The populations who lived in Emilia between the Iron Age (IX century B.C.) and the High Middle Age (VIII century A.D.) such as Etrurians, Celtics, Latins and Longobards took in high consideration the pork breeding and ate its tasty and juicy meat. There were few people per square kilometre and agriculture was quite marginal. The most of the territory was covered by a wide forest (mainly chestnut-trees, oak-trees, beech-trees, poplars and willows) filling up mountain slopes and high and low Po valley.
Gigi il Salumificio was founded in 1980, when Mauro Reggiani builds a small factory in Castelnuovo Rangone, in the province of Modena. The Company name comes from the diminutive of Luigi, Mauro's father, died in 1967. Jole, Luigi's wife, often called her husband affectionately "my Gigi". To his mother Jole and his wife's parents, Enzo and Ada, the production of Ciccioli and Strutto (lard) starts with the purpose of preserving and keeping alive the culture of a cold meat cut closely linked with its territory and the Italian cold meat tradition.
With Mauro's wife, Maura Fontana, the company increases the range of produced salumi, focusing on quality and tradition still today considered the most important characteristic of successful products. After finishing their school training, the two sons Luigi and Luca join the company improving and developing sales and production. Today the company challenge is to keep on offering excellent products maintaining unchanged local traditions and the characteristic quality of salumi. All that is possible thanks to a close team willing to achieve such a target.


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NORAD ili North American Aerospace Command (Sjevernoamerička zračna komanda) ime je za združenu zračnu komandu SAD-a i Kanade koja ima zadaću da održavanje zračne: suverenosti, uzbunjivanja, i obrane Sjeverne Amerike. Središte NORAD-ove komande nalazi se u Zračnoj bazi Peterson u okrugu El Paso, pokraj Colorado Springs, u Coloradu.

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"Oh, God, oh God!" My grandmother is chewing cautiously; she always looks as if she were trying to eat very carefully just in case she should find any foreign bodies in her food; in fact, it's because her false teeth aren't of quite the same high quality as Aunt Mary's.
"For Heaven's sake, Grandma, now what's wrong with you?" Carmina is sitting next to her and reluctantly puts her fork down beside her plate. She turns her large, round head to meet Grandma's gaze.
When she sees that the ruminative process is continuing normally, she relaxes her facial muscles and picks up her fork again.
"Granny, stop frightening us."
"To do that she'd have to be born again with a different face," comments Aunt Mary, to my grandmother's complete indifference.
"I wasn't talking about the food," my grandmother says, looking at my sister Carmina. "It's just that last night I dreamed that they came to take away the only thing a woman my age has left."
"And what's that?"
"Her happy memories."
I laugh, and my niece Paula looks at me with wide, questioning eyes. That girl is so damned serious.
"I still feel as if I were in that dream. I'm starting to feel breathless…Ela, I can't eat any more of this…this…whatever it is. Bring me some ham," my grandmother orders.
"There isn't any. I used up the leftovers in the stew."
"Oh well, never mind, I've had enough anyway."
"Eat a bit more, Mama."
"I don't feel like it."
I've heard it said that in order to know how someone makes love, you just have to watch how they eat. I've heard it said that people have the same manners eating as they do copulating; the same style, shall we say. I begin to study my family carefully. There are nine women around the table, a load of greedy pigs with their chairs pulled up to the trough, all brandishing their knives and forks with varying degrees of skill and incompetence. I look at my own hands; I haven't even been able to touch my knife because I get the shivers just thinking about all the things one could do with a sharp instrument. The things that could be done to my fair head with one of those cheap household knives. The knives at home are all blunt because, since Carmina is a butcher, Mama always brings the meat home perfectly filleted, sliced or cut up. We don't' need any stupid jack knives with a point on them like D'Artagnan's dagger. The most difficult thing we have to do is slice open watermelons, and if they prove stubborn, Carmina disembowels them by smashing them down on the table, and we eat them like that. Nevertheless, even a blunt knife that has never been sharpened is still a knife. And right now there must be at least two unscrupulous men on my train, with, instead of teeth, knives as long as the highway to Andalusia. Really. Almost certainly.
The result is that I don't eat, I've no appetite. Consequently, we might say that I am also anorexic in bed, as far as sex is concerned.
Beside me is Paula, my niece. She has the receding chin and frightened face of a little mouse. She is so thin you can count her bones. Her eyes are as big and round as the salad bowls and are dirty blue in color. her mouth is stuffed with frozen hake, but she can't swallow. Then again, she is only five years old. It's hard to know what she'll be like in bed when she's older.
Then there's Gádor, sitting on the other side of her daughter. I imagine that the new pregnancy has left her slightly traumatized. I watch her pick up a piece of vegetable, put it eagerly in her mouth, then start fiddling with her fork and gazing with disgust at the stew on her plate.
My grandmother hardly eats a thing, apart from ham or, very occasionally, a sandwich made from thin slices of bread and pork loin; she cost us less to feed than a stuffed canary. One day, I asked her: "Are you following some kind of special regime, Grandma?" and without even glancing up, she said: "Regime? The only regime I ever followed, and then only a bit, at the start, was the Franco regime…And look what happened to that? Don't talk to me about regimes. A lot of modern nonsense."
Beside her, Carmina is devouring her food as if, rather than just eating the vegetables, she wanted to hurt them, to vent her spleen on them. I regard her with interest. She spears a Brussels sprout with her fork and carries it to her mouth, then, before she has had time even to begin to chew, she spears some beans and puts those in her mouth too, along with a little pile of peas, two bits of fried ham, some carrots and onion…and only on the sixth mouthful does she allow herself to chew and momentarily close her mouth. She's voracious. That's Carmina for you, if she fell over, she'd bounce. I dream to think what she's like in bed. I'm too much of a prude to think everything I could think about Carmina if I wanted to.
My mother eats resignedly. I blush and move on.
Ah, Aunt Mary. What a sublime sight. Something dribbles out of the corner of her mouth, and she greedily licks it up. She takes a large swig of sherry and makes a few pathetic attempts to reach the bread basket, meanwhile shooting furious glances at us all, hoping that one of us will help her without her having to ask. She snorts when Bely passes her the bread. She eats too much, but she doesn't put on weight, and when she goes to the john, she leaves behind her turds the size of a small child. I fear that she will live a very long time.
Bely eats slowly, but without pauses or interruptions, as if she were immensely patient and determined to get to the end regardless of what awaits her there.
And Brandy is a sight to see; she has transformed the act of chewing into an art form. The way she chews her food is almost lascivious, or, rather, it's totally lascivious, perhaps because she's imagining sharing the table with eight Canadian lumberjacks, which we most certainly are not. Before she got married, Gádor said to me one night that Brandy pulled more men than anyone she knew. "What does she put behind her ears, Essence of Cunt?" she said rather irritably. I suppose that for Gádor, who lives by the slogan: "Liberty, Equality, Maternity," I must be very hard to accept that there are women like Brandy in the world.
For her part, Brandy knew – as we all did – that when Gádor got married, and despite being twenty years old, she had had no previous sexual experience; she had always been the kind of unvanquished virgin you see at the Parthenon in Athens, only a flesh-and-blood variety of very little brain. So that when Brandy went to congratulate her, once the wedding ceremony was over, if the bawling choirboys at the parish church merit the name "ceremony," instead of saying, "Congratulations, little sister," she whispered in her ear: "You know what they say, a cock in the hand…" and Gádor burst out crying all over my freshly ironed pink organdie collar, whining "How could she, the whore, the slut, how could she…"
I've lost my appetite completely now. We're like some perverse, gastronomic version of Little Women.
"May one know why you're pulling that face?" Mama asks me while she dabs carelessly at her mouth, chin, throat, and – very, very nearly – the cleavage of her flowery bosom.
As soon as they married, Victor and Gádor decided to opt for family planning and bought some fluorescent condoms off an African selling them in the street market and which were about as impermeable as a tea bag; she became pregnant, acquired loads of dark stretch marks all over her breasts and, after giving birth to Paula, assured me, that it has been the longest, most unpleasant experience she had ever been through. "Absolutely awful," she told me, as she was tenderly covering up her little girl, asleep in a wicker basket decorated with some cotton fabric printed with little red bears, each one of whom had the charming smile of a psychopath stamped on its little purple snout. "When I was five months gone and realized that what goes in must come out, I didn't sleep a wink until the pregnancy was over, because it's a real shock, you know, it's not just like putting in a Tampax and then taking it out again, and God knows I found it hard enough to learning how to use a Tampax," she told me.
And yet during her first year of marriage, Gádor seemed contented enough. Ignorance is a marvelous antidote to common sense. One day, she asked Brandy and me what she should give her beloved husband for their wedding anniversary.
"Well," said Brandy, while she was applying some aubergine-colored dye – like coagulated blood – to Gádor's scalp, "in my experience, men are always in need of two things: socks and fellatio."
"Fellawhat?" Gádor looked up and a drop of the disgusting goop ran along her right eyebrow.
"It comes from Latin, idiot. Languages never were your strong point, were they? Socks will do fine," replied Brandy.
After that, Gádor and I went to the local library, and I looked at Dr. López Ibor's Sexual Encyclopedia for her, because, at the time, I myself couldn't give her an entirely accurate technical description of what was involved; I had my own ideas on the subject, but I never was much good at Latin and indeed discovered that I was completely on the wrong track and had got the wrong terminology and even the wrong body parts. From then on, Gádor improved her family planning with, for a few years, considerable success, until eight months ago: one must study constantly in order not to forget what one already knows.
Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Reprint by permission of Seven Stories Press.
Angela Vallvey
Angela Vallvey has published books of poetry and prose in her native Spain.
New York Food Exhibitions
By Mary Ann Caws
OCT 2022 | ArtSeen
As I write, there is at the Museum of the City of New York, a gigantic and vividly colorful exhibition entitled Food in New York: Bigger Than the Plate, which opened on September 16 to great acclaim in the newspaper and radio.
Aaron Angello's The Fact of Memory
MAY 2022 | Books
Aaron Angello's new collection of lyric essays, The Fact of Memory, is the result of a daily practice stemming over some four months. It consists of one short meditation for every word in Shakespeare's twenty-ninth sonnet ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes"), written every morning for 114 consecutive days. Alongside its emphasis on structure, Angello's collection revels in the gap: the open space without a railing, the leap readers must make on their own, without the help of explication or transition.
Ross Lipman's The Case of the Vanishing Gods
By Rachel Elizabeth Jones
DEC 22–JAN 23 | Film
With the exception of the good doctor, the cast consists entirely of puppets and their puppeteers. This unusual configuration becomes the framework for Lipman's mining of archival film and television footage for his thesis on the dizzying entanglement of popular entertainment, psychological splits, and spirituality.

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Texaoblogosphere: Week of February 26th
February 28, 2018 L. Wayne Ashley	Leave a comment
The Texas Progressive Alliance urges you to get out and vote in the Democratic primary as it brings you this week's roundup.
Off the Kuff puts the most recent Trump approval numbers for Texas into some context.
SocraticGadfly offers his take on the latest stupidity by former Morning News columnist Rod Dreher.
Stace says let the people vote! This, after DC insider outsiders creep into local races.
Neil at All People Have Value took note of a citizen-improved sign in a Houston neighborhood.
And here are some posts of interest from other Texas blogs.
Transgriot and Ashton Woods presents their lists of endorsed candidates.
Rice University Magazine honors the "crazy uncle" of the MOB, John "Grungy" Gladu.
Space City Weather explains why there are so many thunderstorms in the spring.
Tim McSweeny and Dan Brooks provide an update on the Waugh Bridge Bat Colony that was hit hard by Harvey.
The TSTA Blog calls out State Senators who underfund public education then deny having done so when it is pointed out.
And on this final day of Black History Month, we highlight the unique Afro-Latinx experience, and remember that this bold community is still underrepresented in media and society.
(feature photo credit: The Afro-Latinos documentary trailer by Renzo-Devia/ Creador Pictures)
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#LABAA: Let America Be America Again!
February 1, 2018 L. Wayne Ashley	1 Comment
#LABAA!! Let America Be America Again!
How eerily these words ring true today, like the latest Twitter hashtag ready to set the internet ablaze. But no… these words, nearly 100 years old, ring true in the 21st century due to their prophetic power.
On this February 1st, the starting day of Black History Month and the 116th birthday of famed poet Langston Hughes, here is his intriguing, revolutionary work Let America Be America Again…
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed —
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land be a land where
Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
(There's never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek —
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!
I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean —
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today–O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.
Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home —
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."
The free?
Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay —
Except the dream that's almost dead today.
O, let America be America again —
The land that never has been yet —
And yet must be–the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine — the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME —
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose —
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath —
America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain —
All, all the stretch of these great green states —
And make America again!
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Music Musings: Janet Jackson's Control– 30 Y.O.
February 4, 2016 L. Wayne Ashley	Leave a comment
Long before Adele or Taylor Swift were household names, All eyes and ears in the pop music world were affixed to the one and only Janet Jackson. Through iconic albums like janet., The Velvet Rope and Rhythm Nation, she broke barriers regarding race, gender, artistic expression, and celebrity involvement in social justice.
However to get to the point of icon, Janet first had to make an impact, and enter the mainstage of pop culture. Thirty years ago today, Jackson forged this path with the release of Control.
Here's how Brannon Smith of Ebony Magazine celebrated the album back in 2014…
If Beyoncé is "the album that is going to launch a thousand women's studies papers," then Janet Jackson's Control is the album that launched a thousand feminist music careers. Nearly 30 years after its initial release, the groundbreaking album still stands as one of the boldest statements in the history of Black feminist music, and Janet's storied career remains an often-referenced blueprint for a legion of female performers following in her fearless footsteps.
In August 1985, Janet Jackson left the glamour of her show business upbringing and set out for Minneapolis — the home of former Prince protégés Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. By this time, 19-year-old Janet had starred in three TV shows, been married to and split from an addiction-plagued James DeBarge, and fired an overbearing Joe Jackson as her manager. She was coming into her own as a woman — and she, Jam and Lewis were determined to chronicle that evolution on her third studio album, Control. Unlike the music of her safe, bubble-gummy debut, Janet Jackson, and its follow-up, Dream Street, Control was largely autobiographical — relaying honest, raw stories born out of real-life events.
Though Jackson had recorded two albums before Control (in addition to an already impressive acting career), the collaboration with legendary producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis stood out because it was Janet that co-wrote the songs, and spoke the truth about her life at the time.
30 years on, Control still resonates as the quintessential 'Janet Jackson' album. From the sensuous, sultry moans of Funny How Time Flies, irresistible club starters like The Pleasure Principle, the tight vocal harmonies and surprising character voices of Nasty, to the delightful interlude opening and jazz pop fusions of What Have You Done For Me Lately?, all the elements of how we understand Janet Jackson as an artist can be found on Control. And oh yeah… Don't ever forget those FINGER SNAPS!!
Basically, with Control, it was clear that Jackson and her collaborators had found the recipe for success, and we as a music-loving public are all the better for it.
And in case this post has you wondering 'What Has Janet Done For You Lately?', then you need to check out her new album Unbreakable. If you haven't bought it yet, go get a copy along with a new copy of Control, and play them back to back. You might be surprised at what you hear. And the Unbreakable World Tour?? Not to be missed!!
During this Black History month, what better way to celebrate with a truly impressive milestone. Thank you Janet Jackson for releasing your masterpiece to the world, 30 years ago today.
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Nashville Tennessee has earned the nickname "Music City, U.S.A." for good reason. And although for most Americans, the city is known primarily for being a hub of Country Music, Nashville houses a rich history for all kinds of music traditions.
Nashville's Fisk University is well-known for being one of the nation's most treasured Historically Black College/ Universities and for the internationally-acclaimed Fisk Jubilee Singers. One of America's most storied choral ensembles, the group has provided a window into the history of Negro Spirituals for 144 years. But even that preservation wouldn't have been possible without the work of famed musician, composer, conductor and musicologist John Wesley Work Jr.
Born the son of a slave and coming of age during the Reconstruction era, John Wesley Work Jr. was surrounded by great music. His father, the first John Wesley Work, was a singer and choir director. So when he came to Fisk University as a freshman in 1890, he knew that his acceptance into Fisk's music program was a great accomplishment in itself. Founded in 1871, the Fisk Jubilee singers had quickly become legendary, as their tour to raise funds for the university had already taken them to notable performances for President Ulysses S. Grant at the White House, and even Queen Victoria in England.
But Work Jr. brought the Fisk Jubilee singers to the world in a way not previously imagined, and one that we are thankful for today. In 1909 Work, now a Faculty member at Fisk and conductor of the group, landed upon critical music history when he agreed to a recording project for the Fisk quartet. Here's more on its significance, via Archeophone…
The quartet of Work, first tenor, James Myers, second tenor, Noah Ryder, first bass, and Alfred King, second bass, made ten sides for Victor at the end of 1909, records that signaled a sea change in the kind of entertainment Americans could purchase for the home. As Tim Brooks points out in his recording notes accompanying Mr. Seroff's essay, most of the recorded fare of the previous 20 years with a "jubilee" theme or African-American influence was parodic and often demeaning. With the Fisks, now black art, history, and culture were literally getting a fair hearing. Songs such as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and "There Is a Balm in Gilead" were well-known, and the Fisks give masterful performances, while "Little David, Play on Yo' Harp / Shout All Over God's Heaven," "Roll Jordan Roll" and "The Great Campmeeting" became instant favorites that the group were called on to perform regularly in concert.
This recording, made by the sons of emancipated slaves, provides a critical link to the traditions of American Negro Spirituals. Thanks to Work and the other singers, it and the recordings that followed stand as a witness to our musical past. They've even found new relevance via digital restoration and platforms like YouTube.
Work's time on the Fisk faculty was somewhat short… only 1909-1916. In that time, he managed to not only commission a series of landmark recordings, but wrote an impressive document of the history being sung at the institution. Work's Folk Song of the American Negro stands today as one of the most important ethnomusicological contributions of the 20th Century for its exhaustive research of the various African-American music traditions from that time and before. Without John Work Jr., much of this history could have been lost.
Last but certainly not least, John Wesley Work Jr. was a gifted composer in his own right. Besides writing songs in the Negro Spiritual style and substantial choral arrangements, Work also composed some treasured art songs. Soliloquy is a favorite of his for the tender poetry and ascendant vocal line, proving some of the best elements from Work's musical fortitude. Here is my performance of Soliloquy from 2010.
The contributions of John Wesley Work Jr. are not only a pillar of African-American music history, but continue to enrich the lives of all American music today.
(The 1909 Fisk Jubilee Quartet, with John Wesley Work Jr. to the far right. Photo credit: Doug Seroff via NPR)
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Shock Top Belgium Beer & Socks…Beer & Socks for the dad that has everything. Father's Day, the third Sunday of June in the UK, a celebraton for father's.
As you wake in your palace, the sun is shining, your Butler is polishing your Bentley, your darling wife leans over to give your kiss on the cheek with a joyful "Happy Father's Day" then a tap on the door, brings your trusty maid with your morning tea…..
"Sounds familiar so far"….. I thought so!
Your children then follow, bright eyed and bushy tailed, face washed, hair combed, teeth brushed …. The girls come and give you a big hug and kiss with "You're the best Dad ever" and your son, a young man gives you a firm handshake with "Happy Father's Day Dad" …… oh could life get any better…..
Your perfect day awaits, a good hearty breakfast, then meeting up with old school friends for a round of golf then back for a big family lunch.
Its perfection but somethings missing…. Not quite sure what but nobody has given you a present.
If you had been a fly on the wall earlier in the week everyone was scratching their brains as to what to buy a super handsome, successful and talented father with just about everything he could desire!
…….Forward wind to sitting on your deck chair outside, and you are feeling nicely fulfilled after a fantastic lunch with all your family…… As you ease back, as all Dad's do and what a lovely feeling it is, you drift off into nod nod land….. with dreams of being young.
Shock Top Belgium Beer…Michael's the name….
You could not make this up even if you tried but it's funny how a little lateral thinking and a present that mixes a bit of fun with something a little more serious which of course is beer can really be so perfect. As they say some of the best things in life are so simple.
As a beer lover myself I loved this fresh and fruity Belgium Beer and certainly wearing the socks whilst drinking my beer did bring out a wry smile.
Shock Top Belgium Beer in the garden on Father's Day…. I thought you would never ask !!
Belgium is a country that understands tongue in cheek humour with its heritage from Tintin to Hercule Poirot the famous fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie. As you I am sure know Belgium is famous for its beer and has a distinct eye on style in a slightly natty way.
The English is also a nation of beer lovers and the fact that so many jokes are made about giving socks makes actually giving them that bit more fun, especially when you can still wear them with style. So whatever your style, wherever you're going, and regardless of what you're planning on doing this Father's Day, you can't go wrong with the classics – beer and socks.
Happy Drinking, but tastes so much better wearing the socks whilst drinking….


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"What drove me to do what I do at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) started in the 1980s, growing up in Glasgow and seeing things change around me, seeing cities being broken and then rebuilt, seeing industry broken and people being left on the wayside, seeing cities and cultures try to rebuild themselves from the bottom up," JRF chief executive Campbell Robb told delegates in his opening address to the organisation's conference.
Entitled Achieving inclusive growth for Scotland, the one-day event in Glasgow was standing room only, with a huge variety of speakers from JRF, the Scottish Government, Glasgow City Council and Cabinet Secretary for Communities, Angela Constance MSP, among others.
JRF teamed up with NHS Health Scotland, Business in the Community Scotland and the RSA to provide the event.
The conference was designed to help delegates share innovative policies and practices, as well as give them the opportunity to discuss how inclusive growth can contribute to solving poverty in Scotland, following the Scottish council elections and UK general election.
Throughout the day, there were panel discussions and workshop sessions from a number of high profile speakers and learning was shared on how inclusive growth can become a reality through policy development and integrated working.
Robb said: "We're really pleased to have some great partners [for this event], who are working together to really understand the challenges we face.
"Despite the great strides forward we have made, millions of Scots still live in poverty, 420,000 in working households and one in five employed in Scotland work for less than the voluntary living wage.
Dr Andrew Fraser, Director of Public Health Science at NHS Health Scotland, said inclusive growth has the potential to affect real change in reducing health inequalities.
He added: "In Scotland, mortality rates as a result of inequalities are higher than the rest of Europe.
"We know that rising income inequality in the UK cost us nine percentage points in the growth rate of GDP per capita between 1990 and 2010 – that's approximately £100 billion.
Angela Constance started her keynote speech by quoting political philosopher, John Rawls.
She continued: "In other words, you'd choose to join this just society, no matter where you were born.
"This is a tough challenge to us all, and certainly isn't true for us in Scotland just yet. We know that here in Glasgow two children born only a few streets apart can have very different outcomes in life through no fault of their own.
She said it was in the Scottish Government's interest to grow the economy in a "fairer and a more inclusive" way.
"This means putting people at the heart of how we understand, nurture, and share our economy.
"Our economic strategy, published two years ago, recognised this need for a more inclusive approach to economic growth, underpinned by the twin pillars of boosting competitiveness and tackling inequalities.
"We made it clear that in Scotland, we will put a different emphasis on growth – that we won't pursue growth at any cost or limit its benefits to a just few. But that we will ensure growth means prosperity and opportunity for all – regardless of who you are, and what part of Scotland you live in.
City deals were also a big topic for the day.
Campbell Robb said: "Scotland has enjoyed a strong economic record but too many people have not shared in its success, which is a cost and waste our economy and society cannot afford.
"We need the Scottish Government, city leaders and Westminster to work together to pursue this goal, starting with progress on Scotland's city deals to tackle poverty.
"This agenda has momentum in England following the election of powerful metro mayors and, with political and economic uncertainty ahead, Scotland needs inclusive growth now to create a stronger and fairer economy.
The conference also heard from people who shared their experiences with delegates and gave their views of what is happening on the ground.
Sandra Collins, part of the Poverty Leadership Panel, shared her experiences of being trapped in poverty as a single mother with four children, and the difficulties of being able to participate in society on an income that allowed for no leisure activities.
She explained to the audience how, with access to the right childcare, she was able to increase her skills and training to open up more employment and volunteering opportunities.
She said: "About 12 years ago, I became a lone parent, I escaped from domestic violence and I was very much in poverty. Poverty for me was like having glue in my shoes, I was stuck and it was exhausting.
"That's how life was for me then. I got benefits, I managed. I didn't smoke, rarely drank and didn't really go out, I had just enough to feed myself and kids and pay the bills. But life like that makes you a shadow citizen in this city, you can't join in and it's exhausting because you keep having to say no to your children.
Collins started to volunteer in her community but when her children were older, she recounted how difficult it was to find a job which worked with her family commitments.
"I wanted any job but it couldn't be done," she said.
Collins told how she met "one good person" at the Job Centre which led to a course to improve her computer skills.
"I was emotionally raw and I was terrified but I came out with a pass," she said.
She then went to Cardonald College, which had a nursery on site so she could study while her 18-month-old baby was looked after, and came out with an HNC in health and social care. Later she got the opportunity to go to university, again, she said, thanks to meeting another "good person" who believed in her.
Meanwhile Collins had continued to volunteer in her community and eventually took a place on the Poverty Leadership Panel.
She said: "Poverty is massive and overwhelming but when I thought about it, I realised that this was a combination of my own life so it got less overwhelming along the way.
Collins' speech was important in showing how inclusive growth can work in a real, practical way and was very well received by the audience.
Looking at the conference as a whole, the message which came out most strongly was that the inclusive growth agenda remains a hugely important issue in Scotland – and that there is a real appetite from policymakers to take it forward.


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Read Pat Boone's Touching Tribute to His Late Wife Shirley Boone
How do you describe a woman like Shirley Lee Foley Boone, with all her accomplishments and talents and considerable impact on so many lives? Especially when King Solomon already described her to a T in Proverbs 31?
It's the last part of the Book of Proverbs, believed to have been written as his "sign off" by a man who had 700 wives and 300 concubines… a man who God allowed to experience such things (though He didn't approve them), and could tell other mere mortals what really counted in a woman and what to search for, perhaps in vain, in a prospective wife.
I married that woman.
And the old King was right, as he described "a virtuous wife. Her worth," he wrote, "is far above rubies. The heart of her husband safely trusts her; so he will have no lack of gain. She does him good and not evil, all the days of her life."
We started holding hands the moment we met at David Lipscomb High School in Nashville when we were 16. Though we were both popular, active and healthy young kids, and I was strongly attracted to her, we didn't kiss for 9 months. I knew even then she was so special, and I didn't want to mess it up with something superficial and too soon.
Tentatively, after a romantic school hayride in the fall of our junior year, I leaned in at her front door and kissed her gently for a second.
I never recovered.
I was hooked forever. She told me later she went in and asked, "I waited 9 months for that…?" She had expected more, she told me, but we began to make up for it from then on. We married at 19, with her Dad, Red Foley's, consent (he bought our rings), but didn't consult my parents who I knew would try to dissuade us in favor of finishing college first.
She dropped out of nurses training and we moved to Denton, Texas, and NTC, so we could literally be on our own, while I prepared (I thought) to be a teacher/preacher like my role models at David Lipscomb College.
We dreamed we'd have a quiet, useful life in a cottage with a picket fence, two or three kids, and I'd teach English and preach on Sundays. But God had different plans for us… more different than we could ever have imagined.
Barely four years later, I graduated from Columbia University in 1958, magna cum laude, with a top ten music variety show on ABCTV (on the cover of TV Guide) 6 million selling records, three hit movies, the number one best-selling nonfiction book of advice for teens, and Shirley and I had four little girls – and we were 23 years old.
What 19-year-old bride could have coped with all that? Handling all the crazy excitement, demands, unexpected responsibilities, four pregnancies in 3 and a half years, with four kids to raise, a husband in college and movies and television all at the same time?
Only one in all the world. Shirley Boone.
Somehow, with God's help, we navigated through my early career as our little girls grew up and we stayed faithful in our Church involvement while I made more movies, hosted my own TV series, traveled the world, sometimes together, sometimes leaving her at home with our active, popular daughters.
She grew wise to the world of show biz, blended in with me when she had to, but was always my anchor spiritually. She never lost sight of what was really important to us and our girls, and in spite of the money and fame and countless opportunities to lose our way—she always reminded each of us that God had blessed us and had His hand on us for His purposes.
We invited Him to live in our house, our home in Beverly Hills, and He did. Over all the 58 years we've lived here, people would frequently tell us, "I feel something different in your house when I come over… what is it?" And Shirley would smile and say something like, "Well, we asked God to make His presence felt in our home, and He does." There was no pretense or "religiosity" about it; she was just answering the question.
There was something different about her, too… and it was the same thing: the evidence of God in her life, her character, her honest love for others – and her overflowing generosity.
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Village Farms International Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End 2018 Financial Results – Cannabis Joint Venture, Pure Sunfarms, Generates Positive Net Income in First Full Quarter of Sales and for the Full Year
Village Farms International, Inc. ("Village Farms" or the "Company") (TSX:VFF.TO) (NASDAQ:VFF) today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2018.
Financial and Corporate Highlights for the Fourth Quarter Ended December 31, 2018 (All comparable figures are for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2017)
— Net income improved to positive US$0.3 million, or US$0.01 per share, and included the contribution of positive net income from Pure Sunfarms Corp. ("Pure Sunfarms") of US$2.8 million. This compares with a net loss of (US$0.6 million), or (US$0.02) per share;
— Sales, including the Company's proportionate share of Pure Sunfarms' sales, increased to US$40.6 million compared with US$36.9 million;
— EBITDA, was US$1.5 million compared with US$2.6 million. EBITDA included $0.9 million from Pure Sunfarms;
— Completed a bought deal offering of 3,097,200 common shares at a price of $7.13 per share (for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of $22,083,036; and,
— The Company's common shares commenced trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol "VFF".
Financial Highlights for the Year Ended December 31, 2018 (All comparable figures are for the year ended December 31, 2017)
— Net loss was (US$5.1 million), or (US$0.11) per share, and included the contribution of positive net income from Pure Sunfarms of US$2.4 million. This compares with prior year net income of US$3.8 million, or US$0.10 per share;
— Sales, including the Company's proportionate share of Pure Sunfarms' sales, were US$151.9 million compared with US$158.4 million; and,
— EBITDA, was US$2.9 million compared with US$7.4 million. EBITDA included US$0.1 million from Pure Sunfarms.
Summary of Recent Highlights for Village Farms' Canadian Cannabis Joint Venture, Pure Sunfarms
— Generated positive net income of US$5.5 million for the fourth quarter 2018, the first full quarter of sales (Village Farms' proportional share is US$2.8 million);
— Received multiple amendments to its cultivation license from Health Canada, resulting in the successive expansion of its licensed production area to the entire growing area of 1.03 million square feet in March 2019;
— Selected by, and has entered into a supply agreement with, the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation ("OCRC"), operating as the Ontario Cannabis Store ("OCS"), to supply the OCS with Pure Sunfarms branded cannabis products for the non-medical market in the Province of Ontario;
— Entered into a wholesale supply arrangement with one of the largest online platforms for medical cannabis users in Canada, through which a selected variety of Pure Sunfarms high-quality dried flower products will be available for purchase;
— Entered into a credit agreement with Bank of Montreal and Farm Credit Canada ("FCC") in respect of a CAD$20 million secured non-revolving term loan, with the available funds to be used to finance the final costs of converting its 1.1 million square foot greenhouse for cannabis production, as well as general corporate purposes.
Highlights for Village Farms' U.S. Hemp/CBD Initiative
— Upon passage by U.S. Congress of the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized hemp cultivation and hemp-derived products, the Company announced its intention to aggressively pursue opportunities to become a vertically integrated leader in the hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) market;
— Formed a joint venture (65%-owned by Village Farms) with a Jennings Group company, Nature Crisp, LLC, for the outdoor cultivation of high-cannabidiol (CBD) hemp and CBD extraction in multiple states throughout the United States. Jennings Group has extensive experience in field agriculture across a diverse range of food and other crops, including hemp.
"It is a remarkable achievement for Pure Sunfarms' to not only generate positive net income in just its first full quarter of sales but for Pure Sunfarms to be profitable for the entire year, during most of which the Pure Sunfarms greenhouse was in the process of being converted for cannabis production," said Michael DeGiglio, Chief Executive Officer, Village Farms. "It is demonstrative of the value that Village Farms, with its 30-years of experience as a large-scale, low-cost developer and grower, brings to the Pure Sunfarms joint venture, as well as the advantage of pursuing the Canadian cannabis opportunity via an established, high-performance greenhouse operation with more than 750 years of combined grower experience, an experienced skilled labour force already in place, and the benefit of years of operating history across multiple crops in multiple regions around the world."
"Pure Sunfarms is positioned for earnings growth throughout 2019 and beyond as it ramps to full run rate annual production of 75,000 kilograms by mid-year, commences sales to the Ontario Cannabis Store upon receipt of its processing and packaging licenses, and redirects sales to the retail market following conclusion of its supply agreement with Emerald Health Therapeutics at the end of this year. To this end, Pure Sunfarms is steadily advancing its product and brand strategies to realize its vision to be a premier vertically integrated supplier to the Canadian cannabis market, with a reputation for quality, consistency, safety and reliability."
"In the United States, with hemp cultivation and hemp products now federally legal, we are aggressively pursuing a vertically integrated hemp-derived CBD strategy to capitalize on this significant opportunity. We have already taken a major step in this regard with the formation of a joint venture for outdoor hemp cultivation and CBD extraction, Village Fields Hemp, with an experienced partner, and expect to begin generating revenue later this year. With 5.7 million square feet of existing technologically advanced greenhouse operations in Texas, we stand ready, subject to legalization in Texas, to address what we believe will be significant demand for controlled environment-grown hemp to meet the needs of specific customers. As a vertically integrated produce supplier to North America's top grocery and "big box" retailers for decades, and with in-house expertise to navigate the evolving regulatory environment, Village Farms is very well positioned to become a leading supplier of branded and private label CBD products to these retailers."
Summary Statuary Results (in thousands of U.S. Dollars unless otherwise indicated)
For the three months  For the year ended                                              ended December 31,    December 31,                                              2018      2017        2018       2017Sales                                         $38,787   $36,864     $150,000   $158,406Cost of sales                                 (36,367)  (31,908)    (140,282)  (144,433)Selling, general and administrative expenses  (3,622)   (4,019)     (14,108)   (13,894)Stock compensation expense                    (1,007)   (959)       (1,454)    (1,519)Change in biological asset(1)                 158       1,082       (843)      265Interest expense, net                         (501)     (679)       2,407      2,695Other income                                  (70)      (50)        (131)      46Foreign exchange (loss) gain                  (960)     (31)        (1,047)    26Share of income (loss) from joint venture     2,750     (35)        2,381      (255)Income (loss) on disposal of assets           -         (551)       -          8,013(Recovery of) provision for income taxes      (962)     (321)       (2,475)    138Net income (loss)                             270       (607)       (5,145)    3,822EBITDA(2)                                     1,484     2,591       $2,878     $7,363Earnings (loss) per share - basic and diluted $0.01     ($0.02)     ($0.11)    $0.10
Summary Results Including Pure Sunfarms on a Proportionate Basis
The following results reflect the Company's proportionate share of the Pure Sunfarms joint venture operations, as this is the basis on which management bases its operating decisions and performance. For a reconciliation to the results in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") refer to the "Reconciliation of IFRS to Proportionate Results" as presented below and in Management's Discussion & Analysis ("MD&A").
(in thousands of U.S. Dollars unless otherwise indicated)
For the three months ended  For the year ended                                             December 31,                December 31,                                             20181     20171             20181      20171Sales                                        $40,590   $36,864           $151,913   $158,406Cost of sales                                (36,896)  (31,908)          (140,882)  (144,433)Selling, general and administrative expenses (4,113)   (4,147)           (15,414)   (14,242)Change in biological asset (2)               3,120     1,082             2,552      265Net income (loss)                            270       (607)             (5,145)    3,822EBITDA(3)                                    $1,484    $2,591            $2,878     $7,363Earning (loss) per share - basic and diluted $0.01     ($0.02)           ($0.11)    $0.10
Notes:(1)    The consolidated financial results above reflect the proportionate share of the Company's share of revenues and expenses from its joint venture operations, as this is the basis which management bases its operating decisions and performance evaluation.  IFRS does not allow for the inclusion of the joint venture on a proportionate basis.  These results include additional non-IFRS measures such as EBITDA.       The results are not generally accepted measures of financial performance under IFRS.  The Company's method of calculating these financial performance measures may differ from other companies and accordingly, they may not be comparable to measures used by other companies.  Refer to the MD&A for a reconciliation of these non-IFRS measures and proportionate results.(2)    Biological assets consist of the Company's produce on the vines and Pure Sunfarms' bud and trim on the plant at the period end.  Details of the changes are described in note 6 of the Company's annual consolidated financial statements year ended December 31, 2018.(3)    EBITDA is not a recognized earnings measure and does not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS.  Therefore, EBITDA may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers.  See "Non-IFRS Measures".  Management believes that EBITDA is a useful supplemental measure in evaluating the performance of the Company. Consolidated EBITDA includes the Company's 50% share of its joint venture Pure Sunfarms.
(All amounts in U.S. Dollars unless otherwise indicated.)
Pure Sunfarms commenced sales in late September 2018; for the year ended December 31, 2018 the Company's 50% share of sales is $1,897.
The Company's share of net income for the three months and year ended December 31, 2018 was $2,750 and $2,381, respectively, Pure Sunfarms was able to achieve net income in its first full quarter of sales.
The Company's share of EBITDA for the three months and year ended December 31, 2018 was $861 and $111, respectively, Pure Sunfarms was able to achieve a positive EBITDA in its first full quarter of sales.
Sales for the year ended December 31, 2018 decreased (5%) from the year ended December 31, 2017, the decrease is due to the loss of tomato production from the Delta 3 facility, which was contributed to Pure Sunfarms in 2017 and the Company's lower production at its Texas facilities. Net price for tomato pounds increased 4% for the year ended December 31, 2018 versus the year ended December 31, 2017 due to a higher percent of higher priced tomato production in 2018 as compared to 2017. Pepper prices decreased (2%) over the comparable period in 2017, and cucumber prices decreased (1%) for the years ended December 31, 2018 over the comparable period in 2017.
Cost of sales for the year ended December 31, 2018 decreased (3%) from the year ended December 31, 2017, primarily due to the loss of the Delta 3 facility and a decrease in costs at the Texas facilities due to a decrease in pounds produced partially offset by an increase of 6% in contract sales cost.
EBITDA for the year period ended December 31, 2018 decreased (62%) from the year period ended December 31, 2017, primarily as a result of a decrease in income from operations that was caused by the removal of the Delta 3 facility as well as a decrease in production for the Texas facilities. The production shortfall at the Texas facilities resulted in decreased sales and an increase in cost per pound for product produced as the fixed costs were spread over less pounds.
Reconciliation of IFRS to Proportionate Results
The following tables are a reconciliation of the IFRS results to the proportionate results (which include the Company's proportionate share of the Pure Sunfarms operations). Refer to the MD&A for further discussion and analysis of these results:
For the three months ended December 31, 2018  For the three months ended December 31, 2017                                              Produce   Cannabis4  Total                    Produce   Cannabis4  TotalSales                                         $38,787   $1,803     $40,590                  $36,864   $-         $36,864Cost of sales                                 (36,367)  (529)      (36,896)                 (31,908)  -          (31,908)Selling, general and administrative expenses  (3,622)   (491)      (4,113)                  (4,019)   (128)      (4,147)Change in biological asset(5)                 158       2,962      3,120                    1,082     -          1,082(Gain) loss on sale of assets                 -         -          -                        (511)     -          (511)(Recovery of) provision for income taxes      (962)     887        (75)                     321       (93)       228Net (loss) income                             (2,480)   2,750      270                      (572)     (35)       (607)EBITDA(6)                                     $623      $861       $1,484                   2,720     (129)      2,591(Loss) earnings per share - basic and diluted ($0.05)   $0.06      $0.01                    ($0.02)   $0.00      ($0.02)
For the year ended December 31 , 2018   For the year ended December 31, 2017                                              Produce    Cannabis4  Total                    Produce    Cannabis4  TotalSales                                         $150,000   $1,897     $151,913                 $158,406   $-         $158,406Cost of sales                                 (140,282)  (595)      (140,882)                (144,433)  -          (144,433)Selling, general and administrative expenses  (14,108)   (1,306)    (15,414)                 (13,894)   (348)      (14,242)Change in biological asset(5)                 (834)      3,386      2,552                    265        -          265(Gain) loss on sale of assets                 -          -          -                        (8,013)    -          (8,013)(Recovery of) provision for income taxes      (2,475)    887        (1,588)                  138        94         232Net (loss) income                             (7,526)    2,381      (5,145)                  4,077      (255)      3,822EBITDA(6)                                     $2,767     $111       2,878                    $7,456     ($93)      $7,363(Loss) earnings per share - basic and diluted ($0.16)    $0.05      ($0.11)                  $0.10      $0.00      $0.10
Notes:(4)    The consolidated financial results above reflect the proportionate share of the Company's share of revenues and expenses from its joint venture operations, as this is the basis which management bases its operating decisions and performance evaluation.  IFRS does not allow for the inclusion of the joint venture on a proportionate basis.  These results include additional non-IFRS measures such as EBITDA.       The results are not generally accepted measures of financial performance under IFRS.  The Company's method of calculating these financial performance measures may differ from other companies and accordingly, they may not be comparable to measures used by other companies.  Refer to the MD&A for a reconciliation of these non-IFRS measures and proportionate results.(5)    Biological assets consist of the Company's produce on the vines and Pure Sunfarms' crop at the period end.  Details of the changes are described in note 6 of the Company's annual consolidated financial statements year ended December 31, 2018.(6)    EBITDA is not a recognized earnings measure and does not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS.  Therefore, EBITDA may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers.  See "Non-IFRS Measures".  Management believes that EBITDA is a useful supplemental measure in evaluating the performance of the Company. Consolidated EBITDA includes the Company's 50% share of its joint venture Pure Sunfarms.
Village Farms' management team will host a conference call tomorrow, Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. ET (8:00 a.m. PT) to discuss its year end 2018 financial results and provide an update on Pure Sunfarms. Participants can access the conference call by telephone by dialing (647) 427-7450 or (888) 231-8191, or via the Internet at https://bit.ly/2GRVAcz.
For those unable to participate in the conference call at the scheduled time, it will be archived for replay both by telephone and via the Internet beginning approximately one hour following completion of the call. To access the archived conference call by telephone, dial (416) 849-0833 or (855) 859-2056 and enter the passcode 8558907 followed by the pound key. The telephone replay will be available until, March 21, 2019 at midnight (ET). The conference call will also be archived on Village Farms' website at http://villagefarms.com/investor-relations/investor-calls.
About Village Farms International, Inc.
Village Farms is one of the largest and longest-operating vertically integrated greenhouse growers in North America and the only publicly traded greenhouse produce company in Canada. Village Farms produces and distributes fresh, premium-quality produce with consistency 365 days a year to national grocers in the U.S. and Canada from more than nine million square feet of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) greenhouses in British Columbia and Texas, as well as from its partner greenhouses in British Columbia, Ontario and Mexico. The Company is now leveraging its 30 years of experience as a vertically integrated grower for the rapidly emerging global cannabis opportunity through its 50% ownership of British Columbia-based Pure Sunfarms Corp., one of the single largest cannabis growing operations in the world. The Company also intends to pursue opportunities to become a vertically integrated leader in the U.S. hemp-derived CBD market, subject to compliance with all applicable U.S. federal and state laws, and has established a joint venture, Village Fields Hemp, for multi-state outdoor hemp cultivation and CBD extraction.
Cautionary Language
Certain statements contained in this press release constitute forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws ("forward-looking statements"). Forward-looking statements may relate to the Company's future outlook or financial position and anticipated events or results and may include statements regarding the financial position, business strategy, budgets, litigation, projected production, projected costs, capital expenditures, financial results, taxes, plans and objectives of or involving the Company. Particularly, statements regarding future results, performance, achievements, prospects or opportunities for the Company, Pure Sunfarms, the greenhouse vegetable industry or the cannabis and hemp industries are forward-looking statements. In some cases, forward-looking information can be identified by such terms as "outlook", "may", "might", "will", "could", "should", "would", "occur", "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "intend", "estimate", "predict", "potential", "continue", "likely", "schedule", "objectives", or the negative or grammatical variation thereof or other similar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts.
Although the forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based upon assumptions that management believes are reasonable based on information currently available to management, there can be no assurance that actual results will be consistent with these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements necessarily involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company's control, that may cause the Company's or the industry's actual results, performance, achievements, prospects and opportunities in future periods to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, the factors contained in the Company's filings with U.S. and Canadian securities regulators, including as detailed in the Company's annual information form and management's discussion and analysis for the year-ended December 31, 2018.
When relying on forward-looking statements to make decisions, the Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance on these statements, as forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties and should not be read as guarantees of future results, performance, achievements, prospects and opportunities. The forward-looking statements made in this press release only relate to events or information as of the date on which the statements are made in this press release. Except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Village Farms International, Inc.Condensed Consolidated Interim Statements of Financial Position(In thousands of United States dollars)(Unaudited)                                                                                September 30, 2018                  December 31, 2017ASSETS          Current assets                                Cash and cash equivalents                          $                           11,920  $                             7,091                                Trade receivables                                  11,292                              11,259                                Amounts due from joint venture                     10,873                              411                                Other receivables                                  332                                 1,571                                Inventories                                        22,485                              17,309                                Prepaid expenses and deposits                      889                                 810                                Biological asset                                   4,230                               4,405          Total current assets                                                     62,021                              42,856          Non-current assets                                Property, plant and equipment                      77,479                              81,754                                Investment in joint venture                        18,108                              15,727                                Other assets                                       2,207                               2,004          Total assets                                                             $                         159,815   $                         142,341LIABILITIES          Current liabilities                                Line of credit                                     2,000                               -                                Trade payables                                     $                           14,601  $                           12,952                                Accrued liabilities                                3,414                               3,793                                Current maturities of long-term debt               3,509                               2,620                                Current maturities of capital lease obligations    78                                  72          Total current liabilities                                                23,602                              19,437          Non-current liabilities                                Long-term debt                                     32,445                              35,760                                Long-term maturities of capital lease obligations  1,920                               179                                Deferred tax liability                             1,050                               4,825                                Other liabilities                                  102                                 1,097          Total liabilities                                                        59,119                              61,298SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY                                Share capital                                      60,872                              36,115                                Contributed surplus                                2,198                               1,726                                Revaluation surplus                                4,321                               4,321                                Accumulated other comprehensive loss               (562)                               (391)                                Retained earnings                                  33,867                              39,272          Total shareholders' equity                                               100,696                             81,043          Total liabilities and shareholders' equity                               $                         159,815   $                         142,341
Village Farms International, Inc.Condensed Consolidated Interim Statements of (Loss) Income and Comprehensive Income(In thousands of United States dollars, except per share data)(Unaudited)                                             Three Months Ended December 31,                                Twelve Months Ended December 31,                                             2018                           2017                            2018                           2017Sales                                        $                    38,787    $                    36,864     $                  150,000     $                  158,406Cost of sales                                (36,367)                       (31,908)                        (140,282)                      (144,433)Change in biological asset                   158                            1,082                           (834)                          265Selling, general and administrative expenses (3,622)                        (4,019)                         (14,108)                       (13,894)Stock compensation expense                   (1,007)                        (959)                           (1,454)                        (1,519)Loss from operations                         (2,051)                        1,060                           (6,678)                        (1,175)Interest expense, net                        501                            679                             2,407                          2,695Foreign exchange loss (gain)                 960                            31                              1,047                          (26)Other income                                 (70)                           50                              (131)                          (46)Share of loss from joint venture             (2,750)                        35                              (2,381)                        255Gain on sale of assets                       -                              551                             -                              (8,013)(Loss) income before income taxes            (692)                          (286)                           (7,620)                        3,960(Recovery of) provision for income taxes     (962)                          321                             (2,475)                        138Net income (loss)                            $                         270  $                       (607)   $                    (5,145)   $                      3,822Basic earnings (loss) per share              $                        0.01  $                      (0.02)   $                      (0.11)  $                        0.10Diluted (loss) earnings per share            $                        0.01  $                      (0.02)   $                      (0.11)  $                        0.10Other comprehensive (loss) income:Foreign currency translation adjustment      $                       (123)  $                           12  $                       (171)  $                         150Gain on revaluation of land, net of tax      -                              -                               -                              (1,811)Comprehensive income (loss)                  $                         147  $                       (595)   $                    (5,316)   $                      3,972
Village Farms International, Inc.Condensed Consolidated Interim Statements of Cash Flows(In thousands of United States dollars)(Unaudited)                                                                   Three Months Ended December 31,               Twelve Months Ended December 31,                                                                   2018           2017                           2018                                 2017Cash flows used in operating activities:Net (loss) income                                                  270            $                      (607)   $                    (5,145)         $                      3,822Adjustments to reconcile net (loss) income to net cash provided by(used in) operating activities:                                    -Depreciation and amortization                                      1,756          1,833                          7,027                                7,586Amortization of deferred charges                                   -              19                             -                                    73Gain on sale of assets                                             -              551                            -                                    (8,013)Share of loss from joint venture                                   (2,750)        35                             (2,381)                              255Interest paid                                                      534            658                            2,407                                2,614Share-based compensation                                           1,007          959                            1,454                                1,519Deferred income taxes                                              (605)          694                            (2,906)                              109Change in biological asset                                         (158)          (1,082)                        834                                  (265)Changes in non-cash working capital items                          943            (1,192)                        (3,550)                              (4,417)Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities                997            1,868                          (2,260)                              3,283Cash flows used in investing activities:Purchases of property, plant and equipment                         (547)          (525)                          (3,093)                              (1,696)Amounts due from joint venture                                     (3,681)        -                              (10,462)                             -Proceeds from sale of land                                         65             -                              65                                   -Net cash used in investing activities                              (4,163)        (525)                          (13,490)                             (1,696)Cash flows (used in) provided by financing activities:Proceeds from borrowings                                           -              193                            7,000                                7,306Repayments on borrowings                                           (5,940)        (7,832)                        (7,706)                              (14,320)Interest paid on long-term debt                                    (544)          (658)                          (2,417)                              (2,614)Proceeds from issuance of common stock                             15,737         9,769                          23,492                               9,769Proceeds from exercise of stock options                            8              33                             283                                  59Payments on capital lease obligations                              (26)           (19)                           (71)                                 (59)Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities                9,235          1,486                          20,581                               141Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents       -              (23)                           (2)                                  (10)Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents                          6,069          2,806                          4,829                                1,718Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of year                       5,851          4,285                          7,091                                5,373Cash and cash equivalents, end of year                             $      11,920  $              7,091           $              11,920                $              7,091Supplemental cash flow information:Income taxes paid                                                  $      -       $              (61)            $              290                   $              (25)Supplemental disclosure of non-cash information:Purchases of capital expenditures by financing capital lease       $      -       $              -               $              -                     $              190Issuance of warrants                                               $      -       $              -               $              -                     $              148
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Q: steam wont launch after driver update recently acquired wolfenstein:the old blood in the steam sale and upon startup it recommended I update my graphics card driver.
I opened the device manager, updated my card, came back to steam and upon clicking play nothing happened.
I figured the update may require a restart so I restarted(didn't press the power button) and now when I start steam it validates the installation , connects the account and closes.
repeating this with task manager shows the application appearing and disappearing.
my setup:
2012 win7sp1
HP P7-1234
AMD ag-3650 apu currently on version 8.892.1.1000,

A: It sounds like you updated your graphics driver from the control panel, and not from installing a driver package.
Start by installing the drivers by the manufacturer of your card. In this case, you'd be able to find them here: www.amd.com
Once those are installed and your system reboots, try to get into Steam again.
If it fails again, uninstall Steam, and then reinstall it.
That should resolve this.

A: You can easily downgrade:

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*Go to device manager (search it in start menu or properties of my computer and it should be on your right)

*Look for the drivers you installed
3.Open them up and click roll back changes or drivers

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