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I have complained about my cheap Chinese tractor many times before. It is a horrible tractor that breaks a lot. It's almost as if it was designed to break. I really hate that tractor.
My tractor spent more time broken than working. Even when it was working, it was dangerous and difficult to use. I would often prefer to spend 20 minutes shovel a huge pile by hand rather than bother with the stupid tractor.
A few years ago, after having to tear the entire engine completely apart for the second time, I decided to simply stop using the tractor. I knew that the only way to keep the tractor in working condition was to not use it. So I got it working again then just let it set.
I wanted to sell the tractor but was afraid to because, you know, real farms have tractors. After a year of not using the tractor, I discovered that between the mower, pickup truck and muscle power, I can manage quite nicely without the stupid tractor. Real farm or not, I decided it was time to sell my stupid tractor. Unfortunately I had complained about it a little too much and I couldn't find any suckers on the island willing to buy it. Oops.
A few people acted interested but once they saw the tractor in action they ran away scared. I totally understand. I wouldn't buy that piece of crap. Even though I had it cleaned up and looking nice and shiny, that didn't make it any less of a piece of crap.
Not being able to sell it and not wanting to use it myself, the tractor just sat there. Then, after last year's pruning season, I needed it. All of the pruned coffee branches had been fed through a large chipper so there were giant piles of mulch at various locations all around the farm. The tractor, with it's scoop, was the best way to move these mulch piles out of the way.
I was very pessimistic at first but the tractor worked surprisingly well. I thought for sure it would break but it kept on going, almost like a real tractor. After a couple days of solid work I had all the mulch piles moves to where I wanted them. Some of the piles were even taller than the tractor. Maybe I had been wrong to give up on the tractor. If it worked this well, maybe I could use it after all.
Of course I had to brag to Valerie about the giant piles of mulch I had created. She acted impressed but I could tell she was just humoring me. She mentioned that a few scoops of mulch in her garden would be nice. Feeling confident, I said "No problem!" then hopped on the tractor and scooped up some mulch.
As I was dumping the first scoop of mulch into her garden, Valerie pointed and said something but I couldn't hear her over the noisy tractor. I looked down at the engine but didn't see any smoke or obvious leaks. Everything sounded fine too. Still, Valerie kept pointing and was yelling something about a leak. For this tractor, a few leaks are normal so I ignored her and kept on going. She kept pointing though until I eventually climbed off the tractor to take a look.
Sure enough, oil was pouring out of the engine. Not a little leak but a giant, pouring leak like someone was dumping out a bucket of oil. I jumped back on the tractor and tried to drive it back to the barn before it died but it was too late, the tractor had bled to death and wasn't moving anywhere.
Upon further inspection, I could see that oil leak wasn't a broken hose or fitting, it was the main seal where the engine is bolted together. Fixing it would require taking the tractor completely apart. Again. I was not happy.
Using the mower and a heavy chain we managed to tow the tractor back its final resting place. I definitely wouldn't be able to sell it now. So it just sat there for many months while I tried my hardest to forget that it existed.
Then I had an idea. I was having lunch with a farmer friend that is also an expert diesel mechanic. He was very familiar with my tractor and had repeatedly tried to convince me that it wasn't as bad as I made it out to be. So I offered to give it to him.
He didn't think it was fair to take it for free so I told him I'd sell it to him for a dollar. It took some convincing until he finally agreed. I've never collected on the dollar.
It didn't take long before my friend had the tractor running again. He told me the long list of things that he had fixed, many of which I already knew about and some that I didn't. Wanting to show it off, he climbed on the tractor and went to start it up. Nothing, not even a clicking noise. I just smiled.
I had replaced the battery the last time I overhauled the tractor so it was probably just a bad connection somewhere, an easy fix. I knew he'd get it working again. I also knew that I was glad that it wasn't my problem.
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To Make Better Policy, States Seek Better Death Certificates
Stateline Article September 9, 2015 By: Michael Ollove Read time:
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A medical examiner in Las Vegas prepares tissue samples from a corpse for viewing under a microscope to help determine cause of death. States are taking steps to improve the quality of information supplied on death certificates.
Robert Anderson may know more about death than anybody else in the United States.
Anderson is chief of mortality statistics for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Information about death flows into his suburban Maryland office from all over the country, detailing not only how many Americans have died—2,596,993 in 2013—but the causes of those deaths. Researchers use the information to learn what kills Americans, and public officials use it to craft policies to improve health and safety.
On the best certificates, the information is accurate and complete. That would mean, for example, that the death certificate would say not only that someone had died of a drug overdose, but that the drug had been heroin. If the departed had died of cardiac arrest, the certificate would say that death resulted from a heart attack and it would disclose that the person had been a lifelong smoker and overweight.
Unfortunately, many death certificates are incomplete or inaccurate. When multiplied across thousands and thousands of cases, such gaps can translate into a faulty understanding of mortality in the United States, and affect how money is spent on research and prevention.
"You might be developing programs that aren't addressing the real problem, in which case you are wasting money instead of really targeting it where it needs to go," said Anderson.
Unlike most countries, the U.S. does not have a centralized office of vital statistics. Instead, all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and New York City, as well as five U.S. territories, have their own offices, which collect information on births and deaths and send it to Anderson's office.
But with some prodding from the CDC, states have taken steps to improve the accuracy and timeliness of the death certificates, mainly through the adoption of electronic systems.
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Several recent studies support what many mortality researchers have long suspected: Death certificates often contain wrong or incomplete information.
A study published last year in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs found that death certificates related to motor vehicle accidents often failed to mention the involvement of alcohol. From 1999 to 2009, death certificates reported that alcohol was involved in 3.3 percent of traffic deaths. In contrast, the federal Fatality Analysis of Reporting System, which collects information on car accidents, reported alcohol involvement in more than 20 percent of fatal accidents.
Similar studies have pointed to the underreporting of conditions such as dementia and diabetes. Medical researchers and statisticians say people who complete death certificates often leave out some details because they want to spare relatives from distressing information. They also attribute deficiencies in death certificates to the absence of autopsies in the vast majority of cases, and to insufficient training of those who fill them out.
Filling Out the Forms
Death certificates themselves are largely standardized across the country, but the person responsible for filling out the certificate varies from state to state and even jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
The apparent cause of death is the main determinant of who will fill a death certificate. In cases of non-natural deaths, including homicides, suicides and accidents, as well as infant deaths and deaths from undetermined causes, it is generally up to a medical examiner or coroner to fill out the death certificate.
Some states, such as Maine, Maryland, Oregon and Virginia, have statewide medical examiner offices. Arizona, Iowa and some others have county medical examiners. And some states, like California, New York and Pennsylvania, have hybrid systems with both medical examiners and coroners.
For people who die a "natural" or illness-related death (the vast majority), the last medical provider attending the deceased—usually a physician, a physician's assistant or a nurse—fills out the death certificate. But most physicians aren't trained how to fill out the certificates correctly and comprehensively, Anderson said.
It doesn't help that in most cases, they must fill them out without the benefit of an autopsy, which is the most definitive method of determining the cause of death, but costs several thousand dollars.
As a result, many death certificates do not supply the level of specificity that would help medical researchers in their investigations into the prevalence and causes of deaths.
The details matter.
Complete and correct statistics on death are essential for understanding fatal diseases and injuries, said Marcus Nashelsky, president of the National Association of Medical Examiners and a professor of pathology at the University of Iowa. "Research using local, regional, state or national death statistics is a vital component of public health activities—ranging from education and prevention strategies for heart disease, diabetes, infectious diseases, injuries, and so on."
Anderson, who trains hospital workers to fill out death certificates, said medical residency programs should provide such training and doctors should be required to take online courses in death certificates as part of their continuing education requirements, although it is up to medical licensing boards in each state to establish such requirements.
Several states are trying to improve the quality of reporting on death certificates, most notably through state-run electronic systems. According to the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems, a nonprofit representing state vital records and public health statistics offices, 35 states plus the District of Columbia and New York City have searchable, electronic death certificate databases.
In states with an electronic system, a funeral director typically begins the death certificate process by providing identifying information about the deceased. After that, the system alerts the medical provider who last saw the patient to fill in the cause and manner of death.
Melissa Bird, chief of the Iowa Bureau of Health Statistics, said the electronic system enables her office to track pending certificates and to hurry along or provide assistance to medical providers who are lagging. Since Iowa's system was introduced in 2014, she said, the average time it takes to complete a death certificate has been cut from more than two weeks to six days.
A speeded-up process helps survivors too, since they often need death certificates to gain access to financial accounts, safe deposit boxes, insurance proceeds and more. In some states, a death certificate is needed before burial or cremation.
Iowa and New York City are the only jurisdictions that require all practitioners to use the electronic death certificate system. Some other jurisdictions have such requirements only for medical examiners, coroners and medical providers who filled out more than a certain number of them in the previous year. (In Alabama, for example, the number is 10.)
A number of the state electronic systems, including Alabama's, have digital prompts that ask medical providers for more specific information. "So if they put down just 'cardiac arrest,' the prompt says that we need to know more than that," said Catherine Molchan Donald, the registrar of the Alabama Center for Health Statistics. "Was it due to a motor vehicle accident, coronary artery disease? Our messages ask them to be more specific."
Anderson's shop at the CDC is putting the finishing touches on a new online service that will walk providers through the process of filling out death certificates electronically. The CDC is also providing grants in some pilot states to make their electronic systems compatible with the federal service. Anderson says it will be several years before the service is fully operational.
Some states have found that the electronic system itself isn't enough. Jeff Duncan, senior health information specialist in the Utah Department of Health, said that many medical providers who fill out death certificates occasionally have trouble remembering how to log in to the electronic system or how to navigate it.
In 2011, with a grant from the CDC, Duncan's department along with Intermountain Healthcare, an insurer with about half of the Utah market, embedded a death certificate as part of every patient's electronic medical record. Now providers can gain access to the death certificate through an electronic system they already use every day. Even better, all the patient's medical records are in the same place, which is useful in filling out the certificates.
A study found that the new Utah system reduced the time it took to complete certificates and provided more information. Utah officials are now trying to find funding to expand the program to the whole state, according to Duncan.
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Daines Statement on the UN Security Council Iran Vote
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senator Steve Daines today issued the following statement after the United Nations (UN) Security Council voted unanimously to approve the P5+1 deal with Iran, the world's leading state-sponsor of terrorism:
"The President taking the deal with Iran to the United Nations before Congress even had its first full day to review the deal is an affront to the American people. The UN's vote will not corner Congress into rubberstamping a bad deal. The actions taken by the President make clear that he is more concerned with his legacy than ensuring the safety of the American people. This deal does not make the region, Israel or our nation a safer place."
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When we arrived at this, one of my all-time favorite nurseries, it was picture perfect. No wind, a sunny day, crisp with a bit of warmth in the air and who was there to greet us? The man himself! Sean Hogan! He was busy collecting cuttings to take to the upcoming Yard Garden and Patio Show at the Oregon Convention Center. With a handful of hardy eucalyptus branches in hand, he greeted my mother with a big smile, to which she said, "Oh, you're famous! My daughter talks about you all the time!" I think I turned a little red. Sean is so kind. We talked for a bit about the hardy eucalyptus (soaking up their wonderful scent), talked about the virtues of arctostaphylos species then my mom got distracted by all the other cool plants surrounding us. She was off on a mission to find her agave.
Just one of the many many manzanitas or arctostaphylos species in the display gardens and, by the way, they were covered in bees. These hardy natives like it dry in the summer; they are great for West Coast gardens. Cistus and Xera Plants both have wonderful selections.
Here we go, into the Big Top!
I think at this point my mom stopped breathing (she was so excited).
I think she read every label on every plant. I'm not kidding. We were there a while.
Ok, note the large single Agave parryi below the Yucca rostrata. Nice, isn't it. At this point, she was still thinking small for an agave.
Opuntia, opuntia, how I love you so and how my fingertips hate you so. Also, here's an update: Luisa from the fabulous blog Crow and Raven I.D.'d the lovely plant in the foreground for us: Tephrocactus articulatus var. diadematus is the elongated pine cone -- gorgeous white flowers. The paper spine variety, T. articulatus var. papyracanthus. Thank you, Luisa!
Better shot of the beautiful agave. Price tag $125. But Oh So Gorgeous!
Spiky wonderland under the Big Top.
I learned recently that the white water spots on the plants at Cistus are from the water they use; it comes from the Columbia River. The spots come right off, so no worries.
Under the Big Top with Brodie (behind the wagon) coming over to say hello.
Brodie is a sweetheart. Kind of hard of hearing, but very kind and loves to get some rubs.
Mom scoping out each and every succulent under the Big Top. See what I mean? I think we'd been here for 45 minutes and she had moved about 8 feet. She really enjoyed seeing everything. She's a gal after my heart.
Oh, phormium, I love you so, but I am not ready to commit. Again. You are too fickle for me. I've had too many P.K.W.'s in a row (phormium killing winters).
Outside the plant tables were filling up nicely. Sean had apologies saying there wasn't much out there but as you can see, there is plenty.
Not quite a pollo, close enough.
What a gorgeous day to spend with Mom. At Cistus. All day.
Narcissus bulbocodium nodding in the sun.
This beauty is Camellia lutchuensis, fragrant camellia. So tiny, a beautiful special tea camellia.
Here are some Ephedra nevadensis. I blogged about a different species of ephedra that David saw up near Mt. Everest this past November, you can read about that here. I considered getting this in honor of that trek, maybe I'll go back. They're kind of cool.
Check out those buds! Stachyurus 'Magpie'. Why did I not buy it?
Here's a less cluttered but slightly blurry shot.
Corokia x virgata 'Orangerie' - a Cistus introduction.
Here's another work of art by Bay Area artist Mark Bulwinkle.
I know...another phormium photo. Eye candy for me. Have to share.
That wonderful, blinding late winter sun. Sorry East Coast friends, we feel for you. I wish we could send some your way.
So here's Mom's varied Cistus haul. She had a good time, to be sure. But wait, where's the agave? That's why we came here, after all. After going through every...single...single...agave, she picked out an Agave 'Sharkskin' at a decent size, but not that big. Then I suggested a couple smaller Agave parryi but with an ulterior motive: Get her to add up the cost of all the agaves and realize that she needed to put the small ones aside and step up and go for it. Get the big one. Go for the, in her words, "big honkin' agave!" And she did.
This agave moment is being interrupted by a cat. When my mom is involved, cats come first. Always.
Kitty! Don't know this cutie's name, but we've seen him/her before at the nursery. Seemed pretty darned contented.
Back to the big honkin' agave. Here it is! I think she should name it Carl. She doesn't like that name. What do you think it looks like?
**Sniff** I'm so proud of my now agave-addicted mom. She's a gardener, that's for sure. She even went out and bought a proper pot for it. I will help her get Carl into his new pot and onto his new patio soon and welcome him home.
**UPDATE** She named it Oscar. Acceptable name, Mom. I approve.
There's Deanna, the happy camper! What a great day out with you, and thanks for the gift of the Tsuga mertensiana or mountain hemlock from Cistus. I'll treasure it.
That's it from this corner of the world this week, what's happening where you are? Thank you for reading, thank you Mom for the great day out, thank you Sean for the warm welcome and "big honkin' agave!" (mission accomplished, you now have one more devoted fan), and happy gardening to all! May spring arrive to our East Coast friends soon. Very soon.
I bought two of those Ephedra this past weekend when I was there. Love them! Sounds like you had a fun day with your mom. That is a gorgeous Agave. I don't like Carl either. She should name it Barry. Or Parry. Or maybe Perry. Perry Como. Perry the parryi.
Heya Alison, you'll be happy to know Carl failed. He is now officially called Oscar.
What a great gift both of you shared! Oh I wish I could go to Cistus tomorrow. BTW, it's not the sun that we are missing, it's the warmer temps, at least in the midwest.
Closer to the start of this post, the image with the caption "Opuntia, opuntia, how I love you so..." -- what is the Opuntia that looks like elongated pinecones? I think I have to get that one.
Oh, Alan - I'm not sure! Maybe Danger Garden knows - or you can write or call Sean Hogan, he'll know in a heartbeat…or anyone at Cistus. I hope you warm up soon, I had mixed feelings about posting such a warm sunny post when the rest of the country is experiencing such horrible weather. Hang in there, spring is coming.
@ Alan: In case no one has answered yet... Tephrocactus articulatus var. diadematus is the elongated pine cone -- gorgeous white flowers. The paper spine variety, T. articulatus var. papyracanthus, is crazy-looking. I have both -- if you can't find one in your neck of the woods, give me a shout and I'll mail a section to you. Sections tend to break off if you look at them the wrong way :~) I'm exaggerating, but not much.
Tamara, your mom totally rocks. And she got a beaut of an agave! Sounds like you had an awesome time at Cistus. Finally warming up here in SoCal, just in time for Spring Break. Two weeks of non-stop gardening, yay!
Howdy Luisa, Wow, I just added your blog to my blog roll, thanks for commenting and reading! You have a great gardening blog! Thanks for your info here, I'm sure Alan will appreciate it. It was an awesome time with Mom, she's a trooper and we had a great time! Enjoy your spring weather and the break, happy gardening!
Oh I so happy you got her to get the big guy! It's a beauty! Such a nice way to spend a day with your mum. Well done T!
She got the big guy! She got the big guy! I'm so happy for her, it was a ton of fun. Maybe I'll turn her into a blogger yet!
This nursery tour was a sight for sore eyes. I'm an East Coaster at home because of a snow day. I dream of retiring in Portland and planting an amazing garden!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Maureen! I was hoping to at least spread a little sunshine rather than rub it in, that was my intent. Come, retire here, get a garden going and we'll all go shopping together! I hope you find some warmth and sunshine very soon and that winter releases its death grip on you all.
I'd rather visit a nursery with someone like your mom than people who want to get in and out quick - I always want to look at everything too. You mom made an excellent choice, even if I did wince a bit at that price!
Awesome post! I too ADORE Cistus! Such a beautiful Portland treasure. Sean's chandeliers hanging throughout the garden center are a great touch. I agree on the Phormiums being a risky choice for our winter (boo-hoo!). Time for hardier strains to be released, right?:) That Magpie Stachyurus is INSANE - I'm smitten!
Thanks again for sharing your trip!
Yay! Glad you adore Cistus, what's not to love? Such friendly, knowledgeable staff and Sean is just the best. Those chandeliers are and idea I will steal when I have my own greenhouse someday. Boo hoo for phormiums in winter too! Although, I must admit, many around PDX that I thought were dead dead dead after 2013/2014 winter have sprung up from the frozen depths of hell to rebound (took a long year to do so) and look pretty good so maybe....there's hope. I have Paul and Greg at Xera on a mission to come up with hardier strains, I think they're into finding one too.
What a fun day and resulting post. Your mom did quite well, I am impressed! Of course I'm always ready to jump in the car and head out to the nursery but your photos have me wanting to do it right now! Did you buy anything?
Your mom... I don't know her but I love her. May I suggest "Parry" for the Agave?


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BC's privacy law contravenes the TPP
Federal government summary states domestic data storage requirements are banned under TPP
VANCOUVER, October 8, 2015 – The BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) is expressing concern that certain legal requirements in BC's privacy law will be undercut by the now-finalized Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal.
According to a summary of the TPP posted by Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, the finalized agreement "includes provisions protecting the free flow of information across borders" and "prevents governments in TPP countries from requiring the use of local servers for data storage." But as FIPA has pointed out before, these provisions directly contradict privacy laws in both BC and Nova Scotia, which require that their residents' sensitive personal data—from educational records to medical records—be stored on Canadian soil.
"If the federal government summary is correct, then BC's privacy law is at risk," said FIPA Executive Director Vincent Gogolek. "It is unacceptable to have citizens' privacy rights bargained away in a trade agreement."
Section 30.1 of our Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) clearly requires public bodies to "ensure that personal information in its custody or under its control is stored only in Canada and accessed only in Canada." This section was enacted in 2004 after public outcry over the outsourcing of BC's pharmacare information to a US company.
There is no mention of reservations or carve-outs for BC's privacy law in the summary of the TPP released by the federal government.
FIPA has used Freedom of Information requests to try to find out how the BC government has been discussing the TPP and FIPPA, so far without success. The first request—which asked about a conference call between the Ministry of Citizens' Services and the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR)—yielded no records, and the second—which asked for Ministry of International Trade's records relating to the TPP's potential effects on FIPPA—has been delayed until November.
"We need to see the final text of the agreement to determine just what the federal government has signed on to," Gogolek said.
Fortunately, a Special Committee of the Legislative Assembly is conducting a review of FIPPA, which will include hearing from witnesses. FIPA will be appearing on Friday, October 16th, and will be encouraging the Committee to call government officials to speak on the record about this vital issue.
Vincent Gogolek, Executive Director
vincent@fipa.bc.ca | (o) 604-739-9788 | (c) 604-318-0031
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