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For homes with high studs, the room
temperature at ceiling height can be several degrees higher than where the occupants are. Ceiling
fans operated in the "winter" mode at slowish speeds help to bring this air down to where the
people are. And if you have floor level heaters running on thermostats, the warm air coming down
means that the thermostats will be able to turn off the heating
Dry air uses less energy to heat than
moist air (it takes more energy to warm water vapour). A dehumidifier is a low cost option to help
lower your heating bills. By running a dehumidifer in winter your room air is dryer, which not only
means it feels warmer, but uses less energy to heat, and mold and fungi growth is suppressed
Fitting a shower dome over your shower
reduces the amount of moisture entering your house and a house that is dryer costs less to heat as
explained above (and your shower also feels warmer so you may not need the water as
When you use curtains, a vertical layer of
air is held between the window and the curtain. As this air cools, it sinks. This creates an
"engine" which draws in warm air at the top of the curtain, and effectively pumps cooled air into
the room at the base of the curtain. This partly explains the draughts felt at the gap between
curtains and the floor. By using pelmets, or curtains that are tight fitting top and/or bottom, you
can reduce the effect of this cooling engine and save some money on your heating
The hot water tap at a kitchen sink is
used often. When hot water is needed, usually the householder would run through several litres of
water waiting for the hot to arrive. This not only means that water may be wasted, but also a lot
of the heat energy of the warm water is used to heat piping enroute to the sink. A micro water
heater or mini cylinder under the sink avoids long pipe runs from the main hot water cylinder,
which results in savings of electricity as well as water - particularly useful for people on tank
If using a micro storage water heater, we
suggest that a switch be installed above the kitchen bench at a suitable and handy place, so that
you can turn it off easily if you don't intend using the unit for a few hours - these units can
heat the water in a matter of minutes, and turning the unit on when needed will save on
A high quality Japanese Zojirushi vacuum
flask can keep boiled water hot enough for several hours, for making tea and other hot drinks. This
means that you can boil the jug once and have hot water for several hours, saving on electricity
used to reboil water. Although this product is not distributed in NZ, we have sourced some from the
Australian distributor. They make great gifts!
Changing ceiling downlights to ceiling
buttons or pendant spot lighting allows the holes in the ceilings to be removed
Without holes in the ceiling, this means
that ceiling insulation can be applied over the entire ceiling of a room: means you can apply an
insulation blanket across the whole ceiling. As the heat loss through ceilings tend to be a
significant proportion of room heat loss (could be around 35%), being able to put a good insulation
blanket across the entire ceiling will save on heating bills.
A number of other lighting options are
also available which does not require putting large holes in the ceilings, including wall lights
and pedastal lights. Wall lights provide a more intimate ambience than ceiling lighting, and
pedastal lights are not only intimate and cosy, but can be moved around easily (and can be taken
away with you when moving house).
Using a pressure cooker to cook food not
only cuts down the time it takes, but some of the modern electric powered cookers have a "roasting"
function also - at much lower power demand than an oven, so saving you money. The lower power
demand also means you may one day be able to power them using photovoltaic (PV) power on your own
Folk sometimes turn their cylinders off in
order to save on their power bills (to save on the actual kWh units you are charged for). If you
want to turn your cylinder off to save on your power bills, then it needs to be off for at least 16
hours a day to make any difference. With new cylinders, the standing losses are very low, so even
turning it off for long periods of time may not get you much savings. If you are going away for a
few days, then turning the cylinder off may save you money. Some folk turn their cylinder
thermostat temperature down to save power, although NZ regulations require the cylinder to be
heated to 60degC for legionella control - which means you can't turn it down too
If you are charged for "peak demand" from
your power supplier, you may want to change your element to a smaller unit or install a cylinder
Changing your cylinder element - if you
change the element size to 2kW or 3kW from the larger 3.6kW or 4.8kW elements, this means that when
it turns on, the amount of power the element draws is reduced. The water takes longer to heat, but
for most users who don't drain their hot water cylinders completely and need it reheated as fast as
possible this is not really a problem.
Installing a cylinder timer - a
cylinder timer would allow you to select when you want power to be able to reach the cylinder so
that your cylinder does not draw power at peak load, like when you are already cooking on a stove.
Whether the cylinder actually uses the power or not is determined by the hot water temperature in
the cylinder - the cylinder thermostat will decide.
If you keep your fridge full, then
everytime you open the fridge door, only a small volume of cool air will escape. The fridge will be
able to work less hard to cool any new air when the door is shut again. You can use bottles of
water or other beverages or cans of fruit in the fridge if you don't have enough other perishable
food to stock the fridge up. The trick is to minimise the amount of free air which can escape when
you open the door.
Remember the old houses that have windows
above internal doors? Well, new houses could learn a thing or two: putting these "Clerstorey"
windows above internal doors right up to the ceiling and making them "openable", means you can
allow the warm air near the ceiling in one room to move through to another room - just by opening
the windows above the door. Once the warm air has moved to the rooms you want, a ceiling fan on a
"winter" setting can then move the air around the room.
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December (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)
Vintage, 9780307388575, 320pp.
Publication Date: July 14, 2009
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Centered on a young girl who inexplicably stops speaking, December is a riveting and insightful portrait of a family in crisis.Nine months after eleven-year-old Isabelle suddenly fell silent, her parents, Wilson and Ruth, are at their wits' end. And what began as self-protection has spiraled beyond Isabelle's control; she has become trapped in her silence, horrified by the pain she is causing and terrified of losing her old self to this cold young girl she barely recognizes. Isabelle must confront her overwhelming anger and love for her family, a cast of charming yet dangerous characters, and her own fears, before finally finding her voice.
About the Author
Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop was born and raised in New York City. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Harvard University in 2001. In 2004 she received her MFA in fiction from the University of California at Irvine, and she was the recipient of the Schaeffer Writing Fellowship for the 2004-5 academic year. She is the author of Fireworks. She lives in Savannah, Georgia.
Praise For December (Vintage Contemporaries)…
"A modern fairy tale.... December offers the pleasures of beautifully composed scenes and...an exact rendering of a child's acute perceptions."—The New York Times Book Review"Winthrop carefully and expertly builds the layers of her characters until they are deeply, beautifully drawn.... December is as brilliant and hopeful as its protagonist." —The Plain Dealer"Winthrop's prose is crisp and poised and her characterizations convincing.... These people feel lived in and authentic."—The New York Observer
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Hawaii's Punalu'u Black Sand Beach
Punalu'u Black Sand Beach is, per its name, composed of exotic black sand. The sand is somewhat coarse, but feels wonderful under the foot.
With coconut palms ringing the beach and a gorgeous pond with lily pads fringed by lush tropical vegetation, this beach has a remote, stark and uniquely Hawaiian beauty.
Getting to Punalu'u
Punalu'u Black Sand Beach is located on the southeastern coast of the Hawaii Island, aka the Big Island. The beach is remote, being around 67 miles south of Kailua-Kona, which makes it about a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Waikoloa, Mauna Lani and Mauna Kea resorts on Kohala Coast north of Kailua-Kona, and around an hour south of Hilo.
Driving from Kailua-Kona, you will pass through the Kona coffee farms, Volcanoes National Park and landscapes of staggering beauty.
The coffee farms are located high up on the slopes of Mauna Loa, and you may even smell coffee roasting as you drive through the area. Some farms operate stands on the side of the road where you can stop and purchase coffee directly from the producers.
Tip: if you really want to visit coffee farms and purchase coffee from them, do not go on a Sunday. We drove through the area on a Sunday and most of the stands were closed!
Still, the ride is scenic and traveling on Hawaii Highway 11 (Mamalahoa), you will climb quite high on the slopes of Mauna Loa and be able to enjoy scenic views of the coastline below.
An Eerie Beauty
Passing though Volcanoes National Park, the landscape is defined unique vegetation and high peaks, which mingled with the clouds as we passed. In contrast to the arid lava fields of the Kohala Coast, these lava fields are full of life. This side of the Big Island is wet and green, with big trees and the type vegetation found on the other Hawaiian islands.
Because of Hawaii's size and the amount of time that it takes to get to Punalu'u Black Sand Beach, you get the feeling that you are driving to one of the most remote corners of the world. In fact, you will pass the southernmost tip of Hawaii, which is the southernmost point in the United States. This not to be confused with Key West, which is the southernmost point in the Continental US.
Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles
You will see signs posted asking people to give the Hawaiian sea turtles their space. The beach is a haven for them, and there were five large turtles lounging on the sand when we visited in December. They seem oblivious to onlookers and are a treat for visitors.
Swimming at Punalu'u
The water was brisk when we visited in December, but also very refreshing. There were waves at the shoreline, which is rocky at the water's edge. For this reason, we would recommend bringing reef walkers or other shoes to ensure you don't hurt your feet.
Beyond the shore, several visitors were snorkeling, apparently taken by the tropical marine life that dwells just offshore.
This beach is not to be missed for anyone looking for a one-of-a-kind Hawaiian experience. Black sand beaches are famous but relatively rare in Hawaii, so do your best to take a road trip down to this beautiful and remote shoreline the next time you are on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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Pusha T has definitely shaken up the world wide web with his scathing diss towards Drake, 'The Story of Adidon'. People are still trying to decipher what all Pusha has alleged on Drizzy but one thing is for sure, the Toronto hitmaker has some explaining to do.
Pusha called into The Breakfast Club this morning to discuss the song that everybody's talking about, whether he went too far, thoughts on Quentin Miller and more. Pusha said that once his fiancee, Virginia Williams was mentioned by Drake in his 'Duppy Freestyle' diss, all gloves were off.
The G.O.O.D. Music president explained to the hosts that he needs some answers from Drake regarding the controversial "black face" photo that he used for the song's artwork. "We talked about the writing or whatever, the ghostwriting allegations..alright cool. Now we get to like the mimicking of the black poster..black face, I mean I'm not ready to excuse that," Pusha told the hosts, Charlamagne Tha God, DJ Envy and Angela Yee.
"You talking multi millionaire talk to me and you tucking a baby, I'm not with all of that. Look I don't even hang out with friends who have child support issues," he continued talking about Drake having a secret son with porn star Sophie Brussaux aka Rosee Divine . Listen to the interview below.
We did some digging about the controversial photo shoot. David Leyes, the photographer who did the shoot, has defended Drake and said that he's "proud to be part of a strong statement made by a black man about the f*cked up culture he is livin in."


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"Santorini and the Aegean" is an outstanding Greece cruise package offering Athens, Santorini, plus an Aegean Cruise in which you will explore the islands replete with legend, history and splendid natural settings. Budget friendly hotels, from Superior Tourist to Deluxe, for the three nights in Athens and three in Santorini. A half-day Athens guided tour also takes in the legendary Acropolis, crowned by the Parthenon, an apogee of Western civilization. Ample time is left for personal exploration or side trips to places such as Delphi, Meteora or Cape Sounion. In your Athenian nights, or days, try delicious cuisine and wines at a taverna in the section of Plaka. You'll love it! On your Santorini Greece travel package tour, explore all the wonders of this spectacular ......
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Arrival into Athens. Balance of the day is at leisure for you to get acquainted with Athens, the capital and largest city of Greece.
Half day morning city tour includes highlights of Athens and the Acropolis plus the new Acropolis Museum. Afternoon and balance of day is at leisure. (B)
A full day at leisure to explore this lively city on your own or take an optional tour. (B)
After breakfast, transfer to the port of Athens and embark on your cruise ship. Sail to the picturesque isle of Mykonos, known for its windmills and lively harbor. Continue sailing in the evening. (B,L,D)
Morning arrival in Kusadasi, Turkey, located nearby Ephesus, one of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World". This afternoon sail to Patmos, site of the Monastery of St. John the Divine and the Grotto of the Apocalypse. Evening departure for Rhodes. (B,L,D)
A day on the Island of Roses, famed for its Medieval Old Town, great shopping and ancient site of the Colossus of Rhodes. Sail in the evening. (B,L,D)
Morning call at Greece's largest island, Crete. Later you sail for the volcanic island of Santorini where some of the villages are perched on the rim of the volcano. This island is believed by many to be the site of the Lost Continent of Atlantis. Disembark and transfer to your hotel here. (B,L)
Full days to take in the wonders of this island. You may visit, on your own, a local winery or relax at one of the black sand beaches. (B)
Full days to take in the wonders of this island. You may visit, on your own, a local winery or relax at one of the black sand beaches. (B)
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Burning (Super Bowl) Ring of Fire
Summary: Super Bowl victory No. 6 for the Steelers ignites more than the crowd. Reporter: David Highfield, KDKA Channel 2 Airtime: 1 minute, 38 seconds on Feb. 2 Visuals: * Roaring, drunken people "celebrating." * Terrible Towels being waved from every possible place you could think of -- including traffic lights. Highlights: * When a sweaty, exhausted-looking but composed Bob Pompeani, live from Tampa Bay, throws it to Oakland, where Highfield seems to be handling things quite well (at least on camera): "Celebrations are taking place right now as we told you throughout Pittsburgh." * When a somewhat disheveled-looking Highfield reports, "Hi, Bob. Yeah, we are in Oakland here, where the celebrating got a little bit outta control. Now, I will say the crowd is beginning to thin a little bit here, but this is one of the fires right over here. It is out, but take a look at some video from what it looked like earlier. This was a sofa that somebody set on fire, and some other rubbish that they added to it. Just one of several fires that we've seen here." * When he adds, "In fact, we just ran over ... to a fire on Atwood Street where a car was sideways in the street. Somebody lit that on fire, the windows were smashed out. There was also another fire on Forbes Avenue." * When Highfield manages to find an upside to all this mayhem: "The good news is, we have not heard of anyone being injured here." * When Highfield continues to huff and puff, "In fact, there's a strong police presence. We've seen police officers in riot gear, we've seen a state-police helicopter flying overhead, we've also seen state police -- they almost look like tanks -- ah, police officers mounted on horseback as well, moving through here to disperse the crowds. But again, a number of fires, two people at least taken into custody -- I saw those two people taken into custody. They were from a large fire down here on Forbes Avenue. And the crowd, although still very active out here as they celebrate No. 6, it seems as though it's thinning out just a little bit. That's the very latest from Oakland. We'll send it back to you in the studio." What We Learned: Keep this in mind for Valentine's Day, guys: There's no better way to show your passion than by setting your girl's sofa on fire or overturning her car! Unanswered Question: Where can I get a good deal on a new sofa? News Value: 3. Whoa. Are we in West Virginia, people?


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Fulfilling a longtime wish for student activists, a committee composed solely of undergraduates has begun meeting to provide "unfettered" input for administrators as the College seeks to implement sexual assault prevention measures.
The committee is one of two separate working groups that have begun meeting to implement recommendations from a University-wide task force's report on sexual assault prevention and is advised by Emily J. Miller, the College's Title IX Coordinator, and Emelyn A. dela Peña, the assistant dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
On March 9, a University-wide task force released recommendations for preventing sexual assault at Harvard, a problem President Drew G. Faust has deemed "deeply troubling." The 20 page report covers all of Harvard's schools, but disproportionately focuses on the College, citing its "residential character" and historically single-sex social organizations as potential problems in addressing sexual assault prevention.
Before the report was even released, a group of roughly a dozen students convened this semester to help craft the College's response to the prevalence of sexual assault, according to dela Peña.
Before the start of the 2016-2017 academic year, both the student working group and a separate faculty committee will submit a plan of action to Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana addressing how the report's broader recommendations will be implemented at the College level.
Some students have long desired the creation of an all-student task force to provide input on sexual assault prevention. In November, anti-sexual assault advocacy group Our Harvard Can Do Better sponsored an undergraduate-wide referendum criticizing Harvard's central administration for a perceived lack of student input in addressing campus sexual assault.
The referendum received widespread support in the election, with 76 percent of voters approving the proposal. Jessica R. Fournier '17, an organizer of Our Harvard Can Do Better, now serves on the student-comprised working group.
So far, the all-student group has met several times under the guidance of dela Peña and Miller. Dela Peña said the group's primary focus is to "come up with student-centered, student-focused interventions" both in sexual assault prevention and response.
She added that the group's purpose is to give "unfettered" input to College administrators on an issue that largely affects students.
The student working group draws membership from the Undergraduate Council, varsity sports teams, and students from the College's women's, anti-sexual assault advocacy, and BGLTQ organizations, according to Fournier and dela Peña.
"It's a very broad representation," dela Peña said.
The working group is divided into three subcommittees, focusing on addressing prevention of sexual assault, revisiting the College's response mechanisms for sexual assault, and devising ways for distributing the findings of the committee among the student body, Fournier said.
Despite the new group's creation and seeming progress, Fournier said she was skeptical about the group's ability to effect change.
"This group is really focusing on the prevention side of things, and where does that leave us on policy change," Fournier said. She argued that there should be greater student representation on a separate committee charged with reviewing Harvard's Title IX policies.
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Affiliate Summit Coverage The blogsphere is abuzz with Affiliate Summit coverage. The show maybe over but the memories will live on forever. Here are what others are saying about the summit. Ms Danielle's ASW pictures Amit Mehta's ASW recap Zac Johnson's response to Jason Calacanis 45n5 Affiliate Summit brain dump Interview with Uber Affiliate Paul Bourque Affspy rocks the Affiliate […]Read More


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Crate and Barrel rolls out digital concierge
Written by Anthony Strzalek
US home furnishings company, Crate and Barrel, has teamed up with Moxie Software to launch a digital concierge, designed to improve customer experience, engagement and acquisition for mobile, tablet and desktop shoppers.
The Moxie Concierge is a digital engagement technology that enables companies to improve customer relationships and engage visitors with relevant, contextual information and assistance across the entire decision journey.
Using Moxie Concierge, a brand can connect with customers on their preferred digital communication channel and device, increasing conversions, revenue and retention.
Joan King, vice president of eCommerce for Crate and Barrel, said: "Seeing our mobile traffic grow nearly 30 per cent, year-over-year, with more and more of our customers shopping on tablets and mobile devices, our goal was to select an application that offered a superior mobile experience
"It was also critical that the solution be easy to use and administer for our business users. Moxie provides comprehensive reporting so that we now have visibility into both the context of customer communication and the effectiveness of digital channels."
Rebecca Ward, president and CEO of Moxie, added: "We are thrilled to help increase mobile commerce for globally recognized retailers like Crate and Barrel, as well as banking, travel and healthcare companies."


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Dimension 4 Wheel Aligners
Bear's Dimension 4 (D4) wheel alignment systems set the bar high as the fastest, most accurate wheel alignment system on the market due to its advanced imaging system. High-definition cameras and large flat screen monitor provide easy to view readings during the entire alignment procedure.
All steps of the alignment are clearly displayed with vibrant graphics providing an extremely easy to understand alignment procedure. The D4 wheel aligner gives you the option of selecting the most effective measuring routines before starting wheel alignment procedures. Standard option for a program-guided routine with initial and final measurements; rapid procedure for measurements without caster steering angle and/or run-out compensation; or free measurement for checking individual values as required.
The D4 increases productivity by giving technicians the ability to perform more alignments faster compared to conventional systems. It is perfect for wheel service shops handling high volume wheel alignments who are looking to maximize cash flow with minimal investment.
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Ol.B.C LIBRARY NEWS
No. 4 December, 1968 Vancouver, B.C.
This newsletter appears once a month as an information service for faculty and other people outside the Library. It contains
news items about current developments in the Library system which we feel will be of interest or concern to the larger
Like most compromises, the reserve book system in the U.B.C. Library is probably not completely satisfactory to anyone,
although it may well be the only practical answer the Library can make to an increasingly difficult problem. The following
survey may help to clear up widespread misunderstandings about the function and value of reserve books in the university
The rationale of "reserving" is simply stated: it is an attempt to assure equal exposure to identical content. When certain
readings are assigned to all students in a course, and when there is reason to believe that the normal loan period would not
permit access to this material by all the students within the time allowed, the books are placed on short-term loan. Often
duplicate copies are provided to make it easier for all students to complete their required reading assignments.
Putting this simple idea into operation takes up an enormous amount of staff time. Hundreds of reading lists must be called in
from faculty members and then checked against the catalogue to determine which items are already in the library. Those which
are must be retrieved from the stacks; those which are not must be ordered and processed. All reserve holdings must be entered
as such in the library catalogues, and central records set up for the collection.
For this year's winter session over 26,000 course items were processed for reserve in Sedgewick and the Main Library.
Establishing and maintaining such a collection requires a disproportionate amount of staff time, and there are strong indications
that much of this may be wasted effort. Almost every study of university reserve collections done in the past 40 years has shown
that between 40 and 80 per cent of all items did not circulate often enough to warrant the reserve loan period. Coming closer to
home, we have the results of a research project by Lois Carrier, the head of the Library's Social Sciences Division, on use of
selected undergraduate social science reserves from September 1966 to May 1967. She concludes:
No title was ever continuously justified for reserve over the entire 8-month period. Of the 171 sample titles, 38.6% were never
justified for reserve at any time. . .. Reserve materials for courses in anthropology, economics, geography, political science,
psychology and sociology in the undergraduate library of the University of British Columbia are not used frequently enough
in comparison with their possible non-reserve use to warrant the special treatment accorded them.... It is singularly revealing
that the 1-day reserve materials could have circulated more than 3 times as often on normal stack loan (1 week) than they
actually did from reserve, and the 2-hour reserves more than 5 times as often.
Even items which seem to have circulated heavily are often found to have been renewed a number of times by the same
Reasons for this surprisingly poor use of reserve materials are not hard to find. Students often complain that the arbitrary
1-day or 2-hour loan periods do not give them sufficient time to absorb the material. Many prefer purchased texts or stack
books, which allow them to reread, annotate, and compare material for what they feel is a more reasonable length of time.
Again, due to the Library's limited budget or to unexpected demand, not enough copies may be available, and material may be
out when the student asks for it. Enough experiences of this kind, and a student will avoid using reserve books despite the
strongest urging from faculty.
Low student use is only one of the factors which have led many librarians and faculty members to question the value of
reserve books. It is also charged that dependence on reserves keeps a student from learning how to find information on his own
and to use the other library resources available to him. In this sense, he is not getting the education he has a right to expect.
In view of these arguments, the Sedgewick Library has made some changes in the standard reserve procedure. All assigned
readings are listed in a special course file, but not all are put on a shorter loan period. Those that are have been shelved side by
side with regular stack books on the same subject, as a means of encouraging wider reading. The result has been a decline in
reliance on reserves combined with a great increase in the circulation of regular stack books. It seems unlikely that the reserve book system will ever be discarded altogether. In spite of its drawbacks, it will remain the
only method of supplying required readings which faculty members feel their students cannot afford to buy. But alternative
methods of putting many other readings into students' hands will soon have to be developed if the reserve book collection is not
to expand beyond the size which can be handled with the staff and space available.
However required readings are to be handled, the following should be borne in mind:
a) Reserving should never be used just as a means of gathering required and/or recommended readings in one place. If the
demand does not absolutely require a shortened loan period, chances are that the material would really be better off in the
regular stacks. Although it is seldom easy for a faculty member to predict in advance which books will be used heavily, the
Library's IBM circulation records are often useful guides.
b) Lists of books for short-term loan should be submitted well in advance of the session for which they are required.
Standard Library forms for the next summer session are normally sent out to each faculty member in January, and in
March for the winter session.
To sum up, then: whatever else a reserve book collection may be, it is not a cure-all. In attempting to solve one set of
problems, it may well create others. But with a greater understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of reserve collections,
faculty members can do much to help the system function effectively.
The Senate Library Committee has spent much time this fall reviewing the Library's loan regulations. At the November 15th
meeting the following changes were approved, effective immediately:
1) First and Second Year students may now borrow periodicals for one-day use, the same as upper year students. Material
may be signed out at any time during the day (not just after 4:30), and Main Library periodicals will be due back at 8:30
the following morning. Those borrowed from Sedgewick must be returned before 1:30 p.m.
Periodicals in the Music Library will still be restricted to use in the library.
2) "Library Use Only" material belonging to reference collections in the Main Library will be identified by a stamp (where
the book pocket would normally be found) specifying the division to which the book belongs. Faculty members should
not remove such items from the Library without permission from the reference division.
Other proposed changes in loan regulations will be discussed again in February. They include:
1) A possible raise in fees for individuals and organizations requesting extra-mural borrowers' privileges.
2) A proposal to extend graduate borrowing privileges to students in professional schools on campus.
It must be stressed that these two changes are only under consideration so far. Any final decisions will be reported in the
News as they are made, but none will be implemented before September, 1969.
Last month's News reported that during 1967/68 the Library's catalogue card production had broken all records. This has
proven tc be something of a mixed blessing, since 40 drawers of cards a month have had to be added to the already crowded
catalogues in the Main Library. The situation has now reached the point where drawers in the Author/Title Catalogue are too
full to permit filing, and by spring the Subject Catalogue will be in the same state.
As almost everyone on campus knows by now, all library cards had to be replaced in mid-November after it was learned that a
number of the original cards bore incorrect information. It is hard to say how many of these irregular cards were in existence,
but to the best of the Library's knowledge only a few were ever used to borrow books.
Fears that use of the cards might be resulting in large-scale theft of library books are not borne out by the circulation records.
Only a few irregular borrowers' numbers have turned up in the course of checking overdues, and none of these had a large
number of books outstanding.
However, a complete record of overdue books will not be available until the general call-in, which normally takes place in
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Eight new cabinets are already on order, and should arrive in about six weeks. Meanwhile new author and title cards will be
filed in two temporary cabinets which have been set up outside the Interlibrary Loan Office, facing the Author/Title Catalogue.
Once the new cabinets have been added, the catalogue will have reached its maximum size in its present location. Further
expansion in years to come will involve a move, either to parts of the Main Concourse now used for office space or to the South
Reading Room. Although this is not likely to happen until the 1970's, a preliminary study of possible new locations has already
been made.
Now that the 1968 U.B.C. Serials Holdings list has been published, copies of the 1967 list are no longer needed in the
Library. They are still useful to readers, however, as many of the 1967 entries have been reprinted without change in the 1968
Anyone interested may obtain a free copy of last year's list at the Main Library's Information Desk.
If U.B.C. is beginning to be nationally known as a centre for blind students, one of the chief reasons is certainly the Charles
Crane Memorial Library. Housed in the north wing of Brock Hall, it is the most comprehensive library for blind students in
Canada. The aim of the Crane collection is twofold: first, to provide equal library resources and study facilities for the blind on
campus; and second, to attract more blind students from other countries to U.B.C.
Although the library was not officially opened until the spring of 1968, its history really began three years earlier. Charles
Allen Crane, the first totally deaf and blind Canadian to enter university, had spent a lifetime building up the largest private
Braille collection in the world. After his death in 1965 it was donated to U.B.C, which Crane had attended in 1931-32.
For the next two years the books remained in temporary storage, unsorted and unclassified. In 1967, however, a team of two
students and a faculty member began the monumental task of arranging and cataloguing the collection. Because the Crane
Library is not directly connected with the U.B.C. library system, much of the cataloguing had to be done by volunteers from the
Delta Gamma women's fraternity. Delta Gamma also joined with the P.A. Woodward Foundation in donating funds to help
furnish the three-room library.
Today the collection numbers roughly 3,700 volumes. The subjects covered range from philosophy, literature and history to
botany and medicine, but the library is especially strong in the Greek and Latin classics. Because it operates outside the U.B.C.
library system, none of these books will be listed in the Main Library's card catalogue. Instead the collection has its own
catalogue, and a unique one it is. Each entry appears on two large cards—the first having the information in large type, and the
second repeating the same entry in Braille. Subject and title files have already been completed, and work is still in progress on an
author index.
. tMaterials in Braille and on tape which are not held in the Crane Library can often be borrowed from other collections in
Canada and the U.S. Major sources for interlibrary loans are the C.N.I.B. National Library in Toronto, the Recordings for the
Blind Library in New York, and the Seattle Public Library's Division for the Blind.
The U.B.C. Library's own books and periodicals may, of course, be borrowed by blind students too. To help them use this
material, the Crane Library has set up a system of volunteer readers who can be called on whenever necessary.
At present the library serves 18 blind or near-blind students—the largest single group now attending university in Canada. By
next fall their number will have risen to at least 15. In addition, the Crane collection is a major source of material for blind
students in Vancouver high schools and other B.C. universities. Although it has been open for less than a year, its reputation
outside the province is growing fast, and loan requests now come in from all across Canada.
Next month the library will gain another room: Brock Hall's old College Shop, which is to be used for book storage, study
space, and a staff working area. This coming year should also see the addition of many more Braille reference works, and
(hopefully) the start of a new tape library. The Crane Library has come a long way in a short time, and its growth shows no signs
of slowing down.
In last month's issue of the News it was mentioned that the U.B.C. Library had received a Canada Council grant to support
book purchases in the humanities and social sciences. The annual report of the Council, just received, shows U.B.C. to be one of
the top three universities, each of which received $64,000 for 1968/69. The other two are the University of Toronto and
Universite de Montreal. Applications for the 1969/70 grants were sent off last week, and indications are that the volume of requests from this
university's teaching departments will again be high. The council has stated, however, that those disciplines not considered
within the area of the social sciences and humanities will be excluded this year. Subjects specifically mentioned are architecture,
education, librarianship and social work.
The schedule below has been confirmed for the Main Library and branch libraries (Curriculum Laboratory, Institute of
Fisheries, Forestry/Agriculture, Law, Mathematics, Music, Sedgewick, Social Work, Woodward). Please note, however, that some
branches may begin 5:00 p.m. closing earlier than December 20th. Any such changes will be announced when the examination
time-tables have been set.
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December 25th-29th
December 30th-31st
January 1st
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January 6th
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The U.B.C. Library News welcomes all comments, criticisms, and suggestions for future articles.
So far the News has been distributed only to U.B.C. faculty and staff. If you know of anyone else who would like to receive
copies regularly during 1969, please contact the editor.
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Planning & Development
our ROle in Planning and Development
Teton Conservation District is dedicated to contributing to the conversation surrounding growth and development in Teton County. As both a special district, we engage in local planning and development in a few capacities.
As a local government entity, the District is eligible for cooperating agency status by the Council on Environmental Quality. All policy-level coordination is directed by our locally-elected Board of Supervisors. Teton Conservation District exercises cooperating agency status as appropriate in coordination with federal and state land management agencies. We participated as a cooperating agency in the following projects: the Upper Snake River Wild and Scenic Plan and Environmental Impact Statement, the Bridger-Teton National Forest Teton to Snake Fuels Management Project, the Shoshone National Forest Forest Plan Revision, and the Wyoming Public Lands Initiative.
Teton Conservation District cooperates with the Teton County Planning and Building Department by providing science-based recommendations to further describe and enhance the County's Land Development Regulations. State statute also authorizes the District to provide technical assistance and cost share programs for the conservation of natural resources.


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Check out the next instalment of Rock Metal Punk Magazine 's Guess The Band series!
Anybody out there have a clue which band I've illustrated here?! Head to their Facebook Page to get involved!
Don't forget, all images will be available to view in the Art section as they are released! Follow BEACHXPIZZA on Instagram or Facebook to keep up to date and find out when the next Illustration is hitting the web!


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My husband and I were in London recently taking a tour of Chelsea. Known as the epicenter of Swinging London in the 1960-70s, it was home to artists, musicians, and models. Though today it's a more sedate upscale neighborhood, we were lucky enough to find one artist that still calls Chelsea home. Nick Bashall, one… [Read the rest of the post]
How to make a small studio space feel bigger
I am so excited about my new wall easel from Paper Bird Studio & Design (aka Tueller Easel Company) custom built for me by Jason Tueller. To maximize the space in my smallish Colorado studio, I opted for this amazing wall easel. It's over 100″ long and I can put up to four canvases… [Read the rest of the post]
Five tips for moving your art studio
I have moved my art studio many times over the years, and I would love to share a few tips I've learned. Tip #1: Get rid of as much as possible The less you have to move, the easier the move becomes. I've found the longer I'm in a location, the more stuff I accumulate. After… [Read the rest of the post]
My New Art Studio: Before and After
I moved into a new art studio a couple of months ago. It has lovely wood floors, but I found them too dark for an art studio. I also worried about damaging them (I'm just renting the space). I found an easy, affordable solution by covering most of the floor with cream-colored carpet tiles from… [Read the rest of the post]
What would you do with an extra hour a day?
An opportunity arose to move from my Long Island City studio into a studio just down the block from my current apartment in Greenwich Village. Basically, it shortens my roundtrip commute from over an hour to 5 minutes! I will miss my artist friends from my old studio building but not the subway commute. What would you… [Read the rest of the post]
You've got mail!
How to decorate envelopes using a GelliArts plate, acrylic paint, stencils, and pens.
My art is in MoMA!
Okay, that a huge exaggeration. However, I am showcased in MoMA's PS1 Studio Visit. This is a web initiative by MoMA that offers virtual presentations of artists' studios. Emerging artists working in the five boroughs and greater New York area are invited to upload video or still images of their studios and work. Artists' submissions… [Read the rest of the post]
I just moved into a larger studio space (in the same building) and it's chaos here! I realized I need to paint the flat files (which purchased from the previous tenant) before I can use them. But then I realized that I can't spray paint anything until I get everything under plastic, which I can't… [Read the rest of the post]


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Come meet our adoptable Badass pups on 2/16/19 from 12-2pm!
Valentines day may have just passed but there is still a chance to meet the next love of your life… in dog form!
We will have many wonderful and loving dogs looking for their forever homes!
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So usually I talk about something that happened a really long time ago when I talk about a record. Today I'm going to talk about a record that I never had until I was an adult. I kind of wish I had known about The Pagans when I was a kid, but let's face it – no one knew who they were. No one knew then, and very few know now, but The Pagans were quite possibly the best and most "punk" of all the early Cleveland Punk bands that were making an everlasting impact on a musical generation that if not for the internet, never would have known who The Pagans were.
The Pagans were probably more out to just be a Rock N' Roll band and have fun than to actually be famous, or everlasting or to be Punks on the scene. They were undoubtedly Punks, but I don't know that they were Punk Rock so much as just Punks that got high a lot and were probably unbearable to live with (Read singer Mike Hudson's book Diary of a Punk for more info). When an actual Punk Rock movement came along, I think The Pagans were okay with being labeled Punk, but they weren't out to change the world. They were just making music that they liked, and to hell with anyone else. You can tell by their cover songs, like Little Black Egg, Heart of Stone and Can't Explain. These guys came from a good place musically. I think that's why I like so many of the early Punk bands compared to the bands doing Punk today.
So the first Pagans song I ever heard was probably Six and Change or maybe What's This Shit Called Love on an old Cleveland show that used to play on WCSB called London's Burning. They had a really funny commercial that aired on other college shows that started off with The Clash singing London's Burning, and then the DJ would do a voice over that said, "Are you bored, and do you hate everything?" How could I not listen to that show? I'm not bored, and I don't hate everything, but this guy seemed to actually like Punk Rock and didn't take it so seriously! I forget when it was on, but I think it was pretty late and I used to listen to it like Friday after work (I worked mostly night shifts back then). He played all sorts of stuff. It didn't have to be just British, but in the early 80's here in Cleveland people considered Punk to be something from England, not a local thing.
This is too bad, because The Pagans captured the feel of this gritty, crumbly and kind of dirty city far better than the Michael Stanley Band ever could. I still think they capture the essence of what Cleveland is better than almost anyone. The Pagans are noisy, brash and sloppy. The Pagans drink too much, and it shows. Most people won't get The Pagans, and that's just so like Cleveland to me. Most people that aren't from here seem to wonder why anyone would ever come here, even for fifteen minutes, let alone actually live here.
I remember one time when I had to go to Massachusetts for work for a week or two. I had been there before, and I knew exactly where I needed to go. When I got in my rental car, I put Shit Street in the cd player, and twisted the volume knob and let The Pagans blast through me like a sonic boom. I completely missed my merge and would up pulling into a State Highway Patrol station and asking them just how far away I was from my hotel. I think he considered giving me a field sobriety test, because I was at the other end of the state! But it just didn't matter because I felt like I was just rubbing the stink of home all over MA with The Pagans. So I was happy enough about that. I switched cd's because by then Shit Street was over, but I also wanted to make sure I didn't miss the hotel again.
It was a Pagans week for me, too. I remember I went to a Newbury Comics store out in the boonies (people on the East Coast call where I was the boonies – I thought it was just suburbia), and figured I'd buy some cd's with my per Diem. I don't remember what cd's I chose, but I remember the cashier was probably still a teenager, but a future music snob in training. While he was ringing up my music he told me, "I really like your picks here! I'm going to say that you've bought the best music all day, so you're my favorite customer today." Now, I love having my ego stroked and being told that I listen to cool music, because believe me, no one else ever tells me I listen to anything good. So I asked the kid what kind of music he liked and he said he liked garage rock, early punk (not Green Day and the modern punks) and stuff like early Stones and Kinks. I talked to him about The Yardbirds and asked if he know them. He didn't, so I told him Clapton and Jimmy Page played with them, but not to hold that against them because their best music was done with Jeff Beck, and that Jeff didn't do any lengthy soft jazz stuff when he was with them. He said he'd check them out. We talked about a few other things and I asked if he had ever heard any Cleveland Punk bands.
"Uuuuh…no. I don't think I ever heard any bands from Cleveland," he says. I told him, "Hey, I'm not saying they're all good, or even that most of them are any good, but you guys have one copy of The Pagans Shit Street over there. I'm sure with your store discount it's not much of a risk for you to check them out. But if you like the stuff I bought today, then I think you'll like them, because I've been listening to Shit Street for three days straight."
I gotta hand it to the kid. He looked over his glasses and said, "There's only one copy? I'll go grab it now. Is it kind of raw?"
A million ideas about how raw The Pagans were entered my mind, like "It's more raw than Ted Nugent's dinner, " or "It's as raw as a skateboard trainee's palms." I just said, "If you want raw, you want the Pagans." So he went and grabbed it and rang it up for himself while we were still talking. He asked if I had seen them, and I said I hadn't. No one had. Maybe 100 people can legitimately claim to having saw The Pagans and they were the same people that went to every show (might be a slight exaggeration, but you get the idea). I told him a song like Boy Can I Dance Good would have been my teenage anthem if I had actually heard it back then. I told him Dead End America is the political Punk song to match anything by Stiff Little Fingers, The Clash or The Pistols.
I still believe that, too (not that I said this all that long ago). I thought it was really cool to talk to a kid that wasn't my kid about the music I love and see him actually care. I thought it was really cool of him to try to turn me onto bands that I was already either really digging myself, or didn't care about. But the kid was just so dorky, like me when I was his age. His enthusiasm was so cool to me. I could tell looking at him that he wasn't a popular kid and it didn't matter to him. He had something to care about, and he found a place to be where maybe everyone didn't care about the music he liked the same way he did, but once in a while, he'd find someone like me that had time to kill on a day when no one was in the store and he could talk. The way we used to talk at record stores. We'd go in and just talk about music and it was great; and that was a great afternoon hanging with that kid, even if he never does get who or what The Pagans were all about.
When I left, instead of playing new music, I put The Pagans back in. Cranked it up and let it start spreading Cleveland stink all over Massachusetts. And I missed my exit on the way back, but I didn't care.
As I mentioned, I have the cd of Shit Street. It's kind of nice because there's some bonus tracks on there, but they're mostly pretty raw live recordings. It's also available on vinyl, and I have that, too. It has a song called Jaguar Ride (old Electric Eels song) on it that isn't on the cd. When I was in Memphis a year or so ago I told my wife I had to go to Goner Records. I liked the store, but I like my options here in Cleveland better. In fact, I think while I was at Goner I ended up buying a copy of Shit Street and The Dead Boys – We Have Come For Your Children. The guy at the register said, "These bands are both from Cleveland." I told him I was, too. So this vinyl is terrific, because I bought it new. The recordings are pretty much a lo fi experience, but I don't know if I'd have it any other way.


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Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. 2nd Corinthians 3:5 NIV
The teenage boy was drawn out of curiosity to the airport. He stood and looked through the fence at the light aircraft. Just then a pilot walked by. "Would you like to go up for a spin?" He said. The youth could not believe his ears. "I am one of the instructors at the training center and if you have twenty bucks we can go up for a demo." In no time they were taxiing to the runway. As the plane lifted off the ground so did his spirits. The boy was already hooked. But the real thrill came when they were floating high above the familiar neighborhood. The instructor let him take the controls. He was flying physically, emotionally and spiritually!
On the boy´s very first flight he could hold the plane level and make turns. He was not a competent aviator yet and certainly would not have made it safely back to ground on his own. But his instructor was right next to him and could control the plane. In our flight through life, things are quite similar. Our ride with our competent Instructor takes us to eternally more perilous heights. Yet with Christ by our side, we need not fear! We may not be able to see or avoid all the dangers to our souls. But praise be to God! Jesus can safely bring us to our destination! Are our hearts thrilling today to the sensation of flying with our Lord?
Dear Lord,
Thanks for Your competent hands! Let our souls soar today knowing that we are flying with You by our side!


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The Escritoire
At this time of year, aspiring dancers from all over the country are boarding planes and jetting away to spend their summers training at one of many ballet intensives held around the country. Back when I was a student, I eagerly anticipated this season's arrival, as I looked forward to devoting 5 weeks in a different city, taking classes from renowned ballet teachers, and meeting other ambitious dancers.
In honor of the season, I thought it'd be fun to introduce two women this week, both of whom I was fortunate enough to meet back when we were little 13/14 year old students attending the School of American Ballet Summer Intensive. (There's a gritty, yet wonderful picture commemorating that summer, but you gotta get to the end of the post to see it!)
Without further ado! First up is a #ballerinainbusiness who finely crafts & re-tells stories as a skillful writer. Meet,
Hannah Foster of
The Escritoire
Hannah's website, The Escritoire, serves as a stylish landing pad to dive into the wide array of her published and informal musings. Based in New York City, Hannah hones in on her craft, covering all areas relating to arts & culture, in tandem with dancing for Bugge Ballet & serving as an arts advisor to Sugarlift.
From cover stories & dancer spotlight articles in Pointe Magazine, to interviews with legends in the dance world such as Mia Michaels & the incomparable Muriel Maffre in Dance Magazine, to landing a byline in the one & only New York Times, Hannah's work has been steadily crossing the country, landing in the hands of thousands of readers.
Within her freelance work with Pointe Magazine & Dance Magazine, Hannah has carved out a niche of her own. In many of her Dancer Spotlight articles, Hannah has made a point to feature & share the stories of dancers who pursue projects outside of the studio. (You may recognize a few! Including; Jordan Fry of Ballerina Baker , Allison DeBona of artEmotion summer intensive, and even Rénové !)
Understanding the fleeting nature of a career in ballet, Hannah hopes to encourage young dancers that their training is not in vain if they don't make it as a professional. Rather, the character one develops as a dancer by way of discipline, determination, & drive, will serve them positively throughout the course of pursuing other avenues in life.
Hannah's way with words & ability to draw a reader in, make her work captivating and simply a joy to read. I look back to when we first met as young dancers, having no clue what the future would hold, to now witnessing Hannah's success as she has matured & grown, forging her own path as a dancer & a writer. She is a true inspiration! Be sure to subscribe to her blog over on
the-escritoire.com where you can enter in your e-mail to stay up to date on all her latest musings.
Coming Up! The next #ballerinainbusiness just so happens to be in this photo from the archives as well ;) Can you guess who it might be?


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Chickpea Flour Dumplings with Yogurt Sauce
This recipe requires a lot of ingredients and a bit of preparation, but it is worth it! It's a great dish to prepare for a dinner party because it's so impressive, and so much can be made ahead of time. Make and chill the dumplings, and prepare the sauce the day before. Then when guests arrive, fry the dumplings and heat the sauce to serve. So many Indian flavors, and it's a very healthy dish!
Main ingredients:
3 cups whole fat Greek yogurt
2 cups water
1 cup chickpea flour
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. turmeric
1/2 tsp. sugar
2 tsp. garam masala
pinch asafetida (optional)
vegetable oil for frying
Yogurt sauce:
2 tbsp. corn oil
2 tsp. ground cumin seeds
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
1 onion, finely chopped
1 cup whole milk Greek yogurt
2 tbsp. ground coriander
1/2 tsp. turmeric
1/2 tsp. red chile powder
1 tsp. salt
2 green chiles, stems removed, julienned
1" piece of ginger root, julienned
1/4 cup cilantro leaves, stems removed
juice of one lemon
First, make the dumplings. Whisk the yogurt, water, chickpea flour, salt, turmeric, sugar, garam masala and asafetida in a bowl. Pour mixture into a large skillet and heat over medium low heat, stirring often for about 30 minutes, until mixture thickens and becomes consistency of a soft dough. Remove from heat and transfer to a greased 8" square pan. Cover with plastic wrap and chill in refrigerator for at least 2 hours until it sets up.
To make the sauce, heat the oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add the cumin and cloves stir until they are fragrant. Add the onion and cook for 5 minutes, until soft. Meanwhile, whisk the yogurt with the ground coriander, turmeric, red chile powder, and salt. Add to the onions and stir constantly until mixture comes to a simmer. Add the green chiles and 3/4 cup of water. Bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes. Taste for correct seasoning. Keep warm. Cut the dumpling "cake" into 2" squares. Heat some oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. When oil is hot, add dumplings, a few at a time. Fry for a couple minutes until a crust has formed. Turn and fry other side. Serve on top of sauce. Garnish with ginger, cilantro and fresh lemon juice.


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Gwen Wohlgefahrt named Wisconsin N.W.T.F. Educator of the Year
Gwen is a fifth grade teacher who teaches in our public school system here in Racine. She teaches at a school in the inner city of Racine called Jefferson Lighthouse. The school is set up as offering classes for the gifted and talented.
The city of Racine has a population of about 82,000 people, and is located on the shore of Lake Michigan, twenty-five miles south of Milwaukee and sixty miles north of Chicago. Several smaller communities also surround Racine. We are the fourth largest school district in Wisconsin and the second poorest.
There are four fifth Grade classes consisting of about 110 students. Most of the staff except my wife, and maybe one other, are non-hunters as well as 95 percent of the fifth grade students.
Every year she gains permission from the principal to allow me to bring in an education box to the entire fifth grade and hold a turkey conservation talk. Habitat Hank is played on T.V. I have an overhead presentation that she sets up for me on the anatomy of the wild turkey. A full mount of a strutting Gobbler is used for display that spends most of the year in her classroom, along with most of the posters from the education box that are hung around the room through out the year. Various turkey feathers are passed around along with the parts from the turkey anatomy kit, and we have a great time talking about habitat, conservation, and taking care of the wildlife around us. At the end of the lesson, the kids are each given a NWTF Jakes ruler and pencil.
This is our fifth year doing this presentation and we are already welcomed back for next year. The students express great interest in attending future Jakes Days and have received hundreds of hand written thank- yous from the students telling how much they enjoyed the class.
My wife has also been on the forefront of scheduling field trips to natural areas around our part of the state; this is a challenging task, as many obstacles have to be met before the field trip even begins busing, permission from parents, volunteers, and getting the funds to do the trip.
On one such field trip the students were bused a hour away to the Scuppernong Wildlife area by southern kettle Moraine, One of the things that stuck in my mind as well as my wife's happened after we spent the first part of the morning traipsing thru the fields and woods looking for items on a checklist that you should find in this area, lunch was to be cooked at my wife's parents house, they border the kettle moraine area and farm country, they live in a 1840's restored house,. When the students arrived for lunch, they went absolutely nuts over the dairy cows in the field next to her parents, after a show of hands 95 percent of the students have never been that close to a live cow.
It was a awakening for myself and my wife, we thought if the majority of these students had never seen a cow and not understood where Milk came from how could they actually care or become stewards of the land if they do not understand the importance of the natural world around them, and with that being said how could they ever form a positive opinion of hunters and the conservation management of harvesting wild game.
My wife and I are fortunate enough to have been raised in the outdoors, and both of us have been raised in a rural environment. Out of one hundred and ten children, only one child in class had ever been on a hunting trip for a wild turkey.
My wife has been deeply involved thru out the school year with teaching these children about being good conservationist and protecting all the wildlife around them, Some of the examples she has taught include picking up litter around the city and on the beach and that, all of the kids can play an important role in helping our wildlife. When asked by her students what picking up litter will do she responds by telling them of just a few hazards wildlife could encounter if they come in contact with discarded fishing line and litter and by disposing of it properly, they have now helped the ducks, geese, and birds that live on or near the beach and the peregrine falcon, which has made a nest on our 9-story public courthouse building. Or the Snowy owl that visits our North beach every winter. These kids were taught that wildlife exists all around them.
As our hunting numbers are on a steady decline in the state of Wisconsin, I believe by her teachings to the inner city kids they will have a vested interest in the wildlife around them, maybe we will gain a few hunters in the future, and if not, at least they will have a understanding of hunting as an important role in wildlife management and not be so quick to jump on the theory that hunting is bad.
I am proud of her dedication to being a teacher and instilling strong conservation ethics in her classroom and again proud of her reconigition from the Wisconsin State Chapter.
Thank you
Howard Wohlgefahrt


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The season is well under way. We are very busy failing to catch Nathusius, failing to find bats in boxes and generally being thwarted. Nonetheless we are getting some nice records and several members are making Pinpoint Bat recordings. We are nothing if not stubborn Have some interesting surveys in the pipeline so fingers crossed.
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In designing your outdoor space it is often hard to imagine what your garden will look like next year let alone 10 years from now. We all want that picture perfect layout and breezy flow of well designed gardens yet we perpetually underestimate the size of a mature plant, how our gardens will evolve and the mistakes we never even knew we made along the way.
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Oat Milk recipe
makes 3 cups
Oat milk is a more sustainable and affordable alternative to almond milk that's been popping up at a lot of coffee shops lately. Oats require less water to grow than almonds and are a Midwestern crop, which means I can source them locally if I like. You can use either steel cut oats or rolled oats to make oat milk--I chose steel cut oats here because you are less likely to overprocess them in the blender (and make a slimy milk) and the remaining oat pulp is easy to fold into any kind of oatmeal for the next few days. The oat milk and pulp will taste best if consumed within 3 days--store both in the fridge. Soaking the oats for at least 30 minutes but up to overnight also helps make sure the final product is not slimy.
1 cup steel cut oats, soaked for 30 minutes in water
3 cups filtered water
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optional flavorings: pinch of sea salt, 1-2 teaspoons maple syrup, 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract
1. Strain and rinse soaked steel cut oats in a fine mesh strainer. Combine in the blender with 3 cups filtered water and blend on medium for 10-15 seconds. (Don't worry about it being totally smooth; overprocessing can make it slimy.)
2. Strain mixture through the fine mesh strainer into a bowl and remove and store oat pulp. Pass oat milk through the nut milk bag into a quart mason jar (or whatever you'd like to store in it) to get the finer pieces of pulp out. Store in the fridge for 3 days.
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If a carrot tasted like a carrot and didn't get covered in nasty black lesions after a day or two in the fridge - would be all be healthier? If we all ate food grown in biologically rich soil, how would this affect our lives and the ecosystems that sustain us?
What do Western medicine and conventional agriculture have in common? And what are alternative health modalities teaching us about life?
For these and other musings - read on.
In which Amanda reflects on the way language is adapting to reflect the changing landscape of health and wellbeing thinking and practices.
I have been noticing a few tendencies emerging in the world of alternative health practitioners - and there's one right there, the word 'healer' is on the outer, it's about as fashionable as flares. Alternative health practitioner sounds good: utilitarian and unthreatening; a sensible language to stand with the reigning medical model. Maybe even worth its own acronym. AHP? And maybe we could simplify this to health practitioner, HP, to show that all the modalities have come of age and cease to be apologetic addendums to the dominant health system.
'Complimentary' treatments? How does that sound? Still a bit weak when in many cases they have become the only or the main game if the medical treatments on offer have become too toxic to the body to be useful in the control of disease, as is the case in many cancers.
I heard a snippet on the radio the other day. A woman said that a disease had gone too far to be dealt with by traditional medicine, they were calling in the Doctors. This is it, the Doctors are the SWAT team of medicine. The symptoms have revealed themselves: the lump is visible, the orifice is clogged, the beat of the heart uncomfortably fast or slow, time to call in the big guns. The knives, the chemicals, the stents, the strong interventions.
Before the symptoms become visible there might be indications: the owner of a body has a sense that something is not right, or at least that something is changing: the cells are dividing too fast or too slow, a familiar pain starts to become more insistent?
At these early stages, doctors are a scary choice. They are trained for war. They are trained for the worst.
For all its wonderful inventiveness and usefulness the allopathic system doesn't do 'preventative' well. The common experience in the doctor's office when you present with a symptom is to be at the receiving end of a schedule of tests: the justification is to make sure there is no pathology lurking. On the surface a reasonable investigation, but undeniably fear-based, definitely a drain on the public purse and all very cookie cutter in that the tests can override the patient's sense of their own health.
It is not necessarily the job of a HP to make a diagnosis – a diagnosis can be a curse in the sense that they can lock people into fear. To treat the body as a collection of dynamic systems that are constantly in flow and connection with each other is potentially a healthier, less stressful way to approach both preventative measures as well as actual dis-ease. Thus the language might be: if talking say, of an organ (in the body), that it is 'compromised' and needs attention; more open-ended, hopeful language that allows some wriggle room for health options.
As the word healer has got on the nose, the verb to 'heal' has given way to neutral, less ego-based verbs like 'to integrate', 'to balance' and 'to reconnect'. Within this approach is a built-in notion that the body has the capacity to heal itself – much like it a cut will heal – and the practitioner is there to assist the body to return to its natural balance rather than to focus on the symptoms of the dis-ease or illness.
Practitioners of alternative modalities are quick to deny they need the ego rush the word 'healer' implies and are eager to hand the accolades over to the client themselves in the face of a successful session. 'You did the work – I merely facilitated your body to heal' is the disclaimer. Note the 'patient' is now the 'client' – implying a value-free exchange of energy: a fee for service rendered rather than a power relationship handed down from the 'well' to the 'sick'.
While it must be a buzz to make a positive difference in someone's life, HP's aren't about claiming responsibility. Alternative therapies can go deep but the practitioner doesn't have to 'know', as in know via the mind, to get there. It is possible to tune into and assist nature's innate tendency to return to balance - however that is manifested in the body, mind and spirit, without the knowing. BodyTalk practitioners tell stories of inexplicable and positive treatments that go beyond their comprehension.
I was speaking to a friend recently in Perth who had just had a client in for a PyschK session – more of that later. She emerged looking puzzled. 'I have no idea what just happened in there, '(the treatment room), she confided, ' but something shifted and the client's over the moon'. After she was done shaking her head in bemusement she decided to simply accept whatever happened and join the client in her elation at a breakthrough.
As a quick aside to thinking about the sidelining of the word healer – it is intriguing to notice how language changes as the culture evolves. I have been listening to the footy, the AFL – where did the word 'stoppages' come from? I am sure I didn't hear it last season, now I can barely think what we said before this word flooded in – 'ball up'?, 'boundary throw in'? and now we have 'stoppage structure', 'stoppage work' and other language that has arisen to describe a new looking game. I am not even sure I know what it means. William Burroughs said it first: Language is a virus.
Some HPs are about encouraging the dissolution of barriers that might be standing in the way of the body's efforts to restore balance. And one of the major barriers is belief systems – which brings me to another tendency … the term BS known to me as a polite shorthand for BullShit, is now interchangeable shorthand for Belief System in some circles.
Belief Systems are receiving a lot of attention in the wellness world. Bruce Lipton, a scientist who is helping to transform the practise of medicine, is one of the pioneers of epigenetics, defined in the dictionary as a 'study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression rather than alteration of the genetic code itself'. Simplified: epigenetics is the study of biological mechanisms that will switch genes on and off."
His book the Biology of Belief explains that genes are not the foundation stones of existence they were once believed to be. Environmental factors influence genes, and one of the main influencers that causes the on/off buttons in genes to behave in ways that don't serve the organism is the old BS – belief systems.
Science and medicine are now entering a space in human evolution where we are understanding that perception – as is what is evident through the filters of our senses, beliefs and assumptions, is what controls our behaviour. And sitting above perception are the beliefs that control perception. In this way of thinking there is no distinction between mind and body – you literally become what you believe.
So the question is, how do you shift or change beliefs that do not serve you anymore, especially if you struggle to recognise that you are even holding these beliefs, so seemingly 'natural is your behaviour in reaction to them….?
The theory is that most humans run on about 5% free will, which is their conscious self – the other 95% is handled by the subconscious. So says Rob Williams, creator of Psyche-K (the Pysche is for psychotherapy and the K for Kinesiology). He describes the 5% of consciousness as being the time-based part of self that likes to live in the past and future as much as it does in the present, that loves what is new and challenging, that makes things happen, that handles abstractions and has a limited processing capacity. Well it actually has an incredible, a miraculous, processing capacity – but to put it in perspective, this is dwarfed when compared to the vast ocean of expanded processing capacity that is available in the realm of the subconscious self.
In this unknown realm, he explains that what is habitual, familiar and literal is preferred … a massive library of data is stored – and all these events/memories/feelings neatly filed can be easily brought to hand and readily streamed into the 'real' world by what have become known in psychological circles as 'triggers'.
We have all had the experience where powerful emotions, fully fledged and charged up, are launched in reaction to a stimulus in a present-day situation. These reactions, so real, so deeply felt, seem to belong to the real-time situation…. But there is plenty of evidence to suggest that this is not so.
Michael Brown, author of The Presence Process, reckons that 99% of reactions are not in response to a scenario playing out in real-time – what is happening is that what looks like a response to a real-time scenario, is the mind reaching into the library, finding the charge that matches what seems to be going on and launched a reaction.
The subconscious knows no time, it lives in the eternal now, so a strong reaction to a perceived threat to self, even if it occurred 50 years ago, can be hauled out of the filing system and blasted into real-time experience in nanoseconds, in the face of the right trigger.
This is not a new thought, consciousness work from other thinkers and writers will take their readers to the same conclusions. But knowing that this is how the psyche operates intellectually, is very different from experiencing it yourself….and the real kicker to consider is that the experience that triggers the reaction is something that you might have manufactured yourself to bring forth the emotion that is familiar and known – but this is something for another podcast….
My eyes were opened to my own behaviour when I was drawn to take myself through the 10-week process outlined in The Presence Process as a self- propelled consciousness expanding program a few years ago…. In about Week 8 of the process I ended up in a huge argument with my then partner, but something clicked, and it dawned on me that I was fighting a mirage – that the man in front of me had nothing to do with my anger – he was, to use Michael Brown's term, the messenger. This was when I truly started to comprehend that in a very real way, I was the creator of my own emotions and experiences.
The subconscious only lives in the Present, the now, then the next now, then the next now – meaning it is not time-based, and it is in this space Psych-K and other modalities say that anyone can accomplish shifts that completely transform their world.
Forget the old new age affirmations. But will-power and self-discipline will still play an important role in this story, as will the that old ever-green: positive thinking. Remembering Einstein's oft quoted line: No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. if you can connect to the emotional charge stored in the subconscious, the idea is that it is possible to access the event/trauma whatever you want to call it, in this sphere, to literally rewrite the programming. And in case one of your beliefs is that beliefs, especially crusted on ones, can't be changed quickly, Rob Williams and others challenge this:
Beliefs, if tackled in the space where they live, can be changed. The subconscious because it lives in the now, has no resistance to changing beliefs because if they are able to be experienced in all their pain and trauma, the mind makes no distinction from living this experience as, say, a 6 year old or a 60 year old. If it is able to be felt, it is able to be observed – and if it is able to be observed, then the distinction between the situation of being a 6 year old experiencing something and a 60 year old experiencing something can be looked at.
Computer analogies work here – especially relevant as computers remove the emotional charge from the situation. If you can bring up a file from the hard drive and open a document, then it is entirely possible to change the contents of that document, no matter the circumstances that led to the construction of the original document or how long ago in earthling years it was created. And all this works for the good feelings that we welcome as well– we aren't going there simply because there is never any sense that happy reactions to stimuli need fixing.
But there's the rub, how do you access this mysterious unknown aspect of yourself that the wise ones tell us can be directly experienced but is beyond the everyday mind's capacity to 'understand'? Especially when the portals to this – I'll call it a 'space' for want of a better word – I don't know what it is! This space of potentiality and spaciousness is not known by the self, the self we have constructed through living through our senses and gifted to us by our culture, friends, lovers, family, environment and all the myriad of experiences entailed in being alive – in short, all the glorious peculiarities of our personal life situation.
This self, experiencing the world through the senses, uses the data it receives to cobble up a bunch of stuff to live by and has a pretty firm grip on what it perceives as reality; it has neither the desire nor the capacity to explore beyond what it knows.
The pointy end of wellness practices often includes BS's. These beliefs are the (mostly) hidden hand that twitch the strings of your puppet self, the self that is and isn't you, the self that hopefully is in tune with a deeper, more authentic self (or, you can start to see the difficulties, how can you be in tune with something you aren't sure exists?...and something that you are pretty sure exists but can't really explain). I could easily disappear into metaphysical land here – and get hopelessly lost, so to get back to what we could call consensual reality.
What seems to me to be happening is that the planets have aligned around the necessity for humans to challenge their BS's to effect any real and lasting change in their physical, mental, emotional or spiritual states.
The fast track to belief blasting offered by some practitioners is a breakthrough idea – right up there with the ziplock bag to my way of thinking. Before, we had the talking cure, something that could be expected to involve many appointments over time, painful dredging up and focusing on trauma so as to get every detail of the event that is triggering the problem in real time ie now.
Dredging up the story and examining it from all sides to understand the trauma can send you deeper into the damage – if whatever you focus on grows, you can see the trauma growing. It also cements the notion that damage and trauma is the issue, when the real problem is more likely the expression of trauma through the body/mind complex that is still playing out way past the time it was implemented.
Consider the possibility – and this is an inviting phrase I learnt from Peter Ralston - that it might be more effective to take your eyes off the problem and focus on what is flowing, what is working and what feels good.
And I can't resist the soil analogy: this is like the soil regen people who want to support the presence of the 95% of good nematodes rather than devoting money and time to the destruction of the 5% that are considered problematical – people are getting results from accentuating what is working rather than dwelling in the zone where they feel stuck.
With Pysch K the client is considering the possibility that someone can apply a simple muscle test to see if you register strongly for or against a self-belief. The reason for the belief – the incident or series of events that has lead to you holding the (by now unhelpful belief) as a truth to be acted on – need not be important or even necessary to know: the subconscious has no opinions on what your mind tells you, its job is just to maintain equilibrium and organise itself around what you believe is true for you.
That means the process to unlock a self-belief, while inevitably painful, has the potential to be relatively short– instead of feeling as if you are drilling into bone it is possible to appraise something as a story that has passed its used-by-date and decide – as the saying goes – that it no longer serves you.
This story is often something put in place in childhood when your options for survival were much narrower than they are now. So, you ask the body if it is alright to put another belief in its place and test for the strength of that new longed-for belief, embellishing the incoming belief with attendant thoughts and desires that buttress the change until it looks like it is ready to hold – and Bob's your uncle. A 'shift' – another commonly used, possibly overused word in the AHP lexicon – is possible.
I have made it sound so bloodless and easy. Is it possible to identify and reverse a belief, say:' I feel worthless', to 'I am a person of value and authenticity' without occupying the annihilating sense of the first option? No, it is essential to go there, and essential to experience the anger/anxiety/depression or sadness - whatever is the way you habitually react to ameliorate or conceal that belief from your conscious self…and of course, there is trauma and trauma.
But the engagement with these feelings you have been producing to avoid a deeper truth does not have to be a life sentence. It needs to be recognised for what it is to the degree that it is deeply felt and therefore real in itself – and then challenged by its opposite. Simply by noticing that you are running on thoughts set in place in circumstances that have long gone can be enough to shift emotions and subsequent behaviour in the present day.
It helps not to get too hooked on the story….one, because it doesn't matter and two, because it might not be true. I have spent many years mesmerised by the story I have constructed about the Making of Amanda. Even having had experiences, moments of extreme clarity that have convinced me that my memories are not to be trusted – that they have been constructed by my self-serving mind to show me to myself or the world in a really good light, or diminish responsibility or even shift responsibility so I can enjoy victim status…none of which is particularly noble, but it is human and as such I am pleased I have had the chance to recognise myself as a work in progress, a shifting mass of protoplasm that can be massaged in directions more in tune with a wider world and a deeper experience of life than my ego will ever recognise. The baby steps of consciousness work.
I'll leave you with this last word on my continuing adventures with BodyTalk, the health modality I studied in March – the practice of which has triggered this podcast. At the heart of BodyTalk is the ability to get clear Yes/No answers effected by a simple technique of applying pressure to the client's arm to establish responses as the body's guide to what is going on. It's like that game Animal, Vegetable, Mineral – you keep asking questions, eliciting the yeses and nos to find the direction to go in.
The breakthrough came in a moment of complete frustration when I decided I was just going to go with the answers I got and not second guess myself. Bingo…that's what it took. Self-belief, at last. Who knew? By the simple expedient of deciding to trust the responses I get when in contact with a client, the more trustworthy my responses have become. I might well be deluded – but as my grandmother once said to my father during a bridge game as he hesitated over a discard: Barry, she advised, It's best to make your mistakes quickly….
I can still lose heart and direction during a session, but have found that the process is sometimes so intriguing that it is possible to follow the pathway opened up by the questions asked– and when you are hot on a trail that weaves through the body/mind/spirit in step with the person on the table, it is possible to forget to doubt, to be in the flow and make some useful and rich discoveries.


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