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Cedar Rapids Gazette (Newspaper) - August 20, 1974, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 2 Tin* Cedar Rapids Gazette: Tues., Auk 20, 1§74 Mama Nam Shorter Hours At Legion Pool Legion Memorial swimming pool hours will he shortened next week, the last week of summer swimming Orville Rust, pool manager, said beginning Monday hours will be I to 9 p.m. The pool will not open in the mornings On Aug. 31, hours will be IO a m. to 9 p.m., and on Sept. I and 2, hours will be ll a m. to 9 p.m. The pool will close on Sept. 2, Labor day. Swimming lesons ended on Aug. 9, Rust said. Competitive swimming, held for the first time this summer, ended in late July. ★ * it Board to Meet — Linn-Mar board of education will meet Thursday at 7 30 p.m. in the administration building. ★ ★ it Hickory smoked barbecued ribs, shrimp, and chicken served Wednesdays. Sticknev's Scoreboard. — Adv. ★ if it Sweet Corn — Vegetables. 2 mi. east of Marion, 4 mi. North on Hwy. 13. — Adv. McNeal Is Fined On License Charges Harold C. McNeal. 577 Twelfth street, paid fines of HOO each on two charges of operating without an amusement license during Monday's magistrate's court session here. McNeal, manager of the Marion Adult and Cinema store, was arrested on Aug. 2 and 3 on the charges by Marion police. He failed to appear in court, but sent a guilty plea by mail. The store owner, a Canadian firm, has since applied to the city for the license to operate. The request is pending at the next city council meeting. ★ it it Give Awards— Cub Scout Pack 58 met Monday at Thomas park and presented awards to Mike Carew, David Kelly, Brian Kelly, Mark Hennessey, Jeff Hennessey and Brad Bailsman. ★ ★ ★ Martin's Creek community club will meet Thursday at I p.m. at Bishops Buffet, Lindale Plaza Marion Courts heard Monday in magistrate's court By Oswald & James Jacoby The pattern of hands in 'Sherlock Holmes-Bridge Detective' shows Holmes making contracts by brilliant play and the opponents being set at contracts they could and really should make. The unfortunate declarer is then told by Holmes how he could have made his contract. Invariably, it is good bridge but somehow or other we don't see the great detective winning any popularity contests. *4CRRD<fcft*44 NORTH 20 4 432 ♦ K QJ 1063 ♦ 864 ♦ 7 WEST EAST ♦ 9 4 7 6 5 ♦ 74 * 9852 ♦ J 2 ♦ K IO 9 7 3 ♦ AKQJ 10 643 Ab SOI TH (D) 4 A KQ J 10 8 ♦ A ♦ AQS ♦ 952 Both vulnerable West North East South 2* 44 4 V Pass 4* Pass Pass Pass Opening lead —A4 The bidding has been 20 West North East South 14 Pass 24 Pass 44 Pass 4 NT Pass 54 Pass 5 NT Pass 74 Pass 9 You, South, hold 4AQ654 *AQ654 ♦A K 4 2 What do you do now0 A —Bid seven notrump. Your partner's clubs will run at notrump. Nothing can be ruffed in notrump Something could be ruffed at a club contract. TODAY S QUESTION Instead of bidding lour clubs your partner has bid two notrump over your two spades. You bid three hearts and he jumps to four spades. What do you do now ° Answer Tomorrow Holmes led the ace of clubs and continued with the IO South ruffed in dummy. East overruffed and led back a trump. Poor South cashed his ace of hearts, led his last club and watched East overruff again East had to lead back a diamond South finessed his queen but still had to go down one trick Holmes pointed out that South could have made his contract by letting Holmes win three club tricks while discarding two diamonds from dummy. However, Holmes wasn't quite as pontifical as he might have been. He failed to point out that South had a second chance at trick four. He could have discarded a diamond from dummy right then and there and still made the game. Cases Marion were: Speeding — David A. Mulholland, 3742 G avenue NE. Cedar Rapids,$30; Joseph A. Yogi, 119 Southview drive, $30; Linda S. Payne, 185 Twenty-second street, $30; Ronald J. Wickham, 4418 Navajo drive NE, Cedar Rapids, $30; Larry D. Perkins, 1621 A avenue NW, Cedar Rapids, $30; Steven R Schmickle, 880 Twenty-seventh street, $30; Charles G. Landtroop, 3317 O avenue NW, Cedar Rapids, $30 Leonard A. Shonka, jr., 394 Wilson avenue SW, Cedar Rapids, $20; Randall L. Kuehl. 1228 Third avenue SE, Cedar Rapids. $20 Failure to stop In assured clear distance ahead — Robert B Brown, Anamosa. $20 Violation of restricted driver's license — Daniel J. Barnd, 520 Twelfth street. $20. Traffic signal — Louis L. Tjarks, 108 Oak street, Hiawatha, $20 Improper muffler — Gerald W. Blazek, Mt. Vernon. $10 Operating without amusement license — Harold C. McNeal, 577 Twelfth street, two counts, $100 fine on each Indecent exposure — Terrance J. Lanstrum, 12125 First avenue SE. Cedar Rapids, ten-day jail term suspended on good behavior promise. ★ ★ ★ Miller Services —Services for Max Rae Miller II, 31, of 920 Hillview drive, will be Wednesday noon at Turner chapel east, Cedar Rapids. Burial will be in Cedar Memorial cemetery Friends may call at the chapel until 11.30 a m. Wednesday. The casket will not be opened after the serv ice. A graduate of Washington high school. Cedar Rapids, he attended the University of Iowa and Coe college. The family suggests that friends may, if they wish, contribute to the Linn County Mental Health Center or a charity of their choice. it if it Part-time jobs. floor maintenance. Apply 1720 1st Ave. Marion, 3 to 6 p.m. — Adv. ★ it it Visits Relatives — Rudolf Koch of Duren, West Germany, is a house guest in the Carroll Roberts home, 570 Eighth avenue, and is visiting other Marion and Alburnett relatives. ★ * ★ YMCA— Marion branch YMCA gym and pool will bt1 closed for the remainder of the week for cleanup and repairs. Persons desiring to enroll in fall activities may / / People like you like Bishops Busy? You can grab a bite and be on your way. Or. if you're ready to relax .. . well .. . you can do that, too. Service, a warm and pleasant atmosphere and a wide selection of delicious foods are reasons why Bishops is a place people like. People like you. YOU'LL FIND WE'RE JUST A LITTLE JjkhopA CAFETERIA, 321 First Ave. S.E. BUFFET, 4444 First Ave. N E. stop to the Y office during this time. The interim schedule will be in effect through the rest of the month In Hospital—Fay W. Bailey, 1204 English boulevard, is a surgical patient at St. Luke's hospital. Visitors are permitted. Going Out of Business Kettlecloth $1 per yard. Patterns reduced 30 percent, fabric and notions 40 percent. The Rag Barn Adv. 4 ★ ★ Set Rehearsal— Marion high school hand will practice Thursday at 6:45 p.m. in the band room. ★ ★ ★ Sell House— Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Vittengl have sold their house at 980 West Tenth avenue to Mr. and Mrs. Neil A. Westergaard, formerly of Iowa City. The Vittengls now reside in Creston. Possession was given Aug 12. The sale was made In' Executive Realty in cooperation with Mundel, Long, Lute and Sullivan, Realtors. it it * Repstiens Move— Mr and Mrs Rger Repstien and family of Ames are moving to Spartansburg, SC., where he will In* employed by Loik-wood-Green Architects. 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Scattered residences remained without power into the early hours Tuesday morning. Person to person communicators - Gazette want ads Johnson Supervisors Agree on Office Need IOWA CITY—A meeting of the Johnson county board of supervisors Moanday found no agreement on how to solve crowded office conditions at the courthouse. There was general agreement among the three supervisors that a problem does exist Chairman Richard Bartel said he favors placing temporary modular units on the courthouse lawn until a new county office building can be erected. Cosh Taken in Elberon Breakin ELBE RON - The Tama county sheriff's department is investigating a breakin at Kaloupek's garage in Elberon in which $38 in cash was reported missing by the garage operator. Ronald Kaloupek Sunday. Entry was gained by breaking a window in the building. Board Member Loreda Click suggested leasing space elsewhere until a permenant structure can be built. 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I'm gonna run this past you all. I bought a '94 Ford Taurus SHO off this guy who lives nearby. I gotta pay him over a couple paydays, but I'll have it pretty soon.
Its green with big old wide tires and aluminum rims...they gotta be at least 16", and the back tires are Pirelli. When you look at it from a distance, it looks like any other Ford Taurus, but when you look close, its a lot more aggressive looking than the grocery getters. Its got this wild looking Yamaha engine, I think its 3.2L because its an automatic. The guy told me it works like the Yamaha motorcycle engines that are the V-type. When you're running normal, it acts like a normal V-6, but when you get on it, another half of the intake thing (is it turbo? fuel injected? or what? Looks like a speghetti machine) kicks in and its supposed to really scream.
Its got a farily good leak in the tranny, and it drips on the exhaust and smokes...I don't know where its coming from. But it does shift good, and it idles like a new car. Its a little noisy and sounds like a six-cylinder with a loud muffler, but it has dual exhaust too. There is no ticking or smoking though other than the transmission oil on the exhaust.
Then the last thing thats wrong with it I think is a bad front coil spring. It leans to one side and wobbles. I couldn't reach my hand around the wheel like I could on the passenger side. I was afraid to drive it too fast thinking that maybe a tie rod or ball joint would give.
I didn't look at it too closely, but I thought it would make a good "toy" to fix and have some fun with. I got it for less than a grand, so I figured even with the problems, it has a good running engine and the body is straight and not too bad at all. Besides, if it gives me too much problems, I could probably part it out and get more than what I paid for it. Its also got a whole bunch of options like a CD, moonroof, leather power seats.
So does anyone have any ideas about the tranny and the front end? Does this car "qualify" as some kind of muscle car? It seems like a lot more than just a family sedan. I'd really like to see and feel how that engine runs when you goose it. I just stared at that weird configuration intake while it was running and wondered what it was capable of?
It'll probably take a month or so to pay off, but we signed some papers and the guy seems honest enuogh, and gave him some money down. When I get some pictures Ill post them.
Thanks for the help,
Those things are a terrible waste of time and a huge money pit, you would be better off getting rid of it as soon as possible. I happen to know a guy who might be interested in taking it off your hands.
Let me know.
She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've made a lot of special modifications myself.
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Now Chuck, play nice. Don't pay any attention to him Joeseph, he just wants another one to play with. I have a feeling once you get used to yours, you'll want another one too.
I never got ahold of a SHO Taurus, but I did get to drive an SHO/SVT (can't remember which) Contour before I changed the tires on it. Talk about acceleration, good thing I moved the seat up, that guy was TALL.
I've herd a lot of bad things about the whole car, but I don't really
see them falling apart going down the road.
Anyway, good luck with it
My first car was a 93 taurus sho (dad's hand me down car). It was an auto, burned oil, but it was still a fun toy. Had a little over 220,000 miles on it when we traded it in on my truck. Even though I love my truck, I still kinda miss that car.
The 6 cyl autos are OK, the 6cyl 5-sp. is desirable, the V8 auto is choice.
When they were new, they were favorably compared to 5-series beemers. The transaxle is the weak link, but they are worth playing with, and if the car is decent, body and interior wise, it's worth spending what it takes to make the engine and transaxle right. They are an absolute blast to drive, and will surprise a lot of "touring performance sedan" snobs. It's a shame the V8 was not available with the 5 spd. (btw, you stole it, just like Chuck is trying to do!)
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Hey 4-jaw...
Yea its the same kind as the one you have posted in your gallery. Yours looks a little cleaner and shinier. Its got the same kind of wheels too. But mine is that dark green metalflake color...I really like the red and black ones better.
Tell ya what...whoever owns that older Mercury Cougar in your gallery, tell him I'd think about trading for that. You know those old Cougars are money pits too...and parts are really hard to find!
BTW - there were some comments on the transaxle...what would I do to take it from being the "weak spot" and correct it so it is strong? Again it is an automatic, it shifts fine, but it leaks. Any ideas about the leak...is it common...a seal? a servo?
Thanks again
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Pros: I love the styling. Very comfortable interior, good fit and finish. Love the driver programmable settings. Very roomy interior for driver/front seat passenger. Nice complement of creature comforts; heated seats (front & rear); automatic climate controls; nice sound system. Excellent pickup for a car this heavy even with the small V8; very good handling. Nice information center. Very nice with dual AC/heater controls. Easier access to blower fan motor than earlier years. Good gas mileage. :cool2:
Cons: Battery located under back seat :banghead:; taillight replacement should not take hours to accomplish. Not very DIY mechanic friendly, but, then, what Cadillac was. Not much interior storage with in-console CD changer, although, it does have a large glove box.


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That's really lame. There are a lot of misconceptions about skins, even within the scene. Heh you'd think skins would've been around long enough for people to know that they're not all alike, just like any other punks.
Yeah, 65 punks were arrested and taken to some sort of "moral rehabilitation" center or something because they were "tarnishing the country's image".
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BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont man who pleaded guilty to shooting his daughter's boyfriend in 2011 has been sentenced to at least five years in jail.
Ed Tetreault of Townshend has been incarcerated since November 2011, and will get credit for time served.
The Brattleboro Reformer reports court documents say the 57-year-old Tetreault got into an argument with the boyfriend the day before the shooting. The boyfriend head-butted Tetreault.
Tetreault shot him in the jaw and shoulder during a struggle.
Tetreault apologized in court Tuesday. He was originally charged with three counts of first-degree aggravated domestic assault with a weapon and one count of aggravated assault. He agreed to plead guilty to one count of aggravated assault and the other counts were dismissed.
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Ok guys. I posted about a aweek ago about buying a bargain bin AR from CMMG. It arrived at my FFL today and I brought it home this afternoon. I havent had a chance to fire it yet, that will come within the week so range report will be coming at some point next week if everything goes well.
I bought the $570 hand select A3 M4 from CMMG. It is a 16" carbine with standard handguards, a 4 position adjustable stock, "F" labeled front sight, T labeled upper rail, CMMG lower, unknown at this time upper, and the upper is not chrome lined. I haven't field stripped it yet, I plan on doing that sometime tomorrow so I can't give more detail right now....of course, I'm new to these horrible black rifles anyways so I won't know what I'm looking at until I look it all up after stripping it down! :hand5:
These are listed as "used" with internal [arts being new but having cosmetic defects which put them in the "used" catagory. These ARs are test fired only after being built and then sold as-is. Myself and my FFL looked it over and there isn't a single scratch, ding, or otherwise "cosmetic defect" we can find on the entire rifle! This thing is pretty much flawless and as close to as-new condition I have ever seen on a "used" firearm. Without getting lead through it, so far I am more than impressed by the quality I have picked up for the money invested.
Without further ado, here is some AR15 pron for your viewing pleasure. Any weird coloring is not the coloring on the gun itself, it's partly the flash and lighting I took the pics under and the fact that the entire firearm is still heavy with oil from shipping.
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Anyone going out for crows? Season opens soon.
I hope to get out a few times to prepare for ducks. Hopefully it cools down a bit
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kwacker wrote:I'm going out for a couple of hrs before work. Hope to get a few for the dog even though he hates picking them up.
rickbr wrote:Same thing here. I'll be going out early in the a.m. Have to work at noon. Need to find a few fields to slam a couple.
Could use the feathers for fly tying.
rickbr wrote:I don't know man. you're looking kind of weary. You might just be sick that Monday. ;)
What do you think are the odds of someone letting me tag along with them
if I just show up Monday morning with my shotgun and pheasant stamp?
I live pretty close to a stocking sight that seems to get a good turnout on opening morning.
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Michael Buble to Host CTV's Broadcast of THE 2013 JUNO AWARDS, 4/21
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In an exclusive on-air message during last night's Super Bowl XLVII broadcast, it was revealed that international superstar Michael Buble will host THE 2013 JUNO AWARDS on CTV on Sunday, April 21 from Regina's Brandt Centre.
In the premiere of the 30-second promo, Bubl popped in-between Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger to deliver the message - both to the musical power couple and all Canadians -that he plans to hit all the right notes as host of this year's JUNO AWARDS broadcast. Click here to view the on-air message. Follow the conversation online at #JUNOAwards.
The multi-JUNO and GRAMMY Award-winning artist takes charge of Canada's Music Awards at an exciting time in his career. Bubl will soon be announcing details on the release of his forthcoming fifth studio album and will perform the album's first single during the JUNO AWARDS broadcast. In June, Michael will headline an incredible 10-night run at London's O2 Arena.
ETALK, the country's most-watched, most-trusted, and longest-running source for entertainment news, delivers an exclusive interview with Bubl tomorrow, Monday, Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. ET on CTV.
"It's a huge honour to be the host of a show that has done so much for Canadian talent, including myself," said Michael Bubl."I am going to do my very best to make it a great night!"
"We are privileged to have Michael Bubl take the helm as host of CTV's 2013 JUNO AWARDS broadcast," said Phil King, President, CTV Programming and Sports. "Mr. Bubl will no doubt impress Canadian audiences on the biggest and most spectacular night in Canadian music."
"This year's show is sure to be second to none with Michael Bubllighting up the stage with his infallible charm and charisma," said Melanie Berry, President & CEO, CARAS/The JUNO Awards. "I can't wait to see his incredible sense of humour shine!"
"Michael is without a doubt, one of the coolest and funniest guys in showbiz," said John Brunton, Executive Producer, THE 2013 JUNO AWARDS. "He's an absolute superstar and truly one of Canada's greatest ambassadors. This year the stars and moon have lined up and we're giving Canadians what they want, Michael Bubl."
Airing Sunday, April 21 from the Brandt Centre in Regina, tickets for THE 2013 JUNO AWARDS Go On sale on Friday, Feb. 22 at 10 a.m. CST. Tickets range from $59 to $189 (plus taxes and service charges) and are available through the Evraz Place Box Office, by phone at 1-800-970-7328, and online atwww.ticketmaster.ca. Nominations for the 2013 JUNO Awards will be announced on February 19, with further announcements on performers, presenters, and tickets to follow in the coming weeks.
A four-time JUNO Award performer and eleven-time JUNO Award winner, Bubl's trademark Style has taken the world by storm since he first burst onto the music scene. Born in Burnaby, B.C., Bubl had dreamt of being a musician since he was just two-years-old. His self-titled, debut album, released in 2003, featured classic standards, including "Fever" and "The Way You Look Tonight". The album launched Bubl into the limelight, seeing him win New Artist of the Year at the 2004 JUNO Awards. Bubl's second studio album, It's Time, released The Following year, again included classic standards, and as well included the original track "Home" which hit the top of the pop radio charts. The album won four JUNO Awards and, that same year, Bubl received his first two GRAMMY Award nominations. With the success of his third and fourth albums, Call Me Irresponsible and Crazy Love, he continued his meteoric rise to international acclaim, with appearances on OPRAH, THE X FACTOR, and SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, as well as taking part in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games torch relay in Vancouver before the opening ceremony.
Since CTV joined forces with CARAS in 2002, THE JUNO AWARDS have travelled all across Canada and back, bringing the biggest show in Canadian music to millions of Canadians live in person and on television. CTV has broadcast THE JUNO AWARDS from St. John's (2002), Ottawa (2003), Edmonton (2004), Winnipeg (2005), Halifax (2006), Saskatoon (2007), Calgary (2008), Vancouver (2009), back to St. John's (2010), Toronto (2011), back to Ottawa (2012) and now, for the first time, Regina (2013).


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Less subscribers naturally translates into lower numbers and U.S. Cellular is no exception. With quarterly revenues standing at $1.02 billion, the carrier squeezed out a $52.7 million profit.
The best news about the carrier is that it keeps on steadily growing its 4G LTE network which now reached 30% of current customers. U.S. Cellular's LTE network is planned to grow to cover 58% by the end of this year. Additionally, now 17% of all smartphones the carrier sells comes to LTE devices.
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That's right! The New Mac OS has only been out for a few days and its already hacked so it can be installed on almost any computer. If you read this post it will tell you how you can do it in three steps.
I don't understand why Apple wouldn't release their OS to everyone on a PC or Mac system. If they did do it, just think how fast Apple would take over the market. The main reason people switch is because of the great operation system. Don't get me wrong, the hardware is great too but that is just part of it.
But maybe I just answered my own question. The main reason Apple wouldn't release it to all PCs is because they make more money off of people also buying the hardware too, not just the OS. Or, would they make more money selling the OS to Mac and PC users? I am sure they have their reasons but in the meantime it's nice to know if you really wanted to, you could install OS X on that crappy Dell you have sitting around.


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I took the shot of the convertible at a gas station in Austria last week. Anyone care to guess the year?
The other is from the BMW museum.
Marcus, that's a 315 Cabriolet, built in 1935.
The owner is Mr Bertl Kohne from Austria. I have checked the Edelweiss Classic Club (check the little blue plate on the bumper). It looks like the owner and his wife are attending the Classic Rally every year.
Wow! That was more info than I was expecting. Yes...there was a rally as there were many vintage cars on the road that morning. He said it was 70 years old so 1935 is right on! :thumbup:
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A wise person said a long time ago:
"You can make a piece of **** go fast, but it's still a piece of ****"
Nice paint job, pal.
Oh..and those wheels look HIDEOUS! :vomit:
I appreciate the transplant. I mean, you gotta have SOME nerve spending 5x the money on the engine than what you actually spent on the car in the first place.
As for the old Accord: I wonder if he thought blue wires made him faster? Maybe the red didn't produce quite the horsepower to suit his needs?


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The antibiotics were produced by the flies during the larval and adult stages, when they lived and ate in dirty environments. But they were not produced during the middle stage when, as pupae, they had a protective casing.
Ms Clarke said the study showed the benefit of targeting the search over the usual "shotgun" approach of testing large numbers of environmental samples for antibacterial activity.
It was hoped bacterial resistance would be less of a problem with antibiotics produced by insects, because they would have very different chemical structures to most medical antibiotics now in use.
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NFL Player's Association Decertifies
The NFL Player's Association has dropped the bomb. Filing decertification papers in court, the union has stepped away from the bargaining table and moved this saga from negotiation to litigation.
This is a day that has been long expected and feared by those in the know on the subject. The NFL management lead by Roger Goodell and their counterpart DeMaurice Smith's NFL Player's Association are now dug in for what is expected to be a prolonged legal battle. Decertification has long been a tool used by the players association – and has been a looming threat over these negotiations since they began. It was last used in 1989, a move that lead to free agency, among other mainstays in today's NFL.
Decertification effectively disbands the union and allows the players to individually file anti-trust lawsuits against the NFL. Proceedings will take place in the court of Judge David Doty. Doty is seen as a Judge who is likely to rule with the union. Such a judicial leaning is one that is likely to be heavily appealed by the NFL and their vast slew of lawyers. The original rulings and their subsequent numerous appeals mean that we're headed to an almost certain drawn out court battle with no end in sight.
Still, little is known about the up coming days. Exactly what lawsuits will be brought and their rulings are unknown variables which will ultimately determine the outcome of this litigation. We don't know exactly what's ahead, but I'd get ready for a nasty, long-term fight.


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Fresno State's Pressure D Too Much for Boise State
Jan. 23, 2013
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By Jason Clay
FRESNO, Calif. - The Fresno State women's basketball team forced 20 turnovers and had 18 steals in a 70-57 win over Boise State on Wednesday that gave the Bulldogs their 19th-straight victory in the Save Mart Center.
The 18 steals were two off the season-high of 20 set back in the second game of the season against Cal-Maritime and it was the seventh game this season where Fresno State (12-6, 4-1 Mountain West) has recorded 15 or more steals.
"It is fun when you get steals and when you attack their defense when they are not ready," junior guard Taylor Thompson said of the full-court pressure the Bulldog employed throughout the game Wednesday.
That, according to head coach Raegan Pebley, was done to negate Boise State's inside game.
"They have such a great post player in Lauren Lenhartd that we just really felt like we couldn't sit in a half-court game with her all night and let her get touches whenever she wanted," Pebley said.
The 6-2 center Lenhardt, who came into the game fifth in the Mountain West in scoring at 15.4 points per game, finished with 12 points and seven rebounds. She did reach double figures, but with Fresno State's pressure defense she really wasn't a factor Wednesday.
Fresno State has now won seven straight over the Broncos (9-8, 2-2 MW) and have won five of its six games in January.
The Bulldogs, who entered the game shooting 48.2 percent over the last five games, remained hot offensively and shot 46.9 percent on Wednesday.
"I don't feel that we've won games lately because we shot the ball well, I feel like we've won games lately because we've been able to sustain some effort," Pebley said. "Our team is making great adjustments, playing some pretty good concept basketball offensively and defensively. We are really understanding how we can change up our defenses and how that can change the pace of the game."
Ki-Ki Moore led all scorers in an impressive outing for the junior guard. She scored 20 points on 8-of-12 shooting, had a team-high seven rebounds, posted a season-high seven steals and had five assists.
Fresno State as a team had 16 assists on its 23 made field goals and Thompson also chipped in with five assists to tie Moore for the team lead. Thompson finished with 12 points and Rosie Moult added 15, hitting five 3-pointers in the game to go along with four steals.
"I was getting a lot of open shots purely from the guards attacking and kicking it out to the open space and they just started dropping," said Moult, who has now hit 14 3-pointers in the last four games.
The first half was tightly contested, as there were five lead changes and neither team held a lead of more than four points. Thompson found Moore under the hoop for a layup at the buzzer that allowed Fresno State to take a 31-27 lead into the locker room.
After the tight first half, Fresno State opened it up with a 14-6 run to start the second half. Alex Sheedy and Moult both hit 3-pointers in the run and Moult's trey at 13:57 capped it off to give Fresno State the 45-33 lead.
Boise State guard Brandi Henton hit a three to end the run, but Moult came right back with two more 3-pointers.
Then four minutes later after Moore's seventh steal of the game, she was able to get a fast break layup to put the Bulldogs up by 20, 61-41 with 6:11 left to play.
"I feel like our defense just stepped it up," Thompson said is what allowed the 'Dogs to pull away in the second half. "We started executing our press a lot better and we played great man defense tonight. We've been working on that, so that was a plus for us."
The Broncos went on an 11-2 run to cut the lead down to 11 with 2:50 remaining, but Fresno State kept attacking offensively and defensively and was able to put the game away.
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Is there any particular reason for a heavier bullet? Most good 115s work pretty well for SD. They also shoot to similar POI as most practice ammo. That's something heavier bullets don't generally do. A lot of people like the newer 147s although I'm not one of them.
I personally like the 124 +P Gold Dots because of good performance, fairly easy to find and somewhat cheaper than many other loads...sometimes. They also shoot fairly close to POI at 15 yds. as WWB 115s in my G19. A bit high at 25 but not too bad.


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Justin Bieber Risking Relationship with Selena Gomez? Biebs Gets Kisses and Parties with Victoria's Secret Angels [PHOTOS]
Justin Bieber is one lucky teen singer to see a glimpse of heaven, as he performed amidst Victoria Secret's angels Wednesday night.
To his girlfriend Selena Gomez, however, the lingerie-clad supermodels may rather seem like devils.
Alongside fellow performers Rihanna and Bruno Mars, Bieber performed "Beauty and The Beast" and "Boyfriend" while flirting with the sexy angels.
Bieber rocked a blue and black leather ensemble on the pink carpet. While on stage, the Canadian heartthrob changed into all white.
"It's like a dream come true," Bieber told reporters as he hit the pink carpet before the filming of the annual fashion show in New York City.
"I would rather be here than anywhere in the world," said the 19-year-old who lived out every man's dream.
Would it be a nightmare for Selena Gomez? Bieber and Gomez's romance has been rumored to be on the rocks, but is their tie strong enough to endure through this tough time?
If so, then that would make them a power couple, as it seems that the real fun began after the fashion show.
Bieber joined the supermodels like Miranda Kerr and Lily Aldridge for the after party in a private corner of Manhattan nightclub Lavo, according to Hollywood Life.
"He was sitting with a group of people … laughing and having fun with a couple of models," an insider told Hollywood Life.
"Miranda Kerr was there, and he was sitting right by Lily Aldridge and her Kings of Leon hubby [Caleb Followill]. It seemed more friendly then flirty. They were all having a great time hanging out, and they seemed so comfortable. He got up from the table at 12:15, so he was there for right under an hour."
Watch out, Selena! Some Angels may want to take Justin home.
Bieber also received smooches from Angels Candice Swanepoel and Lindsay Ellingson backstage.
And what's more, Angel Jessica Hart seemed to have a crush on the teen singer.
"I have Bieber Fever! He's just so cute, I can't wait to see him in real life. He's going to be really good," Hart told HollywoodLife.
"tough life @brunomars. #VSFashionShow," Bieber tweeted.
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This year, Dyslexia Awareness Week (DAW) will be held on: Monday 8th October - Sunday 14th October
During DAW, dyslexia groups, including Dyslexia Action, come together to raise awareness of dyslexia and the support and services available for people with the specific learning difficulty.
This year we are focussing on Empowering Teachers!
There is currently no requirement for teachers to have any training in how to identify dyslexia or even how to support those with it. 10% of the population has dyslexia to varying degree. That's a huge amount of children in classrooms across the UK!
We will be hosting events in our regional centres to support the work of local teachers and will be making a huge noise on social media so please follow us and get involved in the campaign!
We are working with The British Dyslexia Association to campaign for appropriate and adequate training in dyslexia for teachers and ask that you sign and share the petition to make Dyslexia training a mandatory part of Initial Teacher Training (ITT).


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Then came 2008, and girly pictures such as Sex and the City and mamma Mia!
Manolakos, best known for playing Sophie Sheridan in mamma Mia!
His other films include Mrs. Doubtfire, mamma Mia, and The Thomas Crown Affair.
When Retsky showed the pathology report to William Hrushesky, his treating oncologist, the doctor exclaimed, "mamma mia."
It was unclear if it was one of the mamma Grizzlies that Palin would later make famous.
"That ought not to make any difference, mamma," said Lady Sarah.
Her only fear was that the excitement of present circumstances might be too much for mamma.
I left Pete to do the honours, so to say, helped by mamma, of course.
She had her veil down, and she did not want to stop, evidently, mamma.
You know, Miss Overmore, that papa doesn't like everything of mamma's.
1570s, representing the native form of the reduplication of *ma- that is nearly universal among the Indo-European languages (cf. Greek mamme "mother, grandmother," Latin mamma, Persian mama, Russian and Lithuanian mama "mother," German Muhme "mother's sister," French maman, Welsh mam "mother"). Probably a natural sound in baby-talk, perhaps imitative of sound made while sucking.
Its late appearance in English is curious, but Middle English had mome (mid-13c.) "an aunt; an old woman," also an affectionate term of address for an older woman. In educated usage, the stress is always on the last syllable. In terms of recorded usage of related words in English, mama is from 1707, mum is from 1823, mummy in this sense from 1839, mommy 1844, momma 1852, and mom 1867.
1707, spelling variant of mamma. Meaning "sexually attractive woman" first recorded 1925 in black slang; mama's boy "soft, effeminate male" is from 1901.
mamma mam·ma (mām'ə)
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here it is: 04 5mt sedan, 30k miles as of yesterday- 15-20k are highway miles
Getting my 30k service from my mechanic on saturday (I hate dealers so he does all my stuff)
How long do you guys think I have left on the pads/rotors?
also how long do the stock craptenza re92's usually last? - I can't wait until mine go bald - no sense in buying rims and tires before then though - thanks guys


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Chrissy Teigen Rails Against Miley Cyrus' MTV VMA Performance
Catching the MTV VMAs the day after it aired, Chrissy TEigen had a lot to say about Miley Cyrus' controversial performance.
Admitting, "Yep live tweeting the VMA's 24 hours later like the f---ing attention whore I am," the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model shared, "I loved 'we can't stop' when it was innocent & fun and not associated with eating the ass out of a bear."
When fans noted that the song itself references drug use and strippers, Chrissy fired back, "Popping molly and shaking it at a strip club is more innocent to me than bear a** eating yes f--tards stop blowing s--t out of proportion."
After sounding off on some of the other VMA moments, the 27-year-old beauty added, "Miley just discovered twerking like I just discovered snap bracelets and trapper keepers except I didn't just discover them let her live."


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I have an stock 307, and was wondering if I bore the cylinder to .40 will this increase the HP or it will remain the same as it is right now
I'm sorry to say that the only noticeable horse power gain you will get by boring it out .40 would be because of the new rings and pistons compared to the older used ones in it now...the 7 or 8 extra cubic inch isn't going to make that much difference. If you want the 307 to have more power...you would need to start at the heads and the the valve train, from the cam shaft up.
Agree with Ray.
The reason that a fellow would bore the cylinders is usually because they are imperfect for installing new pistons and/or rings. The cylinders do not wear evenly side to side or top to bottom and can be egg-shaped as well as funnel-shaped or both, so you want to bore and hone the cylinders to make them perfectly round again, like they were from the factory. At the same time, you would hone the cylinders with a certain grit number of stone, depending on the material the piston rings will be made from, in order to allow the rings and the cylinder surface to "wear-in" together and form a smooth surface with each other to seal in the combustion gases and make power.
Ray already knows this stuff, but we'll have a little math lesson for ferabel while we're at it.
.40" or .400" or 0.400" would be read as four hundred thousandths of an inch, or nearly half an inch.
0.040" would be read as forty thousandths of an inch and would be an acceptable overbore dimension. The reason for adding a zero in front of the number is to tell the person looking at it that the dimension is less than an inch, so that there are no mistakes when using the number to calculate other dimensions from it. For instance, 4.040" would be the cylinder bore diameter of a 350 Chevy cylinder block after boring it 0.040".
Also, you have to think about this....When cutting the cylinder bore, you would only take out 0.020" (twenty thousandths of an inch) on the radius of the cylinder, because as the boring bar turns to take material out, it is cutting then entire diameter of the cylinder larger, so 0.020" on a side (the radius) equals 0.040" finished bore (the diameter) increase.
0.004" would be four thousandths of an inch....
0.0004" would be four ten thousandths of an inch, also expressed as "four tenths".
0.00004" would be four one hundred thousandths of an inch, also expressed as "four hundredths". Automotive machine work does not get into hundred thousandths, I'm just showing this so that you can begin to get wrapped around the numbers.
Ok, I forgot to mention that I got a new set of heads world S/R with 64 cc chambers and 2.02 intake valvs and 1.60 exhaust
350s are cheaper to build, if you want a 307,think of it as a 283 stroker
Sorry I couldn't replay to any of the posts yesterday, the casting of the heads is 42660, as for the camshaft it's an ERSON E10026 int.214 EXH.224 ,valve lift it says .443 int. 465 EXH with a duration of .050
No much room left money wise , I got a new camshaft it's an ERSON E10026, as for supercharged I don't think I'll go that far no budget for it, all I want as for power maybe 330 or 350 HP.
Wish I could absorb most of the knowledge that F-Bird has. I follow his posts exclusively just to learn. Do yourself a favor and follow his recommendations exactly!
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Marquez's charge earned him a red card in the second half of the World Cup qualifier.
FIFA also suspended Mexico assistant coach Francisco Ramirez for slapping U.S. defender underneath the stadium after the 2-0 U.S. win.
Marquez will miss Mexico's World Cup qualifiers against Costa Rica on March 28 and at Honduras on April 1. Ramirez will not be allowed on the sidelines for the two games.


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In a tavern, the poet Hoffmann tells of his three former lovers. First, he lusts after a mechanical doll, Olympia. Next, he falls madly in love with an ill singer, Antonia. Finally, Hoffmann falls in love with Giulietta, and she proceeds to steal his reflection for the sorcerer Dapertuto. At the end of the opera, Hoffmann is so drunk that he fails to see the woman who truly loves him, Stella.
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08 April 2009
The Sage Of Virginia Speaks
"When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." ~ Thomas Jefferson
After reading that quote, what did you think of?
*With this quote in mind, I'll be posting some interesting comments on the principle of federalism and state's rights and how it was applied by both the North & South during the time leading up to the WBTS; as well as how important the principle remains to us today.
Posted by Richard G. Williams, Jr. at 7:00 AM
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- Charlie Fugate said...
I have to believe that federalism is not being taught in our public school systems. No one seems to grasp what it is and why it is important to the current events of the day. I look forward to your comments. Also, thank you for not calling it the Civil War. War Between the States is the most appropriate term in my view.
- 15 April, 2009 08:56
- Richard G. Williams, Jr. said...
You do have to wonder what's being taught, don't you? Why would an educational system which is increasingly controlled by federal dollars want to teach students the principles of federalism? That would be self-defeating, wouldn't it?
General Lee referred to the late unpleasantness as the "Civil War" so I'm not quite as concerned about that as are some. I do understand that it is really not accurate to refer to it as such, but the fact is that is what most people today know it as. I also use WBTS, but, according to Douglas Southall Freeman, the truly accurate term is the "War for Southern Independence."
Thanks for commenting.
- 15 April, 2009 09:33


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I just moved to Colorado Springs and have been reading up to see what the flight is like down here. From what I have read, the majority of peole hunt the northern part of the state. I am coming from central South Dakota where every body of water is capable of producing a limit of green heads so to hunt the foothills of mountains is quite a new experience for me. I just was curious about bird numbers and how long they typically stick around. Any information would be great, Thanks!


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The word "science" evokes a world of men and women driven by curiosity to explore the cosmos, the magic of chemical interactions, the decoding of the genetic combinations of a cell. Following trails of suspicion and experimentation, scientists have over centuries aimed to unlock the mysteries of life on earth.
But "science," for the last century, has also evolved into a multibillion-dollar business. Today, pharmaceutical companies, agricultural biotechnology firms, weapons labs, semiconductor producers and countless other research and technology–based businesses are among the key players in a global industry that plays a critical role in spurring scientific inquiry and in fueling American economic growth.
The centrality of science and technology to the U.S. economy was outlined in 1945, when Vannevar Bush, director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, authored a report proposing the establishment of a national science policy to deliver expanded government support for science in the post–World War II era. That report, titled Science: The Endless Frontier, set the template for an ever more formalized relationship between publicly supported scientific innovators and the private sector. "New manufacturing industries can be started and many older industries greatly strengthened and expanded if we continue to study nature's laws and apply new knowledge to practical purposes," stated the Bush report, which recommended large increases in government support for basic scientific research as a means of fueling innovation in the postwar economy.
But Bush was, unwittingly perhaps, setting into motion a science policy that has repeatedly neglected to address key questions linked to the long-term implications of scientific innovation and to the actual real-time beneficiaries of those innovations. What, for example, was the primary social good to be addressed in fueling scientific innovation? Who were the primary winners? And who or what were the possible losers?
On the one hand, Bush's report made an important contribution to spurring basic research and demonstrating the importance of scientific advance to social and economic life. But half a century later, we are also now living with Bush's legacy in the form of the environmental, ethical, and health-related impacts of what were once considered unequivocally "positive" scientific innovations.
Under the mounting pressure of Bush's unanswered questions, the old Enlightenment ideal of science pursuing knowledge for the large-scale benefits of humanity is starting to crack. While the bounty of scientific innovation has delivered great benefits, we are now living in a time in which the implicit assumption that scientific advances equal advances for the common good is shaken by such new developments as spliced frogs and sheep, genetically engineered (GE) plants designed to produce pesticides, and manufactured synthetics that suggest a sort of time-release chemical warfare against ourselves. Popular unease is coming to a head in an era in which "science," that noun used to describe a multifarious community of inquirers, is coming increasingly to manipulate the firmament of life itself.
The implications of the blurring between the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of profit are exemplified in the ongoing controversy over GE food crops. The starting point of that research was a simple and profound curiosity: the desire to identify how genetic codes are translated into actual characteristics in a plant. That was in 1982, when scientists at public institutions and private companies such as Monsanto began their quest to unravel the clues embedded in the double helix. When in 1983 three researchers at Cornell University used a shotgun to blast into an onion a tungsten-coated "bullet" containing new DNA, the curtain was opened onto an entirely new arena for genetic research.
In the 1980s, I spent a good deal of time reporting on the toxic effects of agricultural chemicals (for the book Circle of Poison, as well as for numerous articles on the environmental and health impacts of pesticides). At the time, the idea of genetically engineered crops, a gleam in the eye of some avant-garde researchers, was presented by many—including those in the environmental as well as scientific community—as a potentially "green" alternative to chemical-dependent agriculture. The impetus for the research was framed in a public-spirited way: Monsanto itself began promoting its increasingly formidable research and marketing capabilities as a step toward "sustainable" agricultural development strategies in both developed and developing countries, suggesting that GE crops could be the answer to the food productivity problems in Africa and elsewhere.
Two decades later, serious questions about the long-term impacts of ag-biotech have become a source of growing friction between the United States and the rest of the world. U.S. policies encouraging the proliferation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the food supply have given rise to a major trade conflict between the United States and Europe, and created an embarrassing standoff in which U.S. donations of food are actually being refused because of fears of what may or may not be contained in those genetically altered crops. The journey of GE foods—once considered an environmental alternative, now a source of fear—into the heart of the American food system illustrates the importance of the questions that Bush and subsequent generations of scientific policy makers failed to ask.
Today no one uses a shotgun to do the work, but the principle remains the same: customized DNA insertions in order to obtain customized characteristics. First it was onions; then corn, soybeans, canola, wheat, tomatoes, and other food crops began to feature genetically engineered components. Walk through your local supermarket, and you'll find them in breakfast cereals, canned drinks, and processed foods of every sort. One-third of the corn and three-quarters of the soybeans, America's most economically significant food crops, contain genetically engineered components. GE research, begun with grand hopes of saving the world's food supply from demographic, political, and environmental catastrophe, has in fact been oriented not toward the conditions of Africa, Asia, or Latin America, where such problems are acute, but toward the developed nations' industrial-scale agriculture. Three out of every four patents issued over the past ten years for genetically modified crops have been issued to just five multinational companies—Monsanto, Dow, DuPont, Syngenta, and Aventis. And while that research has been speeding into ever-newer varieties, funds for research at public institutions responsible for green revolution initiatives in developing countries, such as the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico, are drying up as public and private monies are devoted increasingly to biotech solutions to agricultural problems.
In the summer of 2002, I found myself driving a pickup truck through the fields of Frank McLain, an Iowa corn and soybean farmer. I had met Frank and his father, Fred, in 1982, while reporting a story about the consolidation of the American seed industry. At the time, the number of independent players in the industry was undergoing rapid decline as regionally based seed companies were being bought out by large multinational chemical and pharmaceutical companies, which subsequently emerged as the key drivers behind genetic engineering research.
Now I was paying the McLains a visit once again, this time in the company of a film crew for the PBS newsmagazine program NOW with Bill Moyers, for a story on the impact of the genetic revolution on America's farmers. Here in the heart of America's breadbasket is where that revolution is being wrought.
McLain was growing 1,500 acres of corn and soybeans. His "Bt corn" contains an inserted Bt gene that delivers a toxic insecticide that kills a corn pest, the European corn borer; his Roundup Ready soybeans have been engineered to resist the application of Roundup herbicide, so that the herbicide kills only unwanted weeds and not the soybean plants it is designed to protect. For McLain, the GE crops have delivered some considerable short-term benefits: he applies half the amount of pesticides to his corn as he used to, and with the Roundup Ready soybeans he doesn't have to go into his fields and manually remove the weeds the way he and his father used to, which in turn protects his soil from destructive overtilling.
McLain's experience with genetic engineering illustrates both the allure and the potential dangers of the new technology. One-third of the cornfields in Iowa are planted with Bt corn seeds, and almost all of the soybeans are planted with Roundup Ready seeds. For many American farmers, GE crops offer a level of predictability in a risky business that every season can rise or fall with a few degrees of Fahrenheit.
McLain expressed to me his incomprehension about why these crops, which have aided him in his daily work, have become so controversial. "We're using a technology," he said, "that's been given us to make our life easier and to raise better crops."
A half-hour's drive from McLain's farm, in the university town of Ames, I encountered Fred Kirschenman, director of the Leopold Center.
Sponsored by a state tax on pesticide sales, the center is one of the foremost institutes in the United States for research on sustainable agriculture. Kirschenman acknowledged that there have been short-term benefits from the technology of genetic engineering, but he takes the long-term view, and sees the controversies over GE food technology as arising from the policies prompted by that fateful report produced by Vannevar Bush at the close of World War II.
"In agriculture," Kirschenman commented, "we haven't been asking the right questions at least since 1945. What that policy statement said was that we need to use science to dramatically improve our technological capabilities. We were very successful in using technology to win the war; therefore we ought now to apply that technology to increase our crop production. Since then, we have geared up our whole scientific agenda to solve problems with technological innovation.
"But there's a larger issue here. Over the past fifty years, little attention has been paid to ecological issues, the interactions between plants and organisms. We have been rapidly reengineering organisms without asking what their ecological niche is. Why not ask: How will this change the physiology of the plant? How will it affect the organisms around it? And then there's the question, Can we ever back out of it? These are self-replicating organisms. Once they're in, you can't get them out again. All we ask now is 'Does it work?'"
The answers to Kirschenman's questions are coming in rapidly from research institutions around the world, and are providinga sobering picture of the impact of the technology years after its massive introduction into the foodsystem. Reports from scientists in Switzerland and elsewhere indicate that, in fact, there are profound impacts on the physiology of GE corn, primarily in toughening the lignin, or stems, of the plants. While thereis little evidence suggesting acute harm to human health from GE crops, there are indications that GE foods may not contain as much nutrition as traditionally bred crops.
More ominously, toxins now bred into Bt corn to kill off the corn borer are leaving residues in the soil, having toxic effects on beneficial insects and, after runoff into waterways, on marine life. In some parts of the United States, weeds have developed resistance to Roundup herbicide, and the corn borer is showing signs of evolving resistance to the Bt toxin. And the self-replicating lab-produced Bt variety of corn is, indeed, replicating itself— in places where it is not wanted. Organic farmers across the country are being denied organic certification—representing millions of dollars in lost sales—due to the discovery of genetically modified material in their corn, delivered to their organic fields by windblown corn pollen from neighboring farms.
What those emerging problems suggest, and evidence of such problems is mounting from around the world, is the legacy of policies set in motion back in 1945. Pursuing the mysteries of the genetic makeup of the plant cell (foreshadowing by several years the Human Genome Project), the age-old scientific dynamic went to work: curiosity—hypothesis experimentation. From there evolved a greater understanding of how different genetic elements of the plant genome play a role in expressing certain characteristics. At any stage along this continuum, the government could have intruded into the process by requiring assessments about the long-term environmental safety and health implications of what amounts to a profound shift in the way new plant varieties are created.
That did not happen. Rather, private companies, utilizing much of the basic research conducted in public research facilities, took the lead in developing the technology, with few brakes put on their work. Throughout the 1990s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) appropriated just 1 percent of its annual agricultural biotechnology research budget to risk assessments. (In 2002, Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich succeeded in upping that to 2 percent, a still-minuscule figure that itself was a compromise from the 10 percent originally proposed by Kucinich, and that was approved despite the resistance of lobbyists from the agbiotech industry). Overseas, the USDA and the U.S. Agency for International Development have become ever more aggressive in promoting the use of ag-biotech to foreign governments.
Beginning with the government's support in the earliest days of ag-biotech research, and on into the present day, the parallel evolution of private industry's and the government's commitment to GE technology was critical to the introduction of GMOs on a mass scale. The government sent its most powerful signal of compliance with the onrushing train of GE research in mid-1992 when the USDA, under heavy industry pressure, made the determination that GE crops were the "substantial equivalent" of traditionally bred crops. This designation—first articulated in a speech on U.S. technology policy by Vice President Dan Quayle—helped ag-biotech producers avoid any significant federal or regulatory oversight over a technology that essentially introduces entirely new living organisms into the ecosystem and the food chain. No single regulatory agency now has the power to monitor on a sustained basis the growing of GE food crops.
At the same time, while some GE initiatives do suggest the technology's potential in aiding the development of agriculture in economically and environmentally stressed regions of the globe, the reality is that most of the new GE varieties are tailored not for people living in harsh tropical or arid environments, or for lands undergoing desertification or other stresses, but for the temperate conditions of the American and other industrial-scale agriculture systems, and for lands that have already reached a point of high efficiency in food production. But it is here where the true profits lie for the companies behind the research. By not asking the right questions—not submitting the new technology to what Kirschenman describes as "ecological screening"—we end up with a technology that is now being tested in a massive real-time experiment on the environment of America's farmlands and on living human subjects: American consumers.
Charles Benbrook, an independent agricultural economist and former director of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Agriculture, has been studying the long-term environmental impacts of genetically engineered food crops. He traces the rapid rollout of genetic technology into the food system to the powerful momentum generated by the alliance between government and industry:
"The reality is, when you have companies and technologies that are so powerful economically, the country can't afford to have them fail. And that's a problem, when it becomes too costly for the government to admit that there might actually be a problem with something. . . . Corn and soybeans are the backbone of the whole U.S. food system. If there were any problem in either of those crops, it's fair to say the government's going to do everything in its power to try to convince people that everything imaginable is being done to address the problem, that it's not a serious threat, and that people should not lose confidence in the safety of the U.S. food supply."
What the U.S. government didn't plan for has come to pass anyway. The questions that Vannevar Bush—and generations of scientific policy makers since—did not address have nevertheless been reverberating through the global channels of agricultural trade. While on the trail of GE corn from Iowa to Mexico, I visited the town of Capulalpan, deep in the Sierra Norte mountains of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Villagers who had farmed hillside plots for generations discovered that elements of the Bt gene had found their way into their corn, stoking fears in the village and around the world that genetic engineering was out of control.
Since the commercial introduction of GE technology, the piñata of American agriculture has sent transgenic candies from one end of the earth to the other. But the world's food consumers are signaling that they do not want what American farmers are producing:
Mexico, 2001–2002: Fears grow throughout the country after it is discovered that GE corn has mixed with indigenous corn varieties in the state of Oaxaca, despite the fact that Mexico has banned the planting, though not consumption, of GE seeds.
New Zealand, 2002: The incumbent government's position on GMO technology becomes a major issue in that country's national election.
Zambia, 2002: Fearful of contaminating its agriculture with GMOs, the government refuses to accept U.S. offers to donate 20 million tons of corn to help the country deal with a food crisis threatening millions with starvation.
Europe, 2002–2003: The European Union (EU) warns the United States that its refusal to label food exports grown with GE varieties threatens future imports to EU member countries. The United States threatens to bring suit in the World Trade Organization, which could lead to a major trade and political battle over GMO technology between the world's two largest trading partners.
Australia, January 2003: A 48,000-ton shipment of U.S. corn is refused entry at the dock in Brisbane after health department officials determine that the grain must be crushed and steamed to destroy any lingering GE remnants in food pellets intended for chickens.
India, January 2003: The government refuses to permit the importation of American soybeans and corn due to fears that it might contain genetically modified ingredients hazardous to human health.
Japan, 2003: Japanese international merchants begin turning away U.S. corn imports en masse after reports that previous American shipments contained traces of StarLink, a gene-spliced corn that has never been approved for human consumption in the United States or any other country.
At the root of this resistance lie deep-seated fears about the long-term impacts of genetically modified organisms, GMOs, on the environment and on human health; and a wariness over a technology that seems entwined with a corporate-driven agriculture threatening family farmers and treasured biological resources. The resistance also comes at a time when many consumers—in Europe particularly—lack faith in their government's regulatory authority to watch out for the public interest after the debacle of mad-cow disease and other food-related scandals. All of these concerns suggest a dwindling of the public's trust in scientific authority.
Twenty-seven countries, including the fifteen nations of the European Union, have imposed either bans or severe restrictions on the import or growing of genetically modified food. For developing countries, concern is also focused around their future ability to sell agricultural products to the many developed nations— most prominently Europe and Japan—that have instituted strict labeling requirements. Thus, one of the unanticipated consequences of globalization has been illuminated through the ongoing controversy over GMOs: the emergence of new channels of global trade have led to the evolution of new levers of power over the products that are traded. Brazil, Mexico, and other countries, for example, face conflicting pressures in their policy decisions on GMOs: to accede to U.S. demands to accept the new products, or retain their restrictions in order to preserve trading relations with Europe and other trading partners skeptical of GMOs.
The United States now finds itself on both ends of the boomerang, as the repercussions of international resistance to GE technology take a severe toll in the American farm belt. To a great extent, the questions prompted by GMOs that have been left unanswered in this country—or at least within this country's official regulatory structure—are being answered elsewhere. The American Corn Growers Association estimates that U.S. farmers lost nearly a billion dollars' worth of export sales to Europe and Japan between 1997 and 2002 due to restrictions on genetically modified food imports imposed by Europe, Japan, and other world buyers. Those losses have contributed to driving thousands of American farmers out of business. U.S. food exports, once the backbone of the American farm economy, are increasingly seen as tainted goods in international markets.
It is the rest of the world that is now forcing the United States to pay attention to the long-term consequences of genetic engineering —a sharp twist of agricultural blowback, in which policies decided upon early on in the research process are coming back to haunt us.
Michael Crow, former executive vice provost of Columbia University and currently president of Arizona State University, says an unwillingness to ask the right questions has been the central flaw of U.S. science policy ever since the Bush report. We need to analyze scientific advances through a new prism, Crow says: "There is no policy mechanism at this time which engages the question, What is the purpose of this or that inquiry? If you say, for example, that the aim of science is to more equitably distribute a higher quality of life, that in itself would change the nature of science. That would be a new means of measuring success. It would no longer be enough to say that you have helped unravel another aspect of nature and the universe."
Having asked the right questions from the outset might have helped the United States avoid a situation in which its farmers are losing business, its consumers are participating unwittingly in an experiment of unknown consequences, and the government is continuing to promote a technology being actively challenged by governments and individuals around the world.