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What's Growin' On at the Farm
We have waited long enough to get planting and now is the time! While we farm out here on Big River Farms, many of us, like me, are backyard (and frontyard) gardeners. Without our current farmers, we could not get the wonderful produce that we all love in the season. Without the future farmers, we will be in a real hungry dilemma. But the conclusion is in now, the frost is gone till October in my opinion, and we need to get planting! With the mild Winter and the warm Spring, it was tempting to plant early, but being wary and nice Minnesotans, sort of set in our ways, we held off in planting. You never know, you could have snow on Mother's Day. But it's not going to happen this year, so now is the time to get out there and plant and grow! Be fruitful! We can help. Minnesota Food Association will have it Annual Spring Open House and Plant Sale on Saturday May 12 from Noon – 4 pm at our Big River Farms site. Come out and enjoy an afternoon on the farm. Meet the many farmers in our training program. Learn more about what we do to promote a more sustainable food system. Buy some seedlings for your garden. We have over 2,000 plants just aching to get in the ground. There are over 35 varieties of Certified Organic vegetable, herb and flower starts ready for you to plant. This event is free and open to the public so please bring your friends and family! We will have food – an eclectic community potluck table that ebbs and flows as folks bring in food and others eat it up. So bring a dish if you can.
See you this Saturday!
Glen Hill
Executive Director
Minnesota Food Association
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May 9, 2012
What's in your Gardener's Special?
White Sweet Alyssum
Cayenne Pepper
Sweet Pepper
Heirloom Tomato
Sweet Marjoram
Anise Hyssop
Tromboncino Summer Squash
Get ready for our Plant Sale and Spring Open House…
This Saturday, May 12th from 12-4pm at the farm! Bring a dish to share to this open house and potluck event. Bring your friends and family to visit the farm, meet new folks, and stock up on organic herbs, flowers and heirloom veggies!
Have you signed up for our CSA yet?! There are still shares available.
Visit our website at www.mnfoodassociation.org to sign up for a summer or fall share and see our drop site list!
Here is a preview of what might be in our first box:
A photo of a CSA box from last season!
Upcoming Events at MFA & Big River Farms
June 2nd—Work Day
June 12th—First week of CSA deliveries
August 19th—Dinner on the Farm
September 23rd—Slow Food MN presents a Slow Food meal at Big River Farms!
Notes from the Field
The Gardener's Specials are packed and ready to go! This e-mail is being sent to you because you have oredered a Gardener's Special. We have taken the nicest looking things from our greenhouse and made an enticing flat of plants for you to put in your garden.
We hope you enjoy them for the whole summer.
The greenhouse is in full bloom mode this week and we are gearing up for our Spring Open House and Plant sale this Saturday May 12th from Noon until 4:00 here at the farm. We designed the Gardener's Special to be picked up here at the farm on the day of our plant sale. There are directions here. If this does not work for you please let me know and we can make other arrangements.
I am looking forward to seeing you all on Saturday!
A Guide to your Gardener's Special
Thank you for purchasing a Gardener's Special!
We hope you find much enjoyment watching these plants grow through the season. Below you will find a list of everything included in your flat, plus any special care instructions for over-wintering.
Marigold (A): Annual, full sun, spacing 8", pinching makes plants bushier (1 Durango Outback Mix)
Violas (B): Biennial, full sun/partial shade, spacing
6-9", deadheading encourages blooms all season
2 Majestic Giants
Nasturtium (C): Annual, full sun to partial shade, spacing 12", edible flowers are delicious! (1 Jewel Mix)
Peas (D): Full Sun, spacing 3", cool weather tolerant, trellis for easier picking and better yields (2 Sugar Snap Peas)
White Sweet Alyssum (E): Annual, full sun, spacing 1-3", tolerant of both cool and hot weather, ideal for edging and ground cover, the aromatic flowers attract hoverflies and other beneficial insects!
4" pots
Hot Pepper, Ring of Fire Cayenne (F): This is a hot pepper! Matures to fire-engine red, dry peppers after harvest to grind and make your own chili seasoning, full sun, 12-18"
Sweet Pepper, Gypsy (G): Matures to deep orange and then red with increasing sweetness, full sun, 12-18" spacing, give enough dry-down time between watering
Heirloom Tomato, Great White (H): Full sun, spacing 18-24" apart, before transplanting harden plant off by reducing water and temperature for a week, may stake plants, harvest ripe fruits regularly
2" pots
Sage (I): Perennial (Zone 4-8), sun/part shade, spacing 12-18", see box on over-wintering herbs
Thyme (J): Perennial (Zone 5-8), sun/part shade, spacing 6-8", see box on over-wintering herbs
Oregano (K): perennial (Zone 4-9), full sun, spacing 12", great pizza herb, see box on over-wintering herb
Basil (L): Annual, full sun, spacing 6", will show signs of stress at 45° and lower, likes warmth (2 Italian Large Leaf)
Sweet Marjoram (M): Tender perennial (Zone 9-11, spacing 6-8", grows well in pots, place in a sunny window over winter or treat as annual
Anise Hyssop (N): Tender perennial (Zone 6-9), full sun, spacing 6", makes a great bee plant, leaves & flowers are edible with an anise flavor, flower tops make a lovely infused hone
Tromboncino Summer Squash (O): Full sun, spacing 36" apart, this summer squash likes attention from pollinators so plant it near bee attracting flowers, transplant no more than 2 weeks after taking home
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It's a little side track but Burma is fascinating to me, and I am sure the MN-based Karen community are surely intently watching events unfolding in their home country. In Burma, in recent parliamentary by-elections, Aung San Suu Kyi (democracy activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate) and members of her National League for Democracy party, won 43 of the 45 seats being contested. This is one of the more significant steps the country has made in decades. The story is deep and complicated, but a quote from her shows her grace and dignity and could be applied to any of our life's pursuits.
"Passion translates as suffering and I would contend that in the political context, as in the religious one, it implies suffering by choice: a deliberate decision to grasp the cup that we would rather let pass. It is not a decision made lightly -- we do not enjoy suffering; we are not masochists. It is because of the high value we put on the object of our passion that we are able, sometimes in spite of ourselves, to choose suffering."
Glen Hill
Executive Director
Minnesota Food Association
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April 10, 2012
In 1992 biotech seed and chemical giant Monsanto convinced the FDA that foods genetically engineered in laboratories were "substantially equivalent" to traditionally bred plants and animals. Americans are denied their right to know what is in their food because the FDA is basing flawed decisions on corporation-based research. Today, about 80% of processed foods in the US contain ingredients that have been genetically modified in laboratories, and Americans do not realize this.
Does anyone notice a significant increase in food allergies in the past 20 years? I never realized how many people are allergic to peanuts. I don't remember any kids allergic to peanuts when I was a kid. We talk about the increase in diet-related diseases in the past 20 – 30 years, and we talk about the need for "good, real food". But it is about both the food and what is in the food. What's wrong with taking a drought resistant gene from a nut in Argentina and a pest resistant gene from a nut in Tanzania and splicing them into the good'ol peanut grown here in the US? Maybe we are finding out now.
Numerous studies and surveys show that people want to know if there are Genetically-Modified Organisms (GMOs) or Genetically Engineered (GE) components in our food, and they want it labeled as such. Hawaii, California, Vermont and even Minnesota all have state legislation pending that would require it for food products sold their states. Large Agribusiness, specifically Monsanto, is lobbying hard against this. Despite overwhelming public support, and support from a clear majority of Vermont's Agriculture Committee, Vermont legislators are still hesitating to bring a proposed GMO labeling bill to the table. The reason is that Monsanto has threatened to sue the state if the bill passes. It's probably going to hinder free commerce or something, and the Vermont doesn't want to spend it's resources on a legal battle with an Agri-Giant. You can read more here http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_25180.cfm
California is an even bigger player in this movement. As the 8th largest economy in the world, forcing the labeling of GMO foods would have a hugely significant impact on the labeling of GE foods. Food manufacturers and food retailers in California know that when they are forced to admit and label GE components in their food that it's only a matter of time before people stop buying GE food. And then food manufacturers stop making it.
The European Union, the largest agricultural market in the world, requires GE Foods to be labeled, so there are essentially no genetically engineered crops under cultivation. Oh, you can grow them, but people won't buy them. More than 50 countries, including Japan, Russia, Hong Kong, Australia, South Korea and China, have either passed mandatory labeling laws or outlawed GMOs altogether. Why hasn't the US? Don't we pride ourselves in being at the forefront of the world? A world leader? Whya re we dragging our feet on this? It's because the US also has one of the most corporate influenced political systems in the world and the Big Ag and Big Food companies are more concerned about protecting their profits than the safety of our food supply. So when Monsanto threatens, you listen. Did you know that 194 countries in the world have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and only two countries have not? Somalia and the USA. Why would the USA not sign this; because of strong political lobbying
How about Minnesota? Well, Minnesota recently tried to pass legislation requiring the labeling genetically engineered foods. Rep. Karen Clark authored a bill (HF 2808) requiring Genetically Engineered Food Labeling to the MN State House of Representatives. It was denied a committee hearing in the House Agriculture Committee. She then offered a stripped down amendment to the House Omnibus Agriculture Bill to create a genetically engineered food labeling study committee which would have reported their recommendations back to the 2014 legislature. This was defeated 81 – 44, almost exclusively along party lines. It appears that the message at the legislature was, we don't want this and we don't want to spend time and money on some "study" either. The Senate companion bill, SF 2563 is still active.
Glen Hill
Executive Director
Minnesota Food Association
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April 10, 2012
May Lee and Chu of Mhonpaj's Garden (www.mhonpajgarden.biz) have been farming in the Big River Farms training program for 5 years. They are excellent vegetable farmers. The first Certified Organic Hmong vegetable farmers in Minnesota. The first Hmong farmers to set up their own CSA. They sell their produce a couple of farmers markets, their own CSA, a few restaurants, to Big River Farms CSA, to St Paul Schools and many places. They give hundreds of pounds of produce to food shelves each year. From their own greenhouse, they produce most all of their Certified Organic transplants and also sell some. In March, they put up their first hoophouse, where they planned to grow tomatoes, beets, late season spinach and other crops. They invested many dollars and many days and hours putting it up, not to mention dreams of what could be from their 70' x 30' hoophouse.
Disaster really struck on March 27. There were high wind advisories across Minnesota and the Midwest, and their hoophouse got the unlucky fortune to be hit by and unusually strong blast. That was all it took. The wind must have got under one point or edge and once it was in, it just lifted, separate some pipes, and proceeded to twist and tear and bend the living daylights out of the whole structure. May Lee and Chu were away for a couple of days and arrived back on the morning of March 28, ready to begin planting, only to find it destroyed. They were heart-broken. We were heart-broken.
They are now making adjustments to their plot plans but are not really sure what to do about the hoophouse. The first step is to take it all down and assess what is salvageable and what is not, and then to assess what would be need to rebuild it. But probably 30% of the pipes are crimped or bent beyond repair. It will require all new plastic and many other materials to rebuild it.
As any small business owner knows, it is hard enough to make the investments and get your operation up and running, but to take such a huge hit before you even get things going for the season is really difficult, financially and spiritually. Our hearts go out to them. We will stay in touch with them and see what they plan to do, or not do, and we will assist them in anyway that we can. We'll keep you posted.
Glen Hill
Executive Director
Minnesota Food Association
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March 30, 2012
March is the new May, what does it mean?
Seems to be the hot topic these days … the mild winter, the early ice out and the warm weather we are having. So for farmers and gardeners, what does this mean? It surely depends on a variety of factors: Do you grow for home use, for hobby or need? Do you farm for market? What do you farm, vegetables or crops? Raise livestock? Fruit trees, berries or bushes? What are your markets? What is your risk assessment level? What is or was your plan for this season? There are more questions and within each question are other questions.
We got a call at 4:30pm the other day from WCCO TV wanting to do a story on what does the early heat up mean for crops and farming and they want to interview someone here now, for the 10 pm news. They were getting in the car and coming out to the farm now. But apparently they were more interested in what it meant for fruit tree and fruit growers (and livestock) and we just didn't have that to show them, so we called a neighboring farm that specializes in fruit and they went over there. Don't know the outcome of that, but even the news media is thinking about it.
We are thinking that weather and climate are different. Farming is already a risky business and to try to roll the dice on the weather just adds another risk that you don't need. We are going to plant on schedule this season and are telling the farmers in our training program to plant on their normal schedule. Maybe a week early is OK. Am I preaching to the choir, but don't we know that MN weather can be fickle? We can get snow in early May.
If we look at it another way, if we plant 2 weeks early, what do we gain? Not really a higher price because our prices are set. We can start the CSA sooner and end earlier but is that a great advantage? So if our broccoli comes on 2 weeks earlier, it doesn't help the CSA and we can not increase the price to the wholesale accounts. Maybe if we were selling at a farmers market, and we were the first ones with broccoli (or whatever) we could increase the price. But when you add that increase times the amount that you actually sell, how much more profit did you actually get?
What about looking at all the other things that need to happen on the farm? All the other projects that one has planned to do since last year, or 2 or 3 years ago but never got done? We have some Spring projects. We want to put in an extension to our irrigation system to reach new fields. We feel that we should use this nice weather to do that project and other projects, because if we 'take advantage' of the nice weather and start planting, there is the 'opportunity cost' of what we give up. We only have so much time, muscle and money. If the weather does change, and we lose a crop, it is lost time and money. Seed is apparently cheap this year, but time it time. You can buy more seeds but you can't buy more time.
As a training farm and organization, we should try to teach farmers to plant on a schedule based on averages and keep records of temperature, planting dates, transplanting dates and so on. The natural tendency of both people new to Minnesota and those who have lived here for years, is going to be plant as soon as you can. Hey, you get excited; it's understandable. 'Winter' is over; but the reality is that "Spring' is not really here yet. Most farmers don't have a large buffer for risk and loss. If we wait, we can let our over-winter cover crop reach new heights before tilling it in. We will get more biomass (i.e. green manure / organic matter) into our soil. We can get our Spring projects done. Putting in an extended irrigation system is thoughtful risk management. We have 60 degrees, sun and rain now but who knows what June, July, August will bring, and vegetable farmers need water. We can start our CSA and wholesale sales on time and end on time. That's our plan.
So it's a crap shoot. It's up to you. My take is to do what you have experience in doing. You should feel right in your heart about what you are doing. Use the early warm weather to do projects that you want to or have been putting off. And keep records throughout the season. If you have a stable system that works for you, then stick with it. Farmers have enough stress and risk in their lives already. Don't add to it by trying to guess what the weather will be. In Minnesota?
Glen Hill
Executive Director
Minnesota Food Association
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March 23, 2012
In our circles of friends and colleagues in the sustainable agriculture community, we love to talk about what it takes to get over the hump, to build entrepreneurship and sustainable farming enterprises and what are the limitations and challenges. This is probably not much different that other business or non-profit sectors, or even our own families and communities. Being a small business entrepreneur is a venture full of risks that takes courage. Building your product, developing stable markets, ensuring capital and financing and cash flow, and management and communications all are critical factors. Farming is an artisan skill, a craft and an art that must work within the ecological laws of nature. To make it work, you still have to be a business person. Farmers farm the soil and which grows the plants which can be grass, forage, vegetables, trees, etc. Craftsmen and women develop their skills and product by working with a certain medium over the course of many years or decades, even generations. The more you work with a certain wood or types of wood, or canvas and paint, or climate, the better you get. To do this you need stability; to have stability you need security. When you have security, you can invest your time, efforts and thoughts into your craft and create your endeavour. When farmers have security, they can produce the best food in the best quality that we could ever imagine. I am not a farmer but I will go out on a limb here and say that I think what farmers really love to do is be the best stewards of the land that they can be, with the best soil they can build, and then work at the art of growing and watch it blossom. Farmers know that to create these conditions it takes a lot of work over many years on the same space of Earth.
We talk about issues of concern in farming. Heavy use of chemical inputs as pesticides and fertilizers, soil erosion, planting fence-row-to-fence-row , lack of hedgerows or windbreaks, building soil fertility, allowing time for cover cropping and fallow fields, and so on. At last month's Annual Immigrant and Minority Farmers Conference, it was pleasantly surprising to see the huge upsurge in interest in sustainable and organic farming. Both experienced and new immigrant growers are intently interested in learning how to farm these ways. When the conversation turns to the long-term, progressive and intentional process that is involved in developing and strengthening the soil that is the foundation of these farming methods, you tend to see some disappointed faces. It is not the effort or the money involved; nor is it the time, the long days and months and years. It is the recognition that without a long-term secure land base, either leased or owned, it is not a practical reality for most farmers in these communities. Most of the small-to-mid-scale immigrant growers in our region are renting land on an annual or short term basis with no real guarantee that they will be able to return next year. While the land owner may not be pleased with the treatment of his land, the farmer is also not pleased either but he is trying to get a year's worth of produce grown within the parameters he is facing.
The land owner loves his land and would love to see soil fertility and conservation practices on his land, and you know what; so would the farmer. We need to continue to work with farmers and land owners to develop a mutually secure situation where both land owner and the farmer benefit, because then we all benefit – the land, the neighbors, the passersby, and the consumers.
What's the greatest thing you can give a child? A sense of security and real security. Farmers are not children. But as children are just young human beings beginning their life's journey, young farmers are similar in beginning their farming journey. And what they need is security and then we all benefit. Building land security for farmers is a critical component of the foundation for building our food security and building a more sustainable food system.
Glen Hill
Executive Director
Minnesota Food Association
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March 12, 2012
7th Annual Immigrant Farmers Conference
For farmers and those who work with farmers, it is officially conference season! The growing season ended a few months ago. Hunting season is over. You could go ice fishing. But for farmers, this is mainly the season for learning, sharing, planning and preparing. How can I better get my costs under control? Should I switch varieties of potatoes, broccoli, beans? Is there a better way to rotate or interplant my crops to get better production or decrease my pests? How can find more markets and what do those markets want? What is this "Organic Certification" and how can work towards that?
While there are numerous, excellent conferences coming up in January and February, the Annual Immigrant and Minority Farmers Conference held in St. Paul, MN stands alone as a conference that is planned and geared for immigrant and minority farmers. Hosted by the Association for the Advancement of Hmong Women in Minnesota, Minnesota Food Association, USDA-Farm Service Agency and USDA NRCS, the two-day conference provides education and connections to resources for small farm and beginning growers. The 7th Immigrant and Minority Farmers Conference will be held on February 3-4, 2012 at the North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters Event Hall, 710 Olive Street, St. Paul, MN. The theme of the 2012 Conference is "Planting Seeds for Success on your Farm."
What makes this conference special? In February 2011, we had a total of about 240 participants of which 170 were immigrant farmers from 8 different ethnicities from 6 different states. The planning committee is made up of about 15 people from 7 or 8 organizations and 5 – 6 farmers, who work together to determine the program and topics. It is very diverse and inclusive. We have simultaneous interpretation into up to 6 languages through an extensive set of earphones, microphones and transmitters. All workshops are presented, or co-presented, by actual practitioners, meaning farmer market managers, distributors, farmers, chefs, etc. Interpreters accompany the participants as they visit the exhibit tables so to facilitate discussion and exchange. Interpreters and presenters meet before the conference to review the presentations and discuss language and cadence. Workshops and conference evaluations are mainly a brief facilitated verbal question and answer after each session. A highlight the past 3 years has been the lunch time story telling. After everyone gathers up their lunch plates (again catered by Sen Yai Sen Lek Thai Restaurant from Northeast Minneapolis), we gather in the main auditorium and we share stories about where we come from, farming in our native country, farming in our new country, peculiarities of life in America, and life's wonderful happenings and challenges. It is an amazing collage of perspectives and insights into our burgeoning diverse farming culture.
The highlight for me is the atmosphere. It's a farmer's conference. The farmers are foremost and prominent; it's their conference. While it may start out slow, by the second day, the farmers feel empowered and are very at ease to ask their questions and pursue the knowledge they seek. Farmers from wide ranging heritages (Kenya, Liberia, Somalia, Laos, Cambodia, Bhutan, Burma, Vietnam, Mexico, Guatemala and so on) are sharing and learning together, and meeting people from other organizations, businesses, universities, the MN Department of Agriculture and USDA agencies. This conference brings together people who would not otherwise meet each other in their normal lives and creates long-lasting bonds and networks.
Registration is on-line at (http://www.mnfoodassociation.org/content/12915 ) or by calling MFA at 651-433-3676, or the Association for the Advancement of Hmong Women in Minnesota at 651-222-0475. The conference is free to farmers. The cost for other interested parties is $50 per day.
Glen Hill
Executive Director
Minnesota Food Association
Some of you may know, some not, but I lived in Thailand for 16 years and in Rangoon, Burma, for 5 ½ years from 1985 – 2006. I met the Karen people (a large indigenous group in Burma and Thailand) in 1992 when my now dear friend came to Thailand looking for support in setting up a wildlife sanctuary in Tennaserim Division of southern Burma. There are about 150,000 refugees (mostly Karen) living in camps along the Thailand/Burma border due to the ongoing civil conflict in Burma. Some have been there for 25 years or more. For about 10 years now, many Karen are now choosing to resettle in other countries. It is a very difficult choice to leave one's country, then to leave one's region, and to settle in a completely new culture, society and climate. I believe that the main reason they choose to resettle is for their children. With children who are 5 years old, 10 years, 15 years old or more, with most of them knowing nothing but life in a refugee camp, with no end in sight to the political and military conflict, what are your options? We in Minnesota are truly fortunate to have the Karen people come to our state. The Karen people, culture and values will make our state a better place. I truly believe this. It saddens me to see how they struggle to get started here when I know how 'rich' they were where they came from. But they bring such warmth and caring with them. Minnesota is a better place and will be a better place because of them. I believe that.
We have had a number of Karen people in our farmer training program in the past two years. Recently I talked with Htoo Lwe who with her husband A Bee (his parents named him Abraham, after Abraham Lincoln, but then shortened it to just A B, and then added the 'ee' to B) farmed in our program for the first year in 2011. She is a health worker for the Karen Organization of Minnesota as her full time work.
I asked her why do you farm? You have so much to do with work, family, community, adjusting to America, so why do you farm?
"The first one (reason) is that is it organic, the way we always farmed. In America, you need to produce for yourself if you want organic produce. As a health worker, I see that we need organic produce for our people. We need to eat many varieties to get the nutrition that we need. As a farmer, I can give to my people for free or a cheaper price. Many of us refugees are coming here when we are old and our elders need good food. When I give them vegetables, they say to me 'Oh, your vegetables are very good' and this makes me happy and I know that I am doing a good thing. So part of it is economic. We don't really make money, but we save money. We save money as a community. And it is social, for our community, our people, our elders'
We find this common thread among many new immigrant/refugee communities. I imagine that the 'immigrants' of 100 or 150 years ago also thought that way. We do it because it is the right thing to do. We shared for a common, larger good. Because strong and healthy individuals make a strong and healthy community which makes a strong and healthy nation. Many of us ancestors of old immigrants seem to have forgotten or lost that. I hope that our new citizens can hold on to their deep roots in community. We need it.
Glen Hill
Executive Director
Minnesota Food Association
Rodrigo Cala and his brother Juan Carlos come from a family farming tradition in their native Mexico. They participated in the Big River Farms Training Program for 3 years from 2006 – 2008 and have now bought their own farm in Wisconsin. They are amazing farmers with great dedication to their crops and their customers and a clear focus on their goals. MFA taught them Organic Certification and GAP certification and they now continue this on their own farm. They continue to sell green peppers to Chipotle, together with other large food distributors, as well as their own CSA for the Latino community this season. Both brothers continue to hold down full time day/night shift jobs at factories as well.
What makes you happy farming, Rodrigo? Why do you do this?
" I have a connection with my farm and a connection with my soil. It is different than going to a factory job. Farming is a business but it is not just like that. This year production may be bad but it does not mean that farming is bad or the farm is bad. We can still eat well. The risk and fault this past season is the weather, but it is not me, the soil or my plants. Some farmers say 'Oh, I didn't make any money', but for me, I feel different. I think, 'is my soil making progress?' and if it is then my stress is gone. It's not just money. The best food in the world comes from your own farm. You have many different recipes, but any chef will tell you that it starts with a good raw product. For me, I like the best food in the world. If you care where your food comes from, then it is worth it. I have a friend, all her kids are overweight, she doesn't understand it is the type of food they eat not the amount. I feel bad for her.
My mind has changed. If we want to help our community then we have to go to our community and not just to the distributor. I need the distributer to make my farm work, but if I want to make change, I need to go to my community. I want to help make change. When I changed to organic, everything changed for me. When I first started talking about organic and the way I farm, people did not trust me, did not believe me, so I said 'fine'. I will just keep doing and less talking. When I eat only organic, right away I can feel the change in my body. If farming is just a way of making money, then maybe you will not be happy. You can be rich in other ways, like your health.
My blood is very good. I eat the good stuff. "
We see the reoccurring theme that farming has a higher value for farmers. Organic vegetable farmers feel it is the right way to grow and to eat, and they are happy to share it with you. If you feel it is false or over-righteous, then they'll just be quiet and go back to work. Another common theme we see regularly is the balancing act between the desire to give to the community and the need to make the farming operation viable. But I can feel the passion and commitment of Rodrigo, like others, to farming the way he wants to farm, pride and honesty in his product and a sense that there is also a greater purpose to all this.
Glen Hill
Executive Director
Minnesota Food Association
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PS – Farming is full of risks as a career venture, yet so very attractive to so many of us and absolutely imperative to a specific group of people. They just know that this is what they want to do with their time and life. So there must be some happiness, joy or contentment in farming for some people to take to it with such convicted passion. So over the past month or so, I asked some of the farmers in our Big River Farms Training Program: What makes you happy when you are farming? Why do you do this?


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|Can dancing, drinking, and sexual promiscuity foster social ties and interpersonal status? This symposium presents social network analysis as a state-of-the-art method for complementing traditional self-report measures, which can expand our knowledge of young adolescents' and adults' social psychological worlds.
Lysann Zander
Education and Psychology. Freie Universität and Social Psychology. New York University. Berlin. Germany.
221/13101 Friendships, Personality, Sexual Behavior, and Group Identity in Fraternities and Sororities: Longitudinal Social Network Analyses
(1) Webster, Gregory; (2) Ewell, Patrick; (3) Rosanna E., Rosanna E.; (4) Smith, C. Veronica; (5) Novell, Corinne A.
(1) Social Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States; (2) Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, United States; (3) Psychology, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, United States; (4) Psychology, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, United States; (5) Psychology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
221/13102 Popular Till You Puke: Alcohol Misuse and Personality Traits Facilitate College Social Network Structure
(1) Clifton, Allan; (2) Townsend, Laura
(1) Department of Psychological Science, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, United States; (2) Department of Psychological Science, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
221/13103 Me, Us, and Them: Testing Sociometer Theory in a Socially Diverse Real-Life Context
(1) Reitz, Anne K.; (2) Motti-Stefanidi, Frosso; (3) B. Asendorpf, Jens
(1) Columbia Aging Center, Columbia University, New York City, United States; (2) Faculty of Psychology, School of Philosophy, University of Athens, Athens, Greece; (3) Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
221/13104 How social networks mediate the effect of a dance intervention on students' sense of belonging
(1) Zander, Lysann; (2) Kreutzmann, Madeleine; (3) Webster, Gregory D.; (4) Hannover, Bettina
(1) Education & Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin; Social Psychology, New York University Berlin, Germany; (2) Education & Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; (3) Professor, Social Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States; (4) Education & Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
221/13105 Discussion of Contributions
(1) Hoorens, Vera
(1) Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Netherlands


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15 Mar 2019
Donn Collins pays tribute to Clarissa Dawson, BHSI, BHS Stage 5 Performance Coach in Complete Horsemanship, who sadly passed away on March 9 after a brave battle with cancer.
As a newly appointed BHS Examiner (we were not called Assessors in those ...
4 Nov 2018
BHS Scotland presented various awards at the BHS 70th Anniversary Dinner at Airth Castle.
5 Apr 2018
Frairs Hill Stables, based near Ryesdale in North Yorkshire, came top of the class at The British Horse Society's National Riding School Championships held yesterday (4 April).
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New sponsor for BHS Scotland BRC Working Hunter competition series.
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Come and join us at the Live Zone at 10am on Wednesday 4 October and 3.30pm on Saturday 7 October to find out about choosing your career pathway to excellence.
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Congratulations to the 2017 Blair Champions.
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If you're making the most of the last shows of 2017, we have a very special competition running on BHS stands.
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The BHS 2017 National Riding School Championships, starts tomorrow (13 April) at Moreton Morrell, Warwickshire College.
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NAF will be the title sponsor of British Riding Clubs (BRC) Five Star National Horse Trials Championships 2017. Qualifiers will start from 1 April 2017, with 600 riders competing at the Championships in August.
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Prime Your Brain for Success
Your brain is the most powerful organ in your body in regards to success. Depending on your mindset your day can go many ways.
You could have had a bad experience the day before and because of that you keep focusing on it and even more negative experiences keep popping up in your awareness. Do you really want to keep going down the road of negativity and doom and gloom?
Some people I really wonder but since you have read this far down I think not for you right?
We are all going to have negative experiences and the goal is to respond correctly to them so we don't keep going around being crap magnets.
Turn your negative situation around as quick as possible by looking for what is going right in your life in the moment, think of the simple things and then expand on that.
When you wake up in the morning say to yourself "Every day and in every way I am getting better and better.". If you prime your brain correctly each day your focus will bring you toward success rapidly and with less physical effort.
If your brain is always working efficiently by concentrating on what is going right and you continue to find more things that are going right your dopamine levels will increase and your performance as well increases.
Set large goals and then break it down into small achievable goals each day to keep your brain at peak performance. Trick your brain into not being disappointed with goals that are not reached immediately by celebrating each small step forward you have made.
Prime your brain throughout the day with positive mantras like the one I described earlier in the post. Words have a powerful effect on your performance and by priming yourself with positive words you will completely change your life around.
You hold the power of choice and even though we suffer great tragedies in life we can always look for the positives in the moment. The more you practice this the better you will get and the better your daily experience will be.
It will take practice, depending on how deep your beliefs about things are it may take a long time before this works for you but if you embrace it as you have nothing to lose I believe you will be a success.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday voted 13 to 2 for legislation requiring the White House to tell Congress about any covert action not more than 48 hours after the action starts.
The idea behind the measure arose from the Iran-Contra affair, in which U.S. weapons were secretly sold to Iran and some of the profits were funneled to the American-backed rebels in Nicaragua.
Notification of the arms sales was withheld from Capitol Hill for more than 10 months.
"These changes in the law are needed to ensure that the checks-and-balances system is allowed to work properly," said Sen. William S. Cohen (R-Me.). "Avoiding it increases the risk of misjudgment and embarrassment, as the Iran-Contra affair so vividly illustrated," he said.
The Reagan Administration has opposed the 48-hour time limit on notification.
The bill says that under normal circumstances, the House and Senate intelligence committees would have to be notified about covert actions. Under exceptional circumstances, only the top congressional leaders would have to be told.
The committee's approval forwarded the bill for a vote of the full Senate. No similar legislation has passed the House.


text: I'm regularly popping in at my favourite op-shop in town, to see what new bits of fabric off-cuts have been tossed out of someone's cupboard. You find such treasures sometimes! For $4.50 I picked up two pieces of quaint floral curtaining which became a jacket. I love this pattern from a Burda magazine (they are great value for money, btw fellow seamstresses), with its asymmetry, double-collar and wide lapels, and pocket with double-flaps.


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Italy is home to a number of my very favourite meals, and pizza restaurants are some of the few that we can eat at as a family (the boy is still limited by his hugely fussy palate). However, when we were invited to review the newly refurbished Bella Italia in Baker Street, London, I was a little unsure as to how well they would cater to us as a foursome, having never visited before. I needn't have worried; from the moment we arrived, the children were addressed directly and catered for amply. The treats began with a free funky straw with each individual bottle of squash, which I found a lovely touch, and the children thought was brilliant.
Another pleasant surprise was the range of dishes on the children's menu; all too often, we find the same meals again and again, but the Bella Italia menu was a delight. Not only were there lots of foods to choose from but there was also a variety of sizes to suit children of all ages and appetites.
The restaurant interior was fresh, modern, and deceptively large with a spacious feel, yet cosy enough to suit couples.
The children were given breadsticks whilst we chose our food, keeping them busy and quiet! They also had crayons and activity sheets for colouring.
The boy was pleased to find food he will actually eat on the menu, and enjoyed his juice with its crazy straw!
Miss J loved her veggie dippers, pizza, and special juice too.
The activity sheets kept the kids' attention as they contained puzzles and wordsearches as well as providing opportunities to colour. They were very excited to be able to keep the stacking crayon that came with the sheet too!
Obviously, I was already expecting to enjoy my own meal as I am a fan of Italian food, but the quality surpassed my expectations. James and I chose the sharing platter to start, which was beautifully presented and full of gorgeous colours and flavours.
We all enjoyed our mains and miraculously found room for dessert, which was truly scrumptious.
Funnily enough, the boy is not fussy when it comes to pudding…
We really enjoyed popping our Bella Italia cherries and look forward to visiting again soon; perhaps not in London but definitely closer to home.
We were provided with a complimentary family meal in return for this review; all words and photographs are my own.


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In 1992 the governments of Canada, the US and Mexico signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), creating one of the largest trading blocs in the world. Two years later, when the agreement came into force, the CEO of the first...
In 1992 the governments of Canada, the US and Mexico signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), creating one of the largest trading blocs in the world. Two years later, when the agreement came into force, the CEO of the first carrier to haul freight from Canada into Mexico, hailed that country as the "the next land of opportunity."
Fast-forward a couple of decades and we find precious few drivers willing to take advantage of that opportunity. With more than 10,000 trucks hijacked last year on Mexico's roadways, and an average of 47 people murdered there every day in 2011, crossing the Rio Grande is a scary prospect.
And yet, hundreds of Canadian and American truck drivers travel regularly in and out of the Mexico/US border zone to grab a share of surface transportation trade between the three countries that's reached a record monthly value of $86 billion.
Most of these drivers are seasoned veterans who are well aware of the dangers, and keep their wits about them to protect themselves and their loads. They're especially on guard against become unwitting mules for drug dealers.
Less well known is the risk unsuspecting truckers face in being caught up in the crime of human smuggling.
They're certainly aware of the enormous problem of illegal migrants crossing the Mexico/US border. Horrifying stories of "illegals" found concealed in vehicles make sensational headlines, often because of the appalling conditions in which they're discovered.
What makes headlines far less often are stories where the driver of the vehicle is a victim as well; completely unaware that he or she has a stowaway on-board. After a Manitoba-based OBAC member became one such victim last month, I asked Canada Calling listeners if they'd ever heard of such a thing. My phone hasn't stopped ringing.
Along the southern border, it's not unusual for drivers to find they have cargo on-board they weren't counting on.
Most often, the stowaways are discovered at a truck stop, hidden under tarps, inside trailers, and tucked into places you wouldn't think a body or three could fit.
By the time they hop a northbound truck, these desperate people have already crossed the porous Mexican border, usually with the help of a facilitator or "coyote," and need safe transportation past some 22,000 US Border Patrol agents who, backed up by drug-sniffing dogs and a plethora of other enforcement folks, are authorized to check vehicles within 100 miles of the border.
Discovering stowaways is disturbing, but if they're found by the drivers themselves before they reach a checkpoint, that's usually the end of it.
Not so for our Manitoba driver. After loading near Edinburg, Texas, he stopped at the Flying J, went inside to grab his scale ticket, then headed out. At the checkpoint a few miles down the road he was greeted by a Border Patrol agent and a very excited dog. When the BP folks climbed up the side of his truck, his first thought was that someone had stashed drugs in his sleeper.
He watched in amazement as two terrified Mexican teenagers – a boy and a girl who had been tucked into the space on top of his sleeper, behind his roof faring – scrambled down. He was even more amazed at what happened next.
His truck and trailer were seized, he was stripped of his belongings, fingerprinted, and tossed in a cell where he was questioned for the next two hours.
The most frustrating thing, he told me, was that he was completely in the dark about what was happening to him. Could he make a call to his carrier? Absolutely not. Was he being arrested? No, he was being "processed." Was he being charged? He's "under investigation."
Armed only with a piece of paper he signed acknowledging that his truck and trailer had been returned to him, it was a nerve-wracking trip home for our driver. And it didn't get any better at the Canadian border. After checking his paperwork and scanning his passport, the CBSA agent asked a curious question: "Did you have any problems on this trip?" He told his story, hoping the Canadian agent might shed some light on his ordeal. Not our department. Have a nice day.
Back in Canada, our driver called the US Customs and Border Protection folks at his usual border crossing in North Dakota, trying to determine his status in the computer system, and if he might experience any difficulty gaining entry or travelling in the US? Maybe, maybe not, they tell him. It's an open investigation – a Homeland Security issue, and Homeland Security doesn't answer any questions.
We're also having trouble finding Canadian officials who even believe this is happening. While they're a bit more sympathetic than their US counterparts, they're certainly not very helpful.
The reaction of companies these drivers work for is also interesting. Some would really rather not know about it, and they really don't want the Border Patrol to know about it. Other carriers take immediate steps to protect their drivers, by blocking any possible access points on the truck and continually reminding them to be aware, and to be vigilant, when they're travelling in the Mexico/US border zone.
Awareness and vigilance – good advice is you find yourself down that way. Hopefully, our Manitoba driver will soon get the answers he needs to make sure he's not an "illegal" himself.
– Joanne Ritchie is executive director of OBAC. Are you stowing away this advice? E-mail her at email@example.com or call toll free 888-794-9990.


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Low level bus data can be accessed from code running on the aDSP, using a POSIX-like API called DSPAL. The header files for this API are maintained on github and are commented with Doxygen formatted documentation in each header file. A description of the API's supported and links to the applicable header files is provided below.
API Overview
- Serial:
- Timers: qurt_timer.h
- Power Control: HAP_power.h
Sample Source Code
The unit test code to verify each DSPAL function also represent good examples for how to call the functions.
This code is also on github
Setting the Serial Data Rate
The serial API does not conform to the termios convention for setting data rate through the tcsetattr() function. IOCTL codes are used instead and are described in the header file linked above.
Additional functions for more advanced aDSP operations are available with the prefix qurt_. Timer functions, for example, are available with the qurt_timer prefix and are documented in the qurt_timer.h header file included with the Hexagon SDK.
Setting the Power Level
Using the HAP functions provided by the Hexagon SDK, it is possible to set the power level of the aDSP. This will often lead to reduced I/O latencies. More information on these API's is available in the HAP_power.h header file available in the Hexagon SDK.


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According to the expert, the UAV is being created by the initiative of the design bureau, only project has been developed so far. Further development of AR-10 depends on the militarys decision.
The UAV is supposed to have Russian-made turbojet engine AL-55 with takeoff thrust of 1,750 kgf. Maximum takeoff weight will be 3,800 kg, ceiling 11,000 meters, max speed 900 kph, flight range 1,600 km. The UAV will be capable to withstand operational overloads from +9 to -6. Touchdown speed will be 180 kph.
"Aerial vehicle is only one part of the unmanned system. The use of turbojet engine will allow AR-10 to act as an assault aircraft and deliver lightning strikes in brief flight missions", Vladimir Voronov, head of the prospective research center at the Kronshtadt Group and designer of Orion heavy UAV told Mil.Today.Designers of Argument chose the non-standard way of development by converting the aerobatic trainer into an attack aircraft, added the expert. This raises the question of its survivability. "As of today, there is no commercial production of UAVs refitted from airplanes", summed up Voronov.
SR-10 is a Russian two-seat aerobatic training airplane designed for flight practice of military pilot cadets. Specific feature of the jet is a 10-degree forward-swept wing.


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today's feature friday flogger is a great friend of mine, my eldest and her only share the same birth month. amongst other love for things that we share. she has a fantastic blog to name one. ecomodern mom reviews unique, green, and those items that aren't your big box store finds. stacey's niche is reviewing and letting you (the reader) know what's out there and different. stacey is very kind and loving - a great woman. strong, interesting, and i could read/hear her stories and affinities for hours, her daughter T is much the same. i am so excited to introduce you guys!
Hello, I'm Stacey, *waves*. I am the writer at the blog EcoModern Mom. The title pretty much says what it's all about, I feature eco+modern products for mom & family. I am a single mommy of a 4 year daughter, Tehya and we live in Maine. I am a Harry Potter loving, hobbyist photographer, vegetarian, blogging, shopaholic modern mommy. I practice attachment parenting, am very anti mainstream and going more green everyday.
I started blogging (specifically about products) because I live in a small town of Maine where there is absolutely no decent shopping unless you travel far. I became this overly obsessive online shopping addict and I ended up combining my love for writing and shopping together and began a mom blog where I write about my favorite products or companies that in many cases you would not find in stores.
EcoModern Mom is a blog where I find and feature only the best products, products that you can't get at your mainstream megamart store. I like to be different, I don't like my daughter wearing clothes or shoes that every other kid on the block has and am not into plastic toys or character themes and knowing there are many other moms out there in the same boat I like to bring to them those better hard to find items. I'm a modern mommy and a green mommy and most products are either green or modern, it's hard to come by both together and I like to hunt down those products that are and review and feature them on my blog. I really enjoy blogging because I used to be the mom that was frustrated with mainstream choices and lack of earth friendly options but now that I've become more knowledgeable at finding these things I like to share our finds with the rest of the world.
My favorite part about being a mommy is definitely the random, "I love you too much, mommy" that my daughter says to me everyday. I don't know how it got started but in this house we always add the "too much", it's TOO cute.
In my spare time I love doing anything outdoors, shooting some pics, spending some time online, shopping, getting fit and hot aromatherapy baths. I also have an unhealthy addiction to certain tv shows and watch tons of movies. Oh, and I have a new found love of building things from wood. I'm still learning of course and finished my first project but it is a ton of fun (minus the sanding, haha) and I see great projects ahead. Now if someone would just teach me to sew, I really want to learn how.
So that is that, happy Friday! Thanks Stacey for the feature, your blog is really great and I love your writing style. Enjoy. :)


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Art & Story: Matt Kyme
Strong Family themes hit a note with all of us when reading a new comic book, watching a new television show, catching a new movie at the cinema, or even listening to a new radio drama podcast. The fact is that time-to-time we all have that certain character which pops up and reminds us of one of our own, or more often; that we have people whom we care about.
Family seems to be a major theme in issue one of the new title THE WRATH OF THE CURSED by beloved Australian comic creator Matt Kyme.
Whether it's a Father and Son duo willing to both meet their demise rather than shame each other, a Warrior returning from an unspecified journey to reclaim his infant child or even a clearly evil Bodyguard not above murdering and framing a innocent man to promote his own brother, THE WRATH OF THE CURSED will make us all think about our family at one point.
This is the beauty of this breakout issue, and after a sudden halt in publication to one of Kyme's most popular titles, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that his own family really got behind the Writer/Artist, encouraged him to keep his chin up and knuckle down to create this new character and story that I believe will end up becoming his biggest hit.
The story starts off Long ago in some unnamed Asian country, where we meet a mob of angry villagers revolting against their so-called oppressors in the SAY TON Clan. A bloody battle spreads as the villagers make their way to the house that we eventually meet our titular Main Character THE CURSED and things really ramp up as he joins the clash in a slashing spread of violence.
The story shifts from here after this scene ends as Kyme takes us back years earlier and the reader gets a glimpse into not only the origins and role of THE CURSED but also are introduced to some characters that I'm sure will end up playing a much larger role in issues to follow.
Sword duelling, death, honour and deceit await the reader across the issues' thirty-two pages (pretty impressive considering Kyme put this together in four weeks). The story is both captivating and mysterious enough that I am looking forward eagerly to the next issue to arrive to learn more about THE CURSED and his origins.
The art fits very well with the story he has created here, as Kyme's unique style works with both the designs of the characters and the sword battles throughout the book, while also bringing us the reader into the age old Asian setting. I found myself at times reading the issue in my office and glancing up from the pages to take a look at some of the original pieces Kyme has created from my own stories for me situated on my walls, (Yep, I'm a fan boy so what) and his style to me seems unchanging no matter what the scene calls for. Well done to him for making it work so well.
Although not a perfect book, THE WRATH OF THE CURSED is an exciting tale of action and intrigue and I for one am really looking forward to where Kyme takes us and what the man can do with more than four weeks!


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Things to do in the area
Ockham overlooks Bodiam Castle, a perfect example of a 14th-century moated castle, which is owned by the National Trust. Also nearby is the Kent and East Sussex Railway, which runs steam trains between Bodiam and Tenterden in Kent, one of the finest remaining examples of a local rural line in the country. In the last century the area around Bodiam was also famous for hop production, and the hundreds of Londoners who came down for the hop-picking season made use of the railway to get to the hop gardens. There are many beautiful and interesting gardens (Great Dixter and Sissinghurst are both amazing and well worth a visit), villages and walks to explore, with numerous good pubs and eateries. We are very lucky to be situated in such a lovely part of the country!


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Green is beating Doyle is latest poll
My friends over at GOP3.com a great point about how the MSM is handling the latest poll that puts Congressman Mark Green in the lead in the Governor's Race!
What is even more interesting is how the Democrats have taken the news. Instead of being positive and running on Doyle's record of...vetoes, they have started to resort to smear tactics.
Targeting Republicans is all the Democrats and the Doyle camp knows, said Wiley. They don't have any ideas for reforming or strengthening Wisconsin, so they resort to playing partisan games and pandering to powerful special interests.
So, being the amateurature odds maker that I am, here are my predictions for the election (a little under a year and a month away):
Walker vs. Green: Even
Green vs. Doyle: Green by 4
Walker vs. Doyle: Doyle by 2


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One Up On Wall Street
by Peter Lynch
Central Theme:
Buy what you know and do the research
1. "Only invest what you could afford to lose without that loss having any effect on your daily life in the foreseeable future." Lynch explains that when investing in Common Stocks, one must be prepared to invest for at least a 5 year period. He indicates that companies do hit "banana peels" and that these drops can occur for long periods of time.
2. Necessary qualities of an investor in order to succeed. Of course this would include an investment advisor.
A. patience.
B. self-reliance
C. common sense
D. open-mindedness
E. tolerance for pain
F. detachment
G. persistence
H. humility
I. flexibility
J. willingness to do independent research
K. an equal willingness to admit to mistakes
L. ability to ignore general panic
3. Many investments could be right under your nose. Lynch discusses a physician who is very enthused about a certain product he has been writing prescriptions for. He stresses that if you love a company or a product, you should not run out and buy the investment, but you should run out and start learning about the company, as it may become a potential investment. He calls this "taking advantage of what you already know."
4. Some items to remember:
A. look for companies that are off the radar scope. These could become the future 10 baggers.
B. invest in companies, not the stock market.
C. ignore short term fluctuations
D. Invest in a house before you invest in the stock market. I am writing this on February 1, 2005, I don't necessarily agree with this principle at the moment, as I believe we may be in a massive housing bubble. Yet, my profession is investing in companies, not in houses, hence I am not qualified to give housing advise, and at the same time, over 1/2 of my net worth is tied up in my house.
E. Large profits can be made in common stocks.
F. Large losses can be made in common stocks.
G. Predicting the economy is futile.
H. The average person is exposed to interesting local companies and products years before the professionals.
5. Investing without research is like playing poker and never looking at the cards.
6. "If you find a stock with little or no institutional ownership, you've found a potential winner. Find a company that no analyst would admit to knowing about, and you've got a double winner."
7. "If I could avoid a single stock, it would be the hottest stock in the hottest industry...."
The Final Checklist (This is not his entire list. The following are merely reminders to me of things I certainly want to look at).
1. Stocks in General:
A. look at P/E ratio
B. percentage of institutional ownership, the lower the better.
C. Insider activity
D. record of earnings growth, look at whether they are consistent or sporadic.
E. Look at balance sheet, debt-equity levels.
F. Look at cash position.
2. Slow Growers - large and aging companies, that are expected to grow slightly faster than the GNP.
A. generally bought for dividends. Find out how often dividends are raised.
B. look at dividend payout ratio.
3. Stalwarts - Large companies that grow slightly faster than slow growers. Lynch names a few as Coca-Cola, Bristol-Meyers, Procter and Gamble.
A. Look at price and P/E.
B. Look for possible "diworsifications" that can reduce future earnings.
C. Look at long term growth rate (CAGR)
D. Look how company has faired in recessions and market drops.
4. Cyclicals - Companies whose revenues and profits rise and fall in a fairly predictable fashion. These are companies, for example, in the airline, auto, steel, tire industries.
A. Look at inventory. Look for new competition.
B. Look at various P/E. Look at the various cycles of revenue growth and shrinkage, and compare the P/E during those periods.
5. Fast Growers - "small, aggressive new enterprises that grow at 20 - 25% per year."
A. Be wary of companies that are growing in excess of faster than 25% annually.
B. Can the company continue its growth rate? 4
C. Is the P/E, near or at its growth rate?
D. few institutions and analysts could be a plus here.
6. Turnarounds - potential fatalities. No growers, "battered, depressed, and often can barely drag themselves into Chapter 11."
A. Can the company survive the creditors and covenants?
B. Is business coming back?
C. Look at potential and will stockholders benefit from that potential.
7. Additional pointers from Lynch.
A. "Long shots almost never pay off."
B. "Look for companies with niches"
C. "Look for companies that consistently buy back their own shares"
8. Final Thoughts
A. A sharp market decline is the historical norm.
B. market declines are great opportunities to buy stocks in companies you like.
C. Trying to predict the market direction is nearly impossible.
D. You do not have to be correct a majority of the time. I often use the following analogy in investing. If you are playing baseball in the major leagues, and say you have a 20 year career, of which during that 20 year career, you managed to get an out 67% of the time, you would still probably end up in the hall of fame for your batting skills and consistency.
E. It takes years to produce big results.
F. Just because the price goes up doesn't mean you are correct.
G. Just because the price goes up doesn't mean you are wrong.
H. Selling an outstanding fast grower because its stock seems slightly overvalued is a losing technique.
I. There is always something to worry about.
J. Keep an open mind to new ideas.
June 15, 2011 Additional Notes for reference.
1. "I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These socalled advance/decline numbers pain a more realistic picture."
2. "When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap."
3. "In spite of crashes, depressions, wars, recessions, ten different presidential administrations, and numerous changes in skirt lengths, stocks in general have paid off fifteen times as well as corporate bonds, and well over thirty times better than Treasury bills."
4. "I'd love to be warned before we go into a recession, so I could adjust my portfolio. But the odds of me figuring it out are nil." "The trouble is the bells never go off. Remember, things are never clear until it's too late."
5. "They were too busy building shelters for the next earthquake." Referring if you are too busy trying to protect yourself from a disaster, you will miss the next opportunity. Rarely do the same disasters occur twice.
6. "Predicting the economy is futile."
7. "Predicting the short-term direction of the market is futile."
8. "Having an edge will help you make money in stocks."
9. "In the stock market, one in the hand is worth ten in the bush."
10. "I always keep some stalwarts in my portfolio because they offer pretty good protection during recessions and hard times."
11. "If you find a stock with little or no institutional ownership, you've found a potential winner. Find a company that no analyst has ever visited, or that no analyst would admit to knowing about, and you've got a double winner."
12. Chapter 18 in 'One Up On Wall Street," The Twelve Silliest (and Most Dangerous) Things People Say About Stock Prices. Lynch writes, "If you give up on a stock because you're tired of waiting for something wonderful to happen, then something will begin to happen, the day after you get rid of it. I call this postdivestiture flourish." Lynch discussed Merck, "which went nowhere from 1972 to 1981, even though earnings grew steadily at an average rate of 14% a year." "Who knows how many investors got out of Merck because they were tired of waiting. If they kept up on the story, they wouldn't have sold. It shot up fourfold in the next five years." "It takes remarkable patience to hold onto a stock in a company that excites you, but which everybody else seems to ignore."
13. The Two-Minute Drill - "I like to be able to give a two-minute monologue that covers the reasons I'm interested in it, what has to happen for the company to succeed, and the pitfalls that stand in its path."
Here are some examples of The Two-Minute Drill:
If it's a slow growing company – "This Company has increased earnings every year for the last ten, it offers an attractive yield; it's never reduced or suspended a dividend, and in fact it's raised the dividend during good times and bad, including the last three recessions. It's a telephone utility, and the new cellular operations may add a substantial kicker to the growth rate."
If it's a cyclical company – Your script revolves around business conditions, inventories and prices. "There has been a three-year business slump in the auto industry, but this year things have turned around. Care sales are going up across the board for the first time in recent memory. I notice XYZ models are selling well. There has been cost cutting and earnings are about to turn sharply higher."
If it's an asset play – What are the assets and what are they worth? "The stock sells for $8, but the videocassette division alone is worth $4 per share, and the real estate is worth $7. That's a bargain in itself, and I'm getting the rest of the company for minus $3. Insiders are buying, and the company has steady earnings, and there is no debt to speak of."
If it's a turnaround – Has the company gone about improving its fortunes, and is the plan working so far? Describe the turnaround, what has occurred, key elements, such as potential insider buying, logical changes in the business, perhaps a credit upgrade.
If it's a stalwart - The key issues are the P/E ratio and other metrics. "What, if anything, is happening to accelerate the growth rate?" "Coca-Cola is selling at the low end of its P/E ratio. The stock hasn't gone anywhere for two years. The company has improved itself in several ways. It sold half its interest in Columbia Pictures to the public. Diet drinks have sped up growth dramatically. International drinking patterns are increasing dramatically. The company has bought out many of its independent regional distributors. Now the company has better control over distribution and domestic sales. Because of these factors, Coca-Cola may do better than people think."
If it is a fast grower - Where and how can the company continue to grow so fast?
14. "Electric Utilities are the major dividend payers. In periods of slow growth they don't need to build plants or expand their equipment and the cash piles up. In periods of fast growth the dividends are lures to attract the enormous amounts of capital that plant construction requires."
15. Growth Rates - "All else being equal, a 20-percent grower selling at 20 times earnings is a much better buy than a 10-percent grower selling at 10 times earnings."
16. When to sell? - Pay no attention to external economic conditions, except in a few obvious circumstances when you are sure that a specific business will be affected in a specific way. He gives an example of when oil prices drop; it has an obvious effect on oil drillers, but not on pharmaceutical companies.
Examples of When to Sell
Slow Grower - He mentions he does not own a lot of these. He sells when there has been a 30 – 50 percent appreciation, or when the fundamentals have deteriorated. Perhaps the company has lost market share for tow consecutive years. Or, there are no new products and research and development has been curtailed. Perhaps acquisitions seem to look like diworsifications. Perhaps the company has gone too much into debt via an acquisition, and the company has gone from no debt to a heavy debt load.
Stalwart - He frequently replaces these with other stalwarts. Look at the long term fundamentals. If P/E gets too high from its normal range, sell it. Other signs might be: A. Recent new products had mixed results. Or, products in the testing stage are a year away from the marketplace. B. The stock has a P/E that is greater than and not relative to similar quality companies in its industry. C. No insider buying in the last year. D. A major division that contributes 25% of earnings is vulnerable to an economic slump which is taking place. (I should have seen this as we were buying financials after the stocks dropped, but before we saw the affect on earnings and such.) E. The company's growth rate has been slowing down, and though it's been maintaining profits by cutting costs, future cost-cutting opportunities are limited.
Cyclical - He discusses the strange rules of cyclicals, and the need to understand these rules. Best time to sell a cyclical is when something has actually started to go wrong. Costs have started to rise. Existing plants are operating at full capacity, and the company spends money to add to capacity. Obvious signs are the building of inventories. Always pay attention to inventories. "Falling commodity prices is another harbinger. Usually prices of oil, steel, etc., will turn down several months before trouble shows up in the earnings." Competition businesses are also bad for cyclicals. The outsider will win by cutting prices, which forces all companies to cut prices, which leads to lower earnings for all producers in the industry.
Fast Grower - Watch for the end of the second phase of rapid growth. Yet, the trick is not to lose the potential tenbagger. If you bought the company because your kids love the store or such, and then all of a sudden they say the store is no longer good, look to sell the company. Or if 60% of the shares are held by institutions, and three national magazines have fawned over the CEO, or if many of the analysts are giving the stock their highest recommendation, then it is time to think about selling. Look for absurdly high P/E's that reach illogical dimensions. 8
Turnaround - Time to sell when the company has turned around. All the trouble is over and everyone knows it. The company has now become a slow growth or cyclical, or whatever. "You have to reclassify the stock." Or perhaps debt levels which were falling are rising, or inventory is rising at a rate of twice that of Sales, or the P/E is inflated relative to growth prospects. Most importantly for me to remember, "The Company's strongest division sells 50% of its output to one leading customer, and that leading customer is suffering from a slowdown in its own sales."
Asset Play - "Wait for the raider." "As long as the company is not going on a debt binge, you will want to hold it." Other reasons can be dilution, or a company expecting to sell a division for one price, and it sells for substantially less than that. He also cites a material increase of institutional ownership


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Joyfulness – Part 5: The Joy of Jesus
Joyfulness in all its forms ultimately comes from God, who provides all good and perfect gifts (James 1.17). However, those blessings can become snares and hindrances if we make physical pleasure the aim of our life. All the blessings we receive are intended to point us to another life, a spiritual one, which is hid in the heavenly places with Jesus. We must determine to put away anything that becomes an obstacle to true, spiritual joyfulness; we must lay aside all the weights of worldliness and learn to see the true point of life: to bring glory to God in all we do.
If we begin to focus on joy and happiness here, in this place and this life, then we are going to get neither real joy nor real happiness and we will miss out on eternity with God. Like Jesus said, we cannot serve God and mammon (Matthew 6.24). We must never forget God made the world an enjoyable place because of his great love for us, but that enjoyment was meant to point us back to the creator, not to become the chief and primary goal of our lives here. If we turn away from the creator to focus on the creation, we have missed the point entirely of all the good things that God gives us.


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|Hello, i was really relieved to know that i am not alone. Here is my story. A year ago i start experience head shaking. At start it was few times a week and somehow controllable, the last few months it started in daily basis many times within a day. I tend to do that when i am in public, especially in subway, when people stare at me or when i have the feeling that other people looking at me, as well when eating in public and sometimes even im alone. After it becomes more frequent it starts really to bother me and was really worry and think of million things, im really relieved finding all those posts, is a breath to continue the fight against the head shakes. When it happens, i know when it will happen, i am very aware of it, of course i say no but still i do it and i am aware of it. In public i when head shaking comes, i tend to control it by doing short shakes which people wont notice, but i can't control it always. I have none with medical history, however when i was about 16 and for few years i use to work night shifts and after that, even i change job, i make it as a habit to sleep late or early morning and i sleep few, however the last 2 years i use to be all day long working in computer. I am a very relax person, or better i used to be, now i find me anxious and stressed. I am afraid that the head shakes which lately i do it very hard can cause some damage to brain and neck. i don't drink (once in a while) and i don't smoke. People say your stories in detail so other people to know that they are not alone and also to share information and help each other by putting down all the data. I believe that head shake can reduce and gone maybe if we sleep normal times, eating on time and healthier, do exercises, don't stuck in monitor screens all day long, find a way to not be anxious and stressful. If anyone has any info, story or cure, please share!


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Speaking at a June 29 meeting at the foreign affairs ministry, Hun Sen also called on government institutions, NGOs and donors to join together to contain HIV/AIDS, adding that the National AIDS Authority (NAA) should strengthen its 100-percent condom use program.
HIV/AIDS spread rapidly when it arrived in Cambodia in the early 1990s. By 1997, adult prevalence was recorded at 3 percent, according to the NAA. By 2006, the prevalence rate for adults had dropped to 0.9 percent.
According to a report from the National Centre for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (NCHADS), 400,000 people took HIV/AIDS tests in 2008, up from just 30,000 in 2007. Of those who opted for the test, 5 percent were found to be HIV-positive, compared with 7 percent in 2007, the report said.
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|Nature Studies in the Acadian Land (1899)
A close cousin of the bayberry is keeping it company here, the "sweet fern," Myrica aspleni folium. It, too, is blessed with a healthy fragrance through all its leaves that outlasts the life of them. They seem to have been all their days gathering in, by some cunning chemistry, the pungent aroma of the wayward winds and the kindly soil. The bark, and twigs, and leaves are rich in the material serviceable for tanning purposes. It is not a showy shrub, neither is it of much service to man, but it is a pleasing feature of nature, growing in waste places, covering unsightly surfaces with restful green and gracious influences.
Here this chapter must come to a close with-out more than a glance here and there, where one might linger long with profit if he loves the life, and varied aspects in which the Maker of all has made his presence known.
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ERIC Number: ED162953
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1978
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You, Too. The Social Science Newsletter for Secondary Teachers. Vol. VIII, Number 2, October-November 1978.
Educational Research Council of America, Cleveland, OH.
This newsletter explores trends in social studies education from the 1950s through the 1970s. The decades of the 1950s and 1960s are characterized as kaleidoscopes of pedagogic fashions. Among the trends in social studies objectives, methods, and content were socialization, democratic attitudes, conceptual learning, inquiry learning, values clarification, racial equality, integration, cultural pluralism, ethnic studies, legal education, consumer education, and global education. Social studies courses became the target of special interest groups during this period. During the 1970s emphasis was placed on citizenship, "back to basics," and minimum competency. Among the possible reasons for this rapid succession of experiments and changes are: (1) transition in American society and world affairs, (2) teacher educators' attempts to initiate educational fashions, (3) teachers' tendencies to follow fads in search of the ultimate educational method, (4) competition of commercial textbook publishers who emphasize easy sales instead of quality, (5) lack of sequenced instructional material covering the first eight or nine years of school, and (6) textbook revisions based on fads in order to ensure consistent selection by state textbook adoption committees. The author concludes that educators can overcome social studies fads by insisting on quality textbooks, student-centered teaching approaches, and consistent and cumulative instructional materials. (AV)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Course Content, Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Objectives, Educational Problems, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competencies, Relevance (Education), Social Change, Social Studies, Student Centered Curriculum, Teacher Education, Textbook Preparation, Trend Analysis
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Monday, January 18, 2010
Module 2 – Option 2
California ~ Identify & research 3 poisonous plants in ones area and document your findings.
Common Name: Western Jimsonweed, Sacred Datura, Sacred Thorn Apple, Indian Whiskey, Momoy (Chumash)
Botanical Name: Datura Wrightii
Family: Nightshade (Solanaceae)
Methods of Poisoning: Ingestion, also can soak into skin. All parts are poisonous.
Symptoms of Poisoning: Respiratory depression which can lead to death, seizures, fevers, panic, lost of vision.
Treatment: Forced vomiting, the use of activated charcoal is used to absorb the poison from the stomach and gastrointestinal tract. Doses of physostigmine are intravenous administered if any signs of anticholinergic symptoms and agitation occur.
Notes: The Chumash here call it Momoy and they use it religiously in puberty rites as a hallucinogenic. Is similar to Datura stramonium (Jimsonweed) which is why it is called Western Jimsonweed.
Common Name: Meadow Deathcamas
Botanical Name: Zigadenus venenosus
Family: Lily (Liliaceae)
Methods of Poisoning: Ingestion, All parts are poisonous.
Symptoms of Poisoning: . The known symptoms are, vomiting, slow breathing and heart, unconsciousness, hyperactive tendons and limbs, hypotension, dilated pupils.
Treatment: The usual, the use of activated charcoal used to absorb the poison from the stomach and gastrointestinal tract, saline carthartic (induced bowel movement), and forced vomiting (emesis).
Notes: Poisonous in high doses, though Chumash have been known to eat it's fruit with no ill effect. I have been unable to find out why this is so.
Common Name: Douglas Nightshade or Greenspot Nightshade
Botanical Name: Solanum douglasii
Family: Potato (Solanaceae)
Methods of Poisoning: Ingestion, also can soak into skin. All parts are poisonous.
Symptoms of Poisoning: Was unable to find anything concrete on this plant. Finally asked a herbalist friend and she said it was safe to say since it is looks like a pretty classic nightshade, she would expect it to cause the normal atropine side effects (Blurred vision; constipation; decreased sweating; difficulty sleeping; dizziness; drowsiness; dry mouth, nose, or skin; headache; loss of appetite; loss of taste; nausea; nervousness), including being a powerful anti-cholinergic that suppresses the parasympathetic nervous system as well as death.
Treatment: Most common treatment of poisoning caused by Nightshade is forced vomiting, the use of activated charcoal to absorb the poison or stomach pump.
Notes: When I chose this plant I didn't expect to find nothing beyond a description of it online or in a book. I spoke to two Chumash friends and they were unfamiliar with it which was strange considering it is a very common local plant. I finally ask a herbalist friend. Don't know how to site actual people from interviews.
Cite References
USDA ~ Natural Resources Conservation Service - PLANTS Profile for Datura wrightii (sacred thorn-apple) | USDA PLANTS - http://www.plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=DAWR2 – (11/08/2009)
USDA ~ Natural Resources Conservation Service - PLANTS Profile for Zigadenus venenosus (meadow deathcamas) | USDA PLANTS - http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ZIVE – (11/08/2009)
USDA ~ Natural Resources Conservation Service - PLANTS Profile for Solanum douglasii (greenspot nightshade) | USDA PLANTS - http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SODO – (11/08/2009)
Montana Plant Life - Meadow Death-Camas Zigadenus venenosus S. Wats - http://montana.plant-life.org/species/zigaden_vene.htm – (11/15/2009)
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