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ASTORIA — In the greater scheme of things, 200 years isn't that long of a time. But in terms of European-American settlement of the Pacific Northwest, there is nothing older.
Two weekends ago, the city of Astoria launched its summerlong bicentennial celebration with tall-ship cruises, Chinook Indian canoe races and a slew of speeches by Oregon politicians. Music, dance and theatrical performances by the descendants of Scandinavian, Scottish, Chinese and Hawaiian immigrants emphasized the early ethnic diversity of Astoria residents.
But that was just the beginning. The city of 10,000, at the mouth of the Columbia River, will be partying through mid-September. Historic re-enactments, festivals and big-name concerts are among the events planned in the months ahead.
On May 21, 1811, a party of settlers assigned by New York fur merchant John Jacob Astor arrived at this river port. They stopped where Capt. Robert Gray had sailed his ship, the Columbia Rediviva, into the mouth of the Columbia River in 1792, and within an echo of the point where explorers Lewis and Clark had wintered at Fort Clatsop in 1805-1806.
The first Astorians established a trading post for beaver and sea-otter pelts that grew into an important exchange center. Even before Oregon Trail immigrants began to arrive in the 1840s, novelist Washington Irving had published a best-selling mythology of the young settlement — "Astoria: Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains."
The first U.S. post office west of the Rockies opened in Astoria in 1847. As logging and fishing became the economic foundation, scores of northern Europeans, especially Swedes and Finns, settled in the river town. So did Chinese, who went to work in the canneries. Although fires in 1883 and 1922 destroyed downtown Astoria, built mainly on wood pilings above riparian marshland, the town bounced back.
In the years following World War II, 30 salmon canneries operated in Astoria — locals referred to the omnipresent stench as "the smell of money" — and the wood-products industry was strong. The Burlington Northern&Santa Fe Railway ran regular service between Astoria and Portland. But the last cannery closed in 1980, the Astoria Plywood Mill shut down in 1989, and the railroad discontinued service in 1996.
Tough times followed. Downtown shop windows were boarded up and a seemingly incessant drizzle (average annual rainfall is 67 inches) dampened public spirits. But by the middle of the last decade, Astoria had begun a revival attached to tourism. And it has paid off.
A city reinvented
The Cannery Pier Hotel, a luxury boutique inn, was built in 2005 on the site of a former cannery, directly beneath the towering Astoria-Megler Bridge. (The bridge replaced an interstate ferry when it was constructed in 1966.) Two dilapidated 1920s hotels, the Elliott and the Commodore, were revitalized and reopened in 2003 and 2009, respectively.
A waterfront trolley system that began operating in 1913 on a 2 1/2-mile route, but which hadn't been in business in more than 50 years, was restored to service in 1999. The Columbia River Maritime Museum, founded in 1962, was expanded and rededicated in 2002. The grand Liberty Theater, originally built in 1925 as a vaudeville movie palace, was similarly restored; it reopened in 2005 and now hosts concerts and theatrical performances.
And townspeople began to put special effort into restoring their beautiful Victorian homes. That attracted Hollywood production companies. Such movies as "The Goonies" (1984), "Short Circuit" (1985), "Kindergarten Cop" (1990) and "Free Willy II" (1994) helped to draw interest in Astoria from outside of Oregon, providing funds to carry out many of the restoration projects. The Oregon Film Museum, which opened last year, recalls those and other movies.
The pride that Astoria's citizens feel for their hometown was palpable at last month's kickoff ceremony. A proclamation honoring Astoria as an official "Coast Guard city" (three units are based in Astoria and adjacent Warrenton), together with a naval aircraft flyover, brought cheers from the several hundred people in attendance.
"This town is the cradle of the American West," said Gov. John Kitzhaber, who also referred to Astoria as "the place that popularized the all-American tuna-fish sandwich."
"Were it not for the settlement of Astoria, the United States may have ended at the Rocky Mountains," added Sen. Jeff Merkley.
Ray Gardner, chairman of the Chinook Nation Tribal Council, viewed the event differently. "We were the first people here," he reminded celebrants. "Our canoes led (Captain) Gray across the bar at the mouth of the Columbia. And we were the ones who kept Lewis and Clark alive during the winter."
A Chinook dance program had filled every seat of the Liberty Theater a night earlier. Visitors to the city who couldn't find a ticket enjoyed dining at the town's numerous fine restaurants, or staying late at some of its outstanding museums.
Tourist activities
For the history buff intrigued by the story of how Astoria came to be founded, a great place to start is the city's Heritage Museum. Operated by the Clatsop County Historical Society, this museum in Astoria's 1904 city hall has installed a special bicentennial exhibit about the 19th-century American fur trade and the establishment of the Astor colony.
Through interpretive signs and period artifacts, the exhibit describes how the party arrived aboard the Tonquin merchant ship on the south shore of the Columbia in March 1811. The original Fort Astoria — a replica of which stands today just west of the museum, at 15th and Exchange streets — was completed by May. Two years later, during the War of 1812, the fort was surrendered to the British and renamed "Fort George." Within five years, however, Astoria was under joint American-British possession, reverting entirely to the U.S. with the creation of the Oregon Territory in 1846.
Just downhill, fewer than two blocks away, is the Columbia River Maritime Museum. It is, in my opinion, the best of its kind in the Northwest. Here a visitor can learn about sailing and fishing vessels of all sizes, shipwrecks, the salmon industry, lighthouses and navigational tools. Exhibits define the importance of the Coast Guard, which stages between 300 and 400 maritime rescues each year in this area, either by air or boat.
Next to the museum, on the 17th Street Dock, is the Lightship Columbia, which from 1950 through 1979 worked six miles off the Columbia River entrance in the Pacific Ocean as the last active lightship on the West Coast. It was home to 17 enlisted men and one officer who suffered "long stretches of monotony and boredom intermixed with riding out gale-force storms," according to an explanatory sign.
Since Capt. Gray's initial visit, more than 700 sailors have died in nearly 2,000 shipwrecks here, where the outflow from the Columbia collides head-on with high seas to create shallow, shifting sand bars. Two-dozen Astorians are trained as Columbia River Bar pilots to guide domestic and foreign ships through the treacherous channels.
Among Astoria's pioneer bar pilots was Capt. George Flavel. In 1883, he built a retirement home on a low hillside facing the river at Eighth and Exchange Streets. Fully restored in 1951, the Flavel House is now a wonderful Queen Anne-style Victorian memory of Astoria's early prosperity.
For a different perspective on historic Astoria, many visitors enjoy riding the Old 300, otherwise known as the Astoria Riverfront Trolley, along the waterfront from Maritime Memorial Park to Pier 39. The round-trip run takes about 40 minutes. At the west end, directly beneath the Astoria-Megler Bridge, the Uniontown-Alameda Historic District is centered around Suomi Hall, home to the Finnish Brotherhood. Other small shops in this area include Finnish workers' bars and a Finnish steam-bath house, now closed.
East of town at Pier 39, the 1875 J.O. Hanthorn Cannery has been restored. Besides a brewpub, dive shop and coffee house, it has displays that recall its past life as a Bumble Bee processing plant. Nearby at Pier 36, a herd of sea lions can be found lounging and barking, day and night.
The Astoria Column, which has provided a bird's-eye perspective across this corner of Oregon since 1926, sits atop 600-foot Coxcomb Hill. Looking much like a 125-foot lighthouse, it is painted in Italian renaissance style with a spiraling frieze depicting significant events in area history. Those who climb 164 steps to its observation deck are rewarded with a marvelous view that extends many miles in all directions.
A few miles south of downtown Astoria is Fort Clatsop, a replica of the tiny fort where Lewis and Clark wintered and saw only six days of sun in four months. Designed according to William Clark's sketches, the replica fort — built in 2005 to replace a 50-year-old version that was burned down by an arsonist — displays bunkhouses, storage areas and cooking facilities. Nearby is a visitor center offering films, exhibits and ranger-led hikes.
Sleeping and eating
When I visit Astoria, I prefer to stay at the 46-room Cannery Pier Hotel. While it is the priciest property in the city, I know of no other like it in the Pacific Northwest.
Architect and developer Robert "Jake" Jacob, born in Astoria, had seen the old Union Fishermen's Co-operative Packing Company ("Union Fish") close in 1970. Ten years later it was demolished, leaving behind a deteriorating wooden pier and hundreds of pilings. Here, beneath the world's longest continuous-truss bridge, was the perfect place for a hotel, he decided.
Public opinion was not on his side, but Jacob pressed ahead. He opened the hotel in August 2005, basing the design upon old photos of the Union Fish cannery, with the same window and roof line, faux smokestacks, exposed steel beams and hanging lights. Every room faces the river and its maritime traffic; even the lobby lounge (which offers wine and salmon hors d'oeuvres nightly), the exercise area and the Finnish-style sauna have river views.
For fine dining, it's hard to top Baked Alaska, which — like the Cannery Pier — takes full advantage of its location on pilings above the river. Chef Christopher Holen and his partner and wife, Jennifer, spent the summer of 2000 towing a mobile soup kitchen from one Alaskan music festival to another, then settled in Astoria, where they opened a popular seven-table cafe.
By April 2001, they had relocated to their spacious riverfront location at the end of 12th Street. After 10 years, they have added a full-service lounge, two special-events rooms and even a kitchenware store.
A specialty is fresh seafood straight from local fishermen. Holen dusts yellowfin tuna with locally ground coffee before searing it rare; he flambes halibut in Applejack brandy and serves it on a bed of Fuji apples; he roasts Columbia River salmon skin-on and presents it on a bed of quinoa with sauteed fennel, cauliflower and heirloom tomatoes.
Another favorite of mine is Drina Daisy, to my knowledge the only Bosnian restaurant in Oregon. Think of the cuisine as bridging the gap between Greek and Italian. Chef Fordinka Kanlic fled war-torn Sarajevo in 1999; today, she does all the cooking as her husband, Ken Bendickson, offers from-the-heart service in this small downtown cafe. I recommend rotisserie-turned lamb and, for dessert, baklava dripping with honey.
And don't miss the Bowpicker for a simple fish-and-chips meal. Occupying a retired gillnet fishing boat, it sits on a quiet street corner between Astoria's history and maritime museums. The menu is simple, but you'll rarely find better fish for less than $10: Beer-battered albacore comes with steak fries in half or full-size orders.
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Summer is the prime time for baseball and several current and former members of the Lipscomb Bisons baseball team are busy on diamonds around the country.
Pitcher Rex Brothers has started six games for the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod League, posting a 1-3 record. His last appearance was Wednesday night (July 16). Brothers, a junior left-hander, gave up six hits, three runs, one walk and struck out six in four innings. Falmouth edged the Brewster Whitecaps 7-6. Brothers did not get the decision.
For the season Brothers has pitched 24.1 innings, posted a 5.55 earned run average, walked 23 batters, scattered 27 hits and struck out 30.
Joseph ties team record: Former Lipscomb catcher Caleb Joseph had a record-tying night Wednesday (July 16) with a five-for-five performance against Jamestown in a New York-Penn League Class A game.
Joseph, batting second for the Aberdeen Ironbirds, opened the game with his first professional home run. He followed with a single, two doubles and another single, barely missing hitting for the cycle. His performance tied the Aberdeen team record for hits in a game.
He drove in four runs and scored twice. However, Aberdeen lost to Jamestown 8-6.
Tognazzini leads the league: Right-hander Kyle Tognazzini, who will be a= senior for the Bisons this season, is one of the hottest pitchers in the California Collegiate League.
Tognazzini is at the top of the league with a 0.00 earned run average. He has a 2-0 record in 15 appearances, allowing only six hits and striking out 26 in 19 innings.
Young in relief: Sophomore right-hander Jerry Young has a 1-2 worksheet with one save for the Morganton (N.C.) Aggies in the Southern Collegiate League.
Young has made eight appearances, throwing 10 innings. He has given up seven hits and six runs, walked 11 and struck out 16. His ERA is 5.40.
Gutierrez getting Royals treatment: Former Bisons shortstop Jorge Gutierrez is batting .261 for the Burlington Royals in Class A in North Carolina. He has 12 hits and six runs batted in 14 games.
Wednesday night in a 7-0 Appalachian League (Rookie) win over the Princeton Rays Gutierrez doubled for his first extra base hit of the year.
Gutierrez signed with the Kansas City Royals as a free agent this summer.McClurg riding the Big Train: Lipscomb right-hander Brandon McClurg is 1-2 this season for the Bethesda (Md.) Big Train in the Cal Ripken Senior Collegiate Baseball League. He has made five starts this season, posting a 5.24 earned run average.

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DEKALB — Jordan Lynch may have had his worst passing day, but he more than compensated with the best rushing day by any quarterback in NCAA history.
Lynch ran for 321 yards and three touchdowns on 27 carries tonight to lead Northern Illinois to a 33-14 victory over Western Michigan. NIU, No. 20 in the BCS standings, now plays in the Dec. 6 Mid-American Conference title game in Detroit for the fourth year in a row.
Lynch broke his own FBS record of 316 yards set Oct. 19 against Central Michigan.
"Jordan Lynch, I think, is the best player in college football," said Western Michigan coach (and former NIU receiver) P.J. Fleck, who compared Lynch to Doug Flutie. "He makes every single player around him better. He is Northern Illinois. He is what Northern Illinois is about. He is the best football player in the country. That's what the Heisman Trophy is about. He deserves to be in New York, and it didn't take this game to prove it to me."
Lynch became the fifth quarterback in history to have 5,000 career yards passing and 4,000 rushing and he did so despite never starting a game until his junior season.
Cameron Stingily ran for only 49 yards on 14 carries, but that was enough to get the converted linebacker over 1,000 and join Lynch as the first Huskie tandem to top 1,000.
On a chilly 17-degree night with 16 mph winds and a smattering of snow on the ground, Lynch completed only 5 of 17 passes for 39 yards, but the Huskies (12-0, 8-0 MAC West) wrapped up their first undefeated regular season as a major college team.
"It was hard to throw the ball in that wind; good thing we have a good running game," Lynch said of the Huskies, who ran for 425 yards.
"I have to make some of those throws, though. Their quarterback made some of those throws. It was tough, but we practice outside in this."
Western Michigan (1-11) threw for 163 yards and ran for 93 and lost any chance to make a game of it in the middle of the game. The Broncos trailed 20-7 at the half when they missed a field goal and then couldn't handle a would-be TD pass on third down followed by a blocked field goal on the final two drives of the half. They opened the second half by recovering their own onside kick, but Jimmie Ward broke up a pass on fourth-and-1.
"If Jimmie Ward isn't the best (defensive) player in the MAC, I don't know who is," NIU coach Rod Carey said.
NIU's receivers did more blocking than catching tonight, but that's one of the things that makes Lynch great. "They blocked their butts off," Lynch said.
"Jordan runs so hard and physical, we have to stay on our blocks," tight end Luke Eakes said. "You never know when he's going to break one for a long gain, like he always does. He's always running physical, hitting people and moving the chains for us."
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Briefing - Emerging Energy Company Engages Investment Banking Firm for Raising Capital for Production Efforts
Jan 11, 2013, 09:00 ET
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FinancialNewsMedia.com "Active Energy Companies to Watch" for today: VSUS Technologies, Inc. (OTC: VSUT), Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE: BTU), Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF), Tesoro Corporation (NYSE: TSO) and Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE: ANR)
Headline News: VSUS Technologies, Inc. (OTC: VSUT) released breaking news this week that that the Company has engaged an investment banking firm to assist in corporate financing.
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VSUS Technologies Inc. recently reached a major milestone by registering their Works Programme with the National Mining Agency in Colombia and anticipates approval of their mining permit within the next several weeks. This news was then followed up with this week's corporate developments revealing VSUT has engaged an investment banking firm to assist in raising the capital needed to get their La Tabaquera Metallurgical Coal Mine into production. The terms of any financing will be disclosed at the appropriate time. Furthermore, the Company anticipates closing on the acquisition of an operating subsidiary in Colombia by the end of January in efforts to continue to make progress in this South American hotbed for coal mining.
The company also announced this week that it has changed its name to New Colombia Resources, Inc. with the state of Delaware. The Company has filed for a new cusip number and anticipates filing with FINRA for a new symbol in the next few days. "We felt a name change was necessary to reflect the direction of the company emphasizing that Colombia is a New Colombia with vast untapped human and natural resources," stated John Campo, President of New Colombia Resources, Inc.
VSUT closed up 7.26% on Tuesday (12/18/12) at just slightly under $0.04 price per share. Globally, many analysts predict coal will actually overtake oil to become the world's single-largest power source over the next five years, thanks to strong growth in demand from world markets including China and India. The critical point for individual investors is to find the stable and secure players in the coal sector - companies like VSUS Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: VSUT) could have a bright, long-lasting position in the global coal trade. For more information on VSUT visit their website at http://www.vsustechnologies.com
Active Energy Leaders to keep a close eye on are:
Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE: BTU) is trading 32% below its 52-week high and has 24% upside potential based on the consensus mean target price of $32.61 for the company. Fundamentally, Peabody has some positives. The company has a PEG ratio of .61. Peabody is trading for 11.66 times free cash flow and 20% over book value. EPS for the next five years is expected to rise by 15%. The company pays a dividend with a yield of 1.27%. BTU closed up 1.29% on Thursday 01/10/13 on over 4.31Million shares traded.
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF) is trading 50% below its 52-week high and has 19% upside potential based on the consensus mean target price of $44.63 for the company. Fundamentally, Cliffs has several positives. Cliffs pays a dividend with a yield of 6.58%. The company has a forward P/E of 12.80. Cliffs is trading for a 15% discount to book value. EPS is up over 50% this year. The company has a net profit margin of 16.28% and the current ROE is 15%. CLF closed up 1.04% on Thursday 01/10/13 on over 6.28Million shares traded.
Tesoro Corporation (NYSE: TSO), a Fortune 150 company, is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products. Tesoro, through its subsidiaries, operates seven refineries in the western United States with a combined capacity of approximately 675,000 barrels per day. TSO announced this week that it plans to release its earnings for the fourth quarter 2012 after the market closes on Wednesday, February 6, 2013. TSO closed up 5.88% on Thursday 01/10/13 on over 4.9Million shares traded.
Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE: ANR) is trading 58% below its 52-week high and has 12% upside potential based on the consensus mean target price of $11.07 for the company. Fundamentally, ANR has some positives. EPS for the next five years is expected to rise by 20%. ANR is trading for approximately a 55% discount to book value. On the negative side, the company has a net profit margin of -41%; a negative ROE of -45.70% and EPS is dropping substantially quarter over quarter. ANR closed down 1.31% on Thursday 01/10/13 on over 16.2Million shares traded.
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BREIN Scores Another Victory, Making It Suck Even More To Be A Dutch Internet Company
from the holy-secondary-liability dept
This is the point that any reasonable court would laugh at BREIN and tell its boss Tim Kuik to learn a little something about suing the proper party, rather than a tool provider (especially one who simply asked for a court order before coughing up private info and who later was clearly willing to negotiate in good faith). Instead, the court went in the other direction, and said that SumoTorrent "is clearly facilitating copyright infringement" and that XS Networks should have magically known that to be the case, and shut the site down when BREIN first asked. Even if you're a copyright system supporter, this ruling should scare you. It takes away any sort of due process. Most reasonable people admit that whether or not a site is illegal should require at least a basic adversarial trial in which the site is able to make its case. But here the court ignores all of that, and the fact that it hadn't yet proved SumoTorrent guilty of infringement, and just insists that XS Networks should have magically accepted that BREIN must be right. Talk about a recipe for abuse by BREIN and other copyright holders.
If you're a hosting company in the Netherlands, your legal liability just shot way, way up. Apparently, if you don't magically kick off every site that might be enabling someone to break the law, you yourself may be liable for any illegal actions done on the site (even without such illegality ever being proved). That seems like a great recipe to get a bunch of Dutch hosting companies to reconsider even being in business.


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- Leather upper, synthetic outsole
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TEMPERANCE – Bedford saw an emotional season come to a heartbreaking end tonight as the Mules lost 34-33 to Detroit Catholic Central in a Division 1 regional championship game.
The Mules (11-1) trailed 14-0 early before rallying to tie it just before halftime.
Then with the game tied at 21, senior quarterback Brad Boss broke off a 96-yard run on the last play of third quarter. Then on the next play senior fullback Alec Hullibarger scored on a two-yard run to give Bedford a 27-21 lead. The Mules missed the extra point and it came back to cost them.
PHOTO GALLERY: Detroit Central Catholic vs. Bedford
Detroit Catholic Central (10-2) punched back scoring on a 30-yard pass play to take a 28-27 lead with 8:32 left.
Bedford then faked a punt on fourth and 5 at its own 24 with six minutes left and converted. Boss also picked up a fourth and 3 at the Shamrock 45 with 4:03 left.
Bedford then pounded it in as Hullibarger scored on a 15-yard TD run to give the Mules a 33-28 lead with 1:56 left. However, the two-point conversion attempt failed.
The Shamrocks then had a good kick return and two big pass plays to get to the Bedford 34. Detroit CC then scored on a four-yard pass with 25 seconds left to take a 34-33 lead.
With no timeouts, Bedford drove to the Shamrock 45 but the clock ran out.
Boss finished with 182 rushing yards and scored on runs of 56 and 2 yards. Boss also connected on a 10-yard TD.
Hullibarger rushed for 136 yards and scored on runs of 16 and 15 yards.
Bedford finished with 446 total yards (306 rushing). Detroit finished with 424 yards (178 passing).
Boss and Hullibarger were among 38 seniors on the team, which lost senior teammate Colton Durbin in a car accident last month.
A crowd of about 4,800 packed Bedford Community Stadium and stood in silence after the game ended.


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edone automaton wrote:I just played through MW3 and it pretty much summed up for me what the single player modes of the big budget games have become, rubbish. Nothing innovative, far too many cut scenes, predictable AI, not particularly difficult to beat, even on veteran.... and so on....
It seems that its all about the online multiplayer, which is fine, I like shooting ten year olds from other countries as much as the next guy and, if I'm honest I will most likely only play through a campaign mission maybe twice, but that doesn't mean it has to be shit does it?
What are your opinions? do you just accept that we are being blatantly steered toward the multiplayer so they can rape us for $£$ in 'extra' content and such, or do you miss a decent single player campaign?
Miner49er wrote:I read this a few days ago.
tremor77 wrote:Anyway, I think game designers put their effort into what the players are looking for. In a game like MW3 it is defined by multiplayer. It really is a multiplayer platform, and I think any single player campaign for the game is bonus material for when your internet is out.
For sure, but why bother? I say either make a decent campaign or scrap it all together and have Black ops style combat training or zombies for when internet is out, that way they could include all the maps with the initial release, unlikely to happen I know....
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The rapid growth of technology has always surprised me. It seems like yesterday when iPods and cellphones were new, coveted items that few people possessed. Now, looking around, it seems that everyone, including some elementary students, have electronic devices. I happen to have a cellphone, laptop and iPod to call my own.
Every year, a new idea comes along and a new person implements it, a new device is born, and a new consumer purchases it. Society has evolved through the now easy access millions of people have to technology, causing a rapid change in the way we communicate.
Apps such as Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat have become the basic necessity for children as young as third grade to grandparents eager to learn about the new technology. Businesses are becoming dependent upon Skype and FaceTime, relying on meetings by Internet, rather than face-to-face encounters.
Instead of slowing us down, technology only seems to be speeding us along a rushed and hurried path. Gone is the time for breaks or evenings spent next to a crackling fire with a good book. Instead, the rare nights at home are punctuated with never-ending streams of text messages and the addiction Internet provides all, including those young enough to navigate Google.
As a member of the Durango High School class of 2013, it is hard to believe that, as high school students, our parents didnt have PCs, let alone MacBook Pros. It is absolutely shocking that their essays were handwritten or, if they were lucky, typed on that ancient device, the typewriter.
In fact, their basic means of communication included face-to-face conversations and real phone calls. Where we take five abbreviated words in a text message, they took five minutes of their day to talk and listen. It is this point where many find themselves sorely lacking.
The rapid pace of todays society is simply astonishing. Everywhere you look, everyone is rushing to their destination or worrying about their next meeting. More people express the wish for more time every day: a wish that will never come true.
Instead, todays society calls for the need to prioritize more than ever before. Finding time in the day to simply stop and breathe can become the most rewarding time of the day. The argument exists that time spent surfing the Web is relaxing and rewarding, but does it really do the trick?
Two summers ago, I attended a summer camp where we were challenged not to use technology in any form for the entirety of our stay. For me, the challenge would last a month. That meant a month of locking up my electronics and curbing my addiction to the Internet. Without a doubt, the experience was one of the best I have ever had.
I was able to step back and appreciate the little eccentricities of life that are swept away in the harried pace of normal life. For the first time, I needed to understand the art of conversation, and I needed to learn how to connect with people on more than just a superficial level. I learned that taking life one day at a time without the constant worries of tomorrow, and the weeks, months and years that come afterward is beneficial to body and mind.
Returning home, I realized I no longer needed the technology. I was able to control my addiction, and I began to prioritize life. Putting aside a time each day to process the events in life, read a book or simply listen to a friend became a routine, a habit, a lifestyle.
The magical wonder of technology hasnt worn off. Everyone, including me, covets the wondrous gadgets that consume our lives. New inventions and bigger, better products will emerge, as they always have. This is our new normal.
However, straying from the normalcy of society isnt a bad thing. Durango is full of places to see and things to do. So take a step back, slow down and exit the fast lane. Dont look to step back through the years to a simpler time, just look to find time; time to breathe, time to talk, time to listen. It works wonders.
Heather Schadt is the copy editor at El Diablo, the Durango High School student newspaper. She is the daughter of Jeff and Deedee Schadt.


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Howard Sellers – a Bona Fide RV Entrepreneur
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Howard E. "Harv" Sellers, founder of Milford, Ind.-based Sellers Manufacturing Inc., died July 7 of natural causes at his residence in Syracuse with his wife, Karen, and his dog, Riley, at his side. He was 87.
Sellers Manufacturing, established in 1962, modified chassis primarily for producers of Class A and Class C motorhomes, transit buses and specialized commercial trucks. The company originally built travel trailer and fifth-wheel frames for several prominent manufacturers, including Holiday Ramber and Skyline Corp. He also founded EZ-Ride Corp., a producer of rubber suspensions systems.
In 1995, Sellers launched a recreational and commercial vehicle manufacturing firm through a sister company called Sellers Motor Corp. near Syracuse, producing a "Road Cruiser" bus-style coach — one 29-foot model of which was shown in late 1995 at Europe's Dusseldorf Show equipped with "the industry's first rear slide."
He sold Sellers Manufacturing in 2010 to Lippert Components Inc.
Sellers was born Dec. 5, 1925, in Maplewood, Ohio, to Roy J. and Loretta Griffin Sellers. On July 4, 1982, in Las Vegas, Nev., he married Karen Linville, who survives.
Also surviving are three daughters, Susan McClish and Debra I. Kuhn, both of Syracuse, and Christine "Tina" A. (and spouse Robert) Reid, Goshen; nine grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and two sisters, LoaAnn Dahl, Syracuse, and Barbara (and spouse Sam) Bontrager, Lake Wales, Fla.
He was preceded in death by his parents; the mother of his children, Ruth Sellers; a son, Larry Sellers; a daughter, Kathy Sellers; stepson, Mikel Peters; three brothers, Marvin, Jesse and Charles Sellers; and a sister, Glendora Madlem.
A memorial service will be at 6 p.m. Monday (July 15) at Yoder-Culp Funeral Home, with Anjenette Hasse officiating. His body will be cremated. Calling is from 4-6 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Memorials may be directed to RV/MH Hall of Fame or the New Hope Pet Rescue, Syracuse. Condolences may be sent viawww.yoderculpfuneralhome.com.


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The Characters:
Freddy - All of you ladies out there who consistently attract boyfriends who turn into crazy ex-boyfriends that won't go away should consider dating this young man turned zombie. He is perfect for you.
Frank - Mommy, it's the Pathmark Man! Why is he screaming like little sister? Mommy, what is he doing now? Why is he putting himself in the fire? Won't being in the fire hurt? Mommy, I'm scared! I don't want to go to the grocery store anymore!
Burt - Owner of the medical supply company. Nuked.
Ernie - Does anyone else find it strange that a mortician would carry a pearl-handled Luger and enjoy listening to German military marches? Zumthing is very peculiar about zat...
Tina - She spends half of the movie freaking out over the fact that her boyfriend is turning into a zombie, and what that means for their relationship. Kissing Freddy when he has brains in his teeth is like totally gross. And being nuked? Totally not her thing. Totally!
Spider - His view of the world is pretty reasonable. Working for fat cat bankers is bulls**t, wearing a suit and tie to look like a fat cat banker is bulls**t, and being chased by brain-eating zombies is serious mondo bulls**t. Being nuked is also serious bulls**t.
Suicide - This chap is really dedicated to the Punk lifestyle. Zombie chow.
Trash - Linnea Quigley! Freaky punk girl who wears leg warmers for most of the film (and that's about it). Killed by zombies, only to return as a zombie (still clad in naught but leg warmers).
Casey and Chuck - She has weird hair. He's a dweeb. They die.
Scuz - Zombie chow.
The Tarman - The gooey reanimated corpse that starts out sealed in the old drum. He is my favorite zombie, because he's so mushy.
The Zombies - Any corpse which comes into contact with a strange chemical turns into a brain-eating zombie that is nearly impossible to destroy.
The Plot:
As the story gets rolling we are introduced to Freddy during his first day on the job at the Uneeda Medical Supply Company. Uneeda Medical Supply - that reminds me of Uneeda Biscuits, which weren't very good, but I couldn't resist the urge to buy them. It's a fiendish thing that they did, naming them like that. Anyway, Freddy soon discovers that working for a medical supply company is almost guaranteed to give someone a case of the heebie-jeebies. There are split dogs on the shelves, whole cadavers hanging in the freezer, and a couple of Army barrels in the basement that contain jellied corpses. Frank tells his young coworker the story about the misplaced Army drums, and even takes Freddy downstairs to meet the bizarre occupants. Years ago, an accident exposed a handful of cadavers to an exotic chemical that made the corpses appear alive. The Army sealed them in drums for safekeeping, but then accidentally shipped the dangerous Easter eggs to Uneeda. They have been in the basement ever since.
Messing around with containers filled with twenty-year-old zombie balut turns out to be a bad idea. One of the drums ruptures, releasing a noxious cloud that causes Burt and Freddy to collapse. When they wake up hours later, the first thing they notice is that the hideous smell is everywhere in the warehouse. The second thing that they notice is that everything that was dead is now...not as dead. That includes the corpse in the walk-in freezer, which quickly becomes a major source of anxiety for the men, and entertainment for the audience.
What do you do with a moaning corpse that is locked in a freezer? Burt (summoned from his house by a frantic phone call) decides to try destroying the brain. The plan is for Freddy to open the door and for Frank to nail the shambling zombie in the head with a pickaxe. It's a good plan, if the zombies in this film were slow shamblers. They're not; zombies created by exposure to the mystery chemical are
Instead of getting brained with the pickaxe, the naked screaming corpse tackles Burt. Nailing its head to the floor with the pickaxe doesn't stop it either, and neither does cutting off the bedeviled cadaver's head. All that results is a headless body stumbling around, causing all sorts of mischief!
I should mention that the actors playing Freddy and Frank might have been chosen for their talents in emitting anguished screams. They do it often throughout the film, and it never gets old. "Ahhhhhhrrggh! Half a dog!" "Aiiieeee, naked zombie!" Not exactly the sort of people you want as companions when the world is going to Hell in a rotting hand basket, but funny to watch.
Destroying the zombie's brain and cutting off the head didn't work, so the three representatives of the Uneeda Medical Supply Company still have a serious dilemma on their hands. Brainstorming a solution brings the trio to the idea that incinerating the body should do the trick. To do that they need a crematorium, and fortunately there is a mortuary across the street at Resurrection Cemetery. The only problem is convincing Ernie to help with disposing of the reanimated parts (the zombie gets cut up into manageable pieces). Fortunately, the mortician is rightfully mortified by the reanimated arm that gets out of a bag and grabs his leg; Ernie agrees to toss the zombie bits in the crematorium. Smoke billows from the chimney to contaminate the ominous rainclouds hanging low over the cemetery. When those rainclouds burst, the deluge quickly soaks the porous ground of Resurrection Cemetery.
Oy, that is not a good thing. It's a really bad thing for the group of bored twenty-somethings who are partying in the neglected cemetery. The rain causes a burning sensation to exposed skin, which is a really, really bad thing for Trash, because she stripped naked to dance among the graves. What is worse is that the rain also causes all of the corpses buried in the old graveyard to come back to life. There are a lot of them, in varying degrees of decay, and they are all hungry for brains. The "kids" (I hesitate to use that word for twenty-somethings) dash for safety, some joining Burt and the others at the mortuary, while the rest end up in the Uneeda warehouse.
At the mortuary, just before the "kids" arrive, the film's ghoulish humor is being exhibited with fervor. Ernie calls an ambulance for Frank and Freddy. Both of the men are feeling terrible following their earlier exposure to the zombie chemical. The paramedics that arrive are completely unsettled by what they find: no heartbeat, no pulse, room temperature. The two men are obviously dead, but still able to answer questions about their medical history. Without a clue about what could be going on, the emergency responders go to their ambulance to grab some equipment and contact the station. The zombies get them. When the radio crackles with a message from the dispatcher, a zombie grabs the hand mic and simply responds, "Send more paramedics."
Oh, that is so wrong. Even worse, Burt and Ernie can only watch from inside the mortuary as the zombies continue eating people. First another pair of paramedics is eaten, then the cops sent to look for the missing paramedics, and then more cops. The zombies only add to the confusion by making more radio calls to dispatch, "Send more cops."
As the film's lively soundtrack continues (I love the music - it's fun), the situation goes from bad to worse. The group holed up inside the mortuary is under siege by a mob of the living dead. Making a run for it is dicey at best, because the zombies are just as quick as a living person and tend to overwhelm their victims by sheer numbers. Being on the bottom of a zombie dog pile is unpleasant, like dead people gnawing through your skull unpleasant.
Yes, an understatement. I revel in it.
Burt, continuing his string of understandable but flawed decisions, manages to get back to the Uneeda warehouse and calls a phone number listed on the side of the Army drums. Alerted to the location of the missing barrels and that the undead cat is out of the bag, the military jumps into action to stop the reanimated brain munchers from devouring Louisville. They fire a nuclear artillery round into the graveyard.
**BOOM** Problem solved - well, not quite.
"Return of the Living Dead" is one of the movies that my teenage self considered awesome that has withstood the test of time. If anything, my appreciation for its plot and grim wit have grown as I have gotten older. The story is frightening because more is going on than a plague of nearly impossible-to-kill zombies. There is the isolation of the characters, a violation of the innate truths that anchor most of us to reality, and enough impetus and brief snatches of respite for thoughts to consider our own mortality. It is a steady and inexorable application of horror. Nothing in the movie is geared toward scaring us out of our seats; instead it's a chilling fear that makes your spine tingle and hair stand on end.
Counter to the movie's oppressive feeling of dread is a ghoulish sense of humor that allows us to laugh, but also adds to the film's nihilistic atmosphere. "Send more paramedics" is a perfect example. We just watched one of the paramedics bail out of the ambulance when a rotting corpse jumped into the front seat with him (and I completely understand the man's panicked flight), only to be brought down within a few steps by a group of brain-munching horrors. Now the zombies are preying upon the living by asking for more help. We, the audience, know what is going to happen to the next ambulance that arrives at the graveyard. It is ghastly, but we laugh because it is also clever and diabolically unfair. Thank goodness that it's only a movie.
Things I Learned From This Movie:
The good only die young if they visit the dentist on a regular basis.
The real reason that the U.S. military stopped using Agent Orange is that it turns people into zombies.
Be glad that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers never designed a portable propane tank.
Lysol destroys 99% of the germs that cause the smell of death.
Acid rain is the reason that so many nudist camps went out of business during the 1980s.
The eyes are the last part of the human body to rot.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a form of rigor mortis.
Zombies pioneered the mosh pit.
Novocaine rhymes with brain for a disturbing reason.
Never use nitric acid as an after-shave.
Stuff To Watch For:
4 mins - It's the '80s!
8 mins - I wonder who is on the other end of that 1-800 number these days?
17 mins - RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST HALF A DOG!
20 mins - RANDOM GRATUITOUS BREAST SHOT!
23 mins - Yul Brynner, no!
47 mins - This looks like an acute case of Tang poisoning.
61 mins - Just your luck, that cemetery is the official resting place of every Wildcats linebacker who didn't survive the NFL draft.
86 mins - They just nuked Kentucky. My God, what about the inbreds? Won't somebody...wait, that's West Virginia. My God, what about the bourbon? Won't somebody think of the bourbon?
Frank: "All skeletons come from India."
Freddy: "No kidding, how come?"
Frank: "How the hell do I know 'how come?' the important question is, where do they get all the skeletons with perfect teeth?"
Zombie: "Send more paramedics!"
Zombie: "Send more cops!"
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Starving actors speak out
Trash: "Do you ever fantasize about being killed?"
Spider: "Never."
Trash: "Do you ever wonder about all the different ways of dying? You know, violently. I wonder like, what would be the most horrible way to die."
Spider: "I try not to think about dying too much."
Burt: "One question Frank: this guy screaming in here, you're sure he's a dead cadaver?"
Frank: "Why don't you open the door and find out!"
Burt: "No that's all right, Frank. I'll take your word for that. If it is a reanimated body, we're gonna have to...we'll have to kill it."
Freddy: "How do you kill something that's already dead?"
Burt: "Well, how do I know Fred? I don't know! Let me think!"
Frank: "It's not a bad question, Burt."
Ernie: "What the hell is in those bags?"
Burt: "Rabid weasels."
Ernie: "What? What the hell are you doing with a bunch of rabid weasels?"
Burt: "That's what I was trying to explain to you, Ernie. They came in as part of a shipment. Course they weren't supposed to be rabid. You know, but you know how these things happen."
Ernie: "No, I don't. How do they happen?"
Ernie: "What is it?"
Spider: "It's dead people screaming!"
Ernie: "What is this, 'dead people?'"
Tina: "Yes, they came from out of the ground, and they're after us!"
Ernie: "Out of the ground?"
Tina: "And our friends took off the other way, and they're out there, now!
Zombies: "Brains! It's brains! Brains!"
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Reply #1.
Posted on October 13, 1999, 11:29:46 AM by Dave of MonsterIsland
This is perhaps one of my all time favorite horror movies. I haven't watched it in a while and seeing this review made me watch it again. It is sooooo awesome! A truly great zombie movie (I love Zombie movies!) Thanks for the memories...
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Reply #2.
Posted on December 23, 1999, 09:45:13 AM by email@example.com
This is without a doubt the scariest movie of all time,in my view! I talked to Alan Trautman (Tarman) a while ago and he was suprised to see he had fans from this movie. He is a great guy and played the Tarman role well the only flaw was that they made Tarman little to smart, you know the chain bit and trying to get Freddys girlfriend. No way could a zombie be that smart, but also that scary he looks like he had chickengravey all over his face yum yummy! And they made his teeth very white and if you look at his eyes they have the glaze look to them, Tarman without a doubt in my mind is the scariest zombie of all time only few come close to him!
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Posted on January 16, 2000, 10:26:12 AM by email@example.com
Some people don't consider this to be a sequel to Romero's trilogy...but it is!This is probably my 2nd fav. zombie flick of all time,behind Day of the Dead which is the best Zombie movie of all time.I love the soundtrack(I also have it),and I also love Linnea Quigley's charecter.Exciting,great story,acting,effects,humor,and music,*****out of*****.
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Posted on May 27, 2000, 11:59:30 PM by Monte
BEST horror movie of all time! We all know why it was; the real question is why wasn't the style and atmosphere of this film continued, instead of those laughable sequels that had the potential to become *real* bad movies?!
> Good news/bad news on the DVD issue-apparently several entities own a piece of this film, so in order to obtain the rights, a certain studio would have to shell out big bucks to own it. However, once this studio digs deep, they most certainly will want a maximum return on thier investment$. This means that they would be willing to put together an elite widescreen presentation of the film(uncut of course), with all sorts of audio/video extras to appeal to the collector/fans. If you are a videofile horror phan, be resourceful and start screaming for MORE BRAINS(!) wherever you feel would help.
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Reply #5.
Posted on May 29, 2000, 02:42:38 PM by Max Levin
Well, someone has to call this movie "not good", and guess who that is? I really don´t mean that this movie gives me headache(hehe... someONE else can give me that instead) but I dont see the logic behind the film. Why the hell must it end up with EVERYBODY DEAD(trade mark), and worse, WHY DO THEY HAVE ZOMBIES THERE? When you see films like the Dead movies, you know that the victims will be from feet to head eaten. Now why do these "zombies" just eat the brains in this movie. And: WHEN DID ZOMBIES LEARN HOW TO RUN? Nah, I can´t say that I really love this suckass b-movie but it´s funny now and then, so I´ll give it one and a half slime dripps... radioactive and stinky ones.
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Reply #6.
Posted on July 01, 2000, 02:01:43 AM by D.A. Kellough
Love this movie! One of my all-time favorites.
Here's a fun bit of trivia. The punky tune Linnea strips to, "Tonight, We Make Love (Until we Die)," is performed by a group called SSQ. SSQ is an earlier incarnation of Stacey Q, the bubbly, upbeat, cute, blond, 80s dance pop singer best known for 1986's "2 of Hearts."
I saw on VH-1 that she's some kind of Buddhist guru these days.
Interesting career path.
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Posted on August 01, 2000, 10:19:46 PM by Bill
There is no other movie like this. (well, that goes without saying, I guess.) I can remember going around for weeks after seeing telling everyone "I'll bus 'em in da damn head!" (Spider rules, for a silly 80's jerry-curled punk-boy.) For those that have a copy, if you listen closely when Burt crashes the car into the dumpster (with two zombies on the hood), right as Casey and Chuck run to the window, you can hear one of the zombies scream, "Oh, sh*t!" I used to have a copy myself, on a Beta video tape, and actaully managed to wear the tape out before Beta VCRs were discontinued. I am a total fan of this movie. Part 2 sucked ass, though. #3 was decent (read: lots of bloody gore and stuff), but it didn't capture the same spirit.
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Posted on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM by Jeff
This movie really takes me back to the cheesy 80's, when I was a little punk rocker myself! I always wondered if Tina is really a punk rocker or does she just hang out with them? Also, does the Tarman's head really hit Cassie's leg when Burt knocks it off with a baseball bat, or does it just appear to? I have watched this movie over and over and I never get tired of it.
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PLATTEVILLE, Wis. – The eighth-ranked University of Wisconsin-Platteville football team and UW-Stout combined for 1,006 total yards of offense, but the Pioneer defense forced four turnovers to help outlast the Blue Devils, 59-35, on Saturday at Ralph E. Davis Pioneer Stadium.
The Pioneers (7-0, 4-0 WIAC) totaled 561 total yards of offense, while the Blue Devils (2-5, 0-4 WIAC) tallied 445.
The Blue Devils opened the game with a nine play 79-yard touchdown drive. UW-Platteville's senior running back Lee Vlasak carried two Stout defenders in to the end zone on a fourth down and four play, tying the game up at 7-7. The Pioneers couldn't take advantage of an interception by junior linebacker Jacob Zilbar. But after a quick three and out by the Pioneer defense, John Kelly completed a 29-yard pass to Ryley Bailey then a 19-yard pass to Paul Reit to put UW-Platteville at Stout's two yard line. Vlasak walked in for a one-yard rushing touchdown giving the Pioneers a 14-7 lead.
UW-Stout tied the game up early in the second quarter, but the Pioneers responded with a six-play 79-yard drive regaining the lead 21-14. The Blue Devils were knocking at the door to tie it back up the very next drive, but on third and goal junior Rob Austin picked off a pass fromHank Kujak two yards in the end zone and put the Pioneers on Stout's own 15 yard line. Kelly then connected with Trevor Whitehead for the second time on the day giving the Pioneers a 28-14 lead into halftime.
UW-Platteville offense made a couple of halftime adjustment that paid off right away as the Pioneers scored on their first two drives of the third quarter to go up 42-14. After UW-Platteville's second touchdown to open the second half, the Blue Devils and the Pioneers traded scores to end the third quarter with the Pioneers ahead 49-28. The Pioneer defense made enough stops down the stretch to secure the 59-35 victory.
Kelly threw for 330 yards with five touchdowns and used his legs, adding 79 rushing yards. Whitehead totaled six receptions for 47 yards and three touchdown catches. Bailey recorded his third 100-plus receiving yard game of the season with eight catches for 108 yards. Reit and Russell Martin each tallied 73 receiving yards. Junior Andy Puccini was the Pioneers leading rusher with 81 yards and a touchdown. Vlasak ended up with 72 yards rushing and three touchdowns (two rushing and one receiving). Defensively, Yoel Wonsey recorded a team-best 10 tackles and recovered a fumble. Austin finished his day with five tackles, two interceptions and three pass breakups.
UW-Stout's Adolfo Pacheco rushed for 194 yards on 28 carries and three touchdowns. Kujak totaled 262 yards passing, but threw three inceptions to go with his two touchdown passes.
The Pioneers travels to seventh-ranked UW-Whitewater on Saturday, Nov. 2 for a battle between a pair of unbeatens. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. and will be featured on Fox Sports Wisconsin and Fox Sports North.


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MP910, New December 2009
A guide to programs, loans, grants and information to increase the stability of farms operated by minority farmers
A minority farmer is someone who is considered socially disadvantaged by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It is someone who, because of his or her affiliation with a particular group, may have been subject to discrimination in the process of applying for agriculture-related government services. Those groups include women, Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, Alaskan Natives and Pacific Islanders.
The USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service administers grant funding for the Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers (OASDFR) program. The goals of the program include capacity-building and training for farmers and ranchers to improve environmental quality, sustainability and profitability of the farm enterprise.
This publication is intended to be a guide for farmers, ranchers and future farmers about technical assistance programs and other resources available to them regardless of their gender or ethnic heritage. In this publication readers will find information about programs created by Lincoln University Cooperative Extension and University of Missouri Extension specifically to assist underserved audiences. Readers will also find information about federal and state programs and services for small farms or future farms across Missouri. Underserved populations, including minorities, women, nontraditional farmers and low-income applicants for agriculture-related services will find a diverse list of loans, grants and training opportunities available throughout the year. It is expected that by taking advantage of these opportunities, small farmers can improve the stability of their operations and thereby improve their social and economic well-being. State and federal agencies represented in this publication are the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Farm Service Agency, the Missouri Department of Agriculture, and the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. For the past few years, these agencies have worked closely with both Lincoln University and the University of Missouri to increase outreach to minority audiences. Lincoln University Cooperative Extension and MU Extension will continue to collaborate as facilitators between minority farmers and government agencies and will continue to develop programs to help meet the needs of all farmers and future farmers throughout the state of Missouri.
Lincoln University Cooperative Extension assists small farmers and ranchers throughout the state, especially those who are socially disadvantaged or underserved.
The Native Plants Program (NPP) was created by Lincoln University Cooperative Extension to assist farmers, ranchers and others to learn to identify native plants, use them in landscaping, produce them as specialty crops, or establish them for wildlife habitat and other conservation practices. This program joins in the work begun by groups such as the Xerces Society (www.xerces.org) to increase awareness of the importance of native plants, native pollinators and other important invertebrates, and the Missouri Departments of Conservation and Agriculture Grow Native! Program (grownative.org) to advance the knowledge of these species as potential crops for small farms.
Nature Outdoor Laboratories
The NPP Nature Outdoor Laboratories consist of a series of native plant gardens for education and enjoyment. Interpretive signs include information addressing the importance of native plans for landscaping, wildlife habitat, medicine, food and value-added products such as dyes. Bilingual (Spanish-English) brochures are available for each laboratory. The outdoor laboratories are located in four sites: Lincoln University Campus at Allen Hall and Busby Farm in Jefferson City, Manheim Community Garden in Kansas City, and Martin Civic Center in Marshall (to be established in 2010 and open to visitors in the fall). These laboratories are featured during field days and workshops. The Allen Hall Outdoor Laboratory is open to the public year-round. Busby Farm and Manheim Gardens can be visited with a tour guide.
The Native Plants Program works in close collaboration with the Missouri Native Plant Society, Master Gardeners, Missouri Department of Conservation, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Farm Service Agency, and with the MU-Bradford Research and Extension Center in Columbia, where research plots and demonstration gardens are open throughout the year.
Outreach and education activities include seminars and field days that are offered in different regions in the state at various times of the year. The following seminars and training sessions can be offered upon request:
Annual events
The Native Plants Program hosts these events:
The following publications will be available (some in Spanish-English) as hard copies or downloadable files from Lincoln University website http://www.lincolnu.edu/.
For more information about Native Plants Program
The Innovative Small Farmers Outreach Program (ISFOP) was created to help farmers and ranchers raise the level of efficiency on their farms while taking good care of the soil, water and environment. A vast body of resources is available from universities, government agencies and various organizations for small farmers. ISFOP helps to make farmers aware of, or assists them in accessing, resources to improve their farming operations, which in turn will benefit their overall well-being.
The information provided by ISFOP to small farmers helps them to adapt to a rapidly changing farm economy. ISFOP works in partnership with MU Extension, USDA and state agencies, and nongovernmental organizations. The program provides research-based information to help farmers achieve the following objectives:
Two regional small farm specialists (ISFOP coordinators), one in Kansas City and one in St. Louis, work with and coordinate the activities of farm outreach workers (FOWs) who work and live in the counties surrounding the two cities. If you qualify as a small farmer (see "Eligibility" below), you can schedule an appointment with the FOW in your county. He or she will visit you on your farm and do a site walk. We encourage you to discuss the goals and plans for your farm with the FOW, and come up with realistic ways to achieve your goals based on the resources available. The FOW will give you relevant technical information that will not only help you realize your goals and plans, but also increase your skills in farm management. The FOW will also inform you of any upcoming workshops or events of interest in your area. With these available resources, you should be able to raise your income level and have a more profitable and well-managed farm.
Urban focus
In addition to working with the small farmers and ranchers, ISFOP also focuses on urban food production in the two largest cities in Missouri. One of the goals of the program is to help limited resource minority residents, especially the elderly, get access to fresh, nutritious produce. The program has formed partnerships with various groups and community garden organizations that promote urban agriculture, including backyard and neighborhood gardens.
As interest increases in various aspects of farming, ISFOP will be offering relevant workshops and training sessions.
Recent workshops include the following:
You are eligible to participate in the ISFOP if
For more information about Innovative Small Farmers Outreach Program
At a farmers' market, this woman sells produce that she and her family grow in southwestern Missouri. They could benefit from programs that the Missouri Agricultural and Small Business Development Authority (MASBDA) and other agencies offer for small farmers.
MU Extension and Lincoln University conduct seminars, such as this one in Marshall, Mo., to discuss services and opportunities available to minority farmers.
The mission of the Missouri Alternatives Center (MAC) is to provide Missourians with timely information about alternative agricultural opportunities, to evaluate diverse enterprises, improve management decisions, increase economic returns and enhance the quality of their lives.
Pinpointing the answers you need
There has never been greater diversity in the types of farms and people engaged in alternative agriculture ventures in Missouri. Despite an explosion of information about alternative agriculture, producers can find themselves unable to put their finger on exactly the information they need to answer specific questions.
The Missouri Alternatives Center sorts through the masses of information to point producers in the right direction. The center works to improve its clients' profitability and at the same time, maintain the agricultural base needed to sustain rural communities, by providing access to the information they need. The Missouri Alternatives Center serves as a communications center for Missouri farmers, Extension staff, government personal and people who want to begin farming, diversify their current operation, or find ways to profit from small amounts of acreage. The center has answered more than 85,000 information requests on about 3,200 topics since opening in 1989. These topics include:
The MAC LinkList
From agri-tourism to vermiculture, the MAC LinkList covers hundreds of alternative agriculture topics. The center has compiled a list of links to extension guide sheets from some of the top university research centers in the world. These links provide immediate access to unbiased, research-based information, online at agebb.missouri.edu/mac/links
Ag Opportunities Newsletter
Ag Opportunities, the bimonthly newsletter of the Missouri Alternatives Center, provides up-to-date information about alternative agriculture opportunities and resources and a calendar of events. The newsletter is free to Missouri residents.
For more information about Missouri Alternatives Center
The Missouri AgrAbility project was created to assist people with disabilities who work in agriculture. The project links the Cooperative Extension Service at a land-grant university with a private nonprofit disability service organization to provide practical education and assistance that promotes independence in agricultural production and rural living.
The National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, administers the AgrAbility project. It is a collaborative project of University of Missouri Extension, Services for Independent Living, and Midland Empire Resources for Independent Living.
The Missouri AgrAbility project involves extension educators, disability experts, rural professionals and volunteers who work in partnership to offer many services such as:
Those eligible for services may have any type of disability or chronic disease, whether it is physical, cognitive or illness-related. Eligible disabilities and diseases include the following:
For more information about Missouri AgrAbility
Alianzas is a statewide program of MU Extension and the University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC) Institute for Human Development. The program was recognized in 2001 in response to the influx of Hispanic/Latino residents in Missouri. Alianzas provides training and support to MU Extension and its partners in response to the changing demographics in Missouri communities. Alianzas promotes and supports cultural diversity as community strength. Alianzas mission is to foster inclusive communities that recognize and address the unique qualities and challenges of Hispanic/Latino residents using a community-based, collaborative learning approach. Some activities that Alianzas is currently collaborating are: Binational Health Week, Mexican Consulate, Alianzas Cultural Academy, MU Extension Community Development Academy, Hospital Hill Diversity Council, UMKC's Hispanic Advisory Board, Cambio de Colores/Change of Colors Conference, and many other community meetings and partnerships.
For more information about Alianzas
The Community Food Systems and Sustainable Agriculture Program began in 2001 to provide the people of Missouri with information about sustainable agriculture and to support communities in decision-making processes to sustain themselves and their natural resources. Extension faculty link University resources with producers, consumers, institutions and organizations; encourage networking; enhance the relationships between MU Extension field faculty and Missouri communities; and educate producers, consumers and communities about sustainable food and farming opportunities.
For more information about Community Food Systems and Sustainable Agriculture
The goal of the Food Circles Networking Project (FCNP) is to connect farmers, consumers and communities and to encourage the development of sustainable, community-based food systems throughout Missouri and beyond. Extension faculty members provide support for those who want to be involved in a food-circle project. The FCNP has a website with information about localized, community-based food systems, sources of local food in Missouri, and links of interest for farmers, consumers and organization partners.
For more information about Food Circles Networking Project
Since 1935, when it was called the Soil Conservation Service, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has provided leadership in a partnership effort to help America's private landowners and land managers conserve soil, water and other natural resources.
NRCS employees provide technical assistance based on sound science and suited to a customer's specific needs to reduce soil erosion and to preserve and enhance soil and other natural resources. They provide financial assistance for many conservation activities. Participation in programs is voluntary.
NRCS reaches out to all segments of the agricultural community, including underserved and socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, to ensure that its programs and services are accessible to everyone.
NRCS manages natural resource conservation programs that provide environmental, societal, financial and technical benefits. Its science and technology activities provide technical expertise in such areas as animal husbandry and clean water, ecological sciences, engineering, resource economics and social sciences.
NRCS provides expertise in soil science and leadership for soil surveys and for the National Resources Inventory, which assesses natural resource conditions and trends in the United States.
NRCS provides technical assistance to foreign governments, and participates in international scientific and technical exchanges.
NRCS in Missouri
NRCS in Missouri is designed for customer service and field office support. The agency has 100 field offices serving 114 counties. It employs about 400 people. In addition to field offices, NRCS also has technical offices that support soil survey, watershed projects, water quality, outreach, resource conservation and development and plant materials.
NRCS field office space is shared with local soil and water conservation district (SWCD) staff. Most NRCS offices are located in USDA Service Centers that also include local offices of two other USDA agencies, the Farm Service Agency and Rural Development.
NRCS programs
For more information about Natural Resources Conservation Service
The Farm Service Agency (FSA) serves the public by providing all farmers and ranchers access and opportunity to participate in farm commodity, credit, conservation, environmental and emergency assistance programs. Through these activities, FSA supports the USDA mission and helps ensure a healthful, stable, accessible and affordable food supply. FSA also fosters good land stewardship, which will help preserve our agricultural prosperity for generations to come.
Missouri Farm Service Agency (FSA) helps ensure the well-being of American agriculture and the American public through efficient and equitable administration of farm commodity, farm loan, conservation and emergency assistance programs. Missouri FSA administers the farm programs legislated by Congress through 97 county offices.
FSA farm programs
For more information about Farm Service Agency
Contact the FSA office serving your county.
Since 1988, the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program has provided competitive grants for sustainable agriculture research and education through four regional administrative councils. Involving producers in SARE research projects has been a primary component of SARE-funded projects since the program's inception. Recognizing that producer interest in sustainable agriculture research was growing, SARE's North Central Region began directly funding farmers and ranchers in 1992. By 1995, each SARE region had begun to offer grant opportunities to producers. Now, farmers and ranchers can apply for grants of up to $6,000 for one producer or $18,000 for a combination of as many as three producers working on one grant.
The SARE Outreach Office produces books, bulletins and online resources highlighting SARE project results and other innovative research.
For more information about Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
The Missouri Agricultural and Small Business Development Authority (MASBDA) was created by the Missouri General Assembly in 1981 as an independent political and corporate body of the state of Missouri (RSMo 348). Its purpose is to promote the development of agriculture and small business and to reduce, control and prevent environmental damage in Missouri by providing additional sources of financing at interest rates that are below conventional rates. MASBDA administers a grant program and tax credit programs related to new-generation cooperatives and value-added agricultural projects.
MASBDA programs
For more information about Missouri Agricultural and Small Business Development Authority
Publication background
Between September 2006 and February 2009, MU and Lincoln University of Missouri conducted a project entitled Inclusion Leads to Success: Assisting Minority Farmers and Ranchers to Use Federal Agricultural Services in Missouri and Beyond. The project was funded by the National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA), formerly known as the National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA), through their Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Program (2501 Program) (nifa.usda.gov/fo/outreachassistancesociallydisadvantagedfarmersranchers.cfm).
The main purpose of this project was to increase awareness about federal and state services and programs available for minority farmers, regardless of their cultural background, in Missouri and neighboring states. During this period several workshops were offered across Missouri, including cities bordering Kansas, Arkansas and Illinois. Farmers and other members of communities of different ethnicities participated in these events.
During the workshops, MU and LU Extension specialists and representatives of federal and state agencies discussed their programs with participants. Agencies represented include the Farm Service Agency (FSA), the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), the Risk Management Agency (RMA), the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program, and the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Recipients of SARE farmers' and ranchers' grants were guest speakers in Boone County workshops and shared their experience with attendees. Representatives of the University of Missouri Alternatives Center and AgrAbility program participated during the last year of the program.
During the first year, nine seminars were held throughout the state. These seminars took place in cities and towns in seven of the eight MU Extension regions (only the Northwest region was not included, because the number of minority farmers is low in that region). About 150 men and women, including Hispanics, African Americans, Hmong and Native Americans, attended these seminars to obtain information about grant and loan programs, conservation programs and sustainable agriculture.
During the second year, five seminars were held in cities and towns in west central, central and east central Missouri. About 130 people attended these seminars. In the third and final year, two seminars and two field days brought together 120 participants interested in learning to access state and federal agriculture services, to write grant proposals and to develop a farm business plan.
The content of seminars varied for each location to cover special needs of the target groups. In Kansas City, for example, special emphasis was placed on urgan agriculture, and in Marshall, Mo., a Latin American family hosted a hands-on demonstration field day. A special case was Webb City, Mo., where a planning meeting was conducted with agency representatives and producers. The survey showed that Hmong farmers and other small farmers in this area were interested in attending training workshops, especially about organic farming. The last two workshops were offered to provide specific training about writing and submitting a SARE Farmers and Ranchers Grant proposal and developing businesses. In all locations, English-Spanish interpretation was provided on request.
The Gardening and Hispanic Culture Field Day provided a setting for participants to learn about fall gardening while increasing their understanding of Hispanic culture, and the In Touch with Nature Field Day included training to adopt conservation practices to protect watersheds. Both field days provided training on growing native plants, composting and environmental education.
The project was awarded to Jose Garcia at MU in 2006 by NIFA and was continued by Nadia Navarrete-Tindall in 2007. Casi Lock, Extension Associate of MU, was the research assistant during the entire period of the project. Garcia is currently at Washington State University, and Navarrete-Tindall is currently at Lincoln University of Missouri.
This publication marks the culmination of three years of outreach activities between the MU-Community Food Systems and Sustainable Agriculture program (CFSSA), in close collaboration with Lincoln University Cooperative Extension to serve minority farmers throughout Missouri. Beginning in 2009, Lincoln University Cooperative Extension will take the lead to continue serving farmers and other minority groups.
This publication is intended to be a resource for Extension staff, educators, minority farmers, ranchers and producers and agricultural professionals who work with minority and underserved populations to provide a comprehensive source for information about state and federal agency programs and services that can be incorporated into agricultural enterprises.
Special thanks to Stan Cook, Karen Funkenbusch, Debi Kelly, Charlie Rahm, Dana Rogge and Christina Vasquez Case, who submitted information about their agencies' programs and granted permission to publish it and make it available to the public. Thank you to the project administrative assistant Sharon Naylor for her valuable assistance. Thanks also to the extension specialists of MU Extension and Lincoln University Cooperative Extension and to the farmers who contributed to the success of this project. This publication is funded by the National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Lincoln University Cooperative Extension and University of Missouri Extension.
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They Always End Up Showing Us What They Are
Posted by John Hitchcock on 2012/11/04
Hate-filled totalitarian Leftists who have no regard for Rule of Law. That's what they are, and they always end up showing it. The difference between now and then? "Then", the dinosaur Mainstream Media was fully able to cover up their actions. Now, New Media exposes them to millions of people.
For instance, most people in the blogosphere have heard about Obama calling people to vote for him out of a sense of revenge — revenge toward Obama's American enemies. And Romney called him out on it. What did the dinosaur Mainstream Media do? They accused Romney of talking about revenge, and not Obama.
Next up, Valerie Jarrett, the brains behind the Obama frankenstein monster.
A rep from Jarrett office was in today. She gave us a finish line pep talk and then afterwards, heard her saying how Jarrett is very excited about a 2nd term agenda and a big part of that agenda is to punish everyone who opposed them during the first term and the campaign. Strange that everything was "Ms. Jarrett wants this, and Ms. Jarrett is looking forward to that". You hardly heard Obama's name mentioned by her which I guess reinforces what people are saying. Valerie Jarrett really is the power in the White House. I know that when her representative showed up it was like royalty was visiting. All the big dogs were lined up to meet her and acting real friendly and they gave us a heads up an hour before and told us we better "put on a good show" while she was here.
The part that really stuck out to me was when I overheard the rep say that Jarrett told them, "After we win this election, it's our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don't forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won't be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go." She was talking directly to about three of them. Sr. staff. And she wasn't trying to be quiet about it at all. And they were all listening and shaking their heads and smiling while she said it. Pretty creepy.
If that isn't bone-chilling, you're already completely gone. Very clear hate-filled guarantees of throwing the US Constitution and the Rule of Law out the window, in order to "punish" those who opposed their tyrannical rule. Congress won't be a problem because Obama has already shown he'll rule by fiat, completely ignoring the Constitutional requirements. Violating them on a whim.
This is the existential election. Obama wins and kiss America and Liberty good-bye. Obama loses and America survives its greatest existential threat.
This entry was posted on 2012/11/04 at 18:27 and is filed under Character, Constitution, Constitution Shredded, crime, Elections, Law, Liberal, media, Obama, Personal Responsibility, Philosophy, politics, Socialists, society, war. Tagged: Shredding the Constitution, tyrants, usurper, Valerie Jarrett. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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Yorkshire said
I posted about Jarrett and her scorched earth policy on 1st St. Journal.
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Tigers split squad routed by Yankees
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Ivan Nova turned his game plan into a successful first start.
Nova allowed an infield single over two scoreless innings and the New York Yankees stopped a seven-game losing streak by beating a Detroit Tigers split squad 10-3 on Saturday.
"I'm concentrating on attacking the strike zone, and I did it," Nova said. "That's what I've got to do, attack the strike zone and then my team will do the rest."
Trying to make the rotation after faltering down the stretch last season, Nova struck out one during an outing in which he threw 22 of 27 pitches for strikes. The right-hander went 12-8 with a 5.02 ERA last year, down from 16-4 the year before.
"I thought his fastball command was really good," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "Pleased with where he was at in his first start. He needs to build on it. When you struggle, a lot of times it's difficult and you have to find a way to fight through that. When he's consistent, he's dynamite."
New York's Brett Gardner had two singles, and has at least one hit in all six of his spring training games this year. The speedy outfielder also stole two bases, and scored to tie it 1-all on Robinson Cano's single after stealing second in the third.
Shawn Hill, signed by the Tigers as a minor league free agent last October, gave up two runs and five hits in 2 2-3 innings. Omar Infante had a third-inning sacrifice fly against David Aardsma.
The second run charged to Hill in the third came when Tigers left-hander Kenny Faulk walked Travis Hafner with the bases loaded.
The Yankees took a 4-2 lead in the fourth when Chris Stewart hit a two-run homer off Kyle Lobstein.
Lobstein, a Rule 5 player that entered with a 9.82 ERA, struck out four over two innings, including Mark Teixeira, Dan Johnson and Hafner during a perfect fifth.
"He threw the ball a lot better," Tigers coach Gene Lamont said. "Got one slider up."
Teixeira went 1 for 3 in his final game before leaving to join the United States' team in the World Baseball Classic.
"I'm really excited about going," Teixeira said. "Excited about competing, and it should be a blast. We have as good a chance as anybody. We're going there to win."
Teixeira, known for offensive struggles in April, is hopeful that playing in the WBC will be beneficial.
"It's one of the reasons I'm playing," Teixeira said. "You get a chance to play some exciting games, and hopefully jump start the season."
Cano is also leaving to play in the WBC for the Dominican Republic.
New York travels to Fort Myers on Sunday to play Boston. Players scheduled to make the trip include Gardner and Eduardo Nunez. Right-hander Adam Warren will start against the Red Sox.
Yankees left-hander Andy Pettitte is scheduled for his first simulated game Sunday in Tampa. Closer Mariano Rivera, coming off knee surgery, will take part in his second simulated game. Right-hander Phil Hughes will throw for the first time in two weeks since being sidelined by a bulging disk in his upper back.
NOTES: New York bench coach Tony Pena, the Dominican Republic manager, said former Detroit closer Jose Valverde and Yankees OF Melky Mesa have decided not play in the classic. … The Tigers agreed to terms on one-year contracts with RHP Luis Marte, LHP Casey Crosby, INFs Dixon Machado, Hernan Perez and Danny Worth, and OFs Quintin Berry and Avisail Garcia. … Yankees LHP Boone Logan has a tender elbow and will not throw for a few days. … New York minor league OF Slade Heathcott underwent an MRI for a sprained right thumb, the result of an outfield collision Thursday with Ronnier Mustelier. He will be reevaluated in a few days. … The Yankees reassigned RHPs Corey Black, Matt Daley, Nick Goody, Shane Greene, Bryan Mitchell, Zach Nuding, Mike O'Brien and Ryan Pope, and INF Kyle Roller to their minor league camp.