text:
- Home
- News
- Sports
- Opinion
- Obituaries
- Features
- Special Sections
- Classifieds
- Public Notices
The Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce is stepping to the fore in a solid effort to boost the local economy.
The latest season of the Think Lancaster First campaign took flight at the chamber's annual Rub of the Green golf tournament on Oct. 11 at the Lancaster Golf Club.
A highlight of the popular golf tournament was a hot-air balloon, which was adorned with the Think Lancaster First banner.
The balloon was a hot spot during the afternoon tournament with more than 100 riders.
If you currently subscribe or have subscribed in the past to the The Lancaster News, then simply find your account number on your mailing label and enter it below.
Click the question mark below to see where your account ID appears on your mailing label.
|ZIP Code:


text:
(Winner of an HP Workstation)
High-Flow Lift Pump
Eric Foy Central Point, OR
Apump is often needed, particularly in the act of firefighting, to raise water to fill a header tank or mobile water tender. The High-Flow Lift Pump, which can pull water quickly from a creek or river, contains an axial flow impeller pump section made of a resistant, custom-molded, thermoplastic engineering resin located at the inlet end of a transfer hose. The pump also has a power head at the flex-fitting found near the designated tank or truck, and a flexible drive shaft running inside the transfer hose. Sections of transfer hose may be daisy-chained, with the internal drive shafts automatically coupling together as the hose is assembled.
Prototypes have been built and operated under test conditions. According to the inventor, flow rates of 500 to 1,000 gallons per minute have been achieved at up to 12 feet of head. In one series of tests, the pump and power head were fitted to a Boeing/Vertol helicopter, successfully filling a 1,000-gallon drop tank during hover. By linking hose sections together, tender trucks can be filled even when they're located far away from the source.
"I really don't know what to expect in terms of the result of the publicity that this design might receive from this award, but as 'a guy with a concept,' I am grateful for the recognition. This award is sort of the answer to what really is a lifelong childhood dream." – Eric Foy, Inventor
The pump can be applied to additional fields, including marine, wastewater treatment, and oil industries.
Click here to view the Medical Category Winner.
Honorable Mentions
Solar-Powered Irrigation Water Pump
David Halverson
Moore, SC
A standalone, solar- powered irrigation water pump, the Tracking Solar Collector-Concentrator (TSCC) forms an extremely efficient hot-air engine configured to drive two single-stage, centrifugal-like water pumps located at each side of the engine. A 24"-diameter conic reflector provides close to 380 Watts of solar energy (with thermal chamber temperatures of greater than 600 oC), equating to about 1⁄2 horsepower. The TSCC engine and pumps are located at ground level, and extension sections can increase the height of the collector-concentrator while still taking advantage of below-ground installations. The entire TSCC unit is enclosed and sealed using bellows, a chamber window, and an integrated transparent collector rim cover. An internal flywheel motor/generator supplies battery charge and starter functions.
For more information, visit www.techbriefs.com/ctf_irrigate.
"Leak-Free" Constant Seating Stress Flange Gasket
John Jenco
Charlotte, NC
The constant seating stress gasket (CSSG) consists of a metal carrier ring supporting com- pressible sealing elements in opposing channels on either of its sides. The technology uses proprietary finite element analysis to predict the degree of flange rotation. Its design allows for the determination of a known pivot point and an external compression stop dimension based upon predicted rotation at a desired preload. When the flanges reach the compression stop, the desired fastener preload has been achieved. If both the sealing material's initial density and the channel dimensions are known, then gasket seating stress (GSS) can be accurately predicted as the material is compressed into the channels during flange assembly. Because the compressed material reaches its maximum den- sity on compression, and because it is fully contained, creep relaxation cannot occur, preventing leaks.
For more information, visit www.techbriefs.com/ctf_gasket.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Scheduling difficulties prevent me from bringing you the latest installment of The Erotic Mind podcast series today. But with a little luck, that will resolve itself by next week.
Actually, I'm glad I have this positing opportunity, because September, as you may know is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. And I have something important to say about that.
Curiously enough, I was contacted by another website recently and asked to contribute to a series they were doing on this very issue. They were looking for a unique take on prostate cancer awareness. I told them I had just the thing; and proceed to outline what I think is an exceptionally important, yet universally overlooked, aspect of prostate health — prostate self-awareness. Alas, the folks who run the website thought the concept of prostate self-exam was too edgy for them. After they declined my offer I thought to myself; man, there is incredible resistance, on virtually every front, for us men to become proactive in this aspect of our health.
Name: Gordon
Gender: male
Age: 67
Location: Florida
I guess I have more of a comment than a question. I'm 67, a widower and have been recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. I never was very adventuresome when it came to sex. In fact, before my wife died two years ago, I never had sex with any other woman. I never gave prostate cancer a thought, never gave my prostate a thought either. Now I'm mad as hell that I didn't. You see when I started to go to a prostate cancer support group I discovered I could have monitored myself better with a simple self-examination. Why don't doctors tell us about this? Women are supposed to examine their breasts why don't men examine their prostate? It's so easy actually and yet it's this big secret. Why don't people talk about this? It makes me so mad because it could have made a big difference in my own life. Do you know about this self-examination Dr Dick? If you do why don't you tell other people about this? I think it would help a lot if you could get the word out on this. Now that's all I have to say. Thank you.
No, thank you Gordon. Thank you for sharing your concern with me…with us.
I've been a tireless activist of prostate self-exam for decades. Let me explain. My career as a therapist began in San Francisco in 1981. That was precisely the same year a mysterious new disease began showing up among gay men. Back then it was being called gay cancer, but soon it would have another name — HIV/AIDS.
As it turned out, my private practice focused down almost exclusively to working with sick and dying people. Luckily, I discovered that I was well suited for the job and I liked it very much. So much so that in the mid-90's I founded a nonprofit organization called, PARADIGM; Enhancing Life Near Death. It was an outreach and resource for terminally ill, chronically ill, elder and dying people. This was brilliant cutting-edge work and I learned so much from the people I was working with. One of the things that struck me most was that regardless of the disease — cancer, HIV, MS, you name it, or even aging process for that matter — there was always a woeful lack of information about regaining a sense of sexual-self post diagnosis, or sexual wellbeing for seniors.
I recall one participant in particular, a man much like you, Gordon. He too had prostate cancer and, like you, he was mad as hell with the indifference of the medical industry toward prostate self-exam. One day during a group session, John was railing against doctors and cancer associations for their lack of interest in promoting prostate self-awareness. He pointed to the success of the cultural campaign to encourage women to self-examine their breasts. There is even a modest campaign to promote testicle self-exams. But apparently the medical industry draws the line at prostate self-exams. I guess no one is going to encourage a man to finger his ass, even to save his life.
Another group member, Clare, a senior woman in her 70's and a breast cancer survivor, helped put things in perspective. She reminded us that breast self-awareness is a relatively new phenomenon. Her mother, aunt, sister and a niece all died of breast cancer before the self-exam campaign began in earnest. Clare went on to say that it was only through the hard work of individuals and grassroots organizations that actively campaigned for breast self-exams that things began to change. Eventually, this movement changed the medical and cultural mindset. Clare said that it was these individuals and grassroots organizations that helped all of us overcome the denial, shame and embarrassment that was associated with women touching themselves, even to save their lives.
This is an indication of just how ingrained the sex-negativity and body-negativity runs in this culture.
I continue to work with sick and dying people here in Seattle. I had a brief gig at a local cancer center where I developed an NIH (National Institute of Health) funded program for women newly diagnosed with ovarian cancer. At the same time, I was also working with a group of women with breast cancer and group of men with prostate cancer. Again every therapeutic intervention I encountered — government funded or foundation funded — was woefully lacking in any clear and unambiguous information about sexual health, wellbeing and intimacy issues post-diagnosis or surgical intervention.
To remedy this, I decided to produce a series of videos for people experiencing life threatening and/or disfiguring illnesses. Videos that would help them address reintegrating sex and intimacy into their lives post diagnosis. One of the first videos was going to be Public Service Announcement showing men how to do a prostate self-exam and what to look for. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the necessary funding for this groundbreaking work. My grantwriting efforts turned up zilch. I did, however, get a whole lot of, "What a fine idea, Richard. Good luck with that…" brush-off letters though. No foundation would be caught dead funding sexually overt pattern films, even ones with the laudable intent of assisting people with the life-saving information they needed most.
I'm sorry to have been so long-winded in my reply, Gordon. I just wanted you to know that many have preceded you with outrage at the conspiracy of silence regarding prostate self-exam. Let's face it; our society is so ass-phobic that we'd rather see men die than offer them simple instructions on how to finger their butt, find their prostate and keep tabs on their prostate health.
If we want this to change we all need to speak out…as well as stick a finger in our ass.
Keep up the fight, Gordon! And please, stay in touch.
Good luck


text:
Domestic cats can make wonderful pets. But when allowed to roam outdoors, these introduced predators have serious consequences.
Looking for practical solutions to keep your cat safe while protecting birds? Check out ABC's Happy Cats, Healthy Birds campaign page.
Cats have been introduced into new habitats across the globe with terrible results. Outdoors, cats are a non-native and invasive species that threaten birds and other wildlife, disrupt ecosystems, and spread diseases.
Now numbering well over 100 million in the United States, cats kill approximately 2.4 billion birds every year in the U.S. alone, making cat predation by far the largest human-caused mortality threat to birds.
Our Cats Indoors Program educates the public and policy makers about the many benefits to birds, cats, and people when cats are maintained indoors or under an owner's direct control. In addition to advocating for responsible pet ownership, we also oppose Trap, Neuter, Release (TNR) for feral cats because of the persistent and severe threats posed by feral cat colonies.
We're leading a movement to overcome local and national challenges caused by free-roaming cats, bringing about change by conveying the most current scientific information, promoting science-based policies, and working with diverse stakeholders such as animal shelters, veterinarians, wildlife rehabilitators, and conservation biologists.
Sign up for ABC's eNews to learn how you can help protect birds!
In early 2013 we worked with partners to successfully defend cats, birds, and people against a proposed state law that would have exempted TNR programs from Florida's animal abandonment prohibition. The law would have legalized TNR and resulted in widespread threats to animals — both wild and domestic — and people.
Feral cats are a common problem on many federal lands. Over 200 organizations — the largest coalition ever assembled on the issue of wildlife mortality from feral cats — joined ABC and signed on to a letter requesting that the U.S. Department of Interior prohibit feral cat colonies on public lands. Read more.
In the last five years, we have distributed over 100,000 brochures to concerned citizens, veterinarians, and conservation groups, helping to spread the word that cats, birds, and people are better off when cats are kept indoors. Order brochures.
Want to live a bird-friendly life? Try these six simple steps!


text:
Filed under: Capitalism, Democrat Corruption, Domestic Policy, Economy, Law, Politics, Regulation | Tags: Automotive Manufacturing, Right to Work States, The Failure of Unions
Writers like to tuck a statistic into their work to prove whatever point they were trying to make. Gives "authority." But we see so many statistics, we seldom pay attention, same thing for graphs. You have to study the way the graph is presenting information, and some are just unintelligible. Every one in a while you find one where the difference portrayed is so dramatic that it sticks with you. Here's one from economist Mark J. Perry's Carpe Diem column at AEI:
(From Stan Greer, National Institute for Labor Relations Research)
From 2003 to 2012, real automotive manufacturing GDP grew by 87% from 2002 t0 2012, but fell by 2% in forced-unionism states (excluding Indiana and Michigan who both passed laws prohibiting compulsory unionism in 2012). The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis h as yet to issue its estimates for the manufacturing output of motor vehicles, bodies, trailers and parts for 2013, the ongoing trends show that more than 70% of the total U.S. production in dollar terms occurred in a Right to Work State.
Big Labor legislators in forced-unionism states like Kentucky, Missouri and Ohio claim it makes no difference to companies considering new plant construction or expansion whether unionism is voluntary or not. If such is the case, how can they explain why automotive manufacturing is soaring in Right to Work states but completely stagnant in forced-unionism states as a group?
If you follow the link, the debate in the comments is interesting. The rationale for unionism is failing. There was a time of company towns and exploited workers when unions stepped in and forced fair wages. Now corporations know what people are paid in comparable jobs across industries, and because of competition can't afford to be out of line if they want reliable employees. Enforced rules of the sort that limit the ability to change a lightbulb only to a certified electrician don't really help anyone and merely create difficulties in production. And paying big dues to your union so they can support their political choices is not so popular any more. Times change. Unions haven't.
2 Comments so far
Leave a comment
I can remember arguing back in the late '60s that if unions were smart, they'd buy stocks in the companies they worked for. If they had, they would have owned all those companies inside of 30 years.


text: IBHS issues manufactured home safety checklist IBHS issued a manufactured home safety checklist. See how your home rates. The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) has developed a Manufactured Home Inspection Checklist to help consumers gauge how vulnerable their home might be to wind damage based on that home's location and its Wind Zone Rating, how well the home is anchored, and the type of foundation.Nearly eight percent of the U.S. population lives in manufactured homes, according to the Population Reference Bureau. Yet tragically, two-thirds of the 34 people killed in the catastrophic March 2 tornadoes in Kentucky and Indiana died in manufactured homes. Residents of manufactured homes seem to be disproportionately affected by tornadoes and other types of windstorms. However, there are steps that can be taken to improve the chances that such homes will be standing after storms with high wind speed and strong gusts pass through an area,' said Julie Rochman, IBHS president and CEO of IBHS.According to IBHS, models with the highest HUD (U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department) Wind Zone Rating offer higher levels of wind resistance. However, even manufactured homes with tie-downs can overturn during storms because they have light frames and offer winds a large surface area to push against. Also, their exteriors are vulnerable to high winds and wind-borne debris.The HUD Wind Zone Rating, introduced in 1994, designates three zones that govern construction of new manufactured homes:HUD Wind Zone I = 70 mph basic wind speedHUD Wind Zone II = 100 mph basic wind speedHUD Wind Zone III = 110 mph basic wind speedYou can find wind zone ratings on the home's data plate, a paper sticker located in the master bedroom closet, electrical panel, or inside a kitchen cabinet.Manufactured homes built before 1994, as well as HUD Wind Zone I homes, are particularly vulnerable to damage during severe wind events, according to IBHS.Ideally, all manufactured homes should be installed on a permanent foundation, according to IBHS. If a permanent foundation is not feasible, the latest anchorage recommendations for HUD Wind Zone III should be used for maximum resistance against uplift and overturning forces. IBHS' Manufactured Home Inspection Checklist can help homeowners better understand and assess - and then work to reduce — their vulnerabilities to wind — related damage.


text:
Players can choose to play alone or with friends, whenever and however they like in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time. Arriving simultaneously on both Wii and DS, this latest entry in the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series introduces a new concept in multiplayer gaming, enabling users of either Nintendo platform to adventure alongside each other for the first time.
Maintaining the intuitive control scheme of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates and enhancing the gameplay experience with an integrated system that allows players to switch between the single and multiplayer modes in-game, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time is set to take multiplayer gaming to new heights as it brings together Wii and DS users from around the world next spring.
A triumphant return from a monster-infested forest marks the completion of the 16-year-old hero's coming-of-age ceremony. However, the hero's joy is short-lived as a young village girl is found to be afflicted by a mysterious illness known as "crystal sickness." Determined to obtain the cure, the hero steps out of the secluded village for the first time, only to discover a world in which crystals are merely artifacts of the past and no longer exist ...
With truly advanced 3D graphics and up to four-player multiplayer gameplay, this is the most accessible take on the Final Fantasy universe, allowing players to enjoy the Crystal Chronicles experience from anywhere in the world thanks to the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection mode.
John Yamamoto, president and chief executive officer of Square Enix Ltd. comments, "Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time represents a real technical achievement in games development and cross-platform play. The Crystal Chronicles universe is the perfect setting for all Nintendo owners to enjoy a magical adventure full of fun and vibrant moments with their friends."
- Play anytime, anywhere with anyone! Multiplayer connectivity reaches new heights in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time, where players can team up or compete with friends and players around the world!
- The intuitive control scheme introduced in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates returns, now adapted to Wii for double the action
- Players can switch between single and multiplayer modes within the gameworld itself, giving them two great gaming options in one integrated experience
- A personalized hero can be generated from a choice of the four familiar races of the series; Clavats, Lilties, Selkies or Yukes. Players joining from the Wii can also introduce their Miis to the world of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
- Create and customize materials, armor and equipment for characters with tailored appearances and abilities - no two heroes will be the same!
- A vast selection of quests provides hours of fun, even after completion of the main adventure
More articles about Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time


text:
This effect is extremely simple to perform, very effective, and appropriate for any type of show.
There are three clear tumblers each covered by a different colored cover. Two spectators freely select two of the tumblers leaving you with the third. There is no force and they can change their minds as often as they wish. The tumblers they select are empty and they one they left for you is filled with currency, silks, etc ...
Once you are familiar with the effect you will discover several presentations. You can have any tumbler "full" or "empty" entirely under your control.
Supplied are three gimmicked velvet bags. You supply the 3 clear glass or plastic tumblers.
Do you own this product? Write a review.


text:
A proposed project at Rose Dhu Creek Plantation would include stormwater improvements at a critical location in the May River watershed.
Bluffton town staff has reviewed a preliminary development plan for the Rose Dhu Creek Plantation Equestrian Center.
Staffers offered comments and requested additional information on the project at a town Development Review Committee meeting Tuesday.
The proposal probably will be on the town Planning Commission agenda when it meets April 25, said Principal Planner Shawn Lenininger.
The plan involves "minor site alterations to the equestrian center," according to Katie Woodruff, neighborhood preservation planner.
Changes include relocation of an all-weather horse riding arena and construction of a new stable and hay storage barn as well as stormwater improvements.
Project Manager Sam Connor of the town Stormwater Management Department asked for information about the old septic drain field, design calculations for proposed stormwater infrastructure and calculations that the project won't change "pre-development" runoff and pollutant loads.
The town also will require construction of a permanent water-quality structure and erosion control devices downstream from the structure, according to a staff report.
Mark Maxwell, representing Rose Dhu Plantation owner Phillip Warth, said MLB Engineering is working on the project and will meet with town staff on details of the new stormwater management measures.
Fecal coliform bacteria pollution has never been traced to the Rose Dhu Plantation development. But water quality monitoring stations have identified Rose Dhu Creek as a fecal coliform "hot spot" in the May River headwaters.
The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control shut down oyster harvesting in a four-mile, 900-acre stretch of the May River because of high pollution readings in 2009.
Town officials are optimistic that the May River Watershed Action Plan - which includes retrofitting of outdated stormwater management systems - will restore the river's health and save oystering.


text:
- This event has passed.
Tennis Camp June 25 – August 3
July 31, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
|Recurring Event (See all)
An event every week that begins at 1:00pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, repeating until August 3, 2018
Event Navigation
Team instruction by high school tennis team players and instructors. Beginning the week of June 25th, and running through August 3rd.
Beginners 1-2 pm
Advanced Beginners 2-3 pm
Fee: $60/week
Private lessons also available.


text:
I have written this for many years, and I will write it again.
Just as teams prepare for the NFL draft, they will have to find five-to-six players in free agency each season that would play at the same level no matter where they end up.
The rest is about finding the right player to "fit" what you do offensively and defensively. It is the key to success in the NFL.
I have written this for many years, and I will write it again.
Just as teams prepare for the NFL draft, they will have to find five-to-six players in free agency each season that would play at the same level no matter where they end up.
The rest is about finding the right player to "fit" what you do offensively and defensively. It is the key to success in the NFL.
New Orleans Saints Sean Payton and his staff have done a terrific job finding those "fit" players offensively in the past.
Either by the draft or free agency, the Saints have been able to find the right players to fit in his high-tech offense.
The problem is they haven't been nearly as successful on the defensive side of the ball, where Payton has turned over a lot of the personnel and evaluation power over to his defensive coordinators.
We've seen this with former Saints defensive coordinators in Gary Gibbs and Gregg Williams and now with new defensive coordinator Rob Ryan.
This offseason, Ryan wanted a big and very physical cover cornerback, and he got one in Keenan Lewis, a free-agent pickup from Pittsburgh.
Lewis is a perfect "fit" in what Ryan wants his cornerbacks to do, which is press wide receivers hard when they come off the ball, physically get after them down the field and use their size and length to get their hands on a football.
Lewis is a perfect "fit" player for the Saints and Ryan.
The signing of veteran free agent tight end Ben Watson was an excellent pick-up for the Saints also. He is the perfect fit in this offensive scheme that ulitilizes the two-tight end offense at a high rate. I expect to see more of these sets with Watson and Jimmy Graham this season.
On few occasions since returning to the Saints, Payton has talked about wanting to go back to more two tight end sets and less of using an extra offensive lineman in short-yardage sets like what we have seen in the past with offensive tackle Zach Strief and last season with Eric Olsen.
But what I think Payton has in mind is what we have seen in New England, with how the Patriots have used Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez in the two-tight end look.
Watson has developed into a good blocker in the NFL, but the very athletic former Georgia star tight end is also an effective pass catching threat down the field.
In the last three seasons with the Cleveland Browns, Watson caught 154 passes for 1,674 yards and eight touchdowns. During his time with the New England Patriots, he grabbed 87 passes for 1,002 yards and 13 touchdowns.
Watson is a perfect fit for a Saints offense that wants to spread the ball down the field this season, especially over the middle where you see so many coverage mismatches.
The Saints want to put a heavier emphasis on running the ball as well, featuring Mark Ingram as a major part of the offensive arsenal, and Watson is a very accomplished blocker.
Watson's in-line blocking skills and his speed and eye-hand coordination as a receiver make him the perfect match for the Saints.
Last week's addition of former Dallas Cowboys outside linebacker Victor Butler to the team was a "moneyball" football deal.
Butler has never been a full-time starter in the NFL. In four seasons, the former Oregon State defensive end recorded 73 tackles, 11 sacks and forced five fumbles.
He has only had two starts in those four seasons.
Dallas' DeMarcus Ware is one of the elite players in this game and clearly one of the best pass rushers this game has to offer today, but the Cowboys chose to keep the high-priced Anthony Spencer over Butler earlier in the year.
Spencer is a well-respected outside linebacker in run defense, but he never fully developed that great array of pass rush moves that he flashed at times, especially in 2009, on a consistent basis.
Dallas owner Jerry Jones, who is never known for making great football moves by all by himself, chose to put the franchise tag on Spencer instead of making a much better money deal to keep Butler in Dallas.
Spencer is a good NFL starter, but no star talent by any means of the football imagination.
Jones is not the high judge of football talent he pretends to be, but he is a really good business man, and in this case, he chose the higher price brand of Spencer over Butler.
In watching and evaluating Butler through his years in college and in the pros, the 6-foot-2, 245-pound outside linebacker is built with from the same mold as Junior Galette and Martez Wilson.
Butler is a well-built and very quick off the edge pass rush specialist. He has flashed excellent edge speed and closing ability in the pocket and a very strong one-move shot up the field.
He is also a consistent hard worker. There is no let up in his play, and I like his hustle and desire.
There is also room for Butler to improve. He needs to learn how to use his arms and hands better when engaged with blockers, and he needs to utilize better moves to get by blockers because he often tries to beat his man with a strong power move or just running through the potential block.
One pro scout who paid close attention to Butler made the remark to me this week that Butler is a really good athlete, but has never developed that full array of pass rush moves you want to see from a top-flight edge outside linebacker.
When Butler gets hot as a pass rusher, watch how NFL teams scheme up to try and take him away from being that consistent threat off the edge. But for the money and age, Butler is the best option for the Saints right now at outside linebacker.
It also takes the pressure from the Saints having to use that first-round pick on a pass rush outside linebacker. While Butler, Galette and Wilson have done little to show they are the answers to the pass rush woes, the depth at the position means that the Saints have options to go another route if they chose.
The one thing for sure over the past few months is that the need for the edge pass rushers have intensified immensely and Oregon's Dion Jordan, Brigham Young's Ezekel Ansah and LSU's Barkevious Mingo will not be on the board when the Saints pick at 15.
What is shocking is that two players that have really played well the last two seasons and at times dominated — Florida State defensive end Bjoern Werner and Georgia outside linebacker Jarvis Jones — have tumbled a bit and could be available when the Saints picks at 15.
We see it every year that players who don't have a stellar season in the fall make a momentual leap up the charts during pre-draft workouts, and the Saints could still be in a prime spot to take an elite defensive end or outside linebacker.
There are still openings on this football team, as a veteran left tackle is a huge must get for the Saints and also a veteran back-up quarterback. Keep a close eye on the developments in Cleveland with Colt McCoy, who would be a great fit as a back-up to Drew Brees because of his similar playing style.
Despite having money management issues to start the offseason, the Saints have made good moves to upgrade their football team. You have to give general manager Mickey Loomis and salary cap expert Khai Harley great credit for finding creative ways to keep this team in the football hunt.
And on the first day of the NFL draft, don't be surprised to see the Saints trade back to acquire extra picks.
NFL analyst Mike Detillier is based in Raceland.


text:
Will Slower Growth Boost Chinese Stocks?
- Order Reprints
- Print Article
Last night, the world received disappointing economic data out of China yet again. This time it was the final HSBC Purchasing Managers Index, which fell to 50.4 in April, down from 51.6 in March. A reading above 50 still signals that the economy is growing, but China's inability to gain momentum has worried investors and economists alike.
Strangely, the data has the strategists at Pavilion Global Markets feeling a little optimistic about Chinese stocks. They write:
We are beginning to reassess the prospects for Chinese equities. We have been skeptics for a long time, but we are now thinking that the structural growth reduction in China has, counter-intuitively, the potential to be net positive for Chinese equities. A reduction in credit dependency will probably lead to more efficient use of capital among the country's companies, leading to improved shareholder returns. This is a structural theme we intend to follow closely in the coming months and quarters.
In fact, they believe China's leaders are doing the right thing by slowing the economy today to create more sustainable growth tomorrow. And with Chinese stocks now trading at a discount to emerging markets generally, as well as the U.S., surprises in the future could lead to better performance.
Chinese stocks have lagged other emerging-market equities this year. The iShares FTSE China 25 Index (FXI has gained 0.2% to $37.25 today, after falling 8.1% this year, while the iShares MSCI China Index ETF (MCHI) has advanced 0.2% to $45.61, after dropping 6.1% this year. The Market Vectors China ETF (PEK), which tracks shares available primarily to Chinese citizens, has jumped 1.4%, after falling 8.6%. The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF (EEM) has gained 0.5% today and has dropped 3.5%.


text:
Before job posting locations were introduced, external location fields had to be used. This approach wasn't always easy, which is why Workday introduced this functionality in Workday 27. This guide provides you with complimentary configuration instructions to help you set this up in your own Workday tenant.
Home » HCM & Financial Management Solutions » How to configure job posting locations in Workday
Please fill out the form to access the content
Thank you!
Error - something went wrong!
Previous Item
Workday reports: A brief guide to optimization
This white paper will provide tips and tricks on how to achieve optimization in your Workday reports.
Related Content
6 mistakes to avoid when deploying cloud finance technology
Deploying cloud finance technology presents unique challenges. Alight breaks down the six mistakes companies often make in the move to the cloud.
Pathway Vet Alliance: Thriving in the Cloud with Alight and Workday
Pathway Vet Alliance was looking for a way to effectively and efficiently keep up with their growing organization. That's when they turned to Workday and Alight.
Would you hire your Centennial kid?
Five things about Centennials and ideas for creating an employee experience they'll love.
2017 Workforce Mindset Study
The Workforce Mindset® Study sets out to help employers make sense of what the employee experience is like today, and, more importantly, try to create an experience where people & organizations thrive
Key findings on the employment experience
The Workforce Mindset® Study sets out to help employers make sense of what the employee experience is like today, and, more importantly, try to create an experience where people & organizations thrive
Performance made easy: 7 questions employers can ask about performance management
Performance management has been getting increased attention in the last couple of years, with many questioning its return on invested time and attention, and the effectiveness of the process.
Searching for a modern employee experience
Employees are searching for a modern experience. Learn what employees want and why employers have work to do.
Shaping the cloud for your people: Perspectives for a CHRO, CIO and CFO
Your company's success depends on giving your employees what they need to do more with technology—more efficiently, more flexibly, more securely.
Workday reports: A brief guide to optimization
This white paper will provide tips and tricks on how to achieve optimization in your Workday reports.
Adoption, insights and optimization - What every HR leader needs to consider
Workday's live. Now what? Change doesn't stop at go-live. A well-thought out sustainment plan is critical in navigating Workday post go live.This roadmap can help.
UPoint®: A people-centric solution
UPoint® makes the user experience simple and seamless, providing your people with a single resource that's easy to navigate.
Alight Communication Impact Assessment
The Alight Communication Impact Assessment can measure the effectiveness of your employee communication strategy—helping you determine ROI and set a better strategy for the future.
Total rewards statements— dynamic, personal and relevant
You make a sizeable investment in your rewards program, yet your people don't always recognize or appreciate those rewards. Personalized total rewards statements from Alight can help.
The Rewards Perception Index
Alight's Rewards Perception Index helps you quantify the value of your rewards by delivering real employee insights specific to your company's offerings.
Guidance as you start out on your Workday Analytics journey
Have you implemented Workday and are looking for ways to maximize your investment through analytics? Download the whitepaper to learn more
Everest Group PEAK Matrix for SuccessFactors - based HR Business Process Services
Alight Solutions has been identified as a leader in the 2018 Everest Group PEAK Matrix for SAP SuccessFactors-based HR Business Process Services.
Employees seek a compelling, authentic value proposition
In an increasingly competitive talent market, Alight can help deliver a compelling and differentiating EVP to your workforce.
Finance is moving to the Cloud... are you ready?
As much as moving to the Cloud has been a hot trend over the past several years with Human Capital Management systems, in today's world, financial management systems are not far behind.
Would your talent management system pass a health check?
Have you ever wondered if you're able to effectively administer current and new functionality in your talent management system? Or your portal feels out of date? It may be time for a health check.
Staying ahead of the innovation curve—explore the possibilities with Alight and Cornerstone


text:
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Birmingham-Southern College held its annual Athletic Awards Banquet Tuesday evening in Bruno Great Hall on the BSC campus.
The Larry Striplin Female Athlete of the Year is track and field All-American Tiarra Goode, who won the 60-meter indoor hurdles national title in March and won three SCAC outdoor championships on April 28 with record-breaking times in each event. Football's Shawn Morris and baseball's Bruce Maxwell were named the Larry Striplin Male Athletes of the Year.
BSC's Athlete of the Year awards were named in honor of late benefactor Larry D. Striplin, who passed away this past January at the age of 82. He was a 1952 graduate of Birmingham-Southern and is a member of the BSC Sports Hall of Fame. Striplin served for many years on the Birmingham-Southern Board of Trustees and was Chairman of the Athletic Affairs Committee of the Board. The BSC baseball field, Striplin Field, is named in his honor, as well as the Larry D. Striplin, Jr. Physical Fitness and Recreation Center on the BSC campus.
Morris, who was named D3football.com First-Team All-America, Second-Team Associated Press Little All-America, and SCAC Offensive Player-of-the-Year, rushed for 1,449 yards and 17 touchdowns in nine games this past season. His season rushing total was the third most in the 50-year history of the SCAC. Morris also led the Panthers with 17 receptions for 131 yards. In the season's final game at home against Millsaps, he rushed for a BSC and SCAC-record 332 yards in a 35-21 win.
Maxwell was recently voted SCAC Offensive Player-of-the-Year and helped lead BSC to the SCAC title in its first year of eligibility. He ranks second in the nation with a .486 batting average, and leads the nation in doubles (24), home runs (14), slugging percentage (.964), total bases (133), on-base percentage (.623), and walks (50).
Softball's Bethany Fronk and soccer's Bailey Kimbell were named Female Newcomers of the Year, and baseball's Blake Stevens, track and field's Andrew Archer, and lacrosse's Erik Klein were named Male Newcomers of the Year.
Jennifer Commander (women's golf), Bryan Jackson (football), and Garner Shivers (men's soccer) were honored as the Johnny Johnson Most Inspirational Seniors. The Johnny Johnson Award is named for the late Vice President for Business and Finance at Birmingham-Southern College, who died suddenly from a heart ailment in 2001. Johnson was an avid supporter of BSC athletics.
The 2011-12 Panther Men's Basketball, Baseball, Softball, and Men's Lacrosse teams were also named Teams of the Year. Men's Basketball earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, making BSC's first NCAA post-season appearance in the Division III era. The Baseball, Softball, and Men's Lacrosse teams all won the 2012 SCAC Championship and will play in their respective NCAA Championships, beginning tomorrow night as Men's Lacrosse faces No. 5 Stevenson in Stevenson, Md., at 7 p.m. ET.


text:
On 13 December 2013, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreed to streamline the Ministerial Council system. Eight Councils are now responsible to COAG and will be engaged in work requiring COAG's attention.
The COAG Education Council provides a forum through which strategic policy on school education, early childhood and higher education can be coordinated at the national level and through which information can be shared, and resources used collaboratively, to address issues of national significance.
Terms of Reference
To download a copy of the Education Council's Terms of Reference click here
Further information in relation to the COAG Council structure can be accessed at: http://www.coag.gov.au
ACECQA Review: Terms of Reference
To download a copy of the Terms of Reference for the ACECQA Review, please click here.


text:
Rover picking up hacker-maker creations
Oakland Museum sets out to explore customization culture - Rover pickup included
When Michele Marti rebuilt two Victorian chairs as one, it wasn't just about furniture.
"I was single for so long, I started to notice the gestures of love," says Marti, a 26-year-old upholsterer and designer who lives in Oakland.
She found a large, boxy chair at the Alameda flea market and used a small Japanese hand saw to remove its right arm and part of its base - she then tucked a smaller ornate, rounded chair against it, built their base together and reattached the larger chair's arm to wrap around her. She called it the Lovers.
"Sexy Victorian furniture felt like San Francisco to me. The Lovers shows the simple gesture of comforting someone," she says. "I knew I was onto something because, finally, my furniture showed my emotion and felt like my own."
Customization - the art of adjusting objects to fit individual needs - is hardly new, but never has the movement been so coherently Californian. The combination of two Bay Area tropes, the hacker and the maker, California customization is becoming its own aesthetic. The hacker, a concept popularized by Silicon Valley programmer culture, is someone who fiddles with, breaks or fixes existing systems. The maker, which comes from Burning Man's steampunk aesthetic, combines technology with manual skills, mixing robotics and 3-D printers with woodworking and metallurgy.
Collecting artifacts
Now, with a major new show, "We/customize," the Oakland Museum of California is canonizing the state's customization culture - which is hacking everything from trucks and toys to custom artificial limbs and Ikea furniture. This month through December, a small custom vehicle, called the Oakland Rover, will be collecting these hacked objects from around the state. In February, the museum will show the artifacts along with a series of workshops and tutorials. Meanwhile, professors at California College of the Arts (CCA) have started teaching a course on customization and are working to put a movement as diverse as its participants into a syllabus.
"The normal hobbyist garage shop today is incredibly sophisticated and connected," says CCA customization teacher Barbara Holmes, who's a fine art furniture hacker outside of class. "You have tutorials on YouTube and can have a question answered online within minutes. The barrier for entry is lower. We're able to do a lot more and a lot quicker."
"There's a historically rebellious, anarchist spirit in the Bay Area, and that's the spirit of customization," says Holmes. "To my knowledge, there's no other university in the world with a class on customization."
To Holmes, customization is about reclaiming the objects in our lives and "instilling curiosity and awareness about our global culture."
"We're seeing a time where there's a melding and broadening of genres," she says. "The modernist hierarchy has been leveled down, and everyone's mixing in things. I see this especially happening with interiors and furniture."
"We're defining what the style is," she continues. "For now, all we can say is it's beyond the term eclectic."
Taking the oath
In her Thursday morning class, organized to work with the Oakland Museum show, Holmes hands out white lab coats to her students and asks them to raise their right hands for an oath:
"With this lab coat I vow to be intensely curious, to embrace risk, to work tirelessly to customize and modify to my personal needs and inclinations."
One student, Noah Hillis, 20, checks the time on a curious-looking iPhone. He's swapped out the glass back with a neon orange plate.
Weeks before the Rover's launch, designers Martin Sprouse and Dan Rosenfeld are at Bart Manufacturing in San Jose putting finishing touches on the Rover, a small electric vehicle that will travel the state collecting customized objects to bring back to the museum for the show. Visiting customization fairs, art festivals, and artist studios, the Rover will make a series of voyages to collect objects and provide workshops along the way.
"It's not a food truck or a golf cart or even a car," says Sprouse, who designed the vehicle to be thin enough to drive throughout the museum or into school auditoriums. "We didn't want it to look like a car in architecture. We wanted it to look like architecture."
The vehicle is a small truck painted neon green (see graphic). Where the truck bed would be is a glowing cube made of translucent resin slabs. The panels lift like gull-wing doors revealing large sliding boxes, called cartridges, which will hold the artifacts as they travel back to the museum.
Inspired by Burning Man's mutant vehicles and Los Angeles' custom car movement, the vehicle is made to look like a jewel box. "Light blasts out, and you never know what's inside."
In Temescal, two of the Oakland Rover's biggest inspirations are busy with hot glue guns.
Elsa Rudolph Swanson and Annabel Dudash, both 11, have spent much of the past two years breaking and rebuilding toys. Elsa holds up one of her creations - Dora the Explorer body, Daffy Duck, spikes from a dragon down its back.
"It needs a tail, though," she says.
"Bird tail!" shouts Annabel, cutting apart a toy from the Disney movie "Rio."
Originally handing out the creations at birthday parties, the girls have set up a booth on Telegraph at 23rd and have begun selling at the monthly Art Murmur festival. The girls' teachers, regulars at the first-Friday event, stop by their booth each week.
"It's incredible. They'll make 50 units at a time. And sell out," says Elsa's father, the painter Bill Swanson. "They're paying for their own website."
"It's fun because we're not making the mutants out of gold or something, we're just making them out of old toys," says Annabel. "It's really fun when a new movie comes out, especially if we don't like it because then McDonald's has the toys and so many people throw them away."
Elsa and Annabel will be leading toy customization workshops at the museum early next year.
They go outside and try to hammer a mummy out of its shell. It doesn't crack.
"Girls, what about your saw?" Swanson says.
"Aha! Success!" shouts his daughter.
A few blocks away, Marti uses an upholstery staple gun and reams of velvet on her flea market Victorian furniture at home in Oakland's Longfellow neighborhood.
Marti makes composite pieces, merging several antiques, upholstering two or three chairs together.
"It's built so if two people sit, your knees will touch," she says. "It's the art of flirtation."
When she was an art student at CCA, she would walk down Folsom Street and began noticing the playfully sexual furniture.
"Most of that stuff is pretty hideous, but it got me thinking about furniture that flirts," she says. "Furniture that has San Francisco's Victorian charm and a wink."
After putting a cabriole-legged side table through an enormous saw, she reglued it with a hinge so it splits and opens from the front.
She took a traditional Victorian moulded chair, hand-sawed it in half, and rebuilt it around a corset.
"I didn't want to mess with the original finish of it because I wanted to show the wear and tear, the history."
Marti has been shown at Design Week and Bay Area Now, as well as featured in Architectural Digest - and she just sold her first piece for nearly $5,000.
"By customizing, the piece speaks what I was feeling," says Marti. "And who wouldn't want their furniture to do that?"
Rover special features
"It's like the lunar rover, collecting samples but leaving stuff too, so it has to serve both functions of carrying and entertaining," says designer Martin Sprouse. "It's bringing the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) to everyone and bringing everyone back to the museum. Building this was a big responsibility."
Movie screen: "A 5-by-8-foot movie screen is built into the rover so it can be its own media center. The screen is a giant folding billboard with a projector at the bottom. It can go low for a bunch of kids to sit up close or raise up for a big Lake Merritt event."
Doors: "We made the gullwing doors to look like the awning of revamped OMCA."
Cartridges: "There are three cartridges, or sliding drawers. Each one is an empty room that can get curated."
Folding table: "A 6-foot-long picnic table folds out of the truck."
T-slots: "An infinite number of different things can hook onto it. Everything has a T-slot on the frame and inside, so when the doors open, there are a million attachment points.
Glow: "When it's driving, we wanted it to look otherworldly. The inside glows green through the translucent walls."
Color: "We wanted it to match OMCA's color scheme, so its colors, that bright neon green, matches a mural on the building. It helps show that the rover is actually an extension of the architecture."
Plugs: "The rover can run 10 glue guns at a time."
Follow the Rover
What do you customize? To share your work, follow the team at wecustomize. org and upload your photos at wecustomize.org/submit.
The Oakland Rover's journey culminates in a special exhibition exploring personal customization Dec. 22-Jan. 26 in the Oakland Museum of California's Great Hall, 1000 Oak St. The "We/customize" exhibition runs Feb. 9-May 26. (510) 318-8400. museumca.org.
Nellie Bowles is a Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com


text:
Can Ben Jay Save UH Sports?
An accountant from Ohio has come to turn Hawaii's dysfunctional athletics program around. He may be the last hope.
David Thompson
UH Athletics Director Ben Jay.
Photo: David Croxford
Ben Jay took a step up and a step down when he left Ohio State University, where he worked as an assistant athletics director, for the University of Hawaii, where he is the new athletics director.
Ohio's athletics program has 36 teams, more than 1,000 athletes and a budget of over $130 million. It's the rare college athletics program that actually pays for itself. Its football team, one of the NCAA's most prestigious, went undefeated last year. Its stadium, which seats 105,000, regularly sells out for football games. Its exuberant fans proudly proclaim themselves to be "the best fans in the land."
The University of Hawaii's athletics program, by contrast, has 21 teams, about 475 athletes and budget of around $30 million. It routinely ends the year a few million dollars in the red. Its football team, which had a dismal 2012 season, ranks at the bottom of its conference. Many of its facilities are, to be blunt, shabby. Its home stadium—a poorly designed, rusting hulk that should probably be torn down—seats 50,000, but hasn't sold out a football game since 2007.
Jay knew all this when he moved into his new office on UH Manoa's lower campus last January. What he didn't know is how hard it was going to be to get the burned-out light bulbs changed.
Altogether, Jay counted 72 burned-out bulbs—he is a numbers guy—along the walkways outside the athletics department when he arrived. Three months later, as he caught a red-eye flight to California for a football meeting, the bulbs were still out. This wasn't the only facilities issue Jay faced. There were the broken toilets in the Stan Sheriff Center, the bent rims in the basketball team's gym, the decrepit locker room that was too embarrassing for football coaches to show recruits, the weeds—the list went on and on.
Jay stewed about this all the way across the Pacific. The football team had been thoroughly manhandled in 2012, ending the season 3-9. Fans weren't buying tickets, donors weren't writing checks and morale couldn't get much worse. The entire campus was still reeling from the Wonder Blunder, in which the university poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into damage control after the athletics department, in a hapless attempt to bring the musician Stevie Wonder to campus for a benefit concert, lost $200,000 to a pair of Florida scam artists. Meanwhile, with a widening gulf between the "have" and "have-nots" in collegiate sports, and with Bachman Hall floating the idea of downgrading UH from a Division 1A program, the continued existence of the athletics department as we know it had come into question.
Jay had been brought in to turn things around. And yet he couldn't even get the light bulbs to work. As soon as his plane landed in Los Angeles, he did what exasperated people do these days: he vented on Twitter.
"Going to Home Depot & buying several cases of replacement bulbs myself. Will find a ladder & do this myself. Can't sit idly. Embarrasing," he tweeted, using his handle, HawaiiManoaAD.
Then he tweeted: "My staff knows when I see something broken & it obviously hasn't been fixed in a long time, I'm impatient. THIS IS OUR HOUSE!!"
And this: "We are cleaning up our athletic offices. Getting rid of moldy carpets. making it presentable for guests, recruits, parents."
And this: "What do recruit parents think when they see junk lying around, wallpapers falling off, landscaping overgrown? 'They don't care.'"
Those are highlights. There was more.
UH Athletics Director Ben Jay.
Photo: David Croxford
Jay didn't expect his late-night, bleary-eyed rant to blow up in the news, he says. But blow up it did. KHON-TV jumped on it that night. The Associated Press got ahold of it, and Jay's friends in Ohio were asking him, "Why are you talking about light bulbs?" Chatters on the local sports forums went nuts. By the time Jay got back to Hawaii, all of the bulbs had been changed, and some upper campus feathers had been thoroughly ruffled.
When I meet Jay in his office on the ground floor of the athletics department, he's six months into the job. The office has big windows that look out on the end zone of the football practice field. Jay prefers natural light to fluorescents, so—hard not to notice this—he leaves his overhead lights off. He sits half slumped in his desk chair, and when I ask about the Twitter episode, he sighs and smiles like a kid who's been caught doing something he knows he can get away with only once. "There are folks in upper administration who still look at me and say, 'Um, you're not going to Tweet about us anymore, are you?'" he says.
For the record, no, he isn't. "It was one of those rookie AD mistakes," he says. "You don't want to embarrass the people that you work for, and it led to undue attacks on our leadership. That wasn't the point. I wasn't calling out my bosses. I just wanted to get things done."
Since we're on the subject of things that have blown up on Jay, I ask about the nickname flap. One of Jay's first orders of business at UH was to simplify the hodge-podge of team nicknames. Some of the men's teams were Warriors, some were Rainbow Warriors, and the baseball team was simply the Rainbows, while the women's teams all went by Rainbow Wahine. "It was ridiculous," Jay says. "You can't brand that many names. Even broadcasters were getting confused."
During his first several weeks in Honolulu, Jay canvassed everybody he met but couldn't find any consensus on a single preferred name. So he decided to go with Warriors for all the men's teams, while leaving the women as Rainbow Wahine. Only then did the depth of support for the traditional Rainbow moniker become apparent. "Until you make a decision, nobody screams at you," he says. In May, after a thorough pummeling by opponents of the Warriors-only name, including some politically powerful ones, Jay changed his mind, announcing that the men's teams would, in fact, be the Rainbow Warriors. "Most people will tell you that's probably the best change I could have made, because it recognizes both the Rainbow name and the Warrior name," he says. "But I still have the Warrior-only supporters who are all pissed off at me now."
Before he took the hot seat at UH, Jay worked for six behind-the-scenes years as Ohio State's "executive associate athletic director for finance and operations." He was the department's chief financial officer, or "the money guy," as Gene Smith, OSU's athletics director, liked to call him.
Among his many duties, Jay was in charge of game-day operations at Ohio Stadium, where he was in touch with the multitude of moving parts that go into staging a Buckeyes football game, from ticketing to parking to recycling to the sniper teams that law enforcement puts on the roof to guard against terrorists. As the athletic department's point person for construction and renovation, he also presided over a mini building boom, overseeing 16 construction and renovation projects, which ranged from replacing the grass on the football field with artificial turf to the building a new softball stadium.
Jay likes to geek out over well-designed athletics facilities. "It starts from having a good set of architectural plans that answer the programmatic needs of your sports and your coaches," he says. "I'm not one for having 17 flat screens up on the wall. Give them a facility that's efficient, economical, works, looks nice and will last a long time."
Construction at UH, as well as maintenance and procurement, each mired in its own intractable bureaucracy, are largely out of Jay's hands. "I have to admit, in the initial couple of months here, it was frustrating, because this is not what I'm used to," he says. "But I think back to when I first arrived at Ohio State, and how bureaucratic it was there at first. And I saw that change, so I know we can work through this here." The change he witnessed was driven by Ohio State's president, Gordon Ghee, who worked with the governor and the legislature to streamline the university's contruction processes. "Then Ghee put it on us, as a staff, to make facility renovations and building a more efficient process," Jay says.
As much as Jay would enjoy playing a similar role at UH, renovation and construction is no longer part of his job. Maybe someday, but in the meantime he's got other pressing issues to deal with, such as fighting for the economic survival of UH sports in the face of fan and donor apathy, and preventing the marginalization of the school during a time of upheaval and uncertainty in college sports.
Last spring, UH-Manoa's Chancellor Tom Apple, in a curious effort at rousing public support, raised the possibility of annihilating UH sports as we know them. "If we're not breaking even in three years, I really have to look at whether we will continue Division 1A athletics," Apple told the student newspaper, Ka Leo O Hawaii. The alternative could end up being a model in which athletics exist purely as an extracurricular student activity.
Despite the existential threat he has hung over the athletic department's head, Apple is one of Ben Jay's greatest supporters. It was Apple who hired Jay, offered him the $293,000 base salary, with all sorts of performance bonuses—the largest for any UH athletics director ever—and saw to it that the $13 million debt the athletics department owed the chancellor's office was forgiven. Apple told me he wants to do everything he can to support Jay and head football coach Norm Chow. Nonetheless, he says athletics are at a crossroads. "If the community, the government, the stadium authority, the students, the faculty don't show their support, then that tells us what we might want to do," he says.
In the meantime, Jay has drawn up an austere budget for the current fiscal year that's about $2 million leaner than last year's budget, and he's out to milk every revenue stream he can get his hands on. Merchandising will be a big one, starting in 2014, when the athletics department takes over the sale of—and proceeds from—Rainbow Warrior and Rainbow Wahine paraphernalia. The Office of Campus Services, which operates the money-losing Rainbowtiques, currently handles merchandising. "I think I can run it better," Jay says. "I think I can make money." A half million bucks in the first year is his goal.
He's also trying to reduce the expense of using Aloha Stadium for home games, which costs the athletics department $20,000 to $70,000 per game. "It's a broken model," he says of UH's arrangement with the Aloha Stadium Authority, which keeps all the concession proceeds yet charges the university to dispose of the trash.
Jay is doing what he can to get fans back in seats. Of course, nothing will help like winning football games, but in the meantime he's launched two-games-for-the-price-of-one packages and other aggressive ticketing options to lure fans back.
As for breaking even in three years? "We're going to try to get there in the first year," Jay says. "But it's going to take some ambitious revenue goals." Hear that, donors?
Still, say the doubters, a balanced athletics budget is simply crazy talk. "It would take one marvelous bit of accounting to get the program to break even this year," says sports commentator Bobby Curran, the radio voice for UH sports. "If Ben Jay manages to break even, forget extending his contract as athletics director. Make him president, or maybe senator."
The volatile landscape of college sports conferences poses another threat to UH athletics.
In the world of college football there are the "haves" and the "have-nots," the rich powerhouses, such as UCLA, Michigan and Ohio State, and the impoverished also rans, such as Lamar University and Middle Tennessee State. Between the two lie the "mid-majors," which is where the University of Hawaii fits. Plenty of NCAA prognosticators believe that the current consolidation trend among the nation's football conferences will ultimately result in the formation of a handful of giant superconferences. The danger in this for the Rainbow Warriors is that, if they fail to get absorbed into a superconference, they will slip into the cash-strapped netherworld of the have-nots.
"As conference realignment keeps going on, we have to be in one of those conferences with the haves, and not among the have-nots," Jay says. "Because, quite frankly, if we're in the have-nots, we're not going to financially survive."
But the problem is, UH doesn't bring a lot to the superconference table. Its football team is hurting for talent, its academics are so-so, it has a history of light bulb issues. But one thing UH does have that might be of interest to an expanding Pac-16 or Pac-18 is access to Asia, a potentially enormous new market for college sports. China is especially tantalizing at the moment. Five Chinese universities have launched fledgling football teams, and when I met Jay he was planning a trip to China to see how they were doing. Jay envisions exhibition games, recruiting student athletes, and maybe even meeting each other on the gridiron. "The University of Hawaii is in a unique posittion," he says. "It has a Chinese head coach, it has a Chinese athletics director—I think we have great potential to have a pretty good influence in Asia."
Jay has been to China once before, to visit the village where his mother and father wed in an arranged marriage. They settled in Columbus, Ohio, and opened a small grocery in a blue-collar neighborhood a few minutes from Ohio State's campus. They had three boys. "My parents' sole purpose was to put their three sons through college, and they worked 16-hour days to do it," Jay says. "Fortunately for us, my mom and dad were a little different from the typical immigrant parents who drive their kids to be doctors or lawyers. They just wanted to let us pursue our dreams." For Jay, that was sports. As an avid basketball player in high school, he trained his 5-foot-8-inch frame hard enough to dunk a basketball, but he realized early on that his future was in the office, not on the court.
After getting a bachelor's in accounting and a master's in athletics administration from Ohio State—there was never any doubt about what college he would attend—Jay worked in minor league baseball in California, then as operations manager for the Cleveland Indians, took a detour out of sports to work for Bloomingdales in New York, became assistant athletic director for Fairfield College, worked as an administrator for the Pac-10 and finally landed back at his alma mater.
It's easy to see how Ben Jay might be a little less of a rabble rouser if he was an administrator who was content to sit at his desk all day. But he likes to roam. "I spend a lot of time walking the facilities because I want to see what the fans see, I want to see what the parents of our recruits see, I want to see what our student athlete recruits see when they're here," he says.
He takes me on a tour of lower campus, starting with the football locker room, which has been gutted and is filled with construction workers. We peek through the doorway. "A new locker room was kind of promised to Norm when he got here," Jay says. "Funds have been allocated but the work has been slow to get done. Design has been slow. It was just languishing. But we're finally underway, and we're gonna have a new football locker room that's finally worthy of Division 1A." Then he closes the door and backs away, as if we might jinx something if we linger too long.
We walk into the Stan Sheriff Center, the 10,000-seat arena where basketball and volleyball games are played. As athletics director, Jay has a reserved row of court-side seats. They're great for watching games, but not so good for entertaining donors and recruits, a vital part of an AD's job. A sports arena really needs VIP suites for that. "Say this kid comes in that we're trying to recruit, and she's a big biomedical person and I want to match her up with the dean to get her to talk about the program—there's no place to do that," he says. "The fact is, if we lost a few seats for suites, I wouldn't mind."
Jay spends a lot of time at social events, schmoozing with the rich and powerful and trying to figure out where the money's at. Hawaii has more millionaires per capita than any other state, he points out, but no tradition of major gift giving to college athletics. Most donations are transactional—here's $10,000, and we'd like reserved seats and VIP parking, please. "We have a lot of high-end, big-dollar folks who support us, but we have a lack of big-dollar donations supporting the program," he says. "When I take a look at the list of lifetime donors to athletics, I can count them on less than one hand."
We enter the Duke Kahanamoku Aquatic Complex and stand by the pool, where the women's swim team is warming up on kickboards. "When I first walked in here, I thought, for a pool facility, not bad. It ranks up there with a lot of the California schools," Jay says. "But then I started noticing things like the broken clock." He points to a weathered digital lap timer mounted to the wall, dead as scrap metal. "We're relying on broken equipment! It makes you crazy."
Two Rainbow Wahine coaches, Serela Kay and Jennifer Buffin, come over and greet Jay warmly. I ask what they thought about Jay's infamous Twitter rant, and they both laugh approvingly. "We were like, 'Yes! Ben Jay's our MAN!" says Kay, associate water polo coach.
Kay and Buffin have their own long list of absurdist horror stories concerning facilities, including the one about the aquatic center's recently renovated women's locker room, which features standing water on floors that don't properly drain, decorative tiling that is slippery when wet, and showers with hair traps that cannot be removed to clean out trapped hair.
Buffin notes that, before Ben Jay's arrival, nobody had made such a big deal over the state of UH's facilities since June Jones, the winningest football coach in the university's history. Jones resigned in 2007, frustrated with the system. "I know there were other reasons why he left," Buffin says. "But that was one of them—facilities. He knew things would never change."
Back in his office, Jay and I watch the football team gathering for practice outside his window.
"You take a look at all the pre-season magazines, everybody's rated us at the bottom of the Mountain West," he says. "But these guys firmly believe they can compete with anyone, and I love that attitude."
When Jay talks about UH's infrastructure and bureaucracy, he's often frowning, shaking his head, cursing, or laughing the wait-until-you-hear-this-one laugh of the cynical and the damned. But when he talks about things like the pluckiness of his underdog football team, or how he watched the men's volleyball team beat UCLA, or how the sailing team took him for a sail, his frown lines soften, his posture straightens and the pure heart of a bona fide sports nut shines through.
It's when he seems the most optimistic, and it's when you realize why he got into this business in the first place. And it makes you want him to succeed more than ever.
"You know what?" he says, after venting about how the tennis team hasn't been able to practice at night for three or four years because the lights at the tennis courts don't work. "This is what I signed up for. Taking on challenges is what I love to do. It really is."


text:
From inside the book
30 pages matching head in this book
Where's the rest of this book?
Results 1-3 of 30
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
able Afrikaans afternoon afterwards answered anyway arms asked bar counter Basson Bert Parsons blood body Boet bottle brandy called course desk door drink drunk Dulcie Hartnell Education Department eyes face fact feel Ferreira's boarding-house flat flesh girl gone hand Hannah Theron felt Hannah Theron knew Hannah Theron looked happened head heard heart Herklaas Huys Herklaas Huysmans Huysmans's inside Jane Eyre Japie Kruger Johannesburg Kalvyn Korf labourers laugh Lettie Lionel Andrews matter mind Miss Reinecke Miss Theron Mop Jooste Neser never night Northern Hotel Northern Transvaal Parsons's Pretoria Pretoria Central Prison prison purlins queer realised round school teacher seemed sense Snake-Eye staff-room suddenly Sybrand van Aswegen talk tell tennis shirt thought time-keeper took town Transvaal trying uncon Vermooten voice Voortrekkers walked Walt Walt's warder whisky Willem Retief woman women


text:
RV Forum logo wear - click HERE
Sorry don't have an answer. Many here have replaced every single bulb with LED so maybe someone will have an answer. That was my initial plan also but the LED replacements for florescent are very expensive and since we typically only use the fluorescents as task lighting I'm now thinking about just keeping them and converting everything else. Must be someone selling LED thin line fixtures. I know M4 sells the bulbs but that doesn't help you.
Man, that coach is lookin' good! I'm also glad you seem to be getting more confident in it and enjoying it more. Thanks for the update and keep up the good work.
thanks..I think it turned out nice...every thing works as it should now,,,all the lighting changed to the same color leds really makes it nice.. that and I took it in and had a real detailed inspection....I did everything my self... wiring..wood work, tile work..made boxes for under the sofa so that the seat height is right and they match..I did the back splash my self so the line are perfect straight...also made the access to the plumbing out of a medicine chest
..she's be like brand new when done
Congratulations, man! You have a very unique and rare coach that is probably better than new (it is better than new). It makes me very happy that you have decided to keep it. You have put so much of yourself into it that no one else deserves to own her, at any price! In turn, she will treat you very, very well. The remodel is looking great, you are an extremely talented guy and you sure are putting that to good use on this project! Happy Trails to you!
thanks for the kindness...hit me up if you come to vegas...
VERY impressed with all your work! I am considering my first RV as I approach retirement.....and since I have no idea IF I will like "RV-ing", my first will almost certainly be a used model in the $50K range. This gives me hope that I can change some of the parts that I don't like to fit my tastes. Thanks!
All I can say is wow. That is a beautiful remod. Someone may have asked this question, but what was your total price for the remodel?I am thinking about getting my first motorhome and am looking at some older Class C's. The interiors are pretty awful on the ones I have looked at. I am thinking that putting in nice carpet and updating the furniture will go a long way.Thanks!Patrick
Page created in 0.137 seconds with 23 queries.


text:
New Chapter, Bone Strength Take Care, 30 Slim Tablets (Discontinued Item)
Flash Deals are limited time, limited quantity promotions, so act fast! Limited to: 1 unit of 1 product per order. If you order more, you will pay our regular every day low price.
New Chapter, Bone Strength Take Care, 30 Slim Tablets (Discontinued Item)
Shipping Weight:?0.5 lbsSwitch to Metric unitsShipping WeightThe Shipping Weight includes the product, protective packaging material and the actual shipping box. In addition, the Shipping Weight may be adjusted for the Dimensional Weight (e.g. length, width & height) of a package. It is important to note that certain types of products (e.g. glass containers, liquids, fragile, refrigerated or ice packed) will often require protective packaging material. As such, these products will reflect a higher Shipping Weight compared to the unprotected product.
- Product Code: NCR-00406
- UPC Code: 727783004062
1.9 x 1.9 x 3.5 in, 0.3 lbsSwitch to Metric units
Featured Products
- Non-GMO Verified Formula
- Non- GMO Project Verified
- Slim Tabs
- Plant-Sourced Whole-Food Calcium, Not Limestone
- Cal/Mag, Vitamin D3 and Natural K2 Complex
- TargetCal Formula Directs Calcium to Bones, not Arteries
- Dietary Supplement
- Naturally Gluten Free
New Chapter Take Care formulas target specific areas of wellness and provide combinations of whole-food complexed vitamins, minerals, herbs and superfoods to support optimal health.
Bone Health & Calcium: Plant vs. Rock?
The most common form of calcium supplement today is derived from limestone (rock). Jagged, isolated, and with limited surface area, it can be difficult for the stomach to digest. It is also devoid of other key bone-nourishing nutrients.
The Whole-Food Difference
Bone Strength Take Care is different. Plant-sourced, it delivers whole food Calcium, Magnesium and 72 other trace minerals in a natural honeycomb structure with an open surface area that is easy to digest and utilize.
Sustainably Sourced
The Calcium complex in Bone Strength Take Care is derived from a natural plant form called Lithothamnion, sustainably harvested from pristine shores along the Icelandic coastline.
Whole-Food Calcium- While most Calcium supplements are derived from rocks, plant-sourced Bone Strength Take Care Slim Tabs deliver bone-strengthening Calcium your body recognizes as food.
Bone- Health Complex- Provides key nutrients-including whole-food complexed Vitamin D3- that help the body effectively utilize Calcium, promote bone creation, and foster optimal bone health.
Bones Not Arteries- Formulated with TargetCal, featuring natural Vitamin K2, which directs Calcium to the bones where you need it, and keeps it out of the arteries where you don't.
Promotes Joint Health- Our whole-food Calcium, Magnesium and 72 trace mineral complex has also been shown to promote joint health, flexibility and movement.
Easy to Digest- Delivered in an easy to swallow slim tablet, and as whole food, it's easy to digest.
Suggested Use
Take three tablets daily in the middle of a larger meal. For best results, take one tablet with lunch and two tablets with dinner.
Other Ingredients
Organic barley grass, organic gum acacia, maltodextrin, contains less than 2% of: modified cellulose, silica, sunflower oil and bacillus subtilis natto extract.
Contains: Fermented soy.
Naturally gluten free. 100% vegetarian; no artificial flavors or colors.
Caution: As with any dietary or herbal supplement, you should advise your healthcare practitioner of the use of this product. For use with children or if you are nursing, pregnant, considering pregnancy, or taking Coumadin/Warfarin, you should consult your healthcare practitioner prior to using this product.
|Supplement Facts
|Serving Size: 3 Tablets (3000 mg)
|Serving Per Container: 10
|Three tablets contain
|Vitamin D3 (TargetCal)
|Vitamin K1† (TargetCal)
|35 mcg
|Vitamin K2 (MK-7) (TargetCal)
|45 mcg
Calcium (from Algae‡)
|770 mg
|Magnesium (from Algae‡)
|58 mg
|Strontium (from Algae‡)
|5 mg
|Silica (from Algae‡)
|2 mg
|Vanadium (from Algae‡)
|13 mcg
|*Daily value not established.
‡ Lithothamnion: (L. calcareum and L. corallioides)
† Nutrients are cultured in organic media that may contain: organic milled soy, organic yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), organic maltodextrin, organic gum acacia, organic alfalfa powder, enzymes and Lactobacilli (L. acidophilus, L. bifidus, L. rhamnosus).


text:
Gov. Sandoval Defends Conservative Credentials, Says Online Sales Tax Revenue Is Matter of Fairness
CARSON CITY – Gov. Brian Sandoval said today that a recent deal announced with Amazon.com to collect sales taxes from on-line purchases in Nevada beginning in January 2014 is only the tip of the iceberg.
Tax revenues to Nevada could total $200 million a year if all on-line purchases were assessed the state sales tax, he said. Nevada's sales tax rate varies by county but is between 6.85 and 8.1 percent.
Interviewed on Jon Ralston's Face to Face television program, Sandoval said the voluntary agreement reached with Amazon could be the first step in an effort to collect the state sales tax from all on-line purchases. He also defended the move as not being a new tax for Nevada residents, but one they are supposed to pay anyway.
Sandoval said the agreement with Amazon, which could begin sooner if Congress acts to allow states to collect the tax from on-line retailers, is worth an estimated $16 million to $20 million a year.
"The universe could be up to $200 million in uncollected sales tax," he said.
Sandoval said he pursued the agreement to help small businesses in Nevada, many of which are at a competitive disadvantage to on-line retailers. Sandoval said he has visited more than 150 businesses in Nevada and the advantage held by internet retailers is an issue that comes up frequently.
"You can drive down almost any street in the state of Nevada and see businesses that have closed," he said.
Nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the nation at 12 percent as of March.
The issue was brought to Sandoval by the Retail Association of Nevada, which praised the deal announced earlier this week. The same deal has been established by governors in other states, including Tennessee, Virginia and South Carolina.
In the wide-ranging interview, Sandoval also defended his conservative fiscal credentials after announcing the extension of a set of taxes set to sunset on June 30, 2013, the Amazon deal that will increase costs to Nevada consumers and an economic plan that will dole out state funds for business expansion.
Sandoval said he decided to continue the sunsetting taxes to deal with an expanding Medicaid population and to avoid further cuts to education.
"I think it is important that we don't start pitting senior citizens against kindergarteners," he said. "I'm still a fiscal conservative and Nevadans are not going to be paying one cent more in taxes than the day I took office."
As to his economic plan and the use of a $10 million catalyst fund to encourage business relocation and expansion, he said: "What we are doing is no different than the most conservative governors in the United States of America."
Sandoval also said he has received many phone calls from conservatives who are supportive of his decisions, but that not everyone will support all of his decisions as governor.
Sandoval also said he would "respectfully" decline any invitation from GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney to be his running mate. Sandoval said he intends to finish his term and run again for governor in 2014.
Audio clips:
Gov. Brian Sandoval says he reached a deal with Amazon to help Nevada small business:
042612Sandoval1 :22 a competitive disadvantage."
Sandoval says he started with Amazon but the state can now move on to other on-line retailers:
042612Sandoval2 :15 uncollected sales tax."


text:
Design 2 Part Magazine
Design-2-Part Magazine helps OEMs find solutions to tough manufacturing problems with cutting-edge information and education. By publicizing the accomplishments and manufacturing capabilities of North America's finest contract manufacturers, Design-2-Part Magazine makes it easy for OEMs and product manufacturers to find the resources they need to build higher-quality products.
Free Magazine
Geographic Availability: U.S. Only


text:
Disaster! art print, available in two sizes.
5x7 inches (17pt premium matte)
8.5x11 inches (80lb matte)
Prints are packaged in a protective plastic sleeve and layered with cardboard to prevent damages.
Please allow for 5 – 15 business days for delivery within the U.S.
*Frame not included.
Artwork and Design ©2019 Desiree Nasim


text:
The North Eastern Indian Province of Assam is one of the world's most productive tea growing regions. Teas are grown in Assam along and near the Brahmaputra river and valley. The climate in Assam produces tropical humid weather conditions which enrich the region's soil and produce the wonderful, rich tasting teas. Assam teas are know for their brisk, strong, and full bodied flavour. The best teas from this region produce a malty sweet flavour, sometimes with notes of honey. Assam teas are often blended and sold by the name "breakfast" teas. English Breakfast tea, Irish Breakfast tea, and Scottish Breakfast Tea are common trade names. Assam teas are most typically enjoyed with milk.
All prices are listed in Canadian Dollars.


text:
Just a few years ago, most Americans with health insurance coverage received benefits from their places of employment. Today, the majority still gets their health insurance from work, but a growing number are venturing into the individual health insurance market and purchasing coverage on their own.
What many don't know is that there are some key advantages of individual health insurance over an employer-sponsored health plan. For example, individual plans can provide coverage that's much more affordable, portable and customized than a health plan from an employer.
There are advantages to group health insurance, but it can pay off big to choose your own health insurance plan. It certainly doesn't hurt to explore your options.
Individual health insurance can provide coverage for single individuals, families, those who are self-employed, students, seniors, or even if you're paying too much for your current plan.
Here at TrustedHealthQuotes.com we help you compare all your health insurance options with the advice of a licensed agent who serves your area. If you're ready to find the right individual health insurance plan for your needs, enter your ZIP code above to get started.
Our service is always free of charge and you have no obligation to buy anything.
There are a lot of different options when it comes to individual health insurance. But that's a good thing - we all have unique needs and require unique health coverage.
So what are the most common kinds of individual health insurance? Just about every individual health insurance plan in force today is either a managed care or traditional indemnity plan:
When you start shopping for an individual health insurance plan, it might seem overwhelming. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of different plans with varying premiums, deductibles, copayments, coinsurance rates and benefits.
Our free service gives you the ability to compare health plan options from some of the largest insurance companies in the United States: including Assurant, UnitedHealthOne, many Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies, Aetna, Humana, Time, PacifiCare, Kaiser Permanente, Vista Health Plans, World Insurance, Mega Life and Health, and many more. We'll also connect you with licensed advisors to help you find the plan that best fits your needs.
Ready to compare your individual health insurance options? Use our free service above to compare individual health insurance quotes and get expert advice from our nationwide network of licensed agents.
You'll be able to view health plans online instantly and submit an application directly and securely right at your computer. Your health insurance quotes are provided by GoHealth.


text:
https://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/fh/o ... h_id=12059James "Jim" George Yates, 63, of Summerville, husband of Carol J. Yates passed away Saturday, February 6, 2016 at Trident Medical Center. Family and friends are invited to attend a Memorial Service at James A. Dyal Funeral Home on Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 2 o'clock PM. Mr. Yates was born June 29, 1952 in Laramie, WY son of Elaine Pitsitos Yates Nix of Fletcher, OK and the late Owen B. Yates. Mr. Yates retired as a Machinist
Mate Senior Chief after 20 years of service in the US Navy. He served on the USS Bonefish, USS James Madison and USS L Y Spear He graduated from
Kingfisher High School in Oklahoma, received his Bachelor's degree from Southern Illinois University and received a Master's Degree in Education
from the Citadel. He was a member of the Submarine Veterans Association, Lifetime Member of the American Spaniel Club and a lifetime member of the Carolina Cocker Club, Inc. He had a passion for music and enjoyed the harmonica, playing banjo and wearing silly hats. He was a Guidance
Counselor for Charleston County School District for 18 years serving at Middleton High School, West Ashley High School and Academic Magnet School.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to The National Kidney Foundation, 5300 Rivers Avenue, North Charleston, SC 29406 or Frances Willis SPCA, 136 4 Paws Lane, Summerville, SC 29483. Survivors include his wife Carol and his mother Elaine and one sister and one brother: Jolaine Travis of
Choctaw, OK and Bruce Yates (Rita) of California; 2 half-brothers: John Bogensberger and Joe Bogensberger; one half-sister: Cherie Biedron. A
memorial message may be written to the family by visiting our website at http://www.jamesadyal.com.ARRANGEMENTS BY JAMES A. DYAL FUNERAL HOME, 303 SOUTH MAIN STREET, SUMMERVILLE, SC 29483 (843)873-4040.
LCDR/MMCS(SS) James 'Jim' George Yates
Share notices and arrangements for shipmates who have passed.
Post Reply
1 post • Page 1 of 1
- Board Admin
- Site Admin
- Posts: 204
- Joined: Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:41 pm
LCDR/MMCS(SS) James 'Jim' George Yates
LCDR/MMCS(SS) James 'Jim' George Yates departed on Eternal Patrol on February 6th. His obit:
Post Reply
1 post • Page 1 of 1


text:
Staff writer
Planting cover crops on no-till ground is a common practice in other parts of the state and the country. It has been common for years in South America.
Several farmers in Marion County are experimenting with it after learning about it at "No-till on the Plains" in Salina for the past several years. They are finding that cereal rye is a good cover crop for soybeans because after beans are harvested, very little residue is left.
The goal of cover crops is to have no bare or exposed soil.
Rye seed is sown in the fall, much like wheat. The rye is dormant during the winter and comes up in the spring. It can grow as tall as four feet before it begins to head. At that point, the farmer sprays the rye with herbicide and allows the plants to die down. Beans, then, are planted no-till into the residue.
Glen Enns of rural Hillsboro has used rye on soybean ground for two years and plans to continue the practice.
"I am very well pleased with it," he said. "It does a wonderful job of keeping the soil loose and also suppresses weed germination after the beans are up."
"Rye has an enormous, thick, fibrous root system," he said. "Very few other cover crops have that kind of a root system. When the root systems rot, they create soil that is soft and spongy and is efficient in retaining moisture."
It is common knowledge among farmers that worms thrive in healthy soil. Enns said that is the reward of using cover crops. A year later, he brushes the remaining straw aside and finds worms in the first few inches of top soil.
Enns is not so much concerned about crop yield as he is about soil health. However, he said it stands to reason that, if the biology of the soil is improved, improved yields will follow.
Enns said cover crops seem to provide a much better control of soil erosion than no-till alone. He has been farming no-till for 20 years. When he first started the practice, he said, he expected to see a big drop in soil erosion, but he noticed that even on terraced ground, small gullies formed when there was a lot of rain.
"Our soil is tight, heavy clay and needs loosening up," he said.
Randy Svitak of Pilsen planted several fields of beans into rye straw this past spring for the first time. He said he has not been doing it long enough to talk about results, but he plans to plant more rye this fall.
Louis Unruh of Hillsboro has been using cover crops for a while. In 2010, soybean fields in his area received less than an inch of rain. He told Enns that the beans planted into rye cover were the highest yielding beans on his farm.
Enns said at least six no-till farmers in southern Marion County are beginning to use cover crops. He emphasized the practice is just beginning and all the pros and cons are not known.
"There are things we are experimenting with, but it's not a slam dunk," he said.
He noted that using rye takes good management because it can be detrimental to wheat fields if the seed gets mixed in with wheat seed or drifts into wheat fields.
"It takes some extra management if you share boundaries with a neighbor," he said.


text:
ARTIFICIAL HANDMADE SOFT PLASTIC SHRIMP LURE BY SAKURA JAPAN 2.5-4cm RED
Dostupnost: Dostupno
5pcs in package
From creator of first world's arificial bait.
History of Edogawa (Sakurai Family)
Sakurai Fishing Tackle was established in 1888 inTokyo. The founder, Shintarou Sakurai (Also known as Edogawa I), opened a small fishing tackle shop by the Edogawa River with his father, Jisaburou (he originally was dexterous and creative enough to make lots of crafts). While the business prospered, Shintarou, at the age of twelve, became interested in "Wa-zao" (traditional Japanese fishing rod) handmade by "Maestro Saoji", a famous wa-zao artisan at the time. Saoji used to sell his wa-zao at wholesale to the shop. Thus, while Shintarou sold Saoji`s rods, he also began to intently learn how to make wa-zao by Saoji though Shintarou was not an official pupil. Later, Hiroshi Sakurai, or Edogawa II, opened his own shop at the age of twenty-three in Kanda, a very famous street near Ginza.
Edogawa II was not only a master of fishing but also talented in rod making. Japan being a treasure-trove of high-quality bamboo, he succeeded in exporting mass-produced Japanese style hexagonal split bamboo and cane rods to the United States after WWII. He also continued to manufacture various original Japanese fishing rods using split bamboo, ranging from surf fishing to deep-sea rods. Inspired by the flexibility of the nylon threads by DUPONT Company, he created the world's-first artificial soft plastic bait, the Sakura Bait. From then on, Edogawa II and III cooperated to develop the basis of atelier Edogawa under the concepts of wa-zao, and decided to call it "Splendid Action". To this day, the concepts of Edogawa rods are still based on this, though the main materials used in the fishing rods have changed from bamboo to glass fiber or carbon graphite fiber.
Napišite recenzijuVaše ime:
Vaša recenzija: Napomena: HTML nije preveden!
Ocjena Loše Dobro
Upisati prikazani kod u polje ispod:


text:
Re: RPG - Coruscant attack
This is over
[url=http://lfgcomic.com/page/1]Interrogations are hard...[/url]
Message Boards - Boba Fett Fan Club → Role Playing → RPG - Coruscant attack
This is over
sorry sorry i just thought we were suppost to make storys on here
still it was a pritty good story dont you think?
super jedi cyborg?...sheesh....
freekin' noobs...
I just can't... There are no more words....
..............Yet you keep posting.
Lock It Already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know, you made this. Maybe you could ask the admin?
ok. Now for the final time. The End.
Griffin scratched his head and shrugged his shoulders.
with that he headed back to his dropships and went home
on the way home he met a leprachaun, it gave him millions of credits (im not leaving empty handed)
griffin lived a happy life thence after
It's Over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do Not Reply!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can't You Read!!!!!!!!!?????????????
yer i can funnily enough!
things school teaches you now.
i just wanted my character to feel like he's finished
how would you feel if you just died! without telling a story of your life eh?
ok, sorry then, just don't post again. I wanted this RPG finished about , ooooh, let's say..........10 posts ago!
You didn't even make a character ,so why did you post?
never mind.
This is finished!
Don't post here.
Message Boards - Boba Fett Fan Club → Role Playing → RPG - Coruscant attack
Generated in 0.066 seconds (90% PHP - 10% DB) with 10 queries