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• American chestnut trees were the dominant hardwood trees for food and timber in the Appalachian Mountains several hundred years ago. When Chinese chestnut trees were imported, a bark fungus came with them for which the American species had no resistance. The American chestnut died off; over 30 million acres (12 million ha) died from Maine to Georgia and west to the Ohio Valley from what was known as the chestnut blight. The death of these trees was one of the largest ecological disasters in America.

• Back in the heyday of American chestnuts, they were an important food for people and wildlife from birds to bears. Rural communities depended on the nuts as a cash crop for feeding livestock, and the sale of lumber was also important for rural economics. Another chestnut product was tannin, a chemical substance found in some plants that is used in the leather tanning industry.

• The loss of the chestnut industry cost rural communities millions of dollars. Scientists have been working to restore the species. turn the page for more!

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CHESTNUTS (continued): • James Carpentar of Salem, Ohio, a member of the Northern Nut Growers Association (NNGA), discovered a large living American chestnut in the midst of a grove of dead trees in the early 1950s. The tree showed no sign of blight infection.

Carpentar and Dr. Robert T. Dunstan, another member of the NNGA and a well-known plant breeder in Greensboro, North Carolina, conducted research, grafting and cross-pollinating chestnut trees. They cross-pollinated grafts from the strong American chestnut with a mixture of three United States Department of Agriculture-released Chinese chestnut varieties. After years of work, Dunstan Hybrid Chestnuts were developed. They have a combination of American and Chinese traits. The first chestnuts to ever receive a U.S. Plant Patent, the Dunstan trees are healthy, vigorous trees that bear heavy annual crops of large, sweet-tasting nuts.

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• The grandson of Dr. Dunstan, R.D. Wallace, and his wife, Deborah A. Gaw, started Chestnut Hill Tree Farm in 1981 in Alachua, Florida. Dunstan Chestnuts are the most widely planted chestnut variety, and Chestnut Hill is a national leader in the chestnut industry.

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• The American Chestnut Foundation, started by plant scientists in 1983, is also working to reestablish American chestnut trees. They have worked to breed blight-resistant trees, while maintaining the characteristics of the original trees. The successful program has resulted in trees that retain “no Chinese characteristics other than blight resistance.”

• Canadian scientists and naturalists established the Canadian Chestnut Council in 1988 to work on reestablishing the trees in Canada as well, mainly in Ontario.

• There are fewer than 2,500 acres (1,012 ha) of chestnut orchards in the United States. We import $20 million of chestnuts annually. Our consumption of chestnuts is very low compared to Europe, Asia and Africa. Most chestnuts are imported from Japan, China, Spain and Italy.

• Chestnuts are used as a potato substitute frequently in Europe, Asia and Africa. The nuts actually contain twice as much starch as potatoes. They are also similar to brown rice in their nutritional value and sometimes called a “grain that grows on a tree.” They are 40 percent carbohydrates and only 2-3 percent fat, compared to many nuts that contain 50 percent fat. They contain 5-10 percent high quality protein and no cholesterol.

• In some European countries, Catholics give chestnuts to the poor on the Feast of Saint Martin in November. Also, chestnuts are eaten as a

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Cats vomit, retch, gag, sneeze, have nasal congestion, trouble breathing, reverse sneeze but rarely do they have a ‘true’ cough. Upper respiratory infections are the most common respiratory signs seen: showing eye discharge, nasal discharge, mouth ulcers, open mouth breathing, decreased appetite and fever. Vomiting and retching related to diet/gastrointestinal illness can be confused with respiratory problems. Mixed signs are common so cats may show many different clinical presentations.

The top two causes of cough in Colorado are Asthma/ Bronchitis Complex and Heartworm Disease.

Asthma/Bronchitis Complex is an allergic lung disease that causes constriction of the bronchial tree. Diagnosis in the cat is made by clinical exam, chest x-rays, tracheal wash/cytology and response to therapy. Coughing is the primary clinical sign followed by an expiratory dyspnea, crackles and wheezing.

Secondary cigarette smoke is commonly noted in the history of asthmatic patients.

Heartworm Disease is on the rise in Colorado. The dog and the coyote are the reservoir for the infection. The mosquito bites an infected dog/coyote; the mosquito becomes infected; and then it bites another animal (dog, cat, bear, etc.); and the infective larva develops in the host animal; and finally the larva develops into an adult heartworm. Cats usually only have 1-3 worms living in the heart or the vessels of the lung. Diagnosis is made with a combination of blood tests, clinical signs, chest radiographs and chest ultrasounds. Even with this small number of worms many cats to die suddenly. There is no effective treatment once the worms are present except supportive care and the control of secondary side-effects due to the disease.

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Other less common causes of cough in the cat are: heart disease (uncommon), tracheobronchial collapse (rare), grass awns/foreign bodies/fumes/smoke (can be seen), cancer (can be seen), infectious (less common), immune (can be seen) and laryngitis (less common).

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• Chestnuts are excellent steamed or roasted.

They are often included in dressing with turkey for holiday meals and are a great addition to soups and stews. Chestnuts can be ground into flour and used for baking pastries and bread. A traditional European dessert, “Mont Blanc,” has chestnuts sweetened with honey and topped with whipped cream. Also, a few beer brewers are now producing gluten-free chestnut beer.

• One of the largest chestnut forests in the world is on the French island of Corsica. In the 16th century, landowners were ordered to plant four trees each year in an eastern mountainous area of the island.

The town of Castagniccia, which means chestnut grove, became forested with magnificent chestnut trees. Today, that forest is dying from neglect.

• Tourists and locals walking the streets of Beijing and other Chinese cities are likely to find chestnuts being roasted and sold by street vendors. About 40 percent of the world’s chestnuts are consumed in China. They roast them in ovens, on coals or even in hot sand. They also simmer them in numerous dishes and add them to soups.

• American chestnut wood is straight-grained, easily workable, lightweight and highly rotresistant. It is used for railroad ties, fence posts, barn beams and home construction, as well as for musical instruments and fine furniture. Healthy chestnut trees grow straight and tall, often not producing branches until around 50 feet (15 m).

The trees are known for being used “from cradle to coffin.”

• A famous piece of chestnut furniture is an armchair on display at the Longfellow National Historic Site, operated by the National Park Service, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The chair was a gift to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, one of the most widely read American poets of all time, from Cambridge children for his 72nd birthday. The chair was built from wood from the “spreading chestnut tree,” written about by Longfellow in “The Village Blacksmith.” The tree in the poem, that he and many others loved, was removed in 1876 in order to widen Brattle Street in Cambridge.

• There are chestnut trees around still today, and restoration efforts are ongoing to return the American chestnut trees to their majestic glory.

There are growers selling chestnuts in the fall, mostly blight resistant Chinese varieties. It is hoped that someday soon, there will be more healthy chestnut forests of the American variety that produce chestnuts for us to “roast on an open fire.”

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It’s Thanksgiving week. And if you’re fortunate, you can look around your Thanksgiving table and see several generations of your family. Of course, as you know, Cindy Rose many types of cohesiveness are involved in knitting a family together.

But one connection that frequently gets ignored, at least in terms of family dialogue, is the financial linkage between parents and their children on one hand, and these same parents and their parents on the other. So if you find yourself in this “sandwich” group, it may be worth considering your financial position.

If your children are very young, you might want to start by emphasizing the importance of three separate concepts: saving, spending and sharing. If you give them an allowance, or if you pay them to do some minor tasks around the household, you can encourage them to put the money in three separate containers. The “spending” jar is for them to use as they choose, the “saving” jar is to be put in some type of savings or investment account and the “sharing” jar is to be used for contributions to charitable causes. You can extend the spending, saving and sharing themes by encouraging your kids to spend wisely, watch how their savings grow and feel pride in the work done by the charitable groups their dollars support.

Later, when your kids are older, and can earn money by babysitting, mowing lawns or working part-time, you can further encourage good financial habits by offering to match their contributions to a Roth IRA. And be sure to discuss the different types of investments available; they may enjoy learning about the ways in which they can participate in the financial markets.

Above all else, talk to them about the importance of developing good financial skills and how these skills will play a part in your family’s overall well being.

Now, let’s turn to your parents. If they’re elderly, you may find that talking to them about financial issues may be considerably more challenging than talking about these issues with your children. It’s unfortunate, but true: People are sensitive about money and often don’t want to talk about it.

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It is one thing for your customers to know what you do and where you do it; but do you know your customers? Do you know their needs, their trials, triumphs and yearnings? Heck, do you even know their names?

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A customer retained is an investment that pays dividends. Recent studies show it is 6–7 times more costly to acquire a new customer than it is to retain an old one.

I had one client for over 13 years who paid me the equivalent of one-year’s salary for services rendered. In my first year of business, around Thanksgiving, I took him a coffee mug with my company logo on it filled with Christmas candy and told him thanks for his business. When I started to apologize for the cheap mug, he stopped me and said, “Hey Ron, it’s way more than any other vendor has ever given me!”

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Ryan Harris The Genesis Principle Genesis 1:26-29 (NLT) Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us.

They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” 27 So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.” 29 Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seedbearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food.

After God created man he told him three things, #1 I will bless you, #2 I am giving you dominion and authority, and #3 I am going to teach you the law of seed time and harvest. God knew that if man would understand the power of THE BLESSING on his life, the authority and dominion he has, and how to use seed time and harvest, he would live in total victory upon the earth! Man that sounds good to me, how about you? This is the Genesis principle by which God designed you and I to live and when we do, nothing can hold us back!

THE BLESSING is an empowerment that comes from God that enables you to prosper and to succeed!

This is Good News in the world in which we live to know that there is something on us that empowers us to be successful! So how do we apply and enact this in our life? It begins by speaking it out of your mouth, “You will also declare a thing, And it will be established for you;” Job 22:28 NKJ Start by speaking this out your mouth because your words have power. Death and life are in the power of the tongue…Prov. 18:21 NKJ Say this out loud with me will you?.... “THE BLESSING of God in on my life and THE BLESSING causes me to prosper!”

We need to put a guard over what comes out of our mouths. This is the danger of watching the news all the time, and reading the newspaper and hanging around negative people, all that negativity begins to get inside of you and once it does, it begins to come out by what you speak. And when that happens it holds you captive and holds you back! Learn to speak positive things; learn to replace all the negative things of the world with the Word of God. If God has said he has blessed you then we need to agree with Him! Say it one more time with me will you? “THE BLESSING of God in on my life and THE BLESSING causes me to prosper!” Find a Bible believing church and attend this week!

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Finally, be patient and persevere. The tough times we are now in may take longer to get out of than any in the history of our country. Even the smartest economists don’t know what to expect in 2012, let alone the out years.

The hardest thing to do in tough times is to have the patience and determination to persevere.

An extended economic slump is especially discouraging, heart wrenching, and sometimes downright terrifying. But patience and perseverance are required if you intend to be one of the few left standing when the good times return.

In the meantime, learn to take things as they come and roll with the punches. It could be a long and difficult journey, but we’re Americans, we’re up to it. Patience and persistence are two hallmarks of winners. If we can survive now, we will prosper later.

Robert Schuller, pastor of the Crystal Cathedral in Southern California, once told an audience, “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” He later penned a book by the same title.

Today we are in tough times – are you one of the tough people? If you are, you will stand while others fall, you will survive and you will thrive. ©2011 Ronald D. Ross All Rights Reserved Used with permission Ron Ross Owner/Publisher of Tidbits of Weld County

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On Dec. 8, 1969, at a news conference, President Richard Nixon says that the Vietnam War is coming to an end. His pronouncements proved premature. In April 1970, he expanded the war by ordering attacks on communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.

On Dec. 6, 1976, deaf professional stuntwoman Kitty O’Neil sets the land-speed record for female drivers at the Alvord Desert in southeastern Oregon, averaging more than 512 mph. ? On Dec. 9, 1983, “Scarface,” starring Al Pacino as a Cuban refugee who becomes a Miami drug lord, opens in theaters. The film, written by Oliver Stone and directed by Brian De Palma, initially received unfavorable reviews but is now considered a classic. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

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