nursing Home following a lengthy illness. He was born July 9, 1966 in Ridgway, son of J. Leo and Betty A. (Pavlock) Mahoney. He married Wendy S. Gardner on August 21, 1993, and she survives. He had resided in Ridgway for the last 20 years and was a former Johnsonburg resident. He was a member of the Hallton Church. He was a 1986 graduate of the Johnsonburg High School. He enjoyed camping, hunting, fishing, the Steelers, and vacations to the Outer Banks. He had been employed by Clarion Sintered Metals for 18 years, by North American Hoganas for two years, and owned and operated Mahoney Law Care for five years. In addition to his parents and wife, he is survived by four children, Marissa M., Kylie R., Haley E., and Nathan D., all of Ridgway; a sister, Susan E. Spare and her husband Carl of DuBois; and several nieces and nephews, including Joshua and Chelsey Sparce of DuBois. He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Joseph and Mae Pavlock; and his paternal grandparents, William and Winifred Mahoney. A Memorial Service for David L. Mahoney will be held at the Awakening Alliance Church in Ridgway on Tuesday at 11 a.m. Officiating will be Ronald Burkett, pastor of the Hallton Church. Burial will be in Oakmont Cemetery. Friends will be received at the Thompson Funeral Home today, Monday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Memorials, if desired, can be made to the Ridgway Ambulance Corp.