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Eileen KINNICK
75 yrs ago
Week 1 - Jan 4-10, 1937
75 yrs ago
Week 1 - Jan 4-10, 1937
My mother, Eileen KINNICK (maiden name), kept a diary from 1932 until her death in 1999. In Feb 2005, I created a website of her 1936 diary, the year she graduated from high school. During the latter half of 2011, commented weekly on these entries.
For 1937, I am transcribing the daily entries, currently, at The KINNICK Project surname blog.
In this weekly blog post, I will make summary comments and observations, and perhaps add a photo, from time to time.
Setting: The family lived in a farmhouse a couple of miles out of town (Coon Rapids, Iowa). Older brother, Leo, lived at home; his girl friend, later wife, Ida, visited regularly. Younger brother, Buzzy (she often wrote Bussy) was 9 years old. Pete Smith is her 'boy friend' - fourth month starting Jan 1 (they do marry, in Mar 1938).
Week 1 (Jan 4-10):
There was no entry I could find for Jan 2 & 3. This week, 4-10, was very cold and snowy. It is interesting to see how her reactions to this situation are reflected in her diary comments.
Their daily activities, of course, were somewhat restricted this week due to the weather.
In the back of the diary for the year, she appears to be entering her 'expenditures' for personal items. Here is a scan of the three entries for January and February:
Black Silk Shirt - 1.00
Print Silk Dress (made) - 2.80
Black Sandals - 2.45
Comments welcomed!
Families are Forever! ;-)


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I'm not much of a political person. When it came to choosing a party when I first registered, I went with "Independent" because I don't feel comfortable with a bi-partisan system and prefer to think outside the box. In the election I've voted in thus far (I'm only 27, so the 2008 election was my first), I read the stances of the candidates in each category, compared them to my personal thoughts and ways of living, and chose the candidate that matched me the best. In watching the 2016 campaign, I'm finding that I'm paying closer attention to the candidates' views on agriculture for the first time; an issue that will impact my entire career if mishandled.
The debate this week did little to influence my thoughts on either candidate, at least in the scope of agriculture. As always, Trump's plans to evict immigrant workers poses a very serious threat to agriculture, though his interest in reducing government regulation of farms (and, by extension, vineyards) is something that could likely benefit us. Clinton's plan is a tad harder to criticize, since she makes no moves towards denying local farms and vineyards access to their primary workforce. Instead, Clinton plans to make it easier for young farms and vineyards to grow by making it simpler to get a federal loan, amongst other regulations that pertain to farms, but not necessarily to vineyards.
And for all you Libertarians out there, Gary Johnson has a plan that actually works best in my mind, allowing all undocumented workers to obtain work visas. He also supports the government providing grants to help with environmental issues pertaining to farms and vineyards, including drought relief (a boon that would affect California, certainly).
The decision is a tough one, certainly, and cannot be decided based on these simple facts. What we can do, though, is to continue enjoying our lifestyles and pushing for a better tomorrow.
May I humbly suggest drinking wine to cope with the overwhelming feeling of defeat Americans are facing this election?

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Goodbye Selfie, Hello Headshot
When perusing social media platforms, how many selfies do you see? Whether they're taken with a selfie stick, or by holding an arm out, they appear unpolished and unrefined. For those of you in the business world, it's time to step up your game and invest in a professional headshot. Having professional headshots taken for social media and your online platforms are both a necessity and an investment when building your online reputation and creating your brand.
When perusing social media platforms, how many selfies do you see? Whether they're taken with a selfie stick, or by holding an arm out, they appear unpolished and unrefined. For those of you in the business world, it's time to step up your game and invest in a professional headshot. Having professional headshots taken for social media and your online platforms are both a necessity and an investment when building your online reputation and creating your brand. Too often individuals make the mistake of using a selfie or a headshot cropped from a group photo of an obvious night out with friends as their default photo on social media. Neither of these photos, as flattering as they may be, express the professionalism and confidence that you should want in a profile photo.
A professional headshot should express your character and conduct. Ultimately, it ought to be a slightly improved adaptation of yourself in everyday life. Be sure that it is easy to see in small sizes (100-200 pixels), as several social media platforms require a smaller sized profile image. Always wear solid color clothing that complements both your eye color and skin tone. For those of you with blue eyes and fair-colored skin, your best choice of clothing color is blue, gray, or pink. Our green-eyed friends should wear brown, orange, or green-colored garments. Those with brown eyes and medium or dark-colored skin can showcase themselves in most colors, but be sure to avoid bright red; it proves to be too strong a color for any skin tone or eye color.
Once you have your professional headshot, keep it consistent. Make this photo your default across all platforms so that there is no confusion as to whether or not the attached work or social site belongs to you. Post your headshot on every social media platform you can get your hands on. Attach it to your blog posts, forum comments, and your author biography. By posting your professional image frequently online, it triggers search engines to show these results when searching for your name or business.
One last tip: when you receive your professional headshot, be sure to change the generic file name to "yourname.jpeg" or "yourbusinessname.jpeg." By doing so, search engines can identify it for search results.
Rather than investing in a selfie stick, it's time to spend some of your hard-earned money on a professional headshot. It's well worth it and will take your brand to the next level.
7 Advantages of Web Push Notifications for Marketing
A web push notification is a message with some text, logo, image and up to three buttons, that appears on top of a current web-page.
What follows are seven reasons why you should use web push notifications as a marketing channel.
1. Segmentation
Previously, marketers could send browser notifications only to their entire contact list. Because of this, many users received unnecessary and annoying information.
But now advanced providers allow sending personalized web notifications to different segments of the contact list.
With their help, eCommerce brands can send to website users
- relevant and personalized messages
- through all popular browsers
- on mobile and desktop devices.
2. High Delivery Rates
There are only a few reasons why a web push message may not reach users:
- a user has blocked notifications from the website,
- the device was turned off,
- the subscriber didn`t have access to the internet.
But these situations are not too common, that's why the delivery rates of web push notifications range from 50% to 90%. Even if the browser was closed or the device turned off, users could receive a notification the next time they open their browser.
3. Ease of Use
Push notifications are a perfect way to quickly deliver messages and to encourage users to visit the website.
It only takes a few minutes to create a web push notification You just need to briefly formulate the main idea, add an attractive banner and a CTA button.
4. Content Personalization
Automatic substitution of personalized content in the notifications will help you capture the attention of your subscribers much more better than ordinary bulk messages.
For example, call the subscribers by their first names.
However, it is better to use more complex personalization. You can insert an image of the product that the user has abandoned in the cart or the number of the order which he or she has made.
5. Automation
Web push notifications provide a good opportunity for automating regular communications between a user and a brand. You can use them
- as a part of your onboarding campaigns,
- as abandoned cart reminders,
- as transactional notifications.
In fact, with advanced marketing automation services, you can set any event that triggers the automatic sending of a web push notification.
Most often, online businesses use email or SMS as marketing channels. Push notifications don't replace but complement them.
Advanced automation systems allow you to use multiple channels in a single marketing workflow, for instance, an abandoned cart workflow. This significantly increases customer engagement and the chances that the user will take the target action.
6. Branded style
You can design your notifications in the style of your website. Use branded colors and add your logo to the notifications. For example, this is how you can add your logo and a product image in eSputnik.com.
The branded style of the message will attract the attention of your users, and they will be more likely to perform the action you want them to take.
7. Customizable lifespan
Push notifications have an "activity time" that you can set manually. Due to this, you will not annoy your users with outdated information, for example, after the promotion has ended.
Web notifications can be the perfect solution for fast and reliable customer communication. They are delivered as soon as a user opens the browser, even if he or she doesn't visit your website.
Considering all this, segmented web push notifications can become a new powerful channel in your omnichannel marketing strategy.
What Every Entrepreneur Should Learn from these Famous Logos
Coming up with the best possible logo is very important. Many companies have struggled to find a logo that communicates the essence of their brand. If you are looking for inspiration, you need to look at some of the companies that did it right. Of course, you don't want to outright copy of their design approach. However, you can get a sense of the approach that they took and why it worked so well.
Here are some famous logos and the lessons that you can learn from them. You shouldn't have any trouble replicating one of these logos when you need one for your own brand. There are plenty of great logo design tools that can help you out, like this logo maker tool from Designhill for $20. This tool uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology to execute the most intricate design algorithms. It can create hundreds of logos in minutes, which makes it easy for you to choose the best ones for your business.
Target has a very simple logo. It is basically just a bull's eye made from two red rings and a white one conjoining them. This is a simplified version of its original logo, which had three bands of each color.
This logo clearly communicates its message for two reasons:
- The logo is an obvious image that conveys the theme of the brand. The company's name is Target and the logo is it target itself. It couldn't be clearer.
- Target uses very few design elements in its logo. New entrepreneurs and graphic designers might think that this is a drawback. However, this is actually one of the reasons it is so effective. People don't want to try to make sense of overly complicated designs. Simplicity is usually best.
Target's logo has gone unchanged for nearly 15 years, because it works so well. Their own research shows that most customers recognize it at a casual glance.
"Target's telltale logo was first revealed in 1962, streamlined in 1968 and has since evolved into one of the most recognized symbols in North America. No, seriously — a 2003 Target study found more than 96 percent of American shoppers know what that bold, red Bullseye represents."
Apple Computer
Apple Computer's logo has evolved significantly over the past 43 years. It has evolved in a way that you wouldn't expect. Instead of becoming more complex, it has actually evolved into simplicity. The 1976 version of the logo was a very complicated drawing of Isaac Newton. One year later, it was a vector-based design of an apple with six different colors. Today, the logo is still an apple with the same contours that the company has used for nearly half a century. However, the logo is completely black. It no longer uses a mixture of different hues and vectors.
Apple realize that its logo was a lot more memorable if people could recognize it at a glance. This worked a lot better using a simpler logo, which is why the Isaac Newton cartoon gave way to a basic picture of an everyday apple.
Google is one of the newer companies on the New York Stock Exchange. However, its logo is already one of the most famous in the world. The company has the most popular website on the planet, so a couple billion people see it every single day. Due to its high visibility, Google couldn't afford to get its logo wrong.
Google is another company that has thrive by using a slick, simple design. Its logo is basically a text version of its name. It has multiple colors. There is one subtle difference that people wouldn't pick up on at first glance. One of the letters is green. It is the only letter that does not have a primary color. This is meant to signify simple differences that make the company unique. Nonetheless, the overall design is very easy to understand, even if the metaphor is lost on most people.
Use the KISS Principle for Logo Design
Designing a good logo doesn't need to be hard. You just need to find the simplest approach possible.
Lead to Conversion Digital Marketing Strategies That Matter in 2019
We are already nearing the second quarter of the year, so it's appropriate to point out how fast time flies! For sure, if you're aiming to scale your business, you will have to move fast in order to make the most of this year.
It all boils down to the strategies and approaches you are using to maximize your brand's presence and attract new business. In terms of digital marketing, there are several approaches you should consider in order to drive quality leads and convert as many prospects as possible across all channels.
For your business to stay competitive, you will have to use the right strategies in order to drive the best possible results. Here are a few of them that matter this year.
1. Use an omnichannel approach
We all know what multichannel marketing is, but what about omnichannel? For sure, this is a new trend that has the potential to mold the digital marketing sphere into a more audience-centric discipline.
Companies using this approach are able to effectively chart client interactions across the buyer's journey, using a more analytical approach to incorporate customer expectations across every audience touchpoint. For sure, using this strategy can effectively accomplish better results than simply creating and sharing content through as many platforms as possible.
2. Invest in integrated marketing
No doubt, managing a digital marketing campaign involves plenty of resources to pull it off. Other than that, you also need to manage all the different platforms, which is already time-consuming at best. With an integrated marketing approach, you can unify all your audience engagement efforts without spending too much time and money on repetitive activities. All it takes is sound research as well as help from an experienced company. Lead to Conversion, for one, can help you build a highly effective method of engaging leads wherever they are.
3. Enhance your site's loading speed
Aside from creating effective content, businesses this year will have to optimize their sites and make them user-friendly to their prospects. Along with great web design, websites should also be functional and for that, it shouldn't take them more than three seconds to load.
Sure enough, sluggish loading speeds are inimical to your specific digital marketing goals as people are unwilling to waste precious time waiting for information about your product or service. If you want to keep them from bouncing off of your website, you might want to reduce the number of HTTP requests that your site generates. You should also keep your site as lightweight as possible by compressing images and graphics, and using less code.
4. Invest in marketing automation
Automated marketing systems are nothing new but it's clear that businesses are investing heavily in platforms that are valuable in terms of content creation and distribution. These have become more important than ever, considering the fact the businesses will need to stay vocal in order to remain relevant amid increasing competition.
There's no better time to improve your digital marketing efforts than now! For sure, you still have months to go before your business closes out 2019 on a positive (and profitable) note!
Digital Marketing Tips Specifically for Small Businesses
When it comes to advertising and marketing themselves online, small businesses all have to deal with the same problem: how do they make their business seem large in the even bigger pond that is Google?
This is where digital marketing can be helpful. But there are some online marketing tips and tricks that, while wonderful for larger corporations, just don't cut it when it comes to smaller sized companies. So here are some digital marketing hacks designed specifically for small business owners.
Don't think big
The internet is a big place. And while this can sometimes be beneficial, it can actually hurt when it comes to small businesses. You don't want to think too big and market to a larger audience than your geographical location, so stick to marketing to local customers.
An easy way to do this is to claim your business on the local search directory, Google My Business, which is free and operated by Google. You want your business to show up on Google results when people make relevant searches in your area.
In addition, do not forget to include geographical keywords, also known as geo-tagged keywords, on your website. You'll want to be as specific as possible, so always include the city, state, even county you are located in. The more you have these phrases on your pages, the more people in your actual area will be drawn to your website, and the higher the likelihood that they'll convert into business for you.
Go mobile
More and more internet users are browsing the web from the comfort of their mobile phones. In fact, 85 percent of customers have shopped online from their smartphone, so why wouldn't you want to target this audience?
Having a mobile responsive website not only gives you access to these people, but it gives you the flexibility of reaching consumers when they're away from their computer. So when they're on the couch, out getting coffee, or even taking a walk, they could also be checking out your business.
Explore remarketing
Remarketing is the act of marketing to people who already know about you. This means the people who are following you on social media, who signed up for email advertising lists, and return customers. You should invest in this method simply because it is a good idea to stay on the forefront of your customers' minds at all times.
Considering the sheer amount of digital information people consume every day, it's a good idea to send out marketing materials to these people to ensure they remember what you offer, how you can help them, and what benefits there are by choosing your business. There are many digital marketing agencies who can help you with this, so look into Straight Marketing LLC reviews if that sounds like a possible option for you.
Create visuals
We all know that content is king when it comes to creating a digital marketing campaign. However, you'll want to stick out from your competitors by creating visual graphics and video content to boost your strategy and stand out from your competitors. This means creating infographics, interactive blogs like quizzes, and informational how-to videos.
Customers have a very short attention span when they are using the internet, so create content that is visually appealing, attention-grabbing, and offers them a benefit for interacting and watching.
Choose one social media channel
For small businesses, there is such a thing as too much social media content. Instead of focusing on a holistic social media content strategy, focus on just one social media platform. You'll want to choose one, such as Instagram or Facebook, and create awesome content and engagement to build up your followers and brand awareness. Only then, once that is starting to work for you, should you broaden your horizons and change directions.
With these tips in mind, any small business will be on their way to creating an online presence to rival their competitors.
Achieving your digital goals
The world of digital media and marketing has come a very long way in a very short time. Less than twenty years ago the internet was in a fledgling state, there were websites and ecommerce was even a thing, but penetration was low, connectivity speeds were low and overall the digital world was still very much second to more traditional approaches. But no longer.
With the rise of smart phones and advancements in the fibre optic space it is now digital that is front and centre and dominating the world of media and marketing. So, if you are looking to build a brand or market a product, digital needs to be a core part of your plan. But how do you do this? Here are a few tips to help set you on the right path.
Partner with experts
It is okay to not be an expert in everything. So many successful people get to where they are by recognizing what they don't know and partnering with those who do. The key here is to understand enough to realise how important digital communication is and to then find a digital marketing company that fits with your mindset.
In your search, look for relevant information on their websites. for instance, view their customer reviews of service or like this one their WME case studies. Remember when working with suppliers it's a partnership. For it to work you need know enough about them as they will need to know about you and your business, so together you can develop and implement strategies that will help to grow your brand.
Not a nice to have
A digital strategy is not something that is nice to have. It cannot be an after-thought. It needs to be front and centre and a key part of your integrated marketing plan. Your website is probably the first touch point that potential customers will have with your brand and the way you present and package yourself online needs to fit seamlessly with how you do so in print or broadcast. The old way of having multiple teams handling different platforms is a thing of the past, it is now about integrated solutions and digital is very much at the centre.
Stay up to date
Read and stay up to date with the latest developments in the space. Digital is evolving rapidly, and it is very easy to be left behind. Quite simply there is no room for complacency. An old adage suggests that if you want to stay first then you have to practice and work as if you were second. So read, attend conference, network and experiment. Think big, act fast and fail quickly. This is the way of the digital era, to move slowly and to not try hard enough is to wither and die.
Assess constantly
Digital is awesome in the sense that everything is trackable and can be reported on. So, don't just allocate budget and watch it disappear slowly but surely if it is not working. That's how things were done in the past. Now, you can look at what responses your campaigns are getting, you can tweak and adjust in real time and you can modify and change accordingly. If a campaign is working well spend more; if results are bad call time. These are all decisions that can be made in an instant based on the data that digital channels have available for you.
4 Tips for Organizing an Impactful Conference or Event
Professional conferences and events are fairly common occurrences, no matter your exact industry. But this doesn't mean they have to be "dime a dozen" – so common and frequent they offer little unique value to attendees.
If you go through the work of organizing a conference or event, you want it to make a real and lasting impact on all who attend. Here are four tips to keep in mind during the planning stages.
Plan Around Event Objectives
Start by asking yourself: What do we want attendees to take away from this experience? Only then can you set concrete goals and objectives to make your desired outcome a reality. Your theme, goals and objectives will guide other logistics like who you invite to speak, where you hold the conference and what types of sessions you plan.
The more specific your objectives, the better. It's possible to break a broad idea like "environmentalism in business" into subcategories, like waste reduction, eco-friendly business practices, sustainability initiatives, creating an environmentally conscious company culture, etc. It's possible to break down these subcategories, even – with more focused topics like corporate recycling initiatives, harnessing solar power, going paperless, educating employees, etc.
Charting out ideas from broad to specific will help you assess which topics are most in line with your event goals.
Curate Your Speaker Lineup Carefully
There are many professionals willing, or eager, to speak at any given conference. But you want to do more than find people to fill slots on a schedule; you're aiming to curate a lineup of engaging, knowledgeable presenters with valuable information to impart on an audience.
There are a few ways to go about securing speakers for your event. You can approach people directly, explaining the nature of your event and why you feel they'd be an excellent fit. Or, you can put out an open call for proposals and sift through submissions.
Whichever strategy you choose, start early. As one conference creator notes for Smashing Magazine, quality speakers get booked up far in advance.
Build in Networking Opportunities for Attendees
Furnishing a lineup of great speakers is key. But the value your conference attendees derive also depends on who they meet – the lasting connections they make. The best way to help foster these important connections is by building in networking opportunities.
Want to get people talking? Start by using an audience response system like Poll Everywhere to incorporate networking activities during and between presentations. An interactive icebreaker can help create the camaraderie people need to start talking to their neighbors. A team trivia session is a great way to help attendees bond with others in the spirit of friendly competition.
Carve out chunks of time in which people can have a snack, grab a cup of coffee, explore the venue and strike up conversations with others. This "down time" is actually very productive.
Harness Social Media Before, During and Afterward
When people have questions nowadays, it's almost reflexive to check social media for updates and helpful links. Make sure your conference has a comprehensive social media strategy in place for marketing, providing information and aggregating user-generated content.
As Small Biz Trends points out, events are increasingly "harnessing the viral power of their audience." People will surely be posting, tweeting and blogging up a storm. Make sure you've publicized conference hashtags, and are using your platforms to engage with speakers and attendees alike.
Above all, an impactful conference or event is one from which attendees walk away having learned actionable information and met relevant people. Set objectives, curate a winning lineup of presenters, make it easy for people to network and create a central communications hub across social media platforms.
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Sharing Music for a Purpose
When a student in a guitar class of Jim Van Arsdale '08 suggested that they sponsor a concert to raise money for a fellow student's medical expenses, the fifth-grade teacher at Millard Fillmore Elementary School in Moravia, N.Y., agreed. And so was born, Perform 4 Purpose. Since that initial concert, Central New York students and


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To follow up on Mad Max I want to emphasize again the parallel between Max's Road Warrior and Guts' Black Swordsman. Both scarred by the loss of loved ones, motivated by revenge, outwardly anti-social and opportunistic, and basically having no interest in being regarded as a "hero" by anyone, which ultimately makes their eventual, reluctant, herosim all the more true. As for Fury Road, again, too bad Gibson's baggage probably made the film impossible to complete, and enjoy such mass appeal, with him attached, because there's no reason it couldn't have been an older Max.
Yeah, even having not seen the other films, I couldn't help but think of Guts through a lot of scenes.
Episode 62 and 63 are up? Are they itunes because they're not showing up for me.
And you don't know the half of it yet...
Berserk isn't really "dark fantasy" either. It's plain fantasy
Miura has been very protective of Berserk
Ah! Should've seen this before posting about it on the movie thread.
been a while since i listened to skull boys, hope u didn't lose ur touch
As for Mad Max, I'm in the same boat as Walter. Mad Max had always kind of been on my radar, but I never actually went to the trouble of watching any of the movies (probably because you never see them on TV, like you guys were saying).
I didn't want to buy into the buzz myself, but the sheer number of tough ladies in this movie was very refreshing for me, especially having seen the Avengers 2 recently, which failed pretty dismally in that area.
Like you guys said, part of what made this movie great was how it was never addressed as being unusual. I hope the success of Fury Road sets a new precedent for women in action movies
Thanks guys! I should've taken the opportunity to shamelessly plug that I'll be selling copies of the bust once it's done along with the hyper-realistic Beherits, if anyone still wants them.
Me too...? Skull boys?
Finally I found the time to listen to your two latest podcasts, I am also excited about your Mad Max discussion.Unfortunately I am having problems connecting to the links for all of your podcasts right now, the pages just won't load for me. Am I the only one having this issue?
If only Miller had access to a time machine...
Thank you for another great episode! This time I had to listen to the podcast in two sessions because I hadn't watched Mad Max, but now I finally have.
By the way, how do you spoiler tag a URL?
Hmm, you've stumbled onto a coloring issue, for sure. But it's still possible. You just have to include text along WITH the clickable part of the standard URL tagLike this, I think Of course, then the link sort of disappears...


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2011 Vancouver 38 Pilot
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- Year:
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- Fiberglass
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With the comfort and security of a raised deck saloon, everyone - the pilot included - can shelter from the elements while still enjoying 360 degree views.
The sailing performance is excellent with the same rig as the Vancouver 38 but with a self tacking staysail for convenience.
The Vancouver 38 Pilot is not a motor sailer but a powerful sailing yacht built for long distance cruising.
Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:
Keel: Other
Hull Shape: Monohull
LOA: 38 ft 0 in
Beam: 12 ft 0 in
LWL: 30 ft 5 in
Maximum Draft: 5 ft 7 in
Displacement: 22378 lbs
Dry Weight: 22379 lbs
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Sail Areas
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Yankee 45 m² (480 sq ft)
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Finisar Corp (FNSR)'s MACD Histogram reading is currently below the zero line, indicating a neutral or negative chart trend for the shares. Shares recently touched 23.82 on a recent bid, moving 0.09 in the most recent session.
Created by Thomas Aspray in 1986, the MACD Histogram is a visual indicator of the difference between the MACD line and the Signal line, which is a default 9 period ema of the MACD line. The histogram is an oscillator that moves above and below the zero line, just as the MACD line does. Keep in mind when using this oscillator, that it takes four mathematical steps from price itself to create the 4th derivative, the histogram: Price => two ema averages => MACD line = Signal line => Histogram. Which means it lags price quite a bit. But like all derivatives of price, it's much smoother than price itself.
If the MACD is above zero it helps confirm an uptrend; below zero and it helps confirm a downtrend. Zero line and Signal line crossovers are used as trade signals to enter and exit trending trades. Losing trade signals occur when crossovers occur in rapid succession due to choppy price action. Divergence shows when momentum is slowing, but it doesn't indicate when a reversal will occur (if it occurs). Combing different elements of each strategy makes the indicator more useful, such as taking buy signals following a bullish divergence. Using price and trend analysis will aid in determining which signals to take, such as only taking buy signals when a long-term uptrend is in place.
Investors may need to sometimes be reminded of the risks involved with stock market investing. Figuring out the individual capacity for risk may involve gauging the possible impact that real losses can have not only on the stock portfolio, but the investor's mindset as well. Preparing for risk before jumping into the market can help put things in perspective. Investors who wait until holdings suddenly start dropping may be in for quite a shock when things go haywire. Many risk related errors can be addressed with proper calculations up front. Being aware of risk and managing the portfolio accordingly can be a big factor in the long-standing success of the investor.
Turning to some additional key metrics, the 14-day ADX for Finisar Corp (FNSR) is 25.39. Generally speaking, an ADX value from 0-25 would indicate an absent or weak trend. A value of 25-50 would indicate a strong trend. A value of 50-75 would signal a very strong trend, and a value of 75-100 would indicate an extremely strong trend. The Average Directional Index or ADX is a technical analysis indicator used to describe if a market is trending or not trending. The ADX alone measures trend strength but not direction. Using the ADX with the Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) and Minus Directional Indicator (-DI) may help determine the direction of the trend as well as the overall momentum. Many traders will use the ADX alongside other indicators in order to help spot proper trading entry/exit points.
Finisar Corp (FNSR) presently has a 14-day Commodity Channel Index (CCI) of -50.23. Typically, the CCI oscillates above and below a zero line. Normal oscillations tend to stay in the range of -100 to +100. A CCI reading of +100 may represent overbought conditions, while readings near -100 may indicate oversold territory. Although the CCI indicator was developed for commodities, it has become a popular tool for equity evaluation as well. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and change of stock price movements. The RSI was developed by J. Welles Wilder, and it oscillates between 0 and 100. Generally, the RSI is considered to be oversold when it falls below 30 and overbought when it heads above 70. RSI can be used to detect general trends as well as finding divergences and failure swings. The 14-day RSI is currently at 55.79, the 7-day stands at 49.76, and the 3-day is sitting at 55.18.
Taking a peek at some Moving Averages, the 200-day is at 19.86, and the 50-day is 22.68. Dedicated investors may be looking to employ another tool for doing technical stock analysis. The Williams Percent Range or Williams %R is a technical indicator that was designed to measure overbought and oversold market conditions. The Williams %R indicator helps show the relative situation of the current price close to the period being observed. Finisar Corp (FNSR)'s Williams Percent Range or 14 day Williams %R presently is at -60.90. In general, if the reading goes above -20, the stock may be considered to be overbought. Alternately, if the indicator goes under -80, this may show the stock as being oversold.
Successful investors are typically well aware of portfolio holdings at any given time. They tend to regularly review the portfolio to make sure that the combination of stocks is in line with goals and contributing to the outlined strategy. There may be times when everything seems to be in order after a thorough portfolio review. Other times, there may be a few changes that can be made. Maybe there are one or two names that have been over performing providing a big boost to the portfolio. On the other end, there could be a few stocks that are impacting the portfolio in a negative way and they may need to be addressed. Although constant portfolio monitoring may not be overly necessary for longer-term investors, regular portfolio examination is generally considered to be a good idea.


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Microsoft's Skype communications apps for iPhone and iPad have been updated to version 4.2. New features include the ability to chat with Messenger, Hotmail, and Outlook.com, and merge them all together into one, happy, mega-Microsoft account. If you're a first timer, you can now create an account from within the app.
You can also tap and hold to edit messages now, choose emoticons while typing, and -- terrifically or horrifically, depending on your point of view -- use animated emoticons in full on Retina quality. (I'm firmly in the latter camp -- I'd pay good money for a Skype update that killed animated emoticons dead. For everyone. Because, my eyes. My eyes.) There's also the usual round of bug fixes.
If you haven't used Skype yet, it remains much like democracy -- terrible except when compared to everything else. It's cross-platform, more reliable than most, and enjoys full background access on iOS (though keep an eye on your battery while it's active). If you're already a Skype user, it's a no-brainer update. Go get it.
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This week, more than 100 governments are gathered in Bonn for the first plenary meeting of the new global platform linking science and policy on biodiversity and its benefits (IPBES). Right at the heart of the buzzing crowd, is also a diverse group of other stakeholders and partners, including IUCN and its Members. What are they calling for and will the governments answer?
IPBES is of interest to a wide range of stakeholders holding a large amount of knowledge and expertise in the fields of biodiversity conservation, natural resources management and development, at all levels. It is expected that these stakeholders, ranging from the scientific and conservation communities to non-governmental organisations, indigenous peoples and businesses, will be both contributors and end users of the platform.
The interest, engagement and participation of all relevant stakeholders along the entire process are key for the relevance, impact, credibility and legitimacy of IPBES. However, their key roles are not yet fully reflected in the proposed rules, procedures and structures of the platform.
In a joint statement to the plenary, stakeholders called for an engagement strategy to be developed together with them before the next IPBES plenary meeting. This strategy should ensure the full and effective participation of all stakeholders in the work, the governance and the operations of the platform taking into account the diversity of expertise that they could contribute and the need for financial support to enable this. The establishment of partnerships with existing initiatives to support and speed up implementation of the IPBES work programme were also recommended.
"These important ideas have been picked up and are now being considered by the plenary. Of course we will need to wait the final decision, but it is a good signal that the governments are being receptive to the need to involve stakeholders in the work of IPBES," says Cyrie Sendashonga, IUCN Global Director of Policy and Programme Group. "Stakeholders are the DNA of the platform and we are ready to contribute our knowledge and expertise to IPBES."
The joint Stakeholders' Statement was developed by over 100 participants of the IPBES Stakeholders' Day that was held immediately before the First Plenary Meeting of IPBES. Stakeholders continue meeting on a daily basis this week to jointly agree on the way forward in helping governments to strengthen the links between science and policies on biodiversity and its benefits for the future of conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, long-term human well-being and sustainable development.
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Because so many people have asked me for a copy of the remarks I made at Sunday's Middlebury College commencement, I've decided to reprint them here.
In case you hadn't seen the news reports, I was asked to step in at the last minute for Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn, the scheduled commencement speakers who were last-minute no-shows. Apparently they had a Third World country to save that day and decided, for some inexplicable reason, that this was more important than giving a commencement speech.


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It's A Bomb wrote:I'm pretty burnt out on going to wrestling shows and I didn't even want to go to this show, but since GenNext/Davey and Dragon has been booked I'm going to go to this event for sure. I like how PWG has been giving the tag division some new life, as it's been something that has been lacking in wrestling today around the scene. This show reminds me of a Late 2003/Early 2004 era(which IMO was the best PWG era) card with great storylines mixed in with dream matches and solid undercards without the need of bringing in huge names. Can't wait for this show.
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TigerDriver98 wrote:(back when PWG was a great little secret among 200 or so die hards that didn't need AJ on the card in order to show up. I'm sure PWG likes the extra money they get now though)
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Student Transforms into National Geographic Star
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Alex Guth, Michigan Tech PhD student, online lecturer, and Kenyan geology researcher, has been tapped as an on-camera expert for a National Geographic television show airing next spring.
The focus of the National Geographic TV special is the concept of Pangaea, the super continent that once existed before the current continents parted ways. The Kenya Rift shows how continents tear apart, and the nearby island of Madagascar is a consequence of past rifting. Madagascar's past connection to Pangaea is seen and rocks and animals of the island, for example, lemurs, unique to Madagascar, evolved there after the split, leaving their relatives in Africa.
"I couldn't speak as a biologist," Guth said. But, she could--and did--discuss her areas of expertise: mapping a visual history of the rift (her Master's research) and tracking the history of climate change in the region (her PhD focus), which is also known as paleo-climatology. These are 10-million-year histories.
Producers working with National Geographic's TV show used Google to hunt for the right scientist. When they Googled Alex, they discovered that she had some camera-savvy and knew the geology of the Kenya rift area they were interested in portraying.
First, she had to do a phone interview, an audition, actually. "They were asking me questions to see how I would respond," she said. She passed that test, and, when she got on location, she found that her audition prepared her well for the way TV specials are produced: with the same questions asked and answered multiple times.
"They'd keep asking until I smoothed my answer out," says Guth. "It's funny how you answer questions differently each time."
Spending long hours outside in Africa was not easy for Guth. Thanks to jet lag, a lack of sunscreen and red hair, "It didn't take long to get sunburned," she says.
She did remember to wear her Michigan Tech shirt, however, much to the delight of University officials.
An additional, somewhat daunting task was explaining her work at a level television viewers could understand. "That means talking not as a scientist but as an ordinary person," she says, "making it accessible for them, not for us."
And being on camera presented some other challenges to the scientist.
"I had to gaze or point at a certain area that really meant nothing," she said. "The lighting would be right, and it just looked good on camera."
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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How do a couple of middle-aged Big City kids pull up stakes, move to the country, oversee the construction of their own very efficient solar-heated house, rebuild a completely run-down pasture, and then successfully establish themselves as "all natural" organic beef farmers?
Quite gracefully, if that couple happens to be Ellie and Don Pruess , owners and operators of the Teel Mountain organic beef farm outside Stanardsville, Virginia. And if that name sounds familiar, it's only because you've seen Teel Mountain's "Veal and baby beef, milk-fed, raised naturally at mothers' sides, no hormones, insecticides, or antibiotics used. Tender, delicious. Supply limited" ads running in such widely varied publications as Natural Food & Farming Magazine and The Wall Street Journal.
But just how do a couple of happy, fun-loving, down-to-earth folks take life into their own hands and build an organic farm from scratch? And how do they make it pay off even when—as happened last fall—their fields are attacked by hordes of army worms? MOTHER EARTH NEWS staffer Bruce Woods recently visited Greene County, Virginia and spent a pleasant afternoon (an afternoon which ran on far into the night) talking to Don and Ellie Pruess. And that conversation turned up just the kind of answers that you'd probably expect ... plus, perhaps, a few unexpected surprises too!
PLOWBOY: Don and Ellie, the things you're doing here—farming wholistically, living in a solar-heated house, controlling pests with environmentally sound methods—certainly aren't new ideas, as I'm sure you'd be the first to admit.
But your operation is unique, because you've taken a whole raft of what most folks tend to think of as "dream stuff," blended it all together, and turned it into a practical way of living and a profitable working farm. How did you do that? What brought you to Teel Mountain in the first place?
DON: Well, to start at the beginning, both Ellie and I are Oregonians. She was born in Portland and my family moved to Grants Pass shortly after my birth. I guess you could say I was raised there from "year one."
PLOWBOY: Did either or both of your families farm in the Northwest?
ELLIE: My people lived in town. I didn't know a thing about agriculture, really, until after Don and I were married—but my parents were very much "outdoor" types. We were constantly hiking, backpacking, mountain climbing, and such. And the way my mother always stressed nutrition and the necessity of eating healthful foods, I think, influenced the way I finally turned out.
DON: My folks had a farm but it wasn't a business, really. My father, you see, was an attorney and that's the way he made our living until the depression hit us ....
ELLIE: Then he had to take pigs and other bartered goods in exchange for the legal work he did.
DON: That's right. And those crops and livestock "fees"—and that farm—kept us going through the bad years. There was no money at all back then. I had that fact indelibly impressed on me and I know firsthand how bad that big depression was. I saw it. I lived through it. And that's one of the reasons we're living here, just the way we are, today. In fact it's probably the primary reason.
PLOWBOY: Well, if worst comes to worst and the whole economic system falls apart again, it'd be hard to imagine a better place to ride out the next few decades. Ellie, how did you get interested in wholistic farming?
ELLIE: That just kind of happened over a period of years. My first interest, you see, was art. I majored in the subject at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and was later an assistant art director for Reader's Digest.
It wasn't until after Don and I were married that I even tried to raise a garden and, like everyone else at the time, I started off using chemicals for everything. That was during World War II soon after DDT had been developed—I think the military came up with it first—and everybody was very excited because here was something that was going to wipe out all the harmful bugs ...
DON:... forever ...
ELLIE: ... and all the insects had to do was walk on this wonderful new miracle substance, and they'd be paralyzed!
Anyway, our Victory Garden—that's what they were called during the war—was on very poor soil. And the insects, of course, congregated there for regular feasts. It was disastrous. We must have set growth records for bean beetles! So we put DDT on the plants. But that only killed the insects, and our crops were no better than before.
I think it was then I began to suspect that something was lacking in the whole chemical approach to gardening and farming. I mean, why did the weeds alongside the road look so healthy and green and beautiful when our garden looked so bad? It didn't take me long to realize that the land is the important thing. It isn't what you put on a crop that counts, it's the soil that the plant grows in that determines its health.
DON: And then Rachel Carson's classic book on the subject, Silent Spring, was published, and you read that.
ELLIE: Yes, I had already read Plowman's Folly by Edward Faulkner and then Rachel Carson's work was serialized in the New Yorker and it was a huge influence. It shocked me so. After that it was only a short step to Louis Bromfield's Malabar Farm and Sir Albert Howard's books—all landmarks, of course, in the wholistic agriculture movement. And then one thing just sort of led to another and, almost before I knew it, I had built up a small library of books on soil replenishment and organic farming.
Later—when we lived in Rye, New York in the early 1960's—we started our first organic garden. And I could see the results! For instance, I noticed that when I transplanted a tree it would be very much bothered by insects the first year. Then the bugs would become less of a problem the next. And during the third year, the tree would suffer only a normal amount of insect damage. This was because the tree had been put under stress by the transplanting, and a plant that's under stress is simply easier for bugs to attack.
PLOWBOY: Just as a person under stress is more vulnerable to disease.
ELLIE: Exactly. And I've since learned that stress in plants—as in people—can be caused by many different things: Transplanting, drought, too much water, excessive cold or heat, a shortage of trace minerals—all of these things and others can stress a plant and make it more susceptible to insects or disease.
The reverse, of course, is also true. If you give your plants the best possible nutrition—the right amount of trace minerals and lots of organic matter—and protect them from extremes of heat or cold and encourage earthworms to live in the soil around them and so on, you'll have plants that are healthy and strong and that make better food for people to eat.
Well, the more I learned about this, to me, fascinating subject, the more I wanted to know. Consequently my library continued to grow and began to encompass nutrition as well as farming and gardening.
PLOWBOY: There's a big difference, though, between assembling a library and actually leaving the city to set up a commercial wholistic farm. What made you take such a step?
DON: You probably didn't know it but, years ago, Ellie and I started the chain of Bonanza steak houses. We put up the first pilot unit and then began to franchise restaurants all over the country. The operation grew very fast. We didn't serve organically grown beef then, of course, but we did handle only what we thought was good meat. I took care of the business end of things and Ellie designed the interiors of the restaurants and coordinated their construction.
ELLIE: It was a very creative time for us and a lot of fun. But we were living in Westchester then and—in 1968, when our property taxes suddenly jumped to $6,000 a year—we realized we had to leave.
DON: We were burglarized twice and the New York State Thruway was going up nearby. We felt crushed by civilization.
ELLIE: We had to get away. And so—since our daughter lived in Virginia and we'd visited her and loved the area—we decided that "Ol' Virginny" would be our new home. We searched for a long time, though, before we found what we were looking for. Even back then we knew that we wanted a solar-heated house, and we had to have just the right piece of land to build it on.
PLOWBOY: Where did you get that idea ... about your house? Solar energy wasn't on many people's minds ten years ago.
ELLIE: Oh, there were a few folks, back in the early 60's I think, who were writing and talking about the fact that the planet's cheap petroleum couldn't last forever. I can't remember just who they were now, or where their articles were published, but their work led me to think that my ideal—if I could do anything in the world that I wanted—would be to build a solar-heated house, back into the side of a hill, with an earth roof on it.
So, once we'd sold our business and decided to move down here, we made up a list of the features that our new home would have to have. We weren't thinking of a commercial farm at that time, but we'd been hemmed in by developments for so long that we did want acreage; we wanted some land of our own around us. And for our solar heating, we had to have a view to the south. And we wanted to look out over our own pond, which meant we had to have a site for a little lake somewhere south of our house's southern slope.
Naturally, we looked at any number of places that were wrong—with the view to the north and the pond site to the west and so forth—until the day we drove in here with an agent and everything seemed to fall together. There was even an abandoned house for us to live in while we built the home we wanted. We sold our city property and moved here for good in March of 1972.
DON: We really dove headlong into our new adventure too. And that's my advice to anyone who wants to do anything. Just do it. Don't try to blueprint your life because, if you do, the enormity of what you hope to attempt will probably seem so imposing that you'll never go through with it. Just go ahead. Get involved with what you really want to do! And then worry about solving the problems one at a time that you're bound to run into.
PLOWBOY: Did you know, at the time you moved here, that you were headed straight for a new career?
DON: No. We were in our late 40's, we had just sold a successful business, and we wanted to change our lifestyle while we still had enough vigor to do it. We just wanted to live here, breathe pure air, and rebuild the worn-out soil we'd purchased. Rebuild it into a self-sufficient retirement farm.
Believe me, that was enough to think about in the beginning! When you looked over there—to the south—you could only see a horrible, red, washed-out gully. Nothing but corn—hyped up with chemical fertilizers—had been grown on that land for five years in a row. That's the way it is with much of the soil in Virginia today. The farmers pour on the chemicals, the real fertility of the land just keeps going down and down, and then the farmers take outside jobs to "get along" while their land is dying.
PLOWBOY: But not yours! Your farm is a picture of health today. How did you rebuild the washed-out gully that used to be over there into the beautiful expanse of lush pasture that we're looking at now?
ELLIE: The first thing we did was grow green manure crops and disc them in. I'd learned from Plowman's Folly that not only is plowing not necessary, it isn't even good for the soil. What it does is fold organic residue—which should decay and return to the earth—so far under the surface that, in many cases, it can't decay. That's why a farmer's plow will sometimes turn up grass and hay—completely recognizable—that the same farmer plowed down six or seven years before.
Mother Nature never uses a plow. But she has blessed the top four inches of healthy soil with billions of micro-organisms that can transform any kind of decaying matter into new life. All we did was encourage this process by growing green manure crops, treating them with biodynamic sprays, and chopping them up and discing them into the top four inches of our land.
And we didn't just do it once. We planted and disced again and again. And we planted and disced in clover too, to add nitrogen to the soil. And we added rock fertilizers—rock phosphate, greens and and granite dust too. They all fed the bacteria and micro-organisms in the earth that break down and decay organic matter. And once you get that decomposition started, all sorts of really good things happen. The mycorrhizas—which are the fungi that grow in healthy soil—start to come back and thrive. And earthworms begin to move in and aerate the sod. And so on.
PLOWBOY: All you've done, then, is just cooperate a little with Mother Nature, help her set up a fit environment for her natural processes, and then stand back and let those processes take over and rebuild the land.
DON: Yes. And look at the results. This field we're gazing out across is our Exhibit Number One.
PLOWBOY: It's certainly beautiful. But, tell me: When you were discing under one crop after another, didn't you get any strange reactions from your neighbors?
DON: Oh, yeah. One came by while we were bush-hogging something down—either soybeans or clover—and he said, "What's the matter? Are you crazy? You're wrecking a whole crop!"
He wasn't the only one, of course. A lot of the neighbors couldn't understand what we were doing when we first started. But we didn't get up on a soapbox about our ideas or anything ... because it's possible, you know, to shout so loud sometimes that no one hears you.
We just thought we'd let our results speak for themselves and then, maybe, people would "come to the party" one by one when they were ready. And that's starting to happen. One of those neighbors, for instance—a dyed-in-the-wool chemical farmer—used green manure for the first time this year. And he disced it under too.
PLOWBOY: You must have started designing and building your solar-heated house while you were already spending most of your time rebuilding this farm.
ELLIE: Yes, but my brother-in-law Nembard Culin—he's an architect—helped us immensely with the house. He's a marvelous person. Ingenious and open to new ideas. He'd never designed a solar home before when we started on this one, but I talked to him about it and he just said, "Sure, we can do that." Everything really went very smoothly. Nembard had visions and ideas that Don and I hadn't thought of, yet his concepts always seemed to complement ours. He didn't have to compromise and neither did we.
PLOWBOY: How much of the actual construction did you contract out?
DON: We more or less set up our own little contracting company and did it all ourselves. I was the procurement officer: I got all of the materials and labor together. In the meantime Nem had the plans checked for stresses, Btu accumulation, and so on. Then he gave 'em to Ellie and said, "OK. Build it." Ellie oversaw the construction.
ELLIE: It's one of the few houses that was ever built over the telephone. It's true that I was the construction supervisor and that I had to, for instance, show the stonemasons—who couldn't read plans—what to do and where to put the concrete reinforcing wire and such.
But every time I'd start checking around with my tape measure and get to a point where I didn't know what the next step should be, I'd call up my brother-in-law and say, "Nem, I think I'm in trouble. Where do I go from here?" And he'd tell me over the phone and then I'd tell the men what to do. They never suspected that I didn't know.
DON: Remember, too, that those stonemasons—who are talented men with, perhaps, just a bit of prima donna about t hem—were taking orders from Ellie, a woman, and that's a little alien to the way things are usually done around here. In the beginning, they were always coming up to me and asking things like, "Don't you think I ought to do it this way or mix the mud like that?" And I'd just tell 'em to talk to Mrs. Pruess. Gradually they saw that Ellie knew what she was talking about—even if she does claim that Nem told her over the phone—and, at the end, they worshipped her.
ELLIE: Someone even offered me a job as a supervisor for a real construction company, but I told him that I could only do a project like this as a labor of love.
PLOWBOY: Well it's certainly an attractive house. But did you have any special problems getting your construction crew to understand the solar heating system you put in it?
DON: They didn't have to understand. That's why we didn't contract the work out. We simply broke the fabrication of the whole building down into a series of individual jobs and then walked each worker one step at a time through each little component of the larger project.
ELLIE: And we did that for twenty months.
PLOWBOY: Tell me about the solar-heating system. How—and how well—does it work?
ELLIE: It's sort of a hybrid passive/active system. The whole front-south wall of the building is windowed and the roof overhangs the glass enough to block out a good portion of the high summer sun's heat. During the colder months, though—when the sun is lower in the sky—that same overhang helps "funnel in" the solar radiation. This—plus the insulation provided by the house's sod roof, the hillside the building is nestled back into, and the concrete and urethane foam used in the dwelling's construction—make up the passive part of the system.
We've also built a solar collector—96 feet long by six feet high—in below our home's terrace. This heats air, and the warmed air is then blown into a space—16 inches deep and honeycombed with cement blocks—under the floor of the house. Another series of fans can circulate that stored heat all through the building.
So far the system has worked wonderfully all three of the winters we've used it. The only sources of backup heat that we have are our fireplaces, and we've used them more for the pleasure of sitting in front of a fire than we have because we were cold.
PLOWBOY: All right. You moved south, began to recondition your land, and started the construction of a solar-heated house. That sounds like more than enough for any couple to handle. Where, along the way, did you decide to go into wholistic farming on a commercial basis?
ELLIE: That just sort of crept up on us. Healthy soil inevitably leads to healthy plants which, in turn, lead to healthy animals.
As our pastures rebuilt themselves, we just began to know that we could do a better job of raising beef than the chemical farmers were doing. And, in 1974, we started our herd.
DON: We hired a consultant—Jimmy Stork—who knew about configurations, ages, that sort of thing—to guide us when we went into cattle. And with his counsel we eventually narrowed our "breeds to consider" down to Hereford and Angus. Then, when we couldn't find any really rational reason to choose one over the other, we went with the Angus because Ellie thought that black cows were more beautiful than red ones.
PLOWBOY: Do you have registered stock?
DON: Some of our cattle are registered, but not all. We don't really care about registration. We're more interested in configuration—how a cow is "blocked out" and whether we think she'll have large calves or small ones. We've picked the cream from as many different farms as we could find to pick over. And we're proud of the results. We've got a good, straight, commercial herd here.
ELLIE: We started with mature cows that had already calved, because we knew we were too inexperienced to handle calving problems. And we've been very pleased with our Angus cows. They're good mothers and exceptionally good milkers ... which is extremely important to us since, basically, the only thing we have to sell is a "milk-fed" product.
PLOWBOY: What about your bull?
DON: Humphrey? He's a Brahman/Angus cross that we bought in 1974, while we were still building the herd. We chose him because some friends who breed these "Brangus"—as the cross is called—did a real sales job on us. They said that our herd would have "hybrid vigor" if we'd cross our Angus cows with something like Humphrey. And they were right. We couldn't be more pleased with the result. Our cows have had very few calving problems and the babies are strong and healthy, and develop fast.
PLOWBOY: Yes, I've been wondering about that "all natural" veal and baby beef you sell. What happens differently here—in the life of a baby calf—than would happen on today's average "chemical" cattle farm?
ELLIE: Things start happening differently here even before a calf is born. Most of today's farmers, for instance, breed their cows only during a two-or three-month season. All their calves are born together in a short period of time that way and it makes the management of the farm much easier.
We don't do it like that, though. We let our bull stay with the cows all the time—that's the way it's done in wild herds, you know—and our calves are born all year 'round. This makes more work for us—we have to keep track of our calves all the time and tag them so we know which baby goes with which mother—but it's one of the main reasons our meat is so much better than the meat which comes from an agribusiness feedlot.
Our calves are never weaned. They never have to go through the stress of weaning. Instead, each one stays right with its mother—milk-fed all its life—right up until the time it's processed.
DON: That's a critical point. The stress that Ellie's talking about—the stress of weaning—does make a difference in the meat. We know it does.
ELLIE: We don't worm our cows either. Most of the other farmers systematically give their cattle worm medications now. Each cow is given regular shots and the worm-killer then circulates all through the animal's bloodstream. We don't do that.
And we don't have any "fly rubbers" on our farm the way so many other beef operations do. You've seen them: those machines that dispense insecticides whenever a cow rubs against 'em. We don't believe that a constant application of poison to an animal's face and back is a good thing.
We also keep our weeds under control by mowing and hand-pulling them instead of spraying them with still other poisons the way most farmers do nowadays.
DON: We don't use any antibiotics either. That "peculiarity" of ours probably gets the strongest reaction of all from the others in the business. People ask us questions like, "You mean you just let an animal die, rather than give it a shot of penicillin?"
ELLIE: Yes, and that's such an irrelevant question! It's never happened. We've simply never had to make that decision.
We did have a cow with foot rot once. We had called the vet out to run a pregnancy test and, while he was here, we asked him what to do about another animal that was limping. He saw that she had foot rot and said, "Well, give her a shot." I told him that we don't give our cows any shots and asked him how folks had treated foot rot in the old days before there were shots. He thought a minute and said, "Get some pine tar oil and put that on the cow's foot." We did, and the infection cleared up just fine. There are good, simple ways to take care of these little problems when they come up instead of always trying to cure everything with a shot of some kind.
PLOWBOY: Do you feed your herd anything special in addition to this fantastic grass that you raise for them?
ELLIE: One of the things we do here that other farms don't do is feed our cows kelp. We offer it as a supplement and, when we first put it out, the herd sort of turned their noses up at it. But we waited, and after a day or so we saw that the cattle had green—from the green kelp granules, which smell like seaweed—all over their noses. They eat a lot of it now.
PLOWBOY: When do you start offering kelp to your calves?
ELLIE: It's always in front of them, from the time they're born. I think that's one of the reasons our babies are extra healthy, vigorous, and disease-resistant. We even spray kelp on our fields! There's a powdered variety that dissolves in water and we spray it on our pastures right along with fish emulsion, which is a by-product of the tuna industry.
DON: We use Norwegian kelp that we buy from Zook and Ranck in Gap, Pennsylvania. It's expensive, but we feel that it's less contaminated with pollutants than the American brands. And we use a lot of it. Remember, though: The basic diet of our calves isn't pasture grass, or kelp, or anything else, except secondarily. Our calves' main diet is milk from the cows that bear them. That's why our meat is so tender. Beef from a grass-fed animal has a certain graininess to it, but ours doesn't. Our beef is very tender.
And here's another point that we think is terribly important: We do not implant hormones into any of our animals' bloodstreams to feminize them and make them put on more weight with less feed. This has become standard practice in the beef industry and we think it's just a terrible, terrible thing.
Hormone implants are nothing but time bombs. The practice has been studied, you know, and those studies have revealed possible links with cancer. People who eat beef that has been artificially fattened with hormone implants seem to develop higher rates of cancer than people who do not. That's frightening! But do you know what's been done as a result of those studies? It's now mandatory that beef farmers sign a paper stating that they stopped implanting hormones in an animal fifteen days before it was slaughtered. Fifteen days! When they've been making implants in that same animal since its birth!
PLOWBOY: That's like locking the barn after the horse is stolen.
DON: Exactly. There has already been a frightening accumulation of the hormones in a beef's body by the time the practice is stopped just a few days before the animal is slaughtered. It's terrifying. That's one of the reasons we're in business in the first place ... and one of the reasons that people purchase our meat. Ours doesn't have any implanted hormones in it.
PLOWBOY: Do you have to charge extra for your meat since you produce it in such an old-fashioned, "inefficient" way without the help of artificial fatteners and so on?
DON: No, our prices run about the same as those you find in a gourmet meat market, and far less than those charged by the mail-order beef operations that sell ordinary chemically raised meat. Depending on the size of the order, our baby beef costs from $3.00 to $4.00 a pound—and that's net, net, net, usable weight.
PLOWBOY: Who buys Teel Mountain beef anyway?
DON: Two types of people: The folks who want pure meat—without all of the poisons and hormone injections and so on that we've talked about—and the gourmets who demand a really fine product, directly from the farm. We've had customers in both categories mail blank checks to us, along with a letter saying something like, "Send us what you can and fill in the amount." That sort of trust is almost overwhelming.
ELLIE: We also get a good many buyers who are allergic to antibiotics, pesticide residues, and such.
DON: I would say, too, that a third to forty percent of our customers are doctors. Now you can interpret that in two ways: Either that they can afford it ... which is fine, all well and good. Or that they know what's going on with supermarket beef and they want something better for their families, which isn't so fine.
PLOWBOY: There definitely are people "out there," then, who want their beef produced in a different and more natural way. But what about the agricultural "establishment"? Have any of the vested interests in the business acknowledged your existence?
DON: We've been extremely cooperative with the U.S. Department of Agriculture—with the U.S.D.A. inspectors at the plant where we have our processing done—and they've been quite laudatory about our meat. Those inspectors are very conscientious about their standards and they condemn a lot of liver from chemically raised cattle these days, but they've never condemned a liver from our farm.
ELLIE: One of the inspectors has even told Don that she can always tell the carcass from an organically raised cow or calf because its liver is so beautiful. It's the right color and it's never abscessed the way the livers from chemically raised cattle are.
PLOWBOY: You're starting to get through to the agribiz establishment, then.
ELLIE: Well, that's just on the local—very local—level with a few U.S.D.A. meat inspectors. It's a different story with the big chemical companies that make the pesticides and weed killers and so forth. Those people aren't interested in changing anything. They're perfectly happy with things the way they are.
Even the U.S.D.A—-at least as far as our local county agricultural agent is concerned—so far has preferred to ignore us, even when we've had some real successes that could benefit other cattle farmers.
Probably the best example of that was last fall, when we were hit by a massive infestation of army worms that threatened to eat up our winter pasture. We were in a terrible fix. The summer had been unusually dry anyway and the drought had left our fields weak to begin with. Under those conditions, we knew that the worms could quickly finish off what little pasture we had left.
PLOWBOY: What did you do?
ELLIE: Well, first, we asked for advice from the agricultural extension agents and, as might be expected, all they told us to do was spray. We didn't even ask "with what" because we knew it'd just be some horrible chemical poison that, as even the agents admitted, the worms were already resistant to but which we knew would wipe out many—if not all—of the natural predators on our land.
PLOWBOY: Predators that you had "cultivated" as part of your pasture's naturally balanced ecosystem.
DON: Yes. Spraying poisons on that grass would have been about the same as throwing acid on the land. It would have set our work back by years, and I wasn't about to see that happen. I was ready to hire people to come in and pick the worms off if we had to. But then Ellie found a better way.
ELLIE: I remembered reading somewhere that you can control insect pests by gathering up a bunch of whatever's bothering you, grinding them in a blender, and then spraying the groundup goop on the infested fields. I had also read—while looking through my library for help—about Bacillus thuringiensis, which is a bacterial substance that attacks only the Lepidoptera family. Well—since I knew that the army worms were actually caterpillars, or larvae, of Lepidoptera—I thought that the bacillus might work on them.
DON: So we went out to the fields end gathered about a half gallon of the worms. It was a very hot Sunday afternoon and we were kneeling down and picking the pests—just endlessly—like picking from a thick patch of berries. There were so many of the army worms that it didn't take us long to collect a half gallon. Then, the next day, it took us most of the morning to find a place that handled the bacterial spray. And the only one we could locate was two and a half hours away. So we let the worms sit for a while and I drove up to Pennsylvania to buy the Bacillus thuringiensis. When I got back at about seven that evening, we finally took the worms—which were pretty gamy by that time—and blended them.
ELLIE: And that first twirl of the blender, believe me, was difficult.
DON: Then we strained the liquid out and poured half of the foul-smelling substance into each of the two 360-gallon tanks of the bacillus on our sprayer. We used the tractor headlights to see what we were doing and worked until ten o'clock that night—Monday—putting the mixture on our fields.
PLOWBOY: How soon did you get results?
ELLIE: Well, we had to leave town on business from Tuesday to Thursday, and we spent all that time not knowing if we'd done any good or not. But when we returned on Thursday, we couldn't find more than a few sickly worms in a full hour of crawling around the pasture. The really exciting thing, however, was that we did find a great many other insects—spiders, crickets, ants, and so on—which, I'm sure, had helped eat up the caterpillars.
I'm reasonably certain that the bacillus killed most of the pests. But whatever was responsible, something in that combination of blended worms, Bacillus thuringiensis, and natural predators did the job. And did it without poisoning everything in the fields.
We thought that was pretty big news of course, but when we called up the local county agricultural agent, told him of our success, and asked if he'd like to come by and take a look, he said he was too busy.
PLOWBOY: That's incredible. You didn't just have an infestation of army worms here in Virginia last fall, you know. The worms were all over the Southeast. We had them just as bad, for instance, down in North Carolina. If the U.S.D.A. had gotten the word out about your success in controlling the pests, it could have been extremely helpful to thousands of farmers, ranchers, gardeners, and other people.
ELLIE: Yes, we know. That's why we asked the agent to come out and see for himself.
PLOWBOY: I'm afraid that if we wait for the government to do anything worthwhile in the field of natural pest control ... well, we'll wait for a long, long time. What steps are you taking in the meantime to "get the word out"?
ELLIE: About a year ago, twelve of us formed an organization which we named the Virginia Association of Biological Farmers. There were just the twelve of us at that first meeting, but we'll be getting together for the second time this week and we expect over a hundred people to attend.
DON: The Association's president is A.P. Thompson and he's a fine, terrific guy. A.P. owns the Golden Acre Orchards ... some very fine orchards that produce apples, apple juice, and apple cider vinegar—all organically raised without any chemical sprays at all—on a commercially successful basis.
ELLIE: And apples, you know, are one of the most heavily sprayed of all the food crops. Other growers say they can't raise apples unless they spray them. Yet A.P. does it without spraying ... and makes money at it too.
PLOWBOY: What about Teel Mountain? Is your operation making money yet?
DON: We would have gone into the black last year if it hadn't been for the drought and the worms. They knocked us out of the ball game last year. But this year we'll do it, we'll turn a profit. Measured against our investment in time, effort, and money it'll be a modest one of course, but we will make a profit.
PLOWBOY: Don and Ellie, you should be proud of yourselves. You've accomplished or are accomplishing everything you've worked for during the past ten years. You've moved yourselves from a crowded, polluted, noisy city to a clean, healthful, quiet spot in the country. You've designed and built your own comfortable, beautiful, and efficient solar heated house. You've used a knowledge of wholistic farming practices to rebuild worn-out land and fight off an invasion of army worms that other farmers couldn't control with chemical pesticides. And you're now on the verge of selling your "all natural" baby beef on a commercially profitable basis. In short, you've already done what a great many of MOTHER EARTH NEWS' readers want to do. What would you like to tell those readers—what advice do you have to give them—that might help them duplicate your success?
ELLIE: You've got to be workaholics! You've got to be dedicated to your ideals and willing to put in whatever hours and efforts are necessary to turn them into reality. And you've got to be willing to try things, to take a chance and do whatever has to be done to put you nearer your goals.
DON: There's no question that you have to take a gamble from time to time. That's very important, especially when you're up against something new ... a problem you've never faced before.
Take those army worms, for instance. When I drove up to Pennsylvania and back and spent $200 for that Bacillus thuringiensis, it could all have been for nothing. It cost us a lot to beat those worms and yet, right up until the battle was over, we didn't know if what we were doing was going to work or not. In that sort of situation you just have to plunge ahead. Take a chance and keep plunging forward.
ELLIE: You need faith too. Deep down, I was sure our natural spray would do the job.
DON: Yes, faith. Lots of faith. You've always got to believe in what you're doing. Then—if you're willing to take a chance in what you believe in—it pretty much boils down to what Ellie said: just being a workaholic.
We were lucky when we moved here because we had just sold a good business and we had some money to work with. But don't overestimate the value of that nest egg. We still could have done what we did with, say, a smaller tractor or a secondhand tractor instead of the one we bought.
The simple fact of the matter is that—no matter how much money you're able to put into your move to the country and a more natural way of life—you must always be ready to match that cash ten-to-one with effort and innovation. Our experience has shown us that that ratio is a constant one. For every dollar you invest, you must be ready to invest ten dollars' worth of your own body and mind.
If you're lazy and only willing to support your cash investment one-to-one with physical and mental labor, you don't stand a chance. But if you're ready to invest as much of yourself as necessary to change your life for the better—and if you have the spirit to make that change stick—nothing can stop you. Fortunately, there seem to be more and more people today willing to strike that bargain.


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Goodbye, Blockbuster – Quincy Blockbuster Video Closing in May
Remember going to Blockbuster and renting movies?
That is getting harder to do. You only have until May 11th in Quincy to get the movies you want. The Quincy Blockbuster store is undergoing a liquidation sale at its location of 3520 Broadway. Nearly everything is for sale at the store, including movies, televisions and even the shelves where the videos were.
The Blockbuster company has faced some stiff competition from other businesses like Netflix and Redbox. The company was sold to Dish Network in 2011.


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