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Lawmakers in Tennessee have approved a bill that would effectively rescind Vanderbilt University's controversial policy requiring student groups to have completely open membership admittance and freedom to run for office within that group.
The bill comes after Vanderbilt University took its policy to the extreme by informing a Christian studentgroup that its official recognition was to be revoked because it required its members to have a personal commitment to Jesus Christ.
"It just shows how radical the Vanderbilt administration has become in enforcing a policy that is nonsense," said Kim Colby, senior counsel for the Christian Legal Society's Center for Lawand Religious Freedom. "A lot of jaws dropped when we saw how far the Vanderbilt administration was taking this."
Thirteen Christian groups have so far decided to defy the ban on requiring a member to actually be a Christian. Two groups have announced plans to leave campus. Considering that Vanderbilt has a longstanding tradition of religious belief (it was originally a Methodist institution established for the study of theology) many student groups are in shock at the bizarre new requirements.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is also concerned by Vanderbilt's radical new policy and has written an open letter to the Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos asking him to clarify whether the policy will be applied fairly and equally or is merely a targeted persecution of Christian groups. For example,would Vanderbilt's Muslim Students Association be forced to keep a leader who converted to Christianity? FIRE also asked Zeppos to explain how leaders of Christian groups were to fulfill their responsibilities if they were, as happened to the Christian Legal Society, prohibited from requiring their leaders to 'lead Bible studies, prayer and worship' because this implied the necessity of holding a particular religious belief.
State Rep Bill Dunn notes that the 'all-comers' policy doesn't apply to fraternities and sororities which are exempted through federal Title IX regulations that apply to gender issues."
It shows the hypocrisy of Vanderbilt University," Dunn said. "They know they can pick on Christian groups and it won't affect their donors. But if they go after fraternities and sororities they realize it might hit them in the pocket book."
Many questions in the FIRE letter boil down to the core problem of an open admittance policy for student groups. What to do about groups of students from a differing political, religious belief (or sexual orientation) joining a group deliberately to disrupt or disband it?
The senate vote was won 19-12 and the House vote 61-22. The split was largely along party lines. The bill now goes to Governor Bill Haslam whose likely response is unclear. While he has publicly disapproved of Vanderbilt's policy he has also indicated that he doesn't believe the legislature should be interfering in the matter.
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How to choose the paint colors for small bedroom to visually expand space in the small bedroom with colors tips and tricks. This is what we will talk about it today .
There are many tricks and tips to visually enlarge small spaces in the interior designs, i provided some of it previously, so you can see The best ways to visually enlarge small apartment
And i provided other solutions for small spaces with the smart furniture Transforming Furniture for small apartments 2014 , but today we will offer colors solutions for small spaces or small bedroom to visually expand it .
Choosing the right colors for each functional space will contribute to reducing the disadvantages highlighted as well as the characteristics of the area. For small bedrooms, choosing the appropriate color is essential to respect the beauty and blemishes erased area. But choose whatever color is appropriate here?
The best colors for small bedroom to visually expand:
Dark colors for small bedroom :
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The bold colors like orange or green will make a small bedroom feel more focused and prominent. One point to note when using this color is to coordinate them with white and pastel shades of other things to create a balance of color. In addition, you should also arrange furniture fit neatly avoids make the room look cluttered and smaller than reality.
Grey color to visually Expand small bedroom :
|grey paint color to visually space in small bedroom
Grey is neutral shades are also extremely flexible and suitable for use in the bedroom. Gray gives lightness bedroom and relaxed. In addition, this color is very easy to combine with furniture. Note the use of gray tones should only use light shades as well as coordinate with curtains, blankets pillows, ornaments have brightly colored to ease the chill of this neutral color.
Color Contrast in small bedroom :
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Bedroom little more interesting if you use contrasting colors. By mixing light and dark, you will create suction eye sight as well as emphasizing the need to highlight areas in a room without having to use too many colors. For example, dark brown walls not only outstanding but also create depth to the white room. Therefore, the key to using color contrast is just so simple combination of colors together.
one of the great color contrast designs in the bedroom that i offered it at Black and white bedroom interior designs .
Yellow lemon to expand bedroom space:
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Lemon yellow symbolizes the sun and brilliant fun. Not just warm, exciting colors also bring a bright summer in the small room. If your bedroom is lacking bright lemon yellow color would be the ideal choice to offset the light and make the room look more lively. In the cold weather of winter, the colors even more effective when bringing warmth space and closeness bedroom.
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Classical download store launches
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Classical music lovers in the UK will now be able to download their favourite works from the web, thanks to a new resource launched today.
Passionato is providing the world's biggest collection of high-quality classical downloads, first in the UK and later worldwide. The company says more than 18,000 recordings are available. Many fans of classical music have previously shunned MP3 downloads because of disappointing quality. Passionato offers its downloads – single tracks, works or albums – at high-quality 320kbps MP3 or lossless FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec).
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Pre Nuptial Agreements and Divorce
Divorce is on the rise in this country and there are several reasons for it. The sanctity of marriage does not seem to carry the same value as it used to. You can find many reasons as to why a couple decides to get a divorce. When a couple is dealing with difficulties, communication tends to break down and not many couples opt to find help to save their marriage.
Let us first look at some of the top causes for divorce. The first one is disloyalty. Some argue that there has been a break down in the marriage which leads to infidelity, either way this is one of the main reasons why a couple files for divorce. Most commonly a couple could have a breakdown in communication. When this happens, the inability to communicate in an effective way is another cause for divorce. Financial issues are a leading cause of divorce as well. When a family faces monetary problems it turns out to be very demanding, couples will blame each other for the problems and at times these issues become irresolvable. Basic differences in expectations can also lead to divorce. When a pair begins seeing that they are not on the same page, many will choose to simply go their separate ways.
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Relationships are tough and they take a lot of effort. In order to have a very successful matrimony a couple should be like-minded and have same kind of expectations for both of them. If you're looking into a divorce you should first seek help to save your marriage. Divorce should be considered the last resort, not the first. Seeking help to rescue marriage is something that every duo need at some point in time.
When a couple has determined that their relationship is no longer effective, it's very important to seek help with divorce. When the person begins to think that the divorce is the only options then the one first and the right place to begin with is Couples counseling. There are many complimentary services available that offers ways to guide you to save your marriage.
The most vital thing to keep in mind as a couple is that communication is the key. When there is a communication breakdown, the whole system stops working. At times it becomes necessary to have someone there to help you communicate with your other half in a more efficient manner.
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Spoek Mathambo's Put Some Red on It EP
Because it's really pretty rare that we put out digital-only releases (though, in the near term, with the Oct. 18 release of The Drummer EP by Niki and the Dove, this will be substantially less unusual…), please note that…
On September 27th, we put out our first release from South Africa's Spoek Mathambo. Produced by Spoek in collaboration with Copenhagen-based future-bass artist Chllngr, Put Some Red on It is a 6-song digital-only EP featuring two tracks ("Put Some Red on It" and "Dog to Bone") that will also appear in some form on Spoek's as-yet-unscheduled 2012 debut full-length, plus remixes of those tracks and a brief intro piece. We're just ridiculously excited about the music Spoek's making and this EP provides a glimpse at a album we hope you'll soon look forward to as much as we do.
Right now, in exchange for signing up for Spoek's email list, you can get an mp3 of the title track from this EP right here.
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SEATTLE (AP) - Richard Sherman and his teammates took notice of all the attention being focused on San Francisco after the 49ers looked so impressive in Week 1.
The Seattle Seahawks were determined to strike the first blow in the NFC West fight.
``We did what we expected to do,'' Sherman said. ``I think you guys expected something different.''
Sherman and the Seahawks were left celebrating after another convincing victory over the 49ers, this time a 29-3 rout on Sunday night. It was an addendum to the 42-13 blowout the Seahawks served on San Francisco last December, but this victory means more.
Seattle now has the advantage going forward in a division race no one expects to be decided until December.
Marshawn Lynch ran for two touchdowns and caught another, making up for a night when Russell Wilson was not his best. Seattle's defense flustered San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick into his worst performance as a starter, throwing three interceptions to match his entire regular season total from 2012.
``We have a chance to do something great,'' Seattle safety Earl Thomas said. ``That's all it says. The craziest thing about it, we stay humble and keep preparing like we do, not listening to what's going on TV, we'll be fine.''
Here are five things to know about the Seahawks second straight convincing home win over the 49ers:
1. SEATTLE MADE BETTER ADJUSTMENTS: When a weather delay forced the teams into the locker room it came after Seattle had a punt blocked, Wilson had been intercepted and the Seahawks had a total of 27 yards of offense. The hour delay allowed the Seahawks to make adjustments to get more production out of the run game, which became especially important with Wilson struggling.
Defensively, Seattle was stout after the delay. The Seahawks allowed just 147 yards of offense to the 49ers over the final 48 minutes and 13 seconds.
``We coached throughout the time, other than when the music was blaring,'' Seattle coach Pete Carroll said.
2. BEAST MODE CAN'T BE STOPPED: Coming out of its opener, Seattle's lack of a run game was a major concern, especially going up against a San Francisco defense known for being stout at stopping the ground game. But Lynch has figured out how to run against the 49ers. He came in with three straight 100-yard rushing games against the 49ers and if not for a few negative yardage runs would have topped 100 yards yet again, finishing just two yards shy of the century mark on Sunday.
``They tried every which way to box him in tonight, and they made it tough on him, but he took advantage of the opportunities he was given,'' Seattle wide receiver Doug Baldwin said.
3. KAEPERNICK CAN BE CONTAINED: Kaepernick ended up being San Francisco's leading rusher with 87 yards on nine carries. That's good. What's not good for the 49ers was Frank Gore being held to 16 yards rushing on nine carries, or the 49ers' trio of running backs that carried the ball combining for 13 total yards rushing. With no run game, Seattle was able to use its linebackers to spy on Kaepernick and limit his running options outside the pocket. He was also forced to throw more having to play from behind.
``We just didn't execute, across the board,'' said 49ers receiver Anquan Boldin, who had one catch Sunday after having 13 last week. ``We just didn't do what we are supposed to.''
4. 49ERS' INJURIES ARE A CONCERN: San Francisco came to Seattle healthy and left potentially looking at some key injuries. Nose tackle Ian Williams may have a broken ankle and could miss significant time. Rookie safety Eric Reid was down on the field for nearly five minutes, suffered a concussion and couldn't remember the play he was injured on. Vernon Davis might have suffered a pulled hamstring.
5. SEATTLE IS REALLY LOUD: A fan group attempting to set a Guinness World Records mark for loudest stadium says it has established a record during Sunday's game between the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers. The group, called Volume 12, announced on its Facebook page it had set the mark late in the first quarter. The decibel reading taken during a sack of Kaepernick was 131.9 decibels.
The group said the record was broken later in the game and registered at 136.6 decibels.
The previous record for ``loudest crowd roar at a sports stadium,'' was 131.76 decibels, set in 2011 in Turkey at the Ali Sami Yen Sport Complex Turk Telekom Arena during a soccer match between Galatasaray SC and Fenerbahce.
``It's loud. It's hard for the offense to communicate,'' 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said.
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Skip to comments.Gang of 8 reach border deal
Posted on 06/20/2013 2:41:10 PM PDT by IbJensen
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Move over Benedict Arnold! You were just a troubled player in the American Revolution, a hero that was put upon, ignored and decided that the British were going to win anyway. Bad choice. REAL TRAITORS, need your space.
We are a sovereign country. Every sovereign country in the world has the right to protect its borders and who has access to the country.
Well Mr. Rubio, that is nice sounding TALK. Was it designed, crafted to fool The Sheeple? You bet it is.
The Founders created a Representative Republic for WE THE PEOPLE, NOT for, The World. Do some reading Mr. Rubio. Yet looking around me in my city of Houston, former Space City USA it is clear that this is not my city, my State, my country. From what I can see, it is a case that the US of A is kind of like a dysfunctional Disneyland, with no borders, no leaving time, no cost to get in, free rides, free food, free services, and the RULES only apply to people like me, not those from South of the Border. Thats suicidal goofy!
A real business, operated like the US would be out of business. Period.
There was a time that per immigrants, generally, we were selective, with NO given assistance. Either you made it on your own, or you left. Think of a Dad who scrutinizes just who will date his daughter, just who will be a new member of the Family ? Likely, Mr. Rubio is following me on this. Cubans are tight on lineage. But this has been thrown into the trash and the trash can set on fire with paper like The Constitution & Bill of Rights. Thank you Teddy Kennedy & your pal, Lyndon Johnson for the 1965 Immigration Reform Act. Third World, come on in!
In reality, certain countries are NO longer allowed to scrutinize who comes in, and how many.
Example? England. In a handful of decades, what was once the Great English people have been shoved aside. All of those valiant wars, all of that bluster about fighting Mister Hitler to the death, well, even Hitler would not have wished what upon England what has happened. As the Finest Hour Britons die off, and their children fail to reproduce, England is quickly morphing into yet another Muslim Euro country.
Should you object, you can go to the Courts and to prison, you can be fined, you can lose your job a right smashing dandy 1984 Orwellian Police State has emerged to make sure that the remaining Britons are compliant or else. Nice going Great Briton. And this is what you ended your Empire over in two suicidal World Wars? Oh, tea time!
But back to our shiny bright dystopia Mickey Mouse AmeriKa. The same is happening here as in England. In this case it is not so much Muslims, but we getting there (The Founders would be furious about that) but rather the countless Toltecian, Mexican masses south of our so called border. Mexico can have a border, we cannot. If I read it right, THEY MUST be allowed in, or else!
I can thank for reading materials many of the Reconquesta sites, La Raza Unita (the race united) The US Chamber of Commerce clamoring for cheap docile labor To say NO, No more, No mas, means only one way racism. Right way racism is, La Raza Unita. Get it? You better get it or hundreds of illegals and Hispanics will come marching on you lawn, banging on your door, and giving lovely threats to you as Kris Kobach got in Kansas City! Toto, I dont think we are in Kansas anymore. That group, Sunflower Community Action, that did the lovey raid recently, is an APPROVED Non Profit Group! Bet the IRS will not investigate!
To top this off, we are seeing that behind the curtain, there are agencies that putting the final touches on a fully operational Death Star, I mean, an 1984 Orwellian Police State here in the Home of the Free, and the Land of the brave. It will be needed, as in England, to shut down, incarcerate, terminate the children of The Greatest Generation
Thank you Mister Rubio. Hope you like Benedict Arnolds room. Make sure the your other 7 Gang Members behave.
We were already promised a fence and don't have a fence.
This is another empty promise.
We should take the position that we originally said we would and that is that the fence must be built and proven effective and then we will talk about immigration reform.
It is a sad state of affairs when we can trust no one, not even the party that represented to us that they are conservative and believe in a nation of laws according to the limits of the Constitution.
We are ruled by liars and con men.
In both parties.
Won't matter.
The Gang of Eight Liars would never agree to anything that really comes close to securing the border.
They all shot down anything tangible, they shot down no welfare to the illegals, they shot down border security first, they shot down anything meaningful.
Dead. To. Me.
More BP agents isn't going to fix the immigration problem. Taking away employment opportunity will fix it.
20,000 more border patrol agents on the Canadian border will not help. You are correct.
And we should put a "freeze" on new residencies in the US until we stabilize and assimilate our population.
History of immigration law shows we can't trust the feds with anything less.
They are lying and they are cynical. A fence is something visible and effective. "More personnel" is a false promise and nothing more.
The Israeli's had a border incursion problem and they built a fence. The incursions all but ended. Build the fence.
There is a reason why we won't succeed with more BP agents. One could look at any war and say that additional troops would make victory easier. The difference is that in a war when enemy troops get through the lines you don't house them, feed them, educate them, provide healthcare, and use your own judicial system to confound the people trying to round them up.
"We are a sovereign country"....
We were, but it was given away.
Heads up! Good news!
From Heritage Action:
You Stopped the Food Stamp and Farm Bill
Thanks to your hard work, this afternoon the U.S. House of Representatives voted 195 234, stopping the $940 billion food stamp and farm bill dead in its tracks!
Conservatives across the country called, wrote letters to the editor, and visited their Members of Congress in opposition to this mammoth spending bill. Our team worked hard to back you up with information and followup meetings with your Members of Congress.
This is a monumental win for taxpayers, consumers, the free market and yes, even farmers. The misnamed "farm bill" maintained the unholy alliance between food stamps and farm policy. Eighty percent of the spending in the bill went toward food stamps. Finally, after nearly 40 years of escalating costs to taxpayers and consumers, you stopped in the House.
As our nation nears $17 trillion in debt, Americans can rest easier tonight knowing that another reckless and irresponsible $1 trillion bill is not on its way to becoming law.
This victory is a result of your hard work. Thank you for everything you have done throughout this important battle.
Michael A. Needham
Chief Executive Officer
Heritage Action for America
Nappy has already stated to congress that she can choose what laws to enforce. What difference will more border guys or more laws make?
I am still down, but I will take that "good news". Thanks.
Thanks for sharing. Good news out of Congress is so rare right now.
Heard about this on Rush this AM.
Bottom Line: Security before Amnesty is dead. Period.
As Rush pointed out: "Remember, building a 700 mile security fence is ALREADY THE LAW OF THE LAND. The amendment that affirmed that was KILLED."
As others have pointed out: This deal is literally the same as the one Reagan signed into law, and promised security before amnesty. Ed Meese wrote an editorial to the WSJ on this two days ago.
Treason, boys. That's what this is.
I was hoping the news might lift the spirit a little bit....though I know these times are so difficult.
The Bill hasn't yet passed...so perhaps there is still time and a miracle might happen....
God is STILL in control ....and he will keep those of us who love Him no matter what happens.
<...."Invaders should be sent home"...>
Not sure what your faith is but Historically when a nation turns their back on God ......they are always "Invaded" there after...and it doesn't have to be Militarily.
Stopped the Food Stamp and Farm Bill
Good, next save another billion or so by getting rid of the Obama phones.
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I finally got it finished. It's only been a few years in the making. I had purchased this honey bun a while ago and decided to make a string quilt with it.
It is rather on the smallish size where the color is and it has a lot of negative space. I was contemplating cutting it right down the middle and sewing it back together so a bit of color would be on each side. I still don't know if I do it. For now I'm going to fold it up and put it in the stack to be quilted.
It's starting to feel like spring around here and my grass is starting to green up but it's not very thick. It's kinda patchy. Does anyone recommend anything to get a more luscious lawn?


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Hookers to host Pint for a Pint blood drive June 22
The Matlacha Hookers will hold a Pint for a Pint blood drive Saturday, June 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Great Licks Ice Cream Shop, 4653 Pine?Island Road, in Matlacha.
Those who donate a pint of blood will recevie a pint of ice cream.
All donors will receive a voucher for a free movie ticket, a coupon for $5 off two entrees from Outback Steakhouse and a wellness checkup including blood pressure, temperature, iron count and cholesterol screening. Bring a photo ID.


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I've seen a wholesale sheet that indicates there will be two different Gunships issued for this year. The Clone Wars version appears to be only different packaging, and possibly an alternate paint job. The wholesale price for this is $22.Then, there's the Gunship with added firepower. This one wholesales for approximately $30 or more. It's probably the one that includes 3 Clone Troopers and may have electronics. There are already battery sized compartments in the base of the wings, and the rocket launchers on the top of the ship seem light capable. Just look at the transparent rockets...perfect lightpipe.
The key word used by Nick though was wholesale - not retail. They'll unfortunately be more expensive when they hits the store floors, for sure.
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Widmer Brothers Brewing has some vegan options
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"Some brewers use animal derived products in beer for the purposes of clarification. Of interest is the collagen (protein) in such process aids. The most common comes from certain fish, and is called isinglass. For the same clarification purpose some brewers also use gelatin, which is less effective but easier to use than isinglass. When using isinglass or gelatin, it is likely that only very small amounts of those compounds carryover into the finished beer.
Widmer products do not contain isinglass or gelatin. We receive quite a few questions on this topic and accordingly try to avoid using gelatin in any of our products, even the experimentals, but one exception is a beer that we produce in small volumes, called KGB Russian Stout, that on occasion contains gelatin. Additionally, some beers that Widmer brews for charity under the Collaborator brand name contain gelatin. The Collaborator products are not Widmer products, and are only available in the Portland, Oregon market, and in keg only.
In addition to the fining agents we have two brands that contain lactose, which is isolated and purified from whey. Depending on one's viewpoint a sugar, like lactose, that is isolated and purified from a dairy product, such as whey, may or may not be considered vegetarian or vegan. If you are sensitive to this concept you should probably avoid Drop Top Amber and definitely avoid Snow Plow Milk Stout (aka Milk Stout). DTA contains very little lactose, Snow Plow contains slightly less lactose than milk. One other possible exception is our use of milk sugar in Drop Top Amber ale. I believe the milk sugar, otherwise known as lactose, is isolated from whey. Whey comes from milk curds.
A few consumers may consider diatoms animals or animal products so be advised that any filtered Widmer product used diatomaceous earth as the filter media. Some consumers also consider yeast to be an animal, so be advised that any unfiltered Widmer product will contain live yeast cells, particularly our Hefeweizen."


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Source: ComingSoon.net
Fox Filmed Entertainment Chairmen Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman announced today that Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron has agreed to make Avatar 2 and 3 as his next films.
Cameron, who had always viewed "Avatar" as the creation of a new world and mythology, will begin work on the scripts early next year with an eye towards commencing production later in 2011. Cameron will decide if he will shoot the films back-to-back after he completes the scripts, but the release of the first, as yet untitled sequel, is targeted for December 2014, with the third film contemplated for a December 2015 release.
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Who are you Gaines people and why are you in my Grandfather Allen's photo album? What is the relationship connection???
The bottom photo says "Sister and J.S. Gaines". The sister is Ora Gaines Allen, Allen is her maiden name and Gaines is her middle name. I have been unable to find any connection between the Allen's and Gaines or the Scott's (Ora's mother's maiden name) and the Gaines.
What am I missing?
UPDATE!!! It's 3 hours later and I may have my answer. I found the death certificate for Clyde Gaines. His mother's maiden name is Scott, same as Ora's mother. Are these Gaines first cousins to my Allens?? It's looking that way!
UPDATE UPDATE! You can see in the comments section below where I got some great help, found more information and was able to put a few pieces together. However, I now have another question...why would a mother give their child a middle name that was their sister's husbands last name?
Anna Pearl named her daughter Ora Gaines, Gaines is her middle name. Gaines is the last name of the man that Anna's sister Cassie married. Seems just a little odd to me. More than odd, that is downright strange.


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As the beards on a lot bikers get grayer, some local leaders worry the Bike Week of the future could dwindle to something much smaller and very different.
DAYTONA BEACH — When Bike Week was born in the late 1930s, it revolved around a three-mile race on the beachside that drew a smattering of onlookers.
Those pioneering Bike Weeks seven decades ago bore little resemblance to today's crush of thundering Harleys and burly bikers who spend 10 days cruising around town and downing many bottles of beer and turkey legs.
But as the beards on a lot of those bikers get grayer, some local leaders worry the Bike Week of the future could dwindle to something much smaller and very different.
Others disagree that the event needs life support, and are confident today's young bikers will keep coming back to Daytona into their Geritol years.
Local officials are already working on ways to keep the event strong in the future, and aging bikers will be part of the equation.
"Generally speaking I think there's been an attrition of motorcyclists," said John Seibel, owner of the Thunder Gulch campground in Bunnell and someone who's worked around bikers for 20 years. "The Harley crowd is what makes up Bike Week, and that Harley crowd (in Daytona) is diminishing. I think for the future there'll be a diminishing of biker activity and coming to rallies."
When 59-year-old John Shephard of New Jersey wheeled his black 1999 Harley onto Beach Street Thursday night, he was stunned to find vendors setting up and pretty much nothing else going on.
"It seems like it's dead," Shephard, a Bike Week regular in years past who last visited in 2002, said as he looked around. "I had no problem getting a parking spot. Usually it was already kicking in by now."
Those who want to see Bike Week survive, and maybe even grow, are already strategizing to preserve the springtime biker party that draws hundreds of thousands of bikers who leave behind a lot of their dollars in local tills.
Top officials at the Daytona Regional Chamber of Commerce have come to believe that simple communication among cities could go a long way toward helping Bike Week. The event has rippled out from its epicenter of Main Street over the years, and leaders throughout the area need to do a better job of talking to each other and coordinating, said Jim Cameron, the chamber's senior vice president of government relations.
The Daytona chamber only manages Bike Week for the city of Daytona Beach, so the organization has called Edgewater, Holly Hill and DeLand to talk about how the cities can work together, Cameron said. Other rallies have a centralized control structure, and in the future Daytona could become the core of a new regional structure, he said.
Something else Daytona Bike Week organizers are considering is something leaders of the nation's two other large motorcycle rallies already do. They go to the biggest biker events around the nation and promote themselves. Officials with the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally held in South Dakota each August and the Laconia Motorcycle Week held in New Hampshire in June every year will be hanging around Main Street this week to get bikers excited about their events.
Charlie St. Clair, executive director of the Laconia Motorcycle Week Association, arrived in Daytona Beach last week before the local event kicked off, and said he plans to stay until the last bike rolls out of town.
St. Clair said the nearly 90-year-old Laconia event peaked at about 450,000 in 2004, and then like other events lost visitors when the economy tanked. The crowds have slowly been returning to New Hampshire, he said, with 320,000 people visiting his event last year.
The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally peaked at 500,000 in 2005, dropped when the economy faltered and steadily built back up to 445,700 last year, according to a spokeswoman for the city of Sturgis. Sturgis makes a point to add events young riders like, such as X game type races, and also welcomes vendors targeting older riders with things such as pharmaceutical products, said the spokeswoman, Christina Steele.
St. Clair said he's been coming to Daytona Beach for Bike Week since the 1970s, and he doesn't think the event is at risk.
"As long as people ride motorcycles there'll be rallies," he said.
There's increasing discussion locally about attracting and taking care of the different groups that come for Bike Week. There's the core group of middle-aged riders who come back for familiar traditions, the older veterans who are migrating to three-wheeled bikes, younger bikers who are sometimes more interested in races at the Speedway than hanging out in bars, and female riders discovering the event.
Bike Week officials are talking about how to keep all of them happy, tossing around ideas for trike events for older bikers and staying hooked into social media for the 20-somethings.
'We're trying to come up with new activities for bikers we probably didn't do 20 years ago,' Cameron said.
With younger bikers in mind, Pete Scianablo, who co-owns Tombstone Silverworks on Main Street with his brother, is going high tech with two cameras on top of his building so he can live-stream what's happening in the heart of the party on his website, DaytonaBikeWeek.com.
Scianablo said he sees plenty of young bikers on Main Street, and he doesn't think they're losing interest. Motorcycle manufacturers are making sure of that by retooling their bikes to appeal to younger tastes, he said.
Mike Lazaro of Pittsburgh, a 24-year-old who's been coming to Bike Week since he was a teenager, said he has no plans to stop visiting Daytona Beach.
"There's a lot of fun stuff to do," said Lazaro, who was visiting the Harley-Davidson museum store on Beach Street one day last week.
"Anyone who thinks it's dying is not part of the event," Scianablo said.
There's no uniform agreement on exactly how many bikers are expected in Daytona this week, and how many have come in years past. Some insist the city has seen as many as 500,000 bikers the past few decades, but others say that's a wishful thought with no hard evidence to back it up.
"By no stretch of any imagination have we ever had 500,000 people here," said Evelyn Fine, president of Mid-Florida Marketing & Research Inc. in Daytona Beach. "I know because we've been tracking it for 34 years."
She estimates the event peaked at around 350,000 in the mid-1990s, and says the number has gone up and down since then.
Bikers spreading out over the years to new hangouts like Destination Daytona and New Smyrna Beach's Flagler Avenue might be what has some people thinking the number of riders is down. They could just be more scattered, some argue.
Many agree the ailing economy has kept a good number of bikers at home, and Fine's research into Daytona Beach area hotel occupancy during Bike Week shows visitors have been gradually coming back for Bike Week the past three years.
The number of bikers also dipped in the early 1990s when a crackdown on biker problems led to a boycott among riders who became convinced Daytona wasn't going to be friendly to them, Fine said.
"We had to work hard to get them back," Fine said. "This is a multimillion-dollar impact for this community, and jobs depend on it."
The city needs to make sure Bike Week remains a priority, she maintains.
"We can not take it for granted," she said.
Jeff Hentz, president and CEO of the Daytona Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, said he and others will work to keep the event alive.
"I think it has a lot of shelf life," Hentz said. "My gut feeling is we're not even close to half way there."


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CH is crap. "It was too strong. They said 'I love you' in much stronger ways" Blah blah blah
I'm soooo glad CW is taking over.
I'm soooo glad CW is taking over.
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pennybug84 wrote: Oh something else, I read an interview w/MR who said that she just read Twilight when she was writing the script so that she would't be influenced and what not by what happens in the other books. But when it comes to some things that hurt the story and now they'll have some catching up to do in the other movies. (Like in NM they're going to have to explain who the Vultori are in the beginning so the whole Italy thing makes sense.)
I know when I read that I was like what the?? (Apparently she thought she was being smart but I don't think it worked out that way.) Now because of that there's some inconsistencies and stuff that should have been explained/introduced in Twilight that wasn't & they'll have to play catch up on some stuff in the other movies. Oh well. Hopefully everything will workout and NM will work when they do have to play catch up.by TeamEdward1918 on Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:51 pm
I agree shortstuff... Don't understand why she decided to do that
Exactly. I like the way you wrote this paragraph. For me, the movie Bella was akin to having an attitude problem. She snapped at Charlie, hanged up on Renee, etc. And, she's always having a stoic look.MommyJen wrote:My other big complaint was the relationship between Charlie and Bella. In the film, I don't feel like there is a connection between the two. In the book, Bella truly cares for her Dad and worries about his welfare greatly (hence her cooking and absolute freak out when James may endanger him and when she had to leave him). In the film she always seemed short with Charlie and somewhat annoyed by his presence. Charlie also seemed too stoic and I wasn't particularly a fan of him constantly drinking beer. I don't have a prolem with people drinking beer, but this seemed to make him out to be a loser dad who hasn't been in his kid's life. In the book, Charlie's heart was broken and never really moved on from Renée. You don't get that vibe from him the movie. Also, I feel that Bella cooking for Charlie shows a great deal of her nurturing and self-sacrificing character. For them to eat at a diner every night really annoyed me. Plus, the one scene where they were eating in the kitchen, Bella asks her dad in a cruel tone, "Are you done?" and takes his plate from him. I just think this whole characterization goes against Bella and Charlie in a negative way for the film.


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One homeowner shares the challenges and rewards of installing a solar hot water system at his home near Naches, Washington.
Thirty-five years ago, when my wife and I were college students living on a budget, the house we called home was a dirt-floored log cabin in northwestern Montana. We had no modern conveniences—just a cookstove for warmth, an underground pit for keeping food cool, an artesian spring for filling the old cast-iron bathtub, and an outhouse built from a leftover Steinway piano crate. Ah, the good life.
It's easy to wax nostalgic over those bygone days of the 1970s, when oil shortages pushed the then-novel idea of renewable energy (RE) into the limelight. When it came to RE solutions for the home, most people experimented, with one eye to basic science and another to the spare parts bin. We were no different. Back then, our solar hot water system was nothing more than a black metal barrel in a wooden box with an old window mounted to the front, facing south.
These days, as I seek to improve the energy efficiency of our modern home in Yakima County, Washington, I am continually amazed by how much the times have changed. Information is abundant, and prefab parts are plentiful—to the point of being overwhelming for greenhorns on the DIY RE scene. When I started researching a solar hot water (SHW) system for our three-bedroom home, I had no delusions about the project's complexity. I knew that installing and maintaining a modern system would be a tad more involved than our previous "black barrel" method. For one thing, this time, my basic plumbing and electrical skills were up against two existing electric water heaters and 13-year-old plumbing in hard-to-reach places.
All I can say is thank goodness for the ever-evolving home improvement genre. Taking notes in the margins of back issues of Home Power and studying online resources armed me with more information—and much-needed confidence—to tackle the task. First up: determining which system would work best for our home, budget, and site.
In our sometimes-snowy region where winter temperatures drop below 0°F, the logical choice was a closed-loop system. Unlike open-loop systems that pump potable water through the collectors and piping, closed-loop systems circulate a solution (usually propylene glycol antifreeze) through an isolated loop between the collectors and storage tank. A heat exchanger transfers the solar-generated heat to the domestic water system.
Although I'd considered high-tech evacuated-tube collectors, the cost-effectiveness of flat-plate collectors won me over, and I already knew what I wanted: low-iron tempered glass for good sunlight transmission and longevity, a selective coating for more efficient heat gain, sturdy frame construction for durability, and polyisocyanurate insulation on the collector's sides and back to minimize heat loss. A number of manufacturers make flat-plate solar collectors that fit my criteria, so my decision became more about the manufacturers and their retailers than the collector itself. I evaluated each on pricing, customer service, Web sites, and shipping costs. Then, I considered the feedback from articles in Home Power and performance data collected by the Solar Rating and Certification Corporation.


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^ ah no worries though, it's just that reading some of the comments/posts it seems that
people mix up "good character" with good "character". so I made my post that way, and yeah I'm quite inarticulate at times, so its hard to get my message across. >.<
and oh just to be clear I never meant people don't like the Joker as a character, In fact people like him as a character. He's a fine example of a good "character" but not a "good character".
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If I called Masuzu a bitch, I'd only insult dogs. Masuzu has just a turd in place of a soul.
Regarding the stick that Masuzu threw "to help Chiwa" (or at least "to help Chiwa to help Eita") :
If Chiwa would get badly injured (not only mentally, but also physically) due to Masuzu's little game, couldn't it be too much even for her spineless lover? IMO he could not only stop "dating" her, but even fess up about everything, including her involvement in the latest incident.
This anime is pretty depressing to me... I just can't stop watching it because I adore Chiwa, but seeing her being abused and not even fighting back is heartbreaking...
Truly, love is blind - I mean especially Chiwa's. Eita doesn't deserve her love, he's one of these who don't understand that we become responsible for the ones we tamed...
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Eita may be anti-romance, but he's not anti-imagination. His worlds are derivative from famous anime and steeped in boilerplate fantasy... but that's why I'm finding him very watchable. And why Himeka is a character I really like. All the world's a stage, the men and women merely players. Her acting may be somewhat less plausible than Masuzu's, but that makes it more genuine, I feel. She has all the best traits of Rikka and Kanemoto's other starring role this season.
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That Mana is such a pest she makes Masuzu look sympathetic in comparison. I suppose their father is to blame for them being like this.
Hime was pretty endearing. I still doubt much is going to change with her introduction, unless she receives some serious character development and becomes an actual threat to Chiwa and Masuzu. Right now, she's a pretty "harmless" addition.
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so masu & chiwa ask who himeka give she said is eita's ex so for that masu read more eita's "note" mention many angels of burning flames & their names.
then see if himeka want to join make a poem & others til hall monitor spoil attack after that reasons why himeka join give she was alone til seeing eita's burning flame.
next day eita, masu, & chiwa doing pool clean til masu's sister arrive tell her sister move back to sweden yet while masu & chiwa head to locker here come himeka with note.
til masu's sister grab the note being bigger TROLL than masu she read out loud to messed-up himeka cue eita saying SHUT UP blonde airhead & reasons you stink.
which masu said i''m still saying give due to family probs masu tell her sister to say sorry & go away which all did.
now that settle they let himeka join the club but here come ai the hall monitor to spoil it all.
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Also, I haven't had any issues with the pacing before this arc, but they moved through Himeka's introduction to the story way too fast, in my opinion...
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Overall a very retarded ep for me. Everything felt very rushed, and the comedy failed to amuse me (if any). The part that doesn't make any sense for me would be Masuzu's action towards Mana. seriously, in the previous eps she looked like a complete damsel in distress before her, and yet in this ep he suddenly turn the table seemingly out of the blue and tadaaa . . . successfully chase her out with just that. My brain simply couldn't accept it.
And the most annoying part is Eita (Good Lord, i hate it if harem anime get contaminated with this kind of garbage MC), which the sole function in the story is to become a punching bag over and over again. Can only act cool but completely helpless when the real world slap the reality right into his face, typical barking dog never bite.
Bitchy Masuzu, loser Eita, and retarded story. It's all complete. I dropped this show
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well some good funny parts, but something just doesn't seem right with ep. 6, it's like I was laughing really hard at the start and then nothing. not feeling anything. Especially during that Mana encounter. And isn't that about face of Mana kinda strange , its like her personality & attitude suddenly turned 180° same with Masuzu. The whole encounter just felt awkward & nonsensical at times, Including Eita's "speech" which felt dragging, yet I feel the episodes rushed. >.< Anyway it's too bad since I'm liking Himeka.
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I like him. He may not win every fight he gets into, but he makes a genuine effort - and what he says matters more than what he does. (Fighting is not the solution to everything. Even the EKME Point Spectacular was more about intimidation.) Plus, I actually find the things in his diary kind of cool. Not to mention he's motivated for Chiwa and Hime, and he's treating Masuzu pretty respectfully, all things considered. An admirable person all around.
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Volquez works 7 innings as Padres top Brewers
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Edinson Volquez is starting to put together strong starts for the Padres.
Volquez (1-3) allowed just five singles and struck out three and Carlos Quentin hit his first home run as San Diego beat Milwaukee 2-1 on Wednesday night, snapping the Brewers nine-game winning streak.
"We've seen the good in the year and a month that he (Volquez) has been here," said Padres manager Bud Black. "No doubt he struggled in a couple of his five starts this season. I thought he pitched well. Last week in San Francisco (six innings, two runs) this was a carryover and obviously a much better performance."
Black noted that this was the fourth time in Volquez' 127 starts that he hasn't allowed a walk. It was also the first time he hasn't walked a batter in seven-plus innings.
"I was throwing strikes, no walks today, it was about time," laughed Volquez. "It was great. All my pitches were there, my curve was pretty good, my changeup. Everything was there I can't complain about anything tonight."
The victory snapped a five-game skid by the Padres.
"After losing five games in a row, we stopped the bleeding," said Volquez. "This was a great game tonight and I got great support early in the game and kept it that way."
Quentin, who came off his eight-game suspension on Tuesday, hit a shot into the third deck off Brewers starter Marco Estrada with one out in the fourth for the first run of the game. Quentin has now hit a home run against all 29 teams that he has faced in his career. The only team he has not hit a home run against it the White Sox, for whom he played for, but has never faced.
It was the seventh home run given up by Estrada (2-1) in five starts. He pitched 6 1-3 innings allowing two runs, walking two and striking out three.
Luke Gregerson pitched a scoreless eighth for the Padres and Huston Street came on in the ninth to get his third save in three opportunities.
The save was a bit precarious as Carlos Gomez and Yuniesky Betancourt had back-to-back doubles to make it a 2-1 game. However, Martin Maldonado was called out for being out of the batter's box when the ball he hit, connected with him in fair territory. And that was the final out of the game.
"The (home plate umpire Paul Emmel) said he was out of the box," said Brewers manager Ron Roenicke. "To end the game, you'd better know darn well that he's out of the box. You could see the ball coming off his shoulder as Maldy was taking a step toward first base, he's definitely not out of the box".
In addition to his dominant pitching night, Volquez also helped produce the Padres second run in the fifth.
Nick Hundley singled with one out and Volquez layed down a sacrifice bunt. Catcher Jonathan Lucroy threw to first where second baseman Rickie Weeks was waiting for the out. However, Hundley, after hesitating around second, headed for third base that was unoccupied. As he was approaching the bag Weeks rifled the ball across the diamond to a moving shortstop Jean Segura, who was also heading for third, but the ball bounced in the dirt and wound up in foul territory in left field and Hundley scored.
NOTES: Brewers 3B Aramis Ramirez, who has been on the DL since April 6th with a sprained left knee, was taking BP and taking ground balls Wednesday night and according to manager Ron Roenicke, "he could be back in the lineup somewhere in the next home stand." .RHP John Axford could be back in his closer role soon according to Roenicke. "I think right now we are not going to flip Jim Henderson (current closer) and John (Axford). The way Ax threw yesterday (Tuesday) he could win every ball game he went in. It wouldn't take much for me to flip the two," said Roenicke. "I think Ax with his breaking ball and the way he's been throwing could have that repeat year (46 saves) that he had two years ago."… The Padres newest pitcher LH Robbie Erlin was in the bullpen Wednesday and was looking at hurling in long relief according to Padres manager Bud Black. Erlin, 22, had his contract selected from Triple-A Tucson.


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So - how are you doing getting around to eating all that food in your food storage?? You have started right? Anything in your food storage that you haven't really added to your main menu? Some things are easy to incorporate and others we needed a little help getting into the habit of using regularly. Since storing boxes of cereal is bulky and expensive I knew we needed to start eating hot cereal more regularly. I like oatmeal but other things seem easier when I'm tired and not quite awake.
One of my goals in life is to make the mundane thinks in life run on auto pilot so I cooked up this way of having my cereal and eating it too. One of the grains I store lots of is oats - my favorite kind is the steel cut variety and it has a great storage life (12-15 years if stored properly). There are several other options for oats all of them good and healthy but the instant ones are the least nutritious. Steel cut oats take a little longer to cook so I had to find a way to make it simple and automatic. Enter the humble crock pot. I have a smaller sized crock pot that works really well for this - it holds about 6 cups in total. The larger crockpots work better if you double the recipe or add extra water. When teamed with a timer I am all set.
This is a simple recipe that can be changed a million ways to suit your tastes. The idea is that you put it together as soon as you clean out the crockpot from the day before. The grains soak throughout the day and the timer turns it on so it's ready to eat the next morning.
Makes 2-4 servings
1 cup steel cut oats (you can use part quinoa, millet or anything else you like)
Opt. chai seeds, almonds, flax seed, etc.
1 tbsp. of lemon juice
1 tbsp. wheat or kamut flour
4 cups lukewarm water
Rinse the oats under cold running water for a few seconds. Place everything in the clean crock pot. The soaking time in the room temperature water along with the acid (lemon juice) and the flour helps to make the oats and seeds more digestible by starting the sprouting process which means you'll get more nutrition out of your food. The flour may seem like a strange addition but it contains an enzyme that neutralizes the coating on the grains that prevents them from spoiling and that kickstarts the sprouting into gear.
Use a timer to turn the crockpot on at 2am and off at 8am.(or change the times to suit your breakfast habits) Cook on LOW. It's ready to eat after approx. 6 hours but it won't hurt it to sit longer. If you forget to turn it on or the timer gets messed up and doesn't turn after a power outage you can cook it on HIGH for about an hour and a half or until its as done as you like it.
Flax seed oil, Udo's oil, butter
walnuts, raw cashews, coconut
Dehydrated or fresh apples, blueberries, strawberries etc.
Cinnamon, ginger
Raw honey, agave syrup, stevia to taste
Add anything else that you are supposed to eat every day and forget to eat like wheat germ, bran etc.
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King City, Ca – Monterey County Sheriff's Deputies are looking for clues that will help them track down the suspect in a fatal shooting in a Kings City trailer park over the weekend. 20-year-old Antonio Mendez was gunned down at the trailer park on River Drive in King City on Saturday night. Authorities say Mendez was struck several times by gunfire. Anyone with information is asked to call the Monterey County Sheriff's Department at 831-755-3772.


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Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, sounds like a malady you could've caught 100 years ago.
But cases have been on the rise in recent years. Virginia had 222 cases in 2009 and 344 last year. Eastern Virginia had 34 in 2009 and nearly double that number — 60 — in 2010, according to Dr. Bill Berg, Hampton Health Department director.
What shows up as a pesky, persistent cough in adults can be fatal in infants.
"Pertussis is making a comeback, and we have this vulnerable population out there," Berg said.
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Pink Slips Going Out at Hanford Nuclear Site
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Cleanup work is likely to be slowed at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site because of automatic federal budget cuts.
Nearly 300 workers are getting pink slips at south-central Washington's Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and hundreds more will be furloughed.
About 9,000 people work at the site that produced plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons arsenal beginning in World War II. Several companies are contracted to clean up the site.
Washington River Protection Solutions is tasked with emptying underground waste tanks, some of which are leaking. Company spokesman Jerry Holloway says 70 workers will be laid off, including nuclear operators responsible for transferring waste between tanks and pumping it out.
Holloway says the company's roughly 900 nonunion employees will be furloughed for varying lengths ranging from 2.5 weeks to 6.5 weeks.


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NSA Hooking Up Ominously Named 'Perfect Citizen' To Watch The Internet
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Part of the problem, of course, is the tremendous secrecy around it. Jim Harper does a good job making the case that much of this program should be public, and blames Congress for falling prey to "cyberwar" hype in not forcing the details of this program to be publicly scrutinized:
If there is to be a federal government role in securing the Internet from cyberattacks, there is no good reason why its main components should not be publicly known and openly debated. Small parts, like threat signatures and such--the unique characteristics of new attacks--might be appropriately kept secret, but no favor is done to any potential attackers by revealing that there is a system for detecting their activities.Harper's points are worth repeating. He's not saying saying that the government shouldn't be looking for potential threats or vulnerabilities, but that many of the details should be public. It's fine to keep some aspects secret, but keeping the entire program secret inevitably means that it will be less effective. On top of that, even if it's officially just for "assessment" at this time, we've all seen how government programs morph and change over time (especially to political will) -- especially when it comes to monitoring. Or do we need to remind everyone how often the feds have admitted to violating the law with wiretaps?
A cybersecurity effort that is not tested by public oversight will be weaker than ones that are scrutinzed by private-sector experts, academics, security vendors, and watchdog groups.
Benign intentions do not control future results, and governmental surveillance of the Internet for "cybersecurity" purposes may warp over time to surveillance for ideological and political purposes.


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2010-11: Opens the year as one of the conference's best 184-pounders … is one of the Spartans' three captains this season … should provide outstanding leadership for the Green and White … named one of York's three captains this season … will look to compete for the Metropolitan Conference title at 184 … could make his first trip to the NCAA Tournament this year … goes the extra mile in all aspects of the program … has the potential to post an All-American campaign.
2009-10: Put together an outstanding 22-7 campaign … took second at the annual Metropolitan Conference Championship Tournament … also took second place at the Spartans own New Standard Corporation Invitational Tournament … was in the lineup during York's opening meets against Drexel and #10 Maryland, two Division I programs … picked up his first win of the year with a 11-2 major decision over McDaniel's William Yeo in the Spartans' first home meet … owned a nine-match winning streak early in the season … had two technical falls and one pinfall during his nine-match streak … had another six-match winning streak toward the end of the season … his 21 wins consisted of ten decisions, five major decisions, four technical falls, and two pinfalls.
2008-09: Put together a 10-6 record during his freshman campaign … took fifth place with a 4-2 mark at the Monarch Tournament at 174 pounds … drew the start at 174 against Millersville on January 24 … started again against Kutztown on February 13 … served as a backup to All-American Brian Thomason … gained outstanding experience wrestling against Thomason during practice.
Personal: Is a business administration major ... is the son of Steve and Irene Martocello ... born on July 28, 1990 ... names his father as the person he most admires ... hobbies include wakeboarding, and hunting ... favorite athlete is Dan Gable ... chose York because he "liked the overall feel, business major, and liked the feel and style of the wrestling program" ... most significant athletic achievement is being the runner-up at 184 pounds at the 2010 Metropolitan Conference Championships ... most significant athletic moment while with the Spartan program is being in the finals of the 2009 New Standard / Spartan Invitational ... after graduation he plans on going to graduate school.


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USA approved first rapid take-home HIV test kit.
WASHINGTON: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first over-the-counter HIV test, allowing Americans to check themselves for the virus that causes AIDS in the privacy of their homes. The OraQuick test detects the presence of HIV in saliva collected using a mouth swab. The test is designed to return a result within 20 to 40 minutes.
Government officials estimate one-fifth, or about 240,000 people, of the 1.2 million HIV carriers in the U.S. are not aware they are infected. Testing is one of the chief means of slowing new infections, which have held steady at about 50,000 per year for two decades.
FDA officials said the test is aimed at people who might not otherwise get tested. The company's marketing efforts will focus on populations at greatest risk of being infected, including gay and bisexual men, African Americans and Hispanics. HIV awareness groups hailed the approval as an important step in expanding testing for the virus.
"This test will allow anyone to empower themselves to know their HIV status when, how and with whom they want to," said Tom Donohue, founding director of Who's Positive. HIV eventually develops into AIDS, unless treated with antiviral drugs. AIDS causes the body's immune system to break down, leading to infections which become fatal.
The FDA previously approved several HIV test kits designed to be used at home, although those kits – which usually require a blood sample – must be sent to a laboratory to be developed. FDA stressed in its approval announcement that the test is not 100 percent accurate. A trial conducted by Orasure showed the home test correctly detected HIV in those carrying the virus only 92 percent of the time. That means the test could miss one person for every 12 HIV-infected people who use the kit.
The test was accurate 99 percent in ruling out HIV in patients not carrying the virus. That means the test would incorrectly identify one patient as having HIV for every 5,000 HIV-negative people tested.
People who test negative should get re-tested after three months because it can take several weeks for detectable antibodies to HIV to appear, according to Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's HIV unit.
Orasure has marketed a version of OraQuick to doctors, nurses and other health care practitioners since 2002. When used by professionals, the test is shown to accurately identify both carriers and non-carriers 99 percent of the time.
While it's not clear why the test appears less accurate in consumer trials, company researchers said they expected the test's specificity to drop when used by consumers versus professionals. Orasure plans to launch the test in October, selling it through retailers like Walgreens, CVS and Walmart, as well as online pharmacies. Whereas the test marketed to health professionals costs about $17.50, Orasure expects the consumer version to sell for more. The company is not announcing a price yet, but said it would be less than $60. CEO Doug Michels said the additional cost will help pay for a toll-free call center to provide counseling and medical referrals to test users. Shares of Orasure Technologies rose 59 cents, or 5 percent, to $12.09.
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"Remind the people… to be peaceable and considerate, and to show true humility toward all." Titus 3:1–2
Since some conflict in marriage is inevitable, learning to fight fair just might be the most important skill a couple can master. The key is to understand the difference between healthy and unhealthy combat. In an unstable marriage, hostility is aimed at the partner's soft underbelly with comments such as "You never do anything right!" "Why did I marry you in the first place?" and "You're getting more like your mother every day!"
These offensive remarks strike at the heart of self‐worth. Healthy conflict, by contrast, focuses on the issues that cause disagreement: "It upsets me when you don't tell me you're going to be late for dinner," or "I was embarrassed when you made me look foolish at the party last night." Can you hear the difference?
Even though these approaches may be equally contentious, the first assaults the dignity of the partner, while the second addresses the source of conflict. Couples who learn this important distinction are much better prepared to work through disagreements without wounds and insults.
Father, we need Your help to show love and respect while we resolve differences. We don't want disagreements to hurt the relationship You've graciously given us. We know Your power and wisdom can be ours each day, and we humbly ask for them. Amen.


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A few steps closer to the promised land
The church needs to reclaim a leadership role on race in America.
It was the summer of 1954, just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court had troubled the waters of race in America with its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education. A 35-year-old World War II combat veteran, a black man, knocked on the door of the rectory at Holy Family Parish in the eastern Kentucky city of Ashland.
The veteran, a Texan, had just been hired onto the staff at the local federal prison, and he wanted to speak to the pastor, Msgr. Declan Carroll, about enrolling his children in the parish school. If admitted, they would be the first black children to attend Holy Family School, and the first black children to attend school with whites anywhere in Ashland. (The public schools would not be integrated until 1960.) It also would be their first experience attending school with whites, since, it goes without saying, segregation was the law of the land in their East Texas hometown.
"I don't see why your children shouldn't attend our school," the priest told the veteran. "But just to be sure, let me check with the bishop."
A few days later, the veteran was summoned to the telephone at work. Msgr. Carroll was on the line.
"Mr. Wycliff," the priest said, "the bishop said the Catholic schools are for all Catholic children. Your children will be welcome at our school."
And so we were—my brother Francois, my sister Karen, and I—genuinely welcomed in the school, and our family welcomed in the parish. My mother, who still exchanges Christmas cards with some of her friends from Holy Family, recalls that on our first Sunday in the parish, Carroll met us at the front door of the church and said, "Sit anywhere you wish."
That was important because in those days it was not uncommon in the South and the North for black Catholics to be sequestered in the back rows of otherwise all-white churches. Carroll was telling the Wycliffs that we were full members of Holy Family Parish.
It's probably because I saw, so intimately and at such a young age, what the church at its noblest is capable of on the issue of race that I have paid close attention ever since to events at the intersection of Catholicism and race.
But there's more to it than just my own youthful experience. I have been privileged in my now almost 62 years to meet and occasionally work with some of the lions of the Catholic interracial movement and the campaign for civil rights. I think of figures such as Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., past president of the University of Notre Dame and a charter member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; the late Msgr. Jack Egan of Chicago and his indefatigable sidekick, Peggy Roach; the late John McDermott, founder of Chicago's venerable newsletter on racial issues, The Chicago Reporter; Father George Clements, former pastor of Holy Angels Parish in Chicago; and one of my own professors at Notre Dame, John Kromkowski, longtime head of the Washington-based National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs.
There is a long and noble Catholic tradition of advocating and working for racial peace and justice, and it deserves to be honored and preserved and extended. The work is not yet finished, and the temptations to abandon it are powerful.
"As Sen. Barack Obama campaigns as the first African American on a major party presidential ticket, nearly half of all Americans say race relations in the country are in bad shape and three in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll."
This quote from the June 22 edition of The Washington Post suggests the dimensions of the work that remains to be done. Those three in 10 are just the ones who would admit their racial prejudice to an interviewer. How many of the rest harbor such feelings but wouldn't admit them?
Taking up Obama's challenge in his March 18 Philadelphia "race speech" to discuss the issue, Dawn Turner Trice, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, created an online forum, "Exploring Race," which she moderates.
Whites are far and away the most numerous writers to the forum, says Trice, an African American. Her dominant impression is that they are largely ignorant of other races, especially blacks. "You get the sense that they hang around in racially homogeneous groups," Trice says.
Very often, she says, a white writer will have a question about race provoked by an encounter with a black person, perhaps a co-worker, but "they seem to have a fear of asking that person rather than asking me."
Trice doesn't mind serving as a sounding board. "Maybe," she says, "this column is a place they can come and be exposed to something beyond their usual sightlines."
But it obviously would be far preferable if people of all races could be familiar and comfortable enough with one another to satisfy their curiosities by talking frankly.
Jon Nilson, a Loyola University Chicago theologian and author of Hearing Past the Pain: Why White Catholic Theologians Need Black Theology (Paulist Press), observed in an interview in this magazine two years ago that white ignorance of blacks is an outgrowth of the racial isolation in which most whites live and which the church abets.
"[I] think residential segregation profoundly affects the nature of Catholic life at the parish level," Nilson said. "We have many all-white parishes and therefore our most frequent ordinary Catholic experience is already giving us a distorted picture of who we are as a church in this country. I think we need to rethink the parish system, so it is not so tied to the social sin of residential segregation."
Even within the current parish system, another Catholic institution, the school, has played an outsized role in the struggle for equal education for black children. Just as it was for my parents, the Catholic school has been the alternative of choice for black parents intent on getting a quality education for their children and unsatisfied with the public schools.
Indeed, in vast swaths of many racially isolated inner cities, Catholic schools have been the sole safe, dependable sources of elementary and secondary education, graduating a disproportionate number of the African American children who go on to successful college careers. Research by many social scientists has found that Catholic schools tend to be particularly effective in educating black boys, with whom public schools for some reason have special difficulty.
But if their quality and their instruction have been dependable, Catholic schools' finances, and consequently their existences, are not. Each year the number of inner-city Catholic schools shrinks, under the relentless financial pressures created by ever-rising expenses and ever-diminishing contributions and subsidies to make up for what tuition does not cover.
If the church's racial justice mission could benefit from a rethinking of the parish system, it could benefit no less from finding a way to sustain Catholic schools in areas where they are desperately needed as alternatives to what seem to be perpetually failing public school systems.
"My father came to this country when he was a teenager. Not only had he never profited from the sweat of any black man's brow, I don't think he had ever even seen a black man."
So why, continued Supreme Court Associate Justice and Catholic Antonin Scalia, should his father and other relatively late-arriving immigrants to the United States have to pay, through affirmative action or, potentially, reparations, for moral debts created by antebellum slaveholders or the agents of Jim Crow?
Scalia's has become probably the most often-quoted expression of the sentiment that Obama described in his Philadelphia speech.
"Most working- and middle-class white Americans don't feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race," Obama observed. "Their experience is the immigrant experience—as far as they're concerned, no one's handed them anything, they've built it from scratch."
There's only one problem with such notions: They're false.
This has nothing to do with so-called "white privilege." Rather, it has to do with the fact that none of us does it all on our own. We all, to use a worn but wonderfully expressive phrase, "stand on the shoulders" of others—family members, fellow citizens, people whose names we will never know.
Whatever horrors they may have fled and whatever wonders they might have worked after arriving here, immigrants, like the rest of us, stand on the shoulders of others.
Justice Scalia's father may not have profited from the sweat of any black man's or woman's brow before he arrived in the United States. But he began to do so—and from the sweat of the brows of yellow, red, brown, and other white men and women as well—as soon as he stepped off the boat or the plane onto American soil. He became the beneficiary of the roads, streets, canals, buildings, schools, libraries, police forces, and legal systems that the men and women of this nation had put into place in the decades and centuries before his arrival. And all of these built assets enabled him to enjoy personal success and give his son the upbringing and education that led to his current prominent position in the nation's life.
There's nothing to be ashamed of in this. It's the reason immigrants want to come here in the first place. It's a major reason that most of us remain here, even when we could go elsewhere.
Yet Scalia seems to want to have things both ways. The desire to be innocent of such monstrosities as chattel slavery and Jim Crow is entirely understandable. But the notion that immigrants derived no benefit from those monstrosities and therefore ought to bear none of the responsibility for rectifying the damage is simply false.
Scalia's argument is like that of a new investor in a company who would argue that his dividend and the price of his shares ought to be determined without reference to any debt obligations the company may have incurred before he bought into it or any liability it might have for, say, environmental pollution or other offenses.
But there's only one class of stock in U.S.A. Inc.—common.
This desire for innocence—perhaps better, for guiltlessness—is probably the greatest of the temptations for Catholics to abandon the struggle for racial justice and equity. The temptation gains strength from being supported by so prominent a Catholic as Scalia. But in this case the justice is a false prophet.
The other great temptation might be called race fatigue.
"It's been 44 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. Haven't we paid off that debt?" "When are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton gonna stop 'guilting' us?" "What about their own self-defeating behavior—welfare queens, black-on-black crime, 70 percent of the children born out of wedlock, 50 percent dropping out of school."
We could benefit from a lot more celebration of the nation's racial progress than we commonly see and hear. America is in every meaningful respect a better, fairer, more just place for African Americans than it was in, say, 1954, when the Supreme Court decided the Brown case—better, fairer, and more just by many magnitudes. And anyone who doesn't believe that cannot have been alive and aware of how vicious and capricious life in those Jim Crow days could be.
The Catholic interracial movement and Catholic participation in the broader movement for civil rights were part of the reason for this progress.
But better isn't perfect, and America was founded on the premise that we always seek "a more perfect union." That will require dealing with what Obama called "the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow" and the distortions they wrought in the African American community. It also will require undoing the distortions that were unintended consequences of modern policies, such as a welfare system that encouraged single motherhood and the absence of fathers from their families.
And what about self-help and personal responsibility? Anyone who doubts these exist in America's black communities cannot have visited Holy Angels, Father Clements' old parish; or St. Sabina, Father Michael Pfleger's; or Trinity United Church of Christ, the church built by the now-reviled Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's former pastor.
"The black church," whether Catholic, Protestant, Islamic, or other, is the quintessential self-help institution. These congregations practice the corporal and spiritual works of mercy as assiduously as they are performed anywhere in American society. They run clinics and soup kitchens, encourage adoptions, offer job training, offer youth programs to keep young people out of trouble and headed in productive directions.
Indeed, "the black church" exemplifies about as well as any institution in American society the principle of subsidiarity, a key tenet of Catholic social teaching.
Jon Nilson's notion of rethinking the parish system "so it is not so tied to the social sin of residential segregation" strikes me as one that deserves a lot more consideration than it apparently has gotten within the American church.
It also strikes me as the work of a generation, or even a lifetime—a perfectly ambitious project that could become the enemy of some less ambitious, merely good ones.
If ignorance of each other is the biggest current problem in race relations—and it certainly seems to be—then it ought to be possible for churches to begin addressing that without any sort of master plan.
Let white churches send a portion of their membership each Sunday to a black church, and vice versa. Let the members see how their liturgical styles differ—and match. Create a program like the Chicago Human Relations Commission's "Chicago Dinners." Members of black and white partner parishes could host dinners at their homes for small mixed groups, where conversation about race would be the last course. Organize multiracial encounters around readings such as Nilson's, or John McGreevy's Parish Boundaries (University of Chicago), or the writings of Sister Jamie Phelps, O.P. There are myriad possibilities.
If race relations remain, as Obama said, "a part of our union that we have yet to perfect," Catholics ought to take up that challenge and turn to their church's tradition of advocating for racial justice. That tradition is waiting to be recovered and re-energized. What's needed is for our leaders, both clergy and lay, to seize the initiative and run with it.


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Regal Entertainment has just released the full trailer of "The Bride and the Lover" stars Lovi Poe, Jennylyn Mercado, and Paulo Avelino.
Another love triangle and the first this year. This is becoming a trend in mainstream movies after the success of No Other Woman.
With the first acting role of the controversial Hayden Kho in a movie. Also included in the cast are Alex Castro, Tim Yap, Joem Bascon, Aaron Villaflor, Kat Alano, Carla Dunareanu, Cai Cortez, Carlo Gonzales, Carmi Martin, Ariel Ureta, Timmy Cruz, Buboy Garovillo, Tom Rodriguez and Special Participation of Snooky Serna
Directed by Joel Lamangan.
"The Bride and the Lover" opens in theaters nationwide on May 1, 2013.
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Q. What's in saw palmetto?
A. There are a variety of compounds within the saw palmetto berry (Fitzpatrick,
1995). As a rule they are divided into four major categories:
1) Free fatty acids. Quite a number of fatty acids are present in saw palmetto. The ones in highest concentration include oleic acid, lauric acid, myristic acid and palmitic acid.
2) Phytosterols (plant sterols). These plant sterols (phyto means plant)
have a chemical structure similar to cholesterol. The most commonly found
phytosterols in saw palmetto are beta-sitosterol, campesterol, stigmasterol
and cycloartenol (Plosker, 1996).
3) Free fatty alcohols. These are usually made up of fatty acids joined to
an alcohol molecule.
4) Monoglycerides, which are single fatty acids attached to a three-carbon
glycerol molecule (Shimada, 1997).
All of these are fat-soluble. The process of extracting these compounds from
the berry involves mostly three methods. The most common are the use of
hexane solvent, carbon dioxide, and ethanol.
According to Dr. Jerry McLaughlin, Professor of Pharmacognosy,
Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Purdue
University in West Lafayette, Indiana, there are probably more active
compounds in saw palmetto than we know of at this time. Dr. McLaughlin has
personally analyzed some of these compounds at his University laboratory. He
says, "There are hundreds of substances in herbal extracts, and it's going
to take a very long time for us to isolate the biologically active ones. It's
like trying to find a needle in a haystack. For instance, we have isolated
two monoglycerides within saw palmetto that have anti-tumor activities.
These are 1-monolaurin, and 1-monomyristin. I'm sure there are others."
The active ingredients in saw palmetto are fat-soluble and are thus
extracted from the berry. The extracts you buy in vitamin stores, pharmacies, or
retail outlets should contain 85% to 95% standardized extract of these fatty acids and sterols (they're called 'liposterolic' extracts). Unfortunately, not all products will be identical since the extraction process varies from
laboratory to laboratory. The final constituents of the extracts depend on a
number of factors. These include which type of solvent is used in the
extraction process, the time of year the berries are harvested, the type of
soil the palm trees are grown in, and the skill of the technicians at the
processing plant.
Dr. McLaughlin strongly believes that the time of year a plant, flower, or
berry is picked makes a difference in the content of the active ingredients.
"We did a field study collecting paw paw plants (also known as Indiana
bananas) every two weeks throughout the year. We found the peak in activity
of the compounds to be between May and July. Much of the folkloric use of
plants and herbs developed as a consequence of trial and error. Healers
learned with time that there were specific periods throughout the year that
a particular plant had its most active ingredients.
"Therefore, if a plant is improperly grown, or harvested at an off time, it
would either not have the same active ingredients, or have a different set
of ingredients that would work in the body a different way."
Let's also keep in mind that almost all of the studies done with saw
palmetto extracts have used the European trademarked product Permixon (a hexane
extract), or Strogen (a carbon dioxide extract). The saw palmetto products
that you buy over the counter may have liposterolic extracts that are
similar to these trademarked products, or perhaps slightly different. If the
contents of over-the-counter saw palmetto products are different, they may have more active ingredients, or fewer active ingredients. Unfortunately, these are
some of the uncertainties we have to deal with when using plant extracts
that are not fully standardized. Herbal medicine is not yet a pure science.


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Life in Christian County, Kentucky... More About Trees and Plants... More About Birds and Animals...
It was such a surprise yesterday morning to look out my kitchen window into the pyracantha bushes and see them full of cedar waxwings.
I don't think I had ever seen cedar waxwings before except in photos. I had to get out the bird field guides to be sure that I was identifying them correctly.
It would be hard to make a false identification of these handsome little birds because they are so distinctive in appearance. One very noticeable thing is their extremely sleek feathers. The little hairs on each feather must be fine and smooth as silk.
Then there's those black "Lone-Ranger" masks and the little crests on top of their heads. These are most evident when you see the cedar waxwing in profile.
And when you see the waxwing from the back (when he's sitting), you will notice two bright red spots on his back that are actually the tips of his folded wings, and a bright yellow band on the very end of his tail. These red and yellow markings are visible on one of the birds in the photo below.
One of my bird books explained that they are called "waxwings" because the red spots on their wingtips reminded people of the red sealing wax they used to close an envelope, many years ago when the birds of America were getting their English names. "Cedar" in their names refers to their fondness for cedar berries.
There are at least 25 birds in this little flock. They may be making their way back north or perhaps they over-wintered here.
They must have been happy to find last fall's abundant crop of pyracantha berries still hanging on the big bushes along our house. The berries were bright red through most of the winter, but they've lost their bright color now after many freezes and thaws.
I have read that the juice in pyracantha berries sometimes ferments, and it can make the waxwings drunk. Then they don't fly well. Sometimes they even die if they eat too many. I hope our berries aren't fermented, but I think it's quite possible that some are!
When the waxwings decide to have a snack, they pick and swallow the berries very rapidly. One busy little bird that I watched today was dropping at least one berry out of every four he picked. If times were hard, I suppose he might look for them on the ground, but right now, there are a great plenty of berries.
When the waxwings returned to feast again today, I decided to try to photograph them. These photos were taken through my kitchen window. I removed the screen from the window, but the dirt on the outside of the window probably didn't help the clarity of the pictures. I cropped the best parts of some photos to get the images in this post.
I had trouble with reflection on the glass. Part of the problem was that the window is over my kitchen sink, and it's hard to get close to the glass with the camera. The camera wanted to flash. Surprisingly, this didn't seem to bother the birds, though they could be startled by movements when they weren't too busy eating to notice.
All of this provided much entertainment to me today. But if you want to see some good photographs of cedar waxwings, I recommend the New Hampshire Public Television page, "NatureWorks - Cedar Waxwing." It has some interesting information about cedar waxwings as well as great pictures.
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Two Oregon dairies fined for water discharge violations in Tillamook Watershed
Release Date: 07/09/2012
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Dila Dairy and River End Dairy, LLC, located in Nehalem, were found to be discharging in violation of the Clean Water Act's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and the Oregon Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation permit.
The inspections were part of routine monitoring of the Tillamook Watershed, which drains to Tillamook Bay. EPA's National Estuary Program includes Tillamook Bay.
According to Ed Kowalski, EPA Director of Compliance and Enforcement in Seattle, EPA's working partnership with the Oregon Department of Agriculture means better compliance and monitoring of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations.
"Our partnership with the Oregon Department of Agriculture has meant better water quality protection for Tillamook Bay," said Kowalski. "Producers need to manage waste and runoff properly and meet all permit requirements to protect water quality."
River End Dairy was found to be discharging wastewater in violation of their NPDES permit from the Main Barn to the Nehalem River. EPA subsequently signed a settlement with River End Dairy that included a $6,300 penalty.
Dila Dairy was also found to be discharging to the Nehalem River in violation of its NPDES Permit from several locations, including discharges from a dry storage area and two barns. Dila Dairy's infractions were resolved after they signed a settlement with EPA and paid a $10,000 penalty
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