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Since its introduction in the mid-1990s, Monsanto's Roundup Ready technology has allowed U.S. agriculture to adopt an unprecedented level of conservation tillage. Over the last decade, there has been such a steady increase in con-till that it is now accepted as a way of doing business while cutting farmers' costs and bringing efficiency to their operations.
Numerous side benefits include reducing erosion, water conservation and water quality.
"I've got numbers showing the amount of energy expended for cotton production and how much it has decreased in the last 10 years," says Ken Smith, Arkansas Extension weed specialist. "It's impressive."
Today, over 70 percent of all the cotton, rice and corn in the United States are devoted to conservation tillage. The wonder of Roundup Ready technology has allowed this. Without exaggeration, Roundup Ready changed the face of U.S. agriculture.
But a dark side has also emerged: glyphosate weed resistance. As Roundup Ready crops were planted on more and more acreage, more weeds were selected out with increasing doses of Roundup (glyphosate). Now, the problem has become so acute in some areas of the South that growers are warning about the loss of con-till acreage. (For more, see http://deltafarmpress.com/searchresults/?ord=d&terms=weed+resistance).
"If herbicide resistance turns us back to tillage, it will be devastating to the con-till gains," says Smith, interviewed in August. "I visited with a group of major cotton farmers today. They'll tell you, 'Yeah, we've got to go to more tillage despite not wanting to.'
"One said, 'If I have to go back to the old levels of cultivation and whatnot, I'll just retire. I'm not going back.'"
Others have told Smith they can't afford to go back. The reason: once a farmer switches to con-till he's able to reduce equipment inventory. Instead of farming 350 acres per tractor, he might use one tractor on 1,000 acres. If he's farming 5,000 con-till acres and has to go back to tilling, he'll need to purchase another 10 tractors at $200,000 per.
Smith and research colleagues are running as fast as they can to find answers on how to tackle the growing resistance problem.
"Farmers are interested in anything they can do to maintain the current level of con-till," says Smith. "Our goal is to be able to farm cotton in a resistant-weed area with only one in-crop, post-direct herbicide application per year. Everything else would go over the top. But they will have to maintain a hooded sprayer, a post-direct rig — something to allow one application in-crop."
Earlier this summer, Smith began sounding the resistance alarm with agencies that oversee conservation efforts. Following his presentations, "they were worried very quickly. Thankfully, now it is getting attention from state and federal officials. This is gaining traction."
Andrew Wargo agrees.
"Weed resistance is hitting us on several fronts," says the business agent/farm manager for Baxter Land Company in southeast Arkansas' Desha County. "We must get the word out on this. We must come to a meeting of the minds and develop a collective plan among all concerned to not digress with conservation tillage."
Wargo has been aware of herbicide weed resistance since the 1980s when barnyardgrass couldn't be controlled with propanil. Shortly thereafter, certain cockleburs began showing tolerance to MSMA.
Wargo also accepts his part in the spread of resistant weeds. "Most are now aware that the way to quickly develop a resistance to a drug, a herbicide or insecticide is to continually treat the same problem with the exact same chemistry. It's Mother Nature's way. Resistance develops when you select out those that are tolerant to the treatment.
"When we were provided the blessing of Roundup Ready crops, it was great from an agronomic rotation standpoint. But as far as weeds, we began rotating nothing — it was Roundup 24/7."
Across the world, some 189 weed species (331 resistant biotypes) have developed herbicide tolerance. In the United States, there are now nine weed species resistant to glyphosate (16 in the world). Waterhemp, Palmer amaranth, Johnsongrass, horseweed and ryegrass are among the most troublesome resistant species.
"We used Roundup before Roundup Ready crops as a target-specific herbicide," says Wargo. "We used it in recycle sprayers, sometimes with wick-bars over-the-top, and on right-of-ways.
"When Roundup Ready cotton and soybeans came along — at that time, corn wasn't a large player in this area, although more recently it has come in as an alternative crop — they were readily adopted."
Prior to that, farmers had "quite an arsenal" of preplant, pre-emergence, and post-emergence herbicides. However, as glyphosate became the product of choice — sometimes the only product used by farmers to fight weeds — by the late 1990s the roster of worldwide companies working with developmental chemistry had shrunk.
In the face of chemical company mergers amid spiking glyphosate use, alternative herbicide labels were often allowed to expire and production lines shut down, says Wargo. "Many of the products we used to have are simply gone."
"Syngenta, Bayer, DuPont, Dow and BASF still have active synthesis groups," says Smith of the current situation. "A handful of other companies, mostly Japanese, have very active bench chemists. Those mostly synthesize and then sell to another company with a marketing group."
In the Mid-South, the Roundup Ready system eliminated many erosion problems. Prior to conservation tillage, the combination of, in some cases, a dozen trips across fields and furrow irrigation was causing unacceptable soil losses. The implementation of buffer strips also helped.
Wargo has seen weed resistance develop while serving as an appointed member of the state's County Conservation District Board, a position he's held since the 1980s. For the last several years he's also served on the executive board of the Arkansas Association of Conservation Districts (AACD), a statewide network of conservation districts.
Formed in 1992, the Arkansas Conservation Partnership (ACP) will also play a huge role in solving the state's looming resistance/con-till issues. The ACP is comprised of the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), the AACD, the Arkansas Association of Conservation District Employees, the Arkansas Resource Development Council, the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, and the Arkansas Forestry Commission.
"It's rather unique to have everyone under the same umbrella," says Wargo. "In other states, agencies are so embroiled in turf battles it's counterproductive to their effectiveness. In Arkansas, of course, each agency is proud if its role and mission. But through the ACP, we're all working for the common good. Agencies interact and work together almost seamlessly."
Many times, federal programs require more than one discipline or agency to be fully effective in implementation. The ACP "has been incredible with that."
Earlier this summer, having been briefed by Smith on the continuing boom in resistance, an alarmed Wargo contacted officials in the state NRCS who received his message warmly. Also, the mid-summer meeting of the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) was set to start and Wargo — who was to be a delegate at the Washington, D.C., meeting — figured that would be another place to crank up the volume on weed resistance.
"I called the Natural Resource Committee chairman up there, explained the concerns, and asked to be on the agenda. Basically, at the mid-summer meeting the different committees decide what items will be on the agenda for the annual meeting in February. He agreed."
Several weeks later, after Wargo finished his presentation, the committee recommended to the NACD board that a task force be appointed to look at weed resistance.
"They want to know what effect resistance is having nationwide. I've since been notified that Steve Robinson, NACD president from Ohio, said it was of concern on a national basis. They're appointing a task force and this will be a full-blown agenda item at the NCAD February meeting in Orlando.
"I was just hoping to bring some attention to it. We don't want to be alarmist, but this resistance has crept in and is taking over."
In some cases, says Smith, weed resistance has gone undetected "because folks thought, 'well, the highboy driver missed a spot' or 'the tank-mix was weak.' Too often, that's not so."
When there are unusually high summer temperatures combined with late summer rains, weeds can come through soybean canopies. In decades past, farmers had only short-term residual herbicides. Normally, the canopy and a lack of moisture would take care of later weeds.
This year, "we've had high temps and lots of rainfall in June and early July," says Wargo. "That resulted in crops being planted later than normal, the canopy was late closing and weed seed was able to germinate at much higher levels than normal.
"In many cases, we used to think, 'we'll plant it dirty and clean it up with Roundup.' That was true behind wheat, having to replant drowned-out crops, whatever."
In July, "we began hearing horror stories all over the state. 'Man, there are ankle-high weeds out there that Roundup won't even touch.' It hit us in the face between rains."
There are now documented cases in the state where 4X rates of Roundup won't even clean up pigweed problems. And even if it did, asks Smith, "Who can afford a 4X rate?"
Another contributor to resistant weed problems — "and I understand why they took this approach," says Wargo — are right-of-way crews. Roadsides are mowed much less than they used to be because a light rate of glyphosate can reduce the growth rate of vegetation. This practice has saved taxpayer money, at least in the short run.
However, "now Roundup-resistant ryegrass is alongside every road you drive down. That isn't just because of the clean-up practices — some of it arrived via drainage conduits, which are often alongside roads."
In many areas, the Mid-South has already reverted back to tillage to control weeds. It's often more effective and economical than utilizing available chemistries.
"We're headed in the wrong direction," says Wargo. "And we all know it. There are implements running through fields that haven't been used since the early 1990s. Producers have to do it just to survive.
"Who thought chopping crews would be in short supply in 2009? On company land here, there's a farming family growing about 4,500 acres of cotton with seven people. Needless to say, it was only possible to set that up because of Roundup Ready cotton."
Fortunately, migrant laborers that normally help with the cotton harvest showed up a few weeks early. "They're now out pulling, or chopping, weed escapes. But next year with these resistant weeds taking over so fast? It'll be a whole new ballgame."
The future isn't "all doom-and-gloom," says Smith, who points to Bayer's LibertyLink technology as a positive. "There are some regimes where you'd use Roundup one year, Liberty the next, and another product after that. But some of those products still involve tillage because they must be preplant incorporated."
Also in the mix of worries: residue requirements in some states above the Mason-Dixon Line. In those areas, a certain plant material residue must be maintained on the soil to prevent erosion. The residue level is actually tested and measured by NRCS.
If resistant weeds take over and those fields are tilled, residue will be greatly reduced or destroyed and some fields won't be in compliance with conservation plans. Those fields not in compliance could be ineligible for farm programs.
Over the winter, Smith hopes to be included in roundtable discussions between "county Extension agents, weed scientists, district conservationists, industry folk, the Arkansas Agricultural Council — everyone who has a stake in this — to properly, prudently assess the matter. Hopefully, we can come up with some proactive steps to benefit all concerned. This resistance issue must be tackled before it's too late."


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JEFFERSON – William "Billy" Hays Jr., 75, died Saturday, June 20, 2009.
Born in Jackson County, he was the son of the late W.H. Hays Sr. and Bertie Simmons Hays. He was a member and active supporter of Union Baptist Church, was a lifetime farmer, loved to pitch horseshoes, and enjoyed swimming in the Mulberry River.
Survivors include his wife, Carrie Lee Hays, Statham; sons and daughters-in-law, John and Teresa Hays and Chris and Lisa Hays, all of Jefferson; daughters and sons-in-law, Tammy and Michael Hyder and Carol and Ashley Wilson, all of Jefferson; eleven grandchildren; sister and brother-in-law, Betsy and Ray McDonald, Winder, and nephews, Jimmy and Andy McDonald.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, June 24, at 2 p.m., at Union Baptist Church with the Rev. Leon Pass officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends Monday, June 22, from 6 to 9 p.m. and Tuesday June 23 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Smith Funeral Home, Winder, is in charge of arrangements.
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The race canard
Silly season is over. Racist season is here.
Silly season is when nothing is going on in the presidential campaign and the debate focuses on trivialities. Racist season is when the presidential campaign begins in earnest and President Barack Obama looks vulnerable. Then, liberal commentators pull out all the stops to deem practically any criticism of the president racist.
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Chris Matthews of MSNBC led the charge this week with an on-set rant against Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. Matthews didn't muster an argument so much as an accusation — a lot of them, actually.
Criticizing the gutting of welfare reform? That's racist. GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's joke about no one ever asking for his birth certificate? Racist, too. Saying the president is inspired by a European welfare-state model? Obviously racist.
Priebus looked like he'd been button-holed by a persistent drunk at a bar and didn't know how to get away.
Thomas Edsall, the respected former Washington Post reporter now at the Columbia Journalism School, bested Matthews by declaring Romney's ad against the Obama's Medicare cuts racist. Timothy Noah of The New Republic seconded Edsall's insight.
The impressively single-named commentator Touré claimed that calling the Obama campaign "angry" is racist — a close cousin to the argument that calling him "arrogant" is racist.
It's only late August and the campaign is tied. Wait until October. Particularly if it's equally close or if Obama is trailing. In the imaginations of the president's devotees, an America where he is behind by 2 or 3 points will be indistinguishable from an America where blacks are set on by dogs during Civil Rights marches.
Technically, Touré didn't find Romney guilty of racism, only "niggerification," which must be one of the ugliest neologisms in the history of the language. (He later apologized for using the term.) Allegedly, Romney was playing to negative racial stereotypes. But even if you accept Touré's assumptions — which is not recommended — Romney called the president's "campaign," not the president, angry.
You can argue with the word choice. "Conscienceless" or "reptilian" seem more apt to me — but "angry" is not racist.
As for that other adjectival offense against the president—calling him arrogant—it's hard to remember a time when one party has criticized the leader of the other party for his modesty.
Republicans attacked President Bill Clinton for being arrogant. Democrats attacked President George W. Bush for being arrogant. Now, it's Obama's turn. Not to mention that he is supremely self-confident — a quality often characterized as, shockingly, arrogance.
When Romney joked in Michigan that no one ever had to ask for his birth certificate, it was a banner day in the racist season. Michael Eric Dyson, who apparently earned an advanced degree in finding obscure ways to accuse people of bigotry, detected the tell-tale signs of "othering."
"Other" used to be a perfectly fine word, until it became a jargony verb fit for use only by people with regular MSNBC gigs — or endowed chairs in nonsense.


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Craig9005 had een nieuw logo ontwerp nodig en lanceerde daarom een wedstrijd op 99designs.
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We are a new company that hasn't launched yet. Our website will provide systems monitoring and alerting services for IT companies and IT departments. The service offering is unique to the industry and we believe it will introduce a paradigm shift. The first part of the company name comes from the idea of a deadman switch, which is defined by Wikipedia as "a switch that is automatically operated in case the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through death or loss of consciousness." The second part of the company name, heartbeat, means that it's always on. We picked the name because the two words wouldn't normally be associated with each other (i.e. a dead man does not have a heartbeat). We want to be unique and thought this name conveyed that and we want a unique logo to go along with that idea.
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- Contain the brand name
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- Logo will be primarily used on a website
- Unique because the service being offered is unique to what the competition offers
- Try to incorporate a heartbeat blip (like on a heartbeat monitor)
- One of our founders is a big zombie movie fan, but this element should only be incorporated if it can still look professional
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LEIGH HALFPENNY: His magnificent place kicking kept Wales in the game, the full-back slotting some monster penalties. For such an exciting player though he does get involved in kick tennis rather than look to attack. 7
ALEX CUTHBERT: Made a lovely break in the second half which Jamie Roberts ended up making a mess off. After a quiet first half, the wing came into the game well and put in some great tackles to save the day. 7
JONATHAN DAVIES: Defended well but made a howler in attack after some fine work by Rhys Webb, the centre making a complete mess of an attempted kick ahead. Looked rusty after his long lay off with a chest injury. 5
JAMIE ROBERTS: Made some great tackles but was guilty of a terrible error of judgement when Wales simply had to score. He decided to kick on aimlessly when holding on to the ball was the only thing to do. 5
GEORGE NORTH: Had a shocker. Butchered two golden chances, one in the first half after he booted the ball into touch and then, early in the second, threw a dreadful forward pass when England were at sixes and sevens that was schoolboy stuff. 4
RHYS PRIESTLAND: Although this defeat wasn't his fault, his time as Wales No 10 surely must come to an end. Did show one or two nice touches but he cost his side crucial territory kicking out on the full and was turned over. 4
RHYS WEBB: Looks a promising prospect, made some lovely breaks which could have yielded better. Went off injured after 52 minutes but Mike Phillips made little to no impact. 7
GETHIN JENKINS: Not the way he would have wanted to celebrate becoming Wales' joint most capped player on his 104th cap. Constantly penalised in the scrum and was sin binned after 53 minutes, never to return. 4
RICHARD HIBBARD: Solid enough if not spectacular. Lineouts went relatively well apart from one glaring one which England scored from after he missed his captain Sam Warburton at the tail. 5
ADAM JONES: Didn't have the impact in the scrum he would have wanted as Wales notably failed to repeat last year's domination of England in this vital aspect of play. Offers little to nothing in the loose. 5
JAKE BALL: Worked tirelessly and gave his all but Wales probably missed the experience of the injured Luke Charteris. The Scarlets man didn't leave his side down though. 5
ALUN WYN JONES: Another player who gives his all and this was no different. Was guilty, as he often is, of turning over the ball when he does get his hands on the ball. And it was a crucial point in the clash as well. 5
DAN LYDIATE: Another average performance from a player who often seems out of his depth during a high tempo game. Okay in a slugfest but offers so little in open play. 5
SAM WARBURTON: Worked his socks off and secured a couple of important turnovers. Hitting more form but the back row lacked balance again. 6
TAULUPE FALETAU: Did okay but wasn't brought into the game as much as he would have liked. He did give one shocking pass as Wales launched an attack on the flank. 6


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Van Halen's much-anticipated 2012 tour with original singer David Lee Roth didn't exactly go off as planned, with a ton of dates eventually being scrapped. But that didn't stop them from making an animated appearance on last night's episode of 'South Park.'
In the episode, titled 'Ginger Cow,' world peace is achieved after the symbols for Islam, Judaism and Christianity are mashed together to reveal one universal religious symbol: Van Halen's iconic logo. You can watch the big reveal in the above clip.
Religious leaders gather in Jerusalem to settle their ages-old differences. They finally settle their grudges, and after a rabbi tells the gathered crowd, "Let us celebrate, under one symbol," the trio of symbols come together to form the famous Van Halen logo.
Then 'Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love' begins to play as a cartoon Eddie Van Halen takes the stage, followed by the other members of the band, including Roth. As the diverse crowd cheers for the thundering guitars, a news reporter exclaims, "The party is officially underway! Jews, Christians and Muslims have united, ushering in 10 years of Van Halen!"
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'If Ruff, who feuded with Philadelphia coach Ken Hitchcock in the first round, was expecting his spat with Laviolette to escalate, the Carolina coach likely disappointed him. "That game's over with," Laviolette said. "You walk into a press conference three minutes after a buzzer blows and I was upset, I was mad … Here, let me put it this way — if our guys are diving, I hope that they go to the box."'
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China's battered stock markets may finally have something to cheer about – a once-in-a-decade leadership change.
Starting November 8, China begins a months-long process that will culminate in the world's second largest economy getting a new set of leaders, which China bulls believe will bring momentum back into the equity markets that have been in a downtrend since 2009.
The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in November marks the start of the leadership transition in the mainland. The National Congress is a platform to unveil new policies and announce key appointments in the Party.
"This is the most important event in China in the last decade or more, it is more important than the (Beijing) Olympics. You can't imagine a better trigger for Chinese sentiment than the inspiration of new leaders giving speeches, parades - a major emotional driver," said Aaron Boesky, CEO of Marco Polo Pure Asset Management in Hong Kong.
He added that "when Chinese domestic investors get excited - 99 percent of them are reading the same Xinhua news releases - they can drive the index hard and swift in one direction."
The direction of Chinese stocks is largely determined by the country's retail investors, who account for almost 80 percent of turnover at the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges.
The positive momentum created in the run-up to the final leadership handover in March 2013, when the new leaders take charge, and an acceleration in growth in the fourth quarter will be the "two forces" to drive the stock market beyond the 3,000 mark next year, or 45 percent higher from current levels, according to Boesky.
He added that while a turnaround in the stock markets will start in November, big gains will arise in the second quarter of 2013 after the transition is completed.
(Read More: China Stocks a Screaming Buy: Strategist)
Steven Sun, head of China equity strategy at HSBC, agrees the two catalysts of growth stabilization and the handover of power will drive a rebound in the market.
While China's gross domestic product growth fell to its lowest level in three and a half years in the third quarter, experts think the economy has bottomed out and growth will accelerate from the fourth quarter onwards.
"A rebound (in stock markets) is possible as growth stabilizes and the transition of power goes smoothly," Sun said, adding that leadership reshuffles have typically had a positive impact on investment activities and credit growth.
China's stock market reaction following the last leadership transition in November 2002 would suggest such as event does little to lift sentiment, but analysts said it is an inappropriate base for comparison as there were many external factors influencing the direction of global equities including the September 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. and the dot-com bubble burst in the preceding year.
Cautious Optimism
Not all China watchers, however, think a leadership reshuffle will do much for Shanghai stocks.
While the installation of a new leadership will remove an element of uncertainty it will not be a major catalyst for the market in the near-term, according to Howhow Zhang, research director at Z-Ben Advisors, a Shanghai-based investment management consultancy.
"Policymakers don't usually come out with major initiatives until three to six months after the transition," Zhang said, adding that polices of the new leadership will likely be very similar to that of the current government.
"In six to 12 months, you will see a market that's gradually improving, but nothing excessive," Zhang added.
According to analysts the next round of policymakers will continue to focus on rebalancing China's economic growth and reforming the financial and social welfare systems - many of these objectives were already laid out in the 12th five year plan released in 2011.
(Read More: China Cabinet Seeks Ambitious Economic Reform Agenda)
Mark Matthews, head of research Asia at Bank Julius Baer, added the two men poised to become China's new president and premier - Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang - are both "moderates" and will likely lack the power or determination to make tough decisions.
"They don't look like the type of people who are going to launch big stimulus, they are more worried about the widening social divide," he said.
Don't Expect a Big Stimulus
The other reason the new leadership is unlikely to embark on any aggressive stimulus - fiscal or monetary – is because latest economic indicators out of the mainland indicate the worst is likely over, said experts.
The latest purchasing managers index (PMI) published by the government, for example, showed manufacturing activity ticked up in October.
(Read More: Why Market Euphoria Over China PMI Data Might be Overdone)
"Anyone who expects anything dramatic at this point is looking in the wrong direction, aggressive monetary easing would reignite property market speculation and in any case, there is no particular need for an aggressive approach," said Uwe Parpart, managing director and head of research at Reorient Financial Markets.
Boesky of Marco Polo Pure Asset Management, however, disagrees, forecasting that policymakers will loosen monetary policy beyond most expectations in the first year, in order to demonstrate their commitment to stabilizing economic growth.
"China has plenty of ammunition left, they hiked rates five times (over 2010-2011). The outgoing regime is setting it up so the incoming guys can be the heroes. They will be stocked up with a six percent lending rate and will have major room to run in their first year," he said.
(Read More: Will China's Next Move Be a Rate Hike?)
China's official lending rate stands at 6 percent, significantly higher than that of other major economies including the U.S., Japan and Europe, whose interest rates have remained near zero.
Beyond Politics
Looking beyond the leadership transition period, some strategists including Geoff Lewis, global market strategist, at JP Morgan Asset Management say politics will not play a central role in determining the success of Chinese stocks in the coming months.
"China could be one of the better performing markets over the next 12 months, but I wouldn't put it down to euphoria over what the new leadership will say," Lewis said.
He added that his positive outlook for mainland stocks is tied to the market's attractive valuations, and easing worries over falling profits as the earnings downgrade cycle comes to an end.
The Shanghai Composite is trading at a price-to-earnings ratio of about 10, the cheapest since 2008.
"As economic data begin to support the scenario of a soft landing, that will help to change sentiment and end the long underperformance of Chinese stocks," he added.


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This second installment of my trip report is a bit longer than the first, and more detailed. Why? Because--admit it--you probably know nothing about Ghent, so a few extra details won't hurt.
On July 9th, Mark and I took a train from Gare du Nord to Brussels and from there a train to Ghent. For the past three years I've had a substantial number of French-speaking Belgian students, mostly from Brussels, in my EFL classes. But Ghent is in the Flemish part of Belgium, a place where most of my French-speaking students have never been, so I was glad to experience this other part of the country first hand.
Belgian politics is quite complicated--there are six separate governments (and parliaments), each with their own federal, regional and linguistic divisions. Some things, like education, are dealt with by the linguistic divisions. Roads and infrastructure are managed by the regional divisions and the federal divisions deal with things like finance and law. Even though there's currently no working national federal government, the country operates very smoothly.
Things did seem to be running very smoothly in Ghent. The city has a well-preserved medieval center but it also has a large university and much larger than Bruges, to which it's inevitably compared. Even in the summer with many of the students gone, Ghent felt like a thriving small city.
We were fortunate enough to say with Helen White during our visit. I initially "met" Helen virtually, through the work that she does with Krikri, a fabulous organization that highlights a range of contemporary poetic ativity through festivals, performances, projects and workshops. In 2008 they organized the Zaoem festival, and Helen was kind enough to use some of my pieces for the visual poetry exhibition. More recently, Helen organized Infusoria: an Exhibition of Visual Poetry by Women from Three Continents, which brought together work some of the most compelling contemporary visual poets from Belgium, Canada, Germany, Britain, the Netherlands, Turkey and the United States. My special edition of Foursquare snuck in there, too.
So, Helen is clearly a stellar organizer and curator. She's also a fabulous host, which I'll talk more about in a minute. However, I also want to mention her own work. Helen's visual poems manage to be complex and delicate at the same time. One of my favorite pieces by her is "A Planet Like Pluto":
You can learn more about Helen and her work through her website.
Helen, as I said, was a fabulous host. During the three days we spent there, Helen took us all over the city, cooked tasty quiche, and maintained a refrigerator stocked full of cheese and beer. I won't tell you about every beer we drank or every cathedral that we went in, but here are some of the highlights of our time in Ghent.
1. Beer. Belgium's reputation for good beer is completely justified. While in Ghent, I drank numerous Trappist and abbey beers that I'd never had before, as well as a variety of lambics and gueuzes. My favorite was by far Rochefort 8. Rochefort 8 is perfectly malty and not at all boosey. We sat outside, even though it was really very cold, and drank beer at Het Waterhuis Ann de Bierkant:
We sat inside at Trollekelder and drank beer when it was raining. Helen very wisely chose to have a coffee:
We had beer with lunch and dinner, beer with friends, beer after the reading. You get the idea.
2. The reading was incredibly fun. I'd never before read to an audience of predominately speakers of languages other than English, so it was a challenge to put together a performance that would work in that context. Mark performed some pieces from Temporary Worker Rides a Subway as well as The End of America. I performed some sections from Terminal Humming and also my 2006 Dusie Chapbook, Diverse Speculations Descending Therefrom.
This photo is blurry, but it captures the mood of my performance quite well:
After Mark and I performed, other people in the audience also came up and gave short readings/performances. I was grateful to hear work from so many poets who were new to me. Here is Jelle Meander, a poet and musician--and one of the other Krikri organizers--performing a sound poem:
Xavier Roelens, Olaf Risee, Tine Moniek, also performed that evening, as well as (if I remember correctly), two other men who recited some more traditional Flemish poetry. The event ended with an improvisation around the pig we'd all been admiring. There's a lot to be said about the work people performed that evening, and especially about the context of sound poetry in Belgium (and, as we later learned, the Netherlands). In a country with three official languages (Flemish, French and German) and rather intensely local debates about what language is spoken where and by whom, sound poetry seems both daring and practical. Mark and I talked about this a lot on the trip, with each other and with the poets we met. You can read more of Mark's thoughts on the subject at his blog.
And then, we went to the bar, drank beer, and played with a mysterious blue balloon. It was a very late and lovely night. (Left to right: Lies Van Gasse, Tine Moniek, Xavier Roelens & Olaf Risee):
3. Medieval and Renaissance Architecture and Art. As I've already said, Ghent has a well-preserved medieval downtown. On just about every walk, we spent a lot of time admiring the buildings and the canals. The Sint Baafskathedraal (Saint Bravo Cathedrdal) was especially interesting. The cathedral was built, of course, in stages over hundreds of years. We went there to see "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb," an early Flemish polyptch panel painting by Hubert and Jan Van Eyck. My favorite panel depicts the pagan writers and the prophets of the Torah rushing forward to worship and adore the mystic lamb of God. Virgil is in there somewhere. I love how calm and unexcited their faces are.
Sint Baafskathedraal is also lovely in its own right.
We also went up the tower of the Belfort in Ghent. I'm not especially afraid of heights, but even I was a bit daunted by the height and the very narrow walkways along the outer edge of the bell chamber. Here's the view overlooking the town hall, which is the large building on the left.
3.2 Helen, Mark, Xavier Roelens and I took a trip to the Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Ghent, which has a great collection of Medieval and Renaissance Flemish work, including several by Hieronymus Bosch (but not "The Temptation of Saint Anthony," which we saw in Brussels, and which I'll write about later). Bosch's work is beautifully detailed and grotesque--it did look proto-surrealist, although his depictions of heaven and hell are probably pretty consistent with the medieval literature of his contemporaries.
The museum also had an exhibition of works on paper by Raoul de Keyser, the artist in residence. In retrospect, I realize I was a bit familiar with de Keyser's work because of an exhibition of his paintings about two (or three?) years ago in New York. I didn't see the exhibition (because I live in San Diego), but there's a brief article about it in the Brooklyn Rail. Most of the pieces at the Museum voor Schone Kunsten were pencil or charcoal on paper, and I could see how he moved from doing work that was mostly figurative to work that is more abstract.
4. Mark and I had read about jenever, a kind of gin, before we'd left on our trip, and were eager to try some. With Helen, we went to a bar that specializes in jenevers, next door to Het Waterhuis Ann de Bierkant (where we first drank beer). There are two types of jenever: "Oude" (Old) and "Jonge" (Young). Confusingly, though, this distinction has nothing to do with age, but with distilling techniques. Either way, I prefered aged versions of both types, and in general prefered the oude jenevers to the jounge ones. Some jenevers are flavored with fruit or chocolate, but those weren't my favorites. On a rainy afternoon or evening, of which there are many in Beligium, sipping a jenever in a warm, cozy bar feels perfect.
5. Helen took Mark and I to meet Godfried-Willem Raes and his robot orchestra at the Logos Foundation. The foundation specializes in collaborative music and dance concerts that involve interaction between people and the robots. Godfried and his team have developed not only the robots, but a variety of human interfaces, including microwave radar and wireless gesture control. Yes--wireless gesture control! Although he's still working on perfecting this technology we saw Godfried conduct the orchestra with very subtle movements of his hands. These are some of the instruments:
And here's Godfried in the back setting up the orchestra to perform. Note all of the wires coming out of the computer.
Several composers have written pieces specifically for the robot orchestra, which now has forty robots, including organs, bell-machines, a double string hurdy-gurdy, the player piano, a vibraphone, an accordeon and a sousaphone. You can read a more in-depth description of the robots here on the Logos Foundation website. Finally, Helen, who has performed with the orchestra, wrote a longer piece about it for the Infusoria blog that I urge you to read.
I'm grateful to the creative energy and generosity of Krikri, and especially Helen, for making our visit to Ghent possible. I think that I'll have to find a way to be back in Ghent sometime soon.
Look for the third installment of this trip report, on Amsterdam, in the next few days.


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'The Walking Dead' Season 3 FX Reel: Go Behind the Blood and Gore!
Even if 'The Walking Dead' season 3 might have let some down with its ambiguous finale "Welcome to the Tombs," there can be no denying that the acclaimed AMC drama once again raised the bar with its visual FX and inventive zombie kills. While we undertake the long shamble toward 'The Walking Dead' season 4, check out a compilation of season 3's best effects and kills, with an insight into how the shots were put together!
'The Walking Dead' can run the gamut from its best episode to its worst, but its effects have always been top-notch across the board. As a testament to that fact, VFX producers Stargate Studios have officially released their season 3 FX reel, highlighting the computer-generated and practical effects that helped Rick Grimes and his fellow survivors fight the dead and fear the living week after week.
We continue to wait for news of 'The Walking Dead' season 4, from new characters to series regular promotions from within, but no doubt the zombie-killing katanas and machete swings will prove even more visceral in the seasons to come, with seamless effects to match.
Check out the behind-the-scenes look into 'The Walking Dead' season 3 with the effects reel below, and tell us what you think in the comments! What was your favorite zombie kill of the season?


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Planned Rover Test to Run a Week or More
August 13, 2009
Image and Caption
Mars rover team members are planning a long-duration experiment with the test rover at JPL beginning next week. This test will check whether favorable motion seen in earlier tests can be sustained to gain as much distance in the sandbox as Spirit would need to complete on Mars to escape its predicament.
The team expects to drive the test rover for several hundred meters, or yards, worth of wheel rotations over the course of a week or more without starting over. Steering direction will be changed several times during the run. Earlier tests have run for one or two days. In between tests, the team resets the sandbox to simulate Spirit's current starting position at the Mars location called "Troy."
Based on test results, the team might begin sending driving commands to Spirit during the second week of September. Any progress by Spirit toward getting out of the soft soil where it is embedded is expected to be slow. With its right front wheel disabled since 2006, Spirit's success at getting out of the sand trap is not guaranteed. Both Spirit and Opportunity have operated on Mars more than five years longer than their initially planned missions of three months.
During the weeks of testing at JPL designed to identify the best escape strategy, Spirit has been productively using the tools on its robotic arm to analyze multiple layers of soil at Troy.
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SuperTux 0.3.0 was released is now out in the wild. This is a preview of milestone 2, so expect something a little rough on the edges. Still, it should be fun to play and hopefully attract a bit more community help to the project. Go grab it whilst it is hot.
My favourite game Fish Fillets got a minor update to version 0.7.4, including the final level.
SuperTuxKart development has not slowed. Recently there was the contribution of an island level. With improved physics - and wheelies! - I think the next SuperTuxKart release is shaping up to be an awesome little game.
Friday, December 22, 2006
SuperTux 0.3.0 released
SuperTux 0.3.0 was released is now out in the wild. This is a preview of milestone 2, so expect something a little rough on the edges. Still, it should be fun to play and hopefully attract a bit more community help to the project. Go grab it whilst it is hot.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Battle Just Started 0.1.0
Battle Just Started is a fun multiplayer 3D tank game. It has slightly cartoonish graphics and a basic AI (so you can play single player) and is in the early stages of development, but there have been several releases this month already - "release early, release often!"
Also Stendhal 0.56 was released, adding a new city among other things.
Interesting FLOSS game news is a little slow on the ground at the moment.
*Charlie crouches down and puts his ear on the floor*
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Free Ryzom
The Free Ryzom Campaign is an effort to make the code and the artwork of MMORPG Ryzom available under copyleft licenses. Just today the Free Software Foundation officially backed the campaign with a hefty $60,000 pledge.
Robert Schuster brought it to my attention. He also notes that the Ryzom team also produced the rather cool "levitating, meditating, flute-playing Gnu".
Needless to say, the gameplay video on ryzom.org is pretty impressive. Then again, most things are impressive to me these days since I haven't really indulged in commercial gaming since the turn of the millenium - so look for yourself!
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Ok, technically not a Free game nor really a game, but the damn thing is almost always right. Almost freaky. Try this little flash game, Wizardy:
Monday, December 04, 2006
It's A Graveyard Out There
Jono Bacon, a Gnome developer, gives an insight into just why Flightgear is so damn cool.
The SuperTuxKart team is looking at another release in the near future with an improved UI and lots of bug fixes.
The 3rd release candidate for Wesnoth 1.2 has been released (changelog). It has "important bugfixes" but is otherwise basically Wesnoth 1.2 and is a solid and impressive game.
And finally a new game! Stephen Carlyle-Smith wrote to me to introduce Nuclear Graveyard:
I'd just like to tell you about a new free game that I've written which hopefully you will mention on your Freegamer blog. It's a fork of the old Laser Squad 3D code, and it's called Nuclear Graveyard. It's a persistent 3D squad-based realtime strategy game. Basically, players can connect and control the units, and either play against each other or against the CPU. The homepage is at http://ngrave.pbwiki.com/. At the moment the graphics are a bit basic, as I'm no 3D artist, but the game is completely finished and playable. As it's new, its community is very small, but I'm hoping it will get bigger as people discover it.
I could not find a link for Laser Squad 3D.


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rlimpert needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 174 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
Puul Labeling
Puul Labeling Direct (pronounced "pool") is a brand new start-up with the backing of a few angel investors. Puul Labeling is a private-held, family-owned company with the company slogan "A Shine Above The Rest." We are a private labeling company involved in helping sellers provide retail goods from brand name companies without their customers knowing who it comes from. We have no web presence (to start) and will be relying on direct-mail marketing to get started.
Our target audience are those looking for a respected and service-oriented company with whom to work with. We provide the best value to our customers. Our customers are mostly male and generally your basic guy's guy. They're entrepreneurial businessmen (but not the suit & tie type) with not a lot of time to dilly-dally. They're looking for the best deals and the best price with great service.
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5. Contain our entire company name: Puul Labeling Direct
CAN CONTAIN (words from the owners):
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2. A creative display of the two "U's" in the company name Puul.
1. Repeat...these are DOES NOTs.
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Ad Has a Case of the Mondays
We're not sure what kind of dark spirits this guy ticked off, but the star of the new Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance commercial is having one of the unluckiest days ever.
The newest ad for Raiden's journey to become a master hibachi chef stars a hapless Joe Schmo who is afflicted with the worst kind of luck.
Nothing seems to be going his way as he cuts his own face open while shaving, wrenches his shoelace off with his Herculean strength, burns his toast, smacks his head into a cabinet door, and drops everything that slightly resembles a food product.
This kind of commercial is reminiscent of some of the more classic Metal Gear TV ads, such as this Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance commercial for the Xbox, featuring a real world pencil pusher using Snake's skills to evade his boss. Except in this new guy's case, he does the complete opposite of anything awesome while misfortune befalls him at every turn.
Check out the commercial below and look out for the game when it comes out next week on February 19th, 2013!


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The Player - Active Participant
Not all participants will complete each of the steps of the Rugby Ontario Way. Players can transition into Active for Life after any stage and continue to enjoy rugby. Most Ontario club teams are recognized under Stage 8. This stage makes up the majority of rugby played and is the key component of the Canadian Sports for Life Model. Keeping more people involved in sports is good for the health of the nation and the growth of rugby.
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I am an American (and not a hyphenated one) who has spent a fair amount of time traveling and living abroad. I am also Jewish, and like most American Jews, my religiosity ended at age 13 at the culmination of my Bar Mitzvah. But in spite of completing my Hebrew lessons upon reaching my teens and growing up without formal Judaism in my home, a significant amount of Jewish ancestry and empathy has always been part of my core.
Without exception, I have always encountered Jews from foreign countries while traveling or living abroad. I have continually been asked by them why the Jews in America always support the type of political administration currently in power, as well as its predecessors, in spite of the administration's tepid support or overt lack of support for Israel. Or why American Jews are often disconnected from Israel. Most Jews outside of the United States equate the survival of Judaism with the survival of the state of Israel.
I have never had a simple answer for the disconnect in America, but knowledge about the wave of Jewish emigration from Russia and Europe from 1880 through 1914 provides insight. It was a seductive era when Jews in America fell into a synchronized political affiliation with the socialist movement. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, the appeal for a system claiming to be fair and equal to the proletariat was appealing to Jews who had been disenfranchised and discriminated against in their own countries for hundreds of years.
The socialist movement in the United States peaked during the 1912 presidential candidacy of Eugene Debs, who received roughly 5% of the national vote. It became obvious to the Jewish intellectual community that socialism as a successful political system, up until today's nuanced version, was not congruent with American mainstream ideals. Finally in 1936, Jewish progressive organizations, sensing ultimate political failure on their own, joined the New Deal coalition under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, bringing their ideal of social democracy into the political landscape.


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Community Program Review
The community and conference registrants will have an opportunity to read through and score potential presentations prior to the selection of the final conference program.
There is enough room in the conference schedule for about 144 presentations. The conference committee will use the aggregate scores from the community review process to help choose which presentations to accept, and to assign presentations to appropriately sized rooms.
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January 30, 2006
LOS ANGELES - UCLA Anderson School of Management moved up both nationally and internationally in the Financial Times' eighth-annual survey of full-time MBA programs, published on Monday, Jan. 30.
The 2006 Financial Times Full-Time MBA Rankings of the top 100 MBA programs includes 57 domestic and 43 international programs. UCLA Anderson School of Management is ranked 13th in the United States, up four spots from last year, and 19th internationally, up seven places from 2005. Unlike BusinessWeek (14th) and U.S. News & World Report (11th), the FT's primary focus is on alumni career progress three years post graduation. UCLA Anderson ranked 9th in the "North American salary today" category - Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Tuck, Columbia, MIT, Yale and NYU rounded out the top ten. Other areas ranked by FT highlighting UCLA Anderson include: entrepreneurship #3 and faculty research #12 among 100 business schools globally.
"I'm delighted with the continued upward trend in perceptions of the quality and value of the UCLA Anderson MBA degree across the world," said Dean Judy Olian. "With UCLA Anderson's excellent faculty, students and alumni network, the various MBA rankings, including the FT global rankings, capture several of the distinctions of the program."
"The data in this survey affirm that the value of the UCLA Anderson degree gets even better over time," said Eric Mokover ('80), associate dean for career initiatives. "The Parker Career Management Center has enhanced student and alumni career services to include career and executive coaching, workshops in various cities, and a dramatic increase in the number of companies that come to campus to recruit , certainly enhancing the value of our programs and degree for our graduates," added Mokover.
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UCLA Anderson School of Management is ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment.
The mission of UCLA Anderson School of Management is to be a global leader in management education, research and service. Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in MBA and doctoral programs, and some 2,000 executives and managers enrolled annually in executive education programs. UCLA Anderson alumni number more than 34,000 graduates around the world dedicated to continued networking, professional development and educational activities.


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looking to play more singles with other 4.0s and 4.5s (preferably female).
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If you are okay playing against a guy, let me know.
I live in Irvine and am around your level.
we can play. what's ur schedule this week?
hi cindy,
would you like to hit somtime?
Hello CIndy,
I live up in the Brea area, but sometimes hit down in Irvine. We should rally up a few and get a round robin or some mixed doubles? Let me know if you or any others are interested. I think some of us are meeting up Monday, but that will be up in North Orange County.
where do you hit in Brea? I live near Founder's Park and I've been trying to find people to hit with in the area. Please let me know if you would ever like to hit sometime at some local courts.
Hi Duke,
Sometimes at Country Hills Park, Brea High School, or Founder's Park. Small world. We should definitely meet up and hit sometime. There is a few of us who try to get together and hit every once in a while. This next week is busy, but maybe the following week? Feel free to email me to coordinate something- email@example.com. Thanks for the message.
hi cindy are you playing WTT league? i can use a female in my team this summer, 4.0 league,thursday. i have one, but i need one more. it starts next week
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Alonzo Gonzalez and Chad Nacapoy have spent the last couple weeks as teammates on the Glendale Angelenos.
Someday, quite possibly in the near future, they could find themselves on opposite sides of an American League East Division battle.
Gonzalez, a left-handed pitcher out of Glendale Community College, was selected in the 18th round with the 565th overall pick of the 2012 Major League Baseball First Year Player Draft by the Toronto Blue Jays before Nacapoy (Crescenta Valley High, 2007) was scooped up 20 rounds later by the Tampa Bay Rays with the 1,172nd overall selection. Finally in the 40th and final round, St. Francis High standout David Olmedo-Barrera was snatched up by the Oakland Athletics.
Gonzalez, who went 7-2 last season with a 2.59 earned-run average in helping Glendale college reach the postseason for the second year in a row, said he had been in contact with the Blue Jays and the St. Louis Cardinals during the second day of the draft on Tuesday when the second through 15th rounds were conducted. He said the Blue Jays told him he could go anywhere from the 11th to the 16th round.
"When that didn't happen yesterday I was kind of let down, but I knew there was another day," said Gonzalez, who said he got a call from Toronto's area scout at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday to tell him that his name was coming up on the board. "I told [the Blue Jays] being a professional baseball player was what I wanted to do. After that, I put some water on my face, woke myself up and turned on the live draft coverage on my computer.
"Soon after I got my name called. I've been waiting for this for so long."
After Gonzalez irons out contractual issues, the first step will reporting to a minicamp in Florida, then obtaining a passport and taking a physical before a stint in either the Appalachian League or Single-A short season in Vancouver.
"I have to wait for my advisor to come back — he's in China right now — for us to discuss the pros and cons and what would be the best decision for me," Gonzalez said. "He's going to let me know what the contract entails pretty thoroughly, but as soon as possible I'll be heading out to Florida.
"I've been to Florida before, but when they told me they want to get me on a plane on Saturday, it was a little shocking. I knew it was going to happen quick, but I didn't know it was going to happen that quick."
Gonzalez was coming off his freshman year at GCC, but for Nacapoy, who finished up his senior year at Cal State L.A. in the spring, there was no going back. The former Falcon said he was contemplating a free-agent route to the big leagues or an independent league stint before he finally got the news from Cal State L.A. teammate Daniel Duran that he had been taken with just two rounds left to go.
"I was getting nervous. ...[Duran] said look at the draft board and right when I looked was when my name popped up," said Nacapoy, a catcher, who batted .361 with two home runs and eight runs batted in in 24 games this season. "It was surreal. I had to stare at it to make sure it was me."
Nacapoy said the Rays' area scout had brought him in for a workout recently at Cal Poly Pomona. Nacapoy said he's now waiting for a call from the Rays to find out where his journey to the pros will begin.
"They were interested in me and said since I was a senior I would probably go in the later rounds," Nacapoy said of his communications with Tampa Bay prior to the draft. "I told them, 'Just take me and I'll go, just give me an opportunity and I'll take it.'"
St. Francis High's David Olmedo-Barrera was also drafted Wednesday in the 40th and final round at No. 1,219 by the Oakland Athletics.
"Honestly, I am really just so honored to be drafted," said Olmedo-Barrera, who just finished his senior year with the Golden Knights. "I guess it's kind of like my dream to always play professional baseball and to be drafted is a really huge honor. Being paid to play a game is very surreal. My family and I are really excited."
Olmedo-Barrera earned first-team All-Mission League honors this year at St. Francis with a team-high .410 (32 for 78) batting average, 15 runs scored, nine stolen bases, five RBI, five doubles and two triples with team-highs in on-base (.466) and slugging (.526) percentages.
The news he'd been drafted came as a surprise to Olmedo-Barrera, who wasn't even following the draft Wednesday and now has a decision to make after he'd previously planned on playing for Cal State Fullerton next season.
"Obviously, there is negotiating now," Olmedo-Barrera said. "We are going to sit down and talk with an agent and see what happens and what they offer. Hopefully, whatever I decide will be the best decision. We want to listen to what they have to say. … I just want to make the best decision for myself and my family."
Three other Angelenos were selected on Wednesday in right-hander Steven Gallardo (19th round, Cardinals) and outfielders Matt Young (20th round, Cardinals) and Randall Fant (29th round, Cleveland Indians), bringing the total number of Angelenos drafted to six after right-handed pitcher Alex Muren was taken in the 12th round by the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday.
"Any time you can get drafted, it's a damn good day," Angelenos Coach Tony Riviera said. "I think every one of those guys has to go out and sign. Playing professional baseball is what their goal was."
Riveria said that, to his knowledge, each player was contacted by their respective team for an informal agreement to sign before being drafted.
The draft was not without some notable snubs.
Crescenta Valley High standout pitcher and slugging outfielder Troy Mulcahey was hoping to go early on Tuesday, but ended up being passed over entirely.
Troy's father Dan said the fact that his son didn't get drafted on Tuesday likely played a role in his not being picked Wednesday either.
"On all the forms we had filled out, we had told [teams] that if he wasn't drafted on the second day, he was just going to go to a junior college," Dan Mulcahey said. "That may have steered people away, I don't know.
"I don't know what their thinking is. I'm going to talk to Troy's advisor a little later and we'll see what's going on that way."
While Dan Mulcahey said Glendale college is an option, he maintained that Troy will likely choose a regional junior college that can offer him the most innings.
"That was the problem this year [in high school]," Dan Mulcahey said. "He didn't get enough innings pitched. There were too many questions around him. They didn't know if he was hurt or what."
Hoover and GCC alum Sako Chapjian, a current Angeleno, was hoping to improve on his draft position from last year, when he was taken in the 45th round by the Atlanta Braves.
Despite an extra year of seasoning at Cal State Dominguez Hills, Chapjian was passed by completely this year.


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Ah, if I could get my hands on that 'sill
I could pull myself up, ah, uh
[Bridge 1]
[Intro 2]
Damn, I think I'm going insane
I'm hearing voices echoing in my mind, I can't take this y'all
[Verse 1]
Look, I can feel the demons in my brain
Creeping through the dark parts
Got my tucking different handguns in my Carhartt's
Where the hood got the reaper hiding underneath, yo
Ever wonder why we rather die, then let the beef go?
Stay feelin' stress, greed, lust and jealousy
My people cope by using cess, speed, dust, and LSD
D, more than just a simple sickness
It's triple sixes, to haunt the Holy Temple scriptures
And got the lost souls playing false roads
They got 'em, once they get inside 'em, like crossbows
It's the demons, conjuring up images you dreaming
Or screaming, it's seems when you're semen they scheming
Got us paranoid, steppin' out very cautious
The same way we holding guns, nuns carry crosses
Forms of protection against the evil forces
Of course there's subjections, in your cerebral cortex, the demons
Man, my palms feel sweaty, my skin's curling
Even my soul feel trapped man, I don't know what to do
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, hearing whispers
You see, if you listen close, you can hear the song they sing
Between good and evil, you're just a puppet on a string
It could be the angel of death or the angel king
A pitchfork with horns or a halo with wings
[Verse 2]
If I broke the word down in acronyms, while usin part logic
A demon could mean, destroying every man off narcotics
Drug epidemics, measure obsession needles
Got dealers earning money overnight
Deceitful elections, monitor our nations
While devil's effected, music out now on your stations
Dirty, explicit, material, oozing negativity
Distorting, eardrums mentally
Overwhelming nonsense
Dysfuctional, educational, malfuctions, oppressed negroes
Death, equals murder, oxygen's neglected
Drama, extreme mayhem, owning a necklace
Diabetes enter many obese niggas
So, dreams eventually match, ordinary nightmares
Department, eviction, management office notices
Dreadful, evolved missiles operating nuclear, why is this new to you?
[Interlude 2]
I can't explain it dog, I get this chill in my spine
I just get the urge to do something real crazy man
Yo, I might be losin my mind
[Hook 2]
You see if you listen close, you can hear the song they sing
Between good and evil, you're just a puppet on a string singing
[Bridge 2]
D... Dark deception, deepest degree
E... Enhanced evil, extraordinary envy
M... Major malicious, miscellaneous mayhem
O... Overload off, obnoxious obscenities
N... Never nice nature, negative nemesis
S... Several strange souls symbolizing stress
Fuck! I can't take this shit dog
I'm seeing demons, I'm stressed the fuck out
Lord help me, I think I'm going insane, can't explain it
What do you see right now?
Do you see exactly and only what I choose to show you?
(What? Get out of my head) That is it
Yo, what the fuck? What you doin in bed with this nigga man? You got another nigga in my bed? (Yo, old up, hold on a second man, hold on a second man)
Yo, shut the fuck up man! Y'all gonna make me kill both of y'all motherfuckers! Nigga get the fuck down! You shut the fuck up! Fuck y'all niggas doin? Fuck this shit man, you about to die right and fuck y'all niggas man (You cannot do this, don't do this)
Sample used from the Led Zeppelin song "No Quarter".


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What to Watch for From Fed Meeting
The Federal Reserve's policy committee on Wednesday wraps up its latest meeting, Ben Bernanke's last as chairman. The Fed's policy statement comes out at 2 p.m. EST. Mr. Bernanke won't hold a news conference after the meeting and Fed officials won't release new economic projections. Here's what to watch for:
1) Full taper ahead. The central bank looks likely to again trim its monthly bond purchases by another $10 billion to $65 billion.
Fed officials announced the first $10 billion reduction to the program -- also known as quantitative easing, or QE -- in December, trimming $5 billion each from its monthly purchases of long-term mortgage backed securities and Treasurys. At the press conference following that meeting, Mr. Bernanke strongly suggested officials are likely to make $10 billion cuts at each meeting, provided the economy improves as the Fed expects.
Fed officials have signaled they've set a pretty high bar for swerving from that path. December's disappointing jobs numbers weren't enough to darken their outlook for stronger economic growth, officials indicated in recent public remarks and interviews. Nor does the recent turmoil in emerging markets necessarily spell trouble for the U.S. economy or financial system, which is what the Fed focuses on.
2) Watch how the Fed describes the economic outlook. The Fed has said it will only change its strategy on the winding down QE if its forecast for the economy shifts dramatically. Officials describe their view of the economic outlook in the first two paragraphs of the policy statement. Any changes there could provide signals that their forecast is shifting on the margins -- and therefore clues about whether they may be wavering from the plan to reduce the bond purchases by $10-billion-per-meeting.
Take a look, for instance, at what Fed says about risks to its outlook. The Fed in December added new language saying that officials see "the risks to the outlook for the economy and the labor market as having become more nearly balanced." That assessment came after months of describing the downside risks to the outlook as "having diminished" since the fall. A change in that view would be big, but seems unlikely at this point.
Perhaps the Fed will make some mention in its statement of the recent emerging-market turmoil, but history suggests it won't change the Fed's risk assessment. Over the summer, when global markets reeled at the news the Fed could begin scaling back the bond-buying program, the central bank never explicitly mentioned the turbulence. Instead, officials voiced concern over rising mortgage rates and tightening financial conditions in the U.S. So far, that's not happening this time, though long-term rates are higher than they were a year ago.
3) What's the guidance on forward guidance? Right now, the Fed has laid out seven different pieces of so-called forward guidance about its future intentions for short-term rates. Five of them are in the penultimate paragraph of the Fed's last policy statement, where officials said:
- easy money "will remain appropriate for a considerable time" after QE ends (which according to Mr. Bernanke's timeline, won't be until late this year)
- they will keep short-term rates near zero at least until the jobless rate hits 6.5%
- so long as inflation doesn't rise above 2.5%
- when unemployment reaches 6.5%, they'll look at "other information" in deciding when to raise rates, including other labor market indicators, inflation gauges and financial developments
-they expect to keep rates near zero "well past" the point when unemployment reaches 6.5%
Fed officials will be discussing their forward guidance at this meeting. Odds are they won't change or add to these statements yet, but all five bear watching. The jobless rate hit 6.7% in December, having fallen far faster than Fed officials expected, putting pressure on policy makers to figure out how to best communicate future policy plans to the public.
The other two forms of forward guidance are in the quarterly projections the Fed makes about interest rates, in which officials estimate when they will start raising rates and by how much. The next round of forecasts are to be released in March.
4) Look who's voting now. Mr. Bernanke hasn't enjoyed a unanimous vote at a policy meeting since June 2011. Will the committee give him one as a goodbye present? His successor, Janet Yellen, surely would like to get started with a modicum of consensus on the policy committee. There's a new set of Fed presidents rotating on as voters this year to consider. Sandra Pianalto of Cleveland is seen as a centrist and unlikely to dissent; she's also a short-timer, planning to leave early this year. Richard Fisher of Dallas and Charles Plosser of Philadelphia are both QE critics, and while they may prefer the Fed move faster, they will most likely support steady reductions in the bond buys. Minnesota Fed chief Narayana Kocherlakota, on the other hand, has argued the Fed should be doing more to help the economy. He's indicated that he's okay with scaling back QE, but he wants the central bank to lower the 6.5% unemployment rate threshold on its forward guidance.
The Fed Announcement: It's All in the Wording
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