Frank Archibald MacDougall

Frank Archibald MacDougall (16 June 1896 – 27 June 1975) was a Canadian pioneering forest ranger in Ontario, Canada. Known as the "flying Superintendent of Algonquin Park", he was important in the development of the park system in the province and for the use of airplanes in forestry.
Early life.
Of Loyalist descent, MacDougall was born on 16 June 1896 in Toronto, Ontario. He was raised in Carleton Place, Ontario, where he was active in sports, becoming an expert canoeist as a member of the Carleton Place Canadian championship war canoe team for 1/2 mile in 1913 and 1/2 and one mile in 1914.
After a year in the 42nd regiment as a student, he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 17 September 1915 and arrived in England on 14 February 1916. He fought in the Battle of Vimy Ridge in the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Canadian Division. On 6 September 1917, he was admitted to hospital suffering from the effects of a gas attack, returning to duty on the 16th in time to join the Battle of Passchendaele. He returned to Canada and was demobilized on 16 June 1919. On medical advice due to the gassing, he decided to pursue an outdoor career, and entered Forestry at the University of Toronto.
While working in the James Bay survey in the summer of 1922, he observed the Great Fire of 1922 around Haileybury.
Upon graduation in 1923 (B.Sc.F.), he immediately entered the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests and was assigned as Assistant District Forester in Algonquin District, which includes the Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario.
MacDougall died on 27 June 1975 in Toronto.
Career.
It was in the Department that MacDougall saw the value of aircraft for forest protection and patrol and took the opportunity of becoming a pilot, eventually achieving an instrument rating and the equivalent of a commercial pilot's license. He later moved to Sault Ste. Marie as Forester Inspector and then in 1926 was appointed District Forester. In 1931 he was assigned as Superintendent of Algonquin Park, and District Forester of the Algonquin area. From his first days in Algonquin Park he was provided with his own plane, a Fairchild KR-34 open cockpit biplane, together with a mechanic and maintenance personnel. That airplane is now in the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre.
The open airplane was used for patrol purposes on floats in the summer and skis in the winter. For the latter MacDougall had fur lined pants up to his armpits, fur lined boots, fur lined helmet, fur trimmed goggles and his mitts were also fur lined up to his elbows. He would return from a winter trip in this gear shivering with cold but the poaching trade took a sharp decline. Around 1939 he finally acquired a closed cabin airplane, the Stinson Reliant SR-10, and this served for many years until, during a routine maintenance, serious corrosion problems were discovered and the plane had to be retired.
MacDougall was an accomplished amateur musician, who also made violins as a hobby. He added a woodworking corner to his Park office where he made violins in his spare time. He used his knowledge of woods to good effect and scoured the country looking for scraps of old, fine grained woods which he then traded with professional violin makers for tools and advice. He made over 6 violins which were presented to friends, several of whom were professional players, who appreciated his quality of sound. One is still in the family.
In 1941 MacDougall was promoted to the highest non-elected position in the Civil Service when he became Deputy Minister of Lands and Forests, stationed in Toronto. It was in that position that he assisted with the writing of a design proposal for a bush plane using his own experiences and that of the Provincial Air Service pilots for the specification. The department promised orders for 20 planes as an incentive.
DeHavilland aircraft of Canada secured the contract for the Beaver aircraft which became the world standard in performance for bush planes .
MacDougall's department was one of the earliest to develop the use of airplanes for fire detection and the water bombing of forest fires. For his work in forest protection and the development of the Beaver he was awarded the McKee Trophy, Canada's highest aviation award.
MacDougall had the use of the first production Beaver and then subsequent Beavers headquartered during the summers in Toronto and flew them during inspection trips from Toronto until his retirement in 1966.
Family.
MacDougall was first married to Pearl Nugent (1885–1946) from whom he had three children, two of whom survived into adulthood and second married to Merren Murray (–1983) from whom he had a daughter.
Lists of honors and awards.
After his death a memorial fellowship was established at the University of Toronto, the Frank A. MacDougall Fellowship; value up to approximately C$2,195 annually.


Finn Isaksen

Finn Trond Isaksen (26 April 1924 – 29 September 1987) was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. He was Minister of Agriculture from 1983 to 1985.


William Albrecht

William Albert Albrecht (September 12, 1888 – May 19, 1974) chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of Missouri, was the foremost authority on the relation of soil fertility to human health and earned four degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. As emeritus professor of soils at the University of Missouri, he saw a direct link between soil quality, food quality and human health. He drew direct connections between poor quality forage crops, and ill health in livestock and from this developed a formula for ideal ratios of cations in the soil, the Base Cation Saturation Ratio. While he did not discover cation exchange in the soil as is sometimes supposed, he may have been the first to associate it with colloidal clay particles. He served as 1939 President of the Soil Science Society of America.
Twenty years before the phrase 'environmental concern' crept into the national consciousness, he was lecturing from coast to coast on the broad topic of agricultural ecology. (C. Edmund Marshall, In Memoriam, 'Plant and Soil' vol 48.)
Early life.
William Albrecht was born of German ancestry on a farm on the prairie of north central Illinois in the Mid-West United States. After attending the local school he progressed via preparatory school to the University of Illinois where he obtained a B.A. degree in liberal arts. This led to a position teaching Latin and other subjects at Bluffton University, Ohio.
Albrecht later returned to Illinois to gain a B.S. degree in biology and agricultural science. He then started graduate research in Botany whilst also teaching in the department of botany. This period was key to his lifelong devotion to scientific study of plant physiology and agriculture. It enabled him to take a microbiological view of plant structure whilst addressing the soil as a variable environment (either favourable or unsuitable). He presented his doctoral research in 1919, and it was published in the journal "Soil Science" in 1920 titled 'Symbiotic nitrogen fixation as influenced by nitrogen in the soil' His paper concluded that the nitrogen level in soil had no significant effect on fixation by legumes.
Career.
Albrecht was a devout agronomist, the foremost authority on the relation of soil fertility to human health and earned four degrees from the University of Illinois. He became emeritus professor of soils at the University of Missouri. Dr. Albrecht saw a direct link between soil quality and food quality, drawing direct connection between poor quality forage crops, and ill health in livestock.
From the late 1930s, as chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of Missouri, he began work at the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station investigating cation ratios and the growth of legumes. He had been investigating cattle nutrition, having observed that certain pastures seemed conducive to good health, and at some point he came to the conclusion that the ideal balance of cations in the soil was "H, 10%; Ca, 60 to 75% optimal 69%; Mg, 10 to 20% optimal 12%; K, 2 to 5%; Na, 0.5 to 5.0%; and other cations, 5%".
While Albrecht was a highly respected soil scientist, he discounted soil pH, stating that "plants are not sensitive to, or limited by, a particular pH value of the soil." Instead, he believed that the benefits of liming soil stem from the additional calcium available to the plant, not the increase in pH. This belief has continued to be held by followers to this day, despite opinions to the contrary. Like much of the early research into BCSR where soil pH was not controlled, it is difficult to draw solid conclusions from Albrecht's research in support of BCSR.
Throughout his life, Albrecht looked to nature to learn what optimizes soil, and attributing many common livestock diseases directly to those animals being fed poor quality feeds. He observed that :
Albrecht was a prolific author of reports, books and articles that span several decades, starting with his reports on nitrogen fixation and soil inoculation in 1919. MVG
Soil depletion.
Albrecht was outspoken on matters of declining soil fertility, having identified that it was due to a lack of organic material, major elements, and trace minerals, and was thus responsible for poor crops and in turn for pathological conditions in animals fed deficient foods from such soils.
He laid the blame as:
Death and commemoration.
On his death he left his research papers to his friend Charles Walters who promoted the ideas by founding the magazine Acres USA, which continues to be at the centre of the ideal soil movement, and is the current owner of the research papers.
List of publications.
Albrecht published widely from 1918 through 1970:


John McLaren (horticulturist)

Dr John Hays McLaren (1846–1943) served as superintendent of the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA for 53 years.
Born at Bannockburn, near Stirling in Scotland, and worked as a dairyman before studying horticulture at the Edinburgh Royal Botanical Gardens where he worked as an apprentice gardener's helper. He planted grasses anchoring the beach dunes along the Firth of Forth then emigrated to the United States in 1870 and worked on the George Howard estate in the San Mateo foothills, then on the Leland Stanford estate in Palo Alto and planted trees on the Coyote Point on the shore of the Bay.
He was friends with John Muir, and dedicated his life to vigorous advocacy and development of the Golden Gate Park, one of the largest public parks in the world, using considerable political skill in addition to his remarkable gardening skill. Appointed Park Superintendent in 1887, he requested thirty thousand dollars a year for park building. One of John McLaren's stipulations before taking the superintendent job was, "There will be no 'Keep off the Grass' signs." His horticultural philosophy was to achieve a natural look, typified in his dislike for statuary, calling them "stookies" and planting trees and shrubs to hide them. He built two windmills to pump water to his park and had the sweepings from San Francisco streets delivered as fertilizer. When ocean waves and wind piled sand on the west end of the park, he began a forty-year effort to pile branches, clippings and laths on the shore to capture sand and build the great berm that now holds the Great Highway.
He had a shrewd and aggressive style of management but was so highly respected that, at the age of 70, he was given lifetime tenure over the park and his salary doubled. An avenue in the Seacliff District of San Francisco was named after him during his lifetime, and he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of California at Berkeley. He is credited with planting two million trees during his lifetime. The McLaren Park in the southern part of San Francisco is named after John McLaren, as is McLaren Lodge in Golden Gate Park, where he lived until his death. East Bay's Tilden Park also has a meadow named after him. A small statue of McLaren was erected in the park which he had hidden away only to be discovered after his death.
After his death at the age of 96, McLaren's body lay in state in the San Francisco City Hall Rotunda. Afterwards, the funeral cortege drove his casket through Golden Gate Park as a special honor.
Lithia Park, Ashland, Oregon.
The small town of Ashland, Oregon commissioned McLaren to design Lithia Park in 1914, just a few years after the park was initially established in 1908. Still considered the "crown jewel" of Ashland, the park covers 100 acres (0.4 km²), extending from the center of town ("The Plaza") up Ashland Creek to the foothills of Mount Ashland. It includes two ponds, a Japanese garden, tennis courts, two public greens, a bandshell (outdoor stage) and miles of hiking trails. The name Lithia comes from the natural mineral water in Ashland, Lithia water. The world-famous Oregon Shakespeare Festival now borders the lower portion of the park. The surrounding watershed, which supplies drinking water and hydroelectricity to the city, also includes miles of mountain biking trails. The park is the start and finish for the annual Spring Thaw mountain biking race for pros and amateurs.
Hanchett Residence Park and Hester Park, San Jose, California.
In 1907 land developer Lewis Hanchett hired John McLaren to design Hanchett Residence Park on the former 76 acre Agricultural Park bounded by Race Street, Park Avenue, the Alameda and Hester Avenue. John McLaren is credited with creating San Jose's first Residence park that reflected certain architecture standards, sidewalks, street lamps, wide curved streets and gateway landmarks.
San Jose Municipal Rose Garden.
In 1931 John McLaren, designer of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park along with Dr J. Horace McFarland, president of the American Rose Society, and City of San Jose's Planning Director Michael H. Antonacci drew up the original plans for San Jose's Municipal Rose Garden.
Sources.
Dickson, Samuel "Tales of San Francisco" Stanford University Press 1947 LC # 57-9306


Country Progressive Party (Victoria)

The Country Progressive Party was a political party in the Australian state of Victoria from 1926 to 1930. It was a splinter group from the Victorian Country Party. It was formed by federal MP Percy Stewart and future Victorian Premier Albert Dunstan in protest over protection of sitting members and state governments. Stewart was the party's only federal MP, while it elected four state MPs at the 1927 and 1929 Victorian state elections. The Country Progressives reunited with the main party in 1930.
Much like the Victorian Country Party was associated with the branches of the Victorian Farmers Union, the Country Progressive Party established the Primary Producers Union which established branches in parts of Victoria.


Joshua Steele

Joshua Steele (c.1700–1796) was a British plantation owner and writer.
Life.
He resided many years in London. In 1756, he was elected a member of the Society of Arts.
Steele possessed estates in Barbados: Chester's, Hallett's and Kendal's. He went in 1780 to manage them himself. In 1781 he founded a society in Bridgetown similar to the London Society of Arts, in order to change the treatment of the slave population, and soon after that became a member of the council for the island. On his own estates he abolished arbitrary punishment, and created courts among the black slaves themselves for the punishment of offences. He also promoted voluntary labour by offering some wages.
In 1789 Steele further, by erecting his estates into manors, and making his slaves copyholders bound to their tenements, and owing rent and personal service which they paid in labour on the demesne lands. Steele encountered opposition; but on his own estates his system was successful. He also made efforts to employ the redlegs — the poor white population — and to set up local industries.
Steele died in Barbados on 27 October 1796.
Works.
Steele in 1775 published "An Essay towards establishing the Melody and Measure of Speech to be expressed and perpetuated by certain Symbols", London, in which he proposed to extend to speech the symbolic method by which the modulations of musical sounds are expressed. His essay excited considerable interest, and was discussed, among others, by Lord Monboddo and David Garrick. A second edition, entitled "Prosodia Rationalis", appeared in 1779. He also contributed two papers on musical instruments to "Philosophical Transactions" in 1775.
Steele's letters to Thomas Clarkson, describing the management of his estates, were published in 1814 in William Dickson's "Mitigation of Slavery" (1814). Obadiah Rich in his "Bibliotheca Americana Nova" attributed to Steele a pamphlet "An Account of a late Conference on the Occurrences in America" (London, 1766).
Family.
Around 1750 Steele married Sarah Osborne, the widow of Robert Osborne who owned a plantation in Barbados. In the 1780s Steele lived with Ann Slatia, a black slave woman, on the Byde Mill estate adjacent to the Kendal estate which he leased, and had two children with her. These children, themselves slaves, were among Steele's heirs.


Holger B. Deising

Holger Bruno Deising (born 18 October 1956) is a German agricultural scientist specialising in Phytomedicine and president of the German Phytomedicine Society.
Life and work.
Born in Krummsee, Ostholstein, Germany, Deising attended primary and grammar school in Kronshagen and Kiel, and passed the school-leaving examinations in 1975, after which he did military service (1975–1976).
He completed his studies at Kiel University with a Diploma in Agricultural Engineering, after which he worked as a Biology Assistant at the same university (1982–1987), ending with a dissertation entitled "Physiological and biochemical investigations on nitrate reduction in the bryophyte Sphagnum". Deising then moved to the Institute of Pathology and Constance University (1988 bis 1996), where he gained a Professorship with Venia Legendi for Plant Physiology and Phytomedicine in 1996 with the subject "Biochemical investigation of differentiation of infection structures of the broad bean rust fungus Uromyces viciae-fabae".


Weimaraner

The Weimaraner ( ) is a large dog that was originally bred for hunting in the early 19th century. Early Weimaraners were used by royalty for hunting large game such as boar, bear and deer. As the popularity of large game hunting began to decline, Weimaraners were used for hunting smaller animals like fowl, rabbits and foxes.
The Weimaraner is an all-purpose gun dog. The name comes from the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Karl August, whose court, located in the city of Weimar (now in the state of Thuringia in modern-day Germany), enjoyed hunting. The Weimaraner possesses traits such as speed, stamina, great sense of smell, great eyes, courage, and intelligence. The breed is sometimes referred to as the "gray ghost" of the dog world originating from its ghostly coat and eye color along with its stealthy hunting style.
History.
The Weimaraner was kept in the Weimar court in the 19th century and carried a good deal of Leithound ancestry. Two theories propose that they descended from the Chien-gris dogs, or the St. Hubert Hound whose descendant is the Bloodhound. In the beginning, Germany's Grand Duke Karl August used the Weimaraner to hunt big-game like wolves, bears, and mountain lions, but as Europe's number of big-game decreased, the Weimaraner turned into a point and retrieve hunter of small game. The breed arrived to America in the late 1920's, and its popularity increased in the 1950's. The breed became popular due to celebrities like Grace Kelly, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Dick Clark. The famous artist and photographer William Wegman increased the breed's popularity even more with his world famous Weimaraner portraits and video segments.
Description.
Appearance.
The Weimaraner is athletic in appearance. Traditionally, the tail is docked. In countries where this is still carried out, the docked tail should measure approximately 6 inches in the adult dog, and this is part of the American Kennel Club breed standard. Tail docking is illegal in several countries, where the breed is shown with an entire tail. The British Kennel Club breed standard describes a tail reaching to the hocks and carried below the level of the back when relaxed, and the German breed club standard calls for a full tail that is strong and well coated, which can be carried above the line of the back when the dog is working. Weimaraners are great water dogs as evidenced by their webbed paws.
The eyes of the Weimaraner may be light amber, grey or blue-grey.
Coat and color.
This breed's short coat and unusual eyes give it a distinctive regal appearance. The coat is extremely low-maintenance, short, hard, and smooth to the touch, and may range from charcoal-blue to mouse-grey to silver-grey or even blue-grey. Where the fur is thin or non-existent, inside the ears or on the lips for example, the skin should be pinkish rather than white or black. This breed does not have an undercoat, so extreme cold should be avoided. While their coat is short, this breed does shed.
In November 2009 and January 1, 2010, the United Kennel Club (UKC) removed the disqualification from both Blue and Longhair Weimaraners. A black coat remains an automatic disqualification, though a small white marking in the chest area only is permitted. Dogs with blue coats are disqualified from conformation/show competition, but are recognized as purebred Weimaraners by the AKC. There is another incidental variety, described as having the "mark of the hound", where the dog is the usual grey colour but with faint tan markings (similar to Doberman Pinschers). Weimaraners can have several unique physical characteristics such as small lobes on the inside of the ear, known as "Harrasburg Horns", and "Grafmar's Caps", very light gray patches between the ears.
A long-haired variety is recognized by most kennel clubs around the world except the American Kennel Club. The long-haired Weimaraner has a silky coat with an undocked, feathered tail. The gene is recessive, so breeding will produce some long-haired puppies only if both parents carry the trait.
Size.
According to the Fédération Cynologique Internationale standard, the male Weimaraner stands between at the withers. Females are between . Males normally weigh about . Females are generally between . A Weimaraner should give the appearance of a muscular, athletic dog.
Temperament.
The Weimaraner is an energetic hunting dog, prized for its physical endurance and stamina, with a strong, instinctive prey-drive. It may tolerate cats but usually does not, tending to follow the urge to huntno matter how long it has known a particular catand likely to chase and kill any small animal that enters the garden. A Weimaraner requires frequent exercise and will appreciate games and play. An active owner is more likely to provide the vigorous exercise and games required. A Weimaraner requires appropriate training to learn how to be calm and control its behavior.
As a hunting dog.
Weimaraners have an excessive amount of energy that requires a good outlet. They are well-rounded hunting dogs that excel at hunting, tracking, pointing and retrieving both on land and in the water. The Weimaraner is a very people-oriented breed. They have a very strong desire to work and live with their owners, making the breed a good choice for the novice hunter. It requires a gentle touch when training to hunt and it often learns best from a seasoned hunting dog.
Behavior disorders.
Weimaraners are not an independent breed and love to be with their owner, never leaving them alone. This can create very severe separation anxiety in the breed. The causes of separation anxiety are not always known, but there are precluding factors including genetics, litter rearing, poor socialisation, boredom and stress. Weimaraners with severe separation anxiety can destroy property or injure themselves in trying to escape. Good training can curb some of the separation anxiety. A Weimaraner with separation anxiety is likely to bark, whine, howl and even dig until its owner returns home. Further manifestations of this problem can include panicking and excessive drooling, along with destructive behaviors and injury.
Health.
According to the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals, Weimaraners enjoy low rates of dysplasia. The breed is ranked 102nd of 153 total breeds and has a very high test rate and a very high percentage of excellent rating among those dogs tested. It is generally recommended to acquire Weimaraners only from breeders who have their dogs' hips tested using OFA or PennHIP methods.
As a deep-chested dog, the Weimaraner is prone to bloat or gastric torsion, a very serious condition that can cause painful and rapid death when left untreated. It occurs when the stomach twists itself, thereby pinching off blood vessels and the routes of food traveling in or out. Symptoms include signs of general distress, discomfort, no bowel movement or sounds and a swollen stomach. Immediate medical attention is imperative when bloat occurs and surgery is the only option if it is caught early enough.
One way to help prevent bloat is to spread out the Weimaraner's feedings to at least twice daily and to avoid any vigorous exercise an hour before or after meals. It is also recommended that the dog's feeding dish not be placed on a raised platform to discourage it from gobbling its food too quickly and keep air from entering the stomach. Raised food bowls have been found to more than double the risk of bloat in large dogs.
Skin allergies are common among weimaraners. A vet should be consulted if a dog starts to lose hair, itch constantly or develop rashes. Parasites can cause an allergic reaction in addition to the normal irritation resulting from bites.
Other health issues include:


ACN College of Engineering and Management Studies

ACN College of Engineering & Management Studies is an institution situated on Kasimpur Road, Aligarh at a distance of 12 km from Aligarh Railway Station and 6 km from Aligarh Muslim University towards north on the Anoopshahar Road leading to Kasimpur Power House. The institute is approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and affiliated to the U.P. Technical University, Lucknow. The institute was established under ACN Group. The major facilities provided are:
Academics.
Following courses are offered by this college:


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Albert Kristjansson

Albert E. Kristjansson (April 17, 1877 – July 29, 1974) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1920 to 1922. During his political career, he was a resident of Lundar, Manitoba.
Born in Iceland, Kristjansson served as Unitarian minister for congregations in Gimli and Otto and Mary Hill, Manitoba. From 1914 to 1928, he was president of the United Conference of Icelandic Churches.
Kristjansson was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1920 provincial election as a Labour Party candidate, defeating Liberal incumbent Skuli Sigfusson by 117 votes in the constituency of St. George. The Liberal Party won a minority government in this election, and Kristjansson initially served with the Labour parliamentary group in opposition.
He subsequently left the Labour Party to sit with the Independent-Farmer legislative group, loosely aligned with the Progressive Party of Canada. He sought re-election as a candidate of the United Farmers of Manitoba in the 1922 campaign, and lost to Sigfusson by 652 votes. Kristjansson attempted to return to the legislature as a Progressive candidate in the 1927 election, but lost to Sigfusson again.
After 1928, he was minister for congregations in Seattle and Blaine, Washington. Kristjansson died in Blaine at the age of 97.


List of Nova Scotia CCF/NDP members

This is a list of articles about members of the Nova Scotia, Canada, branch of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), a social democratic political party, and its successor, the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party (NDP).
Before the CCF.
The Liberal and Conservative parties had a monopoly on Nova Scotia politics until the 1920 general election when the United Farmers and Independent Labour Party were able to elect 11 MLAs between them and form the official opposition with Daniel G. McKenzie as leader of the opposition. They were wiped out in the 1925 general election though 1 of the Labour MLAs was able to return to office in 1928. He did not run for re-election in 1933.
CCF.
The CCF was formed in 1932.
1933 general election.
The CCF nominated candidates in the 1933 election, but won no seats.
1937 general election.
The CCF did not nominate candidates in this election.
1939 by-election.
The CCF won one seat in the 26-member Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia.
1941 general election.
In the 1941 election, the CCF won two more seats, for three seats in the 26-member legislature.
1945 general election.
In the 1945 election, the CCF won two of the 26 seats in the Legislature.
1953 general election.
In the 1953 election, the CCF won two of the 32 seats in the Legislature.
1956 general election.
In the 1956 election, the CCF won one of the 40 seats in the Legislature.
1960 general election.
In the 1960 election, the CCF won one of the 40 seats in the Legislature.
1970 general election.
In the 1970 election, the NDP won two of the 42 seats in the Legislature.
1974 general election.
In the 1974 election, the NDP won an additional seat for three of the 43 seats in the Legislature.
1978 general election.
In the 1978 election, the NDP won an additional seat for four of the 50 seats in the Legislature.
1981 general election.
In the 1981 election, the NDP won only one seat in the 52-member Legislature.
1984 general election.
In the 1984 election, the NDP won two additional seats for three of the 52 seats in the Legislature.
1988 general election.
In the 1988 election, the NDP won two seats in the 52-seat the Legislature.
1991 by-election.
In a 1991 by-election, the NDP won an additional seat for three seats in the Legislature.
1993 general election.
In the 1993 election, the NDP won three seats in the 52-seat the Legislature.
1996 by-election.
In a 1996 by-election, the NDP kept the seat formerly held by federal leader Alexa McDonough.
1997 by-election.
In a 1997 by-election, the NDP won an additional seat for four seats in the Legislature.
1998 general election.
In the 1998 election, the NDP won an additional 15 seats for 19 of the 52 seats in the Legislature.
1999.
In 1999, one Progressive Conservative member crossed the floor to the NDP.
1999 general election.
In the 1999 election, the NDP won eleven seats in the 52-seat Legislature.
2001 by-election.
In a March 2001 by-election, the NDP won. It was held after NDP MLA Eileen O'Connell died in September 2000.
2003 general election.
In the 2003 election, the NDP won an additional three seats for 15 of the 52 seats in the Legislature.
2006 general election.
In the 2006 election, the NDP won an additional five seats for 20 of the 52 seats in the Legislature.
2009 general election.
In the 2009 election, the NDP won an additional twelve seats, and lost one seat, for 31 of the 52 seats in the Legislature.
The party also won a by-election in the fall of 2009.


Thomas Chirnside

Thomas Chirnside (1815 – 1887) was an Australian pastoralist who settled on much of what would become western Melbourne.
Thomas Chirnside was born in Berwickshire, Scotland, the elder son of Robert Chirnside and Mary Fairs. His father was also a farmer.
In 1839 Chirnside came from Liverpool on the ship . He arrived in Adelaide in January, and Sydney in March of that year. The drought of 1839 adversely affected the sheep he had bought near the Murrumbidgee River, so he joined his younger brother Andrew in Melbourne.
In April 1842 the brothers established a station in the Grampians, and that same year Thomas acquired a station on the Wannon River, where he was one of the first to employ Aborigines. In the mid-1840s the brothers acquired series of properties in the Western District of Victoria.
The elder Chirnside settled in Werribee, Victoria, just before the gold rushes, eventually buying 80,000 acres (320 km²) of land. He built a substantial bluestone house surrounded by a ha ha wall, and later, in the 1870s, the sandstone Italianate Werribee Park Mansion.
On 2 September 1853 he purchased through a government grant Section 14, Parish of Cut Paw Paw, County of Burke. This allotment was , which is now the Melbourne suburb of Kingsville.
Thomas Chirnside was a member of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria from 1857 to 1859 and the Royal Society of Victoria from 1860 to 1866. He was a strict Sabbatarian, allowing no work on his properties on Sundays. He donated an acre (0.4 ha) of land and £100 for the first Presbyterian Church in Werribee, and in February 1884, he laid the foundation stone of the second one. He and Andrew gave £1000 to Ormond College, at the University of Melbourne.
Suffering from depression, Thomas Chirnside committed suicide in 1887. He was found dead in the laundry of Werribee Mansion with a shotgun lying beside him. His ghost now haunts the mansion. Andrew Chirnside inherited the property, but died three years later.
A primary school in Werribee has been named in his honour.
Further reading.
Wool Past the Winning Post by Heather B Ronald A History of the Chirnside Family published by Landvale Enterprises 1978


Stephen Lackey Kessell

Stephen Lackey Kessell (1897–1979), known as Kim Kessell, was a conservator of forests in Australia.
Born 17 March 1897, Wollongong, New South Wales,
Married 1924 at Christ Church, Claremont to Barbara Morton Sawell, a pharmacist who died in 1978.
He died 29 June 1979 at Armadale, Melbourne, was cremated, and left property amounting to around half a million dollars.
Kessell left military service in 1920 to serve under the beleaguered Conservator of forest, Charles Lane Poole, assuming his role after Poole resigned in October 1921 until his official appointment in January 1923; Kessell held this position for twenty years and attempted to implement the programs forestry management established by his predecessor. While regarded as less forthright he was scathing in his criticism of contemporary practices,
As Western Australian Conservator he employed untrained individuals to manage plantations and forest regeneration, developed fire strategies, both defensive and introduced as a form of silvacultural management, and sought to found his departments methods on scientific and international standards of forestry. Kessell presided over the Institute of Foresters of Australia between 1936 and 1938, a body he had acted to found in 1935.
He was appointed as controller of timber at the Department of Munitions in 1941, successfully introducing a national tree policy. His criticism of Tasmanian forest policy in 1944 stated that the department and forests were compromised by private interests, his identification of Australian Newsprint Mills new operations at Boyer, Tasmania saw his appointment as managing director in 1946 in an effort to ameliorate the political consequences. He oversaw improvements to practices and overcame national shortages to improve the sustainability of the mills production, although his recommendation to expand operations in 1958 was unsuccessful. He retired from the A.N.M. board in 1962.
Amongst Kessell's legacies in improving forestry in the nation was the incorporation of the Australian Forestry School into the Australian National University. He was a member of the Weld Club, the Tasmanian Club, and eventually Australian Club, deputy of the National Safety Council, and appointed M.B.E. in 1951.


Wilhelm Fleischmann

Wilhelm Fleischmann (31 December 1837 in Erlangen – 13 January 1920 in Göttingen) was a German agriculturist and chemist. He is known for his work on the chemistry of milk.
Biography.
He received his education at Nuremberg, Würzburg, Erlangen and Munich. In Justus von Liebig's laboratory in 1862, he began work on agricultural chemistry, and in 1864-67 while teaching in the Realschule at Memmingen conducted experiments there. From 1867-76, he was principal of the Realschule at Lindau and for the following 10 years directed the first dairy experiment station of Germany, in the vicinity of Lalendorf, Mecklenburg. From 1886 to 1896, he was director of the Agricultural Institute at Königsberg and of that at Göttingen after 1896. He did important work in the chemistry of milk.
Writings.
His works include: "Handbuch des Molkereiwesens" (1876), "Altgermanische und altrömische Agrarverhaltnisse" (1906), "Lehrbuch der Milkwirtschaft" (1908; English and Russian translations), and "Cäsar, Tacitus, Karl der Grösse, und die deutsche Landwirtschaft" (1911).


Christian Eduard Langethal

Christian Eduard Langethal (6 January 1806, Erfurt – 28 July 1878, Jena) was a German botanist and agronomist. He is known for his writings involving agricultural botany and agricultural history.
Beginning in 1827 he studied natural sciences at the University of Jena. During the winter term of 1834/35 he began teaching classes in natural history at the recently built scientific academy at Eldena (near Greifswald), where he worked closely with his former teacher, Friedrich Gottlob Schulze (1795–1860). In 1839, with Schulze, he returned to the University of Jena as an associate professor of botany. At Jena he distinguished himself in studies of botany as it applied to agricultural science.
Principal writings.
With Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal and Ernst Schenk, he continued Jonathan Carl Zenker's "Flora von Thüringen: Und den angrenzenden Provinzen" (1830–1855, 145 issues).


Chalk Cliffs Rearing Unit

The Chalk Cliffs Rearing Unit is a Colorado Parks and Wildlife cold water fish production facility located near Arkansas River and Chalk Creek in Chaffee County, Colorado. Hatchery staff works to support the raising of approximately 700,000 catchable, ten-inch rainbow trout annually. The hatchery stocks fish along the Front Range from Loveland to the New Mexico border, and east almost to the Kansas border.
History.
Chalk Cliffs was inaugurated in 1950.
In 1986, the facility experienced a widespread death among fingerling trout. This was thought to be a result of using creek water. Water quality sampling by the Department of Public Health and the Environment found that the cause was high amounts of zinc and cadmium, from the Mary Murphy Mine upstream. In 1990, Chalk Creek was chosen for cleanup through the Division of Minerals and Geology. This was necessary as the levels were impacting fish habitats and water quality degradation in the Arkansas River. Yet, their clean up attempts were unsuccessful.
Mission.
An overarching mission among the hatchery staff is educating the public. The facilities provide fish for stock in many areas which supports angling recreation. The facility offers educational materials and tours.
Fish species.
The Chalk Cliffs Rearing Unit raises catchable rainbow trout, cutthroat trout. They obtain their water source from a nearby creek.


Yorkshire Agricultural Society

Yorkshire Agricultural Society is a charity based at the Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. The society is best known as the organiser of the two annual country events, the Great Yorkshire Show and the Countryside Live. It is committed to working for the countryside.
The Society was formed in 1837 by a group of agriculturalists at a meeting in York. Its main objective is to promote farming and rural life, particularly in the North of England. The shows are held in July and October respectively, and are shop windows for the farming industry as well as enjoyable days out.
Improvements in farming are encouraged through grants which fund agriculture based research at a number of North of England universities. It also has an active education department which promotes knowledge amongst young people of the important role British farmers play in producing food.
Each year almost £1 million is provided in support of farming and rural based initiatives. In particular, the Society’s Growing Routes programme is dedicated to encouraging young people to develop rural based businesses.


Forests of Nepal


Central Market (Lancaster)

Central Market, also known as Lancaster Central Market, is a historic public market located in Penn Square, in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Until 2005, the market was the oldest municipally-operated market in the United States.
The Central Market comprises approximately 60 vendors who principally sell foodstuffs – fresh fruits and produce, meats, cheeses, fish and seafood and baked goods – and flowers. Products for sale come from Amish, Pennsylvania Dutch, German, Greek, Caribbean, Middle Eastern, and Slavic origins.
History.
A public marketplace was deeded on this site in 1730 as part of the settlement of Lancaster. The marketplace was officially chartered by King George II on May 1, 1742, officially designating Lancaster as a market town. The Central Market occupies a portion of the original marketplace, with the first permanent building erected in 1757.
This 20,540 square-foot brick building sits adjacent to the old City Hall, Lancaster's very first skyscraper as well as many other historical buildings.
The current building was built in 1889, and is a brick building with a hipped and gabled terra cotta roof, in the Romanesque Revival style. Central Market was designed by English architect James H. Warner, who eventually made Lancaster his home. Its front facade features twin towers measuring feet tall, with a gable between them. The interior structure has wooden pillars supporting the roof with a grid of steel rod Howe trusses.
The Central Market was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The Central Market is owned and maintained by the City of Lancaster and has been since its development. In more recent years the Central Market Trust, which is a non-profit 501 (c)3 organization has managed it. The trust was formed in 2005 and consists of the Market Manager and eleven volunteers from the community.
Offerings.
Each week approximately 3,000 people visit the market, with 82 percent of these people living and/or working in Lancaster and an additional 33 percent of them living within the same zip code as the Central Market.
Vendors offer a wide variety of international and Amish cuisine foods. Vendors include Kauffman's Fruit Farm from Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, Hodecker's bleached celery, cookies, Springerle House ornaments, hardwood smoked hams and bacon from S. Clyde Weaver, and sweets from Pennsylvania Fudge Company. For more than 100 years, the Stoner Family Vegetable stand has been selling their produce at the market, longer than any other vendor. Thomas Produce has been at the market for 80 years and over 60 years ago, Long's Horseradish stand joined the Central Market family.
Vendors.
Directory of Lancaster Central Market Vendors
Renovations.
After more than 40 years since its last major upgrade, the Central Market finally received a $7 million renovation. By 2011, the entire project was officially completed. The renovation eliminated large suspended lights, uncovered many pre-existing long windows, and re positioned the mechanical system underground.
Awards and recognitions.
The 2011 preservation plan (Lancaster Central Market: Assessments, Guidelines, and Recommendations for Preservation and Development) that guided the building renovation was nationally recognized, winning the American Planning Association's 2013 National Planning Excellence Award for Urban Design. The preservation plan was also awarded the Lancaster County Planning Commission's 2012 Leadership Achievement Award for Historic Resources. The building renovation won the Preservation Pennsylvania 2011 Award.
National Geographic recently named Central Market as one of their travel favorites. The Central Market was also named one of America's 10 greatest public places by the American Planning Association (APA), and was listed as one of the ten best fresh markets in the world (10 of the world’s best fresh markets) by CNN in 2013.


Gibson Manufacturing Corporation

Gibson Manufacturing Corporation was a company that made tractors and railroad speeders. It is estimated they made around 60,000 tractors.
Rail cars.
In 1933 Gibson recognized that there was a need for larger railroad speeders than those available on the market at the time. Gibson's larger speeder was an immediate success, and several found there ways to logging railroads, where people needed to be moved from logging site to logging site separate of the log trains. Some of these speeders now remain in museums.
Tractors.
Their first tractor was the model A, Production started in Seattle, Washington sometime after 1938, but moved to Longmont, Col. in 1946 after the corporation was pressured to unionize, and later models were made here as well. Headquarters and product development stayed in Seattle There are 10 models. A, D, H, I, SD, Super D, Super D2, and experimental models SL and M, few of which are known to exist. A, D, SD, Super D, and Super D2 tractors all used 6 HP Wisconsin AEH engines. Seattle tractors were usually painted blue-gray with red sheetmetal. while Colorado ones were either Fordson Gray or Red or a mix of these colors. An advertisement read "Master of 1000 Chores. The Gibson tractor is outstanding in development design. The tractor is ideally adapted for use on the small general farm, truck farm, orchards or as a auxiliary tractor for large farms, ranches, country estates and municipalities, along with park systems."
Several accessories were sold to go on these tractors, including two types of plow with Sandoval coulter disks, a disk harrow, dozers, and for the Model D a sickle mower.
After the company closed the designs for the Super D and the Super D2 were sold to PowerFlex.
Forklifts.
The U.S. military signed a contract with Gibson Manufacturing Corporation to make forklifts, but this contract may have led to their closing when they were unable to fulfill it.


Hugh Garahan

Hugh Garahan (died 7 June 1940) was an Irish politician. A farmer, he was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1923 general election. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the June 1927 general election as a Farmers' Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Longford–Westmeath constituency. He lost his seat at the September 1927 general election. In 1931 he was elected to the Free State Seanad and was re-elected to the Seanad in 1934.


Hans Stubbe

Hans Karl Oskar Stubbe (7 March 1902 – 14 May 1989) was a German agronomist and plant breeder. During the Second World War he was dismissed by the Nazi government from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research in Müncheberg in 1936. After the war he went to work in East Germany where he was the founding director of the Institute for Cultivated Plant Research (which started as the Institut für Kulturpflanzenforschung in Vienna) in Gatersleben. He stood up against the ideas of Trofim Lysenko and prevented East German genetics from being influenced by politics that had caused damage in the Soviet Union.
Stubbe was born in 1902 at Berlin where his father was a school inspector. He studied agriculture and biology at the University of Göttingen and the Agricultural University of Berlin. He became a student of Erwin Baur at the Institute for Inheritance Research in Berlin where he worked on a doctoral thesis on mutagenesis in 1929. He then joined the newly established Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Research in Müncheberg but after about nine years he was dismissed when the Nazi party came into power. For a while he worked with Fritz von Wettstein at the Institut für Kulturpflanzenforschung in Vienna. Wettstein wished to recruit Elisabeth Schiemann to head the institute but Stubbe objected to the idea of men working under her. He made major expeditions to collect germplasm of wild and cultivated plants from around Europe both with civilian and military objectives. Stubbe worked on using X-rays to produce useful mutations in barley. Along with Gustav Becker and Kurt Mothes, Stubbe ensured that Lysenkoism did not take root in East Germany.
Despite his anti-fascist views, Stubbe defended his friend Günther Niethammer and wrote a letter in 1947 exonerating the latter of any wilful participation with the Nazis at Auschwitz. After the Second World War Stubbe became director of the Institute for Cultivated Plant Research in Gatersleben. Stubbe died in 1989 in Zingst. He was succeeded at Gatersleben by his student Helmut Böhme.


Sydney Thompson (politician)

Sydney Thomas Joseph Thompson (21 February 1906 – 1 August 1994) was an Australian politician who served as a Country Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1960 to 1974.
Thompson was born in Wagin, Western Australia, to Annie Agnes (née Carpenter) and James William Thompson. He left school in 1921 and worked on his parents' farm until 1928, when he bought his own property. Thompson became prominent in local agricultural circles, serving as president of the Wagin Agricultural Society and the local branch of the farmers' union. He served on the Wagin Road Board from 1951 to 1961. Thompson entered parliament at the 1960 Legislative Council election, replacing Hugh Roche in South Province. Following a redistribution, he was appointed to the new Lower Central Province in 1965, and was re-elected at the 1968 state election. Thompson retired at the 1974 election and died in Narrogin in August 1994, aged 88. He had married Violet Mary Gell in 1931, with whom he had four children.


Tybjerggaard

Tybjerggaard is a manor house and estate in the parish of Tybjerg, Næstved Municipality, approximately 80 km southwest of Copenhagen, Denmark. The Rococo-style main building was built for Tyge Rothe in 1653. It was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1918. The estate covers 475 hectares of land.
History.
Early history.
Tybjerggaard is one of the oldest manor houses in Denmark. Its history dates back to the 13th century when it was owned by Jens Sjællandsfar. In 1325 it was passed on to his daughter, Margrete, the widow of Henrik Eberstein. Their daughter, Cecilie Eberstein, married another member of the Eberstein family who later sold Tybjerggaard to Peder Basse. Over the next centuries, its ownership was generally shared between multiple owners. This came to an end when Jacob Andersen Bjørn in the 1490s married Margrete Poulsdatter. Bjørn was also the owner of Voergaard and Støvringgaard but died shortly after the wedding.
After his death Margrethe managed the estates for many years, but she lived mostly at Støvringgård. Their son Anders died unmarried in 1536. The daughter Dorte Bjørn was married twice—first time to Christopher Hak of Egholm and second time to Oluf Glob of Vellumgård—but there were no children in either marriage After her death in circa 1562 the estate went to her cousin Anne Bjørnsdatter's children. The cousin was married to Niels Kaas. Tybjerggaard went to their son Bjørn Kaas while his brothers, Niels and Erik Kaas, inherited Støvringgård. Bjørn Kaas was also the owner of Staarupgård and lensmann of Vordingborg Castle. His son, Gabriel Kaas, ceded Tybjerggaard to Frederik Quitzow in exchange for other property in 1596. Quitzow had no children either and Tybjerggaard was therefore passed on to his wife's niece, Pernille Banner, who was married to Esge Krafse. Pernille Banner's eldest son, Erik Banner, had bought out his four brothers after their mother's death.
In 1672, Tybjerggaard was acquired by Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve. A few years later he sold it to Peter Brandt who in turn sold it to the Crown.
Christian V granted Tybjerggaard to Adam Levin Knuth. In 1689, he sold it back to the crown. It was then ceded to Margrete Wilders as payment of an old debt to her late husband, the merchant rederik Werdelmann (died 1687). Wilders were involved in a number of unsuccessful lawsuits to try to get arrears out her husband's old customers. She died on the estate in 1709. She left it to her niece, Margrete von Heinen, whose husband, Willum Braem. an infantry lieutenant, died in Austria in October that same year. She later married Georg Lepel. After her death in 1717, he converted the main building into a hospital for blind and invalids of the parish.
In 1824, Lepel sold Tybjerggaard to Frederik von Maase. His widow, Conradine Sophie Rostgaard, sold the estate to Peder West in 1735. .
Tyge Rothe.
In 1763, Tybjerggaard was acquired by Tyge Rothe. He had become wealthy through his recent marriage to Karen Bjørn, the only child of the late merchant and shipyard-owner Andreas Bjørn. He gave up his position in the Colonial Administration Authority (Generaltoldkammeret) to concentrate on managing the estate. Four of Rothe's six children were born at Tybjerggaard. Among these were the later Governor General of the Danish West Indies Carl Adolph Rothe and civil servant and Supreme Court justice Christian Hjørn Rothe.
Johann Friedrich Struensee appointed him as head of the new Finanskollegium's Department of Agriculture in 1771 but it was dissolved after Struense's fall from power and instead appointed as Country Governor in Segeberg. After nine months he was also dismissed from this post. He then settled on the Tubjerggaard estate and committed the rest of his life to his writings. He introduced many improvements in the management of the estate and started the implementation of the new agricultural reforms. His son, Andreas Bjørn Rothe, sold Tybjerggaard.
Neergaard and Steinmann families.
In 1804, Tybjerggaard was acquired by Jacob Neergaard. He was the sixth child of Johan Thomas de Neergaard, the owner of Ringsted Abbey, Merløsegaard and Kærup, who had been ennobled under the name de Neergaard in 1780. His wife, Sophie Magdalene Dinesen[1], was a daughter of Anders Ninesen at Gyldenholm Manor.
Jacob de Neergaard died in 1833. In 1835, his widow brought Tybjerggaard into her second marriage with Peter Frederik Steinmann, who had previously been married to her late husband's younger sister Johanne (Hanne) de Neergaard (1792-1824).
Peter Frederik Steinmann's son by his first wife, who was also named Peter Frederik Steinmann, inherited Tybjerggaard in 1866. He was also a military officer and had served in the Second Schleswig War. In 1874–75, he briefly served as Minister of War in the Cabinet of Fonnesbech. He gad been married to Anne Elisabeth Johanne Schulin, Comtesse of Frederiksdal, but she had already died in 1947. Steinmann survived her by 47 years. Their son, again named Peter Frederik Steinmann, succeeded his father on the estate in 1894. His widow, Marie, a daughter of the naval officer, politician and editor Johan Cornelius Tuxen, lived on the estate until her death in 1952
Architecture.
The Rococo-style main building was built for Tyge Rothe in 1763. It is a single-storey, three-winged complex. The main wing features a higher median risalit topped by a triangular pediment on both sides of the building. The east wing incorporates elements from an older building, probably Margrethe Wilders' main wing from the 1690s. The vaulted cellar dates from the 15th century.
The oldest of the farm buildings date from 1877. Others were added in 1917, 1927, 1958 in 1993.
Today.
The current owner is Bent Jeppesen. The estate covers 475 hectares of land. Tybjerggaard-Fuglsang, one of the largest pig breeders in Denmark, is headquartered on the estate. It operates a number of production sites on Zealand and breeds Landrace, Yorkshire and Duroc pigs.


Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying

The Department of Animal husbandry and Dairying (DAHD) is an Indian government department. It is a subsidiary department of the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries which was formed as a new Indian ministry in 2019. The DAHD or the erstwhile Department of Animal husbandry, Fishiries and Dairying was formed in 1991 by merging together into a separate department, of two divisions of Department of Agriculture and Cooperation namely Animal husbandry and Dairy development.In 1997 the fishiries division of Department of Agriculture and Cooperation and a part of Ministry of Food Processing Industries was transferred to it. In February 2019 the Department of Fishiries was carved out from the Department of Animal husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries and it has been functioning as Department of Animal husbandry and Dairying since then.
Mandate.
It is responsible for the production of livestock, improving their stocks as well as matters related to Dairy infrastructure development in the country. It is also mandated to provide healthcare and other services to the livestock for overall development of the Dairy sector. Since 1919-20 a census of livestock has been periodically conducted in India, which covers all domesticated animals and their headcount. After being functional the "DAHD" has taken up the responsibility to release the livestock census report which involves participation of all States and Union Territory. According to the 20th Livestock census report released by the department, the total livestock population in India was found to be 535.78 million showing an increase of 4.6% over the previous count in 2012.
Initiatives.
National Livestock mission.
The programme was launched during the 12th five year plan in 2014–15 aiming for overall development of the Livestock sector which includes improvement in feed and fodder. It has four sub-mission under it which are submission on feed and fodder development; submission on Livestock development; submission on pig development in North-East region; Sub-Mission on Skill Development, Technology Transfer and Extension .
Rashtriya Gokul mission.
The Rashtriya Gokul mission was launched in order to conserve and develop indigenous bovine breeds under the National program for Bovine breeding and Dairy development, the mission which was aimed at improving the genetic makeup of the cattle and bovine population.It has two sub mission under it namely National program for bovine breeding and National program for Dairy development. The Rashtriya Gokul mission also aims to develop "Gokul Gram" cattle care centres in order to increase indigenous bovines of high genetic merit. It also aims to develop nondescript cattle in these cattle care centres. As a part of "Rashtriya Gokul mission" a total of 14 "Gokul Grams" were planned to be set up across the country with the first one at Mathura. The 20th Livestock census data, however, revealed a drop in population of indigenous milch cows despite government efforts, on the other hand, exotic breeds saw a rise. Government of India has also set up Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog (RKA) to function as a part of Rashtriya Gokul mission in order to promote indegeneous breed of cows and income opportunities they provide. The RKA which functions under the Ministry of Animal husbandry, Dairying and Fishiries launched "Kamdhenu-Gau Vigyan Prachar Prasar Examination" in 2021 to infuse curiosity among indians regarding indigenous cow breeds. The exam was supposed to be conducted in four categories and 12 regional languages apart from Hindi and English and aimed at making materials related to cow science available.
National Animal Disease Control Program.
The program was launched in order to eradicate the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Brucellosis. India has largest population of cattle in the world but due to prevalence of diseases in them overall productivity remains low. This program aims to vaccinate 500 million Livestock against FMD and 36 million female bovines annually against Brucellosis.The programme received 100% central funding for five years until 2024 in order to eradicate these two disease by 2030.
Dairy Entrepreneurship development scheme.
The Department of Animal husbandry has launched this scheme along with National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) in order to support dairy infrastructure projects with back ended capital subsidy of 25% of the project cost for the farmers of General category and of 33% for farmers of SC/ST category. More than one member of same family can also avail benefits of the scheme to set up separate dairy units, provided they set up their respective units at a distance of 500 metres from each other's units. The entrepreneurs have to contribute 10% of the project cost. Further apart from farmers and individual entrepreneurs, self-help groups, and companies are also eligible for the support under the scheme.
Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund.
The Animal husbandry infrastructure development fund (AHIDF) is a 15,000 crore fund that was set up in 2020 in order to increase private sector investment in developing animal husbandry infrastructure viz dairy plants, meat processing units and animal feed plants. It was set up by Government of India as a part of COVID-19 stimulus package. The setting up of AHIDF preceded Dairy Infrastructure Development Fund, a 10,000 crore fund set up to enhance investment in dairy sector by cooperatives. But amidst the government's drive to enhance the participation of private companies and MSMEs the setting up of AHIDF was planned. The new fund was aimed to support Farmer producer organizations (FPOs), MSMEs, Section 8 companies, private companies and individual entrepreneurs.
E-Pashuhaat portal.
It is a web portal which was launched to organise the livestock market in India. It provides information to the farmers and dairy entrepreneurs regarding feed and fodder of the livestock. It also eases the sell of bovine germplasm, embrayos and frozen semen by providing first hand information to the stakeholders involved. It provides facilities for multi channel communication between the stakeholders and transportation facilities too, to make a deal successful.
Ensure portal.
Under National livestock mission, the subsidy is provided to the farmers for activities like poultry, small ruminants and pig rearing. In order to track the payment of subsidy directly into the bank accounts of the farmers, Ministry of Agriculture launched "Ensure portal", which is developed by the NABARD and will be managed by DAHD. The portal will also provide information related to beneficiary and processing of applications. The portal has been launched under the component of the mission called Entrepreneurship Development & Employment Generation (EDEG).


Nelson Agbesi

Nelson Yawo Avega Agbesi (1939–2016) was a Ghanaian barrister and politician.
Early life and education.
Nelson Agbesi was born on 16 November 1939 at Liati Wote in the then Trans-Volta Togoland and later Gold Coast but now in the Volta Region of Ghana. Between 1956 and 1961, Nelson received his secondary education at Mawuli School where he obtained the GCE Ordinary level and Advanced level. He entered the University of Ghana where he read Law. He completed in 1964, graduating with the Bachelor of Arts Honours in Law. He continued to the Ghana Law School which he completed in 1996. He was called to the Bar in October 1966.
Law career.
Agbesi first worked as a junior legal practitioner with Lynes Quarshie Idun and partners between 1966 and 1969. He became the senior partner Ameyi Chambers from 1969 until 1979 when he became a member of parliament. He rejoined the Ameyi Chambers in November 1982. On 15 March 1989, he established the Afadzato Chambers in Accra.
Politics.
Agbesi was a member of the People's National Party. He contested the 1979 Ghanaian general election and won the East Dayi seat. He became the Member of Parliament from 24 September 1979 until parliament was dissolved and the constitution suspended on 31 December 1981.
Agbesi was made a Minister of State by President Hilla Limann. He was first appointed the Volta Regional Minister in December 1979. He held this post until December 1980 when he was shifted to Minister for Food and Agriculture replacing E. K. Andah in a cabinet reshuffle. He held this position until the 31 December 1981 military coup d'état replaced the Limann government with the Provisional National Defence Council of Jerry Rawlings. Agbesi was detained at Nsawam Prisons following the coup. No adverse findings were made against him by the National Investigations Committee so he was released from custody.
Other activities.
Agbesi was a member of the Lions Clubs International. He was made a District Governor and the Melvin Jones Fellowship for his meritorious services.
The Tema Supreme Lions Club built the Lion Nelson Agbesi Solar Learning Shed on the Yatsovukope Island on the Volta Lake in his honour to help children have a place of study after school. Agbesi was instrumental in getting the Lions Club to help finance a Community Clinic at Liati Wote in 2004.
Family.
Agbesi's parents were Patrick Kosi Avega who was Mankrado Adzotsomor III of Liati Wote and Philomena Akosuavi Masroh of Agu Akumawu in the Togo. He was married to Nayra Klu for 47 years until his death. He had seven children. He was laid to rest in a mausoleum near his residence at Liati Wote in the Volta Region.


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Stonefield (Wisconsin)

Stonefield, located at 12195 County Road VV outside Cassville, Wisconsin, United States, was the estate of Wisconsin's first governor, Nelson Dewey. Much of the original estate has been separated into Nelson Dewey State Park and the Stonefield historic site, an expansive museum operated by the Wisconsin Historical Society. The historic site takes advantage of the large property by offering several different areas for visitors, including an early Wisconsin farmhouse, a re-created agricultural village built to resemble those common around 1900, and a reconstruction of Nelson Dewey's home. Stonefield is also home to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Museum, which features a large collection of antique farm equipment.
On May 19, 1970, Stonefield, also known as the Nelson Dewey Plantation, was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Governor Dewey's estate.
Nelson Dewey first moved to Cassville from New York state in 1836. He quickly became involved in Wisconsin's territorial politics, and after Wisconsin became a state in 1848 he was elected as the first governor. He served for two terms, and afterwards he returned to Cassville. Hoping to spur development in the village, he invested in land and businesses in the area. He also went to work building an agricultural estate, which he called "Stonefield." As its centerpiece he constructed a three-story brick house in the Gothic revival style. The home was completed in 1868. Dewey was unable to enjoy the estate for long, for in 1873 a fire destroyed the house, and shortly afterward the Panic of 1873 caused Dewey to lose nearly all of his property. He was forced to leave the estate and return to the village of Cassville, where he lived in poverty until dying in 1889.
In 1879, General Walter Cass Newberry purchased a plot of land on the former estate that included the site once occupied by Dewey's home. Newberry farmed the land for several years, and in the 1890s he decided to rebuild the Dewey home as a summer residence. Although the rebuilt home followed the original floor plan used for Dewey's house, the new version did not include many of the ornate details of the Gothic revival style. Newberry sold the home in 1896, and it underwent a succession of owners before it was purchased by the state of Wisconsin during the formation of Nelson Dewey State Park.
Stonefield Historic Site.
In 1953, the reconstructed Dewey household was set aside from the state park for use as a museum operated by the Wisconsin Historical Society. Originally the "State Farm and Crafts Museum", the interior of the rebuilt Dewey home would later be furnished as Dewey's original house and serve as a house museum interpreting Dewey's life. In 1969, the State Agricultural Museum was added to the features at the historic site.
Stonefield Village.
 In 1954, the historical society began plans to accompany the Dewey house with a replica of the sort of rural farming village and farmstead that would have been typical in Wisconsin in around 1900. Work continued on these projects into the 1970s as buildings and objects were added to the site. Today the Stonefield village includes over thirty buildings, including a blacksmith shop, general store, schoolhouse, and other stores and social institutions. Some of these buildings are authentic historic structures that were relocated to Stonefield for use in the village. The remainder were built as replicas. Near the village, the Stonefield farmhouse offers visitors a glimpse into the lives of Wisconsin farm families during the early 20th century. Many of the buildings in the village and farmstead are staffed by costumed interpreters who help guide visitors through the site.
Wisconsin State Agricultural Museum.
In 1969, the State Agricultural Museum was added to the features at the Stonefield historic site. The museum was built to house the large collection of historic agricultural machinery acquired by the historical society while it was creating the Stonefield village and farmstead. Inside are exhibits detailing the history of Wisconsin agriculture from the time when it was practiced by Native Americans through the early 20th century. The museum also tells of Wisconsin's major agricultural equipment manufacturers, the Case Corporation and Allis-Chalmers, and features many rare and valuable pieces of antique farm equipment.


Maibec

Originally a lumber manufacturer, Maibec produces wood products for the construction and landscaping markets. Maibec is a privately held Quebec company owned and operated by the Tardif family from Quebec city. It employs approximately 700 people working in three regions of Quebec: Saint-Pamphile de l’Islet, Saint-Théophile de Beauce, and Saint-Romuald. Maibec was founded in 1946; in 1969 it adopted the name Maibec, a portmanteau of Maine and Quebec. In September 2014, Maibec finalized an agreement to acquire the Fraser Timber lumber mill in Masardis, Maine, United States. Maibec also invested $20 million in 2014 to modernize its mill in Saint-Pamphile.
Organization.
Maibec is directed by François Tardif.
Products.
Maibec manufactures two main types of products:
Construction lumber.
Maibec commercializes and manufactures softwood lumber (spruce and fir) for use in building construction and carpentry, as well as for inputs in larger industrial components such as wall panels, beams and glulam (glued laminated timber). Over the course of its history, the company has invested in manufacturing customized specialty products with the following features:
By-products are used in pulp and paper, the production of panels and in energy production.
Solid wood siding.
This business segment includes the following product families:
Environment.
Maibec also maintains a FSC mixed chain of custody for its products, from the forest floor to the market (FSC, SFI). The purpose of these certifications is to ensure that timber production follows procedures designed to ensure the sustainable management of forests and to encourage initiatives that promote the social, environmental and economically responsible management of forests by making them both visible and credible by affixing a label to products derived from certified forests.
To increase the knowledge of forestry stakeholders in northeastern United States and Canada on how to better regenerate and improve the growth of the Eastern White Cedar species, maibec financed a group of academic and government researchers from Quebec, Ontario and Maine to increase silvicultural knowledge of this species. Following this 12-year collaboration, the US Forest Service and Canadian Forest Service published in early 2013, in English and French respectively, a silvicultural guide.


Cheryl Rogowski

Cheryl Rogowski (born c. 1960) is an American farmer from Pine Island, New York.
She began farming in 1983 when the Onion Harvest Festival was reestablished and she was crowned Princess.
In 1984, in her early 20s, she received from her father and grew broom corn, sunflowers, zinnias, chili peppers, ground cherries.
She grew a community-supported agriculture program, starting in 1998, from 12 to 156 members, and sells at farmers' markets.
She participates in El Puente ("The Bridge") CSA for low-income people.
She supports English lessons for migrant workers, mentors Future Farmers of America students, and helps with "Just Food", and "The Tastemakers" annual food festival.
She appeared on an Urban Farming panel in New York City.


Pol-Mot Holding

Pol-Mot Holding SA is a Polish holding company based manufacturer of agricultural equipment, including tractors. Pol-Mot was established in 1968; it controlled the whole international trade and collaboration of Polish automotive industry, inclusive with license contracts.
Between 1990 and 1996 it was privatized and diversified its activity, which now includes manufacture of automotive components, tractors and agricultural machines, construction, and - traditionally - sales of cars.
The 14 daughter companies in their majority were either acquired or specially established. Among them are five car dealers (makes: Fiat, Iveco, Piaggio, Skoda, MG, Rover), five agricultural machinery factories cooperating with Indian Escorts, Swedish Alfa-Laval Agri, Dutch Netagco, and two automotive components factories (mechanical car jacks, electrical harnesses, brake & washer fluid reservoirs).
Pol-Mot has also acquired some real estate in cooperation with different partners.


No net cost

No net cost is a requirement that certain commodity programs operate at no net cost to the federal government. The No Net Cost Tobacco Act of 1982 (P.L. 97-218) required an assessment on 1982 and subsequent tobacco crops to cover potential tobacco price support program losses. The 1985 farm bill (P.L. 99-198) required that USDA operate the sugar program for the first time at no cost; a provision repealed by the 1996 farm bill (P.L. 104-127) and reinstated by the 2002 farm bill (P.L. 107-171, Sec. 1401(a)). The 1996 changes to the peanut price support program were designed to ensure that it also operated at no cost. Subsequently, the peanut program was completely changed by the 2002 farm bill, but not in a manner to make it no-net-cost.


Cotton production in China

Cotton production in China pertains to cotton which is the prime cash crop of China. Its production was the highest in the world (in excess of 20 percent of world production) from 1982 until being overtaken by India. Twenty-four of the 35 provinces of China grow cotton with nearly 300 million people involved in its production. It is the main input for textile industry of the country with cotton textiles now accounting for 80% use vis-a-vis 95% in the 1950s. The cotton textile industry employs over 10 million people. Its production in 2012–13 was 7.6 million tons but in 2013–14 it dropped to 7 million tons. Historically, its introduction in China is considered a 'southernization', crop which originated from southern Asia (India) during the "proto-globalization" period.
History.
Cotton, which is called "mian" () or "mumian" () in Chinese was first reported from an area now known as Yunnan, some time around 200 BC. Lao-ai tribe in the southwest border region is reported to have produced quality cotton cloth around 25–220 CE. In the Tarim Basin archaeological finds of cotton cloth on mummies dated around 1,000 BC have also been reported. In the early Han dynasty period in Siachen in Western China, around 100 BC, quality cotton cloth has been noted. From all these documented and archaeological evidences, a historian has called the introduction of cotton in the country as "southernization" during which period the cotton species introduced were "Gossypium herbaceum" (an Afro-Asian species) and "Gossypium arboreum" and "Gossypium hardense" from India; the latter species were grown in Guangdong and Fujian provinces during the ninth century AD but were blocked for introduction into Sichuan province due to a strong silk lobby. However, adoption of scientific methods of cultivation came into practice only from 1949.
Areas of production.
The cotton sown area accounts for about 30 percent of the total sown area of all the various cash crops. The major regions, according where cotton is a prime crop are the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the Yangtze River Basin (including provinces of Jiangxi and Hubei), and the Huang-Huai Region (mainly in provinces of Hebei, Henan, and Shandong). However, according to agroclimatic regions they are under three zones of the northwest inland cotton region, the Yellow River valley region and the Yangtze River valley region, which together account for 99.5% area under cotton with a total yield of 99.7%. The area planted in 2012 was 5.3 million hectares and the average lint yield was per ha.
Varieties of cotton.
Both Bt cotton and non Bt cotton varieties are used in China. Bt cotton is a major genetically modified crop, which is adopted for commercial production. This was introduced after several field trials in cotton growing provinces and found to be economically profitable in terms of not only production but also revenue. It was introduced in 2002 in about 45% of country’s total area under cotton as it also proved to have better pest resistance. The Hybrid (F1) Bt cotton, developed after crossing with a non-Bt line, has found favour in southern China because of higher yield due to better methods of farming such as seedling transplantation and planting at lower population density. Now Bollgard Bt cotton is adopted in 55% of cropped area while 45% area is planted with China’s own Bt cotton.
Production.
According to the FAO statistics for 2012, cotton production was 6.84 million tonnes with cotton seed production of 13.68 million tonnes. The crops grown are under intensive cotton cultivation practices, typically with Chinese adaptations covering special seedling transplanting (since 1950's), plastic mulching since 1979, plant training and double cropping of the cotton–wheat ("Triticum aestivum") system (from 1980s to 1990s). Another practice introduced extensively since 1980 is the adoption of high-yielding cultivation pattern known as "short-dense-early" in the northwestern inland areas which is stated to have contributed to China achieving the status of world number one in cotton production.


Thaddeus Hait Farm

The Thaddeus Hait Farm is located on Allhusen Road near the hamlet of Modena in the town of Plattekill, New York, United States. It is a property on both sides of the road consisting of 15 contributing properties in two distinct groups, together comprising a mostly intact early 19th-century family farm still used for that purpose today.
Hait, a member of a prosperous Westchester County family, bought the original 97 acres (39 ha) in 1819. At the time the road was the busy Milton Turnpike, carrying much traffic from distilleries. Over the next nine years, he built the farm up with purchases adding , setting it into its present form. His grandson sold it in 1888. Two other owners later, in 1906, the Allhusen family after whom the road was renamed bought it for dairy farming and kept it until 1973. After some more transitional owners, it came to the Adairs, who returned to the property's roots by going into winemaking. The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. They have since sold the property to Marc and Lori Stopkie, who have retained the Adair name. Today, Adair Vineyards produces 20,000 bottles annually of Seyval blanc, Vignoles, Foch and Millot, on 100 acres (40 ha). Their tasting facility is on the south side of the road east of the house.
The main house, on the road a short distance from the Shuart-Van Orden Stone House, is a Federal style home built around 1825 from a mix of wood and stone, an unusual combination in that style. A frame extension of the west wing was added in the late 19th century. Originally the front was sided in clapboard with a cornice and frieze; that was replaced with cedar in the 1950s. The interior retains much of the original molding. Near the house are ancillary agricultural structures, such as a stone barn (an unusual material for the area) that appears to have built around the same time as the house, a later wood barn of an identical configuration as the first.
The other group, south of the road, is centered on a New World Dutch barn, older than the main house. Originally constructed, like other Dutch barns, for wheat farming, it was adapted for winemaking around 1986. Its outbuildings include a smokehouse, icehouse and 1873 granary. An outhouse dates to the early 20th century. There is also the remains of a foundation of a late 18th or early 19th-century stone house and a well that served it.


Caesar Carl Hans Henkel

Caesar Carl Wilhelm Hans Henkel (1837 Fulda, Hesse - 16 June 1913 Umtata), was a German-born South African forester, cartographer, painter, soldier and botanist. He was the father of John Spurgeon Henkel.
Henkel came from an old and distinguished German military family. He enlisted as an officer in the British-German Legion during the Crimean War. The war having ended before the British-German Legion saw any action, Henkel settled in the Eastern Cape in 1856, where he acted as secretary to the commanding officer Baron Richard von Stutterheim (1809-1872) and played a major role in settling German immigrants in the King William's Town area.
Returning from service in the Indian Mutiny, Henkel filled various administrative posts in the Eastern Cape between 1860-75. He proved to be an extremely competent cartographer in the office of the surveyor-general between 1876–83; his map of the Transkei then regarded as the definitive work. Thereafter he worked as forester in the districts of Stockenstrom and King William's Town. He was finally appointed chief forest officer and stationed at Umtata and was responsible for the conservation of indigenous forests and for the development of commercial forestry in the Transkei. His pioneering work in these fields greatly influenced the course taken by forestry practice in South Africa. Henkel inaugurated a policy of establishing exotic wattle plantations throughout the Transkei in order to reduce exploitation of the indigenous forests.
On his retirement, he became a town councillor of Umtata and started importing useful and rare trees and shrubs which he planted on his estate, "The Pines", outside Umtata. Here he also started the first fish hatchery of the country. His name is commemorated in "Podocarpus henkelii". Some of his paintings are kept at the East London Museum, the Africana Museum in Johannesburg and the History Museum in Grahamstown.
Personal.
Caesar Henkel married Auguste Radue (30 November 1850 Arnswalde - 6 October 1928) and they raised a family of 6 sons and 6 daughters:


University of Agriculture, Makurdi

The University of Agriculture, Makurdi (UAM) is a higher education institution in Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria.
The university was established in 1988, following the recommendations of a 1987 federal government White Paper on Higher Education curriculum and development in Nigeria. The vice-chancellor is Professor Anande Richard Kimbir, and the chancellor is the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu Gambari CFR. On the 14th of July 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari approved a bill renaming it the Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University.
Faculties.
The University of Agriculture, Makurdi has over 30 departments in ten colleges:
For outreach and public service support, UAM has established a Co-operative Extension Centre (CEC) and a Centre for Food and Agricultural Strategy (CEFAS) which focus on practical agricultural extension liaison support and public policy support services, respectively.
Research and extension programmes.
The Cooperative Extension Centre through its training and extension liaison services coordinates the outreach programmes. The Centre for Food and Agricultural Strategy coordinates the public service support in food and agriculture. UAM is forming links to ensure that agricultural technologies and the output of its research reach average small-scale Nigerian farmers, the intended beneficiaries of the university's research and extension programmes.
Institutional links are being forged with federal and state Ministries of Agriculture and other related agencies to identify areas of collaboration and technical support from the University. The university has been involved with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in research on the socio-economic aspects of soybean production. The university is making its presence felt in Benue State through such collaborative programme and protects. Training programmes are being conducted for participants from other states.


Coastal Pet Rescue

Coastal Pet Rescue (or CPR) is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to saving the lives of homeless, abused and neglected animals in the coastal areas of Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. Its goal is to save as many pet lives as possible through rescue, reduce pet overpopulation through spaying/neutering, and to provide opportunities to the public to become better pet guardians.
History.
Coastal Pet Rescue was founded in Savannah, Georgia on February 5, 2003 by Lisa Scarbrough. Scarbrough had been rescuing and placing pets on her own for two years. She decided to formalize her rescue effort so that she could enlist the assistance of others and do more. Today, Coastal Pet Rescue employs a non-paid executive committee of five that oversee nearly 60 active volunteers.
Awards and recognition.
In 2005, the organization received multiple recognitions for its work. In February, the Savannah Morning News ran a featured article about Coastal Pet Rescue and its founder, Lisa Scarbrough. The reporter noted the rescue's biggest case at the time. Jackie, a female Weimaraner, had been hit by a semi truck and then left abandoned in an apartment for two weeks without any care. Coastal Pet Rescue took her and her companion, a male Weimaraner they dubbed "Colby" after the runner-up in the second season of Survivor, in to their care. Lacking proper funds for Jackie's much needed orthopedic care, the organization appealed to the public and raised over the needed amount. The story caught the eye of a local Lexus and Toyota dealership's general manager, who offered to support the agency through donations for each purchase of vehicles from two lots through one month. This led to their appearance in TIME Magazine in August as the dealership was rewarded with the Toyota President's Award for their community support.
Using the funds garnered from the dealership's support, Coastal Pet Rescue purchased and donated manikins and supplies in May to the Savannah Chapter of the American Red Cross so that pet first aid and CPR classes could be offered in the area. Continually striving to provide resources and support for animals in the community, the organization launched a trap-neuter-return program for feral cats in July. Dubbed The Milton Project, the program seeks to control the overpopulation of feral colonies around the Savannah area. Program coordinator Mandy Ownley works with a local vet to provide low-cost spays/neuters and rabies vaccinations to the cats and kittens that are trapped. Those that are young enough to be socialized are placed for adoption.
Looking to increase their humane education in the area, Coastal Pet Rescue launched its CPR Teens program in August. CPR Teens is a teen volunteer initiative to educate teens on the proper care for animals and deter tendencies towards animal cruelty.
In September, founder Lisa Scarbrough was recognized nationally for her dedication to homeless pets. Jiffy Lube named her its national Hearts on Wheels winner. Lisa was flown to New York to appear on morning talk and radio shows around the nation. Afterwards, she was treated to an afternoon with the ASPCA, including time with Annemarie Lucas, notable from Animal Planet's Animal Precinct. Also that month, Lisa was granted a scholarship from Humane Society University towards her bachelor of science in humane leadership program from Duquesne University.
Rounding out a month of awards, the story of Jackie was featured in the very first worldwide edition of Celebrate Animals. Celebrate Animals is a newsletter produced by Smarter than Jack, which features news of animal rescues and heart-warming stories.
Back home, the group collaborated with SPOT (Stopping Pet Overpopulation Together), an agency out of Atlanta, Georgia, to organize a two-day mobile spay/neuter clinic in Savannah. The group serviced 22 cats and several dogs. Founder Lisa Scarbrough was recognized again for her local work as a finalist for the Humane Society of Chatham-Savannah's Maggy Medallion.
In October, Purina named Coastal Pet Rescue to its Purina Pro Plan Rally to Rescue Ambassador program. The group was only one of three in Georgia selected. Purina provided event materials, including its own 10x10 tent, curb signs and fundraising items as well as packages for adopters.
December found the organization on CNN.com in a segment focusing on how the Internet has changed people's lives. Lisa's hometown publication, the Tybee Breeze, also ran a three-page article about the success of the organization for the last year.
Founder Lisa Scarbrough spent much of 2005 promoting her agency and raising awareness for homeless animals. She was a regular guest on WTGS Fox Newsmakers and WJCL Call 22, and the organization's website was selected as Winner Best of Savannah for Web Design by Connect Savannah. Thanks to the dedication and promotion by the volunteers of Coastal Pet Rescue, 143 pets were rescued, of which 114 found new homes.
The group was propelled to national attention again in 2006 with recognition by Purina. Rally to Rescue chose to honor ten of its over 500 ambassadors in May in Washington, DC, one of which was Coastal Pet Rescue. The honorees received an Award of Excellence from Purina, special recognition from the United States Department of Agriculture, and had flags flown over the capital in their honor. Sex in the City actress Kristin Davis gave the address at the National Press Room.
Coastal Pet Rescue founder and president Lisa Scarbrough received additional recognition in July as she was named to the REAL Hot 100 list. The REAL hot 100 is a list featuring young women from around the country who are breaking barriers, fighting stereotypes, and making a difference in their communities or the nation. Lisa Scarbrough was included for her dedication and contributions to Coastal Pet Rescue.
Organizational structure.
Current executive board:
References.
 Savannah Morning News Article on Coastal Pet Rescue (registration required)
 WTOC TV story on fund-raising
 SMN article on corporate donations (registration required)
 TIME Magazine appearance (PDF file)
 SMN article on manikin purchase (registration required)
 SMN on the Hearts on Wheels award (registration required)
 Creative Animals appearance (PDF file)
 CNN.com article on Coastal Pet Rescue
 Pet Rescue Groups Honored for Their Commitment to the Homeless Pet Crisis
 The REAL Hot 100 2006


Harry Nkumbula

Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula (15 January 1916 – 8 October 1983) was a Zambian nationalist leader involved in the movement for the independence of Northern Rhodesia, as Zambia was known until the end of British rule in 1964. He was born in the village of Maala in the Namwala district of Zambia's southern province. He was the youngest of three children and the only son.
Educational background.
Nkumbula received his early formal education at Methodist mission schools and in 1934 completed Standard VI at the Kafue Training Institute. He then taught in Namwala District for several years.
In 1938 Nkumbula joined the Northern Rhodesian government's teaching service and later worked in Kitwe and Mufulira on the Copperbelt. During World War II he became involved in African nationalist politics, like many other educated Africans of the day. For example, he held the position of Secretary of the Mufulira Welfare Association and co-founded the Kitwe African Society.
In 1946, from Chalimbana Teacher Training School, Nkumbula went to Kampala's Makerere University College in Uganda. This was made possible by the support of Sir Stewart Gore-Browne, a pro-black British settler politician. From Makerere, Nkumbula went on to study for and received a diploma from the Institute of Education, University of London. In London, Nkumbula had the opportunity to meet other African nationalists who were galvanized after attending the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester, England. In 1949 he worked with Nyasaland's Hastings Kamuzu Banda in drafting a document that expressed African opposition to the proposed white-dominated Central African Federation. This collaboration prepared the two men for their subsequent struggles with the colonialists in their home countries. After his diploma, Nkumbula enrolled to study economics at the London School of Economics but he failed his examinations and returned to Northern Rhodesia without a degree early in 1950.
Independence struggle.
As a militant, articulate and uncompromising opponent of the Federation, Nkumbula was elected president of the Northern Rhodesian African Congress in 1951. The party was soon renamed the African National Congress (ANC). In 1953, Kenneth Kaunda became secretary general of the ANC. When Nkumbula called a national strike—disguised as a "national day of prayer" — in opposition to the Federation, the African population did not respond. This was due to the opposition of the president of the African Mineworkers' Union, Lawrence Katilungu, who campaigned against the strike on the Copperbelt. In October 1953, the white colonial settlers formed the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, ignoring the black African majority's opposition. In the early months of 1954, Nkumbula and Kaunda organised a partially successful boycott of European-owned butcheries in Lusaka. However, Nkumbula, Kaunda and the ANC found it difficult to mobilize their people against the Federation.
In early 1955 Nkumbula and Kaunda were imprisoned together for two months (with hard labour) for distributing "subversive" literature. Such imprisonment and other forms of harassment were normal rites of passage for African nationalist leaders. The experience of imprisonment had a moderating influence on Nkumbula, but it had a radicalizing influence on Kaunda. Nkumbula became increasingly influenced by white liberals and was seen as willing to compromise on the fundamental issue of majority rule.
Opposition to Nkumbula's allegedly autocratic leadership of the ANC eventually resulted in a split with Kaunda, who went on to form the Zambian African National Congress (ZANC) in October 1958. ZANC was banned in March 1959 and in June Kaunda was sentenced to nine months imprisonment. While Kaunda was still in prison, the United National Independence Party (UNIP) was formed late in 1959. Once he came out of prison, Kaunda took over the presidency of UNIP, which became better organized and more militant than Nkumbula's ANC. Due to this, UNIP rapidly took the leading position in the struggle for independence, eclipsing the ANC.
During independence constitutional talks in London in 1960–61, Nkumbula played only a secondary role. He suffered a further setback when he disappeared from the political scene for nine months (April 1961 – January 1962), while serving a prison sentence for causing death by dangerous driving. In the run-up to elections in October 1962, Nkumbula made the mistake of accepting funding from Moise Tshombe's regime in Katanga. He also made an ill-advised secret electoral pact with the white-dominated United Federal Party (UFP). He then found himself in a bind after the ANC won seven seats and held the balance of power between UNIP and the UFP. Eventually Nkumbula chose to form a coalition with UNIP and was given the post of minister of African education. The UNIP/ANC alliance lasted until the pre-independence elections of January 1964, when UNIP won fifty-five seats to the ANC's ten seats. Nkumbula became leader of the opposition.
After independence.
During the last days of the Federation, the ANC had been largely confined to Nkumbula's regional base in the southern province. Although the party won seats in Western Province during the general elections of 1968, Nkumbula had little to offer the Zambian public. When Kaunda moved to convert Zambia into a one-party state, Nkumbula capitulated. He signed a document called the Choma Declaration on 27 June 1973 and announced that he was joining UNIP. The ANC ceased to exist after the dissolution of parliament in October 1973. Some have alleged that Kaunda "bought off" Nkumbula by offering him an emerald mine. However, the fact that the emerald mine did not enter his possession until 1975 suggests that this allegation is false. Nkumbula's last prominent political action was an ill-fated attempt, together with Simon Kapwepwe, to stand against Kaunda for Zambia's one-party presidential nomination in 1978. Both Nkumbula and Kapwepwe were outmaneuvered by Kaunda, who secured the nomination while the two of them disappeared from Zambia's political scene.
Nkumbula died on 8 October 1983, aged 67.
His son Baldwin Nkumbula was also a politician. He was widely tipped to become the next president of Zambia until his death in a road accident.