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In the second year, it gets to be about eight feet tall. It sounds like it tastes like rye. The straw is very useful and they eat bread made from the grain daily.
I asked about getting the seed.
It sounds like he gets lots of grief if he tries to sell seed.
However, if you visit his farm, you are welcome to harvest whatever you see. And it is probably illegal to transport that seed outside of the country.
Secale montanum.
Here is a bit of info: http://www.psrseed.com/perennialgrains.html
Paul, do you have a scientific name for it?
Bloom where you are planted.
It was sold to him as something for feeding wild game.
Wolf and Beth are coming back to American in the next year, and I will ask if he can track down this particular rye seed. I'm big on grain so that was already on my radar. Maybe he can go to Sepps place to get it, not sure how hard that would be. I'm planning a trip to Austria in the future as well. He gets seed through... I got some from them last go round.
I'll keep you in mind Paul.
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Or just an Einkorn -long straw wheat?
The John Innes centre maintains a collection of 1000's of cereals.
They are available for 'research' purposes in m2 quantities.
"Intermediate wheatgrass is a sod-forming, cool-season, perennial grass native to central Europe, the Balkans and Asia Minor. It was introduced into the United States from the Maikop region of Russian in 1932."
There is quite a lot of information online, esp. from agricultural college studies.
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(a local kind from russia)"
Susan Monroe wrote:
There is a perennial rye grain, so I wonder if that is what it is --
Secale montanum.
Here is a bit of info: http://www.psrseed.com/perennialgrains.html
Paul, do you have a scientific name for it?
in rereading the info about Mountaineer Perennial Rye that sue posted, it says "Secale montanum or wild rye is now transformed into a grain plant similar to Secale cereale.", which sounds like it's very similar to sepp's, as what paulw just posted.
we planted 75 plus Mountaineer Perennial Rye plants, we started in March last year in the greenhouse in flats, in April or beginning of May. we also planted Ezeer Perennial Wheat. the wheat produced an abundance of grain. the rye produced empty seed pods. ( i just found out that you're supposed to plant this perennial rye in July or August.)
this year, the second year, out of the 75 plus plants i planted, only 6 or 7 of the wheat returned, Ezeer perennial wheat coming back this spring...looked very different from first year...
and all of 75 plus rye plants returned....
the rye put on a grand show and i started harvesting when the heads became quite dry....
it sort of looks like the grain in sepp's photos in his book, i think. over ten feet tall. we had a small amount of Ergot too this year, from the rain we had early in the season i think. still studying these perennial grains.
Brenda Groth wrote:
yeah even the DNR plant fields and fields of perennial rye in the fields around our area to try to keep the deer from starving in the winter time..i plan to put some in an area this year that was razed last year due to some construction..it is beautiful..a pale blue green
brenda, i am curious as to what variety of perennial rye they are using?
perennial rye is a common thing in our area..i can go harvest it in the wild as the DNR plants rye fields for the deer and other wildlife..but i want it on our own property..also would like to try growing some other grains..and also harvest some of the wild plants that can be used for grain that grow around here..like cattails..etc..that grow wild on our property.
would be nice if we actually could get a start of his seed here in the us..but if not..i really would like to begin a grain harvest program on our property..grains is one of the few things i do not grow here at the moment.
Bloom where you are planted.
so what the DNR are planting must be a 'wild' perennial rye?
cattails grow naturally here. we haven't tried all the parts yest, but we enjoy the cucumber flavor of the early stems.
Have you eaten any of the grain yet? I'm guessing that the chickens think it is great stuff?
they ran out and are supposed to have more of it this coming season. if they don't, i have some i can share with you from this year's crop.
i haven't cleaned it yet, so neither we, nor the critters have tasted it. the kernals are nice and plump.
i forgot to mention before that as well as using the rye for flour and baking, it is also great for sprouting.
Bloom where you are planted.
i did plant it in spring, but found out that was wrong. it is supposed to be planted in July or August. the breeder, Tim Peters told me he was very surprized when i had seed heads form when planting that early. they formed, but there was no seed in them!
Any chance I could get some seed from you as well? (I'll pm my address to you, if that is a possibility).
brenda, pm me your mailing address if you still want some.
Seed the Mind, Harvest Ideas.
There is a group of farmers in the Corvallis area, notably Harry McCormack of Sunbow Farm and some of his local friends, who are working to solve this poser. They are working with various cereal grains and beans. So far they have had some success with triticale, which is a cross of wheat and rye. I'll keep you posted.
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Ken Peavey wrote:
I'm looking for a way to thresh grains, red wheat in particular. Anyone have a device or link?
here's some ideas from Tim Peters...
Cleaning Wheat
Writen by Tim Peters
Here are my suggestions for those of you who are growing grain but have no combine or small thresher per se.
For a thresher you can use/do the following with good relative efficiency.
1. several large tarps. (i use the cheap plastic ones).
2. A large box fan. 3. A Leaf rake. 4. A 2x2 up to 3x3 square of hardware cloth (screen) of the right size, mounted on a wood frame, to let the seed thru quickly but keep back most/all the bigger untreshed head/pieces.
5. A good wheelbarrow. 6. Some 5 gal. buckets. 7. A rubber tired vehicle, like a car or truck. 8. A slab of cement, like a driveway or garage floor.
Harvest by hand, using your arm to bunch and one hand to grasp the head bunch (don't gather all that stalk material), and the other hand holding the rose/hand pruner/clipper to massively cut off the heads (below the hand that is grasping them just below the head).
Then drop them into your 35 gal plastic garbage can which you are dragging long, ...and repeat.
Dump heads on a tarp that is placed on the slab of cement (or very smooth ground). Perhaps put another tarp over the top. Drive your vehicle wheel over the pile, back and forth across the pile. Pull off tarp. Rake off onto top tarp the untreshed heads. Lift tarp sides to pile remaining, pour into bucket, set box fan on wheelbarrow handles, turn on high, stand on side and pour grain threshings into barrow in front of fan (on the barrow angled front side to create a deflected non damaging fall for seed), repeat, use a dustpan and dust broom to get back into bucket. put sceen over barrow, pour on as much seed as is sane, move the screen side to side vigourously across the top of barrow, throw residue back onto tarp for further thresh... repeat until satisfied with seed cleaning. Use a cookie sheet and tweezers to remove anything else from the batch, later.
There are some old fashioned leaf shredders that can be made to run at low speeds and blades can be rubbered, i have one... exceeding useful and very quickly cleaned between varieties... I will get you all pictures I hope in the next couple of months, if I can get back across the country to where they are. ....this is used on the tarp with cloth drappery at base to keep it from spitting the seeds across the countryside... rest of procedure is as above... very quick once you get the hang of it. TAKE GREAT CARE TO KEEP SEEDS OF ONE VARIETY FROM HAVING ANOTHER VARIETY FLY INTO THEM... THIS IS EASIER BY FAR THAN TRYING TO CLEAN UP A VARIETY LATER, BELIEVE ME.
you can use a rough block of wood and a rubber mat to rub loose the seed of single head selections.
...hope these methods I developed help you
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There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write poetry or compose a song -- Masanobu Fukuoka
Any chance I could get some seed from you as well?
Thank you
My method for planting grain without plowing
Rake the area being planted, enough to "rough" the surface, spread seed, scatter a layer of straw on top and water well.
I use this in alleys between rows of orchard trees that are 20'w and 140' long.
There is no time in modern agriculture for a farmer to write poetry or compose a song -- Masanobu Fukuoka
Will be adding some clover this year, likely the big red as like it in my tea and the price for flowers has gone through the roof. Will be working with different legumes to find what works best. I try very hard to consider all aspects of trying something new to help the land. What looks like it should, doesn't always. Also have to consider my little furry underground buddies that love clover!
Have sheet mulched much of the orchard alleys, but when starting only had a few goats so it took years, even with much scrounging materials locally. Have 5 left to do and those will be planted with legumes and grain. Everything else will be planted with crops that have shown to do well with no till here.
Have already accepted may have to do what was done with the corn patch. Years of repeated and deep mulching with a mix of local wood shavings or mulch/ leaves, hay stubble and the cleaning from the barn. About a 1/4 acre and am working on it now. Corn and squash have done increasingly well here and the earth worms love it.
It's just been a matter of having what was needed to do the work.
Pat Maas wrote:
Any chance I could get some seed from you as well?
Thank you........
sure thing pat. PM me your mailing address...
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From Annuals to Perennials
Permaculture is all about mimicking natural systems – patterning our agriculture and other critical human needs on the symbiotic processes we observe all around us. If you compare nature's methods we see that stable natural plant systems are polycultures, and perennial, whereas our modern industrial agriculture is the exact opposite – largely being monocultures and annuals.
But, imagine if the annual crops we rely on the most, grains and pulses, could be made to grow perennially instead. No end/beginning of year ploughing, no annual replanting, etc. It would save enormous amounts of time and energy on cultivation and planting, and allow soils to remain undisturbed for longer, with immense benefits to soil life, structure, organic matter and carbon content.
The video below highlights this out-of-the-box permaculture thinking. The Land Institute in Kansas has been working solidly on engineering annuals into perennials (by way of natural plant breeding – not by gene gun). They take ancient wild, perennial varieties of grains, and cross them with their modern annual counterparts, and repeat, and repeat, until they end up with a harvestable product from a plant that doesn't have to be resown every year. Or at least that's the aim. This is still a work in progress, but their purpose is "to develop an agricultural system with the ecological stability of the prairie and a grain yield comparable to that from annual crops".
The implications/benefits of this are hard to exaggerate – both in terms of energy/time expenditure for farmers, but also in terms of the health/structure of soil that doesn't have to be cultivated nearly so often and the potential biodiversity (stability) that could be achieved with mixes of these polycultures.
With populations growing, the gap between nature's way, and 'our' way, needs closing. We must find ways to eat that don't undermine the very resources of soil, water and air that that eating depends on. This is the kind of 'genetic engineering' that I can endorse, and is the kind of research for the public good that should be aided by all governments that give a hoot about the future.
Ken Peavey wrote:
I'm looking for a way to thresh grains, red wheat in particular. Anyone have a device or link?
Ken, that is an excellent question for a new thread in the homesteading forum.
The link above (http://www.psrseed.com/perennialgrains.html) appears to be dead, with a message of "Peters Seed is Canceled."
i sent you a PM f00b3r with tim's email addy.
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I did find and interesting article at http://www.primalseeds.org/OTHERSTUFF/new/grain.htm -
at the bottom is the list of perennial grains, of which the Agrotriticum sounds most promising to me.
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Its really quite insane!
Maybe someone could find out if that was also possible for Sepp, and if so, if he was interested in following up with that.
Btw, it's now even more important than ever to support heritage seeds.. one of the largest seed companies in the world (Vilmorin) with multiple subsidiaries has said that as of 2012 they will be stocking and selling GMO seed.
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Advice from friends and mentors has been clear: just stop talking. And yet the tweets, emails and other messages just keep rolling in, featuring some of the most hateful stuff I've ever read. They range from the fascinating "I don't think you're a racist!" to "I don't think you're a racist, you're just stupid," to "yeah, you're a racist, so shut up." Plus, the CNN documentary that is the source of all this mess hasn't been aired yet, and I haven't seen it, and all of this is going to pop up again then.
And it's not just CNN being CNN any more. I wrote about how CNN interviewed me in July, supposedly about startup accelerators, but really about the lack of minorities in Silicon Valley. And by minorities CNN meant blacks and hispanics, because Asians, who have disproportionate success in Silicon Valley, don't count.
The problems with the interview:
– I was told by CNN it was about startup accelerators, not minorites.
– CNN then created a clip that highlighted me saying I didn't know any black entrepreneurs, even though later in the conversation I corrected myself.
– CNN then wrote two articles, one of which was the top story on CNN last week, focusing on my race problems.
– Only a very few people have seen it. I haven't, and I'm in the absurd position of not having seen it myself (to know how they edited the long version) and defending myself from people who also haven't seen my interview.
Soledad O'Brien responded to my post, stating that her team had in fact notified someone at AOL a few days prior to the interview that minorities might be discussed. She presents an email which is almost identical to the first one, but which has an inserted fourth paragraph:
From: "Babbit-Arp, Kimberly"
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:41:10 -0400
To: Kelly Mayes
Subject: CNN Interview on Friday, July 29, 2011
Hey Kelly,
Thank you again for setting up this interview with Michael for Friday July 29th. Soledad has set up her schedule to fly from the east coast to meet and chat with Michael – so we are very much looking forward to this opportunity.
As we indicated in our earlier email for the past several months our team at CNN been working on what we think is the first major broadcast news documentary to focus on the 'accelerator phenomenon' and the booming start-up culture in Silicon Valley. In this culture, Michael Arrington is God and TechCrunch is the bible.
The main thread of our story, reported by Soledad O'Brien, will be the experience of a group of digital entrepreneurs who are spending the summer in Silicon Valley chasing their startup dreams.
The group of entrepreneurs we are following are participating in the Newme accelerator. The first accelerator of its kind set up specifically for entrepreneurs of color. Their inspiring stories will be the focus of this CNN Black in America documentary and various profiles produced for Money.CNN.com.
Obviously Michael is extremely knowledgeable about the valley/start up culture and the rise of accelerator programs, as chronicled minute by minute in Tech Crunch. We would like Michael to share some insight into the allure of tech entrepreneurship… Is now a good time to be a tech entrepreneur? What drives people to pour their blood, sweat and tears into these startups? Who succeeds? Who fails? and why?
This CNN documentary is scheduled to air in November.
Any last minute questions – please let us know.
Thank you for everything!!
Kimberly Arp Babbit
And from that, presumably, I should have known to come prepared for a race war. Despite the fact that the email wasn't sent to my assistant (the previous one was) and I certainly wasn't copied on it. I never read it, heard about it, or otherwise knew about it. And even if I had read it, I would not have come prepared to defend myself against an angry interviewer who wanted to throw away 45 minutes of reasonable discussion to grab a few nice out of context soundbites.
But what's worse, as I said before, is that the one statement I made is now the primary trailer for the documentary. Nothing else I talked about for 45 minutes, including revising that statement.
It was a "gotcha" and that's that.
No explanation of the broken promise to put up the entire interview and transcript with me on CNN.
No explanation around why, if CNN is as proud of their work as they say, they deleted one of the posts they wrote about me.
What I think I said in the interview
I remain in the unenviable position of not being able to see the interview, or the final clips for the documentary (where they'll remove anything remotely reasonable I said). However, what I think I talked about was how few black and hispanic entrepreneurs we see in Silicon Valley, and how eagerly we tried to put them on stage (this was pre-CrunchFund, I was just talking about press via TechCrunch). It went a lot like the whole 2010 women in tech debacle
While it's easy to look around Silicon Valley and see very few (non Asian because they don't count!) minorities and then conclude "you're a bunch of racists," I don't think that's productive. What I do think is productive is to get more minorities, and women, and everyone, focusing on math and science and computers in school, as early as possible.
Once they're here they are welcomed with open arms.
The top ten, or so, reasons I'm a racist"
Unless their ideas suck. And even if they do suck a little, at TechCrunch we'd write about it anyway to give exposure to these entrepreneurs. That's another source of endless criticism.
Or the coverage wasn't good enough.
Or that putting people on stage who didn't strictly deserve it is racist because it makes people think that they're only on stage because of their race.
But either way, unless we cover more minorities, we're racist.
And, screw it, we're all just racists anyway, says white guy Mitch Kapor. "The operation of hidden bias in our cognitive apparatus is a well-documented phenomenon in neuroscience. We may think we are acting rationally and objectively, but our brains deceive us."
Statements like that, by the way, scare the hell out of me. They can be used to justify almost anything. Like how we're all racists. I wonder if Kapor could argue that he himself is rational and objective, even though no one else is.
So just to sum up, if I say the race problem in Silicon Valley is caused by too few blacks, hispanics and women showing up to even get in the game, I'm a racist. And if I say that we covered virtually every minority and women founded startup on TechCrunch, I'm a racist. And also, I'm just a racist period, per Kapor's post.
One critical author wrote about great startups like Bitcasa, which has a black founder and CEO. And somehow didn't see the irony in calling me out even though the picture used was Bitcasa on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, as a finalist. And they apparently don't know that I'm an investor in Bitcasa as well.
What I gave Bitcasa is a bear hug. But it had nothing to do with what color the founder is. The young startup could become huge one day.
And also, why am I even talking about this? See "But having someone who is not a woman or a minority make grand pronouncements about how beneficial being a woman or a minority is while raising money is patronizing, disturbing, and insulting."
There were lots of tweets like this as well, summed up as "How dare Arrington talk about race" …even, I guess, when he's sitting in front of a camera being asked for nearly an hour about race.
I'd respond that the only reason I dared talk about race was because I was set up, but I'm not sure anyone's listening any more.
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But you know what I find offensive? That fact that I can't talk about it, unless I say what I'm supposed to say.
And what I'm supposed to say is this. "I'll assert that racism is alive and well in the U.S. I've seen it many times, including in Silicon Valley…When you see racism, don't tolerate it. Take action. And don't deny reality."
This is what investor Brad Feld wrote about all this, while getting his jabs in on me.
To universal high fives as a white guy who gets it, and cares. But wait! Don't forget white guy Kapor's universal law that we're all racists even though we don't know it because Kapor says we are.
And that includes Feld. The guy who writes the crowd pleasing words, apparently, so that his venture firm can stay more…let's say racially pure. And the list of mentors at his TechStars accelerator program – well let's just say they did manage to get a token black man and a token black women on to that list of hundreds of mentors, but it sure doesn't look like "take action" to me.
There are some hard truths about race in Silicon Valley that none of these people care to address:
– There are very few minorities here. When they are here, they get hired much more easily than their white or asian counterparts. There is no conscious or subconscious desire to keep minorities out, at least not in the groups I run in, which include all major VCs and accelerators. It's the complete opposite. Kapor may say we're closet racists, whatever, but out in the real world this bias just isn't there.
– If more minorities arrive, more minorities will get funded, and a virtuous cycle can be created. This is what's going on with various successful Asians in Silicon Valley, who help the next generation win too.
– The fact that some minorities are not here may be because certain minorities don't see Silicon Valley as a place for them, and that is something that we need to change. Which many of us are doing by going a little easier on minority candidates.
– Still, not every black entrepreneur deserves to be funded, or exceed. The vast majority of them should fail, and will fail unless the government starts a program to fund every black entrepreneur and then require public companies to buy each and every one of these startups. If that happens, most of us will be out of here pretty darn quick.
– When a black entrepreneur tries and fails, she should not immediately think that racism was the cause. Since nearly all startups fail, it's very likely that the startup would have failed no matter what color the person was who started it.
– The way to fix this problem is to try to get more very young minorities interested in business, science and math, and create a culture that celebrates these interests in the same way that being good at sports is celebrated today. All we need is one huge success story to plaster all over news sites and magazines, and the ball will be rolling.
– That will start with people like will.i.am, who's trying to do exactly this in Los Angeles. I wrote about this in my previous post. As far as I know he's not in the interview, but the man is doing more to get minorities into tech than anyone on earth, and probably more in a day than O'Brien will do in a lifetime.
– Finally, Asian "minorities" can't simply be ignored. Many of Silicon Valley's biggest success stories are from Asian entrepreneurs who came here with nothing, sometimes, illegally, and found a way to win. And back when the early pioneers were doing that, bias was definitely built in to Silicon Valley. They succeeded despite that. To ignore this is to throw away valuable data, and I don't see any good reason to do that.
I am willing to have a civil discussion about my views on this. I'm open to the idea that I may even be wrong. But the people who see things differently from me on this seem content to either scream at me, or use big words to show that I'm racist no matter what I do to try to hire and promote minorities and women.
If these are the people who truly speak for the underdogs, absolutely nothing is going to change. Feld will keep saying nice politically correct things but won't be hiring any black people because there's no pressure on him. Others will follow what he's doing, because, hell, that worked out great. But there will still be very few black entrepreneurs here to actually fund, or write about.
I, in contrast, don't say politically correct things. But I have educated ideas about how to begin to fix the problem, and I'm willing to both speak my mind and listen to others (but only if they don't scream at me, or throw me under the bus to write niceties about doing more while doing absolutely nothing). And in the meantime I'm funding, promoting, hiring and generally doing what I've always done to help out women and minority founders.
Many of us are taking solid strides forward in Silicon Valley. I wish that all the people up on their pedestals trying to get credit for saying the right things about race would just get down, get to work, and make things happen, too.


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|Arts & Sciences Reunion June 24-27, 2010
Steven Burke J.D. has joined the board of Friends of the Refuge, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge.
Robert Childs B.A. oversees operations at a harm reduction agency in New York City for 10,000 drug users and sex workers. He recently led a multimodal study, titled "Blood in the Bog," of homeless people who use intravenous drugs in public areas, detailing practices and outcomes for this population. Childs is married to Paige Travis.
Gregory Levinson J.D. has founded his own law firm, Levinson Law, in Portland, where he continues to focus on business entity formation, contracts, trademarks, and estate planning.
Thomas McElroy J.D. has joined Teri Durham J.D. '97 in forming McElroy & Durham, a Portland law firm focusing on family law and domestic relations.
Bethany Bacci J.D. has been named a partner at Stoel Rives in the Portland office. She counsels clients on tax and fiduciary matters affecting pension plans.
Amy Baggio J.D. has received the Civil Liberties Award from the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon for her work with individuals detained by the U.S. government at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Brian Cable J.D. has been named a partner at Dunn Carney. His primary areas of practice are corporate governance, securities, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance.
Michael Hallas J.D. is an associate with Stahancyk, Kent, Johnson & Hook. His practice focuses on family law.
Charles Harrell J.D. has joined Buckley LeChevallier's business and real estate transactional practice group. His practice focuses on land use, real estate, condominium and subdivision formulation, and general business transactional matters. Prior to joining the firm, he was a senior associate at Gunn, Cain & Kinney.
Cheryl Kringle J.D. has been appointed to the Aero Law Group. She represents clients in sales, leasing, and the exchange of business and commercial aircraft. Most recently Kringle worked at Tousley Brain Stephens and the Washington State Attorney General's consumer protection division.
Anne Kunkel J.D. has been named partner at Givens Pursley in Boise. Kunkel's practice focuses on complex real estate and asset transactions. Kunkel is secretary of the real estate law section for the Idaho State Bar Association. She was accepted into the Leadership Boise class of 2008–10.
Jeff Lindberg J.D. has joined attorney Loren Joner to form a new law firm, Joner Lindberg. The firm in Battle Ground, Washington, serves business, real estate, estate planning, and litigation needs.
Anna Salim B.A. produced a feature film that was among 10 semifinalists (out of 2,000 original applicants) in the Netflix Find Your Voice competition. The film, by writer-director Jon Goldman, is Paul Sussman's Eleven-Step Guide to Self-Actualization. Information about the semifinalists and the winning film is available on Netflix.
Andrew Solomon J.D. has been promoted to of counsel at Perkins Coie. He is a member of the firm's real estate and land use group, providing representation for real estate transactions and project development.
Alejandro Tosi LL.M. '01, J.D. '04 is a legal advisor to the president of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at The Hague, Netherlands. The president is one of nine judges on the tribunal, which was created in 1981 as one of the measures taken to resolve the hostage crisis with Iran.
Derek Bangs B.A. returned to Oregon in March 2009 for a wine sales position in the Portland metro area. His wife is an in-home personal trainer.
Amy Campbell J.D. has joined Vestas American Wind Technology, counseling the company on employment and immigration issues.
Marisa James J.D. is a deputy in the office of the Oregon Legislative Counsel, where she specializes in drafting laws related to public health and human services.
Anna Bellersen B.A. earned her black belt in Poekoelan Tjimindie Tulen in 2008. She is working toward her M.A. in teaching German at the Monterey (California) Institute of International Studies.
Nick Lantz B.A. married Vicky Pettersen Lantz '03 in 2005. In 2007–08 he was the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Jessalynn Pinsonault B.A. graduated from the University of Washington in 2009 with a master's degree in library and information science. She is now a librarian at Ledding Library in Milwaukie, working primarily in the children's department.
Nichole Robbins J.D. has joined the Law Office of Erin Olson. She represents crime victims, including victims of child sexual abuse and elder abuse, in civil and criminal cases.
Dillon Bracken B.A. formed the Lifestyle Design Group "after becoming disillusioned by the corporate ladder prison. Now I invest in real estate and own a marketing company. I am open to helping other Lewis & Clark graduates liberate themselves from their corporate chains."
Adam Draper J.D. is director of land protection at the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust in Annandale, Virginia.
Diana Wiener Rosengard B.A. '04, J.D. '09, after graduating from Lewis & Clark Law School in May, moved to Los Angeles to become a judicial coordinator for the University of California at Riverside.
Kelly Rudd J.D. has become a shareholder at Baldwin, Crocker & Rudd, a Wyoming law firm emphasizing federal Indian law.
Maneesh Varma J.D. recently finished three years with the Peace Corps in Zambia, where he was a legal support officer for the nongovernmental organization Zambia AIDSLaw Research and Advocacy.
Sharl Azar B.A. is a fourth year medical student at Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine.
Paul Blechmann J.D. is an associate at the Roberg J. McGaughey firm, focusing on securities fraud, broker disputes, and corporate and employment litigation.
Travis Eiva J.D. has joined Corson & Johnson Law Firm in Eugene as an associate.
Andrew Graham J.D. has become a shareholder in Cummins, Goodman, Fish, Denley & Vickers in Newberg. He practices in the litigation department, focusing on administrative law defense matters.
Jeremy Innis B.A. earned a master of theological studies in religion, literature, and culture from Harvard Divinity School in June 2009. He plans to work, teach, and make music in the Boston area this year.
Quiana Washington B.A. received her Ed.M. degree from Oregon State University in 2006. She relocated to Atlanta, where she teaches fifth grade.
Jessica Bullock B.A., after finishing post-baccalaureate courses in speech-language pathology at Portland State University, is now in the PSU master's program in speechlanguage pathology. She also teaches private piano lessons part time and works as a lab assistant in the voice disorders lab at Portland State. See also Marriages.
Adam Greenman J.D. has opened his own law office in Portland, specializing in criminal and traffic defense, plaintiff's personal injury, medical malpractice, and elder law.
Susie Pillsbury B.A.: I have a one-year-old daughter named Maya Hernandez Garcia.
Nikki Zimmerman B.A. is pursuing graduate work at the Monterey (California) Institute of International Studies. She was awarded a full fellowship to attend Middlebury Language School for its summer intensive language program in Russian.
Nate Carter J.D. is a law clerk for Oregon Supreme Court Justice Robert Durham.
William Erickson J.D. is employed as a hazardous-material response team member and firefighter for the Mobile Fire Rescue Department in Alabama.
Laura Rose Gage B.A. is currently pursuing a master's degree at Oregon College of Oriental Medicine.
Kasia Rutledge J.D. joined the Multnomah County office of the Metropolitan Public Defender. Rutledge is involved with the National Lawyers Guild, and she worked as a certified law student at Metropolitan Public Defender from March through December of 2007.
Nicholas Beaudoin B.A. is living in Taiwan and teaching children English. He is applying to Washington, D.C.– based graduate schools that offer M.A. programs in international relations. Beaudoin expects to be living in D.C. in the fall of 2010. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Lizzie Brodeen J.D. has been appointed as an honors attorney in the torts section of the trial division with the Oregon Department of Justice. Brodeen previously clerked in the U.S. Attorney's Office and spent a year in the AmeriCorps program coaching low-income high school students for college admission.
Lindsey Detweiler J.D. has joined the appellate division of the Office of Public Defense Services as a deputy public defender for the state of Oregon.
Joseph Furia J.D. has joined the K&L Gates firm, where his practice focuses on energy, environmental, and natural resources law.
Sarah Harlos J.D. is a new associate at Francis, Hansen & Martin in Bend. Harlos practices in the area of civil litigation and trial.
Dylan Hydes J.D. has joined the personal injury group at Smith, Freed & Eberhard in Portland.
Becky Cruz Lizama J.D. is a legislative assistant in the congressional office of Gregorio C. Sabla, nonvoting delegate to the House of Representatives from the Northern Mariana Islands. Lizama works on environmental and natural resource issues.
Sarah Petersen J.D. has joined Bullard Smith Jernstedt Wilson in Portland as an associate. Her labor law practice includes representation of both public and private employers.
Jedediah Peterson J.D. has joined the appellate division of the Office of Public Defense Services as a deputy public defender for the State of Oregon.
Emily Henke B.A. recently began singing with the Portland-based Al-Andalus Ensemble. The world music group, led by Tarik and Julia Banzi B.A. '96, tours internationally.


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Stockwell Hall
324 Observatory
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2040
Stockwell Hall is a mixed-gender residence hall located in the Hill Neighborhood near the Central Campus Recreation Building, Marketplace and Victors at the Mosher-Jordan Dining Center, Palmer Commons, Palmer Field and the Nichols Arboretum. Many other University buildings and schools are also convenient to Stockwell. Stockwell is home to the Second Year Experience (SYE); with specially trained staff and student leadership, this theme community is focused on the unique needs of second year students. Programs and activities are designed to help residents connect with one another and to develop new friendships and academic partnerships.
Stockwell Hall reopened in 2009 after a comprehensive renovation. Significant changes to Stockwell's interior were created by enclosing an exterior courtyard under a glass skylight and opening the floor into the level below to create a spectacular multi-level rotunda. The renovation also included renovating student rooms and bathrooms, and adding air conditioning to the building.
Quick Facts
- Rooms:
- Houses approximately 400 residents in single, double and triple rooms
- 60% of rooms are singles
- Building:
- Residents dine next door at the Hill Dining Center
- Wireless internet access throughout
- Community Spaces:
- Community Learning Center
- Lounges, a kitchenette and study rooms
- 2 Wenger music practice rooms
- Laundry room
- Housing Options
- Undergraduate Housing
- Single Graduate Student Housing
- Family Housing
- Gender-Inclusive Housing
- Off-Campus Housing
- Food Allergy FAQs
- Students With Disabilities or Additional Needs
- Applications, Rates & Policies
- Dining & Meal Plans
- Undergraduate Programs & Services
- Graduate and Family Programs & Services
- Conferences & Summer Camps
- Transportation, Parking & Maps
- Health & Safety
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Academic Advising Center
What is Academic Advising?
- We are here to help you reach your educational and career goals.
- We'll advise you on course schedules and other educational experiences.
- We'll help you understand the requirements and policies necessary to complete a degree in a timely manner.
How does Academic Advising work at Adams State?
- Every degree-seeking student is assigned at least one advisor.
- Students who have declared a major are assigned a faculty advisor in their department. Those students who are undeclared, and those students who are conditionally admitted, are assigned an advisor in the Academic Advising Center.
- Transfer students are initially assigned to the Transfer Student Coordinator and, later, assigned an appropriate advisor based upon their field of study.
What is the Advising PIN and How Do I Get It?
- It's a unique six-digit code generated each Fall and Spring semester for degree-seeking students.
- Your PIN is required for registration.
- To obtain your PIN you must be advised by your assigned advisor.


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Roast Recipes
Mon Poulet Roti (Roast Chicken wih a citrus butter marinade)
This recipe is in honor of my mom, who would serve "un poulet rôti" every week when I was growing up. My dad was all for the breast and neck, my mom for the wings, my little brother and big sister and I were all crazy about the thighs and the most succulent part: the "soliles" - in English it is referred to as the "oyster" of the chicken. It's the little oval pieces of dark meat next to the thighs that you can find on each side of the carcass.
To make this recipe, I've combined the tips and secrets from all the mamas that I know. Regardless of which part of the chicken is your favorite, you are guaranteed to produce a moist, crispy-skinned chicken. It takes time to prepare, but the results are well worth the wait. The chicken may look fantastic, but I guarantee that by the end of the meal you'll have rolled up your sleeves and will be sucking every last drop of goodness from the leftover bones. Vegetarians, avert your eyes!
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Saint Mary's vs Bethel, Tri-State
Saint Mary's Drops Matches to Tri-State, Bethel
NOTRE DAME, IN – In Saturday's volleyball triangular, Saint Mary's lost to Tri-State 3-0 (30-20, 30-26, 30-27) in the first match of the day and later dropped a hearting breaking five-game match to Bethel 3-2 (30-24, 25-30, 28-30, 30-27, 15-8).
Bethel knocked off Tri-State in the three-team, one-day event 3-0 (30-25, 30-23, 30-27) in the second match of the day.
Saint Mary's record now stands at 6-10 overall and 3-5 in MIAA play.
In the MIAA match against Tri-State (6-11, 5-3 MIAA), Tia Roberts had a match high 18 kills along with 13 digs to pace the Tri-State attack in the three game win. Sallie Richardson posted 21 digs from the Libero position for the Thunder. For the Belles, Cathy Kurczak had a team best 14 kills and a .367 hitting percentage in the loss.
After holding a 2-1 lead against Bethel, the Belles couldn't hold their advantage as the Pilots came back with wins in games four and five to clinch to match. Four separate Bethel (16-6) players posted at least 10 kills with Stephanie Harwood's 25 leading the way. Harwood also tallied a match high 30 digs for Bethel.
Saint Mary's got an 18-kill effort from Lorna Slupczynski and a 19-dig performance from Andrea Sasgen but it wasn't enough in the defeat.
Complete Results
Match One: TSU 3, SMC 0 (30-20, 30-26, 30-27)
Match Two: Bethel 3, TSU 0 (30-25, 30-23, 30-27)
Match Three: Bethel 3, SMC 2 (30-24, 25-30, 28-30, 30-27, 15-8)


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Hi friends! Before I dive into a post about a super special brunch I attended a few weeks ago (as well as provide you with some info on why you should support your local farm by signing up for a CSA – just like I did!), I wanted to say a huge THANK YOU for all the incredible comments and best wishes on my new business venture. Through my private healthy cooking lessons I hope to make Boston a healthier place and I am really thankful for all of you that took the time to say something nice to me and even spread the word. So yeah, thanks!!!
If you live in the Boston area, you definitely know about Boston Brunchers – a group established by Renee of Eat.Live.Blog that has grown to over 300 local food bloggers. Pretty amazing! And if you don't live in the area, well you know what it's all about now… and don't worry – there is still some good info for you here (and some drool-worthy food photos and even cute animal pics!) I haven't been out with Boston Brunchers since a fabulous brunch at The Cottage, but this Farm School brunch was extra special.
[Pastries from Iggy's]
What's a Farm School? Well, I'm glad you asked my friends The Farm School is actually 2 farms located in Athol, MA (about 1.5hrs from Boston) – one providing 2.5-day programs to visiting schools, involving kids on whatever is need on the farm during those days. The kids get the real hands-on farm experience for just a few days and hopefully a new appreciation for fresh produce and humanely raised animals. Most of the food on this farm is grown to just to feed all the visitors (they get about 1,500 children every school year!). The second farm offers a one-year learn to farm program for adult students that want to live on a farm for a year and learn all the ins and outs of becoming a farmer. This farm grows organic produce, meat and eggs sold to CSA members and farmers market. Pretty amazing stuff!!
[Bloggers mingling before we sit down for brunch]
[Farm fresh eggs]
[Adorable animals from the farm. Omg I want to die – these are so cute!!]
[Maple tree planks used as serving plates]
Our hosts for the day:
Brunch time!
Peach Bellini from peaches from the farm (I couldn't say no to that!)
Pork belly two ways
Pork schnitzel, adirondack red pototoes, soft boiled eggs with dill holondaise and sauteed spinach which was so sweet (naturally) that it seemed like a completely different species. And can you see how bright yellow this egg yolk is?
Boston Brunchers brunching
Last course: maple bread pudding made with Iggy's brioche bread and Farm Schools eggs and maple syrup
The food was seriously outstanding! Obviously the recipes were fabulous but I would largely contribute this to the high quality of ingredients. Every bite was incredible but I was especially surprised by the spinach and the potatoes. They seemed so simple but I honestly have never had spinach and potatoes this delicious. Farm School grows 30 kinds of vegetables and 100 varieties. This is one of my favorite benefits of eating locally – you get to experience artisanal produce, varieties of fruits and vegetables that have been mostly lost to mass production.
I left the brunch with a high (it was also an unseasonably warm day out so everyone was extra happy soaking up the sunshine). I've been thinking for a long time about signing up for a produce CSA but was too nervous about getting a box of onions or other produce I had no use for. Actually speaking to the farmers and learning about the programs this particular farm supports, as well as literally tasting the difference, made me reconsider. Here are the pros and cons of a produce CSA as I see them.
- Expensive compared to supermarket produce + you pay upfront for the season (this covers seed money and pay for the farmers)
- Quantities fluctuate depending on the weather and how bountiful the season is
- Most CSA boxes are pre-packed so someone else decides what you'll be eating that week.
- You may get produce you do not enjoy or know what to do with, which may contribute to food waste.
- Your money goes directly to the farmers, cutting out the middle man.
- You are essentially a small shareholder of the farm for the season, so if the season is especially bountiful, you get to reap the benefits
- You get to support your local economy and a farm you believe in, in a way that may not be available otherwise (outside of the CSAs, Farm School for example only sells produce at the Belmont farmers market which is not convenient for me).
- Since the food is grown and distributed locally, it is picked at the peak of its freshness – which is extra delicious and nutritious (compared to imported produce that is picked when it's still green and ripens in trucks and grocery stores. Green bananas and avocados are my biggest pet peeve ever.)
- If you buy most of your produce at farmers markets, it should actually be cheaper.
- You may try new types of produce or varieties of your favorites you've never even seen before!
- Pre-packed boxes add a challenge. This could be a great way to be "forced" to experiment in the kitchen. I'm up for it!


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Residents, protesting against the Russian-built Kudamkulam nuclear plant, march towards the plant at Kudamkulam, Tamil Nadu state, India, on Sept. 9, 2012. Activists argue that Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster showed that such plants are vulnerable to natural disasters.
Police chase demonstrators during a protest near a nuclear power project in Kudankulam on September 10, 2012.
Police detain a demonstrator during a protest near a nuclear power project in Kudankulam on September 10, 2012.
Policemen baton charge residents protesting against the Kudamkulam nuclear plant on Sept. 10, 2012. State officials said Indian police fired at protesters near the nuclear power plant being constructed in southern India, killing one person.
Police stand near a demonstrator as she cries during a protest near a nuclear power project in Kudankulam on Sept. 10, 2012.
Reuters reports — Indian riot police fired tear gas to break up thousands of protesters on a beach near the country's largest nuclear power project, due to fire up within weeks despite months of opposition.
Demonstrators waded into the crashing waves or escaped in fishing boats as hundreds of police advanced, television images showed. Rocks were thrown at police and several injuries were reported on both sides.
Some 4,000 activists, mainly women and children from fishing villages, had camped on the beach about a mile from the Kudankulam power station to complain about the threat of radiation from the plant near the southern tip of India. Read the full story.
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By Dr. Jayanta Roy
India's economic performance in the last decade has been stellar. The average GDP growth has been about 9% in the last five years, with the same trend foreseen despite the major global economic upheaval. Inflation is stable, with a slight hiccup of rising food prices. Balance of payments is under control with burgeoning foreign exchange reserves. In IT and ITes, India is a recognized world leader. Most economists and institutional investors are projecting China and India to be the super economic powers by the end of the century, surpassing USA. Some economists are predicting that India will even outpace China in this marathon. There is no doubt that India has arrived.
The downside risk of India's growth momentum is slim, or non-existent. The successive governments since the launch of the reform have steadfastly followed the development strategy, with innovative mid-course corrections when needed. The IMF has applauded the strong rebound of the Indian economy well ahead of other countries from the recent global financial crisis. Although, a few second generation economic reforms need to be implemented, Indian economy is on cruise control mode for high sustained growth. It makes little sense to play with small differences—9% versus 10%—as GDP growth targets. Economists have convincingly argued that high GDP growth in India will be sustained. But it is the quality of growth which is in question.
India's performance may make some of us believe that we have just a few years to go before India becomes a developed country. In fact, a few of my retired colleagues of the World Bank released a book entitled: INDIA 2039: An Affluent Society in One Generation. They tend to forget that India's per capita income is just $ 950, compared to $ 13,750 in Malaysia, and $ 46040 in USA, and that in spite of some success in poverty eradication, India has over 250 million people living below the poverty line—the highest in the world. The impact of growth on poverty has been somewhat muted. Poverty has declined from 36% in 1993-1994 to about an estimated 25%, a record, in terms of reduction in poverty rate, worse than in Bangladesh and Nepal. There are clearly two sides of the Indian miracle.
The purpose of this paper is not to belittle India's progress, nor to be critical of the policies that have been followed. Overall, the success in breaking the logjam of 3% growth and reaching near double-digit growth has been nothing short of a miracle. What we need to focus more now is to make growth more inclusive. So far inclusive growth has just remained a slogan.
Public debate in India should focus on two interrelated issues—whether Indian growth is inclusive, and to squarely address the issue whether Indian economy is secure—Economic Security of India. This paper will flush out these issues, and arrive at the critical mass of India's economic problems, alleviation of which need to be carefully monitored.
Inclusive Growth
Low per capita income and high poverty levels are the first indicators that Indian growth is not yet inclusive. There is marked disparity in growth among regions indicating that only a handful of states account for bulk of the growth. Growth obviously has not generated stable earnings for households to stay out of poverty. Growth has had less impact on females, tribal populations and religious minorities. India fares very poorly in social indicators with adult literacy rate of 61%, 50% only for females, average life expectancy of 63 years, and infant mortality rate at a very high 58 for 1000 live births. About 60% of the workforce in India is still employed in agriculture whose share has dwindled to about 19% of GDP. These disparities, to some extent, have resulted in the recent upsurge in Maoist violence, as well as increase of suicidal deaths among farmers.
The regional disparities in per capita income are vividly described in Figure 1 below:
Figure 1: State Per Capita Income-Difference with National Average
Source: RBI Handbook of Statistics
The Northern, Southern and the Western states have prospered most in this rapid growth era which has by and large eluded the Central, Eastern, and the North Eastern states. The Chinese regional disparities do not exhibit negative per capita income growth as witnessed in the lagging states in India. Seven poorest states—Bihar, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh—are home to more than half the poor. Inclusive growth will be elusive unless there is convergence to these regional disparities. Underlying all this is public services earmarked for the poor are weakest in the poorer states.
A pressing issue is that the tribal population is concentrated in some of the poorest but mineral and forest rich areas. But they are not yet in a position to take advantage of these assets. In this context, the recent establishment of the Assam Investment Advisory Board by Chief Minister Gogoi is an important step to channelize investments from the top private sector CEOs. Large pledges of investment from the corporate sector confirm a clear support of the private sector for the excluded groups.
The way out of exclusion is total literacy (education should be a fundamental right), skill development, increase in agriculture productivity, and better governance. As the discussions in the next section will elaborate, these are also required to assure one that there is Economic Security in India.
India's Economic Security
Major economic powers regularly monitor their economic security. It is high time India begins to do so. In today's globalized world, economic security is best defined by the state's ability to meet, on a sustained basis, the material aspirations of its citizens. This depends to a considerable extent on the state's institutional capacity to cushion its people from domestic and global threats. Seen thus, the country's economic security is related to every aspect of production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. Thus, the agenda for economic security includes almost every aspect of government and business policy. But in order to determine how secure the Indian economy is, I had narrowed the definition, in a paper I prepared for the new CII Council on Economic Security, to three concepts: resources security, institutional security and strategic security.
Resources Security: this encompasses two broad areas of natural resource security that includes efficient and sustainable access to water, energy and other natural resources; and human resource security that requires a workforce with adequate skills to ensure global competitiveness. India does not measure up too well on these counts. In spite of a large endowment of arable land (second largest cultivable land area in the world after USA), it has low agricultural productivity in comparison with the developed and other large emerging economies as Figure 2 below shows:
Figure 2: Average cereal yields, Kg per hectare (2005)
Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank) and author's calculations
The underlying reasons are poor rural infrastructure and agriculture logistics, neglect of the food-processing sector and policy inadequacies in the organized retail sector that make it difficult to optimize supply chains for agriculture products. Agriculture has remained a neglected sector in India.
India has the lowest renewable water resources among major global economies. Industrial and urban demand for water is fortunately low by international norms, but demand might increase hugely, "crowding out" water for agriculture.
Separately, India needs to prepare a plan for sustainable energy security, given its heavy dependence on imported oil & gas. India also loses about a quarter of the electricity it generates to transmission and distribution losses.
Like China, India is well placed in terms of human resource endowment as Table 1 shows:
Table 1: Tertiary Students in Millions and as a % of Population below 15
Source: UNESCO, World Development Indicators and author's calculations
India can compete with other developing countries in labor intensive sectors and with OECD economies in knowledge intensive sectors. But larger social investment is essential to sustain this edge. About 340 million Indians below 15 years of age will require education, health and nutrition. But India is clearly lagging behind the rest of the world in human capital investments. This could have an adverse impact on overall competitiveness.
It has often been politically expedient for India's political and bureaucratic leadership to simply increase spending on social sectors including subsidies and employment plans for the economically depressed as a response to India's significant quality of life challenge. However, despite a large number of such well meaning plans for social sector improvement being undertaken, rural development, sustained employment or substantive development in social dimension have not taken place.
The policy leadership in India has to realize that throwing more money is not the solution to the problem, especially since it has been well documented that a large part of the spending by government does not reach the intended beneficiaries. Institutional inefficiencies, corruption, lack of accountability and the general lack of awareness of citizenship rights of the common people of India all combine to create an extremely poor government services delivery system in India.
Institutional security: this refers to governance. It is not enough having resources and investing them. A key aspect of national competitiveness is the institutional environment that informs the process of utilization of such resources. If the institutional environment is one that leads to efficiency in utilization (i.e. production, distribution and investment), economic security is enhanced. If the institutional environment leads to inefficiency, economic security is reduced. An economy with high transaction costs is neither efficient nor competitive. This may not just be a production issue, but a distributional issue as well. India's record of policy interventions in poverty reduction and social development is unimpressive. Doing business in India is still not smooth. India fares poorly on simple indicators such as cargo dwell time, days to enforce a contract or register a property, and power and transport costs.
Strategic security: this relates to economic diplomacy, police, intelligence and military aspects of economic security. India scores well on economic diplomacy, the Indo-US nuclear deal being a shining example. It encompasses energy security and a strategic partnership with the US that could change the global dynamics of the 21st century.
India also needs to maintain its defense expenditure to safeguard its citizens from internal and external threats. Sustained high growth is enough to generate the funds needed to meet geostrategic objectives.
It is unfortunate, however, that we don't have a vibrant economic security or inclusive growth debate in India right now. The country needs an aggregate index of economic security and inclusiveness that includes the issues highlighted here under Inclusive Growth, Resources Security, Institutional Security, and Strategic Security. A broad based Economic Security and Inclusive Growth Council should be created with representatives of central and state governments, industry, academia, and media to monitor the progress of this index. A nation of one billion plus people cannot afford to let its guard down on economic security and inclusive growth. Having jump started this work on economic security in India; CII should take the initiative to push this work forward with full support of the central and state governments. This effort will be considerably strengthened if the Council is housed in the Planning Commission that probably needs to revise its archaic mandate and focus exclusively on carrying out this work as its new high priority task. It will be most appropriate if the initiative of this institutional arrangement is pushed by the private sector. After all, the Indian private sector should take its due credit in transforming India from a Hindu rate of growth path to a high sustained growth trajectory. The successive governments since 1991 provided the enabling economic and business environment, the private sector did the rest. The architect of the 1991 reform is at the helm today. Perhaps this is the opportune time to begin the process of making growth inclusive, and the economy secure.
Dr. Jayanta Roy is the Former Principal Adviser of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He is a Macro Economist and International Trade Specialist with over 30 years post-PhD experience in development economics and policy working for the World Bank and the Government of India. His special expertise is in the area of trade policy, including WTO policies, export development and trade facilitation. He held senior policy making positions in the Government of India, where he was a key member of the team that designed and implemented economic and structural reforms to open up the Indian economy. He has also written extensively on trade policies and institutions and taught at the World Bank Institute, Cornell University, the University of California at Santa Cruz., the University of Warwick, UK, and the Indian Institute of Management at Calcutta. Dr Roy holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.


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10.8 Activities and Events
Young Women leaders, including class presidencies, plan activities based on the needs and interests of the young women. They make a special effort to reach out to all the young women, including those who have recently joined the Church and those who are less active. Activities may help young women accomplish their goals in the Personal Progress program. Class presidencies should participate as much as possible in planning and carrying out activities.
Plans for Young Women activities should be approved by a member of the bishopric and should follow the guidelines in chapter 13.
Most Young Women activities occur during a time called Mutual. The term Mutual suggests shared experiences in which there is mutual respect and support for one another and opportunities to learn together. Mutual activities should provide youth with a variety of opportunities to serve others and to develop spiritually, socially, physically, and intellectually.
Mutual is generally held weekly. If travel or other restrictions make this impractical, Mutual may be held less frequently, but it should be held at least monthly. Mutual should be 1 to 1½ hours long and should take place on a day or evening other than Sunday or Monday.
The Young Women presidency, under the direction of the bishopric, oversees Mutual for young women.
Young Men and Young Women presidencies may occasionally use Mutual activities to prepare for stake or multistake activities (see 13.3).
Annual Theme for Mutual
Each year, the First Presidency announces a theme for Mutual. Leaders emphasize this theme in Mutual opening exercises and in other youth activities.
Opening Exercises
Mutual usually begins with brief opening exercises presided over by a member of the bishopric. The bishop's priests quorum assistants and members of the Laurel class presidency take turns conducting. Adult leaders prepare youth leaders for this responsibility.
Opening exercises include a hymn and prayer and may also include musical selections and opportunities for the youth to share their talents and testimonies.
Quorum and Class Activities or Combined Activities
Following opening exercises, Aaronic Priesthood quorums and Young Women classes generally hold separate activities. In a ward or branch with few young women, all the young women may meet together for activities. Activities may also be planned for any combination of quorums and classes.
Combined activities for all young men and young women are normally held once a month. Members of the bishopric youth committee schedule, plan, and review these activities in their
Some examples of appropriate activities are service projects, music, dance, drama, cultural events, sports or athletic events, career exploration, and outdoor activities.
Bishopric Youth Discussions
Bishopric youth discussions are planned and carried out by the bishopric. These discussions, which are held occasionally, give the bishopric opportunities to address subjects that are interesting to the youth and that strengthen the youth spiritually. Topics in For the Strength of Youth and True to the Faith are especially appropriate. Occasionally the bishopric may invite guests to participate. Guests are usually members of the ward or stake.
Bishopric youth discussions may be held with all of the youth together or with the youth of a certain age-group. They may be held during Mutual, on Sunday during the time for quorum meetings and Young Women classes, or at another time that does not put undue burden on families. The bishopric determines their frequency. They are scheduled in bishopric youth committee meetings.
New Beginnings
New Beginnings is an annual event for young women and their parents, priesthood leaders, and Young Women leaders. Young women who will reach age 12 in the coming year are also invited to attend with their parents. It may be held at the beginning of the school year or the calendar year. It may be held during Mutual.
This event helps young women and their parents learn about the Young Women program. It includes an explanation of Personal Progress and a presentation of the Young Women theme, logo, motto, and age-group purpose statements and symbols (see 10.1). It should help young women and their parents plan for events in the coming year.
New Beginnings provides opportunities for leaders to express love for the young women, encourage parents to help their daughters in Personal Progress experiences, introduce young women who will reach age 12 in the coming year, and welcome young women who have joined the Church or moved into the ward. It is a time to recognize young women and their accomplishments in Personal Progress. The Young Women presidency invites a member of the bishopric to give concluding remarks.
Class presidencies plan the program under the direction of the Young Women presidency. The Young Women presidency may ask specialists to help (for example, to direct a choir or instrumental group, rehearse speakers, or direct a skit). A member of the Laurel class presidency may conduct.
Young Women in Excellence
Young Women in Excellence is an event in which young women are recognized for the good things they are doing. It is a celebration of Personal Progress. Each young woman shares a value experience or value project she has completed during the year that exhibits excellence. Her presentation may include talents and skills she has developed through her Personal Progress goals. Young Women leaders invite parents to attend.
At the beginning of the year, leaders encourage each young woman to give serious thought to the values she might focus on for this event. She may work with a family member, another young woman, or others on the projects, which may take several months to complete.
This event is usually held during Mutual at the ward level, but it may be held at the stake level. Adult leaders include the young women in planning it. The date and plans for the event should be announced early in the year.
Standards Events
Standards events are special programs that emphasize moral values and eternal goals. They encourage young women to live the standards in For the Strength of Youth, which will bring them closer to the Savior.
These events are held annually, or more often as needed, usually during Mutual. They may be held on a class, ward, multiward, or stake level. Depending on how a subject is presented, these events may include any combination of Young Women age-groups. They may also include mothers, fathers, mothers and fathers together, and young men.
Young Women Camp
The Church encourages camp for young women. Ward and stake Young Women presidencies determine the frequency and extent of the camp program. They make this determination under the direction of priesthood leaders and with consideration of the needs of families. A multiday camp is generally held each year on a ward or stake level. To meet local needs and interests, other day or overnight camps may be held at the discretion of Young Women and priesthood leaders.
Camp is for all young women who are eligible to participate in the Young Women program. Young women who are not members of the Church may also participate if they are willing to abide by Church standards.
Priesthood leaders may call stake and ward Young Women specialists to be camp leaders and young women ages 16 and 17 to be youth camp leaders. Together, these adult and youth camp leaders organize and conduct the camp program under the direction of the Young Women presidency. They may work with ward leaders and the stake activities committee to arrange for equipment, transportation, and other assistance.
For information about financing camp, see 10.8.9. For information about safety at camp, see 13.6.20, safety.lds.org, and the Young Women Camp Guide. For additional guidelines regarding camp, see Handbook 2, 13.6, "Policies and Guidelines."
Stake and Multistake Activities
See 13.3.
Youth Conference
See 13.4.
Funding for Activities and Events
Funding for Young Women activities and events should come from the ward budget (see 13.2.8).
Funding for an Annual Camp or Similar Activity
If the ward budget does not have sufficient funds to pay for an annual Young Women camp or similar activity, leaders may ask participants to pay for part or all of it. If funds from participants are not sufficient, the bishop may authorize one group fund-raising activity each year that complies with the guidelines in 13.6.8.
In no case should the expenses or travel for an annual camp or similar activity be excessive. Nor should the lack of personal funds prohibit a member from participating.
Funding for Equipment and Supplies
If possible, equipment and supplies that the ward needs for annual youth camps are purchased with ward budget funds. If these funds are not sufficient, the bishop may authorize one group fund-raising activity annually that complies with the guidelines in 13.6.8.
Equipment and supplies purchased with Church funds, whether from the ward budget or a fund-raising activity, are for Church use only. They are not for the personal use of individuals or families.
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ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)] and Opulan Technologies, a leading fabless semiconductor design company in China, today announced that Opulan has licensed the ARM® Velocity™ high-speed DDR solution. As part of the ARM product family of Physical IP, the Velocity DDR is a high-speed physical interface solution for a broad range of SDRAM DDR applications ranging from mission-critical to low-power memory subsystems. Available immediately, Opulan's ARM technology-based products are designed for Next Generation Network (NGN) applications.
Given the tremendous demand for consumer-grade data services, applications such as xDSL, 3G wireless, NGN and FTTx now require IP convergence solutions with higher performance, lower power consumption and improved cost efficiency. Supporting mainstream memory interfaces like DDR 1/2/3 SDRAM devices, the ARM Velocity DDR is a robust interface solution that is scalable for high data bandwidth and reliable signaling integrity. The silicon-validated ARM Velocity DDR products are ideal for supporting a wide range of IP convergence applications, from high-speed communications to low-power handheld devices.
"As a global leader in supplying solution-oriented products to the fast-growing broadband multi-service access market, Opulan has achieved several significant design wins with leading telecom OEMs such as Huawei for its NGN products," said Cong Ye, vice president of VLSI engineering, Opulan Technologies. "By leveraging the availability of ARM Physical IP in leading foundry processes across multiple geometries and process nodes, as well as its superior low-power and high-performance features, we can now combine Opulan's design expertise with the manufacturing flexibility, reduced time-to-market and high quality enabled by the ARM Velocity DDR solution to address telecom market requirements with innovative products."
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Treasury 10-year-note yields traded at almost the lowest this year as U.S. personal spending slowed last month, signaling reduced economic growth and underpinning demand for the securities.
The benchmark 10-year Treasuries were little changed as a report showed household purchases rose 0.2% in March, compared with a 0.7% increase the previous month. The yield dropped on April 26, by the most in two weeks, as a report showed the U.S. economy expanded less than economists predicted. The Federal Open Market Committee will release a statement after a two-day meeting in Washington ending May 1. Treasury announced it will pay down the federal debt this quarter for the first time since 2007.
"The slow-growth theme is well entrenched in the psyche of investors," said Adrian Miller, director of fixed-income strategies at GMP Securities LLC in New York. "By extension, it means the Fed will remain fully engaged past the third quarter and yields will stay low. The market is waiting to see what will come from the Fed's statement on Wednesday."
The benchmark 10-year notes yield was little changed at 1.67% at 3:31 p.m. New York time, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. The yield fell to as low as 1.64% on April 23, the least since Dec. 12. The 2% note due February 2023 traded at 103.
The yield on the 30-year bond rose one basis point to 2.87%.
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The Treasury projected it will pay down debt this quarter as tax receipts exceed forecasts and spending diminishes. The pay-down in net marketable debt was estimated at $35 billion in the April-June period, compared with a projection three months ago for net borrowing of $103 billion, the department said in a statement today in Washington.
"Our projections remain that coupon auction sizes should be unchanged," said Shyam Rajan, an interest-rate strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York, one of the 21 primary dealers obligated to bid at U.S. government debt auctions.
Treasury officials projected net borrowing of $223 billion in the quarter starting July 1. The estimates set the stage for the department's quarterly refunding announcement on May 1. Congress has suspended the nation's $16.4 trillion debt limit through May 18. Lawmakers will be debating proposals to raise the ceiling in the coming months to ward off the possibility of a U.S. default.
Treasury will announce the size of three securities sales on May 1. Bond dealers including Bank of America Corp., Morgan Stanley, Jefferies LLC, and HSBC Holdings Plc forecast that the Treasury will maintain the size of its offerings in May at $32 billion for three-year notes, $24 billion for 10-year debt and $16 billion for 30-year bonds.
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Best Buy Co. and Abercrombie & Fitch Co. climbed at least 2.7 percent as retailers advanced. Netflix Inc. jumped 5.6 percent after announcing new social features integrated with Facebook Inc. International Business Machines Corp. gained 0.7 percent to a record. BlackBerry surged 8.2 percent after announcing its largest purchase order ever.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 0.1 percent to 1,554.52 at 4 p.m. in New York. The Dow added 5.22 points, or less than 0.1 percent, to 14,455.28. The 30-stock gauge reached another record high and capped its ninth straight gain, the longest winning streak since November 1996. About 5.5 billion shares traded hands on U.S. exchanges today, 13 percent below the three-month average.
"All the economic data is incrementally positive," Dan Veru, chief investment officer at Palisade Capital Management LLC, said over the phone. The Fort Lee, New Jersey-based firm manages about $3.6 billion. "Even if we do have a pause in the market or a correction, how deep can that correction be? Because I think there's a lot of people, a lot of investors, waiting to get into the market."
The S&P 500 is about 11 points from its record of 1,565.15 set in October 2007. The benchmark index fell yesterday, ending a seven-day winning streak. The gauge has more than doubled from its bottom in 2009 as the rally was fueled by corporate earnings that topped estimates and monetary stimulus from the Federal Reserve. The Dow has set record closing highs for seven straight days.
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While the S&P 500 remains less than one percent below its record, the Russell 2000 Index of smaller companies advanced 0.4 percent to an all-time high of 943.90 and the Dow Jones Transportation Average climbed 1.6 percent to a record 6,232.59 today. The Morgan Stanley Cyclical Index also topped its previous high, adding 0.5 percent to 1,171.95.
The S&P 500 is valued at 15.4 times reported earnings, a 22-month high, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That's still 7.2 percent below an average of 16.6 over the last decade. The Dow is trading at a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.1, the highest level in almost two years and 11 percent below its 10- year average of 15.8.
U.S. equities rose today as Commerce Department figures showed a 1.1 percent advance in retail sales in February, more than forecast and followed a revised 0.2 percent gain in January. The median projection in a Bloomberg survey called for a 0.5 percent advance. Sales excluding the volatile categories of automobiles and gasoline climbed 0.4 percent.
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