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I worked late tonight, until about 12:30, so I had been at work for about 12 hours. Exhausted, I knew we needed milk at home, but didn't want to drive the extra 20 minutes to the better side of town so I stopped at what we jokingly call around here as a "Crack Kroger". The parking lot was mostly empty but I parked an extra aisle over away from the doors. I went in, got my gallon of milk and came back out. As I'm walking back to my truck, I see an SUV next to my drivers side, running but no lights. Two people were in the front seats watching me. Normally I would have just walked to my door and tossed in the milk as I was getting in but my spidey senses starting tingling big time. I'm used to seeing one person waiting, especially if in the passenger seat, but something about both seats being occupied with the engine running just felt incredibly wrong, especially since there were closer spots to the door available.
Since I still had about 10 yards to my truck, I thought about all the vulnerabilities and what was a better way to get in my truck. As I continue to approach I went to the passenger side while constantly looking around me and put the milk in while reaching across and unlocked the drivers side. I continued to look around and didn't see anyone else or any other vehicles behind my truck for anyone to hide. It was all empty parking lot. This left me to focus on that vehicle and I noticed that the side windows were tinted so I could not see in. I almost headed back into the store but that would have put my back to them and I didn't want to do that. So, as I rounded the back of my truck I did what a lot of people here call a "Virginia tuck" I think. Open carry is legal here with my license so no problem there. I carry at 4 o'clock so they cannot see this. Assuming nothing happens, they will never know it.
Just as I do so, a thug looking guy opens the REAR passenger door (so now that's at least 3 people in the SUV) and starts to get out, looking me right in the eyes and saying, "Excuse me do yo...."
I interrupted with, "STOP, I have nothing you want!" As I'm saying this the front passenger door starts to open too. I've got my right hand hovering over my Glock which they can't see, and my left hand out in front of me. Someone inside the SUV said something I couldn't make out and he hopped back in while whoever was in the passenger seat closed their door as they drove off rather quickly.
Everything about that encounter screams attempted mugging/robbery/car jacking or worse to me. I am thankful for everything I have read on here that has caused me to change my behavior. If I had tried to get in my truck like I used to, my back would have been towards them with a gallon of milk in my strong hand and I would have been screwed.
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This is what your brain looks like on drugs, kids.
Gaga called into a Cleveland radio station earlier today to talk about why voting for Barack Obama was important for her and why it's important for you to get out and vote as well.
❝ Mitt Romney's policies coming out of the mouth of someone who makes so much money disturbs me. I make a lot of money and I don't want tax breaks. I want to give back, not take away. ❞
Tomorrow is election day, American Monsters, so make sure to pull yourself away from the computer for a few hours to go and make your voice heard.
Someone threw a blunt on stage during Gaga's show in Amsterdamn earlier and Gaga decided to smoke it.
Oh my fuck. LOL. I haven't smoked in so long…
MONSTERVISION No.7 The Adventures of Mary Jane Holland
Modern day stoner Fleetwood Mac? dnw the brown hair though. She looks fine but it's just not something I enjoy.


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I lost access to the webz during my relocation to the vineyard, and im assuming something very wrong happened during said time.
Sorry Maude's if it is forbidden to bring up such a subject.
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ORLEANS CO., VT - The lack of snowmobliers in the area is noticeable. As of Thursday, the snowmoblie trails remain closed. However, snow and cold temperatures are in the forecast and many enthusiasts remain optimistic about the weather, even though the snowmobile season has had a slow start this year.
NEWPORT–Playing through rebuilding season can be tough road to hoe, and it continues to be so for the UCA Crusader girls, as they lost to Masse Vanier 60-37 Wednesday afternoon.
"We are really struggling out there. We beat our selves up and down the court, and we can't have that many turnovers and expect to be in games," said coach Sarah Roy
Having the game held at the Municipal Building made things a little trickier for the Crusaders, as they had to contend with strange lighting, a smaller court, and some very unfriendly rims to say the least.
NEWPORT–If you caught the second half of the UCA double-header on Wednesday, you had to be impressed with the skill set of the Masse Vanier Vikings boys team, as they built a 42-15 lead at the half, and then cruised to an 80-46 over the Crusaders.
"They are the best team we are going to face all year," said coach Tony DeLaBruere, "They are better than Websterville. they have five seniors, two juniors, and they are all big, can jump, and they can all play ball."
Lamoureux–– John of Delmar, NY, died on January 1, 2012 after a long struggle with cancer. Visitation will be held on Sunday, January 15 from 1-3 p.m. at the Riverview Funeral Home, Inc., 218 Second Avenue, Troy, NY. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. A time of remembrance will be observed at 2 p.m. For further information and online condolences please visit www.simplechoicescremation.com.
For the full obituary see Thursday's Express.
BROWNINGTON, VT – Sometimes we have to be in the right place at the right time, and that's what happened one day back in the 1970s when former Newport Daily Express Owner and Publisher Roger Cartee walked out of the Miss Newport Diner and ran into an old friend. That meeting led Cartee to obtain a collection of negatives and glass plates and stopped them from going to auction in New Hampshire.
Former Newport photographer Harry Richardson took most of the images in what is now known as the Richardson-Cartee Collection.
NEWPORT CITY – North Country Union High School Chair Arne Amaliksen learned a good lesson recently. Don't start a certain project unless you have every dollar in your pocket and identified.
Amaliksen was referring to the school's newly refurbished track. Last year, the board agreed to refurbish the track on the condition the project would not require taxpayer money. Teacher and track coach Gary Johnson agreed to spearhead the fundraising efforts.
LOWELL, VT - Work on Green Mountain Power's (GMP) controversial Lowell Mountain wind turbine project will continue through the winter, although some of the activity will subside and pick up again in the spring. The lack of snowfall has allowed for some of the construction work to continue further than expected.
September 9, 1940-January 7, 2012
Leon "Lee"Seguin, 71, of Lynchburg, VA passed away on Saturday, January 7, 2012 at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville after battling AML, an aggressive form of leukemia. His former wife, Linda, was by his side. He was born in Island Pond on September 9, 1940, a beloved son and the eldest of seven children born to Richard Claude and Marjory (Currier) Seguin.Â
Gardner–– Hester Truslow (Camp) died on January 8, 2012. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 1 p.m. at the Lodge at Shelburne Bay in Shelburne, VT. Instead of flowers, please plant a flower in your garden or contribute a donation in her memory to the Fairlee Scholarship Fund, Fairlee Historical Society, both in c/o Fairlee Town Treasure, P.O. Box 95, Fairlee, VT 05045, or to Hospice of the Champlain Valley, c/o VNA, 1110 Prim Rd., Colchester, VT 05446.
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Skol beachfront corner on sea
Studio | No Bedrooms | sleeps 2
|Key Info
Located in the Skol building on Marbella promenade, this self catering studio is ideal for your holiday.
2 single beds, separate bathroom with large walk in shower, separate kitchen (look out at the sea whilst cooking or washing up), nice large terrace (for sunbathing and al fresco dining), large living room with sofa (for relaxing whilst looking out at the sea) and all this with views towards the Mediterranean, the park, the town and the port.
fully fitted and equipped: air con unit, new mattresses.
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Skol Building is an archifamous holiday spot in Marbella right in the town centre on the front line of the beach.
The public park is at the doorstep, as well as the promendade with its bars and restaurants, and the beach.
There are 3 community pools set in the tropical gardens, 2 wifi areas, 24 hour reception
|Sleeps up to 2, Studio
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|1 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms
|Single beds (2), Cots (1), Dining seats for 3, Lounge seats for 3
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|Wheelchair users, Lift access
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Location: Grain Quality and Structure Research Unit
2008 Annual Report
Identify wheat of different oxidation requirements and determine effect of oxidative enzymes and transglutaminase upon quality characteristics. Begin biochemical analysis on the effect of enzymes on protein interactions. Characterize enzyme effects on protein interactions between glutenin and albumins. Characterize effect of HMW-GS contribution of wheat on enzyme mediated crosslinking.
Identify and begin to collect wheat samples to represent various growing environments. Begin isolating starch for analysis. Use LDS and our correction model to detect environmental differences in starch ratios. Isolate the starch fractions from different environments for chemical analysis. Compare starch size distributions and chemical analysis to different environments.
Characterize by RP-HPLC and SEC-HPLC, the protein fractions of the various near- isogenic lines that are produced in year 1 study by our collaborators. Relate the period of formation and amount of particular glutenin (polymeric) and gliadin (monomeric) proteins to the HMW-GS in the various near-isogenic lines. Correlate information obtained in this year 1 and 2 study with the data on bread or tortilla quality characteristics, provided by the HWWQL. Characterize the protein fractions of the various near-isogenic lines that were produced by our collaborators. Determine the sizes of the polymeric fractions and the MW distributions of the polymeric proteins. Relate polymer sizes and molecular weight distributions to quality characteristics, provided by the HWWQL. Determine if particular proteins are markers for quality traits.
Develop inexpensive lab-on-a-chip technology to extract and separate wheat gliadins in less than 1 min. Develop lab-on-a-chip system to extract, separate and identify wheat varieties in seconds. Develop a portable lab-on-a-chip system to extract, separate wheat proteins, and identify wheat varieties and/or the quality of wheat varieties or mixtures in seconds.
One commercial bread flour with medium strength (11.3% protein content, 14% mb) was fractionated into starch, gluten, and water solubles by hand washing. The starch fraction was separated further into large and small granules by repeated sedimentation. Large (10-40 µm diameter) and small (1-15 µm diameter) starch fractions were examined. Crumb grain and texture were significantly affected. The bread made from the reconstituted flour with 30% small granules and 70% large granules starch had the highest crumb grain score, the highest peak fineness value and second highest elongation ratio. Inferior crumb grain scores and low fineness and elongation ratios were observed in breads made from flours with starch fractions with 100% small granules or 100% large granules. As the proportion of small granules increased in the reconstituted flour, it yielded bread with softer texture that was better maintained than the bread made from the reconstituted reference flour during storage. Tortillas were made from wheat deletion lines and lines over-expressing individual high molecular weight glutenin subunits (HMW-GS). Both elimination and overproduction of certain HMW-GS alter distinct, but critical aspects of tortilla quality such as diameter, shelf stability and overall quality.
This research falls under the National Program 306 "Quality and Utilization of Agricultural Products", specifically on component 1 "Quality Characterization, Preservation, and Enhancement". Multiple Problem Areas of this component are directly addressed in the objectives -- Problem Areas 1a (Definition and Basis for Quality); 1b (Methods to Evaluate and Predict Quality) and 1c (Factors and Processes that Affect Quality). The elucidation of fundamental biochemical processes and their role in determining product quality is paramount for the development of accurate methods for quality measurement.
5.Significant Activities that Support Special Target Populations
Collaboration with Kansas State University on research on Teff (Eragrostis tef) grain quality. This project supports a grant to the Kansas Black Farmers Association.
Review Publications
Mondal, S., Tilley, M., Alviola, J., Waniska, R.D., Bean, S., Glover, K.D. and Hays, D.B. 2008. Use of Near-Isogenic Wheat Lines to Determine the Glutenin Composition and Functionality in Flour. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 56:179-184.
Pearson, T.C., Wilson, J.D., Gwirtz, J., Maghirang, E.B., Dowell, F.E., Mccluskey, P., Bean, S. 2007. The Relationship Between Single Wheat Kernel Particle Size Distribution and the Perten SKCS 4100 Hardness Index. Cereal Chemistry. 84(6):567-575. Online. doi:10.1094/CCHEM-84-6-0567.
Park, S., Chung, O.K., Seib, P.A. 2006. Hard Winter Wheat and Flour Properties in Relation to Breadmaking Quality of Straight-dough Bread: Flour Particle Size and Bread Crumb Grain. Food Science and Technology International (Chinese). 11:164-170.
Wilson, J.D., Bechtel, D.B., Wilson, G.T., Seib, P.A. 2008. Quality of Spelt Wheat and Its Starch. Cereal Chemistry. 85(5):629-638.


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If you've been following our twice-weekly conversations at Strategic Tech Investor, you know that I'm very bullish about technology stocks.
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The stage was set Thursday night when a vote on Republican House Speaker John Boehner's Plan B, a fiscal cliff compromise to be presented to U.S. President Barack Obama, never even made it to vote among fellow Republicans. When word came of the setback, all major overnight future indexes sharply dropped.
When markets opened Friday, the slide continued. Shortly after noon, the Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 176 points, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index dropped 20 points and the Nasdaq was lower by 43.
Investors appear to be bracing for the worst with just 10 days left before America falls over the cliff, with a deal is nowhere in sight.
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- Don't expect a great September jobs report- There are a few mixed labor reports to digest a day before last month's unemployment and nonfarm payroll numbers are released. Automatic Data Processing (ADP) yesterday reported the economy added 162,000 private-sector jobs in September. This was better than projections for 140,000 new jobs but much slower than last month's downwardly-revised figure of 189,000 jobs. Investors monitor ADP's numbers for clues on what the government might report, but ADP does not include public sector jobs and is not a great indicator of Friday's Labor Department's report. The Labor Department reported today that 367,000 initial jobless claims were filed last week, slightly higher than expected. The less volatile four-week moving average remained unchanged at 375,000. "The trend is still looking fairly stable. The labor market is improving but it is not really gathering direction for better or worse, it is still just plodding along," 4CAST economist Sean Incremona told Reuters. One more piece of data to look at is layoffs from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. It said U.S.-based employers announced plans to cut 33,816 jobs in September, down 71% from a year earlier. On average economists expect tomorrow's report to show 113,000 jobs were added in September and that unemployment ticked back up to 8.2%.
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Stock Market Today: Housing and Japan Stimulus Carry Stocks
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Economic reports today include housing starts for June, which rose 6.9% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 760,000 units, the highest level since October 2008. Thanks to record low interest rates, applications for mortgages rose last week as many homeowners try to refinance.
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The chairman did specify that if the labor market doesn't improve the central bank is prepared to act to boost growth.
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The stock market finally broke its losing streak.
After five consecutive negative trading days the markets have finally rallied thanks to strong earnings reports from Wells Fargo and JP Morgan.
JPMorgan Chase (NSYE: JPM) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) both reported earnings this morning before the opening bell. The definitive winner of the two is Wells Fargo.
Wells reported another record quarter of earnings while JP Morgan felt the consequences of its "London Whale Trade."
JP Morgan announced the bet would cost the company a total of $5.8 billion, the high end of analyst's predictions. Of that loss $4.4 billion is accounted for in this quarter and the remaining $1.4 billion was put on last quarter's balance sheet.
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The derivative loss after taxes reduced earnings per share by 69 cents, the company said.
Wells Fargo boosted its earnings 17% compared to the same quarter a year ago. Wells reported earnings of $0.82 per share beating expectations by a penny.
Wells Fargo stock (NSYE: WFC) is up over 3% and JP Morgan stock (NYSE: JPM) is up almost 5% as of noon.
The markets are ignoring the main economic indicator released today. The University of Michigan's Consumer sentiment index came in at 72.0 its lowest level of the year, down from 73.2 in June.
The lousy trend of hiring coupled with global uncertainties and a volatile stock market have weakened household spending which accounts for 70% of the economy. The Michigan survey's index of consumer expectations for six months from now also fell to a yearly low to 64.8 from 67.8.
Besides Wells and JP Morgan here are two other companies making news today.
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Stock Market Today: Is This the End for RIMM?
The stock market today is rallying after positive news from Europe and the surprising 5-4 affirmation of Obamacare, or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as it is formally known as.
Yesterday the markets opened almost 1% in the red and were sent down even further after the Supreme Court's ruling. The ruling was a surprise, but the fact that the markets acted so volatile was certainly not.
The markets did rally at the end of the day on positive news from Europe and that momentum has carried over to today.
The surprising news out of the European Union summit was the announcement yesterday from European Union President Herman Van Rompuy that European leaders have agreed to spend 120 billion euros ($149 billion) to stimulate growth and create jobs.
The plan includes a 10 billion-euro capital increase for the European Investment Bank (EIB) as a centerpiece of the long-term growth plan, which includes infrastructure financing, tax-policy pledges and more focused use of EU funding.
"The growth agenda is a sign of our unrelenting commitment," EU President Herman Van Rompuy said in a press conference in Brussels on the first day of a two-day summit. "It brings together all concrete measures that we will swiftly take."
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The Markets Are a Stacked Deck in a Rigged Game…But I Can Teach You How to Win
The markets are broken.
And what has to be done to fix them likely won't get done. That's because the folks capable of fixing them are actually captives of the folks who like them the way they are.
That's the bad news.
The good news is, if you understand what's wrong and who's responsible, you can actually make a lot of money playing the game the way it's been set up.
Let me explain.
First of all, what's happened isn't by some grand design. There is no great conspiracy to screw the public. (Not this time.) Rather, incremental changes in various corners of the capital markets manifested innumerable unintended consequences.
The net result is this: Our capital markets aren't functioning for the greater good of the economy and the nation. And the public is getting screwed. But you knew that.
The markets have become a kind of stacked deck in a rigged card game.
A game being played by a bunch of whispering pros against mostly deaf, dumb, and blind amateurs (yeah, I'm taking about too many people you know) in a shady casino overseen by pit bosses who work for the house - which is owned by the pros who set up the game in the first place.
I'm not going to break down what the incremental changes were that got us here. I've done that over innumerable articles I've written for, Forbes, Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch and right here.
This isn't about how we got here. This is about proving where we are now by means of a kind of grand supposition that hopefully is going to open your eyes. It's probably going to scare the you-know-what out of you.
Earlier I said the public is getting screwed, but you knew that.
How do I know that you know the public is getting screwed? Most people are out of the market. They are either on the sidelines or out of the game for good. They know the markets are a casino, and most people have come to realize that they have no idea what the game is, let alone how to play it.
And that, children, is the unhappy ending.
Precisely because the public is so leery of losing their shirts and knickers in the strip poker club, investing is a thing of the past.
Long-term investing is dead. Long live short-term trading.
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Adam's Story
June was hot as ever and I still had another two weeks left of this huge belly. It was June 1, 2001, and the beautiful baby boy that my fiancé and I had been anticipating wasn't due until June 13.
June 4, 2001: 10 a.m.
I am only one centimeter dilated and am having uncomfortable shallow pains that my doctor explains to be Braxton Hicks contractions. By 5 p.m. I'm in the Labor and Delivery area at the hospital, where I'm told to go home and relax. My due date is still a week and a half away, so that's ok with me.
June 5, 2001: 9 a.m.
Back to the doctor's we go. By now, contractions–or as I've been told a thousand times, "Braxton Hicks"–are coming every three to five minutes. I have the bloody show that speaks of dilation, but I'm still only 3 cm. dilated. Doc says he'll induce me at this point if I want him to but this is my first labor experience and I don't want to ruin it with induction. So I go back home to wait it out. At 3 p.m. I'm back at Labor and Delivery. My contractions are coming every two minutes and there's no way this is Braxton Hicks! Unfortunately I'm still 3 cm. and there's no sign that real labor has started, so they send me home again. We go out to eat, my fiancé leaves for work and I go to my grandparents' house to wait out the night.
June 6, 2001, 2 a.m.
With the contractions still coming every two to five minutes, I'm in so much pain that I can't take it anymore. Suddenly, it feels as though my bladder's leaking, but I'm thinking that this isn't it yet, when the water breaks it's supposed to come out in a big gush, right? So I lay back down and again feel the so-called "pee." I finally make the choice to wake my grandmother who's immediately on full alert! Standing in the puddle of amniotic fluid, you can imagine my relief when my grandmother yells that my water has broken.
It takes us about an hour to get to the hospital. We arrive at 5 a.m.; I'm 4 to 5 cm. dilated and in true labor this time, there's no way they're sending me home. They insert internal monitors due to the instability of the heart and contraction readings that they're picking up from the external ones, and this will eventually be a blessing.
At 7 a.m. the doctor breaks my water, the baby's heart rate drops from 135 to 80 with every contraction. I can still hear my wonderful doctor apologizing about the C-Section ahead. "Although," he says, "there is one more approach I'd like to try before we catheterize her." They give me a drug to stop my contractions and the doc has me get on all fours with my rear end in the air for everyone to see, he reaches up into my uterus and says that the baby's umbilical cord is caught between my pelvic bone and his shoulder. The doctor moves the cord and fills my uterus back up with saline to refloat the baby.
What happens next feels like two hours of having the doctor sitting beside me on the bed, doing what he calls "scalp taps" to keep the baby's heart rate up until he's stable. Alas! The nurse comes in with the dreaded Pitocin to get me going again.
At 11 a.m. I ask for the epidural. Unfortunately, because I'm overweight in the wrong areas, after 30 minutes of trying, the anesthesiologist is unsuccessful with the insertion of the catheter into my back. Nurse Angie (God bless this woman) brings me some Stadol and Phenergan, which helps me through the next two hours and 12 minutes.
At 12:20 p.m. I begin to have the urge to push. After an exam determines that I'm complete, Nurse Angie asks me to close my legs tightly so she can phone the doctor.
At 12:35 p.m. I'm allowed to start pushing, and pushing, and pushing. The doctor comes in and determines that after all I've been through already, this little guy is face up. This, in short, means I have to give all I have left (which is very little!) to those pushes to make them work.
Finally at 1:42 p.m., with a little help from a vacuum extractor, Keith Adam Jr. is finally born. I am so caught up in this little being, that I don't even notice the 32 stitches the doctor gives me.
Adam is a bright and beautiful almost three-year-old big brother to his now 18-month-old little sister. Her delivery was like having cheesecake in the Bahamas! As for me, after this experience I went on to become a Birth Doula and childbirth educator.


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Consumer expert Clark Howard's column appears here each Thursday in conjunction with Deal Spotter, a weekly print section in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The iPhone 5 has created a lot of excitement among buyers, but I'm excited about it for a different reason.
For me, it's all about the spin-off effect of all those people who will now want to dump their iPhone 4 or 4S or an even older model. Amazon will give customers gift cards when they trade in a fully functional iPhone. They're paying $85 in gift cards for the iPhone 3, and up to $400 for a well-preserved iPhone 4S.
The marketplace value of a used iPhone is high enough to cover the fee of breaking a contract with one wireless carrier to go to another and keep your number. This is your chance to exit from AT&T for iPhone service that is too costly and unreliable.
For a really Clark Smart move, take an older unlocked iPhone to a no-contract carrier and lower your monthly costs by about 50 percent. For example, you can buy a SIM card from Straight Talk and use an unlocked iPhone on their network for $45 a month, with the service being provided by T-Mobile or AT&T. Visit StraightTalk.com for more details.
Meanwhile, Cricket will sell you an iPhone 5 at the unsubsidized price of $499 instead of the subsidized $199 charged by the bigger wireless carriers. The cost of monthly service on Cricket is $55. For that price, you get unlimited calling, unlimited texting, and 2.5 GB of data, all with no contract. So you have a higher cost upfront for the phone, but it's overcome by cheaper monthly service. Visit myCricket.com for more details.
Straight Talk also has a fancy Galaxy S for $349 with unlimited service for $45 a month. That's a fraction of what the big guys charge and it's also no contract. Best of all, it is run behind the scenes on the Verizon network at half the cost of branded Verizon service.
Find more answers to your consumer questions at Clark's website. And get more savings tips from Clark's previous blog posts.
– Clark Howard — Save More, Spend Less, Avoid Rip-offs — for the Atlanta Bargain Hunter blog
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Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change, windows of the world, and (as a poet has said) "lighthouses erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
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A woman enters a clothing store with the hope of finding a bargain on Black Friday in Montreal on Nov. 23, 2012. Graham Hughes/Canadian Press
Canadian retailers are pulling out more stops this year to lure bargain hunters on Black Friday, but the promotional blitz may not reap the bottom line rewards many stores are hoping for.
From B.C. to the Atlantic provinces, malls are opening before sunrise as the U.S. shopping phenomenon pegged to the day after American Thanksgiving makes further inroads north of the border.
But as much as retailers are hoping shoppers will be in a buoyant mood this far ahead of the traditional Christmas shopping season, there's no guarantee their purchases will have a significant impact on retailers' fortunes.
"Very simply, the consumer in Canada hasn't really become comfortable with the concept," says Ryan Brain, a partner and consumer expert with consulting giant Deloitte Canada in Toronto.
Brain sees a couple of reasons Canadian shoppers have not fully embraced the Black Friday phenomenon.
"We haven't grown with the concept here in Canada, so like anything, it perhaps will take some time," he says.
But another key factor is that Canadian consumers are turning more and more to retailers' websites rather than just heading to stores.
Online shopping is increasing "to such a degree in popularity that it's really the customer that dictates when they shop, how they shop, what they want," says Brain.
"The notion of a Black Friday just doesn't really mean much if you're totally in control of the shopping experience."
Trying to take control
Retailers, however, are doing what they can to exercise some control over the consumer dollar by offering shoppers plenty of opportunities to go to stores in search of Black Friday deals across Canada. In some cases, the retailers and shopping mall managers have ramped up their Black Friday strategy significantly over last year.
Shopping centres across the country that are managed by Cadillac Fairvieware opening a few hours earlier Friday in response to what company officials considered was a good pilot project at nine properties — mostly in Ontario — a year ago.
"It was very successful," says Wendy Greenwood, director of marketing for Cadillac Fairview's Ontario portfolio.
"Our traffic was up an average of 22 per cent and this year we expanded the program nationally."
That means centres will be opening generally at 7 a.m. (8 a.m. in Quebec), while in Toronto, the flagship Eaton Centre downtown opened at 6 a.m.
The first 100 shoppers to arrive at the guest services desk at each centre were set to receive a $10 card that can be used at any store in any Cadillac Fairview property.
This year's early openings are something of an evolution for the company. A few years ago, it would receive a few requests for early openings on Black Friday from U.S. retailers operating stores in their centres.
"But we've now found even our Canadian retailers just love Black Friday," Greenwood says. "They like to kick-start the holiday shopping season early. It helps to keep the dollars in Canada, keep people shopping locally instead of going across the border on Black Friday, because it's a big shopping day in the U.S."
'Significant sales occasion'
At Future Shop stores across Canada, doors open at 6 a.m. (8 a.m. in Quebec), the same time as they would open on Boxing Day and a Black Friday first for the electronics retailer.
Communications manager Elliott Chun says Black Friday has become a "very significant sales occasion" for Future Shop.
Chun wouldn't disclose specific figures, but said the company is "seeing double-digit growth in terms of our sales when you look at both the Black Friday weekend and Cyber Monday," which falls on Dec. 2 this year.
Cyber Monday is another American marketing term, designed to encourage consumers to shop online for even more prospective bargains on the first Monday after U.S. Thanksgiving.
Chun says the move to earlier Black Friday openings this year was prompted by the "year over year foot traffic, web traffic and sales increases we're seeing since 2009."
"Every year there seems to be a heightened interest for Black Friday."
Other retailers also appear to pulling out more stops with Black Friday promotions this year.
At RedFlagDeals.com, a website and app for bargain hunters, a "Black Friday and Cyber Monday" page is chock full of flyers for major retailers like Wal-Mart and Best Buy.
Spokeswoman Fiona Story says the website has been seeing "exponential growth" since it started offering Black Friday deals about five years ago. At that time, there were just two Black Friday deals from Canadian retailers.
"We're now looking at 200 deals as of last year … and we expect that number to grow as well," she says.
What about Boxing Day?
Story says she expects growth "could approach Boxing Day level in terms of retailers getting involved. But Boxing Day is still really the largest one in Canada. It will still be smaller than that but we are seeing it start to catch up a bit more."
Still, for all the efforts retailers are putting into trying to lure customers, there is no guarantee their bottom lines will be significantly bolstered once all the Black Friday sales have been tallied.
Marion Chan, principal of TrendSpotter Consulting in Toronto, says that within the retail landscape of Canada, competition has "just been ratcheted up so much" with the arrival of so many U.S. retailers.
"The big push is promotion, promotion, promotion and all that is doing is just driving down the profit margins of everybody involved."
"It's great for the consumer," Chan says. "But it's not so great for the overall economy. Our retail economy … can't survive on this kind of constant promotion and so to have yet one more day when they're going to slash their prices, something's going to have to give."
In her mind, that means retailers "can't have both Black Friday and Boxing Day."
She's not sure Black Friday is the day for Canadians because "it doesn't mean anything to us," and doesn't seem to have much context beyond being a big kickoff day for holiday shopping in the U.S.
"Canadians will vote with their dollars," she says.
"If consumers come out in droves for these Black Friday sales, then we know they want it, but it's not going to help our retail economy at all."
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MANCHESTER, England -- Australia reclaimed the Rugby League World Cup from New Zealand in devastating style on Saturday, scoring five tries to cruise to a 34-2 victory in the most one-sided final in the competition's 59-year history.
Billy Slater and Brett Morris both crossed twice and Cooper Cronk added the other try as the Kangaroos produced a near-flawless performance at Old Trafford to win the trophy for the 10th time in 14 editions.
New Zealand forward Sonny Bill Williams was bidding to become the first player to win World Cups in both rugby codes but his subdued performance was summed up when his pass was intercepted in the lead-up to Australia's final try, a length-of-the-field score finished off by Morris.
The Australians finished without having conceded a try since their opening-day win over England five weeks ago. In their five matches since then, they shipped only four points in five matches, scoring 244.
For Australia's 30-year-olds Greg Inglis, Cameron Smith and Johnathan Thurston, who kicked all seven of his goals, it completes the resumes of three of the modern-day rugby league greats. And it goes a long way to making up for the 2008 final, when New Zealand stunned its fierce rival in Brisbane to claim the sport's biggest prize for the first time.
This was the heaviest victory in a final, eclipsing Australia's 40-12 victory over the Kiwis in the same stadium in 2000.
Australia hadn't been beaten in three years heading into the match but, crucially, New Zealand had defeated its great rival in three of the last four major finals they had met -- in that 2008 World Cup and in the Four Nations in '05 and '10.
It quickly became apparent, though, that there would not be another upset here in a match played in front of 74,468 -- a record crowd for an international.
Australia was sharper around the play-the-ball, made big yardage through the forwards and made the most of New Zealand winger Roger Tuisava-Sheck's injury withdrawal in only the seventh minute to make a raft of incisive attacks down its left channel. Two of their tries came down that flank.
A halftime scoreline of 16-2 didn't flatter the Kangaroos -- and their opponents walked off hands on hips, a punishing first 40 adding to the weariness after that epic semifinal victory over England last weekend.
Thurston and Shaun Johnson kicked goals in the opening 16 minutes before Australia's attack started making serious inroads and Thurston's perfectly judged kick was collected by the leaping Slater -- soaring way above Kieran Foran -- for the opening try in the 19th.
Slater was passed fit only on Thursday after making a quicker-than-expected recovery from a knee injury and his try double -- and Australia's victory -- will be particularly sweet for the fullback, whose error gifted Benji Marshall a crucial try in the 2008 final.
Isaac Luke somehow held up Cronk over the line to deny the standoff a try in the 25th, but Cronk had the last laugh five minutes later when he collected Darius Boyd's kick forward following another raid down the left to force himself over the line. Luke's slip, just as Cronk gathered the ball, proved decisive.
Thurston converted again -- in the process surpassing countryman Mick Cronin to become the record international point-scorer -- and his penalty in the 36th gave the Australians a 14-point lead at the break.
New Zealand really needed to score next to make a game of it but it took less than a minute after the break for Slater to virtually clinch the trophy.
Again the Kiwis were exposed on their right, as Thurston set free Darius Boyd, who passed inside for Slater to race over.
Morris was next to cross after finishing a great move by diving to ground Jarryd Hayne's kick forward before crashing into the advertising hoardings behind the short in-goal area.
The same duo combined for the crowning try in the 72nd, Hayne intercepting Williams' hopeful miss-pass and sprinting 60 metres before offloading to Morris, who did the rest.


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Power comes from a 510 cc, 1-cylinder, 4-stroke, water-cooled engine which sends its power to the ground via a 6-speed transmission with DDS clutch.
The engine needs to deal with a total weight of 111 kg (without fuel) and is fed by a generous 9.5 liters fuel tank. The ride is kept in check by a modern WP suspension system which includes front 4CS forks and rear shocks.
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There's so many options when it comes to travel – how to whittle down to where you want?
For many its culture or festivals – food or a personal connection like friends or family – but for a lot of us its all about the landscape.
Wanting to see that unique desert oasis, the secluded bay or experience the majesty of the mountains.
For me, its always been about the mountains. I'm no climber, nor am I skier or snowboarder of any note, but the mountains call to me, on a regular basis.
As a girl who grew up in a valley, the mountains always makes sense to me – those huge hunks of rock delineate my world, and how the rest of it relates to me.
So although I know my own fears and ability may limit me from several places, I know I'll still keep travelling to see some mountains.
I've happily seen the Rockies on both sides of the border, the Andes in Peru and the various volcanic and small mountain ranges found on islands – from Hawaii to the Caribbean. Each time I got a good jolt from just seeing them.
And although I'm still a skeptic when it comes to spiritual connections to mountains, when I see mountains, especially those near where I grew up, I feel the connection, and I feel better. I've read several memoirs about climbers, who truly believe their psyche and adrenaline bursts are connected to the mountain as they explore.
Its the easiest way to alleviate any bad mood or indifference in me – just to look at those massive rocky outcrops, at times snowcapped, boldly changing the skyline – I'm energized to face the next part of my day.


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Zopa, a U.K.-based peer-to-peer lending company, connected individual lenders and borrowers via an online interface. The company charged a small fee for completed loan transactions but has not turned a profit. Zopa offered two platforms, Markets and Listings. Markets was an automated system that assembled loans by combining lowest loan offers from different Zopa lenders. Zopa Listings allowed prospective borrowers to post eBay-like listings explaining who they were, how much money they needed, and how they would use it. Lenders then made offers specifying how much they were willing to lend and at what rate. Neither platform met with much success. In February 2009, the CEO of Zopa is considering withdrawing from Listings, and focusing on Markets, even though a company in the U.S., Prosper, had attracted many users with a product akin to Zopa Listings.
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A) Why a u LW
B) Potions a part of the game so why not use them. I even take potions as a healing pally. It makes it easyer even if I don't need it BUT if something happes I hafto have mana to do duble the healing.
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U say learn to play? People a as good as yhey a. Not all of us got a spot in T guild going after the hardest raids in the game.
So u do. Fine. U whant to do it completly free? U whant to raid whidout even a minimum amount of grinding? Get of U'r horsy and look around. No way. Not all of us a playing like u from a year 1982 and a T6.
And again. I don't cear if I'm taking all U'r money for potions. Thad means u a not using U'r LW the right way to get the money. And I don't see anybody threathening to remove u'r primary profeshion from the game.
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You must be very confused. Alchemy is not being removed from the game, far from it. Potions are still in the game, you're just limited to 1 per fight. Transmutes are still in the game, flasks are still in the game, elixirs are still in the game. I'm an alchemist and I still say thank god (blizz) for potion sickness. Chain chugging was absolutely retarded.


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This is a photo we took along State Route 96 outside of Hutchinson, Kansas. Along the route one will notice the typical yellow "horse and buggy" caution signs. I thought to myself "I doubt any buggies use this road." After all, State Route 96 is a busy four-lane freeway with a posted speed limit of 70 miles per hour. While passing through this area yesterday, however, Rachel and I spotted a buggy picking up speed on the entrance ramp as it attempted to merge onto the freeway. Wow, I hope it stuck to the shoulder lane, this is not a road I'd want to be traveling on in a buggy!
Watch the Merge…
January 10, 2013 by at 5:53 pm 5 Comments
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Didn't know that was what the sign meant. I always thought it was showing a guard rail starting.VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
I'm surprised it's even legal. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be in NJ, but if they've made it the only way to get from point A to point B, maybe there's no choice.VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
I have to say, I don't think I have ever seen a buggy driving on the highway, but I have seen plenty cross the highway (or not get across as the case has been at a few unfortunate times!)VA:F [1.9.22_1171]
Being a horse owner,I can say that I wouldn't want to take them on a 4-lane! They must be really well trained!! I dislike going on big roads in a car…let alone a buggy. Guess I'm a chicken…..VA:F [1.9.22_1171]


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Professor Panic Vs. Drug Hysteria
This is
not, Jenkins would agree, a brand-new field of study. Burroughs put one side
of the argument succinctly nearly a decade ago: Just Say No to Drug Hysteria.
The library on the general topic of The United States Government v. The People's
Right to Get High is vast, and much of it describes how successive local, state
and federal governments throughout the 20th century created, supported and manipulated
various illicit-drug scares, while, increasingly toward the end of the century,
they allowed or assisted the corporate pharmaceuticals industry to flood the
world with drugs on a scale illicit traffickers wouldn't ever let themselves
dream of accessing. In other words, while your government has sought to keep
you worried about a few bales of marijuana being flown up from Florida, it's
allowing Pfizer and Lilly to keep all your neighbors zonked on Zoloft and Prozac.
Jenkins' story in a nutshell. He has narrowed his focus in an interesting
way, by concentrating not on heroin or crack but on the so-called "designer
drugs." It's a mid-80s term, borrowed from the designer jeans of the
period, but Jenkins appropriately grandfathers it to include earlier synthetics
and their associated hysterias, like crystal meth in the 60s and angel dust
in the 70s. He also looks at the first Ecstasy panic of the mid-80s, the return
of meth hysteria in the mid-90s, the recent panics over "rape drugs"
(GHB, Rohypnol) and "rave drugs" (Ecstasy again, Special K, the LSD
revival), as well as a couple of attempts to stir up panics that fizzled out
so quickly most readers may well not even remember them now: the failed ICE
(smokable crystal meth) scare of 1989 and the equally forgettable CAT (methcathinone,
another meth relative) "epidemic" of 1993.
contends that studying the careers of these synthetic drugs, and the equally
synthetic panics associated with them, is a good way to discern the almost folkloric
patterns and modes of storytelling that underlay virtually all modern drug hysterias.
you look at the literature on drugs, which is immense, virtually all of it is
about certain drugs–heroin, cocaine, maybe a little marijuana," he
tells me. "I wanted to make a couple of points. First, in terms of what
drugs people actually use, synthetic and designer drugs are far more important
than that would suggest. Secondly, that these designer drugs have done more
to shape attitudes toward drugs than [the literature] would suggest. For example,
one argument I make is that the crack panic in the mid-80s could not have happened
as it did if there had not been several years of panic about PCP, which is now
forgotten. Thirdly, synthetic drugs are always there to be drawn on when other
panics flag… If things like heroin and cocaine aren't conveniently there
[to base a drug scare on], it's easy to find this other stuff that's
just bubbling along somewhere."
Not surprisingly,
Jenkins points out that one of the easiest ways to panic mainstream America
about a drug has always been to pick one being used by inner-city blacks or
poor white trash, then claim that its use is "spilling out" from the
ghetto or the trailer park to the streets of small-town, middle-class, suburban
America. Remember how crack, never anything but a poor black person's drug,
was always threatening to turn into a nationwide problem that was going to sweep
the country and turn every Main Street in Anytown, USA into a crack alley? Jenkins
cites the remarkable news special 48 hours on Crack Street, which ended
"with Dan Rather standing in Washington Square Park with crack vials all
around him, saying, 'This is any street in America.'" Sure it
is, Dan. The media and law enforcement got several years of play out of that
little nightmare.
For another
example, Jenkins argues that "since probably the 1940s amphetamines and
related drugs have been one of the biggest presences on the illicit market,
and yet they're in areas where they're not seen, and if they're
not seen they don't exist." It was only in the "speed kills"
era of the later 1960s that it earned widespread government and media attention.
Why? Because, Jenkins argues, before middle-class hippies started farting around
with it, it was largely a working-class drug, not harming the mainstream and
therefore largely beneath prosecution. Truckers used it, night-shift workers
at factories and hospitals liked it and the military doled it out to soldiers
up at least through Vietnam. "Look at the My Lai massacre," Jenkins
says. "This is what happens when you have people who have been speeding
for weeks."
More recently,
when a supposedly new wave of speed use started making news in Oklahoma City,
everyone assumed that "black street gangs" must have spread the epidemic
out to the boonies from big cities like L.A. In fact, it turns out that Oklahoma
City and environs have long been a major speed-manufacturing area supplying
bigger cities, and that consequently local speed use has always been relatively
high. The Okies don't need the homeboys to show them how to score, but
no one wants to hear that.
makes the very important point that drug fads are almost invariably more local
and regional than the hysterias about them let on, and that in fact very few
new drugs of choice manage to "sweep the country." ICE is a great
example. Briefly in fashion in Hawaii, of all places, at the end of the 1980s,
it was also briefly touted as a contender for the next big national drug epidemic.
Never caught on, was soon forgotten, and then local authorities in Michigan
put in their bid for CAT, another meth variant, as the Next Big Thing. That
never happened either. Rather than concede that the threat had been exaggerated
in the first place, the DEA spin was to claim that swift and decisive early
action had effectively squelched the CAT epidemic before it had a chance to
there's an agenda," Jenkins says, behind touting local fads as incipient
national epidemics, "because somebody wants to get resources. Obviously,
if you just say, 'This is a real big problem in Oahu,' it's not
gonna get much attention. So you have to say, 'It's going to hit your
town tomorrow.'"
reminds you how the War on Drugs really hit high gear and went to volume 11
in the mid-to-late 80s under Reagan and then Bush:
made combating [crack] a key component of his domestic agenda and drugs conditioned
US foreign and defense policy. In 1989, American activism against international
traffickers provoked a near-civil war in the nation of Colombia and led to
an actual invasion of Panama that December. Drug fears led to an official
redefinition of national security as the concept of narco-terrorism was born.
The incessant diet of alarming stories had its impact: the proportion of Americans
citing drug abuse as the nation's most important problem soared from
3 percent in 1986 to 64 percent in 1989.
That last
bit is an amazing statistic. Cui bono? Certainly drug and law enforcement agencies,
whose staffs, budgets and powers soared during this period, even as "[t]he
ever-expanding scope of criminal forfeiture came close to making the drug war
self-financing," Jenkins writes. Prisons did well, too, as thousands of
new drug offenders overloaded existing capacity, meaning big budgets for expanded
facilities and staffs–creating the so-called correctional-industrial complex.
To this day, Jenkins tells me, one of the largest political pressure groups
in California is the state prison guards' union. "There was in short
an enormous vested interest in adopting the harshest possible view of illicit
drugs," he writes, "while the mass media showed absolute credulity
in reporting claims from the drug-enforcement bureaucracy."
devotes a lot of space to Ecstasy, which has had a very interesting life. It's
curious, for instance, that while the Ecstasy panic of the mid-80s is long forgotten,
Ecstasy itself continues to be enormously popular. If anything, kids are using
far more E now than they were 10 years ago, and yet you rarely see the sort
of Ecstasy Serial Killer Rape Suicide Car Crash horror stories you once did.
Indeed, Jenkins says, Ecstasy use in America is nothing compared to its popularity
in Europe. "Europe these days floats on Ecstasy," he tells me. "In
some ways Ecstasy is a little bit like punk rock–it transformed European
youth culture, but never had anything like the same impact over here. You see
amazing figures for the number of people who are on Ecstasy in Britain and a
few other countries… It's not the same mass phenomenon here. An analogy
is that in Europe it's like marijuana was in the 70s here."
In the book
he contrasts the careers of Ecstasy and Prozac–two similar drugs, born
around the same time, with the same basic effects on users, yet one is licit
and the other illicit. One is a "bad" drug because it's homemade
and has grassroots distribution. The other's a "pharmaceutical,"
prescribed like candy, because it comes out of a corporate lab (Lilly). It's
certainly true that as drug epidemics go Prozac is far and away the wider-spread
and more troubling addiction. Had the tables been reversed, Jenkins says–had
Prozac been the one developed by underground chemists and called, oh, Feelgood–you
can just imagine the Dan Rather Special Report on the terrible Feelgood epidemic
sweeping the nation. "Your neighbors could be hooked. Your children may
be, too. Notice any changes in their behavior lately? Their moods?"
would you be surprised to learn that Dan Rather was on Prozac?
In a similar
comparison, Jenkins likes to note that in sheer numbers there have actually
been far more deaths associated with the use of acetaminophen than PCP.
So if PCP is a very "dangerous" and "harmful" drug, what
does that make Tylenol?
I ask Jenkins
what the next Next Big Thing in drug scares is going to be. His money is on
one just surfacing this summer, an Ecstasy-like rave and club drug called GBL.
When I tell him I feel out of it because I haven't heard of GBL yet, he
replies, "Don't worry. It's like London buses. If you miss this
one, there'll be another one along in 10 minutes."


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Toward this website's role as the central source for all wild bobwhite conservation information, this page highlights current NBCI/NBTC-related messages, updates and news, as well as assorted other wild quail news items of potential interest from sources around the nation.
Folks are taking notice of our designation of South Texas as a Legacy Landscape for Bobwhite Conservation, as in this piece in the Lone Star Outdoor News.
The Richmond, VA Times-Dispatch highlighted information regarding private landowner assistance with pine management practices for bobwhite habitat restoration (click here).
Timely rainfall and milder temperatures this spring have sparked excitement and anticipation not seen in years about the prospects for a rebound of bobwhite quail in Oklahoma.
"We're seeing better conditions now than we've seen in the past two and a half years," said Scott Cox, upland game biologist with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
Read more about Oklahoma's bobwhite rebound HERE.
Georgia Wildlife Resources Division and the Longleaf Alliance recently hosted a Bobwhites and Longleaf field day at Silver Lake Wildlife Management Area, south of Bainbridge in Decatur County, with 25 landowners in attendance. Click HERE to read the full report on bobwhites and longleaf.
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (April 17, 2014) -- The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) at its meeting
|Four organizations sign unique agreement for bobwhite
today near Tallahassee announced a partnership with three other conservation organizations to help the northern bobwhite (quail) and youth shooting programs in Florida and Georgia.
The four partners are the FWC, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources – Wildlife Resources Division (GADNR), Quail Forever and Tall Timbers Research Station & Land Conservancy.
All four organizations have signed a memorandum of agreement pledging that they will each provide mutually beneficial support to a project called the Florida/Georgia Quail Coalition, whose goal is to enhance, promote and conserve quality habitat for northern bobwhite and to promote and support youth shooting sports programs and education.
The term of the agreement is for three years, and the four organizations each will appoint one authorized representative to serve on the Coalition's steering committee.
Quail Forever will provide one shared full-time position employee and one part-time position staff member. The organization also is charged with providing funding to establish, manage and monitor quail populations and habitat on public and private lands in Florida and Georgia, and to work with the Coalition to increase youth hunting opportunities on some of these lands once adequate bird populations and habitat have been restored. Also, Quail Forever is to provide funding from its local chapters to help pay the cost of youth shooting sports programs and scholastic shooting teams.
"Being a Georgia native and having been raised in a family which respects our upland hunting tradition, I am eager to see the positive effects which will be generated by this landmark partnership," said Talbott Parten, Quail Forever's regional representative for Georgia and Florida. "Knowing the commitment of the partners involved, it is my, and Quail Forever's, firm belief that in the years to come, future generations of Georgia and Florida outdoorspeople will be able to look back at this partnership as a pivotal moment for the conservation of the bobwhite quail in the Southeast."
The responsibility of Tall Timbers Research Station & Land Conservancy is to serve as the fiscal agent to receive and disburse money provided by local Quail Forever chapters to pay for approved Coalition quail habitat projects. The Coalition enhances efforts of the Upland Ecosystem Restoration Project (UERP), which is housed at Tall Timbers. For more information on UERP, visit http://TallTimbers.org/gb-UERP.html. Tall Timbers also agrees to house both Coalition employees by providing them office space and administrative support at its facility north of Tallahassee.
"Coalition activities will energize restoration efforts by our agency partners in Florida and Georgia, and hold great promise to recover quail populations and other grassland birds on public lands," Tall Timbers President/CEO Bill Palmer said.
Both states' wildlife and conservation agencies have similar duties and responsibilities as outlined in the agreement. The FWC and GADNR are charged with providing leadership for youth shooting sports and quail habitat projects, and for the planning, implementation, monitoring and auditing of such projects and events.
"Only through collaborative efforts like the Florida/Georgia Quail Coalition will we be able to reach our conservation goals of more substantial habitat restoration for bobwhite quail and all species that depend on early successional habitat," said GADNR's Wildlife Resources Division Director Dan Forster. "Conservation and hunting go hand in hand so through supporting youth shooting sports programs and education we will complete the cycle that leads to success."
"I feel really good about the partnership we have created here and the level of leadership," said FWC Executive Director Nick Wiley. "I am confident that we have the ability and commitment to make some positive changes to help quail restoration in both our states."
To increase and enhance quality quail habitat, money for projects will be spent on frequent small-scale prescribed burning, removing oak trees, roller-chopping dense palmettos and hardwood thickets and thinning rows of planted pine trees. The result of such management practices will create a forest and canopy that is more open, allowing sunlight to reach the forest floor, so that native grasses and weeds can grow, which provide quail food and cover from predators.


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Kenichi Nagahiro, Honda's s top powertrain engineer announced that the company is working on a diesel-powered Civic Type-R.
"As long as it is in keeping with the Type-R brand we will do it. But high revving has to be part of it and that's what we're working on."
Rumors say that the Type R D will be powered by the most powerful version of next year's new 2.2-litre diesel, which will be launched in the new Accord. It's likely to have at least 180bhp and 320lb ft of torque.


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Charlottesville City Council meets Monday for the first time this July. Councilors were expected to start the month making a big decision about the future of the Belmont Bridge, but that decision is being delayed.
The crumbling Belmont Bridge is a highly discussed and debated issue in the city. Councilors finally may have a decision on what to do with it, but we'll have to wait a little longer than expected to get that answer.
Council member, Bob Fenwick said, "Originally we were going to vote, Monday, but it looks like now we'll be bumped back to the 21st."
City engineers have requested a delayed decision to review cost estimates.
At least one councilor believes repairing the bridge is better than replacing it. "It's a very simple question. What is the repair costs? And then we can consider that as well," said Fenwick.
Councilors are reviewing four designs to solve the crumbling bridge's problems. The process can be frustrating.
Council Member Kathy Galvin said, "The memo we got last meeting was 117 pages. A lot of it repeated itself."
Councilors say they're taking a fresh look at major concerns about constructing a new bridge, now that their decision is on hold.
"How is it going to affect the businesses over there? How is it going to affect the cut through traffic in the neighborhoods?" said Fenwick.
With a limited $12,000,000 and a growing need for more funds, councilors are trying to put the interests of people who live in the city and use the bridge first.
"If it doesn't come from the state, it's going to come from the taxpayers of Charlottesville. So I think it behooves us to really make sure we have a measured prudent decision," said Fenwick.
Three weeks and one agenda from now that decision could bring big changes for the bridge's future. Charlottesville's budget is $3,000,000 short of being able to fund any of the replacement designs and is less than half of the amount needed for the underpass option.
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So far Alabama has been wonderful. I work hard, but have the time and energy to sew and paint and print. This past weekend my parents visited me and we all went to the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham. I'm not a huge movie person, (too long sitting in one spot), but after I got into the swing of things I loved it. I don't have any exciting stories to tell, but things are good and I feel better than I have in a long time. I only wish I could be closer to everyone and everything that I love in LA (and every other city, let's be honest).
Luckily I'm flying back to LA to visit my guy, my friends, and my cats in a little over a week. I can't wait! -Kayt
Same blog, new view. -Kayt
Last Saturday I was lucky enough to visit the McGregor Greyhound Welfare Center, a greyhound adoption center that is linked to the Birmingham Race Course. I am now officially a greyhound groupie.
Greyhounds are (generally) sweet, quiet, laid-back, kid-friendly, and perfect for apartment living. If you are looking for a wonderful dog I encourage you to pay your local greyhound rescue a visit!
I am currently trying to figure out how I can fit Wilma (pictured at bottom) into my suitcase when I leave Alabama. She's quite the catch. But seriously, what higher power thought it would be good to parade a beautiful, cat-friendly, calm, small, house-trained beauty (WHO LOVES ME) in front of my face? I realize that visiting a dog rescue when unable to adopt might seem ill-advised to most… but… shut up.
I am having angst-y teenage heart pangs about that doogie. Quick someone adopt her so I stop thinking about it! -Kayt
Post 111! This feels like a big deal for me. Mostly, well, because I haven't been on this thing in months. To make a long story short, I've made a lot of changes in my life recently.
My timeline looks something like this: uncertainty about career path, near-total loss of creative drive, general confusion and discontent, minor meltdown, epiphany (with the help and support of M and my family), 2-weeks notice, bittersweet departure from job, vacation to Big Sur and Portland with M, family tragedy, road trip with mom across the country….
I'm now living in Alabama, temporarily, for a baptism-by-fire in what will hopefully be my future career. And I feel amazing. I won't go into what my career was/is/will be, because this blog is a place for all of the important parts of my life and passions that have absolutely nothing to do with work. Sorry! But suffice it to say, by listening to myself and doing something scary, a big part of me if waking up after a long hibernation.
M is holding down the fort, (and taking care of the cats), so that I can galavant around the Southern US. I miss him like crazy, but damn am I happy to be here.
So hello again! I'm going to be showing up here a lot more these days. (Sorry but not sorry). To see more of my Bamadventures, follow @thefrequents on Instagram. -Kayt
Starting to feel like summer. :) -Kayt
Today M and I went to Unique LA for the first time, and all we could think about was how stupid it was that we haven't attended the event every season since it opened! Unfortunately we didn't take any pictures while we were there, but here are a few shots of our loot:
Handcrafted soaps from Luka Soap (they have a really cool TOMS-esque buy one + give one business model, that donates soap to organizations teaching hand washing in developing countries)
A card from Molly M Designs - OK this doesn't count as loot, but trust me, we will be purchasing something from Molly online in the near future. Check out her beautiful lasercut jewelry, etc. on her website here!
A t-shirt from Maiden Voyage Clothing Co. Pretty sure if you're reading this I don't have to explain why I bought a narwhal shirt.
A beautiful mug from Sadie & Emma. We see their work all the time at Reform School in our neighborhood, and remembered their names because our female cat is named Emma, and Marcus' childhood dog is named Sadie. Heartstrings much? But besides the coincidental attachment we feel towards their names, their work is beautiful and simple, and we would probably have purchased the mug if their names were Hortense & Bertha. Catch a glimpse of how incredible and adorable they are in this Show Pony video.
We will definitely be at the next Unique LA event, you should probably come too. -Kayt
A few nice things:
1. Small memo books that Marcus bought me while on a recent business trip. They fit in a small pocket in my purse, and I use them to jot down ideas, to-do lists, and sketches.
2. Handmade soaps we bought at Reform School: Cedarwood soap by Saipua, and Cedar Bark by Opas Soap. Apparently we have a cedar thing happening over here?
3. Linen I dyed by hand. I'm planning on making dish towels and oven mitts from it. The dye was technically black, but I love the eggplant hue that came out.
4. An old book I found in my grandparents' old storage unit: Charlie the Tramp by Russell Hoban, published in 1966. It is a sweet story about a young beaver who wants to leave behind the beaver business he is expected to inherit, and set out on his own as a tramp. Not surprisingly for 1966, by the end of the book Charlie realizes that he was born to be a hardworking beaver man and Mom rushes home to put food on the table for the men. I love finding little time capsules like this.
5. Jakemans Throat & Chest Lozenges from World Market. Yum!
Recently, thanks in part to my discovery of a few makers like Jenny Gordy of Wiksten and Alice Saunders of Forestbound (and their awesome blogs, here and here), I have started sewing again. When I was a kid I sewed all the time, taking classes, hemming and altering my clothes, and making mediocre little projects. I never sewed very well, but I loved it.
When I was about 10 (I think?) my mom generously bought me a really amazing Janome sewing machine. That sucker was built to last, and after getting it professionally cleaned it still works like a dream. I'm not sure why I took a long sewing hiatus, but after years and years it feels good to get back in the swing of things.
After about ten years, the first garment I decided to make was this simple Wiksten tank. I purchased the pattern online, as a digital file. All I had to do was print it out on normal printer paper, tape the pages together as directed, and cut out the pattern as you would with a traditional sewing pattern.
Anywho, I need some practice, and I'm slow as a snail, but isn't it pretty? -Kayt


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