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Srivastava, Khusbhoo, H. S. Jat, M. D. Meena, Madhu Choudhary, A. K. Mishra, and S. K. Chaudhari. "Long term impact of different cropping systems on soil quality under silty loam soils of Indo-Gangetic plains of India." Journal of Applied and Natural Science 8, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 584–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.31018/jans.v8i2.841.
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In a multi-enterprise agriculture model, six different cropping systems have been evaluated at research farm of CSSRI Karnal for nutrient availability in surface soil. All the cropping systems left tremendous effect on soil quality. Among the different cropping systems, sorghum-berseem maintained lowest soil pH (8.14) followed by cowpea-cauliflower-potato cropping system (8.35). Sorghum-berseem cropping system was significantly build-up of soil fertility in terms of available nitrogen, (221.1kg/ha) and soil organic carbon (0.59%) as compared to other cropping systems. However, phosphorus (59.80 kg/ha) availability was higher in vegetable system followed by wheat-green gram cropping systems (48.85 kg/ha) than the other cropping systems. Vegetable system of multi-enterprise agriculture model showed more availability of Ca (3.20 me/L), Mg (2.63 me/L) and S (11.71 me/L) than other cropping systems. Higher amount of Fe (8.44 mg/kg) was observed in maize-wheat-green gram cropping system, whereas higher Mn (6.37 mg/kg) was noticed in sorghum-berseem fodder system than the other cropping system. Zn and Cu availability was relatively higher in vegetable system. Under prevailing climatic conditions of Karnal, sorghum-berseem fodder system was found to be the best with respect to soil quality and ready adaptability by the farmers as it was not much changed by climatic variability over the last 6 years. Vegetable system and fruits + vegetable were more or less similar in accelerating the availability of nutrients. Thus, leguminous crop (green gram) in any cropping system helped in improving the soil health, which is a good indicator of soil productivity.
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King, Janet C. "Maintaining Balance." Annual Review of Nutrition 39, no. 1 (August 21, 2019): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-nutr-082018-124634.
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Writing this biography forced me to look back over my career as a scientist, teacher, wife, and mother. To my surprise, a lifelong theme emerged that I was unaware of, that is, the role of maintaining balance between work and family, science and teaching, mentorship and administration, and personal values and challenges. My primary mentor, Dr. Doris Calloway, demonstrated the importance of maintaining balance. My interest in nutrition started as a preschooler living on a farm where I learned firsthand the importance of balancing the expense of providing good nutrition to the livestock with potential income. In our small high school, I became acquainted with the fascinating field of chemistry, but found it critical to balance that interest with a politically correct field of study for a woman in the early 1960s. I chose dietetics for its strong roots in chemistry. As a US Army dietitian, I learned firsthand how to conduct metabolic studies and knew, immediately, that I had to balance that interest with future opportunities feasible for a dietitian. I chose the University of California, Berkeley, for my PhD because it needed to train dietitians in research to balance an emerging need to offer undergraduates a practicum in dietetics. My subsequent faculty appointment there enabled me to develop novel isotopic approaches for studying zinc and prenatal nutrition, and balance my research with teaching and administrative responsibilities. During the next 40 years, my work as a Berkeley professor led to appointments at the Western Human Nutrition Research Center and Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, while balancing my responsibilities as a wife and a mother to my two sons. Balance is defined as a condition in which different elements are equal or in the correct proportions. It is extremely satisfying to look back and see evidence of successfully balancing the disparate elements of my career.
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Lee, Amanda, Susan Schexnayder, Liesel Schneider, Stephen Oliver, Gina Pighetti, Christina Petersson-Wolfe, Jeffrey Bewley, Stephanie Ward, and Peter Krawczel. "Dairy producers in the Southeast United States are concerned with cow care and welfare." Journal of Dairy Research 87, no. 1 (February 2020): 60–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022029919000943.
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AbstractThis research communication addresses the hypothesis that Southeast dairy producers' self-reported bulk tank somatic cell count (BTSCC) was associated with producers' response to three statements (1) ‘a troublesome thing about mastitis is the worries it causes me,’ (2) ‘a troublesome thing about mastitis is that cows suffer,’ and (3) ‘my broad goals include taking good care of my cows and heifers.’ Surveys were mailed to producers in Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia (29% response rate, N = 596; final analysis N = 574), as part of a larger survey to assess Southeastern dairy producers' opinions related to BTSCC. Surveys contained 34 binomial (n = 9), Likert scale (n = 7), and descriptive (n = 18) statements targeted at producer self-assessment of herd records, management practices, and BTSCC. Statements 1 and 2 were assessed on a 5-point Likert scale from ‘strongly disagree’ to ‘strongly agree.’ Statement 3 was assessed on a 5-point Likert scale from ‘very unimportant’ to ‘very important.’ Reported mean BTSCC for all participants was 254 500 cells/ml. Separate univariable logistic regressions using generalized linear mixed models (SAS 9.4, Cary, NC, USA) with a random effect of farm, were performed to determine if BTSCC was associated with probability for a producer's response to statements. If BTSCC was significant, forward manual addition was performed until no additional variables were significant (P ≤ 0.05), but included BTSCC, regardless of significance. Bulk tank somatic cell count was associated with ‘a troublesome thing about mastitis is the worries it causes me,’ but not with Statements 2 or 3. This demonstrates that >75% of Southeastern dairy producers are concerned with animal care and cow suffering, regardless of BTSCC. Understanding Southeast producers' emphasis on cow care is necessary to create targeted management tools for herds with elevated BTSCC.
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Álvarez Carrillo, Faver, Fernando Casanoves, Yolanda Cuellar Medina, Jhoyner Felipe Ortiz Meneses, Victor Julio Balanta Martinez, and Gustavo Adolfo Celis Parra. "Nutritional quality of Piptocoma discolor and Cratylia argentea as a non-timber forest products for animal feed in the Caquetá province." Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development (JAEID) 116, no. 2 (January 23, 2023): 109–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/jaeid-13102.
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The present work determined the nutritional quality of Piptocoma discolor and Cratylia argentea as non-timber forest products used in animal feed in the Amazonian foothills in Caquetá province - Colombia, where the grasses B. decumbens and B. humidicola predominate in the pastures.A random selection of 50 farms was made, identifying that in each of them the shrub species Piptocoma discolor, Cratylia argentea and areas of grasslands for grazing where Brachiarias decumbens and B. humidicola predominate. One sample per species was taken from each farm. The samples were subjected to chemical analysis (CP, ADF, NDF, ADL, cellulose, hemicellulose, EE, ash and IVDDM, OMD, TDN, DE, ME). An analysis of variance was performed for each of the variables evaluated using a linear mixed model, considering the species factor as a fixed effect and municipality was considered a random effect. The model assumptions were evaluated by graphical inspection of residual. A multivariate synthesis to see the interrelation between variables and species was performed using a biplot graphic obtained by principal component analysis. C. argentea and P. discolor presented higher CP levels than the grasses in the pastures (17.7; 13.1; and 6.15%, respectively) with good levels of energy intake, confirming that C. argentea and P. discolor are non-timber forest resources with forage potential.
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Koroliova, Elfrida. "The Identity of the Performances of the 1960s Directed by Valeriu Cupcea." Arta 30, no. 2 (December 2021): 59–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.52603/arta.2021.30-2.08.
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The fruitful activity of Valeriu Cupcea in the 1960s was manifested in the identity of his plays. In the comedy Take, Yanke, and Kadar by I. Popa, this is a union of people overcoming national and religious prejudices. In the socio-psychological drama from the life of a collective farm village The Wheel of Time by A. Lupan, this is the drama of the era, manifested in life situations, in dramatic collisions of the characters in the play. In the philosophical drama about the life and death of A. Levada’s Faust and Death, this is a clash of human destinies, in the struggle of worldviews. The play I Don’t Want You To Do Good For Me Anymore by G. Malarciuc is a satire against favoritism and nepotism. In the play Two Lives and the Third by F. Vidrascu, this is psychological certainty in revealing the spiritual dramas of the heroes. In the play The Crane Feathers by J. Kinoshita this is a poetical and philosophical reading of an old Japanese legend. In the play Eminescu by M. Stefanescu, this is a highly artistic embodiment of the images of Eminescu, Creanga, Alecsandri. In the play Blanduzia’s Fountain by V. Alecsandri, this is the disclosure of the tragic life of a poet who selflessly strives to bring love and goodness to people and dooms himself to death. And others.
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MOHAMMAD, ALI, SUSAMA SUDHISHRI, MAN SINGH, T. K. DAS, V. K. SHARMA, and NEETA DWIVEDI. "Performance evaluation of Aqua Crop model for conservation agriculture based direct seeded rice (Oryza sativa)." Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 88, no. 3 (April 16, 2018): 379–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.56093/ijas.v88i3.78501.
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Direct seeded rice (DSR) with conservation agriculture (CA) can be a good option to replace the highly water consuming puddle transplanted rice (Oryza sativa L.) for producing more per unit area with less water. The predictionof rice productivity through crop growth model is significant for further planning in water savings. There are various crop growth models used for predicting rice yield, but less information available on prediction of direct seeded rice under conservation agriculture. Therefore, the water driven FAO AquaCrop model (v.5.0) which requires minimum datasets was applied to the data generated from two years (2014 and 2015) field experimentation carried out in Research Farm, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design in continuing experiment (5-6th year) with six CA practices in DSR and two puddle transplanted rice treatments and rice variety was PRH 10. The model was calibrated and validated using the data sets of kharif seasons of 2014 and 2015, respectively. The validated model prediction error statistics, i.e. root mean square error (RMSE), model efficiency (ME), index of agreement (d) and coefficient of determination (R2) for grain yield, were 0.58, 0.72, 0.93, 0.96, and for biomass 1.11, 0.85, 0.95, 0.96, respectively, for all the treatments under CA based DSR treatments. It was observed under conservation agriculture with different levels of crop residues, the predicted yield have a good fit with the observed values with acceptable accuracy. Thus, water-driven FAO AquaCrop model can be applied to predict the yield of direct seeded rice grown under conservation agriculture in the semi-arid regions of India, particularly Indo-Gangetic plain (IGP).
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Ponte, Stefano. "Reply to van Donge." Journal of Modern African Studies 40, no. 2 (June 2002): 313–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x02003932.
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Van Donge's comment on my reassessment of agrarian change on the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania, raises a number of issues that go beyond the specificities of the location under scrutiny. Before dealing with these, however, let me restate my argument, which van Donge has reconstructed only selectively. In my article (Ponte 2001a), I argued that rural households are not ‘trapped in decline’ on the Uluguru Mountains, as depicted in previous literature. Although agriculture is not going through an easy transition in the area, and some options are becoming more limited, others are being more skilfully utilised. On the Uluguru Mountains, land scarcity is the main feature of agriculture; deforestation and soil erosion are major problems; and inputs have become increasingly expensive. Under these circumstances, the main ways households can improve their quality of life – short of leaving the area altogether, and in addition to relying on remittances from outside – are to expand land cultivated in other locations, to experiment with alternative farming systems, and to increase non-farm incomes. I observed that Uluguru households were doing all of these in the mid-1990s, and that their income levels and housing characteristics had improved. This was intriguing and challenging to me, since farmers' adaptations to changing markets had not led to higher incomes in other areas that I had researched in Tanzania. Finally, I suggested that economic diversification can play an important role in improving rural livelihoods, but that this process is more likely to take place in locations with well-established economic ties and relatively good access to major markets.Van Donge has a variety of problems with my argument. These can be grouped around three main themes: (1) issues of methodology; (2) a perceived misunderstanding of his argument; and (3) the impact of liberalisation. Due to space limitations, in my reply to van Donge I deal with these larger themes. A more detailed response covering specific evidence and technicalities is available from this author and has been sent to van Donge.
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Hauck, Gerhard. "Redrawing The Drawer Boy." Canadian Theatre Review 108 (October 2001): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.108.005.
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Everybody loves a success story, and in Canadian theatre they don’t come much bigger than Michael Healey’s The Drawer Boy. Within a mere two years of its first presentation at Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille, and twenty-nine years after Paul Thompson’s seminal The Farm Show (from which it drew its life), The Drawer Boy has been staged at more than twenty theatres across Canada in a dozen original productions; won its author the 1999 Dora, Chalmers and Governor General’s Awards; received three professional productions in Toronto alone, including a six-week, eighty-nine per cent capacity run at the 1,000-seat Winter Garden Theatre; been produced with a star-studded cast by the famed Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago; and met with standing ovations wherever it was staged. In addition, another co-production this fall will take the play to the National Arts Centre, the Vancouver Playhouse, the Edmonton Citadel and Hamilton’s Aquarius Theatre; Michael Healey himself will direct the play at Vienna’s legendary English Theatre (where works by the likes of Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee received world premieres); discussions are underway to render the play for the big screen; and, finally, there is enough pent-up demand for the play from many American regional theatres, theatres across Britain and Australia and from amateur theatres worldwide to provide Healey with a handsome residual income for a very long time. While Michael Healey seems to take his success in stride – “It’s made me less grumpy” and “I think my new Jetta is a little too big for me, I may replace it with a Golf” (Healey, personal interview)1 – how good are we, collectively, as a young theatre culture at handling “our own” successes, especially when they are reproduced throughout the continent? How well do we respond to these re-productions, as both participating artists and critics, and what are some of the issues which concern us with re-productions staged in a context that is not our own?
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Papaioannou, Emmanouil H., Rosalinda Mazzei, Fabio Bazzarelli, Emma Piacentini, Vasileios Giannakopoulos, Michael R. Roberts, and Lidietta Giorno. "Agri-Food Industry Waste as Resource of Chemicals: The Role of Membrane Technology in Their Sustainable Recycling." Sustainability 14, no. 3 (January 27, 2022): 1483. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14031483.
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The agri-food sector generates substantial quantities of waste material on farm and during the processing of these commodities, creating serious social and environmental problems. However, these wastes can be resources of raw material for the production of valuable chemicals with applications in various industrial sectors (e.g., food ingredients, nutraceuticals, bioderived fine chemicals, biofuels etc.). The recovery, purification and biotransformation of agri-food waste phytochemicals from this microbial spoilage-prone, complex agri-food waste material, requires appropriate fast pre-treatment and integration of various processes. This review provides a brief summary and discussion of the unique advantages and the importance of membrane technology in sustainable recycling of phytochemicals from some of the main agri-food sectors. Membrane-based pressure -driven processes present several advantages for the recovery of labile compounds from dilute streams. For example, they are clean technologies that can operate at low temperature (20–60 °C), have low energy requirements, there is no need for additional chemicals, can be quite automated and electrifiable, and have low space requirements. Based on their permselective properties based on size-, shape-, and charge-exclusion mechanisms, membrane-based separation processes have unpaired efficiency in fractionating biological components while presenting their properties. Pressure-driven membrane processes, such as microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF) and nanofiltration (NF), as well as other advanced membrane-based processes such as membrane bioreactors (MBR), membrane emulsification (ME) and membrane distillation (MD), are presented. The integration of various membrane technologies from the initial recovery of these phytochemicals (MF, UF, NF) to the final formulation (by ME) of commercial products is described. A good example of an extensively studied agri-food stream is the olive processing industry, where many different alternatives have been suggested for the recovery of biophenols and final product fabrication. Membrane process integration will deliver in the near future mature technologies for the efficient treatment of these streams in larger scales, with direct impact on the environmental protection and society (production of compounds with positive health effects, new job creation, etc.). It is expected that integration of these technologies will have substantial impact on future bio-based societies over forthcoming decades and change the way that these chemicals are currently produced, moving from petrochemical-based linear product fabrication to a sustainable circular product design based in agri-food waste biomass.
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Anderson, Kim B. "What I Learned from 35 Years of Mistakes." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 46, no. 3 (August 2014): 323–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1074070800030054.
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There is no success without errors. Three keys to success are to learn from your errors, to learn from successful people, and to have mentors or role models whose advice and counsel you may follow to minimize errors. It takes more than knowledge and skill to develop a successful Cooperative Extension program. Programs need to be research-based, part of a team effort, and may involve using research and extension programs conducted and developed by others.The best advice given to me on my first real job was, “The only way you’re not going to make mistakes is if you’re not doing your job” (Laubhan, 1972). Another quote from Henry Ford, “Theonly real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing,” added tomy philosophical base (Ford and Crowther, 1922). Without the wisdom conveyedby Laubhan and Ford, plus Oklahoma State University colleague Phil Kenkel’s (1990) famous quote, “How hard can it be?,” mine could have been just another mediocre career.As a dairy and farm boy from Muskogee County, Oklahoma, with a new Ph.D. in agricultural economics, I set out to educate producers in the area of marketing and risk management. I noticed that attendance at meetings and workshops was good. Participants were interested and listened. They even triedsome of my ideas. Nearly all of them, if not all, reverted back to decisions and techniques they had used before my meetings or workshops.Observant and inquisitive soul that I was, I conducted research to determine who was right. The results indicated that the producers were mostly right! If research-based information and education were to be transferred, and management practices were to be changed, either the subject matter and/or the method of delivery had to change.
Books on the topic "Good Will Farm (Hinckley, Me.)"
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1917-1998, Sturtevant Lawrence M., Good Will-Hinckley (Hinckley, Me.), and Sturtevant Lawrence M. 1917-1998, eds. II chronicles of Good Will Home, 1990-2012: The history of Good Will Home from 1990 until its closing in June, 2009, the loss of the Good Will Home in Fairfield, Maine by the Board of Directors of the Good Will Home Association, the Governor, the State of Maine Courts, the Maine Legislature, and some traitorous alumni, the demise of the 2450 acre campus in 2012, additional historical materials. North Charleston, SC: Createspace Independent Pub. Platform, 2014.
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McCampbell, Bruce Rankin. Tell me 'bout the good 'ole days, Papa Bruce! Knoxville, Tenn: B.R. McCampbell, 1993.
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Trollope, Anthony. "Christmas in Harley Street." In Orley Farm. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780198803744.003.0022.
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It seems singular to me myself, considering the idea which I have in my own mind of the character of Lady Staveley, that I should be driven to declare that about this time she committed an unpardonable offence, not only against good nature, but...
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Burnaby, Frederick. "chapter XIV." In On Horseback Through Asia Minor, 87–91. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192825001.003.0015.
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Abstract MY host was up at daybreak to see me off. “Come and see me in England,” I said. “If Allah pleases, I will,” was my friend’s reply, and I only hope that I may have the opportunity of returning Suleiman Effendi’s hospitality. The road was hard and good for a few miles, we rode for some time by the Ayash river. After marching for about five hours, we came to a small farm-house. It was on the opposite bank of the river to ourselves; but there was a ford, and as there was no wood on our side of the stream, I determined to cross and halt an hour for lunch. The house belonged to an Armenian. It was filthily dirty. Vermin could be seen crawling in all directions on the rugs. In consequence of this, I resolved to make our fire outside, and lunch in the open air. There were some turkeys in the farm-yard, and the proprietor coming up, I desired Osman to purchase one of the birds.
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Linett, Maren Tova. "Cloned Lives." In Literary Bioethics, 117–46. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479801268.003.0005.
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Chapter 4 reads Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005) as a thought experiment about the ethics of humane farming. In this novel cloned human beings are raised as sources of organs for noncloned human beings; they are killed in the donation process early in their adulthood. The government homes where most of the cloned human beings live in “deplorable conditions” suggest factory farms, while the boarding school at which our protagonists live evokes a humane, organic farm. These parallels raise issues of animal ethics. Is it enough to have, as influential food writer Michal Pollan believes, a good life and a respectful death even if that life is dramatically shortened? This chapter demonstrates the cognitive dissonance and logical incoherence inherent in the fictional scenario and illuminates the ethical contradictions of the humane meat movement.
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Tidwell, John Edgar, and Mark A. Sanders. "“Song Hunter”." In Sterling A. Brown’s, A Negro Looks At The South, 261–71. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195313994.003.0041.
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Abstract The morning after the songfest, Willis James and I sat out on the lawn of President Bond’s home, under a large, shady water oak. Barely a current of air was stirring; it was quiet and drowsy. A farm truck might cough and splutter down the red road beyond the hedge, or a mule wagon might poke along, but there wasn’t much else active. Willis gave out with good talk. He was justly pleased at the showing his boys had made the night before. He wanted me to be sure to tell Kemper Harreld and Tic Tillman, his colleagues at Morehouse, and Florence Read, his boss at Spelman, just what he was doing. “I had made out all right with the fellows,” he said. “They took to you O.K. Probably talking about you now over in Macon.” As we were talking, a couple of men in work clothes yelled at each other across the road. “Ssh,” said Willis. “Listen.” “The bear gonna git you,” said the first. “How come he ain’t got you?” the second snapped back. Willis explained that “the bear” was the sun; the first man had meant, “The sun will get you, grab you, knock you flat.” The second one meant, “How come he gonna get me, if he ain’t got you? I’m as good a man as you.” “Where’s Zack?” the talk went on. “He’s gone with the peaches,” came to us over the hedge. The peaches had all been picked, were gone from this section, which was famous for them. Pickers followed them in both northeasterly and southwesterly directions. Pickers’ wages depended on the market; sometimes they were paid by the bushel, sometimes by the day. “It all depends on the white folks,” said Willis. “They’re so smart they don’t standardize. The more money peaches are bringing, the more leniency they show. Only natural.”
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Tuttle, William M. "School-age Children Fight the War." In “Daddy’s Gone to War”, 112–33. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195049053.003.0007.
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Abstract This was a war between good and evil; there were no shades of grey, no nuances, especially for America’s school-age children. Ranging in age from five or six to puberty, these girls and boys learned well the lesson of their country’s righteousness before all nations, imbibing it in their schools, churches, and the aters. Indeed, although feelings of invincibility and moral certainty were two qual ities widely shared by the school-age children, another was a sense of personal self-worth, motivated by participation in the war effort. “Our pride in our country,” noted a homefront girl, “made us proud of ourselves.” Boys and girls col lected scrap materials for recycling, and they bought War Bonds and knitted afghans. George Curtis, born in 1935, remembered that even helping his parents perform household tasks made him feel he was making “a genuine contribution” and was “a part of the overall team.” Whether helping with the dishes or the farm chores, George saw the war years “as a time for children such as me to feel of greater human worth or value; to be more respected by adults, because we had the opportunity to ... contribute.”
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Bailey, Lt Col F. M. "In Troitskoe." In Mission to Tashkent, 113–24. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192803870.003.0011.
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Abstract I Stayed a few days in the meteorological station, trying to make arrangements to go to Tashkent. One day Garibaldi passed through. It is an instance of the care we took to keep our business concealed from others that although we all had our midday meal together neither Edwards nor Merz knew who he was, nor that he had been in the mountains with me. We were very comfortable and well fed here, though the bread was not as good as Garibaldi’s baking. The Soviet bread was a mixture of maize and other flour and was suspected to contain a proportion of sawdust. We had the luxury of paraffin oil to burn. In our hut up the hill our only light had been pieces of cotton wool laid in a saucer of cotton oil. Later this was all anyone had in Tashkent when, as frequently happened, the electric light was cut off. One day some hunters arrived with four camels. They were part of a kind of commercial company which had been formed to kill pigs and other game for sale in the town. One of these was Colonel Yusupov with whom I had stopped on November 7th and who, of course, knew me. I was not to see him again till we met in Bokhara ten months later. We had a lot of snow here and it was very cold and windy. The temperature sank below zero, Fahrenheit. In fact it was much colder than at the bee-farm in our sheltered valley three thousand feet higher. While staying here we heard rumours of disturbances in Tashkent. The news was that the Bolsheviks had been over-thrown. I did not believe this, but my companions were on the top of the wave and already looking forward to the joys of a free normal life with its many pleasures.
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Orr, David W. "The Ecology of Giving and Consuming." In The Nature of Design. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195148558.003.0027.
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Some years ago a friend of mine, Stuart Mace, gave me a letter opener hand-carved from a piece of rosewood. Over his 70-some years Stuart had become an accomplished wood craftsman, photographer, dog trainer, gourmet cook, teacher, raconteur, skier, naturalist, and allaround legend in his home town of Aspen, Colorado. High above Aspen, Stuart and his wife, Isabel, operated a shop called Toklat, which in Eskimo means “alpine headwaters,” featuring an array of woodcrafts, Navajo rugs, jewelry, fish fossils, and photography. He would use his free time in summers to rebuild parts of a ghost town called Ashcroft for the U.S. Forest Service. He charged nothing for his time and labor. For groups venturing up the mountain from Aspen, he and Isabel would cook dinners featuring local foods cooked with style and simmered over great stories about the mountains, the town, and their lives. Stuart was seldom at a loss for words.His living, if that is an appropriate word for a how a Renaissance man earns his keep, was made as a woodworker. He and his sons crafted tables and cabinetwork with exquisite inlaid patterns using an assortment of woods from forests all over the world. A Mace table was like no other, and so was its price. Long before it was de rigueur to do so, Stuart bought his wood from forests managed for long-term ecological health. The calibration between ecological talk and do wasn’t a thing for Stuart. He paid attention to details. I first met Stuart in 1981. I was living in the Ozarks at the time and part of an educational organization that included, among other things, a farm and steam-powered sawmill. In the summer of 1981 one of our projects was to provide two tractor-trailer loads of oak beams for the Rocky Mountain Institute being built near Old Snowmass. Stuart advised us about cutting and handling large timber, about which we knew little. From that time forward Stuart and I would see each other several times a year either when he traveled through Arkansas or when I wandered into Aspen in search of relief from Arkansas summers. He taught me a great deal, not so much about wood per se as about the relation of ecology, economics, craftwork, generosity, and good-heartedness. I last saw Stuart in a hospital room shortly before he died of cancer in June 1993.