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The mesa team
Lauren Augusta
Founder, Executive Director
In 1994, juggling several part-time jobs to keep her dream afloat, Lauren founded the nonprofit Multinational Exchange for Agriculture (MESA). Three years later, MESA became the U.S. State Department's first program devoted to sustainable agriculture. Now entering its 23rd program season, MESA's annual exchange program has forged deep alliances between thousands of global farmers and their counterparts, one beginning farmer and one mentor farm at a time. Lauren has overseen MESA's expansion through an online e-learning platform for farmers, and numerous SF-Bay Area initiatives. Every day, her inspiration still comes from the "a-ha" moments that happen when people from vastly different backgrounds come together to grow and share healthy food.
Natalia Pinzón Jiménez
The Virtual Campus for Farmers
Natalia has served MESA in various capacities since 2014. From 2015 – 2019, she served as Co-Director of the organization and established a new program to help MESA's global network grow: "The Virtual Campus for Farmers". Now as Program Director, she continues to serve as a distance-education specialist and work towards the amplification of agroecology education around the world. Natalia has built four certificate courses on topics ranging from agroecology to climate resilience and widlfire adaptation. As a doctoral student she brings a range of participatory research experience and has supported MESA in writing multi-year government and private grants. Natalia has created several web-based learning communities, providing enriching curricula and co-learning opportunities to several thousand learners. As a Colombian immigrant and beginning rancher, Natalia is dedicated to supporting under-served communities through access and education.
Paul Rogé
Paul joined MESA in 2016 as the Co-lead Farm Educator for the Bay Area Farmer Training Program. In addition, Paul conducts research on urban agroecology at UC Berkeley, manages farm operations for Don Bugito in West Oakland, and co-founded the Cooperative New School for Urban Studies and Environmental Justice.
Paul has been involved with organic farming & marketing, agroecology, and social movements for the past 15 years in CA and abroad (Brazil, Mexico, Mali, and Malawi in particular). Paul's experience in organic farming & marketing comes from his background in Bay Area worker collectives, as well as growing vegetables at ALBA and several other organic farms.
Previously, as a Research Associate at Michigan State University, Paul studied the potential for perennial staple seed and pulse crops in smallholder farming systems of Mali and Malawi. His doctorate at UC Berkeley involved participatory research on climatic variability and rainfed agriculture with CEDICAM, a civil society organization in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico that uses the farmer-to-farmer training methodology.
Katie Brimm
Katie has worked for over a decade in the food movement as a researcher, writer, educator and beginning farmer. She ran an international, solidarity travel program for four years bringing people to the frontlines of the global Food Sovereignty movement, working with affiliated partners from La Via Campesina, The Basque Farmer's Union and The Korean Women's Peasant Association. After advocating for farmers internationally for many years, she decided it was time to get her hands dirty in local soil and completed the 6 month apprenticeship program at the University of California, Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, where she graduated with a Certificate in Ecological Horticulture. She also holds a B.A. in International Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara which grounds her work in global systems and social justice.
When she is not at MESA, Katie farms at Singing Frogs Farm in Sebastopol, CA, growing food and sequestering carbon!
Tanamá Varas
Agroecology and Community Partnerships
Tanama came to MESA shortly after completing the Bay Area Farmer Training Program in 2017. Tanama has a deep commitment to agroecology, food sovereignty, horizontal knowledge exchanges and community organizing. He's excited to be able to continue this work at MESA. Prior to working with MESA he got his start in the agricultural world working in education and conservation of butterflies and native plants at Butterfly Farms in Encinitas. This lead to being the first in his family to go to college, he attended UC Davis where he received his B.S. in Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems with a focus on Agroecology. Here is where the love for agroecology and food sovereignty was cultivated. While at UC Davis, Tanama worked with a number of farms and organizations including Wilton Rancheria, Acta Non Verba, Green Gulch Farm, and the Tatanka Wakpala Model Sustainable Community. When Tanama is not at MESA you can find him skateboarding around the Bay Area guerrilla gardening with his friends at Black Earth Farms or organizing with youth to spread food sovereignty across the country.
Shelley Hawkins
Education & Communications
Shelley Hawkins is a beginning farmer and budding educator hailing from the East Bay. Recently graduating from the Bay Area Farmer Training Program, she has dedicated time doing outreach and engagement to other graduates of the program and for future BAFTP cohorts. Shelley wishes to create projects geared toward making vital farming information-as it relates to food Justice through a racial justice lens- to community members most impacted by systemic exclusion from these spaces.
Dani Solis
Operations & Project Management
Dani Solis joined the MESA team in 2019. She is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley with interests in food policy, planning, and urban design. Her background in urban studies has shaped her interest in the role of institutions and social organizing in changing food systems, while her lived experience continues to drive her passion to cultivate empathy and love within them. She is fascinated by the power of policy and place and hopes to pursue a career in food systems planning for underserved communities.
Dani has been involved in food justice efforts since 2015, serving as an undergraduate research apprentice for the Rethinking School Lunch Oakland initiative and spearheading the Critical Discussions in Food Systems colloquium, a student-led speaker series to spark campus-wide conversations on issues of food sovereignty and agroecology. During her undergraduate career, she was also involved with several campus food organizations, including the Berkeley Student Food Collective and the Berkeley Food Institute, where she strove to raise awareness of UC Berkeley's pouring rights contract with PepsiCo. She is also a co-author of a comprehensive report on the Food Systems Minor at UC Berkeley.
Lauren Anderson
Lauren developed an interest in food and agriculture during her time as a geography and political science major at Bucknell University. She later went on to get a graduate degree in geography from Penn State, where the focus of her research was agricultural supply chains and stakeholder decision-making for farm-to-school programs. She now feeds her passion for agriculture through participating in an Oakland community garden and serving on MESA's board of directors. Lauren currently works as a Program Manager for Environmental Defense Fund's Oil & Gas Program.
Mary Collins aka "Mary from Maryland" has worked with animals ranging from cattle to cheetahs. Working in wildlife conservation made her question its connection to sustainable agriculture, so she joined the Peace Corps to learn first-hand how people farm and eat. In Panama, she worked side-by-side with famers and families to implement sustainable agriculture techniques. She extended a third year to serve as Regional Coordinator, a role in which she served as a bridge between Peace Corps, local government agencies and communities. Currently she is getting a Master of Public Policy at University of California, Berkeley and plans to work with sustainable agriculture and environmental conservation.
Bill Nunes
Bill's entire working life has had some connection to the family farm. Childhood chores on the farm progressed to adult responsibilities and eventually Bill managed the dairy and walnut operation for the family. Meanwhile he ran a photography studio in Gustine for 30 years and spent short stints with the US Postal Service and the local newspaper.
As the family phased out of "conventional" farming Bill began growing and selling vegetables from about 2 acres carved out of the original family farm. Using regenerative practices, Bill has cut outside inputs to a bare minimum while reducing pest and disease problems. Contented Acres Produce operates a semi-weekly farmstand, and runs a small CSA.
Bill has hosted five different MESA stewards from four countries with financial support from Gustine Rotary Club. Working with farm stewards has amplified Bill's passion to support small farms feeding their local communities worldwide. MESA programs facilitate the commingling of the best of ancestral knowledge and modern sustainable technologies.
Soon Bill will have a somewhat different experience to share with MESA stewards. Bill and his wife, Marybeth have moved a century-old farmhouse onto a city lot. While the original garden at Contented Acres Produce will continue, Bill will also be growing produce in a large backyard garden within the city limits.
Scott Murray
A former MESA Host, organic farmer, and sustainable development consultant, Scott has 32 years of organic agricultural production experience in the United States and Mexico. Scott's recent project experience includes the restoration and development of an organic agricultural project and education program on a 250-acre historic farm owned by the County of San Diego. Scott designed and built a 15-acre organic farm supplying the boarding high school on site and selling to the Whole Foods stores of Southern California. Scott has served as an elected California Conservation official for the last 12 years managing a $ 3.5 million dollar annual budget for conservation projects in North San Diego County.
Scott serves as the president of the South Coast Resource Conservation and Development Council which covers two-thirds of California's population. He has worked extensively on conservation projects with the National Resource Conservation Service in California. He specializes in farmland preservation projects utilizing Smart Growth Principles.
Susan Coss
Susan Coss is a long time marketing and communications strategist in the sustainable food and beverage worlds. She is cofounder of North of the Border Adventures, a media, events and consulting firm. Previously, she was the Director of Marketing and PR for CUESA, the organization that runs the world famous Ferry Plaza Farmers market in San Francisco. She was also a cofounder and former director of the Eat Real Festival, an annual food event in Oakland and Los Angeles CA that drew more than 250,000 people in its first three years. She was also part of the team that brought national attention to the "food movement" through Slow Food Nation. She has spent time in Mexico since 2003 and has established relationships within the food world all over California and Mexico. She has a degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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Yadira Ruiz and Nate Johnson take a moment to appreciate their beautiful, nutrient-rich greens. Photo by Yadira Ruiz.
Though it is dry and clear out on this day in mid-November, the sun's golden light is filtered through the air in a way that can't be seen in the summer. Perhaps there is an incoming fog, or some residual moisture left from the previous chilly night—whatever the reason, the effect is pretty magical on the two farms I am visiting in Corvallis. Probably because of the prolonged dryness, the cottonwood trees on the farms' peripheries retain their yellow leaves, which glow even brighter in the lighting.
On the ground at each farm, the respective crops show signs of being past their peak season. At Kiger Island Blues, the blueberry bushes turn red as they lose their leaves—not just the leaves themselves, but the younger twigs of each plant as well. The rows of red amidst a golden backdrop imparts an ever-warming feeling. Meanwhile, at Sunbow Farm, hoop houses—used to grow crops through the colder days—seem to glisten and reflect the light elsewhere, like glass orbs one might dangle in a window to launch rainbows indoors.
While I could happily stay outside and walk these fields a while longer, I am instead welcomed inside by the primary farmers and cheerful farm dog companions of each property: Mindi Miller at Kiger Island, and Yadira Ruiz at Sunbow Farm. Led inside both of their homes, I am further greeted by wood stove fires, and I can't help but think of an excerpt from one of my favorite Aldo Leopold essays: "There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace."
I so enjoy getting the chance to dwell in these places that provide so much nourishment. More importantly, my goal at each farm is to learn from the women who run them.
Women Farmers of Benton County
According to the 2012 Census of Agriculture, women are the principal operators of 216 of the 886 farms in Benton County, rounding out to about a quarter of them. At the same time, if you look at the number of acreage women operate, a smaller percentage is realized: while women farmers primarily operate 13,828 acres, there are 123,975 farm acres in the County total. This gets them to about 11 percent of the acreage.
If women are operating about a quarter of all farms, why is their acreage not also a quarter of the total? Compared to their male counterparts, women in Benton County are more heavily involved in small-scale, sustainable agriculture. Most farms operated by women are between 1 and 50 acres, with the average landing at 64 acres. In contrast, the average farm operated by either a male or a female in the County is 140 acres.
While more women, at any scale within the farming community, would be welcomed by many current female farmers, Ruiz reflects that the existing trend toward small-scale agriculture makes sense. "When you think about what farming is, we are growing food. I connect to it on a feminine level—the aspect of growing something and nurturing it, and then being able to use it to nourish myself, and someone else, and other people in my community." She then laughs, admitting that there is no reason that masculine characters could not also thrive from such nurturing practices.
While small-scale agriculture is often recognized as more ecologically-minded and community-oriented, it comes at a cost for many farmers. According to the same Census, in Benton County, the total income of women farmers before taxes and expenses was just $1,634.
Said expenses can amount to quite a lot themselves. At Kiger Island Blues, a 6.5-acre farm with 10,000 blueberry plants, activities such as pruning, fertilizing, irrigating, weeding, and harvesting must occur annually to keep the plants alive. According to Miller, "You are going to do these things every year and this is going to total up to a certain amount of money, and you better sell enough crop to cover all of those things. The owner may not get paid; I haven't gotten paid in a long time."
Similarly, at Sunbow, at 15 acres, Ruiz says she and her partner, Nate Johnson, have yet to achieve a living wage for themselves, after years of running the farm. Though they would like to hire another hand, they refuse to do so until they are able to offer a living wage.
The end result? "The money you make is going to take years to come back to you…it will come back to you when you sell the farm or die," says Miller, "so the money you put into the farm [to start it] is gone."
This bleak economic picture contrasts sharply to the warmth I feel visiting each farm: while nourishing the land and human community are admirable goals, small-scale agriculture often doesn't pay until death decouples farm operator from the farm.
Mindi Miller is excited to install two water tanks onto her acreage. They will store water from her well and give better head to the drip irrigation system that efficiently waters her blueberry bushes. Photo by Mindi Miller.
National and Historic Trends
In 2012, 1 million women made up about a third of the principal farm operators nationally, generating $12.9 billion in agricultural sales. In addition, Agriculture Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden noted in a 2014 speech that women principal farm operators average 60 years old. "This means our daughters and granddaughters hold the future of American agriculture in their hands," she stated.
While calls to support the female role in America's farming into the future is notable, their history is often forgotten. Efforts during the World Wars were perhaps the first time women were recognized for their work on farms at large, as many from non-farming backgrounds were 'enlisted' to grow food while men fought overseas. Through government programs, the number of female farmers was finally enumerated, while prior to these times their prevailing role as a farmer's wife wasn't seen as worthy of tracking. Sadly, perhaps the only other time women's roles on farms were extensively tracked was when they were enslaved and valued as someone else's property.
From 1917 to 1919, during World War I, 20,000 women joined the Woman's Land Army of America to tend to farms being vacated as men were drafted. Even more impressive, in World War II, 1.5 million women took on jobs in agriculture between 1943 and 1945. In World War II, 6 million men were taken overseas, yet food production during this time actually grew to over 32% above prewar levels.
Yet, similar to before these efforts, the role of women—and especially the role of women of color—in farming between and after the wars to more modern times seemed to slip back into the shadows. Furthermore, the work of women activists in the farm labor movement from the 1960s to the 1980s often goes unrecognized at large. Many are familiar with the prominent role Cesar Chavez played in this movement, and former President Ronald Reagan's involvement when he signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act, commonly referred to as the Amnesty Act, into law in 1986. This allowed many migrant farm workers the ability to get their green cards. I wonder, however, would you recognize the name of Dolores Huerta in the same vein?
Ruiz got the chance to meet Huerta—a civil rights activist and co-founder along with Chavez of the then National Farmworkers Association—face-to-face while living in Illinois. Huerta was a visiting speaker at Illinois State University, and Ruiz was invited, among others, to a breakfast with Huerta in the dean's office. Ruiz's own parents were able to stay in the US as a result of the Amnesty Act, and when she mentioned it to Huerta as being 'Reagan's act' she was promptly corrected.
"That wasn't Regan's Amnesty Act," she recalls Huerta saying, "that was my Amnesty Act, that was our Amnesty Act, that was work that we had done on behalf of the farm workers in the United States."
This moment left a significant impact on Ruiz, who at the time had distanced herself from her family's farming roots. "It was the first time that anyone had ever said anything other than Reagan's Amnesty Act, and it was a profoundly humbling experience. Lots of things came together at that moment."
Ruiz further reflects, "It made me really start thinking about the few Latina role models I had had in my life, because a lot of times [Latina people] aren't prominently given the credit that they deserve for the work that they do. Or, they humbly stay in the shadows and let the work speak for itself."
Paths to Farming
Ruiz and Miller are perhaps unique to the world of agriculture, not just for being part of a minority demographic, but because neither of them originally intended to make a career out of farming. Ruiz grew up the daughter of a farm worker and food processor in Washington state, but never realized she would want to work in the field herself until over a decade after leaving home. Miller's upbringing did not involve farming directly, but she had grown up in rural Connecticut and was always involved in 4-H. Similar to Ruiz, she didn't expect to ever take farming to heart.
When Ruiz was in high school, a career in agriculture "seemed beneath me," she recalls. Instead of following her family's footsteps, Ruiz went to central Illinois for her undergraduate education, worked as a teacher, and later as a social worker. Her last position before taking up farming was at a rape crisis center. In this role, she never really stopped working, with her pager on 24/7 in case someone at the police department needed her. While it was extremely meaningful work, in her service to others, Ruiz began to feel isolated.
To help her find more balance, her boss allowed her one morning off a week to volunteer at a local organic farm. Her time outdoors growing food soon became her preference, and she utilized her holidays and weekends to spend time there. After about a year of this, Ruiz realized she needed to make a big life change. She trained those who would fill her role at the crisis center, then made the trek back to the Northwest for a six-month internship at a blueberry farm in the fertile Skagit Valley of Washington.
"It was exactly what I needed; I needed time alone. A lot of my 'how I became a farmer story' is a really personal story, about my own journey to figure out what I want out of life," Ruiz recalls.
"Before farming, my life had always been about service to others, and I just reached a point where I needed to figure out what serves me…that sounds really selfish," she laughs, "but I think that's one of the reasons why women don't always do what they truly want to do or love, because they are too busy thinking about what others want or expect, or what they should be doing versus what they actually want."
After her internship ended, Ruiz found her way to the Willamette Valley in the middle of the non-growing season. To stay involved in food production while she waited for the days to get longer, she began work at the First Alternative Co-op and a kitchen in Eugene. After several months, she met Harry MacCormack in line at the Co-op, who founded Sunbow in 1972. This chance meeting ultimately led her to start a year-long apprenticeship at Sunbow in 2013. During this time, she fell in love with her co-worker (Johnson), and though it was perhaps awkward timing at this stage in their relationship, MacCormack and his wife Cheri Clark, wishing to retire, asked Ruiz and Johnson to take over the farm. They were able to have mature conversations about how such a partnership could work, and in the four years since, have found fulfillment in their dynamic.
At the same time Ruiz was getting started farming in the Skagit Valley, Miller was reaching the end of her first half-decade in the Willamette. She had bought her property in 2005, after a 35-year career as a technical engineer in the Bay Area. Throughout that time, she worked the traditional nine to five in a cubicle, with a traffic-filled commute at the beginning and end of each day. It was a high-stress, affluent environment, and Miller found herself wanting a different life for her and her family. She began looking for small agriculture properties, and found the Willamette Valley best suited her price-range.
Before it became Kiger Island Blues, tulip farmer Demetri Balint, who runs GreenGable Farms, was leasing the land Miller purchased. At the time, he wanted to continue leasing from her for several more years. However, Miller felt "I was too old to wait for three more years; I was in a big hurry…then I thought, 'well, wait a minute, girl from California shows up, really starts something bad, boots out this nice local farmer…'" Although she chose not to continue leasing the land to him, Miller became Balint's business partner in managing an initial crop of kiwis and learning the marketing end of the business. While she got her blueberries set up, she hired the help of a consultant recommended by Balint, and soon enough, was selling her fruit under the GreenGable label to processors and local markets.
Mindi Miller showcases one of her three blueberry varieties, the gorgeous and tasty dukes. Photo by Mindi Miller.
Small-scale Models
Sunbow follows the model of 'household direct'. Each week, Ruiz and Johnson send out e-mail newsletters that tell subscribers what foods are available on the farm for harvest and at what price. Similar to a CSA, customers get produce handpicked for them, but there is no initial commitment on their part at the start of the growing season. Instead, they can make their orders and pick them up weekly, or get them delivered straight to their home if they purchase more than $10 in food. This model was developed by MacCormack toward the end of his career, so that he could spend more time on the land rather than driving to farmers markets up and down the Valley and even on the Coast.
While to a certain extent Ruiz and Johnson walked into operations already set up, their transitions were still difficult at times. Ruiz had kept working part-time at the Co-op and kitchen in Eugene, while Johnson worked full-time at the farm to begin with. He ended up taking another outside job, and soon it became clear that to grow the business, they couldn't both continue part-time farming. They took a realistic look at their finances and decided together that it would make more sense for Ruiz to become a full-time farmer.
As the primary farmer, "I work my ass off," laughs Ruiz, "I don't mind talking about my contributions here, but I also know that without Nate's contributions, I would be a blubbery sobbing mess because I'd be so exhausted."
Because he is not always on the farm, Johnson doesn't need to be as concerned with the day-to-day goals, and in doing so, can keep long-term objectives in mind, while Ruiz acts as the daily organizational power of the operation.
Meanwhile, Miller's business partnership came to an agreeable end about four years ago when Balint's wife, Viesia Konar's floral business expanded and needed his help. Now working completely independently, Miller experienced the difficulty of being a small-scale farmer when the processors who had been buying her fruit in bulk became too difficult to work with at her scale. While she still had markets lined up, she was afraid she wouldn't be able to sell enough of her crop to meet expenses, and this fear lead her to put the property on the market.
"It was a horrible experience, it was right during my harvest," she recalls. "Although I had experience in selling property before, I never realized how strong my connection was to the actual farmland." But thankfully, "friends came up to help," getting her through another season as she began developing a new business model.
"I had to keep shifting. It's about being nimble—getting rid of all your crop," Miller explains. "At first I thought it was all about keeping your plants alive, but really you can't have a farm if you can't sell your crop," she laughs, "which sounds really trivial but I just thought, 'somebody will buy it.' But you really have to market it."
For about two years now, Miller has her farm open to u-pickers. Because she originally planted three blueberry varieties that ripen at three staggered times throughout the summer, her farm is open to u-picking earlier and later in the season than many other nearby operations. In addition, the location of her farm is convenient for many Corvallis residents, especially those living in South Corvallis.
Miller has found this model successful enough that she's been able to give back to the community that supports her and to charities farther away as well. When Hurricane Harvey hit in 2017, Miller opened her farm up to u-pickers who could choose to overpay for their berries in order to donate to relief efforts, resulting in $2,100 being raised. This past summer, Miller chose to do something similar, this time offering $750 in proceeds to Lincoln Elementary School. She hopes to continue this trend of giving back annually.
The Gender Problem
Both Ruiz and Miller feel they faced more sexism in the workplace in their previous careers. At the rape crisis center, Ruiz worked with many male police officers and lawyers who had "an unconscious entitlement…where they felt they had every right to question your expertise." Miller's work with predominately male co-workers as an engineer likewise presented her with the experience of being frequently second-guessed.
Though their respective changes in careers were an improvement to Ruiz's and Miller's lifestyles in most ways, sexism is still alive in the farming industry. "The gender problem was clear when I went to buy equipment," Miller describes. "There's always that. If I bring a guy with me, [the equipment sellers] will always talk to the guy."
"It's better now," she continues, "over time, I think I've had more confidence of what I want, and they know better now…[yet] there's still this 'are you sure you know what you want?' attitude. 'Why don't you just get this, lesser, more girl-like piece of equipment?'" Many merchants remain surprised when Miller expresses interest in real-deal equipment, and demonstrates that she knows how to use it.
For Ruiz, a similar experience of not being seen as an authority figure occurs on the farm. "When people got to know the new Sunbow, they had a lot more contact with Nate. Even to this day, when they have a question about the farm, they'll ask Nate, and he does a lot less here than I do [now], the only reason being that he works part-time off the farm," she says. "People make assumptions about who's in charge, or who would know the answers to questions, and they default to him."
Local Systems of Support
The heavy challenges of small-scale farming are weighted further by those associated with being a woman in a male-dominated field. Yet, Ruiz and Miller find resilience by taking part in their agricultural community. "We always help each other, that's what's really remarkable about the farming community," Miller reflects. In 13 years of farming, she has only been turned down for help once, and for legitimate reasons.
Based on her own experiences, Ruiz agrees with this positive sentiment, and expands: "What we're seeing in small farm revitalization is that people are reconnecting with what farming actually accomplishes, besides from the most obvious thing of 'it grows food for people'. It also develops connections and relationships and weaves people together in ways that folks don't have so much exposure to anymore."
Furthermore, organizations exist today with the sole purpose of supporting women in farming. The Willamette Women's Farm Network, a branch of Oregon State University Extension, holds educational workshops so that members—many who are relatively new to farming—can learn vital skills to keeping their farms running, such as bookkeeping.
Another group, Oregon Women for Agriculture, is involved in educating future generations of female farmers and advocating for farms more broadly. This organization got its start 40 years ago when Willamette Valley farm women were concerned by the prohibition of grass seed field burning practices. Today, they raise awareness of Oregon's staple crops by providing signs along major roads, naming what is being grown in adjacent fields. In addition, the Linn-Benton chapter offers two scholarships every year to support future women farmers.
The challenges that women in agriculture face are sure to persist in one form or another until the systematic patriarchy behind it dissipates. Regardless, there are many ways for women to find their stride in the field. For Miller, it comes down to the concept that knowledge is power: "I think for women to come into farming, the best thing you can do is get some education."
Similarly, Ruiz encourages women to "find a way to plug in and be who you are, use your own strengths and own skills, to take part in something that is bigger than all of us. If you do that with good intentions, you'll find a good fit."
There is no reason for interested women to turn away from the fields. In fact, there are very good reasons for the opposite: "It's the most rewarding job I can think of, to be putting your physical sweat into a project like this," says Miller, "you're really outdoors, and you are really in touch with the weather, the climate itself."
Farming, says Ruiz, is "almost like an accordion. You connect and you create something together, and then it's all part of this piece of something bigger than all of us."
However difficult the lives of women in agriculture may be, Ruiz and Miller have found a way to take the warmth that I feel on each of their farms and embody it in their persons. As I leave them, their fires, their dogs, and their fields behind, I can't help but hear the warm humming of an accordion in my mind, playing the notes that bind community.
By Ari Blatt
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Chief Edwin Clark, former Federal Commissioner for Information and South South leader, Thursday raised alarm over the level of corruption in the country and the economic crunch which have all combined to stagnate the progress of Nigeria over the years.
He warned that if President Muhammadu Buhari fails to deal severely with those who ruined Nigeria over the years, Nigeria as a country would sink.
In a six-page letter to President Buhari, which was read to journalists Thursday at his Asokoro residence, Abuja, Chief Clark urged him to, as a matter of urgency, appoint a new chairman for the Amnesty Programme as a replacement for the immediate-past chairman of the programme, Chief Kingsley Kuku, adding that he would be a sad man if the Amnesty programme fails.
According to the elder statesman, the President should know what it means to Nigeria as a country to have peace in the Niger Delta, just as he stressed that quick appointment of a new chairman even in acting capacity would help to stop the imminent disintegration of the programme that has kept the peace in the Niger Delta.
The Ijaw leader said that the vacuum already created following the absence of Kuku's successor was creating tension and if not managed immediately, it would lead to that era when the activities of the militants in the creeks contributed to crude oil supply fall to about 7,000 barrel per day, compared to the present situation of 2.5 million barrels per day, adding that the problem with the programme at the moment, was lack of an authority to operate the account of the programme.
According to him, "The economy of the country and the eradication of corruption which has become systemic and endemic that has stagnated the progress of this country over the years and the culprit, if not severely dealt with, will sink the country. We, therefore, pray the Almighty God that these discussions will materialise and achieve the desired result.
"Secondly, I now respectfully wish to bring to the attention of Mr. President the imminent danger facing the Amnesty programme. It would be recalled, that the former chairman of Amnesty programme and Adviser to Mr. President on Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Kingsley Kuku has since vacated his office as a result of change of government. But unfortunately, he has not been replaced by an appointee even in acting capacity by Mr. President; as a result, the whole programme for now, is without leadership, and no one has the authority to operate the account of the Amnesty programme."
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	"testing"
)

func testAdGroupAdService(t *testing.T) (service *AdGroupAdService) {
	return &AdGroupAdService{Auth: testAuthSetup(t)}
}

func TestAdGroupAd(t *testing.T) {
	adGroup, cleanupAdGroup := testAdGroup(t)
	defer cleanupAdGroup()

	agas := testAdGroupAdService(t)
	adGroupAds, err := agas.Mutate(
		AdGroupAdOperations{
			"ADD": {
				NewTextAd(adGroup.Id, "https://classdo.com/en", "classdo.com", "test headline "+rand_word(10), "test line one", "test line two", "PAUSED"),
				NewTextAd(adGroup.Id, "https://classdo.com/en", "classdo.com", "test   teStTo "+rand_word(10), "test line one", "test line two", "PAUSED"),
				NewTextAd(adGroup.Id, "https://classdo.com/en", "classdo.com", "test headline "+rand_word(10), "test line one", "test line two", "PAUSED"),
				NewTextAd(adGroup.Id, "https://classdo.com/en", "classdo.com", "test headline "+rand_word(10), "test line one", "test line two", "PAUSED"),
			},
		},
	)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer func() {
		_, err = agas.Mutate(AdGroupAdOperations{"REMOVE": adGroupAds})
		if err != nil {
			t.Error(err)
		}
	}()

	adGroupIdStr := fmt.Sprintf("%d", adGroup.Id)
	_, _, err = agas.Get(
		Selector{
			Fields: []string{
				"AdGroupId",
				"Id",
				"Status",
				"AdGroupCreativeApprovalStatus",
				"AdGroupAdDisapprovalReasons",
				"AdGroupAdTrademarkDisapproved",
			},
			Predicates: []Predicate{
				{"AdGroupId", "EQUALS", []string{adGroupIdStr}},
			},
			Ordering: []OrderBy{
				{"AdGroupId", "ASCENDING"},
				{"Id", "ASCENDING"},
			},
		},
	)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err)
	}

}

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Legal Aid Nonprofit Hoping for New Benefactors After Funding Shortfall
A nonprofit legal aid foundation that offers advice and representation to impoverished and marginalized city residents is itself seeking financial support after suffering a setback in funding.
Nurkholis Hidayat, director of the Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH Jakarta), told the Jakarta Globe on Thursday that the nongovernmental group had Rp 27 million ($3,200) in the bank, not enough to cover one month's operational costs.
"We are looking for public donations to support us because we are not going to stop handling the legal cases that we are currently dealing with," he said.
Nurkholis said the funding shortfall happened after some key donors withdrew support on the belief that the government should be funding the group.
He said LBH Jakarta hoped to gain more individual donors aside from the local and international groups that have traditionally supported the organization.
Such a move would allow the foundation to be more independent, he said.
According to LBH Jakarta data, on average the foundation handles about 1,000 cases every year without charge on a volunteer basis. The foundation also provides legal education to disadvantaged communities and individuals.
LBH Jakarta also proposes bills to be discussed in the House of Representatives, such as a bill on domestic workers rights and one on religious freedom. Both are currently being deliberated by the legislature.
So far this year, LBH Jakarta has received 447 cases, according to its data.
Nurkholis said the foundation required minimum funding of Rp 70 million per month, Rp 40 million of which went to paying the salaries of its 17 staffers.
He added that this was not the first time the foundation had experienced financial difficulties. In 2003, the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation, of which LBH Jakarta is a regional branch, lost several donors, causing the 15 regional offices to fend for themselves in securing funding.
"Between 2003 to 2005, half of our advocacy staff had to resign. However, we got funded again from some donors, including the Jakarta provincial administration," he said.
According to Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo, that financial aid was stopped in 2008. However, the foundation is still housed in a Central Jakarta building provided by the city.
When asked to comment about the foundation's bleak financial prospects, the governor said he was greatly concerned about its ability to continue its mission. He added that the foundation "will find a solution to the situation."
Raydonnyzar Moenek, a spokesman for the Ministry of Home Affairs, said as much as it would like to help, the government had to be selective in which groups it funded.
"Providing the social funding is not the government's obligation. Therefore, it is given in a limited period of time," he said.
Victoria Coakley, the democratic governance counselor for Australian Aid for International Development (AusAID), told the Jakarta Globe that her group would continue to show its support for LBH Jakarta.
"I can confirm that there has been no delay in dispersing the funds. They should receive the funding soon," she said when asked about the foundation.
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Паршово — деревня в Селивановском районе Владимирской области России, входит в состав Новлянского сельского поселения.

География
Деревня расположена в 6 км на восток от центра поселения деревни Новлянка и в 13 км на юг от райцентра Красной Горбатки.

История
Деревня впервые упоминается в окладных книгах Рязанской епархии 1676 года в составе Дубровского прихода, в ней было 12 дворов крестьянских и 5 бобыльских.

В конце XIX — начале XX века деревня входила в состав Дубровской волости Муромского уезда. В 1859 году в деревне числилось 28 дворов, в 1905 году — 57 дворов, в 1926 году — 107 дворов.

С 1929 года деревня являлась центром Паршовского сельсовета Селивановского района, с 1940 года — в составе Новлянского сельсовета, с 2005 года — в составе Новлянского сельского поселения.

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EmcArts is pleased to share our newest article, which has just been published in the GIA Reader, Vol 26. No 3. The article, "Introducing Community Innovation Labs: A New Approach for Harvesting the Power of the Arts to Unlock Complex Problems in Local Systems" is written by Richard Evans, our President, and Karina Mangu-Ward, our Director of Strategic Initiatives. It provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking overview of the origins, inspirations and context behind our new program — Community Innovation Labs.
Community Innovation Labs is a new approach to solving tough social challenges by deeply integrating artists and artists experiences into rigorously designed and facilitated change processes. We recently announced the two local pilot cities for the Labs, and the program is now active in Providence, RI, and Winston-Salem, NC. In Providence, local Lab members are tackling community safety and cultural life in the neighborhood of Trinity Square, and in Winston-Salem, local Lab members are exploring transformative strategies to addressing structural causes of unemployment and wealth disparities along race and class lines.
We hope you'll read this article to learn more about our research, practice and frameworks that undergird Community Innovation Labs. The piece explains the ways in which our program design brings together learning from the fields of creative placemaking and social innovation labs, emphasizes systems analysis and cross-sector relationship building, and encourages silo-busting, experimentation, and prototyping in order to tackle complex social problems. It also explores the possible opportunities and impacts of our locally anchored, collaboratively designed, arts-integrated program.
The piece features quotes and key learning by Adam Kahane (author of Transformative Scenario Planning), Donella Meadows (author of Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System), Zaid Hassan (author of The Social Labs Revolution), Akaya Winwood (Rockwood Leadership Institute), Michael Rohd (Center for Performance and Civic Practice), and others.
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"Each pilot Lab is bringing together a diverse, cross-sector group of network leaders in each location to tackle a specific and urgent local challenge in civic and cultural life. The design we've evolved combines what we hope is sufficient rigor for an unusual depth of inquiry to be sustained, with enough space for discovery and emergence that transformation can occur…The idea behind all this discovery work is that it will create the conditions for new networks of shared interest to emerge – clusters of consortium-based innovation initiatives, each of which will be supported for an intense period of repeated prototyping in response to the challenge (pursuing divergent experimental directions rather than aligning around a single proposed overarching response)."
"Despite our best intentions to achieve these aims, we're getting it wrong so often these days – still applying military metaphors and mechanical actions (targets, precision, efficiency) to situations that have become complex and fluid, unknowable and ambiguous. We're holding ourselves back by relying on the best practices of the past and top-down strategic plans that limit our ability to discover the next practices of the future, or tackle anything other than symptoms."


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Copts in Sudan may refer to people born in or residing in Sudan of full or partial Coptic origin.

Sudan has a native Coptic minority, although many Copts in Sudan are descended from more recent Coptic immigrants from Egypt.
Copts in Sudan live mostly in northern cities, including Al Obeid, Atbara, Dongola, Khartoum, Omdurman, Port Sudan, and Wad Medani. They number up to 500,000, or slightly over 1% of the Sudanese population. Due to their advanced education, their role in the life of the country has been more significant than their numbers suggest. They have occasionally faced forced conversion to Islam, resulting in their emigration and decrease in number.

Modern immigration of Copts to Sudan peaked in the early 19th century, and they generally received a tolerant welcome there. However, this was interrupted by a decade of persecution under Mahdist rule at the end of the 19th century. As a result of this persecution, many were forced to relinquish their faith, adopt Islam, and intermarry with the native Sudanese. The Anglo-Egyptian invasion in 1898 allowed Copts greater religious and economic freedom, and they extended their original roles as artisans and merchants into trading, banking, engineering, medicine, and the civil service. Proficiency in business and administration made them a privileged minority. However, the return of militant Islam in the mid-1960s and subsequent demands by radicals for an Islamic constitution prompted Copts to join in public opposition to religious rule.

Gaafar Nimeiry's introduction of Islamic Sharia law in 1983 began a new phase of oppressive treatment of Copts, among other non-Muslims. After the overthrow of Nimeiry, Coptic leaders supported a secular candidate in the 1986 elections. However, when the National Islamic Front overthrew the elected government of Sadiq al-Mahdi with the help of the military, discrimination against Copts returned in earnest. Hundreds of Copts were dismissed from the civil service and judiciary.

In February 1991, a Coptic pilot working for Sudan Airways was executed for illegal possession of foreign currency. Before his execution, he had been offered amnesty and money if he converted to Islam, but he refused. Thousands attended his funeral, and the execution was taken as a warning by many Copts, who began to flee the country.

Restrictions on the Copts' rights to Sudanese nationality followed, and it became difficult for them to obtain Sudanese nationality by birth or by naturalization, resulting in problems when attempting to travel abroad. The confiscation of Christian schools and the imposition of an Arab-Islamic emphasis in language and history teaching were accompanied by harassment of Christian children and the introduction of hijab dress laws. A Coptic child was flogged for failing to recite a Koranic verse. In contrast with the extensive media broadcasting of the Muslim Friday prayers, the radio ceased coverage of the Christian Sunday service. As the civil war raged throughout the 1990s, the government focused its religious fervour on the south. Although experiencing discrimination, the Copts and other long-established Christian groups in the north had fewer restrictions than other types of Christians in the south.

Today, the Coptic Church in Sudan is officially registered with the government, and is exempt from property tax. In 2005, the Sudanese government of National Unity (GNU) named a Coptic Orthodox priest to a government position. After the Sudanese Revolution of 2019, a Coptic Orthodox priest led the inauguration of the new Prime Minister of Sudan, Abdalla Hamdok. A Coptic Christian woman, Raja Nicola, was also appointed to serve in Sudan's new Transitional Council.

Genetics
Hollfelder et al. (2017) analysed various populations in Sudan and observed that Egyptians and Copts showed low levels of genetic differentiation and lower levels of genetic diversity compared to other northeast African groups, including Arab and Middle Eastern groups that share ancestry with the Copts and Egyptians.The authors concluded that the Copts and the Egyptians have a common history linked to smaller population sizes, and that the Copts have remained relatively isolated since their arrival to Sudan with only low levels of admixture with local northeastern Sudanese groups.

Notable Copts in Sudan

Bishop Karas, a Coptic Orthodox bishop born in Sudan.
Ra'ouf Mus'ad, a playwright, journalist and novelist born in Sudan.
Raja Nicola Eissa Abdel-Masih, a judge and member of Sudan's Sovereignty Council that was sworn in during August 2019.

See also
Coptic diaspora
Christianity in Sudan
Copts in Egypt
Copts in Libya

References

Ethnic groups in Sudan

Sudan
Oriental Orthodoxy in Sudan
Eastern Christianity in Sudan


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Our other major side trip included the Cape-to-Cape tour I have already documented. On the way to Cape Leeuwin, we stopped overnight at Bridgetown, near where one of Lorna's nieces (Roz) lives. Lorna had never met this niece, who had been given up for adoption at birth and had only fairly recently gotten in touch with her birth mother. Roz is now in the last stages of brain cancer, so there was an undertone of sadness to the meeting. Nonetheless, Roz seemed delighted to meet Lorna, and I'm glad we made the effort to see her.
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Ryu Jun Yeol Talks About Empathy And Making 'Money'
July 19, 2019 by Joan Vos MacDonald
It's easy to identify with the character Ryu Jun Yeol plays in the film Money. His character Il Hyun just started working at the job he always dreamed of, but working hard—and even work-based socializing—has not led to success. Everyone stresses the importance of work ethics, but playing by the rules is not getting him anywhere. Then he gets a tip on how to make it big.
The tip is not so innocent. Ryu's character is a stockbroker, so privileged information poses danger, but the actor always does such a good job of making audiences empathize with him, that when Il Hyun veers into this gray area, his choices don't seem reprehensible. In a system where following the rules won't earn you any respect, is it wrong to disregard them?
The importance of empathy, particularly in a system that's stacked against you, came up more than once when Ryu and the film's director Park Noo Ri stopped by for an interview at The New York Asian Film Festival in New York City. The film was part of the festival and the actor was there to win the 2019 Screen International Rising Star Asia Award.
Director Park Noo Ri wanted viewers to feel empathy for the character played by Ryu Jun Yeol in her film 'Money.' BRENT N. CLARKE
Park adapted the screenplay from a popular Korean novel Money and captures the intricacies of the financial world so well that you might credit her with a background in finance. What attracted Park, previously assistant director on The Berlin Files and The Unjust, to make the film her directorial debut was not the financial setting, but rather the journey the character takes.
"You see this ordinary normal person going through a lot of changes," said Park. "He really starts to make a lot of money and learns what it takes. I really empathize with that character's journey and that's how I decided to make the film."
Empathy also factored in Ryu's decision to play the leading role.
"Empathy was the most important aspect of accepting this role and the reason why I decided to be in this film," said Ryu. "I had gone through the trials and tribulations that all people around my age go through and it was really interesting to see how those questions materialized in this story."
Ryu's career has been relatively short and some might say tribulation free. He first attracted attention in the television drama Reply 1988, which aired in late 2015. Since then the actor has won 17 awards—including two Baeksang Arts Awards—despite not ever paying much attention to awards in general.
"To be perfectly honest, when I was prepping to become an actor I had never really seen a lot of award shows and I didn't even know who won what. So, that really wasn't my focus."
Not prioritizing awards may have helped him have a very successful career.
"In that sense I think I am very lucky to be able to focus on the work that I am doing," said Ryu. "Even now with the Oscars, I only remember that Leonardo di Caprio finally won his Oscar a few years ago and after that I don't really know who won what. That streak continues. Yeah, it's beneficial for me."
Although Ryu started in a television drama, he's made mostly films, but he hasn't ruled out a return to television, given the right script.
"I definitely don't have a particular preference for either medium," he said. "I love both of them. But for some reason in my career right now the scripts I've been getting from films have been more enticing for me. That's why I've been working on more films but of course if there is a great script, a great character, I would love to go back to the drama world."
Ryu is a very physical actor, whose body language changes dramatically with every role. While all actors use body language to convey characters, Ryu is almost a shapeshifter. See him play a techie genius in the drama Lucky Romance and you might think that he normally moves like an awkward 12-year-old boy. See him play a vicious gangster in The King and you might think he always moves like a raptor. In Money, the sheer exuberance with which his character enjoys success is not only physically recognizable but easily relatable. However, the effort he puts into physically creating a character sometimes unsettles his set mates.
"I do try to embody the character before I go on set, so much so that I sometimes make people around me uncomfortable," said Ryu. "Am I myself? Am I not myself? I prepare so much that when they see me, they know what kind of character I will be playing."
Ryu Jun Yeol makes what seems like an innocent deal with Yoo Ji Tae in the film 'Money.' SHOWBOX
Ryu has in the past admitted that at first acting was not easy for him. He jokes that it might even be getting harder.
"It gets harder and harder, so much so that I think maybe I really need to go into a different profession," he said, with a friendly laugh. "But I will say I've been very lucky because I keep meeting really competent and amazing producers and directors, including Park Noo Ri, who really cheer me on."
On the surface Park's film is the story of a young man who wants material wealth and will do what he can to get it, but it's also a story about how the system doesn't work for many people, even if they play their cards right. They may never have the right cards. To win, Il Hyun may have to think outside the system.
Park chose the film to make her directorial debut with, because it's a fun, entertaining story, that indeed moves swiftly along, but she also felt viewers could relate to the character's frustration.
"It was not just how much I empathize with the character and the story but also how much I wish for others to empathize with the character," she said.
Ryu playing Il Hyun, as an earnest young man understandably greedy for life, does help viewers realize that empathy.
This story was originally published in forbes.com.
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The following attached ordinance was adopted by the Kalamazoo Township Board on November 27, 2017 with an amendment changing the application date from December 1, 2017 to March 1, 2018.The Ordinance sets no limit for the number of marijuana facilities located in the Township. The number of facilities may be limited by the number of parcels available that meet the zoning requirements. See Ordinance 591 for more detailed information.
In 2008, Michigan voters voted to allow the medical use of marihuana within prescribed parameters for the alleviation of certain medical conditions. Thereafter, the Michigan Legislature adopted the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act (MMMA), that regulates the use of marihuana for medical purposes by qualifying patients and primary caregivers. The use of medical marihuana as allowed by the MMMA has been ongoing since 2008 and continues to be allowed by law in Michigan.
In 2016, the Michigan legislature enacted a group of statutes that authorized commercial medical marihuana facilities, developed a tracking system for medical marihuana and expanded the definition of medical marihuana to include edibles and other types of marihuana. The Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act (MMFLA) authorizes the establishment and operation of five types of commercial medical marihuana facilities: growers, processors, secure transporters, safety compliance facilities and provisioning centers. The MMFLA allows a municipality to decide if the municipality wants to allow any or all of the five types of commercial medical marihuana facilities to establish in the municipality. If the municipality wants to allow any of the five types of commercial facilities, the municipality must adopt an ordinance to "opt in" to allowing commercial medical marihuana facilities. Additionally, if a municipality does decide to "opt in" and allow commercial medical marihuana facilities, the municipality may decide what types of facilities and the permitted number of each type. The municipality should also adopt zoning ordinance regulations to specify what zoning districts commercial medical marihuana facilities may locate in and whether the zoning approval will be by a permitted use or a special use process.
The MMFLA (PA 281 of 2016, as amended) was effective on 12/20/16; the State of Michigan will begin accepting applications for licenses for commercial medical marihuana facilities on 12/15/17. As that date approaches, many municipalities, including Kalamazoo Charter Township, have reviewed the possibility of allowing medical marihuana facilities within their jurisdiction. Kalamazoo Charter Township's discussions have included input from the Planning Commission, Zoning Board of Appeals, township police department, township attorney and a number of interested residents and potential business owners that have attended a number of Township Board work sessions and meetings over the last several months. As a culmination of the months long review process, the Kalamazoo Charter Township Board voted on November 13, 2017 to "opt in" and allow all five types of commercial medical marihuana facilities in the Township. Currently, the Township Planning Commission is working to develop zoning ordinance regulations to identify appropriate locations for the facilities, along with the recommended approval process. The Township's zoning approval process will most likely include consideration of security issues, lighting, hours of operation, landscaping or buffering requirements, traffic impacts, spacing of marihuana facilities and setbacks from residential uses.
The Township's Zoning Ordinance for Medical Marijuana Facilities (Ordinance 595) went through a public hearing with the Planning Commission on February 8, 2020, and was given to the Board of Trustees for first reading on February 12, 2020. The Board of Trustees voted to adopt the ordinance at a special meeting on February 20, 2020. See the map to review the Kalamazoo Township zoning and approximate buffer zones.
Review the Process to Apply for a Charter Township of Kalamazoo Marijuana Facility/Establishment Permit and submit an Initial Application for a Marijuana Facility/Establishment in the Charter Township of Kalamazoo.
Michigan State Law requires all dogs to be rabies vaccinated and licensed at four (4) months of age and that dogs must be licensed within 30 days of obtaining ownership or within 30 days of the dog turning 4 months of age. Kalamazoo County Animal Services and Enforcement sells dog licenses all year. Licenses may be purchased in-person (by appointment only) or via mail: 1316 Lamont Ave, Kalamazoo, MI 49048. Renewal licenses may also be purchased through the online portal. For more information, visit the Kalamazoo County Animal Services and Enforcement website.
The Michigan Liquor Control Commission processes requests for retail, manufacturer & wholesaler, and special liquor licenses.
According to Township Ordinance 443, applications for new business registrations shall be made to the Township prior to the commencement of business. Complete the Township of Kalamazoo Business Registration Form and submit it to Fire Marshal Todd Kowalski via email (tckowalski@ktwp.org) or mail to 1720 Riverview Drive, Kalamazoo, MI 49004.
Yes. According to Zoning Ordinance Article 8, Section 8.02-P, you are required to complete the Township of Kalamazoo Garage Sale Permit Application and return it to the Township Ordinance Enforcement Officer for approval.
To apply for a Solicitor's Permit, fill out the License Application for Hawkers, Peddlers, Solicitors for Kalamazoo Township and return to the Township of Kalamazoo Police Department. Your application will be reviewed by the Township Clerk, who will either approve or deny your application.
Building permits and inspections are handled by the Kalamazoo Area Building Authority (KABA).
KABA mailing address:
Kalamazoo Area Building Authority
2322 Nazareth Road
Email: permits@kaba-mi.org
Mobile food trucks and trailers used within the Charter Township of Kalamazoo are required to meet certain minimum standards for general safety, according to the Mobile Food Trucks and Trailer Fire Safety Requirements Ordinance. The Kalamazoo Township Fire Prevention Bureau Application for Mobile Food Vehicles can be found at the bottom of the ordinance.
For information about vehicle registration, visit the Michigan Secretary of State website.
Birth certificates can currently be requested from the Kalamazoo County Clerk's Office by mail or drop box, by email, or fax. Visit the Kalamazoo County Clerk's Office website for more information about how to get a copy of a birth certificate.
Marriage License applications are available at the Kalamazoo County Clerk's Office and online.
For more information about driver's licenses and state identification cards, visit the Michigan Secretary of State website.
Please refer to the Charter Township of Kalamazoo Zoning Ordinance for the zoning restrictions in the Township.
Fill out the Housing and Building Complaint Form online or download the form and return it to the Township Manager (manager@ktwp.org) at 1720 Riverview Drive, Kalamazoo, Michigan 49004.
Please visit the General (non-Zoning) Ordinances for Charter Township of Kalamazoo to download a copy of the municipal codes.


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Kinhaven Music School
About Kinhaven
All Programs (Overview)
Senior Session Program
Curriculum and Activities
Junior Session
Junior Session Program
Young Artist Seminar
Adult Piano Workshop
Adult Chamber Music Workshop
Kinhaven Traditions
Michael Friedman Scholarship
Kinhaven welcomes visitors to our school during the summer sessions. The best time to visit is during Senior Session or Junior Session when there are concerts by faculty and students on weekends. All concerts are free and open to the public.
Hotel Accommodations and Visiting Southern Vermont
Southern Vermont is a lovely place to visit as highlighted in this article in The Boston Globe. There are many hotels and bed and breakfasts within a short distance from Kinhaven.
354 Lawrence Hill Road
Weston VT 05161
The first suggestion for anyone coming to work, study or visit Kinhaven is to look for the town of Weston on a map of Vermont. You can find it in the lower central part of the state. An important reference point is Mount Bromley (a large ski area and mountain) which is south and a slight bit west of Weston. Weston is about the same latitude as Bellows Falls and Chester, and 40 miles southeast of Rutland.
Via bus:
You can come from New York City to Brattleboro, VT. Please check with Vermont Transit/Greyhound for schedule information. We will meet students and staff arriving on buses listed on the Travel Information Form. Let us know if and when you are coming by bus!
Via plane:
Please contact the Kinhaven office if you plan to fly into Albany. There are also some flights between Boston and Rutland, VT.
From the west and south:
Take NY Thruway (I-87) to Albany NY, then Rte 7 which becomes VT Rte 9, to Bennington VT. Take US 7 north to Manchester / Manchester Center, then east to Londonderry on Route 11 (Rte 30 shares the same roadway for a bit). At Londonderry take Rte 100 north for about 6 miles to Weston.
Go through Weston, and about 2 miles on the north side of town is Greendale Road. (You will see a sign to Greendale Camping Area and a Kinhaven sign at this point.) Turn left, crossing a bridge; and in about 100 feet, take an immediate left onto a dirt road, which is Lawrence Hill Road. Go about 1/2 mile to the Kinhaven sign and our main entrance on your right.
From the east and north:
From the east and north: take I-91 north (or from northern VT it would be I-91 south). This highway is along the eastern border of Vermont. There is an exit onto Route 103 just north of Bellows Falls VT. Go west on Route 103 to Chester VT where Route 103 merges with Route 11. Stay on Route 11 and continue out of Chester a few miles until, on the right, you come to what was called the Hetty Green Motel & Polish American Restaurant (now empty and unused). The sign may have been taken down — at any rate, the building is run down and looks abandoned.
Take a right at this intersection where there is a sign pointing to Andover. The road has no route number and takes you for about 10 miles, through Andover (follow their posted speed limits very, very carefully!) over a mountain and down the mountain (watch out for a sharp curve) into Weston. At the foot of the hill, the road comes to a T with Route 100. Go north (turning right) for about 1 1/2 miles, to Greendale Road. (You will see a sign to Greendale Camping Area and a Kinhaven sign at this point.) Turn left, crossing a bridge; and in about 100 feet, take an immediate left onto a dirt road, which is Lawrence Hill Road. Go about 1/2 mile to the Kinhaven sign and our main entrance on your right.
Copyright © 2021 · All Rights Reserved · Kinhaven Music School · Photo Credits: Rob Davidson & Alan Orling


Many of you may be off to the voting booths early this morning but I hope you can sneak in Tuesdays with Annie. As always, your choices are true or false. I failed to put that in yesterday's blog. Were you paying attention?
The November Birth Flower is the Rose.
The Chrysanthemum, a favorite in the fall garden is the November birth flower. But for any of you who love roses, tomorrow's blog may be on that subject.
One of the most abundant nutrients in winter squash is beta-carotene.
If you didn't plant winter squash this year, make sure you find a spot in your garden come spring. We all need those important nutrients to stay strong and healthy gardeners.
Honey was the most popular sweetener in New England until the late 1800s.
Until honey bees were brought over, maple sugar was the popular sweetener. Even after refined sugar had been introduced, maple syrup continued to be the choice sweetener for New Englanders for quite some time. What do you have on your pancakes?
Peonies are a long-lived perennial.
Peonies, one of the tried and true perennials can live an extremely long life and gain considerable size. Some of the peonies in my garden are from my grandmother. This perennial should always be transplanted in the fall. Be sure to set them at the right height.
Russia is the largest garlic producer in the world.
China is the largest producer of garlic, although Russia still produces more garlic than the United States. Hope you planted your cloves this weekend.


November has made its entrance.
Time to pull out coats, hats and long pants.
Cold weather to a suffering hypo.
Can turn a person psycho.
No matter what you do, you can't get warm.
Fitted with layers upon layers, you looked deformed.
But warmth is what a hypo seeks.
Because being chilled to the bone is painful and bleak.


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An Interview with Managing Icon the Late Bill Thompson
As previously noted, I will be moving some of my past interviews done for the publication and website Maximum Ink here should they be of interested to any of our readers who might have missed them originally. The following interview with the late Bill Thompson was conducted in August 2010.
Bill Thompson has sold more records for RCA than any other manager in history with the exception of Colonel Parker who managed Elvis Presley. He has been the manager of Jefferson Airplane since 1968 (during Woodstock and Altamont), as well as Jefferson Starship. He has also managed Hot Tuna and the solo projects of Grace Slick, Jorma Kraukonen, and Paul Kantner. He is the administrator for the catalog and various publishing interests of Jefferson Airplane and Starship. Their songs have appeared in various films and television shows, like Platoon, Forrest Gump, Cocktail, Apollo 13, The 60's miniseries that aired on NBC, The Simpsons, and The Sopranos.
What first led you to get into the music industry?
I had a friend named Marty Balin, who started the band and he asked me to move in with him at the end of 1964. I did and he had this ideal about starting a band. We used to fantasize about it and it all came true.
When did you get your first break? What did that feel like?
I worked at the San Francisco Chronicle as a copy boy and I worked with one of the top Jazz critics in the world named Ralph Gleason. He liked me and I asked him to see my roommates band and he accepted. He wrote a rave review and we were off and running.
How would you say the industry has changed most since then?
When Jefferson Airplane started there was no internet and the only way that someone could hear your music was to buy it. It's mainly free, now.
Did you ever think when you started working in the business you would still be working in it now? What do you attribute the longevity of your career to?
Hard work.
Do you have any advice for others that would like to work in the industry? What does it take to make it work?
Hard work and a belief in your self and your clients.
What was it like to work with Jefferson Airplane during Woodstock and Altamont? Any little known stories from those you'd care to share?
"Woodstock" was an amazing experience and "Altamont" was a horrible event. It is strange that they both occurred within 4 months of each other and in the same year 1969.
What is it like to have sold more records for RCA than any other manager, but Colonel Parker with Elvis?
Colonel Parker used to call me his favorite manager. Elvis had a "Favored Nations" clause in his contract, that means no one can get a higher payment than what Elvis would get. In 1968, when I became manager of Jefferson Airplane, I negotiated our contract from 5% to 7%, so Elvis got 7%. In 1971, I negotiated our contract from 7% to 10%, so Elvis got 10%. I told everyone that I doubled Elvis's contract in 3 years.
You are responsible for getting several of the Jefferson Airplane songs in film and on television. Was that a challenge? What is it like to hear those songs on some of the best projects in film and tv history?
We just had 4 Jefferson Airplane songs on the last Coen Brothers movie A Serious Man. It is always a great feeling.
Of all the musicians you have worked with over the years which have stood out most in your mind? Which do you enjoy working with the most?
Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, & Jefferson Starship.
What is the best advice anyone has ever given you and who was it from?
Colonel told me to only work with one band.
What do you think you'd of become if not a manager?
Something in the Arts.
Is there anything you would have done differently over the course of your career if you could? When you look back over the years what one thing stands out most in your memory?
There are so many things I would of done differently. Most memorable, Virgin American Airlines named their first plane "Jefferson Airplane."


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Crates Online Service Review
Joey Santos
Crates Pro
Crates makes hunting for songs on Beatport a more systematic and enjoyable affair. Music nerds will love the crate organisation options, and those who want to go beyond the Beatport Top 100 will find that there are thousands of songs out there just waiting to be discovered. Essential for Beatport diehards.
Crates Online Service
Product type: Crate digging assistant
Crates works with your Beatport account, so it requires you to login or sign up if you don't have one yet.
Crates requires you to have a Beatport account, so when you get to the site you login with your username. If you haven't shopped on Beatport yet, you've got to sign up in order to use Crates.
I logged in with my account and got to work.
The Crates interface may look cramped and daunting initially, but it's got a lot more track discovery, tune organisation, and song preview options than the standard Beatport website.
Crates is split into three sections: First, you've got the main interface in the middle of the screen, which displays tracks that have been pulled from Beatport. It looks a lot like the browser section of your favourite DJ software, with fields like Title, Artist, BPM, etc. This is also where all your search results are displayed when you look for a song on Beatport.
A nifty feature here is that it has the option to grey out songs that are part of a re-release, meaning they're part of another dance music compilation album. This prevents you from buying a song twice (or even three times, as was the case with me before).
At the top you've got the music player, which has a track waveform preview, transport controls, as well as your shopping cart and account button.
Lastly, to the left you've got the Search bar interface where you type in the song you're looking for. Below the search you'll find three tabs: Crates, Profile, and Track. Crates is where you'll find your crates section, which lets you create multiple crates to store music in either for future purchase or just for reference while you're digging. Profile shows you more information about an artist who you've clicked on in the main window. You can view their top downloads on Beatport, as well as other data like social media links and their bio.
The third tab will be of greatest interest to DJs who use Beatport as their main source of music buying – this is where you can add the track to any of the crates that you've made, plus it also has the ability to search for a full-length version of the song over at YouTube. Handy for previewing what the entire track sounds like as opposed to the short snippet found on Beatport.
Clicking on the Dig Deeper option in this tab brings up a list of tracks that Crates think will go well with your chosen tune. You can then preview them in the Crates player, add to your crates or shopping cart, or resume digging. It's fast, easy, and works really well – you'll find yourself putting songs away in a crate, and being faced with the decision to blow all your cash on them or go through the painful experience of whittling them down to fit your budget (gig more to buy more, then!).
If you like digging for tunes on Beatport, you'll love it even more when paired with the power and speed of Crates.
I do a big chunk of my music shopping on Beatport, and what annoys me about it is the rather archaic browsing experience. It's easy to get lost in a click hole of song after song after song, and then when you want to backtrack because you forgot to add a track into your shopping cart or Hold Bin, that's potentially lost forever.
Crates makes hunting for songs on Beatport a more systematic and enjoyable affair. Music nerds will love the crate organisation options, and those who want to go beyond the Beatport Top 100 will find that there are thousands of songs out there just waiting to be discovered.
Crates simplifies this entire process while giving you a repository for tunes that you'll want to consider buying. It's like taking along a record bag to your favourite music shop round the corner, except this time you don't have to deal with the music snobs and body odour!


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Q: Multiplicative linear functional on algebra of limit of polynomials Let $A$ be the space of all functions which are limit of polynomials over the unit ball $D$.
Then $A$ is a commutative Banach algebra. Then how do I show that $A$ has no non zero multiplicative linear functional. (As in my previous question I am not able to tackle it) Any help would be appreciated.

A: It is not really necessary, but I think it is worthwile to not that $A$ is the algebra of uniformly continuous functions on $D$. Indeed, the uniform limit of a sequence of uniformly continuous functions is uniformly continuous. And polynomials are uniformly continuous on any bounded set. Conversely, every uniformly continuous function on $D$ can be uniquely extended to a (uniformly) continuous function on $\overline{D}$. By Stone-Weierstrass, you can approximate it uniformly by polynomials on $\overline{D}$, a fortiori on $D$.
So $A$ can actually be identified isometrically with $B=C(\overline{D})$.
This being said, every unital commutative Banach algebra has at least a character (=nonzero multiplicative bounded linear functional). This follows from Krull's theorem.
In this case, just take $f\longmapsto f(0)$, for example.
Actually, the set of characters of $B$ (the spectrum of $B$) is exactly the set of all evaluations $f\longmapsto f(z)$ where $z$ runs over $\overline{D}$. Going back to $A$, this yields all the
$$f\in A\longmapsto f(z)\qquad z\in D,$$
plus the
$$f\in A\longmapsto \lim_{u\longrightarrow z}f(u)\qquad z\in \partial D=\overline{D}\setminus D.$$
So the spectrum of $A$ is indeed $\overline{D}$, and Gelfand tells you it is actually better to look at $B$ rather than $A$.

A: We can show that the non-zero linear functionals are characterized by $L_a\colon f\mapsto f(a)$, where $a\in D$. First, show that if $L$ is a linear multiplicative functional, then $L(P)=P(L(\mathbf 1))$, where $\mathbf 1$ is the function constant equal to $1$. As $L$ has to be continuous, we can extend the latest relation taking the uniform limit.

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NEWARK- The Licking County grand jury met in special session Friday, handing down indictments against three men accused of possessing more than 12 pounds of methamphetamine and having alleged ties to a Mexican cartel.
Yonnivan Rember Moscosco, 31, Jose DeJesus Barragan Buenrostro, 26, and Hector Gomez, 40, all of California, are facing one count each of aggravated trafficking in drugs, aggravated possession of drugs and hidden compartment in a motor vehicle.
Licking County Prosecutor Bill Hayes said the special indictments were sought in an effort to get the men's cases heard by a magistrate again next week.
If the cases had been held to be heard by the grand jury on July 20, they would not be before a magistrate until July 25, Hayes said.
At least two of the men are allegedly in the country illegally and one is on an immigration watch list for alleged ties to the Salazar family, which has connections to the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, according to prosecutors.
All three men are currently being held in the Licking County Justice Center in lieu of $1 million each.
The three men were arrested Tuesday in the Zanesville area after Central Ohio Drug Enforcement Task Force detectives conducted a traffic stop on Interstate 70 in Licking County.
A search of the vehicle, which was a rental car and driven by Buenrostro, yielded information leading police to a hotel in Zanesville. Buenrostro consented to a search of the room and police located Moscosco and Gomez, as well as 13 gallon size plastic bags containing more than 12 pounds of methamphetamine.
Hayes said the methamphetamine, which had not been cut with any other substances, has a potential street value of more than $650,000 and could have created more than 22,500 doses for potential users.
If convicted, all three men would face a mandatory maximum prison sentence of 11 years, as well as potential deportation.
The indictments filed Friday are also asking for the more than $25,000 in cash located in the hotel room to be forfeited to the county if the men are convicted.