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Messica | Posted on Feb 3rd +7
I don't know where my text went, but that's the "I like Kools" outtakes from The Master.
Joss Whedon tweeted:
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I know. I used to see him once in a while in the city (I live in NYC) and he seemed like a regular nice guy.
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Spotted in Annecy.
Spotted in Annecy.
Montreal's French community has given an adorable Labrador puppy named, "Estrie" to Nicolas Sarkozy, following a tradition of canine gift giving to French leaders. Doesn't she look miserable?!?
tags: france, french, montreal, gift from canada, estrie, labrador, sarkozy,
"Lucky Boy" (that's not very French!) is probably one of the most chill cats ever. He's the cute mascot of the B&B in Carcassonne, Aux Anges Gardiens chez Patricia and Andre where we stayed not long ago. He IS lucky to live where he does and in fact, he is so lucky, he rubbed a little luck on me and I wasn't at all allergic to him, when normally, it's another *sneeze!* story.
I found this adorable labrador rolling around the pavement in Rocamadour. It's a little blurry (sorry) but I didn't want to get too close and disturb him from his blissful sunbath.
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Altamont artist's home, studio inspired by European fortresses
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Thom Breitenbach loves his land when maples and elms are in full bloom. They make the woods a little darker, maybe a touch more mysterious. And that makes the big stone fortress off Township Road in Altamont seem a bit more ominous....
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I know I've been away much longer than I'd led either you or myself to expect I'd be, but I do have a string of good excuses. Between enjoying the company of and cooking for visitors over a long and wonderful Thanksgiving weekend, and just performing the everyday functions that keep this Ship of State afloat, I've been deep in modern technology. You might even say deeply mired in modern technology.
The first thing that happened was completely unexpected: I got a Kindle for my birthday. I had been agnostic on this particular subject and hadn't planned on doing anything to jump off the fence. I have taken to some of the new media storage opportunities absolutely like a duck to water with no second thoughts: I was tired of the clutter created by hundreds of CD jewel boxes (not to mention nearly that many vinyl LPs) and had no qualms about digitizing all of them, storing them on my Ipod, and in one way or another divesting myself of the originals. (Yes, LP jackets were works of art and iconic of certain times of my life. But the memories sustain me and there is still, protein deposits willing, more storage space in my brain than in this house.) I am also a huge fan of Google's Picasa and other digital photo storage sites. I take more photos now than I ever did before, simply because I know I can "develop" them myself electronically, edit and enhance the ones I decide to keep, and print only the ones I choose to. I will never get rid of the old paper photo albums I have, but I have indeed digitized most of the photos in them.
The last bit of "old" storage I had to deal with was books. They were different.
While I am not one to re-read many books, and I never underline passages or make margin notes in any book I read, I like some of them enough to keep for no other reason than to have them around. They're pretty, they're architecturally friendly to a house's interiors–somehow they just "fit," in ways that plastic CD containers and LPs lined up in rows did not. I was getting worried about the ever-accumulating pile of books we created as we finished reading them, but was content with giving them away. And then came the Kindle.
This little gadget is a true Siren. It works via a wireless computer connection–I merely need to be sitting near my computer to purchase a "book" (I make no claim that it is the real thing) from the Amazon website (for prices much, much lower than the hard-bound versions). It appears on my Kindle in a matter of seconds and then is simply there, available for me to take it up when the time comes. I can store hundreds of these "books" on it, or, if I decide they are taking up too much space, I can simply delete them, knowing they are stored permanently in my account at Amazon for retrieval at any time. And the Kindle even has an embossed leather cover that feels like an actual book. In short, I became a convert in a matter of minutes–Steve pushed me off the fence with this unexpected gift and I'll be purchasing e-versions of books from now on when I can. (Some titles have not yet been digitized and I will happily buy them in the traditional form.) We won't get rid of the real books we already have and love. But we will be adding to that collection at a much slower pace now. To my more orthodox book loving friends: my apologies. To me, the word is the word is the word, regardless of the format. When the typewriter came into being there were purists who bemoaned the demise of ink and paper. Modern convenience trumps the old ways, and "tradition" becomes precious, antique. And it appears I'm OK with that.
That doesn't mean, however, that these new media storage methods don't come with their own special headaches. Somehow during the Thanksgiving weekend I found the time to travel to the Apple Store in Norfolk and replace my aging Ipod classic with a new one–still a classic, but with double the storage space. I had thought that the Apple people would have some way of simply transferring the content of my old Ipod to the new one there at the store, as happens when you by a new computer. But they didn't. You have to populate the new Ipod yourself.
In theory, that's not a difficult task. You simply dock your new Ipod, open the I-tunes app, and let the downloading begin. But I don't keep my music in the I-tunes app. I have way too many tracks to store on my hard drive–there would be no room for anything else if all my songs were stored there. Whenever I get new music, I load it into I-tunes so that it will be in the library and, most importantly, so the Ipod can retrieve it and store it. After that, I transfer the new MP3 files to an external drive and delete them from my hard drive.
So putting all my songs on the new Ipod has meant putting the music back on the Itunes app–back on my hard drive–so the Ipod can read it from the app. The storage problem was immediate–my computer got not even halfway through retrieving the external files before it told me it had to stop for lack of space. And then there's the Ipod itself–for some reason it doesn't sync properly. If I load ten new tracks, it may pick up only five of them. As a result, my Ipod is full of incomplete files, and the only way to fill in the gaps is to find the original album folders on the external drive, compare them with what made it to the Ipod, download the individual missing files, and then re-sync the Ipod, folder by folder. It is an unbelievably pains-taking and time-consuming process–the worst kind of nerdy detail work that only a retiree with time on his hands would ever put up with. Return the faulty, poorly-syncing Ipod? What? And go through all this again? I'm too far down this road to turn back, I'm afraid. I've been at this project for about a week. I'm up to Eva Cassidy. (Artists are listed alphabetically by first name. Yes, I'm only on "E." I just finished 300+ Edith Piaf files. That was special.)
So that's my life at the moment. I'm up to my eyeballs in MP3s. If you've read this entire mind-numbing account, congratulations–you're as crazy as I am. Now I'll wade back in.


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Simple Tip: Purchase Sliced Bread From the Deli
I had never thought of doing this until he shared the technique, but it's pure genius! The deli has all sorts of sliced bread for making sandwiches. Why wouldn't they sell a few slices without meat and fixings? Next time I need bread, but don't want to get an entire loaf, I'm definitely going to the deli. It's more affordable and reduces food waste.
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These Peer Health Educators promote messages about healthy relationships, cultural attitudes about violence, and community safety, while focusing on the empowerment of women and the exploration of women's issues.
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Our featured local artist was McLean Mannix… his very first appearance on "Write A Song Wednesday!" He somehow turned morning breath & poker night into "country love." Check out his band, Jeriko Turnpike online… or buy their music!
Stank Morning Breath
I'm so miserable without you,
it's like you're still here
To drown my sorrows,
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I miss your stank morning breath
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Now no one complains about poker night
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Thread: Opinions on Lacianna
July 17th, 2013 02:23 PM #1
Opinions on Lacianna
What do you think of Lacianna (lacy-ann-uh)? I think it's pretty, and very girly, but not necessarily useable, especially for me as I have used the Laciana (lacy-are-nah) version for my jewellery business LacianaEarrings on Etsy (All publicity is good publicity!!!)
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I think it is good as a business name, but not for a child as it does sound a bit kree8iv.~Mehri
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While it does not personally appeal to my styles, I could see some instances where it would.
1) Someone likes the name, Lacy / Laci, but feels that it is too insubstantial on its own
2) Someone looking for a less common -ana name
3) Someone looking for something less common than Lucianna / Luciana
That said, both versions make very pretty business names."Don't try to be modern, it's the most old-fashioned thing there is," - Attilio, The Tiger and the Snow
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Governance and Social Responsibility : Honors Students Attend Corporate and Collegiate Sustainability Conference
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By Liz Warren-Pederson
Sixty students from eleven universities nationwide gathered at the College of William & Mary's Mason School of Business for the Corporate & College Collaborative for Sustainability. The conference, sponsored by IBM, brought together students, faculty, and business leaders to create new paths in sustainability education.
Pre-business honors students Elizabeth Schmitt and Kjersti Johnson were among the 60 students who participated. "I found out about the conference when Dr. Bill Neumann told our MIS 111 Honors class about it," said Schmitt. "He invited our class to apply."
"This year's Honors Showcase has a sustainability theme," said Neumann, senior lecturer in MIS. "When I found out about the conference, it seemed like the perfect opportunity." Five UA students were able to attend — Schmitt and Johnson's participation was funded through the Dean's Excellence Fund, and three additional students from the Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences were supported by their school.
"I thought it was a great opportunity, especially as a freshman, and because I am pursuing a dual degree in anthropology and business," Schmitt said. "Sustainability integrates these two majors and I thought the conference would be a great way to learn about how I could take something crucial and apply it in a business setting."
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by Tom Sheik
Gil Scott-Heron was wrong. The black rapper wrote a famous song back in 1970 called "The Revolution will not be Televised." A rapper in 1970? It sounds anachronistic, like running the west coast offense in 1947.
In this year's NFL playoffs, I've seen the revolution. Suddenly, in one year, when only a handful of black quarterbacks had ever started a playoff game, there it was. Right in front of my eyes were not only three black quarterbacks starting in the playoffs but two of them rookies and the third a second year backup with only six NFL starts. It's rare enough to see rookies start playoff games, but two of these guys weren't even highly prized (and thus highly paid) draft picks. Robert Griffin III, now famously known as RG3, was the second pick of the draft and his stardom was considered a given. The celerity and arc of his success, taking his team the long suffering Washington Redskins to the playoffs, was not. (If you're wondering why anyone even needs to write an article about NFL racism when the nation's capitol has a team called the Washington Redskins, I feel you).
Colin Kaepernick was the 36th pick in last year's draft and merely roamed the sidelines until starting quarterback Alex Smith got a concussion this year. CK1 (as I insist on calling him to prevent carpal tunnel syndrome from typing his name, and in anticipation of future cologne endorsements for Calvin Klein) entered the playoffs having started only six games. He was only the sixth quarterback picked in 2011's draft as was Russell Wilson in 2012, when he was the 75th overall pick.
A franchise quarterback in the NFL is usually picked very early in the first round of the draft, no later than the 10th pick overall. How did CK1 and Wilson, who've both been clearly the driving forces in their teams' success, come so cheap?
CK1 led the 49ers in a second-half comeback that nearly won them the Super Bowl. Wilson led the lowly regarded Seahawks to a playoff victory and narrowly missed winning another, leading a historic second-half comeback against Atlanta, only to see Atlanta drive to kick the winning field goal. Wilson's 385 passing yards are the all time record for any rookie in NFL playoff history.
The founders of the NF were overwhelmingly white, right-wingers. The conventional wisdom among these plutocrats was that blacks generally lack the intelligence it takes to be an elite quarterback. Thus, black quarterback prospects were routinely converted into playing other positions.
I have no intention of launching into the long history of NFL racism. Institutional racism is as ingrained in America as corporate greed. We may well live in a post-racial society socially. 80% of white people would be thrilled to have a chance to meet Oprah, Beyonce, or Michael Jordan. The remaining 20% would be ecstatic at a chance to meet Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice.
This is what leads white people discussing racial issues to be so comfortable stating "I'm not a racist, but…" with the "but" being something as ludicrous as the belief that President Obama is a Kenyan-born Muslim. This formulation constitutes the first rule of racism: white feel people entitled to unilaterally declare whether or not they are one. Just like in "Fight Club" the first rule of racism is to deny there is any such thing as racism.
I've watched NFL games for forty years and still hear the announcers refer to black players as "athletic" and "instinctive" while white players are "smart" or "cerebral".
Until the old AFL was founded (by team owners with far less capital than their NFL counterparts), NFL teams had informal quotas about how many jobs were available to black players, especially in the south. The less monied startup AFL, led by Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, signed up as many of the best players they could afford which led to the AFL playing far more black players. Eventually, this tactic of hiring the best talent available culminated in a merger between the old AFL into what is now a unified NFL. There remains an American and a National conference within the NFL, but the difference is now virtually meaningless. The owners in both conferences are now almost exclusively white billionaires.
You would think that would pretty much put an end to the NFL's racism, and indeed it has helped immensely. There are now many successful black head coaches and blacks are even penetrating the upper, corporate level of personnel director and general manager.
This is the beauty of capitalism. Not the naked, greedy capitalism preached by the right wing. In fact, the NFL succeeds largely because it is a government sanctioned monopoly, and the players have a strong union; a situation made hysterically ironic by the fact that government sanctioned monopolies and unions are two of the hated scapegoats of the right wing plutocracy which started the league.
Thus the NFL seems to have a love/hate relationship with itself. So perhaps I can't be blamed for my love/hate relationship with NFL football.
Theoretically, the NFL is a place where the purest form of meritocracy reigns. And generally it does. Owners are motivated by two things: acquiring as much money and power as possible, and to win football games (and ideally, the Super Bowl).
Generally the NFL has a strong meritocratic streak and has made a genuine, affirmative effort to end racist policies. The one remaining citadel of racism is the position of quarterback.
Ask an NFL fan to name the top 20 players to play in any position in the league. Excluding quarterbacks, you will hear a list including at least ten black players. But ask regarding the top 20 NFL quarterbacks, and until this year, you'd probably hear at most one or two names.
This is not because of hatred, conspiracy or even social racism. This is a pure and telling example of the narrowly understood phenomenon of institutional racism.
The league has systematically drafted black quarterbacks lower than their white peers. It has long been an unspoken maxim that blacks are just not smart enough to be winning NFL quarterbacks. Although African Americans are constantly setting records in college football for variously gaining yards, scoring points, and winning championships, they were routinely drafted to be converted to play another position.
This year a perfect storm has formed and it will change the NFL's relation to black quarterbacks forever. RG3, who brings not only outstanding athleticism but intelligence and leadership to the position, led the downtrodden Redskins to the playoffs. He did suffer a serious injury, but given this young man's skills and dedication I am confident he will return as a dominant, maybe THE dominant, player at the position.
CK1, who led the 49ers in this year's Super Bowl, looks to have an outstanding future. Russell Wilson, who overcame the dual prejudices against black quarterbacks and, at just 5'10", against short quarterbacks as well, is already considered to be a star.
A word should be said here noting that this perfect storm did not just emerge from the ether. Jim Harbaugh who traded up for CK1 and made a radical decision to play him despite the team already thriving with starter Alex Smith, comes (although he played quarterback in the NFL) from a long college coaching background, as does Wilson's Seahawks coach Pete Caroll, a long time success at USC.
The college game has it's own miasma of hypocrisy to deal with but we'll save that for another time. The major flaw the college game does not share with the NFL is the myth that you can't win with a black quarterback. In fact, college football is replete with a plethora of successful black quarterbacks as well as innovative coaches to make full use of their skills.
The pistol formation which CK1 operates from is largely derived from the talented coach Chris Ault at CK1's alma mater, of the University of Nevada.
The NFL is generally a place where coaches copy whatever works; it was not conspiracy but unchallenged prejudiced beliefs that kept black quarterbacks unsuccessful at the NFL level.
There will also be a massive influx of coaching talent from the colleges into the NFL, not only to coach these talented quarterbacks but to figure out how to defend against them. CK1 made the Packer defense look like absolute zombies as he glided through them and generally dismantled their efforts, all with an air of casual authority and grace.
Russell Wilson destroyed the Falcons defense in a furious second-half comeback making them look powerless to stop him.
I vaguely remember as a child watching a black, rookie quarterback named Marlin Briscoe play for the Broncos in 1968. Perhaps I would never have noticed him, but I was a Miami Dolphins fan and a big fan of the old AFL from it's inception. He had the same seemingly magical effect on defenses that RG3, CK1, and Wilson have had. He set the Denver record for rookie quarterback performance. Briscoe was only the second black quarterback ever to play pro football. After his spectacular rookie season, his reward was being forcibly switched to playing wide receiver.
As for Gil Scott-Heron, I wish he could be here to see all this. He was posthumously honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. As Chuck D of Public Enemy stated in response to Heron's death, "R.I.P. G.S.H….and we do what we do and how we do because of you."
Gil, I want you to know that the revolution will be televised all over the world. And please forgive me if as I watched CK1 move his team down the field, I thought back to Marlin Briscoe deftly avoiding tacklers only to be rewarded by being denied the right to play his given position.
So as glad as I am this is happening now, forgive me if I remain angry it has taken so long, and that institutional racism still thrives in a country that claims to be the world's greatest meritocracy.


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The Chase, written and directed by Johnny Wu, follows the plight of a young beauty as she flees from a mysterious pursuer through the halls of an abandoned building. As she is trapped at a dead end inside of a freight elevator, all hope seems lost until fate places two rescuers in the pursuer's path. A fight ensues, but who will win? And is our damsel in distress any safer if the other guys win? The Chase is the result of a self-imposed challenge by the filmmakers to produce a silent, yet compelling, martial-arts driven story in an enclosed environment. Containing highly choreographed fight scenes, stunt performers, wire-work and stylized lighting; The Chase is an attempt to create a live-action Anime. Using the same location and scenario, a film version was shot by film purist Robert Banks for the purpose of comparison between style and medium.
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The Chase -- Jake McGuffin has stolen an important package. Now, Bobby (the gang boss) is sending his people to chase Jake.
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text: I read that discussion and not sure I follow it with respect to what I need to do. I think maybe mistated or didn't say enough concerning what I meant. If I have a prerender camera for rtt, and another camera which will take as input the texture from the rtt camera do some "stuff" then render to texture the output, and then a third camera which takes camera 2s output as input and performs then final render... what would my scenegraph look like? I guess that is more the question I am really asking... For example in osgprerender (if I understand correctly)... root node | group - poygeom/texture | group - RTT Camera - Subgraph (cessna) So if I were adding another pass to osgprerender, would I need to create a scene graph like this? root node | group - polygeom1/texture1 - polygeom2/texture2 | group - RTT Camera 1 - RTT Camera 2 - Final Render Camera - Subgraph(cessna) W On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Paul Martz <pmartz at skew-matrix.com> wrote: > Wyatt Earp wrote: >> >> So if I want to have, say, 3 render passes of my entire scene data, I >> need 3 cameras at the root of the scene graph, and set the render >> order according to how I want them ordered? > > This was just discussed 2 weeks ago. Search the archives for "Repeatable > rendering of subgraphs, ideas?". > -Paul > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > osg-users at lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org >


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Lincoln, Nebraska, Nov 14, 2011 -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA is funding projects to harness wind, solar, geothermal and hydroelectric power to reduce energy costs for farms and small business across rural America.
In Nebraska Dr. Michelle Huddle in Valentine, Nebraska will receive an $11,058 grant to install a geothermal unit in a new veterinary clinic. Tekolste Enterprises Inc. of Firth, Nebraska will use a $19,750 grant to install a 25KW wind turbine to offset energy use of their truck repair business.
The funding was made available through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). This program provides opportunities for farmers and rural small business owners to install renewable energy systems and make energy efficiency improvements, as well explore the feasibility of implementing renewable energy projects. Additional information on the Rural Energy for America Program may be found at www.rurdev.usda.gov/ne/Energy_energy_home.htm.
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"Census tracts are small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a county. Census tracts are delineated for most metropolitan areas (MA's) and other densely populated counties by local census statistical areas committees following Census Bureau guidelines (more than 3,000 census tracts have been established in 221 counties outside MA's)." For Pima County Census Tract Profiles: http://www.tucsonaz.gov/planning/data/census/pima_tucson/tracts/index.html#P-1_0
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"Census Tracts and Block Numbering Areas." Census Bureau Home Page. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cen_tract.html (accessed October 12, 2011).
"Indicators of Neighborhood Stress | The Official Website for the City of Tucson, Arizona." TucsonAZ.gov Home | The Official Website for the City of Tucson, Arizona. http://cms3.tucsonaz.gov/planning/data/census/stress/ (accessed October 12, 2011).


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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Ribbon winners!
First is Deirdre and second place is Kristie! Congratulations trim-lovers. Thanks to all who played a long. I wish I had trim for all of you.
But I do have a new Christmas tutorial for all of you. See you tomorrow afternoon! Er, make that Thursday morning. ;)
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- Deirdre said...
YAY!!! Thank you!
- December 7, 2010 at 4:49 PM
- Victoria Paige said...
Congrats to the winners! Looking forward to the tutorial tomorrow!
- December 7, 2010 at 5:37 PM
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I am so excited! I have the biggest smile right now, thank you Amy!!!!
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As the name of this blog implies, I actually did come a farm. So, then it's really no stretch that you would find me working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It's been nearly a decade (what?!!) since I got to DC, but I owe so much of where I am right now to growing up surrounded by the cornfields in Iowa. But really, I came up through the Cooperative Extension Service.
Let me back up a bit. I work for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture at USDA, and we partner with the nation's land-grant universities to solve societal challenges through agricultural science. You may have heard about things like climate change, bioenergy, food security, food safety and childhood obesity. Yeah, we're involved in all of that, and a whole lot more. Our partnership with these universities is intricate and complex, and I won't bore you with the legislative details. However, it is a partnership that works in my opinion. We've got the money, they've got the capacity to use it for good things. But one third of this partnership is with the Cooperative Extension Service.
Each land-grant university in the nation has an Extension component. Extension is the university reaching – or extending – its resources and knowledge to the public. Think very informal education. Think education through real, trusted personal connections. Think experts helping a farmer figure out how to treat a disease on his/her crops. Think an Extension agent teaching families how to make smart food and nutrition choices. Think boots on the ground helping people after a disaster has struck (ummm, hello Hurricanes Sandy and Katrina). Think 4-H. And guess what? As of tomorrow, it's been around for 100 years!
Let me back up even further. Without really knowing or acknowledging it, most of my life has had a direct tie to Cooperative Extension. When I first moved to the farm in the fifth grade, I joined a little ol' program called 4-H. Maybe you've heard about it? It is one of the largest youth development programs in the nation. Most people tend to think it's an organization for farm kids, and I used to agree with those people. And if I'm honest, the majority of my 4-H experience represents that thought. I showed hogs at the county fair and did sewing, baking and photography projects. So, yeah, there was that.
My junior year of high school tipped the balance in my views on 4-H though. That year, I decided to pursue some other activities that would broaden my current experiences – something just a little bigger than Stanton Community High School. I applied to join the Iowa 4-H Technology Team, which is about the nerdiest thing I've ever done. Considering I am going to the Harry Potter theme park this year, the previous statement says a lot. However, nerdy as it may have been, joining this team led me to make new friends that have lasted to this day, it gave me my first glimpse into applied science, and essentially it got me my current job.
I was a part of the team my junior and senior years of high school and then volunteered with the group throughout college. While giving a presentation at a state 4-H staff meeting my junior year at Iowa State University, I was asked what my summer plans were. Honestly, I had none, which was problematic because I needed an internship to graduate the next year. Sitting in the meeting was a communications specialist for ISU Extension, and she was able to hook me up with a pretty great internship with Extension communications. I worked there for the next year, and it was a great internship experience. I was able to edit a lot of material (I believe this is when my obsession with the red pen began), got to not only write their news releases, but submit articles to outside magazines for publication. I even had an op-ed published in newspapers across the state. All in all, it was a great experience . . . which eventually landed me my current job.
At the time, I had no idea Extension was even affiliated with the USDA. Shows how clueless I really was back then. But, I guess all that experience in agriculture and Extension stuck out on my resume, and I soon found myself working in DC. As they say, the rest is history.
Fast forward back to 2014. USDA and NIFA are celebrating 100 years of Extension. Earlier I said Extension was all about personal connections between a farmer, family, consumer and an Extension agent. These interactions mean something to people. So, to celebrate, I proposed that my office run a social media campaign to get people talking about these stories. What better way to show the impact of this incredible program than to have people share what it has meant to them. So, we're asking people to tell their story through whatever medium they want – blog, Twitter, instagram, Facebook, etc., and then Tweet it to NIFA at @usda_nifa using the hashtag #Ext100Years. So, yeah, if you're reading this and have a story to tell. Share it!
In a nutshell, my Extension story is one that broadened my horizons, led me to new experiences and eventually to a meaningful career doing what I love. Really. I get to communicate everyday about how NIFA – and Extension is one part of NIFA – are truly making a difference not only on the individual level, but on some of the greatest challenges this planet will have to face. And because of that, I wouldn't change my story for anything!