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Happy Birthday, Hemingway!
Posted on Jul 18, 2013
By Allen Barra
Pauline Kael, reviewing the film "Islands in the Stream" (1977), wrote, "There may be a time for a Hemingway revival, but this isn't it. His themes don't link with our preoccupations, and … the movie version of his posthumous novel, seems to belong to another age."
Thirty-six years later, as we approach what would be Hemingway's 114th birthday Sunday, his image is more vibrant now than in the last years of his life. The same could be said for his friend and drinking partner, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
This year belongs to Fitzgerald, with Baz Luhrmann's glittery and successful film version of "The Great Gatsby" catapulting the novel onto best-seller lists.
The previous couple of years, however, were an unofficial Hemingway celebration, with books about him continuing to be a light industry. "The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1907-1922" was published by Cambridge University Press; soon we will have a complete set of volumes containing his entire correspondence. (Hemingway would never have seen the point in this. As he told a biographer of Fitzgerald's, "I write letters because it is fun to get letters back, not for posterity. What the hell is posterity anyway?")
"Hemingway's Laboratory—The Paris in Our Time" by Milton Cohen, a study of the writer's early prose experiments, was published in May 2012 by the University of Alabama Press. That summer marked the paperback release of Paul Hendrickson's critically acclaimed "Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life and Lost."
And, who'd have thought it, Hemingway in the 21st century has re-emerged as a pop (Papa?) icon. Just about everything Hemingway wrote, from his novels to eight collections of short stories to several memoirs and works of journalism, is still in print. That's more than 25 volumes. Can that be said about any other serious American author?
Character actor Corey Stoll did a terrific turn as the mid-1920s Hemingway in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" in 2011, with English actor Tom Hiddelston contributing a letter-perfect Scott Fitzgerald. Allen, who won an Oscar for the screenplay, did his homework. Every line out of Stoll's mouth sounds like the distilled Hemingway of our collective memory:
"It was a good book because it was an honest book, and that's what war does to men. And there's nothing fine and noble about dying in the mud unless you die gracefully. And then it's not only noble but brave," he says.
And, "No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure."
Last summer, HBO's "Hemingway & Gellhorn," directed by Philip Kaufman, received 15 Emmy nominations. The most in-depth film portrait of the writer featured ferocious performances by Clive Owen as Hemingway and Nicole Kidman as his third wife, the great war correspondent Martha Gellhorn.
All the books about Hemingway have told us everything except why we continue to care so much.
With the exception of his first novel, "The Sun Also Rises," which still reads with the freshness of an open wound, I can no longer read the big books on which Hemingway's reputation has so long rested. "A Farewell to Arms" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" seem stilted, stagey and Hollywood-cornball melodramatic. (I applauded the scene in "Silver Linings Playbook" when Bradley Cooper throws a copy of "A Farewell to Arms" out the window because "She dies. I mean, the world's hard enough as it is, guys. Can't someone say, hey let's be positive? Let's have a good ending to the story?")
Like most people I know, I find all of Hemingway's later novels unreadable. And not just the later works. "To Have and Have Not," published in 1937, didn't survive a rereading. According to film director Howard Hawks, Hemingway confessed that he wrote it only "because I needed the money." Hawks supposedly told Hemingway, "I can take the worst piece of crap you ever wrote and make a good movie out of it." Hemingway's worst piece of crap, Hawks decided, was "To Have and Have Not."
I agree. The novel is dishonest hackwork; Hawks' film with Bogart and Bacall was first-rate hackwork.
How it must have galled Hemingway over the last 17 years of his life that when the title "To Have and Have Not" was mentioned, it was not his words people remembered but those written for Lauren Bacall by Jules Furthman and, of all people, William Faulkner—particularly "Anyone got a match?" and "You know how to whistle don't you? You put your lips together and blow." (Hemingway might have taken some solace in 1948 when John Huston pilfered the ending of "To Have and Have Not" for "Key Largo.")
The reputation of "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952) hasn't fared much better than the marlin the old man drags back to shore. Dwight Macdonald scored easy points when he said it was "written in that fake, biblical prose which Pearl Buck used in 'The Good Earth,' a style which seems to have a maligned fascination for the middlebrows—Miss Buck also got a Nobel Prize out of it." Macdonald knew very well that at his worst, Hemingway was in a higher class than Buck and that "The Old Man and the Sea" isn't Hemingway at his worst.
"Across the River and Into the Trees" (1950) and "Islands in the Stream" (published posthumously in 1970) are worthy of comparison with Buck, and I'm not sure Hemingway comes out ahead. His later fiction is pretty much summed up by a remark he made about John O'Hara, recorded in A.E. Hotchner's "Papa Hemingway" (1955). When Hemingway first read O'Hara, "It looked like he could hit. … Then, instead of swinging away, for no reason he started beating out bunts."
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- CISSP: -3, CISSP is in my opinion a good certification for people who want to show general knowledge in security... not really the kind of people a pentest company is after in my opinion.
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- References from someone: +10
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- Blog with interesting articles: +5
- Play CTF: +5
- Available on IRC: +2
- Talk during conferences: +5, unless talk on SCADA: -3
- Read Phrack: +5
- Wrote in Phrack: +20 (Phrack is the *BIG* deal, writing in phrack shows both a lot of skills and the good attitude)
- Any achievement: +3, black belt in some martial arts, won something, ...
- Did/do some team sports: +/- 0. to be honest I don't think most good pentesters are team players, they are more like traders, sharing information/tools with people they know/like/respect or people who share with them.
I know a lot of people won't agree with this rating, mostly because it's really subjective (and part of it is a bit trollish I guess). However, most of the time it provides a good overview of a resume... Obviously, if I get a resume that matches all these points, I will be really suspicious now :p

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Is it possible to avoid the need for anodes by simply disconnecting shorepower and batteries while at the dock? Or is the mere presence of dissimilar metals in water enough to case a problem? Thanks, all advice greatly appreciated.
Zincs are relatively cheap insurance. Why would you even consider trying to forgo that small expense?
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I have one of the "fish on a wire" type anodes in addition to the prop shaft zincs. It has a copper clip on the other end which allows me to connect it to my back stay. My back stay is bonded to my engine, all other stays, and all thru hulls. I also have a galvanic isloator installed for when I am on shore power. For two years I have hung the fish over the side when at dock. The first year I did not have the galvanic isolator and all I noticed is some white scale forming on it. This past year it actually had growth on it. I do not think that it really did anything since the currents had to travel through stainless rigging and down a suspect wire. I think that these "fish" anodes are not very effective, but they do offer peace of mind.
Zinc Anodes
I have just seen an online ad for a Universal Zinc Anode, one that's on a wire that you hang over the side while moored. Presumably you connect the wire to your propshaft, I'm not sure.
On this site I have read Don Casey's words "There is an unfortunate misconception that a sacrificial anode can be mounted anywhere, even hung over the side on a string, and it will still perform its appointed duty. That is dead wrong! For an anode to provide any protection, it must be in electrical contact with the metal being protected."
My question, if anyone can please help, is this: will a free hanging anode work in this way if it is connected by an electrical wire instead of a string? Is anyone using one? (I've tried attaching a photo but keeping getting "invalid file name")
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Hey Michael, jim said "you are limited to shooting maximum 5K at 48fps" so i assume that means you can shoot HDR at less resolutions as well. I could be wrong.
When posting the next stills or footage of Epic HDR footage, could you give post both the EasyHDR™ and the HDRx version of roughly the same shot, just so that we can see the practical differences in shooting modes?
So Jim after having played with your new baby for a while.
Other than to get to a higher frame rate than 48, is there any reason why you would not shoot in at least Easy HDR at all times?
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The only discussion I have found about this is in this post . There it says that we can´t use substitute addon_data to have it centralized, at least not to an smb-share.
I want to have everything I can centralized and for that reason I have created all substitutions that I can for all my 5 instances of XBMC in my home. But when i am doing a substitute for masterprofile/addon_data I get the same problem as kri kri in the above post, the Subtitle download stops working. I have got the same error as kri kri but now I get some other errors, different in OSX and Win7(!)
This is what I do in advancedsettings.xml:
I did almost the same in OSX and Win7:
I put debug on
closed and then opened XBMC
Started the same episode.
Tried to get a subtitle (automatic download of synced subtitle). In Win7 I also tried to manually download a synced subtitle from Bierdjope.
And then:
In both OSX and Win7 the settings.xml is read and written to the substituted directory.
In both OSX and Win7 the zip-file is saved locally and not in the substituted directory (why not?).
In Win7 it is trying to copy the srt-file from the local directory to the episode directory. It also seems to do different things depending on if it is using Opensubtitles (trying automatic download of synced subtitle) or Bierdjope (manual download). It also doesn't say any error that it is not working (although I have seen an error before, just like kri kri in the linked post above. But the copy doesn't work for some reason.
In OSX it is trying to open the just (locally) downloaded from the substituted directory(!) The same zip-file exist there so it gets that srt-file instead.
It looks odd, doesnt it?
Here are the logs (I hope I did this right):
Win7 Log
OSX Log
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Re: Alt+Click has no effect when I use LocatorAutoCreate->True
I had exactly the same trouble... but then I realized I was Ctrl+Clicking,
not Alt-Clicking. Habit, I guess... since Ctrl-Click is a common way to
select and deselect items in a list, but Alt-Click never meant anything
until now (to me, anyway).
Anyway... Alt-Click works at my WinXP machine.
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:35:45 -0500, Andrew Moylan
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> When I copy into a blank notebook the first example from the
> documentation for LocatorAutoCreate (pasted below), I cannot create
> (or remove) locators. Alt+Click has no effect in the resulting pane.
> Using LocatorCreateAll->All instead works as expected for creating
> locators; but I still cannot delete locators (using Alt+Click). Has
> anyone else experienced this problem?
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Natasha Burse
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Woodall Tabbed Conference Track Athlete of the Week
Personal Records: 60m - 7.48; 100m - 11.67; 200m - 24.00
School Records: 60m - 7.54; Indoor 4x400m relay - 3:45.03; Outdoor 4x400m relay - 3:43.66.
Freshman Records: 100m - 11.77; 200m - 24.08.
2010: All-Ohio Champion in the 100m and 200m dash ... placed eighth at the BIG EAST Championships in the 200m ... ran on the 4x1 and 4x4's that placed fourth at BIG EAST Championships.
2009 indoor: Set the school record in the 60 meter dash (7.54) and was a part of the school record setting 4x400 meter relay which placed fifth at the BIG EAST ... All-Ohio Champion in the 60 meter and the 200 meter dashes.
2008: Seventh-place finisher in the 100 meter dash (11.91) at the conference meet and was part of school-record 4x400 relay team ... notched a second-place showing in the 200 meters, posting a time of 24.37 at the All-Ohio Championships ... her time in the 200 placed her second in the UC record book ... also finished fourth in the 100 meters at the All-Ohio Championships with a time of 11.97 in the 100 meters.
High School: Placed fifth in the state in the 200 meters as a junior at Richardson High School ... three-time district champion ... state qualifier in three events ... team MVP as a junior ... named one of the Top 10 sprinters in the state of Texas by the Dallas Morning News.
Personal: Born August 24, 1989 ... daughter of William and Vynnie Burse.
Academic Major: Biopsychology.


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Moving the books on the Titanic
OK, after recovering from the run of one night lecture stands, I knew that I had to get the books off the floor of my study at home before I could start to write the next chapter of the book I'm supposed to be writing .. two chapters down, six to go. And that is where last weekend went.
It is of course a hopeless task. The problem I have is basically the same as the problem faced, on a much bigger scale, by the Cambridge University Library, and probably many others: too many books, too few shelves, and too few walls to put up any more. We have a large enough house for living in, but not large enough for the books. And trying to clear the floor and fit a few more into the space that already seems full does develop some first principle librarianship skills.
Obviously if you took the UL strategy and systematically sorted the books by size as well as subject, you could find space for a lot more -- but at home do I really want to have the small commentaries on Cicero separated from the larger ones? I have, though, decided that 'out-housing' some of the lesser used things can open up a foot or two (in my case that has meant sending the series of 20 volumes Balkan Studies to the husband's study -- though it's not clear he wants them, and honestly it only shifts the problem elsewhere...the book equivalent of nimbyism).
Then there's the duplicates which really might free up a foot or two if one could get one's act together to flog them or give them away. No household needs three copies of Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger, or two copies of Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms, or two identical translations of Joubert's Treatise on Laughter. Quite how we acquired these duplicates isn't exactly clear -- some are no doubt the consequence of marriage, some I suspect are the consequence of mess (I mean I bought another copy because I didnt realise I already owned it).
As far as layout is concerned, I sort of wished I'd been braver about forward planning. I mean it's all very well to squeeze everything in without an inch to spare, but if you are acquiring books at the rate of 3 or 4 a week, that only means that the new ones end up . . . well, on the floor. So this weekend I determinedly left 6 inches of shelf space empty, for the next volumes of the Journal of Roman Archaeology that will arrive in due course (though how long it will survive...).
But most of the time it was more like shifting the deck chairs on the Titanic. I'd worked out that I should use the big shelves downstairs for big books not the run of penguins. So I got good exercise swapping around the Lucky Jim's etc with the exhibition catalogues (non classical) that had been in the spare room.
The good news is that it did magic up a bit more space and clear the floor, and yesterday I had an hour in my study actually working on the book (only an hour, but sheer bliss). But the horrible truth is that I am due to retire in 10 years time and then I'll have two more rooms full of books to house. So we spent the weekend looking at the garden and wondering where we could put a bookshed . . . and feeling we shouldnt be quite so snooty about the Kindle.


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just got my 1st taste of wrx ownership finding an old lady owner 02 auto a couple weeks back and thought i'd check in with my story. now i know your thinking dude is a rube for buying the old lady owned it prior story, but hear me out. the car had just hit the lot and they had not detailed yet so i got in early to sniff around. as they are telling me an old lady had owned i notice a hairspray stain real low on the head rest just like my granny's couch were she sits when she watches her programs. the car fax said one owner car, owned locally. a couple of old lady scapes around the perimeter and a bubble-blind-spot mirror on the drivers door mirror got me to thinkin. so you are prolly saying that don't mean much but the clincher was there was an old lady music CD left in the changer i found a day or so back. it nearly put me to sleep a song in....
stock as a rock, 70K miles and very clean in a black that looks kinda blue (what is the name of this color if you might know?). i went auto because it seemed the best opportunity to find one unmolested and after driving one it would work just fine for my grocery getting around town commute car. i have a hard shifting, loud, track car to flog so the auto wrx suits my needs fine like.
so today i give it the once over, the 70K service. new mobil 1, air & oil filters, plugs and flushed the radiator. needed this board to get the skinny on the plug job, not too different than the 911 forum i frequent, you gotta know who to ask or where to look. will be doing a fuel filter next, then some diff and tranny fluids. any good threads on those jobs would be great to have posted here to get me headed in the right direction.
looking forward to getting to know my new to me wrx like i know my aircooled flat 6. i think this board might get me headed in the right direction in doing some minor mods and maintanence.


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Re: ImageResize does not linearize before resize?
On Thursday, March 10, 2011 3:12:08 PM UTC+4, Matthias Odisio wrote:
> Jari,
> >> This genuine issue will be properly addressed in a future release of
> >> Mathematica. In the meanwhile, one needs to revert to bits of code,
> >> as you did.
> >
> > Thank you very much for the confirmation! I was not sure if it was something
> > that would be addressed, or if all imagedata was to be assumed linearized.
> /.../
> >
> > Can you divulge if there would be any plans to implement generalized color
> > handling for images in Mathematica?
> That's what I meant by 'properly addressed', yes.
> Feel free to reply to me off the list if you'd like to be in contact
> with developers involved in this project.
> Matthias Odisio
> Wolfram Research
Hi Matthias,
Reviving an old question in connection with the release of version 9, could you please explain how to use the new image processing functionality for correct image resizing? I could not find in the documentation instructions how to do it correctly in the sense described on the page
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Naturally the first thoughts would be in honour of his genius and longevity in the game as a master batsman who is widely regarded as one of the best ever. Then away from the ground you tap into the universal respect for him in honour of his delightful modesty and good graces. A statesman in the truest sense of the word. Both on and indeed off the ground for billions.
This combination of batting genius and innate charm has not only forged the supreme respect held for the man aptly known as the 'Little Master', but sadly has created a rod for his back in terms of the hysteria that it has logically attracted. This hysteria has been the definition of the term with his minions lauding him as if he is a God when he is on top, but quite literally turning their backs on him in his down times.
Jokingly, the 'fanbois' have suddenly become connoisseurs of India's National Sport in Hockey during this current run of outs........
Despised fickleness, never so evident as in Sachin's search for his 100th International hundred which has resembled a drawn out soap opera bordering on a farce with everyone investing in it. It has morphed from focus about the achieving of the remarkable landmark to the air play given to his failures to reach it.
The leeches in the Press that have made big bucks during the glorious times of his career are now cashing in on in this time of virtual farce for him with everyone knowing that 'Cricketing Marketing 101' revolves around anything to do with Sachin.
Sadly scorn has replaced the respect that should be a given to a true great and the irrationality that started over the milestone has got even more surrealy irrational with him still being marooned on '99'.
"That's been a huge hurdle for India to overcome all summer - Tendulkar's search for his 100th century has become a burden on the team as well as the player,"
The main sticking point in this overwhelming view is that the view that Sachin is selfish by putting his individual glory ahead of the Team without focussing on the people who are driving the covet of the milestone. People point to his selection in the ODI Team as if he was behind it, but fail to touch on a more likely reason for his inclusion in terms of economics.
As seen in the ODI series in India with the West Indies, the absence of Tendulkar with other stars meant the lack of crowds and the $$$$'s that greedy Cricket Boards worship. The same can be said of the revamped Tri Series in Australia with it struggling for appeal and crowds to the point where you know that Cricket Australia would have been insisting on Sachin being part of the series.
Similarly, you know that the entities in the upcoming Asian Cup were insisting on his inclusion because of the profit he represents
As for the flurry of recent calls for him to retire lets put that into context....
After all he has given to the game and fans in general I think it is his right to decide when he goes. For his form has tapered off a bit, but it is still is in the top echelon of current performance amongst Indian batsmen with him threatening on so many occasions to let us witness a master class while his Team Mates have for the most part have looked inept.
Duly we should all shut the f**k up and feel privileged to have lived in a time of such an icon


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Transverse-Momentum Dependence of the J/psi Nuclear Modification in d+ Au Collisions at sqrt (s_NN)= 200 GeV
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Transverse-Momentum Dependence of the J/psi Nuclear Modification in d+ Au Collisions at sqrt (s_NN)= 200 GeV
Fields, Douglas E.
PHENIX Collaboration
Brooks, M.L.
Butsyk, S.
Grim, G.
Jiang, X.
Kapustinsky, J.
Kunde, G.J.
Lee, D.M.
Leitch, M.J.
Liu, H.
Liu, M.X.
McGaughey, P.L.
Sondheim, W.E.
Van Hecke, H.W.
Bassalleck, B.
Malik, M.D.
Thomas, T.L.
Younus, I.
Al-Bataineh, H.
Dharmawardane, K.V.
Kyle, G.S.
Papavassiliou, V.
Pate, S.F.
Wang, X.R.
We present measured J/ψ production rates in d+Au collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV over a broad range of transverse momentum (pT = 0–14 GeV/c) and rapidity (−2.2 < y < 2.2). We construct the nuclear-modification factor RdAu for these kinematics and as a function of collision centrality (related to impact parameter for the RdAu collision). We find that the modification is largest for collisions with small impact parameters, and observe a suppression (RdAu < 1) for pT < 4 GeV/c at positive rapidities. At negative rapidity we observe a suppression for pT < 2 GeV/c then an enhancement (RdAu > 1) for pT > 2 GeV/c. The observed enhancement at negative rapidity has implications for the observed modification in heavy-ion collisions at high pT.


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A second foal has been confirmed as having died from mare reproductive loss syndrome (MRLS) in Florida, according to Dr. Dana Zimmel of the University of Florida's College of Veterinary Medicine. The first case was a Thoroughbred foal from the University of Florida research herd, the second was a Quarter Horse foal born on a private farm. Both mares foaled in Alachua County, and both foals were born alive but were hospitalized and euthanized due to their deteriorating conditions.
The first foal was born March 18 and died March 20. The University of Florida herd of research mares lives near Ocala, Fla., until about 30 days prior to foaling, when they are brought to the university's farm in Alachua County.
The Quarter Horse foal was born on a private farm March 25 and died March 26.
Zimmel said there is still one suspect case that was a late-term abortion from a Thoroughbred mare from the University of Florida breeding herd.
Eastern tent caterpillars (ETC) were found in fields with the dams of all foals.
While no definitive cause was found for the MRLS outbreak in Kentucky in 2001-2002, a strong correlation was found between the losses and the ETC. Subsequent research showed that feeding ETC to pregnant mares caused MRLS-type abortions. Specifically, the research showed that feeding the outside of the caterpillar (as opposed to the inside of the caterpillar) caused abortions.
University of Florida pathologist Dr. John Roberts, who is handling pathology on the foals, performed necropsies at the University of Kentucky's Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center during the 2001-2002 MRLS outbreak.
Bruce Web, PhD, a University of Kentucky entomologist, said because research showed a strong correlation between MRLS and Eastern tent caterpillars, his advice to Florida horse breeders is the same as to Kentucky horse breeders: Avoid exposure of pregnant mares to Eastern tent caterpillars. "It's mostly an awareness and preventive issue," he said.
Webb said he is gearing up this spring for some virus work associated with MRSL. "Around here (Central Kentucky), the tent caterpillars hatched in the last couple of days with warm weather." The hatch is nothing like the excess seen in 2001-2002.
Jimmy Henning, PhD, a forage specialist with the University of Kentucky who did extensive research during and after the 2001 MRLS outbreak, said Florida horse breeders are benefiting from that work. "The thing they need to take some comfort in is that we analyzed everything that we could -- mycotoxins, cyanide in white clover, fescue ... We spent tens of thousands of dollars on assays. It all came up negative. The only correlatives are cherry trees (a favorite food of ETC) and a high number of caterpillars around mares.
"We analyzed many, many, many things," Henning continued. "We never found any evidence of toxins in grasses. Tall fescue has some toxins that affect horses, but those symptoms weren't the same (as seen with MRLS)."
Lee Townsend, PhD, an extension entomologist at the University of Kentucky, said much has been learned about control of ETC.
He said insecticides can be used to control ETC. Insecticides made from Bacillus thuringiensis (BT), a toxin from a soil bacterium, are specific for caterpillars and have a good margin of safety for beneficial insects, humans, and animals, and they can be used for application around pastures.
The BT insecticides have to be eaten by caterpillars. "Spray the foliage around the nests in order to control caterpillars," said Townsend. "Don't spray nests or worms; treat the foliage they are going out and feeding on." He said the insecticide works slowly. Caterpillars stop eating very quickly because the gut becomes paralyzed, but they don't die right away.
BT insecticides are broken down quickly by sunlight, so farm owners need to come back and look and see what kind of effect they're getting in terms of control. "Look at nests and see if caterpillars are there and active," advised Townsend.
Pyrethroid insecticides are also effective against ETC. Townsend said there are a number of products registered for control of a large number of insects on shade trees and ornamentals. Pyrethroids offer quick "knock-down" of the caterpillars. Townsend said the insecticide can be sprayed directly on the caterpillars or can be used for treating foliage on which the caterpillars feed.
"It has a longer residual," said Townsend, meaning it says in the environment longer before breaking down and becoming ineffective.
Townsend warned that even dead caterpillars can be a threat to pregnant mares. "If caterpillars are falling to the ground (in the pastures), you need to keep mares away from the dead caterpillars."
Another approach to kill ETC is with insecticides injected into the trunk of trees that ETC nest in (cherry, apple, or other Prunis-type plants). Townsend said this requires drilling small holes in the tree and injecting insecticide that is taken up into the tree by the sap flow.
"That probably works best early in season on small caterpillars, but it could be effective on some of the larger size ones as well," said Townsend. "Caterpillars rain out of trees pretty quickly when they eat the foliage."
He said that with any of those insecticide approaches, horse breeders still have the problem of exposure. He said insecticides limit movement away from trees, "which happens naturally as caterpillars crawl away for a pupation site."
Henning summarized by saying, "With pastures, don't do anything out of the ordinary except do what it takes to fence off or segregate mares away from cherry trees (or whatever host trees are in Florida) and the caterpillars. Mowing excessively or muzzling mares has not helped (prevent MRLS).
"Control is not sophisticated, but that should be comforting," he said.
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Blackwater and Ex-Im Privateers
What will Republicans want to shut down and privatize next once they get their way with their current pet peeve, the innocuous Export-Import Bank?
How about the U.S. Mint? Printing money is easy and counterfeiters offer a skilled pool of labor. The national parks? Anyone can dress up as Smokey Bear and manage a geyser or two. Private contractors already run the Pentagon, so why not just replace the generals and other middlemen with the company that virtually ran the war in Iraq, Blackwater (or Xe Services or Academi, or whatever alias it uses these days)?
This sounds ludicrous, but at one time, so would the notion of allowing snack-food companies to take over food prep at the country's schools. Domino's Pizza now feeds lots of our schoolkids with no-topping pies (and may be responsible for getting tomato paste classified as a vegetable).
So when the new House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy, said the private sector can do the job of the Ex-Im Bank better, the only surprise was that there will be relatively little for the private sector to pick over in the carcass of the bank. The loans it makes to foreign companies that buy U.S. products are not profit centers. Private banks would have to charge so much interest to make money that small businesses, which benefit most, would suffer.
Poor Republicans. There aren't many targets of opportunity left. Growth industries such as war and incarceration are fully mature. And the way those mass endeavors have been handled should make privatization a dirty word, not a lofty goal.
A spate of investigations into corporations doing what government used to do show that delicate matters such as criminal justice and killing should remain the province of government. Otherwise, real people -- not to mention the country -- get hurt.
Take Iraq, which was inundated with private security companies running amok. Blackwater has long been controversial, having paid $5 million to $7.5 million in fines for trading in illegal arms, bribing officials and lying about it. It's had a shady reputation almost from the moment it was hired by the George W. Bush administration and moved into Baghdad. By the time the State Department tried to monitor its operations -- calling it "an environment full of liability and negligence" -- Blackwater had become a government unto itself. According to the New York Times, its top manager issued threats, saying that "he could kill" the government's chief investigator and "no one could or would do anything about it."
The Blackwater manager had a point, given conflicting interests among government agencies. Part of the U.S. government (read: the Pentagon off-loading its duties) had a cozy relationship with the company, while other parts (read: the State Department) saw it as violating the criminal code.
The inquiry was abandoned. Among Blackwater's many failings, the bloodiest may be the killing of 17 Iraqis, including a child, in the center of Baghdad. One guard testified that two contractors high-fived each other after it was over. Four Blackwater employees are on trial in connection with the deaths.
OK, so maybe war is an iffy way to make money. Managing prisons, however, seems like a safe bet. The U.S.'s dubious record for holding huge numbers of inmates has spawned a booming business. Although many companies have been dumped for allowing deaths, gangs, riots and daily violence, the largest privateer, Corrections Corporation of America, is still thriving, running close to 70 facilities.
There are many downsides to private prisons -- they often end up costing more and doing less -- but the worst is the incentive to keep the cells filled, starkly stated by CCA in a 2011 Securities and Exchange Commission filing: "The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by the relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices or through the decriminalization of certain activities."
But privateers shouldn't worry about their revenue streams. As investigations by NPR and the New Yorker recently found, the government has discovered a new way to supply a steady stream of deadbeats: privatizing the pipeline that arraigns, indicts, tries and paroles criminals.
The investigations documented the insidious practice of making those arrested for minor crimes pay the costs of their arrests, as well as for the rights guaranteed by the Constitution -- such as a hearing and a jury trial. (In Washington state, a 12-person jury costs the defendant more than a six-person one.) Sounds like hyperefficiency mixed with tough love. In practice, however, a poor person who commits a petty crime is soon caught in a cycle of compounding interest and late charges that lands them back in prison.
NPR reported on a Georgia man who ended up serving 12 months for stealing a beer after his costs for an electronic monitoring device and a private probation officer reached $400 a month. A homeless Iraq vet in Michigan, with $35 to his name, spent 22 days in jail to pay off the fees he racked up after stumbling into an abandoned building.
Forget the promise that if you can't afford a lawyer, one will be appointed for you. In 43 states, defendants can be billed for a public defender, as well as a DNA sample and an ankle bracelet. Once out, you have to pay for your parole officer and court-ordered rehab, and you will be sent back to prison if you can't keep up.
In Washington, you can opt to pay your fees through community service -- but only after paying $5 a day for the privilege. Charles Dickens couldn't make this up.
Behind bars, privateers run wild, charging a captive audience an arm and a leg for a phone call or debit card. No one cares if inmates are gouged.
With so little to show for privatization, you'd think Congress would leave Ex-Im Bank be. Wait for those usurious rates to kick in and for Boeing to be unable to sell a plane to Singapore Airlines. Airbus will be thanking Kevin McCarthy, if no one else does.
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Australia's Young Socceroos have kept themselves in the hunt for a place in the knockout phase of the under-20 World Cup in Dubai after a 1-1 draw in the opening match against the Czech Republic.
And while the young team enjoys its success, the senior Socceroos' path to the next World Cup has been made a little bit easier.
In a bid to cut costs and reduce the problems associated with gaining releases for players to travel to regional tournaments, the Oceania Football Confederation has merged its regional championship, the bi-annual OFC Nations Cup, with the 2006 OFC World Cup qualifying preliminary competition.
The decision means that Socceroo coach Frank Farina will not have to call up overseas-based players for two separate competitions, in theory making it easier to manage his personnel and player commitments.
Farina has welcomed the decision. "I am happy about it - the OFC have done a good job. The big benefit is that the Socceroos won't have to play two major tournaments in two years. One quality campaign will be good for us, and the aim is to finish in the top two of the final group."
Soccer Australia was embarrassed last year when, through lack of resources, it did not call up its European-based stars for the OFC championship in Auckland, gambling that it could win with a squad of Australian-based players. Australia lost the final 1-0 to New Zealand and missed out on a multi-million-dollar pay day by failing to qualify for the Confederations Cup.
That is unlikely to happen this time, given that the games are also World Cup qualifiers and European clubs will not be able to object to players being released.
Under the revamp, the top-ranking OFC countries, Australia and New Zealand, will receive a bye for the first stage and the remaining 10 countries will play off in two group tournaments for four places to the second stage.
The second stage will have Australia, New Zealand and the four qualifying teams playing a round-robin tournament at a venue to be determined by the OFC in January.
The winner and runner-up from the second stage will meet in the OFC Nations Cup final in late 2004, with the winner representing Oceania at the 2005 Confederations Cup in Germany.
The same two countries will also meet again in late 2005 to decide the Oceania champion, who will then go on to a play-off to win the last position for the 2006 World Cup finals.
In the World Cup match in Dubai the Australians were disappointing in the first half and were behind at the interval following a 24th-minute goal for the Czechs. But, coach Ange Postecoglou's team came out in the second half playing with renewed vigour and equalised four minutes after the break through captain Scott McDonald, who scored from close range after an Alex Brosque corner.
Later in the half, McDonald, put through by a fantastic pass from substitute Matthew McKay, was denied a chance to make it 2-1 after being found offside in what appeared a harsh decisions.
Afterwards, Postecoglou rued the lost opportunity to get off to a flying start. "It was a frustrating game. We didn't start well, we struggled to be competitive, and it was disappointing for them to score from a set piece. At half-time we turned it round completely, and we could have won the game."
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I believe in honest parenting. For example, when my kid asks me where babies come from, I'm not going to make up some ridiculous story about a stork. That's honest parenting.
I remember my mom once telling me, "I'm not your best friend, I'm your mother." It upset me. But as I got older, I realized what she meant by it. We can still laugh and goof off and have fun together. But at the end of the day, she's the boss. Honest parenting.
But then there's cold, hard truth. And sometimes, the truth hurts. Take, for instance, this daddy blogger who recently posted about meeting his current wife and having their children. It started off as a charming story … and then this:
"If I were to be absolutely honest, my older son is my favorite of the two. He and I are adventurous partners in crime, and I can't imagine life without him. He was an accident waiting to happen, and I'm so glad it did."
There was backlash over the comment almost immediately:
"You really don't care that your kids could find this one day? I cannot imagine seeing something like this written by my mom or dad."
"Jesus H. dude. Keep it to yourself. Someday your little one will be incredibly hurt by this."
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"I commend you for being so honest and I can relate. I have 3 children and their ages span from 3-12. I think you will see as they get older and the younger child can 'do more stuff' that your 'favorite' may go back and forth as their personalities develop and they go through phases of wanting to be close and express their independence."
So what do you think? Is it normal to have a favorite child? And if so, would you ever admit it publicly?
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Free prom dresses help fulfill dreams
Angela Rose-O'Brien thinks prom should not cause anxiety for those high school students who can't afford to celebrate.
The Unity woman founded Angela's Angels in 2006 to collect new and gently used prom gowns and accessories and give them free of charge, complete with a fitting and alterations, to any girl who is economically disadvantaged.
"Our rule is if they come and they ask, then we give it to them," O'Brien said. "What we've learned is we can never judge anybody or their circumstances."
About 1,700 gowns are on display for potential promgoers at the space used by Angela's Angels, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, in Latrobe's Quatrini-Rafferty building.
In addition to the generosity of local bridal shops that donate gowns, O'Brien has been grateful for the popularity of individual dress donations and local businesses participating as drop-off sites.
Kathy Hendrickson, owner of Wigs 'N More at 5924 Route 981 in Unity, said she has enjoyed contributing to Angela's Angels, knowing the organization helps recipients combat the difficult peer pressure and self-image struggles sometimes faced by high schoolers.
"These are teenagers that have dreams ... of looking their best and feeling their best," she said.
In advance of Greater Latrobe, Derry Area and Ligonier Valley's proms — all planned for May 9 — the store has gotten many donations, including an answer to the call for donations for dresses above size 20, Hendrickson said.
"It's very important to us to address everyone's needs," O'Brien said.
Just as when the staff assists customers at Wigs 'N More, which sells bras and other garments for women who have received treatment for breast cancer, Hendrickson said, by helping girls improve their self-image, they hope to improve their overall well-being. "You've just got to have a big heart to give and volunteer your time," she said.
The fitting area on Ligonier Street in Latrobe has mirrors and a pedestal, just like in a gown shop, so visitors can bask in their finery.
A few years ago, one dress recipient from Angela's Angels was chosen as a local high school's prom queen, O'Brien said, but only the volunteers knew where she got her dress.
"Everything that we do is anonymous," she said. "We never want anyone to feel uncomfortable."
Some recipients pass on the generosity, returning the dresses after prom night for use by another girl.
With every girl served comes a time to reflect on difficult times, but the opportunity to shine also stirs a lot of pride, O'Brien said.
"We do a lot of laughing and crying every single time, every single year," she said.
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Being traded is rarely easy for a Western Hockey League player, but for Prince Albert Raiders forward Dakota Conroy, every move has meant a new opportunity.
Conroy began his WHL career last season in Brandon, seeing limited action on a veteran team before being traded to the first-year Victoria Royals in the blockbuster deal that brought Kevin Sundher to the Wheat City.
A 6-foot-1, 190-pound right-winger from Edmonton, Conroy saw a little more ice time in Victoria, scoring seven goals in 30 games with the Royals, but lasted only one game there this season before being shipped off to the Raiders for a seventh-round pick in the 2014 bantam draft. It's proven to be a bargain for Prince Albert as Conroy has blossomed in his new surroundings, with nine goals and 17 points in 21 games as a Raider, heading into last night's battle with the Wheat Kings.
"Going to P.A. really was good for me," said Conroy, 18, who had four goals and four assists in 30 games as a Wheat King. "I got a fresh start and an opportunity to show them what I had, and I thought I did a pretty good job with it in the early stages. And ever since it's kept rolling for me. Pucks have been going in and I've been getting points, and not only that but the team's been doing well."
A club that hasn't had a .500 record in its last nine seasons, the Raiders have been one of this year's biggest surprises in the WHL. Entering Friday, the club led the East Division, and was battling for first place in the Eastern Conference, with a
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"I'm not too sure what happened (in past seasons) but I know the boys are just such a tight-knit group," Conroy said. "We're always together and we're all happy to be at the rink. … We're loving it right now and I can see it continue to happen as long as we all stay positive and keep focused on what's ahead."
With the start that they've had, Conroy said the team has made staying in contention and maintaining first place in the division as priorities this season. He feels if chips fall the right way, the Raiders even have the potential to represent the WHL in this season's Memorial Cup in nearby Saskatoon.
He said the long-suffering fans in P.A. have been more than happy to come along for the ride as well.
"We see (the fans' excitement) on social media and all that," he said. "You've got fans tweeting after each win, tweeting about coming to the games and doing everything like that. Even playing in that rink when it's rocking, it's a pretty good feeling."
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Felix Wins U.S. Title In 200m Dash At Olympic Trials
July 1, 2012
Allyson Felix won the U.S. women's championship in the 200m dash and Ryan Wilson placed seventh in the 110m HH today (June 30) at the U.S. Track & FIeld Olympic Trials being held in Eugene, Ore. at historic Hayward Field.
Felix dominated the field in the final event of the day with a PR of 21.69 in the 200m dash for the third-fastest time ever run by a U.S. female and setting a new Olympic Trials record.
Ryan Wilson took care of business in the 110m HH semifinals by placing second in his heat with a time of 13.32 to automatically advance to the finals later in the day. Wilson had the sixth-fastest qualifying time, but the third through eighth-place finisher were all within .18 seconds. Later at night in the finals, WIlson placed seventh with a time of 13.24.
Tomorrow junior Reggie Wyatt will be competing in the men's 400m IH finals, the last Trojan competing at the 2012 Olympic Trials. Already qualifying for Team U.S.A. in track are Bryshon Nellum (400m), Josh Mance (4x400m), Duane Solomon (800m), Jesse Williams (high jump) and Allyson Felix (200m).


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