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A couple from Maine honors their farming heritage by offering the next generation a helping hand.
By Tharran E. Gaines	| Photos By Jamie Cole
In 1975, Mike Holt bought a farm he could call his own. It was the same year he married Betsy Herrin. The farm the two then began to run was right across the road from Mike's parents' farmland, and just miles down the road from Betsy's family farm.
Mike and Betsy with Sydney.
Together, the couple built a new dairy barn and loafing shed—much of it with lumber they harvested on their land and cut into boards. They also built up a thriving dairy herd that they operated for 18 years and raised two children, who grew to love the land as much as they did—all done on what began as a 100-acre spread just outside Canaan, Maine.
While a lot of things have changed over the past four decades, some values never wavered. That's included the couple's passion for farming, their desire to see the Holt land remain in the family and to help others pursue a career in agriculture. In fact, since the death of Mike's parents, he and Betsy have already purchased the family farm from Mike's siblings and are in the process of selling it to their son, Corey, with hopes that their new grandson born late last year will also grow to appreciate the "family business."
The Years Bring Change
Even when the Holts sold off the family dairy in 1994, they didn't quit farming. Sure, they had off-farm jobs: Betsy was already working as a dental assistant, but most recently as tax collector and treasurer for the Town of Canaan. Mike, meanwhile, began working at a paper mill in nearby Skowhegan. With 12-hour shifts three days on and three days off, his work schedule still allows him to produce hay and harvest timber on his family land.
"I hadn't really planned to get out of the dairy business, even though it caused one or both of us to miss a lot of the kids' school events," Mike recalls. "The cost of grain and fuel kept going up, too, but we were still getting by. However, we were at a point we had more animals than we could comfortably handle." So, he talked to a large dairy a few towns away about buying some of the extra heifers, and they offered to purchase all the milking cows, plus all the heifers.
The Holts went nearly nine years without having any animals on the farm … until they realized how much they missed having cows around. So, after boarding heifers for another dairy for a while, they began buying a few animals here and there. Yet, every time they had heifers ready to put into a milking herd, that same dairy that bought out the Holts in '94 would come calling. Again, a deal would be reached and cows sold.
"Now, it's Corey and me working together, just as Dad and I did before he passed," Mike explains, noting that Corey is raising replacement dairy heifers in addition to operating his farm. "I help him cut lumber on his place, which is actually the farm where I grew up, and he helps me cut hay on our farm." (Mike and Betsy's daughter, Kristin, moved to a warmer climate and became a fourth-grade teacher in Florida.)
For Mike and Betsy Holt, life has never been about money, how many cows they owned or how many acres of hay they harvested. For them, farming is a passion, and the farm is part of their legacy. It seemed only natural for them to share that passion and help somebody else, just as their parents had helped them.
Mike moving timber.
So, with a milking barn still sitting empty, the Holts got a novel idea: The couple agreed to lease the barn and equipment for five years to then 23-year-old Nathaniel Brooks—a farmer from Canaan, whose father happens to be the pastor of a local church.
"We figured that would not only help him get started on his own, but give him time to figure out if dairying is something he wants to do," Betsy explains, noting that the lease ended this past September and that Nathaniel is now in the process of buying his own dairy. "The arrangement with the Holts definitely put me at an advantage, compared to a lot of guys my age," says Nathaniel. "It let me get started without having to borrow any money. I just bought calves and heifers as I could afford it, and built up a herd as I went along."
More recently, the Holts have taken another young person under their wing. Sydney Quigley, a 16-year-old from Harmony, Maine, has been visiting the farm since she was 3 years old, when her parents first came to buy horse hay. As she grew older, Sydney began spending time at the farm on weekends and during the summers, helping the Holts care for the livestock.
Today, Sydney and Mike have their own sideline business together known as HQ Replacements, which involves the production of replacement dairy heifers. Already, the partnership owns a number of Holstein heifers, which is in addition to the 45 head of heifers and cows Mike and Betsy now own.
Nathaniel bundles up to get to work on the farm.
"In 2015, Sydney and Mike bought five heifers together and have purchased a few more each year since then," says Betsy. "So, while other kids her age are working at McDonald's or Dunkin' Donuts to earn money for college, Sydney is learning about the livestock business."
"My mom and I already have three horses, and now I have two of the heifers up at our place, too," says Sydney. "I'm not sure what the future holds because I would like to either go to farrier school to learn horseshoeing, or go to veterinary school—or both. But whatever I do, the experience with the Holts has been something I will always remember."
As for the role of the milking barn, now that Nathaniel has purchased his own dairy, Betsy insists, "That chapter hasn't been written yet." However, the Holts are already interviewing a few prospective individuals and couples who need help getting started. Or maybe Mike and Sydney will buy even more heifers and expand into the barn.
One thing is for certain, though. The Holts' farm will remain a farm for as long as they have something to say about it … and hopefully well beyond that.
A Vintage Massey Ferguson Tractor Makes The Perfect Gift
Betsy Holt's Christmas gift this past year was no ordinary tractor, but a vintage Massey Ferguson Model 35, complete with a red bow for the holidays.
The "Massey Man"
Omar Holt made as much of a career helping others as he did selling tractors.
Lessons Learned With Lifetime Farmers Mike and Betsy Holt
A couple from Maine discusses mistakes they made, working together as a team, and the best advice they ever received.


NIAB TAG has set up a task-force to investigate the 2012 yield performance issues in winter wheat, with the aim of understanding and explaining the drop in yield across much of the country as well as significant local yield variations.
The investigation forms part of NIAB TAG's ongoing work on the causes of wheat yield stagnation and the steps needed to drive yield improvement going forward. NIAB specialists in genetics, plant breeding, variety performance, agronomy and pathology have been recruited into the team, demonstrating the range of factors involved in the project. The conclusions will include guidance and strategies that growers could adopt in the future.
Work has already begun on analysing yield data from across the NIAB TAG trials network and the HGCA Recommended List dataset. NIAB TAG will also be surveying its members to determine the level of variability in yield performance on farms across the UK and the factors involved.
Checking plant physiology is one part of the project. "We knew early on that yields could be low so pre-harvest samples were taken from some sites for whole crop analysis," explains Bill Clark, NIAB TAG Commercial Director.
The NIAB TAG task-force will be looking at environmental factors affecting plant growth including rainfall and light radiation levels.
"For example, low light levels can impact on the build-up of stem carbohydrates, the number of grain sites and grain filling. Light radiation only reached 60-70% of normal levels in June and July so grain filling was always going to be compromised as even green healthy crops struggled to fill grain sites," says Mr Clark.
Another consideration is disease control. Although very variable this year it was only part of the story. In trials high fungicide inputs achieved good disease control but did not always result in high yields. Even with 100% green leaf area the plant cannot compensate for low radiation levels.
Summer waterlogging in some soils, with anaerobic conditions around the roots, may have also contributed to poor grain fill and with rainfall in June at least 200% of normal in some areas Fusarium ear blight was practically uncontrollable in many crops. With extended flowering and high disease pressure one spray was not enough this year. "Fusarium had a significant effect on yield in its own right but it may also have contributed to a reduction in grain sites and poor grain filling," says Mr Clark.
The Task-Force is expected to report its findings to members at the annual NIAB TAG Winter Results Conferences starting in late November.


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The Peripatetics: Aristotle's Heirs 322 BCE - 200 CE
Han Baltussen
Series: Ancient Philosophies
The Peripatetics explores the development of Peripatetic thought from Theophrastus and Strato to the work of the commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias. The book examines whether the internal dynamics of this philosophical school allowed for a unity of Peripatetic thought, or whether there was a fundamental tension between philosophical creativity and the notions of core teachings and canonisation. The book discusses the major philosophical preoccupations of the Peripatetics, interactions with Hellenistic schools of thought, and the shift in focus among Greek philosophers in a changing political landscape. It is the first book of its kind to provide a survey of this important philosophical tradition.
Sources and Abbreviations
1 Aristotle's Heirs
2 The Natural World and its (hidden) Foundations
3 Things and Words: Language, Logic and Reasoning
4 Ethics and Politics: On Morality and Citizenship
5 Continuity and Criticism in the Peripatos
6 Intellectual Context: Rivals and Devotees
7 Epilogue: From Theophrastus to Alexander of Aphrodisias
Appendix A: Known Peripatetics 322 BCE – 250 CE
Appendix B: Modern Editions & Commentaries on the Peripatetics
Professor, The University of Adelaide
Adelaide, , Australia
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Han Baltussen is Hughes Professor of Classics at the University of Adelaide, Australia. After completing his PhD at Utrecht (Netherlands), he held postdoctoral positions in Utrecht, Washington, and London. His research interests include intellectual history and the history of ideas, as well as ancient philosophy.

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Kine and Einy Paulsen have already launched their first design, and now they're raising money via Kickstarter to release their spring 2012 collection of five designs. They're aiming to raise $10,000 of pledges by 27 January, and have so far amassed $3,668.
Now, on one level this is a ridiculous idea – it's dark in movie theaters so no-one's going to see what you look like anyway. However, if you're a dedicated moviegoer who hates the idea of thinking "Who wore these glasses before me?", they could be right up your alley. Who knows, maybe they'll catch on?


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STAT 202 Project
The 2022 FIFA World Cup would be the first time such a big event will be hosted in the Middle East. This event is of high importance to the country's image and Qatar's vision 2030. Previous studies have highlighted the importance of understanding impacts of such mega events and with the right planning how they can be transformed into lasting legacies. The aim of the 2022 FIFA World Cup study was to assess how hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup will change the quality of life of the people living in Qatar as well as those residing in the Gulf region (GCC). In particular, evaluating impacts the preparations for the 2022 FIFA World Cup will bring to the country and region.
Sampling frame
The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) developed the sampling frame between the months of March and April 2014 with assistance from the Qatar General Electricity Corporation (Kahramaa), that has all mail addresses in the country. In this sampling frame, all housing units in Qatar are listed with information about the housing address and information that identified if residents in the housing units were Qataris or expatriates. Similar to other countries in the Arab Gulf region, there are two distinct groups of population in Qatar: the Qatari nationals and the non-Qatari migrants. The latter group is also composed of two distinct groups: the white-collar migrant workers, usually called expatriates and the blue-collar migrant workers, usually called labor migrants.
The survey includes Qatari citizens and white-collar expatriates. In the 2022 FIFA World Cup Survey, respondents were asked a variety of questions related to perceived socio-cultural impacts, perceived economic impacts, perceived tourism industry impacts, perceived environmental impacts, and perceived knowledge development. Data were collected using systematic sampling in October 2014 from Qatari nationals and white-collar expatriates. Overall, 2,163 interviews with Qatari nationals (1,058) and white-collar expatriates (1,105) were completed.
Demographic data and measures
The collected data include the following variables:
Perception of economic impacts was measured using a scale from 1 to 5 where 1 indicates strongly disagree at all and 5 indicates strongly agree were asked. These items include for the five items of, 1) provide local residents more employment opportunities, 2) improve provision of public services and infrastructure, 3) increase business opportunities and investments; 4) lead to regeneration and redevelopment of cities; 5) positive impact on salaries of new hires. A new variable (ECO) for the total positive impacts was created from the mean score of these items.
Tourism impacts (Tour) were measured with four items including, 1) increase tourism in Qatar, 2) promote Qatar as a tourist destination, 3) enhance Qatar's international reputation, 4) improve Qatar's image worldwide. The score of positive impacts on the tourism in Qatar was created from the mean score of these items.
Event support (Support): This outcome was measured with one item, "support the FIFA decision to host the World Cup in Qatar" that the respondents evaluated on a five-point scale, where 1indicates strongly disagree and 5 indicates strongly agree.
Demographic data: age, gender (1 for male, 2 for female), and nationality (0 for Qatari, 1 for non-Qatari) we collected.
Questions: use the 2022 world cup data to answer the following questions:
Include a relative frequency table, and par & pie charts for the gender and nationality in you sample, briefly comment on your charts.
Cumulative Frequency
From this par & pie chart, there are more women (1104) present in the country. It can be considered that there are less opportunities present for the women to leave the country or do any kind activity which why there seems to be more women. However, it can be seen by the graph that the difference between the gender in Qatar is 2%.
This graph on nationality indicates that there are more local i.e. Qatari Nationality than non-Qatari Nationality. While the par & pie chart shows a difference between nationality present it is a difference of only 4%.
Include a histogram for (age). Describe the shape of the distribution (e.g. is it right skewed? unimodal or bimodal?). Note that you will need to play around to find a bin size that works best with your data.
Bin Begins
From the histogram, the age is right skewed. It can be stated that the ages between 40-50 are befitting with the possible FIFA World Cup conducting in Qatar, this may be as it will help with there business or work and economy.
Report the mean, median, mode, first quartile, third quartile, interquartile range (IQR), and the standard deviation of ages in the sample. Which measure for the central location is more appropriate for ages? Explain why.
1st Quartile
3rd Quartile
Inter Quartile Range (IQR)
From this data, the more appropriate use of measure for central location are the median, the 1st quartile, the 3rd quartile and the IQR. This is because the median gives a better idea of where most of the age lies compared to the mean and mode, as mode and mean values may chance drastically even if one value chances. As for the 1st quartile and 3rd quartile a long with the IQR gives an idea on the various values from each division of the age group and the distance between.
Find the range of (interval) and use the appropriate rule (empirical or Chebyshevt) to find the percentage (proportion) of values that fall within two standard deviations from the mean of ages.
The overall range for age is 62. Thus, to see the percentage of proportion of values that falls within two standard deviation the range interval that has been selected it 23 and 85.
Using the empirical rule, the percentage of proportion that falls within two standard deviation from the mean of ages, i.e. the mean is 42.84 with a standard deviation of 12.02, is 95.03%.
Using Chebyshev, the proportion that falls within two standard deviation from the mean of ages is between 39 and 44 with a mean of 42.84 and a standard deviation of 12.02.
Calculate the coefficient of variation of ages. Do the ages of males have more variation than the ages of females?
From this data calculation for coefficient of variation of ages, it can be said that the ages of men have less variation than the age of females. That is because the standard deviation for the age of women are closer to the mean compared to the standard deviation to the mean for the age of the men.
Draw a scatter diagram and state your recommendations about the relationship between the event support and ages in your sample.
From the scatter diagram, most of the ages who gave the survey are showing their support for the FIFA World Cup as there is no outliers present and it is densely located at the support of the FIFA World Cup happening at Qatar. However, there are some disagreement and not satisfied that the FIFA World Cup should happen at Qatar.
Do optimistic people for the economic impacts have positive insights for the tourism impacts? Use an appropriate statistical measure to verify your conclusion.
The optimistic people for the economic impacts do have a positive insight for the tourism impacts. There values more towards level of strongly agree (5) in the economic impacts as it seems that the tourism impacts directly in the future. The statistical measures that help in showing that is average or mean impact of 4.60 and 4.84 for economic impacts and tourism impacts respectively. Also, the maximum value of impact that is coming up for both the economic impact and tourism impact is 5. This shows that with the FIFA World Cup happening at Qatar there are people who are optimistic that there will be an impact on the economy and the tourism.


The 2015-16 McFarlane NBA 27 Sports Picks lineup has its share of stars, but it might lean slightly towards regional approval than mass appeal. While the biggest stars have earlier figures, there are a couple of debuts including one from the 2015 NBA Champion Golden State Warriors.
James Harden, Anthony Davis and Chris Paul are the McFarlane NBA 27 headliners as far as star power goes. Harden, the 2014-15 MVP runner-up, debuted in NBA 23. Davis is also appearing on his second figure. He debuted in NBA 24. This marks the fourth time Chris Paul has been in a Sports Picks lineup and second with the Los Angeles Clippers. Pau Gasol is getting his third figure and first as a member of the Chicago Bulls. He last had a McFarlane in 2010's NBA 17.
Golden State's Klay Thompson and Eric Bledsoe of the Suns are the two debut figures in 2015-16 McFarlane NBA 27.
All of the figures except Harden have limited edition variants planned that will show players in different jerseys.
Although it's not officially part of the McFarlane NBA 27 lineup, there's also a commemorative Kobe Bryant figure coming out around the same time. Packaged in a box that's sequentially numbered, the Lakers great comes with five NBA Championship trophies and an MVP award. Adding to that, a trio of figures for the Golden State Warriors celebrate their 2015 title.


We made version 2.1.1 publically available today. There are several bug fixes, as you can see in http://wiki.pbxnsip.com/index.php/Release_Notes_2.1.1.
There is at least one critical fix for the mixing of TCP and UDP. For those who are running 2.1.0 we strongly recommend to upgrade. As usual, make a backup so that whenever you feel the desire to undo the upgrade you can move back!
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A Canadian homage to star-studded 1960s European-set caper flicks like Topkapi and The Italian Job, The Art of the Steal is an international art heist comedy which gets its globe-trotting cred with lesser lights — stops in Niagara Falls, Ont. and Detroit.
Fresh off its TIFF Gala slot, Jonathan Sobol (A Beginner's Guide to Endings) writes and directs the overly ambitious, very busy and occasionally quite funny The Art of the Steal, starring Kurt Russell (Deathproof, Escape from L.A.) as Crunch Calhoun, who is struggling to get over his bitterness at being forced to do time for his slick-talking half-brother Nicky (Matt Dillon) in a botched job involving a bogus Gauguin seven years previous.
Crunch has sworn off the game for a quieter life, working the circuit as a motorcycle stunt rider, dressing like Elvis and taking dives off his bike for a few hundred extra from the boss.
He's got his wife, Lola (Vikings' Katheryn Winnick) and protegee Francie (Goon's Jay Baruchel) to keep him company while he heals from his latest stadium bone-cruncher. So when Nicky suggests one final job involving a rare Guttenberg volume, he's hardly a pushover.
Enter running mates from Crunch's criminal past, each of whom has a job to do in the jammed story.
"We're not the A Team here, guys. I peg us at a D-minus," Crush observes.
A side plot with a pair of Interpol investigators ("Interpol is a real thing?" Francie marvels) gets us some screen time with Terence Stamp, who plays a former art thief working off his parole by helping the agency. His part feels like a latecomer to the party and makes for a poor fit with the rest of the increasingly busy story.
Stamp's role isn't the only odd job. Everybody feels like they're in their own movie, popping in and out like critters on a whack-a-mole board without any sense of fitting together.
Things get complicated with double and even triple crosses, plus the addition of a piece of representational sculpture played for weak laughs.
Salvation for The Art of the Steal comes in a very funny late scene at a Canada-U.S. border crossing with nervous cat Francie wearing a ridiculous glued-on beard as he tries to deflect a curious customs agent (stand-up comedian Mike Wilmot).
"You sure you don't have anything to confess?" he asks Francie.
"I liked Predator 2," he blurts out.
There's nothing really new in the caper comedy style with The Art of the Steal, which would have done better if more effort had been expended on finding a way to make it work as a story, rather what feels like a series of vignettes featuring smart quipping stars randomly strung together.


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Awesome I love this and the link you shared to how to make crew necks into v necks.
Very happy my husband finally got me your book for mothers day this year. I asked for it last year too! Just takes a bit of forward planning to get it sent all the eay to New Zealand but it arrived just in time! i can't wait to get sewing!!
Thank you for all your guidance, and help.
Thank you for your kind words, Sharon! Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help. 🙂 Happy Sewing!
Hello! I really love this easy tutorial. Is it not necessary to finish the "v"?
Hi Sandra, Since it's a knit, it won't fray. But if you'd like it to have more structure, you could add some facing or interfacing to the underside.
I'm going to try this on the side at the hem! I've seen them pre-made but never thought of doing it myself! Tx for the inspiration.
Oh what a great idea Anna! I'd love to see a picture when you do it.
Sooooo cute! You scored once again!
Awwwwww, thanks so much, you brightened my day!
Thanks! I'm definitely going to try this. I also like Anna's idea of doing it on the side hem. Sounds like a great way to get more room at the hip.
I'm so glad you're going to try this Liz! Let me know how it goes.


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Hawthorn skipper Luke Hodge says he and other veterans will help calm any nerves of the AFL club's finals debutants.
The Hawks have unveiled seven new AFL players this year and only once before has coach Alastair Clarkson blooded more footballers in an AFL season, in 2005 which was his first year in charge.
Then there is the likes of forward James Sicily, who has played 24 games for the club but is one of few on their list yet to feature in a final.
Hodge has played 21 finals, including five grand finals.
Shaun Burgoyne, Sam Mitchell, Grant Birchall, Josh Gibson, Jordan Lewis and Cyril Rioli are also well placed to tell some September stories, having played a combined total of 133 finals.
"We've got a lot of experienced players at the footy club that have spoken to the younger guys and tried to give them as much feedback as possible," Hodge said on Tuesday.
"I remember in 2008 we had Stuart Dew, who who gave us a lot of feedback and it definitely helped.
"We've had a lot of guys be there before and we'll pass on as much information to the young guys as we can."
Hodge added he has full confidence in the younger Hawks to step up in September.
"It's important for the progression of our football club," Hodge said.
Clarkson likened Hodge and his experienced teammates to assistant coaches.
"We've got a lot of guys who have played a lot of footy now and are a very, very important part of our side ... and an extension of the coaching group," Clarkson said.


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St. Louis Police Assaulted By Black Lives Matter Who Used Bricks As Weapon
At least 10 police officers have been injured from the violent protests in downtown St. Louis over the acquittal of a white police officer who shot a black man, The Daily Caller reports.
Eleven members of law enforcement were assaulted by protesters who threw bricks, projectiles and bottles at them and some kicking them off their patrol motorcycles. The protesters were heard chanting "Black Lives Matter."
Nine St. Louis police officers and one State Highway Patrol officer sustained injuries, with one city officer broke his jaw and while another dislocated his shoulder, said St. Louis interim police Chief Lawrence O'Toole.
The violent incident started when a group of protesters gathered around the home of St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson and threw rocks and splattered red paint, causing damage to the house.
Anger in St. Louis boiled over when a judge ruled that former police officer Jason Stockley is not guilty of murder charges over the death of Anthony Lamar Smith in 2001.
Stockley insists his actions were self-defense after he saw Smith holding with a gun and could shoot him.
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