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'Pastor of Pass Rush' Ray Drew Commits to Georgia Bulldogs
Highly coveted football star, Ray Drew, Jr., announced Friday his decision to commit to the Georgia Bulldogs.
Besides his stellar game on the field – ESPN Recruiting rates him as No. 2 defensive end prospect and No.13 prospect overall nationally – Drew is also a Christian minister. Standing high at 6'5'' and weighing 245 pounds, Drew can be found Sunday mornings, when his schedule allows it, behind the pulpit at Paradise Missionary Baptist Church in Thomasville, Ga., as well as at other churches.
The up-and-coming football star has been compared to Reggie White, who also played defensive and was an ordained minister.
"I knew I wanted to preach," Drew told Sports Illustrated earlier in January. "But I didn't know it was going to come that soon. ... I could have tried to run from it, but eventually it would have caught me."
Drew, 18, began preaching when he was in eighth grade. His godfather, Corey McGee, is a pastor at a church in Georgia and helped introduce him to preaching when Drew expressed interest.
Some have joked that the team that signs Drew will have a defensive end and chaplain rolled into one.
The young football star/minister is known for saying, "God bless you," after a tackle, and likes the nickname "The Pastor of Pass Rush."
Although Drew will be busy with college and football activities, he told SI that he wants to preach whenever he can.

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Opinion: The Difficulty Dilemma
After hurrying home with my copy of The Last of Us and starting it up with eager anticipation, I faced a pressing question that happens nearly every time I start a new game.
What difficulty setting do I want to play?
It's a loaded question. After all, I have never played the game; I don't have a feel yet for how well I can play. True, I've played through all of the Uncharted games successfully, so chances are favorable that this newest Naughty Dog action title would pose a similar challenge.
But this game is new. It seems odd that such a question, which impacts a huge portion of your experience, is asked before you even start. Then again, it wouldn't make any sense to ask for a difficulty setting later, would it?
I went with my standard choice of "normal."
But I felt kind of ashamed. I mean, for someone who has been playing games since I was a little kid, shouldn't I be experienced enough to play on the hardest difficulty setting? Isn't that why it's there? Am I not part of the demographic this mode was created for?
I also have this dilemma with games where the "normal" difficulty setting is actually challenging. I beat Catherine on the normal setting and enjoyed the challenge. Tricky levels kept me entertained without making me want to yank my hair out. But, I wonder if I would have enjoyed the experience the same if I had played the game on hard mode the first time around. Maybe I would I have put the controller down in frustration and never went back to it.
I would rather have a pleasant experience over bragging rights. I played God of War I, II, and III on Hero/Spartan/God instead of Titan mode because I didn't want to break my controller in fury. Plus, nothing is more agitating than playing on the hardest difficulty and (after dying a few times) receiving a prompt to switch to an easier level.
I used to feel that the accomplishment of beating a game on the toughest setting would overshadow any frustration I experienced getting there, but more recently I've realized that it's not worth it.
As a college student, with life demands other than gaming, it doesn't seem feasible to get through titles on the hardest difficulty anymore. I have a limited amount of time that I can actually play games – even as a GI intern – and I won't get through as many if I'm going for the most difficult option.
The truth is, it shouldn't really matter what difficulty setting I choose because so many titles are about the journey more than the struggle. Why should it matter what I, with my personal gaming experience, choose as a difficulty setting? Some games are meant to make you cry, make you laugh, make you spend time with friends, or scare the crap out of you. And of course, some games are meant to challenge you. Ultimately, a game is meant for enjoyment.
Developers have the challenge of creating an experience that requires more skill rather than just more patience when it comes to higher difficulty. More than a few titles have the issue of not catering to a gamer looking for a challenge, but rather to one that is willing to have less health or a constant onslaught of enemies for the purpose of having the ego boost of beating a more "difficult" game. Sometimes it means playing a portion over and over until you can pass by sheer luck.
Take, for example, the previously mentioned Catherine. The title was considered too difficult by some players even on easy mode, so the developer made a secret, unlockable "very easy" mode. The hardest difficulty in Catherine is not a gameplay experience to laugh at, but not for good reasons. The bottom blocks fall faster, no undo option exists on moves made, and there are fewer items to pick up. Rather than adding a new challenge in making the player build on more complex puzzle-solving skills, the challenge is in moving faster and playing through the level multiple times until the route up is memorized.
Memorization is not the same as skill.
Playing the same level in a game repeatedly is essentially performing the task of a game tester without the pay. The creators most certainly did not have this in mind when making the game, as frustration can undeniably leave a bad taste in the player's mouth.
Normal and easy modes lend themselves more to the first playthrough of a title. That's a reason why more difficult modes aren't available until games are completed, although another part of the reason is so that you have an incentive to load it up again. The developers intended for the game to be played on the normal setting the first time around, lending it an even balance of gameplay and story.
Until I find an insanely difficult mode that tests my proficiency rather than my tolerance, I'll be sticking with normal mode.
Avoiding the temptation to play the most demanding level is a challenge in and of itself for many gamers. Instead of feeling the shame of needing to dial it back, I think the better approach is to recognize and appreciate the other trials offered in games.
If you choose to unlock the easier level, Vincent will still struggle through the same scenarios as he is pulled between Katherine and Catherine.
You still have to help Shephard through the suicide mission if you opt for an easier go in Mass Effect 2.
And the emotional impact from watching Joel and Ellie get through The Last of Us has been more of a challenge for me than any clickers can offer.
Helping your protagonist survive trials and reach the end of a journey is an accomplishment in and of itself, offering more reward than any trophy or achievement can.
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Chinese GP 2008
Sunday Team Quotes
Felipe Massa (2nd): "This is a great result for the team, less so for me. Today's race was a difficult one: we were not quick enough to fight against Hamilton. Losing two points does not mean that I have lost hope. I will continue to fight right to the very end and I can't wait to race in Interlagos in front of my home crowd: I will try my luck there - it will be the first time for a Brazilian - which will be a further incentive. There was no specific element that wasn't working on my car. It's just that today it was impossible for me to win. I feel a bit as though I'm in a penalty shoot-out in the football World Cup finals: we have missed the first two shots, while the other team has scored and therefore we cannot make any more mistakes and hope that they make three. It will be very difficult, but not impossible as we saw last year. The team is united and has faith: that is very important and nice too."
Kimi Raikkonen (3rd): "Today I had a good car, but it was not quick enough to beat our main competitor. At the start and after every tyre change, Hamilton managed to pull away, while when it got near to the pit stops I was able to go a bit quicker, but it was always too late. On top of that, three times, I came up behind backmarkers who cost me valuable time. We secured a very good result for the Constructors' classification. Now we go to Brazil where we must try and get a one-two finish and then we can see where we stand in both Championships. Felipe passing me? I am part of a team and I am well aware what they expect of me. I am out of the title fight and have to do the maximum because Ferrari can achieve both its objectives. It's a simple as that."
Stefano Domenicali, Team Principal: "Today, we did the best we could at the end of a weekend when our main rival proved to be superior to us in terms of performance, both over a single lap and in terms of race pace. These fourteen points are very important for the Constructors' championship, in which we have increased our lead. Felipe has lost a bit of ground but now has nothing to lose, and he will give it his best shot in his home race, where he can count on the warm support of his fans. We will try and give our drivers a car with more performance than we had today. To do that, we need to analyse what did not work on this track, also taking into account that things can change very quickly: at Fuji and in Singapore we were better than our competitors in terms of performance, while here it was the opposite. Felipe passing Kimi? Our drivers are well aware what is in the best interests of the team and they acted accordingly. Indeed, events like this have already happened this season in other teams, which is a normal state of affairs in a sport like Formula 1."
Luca Baldisserri, Head of Trackside Operations: "Our opponents were better than us today which we must do something about. We suffered from a chronic lack of traction, on both types of tyre. We worked on the car all weekend to try and improve the situation, but evidently our efforts were not enough to fight at the highest level. Therefore, second and third places represent the maximum we could do in these conditions, although it does allow us to make a step forward towards the Constructors' title, which is very important for us. Now we must concentrate on analyzing our performance at this track and on preparing for the Brazilian Grand Prix, where we will do our utmost to pick up maximum points, as in fact we do at every race."
BMW Sauber
Nick Heidfeld (5th): "I'm quite happy with today's race. At the start I gained positions and in corner two I overtook Sebastian Vettel on the outside. He touched the rear of my car, but he has already told me it wasn't on purpose and, anyway, nothing happened. So after a few corners I was sixth again - just where I thought I would start from after qualifying. Later in the race I reduced the engine revs to save it for Brazil. It is a fact we now don't have any hopes of claiming the constructors' title, and neither can Robert win the drivers' championship. But we shouldn't be too disappointed, the team has had a fantastic third season, and Robert especially had a very good year. It's not over yet."
Robert Kubica (6th): "After a very difficult qualifying I'm pleased with sixth. I made up a position at the start and then another two when Jarno Trulli and Sebastien Bourdais touched in the first corner. The balance of the car was still not good in the first two stints, and it only changed in the final stint after we changed to the softer compound. There is now one race left, and I shall try hard to defend my third place in the drivers' championship."
Dr. Mario Theissen, BMW Motorsport Director: "Coming fifth and sixth is a good outcome after yesterday's disappointing qualifying. Both drivers put in the ground work for this result at the start, and after that drove fine races without any mistakes. The strategy was good, all pit stops worked out perfectly, and we had no technical problems."
Willy Rampf, Technical Director: "If you start from ninth and 11th on the grid and finish the race fifth and sixth you do have to be satisfied. The drivers gained three positions each right at the start. Robert, in particular, reacted perfectly when a car spun right in front of him. During the race both drivers were doing well with the strategy. Thank you to the whole team for the good work, especially during all the pit stops."
Fernando Alonso (4th): "Fourth place is the best result that we could have hoped for today and so I am therefore extremely satisfied with my race. We had good pace, close to the Ferrari, which is another reason to be pleased. We have now won the battle for fourth place in the constructors' championship, which was our objective, and so we can approach the Brazilian Grand Prix with confidence and aim to make the most of this final race of the year."
Nelson Piquet (8th): "It was a difficult race but I am happy with my performance. Of course I would have liked to have made more progress through the field, but the end result is satisfying and I have scored an important point, which has helped the team finally confirm its fourth place in the constructors' championship."
Pat Symonds, Executive Director of Engineering: "Another strong race for us today. Points scored by our both drivers have now secured our fourth position in the championship, which was the target we set ourselves in the middle of the season."
Flavio Briatore, Managing Director: "It's was a good race for us today. We were able to show our true level of performance and that we are stronger than BMW and very close to Ferrari. Our result means we have secured fourth place in the constructors' championship and confirmed our recent progress."
Kazuki Nakajima (12th): "I think it was a good race for me considering where I started. Initially it was very hard work managing the car on a heavy fuel load. I lost position off the line, but during the first stint I managed to develop a good race pace. The other significant part of the race for me was the last period when I had to work hard to keep quite a few cars behind me and defend my position, and I was pleased that I succeeded in this."
Nico Rosberg (15th): "My race was not good today, but it wasn't for lack of trying. We ran a different strategy to Kazuki just to see if we could generate some advantage, but it didn't pay off and it wasn't a lot of fun driving at the back. It didn't really represent our capability as our pace was okay and we were the tenth fastest car. I made a few passes but it was quite difficult to overtake as our top gear was too short. From here we can look forward to Brazil which should be a bit better for us, and then after this season working with the team on a positive winter in order to move us forward for next year."
Patrick Head, Director of Engineering: "It was not a strong result today, but I thought Kazuki did a good job defending his position. As we qualified poorly, we had to do something a bit adventurous with our strategy, so we split our options on the cars, but unfortunately the two stop route we took with Nico didn't work. Having not attended a race for some time, I must say I am very impressed with the professionalism of the race team. The car is reliable, but the problem remains that on this type of circuit it is just not quick enough."
Red Bull-Renault
David Coulthard (10th): "I had a reasonable start and thereafter was trying to manage tyre degeneration on the option and the prime. I tried to keep out of racing too much with the two stoppers so I wouldn't lose time, but ultimately I don't think there was much more I could have done from our grid position than tenth."
Mark Webber (14th): "It was going reasonably well until I got up to Nakajima, but it's so difficult to follow cars through the quick sections here. I tried my best, the strategy was always going to be difficult with a ten place penalty, but the guys from Red Bull did a good job. It's a shame for Renault, as that was the first engine failure for us."
Christian Horner, Sporting Director: "Unfortunately yesterday's grid penalty was always going to be a massive handicap in the race today. Mark drove a good first stint, passing several cars, he made progress in the second stint until he got stuck behind Nakajima, which killed his chance of progress. With one further stop before the end of the race, 14th was as much as he could achieve today. David drove a good race on a one-stop strategy, but unfortunately we just weren't quick enough. He got close to Vettel at his last stop, but tenth was all that was possible."
Fabrice Lom, Renault: "A very tough day. Mark had a great race, but with the penalty he received, he was too far back for it to make any impression. He had a very good first stint and overtook several cars, but we had to make a pit-stop quite early. He then got stuck behind Nakajima and it wasn't possible to overtake. For David, it was a difficult race on a one stop strategy - but he drove well. The same engines will do Brazil, so they have still a long way to go."
Timo Glock (7th): "That was the most that we could have got out of today so we should be satisfied. We struggled a bit to warm up the tyres at the beginning but from then on the car felt good and we had very good pace. At the end of the first stint I had a light car but I couldn't make the most of it because I was stuck behind Nick Heidfeld when he came out of his first stop. So we lost some time there and maybe lost a place to Robert Kubica but we were quick again at the end. The strategy worked well so thanks to all the guys."
Jarno Trulli (DNF, Damage): "Away from the line I was side-by-side with Sebastian Vettel but I had to give up on him because he had the inside line. Then Sebastien Bourdais suddenly hit the right side of my car at the rear and damaged it. It is frustrating because he did this once before this year at Spa, where he also ruined my race at the first corner. Today I couldn't carry on which is a pity because we had a very good chance of more points. Still, there is one more race to go and we will push to the end to try and finish the season on a high in Brazil."
Tadashi Yamashina, Team Principal: "Today got off to the worst of starts when Jarno was put out of the race by another car. His motivation was very high today and he could certainly have made the top six. But instead he suffered damage to the whole of the right side of his car, including the bodywork and aerodynamic parts so it was undriveable. Timo did a great job, especially considering how practice and qualifying had gone for him. He drove well and the one-stop strategy was the right one. So now both drivers should now be very focused on the last race in Brazil. Of course we will never give up and try to come away with the best possible result."
Toro Rosso-Ferrari
Sebastian Vettel (9th): "I had a reasonably good start, but then I was surprised by Nick (Heidfeld) going down the outside and he passed a few cars. After that I had to defend my position against Robert (Kubica) on the opening lap. Then, I had quite a clean first stint. But in the first pit stop we had a problem with the front left wheel which wouldn't come off. I think that cost me a position in the points. P9 is not bad but it's the most frustrating place, just outside the points. Now we are all looking forward to Brazil."
Sebastien Bourdais (13th): "I'm not sure what happened with Trulli at the first corner. I guess he didn't see me. I was halfway alongside him and he turned in. I was right under Sebastian's rear wing and of course we are all very close in the first corner. We touched, he spun and I went really wide, dropped to the back and that was my race spoilt. It was a shame because after that, every time I was in clean air I had a good pace and passed around half a dozen cars. Finishing 13th, having been last is not a bad result, but it's disappointing, given we started eighth with a car good enough to score points today."
Franz Tost, Team Principal: "If you start from sixth and eighth and don't score points then something must have gone wrong. Bourdais' race was lost at the first corner after a collision with Trulli, but after that some competitive lap times showed the car performance was good. Vettel's race was badly affected by graining in the early stages of his second stint, which cost him time and we also lost around 3.5 seconds in his pit stop. These factors kept us out of the points. Fortunately, our closest competitors in the Constructors' classification (Red Bull Renault) are still behind us, so now we hope to finish the season in fine style in Brazil in two weeks time."
Rubens Barrichello (11th): "It was a better race today than some of our recent races but it is disappointing not to have been able to get into the points. I had a great start and first lap where I overtook three cars to move up to 10th and went flat out for the whole race to try and make up some ground on the people ahead. However our finishing position in 11th is reflective of what the car is capable of and we have to be pleased with making the best out of the package that we have available whilst still being disappointed not to score any points."
Jenson Button (16th): "The race today was more exciting than the last couple of races have been at least and I had some fun overtaking Sutil and Nakajima into the hairpin at the start. From then I really struggled with the car and from being stuck behind Coulthard for much of the race. After my final pitstop I had a clear stint on the option tyre and the car balance felt reasonable, but I had very poor traction and corner apex understeer. So overall a frustrating race as I wasn't able to find out my true pace on the prime tyre in clean air."
Ross Brawn, Team Principal: "We opted for a reasonably aggressive strategy with both cars on two stops, as we had seen through the weekend that the tyres would struggle on heavy fuel. Rubens had a very good start and his pace was good throughout the race. It would have been nice to pick up a point or two but nonetheless we are very pleased that we beat several cars that have been faster than us of late and on merit alone. Jenson's race was compromised in the early stages when he was held up behind a one-stopping David Coulthard but this was always the risk of an aggressive strategy from the back. Even without any developments on the car we have had quite a good weekend here. The team and cars worked well. We have nothing new for Brazil but by working well, as we did here in China, we will be aiming to make the most of every opportunity to pick up one final point before the season draws to a close. Interlagos is a challenging track and it is destined to be an exciting race there, so who knows?"
Force India-Ferrari
Giancarlo Fisichella (17th): "We knew our pace was not really good enough today so we just tried to find a different solution to gain places. We went for a one stop strategy but I was really struggling with the grip to start with. In the last 10 laps before the end of the race I was able to do reasonable lap times, but it was a fairly lonely race for me at that point. Anyway, we now go onto Brazil and the last race."
Adrian Sutil (DNF, Gearbox): "Very early on in the race my car developed a problem. I couldn't select gears anymore and had to pull off just before the main straight and park the car. Until that point I was quite happy in the car, even though the traction and grip was very low so it's disappointing not to finish yet again. I really hope for more in Brazil now."
Dr. Vijay Mallya, Team Principal: "It has been a challenging weekend for the team and to get one finish is at least some small consolation. Giancarlo did everything expected of him, keeping out of trouble and bringing the car home. While 17th position is not something we can get excited about, it is a finish and in an extremely reliable field we need everything we can. Adrian was again unfortunate to be struck by a problem early on. It is a shame but we have to learn from this and move on. I am sure he and the team will be expecting more in Brazil."
Mike Gascoyne, Chief Technical Officer: "It was disappointing not to get two cars to the finish today, but Giancarlo did a good job to get the car home in what's been a difficult event for us. Adrian was on a two stop strategy but unfortunately had a failure, which we believe was an electronic matter related to the gearbox. Giancarlo was on a one stop strategy and while the first stint on the harder tyre was OK, with the lapping in the second stint he couldn't really improve his position. We'll now move onto the final race and hope to be more competitive there."
Lewis Hamilton (1st): "Everything just went right this weekend: our car has been simply phenomenal, I made one of my best-ever starts and had perfect balance during the race. I owe so much of that to the guys in the team - both at the track and back home; they did an amazing job so a big thanks to them. I've got a seven-point lead in the world championship, but that doesn't allow me to take anything for granted. It might be another step towards my dream but we've still got to stay calm and keep our heads. I just hope we can pull through."
Heikki Kovalainen (DNF, Hydraulics): "I made a good start, got past Fernando and almost got alongside Felipe. Fernando managed to re-pass me before Turn 14 and I settled down in fifth. I had a lot of understeer during my first stint and tried to improve things during the first stop by raising the front wing angle. Later, I was still running in the points when I had a puncture early on in the lap - it cost me a lot of time driving slowly back to the pits and I knew it would be an uphill struggle for the rest of the race. In the closing stages, I had a problem with the pneumatic system so the team called me in as a precautionary measure. We still have a chance to win the constructors' championship in Brazil, so I'll definitely be going for it in Sao Paulo."
Ron Dennis, Team Principal: "No-one will be surprised to hear me describe today's Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team performance as a tremendous one, because that's exactly what it was. In difficult circumstances we never allowed our focus to waver, and we paced ourselves carefully throughout. Lewis did a truly fabulous job, as did our entire team. Our race strategy was extremely solid too, but the key message from China that we take forward to Brazil is that we qualified extremely well despite the fact that our cars were fuelled longer than those of our principal opposition, which clearly demonstrates the inherent pace of our car. Heikki's first stint was compromised by the fitting of a set of mismatched tyres, which caused his car to understeer. After his first stop, a punctured tyre then forced an unscheduled pitstop before an air pressure problem with his engine caused us to retire him in order to avoid risking an engine failure."
Norbert Haug, Mercedes Motorsport Director: "Great - a more convincing win is hardly possible. What an excellent victory for Lewis and the team, and what a well deserved one. Pole, win and fastest lap, Lewis demonstrated his skills and was clearly the man of the race and the whole weekend. He made a perfect start and controlled the field, never putting a foot wrong and the team executed a perfect strategy. I am sorry for Heikki, he first had a puncture, which cost him a lap, and later we had to call him in as a precautionary measure as the air consumption in his engine was too high. We are now looking forward to an exciting finale in Brazil and everybody in the team is working hard to score enough points to win the world championship."


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Fort Brooke
Other Names: None
Location: Tampa
Campaign: Expedition to Hillsborough River (1863)
Date(s): October 16-18, 1863
Principal Commanders: Lt. Comdr. A.A. Semmes [US];
Forces Engaged: Tahoma, Adela, and landing force [US]; Company A, 2nd Battalion, Florida Volunteers [CS]
Estimated Casualties: Unknown
Description: Two Union ships bombarded Fort Brooke on October 16 as a diversion, while a landing party under Acting Master T.R. Harris disembarked at Ballast Point and marched 14 miles to the Hillsborough River to capture several steamers. Harris and his men surprised and captured the blockade running steamer Scottish Chief and sloop Kate Dale. The Rebels destroyed the steamer A.B. Noyes to preclude her capture. On its way back to the ship, Harris's force was surprised by a detachment of the garrison, causing casualties.
Result(s): Union victory
CWSAC Reference #: FL004
Preservation Priority: IV.2 (Class D)
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In 1922 the conservationist Aldo Leopold canoed through a lush, verdant delta full of green lagoons, darting fish and squawking waterfowl. But Leopold's "milk and honey wilderness," where the Colorado River empties into Mexico's Gulf of California, ceased to exist decades ago. In its stead, a cracked, barren mudflat stretches for miles.
"If we choose, we can have healthy rivers alongside healthy economies," Postel said. "We don't have to be running our rivers dry."
"This amazing place does not exist anymore," said Sandra Postel, director of the Global Water Policy Project and freshwater fellow of the National Geographic Society. "A lot was lost."
Ten major dams — from the Hoover Dam, erected in 1936, to the Glen Canyon Dam, completed in 1966 — block the flow of the Colorado River. Countless towns and industries siphon water from the river and its many tributaries as it meanders to the sea. Today the Colorado River joins the likes of the Indus, the Rio Grande, the Nile and other major world rivers that are so over-tapped they no longer reach the sea for long stretches of time. "This is one of America's iconic rivers," Postel said. "I don't think this country would be the one we know today without the Colorado."
It does not have to be this way, however. A restoration and outreach effort called Change the Course seeks to return the river to the sea. To pursue this goal, the National Geographic Society, the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, and Participant Media teamed up and pooled their expertise — science, social media, storytelling and policy — to change the fate of the once-mighty Colorado River.
A key to the campaign's potential success rests on reversing more than 100 years of water use along the river. Since the mid-1800s, the Colorado River's water was legally divided amongst farmers, landowners and ranchers along its course. Then, in the 1920s, seven states in the Colorado basin were allowed to divert additional water for cities, agriculture and industry. The result: more people have rights to divert water than the river has water to supply.
The clincher, however, is this: water rights holders have to "use it or lose it." If a stakeholder does not divert his allocated amount of water from the river each year, he may lose those rights.
Bonneville Environmental Foundation, a nonprofit based in Portland, seized upon this idea.
The foundation's water restoration certificates (WRCs) are designed to give landowners a choice in how they use their water. WRCs are a voluntary, market-based program that provides economic incentives allowing water rights holders to devise new water management solutions to restore water to critically dewatered ecosystems. Simply put, the WRC program provides funding to support projects that allow landowners to change they way they use their water rights in order to restore vital water to dewatered rivers and streams.
"We use market-based ideas to involve the private sector in solving environmental challenges," said Todd Reeve, Bonneville's chief executive officer. "The certificates can act as currency and a reporting mechanism to allow any business to restore to the planet the amount equal to the resources used in its operations."
So far, Silk, the soy, almond and coconut milk company, has joined the campaign, and Reeve hopes that a myriad of others seeking to bolster their sustainability profiles join in the weeks and months to come. But it isn't just companies that Change the Course hopes to reach. Importantly, it's young people too.
Though 70 to 90 percent of the Colorado's water is used for agriculture and industry, tackling the problem holistically means addressing the remaining consumption by households throughout the West. Following the theme of its film Last Call at the Oasis, Participant Media is launching the social action portion of the campaign, seeking to target 100,000 millennials as its core audience. After watching a minute-and-a-half informative video on the project and on individuals' water footprints, people can sign a pledge to minimize their own water footprints. Joining the campaign automatically ensures that 1,000 gallons of water return to the Colorado River, which corporate sponsors such as Silk support by purchasing water restoration certificates.
People who sign up for the campaign receive sporadic texts and emails to keep them updated on the Colorado's progress and also to educate them about their personal water footprints and ways to minimize their impacts.
For example, a participant may get a text informing her that 634 gallons of water are used to produce a single hamburger; that the person she loves most in the world is composed of 78 percent water; that only one percent of all water on Earth is not saltwater or frozen in ice; or that her T-shirt or winter salad comes from water-gobbling crops supported by the Colorado River.
Additionally, Participant Media plans to host an alternative summer break, inviting about a dozen young people to join them at restoration sites along the Colorado in the hopes that they will blog about their experiences and spread the word about the campaign to their universities. A series of short videos called Life Without Water is Awkward will also soon be released to raise attention for the campaign.
If things go well, the Colorado River could reach the sea in five to seven years, thanks to the efforts of Change the Course and numerous other nonprofit groups working to the same goal. "I think this has the potential to be one of the most significant environmental achievements of the last 50 to 100 years," Reeve said.
Postel is confident that just adding water would do wonders for restoring wetland and riparian ecosystems, as demonstrated in a recent accidental natural experiment. Arizona, finding some of its water too salty to use, began sending the liquid waste over the border to Mexico's desiccated delta. Soon, 14,000 acres of vegetation popped up around that life-giving source. "This is an example of how resilient the ecosystem is," Postel said. "If you just add water, it will bounce back."
"If we choose, we can have healthy rivers alongside healthy economies," Postel said. "We don't have to be running our rivers dry."
For the Colorado and its tributaries, these fixes could mean changing where and how irrigation water is diverted so as to keep more water in natural river channels, or making use of opportunities to buy or lease water, as Change the Course successfully did with conservation partners last summer for the Yampa River near Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Pending the campaign's success, Change the Course is already imagining applying its formula to other rivers in need around the world, such as the Ganges or the Yellow. "We hope this community grows over time, and that Change the Course can help not only the 30 million people dependent on the Colorado River, but other people living in endangered freshwater systems around the world," said Chad Boettcher, Participant Media's executive vice president of social action and advocacy.
Rachel Nuwer is a science journalist writing for venues such as the New York Times, Scientific American, Smithsonian and Audubon Magazine, among others. She lives in Brooklyn.


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High time for CIF to join 21st century
When will the California Interscholastic Federation ("Palo Alto girls soccer team forfeits playoff win," Page 6C, Feb. 22) join the 21st century?
I am writing this as a soccer official but much more importantly as a soccer fan. The net result of their silly ruling is talented amateur players will simply not play on their high school sports teams and thus be deprived of a positive high school experience. In the case of soccer, as many sports, club play or in this case national youth team participation is the way to college sports and for a very few beyond. Having to choose, the kids will be forced away from high school teams. As Palo Alto High School Athletic Director Earl Hansen was quoted, the kids lose. In this case so does the school. All this while two "adult" organizations quibble over who has the biggest bat to swing.
The CIF already allows players to participate in much, much lower ranked events like ODP tryouts (rapidly becoming a passe event) and other club soccer-related items. They do not want players playing a high school sport the same time they are playing a club sport. What will it take to get the CIF to wake up and join 48 of the other 50 states?
Ron Marfil
San Jose
Come check out San Jose Stage
In reading the letter asking for support and donations for the San Jose Rep, I couldn't help but think of the San Jose Stage Company. This is a wonderful group celebrating their 30th year of entertaining the public with drama, comedy, music and everything you could want in an evening performance.
They've also been affected by the downturn in the economy and, as the previous letter writer said, the best way to support the arts is through attendance and donations. If you haven't been to the San Jose Stage (www.thestage.org), please consider checking into their website. They are located on South First Street and have a wonderful, intimate theater. There are no bad seats. Come see for yourself.
Lynda Martinez
San Jose
We must impose ban on all plastic foam
Polystyrene/Styrofoam must be banned. It contains toxic chemicals that infect the food and liquid it contains. In most cities and counties, Styrofoam cannot be recycled. Styrofoam is never compostable. Currently, expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam packaging is being recycled yearly at a rate of about 10 to 12 percent in the United States. This means that about 90 percent of the Styrofoam and polystyrene we use is thrown into landfills and waterways.
Denny Doan
Maturity is indicator of algebra readiness
In the debate about eighth-graders in algebra, no one references Malcolm Gladwell's book, "Outliers: The Story of Success." His research unearthed a counterintuitive fact: Students who are held back for another year rather than being pushed into kindergarten at the earliest possible age do much better. That half-year of maturity does wonders for their achievement, and it follows them all the way through school. Gladwell cites many examples in his book, and his conclusion seems irrefutable. How does this relate to eighth-grade algebra? Individual maturity trumps chronological age. Schools need to find ways to measure a student's actual ability to absorb the abstract concepts of algebra. Then, to make dramatic improvements in outcomes, they must place individual students into this environment at the proper time, not before.
Thomas I. Kirkpatrick
Half Moon Bay
Reject unjust dogma or end up in ash heap
Edward Donati's letter (Letters, Feb. 22) lists some of the reasons why Catholicism — and religion in America, in general — is on the wane in this country. Centuries-old ideas and dogma that refuse to evolve with modern and just thinking will someday join those religions that clutter the dustbin of history — and the sooner, the better. If the Catholic laity of today cannot insist that their popes, cardinals and bishops throw out the old, bitter tenets of their religion and embrace a more humanistic way of thinking (wrongfully called the liberal agenda by Donati), they should leave.
According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, the fastest-growing segment of "religion" today is the number of Americans unaffiliated with any religion. This is especially true for young Americans who have seen enough of discrimination, bigotry and injustice. Donati's list of "immutable" and archaic tenets clearly shows why these numbers are growing. I'm glad I am no longer a Roman Catholic.
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — A lawsuit by a northeast Ohio woman alleges a hospital disposed of her stillborn infant's body without her consent and prevented her from having a proper funeral.
Lytanya (luh-TAHN'-yah) Wylie of Youngstown is seeking at least $25,000 in damages through the lawsuit filed this week against St. Elizabeth Health Center.
A hospital spokeswoman wouldn't comment on pending litigation but says the hospital system works to provide quality, compassionate care.
Wylie's attorney, John Shultz, says he and his client don't know what happened to the body and have received no answer from the hospital.
The lawsuit says Wylie was pregnant with twins and was told before her June delivery that one of them had died. She says she never saw the child after the delivery.
The second baby was delivered alive.
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1 Corinthians 2: 2: For I determined not
to know any thing among you, save Jesus
Christ, and him crucified.
Surah 4: 157: That they said in boast 'we
killed Christ Isa, the son of Mary'…but
they killed him not, nor crucified him.
The Bible says that Jesus was crucified, Quran says that he was not crucified. There are controversies about Jesus, including one that he did not exist t all. Quran says he existed alright. What is the truth about him? Atheists who have Not been christians will want to know.
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There are contradictions a plenty, even within the bible. I mean, Judas Iscariot either hanged himself or spilled his guts out in a field, depending on which version you read. The tomb after the cruci-fiction was either empty or it had one person in it or three, again, dependent on whom you listen to.
Expecting the bible or the quran to have any kind of historical integrity is to expect the truth from a habitual liar. Baby and bathwater - OUT!
If the series is like other fantasy/sci-fi series, he will have a son who comes back, with the same powers as his dad, only he will fall in love and fight a battle against the one who either killed his father or IS his father.
So far we have the Torah(book1), New Testament(book2), Koran(book 3), Book of Mormon(kind of Book 4-but like in so many other series where you have that one book that kind of doesn't really fit into the main storyline but goes off on it's own to explore some other character).
My guess is that book 5 or 6 will be divided into two parts and Satan will ultimately be revealed to be God himself, but he was hiding behind the whole "Satan" thing for some secret reason which will ultimately be some huge let-down. (Oh wait! The Yezhidis already have that one (the Mahaf-Res and al-Jilwah)-silly me, now I've spoiled the whole plot. Oh, well Zarathustra already kind of let us in on the whole ending, anyway.
I'm an Atheist who has not been a christian and I couldn't care less one way or the other. I don't waste my time reading holy texts because it's useless garbage and not the way to enlightenment. Science and nature provide our means to understanding ourselves and the world.
I think there's value in reading them as literature, and as snapshots of a culture at a certain place and time, but as far as being historical documents, they are too biased to be of any use.
During the last 3-4 years, I have read the Indian epic Mahabharata and the Bhagvad Geeta, and I entirely endorse your view. It can be of help to know the past. I can say from my experiance that this reading gave me a lot for thinking and it has broadened my thinking. However, as philosophical or religious books, their value is zero to me.
Literature ? Those stories written in dead or stagnant languages by people of that time, then translated or interpreted into an absurd form of English, leaves you with a pile of nonsensical rubbish.
Curiosity is healthy but I have had my fill with a catholic education. Holy texts stink.
Absolutely, my observations are limited in scope. I didn't even known about the beautiful language of Sanskrit and the Bhagvad Geeta and am grateful to you telling me. To be fair I was addressing the Big Blue Frog's comment on Monday which was about the koran and the bible.
The Gita is a beautifully written excuse for killing. Krishna tells Arjuna that there are only two certainties to worry about: death and rebirth. He is half right. But since in the world of the Gita, rebirth is certain, as is the immortality of the soul, a mere man cannot really kill anything. Except all of those thousands of bodies that would be hacked to pieces in the coming epic battle between the Pandavas and Pauravas (Who?). It's claptrap that justifies violence.
In fairness to the Gita, you have to know the back-story (the Mahabharata) to get the whole picture. The Kauravas (also known as the Kurus) were of the same bloodline as the Pandavas (or Pandus), but the Kauravas had become corrupt, and had been spoiling for a fight. Reminded by Krishna that he was fighting his own family, Arjuna (of the Pandus) hesitates on the battlefield, and that's where most of the meat of Gita comes from.
In the long haul, though, both sides become corrupt during the battle, and while the Pandus ultimately win against the Kurus, it is a Pyrrhic victory.
Sure Ruth. That's why I'm a member of your group. I can't see your picture.
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The Dallas Arboretum will host a mammoth outdoor exhibit by renowned Seattle glass artist Dale Chihuly later this year, positioning the fantastically colored pieces throughout the grounds.
Details of the exhibit, running May 5 to Nov. 5, will be announced Thursday afternoon. The Chihuly Studio has declined to announce the number of pieces expected to be placed in the 66-acre arboretum, but past Chihuly garden exhibits have included several hundred pieces.
Chihuly, 70, is one of the most prolific and influential glass artists of his generation, with works in more than 200 museum collections worldwide including the Louvre in Paris.
In Texas, he has permanent installations at the Dallas Museum of Art (the Hart Window in the Atrium Café), the San Antonio Museum of Art and the San Antonio Public Library.
There's no mistaking the Chihuly style, with its flowing lines reminiscent of nature, bright colors and shapes that bend with the viewers' imagination.
Serious injuries to his left eye and shoulder, beginning in 1976, curtailed his ability to blow glass. In a 2006 interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, he said that he now hires others to do the work, likening himself to "more choreographer than dancer, more supervisor than participant, more director than actor."
Answering concerns about the storm-season timing of the exhibit, representatives of the Chihuly Studio said the artwork has encountered "everything from heavy rains to wind, hail, snow and even a hurricane."
The pieces are sturdy and will be well-secured, although studio officials added that they are prepared for mishaps.
The arboretum, located at White Rock Lake, has raised $1.8 million to cover security, shipping and other costs for the exhibit.
AT&T is the presenting sponsor for the arboretum show, with major support from Bank of America and other sponsors. The Dallas Morning News is the principal partner of the arboretum, and a major media sponsor of the Chihuly exhibit.
The arboretum will open three evenings a week during the show for "Chihuly Nights," powered by Cirro Energy. The exhibit will be included with regular admission and parking during daytime hours, but will have separate pricing for evening hours.
Holly Reed, regional vice president for AT&T in Dallas, says she believes the exhibit will "bring so much excitement to the region, and frankly beyond."
She says she's "amazed at what he does and how he does it, the vibrancy of this work. It's a terrific fit for who we are as a region, with a lot of different people coming together to make the fabric of the community. That's what he does. He puts a lot of different pieces and colors together. And we're excited that it's coming to such an exceptional location."
Richard Holt, Bank of America market president for Dallas, says his company "jumped on it in a hurry" when they learned about the exhibit. "We think it'll expose a broader community to the arts, and lift community spirits, and we could use that right now."
Chihuly's work, he said, "just gets the imagination, even for bankers, flowing." When he showed some of Chihuly's work to team members, he said, "They all saw different things in them."


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Monday, August 12, 2013
Mendenhall Plantation Village Fair 2013
The old Mendenhall store, across the street from the house
I carted Quaker books over to Mendenhall Plantation again this year for their 11th annual Village Fair. The usual summer storm held off until evening, giving us vendors and performers great weather — cloudy with an occasional breeze.
We jumped at occasional musket booms, as a family of Revolutionary re-enactors roamed the plantation this year.
North Carolina's outdoor dramas, featuring performances about our state's history, are wonderful. So far, I've only seen The Lost Colony on Roanoke Island and The Sword of Peace at Snow Camp.
The players from Snow Camp's drama about the Underground Railroad, Pathway to Freedom, once again paid a visit to the Village Fair to share their talents. Let me tell you, these folks can sing!
Jam session on the drums
Here are photos from the Village Fair in 2012 and 2010.
Posted by Elizabeth Saunders at 9:27 PM
Labels: 19th-century America, Guilford County, Mendenhall, N.C., Quakers
2 comments:
- F.T. Bradley said...
Love these pictures! Looks like a lot of fun :-)
- Elizabeth Saunders said...
Thanks! The folks in costume make it come alive.
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DONETSK, Ukraine / MOSCOW — Russia threatened Ukraine on Sunday with "irreversible consequences" after a man was killed by a shell fired across the border from Ukraine, an incident Moscow described in warlike terms as aggression that must be met with a response. It appears to be the first time Moscow has reported fatalities on its side of the border in the three-month conflict which has killed hundreds of people in Ukraine.
Moscow's bellicose response to the cross-border shelling raises the renewed prospect of overt Russian intervention, after weeks in which President Vladimir Putin had appeared intent on disengaging, pulling back tens of thousands of troops he had massed at the frontier. Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, said reports that Ukrainian forces were responsible were "total nonsense and the information is untrue." In Kiev, President Petro Poroshenko's office said he had turned down an invitation to attend the World Cup soccer final in Brazil because of the situation in Ukraine.
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And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted--nevermore!
The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisp�d and sere--
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year;
It was hard by the dim lake of Auber,
In the misty mid region of Weir--
It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
Here once, through an alley Titanic
Of cypress, I roamed with my soul--
Of cypress, with Psyche, my soul.
These were days when my heart was volcanic
As the scoriac rivers that roll--
As the lavas that restlessly roll
Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek,
In the ultimate climes of the pole--
That groan as they roll down Mount Yaanek,
In the realms of the boreal pole.
Duncan is in his grave;
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Chestnut Hill College will host a performance of the 2010 Philadelphia Fringe Festival selection, "Etty," on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 7 p.m. in the East Parlor. The event, which has been brought back to the college by popular demand, is sponsored by the Institute for Forgiveness and Reconciliation at Chestnut Hill College.
"Etty" is a touring one-woman theatrical play based on the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum, adapted and performed by actor Susan Stein and directed by Austin Pendleton. Following the performance, there will be a panel discussion and time for audience response.
Esther "Etty" Hillesum, who was born in January, 1914, in Middelburg, Netherlands, died in November, 1943, at age 29 in Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland. She was a young Jewish woman whose letters and diaries, kept between 1941 and 1943, describe life in Amsterdam during the German occupation. They were published posthumously in 1981.
Using only Etty Hillesum's words, Susan Stein's adaptation transports us back to 1943 when Etty, a young Jewish woman, is about to be deported from Holland. As she prepares for the three-day journey eastward, she digs deeper into her soul to understand this piece of history and root out any hatred or bitterness, believing that humanity is the best and only solution for survival.
Etty's words, insights and beliefs reach out from the Holocaust and allow us to see the power of hope and individual thought in the most extreme circumstances. In her gentle yet forthright way, Etty asks us not to leave her at Auschwitz but to let her have a bit of a say in what she hopes will be a new world.
Etty wrote: "At night, as I lie in the camp on my plank bed, surrounded by women and girls…dreaming aloud, quietly sobbing and tossing and turning, I am sometimes filled with an infinite tenderness. And I lie awake for hours, letting the impressions of a much-too-long day wash over me. And I pray, 'Let me, oh Lord, be the thinking heart of these barracks.' That's what I want to be, the thinking heart of a whole concentration camp. I lie here patiently, and now calmly, and feel a lot better. I feel strength returning. I've stopped making plans and worrying about risks. Happen what may, it's bound to be for the good.
"You must be able to bear your sorrow; even if it seems to crush you, you will be able to stand up again, for human beings are so strong, and your sorrow must become an integral part of yourself, part of your body and your soul. You mustn't run away from it, but bear it like an adult … for if everyone bears his grief honestly and courageously, the sorrow that now fills the world will abate."
Susan Stein is the author of "Etty," an adaptation of Etty Hillesum's diaries and letters. Susan picked up Hillesum's diaries in 1994 for 50 cents at a yard sale after her friend, Joan, recommended it. After reading the diaries, Susan wanted to give something back to Etty and keep her spirit alive. Stein, who has extensive professional acting experience, studied acting at NYU Graduate School and SUNY Purchase. She is a member of the faculty at Princeton Day School.
Austin Pendleton, the director of "Etty," became interested in the project when he was introduced to Etty's diaries. Pendleton's extensive theater career spans more than 40 years. He is an American film, television and stage actor, playwright and theater director and teacher as well as the author of "Orson's Shadow," "Uncle Bob" and "Booth."
The performance of "Etty" is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Catherine Nerney, SSJ, Ph.D., at 215-248-7099 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information about the Institute for Forgiveness and Reconciliation at Chestnut Hill College, visit www.chc.edu/forgive


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When Mimi goes to Aspen…
The result is always PURE GOLD. Of course she's always pure gold but in Aspen it's like the cheese concentration is extra strong. Every winter there's an Aspen adventure. Every winter it's her Christmas gift to the world.
Here she is, squeezed into a tight pair of jeans, tottering around on a pair of sky high suede boots, holding on to her security as she gingerly waddles around town. Upon spotting the photogs, she decides to turn the sidewalk into a runway. The kind of runway with no walking.
They way it goes down is the funniest part.
Because you know Mimi cannot transport herself from points a to b. So they deposit her at an appropriate posing spot, placing her gently at an angle where she can stay upright – ass in one direction, tits in another, the perfect balance on a scale that keeps her from falling. Once she's been properly positioned, she moans and groans for the camera for a few minutes until they've had enough, at which point she will continue not moving until her team returns to collect her. One in front, one holding her arm, and one trailing behind just in case she slips.
Yay for holiday spirit cheese!
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Charles G. Summers, University of California entomologist at the Kearney Research and Education Center, Parlier, says a corn-free period, such as from Oct. 31 to April 1, would help in management of the leafhopper.
The most important step for the time being is for growers to destroy volunteer corn plants that provide the insect, capable of overwintering in the valley, a bridge to infest the next crop.
Pesticides, including Thimet, Admire, Capture, and Meta Systox R, provided control in his trials, but only for relatively brief periods ranging from 10 days to 30 days.
Summers said it is not known whether control of four weeks with preplant Thimet or Admire reduced the amount of disease or if the chemicals allowed the plant to develop beyond a susceptible stage for the pathogen to have significant impact on yield.
He cautioned growers, if they decide to apply, to check first to see whether an insecticide is registered for their type of corn. For example, Admire, either foliar or soil applied, is not registered for use on silage corn, while Meta Systox R is registered only for sweet corn and not silage corn.
However, he added, any attempt to use insecticides to control the vector of a disease "is generally not particularly effective. We have data that show in some situations that the use of insecticides can exacerbate the disease more than doing nothing at all."
Plant resistance
Developing plant resistance to the corn stunt pathogen is another potential defense but will take time.
Taking yet another approach, Summers and others found in preliminary - but as yet inconclusive - studies that corn plants grown over mulch of wheat straw for a month after planting had reduced populations of corn leafhoppers.
Mulch trials also showed one-third the incidence of corn stunt disease and 25 percent more yield compared to plants on bare soil. The mulch might be used to repel aphids and whiteflies, as well as leafhoppers, he said.
Summers and a team of several farm advisors and UC specialists surveyed valley counties with sticky traps and D-vac sweeps in 2002 and confirmed the leafhopper can successfully overwinter in the valley counties. They are continuing observations this year.
According to Summers, while leafhopper damage can impair yield and quality, the disease poses the greater threat.
Corn stunt is caused by a bacterial organism, Spiroplasma kunkelii. Beyond stunting of plants, it causes production of multiple ears that fail to fill. In the fall, leaves in the upper portion of infected plants take on a reddish color. It goes to silage and other varieties of corn.
The corn leafhopper is common throughout the southeastern and southwestern U.S. Brownish or tan in color and less than one-eighth of an inch long, it is the only vector of corn stunt disease in California and resides in the whorls of stalks.
Spots below eyes
Seen under magnification, its major distinguishing mark from other leafhoppers is a pair of dark spots between and below its eyes.
Summers said the leafhopper, or something very like it, was first reported in Fresno and Tulare counties in 1942 and a disease fitting the description of S. kunkelii was recorded a few years later.
Today corn stunt is found from Los Angeles County to Yolo County. Outbreaks once lasted only one or two years and were blamed on leafhoppers migrating from Mexico, but since 1996 they have been annual events with increasing severity in the southern San Joaquin Valley.
The disease formerly was seen mostly in corn planted after July but later showed up in fields planted in April or May. "This suggests to me that both the insect and the disease were overwintering in the San Joaquin Valley," Summers said.
The leafhopper has no diapause period and during winter cold it is inactive, only to resume flight when temperatures reach about 55 degrees. A survey during last winter's comparatively warm temperatures produced heavy catches from October into March on riparian areas, alfalfa, weeds, and triticale.
"We saw leafhoppers at 15 per square foot, so if you multiply that by the number of acres of alfalfa, you get an idea of the huge number of leafhoppers overwintering out there."
Volunteer corn key
Summers said a "real key" to managing the leafhopper is destroying volunteer corn that provides a bridge between seasons. "After grain corn or silage corn is cut, volunteers always come up, particularly later in the fall. In the winter of 2002-2003, thousands and thousands of leafhoppers survived the entire winter."
Even though some corn was frozen back, significant numbers found shelter enough in remaining intact whorls. They were discovered in Kings County in February on residue ears that had started to sprout.
Global imaging system surveys analyzed by University of California scientists in 2001-2002 showed heaviest and earliest infestations around the Lemoore area of Kings County, confirming earlier observations on the ground. However, the same surveys from 2002 through July of 2003 identified a shift of hot spots of leafhopper populations to Tulare County as pressure continued in Kings County.
Tulare County farm advisor Carol Frate said corn stunt appears to be scattered throughout the county and she expects that since much of the acreage is late corn, the problem will worsen by the end of the season.
"It's been increasing since 1996-97 and some fields had a 50 percent reduction in yield. We can see the insect in corn but we don't know what the loss will be. Unfortunately, we have a lot of late corn this year, and those fields are most at risk," she said.
July infestations
Although they have been found as early as March, infestations of new corn fields typically occur in July when both planting and chopping are in progress, Summers said. "As soon as a field with leafhoppers in it is chopped, they start to bail out and look for something else."
In August and September, as chopping intensifies, younger fields catch the full impact of the leafhopper movement.


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Victory Park breaks ground
Habitat for Humanity (HFH-CVP) has started construction on its Victory Park project, a multi-home unit that is being erected on 10 acres behind Colville Wal-Mart Super Center. The unit will consist of eight two-story homes and four garages. Each home will be 1,880 square feet with an attached garage. The main floor space will 1,440 square feet and the second floor 440 square feet. "We had hoped to break ground last fall, but we literally got our building permit the first day it snowed," says Lisa Meddock, HFH-CVP Operations Manager. Two more families are needed to apply to live in the unit and provide the "sweat equity" that is required of every accepted applicant. "This is filling a need in our area," Meddock states. "Low-income housing is in short supply. Plus this is a project that has been in the works for several years now and construction needs to get rolling." The estimated cost for each set of town homes at this time is upwards of $80,000. Meddock adds that this figure is just for the home material costs, and does not include additional permits for electrical, plumbing and infrastructure costs. It has not yet been determined whether the homes will be heated with electricity or gas. There will be a common green area for families to share as well as fencing along the houses to provide the occupants with a sense of privacy. "Some of those costs have been paid or bids secured," Meddock says. "We are needing to bring up all utilities to the site." The estimated total cost of the project is around $320,000. "This is a revolving number due to building code changes and economic costs fluctuating," says Meddock. The application process for those seeking to live in the Victory Park is no different than any other family that has applied for a Habitat home in the past. Applicants must put in a minimum of 500 hours of labor in "sweat equity" on their appointed home and pay off a 25 to 30 year mortgage. According to Meddock, the average mortgage on a HFH house in Colville, Chewelah and Kettle Falls is $350 to $400 a month, while the average monthly rent in Colville averages $700. "That's money right back into the community," says Meddock. Families are being selected to occupy a house in Victory Park already. Applications can be picked up at the Habitat for Humanity Thrift Store on Main Street in Colville.


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Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "Ruff's Yard Sale Makes A Racket" Ruff realizes that he's a horrible shopper. (He just bought a sock at a yard sale for sixteen dollars, after talking the price UP from a quarter!) He also bought a broken tennis racquet at the same sale, which he plans on using in an upcoming match against his nemesis Spot Spotnick! Ruff sends Liza and Talia to the headquarters of Wilson Sporting Goods to design a new tennis racquet for him; and he gets some shopping tips from Bethany and Brian, as they head out to Brimfield Fair, the biggest flea market in the world!. D
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Nightly Business Report President Obama urges House Speaker John Boehner to take the deal on the fiscal cliff.calling it something Republicans can be proud of. NBR's Darren Gersh has the latest on the negotiations going on in Washington. D
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Nature "Christmas In Yellowstone" The undisturbed beauty of Yellowstone National Park in winter dress is NATURE's holiday gift to viewers. Cameras capture breathtaking landscapes that frame intimate scenes of wildlife making their way through their most challenging season of the year. Filmmaker Shane Moore, who lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, leads the way on this winter exploration that includes meeting Tim Murphy, who has skied into Yellowstone for 26 winters to photograph its wonders.G
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NOVA "Riddles of the Sphinx" A team of archeologists, including the director of the Ancient Egypt Resource Associates, peel back 45 centuries of mysteries to reveal the techniques and labor invested in the giant sculpture. The team unearths new discoveries about the people who built this half-human, half-lion image that is nearly the length of a football field and as tall as the White House. And, why they created such a haunting and stupendous image.G
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NOVA "Building Pharaoh's Ship" NOVA follows a team of archaeologists and boat builders as they reconstruct the mighty vessel shown on a mysterious carving on the wall of a 3,500-year-old temple built for the female pharaoh Hatshepsut. According to the wall carving, the vessel embarks on a royal expedition to a mysterious land called Punt. Today's adventurers launch their boat into the Red Sea on a modern voyage of discovery.G
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http://mmajunkie.com LAS VEGAS – This past month's UFC 141 event officially drew an attendance of 13,793 and a live gate of $3,101,000.
Nevada State Athletic Commission Executive Director Keith Kizer today emailed the figures to MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
UFC 141 took place Dec. 30 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and
featured former Strikeforce champion Alistair Overeem earning a
first-round TKO finish of former UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar in
the pay-per-view headliner.
Officials initially announced an estimated attendance of 12,158 and a live gate of $3.1 million. According to the NSAC, only 137 tickets went unsold. The average paid ticket price was $238.54.
The figures fell well short of the MGM Grand Garden Arena's top-five UFC
attendance and live-gate figures. However, in live-gate terms, the show
greatly outperformed UFC 125, which took place early in 2011 and drew just $2,174,780.
MGM Grand Garden Arena's all-time top UFC gates as compiled by MMAjunkie.com include:
- UFC 66 (Liddell vs. Ortiz II): $5,397,300 gate (13,761 attendance)
- UFC 91 (Couture vs. Lesnar): $4,815,675 (14,272)
- UFC 71 (Liddell vs. Jackson): $4,304,000 (14,728)
- UFC 94 (St. Pierre vs. Penn II): $4,290,000 (14,885)
- UFC 116 (Lesnar vs. Carwin): $4,053,990 (12,740)
For more on UFC 141, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of MMAjunkie.com.
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Can You Guess the Celebrity Cleavage?
The owner of this cleavage is pretty famous and is considered to be among the upper echelon of hotties. Can you guess who she is?
She's a pinup girl who's brushed elbows with some of the most influential people in her line of work. Her lovely visage and incredible assets can be seen in print media and online. One of the most interesting things about this girl is the fact that she's the inspiration for a comic book superheroine. Any way you slice it, she's one dame that deserves your recognition and adoration.


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I'm excited to announce that the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ OS 2.0 software update officially launched worldwide today. In October, I spoke to you about some of the key features you could expect with the release of BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0. Today, I'm proud to tell you – we've delivered them.
As you will see, we've made updates and enhancements to some of the things you've told us you like the most. We've also brought you some new, highly anticipated features that you'll find only on BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Let me tell you about my favorite BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 features:
All-New Built-In Functionality
I have to say, the features I'm most excited about with this launch are built-in email, calendar and contacts. Unique to BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0, you can now quickly manage all of your email accounts with a unified inbox, manage your schedule with new features like a People View of your day (which lets you quickly see everyone who is on your agenda for that day), and view your contacts as a social hub that contains information from popular social networks including Facebook®, Twitter®, and LinkedIn®.
Social Integration in Calendar & Contacts
The built in calendar is designed to pull in the information that matters to you from your social networks and make it available where and when you need it. Contact cards are dynamically populated with the latest real-time information from your Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn accounts to create a consolidated view of your contacts most recent updates.
BlackBerry Bridge
Another feature I'm excited for you to try is the new BlackBerry Bridge functionality that allows you to use your BlackBerry smartphone as a remote control for your PlayBook. I've used this feature both for presentations in the office, and at home with my PlayBook tablet connected to my television.
Open On
Although it's hard to choose only four, I will say that Open On definitely makes my list of favorite BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 features. This convenient functionality allows you to open your documents, photos and links from your BlackBerry smartphone onto your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet with one click. I often use Open On to review documents (PowerPoint, Word, and PDF) that people send me on my BlackBerry smartphone. It's a great way to combine the convenience of my BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900 and the big screen on my PlayBook tablet.
These are just a few of the reasons I'm excited about today's launch, and they're just some of the great features that PlayBook OS 2.0 has to offer. Following the 2012 Consumer Electronics show, we heard a lot of great feedback on PlayBook OS 2.0 with reviews from Team BlackBerry. I'd love to hear what you think now that the software update has officially launched.
This post on the BlackBerry Help blog will provide more information about how to get started with your new PlayBook OS 2.0 update.
– David J. Smith, SVP, Mobile Computing, Research In Motion
More about BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0
- New Video Chat features with BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0
- Help Blog: How to download and update to BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 and manage the new home screen
- Help Blog: Getting Started with Email, Contacts and Calendar in BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0
- Help Blog: Getting Started with Video Chat in BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0
- BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Reviews from CES
- CES 2012: BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Communicates [Video]


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The Legislative Event for Advocacy in Faith (LEAF) Team met Aug. 15 in Topeka.
The Legislative Event for Advocacy in Faith (LEAF) Team met Aug. 15 in Topeka. Business included plans for the Sunday evening program and for the Monday session which will be held Feb. 9 and 10, 2014.
The 2013 focus is on immigration and the keynote speaker will be Rev. Jack Knox, AZ. Rev. Knox is a retired Mennonite minister who has moved to AZ and has participated in the Migrant Trail Walk. Rev. Knox will give the keynote address, lead a workshop and a vigil at the event.
Other speakers will be Bishops/Representatives from several denominations who will speak on their respective church's stance on immigration. Another segment will be talking points which discuss current issues before the Kansas Legislature.
Workshops will vary from requirements for U.S. citizenship to voting rights to helping immigrants assimilate into US culture, to the death penalty.
Kansas legislators are invited to a box luncheon Monday where they visit with constituents from their respective districts.
LEAF is an ecumenical event sponsored by United Methodist Women Kansas East and West Conferences, Church Women United of Kansas and Kansas Christians United
Attending were Anita Jost and Windom and Rose Roberts of Newton.


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And the American people should recognize just how much of their tax dollars are spent there, not to mention how much importation of Somali Muslims cost us all.
Somalia's transformation was achieved first and foremost by the people and leaders of Somalia, backed by strong, African-led support. We also want to thank the African Union, which deserves a great deal of credit for Somalia's success. The United States was proud to support this effort. We provided more than $650 million in assistance to the African Union Mission in Somalia, more than 130 million to Somalia's security forces. In the past two years, we've given nearly $360 million in emergency humanitarian assistance and more than $45 million in development-related assistance to help rebuild Somalia's economy. And we have provided more than $200 million throughout the Horn of Africa for Somali refugee assistance.
The President had a chance to meet President Obama earlier today at the White House, and that was a very strong signal to the people of Somalia of our continuing support and commitment.
Did anyone ask the American people if they wanted billions of their tax dollars to go to Somalians and others? Watch video and read it all via Remarks of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
More: U.S. to recognize Somali government, opening door to new aid
…formal U.S. recognition of the new government paves the way for new flows of assistance both from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other U.S. agencies as well as from international actors such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
"The fact that we recognize a government there will allow us to do things through USAID that we have not been able to do before. The fact that we recognize them as a legitimate government will allow the World Bank and the IMF to do things that they would not have been able to do before. This is major and it is significant," the official said.
Mohamud and his team met with senior USAID officials as well as World Bank President Jim Yong Kim during their trip to Washington, U.S. officials said.
The senior U.S. official said the United States did not have any immediate plan to reopen an embassy in Mogadishu but indicated that this could also eventually follow Thursday's announcement. U.S. policy on Somalia is currently handled by a special envoy based out of Nairobi.
The BBC has reported on Mohamud's Muslim Brotherhood links, Somali election of Hassan Sheikh a 'great step',
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, 56, is a civic activist who founded a university in Mogadishu and has worked for several national and international peace and development organisations.
He has links to al-Islah, Somalia's branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is strongly opposed to al-Shabab.
They both want sharia so what exactly is the Somalia Muslim Brotherhood opposed to and will Mohamud prevent the implementation of sharia?


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jdagogo necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 121 diseños de 37 diseñadores freelance.
agogo / agogo.com
web entrepreneur giving 99 designs a try. this is a bit of a science experiment but i'm really interested in seeing who i meet and what they come up with. i create digital media startups and agogo may be one of my next and important projects
smart phone / mobile users that are taking advantage of next generation services. despite the fact that this will be targeted to early adopters, it must also be clean, simple and appeal to a broader audience. the audience loves and embraces their use of iphones, android and other next generation handsets. they are totally turned on by the empowerment, convenience and usefulness of mobile devices.
think video on the go. life on the go. utility. agogo will provide an entire range of next generation video services to the mobile platform
agogo makes available information and video to the people empowered by 3g and 4g devices that make an entirely new generation of information services available to them.
think vintage vespa. fluid.
think "agogo" with Pegasus style wings surrounding it.
playful. accessible. clean. personality is super smart. intelligent.
colors should be strong and regal.
a bit retro would be fine. but must be fun too. strong.
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William E. D'Huyvetters' family moved to Easton from Fair Lawn, N.J., when he was about 7. After graduating from Easton High School in 1942, he worked at his father's tannery until the following spring.
Uncle Sam said he needed me. I was drafted into the Army and had basic training at Camp Croft, S.C., along with Henry Kissinger, the future secretary of state for Nixon. We called him Henny. He was a heck of a nice guy, a smart cookie. He wasn't in my company, but sure, I talked to him.
I had a good six months of infantry training there. Then I shipped out from Boston in November 1943 on a big freight ship, the USS Explorer, one of the old-timers that was all...