Thomas Page

An Inquiry into Performance
Harmonica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Harmonica techniques http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Category:Musical performance techniques http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 2 -21 sort related? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page
Outtake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ performance expectation [[ creative process [[[ 10000 hrs - Thomas Page
Labels for those with accountability (fiscal Responsibility) for economic problems? Financier - , nope. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Quants no http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Our Best Minds Are Failing Us http://www.newsweek.com/2010... ) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
pstp econ pol , Labels for those with accountability for economic problems? Not finding anything definitive. Energy crisises, housing bubble, AIG, Enron, Pension funds, ... automatic cya? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 3 -9 sort http://www.truthout.org/introdu... - Thomas Page
Above the Law - Thomas Page
Handicapping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Winning the Future? Who owns the future? Handicapping, in sport and games, is the practice of assigning advantage through scoring compensation or other advantage given to different contestants to equalize the chances of winning. The word also applies to the various methods by which the advantage is calculated. In principle, a more experienced player is disadvantaged in order to make it possible for a less experienced player to participate in the game or sport whilst maintaining fairness. Handicapping also refers to the various methods by which spectators can predict and quantify the results of a sporting match. - Thomas Page
Odds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... on who owns the future ? True Democracy ? Governance? Priorities? Folkways? ]]]]]] [[[[[[ 2 -21 Actuarial_science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page
Category:Physical exercise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Exercise equipment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Physical exercise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Stay Strong , It's a good life if you don't weaken. February is Heart Health Month. Braveheart Heartsmart [ 2 -21 Comebacks , what to do when weakened? How to be? [[ back to the basics done well ? Sickness done well ... Competitive sickness ]]]] [[[[[[ Spring_fever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Pon_farr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Battery (electricity) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
pstp energy elec emtech test Fastest charging, largest, and lightest batteries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... are the fastest charging and discharging, next to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...] The world's largest battery is in Fairbanks, Alaska, composed of Ni-Cd cells.[50] sodium–sulfur battery or liquid metal battery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... are being used to store wind power.[51] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... have been used on the longest and highest solar powered flight.([52] "Lithium sulphur is more than double the energy density of the best alternative technology which is lithium polymer batteries. )The speed of recharging for lithium-ion batteries may be increased by manipulation.[53] , http://www.nanotech-now.com/news... , http://enviasystems.com/ , 3 -5 http://inhabitat.com/super-b... - Thomas Page
Permaculture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Interview: Bill Mollison on Permaculture and Ecosystems for the Future - http://permaculture.org.au/2010...
"About two months ago, Charles Walters, editor for Acres, USA, asked if I might not get interviews with Bill Mollison http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and Masanobu Fukuoka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... for future use in his paper. Both were to be speakers at The 2nd International Permaculture Conference, August 8-10 at the Evergreen State College, in Olympia. This turned out to be a working conference, with more than 60 other presenters from all corners of the world.  Masanobu Fukuoka is the author of The One-Straw Revolution (Rodale Press) and several other texts on natural farming.  Many in the world now consider him the Master Farmer of Japan. I will share this interview with you in a later issue of HMR.  Both these interviews, and the conference as a whole were “events,” and well worth the time." 11 -18 sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 12 -13 Edo http://www.resilience.org/stories... - Thomas Page
Perennial Grains 11 -22 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page
Applied ethics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Gross_national_happiness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Poverty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
pstp econ Poverty and Lack of Research Block Path to a Well-Fed World http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010... - Thomas Page
Social Dilemmas [ sort 3 -4 World_view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 3 -5 Ethical_code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page
Category:Fundamental categories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
pstp know "A fundamental category in a "tree of all knowledge" denotes a top-level place to start, when browsing Wikipedia categories for articles." , Concepts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Matter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Society http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , - Thomas Page
This is for pages about skills. Note that these are not intended to be instructional, Wikipedia is not a manual, guidebook, textbook, or scientific journal. [ Skills http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[ Techniques http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[ Methodology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[[ 9 -27 tangent , Life_skills http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page
Allan Savory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
pstp ag "(Clifford) Allan Redin Savory (born September 15, 1935) is a Zimbabwean biologist, farmer, soldier, exile, environmentalist and winner of the Banksia International Award 2003.[1] and winner of the Buckminster Fuller Award 2010.[2] He is the originator of the Holistic Management concept http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ." , 1 -28 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 3 -5 Allan Savory: How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change http://www.ted.com/talks... http://permaculturenews.org/2013... , 3 -9 http://www.facebook.com/SavoryI... , 4 -13 Allan Savory was at Evergreen http://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page
Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of High-Resolution Animal Social Networks: What Can We Learn from Domestic Animals? http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6074 Ranges of Domesticity ? [ http://www.springer.com/life+sc... [[ The Boss Cow ... - Thomas Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Rhetorical_techniques http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Allegory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"Allegory is a figurative mode of representation conveying meaning other than the literal. Allegory communicates its message by means of symbolic figures, actions or symbolic representation. Allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric, but an allegory does not have to be expressed in language: it may be addressed to the eye, and is often found in realistic painting, sculpture or some other form of mimetic, or representative art. Simply put, an allegory is a device used to present an idea, principle or meaning, which can be presented in literary form, such as a poem or novel, or in visual form, such as in painting or sculpture. As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor. As an artistic device, an allegory is a visual symbolic representation. An example of a simple visual allegory is the image of the grim reaper. Viewers understand that the image of the grim reaper is a symbolic representation of death. Nevertheless, images and fictions with several possible interpretations are not allegories in the true sense. Furthermore, not every fiction with general application is an allegory." - Thomas Page
Do Right , Passing Muster , Mustering (Virtue-Courage) [ Useage of Amplified Self (Privilege - Nobility)[[ 10 -21 Noblesse oblige http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is a French phrase literally meaning "nobility obliges". ~ In ethical discussion, it is sometimes used to summarize a moral economy wherein privilege must be balanced by duty towards those who lack such privilege or who cannot perform such duty. ~ a noble person performs services for others not for gain or recognition, but simply because it was the right thing to do ~ Sarpedon exhorts Glaucus thus: "’Tis ours, the dignity they give to grace / The first in valour, as the first in place; / That when with wondering eyes our confidential bands / Behold our deeds transcending our commands, / Such, they may cry, deserve the sovereign state, / Whom those that envy dare not imitate!" ~ 10 -23 https://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Category:Caffeine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
tea-tuesdays-how-tea-sugar-reshaped-the-british-empire http://www.npr.org/blogs... - Thomas Page
Appropriate = suitable or proper in the circumstances. ] Appropriate technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
pstp perm h2o Appropriate technology (AT) is technology that is designed with special consideration to the environmental, ethical, cultural, social, political, and economic aspects of the community it is intended for. "Cooking In Ghana, Zouzugu villagers use solar cookers for preparing their meals Solar cookers are appropriate to some settings, depending on climate and cooking style. They are emission-less and very low-cost. Hybrid variants also exist that incorporate a second heating source such as electrical heating or wood-based. Hot plates are 100% electrical, fairly low cost (around 20€) and are mobile. They do however require an electrical system to be present in the area of operation. Rocket stoves and certain other woodstoves (e.g. Philips Woodstove[42]) improve fuel efficiency, and reduce harmful indoor air pollution. The stoves however still make use of wood. However, briquette makers can now turn organic waste into fuel, saving money and/or collection time, and preserving forests." - Thomas Page
10 -8 sort , Appropriate = take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission. [ Appropriate = devote (money or assets) to a special purpose. [ https://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Category:Cooking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia , - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Concoctions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 12 -23 http://friendfeed.com/citizen... Wassail (Old Norse "ves heil", Old English was hál, literally 'be you healthy') refers both to the salute 'Waes Hail' and to the drink of wassail, a hot mulled cider traditionally drunk as an integral part of wassailing, an medieval southern English drinking ritual intended to ensure a good cider apple harvest the following year. The phrase found first use as a simple greeting, but the Danish-speaking inhabitants of England seem to have turned "was hail", and the reply "drink hail", into a drinking formula adopted widely by the indigenous population of England. [[ liqueurs and spirits http://www.coreperformance.com/ , http://antioxidantcomparison.blogspot.com/ , pstp ref bev http://healthmad.com/health... , pstp food med http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 12 -16 ( Mulled Wine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://www.epicurious.com/recipes... , http://wineintro.com/mulled/ , http://www.ehow.com/how_103... , http://allrecipes.com/... , http://www.ehow.com/how_229... , Wassail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes... , http://www.accidentalhedonist.com/index... ) , Punch (drink) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://www.cbsnews.com/stories... , 2 -9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://allrecipes.com/recipe... http://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page
Top 10 Products 2011 :: World Ag Expo :: Tulare, CA - http://www.worldagexpo.com/General...
1 -25 http://www.nwagshow.com/show-in... 12 -2 http://oregonstate.edu/dept... http://oregonstate.edu/dept... [ http://irrigatedag.wsu.edu/hrfwork... Workshop sessions; 4 hours total, starting and ending times vary with location Benefits of high residue farming Challenges of high residue farming Conditions for stand establishment Residue management Direct seeding with a planter or a drill Effects of local cropping, soils, and climate Strip-till systems Getting started in high residue farming All those attending these workshops will receive the following publications in the WSU High Residue Farming under Irrigation series: What and Why? Crop Rotation Residue Management through Planting Pest Management Considerations Strip-till 1 -14 2015 WSU Extension Cereals Seminar Agenda 7:30 am 8:00 am. On-site registration, catered BREAKFAST, and Introductions. Speaker: Wayne Thompson, WSU Extension Agronomist 8:00 am - 8:25 am. Soil acidification under direct seed systems. Soil acidification is fast becoming one of the foremost limiting factors in wheat and pulse crop production across the Palouse Region. Acidification disrupts nutrient cycling and fertilizer efficiencies, promotes changes in the physical structure of surface soils, decreases the conversion of crop residues into stable forms of soil organic matter, and extends herbicide carryover. How do we choose and apply products that promise to amend acid soils? What challenges do we face and what can you do to test for this condition in your fields? Speaker: Wayne Thompson, WSU Extension Agronomist, Walla Walla. 25 minutes 8:30 am - 9:25 am. On-combine multi-sensor data collection. Introduction to harvest sensor technologies and their utility in documenting spatial variations of grain yield and quality. How do these spatially variable patterns relate to nitrogen and water stress? Has it been shown that variability can be associated with weed pressures or pest management failures? Speaker: Dan Long, USDA ARS Research Leader, Columbia Plateau Conservation Research Center, Pendleton. 55 minutes 9:25 am - 9:40 am. 15-minute Break 9:40 am - 10:35 am. Nitrogen use efficiency and water relations. The inherent topographic variability of the Palouse farming landscape creates a continuum of varying soil conditions caused in large part by changes in soil properties including soil texture, organic matter and clay content, cation exchange capacity, base saturation, and soil pH. These factors in turn are known to alter cropping conditions by affecting water and nutrient use efficiencies, the incidence of many plant disease infections, and the severity of insect and weed infestations. What practical strategies are under development or currently available for farmers to improve nitrogen use efficiency and better manage stored soil water? Speaker: Dave Huggins, USDA ARS Cropping Systems Agronomist, Pullman. 55 minutes 10:40 am - 11:35 am. Small Grains Variety Update. 1) WSU Cereal Variety Testing Program update from the 2014 growing season highlighting advances in disease and insect resistance, 2) Progress status on aluminum toxicity tolerance of cereal grains; and 3) Introduction to the Variety Selection Tool available online at http://smallgrains.wsu.edu/. Speaker: Ryan Higginbotham. WSU Extension Agronomist, Pullman. 55 minutes. 11:40 am - 12:05 pm. Water use by wild oats, spring cereals and cover crops. National programs funded by USDA NRCS actively promote the use of cover crops as one of the most effective solutions for solving the soil quality challenge facing our nation's farmers. Is this a practical solution for dryland cropping systems of the Palouse? The practice is considered by many as wasteful luxurious water use and significantly detrimental to wheat yields. Preliminary data for SE Washington from the 2014 spring season illustrating soil water removal rates by wild oats, spring cereals and cover crops versus three fallow systems will be presented. Key words: cover crops, weeds, soil water storage, biomass accumulation rates, water use efficiency. Speaker: Wayne Thompson, WSU Extension Agronomist, Walla Walla. 25 minutes 12:05 pm - 13:00 pm. 55-minute Catered Lunch, on-site 13:00 pm - 13:25 pm. Rattail Fescue. Biology of rattail fescue and what we know about how to manage it in conservation tillage systems. This will include a discussion of weed control options in fallow as well as in wheat. Speaker: Drew Lyon, WSU Professor and Extension Agronomist/Weed Scientist. 25 minutes 13:25 pm - 13:40 pm. 15-minute Break 13:40 pm - 14:35 pm. Advances in Precision Ag Technologies. "Drones for Agriculture" is a current hot topic Why? What other precision ag technologies are available for wheat production systems? Which technology adaptations are known to improve pest management practices, production efficiency and economic profits for Palouse farmers? Is there return on investment data for these technologies? Key words: variable rate fertilizer, seeding rates, guidance, grain sensors, weed sensors, soil sensors, GIS, web-based crop management models. Speaker: Dave Brown, WSU Professor and Soil Scientist, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Pullman. 55 minutes 14:40 pm - 15:05 pm. The Role of Harvest Weed Seed Control in the Management of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds. 1) Status of herbicide-resistant weeds globally, nationally, and regionally. How Harvest Weed Seed Control can be used to help manage this problem, 2) Use of narrow windrow burning, chaff carts, bale direct systems, and 3) the Harrington seed destructor to reduce return of resistant weed seed to the soil seed bank. Speaker: Drew Lyon, WSU Professor and Extension Agronomist/Weed Scientist, Pullman. 25 minutes 15:05 pm - 15:30 pm. 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observations, feelings, needs, requests ]] Nonviolent Communication - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"OFNR model in more detail The four steps, when used in "self-expression" mode, work like this: To observe without evaluation, judgment, or analysis, To express feelings which these observations evoke, To express needs connected with these feelings, (optional) To make a specific request of another person to help meet an unmet need, and to enrich life of everyone involved. Essential in this is that the other person is to be left free to honour or decline the request." Nonviolent Communication Part 1 Marshall Rosenberg http://www.youtube.com/watch... , How to Practice Nonviolent Communication http://www.wikihow.com/Practic... - Thomas Page
Unfathomable Fear (source?) atmosphere [ statistics - Thomas Page
pstp forp Holbrooke's Legacy: The Power of Limited War http://www.time.com/time... - Thomas Page
Everything looks like a nail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... McCain [ Angela_Merkel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 2 -10 Arrangements? Commonwealths? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Laws of not Possesion but commitments? [[ 2 -11 oligarchical syndicates private governments treaties not their forte ? Warlords - Thomas Page
supreme cybernetic system ] Philosophy_of_mind http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Gregory Bateson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
pstp psy pol "Bateson also viewed that all three systems of the individual, society and ecosystem were all together a part of one supreme cybernetic system that controls everything instead of just interacting systems.[13] This supreme cybernetic system is beyond the self of the individual and could be equated to what many people refer to as God, though Bateson referred to it as the Mind.[13] While the Mind is a cybernetic system, it can only be distinguished as a whole and not parts. Bateson felt the Mind was immanent in the messages and pathways of the supreme cybernetic system. He saw the root of system collapses as a result of Occidental or Western epistemology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... . According to Bateson consciousness is the bridge between the cybernetic networks of individual, society and ecology and that the mismatch between the systems due to improper understanding will be result in the degradation of the entire supreme cybernetic system or Mind. Bateson saw consciousness as developed through Occidental epistemology was at direct odds with the Mind.[13]" , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 8 -18 sort http://fora.tv/2006... - Thomas Page
Pemmican - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
pstp food cook meat "Pemmican is a concentrated mixture of fat and protein used as a nutritious food. The word comes from the Cree word pimîhkân, "pemmican", which itself is derived from the word pimî, "fat, grease".[1] It was invented by the native peoples of North America.[citation needed] It was widely adopted as a high-energy food by Europeans involved in the fur trade and later by Arctic and Antarctic explorers, such as Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen. Pemmican was among the supplies taken by the Burke and Wills expedition across central Australia. It is believed that the pemmican went bad and was not eaten, contributing to scurvy and death among members of the expedition, which became a disaster. Properly prepared and packaged, pemmican can be stored for long periods of time. The specific ingredients used were usually whatever was available; the meat was often bison, moose, elk, or deer. Fruits such as cranberries and saskatoon berries were sometimes added. Cherries, currants, chokeberries and blueberries were also used, but almost exclusively in ceremonial and wedding pemmican. The highest quality pemmican is made from lean meat and bone marrow fat http://www.westonaprice.org/food-fe... http://www.marksdailyapple.com/bone-ma... ; the pemmican buyers of the fur trade era had strict specifications[citation needed]." , pstp cook http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-... , http://www.natureskills.com/pemmica... , http://www.lns.cornell.edu/~seb... , http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/natbltn... , http://www.google.com/search... , - Thomas Page
M. Scott Peck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"Though the topic of evil has historically been the domain of religion,[3] Peck makes great efforts to keep much of his discussion on a scientific basis, explaining the specific psychological mechanisms by which evil operates. He was also particularly conscious of the danger of a psychology of evil being misused for personal or political ends.[3] Peck considered that such a psychology should be used with great care, as falsely labeling people as evil is one of the very characteristics of evil. He argued that a diagnosis of evil should come from the standpoint of healing and safety for its victims, but also with the possibility even if remote, that the evil themselves may be cured." pstp psy phil http://www.scientificamerican.com/article..., 3 -22 sort The people of the lie dealing with inconvenient truths? - Thomas Page
The Shadow radio program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" spoken by actor Frank Readick Jr., has earned a place in the American idiom. These words were accompanied by an ominous laugh. At the end of each episode The Shadow reminded listeners that, "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay... The Shadow knows!" ~ 8 -12 sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 8 -26 sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page
Potlatch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"The influx of manufactured trade goods such as blankets and sheet copper into the Pacific Northwest caused inflation in the potlatch in the late eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries." pstp hist econ - Thomas Page
Maritime Fur Trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"Boom years [edit]American ascendancy The maritime fur trade was dominated by American traders from the 1790s to the 1820s. Between 1788 and 1826, American merchant ships made at least 127 voyages between the United States and China, via the Northwest Coast. The lucrative returns were large. During the late 1810s, the return on investment ranged from about 300% to 500%. Even higher profits were common in the first decade of the 19th century. Returns of 2,200% or higher were common, although when taking into account the cost of buying and outfitting vessels, the 2,200% return would be closer to 525%.[57]" pstp hist econ sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page
The Art of Shen Ku ( The FIRST Intergalactic art form of the ENTIRE universe ) - http://www.shenku.com/
http://shenku.com/logichi... Headers and footers do not change. funky links ] [ incorporating "The Physics of Movement" .... Basic Logic:"Movement changes circumstance & without change there can be no improvement" "The Directions of Destiny".... Basic logic:"The choices of a single second affect ( http://web.ku.edu/~edit... - transitive verb : to produce an effect upon: as ) all those that follow" "The Mysticism of The Unknown" .... Basic Logic:" Within each of us lie the hopes & fears of everyone else" "The Spirituality of Action" .... Basic Logic:"The means to any end is ultimately within the spirit - Thomas Page
Junk_(ship)#Accounts_of_medieval_travellers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page