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ODF recently hit the road and heard from community members in Astoria, Tillamook, Forest Grove and Lyons at community roundtable discussions focused on a new Northwest Oregon Forest Management Plan. Discussions and conversations at these forums were driven by participants, while ODF staff captured comments on flipcharts to take to the Board Subcommittee and Board as they work hard to decide on the future of forest management in northwest Oregon.
Total, nearly 110 people weighed in face-to-face. We received positive feedback from all viewpoints at the table, thanking ODF for the opportunity to have candid and honest conversations both with staff, and other community members on a broad range of forest management topics. Conversations centered on the Board of Forestry's direction to develop a plan that addresses State Forests Division budget gaps, while increasing conservation outcomes on state-owned forests.
We also heard suggestions for improving future outreach activities, and will make adjustments for the next phase. If you'd like to weigh in on your experience at a community roundtable, or have new ideas for state forest-related communications and outreach, please let us know through our online forum here.
On behalf of the Oregon Department of Forestry, thank you for coming out and joining the conversation. We look forward to continuing the conversation. Don't forget about ways to get involved online: Twitter,Flickr, ODF website.
Also learn more about the process through researching the Stakeholder Group site, and through the advisory groups working hard to ensure the new plan meets revenue goals and conservation outcomes."


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Everything we encounter is immediately filtered through our thought grid. Is the face passing on the street beautiful or ugly? Is the food on the plate tasty or bland? Is that fragrance on the breeze sweet of putrid? From the moment we open our eyes in the morning to the moment we close them at night we take the vastness of the world and squeeze it between the lines of our belief grid.
On the one hand, a grid of categories is essential. The body separates digestible grains from indigestible pebbles. It divides warm, dry habitable rooms from cold, damp inhabitable boxes. It's helpful to agree that red light mean stop and green lights mean go. On the other hand, most of the categories in our belief grids are merely preferences. Salad is not really better or worse that soup. Red is not closer to the truth than blue. Gold is not really more valuable than lead.
Clashing thought grids result in wars, arguments, oppression, persecution and all manner of conflicts. Thought grids that attempt to harness and control the ecosystem cause pollution, fragmentation and the loss of plant and animal species.
Thought grids are as essential to being human as breathing. Our brains are grid making machines. By their very nature they distinguish light from dark, gain from loss, earth from sky, self from other. The problem is that we attempt to make them solid and fixed rather than allowing them to be transparent and fluid. When we can see through a flexible grid, we can maintain healthy boundaries while being responsive the changes circumstances. There is much more to say about this. But, for now, perceive the grid of beliefs shaping your thoughts and imagine it as a shifting gauze rather than unmoving steel.


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The second full week of the fall season continues to see ratings erosion for the shows that struggled out of the gate, while the higher rated shows held fairly well. There was one second season renewal already (Sleepy Hollow), a full-season order (The Blacklist) and one cancellation, as of this writing (Lucky 7). Where does everything else stand?
The shows with the strongest lead-ins, obviously, have managed the best ratings (except for Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, which does not have a lead in). There are only three shows that we can say, so far, are outright hits: The Blacklist, SHIELD and Sleepy Hollow. While CBS's new sitcom, The Millers and ABC's Super Fun Night premiered to good numbers, it was only their first episode and they were buoyed by their Big Bang Theory and Modern Family lead-ins, so we'll need to see if that holds in subsequent weeks. Everything over a 1.6 looks decent for full-season pick ups, assuming there's no more drastic ratings erosion, while the shows that fall below that seem less likely to get past their first 13 orders (except maybe Brookly Nine-Nine, which I'm hoping Fox has some faith in, and will want to keep it around, which they have demonstrated by ordering more scripts).
Having sampled everything on this list now except for Hostages, I don't really see anything that's good enough that it might pick up steam throughout the season, except maybe SHIELD and The Blacklist, if both shows dig deeper into their mythologies. It does, however, appears as though Community has a good shot at returning on Thursdays in Welcome to the Family's slot, since that show debuted with a measly 1.2.
1. The Blacklist (NBC): 3.6 (picked up for a full season)
2. The Millers (CBS): 3.3
3. Super Fun Night (ABC): 3.2
4. Marvel's Agents of SHIELD: 3.1
5. Sleepy Hollow: 3.0 (received a second season renewal)
6. The Crazy Ones (CBS): 2.9
7. The Goldbergs (ABC): 2.2
8. Mom (CBS): 2.2
9. We Are Men (CBS): 2.0
10. The Michael J. Fox Show (NBC): 1.9
11. Back in the Game (ABC): 1.8
12. Sean Saves the World (NBC): 1.6
13. Hostages (CBS): 1.5
14. Betrayal (ABC): 1.5
15. Trophy Wife (ABC): 1.4
16. Ironside (NBC): 1.4
17. Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox): 1.4 (additional scripts ordered)
18. Dads (Fox): 1.3
19. Welcome to the Family (NBC): 1.2
20. Lucky 7 (ABC): .8 (cancelled)


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BitDefender TrafficLight is a browser security addon that comes packed with features.
It doesn't just aim to highlight dangerous websites in your search results, for example: there's also a link filter that checks links from social networking sites; a malware filter detects and blocks malware that you might encounter online; a phishing filter prevents you from accessing fraudulent sites; and there's also an ad filter, and even a URL shortening service that uses saf.li to check your target links for viruses and phishing scams.
And better still, the program should work with just about every browser around, out of the box.
You don't want yet another browser toolbar? Neither does anyone else, and fortunately BitDefender seem to have realised this. So in normal operation, the only interface TrafficLight presents is a tiny block at the top of the page, which displays a red, green or amber light to indicate the safety of the current page.
At least, that's the plan. On our test PC there were no lights shown at all, ever, which made the display quite useless. Still, the search engine highlighting worked, with the program quickly highlighting safe links with reassuring green ticks. And the program correctly blocked us when we tried to visit a phishing site, so even in its initial beta form there is plenty of useful functionality here.
RAM use is currently quite high, however, with the TrafficLight service initially consuming just over 30MB, then rising to more than 50MB in just a few minutes of browsing. Don't let this put you off giving the program a try, though - it's probably also related to TrafficLight being in beta, and we'd hope for some reductions in the finished version.
TrafficLight is a little buggy right now, and uses more RAM than we'd like. It's only a beta, though, and the program already includes plenty of useful features, so if you're interested in browser security then it's definitely worth a look


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A prevalent sanctuary town with old fanciful connections, Wai is additionally a most loved vacationer goal in light of its grand atmosphere and the way that it can be a stop-over while in transit to the slope stations of Panchgani and Mahabaleshwar. With its more than 100 sanctuaries, it is appropriately known as the 'Dakshin Kashi' of Maharashtra. Furthermore, if that is not all, it is likewise where a portion of the greatest Bollywood blockbusters have been shot.
Found 35kms North of the city of Satara, Wai is genuinely a traveler town with its 100 sanctuaries, a large portion of which are developed in the Hemadpanthi style of engineering that utilizations tremendous stone chunks without mortar. These are designed with stucco, lime-made figures, and sketches. The most acclaimed of the considerable number of sanctuaries at Wai is the Dholya Ganapati Temple or Maha Ganpati Temple on the bank of the waterway Krishna on Ganapati Aali Ghat. Celebrated for its plan and magnificence, it was inherent 1762 by Ganpatrao Bhikaji Raste. The Ganesh icon here is considered "jagrut" similarly as the Siddhivinayak in Mumbai.
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Party Conventions: Political Theatre
The 2008 Republican and Democratic Conventions were two of the most attended party conventions in history – both delivering the subsequent amusing political theatre that comes when tens of thousands of American voters gather in one place. Protests, pepper spray and police barricades created a chaotic scene at the Republican convention for nominee Senator McCain in Saint Paul, Minnesota. While Oba-maniacs – from the 84,000 fans cramming in to Denver's Invesco Field hopeful to see the presidential nominee speak, to locals peddling Obama kitsch and collectables - flocked to Denver, Colorado. The 2008 party conventions provided politics, along with the antics and humor that comes with the crowds.


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Summer is here!! Which means I don't want to spend hours slaving in the kitchen!! Not that I ever did! ;) You guys know me.. If it isn't quick and easy, it is not happening in my kitchen!! It is more so now than ever as the kids want to be more outside the house than inside! This recipe that I am sharing with you today is another of my accidentally invented recipes!! Or rather spontaneously put together recipes!
My husband likes to take his lunch from home. He loathes to eat outside food. However, his home-cooked lunch has to follow certain guidelines:
A. It cannot be a sandwich
B. Rice item is preferred.
C. It has to be vegetarian.
D. It should not smell of spices while reheating!!
E. It cannot have any kind of sauce/gravy or any other liquid component to it that may possibly leak from the lunch box!!
Well, I have been very creative and innovative with his lunches. Usually I put together some kind of fried rice/ pilaf sort of thing together for him. This particular rice is another such innovative dish which happened to come together due to a tired me on a weeknight . I had made spicy garlic sauteed asparagus and Basmati rice for dinner. I decided to rice into it. Then I remembered that I had some grilled corn in the refrigerator. I took it out, shucked the corn and added it into the rice! And voila!! A delicious dish was born!!
My husband just loved it! Here is the recipe for you to try!
Prep time: 8 minsCook time: 12 mins
Total time: 20 mins
Servings: 2-3
Asparagus: 6-8 nos
Garlic cloves: 4-5 nos
Red chilli powder( medium spice level): 1/2 tsp ( the amount of chilli powder can be adjusted based on the level of spiciness of the chilli powder and of the individual.
Olive oil: 2 tbsp
Water: 2 tbsp
Cooked rice: 3 cups
Vinegar: 1 tsp
Grilled corn: 1
Black pepper powder: 1/8tsp
Scallions: 2, green part only, chopped.
Salt: to taste
Wash the asparagus. Snap off the woody stem. Break the remaining stem into 2-3 pieces depending on the length of the asparagus. Keep aside.
Mince the garlic. Keep aside.
Shuck the corn. Keep aside.
In a sauté pan/frying pan/wok, heat 1 tbsp of oil. Add the minced garlic. Sauté until garlic is fragrant. Do not burn it. Add the red chilli powder. Sauté for 10 seconds. Add in the asparagus. Sprinkle 2 tbsp water, stir fry for couple of minutes on medium-high flame. Add salt as per taste. Now lower the flame and cover and cook for 5-6 mins or until the asparagus is tender.
You can stop at this stage if you want make just chilli garlic asparagus.
To continue making the rice, add the shucked corn to the pot. Mix well. Now add the cooked rice ( preferably cold rice) into the pot. Fold in the rice until it is mixed. Add vinegar & black pepper powder. Toss.
Garnish with chopped scallions.
Serve hot.
I am bringing this to Throwback Thursday #46, Fiesta Friday #127 and Saucy Saturday #52. Angie's co-hosts this week are Suzanne @ apuginthekitchen and Jess @ Cooking Is My Sport.
Cooking made easy:
When I cook rice, I always cook a little more than I actually need. This way, I have some rice in the fridge on hand to rustle something up together in a hurry!
Tip for healthy living:
Eating healthy and exercising on a regular basis is a great way to keep your body in good shape and condition. 30 minutes of moderate exercise 5 days a week or 75 mins of vigorous exercise spread through the week is recommended. A minimum of one hour of physical activity every day is recommended for all individuals from 5 years of age!
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Penn State-Ohio State football game set for prime time at Beaver Stadium
Penn State will play a prime-time football game at home against Ohio State on Oct. 25, according to a university news release Tuesday.
Kickoff is set for 8 p.m., and the game will air on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2, the Penn State Sports Network and GoPSUsports.com.
The Nittany Lions-Buckeyes match will be the sixth prime-time game in the past 10 seasons.
The Lions also will play a prime-time game at Michigan on Oct. 11. That kickoff is slated for 7 p.m. and will air on ESPN or ESPN2, the Penn State Sports Network and GoPSUsports.com.
Penn State opens its regular season Aug. 30 vs. the University of Central Florida in the Croke Park Classic in Dublin, Ireland. It marks the Lions' first international game.
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Last night I went to the Good Friday service at our church. I probably wouldn't have gone if one of my responsibilities as a newly appointed elder wasn't to serve communion at the service. I would likely have stayed home with my wife and sleeping daughter. 🙂
I've served communion in different settings before so I wasn't really thinking too much about it. The service itself was enjoyable – a little more forward-looking than I'm used to from a Good Friday service, but refreshingly so. Anyway, we observed communion differently last night than we usually do. Normally we pass silver trays filled with bits of bread or little cups of grape juice down each row until everyone has the element and then we partake together. Last night, we had two elders at the head of each isle – one with a loaf of bread and one with a cup of juice – and had people come up individually and take the bread and dip it into the juice and then eat. (As an aside, I learned a few weeks ago that the technical term for this method is intinction, which means "to dip into" in Latin.)
As I served the cup to people, I was to say, "The blood of Christ, shed for you" to each person as they partook. The sanctuary holds roughly 320 people, so I knew I was in for saying that phrase roughly 150 times. About ten people in, I realized that I didn't want to just repeat the words like a mantra so I started to make a point of looking at each person as they came up. As I spoke the words to each person, I started to have a sense that what I was offering them in the cup and the words that went with it was very personal.
Then, a couple of minutes later, people I knew started coming through the line. As I looked them in the eye and spoke of what Christ had done for each of them, I was nearly overwhelmed. I could barely hold back tears. It hit me in a fresh way that Christ's sacrifice wasn't only for a group of people (those who call themselves His followers though faith) but for individual people, for my friends, and consequently for me. Eventually, I noticed that people were responding to my looking at them as I spoke. Some paused and waited for me to finish before they dipped their bread. Others actually spoke back saying things like, "thank you," – some even using my name. Still others stood in silence as I spoke but I could tell that they were experiencing some internal emotion as well. It was very moving.
I don't think I've ever had a communion experience that was that personal or intimate. I realized at one point what an honor it was to offer such good news to people. I could have stood there all night saying the same glorious words over and over. I was actually a little disappointed when it was over. I know that not all communion experiences will be like that, but it was really refreshing to connect anew with the wonder of what Jesus did on the cross for me, for my friends and, if you embrace Him by faith, for you too.


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I read that there was a CCW carrier at the Clackamas Mall and he had his weapon readied, but could not take a shot due to an innocent bystander behind the shooter. He said it was too big a risk if he missed. Too bad he didn't have a clear shot.
It is reported that right after the CCW holder attempted to engage the shooter the very next victim was the shooter himself. Like most of these cowards he quit fighting when confronted by someone that wasn't helpless
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種子処理の世界市場予測 〜2022年:処理タイプ、応用技術(種子コーティング、種子粉衣、種子ペレット化)、機能(作物保護、種子強化)、作物タイプ(穀類、油糧種子・豆類)、地域別
Seed Treatment Market by Type, Application Technique (Coating, Dressing, Pelleting), Function (Seed Protection (Insecticides, Fungicides) and Seed Enhancement), Crop Type (Cereals & Grains, Oilseeds & Pulses), and Region - Global Forecast to 2022
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|種子処理の世界市場予測 〜2022年:処理タイプ、応用技術(種子コーティング、種子粉衣、種子ペレット化)、機能(作物保護、種子強化)、作物タイプ(穀類、油糧種子・豆類)、地域別 Seed Treatment Market by Type, Application Technique (Coating, Dressing, Pelleting), Function (Seed Protection (Insecticides, Fungicides) and Seed Enhancement), Crop Type (Cereals & Grains, Oilseeds & Pulses), and Region - Global Forecast to 2022
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"The seed treatment market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 10.82% during the forecast period."
The seed treatment market is estimated at USD 6.76 billion in 2017 and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 10.82% from 2017, to reach USD 11.31 billion by 2022. This market has been gaining prominence among farmers to improve the agricultural yield and curb excessive pesticide application. Factors such as growing demand for precision farming and increasing awareness about the environmental concerns associated with excessive pesticide use across the world are projected to drive the seed treatment market. On the other hand, factors such as the high cost of seed treatment products and the low adoption rate of technology in developing markets are expected to restrain the growth of the seed treatment market.
On the basis of crop type, the oilseeds & pulses segment is projected to grow at the highest rate during the forecast period. The increasing cultivated areas under soybean, canola, and sunflower in North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe are projected to drive the application of seed treatment in these crops for their higher industrial value.
On the basis of application technique, the seed coating segment dominated the market in 2017 due to the increased adoption of this technique across the globe. Huge demand for multifunctional seed technologies and the advent of controlled-release technology in seed treatment are the factors driving the growth of seed coating.
Asia Pacific is projected to be the fastest-growing region in the seed treatment market between 2017 and 2022. The Asia Pacific region has been experiencing significant demand for seed treatment due to the need to undertake efforts to minimize the environmental concerns associated with excessive pesticide use. There has been a positive trend in the consumption of insecticide seed treatment in countries such as Australia, China, and other developing countries of the region.
The seed treatment market is segmented region-wise, with a detailed analysis of each region by studying the key markets. These regions include North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, South America, and the Rest of the World (RoW).
Breakdown of the profile of primary participants is as follows:
The market is dominated by key players such as Bayer (Germany), Monsanto (US), Syngenta (Switzerland), BASF (Germany), Dow AgroSciences (US), DuPont (US), FMC (US), Sumitomo Chemical (Japan), Arysta LifeScience (US), INCOTEC (Netherlands), Nufarm (Australia), UPL (India), and Germains (UK).
From an insight perspective, this research report has focused on various levels of analyses-competitive landscape mapping, and company profiles, which together comprise and discuss the basic views on the competitive landscape; emerging and high-growth segments of the seed treatment market; high-growth regions; and market drivers, restraints, and opportunities.
The report provides insights on the following pointers:
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I put out a few decorations, but I am no professional and these were all just for fun, so not pinterest-worthy lol. Just some curly-cues, a little prediction chalk board I re-used from our wedding, and some confetti poppers filled with the appropriate coloured confetti.
This was my guess before the ultrasound. I thought from early on that it would be a boy.
One of my students made me a card with her prediction inside as well. It was so sweet...
For fun I also put up my answers to a few old wives tales for our family to see before deciding on their guess.
My darling niece Lily also made us a card that I just love to pieces...
Girl loves her stickers!
Even though her card predicts a girl, on my old wives tale chart I put "boy" because that's what she had told me while I was babysitting her.
We bought cupcakes that had coloured icing inside for our family to bite into on the count of three. Any guesses as to what was inside before I show you??? ...
It's a...
I guess my mother's intuition was right! (Darryl's was too cause he's thought it was a boy from the get-go as well).
This was such a fun, special and exciting day for us that we'll always remember. Our families came dressed in either pink or blue depending on their guess and when they bit into their cupcakes, Darryl and I set off the blue confetti poppers for a little extra fun. Darryl's sister gifted us with one of her "Wrinkles" puppet dogs from when she was little and my mum and sister both came with a little gift of super cute boy outfits and a blanket (they actually brought one for boy and one for girl and just returned the girl one later on).
I also did something different for my staff and students but don't have pictures to share. With my staff I had them each pick either a pink or blue balloon to blow up. The pink ones had tiny holes in them so that they immediately deflated and were left with only the blue ones still in tact. Fun!
And with my kiddos I bought them some silly string and on the count of three they sprayed away and blue came out (I also re-used the confetti poppers as a couple of my kids actually did all the hard work of hole punching them out for me and they were excited to see them in use). They also came wearing pink or blue based on their guess.
It was so fun to share the news we were so excited about and to have so many people be excited with us.
Did you/would you find out the sex of your baby...share the news in a fun way??


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[prMac.com] Royal Oak, Michigan - CARROT pass, LLC today announced a public stock offering through the Netcapital online crowdfunding platform. CARROT's innovative health and wellness program, which features the "CARROT Wellness" mobile app, uses a gamified approach and instant gratification to deliver unrivaled engagement and results in motivating people to lead more active lives.
"There's nothing like CARROT in the marketplace today. We're a mobile gaming company, and we've used that experience and expertise to create a 'gamified' program that truly motivates even the most sedentary employee," said CARROT founder and CEO Michael Antaran.
CARROT's patent-pending, "set-it-and-forget-it" program uses personalized goals, generated daily by CARROT's proprietary algorithm, and instant gratification to motivate employees on an individual basis. This - and its simple, low-cost pricing - makes CARROT an attractive corporate wellness program for companies of all sizes. CARROT leverages the viral advantages of mobile technology to quickly onboard small employers while offering an affordable, scalable solution for the world's largest corporations.
Introduced in January 2016, CARROT is already generating revenue with more than 15 clients including Henry Ford Health System, Oakland University, the United Auto Workers International, Macomb County Government and Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Those customers currently offer the CARROT Wellness program to 60,000-plus paid participants in the United States, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Finland, the Netherlands, and several other countries.
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CARROT has raised money through traditional funding channels, but Antaran wanted to be sure that everyone had a chance to share in the success of the company. This desire led to the decision to offer stock on the Netcapital platform. Investors on Netcapital can purchase equity in CARROT Pass LLC for as little as $4.90 (USD). To learn more or invest in CARROT, visit Netcapital online.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
The Gunter Kallmann Choir/Gals & Pals - Daydream/Blue On Blue 7" (2007)
Here's a weird one. A double feature of two obscure Euro-pop groups playing covers. The first one is "Daydream" by The Gunter Kallmann Choir. Sampled by many Trip-Hop artists, it seems like the whole genre was modeled after this single track. Dark orchestral swells, a sparse break beat and a descending bass line, with the "Choir" singing above it all, the song has a "spy" vibe to say the least. Cool song! Although many people credit The Gunter Kallmann Choir as authoring this tune, it was in fact written by a Belgian group called Wallace Collection in 1969. Gals & Pals is a bit more obscure. From what little info I could find about them online, I figured out that they are from Sweden, but that's about it. They perform a dark murky version of "Blue On Blue" (another Trip-Hoppy song!) by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. This split was put out in 2007 by some label called Dynamite Soul, but I question their original sources, since side A fades in on the beginning, and Side B cuts off just before the song comes to a complete stop. Weird... Anyway, here it is.
320 Vinyl Rip!
01 The Gunter Kallmann Choir - Daydream
02 Gals & Pals - Blue On Blue
Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?ndli22f47tkld5l
Posted by Nature Film at 2:55 AM
3 comments:
- Honey Glazed said...
My my... three posts! Christmas has indeed come early. Thanks.
- December 22, 2010 at 6:41 AM
- Bubba, J.J said...
Thank you so much for this!
I really enjoy "Blue on Blue."
It's so great.
If you haven't heard it, you should listen to "So Easy" by Royksopp.
It's a favorite song of mine; that, I just recently found out it uses samples from this recording of "Blue on Blue."
- March 1, 2011 at 12:04 AM
- Robert Mortimer said...
Great post! Been looking for this for a while - any chance you could send me the mp3's as the link isn't working?
- March 2, 2013 at 8:16 AM
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On the surface, Blue-Eyed Devil: A Road Odyssey Through Islamic America seems like it will be a "let's get to know the neighbors" punk-rock companion piece to Paul Barrett's American Islam. If that doesn't quite describe it, it's because author Michael Muhammad Knight has little interest in finding the familiar in the exotic, preferring instead to make the ordinary seem strange. A white convert to Islam and self-described "cultural mutant," Knight takes the longer view of American Islam, returning to the story of its origins with enigmatic Nation of Islam founder Wallace Fard Muhammad, and to a time when "American Islam" was still a shocking juxtaposition. Knight conceives of the evolution of Islamic America as a series of cross-pollinations and random mutations that he continues and embodies. Over ginger ales, we talked about the maturation of Islam in America and its relationship to, among other things, professional wrestling, progressive politics, and punk rock.
KGB: You wrote a book, Blue Eyed Devil, about a road trip you took in 2003. What were your goals, heading out?
KNIGHT: I was coming off a phase in which I considered myself an apostate. I had gone really extreme into Islam and had burned out on it. Around 2002 I started trying to work at it again. Even though I didn't consider myself a Muslim, it wouldn't go away. And so I realized I was going to have some kind of relationship with Islam, I was going to have to figure it out.
I was getting interested in the idea of Islam being a story that started in America. There are all these different Islams--it's not just one uniform religion. When Islam went to Pakistan it became Pakistani, when it when to Iran it became Iranian. It took on all these different characters. And I was starting to appreciate that Islam in America was an American Islam. It wasn't just a transplanted, immigrant thing, it was something indigenous. So I was trying to find myself as a Muslim, while also engaging that history.
KGB: A lot of the trip is geared around tracking down information about W.D. Fard.
KNIGHT: He kind of sums it up, for me. The prevailing theory is that he was an immigrant of some kind, whether he was South Asian or Arab or whatever.
KGB: But it's a big mystery.
KNIGHT: Yeah. But he ties together the immigrant experience and the African-American experience of Islam. Minister Fard is the starting point, for me, of Islam becoming a distinctly American thing. I mean, there was stuff before him and there was stuff after him but without him there's no Elijah Mohammed, there's no Malcolm X, there's no Muhammad Ali. He created Islam in America.
KGB: He started the Nation of Islam.
KNIGHT: Yeah, but he almost created American Sunni Islam, too. Because the largest segment of American Muslims are African American, and if they're not in the Nation of Islam, then their parents were, or their grandparents were. The Nation of Islam built up that African-American tradition of Islam.
KGB: How is the Nation of Islam seen by more mainstream Islam?
KNIGHT: They don't really see the Nation of Islam as being Muslim at all. They get very possessive of what they call Islam. To me, it's nailed in an academic sense. Yeah, the Nation of Islam doesn't teach what all other Muslims of the world teach. But if you go into southern Asia, you'll find all kinds of crazy Sufism. You'll find all sorts of stuff all over the world. So it doesn't really bother me.
KGB: I thought Warith Deen Mohammed had sort of mainstreamed the Nation…
KNIGHT: Warith Deen was Elijah Muhammad's son. He was going in and out of the Nation--he had doubts about who God was, who the devil was. And when Elijah Muhammad died, Warith Deen assumed control of the Nation of Islam. Not only did he reform the teachings toward orthodoxy, getting rid of the white devil stuff, but he also basically detonated the whole organization. You know, "We don't need to have the paramilitary course anymore. We don't need to have all these businesses that lead to money that lead to corruption." And for a while Louis Farrakhan submitted to that. But eventually Farrakhan built up his own power base and revived the old Nation of Islam.
KGB: When Warith Deen mainstreamed, he changed the spelling of his last name from the way Elijah Muhammad spelled it, to the more conventional "Mohammed." But you, Michael Muhammad Knight, still spell it after Elijah Muhammad.
KNIGHT: Well, he was the correct one. There's no "O" sound in Arabic. So when people say "Mohammed." or "Koran," that's not correct. I think Warith Deen was just trying to distance himself from his father any way he could. But, Warith Deen still has his community in what used to be the Nation of Islam's flagship mosque in New York--Mosque Number 7. It's now a Warith Deen, Sunni, mosque. They named it after Malcolm.
KGB: You converted to Islam after reading Malcolm X.
KNIGHT: When I was 13, I started listening to Public Enemy and that's where I first heard about Malcolm and Elijah Muhammad. When I was 15, I read Malcolm's autobiography. And I was getting into all the white devil stuff. I get that. Just being a white American, I get the white man being the devil.
KGB: What does that mean, in terms of how you see yourself?
KNIGHT: To me, being a devil means what you've inherited. Like me, I am who I am. I'm in control of my actions. I have free will. But I didn't decide my bloodline. That's something I got handed to me. And, to be white and American, your bloodline is devil. I have Confederate captains in my ancestry. My dad is all into Hitler. Just from talking to my dad, I'm like, "Yeah, I'm the son of the devil." So, I get that. The best I can do is try to slay that devil that's in my blood.
That's what I get out of the Five Percenters. The Five Percenters are an offshoot of the Nation of Islam. They study the same lessons as the Nation. The difference is that the Five Percenters will "teach the devil." The Five Percenters will make the devil a righteous man. There's a place in that culture that the Nation of Islam doesn't allow that the Five Percenters will allow to a certain extent.
KGB: For Caucasians.
KNIGHT: Yeah. Like, there's a white Five Percenter named Azrael who took me under his wing. He must be sixty years old and he's been in this tradition a long time. He named me Azrael Wisdom. In their culture "wisdom" means number two, so he's naming me "Azrael Two." He's giving me a new lineage, better than the one that I get from my Dad.
KGB: The Five Percenters is heavy on numerology.
KNIGHT: Yeah, that goes back a ways. If you read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, he's talking about how, when he went to the fight where Ali first won the title, his seat was number 34. And three plus four is seven, and seven is the number of God. He's building on numbers all through it, saying that seven was his number. It goes back, through the Nation of Islam, through Noble Drew Ali, way back. The Five Percenters are just the tip of the iceberg.
KGB: You come back to numbers a lot in your book. Is it important to you as well?
KNIGHT: Not in a mystical or superstitious way. For me the numbers kind of shocked my brain into working on things in a different way.
KGB: Like a trigger?
KNIGHT: Yeah. For example, in numerology thirty means "understanding cyphers." The cypher is the circle around your life, your immediate world, your surroundings, and what you're trying to do. If I were about to turn thirty, I would look at what it means for me to have understanding of my cypher. It's just a poetic teaching tool. That's how I look at it.
KGB: When you talk in your book about progressive Islam, you seem to feel like it lacks something.
KNIGHT: I feel like it lacks heart. It had the best intentions in the world, but deep down, progressive Islam--and this isn't speaking of every individual but of what I see when I see the collective--it's not a religious movement. It's a movement of academic-minded people, upper-class people who aren't necessarily religious but they're going to talk about what religion ought to be. It's a bunch of cultural Muslims, maybe with Muslim parents, disillusioned, and here's what they think Islam ought to be.
KGB: What do they think Islam ought to be?
KNIGHT: More gender-inclusive, social justice oriented. More tolerant of other ways of life. Which is all cool. I could never disagree with what they say. The problem with progressive Islam is there's nobody who'll open the mosque in the morning. A religious community needs someone to open the mosque in the morning and make sure the bills are paid. Make sure there's someone there at the end of the night if someone wants to pray the late-night prayer.
KGB: Is that because the type of Muslim who is willing to open the mosque every morning is not interested in progressive Islam?
KNIGHT: Maybe the more hardcore your faith is, the less likely you are to ask questions? But it's hard to say.
I know individuals in the scene who I have great respect for. They're real-deal Muslims. They live it, they believe in it, and they really love it. They don't necessarily get the exposure that other people get because they're not media entrepreneurs.
KGB: So, with progressive Islam, it's a problem of the right people not rising to the top?
KNIGHT: Well, like Jesse Ventura said, "The scum always rises to the top of the water." [laughs]
KGB: He also said that religion is a crutch!
KNIGHT: Oh, the Five Percenters have an awesome critique of religion. The Five Percenters say that religion is a crutch. And this is how religion is used as an agent of oppression. Because the rich, the bloodsuckers of the poor, the slave-makers, they tell you to sit at home and pray and wait for God to change your situation. If you're being oppressed, wait for God to end your oppression. Or wait for God to reward you in the afterlife for enduring it patiently. The Five Percenters say, Fuck that. We're not going to wait for God to solve our problems. We're going to be our own gods, and create the world that we want.
KGB: You talk in your book about people who inflict pain on themselves as a way of reaching another level. And there's this part where you throw yourself on a field of thumbtacks.
KNIGHT: I used to do that in college, get thrown on thumbtacks.
KGB: Right, as a wrestling move.
KNIGHT: In a purely spectator sport kind of way, in a Jackass kind of way. I would get my head split open and bleed all over the place, and I would sit in the shower and watch it swirl around in the drain. I've never been drunk, but the way I felt I can only describe as part of being drunk--the slowness, the dizziness, and being mindful yet not really alert, if that makes sense at all.
KGB: But the moment in the book I was thinking of, you try the thumbtacks and you're alone.
KNIGHT: I was dealing with the Shia tradition of self-mutilation. There was a whole emotional component because I was by myself. It wasn't a gimmick.
When I do it in wrestling, it's a gimmick, for show. But when I'm by myself...I was dealing with Imam Husayn, Muhammad's grandson, in a very Catholic way because I grew up Catholic. And I was thinking of Imam Husayn as hurting for me and suffering for me, so I was going to hurt for him. It was this...relationship I was feeling. And these little, tiny thumbtacks are like nothing. Nothing.
KGB: It doesn't hurt as much as it sounds?
KNIGHT: Not as much as getting your head cut off, arrows stuck through you, trampled by horses, and all that stuff he did.
KGB: And another point you brought them together, wrestling and Islam, you staged this wrestling match.
KNIGHT: Yeah. When I was writing articles for Muslim WakeUp! I would write these articles in which I would refer to myself as "Ibrahim Hooper." When I was introducing myself to somebody or calling someone for an interview, I'd say, "This is Ibrahim Hooper."
KGB: Who is a real person.
KNIGHT: He's the communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
KGB: So you were using his name to get access?
KNIGHT: No! Seriously, I didn't actually do it; it was just a joke in the article. And Hooper took it so seriously, as though I was actually trying to convince the reader that I'm him, which was stupid, because my name's on top of the article. The dude just has no sense of humor. He threatened legal action. So I was like, he's a bully, and he wants to have people scared of him. I'm gonna call your bluff. Let's settle this in the ring. So I wrote this piece where I challenged him to a wrestling match. And then we actually put on the match at a Taqwacores show. We rented a real ring.
KGB: I saw it on the Internet. You choreographed this whole fight. It was pretty good. But that's not really Ibrahim Hooper?
KNIGHT: No, it was this kid from a grindcore band from Massachusetts. That was so much fun. I got to bleed again. I went to the thumbtacks again. He tried to staple the Saudi flag to my arm. It didn't stick, though.
KGB: The Taqwacores is this Islamic punk-rock movement that you sort of started.
KNIGHT: At the time I considered myself pretty estranged from Islam. And I wanted to imagine an Islamic environment in which I could belong. I felt all kinds of shame as a Muslim. People say Catholicism is a religion of guilt and Islam is a religion of shame. It's a different feeling--you can't show your face or look people in the eye knowing you have these little doubts inside you. A lot of Muslim kids end up leaving Islam because they have these double lives that they can't reconcile. So, I was trying to write about a world in which that wasn't a problem.
But the thing is, before that, my whole socialization in the Muslim community was the mosque. I only saw kids when they had their mosque face on. I had no idea that there really were Muslim punk rockers, or that there could be because my view of Islam was as narrow and one-dimensional as you'd get inside the mosque. So after I wrote that novel, I ended up talking with kids who'd read the book, and they were doing the things that I'd written about well before the book was out. That kid was really out there, and there's a kid in DC, kids in Canada, Chicago. Everywhere.
KGB: So it's a scene that's coming together?
KNIGHT: That's the thing, it's like the dots are getting connected. The book was a socialist event. There were all these islands everywhere. A Muslim punk kid in Chicago who thinks he's the only Muslim punk in the world. The brown kid in the white subculture. And then he finds all these other kids across the country. There's this whole new space created in Islam.
KGB: Well, that's sort of "progressive Islam" in a way, too, isn't it?
KNIGHT: It's a whole different spirit.
KGB: But it could as easily be called progressive Islam.
KNIGHT: I personally resist it, just because I don't want to be associated with those people. I have some dear, dear friends who really believe in that phrase. I personally don't. But I respect them and they respect me. Progressive Islam is purely an academic exercise. It's not creating a culture. It's professors talking to each other. What we're doing is, like, we're just reflecting the real lives that we have, and empowering others who deal with those same things and have those same kind of lives.
KGB: And you're going on tour with them.
KNIGHT: Yeah, a bunch of bands, piling on a bus. It's gonna be a good time. We're going to ten different cities or so in the Northeast. And on top of that I'm starting to write the Taqwacores screenplay. I don't know what's going to happen with that. I might need to go into hiding after that--if all that stuff ends up on screen.
KGB: It can be dangerous.
KNIGHT: Every career path has its occupational hazards. I could be a cop or a construction worker. I could be, like, a pro wrestler, lose myself to steroids. Or, be a Muslim writer. There's always occupational hazards.
David Hunter graduated from Vassar College in 2001 with a degree in literature.


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MIAMI -- All that hard work probably isn't paying off -- for you.
In the past 10 years, U.S. productivity, a measure of worker output, has increased 33 percent, something economists have hailed as a victory for America's "new economy," because productivity is often seen as the key to raising living standards.
In a speech last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called the gain one of the past decade's most significant economic developments.
But the problem, according to a new book-length study, is that workers are no longer seeing those increases where it matters most to them: in their paychecks.
Wages stopped rising and actually began losing ground starting in 2001, despite continued growth in productivity and corporate profits, according to an analysis of government data in "The State of Working America: 2006/2007" by the Economic Policy Institute, an independent Washington think tank.
"We've had stellar productivity growth over this recovery, but the economists' mantra -- such growth automatically translates into improved living standards -- no longer holds," said Jared Bernstein, an EPI economist and one of the authors.
Here's an example
Case in point: UPS driver Mike Cortez. Last month, he got a 4 percent raise on his hourly pay, which is around $27 an hour. But with South Florida's inflation rate running at 5.8 percent, his costs are increasing much faster. A Weston, Fla., homeowner, his insurance premium alone is up 66 percent this year.
"I really feel like corporate America forgets about the working guy," said Cortez, who feels jobs like his are a key contributor of the company's strong profitability of late. UPS, the world's largest shipping carrier, earned more than $1 billion in its most recent quarter, a 7.6 percent increase over the year before.
He thinks he gets some share of that, but only because he's with the Teamsters. "We're better off than some," he said.
Between 1995 and 2000, U.S. productivity -- the amount that an average worker produces in an hour -- grew about 2.5 percent annually. And real median family income grew right along with it, at about a 2.2 percent annual clip.
Productivity grew even faster between 2000 and 2005, an average of 3.1 percent annually, helped by improvements in technology. But real median family income dropped 0.5 percent each year during that same time, according to the study's data.
"Too many forces are wedged between overall growth and paychecks, with the result that wages as a share of national income are the lowest on record while the corporate profit share stands at a 56-year high," said Bernstein. Among the ways to help reverse the disparity are raising the federal minimum wage, creating universal health-care coverage and increasing union membership, he said.
Wachovia Bank Senior Economist Mark Vitner cautions that looking at wages doesn't tell the whole story of worker compensation these days, because companies are investing more in benefits like health care and 401(k) plans in lieu of raising salaries.
What's happening
Still, he agrees with EPI's conclusions that productivity gains and increased corporate profitability haven't been passed down to the workers of today. And on that front, he's not too encouraged that will change anytime soon.
Building a fortress balance sheet is the priority now, especially since companies are under much closer scrutiny in the post-Enron era, said Vitner. He calls the corporate mind-set for the first half of this decade one of "excessive caution" rather than the infamous "irrational exuberance" of a decade ago.
"They're worried about soaring health-care costs; they're worried about pension liabilities. They're being extremely cautious and trying to hold the line on compensation," he said.
The only workers who are going to see big salary increases are those who are willing to shop their talents around to the highest bidder, he said -- one explanation why CEOs and other senior executives are able to command such high salaries.
In 2005, CEOs earned about 262 times more than the average worker, according to EPI data. Forty years ago, that ratio was much smaller, with CEOs earning 24 times more.
"Those guys are brave enough to say, 'Hey Coca-Cola, if you're not going to make me CEO, I'm going to Clorox,'" Vitner said. "If you're going to be a foot soldier, odds are, you're getting squeezed."
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Chili is a great way to use up your pantry, feed a crowd and warm you up on a cold night. It sticks to your bones and just feels like cooler weather. Here is a quick base than mixes cans and fresh ingredients and plenty of spices. Top it off with tortilla chips or some crackers. YUM.
- 1 lbs lean ground beef
- 1 onion diced
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 peppers diced (any kind! Green bell, red bell, poblano!)
- 1 24oz can crushed tomatoes
- 1 can fire roasted diced tomatoes
- 1 can tomato sauce
- 1 can tomato paste
- 1 can black beans, rinsed
- 1 can kidney beans, rinsed
- 1 can pinto beans, rinsed
- 1 can corn, rinsed
- 2 Tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 Tablespoon chili powder
- 2 teaspoon cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- Salt & Pep
In a large dutch, brown off the meat and pour off any excess grease. To the meat add fresh veggies (onion, garlic, peppers) and cook over medium heat until they soften. Then just dump! Tomatoes, beans, and spices all are tossed in the pot.Add salt and pepper to taste
Bring to a boil then simmer the chili covered, stirring every so often. The longer it perculates – the yummier it gets but cook it at least 1 hour!
Top with cheese, sour cream, green onion, hot sauce, and tortilla chips! You can mix up the chili by added chili in adobo sauce or coco powder. Try ground turkey or even go meat free!


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Some of his notable projects include: Alabama State University Football Stadium, Montgomery, Alabama; University of Southern Mississippi Stadium Expansion, Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Echelon Place, Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada; DeVry University, Olathe, Kansas; and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Rabigh, Saudi Arabia.
What is your proudest accomplishment to date?
Being awarded a full scholarship to graduate school at Purdue University, defending a thesis, and publishing my findings in a reviewed technical journal .
How does engineering make a difference in the world?
My aim is to design structures that will last and be useful for more than their initial purpose.
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Kamilla wrote to Shaun:
(in the "Re: Is there a gay gene?" thread)
> Since your brother is a psychiatrist, he surely knows the consequences
> to his physical health of acting on his homosexual desires.
I suppose levels of stress-related hormones in his body may drop
and he may live longer and happier. Long-term depression can really
take a toll on the body.
> Is that something you really want to embrace on his behalf?
Well, heterosexual sex may lead to the often risky medical condition
known as pregnancy. I've known people who have nearly died from this
dangerous consequence of heterosexual intercourse. Only advanced,
medical technology saved them. Very few women completely recover from
the trauma of birth or the stretching & other changes visited upon
their bodies. Prior to this century and continuing today in many parts
of world, women have died in disturbing numbers thanks to heterosexual
sex. Sure, giving birth may be "natural", but it is certainly not a
pretty sight and it is anything but "safe" (as we regard medical
procedures today). The only safe, heterosexual form of sex is
unproductive intercourse.
Fortunately, medical technology allows those who wish to safely
participate in heterosexual relations several means of avoiding the
danger of pregnancy. And recent changes in public attitudes have
lead to the general acceptance of marriage between non-
reproductively active couples.
Verily, if it truly is safe and "natural" sex that we want,
masturbation is the only option (I suppose that opinion kills my
chances of becoming the next Surgeon General). Just avoid using sharp
objects or ungrounded electrical devices and you should be reasonably
safe. Of course, self-gratification could be a sin too, depending
on whether one thinks Onan ticked off God because Onan masturbated
or because he refused to have sex with his dead brother's wife.
[Side note: How would we have interpreted the situation if Onan
had oral or anal intercourse with the wife of his dead brother
instead of seeding the ground? (Clearly, this Biblical story
predates Kleenex)]
Go figure...
Personally, I feel "natural law" arguments are weak, post-hoc
justifications for many Biblical edicts. If there was a biological
"imperative" for a law, would it have been so difficult to include
that explanation in the Bible rather than making blanket statements?
(e.g. "Don't cook meat and milk together until the process of
pasteurization is discovered").
Now, circumcision may have medical benefits and it is clearly
described as a necessary Jewish custom. But apparently it is OK for
Christians not be circumcised. What has changed? Certainly not the
medical issues - Christians are not known to practice better penile
hygiene than other groups (worse, in some instances) - and God,
in theory, hasn't changed. No, I suggest that if one wishes to obey
a demand seemingly imposed by one's interpretation of the Bible, then
one should be prepared to forego a "natural" or even understandable
explanation for that "command".
Whether the Bible clearly proscribes a particular behavior is
another matter that is of some importance (to some). But as for
"natural" justifications be aware that "Nature" does as it pleases;
nothing more and nothing less. Accelerating a corn dog faster than
the speed of light is unnatural. But walking around with a corn dog
under your armpit is perfectly natural (as long as you walk slower
than 300,000 kps).
Tim Ikeda
(another one of those unrepentant, unnatural lefties who wear
clothing made from more than one fabric)
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Paintings, paintings, paintings! What fun! I dream about painting and wake up with ideas and plans!
In my work I use lots of acrylics, as well as mixed-media, which may include pure pigment, watercolor, oil, drawing, and inclusion of organic materials.
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Conventional wisdom says you've gotta head across the Bay Bridge to Oakland (to Lois the Pie Queen, for example) for great fried chicken and waffles. But that's not necessarily the case, SF hounds say.
On a good day, the chicken and waffles at Little Skillet "is as good as it gets," says sugartoof. "The waffle is a small, a mini Belgian type—the chicken is free range, and cooked perfectly." But take note—Little Skillet just lost its chef.
alina555 is a fan of Auntie April's Chicken and Waffles, where the neighborhood is kind of rough, but the C&W is cooked to order and delicious.
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Nothing warms the cockles more than a glorious own goal, the purest form of comedy that exists in the modern world.
Some can be put down to the elements, others over exuberance, some from an unlucky bobble, or others from a lack of concentration.
We're not quite sure where this one comes from, other than straight out of the top drawer.
The unlucky fellow was goalkeeper Michael Roche, who was playing in the OFC Champions League - contested by teams from New Zealand, Vanuatu, Tahiti, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea - for Tahitians AS Tefana, against the Fijian side Nadi on the first day of the league.
Despite his side enjoying a 6-1 victory, the game will be remembered for the '1', as Roche kicked a throw-in straight into his own goal, from the tightest of angles. It was a truly special finish, in more ways than one.
It's not Roche's first time in the spotlight - he was in sticks for Tahiti when they lost 10-0 to Spain in the Confederations Cup in 2013 - which, to be fair, was a better result than many people expected them to get.
And if we didn't know any better, the quality of goalkeeping at the other end suggests that both goalkeepers had some interest in getting this match to a 6-1 finish... (allegedly).
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Our desire is to be God's holy people responding to His call, being part of His story as we share the Good News of Salvation, inviting others to know Christ and to follow Him.
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- Countries: For countries and areas, FiBL and IFOAM use the Standard Country and Area Codes Classifications as defined by the United Nations Statistics division. Where the designation "country" appears, it covers countries or territories.
- Data sources: Data were gathered from organizations of the private sector, governments, and certification bodies. For detailed information on the data sources please see detailed documents.
- Direct year-to-year comparison: A direct year-to-year comparison is not always possible for many data, as the data sources may change or data access becomes better. Furthermore for market and trade values fluctuating exchange rates must be born in mind.
- Completeness of data: For some countries either no current data were available or the data provided may not be complete and for some countries no data were available. It may therefore be assumed that the extent of organic agriculture is larger than documented on this website.
- Organic areas: Data represent certified land/areas that are already fully converted as well as land under conversion, since many data sources do not separate or include the latter (forinstance Australia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland), and since land under conversion is underorganic management.Crop data: For some crops the area values provided may refer to main crops grown.
Furthermore,in some cases the areas may refer to agroforestry areas, where the provided crop surfaces are the total surface of the agroforestry system, including shade trees and other crops. Such cases are difficult to compare with those that provide only the effective crop area. This may also explain why sometime the shares of certain organic crops of all crops in a country are particularly high.
- Conversion status: Not for all countries information on the conversion status is available (e.g. Germany). Some countries only provide data on the fully converted land (e.g. U.S.). For some countries data are collated from several certifiers, some of which provided information on the conversion status whereas others do not (e..g Ethiopia). Therefore: Neither at a country/reional level, nor at a crop level, the sum given for land under conversion and the fully converted land necessarily adds up to the total land under organic management
- Share of total agricultural land: In some cases, the calculation of the shares of organically managed land, based on the Eurostat and FAOSTAT data, might differ from the organic shares obtained from ministries or local experts.
- Producers: Some countries report the number of smallholders, and others only the number of companies, projects or grower groups, which may each comprise a number of producers.
- Data revisions: Data revisions and corrections are carried out on a constant base.
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This morning brings grim news for renewables with the announcement by RWE that it has dropped its Bristol Channel mega wind farm development.
8.30am: German energy giant RWE has abandoned its 1.2GW offshore wind farm Atlantic Array due to "technical challenges", which had made the project uneconomic, it said today.
In a statement, the firm said: "RWE Innogy has reviewed the Atlantic Array Project and the Round 3 Bristol Channel Zone. In comparison with other opportunities in the UK offshore wind portfolio, and in light of the significant technical challenges specific to the zone, identified from intensive research, at the current time, it is not viable for RWE to continue with development in the Bristol Channel Zone. "
The Crown Estate had awarded RWE development rights to 240 turbine the scheme in its Round 3 announcement back in January 2010.
The firm said the technical challenges included susbtantially deeper waters than anticipated and adverse sea conditions. It said that the costs of overcoming the technical challenges combined with current market conditions had led to its decision.
RWE Innogy director of offshore wind Paul Cowling said: "This is not a decision we have taken lightly, however given the technological challenges and market conditions, now is not the right time for RWE to continue to progress with this project. We will continue to focus on the other less technically challenging offshore projects within our extensive offshore pipeline of up to 5.2GW. Offshore wind remains one of the strategic objectives for RWE and the UK has a major role to play within our portfolio. We are looking forward to the completion of Gwynt-Y-Mor next year. At 576 MW this will become the second largest operating offshore wind farm in the world."
The Crown Estate head of offshore wind Huub den Rooijen said: "Now that the industry has been developing projects for a number of years, there is a much deeper understanding of the characteristics of successful projects and we will see further attrition in the time to come. Paradoxically, this is a positive development because it provides greater clarity to key stakeholders such as supply chain and consenting bodies, and brings greater focus to the investment opportunities."
8am: Brazil has admitted that it is struggling to meet deadlines for completing construction on the 2014 World Cup football stadiums, according to the BBC.
It said with Fifa's year end deadline looming, several stadiums are well behind schedule and one host city, Cuiaba, said that not only will be it unable to finish its stadium on time, but there are not even enough hotel rooms for visiting fans.
Fifa only insisted on a minimum of eight stadiums to host the World Cup but Brazil decided to go with 12.
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Tucker: 2016 Russia Collusion 'Witch Hunt' Now Extends to Jill Stein
'Hell No!': NY Dem, NY Republican Trade Heated Remarks Over Tax Bill
'Is That True or Not?': Tucker Presses Fmr Obama Official on Hezbollah-Drug Trafficking Report
The Senate Intelligence Committee is now investigating 2016 Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein over Russia's alleged interference in the election, Tucker Carlson reported.
Carlson said that in 2015, Stein attended a dinner sponsored by RT - the Russian news outlet - in which she was seated near President Vladimir Putin.
Media reporter Joe Concha said the movement supporting Hillary Clinton at all costs has expanded from going after President Donald Trump to blaming Stein for the former secretary of state's loss as well.
Concha said Clinton supporters are angry with Stein for the fact that her far-left candidacy may have taken votes away from Clinton.
In Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, Stein's vote totals - if instead credited to Clinton - would have won the Democrat each of those states, meaning Trump would've been defeated, Clinton supporters said, according to Carlson.
"Nobody in the media has noticed this is a terrifying witch hunt?" Carlson said of widespread accusations of Russian collusion.
He compared the collusion narrative to the one started by former Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.), who made numerous claims that political entities and adversaries sympathized with or were members of the Communist Party.
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MOSCOW, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft may recommend a first-half dividend payout of 14.6 roubles ($0.23) per share, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday citing sources.
The oil producer said earlier on Tuesday that its first-half dividend may be higher than its full-year payout in 2017.
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On Thursday 5 July 2018, the Governor-General, His Excellency General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd), and Lady Cosgrove met with Mr Esteban García Vilasánchez, President of Spanish shipbuilding company Navantia, at their headquarters in Madrid.
Afterwards, Their Excellencies, met with Mr José Manuel Entrecanales, Chief Executive Officer of Acciona, and received a briefing on renewable energy and infrastructure projects at the company's headquarters in Madrid.
In the afternoon, Their Excellencies were farwelled from Spain by Mr Timothy Kane, Chargé d'affaires for the Australian Embassy, Spain, before travelling to Lisbon, Portugal. In Lisbon, Their Excellencies were briefed by His Excellency Mr Peter Rayner, Ambassador to the Portuguese Republic, and met with locally-engaged staff from the Australian Embassy.
Afterwards, the Governor-General met with His Excellency Professor Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of the Portuguese Republic, at the Presidential Palace.
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High Security 4C Mailbox Emerges as Commercial Mailbox Stalwart
The 4C mailbox first introduced to the commercial mailbox industry in 2006 is quickly becoming the general public's commercial mailbox of choice. The end users seem to prefer the STD-4C horizontal mailbox due to its design, security, and versatility which in comparison to other commercial mail receptacles, the 4C mailbox clearly prevails. Originally designed and USPS sanctioned for wall installations the 4C horizontal mailbox has experienced an evolution of product options and styles as commercial mailbox suppliers seek to differentiate themselves from another. The high security 4C mailbox mimics the cluster box design and security, however offers far more flexibility in terms of customization in of module configurations. Many industry insiders feel this why the STD-4C mailbox has quickly become the fast growing category of commercial mailboxes.
4C Horizontal Mailbox Styles
4C horizontal mailboxes were originally designed for new construction applications where the mailboxes were to be recessed into a wall or contractor created a mail kiosk. Commercial mailbox manufacturers seeing the popularity of the USPS-STD-4C mail receptacle aggressively pursued alternative styles of 4C horizontal mailboxes. The pursuit of alternative styles of 4C mailboxes resulted in a surface mount collar being developed allowing for recessed cabinets to be wall mounted, mail kiosks being created to provide a manufacturer provided structure for the STD-4C mailboxes, and a full line of pedestal 4C mailboxes to provide an additional choice for pedestal mailbox buyers. The 4C mailbox product extensions have been smashing success with the 4C pedestal mailboxes leading the way. If the manufacturers of commercial mailboxes can succeed in convincing the Postal Service to certify the 4C pedestal mailbox many industry insiders believe the 4C mailboxes will eventually surpass the most utilized commercial mailbox which is currently the cluster box unit.
STD-4C Horizontal Mailbox Versatility
The major reason for the commercial mailbox user and buyer's preference for the STD-4C horizontal mailbox is the flexibility the receptacle brings to the table. The 4C mailbox allows for different resident, parcel locker, and outgoing mail door sizes therefore allowing for customization of the mail receptacle to meet the buyer's requirements. It is recommended when customizing your 4C mailbox configuration to speak with an experienced commercial mailbox representative so he can provide you design assistance. Typically, most industry suppliers provide this service free of charge.