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Koala experience at Moonlight Sanctuary
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Feeding my kangaroo friend at Moonlight Sanctuary
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vår lille koala ven fra koala centeret. meget fotogen!!
Nadège G, août 2015
We saw several koalas at the Koala Sanctuary.
Little penguins.
Nadège G, août 2015
We were lucky enough to spot penguins.
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Penny G, mars 2015
We were told this is unusually for 3 to be in the same tree. I guess later there was a squabble between the 3.
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Granted the store can be overwhelming, and most of it is geared towards the younger (no curves) crowd. But with a little time and some handy tips, you can flush out the golden nuggets. I tend to focus on trendy pieces and flattering silhouettes.
For instance, this top has special touches like a pleated bottom and cuffed sleeves, with a flattering neckline and banded waist. I'd wear this with black pants and big gold earrings.
|Pleated Top, $19.80
|Studded Collar Sweater, $22.80
I don't think I'll ever tire of polka dots, but would be ready to ditch this bow-tie after a week. Just check to see if it's removable, or easily cut off. This top would be adorable with every color in your closet.
|Polka Dot Shirt, $19.80
Always a fan of stripes, especially in black and white, I'd pair this with a floral skirt and bright, solid-color blazer.
|Striped Satin Top, $14.80
Their tops are great for layering under jackets and cardigans.
|Waterfall Tank, $19.80
|Essential Colorblocked Dress, $19.80
|Essential Circle Skirt, $15.80
Wrap dresses are great for creating a more custom fit.
|Retro Print Wrap Dress, $24.80
Two years ago I went against my better judgement and tried on a pair of their skinny jeans (I never buy their pants). So imagine how shocked I am to still be wearing and loving them today! I had to try on a lot of frogs to find my prince, but I do that with jeans that cost 15 times as much!
|Classic Skinnies, $10.80
|Classic Denim Capris, $10.80
I asked two of my most stylish blogger friends to weigh in on their Forever 21 tips.
Natalie at Designer Bags & Dirty Diapers said,
"The main thing I look for while shopping at Forever 21 is solid colored items. I feel like their prints can get cheesy and cheap looking. For the most part the solids are great basics to mix in with your higher-end wardrobe items. Case and point, I just bought this blush colored blazer for Fall. It was a great solid neutral color and only $29.00. Score!"
Chassity of Look, Linger, Love has a similar opinion about mixing.
"It goes without saying that you have to dig. I bypass anything that looks cheap or teen-ish. But once you do discover a great find, don't be afraid to put it with your designer items in your closet. It's all about pairing your high and low end items together in a way that creates an eclectic and layered look. Here I've paired my F21 horse print blouse with some better quality items from my closet."
"F21 is also a great place to find seasonal trends that you want to participate in but may not want to invest much in. This past weekend I dropped in to my local F21 and found this acid washed jean tunic. As you can see I'm uncertain at first (and I can see your side eyes), but for $29 I'm willing to give it a shot this fall."
There's no question both these ladies will work those pieces, and no one will know their real price tags.
Check the material content. Nothing is going to be silk or quality cotton, but if you're buying jeans or something fitted, you'll want a bit of spandex or lycra.
Skirts and dresses look best when lined.
Don't judge the fit by the picture. The majority of the models are 5'10", so a skirt that falls mid-thigh for them, might hit you at the knee.
Check the measurements for the best fit. I tend to size-up in everything but their more 'luxe' Love 21 Collection.
If you like it, get it. Because it won't be there when you go back.
When shopping in store, check out the mannequins. The merchandisers usually put the best looking pieces on display.

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Need clinical work experience in San Bernardino, winter break
My connection for clinical work/experience during winter break has suddenly dropped me. I now have a 2k+ ticket to San Bernardino, California and am anxious and scared as to how I should proceed. Help! [more inside]
Possible new career: clinical psychology? What do I need to know?
I currently have a career completely unrelated to clinical psychology, although it seems like a career path I'd like to investigate at the very least for multiple reasons. I'm interested in psychotherapy in particular. For people who work in the field, do you have anything to share about your line of work that isn't immediately obvious to outsiders? And what sort of person is best suited for this career? My personal interests are listed after the jump. [more inside]
clinical trial - what questions should I be asking?
I'm considering joining a clinical drug trial. What should I be thinking about? [more inside]
Has anyone heard of spontaneous remission for severe bouts of depression
I've struggled with depression for 30 years and have tried multiple medications/treatments, light therapy, Transcendental Meditation, etc. The last modality I had so much hope for was Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; the treatments actually made my depression worse. Since we all know of cases where tumorous cancers have disappeared without explanation, I'm hoping someone has witnessed this occurring in a friend or loved one who's been diagnosed with clinical depression?
New job selling laboratory equipment, but have no lab/science experience
I recently accepted a sales position within a company that sells laboratory equipment. (i.e. centrifuges, GC's, HPLC's, Thermal Cyclers, etc) I have no previous lab or science experience, so learning about a myriad of highly technical products/methods is a quite challenging. My main challenge comes from the fact that I need to engage in conversations with scientists, chemists, biologists on a daily basis. With no previous lab experience, I've been having a hard time talking to them on technical level. [more inside]
Data Driven Clinical Care - Dynamic Graphing Website
I would like advice on creating a dynamic graphing website to display clinical data on a intranet website to better aide clinicians. What my superiors are seeking is a "Data Mall." My programming/server-admin. experience is minimal, but my Linux-hobbyist mentality hates the MS Access solution that is being built. [more inside]
Clinical lab paper
I need to write a paper for my clinical laboratory sciences class, but being that the teacher was unclear in her instructions, I'm not sure what qualifies as a separate laboratory and what doesn't. Something like " the hematology lab" is very broad. Can I focus on JUST histology, for example? Is there such a thing as a histology laboratory, even if it's under anatomical sciences? Or does that refer to a technique. What to do here? How would you structure this paper? Any advice is appreciated. [more inside]
How can I help deal with my girlfriend's depression?
How can I help deal with my girlfriend's depression? [more inside]
How to Deal With Someone's Clinical Depression
After I blew it, how do I now help a clinically depressed good friend who prematurely ended treatment that was working? [more inside]
I should have just gone to med school
Calling all nurses and non-nurses: I hate clinical, what do I do? [more inside]
Psychotherapy: can a therapist be right about progress and the client not see it?
Psychotherapy: can a therapist be right about progress and the client not see it? We often hear from people who are in psychotherapy and are in disagreement with their psychotherapist about whether they are making progress. When is the psychotherapist right? [more inside]
We'd like to be better at working with older adults.
I work in a research lab that is transitioning from working with young adult populations to working with 60 year old and up adults. Most people in the lab who don't have experience with older adults (myself included) are finding the transition frustrating and difficult at times. Can you recommend some resources to help us work better with older adults? [more inside]
I'd like to start a clinical psychology doctoral program in 2012. I wasn't a Psych major. How do I prepare?
I'd like to start a clinical psychology doctoral program in 2012. I wasn't a Psych major. How do I prepare? [more inside]
Quick - need a good, simple DSLR for $1500!
Your boss gives you 24 hours and $1500 to buy a simple DSLR camera for use in a clinic so the docs can take digital pictures of skin lesions and other pathologies, for future use in trainings (PowerPoints), websites, handouts etc. What do you do? [more inside]
Applying to Clinical Psych program before undergrad
Does anyone know if you can apply to a clinical psychology Phd program before finishing your undergrad, or do you need to have experience before applying? Also what can you do to best guarantee your chances of acceptance?
Clinical information database design questions
I've been tasked with making a large amount of clinical research information we have easier to search and maintain. I have some questions about the best way to organize a database to do this, and in so doing see how much of my time I've wasted so far. [more inside]
How can an older student without a psychology background get into a psychology PhD program?
As a (somewhat) older student, how can I best prepare to get into a clinical psychology PhD program? [more inside]
LCSW or Ph. D in Psychology?
I'm currently completing a B.A. in Psychology with the intentions of becoming a practicing therapist (mental heath, family, individual, children). Here's my question: the path to practice as a therapist diverges. I can get a Masters of Social Work in two years following my undergrad, but in order to be able to practice, I would need to get my license, which would require typically another 2 years of supervision. I could work, by at a low salary. The other path would be to following up the Undergraduate degree with a Masters in Psy and then a Ph.D. Any thoughts?
Types of part time jobs for a psychology student before applying to grad school
I'm presently completing a B.A. on Psychology (via distance learning) with the intentions of continuing towards a Masters in Clinical Social Work. I have a couple of questions: 1) I'm 42 years old and have done back to school as a career changer. I have a wife and daughter and need to work part time while I'm a full time student. Does anyone have any suggestions for work which might help with graduate schools looking at both my academic and work background? All of my previous work experience involves working with people, but not much similar to work a therapist would be engaged in (worked for last 8 years as a talent agent) 2) Does anyone know which cities offer the greatest potential for work as a clinical social worker as I hope to eventually open a private practice, but will work in hospital or mental health facility while gaining experience?
Does the word "paranoid" have an antonym?
Does the word "paranoid" have an antonym? In other words, can there be a one-word opposite of paranoid? My guess is no since it's a defined clinical state; however since it's used casually, has an antonym evolved?
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At their September 24 meeting, the CSU Board of Trustees recognized 23 students who have demonstrated superior academic success, personal accomplishments and community service. Meet the 2013 recipients of the CSU Trustees' Award for Outstanding Achievement.
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CSU trustees reviewed initiatives aimed at improving student access and degree completion through technology. These solutions have the potential to benefit thousands of students in the 2013-14 academic year and beyond.
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Skip to comments.'Jackass' star Ryan Dunn dies in fiery Pa. crash
Posted on 06/20/2011 3:48:46 PM PDT by matt04
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - "Jackass" star Ryan Dunn, who along with his cast mates made Americans cringe and snicker through vulgar stunts in their multimillion-dollar TV and movie franchise, was killed early Monday in a fiery car crash. He was 34.
Dunn, a daredevil who gained notoriety for diving into a sewage tank and performing other unsavory stunts, was driving his 2007 Porsche in suburban Philadelphia when it careered off the road, flipped over a guardrail and crashed into the woods before bursting into flames. A passenger was also killed, and speed may have been a factor in the crash, West Goshen Township police said.
The force of impact shattered the vehicle into several twisted and blackened pieces, leaving the Porsche 911 GT3 unrecognizable except for a door that was thrown from the crash and not incinerated. A 100-foot-long tire skid marked where the car left the roadway.
Both Dunn and his passenger were severely burned. Police said they were able to identify Dunn through his tattoos and hair, but the identity of his passenger was still unknown.
A few hours before the 3 a.m. crash, Dunn tweeted a picture of himself drinking with two friends. The photo has since been removed.
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Yes, I would say that an accident that results in your Porsche being dissolved into multiple pieces probably results from excessive speed.
I would further think that, for a Porsche, when you say "excessive speed," you're not whistling Dixie either.
"speed may have been a factor in the crash"
Gosh, what was their first clue?
Man, this is one unlucky dude to have this happen to him 5 times in one day.
I got sideways in a Porsche 914 once. My skid marks were only about 15 feet, but that was in my shorts!
"Man, this is one unlucky dude to have this happen to him 5 times in one day."
And you thought "Groundhog Day" wasn't a true story...
Gee and the guy was always so cautious.
driving his 2007 Porsche in suburban Philadelphia when it careered off the road.
More like; Careered ended.
OK, when do we see the video?
How about careened?
"Man who inserted toy car in rectum gets real car in rectum"
Outstanding Tijeras_Slim!
I think you should call yourself "Sergeant_Slim" because you have earned your stripes!
Now, you know what is coming next? The lawsuit saying that the dealership and Porsche did not use proper judgement when they sold a high performance car to a Jackass, may he rest in peace.
Over and Dunn.
Actually careered is correct, as it indicates the path that was followed. Most 'journalists' would report that the car CAREENED off the road, since most don't seem to know that careening something means to turn it over.
While I'm sorry the man died, I'm even sorrier for the passenger he killed.
Who couldn't see this coming a mile away? He probably thought it was funny right up to the moment he was incinerated.
From one who has suffered from adrenaline addiction, you've gotta be lucky to get old.
You may be a Jackass if ...........
He's like the god for stupid people.
Yep, I'd say that Mr. Dunn was long past the point of depleting his own share of good luck. IIRC, he and the other "Jackass" members participated in something called "Gumball 3000", which I'm sure featured a lot of the sort of driving that has killed scores of stuntmen ove the years.
I know that stretch of road very well. Mostly a long, flat stretch. At 3 a.m. with full moonlight in summer, youthful indiscretion and the need for speed got the better of him, as it used to do in my misspent youth. Alcohol was likely involved. And perhaps a deer wandered into the road (they're everywhere here.) I don't know how I made it to my ripe older age. There but for the grace of God, go I.
But now I'm about 60 and I my chances are much improved.
The 911 GT3 rs is basically a barely street version of it's Les Mans style GT race car. It will run you about 180K brand new. It's the most powerful engine put in any of their production 911 body style cars for sale. It's even more powerful than a 911 Turbo which I've driven and is a rocket on 4 wheels.
It would be very easy for a drunk Mr. Ryan to kill himself with one.
No one gave a damn the first time it was posted either.
If you are doing 60mph, that's a mile a minute, or about one hundred feet per second.
That hundred-foot skid mark was probably a half-second or so, maybe less.
Ryan Dunn was 34. You know that self-awareness of mortality that usually kicks in around age 25? It was a bit late arriving.
For women, maybe. Considering some of the stunts he did during his career, I'd say he was a slow learner.
No. Careening really means tipping a boat on its side to do work on the hull. Careered is the correct word.
Drive like a jackass, die like a dumb ass.
I found this skidmark vs. speed calculator.
On zero grade dry asphalt or concrete, the car would of lost about 50mph during a 100 foot skid. But it still smashed over a guard rail and fliped with enough force to disingrate a porsche with a extremely beefy body cage built into the design.
He must of been speeding, at least 80 to 100 mph.
By the description of the accident, more like overdone.
They called it "Jackass" for a reason.
I just drove by this stretch of road today. Weird.
I go by there once a week on my way to Giant. My uncle died in an accident going to work at the intersection up the road on 322 and the bypass about 45 years ago...no alcohol, no speeding...sun glare was blamed.
I'm sorry to hear that-RIP to your uncle. My work takes me nearby and it was only when I got home today that I heard about this.
I didn't know that...thanks
Something similar is happening today with the word "eke," which means to supplement. Because it reminds people of "squeak," it is frequently being used to mean "barely get by," as in "Bush eked out a victory over Gore."
Don't mean to argue but my source for the meaning(s) of careen was the Random House Unabridged Dictionary. The fact remains that words do have more than one meaning.
Bad diction like this is getting to be increasingly common as a result of our dumbed-down undisciplined school system. Inaccurate language contributes to inaccurate thinking, which leads to bad politics.
Last news report I saw said his speed was 140 or so. If he left the road doing 90, that's plenty fast enough...
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This was my second time staying at this hotel! I drive for a living, sleep is so important and valuable to me! I checked in at 1230 am in the morning. I took a shower, grabbed a bit to eat and went to sleep around 4 am. I was expecting to sleep until 1030 am because check out wasn't until 11am. I was woken up to a knock at the door at 930 by the cleaning lady. After I explained to her that check out was at 11 am she left. About 30 minutes later I was woken back up by two people talking loudly outside of the door. I spoke with the manager when I checked out. She informed me that the man talking was the owner and the woman was the cleaning lady. I was very disappointed and the manager said that the cleaning lady knew not to knock on doors and that the manager would speak with her again. I was a little disappointed that the only offer the manager made was "sorry" to try and resolve this issue, even after explaining that I was a returning customer and that I come to this area frequently.
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Dr. Borlaug, in the 1940s, you traveled to Mexico to work with the Rockefeller Foundation, improving the yield of the country's wheat crop. You encountered many obstacles, from lack of equipment, fertilizer and seeds, to over-farmed soil, and worst of all, the plant diseases. When did you first realize how desperate the situation was?
Norman Borlaug: Well, I guess it really came home to me when I tried to organize the first Farmer's Field Day at the Yaqui Valley, where I spent a good share of my life in research and development. I didn't speak much Spanish at that time, and had great difficulty expressing myself.
Norman Borlaug: The first field day was in 1948. By then, I had a new variety based on this Marquis that was always the lowest producer crossed to a Minnesota variety, Newthatch. And it was still tall, but resistant to the main rust, and high-yielding in the tall wheats. So I had a friend in radio propaganda thing, and through him -- who just recently passed away -- he was my public contact. He was trained in communications. And so he had a lot of propaganda where we were going to have this Farmer's Field Day for lunch. We would have barbeque ribs and beer -- free. Well, the day came and the only people that came were these young agronomists that were putting in the tests and two farmers. And the two farmers, they were old pioneers, but I figured they were the poorest farmers in the valley. But in the days following that -- and I explained, showed them the new varieties that were being developed, including small plots that we were increasing for seed production -- and told them that this was an ongoing program. And later that week, one or two of the best farmers in the valley came out and they essentially said, "We heard there's some interesting things going on here." And with my broken Spanish, I was trying to explain to them, "But you show them," and they picked it up. And so the second year, there was a big increase in numbers, and by the third year there were hundreds of farmers.
Was there a specific event that convinced you that advanced wheat farming would be critical to combating world starvation? Was it a gradual realization based on your research, or just the timing of it all coming together?
Norman Borlaug: The timing. But also taking advantage of that timing.
When I saw how the farmers were reacting when they got the seed that we had developed, there was no problem with the farmer. The problem was with the government policy maker because they controlled pricing, availability or non-availability of fertilizer and a whole series of things that didn't permit us to be big commercial until those defects were corrected. So I was very early aware -- not in one country, but I saw it in Mexico, in Guatemala, in Peru, in Argentina.
So you saw this in other countries, the economic bureaucracy?
Norman Borlaug: It encouraged me to not wait for years and years and years to try to provoke personal change. You had to have the guts -- if you'd permit me to use that gutter term -- to make a decision and say: we're going to go for it.
There was a strongly held principle of agronomy that seeds need a rest period after harvesting to store energy for germination before being planted. Everyone believed this principle. What made you believe otherwise?
Your boss, George Harrar, was against your experiment to expand into the Yaqui Valley Research Station. This was a region with substantial difference in altitude and temperatures, but you insisted on this double wheat season. Is that right?
Norman Borlaug: Well, we couldn't have the time to produce a new variety, and this was in this whole area of photoperiodism. When it happened, we weren't sure, because everybody said, "This guy Borlaug is a nut! Trying to adapt the northern wheat varieties to Mexico!" But here we had a Yaqui 48, which was the Marquis -- the lowest yielding variety -- and the Minnesota wheat, and we had selected out the early types, and they were happy in Minnesota and in Canada and in India.
Why did you think that the seeds from one region, which were supposed to need a dormancy period, could go to this different altitude and this different region? Why did you think that it was going to work?
Norman Borlaug: Because if it worked, we would cut in half the time to produce new varieties with two generations a year. First, we did it in Sonora, but later we did it in many other places.
Did you actually threaten to resign when George Harrar said you couldn't take this equipment and go harvesting up in the Yaqui Valley?
Norman Borlaug: I stood up and I said, "We can't produce the wheat that Mexico needs just in the Yaqui Valley or in Sinaloa. We've got to work in all the areas where wheat wasn't an important crop, especially the Bajillo, and if I'm not permitted to do that, I'll leave." I stood and I said, "If Joe Rupert wants to accept it, I'll leave tomorrow. Otherwise, I'll wait until you have a satisfactory replacement." Before I got to the door, Joe Rupert stood up and walked out with me. And when I got to my office and Dorothy Parker -- who was our librarian -- she handed me the mail. And in this mail was a letter written to (George) Harrar by a very practical farmer in the Yaqui Valley who had his farm right adjacent to us. He used to loan us machinery because originally in 1933 or 4 when Rodolfo Calles was governor, he set up that station where I worked. It must've been a model for all of Latin America -- good machinery far before its time, all kinds of the best strains of animals, both dairy animals and beef, chickens, goats, sheep. When I arrived, this was all ruined. The poor guy who was the director, Leon Manzo, he didn't have any budget. He wanted to do something, but that's the way it was. 'Til I figured if we could get two generations a year, we could overcome this faster.
This revolutionized agriculture, not only in Mexico. What did this tell the world about planting?
Norman Borlaug: Yeah. This photoperiodism is sensitivity to hours of daylight and not just total daylight. It's when you break the cycle. If you start those plants and let them grow through a short period of time and move them, they don't act the way they acted before. It opens a whole series of new things that didn't seem possible before.
Norman Borlaug: Well, in Mexico we had a change in rust, that made us create those first single crosses of Marquis times Newthatch -- we called them Yaquis. We had four of them -- they had different maturity -- that were in these international tests, growing it maybe in the beginning at 20 to 30 locations. Later we had more than 100, including India and Pakistan. So the data confirmed our hypothesis: that you could cut the timing in half by planting early -- taking a risk in Sonora on frost -- harvesting, drying it, replanting and getting a second harvest by middle of June.
Norman Borlaug: Well, in my mind, I always said, why is it that -- by then we'd done testing with the old Minnesota, Montana and Canadian spring wheats -- Why is it that those things you can't bring down? Because we had the yield test with them included, comparing to the new ones. You can't bring them where the day length is 38 degrees or less, because they're the lowest yielding wheats when that happens, and yet here are the crosses that came from this. I had been forced by rust to make a second group to avoid a rust epidemic in Mexico. The first ones were Yaqui times -- or I should say Marquis times -- Newthatch from Minnesota. The second one was Mentana, an Italian wheat crossed to Kenya that had rust resistance. And combining those, this new rust didn't cause us any trouble.
Do you believe there were any mistakes made in the Green Revolution? If you had it to do over again, is there anything you would do differently?
There was criticism of the Green Revolution. Did you find any of it valid? How do you respond to criticism?
Norman Borlaug: Oh, there was an abundance of criticism. I used to tell our team, "Just don't listen. Keep working." I figured, from what we saw pretty early, that Pakistan and India had this big potential. We could prove those doomsayers wrong.
What first brought you to India and Pakistan?
Norman Borlaug: At that time the criticism of Pakistan and India, especially, they said, "With this mound of people, there's no hope. They've got to die off to a fraction of the population of today." And I had seen enough on these tests that my trainees had run in many countries. Do not accept that. But there's behind the scene, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation, both of them together had decided that the breakthrough in production should come in India. The need was the greatest and it was to be built on not wheat, but on sorghum and millet and cassava. But then the Mexican wheats got into the picture and screwed all of that up.
You encountered some political obstacles at first, and petitioned the Planning Minister of India, Ashok Mehta, and President Muhammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan for some policy changes. Can you tell us about that?
Norman Borlaug: I think in the case of Ayub Khan, the President, he came from an agricultural background as a boy in the hills of western Pakistan bordering with China. So he understood what the significance of these kinds of yields were. And the Secretary, I knew him personally, and I sent him a lot of these small samples. And he had seen those demonstrations also. It might've been in the spring of '64 -- somewhere around there.
Norman Borlaug: He had seen those demonstrations. He was a forester by training like I was, but he saw those changes that came about with the varieties and the fertilizer and their right rates of planting. So when I was there the next spring, I met him in the hall, and he had a box under his arm -- a little box. And he said, "I'm glad you came this morning because I'm leaving for China this afternoon." And he said, "That little box I've got here is a small sample of all of your wheat." And it took me a long time to find out -- and it's not documented even now -- that the first commercial wheat of the Mexican type that went to China came from Pakistan.
What were the policy changes you petitioned for?
Norman Borlaug: First was credit to permit the little farmer to buy the new seeds and the fertilizer. Then flexibility in agronomic practices -- when to plant and how to plant -- and then a change in policy as it relates to the whole system.
What about the market value of the wheat at harvest?
Norman Borlaug: They used to say the Mexican wheats were a bad quality. So automatically they would dock them ten percent. It wasn't true because Eva Viegas, our biochemist in the Office of Special Study, she was checking all of those things. But you get that into the literature and everybody believes it, if it comes from one of the most progressive parts of the government.
Is there a part of you that enjoys the fight? This struggle with politicians and nay-sayers?
Norman Borlaug: Sure. Sure. Otherwise, I would've given up a long time ago when Paul Ehrlich and the Paddock brothers were saying you can't do anything in India or Pakistan because of the population problem.
What is it that you enjoy about that fight?
Norman Borlaug: Change.
I say that the only way that the world can keep up with food production to the levels that are needed with a growing world population, is by the improvement of science and technology, and with the right policies that permit the application of that science and technology. And that includes availability of the improved seeds, fertilizer -- how much of each kind of nutrient -- and the control of weeds, which is very important, and then, finally, this whole question of credit and policy on pricing. All of those have to be part of the package.
We had the good fortune in Pakistan of having a person who was really not supposed to be working in agriculture. Haldore Hanson was the Ford Foundation country representative. Ford Foundation at that time was not working in agriculture. They were beginning to collaborate in India with the Rockefeller Foundation. But in Pakistan, no. But here was Haldore Hanson when we had demonstrated how much improvement you could get in the yield. He brought in from Mexico Dr. Ignacio Narváez, my most trusted, most experienced Mexican who had grown up under the system. He had an unusual economist, Oddvar Aresvik, a Norwegian who was different from the rest of them because he wanted to see what happened with these different treatments. So he actually went out and looked at those demonstrations and he saw the errors that were being incorporated, and so he was strongly supporting Narváez and Hanson.
Around 1965, you started some testing in India and Pakistan. You had 250 tons of seed varieties sent to Pakistan and 200 tons sent to India. Is it true those shipments had trouble getting there from Mexico?
Norman Borlaug: Even before they left Mexico. The organization insisted that this was the first time that a commercial operation was taking place, and that their seed organization, the Semillas Mejoradas, had to enter into the operation, because it was government-to-government. This organization was notoriously bad for producing seed that had bad germination, mixtures of varieties, but they got the contract.
Wasn't there some trouble at customs?
Norman Borlaug: There was trouble. I thought my boss, Dr. Wellhausen, was away on home leave, and he said, "Norm, you've got to stay in the office here and not be running up to Sonora now with all of this, because the whole program will depend on what you do here." And I said, "Yes, sir." But when all of the trouble started happening in Sonora, I just went up there, see what I could do, find out the facts. And when the seed arrived, it arrived too late. It was shipped from a coöp in Hermosillo, not in the Yaqui Valley, because the harvest was finishing when we got noticed from ship to seed; so it came from Hermosillo. We ended up with bad germination. The seed arrived too late for us to run germination tests because it arrived in the middle of December. We wanted it the middle of October. So we planted without germination tests. I was in southern Pakistan and Narváez was in northern Pakistan, and a few days after planting, we were digging and we saw something was wrong with the germination. So we told the ministers to double the seeding rate, and of course that doubled the cost.
What was the problem with the seeds?
War broke out in 1965 between India and Pakistan in the middle of this experiment, with tons of seed varieties arriving. By doubling the seeding rates, South Asia produced the highest crop yields ever harvested. Do you credit these high yields with quieting the civil unrest between India and Pakistan?
Norman Borlaug: I knew at that time that civil unrest was tightly tied to availability of food, and that the first thing that there will be an uprising against was shortage of food. I recognized that. So we began this multi-location testing, not just in Mexico and India and Pakistan, but in another 30, 40 locations from Canada to Argentina, and then it was 100 locations. And then you could see clearly what was happening.
The increased need for labor, for harvesting, for equipment, for storage facilities, for transportation vehicles -- this put these countries to work and they put down the guns and went to work and started to feed themselves.
Norman Borlaug: And it was mostly young people that we had trained that carried the burden, because they had seen the changes, not just numbers. They had seen the plots. So you didn't have any problems convincing them. It was the government policy makers. But fortunately, there were a few like Ayub Khan and his Minister of Agriculture who saw the light. And then not too much later, M.S. Swaminathan and his Minister of Agriculture, (Chidambaram) Subramaniam, and his (Secretary of Agriculture), Sivaraman. They were all three from the south, not a wheat-growing area originally.
You were in Mexico in October 1970, and your wife came out to the fields to tell you that you'd been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Norman Borlaug: I said, "How did you receive this?" She said, "From the Aftenposten. What's the Aftenposten?" She didn't know anything about it. (I come from a) Norwegian background, and I said, "That's the morning paper from Oslo." And I said, "Well, how did he know about it because nobody has called from the Norwegian Embassy to advise us." "Well," she says, "I asked that question," and he said, 'We in the press have ways of learning some things before they are officially released.'" So she came with that story, and I didn't believe her. And she left, and about two or three hours later, a big group of Mexican newspapermen came out. But right before that, there was a writer -- his name is gone now. I'm sorry, I should be able to spit it out. He was a good writer and he had two films on our Mexican program, and he came out with The Christian Science Monitor, and they had just finished interviewing me when all of these Mexicans drove up. I should've pointed out that this particular day was the funeral of Lázaro Cárdenas. The President, together with his Minister of Agriculture, Marte R. Gómez, had broken up all of the big estates and distributed the land in ejidos. Ejidos were plots given to families. They didn't own it, but they owned the right to use it, and this gave lots of problems over the next 50 years that held back Mexico's development. But that was taking place, and so I said, "I'm behind in my harvest, because it's rained in Toluca. For me to go to that funeral, there'll be 500,000 people there. Why should I go?" So I went out to Toluca and that's where my wife -- she found out from the office where I was -- and she got a driver and the wife of Dr. Rosburn -- they came out to find me. They gave me that message.
Norman Borlaug: No. I was so shocked that those minor differences didn't enter into it.
You were also the only agricultural scientist to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the 20th century.
Norman Borlaug: Because of that, I established the World Food Prize for agriculture.
You also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Jimmy Carter in 1977.
Norman Borlaug: I think President Carter, coming from a rural background, he had a feel for the importance of food. He was a close collaborator from that period right up to the present time.
How did you go about establishing the World Food Prize in 1986?
Norman Borlaug: The original prize was financed by General Foods. The people most deeply involved were Robert Havener, he was then a Ford Foundation employee; the Vice President of General Foods, Al Clausi; and myself. We got this prize approved for food. Then we had spread it to different disciplines in the food system and it's a very prestigious prize at the present time.
Initially, you went to the Rockefeller Foundation, but they had no resources available for this. Was it a struggle to get it off the ground?
Norman Borlaug: Oh, it was a hell of a struggle at first, to convince the hierarchy of General Foods. The Senior Vice President, Al Clausi, he pulled for us and he was really responsible for getting General Foods on board.
Also in the 1980s, you began working with a Japanese investor named Sasakawa to bring your planting methods to Africa. How did that come about?
Norman Borlaug: Well, he called me. He doesn't speak any English -- or didn't, he's since passed away -- but his deputy had been a reporter in Vietnam, and I had met him in some of the meetings that we had had with the Japanese about this food situation. When he called, he said, "I want to get us involved through Sasakawa Japanese shipbuilding." And I said, "I'm 80 years old. Too old to start something new." And he said, "I'm 15 years older than you are. We should have started it yesterday, so let's start tomorrow."
Where did you begin planting in Africa?
Norman Borlaug: In Ghana. Sasakawa and myself and someone from USAID (United States Agency for International Development) visited five countries, and we thought that Ghana was more progressive than the others. So we started in two places: Ghana and Sudan. But Sudan was under a military government, and finally Sasakawa said, "I don't want to pay my money to rescue one of you guys from being kidnapped, so let's leave Sudan." And we did. We went to Tanzania and later to Nigeria.
What was the mission of the SAA?
Norman Borlaug: The Sasakawa African Association. This was getting Sasakawa involved in food problems in Africa.
What was different about planting in Ghana, as opposed to planting in India and Pakistan?
Norman Borlaug: Well, first of all...
We had a good training program in Ghana. We had a young Ghanaian who had been trained in Japan. He was married to a Japanese wife and he, of course, was fluent in both the (native) language and English. And when we started that program, we realized that technical training would be important. This guy visited a lot of universities and all the big known name universities didn't want anything to do with it. But there was a little university in the south of Ghana where a young professor had just come back from a scholarship abroad, and he said, "I'd like to try this." And he started a training program for his own extension people, and it became very effective. It's still effective today.
We'd like to go back and talk about your own background and education. You grew up on the family farm in Iowa. What was that like? Did you have a happy childhood?
Norman Borlaug: I guess it was. It was a happy childhood as far as I was concerned, but this little farm was 14 miles from a railroad, and so you didn't know much about what was going on beyond your own immediate neighborhood.
What was it like to go to school in Iowa? It was a small schoolhouse, we understand.
Norman Borlaug: I went to a one-room country school, New Oregon Number 8, where in the winter there was probably 15 or 16 students. The rest of the year when there was farm work, there was only probably 10 or 12. The difference between winter and spring was that many of the students were still studying when they were 17 to try to finish the eighth grade, and they came only in the winter months when there was no work in the fields. So the teacher -- one teacher -- had to deal with five-and-a-half year olds to 17-year-old boys. How she did it is beyond me.
Did you have the same teacher every year?
Did you like school? Were you a good student?
Norman Borlaug: Yes, yes. Probably because of my grandfather. He was self-educated, but he had a high regard for school. He always used to say, 'When you're young you'd better study to put information in your brain that you will use later in life to improve not only your well-being but that of your neighbors and friends". Quite by accident, that was the slogan of the Rockefeller Foundation, which was that their existence was for the well-being of humankind.
What kind of a student were you?
Norman Borlaug: I was, I think, a pretty good student. My grades were good. In high school I got the American Citizenship Award and the Frozier's medal, which were two of the honors that were given by that school.
How did you get to school?
Norman Borlaug: We walked except when there was an unusual blizzard or storm. Then maybe one of the neighbors would hitch up the sled to horses and come and take all the students that lived near where he lived. But with that exception, you always walked. See, this was during the worst of the Depression. I was in high school beginning in 1929, which was when the bottom came out of everything and the local banks went broke. There was unemployment. I thought it was bad in the rural areas, but 1933 when I went to Minneapolis to try to get into the University, I found out what the Depression really was like -- unemployed everywhere.
I went downtown about a week before classes before the University started. I just walked down there, I saw a lot of people milling around, and I'm a country boy and never seen anything like that. I was in the middle of the milk driver's strike and I didn't know it. Suddenly, a cameraman tried to get up to get a better picture with his tripod and his foot went through the canvas top on the car and then all hell broke out. They beat him up and busted his camera, and that triggered, right when the trucks -- I guess in this commotion they figured they could get out better -- trucks for this milk company. When they came out, there was people being beaten with baseball bats and clubs of all kinds.
Was there anyone in school you admired, or someone who challenged you as a young man?
Norman Borlaug: I guess I owe a lot to my cousin Sina Borlaug, who was later my teacher in grade school. But when she was young and I was very young, I should tell you that there was an unwritten law among the school children in those areas. When there was deep, fresh snow, one of the biggest boys in the neighborhood where most of the people lived, he would go in front and open a path, and then the little ones were in the center. Once in a bad blizzard, I just couldn't go any longer and I lay down and I wanted to give up, and Sina, who was in eighth grade, she grabbed me by the ear and whacked me on the face and got me going again. This was the way that these young kids went to country school. When it was a very bad blizzard, you couldn't see -- only a few yards -- then one of the neighbors would come with his sled and two horses and take the children. But most of the time you walked.
When you got to high school, wasn't there a wrestling coach or a principal that made an impact on you?
You were not immediately accepted to the University of Minnesota. You were planning to go to a teaching college, weren't you?
Norman Borlaug: I had the ambition to be a high school science teacher and athletic coach. That was my great hope, my ambition at that time, because of the influence of Bartelma. He was a graduate of Iowa State teachers college, now Northern Iowa University, in Cedar Falls.
Was your family supportive of you going to college, or did they want you to stay and work on the farm?
What made you change your mind and go to the University of Minnesota?
Norman Borlaug: Well, first I should point out that the second person that had a great influence on my life was George Chamberlain. Now he had graduated from Cresco High School a year before I started, so I didn't know him. But his father had been County Recorder for 20 years and he knew my dad. He used to tell Dad that, "Your son should go to the University of Minnesota, where my son is a halfback on the football team." Eventually this happened. Chamberlain took me up there with my closest friend in high school, Ervin Upton; he took the two of us. Prior to that, all the good wrestlers from Cresco High School went to the University of Michigan or Iowa State. So I was a renegade. I went to Minnesota because of George Chamberlain, and George Chamberlain was a good public relations man, because later in life he was the vice president in charge of personnel at General Mills, and later a number of other large milling and baking companies.
So you and your firend from Cresco decided to go to the University of Minnesota. You don't have a lot of money in your pocket, you don't have an acceptance letter, and you get to this big city, right off the farm. What happened when you got to Minnesota?
Norman Borlaug: I thought things were bad in Cresco, the little town. There weren't any industries there, but I saw all the local banks go broke. I saw farmers lose their land -- sheriff sales. I saw the reaction of the farmers. That was later the Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota. It was during this period when labor and farmers came together to form the Farmer-Labor Party, of which later (Hubert) Humphrey was a vice president from that background and also (Walter) Mondale. And the third one that came up through that rank that played even a greater role in what happened to me was Orville Freeman. He was a football player and I knew him. We were the same class, and he later became Secretary of Agriculture of the U.S.A. during the worst -- the period when Franklin Roosevelt had to make all of the changes that brought us out of the Depression. Of course, the person who everybody looked to bring us out of the Depression was Herbert Hoover. He had done so much for poor people in Belgium and in a number of European countries. But he took office right when everything collapsed and he couldn't cope with it. When Roosevelt was elected, those were when the big changes took place.
When you got to the University of Minnesota, you had to take an exam, didn't you?
Norman Borlaug: Yes. This was a technicality.
I had good grades. Erv Upton, my close friend had good grades, too. But we had to take this entrance exam because the ninth grade -- first year of high school in Minnesota -- was a junior high school, and so that credit didn't count in math and science. So we had to take this special exam and I flunked it. Erv Upton passed it, and I was scared. I figured if I failed it, I wouldn't have any chance of getting in. So I failed it beautifully. And then George Chamberlain, the organizer, he was a pretty spicy guy himself. It was the first year that they were organizing the general college, which was the beginning of the junior college movement to give people who hadn't qualified for their whole university course or who wanted to get some more education and go back to the farm. So Chamberlain got me, took me over to the new dean -- he had just come back from a scholarship in London -- and he said, "Something's wrong with your testing. This guy is not as dumb as your tests show you. I think you should give him a chance." And so it was the first year of this general college, which gave an Associate of Arts degree after two years, and that was expected to be a terminal course. It turned out it wasn't.
You went into this junior college, but you didn't stay there very long.
Norman Borlaug: No. See, this was new. Nobody knew what the general college was. That's where the people were that had failed to get into the University proper. It was on campus, but it was kind of a no man's land, and it was during the worst of the Depression.
I remember a week before classes were to start, when I had finally been accepted, on my own I went and walked downtown, which was probably three miles from Dinkytown, the University settlement, and I was wandering around like a country boy and I saw a lot of people. This was over in the vegetable and the agricultural section, and I saw all these people milling around, and I went over to see what it was all about, and this was when the milk strike was going on. And I was standing there stupidly seeing this, and the photographer put his tripod up, climbed up on a car that had a canvas roof -- not a metal roof -- and his foot went through. And when that happened, the crowd took that photographer and beat the hell out of him, busted up his camera. And when this was happening, the milk drivers came out of their big, secured place and I suddenly realized I was someplace I shouldn't be, because I saw these people being clubbed with baseball bats and other clubs. And I thought things were bad in Cresco, but it was much worse in the large cities. The unemployed, especially the youth, had no chance of jobs. There were hundreds, just thousands riding the rails looking for jobs.
How did your own family do during the Depression?
Norman Borlaug: They were fortunate in that none of them were deeply indebted. They had paid for their land. So when the banks went broke, they lost their deposit in the bank, but they still had their land. That wasn't taken away. Many of the best farmers had expanded their operations so that they were cultivating hundreds of hectares. They had loans, and those properties were sold at sheriff sales, and those sheriff sales got to a point where they were rigged. This was when the Farmer-Labor Party started. It was a joint undertaking by the laborers from Minnesota and farmers so that this didn't happen, but it happened over a period of three or four years. When a sheriff sale was announced, there would be somebody that would organize all the people in the area that were going to buy this for a small amount and turn it back to the farmer. And if anyone tried to bid what it was worth, they got beat up, too.
Your grandfather was kind of a renegade, wasn't he?
So the Borlaug family did not operate on credit?
Norman Borlaug: And that's why we escaped most of the personal problems of the 1930s. I had one uncle who was a bachelor all his life. He was a curious guy also. He was self-educated, but an S and E (science and engineering) economist. He knew what was going on. He bought for himself and for we grandchildren -- I was the eldest, probably 12 or 13 -- a textbook that was used in economics at Cornell University. He predicted the Depression before it happened.
So you're at the University of Minnesota, you were accepted to the general college, but you didn't stay there very long. Very early on, you chose to specialize in forestry. Can you tell us how you got into the University proper, and why you selected forestry?
I suppose it was about a year later, in the spring, I went to see him -- Fred Hovde, the dean -- because I had good grades. And I said, "I'd like to transfer. I don't see anything coming of this Associate of Arts degree." But, of course, I couldn't see the big picture at that time. But he asked me what I wanted to transfer to and why, just like you were. "Well," I said, "I like the outdoors, hunting and fishing, and I know quite a bit about bee stings, the behavior of animals and plants also, especially trees." I had done this on my own. And so he asked me, "Why do you want to go there?" And I told him just what I've told you now. And so after asking a lot of questions, he said, "Okay, we'll give you a chance." That's where it all started.
The summer of your freshman year, you were expected to go to (Lake) Itasca Park, where the University, the College of Forestry, had a hands-on summer training program. But I couldn't go the first year. I didn't have any money. I worked for a local canning company, and then I went the second year. That training course was during the academic year, the spring term of the University. So you weren't losing credits in the University, this was part of your curriculum. So I went through this, and then I didn't have any money, so Margaret I think typed 56 letters asking for summer work. I only got one reply and it was from the Northeast Forest Experiment Station in New Haven, Connecticut, where a very progressive director offered me a summer job.
So I hitchhiked out there, and this was Dr. Berra, and this was unique. His whole summer workforce were students, unlike any other program, and he was concerned about we young students. I have a picture, about six months later, in one of these camps. By that time Bartelma had moved to Minnesota, so Upton, myself and our whole wrestling squad and Dave Bartelma are showing the squadron certain key maneuvers in our wrestling.
At the University of Minnesota, you worked a number of odd jobs, and one of the jobs was at a coffee shop where you worked for meals. Can you tell us about that, and about a girl you met named Margaret Gibson?
But it was bonding together many of these emergency programs that put me through the University. By that time things were so bad that Eleanor Roosevelt, especially, the wife of Franklin, she said, "We're going to lose a whole generation of young people unless we give them a chance for education." And from her activity came the NYA: National Youth Administration. This led to each state appointing a director of NYA, and they got a certain sum of money to be used by university professors. They would pick a good student -- you had to have a B-plus average -- and you would go for an interview and they tried to find out why you were ticking. The first year I got assigned to the Department of Entomology, pinning up those little bugs. This graduate student was working on his doctorate degree, so I pinned up his little bugs. This was a Japanese pine sawfly, a very small insect. Then I cleaned up the labs for all the other professors.
So how did you meet your wife, Margaret?
But by that time, the NYA -- the National Youth Administration -- and many of these other jobs were opening up, and so I shifted to those. But I met Margaret, and she was working for her board also. She was two years ahead of me in the College of Education to become a teacher. She got to Minnesota because of her two brothers. Bill, the eldest of the family had graduated from Michigan in communications, and he was in charge of the alumni publication. But her second brother and third brother were football players. George was captain, I think, in 1929 of the football team.
And Margaret began to work with her brother on the alumni publication?
Norman Borlaug: Right. So I used to see her every day, and she asked what I was studying. By that time, I had decided I wanted to be a forester, and she didn't know anything about that. But we kept talking, and she was as poor as I was, although she had better contacts because of the three brothers. But eventually, when the coffee shop went broke, she was in trouble also before she started working part-time as a proofreader on the alumni magazine with her brother.
In another job, you worked with the Civilian Conservation Corps, and you worked alongside people who were starving, and saw the impact receiving food had on them. What do you think you learned from that?
And so that's when I wrote those 56 letters and I got one answer from Dr. Ed Berra from Connecticut. At that time, the Forest Research Center was in Yale, and he was professor there. But he was looking at the social problems as well as the technical problem. That summer I think there must be 15 of we undergraduates that were there with him, and he gave us responsibility that nobody at our age ever had before.
I came into that and saw these young kids 16 and 17 years old -- that were coming out of the slum areas mostly of Boston and other cities. They were hungry and miserable and I saw them become young citizens. And in the process, we salvaged a lot of timber because you had to do this because all the roads were blocked. And so the Forest Service, when they went into this Timber Salvation Operation, they wanted some people with experience with fire from the west.
When you graduated from the University of Minnesota, you received a job offer from Idaho Forestry. But then there were cutbacks and you lost that job, so you decided to continue with your education.
Norman Borlaug: Yeah, I'd done a good job in 1937 in Idaho, and so when I left the supervisor of Idaho National, he said, "Well, I have a job for you the first of next year," which was the first month of '38. But then I got a letter about a week before, saying would it be all right if I came June first rather than January first because of budgetary problems.
So I went over to see Dr. Stakman, who I had only met once about three weeks before the end of the term when I saw that this Dr. Stakman, a world famous plant pathologist, was giving a lecture on these shifty little enemies the fungi -- rust fungi -- that destroy our crops. So I went to hear this and he was one of the old storied professors. He'd move into a history of background of parasiticum, of the rust fungi, other fungi that were dangerous from the standpoint of our cereal crop, and I was fascinated. And I said as I left that room in mid-December of 1937, "If I ever have a chance to study in graduate school, I want to study under a person like this."
Can you tell us about your relationship with Dr. Stakman, and how that relationship changed your course of study from forestry to plant pathology?
Norman Borlaug: Well, Dr. Stakman -- the kind of person he was -- he was old school. He may have been a plant pathologist, but he was a biologist in the broadest sense, and he wove into his lectures the story of going back to the first -- to the Bible -- to the rust epidemics. And so when I was asked to delay my arrival to the Idaho National to the first of June rather than the first of January, I said, "What am I going to do here?" And so I talked to Margaret also, and she said, "You were so impressed by Dr. Stakman, why don't you go and see him and see if you can register for graduate training for these six months?" And so I went to see him, told him my background, and he asked a lot of questions. I told him, "Well, this is kind of just to fill up six months." He said, "That's a pretty poor reason to go to graduate school." But he kept asking questions. And finally he said, "Okay, I'll accept you." And so, that's when everything started to change. At the end of that period, he got me an assistantship which paid a small amount so that the University job and the coffee shop had long since disappeared. But there were these other programs that Eleanor Roosevelt and the CCC (came up with) and so I worked on many of these things and was able to put together enough to live on.
We had fully decided to get married right before I went to Idaho, but then when all of these delays and complications came, we decided, no. By then, she was hungry just like I was, and she became a proofreader. This was before the time of all of these gadgets that read your proof today.
You decided not only to get your Master's but to go on for your Ph.D. When you completed your Ph.D. you were offered a job at Du Pont. Can you tell us about that move to Du Pont?
Did you also try to join the military while you were working at Du Pont?
Norman Borlaug: When I was working at Du Pont my work was classified as essential for the war effort. And I think three times I took my physical exam, because the Categories of Necessity changed constantly in this terrible mess we were in. The thing that kept me going was one of the things I was involved in. There were several. Drinking water safety for canteens. And if we had used the criteria now, those would never have been released. But this was for soldiers who hadn't had any water -- dipping it out of little puddles -- and so these things were approved. But the one that carried the most weight was what we did to help keep the Marines alive in Guadalcanal. At that time, all the boxes -- where you put either tins of fruit or vegetables or SPAM, which was the meat product of that period -- the bonding agent for the cartons before World War II was sodium silicate, which is water soluble. And the reason that our Navy was interested in doing something about this was that the Japanese controlled the air and the water during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
The only way we had in supporting our Marines on Guadalcanal and some of those other places where we were trapped was at night pitching these cartons, or these boxes of canned fruit into the surf. But the bonding agent for all of those boxes before World War II was sodium silicate which is water soluble. And so after 20 minutes, the bonding came open and the cans fell out in the bottom of the ocean. And I remember vividly when two top officials and a Marine came in and said, "Here's our problem." They explained what I just explained. And they said, "Do something about it yesterday, not tomorrow." And I and my associates worked with various new bonding agencies and it was just when the new plastics were coming into being. And we had a big test room full of molds of bacteria and fungi where we subjected all of our tests. And one of these, which was one of the new plastics, survived very well, and we began using it. And so those things were getting washed into the surf.
You were faced with a difficult decision while you were at Du Pont. You were personally asked by George Harrar to head the Cooperative Wheat Research and Production Program in Mexico, which meant leaving a stable position at Du Pont as the war was coming to an end. Du Pont offered to double your salary, you had a small child at home and your wife was expecting. Why did you want to go to Mexico? Was it your passion for the science or was it something else?
They did, but you and your wife decided to go to Mexico anyway. What was the state of the program when you first crossed the Rio Grande?
At that time, the new thing that was highlighted to save the world was biometry. In Mexico first, and then I found it to be the case in those other countries I've mentioned. The variety that became one of my most useful parents was the lowest yielding variety in all of those tests. And why? Because it was the earliest maturing. And since they didn't harvest when the crop got mature for each variety, the birds had eaten most of the early maturing variety. And the government top scientists at that time were biometricians. They send out the plans of how these young agronomists were to plant the exact numbers of rows and the length of the rows, and we had to cut the whole damn plot. We didn't have attrition machines. We had traded out with animals. It was a mess. I had tried to convince people that we should take samples out of each big plot, but they were set in their ways. I have found since then that this is the way bureaucracies are formed.
Why was it important to train young Mexican scientists and break cultural barriers in the fields?
You're famous, of course, for the Green Revolution in agriculture. What is the Blue Revolution?
Norman Borlaug: Well, that's the name that the International Water Commission has added to it. They say the next revolution will be the "Blue Revolution" -- better use of water, more efficient and with better technology.
Every few years Congress renegotiates the Farm Bill, and the story is covered all over the world. Why is the U.S. Farm Bill so important to world agriculture?
Norman Borlaug: Well, this is of course a presidential election year, and so you've got to separate the facts from fiction and from politics, and that's pretty difficult. It's hard to separate all of those things. I think it's impossible during the presidential election campaigns.
All you can hope is that the American people have still a little common sense in their back pocket and want to use it. But there are movements underway. For example, USAID, which used to be closely affiliated also with agriculture, is now affiliated closely with the State Department and Dr. Rice. Either she doesn't know much about agriculture or she doesn't want to know much about agriculture. The Department of Agriculture is likely to be cut very greatly this year. There are some people even in the organization that are speaking out, like (Andrew) Natsios, who was the former head of USAID. He still says, "Look, agriculture -- without food there's no political stability." But nobody hears him. And it's not the scientist in agriculture. They're complaining about the spending cuts, but they're powerless.
You've said there needs to be a balance between the dmeands of the expanding population and the pressure it puts on the planet. Why is that balance so important?
So looking to the future, what do you see as the biggest threat to mankind?
Norman Borlaug: Well, I would say that unless we have a food system capable of producing the food that's needed, we will have been indirectly contributing to more and more social upheavals. And this is on an indirect worldwide scale.
The international agencies working for increased food production and the agencies working for population control seem to work independently of one another. Is it important that they work together?
Norman Borlaug: This is politics, but they should be working closely together; and they were for a period of time. But when the whole energy thing came into the picture, this energy thing is being blown all out of proportion now. You can't solve it with a single change in policy. It's got to be a basic change in the whole economy of countries that have this problem.
How did the Nobel Peace Prize affect the recognition of your work?
What happened in your career that you didn't expect when you first began?
Norman Borlaug: Well, I was trained in forestry, but surprisingly, even though it came in several different steps, I went back to forestry because it was there that I saw the American chestnut and American elm dying from introduced diseases on my first assignment in Massachusetts in 1936.
So when you were seeing signs of plant disease in Massachusetts as a forester in the 1930s, you didn't know how much of your career would be spent in plant pathology.
Norman Borlaug: No, but I did recognize that genetics and plant breeding and plant diseases and the agronomic practices that permitted the varieties to express their true genetic yield potential were programs that had potential impact to modify food production in the world.
What surprised you most about the later course of your own career?
Norman Borlaug: When we first saw the broad adaptation of the Mexican varieties, at the end of the first year or two, I had no idea what an impact they could make on the world. But it wasn't just a variety, it was how you've tried to grow those plants, the date of planting, the fertilizer, the irrigation, control of weeds and economic policy to supply the imports that are needed for the variety to express its true potential.
You've been decorated by two U.S Presidents as well as foreign heads of state. You've met a remarkable number of historic figures. Was there one who made a particular impression?
Norman Borlaug: I knew Henry Wallace personally very good. He was really involved in getting the U.S. and the Rockefeller Foundation involved in agriculture. And when he used to come to see our program, I'd take him out to show him the wheat and he'd always end up by saying, "Why does an Iowa farm boy waste his time working on this secondary crop of imported wheat? Why aren't you working out in the corn?" Of course, he was chiding me, but I knew him well. And he played a very important role in changing American agriculture.
What advice would you give to young people just starting out in their careers?
Norman Borlaug: Study broadly. Don't specialize too early. Read history. Sooner or later, you're going to have to specialize, but within the limits that you have to take obligatory courses to get a degree, keep your general education as broad as you can, because you never know what doors are going to open to new opportunities -- ten, 15, 20 years down the road -- because of changes in science and technology.
What do you think will be the big challenges for the world in the next quarter century?
Norman Borlaug: We've got to do something about energy, because the way it's going now, energy and food got all tangled up together, probably worse than would've happened were this not a presidential campaign year, but it's miserable the way it is at present.
One last question. Of all your accomplishments, what would you most like to be remembered for?
Norman Borlaug: I figure that one person is only a limited part of the team, and without a team behind you, you can't do very much. And it's not just a team of scientists, but learning to deal with political leaders that you're not agreeing on many of their policies, but pushing it towards an area where there's hope that in the future they will see the light.
Thank you, Dr. Borlaug, this has been amazing.


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wtf is up with neg train.
can someone please explain it?
wtf is up with neg train.
can someone please explain it?
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I, HeavenHarris, hereby pledge to my fellow JFC'rs that I will no longer give out neg-reps. All it does is cause negative things, like fights, drama, bitching, ill will, bad feelings, etc.
Love, not hate, is the answer bros and moes.
LOL Lol breaks his pledge 5 days later hahahaha
So, now that the OP has been banned, does that mean that this thread has become a "free agent" thread? We can start a whole new topic. In fact, this thread can become purely random.... imagine the possibilities... imagine what UGLI, for instance, can do with randomness! He is, after all, the Picasso of "_______" <---- I'll let you guys finish this thought for me.
UGLI is the Picasso of "meaningless randomness"
Just before his demise, Dutch sent me his latest picture
someone tell me what happened to cause OP to create this thread. did he get ran on by the neg train???
please respond
Let's get HH in the red where he belongs!
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What happened between you and Dutch that got you banned?
im not complaining about the ban. i accept it. just wanted to know what caused dutch to make this thread lol
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"One of NCLB's key features is to shine a spotlight on America's achievement-gap problem by requiring states to break down each school's results by race, sex, English proficiency, and socioeconomic status.
"The Bush administration was sending a message to states that it's no longer okay to get their white, middle-class, suburban kids to pass the proficiency threshold while leaving minority, lower-income kids behind. Thanks to NCLB, states can no longer hide behind average scores or say that the typical student in a school or district excels. Each individual student now counts….
"If schools fail to make adequate yearly progress toward proficiency (each state sets its own targets), NCLB requires that parents hear about it, and then get the option to transfer their children to other public schools, or receive a modest stipend to enroll them in after-school tutoring programs, public or private.
"The provisions seem to be working. The New York Times recently profiled several school districts across the country that, due to NCLB pressures, are scrambling to bring all their students up to speed by identifying and helping the kids who need special support. New math and reading scores, out this summer from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, showed real gains in elementary schools and a narrowing of the racial achievement gap….
"NCLB isn't perfect…. But NCLB's key tenets—high standards and expectations, clear measurement and accountability, and consequences for results—must remain, no matter how much educrats complain."
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who would take, Kemp (Seattle days) or Amare Stoudemire?
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In some cases, stats don't tell the entire story. I wasn't trying to downgrade Amare's game, but just pointing out that Kemp was a lot smoother and more versatile that I believe that Amare will ever become. Just my opinion.
One of my favorite plays of all time happened when Kemp took a rebound (I forget against what team), and went coast to coast, dribbling like a guard all around people, finishing with a hellacious slam in the lane. It was an awesome display of his all-around skills. Amare can't match that versatility, as good as he is.
Kemp could easily have averaged closer to 30ppg, had he been called upon to do so. However the Seattle offense with Payton, Detlef Schrempf, Sam Perkins, and Hersey Hawkins - all established scorers - was a lot more diversified and didn't rely on him as much as Phoenix did Amare.
Its a pretty interesting comparison, though - for many reasons. Both players came straight out of high school with big question marks surrounding them. Both came into the league and immediately had an impact. Both possessed HOF-level skills on entry. Hopefully Amare will keep things together better than Kemp did.
Kemp come out of Trinity J.C. not High School.
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