Oregon Wine History Project™ Interview Transcript: Myron Redford

This document is a transcription of the interview with winemaker Myron Redford conducted by Jeff D. Peterson on July 16, 2010 as part of the Oregon Wine History Project™. Myron Redford discusses the early days of the Oregon wine industry and gives his personal account of how he came to grow grapes and produce wines in the Willamette Valley. Assisting in the production of this interview were videographers Barrett Dahl and Mark Pederson; exhibit and collections coordinators Barrett Dahl, Sara Juergensen, and Keni Sturgeon (faculty advisor); and project historical researchers Dulce Kersting and Lissa Wadewitz (faculty advisor). This interview took place in two parts. The duration of the first interview is 52 minutes and 44 seconds; the duration of the second interview is 36 minutes and 53 seconds

MFL homework in Year 9 French: rising to the challenge

The objectives of this article are, first, to describe a collaborative project between teacher educators and a foreign languages (FL) department in a specialist language college and, second, to evaluate its success. The project focuses on Year 9 pupils across the ability range (in four groups) and involves staff in both institutions working together to plan and produce stimulating homework tasks in French, integrated into the spring term scheme of work. Pupils' work and progress were evaluated and their views sought as well as those of participating staff. A classroom-based action research approach was adopted for the project. The article concludes with outcomes, which include recommendations and ideas to increase the effectiveness of FL homework

UA3/1/7 Letter to Henry Cherry

Letter from Redford Cherry to his brother Henry Cherry regarding their mother Martha and some court cases

UN FORUM SERIES – rhetoric of corporate responsibility is not enough: corporations must walk the walk, not just talk the talk

This post was contributed by Katie Redford, Co-Founder and Director of EarthRights International. Twenty years ago this month, the Nigerian military regime executed the environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa. Ken was a remarkable and charismatic leader of the Ogoni tribe in the Niger Delta who led his people’s opposition to the pollution and abuse that Royal Dutch Petroleum was causing in their territory

Education in the Scottish Parliament (Parliamentary Report 44[2])

This paper follows on from the previous bulletin (Redford 2012), which covered the education remit of the Parliament's Education and Culture Committee between September 2011 and January 2012. The following bulletin covers the same remit of the Education and Culture Committee from February to August 2012

The labour party, Europe and consensus politics 1960. 1975

This thesis concerns the Labour Party and British European Policy. While Labour, historically, has had a pluralistic structure and has been prone to internal division, in Government the Party felt compelled by the external environment within which it was operating, to maintain the 'consensus’ view. It was able to do this because the post- war consensus was strong enough to cement it into the governmental process.(^1) Out of office, however. Labour opposed the same policies it had proposed in Government. By doing so the Party performed its constitutional role of opposition and was, more importantly, also able to maintain a semblance of Party unity. So before elections and while the Party is in power, the tendency is usually towards an ideological compromise around which the Party can unite, if only temporarily. In opposition, however, the ideological differences become more acute, there is more ideological debate and those on the extreme ends of either wing of the Party stand a better chance of influencing policy. Compromises made while in government may heighten ideological disputes once the Party loses an election, since a genuine compromise is almost impossible.(^2) Applying these insights to the seemingly perennial issue of Britain's relationship with Europe, our story is fundamentally about how Labour simultaneously dealt with the emerging consensus about Common Market membership in the 1960's and early 1970's, whilst also dealing with the abiding problem of party unity. In this thesis we examine how unity in the Labour Party was so difficult to achieve for the Party leadership during a period in which British governments were persistently confronted with the need to accommodate significant changes in Britain's global role

Regulatory mechanisms inhibiting anti-mycobacterial immunity following Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.

The work reported in this thesis addresses the regulatory factors that function to limit the initiation of protective immune responses following exposure to the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb). Control and clearance of intracellular pathogens, such as MTb, is dependent on the cytokine Tumour Necrosis Factor (TNF) and induction of a T-helper 1 (Thl) response, which is characterised by production of IFN-gamma driven by interleukin (IL)-12. In other infection models the presence of the immunosuppressive cytokine IL-10 in the local milieu has been shown to down-regulate Thl responses thus limiting detrimental host induced immune-pathology. To determine a role for IL-10 following murine infection, we examined its function during acute and chronic infections with two strains of H37Rv obtained from either i) National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) or ii) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). IL-10 receptor blockade during the chronic phase of MTb infection reduced bacterial burdens in mice infected with H37Rv NIMR, but not mice infected with H37Rv LSHTM. However, despite the lack of effect of IL-10 blockade on the bacterial load during chronic infection with H37Rv LSHTM, immune cells obtained from MTb infected mice produced elevated levels of IFN-gamma when stimulated in vitro in the presence of IL-10 blocking antibodies. In addition, neutralisation of IL-10 before and during acute MTb infection with H37Rv LSHTM resulted in a transient reduction in bacterial burdens and enhanced IFN-gamma production, suggesting that IL-10 plays a role in regulating the early immune response to MTb. Additional regulators that may function together with or in parallel to IL-10 to limit bacterial clearance such as regulatory T cells (Tregs) have been shown to be regulators of autoimmunity, atopy and infectious disease. Using flow cytometric analysis of the Treg specific transcription factor FoxP3, we observed an early increase in the number of lung Tregs following aerosol MTb infection of mice. However, when addressing the effect on bacterial clearance in the absence of Tregs by either i) antibody depletion or ii) adoptive transfer approaches into immuno-deficient mice, a suppressive role for Tregs on bacterial burdens could not be found. Finally this work evaluated the role of plasmacytoid precursor DC (pDC) during MTb infection, which is in contrast their normal function as mediators of the anti viral response. Upon in vitro exposure to viable MTb, plasmacytoid pDC could not be infected and did not produce pro-inflammatory cytokines. Using flow cytometry, we observed no increase in plasmacytoid pDC in either the lung or spleen during the early stages of aerosol or intravenous infection. In addition, antibody depletion of plasmacytoid pDC during the early stages of MTb infection did not affect bacterial load. In summary, the data suggests that plasmacytoid pDC play only a minor role during the early immune response to MTb

The effect of exchange rate volatility on the volume of South African exports

Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 26-27).The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether a relationship between export volumes and exchange rate volatility exists as suggested in the ASGISA document. It goes about this by first investigating the theoretical channels that predict the relationship between export volumes and exchange rate volatility. The theoretical prediction though is ambiguous depending on the justification used to get to the result. Furthermore, the paper provides evidence that the empirical results are ambiguous as well as some countries tend to exhibit a negative relationship and others a positive relationship. Thus the paper goes on to estimate two measures of exchange rate volatility using the real effective exchange rate

James Redford

Interviewers: Kathryn Britts, Amanda McGregor, Suban Farah, Ciarah Bennett, Makayla Snyder Interviewee: James Redford Disclaimer: *In this transcription the “crunch words were included as well as the more prominent filler words like um, ah, and oh