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I was pressed into a caretaking role recently after Sue had an outpatient procedure. She’s doing well and I believe I acquitted myself nicely.

“Nicely” because most of us like to think we have some caretaking qualities. A belief that we can rise to the level of kind, conscientious and concerned. Rather than treating this as a problem or an inconvenience, I looked at it as a warmup for the time I will be hoisting Sue over my shoulder, moving from one room to another like the Ancient Mariner looking for dry land.

When they wheeled her from the doctor’s office to the car, I slipped seamlessly into the caretaking space. There is something about a woman in a wheelchair that brings out the best in a man. I felt both sorry for her and superior toward her, and there is hardly a headier mixture of human emotion.

Look at me. So healthy, strong and capable. Look at you, so, so, the opposite. Don’t worry, consider it your lucky day because Super Caretaker is here to the rescue.

We weren’t in the car yet and I had already cast myself in heroic terms. I sat tall in the driver’s seat and drove her home where I would care for her in the way that only SC can. With a stiff upper lip but well aware of the generous sacrifice I had been making for the last 15 minutes.

Time to employ my caretaking voice designed to put the patient at ease. This requires speaking slowly and enunciating every syllable. It is the same voice you use when you’re talking to a child, a foolish person or somebody who is not long for this world.

When we got home it was dinnertime.

“Would you like some chicken soup?” I asked.

One of us had planned for this day and one of us wasn’t me. I was offering her chicken soup that she had made herself a few days earlier, a recipe that required half a day and everything short of raising, offing and plucking the chicken.

I did, however, have to ladle the soup in the bowl, which had me gauging appetite with how delicious the chicken soup looked and smelled. No reason to waste soup that I hadn’t made anyway.

“Let me do the dishes,” I said, pledging to do something I did almost every night anyway because Sue had basically planned, shopped, cooked and made most of the money for 41 straight years.

In the middle of the night, I noticed that her water glass was almost empty. While I gave myself credit for noticing it was empty, I decided not to mention it because in order to refill her glass, it was best to turn the light on in the bathroom and should I have done that, I would have risked waking myself up potentially costing SC important sleep.

This decision made sense because the last thing any patient wants to do is to wear out his or her caretaker even if it means the patient becoming dehydrated and slipping into a coma. It wasn’t as if the soup didn’t have water in it.

If that wasn’t reason enough, caretaking duties are better dispatched between the hours of 8 and 5 with a two-hour break in the morning devoted to exercise, an hour and a half for breakfast, two hours around noon for both lunch and a nap, which eventually reduces caretaking responsibilities to about 30 minutes unless the patient gets too demanding then it can drop precipitously from there.

Rather than seeing this as a deficiency in one’s caretaking, I am of the mind that the quicker the patient assumes both more than their share of the daily responsibilities, and their partner’s, the faster they will heal.

Day 2 was more chicken soup and thank goodness one of us had the foresight to make it ahead of time.

Day 3. What do you mean there is no more chicken soup? If you’d really thought ahead, you’d planned a second meal because Rule No. 1: Keep your caretaker strong, rested and healthy.

By Day 4, I was over this caretaking thing. How do people do this? I wanted my life back or even more of it than I had before, which was quite a bit.

By Day 4, I was ready to put her on an ice floe and push her gently out to sea.

Day 5. Who needs an ice floe? Swim.

Day 6. I’ll be in the garage cleaning my bike. It’s really dirty and it could take awhile because the chain is super gunky.

Day 7. I’ll be eating at my desk. Don’t bother to call. I really need to concentrate so if you want me, just scream.

Day 10. I have no idea what happened to Day 8 or 9, but Sue is fully recovered. Ask her, but I’d like to think I had something to do with it.

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Karin and Herb Meiselman

Editor’s note: Jamestown Community College, the first locally sponsored community college chartered by the State University of New York system, is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. As part of that celebration, JCC has created profiles of some of its over 28,000 alumni.

For many, a community college education often serves as the beginning of a career.

For Karin and Herb Meiselman, Jamestown Community College was just that, but it was also the start of something much greater. Although the institution has changed a lot in 60 years, the Meiselmans’ memories from there have not.

“We visited JCC at various times through the years when we come through Jamestown and we know it’s changed a lot physically, but we’re still fairly attached to our memories of it,” Karin says. “It’s something that, I guess you could say, is a part of our marriage; that we both have the memories of JCC, that it was a nice, small place where you got to know other students and the faculty.”

In 1960, Karin was a first-year student majoring in psychology at JCC. Herb was a sophomore, finishing his final semesters at the two-year institution focused on engineering. Though both of them were local Jamestown High School graduates — Herb graduating in 1958 and Karin in 1959 – they had never met.

That all changed in 1960 when both of them attended a JCC Jayhawks basketball game. There, they first noticed each other when brief small talk ensued between Karin’s group of friends and Herb’s corresponding collective. However, both admit they officially met at Mike & Sam’s, a pizza and beer parlor (during a time when the drinking age was 18), blocks away from JCC’s original location on Foote Avenue.

“He got to talking to me and eventually asked for my phone number, and that was the beginning,” Karin says.

Married in 1963, the couple now lives in California near Pasadena. Karin and Herb have two children, Sharon and Ben, and three grandchildren, Issac, Ilana, and Theodore.

In 2016, Karin concluded a career in psychology while Herb retired as a scientist and professor at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. A professor for 45 years, Herb taught physiology and biophysics at USC. Prior to transitioning to the role of teacher, he attended Caltech in Pasadena for a post-doctoral fellowship.

Focusing his research on the physiology of red blood cells and their flow through microcirculation,

Herb is credited with more than 300 scientific publications. Through National Institute of Health grant funding, he was able to travel overseas for his work, often accompanied by Karin. Herb even visited Antarctica twice, studying blood flow in seals.

“I kind of hitched on to a lot of that travel,” Karin says of Herb’s work-related adventures, adding that the two of them were able to travel separately from work and on their own time, too.

Karin’s career as a private practice psychologist focused on the long-term effects of child sexual abuse. She authored two books and frequently lectured to professional groups on the topic. Karin was consulted by the actress Barbra Streisand about a role in the film Nuts, in which she portrays a sexual abuse survivor.

Though the two now reflect on a life and a career that was truly seeded in 1960 at JCC, Karin admits not knowing which career path she’d pursue at the time. But she also didn’t intend on meeting her husband of 57 years either. Though unexpected, she welcomed both opportunities at JCC.

“I had no idea what I was going to become,” Karin says. “I just started taking courses that I liked.”

After that night at their “favorite watering hole,” as Herb describes it, the two hit it off.

However, Herb, a year ahead of Karin, left for Michigan Technological University (MTU) in 1960 after graduating from JCC. He later earned a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) before heading to California.

Meanwhile, Karin began her second year at Jamestown that fall. Though separated, the moments they had at JCC would not soon be forgotten. They wrote to each other constantly in that year apart and the years that followed. Those letters consisted of the two “professing love” to each other and describing their coursework, as Karin puts it. Postage stamps only cost four cents at the time.

After graduating from JCC, Karin attended Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Herb graduated from MTU and was accepted at MIT. They returned to Jamestown to be married and shortly after moved to Boston, where Herb attended MIT.

They lived in “a little apartment, happily,” Karin says.

Karin worked at various proofreading jobs but her ambition for psychology would not go unfulfilled. The Meiselmans moved to Pasadena in 1966. Karin was accepted into a graduate program for clinical psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she earned her Ph.D. Meanwhile, Herb continued his research and expanded his career as a scientist and a professor.

Though continuing on from Jamestown to Los Angeles and around the world, their beginnings at JCC are not lost on them – and neither is the impact the college had on their lives.

“My experience was small classes, getting to know faculty members, and having a good social life while saving gobs of money,” Herb says of his experience. “JCC means good personal memories and a good start on my career path. I would definitely recommend it to today’s high school grads.”

Karin adds that JCC is the place where she learned her work ethic. While maintaining solid grades in high school, she admits she was mentally tested upon entering college. But the impact of those trials was only positive on her life and career.

“We’re deeply indebted to JCC for giving us the motivation and interest for pursuing our studies and working and getting eventual success,” she says.

They both distinctly remember one English professor, Robert Scharmann, after whom JCC’s Robert Lee Scharmann Theater is named. Scharmann attended the Meiselmans’ wedding and became a good friend of the family.

Karin and Herb recall the value of smaller class sizes, the personal interactions with faculty, and the ability to mature while not leaving her hometown right out of high school.

“JCC is a good place to sort things out to find out what you like and what direction you want to go, like I did,” says Karin.

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(Editor’s Note: In this first installment in a five-part series looking at results from Michigan State University’s culinary herb research program. we will show you how the proper DLI can be used to reduce rooting time and produce high-quality culinary herb liners.)

Consumer demand for fresh and dried culinary herbs in the U.S. has driven growers to produce locally grown culinary herbs year-round.

Season extension via row covers and high tunnels as well as year-round controlled environment production in greenhouses, and indoor vertical farms has allowed culinary herbs to be available out of season, thus meeting demands of market goers and chefs alike. Even with indoor production, during the winter the majority of fresh culinary herbs sold in the U.S. are produced in other countries.

Culinary herbs can be produced from seed and increasingly from shoot-tip cuttings, the former of which can have slow or poor germination and may be difficult to produce. In addition, vegetative cuttings allow growers to produce true-to-type plants which are more desirable and reduce young plant production time.

Daily Light Integral (DLI) learnings

Previous MSU research has determined that maintaining a DLI of 8 to 12 mol·m–2·d–1 during herbaceous floriculture crop young plant production produces high-quality plugs and liners, and reduces production time by 2 to 3 weeks depending on the genera.

However, little research-based information is available on the DLI requirements for rooting culinary herbs from shoot-tip cuttings. Subsequently, many growers produce culinary herb young plant under a range of DLIs up to 20 mol·m–2·d–1.

Taking the limited production information into consideration, we wanted to establish environmental protocols for producing culinary herb liners. We wanted to determine the daily light integral (DLI) range that would lead to uniform, complete rooting and high-quality liners of five economically important culinary herbs. In this first article, of the five-part series, we will show you how the DLI can be used to reduce rooting time and produce high-quality culinary herb liners.

Figure 1. Rooted cuttings of spearmint ‘Spanish’ (top) and Greek oregano (bottom) after 2 and 3 weeks, respectively, under lighting treatments.

Experimental protocol

Shoot-tip cuttings of Greek oregano (Origanum vulgare), rosemary ‘Arp’ (Rosmarinus officinalis), sage ‘Extrakta’ (Salvia officinalis), spearmint ‘Spanish’ (Mentha spicata), and thyme ‘German Winter’ (Thymus vulgaris) were stuck into 72-cell (28-mL individual cell volume) trays filled with a 50:50 (volume to volume) ratio of soilless substrate and coarse perlite.

Figure 2. Rooted cuttings of (top to bottom) rosemary ‘Arp’, sage ‘Extrakta’, and thyme ‘German Winter’ after 3 weeks of lighting treatments.

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Trays were placed on a bench with a root-zone heating set point of 73 ºF (23 ºC) in a glass-glazed greenhouse with an air average daily temperature set point of 73 ºF (23 ºC) and a vapor pressure deficit of 0.3 kPa. A 56% aluminum shade cloth was used to reduce the DLI to ˜5 mol·m^–2·d^–1 for 5 days to induce callus. A 16-h photoperiod was created by natural daylight and supplemental lighting from high-pressure sodium (HPS) lamps which provided light from 6-8 AM and 5-10 PM and turned on from 8-5 PM when the photosynthetic photon flux density was below ˜440 µmol·m^–2·s^–1. Overhead mist containing reverse osmosis water with a water-soluble fertilizer that provided 60 ppm nitrogen misted cuttings as necessary.

After callusing, trays were dispersed among DLI treatments of ~3 to ~16 mol·m^–2·d^–1 that were created with the use of no shade or shade cloth ranging from 36 to 76%. After 2 or 3 weeks, cuttings were harvested and morphological data was quantified to determine liner quality.

The following four plant characteristics exhibited the most significant variances when DLI was either increased or decreased:

Results

As the DLI during rooting increased from ~3 to ~16 mol·m^–2·d^–1, the stem length of oregano and thyme decreased by 36%, and 27%, respectively (Fig. 1). Stem length of spearmint decreased by 12% as DLI increased from ~3 to ~12 mol·m–2·d–1, (Fig. 1 and 2) while DLI did not influence stem length of rosemary or sage (Fig. 2).

The stem caliper of thyme and sage increased by 49% and 23% as DLI increased from ~3 to ~11 and ~15 mol·m^–2·d^–1, respectively (Fig. 2). As the DLI increased to ~16 mol·m^–2·d^–1, stem caliper of sage and thyme decreased. The stem caliper of oregano, rosemary, and spearmint increased by 26%, 28%, and 30% as DLI increased from ~3 to ~16 mol·m–2·d–1 (Fig. 1 and 2).

Figure 3. Liners of spearmint ‘Spanish’ under a DLI of 9 mol·m–2·d–1 in contrast to a DLI <12 mol·m–2·d–1 which developed necrotic lesions on the leaves.

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As the DLI increased from ~3 to ~16 mol·m–2·d–1, the root dry mass of sage increased linearly by 421% (Fig. 2). Additionally, the root dry mass of spearmint and rosemary curvilinearly increased by 328% and 449%, respectively, as DLI increased from ~3 to ~16 mol·m^–2·d^–1 (Fig. 1 and 2). The root dry mass of oregano and thyme increased by 106% and 436% as DLI increased to ~12 and ~14 mol·m^–2·d^–1, respectively (Fig. 1 and 2). Further increases in DLI did not increase root dry mass for oregano and thyme (Fig. 1 and 2).

The shoot dry mass of oregano and spearmint linearly increased by 117% and 125%, as DLI increased from ~3 to ~16 mol·m^–2·d^–1(Fig. 1). At a DLI of ~14 mol·m–2·d–1, the shoot dry mass of rosemary increased up to 53% and at a DLI of ~13 mol·m^–2·d^–1, shoot dry mass of sage and thyme was 104% and 142% greater, compared to a DLI of ~3 mol·m^–2·d^–1(Fig. 2). As DLI increased to ~16 mol·m–2·d–1, the shoot dry mass of sage and thyme decreased by 8% and 5%. (Fig. 2).

Take-home message

High-quality liners of oregano, sage, spearmint, rosemary, and thyme were produced under DLIs between ~11 and ~16 mol·m^–2·d^–1, which is higher than propagation protocols for rooting floriculture crops.

Whereas, a DLI of ~11 to ~12 mol·m^–2·d^–1 was best for thyme. Spearmint liners produced under the highest DLI of ~16 mol·m^–2·d^–1 were of exceptional quality as they were compact, had higher root, shoot, and total dry masses, and a greater stem caliper.

However, necrotic lesions developed on leaves (Fig. 3) as a result of the high DLI. From the overall rooting results, desirable characteristics, and aesthetics of liners from this experiment, we suggest propagating fast-rooting herbs such as spearmint and oregano cuttings under a DLI of 11 to =15 mol·m^–2·d^–1 for 9 to 11 days after callusing. Slow-rooting culinary herbs such as rosemary and sage will require at least 3 weeks under a DLI of 11 to =15 mol·m^–2·d^–1 after callusing, and thyme cuttings should be propagated under a DLI of ~11 to ~12 mol·m^–2·d^–1 for at least three weeks after callusing for best liner quality. We would also like to note that higher DLIs (=12 mol·m–2·d–1) may result in leaf chlorosis and/or necrosis (Fig. 3) but this does not affect the final product once moved into a common growing environment and fertilized with higher nitrogen rates.

Annika Kohler is a M.S. student and Roberto Lopez is an Associate Professor and Controlled Environment/Floriculture Extension Specialist in the Department of Horticulture at Michigan State University (MSU). The authors thank Nate DuRussel for assistance, Dümmen Orange for cuttings, East Jordan Plastics for pots, Ludvig Svensson for shade cloth, J.R. Peters and The Blackmore Co. for fertilizer, and the Fred. C. Gloeckner Foundation and MSU Project GREEEN for financial support.

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Most of us bring our houseplants outside for the summer. Now is the time to bring them in, or get them ready to make the move. It’s also the time to put herbs that you’ve had in the ground all summer into pots and get them ready for winter use in the kitchen.

Generally, plants outdoors don’t suffer much from aphids: the pests are kept in check by good insects that munch on them. But move a plant indoors, and they often get covered with those tiny aphids and their honeydew, which makes a sticky mess of your leaves.

The solution is an easy one. Before bringing a potted plant indoors, wash the leaves. I do this by placing the potted plant on its side, and washing it with a stream of water from the hose. I wash not only the tops of the leaves, but the underside, too. Roll the pot twice to wash all the leaves well.

In addition to the leaves, I wash off the surface of the potting soil to get any eggs or aphids hiding there. I then add half an inch of fresh potting soil to replace any I washed off. Then I stand the pot up and let it dry in the sun. For smaller plants, you can wash them in the kitchen sink.

Although Spring is generally recommended for re-potting houseplants, it may be needed now if a houseplant has been in the same pot for a long time. If roots are poking out of the holes in the bottom of the pot, or if the plant leaves are smaller than previously, it’s time to re-pot. You can remove a plant from its pot to see if roots are matted and tangled at the bottom of the root ball, and pressed up against the side of the pot.

Getting a plant out of a pot is not always easy. If the pot is small enough, hold it upside down, give a tug on the plant and it will slide out into your waiting hand. For bigger pots I use a long bread knife or cake spatula and slide it between the root ball and the pot, poking and pushing all the way around the outer edge to loosen the soil. Then I turn it upside down again and try to remove it.

For big pots, get someone to help you. Hold the plant, and ask your helper to tug and rotate the pot, pulling until the plant comes out. Plastic and fiberglass pots are generally more willing to give up their grip on plants than old fashioned baked clay pots.

Once the plant is out of the pot, try to loosen up the roots. If they are a tightly tangled mess, you can use a serrated steak knife to cut off an inch or so of roots at the bottom of the pot. Roots on the sides can be "tickled" loose with your fingers, a kitchen fork, or a hand tool such as the CobraHead weeder. Let soil fall off the roots, as it is depleted and will be replaced.

Potting mix is generally based on peat moss, which is light and fluffy but not very nutritious for your plants. I like to mix it with high quality compost — my own, or purchased. I find Moo-Doo brand composted cow manure to be excellent and readily available. It is made in Vermont.

I like to have an inch or two of my freshly made potting mix in the bottom of the pot, and half an inch to an inch of it all around the perimeter. To make space around the outside requires removing old soil — or using a slightly bigger pot

When adding soil mix around the outside of the pot, use your fingers to push the new mix down, but you may need a wooden spoon or paint stirrer to get it all the way to the bottom of the pot. Water after the job is done to be sure no air pockets are left in the pot.

Some perennial herbs can be moved inside for the winter. These include chives, rosemary, thyme and parsley. Parsley has many deep roots, so an 8-inch deep pot is best. Chives are easy to pot up, and do well on a bright window sill. I will cut mine back in a week, as she looks a bit like Rapunzel now. Basil, no matter how hard we try, is not a good candidate to come inside. It attracts aphids and needs more light than a windowsill will normally provide. I’m going to try moving some dill inside this year, but have not previously tried it.

After you have potted up some herbs, leave them outside for a week or more. Why? It’s best to change just one variable at a time. There is always less light inside, so let the plants get used to being in a pot before moving them indoors. Be sure not to over-water your herbs: most are Mediterranean in origin and do best in relatively dry soil. That said, please know that a completely dry rosemary is a dead rosemary.

On another note — a few days after a hard frost — you should dig up your dahlias, calla lilies, gladiolas and cannas. Store them in a cool, dark place. A brown paper bag with some slightly damp wood shavings used in gerbil cages or sphagnum moss will keep them from drying out too much.

Henry Homeyer's blog appears twice a week at gardening-guy.com. Write to him at P.O. Box 364, Cornish Flat, N.H. 03746. Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you wish a mailed response. Or email henry.homeyer@comcast.net.

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Herb Wesson, Holly Mitchell bring political and community roots, experience in LA County Supervisors race - The Daily Breeze

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Councilman Herb Wesson speaks about the renters relief program after Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez announced the program on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Two Los Angeles political veterans are fighting it out for the open second-district seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in the November election.

Herb Wesson, 68, has served on the Los Angeles City Council since 2005 and is being termed out. His opponent in the race, is state Sen. Holly Mitchell, 56.

(The current second district supervisor, Mark Ridley-Thomas, is being termed out on the county board and is running for a seat on the Los Angeles City Council.

State Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, right, is a candidate for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the second district. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

The second district extends from the South Bay and into downtown Los Angeles. It includes Carson, Inglewood, Koreatown and part of East Hollywood.

Wesson and Mitchell came out on top of a crowded primary field in March. Wesson received 29.9% and Mitchel came in with 29%, qualifying them for the Nov. 3 runoff.

Both are registered Democrats but because the board seats are nonpartisan, that is how they appear on the November ballot.

The five-member board oversees a massive territory where 10 million people live.

Supervisors oversee the L.A. Sheriff’s Department which is among law enforcement agencies now undergoing budget reviews.

The board also is charged with managing mental health services, homeless programs, foster care and juvenile detention programs and facilities, public health and L.A. Metro, along with county beaches, parks and libraries.

Both candidates have roots in the area, experience in government and a shared focus on providing housing and services to resolve homelessness and ongoing efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

At a Sept.10 forum in Carson, the candidates discussed a number of issues, often finding agreement. Both support Measure J, “Reimagine L.A. County,” a charter amendment that would allocate at least 10% of locally generated revenue to community investment programs.

“Los Angeles County is the most critical economic and social engine for the state as a whole and it’s also home to some of the most challenging communities,” Mitchell said. “What we have to ask ourselves is how will we help L.A. recover from Covid-19 and how will we find permanent solutions to homelessness.”

Wesson highlighted his political skills and connections with the communities within the Second District.

“During this time of challenge I think the community wants and needs a doer,” he said. “During a crisis you need a doer. I may not be the best talker, but I work hard and I bring people together and I know how to get things done. I give you my word I will not let you down.”

Wesson was unanimously elected president of the Los Angeles City Council in June and represents the 10th Council District in south-central Los Angeles. The diverse district includes Koreatown, Little Bangladesh, West Adams, Leimert Park and parts of Baldwin Hills.

Before that, he served in the California State Assembly (1998-2004) and was unanimously elected Assembly speaker in January 2002. He was the second African-American to be elected to that post.

His other legislative interests have revolved around education, immigration — he was part of the City Council action that passed hiring an “immigrant advocate” in 2017 — and health and the environment.

He lists his priorities as youth and social justice, transportation and traffic, homelessness and affordable housing,

Mitchell said more focus needs to be placed on preventing homelessness.

“We have to work diligently to keep people housed where they are,” she said. “We can’t build our way out of this fast enough.”

Mitchell’s 30th State Senate District overlaps with part of the supervisorial district she’s seeking to represent and includes Culver City, Ladera Heights, Exposition Park, parts of downtown Los Angeles.

She previously represented the 26th Senate District and also the 54th Assembly District. She is a member of the California Legislative Black Caucus.

In 2016 she became the first African American to chair the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee. Her earlier career included a seven-year stint as CEO of the nonprofit Crystal Stairs.

“Communities have been rising up and saying they’re not going to allow police unions to dictate policies,” she said. “The want public health, affordable housing and a solid economy.”

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