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Soil as a medium for plant growth can be described as a complex natural material derived from weathering of rocks and decomposition of organic materials, which provide nutrients, moisture and anchorage for plants.
Soil is a mixture of minerals, organic matter (humus), air and water. An ideal soil for plant growth is about 50 percent solids consisting of minerals and organic material (Figure 1). The organic portion consists of residues from plants, animals and other living organisms. Under optimum conditions for plant growth, about half of the space between soil particles — pore space — is filled with water, and the remainder with air. Soil compaction reduces pore space and the amount of air and water the soil can hold, thereby restricting root growth and the ability of plants to take up nutrients from the soil.
Figure 1
Volumetric content of four principal soil components for an ideal soil at ideal moisture content for plant growth.
Soil color
The color of soil has little effect on plant growth but is an indicator of soil properties that do affect plant development. Color is an indicator of organic matter content, drainage and aeration.
Soil structure
Soil structure refers to the arrangement of soil particles into aggregates. Any physical disturbance influences soil structure. The addition of calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg) or organic matter improves the structure of soil by enhancing aggregation, the ability of soil particles to hold together as a coherent mixture. Organic matter acts as a bonding agent in holding soil particles together to form aggregates. Excessive sodium (Na) levels in soils cause dispersion of soil particles that can result in poor soil structure. Development of desirable soil structure increases porosity (the amount of pore space in the soil), reduces erodibility and improves water-holding capacity, root penetration and ease of tillage.
Soil texture
Soil texture refers to the percentage of sand (2.0 to 0.05 mm), silt (0.05 to 0.002 mm) and clay particles (less than 0.002 mm) that make up the mineral portion of the soil (Figure 2). Loam is a variable mix of these three textural classes.
Figure 2
The soil textural triangle shows the percentage of sand, silt and clay in each of the textural classes. Soil texture can be measured accurately in a laboratory. Soil texture can also be estimated in the field by a hand-feel method (see Table 1).
Table 1. Soil texture as defined by soil texture class and estimated by a hand-feel method.
Soil organic matter
Soil organic matter, or humus, is the partially decomposed residue of plants, animals and other organisms. Organic matter refers to all organic material in the soil, including fresh crop residues.
Organic matter improves soil structure by acting as a bonding agent that holds soil particles together in aggregates. Without organic matter, aggregates are less stable and can be easily broken apart. Good soil structure promotes water movement and root penetration while reducing soil crusting, clod formation and erosion.
Organic matter provides plant nutrients, mainly nitrogen and sulfur and smaller amounts of phosphorus. About 20 pounds of nitrogen are released by decomposition of every 1 percent of organic matter in the soil. Organic matter is a primary reservoir for available forms of micronutrients (mainly zinc and boron).
Soil organic matter also improves the cation exchange capacity of the soil, its ability to hold positively charged molecules, or ions, of mineral nutrients.
Soil organisms
Soil organisms vary in size from microscopic bacteria, fungi and algae to those visible to the naked eye, such as earthworms and insects. They perform both beneficial and detrimental functions in the soil.
Microbes decompose organic matter and release nutrients for plant uptake. Bacteria called rhizobia are responsible for fixing atmospheric nitrogen as plant-available forms in root nodules on legumes. Some fungi and nematodes are responsible for plant diseases, and many soil insects damage crops.
Fertilizer has positive effects on soil microorganisms by providing more nutrients and increased crop residues. Application of anhydrous ammonia will temporarily reduce populations of microorganisms in the zone of application.
Soil pH
Soil pH is a relative measure of the hydrogen ion concentration (H+) in the soil. The pH value can vary from a minimum value of 0 to a maximum value of 14.
Soil pH affects the availability of nutrients to plants (Figure 3). In acid soils (pH is low) calcium and magnesium become more available to plants, whereas the micronutrients iron, aluminum and manganese become soluble and can reach levels toxic to plants. These micronutrients also can react with phosphorus to form compounds that are insoluble and not available to plants. In alkaline soils (pH is high), several soil micronutrients, including zinc, copper and cobalt, become less available to plants. Also at high pH, phosphorus precipitates (becomes insoluble) with the higher levels of calcium in the soil and therefore becomes less available to plants.
Soil pH affects the population and activity of microorganisms. The activity of nitrogen-fixing bacteria associated with legumes is impaired in acid soils, resulting in less nitrogen fixation.
Several natural processes cause most soils to become more acidic over time:
Figure 3
Soil pH affects nutrient availability to plants. The width of the band indicates the relative availability of each plant nutrient at various pH levels.
Soil acidity is corrected by adding a liming material (see table) to reduce the hydrogen ion concentration and increase the level of alkaline/basic cations (positively charged ions) in the soil. Acid-producing hydrogen ions are adsorbed on exchange sites or present in soil solution. These hydrogen ions are in equilibrium between adsorbed and solution states. The hydrogen ions adsorbed to the cation exchange sites serve as a reservoir for neutralizable/reserve acidity that rapidly replaces the hydrogen ions in the soil solution that are neutralized by lime. A soil pH test tells how acidic a soil is, but it does not measure the neutralizable/reserve acidity. Thus, to determine how much lime is required to raise the pH, the soil must be tested for neutralizable acidity. This is done in soil testing labs by measuring buffer pH. Two soils with the same pH may have very different amounts of neutralizable acidity and therefore will have different lime requirements. In general, the lime requirement of a soil increases with the content of clay and organic matter.
To determine how much lime your soil needs to correct soil acidity, it is important to test for buffer pH, which indicates neutralizable acidity.
Cation exchange capacity
Cation exchange capacity (CEC) is a measure of the total amount of exchangeable cations (positively charged ions) a soil can adsorb. Nutrient cations in the soil include positively charged ions such as calcium (Ca+2), magnesium (Mg+2), potassium (K+), sodium (Na+) and hydrogen (H+). In soil tests, CEC is reported in milliequivalents (meq) per 100 grams of soil. The exchangeable cations in the soil are in equilibrium with those in the soil solution (water in the soil). As plants remove nutrients (cations) from the soil solution, they are replenished from the adsorbed cations, which are then available for plant uptake (Figure 4).
Figure 4
Exchangeable nutrient cations adsorbed on soil particles exist in equilibrium with cations in the soil solution. Cations from the particles replenish those taken up from the soil solution by plants.
Table 2. The higher the clay content of the soil, the greater its cation exchange capacity (CEC).
Anion retention in soils
Anions are negatively charged ions. They are retained by positively charged surfaces in the soil, but only in negligible amounts. Negatively charged ions, such as nitrate and phosphate anions, are repelled by clay/humus particles, which are also negatively charged. For this reason, anions are susceptible to leaching losses in soil solutions.
Seventeen elements are considered essential nutrients for plant growth, and 14 of these elements come from the soil (Table 3). If there is a deficiency of any essential element, plants cannot complete their vegetative or reproductive cycles. Some of these nutrients combine to form compounds that make up cells and enzymes. Other nutrients are necessary for certain chemical processes to occur.
Table 3. Seventeen essential plant nutrients derived from air, water and soil.
Concept of most limiting nutrient
Just as the capacity of a wooden bucket to hold water is determined by the height of the short stave, crop yields are restricted by the soil nutrient in shortest supply (Figure 5). Increasing the height of the nitrogen (N) stave in the bucket does not increase the bucket's capacity. In Figure 4, unless sulfur fertility is improved, the value of other fertilizer nutrients is reduced. Soil testing discovers the limiting nutrients (short staves) and maximizes fertilizer returns.
Figure 5
The most limiting nutrient in a soil determines the growth and reproduction of plants.
Deficiency symptoms
Fertilizer sources
The first number on bag of inorganic fertilizer (e.g., 20-10-20) refers to the amount of pure nitrogen per 100 pounds of fertilizer.
Nitrogen is a building block of plant proteins. It is an integral part of chlorophyll and is a component of amino acids, nucleic acids and coenzymes.
Most nitrogen in the soil in tied up in organic matter. It is taken up by plants as nitrate (NO3-) and ammonium (NH4+) ions from inorganic nitrate and ammonium compounds. These compounds can enter the soil as a result of bacterial action (nitrogen fixation), application of inorganic nitrogen fertilizer, or conversion of organic matter into ammonium and nitrate compounds.
Not all nitrates in the soil are taken up by plants. Nitrates can be leached beyond the root zone in sandy soils or converted to nitrogen gas in wet, flooded soils. Nitrogen fixation by soil microbes immobilizes nitrogen, making in available for later use by plants.
A soil test is the best way to determine how much nitrogen fertilizer should be added to your soil. Application rates for specific crops are based on typical yield goals, the organic matter content of the soil, the previous crop produced on that soil, and the amount of manure used.
The second number on a bag of inorganic fertilizer (e.g., 20-10-20) refers to the percentage of P2O5 by weight.
Plants use phosphorus to form the nucleic acids DNA and RNA and to store and transfer energy. Phosphorus promotes early plant growth and root formation through its role in the division and organization of cells. Phosphorus is essential to flowering and fruiting and to the transfer of hereditary traits.
Phosphorus is adsorbed by plants as H2PO4-, HPO4-2 or PO-3, depending upon soil pH. The mobility of phosphorus in soil is low, and deficiencies are common in cool, wet soils.
Phosphorus should be applied to fields and gardens before planting and should be incorporated into the soil. This is especially important for perennial crops. Application rates should be based on soil testing.
The third number on a bag of inorganic fertilizer (e.g., 20-10-20) refers to the percentage of K2O by weight.
Potassium is necessary to plants for translocation of sugars and for starch formation. It is important for efficient use of water through its role in opening and closing small apertures (stomata) on the surface of leaves. Phosphorus increases plant resistance to diseases and assists in enzyme activation and photosynthesis. It also increases the size and quality of fruits and improves winter hardiness.
Plants take up potassium in the form of potassium ions (K+). It is relatively immobile in soils but can leach in sandy soils. Potassium fertilizer should be incorporated into the soil at planting or before. Application rates should be based on a soil test.
Calcium provides a building block (calcium pectate) for cell walls and membranes and must be present for the formation of new cells. It is a constituent of important plant carbohydrates, such as starch and cellulose. Calcium promotes plant vigor and rigidity and is important to proper root and stem growth.
Plants adsorb calcium in the form of the calcium ion (Ca+2). Calcium needs can be only determined by soil test. In most cases calcium requirements are met by liming the soil. Potatoes are an exception; use gypsum (calcium sulfate) on potatoes to avoid scab disease if calcium is needed. Gypsum provides calcium to the soil but does not raise the pH level of the soil. Keeping pH low helps prevent growth of the bacteria that cause scab disease.
Magnesium is a component of the chlorophyll molecule and is therefore essential for photosynthesis. Magnesium serves as an activator for many plant enzymes required for sugar metabolism and movement and for growth processes. Plants take up magnesium as the Mg+2 ion.
Sulfur is a constituent of three amino acids (cystine, methionine and cysteine) that play an essential role in protein synthesis. Sulfur is present in oil compounds responsible for characteristic odors of plants such as garlic and onion. It is also essential for nodule formation on legumes.
Plants take up sulfur in the form of sulfate (SO4-2) ions. Sulfur can also be adsorbed from the air through leaves in areas where the atmosphere has been enriched with sulfur compounds from industrial wastes. Sulfur is susceptible to leaching, and sulfur deficiencies can occur in sandy soils low in organic matter. Sulfur needs can be only determined by a soil test.
Zinc is an essential component of several enzymes in plants. It controls the synthesis of indoleacetic acid, an important plant growth regulator, and it is involved in the production of chlorophyll and protein. Zinc is taken up by plants as the zinc ion (Zn+2).
Zinc deficiencies are more likely to occur in sandy soils that are low in organic matter. High soil pH, as in high-lime soils, the solubility of zinc decreases and it becomes less available. Zinc and phosphorus have antagonistic effects in the soil. Therefore zinc also becomes available in soils that are high in phosphorus. Wet and cold soil conditions can cause zinc deficiency because of slow root growth and slow release of zinc from organic matter.
Iron is taken up by plants as ferrous ion (Fe+2). Iron is required for the formation of chlorophyll in plant cells. It serves as an activator for biochemical processes such as respiration, photosynthesis and symbiotic nitrogen fixation. Turf, ornamentals and certain trees are especially susceptible to iron deficiency, although in general, lack of iron in the soil is not a problem. Symptoms of iron deficiency can occur on soils with pH greater than 7.0. Specific needs for iron can be determined by soil test, tissue test and visual symptoms.
Manganese serves as an activator for enzymes in plant growth processes, and it assists iron in chlorophyll formation. Plants obtain this nutrient from the soil in the form of manganous ion (Mn+2).
Manganese deficiency in soils is not common but can occur in sandy soils with a pH of 8. Soil pH is a good indicator of manganese availability, which can increase to toxic levels in highly acidic soils (pH less than 4.5). Crops most responsive to manganese are onions, beans, potato, spinach, tomato, peas, raspberries, strawberries, apples and grapes.
Copper is an activator of several enzymes in plants. It may play a role in production of vitamin A. Deficiency interferes with protein synthesis.
Copper deficiencies are not common in soils. Plants take up copper from the soil in the form of cuprous (Cu+) or cupric (Cu+2) ions. Crops most responsive to copper are carrots, lettuce, onions and spinach.
Boron regulates the metabolism of carbohydrates in plants. It is essential for the process by which meristem cells (cells that divide) differentiate to form specific tissues. With boron deficiency, plant cells may continue to divide, but structural components are not differentiated.
Boron is taken up by plants as the borate ion (BO3-). Plants differ in their boron needs. Plants with high boron requirements are cauliflower, broccoli, turnip, brussels sprouts, apples, celery and alfalfa. Boron can be limiting on sandy soils low in organic matter. Do not overapply, because boron toxicity can occur ( e.g., beans). Soil testing for boron can predict fertilizer requirement.
Molybdenum is taken up by plants as molybdate ions (MoO4-). Molybdenum is an essential micronutrient that enables plants to make use of nitrogen. Without molybdenum, plants cannot transform nitrate nitrogen to amino acids and legumes cannot fix atmospheric nitrogen.
Molybdenum deficiency can occur in acidic, sandy soils. Liming the soil to pH 6 will correct the problem. Soil applications, foliar applications or coating seed with molybdenum are also effective. Cauliflower is the main vegetable crop sensitive to low levels of molybdenum in the soil.
Chlorine is required in photosynthetic reactions. Deficiency of chlorine in soils is rare because of its universal presence in nature. Plants take up chlorine as chloride ion (Cl-).
Because nickel deficiency does not occur in soils, there are no reported sources of nickel fertilizer for soil.
Nickel is taken up by plants as Ni+2. Nickel is a component of the enzyme urease, which is needed to prevent toxic accumulations of urea, a product of nitrogen metabolism in plants. Nickel is thought to participate in nitrogen metabolism of legumes during the reproductive phase of growth. It is also essential for seed development. High levels of nickel in the soil can induce zinc or iron deficiency by competition between these elements in plant uptake.
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The soil test is an excellent gauge of soil fertility. It is an inexpensive way to maintain good plant health and maximum productivity without polluting the environment by overapplication of nutrients.
Soil fertility fluctuates throughout the growing season each year. The quantity and availability of mineral nutrients are altered by the addition of fertilizers, manure, compost, mulch, lime or sulfur and by leaching. Furthermore, large quantities of mineral nutrients are removed from soils as a result of plant growth and development and the harvesting of crops. A soil test will determine the current fertility status. It also provides the information needed to maintain optimum fertility year after year.
Some plants grow well over a wide range of soil pH, while others grow best within a narrow range of pH. Most turf grasses, flowers, ornamental shrubs, vegetables and fruits grow best in slightly acid soils (pH 6.1 to 6.9). Plants such as rhododendron, azalea, pieris, mountain laurel and blueberries require a more acidic soil to grow well. A soil test is the only precise way to determine whether the soil is acidic, neutral or alkaline.
A soil test takes the guesswork out of fertilization and is extremely cost effective. It not only eliminates the expense of unnecessary fertilizers but also eliminates overuse of fertilizers and helps to protect the environment.
When is the best time for a soil test?
Soil samples can be taken in the spring or fall for established sites. For new sites, soil samples can be taken anytime when the soil is workable. Most people conduct their soil tests in the spring. However, fall is a preferred time to take soil tests if one suspects a soil pH problem and wants to avoid the spring rush. Fall soil testing will allow you ample time to apply lime to raise the soil pH. Sulfur should be applied in the spring if the soil pH needs to be lowered.
How to take a soil sample?
Most errors in soil testing occur when the sample is taken. Potential sources of errors include the following:
Taking a representative sample is important in soil testing. Use a trowel, spade and sampling tube/core samplers.
What soil sampling tools do I need?
A soil sample is best taken with a soil probe or an auger. Samples should be collected in a clean plastic pail or box. These tools help ensure an equal amount of soil to a definite depth at the sampling site. However, a spade, knife, or trowel can also be used to take thin slices or sections of soil.
Push the tip of a spade deep into the soil and then cut a 1/2-inch to 1-inch slice of soil from the back of the hole. Be sure the slice goes 6 inches deep and is fairly even in width and thickness. Place this sample in the pail. Repeat five or six times at different spots over your garden. Thoroughly mix the soil slices in the pail. After mixing thoroughly, take out about 1-1/2 cup of soil and mail or, preferably, take it to your University Extension center. You can also mail or deliver it to the MU Soil and Plant Testing Laboratory in Columbia or at the Delta Research Center in Portageville. It is important that you fill out the soil sample information form (Figure 5) completely and submit it with your sample. By indicating on the form the crops you wish to grow, you can get specific recommendations.
How often should I test my soil?
Soil should be tested every two to three years. In sandy soils, where rainfall and irrigation rates are high, samples should be taken annually.
What tests should be run?
In general a regular fertility test is sufficient. This includes measurement of pH, neutralizable acidity (NA), phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, organic matter (OM) and cation exchange capacity (CEC).
What do the test result numbers mean?
Some labs report soil test values as amounts of available plant nutrients, and others report extractable nutrients that will become available to the plants (Figure 6). Fertilizer rates are given in pounds of actual nutrient (as distinct from pounds of fertilizer) to be applied per 1,000 square feet.
MP555, Soil Sample Information for Lawn and Garden form, for MU soil testing laboratories is available online and at MU Extension centers.
Figure 6. A soil test report from the University of Missouri Soil and Plant Testing Laboratory shows the results of soil analysis and recommends fertilizer and limestone needs to improve plant health and productivity.
All fertilizer recommendations given in a soil test report are based on the amount of nutrient (N, P2O5, K2O) to apply for a given area. Lawn and garden recommendations are given in pounds (lb) per 1,000 square feet (sq ft). From the given recommendations it is necessary to select an appropriate fertilizer grade and determine how much of this fertilizer to apply to the garden area. Numbers on fertilizer bags indicate the exact percentages of nutrients by weight: 100 lb of 5-10-10 fertilizer contains 5 lb of nitrogen (N), 10 lb of phosphate (P2O5), and 10 lb of potash (K2O). Because it is difficult to achieve the exact amount of all recommended nutrients from the garden fertilizer blends available in the market, it is important to match the nitrogen requirement.
A soil test recommendation for your vegetable garden calls for 2 lb of N/1,000 sq ft, 0 lb of P2O5 /1,000 sq ft and 1 lb of K2O. The garden is 40 ft by 10 ft.
The weight of 2 cups of dry fertilizer is about 1 pound. Therefore, to meet the garden fertilizer recommendation, you will need about 6 cups of the fertilizer blend (25-0-12) material for the 400 sq ft area.
Recommended application rate for various granular fertilizers to apply 1 pound of nitrogen.
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Galant on cars and marriage
From a '74 Mustang to a Chevy Suburban, Debra Galant's Cars from A Marriage charts the important events–big and small–in one couple's relationship by way of the automobiles that drive them throughout the course of their lives. Ivy is a transplanted Southern belle– the daughter of a car salesman– who continually wonders how she has ended up a New Jersey stay-at-home mom with a not-so-secret fear of driving. Her husband Ellis was a stand up comedian when they met, and the owner of that '74 Mustang, but his ambitions were overshadowed by the responsibilities of a family. In the blink of an eye, he became a PR executive with a mortgage, two kids, and a Buick LeSabre.
The cars steer us from their first meeting, to their first fight, and down the line to a family funeral. Finally, it's on a drive along the Pacific Coast Highway that Ivy and Ellis come to some serious and illuminating realizations about their lives. With insights that alternate between hilarious and profound, Galant provides a unique, unforgettable portrait of a marriage.
About the author
In 1995, Debra Galant was asked to write a cover story for the Jersey section of the New York Times on the subject of suburban etiquette. Little did she know that suburban etiquette would become her beat, or that the story would lead to a five-year column in the newspaper of record.
Since that first cover story, Galant has written hundreds of articles and columns for the Times, on topics ranging from kitchen envy to nudist colonies. She has also penned many magazine-length articles, including profiles of Princeton University's controversial ethicist Peter Singer and of Montclair cosmetics guru Bobbi Brown.
In May 2004, Galant became a new-media pioneer when she launched Baristanet.com. It was named the #1 placeblog in America in January, 2007 and has been visited more than 10 million times.
Rattled, Galant's first novel, was inspired by a January 2002 Times column she wrote about the endangered timber rattlesnake. Rattled was both a Book Sense pick and a New York Times Editors' Choice selection. Her second novel, Fear and Yoga in New Jersey, also a Book Sense pick, was released in 2008.
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On paper, it was not a successful week for the Toll Gate and Rocky Hill School field hockey teams. The Titans dropped three games, while the Mariners lost a 4-0 game to La Salle before beating Toll …
On paper, it was not a successful week for the Toll Gate and Rocky Hill School field hockey teams. The Titans dropped three games, while the Mariners lost a 4-0 game to La Salle before beating Toll Gate on Friday.
But in living color – especially in pink – it was a great week.
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, both teams organized pink-out fundraising events. Between them, the programs will donate nearly $1,000 to cancer charities.
Toll Gate held a pink-out game on Wednesday and encouraged the entire community to wear pink during the school day. On Friday, the Titans hit the road for Rocky Hill and another pink-out, a fifth-annual event for the Mariners.
Both pink-outs were driven by the same desire to help.
"When you ask the team who's been affected by breast cancer, more than half usually raise their hands," said Rocky Hill head coach Traci Fairchild. "We've done this for five years now and it keeps growing each year."
Pink-outs have become a common sight in the sports world over the last few years, from youth leagues to the professional ranks. Field hockey has been at the forefront since the beginning, thanks in part to the Play 4 the Cure effort, which offers resources and support to athletic teams that want to get into fundraising. Play 4 the Cure is affiliated with the National Foundation for Cancer Research, and all proceeds go to that organization.
Fairchild heard about Play 4 the Cure a few years ago, and with a personal connection to breast cancer, she signed her team up immediately.
"My grandmother passed away from breast cancer in 2001," Fairchild said. "When I heard Play 4 the Cure, we decided to do it and blow it out big."
The school community embraced the effort, and it's been a fall tradition since. The team sold bracelets and ribbons all week at school and held a bake sale on Friday.
At the game, pink really took over. Balloons lined the edge of the field, a pink ribbon was painted in the center circle and the lines on the field were also painted pink. The team wore pink uniforms, too, and Play 4 the Cure supplied pink balls. Even the referees got in on the act with pink shirts.
Toll Gate, fresh off its own pink-out, made pink hair bows and gave them to their Rocky Hill counterparts.
"Toll Gate was very generous and made the ribbons," Fairchild said. "It was super sweet and showed great sportsmanship. We appreciated that."
Toll Gate is new to the pink-out scene but its debut went pretty well. At Wednesday's game against Smithfield, the Titans were decked out in pink and they collected donations at the game. They also sold bracelets and collected donations at school during the week. They raised about $300, which will go to the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation.
"The whole school really embraced it," said head coach Leila Connolly. "The school was a sea of pink."
Toll Gate took its cue from the Rhode Island field hockey coaches association, which encourages teams to organize fundraisers in conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Like many teams around the state, the Titans ran with it.
"It's a good cause," said Toll Gate assistant coach Melissa Heywood. "We wanted to do more than just play a game in honor of that. That was the motivating factor of us pulling the school into it."
And of course, for a team full of teenage girls, it wasn't a hard sell.
"The girls love pink," Connolly said.
Toll Gate took it a step further on Friday when it did its part in Rocky Hill's event. Junior Breana Coleman led the charge to make the ribbons.
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UH Manoa's John A. Burns School of Medicine is recognized as one of the country's leading medical centers in diabetes research by a national news network. The medical school's contribution is highlighted as part of National Diabetes Awareness Month, and serves as a newsworthy reminder of lingering health disparities among Hawai'i's diverse ethnic groups.
Native Hawaiians, Filipinos, and Japanese are all 2 times more likely to have diabetes than Caucasians in HawaiŒi. Native Hawaiians are 5.7 times more likely to die from diabetes or its
complications than Caucasians, according to data collected through the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
The medical school is training community health workers statewide on basic facts about diabetes. An ongoing research project is aimed at weight loss and weight maintenance through
behavioral lifestyle intervention for at-risk individuals.
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Dr. Richard Arakaki and Dr. Marjorie Mau, both endocrinologists, were lead investigators for a multi-centered randomized control trial on the prevention of diabetes. The study, funded
by the National Institutes of Health, was ended early because it was found that a modest lifestyle intervention was more effective at preventing diabetes in those at high risk compared to drug therapy and control.
ABC News posts both printed information and video by Dr. Kalani Brady on its website (link: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/DiabetesResource/story?id=3839170&page=1.)
Dr. Brady, Associate Chair of the Department of Native Hawaiian Health, has also agreed to answer questions about diabetes posed by web readers from around the nation during this month-long spotlight on diabetes.


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Clean Energy Action was founded more than a decade ago on the principle that education and empowering community action is the key to accelerating the transition from fossil fuels to a clean energy and resilient economy. While technological and important regulatory challenges persist, the true challenge comes in mobilizing the knowledge we have at our disposal and implementing it throughout our communities and our marketplaces.
Clean Energy Action has traditionally recognized our amazing supporters and advocates for all they personally do for people and planet. Our 10th Anniversary Sunshine Award acknowledges these individuals who have made significant contributions in the dissemination of new ideas, technologies and concepts and who, like the sun, take the light and heat of human ingenuity and help it to find its way out of academic journals and laboratories and into the mainstream of our culture and economy.
We at CEA could think of no one more deserving of this honor than Mr. Tony Seba. As the author of several books, including Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation and Solar Trillions, as an educator at Stanford University, and as a leader in business and technology, Tony Seba exemplifies the qualities we seek to recognize with this award. Mr. Seba's work has aided the cause of sustainability immeasurably, both by shedding light on the progress that has been made and by helping to illuminate the way forward, and it is in recognition of this work that we are honored to name or friend and sustainability champion the recipient of the 2017 Clean Energy Action Sunshine Award.
Thanks to Martin Voelker and the Colorado Renewable Energy Society, you can watch Tony Seba's keynote address here.
Congratulations and our deepest gratitude to Tony Seba for traveling to Boulder to receive CEA's 10th Anniversary Sunshine Award and for his inspiring work.
CEA's Soirée was only the beginning of Tony's trip– He also led a Transportation Strategy Session on Friday June 9, with over 30 regional government & transportation representatives hosted by CEA and the Alliance for a Sustainable Colorado.
Abundant thanks to everyone who contributed to the event! This opportunity would not have been possible without the work and generosity of our host committee, the CU Museum of Natural History, Hunter Lovins, the CU Environmental Center, and everyone who showed up to support CEA.


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Augusta pharmacy robbed for 3rd time in past year; latest suspect remains at large
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � An Augusta pharmacy has been robbed for third time within the past year.
Police say the CVS on Stone Street was robbed at about 4 p.m. Tuesday by a man who fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of prescription medications.
The robber was described as a white man wearing faded jeans, dark shoes, a black and white knit hat with ear flaps, white gloves and scarf, a blue and white jacket and a blue neck warmer over his lower face. He appeared to be in his late 20s to early 30s, between 5-foot-5 and 5-foot-7, and between 150 and 170 pounds.
No weapon was shown.
The store was also robbed in February and May last year. Arrests were made in both robberies.


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A dutiful robot named Robby speaks 188 languages. An underground lair provides astonishing evidence of a populace a million years more advanced than Earthlings.
There are many wonders on Altair-4, but none is greater or more deadly than the human mind. "Forbidden Planet" is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come.
Leslie Nielsen portrays the commander who brings his spacecruiser crew to the green-skied Altair-4 world that's home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), the remarkable Robby... and to a mysterious terror.


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Boy Meets World actor Rider Strong is officially off the market.
Strong, 33, wed girlfriend Alexandra Barreto on Sunday afternoon, People reports. The couple tied the knot at a summer camp in Oregon with a weekend of camp-themed competitions including a ropes course and a talent show.
Check out other celebs who got married this year
Coincidentally, Strong's fellow Boy Meets World alum Danielle Fishelalso got married over the weekend. "I am missing some of my Boy Meets World family," Strong said of his nuptials. "That was my fault, [Danielle] chose the date first."
Strong and Barreto met on the short-lived series Pepper Dennis in 2006.


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Talking about new entrants in Dallas
I'm in Dallas at the ESA Leadership Conference and ESI Forum.
If you're at the event, check out the educational session I'm moderating today. It's called "What the Arrival of New Industry Entrants Means for your Business"
The panelists are Joe Nuccio, CEO of ASG Security, and John Loud, president of Loud Security. We'll be talking about the cable and telco companies that are playing in security now.
There are seven at last count, and they're not all taking the same approach. We're going to take a look at who the new entrants are, analyze their offerings and approach, and talk about what traditional security companies should keep in mind as the competitive landscape shifts.
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Probably wouldn't have lasted past the first three minutes either if I hadn't been introduced to it through one of the openings of an osu! map. That interested me enough to put up or skip that crap and then pretend it never happened, but there are definitely some significant parts I'd be cutting out if I were the editor. >_>
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
It's a good time to be a Blue Jay
"It's a good time to be a Blue Jay"
....and with that, we're off and running.
Before we get started, let's get one thing out of the way....if you think that I'm above a hackneyed, cliche-riddled blog post on the beauty of spring training, well.....you obviously haven't been following along.
Seriously, is there anything better than the start of camp? New faces trying to show they belong. Old faces battling to maintain their spots. Players in their prime establishing leadership position. Which brings us back to the quote above.
If fans of the team were worried about a leadership void after the trade of the Jays heart and soul, Aaron Hill is showing he's ready to be The Man inside the clubhouse. That's big. At the ripe old age of 27, Hill spent his first day in camp setting the bar for all current and future Jays:
"I hope these guys know what kind of opportunity they have," Hill said. "If I'm seeing it, I just hope that they see it. I love seeing guys really get after it and fight for it. I hate seeing young guys, or anybody, that just expects to be given something. You should always work for whatever it is -- not just baseball. I want to see the edge, the fire in these guys' eyes, to get out there and just kick some butt."
Hill has a unique perspective in that he's had to battle hard to get back on the field after the knockout blow by that goon Eckstein (heyo!). Realistically, I don't think anyone should expect the second baseman to belt 36 home runs again this season, but Hill is already showing his value to the club lies far beyond that.
Catching up with Doc (already)
I can't wait for the time that I can read a Halladay-related article without my heart sinking. Here, Griff (who's a monster in the spring, by the way) finds ol' Roy still saying all the right things and doing nothing to ease the pain.
Do a quick google news search, if you're brave enough, and you'll find a boatload of the requisite articles detailing how the Phillies youngsters are soaking it all up, getting into camp earlier than ever, sponging up the knowledge, etc. Ugh.
....and getting to know Drabek
It's not all sad times. Now that spring has arrived, we'll get a chance to learn more about the future of the club, starting with this quick piece on key rotation piece Kyle Drabek.
Nothing groundbreaking here, except for the money quote:
"I kind of like blue."
10 comments:
- Torgen said...
What does putting on the Jays' uniform have to do with liking blue?
- February 20, 2010 at 12:52 PM
- February 20, 2010 at 2:25 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
The dream is that one day, soon, Kyle Drabek becomes an All-Star, and a franchise player, and in the midst of signing away his arb years for a long term contract looks someone from management in the eye and says those beautiful words:
"I kind of like blue."
And the mountains shall be moved.
- February 20, 2010 at 3:21 PM
Navy blue, I hope.
- February 20, 2010 at 5:42 PM
- Mike said...
We have blue in our uniforms?
- February 20, 2010 at 9:09 PM
- MK Piatkowski said...
I was brave enough, or masochistic enough, to track down those Philly articles yesterday. Nice to see Doc being Doc. He's already got a shadow.
The funniest thing is reading all about his work ethic. We told them at the time of the trade, did they listen to us? They were crying over Lee. I don't feel they deserve him, but I hope he gets his ring.
- February 20, 2010 at 11:58 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
They are Philly fans. They chuck batteries at Santa after he broke his neck (or something like that.)
They used to boo Mike Schmidt.
Eventually, Roy's ERA will bump up over 2.99 and they'll freak out and throw him under the bus.
- February 21, 2010 at 2:18 PM
And then Brandi will really have something to flap her gums about. Can't wait to see how that goes over in Philly.
- February 22, 2010 at 10:22 AM
Might be a good time to be a Blue Jay, but is it a good time to be a Blue Jay's fan? I've heard that they have eliminated almost all first 10,000 giveaways this season.
- February 22, 2010 at 11:32 AM
Chad Jenkins looks like an extra from the Dukes of Hazard. A hint of Cooter about him.
- February 22, 2010 at 10:04 PM


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Time To Get Rid Of Theo EpsteinWow. That is his entire argument, by the way. The only players cited with respect to Epstein's performance during his entire time with the Red Sox -- since November 2002 -- are Matsuzaka, Drew, Lackey, and Lugo!
By Peter Osgood, Over The Monster, September 2, 2011
It is time for the Red Sox to bite the bullet and admit the mistake of having Epstein in its employ. Epstein has made a host of bonehead moves that have cost the Sox dearly and in the process raised ticket prices. One day people will realize Japanese starting pitchers never do well in MLB. Matzuzaka cost the Sox over $200 million and what have they gotten? A single good year. JD Drew has been the underperformer of the decade and what has he cost? $14 million a year. He has batted .261 in his 5 years with the Sox. Maybe Epstein should have given that $14 million to Jason Bay and said good-bye to Drew. The Red Sox used to beat up on Lackey when he was with the Angels. Didn't Epstein get the memo that you go after guys who beat you and not the other way around? He's another overpaid underperformer. In past years we had a high priced Julio Lugo who did what for us? The time and money invested in these players would have been much better spent in developing prospects in the Red Sox farm system. It's time for a change at the top.
Several comments are quite hilarious. One poster notes: "I wouldn't mind a radical viewpoint backed up with stats, but every single one of this guy's points and facts were fallacious and nonsensical."
Indeed. Dice has not cost the Sox $200 million, though he did help the team win the 2007 World Series. Drew has not been anywhere near the underperformer of the decade. Plus Osgood uses batting average - and only batting average! - to make his case. Give the same $$$ to Jason Bay? The guy who has hit .245 (16 points lower than Drew, as long as average is our yardstick) since leaving Boston? Also, Bay has slugged a paltry .375 post-Red Sox; Marco Scutaro is slugging .376 this year!
I believe that Theo fanned on Lackey, though the deal has not yet run its course, so it remains possible that Lackey could run into a full season of tremendous good luck and redeem himself somewhat. And "I (still) blame Lugo", but there has never been a GM in baseball history who has not made a few gaffes. (Not surprisingly, Osgood offers no suggestion for the next GM.) ... Epstein also signed David Ortiz, Bill Mueller, and Kevin Millar on the cheap, and worked a trade for Curt Schilling. Those signings and trade worked out pretty well.
Epstein should have spent some time developing prospects? I guess Mr. Osgood has not heard of:
Jacoby Ellsburyor Felix Doubront, Ryan Kalish, and several other promising players still in the minors. Or past prospects like Manny Delcarmen and Justin Masterson, or Hanley Ramirez (who was traded for 2007 WS cogs Beckett and Lowell) or the four prospects who netted Adrian Gonzalez. ... Yeah, imagine what Theo could have done if he had bothered spending any time on developing the farm system!
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The struggle between sons who want to follow their dreams and the fathers with other plans has been long been fodder for storytellers. "Hop" brings together a rabbit and human both fighting to follow their dreams.
E.B. (voiced by Russell Brand) is a 20-something bunny living on Easter Island, where his father (voiced by Hugh Laurie sounding eerily like John Oliver) has been training him for years to take over the mantle of Easter Bunny.
But E.B. doesn't want to work, he just wants to play drums in a rock band, and so he runs off to Hollywood. There he stumbles in front of a car being driven by Fred O'Hare (James Marsden), another shiftless do-nothing who's a huge disappointment to his father. E.B. guilts Fred into letting him stay with him. As you can imagine, E.B. first drives Fred crazy, but the two go on to form a bond and eventually help each other realize their dreams.
Marsden almost single-handedly keeps "Hop" afloat with his unflagging energy and enthusiasm. He's on screen for most of the film, often with no one to act against. Despite spending much of the film chasing or talking to a rabbit he cannot see, he manages to keep his dignity. And Hank Azaria is fantastic as Carlos, the chick who serves as the Easter Bunny's dutiful No. 2, but resents the fact that his species isn't even considered for the top job, and eventually launches a coup de etat.
Brand has made a career of going off script, yet here he seems to very much toe the line. It's odd seeing (hearing?) a talent like Brand's so under control, particularly in a film aimed at kids. It's a bit disappointing.
What's odd about "Hop" is that it's not very funny, which is not to say it's full of unfunny jokes, but rather that it's largely without humor. It instead focuses too earnestly on E.B. and Fred's struggles with their parents. That said, it's a pleasant respite from so many children's movies that try to simply wear you down with relentless schtick and dance numbers.
Smartly, the film is devoid of any religion, with E.B.'s dad making a comment about their's being a tradition that is 4,000 years old, which is ten times longer than the Easter Bunny has existed. No, the Easter Bunny is a purely secular, non-denominational dispenser of candy, though he's not yet quite broken the market in China.
Between Marsden's acting and the hard work of the animators, EB is almost seamlessly integrated into the real world, though setting Marsden in the candy factory at Easter Island proved more challenging. The factory is eye-popping in that candy-colored, Willy Wonka kind of way, with all manner of machinery producing peeps, gummies, bunny, kisses and the like.
"Hop" will leave your kids amused, but lacks that extra something that would inspire you to tell a non-parent they should see it. And depending on your childrearing philosophy, either you won't think twice about the ending or you'll furrow your brow with disappointment--you'll find us in the latter camp.
Review: Kids Will "Hop" To It
The struggle between sons who want to follow their dreams and the fathers with other plans has been long been fodder for storytellers. "Hop" brings together a rabbit and human both fighting to follow their dreams.


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2012 Fall Madison Letter
Fall 2012
"Directions"Madison Letter
Volume 35, Number 3
Why Madison?
Listening tour offers mutual discovery and opportunity to etch a bold vision for JMU
One of the most enlivening aspects of life at a university is the constant transitioning. Freshman arriving, faculty members discovering, students learning, seniors graduating — all of these experiences, among many others, are fully transformative events that affect not only those experiencing them, but the entire university community as well.
I am acutely aware of how powerfully formative transitions can be, as I became president of James Madison University in July. Moving to Harrisonburg and still finding our way around campus, my family and I are in the midst of major change. So I say to you Madison freshmen of the Class of 2016 — if you feel a bit lost on campus, please know that you are not alone!
As freshmen and the rest of Madison's student body dedicate themselves to learning in their courses this semester, I will dedicate myself to learning about James Madison University. Already, I know a great deal about this wonderful university. I can say with the objectivity of an outsider that the world has taken notice of JMU. The quality of the academic programs, the great minds and personal commitment of the faculty, the student-centered culture, the commitment to societal engagement, the problem-solving approach to education, how JMU has synthesized these elements into one Madison Experience — these aspects are evident to outsiders and among the many reasons I sought the "best presidency in America," as Dr. Linwood Rose identified it.
But still there is much for me to learn about James Madison University.
In my acceptance address last November I emphasized the importance I place on an "engaged university" in today's world. Indeed, I believe that James Madison University can become recognized nationally as the model for what it means to be the engaged university in the 21st century. But if we are to become this national model, the university community must go there together. My first step in working toward this vision will be to fully engage with you. I must acquire a complete 360-degree understanding of the university's strengths as well as its challenges and an understanding of what makes Madison unique.
I have launched a listening tour to meet as many of you as I can. Just as I have been asked why I came to Madison, I plan to ask you "Why Madison?" Why did you choose to attend, teach or work at JMU? Why is Madison important to you? Why are you committed to JMU? Why do you volunteer your time or invest your resources in the university? Why is Madison uniquely suited to address the most pressing challenges of our society and our world? Why Madison?
I want our conversation to be one of mutual discovery. It will be intellectually invigorating, open and frank. I also expect that it will be enjoyable and rewarding. Already during the first few listening tour events, our conversations have ben deep and enlightening. The themes that emerge from your answers to "Why Madison?" will inform the university's next strategic planning process. So please reflect deeply on my question, "Why Madison?" I hope to hear your answer soon when the listening tour makes a stop near you.
I want to thank the JMU Board of Visitors and the search committee for expressing faith in me and my leadership. I am honored to join the Madison community as its president. You achieved great things under Dr. Rose's strong, strategic leadership, and I say with deep humility that I plan on building upon his legacy and meeting your high expectations.
I look forward to my first semester Madison Experience. Please come to campus for Homecoming and Family Weekend, football games, other athletics events, and shows at the Forbes Center. Or just visit when you happen to be driving down Interstate 81. Please look for dates when I will be visiting your part of campus and the country. I look forward to meeting you — faculty members, students, alumni, donors, staff members and friends of JMU — and getting to know the Madison community intimately. Together we will define "Why Madison," etch a bold vision for the university's future and then show the world "Why Madison."
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About 12,000 kids drop out of school in Chicago every year. At Robeson High School, a special project this year has tried to keep freshmen on course to graduate. Despite that, students have slipped away—they've stopped coming to school for a whole variety of reasons. Once they're gone, the chances that anyone will find them are slim.
Series: 50/50: The Odds of Graduating
Slideshow: Where do we go from here?
Dropping out of school is a process. It can be hard to know exactly when it begins and when it ends. A week of absences can turn into another and another.
This is a story about three kids who have stopped coming to school. They're all freshmen I met over the past year in a single classroom at Robeson High School. One week in late May, I went to look for them.
ambi: dial tone
The phone numbers Robeson has on file for students are often bad—families move, or their phones get disconnected, or sometimes… they don't want the school to be able to call.
ambi: We're sorry, your call cannot be completed as dialed…
I'm looking for Tim. His home number is disconnected. There's a work number for his mom, but somebody there tells me she was fired a long time ago. The number of a family friend is busy—all the time.
The address listed for Tim is 220 E. 75th Street.
I don't see a 220…but there's a 200. It's a one-story building. Right about where Tim's house is supposed to be, there's a parking lot. I imagine all the letters that Robeson High School has sent to this parking lot. Certified letters warning Tim's parents to send him to school.
My last lead on Tim is the family friend—his name is Mr. Gunn. I find his address online.
The door to Mr. Gunn's building is unlocked, and the whole foyer smells like reefer. I finally find Mr. Gunn around the back of the building. I tell him I'm looking for Tim.
GUNN: I'm not related to him at all. I'm 60 years old. I'm just trying to help them out by when they call, I go tell his father when he's not in school. Now they were living over here, on the next block, right there at the end of that alley, on the end. They're not there anymore. Now, the first gray house you get to on that side of the street—that's where they moved to.
The house is two stories with a big stoop. With all the calls and stops, it's probably taken me three hours to get here. But I've finally found Tim.
Sound of house.
A very wide smile comes across his face, and then he turns away.
LUTTON: Can you figure out why I came to look for you?
TIM: No.
LUTTON: Cause you haven't been at Robeson.
TIM: Aww.
You might think there'd be a big reason why Tim hasn't been in school. Like maybe it's drugs. Gangs. Maybe Tim's gotta work to help his family—he's the 8th out of 10 kids.
TIM: I had to take shots.
LUTTON: Shots? What do you mean?
TIM: I had to go to the hospital and take shots.
It's not that he's sick. He isn't up to date on his vaccinations. That's why he hasn't been in school. His brother—who's also a freshman—is out for the same reason. They've both been gone since December, which is when Tim says the school gave him a paper telling him he couldn't come back without proof he'd gotten his shots.
TIM: After they gave me the paper I tried to go back. they asked me did I get my shots. I said, 'No,' they said I couldn't come without my shots…they sent me back around. They told me I can't come without my shots. So I didn't try to go since.
Tim says he hasn't gotten the shots because his mom and dad both work, and nobody can miss a day 'cause that's a hundred dollars off their check. He says his older brothers and sisters can't take him to get the shots because they don't have IDs.
TIM: If I'd had a choice to walk my own self to the hospital, I'da been back in school a long time ago. I was gonna go to Robeson on the last day and see if there's summer school. 'Cause I wanna get back in school. I like going to school.
Tim wasn't a bad student—he got Cs his last year of grammar school. He was never identified as a potential dropout by Robeson—and a lot of other kids were. But Tim was no angel either.
One day in the fall I was hanging around with his math teacher, Mr. Kuriakose, while he was making phone calls home.
KURIAKOSE: Hi. My name is Mr. Kuriakose. I teach at Robeson High School.
Here's what Mr. Kuriakose told the family friend, Mr. Gunn.
KURIAKOSE: It's about Timothy's attitude in class and his behavior. It's been steadily declining, as in he's cursing more often. He doesn't care who hears him curse. He's been more willing to start arguments with other students. And he talks about fighting other students all the time.
It's Mr. Kuriakose's job to call home for issues like this. But CPS says teachers aren't social workers. They can't be expected to track kids down at home.
Truancy officers were cut from schools in the early 1990s. Community and religious groups have picked up some of the slack, but they can't reach the thousands who go missing.
Mr. Kuriakose told me last winter he hoped when the weather changed, when spring came—maybe Tim would return.
LUTTON: Have any of your teachers called you?
TIM: No.
LUTTON: Has anyone come around and looked for you?
TIM: No… But you.
I say to Tim, why don't I take you to school tomorrow? You can explain that you haven't gotten the shots but you want to come to school—and we'll see what happens.
TIM: OK. You come tomorrow. I'll be ready 7:30.
But when I get there, Tim is still sleeping. His mom comes out to talk to me on the stoop. She knows that I stopped by the day before. And she says right off that none of her kids is going to drop out of school. She tells me that the problem is the form that they gave Tim for his vaccinations—he lost it.
LUTTON: You want Tim in school?
MOM: Yes I do.
LUTTON: Do you know when he'll get his shots?
MOM: Uh-uh. Well Saturday, I guess Saturday. Today's Thursday. I guess Saturday.
LUTTON: But he hasn't had the shots since December, right? That's when they sent the paper home?
MOM: Right. Since December when they sent the paper home.
LUTTON: Can you say…I mean, why has it been so hard to get those shots?
MOM: Like I say, he lost the paper. He lost the paper himself. Not me. He did. The nurse gave him the paper. She didn't give it to me. I don't go to school. I'm 44 years old.
The form Tim lost is available at any clinic, but maybe Tim's mom doesn't know this. She says she'll bring Tim to the doctor as soon as he gets another paper. I offer to take Tim to Robeson right then to get the paper, but his mom lets him sleep.
TIM'S MOM: I'll send him up there. I'll send him up there. I'll have my nephew to take him up there in his car. And get the papers so he can get back to school. 'Cause I told him, 'Oh, you're going to summer school, Buddy. You're going to summer school.'
I figure that finding Marcellis will be a lot easier than finding Tim—there's a working phone number. I find his address in the phone book. But when I get to Marcellis' house, nobody knows where he is—not exactly, anyway. This is his grandma.
GRANDMOTHER: I really don't know where he is—I can say, I believe he's on 69th and Indiana or 69th and Calumet. But I did see him—it looked like him and I'm pretty sure it was him—going down Indiana toward 70th Street …we were blocked off by a trailer... He's got a lot of hair. I was just trying to check to see if it really was him. The shoes he had on was not the shoes that I saw him in.
The family filed a missing persons report with the police in April. Marcellis is 15 years old, and this is the fourth or fifth time he's run away from home.
Sound of papers rustling.
GRANDMOTHER: No this is that one? April 3, O9. OK. That's it. That's the newest one.
Marcellis' grandmother says Marcellis just didn't want to follow the rules anymore. He stole things. He'd come home high. Marcellis' mother died when he was 4. He and his brothers came to live with their grandma three years ago. Marcellis' Aunt Krystle says she could see him being pulled by the neighborhood.
AUNT KRYSTLE: The streets or the gangs are providing him with some sort of emotional connection. And I guess he feels like he's a part of something—you know it's hard when you don't have your parents. Although we're here. We're trying. It's a certain void that he's trying to fill.
Marcellis' grandmother says one person at Robeson tried to help Marcellis, and that was Rodney Thomas—the head of a program to keep freshmen in school. But when I call Thomas later, he says he can't quite remember Marcellis. He has hundreds of kids to keep track of.
Every day, Robeson's automated phone calling system dials up Marcellis' grandmother and tells her he's absent from school. She presses 1 to acknowledge the call. Family members have tried to find Marcellis, but when he sees them, he runs away. I get directions and set out to look for Marcellis myself.
LUTTON: There's like a store there Arab store on the corner of 69th.. Indiana…
Excuse me, I'm looking for a student that I used to know? His name is Marcellis. I don't know him.
It's a spring night…and the block is full. A big group of men and boys are gambling on the sidewalk. One guy is holding a stack of bills. sound of gambling And there's Marcellis, leaning up against a car, the shortest one there. He's got a baby face.
ambi: "Shorty!"
Marcellis' warm-up jacket is pulled up over his face, up to his nose—which is why he sounds all muffled.
LUTTON: Put your thing down so I can talk to you.
MARCELLIS: I'm good.
LUTTON: You remember me, right?
MARCELLIS: Yeah.
LUTTON: This week I've been looking for kids who aren't in school anymore.
MARCELLIS: OK. How'd you find ME, though?
Marcellis really doesn't want to talk about why he's not in school. And I'm not sure I can trust what he's saying anyway. He's acting funny. His eyes are completely bloodshot. He lies and tells me he was in school yesterday. But he's really fixated on how I've found him.
MARCELLIS: I don't get that. I mean, like how ya'll find me, man?
LUTTON: Have any of your teachers come out looking for you?
MARCELLIS: No, nobody got to look for me.
I tell him I'm looking for the kids in his classes who don't come to school anymore.
MARCELLIS: (chuckling) So you going through everybody neighborhood looking for these students. Wow.
I'm the one who's surprised when I find the third student, Keonna. She's at home on the sofa reading a book. I've watched Robeson teachers try hard to get students to read this year. And here I am with a kid who's not even coming to school anymore—and I find her with a book.
The apartment where Keonna's family lives is clean and sunny. Her 8th grade graduation photo sits on a little end table. When I ask Keonna why she's not in school, this is what she tells me.
KEONNA: Well, I choose not to go to school because I get into too many fights. I feel I can't get an education at Robeson. There's too much violence.
Robeson's principal is usually outside after school, which is when the fights break out. He told me once he wishes it would rain every day at dismissal, so kids would go straight home. Keonna started having problems her first week at Robeson.
KEONNA: The first fight I had I got jumped on by eight girls. The second fight…
Two more fights followed that one—Keonna tells me that a former friend has become her tormenter.
KEONNA: Then I decided I didn't want to go there no more. Because it seems like I always get into a fight with her, and I get suspended. And I think that I'm gonna be a demote and I'm not gonna go to the next grade, 'cause of all this fighting.
I'm trying to square what Keonna is telling me with what I'm seeing—the quiet, tidy apartment, the book. From the couch, she can see the Robeson kids coming home from school. Keonna almost cries when she tells me she fears being a "demote"??that??s a demoted freshman. She says she was suspended for a total of 40 or 50 days for fighting this year. Keonna's dad says he's gone to the school to try to figure things out.
DAD: I've been there so much seems like I'm taking classes there.
He wishes the school could have come up with a way to keep the two girls apart.
DAD: She wants to be in school right now. And I want her to be in school right now. The whole year is gone, she's gonna have to repeat this 9th grade over again, all because of this foolishness.
Keonna hardly leaves the house. Her mom says she's been depressed since she stopped going to school. Keonna and her parents say they asked for a transfer to a different school, but they were told they've got to wait until the end of the semester. Keonna's report card—out today—will almost surely be all Fs.
KEONNA: It's not that I'm choosing not to go to school no more—it's just I don't want to go to that school no more.
Keonna says she hasn't dropped out of school. In fact, all the kids tell me this—that they haven't dropped out. They've just stopped going. These kids will stay on Robeson's rolls. But if they don't return to school, eventually…quietly, as quietly as they disappeared from class, their names will be dropped. Along with 12,000 other kids'.
About 12,000 kids drop out of school in Chicago every year. At Robeson High School, a special project this year has tried to keep freshmen on course to graduate. Despite that, students have slipped away—they've stopped coming to school for a whole variety of reasons. Once they're gone, the chances that anyone will find them are slim.


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The Central Connecticut softball team topped the Bryant Bulldogs (5-14, 1-5 NEC) by a score of 8-1 in game one of a doubleheader at the CCSU Softball Field Friday afternoon, followed by an 8-0 shutout in game two. Freshman Evie Rentzel hit her third home run of the season, a grand slam, to drive in four RBI in the first game. With the victories, the Blue Devils improve to 16-9 on the season and 6-0 in the NEC.
Sophomore Laura Messina pitched both games for Central. She posted 14 strikeouts on the day breaking the 300 career strikeout mark. She is just 10 strikeouts shy of the CCSU career record of 313. Messina's game two shutout marks the 12th of her career. She allowed only seven hits on the day and improves her season record to 11-5.
"I'm very proud of how our team came out to play today," Head Coach Jeff Franquet said. "It is great to be this far into conference play and be undefeated, but we just take it one game at a time and hope we can continue this momentum into our doubleheader against Sacred Heart next Saturday."
Game 1
The Bulldogs earned the first run of the day when lead-off batter Lauren Guy hit a home run down the right field line to put Bryant up 1-0 in the top of the first. Central closed the half inning on an expertly placed throw down from freshman catcher Hannah Cooper to classmate Eileen Purcell to catch Bryant's Aubrey Mable in an attempt to steal second.
The Blue Devils responded in the bottom of the first putting up four runs on a two-out grand slam by Rentzel. The freshman drove in sophomore Kat Malcolm and junior Tessa Brown, who both walked, and senior Kelsey Barlow who reached first on a single to third base. Central ended the inning with a 4-1 edge.
CCSU added another run in the bottom of the second when junior Arielle Bruno launched a double, her seventh of the season, to drive in senior Stephanie Chotkevys who was hit by a pitch to reach first.
The defense of both teams held up until the bottom of the sixth, when the Blue Devils put up three runs to extend the lead to 8-1. Senior Nicole Springer and freshmen Katie Schmidt and Gianna Sandstrom scored in the inning.
The Blue Devils posted five hits, six RBI and only one strikeout.
Game 2
Both teams remained scoreless until the bottom of the third inning when the Blue Devils laid on a two-out six-run rally to get out to a sizable lead.
The first base-runner of the half inning was Sandstrom, who reached first on a walk. She advanced to second on a Bruno single to the pitcher and crossed the plate on a rip through the right side by Malcolm. With Malcolm on first and Bruno on second, Springer smacked a double to left field to drive them both home and put CCSU up 3-0.
Brown reached first on a walk and was followed by Barlow who sent her 22nd career home run soaring over the center-field fence for three RBI. Barlow drove in Brown and pinch-running senior Sarah Emery on the play to put the Blue Devils on top 6-0.
It was Central that struck again in the bottom of the fifth to score two additional runs, making the score 8-0 and ending the outing on an eight-run rule. The game is the seventh run-rule victory for the Blue Devils this season.
Springer singled and advanced on a wild pitch to get into scoring position for Central in the bottom of the fifth. She was followed by a Brown walk and Barlow, who reached base on a Bulldog error. With the bases loaded, Rentzel ripped a single through the left side to drive in Springer, unearned.
The bases remained loaded and pinch-running freshman Brittany Ernst scored on a wild pitch to tally the eighth run and end the game.
The Blue Devils posted seven hits, seven RBI and no fielding errors in game two.
CCSU returns to action next Saturday, April 6, to face the Sacred Heart Pioneers (16-9, 2-0 NEC). The doubleheader is set to begin at 1 p.m. at the CCSU Softball Field in New Britain, CT.


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hi everyone,
i am creating a word guess game for my degree and instead of reading the assignment brief properly i created it in jopton panes and had it working 110%, HOWEVER this was short lived until last week until i found out that it had to be in JFrames.
I thought it would be an easy fix but really it isnt once i got going.
I didnt pay much attention to creating jframes because i was to busy thinking i was getting ahead creating it in joption panes and now i am really stuck.
If someone could have a look at this code for me, if someone can tell me why it runs but when the start button is clicked on it doesnt work that would be a great help or even show me a quick example piece of code that i could change mine to because i honestly dont know what i am doing with JFrames.
word guess game jframes.txt
i cant thank anyone enough for helping


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Do you ever wonder why everyone looks at you with astonished faces when you're driving? Well, here is a start. If you do any of these things, you are raising the blood pressure of everyone around you with your embarrassing driving. Whether you are just clueless or a bit self righteous, make sure you pay close attention. You may even learn something here.
I'm looking at you, National Capital Region.
1. Driving with your hazards on in "inclement weather"
Whether it's lightly snowing or raining, you don't need to put your hazards on, especially if you are going the speed everyone else is going. That's not what they are for, so don't use them unless you have an actual problem. Everyone can see you, and if you're smart, you've turned your lights on (it's the law in VA, at least). That's enough for people to know you're there.
The other day I was driving on a two lane neighborhood road behind a newish Honda minivan that was doing between 15-20 mph in a 25 mph zone at 11:00 PM. That's aggravating already, but what left me dumbfounded was when she approached a set a speed humps and put her hazards on until she cleared them. It was baffling.
This is also, y'know, illegal in most states and you can actually be pulled over for "improper use of hazards"
Also, note. Please see that I wrote "inclement weather" not inclement weather. I'm talking about things like light rain and light snow. Weather that isn't close to being hazardous but people freak out over.
2. Leaving more than a car length of space in between cars at a traffic light
Don't do this. You are keeping cars behind you from accessing turn lanes (which often go green before the primary lanes, making them sit through two sets of lights), and causing traffic to spill into intersections behind you because they expected another car's worth of room that you are denying them. This is most often caused by people texting or old people who aren't able to see over the wheel. Every time I see this, I want to just pull in right in front of them and fill the space.
3. Lazily pulling into turn lanes
When you are turning, you get into your turn lane as soon as it's available, and then you start slowing down. That is what it is for. You do not start slowing down in the main lane of traffic and then get over after you've gone a hundred yards after the dotted line starts. Once you decide to get over, get over. A lane change shouldn't take 5 seconds and if it does, you are being lazy and selfish.
As a corollary, if it looks like you're going to miss your turn, just go around the block and try again. Do not slam on your brakes, cross 3 lanes of traffic, and then block another lane when you can't immediately get into the turn lane. You are inconveniencing everyone else because you don't want to drive another block. Still don't understand it? I'll let Louis CK explain it better:
4. Stopping in the middle of the highway
So you get into a fender bender on the interstate. What do you do? Well, it's simple. Move over to the side of the road. Don't just stop in the middle of 4 lanes of traffic. There's a shoulder for a reason. Use it. If you blow a tire, ride it over to the shoulder. If you stop, you are causing problems for everyone else, and potentially causing more accidents. Of course, if something catastrophic happens, like breaking an axle, you can be forgiven for not moving your car.
5. Riding your Brakes
Just because a car 300 yards ahead of you tapped their brakes doesn't mean you need to as well. Lift off the gas and start coasting. Be prepared to stop, but don't immediately brake. When you do that, everyone will do the same and the effect is multiplied, even to the point of people stopping. Also, keep in mind that every time you hit the brakes, you are converting your money into heat.
6. Rubbernecking
People rubberneck EVERYTHING here in the National Capital Region, including the monuments they see every day. Is there a police officer on the side of the road giving someone a ticket? Better slow down to see if you know them, it could be Jimmy from down the block, and you'd feel bad if you didn't say hi! Is there an accident? Then make sure you indulge your morbid curiosity!
7. Hanging out in the left lane
If you are going less than the flow of traffic, you do not belong in the left lane. Period. Get over. It's the law. Even if you are driving a Hybrid. Even if you're going the speed limit.
Speed limits are arbitrary, subject not to safety or engineering, but rather politics. The speed of traffic is rarely the speed limit.
Furthermore, if someone flashes their brights at you, and you're in the left lane, just let them by. Don't get mad. Don't get offended. Who cares if you think your speed is respectable? If they want to risk a ticket, let them risk the ticket. That's on them, not you. Plus, the whole flashing of brights to signal an intention to pass is a real thing. Even race cars do it.
And of course, if someone is tailgating you, just move over and let them pass.
If you are driving a large truck and you are in a place that isn't totally flat, please don't use the left lane. Sure, the truck in front of you may be doing 64, and you know you could do 65, but the cars around you are all going 70. Plus, you're not going to complete that pass before the next uphill, and then you'll be stuck doing 51 next to another truck going 50.5 on a two lane highway for the next 10 miles. I've seen the highway come to a complete stop due to trucks trying to do this.
8. Not utilizing on-ramps to accelerate to highway speeds
By the time you get to the highway, you better be going as fast as the people on the highway, so you can merge into traffic immediately and safely. This means, you should be doing at least 55 on any interstate by the time you get to the end of the ramp. And for the love of all that is good, don't stop at the end of the ramp. That's so dangerous its crazy.
9. Waiting for a lane to completely end before merging
Roads go from three lanes to two lanes or two lanes to one lane all the time. The wrong way to handle this is to drive until the very end of the lane that's ending, and then try to merge at the last possible moment. This causes traffic jams. EDIT: This causes traffic jams because no one knows how to zipper merge, because people are jerks and hate letting people in. Here's a graphic provided by Nobody showing how to do it:
Instead, merge as soon as you are able. Sure, there that lane there that looks pretty open, but just merge when you can and you'll help everyone. You also won't look like a total tool!
10. Blocking the Box
You know who you are. You know what you're doing. Just don't do it. When in doubt, wait it out.
Unfortunately, most of you guys know this already. But I bet you know some people that do this. Share this. Disseminate freely. If these people knew what they were doing, maybe they would stop. But seriously. They probably have Facebook. Share it there.
What else makes people look like total idiots? What do you see people do that really grinds your gears when you are on the road?
I love cars and I love motorsport. I talk about that a lot on Twitter. Feel free to follow me at@willkinton247. If you want me to look into a particular series or topic, or have any feedback, let me know. #shamelessselfpromotion


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Bremerton Bliss
Chris & Emily + Corgi Rosie Pepper's Cottage Home in Bremerton!
Yes, those two word go together in the unique new design of this old home in Bremerton, Washington located in lovely Kitsap County.
This just solidifies my theory that the house doesn't matter, it REALLY IS about the water and the view! With home loan options dwindling, this might be a great idea.
Look what they did! I give this a big thumbs up for imagination, design and of course the view! Read more and vote !
PS) This is a house that just screams they should have cute chicks and chickens! Just my 02 cents!


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Anti-gobalization: The left's violent assault on global prosperity
By Edwin A. Locke
The World Economic Forum starting this week in the Swiss city of Davos will see a conglomeration of left-wing and environmentalist protestors who will be united by a single emotion: a virulent hatred of capitalism, especially global capitalism. Why the hatred?
The advantage of a global economy based on free trade and capitalism is so obvious and so enormous that it is difficult to conceive of anyone opposing it. The benefit is based on the law of comparative advantage: every country becomes more prosperous the more it invests in producing and exporting what it does best (in terms of quality, cost, uniqueness, etc.), and importing goods and services that other countries can produce more efficiently. For example, let us say that Nigerian companies can produce T-shirts for $1 a piece whereas U.S. companies can only produce them for $5 a piece. Under free trade, Americans will buy their T-shirts from Nigeria. This division of labor benefits people in both countries. Nigerians will have more money to buy food, clothing and housing. Americans will spend less on T-shirts and have more money to buy cell phones and SUVs, and the investment capital formerly spent on T-shirts will be put to more productive uses, say in the area of technology or drug research. Multiply this by millions of products and hundreds of countries and over time the benefits run into the trillions of dollars.
How, then, do we reconcile the incredible benefits of global capitalism with the anti-globalization movement? The protestors make three claims repeatedly. First, they argue that multinational corporations are becoming too powerful and threaten the sovereignty of smaller nations. This is absurd on the face of it. Governments have the power of physical coercion (the gun); corporations do not; they have only the dollar -- they function through voluntary trade.
Second, anti-globalists claim that multinational companies exploit workers in poor countries by paying lower wages than they would pay in their home countries. Well, what is the alternative? It is: no wages! The comparative advantage of poorer countries is precisely that their wages are low, thus reducing the costs of production. If multinational corporations had to pay the same wages as in their home countries, they would not bother to invest in poorer countries at all and millions of people would lose their livelihoods.
Third, it is claimed that multinational corporations destroy the environments of smaller, poorer countries. Note that if 19th-century America had been subjected to the environmental legislation that now pervades most Western countries, we ourselves would still be a third-world country. Most of the industries that made the United States a world economic power -- the steel, automobile, chemicals and electrical industries -- would never have been able to develop. By what right do we deprive poor, destitute people in other countries from trying to create prosperity in the same way that we did, which is the only way possible?
All of these objections to global capitalism are just rationalizations. The giveaway, and the clue to the real motive of today's left and their hangers-on, is that all their protests are against -- they are anti-capitalism, anti-free trade, anti-using the environment for man's benefit -- but they are not for anything. In the first third of the 20th century, most leftists were idealists -- they stood for and fought for an imagined, industrialized utopia -- Communism (or Socialism). The left's vision was man as a selfless slave of the state, and the state as the omniscient manager of the economy. However, instead of prosperity, happiness and freedom, Communism and Socialism produced nothing but poverty, misery and terror (witness Soviet Russia, North Korea and Cuba, among others). Their system had to fail, because it was based on a lie. You cannot create freedom and happiness by destroying individual rights; and you cannot create prosperity by negating the mind and evading the laws of economics.
Furious over the fact that their envisioned utopia has collapsed in ruins, the leftists now seek only destruction. They want to annihilate the system that has produced the very prosperity, happiness and freedom that their system could not produce. That system is capitalism, the system of true social justice where people are free to produce and keep what they earn.
The fact that free trade is now becoming truly global is one of the most important achievements in the history of mankind. If, in the end, it wins out over statism, global capitalism will bring about the greatest degree of prosperity and the greatest period of peaceful cooperation in world history.
We should scornfully ignore the nihilist protestors -- they have nothing positive to offer. We should not only allow global capitalism; we should welcome it and foster it in every way possible. It is time to rephrase Karl Marx: Workers of the world unite for global capitalism; you have nothing to lose but your poverty.
Edwin A. Locke, a Professor Emeritus of management at the University
of Maryland at College Park, is a senior writer for the Ayn
Rand Institute in Irvine, Calif. The Institute promotes Objectivism,
the philosophy of Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.
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The BLS Course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. In the Instructor-led course, students participate in simulated clinical scenarios and learning stations. Students work with an AHA BLS Instructor to complete BLS skills practice and skills testing. Students also complete a written exam.
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