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Some Ohio Cornfields May Be at Risk for Stewart's Wilt
March 19, 2007 WOOSTER, Ohio-- Cornfields throughout southern Ohio might be at risk this growing season for Stewart's bacterial wilt and leaf blight-- a corn disease caused by a bacterium carried and spread by adult flea beetles. According to the fle ...
Careful Corn Planting Can Reduce Yield Losses
March 22, 2007 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- Proper planting practices are the first step to overcoming yield limitations the environment can put on a corn crop. Peter Thomison, an Ohio State University Extension agronomist, said that impact of compaction, especially ...
Iceland President Focuses on Green Energy During Ohio State Visit
April 3, 2007 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- The country of Iceland is looking to transform itself into a living laboratory in the battle against climate change, and is partnering with Ohio State University to launch programs in soil conservation, carbon sequestration ...
Yield Research Long-Term Solution to Biofuel Demands
April 11, 2007 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- Increased ethanol demand in the United States will most likely put strains on the agricultural sector-- from markets to the environment to crop production and food products. One Ohio State University agricultural economist ...
With a Little Help Freeze-Damaged Plants Can Bounce Back
April 13, 2007 SPRINGFIELD, Ohio-- Garden plants and some trees throughout Ohio may have suffered freeze damage from the recent cold snap, but steps can be taken to help plants bounce back to their lush and vibrant green selves. A sudden drop in temperatu ...
Ohio's Wheat May Have Escaped Frost Damage
April 18, 2007 WOOSTER, Ohio-- The recent bout of cold weather may have slowed the development of Ohio's wheat crop, but frost damage is anticipated to be less severe in Ohio than in more southern wheat-growing states. Pierce Paul, an Ohio State Univ ...
Alfalfa Escapes Severe Frost Damage, But First Cutting Delayed
April 24, 2007 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- Ohio's alfalfa crop that broke dormancy early has suffered some frost damage from the cold weather that hit the state in early April, but established, healthy stands are anticipated to recover and produce near normal y ...
Ohio Corn Planting Behind Schedule
May 4, 2007 COLUMBUS, Ohio-- Ohio's corn crop is getting a late start this growing season compared to recent years with nearly 20 percent behind last year's planting schedule, according to the Ohio Agricultural Statistics Service. Not surprising ...
Now's the Time to Scout for Wheat Foliar Diseases
May 8, 2007 WOOSTER, Ohio-- With Ohio's wheat crop under way, and performing well despite frost damage concerns, now is the time for growers to begin scouting for foliar diseases, especially on susceptible varieties. Pierce Paul, an Ohio State Univer ...
New Fungicide Available to Combat Wheat Diseases
May 8, 2007 WOOSTER, Ohio-- A new fungicide has been introduced this season to help Ohio wheat growers in their fight against diseases. Proline from Bayer CropScience has shown to be effective against diseases such as Stagonospora leaf/glume blotch, Septo ...


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Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942), born in Liverpool, UK, is the most successful songwriter in the history of popular music. McCartney is a multiple Grammy Award- and Academy Award-winning English singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, painter, and animal rights and peace activist. He gained worldwide fame as a member of The Beatles, alongsie John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.

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As a girl Jane Austen wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were only published after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives.


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'Star Trek' TV Return Eyed at CBS, Bryan Singer Considered to Direct
Star Trek's rebooted cinematic tenure under J.J. Abrams has led to diminishing returns, Star Trek 3 just barely making it off the ground, leading many to wonder when Gene Roddenberry's iconic franchise might return to its TV roots. That time may already be upon us, CBS is reportedly looking to boldly go forward with a new TV Star Trek.
Take this one with a few grains of salt for the moment, as Latino Review's report on a potential new TV Trek has very little set in stone. That said, of several past Star Trek TV projects that climbed the development ladder, CBS may be looking to court the team behind Star Trek: Federation, among them X-Men franchise leader Bryan Singer, Mission Imposible: Rogue Nation director Christopher McQuarrie, as well as producer Robert Burnett and writer Geoffrey Thorne.
That project would have seen a new era of Star Trek far past the Deep Space Nine and Voyager crews, to a point at which the Federation and familiar alien races would have changed enough to start anew with the franchise. Of course, any new TV Star Trek would likely chart its own course (LR even references fan-film Star Trek: Axanar as a potential guideline, whether by budget or story), while Singer's involvement has only been put forth as a goal.
It comes as little surprise to think that Star Trek would return to TV eventually, but how quickly around or after Star Trek 3 is anyone's guess. The same goes for Singer and any other producer's involvement, but we'll paint this latest TV Trek in a less baffling light than say, a Coach reboot. Anything's possible, so how should a new TV series handle any relationship with the (for now) ongoing film series?


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Microwave ablation (MWA) is a form of minimally invasive physical therapy with the highest inactivation rate at present, which has been using in the treatment of liver cancer for more than 30 years. With the continuously development of MWA in recent years, it has been widely used in various kinds of cancer treatments and received very good effects. In MWA, a probe will be inserted into tumors, and micro electromagnetic waves will be released to destroy and ablate the cancerous tissues directly. Targeting clearly and affecting intensely on the tumor, MWA won't produce obvious side effects to normal tissues.
Under the guidance of type B ultrasonic, CT scan, MRI or other image equipments, microwave thermal-coagulation needles will be inserted into tumors and release micro waves which make the polar molecules of cancerous tissues generate heat in microwave field. When the temperature rises above 60℃, the cellular proteins will become denatured and coagulated, and lead to irreversible necrosis. Meanwhile, MWA will stimulate the patient's immune system and improve the immunologic function, and inhibit the spread of cancer cells.
1.With high efficiency and short operating time, MWA can ablate a tumor with 6 cm diameter in 10 minutes generally, which reduces the risks of surgery and the sufferings of patients. It can even destroy tumors with a diameter under 5 cm one-off in situ and leave no residual cancer cells.
2.The size of coagulation volume in tumor is controllable, so it won't produce severe side effects to the normal tissues.
3.Only a needle with less than 2 mm diameter is inserted into the tumor under imaging guidance, so no scar, no sutures and no trauma will be left to the body but a sty less than 3 mm.
4.No adverse side effects like chemotherapy and radiotherapy will be produced; with high safety and low recurrence rate.
5.With a wide range of indication, MWA melts tumors for patients who are inoperable, invalid to transarterial embolization or with poor liver function. MWA destroys tumors, and acts as a palliative treatment to reduce the patient's pain, prolong his/her life span and improve the living quality.
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MWA is applicable in the treatment of liver cancer, lung cancer, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, bone cancer, cervical cancer, pancreatic cancer, kidney cancer and other solid tumors.
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According to the official MoD website, as at 28 May 2006, a total of 113 British Forces personnel have died, or are missing presumed dead, while serving on Operation TELIC since the start of the campaign in March 2003. Of these, 84 are classed as killed in action, including as a result of hostile action.
Of those 84 dead, at least 23 – more than a quarter – have been killed riding or patrolling with unarmoured or lightly armoured "Snatch" Land Rovers, the most common cause of death being the improvised explosive device (IED), better known as the "roadside bomb".
The incidents that I have been able to cull are as follows:
14 August 2003: Two Queens Lancashire Regiment soldiers wounded and one – Captain David Jones – killed in bomb attack on a converted Land Rover military ambulance in Basra.
18 November 2003: MoD spokesman Charlie Mayo reports two man crew of one Land Rover injured in one of four booby trap bomb attacks over previous seven days.
17 April 2004: Two Territorial Army soldiers shot in Basra and another soldier lost a leg when his Land Rover was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.
18 April 2004: Three PWRR soldiers injured, one seriously, in roadside bomb attack on Land Rover in Amarah.
26 April 2004: One soldier injured by roadside bomb attack on six vehicle supply convoy in south east of Basra. Witnesses said the injured soldier was evacuated by helicopter.
28 June 2004: Fusilier Gordon Gentle, 19, from Glasgow, died when a bomb exploded next to his Land Rover in Basra. Two others were injured.
9 August 2004: Five soldiers from Prince of Wales Royal Regiment were injured and one – Private Lee O'Callaghan – was killed in attack on vehicles in Basra. Two Land Rovers were set on fire after militiamen fired rocket-propelled grenades at the patrol.
28 September 2004: Two soldiers – Corporal Marc Taylor, Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, and Gunner David Lawrence, Royal Artillery – killed when military convoy ambushed south-west of Basra. The two soldiers killed had gone to the aid of injured colleagues whose Land Rover was hit by a rocket propelled grenade (RPG).
2 May 2005: One soldier injured and Guardsman Anthony John Wakefield 24, from the 1st Bn Coldstream Guards, killed during routine two vehicle armoured Land Rover patrol in Al Amarah.
29 May 2005: Lance Corporal Alan Brackenbury of The King's Royal Hussars killed from an improvised explosive device in Kahla, near al-Amarah. He was in an armoured Land Rover, one of three vehicles heading to a liaison meeting with representatives of the Iraqi security forces. Four other soldiers were injured in the explosion.
16 July 2005: Two soldiers injured and three killed - Second Lieutenant Richard Shearer, Private Leon Spicer and Private Phillip Hewett - all from the 1st Battalion the Staffordshire Regiment, during three vehicle armoured Land Rover night patrol in suburb of town of Al Amarah, 160 miles north of Basra.
5 September 2005: A roadside bomb killed two British soldiers travelling in an armoured Land Rover in southern Iraq. The device exploded as a convoy passed through a mainly Sunni Arab district five miles east of a British army base known as Shaiba. The two dead soldiers were from the 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, based in Lisburn, Northern Ireland.
11 September 2005: Three soldiers were injured and Major Matthew Bacon was killed when an Snatch Lanbd Rover was hit by an IED in Basra.
20 November 2005: Four soldiers injured, one very seriously, in bomb attack on routine two vehicle armoured Land Rover patrol in northern Basra. Sergeant John Jones of the 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers died in the attack.
31 January 2006: Whilst on a routine patrol in Umm Qasr, the vehicle that Corporal Gordon Pritchard was commanding was struck by a roadside bomb; he died instantly. Three other soldiers were injured, one seriously, in the same incident and received medical treatment at Shaibah medical facility.
28 February 2006: Two British soldiers were killed and another injured when their Land Rover was blown up by a roadside bomb while on patrol in the Iraqi town of Amara. The three soldiers were from 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment attached to the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. The improvised explosive device is believed to have been hidden in an abandoned car which exploded when the soldiers passed on routine patrol.
16 April 2006: Lt Richard Palmer, 27, of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was killed when his Land Rover was targeted by insurgents using an off-road mine near the town of Ad Dayr. Lt Palmer's unit, which was attached to a Danish battle group, was on vehicle patrol with the Iraqi army when it was attacked.
13 May 2006: Two British soldiers died after a roadside bomb attack in southern Iraq. The soldiers, from the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment, were on routine patrol in an armoured Land Rover just outside Basra when the device exploded. The roadside bomb exploded as the patrol approached a bridge just north of Basra. A third soldier was injured in the same incident.
28 May 2006: A British Army patrol from 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (The Welsh Cavalry) was attacked by a roadside bomb in the Al Jezaizah district of North West Basra. The explosion hit an armoured Land Rover patrol on a routine task in support of the Iraqi Security Forces. The incident killed two members from A Squadron: Troop Leader Lieutenant Tom Mildinhall and Lance Corporal Paul Farrelly.
Collectively, the Land Rover incidents are the single most common cause of death for our soldiers in Iraq, yet - in our view - they are largely preventable. In today's Sunday Telegraph, based on research carried out by this blog, Christopher Booker explains why they are allowed to happen.
"One reason why British troops continue to be killed and injured in southern Iraq", he writes, "is that they are expected to patrol in lightly-armoured Land Rovers which give them no protection against roadside bombs and rocket-propelled grenades." He continues:
Meanwhile their American counterparts walk away unscathed, even when their RG31 armoured patrol vehicles are hit by the same explosives, because these are designed to protect them against precisely the same dangers. Yet the Ministry of Defence has not seen fit to equip the British Army with the RG31, even though it is built by a British-owned company.That self-same RG31 is pictured at the top of this piece – taken at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq on 7 January 2006 by a photographer from the 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group. It is resting on its front axle after an improvised explosive device detonated under the vehicle the day before. The IED detonated directly under the vehicle; however, because the vehicle was an RG-31, the blast was pushed outward instead of straight up due to the unique v-shaped undercarriage. Of the five service members in the vehicle, two received concussions and two others received minor burns.
Before continuing with Booker it has to be said that the government's procurement minister, Lord Drayson, does not agree that the RG31 should be used, or that there is anything wrong with the "Snatch" Land Rover. In the House of Lords on 12 June this year, in response to a question by Lord Astor of Hever, this is what he said:
My Lords, I do not accept that Snatch Land Rovers are not appropriate for the role. We must recognise the difference between protection and survivability. It is important that we have the trade-offs that we need for mobility. The Snatch Land Rover provides us with the mobility and level of protection that we need.You may accord to Lord Drayson's statement any value you wish but it is germane to note that the vehicle is widely used in the world's trouble-spots, to which effect, one of its enthusiastic users, the United Nations, reports:
We had 14 RG-31s in Bosnia, which we took out of service some time ago due to difficulties with maintenance. We have looked at the RG-31 alongside a number of alternatives for our current fleet and concluded that the size and profile did not meet our needs. Size is important in the urban environment. The RG-31 cannot access areas that Snatch Land Rovers can get to.
The RG-31 "Nyala" mine and bullet-protected vehicle (MPV) with high mobility ease of handling and good crew comfort has been successfully deployed with the UN in Bosnia and Lebanon. It has become the MPV of choice of the UN and other peacekeeping and security forces and is finding favour with nongovernmental organizations requiring vehicle with nonaggressive appearance to protect their personal against the threat of landmines.More to the point, in addition to the United States which has purchased 148 for use in Iraq, the Canadian forces have bought fifty for use by their detachment in Afghanistan, with an option for another 25, having previously deployed three as part of their contribution to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
The vehicle was selected after a tightly-fought contest with other mine protected vehicles and, in the view of one commentator, won the contract because: "Familiarity aside, the RG-31 had advantages that all but ensured victory in the CF's APV contest – proven performance in a range of climates and terrains, relatively small size."
Known variously as the "Mamba" and "Nyala" in Canadian service (the two are, in fact, different although very similar vehicles, the latter being the RG31), it has attracted the enthusiastic plaudits of its users. Says one:
Having spend lots of time in both the Mamba as a Recce Driver on Palladium Roto II and the Nyala as the Engr Recce Sgt on Athena Roto III, I can't think of a more well rounded, safer and rugged vehicle.and another…
Almost every contingent I worked with would have given their left arm for a Nyala, including those riding around in open top G-wagons. Open top vehicles bristling with weapons are no deterrent or concern to a pressure plate IED or a Spider Device initiated by a Cell Phone or FRS from a safe distance. The only CF Troops in the Kandahar area that require open top soft skins already have them. So if you really want to ride around in one, start doing your application for the farm.Lord Drayson offers no explanation as to what the "difficulties with maintenance" were, although it is hard to understand why they should have been intractable, since the vehicles used (Mambas) had running trains based on the widely-used Mercedes Benz Unimog and the design employs many readily available commercial parts.
As to the importance of size, and Drayson's claim that, "the RG-31 cannot access areas that Snatch Land Rovers can get to," once again you can judge for yourself from the photographs provided. Altogether, we prefer the explanation that the Army is being short-changed, fobbed off with cheap, second-hand Land Rovers, designed for security operations in Northern Ireland and totally unsuited for Iraq.
Returning to Booker, he writes:
This is a small but chilling example of the extraordinary shambles the MoD is making of Britain's defences, thanks not least to the way Tony Blair is trying to pursue two totally contradictory policies at the same time, This has not been properly appreciated because media coverage of defence has become so scrappy that we have lost sight of the overall picture.Booker's final comment hits the nail on the head. We have tried to get senior Conservative MPs interested in this issue with very little success. And, apart from Booker and The Business, it is proving impossible to get the media interested.
We hear, for instance, about prosecutions of British soldiers for supposed "human rights abuses", the abolition of ancient regiments and some of the more ambitious defence projects on which the MoD is spending tens of billions of pounds, such as the Eurofighter or the two giant aircraft carriers planned for the Royal Navy. But no one fits all the pieces of this jigsaw together.
On one hand, as we saw yet again with his recent visit to Washington, Mr Blair tries to keep in with the Americans, by committing thousands of hard-pressed and ill-equipped British troops to fighting the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush and Blair still like to talk of keeping alive the Joint Strike Fighter project, the last major example of Anglo-US collaboration on military hardware.
On the other, as we saw again with his subsequent visit to President Chirac, Mr Blair has stealthily agreed to Britain playing a key role in the planned European Rapid Reaction Force. For this he and the MoD have been prepared to restructure the British Army, scrapping the old regiments, and to commit colossal sums to buying every kind of European equipment, as well as those giant carriers we are to build with the French. All this is to meet the "Helsinki goals" agreed by EU leaders including Mr Blair in 1999, by which an integrated European defence force is to be brought about.
For the MoD, the top priority has been to get on with meeting those Helsinki commitments, co-ordinated by the European Defence Agency in Brussels, headed by a former senior MoD official Nick Witney, which will enable us to play our part in creating that EU expeditionary force. To this end the MoD has been prepared to spend billions on EU-made missiles, ships, trucks, artillery and armoured vehicles, not to mention a French-led project to build unmanned aircraft which Blair discussed with Chirac earlier this month, following Britain's withdrawal from a similar joint-project with the US.
But what this has left is a British Army starved of proper resources for its current tasks, so overstretched that it must rely on thousands of territorial soldiers, its morale sapped by the dangerous lack of proper equipment and by the MoD's insistence on enforcing the European Convention on Human Rights in situations to which it was never intended to apply.
The real problem is that all this has been so hidden away behind layers of stealth and deception that no one ever asks any longer that fundamental question: what are our armed forces for? Behind the scenes, the driving force of national policy is to fit us to play our part in building up a European expeditionary force, capable of operating anywhere in the world. But no one can explain the purpose of such a force, for essentially it has only one: to promote the cause of European integration.
This leaves us, in an increasingly darkling world, with forces ill-designed to protect any national British interests. Indeed, so dependent are we now becoming on equipment bought from our EU partners, including our most basic guns and ammunition, that it will soon be inconceivable that we could operate without their consent.
Meanwhile our armed services, which until recently we still prided ourselves on being the most professional in the world, are being asked to perform dangerous tasks, knowing that they no longer have much practical support from a Government bent on exploiting them politically, for purposes they find it increasingly hard to understand.
When the final charge sheet is drawn up against the way Mr Blair governed this country, one of the most damning charges will be the way in which he destroyed its armed forces. Yet the remarkable thing will be how almost nobody at the time noticed it was happening.
Well, people, this is an opportunity to test the power of the blogs. We have not done this before, but I would ask other blogs to link here and for readers to print off this post and send it to their MPs, with their own comments. This is truly a matter of life and death. Our view is that our troops are being needlessly exposed to danger and they deserve better. We hope you agree.


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Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway
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What are you afraid of – and how is it holding you back?
The phenomenal classic on moving from a place of paralysis, pain and indecision to one of energy, enthusiasm and action
Whatever your anxieties, Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway® can teach you how to handle what life throws at you, allowing you to take control, move forwards and live the life you want.
First published over 30 years ago, Susan Jeffers' phenomenal classic has helped change the lives of over two million readers around the world. Her timeless advice is as important and relevant today as when it was first published: we live in an era governed by fear – fear of failure, of missing out, of rejection, of the future, of change, of not fitting in, of intimacy, of being alone, of growing old ... the list seems endless. We are also easily paralysed by fear of the things we need to do from driving or public speaking to making tough decisions or asking for what we want or need.
Whatever your challenge and whatever fears are holding you back, Susan Jeffers' profound advice, insight and tools will help you move from a place of paralysis, pain and indecision to one of energy, enthusiasm and action.


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Also known as the American Fox Terrier, this dog breed descends directly from the Fox Terrier. It has a distinct build, it is small but athletic and muscular in its appearance.The dog has a short and shiny coat, most of it is white. The Toy Fox Terrier exists in other variants of colors; the tricolor variant is of chocolate and white and tan. Another variant is black and white with no tan. This breed is similar to the Miniature Fox Terrier and weighs about 3.5 to 3.9 pounds. Discover more about our Toy Fox Terrier puppies for sale below!
The Toy Fox Terrier is one of the few breeds; a true 'All American', they are a product of crossing the small Smooth Fox Terriers with toy dogs like; the Chihuahuas and Manchester Terriers. Following the creation of this breed, hunting small game like squirrels was the major function of the Toy Fox Terriers, they also served as ratters on farms. Later on, circus performances incorporated the use of Toy Fox Terriers. The Toy Fox Terrier is an intelligent and agile dog, this propels them to perform superbly in circuses.
As stated earlier, the Toy Fox Terrier is an intelligent dog. They are responsive to many words. Their intelligence makes them relevant for circus performances and they cooperate with the clowns. They have a good sense of humor; making them an excellent companion choice. Older people would be lucky to have a Toy Fox Terrier as a pet because of its intelligence and humor, the playfulness and agility if the dog breed can be amusing to watch. The terrier shows loyalty and affection to its owners.
The Toy Fox Terrier is suitable for keeping indoors, It is a small dog and space wouldn't pose a threat to its convenience. The Toy Fox Terrier doesn't tolerate extremely cold weather. It is only fairly able to cope in hot environments.
Despite their small stature, moving around is important to keep the toy fox Terrier happy always. This reduces the frustration that they may take out on household items. The dog should work out regularly to maintain a medium amount of exercise at least.
Grooming the Toy Fox Terrier is quite easy. They have a short coat. They shed frequently so combing and brushing is necessary at least every three days to keep the coat free of dirt and to prevent skin infections. Regular cleaning of hidden parts of their body is essential; especially the ears and In between the paws.
Our Toy Fox Terrier puppies for sale come from either USDA licensed commercial breeders or hobby breeders with no more than 5 breeding mothers. USDA licensed commercial breeders account for less than 20% of all breeders in the country.
The unregulated breeders who are selling outside of the USDA regulations and without a license are what we consider to be "Puppy Mills." We are committed to offering Toy Fox Terrier puppies who will grow up to become important members of your family. We only purchase puppies from the very best sources, and we stand behind every puppy we sell.
They do not have any problem swimming, the toy fox terrier can learn to swim. However, it depends on your dog's likes and dislikes. Just like some humans, swimming isn't everyone's favorite activity, the same applies to this breed of dog.
In dry form, an adult Toy Fox Terrier can consume a quarter to a half cup of feed a day. Feeding them twice a day is ideal.
A Toy Fox Terrier can grow as tall as 11inches and 7 pounds in weight. The Toy Fox Terrier is a small breed. However, it has a muscular physique.
The Toy Fox Terrier has a lifespan of 13 to 14 years. This is just the expected life span. Some dogs might exceed this limit if they are well taken care of.
This breed of dog is intelligent and agile. They make very good companions. They are attention-seeking and always want to please their owners they have a good temper.
A healthy breed would be lacking anything awkward about it physically; shiny coat well-groomed and void of dirt.
Neutering your dog is a responsibility for your doctor. However, dogs are safe for neutering once they become mature.
They are not aggressive. They are peaceful dogs that love to play and gave fun. However, they are not overly hyper like dogs their size usually are.
There is always a risk with dogs for people highly sensitive in their allergies. However, the dog is not likely to aggravate allergies given that the allergic person is not too sensitive.
This breed is not prone to any major health issues under normal circumstances proper grooming and feeding the Toy Fox Terrier is a very healthy breed.
The Toy Fox Terrier is a good choice for families without sufficient open space and still requires an active dog. Its size makes it suitable for an indoor pet. It is an intelligent and obedient breed.
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Alicia Silverstone, the Clueless star and former Aerosmith video vixen, caused controversy in 2012 after posting a video of herself pre-chewing her son's food and transferring it from her mouth to his. Now she has written a book urging you to do the same.
In The Kind Mama: A Simple Guide to Supercharged Fertility, a Radiant Pregnancy, a Sweeter Birth, and a Healthier, More Beautiful Beginning, Silverstone chronicles what might reasonably be called her unconventional parenting advice: Bananas are "a naughty food for a baby," the diaper industry is "pseudoscience," and vaccines are essentially shots of "aluminum and formaldehyde."
But the book presents a laundry list of amazing promises. Silverstone will "show you the way to have a luminous, present, ailment-free pregnancy." Why go to an obstetrician when a Hollywood star can "help prevent or even cure your PMS, insomnia, allergies, breakouts, weight struggles, thyroid condition, lupus, multiple sclerosis—while significantly lowering your risk of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer"? Yes, Alicia Silverstone just offered to cure your thyroid condition and lower your risk of contracting cancer.
If you aren't suffering from medical paranoia during your pregnancy, Silverstone's book nevertheless will teach you "to listen to what your body really needs and then relax into the yumminess of it all."
She wants to address the questions plaguing American woman, while assuring them that "nature's already provided the answers" to pregnancy and the solution is to "get kind." It's unclear what any of this means, but we combed The Kind Mama for some of nature's answers to pregnancy's toughest problems.
1. Meat, dairy, and processed foods track 'toxic sludge' through your uterus.
Your uterus is your "baby house"—and it "needs maintenance, too. You wouldn't want to bring your baby into a junk-filled house with a leaky roof and backed-up plumbing, right?" How does one maintain a uterus house? "Meat, dairy, and processed foods" should be avoided, she says, because they are "tracking toxic sludge through your baby house."
2. Eating plants means you won't need medicine.
Eating plants during pregnancy, writes Silverstone, "means not only boosting the odds of conceiving but also setting the stage for a transcendent pregnancy, a smoother birth, a healthier baby, and long-term protection from almost every disease there is." By eating "kind foods"—plant-based foods—women can "supercharge fertility; reduce your likelihood of miscarriage; infuse breast milk with all kinds of nutrient goodness that make your kids smart and healthy; and help stave off diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes." According to doctors vetted by Silverstone, kind foods "can demolish your need for pharmaceutical drugs, especially for the treatment of things like depression, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension."
3. Breast milk has an 'almost otherworldly power.'
Silverstone writes that "aside from giving your baby every single health advantage there is at mealtime, breast milk is also the ultimate cure-all for almost every ailment that might come up in baby's early days. It's a natural antibiotic and has almost otherworldly power to both soothe and heal." The movie star advises non-movie star moms to enlist the help of a "lactation consultant" in the event that they have trouble breastfeeding. "The $100 or $200 you spend to help you establish a fruitful, long-term nursing relationship will ultimately save you money, whether on formula or medical costs down the road."
4. If pregnant women bought this book, they wouldn't be so depressed.
If only Brooke Shields, author of Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression, had listened to Silverstone and eaten more plants, she wouldn't have been suicidal after giving birth. According to Silverstone, "though it's less common among kind mamas, some women experience the blues after giving birth." If you want to prevent crippling postpartum depression, just avoid eating certain foods, including processed sugars, "which makes us feel unbalanced."
5. Stop using tampons.
Is there a class-action suit against OB on the horizon? According to Silverstone, tampons might be making you infertile: "[Y]our chichi is the most absorbent part of your body. Unfortunately, feminine-care manufacturers aren't required to tell you what's in their products, which means that no one's talking about the potential pesticide residues from non-organic cotton and the 'fragrances' containing hormone-upsetting, fertility-knocking phthalates that are snuggling up to your hoo-ha."
6. Babies should 'leave their business in the grass.'
Silverstone's child was potty-trained at six months, an apparently seamless process that involved reading his facial expressions and other "cues about his need to pee or poop." She noticed that "when Bear looked like he was flirting with me, smiling sweetly, or looking deep into my eyes, he'd be peeing." Another signal was when he would "stare off into space for a second." She assures readers that it's "not all guesswork" and if you're really in tune with your maternal instincts, then you too may start referring to yourself as a "potty whisperer." And there are myriad benefits for EC-trained babies, who are "much more content leaving their business in the grass than having to sleep and eat accompanied by their own pee and poo." An added bonus? Kind mamas can avoid funneling money into the "multibillion-dollar" disposable diaper industry, which is "fueled by corporate-backed pseudoscience."
7. Anecdotally, some babies are 'never the same' after vaccines.
Adding another misinformed voice to the debate, Silverstone offers this qualified defense of vaccine conspiracy theorists: "According to Drs. Roizen and Oz…While there has not been a conclusive study of the negative effects of such a rigorous one-size-fits-all, shoot-'em-up schedule, there is increasing anecdotal evidence from doctors who have gotten distressed phone calls from parents claiming their child was 'never the same' after receiving a vaccine. And I personally have friends whose babies were drastically affected in this way." Anecdotal evidence from friends? Case closed.
8. Forcing a baby to sleep outside the 'Family Bed' is tantamount to neglect.
Silverstone knows what you're thinking: Sharing a bed with your infant "sounds like some kind of trippy holdover from the peace, love, and barley casserole notions of the commune-happy sixties." Fair enough, she writes, but the alternative—forcing your helpless baby to sleep "in a barred-in box completely alone"—may well amount to child neglect. "Sharing a bed with baby means you can tune in better to her needs, which in turn builds security and trust." The worst thing you can do is leave a baby to "cry it out, self-soothe, or otherwise independently take care of himself before he's ready." This kind of neglect will foster an unhealthy parent-child relationship, ensuring that your baby "misses out on the trust building that's crucial in infant development." You might as well throw him out in the cold and tell him to come back when he gets a job, because letting him cry it out prevents him from "learning how kind and giving the world is."
9. Stop planning to have a baby.
Ultimately, having a baby is pretty easy, Silverstone writes: "Eat well, get healthy, then ditch all the planning and trying and just let it flow. There's no better way to make a baby than with yummy, soulful sex!"


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Hello all, sorry about lack of posting the last couple of days, especially in light of all your wonderfully supportive comments and emails about my last post. Thank you very, very much. Although the big girl in me knows that you can't please everyone, the Special Snowflake still thinks I should be treated nicely all the time.
Anyway, I have been very busy. Hoodies have been made and dispatched but as they are duplicates to ones I've already posted about, they shall remain mysterious. But despite my protestations that I'm having trouble sharing my awesome lego fabric, another bold customer asked if I would. And who would have thought it, I agreed.
This is for a much older boy, so the cute wordy selvage went unused. I did stripwork again to maximise the 'pop' of the legos, with horizontal stripes on the blue side and vertical stripes on the black side.
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Employees Sue Government Over Shutdown
Collective action suit demands damages for excepted workers because they weren't paid on time.
Federal employees who worked during the government shutdown are suing Uncle Sam for damages because they weren't paid on time.
The collective action lawsuit filed by five Bureau of Prisons employees in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims alleges the government violated the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act when it delayed full pay for excepted employees until agencies reopened on Oct. 17. The suit asks the government to compensate excepted employees at a rate of $7.25 per hour times the number of hours worked between Oct. 1 and Oct. 5, as well as any applicable overtime. Employees who worked 8-hour days at that rate for five days would be entitled to $290 in back pay under the lawsuit, plus any overtime they are due.
If successful, the plaintiffs would end up receiving double back pay for the trouble the government shutdown caused them. All government employees, excepted and furloughed, should have received their back pay for Oct. 1 through Oct. 5 by now. Employees who remain on the job during a shutdown are guaranteed back pay by law; Congress has to approve back pay for furloughed workers, which it did for the 16-day shutdown. About 1.3 million federal employees were excepted during the shutdown.
The affected pay period ran from Sept. 22 through Oct. 5; the government shut down on Oct. 1, so most federal civilian employees were not paid for Oct. 1 through Oct. 5 in their Oct. 11 paycheck. Military service members and many Defense Department civilians, however, were paid on time during the government shutdown. The Pay Our Military Act, which President Obama signed into law on Sept. 30, ensured that all active-duty and reserve members of the armed forces, as well as any civilians and contractors working in support of those forces, were paid on time regardless of the shutdown's duration.
Everyone has been "made whole" at this point, but the plaintiffs in Martin et. al v. The United States argue that the paycheck delay because of the shutdown meant they had trouble paying their bills on time. Martina Copeland, an accounting technician who works for the government, said her family struggled with payments during the shutdown. Copeland, who has three children and is married to another federal worker, participated in a press conference on Monday organized by lawyers at the Washington firm Mehri and Skalet. The firm, which specializes in employment discrimination cases, is representing the federal employees in Martin et. al v. The United States.
The Fair Labor Standards Act requires employers to compensate covered nonexempt employees for any losses they might have suffered as a result of not receiving minimum wages or overtime pay on their scheduled pay day.
Correction: The original version of this story misidentified the type of lawsuit. It is a collective action suit.
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Marine vet saved dozens of lives during Orlando attack
FOX NEWS - A Marine veteran is being hailed as a hero after helping dozens of people escape during the terror attack at an Orlando nightclub. Imran Yousuf, who served in Afghanistan, was working as a bouncer at Pulse nightclub when gunman Omar Mateen opened fire early Sunday morning. Yousuf immediately recognized the sound of a high caliber weapon and his training kicked in.
"Everyone froze. I'm here in the back and I saw people start pouring into the back hallway, and they just sardine pack everyone," Yousuf told CBS News. He knew that just beyond the packed crowd was a door to safety.
"And I'm screaming 'Open the door! Open the door!' And no one is moving because they are scared," he explained. "There was only one choice. Either we all stay there and we all die, or I could take the chance, and I jumped over to open that latch a we got everyone that we can out of there."
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by Robert Burns
'TWAS 1 in that place o' Scotland's isle,
That bears the name o' auld King Coil,
Upon a bonie day in June,
When wearin' thro' the afternoon,
Twa dogs, that were na thrang at hame,
Forgather'd ance upon a time.
The first I'll name, they ca'd him Caesar,
Was keepit for His Honor's pleasure:
His hair, his size, his mouth, his lugs,
Shew'd he was nane o' Scotland's dogs;
But whalpit some place far abroad,
Whare sailors gang to fish for cod.
His locked, letter'd, braw brass collar
Shew'd him the gentleman an' scholar;
But though he was o' high degree,
The fient a pride, nae pride had he;
But wad hae spent an hour caressin,
Ev'n wi' al tinkler-gipsy's messin:
At kirk or market, mill or smiddie,
Nae tawted tyke, tho' e'er sae duddie,
But he wad stan't, as glad to see him,
An' stroan't on stanes an' hillocks wi' him.
The tither was a ploughman's collie—
A rhyming, ranting, raving billie,
Wha for his friend an' comrade had him,
And in freak had Luath ca'd him,
After some dog in Highland Sang, 2
Was made lang syne,—Lord knows how lang.
He was a gash an' faithfu' tyke,
As ever lap a sheugh or dyke.
His honest, sonsie, baws'nt face
Aye gat him friends in ilka place;
His breast was white, his touzie back
Weel clad wi' coat o' glossy black;
His gawsie tail, wi' upward curl,
Hung owre his hurdie's wi' a swirl.
Nae doubt but they were fain o' ither,
And unco pack an' thick thegither;
Wi' social nose whiles snuff'd an' snowkit;
Whiles mice an' moudieworts they howkit;
Whiles scour'd awa' in lang excursion,
An' worry'd ither in diversion;
Until wi' daffin' weary grown
Upon a knowe they set them down.
An' there began a lang digression.
About the "lords o' the creation."
CÆSAR I've aften wonder'd, honest Luath,
What sort o' life poor dogs like you have;
An' when the gentry's life I saw,
What way poor bodies liv'd ava.
Our laird gets in his racked rents,
His coals, his kane, an' a' his stents:
He rises when he likes himsel';
His flunkies answer at the bell;
He ca's his coach; he ca's his horse;
He draws a bonie silken purse,
As lang's my tail, where, thro' the steeks,
The yellow letter'd Geordie keeks.
Frae morn to e'en, it's nought but toiling
At baking, roasting, frying, boiling;
An' tho' the gentry first are stechin,
Yet ev'n the ha' folk fill their pechan
Wi' sauce, ragouts, an' sic like trashtrie,
That's little short o' downright wastrie.
Our whipper-in, wee, blasted wonner,
Poor, worthless elf, it eats a dinner,
Better than ony tenant-man
His Honour has in a' the lan':
An' what poor cot-folk pit their painch in,
I own it's past my comprehension.
LUATH Trowth, C&æsar, whiles they're fash't eneugh:
A cottar howkin in a sheugh,
Wi' dirty stanes biggin a dyke,
Baring a quarry, an' sic like;
Himsel', a wife, he thus sustains,
A smytrie o' wee duddie weans,
An' nought but his han'-daurk, to keep
Them right an' tight in thack an' rape.
An' when they meet wi' sair disasters,
Like loss o' health or want o' masters,
Ye maist wad think, a wee touch langer,
An' they maun starve o' cauld an' hunger:
But how it comes, I never kent yet,
They're maistly wonderfu' contented;
An' buirdly chiels, an' clever hizzies,
Are bred in sic a way as this is.
CÆSAR But then to see how ye're negleckit,
How huff'd, an' cuff'd, an' disrespeckit!
Lord man, our gentry care as little
For delvers, ditchers, an' sic cattle;
They gang as saucy by poor folk,
As I wad by a stinkin brock.
I've notic'd, on our laird's court-day,—
An' mony a time my heart's been wae,—
Poor tenant bodies, scant o'cash,
How they maun thole a factor's snash;
He'll stamp an' threaten, curse an' swear
He'll apprehend them, poind their gear;
While they maun stan', wi' aspect humble,
An' hear it a', an' fear an' tremble!
I see how folk live that hae riches;
But surely poor-folk maun be wretches!
LUATH They're no sae wretched's ane wad think.
Tho' constantly on poortith's brink,
They're sae accustom'd wi' the sight,
The view o't gives them little fright.
Then chance and fortune are sae guided,
They're aye in less or mair provided:
An' tho' fatigued wi' close employment,
A blink o' rest's a sweet enjoyment.
The dearest comfort o' their lives,
Their grushie weans an' faithfu' wives;
The prattling things are just their pride,
That sweetens a' their fire-side.
An' whiles twalpennie worth o' nappy
Can mak the bodies unco happy:
They lay aside their private cares,
To mind the Kirk and State affairs;
They'll talk o' patronage an' priests,
Wi' kindling fury i' their breasts,
Or tell what new taxation's comin,
An' ferlie at the folk in Lon'on.
As bleak-fac'd Hallowmass returns,
They get the jovial, rantin kirns,
When rural life, of ev'ry station,
Unite in common recreation;
Love blinks, Wit slaps, an' social Mirth
Forgets there's Care upo' the earth.
That merry day the year begins,
They bar the door on frosty win's;
The nappy reeks wi' mantling ream,
An' sheds a heart-inspiring steam;
The luntin pipe, an' sneeshin mill,
Are handed round wi' right guid will;
The cantie auld folks crackin crouse,
The young anes rantin thro' the house—
My heart has been sae fain to see them,
That I for joy hae barkit wi' them.
Still it's owre true that ye hae said,
Sic game is now owre aften play'd;
There's mony a creditable stock
O' decent, honest, fawsont folk,
Are riven out baith root an' branch,
Some rascal's pridefu' greed to quench,
Wha thinks to knit himsel the faster
In favour wi' some gentle master,
Wha, aiblins, thrang a parliamentin,
For Britain's guid his saul indentin—
CÆSAR Haith, lad, ye little ken about it:
For Britain's guid! guid faith! I doubt it.
Say rather, gaun as Premiers lead him:
An' saying ay or no's they bid him:
At operas an' plays parading,
Mortgaging, gambling, masquerading:
Or maybe, in a frolic daft,
To Hague or Calais takes a waft,
To mak a tour an' tak a whirl,
To learn bon ton, an' see the worl'.
There, at Vienna, or Versailles,
He rives his father's auld entails;
Or by Madrid he takes the rout,
To thrum guitars an' fecht wi' nowt;
Or down Italian vista startles,
Wh-re-hunting amang groves o' myrtles:
Then bowses drumlie German-water,
To mak himsel look fair an' fatter,
An' clear the consequential sorrows,
Love-gifts of Carnival signoras.
For Britain's guid! for her destruction!
Wi' dissipation, feud, an' faction.
LUATH Hech, man! dear sirs! is that the gate
They waste sae mony a braw estate!
Are we sae foughten an' harass'd
For gear to gang that gate at last?
O would they stay aback frae courts,
An' please themsels wi' country sports,
It wad for ev'ry ane be better,
The laird, the tenant, an' the cotter!
For thae frank, rantin, ramblin billies,
Feint haet o' them's ill-hearted fellows;
Except for breakin o' their timmer,
Or speakin lightly o' their limmer,
Or shootin of a hare or moor-cock,
The ne'er-a-bit they're ill to poor folk,
But will ye tell me, Master C&æsar,
Sure great folk's life's a life o' pleasure?
Nae cauld nor hunger e'er can steer them,
The very thought o't need na fear them.
CÆSAR L—d, man, were ye but whiles whare I am,
The gentles, ye wad ne'er envy them!
It's true, they need na starve or sweat,
Thro' winter's cauld, or simmer's heat:
They've nae sair wark to craze their banes,
An' fill auld age wi' grips an' granes:
But human bodies are sic fools,
For a' their colleges an' schools,
That when nae real ills perplex them,
They mak enow themsel's to vex them;
An' aye the less they hae to sturt them,
In like proportion, less will hurt them.
A country fellow at the pleugh,
His acre's till'd, he's right eneugh;
A country girl at her wheel,
Her dizzen's dune, she's unco weel;
But gentlemen, an' ladies warst,
Wi' ev'n-down want o' wark are curst.
They loiter, lounging, lank an' lazy;
Tho' deil-haet ails them, yet uneasy;
Their days insipid, dull, an' tasteless;
Their nights unquiet, lang, an' restless.
An'ev'n their sports, their balls an' races,
Their galloping through public places,
There's sic parade, sic pomp, an' art,
The joy can scarcely reach the heart.
The men cast out in party-matches,
Then sowther a' in deep debauches.
Ae night they're mad wi' drink an' whoring,
Niest day their life is past enduring.
The ladies arm-in-arm in clusters,
As great an' gracious a' as sisters;
But hear their absent thoughts o' ither,
They're a' run-deils an' jads thegither.
Whiles, owre the wee bit cup an' platie,
They sip the scandal-potion pretty;
Or lee-lang nights, wi' crabbit leuks
Pore owre the devil's pictur'd beuks;
Stake on a chance a farmer's stackyard,
An' cheat like ony unhanged blackguard.
There's some exceptions, man an' woman;
But this is gentry's life in common.
By this, the sun was out of sight,
An' darker gloamin brought the night;
The bum-clock humm'd wi' lazy drone;
The kye stood rowtin i' the loan;
When up they gat an' shook their lugs,
Rejoic'd they werena men but dogs;
An' each took aff his several way,
Resolv'd to meet some ither day.
Note Luath was Burns' own dog. [back]
Note Cuchullin's dog in Ossian's "Fingal."—R. B. [back]
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These are my links for January 16th through January 22nd:
- Puffbox.com » Archive » Creative Commons coming to data.gov.uk – "There's something almost unnerving about the launch of a government website getting so much positive coverage. But today's been data.gov.uk's big day, and everyone seems to agree it's a jolly good thing. For now.
James Crabtree's piece for Prospect magazine hails it as 'a tale of star power, serendipity, vision, persistence and an almost unprecedented convergence of all levels of government'. The New Statesman says it's 'a far more radical project than it first appears… a clear break with the closed, data-hugging state of the past.' We're all getting quite excitable, aren't we?" - Unlocking innovation | data.gov.uk – Advised by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt and others, government are opening up data for reuse. This site seeks to give a way into the wealth of government data and is under constant development. We want to work with you to make it better.
- News Corp is foolish to block linking | Media | The Guardian – "Linking is a right. The link enables fair comment. It powers the link economy that will sustain media. It is a tool for accountability. It is the keystone to free speech online."
- The Through the Viewfinder photography of Pete Ashton – My mate Pete keeps on forging new ways to make money from networks, trust and creativity: "As part of my plan to make lots of money from my photographs I'm encouraging you to download high resolution versions of my TTV photos to make cool things with them and I don't mind if you pay me or not."
There's a new section in my shop: Roll your own. That explains how I expect this to work so go read it before reading on.
- African Social Media Surgery launch | Technology for Community Empowerment – I am almost impossibly excited by this first social media surgery in Africa: "The Social Media Surgery will be managed by Craig Ross and the rest of the RLabs Superstars. What excites me about this initiative is that the management and our surgeons will be men and women who use to disempower their community through drugs and violence, who are now giving back and empowering citizens through Social Media."


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After an extensive discussion within the organization, the Boy Scouts of America's approximately 1,400 volunteer voting members chose to adopt the membership policy resolution and remove the restriction denying membership to youth on the basis of sexual orientation alone.
The final vote breakdown was 61.44 percent for the proposal, and 38.56 percent against. The change takes effect Jan. 1, 2014.
Voting results were tabulated and certified by TrueBallot, an independent, third-party voting firm.
Read more at this site, or find the full text of the BSA's official media statement below:
For 103 years, the Boy Scouts of America has been a part of the fabric of this nation, with a focus on working together to deliver the nation's foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training.
Based on growing input from within the Scouting family, the BSA leadership chose to conduct an additional review of the organization's long-standing membership policy and its impact on Scouting's mission. This review created an outpouring of feedback from the Scouting family and the American public, from both those who agree with the current policy and those who support a change.
Today, following this review, the most comprehensive listening exercise in Scouting's history the approximate 1,400 voting members of the Boy Scouts of America's National Council approved a resolution to remove the restriction denying membership to youth on the basis of sexual orientation alone. The resolution also reinforces that Scouting is a youth program, and any sexual conduct, whether heterosexual or homosexual, by youth of Scouting age is contrary to the virtues of Scouting. A change to the current membership policy for adult leaders was not under consideration; thus, the policy for adults remains in place. The BSA thanks all the national voting members who participated in this process and vote.
This policy change is effective Jan. 1, 2014, allowing the Boy Scouts of America the transition time needed to communicate and implement this policy to its approximately 116,000 Scouting units.
The Boy Scouts of America will not sacrifice its mission, or the youth served by the movement, by allowing the organization to be consumed by a single, divisive, and unresolved societal issue. As the National Executive Committee just completed a lengthy review process, there are no plans for further review on this matter.
While people have different opinions about this policy, we can all agree that kids are better off when they are in Scouting. Going forward, our Scouting family will continue to focus on reaching and serving youth in order to help them grow into good, strong citizens. America's youth need Scouting, and by focusing on the goals that unite us, we can continue to accomplish incredible things for young people and the communities we serve.
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Earth Day Network Webinar Announcement: Summer Reading for the Environment
June 11, 2013
This Wednesday, Earth Day Network is hosting a webinar on the importance of Summer Reading for the Environment in partnership with the United States Department of Education as part of the Green Strides Webinar Series. The Green Strides Webinar Series provides school communities the tools to reduce their schools' environmental impact and costs; improve health and wellness; and teach effective environmental education.
Summer reading offers an opportunity for students to continue their educational journey when school is not in session. In this webinar you will hear from EDN Program Directors on our Reading for the Earth campaign and the importance of environmental reading during the summer. We also have an excellent line-up of authors who will speak on environmental reading and their work including Michael T. Barbour, Brooke Bessesen, Linda Newbery, and Land Wilson.
The webinar will begin on Wednesday June 12th at 4:00PM EST. To register visit:https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6069793816051381760.
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Updated November 15, 2022 at 2:56 PM ET
Documents released by the House Oversight and Reform Committee show extravagant spending from foreign leaders at former President Donald Trump's luxury hotel in Washington, D.C., which the committee says could have violated his oath of office by distorting U.S. foreign policy for personal financial gain.
Government officials from Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and the People's Republic of China collectively spent over $750,000 at the Trump International Hotel during his presidency, according to committee chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and, she said, did so "at sensitive times for those countries' relations with the United States."
The documents — hotel ledgers from Trump's former accounting firm, Mazars USA LLP — were released in connection with a letter Maloney sent to the National Archives and Records Administration on Monday. That letter requested presidential records to determine whether Trump's business was a conflict of interest and in violation of the Constitution's Emoluments Clauses, designed to prevent corruption and foreign influence on federal officers.
"These documents sharply call into question the extent to which President Trump was guided by his personal financial interest while in office rather than the best interests of the American people," Maloney said. "These documents, which the Committee continues to obtain from Mazars, will inform our legislative efforts to ensure that future presidents do not abuse their position of power for personal gain."
The documents released Monday revealed that in 2017, then-Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak visited the White House that September while he and members of his family were being investigated by the Department of Justice for stealing from a Malaysian state-owned investment fund and money laundering. The hotel receipts show that Razak and his entourage spent at least $259,724 at the hotel, including on a $10,000-per-night presidential suite.
At least $164,929 was spent in late 2017 through mid-2018 by government officials from Saudi Arabia and the UAE when the two nations were isolating Qatar, a U.S. ally, for allegedly supporting terrorism, which Qatar denied. Trump approved a $1.3 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia in March 2018, despite concerns from Congress, a House Oversight and Reform Committee news release said.
In an email, a Qatari government official rejected the committee's claims, claiming that the individuals in the report were private citizens, not members of the government. "We respect the Oversight Committee's commitment to due process," the official said, "but it is equally important that they correct these inaccuracies and promote the truth instead of misleading interpretations."
The documents were obtained from a subpoena issued by the late committee Chairman Elijah E. Cummings during the 116th Congress.
NPR contacted the Trump Organization for comment but has not received a response.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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REGANCREST-PR BARBIE is often referred to as the premier brood cow in the Holstein world for type. Barbie and three of her daughters have all topped the USA Cow PTAT list. As a result, many descendants have brought high prices at public auction and in private treaty sales. Barbie spent her entire career under the ownership of her breeder, Regancrest Holsteins in Iowa, but her descendants have traveled the world.
Her Pedigree is an Alignment of Stars
Born in 2001, Barbie brought together the two main cow families at Regancrest. Her sire Durham, EX90 and Gold Metal, was known for siring udders and show cows. He was the very best son of the great SNOW-N DENISES DELLIA EX-95-2E-USA GMD DOM 5* that Regancrest also brought to fame. On her dam's side, Barbie is the eighth generation of Regancrest breeding, which started from the Regan purchased cow ZUBES ORMSBY FAYNE EX90. Barbie's dam, REGANCREST JUROR BRINA, like Barbie scored EX92 and earned GMD status. In fact Barbie was the fifth generation of Excellents with the Regancrest prefix. Her sire stack is Durham x Juror x Aerostar x Chief Mark x Board Chairman. All well-known and well-respected sires.
Barbie's dam, Brina, EX92 and GMD, made records to 15,772 kg milk 3.6%F and 3.0%P at 4yrs of age. As well, Brina had eight other Durham daughters including Bliss VG89 (2yrs), Bianca EX92 3E and Bunny EX93, who crossed extremely well with Goldwyn.
Walkway Chief Mark appears three times in Barbie's pedigree. Her third dam, REGANCREST MARK CHAIRMAN BEA EX-91-2E-USA GMD DOM, was sired by Chief Mark; her sire's dam (Dellia) was Chief Mark's very best daughter; and the dam of her maternal grandsire (Juror) was sired by Chief Mark. With that much Chief Mark influence, it is relatively easy to see where her width, depth of rear rib, smoothly blending fore udder and boxcar rump came from.
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Barbie calved at 2-06 and produced (305D) 12,120 kg milk 3.9%F 3.0%P and classified high VG. In 2004 she was nominated All-American Jr 3 Year Old after being Intermediate and Reserve Grand at Minnesota State Fair and 5th at World Dairy Expo. She was raised in score to Ex92 after calving for a second time. In 2010 Global Cow of the Year Competition Barbie was nominated, was the Readers Choice and placed second. Barbie was #1 PTAT Cow. Her indexes were CTPI 2178 and PTAP 4.50. Her star shone brightly.
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When looking at Barbie's progeny, it is not about the performance of Barbie's more than 27 daughters it is about how many to feature. Shottle followed closely by Goldwyn were her best mates. All but one of her daughters have classified VG in their first lactations. By 2010 she had an unheard of 8 EX and 19 VG daughters. Three of her daughters have held the number one Cow PTAT position and at least eleven have made it to the top twenty-five PTAT Cow ranking.
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REGANCREST G BEDAZZLE EX-91-5YR-USA DOM (Goldwyn) was the first Barbie daughter to be #1 PTAT Cow and was sold to Seimers Holsteins. REGANCREST CINDERELLA EX-92-2E-USA DOM GMD 4* (Champion) is the dam of many top daughters including REGANCREST S CHASSITY EX-92-4YR-USA DOM the dam of numerous high genomic sons (Chassity is also a Golden Dam Nominee, she will be reported on soon in the Bullvine). Chassity and her 14 offspring sold for $1.5. REGANCREST BREYA VG-88-3YR-USA DOM 1* (Shottle) was a former #1 PTAT Cow. REGANCREST G BROCADE EX-92-4YR-USA DOM (Goldwyn), another former #1 PTAT Cow, sold with offspring for $900,000. REGANCREST BARBARA EX-92-4YR-USA DOM GMD (Shottle) made it to #31 CTPI Cow and was first 2yr old and Reserve Intermediate Champion at Iowa State Fair. REGANCREST G BRIZELDA EX-90-4YR-USA DOM (Goldwyn) produced 4-04 (305D) 14,864 kg milk 4.0F 3.4P. REGANCREST MAC BIKAS VG-87-2YR-USA is the dam of the high genomic type sire MR ATWOOD BROKAW (Read- 7 Sires to Use In Order To Breed the Next World Dairy Expo Champion). Following on from these and other Barbie daughters there are numerous granddaughters that have topped lists and topped sales.
Barbie's Sons Line Up Well Too
Five Barbie sons were proven in AI. REGANCREST S BRAXTON EX-95-5YR-USA (Shottle) was returned to active service by Select Sires based on his above average milk yield and superior type (PTAT 3.57) proofs. Baltimor (Shottle), Birk (Toystory) and Bonzai (Dundee) were all proven in Canada and all achieved Superior Type proofs. Mr Blackjack (Dundee) achieved PTAT 2.12 in the USA. There are many grandsons, great grandsons and great great grandsons now being used widely based on their genomic indexes. These sons make another long list of stars for Barbie, which includes Bradnick, Branson, Brokow, Cameron, Carson, Cashcoin, Cashmoney, Circuit, Colt 45, and Gold Chip.
Barbie Breeds True for Type. She is the Holstein Breed Icon.
High rankings for PTAT are something Barbie and her descendants achieve with ease. With many grand and great granddaughters and grandsons are now receiving high genomic indexes for type, production and functional traits, it appears that Barbie's legacy of great udders, excellent dairy strength, high classification scores and global demand will continue.
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The third workout of the day was a 1RM deadlift, to be completed in an 8 minute window. Of all the strength events that could have been drawn, this is definitely my worst in relation to my peers. It seems to always come up, though, so it's a weakness I'm learning to overcome.
Coming into the event, my personal record for deadlift was a 200 kg lift I did in the Netherlands with the help of a back belt. Without the belt, the most I had done was 190 kg. Getting stronger in this lift has been a priority since moving to Europe last September, but in the last month I have had no access to heavy weights. My expectations were minimal, but I was hoping to match my 200 kg PR and not fall too far behind the field.
My first lift was at 176 kg. Felt fine. My second was intended to be at 191 kg, but actually was at 181 kg. This was a whoops moment and an extra lift I didn't need to do. For the third attempt, I loaded 196 kg and had to fight a little to get it up. But, considering it was 6 kg above my highest non-belt lift, I still felt pretty good. I then went for 201 kg. This weight felt about the same as the 196, to be honest. It was heavy around the shins, but once I got it past my knees I knew it was coming up. With less than a minute left I decided to go for 206 kg, but it didn't budge. I think that if I hadn't taken the unnecessary lift early on, I may have had enough time and juice left to put a better move on that weight. Either way, I PR'd and was happy with the lifts.
More than anything, I was surprised at how little stiffness I felt in my back after these attempts. My form wasn't perfect, but it wasn't too bad, and usually after a max effort series I can really feel it in my lower back. I see this as a positive sign for the strength gains I have made, even if I still have a ways to go to keep up with the rest of the field. Two guys pulled over 230 kg, one pulled 221 kg, and two others were between 202 and 220 kg. People were PRing all over the gym. It really was an incredible scene that you couldn't help getting caught up in. The women's competition was particularly exciting with three of the girls dueling back and forth during the last few minutes trying to one-up each other. Sarah, Ditte, and Liz were all adding 1 or 2 kilograms at a time to out lift the others. Pretty cool.
After the event, I was in a tie for first with Rasmus, who took 3rd in the event, compared to my 6th. Things were shaping up for an exciting finish, and they wouldn't disappoint.


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I have worked on some new features for my CarPC. Here are the changes:
First, some videos:
The latest image can be downloaded from the Downloads link on the right of this blog(username:pi, password:a).
If you do not have any rotary encoder connected or any buttons with a resistor you need to disable the carpc-controller application. You can do this by editing the file /home/pi/StartCarPC and commenting the line which contains carpc-controller.
Hardware updates:
- added ViewHd HDMI to HDMI+audio board
- added SI4703 FM Radio module
- created an expansion board with fm radio module and three connectors(one for GPS receiver and two for rotary encoders)
- added a very cheap board to mix two output channels(RPI and radio) into a single output(which goes to the amplifier, in my case AUX input of the car player)
Software updates:
- added loading movie(created by Doru Ignat)
- added a python server responsible for controlling the radio module via i2c
- added new XBMC plugin for controlling the FM Radio(including storing up to 5 radio stations in a file)
- improved carpc-controller to support sending multiple commands for a single button press or encoder turn(e.g. turning right one rotary encoder can increase the volume in XBMC and the volume of radio at the same time)
- improved the speed in Navit clicking
- improved the Navit OSD for both day and night setup(Navit switches automatically teh setup based on the time of the system).
- added time synchronization mechanism based on GPS readings(RPI does not have a real time clock)
The expansion board.
RE1 and RE2 are rotary encoders.
The FM Radio driver and Python server.
The FM Radio module is connected using i2c communication interface(GPIO0-SDA and GPIO1-SCL of the PI).
The radio driver is contained in the si4703 python class. The Radio server is implemented in the file radio_server.py(which is automatically started at boot time). This server simply opens a socket and waits for data. After any data is received, a couple of if-else statements different radio functions are called base on the incoming data.
The available commands are:
seek_right - search for a new station in the right of the current frequencyThe server reply with the current frequency for each command.
seek_left - search for a new station in the left of the current frequency
tune_xx.x - set the current frequency to xx.x MHz
volume_xx - set the volume of the radio module to xx. xx should be between 0 and 15
toggle_mute - toggle mute
get_frequency - get the current frequency
Simple test.
To understand how this radio server-client works you can make the folowing experiment:
1. Plug the gpio expansion board(or wire the radio module to the PI as in the above schematic)
2. [Server] Connect using one ssh window(I use Putty) to the PI and enter the folowing commands:
cd radio
sudo python radio_server.py
The radio server should initialize the radio module and start the server.
3. [Client] go to the radio folder and use radio_client.py to send commands o the radio server, like in the folowing picture:
The file radio_client.py simply opens an UDP socket, puts an '_' character between arguments and send the obtained string to the server socket.
The radioFM XBMC plugin.
In order to simplify user interaction I have created a new XBMC plugin(radioFM). Its purpose is to allow interacting with the Radio Server(and with the Radio Module) using the touch screen. In order to be able to use this plugin you need to have the radio_server.py started and the FM module plugged in.
- The current frequency is displayed at the top.
- The left and right arrow buttons are for seeking to the next channel(left or right).
- The bottom 5 buttons are preset channels(these are kept in a file so they are available after reboot).
- The Set/Tune Channels button is used for changing the mode in which the bottom buttons are operating. By default they are in the 'Tune' mode, so if you presss them the radio will tune to that frequency. If you press the Set/Tune Channels button once you will enter the Set mode, which will allow you to store the current channel in which preset button you like(or in all of them... if you want) by pressing it once. You will see that the frequency will be changed.
In order to correctly hook up two audio sources together(putting them in parallel) for a single output you have to use one schematic from this document. I have used the last schematic. Don't forget to use at least 1% tolerance for the resistors.
The new GPIO controller.
The GPIO controller is now using the official XBMC client code from xbmcclient.h.
Now, you can call a lot more XBMC functions for any button pressed or encoder movement.
TODO List:
- update to the latest Raspberry PI firmware(today it is possible but then Navit won't be visible)
- remove the calibration file for XBMC(/usr/share/eGalax/touchscreen_axes_calib) and use the values from the Debian calibration file(/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/01-input.conf)
- create an XBMC addon to allow calibrating the touch screen for both XBMC and X11 windows and also for calibrating the external encoders and button
- create a configuration page(XBMC addon) for the carpc-controller settings
- create a better audio mixer unit
- create a new page for launching different X11 applications


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Weng Xiaoying (MJ 2009) lives in Hong Kong and reports financial news for Sina.com.
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Brooks succeeds J.R. Sullivan, who served as The Pearl's artistic director from 2009-2013. Kate Farrington, The Pearl's resident dramaturg and artistic associate, has been interim artistic director since Sullivan's departure.
"In Hal, The Pearl has found a bold spirit that will bring a fresh perspective to classic theatre," board chair Claudia Oberweger Frank said in a statement. "Hal's considerable talent and accomplishments as a director, as well as his experience as an artistic director, make him an ideal leader for The Pearl, as we embark on our fourth decade. Hal's commitment to both the classics and our Resident Acting Company is matched with a desire to continue The Pearl's evolution into a destination for the classics in New York City."
Brooks has directed The Rivals, The Bald Soprano and Figaro for The Pearl. His directing credits also include No Child… and THOM PAIN (based on nothing).
"The Pearl is a New York institution and a national gem, and I'm honored to be part of its future," Brooks added. "For 30 years, the company has earned its reputation as a leader in producing the classics. I aim to connect our company's great body of works with new audiences, new partners, new artists, and new territory. My long-range artistic vision is to bring my new play development experience to the classics, commissioning a talented roster of playwrights to create new translations and adaptations from the classical repertory and embracing a wider circle of plays into the fold of what we call a classic."
The Pearl announced the lineup for its 31st season, which ranges from the 17th century to the 20th. It will begin with Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and continue with George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara. The Pearl will kick off 2015 with Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and conclude its season with Moliere's Don Juan. The season-at-a-glance follows.
Uncle Vanya
By Anton Chekhov
Directed by Pearl artistic director Hal Brooks
Sept. 9–Oct. 12
Opening Night: Sept. 21
Major Barbara
By George Bernard Shaw
Co-Produced with Gingold Theatrical Group
Directed by Gingold artistic director David Staller
Nov. 4–Dec. 14
Opening Night: Nov. 1
The Winter's Tale
By William Shakespeare
In association with the Shakespeare Society
Directed by Shakespeare Society artistic director Michael Sexton
Feb. 10-March 15, 2015
Opening Night: Feb. 22
Don Juan
By Moliere
Directed by Pearl artistic director Hal Brooks
May 5–June 7
Opening Night: May 17
Founded in 1984, The Pearl, which is New York's only classical resident company, "has produced a body of work encompassing the full breadth of theatre history, from ancient Greek tragedy to contemporary works rooted in the classics."
The Pearl Theatre is located at 555 West 42nd Street. More information can be found by visiting pearltheatre.org.