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Memo to: Rupert Murdoch
Re: Election edification
Now that they've endured one and a half party conventions, it's left to the voters to assimilate unfamiliar personalities and even a few abstract ideas. The Democrats' mantra is "change" and the Republicans' is "reform," but it's not really clear what either side means.
Given the fact that this is truly a milestone election, the news media have a special responsibility, and that brings us to you, Rupert. Wouldn't this be a great year for you to dedicate your vast media resources to the task of informing rather than propagandizing?
I can summon up two reasons why this would be a cool idea:
(1) Your acquisition of The Wall St. Journal and the seminal role that MySpace occupies in our pop culture gives your empire vastly increased scope and heft. It's not just about Fox News and The New York Post (not to mention the overseas newspapers) — your holdings have exponentially expanded, and so have your responsibilities.
(2) No one can quite figure out where you stand, anyway. The Post backed Obama in the New York primary at your urging (apparently your one meeting with him initially left you impressed), but then that tabloid and Fox News turned fiercely antagonistic toward him and the Democratic ticket. The Journal's editorial page has drifted even further to the right since your acquisition, if that's possible, endorsing Sarah Palin as though she were a potential American Margaret Thatcher (your onetime heroine).
But your politics have always been somewhat inscrutable, Rupert. You used to insist you were a "classic liberal," whatever that means. Associates declare you a fierce "anti-elitist," whatever that means.
Your pet toy, Fox News, is hard right and pro-Bush. Its principal ideologues won't even acknowledge global warming.
In the U.K. you were a Thatcherite through the '80s, but then your Sun backed Tony Blair and you became a frequent guest at No. 10 Downing Street. Andrew Neil, editor of your Sunday Times for a decade, pointed out that since the Murdoch press backed Blair, it magically avoided media ownership limits.
William Shawcross, another one of your former editors, said you would often send right-wing articles to subordinates marked "worth reading." Associates at Fox say you often vent your political views to them, yet tolerate the fact that almost all of the executives in your entertainment empire are hardcore liberals. Is this a case of Mandarin tolerance or simply a surrender to reality?
You should know that there's growing discontent in the ranks, Rupert. Some defections may occur if your views become more strident — and your stock options less valuable.
Your political bias hasn't often reflected itself on the showbiz side, though every once in a while you show your colors. You killed one movie, "Die Hard III," for example, because you insisted its attitudes were "anti-cop" and you felt Hollywood too often put "authority" in a negative light.
You clearly are a global thinker, Rupert, constantly pressing for further international expansion. You are married to a forceful Chinese woman and you have many friends and supplicants around the globe.
But no one — not even your foreign partners — quite knows who the hell you are. You started out a lefty, and even had a bust of Lenin in your room at Oxford, much to the irritation of your father.
Now it seems that you may be shifting direction yet again. Your hair color has changed from gray to orange and you're hanging with folks like Bono and Diller and Geffen — not to mention your kids, whose politics are a lot less strident. The world is changing and perhaps you are, too.
So here's an idea, Rupert. Send out the word that the boss would like to give both sides a fair shake this time. That means Fox News really does miraculously become "fair and balanced." It means the post-partisan Journal continues to respect the distinction between its news pages and its editorial page — and perhaps its editorials might stop being poisonous toward any opinion to the left of Genghis Khan.
It means that the Post can cover both candidates and steer clear of the sort of pro-Bush bias that would even embarrass your British tabloids.
After all, you're not William Randolph Hearst, Rupert. You're a lot wiser — and also a lot more pragmatic. Hearst blew away his empire partly because he became a slave to his ideology and greed. People now remember him only as a weird old guy who built a giant castle that transformed San Simeon into an upmarket Disneyland.
You were never into castles, Rupert, and, unlike Hearst, you really love your newspapers — to a point where snarky media analysts label you both "old media" and "old hat."
Prove them wrong, Rupert. Instruct your media mavens to take the high road this time out. It will be a far loftier legacy than that of Hearst.


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Launched by Carnival Corporation in April 2016, Fathom is a totally new concept: Caribbean cruises that focus more on getting to know the local community than days at the beach.
The line's sole ship, the 704-passenger Adonia, made history in May 2016 when it was the first passenger ship to cruise from the U.S. to Cuba in 40 years. The ship cruises out of Miami year-round, alternating between sailings to the Dominican Republic for volunteer tourism and sailings to Cuba for cultural immersion.
Adonia previously sailed as part of the U.K.-based line P&O, and while it was refit when it joined the line, the focus on these cruises is much more on the enrichment than on the ship itself, or even the onboard activities. Adonia does not have a lot of bells and whistles — you won't find a casino or stage productions, and there is just one pool and a small spa — but it's also the only ship that has an onboard storytelling booth and workshops on curiosity and social innovation.
And while the travel restrictions to Cuba have eased in the last year, U.S. citizens still need to visit the island via a "people-to-people" exchange program — you can't just go and, say, stretch out on the beach the way many Europeans do there. Fathom's itineraries and excursions satisfy the requirement and make it easy to get around the island. The activities come on board as well, with Latin dance lessons and concerts by local musicians at the pool during sea days and in the evenings.
Making a Difference: In the Dominican Republic, passengers can choose from a variety of activities designed to help out in the local community, from delivering clean-water filters to families in remote villages to pouring concrete floors in private homes. Some of the projects are hard work, but they also offer a feeling of accomplishment.
Cultural Exchanges: Fathom's trips to Cuba focus on educational interactions with the Cuban people, including artists and community leaders. From walking tours to meals at traditional paladares (family-owned restaurants), passengers are encouraged to learn about Cuba and get to know the locals.
Workshops: Sea days are spent attending lectures and workshops put together by the Impact Guides (Fathom's version of cruise directors), many of whom have backgrounds with organizations like the Peace Corps. Their enthusiasm gives these sailings an air of summer camp, which seems to appeal more to the volunteer-focused crowd on Dominican Republic sailings than on trips to Cuba. For example, on our Cuba cruise, a storytelling workshop cleared out before it was even over, while the cocktail-making class was enthusiastically attended.
Making Cuba Easy: Travel to Cuba is still new for Americans, and you won't find the same variety of hotel options or basic infrastructure of other Caribbean islands. These cruises make it simple to see multiple cities without much planning.
Do-Gooders: There is no obligation to do the volunteer activities, but be aware that many of your fellow passengers are there to make a difference, and may be offended by "slackers" who are less interested in participating.
Families with Older Kids: The Dominican Republic sailings attract multigenerational groups who are interested in bonding while volunteering. Children need to be at least 8 to cruise on Adonia, and some of the activities may be too difficult physically for younger passengers.
Deal Hunters: Dominican Republic sailings are a fraction of the cost of Cuba sailings, with prices as low as $200 a person for a week-long itinerary.
The Ship Is Continental: Even after a full renovation there is still an English country-house vibe to the ship — a look that is at odds with the ship's sunny Caribbean location. The British-trained crew was also kept, meaning you'll find a high level of service despite the relative newness of the line.
This Isn't a Beach Trip: The Dominican Republic cruises only make one stop, spending four days docked at Amber Cove on the northern coast of the island. The port was created by Carnival to serve their ships, and it has a pool and waterslides — but no beach. If you aren't doing one of the volunteer activities, you are better off arranging for transportation to the larger Puerto Plata, a 15-minute drive away.
The Food Isn't Great: While the Ocean Grill specialty restaurant is worth the extra charge, the main dining room and buffet leave a lot to be desired. The attempts at Latin dishes were particularly disappointing on our sailing. (The arroz con pollo, for example, tasted more like tandoori chicken.)
The Line Is Still Working on Its Identity: The line is still making adjustments to hit the right marks for the audience — which varies greatly depending on the itinerary. While passengers to the Dominican Republic may bond over the volunteer activities, those on the Cuba cruises are more likely to be looking to relax and immerse themselves in a new culture. For the Cuba sailings, programming both onshore and on board is in flux. The line has already revamped onboard programming to include lighter yet informative activities, such as architecture bingo and presentations on Cuban coffee.
Kristen Boatright is the New York City-based senior video editor of ShermansCruise.com.
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Matters of council: Leave of absence and land acknowledgements
An extended leave of absence
City council has approved the extended leave of absence taken by Coun. Clyde Blackburn as he is to undergo the next stage of cancer treatment.
On Monday, the motion saw his leave extended to Jan. 1, 2020.
Mayor Bill Given said there is no limit to the number of times a leave of absence can be extended, according to legislation under the Municipal Government Act, and the decision falls to Blackburn whether or not to return.
"Coun. Blackburn has been pretty transparent with his challenge and the way that he's facing his cancer diagnosis," said Given.
"Our council did have an opportunity to discuss with Coun. Blackburn about his wishes and intentions before he entered this round of treatment and our council members are fully in support of him seeking his treatment."
Under the council procedure bylaw, Blackburn will be allowed to dial in for a single item on a council agenda per meeting after missing more than four consecutive council meetings until he returns.
Land acknowledgements
City council is intent on establishing a policy to make delivery of Indigenous land acknowledgements more consistent.
"It's become common for the City of Grande Prairie to acknowledge that we're on Treaty 8 territory," said Mayor Bill Given.
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Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) - Friday's game between the Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox was postponed because of inclement weather.
The game was scheduled for 1:35 p.m. ET and will now be made up as the opener of a day-night doubleheader on Saturday. The first contest will begin at 1:05 p.m., while the regularly scheduled game will still take place at 7:15 p.m.
Hurricane Arthur worked its way along the East Coast on Friday and the forecast for the Boston area called for heavy rain and wind throughout the afternoon and evening.


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Measuring the Benefits of Ajax
There's a lot of hype surrounding the latest Web development craze, Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), and a considerable amount of skepticism about its usefulness in the business realm. Surprisingly, although there is a lot of talk about what amazing things you can do with this approach, there is very little information about the applicability to business. There are quantifiable benefits to be realized for end users and businesses, which include improved usability and faster applications. These translate to hard cost savings that I'll explore in this article. It's important for developers to be able to explain the benefits of Ajax to other business stakeholders in these terms so that they are speaking the language of business, which is universally understood.
How Is Ajax Different?
Where Do the Benefits of Ajax Come From?
Often, in business, decision makers are interested mainly in how information technology can reduce costs, or make better use of information assets. The benefits of Ajax seem to come more out of the cost-containment arena than the latter. The question becomes "Where do these cost savings come from and how can we quantify them?"
1. Potentially Measurable Benefits
These are benefits that can be measured and expressed in terms of dollars and cents without much difficulty. Regardless of the quality of your Ajax UI, you will look to these metrics to estimate value. They include:
- Time spent waiting for data to be transmitted: Time is money. Over many repetitions, the time employees spend waiting for the page to load can add up to significant costs.
- Time spent completing a particular task: Increased efficiency in the user interface can often mean that time is saved at the task level, offering opportunities for concrete cost savings there.
- Bandwidth consumed for the entire task: The cost of bandwidth does not increase linearly, but does increase as the company invests in larger-capacity Internet connections and new hardware to accommodate greater server loads. A firm's cost structure for bandwidth depends on the scale of their operation and these capital investment needs. That being said, the cost of bandwidth can be measured if this cost structure is known. If repetitious tasks consume a lot of bandwidth, these costs can escalate dramatically. The amount of bandwidth consumed also has implications for time savings.
2. Hard to Quantity Benefits
Some of the benefits associated with good user interfaces are qualitative and difficult to measure precisely. This isn't to imply they are not of financial value, but many business benefits are hard to quantify, and seasoned IT managers will know intuitively they can translate into significant bottom line savings. For Ajax, the opportunities for streamlining the interface are limited only by our imaginations, and it should also be noted that it's still possible to design a terrible UI with Ajax that doesn't benefit from any of the following:
- Steps to complete a task: Reducing the number of steps has implications for the amount of time consumed but also for the number of opportunities for error. Fewer errors mean cost savings down the road when these errors would have to be manually corrected.
- Familiar user interface: Quite often these days, Web-based applications are used to replace desktop applications that had superior user interfaces. The benefits of offering users a similar or even just a familiar user interface to what they use on the desktop means lower training costs, fewer errors, and greater initial productivity.
- Improved application responsiveness: More responsive applications can improve productivity not just by reducing "wait," but by promoting a more fluid, uninterrupted workflow. In a responsive application, users can move rapidly from one action to another as quickly as they can visualize the workflow. Less responsive applications can defeat the user's workflow visualization by forcing them to continually wait for program information.
The Ajax Test Case
To explore the potential for cost savings, look at a sample application that was built to study the differences between the traditional Web architectures and Ajax. I call this application the "United Chemicals Sales Tool (UCST)." United Chemicals is a fictional company that sells household chemicals. The UCST allows sales personnel to transact sales and maintain a general database of customers. The application is written in ASP, and is connected to a database of roughly 10,000 customer records, 60,000 sales records, and a catalogue of about 600 products. This is meant to represent a controlled version of a scenario you might see in the real world.
Two versions of the UCST application were written. One version was developed using a traditional architecture. The user interface resembled one you might see if you had used the Microsoft Data grid to display and edit records. The other version used an Ajax component, the EBA Grid Control developed by eBusiness Applications (http://developer.ebusiness-apps.com) to edit data in an Excel-like interface. In almost every other respect, these applications function identically. For this to be a fair comparison, several guidelines were used in the execution of the test case:
- Five test users were required to enter exactly the same amount of data in each application for each task.
- The traditional architecture version would only post back to the server when absolutely necessary.
- All HTML, JavaScript, and image overhead was included in the calculations with no pre-cached elements.
- Microsoft Fiddler (http://www.fiddlertool.com) and a stopwatch were used to gather relevant metrics.
- Test users had at least a moderate level of computer knowledge.
- Test users received the same training in both versions of the application beforehand.
The United Chemicals Sales ToolAjax Version
Two tasks were designed to be representative of a sales entry tool. Task 1 was to add a sale to an existing customer. Users had to locate the customer from the list, and process a sale for that person. Task 2 was to add a sale to a new customer. This task involved more steps and required the user to enter the data, perform a search, and then enter the sale information. Both tasks together had 10 steps. Users performed both tasks on both versions of the UCST application.
The United Chemicals Sales Tool test application can be found here: http://www.ajaxinfo.com/ucst/index.html
Traditional vs. AjaxThe Results
The metrics taken for this study were bytes transferred, total time consumed by the task, and Microsoft Fiddler's estimation of the time it would take to transfer the same data in the same number of HTTP requests to a location on the US West Coast from our position.
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As expected, in every test there were significant performance improvements across the board in the Ajax version. The greatest improvements were in bandwidth and network traffic efficiency gains. This resulted in improved responsiveness, allowing the user to move more quickly through the application. Overall, there was a 73% improvement in the number of bytes transferred in the Ajax application over the traditional version. This was due to the fact that that server requests were made only for the data that was needed, not for the entire page. Microsoft Fiddler also predicted that there would be a 68% overall time improvement in transferring that information to a location on the US West Coast given the number of HTTP requests, bytes transferred, the latency of that connection, and the bandwidth afforded by a simple 56k modem.
More importantly than bandwidth considerations was the direct benefit to users who saved on average 32% of the time required to complete the tasks in the Ajax version. Had those users been connecting to a remote location instead of a local server, Fiddler predicted the time savings could have been much more dramatic (around 68%). We can take these numbers now and extrapolate to see how large enterprises could be affected when these actions are repeated over and over.
The Benefit to Business
Using the test application with this 10-step process, one already can see that the potential for time and bandwidth savings is dramatic. It's possible also to express these savings in dollars and cents, given certain assumptions and using basic math. You calculate these savings based on the labor rate, the number of transactions, and the time savings per transaction.
Ajax Cost Savings = Hourly Labor Rate X (Seconds Saved per Transaction X Number of Transactions per year) / 3600
Looking at a conservative potential time savings of 36 seconds per transaction, if a business performs 50,000 of these transactions per year, and a labor cost of $20/hour, we see a total labor savings of $10,000 per year, or 500 man hours, on this transaction type alone.
Given the Microsoft Fiddler predicted time savings of 199.01 seconds per transaction for a remotely hosted application, you see a more aggressive cost reduction of approximately $55,281 per year for this transaction type, or 2,764 man hours.
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I don't have a ton of time to sit and write but I have been following this story over the last several days. The US Senate is debating the energy "crisis." Hey everything is a crisis anymore. Anyway.... Democrats in the Senate want to get the government's hand on the billions of dollars in "windfall" profits being taken in by "big oil." Sorry for all the quotes but I have to use all these buzz words ;). I was reading a Fox News story this morning talking about this very topic. The headline for the article was Senate Considers Windfall Profits Tax on Big Oil.
Now maybe I am just young ;) and niave but haven't we tried this before in the 80's? Didn't work then and won't work now. These braniac Senators are proposing a 25% tax on profits avove what they deem reasonable. Now tell me that isn't a slippery slope in a market based economy. You have the government stepping into the private sector and dictating how much profit a company can make and you have a recipe for economic disaster. You start telling entrepreneurs like myself and others that they can only make x amount of profits you will limit business startups, growth, and investment in R&D. The government has never ran a program in a profitable way. How are they now going to step in a tell profitable private sector corporations that they now better than them how to run the business and? I have more to say but I am running short on time. I welcome your comments....
Just so you don't think i am partisan on this matter they, the Senate Dems, did have a good idea in their package. They would require commodity traders to put up more collateral when trading in the energy futures markets. This would help curb speculation which is one factor driving the price of oil higher.
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Major NHS hospitals in England have vetoed a proposed "tariff" of payments for next year because they believe reductions in the amount they receive for treatments will leave them unable to guarantee "sustainable and safe care".
Watchdog Monitor announced it was delaying the implementation of the national tariff for 2015/16 in response to the level of objections received.
Although objections came from only 37% of service providers - such as hospitals, mental health units and ambulance services - the complainants included large teaching hospitals delivering high levels of specialised care.
Between them they deliver 75% of the total healthcare services in question, meeting the 51% threshold required to block the tariff.
Monitor and NHS England are now considering whether to consult on revised proposals or to refer the issue to the Competition and Markets Authority.
The NHS Confederation, which represents commissioners of health care, said the delay would have an "unacceptable impact" on planning for 2015/16, while the group NHS Clinical Commissioners said it would have "significant cost implications" for commissioners, such as GP practices.
The organisation NHS Providers, which represents acute hospitals, community, mental health and ambulance services including 94% of foundation trusts, said the proposed tariff amounted to the fifth successive year of 4% cuts in payments to providers, at a cost of £1.7 billion, and would require "unachievable" efficiency savings at a time when demand was rising by 4% a year.
NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson said: "The fact that 75% of NHS providers, measured by activity, have vetoed the NHS 2015/16 tariff is hugely significant.
"It is a clear response from the NHS frontline that they can no longer guarantee sustainable and safe care and meet constitutional performance targets from April 1 2015 unless immediate changes are made to the way they are paid for their services. "
Under the tariff, hospitals would only receive 50% of the cost of increased demand for A&E services, and ambulance, mental health and community trusts would not be paid properly for the emergency patients they treated, while providers of complex care for rare conditions would only be paid half the price of additional activity in 2015/16, Mr Hopson said.
NHS bodies are not able to walk away from operations which are not proving financially sustainable, as private company Circle announced it was doing at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire, he pointed out.
"This isn't a decision that provider leaders have taken lightly," Mr Hopson said.
"Triggering the objection mechanism has repercussions for them, creating uncertainty over the contracting round and service plans for 2015/16 which starts in just two months.
"But after five years of unprecedented price cuts, with NHS providers realising more than £20 billion of savings over this parliament, objecting to the tariff for many represents a last resort to have their concerns heard as they can no longer guarantee safe and effective care unless they are properly and fully paid for the patients they treat.
"We have now reached the point where patient care is at risk.
"Either we fit the money to the care provided - NHS providers being paid fully for the patients they treat - or we fit the care to meet the money available - ensuring that providers are commissioned for realistic levels of care to reflect the static overall NHS budget.
"What we can't carry on doing is pretending that NHS trusts can achieve the impossible and then berate and criticise them when they inevitably fall short."
NHS Providers is demanding a revised tariff to ensure hospitals are "fully and properly" paid for the care they provide, with all emergency work paid for at 100% of tariff cost, f inancial risk equally shared between commissioners and providers and a shift away from penalising providers for failing to deliver on targets.
Some 13% of Clinical Commissioning Groups objected to the proposed tariff.
Dr Steve Kell, co-chair of NHS Clinical Commissioners, said: "This is a really disappointing situation for CCGs and patients at a time when the NHS needs effective planning and service improvement.
"This is a crucial year for the NHS and it is essential NHS England and Monitor reach an agreement soon which addresses the concerns of providers and commissioners.
"We need a national tariff system that enables and supports local relationships not undermines them.
"This delay is likely to lead to significant cost implications for commissioners and it is vital that CCGs do not have additional financial pressures in a year when we need to deliver real change for patients."
Rob Webster, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: "A lot of time and effort has gone into engaging with Monitor and NHS England on the 2015/16 National Tariff and the situation we have ended up in suits no-one.
"While it is right that a fair solution be reached, the timelines set by Monitor and NHS England means this delay has an unacceptable impact on planning for 2015/16.
"Furthermore, they must be disappointed that we could reach a point where an external body needs to come in to arbitrate."
A spokesman for Monitor said: "Monitor and NHS England are now considering the feedback received from the consultation and possible next steps, in the context of what the legislation permits in the event that an objection threshold is breached.
"Amongst the options available are engaging with the sector then re-consulting on revised proposals or referring the method to the Competition and Markets Authority.
"Meanwhile, commissioners and providers will be expected to continue planning for 2015/16 on the basis of the timetable and guidance that has already been issued."
An NHS England spokesperson said: "Just over a third of providers objected to the Monitor tariff consultation.
"Since the overall NHS funding totals for 2015/16 are now agreed, any fundamental changes to benefit one set of providers would in practice mean robbing Peter to pay Paul.
"This consultation underlines the need for a more wide ranging cross-NHS approach to the inescapable efficiency challenge ahead, including the forthcoming work of the Carter review."
Richard Murray, director of policy at health think tank The King's Fund, said: " The rejection of the proposed national tariff for next year is very significant. It signals that the policy of implementing year-on-year reductions in the prices paid to hospitals for their services has reached the end of the line.
"This is an unprecedented development. It is not clear what the outcome will be but, with just three months to go before the start of the financial year, it will throw financial planning in the NHS into disarray.
"With signs that it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain downward pressure on staff pay, it indicates that the two main ways used to reduce NHS costs over the last few years - limiting staff salary increases and reducing payments to hospitals - have now been largely exhausted.
"With financial problems among hospitals now endemic, waiting times rising and staff morale a significant cause for concern, this once again indicates that the situation facing the NHS is becoming critical."


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- Above is the latest promo for Erick Rowan and Luke Harper as The Bludgeon Brothers. They will return to WWE TV on next Tuesday's post-Survivor Series SmackDown from Houston.
- Sin Cara tweeted the following after his loss to WWE United States Champion Baron Corbin on this week's SmackDown. Twitter translates the message to, "Grateful with the opportunity that God allowed me to live! Thank you all for your love. Just remember that what doesn't kill you makes you more strong. #FollowTheFaceless #TodosSomosSinCara"
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As a financial advisor, I often tell my clients that the most important investment they can ever make is that of their energy and attention in their future, as I've seen first-hand what happens when people learn to consciously direct their thoughts toward the future they want to create. When I give seminars, I'll often ask people, "What are you going to do differently this year than you did last year?" And often, I get a kind of blank look in response. "I'm going to make more money than I did last year." "I'm going to see more people than I did last year." But when I ask them what they will do differently, they say, "What do you mean?"
There is a well known definition of insanity, which is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And when I say doing the same thing, I mean at the most fundamental level–how we spend our attention and energy. The human mind is like a bio-computer that is continually processing input and output, and so, whatever you put in is understandably what you'll get out. Put in junk and you'll get junk. But put in good programs, and you'll get good results.
A metaphor I like to use is that of my car and its built-in navigation system. If I want to go to the city to meet a new client, I can enter the address and the system guides me–turn right, turn left, drive straight ahead for three miles. This has certainly made driving much easier over the last several years, but I still have to program the navigation system with a destination in order to get where I want to go.
In a way, our subconscious mind is a like a navigation system. It's constantly giving us directions, but if we haven't plugged in the right address with our conscious mind, then we're going to be going in circles.
The good news is that visualizing and learning to redirect our future is not as difficult as some people might think. The first step is to create a two-minute movie in your head of you in the future, being the person that you always wanted to be, and imagining that money is not an obstacle in any way. The second step then requires five minutes a night, before you go to bed. Spend a minute or two in meditation and/or doing some type of relaxation technique—anything that will best help you to focus. Then, once you feel centered and grounded, play your movie in your head.
There's an old saying, "act as if." Or, as we often say, "fake it till you make it." Your movie has to be a snapshot of a day in the life of you, playing bigger in the world: where and what you do at work, the relationships you have, the house you live in, the car you drive, etc. What does that vision look like three to five years out in a perfect day in the life of you? And then give it up to the Universe because in all likelihood that vision, while it may come true, will find reasons to change and grow as you make it bigger and better. We need to give our energy a direction to move in. It's critical that we do that. Otherwise, we flounder. It's like getting in our car without a navigation system and driving around with no idea where we're going.
Go from morning to night and make it as sensory as possible. Add as much detail as you can–objectively and subjectively. Whatever it is, it should be you living your fullest expression–and filled with happiness as you do what you love to do.
Then play your movie every night for thirty days, because this is how long many people believe it takes for a new habit to form in the subconscious mind. For example, if you smoke once, it probably won't become a habit, but if you smoke for thirty days you're very possibly hooked.
I can't stress this point enough: if you don't believe that your thoughts are creating the life you're living and that you're the principal author of your own destiny, writing your own story every day, you will remain a helpless audience member watching your life go by. The visualization process gives you something far more useful to focus on than the old counter-productive messages of your mind. Over time, you'll be amazed how quickly your outer world will begin to change once you've learned how to rewrite your script.
Adapted from Beyond Success: Redefining the Meaning of Prosperity.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Farm Bulletin: Public Works Projects
When we city folk go to the farmers' markets, we see the end result of much work and planning, some of it happening months, if not years, beforehand. Farming takes hard, physical labor, and it's important to look deeper, to notice the berry-stained hands, the stiff backs, the cuts and bruises. I'm grateful to be able to post contributor Anthony Boutard's missives as a reminder of what it takes to grow the food that we put on our tables.
Farming is more than a pastoral activity: it also requires careful planning. As with any town or city, we rely on infrastructure such as water delivery, drainage, housing and transportation. Among our annual activities are what we call public works projects. Over the last three years, we have been working on renewing two blocks that were planted to blackberries. One is going into vegetable production and the other may be planted to raspberries. Berries are very expensive and risky to plant, and sane farmers shy away from the crop.
The change is equivalent to urban renewal. The trellises and irrigation pipes are removed, old canes are mown and turned under and restorative cover crops such as chicories, clovers and mustards are planted. We needed to improve the drainage in the field and change the irrigation. The plums needed better drainage. We have lost some trees where the soil was water-logged. The orchard has an odd mosaic of drainage patterns.
We drove our Volvo down to Needy Tile and loaded up 6,000 feet of drainage tile. It is not your mum's old 240. Our Volvo has a 26-foot flat bed, a 310 HP Cummins engine, two 100-gallon fuel tanks and a Hendrickson tandem rear end. (It took a while to get used to people complimenting our rear-end.) The Volvo is registered at 38,000 pounds gross vehicle weight (GVW), and is a beast to drive. The definition of embarrassment is failing to shift to lower range at a traffic light; the truck stalls. The tile is not that heavy, but it is bulky and fills the bed.
Needy Tile is located in the Clackamas County settlement of Needy. The Needy post office opened in February 1855. Drain tiles were originally two-foot long pieces of terra-cotta pipe. They were placed in a deep ditch down end-to-end, then covered with soil. The water seeps between the seams and flows down to an open ditch or pond. Tile manufacturers were located in the bottom land near clay deposits and the river bottom hardwoods needed for firing the kilns. Some beautiful old kilns still stand near the Groner School in Scholls.
Today, drain tile is a long plastic tube with slits along its length. Water trickles through the slits and down the tube to its outlet. The location of the factory on a narrow road next to a river reflects the history tile-making, not good industrial planning. The immaculate factory with its hissing and clunking machinery, and the serpentine tile hoses moving along the floor, is straight of Tati's "Mon Oncle." The only thing missing is Alain Romans' music—the truck lacks a CD player. It took us three days to lay the tile pipe.
Next, we loaded the Volvo with about 600 feet of water pipe. While we had the trencher on site, we dug out the ditches to bury the pipe. We buy our irrigation supplies from Ernst Irrigation in St. Paul. The area around St. Paul is called French Prairie. Once it was covered with Blue Lake pole beans, and the Marion County Soil Survey published in 1972 still evaluated soils for pole bean production. Today, it is all bush beans picked by Pixall Super Jacks. They also grow a lot seed garlic and hops on the prairie.
All of our irrigation supplies are purchased from Ernst. Until a decade ago, it was part of an independent John Deere dealership and irrigation supplier. The Fisher Group acquired Ernst in 1999. In 2009, Fisher decided to combine stores and relocate in nearby Donald. The families that founded Ernst got together and repurchased the irrigation company from Fisher. Ernst is an important employer for St. Paul and it was a community effort to save the business. Patrick, Jill and Mike, the children of Bill Dolan, one of the founders, are responsible for day-to-day operation of the store. It is a friendly, small-town business. Matt Corcoran is their micro-irrigation specialist. He designed and redesigned our system at various times over the last 12 years. We are a tiny customer relative to other farm operations, but the staff are always attentive.
Now our pubic works projects are done for the season, and we are back attending to plants and harvesting crops.
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3. Obstacle course
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Greek honey: Greek Gastronomy Guide gathered everything you need to know in this tasty tribute!
- Honey and the bee
- The history of honey in Greece
- Basic types of Greek honey
- Honey tasting
- Where Greek honey comes from
- Organoleptic characteristics of honey
- Honey in Greek cooking
- Present state and future of Greek honey
- Life in the hive
- Interview with Giorgos Pittas
Honey and the bee
Honey is the nourishment produced by bees from the nectar of flowers or from secretions that either derive from living parts of plants or are to be found on them. They collect these, then process and mix them with their own special essences, store them and allow them to ripen in the cells of the hive. Honey is a unique sweetening substance of great biological and nutritional value, Nature's inestimable gift to man.
Honey has been a foodstuff since the dawn of mankind and was the first sweetener, enjoyed millennia before humans knew how to process sugar. A completely natural substance, it is extremely beneficial to the health, almost a medicine in itself but oh so palatable. Moreover, since humans have always had a sweet tooth, they began collecting honey in the wild very early and later attempted to domesticate bees, developing the art of beekeeping, first by raising bees in the hollows of trees, then woven baskets, clay hives, and finally by today's wooden boxes with removable sides. Bees, however, remain wild.
Furthermore, as various ancient physicians, from Egypt to Assyria and Greece, came to discover and verify its medicinal properties, honey became more than the basic sweetener in many parts of the world and was and still is consumed as an essential ingredient of the human diet, especially in the Mediterranean.
And of course, honey, being so precious to mankind, was deified and became the food of gods.
Honey's significant role lasted until the mid16th century, when sugar was first introduced to Europe, and then became the prime sweetening agent around the end of the 18th as it had tremendous production potential at low cost.
Of enormous importance albeit difficult to quantify is the bee's contribution to the ecosystem and the economy through pollination. Bees transport pollen and are largely responsible for the fertilization and reproduction of every kind of flora the world over, whether in forests and uncultivated areas or in farming.
Since bees constitute about 80% of pollinating insects, we can appreciate how essential their role is, whether for the economy as much as for biodiversity and the balance of the ecosystem.
The history of honey in Greece
Researchers have noted that honey and the art of beekeeping arrived in Greece from Ancient Egypt.
At Phaistos, the renowned Minoan city in southern Crete, clay hives were found dating to 3400 BC. The exquisite piece of gold jewelry from Knossos of two bees holding a honeycomb dates to the same era.
Honey, the beverage and food of the gods – nectar and ambrosia – held an important place in people's daily life, not only as foodstuff but also as a therapeutic substance
The bee was deified. She was the nymph to whom the Rhea entrusted her infant Zeus, 'Born in Crete', and who nourished him with milk and honey in the Diktean Cave high in the mountains of Crete.
In Homer's Odyssey 'Melikraton' is mentioned, a cocktail of honey and milk much appreciated as a superior drink. Honey often appears in plays and poems by Hesiod, Pindar, Callimachus, Apollodorus, Euripides, Archelaus, Athenaeus, Herodotus and many more, not to mention later works by Byzantine monks as well as travellers and literati right up to the present.
In ancient daily life honey was used in the form of
- Milomelo, apples preserved in honey, all year round
- Melikrato, honey and milk for children
- Oxymelo, honey with vinegar to treat fever
- Hydromel, a liqueur from the alcohol of fermented honey
- Oenomelo, honey with wine. Democritus is said to have lived to a ripe old age because he consumed oenomelo with bread.
Hippocrates praised the beneficial effect of oenomelo for both the sick and the healthy, Pythagoras maintained that honey combats fatigue, and Democritus extolled the well-being and long life he owed to it.
In Sparta schoolteachers and youths under military training spent a month on Mt Taygetus living exclusively on honey (a honeymoon). Beekeeping became systematically organized as a business. The great Athenian law-giver Solon (640-558 BC) handed down laws still in existence and regulations determining the distance between apiaries to prevent any doubts concerning ownership of the swarms.
Aristotle fabricated a glass hive so as to observe the bees at work and his writings, History of Animals and A Study of the Generation of Animals, are held up as a model of study and prototype of the functioning, structure and hierarchy in an ideal state.
(Photos taken from the Institute of Agricultural Science – I.A.S.)
Basic types of Greek honey
Honey is not merely a natural sweetener. It is mainly constituted of simple sugars, but also a multitude of other elements are present as well. To date 182 different substances have been traced and certified and the research continues. The most important thing to note, however, is not the coexistence of these substances but their proportion and their organic interconnection in a biological, natural foodstuff that has properties quite different to those that each ingredient has on its own.
The composition, the quality, the organoleptic elements and the form (liquid or crystals) of Greek honey differ from plant to plant, region to region and from year to year as they are influenced by the weather conditions and flora, which in our country are characterized by a wide diversity.
The honey produced in Greece can be separated into two major super-categories:
- Floral honey (known as anthomelo), from the nectar of flowers, to which belong thyme honey, orange blossom, heather, etc.
- Honeydew honey (often called dasomelo or forest honey), produced from secretions of an insect, the marchalina hellenica, that sucks the trees, typically conifers. Pine honey belongs to the same category as fir tree honey and other forest plants.
There are eight basic categories of pure unadulterated Greek honey that have been established by law according to their physiochemical characteristics:
- Pine Honeydew of high biological value, low in sugars
- Fir Honeydew of a thick consistency, with no particular aroma but good to the taste
- Chestnut blossom, honeydew and floral, with a strong bitter taste
- Heather (floral) with a delicate aroma, thick, opaque and not as sweet as thyme
- Thyme (floral), perhaps the most popular honey
- Orange blossom (floral) and citrus, with a strong perfume
- Cotton (floral), primarily left to the bees
- Sunflower (floral)
For a honey to be labelled as originating from a particular plant or tree (thyme, pine, fir etc),the organoleptic-physiochemicals and microscopic features of the specific plant must predominate above the multitude of other plants that may be present.
Honey tasting
Honey tasting, like wine tasting, follows a certain procedure. The first step is to check the colour. The characteristic colour of the best-known variety of Greek honey – a combination of flowers and conifers with a good proportion of thyme honey – should be a pale gold and semi-transparent when placed in front of a light. Darker hues of honey indicate varieties made from forest honeys, while the paler hues are made from blossoms.
The tasting comprises three stages:
- First impression
- The taste
- The aftertaste
Experienced honey tasters can tell just by tasting where the honey comes from, both in terms of geography and vegetal source.
Thyme honeys have
- a strong taste and perfume
- a strong aftertaste with a minimal pleasant burning sensation on the tongue at the end
- dominating scent
Conifer honeys have
- a more neutral and softer but full taste. Conifer honeys are fairly viscous
- a gentler scent
- less strong aftertaste
Greek honey is among the best in the world. Its excellent quality comes from being unprocessed, natural and unadulterated, which lead to a particularly pleasing taste and aroma from the wide variety of wild flowers in Greece. Usually thick, it is distinctive in consistency, fragrance and taste.
Thanks to its climatic conditions and terrain, the Greek countryside consists of multiple areas where a rich variety of plants grow together in a relatively small expanse. This unique feature contrasts with other countries, which produce thinner honeys, indicating that they come from monocultures of a single plant.
Quality however has its cost. The difficulty of collecting honey from these many small and sometimes distant places combined with production expenses means that the price of Greek honey may be higher than that of honeys from elsewhere. The price difference is nevertheless compensated by its organoleptic and biological superiority, of which foreign consumers are also well aware.
Where Greek honey comes from
From the point of view of interest in the art of beekeeping, Greece has a long tradition and broad technical knowledge of the subject. The favourable environmental and geographic characteristics of the country as described above, combined with the expertise of Greek beekeepers, result in the production of exemplary Greek honey.
The principal varieties produced are, according to region:
- Aegean Islands: thyme, pine
- Thessaly: cotton, fir, chestnut blossom
- Evia: pine, heather
- Halkidiki peninsula: pine, heather
- Peloponnese: thyme, orange blossom, fir, chestnut blossom
- Western Greece: thyme, orange blossom, chestnut blossom, heather
- Central Greece: thyme, fir, chestnut blossom
- Thrace: cotton, sunflower
Nonetheless, a number of the areas where the greater part of Greek honey is produced are difficult of access. Their terrain often necessitates lengthy trips over dirt tracks, so that the cost of production is burdened with significant outlays in fuel costs and wear and tear of the apiary vans.
Very rarely can a steady, permanent beekeeping unit be established, since the honey-producing plants are to be found in very different areas and have different flowering seasons, while their nectar-or honeydew-secreting period is short, often less than a month.
Consequently the professional beekeeper is always in search of foraging swarms for a sufficient quantity, which translates into costly transportation, reduced production, possible loss of bees and so forth.
Organoleptic characteristics of honey
Greek honey owes its distinctiveness to organoleptic elements which derive from the country's natural flora, its tremendous variety of wild flowers, shrubs and trees.
Greece's unique natural attributes and the nomadic character of its beekeeping result in a thick honey with a variety of tastes, scents and hues that set them apart from the honeys of other countries and make them typically Greek. For example, the taste of thyme is not found elsewhere, while also pine and fir tree honey are uncommon as well.
More than a hundred different plants participate in the final composition of Greek honey to a lesser or greater degree. This variety of plants results in anorganoleptic superiority over the honey produced in countries, which come primarily from monocultures. This is why greater pharmacological properties are attributed to Greek honey than to that of other countries.
Honey is literally nature's gift to man. Not only is it tasty and nutritious, Greek honey rates among the best in the world. Scientific research has proven that honey acts as a shield for our organism.
- It has anti-microbial properties
- It reduces oxidization of LDL cholesterol
- It contains antioxidants and demonstrates a cellular-protective action
- It aids in the healing of scars
- It contains probiotics which contribute to the proper functioning of the gastro-intestinal system
- It promotes the absorption of calcium.
Today Greek honey has been declared a national product. It has prestige, an excellent reputation and name. It is available in more than 30 countries on five continents, indicative of its widespread appreciation.
As well as honey, the bee gives us its 'poison' (which is medically effective against rheumatoid arthritis, myalgia, neuralgia etc., wax; propolis (resinous disinfectant); royal jelly (a creamy substance of superior biological value which makes a queen of the ordinary bee.) It also provides us in handy form with the pollen of flowers, which is rich in proteins, vitamins, enzymes and other useful ingredients in our diet.
Honey in Greek cooking
Honey is one of the most typical ingredients in traditional Greek cooking. It has been employed to enrich dozens of dishes with sweetness and aroma. At parties, weddings and baptisms, honey was served either on its own or made into pastries to symbolize fertility and the good life. Honey with walnuts as well as 'pastelia' (a sesame bar with honey and nuts) are offered at weddings to the newly-weds and guests.
In contemporary cooking and pastry-making honey can inspire an unbelievable variety of creative dishes. It is easily spread on toast or fresh bread and enhances herbaltisanes and tea. It dissolves in warm milk and yoghurt and is considered ideal for desserts based on dairy products.
It may be used as the main ingredient in any number of sauces, dressings and marinades.
Of course, for the simplest and easiest of treats, it can simply be poured over a bowl of yoghurt and/or fruit.
Greek customs featuring honey
- Honey was given at parties as a symbol of fertility and prosperity.
- Honey with walnuts and the 'pasteli' sesame bar was offered at weddings to the newly-weds and guests.
- On Crete every wedding guest is given a coiled ribbon of delicate fried pastry dippedin honey, called xerotigano (or 'dry-fried').
- On Rhodes on the eve before the wedding, the tradition is to prepare 'melekounia', a sweet with honey, sesame and rosewater.
- Bread made with honey is given to women in childbed.
- Pancakes and omelettes with honey are offered in cemeteries after Easter, that the souls of the dead may rest in peace.
- To usher in the New Year, housewives used to put nuts on the table, with an olive branch and a mug of honey.
- For Christmas and New Year's there are several desserts and sweets made with honey; Some of them are 'melomakarona' (biscuits with walnuts and honey), 'diples' (akin to xerotigana) and honey bread.
- Throughout Crete a bride and groom are obliged to eat a spoonful of walnuts with honey during the service. In many villages it is the custom to offer this to the guests as well.
- Always present at celebration dinners are honeyed desserts, symbols of happiness and plenty: 'diples' 'loukoumades' (a sort of doughnut), 'baklava' and walnut pies.
Present state and future of Greek honey
There are about 15,000 beekeepers in Greece today dispersed all over the country, working with about 1,200,000 hives. Some 3000 of them are professional beekeepers (i.e. they own more than 150 hives and earn at least 50% of their annual income from them. Meanwhile, the average consumption of honey in Greece is 1,700 grams per person per year, one of the highest, if not the highest, in the world.
In contrast to Central and Northern Europe, with the exception of a few small Aegean islands, a Greek beekeeper's working life is mostly nomadic. His annual route may involve driving his van over 30,000 km, as he must change the location of his hives frequently to catch blossoms at the right time. A beekeeper in Central Greece for instance will set out in spring for the orange groves of Argos or Arta, then in June he will take his hives up the mountains in Arcadia or Epirus where the firs secrete their honey dew. But in July he will go down to the plains of Thessaly for the cotton, ending in the autumn in Evia or the Halkidiki peninsula to harvest honey dew from the pine forests there. Finally before winter comes he will move as far south as possible, perhaps to Messenia or Lakonia, where the winters are milder and sunnier. Despite the hard work and long hours on the road, the country's beekeepers do reap the rewards as they collect unparalleled Greek honey and other products of incomparable quality.
Although Greece ranks high in the number and density of hives per km worldwide, production per hive is comparatively low due to the scattered concentrations of flora and the small scale of collecting areas.
The honey produced in Greece comes mainly from:
- pine trees (60-65%) in Thasos, Halkidiki, Evia, Crete;
- fir trees (5-10%) inCentral Greece, Central Peloponnese;
- thyme (15%) in the Aegean and Ionian islands, Central Greece, Peloponnese.
Greece produces about 14,000-16,000 tons of honey per annum. Exports are indeed lower (in the range of 200 tons, though on the increase) because the market, in Central Europe especially, has been flooded with inferior honeys (from Eastern Europe, Latin America, China, etc), which are imported at low cost and labeled European.
Another explanation, however, for the low export figure is that Greeks themselves consume an awful lot of their own honey, between 1.5-2 kilos a head annually – almost twice the European average – leaving little to share.
Life in the hive
Bees are social insects akin to ants, wasps and termites. This means that the members of the same species form differing social 'teams' with varying duties and roles in their hive (or nest). Bees have three teams: the worker bees, the drones and the queen.
All the teams function together in a super-organism.
The queen
In every hive there is always a queen, the 'mother' as beekeepers call her. The queen feeds on royal jelly from the beginning to the end of her life, which lasts some three to four years; she is the only member of the hive to lay eggs.
She exudes certain essences, pheromones, which send the worker bees the instructions to do their job.
About a week after her birth the queen flies out of the hive for the first time, to mate with eight to ten drones. The honeymoon lasts up to twenty minutes, long enough for her to have stored a few sperm from each drone, which will last the rest of her life.
When she lays her eggs, she places a single egg in each cell.
The egg may develop into a drone or a worker depending on whether or not it has been fertilized.
Worker bees
They are the tireless engines of the hive. They have different responsibilities according to their age: cleaning the cells, looking after the queen and the eggs, processing the nectar to turn it into honey, packing pollen into the cells, building cells, clearing the nest of useless matter, ventilating it by fluttering their wings, guarding the entrance to the hive, foraging outside to collect pollen and nectar.
Worker bees live for an average of 15 to 40 days in the summer, 30 to 60 in the spring and as long as 140 days in the autumn and winter, when they have fewer chores.
On average a worker-forager may take ten trips a day to collect nectar. To do this, they clasp the blossoms of the plant, suck up some nectar, spray a drop of it with their proboscis and then roll a minuscule ball of pollen with their legs. They carry it back to the hive to the hive in the pollen 'baskets' on their back legs.
In a bee hive where there could be as many as thirty to forty thousand bees there are a few hundred drones which live for about 20 to 30 days. In the first few days they are fed exclusively by young worker bees until they are able to feed themselves on stored honey and pollen. When they can fly, they gather in specific spots to await the queen whom they court and mate with.
How honey is produced:
Bees forage from blossom to blossom and collect their nectar. They suck a small drop of the nectar with their proboscis and take it to the hive. There it is exchanged back and forth many times with the nectar from other bees and once the right essences have been added for the honey's proper preservation, they place it in the cells for storage.
The beesthen cover the filled cells with wax so as to preserve the honey as long as possible against the cold winter weather to follow.
Lessons to be learned from bees
Respect for the chief as well as for democracy. Worker bees follow the queen bee's instruction to the letter, respecting, protecting and looking after her to the last day of her life.
Self-sacrifice for the good of others. Every bee will use its proboscis to protect itself or the hive, sacrificing itself since with the sting it will lose part of its body and will die shortly after.
Organization. Of the fifty thousand bees a hive may contain each has its specific mission and plan.
[Material from the agronomist-entomologist Spyros Skareas' article 'The admirable world of the bee'.
Interview with Giorgos Pittas, representing three generations in the honey business
Beekeeping is a tradition in our family. Our grandfather Giorgos Pittas sold Hymettus honey in 1896, as can be seen from an advertisement printed that year in the Estia newspaper. Our father and his brother founded the firm ATTIKI in 1928, marking the first time labelled packaged honey was marketed in Greece, and soon after even exported abroad.
Nearly 90 years later the firm is still an exclusively family business, with my sister, Aleka Pitta-Hazapi, and I as directors. At present our two daughters are also on the board of directors.
The firm's purpose has always been to function as a pioneering business, at the top of its field, providing consumers everywhere with Greek honey as well as its related products, which are outstanding in terms of quality and taste, as recognized both in Greece and abroad.
We invest in:
- lasting relations with the some2000 Greek beekeepers with whom we collaborate, striving together to produce unequalled Greek honey, and in the development, qualitative and quantitative, of Greek beekeeping, which sets us apart from many other businesses;
- the effort to continually improve the production process and aim for higher goals;
- consumer confidence in the integrity, quality and reliability of our firm's products.
Greek honey remains a perennial favourite
- although known since antiquity as the food of the gods, it adds a 'divine' and healthful touch to the contemporary diet and lifestyle
- it is a pure, natural product
- its taste and aroma are unique, reminiscent of Greece
- we have faith in it and have exported it systematically under our label for the last 80 years to over 37 countries, in Europe, the US, Canada, Cyprus, Japan and the Middle East.
- Our honey is the ambassador for quality Greek honey abroad and has been available for many years now in very demanding markets.
The multitude distinctions received in Greece and abroad as well as our constant presence in high-end foreign market chains prove the value of ATTIKI honey, promoting Greece as the source of the finest honey.
We assist beekeepers in many ways, giving them the means to improve working conditions and harvesting methods through publications, seminars, free advice, cooperation with research centres, agencies and universities. We have initiated programs of Contractual Farming with the intention of giving support to our beekeeper collaborators. We encourage young beekeepers to engage in beekeeping professionally as a primary career and urge the establishment of modern viable apiaries. We even support the formation of independent competitive apiary units with professional beekeepers. We support sustainability and preservation of the environment. Pure honey demands clean air and water and unpolluted soil. Bees cannot survive in a toxic world. Similarly, plant reproduction without bees is inconceivable, and, without them, we would not survive very long ourselves.
Finally, the field of beekeeping has a present and a future in Greece's economy. It does nonetheless require action by the State to intensify controls over fraudulent labelling of honey as 'Greek; the disproportionately low prices of this so-called Greek honey compared to the average sales price of genuine Greek honey are indicators that it's not the real thing. Be warned and don't be disappointed.


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Compromise is always a matter of renunciation, of giving something up. Therefore, those who portray the refusal of compromise as a closing down of possibilities are perpetrating a swindle, a precise reversal of reality. Compromise functions through reduction. Each individual gives up a bit of herself here, a crumb there, and on and on until all that was, in fact, individual is worn away, and everyone is a cipher equal to each other, an equality defined as each being nothing.
The only possibilities that can exist in such a situation are those that are acceptable (or at least bearable) to all. In this way, the possibility of exploring anything new, any initiatives that open out to elsewhere, is subject to the exigencies of the survival of the group as a whole. Every group formed through compromise, through coming to an agreement by renouncing differences exists in a precarious balance. The repressed singularity of each of its members surges below the surface. And so the unknown-whether a catastrophe striking from the outside or a new initiative from within the group, a proposal to experiment-is always a threat to such groups. Therefore, for the most part, they avoid experimentation, stick to the agreed upon program and only carry out "initiatives" that are really just simple repetitions, maybe with minor adjustments, of what they have always done, in other words, rituals. Doing anything else could create a rupture that would allow the full deluge of difference, of individual desires, passions, ideas and dreams, to burst forth actively in the world with all the conflict this would inevitably involve.
The groups that are brought together by a coercive necessity imposed by the ruling order-nation-states, workplaces, bureaucracies, etc.-maintain their balance through laws, rules, chains of command, methods of discipline and correction, punishments and methods of isolating those who do not conform. Because the state and capital do not allow any "outside" to exist anywhere in the world, the coercive institutions through which they operate are imposed upon everyone, and so force everyone to compromise to some extent. Thus, for example, in order to fulfill our needs and desires and to carry out our projects, those of us who desire a world without money, property or commodity exchange are forced by the current social order to deal with all of these things on one level or another-by working, by stealing, by begging, by offering goods and services in exchange for whatever it is we want. But coerced compromise can nonetheless be met defiantly and with dignity, and one's singularity is maintained in this defiant attitude.
Having to deal daily with the humiliation of the coerced compromises imposed by the ruling order, certainly in our struggle against it we do not want to leave any place for compromise. Since this struggle is precisely against domination and exploitation, it is the place for experimenting freedom. And from an anarchist perspective (by which I mean a perspective that rejects all domination, all hierarchy, all authority), this means the freedom of each individual to determine her own life in free association with whom he chooses. Of course, this rules out any negotiation with the state or other ruling institutions. If we compromise with the ruling order in the way we carry out our struggle, then we are already defeated, because such a compromise would place the determination of the conditions of our supposed struggle against this social order into the hands of those whose interests it serves. They would define our opposition; they would define our struggle. Autonomy would cease to be anything more than a fine-sounding abstract word to be flung around for the warm feeling it gives us.
A sad example of what I mean can be seen in what happened to the occupations struggle in Europe when a significant portion of this movement decided to "struggle" for legalization. What had originated as a movement of direct action and self-organization was largely transformed into a movement for social assimilation and state assistance. Those occupied spaces that refused to have any dialogue with the state often found themselves isolated, and in several instances-Germany providing the most profound example-the movement for legalization effectively provided the basis for crushing the occupations movement. In addition, the assimilation inherent in these negotiations has led to the disappearance of opposition or its deformation into purely symbolic and spectacular forms (the now disbanded Tute Bianche, which originated in legalized social centers in northern Italy, being a prime example of the latter).
But in the process of carrying out our revolutionary project it is equally important to refuse to base our relationships with our comrades on compromise. If indeed our aim is really the liberation of every individual so that each can determine her own life on her own terms with those with whom he feels affinity (and what else could the rejection of all domination be?), then there is no place for renunciation in the name of a greater good and, thus, no place for compromise. This does not mean that each individual must be isolated from every other individual. Clearly, in order to carry out activities together, we need to discuss our aims, our desires, our needs, our ideas, our aspirations. But the aim of such discussion-if we are seeking a world of free relationships-would not be to create a common ground through the denial of real differences, reducing everything to the lowest common denominator. Rather it would aim to clarify the differences, to bring out the singular desires and dreams of each individual involved, to discover the commonality that springs from our enjoyment of each others' singularity (without forgetting that we will not enjoy everyone's singular being), the commonality that is based on real affinity between unique individuals. Such affinity can only be discovered through developing a real deep knowledge of each other, a task which requires that our discussions have the precise aim of discovering our differences, what is unique in each of us, not of suppressing them in the name of a unity that will leave everyone dissatisfied.
The rejection of compromise in our struggle goes hand in hand with the rejection of formality. In order to create a formal organization, it is necessary to create both an ideological framework and a practical program on which the organization is based. The ideological framework marks the boundaries within which theoretical and analytical exploration is permitted, and the practical program marks the boundaries within which practical initiative and projects are to operate. Individuals who wish to participate in the organization must pare down their individuality in order to fit within these boundaries, renouncing those parts of themselves that do not serve the greater good of the organization as a whole. Thus, by its nature, the formal group comes to dominate that individuals who participate in it. Since this domination of the group over the individual stems from the boundaries set by the ideological framework and practical program that are the defining traits (along with membership roles and the quantitative delusion), one can say that it reflects the closing down of possibilities that is inherent in compromise.
While we anarchists are quick to discuss which methods of decision-making are most suited to our aims, we seem far less willing to talk about the contexts in which these methods are to be used. Within the context of a formal organization in which the theoretical and practical parameters of discussion are already set and the individuals involved in the decision-making process are members of the organization, i.e., parts of a greater whole, both unanimity and majority decision can only operate as a power over individuals in the group, since every decision must be made in terms of the needs of the organization as a whole. Thus, whatever decision may be reached through whatever method, it will always involve the submission of the individual and her desires and aspirations to the group as a whole.
In the realm of informality, where organization is temporary, with the aim of accomplishing a specific task, discussion does not have such parameters, the only parameters being the task at hand. Individuals can bring the whole of themselves, their dreams and passions, their ideas and desires, the whole of their imaginations into it. Since there is no formal structure the survival of which must be guaranteed, there is nothing to fetter the exploration of possibilities. Discussion can center around how to carry out whatever project is being explored in such a way as to realize the desires of each of the individuals involved in carrying it out. In this informal context, at least if it is to realize the singularity of each individual, there is obviously no place for a majority-based method of decision-making. Unanimity is necessary simply because it is the only way to guarantee that the decisions made fully reflect each individual involved. In this case, wholeness is not seen as the trait of a group, but rather of each individual involved in the project at hand, who have come together on the basis of affinity, not unity in the name of a higher cause (even if that cause is called "revolution" or "anarchy"). So when significant differences arise there is no need to resolve them through negotiation and compromise. Rather those involved can recognize that they have reached the limits of their affinity and can therefore chose to go their separate ways continuing their struggles as they see fit. So though it is true that within a formal context even unanimity is guaranteed to be a power over individuals, within the context of informality it can be a tool for creating collective projects in which the interests of each individual involved have priority.
As an anarchist, I desire social revolution precisely because it opens the possibility for creating a world in which each individual is able to create her life as his own in free association with those with whom she feels affinity. Social revolution is, in fact, a rupture of existing social relationships, a breakdown of the functioning of social control and so opens out into the unknown, where possibilities for freedom and self-organization may be found. Formal "revolutionary" organizations and "alternative" institutions are formed precisely to avoid this opening into the unknown. How often have I heard some anarchist proclaim the necessity to find something to replace the state and capitalist institutions, as if these have ever served any truly human purpose! But the built-in limitations of these "revolutionary" institutions guarantee not too much will change. They are brakes on the upheaval that is bringing the collapse of the old world. And so they close down possibilities, enclosing them within their own framework, and the world of compromise returns, often with the added brutality of the moral judgments of true believers against those who go too far. The expansion of the possibilities opened up by the insurrectionary break, the full exploration of the panorama of self-determination and of the "collective movement of individual realization", requires, above all, indomitable individuals who associate on the basis of affinity and the pleasure they find in each others' singularity, refusing every compromise.
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- For the mirror universe counterpart, see Rebecca Sullivan (mirror).
Rebecca Sullivan was a female Human and a member of the Maquis in the 2370s.
Sullivan was a prominent member of the Maquis and had a medical and scientific background. (ST module: Energize)
In 2373, Sullivan married Michael Eddington, two weeks before he was captured by Captain Benjamin Sisko and the crew of the USS Defiant. Several weeks later, Sullivan sent a message to Eddington, telling him that the Maquis survivors of the Jem'Hadar purge had launched missiles against Cardassia. In reality, there were no missiles and the message was only intended to let Michael Eddington know that Sullivan and other Maquis survivors had reached a rendezvous at Athos IV. Captain Sisko brought Eddington to Athos IV, ostensibly to disarm the missiles, where Sisko learned the truth. Sisko and Eddington would later rescue Sullivan and the others from the Jem'Hadar, although Eddington was killed protecting them as they escaped. (DS9 episode: "Blaze of Glory")
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- Rebecca Sullivan article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.