Height-Adjustable Desks (aka Site/Stand Desks) – 2014 Update.
In November 2012 – two years ago – I wrote an article on height adjustable desks. It consisted of my research on the subject – what options were available, useful articles on the topic, etc. For the last two years I have used a standing desk – essentially a drafting table – for work. It is adjustable, but it requires loosening bolts and is fairly involved – so I rarely change its height. I'm still looking at height adjustable tables (of the crank or electric variety) and decided to update my original article.
I know from personal experience and from reading various articles (cited in the bibliography at the end of this page) that standing all the time isn't an option for most people (including myself). A standing desk may be better for my health, but it certainly doesn't feel better for my knees.
If you are aware of additional adjustable height desks I have not included in this article, please let me know. I'm also always interested in reading any articles of real substance on the subject.
One site you'll definitely want to visit during your purchasing process is Comfortable Computing. Be sure to check out their interactive tool "Workspace Planner" – it will help you decide what height you need your adjustable desk to be able to rise to. You might also want to visit JustStand which has a nifty calculator for determining how many calories per day you would burn from standing rather than sitting.
Features: hand crank, 27.5″ to 47″ height adjustment, 30 day return guarantee, 1 year warranty against defects, 5 years on steel.
ModTable – $599 – Available in various sizes, uses crank.
Mini Mod – $599 – A smaller version of the ModTable, but since pricing is the same, not sure why you would ever buy one…unless you had a very small workspace.
Mod-E – $649 – An electric model instead of hand crank.
Features: electric lift mechanism, 26.5″ to 42.5″, 1.25″ high pressure laminate desktop, 300 lb. weight capacity, each leg has own motor, 20 min. setup, 5 yr. warranty.
Features: manual lift mechanism, 26.5″ to 42.5″, 1.25″ high pressure laminate desktop, 225 lb. weight capacity, 5 turns per inch (precision), 20 min. setup, 5 yr. warranty.
Also offers the SquaredUp line of desks (corner), UpWrite (surface can be written on with dry erase markers).
Offers a number of nice accessories as well.
S&H is $129 on electric, $99 on crank.
Features: 335 lb. weight capacity, 4 programmable presets, each leg has own motor, 1.1″/sec. lift speed, 23″ to 48.75″, 2 yr (motor) / 5 yr (frame) warranty.
Features:28-35mm/sec. lift speed, 275 lb. weight capacity, 23″ to 48.75″, 2 yr (motor) / 5 yr (frame) warranty, each leg has own motor.
These guys are expensive. I think they are going for the "Apple" of height adjustable tables.
Features: 30 Day Satisfaction Guarantee, 3 Year Warranty (depends on model, some come with 2 Year and the Fit with a limited lifetime).
Offers a number of other options including the Terra Pro, Air Pro, L Series (l-shaped desks), U Series (u shaped desks), solo (and plus), Up, Fit (w/treadmill), custom, and conference.
Suggests Bill Me Later, which allows for financing, brings costs down to around $50/mo. for the Terra.
Features: 22″-48″, 275 lb. weight capacity, 1.1″/sec. lift speed.
Two-Leg Short Base – $1450.
One-Leg Electric Base – $988+.
Three-Leg Electric Frame – $2890.
A number of options, prices appear to have increased significantly since last time I updated this article, but so has the variety of options available.
Features: Lifetime warranty (on material defects), 30 day full refund return period, free shipping.
Deluxe Height Adjustable Computer Table – $359 – Height begins at 24″, a number of variations available. Appears to be a little difficult to adjust – not crank or electronic.
Edison Electric Table – $1199 – Electric height adjustment, up to 50″ tall, available in 36″, 48″, 60″, and 72″ widths.
Split Level Adjustable Computer Table – $499 – Available in various sizes, uses grommets for adjusting height.
Versa Center – $300 – Available in various sizes, doesn't appear to use crank or electronic adjustment for height.
Adjustable Wall Mount Computer Station – $280 – This looks very interesting, but it concerns me that it appears to support only one monitor.
Deluxe Electric Life Wall Mount Computer – $700 – The name is a bit of a misnomer – it is a station, not the computer itself. Again, appears to only support one monitor.
Prices have increased significantly on a number of models (Edison from $899 to the present $1199). Not all prices have been updated (here); their hand adjustable crank model has been discontinued.
Offers a number of models, many are standing desks of fixed height. I like lots of leg room and these don't have it, but some might like them – they have extra shelving.
Muv 28″ Adjustable Height Workstation – $448 – 29″ – 34″ height.
Muv 35″ Adjustable Height Workstation – $479 – 29″ – 34″ height.
Muv Stand-up Adjustable Height Workstation – $505 – 35″ – 49″ height.
Starts around $1400 for a complete table, though you can also purchase just the bases for around $700. Has a decent variety of options including some wall-mount options. Site could use some improvement in navigability.
This used to be listed under Idea at Work and linked to The Human Solution. I've updated to point directly to the Workrite site and have eliminated the previous entry due to Workrite discontinuing the Proliftix line.
Elevate II – 28″ – 47″, electric, $1300.
Elevate Adjusta – 27″ – 53″, electric, $2850.
Elevate Corner – 27″ – 53″, electric, $4930.
Elevate Wrap – 27″ – 53″, electric, $3100.
Elevate Single – 27″ – 53″, electric, $2380.
Fit Adjusta – Pricing starts at $829, only goes up to 31.25″.
Fit Console – Pricing starts at $1179, only goes up to 31.25″.
They's also added a new line "Steve's Station" with prices starting at $3249.
Features: has an expandable frame (can become wider as needed), can have a programmable controller (save height settings), electronic up/down.
Starts at $599 with a number of accessories available to customize the unit.
Offers units which fit on top of one's existing desk. The Single (supports one monitor) starts at $275, at the higher end is the Pro Plus at $350 which supports dual monitors and has a keyboard lift.
Hand crank models for $599.
ThermoDesk Elemental – $549 – hand crank.
ThermoDesk Ellure – $619 – hand crank.
ThermoDesk Electra – $829 – electronic.
Features: 28″ to 45″ adjustable height; supports up to 225 lbs; top size is between 23.5″-40″ width and 49.5″-70″ length; choose between standard and deluxe memory control.
They have one base model, which costs $399 for the frame. Then one adds the top, laminate 30″x60″x1″ runs $110 while bamboo runs $180 for the same size, thus price for minimum configuration including top is $509.
This is an apples-to-oranges comparison table, it demonstrates price ranges of the products and min/max heights, but doesn't account for most other features.
AFC Industries Inc. – Offers what looks like professional office furniture that is height adjustable.
Alvin Professional Table – Looks to be a drafting table, available via Walmart, it ranges from 29″ – 45″. May be a bit of a pain to adjust, but the price starts at $199.
Biomorph – Sells several different models beginning at $995.
Cotytech – Sells several adjustable height desks, including a laptop desk that can go up to 41.9″ and costs $264.
Dania Furniture – Offers a desk for $1100, adjusts up to 52″.
ergodepot – $695 is the current sale price, offers free S&H.
ErgoTron – Offers desk mounts, full desks, and mobile carts. The full desks start at $737.
Gilbraltar – Sells bases for adjustable height desks. Pricing appears reasonable ($400+/-) but only go up to 39.5″. Can be purchased through Kitchensource.
Haworth – Available through Crate and Barrel for $299. Very inexpensive, but see reviews on Crate and Barrel site for downsides. Also sells an electric table for $1390 available from Sit4Less.
Humanscale – Starts at around $1800 for their "Float" desk.
idealworkspace – Based out of Singapore.
ISE Group – Sells several different height adjustable tables, both crank and electric, but one has to order through VARs, thus no pricing.
Jesper Office – Their "value" desk starts at $1450.
Maverick – Sells through VARs.
Mayline – Starts at $3000 for most height adjustable desks. The Soho Adjustable Mobile Computer Table is available from Walmart for $350 and goes from 14″ – 48″.
Pressfit Furniture – These are fixed height, cost around $399.
Right Angle Products – A variety of options, not clear on pricing.
Relax the Back – Offers the Sit to Stand Desk starting at $1600+.
Reo-Smart – Makes several height adjustable workstations, unfortunately they only go up to 37.8″ but the prices start around $570.
RightAngle – Has height adjustable desks, but fairly expensive.
SiS – Sells several adjustable height desks, unfortunately they are pretty expensive ($1500+).
Soma Ergonomics – Start at $1000+ and go up from there.
Steelcase – Sells the Airtouch, which is priced around $1500.
UpLift – Available via The Human Solution. Numerous different models available, the Uplift 445 starting at $749.
Beyond the Office Door – Seels the VertDesk, base is $549, once a top is added the price jumps to $689.
Desktop Elevator – Fits onto existing desk, starts at $829.
Health Postures – Offers units that are placed on top of existing desk.
iSkelter – Upgrades for existing desks to become standing desks.
StorkStand – Mounts onto chair, single monitor, $199.
Upstanding – Mounts on a normal desk, is height adjustable, costs $200 for standard (one monitor) or $250 for double-wide (two monitor).
Is electric better than crank? In my opinion, it may be better to get a crank unit (which is cheaper) as mechanical parts tend to last longer than electronic components. I wouldn't be surprised to see a dead electronic table five years down the road, but I'd hope the manufacturing quality would allow a crank table to be usable twenty years later.
How high and how low does my desk need to go? Comfortable Computing has a great calculator that uses your height to determine how high your desk should be when sitting and when standing.
ModTable – There are cheaper options available, but this appears to be the lowest priced high-end height adjustable desk I could find. I'm interested in their $549 crank unit. The one downside I see to these units is their minimum height of 27.5″. According to Comfortable Computing when sitting I should be using a keyboard at 25″ – so in sitting, I won't be ergonomically correct. I could fix this by affixing a keyboard try underneath the desk which would probably bring the level down 1-2″.
UpDesk – Another attractive option which offers a lower minimum height (26.5″, but still too high for me) and on the negative a lower maximum height (42.5″, which is enough for me). The unit is around $100 more expensive than the ModTable.
GeekDesk – I must admit a certain attraction to GeekDesk due to their popularity and their cool name…but the product is also solid. The cost is around $800, but the unit is electrically powered and it goes as low as 23 in. and as high as 49 in. – that seems about perfect to me for height minimum and maximum. On the downside, expect to pay $125 for S&H!
At this juncture I'm divided. I'd really like a hand-crank table (more reliability) but also think the min. and max. heights on the GeekDesk are the best. I'm leaning slightly towards ModTable b/c of the lower price and the hand-crank, but I'm still up in the air. What do you think? Are there other options I should be consulting? Other factors I should be considering?
I've transitioned into the full-time pastorate and stand at my desk as often as possible (I have a no-name drafting table right now) and sometimes my feet hurt from doing so. Here are a few articles I found that address this issue that others may find helpful as well.
Dr. Steve Rosenberg. When Your Feet Hurt, Everything Hurts. Ouch! Huffington Post, 4/15/09.
Rona Aquino. How to Keep Your Feet From Hurting After Standing. eHow.
Apparently there are "anti-fatigue" mats specifically to relieve this issue. I've purchased a Genuine Joe Anti-Fatigue Mat 2'x3′ for around $20, it seems to help but doesn't remove the issue.
A good Q&A is over at paleohacks on the leg issues caused by standing for extended periods of time. Another helpful Q&A can be found on Quora.
Reddit has a subreddit dedicated to Standing Desks.
Those interested in building their own desk may want to check out OpenDesk.
Quora has a topic dedicated to Standing Desks.
For standing I currently use a height adjustable drafting table I picked up at a garage sale. It goes up to approximately 39″ in height (3.25′). It is 36″ wide (3′) and 24″ (2′) deep. It allows for adjusting the angle of the desk up or down, something most height adjustable desks do not.
On my standing desks I have two Fellows monitor mounts which add another 4″ to the height.
For sitting I currently use a small desk, it is approximately 29″ tall (2.4′). It is 45″ wide (3.75′) and 20″ deep (1.7′).
I'm apparently shrinking, I'm pretty sure I was once 5'8″, but remeasuring, I'm clocking in at 5'6″.
According to Computing Comfort's calculations I should have my standing keyboard at a height of 40.5″ and the top of my screens at a height of 61.5″ – in other words, my keyboard is 1.5″ too low and my monitors are 2.5″ too low (after calculating in the height of my monitors at 17″).
According to Computing Comfort's calculations I should have my sitting keyboard at a height of 25″ and the screens at a height of 46″ – in other words, my keyboard is 4″ too high and the monitors are exactly right.
Below I've compared my three finalists – the first two are crank, the third electric. Only the third goes low enough for me, but I can mount a keyboard under the first two to correct this issue. The prices below include S&H.
UpDesk CrankUp Small 26.5″ 42.5″ 48″ 30″ $798 5 yr.
The number in parentheses includes the longer warranty which covers only part of the desk (e.g. in GeekDesk, it does not cover the motor past two years).
It looks like a 3M Knob Adjustable Keyboard Tray would be ideal, it has high reviews on Amazon and clocks in at around $100.
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Dave, great article and lots of good research. Wish I had your article to read when I was trying to make a decision on which standup desk to buy. Having said that, I'm very happy with the GeekDesk I bought!
North – Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad you have found the GeekDesk so satisfactory!
(https://myupdesk.com/deals) are having holiday sales now. Did you purchase a height adjustable desk? I'm also thinking about purchasing either MultiTable ModTable Manual or UpDesk CrankUp Small.
I actually just purchased a MultiTable ModTable Manual today. Their website's shopping cart wasn't working correctly, so I had to call to make the order.
Awesome article. Best I found anywhere. Moving forward with the Multi-table "L" shaped electric desk, as they use a Bosch motor for the legs, which is the only company I could find using a reputable company for the motors. Should the motor ever fail after the warranty, only $150 + shipping to fix.
Thanks for the compliment Tom! I actually ended up going with a Multi-Table as well (crank), I've been meaning to write a review sometime soon for the site.
I have been doing some research into which one to get and came across your article. Great article! I have narrowed it down to a couple and ModTable is is at the top of my list. After having used it for a while, do you wish you had gotten the electric one instead.
I spoke to one of their reps and she mentioned that the one other advantage of the electric one is that it is rated for higher load. Though, I think that that is not a big issue for me. I suspect the entire weight of the setup (including the top) would be about 60-70 lbs.
I've actually just purchased my second ModTable. My first was for the home office, this second one is for the work office. I started with the hand crank and stayed with it this time around. I still think it is the best choice!


For most of us, the first piece of jewelry we were gifted probably centered around a birthstone. While certainly sentimental, that pair of studs or delicate necklace from our grandma usually ended up at the bottom of our jewelry boxes when more sophisticated, less cheesy replacements came around. But looking back now, perhaps Granny knew something that we didn't. After all, jewelry holds two purposes – to pull an outfit together and to add personal flair — and a birthstone checks both boxes.
Thanks to a rise in the popularity of colored gemstones, a wide range of modern silhouettes are now available to put a refreshing twist on those once dated-feeling topazes and opals. So let the colorful baubles for every birth month inspire you to reconsider that childhood gift — either as an investment piece for yourself or a surprise for someone special. After all, the best presents often come in the smallest packages, and a personalized pair of drop earrings or a beautifully-crafted birthstone anklet will sweeten that little box even more.


There's some happy news coming out of Prescott Valley.
Amanda Misner, the widow of one of the 19 Granite Mountain Hot Shots killed on June 30, gave birth to a baby boy.
She was 7 months pregnant when her husband, 26-year-old Sean Misner, died. On Aug. 22, she gave birth to a healthy baby boy who she named Sean.
At 8:13pm, Sean Jaxon Herbert Misner was born. 6 lbs. 15 oz. 19 3/4 inches tall. Congratulations Amanda! We love you and the little guy so very much. Nobody could have been as strong as you needed to be through everything, except for you.
Source: The Sean Misner Memorial Facebook wall said.


A man was beaten and robbed as he walked through an alleyway in Windsor on Wednesday.
The victim, 33, was approached from behind by two men as he walked through an alley known as Clewer Fields, near Oxford Road, at about 10.10pm.
One of the men tried to grab a brown record bag he was wearing over his shoulder and then both punched and kicked him to the ground before running off with the bag.
The man and a passer-by then chased after the pair.
The mugger carrying the bag headed past the Vansittart Arms and the Bexley Arms towards Clarence Road and the other man down Albert Street.
During the chase the offender dropped the bag, which was retrieved by the victim. Nothing was stolen.
The victim suffered a small graze to his back which did not require hospital treatment.
The robbers are both black, between 18 and 25-years-old, around 6ft to 6ft 3ins, and slim.
They were both wearing loose, baggy clothing and either a hood or baseball caps.
DC Reese Williams, investigating the incident, appealed for witnesses and for information about the passer-by who helped.
He is described as white in his mid-thirties to early forties, about 5ft 11ins to 6ft, large build, with short blondish hair.
He was wearing a white T-shirt and running shorts over a pair of cycling shorts.
Call police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymous on 0800 555111.


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My Neck Of The Woods
New Zealand-made clothes designed in a high-country sheep station: Hayley Rhind talks about balancing farm life and fashion label White Chalk
Hayley Rhind moved onto a new farm with her husband and two young children. Then she had a brilliant idea for a clothing business.
Words: Lee-Anne Duncan Photos: Kate Macpherson
Beneagle, the farm where Hayley Rhind, husband Matt and their two children have settled, is a mere 20-minute careful drive from Blenheim, but it's a spot of bucolic beauty. Blenheim's bungalows give way to vineyards, then to the Wither Hills, and then the sealed curves of the road concede to gravel. "Some rocks and cabbage trees" is the cue to turn off to Beneagle. The drive — a farm track, really — has been freshly graded, the farm equivalent of laying out the red carpet. It winds and undulates past manuka and matagouri, rocks and reeds, past cattle stops and "watch for children" warning signs. It's a beautiful but stressful sweat-inducing drive, grading notwithstanding.
But not for the Rhinds. "I think I could drive it with my eyes closed," says Hayley. "I don't know how long it takes me to drive to the gate, but I reckon I knock about a minute off my time each year. Countdown did deliver the groceries once but said they're not coming back. That's a bit of shame."
Hayley and Matt Rhind moved to Beneagle, south of Blenheim, three years ago. They run sheep and beef and a growing garment business along with their children, Millie (8) and Jed (4), on 1000 hectares of rolling hill country.
Farm life in gumboots and jeans among dogs, horses, cattle, sheep and pet lambs, is a touch incongruous with Hayley's other role as founder, designer and director of White Chalk, her New Zealand-made clothing label. But Hayley's turned her hand to many jobs over the years (possum monitoring for the Animal Health Board, flax seed sales rep, farm worker) so she knows well the value of hard work and hunkering down for the long term.
As the daughter of market gardeners on the outskirts of Christchurch, Hayley and her brother Nathan (a mechanical engineer, but now also full time at White Chalk), bagged horse carrots to sell by the road. They were earning spending money for the family holidays, always taken in the winter — the only downtime for most farmers. Their parents granted them a little land planted in onions, and any profits were theirs in return for working the plot.
"That taught us that when there's a good market, you make lots of money. But if there's a year with disease in which onion prices aren't so good, you don't make much. It also taught us that if you work hard enough for long enough, you get the rewards," she says.
Now 33, Hayley's the first to admit the past three years have been a whirlwind of work — perhaps overwork. With some family help, she and Matt bought Beneagle, 1000 hectares of rolling hill country, moving in April 2015 when Jed was a baby. At the same time, Hayley's other new baby, White Chalk, was taking off, something Hayley hadn't planned for at all.
"I was supposed to be working on the farm as the 'boy', but White Chalk was so busy it made more sense for me to concentrate on that."
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White Chalk originated from necessity. "My friends were getting to the stage where they were buying designer clothes, but Matt and I were saving hard for the farm. Nathan, and his now-wife Ginny, was living in Hoi An, Vietnam, which is full of tailors. I asked Ginny, 'If I draw up some pictures for you, could you get me some clothes made?' So I drew some designs and sent them over. It was like Christmas when they came back.
"Then my friends started asking if they could get the clothes too. Ginny and I talked about starting a business and selling stuff on Facebook. I would design and sell, she would organize the fabrics, the factory and the shipping, and we would split the profits." That's still roughly how the company is organized, with Hayley holding half of the shares, and Ginny and Nathan the rest. "Because I'd been a sales rep, I decided to go on a selling trip, thinking if we got some retailers we could make a bit more money. We did a little photo shoot to make a catalogue and I sent it out to a few shops around the country thinking if we heard from a few, that would be quite good. A heap came back saying they'd love to see more.
"I went to see them, thinking if we got five shops I'd be quite happy. We ended up with about 25 shops, including one that did a huge order on the spot. I was acting cool, but it was terrifying — we still had to work out how to fill the orders. But it gave me the confidence we were doing the right thing." Ginny swung into action, organizing the factory to fill the order. Hayley joined Ginny and they visited a massive fabric market in Guangzhou, where they still go for fabrics.
"Before we went that first time, I'd spent hours and hours designing the collection, working out that I wanted a pink floral for this one and a blue stripe for that, etc. But that meant we spent hours trying to find what I'd envisaged, but couldn't. So we chucked out all the work I'd done and went back the next day just looking for prints I liked. Now I go with no idea what I'm going to do with the fabrics; I come home with the samples and when my creative juices are flowing I design the collection. It's fabric first for me."
The challenges didn't stop when that first order arrived. "It was a learning curve. The order arrived so late we had to re-package it and send it out to retailers without time to check the clothes. It was a nightmare. The retailers were calling saying the sizes were wrong, there were quality issues, that they 'loved the look but it's not right'. I was close to chucking it all in, but a few of the stockists were particularly supportive, telling me I was onto a good thing but needed a new factory.
Business partners in White Chalk and occasional baby-sitters, Hayley's brother Nathan Moore and his wife Ginny, are joined in a walk by Millie and Jed Rhind plus pet lamb Elizabeth. Both Hayley and her husband Matt grew up in Canterbury (he near Darfield, she near Christchurch) and didn't intend to buy a farm in Marlborough. Their first two years on Beneagle — a dryland farm — were drought years, but they survived.
"In the end, it became a positive thing because I gained such a good relationship with my stockists. If everything had gone well, we would have said, 'thank you, see you next time'. This way, I got to problem-solve with them. We stood by our products and 100 per cent refunded any returns." With a few collections under her belt — and a new factory performing better — Hayley decided to introduce some New Zealand merino to the range, so searched for a New Zealand manufacturer. In a climate where everyone is shutting down, it was fruitless until she was referred to Forward Fashion, right in Blenheim.
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At the same time, Ginny and Nathan were keen to return to New Zealand. They joked about producing the whole range at Fashion Forward. The jokes turned serious, and the first New Zealand-made collection of White Chalk was launched in August 2017.
"The logistics of producing down the road is just amazing. The only downside is we're growing so fast, keeping production up with demand is a challenge. We could double our sales if we could clone the factory."
All White Chalk's garments (as well as sister labels Ruby & Rain and Beaut) are made in Blenheim at Fashion Forward.
Garments from the current White Chalk collection.
White Chalk's models are Hayley's friends, not professional models. "I like that they're natural and everyday people," says Hayley.
Fashion Forward's owner Bronwyn Cairns is surrounded by fabrics.
Hayley's brother and business partner Nathan is also the label's photographer.
Sales are already healthy for a business that's only just reached its third anniversary. The first year they sold 4000 units, the next they sold 10,000 and this past year White Chalk racked up 30,000. Hayley won't talk profit, but says they broke even in their first year — something few new businesses can boast — and now have an annual turnover of $1 million, with White Chalk in 40 outlets nationwide plus her own shop in Blenheim.
White Chalk has a retail outlet and office space in Blenheim.
Hayley's the first to say White Chalk isn't high fashion. She's not a trained designer (although her diploma in agribusiness must help with the business side), she doesn't read fashion magazines, and doesn't even like shopping. But she knows how to design pretty, comfortable clothes, which are brought to life by a Wellington-based pattern-maker, sewn up at Fashion Forward and released each season to her waiting customers.
"We do pre-orders when we release a collection. We put the collection up on Facebook on a Monday night, but it's not in shops until Wednesday. We don't produce very many of each style and I know of women who set alarms for the pre-orders so they don't miss out."
Hayley and Matt love that they can offer their kids the farm lifestyle they grew up with. "We did wonder if Beneagle was too close to town. We'd envisaged our kids going to a country school, whereas they go to a Blenheim school. But it's the best of both worlds. Here, the kids have such freedom and we can just let them go. They learn common sense and they're good at making their own fun; riding bikes, making ramps, playing for hours in the dirt. They're pretty robust," says Hayley.
With Ginny now in New Zealand running the retail/customer service side of White Chalk, Nathan taking care of process planning, photography, the website and anything technical, and two sales reps selling, Hayley's hoping to spend more time back on the farm as "the boy". It's what she wanted after all – farm life.
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"It's the lifestyle. We're our own bosses and neither of us is very good at being told what to do. Our kids have freedom in the biggest playground and we get to work in an amazing environment. When it's freezing and we're out working, you sort of think, 'a nine-to-five job in an office may not be too bad'. But I couldn't do that. And Matt – he wouldn't last a day."
Millie rides her pony, Sage.
Indeed, Matt has the look of someone far more suited to the outdoors than a three-piece. He stays well away from the fashion business. "I only get involved to unload material," he says. A double garage on the farm is chock-full of stored fabric. Hayley and Matt knew each other as teenagers, then reconnected over Facebook when Hayley was away traveling, getting together in their early 20s when she returned. Ten years later, through possum monitoring, kids, the stress of a new farm, a massive mortgage and a galloping clothing business, "we're still married", says Hayley.
"It's been such a whirlwind. White Chalk taking off was not on anyone's radar. I've been a nervous wreck for the past three years. If someone had told us what it would be like, I don't think we would have done it. But Matt's put in the water systems and fences, and is more on top of the farm. The sales reps mean I'm not traveling much, and I know the business now. I feel like we've come out the other side."
FLYING AND BUYING
White Chalk's fabric comes from China, from a tiny corner of a massive fabric market in Guangzhou. Nathan and Ginny Moore — Hayley's brother and sister-in-law — travel four times a year to source fabric, with Hayley joining them on two trips. Hayley spends a night flying, two and a half days on the ground selecting, then another night flying back.
"The market is about 1.5 kilometres by 1.5 kilometres. It's huge. And that's just for samples. Anything I remotely like, I take samples back to the hotel, spread them all out and cull until I have what I like. Then, on my last day, we go back to the market and order, and that night I go home."
Nathan and Ginny then wait for the fabric to arrive from the warehouses. That can take a while. "We seriously under-estimated how long it took the first three times, but now we allow
10 days," says Nathan. The trio says they were lucky early to meet a man they call Mr X. "That's what he told us to call him," says Nathan. "You need someone like Mr X who can help."
"In the main, the sellers have been great," says Hayley. "China is geared up for repeat business. They want us to come back."
CHALKING UP SUCCESS
Along with White Chalk, Hayley has launched two affiliated labels, Ruby & Rain and Beaut. While Beaut's range of neutral-coloured essentials only launched in October, the plus-sized Ruby & Rain range "is going nuts – it keeps selling out", says Hayley.
"It's designed and fronted by my best friend, Meagan Te Wiata, who kept asking me to design White Chalk clothes for plus-sized women. I decided to do a range and it went crazy from the start. Meagan left her job and is working on Ruby & Rain full time." While Hayley says there's no story behind the White Chalk name — "it just popped into my head" — Ruby & Rain is more personal." Meagan chose Ruby because she's from Ruby Bay, and I thought of rain because in the summer if there's any talk of rain on the horizon, Matt's mood instantly changes and if it actually rains
it's amazing."
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Charles Lyell (1795-1875) was born to a wealthy family in England. He followed an interest in geology when a career as a barrister became impossible due to his bad eyesight. He was best known for his book Principles of Geology which popularized James Hutton's concept of uniformitarianism, rejecting evidence for a global flood.
Uniformitarianism holds that the current state of geological formations is mostly due to the same slow, constant processes that can be observed today such as erosion and deposition. This view is opposed to catastrophism, which holds that the main features of geology are due to catastrophic events like the biblical great flood. Modern mainstream geologists have moved away from strict adherence to Lyell's uniformitarianism, because of the overwhelming evidence for rare regional catastrophes and even a few global catastrophes. An example of such a catastrophe cited by mainstream geologists is the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (formerly known as the K-T event), marked by the K–T boundary in the stratigraphic record, including a pronounced iridium layer. Fossils of a great number of life forms that can be found below this layer have not been found in higher strata, which is seen as an indication of global extinction event, probably due to the impact of an asteroid.
Lyell published his influential Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man in 1863, in which he discussed geological evidence for the antiquity of mankind from the Paleolithic Age to modern times, endorsed Darwin's theory of evolution (Darwin was a close friend), and discussed ice ages in our current geologic age.
0.0152 chains per year, which he referred to as a "speculation". With this figure, he was able to claim that the gorge was 35,000 years old, much older than a biblical timescale would allow. The modern mainstream interpretation of the geological evidence (still rejecting any involvement by the global flood) is that Niagara Falls is about 12,000 years old, but that the rate of erosion has varied greatly, so that most of the erosion has occurred in the last 5,500 years.
Lyell misrepresented his opponents in ways that anti-creationists still do today. Historian of science Stephen Jay Gould records that Lyell accused his opponents of basing their arguments on the Bible, and persuaded his readers that to reject his uniformitarian views was to reject science.
In fact, the catastrophists were much more empirically minded than Lyell. The geologic record does seem to require catastrophes: rocks are fractured and contorted; whole faunas are wiped out. To circumvent this literal appearance, Lyell imposed his imagination upon the evidence. The geologic record, he argued, is extremely imperfect and we must interpolate into it what we can reasonably infer but cannot see. The catastrophists were the hard-nosed empiricists of their day, not the blinded theological apologists.
↑ This calculation does not allowing for higher erosion in the past, such as could have occurred in the tail end of the global flood.
↑ Catchpoole, David and Walker, Tas, Charles Lyell's hidden agenda—to free science "from Moses", Wed. 19th August, 2009Wed. August 19th, 2009.
↑ Larry Pierce, Niagara Falls and the Bible, Creation 22(4):8–13 September 2000.
↑ Statham, Dominic, Darwin, Lyell and Origin of Species, Thu. 5th November, 2009Thu. November 5th, 2009.
↑ Gould, Stephen J., Catastrophes and steady state earth, Natural History February 1975. pp. 16–17, cited by Dominic Statham, 2009.
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The world's oldest human DNA has been recovered from the thigh bone of an ancestor that walked the Earth 400,000 years ago.
It belonged to a hominin, or early human, known as Homo heidelbergensis and provides a new vital piece of the jigsaw in the story of evolution.
Using a technique for retrieving and sequencing highly degraded ancient DNA, scientists were able to reconstruct the almost complete mitochondrial (mt) genome from just two grams of bone powder.
The findings, published in Nature, are unexpected because as early hominins looked a bit like Neanderthals, their mtDNA was expected to share a common ancestor.
But the creature dug up in an underground cave in northern Spain known as the 'Pit of Bones' was found to share a common ancestor with the Neanderthals' mysterious Asian sister group, the Denisovans, dating back about 700,000 years.
From the missing mutations in the old DNA sequences the researchers were able to calculate when the 'Pit of Bones' hominin lived.
The DNA was recovered from a 400,000-year-old thigh bone dug up in an underground cave in northern Spain known as the 'Pit of Bones'.
The Pit of Bones a 12-meter deep vertical shaft which turns into an inclined passage 10 meters in length opening onto a chamber measuring 15 square meters.
The cave at the Atapuerca Mountains, or 'Sima de los Huesos' in Spanish, has already yielded the world's biggest collection of Middle Pleistocene fossils. Aa total of 28 skeletons, so further DNA extractions may be possible.
Mitochondrial DNA can only be passed from a mother to her children and produces the power plants of cells.
Considering their age and Neanderthal like features, the H heidelbergensis was likely related to both Neanderthals and Denisovans.
Another possibility is gene flow from yet another group of hominins brought the Denisovan mtDNA into the 'Pit of Bones' hominins or their ancestors.
DNA this old has until recently been retrieved only from the permafrost.
The study pushes our understanding of the genetics of human evolution some 200,000 years further back from the Late to the Middle Pleistocene.
The cave at Sierra de Atapuerca, 'Sima de los Huesos' in Spanish, has already yielded the world's biggest collection of Middle Pleistocene fossils, a total of 28 skeletons, so further DNA extractions may be possible.
They have been excavated and pieced together over the course of more than two decades by a Spanish team of paleontologists led by Juan-Luis Arsuaga.


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This year Marko Ilic encountered his biggest challenge yet – he took over as General Manager of the Queen of Montenegro, a hotel in Becici that will officially launch on the Montenegrin market next season as part of the Falkensteiner Hotels & Residences.
He joined the group's team in 2012 as an F&B manager. Since then, Marko has been walking his path patiently without hurry. In this interview, he talks about the latest in his career and in Falkensteiner.
Last June Falkensteiner started running the Queen of Montenegro in Becici. You started the redesign process in mid-October in order to start the next summer season under the Falkensteiner name. How do you plan to conquer the Montenegrin coast, considering that the competition is high?
Falkensteiner has extensive experience when it comes to beach holiday hotels. After Croatia and Italy – where our ten four and five-star hotels have been seeing success for years – it was time for Montenegro to come to the fore. The group recognized the market's great potential and saw the Queen of Montenegro itself as a worthy representative of our brand in the future. Our values will definitely find their place here, as well, and they – first and foremost – pertain to world-class personalized services and attitude towards employees, which is especially important to us as part of the traditional Falkensteiner concept. In this instance, the hotel will primarily be intended for adults. As of next season, the well-known state-of-the-art Acquapura Spa Center will be offering a number of novelties, which I would rather not reveal at this time. Let's leave it as a surprise.
Could you tell us more about plans related to the MICE segment and extra amenities?
and October). The halls and rooms will be completely renovated and furbished to the highest standards. All of them have natural light, making them even more pleasant to work and spend time in.
What potentials do you see in Montenegro regarding the opening and developing a new market for the hotel group?
its expansion in the Balkans from this spot is entirely logical and – if everything goes according to plan – I believe that we will not stop at only one hotel.
You were part of other Falkensteiner hotel teams, too. How would you describe working within the group?
Falkensteiner family – which conveys the best of what working in the hotel industry includes – is still active. That is why the very impression of actually being part of one big family contributes both to my enthusiasm and that of the entire team.
Finally, could you tell us what you are particularly proud of in your career or what would be your advice to your colleagues?
First of all, I am proud of the fact that my growth journey has been long and included dedicated work and gradual advancement. That is the only way to learn the essence of the hotel business, which is that you need to start from the basics and slowly make your way, which is precisely where you acquire priceless knowledge and skills in working with guests within a large and diverse team. This feeds into my advice for younger colleagues: Start from the very bottom, move up slowly, patiently, and thoroughly, and always grow and build your skills. This will inevitably lead to success.


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Water crisis dividing friends, neighbors
By DANIEL BLACKBURN
Ken Currell gazed forlornly at vegetation surrounding the five-acre ranch he and his wife, Lynn, operate on the southeastern edge of Paso Robles, and responded to a visitor's comments about the property's beauty: "It was," he said.
Currell's well, which had been delivering fresh water for decades, went dry in June. In the meantime, larger landowners in the area are dipping ever deeper into a shrinking aquifer with bigger and bigger pipelines, constructing gargantuan reservoirs and filling them to the brim.
Hardham Ranch reservoir under construction.
On this day Currell wrote a check for delivery of 2,750 gallons of water from a truck to partially refill his tank, and was fielding phone calls from other private water purveyors.
It's a matter of survival now, Currell said.
The Currels are part of a growing cadre of landowners and small ranchers and agriculturists in the North County who are suddenly finding their heretofore-dependable water sources going dry in the face of relentless new demand, vineyard development and a complete lack of regulation.
While Currell doggedly tried to maintain his shrinking water supply, county supervisors were meeting in San Luis Obispo to consider an emergency ordinance to deal with what many people are calling a critical water shortage.
Currell didn't attend the standing-room-only meeting.
"I'm afraid I'd lose my temper," he said.
Frayed nerves and outright anger punctuate emotions in the North County these days. Currell believes one of the major reasons for the area's water woes sits right across the road from his parched land: the 747-acre Hardham Ranch.
Since the early 1900s, the Hardham Ranch had been used for dry farming and cattle grazing. But early last year, following the death of matriarch Clare Hardham, the property was sold to Beverly Hills billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick.
The Resnicks own one of the world's most expansive agricultural empires, Paramount Farms, and their holding company Roll International includes FijiWater, Justin Winery, and a host of other entities.
The Resnicks also are key players in a controversial water development project in the Central Valley called the Kern Water Bank. Resnick's Paramount Farms is partnering with several other large property owners to develop the privately-held water bank.
A multi-pronged lawsuit has been launched by opponents to the water bank, who contend the state's Department of Water Resources has created a situation which constitutes a gift of public resources and funds.
Today, the Hardham Ranch is undergoing a complete transformation en route to becoming one of the biggest vineyards in an area of huge vineyards as nearly every square inch of the property is being irrigated and planted. Large-capacity pipes stretch end-to-end for literally miles as workers scramble to connect and bury them.
And two large reservoirs, said to hold a total of 184 acre feet of water (or 60 million gallons) have been dug, both lined with thick plastic sheeting to prevent seepage.
A reporter drove onto the property twice recently, seeking a tour and an interview with ranch officials.
A man who identified himself as Jorge, the ranch manager, said the request was being considered, and then asked the reporter to leave the premises. A large steel gate clanged closed as the visitor retreated.
Several neighbors of the ranch who have tried to have a look at the development have been sternly rebuffed.
"They don't want people knowing what's going on," said one neighbor, Daniella Sapriel. "The reservoirs created to serve the new vineyards are tucked away from sight; berms make them invisible from the road."
Sapriel's well went dry in mid-June, and she has been forced to dig it deeper.
"The month before, our neighbors to the south went dry," Sapriel wrote in a July letter to county supervisors. "We ran a hose over to water their horses. Now they are running a line of hoses to our property to keep our landscaping from dying while we wait for our new well to be completed."
Sapriel was one of dozens of people who commented to supervisors who now are considering the emergency ordinance.
In comments she had written earlier, Sapriel said the North County is already in crisis:
"It has already hit, although the shock waves may not yet have reached all areas. Unless our elected officials and our wine industry leaders stop mouthing platitudes and immediately commit to taking whatever emergency measures are available — including limiting the size of new ag wells and reservoirs, and voluntary moratoriums on new plantings that require increasing water use — it will be too late to stop the economic domino effect of a dwindling aquifer."
Sapriel's comments were greeted by applause from the packed supervisors' chambers, but her sentiment was not shared by others in the sharply-divided crowd.
Supervisor Frank Mecham, whose district covers a large portion of the Paso Robles aquifer, said he was concerned about angry divisions being created by the water shortage, which has pitted large owners of vineyards and row crops and property rights advocates against smaller well-water-supplied business owners and individual residences.
Mecham flew over the Hardham Ranch several weeks ago "to try to see what is taking place there."
"It's pretty sizable," he said.
In some regions, dry wells are rendering properties valueless; some owners have already abandoned their dried-up land.
Supervisors voted Tuesday to bring a draft emergency ordinance forward on August 27. Such an ordinance could place an immediate moratorium on new development while a longer-term solution to the shrinking aquifer is sought.
Supervisor Debbie Arnold, expressing reluctance to move toward wide-ranging sanctions, said she believes many people need a short-term answer to their water needs in the form of financial aid for deepening wells.
Ken Currell is not optimistic that a solution will come soon enough to save his property.
"Most of what is being talked about now are low-interest loans to dig deeper," he said. "I'm not sure I can afford such a loan now."
Sapriel said loans probably is not a saving answer.
"Solutions previously floated, including low-interest loans, reduced fees, and 'new water' sources and infrastructure, are not realistic," she told supervisors. "Who wants more debt, low-interest or otherwise, added to already heavy mortgage obligations burdening property values… values that were finally recovering?"
No matter what supervisors decide later this month, there will be no impact on the water mining now taking place on the Hardham Ranch and elsewhere. Properties with development already permitted — "in the pipeline" — will be exempted from any new ordinance.
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Supervisors direct staff to craft Paso groundwater ordinance
Screwed e like the Resnicks. Boycott All Justin wines for a start. We don' need neighbors like them around here. Also boycott Fiji weather which they also produce.
We are talking Paso Robles here not SLO. Also, talking about people's immediate need for wells……
While everyone is pointing fingers at each others pond, SLO has 23,000 acre-feet of the same water already impounded and is signed up for another 23,000 for a total of 46,000 acre-feet. Does anybody see the big hole in this debate? This hole will drain onto the Dalidio project and others yet the talk is all about regulating our challenge to their taking.
As a County Gov, the best immediate short term fix would be to just fill the needy storage tanks, for those who have proof of a Certificate of Completion Report, for their dry well and let the river flow from the Salinas Dam into the basin.. Atleast this recharge will serve as viable data to measure the impact the Salinas River has on this so called Basin. NOW is a good time for this, real time, test.
This may show cause for SLO's application for 46,000 acre-feet to never be upgraded to a license.
The city of San Luis Obispo should never have been allowed to steal water from up north. They should have been mandated to hook up to state water when they had the chance…
The same can be said for other areas, as well. Nipomo CSD is one of them. Twice NCSD brought State Water up for vote and twice the people voted it down, believing less water meant less development.
Of course, less water didn't mean less development, as the NCSD board of directors just kept issuing water permits, even when it was clear the groundwater basin was in overdraft.
Now it is too late for Nipomo, and probably other cities and districts in the same predicament, to get on the State Water system.
SLO does not have their license yet for the 46,000 acre feet and if there is a REAL water emergency the 23,000 acre-feet, currently retainable, behind the Salinas Dam should be allowed to flow.
The Paso Ground Water Basin does not incllude this water storage yet the permit for this storage has a live stream requirement that extends to Paso Robles. Yes, it is just that rediculous. Everyone within the Salinas water shed should work together and demand stopping the flow to SLO, fighting each other will not remedy the fact that SLO is taking your water rights.
Shifting the water rights to the cities is a SMART GROWTH requirement and easily done with a dash of apathy or as the courts may say, negligent property owners.
Take Fred Strong's advice from one of last year's CC meetings:
"Break off an iceberg and float it down to Paso".
Gotta shake your head..
Don't forget Mr. Strong's strong affinity for justifying elaborate projects (even though the city can't afford to maintain any of them) by saying, "Hey! We got grant money! We're using grant money so it's OK."
If Fred Strong can find a federally-subsidized Iceberg Relocation grant, he'll do it for sure. Then Paso's leaders can keep trudging ahead with Beechwood/Oleson, Uptown Project and expanding those wineries…even though we have a severe water shortage. According to Mr. Strong, an iceberg will solve our woes. :)
R.Hodin
Strong could even grow some iceberg lettuce!
tomsquawk
"Any real estate people on here that can answer that question without lying for their own best interest?" we'll see
I'd love be a fly on the wall listening to the sell.
gotta be right up there with bond salesmen
What I don't read is what this water issue and lack there of is having on agricultural land values in the
region. Any real estate people on here that can answer that question without lying for their own best interest?
topper01
"Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over." Mark Twain
2STOP IGNORANCE
I would like to hear a little about what take people have on the mineral rights and how it would be fair and equitable to enforce quantities? Should a 1 acre parcel have the same water allotment of someone who owns 1000 acres ect? Should it be illegal to sell water from your well to others ? Oh ya the City already does that? and other private water Co such as the Spanish Lakes Development ECT.
obispan
The Resnicks are neither "friends" or "neighbors".
That's pretty harsh. I'll bet they have a few in Beverly Hills.
WiserGuy
More like Bel Air.
rigrhonda
Big difference, eh?


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A Different Kind of Fishing, Part 1
Posted byVJM September 14, 2020 September 13, 2020 Posted inBible Interpretation, Bible Stories, Christianity, Spirituality, Stories, WorldviewTags:Apostle Peter, Mashiach, mikvah, Peter meets Jesus, Short Stories based on the Bible
Copyright ©Vincent Marquis, 2020
by Vincent Marquis
(Note: This post and the next two will be different from the usual fare in worldvyoublog.com. I am sharing a short-story based on the first meeting of Yeshua/Jesus with several of his first disciples. The story is a re-imagining of those encounters based on the New Testament. Literary licence accounts for a my not totally strict adherence to the accounts in Matthew, Mark, and Luke.)
Shim'on was dog-tired and discouraged. The dawn was breaking and the night's fishing had been pathetic. Nothing to show for twelve hours work except sweat, a chill in his bones, sore muscles, and bad humour. His stomach growled with hunger. He had long since eaten his midnight lunch of bread, dried fish, and figs. Their water jar was almost empty, although there was Kinneret to dip into. As he carefully coiled his net, he was looking forward to a cup of wine at home along with his morning meal.
He barked at little brother Andreas to get a move on in pulling in the other linen-weave net. The sooner that got done, the sooner they could dock the boat, get ashore, clean the nets, and go home to eat and rest.
Ya'akov and Yochanan had had no better luck. In their boat about fifty cubits to starboard, they too were hauling in their empty nets. Time to call it a night.
The last few weeks of late spring had been pretty slim, and that would make for a hard summer if it kept up. With the nets finally in the boat and placed in their spot behind the mast, he and Andreas put their cloaks on over their tunics and sat at the oars to head for shore. Their destination was the fisherman's wharf in the center of their home town, K'far-Nachum.
K'far-Nachum boasted a large market district where most anything could be bargained for, even pigs from the Decapolis for the Gentile residents. Right next to the market was the fine new synagogue with its boundary wall, its colonnaded courtyard, and well-tended garden. The congregational assembly hall was large enough to accommodate hundreds at prayer. The interior decor included a finely tiled mosaic floor laid out with colorful natural scenes to glorify Adonai as Creator. It was complemented by the fine craftsmanship of the ark where the sacred scrolls were kept. Unlike poor villages and towns whose synagogues could afford only the most essential scrolls of Torah and a great prophet like Yeshayahu, K'far-Nachum's had many.
Although the town fell under Antipas' Tetrarchy rather than the Roman Governor of Syria or his subordinate, the Procurator of Y'hudah, the great shadow of Rome was never far should trouble arise. While the majority of the locals were Jews, there were Greeks, Syrians, Nabatæans, Bedouins, and a few Phoenicians. Most Romans only passed through, but there was a small contingent of Roman auxiliary troops camped on the outskirts. Antipas was glad to have them there. They ensured the roads remained free of bandits. Troops marching south to Y'hudah from Syria were not an unusual sight either.
Most residents of K'far-Nachum, as throughout the Galil, spoke at least two languages. Shim'on and his partners spoke Aramaic among themselves and were conversant in Greek. They could all read the Hebrew scrolls in synagogue as well, although Hebrew was not a daily language.
Shim'on and his partners had prospered since settling here. Fish were always in demand and the lake was usually generous. The P'rushim and Scribes disdained the Jewish Galileans as unclean and ignorant, but Shim'on was a good man who followed the Law as best he could. His irritating younger brother had lately been going off for days at a time to go listen to that rabble-rouser, Yochanan the Immerser. The man was considered a prophet by many, the first in over four hundred years. His message was mainly about repentance, telling people to undergo mikvah and prepare for the coming of someone greater who, he said, would baptize with fire! Presumably he meant the long-expected Mashiach.
What in the name of the Blessed One did "baptizing with fire" mean? He could understand undergoing a ceremonial mikvah to symbolize a desire to live a pure life for Adonai. He hadn't done mikvah yet, but he sometimes felt a tug in that direction. He was well aware of his faults and that, as an example of Adonai's chosen people, he fell far short. About this baptism by fire he had no clue. It sounded downright unpleasant! But prophets were always rather cryptic.
He was a man with responsibilities, with some property, with a place in society in this part of the Galil. He was the respected heir to a family business that his grandfather and his father, Yona, had worked hard to establish in neighboring Betsaida. After Yona had retired, Shim'on had moved to K'far-Nachum, a more strategic location, and the move had proved a good one. Andreas had followed him. Shim'on had a decent house, a good wife, and a charming little girl. His wife Shoshana's mother had recently come to live with them because she was now a widow and her health had been deteriorating.
Brooding, he pulled on his oar. "Life is basically good," he told himself, "so why do I feel unsettled, as if I'm missing something? What is this? I'm not like this! I'm a joyful fellow. I love what I do. A few weeks of bad catches are part of the game. It will all balance out in the end. Besides, this is what Adonai has given me, so it is wrong for me to grumble and be unhappy."
But still he brooded. He made no pretention about trying to live a perfect life like the P'rushim who paraded around all day in prayer-shawls with long t'alit, making sure everyone heard them and saw them as they went to synagogue or scolded someone for violating some minute rule. Who made all those rules anyway? He could remember few such minutiae from the hearing of Torah in synagogue, or even in the rabbi's teaching for his now long-past Bar-Mitzvah.
The nature of his work and the people he dealt with exposed him to "uncleanness" every day. He did his best not to build up resentment or hold grudges, to let his eye wander after pretty young maidens or, worse, the sensuous women of the night that lived in a certain part of town. They could be seen walking around the market to advertise their availability. There were occasional days or nights when he had been tempted to sneak off. He shook his head to clear it. Shoshana was a good woman and mother and all he could desire. Little Hannah was the delight of his eyes.
"Stop it, idiot!" he mumbled aloud to himself.
Andreas, sitting on the seat at the other oar on the opposite side of the mast with its folded sail and tied down spar, looked over at him quizzically. The morning breeze was up now, making the rowing a little stiffer. "What are you mumbling about, Shim'on?"
"Nothing important," he answered. Then, to change the subject, he asked, "So do you think the Immerser is the Mashiach?"
Andreas was emphatic. "He's a real Prophet, and when I listen to him, I feel like I'm hearing the words of Adonai! I like to listen to him, and you should come sometime. We could do mikvah together with him. It would do you good. I'm planning to do it soon – next time we have a few days without fishing to do.
"And he says very clearly that he is not the Mashiach. He says that Mashiach is already among us, and bringing an axe to cut down the trees that don't bear fruit. Really, Shim'on, you should come to hear him. He knows how to put those arrogant P'rushim in their place. Sometimes he really gets them mad, tearing a strip off them about their hypocrisy. And he lays into Prince Herod too about his sleazy behaviour with his sister-in-law."
Shim'on laughed, his humor improving. Andreas had a knack for lifting his spirits. He was blessed to have such a brother who was also his best friend. He had always wondered why his father had given Andreas a Greek name. Yona had only said that it was to honor a close friend who had died in the time of his youth. There was a story there which he longed to know. His father had had some sort of adventure with a Goy friend as a young man, but no one ever talked about it.
Family and neighbors had gossiped about Yona naming a son after a Gentile ever since. It made Shim'on self-conscious. He and Andreas had to be extra careful so as not to bring more shame on the family by being accused of compromising.
He glanced behind him. They were still at least eight hundred cubits from shore and the morning breeze was getting stiffer by the minute. The sun was over the horizon and now giving some warmth. His quick glance to shore had shown him a bit of a crowd gathering. What could make that happen at this hour? Andreas had seen it too. He had especially good eyesight and piped up, "Say, I think that new rabbi from Natzeret is on the beach. He has quite a group there with him."
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Vincent is a retired High School teacher and an ordained Christian minister in Ontario, Canada. He is an enthusiastic student of History, life, and human nature. He has loved writing since he was a kid. He has been happily married for over 45 years and has 4 grown children and nine grandchildren. He and his wife ran a nationally successful Canadian Educational Supply business for home educators and private schools for fifteen years. Vincent has published Study Guides for Canadian Social Studies, a biography of a Canadian Father of Confederation, and short semi-fictional accounts of episodes in Canadian History. He is currently working on a number of writing projects in both non-fiction and fiction. Vincent is a gifted teacher and communicator.	View more posts
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By Stacy Burnett '20, New York Daily News 2/2/2021
BPI Alumna Stacy Burnett '20 describes the value her BPI college education has had on her life and her career, and why it's important that New York State reinstate tuition assistance for incarcerated students in this op-ed that was first published in the New York Daily News and is reproduced below.
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My dedication to serving and protecting the health of the people in New York City began in a cramped classroom in Taconic Correctional Facility as prisoner 09G0379. Today, I am one in an army of public health advisers working to save the lives of our neighbors.
We are exhausted. Our floors aren't getting vacuumed and we are living off frozen dinners and fast food, but reducing the number of COVID infections is worth it. Our work is largely invisible; success in public health is often what you don't see. In the era of COVID, every empty ICU bed is an indication we are winning.
There were over 300 women in the prison where I received my education. Their pathway to prison was sewn into the fabric of their origins much the same way the pathway to college is stitched into middle and upper-class communities. Obtaining even a high school education was formidable when every day presents a struggle against homelessness, food insecurity, abuse and even technology knowledge gaps. Our failure to address the inequities in these communities contributes to incarceration.
Just 15 of those 300 women were able to attend BPI. Expanding funding for prison education ensures a prison compound can hold the same promise as a college campus. We can break the cycle of inequity and tap the potential of people in prison with a simple investment in college coursework.
Amid the chaos of social and political reckonings, the restoration of Pell Grants for incarcerated people in the latest federal stimulus package is one positive response to the pandemic. It's time for New York to do the same and heed the clarion call for change by restoring Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) funding for higher education in its prisons.
Expanding prison education opportunities through TAP restoration would have an exponentially beneficial outcome and substantially improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers. My education allows me to remain financially secure at a time many people are struggling. What matters even more right now is that my education has made me an empathetic, diligent and highly efficient professional.
Bard Prison Initiative sets high expectations for its students, and when we return to our communities, we bring those lessons home with us. I accept every challenge, take the tough cases, keep up with the ever-evolving science of COVID and field questions off the clock. I'm usually one of the last to leave my shift, and there is a poorly scrawled sign that reads "You are saving lives" next to the light switch.
Pell restoration alone is not enough to correct the inequities baked into many of our systems. I've heard people suggest that TAP restoration for prison education is somehow robbing ordinary families of the opportunity to afford college. Nonsense. This is not a radical notion. TAP restoration for prison education simply follows the course-correction undertaken at the national level and acknowledges the inherent dignity of all people.
New York has a long road ahead in its recovery. COVID did not create the current social, health and economic inequities plaguing our most vulnerable people; the pandemic simply revealed how embedded the disparities are. Now is the time to honestly assess how we arrived at this moment, and then summon the courage to reimagine a better future for our hardest-hit communities. Restoring TAP funding for prison education invites everyone to the table of redemption — even those responsible for eliminating the funding a quarter-century ago.
Burnett is an alumnus of Bard Prison Initiative.
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Michael Ledlow, director of the state's Bureau of Plant Industry, said hemp growing is ideal in drier states such as Kentucky, which has already set up a state hemp program. But farmers here, with the wetter climate, may find more difficulty. In addition, there aren't yet any federally-approved pesticides for hemp.
"It's a very, very risky crop," Ledlow said, and farmers who decide to grow it should be willing to lose "every penny you put in."
There are also concerns from a law enforcement perspective, said Department of Public Safety Commissioner Marshall Fisher. "You can't tell the difference between hemp and a marijuana plant," he said, which could potentially allow someone to grow marijuana under the guise of cultivating hemp.
Law enforcement is also concerned about the proliferation of CBD oil that includes higher levels of THC than advertised, or other illicit drugs, said John Dowdy, director of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics.
"No one knows what's contained in it, because there are no quality controls for these products, currently," he said.
But there are potentially big health upsides to CBD oil, explained Dr. Richard Summers, associate vice chancellor for research at University of Mississippi Medical Center. A recent UMMC clinical trial of ten children who had daily seizures found CBD oil caused "dramatic decreases in the number of seizures." Some didn't have a single seizure for months. The university is planning additional research, Summers said.
CBD has swiftly become a billion-dollar industry. It's been promoted for its anxiety and inflammation benefits, potentially offering relief for a variety of ailments. Still, the medical science remains hazy.
It's this booming CBD market that has many Mississippi farmers intrigued, Gipson said. He said most farmers he's talked to don't want to fully convert their fields to hemp — just 40 to 100 acres or so.
That's the idea that Joe Drake, a soybean farmer from Port Gibson, has for his fields. After the meeting, he said he remained interested in the idea of growing about 100 acres of hemp.
But he does plan to follow the task force's discussions closely going forward, especially related to CBD oil. He's curious if farmers might face consequences if they grew hemp that accidentally had an illegal level of THC, or if they sold to an unscrupulous CBD oil producer who sold a contaminated product.
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Future of Humanity Institute: Is It Heading Towards the Right Dierction?
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What You Need to Know About the Future of Humanity Institute
What is the Future of Humanity Institute?
The Founder of FHI
The Main Threats to Humankind According to FHI
If you have been paying attention to the global news, you will know that there's no shortage of potential threats that could theoretically wipe out humankind. A huge asteroid that's coming towards Earth and whose impact could wipe out humanity? Computers and robots taking over the world like in many works of science fiction? These are just some of the real threats that could pave the way for a catastrophic extinction event. So it is not a surprise that there's a branch of academia that is dedicated to studying these scenarios in an effort to prevent them from happening in the first place.
We're talking about the Future of Humanity Institute. In this article, you will learn about this research center and how they can help with predicting and preventing potential risks to humankind.
The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) is a branch of the Faculty of Philosophy and the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. The institute is founded in 2005 by Prof. Nick Bostrom. The main mission of the FHI is to make use of tools of philosophy, mathematics, science, and social sciences to look at a bigger picture of the human civilization. The institute believes that humanity has the potential to experience a long and flourishing future. However, there are numerous crucial considerations that shape that future. The Future of Humanity Institute is entrusted with the mission to shed light on these considerations.
Nick Bostrom is the founder of FHI back in 2005, at the age of 32. He founded the institute two years after coming to Oxford from Yale. If there's a poster boy for the threats against humankind, then it has to be Bostrom. He always tends to attract press attention because he always writes a great deal about the extinction of humankind. So much that his work has earned him a reputation as a secular Daniel – a doomsday prophet if you will.
With his growing audience, he finds himself giving keynote talks on extinction risks at global conferences. Recently, he became an advisor to the Study of Existential Risk at Cambridge while working with renowned physicist Stephen Hawking.
With the ever-changing world, all sorts of threats are rearing their ugly heads. FHI makes sure that they're on top of these threats for humanity's long-term future. Some of the most likely threats according to the FHI are:
Extinction Risks by Nature
Many movies have depicted that the Earth will be wiped out by some intergalactic, cosmic force. However, Bostrom and the FHI are not too concerned with the extinction risks posed by nature. This is rather surprising since every 50 years, one of the stars in the Milky Way brilliantly explodes into a supernova. If just one of our local stars goes supernova, it could easily blow away planet Earth with its thin atmosphere. Lucky for us, the Sun is in a good position to prevent such catastrophic event. Basically, the solar system is in a bubble of space and time.
Nuclear weapons have the honor of being the first technology to pose a threat to humankind. Although the threat of a nuclear war can have catastrophic effects on the world, FHI believes that they're not an immediate threat to the world. Now that the Cold War has ended, it is a lot less likely that there will be an exchange of fissile weapons that could lead to our extinction. While there are still thousands of nukes out there, they're not enough to level the planet and target all humans.
There's one technology that is taking most of Bostrom's time as of late. The idea of computers taking over the world is a common theme in science fiction. However, according to the experts, machine superintelligence is the most likely threat to humans. According to Bostrom, there's a 50% probability that human-level artificial intelligence (Strong AI) will be developed by the middle of the century. There's a good deal of uncertainty around it, so it can happen sooner or later.
Superintelligence can pose existential risks which mean that artificial intelligence can trigger an extinction event. This is why Professor Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates have all warned us about the dangers of artificial intelligence.
As the world progresses, there is no doubt that the threats to our very existence will only multiply. As you can see, you can forget about cosmic catastrophes and nuclear wars, artificial intelligence is the most likely threat. It is both humanity's important achievement and a daunting challenge. The Future of Humanity Institute is doing a great job to make sure that we as a species stays on top of these existential risks.
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