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The Milk Maid Marian
A blog about Australian dairy farming
How much is a dairy farmer worth?
March 13, 2018 March 13, 2018 / milkmaidmarian
Owning and operating a dairy farm comes with special conditions: working all public holidays and weekends, starting at 5am and finishing at 6pm or so.
Your duties include animal husbandry, machinery and agronomy skills, coupled with the managerial responsibilities of a business that turns over about $800,000 annually.
But, erm, your pay? If you're lucky, you get paid. As ABARES notes:
"Over the 10 years to 2015–16, the proportion of dairy farms recording negative farm business profits averaged 51 per cent a year."
– ABARES, Farm Financial Performance
Since only half of us make a profit in any given year, many farmers simply do not pay ourselves for all the hours we work. Officially, though, we are due the grand sum of $28 per hour. This is the value of "imputed labour" – the work done by family members like Wayne and me that is unpaid.
As Dairy Australia explains in its DairyBase fact sheets:
"Imputed labour hours are valued at a standard rate per hour and reflect
what it would cost to replace those hours with paid labour."
It's about the same hourly rate promised to a fill-in nine-to-five handyman.
It's rather a lot less than the median $34.60 an hour paid to Australian male full-time employees. And, strangely, I can't see how I could replace Wayne or myself for $28 per hour if one of us fell seriously ill.
Assuming we could find someone who, "under the direction of the owner or manager uses their expertise and skills in order to supervise and maintain the operation of a dairy farm," that would be a Farm and Livestock Hand, Level 8 (FLH8).
Under the Pastoral Award, the minimum rate is $22.80 per hour, with time-and-a-half for overtime and double time for Sunday milkings. Assuming Wayne and I were only working 50 hours per week (the official industry standard for one FTE), the numbers look like this using Dairy Australia's calculator:
That's dizzyingly close to $28, isn't it? But it doesn't include the 9.5 per cent superannuation guarantee payment. That brings the hourly cost up to $30.43, well over the imputed labour cost of $28.
But we're still not finished. Full-time employees are also entitled to annual leave and sick leave. Unlike some businesses where things can be put on hold for the odd sick day or even week off, we'd have to hire a casual to fill their shoes. That tots up to 25 days.
Let's assume that a person who can work unsupervised at FLH5-level (no management responsibilities) can cover those absences. If the fill-in person works the same hours as the employee on leave and is paid the minimum award rate with the 25 per cent loading for casual rates, it looks like this:
If the casual works the same 50 hours per week as the permanent for four weeks of annual leave and another week of sick or personal leave, the cost of those entitlements is $7620 per annum.
Amortised over the 2552 hours worked by the replacement for me or Wayne each year, that adds another $2.99 to the imputed labour cost.
So then, at the minimum rate, the replacement for Wayne costs $27.79 plus $2.64 superannuation plus $2.99 in "fill-in labour" to cover leave. That's $33.42 all up, without worker's compensation costs!
Of course, I have made a lot of assumptions here, including that:
the owner-operator only works a 50-hour week (in line with industry standards)
the owner-operator works weekends and public holidays
farm work, which does not involve feeding and watering cows (such as milking), takes six hours on Sundays
there's not a good-sized gang of other staffers who can take up the slack while the main person is on leave
someone of skill level FLH8 is needed full-time
you can recruit and retain a skilled FLH8 who is happy to accept the minimum rate under the award
the owner is still able to guide the business
These assumptions are based on the likely scenario for an average-sized farm, which milks 261 cows. Because there is about one FTE for every 100 milkers, there are only two-and-a-half FTE equivalents on the average farm.
Staffing such a farm with a mix of FLH8 and FLH5 creates two permanent full-time roles and other part-time family labour or maybe a relief milker. In the real world, you can't divvy up that FLH8 role into several positions with lower pay scales.
I asked CFM Dairy Recruitment's Fiona McIlveen for the going rate to replace myself or Wayne. Upwards of $80,000 per year, she said, which is the equivalent of about $31 per hour.
"For a smaller farm milking 180 to 250 cows, you'd be looking at a range of $80,000 to $90,000," Fiona said.
"For more than 300 cows, it would be more like $80,000 to $120,000."
Where does $28 come from?
Dairy Australia Workforce Development Program Manager Sally Roberts explained it this way:
"It is important that dairy farmers can make informed commercial decisions when entering into share farming or leasing agreements," Ms Roberts said.
"Dairy Australia's Fairness Affordability Calculator and the Leasing Property Calculator give farmers the tools and information they need to help safeguard the profitability of their business and manage some of the risks associated with such agreements.
"The imputed labour description used in both calculators provides an accurate market rate for the cost of labour on a commercial dairy farm.
"Dairy Australia recognises that farmers involved in the running of their businesses undertake the full range of activities within the dairy business. Some of their work is at CEO level, some is at production manager level and some at farm hand level.
"All of the work is vital to the effective operation of the farm business, but it all has a different value commercially.
"While both calculators were developed off a strong research base, they are intended only as a guide and, given the complexities involved in share and leasing agreements, there will be situations where other considerations come into play when calculating imputed labour costs."
The value of $1.00/kg MS to $1.10/kg MS is based on an analysis of DFMP and private consultant data detailing labour costs for dairy operations that were entirely dependent on paid employees to carry out the work of the business.
It is important to note that the value comes from the total amount spent on labour, including but not limited to wages, bonuses, work care insurance and superannuation.
Publicly available data on this topic is available from the Dairy Farm Monitor Project.
The data indicates the total commercial labour cost for a farm fully dependent on paid employee labour ranged from $0.86/kg MS to $1.44/kg MS, with an average cost of $1.09/kg MS.
These calculations were based on data obtained from dairy farms in Tasmania and Victoria in 2013/14, which was when the Share Dairy Farming in Australia Model Code of Practice was released.
DFMP for the 2016/17 financial year shows dairy farm businesses relying entirely on commercial labour have paid between $1.03/kg MS and $1.23/kg MS, with an average of $1.13/kg MS
Dairy Australia is in the process up updating both the Fairness and Affordability Calculator and the Leasing Property Calculator to reflect the most up-to-date data."
Using Dairy Australia's own calculators, it's pretty clear that you could not legally replace me or Wayne for $28 per hour and Dairy Australia's own process for arriving at the figure does not appear to take employment law into account.
Such a low figure for imputed labour distorts the view of profitability at the farm gate.
If we "pay ourselves" at this rate, we look more profitable than we really are, which means policy makers can continue to shake their heads as farmers demand a greater share of the pie.
More importantly, what message does this send to the next generation of farmers?
Twenty-eight dollars an hour would not be enough, even if we were to earn it in real life rather than on a spreadsheet.
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13 thoughts on "How much is a dairy farmer worth?"
Value?
As someone who collects DFMP data it's refreshing to hear a farmer argue that their imputed labour rate should be higher. Too many farmers are prepared to undervalue their time to look profitable. Looking at EBIT often creates some discomfort.
Geoff Kirton
Marion, well said, and one there is no easy answer to. What is blatantly obvious is that Australia does not value its farmers. The big challenge in this is that how do we value them at? Farmers in Australia traditionally undervalue their own worth whereas in other countries they have become quite militant and use the power of media to get there message across
A big mistake farmers have allowed happen is we have let our value be undervalued. In other countries direct and indirect employment takes in every aspect of the value chain right through to when the product is either consumed or exported. The USA uses a figure that every dairy farmer directly or indirectly employs 74 .people where as in Australia the figure used is 5.So why the difference? Here we don't really count anything past the farm gate, all the other jobs are called manufacturing. Now if I wanted a government to listen I would think I would have a lot more power using the American figures than the Australian ones!
The calculation came to the fore recently when there was discussion regarding the removal of an extra 450 gigalitres of water from the Murray Darling system for the environment and the consultants said it would result in the loss of nearly 200 jobs in agriculture. 200 jobs, more likely 2,000 jobs as a minimum.
Think about a town like Leongatha and tell me 1 job there that does not in some way relate back in some way to farming. Then think about the jobs on the Melbourne wharves. People conveniently forget that the largest export from there is agriculture and if we are serious about it the largest single export from there is dairy products.
Think about Victoria and ask what we actually manufacture and what we actually export. Apart from some highly subsidised aluminium out of Portland I wonder if anyone can name something other than agriculture.
So why don't we count those jobs as being part of agriculture instead of manufacturing?? Other countries do and that is why they have so much power with their governments.
Until we can get the value of farmers really recognised as a lifeblood industry employing people from on the farm into the towns through to the cities and even on ships we will be undervalued.
It is time for change and action
springbankbena
A dairy farmer is worth everything in the world. I keep telling people if they aren't willing to pay a fair price for their milk they will shortly find themselves drinking UHT and will do so for the rest of their lives.To drink a glass of fresh milk is the most delightful beverage available. To get up in the morning and have a cup of tea with fresh milk in it, is as wonderful as a beer at the end of a hard days work. I lived in Israel for sometime working on a kibbutz rearing calves and milking. The fresh milk was sent off the kibbutz so we only got 'cooked' milk to drink. I drank black tea for 6 months in the kibbutz dining room but was allowed to drink fresh milk in my tea in the mornings in the dairy/refed where I worked. This was OK as I was an adult at the time. The children of the kibbutz were given only pasteurized milk. Fresh milk with an egg beaten into it with some vanilla essence is the best food available when one as certain ailments.
Marian,
The partnership both yourself and Wayne and your children have is an inspiration on a continual basis, so thank you. That alone is priceless. Your analytical skills along with the skills required to run your enterprise i believe would put you in a salary caterogry of approx $150k/Annum. How do i come up with this number….. I deal on a regular basis with some people in the Dairy/FMCG/ Food industry who are earning that sort of money and you put them to shame………… The under performance of their business's attest to that.
My interest in your industry comes from generations of Dairy farmers in my family. My father oftened reffered to his brothers milking cows as the closest thing he knew to perpetual motion. As a society,we need to get a grip on the longer term, not short term…………… And reward people for it..
Thank you again and i hope the season turns well for you….
johnlambert235
Another excellent article Marian. Hopefully ABARE will use it to review their papers/ fact sheets.
Ralph Graham
Interesting. If it were not for being one's own boss and the lifestyle, the "value" would just not be there. I would be interested to see how a similar analysis for crop farms would look. There would not be the expenses of dairy equipment but there would be a bunch of other machinery needed, plus seed, fertiliser etc
At least one could sleep in on Sunday. I well remember my dad said that he slept in once till 6am!
So all this highlights that farmer's efforts and social capital are not valued highly by the supermarkets and the general public. The race to the bottom with $1.00 milk and 80 cent /kg cheese is doing great harm at a social and wider community level. Along with the devaluation of and respect for the individuals effort. What the supermarkets are doing with how they price farm produce is no different to the franchise practices of other major retailers. Creating onerous working conditions for the franchise with little reward for the franchisees or the employees working for them, it's a race to the bottom. But they require highest environmental/animal welfare standards with little regard for the people that try to up hold those standards for the border communities benefit. So in my view its time that the supermarkets retail and supply chain pricing dominance is tared with the same brush that is putting the spotlight on the draconian work practices of the companies misusing the franchise model to make windfall profits at the expense of ethical and fair vale for a persons time and effort in their daily working lives
Jane Kelley
A very timely piece, only the other day my partner who grew up in Melbourne who has a business background, asked me 'what does a successful dairy farm look like?'. I immediately found myself out of my depth trying to explain the complexities of a farming business and the topics you've touched on. When I said most farmers won't make a profit and that farmers often invest their income back into their business, his immediate response was 'how does the business survive? The situation then got more difficult to explain, so thanks for writing the post Marian, now I can pass this information onto him.
grahamclune
The dairy industry is not alone in this. The undervalue anomaly is right across the AG industry. I know a beef and wool producer in SW QLD who owns and manages a 40,000 acre property with just him and his wife and they have averaged $30k total nett profit ($15k each before tax) per year over the past 5 years. Poor farm gate prices and the cost/stock loss impact of drought means that they cant afford to employ anyone to do any work for them. In addition to feeding stock thru the drought and branding and marking and shearing etc. between them they have also constructed 52 kilometers of new dog fencing by themselves in the past 2 years as they cant afford labor or contractors to do the work. And these people are considered to be in the "top 1% of "good farmers". Then I read just yesterday where a small crops farmer in central coastal QLD sold 400kg of sweet potatoes as "cow feed" for $20 because the potatoes were rejected by the markets because they were "too big" or the "wrong shape"
Deborah Parkes
Marian the most pertinent point to me is not only can we not afford to replace ourselves but can we find someone with the required skills? My husband is seriously ill and we are struggling to find anyone that has high animal welfare skills, tractor skills and good animal husbandry. Meanwhile the rest of us just work longer hours. It also brings up the point that millions of dollars have been spent by Dairy Australia on training programmes for very little result, nearly every farmer I know is constantly on the look out for quality employees.
milkmaidmarian
I'm so sorry to hear about your husband's illness and all the added stress of trying to keep things going, Deborah.
I hope he turns the corner sooner rather than later.
I think that until we learn to value ourselves more highly, it will continue to be difficult to attract and retain good people.
Tyran Jones
Hi Marian,
It is a well argued case, and clearly there are many views when it comes to imputed labour and the real value of what we do; however, there may be some omissions in the discussion:
Nobody forces us, nor any body else, to run a small business. I suspect that if you did a National analysis of small business operators with a turnover between $500k and $2 million (which would cover most dairy operations other than the very large and multi site operations), the discussion would look similar. Consider retail or food trade… mostly leased properties with few, rapidly depreciating assets???
Straight out profit discussions don't take account of the rest of the asset allocation or performance over the life cycle of a dairy farm. Similarly, the imputed labour discussions look at the here and now and are not a like for like replacement…. ie they don't consider investment decisions, risk/reward trade offs and lifestyle choices… all the "skin in the game" type issues and the reasons we choose to be owner operators.
Don't get me wrong, I want to run a sustainably profitable operation and to be able to afford a certain lifestyle – family, education, travel… FUN!… It is good to have these discussions and also good to put some aspects of the DA programs under the microscope periodically.
However, there is a risk of feeding the unbalanced view of any profession's value to the community. Imputed labour is like the 'book value' of an item… it might be an innocuous item, or it might be THE centre of the operation. The book value of the item bares no resemblance to the value of the item to the business today, nor its replacement value or cost. It is a 'ball park' figure which is sensible when other considerations are taken in to account (eg depreciation, borrowings, lifecycle…).
So, imputed labour is a 'book value', it may or may not resemble the actual value of you, today, to the operation, but is a sensible, 'ball park' figure. How you rate your value when you consider the assets under management, debt, capital growth and the long term business and personal strategies and goals is a different discussion????
Let's face it Marian, whether we earn, or a worth $20, $30 or $50 has no bearing of why we do what we do – by hey, more would always be nice!!! WE just have to learn to do it better 'cause nobody is going to give us a free ride.
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Q: Adding a order to master inventory using excel macros I have two separate excel workbooks. One is an order form, the other is a master inventory file.
I have a column where I input the order amount for each individual items (let's say it spans from cell C2:C130, each row is a different item). My optimal solution is to develop a macro that takes that order and adds it to an existing master inventory to keep track of total orders.
I wrote some code that I thought would work:
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Dim wsCopy As Worksheet
Dim wsDest As Worksheet
Dim lCopyLastRow As Variant
Dim lDestLastRow As Variant
Workbooks.Open "C:\Users\Dave\Desktop\Designs Work\Master_Inventory.xlsm"
Set wsCopy = Workbooks("Production file_Dave Edits").Worksheets("Order")
Set wsDest = Workbooks("Master_Inventory").Worksheets("Sheet1")
Set lCopyLastRow = wsCopy.Range("E2:E130")
Set lDestLastRow = wsDest.Range("E2:E130")
lDestLastRow.Value = lDestLastRow.Value + lCopyLastRow.Value
End Sub

when I run this code, I get a mismatch error (type 13?).
So I went into the watch window to see the type of each expression and the combined right side of the equation is a "variant/integer" type, whereas each individual expression is a "variant/variant" type. Moreover, when I run the code and call only one cell instead of a matrix, the code works; it doesn't run when multiple cells are called.
Can anyone help? Or have a more elegant code? Thank you

A: Set lCopyLastRow = wsCopy.Range("E2:E130")
Set lDestLastRow = wsDest.Range("E2:E130")

This makes both variables Variant/Range, because the Set keyword says the right-hand side of the assignment operator is yielding an object reference: the two variables might as well be declared As Range.
Now, the Value of a Range object that refers to multiple cells, is a 2D Variant array.
lDestLastRow.Value = lDestLastRow.Value + lCopyLastRow.Value

That's where you're getting the type mismatch error, because you can't use the + operator with array operands.

when I run the code and call only one cell instead of a matrix, the code works

That's because a single-cell Range.Value returns that numeric value, and + will work with that - although, if the cell contains an error value (e.g. #REF! or #VALUE!), you'll still get a type mismatch error, because a Variant/Error can't be an operand.
I wish I could help beyond that, but I have no idea what this + intends to be doing.
As for a more elegant solution, I'd recommend indenting the procedure body, moving declarations closer to their assignment, and keeping a reference to the destination "inventory" workbook:
Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()

    Dim sourceSheet As Worksheet
    Set sourceSheet = Workbooks("Production file_Dave Edits").Worksheets("Order")

    Dim inventoryBook As Workbook
    Set inventoryBook = Workbooks.Open("C:\Users\Dave\Desktop\Designs Work\Master_Inventory.xlsm")

    Dim destSheet As Worksheet
    Set destSheet = inventoryBook.Worksheets("Sheet1")

    Dim sourceRange As Range
    Set sourceRange = sourceSheet.Range("E2:E130")

    Dim destRange As Range
    Set destRange = destSheet.Range("E2:E130")

    'todo: figure out intent
    'lDestLastRow.Value = lDestLastRow.Value + lCopyLastRow.Value

End Sub

If that + intends to add everything up in both ranges, you could use Application.WorksheetFunction.Sum(sourceRange) + Application.WorksheetFunction.Sum(destRange), although I doubt that's really want you're looking for.

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Dr Kandeh Yumkella, Parliamentary leader of Sierra Leone's opposition National Grand Coalition (NGC) Party and Member of Parliament representing Samu Chiefdom in the Kambia District, Sierra Leone, yesterday arrived in Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, (COP26).
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Abraham amadu Jalloh says:
Sierra Leoneans are not interested in developing their country period. In any organisation, whether is a small scale buiness, a multi national organisation, a village or a country, for it to thrive its needs leadership that knows their resume and a qualified for the positions they occupied. Dr Yumukella, Mayor Akin Swayer have not only proven their knowledge and expertise in navigating the mine fields of how to develop a nation and provide the expertise knowledge on how it is done and have it delivered, but their track record on international affairs speaks for itself. Dr Yumukella for formally working for the United Nations, and Mayor Akin Sawyer for her experience and extensive reach both nationally and internationally. Instead of harnessing the knowledge and experience of this two individual , to use the Trump phrase "MAKE SIERRA LEONE GREAT AGAIN" and create the necessary conditions to attract more foreign direct investment to our country, we Sierra Leoneans have opted for a president that literally admitted in his recent lecture at Havard Law school, that some of his PHD appointed ministers are not equipped in leading some of the ministries that they are supposed to run and come up with the solutions that our country needs to develop.
And Bio himself is not an economists and not an expert in any field of study. He spent his entire life in the military. Just like Momoh we know military men are not trained to run a city Council let alone decide the fate of a country. Yet we continue to have people who are trained in the art of killing or be killed, as our leaders.Then the hypocrisy of it all, we are the first to point out things are not working the ways we think it should work. Unless and until we stop electing leaders that lack the expert knowledge and the political know and how to come up with doable solutions for our country, like education, infrastructure projects, roads, electricity, health, investment in food sufficiency, chances are our country will never develop. The EU and our international partners that have invested heavily on us, will always dictate the pace of development in our country. Because we depend on them for our country's survival.
Until we stop taking monies from this international financial institutions, we will continue to have that master and servant relationship with them. And the only way we can overcome this problem, is if we are ready to put away our tribal and regional differences, and electe people we know that are competent and can diliver the goods, instead of going for the least available option, and elect people like Bio, that until his election was poor and hungry like a rat that take up residence in a church . For him and his colleagues going to politics is the only vehicle left in their disposal to make money on the back of Sierra Leoneans.
Santhkie Sorie says:
In Dr KKY, Sierra Leone has an asset which it strangely refuses to exploit to the full. One just has to look at the several invitations which the man is slated to honour, apart from the climate summit, to see that the man is in high demand all over the place because of his expertise in economic matters as well as environmental issues. This shows that Dr Yomkella proved himself on the world stage as head of UNIDO, a job which he resigned from in bid to help his country. Not only does this demonstrate patriotism but the fact that Dr Yomkella would be snatched up once again by the United Nations or countries if he were to make himself available.
Come 2023 most of us are going to allow APC and SLPP to fool us once again with cheap propaganda for us to vote for them while shielding their true colours which are thievery, incompetence and the inability to respect or understand the constitution. They put people in positions not because they are professionally minded but because they will do the bidding of the party that has employed them. If we don't bring in Dr Yomkella and NGC in 2023 we are doomed.


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"In March, a seven-member board of physicians convoked by the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints agreed that there was no natural explanation for why the child's heart started beating over an hour after his birth. The child, James Fulton Engstrom, is now three years old and developing normally. His mother, Bonnie Engstrom, said she had no precomposed prayer asking for help from Archbishop Sheen. "I just kept repeating his name over and over in my head: Fulton Sheen, Fulton Sheen, Fulton Sheen," said Ms Engstrom."
Q. 30. Do such then believe in Jesus the only Saviour, who seek their salvation and welfare of saints, of themselves, or anywhere else?
(b) Heb.12:2; Isa.9:6; Col.1:19,20; Col.2:10; 1 John 1:7,16.
The argument being proposed is that the Reformed believe Christ now has a body that can only be in one place at a time, so he cannot be physically present in the Eucharist. Hence the Reformed commit heresy by dividing the two natures of Jesus (or limiting the divine nature of Jesus). Calvin mistranslated Acts 3:21 in the 1599 Geneva Bible using the word "contain" rather than "receive," thus locating Christ only in Heaven and therefore denying his presence in the Eucharist.
What's blatantly right about this argument is that the Reformed who historically follow in the footsteps of Calvin do indeed hold that the human body of Christ is in Heaven and therefore not physically present in the Lord's Supper. What's blatantly wrong about this argument is that Calvin did not translate the Geneva Bible of 1599. It would be enough to leave this here, but there are some other historical and theological factors that need to be addressed.
The Book of Concord on "Receive"
Note how The Book of Concord says part of the translating error is "received" while the CARM Lutheran argument at the top of this entry says "received" is the correct translation! Then in its place, The Book of Concord would rather the translation be, "Christ must take possession of heaven." If the charge of creating an English version to comply with theological paradigms is to be applied anywhere, it seems to me this Lutheran translation of Acts 3:21 is a more fitting example. The Lutherans argue that "Christ" is the subject of the sentence, so "Christ must take possession of heaven." The Reformed say "heaven" is the subject of the sentence. so "Christ must be received by heaven." Grammatically, either is possible. Of the major English versions I checked, none follow the Lutheran grammatical structure- even with some putting forth "He must remain in heaven" which undercuts the Lutheran argument (see this parallel web-page, and also this parallel web-page for examples of English translations of Acts 3:21).
Calvin, the Geneva Bible, and "Must Contain"
21. Whom the heaven must contain. Because men's senses are always bent and inclined towards the gross and earthly beholding of God and Christ, the Jews might think with themselves that Christ was preached, indeed, to be raised up from the dead, yet could they not tell where he was; for no man did show them where he was. Therefore Peter preventeth them, when he saith that he is in heaven. Whereupon it followeth that they must lift up their minds on high, to the end they may seek Christ with the eyes of faith, although he be far from them, although he dwell without the world in the heavenly glory. But this is a doubtful speech; because we may as well understand it that Christ is contained or comprehended in the heavens, as that he doth comprehend the heavens. Let us not therefore urge the word, being of a doubtful signification; but let us content ourselves with that which is certain, that we must seek for Christ nowhere else save only in heaven, whilst that we hope for the last restoring of all things; because he shall be far from us, until our minds ascend high above the world.
The Lutheran charging Calvin with error appears to not realize that Calvin did not write this in English. This English translation is from Christopher Featherstone, 1585 (made not that long after Calvin's death, 1564). Henry Beveridge edited it and updated the English in 1844. Beveridge's English version of Featherstone is what is popularly found today. In fact, as far as I can tell, Featherstone's (Beveridge) translation is the only complete English translation available of Calvin's Commentary on Acts (For an interesting look at Featherstone, see this link). Could it be simply that Featherstone was familiar with the Geneva Bible's rendering of Acts 3:21 when he translated Calvin's Latin? The entire Geneva Bible was published in 1560. Could this be the simple reason Calvin is translated as saying "must contain"?
The first thing I did was check the Latin version of Calvin's comments on Acts 3:21. Corpus Reformatorum vol. 48 reads, Quem oportet coélum cape, which is literally something like, "whom the heaven must take" (p. 72). Earlier Calvin offers the following translation of Acts 3:21, "quem oportet coelum capere usque ad tempora restitutionis omnium, quae loquutus est per os omnium sanctorum prophetarum a sacculo." The phrase in question is something like "He must get to heaven." The idea is that Christ is to be received and taken into Heaven. In Latin, "Take" and "contain" both have capere as an equivalent. Capere is the present infinitive of "capio."
1. I capture, seize, take.
3, I take in, understand.
According to this source: "To take in, receive, hold, contain, be large enough for"
All this being said, the English translation of "must contain" is within the realm of possibility for the Latin, but does not appear to be the most concise rendering. This old source cites Wescott (who cites P. Cotton) noting "three or four instances of unfair bias in favor of Calvinistic doctrine in the English Genevan Version." Acts 3:21 is used as an example for "must contain" and this "unfair bias."
For as we do not doubt that Christ's body is limited by the general characteristics common to all human bodies, and is contained in heaven (where it was once for all received) until Christ return in judgment [Acts 3:21], so we deem it utterly unlawful to draw it back under these corruptible elements or to imagine it to be present everywhere (Institutes, IV,xvii,12).
Calvin Mistranslated the Greek Text With His Latin?
8. Again, when it is taught, that Christ, in consequence of his ascension to heaven, is so contained and circumscribed with his body, in a certain place in heaven, that with it he neither can nor will be truly and essentially present with us in the holy Supper, which is celebrated here on earth according to the institution of Christ, but that he is as far, or distant from it, as heaven and earth are from each other; as some Sacramentarians, for the confirmation of their error, have willfully perverted this text, Acts 3, 21: Oportet Christum caelum accipere; that is, It behooved Christ to receive the heaven; and instead of this translation, they have rendered it; Oportet Christum caelo capi; that is, It behooved Christ to be received by or in the heaven, or to be circumscribed and contained in heaven, so that he neither can nor will be with us on earth in any manner with his human nature [source] (alternate source).
Calvin probably began his Acts commentary in 1550, because by November of 1550, he had a large part of it finished. The commentary on chapters 1-13 were published in 1552. Chapters 14-28 came out in 1554. According to T.H.L. Parker's study of Calvin's commentaries, Calvin relied on the Greek texts available to him at that time. Parker notes, "he favoured a literal translation, even to the extent of preserving the word order where no difference between Greek and Latin forbade it" (Parker, Calvin's New Testament Commentaries, p. 134). For a complete breakdown of the Greek texts thought to have been utilized by Calvin see Parker, chapter 6: "The Greek Text."
Calvin therefore did not prefer a Latin reading over the Greek text. It is believed Calvin did consult the Vulgate and the Latin text put together by Erasmus, but primarily his Latin translation was his own, directly from the Greek. Parker says Calvin's Latin text "has therefore a decidedly eclectic character" (Parker, Calvin's New Testament Commentaries, p. 190). For Acts 3:21 the Vulgate has "quem oportet caelum quidem suscipere" (whom the heaven must receive). Erasmus has "que oportet quide coelu accipere" (which is what heaven must receive). Calvin has "quem oportet coelum capere."It appears Calvin did not literally follow either the Vulgate or Erasmus, but this doesn't imply there was devious Latin from Calvin's pen perpetuating translation bias. See Addendum #2 below for exegetical considerations as to why the Latin Lutheran rendering is to be rejected.
The question I would pose in response to the initial Lutherans argumentation is why is their translation "It behooved Christ to receive the heaven" or "Christ must take possession of heaven" not the preferred English translation? Would Lutherans be willing to argue for a cross-denominational translation conspiracy? [As an interesting aside, the NIV 1984 translates the passage as, "He must remain in heaven until the time comes for God to restore everything...," whereas the 2011 NIV states "Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything..."].
1. Calvin did not translate the Geneva Bible of 1599. Certainly his was a great influence to it, but he did not translate the Geneva Bible (of any edition).
2. "Whom the heaven must receive" is not at odds with either Calvin or the Reformed tradition, but is a translation opposed to the Lutheran confessions. The Lutheran confessions are clearly opposed to it, offering instead their own curious English rendering which is at odds with the majority of English translations present today.
3. "Whom the heaven must contain" is probably an inferior English translation and appears to indicate a Reformed bias (though "contain" is within the realm of meaning).
4. Calvin did not mistranslate Acts 3:21 from Greek to Latin in his commentary on Acts 3:21.
The argumentation of Chemintz can be found here (see page 68).
Here are a few grammatical treatments of Acts 3:21. I plan on updating this as I come across sources. The only in-depth modern Lutheran grammatical treatment I'm aware of is that put forth by Francis Pieper: "As Pieper has pointed out, the Reformed "falsified the words" (SD VII, 119) by taking the Dexasthai as a passive instead of a middle voice; expressed in Christ was enclosed and circumscribed in heaven. For a detailed discussion of this text, see Pieper II,326–328." I do not have access to this volume yet. I'm speculating there are other Lutheran exegetical sources- perhaps my readers can provide me with some additional sources.
Thanks so much for this friendly reminder, but perhaps you've forgotten you've suspended TertiumQuid for a month?
Luther and Zwingli Had to Admit Mary's Perpetual Virginity Before the Marburg Colloquy?
James,Could you help me find a quote online that I am quite sure I read in a book about 30 years ago? At the Marburg Cooloquy where Luther and Zwingli argued about the Real Presence, before the fireworks began, both men had to prove they had an orthodox understanding of scripture by agreeing that Mary was a Perpetual Virgin despite the term "brother". I may not have it 100% correct but I think I am close. I have googled for it but to no avail. Are you familiar with this? Could you post it or email it? Thanks.
I don't recall ever hearing this before, but it sounded intriguing enough to look into. My suspicion is that the thirty-year old memory may refer to something from The Marburg Colloquy and the Marburg Articles (1529) [LW 38:3]. Luther came face to face with Zwingli in 1529 at Marburg.
In doing some digging into the history of Calvin's Commentaries, I came across a complete pdf of Calvin: Commentaries The Library of Christian Classics Volume XXIII. The library of Christian Classics is a 26 volume set put out by Westminster John Knox Press, Presbyterian Publishing.
"The older translations are from the hands of a number of scholars. Their English styles are different, and not of the same quality. Besides, the exegetical and theological predilections of the several translators have understandably colored their versions of the Latin text."
This volume was included in the massive The Calvin 500 Collection from Logos.
The old versions of Calvin's Commentaries are based on Calvin's Latin and French versions. The Latin versions were taken from the Corpus Reformatorum. This appears to be a link to a good chunk of the the Corpus Reformatorum.


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Home Brighton Ecotherapy for better mental health
Stamner Park is home to a diverse range of people and activities. On my walk to the Centre for Ecotherapy through the park, I came across a group playing ultimate Frisbee, traveller's caravans, cafes, walking groups and shrubberies. The benefits of being outdoors and reconnecting to nature are limitless. Jess Bayley, director of the Centre for Ecotherapy, and I sat on a bench in the Centre's allotment and spoke about its role in the lives of the people who work on it.
The Centre for Ecotherapy is a project that recognises the benefits of outdoor work for people with mental health issues. The people who use the Centre carry out social, practical occupational tasks connected to the outdoors, working together on the allotment. The social exclusion that people with mental health problems face can be severe and extremely damaging, so the social element of the group is vital.
Long term health problems can prevent people from being employed for extended periods of time. The group encourages people to try different tasks that need to be done on the Centre's allotment, from counting seeds to kindling fires, making sure that the person's needs are always foremost when tackling any task. Essentially, the people come first and the allotment is there to provide therapeutic benefits to those who work on it.
The group was started as a project by an NHS trust in about 2000 and passed from funder to funder, until the Centre for Ecotherapy took it on in 2014. With the contribution of grants from local organisations, the group runs two drop-in sessions a week, alongside a programme of courses and workshops.
The allotment that is cared for by those attending the drop-in sessions grows extensive fruits and vegetables, which those who tend the allotment can take away. This can contribute to nutritional wellbeing, which people with mental ill health may lack. The allotment also has a beautiful willow arbour, open green space and benches creating a nurturing space to be in, allowing people to "decompress", according to Bayley.
Local organisations such as Brighton and Hove Food Partnership, an ARTS Case-Study initiative, help to refer people who could benefit from social and therapeutic horticulture. This means the group may become embedded in future sign-posting practices of organisations as mental health care grows as a priority within Brighton.
But whilst the future is bright for the Centre, Bayley told me of how the group simply "works for people". A young man who was affected by very negative mental health came to the centre with the assistance of a social worker. Bayley described how he completely "fell in love" with making the fires that the group sit round to have coffee at. This activity allowed him to concentrate and try something new, and helping him "open up like a flower". He grew in his self-belief, applied for work and got into employment. Whilst Bayley does not attribute his recovery just to Ecotherapy, having time in nature as an element of his recovery allowed this man, like many others who attend the Centre, to work holistically towards an improved life.
As a new and evolving field, Bayley says ecotherapy can cause "massive life changes", and the sessions give people "four hours to feel held" in an often disparate and odd city. But the strangeness and creativity of Brighton, and its caring nature, means initiatives like the Centre for Ecotherapy should thrive in the city for years to come.
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Interesting article on APBT fighting
http://www.citypages.com/databank/27/1351/article14824.asp
Good discussion questions at the end of it.
Woody Taylor said:
That's a good article.
It goes over a lot of the info that's put out by orgs like "Out of the Pits," a group my daughter works with.
I guess everyone on this forum is aware that dogs like these make up a preponderance of the pack Cesar Millan has rehabilitated at his Center in East Los Angeles.
Yeah, nothing really new, most striking to me that it was from City Pages (my hometown alternative newspaper). I usually assume ******** and gangsters up here are too cold to train dogs.
No, nothing really new, but a good in-depth article from the frozen tundra, and definitely worth reading.
I think you deleted my post when you quoted it, but that's OK! :lol:
I thought I was just having a conversation with myself! Happens a lot on quiet days. Happens a lot, now that I think about it.
I like to pretend that I'm conversing with the dogs.
They ALWAYS agree. In fact, they think I'm just brilliant, and BTW, pass the treats.
I have a rescued Pug and he belongs to a training club with 30 other Pugs (not my GSD's club!).
One of these Pugs has home-cropped (butchered) ears. He was rescued from a SoCal drug/dog-fighting deal where the owner went to prison for drug dealing and left behind two mangled Pits and this mangled Pug.
The Pug had been used as bait in training the Pits to pit-fight. The ears were chopped off so the Pits wouldn't go for the dangly parts but would head for the throat and body, as I understand it.
Pugs are sometimes used because they have no real defense (flat face, small teeth, no aggression) and help build up the confidence of the young dog being trained to fight.
Sometimes other toy breeds who don't have bracheocephalic snouts are used, and their muzzles are duct-taped shut, again to give confidence to the young fighting dog.
I don't know what happened to those poor Pits, who stayed in the L.A. area, but I can guess.
P.S. The Pug is incredibly well-socialized and happy, with most of the extreme fear he came with now gone. He has wounds, but he was obviously rescued early in his "career." I shudder to think of his short, terrified, and miserable life, had his owner not run into a sting operation.
If I had a dime for #1, all the pits in my neighborhood, and #2 all the kids that have asked me to "Teach my dog to bite someone", I'd be a rich man.
I think I've gotten through to a few of them, but most don't have a clue why I wont do it. Really sad how a really high percent of these kids are being brought up with no feelings whatsoever.
Maren Bell Jones
Why is it that it's usually the scummiest trash (white, black, Hispanic, I don't care) that has pretty ruined the rep of the once people friendly breed? If it wasn't for the darn insurance and possible BSL with having these dogs (when I finish vet school, I'd like to live in or around Denver), my husband would probably love one for obedience and therapy work. I like my shepherds and huskies and he likes big goofy slick haired breeds like pitties, Rotties, and Danes.
Why do we fall, sir? So we might learn to pick ourselves back up.
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News brief: tornado destruction, coronavirus roundup, Vicente Fernández
We have a glimpse now of one community in a region devastated by tornadoes.
Tornadoes swept across multiple states over the weekend, including Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Tennessee. Kentucky suffered the most, with dozens of people reported dead.
INSKEEP: NPR's Brian Mann has been reporting from Dawson Springs, Ky., one of the communities affected. Brian, good morning.
BRIAN MANN, BYLINE: Good morning, Steve.
INSKEEP: What kind of community is it?
MANN: This is a town of about 2,500 people, Steve. And I have to say, it was just devastating to be there yesterday. I just want to describe this one moment. I was in a field that stretched as far as I could see, and it was just scoured rubble. And spread throughout were people just going through the debris trying to find anything that they could salvage under this blue sky, a cold wind blowing. It was just the harshest landscape. And it turns out, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear - his family comes from Dawson Springs. He spoke emotionally about this yesterday. And he also said, you know, this has happened across Kentucky, just a terrible loss of homes and lives. Here he is.
ANDY BESHEAR: We're going to have over a thousand homes that are just gone - gone. And that assessment is going to take some time. But we - I don't think we'll have seen damage at this scale ever.
MANN: And it's just not clear yet, Steve, how many people died in this storm.
INSKEEP: Now, who are some of the voices you heard as you walked through that field where a town had been with the people standing amid the rubble?
MANN: Yeah. I trekked up from that spot to a neighborhood where I found families also digging through rubble of their homes. And that's when I met Becky Jackson, who's 50 years old, and she was actually in her mobile home Friday night when the tornado hit.
BECKY JACKSON: It just blew me backward. And luckily, I come out without a scratch. I'm just sore.
MANN: And it really did seem miraculous to be standing there with her, her front yard choked with debris, some of it blown from miles away. And her trailer was just a twist of razor-sharp metal.
JACKSON: It's completely destroyed. I have nothing. My trailer's gone. My vehicle's gone. We have nothing.
MANN: I also stopped in at the First Baptist Church, where the pastor, Trent Keeton, had just wrapped up a prayer vigil.
TRENT KEETON: We were actually just counting, and we come up with at least 14 members that completely lost everything. In the midst of that conversation, somebody was asking - well, what about this person, that person? We've not been able to contact. So I know for a fact that we lost one church member.
INSKEEP: We've been listening to voices from Dawson Springs, Ky., where our colleague Brian Mann reported over the weekend. And Brian, I want to pull back the lens just a little bit because we do have a storm system that seems to have caused devastation in multiple states. And one of the other locations just in Kentucky was Mayfield. That's where people were working in a candle factory the night of the storm. Why were they still working even after the tornado warnings went around?
MANN: Yeah, that's a really good question, and we don't know yet. A company spokesman is saying there are confirmed eight people dead at that site. Another eight people, roughly, may be missing. It does appear that these factory crews were working flat-out to produce candles for the holiday season. This is also a factory, we've learned, that had numerous alleged safety violations in the past. But why workers were still on site and why the tornado shelter there didn't protect many of them, that's still unclear.
INSKEEP: As you were moving around the region, did you see signs that people were getting help?
MANN: It is still a big need here. A lot of folks, tens of thousands of homes still without electricity - in many areas, it's hard to find clean water and food. So even for people who didn't lose their homes, Steve, getting back to normal's going to take time.
INSKEEP: Brian, thanks so much.
MANN: Thank you, Steve.
INSKEEP: NPR's Brian Mann.
INSKEEP: OK. Some Americans are having trouble absorbing this news, but coronavirus cases are surging again.
MARTIN: Right. The U.S. is nearing 800,000 coronavirus-related deaths. The delta variant, obviously, is circulating still. Hospital admissions have increased about 23% over the last two weeks, rising sharply in the Northeast and the Great Lakes region in particular. And as scientists learn more about the threat of the new variant, omicron - right? - there's debate over whether to change the definition of fully vaccinated to include a booster shot.
INSKEEP: NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey is here. Allison, good morning.
INSKEEP: How quickly, as far as you can tell, is the new variant spreading in the United States?
AUBREY: Well, it's taken less than two weeks since the first omicron infection was detected here to find it in 25 states. Early data suggest omicron is at least twice as infectious as delta. And if you look at the U.K., cases are doubling every two to three days. Now, I spoke to Ali Mokdad at the University of Washington. He says if you look at this quick spread, it's a warning signal of what we could see in the U.S.
ALI MOKDAD: Everything the U.K. has been through, we have seen it here three weeks later. So we need to be very careful and take it seriously. Even if the new variant is less severe, the fact that it's going to infect more people, we're going to overwhelm our hospitals in winter in the United States.
AUBREY: Now, he's concerned that's what could happen here. Remember, right now, delta is still circulating with about 120,000 new cases a day. Some states, including Pennsylvania, Maine, already have hospitals stretched thin.
INSKEEP: So in response to this, I've noticed health officials have effectively been saying all those precautions we've been telling you to take, please really do them now or continue doing them - vaccinations, masks, distancing, that sort of thing. Are Americans becoming more cautious again?
AUBREY: No. I mean, New York brought back its mask mandate, and other places may follow suit. But without mandates, new survey data suggests many people, Steve, are just kind of done. I mean, the risk does not seem to be resonating. I spoke to David Lazer of Northeastern University. He's co-director of the COVID States Project.
DAVID LAZER: We do seem to have what may be a perfect storm this winter. We still have these very infectious versions of COVID floating around, but we're not really seeing in our data a hint of a spike in mask-wearing or avoidance of crowded places. Behaviors are still very relaxed.
AUBREY: He says there are some regional differences. In Utah, for instance, about 35% of people say they're masking. In Maryland, it's a little more than 60%. There are generational difference, too. Older people are more likely to take precautions to wear masks than younger people, and partisan differences continue.
INSKEEP: How are people responding to the continued advice to get vaccinated if they haven't already and get booster shots?
AUBREY: The administration has pointed to a high number of vaccinations, about 12 million shots over the last week or so. Dr. Fauci says booster shots are even more important now.
ANTHONY FAUCI: The somewhat encouraging news is that preliminary data show that when you get a booster, it raises the level of protection high enough that it then does do well against the omicron.
AUBREY: Now, people are still considered fully vaccinated after getting their first two shots or the single J&J shot. But Dr. Fauci says they will continue to evaluate this, Steve.
INSKEEP: Allison, thanks so much, as always.
AUBREY: Thank you.
INSKEEP: NPR's Allison Aubrey.
INSKEEP: Millions of people across Latin America and the United States are remembering Vicente Fernandez.
MARTIN: The Mexican musician died on Sunday. He was considered the last living legend of the Mexican ranchera. That's a style deeply rooted in the values and traditions of rural Mexico. He was beloved by millions, not only in Mexico, but across Latin America and here in the U.S.
INSKEEP: NPR's Adrian Florido is here. Adrian, good morning.
ADRIAN FLORIDO, BYLINE: Good morning, Steve.
INSKEEP: This seems to me to be a figure who was massively known in some communities, maybe not a familiar name at all in some others. Who was he?
FLORIDO: Well, Vicente Fernandez spent six decades singing Mexico's most popular songs on film and on stage. He sold 50 million albums. He won three Grammys. And he and his music were really synonymous with Mexico itself. And he was beloved for a lot of reasons, including his beautiful voice. Listen to it.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ELLA")
VICENTE FERNANDEZ: (Singing in Spanish).
FLORIDO: Pretty good, right?
INSKEEP: Mmm.
FLORIDO: Fernandez was known as the king of the ranchera, these songs about patriotism, honor, love and, most of all, heartbreak, the sorts of things that Mexicans love to sing about.
INSKEEP: Which makes someone symbolically important, someone that people would relate to or identify with.
FLORIDO: You know, he was a man who rose from poverty to become Mexico's biggest star. And yet he always maintained this affinity with the country's, you know, rural and poor and working-class people. He was also the symbol of the Mexican macho, very much a product of Mexico's patriarchal culture and society. And yet he wasn't your typical stoic macho man. His songs, especially his songs about heartbreak, they were often so, so vulnerable. Listen to how Leila Cobo from Billboard magazine described him to me.
LEILA COBO: He would sing these songs with so much pathos and so much emotion, and grown men would cry. And he would cry. Perhaps because he was such a macho man, you know, he could cry. And I think that made him all the more (laughter) iconic and legendary.
FLORIDO: Just hours after his death yesterday, Steve, his body had already been brought to this huge stadium in his home state of Jalisco. Ten thousand people streamed in in just the first few hours for a chance to say goodbye.
INSKEEP: Adrian, we've been talking about Mexico's greatest star, but I want to remember that a lot of Latin America is here, is part of the United States. And you're in Los Angeles, which has the largest Mexican American community in this country. How are people responding where you are?
FLORIDO: Well, Fernandez's death wasn't a surprise. He was 81. He'd been in the hospital for a few months after falling and hurting his spine. But for a lot of people, it still felt horribly painful, like losing the family patriarch. I was sitting in traffic last night, and every Spanish radio station was airing tributes. His songs were blaring out of the cars next to me. And on Univision's TV newscast last night, one of Fernandez's doctors cried as he described going back to the hospital where he'd been treating the singer, putting on some of his music and weeping, not just because his patient had died, but because that patient had also been his idol since childhood.
INSKEEP: Thank you so much. Really appreciate it.
FLORIDO: Thanks, Steve.
INSKEEP: NPR's Adrian Florido. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


The Scappoose Bay Watershed Council recently conducted a native plant sale. We missed it due to a major storm blowing through Chickadee Gardens, so I contacted them to find out about purchasing plants outside of the sale dates. They were very responsive and helpful; we drove out on a rainy day last week to scope out the goods. We were not disappointed. Let's have a look around.
The nursery---all volunteer, by the way---raises a variety of native plants for both sun and shade. Funds from plant sales help to keep the greenhouse going so they can grow plants for restoration projects in the Columbia River and Scappoose Bay watershed. The nursery was originally built with funding from the Bureau of Land Management and the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board. They involved high school students by locating the nursery on site at Scappoose High School and they work with students and volunteers to keep it going.
We met Amber at the site. She was incredibly helpful and let us know that we could come by any Thursday between 9 am and 2 pm to purchase plants. That's good to know. Anyone is welcome to buy native plants to enhance their own gardens. She welcomed us and let us have a look around to pick out what I wanted. The native plants grown here are all indigenous to Oregon and some to the wetlands of the watershed area.
Snowberry or Symphoricarpos albus looking great. This is a woodland plant with tiny pink flowers before the berries come on. The flowers, surprisingly, are favorites of hummingbirds. I have a lot of this growing naturally in the wooded areas of our property. I had it planted in the old garden in Portland, too. A lovely, small creeping shrub.
Goldenrod or Solidago occidentalis. Great for sunny meadows or wetlands, can grow around woodland areas as well.
Checkermallow or Sidalcea spp., not sure which one but I bought it. I had this at the old garden, too, and the bees went buzzy nutso over it. It blooms for a long period, is very easy and can handle less-than-ideal situations. I had mine in the hell strip, so lots of cars and dogs and full, baking sun.
Tellima grandiflora or fringecups. There is a large area under some tall trees where this grows quite happily in my garden. I will let it have its way as the alternative is weeds. En masse, it is quite charming if you have the room for it. It is common here in wooded areas.
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi or kinnikinnick. An evergreen groundcover or rather a trailing shrub in the manzanita family. One plant can reach about 15' wide, takes low water once established and can take sun or light shade. They don't want fertilizer, no Arctostaphylos that I know of does, so in the right place it thrives with little care. I bought three of these.
There were several native grasses, Juncus patens on the left, the short one in the middle is Deschampsia cespitosa, native tufted hair grass for shady gardens. I bought one to try it out, if it's successful I may get more.
Facilities Manager waiting out the shopping spree in style. Out of the rain.
Cascara or Rhamnus purshiana. It's a very useful small tree that provides fruits the birds argue over, fall color with golden leaves, and in spring, it's covered in small inconspicuous white flowers the bees seek out. I had not known this tree before we moved here and I'm pleased to report we have several on our property that we will certainly keep. One, unfortunately, fell during our last storm.
Spiraea douglasii, our native spiraea. Its pink blossoms are a great alternative to invasive butterfly bush (invasive here in Oregon), it does spread, however, so give it some room to stretch. It can be cut back annually to keep it smaller if needed. A wonderful deciduous shrub to attract beneficial insects.
Sedum oreganum, a tough ol' sedum of which I have a lot. I love this easy succulent, it handles a bit of shade as well as full sun.
They grow many trees, small and large.
More trees that will eventually be on the larger side.
One of the wonderful volunteers helping to propagate Oregon sunshine or Eriophyllum lanatum for a restoration project. Full sun, great drainage, sweet yellow flowers above silvery leaves. Tough and drought tolerant.
I am not certain what these are but they look good!
Foliage of Dicentra formosa or Western bleeding heart. A woodland plant that can go dormant in summer, but very sweet.
Gosh, there are roses, maples, geums - all kinds of great plants in there.
A wonderful organization with an impressive volunteer nursery.
There's super busy Amber who was so kind to welcome us to this little gem of a nursery.
As well as always needing volunteers, they seek out seed, so if you have any, they would be most grateful. They source seed from many local places to keep diversity strong.
Decent prices! To repeat myself, all proceeds go to refund the program and to grow plants for restoration projects. The program also supports high school students with solid hands-on work and plant-related experience.
This is an especially sweet poster.
There's my kinnikinnick, I also purchased a Geum macrophyllum, a Nootka rose, a Thalictrum occidentale or meadow rue, a streambank violet or Viola glabella, the sidalcea and a tufted hair grass.
Why include native plants in your own garden? For starters, they are adapted to your particular climate and conditions so already have a leg up on other plants. They co-evolved to live where they do, so chances are you will be successful if they are planted in the right place. They also host native insects that birds need to have to raise their young (they can't feed babies bird food!). If you are looking to diversify your garden and include wildlife and become part of the larger garden of the world, this is a great place to start. When I became involved with the Backyard Habitat Certification Program in Portland and added many natives to the old Portland garden, we saw a huge increase in bird activity. It's been thrilling and makes us feel a part of nature, involved and included rather than something that happens "out there." Plus, there are some incredibly gorgeous plants that happen to be native to where we live. I'm sure where you live there are choice plants, too. They also connect us to the landscape in a meaningful way.
If you are interested in visiting and buying plants at the Scappose Bay Watershed Nursery, contact them at 503-397-7904 or by email at amber@scappoosebay-wc.org. Volunteers are generally there Thursdays between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. Amber mentioned we could stop by and buy plants if they are there. I know they would love the support. The plants are healthy and native, they are beautiful and will do really well in my new garden, I am betting. Stay tuned for ongoing progress as they reach maturity.
Looks like a great sale! I need some kinnickinnick. We have County preservation sales here of natives, for very cheap, so I'll probably go that route this winter. I planted two Tellima when we first started our garden here, and it swept across the entire garden in no time. Completely covered every bare spot. I'm still pulling it out.


Corruption is "the greatest enemy of progress in our time" said Sir Eric Pickles, the UK Anti-Corruption Champion during his keynote speech at the OECD Integrity Week in Paris in April.
The focus of the OECD Integrity Week this year was "Global Trade without Corruption" and I was honoured to be invited to be a panellist discussing the new International Standard in bribery risk management – ISO 37001. This particular panel formed part of the European Symposium on Ethics and Governance and was chaired by Roxana Family, the Chair of Law and Business Ethics at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise.
The Integrity Week comprised a full itinerary of panels, workshops, exhibitions and discussions relating to the impact of corruption on global trade and what can be done to drive it down. A series of cross-learning seminars considered, in particular, how collective actions, civil society organisations and academic research can all help in the fight.
I was heartened to hear that Harvard Business School is working on a reliable methodology for valuing non-financial assets, in particular, putting a financial value on organisational culture. Organisational culture is the single most important element of an anti-corruption programme and being able to reliably demonstrate, and put a value to, this quality will make it easier to establish the Business Case for a corporate anti-corruption programme. Currently the Business Case is usually stated as a legal compliance obligation and, therefore, as simply a cost to the business. Once we can consistently articulate and financially demonstrate the value of an ethical organisational culture, an anti-corruption programme will be seen for what it truly is, a driver of corporate value.
During the Integrity Week a series of planning meetings took place in anticipation of the Global Anti-Corruption Summit scheduled to take place in London on 12 May.
Sir Eric highlighted the Prime Minister's personal commitment to the anti-corruption cause; "The international community has looked the other way for far too long. We need to step up and stop it".


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Political Turmoil in Britain Following Brexit
By Stephen Lendman
Major disruptions rarely happen, Brexit the latest, a surprise to most observers, reverberations felt in Britain, across Europe, in America and elsewhere.
David Cameron is stepping down as UK prime minister, though delaying his departure until October. Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership is threatened.
Over half his shadow cabinet ministers intend standing down on Sunday or later in the week – following Brexit and his sacking Hillary Benn overnightSaturday, his foreign policy chief, saying "he has lost confidence in" Corbyn through a spokesman.
Reportedly Benn was planning to lead a leadership fight to replace him. Labour's shadow health minister Heidi Alexander resigned after demanding a change in party leadership. Two Labour MPs submitted a no-confidence motion against Corbyn to be debated perhaps this week.
Benn issued a statement, saying "there is no confidence in our ability to win the next election, which may come much sooner than expected if Jeremy continues as leader."
Corbyn rejected calls to resign. Asked if he'd stand for reelection in a leadership contest, he said: "Yes, I'm here." Through his spokesman, he stressed he's "the democratically elected leader of the Labour party and will remain so."
An unnamed Labour source called Alexander's resignation hugely significant because, unlike Benn, she was a "loyal and pragmatic" member of Corbyn's team.
Her stepping down triggered other shadow cabinet ministers to follow suit, not easily replaced because other front-benchers may not fill the vacuum.
In her resignation letter, Alexander said "(i)t is with a heavy heart that I am writing to you to resign from the shadow cabinet. The result of the referendum last week means that our country is facing unprecedented challenges."
More than ever, our country needs an effective opposition which can hold the government to account and which is a capable of developing a credible and inspiring alternative to an increasingly right-wing and backward-looking Conservative party.
As much as I respect you as a man of principle, I do not believe you have the capacity to shape the answers our country is demanding, and I believe that if we are to form the next government, a change of leadership is essential.
Former London mayor Boris Johnson appears the leading candidate to succeed David Cameron, home secretary Theresa May his main challenger. Others may contest for the job.
Summer campaigning will follow, Tories voting in September for Cameron's successor, their choice announced at the party's early October conference.
An online petition for a new referendum so far got over three million signatures in 48 hours, an unprecedented response, continuing to grow.
A previous article explained Britain's government responds to all petitions getting at least 100,000 signatures. Parliament debates them, most often rejecting petitioners.
On Sunday, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said her country's citizens opposed Brexit on Thursday by a 62 – 38% majority.
She'll consider asking Scotland's parliament to block a motion of legislative consent, saying "(i)f (it) judg(ed) this on the basis of what's right for Scotland, then the option of saying that we're not going to vote for something that is against Scotland's interest, of course, that's going to be on the table."
Don't get me wrong. I care about the rest of the UK. I care about England. That's why I'm so upset at the UK-wide decision that's been taken.
But my job as First Minister, the Scottish parliament's job, is to judge these things on the basis of what's in the interest of people in Scotland.
Perhaps a second Scotland independence referendum will follow, the 2014 one defeated, Sturgeon adding "(a) second (one) is clearly an option…
In the meantime, she and other ministers will explore options with Brussels on ways "to protect Scotland's place in the EU."
Things are fast-moving at a time of global economic weakness. Major uncertainties remain, reflected inFriday's market turbulence, much more likely to come.
The sad reality is whatever lies ahead, monied interests will benefit at the expense of ordinary people, the way disruptive events always play out, rare exceptions proving the rule.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at [email protected].
His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III."
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at [email protected] His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network. It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs.


I can`t say that I have a career in this domain, it`s too big a word for me right now, probably over the years I will find out if I had made a career in art. Painting is a lifestyle for me. I was born with this gift inherited from my mother who as a matter of fact was my first teacher. Being a child, I painted on everything I could find, however life directed me to something else. I took my degreee in Biology and then I found a job in this domain. At that time at the age of 23 I realized that I was missing painting. I took my chance and started studying at UNArte, painting department, and now I`m in the last year of master.
Painting, because it`s the thing I can do the best and it fulfills me.
I do not pretend that I have a certain style, I paint the way I feel . In college I tried several techniques and styles in painting, but that was just to understand what painting means so that we can do our job well. I can say that I like to use figurative elements in my work because I like to build and I like to play with strong chromatic contrasts. There are many artists from different art movements that inspired me like Andrea Mantegna, V.Titian, B.Michelangelo, D.Velazquez, JADIngres, John William Waterhouse, G.Courbet, P. Gauguin, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, G.Klimt, Jean Delville, Henri Rousseau, Egon Schiele, O.Kokoschka, M. Chagall, Frida Kahlo, T.Lempicka, L. Freud, Balthus, Stanley Spencer, David Hockney, etc.
My inspiration comes from my feelings, from my life and from my knowledge. My first project was inspired from the duality of human beings and their retrieval by mirroring. It was a series of paintings that presented female nudes in the mirror. Also, there were other themes that I painted on demand for other people. Currently I`m working on a project called "Five Kingdoms". It`s a project that will probably last a longer time, because it is inspired from the field of Biology. This project refers to the five kingdoms in which the living world is framed, namely a vast and interesting domain from biology.
Mostly, I prefer the technique of easel painting in oil colors and water colors. In college I flirted with various techniques, but this one represents me the most. Before I start, I usually create a project plan, but while I work there might be many changes and so the end is always unpredictable. Actually, I believe that painting doesn`t have an end, that`s why all my projects remain open, leaving the room for a come back whenever it feels right.
I have no clear view about Romanian contemporary art. There are works that I like and I don`t like. This question can only be subjective because I`m also an artist and everything I do is called contemporary art since it represents our present time. And sometimes `good` art depends on the viewer, on his perception and reasoning of things.
Perhaps it is possible to live from art if your works are appreciated and if you are represented by an art gallery with a good tracking record. Of course, it might happen if you are lucky enough. Living from art is relative concept which depends on many factors, one of which and most representative is the perseverance and effort you put in it.
I do not know which trends are "in fashion", because fashion is always changing and is not something black and white. It is true that all artists consider that they have their own way, however everybody is silent about the fact that artists are the biggest thieves. We are stealing from everything that exists, then we combine it and create something new. Maybe this can be considered "in fashion", am I not right?
The most important exhibition for me was "Reflections" which included a project I`ve been working for about an year. My plan for the future is to create art and make a living from it.


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Matthias Rusterholz (Suiza, 16 de agosto de 1971) es un atleta suizo retirado especializado en la prueba de 400 m, en la que ha conseguido ser medallista de bronce europeo en 1994.

Carrera deportiva

En el Campeonato Europeo de Atletismo de 1994 ganó la medalla de bronce en los 400 metros, con un tiempo de 45.96 segundos, llegando a meta tras los británicos Du'aine Ladejo y Roger Black (plata).

Referencias

Atletas de Suiza
Nacidos en Herisau


A radiation survey is a physical count and size up of the radiators in a building. Here's how it works: Many years ago someone calculated how much heat loss was in each room of a building. The plumber then put in enough radiators to cover the heat loss on the coldest day of the year. Then he put in a boiler big enough to fill all of that iron with steam. He know how big the boiler had to be because he also knew how much square footage of iron he put in.
So now it's time to change the boiler out. But we were not the guys who put the radiators in upstairs. Those guys are dead. So we have to physically go around and count the number of radiators, the number of tubes or columns on each section, the number sections in each radiator, and the height of each radiator.
We then take this information and use a chart like the ones pictured here to come up with the square footage of "radiator iron" present. Then we can spec out the proper size boiler.
Doing a radiation survey is also a great way to find out if an existing boiler is big enough to handle a system modification like a room addition. Even if it is, are the pipes big enough to handle the extra load? A radiation survey can answer these questions.


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Peloton, the unicorn spin (and now treadmill) business that lets users work out via live-streamed classes, has today announced its first acquisition. The company acquired Neurotic Media, a B2B music aggregation and streaming service.
Neurotic Media is a white-label distribution and marketing platform, helping brands influence and engage customers via popular music. Essentially, the company connects a brand with a certain popular song or songs that align with their brand mission.
The idea here is that music is integral to working out. Given Peloton's focus on bringing a high-quality workout to the comfort of a user's home (or one of their studios), music plays a big role. But one doesn't often dabble in the music industry without either 1) experience or 2) loads of money. While Peloton has plenty of cash to go around, Neurotic brings nearly two decades of experience to the Peloton portfolio.
Peloton has been making moves as of late. The company launched an expanded iOS app called Peloton Digital, and has announced plans to expand into the U.K. and Canada starting in the Fall. Plus, Peloton opened a new Tread studio in NYC, with plans to open a massive multi-studio space on the West Side of Manhattan next year.


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Bützfleth is a village with 5000 inhabitants in the north of the city Stade in Lower Saxony.
It borders in the south to Götzdorf, in the northwest to Bützflethermoor and Depenbeck, in the north to Abbenfleth and in the east to the river Elbe.

History
Bützfleth belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, established in 1180. In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the Duchy of Bremen, which was first ruled in personal union by the Swedish Crown - interrupted by a Danish occupation (1712-1715) - and from 1715 on by the Hanoverian Crown. In 1807 the ephemeric Kingdom of Westphalia annexed the Duchy, before France annexed it in 1810. In 1813 the Duchy was restored to the Electorate of Hanover, which - after its upgrade to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814 - incorporated the Duchy in a real union and the Ducal territory, including Bützfleth, became part of the new Stade Region, established in 1823.

In 1972 Bützfleth was incorporated into the city of Stade, forming one its localities since.

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Stade


The cold and the wind in recent days in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, has allowed to sweep away the smog and once the clouds have gone away, in the background reappeared Mount Fuji.
Under normal conditions and especially during the hottest periods, it is virtually impossible to see the mountain from the capital.
It is then a relatively rare event, so enjoy !