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Issue Number Five: Ebola's Ecologies
Medical Vulnerability, or Where There Is No Kit
Where there is no kit and no infrastructure, there is vulnerability. Peter Redfield explores the role of medical humanitarian response in the Ebola crisis.
At long last, doomsday has arrived. Ebola's Atlantic passage may have mixed genres of tragedy and farce—real human suffering and cable news—but finally a sense of urgency matches years of apocalyptic prophecy. We were prepared, until we were not. And now the emergency is indeed upon us (Lachenal 2014; Nguyen 2014; see also Caduff 2014; Lakoff 2014).
I approach this crisis moment after years of following one group cast in a leading role: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; Doctors Without Borders).[1],As a private, medical organization with global humanitarian ambitions, MSF is paradoxically both technically well-primed and constitutionally ill-suited to take the lead with such an outbreak. On the one hand it possesses a well-developed set of protocols and a logistics system designed for emergency response. On the other hand it operates as independently as possible, engages on multiple fronts worldwide and issues moral exhortations, not commands. Like an emergency physician, MSF primarily seeks to stabilize patients, deferring responsibility for their future well-being to existing authorities. The current outbreak, however, reveals the full extent to which this approach presumes the existence of a political, as well as technical health infrastructure.
From the perspective of medical humanitarianism, Ebola appears a relatively exotic problem: deadly and disturbingly unknown, but also thankfully rare and usually delimited in its geographic scope. Relative to such common concerns as malaria, malnutrition, and AIDS, it affects comparatively few people, and only in episodic flashes. Even cholera, a classic epidemic disease, appears with depressing consistency around the world when people find themselves displaced, and thus plays a far more significant role in humanitarian portfolio. In 2013 (a low year), MSF treated 27,900 patients with cholera, many times the total number who had ever experienced Ebola in the past, and still more than official numbers for the current outbreak. Indeed, the regular appearance of cholera helped inspire the group's logistics system, built around standard kits of prepackaged materials stored in anticipation of emergencies worldwide. In the case of cholera, the kit system generally succeeds in saving lives. A rapid, prepackaged response of public health sanitation usually eradicates the immediate epidemic, if not, sadly, its root causes.
Despite the relative rarity of Ebola, MSF developed a measure of familiarity with the condition after responding to a series of African outbreaks over the last two decades. Along with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease control (CDC), the group can even claim a certain expertise with the disease. It is important to note that this expertise derives from internal initiative, not any formal mandate. If not a major threat in statistical terms, Ebola did appear in exactly the settings where humanitarians frequently found themselves: largely rural landscapes in countries such as Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, and Uganda. This was MSF's home turf, so to speak, as much or more than any other medical entity. Thus, by the turn of the millennium, the organization also had developed a kit for Ebola—or rather a set of three kits—described in a briefing document from November 2001 (Baert 2001:65).[2] In addition to a standard package shipped from Belgium in seven modules, including a full complement of medical and protective supplies, the document outlines two smaller configurations, one designed for initial assessment of potential outbreaks and another for local health centers. With regard to the latter, its author emphasizes the need for proper training, without which the equipment might provide only a false sense of security.
Ebola, after all, remains unnervingly at the edge of medical capacity. Here it is important to distinguish between the protection of public health and the provision of clinical care. Until now, intervention has focused on setting up a quarantined treatment center in an effort to arrest the spread of disease and safeguard the surrounding population. All previous Ebola responses ultimately achieved this goal of preventing future infections. For existing patients who arrive at one of these centers, however, the treatment has been distressingly minimal: medical staff endeavor to provide basic supportive care (rehydrating, maintaining oxygen status and blood pressure, treating any complicating infections) and essentially hope that the patient recovers. The uncomfortable fact is that they have had little more to offer, however well trained they might be. Although varying by viral strain and treatment context, the disease has unnervingly high death rates, often higher than 50% and running as high as 90% (CDC 2014). Moreover, while Ebola may not be especially infectious as far as viruses go, the manner in which it disrupts a host body—multiplying as the patient declines and increasingly oozing out in bodily fluids—places caregivers at particular risk. Both treating an infected person and tending to a corpse become hazardous acts. Indeed, care itself becomes a primary vector of transmission. As a consequence, Ebola eats through the very bonds of human compassion, infecting those who offer assistance: relatives, mourners, and health care professionals.
Due to this heightened risk of transmission, medical personnel themselves feel acutely vulnerable. They don an elaborate second skin of protective equipment before attending to Ebola patients. Once done with a shift they shed this shell, laboriously adhering to strict protocols and nervously hoping to avoid exposure. Commentators often note that the outfit strongly resembles a space suit, and similarly signals a primary need for self-preservation.[3] Seeking to seal themselves from the hostile environment of their patients, caregivers effectively become otherworldly figures, frightening as well as frightened. As widely reported earlier in this exceptional West African outbreak, Ebola teams can incite suspicion and arouse resistance. The appearance of ghostly aliens who keep patients at arms' length, spray everything with disinfectant, and then hurriedly spirit them away to a distant location where they often die does little to inspire confidence. Staff from several organizations, including MSF, found their vehicles pelted with rocks, and members of a Guinean education team were murdered (Wilson 2014).
Such extreme distrust and violence becomes less surprising in light of the longer history of the disease. Earlier responses to outbreaks likewise provoked a swirl of rumors, active mistrust, and attempted flight by patients (Hewlett and Hewlett 2008:56–57; see also McCoy 2014). They also inspired misgivings and soul-searching on the part of caregivers. A report from a 2001 workshop on "Justice and MSF Operational Choices" addressed the Ugandan outbreak of the previous year at some length. It noted that while MSF had been invited to help on the basis of its clinical experience to reduce hospital infections, the very practice of aggregating patients together might have had the opposite effect:
Whether or not the report accurately represents local response, it does recognize the possibility of iatrogenic harm, a somber possibility that extended beyond care itself.[4] Even the group's desire to reduce stigma related to the disease had encountered an unexpected obstacle in overexposure, as "we felt that the world-wide publicity probably made things look worse" (MSF-Holland 2001:26).
If not saving that many lives, then what did MSF's response achieve? Did the supportive care at least have palliative effects, easing suffering and allowing patients to die with dignity? At an annual meeting of MSF-France in 2005, debate surfaced about recent treatment of Marburg virus (closely related to Ebola) in Angola. As recounted in the section's internal newsletter:
In later operations, MSF would attempt to some degree to recognize the humanity of its patients. A 2008 edition of MSF guidelines calls for efforts to demystify Ebola treatment centers by allowing people to see inside them, as well as providing survivors and relatives of the deceased with a "solidarity kit" to compensate them for items destroyed for fear of contamination (Sterk 2008). And, as reported in academic and nonacademic media, both WHO and MSF have belatedly recognized a role for anthropologists in navigating responses (Hewlett and Hewlett 2008; Sáez et al. 2014). Yet all proved too little, too late for the current outbreak. When the virus unexpectedly appeared in West Africa, humanity took a backseat to security. The breach in the larger social membrane, however, ran deeper and wider than any gap in protective clothing (Frankfurter 2014).
As the disease escaped initial containment, panic began to set in. Protocols, kits, and hasty attempts at quarantine could not substitute for incapacity, poor judgment, and early inaction. In some settings (Senegal, Democratic Republic of Congo and—to great relief—Nigeria), public health efforts managed to smother local outbreaks, erasing them from the headlines. In others, however, disaster only grew. After initial eruption in Guinea, the patchwork, aid-based circulatory system of medical care in Liberia and Sierra Leone dissolved before the onslaught, itself endangering a much broader pool of patients (MSF 2014h). From the outset, MSF was working on the front lines. The organization's own news briefs, initially measured and businesslike, began to express alarm by the end of March, recognizing the geographic dispersal of cases was unprecedented; then, when hope of containment failed, it pronounced the epidemic out of control by mid-June (MSF 2014d; see also MSF 2014g; Wieners and Kitamura 2014).[5] The updates grew increasingly shrill as the summer wore on and conditions deteriorated. In early September, feeling overwhelmed, the group took the extraordinary step of calling for military support (though not forced quarantine). In a speech to the United Nations, MSF's international president Dr. Joanne Liu accused member states of joining a "global coalition of inaction" and challenged those that had invested in biosecurity to deploy their resources to stem the epidemic (MSF 2014c, 2014f).
Who, after all, was in charge? This core concern of security thinking grew increasingly unclear in the absence of effective national health care (Abramowitz 2014). Although WHO had global authority, its mission historically emphasized policy rather than direct action; even the Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response Program promised "support" to member states in the African region rather than overt leadership (WHO 2014).[6] The CDC ultimately remained an arm of another national government, however large and influential it might be. For its part, MSF would never claim a coordination role as a nongovernmental organization (NGO), and could not realize it even if they wished (MSF 2014a). Although the group found itself playing a prominent part, treating 3,500 confirmed patients by early November (of whom more than 1,400 survived), this was only about a fifth of even the suspect official numbers.[7] And when a handful of international volunteers themselves became sick, their return home for treatment sparked a resurgence of nationalist concerns about borders and quarantines. While no expense might be spared in seeking to care for these lives (and the mortality rate for those evacuated to well-equipped settings appear much lower), the moral heroes of humanitarian medicine had become a potential threat.[8]
The story of Ebola is a tale of medical vulnerability—vulnerability not simply of patients, or even caregivers, but also of systems, including those that seek preparedness. Lulled by plans and simulations, the reflected glow of efficient logistics, and lives saved elsewhere, the global gaze overlooked the blindness of its own policies and a failure to establish or support infrastructure (Beisel 2014). And here perhaps lies a moral: there is no packaged substitute for an effective health care system. When finally galvanized into action, other actors have sought to scale up MSF's approach, building more treatment units along the lines of the group's "gold standard" of care (Wingard 2014; see also Dixon 2014). Even if this tactic ultimately helps contain the outbreak, it only produces a temporary, specialized assemblage rather than a durable network of care (Cooper and Tavernise 2014). In addition to this scaled-up response, and a flurry of efforts to develop treatments and vaccines, the epidemic has also inspired a wave of technical innovation. From a retrofitted German passenger jet to ferry the fortunate few back to gleaming medical centers, to a solar-powered "mobile suitcase laboratory" developed at the Pasteur Institute in Dakar to offer test results in 15 minutes, to an improvised version of personal protective equipment created by a Liberian nursing student, the human capacity for ingenuity has produced an impressive display (Deutsche Welle 2014; Gallagher 2014; Park and Umlauf 2014). Yet the mode remains largely piecemeal and reactionary. Similarly, the home disinfection kits MSF began distributing in Liberia, like the clinical trials they have agreed to host, represent a desperate rather than triumphant mode of experiment. When fear and compassion meet, amid terror and chaos, best procedure reveals itself to be "an imperfect solution in a situation that is far from ideal" (MSF 2014e; see also MSF 2014b). It is hard to imagine a more painful illustration of both hubris and limits in global health.
Abramowitz, Sharon Alane. 2014. "How the Liberian Health Sector Became a Vector for Ebola." Fieldsights–Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology Online, October 7. Available at www.culanth.org/fieldsights/598-how-the-liberian-health-sector-became-a-vector-for-ebola.
Baert, Bruno. 2001. "Ebola Outbreak Preparedness and Management." November.
Beisel, Uli. 2014. "On Gloves, Rubber and the Spatio-Temporal Logics of Global Health." Somatosphere, October 6. Available at somatosphere.net/2014/10/rubber-gloves-global-health.html.
Benton, Adia. 2014. "Race and the Immuno-Logics" of Ebola Response in West Africa." Somatosphere, September 19. Available at somatosphere.net/2014/09/race-and-the-immuno-logics-of-ebola-response-in-west-africa.html.
Caduff, Carlo. 2014. "On the Verge of Death: Visions of Biological Vulnerability." Annual Review of Anthropology, 43(8): 1-17.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC). 2014. "Outbreaks Chronology: Ebola Virus Disease." Available at www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/history/chronology.html.
Christensen, Jen. 2014. "'Out of Control': How the World Reacted as Ebola Spread." CNN Health. Available at www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/11/health/ebola-outbreak-timeline/.
Cooper, Helene, and Sabrina Tavernise. 2014. "Health Officials Reassess Strategy to Combat Ebola in Liberia." The New York Times, November 12. Available at www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/world/africa/officials-consider-scaling-back-of-ebola-centers-in-liberia.html.
Deutsche Welle. 2014. "Germany Unveils Ebola Evacuation Plane in Berlin." November 27. Available at www.dw.de/germany-unveils-ebola-evacuation-plane-in-berlin/a-18092535.
Dixon, Robyn. 2014. "Aid Group Has Set the Gold Standard on Ebola Safety." Los Angeles Times, October 16. Available at www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-ebola-doctors-without-borders-20141016-story.html%23page=1#page=1.
Fink, Sheri. 2014. "Cuts at W.H.O. Hurt Response to Ebola Crisis." The New York Times, September 3. Available at www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/world/africa/cuts-at-who-hurt-response-to-ebola-crisis.html?_r=1.
Fox, Renee. 2014. Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Frankfurter, Raphael. 2014. "The Danger of Losing Sight of Ebola Victims' Humanity." The Atlantic, August 22. Available at www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/08/the-danger-in-losing-sight-of-ebola-victims-humanity/378945/.
Gallagher, James. 2014. "Ebola Test Offering 15-Minute Results on Trial in Guinea." BBC News, November 28. Available at www.bbc.com/news/health-30243636.
Hewlett, Barry S., and Bonnie L. Hewlett. 2008. Ebola, Culture, and Politics: The Anthropology of an Emerging Disease. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.
Lachenal, Guillaume. 2014. "Ebola 2014. Chronicle of a Well-Prepared Disaster." Somatosphere, October 31. Available at somatosphere.net/2014/10/chronicle-of-a-well-prepared-disaster.html.
Lakoff, Andrew. 2014. "Further Reflections on 'Two Regimes of Global Health': On the Elision of Distinctions." Humanity Journal, June 9. Available at www.humanityjournal.net/blog/further-reflections-on-two-regimes-of-global-health-on-the-elision-of-distinctions/.
McCoy, Terrence. 2014. "Why the Brutal Murder of Several Ebola Workers May Hint at More Violence to Come." The Washington Post, September 19. Available at www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/19/why-the-brutal-murder-of-eight-ebola-workers-may-hint-at-more-violence-to-come/.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). 2005. "What Kind of Case Management: Patients or Pathologies?" MSF Messages 138 (November): 13-14.
———. 2014a. "Ebola: MSF Should Not Replace Governmental Responsibilities." October 31. Available at www.msf.org/article/ebola-msf-should-not-replace-governmental-responsibilities.
———. 2014b. "First Trials for Ebola Treatments to Start at MSF Sites in December." November 13. Available at www.msf.org/article/first-trials-ebola-treatments-start-msf-sites-december.
———. 2014c. "Global Bio-Disaster Response Urgently Needed in Ebola Fight." September 2. Available at www.msf.org/article/global-bio-disaster-response-urgently-needed-ebola-fight.
———. 2014d. "Guinea: Mobilisation Against an Unprecedented Ebola Epidemic." March 31. Available at www.msf.org/article/guinea-mobilisation-against-unprecedented-ebola-epidemic.
———. 2014e. "Liberia: Distributing Home Disinfection Kits in West Point Suburb." November 5. Available at www.msf.org/article/liberia-distributing-home-disinfection-kits-west-point-suburb.
———. 2014f. "MSF International President United Nations Special Briefing on Ebola." September 2. Available at www.msf.org/article/msf-international-president-united-nations-special-briefing-ebola.
———. 2014g. "MSF Remains Vigilant as Ebola Outbreak Continues in Guinea and Liberia." May 2. Available at www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news-stories/field-news/msf-remains-vigilant-ebola-outbreak-continues-guinea-and-liberia.
———. 2014h. "Sierra Leone: MSF Suspends Emergency Pediatric and Maternal Services in Gondama." Press release, October 16. Available at www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/sierra-leone-msf-suspends-emergency-pediatric-and-maternal-services-gondama.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)–Holland. 2001. "Justice and MSF Operational Choices." Report of discussion held in Soesterberg, Netherlands, June 2001.
Nguyen, Vinh-Kim. 2014. "Ebola: How We Became Unprepared, and What Might Come Next." Fieldsights–Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology Online, October 7. Available at www.culanth.org/fieldsights/605-ebola-how-we-became-unprepared-and-what-might-come-next.
Park, Sung-Joon, and René Umlauf. 2014. "Caring as Existential Insecurity: Quarantine, Care, and Human Insecurity in the Ebola Crisis." Somatosphere, November 24. Available at somatosphere.net/2014/11/caring-as-existential-insecurity.html.
Redfield, Peter. 2013. Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Sáez, Almudena, Ann Kelly, and Hannah Brown. 2014. "Notes from Case Zero: Anthropology in the Time of Ebola." Somatosphere, September 16. Available at somatosphere.net/2014/09/notes-from-case-zero-anthropology-in-the-time-of-ebola.html.
Sterk, Esther. 2008. "Filovirus Haemorrhagic Fever Guideline" Médecins Sans Frontières. Available at www.medbox.org/ebola-guidelines/filovirus-haemorrhagic-fever-guideline/preview?q=.
Sun, Lena H., Brady Dennis, Lenny Bernstein, and Joel Achenbach. 2014. "How Ebola Sped Out of Control." The Washington Post, October 4. Available at www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/10/04/how-ebola-sped-out-of-control/.
Wald, Priscilla. 2008. Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Wieners, Brad, and Makiko Kitamura. 2014. "Ebola: Doctors Without Borders Shows How To Manage a Plague." BloombergBusinessWeek, November 13. Available at www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-13/ebola-doctors-without-borders-shows-how-to-manage-a-plague.
Wilson, Jacque. 2014. "8 Killed in Guinea Town over Ebola Fears." CNN Health, September 19. Available at www.cnn.com/2014/09/19/health/ebola-guinea-killing/.
World Health Organization (WHO). 2014. "Epic and Pandemic Alert and Response." WHO Regional Office for Africa. Available at www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response.html.
Wingard, Morgana. 2014. "Andrew Hill: 'There's No Standard Blueprint for an Ebola Treatment Unit.'" USAID, October 1. Available at blog.usaid.gov/2014/10/andrew-hill-theres-no-standard-blueprint-for-an-ebola-treatment-unit/.
[1] For current information on MSF, see the international site at www.msf.org and the U.S. site at http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org. See also the MSF Ebola blog page at http://blogs.msf.org/en/staff/blogs/msf-ebola-blog. For recent profiles of the organization, see Redfield (2013) and Fox (2014).
[2] See also http://www.medbox.org/ebola-outbreak-preparedness-management/preview?q=baert
[3] The connection to space contains a historical thread, since early astronauts underwent precautionary quarantine in a converted trailer following their return from the moon: http://life.time.com/history/ebola-vs-apollo-11-quarantine-after-splashdown/#1. This thread in turn loops back to the genre of outbreak thrillers, setting the script for later nonfiction writing: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1969/8/12/infectious-pbtbhe-andromeda-strain-by-michael/. See also Wald 2008.
[4] Hewlett and Hewlett (2008:44) suggest that a survivor or elder would care for the afflicted.
[6] As noted in several news reports, WHO had also suffered budget cuts (Fink 2014; Sun et al. 2014).
[7] See http://www.msf.org/diseases/ebola and http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/31/world/africa/ebola-virus-outbreak-qa.html.
[8] See Benton (2014) on the differential national/racial valuation of lives. As of December 2, The New York Times reported 20 cases of Ebola treatment outside of Africa, five of which ended in death (an effective mortality rate of 25%, including examples of last minute care) (see http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/31/world/africa/ebola-virus-outbreak-qa.html?_r=0)


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the subject of the South African war, nor the ex
treme gravity of the sentiment which that feel
ing has brought Into existence I am not sneak
ing of the American feeling, which is largely on
your side, but the more friendly we are to Eng
land the more anxious we are to see you extricated
from -the meshes of the net in which you are now
caught." What right lias an American cabinet "
officer to say that American feeling is largely on .
the English side? No -republican convention has
aid so. Do the republicans construe the .last
election to have been a declaration against the
"Out of the statistical and technical- aridnss
of the secretary of the treasury's report'' the New
York World has produced these
facts of Jiving interest: The
.government taxed the people
last year $699,516,530 which is
$351,G94,G25 more than its re
ceipts for the last fiscal year before the Spanish
war, 1897. It spent $G21,598;54G which is $255,
824,387 more than it spent in 1897. If taxation weie
the samp now as it was four years ago, and the
expenditures had increased to their present figures,
iustead of reporting a surplus of $77,000,000 the
secretary of the treasury would have to report a
deficit of $273,870,641. If expenditures were the
sama as before our colonial experiments and taxation-
were: up. to its present -height,- the report
would ihave- been of a .surplus of no less than'
$333,522,371. - No wonder President Roosevelt
speaks of the Philippines as "a great burden,"
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which tho trust was enabled to do its worst would
be removed. The question that occurs to tho
thinking man is, If Mr. Babcock's plan can only bo
determined accurately by triaf, why not give it a
trial? And if it was of advantage to nowspaper
publishers to have tho tariff removed as a pro
tection against the exactions of the paper trust,
why would it not be advantageous to the general
public to roviso all tariff schedules so that they
would not give to true:, which send their .prod-
ucts abroad at prices much 'lower than those they
. exact at homo, a degree of protection which they
have been abusing for years.
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cock to let 'the tariff alone. The Tribune says:
"It Is the wish of Representative
Why not Babcock to revise the iron and
Give the steel schedule so that it shall not
Plan n Trial. give to trusts, which sell their
products abroad at prices much
lower than those they exact at home, a degree of
protection which they are abusing. Whether such
a lowering or removal of duties as Mr. Babcock
has in mind would give to American consumers of
trust-made goods the lower prices he thinks
should be charged can be determined accurately
only by trial." Then the Tribune plainly shows
that it 13 indisposed to rjVermit the trial to be had.
It declares, "There is no good reason for such an
Undertaking at this time." It will be remembered
that less than eighteen months ago, when news
paper publishers were groaning because of the ex
actions of the paper trust, the Tribune was one of
the" number of republican papers tliat served no
tice -upon the)trustthat'tmles3 Wi&X organization
abandoned its policy of- exaction the- tariff by-
One of the democratic papers of Minnesota
criticises -The Commoner's editorial which recently
appeared under tho head "A
a Bit Democratic Duty." The reason
of , given for objecting to the odi-
inconsistcncy. toricl was that imperialism was
the paramount issue in the last
campaign, that the republicans being successful
the democrats should now proceed to indorse tho
imperialistic policy. It is rather a strange coin
cidence that on tho same page of that paper ap
pears a magazine article under big black head
lines, suggesting that we appeal to England to stop
slaughtering another Christian nation in South
Africa. How inconsistent to commend Imperial
ism in the Philippines and then condemn It in
South Africa! If a newspaper is going to indorse
a war of conquest .when waged by- the United
States and protest against it when waged by
.England,. the articles ought to appear in different
Issues, of tho paper so that the inconsistency
would not be so apparent.
The Commoner is indebted to the Jefferson
County (Neb.) Journal and to a number of other
v , t papers for. very kind editorial
interest of mention. The Journal calls. at-
ihe Weekly tention to the fact that the sub-
Pres$. scriptions of those who began
with the first number of Tbe
Commoner will soon expire, and says: "We hope
to see every subscriber to The Commoner renew
his subscription this winter, and many more
added to the list." The editor of The Commoner
haz not felt that it would be proper to publish
the complimentary notices that have appeared in
other papers or the generous commendation con
tained in the multitude of letters received. This 's
only published as a sample of- the friendly interest
shown by the weekly press, and the occasion 's
used to assure tho editors of the weekly papers
that he is gratoful for the cordial support they
have given to The Commoner. The Commoner, is
not a rival of the local weeklies; itdesiresjp sup
plement their work by giving more space-to na
tional pojitlcs than they with., their state, county
and town problems can posribly do.
The supreme court of Missouri has delivered
an opinion In which it finds that the Western
Union Telegraph company, be
Miseourl Corpora- lng organized under the law of
lions flust Help New York, is not a federal cor
ner the Harder, poration and that the assess
ment of the company's fran
chise by the Missouri, state board of equalization
is binding. The result of this decision, it is said,
will require the Telegraph company to pay to
the Missouri counties an aggregate of $250,000 in
taxes. It is strange that corporations enjoying as
many favors as they do at the expense of the pub
lic, are so zealous in avoiding their just share of
the hurden of taxation. It is very evident, how
ever, Irom things that are happening in various
sections of the. country, that individual taxpayers
generally are becoming quite determined that cor
porations shall no longer escape their share of
taxation. The solution of the direct tax problem
will be more, nearly reached when corporations are
required to pay taxes on the same basis that is
required of individuals, and there does not ap
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tuesday dialogue feedback
This summary of the comments made in the 15 concurrent discussion groups on Monday 7 June was read by the Prolocutor to Synod members just before lunch on Tuesday 8 June, and paper copies distributed. I can't find an electronic version, so this is my transcription of that feedback document.
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Working Document – Sexuality Discernment
Dialogue Feedback 1 – 8 June 2010
Some very concerned with legislative (prescriptive) action at this time, preferring a descriptive statement of where we are (local discernment) – supporting unity without uniformity. Others are concerned with disunity and want us to take decisive action at the national level (national discernment)
Members have a strong concern with directional language (such as "moving forward" or "going ahead") it is extremely unhelpful in the dialogue at this point and every attempt should be made to avoid using it.
- We want to hold our common life together
- We do not want anyone forced into a position they cannot live with
IF dioceses were to extend the practice of locally determined generous pastoral care, there will need to be careful and robust qualifications in place:
- The response meets the missional context of the diocese (eg First Nations, urban, rural)
- There will be no imposition of either conversation or action on or within any diocese
- There will be accountability expressed through continuing dialogue within Canada and the wider Anglican Communion.
- This would include any diocese that makes a decision through its synod to act, either to offer blessings or not to offer them
If we as a national church acknowledge the existence of locally discerned options, there will need to be careful and robust understanding of what this actually means and the implications for our relationships – diocese to diocese and to the wider communion.
There are particular requests for theological study; for further work on specific pastoral situations (such as clergy in same gendered marriages); on marriage and blessings
Some are requesting changes to the marriage canon to recognise same-gendered relationships. Some are requesting that dioceses that have agreed to bless same gendered relationships or marriages cease to do so.
For some there is a strong desire for clarity with respect to the moratoria and its ongoing status. Many have indicated they are waiting on GS2010 for guidance regarding continued discernment, decision and action in their own context.
Overall there is a growing sense of discernment. People found the community building helpful and are discerning a deeper sense of dialogue guiding us rather than a battle to win position. "I have already made up my mind on the issue. My challenge now is to be able to listen to others who have a different opinion on the issue. And to be patient as the Spirit works in and through us towards some sort of resolution whatever it may be."
There is a strong sense of relief that these conversations are respectful – allowing members to both speak and be heard together. Members experience this as very positive and hopeful compared to the last General Synod.
The average group size was 19 members. [They were made up of three bible study groups, usually 8 each, though some were smaller. Some members reported that they chose not to participate; they had already talked enough]
For some participants the discussion did not feel like a safe experience. These are conversations that have deep emotional connections for us, and it is widely recognised among Synod members that for many, this is a painful subject and there is a lot at stake.
There is a strong sense of fatigue and weariness when it comes to this discussion AND a strong sense that, despite this, something must, at this time be said.
- The protection of our common life. We have a desire to walk together – to find a way to continue to be in community despite our differences while we continue to find our way with these issues.
- There is a strong sense of needing to get unstuck – to do or say something – but nothing that would provoke the wanton breaking of relationships. Many are deeply frustrated with the time we spend on this issue and number of years the conversation has been going on – others are more patient – but there is a sense that regardless of this, we need to take some sort of step. This is a paradox and we recognise this is where we are.
- There is a strong concern that people NOT be forced into any action they cannot in good conscience, live with.
- Members experience a tension between striving for the deepest pastoral response possible without impairing communion and need to care for the missional and pastoral context of the Canadian church. Again we recognise this as a paradox.
- There is a strong call for continuing the theological study and dialogue that people are now beginning to experience. There is a growing, shared sense of being part of an on-going theological discernment that is helping us all to grow. "At another time my ire would have been up by what you just said. Now I realize I need to do more theological work."
- When we use the word "inclusive" to describe our church's missional and pastoral context it now represents, and is being claimed by, a wider range of voices, not just those supporting same-gendered blessings
- We clearly heard aboriginal voices in the process who were able to share something of the distinction of their contexts and identify issues that are more pressing in their communities.
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Transcribed from hard copy by Chris Ambidge 2010 06 09, electronic copy not being available


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Rizzoli & Isles Review: A Good CryChristine Orlando at . Updated at . Comments
This is what Rizzoli & Isles Season 5 Episode 2 was for both the characters and the audience: a good cry, as I know I couldn't hold back the tears at the funeral.
Most fans knew this day was coming after the tragic death of actor Lee Thompson Young last fall. Of course, knowing this episode would arrive didn't make it any easier to watch.
I appreciated how each of the characters was allowed to deal with their grief in his/her own way. Barry's mother asking his friends to help plan the funeral was a wonderful idea.
As anyone who has had to plan a loved one's funeral knows, the process can be completely overwhelming and this gave each of his partners a chance to help and have something to focus on.
Jane seeing Frost in the street wasn't a surprise. As Maura mentioned, it's fairly normal for someone who's grieving. It's as though you miss them so much that your brain conjures the vision of them at odd moments.
Or was it actually Barry giving them the clue they needed to solve their case? I liked that although Jane wouldn't normally believe in such a thing, she entertained the thought because she knew that Frost would if the roles were reversed.
Speaking of the case, an amnesiac walking into the precinct covered in blood felt like something we've seen before. Not necessarily on Rizzoli & Isles, but on several other crime procedurals. Still, I thought they pulled off the plot line in a somewhat unique way.
I especially liked when Maura couldn't call the young woman Jane Doe because that's what she called the dead women that ended up on her table. So, with typical Maura logic, she ended up with Jessica which led Jane to joke in this Rizzoli & Isles quote…
Oh no, Korsak. Maura's named her. Now we'll never be able to give her back.Jane
As bad as I felt for Jessica (aka Lilly Green) experiencing the worst day of her life, it was Jane's eulogy that opened the flood gates.
In this moment when there feels like there is none here is the good news. Death may have taken Barry but it can't take our memories of him. Those wonderful and perfect and beautiful memories. Those thank God are ours to keep.Jane
Thank God they are. RIP Detective Barry Frost. You will be missed.
OK, TV Fanatics, what did you think of how the show handled the death of Det. Barry Frost?
C. Orlando is a TV Fanatic Staff Writer. Follow her on Twitter.


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I'm GM of top 50 guild, 25 man. I know if me and my officers would quit that guild would go down. It's hard to find new people willing to put up the effort needed to lead the guild, especially 25 man one. When leadership quits it's usually the end.
I'm GM of top 50 guild, 25 man. I know if me and my officers would quit that guild would go down. It's hard to find new people willing to put up the effort needed to lead the guild, especially 25 man one. When leadership quits it's usually the end.
Truthfully, I just plain stopped having fun. I don't even know why.
One night, my wife and I log in for raid and we both whispered each other @ the same time basically saying, "Ugh, I just plain do not want to do this tonight." Neither one of us has raided since then (2 months ago).
Back in Wotlk, I was part of this Elite guild that was truthfully amazing. Had Uldaur hardmodes on farm ( It was the latest raid ATT ) We would walk in and 1 shot everything
We only raided once a week because we would rape 3 drakes , Naxx 25 imm run, mally and uldaur all in 1 night. Then our GM " Found pussy " for about month and the guild shut down. No 1 was willing to lead up. Then again our GM was awesome but still. When you make a guild its your job to run it you cant get lazy if you want a good guild
Do YOU believe that everyone should has a fair chance at having fun? Of course! We all know what is right. Wanna know what isn't fair? VANILLA WARCRAFT. It was a hotmess, Unbalanced and unfair. Yes, I played for years. I was better than you. I was full BiS/Maxed in PVP as well as Rich. I know the game inside and out and thats why I support a FIXED and BALANCED classic warcraft with QoL features 110% because I RESPECT the fact that Everyones gameplay style and class should be viable and fun.
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I think you are speaking to a larger problem. Yes, guilds do quit and people grow tired and frustrated with the progression or lack thereof.
My own guild, sadly can't get the hang of Wind Lord. We have almost 100 wipes. Its hard to log on and know the same people who screw up the same mechanics every time are going to screw them up again.
1. Recruiting at the end of a patch is terrible. The free lance player who is looking for a guild wants a hand out, he or she wants to see and blow through the content.
2. Guilds that are struggling are doing so for a reason. For example, lack of talent or lack of gear. You can't unteach stupid. You can't convince a 5 year player that key board turning is not going to cut it. Kicking that player and replacing him feeds back to issue number 1. Recruiting is hard. Damn tough especially if you aren't progressing.
We are the top 25man guild on our server, one of the most populated ones in Europe; Ravencrest. We been looking for a proper 2nd mage for half a year...
Don't get me wrong, we raid 2 days a week and have 16/16hc on farm, so all is fine and dandy. Just impossible to find certain proper players, playing certain classes these days. Especially if you don't want some random wrath-kid fresh out of LFR.
The predicted laughable Thunderforge droprate increase from 10man to 25man most likely wont change a damn thing in the recruitment department for 25man guilds.
This all makes me shiver when I think about how recruitment is in "less popular" guilds these days.
I have noticed this trend since Vanilla people have always come and gone
Noticed a fair few guilds I was a big fan off going from 25's to 10's and eventually folding. Such a shame. I don't know if it's because of the content or just because they have been playing for a long time. I had a break myself in November (various reasons though- first break since Vanilla), but started missing raiding and came back again. So who knows they might just need a few weeks break and come back, but for some guilds I doubt it, which is a real shame.
~ Streaming stuff and drawings ~
Good news! LFR is for YOU!
That's about the only realistic answer you can get from anyone in here. WoW is not a game for people that don't want to try. Had I known that's what you were going for, I never would've replied to you. You are not the average player and Blizzard will never tune normal/heroic content for your demographic. Personally, I want nothing to do with you or any players of your kind. You are a detriment to my enjoyment of this game.
You might not like challenge, but WoW is a game and every game that I have ever played has required an element of challenge to be fun. That's the whole point of a game, which you have failed to realize. This also applies to "real-life games" like sports.
I'm sorry your fellow raiders aren't interested in improving. Like I said, LFR is perfect for them. Quit trying to fuck up the normal/heroic game for the rest of us.
Its weird, our server used to have like 20 guilds that raided back in Cata, now er have over 40 doing content. I know our guild took almost a 2 month break for Christmas, many of the old vanilla players which our guild is mostly comprised of have quit wow altogether. The dailies have ruined it for a lot of us.
Time, or lack thereof, is a huge factor for me in mop. I went from raiding 25man heroic in wrath, to 10man heroic in cata, to nothing in mop; real life got in the way, stuff happens, that's just life. I think the real issue is ppl got use to the ease of raiding and the accessibility of gear in prior expansions and now that they have to actually work for it, they complain. Blizz is partly to blame for spoiling us. For now I'm content with rf until my life allows more active raiding again. Roll with the flow folks its out of your control anyway.
My last guild was a hardcore 25man heroic raiding guild during firelands. dropped down to 2x10 man raids when dragon soul came out (pissed about with some 25 man but rarely had numbers) in the end we where down to just 1 10m heroic grp. Officers took the best/favorite peeps and left the rest of us out for alt runs or pugs. Wasnt too fussed.
Mop comes round and we do really well in Vaults but heart of fear is a clusterfuck of epic proportions. Any fight where movement was needed was death for our healers. Our shammy played on a laptop with no mouse and our priest actually said in raid one night "priests cant move and heal" Ocassionally wed get lucky and get past the first boss by just useing our combat rezzes on the healers who died to the disks then burning it down quick. But windlord... jesus christ! if either of them survived to make it to the first platform on the wind tunnel phase by the time they got there wed be moveing to the other platform. Our priest tried to make a tactic where he sat at the other end healing people while they ran then sitting there waiting to heal peeps when they came back... and he died before the 10% switch...
Big problem our guild had was the two healers who were the problem were high ranking members whod either been in the guild forever or were sleeping with the GM. GM wouldnt say anything, got narky with anyone who did say anything, and generally diddnt want to fix the problem if it would piss off the people at fault. Guild died when people stopped signing up for the wipefests.
Firelands, Dragonsoul heck even most of mogushun vaults where easy for people who couldnt be arsed to learn how to move during fights. Hell even on the few fights with dodge mechanics it wasnt that big of a deal if you had one or two peeps who got hit by them. But someone standing still during the discs on the first boss of hof or not being able to dodge tornadoes for shit during wind lord isnt something the rest of the raid can help with.
TLDR - Raiding guilds had it easy till HoF, were simple movement mechanics proved that some heroic raiders dont deserve the title
Hi, My name is Wikkr and im an Altoholic
yea my guild has been the opposite its flourishing more now than ever and still growing strong.
Im my experience, dailies burned out people and they just dont log in anymroe or log in very little.
Although its anecdotal evidence, but from the people i know dailies are the main factor to make people quit or stop logging, and by far.
Our 10man guild has been plagued with problems from the very start of MoP. Initially only 9 of us stayed on to raid T14 from DS (We actually had two 10man teams in DS, and even then we all stopped after 1 month of it). Within 2 months, only 5 of us were still around. Just last week our leader stepped down and quit (mid raid), and I inherited the position. And thus far this past lockout, 8 showed up the first night (luckily recruiting a new member), and only 6 have for the other two nights (one of them was thursday and thus was a bad night to raid anyway). This tier is wreaking havoc on our raiding attendance, and have been stuck at 4/16H for almost a month. We're almost at the point where we will likely have a break until 5.2 just to refresh and go in strong once it goes live.
TLDR: Guild has gone from 20 to 8 active raiders ever since DS, technically losing 16 and gaining 4.
I am not throwing mud at you or your guild. There is a disconnect between the available raiders. (The people late in the expansion who want to see the heroic content.) And those who are already see the content, or already done it, and have no interest in trying to break in with a new group of people.
Those people like myself (for example) would love to see the heroic content, but because I chose and may not have the talent to raid at that level or don't have the time to devote to that level, we can't get an interview in your guild.
I play on US Area 52. On the horde side there are guilds constantly looking for new players. WHen I was still guild shopping I responded.
"I am interested."
"What's your gear score and experience?"
"Score is 473 and I have done it on LFR."
"Well your score is a little low. Sorry, and we are progressing so we don't want to teach you the fights."
"Can I go on standby or whatnot?"
"We only recruit raiders to keep the drama down sorry. Good luck."
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I bet you a nickel and a bag of peanuts that the vast majority of people in non-raid content that are all "GO GO GO GO GO" "HURRY GO" and get easily agitated, 9 times out of 10, are raiders.
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I think the main issue comes from ds. Every guild could easily get 8/8hc at that time and when some of those guilds failed to progress (I mean clearing almost full heroic content by that) they lost hope. Mop raiding is a big turn from cata raiding and it will take people some time to get used to it.


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are there any plans available with respect to what features are going to be realized in the mid-term for Papyrus?
Does this mean that in mid-term one would be able to switch off the default "new child" entry?
What are these Modeling Assistants? Sounds interesting (in particular because we do have a similar concept).
What is the best way to provide you solutions for new features for tailoring Papyrus?


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Live in Edinburgh This Week – 13th December 2009
Baaaaaaart, help! It appears that there is actually not one single musical event happening this week in Edinburgh which I personally would feel motivated to attened. The only thing I've managed to find which I would actually like to go to is the Twilight Sad in-store performance at Avalanche Records tomorrow at one o'clock but erm, with it being one o'clock in the afternoon that might prove to be logistically challenging given I have a day job.
Generally when I write these listings, no matter how thorough I think I've been, ginger eagleweasel Bart pops up in the comments to set me straight about something wonderful which I have missed. Maybe it's my paranoia, but I always seem to read a slight smirk into his tone of voice too, the smug bastard. In any case, come on Bart, if ever your truffle-snuffling spidey senses were needed it's today.
Bruce Sprinsteen – 57 Channels (and Nothing On)
So, I thought I might tell you what I am doing this weekend. I wouldn't bother reading this if you don't like football, but you might enjoy the heartwarming story anyway. On Saturday is the Sporting ICAPB Burton-Barry Cup Final, and I will hopefully be dragging my blubbery carcass around a footbally pitch for at least half of that match. After that there will be (shit) curry and drinking.
Amateur league football in Scotland has been the least enjoyable football I've ever played in my life. The slightest mistake in training and people start shouting at one another, throwing their hands up in despair and shouting 'Oh for fuck's sake' and dispensing other such pearls of wisdom. As if people make mistakes on purpose. I have never found sport in general and football in particular, which I love playing with a passion, to be so utterly joyless in my life.
I remember doing shooting practise at one point and shanking a shot high and wide, only to be on the end of that exact same pantomime of dramatic sighs and gestures and general infantile melodrama and saying 'Oh for fuck's sake, it's fucking training.' only to be met with 'Well if you don't take it seriously at training how can we be sure you'll take it seriously in a match?' as if a grown fucking adult can't tell the difference.
I've been playing amateur league football my whole life, and I have failed to get into teams in Scotland who the sides I've played for every week in places like England, Holland and Austria would have pummelled into oblivion, so I find this sort of shit incredibly frustrating. It got to the stage when I thought I was going to just have to pack it in and then I found Sporting ICAPB, because my friend Max was the coach.
Everything about the way Max ran the club was totally different and, certainly in Scotland at least, totally and utterly unique. He focussed on one thing and one thing only: making players better by making them confident and giving them clear-cut jobs.
His greatest achievement was the invention of the No Punting Rule, whereby you were forbidden from just clearing the ball up the park. He basically said that you should always, always find a pass absolutely always, unless it was practically impossible. Sometimes you would end up giving the ball away and we would concede a goal, but he was the coach, it was his decision and he would take responsibility, so it wasn't your fault. The results were fucking incredible.
Because you knew the person on the ball would always be looking for a pass it made the whole team work much harder to make themselves available, which made making that pass infinitely easier. And because you knew you were under orders never to punt it, you became much more confident to actually have the ball, because you knew that being caught in possession wasn't necessarily a crime. It was amazing. I have never in all my years played such good football. I've never played so much football either. As a centre-half your job is to win the ball and get rid of it, finding a pass if possible, but usually (especially in Scotland) just belting it a very long way up the pitch vaguely in the direction of your centre-forwards. As a consequence you tackle and win headers, but end up playing very little actual football. Under this system that totally changed.
There were other things too. Defensively, every role was simplified, and our fitness was massively improved. The result? Well, we starting beating teams comfortably who, man for man, were better than us in almost every position. It was incredible. I remember playing a side every single one of whom was better than every single one of us at football and we battered them 6-1. I remember putting five past a side from one of the best known amateur clubs in Scotland, and with such a rag-tag collection of players: ageing amateurs like myself, a couple of talented randoms, a couple of lads who had never played before a few years ago, biology PhD students and all sorts of others.
It used to drive the other teams nuts too, because they knew they should be better than us. They knew we weren't getting rid of the ball under pressure like we should do, they could see some of us were fucking rotten at even the most basic skills, they never once heard us shout 'get in amongst them' or 'come on, give it 110%' or 'right from the start ICAPB' or any of that other shit, and they couldn't figure out how they weren't giving us a right chasing – it was hilarious.
I moved up here at age twenty-nine and after a couple of bad experiences at awful clubs thought that was basically it and I was going to have to pack it in prematurely, until I bumped into Max and his ludicrous levels of devotion to such a part-time side, and his incredible courage in his convictions in how the game should be coached and played. It's been brilliant. I've never felt like such a footballer and never enjoyed playing so much, so I (and everyone else at the club) owe Max an enormous debt of gratitude.
He's since moved down to Oxford and doesn't coach the team anymore, but he'll be back up this weekend for the veterans vs current team challenge match which is the Burton-Barry cup, and we'll be heading out on the town to get plastered afterwards.
And that is what I will be doing this week. I take it you're sorry you asked.


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$3 LED light bulbs coming soon…
Researchers at Cambridge University have come up with a method to significantly reduce the cost of creating LED light bulbs. LEDs use gallium nitride and requires being grown on sapphire wafers. The new technique allows growth on silicon wafer reducing the cost significantly from $28 to $3 per bulb. The big news for the bulbs is they use 12 times less energy that incandescent bulbs, last for 60 years, and they are far enough in their research that they could come to market in just a two years. Just imagine, in just a couple years you could be buying your last light bulb(s) of your life, unless you physically break them of course.
This this so exciting for indoor growing, my cheap LED grow box works great for the small space for seedlings. When I start thinking of expanding my growing area, the current LED prices make the start-up cost to illuminate a large space is considerable. Because of this I am forced to resort to CFLs as the more economical solution. With these innovations we could definately see indoor gardening much more accessible to a greater audience with this financial barrier lifted. via Gizmodo
Tags: cheap, garden seeds, growbox, led, vegetables
Gardening products I would buy if I wasn't so cheap
9.1 years ago cheap, compost, germination, indoor seed starting, tomato
Today I got my Gardener's Supply Companycatalog, this particular catalog is dedicated to items to assist you with your gardening habit. You should be able to guess from this site I do my best to resist buying anything for the garden I absolutely need, otherwise I make a cheaper alternative. Well the point of this post is to show what I would like to get if I wasn't as disciplined.
|They sell these Accelerated Propagation System (APS) seed starting kits which have all the basics you expect from a seed starting kits you would find at your local garden store. They include 6 to 40 cells to plant seedlings and a clear plastic dome to help raise the humidity to provide extra moisture for the tender seedlings. The bonus in this setup is it also contains a reservoir which holds enough water to keep them moist for up to a week. With the help of an elevated platform and capillary matting provides just the right amount of water to your plants. At just $19.95 for the 40 and 24 cells sizes this is one purchase I am still considering, since I never have finished my automatic watering system on my computerized grow box and this makes much better use of space than my plastic tub, newspaper pots, and daily watering method I am doing now.
|Eco-Friendly Cowpots basically planting pots made as a byproduct of processing cow poo. The poo is dried, composted and mixed with natural fibers creating a completely biodegradable pot which holds up well during growth and transplanting but biodegrades in the soil after several weeks. I watched an episode of Dirty Jobs which went through the whole process and it was very interesting and environmentally conscience but, unfortunately due to the price tag (about $1 a pot) these are a little over my budget since my newspaper pots are free.
|Gardener's Revolution Planter – You have probably seen something similar advertised between gardening shows on HGTV (Topsy Turvy) , I know my daughter has and has been talking about growing tomatoes upside down for some time now. She even on her own came up with a ingenious design to do this (not 5 gallon bucket) which I will write-up when we get around to that project. In case you were wondering the improvement this year (or compared to the TV advertisement) it is the addition of a 1 gallon water reservoir which slowly releases water to the plant as neededSelf watering must be a big seller this year since there are also many other variances of self watering pots in many shapes and sizes with designs similar to the original (to my knowledge) the EarthBox.
|Now definitely in the gadget department the Push-Button Kitchen Scrap Composter can take your everyday kitchen scraps and turn them into compost in less than 11 days. The concept on this one is pretty simple:Food + Heat + Spinning = Compost
Of course it crossed my mind of creating something similar myself, but probably would end up burning down the house or if I was lucky just launch partially composted food across the living room at 50 miles per hour. Given the $299 price tag seems like I will be stuck to waiting 3-6 months for my compost to be created. Though it would be much more convenient than walking through the snow to add kitchen scraps to the compost.
Tags: cheap, compost, garden seeds, growbox, led, outdoor plants, tomato plants, vegetables
Make a worm bin out of a bath tub
9.1 years ago vermicomposting, worms
Over at LifeBoat Farm they have created this great DIY Worm Farm out of an old bathtub. What I like about this build is they could have easily taken the bathtub propped it up on some cinder blocks and have been done with it. They took the extra effort with the wood enclosure (with bonus storage shelf) and proper drainage making use of the actual drain it almost appears that this is the true use for this bath tub.
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1st Blog-Iversary
9.1 years ago Uncategorized
Exactly one year ago I wrote the first post for The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. Over this short time I have had a tremendous response, more than I ever had ever imagined. I wish the January spike (below) would continue into 2009 but much of this was traffic was significantly elevated my the following honorable mentions:
- Hack-a-day (PS2 controller thermometer)
- Hack-a-day (Automated plant growing)
- Top listing on reddit.com/frugal for a few days
- MAKE: Blog: LED light grow box
Thank you to everyone who has read the blog this past year and actively participated with your kind comments. Without your feedback I probably would have gotten bored and stopped writing many months ago.
The Cheap Vegetable Gardener
Tags: cheap, growbox, led, outdoor plants, vegetables
Updated time-lapse video of strawberries growing in growbox
9.1 years ago computer, indoor growbox, strawberries
Here is the strawberries growing after 2 weeks in the grow box. Looks like I may need to get some Q-tips out and do some manual pollination if I want to see berries. I feel so dirty…
Tags: growbox, strawberry plants
Why you should check on your grow box (especially if it is computerized)
9.1 years ago blueberry, computer, cucumbers, indoor growbox, strawberries
My day job is in software development, so of course it came to mind that software/hardware can fail while I was making my computerized grow box. During its inception, I would check on it daily physically or remotely to make sure all was well. After a couple weeks of this it was so stable that I started to not check quite as often. Though in my mind there was never any question of if it would crash, it was when. Well that answer came tonight when I decided to check on my strawberries, cucumbers, and blueberry plant (trying to propagate a blueberry plant damaged in recent snow storm)
I noticed the lights were out and turned on the LCD display to see "Unable to find operating system." Before anyone screams "you should have used Linux", the problem was completely hardware related caused by a failed hard drive (not even the one with the operating system). Unfortunately this was the drive that had the SQL database, so hopefully I will be able to savage some of the data. Once I got the machine to boot up I saw the temperature was down to 38 degrees (poor little cucumber plants) but fortunately in the time it took to write this post it warmed up to 47.3F 57.7F, so hopefully the cucumbers will feel better in the morning.
Tonight I am adding one more item to my software to do list, a Vista Gadget to monitor the health of the grow box to ensure it is up and running. This was also a good time to ask the mental question, "When was the last time I backed up my code?" Code now backed up and am wondering why I am breaking my cardinal rule of always having source control even with a single developer.
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Origin of hermitMiddle English hermite from Old French from Ecclesiastical Late Latin eremita from Late Greek er?mit?s, a hermit from Gr, of the desert from er?mos, desolate from Indo-European base an unverified form er-, loose, distant, to separate from source Sanskrit an unverified form árma- (pl.), fragments, ruins
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I hide snacks from my kids - do you do things like this?
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Whenever I buy a snack I like, the kids always seem to eat that one first, and leave their icky snacks that I don't like but they supposedly LOVE in the pantry, so I started hiding the snacks I buy for myself so they can't have them and if they ever see me eating them, I tell them that's all there was, knowing they can't find my stash.
Do you hide snacks from your kids? Do you do other stuff like this just so you can enjoy something yourself without them taking it all or ruining your moment?
Yep, and I eat it while they're all in school.
I don't hide snacks but I do sometimes tell them we don't have any recordings on the DVR just so I can watch shows that we usually watch together and actually HEAR the conversations the characters have on screen. My kids are teens and they're really bad about overanalyzing what's going on and talking above the TV to do it, or they'll run out to check Facebook or something and come back and want a full play-by-play in the middle of a critical scene. It's obnoxious.
Me too
Quoting PurplePieguy:
Yep, and I eat it while they're all in school.
Not something I want, but I have to hide my SO's hot Funyuns and Hot Cheetos from his kid.
Yep, I buy them whatever they want for a quick snack, then buy my favorite and keep it in my room, but if they ask nicely I will share with them.
I do however stash things from dh now and then.
I do that, too, lol. We buy those bags of assorted chips so DH and the kids can take them in their lunches but there's only like one kind I like in there so I'll take the 3 bags of that flavor and hide them under the oatmeal in the pantry. DH knows I do it but the kids have no idea since we just toss the big bag the others come in and they don't really pay attention to what's supposed to be in there, lol.


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VERGENNES — Bixby Memorial Library will host the first of eight weekly meetings of a new session of workshops for aspiring dramatic writers on Monday, April 13, from 6 to 8 p.m.
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The action came in response to a March 18 lawsuit that East Street resident John O'Donnell, who has spoken against the project at public meetings, filed in Addison Superior Court that sought a preliminary injunction ordering Vergennes to cease efforts to build the playground.
VERGENNES — Vergennes police portray the man suspected of robbing two city banks as a desperate drug addict who was nevertheless remorseful for his actions.
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VERGENNES — At their meeting on Tuesday, members of the Vergennes City Council dealt with a lawsuit against the planned toddler park (see story), and also:
VERGENNES — Vergennes police on this past Saturday arrested Ricky D. Putnam, 44, of Addison and charged him with robbing the Vermont Federal Credit Union on Friday and with robbing People's United Bank downtown on March 13 (see full story in A section).
VERGENNES — The latest Northlands Job Corps center director is a high-ranking, 18-year U.S. Coast Guard veteran who crossed the country seven times during his service years before making another trip across the continent from Oregon to take over the Vergennes job training center.
VERGENNES — With a new center director on board, and updated agreement with Vergennes police signed and an active Community Relations Council, the company that took over Northlands Job Corps in December 2013 believes the pieces are in place for the federal job training center in Vergennes to begin making substantial progress.
VERGENNES — Vergennes police on Saturday arrested an Addison man who they say robbed two Vergennes financial institutions — the first on Friday, March 13, and the second just this past Friday.
Police arrested Ricky D. Putnam, 44, and cited him for two counts of robbery — of the Peoples United Bank at the corner of Main and Maple streets on the 13th and of the Vermont Federal Credit Union at 100 Panton Road on the UTC Aerospace facility on the 27th.
VERGENNES — Vermont Federal Credit Union in Vergennes was robbed on Friday afternoon, a patron of the financial institution said.
Vermont State and Vergennes police in brief phone conversations confirmed the robbery of a Vergennes bank but could not could not confirm to the Independent which one.
A patron of the Vermont Federal Credit Union branch in Middlebury said she overheard a phone conversation at around 4:15 p.m. involving credit union employees talking about a robbery at the Vergennes branch.
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|on May 23, 2013 at 17:55 UTC ( #1034998=note: print w/replies, xml )
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Um, whoa :) but it also says This can be useful for displaying ordinal values of characters in arbitrary strings , so to review all it says:
I suppose its better say/link ordinal (ord) values of characters (chr) and give explicit chr/ord example
Or say ...interpret supplied string as list of integers seperated by a dot. Each character is a positive integer, the ordinal(ord) value of the character (chr).
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Posted 6/22/07 2:06:00PM
Travis Wiuff, who bested a field of 16 heavyweights in one night at Yamma Pit Fighting 1 on April 11, has been tapped to face Kazuyuki Fujita at World Victory Road's "Sengoku Battle III" on June 8. The seasoned Minnesota wrestler will square off with the popular Japanese heavyweight at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
juanez13 »
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Hopefully Fujita beats him, really dont like Wiuff and his style
wolfman »
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Yeah, I agree. I'd rather see Nakao against Fujita. Nakao's been calling Fujita out for awhile now, he wants to knock him out! Fujita would beat Nakao, would be an interesting match though. Speaking of Fujita....Mr. Iron Jaw
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Fujita is a beast. Has a bowling ball for a head. I think he takes this one.
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Fujita will be too big for Wiuff....I see him coming away with a KO in the first....


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36-37a Copeland Street in Alexandria, Sydney
The Bitton Cafe describes itself as "a local icon and one of Sydney's best cafes". True, prior to the opening of The Grounds just around the corner, Bitton was the closest thing to kid friendly cafe paradise I thought I'd ever experience in this town. Bitton does have certain advantages over The Grounds. Namely its children's play area is indoors and although its usually buzzing it doesn't have queues stretching around the block. Note that I have read you can wait about 10 minutes for a table on the weekends.
Like many top-notch cafes, Bitton multitasks. The Bitton Gourmet Pty Ltd umbrella covers a product range featuring sauces, jams, chutneys, salad dressings, pestos, spices, infused oil and a cook book. Bitton also runs cooking classes where participants can indulge in a three course meal and a glass (or two) of sparkling wine.
I dropped my princesses at daycare on Thursday morning and headed west with a spring in my step and a song in my heart to soak up the Bitton experience. It was an oasis of tranquility at 9.30am. The deli and inside area was sparsely populated by creative types lingering over breakfast meetings. I chose to sit outside in the pleasant sunny courtyard, just by the kids play space. Whilst I blissfully sipped my large skim cappuccino and scanned the Sydney Morning Herald the Mothers group brigade started filing in. A micro bummed yummy Mummy sashayed in (as best as one can sashay with a toddler and an infant in a 4WD pram) and loudly announced to her similarly be-prammed friends that she had only had 3 hours sleep. She then ordered a babycino for Leopold. Welcome to the Inner West! I noted that she was wearing a grey cardigan with a red and green cherry pattern which just happened to be identical to my own. This made be feel both self consciously dorky and right on trend simultaneously.
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Crain's Manchester is in business
Crain's Manchester has made an impressive debut.
It offers varied business content in an easy on the eye format. The tabloid size make it perfect for a read while commuting in or indeed out.
There is a website with all the offline version's copy as far as I could tell. You cannot leave comments and there are few links out. Missing an opportunity if not resolved perhaps to conect to the business community. How Do resolved that issue for the better.
The editing team seems strong and one story on where Web 2.0 enterprises meet was well researched, there were a couple of venues I did not know anything about. They had done their research.
Criticisms? Nothing of real note although a feature on online marketing issues would be welcomed.
With the loss of a few Manchester and North West business magazines over the last year Crain's seems the anecdote to the loss of editorial opportunities for B2B PRs, which always are harder to come by than B2C PRs.
The Manchester Evening News has responded by adding a new business journalist, which is making the sector more competitive and of course helpful to B2B PRs.
If the magazine adds more pages as it gains advertising and builds on this start we could have something that will become part of the business scene, something we will forget the time when we did not have it.


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Mouth kissing kids?
I grew up kissing my parents on my mouth (until a certain age haha) and I kiss my DD on the mouth, as well as my niece and nephews and will stop once they reach a certain age.
I'm with you on this one. Seeing that my 16yr old son might need therapy after just the thought, and that is what his girlfriend is there for. And my 9yr princess is a big fan of hugs, definitely. Even thinking back as far as babies I never did 'mouth' kiss my little ones. It also stems from being brought up that way..
Quoting lilbit2013:
I think when you're a kid there's nothing wrong with kissing your parents on the mouth, but you also have to know what age to stop that.
I never grew up kissing on the mouth... I even found it strange when seeing other moms do it... then I had my first daughter. Both my girls have the most kissable lips.. It is so sweet.
this for me too....it's no big deal.
Quoting lucky2Beeme:
I kiss my husband, kids, siblings,extended family and some friends on the lips its no big deal.
I did not grow up kissing on the mouth but my son initiated this contact at around two so I did not discourage it. I have gotten used to it and my daughter wants to be kissed on the mouth also. I think my children wanted to do this because they saw my husband and I kissing on the mouth.
We absolutely do. I grew up kissing my parents on the mouth, though I'm not sure about my husband.
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North Oakville. 4 bedroom bungalow! Great values on the street. One owner home, add on, or live as is. 60 x 125' lot. Central air, furnace, roof, most windows and garage door have been replaced. Hardwood floors, 2 full baths. Livng room with woodburing fireplace. Driveway has parking for 4 cars. Backyard is gardeners delight with many beautiful garden areas full of colourful perennials. Lovingly maintained! Close to major thru ways, walk to neighbourhood schools, public transportation, local amentites and shopping.
OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 2-4pm 378 Stanfield Drive, West Oakville
One of a kind custom home offering uniqueness & versatility. This multi level home offers 4+1 bedrms & 5 baths inc 2 ensuites. Completely finished from top to bottom! Dream gourmet kitchen with massive island, prep sink, granite counters,under cabinet lighting, mosaic glass & stone backsplash. S/S gas stove & oven, exhaust hood canopy range, 48"built in Kitchen Aid side by side fridge, B/I espresso machine & LG dishwasher. Butlers pantry leading to separate Dining Room with espresso coloured cabinetry, prep sink & crema marfill marble. Honey brown maple hardwood thru out with almond bamboo porcelain tile. Romeo & Juliet cat walk on upper level overlooking Great Room with ledge rock stone gas fireplace from floor to ceiling. Beautiful Master retreat boasting ensuite with 2 vanities, large tub & oversized shower. Lower level offers a 2nd laundry, 3pc bath, 5th bedrm/den plus walk up leading to fenced in yard with inground heated pool. Outdoor wood burning F/P overlooking patio. Basement has a finished rec room with gorgeous new maple bar perfect for entertaining! You must see this home to experience the best in finishes, quality and uniqueness. Seeing is believing!
The Hisey- McDermott Team, Century 21 Miller Real Estate Ltd., Brokerage
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