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[Intro: DJ Young Mase]
I go by the name of DJ Young Mase
D12 representor
Good to be back
But this time, I brought fourteen friends
Matter of fact, fourteen emcees!
[Verse 1: Fatt Father]
Well what do ya know? Fatt Father done showed up
Break out the blunts and a couple boxes of doughnuts
No time for stunts, I'm one militant grown up
Drunk, willing to hold up chumps to get exposure
Fat Michigan soldier, cats itchin' to fold ya
Trapped in this ridiculous culture, fuck Oprah
No hope, my brain is broke, I'm bipolar
You microwave shit, I pop tarts with the toaster
[Verse 2: 3Six]
Beef with the beef, guarantee the whole crew will ride
Hang you, make your homicide look like suicide
So nigga, you decide
Either you run with the squad, or you can keep playing God and get crucified
Use the nine, I don't ride when it's Valentine
Send you to the angels like you been traded to Anaheim
Bring the caskets out whenever I'm spazzing out
To find you in the woods somewhere, like [?]
(Shakia Snow!)
[Verse 3: Shakia Snow]
Body bag 'em, toe-tag 'em
Lyrically, I beat these beats up like a Magnum (Get 'em)
You getting fucked tonight, you better grab something
Fuck boy, I can hire you to go bag something
My money long, I don't even need a bank account
Big bank take your little bank, what your bank about?
Mine read whole numbers plus six zeroes
I be turning sixteens into a pocket full of Euros
(Kid Vishis!)
[Verse 4: Kid Vishis]
Yeah, Kid Vishis the Prince, sickest in Michigan since
I've been spittin', rippin' niggas is a tradition
I spaz, I can box, but I ain't jabbin'
I'ma pop his light bulb like a good thought gone bad
Then get his chick, give her the hit stick like Madden
Fly as Aladdin, higher than Saturn with stilts
Every time I hit your white bitch twat, I get a gift
Call that shit my Cracker Jack box
(Shim E. Bango!)
[Verse 5: Shim E. Bango]
Shim Bang', F.K., the boy, it's me
My goal is to be as high as Charlie Sheen
It's hard to take MCs serious on screen
When they prancin', dancin' harder than Ben Vereen
Ill skills, I spill fo' real
One shot put him in the chair like, "Chill"
I'm in the sky rollin' up 'cause he be like, "Blill"
I know your momma won't but yo' main bitch [?]
[Verse 6: T. Dot]
I'm a drug mover and a rider, big wheel Blata
Beef like Kobe, I'm the shooter and the driver (T. Dot!)
Shoot 'till you see straight through your marauda
Then slide off feelin' like Hakuna Matata
I don't have lady drama
Stick her with seven pounds, six ounces like baby mama, .380 llama
Yeah I even got one wit' me, 'cause I ain't tryna let 'em do me like they [?]
(Let's go Beez!)
[Verse 7: Beez]
I'm blowin' ganja smoke, packin' all kinds of toast
That'll make you change your lifestyle like the condom broke
Get rid of work, I'm on the turf move slabs often
I'll push your shit back like a bad barber
I lines 'em up well, aim sharp Steve Harvey
I'm Cheech and Chong, blowin' hong like three Marleys
I know they hate me
I ain't in low definition so I'ma be the first to do murders in HD
[Verse 8: Reddbone]
(Reddbone!) Who the fuck is she?
The [?] of these wolves, is that bitch a beast?
I eat the weak, chew 'em up, floss my teeth
You hoes is sweet, Willy Wonka [?]
Yo, regurgitate ya, [?] low like Terminator
Stomp rat bitches like roaches, exterminata
Wig split up, kush hit a [?]
A rhyme spitta, you want it? Niggas can come hither
(Seven the General!)
[Verse 9: Seven the General]
Ugh, guess who's next to bat?
The Warith Dean Fard Muhammad of the beans and crack
OC's, stick weed, coke, speed and smack
Low speed, no keys in an egregious Lac
Look, filipicus bone, fallopian tube
That's one to the face and one to the boob, no interlude
I'm, a regular dude with metals and jewels
The Veteran, General on you letterman noobs
[Verse 10: Miz Korona]
It's Korona, the sixteen queen, spit sick things, six sixteen
Since I split sixteen, I'll use eight to show you I'm a problem
If X marks the spot hand me the problem now
'Cause I ain't movin', it's gruelin' how I murder beats
You must be deaf, if you niggas ain't heard of me
Detroit's most wanted, the queen, head honcho
Bitch get out of line I'm puttin' hoes [?]
(Mae Day, come on!)
[Verse 11: Mae Day]
These niggas ballin' [?] all them babies
You ain't in my league, JV, maybe, I NBA in HD
DOAO break beats, break bread, lay cheese
On a nigga head like he [?]
Stay clean, not a speck of dust on me
Flow so cold could ride a Zamboni on it
My green yawnin', meanin' the money stretchin', good morning
And this ain't Egypt, dethrone you niggas
(Moe Dirdee!)
[Verse 12: Moe Dirdee]
I don't answer questions, I ask 'em
Came from the bottom, just ask 'em, ask 'em
My name's Moe Dirdee, what you know about me?
What you know about work? Beef come, I'ma squirt
Chief blunts got purp, boat loads of hoes with throat action
Sniper rifle, thirty thirty, bolt action
Moe knows pros from zones
I'm runnin' through the green till I'm retired, vault Jacksons
[Verse 13: Chacity]
Illest in the city, I'm your number one draft pick (Chacity!)
And most them bitches actin' like they never had shit
A1 and them hoes a C, average
Hand ware, like tags on a mattress
I hit the track with more crack than B Mo
Your rhymes foul, you don't even get a free throw
Everybody might dig ya, but me know
Put the Tommy gun to him, bleed slow
[Verse 14: Calicoe]
These rap niggas a disappointment
This shit I got stick like tats, so get your ointment
The shit I got fire, it probably could keep your joint lit
My gun's pointin' like the refs ended the coin flip
It's Calicoe, if you don't know me better check the net
The only young nigga to stand out when he next to vets
Disrespect? You can get your whole section wet
When shit shakin', niggas disappearin', Etch A Sketch
[Outro: DJ Young Mase]
There you have it, fourteen emcees
D12, Young Mase!
You know what time it is, pay attention!
We back muthafuckas!
Shady Records!
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Hey all! Just letting you know that I have a new blog now, landonpost.blogspot.com. I am going to delete this blog in a couple days. Matt thought it was time to have a joined blog!
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
We've Moved
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Memorial Day
A little late on the Memorial day post, but I had to throw up some pictures from the day. Of course it was our luck that everyone's day off had to be filled with cold, rain and brief hail storms. However we still managed to have a fun time visiting the graves. Matt's family was kind enough to drive all the way out to Archer to see my sister, Stephanie's grave, along with some of my other family graves.
It was such a fun day to spend with family and go visit the graves of our loved ones. I love to see all the flowers all over the graves, it makes the cemetery look so cheery :)
A few snapshots of the day...
Grandma Landon with the grandkids :)
Pacie & Scott
Jill & Scott
Presley, Landon & Parker
Here is Stan & Deb at Grandpa Landon's grave.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Matt's Birthday!
We got to celebrate Matt's birthday on Sunday it was such a great day. Matt has been such an amazing husband it was fun to let him just relax for a day. Since it was Sunday we didn't get to do a whole lot, and on Saturday he was nice enough to sacrifice his birthday weekend sitting in an auditorium all day watching dance routines all day long. We salvaged a little bit of the night by hitting Pizza Hut on the way home, and watching an episode of SNL. On Sunday it was the regular breakfast of french toast and some present opening. His requested present got postponed till a later date cause we couldn't get it in time, so I got him a black Wii.
Later that night we got to have everyone come over for some All Fool's Cake and ice cream. It was great to visit with everyone we don't get to see very often. Thank you to all that came!
Matt is turned 27 this year so I thought I would write 27 things I love about him.
1. His random bursts of conversation in the middle of the night while he is sleeping. The latest one was "Get the sling shot" haha
2. What a hard worker he is. I don't know many people who can do manual labor until 4 am and then wake up for school the next day at 8. Then coming home and hanging up some pictures for me.
3. For understanding me even when I don't.
4. Playing ridiculous made up games that make everything a lot more fun.
5. When he gets really excited about something or an idea he has, its like a little kid at Christmas.
6. Our matching razor scooters that we ride to school, everyone looks at us weird but they are jealous.
7. Always caring about me more than himself. Even when I tell him to pick something to do he always picks what he knows I want to do.
8. How talented he is at everything! I don't know anything that he hasn't succeeded at that he puts his mind to.
9. His selfless service to others. He has done so much for friends and family for free, and the best part about it is that he loves doing it for them.
10. That he loves sports. I love how much of a guy he is, watching sports center checking up on his Redskins on a daily basis, etc.
11. He is not afraid to get his hands dirty and still cleans up nice.
12. He supports me in everything I do.
13. How good he is with all the nieces and nephews.
14. His good relationships with his siblings and his parents.
15. How OCD he is about keeping things clean, he is always willing to clean up the house on a Friday night. He will say "lets tidy up, we can tag team this."
16. His confidence.
17. His love for the gospel, and knowledge of it.
18. How well he gets along with my friends and family. Its not that often you can get along with everyone in a family of 10.
19. When he is really goofy and acts like a variety of different characters; cheerleader, dancer, tough guy and so many more its hilarious.
20. The fact that he always tells me how much he appreciates me and cares about me.
21. His non-judgmental attitude towards everyone.
22. His ability to make me laugh at any time.
23. How not picky he is no matter what it is whether its what movie we go to, where we are going to eat, who we are hanging out with it doesn't matter.
24. For always being there for me when I am having a hard time.
25. Allowing me to still do that things that I love even if it means being gone for long periods of time.
26. How good of a husband and father he is going to be someday.
27. Lastly how well he takes care of his stuff. He still has toys and clothes that are in perfect condition from when he was a little boy with all the pieces remaining, its incredible.
I could keep going on and on but that will have to be for the years to come. Bottom line is Matt is an incredible person who I love so much. I am so blessed to have him as my best friend!
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Saturday, May 7, 2011
Catch Up!
These past couple weeks I have really had a lot of time to think. I love where I am at in life. I am in my last semester of school which is surprisingly bittersweet. I love to sit in a class and learn about things that I am interested in. Last week I realized I had this program that does incredible stuff to images without damaging them..Adobe Bridge. Here is an example of a picture I took and then after I edited it in Bridge.
Isn't that awesome! Its not a huge difference to some people, but if you take pictures at all you will understand lighting is hard sometimes.
I have really been slacking on my blog, so here is a quick recap of everything that has been going on. Matt and I started school in April, and we are already 4 weeks in..10 weeks to go. Matt finished a huge makeover project at his work by making a break room/bedroom/shower & bathroom. He and his dad did some tag team and it turned out looking so awesome.
Last weekend the studio I worked for cleaned house a huge competition in Utah. Every single one of our dances took 1st place except for 4, and one dance won 1st overall, and we got the"Best Technique" award. This weekend we are going to Logan for our last competition. Its going to be exciting. Hopefully we can do just as well at this competition.
Matt's birthday is coming this Sunday, and I will be doing a post on him later in the week. I just wanted to point out how thankful I am that he is spending his birthday weekend at a dance competition, talk about a sacrifice!
Well that is all for now I will hopefully be posting again soon!
Posted by Ashley at 10:17 PM 1 comments
Monday, January 10, 2011
New Year's Resolutions
I have decided that if I write down my goals for the year then I will be held more accountable if I don't fulfill them. I am so excited for this year; 9 credits left until I graduate (happily I will be taking the winter semester off and finishing in the "Spring" session even though it ends in July, Matt and I got married Nov, 19 and we are happily living in a little house located in between Idaho Falls and Rigby, (makes the commute to Rexburg a lot easier for school), I applied for a job at the Post Register to become a part of the design team, I find out if I get it on Wednesday so I need all the prayers I can get! I love my life right now, but I want to make it the best I can here is my list of do's and don'ts for 2011:
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Engaged! Bridal Shower
Julie's Bridal Shower
Posted by Ashley at 8:03 AM 4 comments
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Matt's Photo Shoot (and Lane's Wedding)
Best picture award!
Posted by Ashley at 12:38 PM 1 comments

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Jerry Brown signs bill on bobcat, bear hunting
Advocates for animal welfare came out ahead of California hunters Wednesday when Gov. Jerry Brown signed a hard-fought bill banning the use of dogs for hunting bears and bobcats.
Both sides had lobbied lawmakers and the governor tirelessly over SB1221 by Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance (Los Angeles County), which will take effect Jan. 1. While there are exceptions for aggressive animals and research, the bill makes it illegal in most cases to use packs of dogs to chase bears and bobcats into trees, where hunters shoot them.
"There is nothing sporting in shooting an exhausted bear clinging to a tree limb or a cornered bobcat," Lieu said in a written statement. "Hound hunting of bears is illegal in two-thirds of the United States. California now joins the great majority of states that have abolished this inhumane and unnecessary practice."
Many Republicans opposed the bill. In a statement Wednesday, Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, R-Gerber (Tehama County) said it will "infringe" on rights of hunters.
"I am deeply disappointed that the governor has chosen to sign this into law," he said.
Support for the bill grew, in part, out of the uproar caused by a photo released earlier this year showing the then-president of the California Fish and Game Commission posing with a dead cougar. Dan Richards, who was later voted out of the presidency by his commission colleagues, legally used dogs to track the mountain lion in Idaho, where it is legal; California bans all hunting of the large cats.
On Wednesday, Brown signed another bill related to that controversy: AB2609, which requires state officials to consider whether a Fish and Game Commission appointee has a background in natural resources management, subjects commission members to the same ethics laws as other state commissioners and changes the rules for electing commission leadership.
Richards was elected president, 2-0, at a meeting where one commissioner was absent and others abstained from voting; he was up for the position because at the time, the body's rules called for automatically nominating the most senior member. AB2609 by Assemblyman Ben Hueso, D-San Diego, requires commission leadership to be chosen by a majority of the five member body and prohibits the commission from using seniority alone to pick a president or vice president.
Also, Brown signed AB1776 by Mountain View Democratic Assemblyman Paul Fong, which designates the Pacific leatherback sea turtle as the state's official marine reptile. The sea turtle joins the desert tortoise, the California grizzly bear and the California quail, the state's other official animals.
Marisa Lagos is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Hispanic high school students in the US now make up a greater share of those achieving a passing score on an Advanced Placement (AP) exam than at any other point in the past decade, according to a report released Wednesday by the national College Board.
According to the College Board's annual report, the "AP Report to the Nation," 14.6 percent of US high school seniors who passed an AP exam in 2010 were Hispanic, an increase of 2.6 percent since 2001. The rise follows an effort by the College Board to recruit more minority students to take the demanding tests.
AP exams measure college-level competency in a wide range of subjects, from English and calculus to Spanish and US history, which test takers have usually studied in AP courses taught according to a standardized curriculum. The exams are graded on a 5-point scale and may confer college credit if a student passes with a score of 3 or higher.
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The increased representation among successful AP test takers by Hispanic students coincides with an even larger increase in their representation in the nation's high school population. There were 5.2 percent more Hispanic students in the graduating high school class of 2010 than in the class of 2001, according to the College Board.
While the overall number of AP test takers has nearly doubled since 2001, the College Board says, the number of Hispanic AP test takers has nearly tripled, increasing from 48,354 in 2001 to 136,717 in 2010. The number of passing Hispanic test takers grew from 33,479 to 74,479 over that period.
The news that more Hispanic students are taking and passing the AP exam comes at a time when 41 percent of the Hispanic population in the US above the age of 20 does not have a regular high school diploma, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
'More work needs to be done'
The overall percentage of American high school students who passed an AP test increased modestly between 2009 and 2010, rising from 16 to 16.9 percent.
Despite their progress, Hispanic students were still somewhat underrepresented among those who passed an AP test last year. While Hispanic students were 14.6 percent of those who passed an AP test, they made up 16 percent of AP test takers overall and 16.8 percent of the graduating high school class of 2010. Some 54.5 percent of all Hispanic test takers passed at least one AP test, compared with 59.6 percent of all students and 61.8 percent of white students.
That's why Sue Landers, executive director of the AP program for the College Board, says more work needs to be done to improve minority test performance. "We would really like to see the diversity of our country reflected in our AP classrooms and in the demographics of students who succeed on the AP test," she says in an interview.
For that reason, Ms. Landers explains, the AP program has made a "concerted effort" to recruit test takers from minority groups. Since 2001, the number of African-American AP test takers more than tripled, increasing from 23,906 to 73,270. Yet African-Americans remain underrepresented among AP test takers. While African-American students made up 14.6 percent of the 2010 senior class, they made up only 8.6 percent of AP test takers and a mere 2.3 percent of those who passed an AP exam that year.
Questions about recruitment
The move to increase access to the AP exam has not been without criticism. Robert Schaeffer, public-education director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, says he has reservations about the recruitment campaign.
"It's questionable whether there's real educational value in getting everybody to take the AP exam even if they are not academically prepared," he says in an interview. "It's not clear that this benefits anyone except for the College Board."
However, AP calculus teacher Dixie Ross disagrees. Her school in Pflugerville, Texas, is very diverse, with a third of students identifying themselves as Hispanic and a quarter as African-American, she says. Her classes were once filled almost exclusively with white students but now include more minorities, a change she welcomes. The increased number of minority AP test takers is a sign of progress, Ms. Ross says in an interview.
"Historically, we've had huge wells of untapped talent, because we didn't let people develop themselves if they looked different," she says. "That's been our country's loss. We need to educate people from all walks of life."
Students say AP helps
Ross says her students have told her that their AP experiences helped them succeed in college, and she says this was even true of some students who did not pass the exam.
Many academics have argued that those who perform well on AP tests are better prepared for higher education than those who do not, including researchers at the National Center for Educational Accountability and the College Board. Studies from both groups have shown a direct correlation between AP test performance and college graduation rates.
But Mr. Schaeffer argues that expanding the number of AP test takers has "diluted the pool" and produced high failure rates, particularly in math and science. According to the College Board's own report, the percentage of AP test takers who passed a single exam has dipped since 2001, from 64.3 percent to 59.6 percent. The report also acknowledges that more than 50 percent of biology AP test takers fail the exam.
"The increase in AP test takers is not the tremendous leap forward that people who sell the AP exam say it is," he said. "The AP is being pushed as yet another magic bullet solution to the problems in education, but is it really helpful for kids who are extremely unlikely to succeed" on the test?


text: When he first stepped onto the UMass Boston campus Nao Masamoto had only lived in the United States for a year after his family's migration from his native Japan and could not speak English very well, but he could play baseball extremely well. The middle infielder made the Beacon nine as a walk-on during his freshman season and soon became the team's starting shortstop, while setting school-records for at-bats and assists in a season and ranking second on the squad in hits, runs scored and stolen bases. Masamoto was even better as a sophomore, leading the team in hits, runs, total bases and on-base percentage, while establishing a new school-mark with 25 stolen bases, which ranked second among Little East Conference players. Following an arm injury, the Japanese import was relegated to a designated hitter role and excelled, with a .336 batting average, which led to his distinction of becoming the first player in school history to be selected as a Little East Conference First Team All-Star. He matched the feat a year later in his second year as the team's captain when he was named to the LEC First Team as a second baseman after ranking third among the league's leaders with a then school-record .425 batting average. Masamoto also placed among the league's top five in hits, runs scored and stolen bases, while maintaining a .455 on-base percentage. He finished his career as UMass Boston's career leader in at-bats (533), runs (124), hits (177), stolen bases (60) and times being hit by a pitch (21), while standing 10th with a career batting mark of .332. Masamoto also ranks second with 138 games played, 91 runs batted in, 30 doubles, 47 bases on balls, 236 total bases, seven triples and 266 assists. Following his 2001 graduation from the Harbor campus, Masamoto secured stints with Major League Baseball's Colorado Rockies and Chicago Cubs as their minor league strength and conditioning coordinator before taking on his current role as the Cubs' major league video coordinator.


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NLM Poster Exhibit: And There's the Humor of It
The traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine will be on display in the Library's 4th Floor Popular Reading Area from February 12 - March 24. Events in support of the posters will happen throughout the semester. All exhibit and events are free and open to the public. Follow along on our social media and follow the hashtag #DUQHumors!
Related LibGuide: Shakespeare and the Four Humors by Ted Bergfelt
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Recycled Christmas trees help beautify highways
As you take down the Christmas tree, take a moment to imagine its next incarnation: Chipped up and mixed into soil, it might soon secure new grasses along some South Texas highway or sustain vegetable sprouts in someone's garden.
Adding weathered plant material back into the soil is becoming the norm for a growing number of people who are buying and using mulch and compost.
While San Antonio has for years been turning brush into mulch and offering the compost at a minimal cost to residents, other cities are catching on.
Two decades ago Houston offered only a couple of places to buy it; now there are more than 60. Beyond buying, more people are learning how to make compost themselves from clipped grass and wilted vegetables.
"We are in a high growth mode and poised to steamroll," said Michael Virga, executive director of the U.S. Compost Council, which plans to debut a campaign this spring with a message aimed at landscapers, green builders and the public about soil quality and the importance of recycling food.
"Compost Camp" is offered by the State of Texas Alliance for Recycling. Urban Harvest, the Houston gardening nonprofit, offers classes in compost and soil.
The Texas Compost Council, with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, plans to offer a Master Composter program, like the better-known Master Gardener training. Its aim, council director Alan Watts said, is to "communicate to citizens how they will save time, money and effort with natural landscaping practices."
San Antonio has offered mulch for a minimal cost per pound from its brush pickup sites for many years and accepts undecorated cut Christmas trees at locations around the city after each holiday season.
This year, Christmas trees can be dropped off from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and again on Jan. 12 and 13. The Bitters Road and Nelson Gardens brush sites will take trees all month. After the trees are ground into mulch, residents can return to the drop-off location and pick up mulch for free while supplies last.
Beneficial fungi
Soil is supposed to contain more than tiny bits of rock, clay and sand. That's only the building block. Soil needs plant material in various stages of decay to feed plants and hold soil so it doesn't float away in the first heavy rain. To be complete, soil also requires bacteria and fungi that colonize plant matter and break it down, releasing a trove of nutrients in the process.
For John Ferguson, who now finds himself surrounded by warm piles of live soil, the "aha" moment came long after a master's degree in physics, even courses in soil science.
He got sick while using the fungicide Captan. Fungicides kill unwanted pests, but they also kill beneficial fungi. Fungi play a fundamental role in unlocking nitrogen, a primary plant food.
When Ferguson realized the importance of natural plant decay in soil, he tried to buy compost. But not enough people were making it, so he began producing it himself and now owns Nature's Way Resources in Conroe.
Twenty-three states have banned organic material in landfills. Often they are places where landfill space is scarce.
But Texas is long on land, and disposal fees at landfills are comparatively cheap. Watts thinks this doesn't matter, because Texans are ready for a more sophisticated understanding of the reason to compost.
"Saying that we're running out of landfill space as a reason to compost is like saying we are running out of graveyard space as a reason to cure disease," he said. "It's not the land you're trying to save, it's the material that is going into the ground."
Composting has grown significantly in Texas for a different reason, and it has a lot to do with the Texas Department of Transportation. It has become, it believes, the single largest purchaser of compost in the country.
Driven by TxDOT
In 1985, landscape architect Barrie Cogburn tried to help TxDOT determine why its freshly graded slopes so frequently slumped away in the rain, taking with them the department's expensive plantings. Cogburn noticed that new topsoil brought in by subcontractors was often little more than finely ground rock.
At a workshop she learned just how much organic material was ending up in Texas landfills.
"They have too much, and we don't have enough," she thought. "There has to be a way to come together on this."
Cogburn and Scott McCoy of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality teamed up in an experiment adding compost to TxDOT's soil. They also added dairy manure that was piling up in Bosque County, polluting water all the way downstream to Waco.
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Officer Scott Hewell, who joined the department in September 2012, was pronounced dead at UC Davis Medical Center on Wednesday morning, according to Officer Joseph Silva, a Stockton police spokesman.
Hewell sustained serious injuries on May 28, when the patrol car he was riding in veered from the road and struck a tree, Silva said.
"Any time a law enforcement officer is killed in the line of duty, that is tragic, but when it is one of your own that's unbelievable," Stockton Police Chief Eric Jones said in a statement. "Right now, our department is grieving and in a state of shock."
Hewell and his partner, who was driving the cruiser, were heading to aid an officer who had stopped Jimmie Turner, 32, according to Silva. Turner was accused of opening fire on another vehicle and was later charged with assault with a deadly weapon, Silva said.
"As you can imagine, one officer is dealing with an armed suspect in a felony car stop so our officers have to have a rapid response," Silva said. "Unfortunately, accidents do occur, and this one turned tragic for our department."
Hewell was released from the hospital on June 6. He was recuperating at his family's home but was rushed back to the hospital Wednesday, where he died, Silva said.
An official cause of death has not been determined.
The other officer has returned to active duty after he was treated for injuries. The California Highway Patrol is currently investigating the now fatal car wreck, but no charges have been filed in relation to the crash, Silva said.
Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala D. Harris both offered their condolences to Hewell's family and the Stockton Police Department.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks climbed Thursday, finishing at records after the European Central Bank unveiled a raft of stimulus measures.
The ECB announced a negative rate on reserves that banks park at the central bank, in a widely expected move, but it also revealed several other measures aimed at boosting inflation and encouraging lending in the euro zone.
In U.S. economic news, a report on weekly jobless claims roughly matched forecasts.
The S&P 500 SPX, -0.31% rose 12.58 points, or nearly 0.7%, to end at 1,940.46, shaking off a mid-morning decline. The benchmark scored an all-time closing high for the 17th time this year, after nabbing its 16th record close on Wednesday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.52% gained 98.58 points, or 0.6%, to finish at 16,836.11. The blue-chip index also achieved a record close, and both the Dow and S&P 500 had their biggest gains since May 21 — more than two weeks ago.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.28% advanced by 44.58 points, or nearly 1.1%, to end at 4,296.23, closing at levels last seen in late March.
The small-cap Russell 2000 RUT, +0.41% climbed 22.72 points, or 2%, to finish at 1,153.94, ending at levels last seen in late April.
The ECB cut its deposit facility to negative 0.10% from 0% and dropped its main lending rate to 0.15% from 0.25%. The central bank also announced preparations toward the purchase of asset-backed securities. The Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP, -0.58% closed up 0.4%. Read more: Few expected ECB to try so many measures all at once
"The package is immediately significant," said Citi Private Bank strategists in a note Thursday.
In the U.S., weekly jobless claims rose to 312,000, essentially in line with expectations of 311,000.
On Friday, investors will get the U.S. government's May jobs report. Economists are expecting a rise of 210,000 jobs in May, but there is a little trepidation after private-sector payrolls disappointed on Wednesday, showing the slowest pace of jobs growth in four months. Read more: What to look for in May jobs report
Some strategists remain upbeat as U.S. stocks keep climbing.
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Hedge-fund manager David Tepper, who sounded notably cautious last month, told CNBC Thursday that the ECB has helped soothe his biggest market worries.
Stock bulls also have gotten another boost from S&P Capital IQ. The research firm's Investment Policy Committee — which has been upbeat on U.S. stocks — raised its 12-month target for the S&P 500 to 2,100 late Wednesday, up 9% from its prior target of 1,985. Read more: Get your money ready for a big S&P 500 rally
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Joy Global Inc. US:JOY fared best among S&P 500 stocks, rising 6.7% after its quarterly earnings topped expectations. PVH Corp. PVH, +0.01% performed worst, losing 8.1% after it warned of pressure on its profit margins.
In other markets, August gold US:GCQ4 gained ground, while Asian equities finished largely flat, outside of a 0.8% rise for the Shanghai Composite SHCOMP, -0.02%.
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Samuel Nickel submitted this claim (No. 13) for damages to his property on or about September 1, 1856 by a company of men under the command of General Clark. Mr. Nickel lived in Linn County. Each claimant had to submit an itemized list and have two witnesses attest to the losses claimed. Even though many of these claims were approved for payment, no funds were ever appropriated or distributed.
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Overshoes come in two varieties: neoprene like a wet suit, good for an insulating layer but not waterproof and once wet, they tend to get colder and colder; and waterproof ones like the Craft Rain Bootie, which like a dry suit, hold the water off (there is of course TT overshoes too but let's just talk weather comforts). Craft say their Rain Bootie is 100% waterproof and they certainly kept my feet dry although I'm not sure that it's the ultimate "shoe poncho" as Craft also claim.
Construction on the Rain Bootie is a thin, lightweight build with a smooth water repellent surface outer and fleece inner. A seam runs through the center line, tightly held using double stitching and with 'Kevlar reinforcement' below; the toe section also includes this armouring. Rather than a base section, the overshoe is held to your foot by a Velcro band. It's not a design choice I would have made, the only benefit I can see is a slightly easier application over your shoe but putting them on I never actually bothered undoing the strap; you still need to push your shoe through the tighter heel section.
The problem is, without a complete base section the bootie can pull up over the sole of your shoe, mainly at the heel but the small toe section too can cause the front to flip up over the front of the shoe - a problem which plagues overshoes as they start to become a bit tatty. To be fair it doesn't happen all that often (mainly after stopping and putting your foot down) and you can just push the cover overshoe back down again. The other issue with a sole-less design is that most shoes have ventilation holes or at least cleat holes in the sole and when riding for long periods in wet weather, water will find its way through here if not covered. That means whilst the bootie may be 100% waterproof, your shoes may not be, even with them on.
Saying this, it has to be very wet and by that point, wet feet is probably the least of your worries. In general, these rain covers did a grand job at keeping my feet dry. The actual bootie material does seem to be impermeable and even on the wettest of days, the inside always remained dry as a bone. Impermeable means wind didn't get to my feet either, a good factor for warmth but it did mean my feet could get a bit sweaty - a cost I'm willing to pay to stop my toes going numb. The bootie is tight fitting so could even double up during the TT season.
A reflective strip across the zip and reflective text on the side provides added visibility for the grey conditions these will be operating in. Talking of the zip, build quality is good, maintaining a smooth action even after a layering of grit, and the underside is protected from water with a strip of outer material. The strip does make doing the zip up a technique of pull and tuck but this can be ignored for the extra water protection.
Craft's Rain Booties are true to their '100% waterproof and windproof' claim, an impressive feat and impressive for your feet! A £36 suggested retail is slightly steep considering the lack of any real sole section (it has to be said shop around and you can find them for considerably less than that); there are cheaper overshoe options around but with their tight fitting, these could also double as aero shoe covers. If you find your current overshoes lack in the waterproof department, these should solve your problem.
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Make and model: Craft Rain Bootie Cycling Shoe Cover
Size tested: Black - XL
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
'The ultimate shoe poncho. Even in wild rain and wind conditions, this reinforced bootie is as impenetrable as steel. Tight fitting, 100% waterproof and windproof bootie, bolstered by Kevlar and secured with Velcro, keeps the shoe and foot untouched and dry.'
Ultimate is a strong word and without a sole section I'm not sure these warrant it, the rest is true however.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Kevlar reinforced seems, Velcro strapped sole, reflective strip on zip and text.
The seems are extremely built, a waterproof tag under the zip is a neat feature.
Kept my feet dry even in the wettest rides.
The sole section is what normally breaks down on other overshoes and without one here, I can't see what else would wear out.
Lighter weight than other overshoes I've come across, dropping the insulation in favour of waterproofing.
A bit pricey I'd say but they could double up as aero overshoes plus if you shop around you'll find them for considerably less then list price - we found them online for £21
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
As intended, kept my feet dry.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
The excellent waterproofing.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
No sole section leaves the hold around your shoes a bit vague.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Yes
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes
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Age: 23 Height: 184cm Weight: 66kg
I usually ride: Orbea Onix (Carbon) - Summer, Orbea Asphalt (Alu) - Winter My best bike is: Orbea Alma G10
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Introducing third generation fabric computing: Cisco UCS and the power of unification
Unified Computing was born on March 16th, 2009 and bold predictions were made that day regarding what UCS would do for customers and the industry. If we take a trip in the way back machine and unearth some of actual slides from that event (thank you Mr. Peabody), here is what we find:
Three years later we know that the vision of what was needed was spot on and the predictions of the impact were actually too conservative. Customers using UCS are telling us they're experiencing:
80 percent increase in administrator productivity
90 percent reduction in deployment times
40 percent improvement in application performance
30 percent lower infrastructure costs
60 percent reduction in power and cooling costs
And now it gets even better. Today brings new innovation across the UCS platform: a third generation of technology that delivers the power of unification and continues to lead the transition to fabric based data center infrastructure. Most of all in this announcement we're celebrating how the innovation in UCS is paying off for our customers. Its one thing to have a vision and another to deliver on it: this week Gartner updated its Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers and Cisco moved from Visionary to Leader.
Witness the world record application performance benchmark results posted by Intel in this launch. UCS certainly isn't the new kid on the server block anymore. This system more than holds its own.
So enough of the rhetoric: where's the beef in the new news? It turns out that there is so much new technology here that I need to break it into another post…
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So far so good !
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This is so unbelievable in just three years (actually 2 years, 11 months and 20 days) UCS climbed from no where on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers to the leaders quadrant.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Blade Servers – 05/March/2012
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some firsts and other rarities are possible at Sunday night's Academy Awards. But if the Oscars could be just a little less predictable, the show might really be one for the record books.
Ben Affleck's "Argo" looks like it will uniquely claim best picture without a directing nomination, while "Lincoln" filmmaker Steven Spielberg and star Daniel Day-Lewis are favored to join exclusive lists of three-time Oscar winners.
If some longshots came in, the night could produce two more three-time acting winners — Sally Field from "Lincoln" and Robert De Niro for "Silver Linings Playbook."
We could also have the oldest or youngest acting winner ever — 86-year-old "Amour" star Emmanuelle Riva and 9-year-old Quvenzhane (Kwa-VEHN-ja-nay) Wallis of "Beasts of the Southern Wild."
The ABC broadcast itself could set some fresh highs or lows. Oscar overseers keep talking about pacing and trimming fat from a ceremony that's dragged on interminably, approaching four and a half hours one year. Can they keep it tight and lively enough that viewers don't think about gouging out their eyes around the three-hour mark?
And what about host Seth MacFarlane? He's a classy, low-key guy in person, with an old-fashioned Sinatra-style singing voice that he'll no doubt put to use in a show that's shaping up as a music-heavy, Broadway-style celebration of cinema.
Yet MacFarlane's career is built on pushing the envelope — or crumpling it and tossing it in the trash — as he's tested the boundaries of good taste with such brazen shows as his animated series "Family Guy" and last summer's F-bomb-laden blockbuster "Ted," which earned him a songwriting Oscar nomination.
The result could be a fun night for younger, hipper TV audiences that Oscar organizers are courting but a crude awakening for traditionalists who like their Academy Awards to lean more toward the sacred than the profane. Or it could be that MacFarlane makes the most of the thankless task of shepherding the Oscars, striking a nice balance between respecting Hollywood and poking at it.
"I think a little bit of that injected into the mix will go a long way, but I do also have to be mindful, in this instance, of not losing the audience that's there every year," MacFarlane said. "It's a different audience from my own, but I do have to be respectful that they will be watching."
So maybe it's an Oscar show that's shaken, but not stirred up too much. That might suit one of the evening's special honorees, British super-spy James Bond, whose adventures will be the subject of a tribute to mark the 50th anniversary of his first big-screen outing in "Dr. No." Adele will perform her Oscar-nominated title tune to last year's Bond tale "Skyfall," while the show features Shirley Bassey, who sang the Bond theme songs for "Goldfinger," "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Moonraker."
The show presents a salute to movie musicals of the last decade, with "Chicago" Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones and "Dreamgirls" winner Jennifer Hudson joining "Les Miserables" cast members that include best-actor nominee Hugh Jackman, supporting-actress front-runner Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe, Helena Bonham Carter and Amanda Seyfried.
Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have lined up a bubbly mix of young and old Hollywood as presenters, performers and special guests — from Barbra Streisand, Michael Douglas and Jane Fonda to "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe, "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart, and Robert Downey Jr. and his superhero colleagues from "The Avengers."
Along with front-runners Day-Lewis as best actor for "Lincoln" and Hathaway as supporting actress for "Les Miserables," the other favorites are Jennifer Lawrence as best actress for "Silver Linings Playbook" and Tommy Lee Jones as supporting actor for "Lincoln."
Day-Lewis would be only the sixth performer to earn three or more Oscars and the first to win three times as best actor. "Lincoln" also could make Spielberg just the fourth filmmaker to win three or more directing trophies.
Affleck's thriller "Argo" is in line for best picture after winning practically every top prize at earlier honors. Hollywood was shocked that Affleck was snubbed for a directing nomination, possibly earning the film some sympathy votes, particularly from actors, who love it when one of their own succeeds behind the camera.
The story of how Hollywood, Canada and the CIA teamed up to rescue six Americans during the Iranian hostage crisis, "Argo" would become just the fourth film in 85 years to claim the top prize without a best-directing nomination and the first since 1989's "Driving Miss Daisy."
The best-picture prize typically ends the Oscar show, but this time, MacFarlane and Kristin Chenoweth will perform a closing number on the Dolby Theatre stage that producers Zadan and Meron called a "'can't miss' moment."
Keeping the wraps on whatever surprises they have in store has been a chore for them and MacFarlane.
"It's been difficult. The press, as you know, is very nosy and sneaky. They're always sniffing around trying to get any advance notice," MacFarlane said. "It's like (expletive) Christmas. Wait till Christmas morning. Don't spoil the surprise."
AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen contributed to this report.


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CONCORD, N.H. — A traveling medical technician accused of causing a hepatitis C outbreak in New Hampshire wrote a suicide note saying he "couldn't handle this stress anymore" the week before his arrest, according to a police report.
David Kwiatkowski was arrested July 19 at a Massachusetts hospital six days after police found him apparently impaired in a hotel room scattered with prescription pills, according to police in Marlborough, Mass. Kwiatkowski is being held on federal drug charges in New Hampshire, and authorities are trying to determine if he spread the virus in seven other states.
Though federal authorities previously indicated that Kwiatkowski might have tried to harm himself in the days before his arrest July 19, the Marlborough police report includes new details, including a list of six prescription drugs that were found in Kwiatkowski's hotel room. Officers also smelled a strong odor of alcohol on Kwiatkowski's breath, and he slurred his words when he spoke, police said.
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Police also found a note that read, "please call Kerry and let her know I passed away. Tell her I couldn't handle this stress anymore." The MetroWest Daily News in Framingham, Mass., first reported details of the note.
"It was apparent from the note, pills and alcohol that David was trying to harm himself," Officer James O'Malley wrote.
Along with those new details of Kwiatkowski's recent past, his work history stretching back more than five years also continues to be investigated, though health officials say connecting him to hepatitis C cases in other states could be difficult.
The head of Arizona's state health lab said tests of people possibly exposed to hepatitis C in 2009 and 2010 — when Kwiatkowski worked in two Arizona hospitals — could indicate whether they have the disease but not how they got it.
The virus mutates within the body, so linking any positive test results to Kwiatkowski would be more difficult over time, particularly past one year, said Victor Waddell, who has a doctorate in molecular biology and genetics.
"It's going to be very difficult if not impossible," Waddell said.
Testing has been recommended for about 4,700 people in New Hampshire alone, and officials still are determining who should be tested in a dozen hospitals elsewhere. In addition to Arizona — where he was fired from one hospital after testing positive for cocaine and marijuana — he worked in Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania before being hired by Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire in April 2011.
Though he likely came in contact with thousands of patients in those states since 2007, it's unclear when Kwiatkowski became infected. He told authorities he was diagnosed in May; investigators say he has been infected since at least June 2010.
Kwiatkowski, 33, is accused of stealing anesthetic drugs from Exeter's cardiac catheterization lab and contaminating syringes used on patients. The case bears some similarity to that of Kristen Diane Parker, who is serving a 30 year sentence in Colorado after pleading guilty in 2009 to tampering with a consumer product and illegally obtaining a controlled substance. Kwiatkowski currently faces one count each of the same charges, though prosecutors expect to bring more when they seek indictment.
Parker, a surgical technician, was accused of stealing syringes filled with painkillers and replacing them with used syringes at two Colorado hospitals where she worked. Up to three dozen patients were found to have hepatitis C after being exposed.
Jeffrey Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Colorado, said Friday that lab testing confirmed that the victims were infected with the same strain Parker carried. All were infected during a six-month period when Parker worked at the hospitals, though under the product tampering law, prosecutors don't have to prove infection. Rather, the law applies to tampering with products with reckless disregard for the risk of death or bodily injury.
"The victims were victimized twice. They were victimized in the sense that during surgery they were deprived of pain medicine, and then some, not all, then later obtained hepatitis C," Dorschner said. "The charges that were filed were the charges most appropriate given the circumstances of the case, and that was proven by the prison sentence handed down by the judge."
In New Hampshire, U.S. Attorney John Kacavas has said that one of the strongest elements of his case against Kwiatkowski is the fact that the same strain of hepatitis C has been diagnosed in Kwiatkowski and 30 patients who were treated at the cardiac lab during his employment. Asked Friday whether other states might have trouble bringing similar charges, he acknowledged that the virus does mutate, and that the more time passes, the more difficult it is to identify the strain.
Kwiatkowski told authorities he did not steal or use drugs.
Neither his lawyer nor prosecutors would comment Friday on the apparent suicide note. According to court documents, Kwiatkowski already had been questioned by law enforcement at least twice before the hotel incident.
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