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Politics of bilocation means back and forth between Bonn and Berlin
The Berlin-Bonn agreement has failed to prevent a \"Berlin drift\" gathering pace in recent years. Instead of the promised 50:50 split of the federal government's ministries and 25,000 staff, about two-thirds of civil servants are now based in Berlin with about one-third in Bonn. For Germany's Taxpayer's Federation (BdS), a lobby group that watches government spending, the bilocation is an \"expensive luxury\" that should be ended. \"Government work needs one location and that is Berlin,\" said Reiner Holznagel, BdS president. MPs from the old capital region, with an eye on their constituents, beg to differ. Norbert Rttgen, an ally of chancellor Angela Merkel and MP for Knigswinter, near [Bonn], says the bilocation arrangement has worked but will eventually fail if the \"Berlin drift\" isn't halted.
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From Loon Lake Road - Affordable meals from the root cellar
He writes to the TNRD: Management of invasive plants in gravel pits is critical to ensuring that invasive plants are not spread through the accidental use of contaminated gravel. For example, if I saw covers over the gravel stockpiles in the summer when the knapweed seeds are being blown about then I would believe that the Ministry was really serious about preventing the spread of invasive weeds. But when they stockpile gravel next to hectares of weed-filled fields and no cover well, seriously? Seedy Saturday is a day-long celebration of gardening and growing your own food, talks on chemical-free pesticides, backyard chickens, starting vegetables from seed and more, seed vendors, demonstrations, a seed swap table and much more. Admission is free and it starts at 9 am in the Cache Creek Community Hall and runs until 3 pm.
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From Loon Lake Road - Resourcefulness important for rural survival
The Christmas moon was called the cool moon whereas the January moon is known as the wolf moon. The First Nations peoples had names for all the moons and these names I have used are from the Algonquin tribes although names varied from one group to another. The names tended to describe some aspect of living conditions during that moon period and are more meaningful than the names we use for the months of the year. Few Canadians know where the name December came from or who Janus was, but most would understand why a moon at this time of the year was called the wolf moon. Some years ago some writer came up with the thesis that it took about 10,000 hours of practise to master a skill or artistic endeavour. I certainly appreciate how much practise does help make perfect, even in baking a good loaf of bread. However, something in the line of inclination, talent and innate skills also helps. Sometimes necessity serves as a great inspiration to hone a skill or develop a latent talent. Surely, living on the land taught self reliance and the need to try ones hand at many things. And it seems still that folks attracted to rural living also have many hidden talents and a heres at it attitude towards trying to do things for themselves. In the case of the needlework gift, I know I would never be able to do those fine stitches as my fingers just dont work that way and I dont have the patience for it. There is truth in some of those old saying about having an ear for music or an eye for painting. Sure there have been deaf musicians, Beethoven is probably the most famous, and they clearly show that there are other skills and talents that are important in making music. In fact music is such a powerful phenomenon that it is probably the artistic endeavour that is approached and developed in the widest variety of ways by humans around the world. It is also the art form that serves best to touch and inspire people, even those who otherwise are not interested in art.
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From Loon Lake Road - Hard to depend on memory without subjectivity interfering
Of course memory can also be quite misleading if you expect that memory can reproduce an event as it really happened. We will only remember how we experienced the incident or event but it will not be accurate description of what went on. Sure I can remember snippets and specific incidents and even the taste of my grandmothers chokecherry cordial and that she often served us warm milk with coffee when we visited her in the winter. Then I try to picture her kitchen in my memory and find that a number of the corners are quite blank. True enough, but I personally do not like the taste of the pickled cabbage that the manufacturers try to pass off as sauerkraut. In fact the majority around the table admitted that the only time they will eat sauerkraut is when I serve my homemade stuff. Then they cant get enough of it. Authentic sauerkraut never has vinegar added it is just shredded cabbage and a bit of salt with a six week fermentation period done. Simple and so good. I can quite easily do without a trip to Tim Hortons for a coffee but let me buy my coffee beans and grind them my way. I have tried chicory root coffee and it doesnt do much for me nor does the barley coffee substitute.
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Germany's fossil fuels tack may be model
\"Germany is the first country in the world to show they can uncouple growth from burning of fossil fuels,\" said Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank. \"This is the main task of our generation.\" \"The attitude then was, 'Go ahead, you can take the lead on this one,\"' Mr. [Dirk Messner] said. \"There were many at the time who considered this a wacko-green idea.\" Lignite, or brown coal, looms as Germany's potential Achilles' heel. While generous tariffs to accelerate investment in solar and wind power helped spur renewable energy development, no similar incentives were offered to address the dependence on such coal, Germany's only abundant native fossil fuel.
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Germany's path to curbing fossil fuel use
\"Germany is the first country in the world to show they can uncouple growth from burning of fossil fuels,\" said Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank. \"This is the main task of our generation.\" \"The attitude then was, 'go ahead, you can take the lead on this one,\"' he said. \"There were many at the time who considered this a wacko-green idea.\" Lignite looms as Germany's potential Achilles' heel. While generous tariffs set a decade ago to speed investment in solar and wind power helped spur renewable energy development, no similar financial incentives were offered to address the dependence on soft coal, Germany's only abundant native fossil fuel.
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Along Loon Lake Road - Preparing the garden for winter
This has turned my attention to the microbes in the soil. Not only do microbes do a major job of fixing nitrogen in the soil to provide food for plants, they also perform other beneficial functions for plants, helping them by making nutrients available, helping them resist drought and better endure extreme fluctuations of temperatures such as we have at Loon Lake in June. Researchers also suggest that microbes in the soil contribute to the better flavour of fruits and vegetables that are grown in certain soils. They cite strawberries as a good example of a food crop that takes on a better flavour when grown in soils with a healthy microbe population. All these factors are good reasons for taking good care of the soil and to nurture the microbial life of the soil. While researchers understand only a tiny fraction of the role of microbes and I understand much less, I am convinced of the importance of mulching the soil all year round to enable a healthy population of microbes to develop and to avoid too frequent tilling and cultivating that breaks up the operations of these microbes.
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