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Monday, October 22, 2012

Chihuahua the ‘size of a shoe’ declared dangerous after biting Ontario mail carrier | Canada | News | National Post

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Tyler Brownbridge / Postmedia News Molly, a three-pound teacup chihuahua, is seen with owner Mitzie Scott in her Windsor, Ont., home on Oct. 17. The tiny dog has be handed a dangerous dog designation by the city. The designation comes with a host of conditions including posting stickers on the doors and muzzling the dog if she is taken outside.



Chihuahua the ‘size of a shoe’ declared dangerous after biting Ontario mail carrier | Canada | News | National Post

 Link: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/18/chihuahua-the-size-of-a-shoe-declared-dangerous-after-biting-ontario-mail-carrier/




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Sunday, October 21, 2012

My Sustainability Mantra

A Vegetarian Diet is good for your and good for the Planet.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. - Albert Einstein

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. - Howard Zinn

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

WHEN SPIDERS UNITE, THEY CAN TIE DOWN A LION.
-Ethiopian proverb




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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Goat Heads on Wall

WOODEN FOUNDATIONS AT NO VACANCYPublished: Broadsheet, June 30, 2010.  The new exhibition from Melbourne creative collective Wooden Foundations eschews notions of street art and grants discarded materials a new lease on life. By Dan Rule. Talking to Niels Oeljen (aka Nails), you soon get the impression that for Wooden Foundations, art practice and the street environment are irrevocably entwined. Not, however, in the way most of us would immediately think. In an era where the spray can and stencil have assumed a kind of staid, mainstream cultural currency, the Melbourne-anchored collective – Oeltjen, Paul Mylecharane (aka Oh54), Scottie Neoh (aka Bonsai) and Hiroyasu Tsuri (aka TWOONE) – take a very different route from street to gallery space. “An aim of what we do is to kind of show the possibilities of using found materials in fine art,” says Oeltjen. “Something we all do is collect a lot of recycled and reclaimed materials we’ve found walking around on the street or in dumpsters or whatever, and use them in our artwork.” Built around ideas of personal mythology and symbolism, the exhibition at No Vacancy will see the quartet – who originally met via their mutual interests in graffiti and spray can related art at the start of the 2000s – merge print, drawing and painting practice with assemblage and installation. “We didn’t just want to have pictures on walls,” says Oeltjen. “So we started looking at just where our artistic practices crossed over and we kind of isolated this idea of personal mythologies and how you build up your own little menagerie of animals and totems and iconography that you reuse as an artist, which become almost like shamanistic symbols.” Indeed, for Oeltjen and the rest of Wooden Foundations, there’s a magic to the object. “A lot of stuff we find and use has reached the end of its life,” he says. “It can’t be fixed or recycled or whatever.” “Art is one of the only things that can re-embrace these objects and reuse them,” he urges. “You can take almost anything and turn it into an artwork and make it valuable again.” Wooden Foundations opens at No Vacancy Thursday July 1 6pm–9pm and runs until July 16. www.woodenfoundations.comwww.no-vacancy.com.au
WOODEN FOUNDATIONS AT NO VACANCYPublished: Broadsheet, June 30, 2010.  The new exhibition from Melbourne creative collective Wooden Foundations eschews notions of street art and grants discarded materials a new lease on life. By Dan Rule. Talking to Niels Oeljen (aka Nails), you soon get the impression that for Wooden Foundations, art practice and the street environment are irrevocably entwined. Not, however, in the way most of us would immediately think. In an era where the spray can and stencil have assumed a kind of staid, mainstream cultural currency, the Melbourne-anchored collective – Oeltjen, Paul Mylecharane (aka Oh54), Scottie Neoh (aka Bonsai) and Hiroyasu Tsuri (aka TWOONE) – take a very different route from street to gallery space. “An aim of what we do is to kind of show the possibilities of using found materials in fine art,” says Oeltjen. “Something we all do is collect a lot of recycled and reclaimed materials we’ve found walking around on the street or in dumpsters or whatever, and use them in our artwork.” Built around ideas of personal mythology and symbolism, the exhibition at No Vacancy will see the quartet – who originally met via their mutual interests in graffiti and spray can related art at the start of the 2000s – merge print, drawing and painting practice with assemblage and installation. “We didn’t just want to have pictures on walls,” says Oeltjen. “So we started looking at just where our artistic practices crossed over and we kind of isolated this idea of personal mythologies and how you build up your own little menagerie of animals and totems and iconography that you reuse as an artist, which become almost like shamanistic symbols.” Indeed, for Oeltjen and the rest of Wooden Foundations, there’s a magic to the object. “A lot of stuff we find and use has reached the end of its life,” he says. “It can’t be fixed or recycled or whatever.” “Art is one of the only things that can re-embrace these objects and reuse them,” he urges. “You can take almost anything and turn it into an artwork and make it valuable again.” Wooden Foundations opens at No Vacancy Thursday July 1 6pm–9pm and runs until July 16. www.woodenfoundations.comwww.no-vacancy.com.au

WOODEN FOUNDATIONS AT NO VACANCYPublished: Broadsheet, June 30, 2010.  The new exhibition from Melbourne creative collective Wooden Foundations eschews notions of street art and grants discarded materials a new lease on life. By Dan Rule. Talking to Niels Oeljen (aka Nails), you soon get the impression that for Wooden Foundations, art practice and the street environment are irrevocably entwined. Not, however, in the way most of us would immediately think. In an era where the spray can and stencil have assumed a kind of staid, mainstream cultural currency, the Melbourne-anchored collective – Oeltjen, Paul Mylecharane (aka Oh54), Scottie Neoh (aka Bonsai) and Hiroyasu Tsuri (aka TWOONE) – take a very different route from street to gallery space. “An aim of what we do is to kind of show the possibilities of using found materials in fine art,” says Oeltjen. “Something we all do is collect a lot of recycled and reclaimed materials we’ve found walking around on the street or in dumpsters or whatever, and use them in our artwork.” Built around ideas of personal mythology and symbolism, the exhibition at No Vacancy will see the quartet – who originally met via their mutual interests in graffiti and spray can related art at the start of the 2000s – merge print, drawing and painting practice with assemblage and installation. “We didn’t just want to have pictures on walls,” says Oeltjen. “So we started looking at just where our artistic practices crossed over and we kind of isolated this idea of personal mythologies and how you build up your own little menagerie of animals and totems and iconography that you reuse as an artist, which become almost like shamanistic symbols.” Indeed, for Oeltjen and the rest of Wooden Foundations, there’s a magic to the object. “A lot of stuff we find and use has reached the end of its life,” he says. “It can’t be fixed or recycled or whatever.” “Art is one of the only things that can re-embrace these objects and reuse them,” he urges. “You can take almost anything and turn it into an artwork and make it valuable again.” Wooden Foundations opens at No Vacancy Thursday July 1 6pm–9pm and runs until July 16. www.woodenfoundations.comwww.no-vacancy.com.au





WOODEN FOUNDATIONS AT NO VACANCY
Published: Broadsheet, June 30, 2010.

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Friday, October 19, 2012

East Africa


With East Africa facing its worst drought in 60 years, affecting more than 11 million people, the United Nations has declared a famine in the region for the first time in a generation. Overcrowded refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia are receiving some 3,000 new refugees every day, as families flee from famine-stricken and war-torn areas. The meager food and water that used to support millions in the Horn of Africa is disappearing rapidly, and families strong enough to flee for survival must travel up to a hundred miles, often on foot, hoping to make it to a refugee center, seeking food and aid. Many do not survive the trip. Officials warn that 800,000 children could die of malnutrition across the East African nations of Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Kenya. Aid agencies are frustrated by many crippling situations: the slow response of Western governments, local governments and terrorist groups blocking access, terrorist and bandit attacks, and anti-terrorism laws that restrict who the aid groups can deal with -- not to mention the massive scale of the current crisis. Below are a few images from the past several weeks in East Africa.







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http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/07/famine-in-east-africa/100115/
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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Not Goats - Bison Lawn Service

 


Nikon Sniper: Never Argue With Bison Lawn Service

Link: http://nikonsniper.blogspot.ca/2012/10/bison-lawn-service.html



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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

GOAT BASED ECONOMIES


With East Africa facing its worst drought in 60 years, affecting more than 11 million people, the United Nations has declared a famine in the region for the first time in a generation. Overcrowded refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia are receiving some 3,000 new refugees every day, as families flee from famine-stricken and war-torn areas. The meager food and water that used to support millions in the Horn of Africa is disappearing rapidly, and families strong enough to flee for survival must travel up to a hundred miles, often on foot, hoping to make it to a refugee center, seeking food and aid. Many do not survive the trip. Officials warn that 800,000 children could die of malnutrition across the East African nations of Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Kenya. Aid agencies are frustrated by many crippling situations: the slow response of Western governments, local governments and terrorist groups blocking access, terrorist and bandit attacks, and anti-terrorism laws that restrict who the aid groups can deal with -- not to mention the massive scale of the current crisis. Below are a few images from the past several weeks in East Africa.










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http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/07/famine-in-east-africa/100115/

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