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Larry Jacobs: Jacobs Farm/Del Cabo
No full textLarry Jacobs is the co-founder of Jacobs Farm/Del Cabo with his wife, Sandra Belin. He was born in 1950 in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles, California. As a young man, he owned and managed a tree nursery. When aphids infested some of his trees, a pesticide inspector sold him Metasystox to apply with a backpack sprayer. Jacobs temporarily became very ill from pesticide exposure. Vowing never to apply pesticides again, he searched for alternatives. Jacobs was lucky to find a mentor in Everett (“Deke”) Dietrick, a pioneer in the integrated pest management field, who taught him how to control the aphid infestation through IPM methods.Shortly after that, Jacobs left the nursery business to study soil science at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo. After graduation, he moved to Vermont to apprentice with Helen and Scott Nearing, world-famous grandparents of the back-to-the-land and simple-living movements in the United States. In Vermont, Jacobs met his future wife, Sandra Belin. After a stint in Guatemala helping bring appropriate technology to the Western Highlands region, he and Sandra moved to Pescadero, California, a small town nestled in the rounded hills above the Pacific Ocean in San Mateo County, where in 1980 they founded Jacobs Farm. Jacobs Farm is now the largest organic culinary herb producer in the United States, growing sixty varieties of fresh culinary herbs and culinary flowers at seven farming locations on the Central Coast of California.In 1986, Larry and Sandra were inspired to work with a cooperative of family farmers in Baja California, Mexico, to start the Del Cabo organic growers association. Together they created an international market for organic vegetables grown in Baja California for shipment north, especially during the winter season. Jacobs Farm became Jacobs Farm/Del Cabo.Now each of Del Cabo’s farmers earns between 100,000 a year and receives retirement benefits and health insurance for life. Del Cabo imports nineteen million pounds of cherry tomatoes and other vegetables into U.S. markets, and as far away as Iceland and Dubai. As of 2009, Jacobs Farm/Del Cabo farms a total of 3700 field acres, and 22 acres of greenhouses.In 2008, Jacobs won a landmark pesticide drift case against pesticide application company Western Farm Service, Inc. The court found that the contamination of organic crops caused by pesticides drifting after application violated the rights of the organic crop grower. Jacobs’ narration of the events surrounding that case is a critical part of his oral history.This oral history, conducted by Irene Reti on March 11 and June 10, 2008, at the Jacobs Farm/Del Cabo offices in Santa Cruz, was conducted over several evenings at the end of Jacobs’ busy days. He is a vivid and natural storyteller.In 2009, Jacobs and Belin received the Ecological Farming Association’s (Eco-Farm) “Stewards of Sustainable Agriculture” or “Sustie” award for their lifetime achievements in sustainable agriculture
Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek
No full textThis addition to Rodopi Presss Dialogue Series presents a collection of essays solely dedicated to Woman Hollering Creek (1991), Sandra Cisneross groundbreaking collection of short fiction stories and sketches. The emerging and veteran scholars who have.Intro -- SANDRA CISNEROS'S Woman Hollering Creek -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- I. Negotiating Borders: Issues of Sociocultural Cooptation -- Amphibious Women: The Complexity of Class in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- So You'll Know Who I Am: Inventory and Identity in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- The Chicana Trinity: Maternal Mestiza Consciousness in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- Author Dialogue -- II. Toys, Tiny Candies, and Telenovelas: Popular and Material Culture as Storytelling Agents -- Male and Female Roles in Mexican-American Society: Issues of Domestic Violence in "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Reading the Puns in "Barbie-Q" -- The Gummy Bears Speak: Articulating Identity in Sandra Cisneros's "Never Marry a Mexican" -- Author Dialogue -- III. Images of Masculinity -- "Are you my general?": Revising Representation in "Eyes of Zapata" -- Boys to Men: Redefining Masculinities in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- Author Dialogue -- IV. Images of Women: Role Expectations and Conflict -- Resemantization of Chicana Motherhood and Sexuality Through the Virgin of Guadalupe -- The Cries of La Llorona: Maternal Agency in "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Voicing Taboos in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories -- Author Dialogue -- About the Authors -- IndexThis addition to Rodopi Presss Dialogue Series presents a collection of essays solely dedicated to Woman Hollering Creek (1991), Sandra Cisneross groundbreaking collection of short fiction stories and sketches. The emerging and veteran scholars who have.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
UBC's Humanities 101 Program - Interview with Sandra Delorme
No full textChildhood educational shortcomings didn't stop Sandra Delorme from becoming a published author later in life. She credits UBC's Humanities 101 program (but deserves most of the credit herself)
Hoe de Fyra kon ontsporen: De valkuilen van crisiscommunicatie
No full textDe perikelen rond de hogesnelheidslijn Fyra tussen Amsterdam en Brussel, die slechts veertig dagen reed, werden slecht gecommuniceerd. Onderzoekers Sandra Jacobs en Pytrik Schafraad zochten uit wat er misging. En geven advies
The Importance of Wishes: An Interview with Author Sandra Magsamen
No full textChildren’s author and illustrator Sandra Magsamen holds a beloved place in the hearts of library professionals who know the impact and power of her loving board and picture books. As the author and illustrator of more than sixty children’s and adult books, Magsamen, trained as an art therapist, hopes to create books that offer people a way to reach out and connect in a meaningful and expressive way with someone in their life, and indeed she accomplishes this with her endearing new release, I Wish Wish Wish for You
Author Meets Critics: Sandra Braman
No full textThe publication of Sandra Braman’s Change of State signals the importance of the topic of information policy to the field of information studies. It also illustrates both the power and necessity of the kind of inter-disciplinary analysis that characterizes the field. This panel will provide an opportunity for both structured debate and lively discussion around Change of State and the important arguments it contains. Perhaps the most important one that it makes is that “trends in information policy both manifest and trigger change in the nature of governance itself.” That is, Braman points to how information flows have radically altered the nature of the traditional nation-state and its ability to exercise power (or fails to, as the case may be).
Because of i-Schools’ strong connections with the professional world of information institutions, it is particularly important for graduates to understand the far-reaching implications of this argument. On a practical level, graduates need to become conversant with both the varied manifestations of information policy, and the mechanisms by which such policy is enacted. Change of State provides a highly useful synthesis of all the major debates in the field of information policy (including identity, immigration, innovation policy, etc.), organizing them into a comprehensive analytical framework, along with extensive bibliographic essays.
The format of this session will involve each speaker presenting a 15 minute paper which will discuss Change of State from their own disciplinary perspective. Prof. Braman will then respond to the papers. The presentations will be followed by a question and answer period with the audience. The goal is to offer both structured debate around key arguments presented in the book, while offering an opportunity for the audience to interact with the speakers. The speakers are all leaders in the field, well-informed of Dr. Braman’s work, and chosen with the goal of maximizing disciplinary perspectives (Lievrouw: communication policy; Mueller: political science; Jackson: science and technology studies).Submitted by Heekyung Choi ([email protected]) on 2010-03-11T15:43:29Z
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The world of Sandra Cisneros
No full textTeaching guide about author, Sandra Cisneros, which includes excerpts of and a reader's guide for Cisneros' Caramelo; a reader's guide for juveniles; photographs of Cisneros; and a biography of Cisneros.UT Librarie
First person – Sandra Vidak
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First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Sandra Vidak is the first author on ‘Nucleoplasmic lamins define growth-regulating functions of lamina-associated polypeptide 2α in progeria cells’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Sandra Vidak is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Tom Misteli at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, investigating how the impairment of protein quality control mechanisms contributes to the progression of the premature ageing disease Hutchinson–Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS).</jats:p
Student voices: Photovoice as an alternative for understanding online learning design - part 1
No full textSandra Polushin discusses the preliminary findings of a photovoice research project with students with learning differences who seek to enhance online learning designs.presentationBetter Together Conferenc
Joiner, Sandra (SC 2089)
No full textFinding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2089. Scholarly papers (3) written by Sandra Joiner about Kentucky author, Janice Holt Giles. One paper is untitled; the others are titled; Janice Holt Giles: Woman of Contradictions and The Concept of \u27Place\u27 in the Fiction of Janice Holt Giles. Also includes two photographs of conference attendees
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