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CORVALLIS – A light went on when Michael McGowen turned his engineering, entrepreneurial and environmental perspectives to farming.
There is a serious lack of tools available for small farmers – the half-acre to five-acre operators who can't afford or don't want a $300,000 tractor and the massive implements that go with it. Instead, the men and women selling at farmers' markets or supplying veggies to Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) customers need something to till a raised bed, weed between rows or work in hoop house.
After a couple years of tinkering, McGowen's company, Carts & Tools, has begun making and selling battery powered tillers, weeders and other tools that can be charged with a solar panel, easily maneuvered on small plots and greatly increase one worker's productivity. No noise, exhaust fumes or diesel bills
"The whole premise is that the small farmer and small landholder has been left behind," McGowen said. "That's where we see a market void."
Numbers appear to bear him out. Small farms, often located close to urban areas, are on the rise. The 1987 Census of agriculture listed 5,476 Oregon farms at one to nine acres in size. By the 2007 Census, the number of farms that size had jumped to 9,546. The 2012 Census is likely to show a continued increase as farmers' markets and CSA operations flourish.
"What you're seeing is a market evolving over quite a few years as opposed to being a fad," McGowen said. "I don't see it going away, it has some staying power."
Brad Attig, who handles business development and marketing for Carts & Tools, said small farmers were ignored, "Because for a long time, U.S. ag policy was go big or go broke."
The desire for locally produced food, the impact of climate change on traditional farming practices and regional differences all line up in favor of smaller, more diverse operations, Attig and McGowen said.
Farmers engaged in small scale operations, mirroring the urban customers they sell to, tend to favor solutions perceived as environmentally sound. That's what shaped McGowen's decision to build all-electric tools.
"In terms of innovation, that's what they want," he said.
His tools aren't cheap. His "Tillie" rototiller costs $800, but McGowen believes the market will support it. Down the road, he hopes to make an electric grain harvester that will be snapped up by specialty oats and barley growers.
The company has sold a handful of tools nationwide – McGowen sold two Tillies while operating a booth at the recent Northwest Agricultural Show in Portland – and observers think the company is on to something.
"Beginning and small farmers tend to go at this under-tooled and under-capitalized," said Paul Mueller of Full Belly Farms in Guinda, Calif. Small farms looking to "scale up" production quickly learn that U.S. equipment manufacturers are "not at all focused on emerging, small-scale agriculture."
Mueller, who has been in business 30 years, sells at farmers' markets, has 1,200 CSA members and markets directly to some stores and restaurants. "The way we got into it was we looked for tools being sold cheaply by retiring farmers or that were being (sold) because there were better tools out there."
While the farm was able to pick up used equipment at bargain prices, the options were limited, he said.
Small and beginning farmers looking for tools will closely consider price and versatility, Mueller said.
"I think there are opportunities there," he said. "Sometimes when you're a beginning farmer, the simpler the better."
Jim Freeburn, who directs professional development for Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education, said small-scale operations often are more labor intensive than large farms.
"Large operations buy large, expensive, new equipment," Freeburn said in an email. "Smaller operations buy used equipment and often make their own custom equipment because the market is either not there or they just can't afford the high price of the newer equipment."
All of which makes McGowen nod in agreement.
"This is changing and growing," he said. "We know we're in it for the long haul, but that's OK."


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Grayville voters will decide in April if they want to collectively bargain for electricity rates. The Grayville City Council voted at a special meeting Thursday, Jan. 17 to place the question on the ballot.
If approved, the Council will put electric service for residents and small businesses up for bids, to be solicited from third-party suppliers by an outside consultant.
Grayville voters will decide in April if they want to collectively bargain for electricity rates. The Grayville City Council voted at a special meeting Thursday, Jan. 17 to place the question on the ballot.
If approved, the Council will put electric service for residents and small businesses up for bids, to be solicited from third-party suppliers by an outside consultant.
The proposal was brought before the Council on Monday by Jeff Haarmann, a Mt. Vernon consultant, just days before the deadline to get the question on the ballot.
However, Haarmann didn't get everything he wanted Monday night. The Council agreed to contract with his company, Municipal Aggregation Consulting Service, to solicit bids but not before the pact is reviewed and signed off on by City Attorney Jay Walden.
Under the agreement, Haarmann's fee would be paid by the winning bidder. Grayville customers would be pooled with those of other communities represented by Haarmann in order to achieve a lower rate per kilowatt hour.
Also Thursday night, the Council spent a lengthy executive session negotiating with representatives of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades on a new collective bargaining agreement covering city employees.
The current contract does not expire until 2014, but Local 124 is offering some concessions in exchange for pay hikes.
Earlier in the week at the regularly scheduled City Council meeting, final approval was given to an agreement with the Edwards County Emergency Medical Board to provide ambulance service to Grayville and lease one of the city's ambulances, provided insurance on the vehicle is maintained at the level the city is currently carrying.
Asked by Gas Commissioner Andy Brock when Edwards County would begin stationing an ambulance in Grayville, Bisch replied, "when they get sufficient people."
The service is advertising for EMTs and drivers to staff Grayville, it was noted. Bisch said he's been contacted by some people interested in driving.
The Council unanimously approved drainage work to alleviate water problems at the southside business park, which adjoins the Fick-Schroeder farm property.
The purchase of 1,220 feet of pipe from Utility Pipe Sales was made at a cost of $16,775 for the project. Outside labor will be employed to handle the earthwork, Bisch said.
The Council agreed to pursue an energy efficiency grant through the Greater Wabash Regional Planning Commission to replace lights in municipal buildings.
Jordan, a planner with the agency, said the total project cost is estimated at some $4,750, but with the grant will cost the city only $2,150 to convert from T-12 to the new T-8 lighting. Additional savings will be realized by reduced energy usage, he said.
Responding to a question from Bisch, City Clerk JoEllen Seil said the city is saving over $1,000 a month thanks to recent reductions in energy consumption at the sewage treatment lagoon.
A contribution of $2,500 to the Southern Illinois Drug Task Force was approved, the same amount as given last year, but not without some prodding from Bisch.
The request came by way of White County Sheriff Doug Maier. When commissioners appeared to balk, Bisch chided them: "If you'll remember, who takes care of our dispatching for us," referring to Maier's department.
The city again will participate in the Illinois Municipal Gas Association's scholarship contest. Grayville High School seniors may submit essays in the contest and if selected as a statewide winner, will receive a $500 scholarship, which will be matched by the city.
If no GHS student wins, the city will select a local winner for a $250 scholarship. The deadline to submit essays is March 8, and more information can be obtained from City Hall.
Walden reported he sent a letter to a delinquent account who is also accused of theft of utilities, noting the city could pursue a judgment and collection of associated costs. The letter also noted the city could access any state payments due to the customer.
He is also attempting to collect the city's share of scrap sales from the state prison property. "That's fallen quiet," he said. "We'll see if we can get that started up again."
In other business Monday:
• Jordan reported the city's oil income for the month was $1,184.89.
• Bisch said the city has now established "snow routes" for priority removal. Street Commissioner Jess Houser inquired about using a plow on the city's old garbage truck, but Utility Supt. Ron Cowles said the vehicle is of no use on side streets.
• Brock reported the Illinois Commerce Commission will be in town Wednesday through Friday to perform the yearly gas department audit.
• And City Treasurer Sharon Broster Walden reported the city's investments stand at $877,425.46, restricted funds at $780,631.79 with $250,982.22 available for operations, for a total of $1,909,039.47.


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Garry Rayno's State House Dome: Windfall in April fuels debate in May
The state's budget picture became clearer if not brighter last week with a nearly $50 million windfall for April.
Coupled with strong numbers from March, the additional money effectively wipes out what once appeared to be a $40 million deficit and has some officials - including Gov. Maggie Hassan - talking about building up the state's long neglected reserve account, or rainy day fund.
Granted, there was about $28 million in one-time revenue in April, including $21 million from a second settlement with tobacco companies and $6.4 million from MTBE settlements with oil companies, but business taxes for the second month in a row were more than 20 percent higher than forecast.
March and April are the two biggest revenue months for the state because of business tax returns, with which some companies "true up" with the state in making their final quarterly payments before the fiscal year ends.
June is also another big month for business taxes, and with companies' tax estimates running about 7 percent higher than anticipated, the state may indeed end the fiscal year with an even greater surplus.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee will meet Monday to work on its best guess of the money state government has to spend over the next two fiscal years. The Senate Finance Committee needs to know that number before deciding where the money should go.
With revenues surging and two months to go in fiscal 2013, Senate budget writers will likely bump up forecasts for the next two years.
Additional money may pay for some things the House cut from Hassan's proposed budget, such as aid to the University System of New Hampshire, money to reimburse hospitals for uncompensated care they provide, new charter schools and the restoration of the school building program.
So where's the bad news? That depends on how you want to fund state government.
If, for example, you want casino revenue and fees to be added into the mix, additional money from the traditional sources is not going to help your cause.
The House will act on Senate Bill 152 - which would legalize one casino - before the end of the month. The bill is sponsored by Sens. Lou D'Allesandro, D-Manchester, and Chuck Morse, R-Salem, among others. Morse is chairman of Senate Finance Committee, and D'Allesandro is a member. Hassan backs the bill and included $80 million from casino licensing fees in her proposed two-year budget.
The greater the gap between what lawmakers want in the budget and the money to pay for it, the more pressure on House members to pass the gambling bill. The House has never passed expanded gambling.
After the House passed its budget without the $80 million from a casino license, Morse attacked the plan. He said it is millions of dollars short in real money, citing revenue projections for the Medicaid Enhancement Tax that he said were about $50 million a year over what lawmakers could expect to receive from hospitals.
He and other Republican senators have made clear they are prepared to cut the House budget, and if the House wants to avoid that, the message is: Pass SB 152. But with state revenues finally picking up after several years in decline, the pressure is decreasing, not increasing, for casino revenue.
House Speaker Terie Norelli, D-Portsmouth, created a supercommittee of Finance and Ways and Means members and three subcommittees to review and work on the bill.
The subcommittees will report their findings to the joint committee Thursday, and some proposed changes will be aired, such as reducing the casino licensing fee while taking a greater percentage - 37 instead of 30 - of the net video slot machine proceeds and restricting the seating for live entertainment acts. There is little doubt, however, the supercommittee will recommend the bill be killed.
The full House could vote on the bill as early as May 22.
About 20 percent of the House members have yet to decide how they will vote, but those undecided representatives will determine SB 152's fate. Right now, there are not a lot of good reasons for those fence-sitting members to vote for SB 152, particularly when the state could have a $50 million or more surplus when fiscal 2013 ends June 30.
Medical marijuana: Of all the bills coming through the Legislature this year, no bill has more emotional weight attached to it than House Bill 573, which would allow use of marijuana when prescribed by a doctor to treat certain illnesses.
As a state senator, Hassan supported medical marijuana twice, and as a candidate for governor, she supported the concept.
Supporters had high hopes going into the session, but the bill ran into opposition right away from the New Hampshire Police Chiefs Association, the Medical Society and other groups.
Proponents were able to placate if not remove the Medical Society's and the Attorney General's Office's objections, but were not able to sway other law enforcement organizations.
The key issue is whether eligible patients would be allowed to grow their own marijuana supply or would have to buy from state-regulated dispensaries.
The Senate Health, Education and Human Services Committee began its final work on the bill last week, and Hassan, citing the concerns of law enforcement officials, told members by phone she would not support the bill unless the home-grow provision was removed.
That upset committee member Sen. John Reagan, R-Deerfield, who said, "Sick people are not criminals, so why is the governor listening to law enforcement's worries about them. I guess she just doesn't' care about sick people."
Reagan and others on the committee are pushing for a greater number of dispensaries, but would really rather have the home-grow provision in the bill because it would lower the cost for poor and lower-income people suffering from cancer, glaucoma, hepatitis C, muscular dystrophy, Crohn's disease or other debilitating diseases.
The bill passed the House by an overwhelming 286-64 vote and is likely to pass the Senate. The question is: Do supporters want some medical marijuana available to those who could benefit from it, or do they dig in their heels and include the home-grow provision.
The committee meets Tuesday to try to finalize its recommendation on the bill.
Internet Sales Tax
: Last week, Senate Democrats blind-sided the Republican majority with a proposal to introduce a joint resolution thanking the state's congressional delegation for its opposition to the national Internet sales tax being considered in Washington.
The resolution served several purposes. All session long, the Senate majority has refused to take up resolutions from the House or from minority Senate members.
Resolutions do not have the force of law unless they are joint, concurrent resolutions and then only for the length of the two-year session.
Earlier in the week, the state Republican Party went after Norelli, who is the president of the National Conference of State Legislators, because the organization backs the national Internet sales tax. And voting against the resolution would certainly be used by the opposing party during the next election.
The Republican majority postponed action on the proposal, which needs a two-thirds majority to suspend the rules to take it up.
At the end of the calendar, all but one Republican voted against suspending the rules to let the resolution before the body, which ended in a 12-12 tie and failed.
Although essentially nothing happened, that didn't stop the two parties from spending an inordinate amount of energy on social media going back and forth over the resolution and who supports and doesn't support the Internet sales tax.
Political gamesmanship and the gotcha game at its best.
: In last week's column, I said former House Speaker William O'Brien led a walkout at a Republican caucus several weeks ago. O'Brien had not attended a Republican caucus this session until the April 24 caucus, when he appeared with state GOP Chairman Jennifer Horn to tout party unity.


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The Foundation Capital partner is at the head of a new generation of Silicon Valley VC's who did not descend from the heights of finance, but rose through the ranks of design. And, he believes, we're entering the century of the designer-founder.
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We don't usually think of venture capitalists as the "creatives" in today's economy—at best these stolid investors enable creatives by providing them with the financial backing and the management advice to make their ideas happen.
Think again! Foundation Capital partner Steve Vassallo is at the head of a new generation of Silicon Valley VC's who did not descend from the heights of finance, but rose through the ranks of design. 99U met with Vassallo in his office at Foundation Capital in Menlo Park to learn about about his background, his motivation, and his future vision.
Steve, let's begin by figuring out who you are. You took a degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford, but now you are working as a venture capitalist. Can you connect the dots?
I have been a maker since before I can remember, whether it was building crazy Lego models or starting my own business (Steve's Snowblowing Service—I still carry the card in my back pocket). At Stanford I was planning to get a Ph.D. in robotics and mechatronic systems, but I got sidetracked into a course in "Visual Thinking" where I learned about drawing and sketching, prototyping and need-finding, and creative problem-solving in small teams. That was the beginning of my discovering product design as a discipline.
I then spent five years at IDEO designing sunglasses for Nike, a bun toaster for McDonalds (I think I'm the only venture capitalist who has ever taken a course at McDonald's Hamburger University), and anesthesia delivery devices. My last project at IDEO was Cisco's VoIP system; I had to go head-to-head with Cisco engineers who made switches and routers that sit in closets and data centers and who didn't know the first thing about consumer products, like a phone that might touch a person's face 100 times a day. We had to educate them about the behaviors we saw in the field—at call centers, trading floors, cubicles—behaviors that if you just sat at your desk you could have never imagined.
But I was never crazy about the time-and-materials model of consulting, so I decided to apply to the Stanford Business School. I spent two years learning about "the business thing," which I knew nothing about.
Eventually, I joined the team at Foundation Capital—first as an entrepreneur-in-residence, then as a partner—and I found it to be the most stimulating job on the planet. I meet maybe 20 new entrepreneurs a week, and I can't help but be compelled by the mission they are on. They have thrown themselves into an idea and they're just not gonna stop until their vision comes to pass. That's a pretty amazing thing to be around all day.
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A team of scientists wanting to discover the machine's military capabilities is monitoring the equipment as Michael plays Lillian's final tape. They have Gordy also experience the tape, but Landon ignored the advice of the monitoring staff that Micheal has made modifications to his playback terminal. As such Gordy is killed offscreen for monitoring the tape unauthorized whilst Landon and the others watch on in surprise.
Michael's playback is cut short by Hal, but having witnessed a digital
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makes Michael curious to see the entire tape. Alex has the recording locked away and tells Michael he will not be allowed to view it. When he returns to work, Michael walks in on Landon Marks and a team of outsider technicians going through his research records and protests to Alex who responds by firing Michael and Karen.
Michael attempts to hack into the lab's computers. Hal advises him to look under "Project Brainstorm", a program the military has created to re-develop their invention for torture and
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Rather than see his creation perverted, Michael vows to destroy his work and enlists the help of Karen and Hal. Michael and Karen head to the
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Karen shuts down the security system, locking the staff outside and enabling Michael to load Lillian's tape and experience it uninterrupted. With the plant in chaos, Robert Jenkins orders Michael's arrest. Michael escapes their agents and drives to a phone booth at the Wright Brothers National Memorial . He reconnects with the computers and accesses the final part of the tape, beyond the point of Lillian's physical death.
Karen leaves the house to meet with Michael. Hal and his wife, Wendy, send the last of Karen's commands to the company computers, shutting down the plant.
Karen arrives at the Wright Brothers Memorial while the tape is playing. Michael bears witness to the afterlife , experiencing a brief vision of before traveling away from Earth and through the universe, even after the tape ends. He ultimately has visions of angels and departed souls flying into a great cosmic Light, which seems to be heaven . Michael then collapses. Karen sobs, believing him dead. She pleads for Michael to stay alive. Awakening from the experience, he weeps with joy and embraces Karen.
A useful distinction for people thinking about act consequentialism in general and act utilitarianism in particular is the distinction between a criterion of rightness and a decision procedure ( which has been discussed by Toby Ord in much more detail ). A criterion of rightness tells us what it takes for an action to be right (if it's actions we're looking at). A decision procedure is something that we use when we're thinking about what to do. As many utilitarians have pointed out, the act utilitarian claim that you should 'act such that you maximize the aggregate wellbeing' is best thought of as a criterion of rightness and not as a decision procedure. In fact, trying to use this criterion as a decision procedure will often fail to maximize the aggregate wellbeing. In such cases, utilitarianism will actually say that agents are forbidden to use the utilitarian criterion when they make decisions.
There's nothing inconsistent about saying that your criterion of rightness comes apart from the decision procedure it recommends. We can imagine views where the two come apart even more strongly than they do under utilitarianism. Imagine a moral theory that had the following as a criterion of rightness:
No Thoughts Too Many (NTTM) : An action can only be right if it is not the result of a deliberative process about what is right to do.
If we assume that trying to use NTTM as a decision procedure would itself constitute a deliberative process, then the NTTM criterion of rightness is inconsistent with using NTTM as a decision procedure.
We can think of more mundane examples of criteria of rightness that won't always recommend themselves as decision procedures. Suppose that a criterion of rightness for meditating is to clear your mind of thoughts, but that people who try to clear their mind of thoughts are worse at clearing their mind of thoughts than people who use other techniques, such as focussing on their breath.
'Clear your mind of thoughts' might be a good criterion of rightness for meditation, but a bad decision procedure to use by the lights of that criterion.
Or suppose that you are holding a gun with a misaligned sight. The criterion of rightness might be 'hit the target' while it's better to use 'hit 2ft to the right of the target' as your decision procedure. (An interesting class of examples of this sort involve what
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calls 'states that are essentially by-products', such as being spontaneous. Thanks to Pablo Stafforini for pointing this out.)
So when is it good to accept or use 'act such that you maximize the aggregate wellbeing' as a decision procedure? The simple answer, if we assume act utilitarianism, is: whenever doing so will maximize the aggregate wellbeing! Of course, it can be hard for us to know when accepting or using the utilitarian criterion of rightness as a maxim would be the best thing for us to do. Perhaps most of us should never use it as a decision procedure.
What are the reasons for thinking that 'act such that you maximize the aggregate wellbeing' is a bad decision procedure? First, this is extremely cumbersome as a decision procedure: it is simply implausible that it would be best for us to stop before taking every step forward or before buying every can of soup to consider how these things affect the aggregate wellbeing. For everyday tasks, it makes sense to have simpler maxims to hand. Second, it's easy to apply it naively. When we try to think about all of the outcomes of our actions, we often fail to take into account those that aren't obvious. An example of this fault can be seen in the classic
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who promises to watch your purse and then, as soon as a needy stranger comes along, gives your purse to them. The immediate impact of their action might be to transfer money from you to the needy stranger, but doing so undermines the trust that people can have in them in the future. Moreover, in order to do a lot of good in the world, people need to co-operate, and it's virtually impossible for people to co-operate without trust and honesty norms being in place. Third, explicitly using 'act such that you maximize the aggregate wellbeing' as a maxim can alienate us from those we care about. Very few people would be happy to think that, while talking to them, their friends are calculating how much moral good the conversation is generating.
There are definite costs to using the utilitarian criterion of rightness as a decision procedure. But sometimes these costs are not in play quite so much, and sometimes the benefits of using it in deliberation might outweigh these costs. I think this might be true when we're thinking about 'large-scale' decisions: where to allocate large amounts of money (e.g. annual charity donations, or government funding), what policies governments or companies should have, what to do with our life (e.g. what career, what research, or what lifestyle to pursue), or how we should advise others on these matters. These are all decisions that share several features. First, using 'act such that you maximize the aggregate wellbeing' in these cases wouldn't conflict with prosocial norms like 'don't lie', and so they don't undermine trust or co-operation. Second, we can make each of these decisions slowly and with care, which is important since it is so hard to apply the criterion well. Third, they are decisions with significant impact, which means that it will be more important to try to take into account how they affect the world: the cost of a more cumbersome decision procedure can be justified when the stakes are sufficiently high. Finally, using it in these impersonal circumstances is not likely to alienate people with whom we have close relationships. It is still questionable whether most of us should try to apply the criterion of rightness as a decision procedure in these cases, but they strike me as candidates for decisions where it will sometimes be right to do so. The rest of the time, the criterion of rightness can sit like an evaluative backdrop on life that one is aware of, but not too eager to call upon in deliberation.
It seems plausible to me that someone behaving well by the lights of the utilitarian criterion of rightness will not employ it as a maxim regularly (note that we don't need to appeal to rule utilitarianism or moral uncertainty to make this point). And many of the best people, by the lights of the act utilitarian criterion of rightness, will never have even heard of utilitarianism. For the most part, I suspect that the ideal act utilitarian would be a good friend, would try to keep promises, would aim to be honest and kind, and, when it comes to major decisions, would stop to think about how these decisions will affect the wellbeing of everyone. This kind of person seems much better for the world than the naive act utilitarian that most people are understandably put off by.
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Modern Isanti County continues to grow, with a 25% population increase in the last 10 years to a current estimated population of almost 40,000 people.
The arrival of the railroad to Isanti County in 1899 would bring major change to the poor area.
The region we know today as Isanti County was originally settled by lumberjacks from New England, migrating westward with their families in search of fresh trees to harvest.


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Bedford school on alert after fisher cat on playground
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BEDFORD - Teachers are on alert after students were forced inside from recess following a fisher cat sighting at a school playground this week.
No one was injured and the animal did not attack anyone, but school officials contacted the Bedford animal control officer and New Hampshire Fish and Game Department following Wednesday's incident at McKelvie Intermediate School.
According to Principal Michael Fournier, about 150 fifth-graders were playing outside at recess around 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday when a teacher observed the fisher, a member of the weasel family, near the swingset.
The students were ordered to line up and promptly head indoors for recess, said Fournier, adding none of the children were threatened by the animal.
"This is not the first time we have run into animals on school grounds, but I was particularly nervous about the fisher cat because they are pretty elusive animals and it seemed unusual that it wasn't frightened by the kids," Fournier said on Thursday.
Conservation Officer Chris Bison of New Hampshire Fish and Game responded to the school and traced the animal's tracks.
"It is odd to have fishers out and about. They generally go in the other direction and don't want anything to do with people," said Bison. "It seemed like a real big fluke situation."
However, Bison noted that the school's surroundings are the perfect habitat for fishers, as there is a small brook and stream directly next to the property. Although the playground is fenced in, Bison said the fisher could have already been inside of the playground area before students were let out for recess, and then it may have felt cornered - especially if children were throwing snowballs.
"The school is on alert now, and teachers have been asked to walk around the perimeter of the building before sending children outside," he said.
Fishers are forest-dwelling animals that are usually the size of domestic cats, and are known for preying on porcupines. They have a bad reputation for sometimes attacking other cats, bobcats and lynx.
Steven Paul, the town's animal control officer, also responded to the school following Wednesday's sighting, but said he referred the situation to New Hampshire Fish and Game.
"There wasn't much I could do at the time," said Paul.
He was back at the school Thursday morning with local police to ensure students were safe when they arrived prior to the start of the school day.
"It is probably just a random sighting," said Fournier, adding extra steps are being taken to ensure the safety of students.
Bison said fishers do not typically act out unless they are harassed or provoked. If a fisher is spotted, he recommended that people stand back and simply observe the animal, warning people to never pet or feed a fisher.


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Religions need books because they don't have gods.
You believe evolution and there is no evidence for that. Where is the fossil record of a half man half ape. I've only ever heard about it in reading.
Well, if it works is it still faith?
A large proportion of believers would say that their faith is working for them and/or that they don't believe that their life would be working without it. Their faith gives their lives meaning, purpose, direction and hope.
So a smaller proportion of believers say their faith does not work?
Those that say their faith works have no reason to say that it doesn't as they are blinded by their delusion. They could pray every morning "Please God, don't crush me to death with a large piano falling from a window" and every day when they go to bed they can state that their faith is working as they weren't crushed to death by a piano.
Choose any religion and your faith is based on lies and heresay. Any meaning, purpose, direction and hope derived from such a vehicle is false. Happiness of the truly ignorant.
You've missed the point. Going to the doctor is based on faith. Accepting treatment is based on faith. Praying is based on faith.Simply different faith choices. I'm not telling you which faith choices to make. Just to recognise the faith aspect of all our choices and stop pretending that your current faith choices are the 'righteous' ones.
One of the key underlying assumptions of science is that human sense perception is able to accurately detect the nature of reality. Where devices are used to confirm or enhance human perception (eg camera, thermometer, computer, geiger counter... and many others) then human sense perception is still required to confirm those device's results.
You are obviously claiming that science works and we have seen that to be true in many cases. We have also seen where the use of science has brought significant dangers to the world.
Exactly. Religious faith is all about providing emotional comfort. The difference between science and religion is that science provides the truth with no regard for emotional comfort whereas religion provides emotional comfort with no regard for the truth.
And if truth is hard for humans to find (and I'm not questioning that aspect at all), why do you have so much faith in religion when one of the possibilities is that there never was a god, just a bunch of people guilty of thinking they knew what the truth was? Which is exactly where I think it came from.
Why do theists try this shameful trick?
Isnt it embarressing?
Whilst I have never believed in a god, not even when I was 2 years old, neither in Santa or the Easterbunny too, I find what you say is one of the central problems we face today.
[3Sigma, this is not Solipsism - A solipsist claims 'only I exist' and all else is created by my mind]
If I doubt my own consciousness, then who is doubting? I am! Thus I have proved my own consciousness by doubting it. This applies to consciousness but does not apply to material, physical reality which can always be doubted. What cannot be doubted is the experience, the perception of existing.
Ultimately whatever our beliefs, we are talking about faith and no-one has the moral high-ground regarding those beliefs.


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Top Manchester school officials no longer must live in cityBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
April 14. 2014 10:51PM
MANCHESTER — The Board of School Committee voted Monday to drop the residency requirement for top administrators, despite Mayor Ted Gatsas' strong support for the policy.
The board voted at its meeting to end the policy, which was enacted two years ago and required that any superintendent or assistant superintendent establish a home in the city within 180 days of signing an employment contract.
The requirement has proven difficult for Dave Ryan, the assistant superintendent hired in the summer who lives in Hooksett with his family. At a school board meeting a couple of months ago, the board agreed to grant Ryan a six-month extension to meet the contract provision.
Gatsas was not present at the meeting because he is recuperating from heart bypass surgery.
The board first voted by a wide margin to table a motion, made by board member John Avard, due to the absence of the mayor.
"I don't see this as time-sensitive," Avard said. "This has been a very special topic to Mayor Gatsas. He has fought hard for this.
Considering the current circumstances, I would like to see this held off."
Gatsas has argued that moving to the city is an important signal of commitment on the part of the district's highest-paid employees.
But school board member Erika Connors, the main proponent of the policy, said time was of the essence since the end of the school year was near.
She said she contacted Gatsas earlier in the day.
"He said the board already knows how I feel on the issue," Connors said. "There wasn't anything underhanded about this."
Connors argued, and most of her school board colleagues agreed, that the residency requirement limited the pool of applicants for top positions.
"Right now we risk losing a very valuable employee to this district, whose kids go to district," Connors said of Ryan.
But member Robyn Dunphy said it was wrong to allow any change in the residency policy to apply to Ryan. "The contract is signed. Nobody held a gun to anybody's head."


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Tough Guy Tee
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Very creative and tough love the idea, I might have to try one for my little guy!ReplyDelete
thats very cute. it looks very nartjji-ish! cute little guy too.ReplyDelete
So Cool! I'm making one for each of my boys! Can't wait to get started!ReplyDelete
wow! nice job! and are you serious? what rock have I been living under...I didn't even know that bleach pens existed! Oh the things I will be doing with that! thanks for sharing instructions with us...now off to find that pen!ReplyDelete
My son also wore a starband helmet for 4 months....just a little flat spot we thought at first, but then after we started to really LOOK at it we knew we had to do something.ReplyDelete
I had my moments of "I'm a bad mom," but that came and went fairly fast. Nate wore the helmet from August to December 2006, just a few days shy of his first bday, and although he didn't get a perfect head out of the deal it looks WAY better!
BTW, the best part about the helmet? He learned to walk with built-in cranial protection.
Also, we made some tshirts this weekend using Dana's tutorial....but I'm SO gonna spruce it up with your ideas. Thanks!!!
LOVE this... I already have a few tshirts I was wanting to freezer stencil- I think I need to add 'bleach-penning' and some simple embroidery to the list as well... :)ReplyDelete
if you're interested, we have a friday fun find party- we'd love it if you'd link up this week!
Another cute shirt!ReplyDelete
loved this idea so much I already tried it, but have run into an issue. I made my design on the T with the bleach pen, but instead of it keeping the distinct lines I drew, it all bled together and after washing is just a big faded blob. I used the freezer paper between the layers and waited overnight for the bleach to set. Any ideas on what where I might have gone wrong? Did I let it set too long? Also, I didn't wash the T before trying to bleach it - could that be the problem?ReplyDelete
Any input is appreciated!! Thanks for these and all you other amazing ideas and inspiration!
What a great blog and cute idea. I am going to try the bleach pen to make a "good bye and thank you" t-shirt for a substitute who has been a long term sub in my daughter's class now in 3 different grades. This is the last time (5th grade now). I'm not sure what I'm going to do exactly but I love this idea. Thanks, and I can't wait to see what other creative ideas you send our way.ReplyDelete
This is a fabulous project. Your little one has the perfect combination of "tough as nails" and "totally adorable" - good job, Mom!ReplyDelete
We live in Maine and I tend to think that the medical community is a bit behind up here...my daughter's head is very lopsided...I mentioned it to two different pediatricians and they both said that no one has a perfectly round head....we wish that we would have done something but again when I mentioned the helmet the pediatrician said that he had never heard of such a thing! She is 16 months now so its too late but she'll just have to have long hair and thankfully its curly too!ReplyDelete
Cool technique, and very cute boy! :)ReplyDelete
Love your techniques and tutorials. You will be so glad you did the helmut....my friend never really thought to do it and her son's head has become VERY lopsided and misshapen. I think for a boy it will help a lot also to have a better shaped head for short hair and to fit into helmuts for athletics and such. Good for you! Love your blog!ReplyDelete
Hi there! I came across your blog from the UCreate blog and will definitely be following! Your little guy is adorable! My son, who is now two, had a helmet for several months to fix plagiocephaly on the side of his head. He wore the helmet for maybe four months? and his head is beautifully round now! :)ReplyDelete
Good luck with your little guy and his helmet!
such a great idea for a shirt. My daughter had a flat spot on the right side of her head. We chose not to do the helmet because the doctor didn't give us much to go on. We instead did physcial therapy among a few other things and it worked! How is the little guy doing with his helmet now?ReplyDelete
Great post. I'm going to try to make some shirts for 2 sets of twins to wear for the March of Dimes walk next weekend!!!ReplyDelete
I love your idea. This turned out so cute! And the green stitching adds just the right touch :)ReplyDelete
We've been busting up our stash like crazy and are really enjoying it too. http://theartistshouse.blogspot.com/2010/04/repurpose-your-scrap-wood-into-great.html
That is brilliant! I am making one for me!ReplyDelete
I did this last night on two t-shirts and noticed a HUGE difference based on the weight of the fabric - the thinner the fabric, the more it will bleed! At least that was the only difference I could tell!ReplyDelete
A "regular" weight t-shirt should work just like the tutorial, but my daughter's thinner t-shirt bled a ton (but still looked cool because I used bigger shapes).
LOVE this idea!
I don't know what's tougher - the hard core helmet or the sweet green paci with butterflies! :) This shirt is truly ingenious. I would have never thought of using a bleach pen to stain a shirt! And the embroidery stitching at the bottom (as well as the studs) are just the icing on the cake.ReplyDelete
That is one cool kid.
Hello roaring mommy!ReplyDelete
Your blog is so much inspiring and I love your idea to make a t-shirt special to somebody - the design also looks very professional.
Thank you for sharing all your great ideas.
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LOVE this! my little guy gets his helmet on tuesday. =) they didn't offer me any cool prints like this, so you'd better believe i just put a call into the doctor's office to see if they have any options like this!!ReplyDelete
thanks for the inspirations - tough little guys UNITE! =)
Oh my gosh! This is such a cute idea!!! We just had our little boy 3 months ago and I've been looking everywhere for crafty ideas for little boys... it seems to me there are tons for little girls... anyways thanks so much for sharing! He looks WAY tough indeed :DReplyDelete
He is just the cutest thing!! My little boy had what we called the "flat head" thing going on for a few months when he was a baby & we even talked about doing the helmet but it ended up popping out so to speak on its on. Helmet or not, that chunky monkey is adorable!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the awesome tutorial!
I stumbled across your blog while looking for cool hats for boys. Then I saw the pic of your little man. Our little guy is getting fitted for his helmet in a couple of weeks. Hoping it works to push his ear back where it belongs and round out his flat spot. Anyway, I LOVE this T-shirt! Do you sell these at all? I'd LOVE to by one for my little guy and maybe even his big brother.ReplyDelete
Wow! You are amaaaaazing! I love the crafty stuff you do, especially with clothing! I've just been told my clothing budget has been slashed, so I'm looking for ways to make what we have stretch further. My oldest daughter and I will have a blast doing some of this stuff! Thank you for sharing your great ideas! Your boys are adorable, BTW! LOVE the helmet.ReplyDelete
OMgoodness - what a cute little boy! I love this tee! I've been addicted to freezer paper stencils lately and my kids (including the boys-8 and 4) love when I make them a new tee. So rewarding. :o) I'm attempting my first bleached stencil - My 4 year old asked for Chewbacca! We'll see if we can accomplish it! Thanks for the tutorial!ReplyDelete
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Deals for two top execs at GT Advanced revealedBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
January 08. 2013 11:42PM
NASHUA - Two months after GT Advanced Technologies announced the lay off of 25 percent of its work force, the company revealed last week significant compensation deals for two top executives.
In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, GT Advanced Technologies disclosed a $300,000 relocation package for Tom Gutierrez, the CEO and president of the Nashua-based company that serves as an international supplier of components for the solar energy industry.
The compensation committee of the company's board of directors authorized the payment to Gutierrez on Dec. 29, to establish a second residence in North Carolina near his family, according to the filing.
"Mr. Gutierrez will maintain a permanent residence in New Hampshire where the company's corporate headquarters is located," the filing says.
The $300,000 paid to Gutierrez on Dec. 31 covers real estate fees, moving costs and travel, temporary living and miscellaneous expenses, says the filing, adding $70,000 of the amount was to help cover income taxes on the relocation payment.
The relocation benefit for the CEO of GT Advanced Technologies comes two months after the company announced the elimination of about 50 jobs in New Hampshire and about 120 jobs in other countries because of uncertain economic conditions in Asia as global demand for solar cells slows and prices fall.
Also disclosed in the SEC filing on Friday was an agreement with David Keck, an executive officer of GT Advanced Technologies, offering him an additional $378,000 a year to relocate to Hong Kong, and allow his children to attend school there for up to $60,000 a year, plus other monetary perks.
Keck's international assignment agreement includes a housing allowance of up to $18,500 a month and a monthly stipend of $8,000 a month for meals and other expenses, according to the SEC filing.
Despite the recent lay offs, Gutierrez said in a press release issued last month that while current market conditions are unlikely to improve in the next 12 months, his company remains confident about its long-term future.
"We expect to exit this downturn as a stronger, more diversified company with market leading positions in several growth industries," he said in the release, which projected revenue in the range of $500 million to $600 million for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 2013.
Jeff Nestel-Patt, marketing communications director for GT Advanced Technologies, was not immediately available on Tuesday to comment on the recent SEC filings or the compensation agreements.


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Opponents of Medicaid expansion say NH can find better answerBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
October 30. 2013 10:58PM
CONCORD — Rather than expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, New Hampshire ought to be looking at reforming the federal-state health insurance program for the poor, children, elderly and disabled, said several representatives of groups opposed to expansion.
Speaking at a news conference Wednesday, Greg Moore, Americans For Prosperity NH executive director, said Medicaid is sub-standard, low-quality care without one in five New Hampshire doctors.
Instead of expanding a program that "is not a winner for New Hampshire," Moore said, the state should be using the opportunity to reform Medicaid.
Others said the federal government will not live up to promises and will leave the state to make up the difference, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
Others said the program will drive people off existing health plans, meaning able bodied, working adults will be on another entitlement that will never end.
Senators need to have the courage to vote against a program that will never go away and never get smaller, said former Sen. Ray White, R-Bedford. "Once this thing sets sail, it will be beyond the reach of the New Hampshire Legislature."
Several speakers warned Republican Senators who hold the key to whether expansion is approved, that they will face primary challenges if they vote for expansion.
"Thirteen people will make the decision. This is a core Republican issue," said Aaron Day, chair of the Republican Liberty Caucus of NH. "Anybody who votes for federal expansion of Medicaid can expect a very serious challenge."
Democrats and expansion supporters said the groups opposing expanding Medicaid are the fringe of the Republican Party.
"The New Hampshire Republicans radical crusade against affordable health care options for working families was on full display this afternoon," said Harrell Kirstein, NH Democratic Party communications director. "Despite all of the testimony from independent experts and the bipartisan support for the work done by the Medicaid expansion commission, the far right wing of the NHGOP continues to oppose this commonsense solution that would strengthen the economic security of New Hampshire families and small businesses."
Zandra Rice Hawkins, executive director of Granite State Progress, which supports expansion, said the speakers at the press conference did not talk about the people who would be helped by expansion.
"This press conference had every special interest group opposed to health care reform at the table, throwing every reason they could against the wall," she said. "The only thing missing was actual New Hampshire hospitals, doctors and consumers."
House and Senate leaders are working with Gov. Maggie Hassan's office to reach an agreement on an expansion plan lawmakers could vote on when they meet in Special Session next month.
If an agreement can be reached, a bill will be introduced Nov. 7 and voted on Nov. 21 after public hearings Nov. 12. If no agreement is reached, several bills could be introduced.
A negotiated bill is likely to resemble the framework of the Commission to Study Medicaid Expansion's recommendations that proposed expanding Medicaid eligibility in order to maximize the available federal money, while using private insurance to cover as many newly eligible people as possible.
State officials estimate that about 49,000 low-income adults will be eligible for the Medicaid rolls under expansion and the state's health care providers would receive $2.4 billion over the next seven years.
The Democratically-controlled House and Hassan favor expansion, while the Senate blocked it and instead wanted further study, which resulted in the Medicaid expansion commission that met this summer and into the fall.
At Wednesday's news conference, commission member Sen. Andy Sanborn, R-Bedford, said the commission was stacked with proponents of expansion. He said expansion could cost the state as much as $340 million annually even if the federal government lives up to its commitment, which he doubts.
He said President Obama told Americans they could keep their health care plan and their doctors. "In reality the President of America is lying to the people of New Hampshire," Sanborn said.
He said the state needs its own solution, but the federal government is making that impossible with its all-or-nothing offer including benefits that far exceed most private insurance plans.
Others said expansion is part of a program that would further entangle the federal government in health care.
"When government shows up and say we have a solution to this problem and we are going to fund it," said Rep. George Lambert, R-Litchfield. "That is the time to panic."
Others complained that expansion will allow groups like Planned Parenthood, which has a contract to provide "navigators" to help those using the health insurance exchange, to subsidize abortions.
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The National Park Service announced Friday that $4.1 million in grants would be spread between 135 Native American tribes for historic preservation purposes.
The Ute Mountain Ute tribe received $36,545. Attempts to reach Chairman Gary Hayes for comment were not immediately successful.
The funds do not have specific strings attached, so they can be put toward a variety of projects, including nominations to the National Register of Historic Places, community education, architectural planning, historic structure reports and bricks-and-mortar structural repairs.
The grant money came from federal oil lease revenues on the Outer Continental Shelf, the nautical expanse between state-owned seabeds and international waters.


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18900 NW Collins Rd. North Plains, Oregon 97133
Regular Hours: 9am to 4pm, Tues - Sat.
we will ALSO be open on Monday and Sunday by appointment, please call ahead.
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Ned Jaquith Foundation started by members of the American Bamboo Society in Ned's honor.
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We are at the nursery Monday, but are busy with shipping orders. It is usually possible to make an appointment for Monday, place or pick up orders, but please call in advance. Regular hours Tues -Sat. 9-4.
The nursery location is 6.5 miles north of North Plains, 20 miles west of Portland
Proud members of the American Bamboo Society since 1980
Cold-sensitive Clumping Bamboo
Summary of Bamboo Products (not live plants)
Photo tour of Bamboo Garden
Grove thinning
and shoot harvesting
History and vision of Bamboo Garden
Freight Shipping Tall Bamboo
Bamboo Garden Gift Certificate
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This view is Zerimar Marino Scarpe da Uomo Blu -Scarpe Sportive Zerimar -Scarpe Casual -Scarpe comode Blu Marino de7a930 from the top of the hill, looking south-east over many of our bamboo groves. Our two main green houses are visible in the distance. Oggie is exploring the hillside, probably hunting for gophers. Ned is driving the white, electric golf cart at the bottom of the hill, on the main road. Our nursery is now over 20 acres with one of the largest collections of bamboo in the country.
See this link for a photo tour of Bamboo Garden
Overhead map of the nursery roads, buildings, and groves.
Photo copyright © Ned Jaquith, Bamboo Garden Oggie the bamboo dog in the Phyllostachys edulis "Moso" at our home in Portland, OR
Aerial photo of Bamboo Garden
click on photo for full screen image Some more of our customer favorites below...
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Fargesia robusta
Shangri La project in Vancouver BC
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Tall Phyllostachys vivax at Bamboo Garden, wrapped and ready to ship...
...to the job site, planted along the main stair way and courtyard.
We are available for consultation and presentations.
There is no fee for presentations to most groups.
For on-site consultation for bamboo installations or problems, please contact us for rates.
Please look at the bamboo descriptions and photos that we have available and
e-mail us with your wish list and questions or call us at 503-647-2700.
Be sure to include your zip code so we can figure your shipping cost. We will
reply as to availability and cost and any other pertinent information. We
accept payment by check, cash, or credit card. Avoid sending credit card info
by e-mail. We look forward to providing generous bamboo knowledge and helping
you actualize bamboo ideas. We appreciate constructive criticism and are
always looking for ways to improve; if their is any way we can better serve
your needs, please let us know.
We welcome visitors to the nursery!
Visiting the
It is not necessary to schedule an appointment during our regular hours, but if you have a large project that you would like to discuss, you can call to make an appointment.
Regular Hours: 9am to 4pm,
Tuesday through Saturday
We will ALSO be open
on Sunday by appointment only, please call ahead.
(503) 647-2700
Proud members of the American Bamboo Society since 1980
Bamboo Canes (cut bamboo)
We now supply dried and fresh cut bamboo canes, locally grown and harvested at Bamboo Garden.
Click on link or photo for more information.
New generation of Seedlings!
Fargesia nitida CLUMPING BAMBOO
Great choice for a cold hardy, non-invasive bamboo. Shade loving plant.
Map designed by Charissa Brock
Photo copyright: Noah Bell, Bamboo Garden
New Moso Shoots, April 4th
About Bamboo Garden
We started growing bamboo in 1980 and joined The American Bamboo Society (ABS) that same year. We helped establish the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the society and have served on the board of directors of both. Ned Jaquith, the late founder of Bamboo Garden, was elected in 2006, as vice president of the ABS and has been awarded Honorary Lifetime Membership due to over 25 years of whole-hearted efforts and generous bamboo knowledge. Ned Jaquith was one of the most significant bamboo growers, collectors, and promoters of our time. In addition to his amazing and diverse collection of bamboo, which evolved into our 20-acre nursery, he was a smart and generous person with a great sense of humor and goodwill. He will be greatly missed among bamboo lovers, the horticultural community, and his friends and family. We are very fortunate to be able to continue the nursery operation, Bamboo Garden, and provide the same level of service, expertise, and enthusiasm for bamboo as our founder.
The nursery is managed by Noah Bell, with over twelve years experience working closely with bamboo in the landscape and nursery trade, and managing Bamboo Garden since 2004. His bamboo photos and articles have been published by the ABS and German Bamboo Society (EBS) and Paul Whitakers book: Practical Bamboos. He is responsible for overseeing the production of about 300 different types of bamboo, maintaining our 20 acre nursery, and providing positive direction for our staff.
We specialize in hardy clumping species, as well as hardy giant timber bamboos, and have been at the forefront of introducing new species into the horticulture trade. See this link for our total collection. and this page for our regularly available species: price list. We have supplied bamboo for many large commercial landscaping projects including: Tacoma Zoo, Portland Classical Chinese Garden, Portland Japanese Garden, Oregon Zoo, Wellesley College in MA, Wayne Morse Courthouse in Eugene, OR, Asia Trail of National Zoo in Washington DC, Shangri La Project in Vancouver, BC, and many others. We work closely with landscaping companies, providing healthy and beautiful bamboo for commercial and residential landscapes, locally and afar. Finally, a huge thank you to all of our customers, without your support and continued business, this would not be possible...
Our largest project to date is the Asia Trail for the National Zoo in Washington DC as designed by The Smithsonian. Between February and June we worked tirelessly to put together a massive collection of bamboo meeting the criteria for this ambitious project. By mid June we had three, 53 foot semi trucks, packed full of our bamboo, ready to travel to Washington DC, and be incorporated into the Asia Trail design. It was a challenging, yet very rewarding task, working together among our staff and with our customers, seeing the project (and bamboo) grow from start to finish and achieving success in the landscape. The future looks bright for bamboo and we hope to be considered a reliable source, from the smallest mail order, to large-scale bamboo design, to other nurseries, and garden centers.
Read the introduction to Bamboo Garden by Author, Ted Jordan Meredith. read more history of Bamboo Garden...
Bamboo Garden, our 20 Acre Nursery
(for photo tour: click on link or picture)
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Grove of giant Moso on Avery Island, Lousiana. American Bamboo Society annual convention, 2011
Useful Links to other websites:
news updated March 28, 2018
If you love bamboo you owe it to yourself to join
The American Bamboo Society
ABS 2009 Conference
ABS 2010 Conference
Shweeash Bamboo
Bamboo nursery and good friend, Dave Crabtree,
from coastal Oregon.
They also do bamboo installations, removal, etc.
Bamboo and Beyond
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Bamboo Valley
LCB licensed bamboo specialty landscaping, installation, and removal by friend and coworker Dain Sansome
Bamboo sculpture by local artist and co-worker,
Charissa Brock
Bamboo Rescue
Lloyd Dubois
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Daphne Lewis'
Bamboo Research grove:
Grassworks Bamboo
Our friends Galyn and Rosemary
a Southern Oregon bamboo nursery
Bello BAMBOO Company
dedication to the promotion and utilization of Bamboo in AU and around the world
Arbor Day Foundation hardiness zone
Check your USDA hardiness zone
CO2 Bambu addresses need for housing and schools in Haiti
Interesting catalog of
bamboo seeds in Thailand
We are also members of O.A.N.
Oregon Association of Nurserymen
and we provided all of the bamboo for
Portland Classical Chinese Garden
Bamboo of the Americas
Saving American Bamboo
For our Canadian friends we recommend
Bamboo Botanicals
Landscaping by friend Nick Erickson
Creative Landscapes
Contemporary Basketry
with Japanese Influence
by Nancy Moore Bess
Bamboo Identification
The informative website of
Dr. Chris Stapleton, bamboo taxonomist
Cistus Nursery
...Your home of zonal denial...
Hardy palms and tropicals
The place we get most of our non-bamboo plants.
Tomita Designs: innovative bamboo products and interior design in Portland, Oregon
More Bamboo Links
Farming Bamboo
a new book by Daphne Lewis for farming bamboo, but very much more. It has the most complete descriptions of many of the more important Phyllostachys.
Hardy Bamboos: Taming the Dragon
By Paul Whittaker $30
Bamboo articles, photos, and much more information:
Classes and events at Bamboo Garden
click link to see current events
Ned on Gardentime TV Noah on Gardentime TV
article in Oregonian:
Bamboo Garden Nursery's Ned Jaquith remembered for his knowledge and generosity
Gardening by the Yard with Paul James, HGTV
A visit By Jim McCausland, Sunset Magazine
Bamboo Garden on Better.tv
When Bamboo Flowers
article by Ned Jaquith
The Beauty of Bamboo
article by Ned Jaquith
Comparing different 'Jiuzhaigou' forms
article by Noah Bell
Article about Clumping Bamboo for Nursery Management Magazine. Author, Susanne Lucas
A tribute to Bamboo Garden
From www.shweeashbamboo.com
(also lots of good info about bamboo care)
Bamboo Society Glossary and FAQs
Bamboo Mites & Other Pests
How to Transport Tall Bamboo
Bamboo inquiries:
General questions and answers from our customers.
Lots of good information about growing bamboo!
Photos of Bamboo in Landscapes
get some good ideas about using bamboo in the landscape
Photo tour of Bamboo Garden
Controlling Bamboo
a photo illustrated guide to using the rhizome barrier, root pruning, and other control methods
Bamboo Pictures and Descriptions: Timber Bamboo (Phyllostachys)
30 to 70 ft. tall Mid-sized Bamboo (Phyllostachys)
15 to 30 ft tall Cold-hardy Clumping Bamboo
Scarpe stringate basse 6 to 25 ft. tall Cold-sensitive Clumping Bamboo
6 to 50 ft. tall Other Running Bamboo
6 to 25 ft. tall Small Running Bamboo
1 to 8 ft. tall Price List, How to order Planting and Caring for Bamboo Hardiness list
Our most cold hardy bamboo 0
Methods to Control Spreading Bamboo Bamboo Rhizome Barrier Landscape Use Bamboo Screens and Hedges Bamboo For Indoors
Bamboo Art
by Charissa Brock by Jiro Yonezawa
Fine books on Bamboo
available at Bamboo Garden:
our catalog
(click on picture for preview)
Ted's long awaited Bamboo Pocket Guide, with over 300 bamboo species listed. Many photos taken at Bamboo Garden.
$19.95 (see link above for info)
Bamboo for Gardens
by Ted Meredith $30
(also see the Forward Ted wrote for our catalog)
Ornamental Bamboos
by David Crompton $30
Nancy Moore Bess is a friend and fellow bamboo lover. You can check out her book and other things on her website.
A Compendium of Chinese Bamboo
by the China Forestry Publishing House
This is the most complete list of bamboos native to China.
It contains accurate technical descriptions of 39 genera and over 500 species,with over 400 color photographs. Great coffee table book.Hard to find, not printed in the United States.It does not contain information about gardening with bamboo; the books listed above cover that subject thoroughly.
A must for collectors or bamboo enthusiasts!
$150 .00
to order any of the books, call 503-647-2700


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Malcolm Browne was a first-rate reporter who spent decades at The New York Times, covered wars around the world and won the Pulitzer Prize for his writing about the early days of the Vietnam war.
And yet he will forever be remembered for one famous picture, the 1963 photo of a Buddhist monk who calmly set himself on fire on the streets of Saigon to protest against the South Vietnamese government, which was being supported by the U.S.
In a war that would produce many shocks to the American public, Browne's photo was one of the first and remains an iconic image of the war a half-century later.
Browne, 81, died Monday at a New Hampshire hospital. He had been suffering from Parkinson's disease in recent years.
Browne went to Vietnam as a young reporter for the AP when the war was in its early stages, a small conflict well below the radar for most Americans.
In an interview last year with Time, Browne detailed how the famous photo came about. He said he had cultivated contacts with monks who had become active in opposing the government. He told Time:
"Along about springtime (1963), the monks began to hint that they were going to pull off something spectacular by way of protest ...
"The monks were telephoning the foreign correspondents in Saigon to warn them that something big was going to happen. Most of the correspondents were kind of bored with that threat after a while and tended to ignore it. I felt that they were certainly going to do something, that they were not just bluffing, so it came to be that I was really the only Western correspondent that covered the fatal day."
The photo had an immediate impact.
As the AP noted in its story on Browne's death, "The photos he took appeared on front pages around the globe and sent shudders all the way to the White House, prompting President John F. Kennedy to order a re-evaluation of his administration's Vietnam policy."
Opposition to the South Vietnamese government continued to grow in the months that followed. On Nov. 1, 1963, about five months after Browne's photo was taken, a group of South Vietnamese generals, with tacit U.S. backing, carried out a coup against South Vietnam's president, Ngo Dinh Diem.
Browne's photo and his reporting pointed to the complicated nature of the Vietnam war that would last for more than a decade and cause great divisions in the U.S.
Browne wrote a memoir in 1993, called Muddy Boots and Red Socks, saying that he "did not go to Vietname harboring any opposition to America's role in the Vietnamese civil war." However, he went on to say that the "shadow war" carried out by the Kennedy administration changed his views.
After leaving the AP, Browne went on to work for the Times for three decades as a foreign correspondent and a science writer.
Browne is among a trio of AP journalists who distinguished themselves during the Vietnam war and have died recently.
Photographer Horst Faas, who won one of his two Pulitzer prizes in Vietnam, died in his native Germany in May at age 79.
And reporter George Esper, who was also 79, died in February. Esper was such a dogged reporter that he remained in Saigon and reported on its fall to the North Vietnamese on April 30, 1975, when the few remaining Americans evacuated by helicopter from rooftops. Esper, still working in the AP bureau, was asked to leave the country a short while later by North Vietnamese soldiers.
One of the world's great journalists has died. On the morning of June, 11, 1963, Malcolm Browne was a correspondent for the Associated Press, based in Saigon. Following a tip, he brought his camera to a pagoda near a busy Saigon intersection. An elderly Buddhist monk sat down in the middle of the street, then two younger monks doused him with gasoline, as Browne describes in this 1995 BBC interview.
MALCOLM BROWNE: He had a packet of matches in his lap. He struck one of them and instantly he was enveloped in flame. I just kept shooting and shooting and shooting. And that protected me from the horror of the thing, the smell of the burning flesh, the expression of anguish. He never cried out, but his face did become anguished. Eventually, of course, he just, he flopped over and twitched a few times and that was it.
CORNISH: Malcolm Browne's photo of the monk's self-immolation gave America, and the world, a chilling view into a then little understood conflict. Browne went on to report for the New York Times, where he spent three decades of his career. He died Monday at the age of 81. For more we're joined by Richard Pile, who ran the AP Saigon bureau after Malcolm Browne. Richard Pile, welcome to the program.
RICHARD PILE: Thank you.
CORNISH: And I'd like to start by offering my condolences for the loss of your friend.
PILE: A lot of people share this grief, and I thank you for that.
CORNISH: Browne is best known for the photo we mentioned, but he wasn't strictly a photo journalist. And I read that he happened to have been carrying a camera that day.
PILE: Well, we all carried cameras because Horst Faas, our great photo mentor, insisted that we do that. And as I have been told by Malcolm himself, that Horst told him that day to take a camera, and he was the only journalist there, as far as anybody knows, who had a camera.
CORNISH: Tell us a little bit about Malcolm Browne as a person. What was his personality like?
PILE: Well, he was always known as a kind of an eccentric character, kind of spooky in a way. He was a brilliant, intellectual type fellow. It's like he always had some mysterious secrets that nobody else could know. But he was a brilliant journalist and courageous. He was all the things that a war correspondent needed to be.
CORNISH: I also read that he actually left behind a guide to new reporters in Vietnam. What was in it?
PILE: That's right. He wrote a manual for new reporters, anybody coming into the bureau. Things like, be careful when you talk in public because there are police spies in the restaurants who like to eavesdrop on conversations. And keep your head down in combat, don't stick your head up to see where the bullets come from because the next one will be yours. These are all, you know, sort of like seemingly obvious, and they might make it sound as if reporters were paranoid about spooks and spies and that sort of thing. But in fact, the old rule that even paranoids are allowed to have enemies, applied there. And it was good advice that he gave us on all these things.
CORNISH: One thing that struck me about his background was that he was the son of an architect and got a degree in chemistry. He had a sort of science background. Is that right?
PILE: Yeah. As a matter of fact, I didn't really know a lot of that about him until one day I was covering the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster in Pennsylvania, and there he was. I said, Malcolm what are you doing here? He looked at me like I was crazy. He said, well, I've got a degree in nuclear energy. I didn't know that until he told me that.
CORNISH: When you look back now on your friend and his legacy, what do you think that legacy is? Especially to photo journalists or people doing wartime coverage.
PILE: He's not alone in this, but he's one of those who showed how it should be done. And how to get around obfuscation, how to get around bureaucracy that tries to prevent things from being said and done. He was confrontational with officials and people who tried to shut him up, and that sort of thing. He was an enemy of those who would obscure the truth.
CORNISH: Richard Pile, thank you so much for talking with us.
PILE: You're very welcome.
CORNISH: Richard Pile, a longtime reporter with the Associated Press, remembering his colleague, journalist Malcolm Browne. Browne died Monday at the age of 81.
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March 02. 2013 4:33PM
Ice climber dies on Mount Washington
By Sara Young-Knox
Union Leader correspondent
SARGENTS PURCHASE – A New York man was killed while solo ice climbing in Huntington Ravine on Friday, according to White Mountain National Forest officials.
According to officials, James Watts, 24, was climbing without ropes alone in Pinnacle Gully when an avalanche carried him out of the gully.
No one witnessed the accident. His body was discovered by a hiker, an emergency room physician, around 3 p.m., more than 1,000 feet below the gully. The hiker checked for vital signs, WMNF spokesperson Tiffany Benna reported, but found none.
The body was carried out by four U.S. Forest Service snow rangers, a mountain Rescue Service member, and the caretakers of the Harvard Cabin and Hermit Lake shelters. The recovery effort concluded at 6 p.m.
"Our sympathies go out to the family and friends of Mr. Watts," Lead Snow Ranger Chris Joosen said.
The Forest Service issued a safety reminder with the report of the young man's death.
"The White Mountain National Forest operates the Mount Washington Avalanche Center to provide daily safety information and search and rescue services to the public. Although beautiful, the mountains contain many hazards for visitors to be aware of which are reported on www.mountwashingtonavalanchecenter.org by the Forest Service. Avalanches, icefall, weather, undermined snow, and crevasses can all become objective mountain hazards that create a level of risk. Knowing where they are and when they may be worse can help visitors make better decisions for their own safety."