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No, I am not referring to the song by Staind, despite being quite fond of Aaron Lewis' tune. Instead I am referring to the fact that, as hard as it is to acknowledge, seven months have elapsed since my last post. It has indeed been a while!
Why has this happened? Great question. I'd love to place blame on a huge problem with several layers of complexity. The truth is that I've simply been busy and preoccupied with other things. Family and work obligations take precedent over my pursuit of outdoor adventure and writing about it in the pages of this blog. The second half of 2015 was nuts, primarily due to work, and thus I went dormant!
It's sad to say that I never once got out during whitetail deer season in Massachusetts. I was, however, able to make my annual pilgrimage in November to partake in our family deer camp in Michigan. This I will not miss! This year we secured a new 80 acre piece of land to hunt and it showed quite a bit of promise. We had a good amount of deer activity, however through trail cam footage we learned that the deer were staying mostly nocturnal due to the unseasonably warm temperatures. Despite the fact that no one took a deer, our annual camp served its intended purpose… rest, relaxation and great camaraderie with friends and family.
So it's on to 2016. Do I have plans to get outdoors more this year? You betcha. Will it happen? I hope so, but time will tell. I can promise you that no matter how much I get outside it will never be enough. With time, it will happen. In the meantime I stay focused on finding opportunities where I can while remaining connected to the outdoors via blogs, magazines, youtube, books, etc.

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The Miss America pageant is coming up on Sunday, and we got the chance to hang out with the current Miss America Kira Kazantsev before she passes on her tiara to the winner for 2016.
During her visit, she was nice enough to watch some viral videos with us and play a few rounds of "Which is More American?" Hot dog pizza or KFC's Double Down? People deep-frying turkeys for Thanksgiving, or people not observing fireworks safety rules on the Fourth of July? Mr. T horribly singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" or R. Kelly's groovy rendition of the National Anthem?
Quite a challenge, we know, but Miss America didn't win her crown without knowing how to tackle important questions.
Make sure you tune in to the Miss America 2016 competition, live on September 13 on ABC!
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Business meetings are an essential part of how many companies run. Sharing information, brainstorming sessions and executive meetings are happening every day in conference rooms around the country. However, as remote workforces become a larger part of daily business and more companies of any size can communicate with vendors and clients across the world, it's crucial to ensure proper communication still takes place.
This has led many companies to look into solutions like VoIP phone systems, unified communications, smartphones and video conferencing systems. Now, it is not unheard of for an employee at a convention in California to pick up a smartphone and video chat with the executive board back in the home office in Chicago.
A few years ago, this would have seemed like something right out of an episode of Star Trek. Now it is a standard feature on many smartphones and tablets right out of the box. Organizations from the largest fortune 500 to the smallest mom and pop corner store and everything in between are taking advantage of this technology.
Video conferencing in action
To see how video conferencing is changing the way people communicate and more, look no further that the classroom. According to a recent article in the environmental blog Mother Nature Network, virtual field trips are a growing use of the technology.
Thousands of students have gone on "incursions" to the zoo, opera house and museums all around the globe, without leaving the classroom. It is also opening up an entire new world for disabled students that would not have been able to go on these trips had the locations been around the corner from the school.
Companies that are looking to embrace video conferencing and other business communication tools would be wise to partner with an IT consulting firm like CTI Technology to ensure they are getting the most out of any solution.


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Executive Summary
The St Vincent de Paul Society believes that the most pressing issue Australia faces in relation to welfare reform is that the labour market is not providing jobs for many Australians. Global and macroeconomic forces have changed how jobs are created, and what kind of entry-level jobs are available. Additionally, long-standing, historical structural barriers continue to lock out many people. Re-shaping the way we think about work and employment in Australia to make it more inclusive is the responsibility of all of us, and will not be remedied by punishing people who are excluded. We all, together, have a mutual obligation to ensure that the jobs are there for the people who need them: we need a national conversation about a Jobs Plan for Australia. This must include a regional economic development plan.
Given the clear structural barriers that are locking many people out of the labour market, we believe in a strong welfare system, which provides adequate income for everyone, to enable all people to live with dignity and respect. The aim of this system must be to prevent poverty and ensure that no one is denied the essentials of life, while also recognising the value of unpaid contributions (eg volunteering, caring, and previous work), acknowledging that not everyone is able to contribute in the same way, as well as properly supporting those looking for work. The aim of the system should not be humiliation, nor control: compulsory income management, and other means of punishing people who are unable to find work, are not acceptable. Similarly, the social security system should not be so meagre as to force people to rely on emergency relief, or on charity and the community sector, for their essential needs.


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The shower shown above is from a Texas remodeling company, Remodel Now. We have installed some showers that are similar to this beautiful tiled shower.
This is a very elegant tiled shower, coordinated with the tile flooring.
So take your ideas and call a contractor and get started – think how much you'll enjoy that renewed bath for years to come!


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MacArthur-Driehaus Grantees Shine at 2018 Non-Equity Jeff Awards
June, 2018
The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee honors outstanding Chicago-area theatre artists annually. The Non-Equity Jeff Awards recognize achievements by theatre companies that are not operating under union contracts. Many of these theaters operate with small budgets and are well-represented among grantees in the MacArthur Funds for Arts and Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. The 2018 Non-Equity Jeff Awards were announced on June 11, at the Athenaeum Theatre.
We are proud that 21 MacArthur-Driehaus grantees were nominated for at least one award. Top honors included grantees Griffin Theatre Company (Best Ensemble, Best Production-Musical, Best Director-Musical) and Steep Theatre (Best Production-Play, Best Director-Play). Grantee Strawdog Theatre Company was recognized with a special award for "30 years of collaboration as an innovative and provocative Ensemble." In all, Macarthur-Driehaus grantees received awards in 14 out of 19 categories.
Congratulations to all of the 2018 Non-Equity Jeff Award nominees and recipients!


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This logo was animated to show, what is the difference between static design and animated design.
As you can see the animation brings the design into life and makes a greater impression than the static design.
I have always suggested to my clients to make the extra step and bring their designs to life.
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Fruit Consumption Pattern and its Determinants among College Going Girls in Alappuzha
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A joint WHO/FAO expert consultation report on diet, nutrition and prevention of chronic diseases sets population nutrient goals and recommends intake of minimum gram of 400 g of fruits per day. Fresh fruits are rich sources of micronutrients and macronutrients with myriad of health benefits. The study aims to find the fruit consumption pattern and awareness among college going girls. Majority (68.57%)were not having daily consumption of fruits as influenced by family fruit intake, income and level of education. Majority (51.42%) were only having 50-60g of fruit/day which was far below the RDA indicating their poor nutritional status and serious concern. More girls (51.4%) were preferring citrus fruits due to its juiceness. Body fat and fruit intake was negatively correlated. Banana was the most commonly consumed fruit as it is economical. The major determinants influencing fruit consumption among college going girls was found to be convenience (28.57%), taste (25.71%), price (17.14%) colour (8.57%) and smell (5.71).42.85% girls were not having awareness on nutritional benefits of fruit intake which suggests the need for intervention programmes in future. Key Words: Fruit consumption, college girls, determinants, frequency, awareness
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Ueberschall has released Club Électro, a new Elastik SoundBank sample library.
Sync your system with the stealthy sounds of the current worldwide high-tech Club happenings. Club Électro provides synth groove fury and finesse in an all new approach. 28 towering construction kits which contain edgy minimal to maximal electronic Club sounds. This collection combines an epic spectrum of sequences, deep lead sounds, resonant bass lines, pads, atmospheres and effects as well as hundreds of finely conditioned drum and percussion samples and loops.
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- Developed with analog synth and signal processing gear of today and classics of yesterday. The rich and edgy instrumentation of this production was derived from synths such as: Andromeda, Minimoog, Moog Voyager, Prophet 5, SH 101, Se-1x, Omega 8, Oberheim OBMX and Oberheim xpander.
- All material is ultra-flexible and can cater to individual tastes and treatment visions. Easy access is guaranteed through the Elastik sample-player. All loops provide BPM and root key information within the sample's name, simplifying optimal selection and rapid fusion to productions.
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Police: Missing Pinckney boy found, is safe
Kayla Daugherty
Livingston Daily
Christopher Bradley Gardner, a 15-year-old Pinckney boy reported missing last night, came home this morning after a search that went until 3:30 a.m.
According to Pinckney Police Chief Newton, the incident began at around 9 p.m. He said the search included efforts by the Pinckney Police Department, Unadilla Township Police Department, Brighton Police Department K9, Oakland City SD Aviation, and Survival Flight Aviation.
The Putnam Township, Unadilla Township and Dexter Township Fire Departments also assisted in the search.
The boy was taken to an area hospital for an evaluation.
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Answers To Your Questions, Part 154
Question: When does a person begin to study the wisdom of Kabbalah?
Answer: When attainment of the Creator becomes the central desire in his life and everything else is only for discovering the Creator within this desire.
Question: You said, "to some extent, a Kabbalist perceives everything that exists in the universe as his own. For the most part, it is humanity's desire that he feels as his own.
"And it is not easy at all. This imposes a big change in his impressions of the world, brings corresponding reactions within him."
Does this mean that the existence of the two main Mitzvot (commandments), to love the Creator with all your heart and mind, basically means that you must learn to love yourself? In fact, does this mean that you are fulfilling the Mitzva, "And you shall love your friend as yourself" (Leviticus 19:18), and this is what it means to be filled with the Upper Light?
Answer: Generally yes, even though it is possible to interpret these words in different ways.
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Sushma Swaraj Promises To Help Pakistani Girl Who Wants To Become A Doctor In India
A Pakistani Hindu girl Mashal, who had migrated to Jaipur from Pakistan has been struggling to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor as she is not allowed to take up the entrance exam due to her foreign nationality. Migration in itself is a tedious process and Mashal took the plunge to migrate to India after given the welcome hand by the incumbent government to Hindu migrants from across borders. Despite the setback of not being able to attend her entrance exams due to nationality issues, she has found hopes in none other than our External Affairs minister Mrs Sushma Swaraj who won people's hearts by tweeting a promise to support Mashal and take up her case at the earliest to ensure a speedy admission.
Immigration from Pakistan
More than 1200 people from Pakistan have reportedly immigrated to India while a little more than thousands have been granted citizenship. The immigrants are housed in camps in Delhi, many waiting citizenship by the Indian government. Most of the immigrants from Pakistan are Hindus. They come in the hope to live a free life where they could pursue their dreams.
Mashal – Don't be disappointed my child. I will personally take up your case for admission in a Medical College. @aajtak
— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) May 29, 2016
The Logical Indian once again lauds Mrs Sushma Swaraj for being responsive to situations and challenges thrown at Ministry of External Affairs. The Logical Indian also wishes Mashal a long and safe stay at India, we wish her all the best for her future and in hear endeavor to fulfill her dreams.


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Sit down sometimes, and well bethink you, what recompence the world or sin will make you, for your God, your souls, your hopes, and all, when they are lost and past recovery? Think what it will then avail or comfort you, that once you were honoured, and had a great estate; that once you fared of the best, and had your delicious cups, and merry hours, and sumptuous attire, and all such pleasures. Think whether this will abate the horrors of death, or put by the wrath of God, or the sentence of your condemnation; or whether it will ease a tormented soul in hell? If not, think how small, and short, and silly a commodity and pleasure it is, that you buy so dear; and what a wise man can see in it, that should make it seem worth the joys of heaven, and worth your enduring everlasting torments. What is it that is supposed worth all this? Is it the snare of preferment? Is it vexing riches? Is it befooling honours? Is it distracting cares? Is it swinish luxury or lust? Is it beastly pleasures? Or what is it else that you will buy at so wonderful dear a rate? O lamentable folly of ungodly men! O foolish sinners! unworthy to see God! and worthy to be miserable! O strangely corrupted heart of man, that can sell his Maker, his Redeemer, and his salvation, at so base a price!
– Richard Baxter, A Christian Directory


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By Jeff Neuenschwander / March 29th, 2015
A bit of a low scoring round, but we were still able to determine winners for round 2. 16 swords are left as we figure out which is the best sword in video games.
- 1. Monado defeats 8. Guilded Sword 47-8
- 5. Gunblade defeats 4. Valentine 33-17
- 6. Ragnell defeats 3. Beam Katana 34-18
- 2. Keyblade defeats 7. Great Fairy's Sword 28-26
We begin round 3 with the Monado's first true challenge in Final Fantasy's Gunblade.
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Next up is a fight between Ike's signature sword Ragnell versus the Keyblade, the weapon of Sora… and Riku… and Mickey… and Kairi… and Roxas… and…
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- 1. Master Sword defeats 9. Dual Blade 48-4
- 4. Ultima Weapon defeats 5. Honedge 30-22
- 3. Biggoron's Sword defeats 6. Muramasa 28-23
- 7. Masamune (FF7) defeats 2. Soul Calibur 26-24
Another top sword gets its first true challenge — as well as a Final Fantasy weapon — as the Master Sword faces off against the Ultima Weapon.
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In the bottom half of the bracket, it's another battle of Zelda versus Final Fantasy. It's Biggoron's Sword from Ocarina of Time versus Sephiroth's Masamune.
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- 1. Masamune (CT) defeats 9. Sword of Mana 33-17
- 5. Sol Blade defeats 4. 8-Bit Sword 29-23
- 6. Goddess Sword defeats 3. Buster Sword 30-20
- 2. Falchion defeats 10. Eternal Sword 34-16
Masamune survived its first challenge against the Sword of Mana. But it gets more difficult as it faces off against the Sol Blade from Golden Sun.
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While the Zelda series missed out in the top half with the 8-Bit Sword, the Goddess Sword made up for it by taking out Cloud's Buster Sword. But things heat up again as Falchion awaits.
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- 9. Sword of Seals defeats 1. Z-Saber 25-23
- 4. Fierce Deity Sword defeats 5. Material Blade 39-11
- 3. Soul Edge defeats 6. Vyse's Cutlass 28-20
- 2. Rainbow Sword defeats 7. Exor 26-21
Z-Saber is the first top seed out as Roy's Sword of Seals claims the first big upset. But it has another major obstacle in its way with the Fierce Deity Sword from Majora's Mask.
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And finally, the classic Soul Edge and Chrono Trigger's Rainbow Sword look to take control of the bracket with the fall of Zero's blade.
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Alright guys, if you want to see your favorites move on, make sure to vote.
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So today New York governor and possible Democrat candidate for president Andrew Cuomo actually said America "was never that great." No, seriously:
Oh please let that guy run for the Dem nomination!
Trump hat: MAGA
Cuomo hat: AWNTG
Though Cuomo might raise a few dollars selling his version to Vox, ThinkProgress and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's fan club.
Cuomo's campaign tried to spin it as best as they could:
.@NYGovCuomo seeks to clarify, clean up: "The Governor believes America is great and that her full greatness will be fully realized when every man, woman, and child has full equality." pic.twitter.com/2sjx30aZbK
— Emily Ngo (@epngo) August 15, 2018


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MIA > Archive > Cliff > Trotskyism after Trotsky
1914 – the turning point
After the Second World War market capitalism boomed in the West. This ran directly counter to Trotsky's prediction, which was still being parroted by Mandel and others. The effort to resolve this contradiction led to the theory of the permanent arms economy.
To understand how it came about it will be useful to make a short diversion of an autobiographical nature. The fact that in Palestine I had independently built a small Trotskyist group – some 30 members – from scratch was a valuable preparation for wrestling with the great difficulties the international Trotskyist movement faced at the end of the Second World War. I was like the little child in Hans Christian Andersen's story of the emperor's new clothes. After years of isolation and torment under Nazism and Stalinism, the Trotskyists suffered from the psychological need to believe in miracles. The real situation was too painful to face. Had my political development been as part of the British Trotskyist organisation, which in 1946 had some 400 members, I would probably been under enough pressure to conform. It was not in itself enough to escape dogmatism that I had read Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and Luxemburg. Mandel and Pablo were no less knowledgeable in Marxist literature than myself. Being an isolated Palestinian in Britain was, in retrospect, a political advantage.
Coming to Britain in 1946, and viewing the conditions here from the perspective of a colonial country, I was struck by the fact that:
... the standard of living for workers was high. When I first visited a worker's house – just an ordinary house – I asked his job and he was an engineer. My English wasn't very good so I thought he meant an engineer with a degree. But he was a semi-skilled engineering worker. It was a complete shock. Children were better off than in the 30s. The only time I saw children without shoes was in Dublin. Children didn't get rickets anymore. This helped me to realise that the final crisis wasn't just around the corner. [78]
Some people in the Trotskyist movement had little difficulty in dealing with the mismatch between the long boom and the prediction. Gerry Healy continued to live in a fantasy world of imminent capitalist catastrophe. Mandel always lagged behind events and used woolly formulations regarding the working mechanism of capitalism. Instead of clarification he exuded confusion. [79] The first polemical article I wrote on the subject challenged Mandel and appeared in 1947. It was a critique of his attempt to deny the existence of a post-war economic recovery but as yet it didn't go beyond rejecting a mechanical concept of Marxian economics. [80]
An effective understanding of the general issue did not have to grapple only with the problems raised by the failure of Trotsky's prediction. It also had to deal with the prophets of an eternal capitalist boom, who argued that the system would thrive so long as Keynesian economic policies were followed.
Full employment was a fact after the Second World War, but to assume that it was a product of Keynesian policies is like believing that the cock crowing causes the sunrise. From 1928 onwards John Maynard Keynes argued that the primary responsibility of government was to use fiscal and monetary policies to ensure that there was enough effective demand in the economy to maintain full employment. In 1936 Keynes developed his ideas further in his book General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. But at no time was his advice followed in practice by the governments of the period. Neither the Conservative, Labour nor National governments accepted Keynes's argument.
Things did change with the looming of war. The capitalists, who were very reluctant to spend money on public works in peacetime, as Keynes recommended, were now very generous in splashing out money to the military. Thus, for instance, the United States capitalists who had been very angry with Roosevelt for incurring an annual budget deficit of over $2 billion to over $4 billion (1934, $3.6 billion; 1935, $3.0 billion; 1936, $4.3 billion; 1937, $2.7 billion) did not mind a deficit of $59 billion in 1941-42. It is unlikely that Hitler read Keynes's General Theory but he did achieve full employment by mobilising millions into the army and the arms industry. It was the arms race, not a Cambridge economist, that made the difference.
However, when, for the first time in two decades, full employment was finally reached, the idea that this could be maintained by state demand management became very widespread. For leading politicians of all parties in the post-war generation the doctrine put forward by Keynes appeared to have been fully vindicated.
Even a number of ex-Marxists declared themselves to be adherents of Keynes. Among them was John Strachey. In 1932-35 Strachey wrote three books, The Coming Struggle for Power, The Menace of Fascism and The Nature of the Capitalist Crisis, in which he claimed to be an orthodox Marxist (even though he was in fact much influenced by Stalinism). In 1940 Strachey published a new book, A Programme for Success. This argued that, while in the long run socialism was the only remedy for the breakdown of capitalism, in the short run what was needed was an interim programme for reforming capitalism similar to that of Roosevelt's New Deal. His programme included six main points: the extension of public enterprise, low interest rates on loan capital, increased social services, monetary allowances to individuals, and redistributive taxation. There would also be a state controlled banking system and strict public control over the balance of payments. [81] This programme was so minimalist that the right winger Anthony Crosland could say, "It was incomparably more modest than the programme the Labour Party adopted in 1937." [82] John Strachey continued to pay homage to some of Marx's analyses and to describe society as "capitalist". But now he concluded than unemployment and crises were a thing of the past. Mass democracy and the techniques of government economic intervention discovered by Keynes, he said, meant that capitalism was now planned.
Crosland too waxed lyrical about a capital reformed by Keynesian methods. His book The Future of Socialism, published in 1956, argued that the anarchy of capitalism was withering away, and so also were class conflicts. The system was becoming more and more rational and democratic. Capitalism itself would peacefully dissolve. All the talk about production being dedicated to making profits rather than meeting human need was, according to Crosland, sheer nonsense. "Private industry is at last becoming humanised." [83] A "peaceful revolution" had begun in which class conflict would be unthinkable: "One cannot imagine today a deliberate offensive alliance between government and employers against the unions," wrote Crosland. [84] "We stand, in Britain, on the threshold of mass abundance." [85]
Now that Keynesianism guaranteed uninhibited growth, said Crosland, the state could look forward to high tax revenues which could finance social reforms and social welfare plans. Socialists should divert their attention away from economic issues. To what?
...we shall turn our attention increasingly to other and, in the long run, more important spheres – of personal freedom, happiness, and cultural endeavour; the cultivation of leisure, beauty, grace, gaiety, excitement ... more open air cafes, brighter and gayer streets at night, later closing hours for public houses, more local repertory theatres, better and more hospitable hoteliers and restaurateurs ... more murals and pictures in public places, better designs for furniture and pottery and women's clothes, statues in the centre of new housing estates, better designed street lamps and telephone kiosks, and so on ad infinitum. [86]
In Mandel and Healy were refuted by the immediate contradictions of the post-war boom, the Keynesians and other apologists for capitalism have been confounded in the longer term by the increasingly deep and intractable crises that have swept Western capitalism since the 1970s.
The theory of the permanent arms economy avoided the traps of both positions. It grew out of the development of the theory of state capitalism. Understanding Russia became the key to unlocking an understanding of the post-war boom in Western capitalism. Why was this so?
The theory of state capitalism identified military competition between Russia and the Western capitalist countries as the chief mechanism enforcing the dynamic of capital accumulation in Russia. Armaments production in Russia also explains why it did not suffer from the cycle of boom and slump. The converse was also true – on the other side of the Iron Curtain arms spending remained at a high level even though the Second World War had ended.
The 1948 document The Class Nature of Stalinist Russia has a chapter called Production and Consumption of Means of Destruction. Arms production has peculiar properties. It neither provides new means of production (Department I, to use Marx's terminology in Capital), nor contributes to the consumption of the working class (Department IIa). The output of the arms industry, therefore does not feed back into further production. It is a form of unproductive consumption, analogous to the consumption of luxuries by the capitalists themselves (Department IIb or III). [87]
Armaments production is "the collective consumption of the capitalist class" which ensures that that class through military expansion will "get new capital, new possibilities of accumulation". The ability to acquire new possibilities of accumulation distinguishes the "production and consumption of means of destruction" from other consumption of the capitalist class.
The Class Nature of Stalinist Russia pointed out that the stabilising properties of arms production explained why Russian state capitalism did not experience the classical cycle of boom and slump characteristic of market economies. [88] The above analysis was a bridge to the theory of the permanent arms economy which stresses the role of military expenditure in the expansion of the economy of the market capitalist countries.
In May 1957 the argument became more specific in the article entitled Perspectives for the Permanent War Economy that moved from the effect of military expenditure on the dynamics of Stalinist Russia to its effect on the capitalism of the West and Japan. [89] The impact of arms spending was not seen as an accident. The economic level of society, the level its productive forces have reached, is the decisive factor in the organisation of its armies. As Marx said, "Our theory that the organisation of labour is conditioned by the means of production is, it seems, nowhere as brilliantly corroborated as in the 'human slaughter industry'."
In the early period of capitalism the backwardness of the economy made it impossible to feed and arm large armies. Compared with the mass armies mobilised during the First and Second World Wars, the armies of early rising capitalism were very small. Even during the Napoleonic Wars, France, ruler of practically the whole of Europe, did not at any time have more than half a million troops. The British armed forces at the time were less than a tenth those of France. Frederick the Great declared of the wars of the 18th century, "The peaceful citizen should not even notice that the country is at war." [90] Even during the wars of the 19th century, the Napoleonic Wars, the Opium Wars, the Crimean War, etc., the life of the belligerent nations was on the whole hardly affected.
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All this changed with the First World War. Then France, whose population was only some ten million more people then during the Napoleonic times (40 million against 30), mobilised as many as five million soldiers. The other belligerent countries showed similar increases. Together with the tremendous increase in the size of the armies there came a massive increase in spending on military technology. Together these brought a change in the role of the military sector in the overall national economy.
With a significant proportion of the population mobilised and a major portion of the economy harnessed to the service of war, not only the soldiers engaged in battle, but also millions of industrial workers, agricultural workers and peasants, etc – in fact, the whole civilian population – felt the impact.
Before the First World War, although the imperialist powers were to some extent prepared for battles, the economy was hardly geared to armament production at all. It was only after the various wars had actually started that the ruling class made decisions to cope with the situation it was now squarely faced with – guns or butter.
Up to 1914, therefore, it was possible to analyse the development of capitalism without paying much attention to wars or preparations for them, as they played a minor role in economic development. Immediately after the First World War the military sector of the economy again dwindled: the large armies were to a major extent demobilised and armaments production was drastically cut.
However, in the wake of the great slump of the 30s and Hitler's rise to power, a powerful peacetime military sector appeared for the first time in history. Between 1939 and 1944 the production of munitions multiplied in Germany five times, in Japan ten times, in Britain 25 times, and in the United States 50 times. [91]
The war economy
United States
GE = government expenditure, NI = national income
Whereas after the First World War there was a period of about a decade and a half in which no advanced country had a relatively large war sector, after the Second World War there was no such break. Soon after its end the armaments race was once again on.
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Previously, for more than a century, capitalism went through a rhythmical cycle of prosperity and slump. Slumps occurred more or less regularly every ten years. But since the advent of a permanent war economy the cycle had somehow been broken. To understand how this came about, how a military sector of some 10 percent or less of the national economy could prevent general slump, we should first shortly sum up the causes of slump under classical capitalism.
The basic cause of capitalist crises of overproduction is the relatively low purchasing power of the masses compared with the production capacity of industry. As Marx said:
The ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the poverty and restricted consumption of the masses as opposed to the drive of capitalist production to develop the productive forces as though only the absolute consuming power of society constituted their limit. [92]
In the final analysis, the cause of capitalist crisis is that a greater and greater part of the income of society falls into the hands of the capitalist class and a greater and greater part of this is directed not towards buying means of consumption, but instead means of production – that is, it is directed towards the accumulation of capital. The relative increase in the part of the national income directed to accumulation compared with the part directed towards consumption must lead to overproduction, a situation where the increasing quantity of goods that are made cannot be sold because consumers do not have the means to buy them.
This is a cumulative process. As increase in accumulation is accompanied by rationalisation and technological innovation, resulting in an increased rate of exploitation. The greater the rate of exploitation, the greater is the fund from which accumulation is drawn as compared with the wages of the workers and the revenue of the capitalist. Accumulation breeds accumulation.
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The gigantic military expenditures after the war affected the tendency to crisis. Now the armaments economy had a very great influence on the level of popular purchasing power, the level of real capital accumulation, and the amount of goods seeking a market.
Let us assume that there are a million people seeking employment in a certain country and, further, that 10 percent of them are employed by the government in producing arms – some 100,000 people. Their purchasing power would bring about the employment of more people elsewhere. The numerical relation between the size of the first group and the second was called the "multiplier" by Keynes. For brevity this term can usefully be borrowed. In the multiplier is two, the employment of 100,00 workers by the state will increase general employment by 200,000. If the multiplier is three, the increase will be 300,000, and so on. Hence there is no doubt that the cumulative effect on an arms budget of 10 percent of the national income can be quite out of proportion to its size in increasing the purchasing power of the masses.
Again, when 10 percent of the national income goes to arms, the capital resources seeking investment in peacetime production are drastically cut: in our example, from 20 percent of the national income to 10 percent. The increased purchasing power of the people, together with the new state demand for arms, army clothing, barracks, etc, gives greater openings for sale and staves off crises of overproduction.
In addition, a war economy naturally has a big effect on the rate of increase of the supply of non-military goods seeking civilian purchasers. Full employment not only increases the overall number of people earning a wage, it causes a tightness in the labour market which enables workers to win higher wages. Paradoxically, this does not deny the possibility of increasing profits: capital is working more fully than otherwise; there is much less idle capacity or capital working at a loss. Its turnover is greater. Thus, for instance, in the years 1937-42 total wages in United States industry rose by 70 percent, profits by 400 percent!
With the stupendous productive forces available to society, the increase in the armaments burden did not necessarily lead to a cut in civilian consumption, but the contrary. This was shown most clearly in the richest capitalist country in the world, the United States, during the Second World War. Although in 1943 the United States spent the huge sum on $83.7 billion on the war, civilian consumption did not fall but was actually higher than before the war, rising from $61.7 billion in 1939 to $70.8 billion in 1943 (expressed in 1939 prices), an increase of 14.7 percent.
The permanent arms economy theory showed why Trotsky's prediction had not been validated. But it did more. It demonstrated that in the long run an economic prosperity rising on top of the cone of a nuclear bomb could not be stable and safe. Even when world capitalism was prosperous, as a result of the military expenditure, not all countries carried the same burden of high military budgets. Those which spent little benefited in inverse proportion to arms expenditure. The 1948 document on Russia argued that capitalism generally was experiencing only a temporary stabilisation. It stated:
... the powers may compete so fiercely on the world market that each, in order to strengthen its position, would start to cut arms expenditure. We are at present witnessing Britain bring pushed to cut her "defence budget" through competition with Germany, and deterioration of her international balance of payments. Up to now no country has been able to match the United States, force her to abandon the arms race and start competing on "who cuts the arms budget quickest". She can afford the largest military budget in the world and the greatest absolute investment in industry. [93]
The uneven burden of the arms race would lead to destabilisation although the document predicted, wrongly as it turned out, that Russia might be the winner:
... with the huge strides of Russian industry, it is possible that in another ten or 20 years, she may, even if she does not reach the absolute level of United States industry, at least challenge the United States on the world market in certain branches – those of heavy industry. Then the United States may ... cut the defence budget in order to circumvent defeat on the world market. [94]
Nevertheless the basic argument was correct:
The war economy may less and less serve as a cure for overproduction, a stabiliser of capitalist prosperity. When the war economy becomes expendable, the knell of the capitalist boom will surely toll. [95]
In fact it was not Russia which forced the United States to cut its military budget, but primarily West Germany and Japan, the two countries forbidden to maintain large armies because they lost the war. Nevertheless, The Class Nature of Stalinist Russia was right to foresee that the temporary stabilisation of market capitalist through arms expenditure would only be temporary. Indeed, by diverting surplus value from productive investment it tended to prevent slumps at the price of a long term tendency towards stagnation. Those economies with a relatively high level of military expenditure would find themselves at a competitive disadvantage and would therefore be forced to increase the share of investment going to civilian industries. This allowed the tendencies towards a classical business cycle to reassert themselves. [96]
The growing rivalry between the United States on the one hand and Japan and West Germany on the other, sharpened by the uneven distribution of the arms burden, did lead to destabilisation of the economy and a return to global recessions. The prognosis that after a number of years the world economy would slow down has come true: world output that rose annually by 5.4 percent in the years 1950-63, and 6 percent in the years 1963-73, declined to 2.6 percent in the years 1973-90, and 1.4 percent in the years 1990-96. [97]
The United States spent a far greater proportion of its national economic income on armaments than Japan or West Germany. Japan never spent more than 1 percent of its national income on defence. As a result Japan managed to accumulate more capital and to invent more in industry to retool its factories. The outcome was that the Japanese car industry shot ahead in leaps and bounds. The Japanese shipbuilding industry replaced the British industry as first in the world, and in electronics Japan surpassed Germany which had hitherto held first place, etc, etc.
The Vietnam War exacerbated the lag of United States industry relative to that of Germany and Japan. The result was that in 1973 the weakness of the dollar revealed itself in an explosion in the price of oil – denominated in dollars. The long boom was at an end.
The theory of the permanent arms economy took it for granted that the irrationality of capitalism did not lessen with the ageing of the system. Capitalism, which in Marx's words was covered throughout history in blood and mud, did not become benevolent in old age. As a matter of fact the permanent arms economy is the most extreme expression of the bestiality and barbarity of the system. [98]
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78. T. Cliff, Fifty Five Years a Revolutionary, Socialist Review 100, May 1987, pp.14-29, reprinted in L. German and R. Hoveman (eds.), A Socialist Review (London, 1998), pp.15-28.
79. See, for example, E. Mandel, Late Capitalism (London, 1975).
80. T Cliff, All that Glitters is not Gold, op. cit., pp.24-37.
81. J. Strachey, A Programme for Progress (London, 1940), pp.210-211.
82. A. Crosland, The Future of Socialism (London, 1956).
83. Ibid., p.37.
84. Ibid., pp.32-33.
85. Ibid., p.23.
86. Ibid., pp.520-522.
87. See T. Cliff, The Class Nature of Stalinist Russia, op. cit., pp.121-122.
88. Ibid., pp.121-125.
89. T Cliff, Perspectives for the Permanent War Economy, Socialist Review, March 1957, reprinted in T. Cliff, Neither Washington Nor Moscow, op. cit., pp.101-107.
90. Quoted Ibid., p.101.
91. F. Sternberg, Capitalism and Socialism on Trial (London, 1951), p.438.
92. K. Marx, Capital, vol.III, ch.30: Money Capital and Real Capital (Moscow, 1959), p.484.
93. T. Cliff, The Class Nature of Stalinist Russia, op. cit., pp.121-125; T. Cliff, Neither Washington Nor Moscow, op. cit., pp.106-107.
94. Ibid., p.107.
95. Ibid., p.107.
96. Ibid., p.107.
97. Financial Times, 4 September 1998.
98. Further big steps in the development of the theory of the permanent arms economy were taken by Mike Kidron and Chris Harman. See M. Kidron, Western Capitalism Since the War (London, 1970) and A Permanent Arms Economy, and C. Harman, Explaining the Crisis (London, 1984).
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FILE PHOTO: Runners exercise on the empty front steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S. May 8, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ruling against environmentalists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided that the federal government has the authority to allow a proposed $7.5 billion natural gas pipeline to cross under the popular Appalachian Trail in rural Virginia.
The 7-2 ruling was a victory for Dominion Energy Inc and President Donald Trump's administration, both of which appealed a lower court ruling that halted construction of the 600-mile (965-km) Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would run from West Virginia to North Carolina.
The decision, written by conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, removes one of several obstacles facing the project. Two liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, dissented.
Environmental groups including the Sierra Club and Southern Environmental Law Center had sued to stop the pipeline after the U.S. Forest Service gave the green light for the project to run through the George Washington National Forest. Dominion Energy leads a consortium of companies in the project that also includes Duke Energy Corp.
After a protracted application process involving multiple federal agencies, the Forest Service granted the consortium a right of way under the trail in 2018.
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Goat Knoll - Cashmere goats and cashmere fiber from an Oregon farm
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Cashmere Goat Resources
Good information articles - some of ours, some from others
Note: There are a lot of them and we are just starting to get them posted here, so if you like these, check back soon for more
Fiber Fruit Salad (pdf) - by Linda Singley, Bearlin Acres Farm, Shippensburg, PA - an excellent article about raising different animals together
One page goat care (pdf) - by Goat Knoll, a short summary of care of healthy goats
Weeding and Mulching with Goats (pdf) - by Linda Fox about using those byproducts
Winter Feeding for Goats (pdf) - an excellent article by Frank and Bruce Pinkerton
Barns and Shelters for Goats (pdf) - by Paul Johnson about our barns
Small shelter plan (pdf) - plan and article by Tom Dooling
Fencing (pdf) - A collection of articles about fencing by Paul Johnson and others, including electric fencing.
How to Hotwire a Goat (pdf) - by Yvonne Zweede-Tucker for an electric fencing system for goats
Poisonous Plants for Goats (pdf) - by Paul Johnson, including list of plants and additional information on Rhododendrons
Estimating Cashmere Yield (Word) - by Linda Fox
Combing Cashmere Goats (pdf) - February 2012 by Linda Fox, with updates Septembr 2016
Increasing the Bottom Line (pdf) - August 2016 article about making money with cashmere
Where to Get Your Goat - An old (yet often updated) article about why, where and how much
Show me the Money! (pdf) - An old article about how to make money with cashmere goats. The numbers are old, but the concepts are still valid
You can find
your initial breeding stock on the internet, in newspaper ads, Breeders'
Directories in livestock associations' literature, and through organizations
and recommendations of other goat owners. Contact a regional or national
goat organization to find a breeder in your area. Consideration: Decide
if you want a buck, at least initially. Bucks can complicate your plans
as they should be kept separately from the does for most of the year.
Where to get information on raising goats
There are many good and helpful books on the market, some more technical than others. One of your first books should be Angora Goats the Northern Way, by Susan Black-Drummond. The fourth (and final) edition, published in 1993 has chapters on cashmere goats.
Caprine Supply has good, recent, very basic book, covering numerous goat breeds. It is entitled Goatkeeping 101. These two books have good basics and are easy to read and understand. Goatkeeping 101 covers most breeds of goats, including dairy breeds, while Angora Goats the Northern Way focuses on Angora and cashmere goats.
Goat Medicine,
by Mary C. Smith, DVM and David M. Sherman is another good reference. It
is thorough and much more technical than the beginning books and can scare
you off if you get it before you purchase your goats. However, it is very
useful, especially when a problem occurs. Other useful books we have found
include Goat Husbandry by David Mackenzie, Raising Milk Goats the Modern
Way by Jerry Belanger and The Pack Goat by John Mionczynski. Additional
references are contained in a list later down this page.
Another useful resource that is often overlooked is your county extension agent. Check with your county Ag Department and local college or university. Many extension services offer classes which are helpful. A course on midwifing for sheep can readily be applied to goats and usually offers hands-on experience.
One of the best resources is membership in a goat group. Goat people are eager to share their knowledge and experiences. Remember that on many subjects, (fencing, feed and exactly what is the ideal cashmere goat) there can be as many opinions as people! Organizations available include: Cashmere Goat Association (formerly Eastern Cashmere Association), Northwest Cashmere Association and Canadian Cashmere Producers Association.
There may also be a generic goat group in your local area which could be helpful. Most organization provide annual, or more frequent get-togethers, a periodic newsletter and educational events.
The Internet
is a vast storehouse of knowledge that is being updated constantly. Be careful
of Internet sites - some are kept more current and more authoritative than
Goat supplies
As with most things, you can spend as much or as little as you want. Not many feed stores carry supplies intended for goats specifically. You either make do with implements designed for sheep or cattle, or you can go to specialty catalogs like Caprine Supply. Common items like hoof trimmers, syringes and fencing materials are usually readily available locally, as are many medicines. These can be obtained from farm stores, feed stores or from veterinarians. Catalogs can be obtained by mail, phone or e-mail. A list of useful catalogs is included later on this page. Check to see if you have a farm supply co-op in your area. Many farm stores are co-ops, so check. You can get year-end rebates or dividends on all that expensive fencing!
Feed and forage
Decide what and how you will feed your livestock before buying the critters. Check prices, determine how much and for how long (4 months, 1/2 year, all year) you must feed. Determine if supplies are available at all the times you will need them or if you will have to purchase ahead and store. Decisions will include supplementary forage, grass hay vs. alfalfa hay, straw for bedding, minerals needed in your area (check with your vet!), types of grain available year around. Talk to farm stores and livestock owners in your area. Be aware that goats have some different needs than sheep, cattle or horses and that cashmere goats have different needs than dairy goats. Bulk feed is cheaper. The more grain or hay you buy at once, the lower the price. You will want to use your negotiating skills.
Don't forget a source of clean, year-round water. Will your water source freeze in the winter? Will it run dry in the summer? Can you keep it clean?
Get to know a veterinarian
Choosing and involving a vet early can make life easier when (not if) an emergency occurs. Even if you currently have a good veterinarian for Fido, Fluffy and Tweety, this does not mean you automatically have a good veterinarian for your cashmere herd. You don't need to necessarily find a vet who has hundreds of cashmere goat patients on the client roster, but you do need a vet who is good with small ruminants. Get your vet out to your place as soon as you can so he/she will have a perspective of your operation. Your local veterinarian will be your main source of valuable information. In addition to knowing the history of your herd, he/she will know what diseases and minerals deficiencies/excesses are prevalent in your locale.
Now that you have fleeces and goats to sell, what do you do? You will need to find markets for your products. The Cashmere America Cooperative is not longer in existence, but there are a few growers who will buy your fleeces. If you sell your raw fleeces wholesale, you will get much less for them than if you have them processed and sell products retail. Fleeces and cashmere can also be sold direct to craftspeople locally, although this market can be challenging.
Breeding stock and excess animals can be sold by advertising in local newspapers, regional farm papers, magazines and the internet. Breeding stock can also be sold by showing/displaying your animals at local fairs and fiber events. Sales made directly to individual buyers will usually yield the best prices for your animals. Livestock auctions will sell animals as well, but prices are not predictable. Generally, animals sold at auction will bring less than animals sold by advertising.
Ask around.
People know! When in doubt, ask! Ask other goat folk, your vet, or extension
agent. Answers to your questions may be just a telephone call (or an email)
Goat supplies
Caprine Supply
3300 W. 83rd St., PO Box Y
DeSoto, Kansas 66018
fax: 913-585-1140
toll free: 1-800-646-7736
Hoegger Supply Co.
160 Providence Road
Fayetteville, Georgia 30215
2031 300th Street
Washington Iowa 52353
319-653-7622 or 1-800-282-6631
Valley Vet Supply
East Hwy. 36, PO Box 504 Marysville, Kansas 66508-0504
Reference books/publications
Angora Goats the Northern Way
Fourth Edition (1993), Susan Black Drummond, 239 pages, published by Stony Lonesome Farm, Freeport, MI 49325, has chapters on cashmere goats. A good reference and starting book for cashmere goat owners.
Breeding Cashmere Goats
1991, B. J. Restall and W. A. Pattie, 95 pages. A collection of articles presented to meetings of goat breeders, results of research in Australia by two researchers who spent many years researching cashmere goat genetics. This book is pretty technical and old, but about the only thing out there on cashmere genetics.
Cashmere - Complete Guide from Fibre to Fashion
1998 or so, Sue Meeche, 54 pages - 20 of these pages are knitting, weaving and crochet patterns for cashmere. A good short history and beginner's introduction to cashmere goats and cashmere fiber, from Canadian author/publisher.
Cashmere Goat Notes
Revised Edition (1990), A collection of short articles by various authors edited by R. James Browne, B. Agr. Sc., DDA (Hons.), 282 pages, published by the Australian Cashmere Growers Association, 30 Cann Street, Guildford 2161. The Australian Cashmere Goat Association did have it all online, but their site isn't working at present.
Goat Husbandry
Fifth Edition (1993), David Mackenzie with revisions by Ruth Goodwin, 334 pages, published by Faber and Faber. British writer with a slightly different perspective on goatkeeping.
Goat Medicine
1994, Mary C. Smith, DVM and David M. Sherman, DVM, MS, 620 pages published by Lea & Febiger. This is a good one for medical stuff. It's big, technical (but not as technical as Merck), expensive and well worth the cost. It's got it all - a lot more than you'll generally need to know, but fascinating stuff!
Goatkeeping 101
1998, Caprine Supply, 248 pages. A good beginners basic book. Covers all breeds with just a brief summary of cashmere. A good place to start if you've never owned a goat.
Meat Goats
1994, by Sara Emond, Animal Industry Division, Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, 74 pages. Excellent reference on meat goats including facilities, nutrition, reproduction and marketing. Available from Alberta Goat Breeders Association.
Merck Veterinary Manual
Seventh Edition (1991) There is no doubt a later edition out than the one on our shelf, published by Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, 1832 pages. It's big, expensive and designed for a veterinarian's use. Unless you know a lot about veterinary medicine or just like to stay confused, this book is probably not for you.
Pack Goat, The
1992, John Mionczynski, 147 pages, published by Pruett Publishing Company, Boulder, Colorado. Even though this book is about pack goats, we find the book useful for a common sense approach in managing and understanding goats.
Raising Milk Goats the Modern Way
1975, Jerry Belanger, 152 pages, published by Garden Way Publishing co., Charlotte, Vermont. It's old and it's about milk goats, but it is a good beginner's book on goat management.
Small-Scale Goatkeeping
1979, Billie Luisi, 208 pages, published by Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania. A good beginners book plus a bit more. Only covers dairy goats.
There are many more books about goats out there, but these are the ones on our shelf. If you're looking for these, if you find an updated version of them, you will, of course, want the updated one.
And of course, there's always the internet and those social media sites for information...
References last updated June 28, 2018. Yea, we know - need to update this!
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Ivan Rajavic stands as one of Australia's most controversial and influential architects. This property soars high over five levels to a living space that is truly spectacular and unabashed. A simple ladder leading up through the top levels manhole takes you to the most awe inspiring 360 degree views. Turn slowly around and take in the panorama from another perspective: Melbourne Museum, the city skyline drawn with mirror and glass towers, the Pelaco sign with the Dandenongs beyond, the clock tower of Fitzroy Town Hall at eye level and the shingled turret of the Perseverance Hotel across the road . . .


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Bike Fit: Michael Sylvester, Genius in Residence
There's nothing quite like watching someone set to work doing something that they are really, really good at. It's the way I feel when I see Sal racing his bike, or when I watch my mother interview someone, or see my sister presenting to a group.
People in their element. People who have followed their passions and become really, really, really good at what they are doing. It's inspiring.
So it was when I sat down in Michael Sylvester's studio for the first time. Here's a man who lives and breathes bike-fitting. A master at work.
I'd been reading about Sylvester in the press recently – though I've known his name for years. After 6 years riding my road bike, I bought a new 'cross bike, started racing, and discovered that bikes actually didn't have to be uncomfortable… what a concept!
I bought my 'cross bike site-unseen in early September last year after cyclocross-fever struck hard and I knew I had to race. It's an off-the-rack '05 Poprand LeMond with 105 and other stock components, save the saddle (Selle San Marco Glamour Arrowhead) and the pedals (egg beaters). I received a pretty decent fitting from a fabulous woman at the bike shop and despite it being an entry-level bike (and weighing in at a whopping 24 pounds – ugh!), I loved it. It felt great and rode well.
In fact, I loved it so much that when I went to hop back on my road bike, I was in agony.
My first love, my sweet Pinarello, did not love me back so good no more.
And so it was, with a newfound appreciation for the fact that I could be comfortable on a bike (and a wild determination to achieve this), that I came to finally pony up and book an appointment with Sylvester, whose bike-fitting studio just so happens to be in the very same building as my photography studio.
On the day of our appointment, I walked downstairs in my stocking feet with my bike and bike-shoes in hand.
And what happened over the course of the next two appointments was fairly miraculous.
I've never had a real bike fitting before. To be honest, I always thought that it was "one of those expensive superfluous cycling things" – one of the many things on which Sal could find good reasons to spend money.
What I discovered was that it was neither expensive, nor superfluous. In fact, it actually made me feel sort of silly for having spent so much money on bikes, bike components, bike accessories, and bike clothing over the years – all while riding a bike that wasn't giving me the best ride possible.
At $125 for a fitting, the sticker-price does seem high at first. That's a new saddle, I exclaim! That's a nice pair of bibs! That's half a Rapha jacket, for cripes sake! But within about 10 minutes of sitting down with Michael Sylvester, I knew I was getting my money, and then some.
Michael starts with a thorough assessment of your athletic history, current activity level, and goals. He tests your flexibility and generally observes your body.
In my case, he stood across the room looking at me, marveling. Which is how I came to learn that I'm a little "off-center". That is, my head is placed the tiniest little bit too close to my right shoulder. So, the distance from my right ear to right shoulder would be just slightly less than the distance from my left ear to left shoulder.
I had never noticed this before. Neither had anyone else.
But I had noticed, over the course of the past year, that I was unreasonably tight on the left side of my body. My hamstring was notably tighter on the left side. My shoulder was frequently sore on the left side. My left quad cramped and knotted far before my right became even remotely fatigued.
I had definitely been keeping track of a troubling unevenness, but I was at a loss as to what to do about it. See a chiropractor? A physcial therapist? The symptoms were so vague and mysterious, it seemed like one of those things that was going to be frustrating to try to solve, so I continued to let it ride.
Now, due to a bike fitting, I've got a bit of a lead – and even a contact with a PT who might be able to help me get balanced out.
As I talked more with Michael throughout the fitting, I learned a lot. He's a quiet man with a calming energy, but his passion for cyclocross is hard to miss. Having raced in Europe in the late 80′s, he's a virtual walking history lesson on the sport.
Unfortunately, I didn't have the saddle that I actually wanted to put on the bike. I'd ordered it in time for the fitting, but when it came, I realized that it was the wrong model. So Michael and I got as far as we could without the seat, and then he kindly ordered the correct model for me. We set another date to complete the fitting.
On day two, Michael installed a new seatpost (my frame happens to be a little on the large side for me) with a less-severe set-back. He installed it backward so that it was actually set forward a bit. He watched me ride, adjusted things, watched me ride some more, asked me for feedback, adjusted more things, and watched me ride again.
We tried two different stems and he patiently switched them back and forth, back and forth, while I decided which one I thought felt better. (He compared it to the eye-doctor flipping those damn lenses down in front of you: "Which is better – A… *click*…. or B" Except its somewhat easier to click lenses back and forth, than it is to switch stems again and again.
In the end, we also changed my bars. He was concerned about my wrist position, but seemed reluctant to tell me I should try new bars. I appreciated the fact that he wasn't trying to sell me a bunch of superfluous stuff.
"How much are they?" I asked.
"These are $70."
"Put them on. Let's see how they feel."
My theory is that if I've gone to the trouble to do this fitting, I want to do it right. 100%.
And I was glad we did it. The bars turned out to be the single most amazing change we made. Little did I know that back in 2001, when we built up the Pino, Sal picked out an extremely aggressive racing bar. It was designed to be comfortable in a flat-out sprint, when you're forward on the bike, in the drops, out of the saddle, with your arms bent and… and that's about the only time.
With all the major components settled, we fine-tuned my position by moving the seat forward about 5cm and carefully adjusting the hood position.
New bike!
I had to fly out (Hi! I'm in San Francisco!) the very next day, so I didn't get a chance to take her out for a spin, but it's on the top of my list when I get back into town. I've been buzzing ever since the appointment at the thought of it.
As I am able to provide feedback to Michael, we'll be able to further refine the fit. We recorded all of the pertinent measurements, so if and when I want to get my other bikes fit, we'll already have the base numbers to work from. And if I *ahem* happen to want to build a really fast, really light cyclocross racing machine for next season… I'll be able to base my frame and component choices on a specific and thorough set of data (and, of course, the knowledge and experience of a former worlds-level 'cross racer turned bike-fit expert).
The fitting opened something up inside of me. It opened my eyes to the resources and science that is out there. Expertise, numbers, and knowledge that can give me a better experience, a faster ride, and an infinitely nerdier cycling life. Anyone who knows me at all knows that I'm a veritable sucker for data. Give me numbers, let me analyze them, and I'll figure out how to take the results and improve some part of my life.
Would I recommend Michael for a fitting?
In a heartbeat.
Michael is not just a service-provider, he is a teacher. And a good teacher at that. Like all good teachers, he wears his passion on his sleeve. He teaches with true enthusiasm, an eagle-eye for details, and a mad-scientist's genius and zeal. He's truly one of a kind.
He energizes and inspires. And he makes people love their bikes… even more than they did before.
I'll report back when I'm able to get a couple rides in. In the meantime, happy holidays!
May your cookies be full of protein, and your hot buttered rum sugar-free! Ha!
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I think your lopsided because of that 80lb "purse" you carry around…:-)
Michael is really a fantastic guy. But what amazes me about him is how abundant he is. I know that is a weird word to describe someone, but he is always willing to give, willing to teach, willing to learn. And while he has been doing fit for as long as anyone, he has resisted falling into conventions: He approaches each fit with fresh eyes knowing that no two bodies are the same.
Like the incredible craftsman Michael Yeats (two doors down from Michael – introduce yourself, it will rock your world), Michael's craft is making bodies and bikes work together. Glad you got the chance to work with him. He is really something special.


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A list with the 10 funniest Anime around...
At the comedy genre, but FMP fumoffu was an exception, liked it quite a bit for the time and laugh.
Rest are just meh, not my cup of blood lol.
In my opinion Seto no Hanayome is the funniest Anime I have ever seen, I didn't think it was possible for me to laugh so much through the entire series.
Could be Ah my goddess, it made my night one day of those boredom attacked.
This list is total fail.
They have some good ones like Lucky Star and Ouran but they are missing classics(in terms of comedy) Like Excel Saga, Azumanga Daioh, School Rumble, Haruhi(who can't laugh at Kyon snarky and sarcastic narration) and even stuff like Love Hina.
Seriously alot of the stuff on the list had funny moments here and there but weren't really all out laughs like the shows listed above.
The fact that the list says FMP: Fumoffu used to be #1 is laughable. Half the shows I mentioned had been released far before then and are still funnier. Excel Saga in my opinion is the funniest anime of all time closely followed by Lucky Star and Azumanga Daioh.


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BackUp Android Apps Data Without Root
Here comes the difference between IOS and Android phones. IOS has many option to save our data and keep backup so that you did not lose that. But when it comes to Android phones, there is no such backup option, which can help to backup Android apps data and keep it safe. But if you phone is rooted, You can save you android apps data easily which is Titanium Backup App.
But many users don't want to root their phones. So here is solution for these users, Who don't want to harm their phones with any type of apps and their phone warranty too.
How to BackUp Android Apps Data Without Root
Here is step by step guide to backup android app data without root easily. This method will help you to make android backup and restore to new phone too.
- Install Helium on Your Android Device :-
Helium works by pairing your phone with your computer to send a few commands that enable proper backups on Android. As such, you'll need to install the app on both your computer and your Android device to Backup Android Apps Data.
you can download this app from below box.Developer: ClockworkModPrice: Free
Set Up Helium on Your Android Device :-
When you first launch Helium, the app will ask if you'd like to attach your Google account for use in cross-device backup sync. Tap "OK" on this message, then select your Google account and provide your login credentials.
From here, press "OK" one more time, then Helium will prompt you to connect your phone to your computer with a USB data cable.
Install Helium for Chrome :-
Google's Chrome browser is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, so make sure you have it installed on your system before you proceed.
The Helium Chrome app can be download from below link. Once you arrive at the install page, hit the "+ Free" button, then click "Add" on the popup.As with any Chrome app, Helium can be accessed by opening the Chrome Apps menu in your computer's task bar or Chrome's own bookmarks bar and this is the 3rd step to Backup Android Apps Data.Developer: clockworkmod.comPrice: Free
Sync Your Android Device with Your Computer :-
With your Android device connected to your computer, open the Helium app on both devices.
After a few seconds, Helium will pair the two devices and enable comprehensive backup for Android. You can disconnect your phone or tablet from your computer at this point. Note that, as Android resets the changes Helium has made each time it starts up, you will need to repeat this pairing process any time you reboot your phone or tablet.
BackUp Android Apps Data :-
Over on your Android device again, use the Helium app to select which apps you'd like to have backed up. When you tap the "Backup" button, Helium will ask where you'd like to save your backup files. If you want to sync backups between your Android devices, make sure to select the "Google Drive" option.
Restoring apps on this or other Android devices can be done through the Helium app as well. Simply tap the "Restore and Sync" tab, then select your storage location.
Troubleshooting in backup android apps data :-
If you encounter any issues with the sync and activation process outlined in Step 4 during Backup Android Apps Data, there are a few troubleshooting tips you can try. On your Android device, tap the "Enable PTP" button in Helium, then select the "Camera Mode (PTP)" option on the next screen and try again.
If that still doesn't help, installing the ADB drivers on your system should do the trick, Which is given below.
How to BackUp Android Apps Data Without Root
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The Adventures of Emmylou and Natalia: The Journey Continues...
In general, they are doing great and they have come such a long way since I brought them home in July. They are now very at ease in the apartment, and with me, and are recently have been breaking though to a greater comfort level with my partner (they have been comfortable with him in general for quite a while, but now are much more at ease with receiving pets and some TTouch from him).
I feel that I have broken through to another level with them recently as well in terms of contact. Every day they approach me more often for affection, which is so sweet! When I get up in the night to use the bathroom, Natalia will wait outside and I sit on the floor with her for a while for TTouch. And during the day they both approach me, sometimes taking turns (one will be sitting looking out the window in the cat tree while the other comes into the living room for attention.
They adore each other and, though they may hang out separately at different times of the day, at night they are cuddled together on the couch, looking like a yin/yang symbol together.
I have continued to find that keeping a routine is very important to their comfort level - keeping the feeding times as consistent as I can, having certain times of the day for play, etc. It is great to have a play session with them right before we go to sleep, and then they most often settle in to sleep when we do.
It is good, also, to have variety within the routine - rotating which toys are used, trying some different TTouches with them, etc., to keep things interesting for them. Even something as simple as creating a couple of tunnels with shopping bags with the bottom cut out can be a new fun game for them.
I am always working towards little goals with them, as well. Mostly these have to do with more practical matters. For example, it is good to be able to pick them up, so when it comes time to need to get them into a carrier (which hopefully will not be soon!), it is not a shock for them. Getting them used to having their paws touched (eventually for nail-clipping) will be another one.
It has really worked out well to do everything with them at a very gradual, slow pace. If I do something and it feels like I went a bit too fast to that step, I take a step back and break it down a little further.
Emmylou is actually a bit more skittish in some ways, but for some reason she seemed to be ready for the picking-up activity sooner. I started out by first getting her used to being touched on her stomach, doing a few circular TTouches on her stomach at a time, then letting it go, just doing this for a few seconds here and there, at regular intervals. I actually started doing this with her when they were in the cage and we regularly fed them baby food (always all-meat baby food, no onions, Gerber or Beech-nut) off our fingers. First we let them eat the food without trying to touch them while they were eating, then started stroking them or doing a few TTouches while they were eating, and then having more and more contact and touch while they were licking the food off. Natalia was more reticent about being touched while she was eating, so we went more slowly with her. Emmylou loves the food so much that she was more ok with being touched, so I started doing little TTouches on her belly, and then sometimes a little circle and then a lift on her belly, then sometimes lifting her slightly off the ground. When they started being out of the cage, when she was walking, I would do little TTouches and then sometimes a belly lift (both hands under belly, eventually lifting her up slightly off the floor. When I put her back on the floor, I praised her and did hair slides and circular TTouches to make her feel comfortable, so the lifting became just a little part of this whole activity. Eventually I started lifting her higher and higher - just for a couple of seconds each time, then put her down and TTouch etc. Now I am at the point with her where I can pick her all the way up to waist-height, do a few pets, then put her down. This has taken place over months, so it has been very gradual indeed!
Natalia, while she really responds to being touched, easily gets scared if she feels she is being cornered or contained, so I have had to go slower with her. For a while, I did circular TTouches on the side of her belly. Then I gradually was able to do some TTouches under her belly. Then, when she was in a lying-down position, I was able to do TTouch belly lifts with her, just one or two at a time. In that case, by belly-lift I mean just gently putting a hand under her belly, making the slightest movement upward, holding for a minute, then slloowly releasing. See my clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRDUdMh49CE&list=UUwClW-vMPW6i_UFDkXXayEA&index=32. Just last week, while she was walking, I was able to put my hand behind her front legs, just gently lift her chest and front legs for a moment, then gently put back down, give lots of praise and TTouch, etc. When I tried to put both hands underneath her and lift all four feet off the ground, this still made her nervous, so I backed off of that and went back to doing TTouches and lifts on her belly area.
The day before yesterday, I decided to try lifting Natalia up a few inches off the ground again. To my surprise, she didn't react at all to this. When I do these lifts, I get ready by doing some zigzags and circles on her while she are walking (I am walking behind, leaning over). Then I just put both hands underneath her belly, lifted her off the ground a few inches, just for a second, then put her down - immediately praising her and starting to do TTouches and strokes with her. I think I have to film this at some point to be a bit more clear about it! Anyway, she was not startled at all - went right with the flow of what I was doing and laid down for some TTouches. I gave her a break for a few moments and then repeated the same procedure, and the second time the same thing happened - which was great ! I think I did try a third time as well. After that, and a few TTouches, I backed off to see what she would do and she just went over by the radiator, one of her cozy places, and was staring at me, purring!!
Yesterday I tried this again with her, and again, she was completely comfortable, as if the lifting up is part of the whole TTouch and affection process. So, little by little, I will be able to lift her up a little higher. So important to always be patient and listen to what they are ready to do.
If anyone reading this has further questions, please always feel free to contact me through my website, http://healingenergyforanimals.com.
Thanks Emmylou and Natalia, for being the lovely beings that you are - you are teaching me so much and filling my life with so much richness and joy. xo
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Manufacture of an aircraft canopy, plastic bath and refrigerator lining at a factory in Dunstable.
Short Summary
At a factory in Dunstable, Bedfordshire we see M/S and C/U of some men carrying a large sheet of soft plastic (cockpit cowling) which they drape over a mould and fix into position. M/S as a man in a white coat fixes a semicircular piece of wood to the end of the mould, and they clamp this into position. This is the early stages of the aircraft canopy.
M/S of a woman checking a section of plastic canopy for flaws; C/U as she marks the flaws by circling with a red pencil; M/S as she pours some liquid onto the area and starts to polish it. M/S from inside the cockpit cowling of another woman polishing on the outside; low angle shot of her polishing. M/S of another woman working on the opposite side of the cockpit cowling; she starts to polish with an electric buffer. C/U from over her shoulder as she buffs.
M/S of some men preparing some plastic to be made into a bath; C/Us as they fit some suction cups in place. M/S as they raise the plastic and remove a cover from beneath the plastic where there is a bath mould and lower plastic into position. C/U as a man shifts a lever on the machinery, then M/S as the upper mould is lowered down; C/U of a man looking on. M/S of the moulds shaping the plastic from above and below, then C/Us of the clamp levers being undone; M/S as the mould rises. C/U of a man pulling a lever on the equipment, then M/S as the men lift out the plastic bath shape and place it on a pile with others.
C/U of a woman putting a piece of plastic in position on a press to be made into a refrigerator lining; M/S as the woman pulls a lever then C/U as a frame is lowered and M/S as a heater moves over the plastic. C/U of the woman watching; M/S as the heater moves off, then we see the plastic blowing up and out of the frame in a huge bubble. C/U of the bubble, the mould coming up inside the plastic, then the air is withdrawn so the plastic takes the shape of the mould and the woman's hand comes into shot to smooth it. M/Ss of completed lining in machine and the woman lifting it out to check it.
Note: Documentation on file includes extensive notes on the technical processes involved and correspondence from Crawfords Public Relations.
- Film ID:
- 103.04
- Media URN:
- 2617
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- Colour pictorials
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 14/03/1960
- Sound:
- Sound
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I can't believe I'm saying this, but we are at the point in the summer when it's time to start planning for the next school year! In our area of the globe we are returning to school August 8th.
It seems that every year that first day appears around the bend of tall corn and warm air just as we are in our suntan, berry picking, farmer's stand groove and winding the summers down much too soon for my barefoot tribe of teens.
A kink landed smack in front of my last two weeks of summer as I realize I need to be sorting clothes that they have outgrown and watching the aisles of Walmart for those school supply lists instead of laughing with the kids as they jump in the lake or cover themselves with watermelon juice as they run around the yard!
Whether your kids are going to public school, private school, or homeschooling, I'm sure you can identify with that back-to-school rush that interferes with the end-of-summer fun.
Many of us ladies here at Keeper of the Home have our own bundles of kids and we understand the stress of traversing the empty aisles to find last minute notebooks or the right kind of 11 pocket folders in two yellow, two blue, two green, two white, three purple all with clasps and 3 holes!
This back-to-school giveaway is for you, moms. It's something special to thank you for being a mom. Remember to take care of yourself and to take a minute to breathe. The back-to-school chaos may usurp your life, but don't let it drag you down: keep smiling, keep trusting God, and keep at the most important work you can do!
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This Keeper of the Home Back-to-School Giveaway for Moms is worth over $250!!! We've been working hard to find just the right combination of awesome and useful and fabulous, and we think we've done it!
Check out our favorite back-to-school essentials for moms and enter below for a chance to win.
Melt Massage's Head Massage
Value of $24
Does back-to-school give you a headache? Or does the thought of it fill you with so much excitement you might explode? Either way, you're going to LOVE this!
With the stress of the juggling of back to school, there's nothing like connecting with touch…and I say this even for those of you who may not be the touchy-feely types. My hubby is NOT a touch-type person, but he is a huge fan of Melt Massage. So here's to date nights that connect you to your man!
Skinny Coconut Oil Goodies
You know how I love coconut oil in general, and Skinny in particular. I've gathered some of my favorites from their product line to share with you in this giveaway!
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We have plans, very soon, to unveil some product lines that will be linked to Keeper of the Home: items that will help you live a whole and natural life, available for a reasonable price in quantities to serve your family. These are two of my favorites from what we have coming!
Gold & Black Whole Bean Coffee (1 lb. bag)
While I love coffee, my husband did not until recently. Now that we drink bullet proof coffee every morning, he's getting more of a taste for it, and this roast is one of our favorites. It's fair trade, organic, and very yummy. It's a blend of light and dark roasted coffee, and it's both smooth and sweet. There's a buttery texture to it, with hints of chocolate and fruit.
Honey (1 lb. jar)
This honey was made by bees in my local neighborhood, and it is completely organic. The air around here is clean and clear, which only adds to the yum of this honey. And the jars? We shopped high and low to find something that we felt captured what we wanted to convey…and I just love them (I love the honey more, though).
East Bali Chocolate Cashews (3 oz. bag)
Sometimes you just need a quick bite, or you want to tuck something tasty AND nutritious in your bag (or their gym bag!)…and I can think of many other reasons to treat myself to these: they're organic, they're fair trade, they have only four ingredients (cashews, cane sugar, dark cocoa powder, and sea salt).
But the best part is the chocolate part, don't you agree? 😉
They're not too sweet, but have the taste of chocolate that just…well, you know. 🙂
Bend Soap "Goat Milk Bath" Bulk Bag!
Because every mom I know who loves to relax deserves a bath with one of these nourishing, fragrant goat milk baths from Bend Soap! This batch is one of our favorite scents, Cranberry Wassail.
The soap is made from goat's milk, with essential oils for fragrance, and it's a silky smooth experience that will help you physically relax while you soak in the tub.
You simply add a handful of the shredded soap into the running water and watch it bubble. Then you kick back and enjoy the experience! 🙂
Note: This isn't the usual 7 oz. bag, but the bulk one-pound bag!
Whole Home Kit from Cleaning Essentials
Value of $65
Once the kiddos are back in school, I love being able to put things in order (though I do, admittedly, miss them!). That includes finally cleaning some of the tracks from the kitchen, some of the prints from the walls, some of the grime from the places I don't notice during summer break.
Of course, what I'm grabbing is my blue bottles from Cleaning Essentials. This kit has 2 of the original blue spray bottles and 2 amber bottles, a wipes container, plus an organic cotton air diffuser.
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This is one of my hubby's latest projects, and I'm so proud of him. But it's also something near and dear to me as a parent and a wife. Whether you win this prize pack or not, here's the secret: you can get this ebook free right now by signing up over at Ziglar Family. I wanted to include it in this giveaway, though, because I think it's that important for us moms and our families!
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