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I did two hours with Theresa and her ABA therapist today. Theresa did good and so did I. We went to the pharmacy to pick up her fish oil afterward and she only tried to grab the candy at the counter a few dozen times.
She took a nap this afternoon while I went to get her some play-doh and paint. She requested very well for both of them! By the color and with the right words. She's responding to "give me five" with the proper motivation. Now she gets to do four fun things for one task.
I even managed to get one article written today. That's good but I have to increase my summer work load now. I can't do anything with deadlines during the summer but that's OK too. I'll just have to write more of my own stuff instead of what other people want me to write for them as a ghostwriter. I'm going to have fun figuring this out.
We have an appointment with the dietitian in a week to go over the new changes to her diet to heal her gut. OK it's time for bed and I've got to do a couple things before I can call it a day.

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Just curious if anyone else has a Reveal LINQ implant ?? I had one inserted in July of this year to monitor my palpitations. I have had palpitations for years but earlier this year they changed (at least for a while) and I experienced shortness of breath and pain with the palpitations.
I just think this is really cool technology.
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@jigglejaws94 I had never heard of this before, but I looked it up on "google" and it does sound like an interesting tool Please share, if you want to, how this works.
Basically, it is a tiny insertable cardiac monitor that is placed subcutaneously between 3rd and 4th rib in the chest. It is about one-third the size of a AAA battery. It is called a loop recorder – which means that it records so much and then records over that. So basically, I have a 24/7 ECG inserted in my chest. I have a monitor that is at my bedside. Every night while I am asleep, the device inside me communicates with the patient monitor which is then uploaded to my physician's office. He has software that reports certain activities — depending on how my device is programmed. It is an excellent diagnostic tool for people who experience intermittent arrhythmias, syncopal episodes or atrial fibrillation. It can be implanted for about 3 years which is the length of the battery life. If you need an MRI done, you can still get one with some special adjustments. I also have a little device which is called a Patient Assistant. If I am experiencing symptoms that I am concerned about — I just hold the Patient Assistant over the implant and push the button. What this does is mark the reading on the device. So when the information is uploaded, it will be marked. Then I have to contact the doctor's office and let them know what I was experiencing at that time. The doctor then looks at the reading for that time period to see if the symptoms were related to an arrhythmia. The cost is about $20,000 currently but insurance does cover it. The reason it is so high is because they are most often implanted as an outpatient surgery in a hospital. My doctor is working on getting set up to do them in the office which would be a tremendous saving to the patient. The procedure to insert it is very simple — only requiring local anesthesia. I only had to pay 10 percent so I felt like it was a cost-effective tool in my case — to have my cardiologist monitor my heart closely for three years. The only other cost is a quarterly cost of about $120 for my physician to interpret my readings. I had a 30 day event monitor placed earlier this year — and of course, during that 30 day period, my heart didn't have the new worrisome episodes.
Here is a link to the LINQ : http://www.medtronicdiagnostics.com/us/cardiac-monitors/reveal-linq/
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No, I have an implantable defibrillator. My device paces me, can shock me if I go into a lethal heart rhythm, and does do some recording. The Linq is basically an implantable holter monitor.
Recently had a heart monitor implant (11/27). Monitors the heart for up to three years. Much better than wearing a holter monitor every so often.
This is great news, @crashnam! I moved your message to this discussion so that you can meet other members who also have/had a heart monitor implant. I'd also like to invite @regeanna @traceysmith to join this conversation and share their experiences with this device.
How are you feeling, Larry? Are you able to continue day-to-day activities?
Hi Kanaaz. Implant went fine. My days have been fair to good for about 6 months. As you may recall I have both intermittent AFIB and PVC's. The PVC's are actually much more bothersome and worrisome than the AFIB. Some days I pretty much just push myself to do things even though the PVC's with all their skips, jumps and hesitations will be driving my crazy. Some days my heart will feel weak, and sensitive like a hair trigger and the slightest move sets off the PVC's and occasional AFIB. Other days, my heart will feel normal, with a normal beat, but still will have the PVC's. Just can't figure it out. Bowled in a league for 40 years, but decided not to bowl this year. Hopefully can get things straightened out so I can feel confident to bowl again. Still smoke and drink black coffee everyday. Just haven't had the willpower to stop for a while to see if it cuts down on any of my symptoms. It's a nervous habit, and of course PVC's and AFIB make me nervous. Thanks for your concern.
It sends the information direct at a specified time at night which is programmed into the system. Mine in particular starts transmitting at midnight.
I had a reveal loop recorder, and I had no events until about a year later. I had complete heart block which would have never been diagnosed without the reveal loop recorder. I'm thankful to God first and foremost and then to my excellent cardiologist who recommended it. This has been a life saving device!
Larry — I'm curious. Why did you have this placed? I've had mine for almost 1.5 years now — no major events have occurred. Ah– I see the thread below with this answer.
I had near syncopal episodes and my doctor was checking for afib since I have congestive heart failure, that's how I ended up with a reveal loop recorder.
Hi Larry, you mention that you haven't had the willpower to quit smoking. It's tough and I am definitely not here to tell you what you should or shouldn't do. But, I want to let you know about BecomeAnEX – a proven quit plan guided at your own pace and online community support. You can read more about getting support here: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/smoking-quitting/
Hey Jiggle, since you have seen one of my posts (below), I guess you have the answer. All I can do is add that no matter what sensations I explain to the Cardiologists they don't seem to understand. Intermittent AFIB started about four years ago, anywhere from 5-12 hours (180-200 BPM). When it would let up I would feel great, with the exception of several tolerable PVC's during the day. After awhile, the AFIB started coming more frequently (every 2-3 weeks), and the PVC's have gotten progressively more "weird." I will get every type of skip, flutter, jump, pause, etc. that you can possibly think of or feel. Recently, the AFIB has had longer intervals in between episodes, which is a good thing, but the palps feel worse (go figure). Also, some days I keep going in and out of AFIB for short durations with weird palps before and after for awhile. I can have several hours sometimes during the day and feel pretty good then suddenly out of nowhere I will feel down and out with all these symptoms. Considering ablation, but want everything fine-tuned before that happens. Have worn several holter monitors which have shown variations of palps from hundreds a day to thousands a day and of course I feel every one of them. Have had 3 or 4 ultrasounds and a recent nuclear stress test and everything looks okay. So, bottom line, there is something wrong somewhere and I'm just trying to pinpoint the problem. I do a lot of research and read a lot of testimonials, but I use common sense when I ingest the information. Just want to get my confidence back. I can live with all the palps I used to have before they started getting worse. If I could get back to that point I would be satisfied.
Hi Colleen. Thanks for the information. I will look into it. At this point however, I don't know what good it would do. In a way, I kind of hope that smoking is causing some of the palpitations. If I quit and nothing changes, that would be a real let down for me. The mind works in curious ways. I am the type that looks at all kinds of different scenarios for everything, while trying to reason them out one by one. However, many times when I think I have solved something, or come close, the bottom falls out. Again, thanks for the info.


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What is more yummy than Peanut Butter cookies. Right !!! I know
Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate Chips. The aroma through out the house is so comforting.
The kids rush in just to grab the first ones out of the oven. I remember those days. Nothing better than mom in the kitchen baking.. I know we all can go back and remember lots of the days of mom and grandmas in the kitchen. I can't remember when I ever saw my grandma without her apron. That was just a part of her getting dressed in the mornings, all ironed and crisp. She would get started for another yummy day in the kitchen, its funny that is what I always remember is what she di in the kitchen. That was her office, she plane her day right there. She would fire up that wood stove and begin making her famous biscuits, frying some homemade sausage, and gravy OMG I can just feel the love. I hope you to have some great memories of days gone by. They are precious memories.
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1 stick unsalted butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar1 tsp. vanilla
1 egg
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 level tsp. baking soda1/2 tsp. salt
Add chopped salted peanuts if desired. And If you want Chocolate Chips for Peanut Butter Chocolate Chips
Cream together softened butter,sugars, eggs, vanilla, and peanut butter, blend well.
Whisk together the dry ingredients. stir into the wet and roll into balls or use small cookie scoop it will make about 1 inch balls
roll in sugar, now place about 2 inches apart on cookie sheet, crisscross each cookie. Bake in preheated oven 375 for 10 to 12 minutes.
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The four state scientific surveys – the Illinois State Geological Survey, the Illinois Natural History Survey, the Illinois Waste Management and Research Center, and the Illinois State Water Survey – will become part of the U. of I. if a plan proposed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich is approved. The surveys, on the U. of I.'s Urbana campus, would be organized as a new unit, the Institute for Natural Sciences and Sustainability, under the university's auspices beginning in Fiscal Year 2009.
The institute would serve as a focal point for applied energy, environmental science and sustainability programs throughout the state, taking advantage of the surveys' complementary goals and missions of providing the scientific underpinnings for energy, sustainability, environmental policy and natural resource management, ensuring that the natural environment is developed to enhance the well being of the citizens of Illinois and the state's economic viability.
The surveys and the campus each have strong programs in natural resources, energy and the environment, and their integration provides opportunities to build on the synergies between the academic and educational programs of the campus with the state-focused research and outreach programs of the surveys. While creating operational efficiencies, the surveys' integration with the university also will expand opportunities for collaborative research and access to funding, technology commercialization, experiential learning for Illinois students and programmatic enhancements.
"The state surveys, long a part of our research activities, are truly significant contributors alone and through our joint work with them on issues of energy and sustainability," said Richard Herman, the chancellor of the Urbana campus. "Notably, the work of the surveys has helped to address real-world problems for the people of the state of Illinois. This is fully in keeping with our land-grant mission, and it makes the University of Illinois the right intellectual home for the surveys. The governor's proposed action is most welcome and timely."
"This institute will combine the world-class expertise of survey and Illinois scientists to provide the collaborative, interdisciplinary research necessary to address our modern, complex environmental problems," said David Thomas, chief of the Illinois Natural History Survey.
The surveys are supported by $33 million in state funding, comprising $18.5 million in General Revenue Funds and $14 million in contracts with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, the Illinois Department of Transportation, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, and other state agencies. More than $12 million of grants and contracts come to the surveys from various federal agencies, foundations and other groups. Approximately 250 staff positions in the surveys are paid through general revenue funds; an additional 320 full-time-equivalent positions and many part-time student employees are funded by grants and contracts.
The proposed transfer, which would take effect July 1, must be approved by the Illinois Legislature and the endorsement of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, the U. of I. Board of Trustees and the Urbana-Champaign Senate.
Additional information on the surveys:
Illinois State Geological Survey: Founded in its modern form in 1905, the ISGS is the largest of the 50 U.S. states' geological surveys with research focused on environmentally responsible development of Illinois' energy resources and on three-dimensional geological mapping. A major research contributor to the national and international drive to control carbon dioxide emissions.
Illinois State Natural History Survey: Founded in 1858. Investigates the diversity, life histories and ecology of the state's plants and animals and beyond; studies diseases of crops and wildlife, invasive species, habitat restoration and other topics; publishes research results so these resources can be managed wisely, and provides information to the public to foster a better understanding of natural resources.
Illinois State Water Survey: Founded in 1895. Primary agency in Illinois for research and information related to the quantity, quality and use of groundwater, surface water, and atmospheric resources, enabling government agencies, the private sector, not-for-profit organizations and the public to make informed decisions.
Waste Management Research Center: Founded in 1985, with the mission of pollution prevention and natural resource conservation. The center provides expert and technical assistance in areas such as sustainability, waste minimization, energy efficiency, water purification, developing and testing alternative technologies. WMRC develops beneficial uses for river sediment while restoring habitat where sediment is removed. WMRC also has a program for converting waste oils into biodiesel.


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Microsoft is using Twitter to share tips on being more productive with the Visual Studio IDE at the #vstip hashtag. The company promises useful tips for all Visual Studio users, be they new or veteran users. Users are encouraged to share their own tips using the hashtag as well.
Visual Studio tips
Here is a sample of some of the Visual Studio tips provided thus far:
- To improve the performance of solution load and reduce visual noise, disable the restoration of node expansions in Solution Explorer and the reopening of documents on solution load.
- For quick keyboard navigation, use Ctrl+T to find anything in a solution.
- For a debugging shortcut, use F10 to build, run, and attach the debugger. The debugger will automatically break the first time code is being executed. There is no need to set breakpoints.
- Also for debugging, use the reattach to process function, via Shift-Alt+P, when attaching to the same process over and over again.
- Use Shift-Alt+W to quickly surround HTML elements with <div> tags. The inserted <div> will be selected so you can easily edit it.
- Use vsconfig to specify which Visual Studio components are needed for any solution. The IDE will prompt you to install any that are missing.
- Use the Visual Studio Spell Checker extension to check the spelling of comments, plain text, and strings.
- Use the Add New File extension to add files to a project.
Where to download Visual Studio
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Before I start, I would like to say that this is not a discussion about breastfeeding v formula feeding or a sermon on breastfeeding because this issue has caused so much controversy in recent years and I do not want to be adding to it!
This post is simply a reply to a friend who asked me why I am still breastfeeding Baby Girl. She isn't a parent and therefore doesn't know what it is like and was curious. It made me think about why I do and why I intend to do so for at least two years as the World Health Organisation recommends (Baby Girl permitting!) Continue reading
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This is a page featuring a list of the ToonTasks that are required to do in Toontown Central.
- Main page: Toontorial
The Toontorial is the introduction and beginning of the game when players first start playing Toontown Rewritten. The player learns the basics of the game about how to move their Toon, gags, Cog battles, ToonTasks, Toon HQs, the Shticker Book, and how to use SpeedChat or SpeedChat Plus.
Gag Training
- Start gag training for Toon-Up or Sound
- Final gag training
Animation Frames
Toons will need to complete ToonTasks for 16 animation frames of the gag track that they chose to train.
Important Tasks
- Medium pouch to carry 25 gags
- Carry 2 ToonTasks
- Carry 50 jellybeans
- Teleport access to Toontown Central
Laff Boosts
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- Honey Haha for +2 laff boost
- Professor Wiggle for +2 laff boost
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- A random task for +1 laff boost
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By Andrew Lepore | United States
In 1920, an article first appeared In the German Archive for social sciences which decimated the socialist economic model and laid the foundation for the Austrian price theory. Economist Ludwig Von Mises's article, "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth", demonstrates the impossibility of a successful socialist economy. For this reason, it is one of the world's most important economic articles.
At the time Mises published it, those in academia were debating the problem with incentive under socialism. The incentive to work as much as others, to work your hardest, to provide the best services, to do the jobs nobody wants to do, etc. Scholars and left-wing economists were attempting to solve the problem of incentive under socialism, and once they did so, they thought, they would have a system just as productive as capitalism.
By publishing this article, Mises answered their question by proving it is an impossible problem to solve. Mises demonstrated that the incentive which drives economic actions, both on the supply and demand side, comes from monetary reward. The cost-benefit analysis of the individual ultimately is how a person decides what they will do and how much they will work.
Similarly with what a person decides to buy, an individual will use their capital to purchase the object of most value to them at the least opportunity cost, or the least amount of money spent. The medium for all of this; for how we represent economic calculation that takes place in the market, how we determine profits and losses, and how we measure the cost and compare it to benefit, is through prices.
Prices emerge when there are many private owners of the means of production competing in the marketplace to convince consumers to spend their hard-earned capital on their product or service. Or in other words, prices emerge when many companies compete for the business of many customers by convincing them they can get the best product at the lowest cost ( The lowest opportunity cost for the greatest benefit, economic calculation).
Mises proved that socialism wouldn't work because It cannot distinguish more or less valuable uses of resources. Nevertheless, with leftists being as hard headed as they are, the debate over the socialist calculation problem still rages on.
I recommend to all readers who want a deeper economic understanding of the failure after failure of government programs. It's a short read, yet is full of information. It will arm you with economic facts to counter argument for statist programs, both on the left and the right.
"The significance of Mises's 1920 article extends far beyond its devastating demonstration of the impossibility of socialist economy and society. It provides the rationale for the price system, purely free markets, the security of private property against all encroachments, and sound money. Its thesis will continue to be relevant as long as economists and policy-makers want to understand why even minor government economic interventions consistently fail to achieve socially beneficial results. "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth" surely ranks among the most important economic articles written this century." – Joe Salerno


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The 28th January witnessed the anticipated (perhaps with extreme preemptive hyperbole) telephone conversation between President Putin and President Trump.
The repercussions of this telephone call were immediately witnessed in eastern Ukraine – and will undoubtedly unfold elsewhere too in due course.
Sanctions upon Russia were maintained which was not unexpected despite the preemptive angst. It will be several months at least, possibly 6 months, before President Trump may make any significant changes to the current sanctions regime. For somebody that considers himself the Alpha male and a wonderful negotiator The Kremlin would have to offer something meaningful to President Trump in return – his narcissistic character simply couldn't cope with a global public crucifixion and the ridicule he'd receive from announcing a deal where he emerges as clearly the weakest and surrendering the most for the least.
(A reader can immediately dismiss any US nuclear arms reduction talk by the new Administration, for it is nuclear arms that is all that keeps President Putin relevant in the global arena – so why give any up when already modernising the Russian nuclear weapon arsenal? It is a perceived strength within The Kremlin.)
Nevertheless, sanctions will probably end during 2017 via President Trump – unless President Putin overreaches somewhere and somehow.
The 28th January telephone call readouts from the White House and The Kremlin are striking in that The Kremlin's is longer and more detailed vis a vis that of the US – and importantly for Ukraine, there is no mention of Ukraine in the US readout whereas there is in that of The Kremlin.
Whatever was or was not said about Ukraine in that 28th January telephone conversation, the following day, 29th January witnessed a significant uptick in the war in Eastern Ukraine around a small town named Avdiivka.
Details of the (on-going) serious battle are unnecessary for this entry, (but can be found here) – suffice to say the number of deaths, injuries and heavy armour employed mark a significant and deliberate escalation.
That escalation continued throughout 30th January and continues as of the time of writing. Ominously The Donbas is back on Russian TV after months of more or less complete absence.
Clearly President Putin is continuing his conversation with President Trump (notwithstanding messaging Chancellor Merkel and Prime Minister May who counseled (as far as is possible) President Trump prior to his call with the Russian President).
This conversation will continue to push the envelope in an attempt to see if there is any reaction from the Trump White House – where thus far there is none. At the time of writing, not even a meaningless diplomatic statement of "concern" spews forth.
Whatever the European leaders say, whilst not entirely irrelevant, this conversation is one between The Kremlin and The White House which is being played out in Avdiivka – and if there is no reaction from the Trump White House, The Kremlin may decide (rightly or wrongly) to infer that lack of response as a de facto acknowledgement of a sphere of influence.
So much so expected – however that sphere of influence will not be limited to Ukraine if it is ceded.
There has also been a noticeable rise in Russian rhetoric regarding Belarus that will not have failed to register with President Lukashenko – something that will be irritated by the Zapad 2017 exercise being held in the Russian Western Military District and (perhaps groundless) speculation that it bodes ill for the future of Belarus. An occupation is an extremely unlikely scenario – unless President Putin is absolutely certain he has indeed been granted his sphere of influence.
Nevertheless, a watchful eye on Belarus for the sake of caution may be wise.
(There is of course The Kremlin's overt efforts in Syria, its covert shenanigans in Afghanistan and probably a further experimenting with PMC's such as Wagner in Libya very soon as well.)
Regardless, the 28th January telephone call between President's Putin and Trump continues – with President Putin doing the talking via Avdiivka. It's unclear whether President Trump is too busy on twitter or mitigating poorly crafted EOs to be listening though.
Meanwhile as predicted for Ukraine 2017 has started "hot" despite the freezing temperatures as President Putin prods and pokes seeking reaction – or not – from the Trump Administration. With such an expected start to the year, the now predictable "guns of August" annual escalation in fighting looks set to be particularly fierce with such a January backdrop.


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Rita J. Robillard received her MFA and BA degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and attended Cooper Union in New York prior to moving west. She has taught at the University of California at Davis, the San Francisco Art Institute, Rhode Island School of Design, and Washington State University and is currently a professor at Portland State University. Her artwork ranges from traditional painting and printmaking to new-genre installations and videos. In Time and Place, a recent solo exhibition at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery, in Portland, Oregon, Robillard explored historical images and contemporary conceptions of Portland and the Pacific Northwest. As in her earlier exhibitions Essence and Artifice: Visual Images of Spokane and The Garden, The Park and The Fall From Grace about Gramercy Park in New York, Robillard presented mixed-media prints that place details of buildings and gardens against the promise of the idealized landscape. The work contrasts early travel-book engravings of the "new world" or arcadia with the realization of immigrants' dreams in the imprints of architecture and urban design. In the midst of astounding natural beauty, Robillard observes, people create a sense of belonging through their interventions in the landscape. Robillard's mixed-media work has been included in a hundred museum and gallery exhibitions, in Santiago, Chile at the Museum of Contemporary Art; Sao Paulo and Curitiba, Brazil; Tokyo; Hangzhou, China; London; and Lacoste, France. Her Fire Lookout Tower video was shown in "How Artists Use Video," at Artists Talk on Art Panels: On Contemporary Issues in Art, New York. Her work is included in over twenty public collections including the Portland Art Museum, Yale University Library, The National Academy of Art, China; and Museu da Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil. Robillard has served on the board of the College Art Association as Chair of the Visual Arts Committee, on the Executive Committee, and on the editorial board of the Art Journal.
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The Mommy A to Z Manic Mondays Blog Hop Is Live!
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An Australian Christmas
For people in the Northern Hemisphere, Christmas is all about cold mornings, large hot lunches, and snow. In Australia, Christmas is celebrated during the summer months with no snow and log fires for us! For Australians it's about sun, the beach, and often inappropriate large hot lunches, though our Christmas Cards and traditions usually depict those of colder climates. Australians have Christmas Trees, Father Christmas, Christmas Carols and gifts which are a familiar Christmas scenario.
For the majority of Australians, Christmas Downunder experiences all the seasonal variations of a Summer Down Under…..electrical storms, floods, hailstorms, cyclones and bushfires. But 80% of the time they are blessed with blue skies and depending on the Australian location, temperatures ranging from 25 – 34 degrees centigrade.
Australia is a multicultural country and with this, the traditions we have are often mingled and derived from a mixture of other countries. Australia, although huge in size, has a population of just over 20 million people. Our country is a harmonious mix of many ethnic groups. Our backgrounds are very varied, with people having connections with England, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Europe, Russia, Italy, Greece, Spain, France, Middle East, Vietnam, China, Japan, Thailand as well as North and South America. So you can imagine that each of these national groups brings the colour ,customs and festive rituals of the Christmas celebrated in their respective homelands. Australians are able to appreciate culturally diverse Christmas celebrations.
House decorations in Australia are not usually as elaborate as in the United States, although there are plenty of decorations and symbols, and even a few wreaths. Because it is warm weather, there are many native plants in bloom. These are easily picked for decoration around the holiday season – orchids, Christmas bells, and the like are common.
Christmas is special to the majority of Australians for it is their Summer Holiday season and students especially are "wrapping" up their school year. That means sitting for end of Semester tests or exams and waiting for their results, as well as getting ready for the Summer Holidays. For the majority of Australian students this means …SUN….SURF….SHOPPING. For students it means an end to homework and school studies and the beginning of lots of time for family, relatives and "mates" (friends).
Traditional dinners have been replaced with family gatherings in back yards, picnics in parks, gardens and on the beach. For many, it is the occasion to be with friends and relatives, to share love and friendship and not to forget, the exchange of gifts in the traditional manner. For many, it is a time to enjoy and consume massive quantities of food.
So how do we REALLY celebrate Christmas? Christmas for childen means presents, and lots of them! When I was a child, traditionally in the weeks leading up to Christmas, we would decorate the house with tinsel, Christmas lights, and a large plastic Christmas tree would adorn our front entrance. Christmas was an exciting time of year. Next to Easter and my birthday, it was my favorite time of year! 🙂
Every Christmas Eve, I would put a "Christmas pillowslip" (stocking) at the end of the bed and try to stay awake to wait anxiously for Santa Claus to arrive. Of course, I always fell asleep and never saw Santa arrive, but when I awoke in the morning, my pillowslip was filled with toys and goodies of all kinds. Each year was as exciting as the previous. I would throw off my bedsheets and open my presents from Santa while everyone else in the house slept.
In more recent years, I had the pleasure of spending Christmas with my sister in New Zealand. Although we had forgone the traditions we experienced as children, we still decorated the house with Christmas lights and various other decorations, and on Christmas morning we would sit around the Christmas tree and exchange presents we bought for each other. Of course, there was always one of us who would dress up like Santa and give out more gifts, which added to the magic that is otherwise "Christmas".
In my sister's house, the usual Christmas Lunch consisted of roast pork, roast turkey, roast potatoes, pumpkin and other hot vegetables as well as salad, cold ham, cold chicken. The traditional Christmas meal may either be taken in the middle of the day which is the hottest part of the day or in the cooler evening hours. With some families opting for a celebration meal as dinner on Christmas eve. In some households, Christmas Dinner may be a barbeque in the backyard or a picnic on a beach. The evening meal is leftovers from lunch.
Currently everyone is beginning to get ready for the "silly season". Everyone is busily planning Christmas break-up parties. Children are writing letters to Santa Claus. Decorations are being bought and set up. Shopping centres and malls are experiencing record breaking crowds. In homes, many of the traditional Christmas rituals are being followed. Many children are helping to decorate the family Christmas tree. Australians have yet to follow the American ritual of getting "real" Christmas trees……though some do use gum tree branches. Children are learning Christmas Carols so that they may be sung at festive occasions such as public "Carols by Candlelight" and school concerts. Christmas stockings are being hung in homes….though fireplaces are in short supply. Cards galore are being written and posted. Everyone awaits…….the anticipation is high!
It must also be mentioned that Australians consider Christmas a time for remembering the true meaning of Christmas………a time for remembering the birth of Jesus and the spiritual meaning of Christmas. For many, Christmas will begin with families attending a midnight mass. 70% of Australians are either Catholic, Anglican or Lutheran. After the midnight Mass, a little sleep is attempted. For many, the children in various households, wake up the family at dawn. Gifts are unwrapped and the joy of Christmas begins. For many with relatives and friends overseas, it is a mad scramble to get an early phone call to relatives worldwide.
In order to celebrate an Australian Christmas in your house this year, consider displaying a map of Australia on the wall. Use an Australian animal, like a kangaroo or koala, as the gift or favor of choice for your guests. Create a beautiful tree with wooden decorations, tinsel or garland, and the fairy, angel or star on the top. Serve up a picnic instead of dinner, with champagne and pavlova, (a meringue dessert that is topped with whipped cream and fresh fruit). Or if you choose to serve traditional Christmas plum pudding, offer ice cream or cream on the side. The Christmas pudding during Australian gold rushes often contained a gold nugget; the lucky person who found it was considered to be blessed with good luck for the coming year. These days the gold nugget is replaced with small favors; consider adding these to your pudding.
This year will be my first Christmas in Russia, so although I will be celebrating the traditional Orthodox Christmas with my family, I will also be bringing a little bit of Australiana to Russia with celebrating Christmas "Aussie" style, with lots of decorations, roast pork, roast chicken, roast vegetables, salad, and not to forget, lots of presents for my family! 🙂
Happy Holidays everyone!
C.A. Milson
Australian Recipe: Pavlova
The Pavolova was first created in 1935 by Chef Herbert Sachse of the Hotel Esplanade in Perth, Western Australia, to celebrate the visit of the great Russian ballerina, Anna Pavlova.
4 egg whites
1 cup superfine sugar (granulated)
1 tablespoon corn flour (cornstarch)
half pint whipped cream (one cup)
strawberries or your choice of fruit such as passion fruit, kiwi fruit…
Place egg whites in a clean glass bowl. Beat slowly until frothy, then increase the speed and beat until stiff.
GRADUALLY add the sugar, beating well after each addition. (When all the sugar has been added, the mixture should be shiny, very stiff, and should stand in peaks.) Gently fold in the corn flour with a metal spoon.
Line a cookie sheet with brown paper and grease it lightly. Pile the meringue mixture on it
Slow-bake the mixture at 150°C (300°F) to dry all the moisture and create the meringue, approximately 45 minutes. This leaves the outside of the Pav a crisp crunchy shell, while the interior remains soft and moist.
When cooked, turn off the oven and leave the door open to let the Pav cool on the oven shelf – this helps to prevent the middle of the Pav from collapsing (although if it does collapse, generous application of cream hides any mistakes)
When cold, peel off the paper and transfer to a serving platter.
Slice the strawberries in half. and roll in icing sugar (confectioners sugar), and refrigerate.
Cover top of the Pav with whipped cream about 1 hour before serving.
N.B. Turn the Pav upside down before decorating with cream and fruit because the bottom is less crispy than the top after cooking and, unless you serve it immediately after decorating, the "top" absorbs moisture from the cream.
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Dorine Van Meel, Between The Dog and The Wolf @ South London Gallery, 26052015
Interview from the Gallery Text:
Dorine van Meel, the fourth recipient of the Nina Stewart Residency in conversation with Margot Heller, Director of the South London Gallery.
Margot: You've been in residence in our Outset artists' flat next door for the past few months, but to what degree has that context had an impact on the work you've produced for the exhibition?
Dorine: All the works have been made during my stay, and the texts reflect directly on the enviornment I found myself in. Visitors might recognise specific details when listening to the narrators. Daily observations are mixed with reflections on books I was reading at the time – mainly biographies of female artists and revolutionaries, as well as feminist theory – and conversations I had with my female friends about the end of the world, the desire for a future, or the films of Agnes Varda.
M: Your interest in feminism has been manifest in all your work to dat. Where does that stem from and why do you think it's particularly relevant today?
D: I arrived in London from Amsterdam at the same time as the economic crisis so I immediately joined the discussions about the presumed impossibility of an alternative to capitalism or an outsider perspective – against the backdrop of a postmodern worldview in which grand narratives are dead. To me however, neither irony nor cynicism are productive positions. In my understanding, feminism can open up a space in which to imagine the world differently, and invites us to act differently within the world as we find it. The relatively recent history of feminism not only shows us that even the most deeply rooted behavioural patterns are subject to change, but that change within society can come from unexpected corners. My research into feminisim also opened up new connections to my grandmother and mother, and their silent struggles, as well as to female artists from the past, like the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, whose writing I refer to in the work.
M: The exhibition title, Between the Dog and the Wolf, is drawn from that research, and chimes with references to duality which permeate the show through the voices, scripts and imagery, as well as in the way they are presented in the gallery spaces. What's the source of the phrase and how did you come to choose it?
D: In her essay, Woolf's Darkness: Embracing the Inexplicable, the American writer Rebecca Solnit mentions a French expression used to refer to the twilight: 'entre le chien et le loup'/ I understand it as the moment the night starts its battle with the day, the moment one is no longer able to distinguish the dog from the wofl, when the civilised foregrounds its savage side. If one thinks of the dog and wolf as one creature, the title of the show reads as an internal dialogue between its dual sides. It resonates with my rejection of the idea that any single subject can exist in isolation because we are formed of many. Helene Cixous, the French feminist writer, says it best: "Our customers demand simplicity. You are always full of doubles, we can't count on you, there is otherness in your sameness.'
M: The scripts you've written are both puzzling and captivating, like a stream of consciousness in which disconnected observations, reflections and ideas somehow manage to flow thanks to the rhythm of the language, recurring imagery and momentary glimpses of cycles of thought. The words: 'this was before the internet, and at bedtime I tell him dragons don't exist, fear the real world instead', prompt an association between the fragmentation embodied in your script with a navigation of a digitally mediated world. This is reinforced by the imagery of the projections, which equally seem to portray a dream-like or meditative state of mind. The words themselves are poetic and I'm intrigued to know how far they, and your work more broadly, embrace a sense of nostalgia for a pre-internet existence?
D: I find that a difficult question, nostalgia implies a longing for the past which it might falsely romanticise. I guess the strawberry iMac and the pre-internet reference locate the subject very precisely in the early nineties, a time in which images could still get lost or forgotten. I was a teenager when the internet entered our homes and many of my childhood memories are coloured by the digital forests and desolated hotel lobbies of computer games like Myst and Labyrinths of Time. I believe there is still an offline world out there, although one might need to force those encounters more consciously than one did in a pre-internet era.
Marshall Mcluhan – 'The Medium is the Massage" 19052015
3 Part Lecture:
This lecture, and of course the rather erratic book, has had a profound influence on me in recent days. Many of his ideas surrounding different media distribution are fascinating, given it was the 70s. His accuracy in discussing the impacts of these media on the audience have, in some cases, proved themselves true over time. The discussion in these videos is truly eye-opening. To think that in the space of 40 years, the social attitudes and understandings of media effects and possibilities are so radically different. I've included some of the questions and the dialogue with the audience as well. Professor McLuhan seems to have his facts straight in the long run, however his views on the rearview mirror as nostalgia, and the costumes of the young, I wouldn't entirely agree with. Yes, there is a sense of nostalgia in re-fitting and re-fashioning the clothing of the past, and yes it is part of an international "motley" or trend, but in many cases these cant be linked to such exploratory attempts of understanding identity, and instead can be linked to the excitement of new fashion through television and colour printed media.
Please excuse ay spelling mistakes, I've typed these extracts out from the video, and will edit it later in the day.
Italics – Questions / Audience
Bold – Professor Mcluhan
– "The quest for identity, The person who is struggling to work out 'who am i', by all sorts of mal-adjustments, all sorts of quarrels, all sorts of encounters, such a person is a social nuisance of course, but the first the quest of identity goes along with this bumping into other people, in order to find out who am i, how much power can i exert? how much identity can i discover that i possess by simply banging into other people/ That's what i had in mind when i said The quest for identity is always a violent quest, its a series of adventures and encounters that create all sorts of disturbance. You dont have to go very far in literature for example, Don Kyote, and Flash Gordon, and Superman. Were now beginning together, I m thinking of this new show, the Star War, thats based on Flash Gordon comics. The bionic man, bionic woman, these are bi-curious forms of violence where young people are trying to discover who am i? I once asked my granddaughter who was 6 what she wanted to be when grew up, she said instantly "Bionic Woman". This is a form of violence that permits one to discover who you are. i was using violence in a rather large sense, simply abrasive encounters."
– "Cricket is a very organised form of violence"
– "I would insist on studying the game of cricket as a manifestation of the controlled forms of violence in the community. Baseball or football, any kind of sport is a dramatisation of acceptable violence in the business community. You can learn a lot about the business community by studying the rules and procedures of cricket, baseball or golf. These games are huge ways of discovering, dramatising what the society your in is all about. Without an audience these games would have no meaning at all. They have to be played in front of the public in order to acquire their meaning. A baseball game without an audience would be a rehearsal only, a practice. The game requires the public, and the public has to resemble a whole cross section of the community. Im very interested in games as the dramatising of violent behaviour. Under control."
On Nostalgia – "When people are stripped of their private identities they develop huge nostalgia and nostalgia for the jeans and the levis of the young today are the nostalgia of grandad's overalls. His workclothes now become the latest costume. But this is a rather mysterious thing. The costumes worn by the young, the fashionable costumes are really very old hat, and nostalgic. Someone called it International Motley. Thatthe costumes worn by the young today, are an international motley or clown. Paradoxically, the clown is a person of greivance. His role in medieval society was to be the voice of grievance. The clowns job was to tell the emperor or the royalty exactly what was wrong with society. He often lost his head in the process, but the clown, the international motley of our time. The clown is trying to tell us his grievance. The beards, hairdos and the costumes of the young are a manifestation of grievance and anger. You've heard about the streakers, a kind of manifestation of anger of lack of jobs and opportunities in out world. In America we call them Passing Fannies."
Q: Professor Im asking this question which i think is very relevant today, for people who are looking for an identity who are searching for a kind of responsible attitude towards the media. Since in the 20th century we are so conditioned and hemmed in by the media. Should we be teaching our children what value judgements they should really make concerning what different programmes they watch on TV or listen to on the radio , as part of their development of achieving adult maturity.
The answer is yes. but one of the peculiarities of the electrical speed is that iT pushes all of the unconscious factors up into consciousness. This began with Freud and Einstein back in the 1900. but the hidden aspect of the media are the things that should be taught. because they have an irresistible force when invisible. When these factors remain ignored and invisible they have an absolute power over the user, so yes the sooner the population, or the young or old can be taught the effects of these forms, the sooner we can have some sort of reasonable ecology amongst the media themselves. What is desperately needed is a kind of understanding of the media that would permit us to program the whole environment. so that literate values wouldn't be wiped out by new media. If you understand the nature of these forms, you can neutralise some of their adverse effects, and foster some of their beneficent effects. This, We've never reached this level of awareness.
Q: We can never reach that level of awareness.
I've been working for that for a long time. You may be surprised to hear that the Finnigans Wake, by James Joyce is one of the top guides to the effects of media. The work is entirely devoted to that theme, and the thunders in finnigans wake are statements of the effects of particular media. The last thunder in finnigans wake on p424 is television. With all its effects social consequences carefully dramatised. Finnigans wake is a drama, its a play, and the actors in the play are the media themselves. Very few Joycians know this.
Q: Professor McLuhan, up til now, while television may have dominated our minds and our lives, the actual box in the corner hasn't dominated our living room but large screen television sets are being developed, screens say the size of a living room wall. What effect do you think that will have? Will we tolerate giants watching us?
"It's a very important thing to keep in mind, very important question. I am not, personally I haven't seen those big screens. They tend to have them out on the play-fields in America, they tend to have these great big screens for the game itself so that you can watch the game on television whilst the game is in process."
Audience Laughs
"This is a kind of situation that invites enormous awareness of process, to participate in the kind of replay of the thing whilst its still ongoing. Participation in replay is a form of pattern recognition which is new in the media and has id say has rather large consequences, mostly cognitive, mostly consequences that will effect our nature of our cognition and awareness and i would think only in the direction of extreme self-awareness. I once asked a famous quarterback in american football on TV what the effects of the instant replay on the game of football. We now have to play the game in such a way that the audience can watch the actual process that were performing. They're no longer interested in just the effect of the play, they want to see the nature of the play, so they've had to open up the play on the field to enable the audience to participate more fully in the process of football play. Its an unexpected effect, I think its an effect that will also extend to the classroom. The future of education requires that we pay much attention to the media were employing, as forms of study. not necessarily just the hardware skill and use of cameras and microphones but awareness of the nature of the operation
When you said that Television uses the eye as the ear? what did you mean?
Its a phrase of Tony Schwartz in a very interesting book called the responsive chord. What he means literally is that the image is constituted by millions of these resonating particles. There are no pictures on television there are no snapshots, no shutter,m no camera/ There is an outpouring of these small bits of information in patterns that are entirely active, and dynamic, so they resonate. So he was really saying that the TV image was not a visual but a resonating form of experience.
Professor McLuhan, Is television the ultimate medium, or is there worst to come?
You've heard of the hologram? the hologram goes completely around you, TV only goes a little bit around you. the hologram is 360degrees. but its been anticipated by the rock music, in which you have to be enclosed in a sound bubble, the hologram does for TV what rock does for auditory entertainment. The hologram is technically here.
Professor Mcluhan, earlier you spoke of us as going out for our privacy, and coming home for the social aspect. id like to hear you comment on that in relation to electronic mans new thirst for mediation, contemplation, mystical experience.
When being asked about the relation of this inside outside on the life of meditation. As you know the transedential meditation has become exceedingly popular. All forms of mystic meditation have become very popular in our TV age. We have gone very far into the East since TV. Just as an exercise in awareness, meditation has come very big since TV. I'm nbot sure if its good or bad at all, it just has happened. Do you think of it as a very significant event?
I think its very significant. it seems to me almost like a nostalgia for a return to that private self without going outdoors to find it. Return to an inner union with god, with yourself, which electronic man seems to need and is looking for in this way.
Quote from "Medium is the Massage" Book:
"Real, total war has become information war. It is being fought by subtle electric informational media – under cold conditions, and constantly. The cold war is the real war front – a surround – involving – everybody – all the time – everywhere. Whenever hot wars are necessary these days, we conduct them in the backyards of the world with the old technologies. It is no longer convenient, or suitable, to use the latest technologies for fighting our wars, because the latest technologies have rendered war menaingless. The hydrogen bomb is history's exclamation point. It ends an age-long sentence of manifest violence."


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I discussed the pros and cons of JPG and PNG files in the November 2014 and January 2015 issues of Recognition Review. Now that you know the two major bitmap file formats to consider and when each is best, we're going to look at the best sizes to use when posting bitmaps online in a variety of scenarios.
Foster D. Coburn III, Corel Concepts
Some of you may have cringed when I talked about putting bitmaps online because you don't feel you are a web master. Even if you aren't creating a website, you can help the people who do create sites by providing them with optimized graphics. It also is important to have a presence on the popular social media platforms to promote your business and products.
If you have a good working knowledge of CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT, creating bitmaps for online use takes only a few extra steps. Those extra steps can save you money—you won't have to pay a web guru to do all the graphics for you and you'll be marketing your business online to generate more income. You've got the software and the skills; let's put them to use!
It is common for even the smallest of businesses to have photos online of products they are selling. E-commerce is huge and will continue to grow. If you post the best possible photos of products, you'll have the best chance for selling. Maybe you don't have your own online store today. That could soon change, or you could sell products via Amazon, eBay, or Etsy.
If you take photos of products, get the best possible original you can at a high number of pixels. Some would call this high resolution, though that is a very misunderstood term. You'll want to do everything possible to perfect those photos at the largest size possible. I discussed this photography and perfection process in the August 2013 issue of Recognition Review. Once they are perfected, we'll prep them for placement in an online store.
No matter the platform you use, some guidelines will be provided for what works best. I'm going to provide you specifications that should work in many scenarios. It is important to have a square image, and a good size to use is 1000 by 1000 pixels. Notice I did not mention inches and I didn't include dots per inch (DPI). Those are not relevant, so please specify the size in pixels. As you must enter a DPI, feel free to use 150 as long as the number of pixels is exactly 1000 x 1000. FIGURE 1 shows the Create a New Image dialog box in Corel PHOTO-PAINT with the appropriate settings.
Typically, you'll want the photos to have either no background or a white background. For example, Amazon photos must have a white background. Rather than creating a new image as shown in Figure 1, maybe you'll use the Image Resample command or the Image Paper Size command on a photo to get the appropriate size. Your original photo is most likely not square so you'll select Image | Paper Size in Corel PHOTO-PAINT (see FIGURE 2) to make the image square.
The original photo of the watch shown in Figure 2 was 2920 pixels wide by 4386 pixels tall. Using the settings shown in the dialog box, it was cropped to 2000 pixels square. Depending on the photo, you may choose a different square size. By choosing 2000, the product itself fills the frame well while leaving a bit of white space around the edges.
Before I resample the graphic, I'm going to use the masking tools in Corel PHOTO-PAINT to cut out the watch so there is no background at all. The masking process would require several articles to fully describe it so it is not included here.
Once you have an image perfected at the largest size possible, save a copy! Should you ever need something larger than what you need now, you can always go back to this original. Our next step will be to resample the image to the 1000-pixel-by-1000-pixel size that is ideal for most scenarios today. Select Image | Resample and use the settings shown in FIGURE 3.
Note that I'm giving the procedures for 1000-pixel-by-1000-pixel size, but you can modify to a different size if you are giving specifications. I'm simply providing settings that should cover most uses, but each situation is different.
Anytime you resample an image to a smaller size, it is a good idea to apply some sharpening as resampling can make images a tad blurry. Select Effects | Sharpen | Unsharp Mask to get the dialog box shown in FIGURE 4 and use the settings shown.
When done, save the file in PNG and JPG formats. The PNG file will be large and have the highest quality. Typically I find the best balance between quality and size is to use the JPG for the product online. If you have a scenario in which the larger file size isn't a problem, go for the PNG.
Once you work hard to get a good photo of your products, you'll want to share that photo on social media. For this article, I'm only going to focus on Facebook and Twitter, though it isn't hard to modify these instructions for other social platforms.
The large photo displayed in the Facebook News Feed as of this writing is 504 pixels by 504 pixels. Using the information provided earlier in this article, resample the image to exactly 504 pixels by 504 pixels and apply Unsharp Mask after resampling. Save the result in PNG format and post it to Facebook. There is no reason to save to JPG as Facebook will automatically convert the photo to JPG. If you start with a JPG, the quality will degrade more when Facebook does its processing.
Twitter has an optimal size that isn't square: 880 pixels by 440 pixels. If it is really important to you, resample the product photo to 440 pixels by 440 pixels and then use Image | Paper Size to make the graphic 880 pixels by 440 pixels. In the extra space added, you could add a short description of the photo. In many cases, the best solution is to resample to 440 x 440 pixels and post that on Twitter. While it may not be optimal, it will still look great in the Twitter stream.
We started out with a photo of our product and through some basic manipulation, we turned it into a perfect photo for use online. FIGURE 5 shows the original and our finished photo so you can see the difference between the two. Taking a little time to set up the photo saved a lot of processing time after the photos were shot.
Now it is your turn to take this information and get some great photos of your products to put online!
Foster D. Coburn III is the author of 13 books on CorelDRAW, the latest being CorelDRAW X6 Unleashed. He also writes the free Graphics Unleashed Blog and provides fonts, artwork and add-ons of interest to designers through the Graphics Unleashed site at www.unleash.com. Connect with Graphics Unleashed on Facebook at www.facebook.com/graphicsunleashed and follow Foster on Twitter at @fostercoburn.
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August 26, 2017 in Conservation, Deep Ecology & Spirituality, Environment, General, Landscape | Tags: communities, connectivity, hedge-laying, HedgeCanada, HEDGELINK, HEDGEROWS, hedge_ontario, Landscape, sense of place, spirituality | 2 comments
Way back in the mists of time I completed a short school project on the Monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus. Young Jim had read an article in a magazine with a picture of a tree dressed from root to branch in thousands of Monarchs. He learned about the incredible migration of this beautiful butterfly up and down Central and Northern America. He cut out the picture and stuck it in my exercise book, migrating the text into my own enraptured shorthand. Forty years later I drive a golf cart up onto Mount Wolfe Forest Farm in Ontario to feed the chickens and dancing about me between patches of Milkweed, their favorite larval food plant, are those same Monarchs. These butterflies are in trouble across their range, the overuse of herbicides and intensive farming practices implicated in the loss of breeding habitat which threatens to destabilize this epic migration.
Its 10 months since I undertook my own migration across the Atlantic to Mount Wolfe Forest Farm as a guest of the University of Waterloo to advise, with my Hedgelink colleague Nigel Adams and Dutch hedge-layer Jef Gielen, on a 3 year project 'Hedgelaying in Ontario's Greenbelt: A Multi-Criteria Assessment of Social-Ecological Innovation and Novel Ecosystems'; You can read about that first visit here. 'Hedgerows' in Ontario are generally fencerows or shelter belts found on marginal land where no, or very little, management is practiced and shrubby scrub inevitably gives way to trees. European-style hedgerow management, including the act of rejuvenation called hedge-laying, isn't practiced widely (or at all?) in Canada. The University of Waterloo and partners are exploring the promotion of hedgerows- or living fences if you prefer -for the variety of ecological services they can provide-– biodiversity, soil protection, water ( and snow?)management, wood fuel, food; but also the social-ecological benefits arising from the interaction between man and this feature of the natural environment such as sense of place, skill development and health and wellbeing. A sense of urgency informs this work as the inevitable expansion of Toronto into green-belt land requires forward thinking and the incorporation of a novel ecosystems (see Hobbs_et_al-2006-Global_Ecology_and_Biogeography ) approach into regional and local planning.
Both of the hedgerows Nigel and Jef layed back in September, with a help from this blogger, have survived the winter and are thriving. Initial worries that the pleacher (the hedge plant after it has been partially cut at base and layed over) would break or die underneath the snow have not been realized. The hedge at Mount Wolfe is mostly white ash with a hawthorn species and high-bush cranberry (Viburnum americana, a subspecies of my own hedgerow favourite Guelder Rose Viburnum opulus).
The success of these demonstration "hedgerows" and meetings last year are now being built upon with plans to begin planting hedgerows at two locations in the Caledon area north in the Green belt North of Toronto. On my recent trip bacto Ontarion in July I joined the project partners-The University of Waterloo, Toronto Region Conservation Authority (TRCA), Albion Hills Community Farm, Mount Wolfe Forest Farm and Caledon Town Council– to firm up plans for an Autumn…sorry, Fall….planting program.. The plants for these first hedgerows in the scheme will be provided by TRCA from their own stocks; the exact composition is yet to be decided but initial conversations between Nigel and TRCAs Ralph Toninger have come up with an outline planting list. We are also aided by PHD student Perin Ruttonsha's discovery of a 1938 publication Hedges, Screen & Windbreaks Their Uses, Selection and Care by Donald Wyman. The desire is to not be too prescriptive however but to see what works, both ecologically and sociologically: these hedgerows must evolve from the landscape and express its individuality.
For the success of Monarchs and Canadian hedgerows migration is crucial factor. In this year when Canada controversially celebrates celebrates 150 years since its confederation, we remember that it was founded on migration but failed, and continues to fail, to recognize the nations that existed before. When equality and justice for indigenous people is still far short of where it should be, we must be wary of a direct migration of what is on the face of it a clearly European approach to land management-a cultural 'hedge-emony' if you like. However we also must be careful not to disregard the functional role hedgerows can provide in the managed landscape as well as the ability they have to reflect the individual sense of place envisioned in the hearts and minds of those resident in the landscape Oreszczyn and Lane (2000). Indeed, hedges may have existed in many cultures across the world as dead hedges used for corralling livestock the world before Europeans developed their own particular style of management (sensu Nigel Adams!)
Infamously, hedgerows are remembered in the UK as facilitators of landscape enclosure and disenfranchisement. However until post-1940s mechanization took hold Britain's network of hedges provided hedgelaying work for people through the autumn and winter, so supporting rural economy and society. Now in a modern landscape where habitat fragmentation is a dominant structuring process, hedgerows can provide connectivity and green infrastructure.
In this project we have a possibility to focus on the connective and rejuvenating aspects of hedges to bring communities together; to heal a landscape and reimagine hedgerows as facilitators for creating new inclusive rural and urban identities and even incomes and livelihoods. I look forward to helping shape this new story.
3 Go to Canada: Hedges, Novel Ecosystems and Damn Fine Donuts
November 9, 2016 in communities, Conservation, Environment, General, Landscape | Tags: connectivity, Conservation, Environment, hedge-laying, HedgeCanada, HEDGELINK, HEDGEROWS, hedge_ontario, Landscape, novel_ecosystems | 6 comments
Where I find myself in Ontario Canada introducing the technique of hedge-laying and discovering social-ecological complexity, Novel Ecosystems theory and Community Supported Agriculture along the way
I'm writing this blog as US Citizens go to the polls and a baked potato crisps in the oven, getting ready for a date with home-made chilli. By the time you read this, we will have a new 'leader of the free world'. I doubt much will change really, except the aforesaid citizens will have as much to divide them as we Brits now have thanks to Brexit
So if you can't bare another Trump vs Clinton, Brexit vs Remain story, let's talk about Connections, my favourite topic. There is after all far more that unifies us than divides us.
I was invited as a guest of the Institute of Social Innovation and Resilience at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, to take part in exploring social-ecological complexity, and in particular the role hedgerows and hedge-laying might play in designing "novel" or "designer" ecosystems ahead of the inevitable growth of the Toronto Golden Horseshoe.
Hedgelaying in Ontarios Greenbelt-Program Fall 2016
I'll explore the detail of the project in a later blog, but for now it's worth explaining how this invitation came about due to its almost serendipitous levels of connectivity. Before I joined the Surrey Wildlife Trust I ran a project for the People's Trust for Endangered Species called Hedgerows for Dormice (HfD) (HfD Newsletter 2011) from 2009-12, for which I ran a series of workshops across England and Wales for Landowners about Hedgerow Management. Through this project I had joined Hedgelink which at the time was the UK BAP for Hedgerows Steering Group, and now goes from strength to strength as a technical advisory group on hedgerows which are a Habitat of Principal Importance for Nature Conservation in England.
Through Hedgelink I met Nigel Adams, a countryside management professional specialising in hedge-laying, and vice-chair of the National Hedgelaying Society. I enlisted Nigel to help me with the HfD Hedgerow Management Workshop, providing a much-needed practical element of hedge management through his 10-point plan to compliment the positive wildlife message from my PTES project. Nigel also attended my NERC Workshop on Hedgerow Connectivity at Imperial College in 2014 and off the back of this he enlisted me in the 3-man mission (with Jef Gielen, a hedge-layer from the Netherlands) to Ontario to demonstrate the art of Hedge-laying. Nigel and the NHS had hosted the Waterloo team, headed up by Dr Steve Quilley and PhD Candidate Perin Ruttonsha, when they attended the National Hedgelaying Championships in 2015, and who subsequently invited him and Jef to take part in the all program at Waterloo in 2016.
Nigel, Jef and I were intrigued by the invitation because we didn't equate Canada with hedgerows, let alone hedgelaying. The team at Waterloo were tasked with finding a hedge for Nigel and Jef to demonstrate their art and it soon became clear that finding a suitable "hedge" was not easy. After arriving in Ontario on a Monday evening in September we went straight to work on Tuesday demonstrating hedge-laying on a small patch of shrubs at the Quilley's property in Elora. I say "we" I am of course more an eager conservation hedge-layer rather than professional like my colleagues but the "hedge", layed midland style, was soon shaping up. Until we ran out of shrubs to lay!
Following this first demonstration we journeyed with our hosts from our base in Waterloo to Caledon and scoured Mount Wolfe Forest Farm for a suitable hedge to lay. Beautiful as the farm is, it did lack anything resembling a hedgerow although a line of trees along the edge of a woodland strip gave us the opportunity to demonstrate again. Assembled at Mount Wolfe to watch the demonstration were some of the posse that had been to the 2015 Hedge-laying Championships in the UK including Debbe Day Crandall (Save The Oak Ridges Moraine Coalition), Gord Macpherson (Toronto Region Conservation Authority), Karen Hutchinson (Caledon Countryside Alliance/ Albion Hills Community Farm) and Nicola Ross (Writer and Environmentalist), together with farm manager Sarah Dolamore, all keen to see how hedges and hedge-laying might be a useful tool in the conservation of the Oak Ridges Moraine Area.
These hedge-laying demonstrations naturally gave rise to many questions. Why aren't hedges, never mind hedge-laying, more prevalent in Ontario? What are the best species of shrub to use from the palette of Ontario species? In our hedgerows were maples, ash, basswood, hawthorn and buckthorn which all seemed to work but would this yield the best results? How might snowfall impact the newly cut pleacher? There may be good practical reasons why hedges haven't been planted extensively in Ontario, however further work should look to map current hedgerow extent. Nigel and Jef had brought their own bilhooks over with them thinking no such equipment would be easily available. Only after they had both left (I stayed on for two extra weeks) was a Canadian-made billhook unearthed in the Barn at Mount Wolf Forest Farm
Of course there may also be social aspects to explain the lack of hedges. Settlers from Europe were in some cases disenfranchised by the theft of common land and its redistribution to wealthy landowners exemplified by the exclosure acts. During the enclosure acts of 1750-1850 over 200,000miles of hedgerow was planted enclosing over 2 million acres of land. Perhaps hedgerows represented a way of life settlers would rather forget. I will come back to this because I think it raises some challenging questions about how much social and cultural aspects should be considered when ecosystem functioning is threatened.
The general consensus was that some trial hedges should be planted as soon as possible to answer some of these practical questions before hedgerows might be rolled out as a component of green infrastructure.
Subsequent blogs will explore:
- Novel ecosystems concepts
- Complexity and resilience
- Ontario-Surrey Comparisons
- Community Supported Agriculture & Forestry
- Locally-derived ecological coherence & resilience
Oh, and here are the donuts………
Europe's Field Boundaries: a collossal new work (REVISED)
February 16, 2014 in Book Review, Conservation, Environment | Tags: Book review, Conservation, HEDGELINK, HEDGEROWS, Landscape, socio-ecology | 1 comment
This post first appeared on Feb 16 with details of how to order the work from NHBS at £399. I was promptly contacted by Georg Muller the author to tell me that neither he nor his publisher had supplied NHBS and certainly not at this price.
If you would like to purchase the book please contact Georg Muller direct for 318 euros = 262 pounds including shipping costs if it is dirket ordered from the author. See website http://www.wallhecke.de.
This is an impressive work that Georg has funded himself. Without visionary and dedicated people like him, works like this would not exist. Worth every penny.
After 30 years of intense research in over 30 European countries Georg Muller has produced a colossal and comprehensive new work on Field Boundaries across Europe, which highlights the connection between farming methods and their field boundaries.
I was able to leaf through these impressive tomes at a recent Hedgelink Steering Group meeting, two of my colleagues having been sent complimentary copies. The books are so large that Emily bought Volume 1 from Leeds and Rob Volume 2 from Devon! As well as the beloved hedgerow, types include fences, dead hedges and hedge banks and dry stone walls. As well as wonderful colour photographs the 2 volume set has diagrams of construction methods
Professor John Dover, also of Hedgelink has written of Muller's work
"Field boundaries are not simply stock control or ownership boundary features, they are human cultural artefacts – and their presence in the landscape is a physical history of human endeavour
If you are feeling charitable and should you wish to purchase a copy for me, well, my gratitude would be as large as Georg Muller's work.
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