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European Public Procurement, PPP/Private Finance and Concessions
European Public Procurement, PPP/Private Finance and Concessions
July 4, 2019 - July 5, 2019
Venue: Maritim Hotel, Goethestraße 7, DE-80336 München, Germany
Organizer(s): EIPA Maastricht (NL), OLV plein 22, NL 6211 HE Maastricht, Netherlands
Language: English
Contact: Ms Belinda Vetter, Programme Organiser
European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA)
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Tel.: +31 43 3296 382
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Info link: https://www.eipa.eu/product/european-public-procurement-ppp-private-finance-and-concessions/
The seminar will provide an overview of the current rules and developments in European public procurement based on the public procurement directive (Directive 2014/24/EU) and the directive on the award of concession contracts (Directive 2014/23/EU). The public procurement directive will be examined in detail, covering the scope, procedures, rules on public contracts, contract performance and specific procurement regimes. The seminar will also address key issues in the use of competitive dialogue and the competitive procedure with negotiation. It will cover PPP/private finance, indicating where PPP are being used and when they work best for financing infrastructure projects.
How will it help you?
This seminar will provide an understanding of the latest rules and developments in European public procurement, PPP/private finance and concessions. It should be of benefit to representatives from contracting authorities and businesses who need to familiarise themselves with the rules and policies at European level. Most importantly, the seminar will offer an excellent platform to exchange experiences and concerns in dealing with European public procurement, PPP/private finance and concessions.
Who will benefit most?
The seminar is intended for officials from national, sub-national and local authorities and other public bodies from the EU Member States, candidate countries and European bodies and organisations, who wish to familiarise themselves with European public procurement, PPP/private finance and concessions. It should also be of interest to private sector providers, professional advisers and academics.


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Sports and outdoor activities in Santo Domingo
Baseball is the most exciting spectator sport in Santo Domingo. Two separate professional teams, Licey and Escogido, play in the winter professional league between mid-November and early February; games are at Estadio Quisqueya, Máximo Gómez and Kennedy. Tickets are generally available on the night of the game, or you can purchase in advance on Wednesday for the weekly Sunday games at locations across the island – see local newspapers for up-to-date ticket purchasing locations. Though more and more Dominican major-leaguers are opting out of the winter season, you'll still find a few famous Dominican players along with some of America's top minor-league prospects.
Most foreign visitors find cockfighting, the other local obsession, less easy to stomach, but it's a central part of Dominican culture. The city's grand Coliséo Gallístico, Zona Industrial Herrera, Av Luperón just south of the Autopista Duarte, practically transforms this traditionally rural pastime into something of an upper-class diversion; indeed, semi-formal dress is required. There are plenty of other, smaller venues spread across the city's outer barrios, but this is by far the best place for visitors to come.
Finally, the entire city is dotted with pool halls. The best places to shoot a few games are the second-floor halls that you'll find along El Conde – though as with most male-dominated Dominican hangouts, the atmosphere is hyper-macho.
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There's nothing worse than splashing out on a hugely expensive engagement ring only to be dumped before you can drop to one knee. When such tribulation was bestowed upon Halo fan Eric Smith, though, the traumatised chap wasted no time toughening up.
Smith flogged the lucrative piece of jewellery and bought himself a full body suit of Master Chief armour. Sure showed her.
After finding an eBay buyer for the ring, Smith's bank balance brought a smile back to his face. But in order to move on properly, he decided it had to be spent. All of it.
As he'd already been musing over the idea of Halo armour for years, it was a no brainer. Smith forked out for the Master Chief suit, forty pounds of dark green fibreglass and steel, custom built by an artist near Detroit.
Meanwhile, the golden-visored helmet was imported from a Stormtrooper armour specialist in the Philippines. There's no mention of exactly how much was spent, but white gold rings fitted with canary-yellow diamonds aren't exactly cheap.
Smith amusingly tells the full story of his adulterous ex-girlfriend and long time obsession with acquiring Halo kit over on culture site Bygone Bureau.
By the sounds of it, he's adopted an entire alter-ego within his suit, and friends have questioned his psychological reasons for wanting it. Still, if it helps you recover from the devastating experience of a broken heart, what does it matter?
I doubt it'll help him find a new romance, though. Still a nice story to tell your imaginary grandchildren, I guess. ®


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After participating in the low carb call-in show and hearing from so many dieters there and in the email the show provoked, I started thinking it might be interesting to do a stint of very low carb dieting myself, just to see if I noticed anything new, now that I've done so much research.
Though I ate a very strict low carb diet for many years, I have been eating under 110 grams a day since 2009, largely because the medication choices I'd made have made it possible to keep my blood sugars in better control at that level than at a lower one.
The last time I ate a ketogenic low carb diet was for about 5 months in 2008. Over that time my fasting blood sugar rose and I didn't lose any weight that didn't come right back when I boosted my carbs.
That was fine: I was eating that way to prepare for some surgery and promote healing afterwards, and since I healed up very quickly, it seemed to help. But once I was healed up, I decided there was no real point in eating a ketogenic diet since my main focus is on blood sugar control
Things are quite different now. My blood sugar is better than it has ever been, thanks to my very unusual response to a low dose of Coenzyme Q10. (I am currently exploring what might explain this and have called on an expert in oddball forms of diabetes to help me with this. I'll report on it if I learn anything that will be useful to others with odd forms of insulin-sensitive diabetes.)
But because I've been able to eat much more widely than I had been able to, even with insulin, I have been eating a lot these past few months, and though my scale weight was only up 2-3 lbs, my pants informed me that I had a choice: cut back a bit, or buy new pants. That's the kind of message I take seriously, so this past Monday I embarked on a new very low carb diet.
What Was Different This Time?
One thing that was different this time is that the work I did last year to upgrade my nutritional calculator using the most up-to-date formulas and taking into account body fat percentage yielded me more information about what it would take for me to lose weight. That meant that unless I wanted to diet for the next 6 months, losing the 3 real pounds I'd set as a weight goal meant cutting way back on calories to a level that ruled out any "luxuriant eating."
I decided to see what would happen if during the first week I ate following the guidelines that the calculator set for losing 1 lb a week. I used my bodyfat percentage as estimated by my Tanita scale, which gave me a slightly higher caloric intake than the calculator gives me when I omite body weight percentage. (That's because I truly do have a "large build" with very big leg muscles for a women--so big that even when I weighed 110 lbs I couldn't fit into those fashionable Frye Boots that everyone wore in the 1970s.)
The calculator told me that I could lose a pound a week eating roughly 1050 calories a day.
How Much Protein To Eat?
This posed one problem--was I to calculate how much protein I should eat based on the formula used for experienced low carbers, or should I use the formula for beginners that assumes that I would need a lot of extra protein to provide glucose to run my brain until it switched over to burning ketones?
At this low a calorie level, eating the extra protein would make it impossible to eat a safe low carb diet, because protein would use up all my calories leaving my fat intake dangerously low.
I decided to experiment and see if my body remembered how to burn ketones after my 7+ years of low carbing in the past and stick with a protein intake that while higher than my requirements while in a fully ketotic state was a lot lower than the amount needed for a newbie.
That seems to have been a good call. I'm on Day 5 and have been in Ketosis every time I have tested since Day 3 (based on testing with urine testing strips) except once after I ate some protein powder that seems to have had more carbs in it than the label claimed.
I haven't had any headache or other symptoms that come from adjusting to burning ketones. So apparently there is no need to eat any more than the amount of protein a long-term low carber would need.
How Much Glycogen-Associated and Water Weight Loss?
I lost 3.5 lbs within 24 hours of starting my diet. This suggests that much of my most recent weight gain was water weight, possibly from eating too much salty food. That is too short a time for me to have burned through three pounds worth of stored glycogen.
Since I have been taking metformin for years, I probably don't have a lot of stored glycogen left to burn. My experience in the past while low carbing while taking metformin is that I don't lose glycogen-related water weight. However, if I stop taking metformin, I regain what looks a lot like glycogen-related weight for the next week.
How Much Real Weight Loss?
After that first day's loss, I haven't lost any more weight. I weighed the same this morning as I did Tuesday morning. However, I don't really expect to see real weight loss occuring that quickly, since even if I am eating at a level that will result in a pound of real weight loss over a week after 4 days I would have only lost slightly more than .5 lbs, which is an amount easily hidden by salt-related fluctuations.
How's My Blood Sugar Reacting?
My fasting blood sugar was 91 mg/dl the morning before I started my diet. It dropped to 85 the next day and was 84 any time I tested it until this morning when I woke up at 76. An hour after lunch today it was again 76.
When I felt hungry, I used my 2 gram cure and it worked. I used it five times over the past 4 days, but never more than once within a 3 hour period.
What is the Impact on My Blood Pressure?
My blood pressure had risen the past two weeks, as it always does when the house chills down (I refuse to run the heat until October, but having adapted to 73 F all summer the mornings we experience that are 64-65 F takes some getting used to.)
My blood pressure dropped remained high on Day 1 and 2, then dropped quite dramatically, to normal on Day 3 and morning on Day 4. Then in the afternoon of Day 4 it shot up very high (163/89) after I experienced a burst of stress hormones. It was normal again on the morning of Day 5 (123/76).
I think the stress hormones were the result of either blood sugar or blood pressure dropping too low, generating a counterregulatory burst.
In the past when I ate LC I had several dramatic stints of very high blood pressure, contrary to what you read in the bestselling books. I will keep a closer watch on both sugars and BP to avoid the stress release as it feels rotten and takes 3 hours to abate.
What Am I Eating?
Not much! 1050 calories is such a low calorie intake that it's tricky getting enough protein without going overboard on the fat. All the usual low carb diet tricks that make low carbing enjoyable and sustainable are out. Bacon and cream cheese have too much fat for the protein they contribute. So I am pretty much testing Stephen Guyenet's theory that eating boring food helps us lose weight.
I'm using my food scale to weigh everything, and learning how fast those calories pile up. I'm also seeing how many of my "go to" low carb foods that I eat when I'm not trying to lose weight push my calorie intake way up--like the low carb cocoa I make with half and half or the bits of cheese I put in my salads.
That said, since with the exception of my experiment with the protein powder my blood sugars have been rock solid flat, I haven't been hungry except, sometimes, an hour or so after eating and about 9 P. After eating is when I've used the 2 gram cure. I'm thinking I probably ought to eat my last meal a bit later (I tend to eat dinner between 5:30 and 6 PM.) That might keep me from getting hungry right before I'm ready for sleep.
The foods I've been mainly eating are:
1 soup bowl full of romaine and/or baby spinach every day
1 small campari tomato
1 slice of fresh red pepper
home made olive oil and vinegar dressing with herbs
havarti cheese with dill in salad (from Trader Joe's)
1 egg with 1 oz munester or havarti cheese for breakfast
Protein shakes made with 1 scoop of protein
Supermarket rotisserie chicken ("all natural")
Trader Joe's uncured low salt pastrami
I was out one afternoon and ate pulled pork and saag paneer from the Whole Foods buffet.
Fage Greek yogurt, both 0% and 2% fat (since that was what was in the fridge.) I'm not having any trouble getting my fat up to target, so it will be 0% tonight
1 tbs of unsalted roasted sunflower seeds with the yogurt
Davinci White Chocolate Sugar Free Syrup with Splenda for sweetening cocoa and yogurt
Homemade low carb cocoa (Hershey's cocoa, Davinci syrup, and half and half)
decaf tea
decaf coffee 2 cups a day. I'm not avoiding caffeine for diet reasons, but caffeinated coffee
pushes up my blood pressure so I am not currently drinking it.
NOTE: The Six Star brand Vanilla Cream Protein Powder I bought at Walmart tasted revolting and raised my blood sugar. It took 20 minutes for the aftertaste to go away.
Highly NOT recommended.
Nutritional Breakdown
LifeForm tells me that my average daily intake for 5 days (including tonight's dinner) has been 1045 calories.
Fat: 63 g, 58%
Sat fat: 28 g, 26%
Carbs: 22 g
Fiber: 3 g (I am also taking a spoonful of no-sugar psyillium ever day)
Sugars: 14 g (this includes the sugar in the yogurt which I believe has been fermented
Protein: 81 g 34% (My requirement to supply my brain after adapting to ketosis is only 63 g but I wanted some slack to avoid consuming muscle if I was wrong about the
retained ability to adapt.)
I'm not sure if this is interesting to anyone but me, so let me know if you want to hear more in the comments, where I'll also be happy to answer questions.
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Vladimir Nabokov may be known to most people as the author of classic novels like "Lolita" and "Pale Fire." But even as he was writing those books, Nabokov had a parallel existence as a self-taught expert on butterflies.
He was the curator of lepidoptera at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, and he collected the insects across the United States. He published detailed descriptions of hundreds of species. And in a speculative moment in 1945, he came up with a sweeping hypothesis for the evolution of the butterflies he studied, a group known as the Polyommatus blues. He envisioned them coming to the New World from Asia over millions of years in a series of waves.
Few professional lepidopterists took these ideas seriously during Nabokov's lifetime. But in the years since his death in 1977, his scientific reputation has grown. And over the past 10 years, a team of scientists has been applying gene-sequencing technology to his hypothesis about how Polyommatus blues evolved. Last week in The Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, they reported that Nabokov was absolutely right.
"It's really quite a marvel," said Naomi Pierce of Harvard, a co-author of the paper.
Nabokov inherited his passion for butterflies from his parents. When his father was imprisoned by the Russian authorities for his political activities, the 8-year-old Vladimir brought a butterfly to his cell as a gift. As a teenager, Nabokov went on butterfly-hunting expeditions and carefully described the specimens he caught, imitating the scientific journals he read in his spare time. Had it not been for the Russian Revolution, which forced his family into exile in 1919, Nabokov said that he might have become a full-time lepidopterist.
In his European exile, Nabokov visited butterfly collections in museums. He used the proceeds of his second novel, "King, Queen, Knave," to finance an expedition to the Pyrenees, where he and his wife, Vera, netted more than a hundred species. The rise of the Nazis drove Nabokov into exile once more in 1940, this time to the United States. It was there that Nabokov found his greatest fame as a novelist. It was also there that he delved deepest into the science of butterflies.
Nabokov spent much of the 1940s dissecting a confusing group of species called Polyommatus blues. He developed forward-thinking ways to classifying the butterflies, based on differences in their genitalia. He argued that what were thought to be closely related species were actually only distantly related.
At the end of a 1945 paper on the group, he mused on how they had evolved. He speculated that they originated in Asia, moved over the Bering Strait and headed south all the way to Chile.
Allowing himself a few literary flourishes, Nabokov invited his readers to imagine "a modern taxonomist straddling a Wellsian time machine." Going back millions of years, he would end up at a time when only Asian forms of the butterflies existed. Then, moving forward again, the taxonomist would see five waves of butterflies arriving in the New World.
Nabokov conceded that the thought of butterflies making a trip from Siberia to Alaska and then all the way down into South America might sound far-fetched. But it made more sense to him than an unknown land bridge spanning the Pacific. "I find it easier to give a friendly little push to some of the forms and hang my distributional horseshoes on the nail of Nome rather than postulate transoceanic land-bridges in other parts of the world," he wrote.
When "Lolita" made Nabokov a star in 1958, journalists were delighted to discover his hidden life as a butterfly expert. A famous photograph of Nabokov that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post when he was 66 is from a butterfly's perspective. The looming Russian author swings a net with rapt concentration. But despite the fact that he was the best-known butterfly expert of his day and a Harvard museum curator, other lepidopterists considered Nabokov a dutiful but undistinguished researcher. He could describe details well, they granted, but did not produce scientifically important ideas.
Nabokov's reputation as a scientist languished until the 1990s. Kurt Johnson, an entomologist then at the American Museum of Natural History, examined the genitals of the blues and was surprised at their diversity. Searching the literature for help, he came across Nabokov's work. As he later described in the 2000 book "Nabokov's Blues," written with Steve Coates, Dr. Johnson set about reviving Nabokov's classification. Working with Zsolt Balint of the Hungarian Museum of Natural History and Dubi Benyamini, an Israeli collector, he collected new blues and carefully examined them. In the end, they decided Nabokov was right in his classification. Along the way, they even named some new species in his honor, like Nabokovia cuzquenha.
More recently, scientists have begun applying new DNA sequencing techniques to Nabokov's work. In 1944, for example, Nabokov published the first description of the Karner blue butterfly, a rare form that lives in the northeastern United States. Judging from its color and choice of plants to eat, Nabokov came to believe that it was a distinct species. But when scientists began to analyze its genes, they decided it was just part of an existing species, the Melissa blue (Lycaeides melissa).
Chris Nice of Texas State University and his colleagues recently used next-generation sequencing to get a far more detailed look at the DNA of Karner blues and their relatives. They found that Karner blues and Melissa blues actually trade very few genes. In their December 2010 report in Biology Letters, they declare that Karner blues are a separate species after all — and Nabokov gets credit for recognizing it.
Dr. Pierce, who became a Harvard biology professor and curator of lepidoptera in 1990, began looking closely at Nabokov's work while preparing an exhibit to celebrate his 100th birthday in 1999. Reading "Nabokov's Blues," she was captivated by his idea of butterflies coming from Asia. "It was an amazing, bold hypothesis," she said. "And I thought, 'Oh, my God, we could test this.' "
To do so, she would need to reconstruct the evolutionary tree of blues and estimate when the branches split. It would have been impossible for Nabokov to do such a study on the anatomy of butterflies alone. Dr. Pierce would need their DNA, which could provide more detail about their evolutionary history. While she had already gathered some butterfly sequences, she would need many more.
Dr. Pierce began to collaborate with Dr. Johnson and his colleagues, who arranged for specimens to be sent to her lab and offered their hard-won knowledge of the diversity of the blues. Dr. Pierce's postdoctoral researcher, Roger Vila, traveled to the Andes to collect more butterflies and then sequenced their DNA back at Harvard.
Dr. Pierce and her colleagues used a computer to calculate the most likely relationships among the butterflies. They also compared the number of mutations each species had acquired to determine how long ago they had diverged from one another.
There were several plausible hypotheses for how the butterflies might have evolved. They might have evolved in the Amazon, as the rising Andes fragments their populations. If that were true, the species would be closely related to one another.
But that is not what Dr. Pierce and her colleagues found. Instead, they found that the New World species shared a common ancestor that lived about 10 million years ago. But many New World species were more closely related to Old World butterflies than to their neighbors. Dr. Pierce and her colleagues concluded that five waves of butterflies came from Asia to the New World — just as Nabokov had speculated.
"By God, he got every one right," Dr. Pierce said. "I couldn't get over it — I was blown away."
Dr. Pierce and her colleagues also investigated Nabokov's idea that the butterflies had come over the Bering Strait. The land surrounding the strait was relatively warm 10 million years ago, and has been chilling steadily ever since. Dr. Pierce and her colleagues found that the first lineage of Polyommatus blues that made the journey could survive a temperature range that matched the Bering climate of 10 million years ago. The lineages that came later are more cold-hardy, each with a temperature range matching the falling temperatures.
Nabokov's taxonomic horseshoes turn out to belong in Nome after all.
"What a great paper," said James Mallet, an expert on butterfly evolution at University College London. "It's a fitting tribute to the great man to see that the most modern methods that technology can deliver now largely support his systematic arrangement."
Dr. Pierce says she believes Nabokov would have been greatly pleased to be so vindicated, and points to one of his most famous poems, "On Discovering a Butterfly." The 1943 poem begins:
I found it and I named it, being versed
in taxonomic Latin; thus became
godfather to an insect and its first
describer — and I want no other fame.
"He felt that his scientific work was standing for all time, and that he was just a player in a much bigger enterprise," Dr. Pierce said. "He was not known as a scientist, but this certainly indicates to me that he knew what it's all about."


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Around most folks' kitchens, fresh produce is worth its weight in gold during the winter months. For that reason, it's not uncommon for home gardeners to dream of building greenhouses and cultivating vegetables for sale. Well, those fantasies can be transformed into profitable realities if the would-be grower will take time to gather in-depth information about the business before he or she invests any cash in it.
There are various methods of gathering the technical data you'll need in order to decide whether or not "under glass" gardening is for you. Perhaps the best way to begin would be to attend a "short course" or conference on growing greenhouse vegetables. However, although such seminars are usually billed as basic classes, you may well find yourself overwhelmed if you go into one without at least some understanding of horticulture. If that's the case, though, don't let the experience discourage you. Just pay close attention, take detailed notes (or make tapes), stop other students in hallways to ask questions when necessary, and attend the trade shows to talk with suppliers. You'll accumulate a great deal of information.
A two-day course might cost $200 to $500, but it could save you thousands of dollars in trial-and-error learning. Don't put out any money, however, without asking yourself a few searching questions.
Consider the Field
First of all — setting aside lifestyle considerations for the moment — ask yourself whether you really need a greenhouse to grow income crops. After all, if you can afford to pay cash for five or more acres of fertile land, you might be better off growing vegetables intensively in the open, rather than in a greenhouse. There are "field techniques" — such as utilizing simple (unheated) plastic canopies to lengthen your growing season — that can help you bring your harvests to market earlier and later than your competition. By adopting such methods, you can even shut down your operation during the worst of winter and maintain your contacts with grocery, restaurant, and institutional buyers by delivering stored vegetables or forced delicacies.
And even if intensive field gardening doesn't appeal to you, you'll still need to consider whether having a commercial greenhouse will be feasible in your location. Remember that the farther north you are, the higher your heating bills will be, especially in regions where wintry days are likely to be windy or cloudy.
Although a few new vegetable greenhouses have opened recently in the North, the "growing under glass" industry there is pretty much either holding static or declining. So find yourself a map and draw a rough line from Columbia, South Carolina to Dallas, Texas. Potential net profits from greenhouse vegetables tend to increase south of that line. To the west of Dallas, however, the altitude of the land will determine the effectiveness of the operation. The best opportunities there will be at low elevations in warm valleys or at higher levels where the more frequently clear winter days increase the efficiency of solar heating systems.
My point is that growing healthy, nutritious vegetables during short, gloomy winter days can be both profoundly difficult and expensive. Of course, moneysaving solar-heated greenhouses are practical in southern locations, but even there they require backup furnaces and water heaters. Such equipment can easily double the up-front cost of the basic structure. (In the South, most new greenhouse operations are opening up in places where growers can harvest or buy wood at reasonable prices. Wood- or coal-fired furnaces and water heaters have replaced many electric, propane, and natural gas units.)
Next Questions
OK, let's suppose you're already residing in a southern location, or are willing to move to one. Now, I'd like you to consider the extra heat and humidity you'll have to endure when working in that greenhouse during the South's semitropical summers ... and to ask yourself whether you're willing to contend with twice the number of plant diseases and insects that you'd have to deal with up north (where, as I've said, your costs would be much higher).
Once you have a particular locality in mind, be sure to ask for information on area utility rates, especially electricity, water, and sewerage. Even if you go solar, with wood or coal as backup, you'll need lots of electricity to run motors. For example, during hot weather the half-horse motors hooked to the two fans cooling a 30' x 96' greenhouse will run as much as 18 hours during the day and often at intervals during the night as well. "Juice" will also be required to run pumps for circulating water and nutrients, and to power timers, solenoids, vent actuators, and packaging equipment.
You should also realize that the amount of water consumed by plants in greenhouses can be staggering. Keep in mind that some cities with newly installed or renovated water systems have high rates, and many have ordinances prohibiting the digging of new wells.
Are you still with me? Well then, think about your finances one more time. Ask yourself whether you can afford to buy at least one-half to one acre of well-drained land within easy driving distance of a medium- to large-sized city. If so, go on to decide if you can also afford to fence it against thieves and vandals, to build or buy a house on the property or adjacent to it, and to pay cash for a fully equipped starter greenhouse.
And why, you might well wonder, do I recommend that the greenhouse be near a city? Well, it's indeed possible to run a successful operation 100 miles out in the country and make a living at it, but the distance will add to your transportation and marketing problems. Would-be greenhouse growers need to concentrate on raising vegetables, not running a truck line.
You should next decide whether you'd want to pursue the business full or part time. Studies indicate that a family can operate a 30' X 96' greenhouse in their spare hours and net $10,000 annually from it, assuming they aren't paying interest on money borrowed to setup their operation. Indeed, a majority of family-owned vegetable greenhouses seem to be run to augment other sources of income, and to accumulate savings for eventual expansion of the business.
Working on a full-time basis, a couple — along with a good hired hand — can operate four standard greenhouses and gross $50,000 or more annually. It's true that the net income may suffer in larger operations because more outside help will likely be needed, particularly for packing and shipping, but remember that a reliable employee can be crucial to the survival of the business in the event of family sickness or accidents.
Consider, too, whether you'll be happy limiting yourself to raising only one or two kinds of vegetables. Most growers with no more than four greenhouses concentrate on just a few crops, notably lettuce and standard tomatoes. Larger professional operations handle peppers, eggplant, and cherry tomatoes as well. (Lettuce is probably the most profitable crop per square foot of space, but it can require about 50% more labor than do, say, jumbo tomatoes.)
Greenhouse Guesstimates
Is your pocketbook beginning to feel the pinch yet? Well, we haven't even gotten around to discussing the structure of your greenhouse. High-carbon steel-framed Quonsets or Gothic-arch units that are strong enough to withstand high winds and wet snow, covered with two layers of plastic, and equipped to start your first crop can cost $5 to $10 per square foot (not including the land and site preparation).
In my opinion, at least, anything smaller than 3,000 square feet would hardly be worth building, because the net profit realized from such an operation would make a very minor contribution to a family's income. Many growers actually plan ahead when they build the first structure in order to allow for the construction of additional houses as they become economically feasible.
When estimating construction costs, don't forget such features as large-diameter down spouts and drainpipes to carry rainwater off the roof and into covered, lined ponds. A dependable supply of water that has low to moderate pH and is free of pathogens will become more and more valuable to you as your costs rise. Furthermore, by placing plastic canopies over these ponds, you can trap solar energy and preheat the water.
It's wise to include the cost of drilling a well (if it's allowed in your area) in your budget calculations too — although ground water may need to be treated for greenhouse use. Should it turn out to have a high pH, for example, it'll need to be buffered if it's to keep fertilizers in solution. Well water will also need to be preheated when used during the winter months, while lake or pond water can require acidification and filtering for pH modification and for the control of algae and pathogens.
Ways to Sell What Your Grow
Of course, the most successful greenhouse operators not only take pleasure in producing their vegetables, but also enjoy marketing them. I spoke to a professional hothouse gardener who pretty much summed up the prevailing attitude: When asked what he liked most about his business, he said, "Counting the money."
At the moment, greenhouse owners are unable to turn out enough vegetables to meet the demand, so an enthusiastic marketer will have little or no difficulty selling everything he or she produces at a good profit. Still, the situation is changing, and it would be wise to study the local competition closely before investing.
And, though it's possible to sell your produce through alternative channels — farmers' markets, roadside stands, tailgate trucks, gourmet restaurants, and the like — there's really no need to tap those outlets. Supermarket buyers will usually take everything you can produce, week after week, and at a good price too.
Don't let the seasonal availability of field-grown produce at low market prices force you into taking a less than usual sum for your greenhouse vegetables. Timid growers will sometimes permit themselves to be manipulated by supermarket buyers at such times, and then often discover that, although the price they were paid for the produce was lower than normal, the retail price at the store remained the same. You can demand a good fee because you are in a sense guaranteeing your clients the production of predictable amounts of consistently high-quality produce, standardized and packed to meet the needs of the stores, delivered promptly after harvest, precooled, attractively packaged, and labeled prominently as "greenhouse grown."
The Organic Option
There's a definite market for organically grown produce, but be warned that many folks feel that raising hothouse vegetables without the use of chemicals can be a nightmare. Even with the best possible ventilation, the high temperatures and humidity of a greenhouse can turn the structure into a perfect incubator for insects and disease.
Fortunately, organic gardeners will usually find that university cooperative extension specialists are sympathetic to their needs and can often recommend biological controls for pathogens, plus nonchemical fertilizers. (Regrettably, only a few biological controls have been widely tested in greenhouse environments; Bacillus thuringiensis, soap and water, and predatory mites are some that have.)
For the most part, extension specialists are also convinced that hydroponic methods, including the relatively new Nutrient Flow Technique (NFT), can maximize production (however, they generally recommend that "water growers" respond quickly to disease and insects with appropriate chemical controls). And more and more greenhouse operators are going along with the NFT recommendations, though other hydroponics users continue to raise produce in individual bags of sand — or other lightweight media — which are fed with liquid fertilizer and watered through a trickle system.
Lifestyle Limits
Now that we've run through the most important physical and economic considerations facing the would-be hothouse horticulturist, let's take a look at the matter of lifestyle. If you were to imagine a stereotype within the ranks of greenhouse gardeners, it wouldn't be a university graduate fresh out of horticulture school. More likely, that "typical" individual would be an engineer or production specialist who has taken an early retirement, owns his or her own home, has up to $50,000 free and clear to invest, and can build or repair almost anything, usually with scrounged or adapted materials. Many such people will admit that they hated their career jobs (and often the companies they worked for) and that they've been saving and planning for years to get into the greenhouse business. All of them will say they love to grow plants.
Of course, there is a place in this business for new horticulture graduates, but although they're qualified, they'll often have to go through months of training with an experienced greenhouse grower before they can earn the kind of salary they likely deserve. It's unfortunate, but the majority of these knowledgeable young people lack the financial resources to go into business for themselves. Even after a successful training period, most will end up working for large-scale growers.
There's also a place for the bright, motivated, mechanically clever person who lacks an advanced education. At first, such a position would likely involve working for a successful greenhouse operator (in any capacity). Later, the eager young (or not so young) man or woman might consider forming a limited partnership to accrue the necessary capital to buy into the business.
Finally, there's a place for dreamers, too. In fact, most greenhouse growers are highly imaginative and innovative and can come up with the kind of problem-solving ideas that result only from creative thinking. However, the greenhouse is no place for the mystic or the idealist. It's a world for perfectionists seeking a highly scheduled, regulated, yet stimulating and extremely satisfying way of life.
EDITOR'S NOTE: If you're interested in attending a greenhouse short course or conference, contact your state university's agricultural extension service or horticulture department to find out about the program nearest you.


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|Amelia Susan Bones
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Summer 1996
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Navy Blue
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Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement
Madam Amelia Susan Bones (d. summer, 1996) was a witch and celebrated Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. Born to Mr and Mrs Bones, she likely attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry before joining the Ministry of Magic.
Madam Bones, having a seat on the Wizengamot, presided over the disciplinary hearing of Harry Potter. She was fair, unlike Cornelius Fudge, the prosecuter, and was astounded by Harry's ability to conjure a corporeal Patronus. She voted for the clearing of all of his charges, and Harry was allowed to leave. A year after, Madam Bones was killed by Lord Voldemort himself during the summer, though she put up a good fight.
Early lifeEdit
Little is known about Amelia's early life, other than that the First Wizarding War took a heavy toll on her family: her father and mother were killed by Lord Voldemort;[1] Amelia's brother Edgar, a member of the Order of the Phoenix, his wife, and their children were killed by Death Eaters.[2] She had at least one surviving sibling, however, as her niece Susan Bones was a classmate of Harry Potter.
As Head of the Department of Magical Law EnforcementEdit
Possibly roused by her parents' deaths, Amelia joined the Ministry of Magic and was there-on known as "Madam Bones". She became the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and had a seat on the Wizengamot.
- "My father reckons your aunt's a troublemaker, someone will teach her a lesson!"
- —Gregory Goyle mentioning his father's view on Madam Bones.[src]
Respected and celebrated by most, the father of Gregory Goyle called her a "troublemaker" and that someone should teach her a lesson, presumably disliking her due to her unbiasedness and his association with the Death Eaters.
- Amelia Bones: "Those in favour of clearing the accused of all charges? And those in favour of conviction?"
- Cornelius Fudge: "Very well, very well… cleared of all charges."
- — Madam Bones conducts the motion during Harry Potter's Disciplinary Hearing before the Wizengamot.[src]
Madam Bones sat on the Wizengamot and presided over Harry Potter's disciplinary hearing in 1995, along with Cornelius Fudge and Dolores Umbridge who acted as "Interrogators". Albus Dumbledore was the "witness for the defence". Despite poor treatment of Harry by Fudge, Madam Bones managed to keep the trial fairly unbiased and Harry was found innocent by a large majority of the court. During the trial, Madam Bones expresses admiration for Harry's ability to produce a corporeal Patronus at such a young age, and believed Arabella Figg's testimony when Fudge stubbornly did not. She was also part of the faction that voted to clear Harry of all charges.
Pius Thicknesse replaced Madam Bones as Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement after her death.
It's possible that she was seen as a likely replacement for Fudge after his removal, given the fact that the position of Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement is often used as a stepping stone to the Ministership. This could explain why she was targeted by Voldemort.
Physical appearanceEdit
Amelia Bones was described as being a square-jawed witch with close-cropped grey hair and a monocle. This gave her an appearance of being a serious person, which matches her personality perfectly.
Personality and traitsEdit
Amelia Bones was a serious but fair person and gave Harry and Mrs Figg a chance to testify, and did not overlook the obvious points, when Fudge did neither because he was biased against Harry. She is also impressed with great feats, as she showed admiration of Harry's production of a corporeal Patronus at such a young age. Additionally Bones was courageous and put up a valiant fight against Lord Voldemort. It is also likely that she was kind, given the fact that Susan Bones, her niece, was upset when she died.
Magical abilities and skillsEdit
- "A terrible loss. She was a great witch."
- —Albus Dumbledore expressing the loss of Amelia Bones.[src]
- Martial magic: Amelia Bones was considered to be one of the greatest witches of her time. She was a highly skilled duellist and was able to hold her own against Lord Voldemort himself, when the Dark Lord arrived to murder her.
Amelia is a female given name. It is a variant of Amalia, derived from the Germanic word amal meaning "work", and means "industrious" and "fertile". The diminutive is usually Amy, Lia, Mia, Mel, or Mimi.
Etymologists believe that the name Amelia/Amalia is unrelated to the Latin gens name Aemilia, which was translated into English as Emily. Equivalents of Aemilia/Emily in romance languages do sound similar to Amelia (e.g. Italian Emilia) but have a different origin from this Germanic name.
Behind the scenesEdit
- Amelia Bones is portrayed by Sian Thomas in the film adaptations of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Part 1 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
- In the film, Amelia was killed during the Christmas Holidays, as shown in the newspaper when Hermione and Harry returned to school, rather than over the summer.
- In the books, she is known to wear a monocle, whereas in the films her eyes have nothing on them.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only) (Seen on the Daily Prophet)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) (Seen on the Daily Prophet)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) (Mentioned only) (Not by name)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Seen on the Daily Prophet)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 20 October, 2000 chat with J.K. Rowling at Accio Quote!
- ↑ Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 25


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The third installment of the 2009 Bisons' Season Preview Show begins at 5 o'clock tonight on the Bisons flagship, WWKB-AM 1520 and Mets great Ed Kranepool, who started his professional baseball career in the Nickel City will headline tonight's show.
Not to spoil the surprise but Ed Kranepool had never seen the famous Saturday Night Live skit with Bill Murray, involving him and other Mets from nearly three decades ago. What a moment, witnessing him view the footage in our offices and you'll enjoy hearing him talk about it on the show.
Beginning Monday, you can enjoy an archived version of the show exclusively on Bisons.com if you missed any of the show or the first two programs.
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Folks all over have been posting about their first day of school. As usual, I am late to the party. We started school three weeks ago in an effort to have some time off around the date we move into our new home. Here in the Deep South, school tends to start in August, sometimes as early as the first of August, so we were in the company of many children we knew who had already been going to school for weeks!
Our first day of Fifth and Second grade was welcomed by the children, and the older girls insisted upon wearing matching outfits as their "uniform." We took a picture of the all the children by the front door. Usually Daddy takes the children out for breakfast on the first day, but this year he was traveling, so we decided to jump in anyway.
I always start with a bit of review from the previous year, (or begin with something that we didn't finish! LOL). And I usually start with form drawing. So, this year my second grader began with running forms. Some of you may be familiar with a story by Donna Simmons in the Christopherus Form Drawing book that incorporates quite a few running forms for first grade (http://www.christopherushomeschool.com/Form-Drawing-For-Beginners-p/chr0007.htm), and I decided to start there since we didn't use that particular story last year.
My second grader can have some challenges with spatial relationships, so we warmed up with quite a few exercises where I peeked at overall body dominance and hand-eye tracking, hand-eye-foot tracking and then moved into practicing these forms with chalk on the driveway, walking the forms with our eye on a fixed point facing various directions, drawing the forms on each other's back and guessing what they were, drawing them in the air, drawing them on the blackboard and scrap paper and then finally placing them in our main lesson book. We also began a review of math – numbers and counting, skip counting, Roman Numerals, all four math processes. After running forms, we moved into the mirrored forms typical of second grade with some Trickster Tales from the Cherokee, found in this book: http://www.amazon.com/How-Rabbit-Tricked-Otter-Trickster/dp/0930407601/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346611672&sr=8-1&keywords=cherokee+trickster+tales
Our fifth grader started with some geometric forms found in the Christopherus Fourth and Fifth Grade syllabi ( http://www.christopherushomeschool.com/Fifth-Grade-Package-p/CHR1005.htm). One of the first forms we tackled was the (not-so-simple) circle. I garnered some grand inspiration from the book, "A Beginner's Guide to Constructing The Universe" (http://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Guide-Constructing-Universe-Mathematical/dp/0060926716/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346458910&sr=8-1&keywords=beginner%27s+guide+to+constructing+the+universe).
We started with a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson found in the above book: "The eye is the first circle/The horizon which it found is the second/And throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end." So we looked at each other's eyes, and we looked at the horizon. What circular things did we see in each other and in the cosmos?
We read the book, "North Star: St. Herman of Alaska", as a read aloud for all of us, and looked carefully at the picture of the Northern Lights, such a circular pattern in the painting in the book, and such a grand representation of the cosmos. We liked it so much we got out our paints and painted it.
Here is the book's picture of the Northern Lights, and here is what we painted below.
We then looked back at the sky, and wondered at this idea that if we took the trajectories of the planets around the sun, the moon around the planets, the galaxies itself and tracked that around a fixed point, it would also look rather circular..There is a good picture in the "A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe" book…So we painted this (blue watercolor paint over the trajectories done in yellow beeswax crayon):
We dropped rocks into water to look for the dispersion of energy, which to our eye can look like a circle, and talked about other things we could find in nature that is circular.
All shapes are possible within the circle, and one person that came to mind was the great artist Giotto. I pulled out this book and we looked at Giotto's famous frescoes and then I told this story:
A long time ago in the country of Italy, a little boy was born to one of the village blacksmiths. As he grew it was apparent he had a certain light about him. He observed everything in great detail, and had such merry eyes and inquisitive countenance that made everyone in the village love him. His name was Giotto, and he helped his family by watching the sheep of the family amongst the rolling hills of the Italian countryside.
One thing Giotto loved to do was draw and paint the things he observed. He was a keen observer, and he could draw things in such a lifelike manner that it would make all the villagers stop and admire his talent. One day, the greatest Florentine painter Cimabue discovered Giotto drawing pictures of his sheep on a rock. They were so real, they looked like they could wander off the rock and start grazing right then and there! Cimabue was astounded, and asked Giotto's father if he could take Giotto on as his apprentice.
Giotto went on to do such marvelous work and he kept his funny sense of humor and merriness. Once when Cimabue was absent from his workshop, Giotto painted such a lifelike fly on a painting that Cimabue was working on! When Cimabue returned to his workshop to pick up his paintbrush again, he saw the fly and kept trying to brush it off! Giotto broke into laughter and the two had a merry chuckle over the painted fly that was so lifelike Cimabue was convinced it was real!
As time went on, Giotto painted beautiful frescoes on the walls of many chapels throughout Italy and became known as the most important Italian painter of the 1300's. But yet, when Pope Benedictus the XII contacted him and asked him to send a painting representative of his skill in order to come to Rome and paint for the Roman Catholic Church, Giotto only drew a beautiful and simple circle and sent that back by messenger to the Pope.
Why would the greatest artist in Italy do that?
So we talked about that, about what that perfect "O" really symbolized to mathematicians, artists and theologians alike – the prefectness of the circle, how all shapes can be accommodated within the circle, how the circle became the symbol of heaven and paradise. We worked with drawing round circles freehand. Ours were not nearly as perfect as Giotto's! After this, and over the next few weeks, we moved into other geometric shapes – the triangle, the quadrangle family- and then into lines, points, and rays.
And we off to the races in fifth and second grade! We have since move into a block on Botany for our fifth grader and a Saints and Heroes block for our second grader, which I hope I get a chance to write about soon.
If you have posted your first day of school on your blog, I would love to read it. Please leave a link below. If you don't have a blog but would like to share your first day with my readers, please leave a comment in the comment box!
Many blessings on a new school year,


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Steve Eulberg brings us a very well rounded acoustic lesson on the song "Teach Your Children" by Crosby, Stills & Nash. The song is taught in a country "boom-chuck" style. You will learn the verse and chorus chords as well as some ways to incorporate the hammer-on and pull-off techniques into each chord progression.
Taught by Steve Eulberg in Songs with Steve Eulberg seriesLength: 33:07Difficulty: 2.0 of 5
Without a doubt, the best lesson on this song I have come across. Steve starts out with the basic chords like everyone else does. Stick with the lesson, learn the walkdowns and hammer-ons, add a little bit of character to it, and it sounds great. Steve, thanks for giving us more than just chord strumming.
Just brill thanks
Thanks Steve, that was sgreat lesson!
Totally Awesome for lesson as well as entertainment! This is the first time on this site and yours is the first song I viewed. I joined right after. I consider myself privileged. Thank you so much for sharing your talents with us and for this opportunity.
wow the harder i try the worse it gets i cant see what strings you use help cause it sounds great and i want to do it
hi i love it but are you hitting the same strings most of the time ?
i hit the string above the chord but it dont sound the same
hi i love it but are you hitting the same strings most of the time ?
I'm trying to tie the base line in, and....man, am I the only one who thinks this part of the lesson is really going fast too fast for me.
Love the song Steve. I especially like to sing the Harmony. Just need to find me another melody singer. Thanks for posting this one.
Nice lesson. I don't know why though that whenever I copy something from jamplay, it never comes out clear.
In your arrangement of "Teach Your Children," the tablature for Gtr. 2 indicates (in measure 6) the 4 chord fingered with the root in the bass (5th fret of D string), the third on the 4th fret of G string, and the root repeated above that on the 3rd fret of the E string. To my current state of knowledge as a student of music, this chord appears to be a G3. A (boom) G note on the lower E string immediately precedes this (chuck) chord, which is followed by a hammer-on (from a D note to an E) on the D string. As a guitarist, I can only imagine this being accomplished by a third fret Barre chord to catch the G note boom on the E string followed by the G3 chord chuck, then a quick release of the Barre chord followed by the hammer-on from D to E, and finally a return to the Barre chord to complete the boom-chucks of the measure. I studied the video and did not see you play this detail of the arrangement. Is this how you perform the maneuver? Is there a better way?
This is an EXCELLENT lesson....great job Steve...How about Mac Wiseman's "Grandfathers Clock"....c'mon Steve...Thank you!
Steve thanks so much, I like your style of teaching and I learned quite a bit from you. Some of us are blessed with musical skills and others like myself have to really work at it.
Steve--Thanks for the lesson. Its exactly what I was looking for to take my strumming to the next level and make the song more interesting.
Thank you Steve for a great lesson. Even as a long time player I especially enjoyed learning the bass runs.
Thanks Steve. Great lesson. I loved it! How about doing a lesson on Our house? It's the Mrs. favorite, and I could score some major brownie points
Thanks for this Steve. Two quick questions for you regarding Live set-up. any thoughts on amp type and set-up? Also, what kind of pickup are you using here? It looks after market, and wondering how much you like it...thanks!
Thanks for the great lesson Steve. I really appreciated that you tabed the melody line, but I'd appreciate it even more if you would tab the harmony parts as well. I've started to learn harmony singing, and I'd be grateful if you would do that. Thanks and keep up the great work!
There's another CSN tune coming up in the near (2-3 weeks or so) future :D
I agree with bringing more CSN. Great job Steve.
Gee! Great song. Brings back lots of memories. Hands on... Best regards Steve.
awsome lesson
Very nice Steve.
Thanks Steve. You made it easy to learn this one.
Thanks a bunch!!! I'm a big CSN fan. Keep em' comin.
Learning songs is a wonderful way to put all the guitar knowledge you have learned to use. And it just so happens we have a wonderful song teacher to walk you through these classic songs.
Lesson 1
Steve Eulberg walks you through a guitar arrangement of "Jingle Bells."Length: 48:06 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 2
Steve Eulberg teaches you how to play "Silent Night."Length: 49:32 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 3
Steve Eulberg walks you through an arrangement of "Joy to the World."Length: 43:07 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 4
Steve Eulberg teaches a beautiful version of "What Child is This," which is also known as "Greensleeves."Length: 46:30 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 5
Steve Eulberg takes a stroll down memory lane with the classic Bluegrass song "New River Train."Length: 30:42 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 6
Steve teaches a Bluegrass version of the classic gospel song "Will the Circle Be Unbroken."Length: 36:14 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 7
Steve Eulberg teaches a bluegrass version of the classic gospel song "Amazing Grace."Length: 21:30 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 8
Steve Eulberg covers the classic gospel tune "Do Lord" with a unique bluegrass flavor.Length: 20:12 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 9
Steve teaches you how to play the classic song "My Country 'Tis of Thee." Steve explains the chords, strumming patterns, and the melody.Length: 23:46 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 10
Steve Eulberg teaches "America the Beautiful." This song is the American national hymn.Length: 25:20 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 11
Steve teaches "Boston Beans," a fun and somewhat crazy song about the American revolution.Length: 13:43 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 12
Steve Eulberg teaches the classic song "Yankee Doodle" in this 4th of July inspired guitar lesson.Length: 10:20 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 13
In this lesson Steve Eulberg teaches "i miss america," a beautiful song from his album a piece of it all.Length: 12:11 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 14
Steve Eulberg teaches his interpretation of the American national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."Length: 17:12 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 15
In this lesson Steve Eulberg teaches the song "Five Foot Two" and explains how it ties in with the circle of fifths.Length: 21:58 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 16
Steve teaches this African-American spiritual song with words by John Work.Length: 16:00 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 17
We have the pleasure of bringing you another great holiday classic. Steve breaks down an in depth bluegrass rendition of "Deck the Halls." Here you will learn the melody lines as well as the lead lines...Length: 34:32 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 18
Steve teaches a bluegrass rendition of the classic Christmas song, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" in this lesson.Length: 18:39 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 19
It's that time again! It's time for yet another classic holiday song taught by Steve Eulberg. Steve demonstrates his bluegrass rendition of this holiday classic in 4 parts. This is another great song to...Length: 25:58 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 20
Steve teaches both a bluegrass rendition and a fingerstyle version of the beautiful song "O Come All Ye Faithful."Length: 18:14 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 21
Yet again, Steve brings us a classic holiday tune. This time Steve provides an in depth lesson on "O Come, O Come Emmanuel." Steve covers the verse, chorus, the melody (both high and low octaves), as well...Length: 25:11 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 22
Steve Eulberg teaches the beautiful Christmas song "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day."Length: 29:46 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 23
To complete this amazing holiday song session, Steve teaches "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear." This is a great holiday tune that brings warmth into any home. You will learn the traditional version so that...Length: 17:32 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 24
Steve Eulberg brings us a very well rounded acoustic lesson on the song "Teach Your Children" by Crosby, Stills & Nash. The song is taught in a country "boom-chuck" style. You will learn the verse and...Length: 33:07 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 25
Did you order your guitar and have it delivered? If you did, this Steve Eulberg original is just for you. This song is a great campfire style song that features a handful of bluegrass techniques.Length: 20:42 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 26
Steve introduces the song "Everything I Own" by the artist Bread. Develop your guitar skills by practicing this acoustic classic.Length: 36:56 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 27
Welcome to this fantastic bluegrass lesson on the song "The Banks of the Ohio"! This traditional song offers classic "boom-chuck" rhythm patterns and a great opportunity to practice melodies in 1st position.Length: 44:32 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 28
Steve breaks down this great modal tune entitled "Little Maggie". He explains the modal theory pertaining to the harmony and melody. This tune also utilizes drop D tuning.Length: 22:37 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 29
Steve teaches "Under the Double Eagle". Steve arranges this classic march in the bluegrass style.Length: 19:51 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 30
Steve breaks down the classic song "Redwing". This song is often known by people in the Western world as the "Ice Cream Truck Song". Steve demonstrates an effective rhythm accompaniment and a few ways...Length: 27:45 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 31
Steve teaches yet another classic bluegrass song called "Rolling in My Sweet Baby's Arms". This song will provide lots of opportunity to get creative with double stops, harmonization, and chords with picked...Length: 19:50 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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An Award-winning multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, Steve Eulberg weaves mountain and hammered dulcimers with a variety of unusual instruments to create thought-provoking, smile-inducing, toe-tapping acoustic experiences.
He has sung and composed for religious communities, union halls, picket lines, inter-faith retreats, mountain-top youth camps, as well as the more familiar venues: clubs, coffeehouses, bookstores, festivals, charity benefits and showcase concerts.
Born and raised in the German-heritage town of Pemberville, Ohio, Steve was exposed to a variety of music in his home. Early piano lessons were followed by trumpet in school band, and he became self-taught on ukelele and guitar and harmonica. Mandolin was added at Capital University where, while majoring in History, he studied Ear Training, Voice and took Arranging lessons from the Conservatory of Music.
While at college, he first heard hammered and mountain dulcimers, building his first mountain dulcimer just before his final year. Seminary training took him the west side of Denver where he built his first hammered dulcimer. With these instruments, he was able to give voice to the Scottish, English and Irish traditions to which he is also heir.
Following marriage in 1985 to Connie Winter-Eulberg he settled in Kansas City, Missouri. There he worked cross-culturally in a church of African-Americans, Latinos and European Americans, with music being a primary organizing tool. He moved with his family in 1997 to be nestled beside the Rocky Mountains in Fort Coillins, Colorado.
Founder of Owl Mountain Music, Inc. he teaches and performs extensively in Colorado and Wyoming with tours across the US and the UK. He delights in introducing the "sweet music†of dulcimers to people in diverse settings and in addition to his own recordings, has included dulcimers in a variety of session work for other musicians.
In 2000 he was commissioned to create a choral composition featuring dulcimers for the Rainbow Chorus in Fort Collins. It was recorded in the same year (BEGINNINGS). He is currently at work on a commissioned symphony that will feature hammered dulcimer and Australian didjeridu.
Eulberg passionately believes that music crosses cultural and language barriers because music builds community. Influenced by a variety of ethnic styles, his music weaves vital lyric with rap, rock, folk, gospel and blues. Audiences of all ages respond well to his presentation and to his warm sense of humor.
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Nabi Samwill is also home to about 250 Palestinian residents whose security and livelihoods are constricted by repeated demolitions of buildings in the town and Israel's legal designation of the area as a national park.
In 1971, 46 houses were destroyed by the Israeli army, pushing town residents toward a hill east of the archaeological site. According to Samiyeh Barakat, an inhabitant of Nabi Samwill, many townspeople fled to Jordan after waves of displacements during the Six Day War and the following series of displacements in 1971.
Since the evictions of 1971, Israeli authorities have renovated the ancient mosque to be used as a space of prayer for Jewish as well as Muslim worshippers. Jews use the basement level of the building, where the tomb itself is located, and Muslims the ground floor.
In 1995, after the Oslo agreements designated Nabi Samwill part of Area C with full Israeli civil and military control, approximately 865 acres around the tomb were declared a national park. As noted in a report from the archaeological organization Emek Shaveh, the site of the tomb itself comprises only 7.5 acres of the 865 now classified as a national park. By comparison, the report notes, the national park zone around the Old City of Jerusalem is 250 acres. The Chalcolithic Temple in Ein Gedi, a large religious ruin dating to 3500 BCE, sits on 2 acres of national park land.
They said there is no village here. They said that I am not here.
They said there is no village here. They said that I am not here.
Because the entire area is now a national park, residents of Nabi Samwill are not allowed to build new homes, expand their current houses, or pursue infrastructural renovations or construction. A profile of the town from the Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem (ARIJ) cites the construction of a sewage disposal network, landfill, schools, and a health clinic all as strongly needed priorities for Nabi Samwill.
When buildings are erected, however, they are often quickly demolished by Israeli armed forces. Barakat's home has been destroyed twice. "They didn't allow us to make [the street] asphalt," he says. "If you build something, they break it."
"It's not one time... it's every time," Barakat continues.
In addition, Nabi Samwill's location in the seam zone means that while it is technically part of Area C in the West Bank, Israel's Separation Wall cuts it off almost entirely from the rest of the West Bank, while Israeli settlements border the village to the south and west. Most of the town's residents have West Bank IDs, but in order to access the West Bank they must pass through the Al-Jib checkpoint, several kilometers north of town. As with all other holders of West Bank IDs, access to East Jerusalem is prevented without proper permissions.
These impediments to movement, along with the impossibility of building new structures inside the village itself, make it very difficult for Nabi Samwill's residents to find work. The ARIJ profile of Nabi Samwill states that the unemployment rate in the town has reached as high as 60%. Both Samiyeh Barakat and his brother Eid are currently unemployed, and Samiyeh says he has been jailed five times for working in Jerusalem and the nearby settlement of Ramot without a permit.
Eid Barakat. Photo by Calum Toogood.
A development plan has been proposed by the Israeli Civil Administration, the administrative body of Israel's occupation, for construction in Nabi Samwill. However, the plan focuses on developing the archaeological site into a tourist attraction rather than addressing the needs of the townspeople. Yonathan Mizrachi of Emek Shaveh told the Palestine Monitor in an email that the plan "proposes to establish a tourist area comprising a restaurant, a visitor center, gift shop, [and] guard tower," while "ignor[ing] the needs of the residents."
"How can you develop the tourist side but not allow anyone to build anything on the Palestinian side?" Mizrachi said in the same email.
On 25 November, a hearing was held at the headquarters of the Civil Administration in Beit El, an Israeli settlement near Ramallah, for residents of Nabi Samwill to voice objections to the development proposal. However, Eid Barakat, who attended the hearing, says that the residents' objections were not heard because Civil Administration officials refused to acknowledge the existence of an inhabited area in Nabi Samwill.
"They said there is no village here," says Barakat. "They said that I am not here."
The lawyer for the homeowners left the hearing early because the Civil Administration would not acknowledge the existence of a village. "He said... he cannot help us,'" says Eid Barakat.
"They want us to leave the village," Samiyeh Barakat told Palestine Monitor. "But we'll stay."
"We were born here, we'll die here," he says.
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I look dead. Lol
Sorry, but my emotions are like up and down these days. And I'm exhausted.
I'm trying to stay positive but my emo-ness is taking over me. Lol. I feel sorry to myself. I had already promised myself not to become like this yet I can't help it.
I might laugh about this in the future but now I'm down. Lol.
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"It wasn't ever intended for pet animals," says Lori Makinen, executive director of the Oregon Veterinary Medical Examining Board, "and it never contemplated an organization owning pets, not agricultural animals."
Makinen characterizes her ability to monitor Hannah the Pet Society as nonexistent.
The company was investigated earlier this year by the Washington State Department of Health. And Portland's DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital also severed its ties this year to provide emergency services for Hannah pets.
Hannah the Pet Society promises a new model for bringing a pet into your home: "Pet parents," as the company calls its clients, pay a flat monthly fee for a pet, its food, training and all veterinary care.
Unlike a shelter that offers pets for adoption or a breeder who sells animals, the business, founded by Dr. Scott Campbell, retains ownership of its pets, and pet parents sign a contract to lease the animals ("Rent a Pup," WW, Nov. 12, 2012). Clients may even sign over pets they already own to get on the monthly plan.
DoveLewis CEO Ron Morgan says his nonprofit had "philosophical differences" with the company. Hannah representatives "haggled" by phone with clinic staff about any care that raised the price above DoveLewis' $400 average emergency bill. Meanwhile, anxious pet parents in the lobby had no say in their pets' care.
"Their business model is their decision and their concern," Morgan says. "We just decided it was not something that worked for us in terms of our business. I just hope those pets are getting appropriate treatment wherever they are going."
A former Hannah veterinarian who asked not to be named, fearing retaliation, tells WW that animals weren't getting proper care in the company's clinics. One elderly dog, for example, needed an ultrasound to diagnose a problem, the vet says, but Hannah didn't have the machine.
"They don't give good medical care to the pets," the veterinarian says. "The whole point is so they can make a profit."
Other complaints have dogged the business: Local rescue organizations have said Hannah too closely mirrors the look and feel of a nonprofit, which it is not. Fourteen complaints against Hannah have been filed with the Better Business Bureau, where the company has a grade of B-, since it opened in 2010.
Campbell, the multimillionaire veterinarian who grew a single Banfield Pet Hospital into the largest chain of animal clinics in the world before selling it, did not return requests for comment. But he explained his business model to WW in October 2012.
Hannah wants pets to live for as long as possible, he said, because the company loses money during the first year of a pet's life, due to immunization, neuter and spay surgeries, training and other initial costs. Taking the same flat monthly fee for a healthy, 5-year-old cat or dog is what turns a profit, Campbell said.
"We're going to tell the client, the pet parent, exactly what the doctor thinks is best for the pet," Campbell said.
But Charlie Stirling and Kay MacDierney say Hannah wasn't looking out for Maiki, the 11-pound mixed-breed puppy the couple rented in 2011.
Stirling and MacDierney adopted Maiki from Hannah the Pet Society's Clackamas Town Center storefront. But Stirling says Maiki came to her at 12 weeks old with a serious case of kennel cough. Not long after, she developed severe diarrhea.
When Maiki stopped eating and her diarrhea worsened one weekend, Stirling says her multiple calls to a 24-hour help line were never answered or returned.
The dog got better. But Stirling says when she forked over $600 to break Maiki's lease and purchase her outright, Hannah refused to release any medical records to a new veterinarian, saying the information was proprietary. Stirling's veterinarian filed a complaint with Washington state, which dropped its investigation after Hannah turned over what Stirling called "bare-bones" records that gave no answers about the level of care Maiki had received.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Slackware 12.1 First Impressions
My first impression: Slackware is still Slackware. The installer assumes you know what you are doing (think Expert install if you're an Ubuntu user) and that you want the ability to control every aspect of the installation. A newcomer to Linux would be utterly, totally lost. I've actually done two installations: a fully functional one with an Xfce desktop and all the dev tools that currently occupies about 2.7GB of disk space, and a truly minimal but usable installation with a minimalist window manager (PekWM) and a handful of apps and tools. That takes up only 600MB of disk space. Slackware always was flexible and that hasn't changed.
You can tell you're dealing with a distro for serious Linux geeks when booting into the GUI isn't even offered as an option by the installer. Heck, the installer doesn't even deal with X configuration. You start at the command line. GUI system administration tools? You can get them from third parties but Slackware itself is devoid of such things. Edit your config files or use command line tools.
Is this a bad thing? If you know what you're doing and don't mind taking some time to get your configuration right and your favorite apps from various third party sources it really isn't. OK, it's time consuming but the end result is a fast, rock solid system. That's what Slackware is known for. It remains seriously user unfriendly, hence all the derivative distributions like Zenwalk, Vector Linux, Wolvix, etc... that try and fix that. They all succeed to a large degree, giving users a friendly environment with all of the speed and stability.
Most of the usual third party packages sources like LinuxPackages.net and Slacky.eu don't have a full selection of apps built for 12.1 yet but that is rapidly changing. The project I'm working on is going to force me to do a lot of compiling from source in any case.
Could I live with Slackware as my main distro? Yes, easily. Would I recommend it? Only to those who know what they are getting into.
In a way I've come full circle. In late 1995 I was introduced to Linux by a coworker. When I asked which distribution to choose she suggested two: Red Hat Linux and Slackware. I chose Red Hat because she said it was easier to learn. It's also what she ran on her workstation in the office. Slackware was the second distro I looked at all those years ago.
What's changed since then? First off, I was very skeptical about Linux at the time and probably for about three or four years after that. I didn't think it would ever be a serious OS or that it was anywhere near ready for prime time. That sounds silly now but 13 years ago the state of Linux was still pretty primitive. Second, I don't think any of us would have dreamed of downloading a 3.8GB DVD iso image in an hour and a half and burning it ourselves. Thankfully time and technology really do march on.
What hasn't changed? In a fundamental way Slackware is the same as it ever was. It isn't any easier to get going now than it was all those years ago. You really do have to either know how Linux works under the hood or else you have to be willing to learn.
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- ewlabonte said...
There's another source for slackware 12.1 packages. Slackbuilds.org. If you've installed all the development apps (if you've done the full installation, they are there). This site (http://www.slackbuilds.org/) allows you to download a build script which you run with the source code of the package and it creates a slack package for you. It's a great resource.
- May 28, 2008 at 9:04 AM
- joe f. said...
I came to the same conclusion about Slackware 12.1 you did, but for me discovering that Slackware was still Slackware gave me a nice warm feeling. I've only booted into my Arch installation once since (I distro hop quite a bit on a second partition), to change the boot order in GRUB. Next time I fire up my laptop it will probably be to replace AntiX (itself an excellent distribution) with Slackware.
However, while I agree with virtually everything you said, I'd add "unprepared" in front of "new user." Slackware (8.1?) was my very first Linux distro. I had read about Linux here and there, then spent a couple of hours researching Slackware specifically then printed out a tips & tricks page. The only thing that took more than one try was getting the mouse to work. And I was coming from Mac OS X, so even some of the usual PC-equivalent help didn't make a ton of sense to me.
So a completely unprepared user would have trouble, but anybody who does a bit of research -- and especially anyone who has access to Google during the install -- shouldn't run into too much trouble. That's because the other phrase I'd disagree with is "unfriendly." I don't think Slackware is unfriendly at all. In fact, I'd say it does you the courtesy of giving you just what you need without saddling you with more, while also making no assumptions about what you ought to do to or with your computer. The problem is, people have gotten used to thinking that the companies should make getting the OS on the computer transparent to them, but at the same time they're used to the companies telling them what they can do to and with their own property. So I would say Slackware is friendlier to the user (and even to projects such as KDE) than just about anybody. I realize I'm fighting a losing battle on this, but as somebody who lived through the No Themes For You! era on a Mac -- to say nothing of trying to get Vista to behave -- calling Slackware unfriendly sounds a bit crazy.
- May 28, 2008 at 4:11 PM
- Caitlyn Martin said...
@ewlabonte: I know about Slackbuilds.org and Crux Ports for Slack and I agree that they are wonderful tools to simplify and standardize package building. The advances user who is comfortable with scripting and compilation will love both. It's still daunting for the newcomer to Linux or for anyone uncomfortable with the command line.
@joseph: Your success with Slackware 8.1 as a first distro says a lot about you and your intelligence and capabilities more than it says something about Slackware. The average non-technical user who is used to living entirely in the GUI will find Slackware extremely difficult at best. Yes, you can Google search and find out all about how hard drive partitioning works or what goes into an xorg.conf file. Most users wouldn't understand much of what they found. Again, the fact that you are brighter and more computer literate than most doesn't change the fact that most people would find the lack of GUI tools and the need to get under the hood more than a bit daunting. Most people wouldn't call a distro with command line only package management and no dependency checking "friendly". To have to go to third party sources for something that basic that's provided in every other major distro doesn't garner "friendly" points.
Slackware is a wonderful distro, probably one of the best, for an advanced user, a systems administrator, a Linux developer. For the typical user it would be utterly bewildering, even users with a moderate amount of experience with Linux. You are anything but a typical user.
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Twenty-five years ago China cracked down on mostly student pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The government blocked most news from reaching its people and now the government is cutting national access to Google in order to hide any discussion of the anniversary, according to reports.
The crackdown on June 3 and 4, 1989, has largely been ignored in China, and the government likely wants it to stay that way, according to blog post from GreatFire.org, a censorship-monitoring site. So far Google's search engine, Gmail, Calendar, Translate and other services are affected by the block.
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Essentially, users in China can't even reach other versions of Google including Australia or Hong Kong, and apparently the largest block of Google ever -- and the Chinese government is saying it's all Google's fault.
Google says that's not the case. "We've checked extensively, and there are no technical problems on our side," a Google spokeswoman said.
Google shut down operations in 2010 in China after accusations of government censorship. Users in China were directed to use Google Search in Hong Kong. While the government denies censoring the tech titan, many are skeptical of China's stance. It doesn't have a great history of human rights and free speech.
Users are waiting to see if this is a temporary block or will disappear after June 4. Chinese officials have been trying to stomp out discussion or commemoration of Tiananmen Square, including detaining and arresting so-called dissidents.
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More disturbing testimony was delivered Wednesday in the trial of a Wayland high school accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend.
Nathaniel Fujita faces life in prison without parole if he's convicted in the death of his former girlfriend, Lauren Astley. Fujita's lawyer will likely argue that the 20-year-old was insane at the time of Astley's death.
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Genevieve Flynn's voice quivered as she testified Wednesday about the future Astley, her best friend, will never have.
"She was going to go to Elon University," Flynn said.
Flynn said she had a sleep-over with Astley and another friend the night before Astley died.
Massachusetts State Police trooper David Twomey testified that a bloody fingerprint found on Fujita's car matched his fingerprint.
Astley, 18, had just graduated from Wayland High School when prosecutors say Fujita stabbed and strangled her in July 2011 and then dumped her body in a marsh.
On Tuesday, the prosecution played a surveillance tape taken just hours before Astley died. Prosecutors say she was on her way to meet Fujita.
Retired teacher Emily Norton also testified about a drastic drop in Fujita's grades, saying he seemed distracted.
Retired Wayland Police Sgt. Richard Manley testified he was on duty when Astley disappeared. He recalled Fujita telling him, "I hope you find her."
Manley said as investigators searched Fujita's home, he did not suspect the teen. Manley described him as "calm, stable" with nothing to indicate he was "angered or frustrated."
In their opening statements last week, prosecutors said Fujita's actions were deliberate. They pointed to evidence of a specific search on his computer.
"Does water erase finger prints? I ask you when you hear that not only to think about the implications for what he did, but think about the implications for how his mind was working and what his intentions were," prosecutor Lisa McGovern said.