Nous sommes à J-18 de la présentation du blog devant l’auguste assemblée des adhérents VDL.

Celui-ci fait donc office de test.

De même, je pense avoir saisi les subtilités (?) du widget de box.net… à voir !

Pas de contenu donc, uniquement de la saisie au kilomètre pour tester les possibilités d’édition de la plateforme.

Disons que c’est malgré tout un avis de naissance

]]> http://emajidli.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/manifesto/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:30:25 +0000 emajidli http://emajidli.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/manifesto/ http://itstheofficial.com/2009/11/25/trinity-ag-sadat-x-dj-jab-%e2%80%93-roc-raida-tribute/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:00:02 +0000 B_Conscious http://itstheofficial.com/2009/11/25/trinity-ag-sadat-x-dj-jab-%e2%80%93-roc-raida-tribute/

Following the release of their first single as a group, “Roc Raida Tribute,” Fat Beats super group Trinity has released a new video with exclusive footage of the late great DJ Roc Raida along with studio clips of the trifecta in the studio recording their infectious tribute to one of hip-hop’s most highly regarded DJ’s.

DOWNLOAD: Trinity (AG, Sadat X & DJ Jab) – Roc Raida Tribute

Farmers and ranchers provide food and habitat for seventy five percent of the nation’s wildlife.  On average, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, about $6 million in U.S. agricultural products – oilseeds, cotton, grains, meats, vegetables, snack foods, etc., are consigned for shipment for export to foreign markets.  Less than two percent of the total U.S. population, only 4.6 million people live on farms, but  22 million American workers produce, process, sell and trade the nation’s food and fiber.  For all of this, I THANK YOU farmers for the food on my table and for the rest of the world.

A growing sector on Twitter is giving thanks to farmers too.  Many folks have on their avatar  ”THANK A FARMER” (if you don’t know what an avatar is…it’s the icon picture or symbol for the person’s identity).  Additionally, 17 states have declared November 20 as “Thank A Farmer” Day.  Guess who isn’t on the list yet?  IOWA.  Hello??  We are in the center of agriculture, so I hope our legislators jump on the wagon, heck, why not?  The 17 states that do recognize it are: AZ, CO, GA, IL, KS, KY, MO, NM, NC, ND, OK, PA, SD, TX, WA, WI, WY.

My Facebook friend Rhonda Renee Ross is spreading her passion and word  through social media networks to “Thank A Farmer” Day.  Rhonda is an advocate of farmers and nationally known entertainer.  She performed everyday at the Iowa State Fair and shared fun facts about agriculture.

We all have many blessings to be thankful for.  Thanks to the agricultural industry this Thanksgiving.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thank-A-Farmer/98955691109

As someone who is aspiring to reach music award shows as an entertainer, I have to say that I look at  music awards shows not only for the entertainment, but for the learning aspect as well.  Many people do not understand the hard work and effort that goes into putting a performance together, let alone perfoming in front of your peers who have as much talent as you, if not more. Although Michael Jackson is no longer with us, he still broke an AMA record with 23 wins for a solo artist. If that isn’t “STAR POWER”, I don’t know what is. I also have to say that Jay-Z held it down for Hip-Hop and showed the world that rap music is not always about negativity. Although I am not a New York City resident, I felt his empowering words. Jay, you kept it classy with the help of the talented Alicia Keys.  Also, I think the AMAs this year was a platform for artists to take risks and push the boundaries. Rihanna did just that with her performance and she looked good doing it too . She has definately pushed the music platform and it shows her growth from the days of “Pon Da Replay”.  Lady Gaga came on to the music scene pushing the envelope from day one and on the AMA’s she did not disappoint. I can only imagine what goes on in her head on a daily basis (lol). But I will say this, there is nobody else out there that can do what she does….period.

Another person that made a great 2009 comeback is Whitney Houston. Although she is not the Whitney of the old, I am glad to see that she is still here and her fans will always have her back. One day I wish to have a following like that! For the most part, the artists did the damn thang! Just remember you heard it here first, AG will be coming to a TV screen near you (Grammy’s, AMA’s, Billboard Music Awards, etc)! You can mark my words on that!

This is a good read.

“When some governments stop exporting rice or wheat, it becomes a real, serious problem for people that don’t have full self-sufficiency (i.e. PRICES GO WAY UP),” said Al Arabi Mohammed Hamdi, an economic adviser to the Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development.

Please don’t think that the big boys aren’t already in here:

· BlackRock Agriculture Fund

· Foreign Investors Snap Up African Farmland

· Food Is Gold, So Billions Invested in Farming

But, this is the mother of all secular trends…the question is will we be swapping gold bars or dollars for food?

Unrelated to anything.  This is a great story

Learn how to trade  click here

I’m reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Chapter 9, Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, just rocked my world.

Were you aware that you can make soft cheeses (spreadable ones) with less than an hour of effort, and that mozzarella can be made in half an hour flat? Me neither.  But now I am.  I’ve also discovered that it’s really easy to find cheese recipes on the internet.

For those of you who may know that rennet tends to imply calf stomachs, I’ve learned that, much like gelatin, there is now a vegetarian version.

I was completely wowed by some gourmet cheeses found in Paonia, CO (although actually made a county or two over) this summer – specialty fetas rolled in things like dried cranberries or thyme. I have a vague memory of an industrial scale cheese making operation I saw on a field trip in elementary school, and I had it in my mind that such an operation was necessary for making that sort of cheese. I bet that gastronomically delightful feta, though, was made more like this.  I could make cheese like that!

I think this is one more sign that I need to one day have goats.

BEYONCE

FEAT: LADY GAGA

“VIDEO PHOTO“

*RAP*

OC AND AG

“THINK ABOUT IT”

CLEAN, DIRTY, INSTRU

OFF OF “OASIS”

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R.O.B.

“MAN YOUR GIRL LOVE ME”

FOR DROPS: BOOKINGDJSWAMPIZZO@GMAIL.COM

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]]> http://314ag.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/raptalk-net-soprupradio-com-interview/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:59:28 +0000 314ag http://314ag.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/raptalk-net-soprupradio-com-interview/

I wanna give a big shout out to Justin Melo, Raptalk.net, and Soprupradio.com for the interview opportunity.

Kurt sent me a short documentary by Robin Moore on WWOOF today – which essentially saves me from coming up with something to post. For the full thing, either click on the youtube video for parts 2 and 3 or check out the original site.

For extra amusement, check out his music video “Performance.”

awesome idea

a little bit lower and this car would be awesome

I went to the SAMAB conference again today, and learned a lot of things – including that there are exurbs on top of suburbs! I had absolutely no idea about this whole exurb business, and it’s pretty fascinating. Nothing you can google is quite as informative or shocking as the talks I went to – I wish I could post some GIS images from the presentations – but suffice it to say that the urban expansion into exurbs is a lot more worrisome than expansion into suburbs alone.

My favorite talk of the day was on the Farmland Values Project. The project director, Leah Greden Mathews, was the presenter – she did a fantastic job.  Here’s their mission statement:

While both farmers and consumers value farmland as a source of income and agricultural productivity, additional farmland benefits accrue primarily to non-farmers as economic, social, and environmental benefits. This project develops a quantitative assessment tool to help rural populations in Western North Carolina better understand the forces and opportunities that affect them by identifying the multiple types of benefits that farmland provides in our region. This tool will help communities recognize the spatial interplay among the economic, social, and environmental factors in their region and thus assist them and policy makers in directing farmland preservation and rural development efforts in a manner that is both socially desirable and economically efficient.

I highly recommend going to their website and checking out the story half of their webpage.  It may suck you in – don’t say I didn’t warn you.