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Killer kangaroos and demon ducks reported in The Australian and BBC News, 12 July 2006, and the Daily Telegraph (UK) 13 July 2006. Palaeontologists excavating the Riversleigh fossil deposit in northwest Queensland have found fossils of 20 new species including a "meat eating kangaroo with long fangs" and a giant bird nicknamed by the fossil hunters as the "demon duck of doom." Other finds include "galloping kangaroos with long forearms that could not hop" and a "prehistoric lungfish which closely resembles modern day lungfish".
Another unusual feature of the fossils is that they are black, indicating the environment was not rich in oxygen. The researchers believe this indicates the site was once a deep lake. Other fossils have indicated that the area was once covered in dense rainforest. The site is believed to contain fossils of thousands of extinct creatures. Michael Archer of the University of New South Wales commented: "This would have been a very weird place, to our eyes."
Editorial Comment: Michael Archer is right – the world once was a very different place to that of today. These finds add to the evidence that Australia was once populated by an abundance of large animals that have since died out or shrunk. This is the opposite of evolution, i.e. loss of species, not emergence of new species. These fossils actually fit better into the Biblical history of the world. In the beginning living things were created as separated kinds and they lived in a very good world. Many animals and birds would have been able to grow to much larger sizes than they can today because the environment provided more food and less stress. The environment degenerated significantly after Noah's flood with the coming of the first winters and summers. As a result, many large animals have completely died out or failed to grow to their former size. (Ref. devolution, palaeontology, degeneration)
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AMES, Iowa — Badger Creek Watershed is one of the oldest publicly owned lakes in Iowa. A picnic and wetland tour to celebrate the lake will be held Saturday, July 14, from 5-8 p.m. at the Ron and Jenny McBroom barn. The celebration is open to the public and includes a tour of the CREP wetland, the McBroom-Hargis barn, the Conservation Station and an evening dinner.
The event is free, but an RSVP is recommended; please phone 515-462-2961 ext. 301 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Iowa Learning Farms and Madison Soil and Water Conservation District commissioners sponsor the event. The McBroom-Hargis barn is located at 1218 U.S. Highway 169, Winterset.
Attendees will tour the historic barn, built in 1884, visit the Conservation Station, take a tour of the Martens CREP (Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program) wetland, enjoy dinner and learn about ways to improve the watershed. Madison SWCD commissioner Frederick Martens will lead the wetland tour and talk about what a CREP wetland is and how it is beneficial to Badger Creek.
The Conservation Station is a mobile learning center that travels across the state teaching all Iowans how they can help to improve water quality and keep Iowa's soils in place — building a Culture of Conservation. Visitors to the Conservation Station can learn why Iowa's water and soils are precious and how to help preserve these natural resources for future generations. The Conservation Station's rainfall simulator demonstrates the effects of rainfall on different land surfaces. Water runoff and subsurface drainage are collected in clear jars to show what is coming off the various soil scenarios, including heavily tilled soil, minimum tillage and pervious pavement.
The Badger Creek Watershed project is under way with the goal of improving water quality going into the lake and surrounding areas. The lake is experiencing high sedimentation levels, which damage the lake's aquatic life. The project works with all who live within the watershed including home and landowners, farmers and lake users, to remove the watershed from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources 303(d) impaired waters list.
Iowa Learning Farms takes a grassroots approach, offering innovative ways to help all Iowans have an active role in keeping the state's natural resources healthy and not take them for granted. A goal of Iowa Learning Farms is to build a Culture of Conservation, encouraging the adoption of residue management and conservation practices. Farmers, researchers and ILF team members are working together to identify and implement the best in-field management practices that increase water and soil quality while remaining profitable. Visit the Iowa Learning Farms website for more information: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/ilf.
Iowa Learning Farms is a partnership of the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa Natural Resources Conservation Service and Iowa Department of Natural Resources (USEPA section 319); in cooperation with Conservation Districts of Iowa, the Iowa Farm Bureau and the Iowa Water Center.
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GOP Bexar Judge Switches Parties, Democrats Declare Victory
A Bexar County Court at Law Judge who was elected in 2010 as a Republican says he will seek re-election next year as a Democrat, and the State Democratic Chairman says Carlo Key won't be the first party jumper.
"We are seeing a lot of things happening with the Republican Party which are completely out of steam with mainstream Texas," State Democratic Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa tells 1200 WOAI news.
Key narrowly defeated Democratic incumbent Joanne De Hoyos in 2010. He is a Texas A&M grad and a graduate of the Baylor University School of Law.
"I think a lot of people who have been consistently voting Republican are having second thoughts about this party," Hinojosa said. "It is so controlled by the right wing extremists who control the primaries."
Hinojosa says especially Latino Republicans will begin jumping ship as the GOP veers into more conservative territory.
"A think a lot of Hispanics who played around with the Republican Party for a little while have realized they are not welcome any more," Hinojosa said.
He said that the 'extreme' Republican Party, with positions in support of cuts to education funding and voter i.d. does not represent the interests of Texas Latinos.
In the 1980s, it was the Democratic Party which was perceived as being 'out of touch' with the average voters, and too liberal for Texas. That prompted dozens of Democratic office holders, including then State Representative Rick Perry, to become Democrats.


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Rock Hill, S.C. - For the fourth consecutive season the Tornados women's tennis team earned passage into the semifinals of the Food Lion South Atlantic Conference tournament, defeating #5 Mars Hill in the first round at the Rock Hill Tennis Center, 5-1.
Michelle Prata clinched the Brevard victory on Thursday morning on court no. 3, defeating Anna Rickenbaker in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1 to advance the Tornados to a Friday morning showdown against tournament top-seed Wingate University. First serve in doubles play between the four-seeded Tornados and the top-seed Bulldogs is set for 9 a.m.
Brevard earned the first point of the match at no. 3 doubles as the Tornados duo of Elise Labus and Ana Drummond were unopposed on the court.
In the two contested doubles matches, Mars Hill evened the score as Tatiana Dualiby and Jacqueline Rouquet topped Lindsay Hostetter and Jennifer Nyman on court no. 2, 8-2 to put the Lions on the board. Claire Dillman and Prata gave the Tornados the lead heading into singles play with an 8-6 victory on court no. 1 as the All-SAC Second Team doubles partners topped Erika Pinate and Rickenbaker.
Drummond picked up the victory on court no. 6 due to forfeit to give Brevard the 3-1 advantage, and Nyman quickly put Brevard in place to take the match as the senior defeated Jordan Dockery on court no. 5, 6-0, 6-0.
Prata followed through the deciding match to push Brevard into the semifinals with her straight set victory.
Singles competition
1. Claire Dillman (BCW) vs. Erika Pinate (MHCW) 4-6, unfinished
2. Lindsay Hostetter (BCW) vs. Tatiana Dualiby (MHCW) 3-6, 3-4, unfinished
3. Michelle Prata (BCW) def. Anna Rickenbaker (MHCW) 6-2, 6-1
4. Elise Labus (BCW) vs. Jacqueline Rouquet (MHCW) 2-6, 3-5, unfinished
5. Jennifer Nyman (BCW) def. Jordan Dockery (MHCW) 6-0, 6-0
6. Ana Drummond (BCW) def. No player (MHCW), by forfeit
Doubles competition
1. Claire Dillman/Michelle Prata (BCW) def. Erika Pinate/Anna Rickenbaker (MHCW) 8-6
2. Tatiana Dualiby/Jacqueline Rouquet (MHCW) def. Lindsay Hostetter/Jennifer Nyman (BCW) 8-2
3. Elise Labus/Ana Drummond (BCW) def. No player/No player (MHCW), by forfeit


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Real Salt Lake will host its U.S. Open Cup game on May 28.
RSL will play the winner of the May 21 contest between the Atlanta Silverbacks, of the North American Soccer League, and the Georgia Revolution, of the National Premier Soccer League.
RSL is 5-80 all-time in U.S. Open Cup play and lost 3-1 to the NASL's Minnesota Stars in the third round of last year's cup. Salt Lake's best finishes came in 2006 and 2011, advancing both times to the tournament's quarterfinals.
Come back
RSL midfielder Enzo Martinez is returning to the team after a short loan to the Carolina RailHawks. Martinez was loaned out to the NASL club earlier this month and scored a goal in his first minutes with the team. The 22-year-old will be back with RSL this weekend and available for a Monday reserve match against Chivas.
Familiar Face
Former RSL goalkeeper Jay Nolly was training with his old team Wednesday.
Nolly, a journeyman who last played for the Chicago Fire, provided an extra body in net for an RSL team that loaned out goalie Jeff Attinella earlier this month.
Nolly played for Salt Lake in 2005 and 2006.
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Decades after the first Earth Day thrust the environment into our nation's collective consciousness, the green building movement has just begun to gel. Although sustainable design is still a hard sell—and represents just a sliver of the housing market—it has come a long way since its origins in the back-to-nature movement of the 1960s. Today, a combination of smart design and emerging building technology, rather than a romantic notion of living off the land, is giving ecological design its legs. And with soaring fuel costs taking us into uncharted territory, this may be the moment in history when sustainable architecture truly takes off. If so, Sausalito, Calif., architect Sim Van der Ryn gets much of the credit for laying the groundwork. A tireless experimenter, educator, and politician, he has been leading the architecture profession in a new direction for the past 40 years, starting well before the term green design was invented.
The 70-year-old architect is part of a generation of visionaries who are more interested in their work than in making a name for themselves. Never one to concern himself with conventional marketing, Van der Ryn nevertheless has been the subject of countless magazine and newspaper articles and has collected a long list of honors and awards. Among them are a Richard Neutra Award for Professional Excellence from Cal Poly Pomona and a Sustainability Trailblazer Award from the Marin County Community Development Agency. The AIA California Council gave him a Nathaniel Owings Award for environmental leadership, and his Marin Solar Village earned him a merit award from Progressive Architecture magazine. His accomplishments bear witness to the ingenuity of a man who has never stopped inventing and evolving. Now, after decades of working out his deeply held environmental and spiritual values, his message seems as fresh as ever.
designing with nature
Van der Ryn started experimenting with sustainable design in the 1960s, back when just about every aspect of dominant culture was being questioned. At the time, many architects were embracing Modernism as a way to express new forms, materials, and values, but Van der Ryn began to see it as just another architectural style that failed to address the larger problem of how to build intelligently. "I think early Modernism did have a good, optimistic side, but it certainly wasn't derived from nature," he says. Van der Ryn was interested in designing buildings and communities that imitated how ecosystems work by recycling waste water, using renewable materials, and taking full advantage of their solar setting. He describes his design aesthetic as ecomorphic: The architectural forms come from following the logic of the land and the climate, and from figuring out what kind of dwelling makes his clients feel at ease in the world. "I try to move them away from the object to the living aspect of it," he says. "You do have to have some sensitivity for how your house is you and how you are your home."
Despite their heavily environmental agenda—or perhaps because of it—his buildings have a vibrant, poetic quality. They display a good dose of utopian or just-plain-good-sense values, yet there's nothing preachy, pretentious, or strained about his artistry.
One of his largest houses, for a musician, is called the Guitar House because its 40 rammed-earth columns look like the neck and frets of a guitar. They mark a long east-west colonnade that links a series of discrete rooms clad in sprayed earth and topped with curved zinc roofs. Like every large-scale project, this one served as a laboratory for testing technologies and construction techniques that could be used on public projects. David Warner, owner of Red Horse Constructors, San Rafael, Calif., built full-scale models of the columns and walls so that they could be thoroughly tested for seismic and thermal performance. "It's always a grafting with Sim, putting together materials not put together before," says Warner, who has built many of Van der Ryn's designs. "A project is a seed bed for other projects."
Ever since he was a boy, Van der Ryn has been fascinated by the natural world. He was five years old when his Jewish family fled Holland in 1939, settling in Manhattan, of all places. There, he managed to find nature in the nooks and crannies of vacant lots and pocket parks. "What I found in that haggard slice of nature was myself," he writes in his newest book, Design for Life (Gibbs Smith, 2005). "When you escape one holocaust, you don't want to be part of creating another. Looking back at this time, I see the seeds of my life's work beginning to germinate, grounded immutably in nature and in an innate respect for all living things."
After graduating from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1958, Van der Ryn rejected a job offer from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York and headed for the West Coast. He had been bored with architecture school, except, that is, for an encounter with a visiting lecturer, Buckminster Fuller. Fuller's ideas about creating more flexible, sustainable structures by combining technology with models of good design found in nature, like geodesics, were a gestalt to his inquisitive mind. "Fuller had the foresight to recognize 50 or 60 years ago that the mindless expansion of industrial culture was stupid," Van der Ryn says. "He wasn't wagging his finger so much as saying it wasn't supportable, and that you can do so much more with so much less."
That awakening also tugged him farther from traditional practice, and at age 26, he landed a teaching job at the University of California, Berkeley—the perfect forum for exploring the green edges of architecture. While holding down a professorship there from 1961 to 1994, Van der Ryn founded the Farallones Institute, a nonprofit organization that supported research and education in ecologically appropriate technology, and served as its president for 20 years. His trailblazing work even caught the eye of politicians. In 1975, then-Governor Jerry Brown appointed him California State Architect. In that role, he developed the nation's first standards for energy-efficient state office buildings, among other accomplishments.
valuing life and light
Van der Ryn has changed lives, not just ways of thinking. Stuart Cowan was working on a doctorate in applied mathematics, specializing in complex systems, when he took a class with Van der Ryn in the early 1990s. "I was studying chaos theory, fractal geometry, and all these theories about how nature works," recalls Cowan, of Sustainable Systems Design, Portland, Ore. (He co-founded the firm with his wife, Katie Langstaff, another former student of Van der Ryn's.) "Sim was fascinated with how these theories influence how we build, and we decided we wanted to explore this intersection," he says. The result of their collaboration was the book Ecological Design (Island Press, 1995), which uses science to support new ways of building. "There's a new generation of architects and landscape architects who are building their practice around these technical ideas," Cowan says. "The huge lesson that I took from Sim is the interdisciplinary nature of ecological design. He was generous enough to be a wonderful mentor. He passed on what he learned from years of engaging with these very difficult topics of how we integrate design with nature."
"That's part of his brilliance—creating the conditions where these deeper levels of exploration can take place," agrees David Arkin, AIA, Arkin Tilt Architects, Berkeley, another Van der Ryn protégé who was a project manager on his landmark Real Goods Solar Living Center in Hopland, Calif. "There's a long list of people who have been inspired by Sim as a student or as a collaborator and have gone on to do impressive work."


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Coker Pulls Away From BCJanuary 4, 2014
HARTSVILLE, S.C.- The Brevard College women's basketball team trailed by only a point at halftime before a second half run by Coker College helped the Cobras to a 78-51 win in Timberlake Lawton Gym on Saturday afternoon.
The Tornados even took their first lead to open the second half, going in front 35-34 on a Madison Lenox layup at the 18:34 mark. Lenox paced the Tornados with 15 points, shooting 7-for-12 from the floor and grabbing six rebounds.
From there the Cobras engineered a 16-2 run to take a 50-37 lead at the 12:10 mark in the second half. BC's Taylor Hiatt hit a layup to snap a 4:19 scoring drought during Coker's run.
BC struggled to score after the break, connecting on only eight of their field goal attempts in the second half. Brevard shot 31.6 percent (18-of-57) from the field on the afternoon.
Tanesha Stenson had a game-high 23 points for the Cobras, and Kelley Godbout chipped in 13 points off the bench for Coker.
Chelsea Turner also scored in double figures for BC, netting 10 points on 3-of-6 shooting from beyond the arc. Hadara Bannister secured a game-high seven rebounds for the Tornados.
The Tornados return to Boshamer Gymnasium for the first time in 2014 as they host the Tusculum Pioneers on Wednesday night at 6 p.m. The game will be regionally televised by WMYA 40.


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Related story: Hesperia schools chief: Tolerance toward gays a "moral imperative"
HESPERIA -- Gay students at one High Desert high school are routinely discriminated against by school officials, according to the ACLU.
On Monday, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California and New York law firm Nixon Peabody LLP sent a letter to Hesperia Unified and Sultana High School administrators, demanding school officials stop censoring and discriminating against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ) and gender non-conforming (GNC) students and staff.
"At Sultana High School, it sadly seems the primary bullies are school officials and teachers — the very adults with a legal obligation and an ethical imperative to stop bullying and harassment and to ensure an equal and supportive educational experience for all," the 11-page letter reads in part.
"I'm just absolutely shocked at this," school board president Lee Rogers said Monday afternoon. "The board has never received any complaints (about discrimination), period, since I've been on the board."
In the letter, signed by Ellen Papadakis in Nixon Peabody's San Francisco office, the ACLU accuses school officials of censoring the speech and activities of the school's Gay Straight Alliance club, censoring its posters and announcements, refusing to authorize club activities and treat the club differently than others at the 2,041-student campus.
School officials are also accused of discriminating against LBGTQ and GNC students (or those merely perceived to be) "by making or allowing teachers to make harassing remarks such as calling students or things 'gay,' saying 'that's so gay' in the classroom, and in one instance making overt discriminatory comments about the Homecoming Queen's decision to wear a suit in lieu of a dress," the letter continues.
The school's 2012-2013 student handbook does not include the GSA in its list of the school clubs, although it includes the Frontline Christian Club, Political Club, the Silk Screen Kings club and 31 others.
The handbook also includes a "strictly enforced" dress code for dances that directs "ladies" to wear dresses and "gentlemen" to wear collared shirts with ties for semi-formal events and tuxedos or suits for formal events.
Officially, Hesperia Unified prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, both against employees and students:
"District programs and activities shall be free from discrimination, including harassment, with respect to the actual or perceived ethnic group, religion, gender, color, race, ancestry, national origin, and physical or mental disability, age or sexual orientation," board policy 5145.3(a) reads in part. "The board prohibits intimidation or harassment of any student by any employee, student or other person in the district. Staff shall be alert and immediately responsive to student conduct which may interfere with another student's ability to participate in or benefit from school services, activities or privileges. "
Students who violate the policy can be expelled and employees who violate it can be fired.
Rogers' grandson attends Sultana, and she was surprised at the ACLU's allegations, she said.
"If any of the students had said anything around (her grandson), he would have come and told me. I'm shocked. Just literally shocked. "
Officials also reportedly failed to investigate, adequately respond to and discouraged complaints about anti-LGBTQ harassment and discrimination. Staff who advocated for LGBTQ and GNC students were reportedly retaliated against as well.
LGBTQ and GNC students were allegedly excluded from being votes on "favorite class couple" and public displays of affection were treated differently than those between mixed-sex couples.
School officials also imposed "gender stereotypes and (suppressed) expressions of gender non-conformity by establishing and threatening to enforce gender stereotypical dress codes and school social events," according to the letter.
"We are most immediately concerned about students' ability to wear gender non-conforming attire to the prom on April 13th; the ongoing censorship of the GSA's name, announcement, posters and events; and school staff making harassing and discriminatory remarks in school," Papadakis writes in the letter.
The letter demands HUSD interim superintendent David McLaughlin tell the ACLU by March 25 whether the district will provide written assurance that students will be able to wear non-gender-conforming attire to the prom. The organization also wants written notice that the GSA will be able to use its full name and the words "gay," "lesbian," "bisexual," "transgender" and "queer" in fliers and announcements and that its fliers and events be evaluated just like those of any other club at the school. And finally, school officials are asked to immediately crack down on the alleged hostile environment toward LGBTQ and GNC students at the school, including instructing staff to refrain from making discriminatory and harassing comments within the school environment.
"These allegations are deeply concerning and they have my full and focused attention," McLaughlin said in a written statement released Monday afternoon. "I see it as a moral imperative to reinforce the current efforts in place regarding anti-bullying and tolerance throughout the district. Please be assured that as the district and its lawyers examine the specifics of the ACLU letter, I will personally oversee the review of all policies and practices that strive to ensure that all staff and students can attend school in a safe, welcoming and nurturing environment."
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In order to grow in an outside plot, it is crucial to have a secure area in a forest or woods, which will allow for substantial sunlight. Getting a minimum of 2-4 hours of sunlight will create more buds. In terms of security, it doesn't have to be overly extreme, as the plants tend to blend in with others, however keep in mind the possibility of children finding it by mistake if it is too close to a trail.
Avoid breaking surrounding vegetation as it may allow pathways for animals to reach the crops. If there is an issue, you may consider installing cameras to know exactly what you are trying to deter.
If cameras are an option for you, consider using one with a rewind delay to avoid those in the area to hear it. Fundamentally you should position them at the entrances of the plot, and locate the flash in a different area to avoid it being traced to the camera. Placing it high up in a tree is suggested.
Avoid using large gallon buckets for pots, as it requires you to water the plants every week. This will destroy the no- path threading. It would be more beneficial to get large containers which have a grip and you are still able to transport when full of water. If it is difficult, mounting them on a wooden pole to carry it more weightlessly. In order to add to the security, paint the containers in camouflage to avoid other spotting it. In addition hide the water containers near the water source for efficiency of transport.
There is another way to water your plants without transporting containers. By purchasing ½ inch spools of tube and drip lines you can link it to a water source. In addition you will need a 6 v water pump and some rechargeable batteries. In order to stop blockages, add a weight to hold the pipe under the water. It is important to avoid under watering your plants especially if its due to avoiding another water run. The more vermiculite that is added, requires more water per gallon, about 3-3.5 gallons is ideal.
In ground or pots:
An important consideration to make is whether you will plant into the ground directly, or into pots.
The disadvantage of using pots is the limitation of root space. This may limit how much the plants will grow in the confined space. On the other hand, it may stimulate growth as the pots dry out faster and more oxygen will reach the roots.
It would be a good idea to start off by growing the plants in a pot, and to then transfer these into the ground after a few weeks. Planting them in the ground will lengthen the time between watering. If the area is too dry, and you are unable to move plots, use Rubbermaid's above your soil. Take the Rubbermaid's and submerge them in good soil and mix in them. Add about 2 inches of mulch to hold the moisture on the top later of the soil. Cover that with other leaves and moss to make the area blend in with the rest.
Applying this setup will provide you with more control of the plant and especially the conditions of the roots. Specifically allows the roots to be grown in super soil. Worse comes to worse you can always transport the plants by digging them up despite how big they may be. If this is done correctly then the plants may only need to be tended to once a month.
Composting outdoors:
Try building outdoor compost for plots, and cover them with the vegetation and moss. This will provide some rich soil during fall/ spring. When it comes to composing, you should have about 50/50 when it comes to mixes of different plants, to balance nutrients. Diameters 3x3x3 is suggested as it will speed up the process by keeping up the heat. In order to regulate the ratio's you should alternate the green and brown layers. To maintain these, turn the pile as often as possible, and keep it moist through watering it monthly. You will be able to sift the material using 2×6 nailed in a ½ inch spacing steel screen, which is fastened to the bottom.
Grow methods
Growing outdoors will increase yields. If you even out the growth across the plant this will even out the light distribution. Having mid sized plants instead of one main or smaller lowers, this will decrease mold growth on the plants. An important consideration is the level of growth hormone, specifically auxin. By making the auxins higher in the plant, it will grow more rapidly.
Side-way growth:
When the plant grows to about 4 inches, transplanting it north at a 45-degree angle will decrease the risk of breaking the stem. Tie half a dozen of the largest branches to grow out and fill in the sides.
Place your indicia plants about 3-4 feet apart and grow your bud. You may either use it to do a short veg to increase safety. You have the choice to only grow 3 inch plants about 2 feet apart or grow 6 inch plants. The same can be applied with sativa strains but visually it will differ.
It is possible to train your plants when they reach about 3 inches. you can step it down to a 90* angle then tie each branch to grow outwards to avoid over crowding all upwards.
ScrOG is equally as intense as indoor growth, but it has advantages in yield/ area. Use large screens 4X6 inches with thick wires, versus the chicken wire, which has small holes. This is because you have easier access to train the plant. In addition when it gets taller, it is harder to get back under the screen and there is always the risk of snapping the shoot. Rubbermaid's would help as you can make a modular setup and allow for a 90-degree angle and allowing more effective use of sun. You will benefit if you use the screen up at an angle, as the buds will be longer. This is an easy method to train your plants, as you don't play with individual strings.


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Early start to Oregon fire season
Drying conditions prompted the Oregon Department of Forestry's Central Oregon District to declare the start of wildfire season starting this Friday morning, June 14, 2013, nearly two weeks earlier than last year. A recent uptick in small fires led District Forester George Ponte to make the call.
"From the first of the year to May, the district has had only about 30 percent of normal precipitation," he said. "We considered declaring fire season in early May, but we experienced some cool, wet weather during May which bought us some time. The current and forecasted weather is more summerlike, so fuels are drying quickly and fire risk is increasing."
The declaration of fire season imposes certain restrictions on recreational and work activities in the forest. Industrial operators are required to have firefighting equipment on site. Since restrictions may vary across the state, it is advisable to check with the nearest Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) office for rules specific to the local area.
The Central Oregon District has tightened fire safety rules to prevent human-caused fires. Open burning is prohibited without a permit issued by ODF or a local fire department. However, most fire departments have already suspended issuing such permits. Homeowners considering burning yard waste must check with their local fire department about current burning restrictions prior to lighting any fires
Wildfire safety restrictions can change quickly during the season and vary from one jurisdiction to another. Recreationists planning to visit National Forests, U.S. Bureau of Land Management or other federal lands are advised to check with those offices for information on current restrictions.
"I think most folks are well aware that much of eastern Oregon is experiencing drought conditions," Ponte said. "The professionals that forecast fire conditions anticipate higher than normal potential for large, destructive wildfires not only in Oregon but in much of the west. The number of fires we get is largely a factor of how much lightning there is during fire season. But any fire that starts, whether caused by lightning or human activities, will have potential of becoming a large and destructive one."
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BC Cross Country runs in Eye Opener InviteSeptember 4, 2010
Spartanburg, S.C. - The Brevard College Cross Country Team raced at the Eye Opener Invitational Saturday September 4 in Spartanburg, S.C. The Tornados competed against runners from over 20 different institutions at Milliken Research Park.
The Brevard women's team placed 18th in the 22-team field. Angela Canale posted the best time for the Tornados in the Women's 5000-meter run, completing the course in 20 minutes and 30 seconds, giving her a 57th place finish in the 185-Woman field. The freshman averaged 6:36 per mile. Melissa Schmidt followed at 23:13, while Ariel Muiselaar crossed the line in 23:52. Danielle Messer put in a time of 24:04. Grace Skiles crossed the finish line at 25:14 and Liza Fortenberry finished at 32:46. USC Upstate's Joan Tangwar won the race in 18:02. The 49ers of UNC-Charlotte won the team competition.
The BC men placed 17th in the 21-team meet. Freshman Jordan Tager ran the fastest for Brevard in the Men's 8,000-Meter Race. The freshman averaged 5:50 per mile on the way to a 29:00 finish to place 93rd in the 188-man field. Skip Allsoop ran for 29:28 and a 108th place result. Junior Jon Lavelle followed in at 29:39 to finish in 111th. Erik Gibbs crossed in 30:04. Christopher Shelton turned in a 32:34 time. Chris Shore posted a 32:58 finish. Tiffen Tapia covered the course in 33:52 and Jourdane Landry came in at 37:56. Gilbert Kemboi of USC Upstate won the race at 24:13. The Furman Paladins took the team title.


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As a service to Stephens County residents, we have provided links to gaprobate.org, the homepage of Georgia's Probate Courts. On this website you will find information and resources to assist you in matters such as estate planning, acquiring marriage and firearms licenses and guardianships. You will also find the Georgia Probate Court Standard Forms, which are currently available in both Microsoft Word and Corel WordPerfect format. Use the menu at left to navigate to these resources.
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Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor
Have you heard the big news? Windows Vista is on its way, scheduled to be released on January 30, 2007. (That's only a week away!) As the big day approaches, I'm sure a lot of you are wondering if you'll be able to get the Vista operating system for your computer or not. Well, there's an easy way to find out, so you can put all your wonderings to rest.
Microsoft has come out with what is called a Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor. If you have an XP-based computer, you can use this program to see if Vista will work for you. All you have to do is download the advisor and let it go to town. It will scan your whole computer to give you a report of compatibility. It will test your system, your devices, your programs, etc. and let you know about any issues, plus ways you can maybe resolve them.
If your computer passes the test, the Upgrade Advisor will also help you to pick the best version of Windows Vista for your PC. Also, before you run the program, be sure to plug in any USB or other peripheral devices that you use on a regular basis with your computer, including your printer, external hard drives, scanner, etc. Those things need to be evaluated too. If you have any more questions before you run the Advisor, read here for some FAQs. Then, if you're ready, you can download the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor here and get started on a whole new world for your computer!
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Tardive dyskinesia
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Tardive dyskinesia is a disorder that involves involuntary movements. Most commonly, the movements affect the lower face. Tardive means delayed and dyskinesia means abnormal movement.
Tardive dyskinesia is a serious side effect that occurs when you take medications called neuroleptics. Most often, it occurs when you take the medication for many months or years. In some cases, it occurs after you take them for as little as 6 weeks.
The drugs that most commonly cause this disorder are older antipsychotic drugs, including:
- Chlorpromazine
- Fluphenazine
- Haloperidol
- Trifluoperazine
Other drugs, similar to these antipsychotic drugs, that can cause tardive dyskinesia include:
- Flunarizine
- Metoclopramide
- Prochlorperazine
Newer antipsychotic drugs seem less likely to cause tardive dyskinesia, but they are not entirely without risk.
Symptoms of tardive dyskinesia may include:
- Facial grimacing
- Finger movement
- Jaw swinging
- Repetitive chewing
- Tongue thrusting
When the drug is stopped early enough, the movements may stop.
Medications to reduce the severity of the movements may also help. Botulinum toxin (Botox) injections may be effective.
Outlook (Prognosis)
If diagnosed early, the condition may be reversed by stopping the drug that caused the symptoms. Even if the drug is stopped, the involuntary movements may become permanent, and in some cases, may become worse.
Flaherty AW. Movement disorders. In: Stern TA, Rosenbaum JF, Fava M, et al., eds. Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry. 1st ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Mosby; 2008:chap 80.
Kompoliti K, Horn SS, eds. Drug-induced and iatrogenic neurological disorders. In: Goetz CG, ed. Textbook of Clinical Neurology. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 55.


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"I guess he was in the bar when a fight broke out or something like that. He wasn't charged with a crime or convicted of anything, but the police did arrest him. Too bad—I think he's the person we've been looking to hire."
When an applicant discloses an arrest on a job application or a record of an arrest appears on the applicant's background check, a potential employer is sometimes not quite sure what the best response is for the situation. The employer may be disappointed and not want to lose the opportunity to hire a new, promising employee. An organization that does proceed to hire the applicant has to do so while weighing the possibility of a negligent hiring claim in the future if it misjudges the applicant. If, however, the arrest is a problem for the employer and the applicant will not be hired, the employer will want to avoid creating discrimination liability when the organization rejects the applicant because of an arrest record.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has not issued an official policy statement regarding employer use of criminal records under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 since February of 1987. http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/convict1.html
However, the EEOC recently met to discuss the topic of applicants with arrest and conviction records. No official policy statement update has yet emerged; however, after the meeting, the EEOC issued a letter to the Peace Corps. The Corps had requested clarification as to asking about criminal records on a proposed application it uses for engaging its volunteers. Although the letter response to the Peace Corps is not an official policy statement by the EEOC, it is instructive to employers. www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/foia/letters/2011/title_vii_criminal_record_peace_corps_application.html.
From the EEOC's comments to the Peace Corps, we can learn several things applicable to other employers as well:
A pre-employment inquiry itself regarding criminal records does not violate Title VII. The problem of illegal discrimination arises when the information gathered is used as part of a process to screen applicants.
As to convictions—if an employer's screening method has a disparate impact on a protected class—race, color or national origin, for example—then to avoid a discrimination claim, the screening policy must be job-related and consistent with business necessity. For example, if the job position open is for a bank teller, and the applicant has a record of a conviction for credit card fraud, the bank would assert as a defense to discrimination that honesty in dealing with money and finances is a job-related business necessity.
"Job-related" includes the idea that the conviction should be recent enough to be "predictive of performance." To meet this criterion, the EEOC recommended in the Peace Corps letter that a criminal history search be limited to the past seven years.
What about an arrest record? It is clear from the EEOC's advisory letter that arrests are still treated differently from conviction records because convictions result from "beyond a reasonable doubt" proof or guilty pleas—both being a sufficient indication that the applicant did indeed commit a criminal act. Arrests, however, without more, prove nothing and innocence is presumed.
Arrest records are problematic. They can contain inaccuracies based on clerical errors or erroneous information given by the arrestee at the time of the arrest. The arrest records are also subject to state-by-state differences in how they are recorded and retained.
Asking an applicant about an arrest, therefore, should only be for arrests "predictive of performance" as to the open position. The EEOC recommends the applicant be given a reasonable chance to dispute the validity of the arrest record.
Bottom Line
Use of criminal records by employers can lead to other liabilities. There has been a recent increase in the number of class action lawsuits filed against employers based on use of criminal records in employment decisions in violation of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and states' fair employment and fair credit reporting laws. Employers would be wise to consult counsel before rejecting an applicant on the basis of an arrest or conviction.
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If violence continues between pro- and anti-Morsi demonstrators, the Army may see no choice but to impose martial law.
Obama has had three and a half years to impose Wrightism on the United States and has not done so.
The court has allowed states to impose fines on businesses that employ undocumented workers.
The United States has tools to impose costs on the North Koreans.
And finally the U.S. and the E.U. need to impose full-scale economic sanctions on Moscow.
The king is to impose no tax, beside the three stated feudal aids, except by the consent of the great council of the nation.
Every one, however, knows who she is, so she cannot impose on any one in this town.
Why, then, is man thus imposed upon, or why does he impose upon himself?
But there are three conditions which I must impose upon thee.
It is the greatest mistake to impose them upon children as authoritative and divine all at once.
late 14c., "to lay (a crime, etc.) to the account of," from Old French imposer "put, place; impute, charge, accuse" (c.1300), from assimilated form of in- "into, in" (see in- (2)) + poser "put, place" (see pose (v.1)). Sense of "to lay on as a burden" first recorded 1580s. Related: Imposed; imposing.


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1) I said it before and I'll say it again (though I'm sure it won't placate any of the NNs, or Chicken Littles, the "fire Torts" gang or plain old trolls. If losing three out of five is as bad as it gets, or even four out of six, this is going to be one fabulous, unbelievable, wildly-successful season.
2) Everybody's going after Evgeny Malkin lately, and I'm not saying he doesn't deserve it … but it seems to me that you wake him up when you go after him. That sometimes he's a sleeping dog you don't really want to wake up. When he's nasty, he's really good.
3) Speaking of nasty, Pittsburgh, top to bottom, is as nasty a team as there is, at least in the East. And I mean that as a total compliment. To have that kind of talent, and an edge, is really what you want in a team, right?
4) I'm not like you guys who think there's a Pittsburgh conspiracy. But I do think the officiating has done a 180 from what it was the first six weeks or so this season, when everything was called and there was rampant pansification. And I definitely prefer it this way, where men play like men, where you have to fight through stuff, where not every little tap or minor tug is a penalty. Marian Gaborik, for example, gets mugged when he drives to the net now, and he's fighting through it. That's hockey. I'm not even going to make a stink about mistaken calls, like the double-minor on Gaborik in the Nashville game, when one Predator cut another with his stick, or the high-sticking call on Brandon Dubinsky last night, caused because Dubinsky got hacked from behind. Mistakes happen. But you have to call the freakin' slew footing, and you have to call it when an odd-man rush is stopped because one of the attacking players is hooked from behind. You just have to.
5) I've been saying for a while that most staged fights are useless. But sometimes they do jack up the team(s) and the crowd, and Stu Bickel's fight did that. I also admire the manly removal of helmets when one guy (in this case Eric Tangradi) is wearing a shield. Honor in fighting. Good for those guys.
6) That start was God-awful, though. I thought they got it straightened out and it really was anybody's game before the Staal pinch and the bad backcheck by Brad Richards and Brandon Dubinsky on the 2-1 goal. Staal and Richards sure haven't been very good lately, and you can throw Artem Anisimov on that pile, too, though I thought he was better last night.
7) Did you know that Staal has a brother on the Penguins?
8) When that piece of clarke Matt Cooke slew-footed Richards, at first I thought it was Staal, which would have been awful considering the way he landed on the back of his head. Then I wondered if Richards might have gotten hurt (he had a concussion late last year). Then one of the Pittsburgh guys in the pressbox told me that was one of the few times all season that the "new" Cooke did anything like that, and that the Penguins are trying to get him to hit somebody. What a piece of carcillo he is. Staal gave him a nice shot at the end of the first period. I fully endorse it.
9) My concourse tour continued. I strolled the new concessions and almost got the prime rib sandwich. Got scared off by the $18.50 price tag (and worse, imagining my wife's reaction when the Visa bill came). So I went back to the burger. It is good. Thus, nothing new to report.
10) Funniest chant of the night from an annoyed crowd … and it was small and didn't last very long: "Shut up Dolan!"
11) I think a lot of people are making way, way too much out of the next game, in Boston Saturday afternoon. If the Rangers win it, or if they lose it, it's going to have no bearing on the rest of the season or the playoffs; and it's not going to definitively tell you where either team stands in relation to the other. That said, I can't wait to see it.
12) Interesting to see how much ice time Staal got (team leading 26:02 originally, which I think was later changed to 24:58, just behind Ryan McDonagh's 25:21) and also to see how the rotation went, with Michael Del Zotto moving over to the right side when playing with Staal, and Bickel and Anton Stralman seeing limited time. I really wonder what they're going to do with Del Zotto when Michael Sauer comes back, and how they're not going to diminish his minutes.
13) Which was worse? The Rangers power play, or the ice? And are they inter-related? Because the PP has been bad on really good ice, too? But it sure can't help when your guys already have jittery hands to have the puck hopping around like a rabbit.
My Three Rangers Stars:
1) Carl Hagelin.
2) Marian Gaborik.
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Syria: We Accept Russia's Plan
(NEWSER) – Though plenty remain skeptical that Syria will in fact hand over its chemical weapons, today began with more forward movement: Syria's foreign minister says his government has "agreed to the Russian initiative" to hand over its chemical weapons for subsequent dismantling in order to "uproot US aggression." The AP calls this apparent acceptance even "more definitive" than yesterday's. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today said that Russia is consulting Ban Ki-moon and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons as it drafts the plan.
- France, for its part, intends to put that plan to the test: It will tonight present a draft resolution to the UN Security Council so that the world can "judge the credibility of the intentions that were expressed yesterday," per its foreign minister, the Guardian and New York Timesreport. (As Reuters puts it, France is "turning a Russian idea into a full-blown diplomatic proposal.")


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Yeah, you'll lose all of the features you get with TouchWiz but the storage and performance you gain might be worth it. My friend refused to get rid of TouchWiz for a while because of all the features he'd lose but just recently did for battery life improvements and he said it was worth it.
The GPE lock screen isn't the same but you do get the smart cover screen feature if you have a cover. What do you want from the lock screen though?
Ah okay. I didn't know it did that. There was an app I downloaded on my old Touchpad that changed the wallpaper to random pictures every hour or so. I thought it was neat but after a while I wanted to stick to just one. There might be an app that does it on Android as well but for just the lock screen. I really don't know.
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'The Welland, Ontario native — who played just under twenty minutes tonight — was buzzing all over the ice for the Sabres. "He gave some hits, he took some hits. He scored a big goal, he was in on three or four other opportunities. He was sound on the penalty killing," Ruff impressed about Paille's play. "It was good to see."'
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Since the start of 2006 Brady > Manning, maybe >> Manning.
Overall, considering the cost of the pick, the salaries of each, and the results of each:
Brady > Manning
6/27/09: We expect [Rondo] to play by the rules and be a leader as a point guard. We need him to be more of a leader, Ainge said. There were just a couple situations where he was late this year, I dont know if he was sitting in his car, but showed up late and the rest of the team was there. We have team rules and you have to be on time. He was fined for being late, he said he was stuck in traffic, and its just unacceptable.
told you all since 2010 he was a toolbag.....
I'm a Niners fan but...
not including Tom Brady in any definition of "Elite" is unfathomable.
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I don't personally know any Packer fans who left.
I don't know what your point is. I should hate Packer fans like you because some fans aren't loyal. WHO CARES
How about we just talk football with the ones who are fans? Who cares. They can come and go as much as they want as far as I care. I don't know why this is like your life's rant to point out some people are fairweather fans or become loyal to players over team.
When favre left I still followed him and cheered for him and loved that he did well....I wanted the NFC Champ game to be packers/Vikings... I still love favre even on the vikes but the pack still my favorite team... Why cant people have both?
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REDLANDS - Roger Coggins never served in the military.
But the Redlands man is still somewhat of a patriot.
Coggins will represent the Redlands-based American Legion Post 650 when he takes part in the Ride2Recovery's Golden State Challenge - a 500-mile bike ride that starts in San Francisco and ends in Santa Monica.
Ride2Recovery is operated through the Fitness Challenge Foundation and the Military and Veterans Service Office.
It's main goal is to provide mental and physical rehabilitation programs to wounded veterans through efforts that feature cycling as the core activity.
Coggins, whose grandfather served in World War I, said it was a television commercial that sparked his interest in helping vets.
"I was watching the Tour de France and saw this quick advertisement," Coggins said. "I just wanted to do something for these guys."
It will be the sixth Ride2Recovery ride for Coggins, who lives in Redlands and works in San Bernardino at a Stater Bros. warehouse.
"It's a way to give back, they've given so much," Coggins said. "What is humbling to me is when the veterans come to me and thank me."
Coggins added, "I've always felt a connection to people in the service. When I graduated from high school I wanted to join the service but didn't. I just respect what they do."
In support of Coggins' ride, the American Legion Post 650 will host a fundraiser with proceeds to go to Ride2Recovery.
"The American Legion Post 650 has been very supportive of me over the years," Coggins said. "They've really helped me a lot."
Coggins showed up at the American Legion Post one day, volunteered to help with various events and the relationship grew from there.
His involvement became so strong that the Sons of the American Legion asked him to join.
"It's for a good cause," said Ruben Ruiz, commander of the Sons of the American Legion Post 650. "He has worked with us and has helped us with things we do here."
Ruiz said Coggins has earned the Legion's respect.
"He comes to the meetings, helps with the dinners and isn't just some guy who asked for money," Ruiz said. "Sometimes someone will come in, ask and then we don't see (them) for a year. He comes to our meetings and I think that says a lot."
Coggins isn't a lifelong cyclist but he has some experience. He participated in the Breathless Agony (112 miles involving Angelus Oaks) and the Ride Around Big Bear (100 miles).
The California Challenge will feature several hundred cyclists.
"My first Challenge was in 2008," Coggins said. "There were only 60 people in it. "
Reach Ed via email, call him at 909-793-3221, or find him on Twitter @TheFactsEd.


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Plantation Trace / Albany
Art Park on Pine
128 Pine Ave
Albany, GA 31701
Albany, GA 31701
The Art Park on Pine is a place where everyone is welcome to observe, create and/or perform all forms of art, and an extraordinary venue for public and private events. This is a project designed to enhance the quality of life in the Downtown Albany area, while simultaneously providing a community center for artists and lovers of art, alike.
Info & Amenities
Admission & Fees
Admission Free
Facility Amenities
Free Parking, Parking on Site, Self-guided Tours
General Information
Family-friendly, Free Admission , Handicapped Accessible, Open Year 'Round
Group Amenities
Near Interstate Highway
520, 75, 85
Suitable for Ages
All Ages


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After the Fire
Hyacinth has always been a bit of a softie and a dreamer. She's an artist who loves to paint pictures of her family. They coddle her and care for her every need with their ample wealth. One day she meets and falls in love with a poor medical student, Gerald, and marries him despite the reservations of her mother. It isn't long before things begin to deteriorate in their marriage and after a long time of repressing her feelings and pretending nothing's wr...
Jennie Rakowsky is contacted by the child she gave up for adoption as a teenager and is forced to decide if she wants to know the child she forced herself to forget about. Jennie Rakowsky is a smart, successful attorney who has one very big secret that she had done her best to forget about. As a young college student of limited means, she met and fell in love with the wealthy Peter Mendes. Their whirlwind romance quickly developed into an intimate relati...
Her Father's House
Delacorte, Aug 2002, 25.95, 342 pp. ISBN: 0385334729 In 1968 Rising New York attorney Donald Wolfe meets, dates, and marries Lillian Morris. However, happily ever after fails to materialize and they quickly part but not before she becomes pregnant. Lillian remarries and Donald sees their child Bettina once a week. During his visits Tina's nanny accompanies the little girl. The nanny informs Donald that Lillian ignores their daughter while pla...
There is something this story is missing. Everyone in 85 year old Annette Byrne's family is at war with each other. She wants to gather her family together at home and have them all make peace even knowing the strong bitterness between them. Annette does just that, and they all have a big fight with one another until an incident happens to bring them together while meeting at Annette's home. ...
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Legacy of Silence
Caroline flees war torn Europe with her sister Lore leaving their parents behind. Caroline's mother is Jewish and Hitler has taken power and the girls must flee to the United States for their safety. She has also left behind the love of her life. Walter. Upon arriving in the States Caroline realizes she is pregnant and of course unwed since she was awaiting Walter's arrival. The girls ban together and plan to make life as best as they can, w...
Looking Back
Three women met at school and have been best buddies ever since then. Cecile, confident, elegant daughter of privlege; Norma extraordinarily gifted but sadly troubled a lot. Then there's Amanda,determined to rise above her humble southern beginnings. Amanda and Cecile are both married women, yet Amanda very unhappily so. Cecile is trying to have a baby. Yet the three are always friends. Then something unexpected happens that forever alters the picture...
Looking Back
Delacorte, Apr 2001, 25.95, 352 pp. ISBN: 0385334710 Norma and Cecile come from wealth with their families knowing one another for years. On the other hand, Amanda has lived her entire life being dirt poor. Only an academic scholarship allows her to attend the same university as Norma and Cecile. The three becomes college roommates and ultimately friends for life in spite of Amanda's background. After graduation, the trio moves on w...
The Sight of the Stars
Delacorte, Jan 2004, 25.95, 311 pp. ISBN: 0385336837 In 1907, teenager Adam Arnring leaves New Jersey and his family to head west. After three days by train, Adam listens to the conductor talk about Chatahoochie, Texas probably rolling in money. He leaves the train at the small stop and wanders around until he enters Rothirsch's, a shabby store, where he might buy a book or two. There he observes a fight between two older people and a beautifu...


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An Open Letter to President Obama
"Mr. President, the Rohingyas are victims of genocide in Myanmar. No linguistic camouflage of the yesteryears can hide this ugly truth. Please, have the moral authority to call a spade a spade, and stop this genocide, failing which, I am afraid, the Rohingyas will be an extinct community. Simply put, the human rights of the Rohingya and other affected minorities cannot take a backseat when they face extermination. It would be the greatest crime under your watch! Please, stop the extinction of the Rohingyas of Myanmar."
Another Superfluous War
"...the real remedy is peace. Peace with the Palestinian people. Hamas has already solemnly declared that it would respect a peace agreement concluded by the PLO – i.e. Mahmoud Abbas – that would establish a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, provided this agreement were confirmed in a Palestinian referendum....Without it, the bloodletting will just go on, round after round. Forever....Peace is the answer. But when visibility is obscured by pillars of cloud, who can see that?"
Economics vs. Politics
"In order to dig itself out of this economic situation, the leadership of Jordan has no choice but to find a political mechanism that ensures that all sectors of society, including the Islamists, are participating in the overall decision-making process. If not, the country will continue to suffer from ups and downs and changes of governments, which cannot be the formula for long-term political or economic stability in the country."
Is Washington Mulling Diplomacy on Iran?
"...it is Iran which has constantly indicated that it will participate in a dialogue with the US in an atmosphere of equality and mutual understanding and respect. However, Washington has not done anything to win the trust of the Islamic Republic. Instead, it has catered to the demands of Israel, intensified its sanctions and inflated its rhetoric....As long as Washington is surrounded and politically manipulated by serpentine Zionists, there is little hope they may engage in any meaningful dialogue with the Islamic Republic....Anyway, as the Persian saying goes, Iran cannot and should not go down into a well with the rotten rope of Washington."
The seminar on Assam in Delhi adds fuel to the fire
"State government and several reports have contended that illegal migration in Assam is not as rampant as propagated by a section of anti Muslim group. "Bringing Bangladeshi angle to Assames ethnic conflict is disservice to the nation", writes V.K. Tripathi, professor of IIT Delhi. Similarly Prof. Ram Puniyani argues, 'tendentious comments about Bangladeshi immigration fueled violence in Assam.'"
Four more years of the same :: Don't expect a second-term Obama to take on Israel ::
"The reality is that the White House is stuck with an Israeli government, with or without Netanyahu, that rejects an agreement with the Palestinians. As tensions flare again on the Israel-Gaza border – threatening an Israeli attack, just as occurred in the run-up to the last Israeli election – it looks disturbingly like four more years of the same."
Projection for 2016 U.S. Election: a Republican President
"Even changing demography and rise of Latinos in electorate would not save Democrats. American public would fail to accept the shift in ground reality: being uncompetitive in global market place and a failed tainted political system at home. Instead of in depth look at the soul of the problem: mounting debt, corruption of whole political institutions and houses being effectively dictated by plutocrat and oligarch 1%, they would switch the horse – a Republican President, with the hope that he/she would take 360 degree turn around and bring back USA's days of past glory and economic prosperity again. But this would be a pipe dream, unless both US political and economic systems are not radically reformed."
Kashmir: Craving for peace
"The International community's help can encourage India and Pakistan to transform the Kashmir issue from being a bone of contention to a bridge of understanding for lasting peace and prosperity of South Asia's billion plus people. A peaceful solution of the dispute will help to bring stability in the South Asian region, including in Afghanistan and eliminate a potential threat of another major war. This would further help lay the foundation for a new era of coexistence between India and Pakistan."
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