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At least that's what the state Department of Environmental Protection would have us believe, because that's the ridiculous price it's charging the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company for a 25-foot-wide swath through 23 miles of the Highlands Region:
Twenty acres in a 24-year lease for $180,000.
The pipeline company, by the way, is a subsidiary of a Fortune 500 company — accent on fortune. The pipeline, which will help deliver natural gas to customers in New York and Pennsylvania, will create hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
It's a complicated deal, so we'll simplify it: Millions upon millions in profits for a Texas-based business. Squat for New Jersey taxpayers.
But wait: You think $375 an acre is a bargain? Well, the DEP's original deal would have leased the land for $95 an acre — based on an appraisal by a state-certified appraiser. (Come on, even Erik Estrada couldn't market land at these prices with a straight face.) Only after environmentalists, legislators and other activists howled was the price raised — from absurd to you're-still-kidding-right?
The DEP says it negotiated another $2 million in mitigation fees, but that's still chump change given the habitat-rich land involved.
At a time when the state is struggling to pay for basic services, the DEP is giving away land — an invaluable public resource — at land-rush prices. As state Sen. Robert Smith (D-Middlesex) said after voting against the deal: "The taxpayers got taken."
Handing over land, at reasonable prices, to non-profits is one thing. But this isn't a hiking trail; it's a profit-generating pipeline.
The deal was so bad the DEP tried to keep it quiet. The 24-year pact skirts a law that requires public hearings on leases of 25 years or longer. Assistant DEP commissioner Amy Cradic's comment that this is what the DEP "typically had done in the past" makes us wonder: Are we going to read about DEP land deals in an SCI report someday?
The DEP must clean up its act. It must require public hearings on all leases and sales, and appraise based on the use, infrastructure being placed on the land, and the profits it will generate.
Because the last time someone was swindled this badly on a real estate deal, beads were involved.

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Those who bemoaned "The Walking Dead" season 4 for being a little too slow-moving just couldn't stay away for the finale.
AMC's wildly popular zombie thriller's episode Sunday night was the most-watched finale in the show's history, bringing in 15.7 million viewers and 10.2 million adults ages 18-49, the network announced today.
The bold and intense episode left us with a cliffhanger, as Rick Grimes, Carl, Michonne and the gang are left locked inside a rail car, held captive by the leaders of Terminus, a "sanctuary" the group hoped would bring them some peace.
The program's post-show companion "Talking Dead" topped its marks, delivering a series record as 7.3 million viewers tuned in to see host Chris Hardwick interview "Walking Dead" star Andrew Lincoln and showrunner Scott Gimple.
"The Walking Dead" season 4 also set a new high for average viewership, with 13.3 million live/same day viewers tuning in.
The spike in ratings aren't much of a surprise, considering season 4 premiered Oct. 13, 2013 to 20.2 million viewers and 13.2 million adults 18-49, a record for any non-sports cable program, the network said.
"The linear television business is Dead and well," said AMC President Charlie Collier. "Thanks to Robert Kirkman, Scott Gimple, the other terrific executive producers and the entire cast, crew and network for working together to bring the fans (myself included) another unforgettable season of 'The Walking Dead.'"
Fans now must wait until October for the show's season 5 return.


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Tai chi chuan is an internal Chinese martial art often practiced for health reasons. Tai chi is typically practiced for a variety of reasons: its soft martial techniques, demonstration competitions, health and longevity. Consequently, a multitude of training forms exist, both traditional and modern, which correspond to those aims. Some of tai chi chuan's training forms are well known to Westerners as the slow motion routines that groups of people practice together every morning in parks around the world, particularly in China.
Today, tai chi has spread worldwide. Most modern styles of tai chi trace their development to at least one of the five traditional schools: Chen, Yang, Wu/Hao, Wu and Sun. The origins and creation of tai chi are a subject of much argument and speculation. However, the oldest documented tradition is that of the Chen family from the 1820s.
The physical techniques of tai chi chuan are described in the tai chi classics (a set of writings by traditional masters) as being characterized by the use of leverage through the joints based on coordination in relaxation, rather than muscular tension, in order to neutralize or initiate attacks. The slow, repetitive work involved in the process of learning how that leverage is generated gently and measurably increases, opens the internal circulation (breath, body heat, blood, lymph, peristalsis, etc.)
Tai chi classes have become popular in hospitals, clinics, community and senior centers in the last twenty years or so, as baby boomers age and the art's reputation as a low stress training for seniors became more well-known. As a result of this popularity, there has been some divergence between those who say they practice tai chi primarily for self-defense, those who practice it for its aesthetic appeal (see wushu below), and those who are more interested in its benefits to physical and mental health. The wushu aspect is primarily for show; the forms taught for those purposes are designed to earn points in competition and are mostly unconcerned with either health maintenance or martial ability. More traditional stylists believe the two aspects of health and martial arts are equally necessary: the yin and yang of tai chi chuan. The tai chi "family" schools therefore still present their teachings in a martial art context, whatever the intention of their students in studying the art.
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Interview: Michael Barker talks 'Midnight in Paris,' 'Take Shelter' and 20 years of Sony Classics
"It's an exciting day," Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker says by phone the day his company's films racked up eight Independent Spirit Award nominations last week. "I'm really happy for 'Take Shelter.' If ever there was a movie that justified the Independent Spirit Awards, it's a movie like 'Take Shelter.'"
Indeed, Jeff Nichols' stripped-down focus on a father and a husband's descent into paranoia was a modest affair, and the intimacy of the production, actor Michael Shannon said in advance of the film's release, is what drove the characters and the relationships on the screen. And it's most heartening, Barker says, that Shannon is getting recognition.
"I'm really thrilled that the guy's finally getting his dues," he says. "My partner [Sony Classics co-president Tom Bernard] and I, I mean, we think this is like the greatest actor going right now. We saw him in this play off Broadway and he knocked our socks off, which helped cause us to make an offer on the movie before we'd even seen it. And then 'Boardwalk Empire' this year, this season he's just amazing."
But "Take Shelter" is just a slice of the Sony Classics pie this year, as the company -- celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2011 -- has a typically full slate of awards contenders to nurture.
There is Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris," which has been held in theaters long enough to become a box office story and is a definite contender for major Oscar recognition. There is "A Dangerous Method," David Cronenberg's study of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. There is also "Carnage," adapted from the hit play "God of Carnage" with a delicious cast.
And then there are the foreign films. Sony Classics has always been a haven and an outlet for international cinema, starting with Pedro Almodóvar, well into his second decade of being in business with Barker and Bernard and releasing "The Skin I Live In" this year. Typically their acquisitions dominate the list of Oscar nominees for Best Foreign Language Film. This year they're also releasing "In Darkness," "Footnote" and "A Separation," among others.
But "Take Shelter" was the dominant film for Barker at the Spirits, amid a the usual array surprises, he says.
"The Spirit Awards always surprises me and it's always a mixed blessing," he says. "There's no Glenn Close, there's no George Clooney, there's no Woody Allen, but then it dawns on me, okay, been there before. I remember when we had 'The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada' and it was nominated in every category but Best Actor and Best Director. And I remember 'Get Low,' it got nominations but not Best Actor for Robert Duvall. It's really obvious they shy away from the kind of established names, and to me that's kind of frustrating. But then I'm thrilled that Darius Khondji and Corey Stoll (cinematographer and star of 'Midnight in Paris,' respectively] get recognized."
When it comes to a heavy slate of contenders, though, especially those from the indie sector, it can be difficult to know where to place your chips. Early on an emphasis was placed on lead actress consideration for Jodie Foster in "Carnage." The film's entire quartet has since been announced as supporting for the purposes of awards campaigning and is a bit of a long-shot at best. "A Dangerous Method" hasn't really picked up steam in the precursor circuit, either. You have to keep your finger to the wind and note when it shifts, allowing the season to help make your decisions along the way.
"Every year we push everything that we feel has any possibility," Barker says, "and as these things get announced and as the critics and the journalists write about them, you're able to focus on what your possibilities are. But you kind of start pretty wide, you know, with things that you think are possible. Something I was really disappointed in is that Vera Farmiga was not nominated for the Best First Film or Best Actress [for her film 'Higher Ground'], and I really think she deserved that. She was nominated for the Gotham Awards. So you get these surprises, but every one of these groups is really different in their makeup, in their demographics, in the way they choose these things. I don't think we've ever given any one short shrift that has an opportunity."
And so a showing like "Take Shelter" had with Independent Spirit Award nominations, nailing down bids for Best Feature, Best Director, Best Male Lead, Best Supporting Female and the Piaget Producers Award, can be encouraging. It can be added fuel for dying embers or the much-needed spark of life to sending an entry on its way through the season.
"In years past when we've gotten a substantial number of nominations, you realize there is a possibility that a Jeff Nichols might be considered [by the Academy] for screenplay, or Michael Shannon for Best Actor," Barker says. "I mean, two years ago when we had 'Frozen River,' it was really these nominations that we felt put Melissa Leo and Courtney Hunt kind of in people's faces. And then they're both nominated for the Oscars. So you never know what's going to happen, but it certainly makes things be a little more possible."
The other notable film for the company so far has been Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris," which has made nearly $56 million at the domestic box office to become the director's highest grossing film to date. Since its Cannes debut and subsequent counter-programming summer release, the film has stirred talk of Oscar consideration. Barker zeroes in on why he thinks the film has succeeded: It has something to do with the emotional climate of the times.
"I think because of the volatility of what everyone's going through with the economic crisis, I think there is a tendency for audiences to prefer less-serious movies," he says. "And I think in that atmosphere a film like 'Midnight in Paris' can really take off."
And Barker feels that Sony Classics' experience with Allen's latest has been a real confirmation that the company's approach to releasing films really works. The film was slated for a May 20 release, going up against "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," and by design. "We said, 'We're the alternative entertainment,'" Barker says. "Everybody else was afraid of that date. We had planned a kind of slow release. The opening was so huge that we moved up the wide date by two weeks and actually that wide date became 900-something screens as opposed to 600. And the whole plan was then going after the young audience for the July 4th weekend with spots that highlighted Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams, and the younger audiences started to come."
The film was pushed out yet again on November 30, to 300+ screens, looking to capitalize on the modest awards exposure it's seen so far. It's set for DVD and Blu-ray release on December 20, a date that was also pushed back as it was seen as a solid bet for holiday business.
Meanwhile, Sony Classics has rather quietly celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. It's an observation Barker is flattered by. Not of the anniversary itself, but of the modest manner in which it's been celebrated.
"Yes, Tom and I, as of September, have been together 30 years, but we're celebrating our 20th anniversary in December," he says. "And you know what? I'm happy you said that, because Tom and I have always felt it's about the films and it's about the filmmakers and we want to put them out front, and I was hoping that would be the impression."
And the highlight reel is long and memorable for Barker, naturally. There are too many to name, but I push him for a few memories.
"I mean, the number of films we've had with Pedro and Agustin Almodóvar, we've grown with them over many films and it's been really gratifying, both personally and professionally," he says. "But there's so many moments over the years, you know, the success of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'; doing that, pulling that off was so exciting. There are just moments throughout our career, the first film, 'Howard's End,' and 'An Education.'
"I, of course, have personal favorites, like 'Waltz with Bashir.' I'll never forget the moment we sent the film to the Academy and we said, 'We're not sure which categories this film qualifies for.' Bruce Davis called me up and said, 'We may have a first: we have a film that qualifies for Best Picture, Best Foreign Film, Best Documentary, and Best Animated Feature.' And then movies like 'A Prophet' and 'The White Ribbon.' We feel like we really make a difference to those films, and those films have the kind of perfection that become evergreens. We are so fortunate"
Here's to 20 more years.
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The latest speculation yon a thinkable escape of Greece from the euro or almost a Greek default is particularly established on the evidently self-defeating front-loaded meticulous austerity measures that the "troika" of EU-IMF-ECB has naively imposed on Greece. Greece is indeed in need of reforms in just there everything, no objection to that. Besides the cocktail of austerity measures that is implemented (which is rumour has it cardinal to these reforms) plunges the true thriftiness into an unprecedented dip, killing away its last-standing strong parts. The economic downturn in Greece is deepening and more austerity wish alone worsen it, something which is also proven around the free-falling GDP of the country.
What the decision-makers of Europe prove inadequate to speech on every settled justification, including the case of Greece, is the crucial difficulty on account of mercantile growth - words that sound to be missing from the vocabulary of most European leaders. The fiscal-discipline delusions on one swiftly and the political rigidities of the pattern on the other have led us all to a kettle of fish whereby we can only keep one's eyes open for the euro edifice unraveling, unless a quintessential silver in approach is undeniable (which I hesitation - but there certainly are alternatives).
The reasons our leaders are unqualified to yield a therapy to our malady, is that they comprise not understood what we suffer from. They sooner a be wearing not conceded that the emergency is systemic and simultaneously unfolds in three realms that are interconnected. Those are (a) liable turning-point across the eurozone, (b) quasi-bankrupt banking sector emergency, (c) under-investment danger, all down the euro scope, with scattering exceptions, but especially in the periphery.
Any appropriate bodily can take that addressing not single dimension of the danger while completely omitting the other two is pretty much self-defeating, while in our lawsuit it also has seriously unpleasant ramifications, since the politically precarious and economically illiterate praxis of using taxpayer lolly to support the coloured holes of the approach, fuels euroskepticism and gives populist politicians the chance to haul up their vogue not later than cultivating groundless racist propaganda. All this becomes in spite of worse when a group of states is unreservedly accused as a replacement for causing the turning-point, which is a deeply lousy modus vivendi = 'lifestyle' of hiding the natural problems under the carpet.
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PM John Key held a short press conference today giving his condolences to the quake and tsunami victims and explained how New Zealand will give assistance to Japan.
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A's select Gray with first-round Draft pick
With the 18th overall pick in the first round of the First-Year Player Draft, the A's on Monday continued a decade-long college trend and selected right-handed pitcher Sonny Gray out of Vanderbilt University.
Gray, a 21-year-old who just completed his junior season, was 11-3 with a 2.01 ERA in 16 starts for Vanderbilt this year. He struck out 115 in 107 2/3 innings and compiled a 1.04 WHIP.
Coming out of high school in 2008, Gray dropped to the Cubs in the 27th round primarily because of his strong commitment to Vanderbilt. Listed at only 5-foot-11 and 200 pounds, the young hurler has faced countless questions about his small stature but is said to boast tremendous makeup.
Gray, an aggressive pitcher early in the count who will take the quick outs, owns a power fastball that cruises along at 92-95 miles per hour and has the potential to reach up to 97 when necessary. He also boasts a plus curveball and locates his changeup well.
The A's will now look toward the 105th pick (third round) and 136th pick (fourth round). They relinquished their second-round choice to Tampa Bay when they signed Type A free-agent reliever Grant Balfour in the offseason.
Anderson to have elbow examined
MLB.com has learned that lefty Brett Anderson has left the team and flown back to the Bay Area today to have his elbow examined. According to a source, Anderson believes Tommy John surgery may be a definite possibility if the ulnar collateral ligament is torn. The A's southpaw endured two stints on the disabled list with elbow problems — mostly inflammation — last year that limited him to just 19 starts.
Following Sunday's loss in Boston, Anderson noted that his slider, normally his best pitch, has not been as sharp as normal, nor has it brought about its usual velocity.
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While I do not believe that the First Amendment would suffer grievous harm if we drew a distinction between flames and speech, such is not the present state of the law. Unless NJT has some other basis for this termination, it will lose a civil rights case and plaintiff will recover legal fees. (Indeed, as a lawyer, I would happily take his case!!) Hence, unless there is more to the story than meets the eye, the man should IMMEDIATELY be reinstated and issued a formal apology. THAT is the fiscally prudent course of action to take. UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: I've been calling the state Department of transportation all day to get a statement on the reasons for the firing. They haven't called back. I suspect we had a case here of act first, think second.(Original post continues below):
Unbelievable. After first coming to the defense of that imam who wants to build a mosque near the World Trade Center, our governor denies the free-speech rights of a New Jerseyan who protested the imam's actions.
Would NJ Transit have fired the guy if he'd burned an American flag? Would Christie have called for his firing if it had been Old Glory that went up in flames?
Or would that have been "a political football" he didn't want to catch?
That's the question, and I'd love to hear your answer.
ALSO: Looks like Christie has managed to come out to be even more p.c. than the ACLU on this one. A New York Civil Liberties Union spokesman was quoted saying that the Supreme Court "has recognized a constitutional right to burn the flag. Burning the Koran would be protected as well."The article from the American Thinker makes the argument that the United States is now engaged in enforcing Islamic sharia law. That may be a bit of a stretch, but again there's something a little weird when Koran-burning is punished but flag-burning protected.As for me, I don't personally support koran-burning. I subscribe to H.L. Mencken's dictum: "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." But if government is going to get involved in regulating this sort of thing, then rights have to be respected on both sides. I got tired of hearing - over and over and over again from people all the way up to President Obama - that the imam has a constitutional right to build that mosque. No doubt about it. But a right is a restriction on government. And the government indeed has no business telling the imam what he can build on private property. If that's the case, though, the government also has no business telling a N.J. Transit employee what political beliefs he can express in his private life. And burning a koran is the expression of a political view, just like burning a flag.As for Christie, why he wanted to insert himself in the middle of this one is beyond me. He had a lot of people fooled into thinking he was a right-winger but once again he's revealed himself to be a mushy moderate. Not that there's anything wrong with that - but I don't think Rush Limbaugh will keep having that crush on him. He might not even be asking for a second date. By the way. go to this link to read not just about Rush but about the ultraliberal proponent of same-sex marriage Christie has nominated to the Civil Rights Commission. ALSO: Here's the N.J. Transit website. Can anyone find a code of ethics on it for employees? I can't. All I could find was the usual p.c. prattle about "diversity" - though we now know just how much diversity in political views NJ Transit tolerates.


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Miami is off to the poorest start by a big league team since Baltimore and Houston lost nine of their first 10 games in 2010, according to STATS.
Revere singled with one out in the 10th and Utley tripled into the right-field corner. Ryan Howard was intentionally walked, and Michael Young hit a hard grounder up the middle that shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria gloved with a dive. He flipped the ball to second baseman Donovan Solano, who missed stepping on the base as Utley scored on the infield hit.
Marlins right fielder Giancarlo Stanton was a late scratch with a sore left shoulder.
Phillippe Aumont (1-0) pitched a scoreless ninth, and Todd Papelbon finished for his second save with a scoreless 10th.
The crowd of 17,923 was up from 13,810 Wednesday, a record low for the ballpark that opened last year.


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Bell's open letter threatens job cuts, but asks for sympathyIt's hard to feel badly for the financial situation of a company that's able to take out a two-page spread to advertise its position against a government policy.
Payphones on the way out? CRTC to consider the effectsAh, the payphone: hot, smelly, and filled with dried gum, pen marks, and carvings from bored teenagers.
Bell getting nervous about Astral oppositionToday, newspaper sites around the country have been buzzing with news about a new proposal by Bell to put up an $80 million fund.
Bell/Astral battle heating upFirst it was Montreal's English-speaking sports fans, who were upset at the potential of TSN 990 to be switched to a French station as a result of Bell's proposed purchase ...
Advising on BCE's blockbuster $3.3 billion bid for AstralWith the ink still fresh on the proposed blockbuster $3.38-billion bid by BCE Inc. for Astral Media Inc.


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Conservatives love to talk about anal sex. And talk, and talk. To the point that it might be considered sexual harassment, at least in some environments. And let's face it — they are about as well informed about intercourse as they are about global warming. Not to mention rape. Remember Todd "legitimate rape" Akin?
One brilliant right-wing researcher, Dr. Judith Reisman, once complained that men are unable to have intercourse facing each other — so they do it doggie style, you know, like dogs. And isn't that pathetic? Geez, all it would take is a quick visit to PornMD to see gay men are quite cable of pulling off the good 'ol missionary position with aplomb.
But now that straights have begun embracing ass play — presumably there's a whole lot more straight sodomy going down than the gay variety — what's going to happen to all the folks who believe anal sex will lead to the downfall of western civilization? After all, there's nothing gay people do between the sheets that non-gay people don't also do.
Check out some of the most notable comments about man-on-man intercourse…
In the most recent example, Bob Frey, currently running for Minnesota House of Representatives, knows how AIDS is really caused:
"When you have egg and sperm that meet in conception, there's an enzyme in the front that burns through the egg. The enzyme burns through so the DNA can enter the egg. If the sperm is deposited anally, it's the enzyme that causes the immune system to fail. That's why the term is AIDS – acquired immunodeficiency syndrome."
South Dakota Republican Rep. Steve Hickey shared his feelings about "men with men" in a letter to the editor published in the Argus Leader, South Dakota's biggest newspaper, earlier this year:
"Pardon a crude comparison but regarding men with men, we are talking about a one-way alley meant only for the garbage truck to go down."
New Hampshire Republican Rep. Nancy Elliott knows what gay sex is all about and she wasn't afraid to share it with colleagues during a legislative session in 2010:
"We're talking about taking the penis of one man and putting it in the rectum of another man and wiggling it around in excrement!"
Televangelist Pat Robertson challenged gays to anally deliver babies in 2012:
"I defy these homosexuals to bring forth a baby from that part of the anatomy which they concentrate on, when that happens I will change everything I'm saying. Until that happens, I wish those demonstrators would shut their mouth."
Former gay porn star turned born again Christian Joseph Sciambra on the devastating effects taking it up the butt has had on his body:
"The anus was never designed — even if you don't believe in a God — was never designed by nature to accommodate the penis. When you do get involved with that activity, it causes a lot of physical damage. I can attest to that first hand because when I got out of porn I started having trouble right away. About two years after I had to have some surgeries that were horrible. I had to have my sphincter almost stitched shut. It was horrible!"
Linda Harvey educating people on the physical dangers of anal penetration:
"[A]ctual anatomical damage can occur through anal sex. This ought to serve as a big clue from God, in case we weren't paying attention."
Dr. Paul Cameron once circulated a pamphlet about gay "rectal intercourse":
"Tearing or ripping of the anal wall is especially likely with 'fisting,' where the hand and arm is inserted into the rectum. It is also common when 'toys' are employed (homosexual lingo for objects which are inserted into the rectum — bottles, carrots, even gerbils)."
Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa has us all figured out:
"I want to say homosexuals eat each other's poop. Homosexuals stick their hands into their rectum. Homosexuals stick all sorts of deviant sexual things into their rectum… And they call poo poo 'chocolate.' "
Maggie Gallagher, crusader for women, rants about why anal sex isn't a gay issue, it's a feminist one:
"Anal sex is painful, unsanitary, unsatisfying for women, and creates unique risks for serious physical diseases (if you doubt me, go read the Wikipedia entry on the subject) because the anus is not designed for sexual intercourse, increasing the risk of torn flesh and the intermingling of bodily fluids — blood, semen, fecal matter — that can spread an astonishing variety of diseases. The female partner is far more at risk than the man in these encounters. This should be a feminist issue."
Pastor Patrick Wooden eloquently speaks on the long-term side effects of anal intercourse:
"Who wants to practice anything that is going to ultimately lead a grown man to, about the time he's in his 40s or 50s, or what not, having to wear a diaper or a 'butt plug' just to be able to contain their bowels?"
Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson says gay sex is "just not logical":
"It seems like, to me, a vagina — as a man — would be more desirable than a man's anus. That's just me. I'm just thinking: There's more there! She's got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I'm saying? But hey, sin: It's not logical, my man. It's just not logical."
Just not logical, indeed.
*plenty of gays don't do it at all"
@Geoff B, why do you feel so obliged to mention that? Do you buy into the shaming? Are you one of those who worry their family will think they f*ck?
@vive: Pretty sure he said that, not out of shame, but simply because it's the truth, and it counters the right-wing claim that gays are all totally into the anal. I'm not into anal, either. I'm not ashamed, I just don't dig it.
But I'll happily talk to you about all the other things I do…
I wonder if that sperm enzyme could act like a facial peel! I can see it now….Bukakke Boutiques will be all the rage in Hollywood by end of the year! AWESOME! Finally TC and JT can justify all those guys blowing a load on them….
I would love to see the search history on their computers. They seem to be experts on anal sex between two men.
@Lvng1tor: I had a few guys use that line on me in my youth.
I'm in the medical field. Guess what? I have seen plenty more women who have given birth with prolapsed vaginas, uteri, bladders…Plenty more than I have seen ANY men with a prolapsed anything. Seems that heterosexual sex is far more damaging to the body and at much higher rates than homosexual sex.
@NoCagada: ..or the death rates for women back 100 years ago for child birth. Seems hetero sex without medical intervention can be quite deadly.
God forbid that anyone have sex purely for the purpose of pleasure, however they choose to have it. Right? [side eye]
Why did Queerty close the comments section on the article about President Obama and his Executive Order. I think people deserve to comment.
I guess Queerty also didn't want to publish an article about the Federal Government's recent study which found ONLY 1.9% of Americans are gay or bisexual. Those numbers fly in the face of what the gay community has said for years! That study came from the Federal government, which is headed by who? That's right: President Obama!
President Obama's Executive Order may not hurt him politically, but it will hurt Democratic Senators running in red states where religious conservatives hold sway. So he may cost the Democrats the control of the US Senate. Not a very smart move. Which only goes to show that Obama is a selfish politician. He cares about himself, but not other members of his own Party.
As far as this article goes, who cares what these jerks think?!
@unclemike, while I have never heard that claim, why does the "right wing claim that gays are all into anal" bother you? Why should we "counter" it according to you? I think you are just ashamed that people will think you are into anal. You realize that is also a kind of homophobia, don't you?
I can't believe Sciambra ever did porn. Probably not a big money maker. Maggie seems to know a lot about it. Republicans are overly interested in it, aren't they. Santorum can't bring up anything relating to gays without talking about anal sex. Maybe his name does have something to do with it.
"Who wants to practice anything that is going to ultimately lead a grown man to, about the time he's in his 40s or 50s, or what not, having to wear a diaper or a 'butt plug' just to be able to contain their bowels?"
What can you be taking in your azz that you need a diaper or butt plug? I LOVE anal sex, I like to tung a sexy tight one and my favorate position is having the legs on my shoulder so i can look in the eyes of the person im entering.
You have to be some kinda hoe to need a diaper from scewing when you are fortyish or fiftyish
@DarSco:Well, to be fair to the good Pastor Wooden I've seen some porn where the guys are sticking both fists in up to their elbows and clapping their hands inside. Kind of always wonder if the rectum was ever able to come back after that.
@Stache99: WHAT?!? OMFG! I have not seen that movie
@NoCagada: Actually, the sphincter is just a muscle, and like any muscle, the more you use it the stronger it becomes. So gay men who do have (receptive) anal sex are far less likely to have any kind of prolapse or similar issues. I'm not sure any studies have been done to prove this, but I do know that some studies have already suggested that gay men who have anal sex are less susceptible to colon cancer.
I do know that some studies have already suggested that gay men who have anal sex are less susceptible to colon cancer.
I'd be VERY interested (and frankly astonished) if you could provide some links to such studies.
'Cause what I've heard is that:
(a) human papilloma virus (HPV), which can be spread during anal intercourse, definitely INCREASES the risk of anal cancer (which, however, is distinct from colon cancer); and
(b) frequent and chronic irritation of tissues tends also tends to increase cancer risk, rather than decrease it.
If you take these two together, it seems unlikely to me that gay men who bottom would tend have a LOWER risk of colon cancer compared to the general population. Of course, it's possible that their colon-cancer risk isn't raised, either, but is about the same as for everyone else, even though gay bottoms might have a higher risk of anal cancer. (Again, anal cancer and colon cancer are different diseases, and one doesn't necessarily lead to the other!)
@vive: I think the relevance here is not that anyone thinks they should be ashamed of practicing anal, but that the homophobes are so fixated on anal sex as being something abhorrent that gay people do — while at the same time ignoring the fact that there's a lot more of it going on among heterosexuals than among gays.
According to a study released in 2011 by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Center for Health Statistics, 44 percent of men and 36 percent of women engage in anal sex. When you consider that gays are a small minority and a third of them are NOT into anal sex, there's obviously more anal going on among straight people.
Those whose principal objection to gay marriage is that we like this "disgusting" sex act should perhaps be lobbying to prevent heterosexuals from marrying.
The anti-gay groups try to portray these sex practices as being inherently unhealthy. They will tell the public that gays suffer from "homosexual bowel syndrome," an archaic medical term that you will no longer hear from any doctor — only from groups with "family" in their names, in their attempts to prove that gays are self-destructive. Bryan Fischer is one of the homophobes who keeps insisting that "most" gay men have to wear diapers. I've never known anyone who did — have you?
35 years of anal sex and 25 years of inserting objects much larger than a penis and no diapers yet! Unfortunately, even in our own community there are those who are those who use the same crackpot diaper warning on we who like the stimulation of toys and hands. They fail to understand, presumably from lack of personal experience, that its more about temporary relaxation, not stretching – all goes back to a state needed for practical daily living afterwards. I don't know anyone within this smaller community that likes toys and fists who has to wear diapers, even guys who have been doing it for 40 or 50 years. But I guess our society teaches us to dislike our butt holes from an early age and a lot of prudish adults never get over it.
@gaym50ish, sure, but that is not the intent of the commenters who, every time anal is discussed, just have to chip in that they are not like THOSE DIRTY PEOPLE who have ewwwwy anal sex, because heaven forbid straight people should think all gays are like THOSE PEOPLE.
@Stache99: And…GUESS WHAT?!? You can find straight porn where women are doing the same thing!
OMG! Maybe all those women with prolapsed sex organs aren't getting them from childbirth! Maybe, they're secretly into FISTING! DOUBLE FISTING!!!
Thanks I needed the laugh.
What about those married same-sex couples who only have oral sex with each other? About the only pain that comes from that is if one of them bites down too hard.
@vive: Vive, it's sad that most straight people assume that all gay men do have anal. Anal has decimated the gay community but you guys continue to do it and infect one another. People who do anal live very unhealthy lives. It's very important that straight people know that all gay men are not into filthy anal sex.
@James Hart: But that number is likely based on underreported data. Not everyone chooses to mark "gay" on poll boxes. What's the margin of error? The error might be greater than the result.


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"Why is that, Adam", God asks.
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"Well Adam, in that case I have the perfect solution. I shall create a woman for you", God told him.
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Adam thought about this for a moment, then replied, "What can I get for a rib?"
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It was nice to meet some of you on Thursday and this morning. In order to help each other with training, is anyone interested in creating a weekly bike ride group on Saturday mornings? We can start with Hains Point and branch out to other locations next month. How about Saturday, March 21 at 9am?
I'd be interested! Is there a specific meeting point at Hains Point that we can join up at?
Let's do the golf course parking lot. When you enter, there are two lots, one left and one right. Let's meet in the left lot, all the way in the back against the fence. I'll make a sign.
I"m interested - scheduled to be on work travel through Saturday, but hoping I get to come home early and be there this week. if not, count me in for the next.
Hi John-- I was traveling unexpectedly this week, but I hope to meet everyone at the meetings to come! I think a Saturday bike ride is a great idea. A warning, though, that the National Marathon is on Saturday. I don't know the route well enough to say if it will affect Hains Point, but it will definitely affect movement getting there.
I also missed the meetings due to work travel, but will try to make the Thursday bike class and HH this week. I am looking forward to meeting the group.
How far were people thinking of riding this Saturday? I can ride for a hour. I will try to keep future Saturday mornings free.
I won't be around this coming Saturday but I would be interested in meeting in the future.
I'm interested on joining as well.
Here's the road closures for Saturday's race: http://www.nationalmarathon.com/images2009/images/AccessRoads09.jpg
Depending on where you're coming from it does look like it could be a problem for some drivers to get to Hains Point. Would it be feasible to move Saturday's bike ride to later in the afternoon after the marathon, or perhaps to Sunday AM instead, just for this weekend? Then in the future we could meet regularly on Saturday AMs for the Hains Point bike ride.
Meeting after the marathon is a good idea. How about 2pm? It might be good this early in the spring to let it warm up a bit too.
2pm on Saturday would work for me. I'm in!
If I buy my bike by then I am in as well ! Look forward to the bike rides.
- shay
If you don't get your bike before Saturday, I've a couple mountain bikes if you want to ride with one of them -- I'm on the tall side so as long as your not more than 6ft you're good
Great, that works! I'm around 5-10 so shouldn't be a problem. Looking forward to it.
- shay
2pm works for me - I'll be there :)
Great. The more the merrier.
I'm going to bring my running shoes and try the 10 minute run (as it says for Sunday). Anyone else care to join?
Sure, I'd be down for that.
Same here
Hi, great idea. I'd like to join ya'll for a Sat 2pm bike ride at Hains Pt.
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Mercer Island High School quarterback Jeff Lindquist was honored this week as the U.S. Army High School Player of the week.
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Nervous-looking kindergarteners and first-graders were the first to line up at the gymnasium entrance. They waited to be ushered to a chair where a volunteer questioner waited to ask them dozens of questions.
Kindergarteners like TyReece Asbe had to memorize the answers to questions such as "Name the Native American that taught the Pilgrims to plant corn" and "Give another name for Tyrannosaurus Rex." Answers: "Squanto" and "King of the Dinosaurs."
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Syracuse, N.Y. — Apparently, stretching out beneath a blanket and watching Syracuse University play basketball (at least of late) is no way to cure a case of the flu. This, I discovered most uncomfortably on Tuesday evening after choosing not to trundle up to the Carrier Dome and breathe upon any of Jim Boeheim's guys.
But geez . . . couldn't the Orange help a fella out? Instead of providing its equivalent of chicken soup, the SU club offered a clammy hand. And now look: Together, we wheeze.
It's one thing to lose to an inferior opponent because those things, though mysterious, do happen in sports. In fact, it's why we watch sports. But it's an entirely different matter when that loss is best festooned with a giant no-pest strip.
How bad was that 67-62 trudge, won against all odds by Georgia Tech (led by the marauding Daniel Miller) and witnessed by 26,766 Domers on Senior Night? It's all there in the box score that reads for Syracuse and its fans more like an accident report: .294 three-point shooting (5-for-17) . . . .391 overall field-goal shooting (25-for-64) . . . .438 free-throw shooting (7-for-16).
No, they're not trying to miss. And nobody in this town is more disturbed by this four-losses-in-five-games toboggan ride than the Orange athletes, themselves. But for a while now, Boeheim's peeps have been taking aim at the basket as if they've been squinting into the sun.
Since Tyler Ennis' Pittsburgh-beater back on Feb. 12, a stretch of six starts, SU hasn't shot better than 40 percent from the field. And during that clanking stretch, it's dropped from unbeaten and the all-but-undisputed No. 1 team in the nation to 26-4 and, if the status remains quo, to a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Boeheim, of course, spoke the truth on Tuesday after the Yellow Jackets (14-16) became the second consecutive foe with a sub-.500 record (Boston College being the notable other) to knock off his bunch in the Dome when he said he was delighted to be 26-4. But he's also the seer who's been telling us all along that the Orange wasn't nearly as good as its record, which makes him over these past couple of weeks look like a latter-day Jeane Dixon.
Once 25-0 with narrow escapes against St. Francis, Duke, Pittsburgh and North Carolina State (among its close calls), this reeling Syracuse squad has since gone 1-4 with an offense, lately missing the injured Jerami Grant, that seems to have been borrowed from the English Premier League.
Indeed, it's produced more than 60 points twice in its last nine contests — 62 against Georgia Tech on Tuesday evening and 61 against Notre Dame back on Feb. 3. Outfits that do that are like fat guys who ice skate with glass bottles in their back pockets. You know, it's only a matter of time before splat . . . ouch . . . and who's got some tweezers?
Nothing is over, certainly. Nothing, other than a wee bit of jostling for Selection Day position, has even taken place. Boeheim, his own self, has given up the badly-kept secret that nothing matters in big-time college basketball except the NCAA Tournament . . . and that won't begin until later this month.
But . . . uh oh. The Orange couldn't beat the ACC's 13th-place team on Tuesday. At home. In the Dome's season finale during which the departing C.J. Fair scored 28 points. And that got me to thinking that I shoulda stood in bed.
Wait. I did. And it didn't help.
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MIDDLEFIELD – Raymond and Alma Bontrager were sitting in their living room Sunday when they noticed the flashing lights of a police car in their window.
"I always watch when police make a traffic stop in front of our house," Alma Bontrager said.
What began as a traffic stop at State Avenue and Tare Creek, however, turned into a shootout that left two police officers wounded and one man dead, according to reports.
"It happened quickly," Alma Bontrager said on Monday. "It was like something you would see on television, but it was real."
The names of the officers have not been released, but the man suspected of shooting them has been identified as James L. Gilkerson, 42, of Mentor-on-the-Lake, the Geauga County Sheriff's Office said.
According to reports, the officers pulled over Gilkerson about 6 p.m. Sunday.
Raymond Bontrager noticed the officers did not get out of their patrol car right away. It was then the man in the stopped car got out of his vehicle with a gun in hand. He immediately began firing at the police car.
"The officers had not gotten out of their vehicle," Raymond Bontrager said.
The female officer appeared to have been hit right away; she was holding her arm in front of her, Raymond Bontrager said.
"The other cop was pretty brave," he said. "He went directly at the shooter, firing his weapon."
According to reports, Gilkerson shot first at the officers with a semi-automatic rifle (AK-47) as he exited the vehicle. He died from gunshot wounds at the scene after the officers returned fire.
The female officer sustained serious gunshot injuries to fingers on her left. Shrapnel was embedded in her right wrist, and she received a gunshot wound to her left thigh. She was taken by helicopter to Metro Hospital in Cleveland, where she underwent surgery to repair her injuries and remained hospitalized overnight for observation, the report states.
The male officer sustained minor injuries to his left knee from flying fragments. He was treated and released from University Hospital in Geauga and is at home recovering.
When the shooting stopped, the police cruiser had a flat tire and its front windshield appeared to be damaged. The Bontragers said Gilkerson's body was on the street until about 10 p.m. Officers were still on the scene collecting evidence well after 2:30 a.m. Monday.
Two doors down, at the corner of State Avenue and Tare Creek Parkway, Patrick and Teckla Holmes described hearing a series of sounds.
"At first, it seemed like a cold tractor backfiring," Patrick Holmes said. "There was a pause, then we heard them again."
The couple ran to their front porch.
"I saw the last five shots before the suspect went down," Patrick Holmes said.
In all, Patrick and Teckla Holmes estimate hearing between 15 and 20 shots.
The Geauga County Sheriff's Office and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation are handling the investigation.
Tribune Chronicle reporter Margaret Thompson contributed to this report.


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Skip to comments.Bacon, pork shortage 'now unavoidable,' industry group says
Posted on 09/25/2012 4:47:58 AM PDT by Abathar
Might want to get your fill of ham this year, because "a world shortage of pork and bacon next year is now unavoidable," according to an industry trade group.
Blame the drought conditions that blazed through the corn and soybean crop this year. Less feed led to herds declining across the European Union at a significant rate, according to the National Pig Assn. in Britain.
And the trend is being mirrored around the world, according to a release (hat tip to the Financial Times).
In the second half of next year, the number of slaughtered pigs could fall 10%, doubling the price of European pork, according to the release.
The trade group urged supermarkets to pay pig farmers a fair price for the meat to help cover the drought-related losses.
In U.S. warehouses, pork supply soared to a record last month, rising 31% to 580.8 million pounds at the end of August from a year earlier, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The surge came as farmers scaled down their herds as feeding the animals became increasingly expensive.
In July, global food prices leaped 10% from the month before, according to the World Bank. Maize and wheat jumped 25% while soybeans rose 17%.
Muslim plot or Bush's fault?
In my state (Georgia) there is an open season on hogs. You can kill them 365 days/year and they are still multiplying like crazy. Come and help yourselves to all the bacon you want.
I see an opportunity to kill the Ethanol subsidy.
People are not going to be happy paying 50% more for food.
When huge numbers of the voting populace are unhappy there is an opportunity to educate them as to the stupid things there government is doing that make there lives miserable.
If we can get it in the press how much the Ethanol Subsidy is cost them the people will make Congress uncomfortable and maybe the Ethanol Subsidy will vaporize.
Sounds to me like a lot more people are going to raise their own.
neighbors will band together feeding several hogs that will be then slaughtered, and that same band of people will then share the ham.
The cities may starve of pork, Moslem controlled areas of the food industry will sabotage pork production, but the heartland of America will never ever lose its pork.
Bloomberg! He knows bacon is no good for you (unless it's Kevin).
If I were in Alaska, I would do the same.
Pity I'm in a burb in MI.
My employer did indeed buy a ranch fed hog a couple of years ago, huge animal. He took an old 4 yard loader bucket and propped it up over a huge pile of old pallets, filled it with water to boil and dunked his hog in it with the company boom truck we use for delivering concrete septic tanks, same truck he uses for picking up moose that are struck on the highway, we get on average over 400 moose strikes per year in our area of Alaska (Wasilla).
problem is the cities will feel the crunch of a shortage first, its the cities that will panic. people from the cities will travel out trying to steal from those in the sticks.
The people from the city will die.
Even staunchest dems will get cranky and vote with their stomach when they can't get bacon."
Makes the muzzies and vegans happy though.
"people from the cities will travel out trying to steal from those in the sticks."
Yeah, they will die if they try that, but I am also reminded many think these products simply come from the store. They may not even know what to look for to find ham and bacon. Most cannot stomach seeing any blood either and could not dream of butchering an animal for food. They will die in various ways then, not only taking their life in their own hands by trying to steal my pigs.
Maybe anti zombie technology will be needed to protect the bacon supply?
I have my doubts about any "shortage."
Too many small and medium size producers with investments in hog factories. Gotta run animals through them to pay back the investment.
I hope he shot the hog before dunking him into boiling water!
I would not be surprised to hear some city dweller doing the same thinking of cooking a lobster.
Though if they do I hope it happens next door to a mosque.
With loudspeakers and reverbs.
The subsidy ended nearly a year ago, 12-31-2011.
I don't eat pork or pork products. It's not a religious thing; pork just upsets my stomach. The effects need not be discussed in polite company. I can no longer afford beef or lamb. Fish is mostly unaffordable these days as well. I like chicken well enough but it can get boring.
Of course I'm sitting here on six acres of meadow way out in the woods. Lots of ducks are on the pond across the road, deer and turkeys walk through every day and there's a Mossberg 835 not ten feet away.
The government should force farmers to produce agricultural commodities at below the cost of production. Apparently, it's the American way.
I live on 8 acres in rural Alaska right in the middle of a winter moose migration route when they come down from the heavy snows in the hills.
One of these days buffalo will again populate the prairies from horizon to horizon.
I too have issues with eating some pork, I can eat a Christmas ham no problem and every sunday morning I must have a plate of salted and peppered bacon, but thats it.
They still mandate the addition of ethanol to gasoline. That is still a subsidy. Mandating a market where none would otherwise exist is a subsidy.
At $7 - $8 per bushel, farmers will produce all the corn they possibly can; at $2 - $3, they'll only produce what the government pays them to.
Paint "DOG" on the side of your pig, and it will fool 90% of them.
There's 20 miilion more acres planted in corn than there was a few years ago thanks to increased demand (and price) due to ethanol.
Where would we be during this so-called shortage without those millions of extra acres?
Once I was driving to my deer stand in North Louisiana. I saw a hog standing in the dirt road, as wide as my car. (Olds 88, good hunting car.) It was huge, blocked the whole dirt road and didn't budge when I honked.
Gee could it be that part of the problem is that 40% of our drought ravaged corn crop will be converted into worthless ethanol?
I come from a farm family.
Farmers produce that which gets them the largest profit.
In the sixties and early seventies we grew sugar beets. Then in the late 70s it became soy beans.
Now with the government pushing corn ethanol farmers are planting every field they can with Corn because that is the biggest profit maker. The problem with this is that the demand for corn by ethanol distillers is pricing (for now) cattle farmers out of the consumers of corn market. Eventually the price of meat will rise to the point that cattle farmers will again be able to sell meat at a profit. Unfortunately that price may well be above what the lower middle class can afford.
If the ethanol mandate goes away the price of corn will fall. With lower prices less corn will be grown but there will still be a demand for corn. The amount of corn grown will eventually fit the demand.
We must all remember that it is not only meat that will cost more there is also corn syrup, corn sugar and corn oil. Then there are of course all of the things made with these products.
Ethanol must die.
That one's easy. Obama's increasing reliance and push for ethanol laced gas and his refusal to stop caused feed prices to go up so high farmers slaughtered their herds instead.
Let the market determine the price and the amount produced. Supply and Demand. It works every time.
"Obama could solve this problem instantly by suspending the federal ethanol mandate -- something his EPA actually can do unilaterally and legally. Instead, Obama will buy up meat -- a move that meat producers say won't help them much anyway. "It doesn't solve the problem of having enough affordable corn next summer," industry analyst Steve Meyer told Reuters. "Without changing the ethanol program, nothing can be done," he said."
A couple of my cats eat the pellets for baby pigs, and so if one happens to be in the pen, I am certain the folks would suddenly get all loving toward all those 'cats' eating out of the feeder.
As I said, cattlemen who long for the days of cheap corn aren't advocates of free market pricing, but rather for the subsidized production of cheap corn. If a cattleman built his business on the assumption that the government would guarantee him a perpetual supply of subsidized corn, and didn't leave himself any sort of hedge, it's his fault and not the corn farmers'. (similarly, if a corn farmer builds his business plan on the assumption that the government will guarantee perpetually high corn prices, without a hedge, it's his own fault when he crashes)
My wife is from South Carolina where bbq means pork. I'm from South Louisiana and Texas where bbq means beef. Odd that I too cannot tolerate too much pork or my gut gets weird (no details). Maybe its a genetic thing based on where you grow up. BTW I love crispy bacon.
I've got 100 acres with a 12 acre bass lake sitting in the middle of it.
If push comes to shove I do have a variety of critters around to make up for what Obama has priced out of my reach too.
Ducks have been known to develop paralysis while in flight and tumble from the sky. This phenomena is often accompanied by a boom like sound as their muscle coordination ceases... I betcha that if a bambi just happened to walk into your sight and dropped dead of a sudden coronary failure, and then marvelously gutted itself and jumped into your freezer, you would not complain at all ;-)
Best thing about being out in the styx is that the neighbors also have a plague of bambis committing suicide on their property. No one seems to be able to determine why the rise in bambi suicides...
My dearwife was against causing bambis to have heart attacks right up to the time they ate most of her rose bushes.. Amazing how her thinking has modified...
Oh no! After being vegan for years, I am back to eating meat and have to admit that bacon is the best!
I am in a state with more hogs than people, so maybe we can ride out any shortage, but in case there's a problem, can you freeze bacon? : )
Another good thing for me is that shotguns are a bit like ball point pens and wristwatches. That is, the functional difference between the best you can buy and the bargain brands is real but slight.
I LOVE those shows.
Remember the good old days when the big complaint was 'paying farmers not to plant'?
Of course it was far more complicated than that and the truth boiled down to a 'cheap food for consumers' program by the government. That worked for, what, 5 decades?
Cheap food, and poor farmers.
I remember telling a lot, and I do mean a lot, of Freepers that if things ever turned to where the farmer had the financial freedom to opt out of the government programs they'd do it in a heartbeat, and the Freepers would be bitching about food prices.
Now grain farmers are actually starting to make the kind of money that normal businessmen who invest millions, work long, long days, and take big risks make.
At least we don't have to 'pay farmers not to plant' anymore.
As a retired farmer, I think the new system is fairer, but as I predicted not so many years ago, the gripes continue.
Why does it have to be corn that is fed to pigs? How about slop which is basically food scraps mixed with milk. Andrew Zimmern did a show about Las Vegas and featured a hog rancher who got free food scrap left over from the Las Vegas buffets. He boiled up the scrap and then fed them to the hogs who were later slaughtered and sent back as ham, bacon, and ribs to the same Las Vegas buffets where he got his food scrap. An endless cycle.
a few small scale feed lots can do this, but the big ones we rely on for the huge volumes wouldn't work, the logistics would be too big to overcome. They feed corn and soy because it stores indefinitely, doesn't need sterilization almost daily and is far cheaper to process than something that spoils in a day. We have some pig farmers around us, and if there was a cheaper or easier way to make a buck by feeding the pigs slop vs. grains they would do it in a heartbeat.
But we still do, which is why we have all of these gentleman farmers who own vast tracts of land and have never plowed a single furrow
There is government money out there in those unplanted field just waiting for these rich men to fill out the forms saying they are farmers.
When I was a kid the garbage man was a hog farmer.
Our uneaten food became food for his hogs. Of course this meant that we separated our food waste from other waste.
This was a good deal for the garbage man. He was paid a small amount monthly for picking up the garbage and he paid nothing to feed his pigs.
We burned our other waste in a 55 gallon steal drum which was hauled to the dump about every other year.
It was a great system. Dumps could be much smaller and it was recycling that actually worked.
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SAGINAW, MI — LaMarr Woodley looked around the gymnasium at the Civitan Recreation Center on Tuesday, Nov. 20 during his fifth annual Thanksgiving giveaway.
Volunteers from the Saginaw High School Honors Society and football team helped people pack boxes of cleaning supplies and paper products into their cars while a DJ on the stage at one end of the gym played slow, soulful gospel music.
"Man, we need to do something about this music," Woodley said, shaking his head. "It's like we're in church or something."
A few minutes later, after someone talked to the DJ, the tempo picked up.
The Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker and several volunteers from his alma mater took a quick break from moving the heavy boxes to let loose, dancing to Lil' Jon's "Snap Yo Fingers."
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ALLEGAN -- The narrow passage of Saugatuck Township's May millage hike -- a controversial measure that featured a botched recount, an attorney general investigation and a lawsuit to toss the results -- will stand, a judge ruled Thursday.
By a 491-489 margin, voters approved a 0.50-mill increase to cover the township's legal costs to challenge Aubrey McClendon's efforts to develop the former Denison property, part of his 300 acres of dune lands bounded by Lake Michigan and the Kalamazoo River.
McClendon funded a legal challenge to the May 4 election, which could not be recounted because Township Clerk Jane Wright, who believed she acted at the direction of a county election worker, removed the ballots from a sealed container for a ballot-container inspection prior to a recount.
She wiped tears Thursday as Allegan County Circuit Judge Kevin Cronin granted the township's motion for a summary disposition to dismiss the case. McClendon had hired attorneys to represent two township residents, Walter Hanlin and John Lantini, to challenge the validity of the election.
The challengers suggested Wright purposely thwarted a recount by removing ballots from a sealed container.
"She knew if she cut the seal that it would not be recountable," attorney John Pirich said. "She knew the minute that seal was cut, it was not recountable. She's an elected, trained official."
Wright has insisted she acted at the direction of a county election worker, Julia Ryan, in removing the ballots for a mandatory inspection of the ballot containers. Ryan said she never would have advised removing the seal of a container with live ballots.
Cronin is familiar with botched recounts. During a recount of his 2008 election, fewer than half of the precincts could be counted because of mishandled ballot containers. The trouble led to countywide training on ballot handling.
In light of the problems in 2008, the state Bureau of Elections investigated the trouble in Saugatuck Township, and referred the case for further investigation and possible charges to the state attorney general's office."
Cronin said he would be "flabbergasted" if any criminal charges resulted from that probe.
Pirich, with vast experience in election law, said: "I have never heard of a clerk cutting a seal on a live ballot container. Ever. I mean, it almost defies description."
He said the township, with a "dog in the hunt," supported the millage.
"The reality is, the seal was cut, the ballots (on May 11) were put in a case, an unsecured container, and they were left there until May 17. All we know is the sanctity of the ballots was not maintained."
Bradford Springer, the township's attorney, said there was no evidence of fraud or gross error. Records showed that Wright sought advice from the county before cutting the seal.
"That blows out of the water the plaintiff's conspiracy theory," he said.
He said the events embarrassed the township, but there was no "scheming," or "devious" intent.
He said the law is clear when a vote cannot be recounted. It reverts to the last, best count, which was the computerized count of ballots. He said no one alleged fraud in the election itself.
The judge also threw out the case against the Allegan County Board of Canvassers. Their attorney, Greg Ripple, said the canvassers played no role except to determine the ballots could not be recounted.
Despite controversy over ballot security, Cronin found no evidence of tampering in the election.
"I think what is more likely, there was a miscommunication between the township clerk and the county clerk's office, and I don't know who to blame for that," Cronin said.
Pirich said after the decision that he had to consult with his clients, Hanlin and Lantini, before deciding to appeal.
The township wanted the millage funds to take on McClendon's legal challenges. The township settled a case before the state Tax Tribunal, but is in litigation in federal court over its zoning laws.
McClendon has informally proposed a development that would include an inn, golf course, marina, single-family homes and condominiums. In the Saugatuck area, residents are divided on McClendon's plans. Some want the dunes preserved in their natural state, while others said it is his land and his project is appropriate.
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Down to the last three outs, it looked as if Hahnville was going to cruise into the second round of the playoffs. But a late rally with the game on the line allowed Alexandria to end the Tigers' season prematurely and send Coach Kenneth Vial into retirement with a loss to remember.
No. 27 Alexandria reeled off six runs in the top of the top of the seventh inning to overcome a two-run deficit and upset sixth-seeded Hahnville, 8-5, in a Class 5A bi-district round game Monday afternoon.
Hahnville led 4-2 as Lauren Beadle re-took the hill looking to wrap up the victory, but the top of the Alexandria batting order was not giving up without a fight. After loading the bases with one out, a wild pitch and an error by Hahnville shortstop Maeson Martindale made it 4-all. In the ensuing at-bat, Alexandria's Audrey Good drew a go-ahead walk to make it 5-4 before Kelly Robertson and Taylor Gorham hit back-to-back singles to jump on top and subsequently notch the come-from-behind win.
"Because of the district we play in, we didn't have many seven-inning softball games," Vial said after the game. "We play as many three- and five-innning games that's possible, and that's a potential for disaster. (A seven-inning game) is what we were scared of -- getting to the end and not having enough to chances.
"Our hats are off to them, though, because they're good. They're a No. 27 seed but should be a single-digit seed."
The Tigers (22-5) started the game with a scare, as a walk and error by third baseman Lauren Simar gave the Trojans (13-12) two on with no outs. The starter, Beadle, bounced back to force a ground-ball out and a pop-up to right, but Alexis Welch and Ella Manzer smacked back-to-back two-out RBIs to give Alexandria an early 2-0 lead.
Hahnville wasted no time responding.
In the bottom half of the inning with the bases loaded, Hahnville's Madison Leblanc drilled an RBI groundout to cut the deficit in half. In the ensuing at-bat, Jourdyn Hogan's routine fly ball led to confusion between Alexandria centerfielder Tamora Gorham and right fielder Kelly Robertson, allowing the ball to find the ground and even up the game at 2-2.
In bottom half of the third, with the tie preserved thanks to the inning-ending double-play in the top half of the frame, Bryce Button lifted Carrie Boswell's pitch over the wall in right-center field to give Hahnville its first lead of the game at 3-2.
The Tigers added an insurance run in the bottom of the fifth, as Boswell's wild pitch allowed Martindale to extend the lead to two. And with Beadle cruising -- having allowed just two hits from the second to sixth inning -- the game looked to be well in hand.
"We had our chances, but in the end we knew as coaches we had deficiencies," Vial said. "I told the girls you can't question yourself; it's just how it lined up for us. We would have liked to win, but the best team won."
The Tigers didn't go down easy in the bottom of the seventh. Hogan drilled Hahnville's second home run of the game to make it 8-5, then Button skied a fly ball to right, which was dropped near left fielder Good. But Boswell shook it off, striking out Kaitlyn Robinson and jammed Kaitlyn Morales to close out the win.
The difference, according to Alexandria Coach Phyllis Thiels, was Boswell. The team's ace had missed time due to a concussion, costing Alexandria a number of losses, but still boasted plenty of late-game heroics during the regular season. That showed off again today, Thiels said.
"We've done it all year long," she said. "Like I told everyone, we're a No. 27 team but we're not a No. 27 team. We never quit. We go down with a fight."
Alexandria advances to play the winner of No. 11 Dutchtown and No. 22 Chapelle in the regional round, and for Vial, it's onto retirement.
After the loss, the Hahnville coaching staff and players honored the man responsible for the program's prominence since 2002. Vial boasts a 329-84 overall record with 11 postseason appearance and six trips to the state tournament in Sulphur, La. Vial led the Lady Tigers to a state championship in 2011 and finished as the runners up in both 2010 and 2012.
Asked if the way his team's season ended this season will perhaps cause him to re-think his decision, Vial laughed it off.
"Absolutely not. I'm going to go play golf," he said. "(The celebration) was nice. I put a lot of time in here and I appreciate all that the kids have done. They've been good to me and I tried to be good to them."
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The stellar absorption lines in the nuclear spectra of Seyfert galaxies are diluted by a strong featureless continuum. In the standard model for active galaxies the continuum is produced by non-thermal processes in the nucleus, usually following a power-law of the form $f_{\nu} \sim \nu^{-\alpha}$. However, a young stellar population will also produce a featurless continuum. Because star formation and nuclear activity frequently occur in the same galaxy it is often unclear how much of the nuclear continuum emission arises from a population of young stars and how much is truly non-thermal in origin.
By comparing the strengths of stellar absorption features in different spectral regions we can attempt to distinguish the contributions of various emission components to the overall spectral energy distribution. The Ca II triplet ($\sim \lambda 8600$\AA) and the Mg b lines ($\sim \lambda 5200$\AA) are well suited for such an analysis since they are separated in wavelength and are also strong in normal stellar populations. We present an analysis of the strengths of these features in spectra of Seyfert nuclei.
We find that for most of our sample the line strengths are consistent with dilution of a normal galaxy spectrum by a power law continuum, in accord with the standard model for AGN. However, for a number of Seyferts in our sample, it appears that dilution by a power law continuum cannot completely explain the relative line strengths and an additional source of continuum emission seems necessary to account for the dilution of the Mg lines. A similar result was reported by Terlevich et al. (1990) who attributed excess Ca II triplet line strength to a population of M supergiants in a concentrated nuclear star cluster. Although we agree that a burst of star formation may produce the observed Mg~b dilution, a more detailed investigation involving the off-nuclear spectral characteristics and modeling of the effects of young stellar populations is required.
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HOOVER, Alabama -- Attendance for today's two games of the SEC Baseball Tournament was 8,790, SEC officials announced tonight.
That's the most-attended two-game session so far this year, but down slightly from Session 7 each of the past two years.
The Session 7 games last year between LSU and Alabama, and Vanderbilt and Texas A&M drew 11,207 fans, while the two games in 2012 (LSU vs. Mississippi State and Florida vs. South Carolina) drew 9,067 fans, SEC statistics show.
In today's games, Arkansas recovered from a 6-0 deficit to beat Ole Miss 8-7, and Florida's good pitching game ended with a 5-1 win over Mississippi State.


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The event was kicked-off with an introduction of Mark Edwards, who will serve as the 2011 chairman of the Salem County Chamber of Commerce.
Edwards thanked former chairman Brian Duffy for all his work in 2010.
"Under Brian's leadership in 2010 we updated our strategic plan and strengthened alliances with business associations throughout Salem County," said Edwards. "He pushed the 'buy local' campaign, but most importantly he reminded us of our duty to give back to our members."
Other Chamber of Commerce news included the soon-to-be relocation of the group's offices to Salem City's Johnson Hall.
For the past decade, the chamber has been headquartered in a building owned by Pennsville National Bank on South Virginia Avenue in Carneys Point.
Edwards thanked Pennsville National Bank for its many years of support.
Also moving into Johnson Hall will be the Salem County Visitors Center and the county Tourism Department.
The 2011 State of the County Address was given by Freeholder Director Lee Ware.
Known by many as "coach," Ware spoke to the crowded room of more than 75 guests about where the county is headed.
"We all know we are facing difficult times with high unemployment rates and business struggling to make ends meet," said Ware. "As we look back at this past year, we reflect on the challenges we faced and focus on the successes that have emerged from that adversity."
Ware said as residents and small businesses look to the new year, he is confident the county has learned from its past mistakes and is ready to move on from them.
"The overall arching theme in Salem County government is doing more with less," said Ware. "Over the past couple years, government spending has continued to be reduced as this freeholder board has recognized that government can be and should be effective in addressing the physical and social needs of our residents, along with being mindful of our spending."
Ware reinforced the county has worked to create an efficient government, but residents need to keep in mind that in tough times, change will become commonplace.
"One area where we are creating greater efficiency in government is through shared services," said Ware. "We are currently reviewing proposals from animal control to EMS."
Ware said the county's philosophy with shared service is that even though they are voluntary, they need to create a better service at a reduced cost to the taxpayers.
With many local business leaders in the audience, Ware made sure to stress how the county is reaching out to assist small business.
"The freeholder board recognizes that we need to continue to assist our business community," said Ware.
This past year, the board was able to implement the Salem County Business Capital Assistance Program.
"The program provides a life line to Salem County businesses," said Ware. "It helps to keep them operational because 60 percent of the county workforce is employed by small business."
Ware talked about the success of the county tourism department. Since its inception in 2007, they have been able to generate $10 million in revenue.
He also spoke about the ongoing West Jersey Short Line Railroad project and the positive effect it will have on the county when completed.
The short line, as it is commonly known — which extends from Swedesboro to Salem — is owned by Salem County and provides access to such businesses as Anchor Glass in Salem, Mannington Mills in Mannington Township and the South Jersey Farmers Exchange in Woodstown.
Freeholder Dale Cross talked candidly about the project.
"The Salem County Rail Line provides us with the most near term expansion of economic development and job creation in the county," he said.
Cross said with a price tag of $1 million for each mile, they are getting funding in bits and pieces from both the state and federal government.
The county has completed 10 miles of the 18-mile track.
The 2011 State of the County Address was sponsored by the county.
Also attending the event Friday morning was Freeholder Julie Acton and Freeholder Ben Laury.
The breakfast provided was prepared by students from the Salem County Vocational School Culinary Academy.