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EWING — Perhaps it was fitting that Ewing and Trenton met on the final day of the Colonial Valley Conference swimming season instead of some Tuesday in December.
After the work the two schools' kids had put in all season, all to no avail on the scoreboard, one team finally would receive that most empirical of rewards in sports, a win.
Both teams, of course, practiced all year long, taking their lumps from the rest of the conference along the way. For Ewing, those practices came before the sun rose at The College of New Jersey's Packer Hall pool, where the state will crown the NJSIAA's best about a month from now.
Being one of the CVC's few schools without a home pool doesn't help recruitment, of course.
"I do think there are people that don't come out just for that reason," Ewing coach Stef Lawlor said of the team's usual 5:30 a.m. practices. "I think if kids give it a chance, they stay. They're a good group. They really like each other."
At last, Ewing got that win, handily so in a 124-45 final in the co-ed meet, but both teams have long proved quite good at keeping themselves motivated in other ways.
"This year, I believe that every single record on the boys' side was re-broken," Lawlor said, adding that most of the girls' school records have fallen recently, too. "Micah Bergstrom, who is our best boy, now has every individual record, and all the three relay records have been broken."
Trenton coach Michelle Purvis said her goal was to improve her kids outside the pool as well.
"We do heights and weights and body fat, all of that, because all of that counts," Purvis said. "When they start to see progress in themselves and progress from meet to meet with the times, even progress learning all four strokes, because that's a challenge in the beginning. They're self-motivated when they start to see that."
The Tornadoes are second to none in rooting each other on, even when the realization of an overall victory for the team seems far beyond the horizon.
"They have to be self-motivated, and the fact that they do cheer for each other kind of gives them that extra push," Purvis said. "We're one of the teams that's not very high on the totem pole in terms of the skill and the glamour at Trenton Central, but one thing we do have is we function as a family. So I think that's what drives our team."
200-yard medley relay: 1. Ewing (Trevor Hahn, Kate McCord, Beth Cunniff, Micah Bergstrom) 1:51.21, 2. Trenton 2:16.80, 3. Ewing 2:24.13; 200 free: 1. Alec Hahn (E) 2:12.38, 2. Liam Fitzpatrick (E) 2:14.64, 3. Lynel Santiago (T) 2:46.33; 200 IM: 1. M. Bergstrom (E) 2:22.87, 2. Cameron Conant (E) 2:42.90, 3. Andres Redrovan (T) 2:54.60; 50 free: 1. Chris Griffith (E) 26.98, 2. McCord (E) 27.07, 3. Lewis Lawery (T) 27.80; 100 fly: 1. Conant (E) 1:21.05, 2. Veronica Wilson (E) 1:21.80, 3. Reyna Jimenez (T) 1:36.74; 100 free: 1. Fitzpatrick (E) 59.57, 2. Sam Stewart (E) 1:01.26, 3. Beth Cunniff (E) 1:05.78; 500 free: 1. Abigail Bergstrom (E) 7:10.06, 2. Jose Granada (T) 7:21.12, 3. Phil Otey (E) 7:22.06; 200 free relay: 1. Ewing (A. Hahn, Stewart, Griffith, M. Bergstrom) 1:41.56, 2. Trenton 1:59.55, 3. Ewing. 2:18.22; 100 back: 1. McCord (E) 1:09.79, 2. Stewart (E) 1:17.32, 3. Redrovan (T) 1:21.39; 100 breast: 1. T. Hahn (E) 1:18.03, 2. Cunniff (E) 1:23.09, 3. Troy Boyd (T) 1:26.55; 400 free: 1. Ewing (McCord, Cunniff, T. Hahn, A. Hahn) 4:09.88, 2. Ewing 4:22.82, 3. Trenton 5:21.06.


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KOCHVILLE TOWNSHIP, MI — The new Kochville Township Cardinal Square Farmers Market is likely to grow to twice the size previously expected, facilitators say.
The market was bustling with families keen to try locally grown fresh produce during the afternoon of Tuesday, June 25, in the parking lot of Home Depot, 3132 Bueker, off Bay Road in Kochville Township.
"It's a work in progress," said Steve King, director of Kochville Township's Downtown Development Authority. "I expect at least 12 to 14 vendors every week for the rest of the season."
King said organizers previously envisioned six or seven vendors each week.
Although about eight vendors sold honey, vegetables, fruits, baked goods, compost and crafts such as decorated vases, during the second week of the new farmers market, King said about 10 potential vendors have contacted him since the first farmers market on June 18.
The market runs from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesdays throughout summer and includes live music and a diversity of high quality work from artisans, King said.
King couldn't help but smile as families came and went, chatting with vendors along the way. Despite his prediction that Tuesday's forecast for rain would turn customers away, vendors were fairly happy with the turnout.
"I thought it would be a little slower," said Kochville native Jessica Sewell, who was selling J & T Beekeepers honey. Sewell and her father represent the "J" and "T," and sell the honey from their personal beekeeping efforts.
"I'm happy with the results," Sewell said of the turnout. "It helps the local economy."
Farmers market attendees were equally pleased with the fresh produce and artistry at the market, which many said is more convenient for Kochville Township residents to attend than the Downtown Saginaw Farmers Market.That market is open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Kochville Township resident Mary Taylor said the Kochville market reminded her of the fresh food she grew up eating on a farm. Taylor and her granddaughter Mackenzie, 11, left with tomatoes, bread, cucumbers, plums and asparagus stuffed into heavy shopping bags.
"This is going to be great for the community," Taylor said. "I hope it grows."
Taylor said the new farmers market benefits not only the community, but small businesses in the area and Michigan farmers.
"The farmers need all the support they can get," Taylor said.
The idea for the farmers market in Kochville Township developed after a Saginaw Valley State University marketing class surveyed township residents who overwhelmingly called for one, King said.
"It was a very well spent $5,000," King said of the participation in the class project.
Vendors interested in the market will pay about $15 per week or $150 for the season, although prices will increase with the number of booths, King said.
Steve King can be reached at 989-607-9500 for information.


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By BUFFY SPENCER
SPRINGFIELD - A 32-year Springfield police officer and a civilian computer expert are under indictment in Hampden Superior Court for stealing thousands of dollars in bogus overtime payments from the Police Department.
Indictments were returned Monday by a grand jury charging Marcia L. Brown, a 32-year veteran officer, and William J. Mullen with larceny over $250 by a single scheme.
Police have declined to discuss how the alleged schemes were uncovered, but said the two were entirely separate.
Brown, of Springfield, and Mullen, of Westfield, are accused of collecting $46,000 and $31,000, respectively, in bogus overtime, police have said.
Both will remain suspended without pay until their cases are resolved, Sgt. John M. Delaney said. They were suspended about a month ago.
Arraignments for the two are set for April 29 at 9:30 a.m.
The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in state prison and fines of up to $25,000 if convicted, according to Assistant District Attorney James Forsyth. Forsyth, who will prosecute the case, said he could give no additional information about the allegations.
The department flagged what appeared to be suspiciously high overtime pay for Brown, who worked in Commissioner William J. Fitchet's office, and Mullen.
Records showed Brown more than doubled her salary in 2008, making approximately $46,500 in overtime, on top of a base salary of $45,000. Her overtime pay leapt from $4,800 the year before.
She serves as an aide of sorts in Fitchet's office, Delaney said, screening visitors, answering phones, taking some press calls and other administrative duties.
Brown and Mullen have unlisted phone numbers and could not be reached for comment.
Mullen has worked for the Police Department since 1992, records show. His annual salary also is about $45,000.
Payroll records state he made just $915 in overtime in 2008, but more than $31,000 in 2007, the year in question. Delaney said Mullen apparently sought overtime for hours he never worked.
In Brown's case, her alleged overtime abuse stemmed from claims she worked after hours conducting "specialized training" for other officers that never occurred. Certain police overtime is paid by private sources, such as utility or construction companies who need police for road jobs.
However, the money in question came from city coffers, Delaney said.
"We policed our own," Delaney said, crediting Fitchet and his office staff with finding the problem and bringing it to Hampden District Attorney William M. Bennett for prosecution.


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Here are some highlights from the world of opinion, along with the latest editorials from The Oregonian editorial board.
At Scotusblog, Lyle Denniston offers a helpful preview of a case that will come this week before the Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of voter-approved bans on affirmative action in college admissions.
Matthew Malady writes for Slate a scathing criticism of the type of horrible writing encouraged by the SAT essay section.
Nathan Heller describes for The New Yorker how San Francisco's new entrepreneurial culture is changing the country.
David Carr writes for The New York Times about the gerrymandering of our news. Also in the NYT, Theresa Brown describes what happens when you're a patient and find yourself needing care that is suddenly "out of network."
Bess Lovejoy writes for Lapham's Quarterly about the story behind the classic book, "The American Way of Death."
In The Oregonian
In today's print editions of The Oregonian, the editorial board analyzes the latest moves by SolarWorld in Hillsboro and what they say about the future of solar technology in Oregon.
Over the weekend, the board described the ugly moment of truth for the Bonneville Power Administration, criticized Multnomah County's resign-to-run rule and opposed a proposed graduation requirement in the Corbett School District that would require all seniors to gain acceptance to a college or trade school.
Also, don't miss:
* A column by associate editor David Sarasohn on the Oregon Prosperity Initiative, an effort to help more people find upward mobility and stability.
* My column on the psychological barriers to preparing for an earthquake or other emergency. (If you're like me and haven't done much, you're a slacker, yes, but you're not alone.)
* A column by freelance contributor Elizabeth Hovde on learning to accept Obamacare, warts and all.
Several good guest opinion essays, including one by Portland condo
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Paris Patisseries is a luscious blog which chronicles Parisian pastry and the great chefs behind it. It is written by Adam Wayda, an American gourmand who spends half of each year in Paris & indulges his time there enjoying pastries. Some mouth-watering posts: Top 17 Best Pastries [more inside]
Foodies in Film and Media
No Reservations marks the second foodie inspired movie out in the past couple months, after the charming Ratatouille. Slate pegs the animated movie as getting things right, with help from the well renowned Thomas Keller at the French Laundry. But at home and in professional kitchens, things aren't always so pristine. Is this foodie culture better for us, or just part of a greater problem?
Comparing Competitive Eating Records
Comparing Apples and Oranges. Which can you eat faster, onions or cheesecake? ROIs from (some) IFOCE records plotted together. The beginning of Sabermetrics for competitive eating? Of course, we can't ignore the Takeru Kobayashi effect. (See also earlier MeFi on International Competitive Eating.)
Food Art Very interesting pictures of food represented as something else - pie tins as ice skating rinks, donut cycling rings, and mining for watermelon seeds.
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Eminem is too corny for words
So in case you missed it, Eminem is clapping at Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon now with a new song titled "The Warning." Add them to the long list of pop singers, celebrities, and other lightweights that Em has "battled." Here's the Cliff's Notes on Em's new beef:
The feud between the two began earlier this year after Eminem namedropped Carey in the track "Bagpipes From Baghdad" from his latest album Relapse. "Mariah whatever happened to us / Why did we ever have to break-up?" he rapped. "Nick Cannon, you better back the f— up. I'm not playing, I want her back, you punk."
Cannon later shot back on his blog, calling the rapper (who goes by the name "Slim Shady") "Slim Lamey." He added that Eminem is "still obsessed with my wife, the same female that wouldn't let him get to second base from 8 years ago." A month or so later, Carey got the last laugh by mocking Eminem in "Obsessed."
And here's the latest round– Em's new song, "The Warning," where he threatens to release sexually explicit photos and voice mails from the days when he and Mariah were messing around. Apparently, he's not embarrassed about the fact that they dated for six months and he hit once. And busted early. Where I come from, that's an L.
I remember back when rappers used to battle other rappers. I remember when they used to call out politicians and other powerful figures on record– think of Pac's beef with C. Delores Tucker or Kanye going off script at that Katrina telethon to call out Bush. Eminem is one of the most technically gifted rappers in history, yet he has decided instead to build his reputation by going after Christina Aguilera and Kim Kardashian. Maybe he needs to stop browsing the magazines at the supermarket checkout line so hard and getting his feelings hurt. He definitely needs to stop dropping diss records on every female in Hollywood who he can't get to sex him.
In 1995, Biggie released a track called "Warning" as a B-side to his "Big Poppa" single. It went something like this:
Call the coroner
There's gonna be a lot of slow singin', and flower bringin'
If my burglar alarm starts ringin'
Whatcha think all the guns is for?
All purpose war, got the Rottweilers by the door
And I feed 'em gunpowder, so they can devour
The criminals, tryin' to drop my decimals
Damn, niggas wanna stick my for my cream
And it ain't a dream, things ain't always what it seem
It's the ones that smoke blunts witcha, see your picture
Now they wanna grab the guns and come and getcha
In 2009, this is the new "Warning," courtesy of TMZ Us Weekly Eminem:
Yeah, what you gonna say? I'm lucky?
Tell the public that I was so ugly that you f***ing had to be drunk to f*** me?
Second base? What the f*** you tell Nick, punk?
In the second week we was dry humping. It's gotta count for something.
Dry humping? Yeah. Hip-hop is deader than Michael Jackson.
UPDATE: I've been thinking about whether or not Nick Cannon should respond to this. On the one hand, he's a grown man with a family and a 9-5 now (don't sleep, America's Got Talent is serious money). I assure you, he has better things to do than deal with this playground nonsense. On the other hand, he's got some dude calling his wife out her name. It's not easy to let something like that ride.
But at the end of the day, this is the bottom line: Nick is sexing Mariah Carey and Eminem isn't. And Em mad about it. That's game, set, match right there, no matter how this all plays out. I don't care if Eminem got pictures of Mariah's fallopian tubes, he lost already.
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- Is Kanye West is the new King of Pop? Kanye West thinks so
- Your favorite rapper as a basketball player
- Ellen Gets Down and Dirty with SYTYCD Finalists … Sort of
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The blog in the paper, from Page A-2 of Sunday's Post-Standard.
This week on Post-Standard TV
The unveiling and dedication ceremony of a statue to former SU football player, and the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy, Ernie Davis. More videos about Ernie Davis: Celebrities on premiere night; actors talk about "The Express"; actor Max Osinski; Don McPherson on SU football: McPherson on Ernie Davis.
Also: Friday Night Football and a "UFO" crashes in Oswego.
See these videos and more at blog.syracuse.com/video
And get complete high school sports coverage at highschoolsports.syracuse.com
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"A sense of humor should be a job requirement for a governor from New York, as far as I'm concerned." -- BuffaloPundit
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Comment of the Week
"he was my pet and everyone who worked with him loved him. For all of you who say we should have fed him to the poor people with no food or give him to dinasour BBQ, thats rude. why dont you feed your pet to people... we may not have a normal pet like a cat or dog but we loved him the same and im sure Big Norm got better care.Thank you for everyone who cared for norm.. it means a lot to me and my family. And to the person who said if they are reporting this in the news, it must be a slow news day, i just want to point out that you are reading the story and you also commented on it, and correct me if im wrong but i thought that was the point of a news story. anywho, thanks for all of the pleasent comments, we appreicate them very much."
From bignorm12 about ""Big Norm,'' the world's largest pig, died this morning" at the Real-Time News page.
Extreme Makeover: 'Lipstick on a pig'
Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama criticized Sen. John McCain's policies as similar to those of President Bush and said: "You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still going to stink after eight years."
Republicans accused him of sexism, saying that Obama was attacking Gov. Sarah Palin ...
Wednesday, Obama accused McCain's campaign of "lies and phony outrage" ...
Soon a YouTube video surfaced of McCain using the same phrase about Hillary Clinton, and The Dallas Morning News found dozens of times when Vice President Dick Cheney has used the term ...
"Lipstick on a Pig" is the title of an off-Broadway play ... and a book by Torie Clark, who was a former aide to McCain and a spokeswoman for the Pentagon in the Bush administration.
Things recently compared to a pig in lipstick: British health service, Chrysler minivans, diplomacy, housing market, Patriot Act, subprime mortgages, Vonage stock and Windows Vista ...
">Slate.com searches for the origin ...
They express outrage now, but right-wing sites have regularly referred to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as PIAPS (Pig in a Pantsuit) ...
New York University professor Jay Rosen says it doesn't really matter whether the outrage is real or contrived, if you can spend a week talking about your opponent's alleged gaffe ...
Perhaps the moral of the story comes from playwright George Bernard Shaw, one of many sages quoted as saying, "Never wrestle with a pig; you both get dirty and the pig likes it."
Or sci-fi writer Robert Heinlein, who wrote, "Never attempt to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."
This week's theme song: "... Lipstick on a pig, is just lipstick on a pig..." from "Home Is Where You Leave It" by the band Frank Smith


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Debris burns at Sunny Farms
Personnel from five departments fought a fire at Sunny Farms Landfill Sunday.
According to Seneca County Sheriff's Office, a man reported there appeared to be a fire at the landfill at 2:43 p.m. Sunday.
Capt. Jim Nagle of Bascom Joint Fire District said he did not know the cause of the fire.
"(It's) undetermined at this point," he said.
A representative of Ohio Environmental Protection Agency was at the scene. EPA was summoned because trash at the site was not covered in dirt, Nagle said.
A message was left Sunday evening with the EPA's northwest district office. A message also was left Sunday evening for Sunny Farms Landfill, 12500 W. CR 18.
Garry Ruble, training officer for Bascom Joint Fire District, said a smoke column was visible when firefighters left the station. He estimated it took an hour to get the fire under control.
Nagle said debris on an estimated half-acre of land was on fire, and firefighters put 33,000 gallons of water on it. They also covered the area with foam, and operators from the landfill covered it with dirt, he said.
Personnel from Bascom, Fostoria, Kansas, NBS and Washington Township fire departments, Bascom EMS, the local canteen service and Seneca Community Chaplain Corps responded to the fire.
Ruble estimated 55 firefighters assisted with the fire, whether they were at the scene, working at the tanker fill site or covering Bascom's fire station. Firefighters were at the scene for about three hours.
Dan Stahl, director of Seneca County Emergency Management Agency, also responded. He said there had been a concern about possible runoff from fighting the fire, but he and Ohio EPA determined everything was contained in the landfill cell.
No injuries were reported, Ruble said.


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One of the largest employers in Southwest Michigan will be making a big investment in the region.
Whirlpool Corp. [NYSE: WHR] announced last week it will consolidate 15 owned and leased facilities into two existing campuses and one yet-to-be constructed campus in Benton Harbor and St. Joseph over the next five years.
The complete project is expected to represent an $85 million investment from the Benton Harbor-based appliance maker.
"We are pursuing these plans because we have confidence in our business, in consumers and in the state of Michigan," said Jill Saletta, director of external communications.
The Benton Harbor Administrative Center, which will receive significant renovations, and the St. Joseph Technology Center are the existing campuses Whirlpool will retain. It also will retain its Hilton Drive South offices in St. Joseph and its Harbor Township offices in Benton Harbor.
The new campus will be located on Main Street in downtown Benton Harbor.
"Keeping our administrative functions and growing our headquarter operations here in Benton Harbor-St. Joseph makes sense in terms of efficiencies, flexibility and productivity," Saletta said, "and we are pleased to continue to grow in the community in which the company was founded."
The new campus likely will include three three-story buildings totaling 270,000 square feet. The company is seeking state and local incentives for the project, and the Michigan Economic Growth Authority board is expected to approve state incentives Tuesday.
Whirlpool expects preparation for the new campus will begin within the next several weeks, and the company is "currently reviewing several plans" in terms of selecting businesses to work on the project.
"While no jobs are being added in the immediate future, the long-term implications for the community and for Whirlpool Corp. (are) very positive," Saletta said. "The new campus and related changes will give Whirlpool increased flexibility to adjust for the changing needs of our business."
The company has cited reduced operating costs and increased energy efficiency as benefits of consolidation. The new campus is expected to be 60 percent more energy efficient than Whirlpool's current facilities and will be designed to qualify for LEED Gold certification.
Other benefits include enhanced productivity and employee experience, Saletta said. Over the past 10 years, the company has grown to 4,000 employees and on-site contractors.
"We have simply outgrown our current space," Jeff Fettig, Whirlpool chairman and CEO, said in a prepared statement. "This is an economical time to be making this investment in new construction.
"Thanks to collaboration with, and support of, our state and four local government bodies, we will further strengthen our commitment to the Benton Harbor-St. Joseph communities."


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Syracuse, N.Y. — If shopping is in your plans for the July 4 holiday, the local malls have you covered.
Destiny USA will be open its regular hours on Friday July 4. That's 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., with some entertainment venues and restaurants open later.
Guests are welcome to park in Destiny lots if they're attending the free fireworks show after the Syracuse Chiefs game on July 4 at NBT Bank Stadium.
Great Northern Mall in Clay will be open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on July 4. Department store hours may vary so check in first if you plan to head to one of those.
ShoppingTown Mall in DeWitt will be open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on July 4.
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- Georgia's top peanut insects revealed and the tricks they play
- Producers list top seven insect pests
- The stink bug that moves in the ground
- Top Georgia peanut insects: corn earworms/tobacco budworms, three-cornered alfalfa hoppers, burrower bugs, lesser cornstalk borers, thrips, corn rootworms, spider mites and wireworms.
There are more three-cornered alfalfa hoppers now than there were 10 years ago.
Burrower bug is Public Enemy No. 1 for growers who have it.
INSECTS LIKE peanut fields. All are not bad, though, but economically controlling the ones that are bad requires good scouting and timely, accurate insecticides.
Producers list top seven insect pests
One of the first things Abney did when he began working in Georgia in June was to ask the top-yielding peanut growers in the state to rank the most economically important pest on their farms.
These top growers listed corn earworm and tobacco budworm at No. 1. "The No. 2 most troublesome pest was three-cornered alfalfa hopper, something for which we don't have economic thresholds. And the No. 3 top insect pest was the burrower bug. The growers who had it listed it as No. 1, but a lot of growers don't have it, so it averaged out to be No. 3 in our survey."
Lesser cornstalk borer came in at No. 4 and thrips was No. 5, says Abney. Corn rootworm was No. 6 and spider mites and wireworms were tied for No. 7.
"I also asked these same growers how many acres on their farms are treated for corn earworms or caterpillar pests annually. More than 70 percent of the acres are treated for caterpillar pests each year. I believe there are a lot fewer acres that actually are at threshold to be treated for these pests, but growers are spending money to control them, and that's why they're No. 1 on their list. And I think it's the same thing with three-cornered alfalfa hopper. We don't know if they're causing us yield loss, but we're spraying for them anyway," he said.
Growers have a very good threshold for treating corn earworms and tobacco budworms. It has been validated – four to eight larvae per row foot – but it depends on the condition of the plant. Broad spectrum materials are available for use on this pest, but growers are cautioned not to use pyrethroids if they have tobacco budworms.
"It wasn't that many years ago that you could go into a peanut field, and if you found a caterpillar that looked like a corn earworm, you could rest assured that it was a corn earworm. Now, you could find something that looks like a corn earworm but it might be a tobacco budworm. And if you spray a tobacco budworm with a pyrethroid, it won't kill it. Make sure you accurately identify the pest," he said.
The problem with broad spectrum materials is that they can result in secondary pest outbreaks, so be careful, advises Abney.
"The corn earworm is a real pest that can defoliate peanuts, but follow the thresholds. Peanuts can compensate for a lot of foliage feeding. If you're treating at sub-threshold levels, it isn't saving you money or making you money. I'd much rather see us scouting our peanuts more thoroughly and not just throwing insecticides in the tank," he said.
Producers should watch for granular cutworms and soybean loopers. "I think we're spraying a lot of soybean loopers in Georgia that we don't need to spray. Others include beet armyworms, fall armyworms and velvetbean caterpillars. You'll rarely see only one species of caterpillar in the peanut field. When you decide which insecticide you want to use, you have to think about what will kill most of them. If you spray a pyrethroid, you won't kill soybean loopers," he said.
There is no economic threshold for three-cornered alfalfa hopper, says Abney. If you find a threshold, it has not been validated scientifically.
"We tend to spray this pest when we see them flying around in a field. That's not a scientific threshold, and we don't know what kind of yield loss we might be having," he said. "We do know there are more three-cornered alfalfa hoppers now than there were 10 years ago, and we don't know why. Research has shown that they have preferences for different varieties, but we no longer grow any of those varieties."
The immature pests may be more damaging than the adults, he says. "And that leads us to think that if we treat those low populations of adults moving into the fields in mid-summer, we can prevent having immatures in the field. We don't know if that's accurate."
The big questions growers have is do I need to treat and when, says Abney. Based on past research, if a grower is within 30 days of digging peanuts, he doesn't need to treat for the three-cornered alfalfa hopper. "We don't have any soft chemistries for this insect. If we decide to spray, we're setting ourselves up for secondary pests. So don't spray if you don't have to."


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When the economy is challenged, rallying support for a good and charitable cause becomes difficult. While the world looks to recover from difficult economic times, we all find ourselves being more cautious with how we spend our money.
No matter the state of the economy though, our planet continues to feel the impacts of climate change, global warming and poor energy consumption practices.
And, while saving the planet may seem secondary to saving money – we're here to show you that keeping a greener home is not only good for the environment, but it's good for your wallet, too.
1.) Change Five Lightbulbs in Your Home
Replacing conventional light bulbs in your home is a very simple thing to do, right? If every home in America replaced five conventional bulbs with ENERGY STAR bulbs, we could prevent the greenhouse gas equivalent to the emissions from more than 9 million automobiles.
2.) Using ENERGY STAR Products
Buying new things isn't a great way to save money. When it comes time to replace something though, be sure to weigh all of your options including products that bear the ENERGY STAR logo. From computer monitors and dishwashers to light bulbs and windows – ENERGY STAR represents an opportunity for you to conserve energy, reduce greenhouse gasses and air pollution.
3.) Heat and Cool Your Home Wisely
Modern thermostats with programmable schedules allow most home owners to have a comfortable home that conserves fuel and energy use. If you think you're paying too much to heat and cool your home, be sure to look into these options and have your equipment serviced regularly. Replacing filters and choosing the right equipment like high effeciency models that are properly sized and installed will go a long way for you. Quick fact… ENERGY STAR reports that the average American household can save more than $180 per year by switching to a programmable unit.
4.) Insulating Your Home
Sealing air leaks and adding more insulation to your home is a great do-it-yourself project for most homeowners. Since most homes have the worst leaks in the attic or basement, installing insulation tends to be easy because of the accesability of both places. Other areas where its common to find faulty insulation are around door and window frames, or alongheating ducts.
5.) Using Green Power Sources
Electricity doesn't have to be carried to your home frmo large corporations over wires and poles. Many renewable sources for electricity such as solar and wind power are affordable and offered as alternatives to conventional energy. Or, if you're motivated – you can take advantage of renewable energy incentives in your state or country and install solar panels, windmills or hydroelectric producers on your own property. In some cases, if you produce an excess of energy – you can even sell your unused power back to the electric companies!
6.) Taking Care of Your Yard and Property
While buzzing around in a riding lawn mower may seem fun, it's not only expensive – it's bad for the environment – and your waist line! Push mowers without motors may require a little more effort, but the rewards are plenty. In addition to getting some excercise, you can maintain your yard without hurting the envinroment at all. If you're forced to use a traditional lawn mower though, look into one that has mulching function to reduce grass clippings. These clippings can either be left in the lawn to help rejuvinate the soil with nutrients, or, you can use it to compost yard and food waste on your property – which goes a long way in keeping our landfills clean and planet greener.
7.) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
We've all heard it before, but "reduce, reuse, and recycle" is an excellent lifestyle to practice. Think twice before you throw garbage away… Can that bottle, can, jar or bag be recycled? Do you need to keep home electronics plugged in when they're not in use? What about all that water you use… could you be more frugal with it? For many – the answer is yes, but that's nothing to feel guilty about. If you actively think about reducing your conumption, reusing materials and recycling goods to be used again – you're not only heling the environment, but also helping to keep costs lower for any number of ammenities in life.
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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Kazakhstan, the home of Russia's cosmodrome, where Russian rockets are launched into space, is sending five young leaders to the United States during June 2014 for the Open World exchange program. The Huntsville-based International Services Council of Alabama is seeking five host families in the Huntsville area for the week of June 13 through 22, 2014.
Open World is a program of the U.S. Congress to welcome emerging leaders from parts of the world where democratic government is not common to the United States. During the tours, which are arranged by the U.S. Department of State, international leaders are given the opportunity to meet their counterparts in several regions of the United States, to experience an open society and to talk informally with American host families.
Open World is one of more than two dozen international delegations that the International Services Council hosts in Alabama each year for programs and visits arranged by the U.S. Department of State. The ISC also welcomes cosmopolitan volunteer hosts to accompany many of the tour groups on their excursions and visits in the North Alabama area.
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Annette Watters, manager of the Alabama State Data Center at the University of Alabama's Center for Business and Economic Research at the Culverhouse College of Commerce, said the U.S. Census Bureau and the Veterans Administration both estimate the number of veterans in each state, noting that, in 2011, there are approximately 400,000 veterans in Alabama.
The report says that 91 percent of the veterans are men, while nine percent are women.
The Alabama Army National Guard is currently the sixth largest Guard in the nation and is first per capita with more than 11,000 soldiers, and the annual Veterans Day Parade in Birmingham is the largest Veterans Day parade in the U.S.
Watters said the 401,000 represents about 11 percent of the civilian population aged 18 and over.
Among men in Alabama aged 75 and older, 69 percent are veterans, while only 15 percent of men aged 35 to 54-years-old are veterans. Watters said the total number of veterans is higher in the younger age group than in the older group because every year there are people who don't survive into the older age groups.
Roughly two percent of all adult women (31,500) in Alabama are veterans.
In 2007, there were 66,760 firms in Alabama classifiable by veteran status, while 19 percent (12,800) of those were either owned or co-owned by veterans.
Alabama's 12,800 veteran-owned or co-owned businesses employed 144,400 people with an annual payroll of $14.4 billion in 2007.


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Benghazi compared to Beirut bombing
Well in advance of the Islamist fundamentalist attack, the Secretary of Defense had personally forewarned the President of danger. He told him the compound represented an indefensible security threat in a hostile anti-American environment.
The Secretary said he "pleaded with the President, but not persuasively enough to convince him that Americans there were on an impossible mission."
U.S. forces had bombed extremist positions and were fired on daily for weeks before the assault. The U.S. embassy in Beirut had been bombed six months before. Death toll 24. Numerous messages had been sent to Washington warning of likely attacks.
Nevertheless, by presidential order, compound guards were forbidden to carry loaded weapons. The compound perimeter was fortified only with barbed wire. The compound's commander said "troops were placed in an indefensible situation."
The ensuing predicted attack was horrifically deadly.
This attack took place in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983, after President Reagan sent about 1,600 American troops into a Lebanese warzone as part of a multi-national UN peace-keeping force. 241 American soldiers were murdered in their bunks.
Contemporary reports described it as the "deadliest single-day death toll for US Marines since the Battle of Iwo Jima, deadliest single-day death toll for the US military since the first day of the Vietnam Tet Offensive, and deadliest single attack on Americans overseas since WW II."
The President forcefully told the world our Marines would remain. Four months later, the President withdrew the troops. The US had never retaliated against the attackers.
In fact, the attacker, a Hezbollah suicide-bomber, was not definitively identified for twenty years. Supplied and directed by the Iranian government, he set off what was called "the largest non-nuclear explosion that had ever been detonated on this earth."
After the attack, the Reagan Administration's own military commission called the disaster "a failure of intelligence, a failure of command and control, a failure of effective rules of engagement, a failure of clear-cut mission orders, and a failure in Washington to understand the Middle East, and Lebanon, specifically."
The Commander-in-Chief acknowledged that if anyone were to blame, "the responsibility rests here in this office" but explained: "the attack was unstoppable." There was one congressional hearing that issued recommendtions. No one resigned or was fired.
Two days later, President Reagan ordered "Operation Urgent Fury," the code name for the invasion of Grenada, the smallest independent country in the Western Hemisphere. News outlets later reported: "By the 1984 election, the Grenada success replaced the bitter memory of the Lebanese massacre." Reagan won re-election in a landslide."
What did NOT happen after the Beirut slaughter were nine investigative inquiries and 41 briefings spear-headed by President Reagan's congressional opponents, and a nationwide "two-fer" opposition-led campaign obsessively targeting President Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Writer Zack Beauchamp has summarized the key Benghazi questions: "whether the Benghazi mission was sufficiently protected, whether the US failed to stop the attack when it could have, and whether the administration covered up the truth about the attack's origins."
Adequate protection at our consulates is a real problem, but Congress has largely ignored this issue. Instead Republican legislators like Darell Issa, amplified by FOX News (pardon the expression), continue the endless search for THE "smokinggun" email or memo that will prove once and for all that the Administration was derelict, if not treasonous, in not sending aid, or was involved in a politically motivated cover-up in blaming a videotape rather than its "failed terrorism policy" for the tragedy. Though questions remain, the evidence so far has not risen beyond the level of ideological predisposed suspicion on these two charges.
Benghazi pales in comparison to Beirut in the number of American lives lost, the sheer scale of destruction, predictability of the event, and the unquestioned direct accountability of President Reagan for decisions occasioning the tragedy.
Benghazi, however, does dwarf Beirut in one respect: The duration, pervasiveness, and ferocity of premature, disputable conclusions about dereliction of duty and duplicity by President Obama and his former Secretary of State.
In Beirut's horrific aftermath, Democratic criticism of President Reagan was muted compared to candidate Reagan's own fierce criticism of President Carter about the Iranian hostage crisis four years before.
By contrast, a few hours after the murder of 4 Americans, before any details were known, Republicans went right for President Obama's jugular. They have not stopped since.
Imagine a "Beirut" happening under President Obama, the "Velcro President" instead of under President Reagan, the "Teflon President." With Benghazi, at the very worst, the jury is out. With Beirut, there wasn't even a trial. Why the double standard? You tell me.
A cynic might be tempted to say that the only lesson to be learned here is this: Two days after the Benghazi attack, President Obama should have ordered another invasion of Grenada.
Mannello is a retired former hospital executive and management consultant who resides in Williamsport.


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Georgia scored the go-ahead touchdown midway through the fourth quarter and held off Auburn in the closing minutes for a 31-24 win Saturday night in Sanford Stadium.
It was Georgia's fourth straight win over Auburn. That's the first time that's happened since 1944-48.
Auburn fell to 7-4 overall and 3-4 in the Southeastern Conference. Georgia improved to 6-4 overall and 4-3 in the league.
It was a see-saw second half. Auburn began the half with the lead, lost it, tied the score, lost the lead, tied it again, and lost the lead for good.
Auburn got as close as the Georgia 22 with two minutes to play, but went backward from there. Ben Tate lost a yard, a Chris Todd pass to Mario Fannin was broken up at the 2, Todd was sacked for 7-yard loss.
Auburn's last chance was a 4th-and-23 pass from the Georgia 35 that fell incomplete in the end zone.


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The Bernards Township Municipal Alliance Against Substance Abuse is hosting the second of three dialogue nights next Wednesday, May 21. These dialogue nights are in response to the feedback from the March 13th Town Hall meeting titled "Cycle of Pills to Heroin: Drug Trends in Our Community."
This month's program will take place on Wednesday, May 21, from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Warren Craft Room at the Bernards Township Municipal Building. Entitled, "The Definition of Addiction: Is it Adolescent Angst or Substance Abuse?" this discussion will go into detail about addiction and its many different features. Participants can learn the difference between adolescent behavior and substance use and abuse. This evening will feature presentations from clinicians in the field of substance abuse, including Lorin Gaffen who was present at the original "Cycle of Pills to Heroin: Drug Trends in our Community." This dialogue night will also feature local testimonials and community perspectives of addiction.
"We took the feedback from our Town Hall meeting and are offering three concentrated dialogue nights before summer begins," says Carol Bianchi, Township Committee Member and Municipal Alliance Chairperson, "We wanted to continue the conversation we started that evening with the panel and keep it open to the public. We hope community members will come out to these dialogue nights to learn more about substance abuse and how to combat it."
The final dialogue night will be on Wednesday, June 11, from 7-8:30 p.m. The June program is titled "The Discipline of Recovery". Topics from that evening will include getting clean and staying clean, sober living and support. Members from the March 13th panel who shared their stories of recovery will be present at this dialogue night.
For more information, contact Municipal Alliance Grant Coordinator, Kaitlin Kordusky at 908-204-2523 or email email@example.com.
The mission of the Bernards Township Municipal Alliance Against Substance Abuse is to provide consultation, programs, training and resources to members of the Bernards Township community with the goal of preventing and reducing the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs through education, support of events and programs and presence in the community. For more information and to view results from the Student Stressors or American Drug and Alcohol Survey, visit bernardsalliance.org.


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When Katie Francis of Oklahoma broke a record recently for selling 18,107 boxes of Girl Scout cookies in seven weeks, the world took notice. All eyes were on this ambitious young woman with a creative approach and an impressive work ethic. But what Katie might not be aware of is just how different the cookies she's selling are from ones she might bake herself. Read more
Gardening Behind Bars: San Quentin's First Harvest
Eric Davis remembers the first time he saw the flower garden at San Quentin prison. "It [was] the only green thing in the yard," he recalls.
Last fall, the Insight Garden Program (IGP) and Oakland community gardening nonprofit Planting Justice added a little more green. An organic vegetable garden joined the flowers that were planted in 2003. And this month, the vegetable garden will have its first harvest. Read more
Food Industry Nutrition Curriculum Tells Kids: Outrun Your Fork
As of 2012, 53 percent of elementary schools and 12.5 million students are being taught about food and nutrition by the food industry, in part via an industry-created course called "Energy Balance 101." Their message? "If kids eat more, they shouldn't forget to exercise more, too." Read more
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As a little girl, I loved sitting on the kitchen counter while my mom cooked. While I kicked my feet against the cabinets, she taught me how to peel an onion efficiently and how to crack an egg and use my index fingers to get all the white out before tossing the shells into the compost bin. And I still vividly recall the excitement I felt over the beautiful, golden, sesame seed-studded loaves of braided challah we baked in my second grade class at the Woodstock Children's Center–they were like some kind of miracle. Childhood is such an important, impressionable time of life when the vast majority of our lifelong habits are formed, or at least pointed in the direction in which they'll head. That's why my husband and I want to introduce our son, Will, to growing and cooking food alongside us. Read more
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Two local school districts lost their budget votes Tuesday, even though a majority voted to approve them.
North Syracuse will have to make a tough decision on putting a revised budget up for a June 18 vote.
New York City-area principals write to Education Commissioner John King with their deep concerns about the state's new tests.
In an emotional speech, a gay high school graduate in Colorado thanks his classmates for their support. Watch the video.
A 12-year-old girl in Queens committed suicide after relentless cyber-bullying, her mother says.
A teacher wins a seat on the Los Angeles school board despite big contributions to her opponent by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others.
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Dr. Doron J. Lurie senior curator and chief conservator at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art carries Abraham Breughel's Still Life of Fruit with a Bird painting into the museum's vault in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. Tel Aviv's Art Museum, one of Israel's premiere museums, has moved 200 of its most precious works of art to a rocket-proof vault in case of a missile attack. AP Photo/Dan Balilty.
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The wine-red walls of the Brueghel exhibition hall at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art are now bare, like the crime scene of a daring art heist.
Tel Aviv's leading art museum, spooked by rocket attacks on Israel's cultural capital, moved nearly 200 works Friday into a rocket-proof safe the size of an auditorium including some 100 works painted by relatives of Flemish Renaissance master Pieter Brueghel the Elder.
"Even if there's a very small possibility (of damage), we don't play around. We don't take chances," said Doron J. Lurie, the senior curator and chief conservator. "We've guarded them like our own kids."
One other Israeli art museum followed suit, hauling some of its most prized artworks into fortified vaults deep underground to protect them from the current round of Israel-Palestinian fighting. For nearly a week, the Israeli military has waged air strikes against Gaza, while Palestinian militants have barraged Israel with rocket fire.
In the southern city of Ashdod, which has suffered more frequent rocket barrages because of its proximity to Gaza, the curator of the Ashdod Art Museum Monart Center took down 15 works of leading contemporary Israeli artist Tsibi Geva. On Sunday, he stashed them in a vault four floors underground designed to withstand rocket fire and biological weapons.
"It's chutzpah to take a chance on them," said curator Yuval Biton, using the Yiddish word for "audacious." It was the first time the Ashdod museum had hid its art in the vault since it opened in 2003.
Israel has seen its fair share of incoming fire over the past decade: Hezbollah launched rockets that rained down during the 2006 Lebanon war, and rockets from Gaza have repeatedly been fired into Israel's south.
During fighting in Gaza four years ago, the art museum in the southern city of Beersheba moved works from unfortified storage to a reinforced vault in city hall, said Idit Amihai, the top government official in charge of museums.
But most of Israel's leading museums in the heartland cities of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv far from traditional rocket range have had little reason to fortify artworks in the past.
Even during the current fighting, not all museums have rushed to protect their treasures. The Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv, which displays Near Eastern antiquities and other art, left its works in place. "We don't get into a panic and take stuff from the glass showcases," museum spokeswoman Miri Tsedaka said.
And, despite one instance of rockets aimed toward Jerusalem that landed south of the city, no extra security precautions have been taken at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the country's central museum housing its most prized antiquities and cultural possessions. "It's business as usual," said director James Snyder.
Lenny Wolfe, a prominent Jerusalem antiquities dealer, said he hasn't moved his valuable ancient objects from his bank's safe deposit box. "I'm more concerned about my own safety and the safety of my own family than a few bits of pottery," Wolfe said.
The only other time the Tel Aviv museum rushed to save its works was during the 1991 Gulf War, when Iraqi Scud missiles pounded the seaside metropolis. At that time, the museum whisked its entire collection of paintings and sculptures into its large vault.
The works that were moved into the safe on Friday include one of the Jewish world's most iconic paintings Polish artist Maurycy Gottlieb's 1878 work, "Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur" as well as some 100 works by sons and relatives of Pieter Brueghel the Elder, and one precious painting by the master himself, the mid-16th century "The Resurrection of Christ."
The Brueghel exhibit had already been crippled by Israel's image as a dangerous place, said the curator, Lurie. He knew museums wouldn't lend him many works by Brueghel himself, so he focused on persuading museums and collectors to lend him works by Brueghel's descendants.
Then, a month before the "All His Sons: The Brueghel Dynasty" exhibition opened in August, two foreign museums backed down on their promise to loan two important paintings by the Flemish master's sons because of heightened talk of a possible Iran-Israel war, Lurie said.
"'Are you serious that you're asking for this painting for summer 2012?'" Lurie recalled museum representatives telling him.
Now the exhibition's works are behind a heavy, hulking metal door with an outsized combination lock. Wearing white gloves, Lurie turned a large silver wheel in the middle of the door and struggled to pull it open to show some of the stored paintings.
Despite concerns about the risks, top masterworks are frequently exhibited in Israeli museums on loan from world institutions and collectors. Displaying masterpieces is a trickier proposition in the West Bank: It took yearlong negotiations with Israel's army and Dutch museum officials to get a $7 million Pablo Picasso masterpiece safely into a West Bank gallery in 2011.
Only a few rockets have whistled over the skies of Tel Aviv during the current conflict, and the city is considered safer than other Israeli towns along the Gaza border. So the Tel Aviv museum let southern Israelis visit the museum for free and reduced admission for everyone else to account for the 200 or so missing spots on the museum walls. The Israel Museum and Eretz Israel Museum also offered free and discounted entry.
The works moved into the safes in Tel Aviv and Ashdod were mostly pieces on loan from private collectors.
"If they survived 800 years before they got here, we have to do the utmost, for the good of humanity, so they will survive at least another 500 years," said Lurie.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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J. T. Staley (Microbiology/Astrobiology Program, U. Washington)
Although details of the first metabolic processes cannot yet be determined, the most important early biological process was primary production, i.e., the fixation of carbon dioxide into organic materials. Primary production on Earth today is dominated by photosynthesis, in which light is the energy source, but photosynthesis is very complex and undoubtedly required an extensive period of evolution. In contrast chemosynthesis, which uses chemical forms of energy and is carried out even today by many microorganisms, is simpler and likely evolved earlier than photosynthesis. The chemical disequilibria of early Earth provided energetically favorable reactions for utilization by early life forms.Among the energy sources available for chemosynthesis on primitive Earth was hydrogen gas reacting with oxidants such as carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide. Contemporary microbes that use the hydrogen/carbon dioxide metabolism are methane producers, while others use the hydrogen/sulfite metabolism; examples of both can be found assocated with seafloor hydrothermal vents. Some evidence supports the evolution of these processes as long ago as 3.5 billion years.
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There are also Men's Meetings Friday evening once per month. Each time there is a special theme for the evening chosen by one of the members.
Normally on the same night there is Girl's Night In, and there is also a daytime meeting once a month called Contact, which provides a welcome for those who want to pop in.
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If the world is counting on innovative companies to solve global warming, we may be in trouble. Venture investment in cleantech is slumping. Venture capitalists in the US poured $2 billion into 139 cleantech start-ups in the first half of 2008, according to data from PricewaterhouseCoopers. In the first half of this year, venture investments in the sector plummeted to $513 million in 89 companies.
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When Oracle agreed to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion in April, the headlines made much of the software maker's decision to enter the computer business 30 years late. At less than 10 per cent of sales, Sun's software business seemed an afterthought.


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Gary Landrieu, an unsuccessful candidate for Congress earlier this month, issued a public apology on Friday for a French Quarter quarrel that led to his being booked with aggravated battery because, police said, he dragged a woman by the hair while he was driving away in his truck. In his two-paragraph statement, Landrieu said the woman was the mother of his 2-year-old son.
Police said the two had been arguing at Decatur and Barracks streets on Nov. 9 while Landrieu was inside his truck and the woman, whom police declined to identify, was standing outside.
He grabbed her by the jaw, police said, but after she broke free, Landrieu seized her ponytail and started to drive off, dragging her several feet.
Police said she declined medical attention and had no visible injuries.
"All my actions were in defense of my 2-year-old son," Landrieu, 54, said in his apology, although he did not disclose the reason for the quarrel or explain why he felt the need to defend their son, who was not present.
"My relationship with my son's mother has been very challenging," he said. "My response to her, while inappropriate, does not rise to the level of a crime."
Landrieu, son of longtime Orleans Parish School Board member Phyllis Landrieu and a first cousin of New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu and U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, surrendered to police on Monday and posted a $15,000 bond that night. His next court date is Jan. 11.
"I want to apologize to you and my God for letting you down," he said in his apology, which he released to reporters. "I pray for my family today and especially my parents and son, who have had to endure so much. I promise you this momentary lapse in judgment does not define who I am or what I stand for."
In the congressional race, Landrieu placed second in a five-man field in an unsuccessful attempt to unseat U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans. Earlier this year, he sought an at-large seat on the City Council.


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PechaKucha Barcelona co-organizer Mitch Micenmacher shared with us this great video report that aired on the local TV program Barcelona Televisió. The piece gives a taste of what the events in Barcelona are like.
Barcelona's Vol. 20
Barcelona just celebrated its 20th PechaKucha Night -- a momentous volume number we always love seeing a city reach -- and here's a look at the great "banzai" shot they took with the crowd, a tradition we've been doing in Tokyo for years. The photo was taken by Nacho Martínez (PhotoArt), and you'll find more Barcelona photos on this Flickr page (with more Vol. 20 photos soon to come).
You may have seen us often share a big crowd shot from our PechaKucha Nights here in Tokyo with everyone raising their hands -- everyone also screams "banzai" (loosely translates as "hurrah") as the shot is taken. We loved seeing that same shot get taken at Barcelona's Vol. 18, held last week. Below, a group shot of the presenters, as well as a larger version of the crowd shot -- both photos were taken by Nacho Martínez (PhotoArt).
Light painting isn't a new art form by any stretch, but recently it's been revitalized and enhanced by the DIY community. In today's edition of Presentation of the Day, we see the extent to which the medium has grown.
In his presentation (from PKN Barcelona Vol. 10) Mateusz Staniewski enlightens us on the finer details of the photographic art. The techniques he goes into include light-stenciling, freezing, and painting; when combining these methods the results are both literally and figuratively luminous. There's much more to be seen than said here, so for further illumination check out the full presentation.
Presentations Robert Fishbone had an amazing experience taking part in Artsweek -- like learning how Bobby McFerrin does his vocal gymnastics -- and in this lively presentation (from PKN Salt Lake City Vol. 8), you'll get to experience part of it too. Rafi Ghanaghounian of Keep Six Exhibits shares his fun project called "Blocks," Toronto's largest scavenger hunt. Originally, the project was just between him and his son, but after doing this presentation (from PKN Toronto Vol. 14), he is now turning into an actual public event. Posters Barcelona always comes up with great posters for its events, and here's another great example -- designed by LoSiento -- for the city's upcoming Vol. 17. You'll of course find more great posters on our Tumblr Blog. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM4TXMBGLdY Video PKN Orlando organizer Eddie Selover has been doing an amazing job with his series -- to a point that he was awarded a Silver Brick -- and earlier this month he participated in a TEDx event in Orlando, and spoke about his experience with PechaKucha, in a talk entitled "How PechaKucha Changed My Life." Calendar Here's what's on tonight (October 30): PKN Eureka (Montana) Vol. 1, PKN Grand Rapids Vol. 5, PKN Buenos Aires Vol. 27, and PKN Pittsfield Vol. 4. Tomorrow night we celebrate Tokyo Designers Week with our big PKN -- aka PKN Tokyo Vol. 96 -- at the Meiji-Jingu Gaien grounds. You'll also find these three events: PKN Derby Vol. 7, PKN Mikkeli Vol. 1, and PKN Montevideo Vol. 8.
Presentations Daniel Silverman is an architect, and in his presentation (from PKN Shenzhen Vol. 11) he shares a few projects that use unconventional materials for the formwork aspect of construction. Mad Men are dead. Creative directors do not just get to go to parties nowadays, but as is revealed in this presentation (in Spanish, from PKN Barcelona Vol. 14) by Rafa Bonichon, they have to be able to distinguish between what is bullshit and what is a good idea. Posters Our last addition to the Tumblr blog before the weekend is the poster you see above, for Sao Paulo's Vol. 11, which is happening tonight. It was illustrated by João Lavieri, who will also be a presenter at the event. Video The following video is for a PKN that happened in Barcelona last year (its Vol. 12), but we hadn't seen it yet, and we loved it so much that we played it at our Vol. 95 here in Tokyo this past Wednesday. Calendar Time to take a look at what the weekend has in store, starting with a very busy Friday night: PKN Salzburg Vol. 13, PKN Des Moines Vol. 11, PKN Gainesville Vol. 5, PKN Sao PauloVol. 11, PKN Wellington Vol. 16, PKN Toledo Vol. 3, PKN San Francisco Vol. 52, PKN Delhi Vol. 12, and PKN Geneva Vol. 9. Saturday brings PKN Oulu Vol. 18 and PKN Banja Luka Vol. 6, and then on Sunday we have PKN Plzen Vol. 2.
In this presentation (from PKN Dunsborough Vol. 4), Dianne Parker talks about her passion project: an upcoming journey to volunteer with the Tabitha Foundation in Cambodia to build much needed homes for displaced families. Benjamin Julve has been documenting PechaKucha Nights in Barcelona since the series' inception in 2008. This is a special "behind the scenes" presentation (in Spanish, from PKN Barcelona Vol. 14) that includes just a few of the hundreds of photos he has taken so far.
Presentations In this presentation (from PKN Genoa Vol. 1), Gregory Melitonov talks about his SOTTO project, that incorporates typical Italian laundry lines and t-shirts to send a message to the community at large. The Bike Kitchen is more than just a self-help bike garage where you can bring your bike and learn how to repair it yourself. As you'll learn in this presentation (in German, from PKN Augsburg Vol. 1) by Stefan Sohnle, the Bike Kitchen is in fact just like a family. Posters We've just added quite a few posters to the Tumblr blog, and so today instead of just highlighting one, we'll include a few of them in our daily post. First up, above, is the poster for tonight's PKN Rockford Vol. 2. Also uploaded today are the following (some of which you'll find below): PKN Oaxaca Vol. 2 and Vol. 7, PKN Cancun Vol. 1, PKN Panama Vol. 3, PKN Wakefield Vol. 2 and Vol. 4, PKN Barcelona Vol. 12, PKN Dnipropetrovsk Vol. 2, and PKN Taos Vol. 2. Calendar There are two events on tap for tonight (July 24): PKN Halifax Vol. 11 and the previously mentioned PKN Rockford Vol. 2. Tomorrow is a busy night, and on top of our PKN Tokyo Vol. 94 (our last PKN of the summer), you can look for the following events: PKN Derby Vol. 6, PKN Znojmo Vol. 1, PKN Helena Vol. 2, and PKN Providence Vol. 40.
Presentations Tatiana Guryeva's presentation (in Ukrainian, from PKN Kyiv Vol. 7) is based on recollections of her childhood. You'll see the Kyiv of the 70s and 80s, or at least how it has remained in her memory, as well as Pechersk, the area where she grew up, and Podol, the area where she currently lives.
Art's task is to Save the Soul of Mankind, and that anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because if the Artist, who are self-selected to be able to journey into the other... if the Artist cannot find the way, then the Way cannot be Found.
Adopting this Terence McKenna quote as his mantra and accidentally stumbling into what he calls "Thought Structure" through his art, blakeArt® (aka Matt Blake), with all his might and good intent, attempts to do just that: find a way for All. We are all "One" in the "Same," and he expands on that idea in this presentation (from PKN Chicago Vol. 18). Posters New on the Tumblr blog today are posters for PKN Guimaraes Vol. 3 (pictured above), PKN Springfield, Ohio Vol. 5, and PKN Cape Town Vol. 19. We've also added a few posters and flyers from PKN Buenos Aires that we hadn't come across in the past, including the flyer you see above, for the city's Vol. 21. PKN Buenos Aires Vol. 25 happens tonight. Photos and video We have a few photo galleries to share today, including from the recent PKN Barcelona Vol. 16, which is what you see above. After the link, you'll also find a great video round-up from the event -- we sure love that "20th Century Fox" intro done PK-style.
- PKN Barcelona Vol. 16
- PKN Norwich Vol. 4 [Flickr]
- PKN Winnipeg Vol. 10 [Facebook]
Calendar Tonight (June 26) your PKN satisfaction will come from the following two events: PKN Amersfoort Vol. 7 and the previously mentioned PKN Buenos Aires Vol. 25. Tomorrow, on top of PKN Tokyo Vol. 93, you'll find PKN Kingston Vol. 3 and PKN Providence Vol. 39.


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Recap: 'Big Brother' Thursday - Why takes the Head of Househould lead?
8:00 p.m. ET Why am I doing a minute-by-minute recap for a Thursday "Big Brother" episode that isn't going to feature an elimination? Well, force of habit for one thing. Also, I know my blogging structure for "Survivor" and "American Idol" and "The Amazing Race," but other than minute-to-minute Thursday elimination recaps, I don't have a feel for "Big Brother" and with less than a week left in the season, why am I going to bother experimenting with formats? Exactly. Plus... Final Head of Household!
[Full recap after the break...]
8:02 p.m. "Big Brother" is lucky that we're nearly done with this season. Wednesday's episode was woefully disheartening. First of all, I lost Britney, who was a source of both eye-candy and occasional snarky humor. But, to make matters worse, Lane, Hayden and particularly Enzo were spectacularly obnoxious in the way the revealed The Brigade to Britney. With only a week to go, I no longer have anybody I'd like to see win this game.
8:05 p.m. We return to the first phase of the Head of Household challenge, the one that ended Wednesday's episode, a task Enzo calls "the funnest of the season." Then again, Enzo hasn't evolved that far from the jungle. Hayden admits that things were fun at first, but after a few hard collisions, he tires of the impact.
8:07 p.m. Matters get worse when "rain" stars walling on the contestants, soaking the hamsters and their ropes. Suddenly, this isn't nearly so fun for Enzo.
8:09 p.m. The Meow-Meow is the first to fall-fall after 19+ minutes. "These competitions just make me look like I'm weak," Enzo says. Well yes. Just like competitions have been making you look weak all season long. Hayden mocks Enzo's intestinal fortitude. Both Hayden and Enzo are convinced that they need to win HoH to make the Finals.
8:11 p.m. The challenge continues, but Enzo is taking some "nice alone down-time." He's simultaneously making pizza and pasta in the house. He brings his feast outside and taunts his rivals with his food. "If I could move my lower half right now, I'd crawl to you and slap you," Lane says in the Diary Room. Lane seems to be struggling outside. As he put it, he just ripped his whole a$$. Really? Ouch. "We're men. We're not girls. We don't have ponies. We don't have dolls. Deal with it. Block it out. Stay on the rope," Lane announces. Dang. I want that on a shirt.
8:13 p.m. After two hours and 35 minutes, Lane goes down.
8:17 p.m. In a live component, Julie Chen asks Enzo how they're still around. Enzo doesn't know, but guesses that it was his personality. Lane says that it was hard for him not to tell everybody all season long. Does Hayden worry about how the rest of the Jury will respond to Britney telling them about The Brigade? "They're going to hate us... however they vote is up to them," Hayden says.
8:19 p.m. So we won't actually learn who the last Head of Household is. Julie Chen tells us that we won't get the third leg of the HoH competition until next Wednesday. First, though... We have to meet Enzo's family.
8:20 p.m. Off in Bayonne, we meet Joella, Enzo's wife. She's a very pretty gal and less stereotypically "Jersey" than I might have guessed, given Enzo. We learn that Enzo is Mr. Mom to his adorable daughter. Less surprising, Enzo is a Mama's Boy. The Mama in question is Teresa, introduced making meatballs. Italians, Teresa tells us, are a very happy people. The Family Enzo was loving watching their patriarch in his penguin costume, even getting his daughter a stuffed penguin. Joella tells us that Enzo planned on establishing an alliance before the game started, raving about his social game, saying that the other players don't even know they're being manipulated. And Teresa pronounces that Enzo has done Jersey proud.
8:26 p.m. This is bound to be heartbreaking. We're off to watch Ragan's arrival at the Jury House, where Kathy is still raging at Matt for his lie about his mother's health. How will Ragan respond to Matt's deceit? Our hunch? Not well.
8:28 p.m. Ragan arrives and announces "Another showmance in the jury house," giving Matt a big hug. Rachel's ready to fight with Ragan, who she calls a bully. Because she's evil and nasty. I wonder if she'll be able to resist the homophobic slurs she was making last week in the Jury House.
8:29 p.m. Matt asks to take Ragan aside. Kathy warns him that he'll need alcohol. They go outside and Matt lays out the reality. And Ragan looks, as you'd imagine, horrified. "Wow, Matt. That's pretty hardcore.... I have nothing to say right now," Ragan tells Matt, telling the camera that the lie was "catastrophic." He compares it to being kicked in the gut, to being Charlie Brown when Lucy pulls the football away.
8:31 p.m. With Rachel practically cackling in the background, everybody goes out to console Ragan. At this point, Ragan admits that he'd lied all season long about his academic background. He uses his skills to explain to Rachel why her social game stunk. She doesn't understand. Ummm... Rachel... If everybody hates you, it means your social game is awful. With your chemistry expertise, surely you should understand that? That's an easy one. Rachel and Ragan get into a fight over whether she was the cause of all of the drama in the house. She says she wasn't, but even Brendon can't be bothered to defend his sweet baboo. Rachel tells Ragan to "grab a tiara and be a f***ing queen" and storms out. Ewww.
8:38 p.m. Thank heavens. We're done with Rachel. Her vote should count as a negative vote during the finale.
8:39 p.m. Stage 2 of the HoH is called "It's Alive" and featured Frankensteined pictures smooshing features from two hamsters. This is exactly the competition Ragan was prepping for two weeks ago. Ragan, unfortunately, is stuck with Rachel in Hell.
8:40 p.m. Lane is up first, buzzing in at 1:13, correctly identifying all five.
8:41 p.m. After two minutes, we're back for more commercials.
8:47 p.m. Six minutes of commercials, in fact. Laaaaaaaaame.
8:48 p.m. Enzo is up next. And the show wastes nearly a full minute on Julie Chen repeating the full set of "It's Alive" rules to Enzo. Couldn't the Chenbot have done that during the commercial break? Unlike Lane, Enzo begins by unveiling the Frankensteined portraits bit-by-bit. It's hard to tell if that's his undoing, but he gets stymied and finishes at 1:42.
8:50 p.m. We know that even though both men got all five portraits correctly, Lane finished first and thus won. But instead of giving the results, it's off to another commercial break.
8:54 p.m. Another three minutes of commercial for the grand revelation of something we already knew and could have announced already. And, not only that, the Chenbot's reading settings have been set on "Slow."
8:55 p.m. "It's tough. Julie, it sucks," Enzo says of having his fate in Lane and Hayden's hands.
8:56 p.m. Now Julie's telling us what's going to happen on next Wednesday's finale.
5:57 p.m. Kids, the last 25 minutes of tonight's "Big Brother" contained *four* minutes of actual relevant programming. That's pretty amazing.
Are you happy for Hayden and Lane? Or are you still sad about Britney's departure? Yeah, you know you are.