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When a swine producer is first confronted with the need for a nutrient management plan, his reaction might be: "Bottom line, what do I have to do?"
Once he learns that a nutrient management plan has less to do with swine nutrition and more to do with tracking the crop nutrient ingredients in manure, he may be tempted to tune out the nutrient management message, concentrating instead on feeding and caring for his animals.
But it's all connected — from feed management to manure collection, storage and land application to crop uptake. It's a system that works together and demands attention from start to finish.
Downstream, the ultimate goal of nutrient management is to keep nitrogen and phosphorus — potential pollutants of surface water — in the root zone for use by crops and out of public waters. Every swine facility needs a workable nutrient management plan (NMP).
A good NMP for your livestock facility:
• Optimizes the use of feed nutrients to the animals, properly balances diets for animal performance and works to reduce excretion of nitrogen and phosphorus in manure.
• Recognizes and improves crops' use of principle plant nutrients and micronutrients in manure.
• Protects the environment, especially water quality.
• Provides a structured base for discussion of management practices between the producer and other interested parties.
Streamline Your Plan
The nutrient management plan is far more complicated for a livestock facility than for a crops-only farm. Because of the complexity, a major task for producers implementing an NMP is to find ways to streamline the plan and its maintenance to properly manage the process.
But be sure all the necessities are in the plan. State and/or federal requirements dictate threshold facility sizes for the respective manure management plans and the details that are required. Larger facilities and outdoor manure storage usually mean more complex nutrient management plans. Find out how your facility fits into your state agencies' capacity schemes and whether you can simplify your plan.
Some integrators or production systems already do an excellent job of writing plans for their member farms, but even the professional plan writers in production systems tend to have a blind spot or two.
Compliance Checklist
Given the need to be thorough and identify a complete nutrient management plan that fits your situation, begin by getting familiar with your state's requirements. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) plan for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) thoroughly spells out minimum regulatory requirements for the NMP. States promulgate their own rules to implement the regulation.
Next, if you have a Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan (CNMP) as part of a contract with your state Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), it is also very specific about the records and annual updates required. The producer has certain responsibilities in regularly maintaining the types of NMP mentioned above, and these are spelled out by the respective agency.
Even if you are not required by a regulation or contract to have an NMP, you still can and should build a plan to cover the main features for your operation.
The two most important functions in maintaining a valid NMP are:
1) The year-to-year basic balancing of manure nutrients to crop requirements, and
2) Keeping good records.
The responsibility for keeping the necessary records, updating calculations and sending in routine reports often lies with the on-site operator. A plan that sits on a shelf and is never updated soon has little value.
Ask yourself: Are the right people involved and committed to making my plan work? Neglect maintaining your plan and you will likely over- or under-apply plant nutrients for your crops. There are other consequences. You could:
• Lose funding under an Environmental Quality Improvement Plan (EQIP) contract,
• Face penalties under the NPDES CAFO program, and/or
• Lose legal protection under the Agricultural Stormwater Exemption in the Clean Water Act.
Establishing Value
Manure's value is not limited to the available nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) it contains. Manure also supplies water, micronutrients and organic matter, which makes manure a great soil builder.
However, pricing manure to crop producers is often based on N, P and K contents shown in sample analyses obtained from the testing laboratory. Commercial fertilizer replacement cost is a common method for striking a starting price for negotiation. Since manure comes as a package of blended nutrients, it's not always fair to call the composite price for manure the sum of its parts. Whenever a target crop field would not otherwise be supplied with a commercial fertilizer nutrient, that nutrient component should be devalued in the manure's price.
For example, if manure is to be spread on a field where the soil-test phosphorus is above the agronomic optimum for crop production, then the phosphorus in the manure shouldn't be priced in the package. Raising the phosphorus test of the field by applying unneeded manure phosphorus may actually be a liability.
Another example is pricing the nitrogen in the manure when the product is going on a field where a legume crop, such as soybeans, will be planted. While the legume may preferentially use the nitrogen supplied in manure, the crop could have fixed its own nitrogen from the atmosphere. In that case, commercial nitrogen would not have been purchased if manure had not been applied.
Manure Choices
Based on the criteria above, the producer supplying manure to crops has two choices:
1) Supply the entire blended package and devalue one or more nutrients as appropriate, or
2) Use storage management and/or technology to partition the manure nutrients to better fit crop needs.
Given that most producers will go with the first option, fields for manure application should be prioritized according to soil type, soil fertility, crop rotation, hauling distance, application rate and, of course, the environmental sensitivity of the field and its perimeter. If you have a choice, apply manure on fields that have:
• Lower soil erosion risk, so there's less chance of nitrogen and phosphorus moving off-site with runoff;
• Low to moderate soil fertility — capture all of the value of the nutrient package plus the organic matter;
• Deep-rooting crops with high-nitrogen uptake potential, reducing risk of nitrate leaching to groundwater or into drainage tiles; and
• Crops able to take best advantage of the balance of nutrients in the manure package that you will deliver.
Water Management
Make water work for you, not against you. Don't give up valuable manure storage to otherwise clean water, such as drinking water wastage, rainwater or snow melt that could otherwise be kept out of the system.
Even under-floor pits can lose storage capacity due to drinking water wastage or roof water that is not properly drained away from the foundation. Certainly, the outside structures are vulnerable as well.
If the data on extreme weather events are any indication, the minimum amount of manure storage needed on a given-sized farm today is greater than was needed in the 1980s. Keeping water clean reduces manure hauling and application costs and gives more insurance storage volume in the face of extreme weather events and those abnormally wet seasons when farmers are usually in the fields applying manure.
Speaking of water, when is there an advantage of two manure streams vs. one? After all, manure is mostly water.
Some manure storage systems, such as anaerobic lagoons, have inherently dilute nutrients (i.e., lots of water). Some nutrient partitioning occurs due to stratification in the lagoon; phosphorus and some of the organic nitrogen tend to settle into the bottom sludge layer, leaving a relatively nutrient-poor solution/suspension in the supernatant that can be irrigated onto growing crops using a fairly high gallons-per-acre rate.
Actually, the nutrient value of lagoon supernatant is so low per gallon of liquid that it is difficult to justify using expensive injection methods to land-apply it. Sprinkle irrigation is the ticket.
Short on acres to spread manure? Don't discount the opportunities afforded by irrigation of dilute wastewater onto crops like perennial grasses, which can take up huge amounts of water in the growing season, while alleviating runoff concerns. Again, it's about water management; know your system and know whether your storage capacity is vulnerable to extreme rainfall events.
While the producer is enjoying the lower per-gallon application of supernatant via irrigation, the sludge in the lagoon — the second manure stream — eventually builds up over a period of several years to a depth requiring removal. At that time, the sludge can be agitated and pumped out with the supernatant or it can be "mined" from the bottom using a floating barge. Either way, one would plan for the more concentrated nutrients to be spread over large areas during that infrequent de-sludging process.
It takes more than just settling in a tank or lagoon to attain more aggressive partitioning of the manure nutrients in order to balance them to crop needs or to sell one or more components.
Partitioning out nutrients from swine manure is not a simple process. Do your homework before investing in a technology that turns one manure stream into two streams or more. The most common goal for swine producers would be to separate much of the phosphorus from the liquid manure; the per-gallon cost is fairly high but may still provide bottom-line benefits.
An in-cab flowmeter linked to GPS provides a convenient method of performing equipment calibrations and keeping a close check on manure application rates.
Testing Manure in a Drought Year
Build your manure-sampling history for the farm using the highest-quality samples available. Manure samples pulled during land application are best, but to calculate an application rate for manure coming from a storage that doesn't have a history, get a composite sample that represents your pumping strategy for the storage. If a manure storage structure will be agitated, take samples top to bottom. If liquid will be taken from the non-agitated middle or top, sample appropriately. See the bulletin from Midwest Plan Service MWPS-18 Section 1, "Manure Characteristics" for sampling method recommendations (www.mwps.org).
The nutrient management plan question we all dread and tend to avoid in a drought year is this: How do we account for nutrient uptake by the crops, especially nitrogen and phosphorus?
We try to supply nutrients based on the expected yields of those crops. So, following a year when yields were low, we tell ourselves that 1) we supplied more nutrients than needed, and 2) the nutrients are left over for next year. This throws a wrench in our plan for the next cropping season.
Following a "checkbook approach" to nutrient management would tell us to back off on the manure application rates for 2014 if the fields received normal rates in 2013 and had far below-normal yields. There should be nutrients left in the soil and available for the 2014 crop.
For farms using only commercial fertilizer, the purchased materials could be reduced. That could save money on inputs.
However, livestock producers who are depending on limited acreages for manure application (i.e., nutrient application rates via manure are already at the limits of normal-year crop update recommendations) have to face both the practical and regulatory ramifications of "staying the course" with average-year applications vs. some ratcheting back of application rates.
The best advice is to follow state land grant university soil fertility recommendations and be aware of state NRCS and/or regulatory agency guidelines for nutrient applications following a crop disaster year. In most cases, continue applying for the average expected yields of crops with the disaster year taken out of the yield-average calculation.
Last fall, University of Illinois crop scientists, with some extensive volunteer-supported soil-nitrate sampling from corn fields across the state, reestablished just how uncertain nitrogen accounting is (College of ACES, Dec. 6, 2012, "First results from the Illinois Soil Nitrogen Monitoring Project"). To access the university bulletin, go to http://news.aces.illinois.edu/news/first-results-illinois-soil-nitrogen-monitoring-project. Their hypothesis was that drought-stricken corn yields would leave lots of unused nitrate in the soil, and sampling would verify that. However, the sample results yielded a series of scatter plots and no clear trend no matter how the data were analyzed. Weather, soil moisture history and crop uptake patterns all confused the picture and confirmed once again that, in the words of the late University of Illinois soil scientist Ted Peck, soil nitrogen prediction "is a crap shoot."
Regular soil testing for other nutrients besides nitrogen still yields useful data, and soil tests are essential for planning applications of manure and commercial fertilizer. Know what your soil tests are for all fields receiving manure. Know your state university's latest recommendations for optimum soil nutrient levels (especially phosphorus and potassium). And know the maintenance requirements for crops.
The test results and long-term soil test history are also a required part of any NMP, as the phosphorus test in particular is one piece of the environmental risk assessment for crop fields targeted for manure application.
Your state land grant university is usually the best source for soil testing protocols; issues such as test frequency, grid size or soil management zones, soil test depth, and seasonal and crop rotation timing, are spelled out.
Keep Current
States regularly update their nutrient management standards to reflect and refine the federal NRCS standard requirements. As a livestock producer, stay abreast of changes in your state, since the NRCS Nutrient Management Practice Standard 590 may be referenced by your state's regulations and is certainly a built-in requirement for any Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) participation that involves a CNMP.
The University of Illinois is on the verge of releasing new soil fertility recommendations for corn based on higher yields and more efficient plants. Until recently, Illinois had used some long-standing nutrient maintenance level tables for common field crops. The tables made it easy to run the numbers on manure application rates and decide, based on soil tests, whether to operate on a nitrogen- or phosphorus-limited application.
If you are new to nutrient management planning, consider hiring a professional to help build your plan and devise the regular recordkeeping needed for an efficient, defensible document.
Recognizing the focus on phosphorus and nitrogen pollution potential, researchers took another look at modern corn crop response to phosphorus and they revised downward the per-bushel maintenance requirement.
In short, today's crop varieties are more efficient in their nutrient use. The same message has been sent out by several states in the region about nitrogen needs for corn. Language in the national NRCS 590 standard suggests the state land grant universities are the last word in crop nutrient removal rates, so producers applying manure on corn fields need to look for more acres on which to spread manure.
Additionally, they should explore ways to reduce animal excretion rates of phosphorus in manure compared to nitrogen to provide a better-balanced nutrient package. Synthetic phytase in swine diets has been a real help. Finally, partition the nutrients in ways that optimize the manure placement on cropland.
Your NMP might be due for major changes if your state's nitrogen and/or phosphorus crop nutrient requirement figures are being ratcheted downward.
Precision Ag for Livestock
Simply put, with manure application, there are more variables than with commercial fertilizer but less control.
In many regions, the environmental pressures are greater on livestock producers than on crops-only farms. One technology that is available now is GPS-based, as-applied mapping of your manure application. Being able to show where manure has been applied and the setback areas — manure "no-fly zones" — is very important to defending your NMP. This is one of the simplest applications of precision agriculture, but one to definitely explore.
Technology Watch
What about nitrification inhibitors and nitrogen stabilizers? The nitrogen in fall-applied manure is at risk of loss from the soil root zone before the crops get a chance to use that valuable nutrient in the growing season. Warm, wet soils in the fall provide favorable conditions for nitrogen loss through a biological process known as nitrification.
High prices for commercial nitrogen products drive demand for additives known as nitrification inhibitors. Those additives are touted to slow down the transformation of ammonium nitrogen to nitrite and nitrate, thus conserving even fall-applied nitrogen in the soil for later uptake by plants. Companies have made manure-compatible versions of the products available for use in the livestock industry. It is very difficult to validate the claims made for these products because nitrogen accounting is tough in a real cropping system and because of all the variables that affect nitrogen transformations and uptakes from year to year.
However, there is a growing body of field-trial research — mostly results of crop yield responses — that is being used to support the use of these products in manure.
Questions to ask regarding these products in your NMP:
• Since manure is often applied at the annual nitrogen-limited rate on cropland, and nitrogen is supposedly being conserved by the product(s), how much should the manure application rate be reduced in order to meet regulatory requirements?
• Some nitrification inhibitor products are meant to be applied on a per-acre basis but are mixed by agitation in the pit prior to pumping. How does the applicator ensure an adequate amount of product?
• How does one justify performance of these products?
Cover Crops
Cover crops are mentioned in the new national NRCS 590 standard as a way of reducing winter-season soil erosion while cycling nutrients within the cropping system.
While the use of cover crops is far from being a new concept, there are new pressures for adopting cover crop strategies. Improved varieties for certain regions and applications may bring cover crops to economic viability in some operations. Groups such as the Midwest Cover Crops Council (www.mccc.msu.edu) have established guidelines and sets of practices appropriate for producers in their regions. There may be a place for them in your operation.
Mobile-phone applications (mobile apps) for NMP nutrient balance calculations and field records are becoming available and should help streamline your plan. Remember, always be on the lookout for ways to make your NMP easier to maintain, more useful and more defensible.
Sampling Technologies Needed
It's one thing to know how much liquid manure per acre you are applying, but it's quite another to know the nutrient application rates.
Usually we apply manure based on the assumption that we know what's in it. But nutrient content varies quite a bit, and we are concerned with primary plant nutrients that are in ratios that change as we pump down manure storage and apply the manure onto cropland.
What's needed is a reliable, in-line nutrient meter for on-the-go measurement and control of the actual nutrient application rates, not just the liquid rate. We can't expect every load of manure pumped from even a well-agitated pit storage to be the same; the first loads out are not as concentrated as loads from the bottom.
Another example is the lagoon agitation or dredging operation, where a lot of acres are covered in an infrequently performed pump-down and application process. At the time of de-sludging the lagoon, the nitrogen:phosphorus balance of the liquid coming out of the storage is really out of whack with year-to-year experience. An automatic control on the applicator could adjust the rate based on the nutrient application goal. We are still waiting for that technology.
Pork producers are busy people. Not many get into the business to manage manure. But many ask the straightforward question: "Just give me the bottom line—what do I have to do?"
Get a template and learn the basics. Keep records. Figure out how to streamline the process so it becomes second nature. Make it an asset, not a distraction. Hire a professional, a registered technical service provider if you need one. By all means, have an appropriate, up-to-date nutrient management plan for your swine
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OKANOGAN Okanogan County voters are approving the transportation tax measure with 76 percent of the vote, the preliminary election night tally showed Tuesday.
The count so far is 2,986 to 2,348 votes, elections results show.
"To me, that's good because it's definitely going to help our veterans out here that don't have transportation," said Roger Castelda, president of the U.S. Armed Forces Legacy Project in Tonasket.
The amount requested by Okanogan County Transit Authority in Proposition 1, four-tenths of 1 percent amounts to 4 cents per $10 spent on taxable goods.
Castelda said the new system would help veterans all over the county visit the Legacy Project and make it to their doctor's appointments in town, seeing as Veterans Affairs can't provide transport.
"If that's the wishes of the voters to establish a system for that, it's good to see that people are willing to tax themselves to maintain that service," Tonasket Mayor Patrick Plumb said.
"That's very interesting," said Omak City Administrator Ralph Malone after hearing the results. "I would have thought that it would have kind of matched the perception of the public safety."
The proposed service will supplement what is already provided by the non-profit Okanogan County Transportation and Nutrition, but the services will be separate. Okanogan County Transportation and Nutrition will continue to operate, regardless of the outcome of Proposition 1.
During the first full year, the Transit Authority expects to collect about $2 million in tax revenues. The agency plans to supplement that with grant funding to purchase buses.
What taxpayers will get in return is access to public transportation five days per week in a "hub-and-spoke" system – meaning the Omak/Okanogan area will serve as the central hub of operations and by 2015, routes will connect to Oroville, Tonasket, Riverside, Winthrop, Twisp, Brewster and Pateros.
Of the 21,318 ballots mailed to Okanogan County residents, election officials counted 6,068 of them on Tuesday. The next ballot count will be Friday, and final results will be certified Nov. 26.
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We are brothers who sell condos. We work hard to provide first access to our clients and are good at what we do. Our days are spent between sales centers and meeting with clients and we need a strong brand to work under.
We are successful because we combine cutting edge technology with mentor ship and traditional hard as oak business fundamentals.
We work with clients from 30-65, so the brand should be simple and provide a strong statement without too many frills.
We each had been working under our individual brands, but are now looking to merge and create a flagship brand.
We like the colour and general idea of one of our business cards (attached), but are looking for a logo for the "Condo Brothers" brand. This is for real estate and investing, so it should be something substantial, not web 2.0 at all. We are not married to the business card, it's just a launching point of what we like.
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We like the idea of the Cushman Wakefield (http://www.cushwake.com/cwglobal/js…omeSSO.jsp) logo. Obviously not exactly like it but something simple yet bold.
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For those of you who aren't at Comic-Con, fear not. EW has an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip from The Hunger Games that just premiered at a Comic-Con panel.
The video is a closer look at the scene where Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is tied in a tree, and the fire starts to surround her. Watch director Gary Ross and stunt coordinator Chad Stahelski block out and show Lawrence the path she has to run, and watch how close Lawrence actually gets to the fire. Katniss would be proud.
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Crime, Patrol Report Released
Pennsylvania State Police at the McConnellsburg substation recently released a crime and patrol activity report for the month of July during which criminal investigators responded to a total of 58 offenses. Twenty-three of those offenses were cleared, and 18 arrests were made.
In addition, the patrol unit responded to 42 crashes, seven hit-and-runs, one fatal crash and three collisions related to driving under the influence. Two individuals suffered fatal injuries that were related to driving under the influence, while another 31 individuals suffered injuries ranging from minor to moderate. Police also issued 431 traffic citations, 183 written warnings, nine seat belt citations, two child safety seat citations and five drunk-driving citations.
Wallet Found
A child's wallet was found at the Gettysburg Battlefield and turned over to Pennsylvania State Police at the Mc- Connellsburg barracks. Anyone wishing to claim the wallet can do so by contacting Trooper Horton at 717-485- 3131.
Theft Reported
A 47-year-old Fort Littleton man reported to state police investigators a picnic table and swing set were stolen from 540 White Deer Drive in Brush Creek Township between July 14 and July 28. Anyone having further information linked to this theft is asked to contact state police Trooper Sprague at 717-485-3131.
Tires Damaged
Four tires on a red 2000 Nissan Frontier were damaged during an act of criminal mischief that happened between 11 p.m. on July 31 and 5 a.m. on August 1. Victim in this case is a 52-yearold McConnellsburg man who had his vehicle parked at 2 Cloverleaf Court. Anyone with additional information concerning this case is urged to call state police Trooper Watkins at 717-485- 3131.
Farm Gate Stolen
A farm gate was stolen from 202 Haven Lane in Bethel Township between 6 p.m. on July 30 and 5 p.m. on July 31, state police reported. Victim is a 54-yearold Warfordsburg area man. Information pertinent to this case can be directed to state police Trooper Poole at 717- 485-3131.
Guns Stolen
Four handguns were stolen from a Sipes Mill Road resident on Tuesday, July 31, according to state police reports. The burglary reportedly occurred between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The weapons belonging to a Harrisonville man have been valued at $2,600. Anyone having additional information related to this break-in is asked to call state police Trooper Carper at 717-485-3131.
Prescription Pills Taken
Two bottles of prescription medication were stolen from a vehicle parked at 45 Hillside Estates, Mc- Connellsburg, between 8:30 a.m. and noon on Tuesday, July 31. The victim, a 50-yearold McConnellsburg man, valued the pills at $340. Anyone with further information concerning this theft from a motor vehicle is urged to contact state police Trooper Piasecki by calling the Mc- Connellsburg barracks at 717-485-3131.
Television Stolen
A flat-screen LG television valued at $ 500 was stolen from 113 Lincoln Way East in the McConnellsburg Borough between 1:30 p.m. on July 27 and 1:45 p.m. on July 31. The television belongs to a 72-year-old Mc- Connellsburg man. Anyone with further information linked to this commercial burglary is urged to call state police Trooper Piasecki at 717-485-3131.
Woman Shoved
A 22- year- old Mc- Connellsburg woman has accused Derek Ray Long, 24, also of McConnellsburg, of shoving her into a sliding glass door. The 4:45 a.m. harassment allegedly occurred on Saturday, August 4, at 101 Estate Drive in Todd Township. Charges against Long will be filed through Magisterial District Judge Wendy Mellott.
Tax Records Taken In Break-In
Tax records and statements dating back to 2002 and 2003 were stolen from 1046 Keefers Dairy Lane, Big Cove Tannery, between 8 a.m. on August 1 and 4:33 p.m. on August 3. Burglars entered the residence after breaking a porch window jamb. Anyone having further information concerning this burglary is asked to contact state police Trooper Hibner at 717-485-3131.
Police Investigate Mischief
Pennsylvania State Police at the McConnellsburg barracks investigated a case of criminal mischief that occurred at 111 Lincoln Way East, McConnellsburg, on Thursday, August 2. Police said at 5:50 p.m., a 71-yearold male spotted a white substance, which appeared to be ice cream, on his office door. Anyone with additional information pertinent to this case is asked to contact state police Trooper Doriguzzi at 717-485-3131.
Vehicle Damaged
The driver's side of a vehicle belonging to a 32-yearold Hustontown woman was intentionally damaged between 4 p.m. on July 28 and 1 p.m. on July 29. The vehicle had been parked at the victim's residence located at 967 North Clear Ridge Road in Taylor Township when the mischief occurred. Anyone having further information related to this incident is urged to call state police Trooper Doriguzzi at 717- 485-3131.
Accused Of Taking Vehicle Without Permission
Charges of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle are pending further investigation into an incident that occurred at 2861 Big Cove Tannery Road in Thompson Township.
According to state police reports, a blue 2004 Dodge Neon was allegedly taken from the Big Cove Tannery residence on Thursday, August 2, by 27-year-old Mc- Connellsburg residence Eric Ann Lund. The owner of the vehicle, a 37-year- old Big Cove Tannery man, discovered his car was missing at 1:30 p.m. It was returned by Lund several hours later.
Identity Theft Repor ted
A 21-year-old female from Orbisonia told state police investigators her personal information was used to open a residential Internet account in the state of Michigan on April 12. Information pertinent to this case can be directed to state police Trooper Piasecki at 717-485- 3131.
Mischief Occurs In Thompson Twp.
Pennsylvania State Police in McConnellsburg investigated a case of criminal mischief that occurred at 218 Heavenly Acres Ridge Road between 6 p.m. on August 1 and 10:45 a.m. on August 2. Unknown individuals reportedly damaged the driveway drain pipe and driveway of the Thompson Township home belonging to a 74-yearold Mercersburg area man. Anyone with additional information linked to this mischief is urged to contact state police Trooper Hibner at the McConnellsburg substation at 717-485-3131.
Harassment At Hillside Estates
Nineteen-year- old Mc- Connellsburg resident Ryan Matthew Little is being accused of harassment in connection with an incident at 68 Hillside Estates in Todd Township. On Friday, August 3, at 4:19 p.m. Little allegedly pushed a 40-year-old female during a domestic argument. The woman reportedly fell into porch railing.
Hit-And-Run Vehicle Sought
Pennsylvania State Police investigators are currently searching for the whereabouts of a vehicle responsible for a hit-and-run accident along West Market Street in the McConnellsburg Borough.
According to reports, between July 11 and July 17 the vehicle struck the passenger side door of a parked 1994 Chevrolet Caprice belonging to a 69-year-old Mc- Connellsburg. The parked vehicle sustained minor damage during the incident.
Tire Detaches From Vehicle
A tire became detached from a southbound 1992 Chevrolet Tracker and struck an oncoming 2006 Chevrolet Colorado driven by Dennis G. Richards, 66, of McConnellsburg, on July 23 on Sheepskin Hollow Road in Dublin Township.
The operator of the Tracker, 58-year-old Grace A. Hammond, of Spring Run, was not injured nor was Richards. Both drivers were wearing seat belts.
Autopsy Scheduled
An autopsy was scheduled to be completed in Allentown Tuesday in the death of a Hancock, Md., man. Pennsylvania State Police from the McConnellsburg barracks reported 33- year-old Jeremy Omega Ensor was found in the area of Black Oak Road and Clement Road in Bethel Township on Monday, August 6. Following his discovery at 1:30 p.m., Ensor was pronounced dead at the scene by Fulton County Coroner Berley Souders. Cause of death is pending the results of the autopsy.


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|Statement by H.E. Ambassador Wang Min, DPR of the People's Republic of China to the UN, at the 2nd Inter-Sessional Meeting of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development
Mr. Chairman,
The Chinese delegation associates itself with the statement made by Argentina on behalf of G-77 and China.
Since the Second PrepCom in March, preparation for the Conference on Sustainable Development is moving forward smoothly thanks to the active efforts by all sides. Various regional commissions of the UN and many countries including China have held a series of regional or thematic meetings to discuss in depth questions such as the objectives, themes and expected outcome of the Conference. This has contributed to enhancing mutual understanding and agreement. At the same time, parties have presented their positions and views and submitted many propositions regarding the outcome of the Conference, which will certainly enrich our discussion and provide the groundwork for us to sort out the outcome in the next stage of the preparation.
Mr. Chairman,
China attaches great importance to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, and is pleased with the active participation of all sides in the preparatory process. We are ready to work with all sides to push for a comprehensive, balanced and pragmatic outcome of the Conference. At the end of October, China submitted to the Secretariat of the Conference a position paper that contains our detailed observations and position on the Conference and its outcome. Here, I'd like to highlight the following points.
First, the Outcome Document should aim at deepening the political will of all countries. The objective of the 2012 Conference is to comprehensively assess the progress to date and the remaining gaps in international efforts for sustainable development, and secure renewed political commitment in the face of new challenges. As the embodiment of this objective, the Outcome Document should send a clear and strong message on revitalizing international cooperation for sustainable development so as to prompt all sides to demonstrate political will, expedite the implementation of relevant international commitments, and push for positive results in international cooperation for sustainable development.
Second, the Outcome Document must firmly uphold the Rio principles, especially the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities". This is a crucial factor which will decide whether consensus can be reached on the Outcome Document. The principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities" is the basis and core of international cooperation for sustainable development, and also the key to the success of the Conference. Any attempt to reopen negotiation on this principle or to distort or deviate from this principle will spoil the cooperative atmosphere of the Conference and will not garner wide support.
Third, the Outcome Document should embody the principle of integrated development of the three pillars of economic growth, social development and environmental protection. As sustainable development covers a wide scope with many issues involved, the Outcome Document must adhere to the objective of sustainable development and take an integrated and balanced approach to economic, social and environmental factors.
Fourth, the Outcome Document should be pragmatic and action-oriented with a concrete implementation plan. It should be particularly clear about means of implementation the international community will resort to, such as financial support, technological transfer and capacity-building, in order to really help the developing countries address their difficulties and challenges in sustainable development.
Mr. Chairman,
As for the specific content of the Outcome Document, we believe that it should reflect the positions of all sides in a comprehensive, balanced and objective manner. On "a green economy in the context of poverty eradication and sustainable development", we believe that while highlighting the positive effect of green economy on poverty eradication and economic restructuring, we should also recognize its accompanying risks and challenges. More importantly, we should solve the difficulties faced by the developing countries in pursuing green development. To this end, we must pay attention to the following three points. The first is to set poverty eradication as an important indicator in formulating and implementing the policy on green economy. The second is to respect specific conditions of various countries. As countries differ in their modes and levels of development and in their capabilities, they shouldn't be subject to uniform criteria and indicators. The third is to refrain from using "green economy" as a pretext to attach "green conditions" to development aid, or setting new trade barriers to practice "green protectionism". "Sustainable development goals" is rich in content and wide in scope. Placing it under this theme will hinder full and in-depth discussions.
The institutional framework for sustainable development should meet four requirements: it should fully demonstrate the central and leading role of the UN; it should help reinforce the function of existing mechanisms such as the ECOSOC and the CSD; it should encourage the international financial institutions, the WTO and multilateral development banks to incorporate the agenda of sustainable development into their planning and programming, and cooperate with relevant UN agencies to maximize effectiveness; and it should help increase the voice and decision making power of the developing countries in mechanisms for sustainable development.
Mr. Chairman,
The success of the negotiations on the Outcome Document requires our joint effort. Countries should all take an active part in the negotiations and work towards consensus. We hope that in the negotiations, all parties will act in the spirit of compromise, accommodation, cooperation and mutual benefit, fully take into account the difference between the developing and the developed countries in the level and stage of development, recognize the difficulties and problems facing the developing countries, respect each other, engage in friendly consultations, and expand the basis of consensus by seeking common grounds while putting aside differences in an effort to reach as soon as possible a comprehensive, balanced and pragmatic Outcome Document in the little time that is left.
Thank you, Mr.Chairman.


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Monday, April 18, 2011
Feeling MUCH better~!
All the house stresses are almost behind us! Everything is done on our home, officially sold! Inspection went just fine. We have bought a house! Just got the signed contract in my email. We still need to have the inspection this coming Friday, but barring any huge issues, we will be living in a rural farm town called Newbury that is very close to my very favorite down town area ever - Chagrin Falls. It has 4 bedrooms, a 3 season porch, awesome master bath and a finished basement! We will have 2.5 acres and I am totally going to learn to garden! Here are some pics:
5 comments:
- Audrey said...
Oh my gracious, for the room in the last picture alone I would buy that house. Congratulations!
- April 18, 2011 at 5:01 PM
- Twila said...
Nice! I love it! I had a fabulous 18 miler and would give anything to feel that good in Cleveland.
- April 18, 2011 at 6:12 PM
- Janet Edwards said...
What gorgeous picks! You are not that far away from us!!!
- April 19, 2011 at 12:48 PM
- Organic Warrior said...
Its beautiful! Congrats!!
- April 19, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- jessica said...
I think that bedroom + 3-season porch are bigger than my entire house! The 2.5 acres sound AWESOME -- congrats!
- April 20, 2011 at 12:58 PM
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incorporated in Tulsa, OklahomaSince 1949, Zebco's ingeniously simple, user-friendly reels have helped more families discover the joys of fishing than any other. 1947 A West Texas watchmaker named R.D. Hull gets the idea for a new fishing reel after watching a meat counter clerk pull string from a fixed spool 1947 After a friend quips that the Standard resembles a beer can, Hull demonstrates his American ingenuity (and sense of humor) by making a joke version with an actual can. 1947 Hull takes his idea to Zero Hour Bomb Company and the world's first spincast reel is born, guaranteed to never backlash 1949 The first "Standard" spincast reels roll off the line on Friday the 13th in May 1949 1950 George Goetz, Zebco's first sales rep, demonstrates the reel's ease of use with casting tricks – even wearing boxing gloves 1950 Zebco's Texas rep, Bill Carter, sets world record for most casts without a backlash (3,453 casts in 14 hours and 14 minutes) 1950 The Zebco booth attracts crowds at sport shows across the country 1954 The original Zebco 33 is introduced, selling for $19.50 1956 A friend of President Eisenhower asks the company to send a reel to the White House. When security sees the package labeled "Zero Hour Bomb Co" they plunge it into a tub of water and call the bomb squad! 1956 Zero Hour Bomb Company officially changes name to Zebco 1959 Zebco introduces the first ever youth combo (Zebco Junior) 1960 Zebco introduces the first "balanced" tackle combos, matching reel to rod (77,88,99,101) 1961 Zebco introduces the 202 "ZeeBee" spincast, an instant classic 1961 The company is acquired by Brunswick Corporation 1966 Zebco builds and moves into current Tulsa headquarters 1975 R.D. Hull is inducted into the Sporting Goods Hall of Fame – at the time 70 million Zebco have been sold 1991 Zebco acquires Martin Fly Fishing 1999 Zebco celebrates 50 years of making fishing tackle


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This is an activity about the basic properties of magnets and magnetism. Learners explore concepts such as magnetic fields and polarity, which form the basic ingredients of a study of Earth's magnetic field and the technology of magnetometers.... (View More) Materials needed include bar magnets and paper clips. This is Activity 1 of Exploring Magnetism: A Teacher's Magnetism Activity Guide. (View Less)
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This is an activity about the properties of electromagnets, which is a crucial underpinning for understanding how magnetic fields are generated in nature, in the surface of the Sun, and in the interior of Earth. Learners will create an electromagnet... (View More) by letting an electric current flow through a wire to generate a magnetic field, which is then detected using a compass. This activity requires a thin insulated wire, pencil, battery, compass and paper clips. This is Activity 2 of the Magnetism and Electromagnetism teachers guide. (View Less)
In this activity, students will demonstrate the generator effect, which is due to electromagnetic induction when a conductor (a long metal wire) moves through a magnetic field. Materials required to this activity include: a 100-foot extension cord... (View More) with ground prong, current or voltage galvanometer, two lead wires with alligator clips on at least one end, and one compass. This activity must be done in an open space large enough to swing a 100-foot cord as a jump rope, such as a gymnasium or outdoor field. This is activity three of "Exploring Magnetism." The guide includes science background information, student worksheets, glossary and related resources. (View Less)
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This is an activity about magnetic induction. Learners will induce a flow of electricity in a wire using a moving bar magnet and measure this flow using a galvanometer, or Am meter. Through discussion, this activity can then be related to magnetic... (View More) fields in nature. This activity requires use of a galvanometer, bar or cow magnet, and wire. This is the fifth lesson in the second session of the Exploring Magnetism teacher guide. (View Less)
This is an activity about electromagnetism. Learners will set up a simple circuit using a battery, wire, and knife switch, and then use a compass to map the magnetic field lines surrounding the wire. Next, they will add a coil of wire to the simple... (View More) circuit and map the magnetic fields again. This is the second lesson in the second session of the Exploring Magnetism teachers guide. (View Less)
This is an activity about electromagnetism. Learners will use a simple circuit powered by a battery source to investigate the strength of the magnetic field produced by a coil of wire in the circuit. The strength will be indicated by the deflection... (View More) of magnetic compass needles and by the distance a coil of wire was moved by the action of the circuit. This activity requires coils or spools of wire, a knife switch, three magnetic compasses, a source of electricity such as 3 D-cell batteries or an AC to DC power adapter, alligator-clipped wire, and a bar or cow magnet. This is the fourth lesson in the second session of the Exploring Magnetism teachers guide. (View Less)
This activity demonstrates Lenz's Law, which states that an induced electromotive force generates a current that induces a counter magnetic field that opposes the magnetic field generating the current. In the demonstration, an empty aluminum can... (View More) floats on water in a tray, such as a Petri dish. Students spin a magnet just inside the can without touching the can. The can begins to spin. Understanding what happens can be explained in steps: first, the twirling magnet creates an alternating magnetic field. Students can use a nearby compass to observe that the magnetic field is really changing. Second, the changing magnetic field permeates most things around it, including the aluminum can itself. A changing magnetic field will cause an electric current to flow when there is a closed loop of an electrically conducting material. Even though the aluminum can is not magnetic, it is metal and will conduct electricity. So the twirling magnet causes an electrical current to flow in the aluminum can. This is called an "induced current." Third, all electric currents create magnetic fields. So, in essence, the induced electrical current running through the can creates its very own magnetic field, making the aluminum can magnetic. This is activity four of "Exploring Magnetism." The guide includes science background information, student worksheets, glossary and related resources. (View Less)
This lesson is an introduction to the use of a magnetic compass. At a specific location, learners will locate an object using a compass, identify its bearing, and others will attempt to locate the object by only knowing the bearing reading and the... (View More) corresponding location where the bearing was obtained. Next, learners will develop a method for determining if a magnetic storm is occurring, and they will test this method using online information and a compass. This activity requires compasses and access to the Internet. This is Activity 5 in the Exploring Magnetism on Earth teachers guide. (View Less)
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This is an activity about the Kp index, a quantification of fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field due to the relative strength of a magnetic storm. Learners will take a reading from a magnetometer site and make a Kp index estimate to predict... (View More) whether or not an aurora display will occur near that site. This resource is designed to support student analysis of THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) Magnetometer line-plot data. This activity requires the use of a computer with Internet access. This is activity 18 in Exploring Magnetism: Earth's Magnetic Personality. (View Less)
This is an activity about auroras and the scientific terminology used to describe them. Learners will read an article that provides an introduction to specific terms and concepts related to auroras and auroral substorms and examine photographs of a... (View More) 2003 aurora and descriptions of an 1859 aurora to identify the various phases of auroral substorms. This is activity 11 from Exploring Magnetism: Magnetic Mysteries of the Aurora. (View Less)
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CLEARANCE - Unusual EndingsProduct Code: CB0069CD
Publisher: Batsford
Author: Simon Webb
Year of Publication: 1990
Pages: 120
Notation Type: Algebraic (AN)
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No board and men are necessary to enjoy this booklet. Enough diagrams are provided for you to follow each position to its completion.
Chess with unusual positions is an altogether different world. There will be those who will want to solve them form the first diagram ? others will wait and start with the second diagram. But we are not going to challenge you to solve anything! This is where creative imagination is the order of the day ? where routine is scorned for the sheer love of artistry.
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Baltimore-area authorities announced heightened security after bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday, though officials emphasized there was no evidence of threats here.
At least three people were killed and scores were injured in the blasts, which occurred at the finish line of the marathon.
Public safety officials described checks on "critical infrastructure" as a precaution. Baltimore police said fans at Tuesday's game between the Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays at Camden Yards might see tactical officers deployed outside the stadium as they step up cautionary patrols. The Maryland Stadium Authority also said there would be enhanced security.
"We do not discuss ballpark security measures in detail, but Major League Baseball already has stringent policies in place, and we are working with MLB and local authorities to further increase security in the wake of this incident," said Greg Bader, the Orioles' vice president of communications.
The blasts put police on alert in major cities across the United States, including in Washington and New York City, sites of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts was in the city's Watch Center and conferring with senior command staff about the affected areas, including public transit and places of worship, department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
"There's no credible threats to Baltimore; we've received no intelligence," Guglielmi said. "This is just proactive planning, given what's happening" in Boston.
Vice President Joe Biden was scheduled to be in Baltimore on Tuesday evening for an event previewing the new University of Baltimore School of Law building, which Baltimore police said affected the decision to beef up security.
Baltimore County Police Chief Jim Johnson also directed commanders to begin checking infrastructure sites, according to department spokeswoman Elise Armacost.
The Maryland Transit Administration, which oversees public transit, encouraged riders to call 410-454-7721 to report suspicious activity or unattended packages.
Baltimore Sun reporter Eduardo A. Encina and Reuters contributed to this article.


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Galion High School
Galion Primary School
The Crestline Municipal Swimming PoolThe Crestline Municipal swimming pool features a shallow end for toddlers, wheelchair access and a large water slide. Advocate photo
Galion Intermediate School
Crestline Exempted Village School DistrictFor the first time we are housed in a beautiful single facility for grades K-12, located next to the location of the previous high school
Galion Middle School
Playground at Hamilton ParkCrestline is known for its parks and recreational areas. This playground is located at Hamilton Park. Advocate photo
Crestline Public LibraryThe Crestline Public Library on North Thoman Street is an excellent facility offering a large collection of books and multi-media materials, and several meetings rooms available for free rental. Advocate photo
Crestline Village Hall, Fire & Police Dept.Crestline's Village Hall, Fire Department and Police Department are located at 100 North Seltzer Street. Advocate photo
Brownella CottageThe home of Episcopal Bishop William Scranton Brown, was built in 1887 at a cost of $6,500. In 1979 it was given to the Galion Historical Society and presently serves as their headquarters/museum.
The Log HouseLocated at Heise Park in Galion, this structure was built around 1822 as a home, then became the original "GALION PUBLIC LIBRARY & READING ROOM".
The Big Four DepotLocated in Galion, built in 1900 and purchased by the city of Galion in 2000. In the railroads' hey-day, 32 passenger and mail trains came through Galion on an average day.
The Galion TheatreLocated in Downtown Galion, the former movie theatre known as, "THE GALION" was built in 1949. In 1993 it was sold to "THE GALION COMMUNITY THEATRE GROUP".
Veteran's MemorialLocated at Heise Park in Galion and was dedicated on May 18, 2002. The memorial is in honor of men and women from the Galion area who have served in our armed forces.
Galion Community Center-YMCA
Galion Public LibraryLocated in Galion and built in 1904. The money to build this beautiful Classical Ionic Design building was provided by Andrew Carneige.
Galion-Park Square Gazebo
Shunk MuseumLocated on North Thoman Street in Crestline. Home of the Crestline Historical Society.
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How to train your brain to reach 2017 health goals
A NEW pair of gym tights and some fresh Nike kicks might seem like the key to making 2017 your year to get fit and healthy, but the secret ingredient isn't the lycra - it's what's going on in your head.
We had a mind-opening chat with Brisbane-based clinical psychologist Dr Matthew Worthington to find out his tips and tricks on how to train your brain to reach your goals.
He said it started with understanding why we, as humans, work the way we do, and why binge-eating and lazing on the couch is a bad habit we find so appetising, and one that is difficult to break.
"It's all about energy - we want immediate energy, to conserve it and avoid energy-thieving sources" he said.
He used the example of a junk-food binge as immediate energy - it makes you feel full, satisfied and energised - which we then don't want to give up. Naturally our bodies want to conserve that energy, not expel it.
So how do you motivate yourself to want to get fit and healthy, when your brain is telling you it wants to watch another six episodes of Westworld and eat takeaway?
You explore these five psychological areas:
It's all about reciprocation
Dr Worthington said humans were wired to respond to reciprocation.
"It's about benefit for the burn - what will I get back immediately from burning this energy," he said.
"We could say 'I need to go running', but then we might think 'it takes a lot of energy and then I'll be exhausted and I won't get much back in the short-term'."
If you can find something that gives you immediate return, you'll be more likely to engage in it.
Simply the feeling of elation after a good workout can be all the body needs to want to do it again.
He said it dated back to tribal days where humans relied on reciprocation from others to feel safe - for example, 'I'll get you some water if you get me some food'.
He said accountability to a trainer or coach was a good start because the praise from the coach after a session was a form of reciprocation the body craved.
"You may think 'I'll do this more often because I want more praise."
Break your behaviour chain
Humans are beings of routine. We wake up, have a shower, eat breakfast, walk to work, get a coffee, go home, go to sleep, then do it all again the next day.
Dr Worthington said the best way to train your brain to do something new, was to break this behaviour chain.
"If you want to start running (target behaviour), don't focus on that straight away. Look at the distal behaviours (the other elements around it)," he said.
"Try sleeping on the opposite side of the bed, ordering a different coffee, or walk a different route to work.
"Make little changes that will give you that sense of winning and build your confidence.
"It helps you realise it's safe to change and you're more likely to go running - your target behaviour."
Use brain association
Sometimes when we hear a certain song, or see a particular movie, we automatically think of another time or place when that same song or movie was playing. It's called brain association.
Dr Worthington said this was great to get you motivated for exercise.
"Put on music that was playing when you achieved something great or felt good - even if it was five years ago - and it will bring back that mood state," he said.
Plan for a relapse
Everyone relapses. It's a fact.
"Even personal trainers relapse when it comes to exercise," Dr Worthington said.
"So you need to put a strategy in place and plan for it.
"It might be where a coach comes in or a support network, but know you will relapse at some stage and understand it's not a sign of failure - it's part of change."
Address trauma
Dr Worthington said often habits and behaviours were a result of a trauma or an event that "caused an elevated heartrate and a distressing moment".
"Because of trauma, we keep drinking, smoking, taking drugs or whatever the bad habit is, so it's important to recognise if there is something deeper going on and address it so you can feel better about yourself and more easily cope with change."
If you've got the new gym clothes ready to go and were just struggling to find the motivation to use them, take Dr Worthington's advice on board and train your brain to reach your goals.
For some inspiration and motivation, check out the Join the Movement campaign.


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by Paula M. Riley
When the Red Barons lost to the Sky Chiefs in Chestnut Hill Youth Sports Club's (CHYSC) playoff game, last Saturday, June 22, tears were shed. And not only by young players on the losing team. As a parent of two Red Barons, I too had misty eyes.
It wasn't this minor league team's one-run loss and their elimination from the playoffs that caused my tears, rather that bittersweet feeling parents experience as they witness the joy and pain their children endure.
The Barons wanted to triumph and, after a long season of rain postponements and batting practice, they weren't ready for it all to end.
Ours was one of those seasons you think you'll never forget, even though you know the details will fade. Leading the kids was Brien Tilley, one of the most positive and encouraging coaches I've ever met. For the first, and probably only time, my daughter and son played on the same baseball team. In the final game, playing at shortstop and second base, they pulled off a force out at second. Forget any ESPN "Play of the Day" – this was by far the best moment in baseball history.
As they high-fived each other, the stands erupted. Parents beside me were as excited for the sibling pair as I was. I wanted to pinch myself.
"This is what it's all about," I thought.
CHYSC (formerly known as Fathers Club), brings families and communities together in a way unlike other experiences. Sitting in those stands were families we met at our first tee ball game years ago, friends from school and neighbors; previously just familiar faces we now call friends.
All of us were brought together the same way CHSYC has been uniting families since its inception in 1962. Sharing the ups and downs of six innings, we also shared many laughs and conversations, and week after week, built relationships. My kids now spend afternoons with their new buddy, the Barons' catcher who lives just around the corner and our weekends include cookouts with teeball friends.
In a community where kids attend multiple schools, CHYSC offers an opportunity for new friendships and stronger neighborhoods. Since ours is a small pedestrian village, we encounter friends made at CHYSC long after the final out. Our family has formed great bonds with families we never would have known otherwise. We are thankful for these friendships and hope that next season, even more families will join CHYSC baseball.
Some may find the game of baseball too slow, not athletic enough or simply boring. I appreciate these sentiments as I once felt the same way. A closer look and five years at the sidelines have taught me differently. Baseball is the fine balance between team and individual challenges.
I am now convinced that standing at the plate with a full count, two outs and down one run in the last inning will better prepare my kids for a boardroom presentation than any class they'll take in school.
Whether bunting to advance the runner or letting another player catch the fly ball, players learn critical lessons about relying on others and putting team above self. When my children console each other after a strikeout or jump on one another when they cross home plate, I feel overwhelming gratitude that I have healthy kids who can play ball together and share it all with such a great community.
There is so much that goes into creating these memories and as this season ends I am thankful for volunteer coaches, Joe Pie's daily attention to the Water Tower fields, volunteers selling treats at the snack bar, sponsors, patient tee ball parent coaches and everyone else working behind the scenes. Sure, sometimes I complain about the organizational issues and kinks in the CHYSC system. Ultimately though, when Saturday morning comes around whether I'm watching my teeball player's proud face after a 'hit' or walking home from a victory at the Water Tower, I count CHYSC as one of the reasons Chestnut Hill is such a great place to live.


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Imagine the Salzburg Festival where the only Mozart performed is Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and a group of songs; or Bayreuth when the only Wagner performed is the Siegfried Idyll and the Wesendonck songs? No? Then what about this year's Aldeburgh Festival when the only music of Britten heard was the Chinese Songs, Winter Words and some of his early film scores? Oh yes and there was also a talk entitled ' Ben, Peter, Imo and Co.' by somebody with the same name as myself. Still, a pretty meagre crop. But with a director who confessed that his reaction to the music of Benjamin Britten was "neutral', what you expect is what we get.
As a pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, however, is first class as he has shown again and again. He was brilliant this year, for example, in Bartok's Sonata for two pianos and percussion and, indeed, in anything he played, including Elliott Carter's Interventions, composed when the American composer was approaching his 100th birthday. This substantial piece was played with the City of Birmingham Symphony conducted with his usual mastery by Oliver Knussen, himself celebrating a birthday, his 60th.
O.K. also brought vividly to life two Ives works, the Fourth of July shenanigan and the wonderful Three Places in New England. Bartok's Three Village Scenes (with small female chorus) was a delightful and rarely heard item. Also heard was Harrison Birtwistle's Cantus Iambeus a short work that confirmed his radio statement:
"I am not in the entertainment business " (as if we didn't know!). Knussen's own Requiem for Sue (his wife) was eloquently sung by the soprano Dawn Upshaw.
Great imagination and innovation was shown in an unusual entertainment directed by Netia Jones: three song cycles were sung (and touchingly mimed) by James Gilchrist, tenor of excellence, while decorative and illuminating film went on behind him. All three had to do with childhood and early adulthood: Britten's aforementioned Winter Words, dramatic vignettes that miraculously add an extra dimension to Hardy's poems, Finzi's more homely and almost parochially English A Young Man's Exhortation (also Hardy) and Michael Tippett's cantata Boyhoods End, words by the naturalist W.H. Hudson that recall his childhood in South America, Far Away and Long Ago.
Peter Pears wrote at the time when he premiered the work in 1943 with Britten at the piano, the piece shows "that innovative and radiant fantasy" of Tippett. Gilchrist coped effortlessly, with the coloratura and awkward intervals and Anne Tilbrook did the same with the piano part (which provoked Britten to write to the composer "I wish your piano parts weren't so difficult".)
Other festive delights were the Keller Quartet's fine playing of Bartok's quartets and several transcriptions of Bach and two evenings of unaccompanied choral works: the Monteverdi Choir in an uplifting trawl through early English church scores: Byrd, Tallis, Tomkins and the lesser known but wonderful Robert White (1538 – 1574). Gesualdo's religious music was beautifully tuned and toned by the Callegium Gent direction by Philippe Herreweghe (some could have appreciated a group of some spicy madrigals rather than a whole evening of the penitential Good Friday music that we were given.) It was interesting to compare the style of the two ensembles: John Eliot Gardiner's was more dramatic and passionate, Herreweghe's (appropriately of course) more staid and, erm!, Belgian.
The veteran pianist Menahem Pressler (remember him all those years in the Beaux Arts Trio, one of the great chamber music groups of our time?) played Mozart, Lv B, Chopin and Schubert (the last Sonata in B flat) and gave consummate pleasure. The high point was the pianissimo singing of Chopin's D flat Nocturne, opus 27/2; the sound and shaping ravished the ear – bliss! Alfred Brendel's fingers came out of retirement to illustrate his lecture on Liszt with works he hasn't played in for public for donkey's years. Other pianists included Peter Serkin's rather penitential first half of present day conundra and a magisterial account of LvB's masterly Diabelli Variations; and an enterprising replica of the piano recital that Bela Bartok gave to some no doubt bewildered school girls in 1923 (they can't have known what hit them as the Hungarian arch-modernist regaled them with his early extremely rebarbative pieces of that time.) The excellent pianist was Tatiana Stefanovich, the Jugoslav musician, who had earlier partnered Aimard in Bartok Sonata.
A feature of the Festival, as usual, was that some of the concerts took place in venues away from the Maltings in Snape, the unique Blythburgh Church with its painted angels on the roof, the machine vault in Leiston where the piano stood next to a vintage locomotive, Orford's spacious church, and the school hall where Bartok had earned his £15 – fee nearly ninety years ago.
It should be mentioned, finally, that next year, the centenary of Britten's birth, the planners are actually going to programme several works by the Suffolk genius, including Peter Grimes on the beach! (bring your sou'westers).


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Van Halen to Begin Work On New Album
David Lee Roth confirms Van Halen will begin work this summer for a follow up to 2012's 'A Different Kind of Truth,' but cautions not to expect a studio effort anytime soon -- maybe not for as long as three years.
"We are going to be getting together, not this month, at the end of June to start preparing for some new recording and some new songs," Roth tells FasterLouder.
Those sessions will precede a return to the road for Van Halen, which has November dates set in Japan. 'Truth' saw the group release its first full-length studio effort with Roth as frontman since 1984, but the supporting tour was subsequently derailed because of health issues for Eddie Van Halen.
Even with the guitarist healed up, however, Roth says fans can expect a lengthy gestation period for this promised new material. Quality, he adds, takes time.
"We plan ahead by about two-and-a-half years in advance, which sounds extravagant," Roth says, "(but) from the time you go, 'Let's start to write some songs,' until all of the machines of production and humanity kick in, things move achingly slow -- achingly slow. Especially if you are art-centric, if you want something to last, it's going to take a long time to put it all together. Quick up is quick down. We know about one-hit-wonders and we know about fast, but it's about three years, it takes about three years."


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TORONTO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The possibility of a second offer for BlackBerry Ltd reversed a slide in its stock price on Wednesday after the struggling smartphone maker said it expected to record $400 million in pre-tax charges related to cuts announced last month.
A person familiar with the matter told Reuters that private equity group Cerberus Capital Management LP was considering an offer for BlackBerry, which put itself on the block in August after bleeding market share to other smartphone makers.
The Wall Street Journal earlier named Cerberus as one of two firms that specialize in distressed investing that might be looking at BlackBerry. It did not name the second firm.
The Journal quoted one of its sources as saying that Cerberus aims to sign a confidentiality agreement with BlackBerry that would give it access to private financial information, but that it might in the end not bid.
Cerberus declined to comment.
BlackBerry shares were up about 1 percent, reversing a 5 percent fall earlier in the session.
The stock, at about $8 by mid afternoon, remained well below a tentative $9 a share offer from a consortium led by Toronto insurer Fairfax Financial Holdings Inc, which wants to take the smartphone maker private.
BlackBerry, which increasingly competes unsuccessfully with Apple Inc's iPhones and devices running Google Inc's Android operating system, accepted the tentative $4.7 billion Fairfax offer last month.
Fairfax and BlackBerry declined to comment.
"We do not intend to disclose further developments with the respect to the process until we approve a specific transaction or otherwise conclude the review of strategic alternatives," a BlackBerry spokesman said.
Waterloo, Ontario-based BlackBerry, previously known as Research In Motion, was founded by Mike Lazaridis, whose little wireless devices offered the first easy way for lawyers, executives and politicians to access email away from the office.
Lazaridis left the company last year but remains a major shareholder. The Journal said he is also assessing whether to bid. Lazaridis could not be immediately reached for comment.
In the latest in a string of underwhelming results, BlackBerry last week reported a wide loss and slumping sales. It will cut 40 percent of its workforce to halve operating expenses.
When BlackBerry reported these results, it said it would update its 2013 outlook in a regulatory filing, and the likely $400 million in expected charges formed part of the latest filing, released late on Tuesday.
It expects to take those charges - for severance, "network simplification costs" and other expenses - over the remainder of this fiscal year, which ends March 1, 2014, and in the first quarter of fiscal 2015. It had previously said it would take a $100 million charge for the current fiscal year.
In a blow to BlackBerry's hopes that it could succeed as a niche supplier of secure email services, the filing also said corporate and government customers have been slow to adopt BlackBerry's new servers, which manage new BlackBerry devices as well as iPhones and Android devices.
BlackBerry said it reduced the price of its touchscreen Z10 device during the quarter and plans further incentives to boost sales. It kept some BlackBerry 10 sales to distributors off the books in the quarter due to uncertainty over their eventual sale price and the rate at which they may be returned.
BlackBerry also said it intends to sell $122 million of redundant property, plant and equipment assets as part of its cost-cutting drive.
It said its property, plant and equipment had a net book value of $2.2 billion at the end of August, while it valued its intellectual property at $3.35 billion.
The proceeds of any real estate sale may make BlackBerry a more attractive target. But buyers may simply be looking for detailed estimates of the value of the assets.
Reporting by Alastair Sharp and Allison Martell in Toronto and Greg Roumeliotis in New York; editing by Andrew Hay and Janet Guttsman


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Chris McCue needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 65 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
In Massachusetts alone, nearly 3,000 kids are on waiting lists for mentors, and the vast majority are boys from communities of color (mostly African-American and Latino). On the flip side, most current mentors are Caucasian. We need a compelling logo and general campaign identity to be used on promotional postcards, other possible collateral and the Web, to help us appeal to and attract more mentors of color (especially men; but women of color are also needed).
http://www.Youcanmentor2.org -- Change your life and the life of a child. Become a mentor today!
Based on feedback from leaders in the communities we're targeting, we want the creative approach to focus in on telling the stories of current mentors of color, and the enormous amount of fulfillment they get from being in a child's life. We also want them to tell prospective mentors that it's easier than it looks. We envision using close-up, active photos of African-American and Latino mentors. (Our non-profit organization, Mass Mentoring Partnership -- http://www.massmentors.org -- is an umbrella for youth mentoring programs across Massachusetts (including Big Brothers Big Sisters organizations).
- For promotional postcard: Web URL & tagline: Change your life and the life of a child. Become a mentor today!
Lots of photos of mentors/mentees of colorColor scheme must complement Pantone 7470c and Pantone 5487c (from our organizational brand)A compelling design that will help to attract men (not too soft)
- Stereotypical multicultural designs (no African stick figures, drums, etc.)
- large blocks of reversed-out type
- capital letters
- too many funky fonts
- too busy/difficult to read