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There's no doubt about it. Quail habitat is good for most other wildlife. Creating good nesting, brooding and shrubby cover for bobwhites can also provide good habitat for songbirds, rabbit, wild turkey and white-tailed deer. Even if your hunting place is big timber, grassland or crop fields, managing for bobwhites on all or part of your farm is a great way to enhance deer and turkey hunting on your property. Here are a couple ideas on how to manage for Bob, Tom and Buck.
Plant Native Warm-Season Grass
Waist-high native grass (shown below) provides excellent habitat for wild turkey and quail. Native grass fields next to timbered areas provide excellent nesting cover, and recently burned or disturbed fields provide good strutting areas. I often find a few turkey nests each year in native grass fields.
White-tailed deer will use native grass fields for fawning and winter bedding. Think about it. The grass is brown. The deer is brown. The grass is at least waist high. What a great place to hide. How many deer do you see in native grass fields during the hunting season? There's a reason they're out there.
Edge Feather Field Edges
Edge feathering is great for quail and rabbits. This practice can also be used to funnel deer or turkey to your favorite hunting spot. A couple years ago during the youth turkey season I took my nephew hunting. We hunted a field edge that was edge feathered. Nothing could walk through the edge feathering so we sat up at the very end of the edge feathering. That morning we had several deer walk by and finally a bunch of turkeys. The turkeys couldn't walk through the edge feathering, so they just walked around it. Right to where we were waiting.
Woodland Restoration
Overstocked woodlands are a hidden gem for woodland wildlife including bobwhite quail and wild turkey. Woodland restoration involves thinning out undesirable trees (opening up the canopy) and eventually re-introducing prescribed fire. The combination of fire and sun promotes the growth of native grasses, wildflowers and native legumes--food and cover for quail and turkey. The downed trees look rather messy, but this mess of trees provide ideal nesting cover for wild turkey. A couple years later you won't even notice the downed trees.
Open up the Timber
I don't recommend managing exclusively for bobwhites on big patches of timber. Big timber is and never will be good quail habitat. Instead incorporate quail friendly practices such as timber stand improvement, temporary forest openings and old field renovation into your wildlife management plan. You might never see a bobwhite on your place, but I guarantee you'll improve habitat for deer and turkey.
Most oak hickory forest in Missouri are overstocked with trees. Thinning out undesirable and less productive trees (a.k.a. Forest Stand Improvement) will improve tree growth and stimulate the growth of young trees, shrubs and native legumes on the forest floor. The flush of new growth provides excellent deer browse and brooding cover for turkeys (see picture below).
Fifty years ago there were numerous small fields throughout Missouri's landscape. Over time, these fields have been abandoned. Today, these "old fields" are choked full of undesirable trees such as locust, hedge, elm and eastern red cedar. Consider rejuvenating these old fields by clearing or cutting out the undesirable trees. You can use a chainsaw (the hard way), bulldozer, bullhog, or tree clipper. Plant the cleared area to a food plot or native grasses or letting the field grow up in seedy plants. Disturb the field every few years with disking or burning to stimulate even more seedy plants. The rejuvenated field will provide good browse for deer and an excellent strutting area for turkey.
On south or west facing slopes I like to establish 1/4- to 2-acre temporary forest openings. Before starting, make sure you work with a biologist or forester to pick out a suitable site. It may sound drastic but all you need to do is cut down all the trees. Yep, cut them all down or at least most of them. You can use the cut trees for firewood or just leave them. You can save a couple nice oaks or soft mast trees for food sources, but cut everything else down. Over the next five to ten years the opening will grow up in tree saplings, shrubs and herbaceous plants. These food and cover meccas are great places to deer hunt. Turkeys like forest openings too. The abundance of new sprouts and overhead cover provide ideal nesting and brooding cover.
The Proof is in the Picture
The past couple years I've been helping a friend with managing his farm for quail. We've planted native warm-season grasses, edge feathered, restored woodlands, cleared old fields and created forest openings. Quail have returned, and the deer and turkey hunting has never been better!
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FT. HANCOCK, Texas -- Texas border towns have received a flood of silent refugees from Mexico. The refugees have fled Mexican drug cartels, who are driving them from their homes in an effort grab more land.
A year ago in Ft. Hancock, the most excitement the farming community saw were the trains running through the city. Now, in the quiet town just east of El Paso, there has been a surge of new people moving in to the community.
"They are literally walking, if they have vehicles, they are loading up their vehicles and coming," one woman said, whose identity was hidden.
Until a few weeks ago, the refugees lived in El Porvenir, Mexico, just south of the border from Ft. Hancock. El Porvenir is one of many Mexican towns that are terrorized by drug cartels. Thirty days ago, the cartels moved in and put up signs that read: "Get out of town, or die."
"What are they supposed to do when somebody comes in and tells them, 'You all have 48 hours to leave?,'" the woman asked.
The drug cartels do not make empty threats. Already dozens homes have been torched, because their owners took too long to leave. On Easter Sunday, a church was burned to the ground.
"They take it serious cause they have seen a bunch of killings, they've seen when they drop off dead bodies on the side of the road or cut their heads off," the woman continued. "They've seen it and they are going to run."
Now the refugees have ran north of the border and into Ft. Hancock.
"All they had to defend themselves with were rocks and sticks," said Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West. "There is no police force, whatsoever in El Porvenir or in the other villages up and down the river there."
West said while thousands have fled El Porvenir and the surrounding towns. Exactly where they have gone is hard to say.
"When they do come across, they don't want to be found," he said. "They don't want law enforcement on the American side to find them, they just want to be in a safe place."
The reason why these major cartels would be interested in taking over the little towns, because it is all about land mass.
For the cartels it is also a perfect opportunity to smuggle humans and also to smuggle narcotics. The cartels want to have as much land as possible and have a lot of resources to move drugs into the country. For the sheriff's department, West said he has 17 deputies to cover an area of 5,000 square miles.
South of the border, the people of the towns are simply at the mercy of the cartels, and without any help from the Mexican police or military.
"What's going to happen when all these people are going to be starving out there," asked the unidentified woman. "They don't have no where to go, they are living in barns, they are living in cabins, there are children out there."
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HEREFORD - Carlos Garcia Tijerina Sr., 91, died Sunday, April 10, 2011.
Rosary will be said at 6 p.m. today in Rix Funeral Directors. Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 2 p.m. Wednesday in St. Anthony's Catholic Church with the Rev. John Valdezas celebrant. Burial will follow in St. Anthony's Cemetery.
Mr. Tijerina was born Nov. 4, 1919, in Merchant to Enrique and Carmelita Tijerina. He was married to his first wife, Lupe, from 1947 through 1983.
Survivors include his wife, Rufina Tijerina of Hereford; the mother of his children, Lupe Flores of Amarillo; two sons, Armando Tijerina of Amarillo and Hector Tijerina of Hereford; three daughters, Mary Alvarado of Friona, Mary Jane Ortiz of Amarillo and Olivia Padilla of Las Cruses, N.M.; 30 grandchildren; and 40 great-grandchildren.
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In the January 31st Republican presidential primary election, Miami-Dade voters will get a chance to vote on three key issues for reform of the County commission, all for the price of just one vote: 1) Should commissioners be allowed to serve only two, four-year terms instead of the unlimited tenure that exists now? 2) Should commissioners be banned from all outside employment?; and 3) Should commissioners be paid $92,097 a year instead of their current $6,000? One vote will approve (or disapprove) all three measures, leaving some county commissioners less than enthusiastic about the election itself. Term Limits "I am opposed to term limits." said District 1 Commissioner Barbara Jordan."Citizens should have the right to vote for whoever they choose.After four years, you can just vote them out. There is a learning process just to learn who to call to get things done. Projects are not just bricks and mortar.It takes a while to see projects come out of the ground.You don't see the fruits of your labors until years down the road." Jordan said term limits have proven costly to the people of Miami-Dade County in the past in terms of effective leaders. "The people of south Dade lost a wonderful senator in Darryl Jones who was able to get a lot done," she said. "Look how long it took for [District 9 Commissioner] Dennis Moss to get the cultural arts center in South Dade done.My predecessor, Betty Ferguson, was not able to get the funding in place for the recreational complex in Miami Gardens until she was walking out of the door. If you are not happy with your commissioner, vote them out!" District 3 Commissioner Audrey Edmonson agrees. "I generally believe that voters have the ability to set term limits at every election," she said. "If a voter is not pleased with an elected official's performance, they have the fundamental right to choose another. Look how term limits have affected our state governance. As soon as an elected official fully understands the process, garners support of their colleagues across party lines and prepares themselves for any leadership role, they are term-limited out.I think term limits do a disservice to the voters." First-term District 2 Commissioner Jean Monestime says he has always been a supporter of term limits. Pay increase and other concerns Edmonson opposes placing limits on someone's earning capacity.Jordan believes it will limit the average citizen's ability to run for office.She says that someone like Monestime, a small business owner, would have to give up his business to stay in office. "Nowhere else in the state of Florida is this required,"she said. "Then you will have the game of people pretending to turn over their businesses to other people, just to run for office." Monestime believes that there should not be any restrictions on outside employment as long as that job or business does not present a conflict with the duty of a commissioner. Charter reform issues not only speak to the present, but also to the future, Edmonson added. They essentially change the way we govern.We (Blacks) must, again, get out and vote in every election regardless of how small or insignificant one may think it is." Monestime says he is not in favor of placing such an important referendum on the January 31st ballot, arguing that putting it on the ballot for the general election in November would have provided a greater opportunity for more voters to have their voices heard. By Gregory W. email@example.com


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DETROIT -- Just a few days after the Detroit Tigers got their designated hitter back, they are headed to a place where they can't use one.
Victor Martinez is starting at first base Sunday afternoon in the series finale against the Cleveland Indians. He will likely see more time there in the three-game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks that starts Monday.
Miguel Cabrera is in the lineup as the designated hitter.
Tigers manager Brad Ausmus was asked Sunday morning what his plan was for Martinez for the three games in Arizona.
"I don't know exactly what it is," he said, "but don't be shocked if Miggy's at third for a game or two in Arizona. In fact, I talked to Miggy in Kansas City about taking a few ground balls and he did in Kansas City at third base."
Ausmus was asked about the possibility that Martinez could start as catcher in one of those three interleague games.
"That's more unlikely," he said.
Martinez is likely to start at first in two of the three games. That means Cabrera would shift to third and third baseman Nick Castellanos would move to the bench and be a pinch hitter.
Martinez missed 11 of the final 13 games prior to the All-Star break due to soreness in his right side, so it's logical that Ausmus would prefer to start him at first base rather than subject him to the physical demands of catching.
Martinez has caught two games this series, one each against the Dodgers and the Padres in an early-season interleague road trip.
Martinez is hitting .322 with 21 home runs, 55 RBIs and a .967 OPS. He is 2 for 12 with two singles and four strikeouts in three games since returning to the lineup Friday night in the series opener.
"His timing's a little off," Ausmus said. "It's not quite where it was. I think that's normal though."
Even after Martinez returned to the lineup, Ausmus said he would monitor him closely in hopes of avoiding a recurrence. So far, so good, Ausmus said.
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One of the most disturbing legislative hearings last week in Charleston came when a state trooper from the special State Police Crimes Against Children unit told the brand new Select Committee on......
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I am 150% against child abuse! That includes the discussion on how many children who are taken from families are abused worse in state care, group homes and foster homes. Family preservation is no longer the guiding principle. Money is being made off our children and abuse is ignored in those areas.
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I have a dream too: world peace. And smaller than that, that there be no more crime against children. I can think of less worthy causes for which to ask money.
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I have a dream that one day an agency head will appear before a legislative committee and say, "We are in good shape. We are not asking for more than we all ready have. Thanks for what we do have."
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In May and June of 1963, in Washington, DC, we had a similar experience at the Walter Reed Army Hospital, however, in five of our ten patients studied, although we did not isolate agents from the stool or throat washings, we were able to demonstrate diagnostic titer rises to Coxsackie viruses of several types. Although I am not sure of the significance at this time, I think it would be of interest to other investigators to publish negative reports of various diagnostic studies. It may be that "Fifth Disease" is not a specific disease entity, but a syndrome caused by the various
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NEW YORK – Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and members of the New York Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Strike Force dismantled a heroin distribution operation and arrested a Queens man.
Special agents arrested Jose Santiago Diaz, 44, a Dominican Republic national who worked in the Queens apartment where heroin was repacked for distribution.
During a search warrant, special agents seized 39 kilos of heroin from the ground floor apartment on Wednesday evening. The heroin has an estimated street value of more than $20 million. Eight packages of pressed heroin weighing nearly three pounds each were found lying on the floor of the studio apartment, while another 11 packages were recovered from inside a duffel bag. A makeshift assembly line had been set up on a table, complete with kilo presses and multiple buckets containing grinders, sifters and other drug paraphernalia. Another 10 kilograms of loose heroin was on the table with the buckets. Brown sugar used as a cutting agent was also recovered from the apartment.
Special agents and detectives with the strike force had been conducting surveillance at the suspected location for several weeks prior to the search. On Tuesday night, members of the strike force team observed an individual wearing latex gloves, typically worn by heroin mill workers, exit the front door of the building and then return inside. Moments later the special agents saw an individual wearing latex gloves open a window in the ground floor apartment. Special agents and detectives approached the building and noticed a strong odor of heroin emanating from a window and an air conditioner.
Shortly after midnight, Diaz exited the building and drove off in a vehicle. Special agents stopped the car and detained Diaz after he made inconsistent statements. Special agents detected the smell of heroin on Diaz and determined that he was in possession of the keys to the ground floor apartment.
Members of the strike force contacted the Port Authority Police K-9 Unit, which dispatched a Port Authority police officer and a K-9 dog to the building. Upon sniffing the door to the residence, the dog signaled the presence of narcotics. Special agents later searched the residence and found significant quantities of heroin.
"Heroin not only poses a significant public safety risk, it also generates huge profits that are often funneled back into other types of illegal activity," said James T. Hayes Jr., special agent in charge of HSI New York. The seizures and arrests are a testament to HSI's commitment to keep illegal drugs off our streets."
"I commend the excellent work by agents and detectives in this case," said Bridget G. Brennan, special narcotics prosecutor. "We seized a very large quantity of heroin high in the distribution chain. This would have ended up as millions of user-ready packets on the streets of our city."
"NYPD detectives and federal agents, supported by the outstanding work by Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan and her staff, have brought this heroin mill to a grinding halt," said Raymond W. Kelly, New York City police commissioner. "In putting a major drug dealer out of business, they have also saved lives in stopping the violent crime that is never far from narcotics trafficking."
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Over the past decade there has been growing criticism of biopharmaceutical companies as they struggle to increase drug output. A new report by BioPlan Associates, "Genetic Expression Systems: Current and Future Manufacturing Platforms," highlights the slow shift of these companies as some begin to take advantage of recent technology platform advances to boost production.
In the early 1990s, many larger companies publicly announced that they would launch two or three new molecular entities (NMEs) per year, but they were eventually forced to backtrack and admit that these targets were simply not achievable. In 2007, the global pharmaceutical industry was investing 70% more in R&D than it did ten years earlier, yet generating 30% fewer NMEs.
Many companies lack new technologies and methodologies in their R&D, as a result the industry has looked to biotechnology to reinvigorate drug development and provide recognizable medical advances. BioPlan analyses, however, show that, even in this area, a general reluctance to modernize is endangering the future of several companies and could shut them out of the rapidly growing biopharmaceutical market.
The number of biotech compounds has been increasing steadily over the last 20 years, but rather than just concentrating on absolute drug output, the emphasis must also be on the quality of the drugs being produced and the means used to manufacture them.
A 2006 industry-wide analysis of pipelines revealed that 50–90% of the projects in development in the leading therapeutic areas were considered to have a novel mode of action. In this regard, there is no denying the innovation that biotechnology has brought to drug development.
Since 2005, biotech drugs have represented 22% of the NME output of the industry, and now account for a quarter of total R&D investment. Current annual worldwide recombinant product sales are of the order of $70 billion. In 2007, biotech drug sales grew by 12.5%—twice as fast as the pharmaceutical market.
To reduce the risk associated with drug development, companies have been analyzing the time, resources, expense, and expertise they can allocate. As a result, during the 1980s and 1990s, companies were able to improve their success rates for recombinant protein (rDNA) and monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapeutics. The Tufts Center for Drug Development (CSDD) found that the overall success rate for a 1990–1997 cohort of rDNA therapeutics entering clinical trials was 35% compared with only 26% for a 1980–1997 cohort.
Yet, despite these improvements, CSDD identified efficient manufacturing as one of the core areas to be addressed if further advances were to be made in biotech success rates.
BioPlan's analyses have shown that since the 1970s when genetic engineering was still in its infancy, there has been little basic change in the technologies used for commercial-scale manufacture of biopharmaceutical products. Virtually all current products are being manufactured by the same old, familiar technologies—primarily using E.coli, CHO cells, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae as hosts. Therefore, while cutting edge can be used to describe the general approach to biopharmaceutical drug development, the same term can, by no means, be used to describe the approach to their manufacture.
Certainly, regulatory factors come into play, but this lack of progress is baffling. There have been genuine advances in terms of platform technologies that offer companies significant advantages. This includes vast improvements in product yield and improved product quality and lowered operating and infrastructure costs. Furthermore, in such a competitive field, these technologies can provide a route for innovators to make their products unique.
In fact, the industry has been trending toward engineering its proteins with a focus on improving not just yield but also quality and clinical performance. According to Patrick Lucy, global business development leader for Dowpharma's Pfenex business, "Expression system platforms today must have the depth and breadth to meet both production and clinical expectations."
Lucy anticipates an increase in prokaryotic expression platforms due to their short cycle time in the fermentor and ease of genetic manipulation. "We are seeing a steep increase in inquiries from pharmaceutical companies that are now evaluating expression systems that exhibit efficient expression. Some of these companies had previously been defaulting to older mammalian cell culture simply because they have investments in large-scale mammalian production facilities."
Lucy feels that the older technologies are simply not sustainable over time. "Nearly all of our clients are indicating that they are making these shifts as a result of the high cost of manufacturing a pipeline of new molecules using older technologies. These products could and should be made more efficiently and to higher clinical standards in newer expression systems."
And, it's not just microbial systems that are generating interest. "Over the past 12 months, we have seen interest in new biopharmaceutical mammalian expression systems grow rapidly," explained Andrew Sandford, vp at Selexis. "Already, we have more than doubled the number of companies who have begun to actively change the way they plan their early development and manufacturing strategy. Many are now finding that they are able to start process development four to six months earlier; perhaps 50% have developed cell lines achieving titers of greater than 1 gram per liter productivities in, as yet, un-optimized conditions."
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If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us, who?
These questions sum up the drive behind the Transition Town movement. The movement initiated by Rob Hopkins has spurred a wide range of local initiatives, rooted in communities.
Communities is the key word. The point is not to prove oneself right over others, on how to fight climate change. The point is not to prove governments or big corporations wrong either. The point is not being right. The point is to engage communities, to bring everyone on board in addressing the climate crisis.
Hear Rob present the Transition Towns at TED Global in Oxford. Here are his commented slides.
Transition away from hydrocarbons.
The rationale behind Transition Towns is that our current system is heavily dependent on fossil fuels and hydrocarbons, and that there are three good reasons to transition away from this dependence:
- oil reserves are not infinite, and the less conventional ones are being extracted at a greater cost to ecosystems (tar sands, arctic drilling…).
- oil rarefaction is structurally pushing prices upwards, so reducing consumption will limit the drain on local finances (cf the "multiplier" effect)
- oil consumption is a major source of Greenhouse Gas emissions, which have already accumulated beyond safe levels in the atmosphere (387 vs 350 ppm), and needs at least to depart from the "business as usual" scenario, to reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change by 2050 (ie: reminder for Copenhagen: the priority is from shying away from catastrophic levels, down to safer but still risky levels).
If the rational conclusion of these three factors is to reduce the consumption of oil, where does this leave us?
74% of oil used in the UK is used to transport passengers and freight. This sets a priority to short circuits and supply chains. This means that territories dependent on long haul food supplies, on commuter journeys to work, on flights to holidays need to adapt and find an alternative model.
The word "transition" is particularly well chosen: it focuses on the path towards a sustainable modus operandi, and on the gradual steps that need to take place, starting now. The core part of this strategy is the Energy Descent Action Plan (initially developed in Kinsale), which is illustrated and developed in the transition timeline (cf book here)
Build local resilience.
Local resilience makes a territory better able to withstand shocks and adapt. The closure of a mine pit, of a steel plant, of a car factory often means despair for cities dependent on a mono-industry. Resilient cities will have sustained their potential to grow their own food locally, to build houses with local materials (timber, clay, hay, stone…), to provide a diverse set of jobs and activities to younger as well as older inhabitants.
We can here draw a parallel between economic and biological diversity.
Take a biological ecosystem, identify the relationships between species (predator / prey; supplier / user; symbiotic partner…). You will spot a few, critical species, with the most dense network of links with the other species. Should these species disappear, their entire network would have to adapt. Or not. Take the collapse of Easter Island when trees disappeared.
(source: Appleseed permaculture)
Similarly, take a city as an economic ecosystem, identify the relationships between actors (producer / consumer; supplier / user; isolated / central figure…). In the same vein, we will identify key activities, each with a dense network of links with other actors: bakers, butchers, grocers, bankers, schools, cafes and restaurants etc. Certain activities are "tipping points" in the life of the community. In France and in Britain, hot debates are raging about the role of post offices in rural communities.
The issue is not so much which is the last economic activity to preserve in a declining community, next to its collapse, but to nurture and develop local economic diversity. There is a strong case for linking both lines of thinking ahead of next year's International Year of Biodiversity.
And, if you want a "first hand" feeling of a resilient system, try:
You will clearly feel the interdependence of the "actors" (the connected ends of the wood sticks). And you may get a good laugh from your 2yr old.
You may also want to find out more about Buckminster Fuller. See for instance how his picture of "Spaceship Earth" was used to plot a global high voltage network to connect renewable energy sources:
Source: www.maximizingprogress.org
(more on this in upcoming posts: the importance of seed diversity, permaculture and permadesign, yield management, industrial ecology models)
So, what does a transition town look like? Er. a normal city. At least, a city which could be yours, or the next one around the corner.
Take Forest Row, Sussex, England, Great Britain, Europe, a town of 5 000. Transition Forest Row was launched on March 2008, with Rob Hopkins attending.
The official launch was the result of a year long of community building, planning, and features as a historic marker for the city:
organising talks, film screenings and other events, and the Unleashing was the culmination of that, being the point at which the process is thrown open to the community to take it and make it theirs.
The community has engaged with a wide range of issues, as listed on the local transition website.
We had the chance to stay with Flora and Vasile, and their vibrant household, who are actively involved in the local initiative.
The week end provided a rich programme, allowing us to see the movement in action. The best part of it was that this programme was very spontaneous, showing how tightly connected all these initiatives are:
- a visit to the Plaw Hatch Farm, its food shop selling its own production (it also sold some "organic chestnuts from France", a surprise). The Farm is an example of permaculture, with a broad range of activities supporting each other (we saw pigs rummaging in an open field as a way to "work the soil"). Vasile gave us a tour of the Pericles workshops, where he welcomes and trains young adults with learning difficulties.
- a visit to the Tablehurst Farm, its food shop, and its barbecue in the barn. The barn hosts a yearly dance evening, and weekly barbecues, a solid reward after a walk from the city centre under a light drizzle. Permaculture principles are applied, with hens free ranged (by rotation) in the orchard (among numerous other ideas).
- a visit to Bramble Corner, a toy shop to dream of, with a vast majority of toys made of wood (the rest being books, clothing and a few kitchen utensils…). The range of products doesn't strike as cheap, but clearly has the potential to last longer in the hands of children. And the shop owners are very welcoming, which means that some of the pleasure is to play with the toys in the shop.
- a meeting "à l'improviste" with Tristram Stuart, in the toy shop. Tristram lives in Forest Row and champions an overhaul of food waste management (among many other things). His latest book "WASTE, uncovering the global food scandal" was longlisted for the Goldman Sachs / FT business book of the year and for the John Llewellyn Rhys prize. Hear him vividly make the case for stopping food waste on this BBC programme.
- a visit to the family allotment, where Flora&co harvested some very ripe raspberries, and a rich mix of season veg for our evening soup. The allotment is a 10 min walk from Flora's place, which is too far for getting fresh herbs for a meal, but within reach for the ongoing gardening tasks.
- a visit to a tree surgeon, a couple of Flora's friends building a yurt on a nearby estate, where we learned how to sit and whittle, and saw a modular construction technique being deployed.
- a screening of "U-Carmen" at the town hall, scheduled by the Forest Row Film Society, winner of the award for "best film society in Britain". Check the programme of the Film Society here. And take a minute to discover the film:
- the Forest Row Energy Descent Action plan follows the tested Transition methodology of projecting a vision of "business as usual" in 2025, and contrasting it with the transition plan (and interim steps leading to it).
The resulting experience was…
…intensely motivating, needless to say.
The "lived in" experience more than matched the excitement spurred by the ideas, the books, the online resources and email exchanges… Particularly striking were the community feeling, the respect for each other and a comprehensive approach to tackling the climate crisis through empowering and socially inclusive actions. The climate crisis is daunting, but actions, shared and championed by willing individuals provide ample source for hope.
We exchanged ideas on transport, on funding local jobs with high "societal impact", and looked for ways to expand shopping hours from the farm shops, thus widening their appeal to the inhabitants…


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YOUNGSTOWN - Jo McKee got a free blood pressure check as she walked with her father Saturday outside United Methodist Community Center.
"This is awesome," McKee said of the Mahoning and Trumbull County Regional Veteran Stand Down. "I've lived here all my life. It is great there are people that care came together to tell people in the 'Yo' what is available to them."
The United Methodist Community Center in collaboration with local agencies hosted the stand down on Front Street. Services offered included eligibility screenings, medical exams, shelter and housing referrals, employment and job training assistance, legal services and counseling.
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Tonya Patterson, a case manager at the community center, was on hand to provide information on the center's Ready Workforce program, which helps veterans with computer training and finding employment and housing.
"Our goal is to get veterans on their feet and established," she said.
Also at the event was Yvette Wade, a U.S. Army veteran.
Wade created Family and Friends Home Care to help eligible veterans and their families get home care services that range from light housekeeping and cooking to providing transportation through the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The program was started in Trumbull County in 2012 and expanded into the Youngstown area earlier this year.
"I learned about these services because I was wounded by an RPG while I was in Iraq," Wade said. "We help veterans through the process. We work hand in hand with the Veterans Affairs."
The services are available through Aid and Attendance pension benefits for veterans and their surviving spouses who require the regular attendance of another person to assist in eating, bathing, dressing and other daily tasks.
"This is an excellent way to get information out to people who otherwise might not get together," Keion Stella, a program coordinator of the Ready Workforce program, said of the event. "We are so pleased with the response this year, we will be looking to take this into Trumbull County next year."
Veterans attending Saturday's program also were able to obtain medical screenings, clothing and personal care kits, breakfast and lunch and free haircuts.


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Unions paved the way to the middle class for millions of workers and pioneered benefits such as paid health care and pensions along the way. Even today, union workers earn significantly more on average than their non-union counterparts and union employers are more likely to provide benefits. And non-union workers—particularly in highly unionized industries—receive financial benefits from employers who increase wages to match what unions would win in order to avoid unionization. Read more here.
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Police are on the lookout for two men who kicked in the door of an eastside home, brandished guns and stole more than $1,000.
Erie police responded to a late Saturday afternoon call to the 1000 block of East Lake Road, where the two armed men reportedly entered the home wearing dark clothing and bandannas over their faces.
The men were last seen heading west on East Lake Road.