| Survival Tools — Farming, Stories, Poetry, Writing, and Leaning
Plants have so much to teach us about survival and adaptation, as do animals. When obstacles to appropriate growth are dealt with, amazing growth spurts are possible. We need such growth spurts in public awareness to deal with the substantial problems created by over-population, war-making, increasingly extreme climate, and the depletion of natural resources such as fossil fuels. As I write in my redwood cabin built with wood salvaged over a decade from old chicken coops, I hear my neighbor's dairy cows bellowing in the distance and I see his large, gentle workhorses calmly eating grass. The majority of people used to farm and live in the countryside. Now less than 2% farm in the US and most people live in urban areas. As our high tech energy sources diminish more people will have to turn to farming to survive.
Grocery bargains often in stock at alternative stores
Supermarkets aren't the only places to make supermarket-type purchases, such as food, personal-care items and household supplies. Alternative stores, such as large discounters, dollar stores and warehouse clubs, can offer better deals, depending on who you are and what you're buying.
It's a big area of spending. The average family of four spends about $6,700 a year on store-bought food, housekeeping supplies and personal care items, according to the federal government's Consumer Expenditure Survey.
The first thing you need to ask yourself is, "What type of shopper am I?" Some people are extreme strategic shoppers. That means they use coupons, carefully plan their shopping outings around store sales and exploit store policies and promotions.
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the has-been
Clinton persuaded reluctant Republicans to fund his domestic agenda, from reducing class size to opening new markets in poor and rural areas. By contrast, Bush seems to have given up on working with the Congress or winning back the American people – or perhaps taken note that they have long since given up on him. Even loyalist Karl Rove, in his debut column for Newsweek, doesn't mention Bush by name, advising GOP candidates on how to overcome "the low approval rates of the Republican president." The only audience Bush has left is history, which may not have much use for him, either. The White House is so intent on the history books that appropriately enough, tomorrow Bush may even pin hopes for his legacy on a turkey. Usually, entries in the annual contest to name two turkeys come from Thanksgiving history and tradition, like this year's "May & Flower." But an unlikely 2007 entry stands out as Bush's own sentimental favorite: "Truman & Sixty." The professed reason for "Truman & Sixty" is that Harry Truman granted the first turkey pardon 60 years ago.
Hunters for the Hungry falling short of goal
Irwin Jacobs, chairman of FLW Outdoors, says he would be wiling to merge the BASS Federation into his tournament operation. The Federation and its parent organization, BASS, have been warring. BASS recently dismissed several Federation leaders, including Roger Fitchett of Virginia Beach. A Bass Fan report said that Jacobs had offered the Federation an open door, saying he would provide dollars to help grow grassroots bass programs. BASS would not be able to survive without the Federation, said Jacobs. “These people at BASS are single-handedly destroying the Federation," he said.. Jacobs had unkind works for Ray Scott, the founder of BASS. Scott has taken the side of BASS against the Federation, Jacobs said. .
Revered, reviled: a nation divided
SOEHARTO, the military strongman who dominated Indonesia for 32 years, has died in a Jakarta hospital, leaving a nation torn between revering and reviling its former president. One of the region's most influential and controversial figures, he died after his organs failed at 1.10pm yesterday after 21 days on life support in
Pertamina Hospital. His body will be flown to Solo for burial today in a family mausoleum. During his three weeks in hospital, debate raged over whether Soeharto and his family should be pursued for decades of human rights abuses and graft that reaped billions of dollars. Soon after the former president's death, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, with Vice-President Jusuf Kalla alongside both close to tears expressed their condolences "on behalf of this country and Government" in a live television broadcast from the Presidential Palace.
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