Community Supported Agriculture consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes, either legally or spiritually, the community's farm, with the growers and consumers providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of food production. Typically, members or "share-holders" of the farm or garden pledge in advance to cover the anticipated costs of the farm operation and farmer's salary. http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/csa/csa.shtml
Databases to help you find a CSA in your area:
Local Harvest
USDA Alternative Farming Systems Information Center
Wilson College, Robyn Van En Center for CSA
Rodale Institute Farm Locator
ATTRA Local Food Directories
http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/csa/csa.shtml

"You Can Delegate Authority But Not Responsibility" is sometimes attributed to Stephen W. Comiskey. I've seen the acronym YCDABNR for it, but that's not an easy string of letters to remember.

amplitude modulation noun Abbr. AM
1. The encoding of a carrier wave by variation of its amplitude in accordance with an input signal.
2. A broadcast system that uses amplitude modulation. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/amplitude+modulation

frequency modulation noun Abbr. FM The encoding of a carrier wave by variation of its frequency in accordance with an input signal. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/frequency+modulation

An anabatic wind, from the Greek anabatos, verbal of anabainein meaning moving upward, is a wind which blows up a steep slope or mountain side, driven by heating of the slope through insolation. It is also known as an upslope flow. These winds typically occur during the daytime in calm sunny weather. Katabatic winds are down-slope winds, frequently produced at night by the opposite effect, the air near to the ground losing heat to it faster than air at a similar altitude over adjacent low-lying land. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabatic_wind

Ante Meridian Latin = "before midday" Post Meridian Latin = "after midday" See abbreviations, suggestions for voiding ambiguity, and how to convert from AM / PM to 24 hour clock at: http://www.worldtimezone.com/wtz-names/wtz-am-pm.html

Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on April 27th 1791 in Charlestown (now Charleston) Massachusetts. His parents sent the young Morse to start his education at Phillips Academy in Andover (USA). He proved to be a rather poor and slightly eccentric scholar, but despite this he was moved to Yale College a few years later. Here his two main interests started to grow. The first was associated with the new science of electricity and the second was painting, especially small portraits. Morse graduated from Yale in 1810 and became a clerk for a book publisher in Boston Massachusetts. However he found the job uninteresting and he longed to become a painter. So a year later with help from his parents he set out for England to study the traditional style of painting followed there. Four years later in 1815 he returned to America and to his dismay he found that the style of art he had studied was not appreciated. Accordingly he took up portrait painting and became an itinerant artist. In 1822 he completed work on a painting of the House of Representatives in session. This work included small portraits of over 80 members of the house. As Morse was very busy with his painting as well as lecturing because he was now appointed professor of painting and sculpture at the University of the City of New York (now New York University). As a result he did not devote much time to his idea for a telegraph. It was not for about three years that he was able to develop a prototype. However once he had done this his enthusiasm for the idea grew and in 1837 he gave over all his time to it putting his painting and lecturing to one side. With this system operating interest grew very fast. Many of the railroad companies saw the possibilities of the new system and they started to have systems installed. In fact after only four years more than 5000 miles of line had been installed to take the new telegraph system. In addition to this orders soon started to come in from Europe as they heard about the system and how it performed. With all of these orders Morse became very wealthy. Along with this success came trouble. His former partners filed law suits against him as they felt they had contributed to the system. This legal battle took many years to settle and cost a great deal of money, but eventually Morse won and was able to hold onto all his ideas. Although the original code that Morse had derived served its purpose well it had several limitations. Some letters had pauses in them, others had dashes that were longer than others, and there was no provision for accents required by some European languages. These problems meant that the code was not always easy to use. As a result of this a new code was devised and introduced in 1851. It bore many similarities to the old one but it was much easier to send having no spaces in the letters themselves and standard lengths for all the dots and dashes. In fact this code is called the International Morse Code and it is the one that is used today. http://www.radio-electronics.com/info/radio_history/morse/sfbmorse.php

Many people consider the correct definition of decimate is 'to kill one in every ten as a punishment', a practice carried out in the ancient Roman army and continued by others in later centuries. That definition is now prefaced by the word 'historical' in the Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE), and is the second sense given for decimate. The first is "kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of". The Usage box makes clear that the historical sense of decimate, ie kill one in ten, has been more or less totally superseded by the more recent sense, ie kill, destroy ..., and the example given to illustrate the word is "the virus has decimated the population". The dictionary recognises that there are traditionalists who argue that this current sense is incorrect, but says that it is now part of standard English. Actually, the 'kill one in ten' sense is not the only, or even necessarily the original meaning of decimate. Decimation in the 16th century was, according to the OED "The exaction of tithes, or of a tax of one-tenth" and the verb decimate with the sense 'to tax to the extent of one-tenth' appeared about a hundred years later. http://virtuallinguist.typepad.com/the_virtual_linguist/2010/10/decimate.html

Quote The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American poet, essayist