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Yes, sometimes the data gets downloaded before the helmet comes off.
Editor's Note: Freewheeling is the new column of features editor Jason Sumner. Once a week (usually) he'll use this space to prattle on about all things cycling, be them interesting, innovative, inane or annoying. If you have a comment or question, or just want to sound off, drop a note in the comments section below.
With all due respect to my colleague Kurt (whose opinion can be found here), I must take exception with his contention that the burgeoning age of Strava is going to spell the end to enjoyable cycling as we know it. It's not Strava that sucks, it's some of the people who use (and occasionally abuse) the social bike ride sharing service that suck. And you have to separate the two.
Of course there are people out there who've become so addicted to their Strava identity that every ride is a do-or-die race. Sure there are idiots who roar around singletrack trails, yelling "Strava, Strava!" during juvenile quests for a new PR or KoM. And yes, there are those stupid enough to upload data from rides on illegal trails, even though it's cycling's version of stealing a car and then driving it past the police station a few times. But in case you haven't noticed, human beings aren't always the smartest creatures. Why else would Honey Boo Boo be a household name?
To say that Strava is itself bad because some people behave badly when using it is akin to saying beer is bad because some people drink too much and then wrap their car around a telephone pole. We all know telephones poles will remain forever endangered, but I certainly don't want to outlaw beer.
Strava is a cheap and easy way to keep track of those rare best-day-ever rides.
Frankly, I like Strava. It provides an entertaining mix of friendly competition among friends, a comprehensive on-line ride diary of one's cycling adventures, and a means to suss out road routes and singletrack trails in unfamiliar locales. And if you're the training type, there are lots of ways to track progress, parse power data, and generally keep tabs on whether all those intervals are paying off. It's a tool, nothing more.
People who take it more seriously than that are likely the same folks who can't seem to grasp the uphill-rider-has-right-of-way rule, or the ones that bark out peloton position commands during casual weekend group rides. Dicks are dicks. That'll never change.
But for every "Stravaddict" as my colleague calls them, there are people who've been introduced to the service and in turn been inspired to ride more, train more, and explore more. That's what cycling is all about. So why discourage something that encourages that.
Perhaps some of my casual attitude is the fact that I live in a place (Boulder, Colorado) where the odds of me bagging a meaningful Strava KoM are about as likely as me bagging Kate Upton. Just ain't gonna happen. Boulder is overrun with fast people (WorldTour pros, wannabe pros, uber fit self-employed "consultants," unemployed Ironmen, and so on). I am not one of those people.
But even for cyclist's who don't live in places where the average lactate threshold is 320 watts (and thus can contest KoMs), I honestly believe most users keep the usefulness of Strava in perspective. Sure grabbing a spot on top of a leaderboard is kind of cool. But the majority of cyclists are smart enough to know the difference between the Col du Coffee Shop and Alpe d'Huez.
For most people, the top of any meaningful leaderboard is a pipedream.
When I want to see how I measure up, I rely on the Strava feature that allows one to distill data down to more manageable metrics. Instead of competing against all of Boulder County, I drill down to only people I follow (my friends) or people of my peer group (40-plus, 170 pounds-plus). And even then, I'm usually off the back.
But mostly, what I like about Strava is it gives me (and the rest of the people who use it responsibly) a way to keep track of saddle time. I'm not going to lie, come cycling season, I make a point of trying to gain little fitness and maybe even enter a race of two (mountain, road and 'cross). For that, Strava is a cheap, convenient, and easy way to monitor how things are progressing. And there's certainly nothing wrong with little motivation. Sure I could use a wristwatch, map, pen, and abacus to figure that all out. But honestly, what's wrong with embracing a little 21st century technology.
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The airline also said in a statement Friday on its website that all of its European flights "will be taking alternative routes avoiding the usual route."
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Recent deaths punctuate concerns over use of 'Molly'
By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
It's promoted to the young, club-going crowd as the hip and happy "love drug" with the cute name - Molly.
Seemingly harmless, Molly can pack a lethal punch, as seen in the last 12 days, when two female New Hampshire university students apparently overdosed on it at nightclubs in Boston and New York City.
"Young people believe it is not harmful," said Anthony Pettigrew, spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's New England division in Boston.
Molly is the purest form of MDMA - the same drug used in Ecstasy - and is either sold as a crystallized white powder that is snorted or in capsules that are swallowed, said detective Sgt. Brian K. LeVeille, who oversees undercover drug operations for the Manchester Police Department's Special Investigations Unit. It sells for $80 to $100 a gram, he said.
While promoted as the "fun drug" because it creates sensations of euphoria, reduced inhibition, sexual arousal and intimacy, a single dose can kill, drug investigators said.
That's because dealers frequently mix Molly with other agents - such as methamphetamine, ketamine, even rat poison - often to boost their profits, they said.
"This isn't made by master chemists. This stuff is made by drug dealers,'' said Pettigrew. "What makes it so harmful is it's basically a bunch of chemicals mixed together and you don't know what's in it."
The drug also causes the body's internal temperature to rise to dangerously high levels, especially when taken in high doses or during exertion, such as dancing, LeVeille explained. That's why users often take breaks and drink a lot of water or Gatorade, he said. Mixing MDMA with alcohol increases dehydration.
"You pretty much know an MDMA overdose. Usually, the person dies as a result of a body temperature of upwards of 108, 109 and 110 degrees," LeVeille said.
"It basically cooks you from the inside out," he added.
The drug has soared in the public eye since Plymouth State University sophomore Brittany Flannigan, 19, of Derry died from an apparent overdose at the House of Blues in Boston Aug. 28. Three days later, University of New Hampshire junior Olivia Rotondo, 20, of North Providence, R.I., died at a New York concert, also from an apparent overdose.
Worried about the club drug's potential dangers, Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas met with Verizon Wireless Arena general manager Tim Bechert last week and expressed his concerns about Barstool Blackout Tour's electronic music performance scheduled for Sept. 28. The show was canceled Tuesday.
Media attention given Molly overdose deaths - as tragic as they are - could skew perceptions of Molly's foothold in New Hampshire and distract attention from the leading illicit drugs that claim scores of lives a year, law enforcers warn.
Police chiefs, local and state drug investigators generally agree Molly is on the streets - particularly among youth in nightclubs - but its use pales in comparison with heroin, cocaine, oxycodone and marijuana. And it accounts for few arrests compared with these other drugs, they said.
"Is there Molly here in Portsmouth? Most certainly there is. There is also a lot of heroin. There is a lot of heroin out there. People die from overdoses of heroin every day," said Portsmouth police Capt. Michael Schwartz, who oversees the Detective Division.
The number of people dying from drug overdoses in New Hampshire has tripled, from the 50 reported in 1995, when the state first began tracking these deaths, to an estimated 160 last year, said Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jennie V. Duval.
In none of these deaths was MDMA - either as Molly or Ecstasy - solely to blame, Duval said. MDMA was identified as one of several drugs found in the bodies of five people who died between 2002 and 2011, she said.
In comparison, heroin has been one of the leading killers of drug users for years, Duval said. Heroin, or other opiates, were the cause of 46 of the 160 overdose deaths in 2012, she said. She expects it will top the list again in 2013.
But heroin deaths are largely ignored, partly because addicts tend to be homeless and unemployed and are often committing many of the burglaries plaguing the state, said Lt. John A. Encarnacao, commander of the New Hampshire State Police Narcotics and Investigations Unit.
"When you have a college-aged person who seems do be doing OK ... they seem to have a job and they decide to ingest something ... that kills them ... people relate to that,'' said Encarnacao. "They say, 'Oh, my God. This is something that is terrible.' They are right. It is terrible. But it is nothing worse than the heroin epidemic we have with all these junkies that are killing themselves.".
Law enforcers agree, however, that the apparent Molly overdoses offer strong warnings to high school- and college-age youths and their parents.
"This is the perfect opportunity for parents to talk to their kids about Molly - that it is not harmless, that it can kill you," Pettigrew said.
Molly reportedly gets its name from "molecule" because it is promoted as the purest form of MDMA with no additives, such as methamphetamine or ketamine, Pettigrew said.
The fallacy, he said, is that "since it's the 'purest,' you don't have to worry about using it since it's not contaminated with those other substances. Of course, the reality is you don't know what you're getting, what is in it ... and one dose can kill you."
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I'll admit it: I don't bring my lunch to work every day; and some days, I just skip lunch altogether. But I do know that when I pack a lunch, I instantly feel like I got ten points, like I'm a slightly better person, as if the world were just a little brighter that day. Bonus? I always eat better.
Moral of the story: brown bag it; it feels so good.
This week we've been covering all things lunch on TheKitchn.com. There are lots of roundups, from this collection of nine DIY deli meat recipes to this beautiful post about lunches under 400 calories (light never looked so luxurious!).
To get us all in the brown-bagging mood, I decided to do my own roundup of recipes from our site that work well in the lunchbox, including several light and vegetarian options.
1. On-the-Go Recipe: Apple-Arugula Salad Wraps
2. Recipe: Farmer's Lunch Sandwich
3. Recipe: Cauliflower & Italian Sausage Casserole
4. Cuban Sandwich
5. Cheese & Onion Sandwich
6. Tempeh Deli Salad
7. What to Put on a Fresh Vegetable Sandwich
8. Rolled Grilled Sandwiches with Pork, Green Beans & Goat Cheese
9. Big Green Salad with Shallots, Chicken, Smoked Almonds, Goat Cheese, & Dates
10. Barley Salad with Green Garlic & Snap Peas
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Once school lets out on Wednesdays, 40-some fourth- and fifth-graders from Fennville Elementary School gather for the Battle of the Books.
It�s a faceoff between the Purple Page Turners and the Book Bandits, the Blackhawk Bookworms and the Rapid Readers. One team member gets tongue-tied on an author�s name. Another hears the question, puts her hands up to her mouth and whispers to her teammates, "I know it, I know it!"
The quiz bowl-like reading program, in its third year, was started by second grade teacher Frank Andrews and school volunteer Carol Josefowicz.
Josefowicz saw how well-received the program was when her now adult children were in grade school, so she suggested Fennville adopt a similar program.
"It�s something my own kids did many years ago in Elmhurst, Ill. It enriched their lives," she said. "It�s a wonderful, wonderful program."
Teams of four to six students are tasked with reading 15 young adult novels over the course of two months.
Andrews, Josefowicz and Fennville District Library�s youth librarian Karmen Kooyers select the books, making sure to choose a variety, including historical fiction, classics and realistic fiction.
After the two months are up, that�s when the teams begin battling.
Armed with matching colored T-shirts, the teams go head to head for five weeks, answering questions about the book�characters, settings, themes and plots. Students learn fundamental reading skills through the process.
"You get to read more and learn new stuff (and) new words," said 10-year-old Yorelies Macias, a member of team Everlasting Readers.
The Battle of the Books program is successful for many reasons, program leaders agree, but having young students learn how to function well in a team environment is one of the most important.
"I think one of the fun things about that grade level is that so many of their peers are also participating. At that age, peer support is really important," Kooyers said. "It�s an activity that brings them together with peers and they support each other."
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Book battle at Fennville Elementary combines friendly competition, reading
Once school lets out on Wednesdays, 40-some fourth- and fifth-graders from Fennville Elementary School gather for the Battle of the Books.


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|2012-07-02, 12:38
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
So, you may have liked the ending but I'm not supposed to read on for my own good? You didn't like the ending and I'm not supposed to form my own judgement? I'm "cool and superior" because I don't trust your judgement since you provide no basis for me to trust your judgement?
... and please stop confusing your opinion as "fact" You have an opinion about the story, that's fine, there's a wide range of opinions on Usagi Drop.
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|2012-07-02, 13:44
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2008
If I don't give any information about why I hate it, I don't really see how you can conclude that I dislike it "because X".
You're the one making no sense :
"Don't read it, it's crap !"
"Hey, unlike you I'm able to enjoy works that aren't childish fantasy land ! I am mature enough to appreciate them and hence don't need some predictable happy ending !"
"Err... Where did I say that I considered it crap because of supposed lack of happy ending ?"
"Oh well, it was the only logical deduction !"
Though if that is your idea of logic, maybe you'll actually like the ending, after all.
Anyway, I'm giving you the advice of not reading the ending because there is a very strong chance that it will ruins the whole story for you. Now if you are so eager to just jump on any occasion to transform it into some kind of chest-banging contest, I'll just shrug and give up. My intent was simply to attempt to shield people from extreme disappointment, not to one-up anyone.
Everything can be rationalized away if someone is intent enough to do it. Some pointless details can be blown out of proportion to be claimed as "evidence" while much more numerous and strongly-standing pillars of the story can be ignored, if someone wants it.
But the last part of the Usagi Drop manga is just so full of contradiction with the premisses, and in such complete disconnect with the whole rest of the work, that I don't really see how to call it anything other than "fact", save for the persons that will try to dissect it to find reasons to fuel some kind of rationalization as said above.
|2012-07-03, 09:28
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Well... the implied suggestion that if I don't arrive at the same conclusions he has that I'm stupid and the accompanied insults certainly validate his assertions...
Never mind that this is the anime thread... not the manga thread.
If it is written poorly, it certainly wouldn't be the first time I've run into annoying writing. The first manga I ever read had me curling my lips at the author's inept jerking around the characters. His "intended ending" no longer made sense because he'd gone in another direction too well and it was quite a trainwreck forcing it back.
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|2012-07-05, 09:25
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Monarch of Rughzenhaide
Leaving aside the discussion about manga, the Usagi Drop anime was the best slice of life/drama of 2011 with Hourou Musuko and Colorful (film) being honorable mentions. Realistic, heartwarming, likable and an adult male lead that you could associate yourself with, it never dwelled into melodrama nor did it go overboard with its comedy. It was the anime that gave me a smile every Friday (I think that's when it aired) and I have gladly bought the DVDs which were available in my country, and I have absolutely no regrets.
It was best series to have aired on noitamina in a while, and we haven't had anything since then that could beat it (Sakamichi no Appollon could not touch it imo due to its somewhat poor pacing and terrible last episode). I fully endorse it and approve of it winning the slice of life award for the Animesuki Awards 2011.
|2012-08-08, 10:37
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Those of us who pre-ordered the NISA release of Usagi Drop should see their copies arriving any day now. If you're looking to purchase the show now, you'll have to wait until September since NISA has apparently already sold out the entire first pressing. Robert of Robert's Anime Corner Store reports reports on his blog that Usagi Drop "has been the most heavily pre-ordered title for us so far this year." I find it both remarkable and a hopeful sign that a show about a thirty-year-old man and five-year-old girl without ecchi, fighting or dubbing reached the top spot instead of (dubbed) shows like Panty & Stocking.
|2012-08-08, 10:46
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
The show fared decently on BD/DVD in Japan, actually - not great, but better than most NoitaminA works - so this isn't a complete shock. But yes, a very hopeful sign.
I'd like to see NoitaminA air an adaptation of the second half of the manga, just because it would look like "Scanners" in here...
|2012-08-08, 18:48
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Anyways I am happy to say my copy is on its way.
|2012-08-09, 06:17
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|2012-08-09, 17:58
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Got mine in the mail today, there is an interview in the art book with practically everyone involved with the anime: director, key animation director/character designer, screenwriter, opening sequence directors, & Yumi Hotta the manga-ka.
I am very impressed!
There is also something on the ending sequence with images of all the little changes made to the ending each episode.
|2012-09-24, 16:42
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 35
So, I read the manga a while ago, including the whole slice of life -> josei transition (which I had mixed feelings about, but could understand) .. but only just recently watched the anime!
How charming it is! It, of course, reminds me of Aishiteruze Baby! but.. the pastels, the animation usage of SD faces and Daikichi's deadpan expressions totally made it for me. It definitely brought a smile to my face and made me nostalgic (or dreaming..) for simpler times..
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I recently had a chance to watch the Live Action version of the film very recently on the big screens so I'll just cross-post my quick thoughts on it here
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IT Support
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Location: Italy
Age: 28
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AS Oji-kun
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kache, please wrap your entire post in AnimeSuki's custom [images][/images] tags. Remember that we still have members on low-speed Internet connections and ones who pay for the bandwidth they use. The special [images] tag only downloads the image when the tag is opened.
Personally, I try to resize all the images I post to a width of 640 pixels. Posting full 1920x1080 frames is really overkill.
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Christopher Leonard's new exposé on the chicken industry, The Meat Racket, doesn't devote much ink to the physical object on our plate, the chicken meat itself.
Instead, Leonard focuses on the economic machinery that delivers the meat to us, or, as he puts it, "the hidden power structure that has quietly reshaped U.S. rural economies while gaining unprecedented control over the nation's meat supply." His book aims a spotlight at Tyson Foods, which helped create the modern chicken industry. And it recounts the stories of people, mostly farmers, whom Leonard contends Tyson has chewed up and cast aside since its incorporation in 1947.
Leonard, now a fellow at the New America Foundation, once worked for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, covering business news in Tyson's home territory. And there's a note of admiration in Leonard's description of Don Tyson, the man who drove the company's rise to global superpower of meat after taking over the company when his father, John, died in 1967.
"I think he was a genius," Leonard tells NPR's Renée Montagne on Morning Edition. "Don Tyson had the ability to see the world as it did not yet exist. He saw that chicken would soon replace beef or pork as the most popular meat in the United States." (For more, listen to the entire interview.)
Leonard has no admiration at all, though, for the system of chicken production that Tyson built, which "keeps farmers in a state of indebted servitude, living like modern-day sharecroppers on the ragged edge of bankruptcy."
Leonard's criticisms are not new. Activist groups devoted to farmers' rights, such as Rural Advancement Foundation International and the Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy, have been fighting against concentration in the poultry and meat-packing industries for many years. In the early days of the Obama administration, the Department of Agriculture and the Justice Department held public hearings on alleged abuses by companies that dominate the meat business. Just a few weeks ago, the Pew Charitable Trusts released its own critique of the broiler industry.
Leonard's book, however, is probably the most detailed account of the inner workings of Tyson, as well as the relationship between poultry companies and the not-so-independent farmers who actually raise the birds. That relationship is often called "contract farming." It was invented by the poultry industry, but is now gaining ground in the pork and beef industries, too.
In this system, the farmer owns the chicken houses, but the poultry companies are very much in control. They deliver the chicks on their own schedule — in fact, they aren't required to deliver any flocks at all. They supply the feed, and the feed additives.
Leonard depicts that relationship as something like a con game run by the companies for their own benefit. "Almost invariably, from everything I've seen, the farmer loses," he told Morning Edition. "The farmer takes the brunt of the volatility; the farmer swallows the worst of the losses when there is a problem with their chickens."
Leonard tells the stories of farmers who've fallen into bankruptcy, and implies that this outcome is almost inevitable. The National Chicken Council, an industry lobbying group, responded with two pages of quotes from poultry producers who stoutly defend the contract growing systems. It also pointed out that when grain prices spiked a few years ago, chicken companies ate huge losses, while contract farmers, who didn't have to pay directly for the feed, were protected.
Tyson, in a separate statement, said "we depend on [contract farmers] and want them to succeed. Some of them have been raising livestock and poultry for us for decades, and in some cases, for multiple generations."
The Meat Racket's description of the problems with contract farming is more convincing than its ideas for how to build a better, more equitable alternative. Leonard, for instance, endorses the modest reforms put in place in Iowa, which guarantee farmers certain rights, such as the right to share contract information. But those reforms don't touch the basic shape of the system.
His more ambitious hope is for a revival of free markets in meat production instead of vertically integrated supply chains run by big companies. Yet it's unclear whether this would really improve things. Competition among farmers is a brutal reality of commodity production; as farmers push to become more efficient, it drives down prices and pushes the weakest out of the business. In poultry, the companies run that competition; in many other commodities, free markets do the job.
Few American consumers seem to care very much about that. After all, if competition keeps prices low, why should they complain?
Leonard thinks the situation has changed, and that poultry superpowers now are using their power to raise chicken prices, squeezing consumers as well as farmers. Yet the industry's ability to protect its profits still seems limited. Five years ago, one of the biggest poultry companies in the country, Pilgrim's Pride, actually went bankrupt when feed prices soared.
Pilgrim's Pride was snapped up by JBS, a Brazil-based multinational. It's now the biggest producer of meat in the world, ahead of Tyson. Increasing concentration in the meat industry, once fueled by Don Tyson's ambition, continues even without him.
A trip to the grocery store offers what appears to be an abundance of chicken choices - from patties to pot pie, tenders to Cornish hens. The selection can almost be overwhelming. But you can count on just one hand the number of food companies producing those choices.
In his new book, "The Meat Racket," author Christopher Leonard investigates the handful of companies that have taken control of the meat supply, focusing especially on Tyson Foods. Behind that household name was a man Leonard calls a genius, Don Tyson.
CHRISTOPHER LEONARD: Don Tyson had the ability to see the world as it did not yet exist. And the most important thing he saw, back in the 1960s, was that chicken would soon replace beef or pork as the most popular meat in the United States.
MONTAGNE: The idea was not common wisdom at the time. Up until the 1940s, chicken was reserved for special occasions.
LEONARD: It was a specialty meat. It's what you would cook for a nice Sunday dinner. Back then, you would typically cook a whole bird. It was a luxury item. I mean, when people talked about having a chicken in every pot, that was sort of a marker for affluence. But that really changed in the '40s and '50s, when these farmers in the South figured out how to raise chicken more efficiently.
MONTAGNE: Well, you refer to raising chickens, especially in the early days, as a casino.
LEONARD: Yeah, absolutely. The market was very volatile. When supply outstripped demand even by a little bit, the price of chicken would just drop through the floor. And it was hard to gauge production exactly right.
MONTAGNE: Well, this has to do with the fact that with a cow, you're talking anywhere from many months to a couple of years. I mean, you can raise a chicken and get it ready to be slaughtered in six weeks.
LEONARD: That's right. You can almost respond to the market in real time with a chicken. And in the early days, that's exactly what the industry looked like - this boom-and-bust-type cycle of people seeing good prices, ramping up production, creating an oversupply; and then prices would fall again.
MONTAGNE: So this is what the Tysons - John Tyson and son Don Tyson - figured out, that other companies copied - or tried to copy, but that they helped start; this idea that you had to count for this volatile market in the chickens themselves by doing what?
LEONARD: Well, this company, Tyson Foods, started in John Tyson's living room in the 1930s in rural Springdale, Ark. This was a hard place. Don Tyson did not grow up rich. And one thing he focused on relentlessly was keeping down costs - because what he learned was that the market would get good, and everybody would jump in and companies would get fat, and everybody made a lot of money but inevitably, the market would crash again. And the companies that survived were the low-cost producers.
MONTAGNE: OK. Nice thought. I suppose everybody, in a way, thought that. What Don Tyson figured out to do was to buy up every stage of production, even including the eggs that created the chicks. They had the feed. They had the slaughterhouses. They had the delivery systems. But the one thing they chose not to own were the farms. Why, exactly? Give us a little economics lesson here.
LEONARD: First of all, you have to have a lot of land to have an industrial chicken complex. I mean, farm is kind of a bad word for these meat factories - is really what they are. They're these giant, automated warehouses that can hold maybe 25,000 or more chickens at a time. And Tyson Foods realized that it was kind of a rotten investment to build chicken farms.
So Tyson developed a system over time, that's really called contract farming. And here's how it works: A person in a small town will borrow hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of dollars from the local bank. They'll build a giant industrial footprint of chicken houses; and then they sign a contract with Tyson Foods, which will deliver the chickens to their farm, deliver the feed to their farm. And the farmer grows the birds to Tyson's exacting specifications.
MONTAGNE: Well, you describe the system - which, by the way, is not exclusive to Tyson - as something close to modern-day sharecroppers.
LEONARD: That's exactly what it is - a high-tech form of sharecropping. And the farmers in this kind of contract system have almost zero autonomy over their operations. They can't control the quality of the chicks that arrive. They can't control the quality of the feed. When things go wrong, they depend on Tyson Foods to tell them what goes wrong. But you point to a critical outcome of this, which is that the farmers do not keep the majority of the income from their farm.
MONTAGNE: But how many other companies in the meat industry follow this example?
LEONARD: Just three firms produce almost half the chicken in the United States. Back in the '70s, you know, nearly 40 companies controlled that much of the market. So what that means is, these companies act as regional monopolies. You can go to any chicken town, and you'll find that a farmer will have a choice between one, maybe two, chicken companies to sign a contract with, if they're lucky. So that's one of the key reasons why the terms of these contracts have become less and less advantageous to farmers over time.
MONTAGNE: I mean, isn't the beauty of this system, though, that the chicken's cheaper, and that's a good thing for consumers?
LEONARD: No, it's not. (Laughter)
LEONARD: Chicken is not cheaper today. Meat prices have been rising very fast since 2008.
MONTAGNE: But chicken, not as much as other kinds of meat, right? And also, wouldn't it have gotten more expensive if this industry wasn't so centralized?
LEONARD: Chicken is relatively cheap today. It's cheaper than it was many, many decades ago, even though it's at nominal record-high prices right now. But you're right, the American food system is a technological marvel. I mean, it does an incredible job at giving us meat that is more or less safe, at a predictable price, that's relatively cheap to our incomes.
But I can say, chicken would be cheaper today if this industry was not so consolidated. You've got these giant companies whose reach spans out across 22 percent of the entire market. So a single company can cut its production and keep prices higher than they would be. A highly consolidated and monopolistic industry is not good for consumers.
MONTAGNE: I wonder how difficult it is for any person to opt out of the system; to steer clear of buying and eating meat produced by these enormous meat companies.
LEONARD: I have concluded that the only way to truly opt out of the system is to become vegetarian. If you're eating meat today, unless you know the farmer and that's the only meat you eat, you're participating in this industrial system. All of the unlabeled meat that is served in our restaurants, cafeterias, hospitals, at the grocery store - it all comes from industrial companies. And so I think we need to take a hard look at this system that delivers most of our meat to giant cities seven days a week, 52 weeks a year.
MONTAGNE: Thank you very much for joining us.
LEONARD: Thanks so much for having me.
MONTAGNE: Christopher Leonard is the author of the new book "The Meat Racket." We reached out to Tyson Foods before our interview, and you can find their written statement at NPR.org.
MONTAGNE: This is NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Michigan Technological University and General Motors are sponsoring a High School Enterprise Showcase on Thursday, May 3 in the GM Renaissance Center in Detroit. Teams of high school students from Detroit, elsewhere in Michigan, and as far away as Puerto Rico, Atlanta and Chicago will present their work to find scientific and technological solutions to real-world problems in business and industry.
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are gateways to the future. So why, thought Michigan Tech, should students have to wait until they are in college to find out how STEM studies can be turned into exciting, rewarding careers?
So Michigan Tech developed the High School Enterprise program to give high school students a taste of what life is like as a working scientist, technologist or engineer. Like the successful Michigan Tech Undergraduate Enterprise Program on which it is modeled, High School Enterprise teams tackle real-world problems provided by industry sponsors. Organized like a business, the student team will apply what they've learned in class to developing workable, marketable technological solutions.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the project with a $1.6 million grant.
The program's goal is to motivate high school students to pursue education and careers in the STEM fields, to help provide a skilled, technologically savvy workforce.
High School Enterprise is a four-way partnership involving the student team, the University, industry and the community. Each participating high school forms a student team with a teacher/coach.
Because each school and community varies in size, economic resources and access to industry sponsors, the High School Enterprise Program has developed flexible funding and sponsorship models, including corporate founders, corporate sustaining partners, regional corporate partners and small business/booster club supporters.
Corporate founders, like GM, sponsor projects that align closely with their business interests. They also provide support to promote STEM workforce education and development.
"GM eagerly jumped at the opportunity to be the first corporate host for the HSE Showcase," said Jason Nolte, GM performance engineer and event coordinator. "It is a great opportunity for the students and supports early STEM education awareness."
Terry Woychowski, GM vice president, global quality and vehicle launches, will host the wrap-up program, and US Representative Hansen Clarke is scheduled to speak. Michigan Senator Hoon-Yung Hopgood is also scheduled to attend.
The 12 High School Enterprise teams exhibiting their projects at the May 3 Showcase in Detroit include:
- Dollar Bay High School, Dollar Bay, Mich., where students are working on zebra mussel mitigation at Isle Royale National Park, designing remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to monitor, research and help park rangers locate the invasive species
- University Prep High School, Detroit, Mich., where students are converting a battery powered vehicle to perform autonomously.
- Manuela Toro Morice High School, Caguas, Puerto Rico, where students are developing a lightweight, cost-effective, human-powered commuting vehicle for use in urban areas. This team partnered with the students from University Prep High School.
Doug Oppliger, who teaches engineering fundamentals at Michigan Tech, heads the High School Enterprise project. Oppliger is a registered professional engineer with 12 years of K-12 science and math teaching experience and five years in industry.
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The influential Serbian Orthodox Church appealed Saturday against a deal with Kosovo Albanians that would pave the way for Serbia's European Union membership.
The EU has given Serbia until Tuesday to say whether it would relinquish the control of northern of Kosovo — one of the most difficult issues dividing the former Serbian province — in exchange for the start of Serbia's EU membership negotiations.
Talks between Serbian and Kosovo officials on the issue broke down last week in Brussels and Serbian leaders have since been debating whether to accept or reject the deal which they describe as "catastrophic" and unfair.
Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej said in a letter addressed to Serbian leaders that they shouldn't "give up, sell or betray" Kosovo for a "murky" EU membership promise.
Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008, is considered by nationalists to be the cradle of Serbian medieval statehood and religion. It has been recognized by more than 90 countries including the U.S. and 22 of the EU's 27 members. But because of a blockade by Serbian allies Russia and China in the Security Council, Kosovo is not a U.N. member.
Serbia relinquished the control of most of Kosovo in 1999 when NATO chased its troops out of the region after a three-month bombing campaign. Ending the partition of Kosovo between the Albanian majority and the Serb-controlled north — about a fifth of the country — is a key condition of Serbia's further progress toward EU membership.
The Serbian church leader said that the country's political leadership "has no mandate to accept the conditions that have never been rendered to any other EU candidate country."
"The price is too high," Irinej said. "Serbia should not accept to pay that price for goods that may never be delivered."
Serbian officials said they would on Monday decide whether to accept or reject the deal.


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PARIS (AP) — Is there such a thing as too sacred to sell? That's the question a French judge could answer Friday in a potentially landmark decision in Paris on whether dozens of Native American tribal masks can go up for auction.
The masks are undoubtedly striking pieces of art — surreal faces made from wood, leather, horse hair and feathers — and painted in vivid pigments of red, blue, yellow and orange. But to Arizona's Hopi Indians they are also stolen spiritual vessels, and they want them back.
The case has drawn ire on both sides of the Atlantic, with art experts, Native American activists, and even Robert Redford weighing in on who is the rightful owner. In an 11th hour appeal Thursday evening, the U.S. Ambassador to France sent a letter to both the French government and the auction house asking for a delay to the sale.
A lawyer for the Hopi Tribe and the association Survival International argued at a hearing Thursday that the items are "unsellable" under French law because of their spiritual value. He called for the auction to be suspended so that their origin can be determined.
But auctioneer Gilles Neret-Minet at the Drouot auction house says a ruling to stop the sale of artifacts owned by an anonymous French citizen would have trans-Atlantic repercussions, and potentially force French museums to empty out their collections.
"If we lose this case, there will be no more sales of objects of indigenous art in France," Neret-Minet said. "I guess that museums will be obliged to give back their collections. It's major ... It would be terrible for the art market in general."
The 70 objects, mainly Hopi, went on display for the first time as the court battle kicked off on Thursday, offering a rare public glimpse of such works in Europe. They date to the late 19th century and early 20th century, and are thought to have been taken from a northern Arizona reservation in the 1930s and 1940s. The most expensive single mask is estimated to be worth at least 50,000 euros ($66,000).
The Associated Press is not transmitting images of the objects because the Hopi have long kept the items out of public view and consider it sacrilegious for any images of the objects to appear.
If the judge rules in the auction house's favor on Friday, the items will go up for sale within hours.
Neret-Minet insisted the auction would be "a beautiful homage" to the Hopis. But Hopi representatives don't think that's enough. They want the auction house to prove the masks weren't stolen — through certificates of ownership, for example.
They say the masks have a special status, and are far more than just art: They are their dead ancestors' spirits.
"This is not just an art object, artifact or something that you hang on the wall or wear on the day of a wedding. This is where the spirit of the dead communicates with the living," said the tribe's French lawyer, Pierre Servan-Schreiber, outside the courtroom Thursday. "Under French law, you cannot sell or purchase a tomb."
He said the masks were never sold or given away, and "clearly" belong to the Hopis: "It's impossible for those masks to have left the tribe without (someone) violating some law."
The tribe's chairman, Le Roy Shingoitewa, said only a Hopi has the right to possess them.
"Given the importance of these ceremonial objects to Hopi religion, you can understand why ... they (Hopis) regard an auction not as homage but as a desecration to our religion," said Shingoitewa in a letter written to the auction house last week.
The Hopi camp are hoping an individual or organization will step in to buy back the objects for the tribe, since they don't have enough money.
Hollywood star Redford on Thursday wrote a letter protesting plans to sell off the masks, calling the proposed sale "sacrilege" — and even a "criminal gesture." Redford condemned the looming auction in Paris and warned of "grave moral consequences" if it went ahead.
Describing himself "as a close friend of the... Hopi culture," Redford wrote that the masks "belong to the Hopi and the Hopi alone."
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Associated Press writer Felicia Fonseca in Flagstaff, Arizona, contributed to this report.


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OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma's attorney general agreed Thursday to a six-month stay of execution for a death row inmate while an investigation is conducted into last week's botched lethal injection.
Attorney General Scott Pruitt's office filed court documents saying it wouldn't object to a 180-day stay of execution being sought by attorneys for inmate Charles Warner. While the stay request only applies to Warner, Pruitt and Gov. Mary Fallin have said the state will not carry out any executions until the investigation is complete, which is expected to take at least eight weeks.
Warner was scheduled for execution on the same night last week as Clayton Lockett in what would have been the state's first double execution since 1937. But Lockett's vein collapsed during his lethal injection, prompting prison officials to halt the execution. He later died of a heart attack.
Fallin then issued a two-week stay of execution for Warner, but his attorneys asked for a six-month delay. Pruitt's office agreed in a motion filed with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals, and if the court agrees, Warner's execution would be postponed until Nov. 13.
"Should additional time be needed for the implementation of any changes or adjustments, the state will request it," Assistant Attorney General Seth Branham wrote.
The investigation into Lockett's botched execution is expected to take between eight and 12 weeks and will include an autopsy and toxicology tests on Lockett, said Capt. George Brown, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety, which is conducting the probe.
Lockett writhed on the gurney, gritted his teeth, lifted his head several times and moaned before dying of an apparent heart attack 43 minutes after the start of his execution. A doctor inside the death chamber during the execution reported that Lockett's vein collapsed and some of the lethal drugs were absorbed into his tissue or leaked out. It was the first time the state had ever used the sedative midazolam as the first in a three-drug lethal injection protocol.
The curtains that allow witnesses to view the execution were closed about 16 minutes into the lethal injection, after Lockett had been showing signs of distress for several minutes. The director of the state's prison system, Robert Patton, then called off the execution, but Lockett died about 10 minutes later.
Patton released a report saying Lockett had an intravenous tap placed at his groin because suitable veins couldn't be found elsewhere in his body. That vein collapsed, and Patton said Lockett didn't have another viable one — and that the state didn't have another dose of the drugs available.
Patton has called for an "indefinite stay" while the state reviews its execution procedures and trains its staff on new protocols.
Warner's attorney, Madeline Cohen, said she was pleased the attorney general agreed to the 180-day stay, but she noted Warner still is scheduled to die on Tuesday.
"The court needs to rule and get this execution stayed so that Mr. Warner does not have a Tuesday execution hanging over his head," Cohen said. "Then there needs to be a full, and hopefully independent, investigation."
Cohen and attorneys for Lockett are among those who have criticized Fallin for tapping one of her cabinet members, Secretary of Safety and Security Michael Thompson, to head up the investigation. Thompson is a former Department of Corrections employee and witnessed Lockett's execution.
Fallin has said that while she is willing to delay Warner's execution until the investigation is finished, she remains a supporter of the death penalty and believes a majority of Oklahomans also support it.
"Charles Warner had his day in court," Fallin said last week. "He committed a horrible crime: the physical abuse, rape and murder of an 11-month-old infant. His fellow Oklahomans have sentenced him to death, and we expect that sentence to be carried out as required by law."
Warner was convicted of raping and killing his roommate's 11-month-old daughter in 1997. He has maintained his innocence.
Lockett was convicted of shooting 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman and watching as two accomplices buried her alive in rural Kay County in 1999.
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In 1867, Ephraim Williams (1837-1902) was serving as first lieutenant in the United States Army in the New Mexico Territory where he protected frontier settlements against Apache attacks. In this letter to his sister, Williams, a New England Protestant, reports with disdain on the Good Friday and Easter traditions in the heavily Catholic New Mexico. He also describes the funeral procession of Captain Mc Rae, a Union officer who was killed by Confederate troops in the Battle of Valverde, five years earlier, in 1862. In this battle, Confederate troops led by General Henry Hopkins Sibley invaded the New Mexico Territory to cut off communications of Union troops at Fort Craig with those at Santa Fe. The Confederate forces succeeded in this battle only to retreat back to El Paso, Texas three months later. Williams is lonely and longs for companionship from "the States" which underscores that he sees himself residing on foreign soil.
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IUCN-The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland, 29 October 2003. IUCN's Species Survival Commission (SSC) is joining forces with the Perry Institute for Marine Science to help protect the world's oceans through research, and the development and promotion of conservation efforts for threatened marine species.
As the threat of extinction increases for a wide variety of marine species, the alliance between the Florida-based Perry Institute and the IUCN/SSC will support critical scientific efforts to identify threatened marine species worldwide. Prioritization for conservation of these species is promoted through SSC's Specialist Groups and other conservation organizations.
Currently, the SSC marine Specialist Groups focus on cetaceans, seals, sirenians, marine turtles, sharks, groupers and wrasses, and coral reef and Caribbean fishes. Threatened marine species, identified by these and additional SSC experts, will be included in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the world's most authoritative and comprehensive list of species at risk of extinction.
"As the number of marine additions to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species increases each year, it is essential that conservation organizations team up to pool their resources and knowledge. This new partnership is an extremely welcome step towards implementing SSC's marine programme priorities, which work to prevent the wave of extinctions in the marine realm," said SSC Chair, David Brackett.
"It is clear that international cooperation is a key to success in world-wide marine conservation efforts," says Dr. John Marr, Executive Director of the Perry Institute for Marine Science. "We are very grateful to have gained support for this from Mr. and Mrs. John H. Perry, Jr., active members of the Perry Institute's Board of Trustees, who have awarded a $75,000 grant for the first year of this partnership."
In addition to fostering scientific and conservation efforts on behalf of marine species, the collaboration between the Perry Institute and the Species Survival Commission will also focus on distilling and disseminating scientific information for a range of audiences. Other goals include developing technical resources on extinction and endangerment in marine species, participating in policy processes that affect the management of marine species, and assisting in marine protected area planning efforts.
To coordinate this partnership, the Perry Institute has hired Amie Bräutigam, who has spearheaded SSC's marine programme planning effort in recent years. She brings a breadth of experience to the effort, having worked on international threatened species issues for over 20 years, and will be working from Washington, DC.
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Sleep. I wish so badly to sleep. That's number two on my list of hating to be a vampire. Today I stayed home from hunting with my family to think. Which probably was not a good idea on my part. I just needed the time to think. After the whole incident of my brother going to Volturi to die because of me; I've felt like crap. I knew I should have not called him. It was rotten of me to. I hate being wrong. I also hate saying sorry. Saying sorry is very hard for me. It was even hard during my time of being human. I guess I brought that characteristic with me to this damned life. If it wasn't for Bel-. "Bella" I said out loud. I'm so glad Bella risked her life to save my brother because my stupid actions. I still don't like her though. I hate to admit it, but she's a worthless human and I don't see the point of Edward loving her. I don't really care for her. To be honest I don't know her. If I try my hardest I can see her like family. It's so hard though. She knows our secret and she's human. Oh, how I envy her for that reason. Wouldn't it be the right thing for me to accept her and let her in. Ugh! I hate the right thing. I need to do this for the family as much as I don't want to. I can't! I can! I won't! I will! I can and will do this. I just have to "let go".This is so hard. Why do I have to be like this. Think of how happy Emmett would be. Maybe Edward would hate me less. What can I do to get to know Bella? I could show up at her door. No! I could go out hunting and do it later. No! Alone would be better. Why does it have to be so hard? I will call her and invite her over. No! Would she even come? Should I call her? I hate this.......I'm having a war inside of me because of Bella. Should I call her? No...yes! I need to get to know her. I'm so confused. I don't know anything anymore. "Let go"
"That's it! I screamed to an empty house. I'm calling Bella." Picking up the phone and dialing was very difficult because I kept shaking. When I finally pulled myself together I called.
"Hello?" Bella's voice chimed .
"Hello, Bella this is Rosalie." I said very fast fidgeting.
"Oh, hi. Do you need anything?" Bella asked confused.
"Ummmm.....well yes. I was wondering if you would want to come over and hang out with me. Edward and everyone is out and I wanted to spend time with you. I decided I wanted to get to know you better." I said nervously. Bella went dead silent. After a long moment she responded.
"Yes, sounds fun I'll be there soon." She said cautiously."Ok, Bella. See you soon! Bye!" I added a bit to cheery. Then the phone went dead. I went nuts. I can't believe I invited Bella over to hang out with me. Have I utterly lost my mind! I brushed my hair countless times, washed up, and changed. For some reason unknown to me I did it all at human speed. After all that nonsense I sat down to calm my nerves by reading a relationship book. Half way through the 2nd chapter I heard the roar of that piece of junk she drove. I looked out the window and waved halfheartedly. She did the same. When I opened the door I greeted her. Rose you have utterly lost your mind. Why are you acting like this. Stop it. She's just a petty human and your just doing this to please.
"Hey Bella!" I said happily. I think my happiness caught her off guard as well as it did me.
" Hey Rosalie. What do you want to do today?" She said with a timid smile upon her lips. Think rose! Think! I have nothing planned. Damn. I do have dresses we could try on. we could also do our make-up and hair. Yeah. After she leaves I will burn my stuff.
"Well I have a bunch of dresses and new make-up. Would you like to play dress-up with me?" I said with a small smile.
"Sounds fun." She said with another timid smile.
"Well, Ok then lets start off with dresses. I grabbed her hand without even thinking and started to run up the stairs at a human speed. Bella ran with me. Her heart rate going off the chart. Oh my god I grabbed her hand?!?!?!?!rose you have lost your mind. Why would you touch her.I guess me being nervous of her being here hanging out with me for the first time overwhelmed me. I couldn't help but be nervous. The feeling was so strong it made my body shake. I never did this with anyone before. Not even Alice. I mean we would get dressed together but we knew everything we were using and wearing and didn't really talk or have fun. I ripped out this metallic blue dress. It had a slit up the leg. It would look perfect with Bella's skin. I had to let go of everything and forget. I needed to have fun and let Bella in. So I did. You'll never wear that dress again so give it to her.
"This is so you Bella. It goes with your skin very well."
"Really? I like it too." Bella squeaked nervously.
"Try it on my friend!" oh lord I called her friend. This is so weird. Its kinda fun though.I mean I have complete control over her. Rose hold yourself together. Remember "let go."
"Alright." Bella said as she walked into my bathroom to change. When she came out I gasped. Maybe the gasp was to much. I'm not use to this. I still feel funny. I'm guessing she does too. Butter up to her and say a nice thing to her. Should I just say you look humanly nice? No......make it interesting.
"Ow, ow! Sexy Bella! Now if my brother seen you he would fall over." I said happily. That was so unlike me to flat out say something like that but I had to "let go."wow rose you really did make it interesting. The funny thing is Bella hates trying things on. She's probably just faking it and going along as I am.
"At least I won't be the only one!" Bella's laugh got stuck in her throat. She was smiling though. At that I had to laugh. It is kinda funny when she falls ,but to see both fall that would be classic." Bella since I picked something out for you.....you can pick something out for me." good going rose. She'll probably pick out something that is not you.
Bella ran over to the dresser and took out a dress that I had never wore. Or seen!
"Rosalie, this is definitely you. Bella said still smiling. And it was. It was strapless, low cut, short, and silk.
"Oh my god Bella, it is!" I said in pure amazement. I could ask Alice or Esme to pick out a dress that is me and they would get it wrong. I can't believe Bella knew it was me! I ran into my bathroom and tried it on. In the mirror I looked great! When I came out Bella looked me over.
"Emmett would also fall right on over. Rosalie you look good." She said with a small laugh. Then I laughed. As soon as we were both in our dresses we ran to my bathroom and did our hair. I curled Bella's and she crimped mine. She also added beautiful clips. I pulled out the make-up and Bella looked worried. I remembered last spring when Alice was getting Bella ready and had to argue with her about sitting still so she could do her make-up. She also threatened for me to hold her down.
"Don't worry Bella you can do my make-up first then I'll do your's." I said as cheery as possible maybe I over did it with the happiness. "let go" rose. Come on! Have some fun for once and stop with petty drama just for once. Little did she know I was going to give her a clown face. Only out of pure fun of course. Bella did my make-up and would not let me look in the mirror until I was done doing her's. I put bright orange lipstick on her plump lips, bright blue eye shadow on her eyes, and bright(I mean bright) red blush on her cheeks. When I was done we both looked into the mirror. Bella gasped and I screamed. I was a little shocked. Nobody ever dared to mess with me like that. No one had the guts. Now Bella has some guts which is why I'm going to mess with her. "Let go" rose mess with her. Now that I think about it she is a really interesting human. Very different. I really like her now. Is it wrong to be scared?
"Bella! I'm going to get you!" I growled playfully. She ran like hell. I ran after her at human speed. Might as well make it fun right?
"Rosalie you can't get me!" Bella shook with laughter.
"Oh, on the contrary." I said speeding up. Finally I caught her and began to play fight with her in the middle of the upstairs hall on the floor. What are you going? Ugh...you lost your mind! Good-bye to the Rosalie who hated Bella. "Let go" have some fun. No one will see this. If they do they will be pleased.Rose, she's only a human go very gentle on her. No play biting either.
"Rosalie you will ruin your artwork." Bella choked out. As we were rolling around I heard laughing. At the same time as I; Bella looked up. The whole family was standing there. If I was able to blush I would have joined Bella.
"Hello everyone." I said a bit embarrassed.
"Hello Edward!" Bella croaked. Esme, Alice, and Carlisle all smiled and laughed. Jasper just stood there and stared. I'm guessing he was tasting the atmosphere to see if the fight was meant for play or hate. Edward and Emmett gawked at us. Alice finally broke the silence.
"Nice face Rosalie." She chuckled.
"Shut up Alice...or I will hurt you! Bella did it." I laughed a little embarrassed pointing at her. Alice just laughed harder.
"Bella.....you...look...good." Carlisle said smiling.
"It's all rose's fault." She laughed still pinned. Oh my! she called me rose...well thank god I "let go" otherwise her head would be on the floor for calling me rose. Only Emmett and Edward call me rose. Now Bella. Ugh.....I have finally excepted her. Edward is to busy looking at his girl friend up and down like a dog to worry about what I'm thinking.
"Here sis let me help you up." I said shyly. Bella looked shocked and pleased just like everyone else. Rose you lost your mind. why not continue to "let go"?
"Thanks.......sis." Bella smiled.
"Damn you two love each other! I can feel it....I mean I can REALLY feel it." Jasper stated shocked. I truly now thought of Bella as a sister. I f anyone hurt her they would feel my wrath. She was like my little sister. Fragile, soft, and loving. If Emmett and Edward looked shocked before they were now flabbergasted.
Well, you can spend time with Edward now." I said pulling her into a tight hug. I then kissed both of her cheeks and whispered "my sister....Bella." Bella felt so warm and loving. It was an honor to really get to know her the way I did today. I got what I wanted; everyone pleased and a new sister. Now I understand why Edward loves her and she loves him. That they are both very serious about their relationship.
"Bella you look beautiful. Even with your china doll looking face. If I was alive I would have fallen to the ground and died." Edward said laughing with a twinkle of love in his eyes. I turned around and face Emmett who was slowly coming back from shock.
"Rose, you look sexy! I had a pretty hard time with my balance seeing you. Emmett said loud enough both Edward and Bella could hear. Bella at one end of the hall and I at the other both turned around at the same time saying "Told ya!" We exchanged one more look, laughed, and went to the men we loved with all of our being.
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Ed, I understand the body numbers can vary widely. But how can a car with a 10A Tag have a VIN corresponding to VIN's from the 09A time frame? VIN 505520 is only the 5,520th Camaro thru the wall from Fisher to Chevrolet? By the end of Sep looks like 13,00 units or so were built or in production. It looks to me like the VIN precedes the Trim Tag?? Which I know it cannot.Jimmy V.
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Pair of America's Cup races postponed
Sep. 17, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Strong wind blowing in through the Golden Gate Bridge and a strong tide flowing out to sea forced organizers to postpone two America's Cup races Tuesday between Emirates Team Zealand and defender Oracle Team USA.
Lighter wind is expected on San Francisco Bay on Wednesday, when organizers hope to complete Races 11 and 12. The schedule is four races behind.
Team New Zealand leads 7-1 and needs two wins to claim the America's Cup for the second time in 18 years. Oracle Team USA, owned by software mogul Larry Ellison, was penalized two points in a cheating scandal so it needs eight more victories to keep the Auld Mug.
The wind limit of 23 knots was reduced to 20.3 knots because of an ebb tide flowing out at 2.7 knots. Regatta director Iain Murray said it was the strongest current day of the summer.
The wind gusted to 25 knots.
The original wind limit of 33 knots was reduced to 23 knots as one of 37 safety recommendations made after British double Olympic medalist Andrew "Bart" Simpson was killed on May 9 when Artemis Racing's catamaran capsized during a training run.
"This is not a safe sport by definition," said Dirk Kramers of Oracle's design team. "The loss of Bart in May shook us pretty hard as a community, as a whole industry. Our game is usually fraught will all kinds of self-interest maneuvers. After that event, I think some of those self-interest arguments were set aside and we came out collectively with these limits. These are the rules we play by."
"You can argue that, especially after a day like today we should revisit those," Kramers said. "But we've all set those rules and to change those rules at this point probably doesn't make sense. it's probably not the best thing for the spectators at the moment, but I think for keeping the game fair and keeping the game safe as it can be is the right thing to do."
On Monday, Oracle Team USA officials proposed increasing the wind limit from 23 to 24 knots, saying the crews were capable of starting races in those conditions aboard their high-performance, 72-foot catamarans.
Team New Zealand declined, saying it would have considered it before racing started, but didn't feel it was appropriate to make changes this far into the regatta.
Even if the teams agreed, Murray would have to take the proposal to the U.S. Coast Guard.
"We're very happy with where it's at," said Team New Zealand technical director Nick Holroyd. "After the racing was canceled today we went through the southwest corner Alcatraz across a shoal which was a pretty rough piece of water. On a day like today, I'm awfully glad to see the boat back at the dock in one piece with 11 fit guys on board. We're looking forward to some great racing later in the week.
"These boats go very quickly from being great racing to really, survival mode. Whether 23 knots is the exact limit for that, is open to debate."
Murray said earlier Tuesday that the conditions would be approaching what they were the day Oracle Team USA capsized its first catamaran in mid-October in about 25 knots of wind. An ebb tide swept the boat under the Golden Gate Bridge and about four miles out to sea. The churning waves destroyed the 131-foot wing sail, costing the crew four months of training time.
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The Smyrna High School volleyball team held their annual Dig Pink match during their Sept. 18 home opener against Milford.
The Eagles defeated Milford 3-0 (25-8, 25-13, 25-13) for their second win of the season, with two more wins last week against Delmar and Red Lion respectively, the Lady Eagles are now 4-2 on the season.
However the Sept. 18 match was more than just about the win because it was the 5th annual Dig Pink match to raise money for the Side-Out Foundation, a non-profit that raises money for breast cancer research.
JV coach Marc Deisem said the goal this year is to raise $1,000 and they've raised about $700 so far.
"We're doing things a little differently this year," Deisem said. "We're also donating a portion to the American Cancer Society and 10 percent of what's donated will go to the Lori Robinson Memorial Scholarship."
Lori Robinson was a Smyrna High School librarian who passed away from cancer last year.
To raise the money, the volleyball team goes out into the community asking for donations. The team raises money for the month of October.
Team gets off to a good start
The varsity volleyball team is off to a 5-2 start with the first two weeks of the season in the bag. While the first week featured losses to Sussex Tech and Delaware Military Academy, the Eagles went 3-0 last week with wins against Milford, Delmar and Red Lion. Plus, they beat Sussex Central 3-0 Tuesday night.
IHead coach Danny Wandless said Tuesday's victory against Sussex Central was a big win for the Eagles.
"So far I feel the team has performed very well," he said.
Prior to the start of the season, Wandless said the team needed to improve on communication on the court, and in being proactive rather than reactive. Thus far he's seen improvements in both: "But we can and will be better in both as the season moves forward."
An area Wandless feels the Eagles are doing well is competing and pushing one another in practices.
It's been a busy few weeks for the team but they'll get a break as they'll next match isn't until Tuesday, Oct. 2 at Dover. They'll be home again next Thursday, Oct. 4 against St. Thomas More at 5 p.m.
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Fashion Stylist Sales Associate - KU CAMPUS
- Lawrence, KS, USA
- Based on experience.
- Hourly
- Part Time
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Position Summary
We don't just sell sports gear. Rally House is a specialty sports boutique offering the greatest selection of apparel, sporting local NCAA, NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS teams that's both fashion forward and perfect for the big game. Our stores offer carefully-curated clothing, exclusive gifts, and local novelties fit for any fan. We encourage our team to show their team spirit, so customers feel welcome to strike up a conversation about their favorite team, the latest game or even their favorite rivalry! We want to be more than just another sports store, and our team helps us stand apart from the competition.
Our stores offer a friendly environment and comfortable shopping experience, with associates dedicated to helping customers find the perfect new item to represent their favorite team. Rally House is committed to truly connecting with patrons to offer exceptional service from the moment they step into one of our local stores.
Fashion Sales Associates will perform basic operational and transactional functions. Responsibilities will include: handling client service issues, operating as floor coach in the absence of a manager, issuing approvals for transactions as well as opening and closing store, lifting and straightening merchandise. The Fashion Sales Associate will refer all duties, which require managerial experience and/or approval to the Sales or Store Manager. Sales Associates also handle a variety of operational duties as assigned by the Store Management Team (i.e. housekeeping duties, visual presentation standards, must be able to negotiate the sales floor, fold merchandise, etc.).
Duties and Responsibilities
· Sales: Proven ability to generate sales, add-on and develop relationships with customers
· Client Service: Ensures that the client remains the top priority
· Store Operations and Organization: Ability to organize and lift merchandise, prioritize assignments and meet deadlines
· Merchandising: Knowledge of visual standards and techniques, and ability to implement and maintain within guidelines
· Accuracy: Ability to handle cash and provide change without error. Ability to prepare nightly deposit as necessary. Captures accurate information for all transactions including signatures, addresses, and original receipt data
· Communication: Communicates effectively with Customers, Members of Management, and Store Associates
· Flexibility: Flexibility in scheduling to meet the needs of the business (part-time minimum 20 hours per week)
· Retail clothing experience preferred
· Must be able to work a minimum of 8 hours per week
· Must be sales focused, exude high energy, and have an outgoing personality
· Excellent communication and analytical skills
· Must be able to negotiate the sales floor and fold merchandise
· May be required to lift and carry 30 lbs.
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Then just quote Thairath with no link to the other forum. TV doesn't allow links to anywhere else.StevePIraq wrote:The other forum clearly stated the source was Thairath.
Unless you witness it yourself it is always invalid and unqualified, the same with all news sources.
Can't agree with your 2nd sentence at all. It's clearly OTT, I'm quite satisfied WW2 happened and I wasn't there to witness it.


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May 16, 1991
To: Vice Presidents, Associate Vice Presidents,
Deans, Department Chairs, Division Directors
From: President Gail Fullerton
Subject: Presidential Directive 91-02: Effective 7/1/91 Colleges of San José State University
When the present schools of the university were created, this institution was known as San José State College. It would have been confusing to have colleges within the College and sub-units were thus called schools. In 1972, our campus was among the first recognized as having earned the status of university within the California State University and Colleges system. In 1973, the State of California conferred upon our institution the name of San José State University. Thus, for nearly two decades, this has been a university within which there were schools, but no colleges.
The issue has been discussed at some length in the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate and by the Organization and Government Committee. The result of this consultation was Sense of the Senate Resolution 734, in which the Academic Senate noted:
". . . the present designation of "school" for administrative units including departments or divisions misleads the public about the size and comprehensive nature of San José State University. . . . . many universities of the size and complexity of San José State, including other California State University campuses, use the term "college" to designate what we call a "school" . . .
It is the purpose of this Presidential Directive to implement Sense of the Senate Resolution 734 (May 6, 1991). This resolution, which passed unanimously, resolves that the names of all present schools at San José State University be changed to "college." Accordingly, effective July 1, 1991, the names of the colleges of San José State University will be as follows:
- College of Applied Sciences and Arts
- College of Business College of Education College of Engineering
- College of Humanities and the Arts
- College of Science
- College of Social Sciences College of Social Work
Attachment #1
May 17, 1991
To: President Dr. Gail Fullerton
From: Rose Tseng Dean, School of Applied Arts and Sciences
Re: College of Applied Sciences and Arts
After conferring with each department chair in the School, including Military Science and Aerospace Studies, I wish to inform you that there is a consensus to change the name of the School of Applied Arts and Sciences to the College of Applied Sciences and Arts.Each chair polled the full-time faculty to seek their input and there was nearly unanimous consent by the faculty to the change.
Based upon the feedback and input from chairs and faculty, I concur with your recommendation that the change in title be effective as soon as you deem appropriate.


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A new Ericsson ConsumerLab report, Emerging App Culture, looks into smartphone usage in Brazil, India and Russia to learn how smartphones and applications are affecting consumers in high growth markets.
Jasmeet Singh Sethi, Senior Specialist, ConsumerLab, summarizes these findings in the above video. He concludes that,apart from the desire for better or faster internet access, the main reason for buying a smartphone is to gain access to mobile apps. But consumer preferences for apps vary among markets.


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Program Co-ordinator: Dr. E. Warkentin, Head, Department of German and Russian
This inter-disciplinary Major program is offered to candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. It is offered in conjunction with a major or a minor in a single discipline.
The Communication Studies program aims to provide explanatory frameworks and critical methodologies, drawn from a variety of disciplines, for understanding how communication and media are integral to the changing relationships between a variety of agents and agencies, from the individual to the nation-state and from personal interactions to international relations.
Students who major in Communication Studies shall complete a minimum of 36 credit hours in courses which shall include the following:
Students are required to complete an additional 27 credit hours in at least 3 different disciplines and chosen from the lists below including:
A maximum of 12 credit hours from List B;
A maximum of 12 credit hours at the 2000 level in addition to Communication Studies 2000 and Communication Studies 2001;
A minimum of 9 credit hours at the 3000 level; and
A minimum of 3 credit hours at the 4000 level in addition to Communication Studies 4000.
- English 2700: Writing and Gender I
- Folklore 1060: Folklore and Culture
- Folklore 3850: Material Culture
- Folklore 3930: Folklore and Popular Culture
- Linguistics 2100: Language and Communication
- Philosophy 2571: Technology
- Philosophy 3600: Philosophy of the Humanities
- Philosophy 3620: Philosophy of Art
- Philosophy 4250: Seminar in Metaphysics and Epistemology
- Philosophy 4300: Seminar in Ethics
- Political Science 3350: Public Opinion and Voting
- Political Science 3860: Media and Politics in Canada
- Sociology/Anthropology 2210: Communication and Culture
- Sociology/Anthropology 3630: New Media Methods in Social Research
- Religious Studies 2812: Religion and Popular Culture
- Women's Studies 2005: Identities and Difference
- Women's Studies 3005: Feminist Texts, Theories and Histories
- Women's Studies 4107: Women and Technological Change
- Any Special Topics courses approved for inclusion in this list by the Committee on Undergraduate Studies, Faculty of Arts, upon the recommendation of the Program Co-ordinator.
- English 2850: What is Film?
- English 2851: Introduction to Film Form and Film Theory
- English 3813: Theories of National Cinema
- German 3000: German Film I
- German 3001: German Film II
- German 3002: Post-Wall Cinema
- German 3003: DEFA, The Cinema of East Germany
- History 3748: History of Film: The American Cinema
- History 3790: Reel American History: US History through its Films, 1895-1945
- History 3795: Reel American History: US History through its Films since WWII
- History 4695: The Middle Ages on Film
- Religious Studies 1022: Jesus in Film
- Russian 3023: Post-Soviet Russia: Media and Film
- Any Special Topics courses approved for inclusion in this list by the Committee on Undergraduate Studies, Faculty of Arts, upon the recommendation of the Program Co-ordinator.
The normal departmental prerequisites are applicable, but Department Heads may waive course prerequisites in cases where alternate preparation can be demonstrated.
In accordance with Senate's Policy Regarding Inactive Courses, the course descriptions for courses which have not been offered in the previous three academic years and which are not scheduled to be offered in the current academic year have been removed from the following listing. For information about any of these inactive courses, please contact the Head of the Department.
Communication Studies courses are designated by CMST.
Critical Approaches to Popular Culture
considers critical issues and approaches in the study of popular culture. It will explore the ways in which everyone is both a user of and is used by popular culture. A variety of critical approaches to studying popular culture will be examined: Production, Texts, Audience, and History.
Introduction to Communication Theory
provides an introduction to theoretical approaches to organization, use and manipulation of language, including semiotics, performativity, mass and group communications, sociolinguistics and interpersonal communication. We will examine notions of influence, rhetoric, social judgment, deception, subject formation, globalization and cultural hybridity within the field of communications.
Prerequisite: CMST 2000
Advanced Communications Theory
engages communication theories, such as interpersonal, organizational, intercultural, or international communication, seeking to understand how and why mediated communication works have found their explanatory power to be useful. The course will aim to analyze various communication theories, apply communication theories to everyday life, write a theoretical literature review, and form sound hypotheses or focused research questions to advance theory.
Prerequisites: CMST 2000 and 2001 and 9 additional credit hours chosen from Program and Regulations, Elective Courses, List A or B.


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People in the Charlotte area took a trip up north to be among the tens of thousands who attended the events to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
WBTV's Steve Crump spoke to several people in our area who explained the significance of Saturday's events on the National Mall. Among them, Glen Hall of Indian Trail.
"Even though we've made great progress in this country the same things Doctor King was fighting for we're still fighting for those things today," Hall said.
Other folks pointed to the recently-passed voter ID law as being a race issue in North Carolina. The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP has been at the forefront in highlighting the negative aspects of the law passed by Governor Pat McCrory last month. The bill limits the early voting period in elections to ten days. It also eliminates same-day registration. Opponents say the bill is a Republican-led effort to suppress the minority and youth vote.
Governor Pat McCrory and members of the Republican-led legislature argue the law is needed to limit voter fraud.
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