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LAS VEGAS — A new analysis of men who pay for sexual activities suggests that their true goal is finding something a bit more complicated – true love – even if it's from the sex worker.
In this new study, Christine Milrod and co-author Ronald Weitzer analyzed 2,442 postings on an online discussion board from a sex provider review site where more than a million clients of sex workers read and post about their experiences. Approximately one-third included a discussion about emotional intimacy between sex workers and their clients, many of whom expressed a desire to grow their relationships beyond the physical level in the form of sharing private feelings and mutual love.
"In recent years, we have come to see a gradual normalization of independent escort prostitution, where sexual encounters have come to resemble quasi-dating relationships," stated study author Christine Milrod. "Our study shows that regular clients of a particular sex provider often come to experience feelings of deep affection, which can progress into an authentic love story."
In one survey, 32 percent of customers arrested for soliciting a prostitute said they bought sex because they ''didn't have time'' for a conventional relationship, 28 percent did not want ''the responsibilities'' inherent in such a relationship, and 18 percent said they would ''rather have sex with a prostitute than have a conventional relationship with a woman.''
The study uncovered feelings ranging from "counterfeit intimacy" to "authentic emotional bonds" between many prostitutes and their respective customers. Motives for initial payment for sex ranged from difficulty finding a partner for simple conversation to fantasy role-playing and abuse targeting.
However, many of the customers interviewed in the study expressed emotional elements lacking in a pre-existing relationship. Many of the female sex workers interviewed said they catered to the men's emotional needs and described many of them as, "highly respectful" and sometimes "more caring than the other men in their 'true' personal lives."
One-third of them in the study said they wanted something more than the physical release of "the hobby" as it is called by many sex customers.
A Boston man cautioned, "Men in this hobby who think they are only after sex are deceiving themselves. Sex always involves emotion, with the possibility for eventual affection, closeness, and emotional connection always lurking there. People can fall in love when they least expect it. And that love can last, even while one or both parties are married … and even when one is a provider."


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I have no dog in this fight, other than than an interest in seeing derivatives, especially Credit Default Swaps, appropriately regulated as insurance products.
But the process for determining a payout for CDS is fascinating. The people officially determining defaults are not objective Judges or impartial observers; rather, a group of self-appointed traders, conflicted, biased, non transparent participants — with positions affected by their own decision – determine what a Greek default is and isn't.


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Catching a life-threatening illness while lying in crispy-clean linens is one of the last things most people expect from a hospital stay.
But one in 25 patients have at least one hospital-associated infection, according to a survey of 183 hospitals released Wednesday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the New England Journal of Medicine.
Researchers looked at 648,000 patients from 2011 in their survey. Of the more 720,000 cases they found of hospital-borne infections, 75,000 resulted in death. In a conference call with reporters, federal health officials warned that catching an infection is as easy as doctors forgetting to wash their hands.
"Although there has been some progress, today and every day, more than 200 Americans with health care-associated infections will die during their hospital stay," said CDC Director Tom Frieden in a statement.
Nationally, numbers for hospital-borne infections from 2011-2012 have decreased across the board, according to a second CDC report surveying nearly 13,000 hospitals, also released Wednesday. With the exception of catheter-associated urinary tract infections, all other infection numbers were down, but not by much.
MRSA infections _ methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus _ declined 4 percent, while numbers for the most common in-hospital infection, clostridium difficile _ known as c. diff and encompassing 12.1 percent _ went down only 2 percent. The biggest success was a 44 percent decrease in central-line associated bloodstream infections, which occur when bacteria enter the bloodstream through a central-line catheter, a long tube attached to a vein that reaches a larger vein near the heart.
Generally, the sickest of patients are the most susceptible to infection, but "all patients that enter the hospital are at risk," according to CDC epidemiologist Scott Fridkin.
Patients are vulnerable to germs entering the body while undergoing invasive medical care, during and after procedures.
Antibiotics are prescribed to nearly half of the patients in hospitals, according to the CDC. Bacteria can become immune to this treatment, producing "superbug" mutations that can cause infections in patients or spread to others. Fridkin urged how critical it was for medical providers to take care when prescribing antibiotics.
CDC deputy director Michael Bell likened prescribing new antibiotics to "ordering a new credit card when you are bankrupt." The CDC proposes caregivers limit the number of antibiotics given to patients to prevent the problem.
But in an interview, Dr. Betsy McCaughey, chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths, an advocacy group for higher sanitary standards in hospitals, said, "What's needed is more effective cleaning of hospitals. The fact is most of these infections are caused by poor hygiene in hospitals. The CDC is doing much too little to encourage hospitals to clean effectively."
CDC officials called for patients and doctors to reassess their conduct in the hospital room and recommended that patients ask more questions of their caregivers regarding cleanliness, such as, "Did you wash your hands before coming to my room?"
Doctors, meanwhile, are urged to consider whether invasive devices, such as catheters, are always needed.
In his recent budget, President Barack Obama asked for $30 million dollars for the CDC's Antibiotics Resistance Initiative, which the agency hopes will save more 20,000 lives and more than $2 billion in health care costs.


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Marine Corps Reserve, Dunkin' Donuts and Basil Family of Dealerships storm Toys "R" Us for major shopping spree to support holiday toy collection drive
Members of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve joined Dunkin' Donuts franchisees and Basil Family of Dealerships representatives Friday for a large-scale shopping spree today at Toys "R" Us in Amherst to prepare the Toys for Tots program in Western New York for the holiday season.
The shopping spree was made possible by a first-time partnership in Western New York between Dunkin' Donuts and the Marine Corps Reserve's Toys for Tots program. From Nov. 1 through 25, participating Dunkin' Donuts restaurants throughout the greater Buffalo area offered guests a special patriotic-themed donut as a thank you when they made a $1 donation to the Western New York Toys for Tots program.
Dunkin' Donuts raised $3,000 in partnership with its customers, which was used to purchase gifts for the Toys for Tots program during the shopping spree. The toys will be distributed by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve to children and families in need residing in Erie, Niagara, Genesee, Wyoming and West Cattaraugus counties through the annual holiday collection drive.
"Dunkin' Donuts is honored to partner with our local Marines from Western New York to support Toys for Tots this holiday season. The outpouring of generosity from our loyal guests has been overwhelming," said Dunkin' Donuts Field Marketing Manager Alisa LaPlante. "We are deeply grateful for the work of the dedicated Marine Corps Reserve who bring so much joy to children throughout our region."
Dunkin' Donuts support in Western New York is an extension of the restaurant's partnership with the Toys for Tots program in the Greater Albany Capital Region, where Dunkin' Donuts has been the premier supporter of the program for the past four years. Since 2009, the annual Dunkin' Donuts Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Train - the only train of its kind in the country - has delivered thousands of toys to underserved children in Upstate New York over a two-day period in early December.
To learn more about Dunkin' Donuts, visit www.DunkinDonuts.com or follow it on Facebook (www.facebook.com/DunkinDonuts) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/DunkinDonuts).


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Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Jon Hamm
Episode 2: Zach interviews talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.
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Zach Galifianakis: Hi, my name Zach Galifianakis.
Zach Galifianakis: Welcome to Between Two Ferns.
I'm your host Zach Galifianakis.
Zach Galifianakis: With me today is Timmy Kimbells.
Zach Galifianakis: Jimmy, thank you for joining me here.
Jimmy Kimmel: Thanks for having me.
Zach Galifianakis: You're a late night talk show
host. What's it like to be
Zach Galifianakis: in the late night business?
Jimmy Kimmel: I mean, it's great you know.
It's like something I always
Jimmy Kimmel: wanted to do. When I was a
kid, I'd watch Letterman and
Jimmy Kimmel: it's really, like, it's a
dream come true.
Zach Galifianakis: Have you ever farted on a
cocker spaniel?
Jimmy Kimmel: No. No, I can't say that
I have.
Zach Galifianakis: Do you want a beer?
Jimmy Kimmel: Seems like that one
was opened.
Jimmy Kimmel: Thanks.
Zach Galifianakis: Maybe, it'll loosen you
up a little bit.
Jimmy Kimmel: It's nice and warm.
Just the way I like it.
Zach Galifianakis: Bet you can't do that
on your show.
Jimmy Kimmel: Yeah, I could. I mean,
there's no rule against it.
Jimmy Kimmel: I just, it's just not
something I would do.
Zach Galifianakis: You have a girlfriend, Sarah
Silverman. What's that like?
Jimmy Kimmel: People always ask, do you
guys just crack each other up
Jimmy Kimmel: all the time and that
gets tiring.
Zach Galifianakis: You and Sarah, Sarah being a
comedian, do you guys always
Zach Galifianakis: crack each other up at home
and stuff?
Zach Galifianakis: I like to go to Long John
Silver's and be shocked at
Zach Galifianakis: how much the prices are and
then just look at the cashier
Zach Galifianakis: and go only in New York. You
and Sarah could something with that.
Jimmy Kimmel: Well, she doesn't like fish.
Jimmy Kimmel: What?
Zach Galifianakis: I know that that means.
Jimmy Kimmel: What?
Zach Galifianakis: Yeah. That's good man. Men
like fish. The Benaffleck
thing that you did.
Jimmy Kimmel: The what?
Zach Galifianakis: Benaffleck.
Jimmy Kimmel: Oh, Ben Affleck?
Zach Galifianakis: How close did you get to Ben
Affleck's lips?
Jimmy Kimmel: Oh, I got pretty close
to him.
Zach Galifianakis: Did you ever do takes where
you were closer to his lips?
Jimmy Kimmel: Than the ones that were
in the video?
Zach Galifianakis: Yeah, like in rehearsals
and stuff?
Jimmy Kimmel: No.
Zach Galifianakis: You got girl lips.
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Zach Galifianakis: mean, going on and on about
banana stuff.
Zach Galifianakis: Do you like bananas?
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Nuit Blanche at the WAG a Roaring Success
"The Winnipeg Art Gallery's first Nuit Blanche, held on Saturday, September 25, was successful well beyond expectations. It was the kind of turn-out that event organizers can generally only dream of having," says Alanna Keefe, Director of Development. "As a new event, we weren't sure how many people to expect, perhaps five to six hundred. We capped it over 4,600! People came, saw everything that was going on—the art, the films, the music—then texted, messaged, or called their friends to tell them to get down to where the action was. It grew from there."
Attracting the crowds was a combination of late-night party and the public opening of Wanda Koop…On the Edge of Experience. WAG Director Stephen Borys comments, "As a nationally recognized artist, Koop's exhibition drew large numbers of friends, family, and supporters from all over Canada and some from overseas, as well as hundreds of Winnipeggers who came out to celebrate her life's work."
In the end though, the party ended early, a victim of its own success. "We were pushing capacity so quickly that we were forced to shut the doors to newcomers by 1:30am. Originally scheduled to go to 6am, the unprecedented and extraordinary circumstances saw us closing down completely by 3am," says Keefe. "We were sorry to have to shut out so many eager art-party-goers, but we just didn't have the space or the manpower to deal with them all."
While there wasn't a single incident or mishap with the revelers, out of consideration for public safety and the WAG's internal protocols around crowd control, Keefe notes that the event will be carefully studied with a view to making changes for next year.
For those shut out of Nuit Blanche at the WAG, another opportunity presents itself this Saturday, October 2. For the first time, the WAG is offering After-Party tickets for their annual gala fundraiser; enjoy the stylings of DJ mr nemo from 11pm to 2am. Tickets are $50.
To experience the full Gallery Ball dinner or the After-Party, buy your tickets at wag.ca.
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Please join us on Tuesday, October 18 at 4 p.m. (EST) for a live chat with Rachel Pollack, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Job Path as she answers questions about employment in recognition of October as U.S. Department of Labor's National Disability Employment Awareness month.
Since 1978, Job Path has helped people with developmental disabilities find and excel in mainstream jobs where they work alongside non-disabled colleagues. Job Path graduates work in banks, retail establishments, restaurants and other organizations including: Barnes & Noble, Bed Bath & Beyond, Modell's Sporting Goods, Office Depot, ShopRite, Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center, T.J.Maxx, Trader Joe's, Walgreens and Willner Chemists. Job Path has also worked with law firms such as Paul Weiss, Rifkind,Wharton & Garrison; Cleary Gottlieb; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom & Affiliates, LLP; and Cahill Gordon & White. Our employment programs are designed to help anyone who wants to work, no matter the amount of support he or she might need.


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NCAA Tournament Tidbits: 03.30.11Posted by Brian Goodman on March 30th, 2011
Throughout the NCAA Tournament, we'll be providing you with the daily chatter from around the webosphere relating to what's going on with the teams still playing.
- An interesting read about whether head coach Brad Stevens and VCU head coach Shaka Smart should stay at their respective schools or leave for a more lucrative offer. We believe that they both should stay put and continue to build on the runs their teams have gone on this season.
- Following his squad's loss to Youngstown State on February 3, Brad Stevens received encouragement from many different people around the country. His favorite piece of encouragement came from his college coach at DePauw, Bill Fenlon.
- After missing their son's games last weekend in New Orleans, Matt Howard's parents will be attending the Final Four in Houston. This was made possible by the people of their hometown, Connersville, Indiana, who graciously pitched in to help pay for the trip.
- Guard Shelvin Mack has a knack for making big plays in big games. This bodes well for the Bulldogs, as Saturday will be their biggest game of the year.
- Senior captain Zach Hahn took charge when things were not going well for the Bulldogs early in the conference season. Since then, Hahn's leadership has led Butler both on and off the court.
- Jim Calhoun warns that the shine will eventually wear off of prodigious coaches like Shaka Smart and Brad Stevens. One element both coaches will have to consider in potential moves to higher-profile schools down the line is whether they want to take on the balance of increased scrutiny and higher expectations.
- The Huskies returned to campus for a couple days to recharge their batteries, but passers-by on campus are still as excited as they were on Saturday. The team arrives in Houston Wednesday night, and its rock star status can't go to the players' heads if they want to succeed.
- Patrick Sellers, a former UConn assistant, left the staff in the wake of the NCAA's investigation of the program last May. Now coaching in China, Sellers remains pumped for his former employer, and, cleared by the NCAA, can seek work at the Division-I level if he wishes.
- Calhoun believes there are no great teams in college basketball this season, with which we agree, but gives a reason with which we disagree. Calhoun insists that the transience of college basketball's top players hurts the game, but without those players, even if they only stay one season, the game would be far less interesting.


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Bouldering Bus Rolls Into Colorado
Rock climbers, rejoice: This weekend the bouldering comes to you.|
The Bouldering Bus, a school bus transformed into a mobile bouldering gym, rolls into downtown Boulder on October 26, courtesy of the Women's Wilderness Institute, a nonprofit that introduces girls and women to outdoor adventures. The bus includes padded floors and more than 600-square feet of climbing space.
The Institute recently acquired the bus from Christin and Ken Bellian, a husband and wife couple who converted the bus while living in North Carolina. The pair moved to Boulder in 2010, and when Christin joined the board for the Women's Wilderness Institute, she gifted the organization with the mobile climbing gym. The Institute plans to offer bus visits to schools, afterschool programs, Girl Scouts, and many other Colorado organizations for free or for very little cost.
See for yourself Saturday 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Boulder High School and 2-5 p.m. at Southern Sun and Neptune Mountaineering, or click through our slideshow now.
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Sony has released a new advert to promote the new Xperia Z smartphone announced at CES, heralding the company's past achievements.
The advert starts with the company's first television launch in the 1960s, then jumps forward in time to rollerskating girls using the Walkman in the Eighties, before jumping to the fall of the Berlin Wall captured on a Sony camcorder in 1989.
The advert finishes in the present day with two tourists visiting the famous Holi - the Festival of Colours festival in India.
Getting out of a tuk-tuk the two stars of the advert, along with the phone, are covered in dye as the man of the couple takes a photo. It is okay, of course, because after the fact they simply wash the phone off thanks to its waterproof capabilities.
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Dear Minister
We request you to intervene urgently to secure the release of Professor Cyril Karabus, a South African citizen, from incarceration in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Professor Karabus is a paediatrician who has dedicated himself to public service. He worked for many years at Red Cross Children's Hospital. He was also a professor of paediatrics at the University of Cape Town. His devotion to child health exemplifies the wonderful values that South Africa promotes.
We have learned that Professor Karabus has spent the last month in prison in the UAE. He was tried and found guilty of manslaughter in abstentia and without his knowledge. This was in relation to a case over a decade ago in which, while he was a locum at Sheikh Khalifa Medical Centre in Abu Dhabi, he treated a child who later died of leukemia. While travelling back to South Africa from Canada, he was arrested in transit in Dubai on 18 August.
We respect the laws of foreign countries when they are just, even if they are vastly different from our own laws. However, by no modern principle of jurisprudence is it acceptable to try a foreign citizen in abstentia without informing him or attempting to extradite him. Furthermore, Professor Karabus is 77 years old and in frail health. The South African government should be negotiating a pardon for Professor Karabus from the UAE, or at minimum negotiating that he be allowed out on bail while a retrial takes place.
We have also learned that the South African mission in UAE has been visiting Professor Karabus, but has done very little to assist with his release. We cannot fathom what could possibly be more important to the embassy in Abu Dhabi or the consulate in Dubai than doing everything possible to rescue a model human being who is a citizen of our country from unjustly instituted distress.
Please respond by 1 October with an explanation of all the steps being taken by the South African government to secure Professor Karabus's release.
Yours sincerely
Vuyiseka Dubula, General Secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign
Brad Brockman, General Secretary of Equal Education
Mandla Majola on behalf of the Social Justice Coalition
Mark Heywood, Director SECTION27
Zackie Achmat on behalf of Open Shuhada Street
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE - by email via the South African embassy: email@example.com
H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai - by email via the South African embassy: email@example.com
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OMFO is an acronym of an exclamation of surprise where the terminal "O" stands for "Obama"; namely "Oh My Fucking Obama". OMFO is derivative of similar acronyms where either "God" (OMFG)or "Science" (OMFS)is used as the the terminal pro/noun.
As used in text based electronic communication: "OMFO! I can't believe (insert something you can't believe here)!"
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We are pretty big readers in our house* and over the past few months Alex has been bringing home books from his school library that have actual facts in them. Which means I'm able to use my brain at bedtime and absorb something other than "She hangs by her feet and she lives in a cave, I do not think that is how llamas behave."
Last night I read Nora three longish rhyming books. They all had good, legit writing (my fave of the bunch: Snow, by Roy McKie and P.D. Eastman of Are You My Mother fame). But I could (I did) literally turn off my brain and sing song my way through her books. The fact that I've read Hooper Humperdink 853 times didn't help the cause, either. My brain was shutting down for the night. Then I moved to Alex's room to relieve Nick and I read Alex a book about baby cheetahs. Did you know that cheetahs don't have retractable claws like other big cats? Their claws are always out and act like cleats when they run. And girl cheetahs never move far from where they were born but boy cheetahs hightail it out of there. And cheetahs are single moms! So interesting! My brain started to reboot and it felt…invigorating.
Some of the other books we've recently read include Foxes (how did I not remember that a female fox is called a vixen?! Of course! And I love that the mom and dad both raise the pups together!), Hyenas (they nurse their babies for 12-18 months, super long for carnivores—and they are really $%^*! mean, especially to people), Aircraft Carriers (can't remember anything from that one—whoops!), and his go-to from our own collection: To Market, To Market, a long, detailed look around a farmer's market, which my friend Elizabeth (who installed our amazing garden) gave him a few years ago. He wasn't that into it as a younger kid but now he's obsessed so we read about the way kale grows and how apples trees are grafted and what exactly goes into making goat cheese. I have to be honest, at first I was a little eye-rolly** about these very dry books Alex was into. I mean they come with real photos and glossaries and facts, how much fun can they be?! What about fantasy and illustrations and escape?! But now I'm digging the education.
As happy as I am to not be in school (and to know I would never, ever go back for an advanced degree), I did love learning and absorbing facts and just knowing things. Interesting things. My brain used to be jam-packed with knowledge and lately it feels like a sieve. But last night I actually felt my synapses firing in a way they just don't with Is Your Mama a Llama (I'm not hating on that book at all—it's actually one of my faves). Last week I told Alex I love the books he's been picking out. His response:
"Well, I only like non-fiction, not fiction because I only want to read about stuff that actually happened. Like those foxes actually happened, right, mom?"
Love him. Also love that he's still a huge fiction guy too despite what he says (we're reading Polar Express nightly now). But anyway, it's been an interesting development. And it's been nice to give my mom/deadline/holiday/stressed-out mush brain a little workout lately. Use it or lose it, right?*** I'm sure I'll be eating my words once he gets a little older and his homework gets even a little harder (as it is I have a tough time following his math directions) but for now I'm happy to be using my brain a little at bedtime. That said, my half-asleep reading with Nora (she refuses anything but fun, colorful, often sing-songy books) was pretty awesome last night, too. Before I started reading she said this, which she's never said before: "Mom, when you're done reading books can you lie with me for a while because you're my best friend," Melt.****
So what kind of books do your kids like? Have you learned anything interesting lately? Enjoy your weekend!
*In case this post comes off to anyone as "wow, my kid likes books, pat me on the back" I wanted to add that we also like TV. A lot.
**I do not actually roll my eyes at my kid, particularly about reading.
***I do also read on my own—and I love non-fiction—and I realize this is a good way to learn new things but lately I've been working so much I pretty much pass out. So a few kid-friendly facts about four-legged creatures will have to feed my brain for now.
****Soon after saying this, Nora said: "I want you to leave now mom, go get daddy."
(sorry for all the disclaimers--I won't be doing this regularly just still a little sensitive after the great Christmas List misunderstanding)


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The bad news of all your stupid drunk antics that comes from a close friend the night after partyin'
Dude #1: Dude, last night you pissed off of my balcony and got me a complaint from my apartment manager. You pissed in my sink and got piss all over my bathroom counter. You threw up on my carpet, then you called your girl over and made out with her after throwing up. You ran down the street by my house to get more beer and ended up getting stopped by a cop, then you told the cop that you were at my house so they came to make sure there was no under-age drinking going on. You drunk dialed every one on your phone. Then you ordered pizza and tried to make the obviously mormon pizza guy smoke weed for a tip. Then you tried to get tough with me when I told you to chill the fuck out. Yeah dude, you're 86'd from my pad.
Dude #2: Damn, I hate the dreaded re-cap
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Two sectors of the peanut industry sit across the table from each other. One needs to grow peanuts; the other needs peanuts to shell. If a posture could tell the story before the meetings, it would be arms crossed at the chest.
The situation is much like two family members estranged through a change in dynamics. Through the work of a new commission, with a larger group in attendance, they're at the table, and they're talking.
Under a new dynamic, both sides have constraints that bottom line at the word "profit." It all boils down to a contract.
Last year around this time folks were seriously discussing the demise of the peanut industry in southeast Virginia brought on by a new program. The talk still weighs heavy in the air. A guarantee of $610 per ton for quota peanuts declined to $355 per ton and opened peanuts up to the world of marketing with the signing of a new farm bill in May 2002. Mistrust and miscommunication were at a premium in the Virginia-Carolina region.
Today, growers and shellers are at least talking and working on solutions to keep Virginia in peanut production. Plenty of work remains.
For the growers, the solution would be a $500 contract. Shellers say they are working toward putting an acceptable contract together for growers. So far, in early 2004, that hasn't happened. "Just like in any negotiation, if you keep talking, there's always a chance," says Joe Barlow, Sr., a farmer who sits on the Common Ground Commission for the Future of Agriculture.
"I'm not sure we're any closer to a solution," Barlow Sr. says.
Through the work of the Commission, the two are at the table talking. The Commission is addressing a wide range of issues related to the future of agriculture, but peanuts are the priority at the moment.
Two seminars have already flowed out of the effort, the latest a risk management seminar in Franklin, Va. Shellers, lenders and Extension specialists on the program spoke to a crowd of about 300, the majority of whom were farmers. The Commission meets quarterly.
Many growers in the audience at that meeting came to hear news about contracts. They were still awaiting news of contracts at the end of January.
Among the positives coming from the Commission: Growers are looking closer at production costs and learning about growing and marketing peanuts in a new environment; there's productive talk of creating a value-added center, and promotion of a state program that would help rural banks finance growers and businesses.
"I honestly think that progress was made today," said Mike Roberts, Virginia Tech farm management specialist, as he optimistically watched growers file out of an auditorium in Franklin, Va., in mid-January. "And I wouldn't be at all surprised to see our peanut acreage hold steady or go up a little when, as late as last week, producers were convinced they could not raise peanuts in southeast Virginia and, even if they did, the shellers would not pay for them.
"It was an epiphany that people were actually talking about working things out," Roberts says.
From a farmer's perspective, a $500 contract would get a good amount of peanuts planted, Barlow Sr. says. "That's the goal for a contract. I'm not sure how much we can compromise on that.
"We're small producers, and grow 75 acres of peanuts," Barlow Sr. says. "Depending on the contract, we'll grow between zero and 75 acres of peanuts this year."
In late January, Golden Peanut Company was offering a $450 contract. Other shellers were waiting.
At the table grower and sheller representatives are working on the big picture of keeping peanuts and agriculture in general viable in southeast Virginia. "The most important thing that's happened from the Commission is the increased and improved communication between shellers and growers," says Jim Pease, Virginia Tech Extension ag economist.
"It's clear that the shellers are actively participating," Pease says.
"We're pretty open in the group and listen to each other," says Barlow Sr., who farms with his son and his daughter-in-law on the edge of City of Suffolk and Isle of Wight counties in southeastern Virginia. "Past the group, I'm not sure producers are listening."
Going into the meetings, there was a fundamental miscommunication and mistrust.
Animosity exists because of the dismantling of a program that worked for both growers and shellers — and, as one farmer put it, a reluctance to get on with life without a quota system.
"The shellers didn't understanding why we were losing acres in Virginia," Roberts recalls, "and the growers didn't feel comfortable with contracts.
"We've moved quite a ways on that issue," Roberts says. "Contracts being offered this year are a lot more representative of a well-functioning market."
There's still an element of mistrust, Roberts says. "The shellers want to hold their cards close to the vest and not reveal contract offerings.
"Every day that goes by without a contract adds to the mistrust on the part of the farmer," Roberts says.
"We're just waiting on a contract," Barlow Sr. says. "Both sides are willing to keep talking, but that has to come to an end and offers have to be made relatively soon. Soybeans will be in competition for peanut acreage. I think shellers are making an effort to get a contract together."
"The shellers want the growers to plant more — somebody's got to give," Roberts says. "That's the biggest impediment."
Roberts says a farmer can grow peanuts profitably under the new farm bill if they will manage cost of production. "The new peanut farm bill made cost of production one of the main elements to growing peanuts. That's the thing that consternates this area."
Barlow Sr. believes those who can make big yields and keep production costs in line can make it in the new environment. Those growers who have "average" yields and high production costs won't be able to survive.
In North Carolina, the acreage shifted south to new growers. The same thing happened in South Carolina. "Virginia's acres had no place to transfer but out of state," Roberts says.
When top growers started dropping plans to grow peanuts, it signaled a crisis, Roberts says.
Roberts and Virginia Extension ag economist Jim Pease created a stir last year when they issued a report that dubbed the situation "a farm crisis in southeast Virginia" brought on by a new peanut farm bill that took away quota as an anchor.
In some circles, the paper was cited as a reason for "scaring" peanut acreage out of Virginia. "Shellers said my budgets scared acres away," Roberts says.
"It comes down to contracts not being enough to cover cost of production," Roberts says. "Farmers look at the costs and returns in peanuts and realize that it's not enough."
Citing the two-year decline in peanut acreage from more than 70,000 to around 33,000, Roberts issued a call-to-arms to stop the hemorrhaging. He and Pease won an award from the Virginia Association of Extension agents for the paper and were nominated for a top award at the annual American Peanut Research and Education Society meeting.
Essentially, the paper called for what has happened: Various sectors of the peanut industry meeting to talk about solutions.
At sessions last September and December, lenders, growers, shellers, manufacturers, legislators, Extension and research specialist and land-use experts met with Supreme Court-certified mediators. The groups selected four areas to focus on.
The groups whittled down the brainstorming and developed a strategic plan.
"One of the biggest things that came out of the second meeting was that everyone should be more educated," Roberts says.
"The idea of a 'train the trainers meeting, so to speak, (in December),' came out of that," Roberts says. "The whole group was on record being in support of more educational meetings."
Roberts and Pease point out that the Commission is "self-directed. We just help facilitate the process."
With a stamp of approval from Virginia's congressional delegation "for anything that will help rural Virginia," the group has written letters in support of crop insurance for contract production. Already, Sen. George Allen, R-Va., and U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., have indicated they would support crop insurance for contract or cost of production.
The group also wrote letters asking for support from the Virginia Farm Bureau and Extension for a separate peanut specialist to focus on lowering the cost of production, and farm management agents who would work with scientists at research stations.
The Commission expressed its support for an idea introduced by Sharron Quisenberry, the new dean of the College of Agriculture at Virginia Tech. Quisenberry hatched the idea for a center for value-added innovative production that would build capacity among states.
Roberts and Pease see Quissenberry's vision as being something similar to the Texas A&M Ag Policy Center. "We could get all of these production budgets on a Web site and it could eventually evolve into an East Coast data base that would work through the Value-Added Center," Roberts says.
"If you want to keep the land open, keep the farmer on the land," Roberts says. "I don't mean subsidies. I mean access to capital in rural areas."
Roberts has suggested the idea of a sheller fronting the grower under contract $100 a ton so he can plant the crop or work out a deal where he can get started at the beginning of the season. "In other words, help him get started at the first of the year," Roberts says.
"That shows good faith and opens up the lenders to loaning money to producers," Roberts says.
The Commission is also supporting the Capital Access Program, a state fund that allows rural banks to lend to small businesses and farmers. For every dollar that the state puts in, $4 returns to the state. The Virginia General Assembly approved the program, but was cash-strapped and didn't fund it last year.
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LINCOLN—Ag producers experiencing flooding problem should look to their local Farm Service Agency for help.
Greg Ibach, director of the Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA), reminds producers that have experienced damage to crops or loss of livestock to contact their local FSA office to report their losses.
"The NDA and the governor's office work in partnership with USDA FSA to secure federal agricultural disaster designations through Agriculture Sec. Tom Vilsack," Ibach said. "The designations are necessary to open up some federal assistance programs. The loss assessment process begins at the county FSA office level."
Ibach also encouraged producers to be in contact with their insurance agent as soon as possible.
"The Nebraska Department of Agriculture is aware of the extensive flooding to farmland," he said. "We will continue to share information with FSA, industry organizations and other partners in order to assist farmers and ranchers as much as possible."


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***** LEO *** This is "Leo's Story" :) as told to Barbi Ennis Connolly, WWII Historican Researcher. email@example.com Additions, Corrections???? **
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US Navy; US Dubuque (PG-17) 6470943 - GM1c V6 2 March, 1942 - 5 May, 1944 (Report on 30 June, 1944)
I have attached a photo of my Dad, Hilaire "Leo" Meire from his second term in the Army. My Dad had the strangest military career you ever heard of. He was in the Army twice, and in the Navy twice. He enlisted in the Army in 1936 and was stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. In those days you went out and back when a ship was available. When his enlistment was nearly up he was given a "short discharge" and sailed back to the mainland. Around 1940 or 41 he was called up again because his service hadn't actually been a complete 36 months. My mother wrote a letter to - get this - General George Marshall explaining that he shouldn't have to go back in the Army because they discharged him, after all. Amazingly, General Marshall actually wrote back AND got him out of the Army. At this point I know what you are thinking, but no, that letter they did not save. I have receipts for water bills they paid in 1956 and car registrations for vehicles that were junked decades ago, but that one - no dice. (!) After Pearl Harbor (my parents were married the Sunday after, Dec. 14, 1941) my father knew he would have to go in the service, so he enlisted in the Navy for the duration. He always said, "At least I'll have a place to sleep until they shoot it out from under me." After the war was over and he was discharged from the Navy, it was hard to get jobs so he went back in as a ship keeper at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for another year more or less. So there is the capsule history of Dad's weird military service. Oh - his name. He was born in Belgium (March 1914, in Flanders, just before the Kaiser's Army invaded in August). He came over to the US in 1922. When they sent him to school, the priest said he couldn't have a name like Hilaire, so he just backed up by one more Pope and decided that his name from then on would be Leo. This is probably a whole lot more information than you really need, but once I get started..... Thanks again for everything. Leo **** Yes, some of the strangest stories are actually the most amazing, from our Greatest Generation who had no idea how to be anything but hard-working, honest, inventive Patriotic and Oh, LOTS more! Barbi****


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Cybersecurity experts recently met with lawmakers to talk about ways for preventing an event like May's international WannaCry ransomware attack from wreaking havoc in the U.S. But one topic was not brought up: bitcoin, the virtual currency that ransom hackers often ask to be paid in exchange for unlocking infected computers. See the full story on Circa.


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Next-Gen rumors are flying left and right and it seems just about every day we hear something new. This latest teaser by Sony though may reveal it all sooner than we expected, and possibly even before Microsoft reveals its own next-gen console.
It has not begun until he say it:
It could be just a teaser trailer for their yearly fev Playstation convention ..
Or as we all want it to be something to do with the Playstation4 .. That would be amazing
If the PS4 isn't announced on the 20th, the Internet will explode.
If the PS4 is announced on the 20th...the Internet will explode.
ps4 is the future, i cant wait but i dont think they will talk about ps4 on feb 20. i kno its coming tho but i will be doing whatever i can to have this ps4 at launch . "Next gen starts when ps4 is here" a little side note. : i hope and pray that they bring back the original ps1 startup sound for ps4 it will be amazing.
@ BrunoM
Yeah, maybe... but they are advertising it as "See the Future", and they're kinda making a big deal out of it. So it's highly likely. Announce now and get everyone hyped, then show the hell out of the thing at E3. They can clarify some basics now so there is no confusion at E3.
I have a feeling this has to do with rolling out a new service linked to Gaikai. It would be cool if it was a tease for PS4 but I don't think so.
It can only get bigger and better from here on. Hopefully, JRPG gets some extra lovin' next generation with the help of Level 5, Tri Ace, Sony Japan and others.
I knew Sony wouldn't let MS announce first, it was a just a ploy so that they could get the jump. :D
how I'm feeling right now :')
even Pachter believes it's new hardware...Pachter!
Does anyone know where is is held and if it will be livestreamed? Thanks!
PS. I am TOO DAMN EXCITED for this!!
Playstation 2013
dark_angel69 - OMG so excited!! Hope it really is next gen console. Will we be watching it live on the blog?
Fred Dutton - Of course!
Link - http://blog.eu.playstation....
TheGamerDood, just found that out a minute ago from Neogaf,
Pachter responds with a Tweet
"Sony is inviting investors and media to the Feb 20 event; that means console announcement. I'm genuinely excited, although I will be in LA"
Geoff Keighley also mentions he too got an invite and said
"IThinkIKnowWhatsComing& quot;
2013 is going to be an exciting year!
next-gen Uncharted, Killzone, Infamous, LBP, Metal Gear, LoU(maybe?)....yes!!! YES!!!! F****** YES!!!!
pure neogaf gold
wow I'm seeing a lot of disagrees on N4G tonight. :D
Everything points to a PS4 reveal but I must say, I was hoping for an E3 unveiling. There is something magical about E3 when you announce new consoles!
That account is fake.
Also you don't invite investors to a meeting about Gaikai/software updates.
LOL ... I'm just messing.
I would like to point out though, that the teaser is 44 seconds long!!! 4.4!!!!!!!!!
PS4 for sure.
At E3 they will show even more PS4 games .
20 days!
Let the fight Begin!
The next generation starts when Sony says.
Argh! Getting that tingling feeling. Come on Sony. Show us your goods.
"See the Future" makes me think that this in some way touches the 4K experience. With the familiar PlayStation shapes, perhaps the PS4 is the first 4K media player to hit the market? If so, it seems a little early for that. So I'm hoping that the rest of the machine is a powerhouse.
I'm so hyped!! I bet live streaming is out of the question, but I sure hope some big sites are there and liveBlog it for us, with pics!!!
Ha we are desperate for anythign related to PS4. Not gonna get my hopes up, but here's hoping for something big XD.
I just can't see it not being it though, I mean "see the future", what else does that mean? maybe Gaikai stuff is ready for showing.
Shit will happen if hopes gets to high lol
I think if it was Gaikai they would wait untill E3 when the PS4 is release
"Right now that we've shown you next gen we want to show you our new feature Gaikai which will also be joining the PS family next gen....blah blah blah"
It's more like icing on the cake rather then the base
someone in neogaf discover this if you put www.us.playstation.com/ps4 it will direct you to that same page of see the future
'bryam1982 Redirects you to the playstation home page
Well, well. I doesn't do that with /ps5 nor with /ps3 ;) So, there is definitively a folder /ps4 there somewhere and it must have a default index file redirecting it to the default page...
I am so excited right now I could eat a horse.......might go to Tesco's later
What! A day after my 24th bday???
It's on my fucking birthday bro; I was born on Fabruary 20!
I guess it's wrong to be born this month xD ...
it's a lucky month for me :P . it's the revelution month of my country / college will decide if i will join them or not this month / mg rising will release in this month so i will get it as a gift and now ps4 announcement . so i dont care about disagrees :D
I'm sorry for you to have your birthday at the same month with the horrible Revolution -__-
I hope it is I hope it is!!!! As soon as Gamestop say that we can preorder PS4 I am going to reserve it before it gets sold out.
Yes it will be announced at playstation meeting at 20 feb :)
Ladies and gentlemen..... the shit has hit the fan.
How I feel right now
my heart is beating fast
we're nearly there, it's been a long time since this gen felt amazing, since Uncharted 3 in my case
I've told everybody here that Sony is going to release console this year and that they might even beat MS to punch as far as announcing it. Well, after all the disagrees it seems I was right
the gun again. We don't know what this means. While there is a chance that you're correct, there is also a chance you're not right. I honestly don't see why you would get disagrees for making a prediction anyway. Here's hoping you're right man.
"See the future."
Isn't Gaikai the future of gaming?
evactly. but the only thing is that Gaikai is a Sony thing, and not just a PlayStation thing so the announcemnt would've probably been made on the main site.
anybody noticed that the lights hitting the ps symbols, the light that hit the O was yellow not red?!?
That soon for PS4? Wow.
I think they pulled in the date. But I'm excited. We'll see. Stopping PS2 production, what they do with the PS3 right now and this is quite an indication that they'll shift to their next platform. PS3 will replace the PS2 by end of the year. Makes too much sense.
if its the ps4. which i mean...what els would it really be?,I'm gonna shit my pants.
omg. CANT WAIT!
Why don't we just rename the site to N4SN news for Sony gamers and get over it.
Can't wait man, between what Nintendo has planned for the Wii U(we don't even know what retro is working on as yet) and what Sony has in store for us with it's new console, not to mention games like The Last of Us, Beyond, GTA V, Bioshock etc. and I believe 2013 will be an amazing year for gamers.
LET ME FIND OUT that was the ps4/orbis new boot up sequence.
Oh this is gonna be fantastic. I'll refer back to this post whenever I can. The rumored CPU in both the next PS and XBOX are absolute junk. For you console kiddies you better pray these rumors aren't true
Well if its a PS4 announcement then sure MS would "win" E3 2013? As they would announce there console there where as Sony would just be showing games. Even if Sonys lineup would blow MS away. Ms would have there new console, and we all KNOW how important "winning" E3 is to some people on here :p.
I can see the comments now.. MS has just won e3 with that announcement! LOL.
Not really. SONY doesnt need much for a reveal, they could only make the meeting last 1 minute, officially say that the PS4 exists and full detail will be shown on E3. Thats it, immense hype, leaving MS to eat dust till E3.
I expect Consumers and media will see PS3 and PSVita games.
Closed doors investor meeting will see PS4 and PS4 game videos. Saved for E3 for everyone else.
I've just puked and shat myself with excitement nervous breakdown in 3,2,1 wibble,flobble,flibble......
Oh man, I'm so pumped for this. Can't wait to see what SONY has in stores.
I'm really pumped.
PlayStation 4 is coming.
Playstation 4 is coming, and the internet is cumming. Men, women and grannies and grandpas included, given the recent articles on old timers playing games still.
I'll pre-order as soon as announced, as these kinda things usually sell out. Even if it is just for a week or two.


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Icewind Dale Fixpack
The Icewind Dale Fixpack is designed to fix several bugs and errors that remain in the game after the official patches have been applied. It works with or without the expansions Heart of Winter and Trials of the Luremaster installed. In fact, many issues quietly fixed by Heart of Winter or Trials of the Luremaster have been rolled back to every version of the game.
This originally started as a component of the IWD Tweak Pack, but was broken out in to its own mod because 1) it's gotten fairly extensive on its own and 2) it should be installed right after the official patches whereas the tweaks should be last installed.
The Icewind Dale Fixpack has two components. If Heart of Winter or Trials of the Luremaster is installed, it will detect them and install relevant fixes for them as well.
A good roundup of install order for IWD mods is available on the forums.
This component contains the heavy lifting of the mod, fixing bugs and errors throughout the game. For anyone familiar with the BG2 Fixpack, the ideas behind identifying and fixing bugs is equivalent. While some bugs are clearly bugs, the mod also has a review process for 'gray area' bugs to insure that fixes do not contradict developer intent. The result is a component which aims to address true bugs only and in a manner consistent with Bioware's original goals. Complete documentation is available on the G3 web site. Additionally, the complete Fixpack forums are open, so if you want to see the reasoning behind a bugfix (or tell us we've got it all wrong), please join us on the forums and provide feedback. If you find a bug that is not fixed, please report it.
Game Text Update
This component corrects various typos, errors, and other mistakes in the game strings. (A string is any bit of text used by then engine--it could be a line of dialogue, an item description, a creature's name, etc.) A very minimalist approach has been taken, in that strings are only introduced for obvious errors and not, for example, to make formatting consistent in item descriptions. This component fixes about 400 strings, most of which were string fixes silently introduced by HoW or TotL and now applied to every engine variant. The overwhelming majority of these are to correct typos in the game though there are some notable exceptions:
- Descriptions for the Incinerator and Frostbrand omitted their fire resistance bonuses
- In HoW, the time required for Nym to enchant a shield for you was reduced from ten to three days, but one line of dialogue was not updated to reflect this change
- Haste now mentions its fatigue effect
- The description for the Mage Dagger +4 omitted its AC bonus and had incorrect damage and THAC0 bonuses
- Several spells had incorrect schools listed
This is by no means a comprehensive list.
While this component is available for all languages, only the handful of string changes (seven or less) are actually applied to non-English games. However, the framework is in place to expand these components (and languages can alter strings independent of one another) so if any translating groups want to put together a GTU for their language, I'll be happy to include it in future versions.
Regardless, for any language variant, I'll happily take corrections and fixes in the mod forum.