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This time of year, gardening can make you feel as hot as Priscilla Queen of the Desert!
With water restrictions and heat advisories, who wants to get into that mess? The drought and high temperatures have also caused butterflies to suffer, leaving their numbers well below normal for the season. In addition to the gardens we plant to supplement their diet, butterflies rely on native plants throughout their lifecycle. The lack of rain has caused the wildflowers either to have a very short blooming period, or not bloom at all. That means a decrease in nectar for butterflies. Native host plants as well are suffering in the dry heat, leaving caterpillars short of food as well. Triple digit temperatures cause female butterflies to not lay eggs and in general cause the overall populations to languish.
But, there is good news.
Soon the triple digits should be a thing of the past and we can all get outside and start tending our gardens again instead of watching through the window as they shrivel. The butterflies will be back as well and we need to be ready for them.
|Cockrell Butterfly Center Fall Plant Sale Saturday, October 8
If your garden needs perking up, head over to the Cockrell Butterfly Center's Fall Plant Sale on Saturday, October 8th, from 9 to 11am, on the 7th level of the parking garage at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. We will have a wide variety of host and nectar plants to attract butterflies, bees and hummingbirds to your garden.
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preserve these fragile wonders by creating a butterfly habitat for local species
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Check out the list of available plants for more information.
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2. Bring a wagon to cart around your goodies.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. - The Pfeiffer University men's volleyball made history this weekend kicking off their 2010 inaugural season with four matches in the Nickel City Invitational in upstate New York. The Falcons won their first-ever set play, but dropped the opening match 3-1 (30-26, 23-30, 20-30, 18-30) to D'Youville College. Pfeiffer bounced back for the first-ever match win in a 3-0 (30-14, 30-22, 30-23) sweep over Hilbert College in the nightcap. On Saturday, the Falcons were swept 3-0 (21-30, 30-32, 26-30) by Medaille College, again bouncing back for a win in the trip finale over Johnson and Wales out of Rhode Island. Pfeiffer took care of JWRI 3-1 (30-22, 27-30, 30-25, 30-26).
MATCH ONE: D'Youville 3, Pfeiffer 1
History began for the Falcons as Andrew Whalen, Eric Edelman, Michael Dhalle, Micah Bortner, Clancy Gay, Evan Fullerton and libero Mark Hess all took the floor at 4:00 p.m. Pfeiffer took their very first set win in the opener holding off D'Youville 30-26. The Spartans rallied for a set two win 30-23, before securing 30-20 and 30-18 set wins to clinch the match in four. D'Youville hit .303 in the final set, hitting .168 for the match. The young Falcons hit .051 in their inaugural match.
Bortner had a match-high 17 kills, hitting a team-high .267, to lead the Falcons. Gay also finished the night with double-digit kills with 10. In addition, Fullerton delivered with 40 assists as Hess led with 13 digs. D'Youville scored a pair of 13-kill performances by Chris Temple and Jeremy Sajdak in the win. Pfeiffer did out-block the Spartans 13-8.
MATCH TWO: Pfeiffer 3, Hilbert 0
The Falcons first-ever match win as a varsity program came in quick fashion sweeping Hilbert in three. Gay led with a team-high 11 kills followed closely by Edleman's 10. Fullerton again led the way in the helper category with 44 assists. Pfeiffer hit .294 for the match, including a .400 mark in set two.
Hilbert was led by Dan Wolfe's six kills and Richard Sykora's five. The Hawks committed 32 errors hitting just .093 in the loss.
MATCH THREE: Medaille 3, Pfeiffer 0
Medaille came out of the gate on Saturday morning hitting .577 in the first set en route to the sweep. The Mavericks hit .346 for the match and were led by Ryan Murdie's 14 kills. Ryan Metz finished with 13. Sam Arnold had a game-high 38 assists.
For the Falcons, Bortner was the only offensive player to end up in double-figures in the kill department at 14. Fullerton again assisted very well helping out of 23 of the team's 24 assists. The early morning match saw the visitors hit just .144 for the three sets.
MATCH FOUR: Pfeiffer 3, Johnson & Wales (RI) 1
Mariano and Gay paced the Falcons with 17 kills leading to a tournament-finale win in Buffalo. Edelman had a dozen kills for a .667 hitting percentage. Fullerton put up a new season-high with 65 assists. As a team, the Falcons hit .355 in set one and finished the day with a .317 mark in set four.
Before anyone stepped onto a court, the season didn't exactly start the way anyone had planned. The Falcons were originally supposed to arrive in Buffalo on Thursday night, but bad weather in Charlotte caused their flight to be delayed, which in turn caused them to miss their connector in Atlanta. Pfeiffer had to catch the first flight of out Atlanta to Buffalo on Saturday morning.
The Falcons now look ahead to their first-ever Conference Carolinas match to take place on Thursday night, February 4th. Pfeiffer will travel to Mount Olive to take on the Trojans at 7:00 p.m.

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Shoot-out in Watertown
Shoot-out in Watertown
Police say the Marathon bombing suspects fired on them in Watertown from behind the SUV they had stolen in a carjacking.
Watertown resident Andrew Kitzenberg shot photos of the shoot-out from the third floor of his home.
"It sounded like fireworks or firecrackers — you know, 'pop-pop-pop-pop,' " Kitzenberg said, recalling the gun battle outside his door.
Shortly after the gunfire began, Kitzenberg said, he watched the two suspects hurl explosives at police.
As events unfolded, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, would be killed, shot by police then run over by his younger brother, Dzhokhar, 19, in his desperate attempt to escape.
As soon as the black SUV driven by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left the street, officers rushed toward the green sedan and the spot of the shooting.
A member of the bomb squad inspected a blast mark in the street where a large explosion had taken place.
Heavily armed agents descended on the scene after the shoot-out.
The vehicle at the bottom of the photo was aimed at the suspects to draw fire by a Watertown police officer, who exited the vehicle before sending it toward them.
The intersection of Dexter and Nichols streets was blocked off after the shoot-out.


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New Haven, Conn. – Three Bulldogs have been named All-Ivy selections following the 2009-10 season.
Senior captain Alia Aziz made the All-Ivy team along with juniors Logan Greer and Sarah Toomey. This is Aziz's first All-Ivy appearance. Greer has made the team for the third consecutive season, while Toomey is making her second straight appearance.
2010 Women's Squash All-Ivy
Alia Aziz, Yale (Sr., New York, N.Y.)
Julie Cerullo, Princeton (Fr., Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Laura Gemmell, Harvard (Fr., Toronto, Ont.)
Logan Greer, Yale (Jr., Berwyn, Pa.)
Nirasha Guruge, Harvard (So., Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Kristen Lange, Penn (Sr., Woodinville, Wash.)
Jackie Moss, Princeton (Jr., Calgary, Alb.)
Sarah Toomey, Yale (Jr., Norwich, Vt.)
Valeria Wiens, Dartmouth (Fr., Hanover, N.H.)
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Here's a platform for all you film makers, singers, foodies and photographers. Samsung is joining hands with UK's hottest talent to give people an opportunity of a lifetime. 'Launching People' is a programme that will aim at helping those who want to launch a career in the respective fields. These talented artists along with Samsung, will search high and low for undiscovered talent in the country. They would aim at finding people with extraordinary potential and original ideas. The chosen candidates would then be guided on a one-on-one basis by their inspirational mentor and work towards creating a unique project. The journey from selecting the candidate, to working with the mentors, to finally launching the project will be documented and aired on television later in the year.
The celebrity mentors are:
Idris Elba- award winning actor, producer and DJ for the film category
Singer-songwriter, performer and actress Paloma Faith for the music category
For the food segment, Gizzi Erskine- the leading pop up chef and food writer and
Rankin who is a world famous portrait and fashion photographer mentoring the photography segment.
If you are food lover, budding film maker, musical game changer or photographer, then use this platform to pitch your brilliant ideas to those who are good in what they do, and can mentor you towards a great career. Andy Griffiths, President of Samsung UK and Ireland says, 'Everyone knows Samsung for launching products and every day we're inspired by people who use those products to achieve amazing things. 'Launching People' is all about doing just that – launching people's potential through technology, whatever their stage in life. We hope to give people with passion, ambition and a hungry mind, a launch pad for their bright ideas and change their lives in a positive way.'
For us foodies, here's what Gizzi Erskine has to say. She is looking for someone who has passion and knowledge about food, and who is happy to be a little unconventional and break the rules. I'm sure there are readers out there who fit this bill to the T. Even if you don't, there is no harm in giving it a go. Who knows, maybe you'll be the next big thing in the food industry :)
This is how you can get involved:
Make a 2 minute video all about you and your ambition - a perfect chance to show off your passion, personality and your project idea to get the attention of the mentors. Add an image to it along with some copy and you're good to go. Log on to www.launchingpeople.co.uk to find out more, and you can also upload your submission there.
Up for grabs:
There are 2 opportunities for everyone:
1. The mentors will select four candidates with whom they'll work one-to-one. The chosen proteges will spend 2 to 3 weeks together, working closely with their mentors in a house fully furnished with Samsung's latest technology on their personal projects, building towards a grand launch event and making their ideas and ambitions a reality.
2. The public will get to vote for one winner in each category to receive GBP 500 for personal tuition and Samsung technology up to the value of GBP 2000.
Submissions are open till Thursday 6th March, 2014, and the final four will feature in a television series which will air on TV in spring this year
The 'People's Choice' winners, voted for by the public on Facebook, will be announced on Friday 7th March, 2014
There are so many of you out there who are so good in what you do, but have not been given an opportunity to shine in the field. So make use of this fabulous opportunity Samsung has put forth and make yourself proud.
Disclaimer: This is a featured post for Samsung. All views and opinions are my own. Photographs and videos are courtesy of Samsung Launching People.
Disclaimer: This is a featured post for Samsung. All views and opinions are my own. Photographs and videos are courtesy of Samsung Launching People.


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Recently, I read an online article that I can't find any more, but haven't been able to get off my mind. It was written by a man who chose to have himself circumcised as an adult. His father was intact, and left the man intact, but apparently he had some problems with his foreskin tearing painfully sometimes during sex, so chose to have it all removed, and is now a proponent of circumcision.
Among the benefits he saw, was that he could now have oral sex performed on him, since before then, the sensations were just way too intense, and did not register as pleasure. So, he proves that removing the foreskin reduces sexual feeling. No surprise there.
In the article, he says that he cannot think of a reason why not to circumcise any sons he may have. But — and this is where the title of my post comes from — in the article he wrote, he gives ample reason why he should leave his sons intact, if he could but view it this way. When he told his father that he was going to have himself cut, his father was incredulous, and just sort of shook his head in amazement and disbelief that his son would do that. What? You mean that his father may have actually liked being intact, and may have liked having a foreskin, and may not have had any pain or discomfort from being whole? Okay, so the son didn't — I'll accept that as true; but does it necessarily follow that his future sons would wish to cut like their father, rather than uncut like their grandfather? The man writing the article was glad to be circumcised; fine. But that was a choice he made for himself. Can't he let his own sons make that choice themselves, rather than forcing it on them as infants? What if his sons grow up and are mad that they are cut? — there are plenty of men who were circumcised as infants who are sad or angry about it, or are at least curious as to what it might have been like to be intact. There are also men who were talked into being circumcised as adults who now regret their decision.
One thing is certain, once it's done, you can't undo it. [Well, there are those who attempt surgery or stretching to re-approximate their foreskins, but that takes time, and it's still not the same as being uncut.]
So, open letter to this man who chose to have himself circumcised, and is now planning on making that choice for his sons: Remember your father's dumbfounded reaction, think of how he shook his head in disbelief, when he found out that you wanted to remove part of your penis. Realize that he never regretted having his foreskin, and can only wonder why on earth you would want to remove yours. And realize that just as you are different from your father, and are glad to be circumcised, even so your sons may be different from you, and be glad to be intact.
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Suicide Silence Reveal Album Sampler for 'You Can't Stop Me'
One of this year's most anticipated albums is Suicide Silence's 'You Can't Stop Me.' Following the death of vocalist Mitch Lucker, this new record is the first to feature former All Shall Perish frontman Eddie Hermida. To pump fans up for the release, Suicide Silence have unleashed a full album sampler showcasing bits and pieces of the 'You Can't Stop Me' album.
The metal world was shocked on Nov. 1, 2012, the day Mitch Lucker passed away to due injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident on Halloween night. Suicide Silence remained relatively quiet for about a year before announcing solid plans to continue, which included the recruitment of Eddie Hermida.
Suicide Silence revealed the new track 'Cease to Exist' on May 6, which has received a positive reaction from fans, though they continue to miss Mitch Lucker's voice.
As for the 'You Can't Stop Me' album sampler, the new video posted by Nuclear Blast shares six full minutes of the new album. Along with Hermida's vocal contributions, the sampler also previews the deep gutturals of Cannibal Corpse's George 'Corpsegrinder' Fisher on 'Control.'
Check out Suicide Silence's 'You Can't Stop Me' album sampler above! The album is currently set for a July 15 release.


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If you look closely you can see an XS, some Ti Crown Jewels, a Steel Planet Cross and others.
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The 6 Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Rolling Stones
*This product is now in stock and ready for immediate shipping!
Now fans can see The Rolling Stones as they've seldom seen them – young, edgy and electrifying – and on their way to conquering the world! This Deluxe 2 DVD Collector's Edition features ALL SIX Ed Sullivan Show episodes starring The Rolling Stones who perform 17 of their greatest hits. Also featured is a 24 page booklet featuring rare television production documents and photos of The Rolling Stones as well as a 1966 replica ticket for entry to The Ed Sullivan Show. This is the first time these full shows have ever been released. Also included in these full episodes are performances by Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, The Muppets, Tom Jones and more.
DVD One
The Ed Sullivan Show – October 25, 1964
London Lee – Comedian
Itzhak Perlman – Wieniawski's "Concerto #2 in D Minor"
Stiller and Meara – Comedy Routine
Peg Leg Bates – Tap Dancer
Laurence Harvey – "Charge of the Light Brigade"
The Rolling Stones – "Around and Around"
The Kim Sisters – "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho"
The Berosinis – Acrobats
Phyllis Diller – Comedienne
The Rolling Stones – "Time Is On My Side"
The Ed Sullivan Show – May 2, 1965
The Rolling Stones – "The Last Time"
Topo Gigio – Topo falls in love
Morecambe and Wise – Comedy Sketch
Leslie Uggams – "My Melancholy Baby"
Gitta Morelly – Balancing Act
Dusty Springfield – "I Only Want to Be With You"
The Rolling Stones – "Little Red Rooster"
The Rolling Stones – "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"
Tom Jones – "Watcha Gonna Do When Your Baby Leaves You"
Totie Fields – Comedienne
The Half Brothers – Jugglers
The Rolling Stones – "2120 South Michigan Avenue" under credits
The Ed Sullivan Show – February 13, 1966
The Rolling Stones – "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
Señor Wences – Ventriloquist
Les Olympiades – Adagio Act
Eddie Schaeffer – Comedian
Hal Holbrook – Lincoln's Second Inaugural Speech
Romanian Folk Ballet – Traditional Music and Dance
The Rolling Stones – "As Tears Go By"
The Rolling Stones – "19th Nervous Breakdown"
Sandy Baron – Comedian
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The Rolling Stones – "Paint It, Black"
The Muppets – Rock `n' Roll Routine
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Louis Armstrong – "Cabaret"
Joan Rivers – Comedienne
Robert Goulet – "Once I Had a Heart"
Red Skelton – Comedian
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The Ed Sullivan Show – January 15, 1967
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The USDA Crop Report issued on Aug. 11 came in with a smaller-than-expected crop production estimate for the 2011 corn crop in the U.S.; however, it would still be the third largest U.S. corn crop in history, just below the record 2009 total corn production of 13.1 billion bushels. Based on Aug. 1 conditions, USDA is estimating the 2011 corn crop at almost 12.9 billion bushels, which is an increase of about 4% above the 2010 U.S. corn production. Total harvested corn acreage in the U.S. for 2010 is estimated at 84.4 million acres, compared to 81.4 million acres in 2010.
The U.S. corn carryover for 2011-2012 is now estimated at 714 million bushels, down 156 million bushels, or 18%, from the July USDA estimate. Estimates for corn usage in 2011-2012 for feed and ethanol were also reduced, which helped offset some of the reduced production estimates. The U.S. corn stocks-to-use ratio now stands at 5.4%, which is the second tightest ratio on record – trailing only 1995-1996 – and will likely provide continued strength to corn markets.
USDA is now projecting a national average corn yield of 153.0 bu./acre, just above the 2010 U.S. corn yield of 152.8 bu. The projected corn yield in the August report was lowered by 5.7 bu./acre compared to the July report due to unusually high temperatures and below-average precipitation across much of the Corn Belt during July.
Minnesota's average corn yield for 2011 is pegged at 166 bu./acre by USDA, which compares to the record average corn yield of 177 bu. in 2010 and 174 bu. in 2009. USDA is projecting Iowa's average corn yield at 177 bu./acre for 2011, which is up considerably compared to the 2010 average corn yield of 165 bu. The 2011 USDA corn yield estimates for the other major corn-producing states are Illinois at 170 bu., up significantly from 157 bu. in 2010; Indiana at 150 bu., down from 157 bu. in 2010; and Nebraska at 166 bu., which is the same as 2010.
The USDA report on Aug. 11 indicates a much lower level of soybean production in the U.S. in 2011, compared to 2010 production levels. USDA is estimating 2011 total soybean production at 3.05 billion bushels in the U.S. – approximately 8% below the 2010 total U.S. soybean production. USDA estimated total 2011 harvested soybean acreage at 73.8 million acres, compared to 76.6 million acres in 2010. USDA now projects that soybean ending stocks for 2011-2012 will decline compared to the current year, due to expected reductions in soybean production in 2011, and the continued strong export demand. The soybean stocks-to-use ratio is now estimated at below 5%, which could trigger further strength in the soybean market in the coming months.
The U.S. average soybean yield for 2011 is estimated at 41.4 bu./acre, down from 43.5 bu. in 2010, and below the record U.S. soybean yield of 44.0 bu. in 2009. Soybean yields in 2011 are expected to decrease in most major soybean-producing states except Iowa, where the projected 2011 yield is bu./acre, compared to 51 bu. in 2010. USDA is estimating Minnesota's 2011 soybean yield at 40 bu./acre, which is a significant drop from the 2010 average soybean yield of 45 bu. Other projected 2011 soybean yields are Illinois at 48 bu., Indiana at 43 bu., Nebraska at 52 bu. and South Dakota at 38 bu./acre.
Editor's note: Kent Thiesse is a former University of Minnesota Extension educator and now is Vice President of MinnStar Bank, Lake Crystal, MN. You can contact him at 507-726-2137 or via e-mail at email@example.com.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — An accounting executive for AEG Live LLC says the company spent $24 million producing Michael Jackson's ill-fated "This Is It" concerts.
Julie Hollander told a jury hearing a lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother against AEG that the tally involved expenses compiled through October 2009, roughly three months after the death of the pop star.
Budget documents shown Monday in the Los Angeles courtroom show the production was more than $2 million over budget, and that AEG made no payments to Conrad Murray, the physician later convicted of causing Jackson's death.
AEG budgeted $150,000 a month for Murray's treatment of Jackson as the concerts approached, but Jackson died of an anesthetic overdose before he signed Murray's agreement.
Hollander has testified that Jackson was responsible for 95 percent of production expenses if his comeback shows were canceled.
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text: With its race-derived hull and powerful performance, the Predator 54 is built for thrills. It's also built for comfort. The spacious cockpit plan with wetbar, dining area, sunpad and a large seating/dining area defines life onboard while below, the accommodation comprises a spacious saloon, fully equipped galley, a master suite with en-suite, a twin berth guest cabin and a two berth Pullman cabin aft, all enjoying their own high-quality entertainment systems. Nipping ashore is simple too. The tender sits on a neat roller arrangement in the aft garage and an automated system makes light of launching and retrieving.


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Last week, Governor Cuomo gave his third State of the State address, and touched on many of the major issues facing our state — Hurricane Sandy relief and recovery, job creation and economic growth, and gun control.
Similarly, when President Obama gives his inaugural address next week, I expect that he will bring up many of the same issues. What he needs to do, however, is be realistic about the current state of Social Security and propose real reforms. His administration is doing this country an injustice by not addressing our entitlement programs.
Case in point: As fiscal-cliff negotiations were heating up in Washington, the Obama administration refused to discuss Social Security because, as press secretary Jay Carney said, "It is not currently a driver of the deficit."
Let's set the record straight. The Congressional Budget Office projects that "over the next decade, Social Security's annual cash deficit will rise by nearly $100 billion, reaching $155 billion a year." If this continues, Social Security will account for nearly $200 billion in annual deficits, or almost 20 percent of our $1 trillion-plus deficit.
Investor's Business Daily recently analyzed the current Social Security law, which pays all benefits until the Social Security trust fund expires. According to the study, Social Security payments would raise the debt-to-gross domestic product ratio by 18 percentage points by 2032. According to IBD, "At that point, the yearly cost of paying benefits and interest tied to trust fund redemption would exceed Social Security revenue by 2.4% of GDP."
So tell me, how is Social Security not a driver of the deficit?
Many of us were hoping that President Obama would take a page out of President Clinton's playbook, becoming more fiscally conservative during his second term. In April 1998, Clinton made Social Security his top priority, saying, "It would be unconscionable if we failed to act, and act now."
Fifteen years later, that sentiment cannot be heard any louder. The longer we wait, the more enormous and costly the crisis becomes.
The minimum age to start receiving Social Security benefits must be increased from 62, when, currently, you can receive 75 percent of the monthly benefit.


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Minnie Lea Green
Minnie Lea Green (Minnielee or Minn to her family and friends), 81, of Benton, went to be with her heavenly father on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. She was born April 23, 1932, in Bruno, the only girl of three children, to her parents, Roy Ferdinand and Vera Myrtle Oglesby.
Minnie was a loving daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother (Nonnie) and homemaker. She was the first in her family to have graduated from high school and to have vocational training as a secretary. She met the love of her life, John Allen, while still in high school. She married him in June, 1950, making her a beautiful June bride. Through their partnership, and the blessings of the Lord, they were able to raise three children and achieve success in life.
She worked five years for the Arkansas Children's Colony in Alexander as an office secretary. In later years, she was also owner/manager of her own business, J and M Shoes, for over eight years. On her retirement from business, Minnie Lea's sole occupation was the love and care of her husband and family.
In 2004-05, Minnie Lea began her battle against breast cancer. She bravely endured chemotherapy, radiation and reconstructive surgery. She remained cancer-free until two years ago when her cancer recurred. Under the care of her oncologist, Dr. Thomas Sneed, Minnie Lea continued the fight until her death.
Minnie Lea was known for her beauty, both inside and out. She was also known for her graciousness to strangers and friends alike.
Minnie Lea was preceded in death by her mother and father: and one brother, William Jefferson Oglesby, who died as a newborn.
Left to honor and embrace her precious memory are her loving husband of 63 years, John Allen Green; her son, Richard Allen Green and wife Melissa of Jonesboro; her daughter, Jonna Lea West and husband Carl of Benton; and her son, John Allen Green Jr., also of Benton. Also surviving are her grandsons, Carl Aubrey West and wife Pam of Benton, John Mitchell West of Benton, and John Daniel Green of Jonesboro.
Other survivors are two brothers, Jim Oglesby and Le'roy Oglesby, both of Benton; nephews, nieces, in-laws, cousins and many other loving family members and friends.
Funeral service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18, at Ashby Funeral Home with Brother Brandon Burks and Brother Jay Jacobs officiating. Burial will follow at Lee Cemetery in Benton.
Pallbearers are Richard Allen Green, John Allen Green Jr., Carl Henry West, Carl Aubrey West (Bodiddle), John Mitchell West and John Daniel Green.
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It's been more than two months since Ziggy's life was taken from Jeff Fisher, but the pain of losing his four-legged best friend has yet to …
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It's been more than two months since Ziggy's life was taken from Jeff Fisher, but the pain of losing his four-legged best friend has yet to subside for the Westminster man.
"I miss him every day," Fisher said in a recent interview. "I miss him being there in the morning and coming home to him. He was awesome. He was like a son."
Ziggy, an 8-year-old border collie mix, was shot to death by an Adams County sheriff's deputy on Jan. 14, in an incident that resulted in two very different versions of events.
But Ziggy's death — as well as several other cases of officer-involved dog shootings around the state — could end up leading to a new law aimed at saving dogs' lives when police are called out to residences.
State Senate Bill 226, which has been dubbed the "Dog Protection Act," would require local law enforcement agencies to put in place training, and to adopt policies and procedures officers would be required to adhere to whenever they encounter dogs.
Republican Sen. David Balmer of Centennial, a sponsor of the bill, said in a recent interview that the idea would be for police to properly announce their presence whenever they are responding to house calls, in order to give owners some time to put their dogs outside, or into another room.
"We in this bill are creating a duty for law enforcement officers in non-violent situations to give the owner of a dog an opportunity to save their dog," Balmer said.
The bill states that there have been more than 30 officer-involved dog shootings around the state in the last five years alone.
Balmer also said that in cases where dogs are shot by police, the officer had been responding to a non-violent situation.
"Every time it gets covered by any news outlet, we find out about more dog shootings," Balmer said. "It's a bigger problem than any of us knew it was when we first started (working on the bill)."
Under the bill, a volunteer task force would be organized to develop training guidelines for law enforcement agencies.
Balmer did acknowledge that there is a "giant exception" area of the bill that lays out several instances where police would not be required to adhere to the training.
They include cases where police are responding to suspected drug houses, or if the house is included in a "dangerous dog" registry.
Jennifer Reba Edwards of the Wheat Ridge-based Animal Law Center said those exceptions are reasonable, but that the ultimate goal of the legislation is to create an environment where police are better trained to deal with animals who are near and dear to the lives of many people in any community.
"Most people don't see their dog as some piece of property," she said. "Most people see them as their short, hairy family members."
For Fisher, that was the case with Ziggy. His dog's death was made even more tragic after it turned out that deputies were responding to the wrong address that night. Adams County District Attorney Dave Young has decided not to file charges against the deputy, citing "significant discrepancies" between Fisher's and the deputies' versions of events from that evening.
Still, Fisher hopes that something good can come from this tragedy.
"It was unreal what happened," Fisher said. "But I hope this bill can prevent just one person's dog from being killed."
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BART to require deputy chief's approval to search homes
All searches that require BART police officers to enter homes will now require written approval by a deputy chief in the wake of the fatal friendly-fire shooting of a sergeant during an apartment search in Dublin, the transit agency's police chief said Monday.
Chief Kenton Rainey, speaking at a news conference at BART headquarters in Oakland, said he was not necessarily faulting the tactics used in last Tuesday's probation search that ended when Officer Michael Maes, a detective, accidentally shot and killed his supervisor, Sgt. Tom "Tommy" Smith.
But the tragedy has raised questions inside and outside of the BART police force about whether the transit agency's officers have enough training and experience to safely conduct such searches.
The shooting that killed Smith, the 42-year-old head of detectives, happened as officers were trying to recover stolen property at the Dublin apartment, five days after the robbery suspect who lived there was arrested.
Sources familiar with the investigation have told The Chronicle that Maes appears to have fired at Smith after momentarily regarding him as an armed threat. The two men had gone into the 723-square-foot apartment, which had a circular layout, along with another plainclothes detective and two uniformed officers, the sources said.
Rainey said BART Deputy Chief Jeff Jennings had known in advance about the probation search at the Park Sierra complex on Dougherty Road. The new policy, the chief said, requires that such notification be made in writing - and, like the old policy, mandates that a police supervisor be on scene during the search.
"I believe in officer safety, and this is just another layer of supervision by getting the deputy chief's written approval that they're fully aware of what's going on," Rainey said.
Officer's extra training
A funeral will be held Wednesday in Castro Valley for Smith, the first BART police officer to be killed in the line of duty. Among those attending will be Maes, who requested that his "role in the tragedy" be made public, the chief said Monday.
BART released more information about Maes, a 14-year department veteran who has served as a field training officer and an acting sergeant, and is certified as a rifle operator. Maes previously worked for the Moraga Police Department as a patrol officer and detective for 12 years.
"Detective Maes has an extensive background in the area of criminal investigations, where he has received extra training and experience in conducting search and arrest warrants," Rainey said.
The chief said BART detectives had conducted 18 probation searches in 2013. He did not specify how many of those involved Maes and Smith.
Rainey also said he had asked the U.S. Department of Justice to help BART make sure it had proper procedures for conducting searches, for using force against suspects and documenting those incidents, and for deploying body cameras.
Correcting deficiencies
The Chronicle has reported that Smith's shooting was not captured by cameras issued to all BART officers up to the rank of sergeant. The three detectives who went into the apartment weren't wearing them, sources said, and the two uniformed officers didn't activate their devices.
On Monday, Rainey declined to detail the circumstances leading up to the shooting, citing investigations by BART, the Alameda County district attorney and the county sheriff's office, which has jurisdiction in Dublin.
"Although I do have a better understanding of what occurred on that date, I do not have all the facts," he said.
Rainey said he expects to receive a report from the sheriff's office in three to four weeks. The internal BART police investigation, he said, will take 30 to 45 days to complete.
If deficiencies are uncovered, the department will correct them, the chief said, because on the day Smith was killed, "the outcome that we were trying to achieve did not occur." But he added that the tragedy could have happened despite "all the training and experience in the world."
"I believe in transparency," Rainey said. "As I stated before, we're not going to hide from the truth."
Services set for Wednesday
Funeral arrangements have been made for BART police Sgt. Tom "Tommy" Smith, who was accidentally shot and killed by a fellow officer during a probation search in Dublin.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Neighborhood Church of Castro Valley at 20600 John Drive. A viewing will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Chapel of the Chimes at 32992 Mission Blvd. in Hayward.
Donations to the family can be made through the Tommy Smith Memorial Fund at any Wells Fargo bank. Deposits can be made to Account No. 5148561086 under Kellie Smith or mailed to Tommy Smith Memorial Fund, c/o Wells Fargo Bank, 11020 Bollinger Canyon Road, Suite 1, San Ramon, CA 94582.
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Arduino → ARDUINO 328 Known Issues
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Currently Known Issues
- Using Analog Ports as Digital I/O is not currently supported.
- Changing UART0 from "System Comm Port" will cause the debugger to no longer work.
- Changing UART0 from "System Comm Port" may require re-downloading ROBOTC firmware to load a different program.
- The "Variable Intensity LED" and "Analog Write" pin options do not work. It is currently possible to use the "Ext. HBridge - Single PWM" option as a work around.
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I have been doing this church thing for a lot of years. I have sung hundreds of songs over the four decades or so that I have been darkening the church door. Some songs have great meaning to me. Some lyrics moved me to deep worship of God. Some times I really meant what I was singing. Other times I was singing through the motions while thinking about lunch and when the kick-off was going to happen. Gotta think that Satan loves the ADD brain.
One song that has always made me uncomfortable came up on the iPod today. The song was put to music by the legendary George Beverly Shea in 1932. The words were a poem written by Mrs.Rhea Miller in 1922. Shea recalled the moment.
At the age of twenty-three, I was living at home with my parents, continuing to work at Mutual Life Insurance and studying voice. Going to the piano one Sunday morning, I found a poem waiting for me there. I recognized my mother's handwriting. She had copied the words of a poem by Mrs. Rhea F. Miller, knowing that I would read the beautiful message, which speaks of choice. As I read these precious words:
I'd rather have Jesus than men's applause.
I'd rather be faithful to His dear cause.
I found myself singing the words in a melody that expressed the feelings of my heart."
Thanks to Mrs.Miller and Mr.Shea I found myself going through a rather uncomfortable self-examination today.
I'd rather have Jesus than silver or gold;
I'd rather be His than have riches untold;
I'd rather have Jesus than houses or lands,
I'd rather be led by His nail pierced hand.
What a timely verse for times like these. As I watch my worth dwindle daily can I really say that I would rather have Jesus than silver or gold? Maybe our economy will make that decision for me. Do I mean it when I sing that I'd rather be led by his nail pierced hand? Am I prepared to make Jesus more than an "activity" in my busy life? What would I have said if I was the young rich man described in Matthew? Here is the text from The Message.
Another day, a man stopped Jesus and asked, "Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?" Jesus said, "Why do you question me about what's good? God is the One who is good. If you want to enter the life of God, just do what he tells you."
The man asked, "What in particular?"
Jesus said, "Don't murder, don't commit adultery, don't steal, don't lie, honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as you do yourself." The young man said, "I've done all that. What's left?"
His response has always surprised me. I think I would have begged for mercy after that list. But the young man thought he was doing just fine. And then Jesus exposed his heart.
"If you want to give it all you've got," Jesus replied, "go sell your possessions; give everything to the poor. All your wealth will then be in heaven. Then come follow me."
That was the last thing the young man expected to hear. And so, crest-fallen, he walked away. He was holding on tight to a lot of things, and he couldn't bear to let go.
I have held on tight to a lot of things. As I get older I wonder why..
As he watched him go, Jesus told his disciples, "Do you have any idea how difficult it is for the rich to enter God's kingdom? Let me tell you, it's easier to gallop a camel through a needle's eye than for the rich to enter God's kingdom."
The disciples were staggered. "Then who has any chance at all?"
Jesus looked hard at them and said, "No chance at all if you think you can pull it off yourself. Every chance in the world if you trust God to do it."
I can do that. I can trust God. I have no choice because I have a long and spectacular track record of not being able to live this journey on my own ability. The song continues.
I'd rather have Jesus than men's applause;
I'd rather be faithful to His dear cause;
I'd rather have Jesus than world-wide fame,
I'd rather be true to His holy name.
Given the sales of my books I am pretty safe from the world-wide fame snare. But I do crave men's applause if I am not careful.
He's all that my hungering spirit needs,
I'd rather have Jesus and let Him lead.
Perhaps the uncertainty in the world will cause all of us to evaluate our dependence on Christ. I hope that I will continue to grow in my desire to echo Paul and his words to the Phillipians.
"What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ."
So can I sing the words of this classic hymn and mean it? I am getting closer as I learn (slowly) to put my full weight on the truths of identity in Christ and grace.


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March 29, 2011
Three Wabash track and field competitors have received the North Coast Athletic Conference Men's Athletic of the Week Awards. Junior Daniel Ambrosio was named the Field Athlete of the Week, while Charles Smother received Men's Sprints/Hurdles honors, while McCarthy received the Men's Distance award.
Ambrosio (left) posted the best mark in the javelin throw at Saturday's Yellow Jacket Open Invitational, hosted by Cedarville University. He won the event with a throw of 53.60 meters (175 feet, 10 inches). His mark is the second-best this season among NCAC throwers. Ambrosio is in his first season as a member of the Wabash track and field team.
Smothers (right) finished first out of 35 runners in the 100-meter dash at the Rhodes College Invitational, held Saturday in Memphis, Tennessee. He won the race with a time of 11.25 seconds, the second-quickest time posted by an NCAC runner this season.
McCarthy (left) won the 3000-meter steeplechase Saturday at Rhodes College, running away from the rest of the field with a time of 9:21.05. He was competing in the steeplechase for only the second time in his career, but managed to post a time fastest enough to reach the NCAA Division III provisional qualifying time for the national meet. McCarthy's steeplechase time is over 30 seconds faster than any posted this season by an NCAC athlete.


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Tuesday, May 21: Traders Watch Home Depot, Apple
Chris Dieterich takes a look at three blue-chip stocks to keep watch on, including Home Depot's earnings, and Apple and its tax issues. Photo: Getty Images.
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With the team's significant interest in aging nickel CB- Antoine Winfield, who are the nickel CBs who might be available to the Seahawks in this draft?
Apparently the team has visited with ex LSU CB- Tyran Mathieu and have check him out. Who are some of the others with good short area quickness and reliable coverage abilities?
Clearly Winfield would at present be better than most all of the draftable guys but who may be a likely developmental candidate?


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The American Optometric Society was formed a mere 4 months ago and will be hosting its Inaugural Meeting and Practice Management Seminar at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, California from March 26 to 28, 2010.
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The AOS is committed to giving its members a voice in their profession, supporting the common goals of its members and advocating for its members within other organizations. The American Optometric Society is an inclusive, transparent organization that works with local, regional and national optometric organizations. The AOS remains committed to the open communication with and the fair and equal representation of its members. Above all, the AOS is dedicated to excellence in patient care and the growth and expansion of optometrists' ability to serve the public.
Our basic target audience is optometrists that wish to improve the efficiency of their practices. The basic promo for the meeting is that it will provide 11 hours of CE (continuing education) to show the Doctors and their staff how to work smarter in the management of their practices. It's also the inaugural meeting for the American Optometric Society. The meeting is being held in San Diego, California, a great location at a great time of year to get away from the cold. Please see link below for more information on the meeting http://www.optometricsociety.org/in…eting.html.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Here is how you woo Debra Winger - the apparently reclusive, seemingly skittish Debra Winger - to Broadway: You don't play games.
NEW YORK (AP) � Here is how you woo Debra Winger � the apparently reclusive, seemingly skittish Debra Winger � to Broadway: You don't play games.
The playwright who managed to do it didn't first call Winger's people to find out if she's say yes if he offered her a role. He just threw his play in an envelope, sent it to her and followed it up with a call.
"I got a script in the mail and a phone call that said 'Please do my play,'" says the actress. "Right there, you're 50 yards down the field. You're like, 'Wow, I could hang out with this guy. He knows something about human nature.'"
It helps, of course, that the playwright in question is David Mamet. And it helps that the play in question, "The Anarchist," is a debate about if one can forgive someone's radical past, an issue close to Winger's heart.
So it didn't take long for "An Officer and a Gentleman" star to say yes, an act that has bedeviled so many others. The actress rather famously decided to stop working in the 1990s rather than do what she considered mediocre projects, inspiring Rosanna Arquette's 2003 documentary, "Searching for Debra Winger."
The Winger who shows up for an interview in an empty Times Square restaurant is hardly the shrinking J.D. Salinger of film � she's earthy and funny and generous, with a mind both swift and knowing.
Of the seafood bisque she sips hurriedly, she says: "This has so much shellfish, my Jewish grandmother is turning over in her grave." On her shearling coat: "I want to believe they skinned it, but the animal is still walking around." This is Winger on the choice of lunch table: "I have no opinion about this, which is really a relief."
Winger, 57, is making her Broadway debut in Mamet's play and is both exhilarated and freaked out. But you get the feeling that that's precisely what she's been waiting for.
"I think that's part of my deal � if it doesn't scare me, why do it? There must be something in there to mine, to plumb, if I have this feeling," she says. "That's why in the scary movies you're all yelling 'Don't open the door!' It's these things that we're compelled to do, I think, that holds something for our life."
It's actually not the first time Winger and Mamet have worked together. He was an extra in her 1987 movie "Black Widow." Winger played an FBI agent and while shooting a poker scene in Seattle, director Bob Rafelson asked his buddy Mamet to help out.
"I said, 'I don't know how to play poker,'" Winger recalls. "He said, 'They'll teach you.' And in walks Mamet. We spent half of a day together playing poker."
Fast-forward a quarter of a century, and the new Mamet-Winger collaboration is appropriately a little like a high-stakes poker game: Winger plays a prison warden interrogating an inmate who wants to be released and who is loosely based on former Weather Underground member Judith Clark.
The two women � Winger co-stars with Patti LuPone � circle each other to find truth. Is the ex-revolutionary sincere in her repentance? Can people change? What is justice?
Jeffrey Richards, who has produced several Mamet works, including this season's revival of "Glengarry Glen Ross," says Winger, who has been in only a few plays, seems at home.
"I'm struck by how naturally she's adapted to the stage," he says. "To do a two-hander is practically one of the most difficult challenges an artist faces and from Day One, she has been spot-on � intense, focused and thoroughly absorbed."
While the role of a prison warden might be a personal stretch for Winger, who veers left in her politics, the role "feels like a good fit," although she acknowledges her stiff warden is "not exactly someone that you'd want to take home and cuddle with."
The irony is that Winger herself has met with and championed the release of Judith Clark, who is serving a 75-years-to-life prison sentence after being convicted as a getaway driver in the 1981 robbery of an armored truck in which a guard and two policemen were killed.
Clark has rejected her past life, apologized for her actions and seemingly been transformed. Even so, although she never held or fired a gun during the crime, Clark has never gotten a chance to get in front of a parole board. "The indeterminate sentence is an un-American thing," Winger says. "Does that sound American to you?"
In the past 25 years since Winger and Mamet worked together, there's been a significant shift in the playwright's world view. Mamet has increasingly come out swinging at the left, attacking the New Deal, liberal education and income redistribution, among other targets.
Has that affected Winger and "The Anarchist"?
Not at all, the actress says. "I see his heart and his heart is good," she says, admitted that she also gets fed up with liberals. "It's not in his work. His work still understands the balance."
She also credits Mamet � not always known for his strongly written female parts � with crafting "two lion-hearted women" parts. "It's something we don't get very often," she says. "Maybe that is the problem � that people think they have to write women instead of human being."
Finding herself onstage hasn't always been easy, but Winger says it helps having LuPone, a Tony Award-winning singer and actress who has a long history with Mamet. "I'm hoping that if things get really rough, Ms. LuPone will break into song. I know that I always have that."
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The pool in wooded area near Deerfield's north meadows was a destination for artists. Around 1900, Frances and Mary Allen photographed it from a nearly identical angle to the one used by Arthur Negus Fuller (1879-1945) in this intaglio etching. In 1938, Fuller exhibited The Pool in the Woods in the Deerfield Valley Art Association exhibition at the Hall Tavern in Charlemont, Massachusetts. Arthur was the youngest son of George and Agnes (Higginson) Fuller of Deerfield, Massachusetts. In 1915, Arthur purchased the Little Brown House and studio barn on Albany Road. That same year, Fuller began printing monotypes. In 1919, he bought a printing press with his brother, Henry, for their shared Boston studio, and in 1920, they bought a second press for their studio at the Little Brown House. Arthur's first intaglio etchings date from this time. His earliest intaglio, or colored, etchings were printed with a single pass through the press. Fuller accomplished this by first inking the lines on the copper plate, wiping off the excess, then lightly daubing ink where he wanted color, using the tip of a twisted cloth, à la poupée. Consequently, each intaglio print in an edition is slightly differently from the next.
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Attempting to keep automatic spending cuts from taking effect on March 1, Senate Democrats, with White House backing, have proposed an alternative to the sequester.
Without congressional action, in coming weeks federal agencies will be forced to implement $85 billion across-the-board cuts as part of $1.2 trillion in cuts mandated over the next 10 years.
In key ways the Democrat's proposal hews closely to the farm bill passed by the Senate last summer. The "alternative sequester" would mean an end to direct payments, which were part of the 2008 farm bill extension passed in early January.
Ending direct payments would provide some $31 billion. Democrats would use $3.5 billion for disaster assistance and to fund programs left out of the aforementioned farm bill extension. The $27 billion-plus left would go to deficit reduction.
"In agriculture, we're being very serious about evaluating government spending and setting priorities for taxpayers as well as farmers and ranchers," said Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, during a Thursday (Feb. 14) afternoon press conference. "In the process of writing the farm bill (in 2012) and evaluating what made sense to spend taxpayer dollars on, we agreed on a bipartisan basis that direct payments didn't make sense, that we shouldn't be providing a subsidy to farmers during good times of high prices or when they didn't have a loss.
"We moved to a risk-based, market-based system that saved money but also makes a lot more sense."
Having just returned from a series of meetings with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Randy Veach, Arkansas Farm Bureau president, said farmers should continue with plans to begin signing up for farm programs on Feb. 19. In explaining the alternative proposal, "Sen. Reid said he'd take away direct payments for the 2014 through the 2023 farm bill. Obviously absent in that is he didn't attack the direct payments in the 2013 (farm bill) extension. That gives us a little more certainty that we will get those direct payments (this year)."
A vote on the proposal is expected the week after Congress returns from the President's Day break.
Reaction to the plan from farm and rural interest groups was quick and mixed.
"We applaud (Senate Leader Harry Reid) for proposing to fix the fiscally irresponsible and unfair farm bill extension that was slapped together behind closed doors at the end of 2012," said Ferd Hoefner, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Policy Director. "The package outlined today is a first step toward restoring both a sane fiscal policy and a fair farm bill extension. With that in mind, the sustainable agriculture community calls on House, Senate, and White House leaders to work immediately toward a deal that averts or substantially modifies the sequester and corrects the farm bill extension so that it actually extends the full farm bill while beginning the long overdue job of reforming subsidies."
Meanwhile, Andrew Grobmyer, executive vice president of the Agriculture Council of Arkansas, was clearly displeased with the proposal. "The Agricultural Council of Arkansas strongly opposes the Stabenow proposal to eliminate direct payments as part of a 'sequestration alternative.' Eliminating this important program for farmers without a viable safety net alternative for this region is irresponsible and damaging to Arkansas agriculture. We would hope that Congress would be wise enough to not eliminate these important programs without providing alternative risk management tools for producers in Arkansas. Chairman Stabenow's plan as proposed will undoubtedly cause substantial harm to farmers, rural banks and agribusinesses, and rural economies in Arkansas."
Negative assessments
Grobmyer's negative assessment was shared by Oklahoma Rep. Frank Lucas, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. "Farmers and ranchers want to be a part of the solution to the fiscal crisis we face in this country. And, the House Agriculture Committee demonstrated that commitment to being a part of the solution when we passed a comprehensive, balanced farm bill that cut more than $35 billion from all of agricultural spending, including the farm safety net, conservation programs, and reforming the SNAP program."
Lucas continued, "We made those reforms in the context of a comprehensive, five-year farm bill that ensured we still met the food and fiber needs of all Americans. The Senate's approach of taking away our investment in rural America without addressing the hole it will create is not balanced and not acceptable."
If the sequester goes through, it will mean some $46 billion in cuts to defense spending. With that in mind, Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, ranking member on the Senate Agriculture Committee, is, "disappointed that the Senate Democratic sequester package falls squarely on the backs of our defense and agriculture sectors. I understand that this is a political messaging bill, and I think it's unfair and unfortunate that the entire federal government looks to agriculture and national defense to pay for its debt."
Stabenow tried to shore up support for the proposal during her press conference. "In the process of looking at priorities in areas to reduce spending, it's very clear that there's bipartisan support for ending direct payments. In the context of sequestration – where we have very tough choices to make about possible meat inspections being eliminated, hundreds of thousands of jobs being eliminated for middle-class families and all the other things that could happen – it's our judgment, and I support, moving forward by eliminating direct payments as a way to satisfy the cuts under sequestration, save dollars."
At the same time, Stabenow and colleagues have, "negotiated a provision to make sure we're providing disaster assistance for 2012/2013 for farmers and ranchers who really do need it. So, instead of having a direct payment given to folks who don't need it we need to make sure we provide disaster assistance that do."
The provision will also fund disaster assistance and "fill the holes in the extension that passed New Year's Eve. … We'd extend the funding for the Energy Title and certain specialty crops, organics, and other things that didn't get funded."
Agriculture, said Stabenow, "will once again take the lead on deficit reduction and we're offering a very specific cut by eliminating direct payments – and that would equal more than we'd be required to do under sequestration – that we'd satisfy the 10-year sequestration with this cut. We'd guarantee we'd not have another cut in mandatory spending next year, the year after or the year after."
Farm program sign-up begins on Feb. 19. While direct payments are still available,"I'm assuming that, as always, contracts are honored and people should proceed to make decisions based on current law," said Stabenow. "When people sign contracts the USDA has indicated they'll honor them."
Stabenow warned of the consequences of allowing the sequester cuts to go through. "It would be devastating for the economy and families across the country because we're looking at 750,000 jobs (being affected). … We're looking at 2,100 fewer food inspections. About 10,000 would lose their jobs and 700,000 children would lose Head Start. The (Women Infant Children) program would see cuts that would eliminate the ability of pregnant moms and babies to have access to milk and healthy foods. It would have broad implications: border security, law enforcement, medical research, support for senior citizens.
"What's so irresponsible about the sequester is the (cuts are) across the board, every program. It isn't a judgment about what works and what doesn't. When we wrote the farm bill, we went through every page and actually eliminated 100 different programs or authorizations or consolidated them so they'd work better – cut the paperwork and stop the things that don't work.
"That's what we should be doing. This should be done in a thoughtful way."


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In Hosea 8 it is especially the daring and continual violation of the law of their God, with which Israel is openly reproached, and which would bring judgment, with eagle swiftness, upon them. Observe here,. that the devastation with which Israel is threatened reaches even to the temple of Jehovah. Israel had forsaken the Lord to make altars of their own, and Judah had leant upon an arm of flesh. We may remark here, that the prophecy presents Ephraim, as having entirely forsaken God, and as being plunged in iniquity, and under impending judgment; Judah, as being yet faithful outwardly, although at heart unfaithful too (see Hosea 6:11; 8:14; 11:12). Judgment should fall upon them both.
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There was a time when Sharon Hodgson would spend up to eight hours a day combing eating disorder websites for tips and moral support in her quest to carve off a few more pounds.
A "roller-coaster dieter" who became painfully thin in high school and reacted to weight-gain in her 20s by dropping more than 70 pounds in one year, she says "pro-ana" (pro-anorexia) online communities warp the reality of their members.
"If you are only talking to people who are starving themselves and engaging in extreme dieting, after a certain point, you start to normalize that. You start thinking that these people are normal, that you are normal," says the Halifax resident, now 33 and recovered from her eating disorder. "They start to think that those pictures of emaciated women are a true indicator of what women look like, so of course the person looking at them feels fat."
For adolescents battling eating disorders, self-injury or suicidal impulses, the Internet is both friend and foe, providing a desperately needed sense of camaraderie while also potentially reinforcing destructive behaviours.
There's a subset of online communities — including pro-ana websites — that revolve around these dangerous practices, and while members find people there who understand their struggle, they can also find tips on cutting themselves, hiding their self-imposed starvation or even ending their lives.
"The Internet, in my opinion, can be a force for good or a force for evil," says Marshall Korenblum, chief psychiatrist at the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre for Children, a mental health facility in Toronto. "Somebody I spoke to once compared it to the discovery of nuclear energy. Nuclear energy gives us good things like radiotherapy, cheaper, more efficient energy, but at the same time, it gives us the A-bomb. Nuclear energy can be a force for great, great good or great, great evil, and in my opinion, the Internet is the same."
In extreme cases, the consequences of these niche online communities can be deadly. In April, a former nurse from Minnesota was charged with two counts of assisted suicide for allegedly stalking despondent people in suicide chat rooms and encouraging them to end their lives while he watched. One of his victims was Nadia Kajouji, an 18-year-old attending Carleton University in Ottawa, who leaped to her death in the Ottawa River in 2008.
"I think it's a good thing light has been shone on that sort of thing because it does highlight the dangers," says Korenblum. "This is truly an example of a vulnerable, already depressed teenager who allegedly got seduced by a very disturbed individual."
Of these destructive online communities, pro-ana sites and those focused on bulimia ("pro-mia") are the most widely known and seem to be most highly developed — or at least the most visible.
"I think it's that idea that there is a community out there," says Dina Borzekowski, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who just published a study of 180 pro-eating disorder websites. "You might not find it in your high school; you might not find it on your college campus; you may not be able to talk to your family or friends. However, there are people out there in the ether that you can reach out to and they'll respond to you anytime of day or night."
The sites are "alarmingly" easy to access, she and her co-authors found, and 85 per cent of them include "thinspiration" — images of rake-thin models and actresses that serve as weight-loss motivation. Most (83 per cent) include explicit tips on fasting, extreme exercise or concealing eating-disordered behaviour.
One site suggests, "Eat while in the front of the mirror naked. You will be completely repulsed, and repelled from the food. This is a good thing."
On another discussion thread, members uploaded photos of themselves, each one attacking her own appearance (membership is overwhelmingly female) while the others chimed in with praise for jutting collarbones or concave upper arms.
"All I can say is WOW!" wrote one member. "I find it sadly ironic (or do I mean ironically sad?) that so many of us (minus fatties like me, who doesn't even have enough guts to post a photo) are actually quite beautiful."
Borzekowski and her co-authors also found that a "surprising" 38 per cent of these sites include recovery information, and Merryl Bear, director of the National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC), says that reflects the conflict of people who use eating disorders to cope with emotions or lend structure to their life, but know the toll it takes.
"I think it is really sad that individuals are so isolated that this is where they find their natural home," she says. "It really speaks to the stigmatization of not only eating disorders but mental illnesses."
Hodgson eventually became a pro-ana site moderator, but by 2006, when one of the sites was about to be shut down, she decided she'd had enough of the eating disorder that had ruled more than a dozen years of her life. She launched her own recovery and founded WeBiteBack.com, a pro-recovery site that now boasts 250,000 posts and almost 3,000 members from around the world.
"I had a weird notion in my head that there was going to be no way to make this real for myself unless I did it with a website because I'd made a website so deeply a part of my destructive behaviours. I really felt like I couldn't just cut off all these people cold turkey; it would be just too lonely," she says. "Anytime I tried to get better in the past, I'd always run into that problem, that being healthy was really lonely. It wasn't like I had a whole bunch of people cheering me on like I had if I was starving and destroying myself."
WeBiteBack members share their epiphanies and struggles through recovery, along with smart and angry discussions about advertising campaigns that exploit body insecurities. Other sites such as Pale-Reflections.com host similarly recover-focused conversations and communities.
Pro-ana and other destructive websites are periodically targeted to be shut down, Borzekowski says, but she agrees with other experts that it's impossible to police the Internet, and it probably wouldn't be desirable to quash these communities even if that were possible.
"These sites often offer a community that feels safe and supportive to the individual who's using them," says Bear at NEDIC. "Shutting them down is just going to make the behaviour go underground or the connections go underground, and is going to further alienate the individual who's experiencing the distress."
Instead, Korenblum believes media literacy education is the key, teaching children and teens to cast a critical eye on what they see on TV and online, just as parents have tackled stranger danger for decades.
"It's streetproofing," he says. "It's all part of that continuum of how do we prepare our kids to be safe, whether it's going with a stranger in a car, whether it's donating $1,000 online to some scam promotional scheme or whether it's following advice on how to cut yourself better or deeper."


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In this assessment activity, students generate a data sample from either the Hubble Deep Field-North or Hubble Deep Field-South images, and compare the sample to data from the unselected field. This provides students with a real-life example of how... (View More) statistics can be used by scientists. After completing this activity students will be able to compare sample data with the population parameter to determine accuracy of sampling techniques and use statistical data to make conjectures about the universe. This interactive online activity is part of the online exploration "Galaxy Hunter". Detailed teacher pages, identified as Teaching Tips on the title pages of the activity, provide science background information, lesson plan ideas, related resources, and alignment with national education standards. (View Less)