If you haven’t heard of ACFC11 (the AgChat Foundation’s annual conference to train more farmers to use social media effectively), get ready to hear a lot about it! I’ll try to do a post each day to share photos or some key things from the conference. There are more than 100 people who love both farming and social media in… Read More
My Visit to Italy’s Must-See Event, the Palio di Siena
There are a few things pointing me to write about a trip I took two years ago. The weekly Travel Talk on Twitter (#TTOT and a Facebook page on it) today is about World Heritage sites Timing — it is August 16. And every year I remember where I was on August 16th…. well in Memphis we remember another August… Read More
Plant Breeding Student Attends IRRI’s “Rice: Research to Production” Course
The following article was in the latest issue of the Teas A&M Plant Breeding Bulletin July 2011. I asked the editor of the bulletin Wayne Smith and the student featured in the story (Trey Cutts) if I could share it here as I think the information and photos are very compelling. “Rice: Research to Production” is a 3-week intensive course… Read More
EyeCatching Sights & Sites of the Week (July 16-23, 2011)
What a week this has been! St. Louis Trip Hot but Successful There were several things that caught my eye this week while I was in St. Louis…. The heat! Temperatures consistently far higher than man nor beast are prepared to deal with and yet all of us have just had to deal. I spent most of the week in… Read More
Global & Local Viewpoints on the World & Civil Rights
I had a chance to catch up with my friend Kelly’s parents recently. Kelly & I became fast friends in college and made more than a few trips to visit her family while we were in school. This small school Phillips University (Enid, OK) helped me meet people from all over…. and although Kelly’s parents (Dick & Tish) lived just… Read More
Why do they call the Dead Sea the “dead” sea? What makes it unique?
The Jordan River goes down from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea. It seems to take all the salts in the earth along with it and has for so long according to our guide. And since the Dead Sea has no tributaries leading out of the body of water, the deposits all end up there and become concentrated…. Read More
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