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About ESPB
Annual Report 2001
Vol. 6 Issue 1
- Legislation and Rules Changes
- Educator Shortages
- Educational Testing
- National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification
- Educator Openings and Program Completers
- Multicultural Education and Native American Studies
- Clinical Practice Option for Interim Licensees
- Mentor Training
- ESPB Model for Professional Development
- NASDSE and NASDTEC
- Performance Standards Begin Implementation
Legislation and Rules Changes
The 57th Legislative Session pro-vided many opportunities for North Dakota educators. For the first time dollars were provided for a $1500 stipend for four years for those teachers who will become nationally board certified during the next biennium. Currently, the State of North Dakota matches the federal dollars for the assessment fee of ten educators each year and will also continue this program. The legislature also provided for a 30-year life license to any educator who has been licensed in North Dakota for that many years. The intent of this license was to pro-vided an avenue to those educa-tors who might be retiring but will-ing to provided a service to their communities through substitute teaching or even returning to the classroom after initial retirement. The Education Standards and Practices Board received a tenth member with this legislative ses-sion. The member will be a representative from the School Board Association. Fines issues to those educators working without the benefit of a license were lim-ited to $250 per incident in place of the old $1000 limit. Loan for-giveness and re-education scholarships was also provided during this session through the North Dakota University System.
Educator Shortages
In March 2001, the U. S. Depart-ment of Education evaluated North Dakota's proposed teacher short-age areas pursuant to the Higher Education Act of 1965. The areas of computer education, health ca-reers, music and special educa-tion. This designation will allow qualified borrowers to defer loan repayment under the Federal Staf-ford and Federal Supplemental Loans for Students. In June, the Education Standards and Prac-tices Board declared shortages in all content areas except elemen-tary education, social sciences, and physical education. This des-ignation allows for the in-terim/emergency license as re-quested by local school districts and the re-education scholarships and loans payments for educators.
Educational Testing
The Education Standards and Practices Board adopted the Pre-Professional Skills Test (PPST) in December 2000 as an additional requirement for initial educator licensure in North Dakota. The PPST is a basic skill test that ad-dresses the areas of reading, writ-ing and math. The Education Standards and Practices Board will begin the PPST test score collection on July 1, 2002.
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification
National Board Certification con-centrates education reform in the classroom - where teaching and learning takes place. Becoming a national board certified teacher requires the demonstration of the teacher's practice as measured against high and rigorous stan-dards. The national board certifi-cation process requires intense self-reflection and analysis of one's own practice and is a very forceful professional development experi-ence. Having measured their practice against the highest stan-dards in the profession, teachers say that their teaching is resul-tantly more focused, reflective and confident. Teachers speak elo-quently about how the experience produces deeper student learning outcomes in classrooms.
North Dakota presently has seven nationally certified teachers. They are: Jennifer Montgomery, Bis-marck, ND; Myron Masset, Ellen-dale, ND; Ruby Lawler, St. John, ND; Ellen Knutson, Bismarck, ND; Amy Benz, Beulah, ND; Kim McVicar, Grand Forks, ND and Jill Grzadiewski, Grand Forks. ND.
National certification of teachers meets the "know and can do" test. These teachers in North Dakota have proven they "know and can do" at the very highest level. The Education Standards and Prac-tices Board congratulates each one of them.
Educator Openings and Program Completers
The Education Standards and Practices Board collected the data from the Job Service North Dakota Web site for the educator open-ings. There were 884 job listed on the website between July 1, 2000 and June 30, 2001. Of these spe-cial education was listed the most often with 155 openings. There were 119 elementary openings and 76 openings listed for adminis-trators. Science, music and Eng-lish all had over fifty (50) openings listed during the year. Math, social studies and counselors all had 40 over more openings during the year. The entire listing of openings can be reviewed on the ESPB web site at www.state.nd.us/espb or contact the ESPB office at (701) 328-2264.
Program completers for the Sep-tember 1, 2000 through August 31, 2001 academic year totaled 759 people receiving bachelor's de-grees with 408 receiving a minor.
There were 233 master's degrees received, 12 specialist's degrees and 2 doctorates. As a matter of comparing the number of program completers to the number of edu-cator opening, there were 31 bachelor's degrees issued in Eng-lish with 52 English openings listed on the Job Service web site. There were 399 elementary educa-tion degrees received with 119 job openings. The entire data sheet for program completers can be reviewed on the ESPB website or by contacting the ESPB office.
Multicultural Education and Native American Studies
A new administrative rule and stan-dard were adopted for what was the North Dakota Native American Stud-ies requirement (NDAC 67.1-02-02-07. Indian Studies) and is now enti-tled Multicultural Education and Na-tive American Studies under the same rule number. The new rule in-cludes multicultural education, Native American studies, and strategies for teaching diverse learners. Extensive review of the state's changing needs and suggested curriculum in this area was conducted by the Program Ap-proval Advisory Committee between January 1999 when the revision mo-tion was first made by the PAAC, and February 2001 when the new rule and standard were adopted by the ESPB. The new standard may be met through one or multiple courses and allows more flexibility for reciprocity of coursework from other states. As be-fore, in-state graduates meet the re-quirement in their teacher preparation program and out-of-state graduates must complete it within two years. The full text of the new standard for this requirement is available from the office of the ESPB.
Clinical Practice Option for Interim Licensees
The ESPB held a number of development meetings with the State Board for Vocational Technical Education and Valley City State University between November 2000 and May 2001 to design a clinical practice option that in-cludes a year of mentoring for those employed under interim licenses in trade, industry, technical and health professions licenses and those em-ployed under interim emergency li-censes. The development began with a team from the ESPB, SBVTE and VCSU attending an ASCD Learning-Focused Mentoring Institute in Novem-ber 2000. The resulting clinical practice model was adopted through emer-gency rule by the ESPB in May 2001. The program is being piloted during the coming year under the supervision of Valley City State University. The year of clinical practice will incorporate coursework on teaching and learning methods and strategies and will meet the same criteria as student teaching and substitute for student teaching once those involved complete their en-tire professional education sequence. Previously, individuals completing their education degree under these emer-gency licenses did not receive mentor-ing assistance during their early years of employment and needed to stop work and student teach at the end of their professional education sequence. Mark Wilson, State Supervisor for Technology Education, is assisting the project on behalf of the SBVTE and August Ritter, who also directs the Pro-ject Launch mentoring program through the Bismarck Mandan Area Teacher Center, and Gerald Roth are facilitating the activities of the clinical practice pilot project.
Mentor Training
The ESPB co-sponsored a five- day intensive mentor training with the North Dakota Education Asso-ciation (NDEA) June 4-8, 2001 in Bismarck, based on the Educa-tional Testing Service (ETS) Path-wise model (Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching). Thirty individuals were trained as men-tors to assist new teachers during the coming year. The training focused on Charlotte Danielson's four Domains of Teaching; planning & preparation, the classroom environment, instruction, and professional responsibilities. Linda Edwards from NDEA and Sally Jenkins from Minot also went on to complete the Pathwise trainer of trainers session in July. They are now qualified to serve as instructors for the initial mentor training.
ESPB Model for Professional Development
The ESPB continues to provide training on its Professional Devel-opment Guidelines: Effective Prac-tices model, first published in 1996. An additional 105 ND teach-ers and administrators were trained during the spring of 2001 when the ESPB and the Depart-ment of Public Instruction (DPI) held collaborative workshops to assist schools in developing one plan to meet common professional development needs of licensure, educational improvement, accreditation, and Title programs. The training sessions included a morning presentation by Deb Jen-sen on the PD Guidelines, using the Third Year Evaluation Report as a training tool, and presenta-tions in the afternoon from DPI field reviewers on the DPI ele-ments and rubrics. Beverly Fischer from DPI, Lois Myran (Dickinson PS), Jill Skarvold (DPS), Jim Blomberg (Minot PS), Deb Severtson (Peace Garden Constortium), Janet Edlund (Dakota Prairie HS), and Gary Jackson (Valley Elementary in Crystal) assisted with the afternoon presentations. Comments from the session participants were positive, expressing a greater understand-ing of the use of purposeful professional development to drive identified education improvement goals. Breakout sessions will be offered this fall during the DPI Education Improvement Confer-ence September 17-18 and the NCA State Conference September 27-28, 2001.
NASDSE and NASDTEC
Janet Welk and Deb Jensen at-tended the National Symposium for the National Association of State Directors of Special Educa-tion (NASDSE) in Washington, DC as part of the State Improvement Grant (SIG) team, along with Cindy Wilcox (SIG Director) and Marge Boch from UND. The team at-tended sessions and worked on goals for coordinating communica-tion, professional development, and licensure and credentialing requirements. The SIG activities have been instrumental in assist-ing the revision of the ESPB stan-dards for the preparation of special education teachers.
Deb Jensen has been re-appointed to a second term as the Central States representative to the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC) Interstate Committee. The Interstate Committee is responsi-ble for periodic updates of the NASDTEC reciprocity contract and information on jurisdictional agreements and levels of licensure among states.
Performance Standards Begin Implementation
In August 2000 the ND Education Standards and Practices Board (ESPB) adopted the performance-oriented standards of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE 2000) for approval of all teacher educa-tion units (school, college, or de-partment of education) in the state.
In addition, the Board has revised its North Dakota standards for sub-ject matter areas which require colleges of education to include multiple performance assessments of those moving through their programs and to show that all pro-grams incorporate the use of ap-propriate technologies as they ap-ply to teaching and to specific con-tent material. The new standards solidify a change to performance accountability that the colleges of teacher education have been dili-gently working toward throughout this five-year change process.
Training was conducted on the new standards for institutions and review team members in April 2001. The new NCATE 2000 per-formance oriented standards for the teacher education colleges and the new ND content area performance standards will begin to be used for the accreditation of teacher preparation programs beginning in the Fall Semester 2001.
The NCATE standards pertain to the education unit's assessment plan, governance, resources, etc., and also incorporate the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) standards of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) as a major component of teaching performance, as well as the recommended standards of pro-fessional associations such as the Council for Exceptional Children or National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Members of the ESPB Program Approval Advisory Committee have the Board's appreciation for their hard work during this revision process. They are:
- Dr. Doug Johnson (MS principal/Bismarck) Chair
- Maryjane Martens (teacher/Fargo) Co-chair
- Dr. Larry Grooters (teacher education/VCSU)
- Dr. Steve Johnson (administrator/Lisbon)
- Dr. Ramona Klein (teacher education/UM)
- Max Laird (teacher/NDEA) to July, 2000
- Linda Edwards (teacher/NDEA) from September, 2000
- Art Schilke (elem. principal/Beulah)
- Pauline Wahl (teacher/Minot)
- Dr. Jim Wigtil (teacher education/NDSU)
Members of the ESPB
- Dan Vainonen, Jamestown (teacher)
- Randy L. Gordon, Dickinson (teacher, non-public schools)
- Dr. Doug Johnson, Bismarck (administrator)
- Marianna Malm, Fargo (teacher), ESPB Vice-chair
- Amy Benz, Beulah, ESPB Chair (teacher)
- Dr. Jack Rasmussen, MiSU (teacher education)
- Christopher Douthit, Grand Forks, (teacher)
- Laura Carney, Fargo (school board)
- Beverly Sandness, Minot (administrator)
Staff of the ESPB
- Janet Welk, Executive Director
- Deb Jensen, Assistant Director
- Diane Weber, Admin. Assistant
- Lauri Nord, Admin. Assistant


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The Omnivore's Dilemma Thread
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- EMZ Apr 22, 2006 10:35 AM
I started reading this new book (put a hold on it at my library before the hard copy even came out so I'm the first one to read this copy) a few days ago and it's one of those can't-put-down reads. I read Fast Food Nation and have seen Supersize Me a bunch of times but this book offers a different approach. While Pollan does critically cover the industrialiazed/chemically processed food industry he also investigates the confusing, if not deceitful organic food industry - one side is not a whole lot better than the more frequently bashed conventional system.
I find myself shaking my head a lot while reading it but so far I haven't found it nearly as nauseating as Eric Schlosser's coverage in Fast Food Nation, probably because in The Omnivore's Dilemma the focus is more on government regulation and Big Business Interest at the expense of society's health.
Anyone else read this yet??
re: Pat Hammond
What's that about??
re: Pat Hammond
Sounds like Pollan. I am enjoying his writing style. Very well-researched and while it's a little dry in some spots, I like how he lightens it up with plenty of humor.
re: Pat Hammond
Pat, potato and tulip are the missing plants. My copy of THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA is on my night table patiently waiting its turn while I finish other reads.
re: Sherri
Oh, right! Thanks! I think you'll enjoy it. pat
You corporatize any system and some of those corporations are going to become deceitful and corrupt.
A long time ago I started researching WHICH organic brands to use: for instance I use a local organic milk brand that actually does allow the cows to roam and be 'free range' rather than the 'open air available' which can mean anything. There are a lot of resources out there to research companies and like with anything - it takes some work.
Like RJ Reynolds/Horizon....I won't buy from them.
I haven't read the book yet, but like the others, I will and then I'll find ways to overcome the dilemna (I haven't eaten fast food since reading Fast Food Nation and went 100% organic about at that time). I hope the author gives somes answers, as well?
All I can do is my very best for a healthy body and a sustainable earth and creatures that we treat with respect.
re: krissywats
I'm waiting for my copy to arrive. It's been discussed on NPR alot in the past 2-3 weeks. I bet you can find it on www.npr.com and stream it or download it into your ipod. So interesting!
re: krissywats
Hi Krissy,
What's the RJR/Horizon connection? I googled around for a while and all I found was that Horizon is owned by Dean Foods (not that it's by any means inconceivable that Dean is owned by RJR, but I couldn't find anything saying that's so).
I haven't red the book yet, but I intend to. However, I found the author's interview with Terry Gross on NPR to be fascinating. The discussion about corn/corn products/corn syrup etc. now has me obsessed with corn syrup. He is absolutely right that it is everywhere in American processed food products. Its even in pretzels, for pete's sake....
We just got our mail from yesterday and in the bundle was the latest issue of Mother Jones. Funny - the cover story is an excerpt from The Omnivore's Dilemma. Lots of cool pictures of Joel Salatin's *beyond organic* pastured farm. It's a Weston Price devotee's slice of heaven.
In the same vein, I read a lovely article in the New Yorker written by a man who believes that you should know what you're eating, who goes to a village in Tuscany and learns pig preparation from a butcher who follows the same methods his ancestors used in 1530.
re: Brian S
Thank you so much for posting this, Brian. I saw this issue of the New Yorker yesterday at the bookstore and didn't get it because I made a promise to myself I'd get the subscription already and stop buying single issues.
Great piece of writing:)
re: EMZ
Yeah, it's a lovely article. You get to meet the butcher and an assorted wacky cast of characters, see how the pig is prepared and hear the raucous and often ribald dialogue. He could have simply visited a restaurant and written about the taste. But that would have given me far less appreciation for the food. Eating isn't just about consuming food, it's about the people who prepared it, and history too.
Here's a link to the Fresh Air interview with Pollan
I hate to be a TDQ-come-lately to this discussion, but have any of you been reading John Mackay's blog? Mr. Mackay is co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods. He posted a lengthy "open letter" to Mr. Pollen. Then, Mr. Pollen wrote a response, which Mr. Mackay posted in his blog. Mr. Mackay's reply to Mr. Pollen's repsonse appears in the blog, as well as quite a bit of response from the public at large.
It's a fascinating (and perhaps mind-changing, for me anyway) read.
re: The Dairy Queen
Yes I've read the exchange. I'm glad that Mackay is aware of what the blogworld thinks of WFoods. I noticed that my local WF now has a huge sign proclaiming their support for local farmers.
re: cheryl_h
Do you think that's a good thing? I detect a hint of skepticism from you about their sincerity in the changes they've said they're making to increase their support of local farmers(thought I could just be reading more into it than what's really there.)
re: The Dairy Queen
I think it's mostly PR, but any support of local farming is good I guess. I still prefer my farmer's markets. WF is good about naming sources of many of their products so anyone who is interested can do their own research.
re: cheryl_h
I too, worry that its just PR. I would like to think that it isn't. Where I live, there is a waiting list for farmers wanting to get into the Farmers Market. And, there are just a handful of markets compared to a pretty sprawling metro area, so most people have to drive to them. It would be terrific to have more.
So, if there were a way for local farmers to sell their excess produce to WF AND to sell their produce at a weekly "Farmers Market" in WF's parking lot, those would be good things, I think.
I suspect it's too late to see any results this growing season where I live, but it would be interesting to see where this issue stands this time next year.
re: The Dairy Queen
John Mackey is overreacting. The Omnivore's Dillema is not about Whole Foods, in fact the name "Whole Foods" appears on about 16 pages of the 400+ page book. Pollan's assesment of "Industrial Organic" food production is ambivalent. It positive as well as negative, and more revealing than criticial.
Mackey's letters are empty rhetoric. Though they are almost unreadably long, he fails to answer Pollan's central question: what percentage of Whole Foods TOTAL SALES are from products supplied by local, artisinal food producers. Instead Mackey confuses the reader by focusing on the percentage breakdown of their vendots.
To clarify by a purely speculative example: Whole Foods sells 20 types of nut butter, 19 are from artisinal, family nut butter producrs, one is from an industrial organic company. As Mackey is quick to point out: 95% of their nut butter suppliers are artisinal family farms. But if 60% of nut butter sales go to the low priced, industrial organic nut butters than that 95% figure is meaningless.
Pollan's primary criticisms of the Industrial Organic are not centered on Whole Foods, but on some of their most important suppliers: Petaluma Poultry, Earthbound Farms and Cascadian Farms. Mackay criticizes Pollan for not contacting Whole Foods, but he had plenty of interaction with these three suppliers, who represent a significant percentage of Whole Food's sales. Two facts that sum up his argument:
-Organic "Rosie" Free Range chickens grown by Petaluma Poultry never set foot outside.
-It takes 60 calories of energy to bring one calorie of Earthbound Farms organic mixed greens to the plate of a diner in Manhattan.
Pollan's conclusion regarding industrial organics is mixed. He points out that the growth of organic mega-farms such as Earthbound represent growth in pesticide and herbicide free land (although petroleum consumption is comparable to conventional africulture). Certainly movements towards more humane animal husbandry are positive. But Pollan's point is that most consumers believe that the products sold at Whole Foods are far more sustainable, artisinal, healthy and humane than they actually are (Pollan refrains from really delving into the issue of pseudo-healthy, organic junk food such as TVP and processed soy prducts). Whole Foods projects an image that, though not technically false, is certainly misleading. I heard gasps from the audience at my local book store in Berkeley when Pollan spoke of the conditions of the Organic Rosie Chicken (a staple at NorCal Whole Foods markets) and these were from people who consider themselves informed and progressive thinking eaters.
I am thrilled with the growth of Industrial Organic agriculture. Anything that moves away from the current, highly unsustainable model is a good thing. Wal-Mart is selling organic? Fantastic! But I have no delusions about Industrial Organic food. It is still far removed from an ideal of artisinal, local farmers, ranchers and food processers. Pollan's intent is to make that distinction clear to the consumer, and Mackay's intent is to obscure that distinction.
re: Morton the Mousse
Thank you for this reply. I'm only recently getting up to speed on Omnivore's Dilemma and honestly, I have only read press about the book and excerpts from the book, not the book in its entirety. In an effort to save on paper, I'm waiting for a friend to finish it so we can swap.
I'm embarrassed to ask, but I'm going to anyway because with a handle like mine one cannot take oneself too seriously, what is TVP?
I do understand the importance of buying local and supporting local farmers. I shop at farmers markets and my local co-op (although, I still find that an astonishing percentage of produce from my "local" market comes from a couple thousand miles away.)
May I ask your opinion on this, what are the ethics of eating seasonally? What if you live in a place where the growing season is very short? Places in the upper Midwest where you might have only 90 (or fewer) frost free days a year? What are the ethics of buying fresh buy "imported" (either from within or without the U.S.) produce then?
John Mackay makes the point that Whole Foods customers want organic produce even when it's out of season. Sure, in some parts of the U.S., along the West coast certainly, where you can just eat what's in season. But, in other parts of the country, it needs to be imported from somewhere, unless you're only supposed to eat frozen, canned or root vegetables, which the chowhound part of me can't bear. If I eat locally and seasonally whenever possible but supplement my diet with "imported" out of season organic produce, is that an acceptable compromise?
I find much of the debate about the ethics of our food choices to be California-centric, partly because California supplies a lot of produce to the rest of the country, but also because (my opinion only) California tends to be driving the importance-of-organics discussion for various socio-political reasons.
Even though I haven't read Pollen's book in its entirety, and I do understand the point you're making about 16 pages and the significant amount of time he spent with WF suppliers, in hindsight, it might have been best for him to have asked Whole Foods for an interview and let them decline. He could have protected himself from that particular criticism they are making of him and, except for being able to say that they declined to be interviewed, his book would have been substantially unchanged.
re: The Dairy Queen
TVP stands for textured vegetable protein and is used as a meat analog, for instance as a replacement for ground beef in lasagne.
re: The Dairy Queen
I agree with you that much of the "locavore" perspective is California-centric. However, Pollan's point isn't that people should only be buying from local farmers. He just wants to poke holes in the Whole Foods image and make it clear that when you buy goods from Whole Foods you aren't necessarily supporting small, artisinal, humane family farms and ranches.
In hindsight, it would have been good of Pollan to interview Whole Foods for the book. But I believe Pollan's point that he was approaching Whole Foods from the perspective of a consumer, not a journalist. He tried to show what the average shopping trip to Whole Foods felt like, and what the average meal from Whole Foods tasted like. He focused his invvestigative journalism on the suppliers themselves. In another section of the book from the consumer's perspective, Pollan describes a family meal at McDonalds. I certainly wouldn't have expected him to interview McDonalds so he could ask them their opinion on the Big Mac he ate.
Textured Vegetable Protien or TVP is one of the most hideous creations embraced by the Industrial Organic industry. Any time you see "fake" chicken, beef, pork, etc it is most likely made from TVP. TVP production is energy intensive and environmentally deleterious, it is undigestible, it contains little of nutritional value and it tastes terrible. However, it is the main ingredient in many organic, vegetarian, processed foods. Consumers believe they are eating something healthy but in fact the long term health consequences of TVP are unknown.
re: Morton the Mousse
Pikawicca and MTM--thank you for your replies. Is TVP labelled as such so you know you're eating it? Honestly, until now, I would have assumed it harmless. I'm going to do a CH search (and then a google search), but if you have any recommendations on how I educate myself more on this, I would appreciate your thoughts.
Thank you again,
I'm inspired by MP. He's challenging Mackey to do better because he's in a position to move the needle more. (sure Mackey's flack folks are writing his dish) but as a direct result Whole Foods now states on all produce signs where the item is from. Transparency at last. Additionally each WF is now required to buy "out the back door" from a minimum of 4 local providers.
I read TOD while on vacation recently.
I now understand the source of all of the anti-chain, anti-HFCS, anti-big agribusiness, anti-mass market meat, pro-artisan, locovore, etc. sentiment that is so common on CH. I am more committed to buying and eating meat that has been humanely raised and slaughtered. While Slow Food was only tangentially discussed in TOK, I still find SF's arguments uncompelling.
However, as a scientist, I have a healthy soupcon of skepticism about Pollan's position. Frankly, given his clear biases, I don't know enough about a lot of the topics discussed (ecology, food science, etc.) to be totally convinced about the totality of his position against corn-derived products, use of pesticides, etc.
I do believe that many of his observations are self-evident though, hence I will seek out and pay for "good" meat.
Here's the other thing that bothered me. He states that meals 1 and 4 are both unsustainable; McDonalds because it destroys the environment and people who eat McDonalds directly and indirectly and because of its dependence on petroleum, a limited resource. He also says the meal he hunted and gathered is unsustainable, presumably because of the amount of time required to obtain the food.
I believe that there is consensus among historians that man's cultural and scientific advancements over the milennia are predominantly because instead of each adult using 14 hours a day to hunt, gather, and prepare food, the advent of agriculture and domestication of animals for food and labor enabled greater efficiency in food production. That allowed for specialization of people, permitting education, research, and artists to start, then flourish.
If one accepts that as truth, why has Pollan discounted the additional efficiencies of mass-market food production to free more time such that humans can achieve more? Our scientific knowledge has been doubling every ten years during the era of industrial food (if you can believe THOSE figures).
Pollan seems to imply that Polyface is doing it right but is limited to a fairly small scale. So, to feed the entire country, I speculate that Pollan would advocate just having more Polyfaces to serve every community. That's a lot of Polyfaces.
Joel Salatin is portrayed as a unique individual. Realistically, how many Joel Salatins are there out there, willing and able to work and farm like that to produce a great product? If we could find tens or hundreds of thousands of Joel Salatins to make Polyface clones, it would likely drive the price of this high quality food down. Maybe that wouldn't bother Joel Salatin, maybe it would drive him out of business. However, I assert that you can't find enough Joel Salatins out there. If we had 100,000 Polyface clones (which assumes that one Polyface can feed 3000 people...I have no idea whether that's true) we would have a broad spectrum of abilities and dedication to farm like Polyface. The less capable/committed farmers will start "cheating" to keep pace with the ones who can.
Another bias is that Pollan failed to factor in how much gas was used to drive to the Sierra to gather his morels. On that banner day, they brought back 60 pounds. How about when they drive that far and bag 1 pound. How about the gas used in his unsuccessful boar and chanterelle hunts? There was no mention of that petrochemical use.
Please discuss.
re: filth
Hi, thought provoking post. (I read the book too, for the record, and agreed with a lot of his points, but his upper-middle class angst was a little irritating after a while.) Just wanted to add something in the vein of your point about industrial efficiency allowing for pursuit of other, non food-gathering or -preparation activities. I think people often overlook how much modern women's ability to pursue careers of their choice has been affected by mass-production of food. Now that we ladies do not have to spend the majority of our hours per day preparing food for our (historically large) families, we have time to pursue other goals. I say this as a woman, a former professional cook, who is passionate about cooking and food, devoted to her local farmers market, is friends with quite a few farmers, makes almost everything from scratch and eats practically zero processed food. But, that is my choice, and it is a luxury to be able to CHOOSE to do these things.
If I wanted to spend 100 hours a week running a company or practicing law or medicine, I sure would not be able to spend the hours I do shopping for and preparing my food and I am sure I would be grateful that many, many prepared foodstuffs exist so that I can both work and eat. And not have to go home after a 12-hour day and kill, scald, pluck, and cook the chicken I want to eat for dinner.
Not saying that industrial food production is the fundamental cause of women's freedom (hardly!), and it obviously both benefits and causes harm to people and the environment, but it is easy for us to take for granted many of the benefits that industrialization has given to those of us lucky enough to live in wealthy, first-world countries.
re: filth
It's all about the hidden costs. It's only truly efficient if at the end of the day, the hidden costs that have been passed on to society and to the world, aren't greater than the benefits of the efficiencies. Otherwise we're just using resources and shifting wealth - the rich get richer, the poor get exploited. Why should the "sustainable" model be any different? Is someone claiming that there are no hidden costs for sustainable enterprises? That would be truly amazing, since every human endeavor since we stopped hunting and gathering, and since we invented the wheel has had unforeseen consequences and hidden costs.
Efficiencies = more leisure time = couch potatoes = increased medical costs... Well - it may not be progress, but it's commerce!
Eat foie gras and beluga caviar while you can.
re: applehome
You're talking more about "public" or "social" costs and goods. Public goods include the ecosystem services provided by tropical forests, watersheds, biodiversity, soils in many areas, and the like. These goods are most often undervalued. Although the costs of depletion of such goods can be extemely high to society, users are often way undercharged. Slash-and-burn farmers in the Amazon live briefly from the organic matter in tropical forests,converting forests at a high cost to society.
re: Sam Fujisaka
IIRC, this is your area of expertise. Can you speak to this from a hard scientific and financial perspective? My sense is that people who criticize big agriculture have some empirical and theoretical grounds but have their biases and see things through the tinted lenses that support their hypothesis.
My sense of it is that ecological "harm" is a very hazy subject. From my own perspective [medical research and adult entertainment :-)], the more complex the system, the more difficult it is to tease out cause and effect. And, the more covariates, the more difficult it is to predict consequences and interpret results. This leads to the cynic's statement that an experiment can be designed to show whatever the investigator wants it to. I have seen first hand that that is true.
IMO, the effects to biological systems are often poorly predictable. When put on the ecological scale, I would have to imagine that it is truly impossible to control for variables since, I reckon, we can't even identify all the counfounders.
This is why I have my own skepticism about the "beyond organic/back to nature" types.
re: filth
It is not so difficult to quantify many of the effects of human activities on ecosystems or agricultural ecosystems. You're right that complex interactions lead to more understanding and measurement difficulties. More difficult is valuating--assigning quantitative value to social goods. While experiments can be designed to provide a desired outcome, the process of peer review generally gets people back to honest science.
Overall and as a personal opinion, people should think globally when thinking about food systems and the ways we eat.
re: filth
i think one of pollan's main standing points is that u.s. food policy is currently begetting, funding and enforcing unsustainable food systems. pollan would say that one of the reasons there are not thousands of polyface farms is that law and subsidies pay the monsanto and cargill types to monopolize and put the salatin types at increasing disadvantage as their numbers and economic clout diminish.
re the "additional efficiencies of of mass-market food production": actually when you add up all factors, there are diseconomies of scale as farm size increases. an interesting paper on the subject:
as far as pollan's biases, i think he's got some skewed perceptions on agricultural systems due to living in california. he's a journalist, and doesn't paint himself as a scientist or economist, he writes books as food for thought. he isn't a demigogue to be followed blindly.
re: filth
I think you're wrong about the issue of time in food production, or at least the consensus about it. There's some evidence that hunter-gatherers spend considerably *less* time getting and preparing food than the early agriculturalists did. There's also counter-evidence, of course, and it's dangerous to generalize too much from studies of contemporary hunter-gatherers, since we don't know how much like prehistoric hunter-gatherers they are. Still, agriculture isn't necessarily the most time-sparing way of making a living.
The undisputed advantages of agriculture are a) that you can stay in one place year round, rather than migrating to where the food is in a given season, and b) you can support a larger population on less land. Staying put gives you more incentive to develop your material culture, since you don't have to carry everything with you. It also allows you to store food, which means that there are seasons when you may be spending little or no time on food production. Development of material culture then eventually does lead to labor-saving tools and practices, specialization, social stratification, long-distance trade, writing, etc., etc. The concentration of population also has a lot of influence on development of art and technology -- you get a critical mass of creative people together, and they start building on one anothers' ideas and achievements.
At least, those were some of the arguments that seemed to have the most currency when I was studying anthropology a decade ago.
[Edited to add a couple of sentences.]
re: jlafler
As an anthropologist you would know that there was a huge overlap between amounts of leisure time for traditional hunter-gatherers and sedentary agriculturalists. Many hunter gatherers at the time of European contact had been pushed into marginal and degraded/ing areas. They had lilttle leisure time.
On the other hand earlier and some post-contact groups did quite well: the Kwakiutl and other NW coast groups dependent on salmon and bear fat; the sub-Saharan group (I forget!) dependent on mgongo nuts; Great Plains groups with horses who depended on buffalo; the acorn eaters of the lower Sierra Nevada (?), and the like.
Agriculture in the favorable areas may have been fun for a bit, but unfortunately almost instantaneously gave way to surpluses and then to stratified societies. The poor worked the land, were subjugated and taxed, and the social layers of the rich and powerful sat on their shoulders. Class differentiation was even stronger as the elites controlled water through irrigation. And agriculture in more marginal areas has always been able to support a lot of people in moderate to extreme poverty--as is teh case today.
re: filth
Exponential growth in organic farms and ranches over the past few decades indicates that there are many would-be Joel Salatins out there. The largest barrier to growth in organic farming is not public disinterest, but government regulations and subsidies that make organic farming less profitable and competitive than it would be in a free market that placed a value on externalities.
re: Morton the Mousse
There are also a growing number of organizations devoted to bringing the diner into direct contact (and thereby encouraging interaction) with the farmer, wine maker, cheese maker, etc., through dinners provided from produce and meat raised on local farms. One of the most interesting of these is Outstanding in the Field, founded by Jim Denevan (www.outstandinginthefield.com). The dinners sell out superfast, though.
re: Morton the Mousse
Sorry, free markets don't value externalities. Unfortunately, it is up to "governments" (policy) to assign and enforce values to goods in order to have consumers, producers, or other actors internalize previous externalities.
re: Sam Fujisaka
This probably isn't the right forum for a debate of economic theory. Existing "free" markets don't value externalities. But in theory, free markets trumpet property rights, and you can't have absolute property rights without a mechanism that values externalities.
re: filth
Joel Salatin and Polyface were held as the ideal in Omnivore's Dilemma. Has anyone read (I'm sure most DC hounds have) about the new deal with Polyface and Chipotle in Charlottesville?
I'm curious how this will hold out in the future with rising demand for his pork. This sounds like the beginning of Stoneyfield Farm and how Hirshberg went from a small farm to large factory organics to keep up with rising demands.

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First time visit to Ocean Grove coming later this summer
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- budgetrick Jun 6, 2013 07:33 AM
We've been to lots of places from LBI to Cape May, but this will be our first time "up north" ... we'd welcome any / all suggestions for breakfast and dinner (we'll be on the beach during lunch time ...). Any / all cuisines and price points are in play, and we'll have transportation and a willingness to drive up to 30 minutes or so for a great meal. Also, not familiar with the liquor laws thereabouts - do places serve? Is BYOB do-able?
Ocean Grove is a dry town. Next door is Asbury Park and I would highly recommend Porta to eat, but get there early for dinner as it turns into a night club Thursday Friday and Saturday after 8 or so. They also have a good brunch on Sunday.
Stella Marina on the Asbury boardwalk is good as well. Mogo Korean tacos on the boardwalk is good but it is a stand so there is no seating
OG is dry. BYO is the only way. An old school spot in town worth chickin' out would be Nagle's in the Grove. It's an old "Soda Fountain" holdover.
Along the same lines, on Main Street in Asbury Park, there is Frank's Deli. They make their own pastrami and corned beef. Great lunch spot and pretty cheap.
Also, Jimm'y is a Sinatra era "Red Sauce" Italian spot in AP. http://jimmysitalianrestaurant.com/ It's cool in a Goodfella's sorta way.
I too like Porta, but, admittedly, I'm kinda down on nouveau Asbury and the crowds that come with it.
In Belmar, there is a place called Nicchio's that does an all day Sunday Happy Hour that is one of the best values in the area.
I could wax on this all day. Maybe you might want to give a tad more detail? Maybe search the Board for Bradley Beach, Belmar, and/or Asbury Park. There's a lot of good Chow to be had.
re: MGZ
Nagles is a 'gem' and I actually prefer it over Dey's as to getting one's ice cream on a warm summer evening, though you can't go wrong at either in a town like OG.
As I read the OP query, he's willing to travel up to 30 minutes......hmmmmmm, MGZ - why don't we include Drew's Bayshore Bistro in Keyport (every bit of a half hour but great NOLA cuisine), Nicholas which will set you back a $100 a chair with wines just north of Red Bank and is the best dining experience here at the northshore (try a Sunday nite at the bar (which is a fixed 3 course menu and reasonable - it will require a reservation). Whispers in nearby Spring Lake is a classic dining experience in wonderful quarters (BYOB) with excellent food.
You have dozens of choices here at the northshore, many of them very good. Google the nearby towns as MGZ suggested and then you can get back to the board with comments and recommendations.
Welcome and here you go ....
Breakfast in OG - Barbaric Bean and if the Rasberry Cafe is open - should service you. VG breakfast to be had at Frank's in AP (but it's a long walk - almost to the northern edge of AP - btw, stay out of Toast in AP - expensive and it sucks).
Dinners. Highly recommend Seagrass in OG which is a local favorite that I've dined at dozens of times. There's also Bia in OG which I've yet to try but gets favorable review.
South of OG you have many restaurants to choose in Bradley Beach - Bamboo Leaf (Thai), a couple of Italian places - Giammano's, Cerratos' etc. There's also Mexican, Carribean (Fins) and a decent example of Jersey thin crust pie at Vics (will be crowded and expect to wait). You can combine a pizza trip with the nearby Bradley Cinema which is next door, or you if your tastes float over to the avant-garde, there's excellent cinema to be had in AP at the Cinema House (?)/
AP has numerous restaurants. If I would steer you to one (as a newbie here folks) it would be Moonstruck which will be delightful to a first time visitor. Walkable via the boardwalk from OG. Classy, solid food, wonderful ambience.
re: JustJake
The theatre in AP is the Showroom. It's little, but they get cool stuff. http://theshowroomap.com/
Also, I s'pose it's woth mentionin' Pete & Elda's http://peteandeldas.com/ for pizza and Kelly's for reubens http://kellystavernjerseyshore.com/ (Get the pastrami mini, well done. I haven't been able to finish a full one since I was nineteen.)
re: JustJake
Down in Bradley Beach there is also Blue Marlin, A Jamaican / Caribbean establishment that was big in the 90s and just reopened in recent months under the original chef / owner, Roy Reid.
re: SusieQQ
Ivan & Andy's. Of course. Stick to beef and booze and I bet you'll be back to tell Susie how brilliant she is!
re: roro1831
In some of your collective efforts in trying to give the OP rec's, the request was for breakfast and dinner. They're going to be on the beach mid day and will probably just have hydration in mind, that and some serious swimming, body surfin.. Just saying......
Toast is a complete waste of money and time IMHO (this per a number of friends who gave it a shot). If the OP is in OG, I'd suspect the desired goal is a quick walk to a local simple spot to coat the stomach in the morning. I don't know if Rasberry's is still open, but I'm sure the quaint little spot that is Nagle's Apocethary will serve breakfast. .... there's really no need to be spending $10-$15 for breakfast (daily) in a place like Toast (I'd rather reserve that extra jing on dinner). Eating at Toast would also entail getting into the car as a walk will take away from beach time - especially the best part of the day (early morning). I probably shouldn't have volunteered Frank's either which is also a drive by.
No flamage here, just scratching my head as to some answers. No one listens anymore. They just want to talk.
re: JustJake
Wow, We were all just trying to give multiple suggestions....
You need to go back and read the OP's request...."we'll have transportation and a willingness to drive up to 30 minutes or so..."
re: SusieQQ
I hear you Suzie but when I'm on vacation, the last thing I want to do is to get into the care for brefist, then to find a line. It's a drag, and not needed especially when you're in a town like OG which encourages 'hoofing' it. Nagles, Rasberry's, Barbaric Bean and who knows what else is about should satisfy the minor aspect of putting a coating in one's stomach.
I even corrected myself on the Frank's rec as why bother if you're vacationing in OG. Get into a mellow and don't get onto the roadway that is Monmouth in the summer. I get most of my Sh#t done by 10am and I'm off the road - either at the beach or having cocktails at that hour (yup, you read right - when you get up at 5 with the birds, and the serenity that still can be found down here, you're ready for lunch at that time - clock be damned, all I know is what my body's telling me ;-).
No harm here, no flame either.
re: JustJake
Sometimes it rains . . . ?
re: JustJake
Sorry Jake they also serve dinner
re: roro1831
Franks? I know lunch, but they do dinner?
re: JustJake
No the Speakeatery my post you responded to
Mr. Shrimp is a great spot for dinner. Nearby in Belmar and byob. Though it's not on the water, you'll enjoy better fish and seafood than most spots that are.
re: Foody4life
Gotta agree with you there. This is the spot you go to for fresh fish/seafood and it is a reasonably priced, spotlessly clean BYOB.
Passion, it's a good thing - in the bedroom and dining. ;-)
Gotta join this party... :-) Fwiw, I was down in OG/AP on Memorial Day and walked the boards (85% of which were intact) from the northernmost point in AP down to Bradley Beach--things are definitely looking good there vs a lot of other towns.
I always say that I stay in Ocean Grove but play in Asbury during the summer--two VERY different towns, and I like them each for different reasons. Depending upon when you're going to be in OG, parking your car *could * be a royal pain (mostly the week of the 4th of July), so having the walkable options not only helps you stay caaaaaaaalm, it also allows you to enjoy your cocktails/wine and stroll home along the ocean! That said, here are my go-to spots in that part of the world...
Breakfast: Starving Artist (attached to Day's Ice Cream) in OG is our go-to spot. You may wait, but you'll be out of the sun (my friends and I prefer the porch to the indoor/air conditioning) and if you get a window seat, you can overlook their wild garden, which is always full of giant (non-stinging) bees and butterflies. VERY relaxing, total eclectic beach vibe, food is terrific, and they have pumpernickel for toast, which makes me happy! We usually end up there every day.
Porta sits on the block right behind the Stone Pony (when you walk out of the restaurant you're facing the back of the club) and they have some terrific brunch items; I'm partial to the lemon-ricotta pancakes, the side of sausage, and one of their excellent cocktails, and friends who like bloody marys RAVE about them. They're made with crushed San Marzano's. :-) Sit at the bar or at one of the tall tables next to it and watch all the action! Family-friendly place (not sure if that matters) but you've been warned and I'll do it again--the place turns in to an insane 20-something club scene at night. If that's your scene, go forth--if not, have brunch or dinner! If you go for dinner you. MUST. HAVE. THE. OCTOPUS. I can't stress this enough. If you only have one thing for dinner (or lunch, but you didn't ask about lunch), HAVE. THE. OCTOPUS. Got that? hehe
I'll be another person who tells you to stay away from Toast.
On the northern end of the AP boards is Convention Hall, and on the northern end inside, you'll find Asbury Park Roastery. EXCELLENT coffees. If you're up early (I always am when I'm down the shore) and want to take a walk, you can grab a cup of coffee for your stroll back to OG. Baked goods too, but mostly packaged, iirc.
If you want to take a ride, head south in to Spring Lake and go to The Scone Pony for...you guessed it. Note: I am really not a sweet eater and never cared for scones all that much--until a friend took me there. OMG. Lots of other yummy baked goods too. Wait in the line. It's TOTALLY worth it. Orange-cran is one of my favorites.
I have two go-to spots in AP for dinner...Porta is one (and after you have the octopus, you can share a huge salad, have one of their terrific real-deal Neopolitan pizzas, or maybe even try their pasta dishes. Save room for dessert b/c there's always something interesting in terms of gelato flavors! Note: Porta is VERY casual, which I also love when I'm down the shore.
Taka is my other favorite spot in AP. Fantastic sushi and as far as I know it's still BYO--but make a reservation. The place is large but always full, because IT'S DAMN GOOD. I'm a fan of the Red Dragon roll, but they also have non-sushi items available. www.takaapnj.com
Two other places I frequent--both in Belmar, and literally spaces away from each other in the same strip...10th Avenue Burrito (full bar) and Jersey Shore BBQ (BYO). I'm going to be brutally honest here--every time I go to 10th Ave I swear I won't go back b/c the service is AWFUL. But the food is good, and I do like the vibe once we finally get settled! I tend to stop there to grab lunch before the beach and then go to JSBBQ for dinner. They know what they're doing at JSBBQ...order the brisket!! Note: on weekends they usually have very good small blues bands playing, but don't expect to have a conversation in there if they do. Go, eat, nod your heads, and then leave and go to Hoffman's (Spring Lake) for ice cream and talk about how good the Q was.
Additional thoughts if I come up with any, but you've now got my official list. Have a great time!
re: Curlz
Good post Curlz. What the OP needs to know is that most dining options should be done early (5'ish) as Porta becomes as competitive as finding a NYC parking spot. That holds true with most spots in AP as it has gotten 'safe' in the eyes of most suburbanites who once shunned the place for being too dark and dangerous. LMAO
Same (long waits) with most popular spots, especially the casual/cheap nite out ones like Vic's, P&E's, Local Smoke, etc.
Where a destination/special dinner is planned (Drew's, Nicholas, Buena Suera, Brandl or Whispers) you have the latitude of being able to make a reservation, thus having some semblance of control.
Vacations, like living down here, takes logistics. For us locals, we know enough not to make errant decisions as to a drive, a restaurant, etc. Hell, last week when we decided to check out someone selling a couple of hundred of pieces of original art (part of an estate sale) at the OG Flea Market (all proceeds to restore the OG boardwalk), we took my wife's smaller sedan for parking ease; we drove down Main Ave. and I quickly audibled, got outta Dodge and parked along Lake Ave in AP for the walk in. (Met a friend who spent 45 minutes looking for a spot).
As a local, my tolerance level for 'waits' are very short as we enjoy unfettered access for most of the year only to be severely tested & exposed to the inanity of it all once the kids invade Bradley/Belmar and those with family at those casual spots (tables of 4-6 take precedence and one ends up waiting, hungry and sucking hind tit).
As you can see, budgetrick, there is a lot of passion among diners as far as restaurants in this area. One more point is that there are restaurants that are not all high end that do take reservations....but, am I going to name them? Not me, I'll keep that info to myself so that we locals can continue to eat at them during the summer.
re: SusieQQ
That's funny. Though, not very 'houndish.
It reminds me of that fact that there is a place in Manasquan that I've been eatin' at just about all my life. Literally. My baptism celebration was had there.
Last summer, we made the mistake of tryin' to go to dinner on a Friday night at seven in August. The place was packed. There was an hour or more wait.
We walked in. Saw the old Italian lady who owns the place. Spoke of things past.
Well, a table for two opened up before I could finish my drink at the bar. We were escorted to it a minute later. A guy who had been waiting for some time started bitching about how we were seated first. The owner said, "He was born here." I'm not sure if she meant the town or the restaurant.
Ironically, the bitchy guy was seated at a table close to us a few minutes later. I raised my glass in his direction and had a waitress deliver a bottle of the Lambrusco that's not on the menu. All good, right?
When the time comes to pay, the waitress says, "It's been taken care of."
"That gentleman over there has paid for your dinner."
As we are walkin' out I go over, shake hands, and express my gratitude. I also inquire "why?"
"Way I see it, next time we come in here that old lady will think we're friends."
This is the OP, just checking in ... YIKES!!! "... a lot of passion" indeed!! Many thanks to all who have shared their thoughts and recommendations. Rather than try to select from among the suggestions, I think we'll work at staying longer than one week ... (And keep the ideas coming, please!!)
re: budgetrick
Only thing I'm more passionate about than food is Mrs. Z.
re: JustJake
I may be mostly Hemingway on the surface, but I've got more of a Hawthorne heart.
I second Day's for breakfast and for ice cream and much prefer it to Nagle's. Raspberry's has been closed for years. You can also get decent bagels at the bagel store in the strip mall at the Route 33 entrance to OG (where Burger King is). In AP, Taka takes reservations, and it and all the Cookman ave places are easily walked to from OG
re: equal_Mark
I had 1 pork and one bulgogi and both were warm...
re: sockster
15 minutes from Ocean Grove? In the summer? Sorry, not possible.
BTW, I've never heard of the restaurant, so just have to try it. Although, I'm tired of Italian! Too, too many here.
re: SusieQQ
You won't be tired of Italian after you try AMA.


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Dr. Field, son of Dr. Albert E. and Irene Bruguiere Field, was born in Richmond Hill, New York and moved to Manhasset in 1939.
After graduating from Manhasset High School in 1947, he attended Adelphi University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950. He received his DDS degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1954 and served in the USAF from 1954-56 in Texas. He married his high school sweetheart, Lucy Siegel, in 1955 and returned to Manhasset where he established his Park Avenue dental practice in conjunction with his brother Dr. Albert E. Field Jr.
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Born and raised in Boston, Judge Tamkin had a long and storied history in Massachusetts law and politics. A graduate of Dorchester High School, Boston University and Boston University Law School, where he served as an editor of the Boston University Law Review, Judge Tamkin served as First Justice of the Trial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Hingham Division, for three decades and presided in other courts around the Commonwealth and as a Judge on the Massachusetts District Court Appellate Division.
A veteran of World War II, Judge Tamkin was elected to three terms to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts House of Representatives and to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governor's Council. Appointed to the Bench in 1963 by Governor John Volpe, Judge Tamkin remained an active member of the Massachusetts Bar for 62 years until his formal retirement from the Bar last month. Judge Tamkin was a past president of the Boston University Law School Alumni Association and a past president of the America Jewish Congress. Judge Tamkin was awarded Boston University Law School's Silver Shingle Award for Service to the Law School, and served on the Supreme Judicial Court's Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Procedure which drafted the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedure.
Born in St. Paul, North Carolina, on July 7, 1921, Martha Carey Howard passed away peacefully in Monterey, California on Aug. 4, 2010. Carey lived most of her life in Manhasset, New York, where she was an active member of the Congregational Church. An honors graduate of the University of North Carolina Women's College, Carey served as president of the American Association of University Women. She was preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth J. Howard, Sr., in 1995, and her younger son, Donald, in 1999. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Ken and Linda Howard, of Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was private.
Barbara Anne Ridgway Heim passed away peacefully at her home in Key Largo, Florida on Aug. 6, 2010.
Born in Watertown, Massachusetts on July 21, 1922, to Florence (Skeoch) and Russell Dighton Ridgway, Barbara moved as a child to Forest Hills, New York where she went to Kew Forest School, a girl's prep school. In 1939, Barbara's parents settled in Strathmore Vanderbilt, Manhasset, New York. Barbara attended Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, from 1939-1943, majoring in history and political science. Always an academic standout, she did her university honors work in 18th century political philosophy. In addition to scholastics, she was an avid tennis player.
After early graduation from Wheaton, Barbara had a brief career in advertising in New York City before marrying Harold F. Heim on March 2, 1946. After WWII, the couple returned to Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, where Barbara worked for the head of the political science department while Hal completed his undergraduate degree. Hal's career kept the family moving from 1951 to 1961, moving to Shaker Heights in Cleveland, Hinsdale in Chicago, Fayetteville in Syracuse, and finally back to the family's homestead in Manhasset, NY. While living in Syracuse, Barbara took graduate course work in library science at Syracuse University, as well as studying ancient Greek.
Mr. Theodore "Ted" Cronyn II, a former reporter for the Associated Press, correspondent for Yank Magazine, and longtime resident of Plandome, died at his home in Darien, CT on July 9, 2010. He was 97 years old.
Mr. Cronyn, son of Thoreau and Chita Kraft Cronyn, was born in Brooklyn, and his family moved to Plandome, L.I. in 1920. After graduating from Manhasset High School in 1931, he attended Hamilton and Acadia Colleges and then worked for the New York Herald Tribune until he was drafted into the Army in 1942. He was sent overseas and stationed in Newfoundland and later Iceland, where he was a reporter and photographer for Yank Magazine.
In 1943 he was assigned to the 11th Armored Division, g-2 and g-3 sections. Mr. Cronyn served in France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Luxembourg, and he covered the Battle of the Bulge.
When the war ended, Mr. Cronyn was a tech sergeant assigned to Combat PRO, a post-war office in Paris. During this period, he was sent to ski school in Germany, and he helped organize a GI tennis tournament at Wimbledon. He was also elected first president of the 11th Armored Division Association.
Jeanette Mackie Barber peacefully died at 2:25 a.m., June 18, 2010, at her home in Gainesville, Florida after a recent stroke June 11. Jeanette Barber was born in Seattle, Washington on October 7, 1918 and lived in Venice, Osprey and Gainesville, Florida for the past 30 years.
Jeanette attended the University of Washington and Julliard School of Music in New York City. She met her husband Theodore W. Barber, while she was attending Julliard and he was attending Columbia University. They lived in Seattle while Ted was serving as a Marine Captain in the Pacific Theater during WWII. Jeanette moved to Manhasset, Long Island after her husband completed New York Law School, where she resided for over 20 years. She was a past president of the Manhasset Junior League, taught violin and enjoyed being a concert violinist most of her life. She was a member of The Long Island Trio and the Bel Art Trio. Both groups gave numerous performances for clubs, colleges, schools, libraries, and performing arts festivals on Long Island and New York City. She was also active with her violin in Venice, Florida. Jeanette is survived by her children Ted Barber (Lake Butler, FL), Greg Barber (Northport, NY) and Ann Barber Horton (Gainesville, FL). She has nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The family requests any donation in Jeanette's name be made to Haven Hospice in Gainesville or any Hospice based upon the outstanding service they provide.
A family and friends gathering will be held in Calverton, Long Island, New York on July 17 at 10 a.m. for a memorial service at the Congregational Church.
Evelyn Wintrob Pantell, a 55-year resident of Great Neck, passed away peacefully in High Point, NC, on June 27, 2010. She would have celebrated her 93rd birthday on July 4. She greatly enjoyed her long memberships in the Unitarian Universalist Church, Manhasset, and the Great Neck Color Camera Club and will be missed by all her friends in those places. She is survived by a son, Jeremy Paul, and a grandson, Robert Edward, both of Greensboro, NC.
She was predeceased by her sister Judith Modell of New York, NY; her sister Beatrice Straff of Philadelphia; and her nephews Robert Straff and Richard Straff of Philadelphia.
Memorial service to be held in the chapel at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 48 Shelter Rock Road, Manhasset, at noon on Sunday, July 18. In lieu of flowers, please send contributions to Hospice of the Piedmont, 1801 Westchester Dr., High Point, NC 27262.
Julia Cacavas (born Marzec), mother of Manhasset resident Elena Schietinger and mother-in-law to her husband George, passed peacefully on June 10 at the age of 82.
Mrs. Cacavas, a Buffalo resident, was a graduate of Cornell University, which she entered at the age of 15. She received her degree in psychology. Upon graduation, she worked as a buyer for Gimbels in New York City, where she met her husband, George James Cacavas, of New York, who was a buyer at Macy's. The couple married and relocated to Buffalo, where they made their lifelong home.
After 18 years dedicated to raising children, Mrs. Cacavas re-entered the workforce as a social worker for New York State and began a 35-year career which she loved. In her profession, she received numerous accolades, but her greatest satisfaction came from the people she helped and whose lives she bettered. Many times, years after she worked with clients, she would receive letters thanking her for turning their lives around and being an inspiration to them. At the age of 65, when most of her peers were retiring, Mrs. Cacavas took a promotional exam for her field and scored high enough to take on a new career path and new responsibilities. She retired, reluctantly, at the age of 76 due to illness, and carried with her the greatest pride and love for her work. She was honored in 2008 by many of her colleagues at an 80th birthday party.
Ioanna C. Moore peacefully passed away on June 20, 2010, surrounded by her family. She will be remembered always by her many family, friends and loved ones. She had an unparalleled zest for life and touched the hearts of all who knew her. We will all miss her dearly and cherish her memory forever.
She is survived by her husband, David J. Moore and children Chris and Alexis.
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Premium and Corporate Partners
Please scroll down to see more information about each of our corporate partners. For further information about ICM partnerships please contact Peter Collinson. E: firstname.lastname@example.com, T: +44 (0)1780 727 273.
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Hays Credit Management is an award winning national specialist division dedicated exclusively to the recruitment of credit management professionals, at all levels, in the public and private sectors.
We are exclusive corporate partners with the Institute of Credit Management, offering members an enhanced, dedicated recruitment service, and providing invaluable careers advice and support.
Our consultants are all Affiliate Members of the ICM, and are experts in the credit management industry. We understand the demands of this challenging environment and the skills required to thrive within it. Our consultants all have extensive market knowledge and established relationships with key credit control professionals.
Our candidate registration process is also unrivaled, including face-to-face screening interviews and a comprehensive credit control skills test developed exclusively for us by the ICM.
Whether you are looking to further your career in credit management, strengthen your own existing team, or simply like an overview of the market, it pays to speak to the market leaders.
For more information, visit www.hays.co.uk
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|Founded in 2008, with private equity investment, Burlington Group has carved a successful niche in the collection of arrears in the consumer finance arena and acts on behalf of some of the UK's largest banks and finance providers. We also act for commercial creditors and provide judgment enforcement services for recovery of unpaid invoices as High Court Enforcement Officers.In conjunction with our panel of specialist Debt Recovery solicitors, Burlington is able to offer a fully outsourced solution for litigation and enforcement or to partner directly with in-house litigation managers.With experience and understanding of field debt recovery in both the commercial and consumer sectors and complementary cloud-based debt management software, Burlington are the ideal partner for organisations seeking to complement their in-house debt collection processes with an effective enforcement service provision.For more information, contact our Client Services Team on 0845 520 2000.
Coface enables companies to develop in a safer environment.
Coface's mission is to protect companies against customer insolvency. In fulfilling this role, we make use of key financial data for identifying and understanding particular risks, providing suitable insurance cover and lastly, paying out claims.
However, Coface believes that anticipating and preventing the risk of non-payment in the first place is key; helping clients every day to take the right decisions to avoid making claims.
Coface has been supporting the development of trade since 1946 and is now a worldwide leader in domestic and export credit insurance with 35,000 clients. Our 4,600 employees provide a local service in 66 countries. Rated by Fitch and Moody's, Coface offers financial strength, stability and peace of mind.
Coface operates out of several locations in the United Kingdom and from Dublin in the Republic of Ireland, therefore ensuring that expert credit management advice and support is readily available to businesses locally.
For more information, visit www.cofaceuk.com
Experian is delighted to partner with the ICM and support initiatives that promote best practice in credit risk management. Experian is the leading global information services company, providing data and analytical tools to clients around the world. The Group helps businesses to manage credit risk, prevent fraud, target marketing offers and automate decision making. Experian also helps individuals to check their credit report and credit score, and protect against identity theft.
During these unprecedented economic times we understand the pressure on credit professionals to have accurate and timely information, which result in solid credit risk decisions. Experian have a unique blend of business information, director and payment performance data, which can help you. Our sophisticated credit risk management tool supports the credit professional of today, helping you to manage risk, customers and collections from one easy-to-use platform, across the entire customer lifecycle.
Find out more: www.experian.co.uk/businessiq
Freeths LLP is one of the UK's leading regional law practices. We offer a full range of commercial legal services both to credit managers and other parts of their organisations. We understand the legal issues facing credit managers in the current economic climate and our advice is built on that understanding.
We are committed to continuous improvement and our increasing success as a business is built on achieving success. We work in close partnership with clients, providing positive, practical solutions and clear, comprehensive advice.
We are proud to be the ICM's Corporate Legal Partner and to host the ICM Legal Helpline providing free and quick initial legal advice to ICM members.
For more information visit www.freeths.co.uk
Key IVR are proud to have joined the Institute of Credit Management's Corporate partnership scheme. The ICM is a recognised and trusted professional entity within credit management and a perfect partner for Key IVR. We are delighted to be providing our services to the ICM to assist with their membership collection activities.
Key IVR provides a suite of products to assist companies across the Europe with credit management. Our service is based around giving the end-user the means to make a payment when and how they choose. Using automated collection methods, such as a secure telephone payment line (IVR), web and SMS allows companies to free up valuable staff time away from typical debt collection.
As well as inbound payment services, Key IVR provides a state-of-the-art outbound platform delivering automated messages by voice and SMS. In a credit management environment, these services are used to cost-effectively contact debtors and connect them back into a contact centre or automated payment line.
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OnGuard is a leading supplier of sophisticated software in which Credit, Collections, Complaints and Cash Allocation can be integrated in a single solution. With customers around the world we offer a truly global, proven, low-risk high-value proposition which focusses on maintaining positive customer relationships helping to contribute to improving your competitive edge. Our integrated accounts receivables solution enables you to achieve faster payment of your invoices plus the benefits of improved insights into customer behavior and valuable time savings in the cash allocation and collections process. This not only results in process optimization, cost savings, a lower DSO and reduced write-offs but contributes to a stronger, positive relationship with your valued customers. The proven benefits of our software strengthen your financial position and help you to stay ahead in a competitive market. Are you ready for integrated credit management? We would welcome the opportunity to explore your goals with you. See more at www.onguard.co.uk .
In many businesses, ability to manage its cash flow is crucial to success. Control and management of the debtors is often a 'painful' task as a result of manual and repetitive processes. The recently reported 'credit crunch' and related recession only adds to the headaches of a credit control team. The introduction of effective tools to improve the collections process is arguably more important today than at any time in recent history.
Designed to manage your customer credit accounts effectively, Safe Credit Control enables your credit management team to:
Safe Credit Control has taken the concepts of customer relationship management (CRM) and applied it to the credit control function, enabling a softer, service orientated team of customer service representatives. www.safe-creditcontrol.co.uk
With Sales in 65 countries and 34 million invoices managed annually, the group enables 69 000 users from companies of all sizes and all sectors to accelerate cash-flow generation and secure what is often a company's largest asset, Accounts Receivable. According to recent market studies, companies that have chosen to professionalise their financial customer relationship with Sidetrade have recorded better performance.
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|Tinubu Square's mission is to control and minimise trade credit risk. Founded in 2001, Tinubu Square has become a trusted source of trade credit intelligence for credit insurance leaders and now offers the service to corporate customers enabling them to assess their credit risk. Tinubu Square's B2B Credit Risk Intelligence solutions – including Tinubu Risk Management Center (RMC) cloud-based SaaS platform, Tinubu Credit Intelligence service with real-time credit risk intelligence reporting and Tinubu Risk Analyst advisory service -provide companies with an accurate picture of their customers' financial health from sales and marketing through the entire order-to-cash cycle. Consequently, they can control customer credit exposure locally and internationally, improve cash flow, secure the value of receivables as an asset on their balance sheets and strengthen their financial position for short-term bank credit. Over 250 B2B companies rely on Tinubu Square to protect their greatest assets: customer receivables. Based in Paris, Tinubu Square has offices in London, Brussels, Singapore and Mumbai. www.tinubu.com.


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9 Ways to Integrate Ajax with CodeIgniter
How to CodeIgniter, jQuery & JSON
This screenscast is for those who are looking for an extremely simple explanation and demonstration for sending and receiving data asynchronously via jQuery Post and JSON. About two years ago I really struggled with this concept so I figure there are probably others who will find this information useful. I would have been extremely happy to find something like this when I was learning (and frustrated).
Making CodeIgniter's Profiler Ajax Compatible
Modern web applications almost all make use of AJAX to enhance their user appeal. However, AJAX can be hard to debug, especially when all the traditional tools do little to help. When doing standard PHP coding CodeIgniter (CI) offers a profiler which will be appended to the bottom of generated pages. This article will show you how to make CodeIgniter's profiler Ajax compatible.
Easy Ajax Post with jQuery and CodeIgniter
I've seen quite a few people come into the CodeIgniter forums asking how to use jQuery's built in AJAX functionality to post to a CodeIgniter function. In this tutorial I will walk you through creating the form, writing the jQuery, posting to the function, and working with handling the result. It's actually really easy.
CodeIgniter Ajax Pagination
The pagination links provided by the create_links function in CodeIgniter's Pagination class may not be appropriate for all cases. After-all clicking on these links will do page load which may not be desired on many situation. We may be interested to invoke a javascript function while clicking these links for doing AJAX style pagination. Still we want to use all other features provided by CodeIgniter's Pagination class. This can be accomplished simply.
Using jQuery to Manipulate Data Returned by Controller Method
I've been asked to create a dashboard for many devices across our network. To display real-time information on each component, I'm thinking of using Web services, and AJAX. Like most aspects of coding, using a framework to do all the heavy lifting, rather than developing your own, is a sensible approach. This article using jQuery to list continents. Clicking on a continent will return a list of countries in that continent.
This article may not teach you everything about manipulating data with jQuery in CodeIgniter but if will introduce some nice points of information to you.
Simple jQuery Ajax with CodeIgniter
This series of 4 screencasts looks at getting jQuery setup with CodeIgniter and also delves into some of the jQuery Ajax functions to use like the $.get request and also the $.post request passing simple data between them. The final part of the series looks at the $.ajax request which is very powerful.
A Quick CodeIgniter and jQuery Ajax Tutorial
The following step-by-step tutorial will show you how to combine the power of JQuery (a javascript library that weighs in at about 20k) with Code Igniter (a PHP framework based on the MVC design pattern) to quickly and painlessly pass a record ID through the javascript and over to the server, where it will be passed to a mysql database, used to retrieve some data, and sent back to the page for display.
Ajax Examples with xajax and CodeIgniter
This website is dedicated to demonstrate Ajax examples written in PHP with xajax and Code Igniter. If you are a user of xajax, this website will help you get acquainted to using xajax with CodeIgniter. The examples are simple and not overly complex, so they should be good to get your feet wet. The examples include things such as: Auto Suggest, Calculator, Random Photos and others.
CodeIgniter Sample Auto-Complete Application
Derek Allard is Technology Architect at EllisLab (the creators of CodeIgniter) and the programmer behind BambooInvoice a popular Open Source invoicing application built on CodeIgniter. In this video tutorial, Derek shows you how to build a sample auto-complete application using CodeIgniter. The full code for the application is also available for download. It should be mentioned that this application and video tutorial are not affiliated with CodeIgniter. Derek built it simply as a way to help expand interest in Code Igniter, and experiment a little bit with screen casting.
Hopefully these links will help you integrate Ajax with your CodeIgniter application. Know of other articles or links about Ajax with CodeIgniter? Post them in the comments below and share with all the other "choosers" out there!9 Ways to Integrate Ajax with CodeIgniter,
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Thanks for this post.
Hey, thanks for the plug – glad you found my vid useful.
Nice tutorial…., You can have the prototype framework also or you can built an ajax from scratch without using any framework.
How can we post an ajax request in a controller. Not through html page
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Nice post! I like to use codeigniter with jquery's ajax method and the jeditable plugin. For instance you click on a piece of text and jeditable injects a form into the html, hit enter and it will post the data to a controller you specify. It's really easy to use. Anyway…cheers!
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I've been watching Obama wish the best for everyone this Christmas, while threatening to drive us over a cliff that will genuinely hurt the people of this great nation. "Season's Greetings!" and hypocrisy just don't go together.
Did you see his Christmas card by the way?
Lets see if we can't make it just a tad more honest. ;)
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4 years in, Madoff trustee still pursuing assetsBy TOM HAYS
The Associated Press | December 11,2012AP PHOTO
David Sheehan, representing the trustee for Bernard Madoffs fraud victims, leaves federal court in New York. Irving Picard, the trustee appointed to recover funds for Madoff victims, and a battalion of lawyers headed by Sheehan have spent long days untangling Madoffs fraud.NEW YORK When he was first told in 2008 about Bernard Madoffs epic Ponzi scheme, attorney David Sheehan had a response that now sounds inconceivable.
Who, he wondered, is Bernie Madoff?
Four years after Madoffs arrest, Sheehan has the equivalent of a doctorate on the disgraced financier.
Irving Picard, the trustee appointed to recover funds for Madoff victims, and a battalion of lawyers headed by Sheehan have spent long days untangling Madoffs fraud. On the fourth anniversary of Madoffs Dec. 11, 2008, arrest, its an international effort that shows no signs of slowing.
So far, they have secured nearly $9.3 billion of the estimated $17.5 billion that thousands of investors put into Madoffs sham investment business. In a recent interview, Sheehan said his team at the Manhattan law firm of BakerHostetler is hopeful it can recover $3 billion more over the next 18 months, cutting investors losses to around $5 billion. Of the money collected so far, about $3 billion has been approved for redistribution to victims through an ongoing claims process.
Its an outcome that neither Sheehan nor Picard thought possible at the outset.
I dont think either of us thought we could achieve these results, Sheehan said. Theres never been any case like this.
Sheehan described the task first faced four years ago as daunting: It required cracking the code on a secret Ponzi scheme that spanned decades and victimized thousands of customers on a scale never seen before. Madoff, 74, pleaded guilty and is serving a 150-year sentence.
We had to reconstruct this from ground zero and put it back together again, Sheehan said.
After examining the books at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, lawyers quickly realized that statements showing investors held more than $60 billion in securities were fiction.
Madoff made no investments. Instead, principal was simply being paid out bit by bit to other investors.
Having to hammer home that reality over and over to disbelieving investors was one of the first major hurdles, Sheehan said. Win or lose, Madoff clients were only entitled to what they put in.
Investors who had reaped fake profits had to accept they had someone elses money, Sheehan said. We had no choice but to get it back.
Last year, an appeals court concluded the trustees calculation was legally sound and that a bankruptcy court was correct when it rejected arguments from lawyers for investors who said their clients should receive more than what they initially gave to Madoff.
Picard couldnt be expected to step into the shoes of the defrauder or treat the customer statements as reflections of reality, the court said.
Most of the conflicts over whats owed to the burned clients have been resolved without a serious fight. But in scores of other cases, the trustee has sued wealthy individuals and institutions, claiming the defendants knew or should have known their returns were fraudulent and asking a judge or bankruptcy judge to force them to return them.
The litigation has resulted in a series of settlements, including a historic $7.2 billion deal with the estate of Jeffry Picower, a close Madoff associate who drowned in 2009 after suffering a heart attack in the swimming pool of his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion.
A lawsuit against the owners of the New York Mets was settled last spring in a deal that called for them to pay up to $162 million after four years. The deal was structured so that the owners will likely pay much less than the maximum depending on what happens to their own claims against Madoffs estate.
Picard is a very aggressive advocate of the people who were scammed, said Richard Roth, a Manhattan securities lawyer.
While his aggressiveness has been a topic of controversy, as several institutions object to it, in light of the extent of the fraud, he has been a strong, positive advocate for those individuals whose money was stolen by Madoff, Roth added.
Still, Picard has had to fend off accusations that hes dragging out the process because its a windfall for his firm. Hes so far sought more than $600 million in fees for work done between Sept. 15, 2008, and Sept. 30 of this year money that comes from a federally-authorized nonprofit, not from Madoff victims.
Sheehan said the critics are ignoring the true magnitude of the fraud and the work still needed to get whats recoverable, some of it overseas. The trustee is involved in Madoff-related litigations, investigations and proceedings in Great Britain, Spain and Israel and is chasing customer money throughout the Caribbean, Sheehan wrote recently on a Madoff victim-information website.
On balance, Picard is doing a good job with a recovery process that usually fails to satisfy fraud victims, said Jeffrey Klink, a former federal prosecutor who runs his own private investigative firm that researches the safety of potential investments and performs fraud probes.
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