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As we emerge from the disorienting period of reacting to a global pandemic, widespread business shutdowns, layoffs, and general uncertainty, we wonder if certainty was ever real to begin with. We watched storefronts close, and witnessed huge supply chain shocks. Even though grocery stores and pharmacies were considered essential businesses, we all saw the wide, empty shelves where toilet paper rolls once piled high. Even during a health crisis of pandemic proportions, we saw massive layoffs of healthcare workers.
The pandemic, and ensuing response from the state and federal governments, threw us all off-kilter. For years, we have been waiting patiently (and sometimes impatiently) for the first fully-legal sales of cannabis to adults in Maine. We've seen hurdles and delays before, but this was another level altogether.
But now, almost four years after Maine voters approved a path to legal, regulated cannabis for adults over 21 at the ballot box, the vision finally became a reality on Friday, October 9.
The Maine Office of Marijuana Policy (OMP) issued the first round of active licenses to adult-use cannabis businesses in early September. As of this writing, 17 active licenses have been awarded, of which six are storefronts. Over 100 conditional licensees are still in the process, either to be approved by their local jurisdiction or by the state.
Active licenses are the third step in the do-si-do of establishing a legal adult-use shop. The reason for the delay between awarding active licenses and the first day of sales is part of OMP's strategy to ensure that enough supply will exist in the adult-use market to handle early demand. Given what we've seen from other adult-use cannabis markets—in Massachusetts, for example, the lines on day one ran around the block—experience shows that people will wait for hours to legally buy cannabis. Experience has also shown that people will travel for hours to get to those long lines.
The all-important question remains: Will the number of licensed stores be able to handle the volume of Maine's adult-use market? Will the retail storefront license holders be able to stock their inventory, since adult-use cannabis and medical cannabis must be separated throughout the growing process?
Within Maine's medical cannabis market, it is commonly understood that there is not enough supply to meet current demand. The simultaneous rush of the essential business designation, plus the drag of a pandemic-weary labor force and a contracting economy, have pushed many Maine cannabis producers to the limits of their operations. For those who are planning to flip to the recreational, or adult use side, there will likely be no respite from that stress and demand.
It stands to reason that the first weeks of Maine's adult-use market will demand high quantities of both the sticky and the icky. Consumers will likely be coming over the border from New Hampshire and even travelling across the Northeast from legal states like Massachusetts where prices at adult-use stores average $12-14 per gram, approaching what I would call prohibition prices.
One proposal that could have helped smooth the transition to adult-use sales for Maine's cannabis cultivators and connoisseurs was LD 1432. This bill was voted down in the Veterans and Legal Affairs committee in late February, before the legislature prematurely adjourned due to the state's coronavirus response. Under this bill, cultivators with an active, adult-use license could have accepted transfers of cannabis plants or products from a medical facility for which they also hold a license. These transactions would carry the normal excise taxes and fees that the regulators require as well as a detailed manifesto of the goods being transferred. Despite the added costs for transactions, this change in policy could have helped to make sure Maine shelves were stocked in anticipation of first sales.
Current law only allows for a one-time transfer of plants—but not product—from a medical to an adult-use cultivator. In January, the next batch of legislators should take up a bill that allows any medical caregiver or dispensary to sell plants or products to an active adult-use licensee. With state economic forecasters predicting an almost-$1 billion shortfall over the next two-year budget, lawmakers might be eager to turn on the tap of legal cannabis tax dollars sooner rather than later.
During the early pandemic crunch, national sales of cannabis hit record highs. New Frontier Data reported that average consumer monthly spending on cannabis in April and May reached $290 and $296 respectively, while settling down to $282 in June. Second-quarter sales were up nearly one-third compared to the first quarter average of $213. From August 2019 to August 2020, monthly spending on cannabis rose 17.4%.
This phenomenon and sudden shift in our world should further emphasize the need for a full-fledged, thriving cannabis industry in Maine. The people of the Pine Tree State could make use of many now-defunct paper mills scattered across the rivers of the north and west, attracting much-needed investment to rural Maine. American manufacturing has been waiting for this comeback for decades.
Vacationland could add another allure to this unique slice of heaven we call home: explore the endless coast, take in the clean, crisp mountain air, and sample some of the world's finest indoor and outdoor cannabis. It is truly a match that can only be made in Maine.


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Rock On The Range Announces Daily Lineup
Posted by Sean Matthews on March 27, 2018
Today saw the daily lineup of Rock On The Range announced to the masses.
Taking place this upcoming May 18th, 19th, and 20th, at MAPFRE Stadium in Columbus, Ohio this year's festival will host nearly 60 bands over 3 stages led by Tool, Avenged Sevenfold and Alice In Chains.
The daily lineup as of today is as follows (but is subject to change)
Friday, May 18: Alice In Chains, A Perfect Circle, Breaking Benjamin, Machine Gun Kelly, Greta Van Fleet, Underoath, Body Count, Quicksand, 10 Years, The Bronx, Emmure, Power Trip, Hawthorne Heights, Turnstile, Senses Fail, The Fever 333, Dance Gavin Dance, I See Stars, Mutoid Man, Spirit Animal
Saturday, May 19: Avenged Sevenfold, Stone Sour, Three Days Grace, Bullet For My Valentine, Black Veil Brides, Asking Alexandria, Tech N9ne, Trivium, Andrew W.K., Atreyu, Miss May I, New Years Day, From Ashes To New, Stick To Your Guns, Cane Hill, Wilson, Grandson, My Ticket Home, Like Moth To Flames, Them Evils
Sunday, May 20: Tool, Godsmack, Stone Temple Pilots, The Used, BABYMETAL, I Prevail, Baroness, Yelawolf, Code Orange, Red Sun Rising, Anti-Flag, We Came As Romans, Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown, Like A Storm, Toothgrinder, Shaman's Harvest, Shim, Stitched Up Heart, Joyous Wolf
Weekend VIP and General Admission tickets are officially sold out, but a limited amount of single day tickets are currently available.
For more information, to pick up tickets, or stay up to date with changes, head on over to www.RockOnTheRange.com

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Obesity is increasing at an alarming rate and has become a global health issue, especially among kids, thanks to the growing consumption of fast food items with massive calories. It is more rampant in English-speaking countries, where it is turning out to be a threat to the economy. Obesity affects various aspects of life in numerous ways.
General Factors
Many factors are responsible for this obesity epidemic. Genetics, unhealthy eating habits, family lifestyle, sleeplessness, medical conditions, social or economic issues, certain medications, and lack of physical activity. One major cause of obesity is attributed to an unhealthy diet combined with a highly inactive lifestyle.
Consuming an excessive amount of food with monstrous calories and not expanding it can cause enormous weight gain in individuals.
Lifestyle Shift
People in this modern era are heavier than their forefathers. Striking differences can be found in the lifestyle of people today and people in ancient times. Convenience has made men lazier than ever before. There are cars for traveling, the internet for shopping, television for entertainment, and every other thing is easily accessible. Kids are also becoming victims of this health problem at a very young age.
They are fast food junkies and are more into video gaming than physical sports. As they grow older, they suffer from physical as well as psychological problems, including low self-esteem. Obesity in children is a major cause of concern in developed nations.
Life has become more complicated, challenging, and highly competitive. Individuals consumed in their hectic schedules, don't give a thought about how their health is being affected. The pressure to overdo others adds to the already stressed lifestyle.
This leads to worries and sleep deprivation. Individuals then look for other ways to cope with their troubles. Food seems to offer the best comfort in such situations. They turn to junk food, which is easily available at a cheaper cost. Fast foods are high in unhealthy substances such as salt, fat, oil, and sugar. Snacking on such calorie-rich food and a sedentary life cause overweight and obesity.
Health Risks of Obesity
Obesity not only makes you look less attractive but it is also associated with many health problems. The risk of premature death is two times higher for an individual who is overweight by 40% than a person with normal weight. Several serious health hazards are known to affect obese individuals.
These problems include stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, gout, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea, asthma, and others. The more overweight an individual is, the more likely he/she is to develop health issues. The risk of developing chronic diseases is high in obese people compared to normal people. Did you know that a massive 22 million Americans have sleep apnea? However, you'll be happy to know that surgery isn't the only option.
Obese people can benefit in many ways by losing weight. You need to adopt a healthy diet and a regular exercise regimen. Counting your calorie intake and making smart choices help in avoiding unnecessary weight gain.
Food items such as burgers, cheese fries, ice creams, chocolate shakes, tacos, chips, cookies, chicken, meat sandwiches, etc are no doubt very tempting but contain thousands of calories in just a single serving. Therefore, fast food with the most calories should be eliminated from the diet for good.


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Check out this video of Dr. Meghan Azad explaining why breastmilk matters.
New paper: mode of breastfeeding and asthma
New resaerch from our lab shows that longer breastfeeding is associated with a lower risk of possible or probable asthma by 3 years of age in the CHILD cohort. Direct breastfeeding (at the breast) appears to be more protective than indirect breastfeeding (expressed and bottled breast milk). To learn more about the study conducted on breastfeeding and asthma risk check out the interview with Dr. Meghan Azad on CTV, and the recently published article in The Journal of Pediatrics.
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Digital DJ Tips reader Bleks writes: "I'm by no means a 'scratch master', more a 'scratcher of disaster'! But anyway, I was following your free scratch training with my old controller… until, that is, a few days ago when I bought the wonderful Traktor Kontrol S8 with its nice touchstrip.
"So my question is, is it really possible to scratch using only the touchstrip? Does anyone have a video and/or tutorial to show how to do this (it'd be good for the motivation to see that it's possible!). Thanks!"
Digital DJ Tips says:
Well, of course on the face of it this is going to be nigh-on impossible. With the S8, frankly you're best off just plugging some turntables in and grabbing some Traktor timecode vinyl and doing it that way.
That said though, we're right in the middle of some scratch training right now on the site, and we also happen to have the Kontrol S8 (and the S5/D2) knocking around, so I twisted our scratch tutor Steve's arm a bit (a lot) and he finally agreed to have a go… on video. watch it here:
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Have you got a touchstrip controller, and ever tried to scratch on it? Or do you think it's just a crazy non-starter? Any tips to share? Please do so in the comments.


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Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Easy Breezy
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What a beautiful dress! I have never made, nor bought, a maxi dress, but I've always admired them. This one looks great!ReplyDelete
As always I would so steal that dress from you. I'm gonna call you my fabric buying twin.ReplyDeleteReplies
That fabric is gorgeous! Its been begging to be a long summer dress and you totally rock it. You looks so perfect with that pretty bow and the neck and the beautiful green grass.ReplyDelete
I was waiting for those stash pics, but its time best spent sewing.
This is beautiful. I have this pattern too but hesitated to make it up for some reason but this is inspirational. I love how you lined it and the details at the back are lovely.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous. I have this pattern too! Your version is inspirational.ReplyDelete
Lovely! I like the detail in the back so much, and your pattern choice in my opinion, is great for your fabric. Another winner!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 28, 2013 at 9:40 PM
Oooh, it might be SO EASY, but it's also SO PRETTY! This is a lovely dress pattern and looks very flattering on you.ReplyDelete
Ohhh, it's lovely, and looks like it'll be really versatile! I mean, it looks like a great dress for both dressing up to look glamorous, and also pretty enough to wear alone with flat sandals for day to day. Beautiful!ReplyDelete


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Setting up the custom post type
I recently found myself needing to create a custom post type as well as being able to split the displayed custom posts into two different blocks of pages. This article walks through that process.
In this article I'll explain how to set up an events custom post type in WordPress as well as adding meta boxes with the advanced custom fields plugin in order to record event dates and to mark the events as current/future or past. We'll also look at changing the custom post type output within the Genesis Framework (note: affiliate link). With this information we can then split the events into two separate blocks of pages – one for current/future events, and one for past events.
We'll start by setting up the custom post type. While you could use a plugin such as Custom Post Type UI we'll set the custom post type up manually in a plugin. I prefer this method over putting the code in
functions.php as the code is then not linked to the theme if you change your sites theme or redesign it, and you can also easily use it elsewhere. Having said that, any custom post types you create still need to be displayed by your theme, so more than likely you will need to do some modifications theme-side (in
functions.php or archive template pages) the more complex your output modifications will be.
We'll also be defining our plugin within a class. This helps with issues created by functions being thrown into the global namespace, and is considered a superior method of defining a plugin. Tom McFarlin has written an in-depth series about implementing object oriented programming in WordPress if you are interested in finding out more.
You create your custom post plugin by creating a file in your plugins folder, and adding a file (for example
custom-posts.php) for the plugin code.
Below is the complete plugin code:
<?php /*Plugin Name: KA Custom Posts *Description: This plugin registers the 'events' post type. *Text Domain: ka-custom-posts *Version: 1.0 *License: GNU General Public License v2 or later *License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html */ // Exit if accessed directly if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) { exit; } // Check to make sure a class called KA_Custom_Posts doesn't already exist in the global namespace. if ( ! class_exists( 'KA_Custom_Posts' ) ) { /** * Main Web_Developers_Portfolio class */ // Build the class class KA_Custom_Posts { // function triggered on initialisation public function __construct(){ add_action( 'init', array($this, 'ka_posts_register')); } function ka_posts_register() { // set up labels for Events $eventslabels = array( 'name' => 'Events', 'singular_name' => 'Event', 'menu_name' => 'Events', 'new_item' => 'New Event', 'all_items' => 'All Events', 'view_item' => 'View Event', 'search_items' => 'Search Events', 'add_new' => 'Add New Event', 'add_new_item' => 'Add New Event', 'edit_item' => 'Edit Event', 'not_found' => 'No Events Found', 'not_found_in_trash' => 'No Events found in Trash', 'ka-custom-posts', ); //register post type for Events register_post_type( 'event', array( 'labels' => $eventslabels, 'has_archive' => true, 'public' => true, 'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'excerpt', 'custom-fields', 'thumbnail','page-attributes', 'genesis-seo', 'genesis-cpt-archives-settings' ), 'taxonomies' => array( 'post_tag', 'category' ), 'exclude_from_search' => false, 'capability_type' => 'post', 'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'events' ), 'menu_position' => 20, ) ); } // end function ka_posts_register } // end class KA_Custom_Posts } // end beginning if statement // Check if the class has been defined if(class_exists('KA_Custom_Posts')) { // instantiate the plugin class $wp_plugin_template = new KA_Custom_Posts(); }
I won't break down the above code as there are many resources on developing custom post types online already. We will look in more detail at integrating the custom fields in order to get the custom event post type to do as we want, as well as modifying the output of the events posts through WordPress actions and filters.
I will however point out the following: if you are using the Genesis Framework you can enable Custom Post Type (CPT) archive settings if you want only a minor level of control over the output, including the ability to add a description to the custom post type page in the same way you would for a normal post (via the Archive Settings link in the WordPress admin dashboard, underneath your custom post type name). You would create an archive template for more complex changes, as described later.
Within your register_post_type() function (and you'll see this in the code above), you would include support for genesis_cpt_archives-settings, as well as setting several arguments to true:
'has_archive' => true
'public' => true
'show_ui' => true (defaults to true if not added)
'show_in_menu' => true (defaults to true if not added)
'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'genesis-seo', 'thumbnail','genesis-cpt-archives-settings' )
After creating and activating the plugin, you'll need to reconfigure permalinks in the WordPress dashboard. Make sure post name option is selected. You then create a custom link in your menu – set the address to your-domain.com/events/ (or whatever you have named your custom post type). The posts from that custom post type should then appear on that page, in the same style and format as a normal blog post.
Modifying the output of the custom post type
To modify the output on the front-end, you then create an archive page for the custom post type:
archive-events.php. There is no need to copy and paste all the content from
archive.php (located in lib/structure under the main genesis theme). Simply add in filters to modify actions to change what is shown on that template page. You can do the same for single archive pages on single-post_type.php. Below is our
archive-events.php file with a description of each filter or action (specific to the Genesis Framework) and what it is changing:
<?php /* * Archive Events Template - archive-events.php */ //This sets the custom post archive to display the fill content from each post. add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_content_archive','ka_cp_content_display' ); function ka_cp_content_display() { return 'full'; } //This returns the post thumbnail add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_content_archive_thumbnail','ka_cp_image_display' ); function ka_cp_image_display() { return 1; } //Set the image thumbnail size (options: thumbnail, medium, large, and featured-image if defined in your theme) add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_image_size','ka_cp_image_size' ); function ka_cp_image_size() { return 'featured-image'; } //Changes the image alignment. add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_image_alignment','ka_cp_image_alignment' ); function ka_cp_image_alignment() { return 'aligncenter'; } // Remove default post title (with link) remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header','genesis_do_post_title' ); // Function to display the post title without a link function ka_cp_archive_title() { echo '
' . get_the_title() . '
 '; } // Add the new post title without a link add_action( 'genesis_entry_header','ka_cp_archive_title' ); genesis();
We can also modify the output further by removing the entry meta associated with each post (the post author and date). This code needs to go in
functions.php, as:
//Remove entry meta for the 'events' post type function events_remove_entry_meta() { remove_post_type_support( 'events', 'genesis-entry-meta-before-content' ); remove_post_type_support( 'events', 'genesis-entry-meta-after-content' ); } add_action( 'init', 'events_remove_entry_meta', 12 );
In the follow-on article (coming soon) we'll look at integrating advanced custom fields to our custom post type.


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The Biden administration on Thursday ended the long-running federal agreement with the Bristol County sheriff's office to house civil immigration detainees, and assailed Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson's agency for its "unacceptable" treatment of the prisoners.
The announcement followed years of criticism by civil liberties groups and immigration advocates of Hodgson, an outspoken opponent of illegal immigration and of the Biden administration's handling of the surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border. One recent report accused Hodgson of using dogs to attack noncitizen detainees at his immigration facility.
"Allow me to state one foundational principle: we will not tolerate the mistreatment of individuals in civil immigration detention or substandard conditions of detention," Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas said in a memo ordering US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to cut ties with the sheriff's office and relocate the remaining seven immigration detainees in Bristol to other facilities.
The decision is part of a broad reassessment of immigration detention centers by the Biden administration and is the latest in a string of developments that have reduced ICE's footprint in Massachusetts. Franklin Sheriff Christopher Donelan said Thursday that he recently ended an agreement to keep immigration detainees in one of his facilities. After protests, the Suffolk sheriff's department ended its relationship with ICE in 2019.
In December, a group of taxpayers challenged the legality of an ICE agreement that allows the Plymouth sheriff's department to enforce immigration law to the state Supreme Judicial Court. ICE also has agreements with the Department of Correction and Barnstable sheriff's department that allow them to enforce immigration law.
In his memo, Mayorkas said the C. Carlos Carreiro Immigration Detention Center in Dartmouth is of "minimal operational significance to the agency."
"Moreover, there is ample evidence that the Detention Center's treatment of detained individuals and the conditions of detention are unacceptable," wrote Mayorkas, who also ordered ICE to discontinue its use of the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga. The decisions were first reported Thursday by The Washington Post.
In a statement issued Thursday, Hodgson said Mayorkas's decision puts citizens "at greater risk of being victimized by criminal illegal aliens." He plans to hold a news conference on Friday outside the Dartmouth facility.
"This is nothing but a political hit job orchestrated by [Secretary] Mayorkas, the Biden administration, and other anti-law enforcement groups to punish outspoken critics and advance their partisan agenda to score political points," said Hodgson, a fervent supporter of federal immigration enforcement.
A Republican who has served as sheriff since 1997, Hodgson has used his facilities to detain immigrants since 2000, when he entered into an agreement with ICE's predecessor, the US Immigration and Naturalization Service. During the Trump administration, he became a lightning rod for controversy. In 2017, he offered inmate labor to build a wall on the border with Mexico, the signature pledge of Donald Trump's first presidential campaign. In 2020, he served as honorary chairman of Trump's campaign efforts in Massachusetts.
Since Trump left office, Hodgson helped organize a letter from 275 sheriffs criticizing President Biden's handling of immigration on the border. He was interviewed last month on Fox News while he visited the border in Arizona.
"While [Secretary] Mayorkas and the Biden administration are turning their backs on the people of our great country, I will not," Hodgson said in his statement.
The Bristol County sheriff's office held two agreements with ICE: one that gave the agency authority to enforce federal immigration law and a second that let the federal government place civil immigration detainees in the sheriff's custody. Mayorkas terminated both.
That generated an outpouring of praise from members of the state's congressional delegation, civil rights lawyers, and activists who have spoken out against Hodgson's treatment of civil immigration detainees.
"Bristol is a notoriously inhumane facility and has been for many years," said Oren Sellstrom, litigation director at Lawyers for Civil Rights Boston. "The Biden administration has recognized that and taken decisive action to ensure that Sheriff Hodgson can no longer harm immigrants detained in his custody."
The number of immigration detainees at the Bristol facility has dropped dramatically since last March when a class action lawsuit was filed in federal court challenging unsafe conditions and overcrowding there during the coronavirus pandemic. There were 148 civil immigration detainees at the center when the lawsuit was filed, and this week there are just seven, said Sellstrom, a lawyer for the detainees.
In December, Attorney General Maura Healey issued a scathing report that found the sheriff committed civil rights violations during a jailhouse melee on May 1, 2020.
The report found that Hodgson's staff illegally unleashed dogs on detainees, used excessive force, and showed "callous disregard" for their well-being during the confrontation. Based on her findings, Healey urged the Trump administration to strip Hodgson's office of its immigration role. She made the same recommendation last month to Mayorkas, who was confirmed to lead the homeland security agency in February.
Hodgson's office has "a long history of abuse and neglect of immigration detainees," Healey said Thursday in a statement.
"Our extensive investigation and advocacy have made it clear that the Sheriff's Office is not willing to take any steps to protect the rights and safety of detainees, and that ICE must sever ties with BCSO," Healey said. "This decision under the Biden Administration ensures that the civil rights of immigrants are protected and not violated in a callous disregard for human life and dignity."
The Office of Inspector General at the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, launched an investigation into the incident last year. The office didn't respond to an e-mail on Thursday.
Hodgson has dismissed Healey's investigation as flawed and politically motivated.
In February, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey, plus eight members of the state's congressional delegation, asked Mayorkas to end ICE's agreements with Hodgson. On Thursday, they praised the decision to do so as "just and humane."
Healey's investigation "made clear that the BCSO should not be engaged in immigrant detention. Every person has the right to dignity, safety, and due process," the senators and House members said in a statement. "This decision affirms that right, and is a victory for the detainees, families, lawyers, and advocates who have pushed for more accountability and more humane treatment by the BCSO."
Elizabeth Matos, executive director of the nonprofit Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts, said what happened under Hodgson's leadership raises broader question about the federal government's reliance on local law enforcement to handle immigration detainees.
"It's really become more of an industry over the years and it's not because there's an increased threat brought by on immigrants," she said. "There is no need for immigrants to be separated from their families, especially for what is a civil issue."
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A long-time Democrat, short-time independent, and former Gore running mate, he seemed a little out of place in the hearty Republican crowd. But the Connecticut senator scored a big round of applause with his "country over party" line. Spoke at length, if very generally, about his friend and colleague John McCain. Still, he lost the audience in the hall at many intervals they chatted amongst themselves between tosses of red meat. Lieberman, more in sadness than in anger, argued unambiguously that Obama is not yet ready to be president, but confused the crowd by hailing Bill Clinton as a Democrat who really reached across party lines to get things done (grumbling and uncertain applause). Eventually, he brought the speech back to his party hopping rationale with talk of Iraq. But all in all it was an odd, disjointed speech from a man with perhaps too many parties to make a coherent argument. by Mark Halperin
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While reading Typee, I found myself marveling at the sheer density of his descriptions of food on the Marquesa islands. It's a romance of sorts, so I was expecting and not disappointed by the number of interludes with native girls and such; but food? Why so much attention to food?
Melville wrote Typee while living in Troy, New York (coincidentally the point of origin for the character/ caricature "Uncle Sam") in 1845 and because of its success he made enough money to finance a home across the Hudson near Pittsfield, Massachusetts he named "Arrowhead" in 1850. I found a letter written December 28, 1851 from Mrs. Sarah A. Morewood, his neighbor, that speaks to hungers of various kinds.
I hear that he is now so engaged in a new work as frequently to leave his room till quite dark in the evening when he for the first time in whole day partakes of solid food— he must therefore write under a state of morbid excitement which will soon injure his health
If he frequently starved himself to write, this might explain it somewhat. Or, it might be the memories of a sailor who had spent much time thinking about food while at sea. But the food references don't end there, as the letter continues:
I laughed at him somewhat and told him that the recluse life he was leading made his city friends think that he was slightly insane—he replied that long ago he came to the same conclusion himself but if he left home to look after Hungary the cause in hunger would suffer
I pondered a moment what he meant by "the cause in hunger" without any really satisfactory conclusions, but the punning is tantalizing, as is Mrs. Morewood's further observation:
—Mrs. Melville is looking better in health than I have ever yet seen her look— I am strangely and strongly attracted to her and her family now that I know them as well as I do.
Curiously, a book suggesting an affair between Melville and his neighbor has just been published. What interests me more is the reference to Hungary. Hershel Parker, Melville biographer extraordinaire, has a direct explanation for the passage in his appendix to a volume of Melville's poetry:
Late in 1851, when all good Whigs and Democrats were telling themselves they had set the slavery issue to rest for their generation by the Compromise of 1850, which included the Fugitive Slave Law, Americans gave Lajos Kossuth a triumphal tour of the country on behalf of the liberation of Hungary from Austria at a time when the United States should have been confronting its own political crisis, there was an element of hysterical displacement, a feel-good ineffectual celebration which required no national outlay of money and no commitment of American troops.
Melville would have read in the Literary World of December 6, 1851, the "Lines Addressed by Walter Savage Landor to Kossuth on his departure for America," an appeal to the north wind Boreas to spare him so that the United States might arm him for a return to his home: "Hungary! no more / Thy saddest loss [Kossuth] deplore; /Look to the star-crowned Genius of the West, /Sole guardian of the oppress. / Oh! that one and only nation dared to save /Kossuth the true and brave!"
Calling this particular passage a "grim pun," Parker explains it thusly:
His attitude, expressed in a grim pun as he was completing the short version of Pierre, was that if he left home to look after Hungary (that is, to join in the feting of Kossuth) the cause of supporting his family "in hunger would suffer" (.)
This makes as much sense as any other explanation really; though I must say the few pages I scanned from Parker's two volume biography of Melville contains a great deal of information about Sarah Morewood, which might merit further investigation. Zeroing in on the matter at hand though, Kossuth was revered around the world, including a statue in New York City.
I was intrigued to again find myself face to face with Austro-Hungarian history, as I was before when I was reading a lot about Adolph Loos. Stranger still though, was to find myself enthralled by stories about hats. Apparently, the statue as erected leaves out what Parker feels is the most salient characteristic of Kossuth:
After Kossuth's departure, Americans, already manifesting a short national memory, turned their attention elsewhere, although for a while people remembered Kossuth whenever they saw an ostrich plume on a man's hat. The fad he created outlived his cause.
Indeed, there is, as it turns out, a Kossuth hat. A bit of research groups it in a peculiar group of soft felt hats that culminate in the sort of rough-rider hats popularized by Teddy Roosevelt, a popular military headgear in both the U.S. and Australia.
Stephen Beszedits questions the connections between Hungary and the hat though, claiming that the Kossuth hat was the creation of a New York City haberdasher, John N. Genin. He claims that it's an adaptation of another fad, the Jenny Lind hat, modified with the addition of a feather. However, Kossuth's revolutionary credibility, and scientific justification, was quickly attached to the headgear, even if they felt the feather was silly.
Buchanan's Journal of Man a medical journal published in 1851 reported:
The Kossuth Hat.—The Common and Kossuth Hat are thus described in the Scientific American:
"The common silk hats have what are termed felt bodies. These are made of felted wool, are soft and pliable, and allow the gas that passes from the head to escape freely. This is the Kossuth hat. To make it a common silk hat, this felt body is saturated with lac varnish, and a covering of silk plush is ironed on to it, and smoothed to shine like a mirror. This hat, then, the common sober hat, is then hard as sheet iron and quite stiff; it greatly resembles a little pot, and in warm weather it most effectually prevents the evaporation of the pate. It causes headache, makes the hair to decay early in principle: oldish people of a sedate turn, although they would prefer the Kossuth hat, do not like to adopt it just yet, from a prudential fear of becoming conspicuous. This is our feeling exactly upon the subject—we like the black felt 'Kossuth hat,' barring the little feather, (that may do well for a military man,) and we hope to see it come into such general use as will warrant us in doffing the hard shelled silk head kettle. There was never more ungraceful head gear than that of the common hat."
I truly love the image of the conventional hat as a "hard shelled silk head kettle." It seems no wonder that both the Austrian laden and the Kossuth hat were more attractive to military men who didn't want to bake their pates. That aside, there is no question that Kossuth had an impact in New York and beyond, with or without his hat. I noted from the Wikipedia page on Lajos Kossuth that there was a street named after him in Utica, NY (about an hour from where I live) so I wanted to figure out why. Looking at a history of Utica from 1900, I found this:
In this year, (1851) the great singer, Jenny Lind, visited Utica and gave a concert in the Bleecker Street Baptist Church.
The following year, Louis Kossuth, the illustrious Hungarian patriot, was received by a committee of citizens (June 1, 1852), and a public meeting was held at the Museum, which stood on Genesee Street between Elizabeth and Bleecker.
There yet remain in Utica a few of the notes, "good for one dollar each, if presented one year after the attainment of Independence by Hungary," mementos of the patriot fund raised during this American visit.
The location in Utica now looks like this, according to Google:
I've driven through here many times. The historian, writing in 1900, is not nearly so dismissive of the Hungarian patriot as Parker, Melville's biographer. Parker claims that that Kossuth was soon forgotten, as the poets moved on to consider the problems of the unification of Italy. Hungary, like the Greek battle for independence that so obsessed Byron, faded from the cultural consciousness.
In the shower this morning, I suddenly thought to myself that the flood of Italian immigrants to America would have been just a bit after this; I wondered about the lyric in Yankee Doodle about "stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" might have been somehow related. I was wrong, as Wikipedia points out that a Macaroni is a completely different sort of head gear from a much earlier time.


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TXU Energy is joining forces with Texas community organizations to promote several ways that customers can "Beat the Heat" this summer. Through this statewide summer initiative, TXU Energy will educate consumers on energy conservation, heat safety, bill-payment assistance, and summer protections regarding disconnects, deposit waivers and cancellation fees.
"Research shows that many customers, especially the elderly, are most likely to be affected by the sweltering heat - especially here in Texas," said Kelli Rod, Director of Community Relations for TXU Energy. "We are committed to supporting the health and well-being of our customers during the blistering summer months. Through our efforts to educate customers and demonstrate ways to beat the heat, we are certain customers can save money and stay safe."
TXU Energy community relations managers will host workshops in various cities to educate consumers on simple, low-cost ways to conserve energy inside their homes and promote heat safety. In total, TXU Energy will distribute approximately 30,000 compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) to consumers through community organizations, which will have environmental benefits equivalent to preventing nearly 11,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions over the lifespan of the light bulbs.
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The Biggest List of Cuisenaire
and Gattegno Resources
I've assembled the biggest of list of resources on Caleb Gattegno, Cuisenaire Rods and how to teach math the way we do. I keep adding to this list. So come back often. Or you can subscribe so you don't lose out on anything good.
Where To Start
Gattegno Mathematics Textbook 1 by Caleb Gattegno
This is the first textbook. It seems small, but there is enough material for a couple years of work in pre-k through first grade. Even if you are starting with an older child, I would start with the algebra first portion. This book covers: Introduction to rods; Introduction to the Language of Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Fractions as Operators, and Symbols; Numbers 1-10; Numbers 1-20.
Handbook of Activities by Guy Gattegno and Martin Hoffman
This was gifted to us from the Bronx Charter School for Better Learning. We have their permission to distribute it here. This book is out of print. I've never seen a copy of it anywhere. This is a treasure chest of material!
Now Johnny Can Do Arithmetic by Caleb Gattegno
This is an easy introduction to the Cuisenaire-Gattegno method for teaching math. It was written for parents, though many teachers have enjoyed this book as well.
Working with Rods and Why by Ian Bensen and Jim Thorpe
This book reexamines Gattegno's work, including the subordination of teaching to learning, and it's application in 21st Century classrooms. It contains two essays written by teachers who are implementing Algebra before Arithmetic in their classroom and their experience with it. Ian explores the functional relationships between patterns of Cuiseanire Rods. Available free from ATM.
Cuisenaire Rods Early Years to Adult by Helen Williams, Mike Ollerton and Simon Gregg
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I wrote a review on my old blog where I joked about being disappointed. I was a little disappointed because I wanted much more from these authors. But, there is plenty here to get you started working with students of any age - including adults. Absolutely worth it.
Caroline Ainsworth, a primary mathematics teacher, worked with the Stanford Tizard network from 2007-9. Here she talks to Pete Griffin, Regional Coordinator for the UK National Centre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics about the lessons she learnt in the project from studying the works of Caleb Gattegno and Madelaine GoutardYou can follow Caroline at Bursted Wood Math on Twitter @BurstedWood
Math Twitter Blog-O-Sphere -- Cuisenaire Rods
General Recommendations for Books, Cuisenaire Activities, and Rods
The Cuisenaire Company UK
Cuisenaire Company UK is the original and exclusive producers and distributors of the Cuisenaire® Rods in the UK since 1954, and the publishers of the books for teachers and students by Dr Caleb Gattegno and Madeleine Goutard. They have a lot of resources including books and video. They sell the highest quality set of Cuisenaire Rods available.
Educational Solutions
Dr. Caleb Gattegno founded Educational Solutions in 1968 in New York City. They publish almost all Gattegno related books including the math and language texts. The link to ISSUU below is books uploaded by Educational Solutions.
Educational Solutions Youtube Channel
The Youtube channel has a small selection of math and language videos. There is also vintage footage of Gattegno teaching a classroom of 1st graders and Dr. Powell, from Rutgers University, teaching math to teachers in Haiti.
The Association of Teachers of Mathematics
The Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM) was established in 1952 by a group of enthusiastic UK teachers; led by Caleb Gattegno, to encourage the teaching and learning of mathematics by relating more closely to the needs of the learner. Good books from the ATM: The KS1 Starter Collection and Questions and Prompts for Mathematical Thinking,
Hand2Mind owns the rights to Cuisenaire in the United States - search Cuisenaire. They also publish Cuisenaire Rod Activity books. Many of their books are by Patricia Davidson. I heartily recommend the Resource Book and Spatial Reasoning Books. Many of these books can be purchased used on eBay and Amazon for a substantial savings. Don't pay attention to the covers, the content is exactly the same.
Play Discover Learn 24/7
Play Discover Learn was created by Lacy Coker who is responsible for creating the homework in our math academy. She has created the kind of open ended math activities that Dr. Gattegno hand in mind when rethinking math education.
ISSUU is a great site where publishers have posted books for you to read free. Educational Solutions Worldwide, the copyright holder of most of Gattegno's work, has placed all of their material online to read free. You can look through the entire curriculum before you purchase it.
Books By Madeliene Goutard
Madeleine Goutard worked closely with Gattegno and was a teacher trainer. The following works contain similar material. If I had to get only one it would be Mathematics and Children. I have found that Mathematics and Children to be essential to my understanding of how to teach in general. She addresses many problems that are likely to arise when teaching.
Mathematics and Children
Newly reprinted, this book can be purchased from The Cuisenaire Company UK. If I had to pick just one Goutard's books, it would be this one. It happens to be in print so that helps.
Experiences with Numbers in Color
Goutard presents quite a few situations which are unique to this book. Unfortunately, it very difficult to find anymore and when you do find it, it's insanely expensive. If you want to be a serious teacher of mathematics and can find this for less than $50 grab it. You won't be sorry.
Talks for Primary School Teachers
This isn't really a book but a booklet. It seems as though this is Goutard's first attempt to take what can be utterly frustrating in Gattegno's work and put it into some usable form. I feel like they were sure it wouldn't take much to make it clear, but alas, that's not been my experience. There are some real gems in this book, but good luck finding it for under $100.
Gattegno Charts
These charts are referenced in Gattegno's books. The Wall Chart and Cardboard material are listed in the textbooks.
The Wall Chart and Cardboard Materials
The wall chart is hard to find and while it shows up in Gattegno's books, I haven't found it necessary. I much prefer the representation of number found in Prime Climb as it more closely matches the tower structure. I made a version of the cards color coded to Cuisenaire Rods.
Base Ten Block and Gattegno Related Curricula Providers
Not all of these are exclusively related to Gattegno. Instead, I've included all base ten block curriculum providers that we are aware of. Anyone with a knowledge of Gattego should be able to use these as they are all Gattegno friendly. Not all of these are complete curriculum. Some will take students only to a certain grade. With all of these, the focus is on number sense rather than on symbols sense.
Miquon Math
Miquon was the first attempt to take Gattegno's work and put it into a curriculum for regular schools. The biggest difference is the focus on number sense vs symbol sense. Miquon starts out with numbers whereas Gattegno starts with algebra/symbols. The curriculum goes up to 3rd grade but covers concepts way above what would be found in a standard 3rd grade math curriculum.
Mortensen More than Math
Mortensen More Than Math is a full curriculum up to high school that uses delineated rods. Many students could work through the curriculum by themselves.
Math for Love
Math for Love puts out a supplement curriculum rather than a full curriculum. However, I've included them because they use Cuisenaire Rods and also because creator Dan Finkel uses many of Gattegno's ideas when creating lesson plans. While the primary focus is number sense, there is a lot of emphasis on understanding the symbols as well.
Algebra for Breakfast
Bob Hazen has an online courses for student's grades 3 -6 that are an introduction to algebra. The courses cover some pretty advanced algebra concepts using Mortensen Rods. You'd be surprised how easy it is for most children. If your kids have been using Math-U-See and have become bored by it, Bob's courses may be a good supplement.
Math-U-See is to Mortensen Math what Miquon is to Gattegno. Math-U-See took Jerry Mortensen's work and made it more friendly for public schools and homeschoolings parents. It is a full curriculum.
This is the only program that I don't know much about. It is an early elementary curriculum and is mentioned in books written by Gattegno's collegues. I don't know anyone who has used it. The focus appears to be on number sense rather than on symbols sense.
Best of the Blog-o-Sphere
This list is growing. Check back often.
This blog list is from folks I know, for sure, are using both Cuisenaire Rods AND Gattegno has informed the way that they teach.
This blog list is folks who use Cuisenaire Rods to teach math. Gattegno may or may not influence the way that they teach.


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The recent spiral of violence and bloodshed in the Kashmir valley has a dark dimension beyond the linear and hyphenated Indo-Pak rivalry, it is also symptomatic of the intra-Pakistani slugfest between the troika of institutions that governs and dominates the Pakistani narrative i.e. firstly the all-powerful Pakistani Military, secondly the struggling and defamed political classes and lastly, the clergy and their violent accoutrements and manifestations.
The powers in Pakistan have yo-yoed between these three power axis from time-to-time, with constantly evolving and changing perceptions about each of these three institutions over time. Clearly, Pervez Musharraf's Military take-over via the coup against Nawaz Sharif's civilian Government was broadly welcomed in 1999, only to see the nation heave a collective sigh of relief with the restoration of participative democracy with the return of political parties via the PPP government in 2008.
The role and relevance of the religio-clergy had peaked during the President Zia-ul-Haq regime, only to see a strong revival with the resurgence of the global Pan-Islamic wave in the 21stcentury – Laal Masjid crisis, sectarianism and societal violence, regression and curbs of the recent times are reflective of the appeal of puritanical strains, amidst a certain section of the Pakistani society.
Interestingly, while a civilian dispensation in the form of the PML-N government is ostensibly in place and power in Islamabad, the real power-strings are clearly in the hands of the Pakistani Military Generals in Rawalpindi. From foreign policy (read, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Iran etc.) the consent of General Raheel Sharif is mandatory (the Uffa retraction by the politicos owes its genesis to a reigning-in by the Generals), to matters of internal security (Retired Lt General Janjua has been appointed the National Security Adviser), to infrastructure management e.g. China Pakistan Economic Corridor, CPEC (The army has already created a special division to provide security cover to CPEC-related projects) to even defining the national budgetary allocations, the Pakistani Military has a way of its own. This leaves the political classes with very little leeway and play to govern the nation as per their agendas – adding to the ease of the increasing Military sway is the authoritative and the near messianicimage of the Pakistani Defence Forces as the sole institution of proven probity, integrity and patriotism, unlike the defamed and corruption-tainted image of civilian politicians across the political parties who are reeling under the multiple shames of 'Panamagate' and other corruption attributions.
While for now the Military has the upper hand and is fearlessly wielding its influence, it wasn't always like that. The Hamoodur Rahman Commission set up by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after the Bangladesh debacle had sought to purge and control the Military leadership with accusations of gross ineptness, so as to establish the supremacy of the civilian rule. The commission findings were personally castigating about the-then, Military leadership, as was echoing in the wordings of the report, "….That allegations of personal immorality, drunkenness and indulgence in corrupt practices against General Yahya Khan, General Abdul Hamid Khan and Maj. Gen. Khuda Dad Khan be properly investigated as there is prima facie evidence to show that their moral degeneration resulted in indecision, cowardice and professional incompetence. In the light of the result of this inquiry suitable charges may be added against these Officers, during the trials we have already recommended earlier".
Now, there are essentially three 'hooks' that control the destiny and perception of who is in control of Pakistan – and these strategic 'hooks' need to be appropriated and championed by any one of these troika of power centers in Pakistan. These three 'hooks' or cause célèbre are the "Internal Control" (i.e. safety of constituents), "Responsible future levers" (i.e. corruption free control over civic infrastructure and socio-economic delivery mechanism) and lastly "Kashmir".
With the political classes having thrown-in the towel on controlling the growing violence in the streets and cities – it is clearly the Military establishment that is seen to be making its definitive mark in controlling the restive North-Western areas of the Af-Pak region with Operation Zarb-e-Azb like drives and in other places like Baluchistan and Karachi. Secondly, even the civic projects are seen to be safer in the arms of the Military establishment vis-à-vis the political classes as the politicos are seen to be incorrigibly and endemically, corrupt and vile. With both "Internal Control" and "Responsible future levers" safely ensconced with the Military establishment, suddenly the traditional relevance and role for the political classes is rightfully questioned. This leaves only the last lever of relevance i.e. "Kashmir" to be ratcheted as a means of desperate survival by the political classes (both ruling and opposition).
This survival-instinct of the Pakistani political classes'had led them to be willing props in the audio-visual hardening of their Kashmir spiel with duplicitous positions getting tabled from the earlier stands of relative pacifism on Kashmir – typically, the political classes are less hawkish compared to the Pakistani Military which has its own historical axe to grind with India.
However, now this fight for institutional relevance has forced the Pakistani political classes to adopt hitherto, unseen and unheard levels of combativeness and provocation. From observing July 19 as the "Black Day" over Kashmir, to a stage where the Pakistani High Commissioner to India, Abdul Basit dedicated the Pakistani Independence Day to Kashmir's "Azaadi", the recent incitements and vitriol have been relentless, intense and unprecedented. While it presumably feeds the popular and public imagination in Pakistan over 'decisive' and 'strong' stands against the traditional foe India, it does very little to usher in the prospects of peace and harmony in the region. This shortsightedness and tactical approach is not new to Pakistan – already it is reeling under the self-created curse of violence created by its erstwhile designated "Strategic Assets", who are now biting the hand that fed them, created them and legitimized their role, initially.
However, long-termism is not a known Pakistani virtue or strength and this recent intra-fighting between the Military institution versus the Civil-Political institution has only upped the ante in Kashmir (the third Pakistani institution of the clergy is on the temporary back foot and is jointly sought to be curbed by both the Military and the politicos).
This institutional turf war in Pakistan is resulting in the unnecessary spilling of Indian blood in Kashmir. With an unsettled and undeclared war for relevance and control in Pakistan afoot, it is the insane and dangerous stakes that are getting deployed by the Pakistanis that will come back to haunt them as events like the recent Quetta blast showed – clearly, sowing, playing and instigating terror is not a long term strategy, eventually the Frankenstein monster will start consuming its progenitor. However, for us the collateral damage of Pakistan's onward journey to self-combustion has deadly impact and we pay for their regressive outlook and short-termism.
Courtesy: http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/pakistans-institutional-turf-wars/


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Leaked copy of "Open to better" TV ad campaign suggests Enbridge brand has lost credibility with British Columbians.
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – Oct. 1, 2013 – The Coastal First Nations have released a leaked copy of Enbridge's latest ad campaign for the Northern Gateway Pipeline, titled "Open to better," and they have produced their own ad, inspired by the leaked Enbridge ad scripts: http://youtu.be/fLb0qSaPMbI
The ad materials, which were provided by Greenpeace, show the company's strategic shift away from using the Enbridge name, in favour of Executive Vice President Janet Holder – the new "face" of the pipeline.
The scripts for three television ads, titled, "Better by Nature," "Janet and the Orca" and "Her Home," which are scheduled to begin running October 7, never mention the company by name, instead repeating the campaign's tagline, "open to better." In fact the word "better" appears 14 times in the script for one of the commercials.
"This ad campaign shows just how far Enbridge has fallen in terms of public credibility in BC," says Art Sterritt, Executive Director of the Coastal First Nations. "To not even mention their own name seems desperate and I don't think Ms. Holder will do any better. 'Open to better'? British Columbians know better."
Inspired by one of the leaked scripts, "Janet and the Orca," the Coastal First Nations have produced their own ad, titled, "Koda and the Orca." It's about a five-year old First Nations girl who actually has a relationship with whales, and whose family depends on a clean ocean for food.
"It's ironic that Enbridge's own ad campaign has provided one of the most powerful stories we could ever tell about why their pipeline and oil tanker project is bad for British Columbia," says Sterritt. "This campaign is Enbridge's last kick at the can, and right now, it's not getting off to a very good start."
The campaign leak comes at a time when the Federal government is in British Columbia, trying to woo First Nations leaders into supporting projects like the Northern Gateway pipeline. Stephen Harper is expected to make a final decision on the pipeline in December.
Copies of the ad materials are available for reporters.


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Financial Management Strategy: Retain Assets in Kind
A possible problem encountered by value chain development projects attempting to funnel assistance to smallholders via development cooperatives is the cooperative business model . This maybe incompatible with a well rationalized Financial Management Strategy of the intended beneficiaries. The basic financial strategy would be to retain non-perishable agricultural assets such as maize, rice, bean, groundnuts or soybeans in kind as long as possible, and only slowly monetize the commodities as needed to meet immediate cash requirements. This is in contrast to the typical cooperative business model of having the members consign their produce to the cooperative shortly after harvest so the cooperative can bulk the produce into the necessary volume for convenient transporting to command a volume bonus. It is a model that takes managerial control of the commodities away from the members and normally compensates them some three or more weeks after accepting the goods on consignment.
Retaining non-perishable agricultural assets in-kind allows farmers to benefit from the normal seasonal price increases with time after harvest which would be co-mingled with any inflationary pressure on the national currency that impacts on the purchase of goods, particularly those being imported. It could also be a deliberate financial strategy to minimize the amount of cash around the house and the temptation that ready cash can have on both immediate and extended family members. If non-perishable assets are held in kind instead of monetized and the cash placed in the proverbial "cookie jar" or "under the mattress", it would reduce the temptation for a husband to pinch some and head to the neighborhood bar for some local refreshment and perhaps some illicit companionship, or prevent a teenage daughter from pinching a little to get her hair braided, etc. to appease the young man down the street, she has her eye on. Perhaps this should be referred to as the proverbial financial management strategy with the appropriate proverb being "Lead me not into temptation".
The identifying case comes from Malawi in which an informal interview with the proprietress of a CNFA sponsored agro-dealer, that was involved in both selling agro-inputs and purchasing commodities, indicated that most of her commodity purchases were coming from women, but they were only selling small amounts at a time. This could be in the range of 10 to 15 kg of instead of a full 50 kg bag. Basically, they were marketing what they could conveniently carry in a basket on their head. Further discussion indicated the commodity procurement season seems highly prolonged for a country with a single rainy season that allowed the production of only one full season crop per year. The procurement begins in May, shortly after the earliest harvest and continues all the way to January. With only a single crop and the southern tropics rains going from October to March, the expectation would be that the main harvest for maize, beans, groundnuts and soybeans would begin in May and extend no further than early July. Even allowing for manual shelling of maize and groundnuts, and manual threshing of beans and soybean by beating with a stick, plus sun drying, winnowing, and bagging into the standard 50 kg bags; the entire harvest should be available for marketing no later than late August. Thus, why does the procurement period extent for an additional four months to January? The best explanation is that farmers and their spouse are deliberatly holding their crops off the market for any of the reasons mentioned above, or perhaps other reasons.
There appears to be a distinct gender difference in selling of commodities. Men would more likely bring in whole 50 kg bags for sale. Perhaps this was to cover large cash needs like production loan repayments or school fees, etc. Women were more inclined to market small quantities in the order of 10 to 15 kg. This would imply they are selling commodities to meet immediate cash needs on a daily or weekly basis. The impression is that women would leave home for the market with 10 to 15 kg of grain on their heads, stop by the one of perhaps 10 commodity dealers in town, sell their grain, proceed to purchase what they needed for their family, and return home with about as little cash as when they left in the morning. If necessary they could make multiple trips to the grain dealer.
While this was identified with one agro-dealer, it was confirmed with other agro-dealers in Malawi, both the small dealers working with CNFA's agro-dealer program and large dealers representing the large grain processors. It was also observed in other countries such as Kenya when a farmer marketed 10 kg of soybeans some three months after harvest.
Given the limited banks in rural areas, some general lack of trust in banks, and the security risks of having cash around the house for months, either in the cookie jar or under the mattress, where there could be internal family pressure as mentioned above, outright theft from within the community, or leveraged gifting to relatives in need who know ready cash is available, the overall financial strategy could be a rather astute financial management decision, that needs to be fully appreciated and respected by those attempting to assist them. The beneficiaries desire to minimize cash on-hand and retaining control of their commodities could be a reason why most development projects only attract a small minority of the Potential Beneficiaries and even then experience considerable side selling.
The implications are that the farmers would rather assume responsibility and accept the post harvest losses from home storage, in which stored bags of grain can occupy up to half a home as shown in the figure from Tanzania, than consign the bags to a cooperative and lose control of their assets. Such post harvest losses could include losses from mold, moisture, insects, rats, etc. Assuming no moisture problems, typically grains like maize, rice and soybeans can be held for up to three months or three generations of grain weevils before the infestation become sufficiently noticeable to down grade the grain's value. Even then for reasonably small quantities typical of what a smallholder would be retaining in their homes, it is possible to chase the weevils away by laying one or two bags of the grain out in winnowing baskets for a day or so, allow the sun to warm the grain. This will make the weevils sufficiently uncomfortable they will run under the basket into the cool shade so the grain can be rebagged largely weevil free. This may be why it is common in smallholder communities to see grain being dried in the sun long after the harvest and initial drying to safe storage moisture content. Rats are still going to consume their share and need to be controlled.
The implication for development efforts intent on benefiting smallholder producers is that the whole strategy largely contradicts many development project cooperative business models expecting smallholders to consign produce to the cooperative shortly after harvest for bulking into a large enough volume to get a volume bonus on the sale, but with three or more weeks delay before the growers receive their payments. This could leave the members with substantial sums of cash to protect for months to come and no prospects to benefit from the anticipated rise in price adjustment for inflation with time after harvest. This would be particularly true for commodity consigned, bulked, and marketed shortly after harvest and prior to when seasonal price adjustments begin to take effect. The expected increase returns from bulking through the cooperative may actually be realized or exceeded by the farmers retaining their grain just by the normal price increases with time after harvest. The immediate cash payments would also be considerably more convenient, leaving the farmers with the sense of control over their produce, and avoid the overhead costs of the cooperative, that may exceed the bulking benefits. This is something worth investigating.
The continuous trickling in of commodities for sale would also emphasize the need for immediate cash sales since, if farmers or their spouses are selling their produce en route to the market to purchase needed household goods, they need immediate cash and delayed payment from a consignment sale is unacceptable even it provides a higher gross return. Instead farm families prefer to accept the possible 20% Discount for the immediate cash. In addition, if they are marketing small amounts over a prolonged period, then the cooperative will need to remain open and fully staffed for the entire extended commodity purchasing season, even when goods are only trickling in. This could substantially increase the cooperative's overhead operating expenses, and reduce any envisioned Competitive Advantage that most likely is already marginalized. If the cooperatives are concentrating on a single commodity as is common when part of a value chain promotion, and not have the operating costs prorated over most of the commodities produced in the area as the competing private traders most likely are doing, the overhead costs per ton of commodity would again be increased, perhaps drastically. That in turn could easily provide the private dealers ample opportunity to provide a financially higher return to the farmers than marketing through the cooperative, in addition to the convenience of immediate cash. That is if the cooperatives accurately factor in the sustainable operational overhead costs that would have to be charged members for the cooperative to continue operating once any donor funded NGO facilitation and subsidies are withdrawn. This also has to be accurately and transparently reported to avoid the more typical Deceptive Reporting that overlooks most, if not all, the overhead costs and often attributes the overhead costs as a direct financial benefit to the producers. Something they never will actually receive.
Also, any research effort looking at the economics of smallholders needs to include any commodities that can be easily monetized and likely will be shortly, be it either crop or animal assets, and not limit the analysis to the ready cash.


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20% of Feds Say Their Agency Still Relies on Paper Records
And many federal employees also doubt the effectiveness of their chief data officers.
A recent survey of federal employees shows government agencies still have a long way to go in improving their data management systems, and they face a number of obstacles including a dependency on paper.
A majority of respondents were confident in their ability to handle agency records but indicated room for improvement in areas like document digitization. More than one-third said their agency maintains a mixture of digital and paper archives, and almost 20 percent said their agency still relies primarily on paper records.
Only 28 percent of respondents said their agency has implemented a comprehensive data governance plan, and nearly 40 percent doubt their chief data officer's effectiveness.
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Survey respondents believe many data management processes are constructed more tactically than efficiently, and once implemented, they are often difficult to change. They cited budget constraints and outdated data infrastructure as the two biggest barriers to improving agencies' existing frameworks.
The survey was conducted by the Government Business Council and underwritten by Veritas. GBC and Nextgov are both part of Government Executive Media Group. Respondents include 452 randomly selected federal employees, 65 percent of whom were at GS-12 level or above. At least 34 different defense and civilian agencies were represented in the survey.
Eight years ago, the Office of Management and Budget urged the government to increase its transparency, collaboration and participation, a mission that requires improving information management. Today, many federal employees have yet to see their organizations heed that call. Almost half the respondents were unsure how data center and IT modernization ranks among their agency's priorities, and about the same number didn't know how their organizations use big data analytics at all.


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When you're the best at something, you can charge a premium. Just look at Apple with the iPhone. The same rings true for Sony with its 4K TVs. Take the 70-inch X830F, for example. It retails for $2,000, versus the $1,200 rival LG asks for its competitor. But that's when it's not on sale — right now, Walmart has that exact model for $1,100.
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Sony invested an awful lot of time and effort into its 4K HDR Processor X1 and 4K X-Reality Pro Engine, which work together to upscale HD and Full HD content into a higher 4K Ultra HD revolution like no other 4K TV on the market, churning out crisp, clear visuals that show no signs of remastering taking place in the background.
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Good morning. Both the House and Senate are in session today, where the focus is on government funding. Here's what's happening on this Thursday morning:
Last call: Tomorrow marks the deadline for young professionals and volunteers to apply to "crash" the 2018 CUNA Governmental Affairs Conference – Cooperative Trust
Clarence Community & Schools FCU and CORE FCU will receive national recognition during the 2018 CUNA Governmental Affairs Conference – The Point
The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions will host a three-part CDFI Certification and Grant Webinar Series, which will cover successful community development business planning and changes to the CDFI Fund – The Point
The Senate banking committee voted 16-7 to pass the bipartisan Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, which the New York Credit Union Association and CUNA support – CUNA
More than 40 Senate Democrats sign a letter urging the president to nominate a full-time CFPB director – CU Times
More than a dozen bipartisan members of Congress have written to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission asking for clarifications on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act – CUToday
There are no New Yorkers on the conference committee that will write the compromise tax reform bill in Congress – Buffalo News
A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled that two taxi medallion owners can't sue the Taxi & Limousine Commission for failing to stabilize the medallion market – Daily News
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There are also changes in the hands, the arms, the pelvis. The metacarpal bone look thicker, they have a narrow base. The carpal bones look also hypoplastic, they are smaller, the iliac wings look more rounded, this is not normal. Then the shape of the ulnais looks completely abnormal, very irregular and much shorter than a normal ulna. There are also hypoplastic epiphyses. All of this is related to that deposition of those byproducts within the skeletal system.
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