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Hi! My name is Jetta. My owner brought me to Without Borders when she realized that a puppy was just to much work for a busy young lady. I am grateful that she realized this and brought me to these fabulous people who have promised to find me a home who will love me and give me everything a boxer puppy needs and deserves.
I am 5 months old, will be spayed, am up to date on my vaccines and an all around healthy little girl. My foster family is teaching me all about this wonderful place we live in. They are taking me out daily so I can learn all about the outside world, walking on a leash, obedience skills and more. I am working on house breaking and am crate trained.
I am looking for a family who doesn't go "WOW CUTE PUPPY" but a family who really understands what it takes to raise a boxer puppy. I am cute and cuddly but need an owner who is going to train me and mold me in to the amazing boxer ambassador that I need to be. Obedience classes are a must for me, these will help me bond with my new owner and also help to continue the hard work and foundation my foster parents have set for me. Lots of exercise, stimulation and play time as well!
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Chewie - Male White Boxer (RESCUE)
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Sebastian Vettel, (born July 3, 1987, Heppenheim, West Germany [now in Germany]), German race-car driver who in 2010, at age 23, became the youngest Formula One (F1) Grand Prix champion in the sport's history.
Vettel grew up idolizing German racing icon Michael Schumacher, and he took up karting in 1995. He proved to have great talent and soon drew the attention of Gerhard Noack, a track owner who had shepherded Schumacher through his own youth-karting career. Noack's support (as well as that of Red Bull Racing, which sponsored Vettel's karting career from age 12) helped Vettel win numerous karting titles before he switched to open-wheel racing in 2003. Vettel finished second in the overall standings in his first season of driving in the junior Formula BMW series and won the series championship handily in 2004, posting 18 victories in his 20 races. He subsequently moved to the Formula Three Euro Series (placing second in 2006) and the World Series by Renault before making his Formula One race debut in 2007 after having served as an F1 test driver for two seasons.
Despite his developing reputation as a racing prodigy, Vettel was not an immediate success on the F1 circuit: he finished no higher than fourth in his first 21 races. His first win came at the 2008 Italian Grand Prix, which made Vettel, at age 21 years and 2 months, the youngest F1 race winner ever. The impressive circumstances of that victory—on a rain-soaked track, with an inferior race car—led Red Bull to bring him on as a driver for the 2009 season.
Vettel won four races and finished second in the world drivers' championship standings in his first season with Red Bull. In 2010 he was victorious in five races, including the Brazilian Grand Prix, the penultimate race in the F1 season, which gave Red Bull its first manufacturers' championship, and the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which secured the drivers' championship for Vettel. In capturing the 2010 title, he became just the third driver in F1 history to win the drivers' championship after having never been atop the championship standings until the final race of the season.
Vettel followed his surprising 2010 title by dominating the 2011 F1 season. He clinched his second drivers' championship two months before the end of the season. All told, Vettel won 11 of the 19 races of the 2011 season. Although less commanding in 2012, he nevertheless won five races to capture his third consecutive drivers' championship. Vettel's performance also enabled Red Bull to win its second manufacturers' title in 2011 and its third in 2012. In 2013 he again ran roughshod over the F1 field, winning 10 of the first 16 series races to clinch his fourth consecutive title with a month remaining in the season. That year he also became the first driver in F1 history to win eight consecutive races in a season, a record he extended to nine straight wins by the end of the year. Vettel's streak of drivers' championships ended with a fifth-place finish in 2014. Late in that season he announced that he was leaving the Red Bull team and joining Ferrari, beginning with the 2015 season.
Vettel began his Ferrari career with two solid seasons that did not reach his previous heights, finishing in third place in 2015 and fourth in 2016.

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So in order to support multiple environments for IronJacamar we need to split the current implementation into
I have committed the first part, which cleans up the interface for our end-users, but basically contains the same functionality. The test suite has of course been updated.
Now we can focus on the use-cases for the factory in order to support the multiple environments.
This issue is being tracked by: https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBJCA-474
So the first part of this task is complete.
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History of Medicine
The U.S. National Library of Medicine has a website devoted to the history of medicine! You might be wondering "why" a genealogy blog would post about something like this?
If you are like me, the further you go back in your research into your ancestors, the more likely you are to find that someone died of some disease or condition that you have never heard of before! In fact, that can be true on modern death certificates as well. Unless you've had medical training and/or personal experience with the disease or condition, why would you know about it ?!?!?
And, it includes material from around the world!
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Lindsay Lohan could soon be a famous murder victim -- because TMZ has learned she's been offered the role of Sharon Tate in an upcoming movie about Charles Manson.
The movie's called "Eyes of a Dreamer" and is being produced by Brad Wyman ... one of the guys who did "Monster" with Charlize Theron.
The part of Charles Manson will be played by celeb photographer Tyler Shields -- whose work you might recognize -- and get this ... Tyler's directing the whole shebang.
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Why are there women here dancing on their own?/ Why is there this sadness in their eyes? ../ They're dancing with the missing/They're dancing with the dead/They dance with the invisible ones/Their anguish is unsaid … (Sting)
The idiom "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world" applies to the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. Established in 1977, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo is an organization of Argentine mothers whose children disappeared during the "Dirty War", the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.
Since 1977, the bereaved mothers have gathered to walk around the Plaza de Mayo in central Buenos Aires for 30 minutes every Thursday afternoon. The simple action of walking gradually caught the world's attention. Their movement has also inspired families of the disappeared and victims of the human rights violation in Indonesia to engage in similar peaceful protests in front of the State Palace. The Argentinean women have received international awards for their work on human rights. Songs have even been dedicated to them, such as "They Dance Alone" by Sting and Mothers of the Disappeared by U2.
Two members of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (who are now grandmothers) Lydia Taty Almeida and Aurora Morea, visited Jakarta between April 16 and April 22 to share their experience with families of the disappeared. They also met with the National Commission on Human Rights and National Commission on Violence Against Women to boost efforts towards the ratification of The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (Convention against Enforced Disappeared). In the words of Morea, those who kidnap people and make them vanish want to ensure that the victims "are non existent, are nothing, with no identity." "But Juan, Carlos, Susana [her own son]… exists among the 30,000 who disappeared."
"Holding on to the memory is the way to fight remains of the past regimes which want the whole story of the disappeared to vanish," Morea said through an interpreter. During their time in Jakarta Almeida and Aurora sat down with The Jakarta Post for an interview; the following is an excerpt.
How did the mothers start the movement?
Almeida: In 1976, there was a military coup and the government was taken over. But the disappearances already started in 1975. After the military coup, more and more people disappeared. The mothers started to ask around about their sons and daughters. [Almeida's first son Alejandro, a first year medical student, disappeared after he left home in 1975. In 1976, Morea lost four family members: daughter Susana, who was two months pregnant, Susana's husband, the mother of her son-in-law and another son-in-law. – Ed.]
Azucena Villaflor de De Vincenti, one of the founders of the group, decided that there's no point in everybody going separately, we have to go together to achieve something. She decided to get everyone together and said, "Let's go to the Plaza de Mayo." It is the square near the government building. Everything, from demonstrations to celebrations, is held there.
At that time, there was a law prohibiting more than three people from gathering together. There were 14 mothers gathering at the first meeting and the police kept asking us to walk on. So we walked in pairs around the square. That's how we first started the movement on Thursday, April 30, 1977. Until today, we walk around the square every Thursday.
How do the mothers keep the spirit for 32 years?
Almeida: Even if you are not an activist, no woman is ever prepared to lose the most precious thing top her, her children. Most of us were schoolteachers, housewives, and some were professionals, but none had ever experience in activism. We asked questions to the government. Everything was learned by doing.
We just march and we have achieved things very slowly. But in the last 10 years, we have seen justice upheld. There were trials and some of the perpetrators have been convicted. It keeps us going and gives us energy, we will not stop until the last perpetrator is convicted.
Morea: In the beginning, it was the desperate feeling of losing the children and nobody was able to tell us where they were. It was the powerlessness that brought us together. Then the police would kick us around [when marching around the plaza] and put us in prison. It was like walking constantly against the wall. The more we didn't find out [news of the children], the more determined we were to keep going around the plaza.
What are some of the problems the mothers have faced in the past?
Almeida: When we started, no one took us seriously. People called us crazy. In a way, perhaps we were crazy because of our grief and pain. If we went to the police to report the disappearances, the police would say, "Oh yes, don't worry, your son has probably gone away with his girlfriend." Many people were also scared and ignored us. It was important for us to form the group, to have other mothers uplifting each other's spirit.
Morea: Many of the disappeared were thrown out of airplanes alive, they were called death flights [according to the perpetrators' testimony given in courtroom]. The bodies were never found. Many women taken into custody were pregnant. The perpetrators waited until the mothers gave birth, killed the mothers and gave the babies to military families. So we made another organization called Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo. It is estimated around 500 babies were lost this way, and only 90 were found. They were not sure if they were children of the disappeared, because some of them refused to participate in DNA tests.
Almeida: The disappeared can be anyone, not just activists, but journalists and people who went to slums and told people how to do things. It was just a social thing, but the government didn't like it. You only needed to make a comment against the government [to get abducted].
The government at the time instituted neoliberal economic policies ... The majority of the disappeared were people who had homes and food but they fought for equal access to water, education and healthcare. It definitely didn't fit into the economic plan. If they had continued their fight, Argentina would have become a whole different country.
We found around 600 detention centers, where they tortured, killed and raped the victims. There's a military school in Panama, run by the US Army. When the US army were in Vietnam, they learned torture techniques. After the Vietnam war, they went to the school and taught the Argentinean military how to torture. A lot of torture techniques used in Argentina are learned from the American armies [In 2000, the US government under Clinton administration released a 1978 cable from the US ambassador to Paraguay, Robert White, to the Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. The cable shows the US were involved in the disappearances of left-wing activists in South America], that's what shocked us.
When did you start to get results from the movement?
Almeida: In 1983, when a democratic government was reinstalled, the government put the military generals on trial. It was a huge step after so many years. People began to feel justice was being served. Unfortunately the generals were released later. Some of the military members had pressed President Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín to stop the trials. Eventually he bowed under the pressure. He also passed two laws prohibiting such trials [The Argentinean Congress passed Full Stop Law in 1986 and Law of Due Obedience in 1987. The laws limited the trials and gave immunity to perpetrators]. It took things back to square one.
The first time we really felt results was in 2003, under President Néstor Kirchner. He was the first one who actually made [forced disappearances] a political issue. It was the focus of his government. He denounced the above laws, listened to the mothers and knew the perpetrators should be put on trial. A number of generals have been convicted. There are barriers, but we'll never give up the cause until our last breath.
Néstor and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner [wife of Néstor who is Argentina's current president] were democratically elected. Both are the result of people's choice. Cristina now continues the work of her husband. We don't have the bodies to bury, there were no remains. We need to have burial rituals because we don't know where they are, what happened to them.
Morea: Anthropologists play an important role in our cases because when we find burial sites, they can identify the bodies even if they had been buried for 20 years. In 1999, we found a mass burial site and the anthropologist identified the remains of Susana, who was shot in her head, along with the remains of Susana's husband. The mother of my son-in-law and the other son-in-law were never found, perhaps they were taken onboard a death flight, but we don't know for sure. Now I can go [to Susana's grave] and mourn and pray. At least one chapter is closed.
That whole process is really important. You don't know whether they were alive, whether they suffered, tortured or shot instantly. Many bodies have been found, but it is still a long process. This helps mothers deal with it psychologically
What are the challenges the mothers face today?
Almeida: The trial process is very slow, we are getting older. We worry that we are running out of time. We want to see every perpetrator put in prison. From the moment you see the lawyers until the perpetrators are put in prison, it could take years.
Morea: In my cases, it took 23 years to find the bodies, and eight years to try two perpetrators. But in the end, only one was put in prison, the other was set free. It can take 20 years or 30 years. We don't need to find the bodies, testimony from witnesses is enough. But it is still difficult.
The organization of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo split into two factions. Why?
Almeida: It is a difficult subject. We split in 1986 because we had different visions on how to continue the fight. Our group, Founding Line, only wants justice, we want to know what happened to our children and put the perpetrators on trial. We don't want to disagree and agree to everything. It's not a fight with the government, it's more a discussion. If the government does something good, we congratulate them. If not, we will lobby the government. We are not a political party.
The other group is more political. But I'm going to leave it at that. [The other faction, Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Association, reportedly wants more fundamental changes in Argentina]
What was the meeting with the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights about?
Almeida: We talked about the importance of ratifying the convention on the protection against forced disappearances and about the human rights cases. It is a very big field to work on, because the Criminal Code still uses the Dutch version. And every single case [on human rights] must go to parliament, to the Attorney General. If the process in Argentina is slow, it is double slow here. It is difficult. But people here are still young, the mothers of the disappeared must continue. If they don't do it, nobody else will.
What suggestions do you have for the movement here?
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Colorado Ballet's professional Company performs the fall and spring productions as well as The Nutcracker at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. The Company performs its final show of the season at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver. Colorado Ballet also performs smaller productions including Attitude on Santa Fe in its Black Box Theater.
The Ellie Caulkins Opera House is a world-class acoustical hall designed in the lyric style, encompasses four levels: the balcony, loge, mezzanine and orchestra. This magnificent space is humidified and provides state-of-the-art technical support as well as acoustical excellence and clean sight lines. The Ellie is one of only three opera houses in the United States, one of nine world-wide, with seatback titling at every seat in the house.
Seating Capacity: 2,100
The Ellie is located in the The Denver Performing Arts Complex (DPAC), the largest performing arts complex under one roof, and the second-largest center of its kind in terms of number of venues and seating capacity. The DPAC is located at at 14th and Curtis Streets.
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The June Swaner Gates Concert Hall in the Newman Center for the Performing Arts is a 977-seat concert/grand opera hall with double-lift orchestra pit, 100-foot scenery fly gallery, views of the stage from every seat and exceptional acoustics with full adjustability. The Newman Center for the Performing Arts is located at the corner of East Iliff Avenue & South University Boulevard, and is approximately 1 mile south of the University Boulevard exit off Interstate 25 (I-25). The Newman Center for the Performing Arts is fully accessible to patrons in wheelchairs and to those with other special needs.
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Colorado Ballet's Black Box Theater at the Armstrong Center for Dance features 135 seats for a performance and up to 177 seats for a lecture-style event. The Black Box Theater provides an intimate setting to watch Colorado Ballet's dancers perform new works and more during performances including Attitude on Santa Fe, Fancy Footwork and more. The theater is located inside Colorado Ballet's home at 1075 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, CO 80204.


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Mars Express flew over the boundary between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae and the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) imaged the region, acquiring spectacular views of the chaotic terrain in the area.
The images are centred at 12°N, 285°E and have a ground resolution of about 21 metres per pixel. They cover 225 kilometres by 95 kilometres or 21,375 square kilometres, an area roughly half the size of the Netherlands.
The upper portion of the image swath shows the eastern margin of Kasei Valles and the western margin of the Lunae Planum plateau and the adjoining Sacra Fossae. Kasei Valles is one of the largest outflow channels on Mars, spanning 3000 kilometres, from the Chryse Planitia basin in the north to Echus Chasma to the south.
Sacra Fossae is a fault system that extends for more than 1000 kilometres. It is several hundred metres deep and separates Kasei Valles to the south and west from Lunae Planum. It was named after Isola Sacra, an island at the estuary of the river Tiber in Italy.
The images show an old 35-kilometre diameter impact crater in the north. The crater's southwestern rim is heavily eroded. The erosion was caused primarily by flowing water. The source of the water was located in Echus Chasma, which lies roughly 850 kilometres to the southwest.
The crater floor and the northwestern part of the imaged region are remarkably flat and have been formed by sediments and basaltic lava flows originating from the Tharsis volcanic region.
The lower part of the image clearly shows the boundary between the heavily cratered plain, and the area with numerous fracture zones. Most of the fractures along the boundary are parallel to the edge of the Lunae Planum.
It is likely that the entire region experienced tectonic stresses as well as 'subrosion' – a process where subsurface rocks are dissolved and removed by water – causing overlying strata to partially collapse and form 'chaotic terrain'.
Several fracture zones are also visible in the western part of the image. Areas up to 10-kilometre across that experienced 'subsidence' (gradual compaction and sinking due to the weight of the layers) are still intact.
The colour scenes have been derived from the three HRSC-colour channels and the nadir channel. The perspective views have been calculated from the digital terrain model derived from the stereo channels. The anaglyph image was derived from the nadir and one stereo channel. The black and white high-resolution images were derived form the nadir channel, which provides the highest detail of all channels.
The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) experiment on the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission is led by the Principal Investigator (PI) Prof. Dr Gerhard Neukum, who was also responsible for the technical design of the camera. The science team of the experiment consists of 45 Co-Investigators from 32 institutions and 10 nations. The camera was developed at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) under the leadership of the PI, G. Neukum, and built in cooperation with industrial partners (EADS Astrium, Lewicki Microelectronic GmbH and Jena-Optronik GmbH). The experiment on Mars Express is operated by the DLR Institute of Planetary Research, through ESA/ESOC. The systematic processing of the HRSC image data is carried out at DLR. The scenes shown here were processed by the PI-group at the Institute for Geosciences of the Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the DLR Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin.


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Hay prices are dollars per ton or dollars per bale when sold to retail outlets. Basis is current delivery FOB barn or stack, or delivered customer as indicated.
Grade guidelines used in this report have the following relationship to Relative Feed Value (RFV), Acid Detergent Fiber (ADF), TDN (Total Digestible Nutrients), or Crude Protein (CP) test numbers:
Grade RFV ADF TDN CP
Supreme 185+ <27 55.9+ 22+
Premium 170-185 27-29 54.5-55.9 20-22
Good 150-170 29-32 52.5-54.5 18-20
Fair 130-150 32-35 50.5-52.5 16-18
Utility <130 36+ <50.5 <16
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Moses Lake, Wash.
Jan. 30
This week FOB Last week Last year
11,180 1,530 850
Compared to Jan. 24: Supreme Alfalfa steady to firm in a light test. Fair/Good Alfalfa $5 lower. Demand is light to moderate. Trade moderate this week mainly from the local dairies and Holstein heifer growing yards. Buyers are only interested in buying a little to add to their already heavy supplies. Feedlots remain full. Exporters remain quiet, processing previously bought inventory. Retail/Feedstore Alfalfa and Orchard grass steady. Buyer demand good with light to moderate supplies.
Tons Price
Alfalfa Large Square Supreme 1500 $180-190
Fair/Good 3900 $150-155
Fair 4700 $145-155
Alfalfa Small Square Premium 70 $250
Good 125 $220-250
Alfalfa/Timothy Mix Small Square Good 35 $250
Orchard Grass Small Square Premium 145 $250-275
Timothy Grass Large Square Good 30 $210
Fair 150 $110
Utility 525 $100
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Portland, Ore.
Jan. 30
This week FOB Last week Last year
6,432 4,679 1,249
Compared to Jan. 24: Prices generally steady with week ago offerings. Trading was light during the week in some areas. Many producers have sold all that they plan to sell for this season.
Tons Price
Alfalfa Large Square Fair/Good 40 $190
Grass Mix-Five Way Small Square Supreme 10 $275
Orchard Grass Large Square Good/Prem. 100 $180
Alfalfa Large Square Good 502 $185-190
Alfalfa/Orchard Mix Small Square Premium 60 $230
Retail/Stable Good 25 $190
Fescue Grass Small Square Premium 21 $220
Alfalfa Large Square Supreme 190 $240-250
1400 $250-280
Good/Prem. 815 $200-210
Good 600 $200
350 $195
Fair 129 $165-170
400 $165
Utility 35 $140
Small Square Fair 25 $175
Compressed Bales Supreme 8 $325
Alfalfa/Grass Mix Large Square Premium 32 $180
Alfalfa/Oat Mix Large Square Fair 1500 $165
Oat Large Square Premium 60 $150
Alfalfa/Triticale Mix Large Square Fair 130 $175
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Moses Lake, Wash.
Jan. 30
This week FOB Last week Last year
39,450 9,710 3,700
Compared to Jan. 24: Premium and Supreme Alfalfa steady. Utility and Fair Alfalfa $10 higher. Trade active this week as buyers and sellers decided to come together. Some areas of the trade area received limited moisture this week. Retail/feed store/horse not tested this week. Buyer demand good with light to moderate supplies.
Tons Price
Alfalfa Large Square Supreme 1200 $210-220
Prem./Sup. 20,000 $220
Premium 600 $180
Good 11,000 $180-200
Fair/Good 600 $160
Fair 5650 $165-180
Utility 400 $140
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Moses Lake, Wash.
Jan. 30
This week FOB Last week Last year
5,975 7,006 4,290
Compared to Jan. 24: Prices remained firm in most areas, with advancements by as much as $5 higher in the Imperial Valley. Some rainfall was reported in the Northern and Central Regions of the state, with some much needed snow falling in the Sierra Nevadas. The hay market continues to march higher, as this is the driest January on record in the state of California. There has been a high pressure ridge lurking off the coast for the last 13 months that is responsible for blocking winter storms and precipitation from reaching California, according to the Daily Mail. Producers are already concerned about the water situation next year. According to the Wall Street Journal, most farmers haven't received water they're due since 2008 when federal regulators began restricting water exports from the Delta to residents in the south to protect "threatened" fish such as the smelt and the salmon. The federal regulations have caused millions of acre-feet of water to be flushed into the Bay instead of being sent down the line to irrigate crop lands in the Central and Southern regions of the state. Livestock producers are beginning to search for hay outside their normal marketing areas, with reports of hay moving out of Oregon, Nevada and the Imperial Valley to try to meet demand while supplies last. Trade activity was active on very good buyer demand.
Includes the counties of Siskiyou, Modoc, Shasta, Lassen and Plumas.
Tons Price
Alfalfa Supreme 100 $300
Premium 50 $225
Wheat Premium 100 $200
Includes the counties of Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Sierra, Nevada, Placer, Yolo, El Dorado, Solano, Sacramento, Amador and Alpine.
Tons Price
Alfalfa Premium 750 $240
Includes the counties of San Joaquin, Calaveras, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Mono, Merced and Mariposa.
Tons Price
Alfalfa Prem./Sup. 500 $300
Premium 50 $275
Oat Good/Prem. 75 $185
Good 500 $170
Includes the counties of Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Inyo.
Alfalfa Premium 150 $295
Includes the counties of Kern, Northeast Los Angeles, and Western San Bernardino.
Tons Price
Alfalfa Premium 425 $250-255
Good 200 $219-228
Forage Mix-Three Way Premium 125 $240-255
Includes the counties of Eastern San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial.
Tons Price
Alfalfa Premium 550 $215-225
50 $210
100 $240
Good/Prem. 100 205
Good 400 $180
Bermuda Grass Premium 500 $200
Klein Grass Good 500 $100
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I've been trying to put together a small private library for a couple years without much success, finding that, aside from the Loeb editions, it's practically impossible to any person of average income to afford studying the classics without resorting to the use of a university library.
This is particularly frustrating since the Loeb editions, by including English, make me pay full price although I only want the Greek half of the book, which means they take up double the space on my shelf as well. The Teubner, Oxford, and Cambridge editions are all outrageously overpriced. No one of average income is willing to pay $125 for one tenth of Demosthenes' works, and yet this is precise what they ask in many cases. Ideally, I'd like to find an estate sale, a bulk auction, or some special sale of these, but I'm having a great deal of difficulty in this, and I suspect I'm not alone. It seems that as studying the classics has become less popular the prices of good editions become more and more exorbitant for the few persons left who do want to study. It's really quite depressing. I've tried using a search aggregator but without any luck. Does anyone have advice in purchasing a fair number of the classics without breaking the bank?


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TARGU SECUIESC, Romania (AP) — Thousands of ethnic Hungarians paraded in Romania on Friday to celebrate the Hungarian national holiday, and some expressed concern that their minority may not be allowed to retain the special privileges it enjoys.
Ethnic Hungarians, some in folk costumes, rode horses and carts and waved Hungarian flags, singing patriotic songs and shivering during traditional dances in rural mountain areas in Transylvania. They were whipped by winds with temperatures plunging to an icy -4 Celsius (25 Fahrenheit) as they celebrated the anniversary of the 1848 revolution against the Habsburg empire.
Romanian Hungarians, who make up about 6 percent of the population, enjoy special privileges such as the right to use their mother tongue in schools and in courts. But since an ethnic Hungarian party left the Romanian government last year after being a coalition partner for 15 years, some ethnic Hungarians fear their privileges could be lost.
"We call on them ... to not take away our language, not to restrict the use of our language," said Kelemen Hunor, leader of the ethnic Hungarian party. "We want Hungarian to be officially recognized in Transylvania," the Hungarian-speaking region in central Romania.
Most of Romania's ethnic Hungarians live in eastern Transylvania, a rural area with vast potato crops and mineral water springs. The region was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1918, when Hungary lost a huge swatch of its territory to Romania, Slovakia and other states. The minority faced heavy restrictions under Romania's former communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu. For the past two decades, the region's ethnic Hungarians have been campaigning for greater rights.
Hunor urged Romania's government to allow Hungarians to fly their flags, vowing to defend "our national symbols ... because we will defend everything that a free person and a free nation deserves." In February, tensions briefly rose after local officials hoisted a Hungarian flag on a municipal building. By law, only Romanian and European Union flags can be flown on government buildings.
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta has since tried to calm concern about ethnic Hungarians not being allowed to use their symbols, saying he doesn't object to them being hoisted from municipal buildings.
However, President Traian Basescu told The Associated Press last week that Romanian authorities are opposed to territorial autonomy for Szeklers, an ethnic Hungarian group in Transylvania.
Former Foreign Minister Adrian Cioroianu, a historian, told the AP on Thursday that the Romanian majority is opposed to territorial autonomy. "This discussion about autonomy complicates, rather than clarifies, the issue," he said.
On Friday, many ethnic Hungarians interviewed during the celebrations of the Hungarian national holiday in Targu Secuiesc, a city in Transylvania, said they enjoy generous rights in Romania and have good relations with Romanians. However, some said they are concerned that their interests are no longer represented at a top level in Bucharest.
"Autonomy is about dealing with our own problems," said Barnabas Csudor, a 43-year-old who works in the timber industry. "Each nation understands itself the best."
Other Hungarians said no special freedoms are needed because both Romania and Hungary are in the European Union.
"Romanians eat goulash, and we eat tripe soup," said Illes Balint, a 26-year-old ethnic Hungarian driving instructor, who was dismissive of Friday's celebrations. "I have more important things to do."


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TIFF with Latifah
She was in town to promote The Secret Life of Bees, a film that is expected to contend during award season featuring Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo, and ugh, Dakota Fanning.
While Jennifer Hudson inspired some serious excitement around town all weekend, it seemed like the lady leader among the group was indeed Latifah, who spoke eloquently during the press conference and who had an entire roomful charmed by the end of the hour.
Latifah also stopped in at the IT Swag Lounge for a few gifts and to sign the Big Brother board. Photo is attached.
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WILMINGTON, Mass. — The second day of Bruins practice since the team's return from Europe began with a pre-session tutorial in power-play strategy, as assistant coaches Geoff Ward and Doug Jarvis put the troops through the paces with limited penalty-killer interference.
The Boston PP is 1-for-8 through the first two games.


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EXPANSION: The number of retail health clinics in drugstores and big retail stores will double to about 2,900 by the end of 2015, according to the consulting firm Accenture PLC.
WHAT THEY DO: The clinics treat minor illnesses when a patient doesn't have a doctor or if a physician is not available. They are generally open for longer hours than a doctor's office and on weekends.
THE REASON: Accenture's report says a flood of newly insured patients from the national health care overhaul and a shortage of primary care doctors will boost demand for the clinics.


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Brits have no love for bits and bytes
Books! Yeah, baby!
Brits have a shaky grasp of bits and bytes, placing "little monetary or emotional value" on the digital value they own. This is the conclusion of HP, which recently surveyed 1,000-plus British consumers.
Here are some findings:
- The average Brit's digital media collection is valued at £482.
- Twenty-seven per cent value their digital content at less than £50. (Spot The Pirate Bay users.)
- Seventy-one per cent have never lost their media library and are not worried about security. (Aargh! Fools!)
- Two-thirds want hard copies of photographs and music, 75 per cent want their films to come with packaging, and 90 per cent want their books to stay as books.
- And it's not just the oldies. Almost 40 per cent of 16-34 age groups still buy CDs and DVDs alongside digital formats.
As HP notes, its research suggests that Brits treat their media collections more as a utility than as a personal purchase. But they don't seem ready to adopt utility-style payments. Subscriptions are a long way from being mass market, with 73 per cent saying that they can "never see a time when they'd move to a 100% subscription model for their music and films (such as Spotify)"
Just because they can't see it, doesn't mean it won't happen at some point. My children - oldest one is 14 - consume all of their music in the home via Spotify - except for the bits they check out on Youtube. And the old must always give way to the young. At some point.
So why did HP run this survey. Well it has a product to promote, the HP MediaSmart Server, which it describes as "basically a small PC with lots of storage".


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The Cincinnati Bengals have announced the signings of 17 undrafted rookie free agents. They include TE Colin Cochart (South Dakota State), WR Landon Cox (Northern Illinois), LS Neal Dahlman (Bowling Green), LB Keith Darbut (Baldwin-Wallace), LB Dequin Evans (Kentucky), LB Stephen Franklin (Southern Illinois), RB John Griffin (UMass), WR Jamere Holland (Lindenwood), WR Bart Johnson (TCU), S Brian Lainhart (Kent State), DT Lolomana Mikaela (Arizona), OT Matthew O'Donnell (Canada), OG Chris Riley (Illinois State), RB Steven Robinson (Hampton), PK Thomas Weber (Arizona State), OG Mark Wetterer (Louisville) and RB Jonathan Williams (East Carolina).
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Will there be anything special for college students in the future? I'm not expecting it now because Tesla is still developing. I was just curious, and a few of the major auto companies give to students.
When I say give, I don't mean the just give you the car. I know that they do give reduced rates for loans.


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From AFC: Free Art: Download and Print Your Own Conceptual Art
Now you can xerox your own Xerox Book. In collaboration with the non-profit Primary Information, Seth Siegelaub, the do-it-all curator, writer, and art dealer, just released half a dozen of his essays and art projects from the late 60's and 70's for free download. It's all part of Primary Information's new Seth Siegelaub Online Archive and it will be expanding in the months to come.


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The United Football League Is Too Broke To Finish The Season
The UFL, which began its season on Sept. 26, and which not too long ago signed a coverage deal for an undisclosed amount (nothing? a complimentary hat?) with CBS Sports, has canceled the second half of its season, as of today.


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2013 national year-to-date tornado totals down from 30-year average
Colder spring air may be one reason for current tornado drought
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Drought is a bad thing — unless you're talking about a tornado drought. That was the situation in 2012, when the number of twisters touching down in the continental U.S. was significantly fewer than the 30-year average (red). So far, 2013 (green) is looking pretty sparse as well, with the caveat that states in northern sections of Tornado Alley don't hit their storm stride until later in the spring and summer. Still, other than a few specific areas, the nationwide January through April tornado count is way down, 54 percent to be exact.
Pinpointing the reason for tornado droughts (and deluges) isn't always easy. Last year's drought — the actual drought that devastated much of the Great Plains — robbed the atmosphere of the water vapor that fuels severe thunderstorms. Since tornadoes come from thunderstorms, this key thunderstorm ingredient was missing.
This year, while the drought is still going on, it's much less severe — yet we may be seeing another tornado drought in the making. This time, it may be the relatively cool spring air much of the nation has been experiencing. Heat is another key ingredient of thunderstorms.
As for 2014 and beyond, it's natural to wonder if climate change will make tornado activity more or less severe as the planet continues to warm. The answer is not clear. Since tornadoes play out in the atmosphere, it's likely that a changing climate will also change tornado activity. But tornadoes are complicated beasts, affected not only by moisture and temperature but also by wind shear and other factors. So far, there's simply not enough information to say anything definitive about the future of tornadoes under global warming — but that, too, will change in coming years.
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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Tyrann Mathieu disputes a USA Today story saying he failed more than 10 drug tests before he was suspended in college.
In the story an unnamed NFL assistant coach told USA Today when asked how many drug tests Mathieu had failed, the former LSU star said, "I quit counting at 10. I really don't know."
The assistant coach put much of the blame on LSU saying, "If he flunked 10 tests before they suspended him, it shows that he got no kind of help."
Friday afternoon LSU released a statement saying Tyrann Mathieu had contacted the school and Mathieu said the story did not accurately reflect the discussions that he had while on official visits to various NFL organizations.
"It is irresponsible and shows a lack of integrity for anyone to disclose medical information regardless of how it was gathered," Mathieu said. "I would expect that conversations regarding my drug testing history during the course of my medical treatment would be private. LSU has a strong drug testing program and LSU went to great lengths to help me in my treatment and recovery. I understand that many people enjoy reading about the negative side of sports, but to publish those second-hand comments without being given a chance to address that comment prior to the publication of the article is irresponsible."
Joe Alleva, Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics, expressed confidence in LSU's substance abuse program.
"LSU has a strong substance abuse program that tries to identify and assist in the treatment and long term recovery process of drug use and abuse, and it is a program we would put up against any in the country," Alleva said. "Once a substance abuse problem is identified, LSU is diligent in tracking those individuals over extended periods of time with frequent testing and engages them in meaningful opportunities for support through counseling and substance abuse treatment."
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Niagara River Greenway funds land far from river
In September 2004, then-Gov. George E. Pataki stood at a riverfront park in North Tonawanda for a ceremonial signing and announced an ambitious new public project that would create a continuous system of trails and parks connecting Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
"We now have a unique opportunity to reclaim that [Frederick Law] Olmsted vision of a magnificent waterfront here on the Niagara Frontier, not so much for ourselves, but for our children and their children," Pataki said that day. "And we are going to do it. We are not going to miss the opportunity we have been given, after 100 years of mistakes."
Since then, nearly $50 million in public money has been spent.
On new sidewalks in Sanborn. For state-of-the-art athletic fields at Lewiston-Porter High School. For a jazz concert. For a re-enactment of a War of 1812 battle. But that park system is nowhere near completion.
And questions are being raised about how money for the Niagara River Greenway is being used and how future funds, expected to total half a billion dollars over a half-century, should be used.
"There's a series of things that have happened here that have bastardized the process as it was conceived," said David J. Colligan, former head of the group whose idea eventually blossomed into the Greenway parks project.
Since Pataki and state officials made that splashy announcement nearly nine years ago, about half of the nearly $50 million in public money spent in the name of a Greenway park has been used on projects that don't have anything to do with that original goal, according to a report from the Partnership for the Public Good, a nonprofit research and advocacy group aimed at revitalizing the Buffalo Niagara region.
"Progress on the Greenway has been hampered by the fact that Greenway funds are being spent on a wide variety of projects which, however worthy, bear little or no relation to a linear system of parks and trails," according to the report.
While some money has been spent on habitat projects in the Niagara River and on improving existing parks and park infrastructure, gaps that existed in the planned park system have not been completed and have not even been given any special priority, the report said.
More than half of the projects funded so far don't advance the Greenway as defined in state law, it said.
The report also noted money was spent on two projects – improvements to the Historic Palace Theatre in Lockport and the Lew-Port school district's $4.6 million athletic fields – that the state-appointed commission overseeing the Greenway deemed inconsistent with the goals.
In all, about $23 million of the $46.7 million that has been spent was used on projects that failed to meet the law's requirements, said Sam Magavern, co-director of the Partnership for Public Good.
A disjointed system
The Greenway project is supposed to turn the waterfront along the Niagara River into a world-class park, highlighting the natural beauty of the region between the two Great Lakes, correcting decades of bad development and allowing people to connect with the water.
The hope was that the park system would boost the economy, attract tourists – some of whom might enjoy the chance to bike to Niagara Falls – and give area residents increased recreational opportunities from Buffalo to Youngstown.
At least, that was the intention of the law passed in 2004, which developed out of a grass-roots effort in Western New York, led by the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy.
Funding for the Niagara River Greenway totals $9 million per year for 50 years, and it comes out of four different settlement agreements that various local government entities reached with the New York Power Authority. Those pots of money are controlled by four separate groups.
The deals arose because the authority was seeking a new federal operating license for the Niagara Power Project, which diverts water from the river for power production.
After the contracts were signed, each group that holds the purse strings – known as the standing committees – had to develop written rules for deciding how the money would be spent.
Also stemming out of the state law was a requirement to develop a "plan," a document meant to guide the growth of the Greenway. That required all 13 municipalities in the project area that border the river to approve of it.
And the plan made the Greenway boundary wider than the initial vision held by supporters.
What has evolved is a complex, disjointed system that "isn't anybody's fault" but is a product of trying to get such a large group of people to agree, said Colligan, the former chairman of the Olmsted Parks Conservancy.
Colligan said he believes the concerns highlighted in the Partnership for the Public Good report show the difficulty in working under the current set of rules guiding how the money must be spent.
Colligan, who was the one to make the area's pitch for a linear parks system to the Pataki administration, says the Greenway was basically another unfunded mandate from Albany, and money had to be found to fund that mandate.
"Everything after that is kind of like backfill of the funding request," he said.
Some projects that were funded through the mechanism might not fit the definition of the Niagara River Greenway "as some groups would want," said Niagara County Legislature Chairman William L. Ross, who was involved in negotiations with the Power Authority.
Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, an organization that was involved throughout the relicensing process, believes some good projects have been undertaken to further the Greenway, including work on the Niagara Gorge rim and at Joseph Davis State Park.
But the organization also warns against wasting a chance to recover from what it termed as short-sighted waterfront development of previous generations.
"Our community is recognizing that more often than not, the relicensing settlement funds are being invested in projects that are not consistent with the spirit and intent of the law, nor the vision of the Niagara River Greenway," it said.
Still a 'golden opportunity'
While the partnership's report is critical of some previous spending, it also points out that it's not too late.
Magavern, who enlisted law school students to help with the research, said the report does not seek to blame any of the parties involved.
"We've got a golden opportunity, because this is a project that's already funded and could really transform the region and draw a lot of people from outside the region," he said, noting that it would also be a "great amenity" for area residents.
The Partnership for the Public Good's report makes a series of recommendations that cover the state level, as well as operations at the state-appointed Niagara River Greenway Commission and at the standing committee level.
If followed, the recommendations would turn a fractured, unfocused process into one with a better chance of creating the Greenway many had hoped for, Magavern said.
Rob Belue, executive director of the Greenway Commission, said the body is accepting public comments on the report through the end of April. Comments can be submitted through its website, www.niagaragreenway.org.
The commission is also soliciting comments on the report from each municipality and government within the Greenway boundaries.
In an April 4 Another Voice column in The Buffalo News, Larry Beahan, conservation chairman of the Sierra Club Niagara Group, called the way in which Greenway money has been spent "haphazard."
"In 2013, we have nothing that resembles that promised greenway," Beahan wrote.
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ELLIS -- Thanks to the success of last year's TJ's Memorial Youth Deer Hunt, Hunting Heritage Group and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) will host another youth deer hunt during the special youth and disabled hunting season (Sept. 12-20). This year, the hunt will be Sept. 12-13. Participants will hunt from a blind with an experienced guide/mentor on private land adjacent to Cedar Bluff Wildlife Area in Trego County. Two of the youth participants will have the opportunity to hunt in specially designated areas on the wildlife area.
The first morning will consist of classroom instruction and a trip to the range to sight in rifles. After lunch, guides will accompany the young hunters and their parent/guardian to designated blinds. All hunters will return to the meeting area that evening. If youth are unsuccessful after the evening hunt, they will be invited to hunt the following day.
Ten hunters will be selected to participate in the hunt. Youth participants must be at least 10 and not older than 16. In addition, candidates for the hunt must complete and submit an application form by Aug. 12. Application forms may be obtained here, or by contacting natural resource officer Jason Hawman at 785-743-2942. There is no charge for the hunt.
In addition to the 10 youth participants, there will also be two special guest hunters. One is a young man from Oklahoma with leukemia and the other a young man from Kentucky who has cancer on his spinal cord. Both hunters were referred by Buckmaster's Life Hunts program, designed to grant hunting wishes for critically ill and disabled youngsters.
Special hunts like this are part of KDWP's Kansas Hunter Recruitment and Retention Program, called "Pass It On." This program addresses the need to recruit new hunters and retain existing hunters in order to ensure the future of hunting in Kansas.


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it's NOT the bottleneck.
If the CPU is not pegged at 100%, as you show - it's NOT the bottleneck.
In the VAST majority of cases it's the disk system.
One of the things that seems to slow my development in Lightroom is doing lens corrections first: rotate, vertical and horizontal perspective, barrel and pincushioning. These along with vignetting and cropping would seem to be logical first steps in any workflow, but maybe there is a reason why they are so low down in the development panel.
For me, I came to the conclusion that performance simply isn't a priority for the developers even though so many users are not happy with it.
What kind of experiences are people having with the current Camera Raw in PS? My understanding is that it is also using similar complex algorithms as the new process ver in LR?
No perceived difference in develop performance!
I certainly did not expect my simple post looking for help to set off a posy like this.
I think a lot of this depends on where you start from.If you're starting with a very high spec machine the differences in screen size won't be so apparent as with a less well specified system.Also I suspect that reducing desktop size when your LR library is full of high resolution previews won't have the same effect as moving from a smaller desktop to a larger one.
Agreed! Which is why I did a fresh install on the 3rd less capable machine. All previews are 1-1 (i've never done anything else....)
In the last 2 weeks I purchased a new HP machine. It contains an FX-8120 running at 3.1 ghz. 12gb of memory and windows 7 64 at SP1. It also has a single 2TB 7200 rpm hard drive. Things seem to be running very well at about 3.6 speeds. Mike
Thank you for proving my points! If the CPU is not pegged at 100%, as you show - it's NOT the bottleneck. In the VAST majority of cases it's the disk system.
Maybe those who are contesting develop performance is linked to screen size would provide us their work flow?
What puzzles me is why anyone would think screen size isn't an issue ? It's fundamental to how much data has to be processed.As a demonstration; open LR full screen (press F) then open an image in develop. Give the image maximum screen room (kill all the toolbars except the develop panel), now make some big changes to colour temperature and notice the lag in screen updates.Then drop from full screen and make the LR window as small as possible, then repeat the CT changes. It's dramatically faster here.
What puzzles me is why anyone would think screen size isn't an issue ? It's fundamental to how much data has to be processed.
I wouldn't be surprised to later learn Adobe's LR team has been fighting the code throughout until the breakthrough they haven't yet experienced..
There does seem to have some improvement with the recent updates.I doubt we'll see anything really dramatic until (if?) someone at Adobe manages to utilise the currently unused power of GPUs for processing, as they did so successfully in Premiere Pro CS5.


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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Following back-to-back losses, the King University women's basketball team got back on the left side of the ledger on Saturday at Converse College. The Tornado took the lead from the opening tip and never looked back as they cruised to the 77-53 Conference Carolinas victory.
Stephanie Brantley scored King's first bucket nearly one minute in, and Chelsea Bowling followed with a jumper to give King an early 4-0. After Converse (0-15, 0-7 CC) got on the board, Bonnie Durrett sparked a 9-0 spurt with a jump shot. Sydney Harris closed the run with a layup, two free throws and a three-point basket to give King a 13-2 lead more than five minutes in.
The Valkyries cut the deficit to just six with 8:09 remaining in the first half, but Harris quickly extended the lead back to double digits with a triple. The Tornado (10-5, 4-3 CC) then gradually began to extend their lead, and Brantley gave King a 36-19 lead at halftime when she made two free throws with 1:25 remaining.
The King advantage grew to as many as 19 before Converse used an 8-0 run to cut their deficit to 38-27 with 17:42 remaining. The Tornado then held a 13 point lead when Harris started a quick 5-0 run with a pair of free throws, Durrett converted a free throw, and Alley Sprouse ended the spurt with a jump shot to give King a 47-29 lead with 14:43 left.
With 12 minutes remaining, Sara Mitchell connected on back-to-back three-point attempts to stretch King's lead to 56-35. Those triples also sparked a 12-0 run for King as Durrett followed with consecutive buckets and Jalan Harper's layup with 9:25 left gave King a 62-35 lead.
The Tornado lead grew to as many as 28 following two Sprouse free throws with 6:54 remaining as King cruised to the 77-53 victory. King shot 37.7 percent from the floor while holding Converse to 30.8 percent shooting.
All 12 King players that saw action scored, being lead Durrett and Harris who scored 15 points apiece. Durrett and Tia Keitt each grabbed a team-high eight rebounds.
The Tornado return home on Tuesday when the host Belmont Abbey College. Tipoff is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. in the Student Center Complex.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — A long-running feud over whether Congress provides enough money for protecting U.S. diplomats escalated Tuesday as the chairman of a Senate subcommittee charged that House Republicans "blithely torpedoed embassy security funds" in stripping a $1 billion measure sought by the State Department from a hurricane relief bill.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., made the accusation on the eve of departing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's overdue appearance before the Senate and House Foreign Relations committees to testify about the Obama administration's handling of the September terrorist assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack.
Since then, the fingerpointing has been rampant. Democrats have blamed Republicans for cutting diplomatic security spending too deeply. The GOP has argued that lapses in management and leadership, not a shortage of money, were the reasons State Department officials failed to see the threat.
Leahy, who chairs the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the State Department's budget, said the House deleted from the Senate's version of the Superstorm Sandy emergency relief bill an amendment he wrote at the department's request to shift up to $1 billion originally intended for U.S. operations in Iraq to be used for improving U.S. security at diplomatic outposts.
Senate leaders have planned a vote this week on the House's version of the $50 billion relief bill aimed primarily at helping residents and businesses as well as state and local governments rebuild from the late October storm that devastated coastal areas in the Northeast, particularly New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Jennifer Hing, a spokeswoman for the House Appropriations Committee, said any provisions not directly related to storm relief were removed from the bill to ensure its quick passage last week in the House — two weeks after Speaker John Boehner incurred the wrath of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and other Northeast Republicans for not holding the vote on New Year's Day. Most House Republicans ended up voting against it anyway. The Senate passed its storm aid bill in late December.
Hing said the committee is not opposed to Leahy's amendment "and agrees that the safety and security of our diplomatic personnel and operations is of the utmost importance." The measure can and should be included in the next suitable piece of legislation, she said.
Leahy, however, said any delay in approving the transfer authority, even a short one, slows the State Department's ability to follow through on recommendations for improving diplomatic security made by an independent panel that reviewed the Benghazi attack.
"I know from personal experience that there are many thoughtful Republicans in positions of responsibility in the House who want to do the right thing," Leahy said. "Yet a small but apparently dominant obstructionist cadre within the Republican ranks seemingly is willing to push the bounds of irresponsibility to ever greater heights."
The independent review panel said serious lapses in management and leadership left the consulate badly unprepared, but it also called for a greater commitment from Congress to support the State Department's needs. State asked for close to $2.4 billion in its 2013 budget for overseas security. The transfer of as much as $1 billion would speed up the construction of more Marine security guard units at overseas posts, additional diplomatic security agents and for security upgrades and construction at new embassies.
Since 2007, Congress has increased spending by 27 percent, or roughly a half-billion dollars, on security at foreign diplomatic posts, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. Millions more were added over that period specifically for increased security in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
But neither Congress nor the State Department added or sought additional spending specifically for security at U.S. posts in Libya despite growing instability in the country, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said in a report in December on the Benghazi attack.
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Although it has been raging for a month, the wildfires known as the West Fork Complex in southwest Colorado present a seemingly odd profile of success: They remain only 20 percent contained, yet no significant structures have burned, residents have returned to the once-threatened town of South Fork and firefighters have reported only two minor injuries.
"Containment is not how you measure progress," said Bobby Kitchens, fire information officer with the Type 1 Incident Management Team. "One day, this will be contained and be out. But now, we're not concentrating on putting a perimeter around it. We're just protecting certain points. We don't have all the dots tied together. Eventually, we will."
The tactical approach at the West Fork Complex differs significantly from the way firefighters attacked the flames that ravaged the Black Forest north of Colorado Springs — or any number of other wildland fires, for that matter.
Proximity of valuable resources, such as homes or infrastructure, as well as concerns such as terrain, weather and safety all figure into the methods employed by firefighters in any given situation.
As the dry, beetle-kill pine blew up in the West Fork fires, which have charred more than 110,000 acres, firefighters used helicopters and air tankers to divert the fire from valuable resources and dug a "dozer line" to defend the town of South Fork. In the Rio Grande National Forest, where rugged terrain presents dangerous conditions for ground crews, firefighters have battled the flames judiciously, on their own terms.
"As it goes through dead spruce stands, we're not going in there," Kitchens said. "Success is hard to get, and it's too unsafe for firefighters. We'll allow it to burn through those stands and catch it when it comes out the other side, at a highway or river. The fire will be controlled. We're just being different in the way we approach it."
Aerial photos sketched a puzzling portrait of the Black Forest wildfire, with splotches of charred blackness bleeding across the landscape and giving way, in some areas, to incongruous bands of green.
Amid vast expanses of scorched timber, tragic anomalies: homes reduced to ash still surrounded by healthy trees, speaking to the whims of an inferno whipped by winds and fed by the area's bone-dry ponderosa pine and gamble oak.
So how do firefighters even begin to attack such an unpredictable creature? Crews took a two-pronged approach: perimeter control and protecting structures.
"One tactic was to confine and contain — that's to get a handle on it and stop further perimeter growth," said Mark Koontz, who fought the fire first as a division supervisor before training as an operations section chief. "At the same time, it had come through some communities — some houses had burned down, some hadn't. So with it creeping around that environment, we had to make sure no further structures burned down. That involved going house to house."
Although the terrain in the Black Forest is fairly gentle, even subtle topographical changes — such as drainages — can influence wind direction and fire behavior, Koontz said. And the extremely dry fuels, particularly pine needles, carried the flames quickly across the ground.
"It doesn't take much wind," he added.
But wind conditions, especially in the first few days, sent embers in unpredictable directions and, in some cases, triggered spot fires once they landed on a home's deck or roof. That explained how some of the homes were charred while the surrounding trees remained almost untouched by the flames.
Jay Esperance, South Dakota's director of wildland fire suppression, wasn't directly involved in fighting the Black Forest fire, but he watched from his home base of Rapid City, S.D. He described the tactics that firefighters employ — usually in combination — once they've been advised of the objectives by local authorities.
Direct attack sends firefighters as close to the fire as possible to stop it in its tracks. It's more expensive and less safe but can offer fast results.
Indirect attack involves firefighters choosing to fight the flames on their own terms, which often can mean yielding ground in order to prepare a line of defense at a more advantageous spot, such as a road, a lake or a bulldozer line where there's less fuel to burn. In this case, firefighters may set smaller fires to consume fuel and deprive the advancing flames of oxygen — literally fighting fire with fire.
A tactic called "point protection" can come into play when firefighters choose to defend specific areas, such as houses, knowing that the fire may consume the trees around them.
By the time the flames rolled into the Falcon Fire Protection District on June 11, it was a full-canopy wildland fire. Local resources focused on protecting structures.
"Our stronghold — what we called Fort Apache — was Meridian Road," Division Chief Vernon Champlin said, referring to the road that runs north out of Falcon along what became the eastern edge of the fire. "We were committed to keeping it west of Meridian Road."
The population density east of Meridian is between 10 and 15 times higher than it is on the west side, where properties can range from 20 to 40 acres. With the help of resources from Colorado Springs, Champlin said, crews set backfires, trimmed back trees and dug lines around homes in an effort to keep the flames away from defensible structures.
Air resources, such as the tanker planes and helicopters that spread fire-retardant chemicals and water on the fire, can be a huge benefit — though both yield diminishing returns when winds are high, as they were in the first days of the Black Forest fire.
In all circumstances, safety looms as a prime concern — and even more so in the wake of last weekend's tragedy that saw 19 members of an elite ground crew killed when a wildfire overtook them in Arizona.
After a brief ceremony at 7 a.m. Monday and a moment of silence at the base camp for the West Fork Complex, the crews had a two-hour "stand down" — a chance for firefighters to reflect on the developments and determine if they felt they could return to the fire lines.
"You could tell the difference in camp (Monday)," Kitchens said. "Everybody was a little more courteous, and there was an overall sadness. One of the ways I told firefighters to honor the ones we lose is to redouble our efforts for safety."
Kevin Simpson: 303-954-1739, email@example.com or twitter.com/ksimpsondp


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U.S. intelligence and defense officials offered a timeline Thursday of the CIA's response to the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, from its annex less than a mile from the diplomatic mission. U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack, which occurred on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
A minute-by-minute look at how the security teams' response played out. All times are local for Benghazi.
— 9:40 p.m. The CIA annex receives its first call that the consulate has come under attack.
— Less than 25 minutes later, the security team leaves the annex en route to the consulate.
— Over the next 25 minutes, team members approach the compound and attempt to get heavy weapons. When they cannot secure heavy weapons, they make their way onto the compound itself in the face of enemy fire.
— 10:30 p.m. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House and discussing the attack. Panetta returns to the Pentagon and has a series of meetings, including with Gen. Carter Ham, head of U.S. Africa Command.
— 11:11 p.m. A Defense Department surveillance drone aircraft — an unarmed Predator — that had been requested arrives over the consulate compound. Some time later a second drone arrives and takes over the mission.
— 11:30 p.m. All U.S. personnel have departed the consulate except for Stevens, who is missing. The vehicles come under fire as they leave the facility.
— Over the next 90 minutes, the CIA annex comes under sporadic fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades. The security team returns fire, dispersing the attackers.
— 12:30 a.m. The first U.S. military unit is ordered to begin moving to Libya. By 3 a.m., two teams of special operations forces — one from Fort Bragg, N.C., and one from central Europe — and a Marine anti-terrorism unit are preparing to depart.
— Around 1 a.m., a team of additional security personnel from Tripoli lands at the Benghazi airport and attempts to find a ride into town. Upon learning that Stevens is missing and that the situation at the CIA annex has calmed, the team focuses on locating Stevens and obtaining information about the security situation at the hospital.
— Before dawn, the team at the airport finally manages to secure transportation and armed escort. Having learned that Stevens is almost certainly dead and that the security situation at the hospital is uncertain, the team heads to the CIA annex to assist with the evacuation. In the attack, the State Department also has said that a department computer expert, Sean Smith, was killed.
— 5:15 a.m. The team arrives at the CIA annex, with Libyan support, just before mortar rounds begin to hit the facility. Two CIA security officers — Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty — are killed when they take direct mortar fire while engaging the attackers. The attack lasts only 11 minutes before dissipating.
— Less than an hour later, a heavily armed Libyan military unit arrives at the CIA annex to help evacuate all U.S. personnel and takes them to the airport.
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There was one more Sam appearance you missed, he was also in the Daffy/Speedy short, "The Spy Swatter".His voice also reminds me a bit of Daws' Mr Jinks voice from Pixie & Dixie.
I rmember see this short a lot of times in the 90's. I find strange that ths cartoon is rarely air nowadays.
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As of Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013, at least 2,129 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.
The AP count is two less than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Tuesday at 10 a.m. EDT.
At least 1,766 military service members have died in Afghanistan as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
Outside of Afghanistan, the department reports at least 128 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, 11 were the result of hostile action.
The AP count of total OEF casualties outside of Afghanistan is three more than the department's tally.
The Defense Department also counts three military civilian deaths.
Since the start of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, 19,181 U.S. service members have been wounded in hostile action, according to the Defense Department.
The latest identifications reported by the military:
—Two soldiers died Aug. 23 in Haft Asiab, Afghanistan, from wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device during combat operations; both soldiers were assigned to 2nd Engineer Battalion, 36th Engineer Brigade, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico; killed were: Spc. Kenneth Clifford Alvarez, 23, of Santa Maria, Calif., and Pvt. Jonathon Michael Dean Hostetter, 20, of Humphreys, Mo.
— Master Sgt. George A. Bannar Jr., 37, of Orange, Va., died Aug. 20, of injuries sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit with small arms fire in Wardak Province, Afghanistan; assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, Fort Bragg, N.C.
— 1st Lt. Timothy G. Santos Jr., 29, of Helena, Ala., died Aug. 18, in Fort Bliss, Texas, from a noncombat-related illness diagnosed on March 24, in Kuwait City, Kuwait; assigned to the 4th Battalion, 501st Aviation Regiment, 1st Armored Division, Fort Bliss, Texas.
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 16 people were killed in stampedes for government jobs in Nigeria when hundreds of thousands were invited to apply for fewer than 5,000 positions, officials and activists said Sunday.
Interior Minister Abba Moro held the applicants responsible, saying they "lost their lives through their impatience." Activists blamed his ministry and called for him to be fired. Emergency officials said the death toll could rise.
Nigerians are desperate for work, with official statistics putting the number of unemployed at nearly 41 million of the 170 million population. Unemployment among young people aged under-24 is even higher — 38 percent according to official statistics and nearer 80 percent, according to the World Bank.
Moro was quoted as saying by the official News Agency of Nigeria that many of the applicants "jumped through the fences of affected centers and did not conduct themselves in an orderly manner ... This caused stampedes and made the environment unsecured."
The Education Rights Campaign blamed his ministry for inviting more applicants than centers could accommodate and not providing enough security. The campaign, which called for Moro to be fired, gave the example of Abuja National Stadium, which has a capacity for 60,000. It said 65,000 applicants were invited and seven people died. The other deaths took place in Minna, Port Harcourt, Dutse and Benin City, Moro said.
The campaign said scores of people were killed. The Nigerian Red Cross and some hospital officials said many seriously injured patients were admitted, and some could die, raising the toll.
About 500,000 applicants were invited to apply for 4,556 vacancies at the Nigeria Immigration Service, according to Education Rights.
Applicants said they each paid 1,000 naira (about $6) — apparently for the right to write tests on Saturday at the application centers. The Education Rights Campaign said it was scandalous that the government had collected about $3 million from applicants and demanded the money be returned.
It said it was unconscionable that the government was "preying on the misery of hapless Nigerian youths, especially graduates who suffer years without gainful employment."
Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil producer and has one of the world's fastest-growing economies — 7 percent projected for this year — but corruption and mismanagement have failed to translate that growth into much-needed jobs.
Associated Press writer Michelle Faul contributed to this report from Lagos, Nigeria.