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What did you have to say for these tax advocated to expedite the process, mine seemed worthless? I can't afford to wait up to 12 weeks I will be screwed and close on the 19th.
8-12 weeks does seem excessive. Normally the turn around time for mail in returns is 4-6 weeks. I called the toll free number for the Tax Advocates and spoke to a representative that took my information down and said a local rep would call within 3-5 days. The local rep called the next day and I told him that I had already mailed in my return but needed to make sure the transcript would be available for a mortgage approval that was due to close on the 19th. The rep asked me to send him an exact copy of what we sent and he would expedite for us so that we can have the transcripts before we are due to close. He also asked me to include a letter explaining our situation and the escrow closing date. The other return that we sent last month would just be considered a duplicate. I just called him today to see if he said he just received them today. We're crossing our fingers that the transcript is available soon.
Wow well you are in the exact same deal down to the day. I will call the toll free number and try to get someone else to help. Hopefully this works out for both of us since the 19th is coming soon and I really can't afford to have this fall through on me.
Dang, guys... same boat here, just I'm scheduled for the 14th, but putting in an extension for the 23rd. LO wants to close this year to keep rate locked (is this true?). Have everything else the UW has asked for... submitted 39 total pages of letters/canceled checks etc. Everything hinges on this really.
I called the advocate on Friday and they called me back this morning. Not quite next business day. They took it on, but said they would have my case manager call on Friday and I needed to be by the phone like I couldn't call them back. Today is Tuesday so I'm wondering what happens between now and Friday, if anything. She sounded encouraging and made me send her a faxed return so she could expadite it. What that means, we'll find out. I guess like you said this is basically them submitting the return separately and just trying to rush it through the process from start to finish. Whichever return goes through first kind of thing?
8-12 weeks or whatever is a number I havent heard from anyone... Have heard 5-7 weeks from IRS when I called to check on my payment, have heard 6 weeks from my accountant/lawyer and as soon as 4 weeks from my realtor's wife (accountant). Has anyone actually had success with this? vlaw?
We've came this far, it's gotta happen!
RKB -- I was a little dramatic on the phone. Told her I could be out of a house for my family with no place to live if this doesn't go through. I work in sales, she seemed concerned. Anyway, I guess they have to pick and choose their cases and you being distressed is a factor for them. At first it seemed like she was fishing for something to write down on a form for a reason they should take it on.
If any of you get your transcript through sooner, please post and let us know... I'm wa-wai-waitin!
Well I called the Tax Advocacy again and got someone worth a damn to assign me a case. I won't get the call until tomorrow and they said they won't guarantee by the 19th to have it done. So I will have to get an extension for closing now, if they even will. The Loan officer did say to send him a cancelled check from the IRS payment and bank statement showing I paid it, I guess as another form of proof I filed? I sent that and haven't heard anything yet, maybe that will work I hope.
I just have a feeling I when closing day comes, I will have a voided contract and have lost my earnest money and they inspection costs for nothing..it sucks.
Hang in there. I didn't get any guarantees either, but I didn't expect it. I just asked them to try and it seems like things are progressing. On Monday I checked the "where's my refund" link from the IRS website and it didn't show that my returns were received by the IRS yet. On Tuesday I spoke with my assigned advocate and he said he was submitting the return duplicate I sent him that day. Today, I just checked the IRS website again and it shows my return has been accepted by the IRS and is processing. The website also gave a date of when I should receive my refund of January 15th. The tax advocate told me this is the outside estimated date as refund and transcript can be available sooner. I'm tending towards optimism here because when I mailed in my 2010 tax return, I received my refund in just under 30 days, and that was without a tax advocate.
Just got my tax refund direct deposited to my checking account this morning! I am assuming that since the refund has been sent, the transcript should now available? We're looking good to close on time (fingers crossed).
I got a notice for the rest of the amount owed from the IRS Saturday, talked to the tax advocate today he said this should mean it is processed and they can get the transcript now. The loan officer said USDA can't give final approval until they get this, so he is reqesting another 4056-T right now. Suppose to close Wednesday, and don't know how long that request takes. Just hoping they can get it and I can get this nightmare over with! This whole process is just crap, there has to be some kind of way to streamline it and make it better, it feels like they wait until the absolute last minute to do things before closing.

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Even when I was a fairly young child myself, I wondered how people could stand having children. Though my repugnance underwent several mutations over the years from childhood to young adulthood, it remained essentially fixed. At first it stemmed from a fundamental pessimism about life in this world, a consciousness that life is hard for human beings. This was undoubtedly related to the difficulties my nearest-in-age and disabled sister endured while we were children together. These made me wonder why people would bring innocent beings into the world to suffer its regular disappointments and worse. Childrearing also seemed a truly high-wire business: So much could go wrong. Why risk it?
Only slightly later, as an adolescent and young adult under feminist influence, I began to question why adults, women in particular — with the whole world potentially at their feet — would forego the opportunity to do really interesting things in order, for example, to hang out at the pool every day in the summer, or to cook and clean up after meals, day in and day out. I was pretty well known in my extended family and among my friends for my distaste for the whole business of parenting. I once "famously" told my mother (after discovering some of her impressive college accomplishments) that she
"could have been something." My second-oldest nephew had a little singsong when he was a toddler that went: "Mommy loves me, Daddy loves me, Aunt Helen doesn't love me…."
Today, however, I stand before you a woman convinced that children made me, in the sense of rendering me the halfway decent person I can claim to be. I also know that without them, I would be bored to tears by life in this world. They make me laugh every day and give me 100 reasons to be interested in the goings-on in the world around me. Without them, I am fairly sure that even given my multiple statuses of wife, daughter, sister, friend, and professor, I would have devolved into an even more selfish person than I am. I would also, undoubtedly, be even less patient. Instead, I have learned to grit my teeth and sit through board games, hours of basic math review, and sundry insipid kids' movies without losing my (freaking) mind. I can spend the vast majority of my income on things like kids' schooling, food, clothing, and transportation, and drive a seventeen-year-old truck and a seven-year-old van, and not only remain firm in the conclusion that my priorities are rightly ordered, but like the way I live. I can cry about and pray over the losses and reversals of friends and neighbors because I have learned to enter more genuinely into the sufferings of people other than my own little self. And I can see qualities in my husband — unselfishness, determination, wise planning — I would not likely otherwise have seen. Having boys in particular has helped this feminist grasp the charms of males qua males. (A friend and I recently laughed to discover that we had both told our husbands how much we had learned to love about men by raising sons, and how useful it would have been to have raised the boys first, and then met their fathers.)
I don't mean to imply that children are some sort of utilitarian means to the end of ensuring that I do not go to hell. I believe they may just do that, although I swear I didn't know about their salvific qualities before I had them. But it's true, and I don't think its harmful in any way to tell you that they are indeed a boon to their parents' struggle for goodness, for holiness even, and for learning to put up with other human beings who — amazingly enough — are someone's children too.
My journey from "Aunt Helen doesn't love me" to "children made me" is likely unique, as will be your journey. But it is also quite possible that my journey and yours have common moments too. We are swimming in the same American cultural and economic soup, with some of the same messages coming at us about the meaning of maternity, the contents of the good life, and the practical work involved in rearing children. How could we not worry about one or two of the same things? Further, my conversations with young women and with mothers around the country over the last twenty years have confirmed this intuition.
Helen M. Alvaré is a law professor at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, where she teaches and writes in the areas of family law, and law and religion.
This is an excerpt from "Breaking Through: Catholic Women Speak for Themselves." Read the rest of Helen Alvaré's story as well as the stories of eight other Catholic women who have asked the hard questions.
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Navy Cmdr. Edward G. "Wendy" Wendorf was flying his first combat mission as a Navy ensign in December 1943 when Japanese forces in the Marshall Islands fired hundreds of bullets at his F6F Hellcat.
He shot down four Japanese planes before an enemy slug struck his left temple. With one hand covering his bleeding left eye, Cmdr. Wendorf flew 45 minutes back to the carrier Lexington, where he successfully landed on deck without the help of his radio, tail hook, flaps or brakes – all of which had been disabled by anti-aircraft fire.
"It was a classic example of American 'can-do' attitude," said friend Phil Schasker, a vice president of the American Fighter Aces Association.
Cmdr. Wendorf died at Sharp Grossmont Hospital Feb. 10. He was 90. The cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest, said his son, Kit Wendorf.
Navy personnel counted 220 bullet holes in Cmdr. Wendorf's Hellcat, which they later used as a tool in the marketing of war bonds.
Just hours after Cmdr. Wendorf's heroic return to the Lexington, a Japanese torpedo struck the ship just below the sick bay where he was recovering from his injuries. A friend pulled him out of the flooding sick bay compartment — a violation of standard procedure that nonetheless saved Cmdr. Wendorf's life, Kit Wendorf said.
After his wound healed, Cmdr. Wendorf returned to duty, serving seven more months in the Pacific Theater. He shot down two more Japanese aircraft during that time, qualifying him as an "ace" pilot with six confirmed aerial victories.
"He didn't feel like he was a big shot or anything," Schasker said. "He just told the truth and was grateful that he had the opportunity and survived. He was a great all-American guy."
Cmdr. Wendorf continued his service with the Navy until 1966. During his 24 years in the military, he taught at the Navy's aviation school in Pensacola, Fla., was a staff member at the military's Chief of Naval Air Training, and served as executive officer of the VU-3 utility squadron and a transport pilot in the Military Air Transport System.
His decorations included a Distinguished Flying Cross with two Gold Stars, an Air Medal with 11 Gold Stars, a Purple Heart and the Presidential Unit Citation.
"He was a very good fighter pilot," said fellow ace Cmdr. Bill Hardy.
Following his military career, Cmdr. Wendorf worked for 10 years as a manager at Ryan Aeronautical Co., where he worked on the Firebee and Superfirebee drones. He worked another 10 years in the Convair division at General Dynamics Corp., managing logistics for the Cruise missile program.
After retiring from his civilian career in 1987, Cmdr. Wendorf was active in the American Fighter Aces Association. He also volunteered as a docent at the USS Midway Museum, sharing his war stories with curious visitors every week.
"People just loved to hear it," said docent coordinator Jim Nash. "He was a very pleasant, very down-to-earth guy."
He was also the only ace on the museum's staff, Nash said.
Cmdr. Wendorf was born in West, Texas, on Feb. 22, 1922. The University of Texas recruited him with a football scholarship, but he left after two years to join the Navy.
Cmdr. Wendorf is survived by his second wife, Jan, of San Diego. He is also survived by his children from his marriage with the late Marjorie Wendorf: Dee Winn, Mark Wendorf and Kit Wendorf, all of Encinitas; and six grandchildren.
A memorial service is planned for March 11. Cmdr. Wendorf's remains will be interred at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to any charity in Cmdr. Wendorf's memory.


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Sixty Reasons Six Million Did Not DieHere are a few of the reasons why most grown-ups know the so-called "Holocaust" is an outrageous hoax, a colossal fraud and a malicious libel that defames the memory of those who really did die. We'll examine some of these facts in detail below. More people died on the back seat of Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than in any "gas chambers" throughout WWII.
(1) Insufficient time to cremate more than 400,000 bodies at Auschwitz-Birkenau, when Hoaxers claim more than a million were murdered there (after abandoning their claim of "four million" in the 1990s!).
(2) Insufficient fuel to cremate more than 100,000 bodies at Auschwitz-Birkenau, when Hoaxers allege more than a million were murdered there.
(3) Insufficient firebrick durability to cremate more than 108,000 bodies at Auschwitz-Birkenau, when Hoaxers contend more than a million were murdered there.
(4) Hoaxer claims about improving cremator performance by stuffing multiple bodies into each muffle are refuted by the performance of modern animal cremators and incinerators.
(5) Auschwitz death books record only 68,864 dead, of whom 29,125 were Jews and 31,814 were Roman Catholics.
(6) Auschwitz death books included the young and old who were supposedly routinely gassed upon arrival, thereby demolishing Hoaxer claims that the books were faked by excluding "gassings" as part of a "cover-up" "conspiracy".
(7) Forensic tests conducted on the walls of the alleged "gas chambers" found zero or trace levels of stable cyanide compounds that averaged less than one-thousandth of the corresponding levels for the delousing chambers that were used to save human lives by exterminating typhus-bearing lice.
(8) Hoaxers were so worried about the forensic evidence refuting their allegations that the Polish government commissioned a pseudo-scientific 'study' that manipulated its methodology so as to detect only unstable cyanide compounds, in a politically motivated bid to fix its result so that cyanide levels for delousing chambers were nearly down to those of the alleged "gas chambers".
(9) The absurdity of mass murder conducted by having to drag out 2,000 cyanide-contaminated corpses from an underground "gas chamber", load them onto a 300 kg payload goods elevator that could take only five at a time (say loading, unloading and returning the elevator takes just 4 minutes; then 4 x 2,000 / (5 x 60) = 26.7 hours), and having the 2,000 piled up outside or in the oven room without raising suspicions of the next batch who think they are going to take a shower.
(10) Hoaxers' attempt to rationalize the lack of cyanide in "gas chambers" by citing hosing of walls backfires on them, since "witness" Tauber said only the floors were washed, Nyszili said the bodies were washed, and Bennahmias said the walls were whitewashed with a quick-drying paint after each "gassing". If the first two were telling the truth, the increased humidity would be more conducive to Iron Blue formation. If the walls were whitewashed after each "gassing", the HCN would be locked inside after having penetrated the wall, and cyanide compounds would be found across the interior as in the delousing chambers, yet they are not. Even if the witnesses lied and the walls were hosed, the HCN would have penetrated inside and evidence of it would be apparent.
(11) Hoaxers' attempt to rationalize the lack of cyanide in "gas chambers" by claiming it takes much more HCN to kill insects than humans backfires on them, by the sheer absurdity of the "Nazis" using 99.9% of their Zyklon B to save their prisoners' lives whilst using the remaining 0.1% to murder them (or actually 99.99% and 0.01%, after allowing for the cool, moist, cement / concrete walls of the alleged "gas chambers" being more conducive to formation of Iron Blue).
(12) Topsoil at Treblinka was not disturbed in any extent commensurate with 870,000 corpses buried and exhumed.
(13) It would have taken until September 1994 for the 25 woodcutters at Treblinka to chop, saw and gather sufficient wood to cremate 870,000 bodies, or alternatively, they would need to be capable of attaining a productivity rate 88 times higher than well-fed and well-equipped Italian woodcutters in peacetime.
(14) The impossibility and absurdity of murdering nearly two million Jews by up to 32 minutes of exposure to diesel exhaust with more than 10% oxygen and up to 0.2% CO.
(15) The absurdity of building "death camps" such as Treblinka without any purpose-built crematoria.
(16) The absurdity of a "death camp" such as Auschwitz having a hospital, where Anne Frank was treated for scabies, and the contradiction of routine "gassings" for the sick at Auschwitz whilst Frank was sent to Bergen-Belsen, where she died - not at the hands of any fiendish "Nazis", but from typhus.
(17) The gas bottle at Majdanek with the inscription "1 kg CO2" that was claimed as carbon monoxide - or even "carbon oxide" (!) - by the storytellers.
(18) The absurdity of Himmler becoming so worried in late February or early March of 1943 that the Allies might discover millions of alleged buried corpses in Russia and Poland, including nearly 900,000 Jews at Treblinka, that he panicked and issued an order to exhume and cremate all the bodies as part of a massive cover-up, with the same Heinrich Himmler going on to talk openly about exterminating the Jews in a "secret" speech - and having it recorded so that it could be used as evidence against him (!) - at Posen later that year, on 4 October, 1943.
(19) The impossibility of 2,955 Einsatzgruppen - including the clerks - identifying and selecting 2 to 3 million Jews in a war zone out of an enemy population of tens of millions (by using callipers to measure their noses, or asking to see if they were circumcised?), shooting all those Jews without being killed themselves, and then eliminating millions of corpses without Allied aircrew seeing the flames and smoke from open-air cremations.
(20) The contradictory juxtaposition of 'honest' witnesses with so many 'witnesses' who are proven liars, e.g., it was "real in their mind", they repeatedly swallowed and defecated diamonds for two years, they were "raised by wolves", skin turned "blue" when Jews supposedly died from CO or cyanide poisoning, etc..
(21) The non-mention of "gassings" in encrypted communications and private diaries.
(22) The lack of any "Hitler order", or any budget, blueprint or central office for an "extermination" program.
(23) The impossibility of communicating a system of "code words" and "euphemisms" by telepathy or semaphore for "covering up" genocide that could be followed religiously, without a single blunder.
(24) The improbability that no German would take a photograph of a "gas chamber", and the impossibility of communicating an order not to do so by telepathy or semaphore.
(25) The improbability that the Germans would be able to instantly cremate all "gassed" victims whilst leaving victims of natural deaths piled up outside, so that Allied doctors conducting autopsies would never find evidence of death by poison gas, and the impossibility of ordering such a "cover-up" by telepathy or semaphore.
(26) The absurdity of the claim by Charles Bendel, a Jewish "medical doctor", that "German methods" would allow 1,000 people to fit into a "gas chamber" of 10 m x 4 m x 1.6 m = 64 cubic meters = 64 liters per person, which is a packing density of 55 / 64 = 0.859 if the average person weighed only 55 kg and had a density equal to that of water.
(27) The attempt to mislead by producing a fraudulent documentary in which a young redhead goes to Treblinka and becomes tearful, after pretending to think a cemetery with forty bone fragments is a mass grave and a pierced mullet star brand mark of a porcelain factory is a "Star of David".
(28) The requirement for the Soviets to construct a "gas chamber" at Auschwitz I after the war, in order to sell the legend to unsuspecting tourists.
(29) Lies about "death camps" in Germany proper, and the requirement to fall back on the claim that the "death camps" 'coincidentally' just happened to be situated behind the Iron Curtain, where Stalin and Beria had control of who was allowed to look at the 'evidence'.
(30) After the claim of a "gas chamber" at Dachau was shown to be a lie, the attempted cover-up by pretending that the Germans had been attempting to build the "gas chamber" for three years, but never completed the project even though "work was going on at a high speed".
(31) The impossibility of utilizing mortuary 1 of Krema II (allegedly responsible for most of the Auschwitz-Birkenau "gassings") as a "gas chamber", when there were no input holes in the ceiling for the introduction of Zyklon B at the time that the "gassings" were supposedly taking place.
(32) The absurdity of building a "gas chamber" for mass murder with flimsy wooden doors that opened to the inside, where bodies would be piled up.
(33) The absurdity of converting an underground morgue into a "gas chamber" by chiseling out square holes for the introduction of Zyklon B granules.
(34) Lies about mass murder by quicklime / vacuum chambers / steam chambers / a "building where the floor was electrified in a special way" / pedal-operated brain-bashing machines / masturbation machines / atomic devices for vaporizing 20,000 Jews / Jew-eating bear and Jew-pecking eagle / being made to climb trees that would be chopped down / being pushed off cliffs, etc..
(35) Lies about Jews being made into soap, knife cases, light switches, lampshades, shrunken heads, saddles, riding breeches, gloves, house slippers, ladies' handbags, and book-binders.
(36) Lies about flames shooting out of the crematory chimneys.
(37) The requirement for Hoaxers such as Raul Hilberg to spend a lifetime trawling through documents in the hope of finding something that could be deliberately misinterpreted as 'evidence' for extermination, and then not being able to come up with anything more incriminating than verbs such as "ausrotten".
(38) Hitler's remark of November 10, 1938, about needing to "annihilate" the class of German intellectuals, Himmler's statement (as quoted by his masseur, Felix Kersten, in a diary entry dated December 12, 1940) that Hitler wanted to "wipe out the Jews", and Himmler's statement of April 18, 1941 (according to Kersten) that "The Jews must be annihilated by the end of the war" - before Hoaxers contend any decision had been made to "exterminate" the Jews.
(39) The requirement to have dozens of "Holocaust museums" around the world to sell the story.
(40) There's no business like Shoah business.
(41) Lying about "six million" dead, fictitious "gas chambers" and about most or all Jews being of Semitic origin - when nearly all are from the Caucasus as proved by Elhaik (2012) - is a price worth paying for being handed your own sovereign state and 8,000 square miles of land, when your religion tells you that you are "God's Chosen People" and its Talmudist 'ethics' encourages lying, cheating, thieving, raping and killing, provided the "goyim" (non-Jews) are the victims. Christians - or even atheists brought up in a Christian White European culture - are particularly susceptible to falling for the Hoax, since their ethics is the polar opposite of the Talmudists. They find it hard to believe that "witnesses" would lie about an event of such importance, and so they tend to take the "witnesses" at face value and to ignore the material facts.
(42) The requirement for Hollywood and the mass media to devote a vast amount of coverage to the "Holocaust", Hitler and the "Nazis", whilst having very little to say about Mao Zedong and Stalin, whom even Hoaxers concede killed more than Hitler.
(43) Relentless whining and moaning about being hard done by, and extorting massive reparations, is inconsistent with the actions of people who have truly suffered great losses, yet is consistent with lying shysters who fabricated a hoax for political and business purposes.
(44) 'Confessions' obtained by crushing testicles, breaking jaws, tearing out fingernails, beating with clubs and brass knuckles, etc., along with a desire to protect one's family from reprisals.
(45) The Jewish "German" communist Bruno Baum admitted to being one of the main fabricators of propaganda at the Auschwitz camp. He said, "It is no exaggeration when I say that the majority of all Auschwitz propaganda, which was spread at that time all over the world, was written by ourselves in the camp. [...] We carried out this propaganda in [for] the world public until our very last day of presence in Auschwitz."
(46) Dr. Arno J. Mayer, a Jewish "historian", tried to explain away the absence of evidence by stating, "Sources for the study of the gas chambers are at once rare and unreliable. Even though Hitler and the Nazis made no secret of their war on the Jews, the SS operatives dutifully eliminated all traces of their murderous activities and instruments. No written orders for gassing have turned up thus far. The SS not only destroyed most camp records, which were in any case incomplete, but also razed nearly all killing and crematory installations well before the arrival of Soviet troops. Likewise, care was taken to dispose of the bones and ashes of the victims."
(47) Simone Veil, a Jewish "French" politician who survived the Auschwitz "factory of death", tried to explain away the absence of evidence by stating, "Yet everyone knows that the Nazis destroyed these gas chambers and systematically eradicated all the witnesses."
(48) There is a contradiction between systematically eradicating all the witnesses and releasing 20,000 inmates from Majdanek, who would be witnesses to the cruelty if it were a "death camp".
(49) Mainstream sources recognize that Simon Wiesenthal was a "liar and a fraud", who lied about nearly everything in his life. He had numerous contradictory versions of his wartime exploits, which are so far fetched that they are virtually a benchmark test of gullibility.
(50) A previous claim by Jews - in their Babylonian Talmud - that "four billion - or as some say, forty million" - Jews were exterminated by the Romans at Bethar, and there was so much blood, it was up to the horses' nostrils, and it was enough to move stones the size of 40 se'ah (293 liters) and to flow into the sea for a distance of four miles.
(51) Hitler's true policy - of expelling the Jews from Germany - was entirely consistent with previous expulsions of Jews from more than 100 locations throughout history, when the host population threw out Jews after becoming aware of their subversive nature and their destructive effect on the host nation's culture and civilization. There has never been any singling out of Jews for "extermination", which is why their population remains around 15 million today.
(52) Rabbi Stephen Wise's statement of June 10, 1900, as reported in the Jewish-owned New York Times the next day, "There are 6,000,000 living, bleeding, suffering arguments in favor of Zionism", at a Federation of American Zionists meeting at Cooper Union in Manhattan.
(53) The 'prediction' by Joseph Seff, President of the Federation of Ukrainian Jews in America, as reported in The New York Times of September 8, 1919, of "This fact that the population of 6,000,000 souls in Ukrainia and in Poland have received notice through action and by word that they are going to be completely exterminated".
(54) The 'prediction' by Jews, as reported in The New York Times of July 20, 1921, that "Russia's 6,000,000 Jews are facing extermination by massacre".
(55) Rabbi Wise's claim, reported in The New York Times of April 18, 1938, that "millions of Jews are dying today".
(56) The allegation by "spokesmen" for Rabbi Wise's World Jewish Congress, as reported in The New York Times of June 30, 1942, that Jews "were being shot by firing squads at the rate of 1,000 daily" and "1,000,000" had already been "slain by Nazis".
(57) Soviet Jewish communist Ilya Ehrenburg's announcement in Soviet War News as early as December 22, 1944, months in advance of the war's end, that the Germans had "annihilated six millioninnocent people", together with claims prior to that by other Jews that "close to six million" Jews had been killed.
(58) The failure of the "six million" headline claim to be revised accordingly in the 1990s when the alleged Auschwitz death toll was revised downwards from four million to between one million and one-and-a-half million.
(59) The admission by honest Jews such as Gerard Menuhin (son of violinist Yehudi), Paul Eisen, Roger Dommergue, David Cole and Joseph G. Burg that the Holocaust tale is false.
(60) The requirement to prop up the official narrative by blowing up and killing François Duprat and crippling his wife, kicking in Prof. Robert Faurisson's face, attempting to murder Ernst Zundel byburning down his house and sending a pipe bomb in the post, threatening and beating up David Cole and other revisionists, ordering the blocking of certain websites in Hungary, making criticism of the "Holocaust" narrative an imprisonable offense in most European countries and even detaining and extraditing Germans from Canada and the US for criticising the fable, sentencing an 87-year-old grandmother to jail several times for saying she did not believe Auschwitz was a "death camp", and even jailing defense lawyers for defending their revisionist clients too well. Truth needs no laws to protect it.
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President Barack Obama is moving forward in his attempt to tackle immigration reform just days after he announced his plans on the issue.
Obama on Tuesday is meeting with labor and business leaders at the White House to "discuss his commitment to getting a bipartisan bill passed in 2013, and how immigration reform fits within his broader agenda for economic growth and competitiveness," read a White House statement.
The meeting comes as a group of about six House members, equally divided between Democrats and Republicans, is nearing completion of wide-ranging immigration legislation. The legislation, similar to proposals by the Senate and Obama, include a pathway to legalization for undocumented residents in the country. The House intends to unveil the legislation at around the time of Obama's State of the Union address Feb. 12, according to lawmakers and aides involved.
The proposal is likely to face strong resistance from many of the conservative Republicans who dominate the House.
But group members and others say that, despite the discomfort of many House Republicans with any effort to adjust the status of undocumented immigrants', they see glimmers of hope for passage of some kind of immigration package during this session of Congress.
"I've felt a huge sea change, believe it or not, from both parties," said Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., a member of the group.
"There are some who will criticize anything no matter what it is as amnesty. There are even some who will label anything as amnesty without even reading a bill or seeing a bill. It's their right to do so. But I think the majority of Republicans and the majority of Democrats want to get something done, want to fix it."
The group has been meeting in secret off and on for years in various permutations, beginning around the time of the last serious effort on immigration in Congress in 2007, which failed in the Senate. They've drafted legislative language in the past but without ever introducing a bill.
They've largely kept their efforts quiet in part to shield members from the likely political blow back from conservatives were their efforts to become public, an aide said.
Indeed, the loudest voices from House Republicans decry any efforts aimed at the legal status issue.
"We've been down this road before with politicians promising to enforce the law in return for amnesty. ... The American people should not be fooled," Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said this week after Obama and a bipartisan Senate group released proposals promising stronger border controls, a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, smoother legal immigration and tougher enforcement against employers hiring illegal immigrants.
For many House Republicans, supporting immigration legislation that gives a pathway to citizenship carries substantial political risks, since it's a position that would have to be defended to conservative voters come election time.
But polls show Americans increasingly supportive of the approach at the same time many GOP leaders believe that the party should confront the immigration issue or risk continued losses in national elections. Obama won an overwhelming majority of Latino and Asian voters in November, which helped seal his victory.
Democratic group members are Reps. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois and Zoe Lofgren and Xavier Becerra of California. The Republicans are Diaz-Balart and Sam Johnson and John Carter of Texas.
"I am optimistic that there are new voices in the Republican Party that want to get this done in the House of Representatives," Gutierrez said.
The House Judiciary Committee is to begin hearings next week, and Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said much work lies ahead before it will become clear what kind of immigration law changes the House might be able to support.
"I feel confident the House will pass immigration reform legislation, but whether it's individual pieces or something that fits together in a more comprehensive whole" remains to be seen, Goodlatte said Wednesday.
Last week, a bipartisan group of eight leading senators — including Marco Rubio of Florida and New Jersey's Robert Menendez —reached a tentative deal on a systematic overhaul of the country's immigration system.
The agreement covers border security, guest workers, employer verification and a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants already in this country.
Several of these lawmakers have worked for years on the issue. McCain collaborated with the late Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on a major reform bill pushed by then-President George W. Bush in 2007, only to see it collapse in the Senate when it couldn't get enough GOP support.
Now, with some Republicans chastened by the November elections which demonstrated the importance of Latino voters and their increasing commitment to Democrats, some in the GOP say this time will be different.
The group claims a notable newcomer in Rubio, a potential 2016 presidential candidate whose conservative chops may help smooth the way for support among conservatives wary of anything that smacks of amnesty. In an opinion piece published Sunday in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Rubio wrote that the existing system amounts to "de facto amnesty," and he called for "commonsense reform."
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of Sunni protesters blocked a major highway in western Iraq on Friday, as an al-Qaida-affiliated group called on Sunnis to take up arms against the Shiite-led government.
The rally comes at a time of mounting sectarian tensions in Iraq. Minority Sunnis complain of official discrimination against them, and the arrests of bodyguards of a senior Sunni politician in December have sparked weekly demonstrations.
The main rallies Friday took place in Fallujah and Ramadi, cities that straddle the highway running through Anbar province. The province was a former al-Qaida stronghold that saw some of the fiercest fighting against U.S. forces during the Iraq war.
Protesters also marched in the capital Baghdad and in the central city of Samarra. Friday's turnout appeared to be among the largest since the protests began in December.
In Fallujah and Ramadi, demonstrators performed Muslim noon prayers, the highlight of the religious week, on the highway, which links Iraq with Jordan.
Last week, five protesters and two Iraqi soldiers were killed in clashes in Fallujah, and demonstrators held up pictures of the dead on Friday.
Sunni cleric Abdul-Hameed Jadoua told the crowd that "the blood of the martyrs was shed so that the dignity of our Iraq and our tribes will be restored."
He demanded that soldiers be put on trial for killing protesters and said the army must stay out of the area. "From this place, we tell the government that we do not want to see a soldier from now on, not only in Fallujah, but in all its suburbs and (surrounding) villages," he said.
The cleric appeared to be rebuffing a call to arms. "I tell the young people that we do appreciate your zeal ... but you should be disciplined and adhere to the directives of the clerics and tribal leaders so that we act in a reasonable way," he said.
Al-Qaida has expressed support for the protests. On Friday, an al-Qaida-affiliated group, the Islamic State of Iraq, called on Sunnis to resort to violence against the government.
Sunnis can either bow to Shiites or take up arms and restore "dignity and freedom," said spokesman Mohammed al-Adnani in an audio statement posted on the group's website.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has suggested that al-Qaida and members of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime are involved in the demonstrations.
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Humaim said organizers also asked demonstrators not to raise Saddam-era national flags. Under Saddam, toppled by the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, Sunnis enjoyed special privileges while Kurds and Shiites were often persecuted.
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Many of the demonstrators link their cause to the broader Arab Spring uprisings and are calling for the ouster of the government.
Al-Maliki has released hundreds of detainees in a concession to the protesters. On Thursday, the prime minister was quoted as saying he would address what he described as "legitimate demands." He said a committee dealing with these issues has made progress.
Humaim, the Ramadi organizer, accused the government of dragging its feet.
"We will go back to our homes only when there are real reforms and real change in Iraq," he said. "More delays by the government means more demands by the people."
With sectarian tensions mounting, an Associated Press tally showed that 178 people were killed in attacks by Sunni insurgents and in other Iraq violence in January.
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Lady Gaga makes a grand entrance at the 2011 Grammy Awards held at the Staples Center on Sunday (February 13) in Los Angeles.
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It has been four years now since the standardization of the Base Object Model (BOM) within SISO. Over the past four years a SISO Product Support Group (PSG) has supported and analyzed how BOMs have been used to support conceptual modeling and object modeling for Modeling and Simulation (M&S) and System Engineering projects. While, the BOM standard has very effective, there are some areas of improvement that have been identified. The result is a new experimental schema to consider for future BOM Product revision.
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Base Object Model (BOM) Introduction
The Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) focuses on facilitating simulation
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to explore methods that support and promote reuse of simulation components and encourage agile, rapid,
and efficient development and maintenance of models.
Base Object Models (BOMs) provide a key mechanism in facilitating interoperability, reuse, and
composability. BOMs are specifically identified in the IEEE 1516.3 HLA Federation Development and
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rapid construction and modification of federates and federations. The open standardization of BOM
representations is considered essential for encouraging their development, distribution and use.
The BOM concept is based on the assumption that piece-parts of simulations and federations can be
extracted and reused as modeling building-blocks or components. The interplay within a simulation or
federation can be captured and characterized in the form of reusable patterns. These patterns of simulation
interplay are sequences of events between simulation elements. The implementation of the pattern using
HLA object model constructs is also captured in the BOM.
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expanding in many arenas and disciplines including military and homeland defense, education,
manufacturing, medical, logistics, aviation, environmental science and more. SISO seeks to promote
interoperability and reuse within the M&S community, and explore ways to enable composability for these
arenas and disciplines. BOMs serve to address the operational and technical needs in these areas,
especially in regards to composabilty.
Typically, the development and deployment of simulations and mission space environments requires a
significant amount of time, effort and collaboration. This might be permissible if it was an occasional thing,
but it is not. From a DoD context, simulation is an important aspect of training, testing, mission rehearsal,
and prototyping. It has become pervasive, and it is not isolated to just the Navy, or the Army, or the Air
Force. Today a distributed simulation exercise may often be at a joint level, where combined assets have
been assembled with the intent to model and test them in a large mission space environment.
Some current technology enablers include the following:
Despite these enablers, one of the things that still encumbers the M&S community at large is that the task in
building and putting together simulation and simulation environments, which must conform to common
agreed upon message interfaces, remains an arduous task. That is, it takes a long time, a great deal of
effort, and a lot of collaboration. What is required is a composability infrastructure that encourages the
development and reuse, across the entire community, of components that are matched to the needs of the
desired simulation or simulation space. The BOM standard is seen as a key enabler for supporting
Effect of BOMs
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The LG Nexus has to be one of the worst kept secrets in smartphone history. New images of the device have surfaced thanks to Belarusian tech blog Onliner. As most respectable tech blogs would, the Onliner has done an amazing job of documenting the LG Nexus from every angle imaginable and even took the time to show it off next to Apple's iPhone 5. We're sure you guys would love to see a head-to-head LG Nexus versus the iPhone 5 showdown, but we'll be waiting until the device is officially unveiled before we start comparing it to the competition.
The device, labeled as the LG E960, is equipped with a quad-core Snapdragon S4 processor, 2GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage, 8 megapixel rear camera and a 4.7-inch 1280×768 display. Like previous sightings of the LG Nexus, the device is running on Android 4.1.2, but there's always a chance that it will receive a software update to Android 4.2 before the expected October 29 announcement.
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Demetrious Johnson defends his UFC flyweight title for the the third time this weekend against the guy he beat to win it, Joseph Benavidez.
Their first meeting back at UFC 152, was a closely contested affair with Johnson victorious on points.
Since then Benavidez has been on a tear back to title contention, beating Ian McCall, Darren Uyenoyama and Jussier Formiga to regain his place as number one contender.
The Team Alpha male student has the benefit of coach Duane Ludwig in his corner, who has an impressive 13 wins and just 1 loss since becoming head trainer of the thriving camp.
Johnson defended his belt last time out against John Moraga, tapping him out with an impressive armbar submission.
Johnson has one of the best gas tank's in the sport without question, using it to full effect this in recent outings against John Dodson and in his first fight with Benavidez.
Prediction: Benavidez TKO Round 3
In the co-main event Urijah 'The California kid' Faber battles Michael 'Mayday' McDonald, with the winner expected to gain a shot against whoever emerges victorious in the highly anticipated unification bout between Renan Barao and Dominick Cruz.
Faber's last visit to the Octagon saw him pick up a unanimous decision victory over Yuri Alcantara, while McDonald dominated Brad Pickett before submitting him to a triangle choke in a balls-to-the-wall brawl in his most recent outing.
Prediction: Faber by decision
Chad Mendes also fights on the card against Nik Lentz, stepping up to the main card folllowing Matt Brown's late withdrawal from a potential welterweight war with Carlos Condit.
Mendes has been on a roll since losing to Jose Aldo. Lentz is 3-0 since he cut down to featherweight, but Mendes is in a different league to anyone he's fought in this division to date.
Mendes is one of the hottest fighters in MMA right now and Lentz has a huge task on his hands to derail that momentum.
A Mendes win will put him firmly in place for the winner of the Jose Aldo vs. Ricardo Lamas fight at UFC 169.
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The Wiltshire Museum has the best Bronze Age collections in Britain. The collections in the Museum, together with its Library and Archive, are Designated Collections of national significance. Founded over 150 years ago, it preserves the rich archaeological and historical treasures and records of Wiltshire, including the World Heritage Site of Avebury and Stonehenge.
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occupational therapy.
|Occupational Therapy, M.S.
Professional Entry-Level
|Application Deadline
if applying for
Assistantship or Scholarship
|February 1
|Regular Application Deadlines
|February 1
|Minimum GPA
|Recommendation Letters
|2 for admission (one preferably from a health care practitioner), 2 additional letters for assistantship
|Essay Required?
|Other Requirements
|Official transcripts from every college or university attended, interview with an on-site writing sample; applicants who attended colleges or universities outside of the United States must submit a course-by-course credential evaluation report prepared by World Educational Services


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My fifteen year old neighbor dropped off a paper grocery bag on Wednesday. Stapled to the top was an index card, which read, and I paraphrase:
Fill this bag with canned food for the needy, set it out on your porch, and I'll pick it up on Saturday at 10am and drop it off at the food bank.
For the past two weeks I've been meaning to contribute to the food drive at my kids' school. And though frequent emails kept this to-do near the top of my list, every time I walked out the door, I forgot to bring the cans. There's no excuse for my lack of follow-through -- it's pathetic, really. Turns out I'm just the kind of person who responds best when things are made really, really easy.
And a paper bag left on my doorstep was really, really easy. So I filled it with cans, set it out, and my neighbor picked it up. Her tiny effort catapulted me into action, and someone hungry will eat as a result.
So it's in this vein that I offer you a very, very easy way to do good. You can do it right now, preferably, while I'm reminding you, or you can do it at any point during the month of December.
Here's what I've done: I've put a button in the right hand sidebar that links directly to Network for Good, a highly reputable online charity hub. I've chosen my local chapter of the Second Harvest Food Bank, a nonprofit that serves more than 200,000 hungry people in my community every month, as the beneficiary.
What I'm asking: Click on the button and give $5. That's it. $4.76 will go to Second Harvest Food Bank, and $.24 (4.75%) will go to Network for Good for their administrative and other costs. If you want all $5 to go to the food bank, up your donation to $5.24.
Why $5? Because it's easy, small, doable, and really shouldn't require much thought. You'll get a receipt from Network for Good, and your donation is fully tax-deductible. Here's more information.
Need a nudge? In the year and a half I've been writing this blog, I've struggled with whether or not to put up advertising. Other than my Amazon links, I've opted to keep this site clean, simple, and ad-free. No annoying flash buttons, no banners screaming for you to buy Pampers or Lucky Charms. I want this space to have a prevailing sense of calm, and I do believe it does.
So... In return, I'd be so grateful if you'd make a one-time $5 donation to support a cause that means a lot to me. You'll feel good, I swear.
Collectively, I bet we can raise a pretty decent sum. Best of all, we can all watch the numbers on the widget inch up throughout December.
Did I mention how handsome/beautiful you look today?
As a token of my appreciation, here's a nice hot bowl of soup for your troubles.
I made it just for you.
p.s. If you're a blogger, I encourage you to add a Network for Good widget to your own site to spread this effort to your own readership. You can customize the widget for your blog and sponsor a charity of your choice.
p.p.s. While not necessary, feel free to email me or leave a comment if you've donated and I'd be happy to acknowledge your generosity (by first name or blog name) in a future post.
Recipe for Slow Cooker Black Bean Soup
If you're wondering why I'm putting up another slow cooker soup recipe, it's because I'm completely enamored with the lack of effort required to get a pot of hot, healthy goodness on my table. Plus, soup makes me think of food drives, and food drives make me think of charitable giving, and that's what this post is all about.
Makes 8 servings
1 pound dried black beans, soaked overnight
1 medium onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 cans (28 ounces total) low-sodium chicken or vegetable broth, or homemade stock
12 ounces prepared salsa (I used one jar of Trader Joe's green salsa)
1-1/4 cups cold water
1 teaspoon chili powder
Sour cream and lime, for serving, if desired
After soaking the beans, drain and rinse them under cool running water. Place them in the slow cooker along with the remaining ingredients (except the sour cream and lime).
Set the slow cooker to low and cook for about 9 hours. Unplug cooker and remove the insert.
Puree the contents with a stick blender, or, using caution, transfer to a traditional blender and puree. Soup will thicken as it cools.
Serve with a dollop of sour cream and lime wedges, if desired.


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The 2010 U.S. census will soon be upon us, and by now you may have heard one of the patriotic pitches to comply.
Every breathing soul must be tallied during the national head count taken every decade. The census is central to the functioning of our democracy, we're told. The data are used to distribute $400 billion in government spending, to compile countless reports on educational needs, to plan for economic development and formulate public policy.
More important, census data have a direct bearing on congressional districts and the Electoral College. The information is crucial to help us uphold the constitutional principle of one person, one vote.
So why, then, is the federal government gearing up to distort this vital set of data by how it accounts for the nation's booming prison population?
Prisoners are counted, not according to their home address but where they are incarcerated.
At a glance, this might not seem like a big deal — until the details of our nation's 2 million inmates are broken down.
Rural communities with large prison populations suddenly appear to be bastions of diversity, while those without prisons continue to see their population numbers slide. On average, inmates serve for 34 months before returning to their original communities. They never shop, dine, attend school or otherwise become members of the towns and cities where they are warehoused while paying their debt to society.
One distortion this way of counting population causes is what some activists call "prison-based gerrymandering." Because population figures are used to determine legislative districts, voting power is diluted in some areas and falsely ramped up in others.
The NAACP was among the first groups to call for reform. Because 12 percent of black men in their 20s and 30s are in prison at any one time, urban areas lose out on the strength of those uncounted inmates.
But it's actually rural communities, where prisons are often built, that suffer the most from the distortions. Peter Wagner, an advocate for the Prison Policy Initiative, has found 173 counties where more than half of the black population is made up of inmates.
Local officials in some parts of the country have responsibly attempted to eliminate the distortions. Bravo. The town of Anamosa, Iowa, changed the way it elects city council members after discovering that the population of a state penitentiary created a ward where a candidate got elected on the strength of two write-in votes. His inmate constituency of about 1,300 prisoners was roughly as populous as the town's other wards.
With census-takers already completing the process of verifying addresses for the spring head count, it's too late for the government to change how it plans to conduct the 2010 census. Recording the true home address of inmates would be costly (an estimated $250 million), and many prisons don't have the information readily available. What the government can do to help rectify the situation is release the prison data earlier than planned, in time for states to take the information and delete those numbers for redistricting purposes.
Criminals forfeit a lot when they get locked up. They lose the right to vote, in all but two states. They lose daily interaction with loved ones and the chance to engage in meaningful work. What they shouldn't lose is the sense that their presence counts.
Sanchez is an opinion-page columnist for The Kansas City Star. E-mail her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – The King University softball team continued its winning ways on Sunday afternoon, picking up a pair of 10-2 wins over Conference Carolinas rival Lees-McRae College that has the Tornado in a tie for second place in the league standings.
Nine days ago, the Tornado (20-19, 5-3 Conference Carolinas) were on a five-game losing streak with a 12-19 overall record and were 1-3 in conference play. But King has rolled off eight consecutive wins behind a series of strong pitching performances from Hannah Light. The Tornado have not given up more than two runs in a contest since a 4-1 loss to Tusculum College on March 13 and are now on their longest winning streak since winning 10 consecutive games in April of 2013.
Light pitched a total of 11 innings in the two games, giving up 15 hits but allowing just four runs. She struck out ten batters without issuing a walk on 185 total pitches in the two games.
The games were marked by a series of defensive miscues by the Bobcats (6-27, 1-5 Conference Carolinas), who committed a total of nine errors that allowed King to score eight unearned runs on the day. Tori McComas and Cassie Ringstaff each had a pair of hits in both contests to lead a Tornado offensive attack that compiled 19 hits against Lees-McRae pitching.
Hannah Smith drove home the Tornado's first runs of the day in first inning. The Tornado had runners on first and second after a pair of walks before Smith got ahead in the count. On a 2-0 offering from Bobcats' starter Charlie Dutton, Smith sent a laser down the left field line that just cleared the fence inside the foul pole for her third home run of the year to give King a 3-0 lead.
After stifling a Lees-McRae rally to only allow one Bobcats' run in the third inning, the Tornado scored six runs in the fourth to break the game wide open, four of which were unearned. The biggest blow came from Samantha Cole, whose single up the middle plated both McComas and Smith for the final runs of the frame that put the Tornado up 9-1. The game ended two innings later on an RBI single to right field by Cheyenne Delffs that scored McComas from third.
The Tornado again used a six-run fourth inning to break open the second game of the day. The Bobcats grabbed a 2-0 lead early on the strength of two perfectly-placed hits that drew chalk on both foul lines. Trailing 2-1 after a single run in the third, the Tornado tied the game on a single by Allie Spell that allowed McComas to score after the fight fielder bobbled the ball attempting to throw home. Samantha Cole's RBI single gave King the lead, then a bases-loaded walk on an eight-pitch at-bat by Ringstaff plated the third run of the inning. Fallon Thomas laced a single to right field that scored two runs, and a misplayed relay throw allowed a third run to score to give King a 7-2 lead.
The King defense also made a series of stellar plays to keep Lees-McRae off the board. After a leadoff single to open the fifth inning, Bobcats' catcher Amanda Decker sent a sharp ground ball back up the middle. But Light speared the ball and started a 1-6-3 double play, then retired the next hitter on three straight swings-and-misses. In the sixth inning, a Lori Fulmer single up the middle looked to be enough to plate Sarah Beth Ashley from second base. But Octavia Lewis-Rand came up throwing from center field and nailed Ashley coming home to preserve the 8-2 Tornado lead. Two runs on three Lees-McRae errors ended the game in the sixth inning.
With its wins on Sunday, King moves above the .500 mark for the first time since being 2-1 after a win over Tusculum on February 8. The Tornado will look to continue its winning streak on Tuesday with a pair of conference games at North Greenville University, with the first pitch slated for 2:00 p.m.


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Guest Blog: Fixing Flight Training
The debate about flight training has escalated with the advent of the first officer 1,500 hour (ATP) requirement. Various aviation groups are weighing in. What I don't see represented is the private pilot student perspective.
As a recent student, I would like to offer a few thoughts. But first, a little background. Becoming a pilot at age 53 in 2009 changed my life. More people should have this experience, I thought. Then I realized that most who pursued their lifelong dream of flying would fail.
So I wrote an ebook, Learning to Fly an Airplane: Insider Information From a Student Perspective. It was not about how to fly but how to navigate a broken flight training system and how to get the most value for your time, money and effort. The response from students and flight instructors was uniformly positive.
Now to my point: Why is it okay for beginners to teach beginners? Why isn't the role of CFI limited to the most seasoned and skillful, to dedicated instructors?
The industry takes it as a given that the best way for future commercial pilots to build time is to become CFIs. It doesn't matter if they lack robust pilot experience, professionalism or even basic adult maturity. And what about the flight schools that employ them for long hours and low pay? The result is lower standards and limited job opportunities for experienced career flight instructors.
Most private pilot students are mature and accomplished individuals. How do you suppose they react when their CFI shows up late, doesn't really want to teach and will bail at the first opportunity for a better flying gig? When these students drop out, it's not for lack of money, it's for unmet expectations.
Yes, there are excellent beginning CFIs. Yes, there are excellent small flight schools. But the numbers speak for themselves. AOPA, NAFI and many others are doing their best to raise flight training standards. But, in my humble outsider's opinion, these are marginal efforts that fail to address the real issue. If something isn't done to fix the core problem, more consumers will vote with their feet and not get their wings.
Meanwhile, due to vision issues I am no longer able to fly. I will stop updating and offering free downloads of my ebook on Jan. 31, 2013. I hope others will continue advocating for general aviation student pilots. Students make the industry run and should insist on the highest standards in flight training.


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Editor's note: West Texas cotton farmers sometimes get branded as low-input producers. The thought process goes that trying to grow cotton in an area as unpredictable as the Texas Plains or in rain-dependent Central Texas, comes with so many risks that putting a lot of money into the crop makes little sense considering all the things that can go wrong with it.
That production philosophy may make sense to some, and more than a few growers have eked out a living growing dryland cotton with minimum inputs. But a growing number of Central and West Texas farmers are increasing management intensity, in both dryland and, especially, in irrigated fields to enhance yield potential and to produce the highest quality fiber possible.
Following is the first in a series of articles depicting some of the best management practices farmers are using to improve profit potential in Texas cotton. Subsequent articles will look at basic production recommendations to improve yield and quality, dryland management and the importance of variety trials as part of a farm's long-term management strategy.
You don't have to go farther than Ricky Bearden's driveway to figure out how he feels about cotton. A dumpster on the corner of his Plains, Texas, home features the Cotton logo, standing in stark contrast against a dark brown background paint.
He credits his wife, Karen, and daughter, Kyley, with beautifying the large garbage bin, but his production philosophy in the field shows his commitment to the crop. "Cotton is what works best here," Bearden said of the sometimes too-dry conditions that limit productivity. "It's tough to grow dryland crops and we have to use our irrigation water wisely," he said. "It would be easy if we could predict which years we would get enough rain."
Bearden sets a high standard and tries to average about two-and-half bales per acre over the 2,000-acres of irrigated cotton. He grows as much as 4,000 dryland acres, with a one-half to three-fourths bale per acre goal each year, and also produces milo, peanuts and wheat.
He said the key to any farmer's success is finding out what works on a specific field. "Anyone who has farmed a field for several years knows it," he said. The weed population, fertility level and moisture capacity, for instance, may dictate management techniques.
He said the first key to hitting yield goals is to select the best variety for each specific location. He has about 80 acres in a large plot variety trial that Texas Extension cotton specialist Randy Boman conducts every year.
"I think we have 18 different varieties this year," Bearden said. Watching varieties from year to year on his own farm gives him a unique perspective on how well new releases will perform under his growing conditions.
He's using three FiberMax varieties in 2005: 950, 966LL and 958. He's also growing some DP&L, Stoneville and AFD varieties.
"First consideration in variety selection remains yield," Bearden said. "Then I look for staple length. I also consider storm-proof characteristics, micronaire, strength and uniformity."
He said staple comes with genetics. "Weather has a lot to do with mic." Yield and grade have both been better for the past five years, Bearden said. Technology plays a role.
He said varieties with Bollgard and Roundup Ready traits have made a difference in his operation.
"We're careful with Roundup Ready if we have morning glory problems," he said. That goes back to knowing his fields. He may use Liberty Link varieties in areas with weed populations that may not be as vulnerable to Roundup. "It's important to match varieties to the field," he said.
Bt cotton has impressed Bearden in variety trials. "I saw it in tests in 2000 or 2001," he said, "and we never saw enough worms to justify spraying. And I noticed a significant difference in yield across the varieties with the Bt trait, either stacked or with just Bollgard. That test made a believer out of me. I was able to see advantages and differences."
Bearden said Boman's large-scale trials help growers make variety decisions. "Randy puts numbers to the trial data. This year, most of my acreage is in Bt varieties. It may not pay every year, but for my operation, Bt is worth the money."
He's also learned a lot about picker varieties from Boman's trials. "We have a lot of information available from these tests," he said.
Bearden said technology has to cash flow. "Adopting new things may help us make more cotton, but the cotton crop has to pay for it," he said, "whether its seed technology, guidance systems or better tractors, we have to pay for it with a crop."
Fertility is a key to maintaining yields. "We sometimes find a swath where we may have cut the switch off and missed applying fertilizer and can see all the difference in the world," he said. "We have to take care of our land and maintaining fertility is part of that process. When we make a crop we mine some of the nutrients and we have to replace what we take out. But we don't want to overdo it and waste fertilizer."
Bearden said every farmer does things a little differently. "There's no one right way to do it, but we try to maintain the land and build fertility to a certain point. We soil test to determine fertility needs and know that it takes a certain number of pounds of nitrogen to make a certain number of bales of cotton. If we take so much out, we have to put that much back in."
Limited water resources make irrigation management crucial. Bearden said where he has light water he may split a center pivot in half, plant half in wheat for rotation. He conserves all the water for his cotton crop, planted on the other half-circle.
"I have to manage the water I have carefully," he said. "Some years, I put on all the water I can get out. If it rains enough, I'll shut the system down."
Bearden uses pivots on all his irrigated acreage. "It's an efficient way to water crops. I can get smaller amounts of water on if I need to."
In early September, he was applying about three-fourths-inch of water. "I just want to hold what we have," he said. "I can put on six-tenths or seven-tenths. In the summer, I like to apply from one-and-one-fourth to one-and-one-half inch each time around."
He uses a consultant on his irrigated acreage to help with pest control. "Bt cotton helps with the worm complex and the Boll Weevil Eradication Program has been a big advantage."
He said lygus and aphids replace weevils and worms as key problems. "We can get one bug complex under control and then we have problems with something else," he said. "Lygus began to show up after we got the boll weevil. We may not have to spray every year but it is important to save those early-season bolls. We mange each pest differently but I can see no need in growing a pound of cotton and letting something get it."
He's also watching aphids closely. "We don't want to develop a reputation as a sticky cotton area. We have not had that reputation but we don't want to risk it."
He's used both an in-furrow insecticide and a seed treatment to help with early season insects and diseases. "I think seed treatment use will increase," he said.
Fungicide-treated seed may help reduce damage from seedling disease. "It depends on the year, but sometimes, in cool, wet springs, we can get problems. I've seen a difference in years when I did not use the seed treatment."
Bearden said timing, whether it's planting date, plant growth regulator application, harvest aid treatments or pest control, plays a crucial role in achieving top yields. "We apply Pix according to the way cotton grows. Sometimes, we apply none. In some places we see where we should have added more. In some years, with limited irrigation, growth regulators let us do the same with less water. If we get plenty of rain, the cotton grows quickly and we need Pix."
"It's a management tool," Bearden added, "and we have to learn to apply it to specific locations, and need varies from field to field. I don't think we should automatically use it on every field every year."
He said harvest aid materials also require accurate timing to be effective. "Like nearly everything else we do, timing is the key to successful harvest aid use."
He likes to be through listing and ready to plant by early April.
Variety selection accounts for part of Bearden's weed control program. He uses both Roundup Ready and Liberty Link varieties and takes care of many weed problems with timely over-the-top applications.
"I usually use two shots of Ignite on the Liberty Link cotton," he said. "It's cheaper than using a hoe."
He also uses a pre-plant, yellow herbicide on all his cotton and adds Caparol and Treflan over the top "right behind the planter."
Tillage is important to Bearden's operation. "I'm not a no-till farmer," he said. "I still break with a moldboard plow in the winter if moisture is adequate. If not, I may just list it up."
He said deep tillage in sandy land helps hold the soil in place. "That's what works best for me," he said. "I don't need separate pieces of equipment for dryland and irrigated acreage."
Bearden credits his labor force with much of the farm's success. "It's an important part of this operation. I have good employees."
He said every piece of agricultural legislation the Congress has passed is also a "jobs bill. Agriculture creates jobs," he said.
Apart from production practices, Bearden said farmers also have to be aware of "what's going on in politics."
As a member of t Cotton Incorporated, The National Cotton Council, and Plains Cotton Growers Inc., Bearden encourages growers to support commodity associations. "The reality is, we may not change everyone's mind but we have to impress on the people who make decisions that affect us how important agriculture is."
He said public perception of farming may not be a logical target but the majority of the Senate and the House should be. "We have to show our legislators that agriculture is a viable industry in this country and a vital part of the economy. We have to become part of the political process."
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Historic Brady figures from the past portrayed
Saturday event draws large crowd to school
A non-walking tour of forgotten individuals from Brady's past entertained a large audience in the school gymnasium Saturday afternoon during Brady Days.
Bryan Hecox portrayed William Winterbottom, editor of the Vindicator, and CeeCee Polt acted as favorite kindergarten teacher Doris McCollough.
Donnie Trisdale became Gov. Roy Cochran, DeeAnn Birkle portrayed Mary Francis McCollough Riley, pioneer of Brady Island and nurse; Ray Blede became math genius Johnny Fredrickson, Molly Rundel acted like Neva Brittenham in "I Remember Mama" and Bonnie Glo Aubushon, Brady Hotel Madam "Naughty Glow," rounded out the list of characters.
Many tables of historical memorabilia were displayed as well as "Miles, Memories and Meals," a Brady cookbook created by the Brady Beauties.
The Brady Beauties will autograph their cookbook on Saturday, Aug. 10, from 1-3 p.m. at the A to Z Book Store in North Platte.
Cookbooks can also be picked up at the following Brady businesses—Maureen's Kitchen, Gothenburg State Bank (Brady), Village of Brady and Roberta's.
The public is reminded that a tax-deductible donation to the Brady School Foundation can be still be made by writing a check to Mid-NE Community Foundation. Donors are asked to write in their check memo the "Brady School Foundation."
The Lincoln County Historical Museum will take any artifacts from individuals who want to donate or loan to the museum to preserve Brady History.
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