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Agriculture, Food, and the Environment
Kathleen A. Brosnan and Jacob Blackwell
Throughout history, food needs bonded humans to nature. The transition to agriculture constituted slow, but revolutionary ecological transformations. After 1500
A History of Philippine-American Relations
Patricio N. Abinales
An enduring resilience characterizes Philippine–American relationship for several reasons. For one, there is an unusual colonial relationship wherein the United States took control of the Philippines from the Spanish and then shared power with an emergent Filipino elite, introduced suffrage, implemented public education, and promised eventual national independence. A shared experience fighting the Japanese in World War II and defeating a postwar communist rebellion further cemented the "special relationship" between the two countries. The United States took advantage of this partnership to compel the Philippines to sign an economic and military treaty that favored American businesses and the military, respectively. Filipino leaders not only accepted the realities of this strategic game and exploited every opening to assert national interests but also benefitted from American largesse. Under the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos, this mutual cadging was at its most brazen. As a result, the military alliance suffered when the Philippines terminated the agreement, and the United States considerably reduced its support to the country. But the estrangement did not last long, and both countries rekindled the "special relationship" in response to the U.S. "Global War on Terror" and, of late, Chinese military aggression in the West Philippine Sea.
The American Antinuclear Movement
Paul Rubinson
Spanning countries across the globe, the antinuclear movement was the combined effort of millions of people to challenge the superpowers' reliance on nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Encompassing an array of tactics, from radical dissent to public protest to opposition within the government, this movement succeeded in constraining the arms race and helping to make the use of nuclear weapons politically unacceptable. Antinuclear activists were critical to the establishment of arms control treaties, although they failed to achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons, as anticommunists, national security officials, and proponents of nuclear deterrence within the United States and Soviet Union actively opposed the movement. Opposition to nuclear weapons evolved in tandem with the Cold War and the arms race, leading to a rapid decline in antinuclear activism after the Cold War ended.
American Environmental Diplomacy
Kurk Dorsey
From its inception as a nation in 1789, the United States has engaged in an environmental diplomacy that has included attempts to gain control of resources, as well as formal diplomatic efforts to regulate the use of resources shared with other nations and peoples. American environmental diplomacy has sought to gain control of natural resources, to conserve those resources for the future, and to protect environmental amenities from destruction. As an acquirer of natural resources, the United States has focused on arable land as well as on ocean fisheries, although around 1900, the focus on ocean fisheries turned into a desire to conserve marine resources from unregulated harvesting.
The main 20th-century U.S. goal was to extend beyond its borders its Progressive-era desire to utilize resources efficiently, meaning the greatest good for the greatest number for the longest time. For most of the 20th century, the United States was the leader in promoting global environmental protection through the best science, especially emphasizing wildlife. Near the end of the century, U.S. government science policy was increasingly out of step with global environmental thinking, and the United States often found itself on the outside. Most notably, the attempts to address climate change moved ahead with almost every country in the world except the United States.
While a few monographs focus squarely on environmental diplomacy, it is safe to say that historians have not come close to tapping the potential of the intersection of the environmental and diplomatic history of the United States.
American Environmental Policy since 1964
Richard N. L. Andrews
Between 1964 and 2017, the United States adopted the concept of environmental policy as a new focus for a broad range of previously disparate policy issues affecting human interactions with the natural environment. These policies ranged from environmental health, pollution, and toxic exposure to management of ecosystems, resources, and use of the public lands, environmental aspects of urbanization, agricultural practices, and energy use, and negotiation of international agreements to address global environmental problems. In doing so, it nationalized many responsibilities that had previously been considered primarily state or local matters. It changed the United States' approach to federalism by authorizing new powers for the federal government to set national minimum environmental standards and regulatory frameworks with the states mandated to participate in their implementation and compliance. Finally, it explicitly formalized administrative procedures for federal environmental decision-making with stricter requirements for scientific and economic justification rather than merely administrative discretion. In addition, it greatly increased public access to information and opportunities for input, as well as for judicial review, thus allowing citizen advocates for environmental protection and appreciative uses equal legitimacy with commodity producers to voice their preferences for use of public environmental resources.
These policies initially reflected widespread public demand and broad bipartisan support. Over several decades, however, they became flashpoints, first, between business interests and environmental advocacy groups and, subsequently, between increasingly ideological and partisan agendas concerning the role of the federal government. Beginning in the 1980s, the long-standing Progressive ideal of the "public interest" was increasingly supplanted by a narrative of "government overreach," and the 1990s witnessed campaigns to delegitimize the underlying evidence justifying environmental policies by labeling it "junk science" or a "hoax."
From the 1980s forward, the stated priorities of environmental policy vacillated repeatedly between presidential administrations and Congresses supporting continuation and expansion of environmental protection and preservation policies versus those seeking to weaken or even reverse protections in favor of private-property rights and more damaging uses of resources. Yet despite these apparent shifts, the basic environmental laws and policies enacted during the 1970s remained largely in place: political gridlock, in effect, maintained the status quo, with the addition of a very few innovations such as "cap and trade" policies. One reason was that environmental policies retained considerable latent public support: in electoral campaigns, they were often overshadowed by economic and other issues, but they still aroused widespread support in their defense when threatened. Another reason was that decisions by the courts also continued to reaffirm many existing policies and to reject attempts to dismantle them.
With the election of Donald Trump in 2016, along with conservative majorities in both houses of Congress, US environmental policy came under the most hostile and wide-ranging attack since its origins. More than almost any other issue, the incoming president targeted environmental policy for rhetorical attacks and budget cuts, and sought to eradicate the executive policies of his predecessor, weaken or rescind protective regulations, and undermine the regulatory and even the scientific capacity of the federal environmental agencies. In the early 21st century, it is as yet unclear how much of his agenda will actually be accomplished, or whether, as in past attempts, much of it will ultimately be blocked by Congress, the courts, public backlash, and business and state government interests seeking stable policy expectations rather than disruptive deregulation.
The American Experience during World War II
Michael C. C. Adams
On the eve of World War II many Americans were reluctant to see the United States embark on overseas involvements. Yet the Japanese attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, seemingly united the nation in determination to achieve total victory in Asia and Europe. Underutilized industrial plants expanded to full capacity producing war materials for the United States and its allies. Unemployment was sucked up by the armed services and war work. Many Americans' standard of living improved, and the United States became the wealthiest nation in world history.
Over time, this proud record became magnified into the "Good War" myth that has distorted America's very real achievement. As the era of total victories receded and the United States went from leading creditor to debtor nation, the 1940s appeared as a golden age when everything worked better, people were united, and the United States saved the world for democracy (an exaggeration that ignored the huge contributions of America's allies, including the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and China). In fact, during World War II the United States experienced marked class, sex and gender, and racial tensions. Groups such as gays made some social progress, but the poor, especially many African Americans, were left behind. After being welcomed into the work force, women were pressured to go home when veterans returned looking for jobs in late 1945–1946, losing many of the gains they had made during the conflict. Wartime prosperity stunted the development of a welfare state; universal medical care and social security were cast as unnecessary. Combat had been a horrific experience, leaving many casualties with major physical or emotional wounds that took years to heal. Like all major global events, World War II was complex and nuanced, and it requires careful interpretation.
American Film since 1945
Joshua Gleich
Over the past seventy years, the American film industry has transformed from mass-producing movies to producing a limited number of massive blockbuster movies on a global scale. Hollywood film studios have moved from independent companies to divisions of media conglomerates. Theatrical attendance for American audiences has plummeted since the mid-1940s; nonetheless, American films have never been more profitable. In 1945, American films could only be viewed in theaters; now they are available in myriad forms of home viewing. Throughout, Hollywood has continued to dominate global cinema, although film and now video production reaches Americans in many other forms, from home videos to educational films.
Amid declining attendance, the Supreme Court in 1948 forced the major studios to sell off their theaters. Hollywood studios instead focused their power on distribution, limiting the supply of films and focusing on expensive productions to sell on an individual basis to theaters. Growing production costs and changing audiences caused wild fluctuations in profits, leading to an industry-wide recession in the late 1960s. The studios emerged under new corporate ownership and honed their blockbuster strategy, releasing "high concept" films widely on the heels of television marketing campaigns. New technologies such as cable and VCRs offered new windows for Hollywood movies beyond theatrical release, reducing the risks of blockbuster production. Deregulation through the 1980s and 1990s allowed for the "Big Six" media conglomerates to join film, theaters, networks, publishing, and other related media outlets under one corporate umbrella. This has expanded the scale and stability of Hollywood revenue while reducing the number and diversity of Hollywood films, as conglomerates focus on film franchises that can thrive on various digital media. Technological change has also lowered the cost of non-Hollywood films and thus encouraged a range of alternative forms of filmmaking, distribution, and exhibition.
American Food, Cooking, and Nutrition, 1900–1945
Helen Zoe Veit
The first half of the 20th century saw extraordinary changes in the ways Americans produced, procured, cooked, and ate food. Exploding food production easily outstripped population growth in this era as intensive plant and animal breeding, the booming use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, and technological advances in farm equipment all resulted in dramatically greater yields on American farms. At the same time, a rapidly growing transportation network of refrigerated ships, railroads, and trucks hugely expanded the reach of different food crops and increased the variety of foods consumers across the country could buy, even as food imports from other countries soared. Meanwhile, new technologies, such as mechanical refrigeration, reliable industrial canning, and, by the end of the era, frozen foods, subtly encouraged Americans to eat less locally and seasonally than ever before. Yet as American food became more abundant and more affordable, diminishing want and suffering, it also contributed to new problems, especially rising body weights and mounting rates of cardiac disease.
American taste preferences themselves changed throughout the era as more people came to expect stronger flavors, grew accustomed to the taste of industrially processed foods, and sampled so-called "foreign" foods, which played an enormous role in defining 20th-century American cuisine. Food marketing exploded, and food companies invested ever greater sums in print and radio advertising and eye-catching packaging. At home, a range of appliances made cooking easier, and modern grocery stores and increasing car ownership made it possible for Americans to food shop less frequently. Home economics provided Americans, especially girls and women, with newly scientific and managerial approaches to cooking and home management, and Americans as a whole increasingly approached food through the lens of science. Virtually all areas related to food saw fundamental shifts in the first half of the 20th century, from agriculture to industrial processing, from nutrition science to weight-loss culture, from marketing to transportation, and from kitchen technology to cuisine. Not everything about food changed in this era, but the rapid pace of change probably exaggerated the transformations for the many Americans who experienced them.
American Foreign Economic Policy
Daniel Sargent
Foreign economic policy involves the mediation and management of economic flows across borders. Over two and a half centuries, the context for U.S. foreign economic policy has transformed. Once a fledgling republic on the periphery of the world economy, the United States has become the world's largest economy, the arbiter of international economic order, and a predominant influence on the global economy. Throughout this transformation, the making of foreign economic policy has entailed delicate tradeoffs between diverse interests—political and material, foreign and domestic, sectional and sectoral, and so on. Ideas and beliefs have also shaped U.S. foreign economic policy—from Enlightenment-era convictions about the pacifying effects of international commerce to late 20th-century convictions about the efficacy of free markets.
American Foreign Policy and the Space Race
Teasel Muir-Harmony
The Soviet Union's successful launch of the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, captured global attention and achieved the initial victory in what would soon become known as the space race. This impressive technological feat and its broader implications for Soviet missile capability rattled the confidence of the American public and challenged the credibility of U.S. leadership abroad. With the U.S.S.R.'s launch of Sputnik, and then later the first human spaceflight in 1961, U.S. policymakers feared that the public and political leaders around the world would view communism as a viable and even more dynamic alternative to capitalism, tilting the global balance of power away from the United States and towards the Soviet Union.
Reactions to Sputnik confirmed what members of the U.S. National Security Council had predicted: the image of scientific and technological superiority had very real, far-reaching geopolitical consequences. By signaling Soviet technological and military prowess, Sputnik solidified the link between space exploration and national prestige, setting a course for nationally funded space exploration for years to come. For over a decade, both the Soviet Union and the United States funneled significant financial and personnel resources into achieving impressive firsts in space, as part of a larger effort to win alliances in the Cold War contest for global influence.
From a U.S. vantage point, the space race culminated in the first Moon landing in July 1969. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy proposed Project Apollo, a lunar exploration program, as a tactic for restoring U.S. prestige in the wake of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's spaceflight and the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion. To achieve Kennedy's goal of sending a man to the Moon and returning him safely back to Earth by the end of the decade, the United States mobilized a workforce in the hundreds of thousands. Project Apollo became the most expensive government funded civilian engineering program in U.S. history, at one point stretching to more than 4 percent of the federal budget. The United States' substantial investment in winning the space race reveals the significant status of soft power in American foreign policy strategy during the Cold War.


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You probably saw the recent headline: Colonoscopy may not be as effective as previously thought at preventing colorectal cancer, which killed an estimated 50,000 people last year.
But whether the procedure cuts the risk of getting and dying from colon cancer by 60 percent (as the study indicated) or 90 percent (as had been assumed), it's still the most effective screen for any common cancer, after the Pap smear. Unlike a mammogram or a test for prostate-specific antigen, colonoscopy can even be considered a form of prevention, since it enables the doctor to get rid of polyps before they become malignant. And yet fewer than half of people who should be screened--those ages 50 and older at average risk--are getting either a colonoscopy or one of the other highly recommended tests for colorectal cancer: sigmoidoscopy, CT or "virtual" colonoscopy, or a double-contrast barium enema.
The lesson from the new research is not that a colonoscopy isn't worth the yuck factor or the expense but that it's critical to make sure you get the best screening possible. That means choosing a doctor "who does a lot of them and does them well," says David Weinberg, a gastroenterologist who chairs the department of medicine at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.
In addition to finding the best possible practitioner, you need to do your part beforehand. If your insides aren't as immaculate as you can get them, it's harder to detect polyps, especially the flat kind on the right side of the colon (which this study found to be a potential blind spot). There are variations on the prep, which is basically a clear-liquid diet for some period of time plus laxatives. Following to the letter whichever version your doctor recommends is the best way to ensure an unobscured view of the walls of your bowel, says Sidney Winawer, an attending gastroenterologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
The colonoscopy isn't perfect; few medical procedures are. And no screening test can give you a 100 percent guarantee that you won't get colon cancer. (There are less invasive tests available, though they can't find precancerous polyps and have other drawbacks; the new stool DNA test requires you to mail in a bowel movement for testing.)
So besides adhering to the recommended screening schedule, you'll want to follow the usual prescriptions for a healthy life, since the evidence is mounting that they may fend off not just colon cancer but other chronic diseases as well: Eat a balanced diet heavy in fruits, veggies, and whole grains and light in saturated fat, and go lightly on the alcohol. Don't smoke (a recent study found that longtime smokers are more likely to get the disease). Get plenty of exercise, and keep your weight down.
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Celebrity Fashion Crush – The Black Blazer
I personally have learned a lot about style from celebrities, how could I have not, when one of my favorite activities growing up implied tons of celebrity pictures, cropped out from magazines and then masterfully placed into what I loved to call – my fashion journals?
Now, I somehow try to carry on the tradition, as Oteea Land and Photoshop have replaced my old fashion journals, the glue, the glitter and the colored pencils. The joy of what I'm doing remained the same, though.
For some of the special events that require a more elevated look, we can finally give the LBD a well deserved break and switch for the androgynous style. As celebrity love it, the black blazer, paired with black pants, it's now the chic way to go.
Emma Roberts opted for a relaxed but tailored look by pairing a black blazer, with black skinny pants and a simple white t-shirt. Alexandre Birman Spring 2012 Strappy sandals completed her outfit.
Jessica Alba looked flawless in Tokyo, wearing a black Tommy Hilfiger pantsuit, that she paired with a classic white shirt and complementary black pumps. Stylish!
Lily Collins worked the masculine trend by pairing a black Dolce & Gabbana blazer with a high-waist pair of Paule Ka pants. The delicate ivory ruffle blouse added a Victorian touch, as the look was finished with black pumps and a red box clutch.
Due to the endless styling possibilities – the Black Blazer is a wardrobe essential.
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The Commission should make it clear that non-US advisers with no US clients do not need to register with the SEC.
Nearly all the commentators and the official guidance focus on how to apply the three new exemptions, how to count assets, what does in the US mean etc. Very little has been written on the threshold question of Do I as a non-US adviser need to register at all?
The Commission should make clear that the exemptions only matter if the adviser is required to register under 203(a) that is, if the adviser uses US mail or interstate commerce in connection with its investment adviser business. An adviser who must register does so because it advises US clients. An adviser with no US clients would not register if it does not use US instrumentalities in its advisory business.
Another way of saying this is that the "look through" of the Foreign Private Adviser Exemption is only applicable when determining whether the exemption applies. There is no "look through" applied when making the initial 203(a) determination. The Commission should make clear that the adviser has to be captured by 203(a) to even get to the next level of applying the exemptions.
As applied to a complex non-US structure of multiple funds, managing entities, and adviser entities, therefore, only the entities with a direct US nexus are captured by 203(a). The Commission should confirm that the initial step prior to considering exemptions is to determine which entities in such a structure are the advisers to the US investors.
Many non-US advisers (and managers) are rushing into SEC registration (as an Exempt Reporting Advisers) because they've looked at the exemptions first and concluded that they fail the Foreign Private Adviser Exemption (because of the look through to fund investors) and that they meet the Private Fund Adviser Exemption, even though they manage no assets in the US. This would be ameliorated if the Commission were to affirm that, under 203(a), the first filter to apply to a complex non-US structure is "Which entities have the US investors as clients of adviser services?" The Commission should affirm that those are the advisers the SEC wants to know about.


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The Davidson County Grand Jury has indicted a Thomasville man on a second-degree murder charge in connection to a fatal head-on collision in October.
The Davidson County Grand Jury has indicted a Thomasville man on a second-degree murder charge in connection to a fatal head-on collision in October.
The grand jury this week returned a true bill of indictment on 42-year-old Burris Thelton Godwin, of 334 J.A. Tysinger Road, with the charges of second-degree murder, felony serious injury by vehicle and driving while impaired. He was originally charged with failing to stop for a stop sign, driving left of center, possession of an open container of alcohol, failure to wear a seatbelt and driving while impaired.
The head-on collision involving Godwin as the driver of one of the vehicles involved occurred around 9:45 p.m. Oct. 12.
A passenger in Godwin's car, Harvey Richardson, 64, of Rusty Lane, Clarendon, died.
According to the N.C. Highway Patrol, Godwin was driving a Mustang coming off U.S. Highway 64 East to N.C. Highway 109 headed north when he ran a stop sign and went left of the center lane. Godwin hit a Ford Explorer head-on that was driven by Joyce Bodenheimer, 53 of Noahtown Road. She and a 26-year-old passenger in her vehicle did not sustain life-threatening injuries.
Godwin along with two passengers were trapped in the car. Godwin and his father, David Godwin, 63, of Campbell Park Drive, Clarendon, who was also a passenger, were treated and released at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. Richardson was a passenger in the front seat of the Mustang.
A court document signed by Davidson County District Attorney Garry Frank stated Godwin "willfully and feloniously did of malice aforethought kill and murder Harvey David Richardson." The document further states Burris Godwin "did unintentionally cause serious injury to David Thilton Godwin while engaged in the offenses of impaired driving."
Frank said Thursday evening the grand jury did not consider the indictment until Monday because his office was waiting until Burris Godwin's health improved. The district attorney said his office conducted a full review of forensic evidence before the charges were recommended to the grand jury.
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The presidential campaign has focused primarily on the economy and domestic issues, with foreign policy receiving relatively little attention — especially if it doesn't involve the tumultuous Middle East.
One foreign policy issue that shouldn't be ignored is arms control. The president in 2013 — whether it's Barack Obama or Mitt Romney — will have an opportunity to use arms control to make the United States and the world safer.
With the New START arms deal now in force, the strategic nuclear balance between the U.S. and Russia is stable. But we shouldn't settle for that. The nuclear arsenals of Russia and other countries still hold thousands of weapons that could be turned against us or our allies. And, over the last 15 years, the number of nuclear-armed states has increased by three, with Iran perhaps on the verge.
COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS: Obama vs. Romney
There are three important things the next president could do to reduce the nuclear threat.
First, he should push for a new arms control agreement with Moscow that would further reduce the number of Russian strategic nuclear warheads capable of striking the United States. A new agreement could also cut the sizable numerical advantage that Russia holds in nonstrategic — or tactical — nuclear weapons. These more portable weapons pose a special concern to our allies in Europe and Asia. An agreement should also focus on methods for monitoring warheads in storage. That could help with future rounds of arms control with other nuclear powers and reduce the risk of loose nukes getting into the wrong hands.


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Destinations at The Rose & Crown
We offer four- and six-bed rooms, each with a big-screen TV, Wi-Fi, a computer and a mini fridge along with tea/coffee-making facilities, all in your room.
Please note that we do not have a common room or guest kitchen. If you're looking for a hostel with these facilities, please do not book our hostel.
Welcome to Destinations Hostels at the Rose and Crown, we offer four- and six-bed rooms, each with a big-screen TV, Wi-Fi, a computer and a mini fridge along with tea/coffee-making facilities, all in your room.
Please note that we do not have a common room or guest kitchen. If you're looking for a hostel with these facilities, please do not book our hostel. Each bed has a memory foam mattress, curtains around the bed for privacy, a reading light and power socket, plus a free security locker and hangers for your clothes..
There are separate shower cubicles. A full continental breakfast is included in the price.
Downstairs you'll find a great British pub offering good beer and even better food, from fish and chips to pizzas, with food discounts for hostel guests. There's a pool table and a beer garden. In the pub we have quiz nights, karaoke and live music.
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- 24 Hour Security
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- Child Friendly
- Credit Cards Accepted
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We're located at 65 Union street SE1 1SG.
The nearest Underground station is London Bridge station for underground and overland trains.
Leaving London Bridge Underground station (Borough High street exit/entrance) look for a pub called the Southwark Tavern located on Southwark street. Follow Southwark street past the railway bridge. You'll come to a pedestrian crossing at the junction with O'Meara street; go down O'Meara street and at the end look to the right. We're the Rose and Crown pub.
If you're coming from Borough Underground station, turn left and follow Marshalsea road until you come to the fourth road on the right (Ayers street). Follow Ayers Street to the end and we are on the right.
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Destinations at The Rose & Crown is located near London Bridge station; within a five-minute walk you can see Borough Market, Southwark Cathedral, Europe's tallest building 'The Shard' and the Tate Modern Museum; within a 10 minute walk you can see The London Dungeon, The Millennium Bridge, HMS Belfast Museum, The Globe Theatre and with in a 20 minute walk you can see St Pauls Cathedral, Tower Bridge, The Tower of London, Westminster(Big Ben) and The London Eye.


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Abdominal aortic aneurysm
Men ages 65 to 75 who have ever smoked
One-time screening by ultrasonography
Alcohol misuse
All adults
At routine exams
Blood pressure
Every 2 years if your blood pressure reading is less than 120/80 mm Hg*
Yearly if your systolic blood pressure reading is 120 to 139 mm Hg or your diastolic blood pressure reading is 80 to 89 mm Hg*
Colorectal cancer
All adults ages 50 and older
According to the American Cancer Society:
For tests that find polyps and cancer:
Flexible sigmoidoscopy every 5 years1, or
Colonoscopy every 10 years, or
Double-contrast barium enema every 5 years1
For tests that primarily find cancer:
Yearly fecal occult blood test2, or
Yearly fecal immunochemical test every year2, or
Stool DNA test, interval uncertain2
The tests that are designed to find both early cancer and polyps are preferred if these tests are available to you and you are willing to have one of these more invasive tests; talk with your doctor about which test is best for you
All adults with access to a clinical practice that has staff and systems in place to assure accurate diagnosis, effective treatment, and follow-up
Diabetes mellitus, type 2
Adults who have no symptoms and have sustained blood pressure (treated or untreated) greater than 135/80 mm Hg
At least every 3 years
Anyone at increased risk for infection
Lipid disorders
At least every 5 years
Check with your health care provider
All adults3
Every 1 to 2 years; if you have a chronic disease, check with your health care provider for exam frequency
Aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular events
Men ages 45 to 79 when potential benefits from a decrease in heart attacks outweigh the harm or risks from an increase in gastrointestinal hemorrhage
When diagnosed with risk for cardiovascular/heart disease; check with your health care provider before starting
Diet, behavioral counseling
Adults with hyperlipidemia and other known risk factors for cardiovascular and diet-related chronic disease
When diagnosed
Tobacco use and tobacco-related disease
Every visit
pertussis (Td/Tdap) booster
Every 10 years. Tdap is recommended if you have contact with a child younger than 12 months. Either Td or Tdap can be used if you have no contact with infants.
Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)
All adults ages 65 and older who have no previous infection or documented vaccinations**
One dose
Chickenpox (varicella)
Two doses; second dose should be given at least 4 weeks after the first dose
Flu (seasonal)
Yearly, when the vaccine becomes available in the community
Hepatitis A
People at risk4
Two doses given at least 6 months apart
Hepatitis B
People at risk5
Three doses; the second dose should be given 1 month after the first dose, and the third dose given at least 2 months after the second dose (or at least 4 months after the first dose)
Pneumococcal (polysaccharide)
All men ages 60 and older
*Recommendation from the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
**Exceptions may exist; talk with your health care provider
1If the test is positive, a colonoscopy should be done
2The multiple stool take-home test should be used. One test done by the doctor in the office is not adequate for testing. A colonoscopy should be done if the test is positive.
3Recommendation from the American Academy of Ophthalmology
4For complete list, see the CDC website
5For complete list, see the CDC website
Screening guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Immunization schedule from the CDC


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A million-dollars isn't what it used to be.
Throughout the past decade, a growing number of Catholic parishes have learned that lesson for themselves, as they've joined the ranks of "million-dollar parishes" — parishes whose annual revenues exceed $1 million.
According to a recent report by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University, approximately 28 percent of Catholic parishes now qualify as million-dollar parishes, while 1 in 10 boast of offertory collections that pass the $1 million mark every year.
Some of those parishes are in the South and Southwest, where dioceses have responded to rapidly growing Catholic populations by building large regional parishes. Increasingly, however, million-dollar parishes can be found in the Midwest and Northeast as well, with widespread parish closings resulting in "super-sized" parishes, where multiple closing parishes merged into one.
At first glance, the growth of million-dollar parishes, especially in areas where older parishes have struggled to remain open, can seem like a good thing, even an argument for parish mergers. But as Mark Gray, a senior research associate for CARA, explained, the bottom line is a bit more complicated than it initially seems.
"Million-dollar parishes don't just have million-dollar revenues," he said. "They also have million-dollar budgets."
According to Gray, CARA found that while parish mergers might lead to larger revenues, they also lead to more people in the pews. That, in turn, requires more Masses every weekend, more lay staff to serve the increased population and a large parish campus to maintain. With rising expenses usually surpassing rising revenues, million-dollar parishes rarely have cash surpluses, many are in debt and most pay their employees no more than other parishes in their dioceses.
In fact, Gray said, mergers sometimes come with financial disadvantages, as giving occasionally drops in newly merged parishes, even ones who, on paper, qualify as million-dollar parishes. In those cases, while the annual revenue may exceed $1 million, it doesn't exceed the combined total of the various parishes' revenue before the merger.
The reason for that, Gray explained, is three-fold.
First, parish closings and mergers leave some parishioners angry or hurt. Second, as parishes grow, it becomes easier for people to "get lost" in the parish and feel less connected. Lastly, with more people to support parish endeavors, some feel less of an obligation to do so themselves.
"The perception in smaller parishes is, 'What I give really matters,'" Gray said. "Where in bigger parishes it's, 'There are so many other people giving, my parish will be fine even if I can't give this week.'"
To an extent, the experience of St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in New Prague, Minnesota, bears out CARA's findings.
Four years ago, five parishes in the New Prague area merged. Two church campuses closed, and three remained open, with one pastor, one associate pastor and one administrative office serving all three. Some parishioners, upset by the closings, left. Most stayed, and the parish's annual revenue, including revenue from its school, now tops $2 million. But it has come at a cost.
According to Peter Guzulaitis, the parish business administrator, over the past four years, St. Wenceslaus has experienced all the normal problems that usually follow mergers. Some parishioners still struggle with the loss of their former parish; others struggle with change.
The parish also has the added expense of maintaining three separate church buildings, each more than a century old, and paying additional lay staff to do the work once done by individual pastors.
"That's been particularly challenging," Guzulaitis said, "as some parishioners don't understand why they have to pay lay people. They were used to the pastors doing all the work."
Despite those challenges, Guzulaitis said the merger has trimmed some costs, making one super-sized parish somewhat more cost effective than five separate parishes. They've also managed to keep parish giving steady, partly by promising to keep the two smaller rural churches in the parish cluster open for as long as parishioners give enough to remain financially viable.
As Guzulaitis sees it, however, those small financial advantages pale in comparison to the real gift of the merger.
"It's helped our community recognize that the Catholic Church is more than just our parishes," he said. "We can't just remain in our own ethnically-based churches. We have to work together to make this work."
Another recently formed "million-dollar parish" — Sts. Robert and William Catholic Church in Euclid, Ohio — has learned a similar lesson. Sts. Robert and William formed four years ago, when two parishes merged into one. Today, it serves 1,700 families and while revenues rose in the wake of the merger, so did expenses.
According to the parish's pastor, Father John Betters, in order to meet the large parish's pastoral and administrative needs, Sts. Robert and William now employs eight full-time parish staff members, plus two-part time staff members, in addition to school employees and maintenance workers. They also have the sizable expense of caring for the aging parish buildings, which for too long, he said, "were treated with bandages when what they really needed was surgery."
At Sts. Robert and William, however, the merger did bring some marked advantages. To start with, it made it possible for some employees' pay to rise, with the parish's teachers' salaries finally coming up to par with the diocesan pay scale. Moreover, parish giving rose rather than fell in the wake of the merger, and the sense of community got stronger instead of weaker.
The reason for that, however, had little to do with the parish's new designation as a million-dollar parish. Rather, when Father Betters arrived in 2010 to take the reins of the newly merged parish, he worked hard to help parishioners see the merger as what he calls "an opportunity for revitalization."
After giving parishioners time to mourn the loss of their old parish, Father Betters launched a massive expansion of the parish's ministries and apostolates; it now boasts more than 60 different offerings, including a parish nurse, community meal program and perpetual adoration. He also launched an active evangelization campaign: training people in the pews to evangelize; going out into the increasing African-American community and inviting people to parish events; setting up an information desk to help orient visitors to the parish; and even placing a guest book in the church's narthex, then sending notes to every person who signed the book.
As people became more involved and connected to the parish, contributions rose by 30 to 40 percent when compared to contributions before the merger. That, more than the mere fact of the merger, made possible the new hires and expanded parish offerings.
Father Betters believes that if priests and parishes facing similar mergers want to make the most of becoming a million-dollar parish, they need to remember that the important piece of that phrase is "parish"— not "million-dollar."
"What we've done wouldn't have been possible without the merger," he concluded. "But the greatest asset that merger gave us was the people, not the money."
Emily Stimpson is an OSV contributing editor.
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FERGUSON, Mo., Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Reporters for the Washington Post and Huffington Post were arrested Wednesday at a McDonald's while writing about protests and riots taking place in Ferguson, Mo.
Wesley Lowery, of the Washington Post, and Ryan Reilly, of Huffington Post, were both inside the restaurant Wednesday evening when SWAT officers entered, handcuffed and booked the two reporters.
They were both writing and recharging their electronics when the officers entered and asked them to leave.
Reilly posted a photo of the SWAT members inside the McDonald's shortly before he was arrested.
SWAT just invade McDonald's where I'm working/recharging. Asked for ID when I took photo. pic.twitter.com/FOIsMnBwHy— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 13, 2014
Lowery and Reilly both said they were later released without much explanation. They recounted their experiences on Twitter.
Officers decided we weren't leaving McDonalds quickly enough, shouldn't have been taping them.
— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) August 14, 2014
Released without any charges, no paperwork whatsoever— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) August 14, 2014
Officers slammed me into a fountain soda machine because I was confused about which door they were asking me to walk out of— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) August 14, 2014
Got no explaination at any point why in custody other than "trespassing" - at a mcdonalds where we were customers
— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) August 14, 2014
I'm emotional, but need to note: Ryan and I are fine. Have seen people in Ferguson hurt by gas/rubber bullets. This wasn't that— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) August 14, 2014
Apparently, in America, in 2014, police can manhandle you, take you into custody, put you in cell & then open the door like it didn't happen— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) August 14, 2014
"We're sorry for treating you this way on Saint Louis." -- local newsman who just interviewed me. #Ferguson
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) August 14, 2014
Marty Baron, the executive editor of the Washington Post, issued a statement regarding the incident:
Lowery and Reilly were in Ferguson to report about protests in response to the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy by police days earlier.
"Wesley has briefed us on what occurred, and there was absolutely no justification for his arrest.
He was illegally instructed to stop taking video of officers. Then he followed officers' instructions to leave a McDonald's — and after contradictory instructions on how to exit, he was slammed against a soda machine and then handcuffed. That behavior was wholly unwarranted and an assault on the freedom of the press to cover the news. The physical risk to Wesley himself is obvious and outrageous.
After being placed in a holding cell, he was released with no charges and no explanation. He was denied information about the names and badge numbers of those who arrested him.
We are relieved that Wesley is going to be OK. We are appalled by the conduct of police officers involved."
Mike Brown died Saturday after being shot multiple times by police while his hands were in the air. He was unarmed.


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Mayor Don Wesely today visited the ninth annual Earth Wellness Festival to award prizes in the annual water conservation busboard contest and to sign a proclamation designating March 21 through April 30 as Environmental Awareness Days in Lincoln. The Festival at Southeast Community College is an environmental education program for local fifth-graders.
"As much of our region has suffered from a drought, it is even more important that our children understand environmental issues and the importance of conservation," said Mayor Wesely. "I commend the organizers of the Earth Wellness Festival for teaching our kids what they can do to protect our natural resources."
The busboard contest, also for fifth-graders, is sponsored by the Water Conservation Task Force. It is designed to promote water quality and conservation as an important everyday issue for all citizens. The winning entry was submitted by Yvonne Lin of Maxey Elementary. Her artwork will be displayed on two StarTran busboards for one to two months and on a Lamar Outdoor Advertising billboard for one year.
Second place was awarded to Lauren Geisert of Cavett Elementary. She will also have her artwork displayed on a Lamar billboard for one year. Other winners are: 3rd - Lexi Davis, Beattie; 4th - Rebecca Carr, Morley, and Erin Kocher, Beattie; 5th - Jenna Bowmaster, Kahoa; 6th - Rachel Arkebauer, Beattie; 7th - Ashley Bartek, Kahoa; 8th - Tanajia Dean, Huntington; 9th - Katie Lane, Kahoa; and 10th - Dillon Maynard, Huntington. All winners will have their artwork on bookmarks distributed at City and school libraries.
Mayor Wesely encouraged residents to participate in the many activities planned
for Environmental Awareness Days. (View activity list.) He also reminded city
residents that the Yard Waste Composting Program begins April 1. Until November 30,
residents must separate their yard waste from their household trash.
"This is the tenth year for the composting program," said Mayor Wesely. "Since 1992, an estimated 139,600 tons of leaves and grass and 190,500 tons of brush and wood waste have been diverted from the landfill, adding nearly two years to the life of the landfill. If current levels of composting continue, we'll add another four years to the life of the landfill. The cooperation of the City's waste haulers in this effort is greatly appreciated."
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Sunday evening, during one of the year's most watched live television events, a star-studded panel of judges chose Miss Connecticut USA, Erin Brady, as Miss USA 2013. Giuliana Rancic, "E! News" co-anchor, and Nick Jonas, Grammy-nominated American singer-songwriter, hosted the 62nd Annual Miss USA Competition from Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
Brady, a 25-year-old from East Hampton, Conn., is a financial accountant for Prudential Retirement in Hartford. She graduated from Central Connecticut University with a degree in finance and a minor in criminal justice.
The judging panel for the 2013 Miss USA Competition included: Bob Harper, health and fitness expert, author and star on NBC's "The Biggest Loser"; Betsey Johnson, legendary fashion designer and star of Style Network's "XOX Betsey Johnson"; NeNe Leakes, actress on "Glee" and star of "Real Housewives Atlanta" and "I Dream of NeNe"; Wendie Malick, actress and star of TV Land's "Hot in Cleveland"; Jessica Robertson, reality TV personality on "Duck Dynasty"; Larry Fitzgerald, Pro Bowl wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals; Nikki Bella, former WWE Diva champion and TV Personality on E!'s "Total Divas"; Mo Rocca, correspondent for "Sunday Morning" with Charles Osgood and host of Cooking Channel's "My Grandmother's Ravioli"; and Christina Milian, actress, singer-songwriter and social media correspondent on "The Voice."
During the telecast, The Jonas Brothers and "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio performed. Jeannie Mai, best known as the host of Style Network's two-time Emmy Award-nominated makeover series "How Do I Look?" and who can be seen this summer on Style Network's new series "Style Pop," took viewers behind-the-scenes to engage with contestants, talent and fans throughout the telecast.
This year, fans were able to vote their favorite contestant into the top six, using Twitter, during the Miss USA Competition and chose Miss Texas USA, Ali Nugent.
Throughout the two-hour event and before an estimated worldwide viewing audience of more than 250 million, contestants competed in three categories: swimsuit, evening gown and interview. When last year's Miss USA, Olivia Culpo, went on to win the Miss Universe crown, Nana Meriwether's dreams came true when she took over the Miss USA title. Meriwether crowned her successor at the conclusion of the telecast.
Final Results:
First Runner-Up: Miss Alabama USA, Mary Margaret McCord, will assume the duties of Miss USA 2013 if the titleholder is named Miss Universe 2013 or if for some reason Miss USA cannot fulfill her duties.
Second Runner-Up: Miss Illinois USA, Stacie Juris
Rest of Top Six: Miss Utah USA, Marissa Powell; Miss Texas USA, Ali Nugent; Miss South Carolina USA, Megan Pinckney
of Top 10: Miss Ohio USA, Kristin Smith; Miss Louisiana USA, Kristen
Girault; Miss North Carolina USA, Ashley Love-Mills; Miss Nevada USA,
Chelsea Caswell
Rest of Top 15: Miss Pennsylvania USA, Jessica Billings; Miss Massachusetts USA, Sarah Kid; Miss California USA, Mabelynn Capeluj; Miss West Virginia USA, Chelsea Welch; Miss Maryland USA, Kasey Staniszewski
Miss Photogenic USA Award: Miss Utah USA, Marissa Powell. A blue ribbon panel selected the delegate who exemplifies beauty through the lens of a camera. She was awarded a $1,000 cash prize.
Miss Congeniality USA Award: Miss Oregon USA, Gabrielle Neilan. The award reflects the respect and admiration of the contestant's peers, who voted for her as the most congenial, charismatic and inspirational participant. She was awarded a $1,000 cash prize.
The Miss USA 2013 prize package includes: a custom diamond tiara and jewelry designed by Diamond Nexus; a one year scholarship (including housing) from the New York Film Academy; a year's worth of hair care products and tools from Farouk Systems; an assortment of high fashion bracelets made in Rwanda by women of the Same Sky Trade Initiative; an eveningwear wardrobe by Sherri Hill; a swimwear wardrobe by ViX Paula Hermanny; a shoe wardrobe from Chinese Laundry; a year's supply of make-up from Rain Cosmetics; a year's worth of products from IMAGE Skin Care; Fan Vote Sponsor Optx rhode island; a year's supply of nail care products from OPI Products Inc.; luxury accommodations in a New York City apartment for the duration of her reign, including living expenses; a year-long salary as Miss USA; personal services, including membership to Gravity Fitness and hair services from John Barrett Salon; modeling portfolio by leading fashion photographer Fadil Berisha; dermatology and skincare services provided by Dr. Cheryl Thellman-Karcher; professional health and nutrition consultation by Tanya Zuckerbrot, MS, RD; dental services by Dr. Jan Linhart, D.D.S.; casting opportunities and professional representation by the Miss Universe Organization; extensive travel opportunities representing sponsors and charitable partners; access to various New York City events, including movie premiers and screenings, Broadway shows and launch parties; yearlong consultation with Miss Universe Organization's official fashion consultant, Alisha Crutchfield, and access to a personal appearance wardrobe; professional media/public relations training and representation by Rubenstein Public Relations in New York City; and the opportunity to represent the USA at the 2013 Miss Universe pageant at Crocus City Hall in Moscow.
The Miss Universe Organization, a Donald J. Trump and NBCUniversal joint venture, is a global community empowering role models of beauty, health and leadership for young women of today. As part of the Miss Universe Organization, Miss USA is dedicated to partnering with charities around the world, and to increasing awareness of breast and ovarian cancers. For more information, visit www.missusa.com.
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Combine apples, apple cider, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, vanilla, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until apples are tender but not mushy, about 10 minutes. Stir in 1 tablespoon butter until melted, remove from heat and transfer apple mixture to a 9-inch glass pie plate.
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DENVER—A 22-year-old woman has been convicted of several charges stemming from the killing of an Aurora man and his girlfriend.
The Denver Post reports ( http://bit.ly/TNzSWj) Janelle Harris was convicted late Friday on two counts of first-degree murder after deliberation, as well as charges of robbery, burglary and kidnapping, among others.
Authorities say 22-year-old Terence George was found shot to death in his Aurora apartment in November 2010. His girlfriend, 21-year-old Tiffany Durst, was missing until April 7, 2011, when her decomposed body was found in a spillway.
Harris was arrested with 21-year-old Terrence McNeal and 20-year-old Tiera Homes.
McNeal, who had dated Durst and believed she was going to testify against him in a burglary case, is serving life in prison. Homes was sentenced to 16 years in prison on each of two murder charges.
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Connecticut isn't exactly the sort of place you'd expect to find herds of organically raised cattle grazing in wide-open pasture lands.
The terms "grass-fed" and "pasture-raised" beef tend to conjure images of sprawling Western ranches rather than our highly urbanized, suburbanized and forested New England landscape.
Luckily for our locavores, Connecticut does have a few farmers dedicated to the idea of raising non-industrialized beef and determined to overcome some serious economic and environmental challenges.
Beef cattle raised on grass need lots of room to graze, and there simply isn't a whole lot of agricultural pasture land left in our densely populated state. Less land means smaller herds and fewer "economies of scale" of the sort that favor giant Western feed-lot growers.
New England growing seasons can be short, making it tougher to raise enough hay to keep cattle fed over our long winters. All of which makes grass-fed or pasture-raised beef more expensive and thus less attractive to many consumers.
The folks who have found ways to cope with those obstacles tend to be passionate.
"Cattle are not supposed to be standing in a feed lot in two feet of crap," says Deb Stuart, co-owner of one of this state's largest grass-fed beef raising operations. "Nature didn't intend animals such as cattle to eat corn and grain."
Stuart is talking about the industrialized cattle-raising operations that produce most of the beef found in supermarkets.
Most Americans today don't even know what "grass-fed" or "pasture-raised" beef looks or tastes like. We're conditioned to supermarket steaks and roasts from cattle fattened on corn and grain in vast, agro-industrial feed lots in places like Texas and Kansas. These are the operations that have come in for increasing criticism from natural-food advocates and those concerned about the heavy use of antibiotics and growth hormones employed in these massive, grass-less, manure-plastered cattle yards.
The meat that comes from those feed-yard animals is bright red, marbleized with white fat and tender to the tooth.
A steak off a grass-fed steer carcass is a "deeper, richer red… and the subcutaneous fat has a yellow tint to it," says Stuart.
Grass-fed beef also has less fat and is "a little bit chewier," explains Barry Sherr, one of the owners of Chamomille Natural Foods in Danbury. He compares it to venison, and admits not everyone is a fan. "Some people don't like to chew," he says.
Stuart insists grass-fed beef can be tender, and argues there are health benefits for both cattle and humans to avoiding that corn-fed "Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation" or CAFO-style farming.
Cattle fed only on corn and other grains often run into serious problems. "They don't digest it well," says Stuart, "and they don't feel well when they eat it." Corn diets can lead to e coli infestations in cattle stomachs, which is one reason feed lot operators pump antibiotics into their steers.
Sherr, who is the chief nutritionist at Chamomille Natural Foods, is in total agreement on the health side. "They are so much healthier, eating as God and nature intended," he says of grass-fed cattle.
Sherr and his wife Nancy have been selling Stuart Family Farm grass-fed beef for a decade. "It's been a very good seller for us," he says.
Herb Holden sells organic pasture-raised beef from his 135-acre farm in East Windsor. ("Pasture-raised" organic cattle, in addition to grass and hay, also consume other types of organic, non-grass feed.)
"Mass farming came about because consumers drove it that way," he explains. The demand for high-end cuts like prime rib requires a hell of a lot of beef.
A corn-fed steer usually weighs about 1,300 pounds, but only about nine pounds of that is filet mignon, Holden explains. "And everybody wants the prime rib," he says.
Grass-fed and pasture-raised beef cattle tend to be smaller, and less profitable.
The Stuart Family Farm in Bridgewater is one of this state's biggest grass-feed beef farms, with a herd numbering around 225.
Deb Stuart and her husband Bill lease about 600 acres of land from the Bridgewater Land Trust and the Nature Conservancy's Sunny Valley Preserve. They move their herds to different pastures about every two weeks, and need a lot of hay to keep their stock well fed over the winter months.
The Stuarts say they harvest about 25,000 square hay bales a year, and another 1,500 of the big round bales.
Like many of this state's organic beef producers, the Stuarts sell their meat at their farm store and to a few restaurants. The Stuarts' beef is featured on menus of upscale spots in Greenwich and New Milford.
Most organic beef producers in this state also raise organic pigs and chickens to help make their financial ends meet.
There are at least a dozen other organic cattle growers scattered around Connecticut, like Holden in East Windsor and Patty and Erick Taylor up in Woodstock.
The Taylors' Devon Point Farm has a few more than 30 grass-fed Devon beef animals grazing on 93 acres. Patty Taylor says she and her husband were "hobby farmers" for years before deciding to go into agriculture full time in 2007.
Devon Point Farm's beef is also being served in several restaurants in northeastern Connecticut, including the Vanilla Bean Café in Pomfret, 85 Main in Putnam, and the Dog Lane Café in Storrs.
Holden's 135-acre Broad Brook Beef operation is large enough to sustain a herd of more than 100 Hereford cows and steers. He's been running the farm since 1977, and selling organic beef to the public since 2009.
Holden says his cows don't need antibiotics or growth hormones, because they're kept "in clean pens, with fresh water, and they're not standing in their own manure."
Connecticut cattle farmers do have some advantages, according to Holden. "We have much more lush fields than they do in California or Colorado," he says.
In Colorado, according to Holden, farmers need 30-40 acres per cow to raise cattle in pastures. In Connecticut, you can raise a steer on five acres of pasture. "That's because we have 55 inches of rain a year and Colorado has like 12 inches," Holden says.
The demand for Connecticut-grown organic beef seems to be rising.
Holden is already selling his meat to high-end restaurants in and around Hartford.
"There are grocery stores that would love to have me service them," Holden adds, but he simply doesn't have enough steers on his farm to provide a regular supply.
Sherr is seeing a similar desire for local, organic beef on the other side of the state.
"Our grass-fed meat sales have doubled and tripled over the last couple of years," says Sherr. "More and more consumers are becoming conscious about the advantages of grass-fed animals."


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Jeff, Who Lives at Home focuses on pothead metaphysics
Graduating college can be rough. Some find it hard to break into the real world and instead find themselves sleeping in their parent's basement. Jeff, Who Lives at Home, showing at the Boulder International Film Festival this week, follows Jeff ( Jason Segel) as he focuses on something more philosophical than finding a job.
Written and directed by brothers Jay and Mark Duplass, whose previous work include Bagheads and Cyrus, explores the stereotypical family dynamics. Jeff 's mom (Susan Sarandon) wants him to get a job, and his brother (Ed Helms) wants to stop picking up Jeff 's slack.
Jay Duplass talked to Boulder Weekly about his new movie and the point when the 30-year-old sleeping on the couch just isn't cute anymore.
"Inspiration came from, not the concept of living at your mother's house, but people who move sort of laterally to college or basements in order to ponder the greater meaning of the world and maybe smoke marijuana and not get anything done in the decade after their college experience," Duplass says.
People may call it a stoner film, Duplass says, but Jeff is a character that transcends the genre. In the movie, Jeff spends a day trying to follow through with his grandiose ideas about destiny and the universe.
"We are in awe of and admire those people who live and operate in magical realms," Duplass says. "We see them as heroes because they live more moment-to-moment and allow themselves to see more. Jeff is kind of a hero character that we haven't seen before."
The script was written seven years ago, when the brothers were around the same age as Jeff. The movie was put on hold until they could get enough money — the budget for one scene involving a car crash exceeded budgets of entire movies they had done in the past.
"We're the opposite of most movie directors because we're constantly scaling our budget down as much as possible," Duplass says. "The most important thing we want to do is make a movie that is great, and second, we want to make it as cheap as possible."
That's a hard task considering the list of celebrities they've worked with, which includes Jonah Hill, John C. Reilly and Marisa Tomei. Duplass says they've been lucky to have actors approach them and want to do their movies. One reason may be their unique approach to filmmaking, which includes long takes and complete improvisation.
"We basically write a script to organize the ideas and get funding," Duplass says. "When we get on set we don't improvise structure or plot, but we just throw the words away. We try to get our actors to let go of the script and truly be in the moment. It's fun and it's very fulfilling."
The brothers tend to take funny people and put them in dramatic roles, but this partly has to do with the actor's normal-looking appearance.
"I don' t know why, but Jonah, John, Ed and Jason all look like guys who grew up on the same street with us — they feel like us," Duplass says.
All of these techniques allow the brothers to achieve their goal of authenticity. Duplass says he wants the characters and the movie to look and feel real. Part of that includes throwing curve balls at the actors.
"We empower them to become their characters and do what they have to do," Duplass says. "It's very artistic and in the moment, but it's nerve-wracking and uncomfortable because you don't have the answer. But it works in our type of film making because our characters don't have the answer either."
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Children, who have become orphans or homeless due to the devastating cloudburst, will now get to stay and study at The Druk White Lotus School - which shot into limelight after it was featured as Fungsuk Wangado's school in 3 Idiots, starring Aamir Khan.india Updated: Aug 19, 2010 18:15 IST
Children, who have become orphans or homeless due to the devastating cloudburst, will now get to stay and study at The Druk White Lotus School - which shot into limelight after it was featured as Fungsuk Wangado's school in 3 Idiots, starring Aamir Khan.
"Many children have become orphans because of the cloudburst. Not necessarily orphans but also homeless. Homeless parents can't take care of their children so we will take them to our school where they will be taught and fed," Jampal Paul Thong, Chairman, Live to Love, Ladakh Disaster Relief Committee, the humanitarian arm of the Drukpa Buddhism sect told PTI.
The school is run by the Drukpa Buddhism sect.
The organisation is looking for sponsors to help such children especially those "who can sponsor them until they graduate."
Even though the school was hit by the flash floods on the intervening night of August 5 and 6, the structure remained intact.
"Of course, all the doors and widows have been damaged but the structure is still there," Thong said.
The school has won numerous awards for its architecture, including the best green architecture award, the most environment-friendly building and also the best architecture design award.
"We are going to share our expertise and knowledge about the architecture. We cannot change the climate but we can educate the people about making such structures," he said, adding "This kind of things (cloudburst) may happen again, so we need to change the structure of the houses."
According to estimates, over 10,000 houses have been damaged and over 200 lives have been lost due to cloudburst here.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who visited here earlier this week, had said the priority would be to build new houses before the onset of winter.
The chief of the Drukpa sect, 12th Gyalwang Druk Chen has already announced Rs 50 lakh for the relief and rehabilitation work in the district.
At present about 700 children study in the school, set up 10 years ago, including 175 hostelers.
While currently, the school has an upper limit of class VIII, the school management plans to increase by one class every year.
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The top talent from Germantown Friends School rolled over the opposition in last Wednesday's squash set-to at Germantown Cricket Club, but the girls from visiting Lawrenceville enjoyed success farther down the team ladder, creating a 4-4 deadlock in the team score with one contest still on the court.
Freshman number four Grayson Melby pulled out the 5-4 win for the GFS Tigers, overcoming visiting sophomore Natalie Tong, 3-0. Previously, each team had won its 2011-2012 season opener by a 7-2 score, Germantown topping Harriton/Lower Merion, and Lawrenceville defeating St. Andrew's School.
Last Wednesday the two senior co-captains for the Tigers were among the first to wrap up their matches. Carey Celata, who will continue her career at the University of Pennsylvania, was an 11-5, 11-6, 11-4 winner against Lawrenceville sophomore Mary Jo Mahfood, while the Tigers' Dartmouth-bound Lydie McKenzie took the number three match, 11-2, 11-5, 11-5, over Ashley Suan, another 10th-grader playing for the Lady Larries.
In the number one spot, Lawrenceville junior Jenny Scherl put up a real fight in the second game, but succumbed to top Tiger Olivia Feichter. A sophomore who is a member of the U.S. Junior National Team, Fiechter won 11-1, 11-7, 11-4.
As Melby and Tong stepped onto the court just vacated by the number one players, GFS freshman Annie Tyson was putting the finishing touches on her team's fourth victory of the afternoon. Gathering momentum, the ninth-grader turned in scores of 11-9, 11-7, 11-6 against a visiting senior, Audrey Shen.
Farther down the ladder, everything was going Lawrenceville's way. Senior number six Eliza Becker, who will play field hockey for Dartmouth, proved tenacious with a racquet as well, prevailing in a five-game affair against sophomore host Claire Schmidt, 10-12, 11-4, 12-14, 11-5, 11-2. Two juniors squared off in the seventh spot, where Lawrenceville's Perry Von Stade, a former Springside School student, secured an 11-8, 8-11, 18-16, 11-8 victory against Lauren Shinn of the Tigers.
Two more tenth-graders from the Jersey school, Cathy Yoon and Jessie Lee, took the eighth and ninth matches, respectively. Yoon handled Hannah Safford, a Germantown freshman, 11-8, 11-9, 11-6, while Lee vanquished Veena Advani, a sophomore, 11-6, 12-10, 11-6.
A 4-4 tally in the team score meant that Melby's meeting with Tong would tip the balance. Already a member of the varsity line-up as an eighth-grader last year, Melby won each of the first two games at 11-8. She went up 10-2 in the third, but Tong dug in and notched the next four points.
From the left, Melby volleyed across to the far side of the front wall, sending the ball bouncing low off the right wall for match point.
Germantown Friends had gone into Wednesday's encounter without its regular number six player, junior Anna Bezahler, while Lawrenceville was missing its normal number seven.
Before this season, the Tigers used the old seven-match high school format for most of their home contests. Just about everyone at the scholastic level has now adopted the nine-match collegiate standard, so having solid players in the lower positions on a team has become even more important, and can allow squads that lack the big guns up top to remain competitive.


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"We really like this start to our recruiting class," Bartow said. "Jarvis and J.C. are players that can help us with both our perimeter and inside games. Both come from quality programs with great high school coaches, so we know both come in with a good understanding of the game."
Jones, a 6-foot-2, 160-pound, shooting guard is a three-year starter who has averaged 17.5 points, 6.1 rebounds and 2.6 assists during his high school career. As a prep star, Jones has led his Mitchell High team to back-to-back city, district, regional and sub-state championships, and has finished as state runner-up in each of the last two seasons.
"Jarvis just has a great ability to score the basketball," Bartow said. "With the success we've had recruiting players from the
Jones said it was the Bucs' style of play that led him to
"I liked the way they got up and down the court, and I think that style fits the way I play," said Jones, who is ranked as a three-star recruit by Rivals.com. "I was recruited by schools like Georgia Tech,
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"ETSU is getting an outstanding individual and student-athlete,"
Meanwhile, Ward, a 6-foot-6, 215 pound forward, has posted double-doubles in each of the last two seasons, averaging 12 points and 14 rebounds as a sophomore, and 15 points and 14 rebounds as a junior. He was an All-County, All-Region, All-Conference, and Atlanta All-Metro Team selection, leading his high school team to a record of 25-5 last year and a trip to the Final Eight in
"The biggest thing about J.C. is his toughness and his ability to rebound the basketball," Bartow said. "He really has a nose for the basketball. He's led his conference in rebounding the last two years and will likely do that again this year. We see him as a four man that has versatility. He's a great student-athlete and we like being able to get a player out of the Atlanta area, which we feel could be a great recruiting area for us."
Ward said he liked everything about ETSU and is excited to bring a workmanlike approach to the Bucs' inside game.
"I really liked the coaching staff and I thought they could really help me develop as a player," Ward said. "I was impressed by the winning tradition at ETSU, and the guys on the team were great during my
visit to campus. My goal will be to do the dirty work inside and getting physical underneath."
Charlie Hood, Ward's coach at Marietta High, said his senior post will add a lot of good things to the ETSU program.
"You're getting a super young man, a competitor and a hard worker," Hood said. "He works as hard in class as he does in the weight room. And that's the biggest thing about him - his work ethic."
With three seniors graduating this season, the Bucs will have one remaining scholarship heading into the spring months. For more on ETSU men's basketball, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's basketball link.


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