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A customer looks over a jar of Erma Griffith's homemade jelly at the Dixie Farmers Market in the parking lot of Erlanger Baptist Church. Griffith lives in Southgate. / The Enquirer/Patrick Reddy
Find a market near you
A. Boone County
1961 Burlington Pike, Burlington
Saturday-May 27: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily
May 27-Sept. 2: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. daily
B. Dixie market
Erlanger Baptist Church parking lot
116 Commonwealth Ave., Erlanger
Now-Oct. 24: 2-6 p.m. Thursdays
C. Independence
Court House Square (parking lot next to courthouse downtown)
5272 Madison Pike
Now-Nov. 2: 8:30 a.m.- 2 p.m. Saturdays
D. Covington
Corner of Court and Park streets, south of the Roebling Suspension Bridge
Friday-Oct. 26: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays
E. Newport
Lot next to Pepper Pod Restaurant
709 Monmouth St.
June 29-Oct. 27: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays
F. Fort Thomas
1038 S. Fort Thomas Ave.
Now-Oct. 30: 3-7 p.m.
Fort Thomas Plaza Parking Lot
90 Alexandria Pike
Friday-Oct. 25: 3-7 p.m. Fridays
G. Highland Heights
Senior Citizens Activity Center
3504 Alexandria Pike
May 14-October 29: 3- 6 p.m. Tuesdays
H. Alexandria
Southern Lanes Sports Center
7634 Alexandria Pike
May 17-Oct. 25: 3-6 p.m. Fridays
I. Walton market
Ideal Farm Supply Parking Lot
11 School Road
Now-Oct. 26: 9:30- noon Saturdays
When I was growing up, if we wanted fresh, locally grown produce we had to either grow it ourselves or stop by a roadside stand. Many a summer evening was spent shucking corn or snapping green beans picked from our small backyard garden in southern Campbell County.
My husband will tell you that I did not inherit my mothers ability to keep anything green alive. Thankfully, the backyard garden and roadside stand have given rise to farmers markets, where I and thousands of other Northern Kentuckians can buy fresh fruit, veggies and other goodies from local farms every summer.
The proliferation of farmers markets here mirrors a broader national trend: More people want to eat fresh, locally grown food, especially fruits and vegetables. That isnt anything new in heavily-agricultural Boone County, the farmers market is in its 26th year but it has become more popular in recent years.
I think once people get a taste of what true, local produce is something that was picked this morning or less than 24 hours ago at its peak of freshness they see what a big difference there is between that kind of produce and something that might have sat around a few days and traveled several thousand miles before it gets to you, said Coy Wilson, organizer of the Boone County Farmers Market.
Another part of the attraction is being able to put a face and a farm with the products youre taking home for dinner. You can find out when and how they were grown, or, in the case of the plants I buy every year in a vain attempt to keep them alive, how to care for them.
The farmers are all friendly, and they have good products, said Don Koop, organizer of the Dixie Farmers Market in Erlanger. Its just a friendly get-together; you meet your friends and neighbors up here.
There are now 10 farmers markets across Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties, from the urban core in Newport and Covington to the rolling hills of Burlington and Independence. And Friendly Market, a Findlay Market-style co-op, recently opened in Florence.
Farmers markets are typically run by either the county extension service or local government officials working with the extension service. Farmers pay a fee to sell at the markets, and the revenue is generally reinvested in infrastructure and advertising.
They draw farmers from across Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties, as well as Grant and Pendleton. Many of them make a full-time job of it, selling at multiple markets throughout the week.
For each of the farmers, its both a business and a passion.
After Evelyn Peluso retired from St. Elizabeth Medical Center, she and her late husband became full-time farmers. At their farm in Pendleton County, Peluso tends her herbs, tomatoes and other plants as tenderly as if they were her children, selling them at the Erlanger and Independence farmers markets. (Tips on how to keep herb seedlings alive come free.)
Every year I say Im not going to do it next year, but every year I get back in, Peluso said. Its a lot of work, but its my passion. Its a lot of satisfaction when you can bring (produce) out and sell it to people who have a need.
But farmers markets arent just about fruits and vegetables anymore.
Tim Eversole of Covington sells freshly baked bread and delicious coffee year-round at his Bean Haus stand at Findlay Market in Over-the-Rhine. But he also sells his breads at nine farmers markets across Northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati every summer.
Its turned out to be a big part of our business, he said. Its really where you get out and touch your customers throughout the year.
Erma and Granville Griffith operate an actual mom-and-pop business, selling their homemade jellies, jams, honey, lotion, candy and bread at the Dixie Farmers Market and the Newport Farmers Market. Retirees in their 70s, the couple grows berries and keeps bees at their Southgate home.
What keeps them coming back to the markets, week after week, year after year?
We have fun, and I love my customers, Erma said. All the customers I love em.⬛
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) -- Peyton Manning tied yet another NFL record Thursday, this one held by Tom Brady, when he won his sixth career Offensive Player of the Month award.
Manning joined Kurt Warner (2001) as the only players with 10 TDs, 1,300 yards, a 70 percent completion percentage and five wins in December as the Broncos (13-3) captured the top seed in the AFC playoffs.
He did it while wearing a glove on his throwing hand for the first time in his career, testing it in home games against the Browns and Chiefs in preparation for cold weather in January.
Manning said he's been "OK the past two weeks," but he's been more than that: his completion percentage was 5.8 points higher and his QB rating was 19.2 points better with the glove.
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AT&T intros cheaper, capped data; iPhone tethering with 4.0
updated 07:50 am EDT, Wed June 2, 2010
ATT puts an end to unlimited data plans
AT&T today completely overhauled its data plans to at once limit them but also make them cheaper. The new maximum plan, DataPro, costs $25 per month but provides 2GB of data versus the earlier, $30 unlimited plan. In exchange, AT&T is partly dropping direct overage fees: those who run over the 2GB cap will pay $10 more for an extra 1GB of transfers.
Subscribers who are still on the $30 plan, including iPad owners, can keep their existing unlimited access and don't have to switch. New customers of all devices must use the new plans.
A very basic plan, DataPlus, is also rolling out. The service's 200MB cap is intended for only very casual use but, at $15 per month, costs half as much as the previous minimum smartphone plan; another 200MB is added on for $15. AT&T touts the plan as lowering the baseline for a smart plan to $55 per month.
The move, while an end to unlimited data, also comes with a lowering of the cost of data tethering: customers with the DataPro plan can add tethering for an extra $20 per month versus the previous $30, saving a total of $15 per month over the earlier costs. Those with unlimited data can't add the lower-priced tethering, AT&T told Electronista, although anyone with tethering will keep the grandfathered plan if they still want unlimited on-device data.
iPhone owners will finally have access to tethering after a year's delay and will get it as soon as iPhone 4.0 is available, AT&T said.
Notably, all of the plan changes take effect on June 7, the same day as the WWDC keynote and when Apple is expected to unveil the new iPhone.
While limited, AT&T's new plans are expected to cover the needs of even most heavy users; the carrier claims that 98 percent of smartphone users consume less than 2GB of data, although it didn't say how many of them were iPhone owners. The plans are also still relatively inexpensive compared to plans in Canada and Europe. A Rogers data plan with 2GB, for example, costs $45 per month on top of voice.
The timing of the move suggests that AT&T and Apple alike are both concerned about the minimum price of entry for an iPhone, which at the current $70 a month without texting is relatively expensive. Verizon has similar plans to what AT&T will have before the caps, but Sprint and T-Mobile both either lower the price of service or, in Sprint's case, offer unlimited messaging at the same price.


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Holy Family Catholic Community is holding its annual Parish Mission Retreat Monday through Wednesday, March 24-26, with "Ignite Your Faith - Draw Close to God," presented by Greg and Lydia Trainor. The event is free and open to the public.
There will be two sessions held - starting with 7:45 a.m. at Sacred Heart Church, on the corner of Western and Peters Avenues; and again at 6:30 p.m. at Holy Family Catholic Church, on the corner of County Roads T & K. See the Holy Family website hffdl.org/mission for more information.
Schedule includes:
? Monday: "Embracing Jesus Personally."
? Tuesday: "Here I am, send me!
? Wednesday: "Power of the Holy Spirit" or "Living our Baptism."
A Spanish language retreat with Fr. Carlos Zapata will be held at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 4-5 in St. Mary's Church, 59 E. Merrill Ave.
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistans military says it has successfully test-fired a short-range missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead.
A military statement says the Hatf III Ghaznavi missile with a range of 290 kilometers (180 miles) was launched on Tuesday from an undisclosed location.
It says the test was conducted during a field training exercise and that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen. Rashad Mahmood and other officers were present.
Afterward, Mahmood congratulated scientists and engineers involved for the successful launch.
Pakistan, which became a nuclear power in 1998, routinely test-fires what it claims are indigenously developed missiles.
The international community closely watches its weapons program as Pakistan has fought three wars with its nuclear-armed archenemy and neighbor India after gaining independence since 1947.
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Brandon Smith has signed with Northwestern State.
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NATCHITOCHES - Head coach Lane Burroughs announced that right-handed pitcher Brandon Smith has signed to join the 2014 Northwestern State baseball team.
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My poor baby girl stepped in a fire ant mound a little bit a ago in the dark while going out to go potty. Of course it was dark and so we did not see it until it was too late and they were devouring her hind quarters and she was waging war on her back end. She appears to be okay, but we gave her a allergy pill (her own script) and she is now resting. This is her first personal run in with fire ants; 2 of our other dogs have had this happen before. She was just horrified and scared to death and not being able to understand why she was in such burning pain. She has some pretty ugly marks from it but not as bad as it could have been. My husband thinks it looks worse than it is because she has that thin white coat that is almost see through. You really can see everything going on with her skin and she is one of those babies with sensitive skin. The good thing is that none of these bites occurred where she wears her mobility harness, collar or her vest. So she will not have to worry about that discomfort.
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Bear is Driving is just as much a theory as it is a tangible arrangement of artists, instruments, and the resultant sounds of artist-on-instrument interaction. In the abstract, BiD is an existential approach towards the definition of Art. The music is the language with which we convey our current working definition.
It is our belief that the role of the artist is to create means of expression by drawing from tangible skills (acquired through education, observation, and repetition) and intangible, personal aesthetic guidelines. Ultimately, the artist should invent a means of expression independent of commercial influences. After all, is Art really a product?
Though we admit that effective art can communicate to the masses, Affective Art should aspire to communicate in innovative ways. Affective Art should be open to the public without pandering.
Working within the context of this definition, Bear is Driving delivers subliminal messages on the complexities of the human experience. By utilizing the medium of 'instrumental rock,' BiD reflects upon an era where the industrial, communication and information revolutions have effectively alienated all of us in a world where our population grows exponentially.
Bear is Driving songs shift seamlessly from melodic-math riffs with warm spacey ambiance, to brutal prog-metal riffs with off-meter, dissonant noise/vocal sample loops. Regardless, you will hear an amazing breadth of influences compiled to form a sonic experience YOU HAVE NEVER ENCOUNTERED BEFORE.
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Participants of uxce15: Submit your abstract for publication
We will publish abstracts of the sessions at this year's UXcamp, online, as well as in a bound book form with a referenceable ISBN.
To make this possible, we need you to provide us with your name, professional title, any social media or contact info you'd like to include, the time and room location and a summary of your session, as well as links, such as to slides on Slideshare or to other additional informations (1500 characters max per session).
Submit your contribution's abstract once you held a session. Please submit, as soon as possible, after your session.
We are one the of the largest BarCamps for User Experience Professionals with 500+ active participants from all over the world and meet in Berlin once a year. The event is held since 2009 and is planned by a team of local volunteers and run during the weekend by everybody attending.
Friday 2015-06-19
Warm-up Party
The Warm-up party will start at 20:00 at C3 (the agency formerly known as KircherBurkhardt), who also happen to be the sponsor of said party.
Food and drinks will be provided and to help getting to know each other, you'll be able to grab your badge there, too.
Please don't forget to bring your Eventbrite ticket.
Saturday 2015-06-20
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At 9:00 the doors will open with coffee and breakfast-y snacks. Please bring along your Eventbrite ticket to get your badge!
We'll gather in the main auditorium at 9:30 to put together the session board for Saturday. Lunch will be served at 13:00. The last session starts at 17:00.
Saturday night is the usual Blow-out party at WBB Willner-Brauerei-Berlin, sponsored by sipgate. Start at 21:00.
Session grid: will be filled on Saturday, June 20th
Sunday 2015-06-21
UXcamp Day 2
At 9:00 more coffee and breakfast-y snacks.
Let's get the grid going on Sunday at 10:00. No lunch break, but snacks throughout the day.
The last session is at 16:00. It usually takes about 1/2 hour to clean up when everybody pitches in, so plan on being finished at 17:30 on Sunday (feel free to join the chatting crowds afterwards).
Session grid: will be filled on Sunday, June 21st
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UXcamp Europe is a conference open to everyone with in interest in UserExperience Design. Year on year, we are joined by many different people from many different countries and with a variety of backgrounds resulting in a broad range of different manners.
The Rules of BarCamp
BarCamp is an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees.
Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.
When you come, be prepared to share with barcampers.
When you leave, be prepared to share it with the world.
Attendees must give a demo, a session, or help with one, or otherwise volunteer / contribute in some way to support the event.
All presentations are scheduled the day they happen. Prepare in advance, but come early to get a slot on the wall. The people present at the event will select the demos or presentations they want to see.
Presenters are responsible for making sure that notes/slides/audio/video of their presentations are published on the web for the benefit of all and those who can't be present.
What is a BarCamp anyway?
BarCamps are open participatory events, the content of which is provided by the participants themselves.
For two days UXcamp Europe will host around 500 international UX professionals from such diverse disciplines as Information Architecture, (Web–)Development, Interaction & Visual Design, Service Design, Content Strategy, Psychology and Usability.
International: since 2010 UXcamp Europe saw a 50/50 ratio of German/international participants of which the majority came from Europe. We also welcomed guests from the USA, Brazil, Japan and India to Berlin so far.
The 45 minutes sessions provide ample time for presenting a short talk, demonstrating new ideas or technologies followed up by an open discussion. Every UXcamp participant is encouraged to facilitate a session on his/her own or as a small team.
Session topics typically include workshops, presentations, case studies, pop songs or open discussions related to User Experience, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Service Design and similar subjects. Sessions at BarCamps usually are workshop-like and collaboration oriented. Since everyone is a (potential) speaker, the discussions tend to be intense yet always respectful.
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Jeanine Clapsaddle is a Child Life specialist from Children's who is in India for two months to help set up Child Life services at Manipal Hospital.
There to fulfill the dying wish of a former Children's patient who wanted other kids around the world to get the same care she received, Jeanine is documenting her experiences through this blog series.
Here is the first report from her trip:
After my first days at Manipal Hospital, I feel hard pressed to capture all that I have experienced in a way that does justice to the people I've met and the unmistakable presence of hope that lives here.
Much like Children's, Manipal is in a perpetual state of renovation and construction. Some areas we toured are quite archaic by our standards; multiple patient beds in the same room (children and adults together), metal beds with peeling paint, IV bags that run on gravity rather than with any sort of pump, dented metal bowls used as bedpans for children, parents sleeping on the floor next to their child's bed, dim and sporadic lighting, etc.
I discovered that the inpatient units of the hospital are separated not by diagnosis or specialty, but rather by an individual or family's ability to pay for the healthcare. This unit is for people who cannot afford better healthcare. The most luxurious rooms in the hospital are utilized by celebrities, dignitaries or people from other countries who can afford to pursue healthcare wherever they choose.
The more technical areas of the facility such as radiology are quite modern and similar to what one would find in the US. In some ways it is difficult to grasp the extremes between these two settings and simply chalk it up to the renovation process.
I have met many children and their families as well. Regardless of where they are, every family has nothing but praise for their healthcare experiences, and the hospital itself. Families travel by plane and train from all over India and in some cases Asia to receive care here. The bulk of their pediatric Hematology/Oncology service is made up of children with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL) or Thalassemia. They have had some children with other cancers but they are considered uncommon.
I have been able to talk with many parents and in some cases their children about their experiences in the hospital. Their first response is consistently about how much their healthcare has improved since the introduction of the Play Therapy/Child Life services. Their commentary seems to stem from a place of true gratitude and excitement for the possibilities that come with my time here.
In one case, I talked with a father of a child with Thalassemia for over an hour about the need for more toys and how he could help with that project. The two women who are currently providing play therapy services have enough toys, primarily puzzles and games, to fill one average double door kitchen cabinet – no play-doh, no video games or Barbies, no beads for necklaces, no toys with lights and sounds or other toys that at one time seemed commonplace to me, but now seem like a bit of an indulgence. What a challenge to take a game that a child has played over and over again, and make it a new and different experience for them.
I have also seen the unpleasant side of life in India – the extreme poverty, homeless animals eating garbage for food, and filth beyond understanding. I'm not sure what the Indian equivalent of yin and yang is, but it is a palpable experience here.
I find myself tired at the end of the day from the simple mental dexterity that comes with being here and sorting through all the information coming my way – whether it is trying to piece together what someone is saying to me, even in English, as the accent is heavy here or trying to make sense of the cultural context in which things are happening. Despite the, at times, heart-wrenching realities of life here, I look forward to each day with hopeful anticipation.
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The 2012 Founder's Dinner was held on Thursday, June 14, 2012 at the Glenn Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, NY. A gala celebration of New York Medical College's many notable achievements, the dinner paid tribute to two outstanding representatives of New York Medical College's commitment to service and distinction. Karl P. Adler, M.D., Immediate Past Chief Executive Officer of New York Medical College and Ralph A. O'Connell, Immediate Past Provost and Dean of the School of Medicine received the William Cullen Bryant Award for their academic, administrative, and philanthropic leadership.
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Kudos to Pastor John Lindell for "speaking the truth in love" (Eph 4:15).
The negative reaction ("Pastor Lindell's words misguided," May 2) was apparently caused by religious leaders who objected to Lindell identifying homosexuality as sin. Presumably, they disallow his right to identify any sin, something they themselves surely do in their own churches.
Their objection is to calling homosexual behavior sin. The public should be reminded that this has been the prevailing view of the Christian church from its inception. So why the censure?
My guess is that there is an aversion to taking the plain truths of Scripture seriously and as God's authoritative word. Their response: paint a caricature of Christianity, something they themselves regard as abhorrent.
So they claim that to adopt Lindell's view of Christianity would mean to impose capital punishment on the offenders, force marriage on rape victims etc., knowing full well that Evangelicals worldwide do not sanction such measures. Why? Because they know that the Law with its civil judgments were historically-conditioned and intended for the theocratic nation of Israel.
While the moral law contained in the Mosaic legislation is still valid and relevant, it is surpassed and subsumed within the ethical teachings of Jesus and the apostles, the guardians of the Jesus tradition. The validity of the Law is in its enduring moral and spiritual principles that teach us about God's nature and will. That is why the Apostle Paul could call the Law, "holy, righteous and good" (Rom. 7:12).
So, no, Christians who believe the Scriptures and know how to properly interpret it do not advocate the punitive measures in the Law, but we look for universal, transcultural principles that do not change with national polling or how many celebrities endorse a particular behavior that God calls sin.


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This site provide a vast array of resources for someone who needs to learn a language; however, it is mainly for that...
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This site provide a vast array of resources for someone who needs to learn a language; however, it is mainly for that purpose. It does include some excellent tests and links to other sites whch offer language courses. There is a chat area and including links to learning style resources.
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I intend to use this with my adults at the adult school. I like the meeting point element.
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Lingu@net Europa is great resource for teachers and learners of English and Spanish. It includes URLS to sites to determine...
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Lingu@net Europa is great resource for teachers and learners of English and Spanish. It includes URLS to sites to determine your level of competence in the language (European frame of reference) beginners, intermediate or advanced, translated into the frame. Ways to learn which includes knowing your style by use of questionnaires, advice on how to go about learning, encouraging success stories and links to sites such as dictionaries, etc. Sites for chatting and conversing live. And a search facility for materials search within Lingu@net Europa's listed resources, key words and free text. I browsed through the site and found lots of interesting materials in Spanish and English. I think I will explore it further and suggest it to my students.Technical Remarks:I found a dead link in the Spanish section: Cuestionario para la valoración del estilo de aprendizaje, Paso a Paso
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All the more reason to finish the job and win the Cup in the next two years.
Deadline has passed, Devils have not notified NHL they are giving up 2012 1st rd pick. So, they're not giving it up this year.
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Each year we trim our trees in the fall. I use the fresh pine branches to decorate my B&B for Christmas. I love the look of natural decorations, They bring in the scent of pine in a way bottled scents could never capture. Using natural materials looks beautiful, uncluttered, and clean. Bringing a little extra life to materials that would have been mulched much sooner. I prefer to use them as much as I can before they become useful in other ways. Pine trees take on a life of their own if they are not regularly tended and trimmed. This tree is looking a little wild and requires attention to reduce dead needles and give the tree added strength for next years growth.


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An old European cut diamond of an approximate .68 carats (I-J color; SI1 clarity) reflects Art Deco incarnate set within a modified octagonal shaped mount. At each of the corners a synthetic sapphire accents the sparking diamond, as open work design allows light to flow towards the main diamond. A filigree gallery of 18k white gold joins finely crafted shoulders and sides embellished with delicate engraving.
Date: Circa 1925.


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Meet the correspondents: DAVIS, Calif. > Pete Scully
"I am from urban north London, but now live in urbane Davis California. I sketch, I write, sometimes do things and go places and my name is Pete.
When not Davis, I sketch Sacramento, San Francisco, London, or anywhere else I happen to be. I tend to erase people and cars from my cities, but I'm starting to get over this.
Davis: calm, old-fashioned, progressive, quirky, very very hot in the summer. I use micron and copic pens, with watercolour."
• Pete's blog.
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11 comments :
- Pedro said...
Hey Pete
I also don't draw people or cars. Let's try to change that.
- October 22, 2008 at 12:20 AM
- Tommy Kane said...
Love this drawing. People and cars are not so important.
- October 22, 2008 at 4:19 AM
- josé louro said...
Lets do a duo:i draw people and cars and you draw the buildings:)
- October 22, 2008 at 10:10 AM
- Lisa Reed said...
I have a big regret that I didn't get to meet and sketch with you while I lived in the Bay area!! Love watching what you do!
- October 22, 2008 at 10:51 AM
- petescully said...
cheers! i did for a while just leave car-shaped blank spaces (a trick martha at trumpetvine showed me) but am now getting more courageous.
- October 22, 2008 at 11:15 AM
- stupot said...
cracking stuff, pete. Is that an unorthodox way you hold the pen or it just the photo? Whatever - it's working well.
- October 26, 2008 at 7:17 AM
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Pete, great to see you on here!
- October 31, 2008 at 10:26 AM
- petescully said...
yes, i hold my pen funny, always have..
- October 31, 2008 at 10:56 AM
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Hi, I like your drawing and I really appreciate you have revealed your drawing tools. It is always helpful.
Thank You.
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November 30, 2015
They might not be old enough to vote, but students had a chance to take part in a pre debate event today.
They learned it's never too early to start taking part in the political process.
This afternoon thousands of students from around the world took part in an online town hall meeting here at Centre.
On hand in person were some familiar political faces from Kentucky and more than 150 students.
"We're actually going to interact a little bit with some political debates from both sides, Democrats and Republicans. Get a little bit better knowledge of both of the sides," said David Sloan, a Martin County student.
"It's about student voice and we will be able to Tweet in our answers, responses about some of the things that they are going to be talking about. It's really cool to see how we have an impact in this discussion," said Emma Jackson, a Danville student.
"This is certainly new to the debate format. This is Centre's way of making the debate experience broader. More available to students in classrooms and really share the energy and excitement of what is happening here," said Jessica Ditto, from Connected Nation.
Schools from as far away Uganda and China participated.
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Rollprint Packaging Products Inc. reports that the 6000-sq-ft cleanroom it announced earlier this year to produce sterile medical packaging pouches has received certification as a ISO Class 8 cleanroom. The cleanroom houses five production lines capable of producing a variety of pouch structures, including header bags and pouches with chevron, vented, three-side weld seals, corner peels, and others.
"We received overwhelming response from medical device manufacturers soon after our announcement. The interest has been so significant that we will be adding additional production capacity," said Dwane Hahn, vice president of sales and marketing, Rollprint, in a press release. "We started preparing for this two years ago with investments in vision systems, web cleaners, and other equipment and procedures to minimize particulateqs in our film converting area. We wanted to properly address upstream criteria before taking the next step."
Rollprint will be using its latest proprietary structures to produce pouches and bags in a wide variety of configurations in the new cleanroom. The vertical integration allows Rollprint to cost-effectively control material quality and ensures best-in-class production for today's demanding medical device, pharmaceutical, and life science applications, the company reports in the press release.
ISO Class 8 cleanroom certification dictates the following maximum concentration limits for airborne particulate (particles/m3) according to ISO 14644-1: 3,520,000 at 0.5 μm; 832,000 at 1 μm, and 29,300 at 5 μm, Rollprint reports.
"There is a big difference between 'cleanroom environments' that some manufacturers claim they have, and actual cleanroom certification. We are pleased to be able to announce that we have met the rigorous certification criteria and are now producing pouches in our cleanroom," Hahn explained in the statement.
According to Rollprint, Rollprint Chairman of the Board Robert Dodrill designed and commercialized the foil header pouch in 1978. "Many of the packaging structures used today for pharma and medical device applications—such as film and foil header pouches, coextruded, peelable heat-seal films and silicon oxide/aluminum oxide composites—were first introduced to the industry by Rollprint. The new cleanroom capability builds on that legacy," said Hahn.
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What about using smaller barrels? Why is the traditional barrel the size it is? I think that smaller barrels would give you more filtering and more "goodies" (I like the way you put that) per gallon of bourbon, which would lead to a different character in the bourbon.
I also wonder about the feasability of chopping up large barrels and somehow making smaller barrels out of them for home use. I'd think that it would actually be somewhat difficult, but I think they'd sell fairly well. I'd certainly like to have a half dozen myself.


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Yes. And? There are indeed a lot of people who are ill-informed and even smugly so on a number of things. What can be done about this? What are you doing about this? What does wondering about a certain, specfic group's response to this particular event do to solve the problem you've highlighted?
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December 1, 2015
A Northern Kentucky teenager has been banned from saying the word "Bingo" after shouting it in a Bingo hall, which created some confusion and anxiety.
"Old MacDonald had a farm. EIEIO."
Austyn Whaley battles temptation to sing a favorite song.
"Ringo was his name-o."
He's coming up with work-arounds.
"I try to say it backwards like 'ognib' or something along the lines of that."
It began at the Pike street bingo hall, as mostly elderly women played a game. Whaley walked in and hollered "bingo."
"They just looked at me, then looked back down."
Park hills officer Richard Webster sprang into action.
Whaley describes what happened next, saying, "Instantly, grabs my hand, handcuffs me, takes me to the back of his cruiser."
The citation reads in part, the 'violator' caused 'alarm to patrons.'
Austyn's mom and sister are eager to help him.
B-4 he yells again, they've forced Austyn to change his dog walking route, ensuring he doesn't pass the bingo hall.
Austyn says the Kenton County Judge asked if he was serious when he described why he was charged with disorderly conduct.
"He's a good guy. I'm glad that he -- I wasn't the only one who thought the charge was crazy. I'm glad he was really cool about it."
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Mall shooting victim: 'You can't describe what it feels like'
PORTLAND, Ore. – 15-year-old Kristina Shevchenko, who was shot and badly injured during the deadly shooting at the Clackamas Town Center earlier this month, said she didn't fully realize what was going on until she saw people running and screaming in terror.
Kristina said she and her best friend were taking a shortcut through the mall on their way home from school on Tuesday, Dec. 11. She was on the second floor near Macy's when she saw a masked man who was dressed in black and carrying a gun.
"I only saw him for an instant," Kristina said in an interview on Saturday. "I didn't even realize it was a real gun. I thought it was maybe a prank or maybe a paintball gun.
"I didn't even realize to run until everybody was running. There was people screaming, so everybody was running."
She hid behind a pillar and ran into Macy's. Kristina said she was shot while she was running.
"I did feel a huge amount of pressure and pain," she said. "You can't describe what it feels like."
A Macy's employee who was helping people get out of the mall walked Shevchenko and her friend outside.
"We came outside, we didn't know where to go because all the cops were so focused on the shooter and getting everybody outside the building," Kristina said.
Police didn't believe she was hurt until an officer saw holes in Shevchenko's sweater.
"We tried to tell her that I was shot, but I guess because I was walking practically on my own, she didn't really believe it," said Kristina. "The female cop put me into a police car where we were waiting for paramedics."
Kristina was the only surviving victim of the shooting. Two people, Steve Forsyth and Cindy Yuille, were shot dead before the shooter, 22-year-old Jacob Tyler Roberts, killed himself in the mall.
Kristina's trauma surgeon, Dr. Laszlo Kiraly, said she came to Oregon Health and Science University "seriously wounded with an assault rifle wound to the chest."
She was awake when she arrived, but her lung and liver were seriously damaged.
Kristina was released from the hospital earlier this week. She says she's doing just about everything on her own now.
"It's a miracle I am recovering as quick as I am from all my injuries," she said. "A lot of people were praying and keeping me and my family in their thoughts. That does have a big impact."
Kristina said she plans to return to the mall and she doesn't blame the shooter for what happened to her.
"He might have had a hard life. I don't know what his life was like or his reasons for doing what he did. So I can't exactly blame him," said Kristina.
"I know that God has his eyes on us. He has angels on everyone's shoulders," she said. "He's especially watching out for my family."


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A photo released Aug. 8 shows Syrian army tanks parked on the side of a road during an alleged pursuit of opposition fighters in the Latakia province, western Syria. (Agence France Presse via Syrian Arab News Agency)
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The debate has shifted from whether the U.S. will attack Syria to punish President Bashar al-Assad for a chemical weapons attack allegedly carried out by his forces to what day the attack will start.
Syria is a police state run by Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam, who are a religious minority. For more than two years, Assads forces have been battling the fractured opposition, which includes al-Qaida fighters. Here is what you need to know about the Assads military capabilities:
1. Men under arms. In addition to the Syrian military, which has between 70,000 and 80,000 troops, Assad can call upon Alawite militia members, said Christopher Swift, a professor of national security studies at Georgetown University. The militia which one media report put at 100,000 members is most effective in defending its neighborhoods against Sunni rebels.
The Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah has sent thousands of fighters to Syria, but its main mission is to transport young men who want to martyr themselves in battle rather than taking on the rebels directly, Swift says.
Assad also has support from hundreds of advisers from Irans Qods Force, which is mostly concerned with combating al-Qaida fighters.
2. Focus on internal threats. Over the past decade, the Syrian military has shifted its emphasis from projecting power outside of the country to maintaining internal security, Swift said. Thats why Syria has bought hundreds of Russian transport and attack helicopters and has upgraded its air defense systems.
They also have a lot of tube artillery ... I mean, mortars, howitzers, the ability to put a lot of lead downrange, Swift said.
3. Good esprit de corps. The Syrian army is much tougher than the Iraqi military under Saddam Hussein, Swift said. While some Sunnis and Christians have defected, the Syrian military remains an Alawite force that is committed to maintaining the states control over other ethnic groups.
If you look at the Alawite officer corps, those are the people who are at the pinnacle of society in terms of status and in terms of their economic well being, theyre also a minority, so theyre not just fighting for their country and fighting for their unit, theyre fighting for their clan and tribe, Swift said.
4. Well equipped. Assads forces arent hurting for arms and equipment, said Rebecca Grant, a defense analyst with IRIS Independent Research.
That place is stuffed with Russian-made military equipment of all types thats from helicopters to armored vehicles, Grant said. We dont know how much of it is in first-class order obviously, quite a bit of it is being used on a regular basis but the inventory there is more than what weve seen. It wouldnt half surprise me if they have more than the Iraqis.
5. Sophisticated air defenses. It would take months to take out Assads air defenses, Grant said. For one thing, Assads forces have a worrying number of man-portable air defense systems [MANPADS], which are shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles.
The red flags there for me are just the sheer numbers of MANPADS available, the fact that they do have fairly new, revamped air defenses and that theyve concentrated on building them up with Russias help since 2007, Grant said. When you have as much of an air defense as they have and as many MANPADS, youve got a constant level of risk.
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It is time for Congress to implement reforms that deal humanely with the millions of immigrants here illegally, while safeguarding the nation's borders against further illegal entry.
The Senate recently passed a bill that could accomplish those goals, but unfortunately, there is every indication that the House will reject the bill and many of its provisions.
The immigration reform package includes a "pathway to citizenship" for the 11 million -mostly Hispanic - undocumented people in the United States, and opponents liken that provision to the 1986 Amnesty Act. They point to the law as an example of good intentions gone awry.
The amnesty law, credited to the administration of conservative icon Ronald Reagan, granted permanent residency to nearly 3 million undocumented residents with the condition that border security would be tightened. But the latter didn't happen as intended.
Consequently, conservatives want the border secure before granting concessions to undocumented immigrants.
Their reluctance is understandable.
But the current bipartisan Senate bill is far from the more lenient 1986 law, which conservatives blame for the subsequent influx of undocumented workers.
While neither the 1986 nor the 2013 immigration bills are true amnesty - which implies an unconditional pardon - the Reagan-era law comes far closer to it.
The 1986 Amnesty Act allowed immigrants here illegally to file for temporary residency, pay a filing fee of $185. If they could show they had no criminal record. In 18 months, they could gain permanent residency through a green card.
A special program was created to help agricultural workers get their green cards. They had only to demonstrate seasonal work experience. Others had to demonstrate a knowledge of English and U.S. civics.
The 2013 Senate bill is far more exacting.
Undocumented workers would have to pay a fine, pass a criminal background check and pay back taxes, just to get temporary legal status.
In 10 years, they could apply for a green card, but only if they maintained a clean record and held down a job. Once the green card is granted, they could apply for citizenship three years later, making the pathway to citizenship a minimum 13-year journey.
The current legal process requires immigrants to obtain a green card when they enter the country and are eligible for citizenship within about five years, according to a spokesperson for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service.
The Senate bill also calls for ramping up border security. It includes $30 billion to double the size of the U.S. Border Patrol to nearly 40,000 agents, according to USA Today. Another $8 billion would pay for drones, helicopters, airplanes and surveillance technology to monitor the 2,000 miles of border between the United States and Mexico.
In addition, the E-Verify program, which allows employers to verify employees' status online, would be expanded. There would also be fingerprinting of all foreigners leaving the country to help track how many foreign visitors may have overstayed their visas.
This sounds like a stringent, but feasible plan.
It's time to face facts and adopt a pragmatic solution to the immigration problem.
The fact is that 11 million people already are in this country illegally. They work, mostly at the jobs Americans refuse to take. Their employers need a stable workforce of people willing to get their hands dirty.
Are they taking jobs from Americans? How many high school graduates - or dropouts, for that matter - are clamoring for seasonal work harvesting rice or soybeans or the grittier manufacturing jobs?
The bill does also allow for highly skilled workers in the field of technology, but the vast majority will work at low-skilled jobs in fields like construction, retail and hospitality.
We urge members of the House to adopt the Senate version of the immigration reform bill and stop the seemingly endless debate on the subject.
It is long past time to accept reality and put in place measures that will give this country a safer and more secure southern border, while bringing millions of workers out of the shadows and under the law.


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It's a bit early to make any credible predictions, but I'll take an early stab in the dark and say the Braves win the NL East. ...
First off, they're killing the ball. Atlanta leads the Majors in home runs with 29. Justin Upton has hit a league-leading nine of those dingers himself. Round-trippers are instant runs, and at the end of the day, the team that wins is the team with more runs than the other guys.


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Pushing this idea a bit further.The thought is to have a area just big enough to sit in and heat water, that you can stick you legs out of into a bivy for just you legs ... and have it bug proof.Keep in mind the leg area would lay loose not stiff like it is in the model but the tarp would be staked at the hips so it would be taught at your side like it shows.Netting around bottom and up to arched tarp edgesAn all cuben design.The only concern is getting airflow for moisture.
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This reminds me of the "Pocket Hotel" by Early Winters.
Exactly what I have in mind but think around 7 ounces total weight.
Edited by ctracyverizon on 09/13/2012 06:08:26 MDT.
I too have thought about this type of design, but the reality is that when I experimented with it the complications and weight savings diminished it's value. Your design has the pole straight up, which greatly reduces it's utility...I'd want to be able to sit up to change clothes, etc. Now you're dealing with offsetting the pole or using two poles to free up the room. I have been using a 10 oz similar shelter this year but it's only for sleeping (I wrote an article under "multiuse gear" earlier). Once you get into the 10 oz range and beyond then a cuben tent like a ZPacks starts to make more sense. I found that trying to stake out a slanted pole (to create interior room) became such a complicated hassle that I pitched that idea and ended up with using a flexible delrin rod instead to keep fabric off my face.http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=58916&skip_to_post=502989#502989
Stephen - Your input is much appreciated.I had two poles in mind to free up the center as I hike with poles.
Edited by ctracyverizon on 09/13/2012 06:05:11 MDT.
If you want the modularity to be able to separate the bivy that's one thing, but I don't know what this saves in function or weight over just making a ShangriLa/Mid style shelter out of cuben.http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=39259
I am trying to do two things1) come up with an enclosed shelter that is the lightest possible usable space.2) make use of scrap material
Edited by ctracyverizon on 09/13/2012 06:07:22 MDT.
Your design is moving closer to an old one, the Bivvy Bug Niche.[this is an observation, not criticism...]I do like the SketchUp models.
If you use walking poles, then they can obviously be used to support the shelter. Some other examples can be found here.The crossed poles idea I've thought of using means that they sort of self-supporting, i.e. they don't need some other means to hold them apart.
This image made me rethink everything ... LOL!I can only imagine what my hiking buddies would do to me at night if I was in this : )I think I am going the hexamid rout!
> This image made me rethink everything ... LOL!Ah, you found R_Mac's blog, then...
I am going this direction now : )I know there nothing new to these but it's fun to morph designs together.I like the idea of offsetting the poles and having guy lines squared off them for stability.The thought was to have small pockets on the floor for the hiking pole handles to sit in and a plastic pyramid cup at the top for the pole tips to sit in.
Edited by ctracyverizon on 09/14/2012 14:33:48 MDT.
It is starting to look like an SMD Gatewood or Wild Oasis-- what I call a "stealth fighter" look. I think it is natural design progression when trying to surround a human body outline and have one peak. Keep thinkin' and tweakin' and thanks for sharing.
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The man convicted in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood in 2009 that left 13 dead is asking to become a "citizen" of the Islamic State in a letter to the militant group's leader.
Nidal Hasan, 43, the army psychiatrist sentenced to death last year by a military jury, addressed his letter to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who heads the Islamic State, Fox News reported.
"I formally and humbly request to be made a citizen of the Islamic State," Hasan says in the handwritten, two-page document obtained by Fox News. "It would be an honor for any believer to be an obedient citizen soldier to a people and its leader who don't compromise the religion of All-Mighty Allah to get along with the disbelievers."
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"The letter states that Nadal Hasan wants to become a citizen of the Islamic State caliphate," Galligan told CNN. "He wrote it in the last few weeks."
At his trial, the Virginia-born Muslim admitted he was responsible for the Nov. 5, 2009, attack that also wounded 31. He had previously said that he was a "soldier of Allah" and deserved martyrdom, and that his attack was designed to protect Muslim insurgents abroad.
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Any notion of growing disappointment was left out of President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech last week. It shouldn't have been.
The seeds of discontent are being sowed across America. Obama is more prolific than Johnny Appleseed. Obama hit on the familiar: The wealthy are not paying enough; the middle class is getting shortchanged. Noteworthy was that Warren Buffett's secretary Debbie Bosanek had a seat to hear the speech. It's too bad for Obama that they couldn't make room for Buffet's many housekeepers and groundskeepers.
Obama did not and will not admit this fact even though America is struggling to sustain an economic recovery while energy costs are rising and the budget deficit is in uncharted territory. However, he did immediately hit upon the wealthy. Just as Congress had taken their seats, the President said: "We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by."
Toward the end of his address, Obama said: "Now, you can call this class warfare all you want." That's exactly what Obama is calling it.
Had Obama been honest, he would have admitted that the United States is an empire in decline and that his Presidency has only accelerated the Nation's demise.
I wonder what author John Steinbeck would think of the current State of the Union. After all, his masterpiece was The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939. It is a fictional account of personal hardships brought about by the Great Depression.
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The title of Steinbeck 's last book, The Winter Of Our Discontent, was derived from the first line of William Shakespeare's play "Richard III": "Now is the winter of our discontent."
Richard III died more than a century before Shakespeare wrote a play about him. History made note of him because he dragged England into one of its bloodiest civil wars.
Richard III was also the basis for Shakespeare's fictional king, a man who was cunning, conniving and charismatic. It was his charisma that made it so difficult for those that opposed his rule and who wanted to expose his evil.
Shakespeare's Richard III presents himself as the rightful heir to the throne, pretending to be a modest and devout man, lacking of great ambition. What the audience already knows is that Richard is devoid of all these qualities. He even announces it: "I am determined to prove a villain and hate the idle pleasures of these days."
So begins the story of destruction at the hands of a tyrant who has created a poisonous atmosphere within his court and even beyond its walls.
Some people might suggest that nowadays another real-life Richard III has taken up residence in the White House. I don't know about you, but I feel like I have been strapped down and forced to watch this tragedy play out.
Already the dominoes of America's demise are lined up. They all will tumble if Obama is re-elected.
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In Shakespeare's play, Richard says: "The world is grown so bad."
Last April, Obama said: "We've got some global enormous challenges out there." The President could easily have said the same refrain as Richard.
Like Richard III, Obama has done much to make things worse as was pointed out earlier this month when the GOP Presidential front-runner appeared on NBC's Today Show, hosted by Matt Lauer. According to Mitt Romney, Obama is creating an atmosphere that is dividing the country, especially with regard to the public protesting that happened late last year.
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I think it's about envy. I think it's about class warfare. I think when you have a president encouraging the idea of dividing American based on 99 percent vs. one percent, and those people who have been most successful would be in the one percent, you've opened a whole new wave of approach in this country, which is entirely inconsistent with the notion of one nation under God.
The Washington Examiner agreed wholeheartedly with Romney. A Jan. 12 editorial read:
Liberals like Lauer may not like to hear that Obama is sowing envy and class warfare by attacking capitalism, but two new polls from the Pew Research Center show that is exactly what is going on. Two weeks ago, Pew released a poll showing that support for capitalism has fallen since Obama began promoting the issue of income inequality. Not only that, but most people in three demographics highly supportive of Obama (the young, liberals, and African-Americans) told Pew they now support socialism. Except for blacks, that was not true before Obama was elected.
… Pew has released a different poll showing growing numbers of Americans believe there are deep conflicts between rich and poor. Overall, 66 percent of Americans now say there are "very strong" or "strong" conflicts between the rich and poor, a 19 point increase since 2009.
Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) called Obama "a divider, not a uniter." He added that Obama is trying to promote envy among lower-income Americans who are struggling to find work so he can expand the government.
"He's using class warfare; he's dividing America," Gohmert said in an interview with the Daily Caller. "He's trying to say, if you don't have a job, then you need to look around and be jealous of people who have money, who have a job, and want what they have."
Dividing a nation for political and personal gain was what Richard III did. Obama is no different. We can only hope that like Richard III, Obama loses his realm; that last week's speech was his final State of the Union Address.
It may take a revolt on the part of Democrats to save the Nation. Keep in mind Richard's downfall came during the Battle of Bosworth Field only after his loyalists deserted him.
As Shakespeare wrote, the battle raged and Richard was knocked from his horse crying: "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"
He never got that horse. Only then did England rebuild and unite.
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However, although he might have lost some votes from tea party Republicans, McConnell did the right thing by working with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, to broker a compromise that helped reopen the government, and we even support him for helping to secure $2.9 billion in additional funding for a troubled lock and dam project on the Ohio River.
Our reasoning is simple: Allowing the federal government to default on its loan obligations, or killing a project that is critical to transporting goods on the Ohio River, had the potential of devastating the economy of this region. ...
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The Senate Conservatives Fund was established by former Republican U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, who now is head of the conservative Heritage Foundation. DeMint has angered establishment Republicans by encouraging primary challenges, some of which resulted in unexpected Democratic Senate wins in 2012 and cost the GOP a chance at gaining a Senate majority.
Just what effect the SCF's endorsement of Bevin will have on the 2014 Senate Race in Kentucky remains to be seen but, for our part, while we can think of many reasons to criticize McConnell's action during the past six years, working to reopen the government and to assure the funding continues for the Olmstead Locks and Dam project in western Kentucky are not among them. ...
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