October 2011
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What we eat...
Menu for the Week of Oct. 23, 2011
· All Items subject to change without notice
· Unless otherwise noted, breakfast is usually available on weekdays from
· 6:30 a.m. and on weekends at 9:00 a.m. Lunch is served at 12:30 p.m., and supper at 6:30 p.m.
Sunday, 10/24/2011
Breakfast Pumpkin Muffins, Grape Juice, Coffee ...
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"As grasslands diminish on prairies and savannas...
(photo by Francis Joseph Dean/Newscom from CSM, 10/24/11)
The Christian Science Monitor reports again on the potential of Allan Savory’s theories of intensive rotational grazing on a huge scale to not simply halt, but reverse, degradation of grazing lands. They also reported on Savory’s work two years ago when I gather it was rather more controversial. Savory received the 2010...
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Learn More: Mainstream
You can learn more about commodity trading and its important role in markets at http://www.investopedia.com/university/commodities/#axzz1beQxvu00 . Actually, for a free site Investopedia.com has excellent financial glossaries and tutorials on a wide variety of financial topics. Definitely mainstream economics and finance but pretty unbiased. It also offers helpful information for personal...
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Continuing our Commodities Focus
I regret that I was unable to post about World Food Day events last weekend but we were helping our son build his garage/shop.NPR didn’t forget. ”Speculators in the agricultural commodities markets are forcing grocery prices to rise too quickly and erratically, according to some top economists marking World Food Day on Sunday. ‘Excessive financial speculation is contributing to...
Eh Mera Punjab: Bhoond, Maruta Te Jugaad: Rural... →
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People of this border town have invented a vehicle “Bhoond” which could carry up to nine persons, besides the driver. A motorcycle without the rear wheel has been fitted to a specially designed body with two wheels. The body of the vehicle is built by local mechanics and costs about Rs…
“On the one hand there is our organized educated world of auto folks — people...
Agricultural Engineering →
ehmerapunjab:
Bridge on a Canal in Punjab, In pre independence period, the utilization of water for irrigation was developed on run off the river basis . Ropar Head works was constructed in the year 1874-82 for utilizing water of river Sutlej in the old Sirhind Canal system. Upper Bari Doab Canal (UBDC), one of the oldest canals in India was first built by Emperor Shah Jehan in the...
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The Spectacle of Speculation →
The commodities markets are wonderful creations for two types of participants - primary commodity producers who have or will have a product to deliver, and commodity buyers who need to secure the commodity as an essential input. Think soybean farmer and tofu maker. My economics are firmly rooted in the medieval era, but fortunately NPR brings a fresher perspective on the evils of greed.
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Eh Mera Punjab: Punjab comes to Peacock's aid... →
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Worried over their falling numbers, the Punjab government has initiated a peacock breeding project. “The government is quite concerned about the ill-effects of insecticides and pesticides on peacocks. Therefore we have started a special peacock breeding project in Malwa region…
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