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By Elaine WilsonAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2010 I spoke with a veteran the other day whose inspiring story epitomizes the importance of family and peer support.
Army Maj. Ed Pulido was wounded in Iraq in August 2004 while driving into an area of Iraq known as "IED Alley." The sport utility vehicle he was driving hit a bomb lodged in the asphalt and exploded, causing severe damage to his leg.
The moment he pushed aside the air bag and saw the injury is one he'll never forget.
"I've had dreams about it all the time," Maj. Pulido told me. "The night sweats and terrors -- it was that moment right there when I put the air bag aside and saw the blood."
Maj.Pulido's leg was broken in three places and partially on fire, but he felt no pain. He wasn't concerned for himself, he said, but for his fellow soldiers and his family. "How will my family live without a father?" he asked himself.
Maj. Pulido was flown to Baghdad then on to the United States, where he underwent more than 18 surgeries. Struggling with infections, Maj. Pulido and his family made the tough decision to amputate his leg.
Maj. Pulido felt a tremendous sense of loss that caused him to spiral into depression, he said.
He worried about how he was going to live without a limb, how he was going to learn to walk again. "I thought, 'Why don't I just pull the plug on this thing?'" he said.
He drifted into sleep and woke up hoping it was all just a dream. "But it wasn't," he said. "It was a dark time."
His wife, Karen, and his mother tried to encourage him to think positively. He leaned on them and on chaplains and other wounded servicemembers who came to visit him and slowly fought his way back.
Unknown to him at the time, his wife, mother and daughter, who was 2 at the time, were visiting other wounded warriors in the hospital, a memory that still stirs emotion in him. "I was in my deathbed, and they were taking time to visit other servicemembers and families," he said. "My little girl still has that gift of giving."
Maj. Pulido medically retired from the military and now dedicates himself to helping others. He's passionate about his work for the Folds of Honor Foundation, which offers scholarships to spouses and children of fallen and wounded servicemembers, as well as information on counseling and benefits.
He also found healing in his participation in the "Real Warriors" campaign. The Real Warriors campaign is sponsored by the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury, and features stories of servicemembers who sought psychological treatment and continued successful military and civilian careers. Maj. Pulido is the first veteran to participate.
Just the other day, Maj. Pulido put a new flagpole up in front of his new house. And when he looks at it, he no longer feels that cavernous feeling of loss, he said.
"I lost my leg on that day, but I don't know if I'd want my life the way it was before," he said. "It opened up a world and life that is different. I may have changed, but what I've changed to is a challenge that can be overcome with support."
For more on Maj. Pulido, read my American Forces Press Service article "'Real Warrior' Loses Leg, Gains New Perspective."
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Carolina Gynning is a spectacular media sensation, the hottest and most exciting it-girl to appear in Sweden for many decades. And that's only the beginning. She's a highly successful artist, with people signing up to be on a long waiting list to have the opportunity to buy her work. Whenever Carolina exhibits her paintings they immediately sell out. She's a bestselling writer, she published four books EGO GIRL 2004, EGO WOMAN 2007, Laura 2011 and Vanessa 2012 . She's an award-winning and top-rated TV presenter, able to pick and choose offers. Now she's entering a new phase of her life: she is turning herself into a razor sharp business woman and actress in the new movie Blondie (2012) by Jesper Gansladth were she plays the main caracter Elin
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Toyota expects to report its first operating loss in 70 years. The company announced that it will likely post a loss of $1.7 billion for the fiscal year ending March 31. For the previous year, the company reported an operating profit of $28 billion.
The company expects next year's outlook to be even grimmer. November U.S. sales plunged 33.9%, still better than GM's 41% decline.
The company has seen its sales plummet not only in the United States, its largest market, but also in China and India.
With little debt and $18.5 billion in reserves, Toyota is in much better shape than its American rivals. However, the company's decline, as well as those of other carmakers and electronics companies, has shaken Japan's heavily export-dependent economy. Japan's finance minister reported on Monday that the country's exports 26.7% in November, the largest recorded drop since 1980 when statistics were first collected.


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On June 30, 2014, Capital Senior Living Corporation (the "Company") completed the acquisition of three senior living communities located in Ohio (the "Ohio Communities") from joint ventures in which the Company previously held a 10% interest for a purchase price of approximately $83.6 million. The Company previously managed the Ohio Communities under long-term management agreements. The Ohio Communities are comprised of 433 units, consisting of 227 independent living units and 206 assisted living units. The acquisition of two of the Ohio Communities was financed with $40.1 million of 10-year fixed rate debt with a blended interest rate of 4.41%. The acquisition of the other Ohio Community was financed with a $21.6 million two-year bridge loan with a variable interest rate of approximately 2.90%.
On July 1, 2014, the Company issued a press release announcing the completion of the acquisition of the Ohio Communities.
In addition, the Company's press release announced that the Company has refinanced existing debt on 15 communities owned by the Company by raising approximately $156.5 million of new mortgage debt consisting of $135.5 million in long-term fixed rate debt (the "Long-Term Debt") and approximately $21.0 million in bridge loans (the "Bridge Loans"). The Long-Term Debt has a fixed interest rate of 4.24% and is scheduled to mature in July 2024. The Long-Term Debt replaces $92.0 million of fixed rate debt with a blended interest rate of 5.96% that was scheduled to mature in July 2015. The Bridge Loans have a one or two-year maturity with a variable interest rate of approximately 4.65%. The Bridge Loans replace approximately $20.0 million of fixed rate debt that was also scheduled to mature in July 2015.
A copy of the Company's press release announcing the completion of the acquisition of the Ohio Communities and the debt refinancing is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K. A copy of the Company's updated slideshow presentation is attached as Exhibit 99.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
The information being furnished under Item 7.01, Exhibit 99.1, and Exhibit 99.2 shall not be deemed "filed" for purposes of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing. The press release and the presentation contain, and may implicate, forward-looking statements regarding the Company and include cautionary statements identifying important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated.
By filing this Current Report on Form 8-K, the Company does not acknowledge that disclosure of this information furnished under this Item 7.01, Exhibit 99.1 and Exhibit 99.2 is required by Regulation FD or that the information was material or non-public before the disclosure. The Company assumes no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements in the press release or the presentation that become untrue because of new information, subsequent events or otherwise.
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Fox Business Network anchor Lori Rothman where the economy has been — and where it's going
Why has America has become so fascinated by business news – enough to support three major channels devoted exclusively to business coverage?
Nearly three years ago, we witnessed the collapse of the financial markets and subsequently the economy. People lost huge amounts of money in their savings and retirement funds; they lost their jobs and their homes. Today the economy is still fragile with the housing market weak and the job market showing only minor improvement. This has all been a wakeup call that you have to keep follow the markets and the economy because it can impact so aspects of your life.
Business has for so long been predominantly a male industry; do you see this changing? What's it like being a woman in business?
We are seeing more and more women enter into business. We're especially seeing a lot of women starting or holding influential positions in small and mid-sized businesses. Wall Street is growing again, and you see more women involved with investment banking and hedge funds and other alternative investment-type firms. There are, however, only a handful of female CEO's right now, among Fortune 500 companies. I'd like to see that change. As for me, there happen to be a lot of female business journalists, so I certainly don't feel alone in my field. But we do interview a lot more men than women on various subjects.
We are bombarded with two political agendas, it seems. Is it possible to create more jobs and spend less at the same time?
This is a very hotly debated right now on Wall Street, Main Street and Capitol Hill. My thoughts are that we can create jobs and spend less. Job creation by the private sector comes from increased demand from consumers and confidence in the state of the economy. Spending cuts in Washington can actually help spur hiring. If we cut spending we may not need to increase taxes, as many have argued we don't have a revenue problem we have a spending problem. The less taxes we impose not only on corporations but on individuals the more it encourages spending and in turn hiring.
What's the most important story you've covered to date?
I was covering the New York Stock Exchange on the morning of September 11, 2001. We were four blocks away from the World Trade Center. It was a horrifying day for everyone. And returning to Ground Zero, in the immediate days and months after the attack, reporting on the human and economic crisis, were among the most challenging of my entire life and career.
Tell us the story that you are covering right now that will have the most impact on consumers.
The most important story for consumers right now is the state of employment in the country. While the unemployment rate is down to its lowest level in two years, there are still 13.5 million people who are still unemployed — and the average length of unemployment is at a record 39 weeks. Consumer spending accounts for over 70% of the nation's GDP, but if those consumers don't have jobs, they aren't spending. We need a healthy consumer to have a healthy economy and that can only happen if we see significant job growth.
Many of wOw's readers are approaching retirement. It used to be thought that the percentage of your portfolio that was in bonds should be your age. (If you're 60, it should be 60%, etc.) Is that still true?
It's hard to generalize what everyone's portfolio should look like, but in general the older you get the more conservative you want to be in your portfolio. Rather than put one solid number on it as you enter your 60s, try to talk to your financial advisors and fine-tune your asset allocations every 2 to 3 years. If your situation changes, for example if you sell your home, the way your investments are allocated may also need to change. However, most investment advisors would still recommend that at least 50%-60% of your portfolio be in bonds or other assets considered safe.
Tax Day is Monday! For Lori's top five last-minute tips, click here
Lori Rothman joined FOX Business Network (FBN) in September 2010 as an anchor.
Previously, she served as a dayside anchor at Bloomberg Television covering markets, corporate earnings, and the global economic recession; as a morning news anchor at NBC affiliate WPTZ-TV Burlington/Plattsburgh; and as a weekend anchor for CBS affiliate KREX-TV in Grand Junction, Colorado.


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CCISD trustee candidate moves to Plano, remains on November ballot
CORPUS CHRISTI - An at-large CCISD school board candidate who moved to Plano will remain on the November ballot.
Patty Harris, 56, said she moved for a teaching job in August after she submitted a trustee candidate filing Aug. 1 with the Corpus Christi Independent School District.
Harris, who previously vied for CCISD school board seats in 2008 and 2010, said she is well-informed on the issues of the district and she would commute from Plano to fulfill school board duties.
She said she also has family in Corpus Christi, and she considers the city home.
Harris' name will remain on the ballot because the deadline to remove a candidate from the ballot was Aug. 28, said Alicia Pierce, a spokeswoman with the Secretary of State's Office.
CCISD Superintendent Scott Elliff said the school district hadn't received information from Harris as of Friday regarding her move.
He said his understanding of the law is that a school board candidate must live within the district's boundaries to be eligible to serve.
He said the school district's legal counsel planned to review the matter.
In the November election, Harris will face community volunteer Jane D. Bell; retired CCISD administrator Joe Cavazos Jr.; incumbent Bill Clark; incumbent Tony C. Diaz; retired teacher Drusilla Knight-Villarreal; outgoing city councilman John Marez; incumbent Guillermo "Willie" Perez; teacher Hector "Coach" Salinas; and physical therapist Marcus Sorenson.
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There comes a time when even jet-setting reformed criminals need to take a proper holiday. Author Howard Marks travels to Patagonia with the over-50s.
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By Richard Stevens – Senior Writer/GoLobos.com
RUIDOSO, N.M. -- Lobo linebacker Dakota Cox said he likes New Mexico's Camp Ruidoso because it is top heavy with two things he loves: football and food.
That means Friday – like every other day at Camp Ruidoso – was just about picture perfect for Dakota. The day began with breakfast followed by a spirited practice followed by team meetings. The day ended with a meet-and-greet barbeque featuring the Lobos and a sprinkling of Ruidoso citizens including Mayor Tom Battin.
"I appreciate everybody coming out and the players really look forward to it," said Lobo Coach Bob Davie.
The meet-and-greet barbeque brought Paul Krebs, UNM's Vice President of Athletics, down for the function that was held on the back patio at The Lodge at Sierra Blanca. The evening meal was highlighted by hamburgers and hot dogs. A few Lobos went back for seconds.
The Lobos took the opportunity to mingle with – and thank – Ruidoso citizens for their hospitality in allowing UNM to hold a portion of its fall camp in this beautiful mountain town.
The Lobos hold their practice sessions at the White Mountain Sports Complex which is a short walk from the patio of The Lodge at Sierra Blanca. The Lobo practices are open to the public and a lot of Lobo followers from Ruidoso take advantage of the opportunity by watching UNM's practices.
The next event expected to draw a large number of Ruidoso fans will be UNM's scrimmage on Sunday set for the Ruidoso Middle School, which is located less than a mile from the White Mountain Sports Complex.
Lobos Mixing It Up
The Lobos have had some heated moments in Ruidoso which is to be expected when D-I football players put on the pads and go at it. The Lobos are getting physical trying to get better for their Aug. 30 opener on Branch Field vs. the UTEP Miners. There also are positions to be won – or lost – and you don't win a position by playing soft.
Lobo Coach Bob Davie and his staff also are mixing up the lineups making sure that all players and all combinations get a good screening prior to the forming of a depth chart for the season opener.
"We (are moving) personnel in and out," said Davie. "We are mixing young guys with old guys. We're installing. It's a long way yet (to UTEP)."
Davie said he isn't necessarily looking for a lot of polish and smooth execution at this point of fall camp because the UTEP game is three weeks away. There is still a lot to teach this young team. There also is a lot of young talent that needs to be evaluated.
"This isn't about polish and execution right now," said Davie. "This is about making it as hard as you can make it on guys. We want to see how guys will respond."
Lobo Camaraderie Is Growing
Camp Ruidoso obviously is a bonding tool as much as it is a well-organized bubble of football, football, football. There is no question that this group of Lobos is building chemistry and camaraderie through this camp that isolates the team from outside distractions. But Davie said the bonding was apparent even before UNM took the 3-hour bus ride to Ruidoso.
"Ben Hilgart (strength coach) came to me this summer and said, 'Coach, we have a group of guys who really like each other and really like football,'" said Davie.
"That might sound like a really simple statement to people on the outside, but that's been about two-and-a-half years of hard work. That's been about two-and-a-half years of developing this culture. I think there is more commonality between the guys, which can be expected. This is our third recruiting class.
"Guys kind of see things the same way. Everybody is on the same page a little bit more. Because of all that you see a little more camaraderie."
Up and Down, Down and Up
There always is a Catch-22 situation in camp when Lobos go at Lobos. Can the offense look good without making the defense look not so good? And vice versa?
"If you think that Dow Jones goes up and down, just stand out here and watch your own team practice against each other every day," said Davie. "It's a roller coaster."
Editor's Note: Richard Stevens is a former national award-winning Sports Columnist and Associate Sports Editor at The Albuquerque Tribune. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Get dirty, have fun and grow more food with great gardening tips from real-life gardeners.
Enjoying your organic corn harvest about now? Corn is usually a July or August crop. At House in the Woods Farm, we plant our corn early. We harvested our corn in late June and were offering it to CSA customers for Independence Day weekend.
We grow our own organic corn because we want organic corn. I wouldn't want all my efforts at organic corn tainted by a genetically modified variety. It's an issue for those of us surrounded by GMO feed corn crops in particular. Cross-pollination with feed corn will take the sweet right out of your sweet corn.
We are beating the likelihood of GMO cross-pollination by being the early corn. It is a simple solution to a complicated problem. Be the early corn! Corn is wind-pollinated and our corn is blowing in the wind way before feed corn, commercial corn, and in particular GMO corn breeds. So they aren't as likely to tango with our corn, when we arrive at the dance early. It is a clever way to evade cross-pollination. And as a bonus, you get a wonderful, juicy cob of corn, just in time for Independence Day.
We start our seeds in trays under cover of our hoophouse and then transplant to outside rows. It seems like a ludicrous thing to do for acres of corn, but that's not what we're growing. Planting out corn seedlings like any other row crop has benefits when growing on a small, diversified farm scale. We start the seedlings in trays about the second week of April and plant them out in early May. Our seedlings have a jump start ahead of weeds since they are transplanted a few inches tall. The weeds have some catching up to do, providing a much needed head start for a typically weedy crop. In a cool year we protect the transplants in the field with row cover for a couple weeks.
We love the hybrid variety we tested this year! It is called Luscious. For organic production, we need protection from the worms that can sneak into corn. Luscious features a closed husk that keeps bugs out. I wonder if our early season was too early for the worm too. Luscious is particularly cold tolerant, which is ideal for early planting soil conditions. We also tested an heirloom variety called Painted Corn, a blend of a sweet corn and an Indian corn so it blushes pink in some kernels. This corn variety wasn't as successful as Luscious for us. In fact, I believe we had some cross-pollination of the Painted Corn into the Luscious. It took some of the sweetness out of the occasional Luscious ear and I saw hint of the blushing color. It was a reminder to plant only one variety at a time, due to that same cross-pollination tendency.
I might try planting a batch of trays every two weeks for a few weeks to have three harvests of fresh corn. Starting early will allow me that luxury of time. But I will still make sure that my corn is ahead of the neighboring crops so that I can be the early corn.
I wrote more about how we plant corn in another blog and another about preserving corn.
Ilene White Freedman operates House in the Woods organic CSA farm with her husband, Phil, in Frederick, Maryland. The Freedmans are one of six 2013 Mother Earth News Homesteaders of the Year. Ilene blogs about making things from scratch, putting up the harvest, gardening and farm life at MOTHER EARTH NEWS and House in the Woods, easy to follow from our Facebook Page. For more about the farm, go to House in the Woods.
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There is a lot to know about onions. The varieties and planting times are specific for each region, so you might want to spend some time learning the ins-and-outs about onion growing to have success. Assuming you have done that and have had an abundant harvest, here are some tips of what to do next. If you harvested your onions when the tops were starting to bend over, but while they were still green, you are on the right track. If you put the onions in an airy place and let the tops die over the next several weeks you will have material to braid with once the tops are dry.
There are about as many ways to dry onions with their tops attached as there are people drying them. If what you are doing is working for you, and your method is different than mine, that's okay. I have settled on drying my onions on 2"x 4" welded wire fencing bent around into a circle measuring 2' wide and 3' tall. I either set the fence circle on two cement blocks or attach baling twine to each side and hang it from the rafters in the barn. My goal is to increase air circulation.
The onions hang from between the 2"x 4" spacing in the fence, with the bulbs on the inside and the green tops on the outside of the circle. It looks pretty packed when you do that, but the tops soon dry, allowing air to the bulbs. You could leave the onions like this for quite some time, but you should really inspect them after a few weeks when the tops have dried. There are always some that are beginning to go soft and need to be used first. Those will go directly to your kitchen for summer cooking and canning.
Onions can be cut up and easily dried in a solar or electric dehydrator. For long term storage for my best onions (no softness anywhere) I braid them. You will find directions for braiding and photos of my drying set-up at Homeplace Earth. If you don't have the tops still on your onions, which would eliminate braiding, you will need to store the bulbs in an airy place. Wire racks or net bags would be an option. Do not pack them away in box in a closet. Think air circulation.
Onions are a health food that should be in everyone's diet. In the article Onions Can Help Prevent Inflammation by Linda Richards, found on the website for the Arthritis Foundation, onions were praised for their help in reducing inflammation. Quercetin, found in higher amounts in shallots and yellow and red onions and lesser amounts in white and sweet onion varieties, is the ingredient in onions responsible for easing the inflammation of arthritis, as well as reducing heart disease and helping to prevent the spread of cancer.
I already knew about all that, but found some new-to-me information in this article. According to a study done at the University of Berne in Switzerland and published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, onions could be good for your bones by helping to reduce bone loss. Thoughts are that it would work the same way as alendronate (the generic name for Fosamax) in treating osteoporosis! Granted, this Swiss study was done on rats and more research is needed for confirmation in humans, but all signs point to great benefits to be had if you increase the amount of onions you eat.
With all these health benefits in mind, wouldn't it be comforting to have braids of onions hanging in your food storage areas to feed your family throughout the year?
Cindy Conner is the author of Seed Libraries and Grow a Sustainable Diet and has produced DVDs about garden planning and managing cover crops with hand tools. Learn more about what she is up to at Homeplace Earth.
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Making your home garden productive is an in-depth and gradual process. Though you can work with a design professional to hash out a use plan and plant list early on, it still takes several phases and periods of acclimation for a garden to begin to really thrive.
Assessing where the best sun is and where different microclimates lie can begin to help define use areas. As each exposure and conditions create a different microclimate, you may have three to four distinct areas at your home, each with their own strengths and setbacks — even in a small urban lot. Best to work with the forces of nature to create plant groupings that reflect the microclimate of each area.
For example, if you try to grow your micro-greens in a hot,south-facing front yard, they may quickly become stressed from the sun's intensity. Likewise, should you attempt to grow your heirloom tomatoes under that giant Italian stone pine in the backyard, you may become frustrated as it appears to stay stunted despite the loads of fertile organic compost you added.
As for a commercial example, if you were to try to grow two acres of carrots on a parcel of land, but only 3/4 of that land is in full sun, you may have trouble with carrot yields in the shadier area. Would it not make more sense to work with the lay-of-the-land and plant something more shade-loving in that shadier area?
By working with nature and taking the time to assess the nuances of microclimates on our land, we can most affectively develop a polycultural system of diverse, healthy foods.
A great quote from pioneering polycultural designer Bill Mollison is "Don't just do something, stand there." Take the time to observe how the sun crosses over your property. By doing this, you will know in your bones the way the arc of the season's sun arrives across your land. This will let you see what areas receive the best and longest sun during the crucial fruit-making hours of 11a.m. to 3p.m. These areas will be your choice areas for fruit production but is not the subject of today's blog post.
As for the rest of the property, work with marginal or shady areas by assessing plants that don't mind the shade. Many greens and culinary herbs originate in meadows and forest under-stories where the light is dappled. Because they do not have the pressure to produce fruiting bodies, greens are able to stay healthy in less than full sun.
Of course, they will grow larger and faster in full sun with ample water, but in limited scale, we can save the full sun for crops like fruit trees and tomatoes and squash, leaving the greens for the less-desired light shade. In this way, we create a crop that requires less daily water uptake than when in full sun, while taking advantage of a marginal shade zone.
So, greens are now in the shade and our choice full-sun zone is now completely planted; how might we continue to add surplus crops to the remaining margins?
One simple addition that I love is to plant hearty annuals in the basins at the base of each fruit tree. Particularly when using drip irrigation, there is already a water source at each fruit tree. In this way, the secondary understory crop is acting as a green mulch for the fruit tree, reducing weeds as well as slowing evapotranspiration.
I have had success particularly with beans, peas and arugula. These crops are bonuses and when you direct-sow with bulk seed, it costs pennies on the dollar to add these to your existing food system.
Finally, what to do with those unused margins? Perhaps there is a rocky patch at the edge of your production zone that simply is not ideal for agriculture. Or perhaps there is that upslope area that is difficult to irrigate.
My solution for these marginal margins is to plant native plants and drought-tolerant Mediterranean species. In each case, these plants have evolved to adapt to local conditions and require far less water and nutrients than wet, lush food crops.
Here in California, one can create much more edible abundance by shifting even some of production crops to more drought-tolerant perennials such as pomegranate, persimmon, fig and olive.
As for the natives, they can provide insectary zones adjacent to your crops, which will ensure that your food crops get regularly pollinated. Think of these native flower zones as apartment complexes for beneficial insects. It is my great joy to return to a garden I have designed and see resident bee populations able to stay in the vicinity due to year-round pollen on-site.
Start utilizing the margins in your garden and beginning yielding more for your community.
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Permaculture is creating a synergistic garden; one that is symbiotic and supporting. It includes enriching the soil, planting for nutrients, planting for shade, planting for food, landscaping for water, planting to attract beneficial insects, planting to repel bad bugs, planting to optimize your harvests. It is all of this combined to create a self-sustaining garden and yard.
You can go big and do it all or start small and work your way into a full permaculture yard.
If you are just getting started, the first step is planning. For planning, I would join a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) to find out what grows well in your area and what you like to eat that can be grown locally. You will get fresh nutritious food while supporting your local farmer. It was amazing how well we ate and how small our grocery bill was when we first joined a CSA! We also discovered many vegetables that we loved but had never eaten.
Before placing your garden bed, look at how your water drains. Create small swells/berms to move the water to where you want it to go-like your vegetables. Utilize rain barrels to capture water. There are some quite attractive rain barrels available on line and even at big box stores. Together these will significantly reduce your watering needs.
Next, determine how the sun traverses through your yard. You will want to put the sun lovers where they get southern exposure. Add shade to reduce your utility bills and give relief to your plants. In the spring, all of your vegetables love the sun. Come summer, many appreciate some shade and cooler temperatures, particularly greens. Even peppers get sunburned when temps get in the 90's in full sun all day. Some relief from afternoon soon is appreciated.
When you are thinking of where to place those shade trees and bushes, consider adding fruit trees and bushes that you and the birds will enjoy. Planting trees and bushes provide shelter for birds that love to eat insects. Look for trees and bushes that also provide food for the birds, including winter berries. Birds help to keep the garden in balance. Don't forget a water source so they can get a drink. Make sure the water stays clean or the birds can get sick just like we do from contaminated water.
Now you are ready to place your garden bed. For prepping the soil, a super easy method is to do sheet mulching which I outlined here: Easy ways to make a new garden bed.
You are basically composting in place, building incredible rich soil, alive with microbial and worm activity, which provide all the nourishment plants need to thrive. The great thing about this technique is that no tilling is required! Prepare in the fall and by spring, the bed is ready for planting.
When the garden bed is ready for planting, do a soil test, add the nutrients indicated. I also add minerals to the soil as most soil today is depleted of their minerals. After getting your soil in balance, you will be able to grow the right crops in the right rotational order and compost to keep the soil fertile and in balance without outside inputs.
Start ongoing composting to maintain your soil fertility after getting it established. Even if you live in an apartment, there are options for composting. Here are some ideas: Composting in small spaces. Using mulch to suppress weeds does double duty, adding organic matter and building soil fertility.
Beneficial, pollinating insects love the herbal flowers and the ornamental flowers. The pollinators insure the vegetable flowers are pollinated to produce their fruits. If the flowers are not pollinated, they will just fall off. We garden organically and only use organic insecticides in dire times. Insecticides don't know the difference between a good bug and a bad bug; it kills them all. If you can wait, the bad bugs will attract the good bugs that eat them. Then, you will have balance. The first year, I bought insects that feed on the bad insects (lady bugs, parasitic wasps, and preying mantis). It takes them a year or two to get established.
You can add beekeeping to your yard. Or if that is not feasible, just placing mason bee homes on trees will attract these natives to your yard for pollinating.
You can plant flowers that naturally repel the bad bugs like nasturtium and wild marigold (tagetes minuta). Even deer do not like the fragrance of marigolds. Sometimes just surrounding your garden with marigolds and fragrant Mediterranean herbs is enough to keep the deer out of your garden. I put nasturtium in pots and circle the garden bed with marigolds.
Interplanting vegetables and herbs that support others is a win-win. An example is placing "nitrogen fixers" next to plants that love nitrogen. You can also place nitrogen lovers in the spot the nitrogen fixers were. Be conscious of how you interplant and succession plant your vegetables to keep the soil in balance and give each vegetable the nutrients it needs. Well known nitrogen fixers are peas and beans. Clover also does the job and it is edible.
By having a variety of plants mixed in your garden, the bugs that prey on one type of plant will not be able to just hop next door for their next meal. This keeps uncontrollable infestations from occurring.
A couple of common plants that bring an assortment of nutrients up from deep in the soil are mustard and dandelions. If you want a larger leaf dandelion, cultivated types like the French dandelion is the ticket. You get great salad greens even in the heat of summer and an auto nutrient fertilizer.
There are even plants that are good for breaking up your soil. These are ones that go deep, like daikon, chicory, dandelion, and mustard.
This is just some of the highlights of permaculture gardening techniques to give you an idea of what it is about.
For more tips on organic, natural gardening in small spaces and containers, see Melodie's blog at Victory Garden On the Golf Course.
It has been nearly 10 years since my husband and I began selling our excess produce to restaurants and retail establishments within our community. This small leap of faith took us from backyard gardeners to full time farmers at our current farm, Tierra Garden Organics. Oftentimes, on-farm enterprises take root because there is an excess of abundance above and beyond the gardener's own personal needs. Once the deep freeze is overflowing, the canning is done and the dehydrator is full to the brim, it is time to consider finding a market for your extra produce. Sometimes, you may only have an excess of one or two crops. In this situation, jumping through the hoops of joining a local farmers market does not really make sense; especially if your bounty is ephemeral in nature (like an excess of beans or peas). However, many local restaurants are keen to start exploring the option of buying local and your overproduction may be the windfall that they are searching for. Working with restaurants can be tricky for the uninitiated. If you haven't worked in a production kitchen, you may not be familiar with the pressures or pace of a busy restaurant. Understanding these constraints will ultimately put you a leg ahead when diving into the world of farm-to-table.
Here are a few tips to building a strong relationship with your local restaurants:
Don't Sell Shake- First and foremost, it is important that the produce you are looking to sell is high quality. This translates into a crop that has been harvested at the correct time of day, has been kept properly hydrated, is relatively blemish free, is of consistent size and color and is as fresh as possible. If you have picked too many beans and are looking for a home for the extra, the time to start calling restaurants is immediately after harvest, not a week after they have been sitting in the fridge. This can take some practice, but it is possible to 'cruise' your garden pre-harvest and begin to determine which crops are producing in excess. If you can see ahead of time that you are going to be harvesting way too many zucchini, start calling ahead before the zucchini are ready to be picked and begin to make connections with restaurants that may be interested in purchasing your excess.
Keep It Clean- Busy chefs do not have time to wash away your garden dirt. Properly clean your produce before delivering. Some items are best left unwashed to maintain freshness. Be sure to communicate this with the kitchen ahead of time to see if they have a preference for how the product is delivered. Salad mix and cut greens should be triple-washed and free of weeds. Root crops should be topped and power-washed to remove excess soil. Spent blossoms should be removed from squashes and cucumbers. All items should be put into a clean container for delivery. Delivering a dirty, raw product is the easiest way to prematurely end a budding farmer-to-chef relationship.
Price Accordingly- If you aren't a high-end boutique specialty farm, then don't price your produce like you are. Ultimately, you are looking to form a long-term relationship with another business. Mutual respect is key. Ask for pricing guidance. Many restaurants are willing to share their price sheets from large distributors. Do your best to match or beat the pricing they are receiving until you have established a relationship where the quality of your produce is no longer in question. By contacting a restaurant, you are asking a busy business owner to go out of their way to work directly with you rather than placing a wholesale order through a major distributor. It is up to you to prove to them that the effort is worth their time.
Deliver in a Timely Manner- If you say you are going to deliver Friday morning, then deliver Friday morning. If you are going to be late then call ahead and give the kitchen a heads-up. For the sake of other local growers who are also looking to establish farm-to-table relationships, it is up to you to set a good example and prove to your client that you can be reliable. Oftentimes, restaurants have planned meals based off of your delivery promises. If you don't deliver on time, they cannot prepare your produce as part of their menu.
Be Prompt With Invoices- Whether you like it or not, selling produce is a business transaction. The restaurant you are working with will need an invoice for their taxes. Use a numbered receipt book to track and itemize the produce you have delivered. All restaurants have a different style when it comes to payment; some pay on delivery, some pay weekly, every two weeks or monthly. Your job is to be sure you create a proper invoice so that you can be reimbursed for your products. If your restaurant client accidentally loses your invoice in the hustle and bustle of the kitchen, it will be up to you to produce a replacement.
Working with local restaurants is one of the most rewarding parts of growing produce. It has always been exciting for me to see how the food we grow can be turned into culinary masterpieces to be enjoyed by others within our community. Local food culture starts by incubating this trust relationship between growers (both backyard and professional) and consumers. Farm-to-Table is the keystone to building a strong, local food economy.
If you Google search the words "Permaculture Convergence" you will find links to dozens of permaculture convergences over the past year up to the present. They are scattered all of the country. Northeast, Florida, Colorado, Ohio. Northern California, Wisconsin, So Cal, Australia. Last year there was a North American Permaculture Convergence in Minnesota. There may be a convergence close to where you live.
A convergence is a great opportunity to connect, teach, learn, have fun. It's all about living in a more people- and planet-friendly way. Permaculture is an important banner that helps bring people together in ways that are positive, uplifting and empowering. A permaculture convergence energizes. People are reminded and updated about all the great work being done on behalf of a more peaceful and green planet.
This post will be the first of four describing the Northwest Permaculture Convergence to be held in Eugene, Oregon August 28 to 30, 2015. The author is the coordinator of the event. The Convergence will be at our neighborhood recreation center, seven minutes away by bike.
Permaculture convergences have been happening in the Northwest for at least twenty years. Lost Valley Education Center hosted several permaculture convergences in the mid 90s. That batch of convergences moved into Eugene for a number of years around 2003 then out to a friend's farm in a filbert grove for several years, and then they stopped about 2009.
Meanwhile, another set of convergences started in Washington State. This year's convergence in Eugene is the 8th of this lineage and the first south of Portland. This current grouping of Convergences has become larger than ones previously in and around Eugene. There is now a nonprofit board that oversees the convergences from year to year. The locations alternate between Oregon and Washington State.
Each year's location is determined by who is willing to take on the coordinating task in the state that is up to bat. This year, a proposal was made for Eugene and the decision was made. Some organizing tasks require locals while other tasks can be done remotely.
For the first time, this year's convergence will be held in a suburban neighborhood. The event we are planning goes well beyond other convergences I have been to, heard about or read about. The 2015 Northwest Permaculture Convergence has been designed as a model to be adapted elsewhere. Not only for other permaculture convergences but also for neighborhood-scale eco-fares, site tours and special interest tracks embedded within a convergence. These expansive event features can be powerful outreach tools whether they use the word permaculture or not.
One outreach event is called the Expo which will be free and open to the public. The Expo will include a kid zone, presentations, vendors, ten or so nonprofits, exhibits and artifacts that show and tell of green living tools and technologies and a neighborhood fruit and veggie swap.
Also free and open to the public will be site tours. One of the main reasons for hosting the 2015 Convergence here in River Road is because there are many properties in the neighborhood and nearby with many different features of interest for living more local, green and resilient. There are other sites in Eugene we also want to visit.
Lost Valley, Aprovecho and Fern Hill Sanctuary, within 20 miles of Eugene, will all have open houses to show and tell those important places of education for the new paradigm.
Another new feature or interest is the "Green Neighborhood Summit." The Summit is an embedded track specific to people whose focus is greening their neighborhoods. The track will include several presentations, caucus time and a site tour that will be particularly interesting to neighborhood leaders, resiliency groups and Transition Towns advocates.
Organizing these outreach parts to the Convergence all require local know-how. We have had monthly potlucks for fun and team-building, and now we are moving into creating the game plan for set up and managing the event as it happens. The excitement is building!
The next two blog posts will go into more detail describing the program, Green Summit, Expo and site tours. There is a lot of "behind the scenes" work so we will touch on that as well. The purpose of the "Convergence Blogs" is offer encouragement and some useful pointers to others so they might take on organizing a neighborhood scale event for greening the neighborhood and the community.
Overall, the Convergence is to show and tell "evidence" of a preferred future. We want to identify the bits and pieces of the kind of world many of us would like to live in that are already here. Moreover, we want to go beyond description to describe how to take these great ideas further into the mainstream.
Please be looking for the next blog. If you have attended a convergence, please share it in the comments below and describe how it was for you. If you have helped organize a convergence or something similar, please share your experience.
Visit the Convergence website for more information. You can connect with Jan Spencer on her personal website, Suburban Permaculture.
"Bloom where you are planted." Yes, we have heard this over and over. Once I settled into this idea it seems to work.
At 62 years of age and after a life threatening injury I quit "messing about with plants" and became serious about using what I have to the best of my ability. A 10th of an acre is enough and on some days more than I can handle. I am getting a bit stronger every day and am applying myself to blossoming right here.
This year we are growing tomatoes, all from seed, most of which we had saved from last year's favorites.
We purchased Berkeley Tie Dyed and Red Currant seeds from Territorial Seeds and acquired a Striped Roman Tomato at a plant swap. Our seed planting went better than expected and we soon had 150 plants in our living room, dining room and spare room. We sold a few, gave many away and planted 40 in our garden. As I planted I unfortunately broke the stems of a few plants. In hope I brought them in the house and put them in water glasses on a North facing window sill and added fresh, filtered water every day. Two weeks later they all had roots and went into pots for a bit longer.
Growing in the garden are: Costoluto Genovese, Roma, Striped Roman, Black Prince, Green Grape, Arkansas Traveler, Mortgage Lifter, Orange Ox Heart, Rutgers, Pink Brandy Wine, Berkeley Tie Dyed, and Red Currant. After the little seedl ings on the window sill went out we have a total of 50 plants in the ground.
We tend toward paste or sauce tomatoes because my husband Eric is a Master Food Preserver and makes and cans wonderful roasted tomato soup as well pasta sauce, ketchup, barbeque sauce, pizza sauce and salsa. Lucky me!!
Do we grow anything other than tomatoes? Oh, yes. We have strawberries, black currants, blue berries, huckleberries, apple and cherry trees, hazelnut bushes, a bed of mixed salad greens and sugar pod peas, Anaheim peppers, sweet red peppers, Sun chokes, an artichoke, and a newly cleared area for Glass Gem corn, Amaranth, flax, Anasazi beans, slept and pumpkins. Late summer we will plant spinach, more salad greens and Swiss Chard to winter over.
Herbs, culinary and medicinal, are very important here. We have Rosemary, Chervil, Fennel, Dill, Thyme, Lemon Balm, Chocolate Mint, Tarragon, Savory, Bay, Yarrow, Comfrey, Chives and Lavender. Lots of Lavender. North Bank Urban Farm is Washington State's only urban lavender farm. We, at the latest count have 45 plants in the ground most of which are blooming.
We are adding a 100 square foot greenhouse which will make plant propagation and wintering over much easier and have two large compost bins for kitchen scraps, leaves, garden detritus, etc. It is wonderful compost and, I think, the real secret of our abundant harvests. That and lots of wood chip mulch.
This spring we have started selling at a local farmers market. It is slow going but we are making lots of friends and selling lavender products from our urban farm.
The first Sunday in August we will have an couple of "Open House" Sunday to share our little farm and enjoy the late summer days.
My point is, you do not have to have "land" to farm. You can farm where ever you are. Make the best use of your space, care for your soil, be thrifty with water and enjoy the garden and the fruits of your labor.
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Credible reports gathered by this paper say Liberia's
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their weight behind the nation's most celebrated soccer star
James Salinsa Debbah in the pending Liberia Football
Association (LFA) elections for the presidency slated for
March, 2014 in Harper, Maryland County.
According to a well placed source, Lone Star Cell MTN wants
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Liberia, Cellcom GSM. The company is said to have pumped in
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As for Robert Sirleaf, our source hinted that the
President's son has seen the football icon as the right
candidate to revamp Liberian football from the hands of
business tycoon Musa Bility who revealed he came to the fore
of Liberian football to commercialize the beautiful game.
If Ellen's son supports Debbah, the President will be in a
complete dilemma as to who to support in the LFA election.
Bility played an integral part to bring Madam Johnson-Sirleaf
to for fore as President of the Republic of Liberia in 2005
when she won her first term and he (Bility) continued in
2011 when the President was reelected.
Though Debbah did not support President Johnson-Sirleaf in
2005 for the first round in favor of his kinsman Cllr.
Charles Walker Brumskine, the country's highest scorer
joined the campaign in 2011 bringing on board several of his
national team teammates to support President Johnson-Sirleaf.
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Former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga distance runner Lanni Marchant has continued running six years removed from her collegiate days and she is still making her mark on the running world.
In the summer of 2012, Marchant missed her chance to represent Canada in the Summer Olympics because her time was not up to the Canadian standards for qualifying of 2:29:55. In the 2012 Rotterdam Marathon, Marchant posted the ninth fastest marathon time by a female in Canada at 2:31.51, but it wasn't good enough. She would have to try again.
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Sallyport Global Services (part of KS International, LLC), McLean, Va., has been awarded a $215,000,000 firm-fixed-price, undefinitized contract action for Iraq base renovation and reconstruction of key facilities at Balad Air Base, Iraq, in support of the upcoming arrival of F-16 aircraft in September 2014. Work will be performed at Balad Air Base, Iraq, and is expected to be completed by June 2015. This award is the result of a sole-source acquisition. This requirement is 100 percent foreign military sales for the government of Iraq. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center/WWMK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8615-14-C-6021).
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., has been awarded a $51,233,782 firm-fixed-price modification (P00023) to an existing firm-fixed-price contract (FA8634-12-C-2651) for the procurement of integration of additional weapons, integration of ARC-210 RT 1990 Gen 5 radios, and integration of Honeycomb structure to the aircraft on the F-15SA aircraft for the Royal Saudi Air Force. Work will be performed at St. Louis, Mo., and will be completed by Feb. 29, 2020. Foreign military sales funds for Saudi Arabia in the amount of $19,835,000 are being obligated at time of award. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity.
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, has been awarded a $16,814,091 bilateral modification (P00171) for an existing firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (FA8611-08-C-2897) for engineering change proposal (ECP) 0533, follow-on agile sustainment for the F-22 Raptor, Reliability and Maintainability Maturation Program Project AF100 Acceleration Plan. This effort is to procure retrofit kits that will provide a more durable material for the actuated doors on the bottom of the aircraft to improve availability of the aircraft. ECP 0533 is the first of two phases to incorporate the new material on the doors and panels of the aircraft. Work will be performed at Fort Worth, Texas, and is expected to be complete by September 2016. Fiscal 2013 aircraft procurement funds in the amount of $16,814,091 are being obligated at time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center/WWUK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity.
Honeywell International Inc., Tempe, Ariz., was awarded a $9,943,752 modification (P00004) to firm-fixed-price, sole-source, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract W911N2-13-D-0011 to exercise option year one for the purchase of 58 (estimated) gas turbine engines to support the Aviation Ground Power Unit reset at Letterkenny Army Depot. Funding and performance location will be determined with each order. The estimated completion date is Feb. 14, 2015. The U.S. Army Contracting Command-Letterkenny Army Depot, Chambersburg, Pa., is the contracting activity.
HNTB Corp., Kansas City, Mo., was awarded a $9,500,000 firm-fixed-price 'Architect and Engineering' indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for civil works and military projects throughout the Corps of Engineers and environmental projects throughout the Kansas City district of the Corps of Engineers. Funding and performance location will be determined with each order. The contract was solicited via the Web with 11 bids received. The estimated completion date is Feb. 11, 2019. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Kansas City District, Kansas City, Kan., is the contracting activity (W912DQ-14-D-1000).
Statistical Research Inc.*, Tucson, Ariz. (N62473-14- D-1412); Far Western Anthropological Research Group Inc.*, Davis, Calif. (N62473-14- D-1413); Ultra Systems Environmental Inc.*, Irvine, Calif. (N62473-14- D-1414); ASM Affiliates Inc.*, Carlsbad, Calif. (N62473-14- D-1415), and Tierra Environmental Services Inc.*, San Diego, Calif. (N62473-14- D-1416), are each being awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple-award contract for cultural resources services at various locations within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest area of responsibility (AOR) and other locations nationwide. The maximum dollar value including the base period and four option years for all five contracts combined is $50,000,000. The work to be performed provides for the contractors to furnish all labor, management, supervision, tools, materials, travel, lodging/subsistence, equipment, and transportation to provide cultural resources related studies, investigations, preparation of historic and archaeological documents, and implementation of plans in accordance with Sections 106 and 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. These five contractors may compete for task orders under the terms and conditions of the awarded contract. No task orders are being issued at this time. All work on this contract will be performed primarily within the NAVFAC Southwest AOR which includes California (94 percent), Arizona (1 percent), Colorado (1 percent), Nevada (1 percent), New Mexico (1 percent), and Utah (1 percent). Work may also be performed in the remainder of the continental U.S. (1 percent). The term of the contract is not to exceed 60 months with an expected completion date of February 2019. Fiscal 2014 operations and maintenance, Navy contract funds in the amount of $25,000 are obligated on this award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Federal Business Opportunities website, with seven proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Southwest, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity.
Sealaska Environmental Services LLC*, Juneau, Alaska, is being awarded a maximum amount $30,794,172 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for long term monitoring, operations, and maintenance environmental remediation services for facilities in the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Northwest areas of responsibility. Task order 0001 is being awarded at $421,091 for operation and maintenance of two environmental remediation systems located at Naval Base Kitsap, Silverdale, Wash. Work for this task order is expected to be completed by March 2015. Work on this contract will be performed at various installations including but not limited to Washington (75 percent), Alaska (21 percent), Idaho (1 percent), Montana (1 percent), Oregon (1 percent), and Wyoming (1 percent). The term of the contract is not to exceed 60 months with an expected completion date of March 2019. Fiscal 2014 operations and maintenance, Navy contract funds in the amount of $421,091 are obligated on this award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with six proposals received. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Northwest, Silverdale, Wash., is the contracting activity (N44255-14-D-9011).
The Boeing Co., St Louis, Mo., is being awarded $18,977,907 for firm-fixed-price delivery order 0050 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N68335-10-G-0012) for procurement of major structural repair and maintenance equipment for the F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Mo., and is expected to be completed in January 2018. Fiscal 2013 aircraft procurement, Navy funds in the amount of $18,977,907 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, N.J., is the contracting activity.
L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace LLC, Madison, Miss., is being awarded a $6,530,626 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract for maintenance and logistics services in support of the KC-130J aircraft for the government of Kuwait under the Foreign Military Sales Program. Work will be performed at Al Mubarak Airbase, Kuwait, and is expected to be completed in August 2015. Foreign military sales funds in the amount of $6,530,626 are being obligated on this award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via an electronic request for proposals; four offers were received. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity (N00019-14-D-0015).
Fujifilm SonoSite Inc., Bothell, Wash., has been awarded a maximum $39,672,731 modification (P00104) exercising the fifth option year on a one-year base contract (SPM2D1-09-D-8339) with seven one-year option periods for radiology systems, subsystems and components. This is a fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment contract. Location of performance is Washington with a Feb. 18, 2015 performance completion date. Using military services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and federal civilian agencies. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2014 through fiscal 2015 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa.
Tullahoma Industries Inc.*, Tullahoma, Tenn., has been awarded a maximum $9,201,000 modification (P00102) exercising the second option year on a one-year base contract (SPM1C1-12-D-1024) with two one-year option periods for universal camouflage pattern jackets. This is a firm-fixed-price contract. Locations of performance are Tennessee and Alabama with a Feb. 15, 2015 performance completion date. Using military service is Army. Type of appropriation is fiscal year 2014 through fiscal year 2015 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa.
Honeywell International Inc., Minneapolis, Minn., has been awarded a maximum $8,642,970 firm-fixed-price contract for inertial navigation units. This contract is a sole-source acquisition. Location of performance is Minnesota with a May 31, 2016 performance completion date. Using military service is Navy. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2014 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Maritime, Mechanicsburg, Pa., (SPM4A1-11-G-0010-1002).
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