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An Ohio jury convicts a man accused of luring job seekers to a remote farm where they were robbed and killed. WKYC's Sara Shookman reports.
Begging to have jurors spare her son's life, the mother of a triple killer who lured his victims with Craigslist job offers testified Wednesday that he had a troubled childhood and suffered physical and sexual abuse.
"I love Richard with all my heart," a teary-eyed Carol Beasley testified during the sentencing phase of the trial of her son, 53-year-old Richard Beasley. He was convicted last week of killing three men and wounding a fourth, all lured with offers of farmhand jobs in southeast Ohio in 2011.
But despite the emotional plea, the jury on Wednesday evening recommended the death penalty for Beasely. Other options were life in prison without the chance of parole or life with a chance for parole after 25 or 30 years.
Judge Lynne Callahan, who has final say in Beasley's fate, said on Wednesday she will sentence him on March 26.
Beasley's co-defendant, then 16 years old, is too young to face the death penalty. Brogan Rafferty was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole on his conviction last year.
In an opening statement at the sentencing part on Wednesday, prosecutor Jonathan Baumoel said the "enormous" weight of Beasley's crimes should be considered in deciding on life or death.
The defense responded by calling witnesses to portray Beasley sympathetically. As his mother testified, Beasley slumped forward, his chin on his chest and his right hand covering his eyes.
She described a difficult childhood for her son, with a verbally and physically abusive stepfather whom Carol Beasley characterized as a mean drunk.
She testified that she learned only within the past year that her son had been sexually abused by neighborhood youngsters when he was a boy. She had known that the boys had forced him to remove his pants in a large drainage pipe but hadn't known about the abuse at the time, she said.
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Carol Beasley, mother of convicted murderer Richard Beasley, leaves the Summit County Courthouse on Tuesday, March 12, 2013, in Akron, Ohio. Richard Beasley was found guilty with aggravated murder in the killing two men from Ohio and one from Norfolk, Va. by luring them with Craigslist job offers.
"I always felt there was much more than he told me," she testified. Her son apparently kept the abuse secret out of fear he would be held responsible for it, the mother said.
Her first husband neglected Richard and her, Carol Beasley testified, and her second husband broke dishes and a window while drinking and whipped Richard as a toddler.
"Richard was very mistreated by him," she testified.
Carol Beasley testified that Richard and the couple's own two daughters would be put to bed early and sometimes were sent to relatives for the weekend to avoid contact with the father.
"Everybody was afraid when he came home," she said.
The defense also called a psychologist, John Fabian, who testified that Beasley suffers from depression, alcohol abuse, low self-esteem and a feeling of isolation, all possible results of a troubled, abusive childhood.
"These are all potential mitigating factors" in favor of leniency, Fabian testified.
Fabian said Beasley's issues should be considered in multi-generational terms involving him and his family life. "This is all his personality development," he said.
One of Beasley's victims was killed near Akron, and the others were shot at a southeast Ohio farm during bogus job interviews.
The slain men were Ralph Geiger, 56, of Akron; David Pauley, 51, of Norfolk, Va.; and Timothy Kern, 47, of Massillon.
The survivor, Scott Davis, testified that he heard the click of a gun as he walked in front of Beasley at the reputed job site. Davis, who was shot in an arm, knocked the weapon aside, fled into the woods and tipped police.
Beasley, who returned to Ohio from Texas in 2004 after serving several years in prison on a burglary conviction, testified that he met with Davis and Davis had pulled a gun in retaliation for Beasley serving as a police informant.


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"We are related not only to every living thing, but also to every thing that ever lived."
"The geologic time scale on the Great Tree of Life begins at the center bottom, at Earth's birth, more than four thousand million (4 billion) years ago. As you move away from this center point toward the outer margin of the tree, geologic time gets younger and younger, until at the outer curved edge of the tree you arrive at the present day. Times on the geologic time scale are shown at the base of the diagram in millions of years before present. These are traced through the tree of life along curved, dashed time lines. All points on a curved, dashed time line are of the same age. For example; any point on the dashed time line labeled '1000' represents a time 1000 million years (that's equal to one billion years) in the past. Similarly, any point on the outer margin of the tree represents time today. Any point on the tree of life can be placed in geologic time by using these curved time lines."
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Termites build huge structures, they have no designer, no architect, no boss, only a bunch of bug building from instinct, I suppose, and creating spirals and mounds, and tombstone like structures.
Man builds large cathedrals to commemorate their belief and faith in god. They have a plan, an architect and a boss to make their idea come to life.
I visited Çatal Höyük in Turkey, a village built in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages and occupied from approximately 7500 B.C. to 5700 B.C. It is the largest and best-preserved Neolithic site found to date.
"The primordial deity for our Paleolithic and Neolithic ancestors was female, reflecting the sovereignty of motherhood. In fact, there are no images that have been found of a Father God throughout the prehistoric record. Paleolithic and Neolithic symbols and images cluster around a self-generating Goddess and her basic functions as Giver-of-Life, Wielder-of-Death, and as Regeneratrix."
Marija Gimbutas, "The Language of the Goddess 1989/1991).
"The multiple categories, functions, and symbols used by prehistoric peoples to express the Great Mystery are all aspects of the unbroken unity of one deity, a Goddess who is ultimately Nature herself."
Marija Gimbutas, "Civilization of the Goddess", (223).
"Catal Huyuk, often described as 'the world's oldest city', was made by the Hittites in central Anatolia. The city was built with the houses joined together. There were no windows or doors: access was from roof level. The city is surrounded by productive flat land which could have been used or agriculture or horticulture."
Interesting! I'd have liked more close up diagrams of the interiors and zoomable diagram of the houses glommed together, showing the courts and the roofs with their entrance holes. Did they use ladders?
Yes, they used ladders, much as pueblos of our southwest. In fact, they looked very much like the pueblos. There was no central shrine and each home had some kind of female statue at the hearth and according to Gimbutas, there were very few male figures.
"distinguishing feature of Çatalhöyük was the nature of the houses: they had no doors to the outside and were clearly entered through ladders from the roof, and the inhabitants buried their dead under the floors of their platforms."
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Great lecture! Thanks Joan. Yes the intentional stance is anthropocentric. I hadn't thought of "for a reason" versus "having a reason" in that way. Lots of good insights.
That is a great distinction! I know that I will find places to use it in my daily life.
Interesting tree of life and explanation. He said he left-out most life that went extinct, he made it condensed, and from the viewpoint of humans in order to make it easier to basically understand. I think that's a good reason, and I like this tree of life, but I think it would be interesting to see one that shows everything, and in proportion.
Proportion would be nice. The thing that struck me first and foremost was how crazy over-represented the branches that filter down to humanity are! Animals more than other kingdoms, vertebrates more than other animals, mammals more than other vertebrates, etc.
I love how the graph has the date lines on it. Oxidation of the oceans and the Cambrian explosion seem to me to be the two most important points in the history of life, but so few people know about them.
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It was great being in a band in Jersey in the '70's. Virtually every saloon in the area, large or small, had live music on the weekends. Bands built up followings, which saloon owners were more than eager to attract. Our band was no exception. Back then, we were playing as a trio, with guitar, bass and drums (all three of us sang), and we had managed to build up a following of our own, so we were perfect for many of these places.
We played quite regularly at a place called "The 288 East," which was a cozy place in North Arlington, New Jersey. It had a medium-sized bar, maybe twenty stools, and about 6-10 tables. The only way that the little place could accommodate a band was to renovate a large closet in order to create a "stage" that was about six inches higher than the postage stamped-sized "dance floor," which was directly in front of the so-called "stage."
In truth, the "stage" probably would have worked for a solo act, or even maybe two people, but in our case, once we set up the amps and I set up the drums, there was no room for anything else. In fact, in order to get behind the drums, I would have to move the hi-hat cymbals (the ones you play with your left foot) and the snare drum out of the way. I'd climb behind the set and move everything back in place once I was seated. The bass and guitar players stood directly (and I mean directly) in front of the "stage" on the teeny dance floor. In short, we were "up close and personal" with the crowd.
One Saturday night, we were into our fourth and final set. It was pretty crowded in the place. During the break, we had been sitting with a couple people who had taken to following us wherever we played. Part of the group was a young woman who had brought her mother with her as well as her new boyfriend, a guy who apparently just got a job as a cop and who seemed exceedingly happy to tell everyone that he was carrying his "off duty piece."
"Very big deal," we thought. But, a following is, after all, a following.
About one third of the way into the final set, a group of guys, already well oiled, showed up. By their swagger and general demeanor, it was quite plain that these guys were potential trouble. Nevertheless, I didn't pay all that much attention to them, thinking that as long as they don't give us any trouble, who cares?
Somewhere in the middle of "Color my World" I saw the unmistakable minuet of an impending brawl. Within what seemed to be mere seconds, the teeny dance floor turned into a moving mass of angry people, with the newbie cop in the middle of it all. We continued to play, because that is what you did when these things happen. You played until either the owner tells you to stop, or until the cops arrive.
Then I heard someone shout the word "GUN"!!!
Sure enough, from the center of this moving amoeboid mass of people popped up a hand in which was a chrome, snub-nosed revolver (surely the "off-duty piece"). A dozen or so hands were grabbing at the gun, which at that moment happened to be turned directly in my direction. So much for "Color my World."
The bass and guitar players unplugged and ran for the door, still wearing their guitars. Watching the hands struggling to gain control of the six-shooter, I didn't bother to move the hi-hats and snare drum, but rather I somehow leaped over the damned snare drum and knocked the hi-hats out of the way, just to get the hell off the stage and out of the bulls eye. By this time the bass player and guitar player were already out on the sidewalk.
I ran for the door, which was, at that moment, blocked by a hysterical woman. She was standing directly in the doorway screaming her ass off. Not moving – just screaming her ass off. No time for introductions: I just picked her screaming ass up and dragged her outside with me while the combat inside continued.
In a few minutes, it was over without any gunshots having been heard.
When we re-entered the place, a big guy (I believe a friend of the owner) had managed to break up the melee and "convince" the wise guys to leave, presumably by reminding them that they had been messing with a cop and that more cops were just a phone call away. Naturally, they didn't leave quietly, as they dropped the F-bomb on the owner, his place, his friends, and quite possibly even his dog, but leave they did.
Apparently, it all had started when one of the wise guys made a nasty remark to the mother of the newbie cop's girlfriend, and it went downhill from there.
We still had about fifteen minutes left to play, and the owner wanted us back on stage to get things back to normal. Besides, he still had fifteen minutes to sell drinks to a bunch of real nervous folks, all badly in need of a libation.
The guitar players plugged back in, and I climbed behind the drums and repositioned the snare drum and hi-hats. We were ready to go back to work.
The guitar player turned to me and said, "OK. Color my World." I suggested that we play something else, thank you, which is what we did, as this hadn't been the first time that the shit hit the fan while we were playing "Color my World" But that is a story for another day.
I got a million of 'em.
P.S. Oh, as for the title of this post, in the grand tradition of the Bowery Boys, the term "Routine 288" would forever become the words we would use when it was time to evacuate the stage immediately.


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WORCESTER � After picking out that Halloween costume, reflective tape and a flashlight, parents should go a step further to keep their children safe by checking the sex offender registry in their community, law enforcement officials said.
"Every community has a list of registered sex offenders in their community that is available as public information. Parents are encouraged to be proactive in having their children avoid those addresses," said A. Wayne Sampson, executive director of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association.
Kathleen A. Daly, spokeswoman for the Worcester Police Department, said the detective bureau has received several calls recently from concerned parents inquiring about sex offenders living in their neighborhoods. Information about sex offenders, including their address in any community, their offenses and photos, is available at www.mass.gov/sorb.
The Worcester Police Department, like several other law enforcement agencies throughout the state and the country, is making strong efforts to keep children safe from registered sex offenders during the second most popular holiday among children.
Ms. Daly said police officers, probation officers and the state Parole Board will check in with and monitor registered sex offenders on probation and parole on Halloween night.
"The law enforcement officers will be conducting home visits on sex offenders and will make sure that they are not violating the conditions of their parole and probation," Ms. Daly said in an email Wednesday.
Coria A. Holland, spokeswoman for the state Office of the Commissioner of Probation, said it's common practice for probation officers across the state to contact sex offenders who are on probation leading up to the holiday to warn them against opening their doors to children who are trick-or-treating.
"They are also strongly encouraged to turn their porch lights out and not display Halloween d�cor that would attract children," she said.
She said there are 154 sex offenders on probation at Worcester Superior Court and 49 on probation at Worcester's Central District Court. The vast majority of victims were children.
State Sen. Michael O. Moore, D-Millbury, vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security, said it would probably be a good idea to monitor all registered sex offenders on Halloween.
"Even though they're not on parole or probation, they may not be allowed to be a certain distance to a school or where children (congregate). Even if they're in their house, they could be violating that distance benchmark," he said.
Ms. Daly said there are 381 Level 2 and 201 Level 3 sex offenders registered in the city of Worcester.
Police Chief Gary J. Gemme, in an email, said while officers understand the concerns of parents, those concerns have to be balanced with the rights of citizens, even those of convicted sex offenders.
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Lawsuit challenges new Wake school board election lines
Several supporters of the Democratic majority on the Wake County school board filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging the constitutionality of new election districts drawn up this year by the Republican-led General Assembly.
The lawsuit contends that the new lines violate the one-person, one-vote requirements of the state and U.S. constitutions by creating districts with overly large differences in numbers of voters, diluting the influence of some voters' ballots. The complaint charges that the new lines "disfavor incumbents who are registered Democrats and support progressive education policies" while trying to "further Republican interests that advance conservative agenda policies."
"This redistricting plan was designed to change the makeup of the Wake County School Board to include members who would return to policies of re-segregation and undermining of public education," Amy Womble, one of 13 people and two groups who are plaintiffs, said in a written statement.
Republican lawmakers have denied that the lines were drawn with partisan intent and stressed how the changes would let individual voters pick two board seats – double the current number.
State House Speaker Pro Tem Paul Stam, an Apex Republican, downplayed the lawsuit.
"I hope they lose," Stam said. "I expect them to lose. We'll turn it over to the Attorney General's Office to defend."
Several leaders of the Great Schools in Wake Coalition are plaintiffs, including Womble, Amy Lee, former school board member Beverley Clark, and Ann Campbell.
Campbell and her husband John were the largest individual donors in 2011 to the Democratic candidates who retook the school board majority.
Plaintiffs also include the Coalition of Concerned Citizens for African-American Children and the Raleigh Wake Citizens Association.
Currently, the school board is organized into nine districts. Voters can pick only the member for their districts of residence. The lines were drawn by the school board in 2011.
But under the law passed in June, the legislature turns two of the nine seats into "regional" representation areas for the county. One district, which is strongly Democratic, includes most of the area of the old Raleigh city limits, inside the 440 Beltline. The other district consists of much of suburban Wake County and historically has voted Republican.
The lines for the other seven board districts also were redrawn.
Starting in 2016, voters would choose candidates for one of the two regional seats and another in the district they reside in. Three non-regional districts that draw from areas inside the Beltline historically have voted Democratic. The four other non-regional districts in the suburbs historically have voted Republican.
The lawsuit points to how, although President Barack Obama won Wake County in 2012, under the new lines he would have had a majority in only four of the nine districts.
"Disenfranchising some voters because they are not voting your way is not constitutionally right," said Allison Riggs, a staff attorney for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, which filed the lawsuit against the General Assembly. "They're disenfranchising those that don't favor conservative policies."


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In a rare direct photo of a world beyond Earth, astronomers have spotted a planet 13 times more massive than Jupiter, the largest planet in our own solar system.
The planet orbits a star called Kappa Andromedae that is 2.5 times the mass of the sun and is located 170 light-years away from Earth. As a gas giant larger than Jupiter, it's classified as a "super-Jupiter."
The object is an interesting test case for theories of planet formation, scientists say. Based on observations of this system, the super Jupiter appears to have formed in the same way ordinary, lower-mass exoplanets do, by coalescing from a "protoplanetary disk" of material orbiting a nascent star.
That's because its orbit, somewhat wider than the path Neptune takes around our sun, is at a comparable distance to planetary orbits in the solar system. Additionally, its star, kappa Andromedae, is relatively young, at about 30 million years old (for comparison, the sun is roughly 5 billion years old). These clues point toward a formation story typical of smaller planets.
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Previously, some scientists had doubted that such large stars could give birth to planets in protoplanetary disks. The new finding indicates that this star probably did just that.
The new photo was snapped by Japan's Subaru 8-meter telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Alien planets are extremely difficult to image directly because their stars are always so much brighter, and outshine any planets.
To capture this picture, astronomers looked in infrared light, and used a technique to hide the glare from the star in order to reveal the relatively faint dot of light from the planet. More than 800 planets have been discovered beyond the solar system, but only a handful so far have been imaged directly.
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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Gaza militants from Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades fired a rocket at Israel on Tuesday as a "preliminary response" after one of its members died in an Israeli jail.
It was the first time a Gaza rocket had struck southern Israel in more than three months, and stoked fears that the mass protests in the West Bank over the fate of prisoners held in Israeli jails could spread to the Hamas-run territory.
Following weeks of anger in support of four prisoners on long-term hunger strike, the issue came to head on Saturday with news that a 30-year-old prisoner who had been interrogated for throwing stones, had died in custody.
Arafat Jaradat was arrested on February 18 and interrogated by Israel's Shin Bet internal security services on suspicion of involvement in a "stone-throwing terror attack" in November. Five days later, he died in Megiddo prison.
His death sparked angry demonstrations across the West Bank, with Palestinian prisoner affairs minister Issa Qaraqaa saying preliminary results from his autopsy showed he had died "as a result of torture".
At his funeral near the southern city of Hebron on Monday, militants from Al-Aqsa Brigades, an armed offshoot of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party, vowed revenge, with the group claiming Tuesday's rocket as a first response.
"In a preliminary response to the killing of our hero the prisoner Arafat Jaradat, we claim responsibility for firing a Grad rocket on Ashkelon at 6:00 am (0400 GMT)," the Gaza branch said in a statement.
The rocket struck a road just south of the Israeli port city, causing damage but no injuries, police said.
It was the first such attack since the end of an eight-day confrontation in November during which militants fired more than a thousand rockets at Israel and the air force hit back with a major bombing campaign.
The violence, which killed 177 Palestinians and six Israelis, ended with a truce deal on November 21.
Meanwhile Palestinian police were Tuesday preventing demonstrators from reaching an area near Jalame checkpoint in the northern West Bank where several mass protests have erupted into violence in the past 10 days, an AFP correspondent said.
Earlier, Abbas had instructed the security forces to "maintain the calm" in the West Bank, following a demand from Israel at the weekend that he act to cool the situation.
Washington also sent a "clear message" to both sides calling for calm, a State Department spokesman said, indicating it expected "all parties to consider the results of the autopsy calmly and without inflammatory rhetoric".
And the United Nations said there must be an independent inquiry into Jaradat's death.
"The United Nations expects the autopsy to be followed by an independent and transparent investigation into the circumstances of Mr Jaradat's death, the results of which should be made public as soon as possible," UN Middle East envoy Robert Serry said late on Monday.
The Palestinians also called for an independent inquiry in a letter from their UN ambassador Riyad Mansour to the UN Security Council in which it said the autopsy showed Jaradat "was subjected to severe beatings, abuse and medical negligence during his captivity, possibly amounting to torture."
According to the letter, the autopsy showed Jaradat had six broken bones in his neck, spine, arms and legs, as well as other injuries.
Israel has said the prisoner could have suffered broken bones during the attempts by the emergency services to resuscitate him.
It said the preliminary findings were "not sufficient to determine the cause of death" which could only be known with the results of microscopic and toxicological, which are reportedly due back on 10 days.
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"GLSEN is thrilled to share the Think Before You Speak campaign's message of respect with tens of thousands of football fans attending the Super Bowl this year," said GLSEN Executive Director Dr. Eliza Byard. "The PSA campaign featuring Hilary Duff, Wanda Sykes and the NBA's Grant Hill has already reached millions of Americans across the country and we are truly grateful for this opportunity to increase awareness among a new kind of audience about the negative impact of anti-gay slurs."
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According to GLSEN's 2009 National School Climate survey, three-quarters of LGBT students hear slurs such as "faggot" or "dyke" frequently or often at school and 9 in 10 report hearing anti-LGBT language frequently or often. Homophobic remarks such as "that's so gay" are the most commonly heard type of biased remarks at school. Research shows that these slurs are often unintentional and simply a part of the teens' vernacular. Most do not recognize the consequences, but the casual use of this language often carries over into more overt forms of harassment.
GLSEN and the Ad Council originally launched the "Think Before You Speak" campaign in 2008. The campaign has generated more than $21.9 million dollars in donated and earned media in local, regional and national markets.
"While our Think Before You Speak campaign in partnership with GLSEN has been remarkably successful in terms of raising awareness and influencing attitudes and behaviors, there are still far too many teens that do not realize the serious impact of their words," said Peggy Conlon, president and CEO of the Ad Council. "The placement at this year's Super Bowl is a wonderful opportunity to continue to reach teens, and football fans, with our critical messages so we can prevent the casual use of this language and create a safer environment for all teens."
The advertising opportunity was made possible as an in-kind donation to GLSEN by Toronto-based Grazie Media. The media company donated airtime for GLSEN's ongoing PSA campaign that will be displayed on a video billboard positioned directly in front of the Lucas Oil Stadium where Super Bowl attendees enter the stadium.
"At one of the biggest sport stages around the world, the Super Bowl is a massive outlet to send a message," said Grazie Media Director of Programming, Events Vanessa Wojtala. "Our organization feels that GLSEN's presence at the Super Bowl is a wonderful way to raise awareness about the Think Before You Speak campaign."
Grazie Media has also provided GLSEN's "Think Before You Speak" campaign with additional airtime at a major national sporting event to be announced soon by GLSEN.
"Think Before You Speak" features humorous TV PSAs with celebrities interrupting teenagers who use the term "that's so gay."
The PSA campaign is complemented by an interactive website www.ThinkB4YouSpeak.com that enables youth, educators, parents and athletic coaches to take action to ensure a safer and more welcoming environment for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
The campaign has garnered widespread media coverage, including CNN, ABC's "The View," "Entertainment Tonight," ESPN, Newsweek, The New York Times, Forbes, Gawker and PerezHilton.com. Bill O'Reilly of FOX News' "The O'Reilly Factor" even referred to Hilary Duff as a "Patriot" during his "Patriots and Pinheads" segment for her work on the PSA.
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Findings from surveys conducted by the Ad Council after the first year of the campaign of teens aged 13-16 suggest that a higher percentage of teens think that people should not say "that's so gay" for any reason (38% in 2009 vs. 28% in 2008) and a higher percentage also report "never" saying "that's so gay" when something is stupid or uncool (28% in 2009 vs. 18% in 2008).
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We need a mandatory ban on sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics for livestock—not weak, voluntary guidance.
The FDA's Guidance for Industry #213, (http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm378100.htm) asking drug makers to voluntarily change the labels on antibiotics used for livestock, and requiring farmers to get a prescription from veterinarians in order to buy antibiotics for farm animals falls far short of what is needed to protect consumers, the environment and the public health.
The American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, the National Association of County and City Health Officials, and the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition are among the over 400 organizations (http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/solutions/strengthen-healthy-farm-policy/pamta-endorsers-list.html) representing health, consumer, agricultural, environmental, humane, and other interests that have supported enactment of legislation to phase out nontherapeutic use in farm animals of medically important antimicrobials.
These organizations recognize the dangers posed by the overuse of antibiotics, such as including penicillin, azithromycin and tetracycline, that are critical to protecting humans from infection. Antibiotic resistance linked to food animal operations is on the rise. Studies suggest that hog farms are a source of a new strain (ST398) of MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), a disease responsible for more deaths per year in the United States than AIDS.
In 1998, the National Academy of Sciences noted that antibiotic-resistant bacteria generate a minimum of $4,000,000,000 to $5,000,000,000 in costs to United States society and individuals yearly.
The public has waited for more than 36 years for the FDA to take decisive action to control the use of antibiotics on factory farms. This latest guidance will do little or nothing to protect consumers and the environment. Please take stronger, mandatory action to phase out the routine use of sub-therapeutic doses of antibiotics, particularly those that are critical to protecting human health.
Organic Consumers Association
This petition closed almost 5 years ago
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has known for more than 12 years (36 years, by some accounts) that the routine use of antibiotics in livestock is harmful to human health. What has it...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has known for more than 12 years (36 years, by some accounts) that the routine use of antibiotics in livestock is harmful to human health. What has it done to protect you?
According to the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) "Antibiotic Resistance Threat Report," published in September 2013, two million American adults and children become infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria each year. At least 23,000 of them die as a direct result of those infections.
Unless you eat organically raised meats, every piece of meat you eat will give you a small dose of antibiotics. That small dose isn't enough to kill bacteria. And that's the problem. The bacteria that aren't killed, become stronger. So strong, that they no longer respond to higher doses of antibiotics when you need them.
In December, the FDA finally made a move (only after being forced to by the courts) it said is intended to curb the reckless use of antibiotics in livestock. Sadly, it falls far short of what we need.


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Are you interested in starting or continuing a Student Club?
If so, please come to the Student Affairs Office, and meet with Shawna Routh, by Wednesday, February 11th, to sign-up to share a table at the Club Activities Fair. The Club Activities Fair will be your chance to publicize your club and solicit membership for the spring 2009 semester.
If you would like to make a sign or banner for your table, please feel free to use the paper, markers, and paint in the Student Activities Room (basement of the Morse Building). Remember to make smaller signs/banners as all clubs will be sharing 6′ or 8′ tables.
Club Activities Fair
Thursday, February 12th
12pm to 2 pm
Samson Student Center
Please note that there will be a MANDATORY New Club Orientation on Thursday, February 19th at 12:15 in room B104. All newly created clubs must have an officer or responsible member in attendance in order to be a spring 2009 recognized Club and to receive funding. All continuing clubs are not required to attend this meeting. At this meeting you will turn in your club applications, budget proposals and learn about club policies.


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The government yesterday had a surprise change of heart, declaring an initiative to put the controversial Fourth Nuclear Power Plant to a national referendum.
After a meeting with Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) officials and lawmakers yesterday, Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) said: "The ultimate decision on this issue of major concern to people's lives and security, and to the nation's economic development in the future, shall be decided through a referendum."
The decision was reached at a meeting presided over by President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) at the Presidential Office on Sunday night and attended by Jiang, Minister of Economic Affairs Chang Chia-juch (張家祝), party officials and several KMT lawmakers.
Jiang said that the government maintains its position that construction of the plant should be completed, but it will not operate commercially unless it is safe.
However, "we would like to face public scrutiny through a referendum," he said.
According to the plan, a referendum on halting construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant will be initiated by the KMT caucus tabling a motion next month in the legislature, KMT caucus whip Lai Shyh-bao (賴士葆) said.
Lai said the plebiscite could be held in August as the Referendum Act (公民投票法) stipulates that a referendum must be held no sooner than one month and no later than six months after its proposal.
If the completion of the plant failed to win approval, there was the risk of huge compensation payouts for breach of contract, higher electricity costs, power shortages and even an adverse effect on economic growth, Jiang said.
Nevertheless, "we would accept the ultimate decision made by the people," he said.
Since 1992, when the first budget for the plant cleared the legislature, NT$264 billion (US$8.9 billion) has been poured into the project, with NT$19.7 billion requested in this legislative session, which begins today, and a budget of NT$40 billion needed to complete its construction.
State-owned Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電), the builder and operator, originally planned to apply to the Atomic Energy Council (AEC) to load fuel rods in the plant's first reactor in February next year and to begin commercial operations in October 2015.
The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant incident of 2011 in Japan has re-energized Taiwan's anti-nuclear movement, with the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant the focus of attention.
A number of flaws in the design and construction of the plant have been identified. Adding to safety concerns over nuclear power plants in Taiwan is the fact that they are situated in geologically unstable earthquake-prone areas.
Since the Referendum Act was enacted in 2004, there have been six national referendums, all held on the same day as national elections — March 30, 2004, a presidential election; January 12, 2008, a legislative election; and March 22, 2008, a presidential election.
There were two referendums on each date, but none of the proposals in the referendums passed due to what is perceived to be the high threshold for them to be successful.
That referendum act requires more than half of eligible voters to cast ballots for a poll to be valid.
Elizabeth Sun (孫又文), a spokeswoman for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電), the world's largest contract chipmaker, said that while it did not take sides on the matter, the government should ensure that industry would be able to enjoy stable and adequate power supplies.


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Some people who drink water containing trans-1,2-dichloroethylene well in excess of the maximum contaminant level (MCL) for many years could experience problems with their liver.
This health effects language is not intended to catalog all possible health effects for trans-1,2-dichloroethylene. Rather, it is intended to inform consumers of some of the possible health effects associated with trans-1,2-dichloroethylene in drinking water when the rule was finalized.


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xoruk necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 901 diseños de 188 diseñadores freelance.
XOR Professional Services ltd
We are an Channel only IT services company that provides integration and consultancy services to the UK IT reseller channel.
Please see our website http://www.xorps.com for more information on what we do. As an organisation we have rapidly grown in the last two years and feel that we need to build a brand and a better corporate image/identity. Our partners include leading UK and international Blue chips and we would like logo to protray a large organisation that is well established. There is also a confusion with customers around how to "say" the name of our company. The name of our company should be said as 'Ex' 'OR' as two separate words but some customers say this as 'ZOOR' . We would like to eliminate the confusion with a logo that addresses the above.
- Please avoid emphasizing on X
- Design needs to be clean and simple
-' Professional services' doesn't have to be a part of the logo
Update 09/03:
Designers, if you are looking for inspiration - the kind of values we would like convey from the logo are "services" , "assistance" , "partner network" , "enhancement" , "improvement" - Any abstracts based on these values could go well with the logo.
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Another Nail in the Coffin of the Phillies 2012 Season
The Phillies have lost 47 games so far this season. Some of them have been very ugly, some of them have been sleep-inducing and some have been downright aggravating. But last night's 6-5 loss to the Mets may have been the worst loss for a number of reasons.
For starters, the Phillies were actually able to score 5 runs off one of the best pitchers in baseball right now, R.A. Dickey. And they should have scored even more. The Phillies left 9 men on base and went 4-for-13 with runners in scoring position. They had opportunities and missed out.
Cole Hamels was not spectacular, but he kept the team within a run of the Mets. Over 7 innings, Hamels allowed 4 runs and walked one batter. But he was by no means awful.
Then Antonio Bastardo came out in the 8th and actually pitched a 1-2-3 inning. Based on the rest of his season so far, that was pretty amazing.
The Phillies fought to hang on to that one run lead only to see Jonathan Papelbon, their $50 million closer, blow it in the 9th. And that is what really makes this one sting more than the other 46 loses. They stayed in it, they battled and came up short anyway as Papelbon gave up a lead-off double, walked a batter and hit a batter before finally surrendering the winning runs. It was ugly.
And the timing could not be worse. This loss puts the Phillies at 13 games out of first place with 78 games left to play. It is another series lost and one more nail in the coffin of this 2012 season.
Do the math. The Phillies need to win at least 50 of their last 78 games, based on the current pace of teams in the NL East, to even have a shot at a Wild Card spot with 87 wins. That means they have to win ALL 22 of the 3-game series' left and at least split the 3 remaining 4-game series'. Yes, win or split EVERY remaining series this year. ALL OF THEM.
Based on the Phillies performance so far this season, anyone out there think that is possible?
It saddens me to say this, but I believe this is the game that signals the end of the 2012 season for the Phillies. When you look back later for a turning point, this is it. I hope I am wrong, but things are not looking good right now.
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2012 was a fantastic year for busuu.com which saw many improvements, new features and products!
Here is an overview of our highlights of 2012:
January 2012
- To celebrate the new year, we launched a new language! Our users can now learn Japanese for free on busuu.com! Japanese is the mother tongue of over 130 million people and the 10th most spoken language in the world.
- Great news for all our mobile users! We launched an update for our iPhone/iPad app. Now, all units in our popular apps for iPhone/iPad are automatically activated if you are a Premium member.
February 2012
- Chinese was added to the list of busuu.com languages. Users can now learn Chinese for free on busuu.com! It's the most spoken language in the world and the mother tongue of one quarter of the global population.
March 2012
- Profile customisation: Make your profile stand out with this feature on busuu.com! If you're a Premium Member, you can create a Photo Gallery to share your favourite images with our community.
- New writing exercises with pictures from National Geographic: Learn with National Geographic Pictures on busuu.com as part of our Live Units! You can improve your writing skills by practising new picture-based writing exercises, no matter your level!
- Language level test: Users can now test their language level to find out which course they should begin with.
April 2012
- Improved Reviews: Brush up on your vocabulary. Give our new review exercises a try – they make testing your language skills even more fun!
May 2012
- On 10 May 2012, busuu.com celebrated its 4th birthday!
- We have launched My Goal, our improved learning progress tracker, you can find out how many hours you should study per week to finish your course by a certain date. This way you'll be sure to complete your Spanish Course before you board that plane!
June 2012
- We launched two new apps for iPhone and iPad, so you can now learn Chinese and Japanese for free on your mobile. Both apps are also available for Android.
- We launched our improved dialogues, to improve your listening comprehension! We've added new functions that will help you understand the dialogues even better!
July 2012
- busuu.com apps reach 10 milion downloads! In less than two years, our apps for Android, iPhone and iPads were downloaded over 10 million times! Since then, we register 20,000 new app downloads every day!
August 2012
- We launched challenges! You can now challenge your friends on busuu.com! See who's learning languages faster and get 50 juicy busuu-berries if you win the challenge!
October 2012
- We were very happy to announce a €3.5 million investment in busuu.com by PROFounders Capital and private investors as well as our headquarters relocation from Madrid to London.
- We have introduced Checkpoints – a simple new feature that will help you to learn new words and phrases and remember them!
November 2012
- We have re-launched busuutalk – and it's now better than ever before! Following your suggestions and feedback, we were happy to announce that busuu.com had launched a brand new version of busuutalk.
- busuu.com won the first price at the Seven Ventures Pitch Day – a €4m media budget in Germany!
December 2012
- For every Premium Membership bought between 1-31 December 2012, we will make a donation to the Cameroon Association for the Protection and Education of the Child (CAPEC). CAPEC will use the funds to provide school access to children.
So you can see, it was an exciting year here at busuu.com, and hopefully for you too!
Thank you for being part of busuu.com, the world's largest online language learning community! What makes busuu.com special is our interactive community. Without you, we would not have reached all these milestones in 2011!


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Rebecca L. Ray, PhD
Charles Mitchell
Bart van Ark
Derrick Kon
Publication Date:
April 2014
As with the global report, The Conference Board breaks down the challenges CEOs in the ASEAN region face and the strategies they employ to mitigate these challenges. Results show ASEAN CEOs seek strong business leadership that is able to drive change and not afraid to boldly innovate (even fail) in a performance-focused environment.
Regional CEOs see a renewed commitment to customers as key to driving enterprise growth, even in a slow global growth period. They recognize the importance of developing an engaged workforce and a diverse, accountable leadership team, while monitoring what many see as an increasing burden—government regulation.


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Managing the Total Workforce: Bringing Contingent Labor inside the Strategic Workforce Planning Tent
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April 2013
Few companies have a robust method for determining the right mix of employees and contingent workers. In part, this is because these two segments are usually managed separately. Procurement oversees contingent work spending, while human resources is responsible for employees, whom it tracks and deploys through strategic workforce planning. Integrating these segments into a common framework—total workforce management—gives organizations a better understanding of how they use talent today and can use it tomorrow.


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The standard Deda Zero100 Stem is identical in nearly every detail to the Zero100 Servizio Corse. It's made with the same ultra-light 2014 aluminum alloy construction and with the same 3D forging to maximize the wall thinness (and thereby shave weight). The only distinction, in fact, is that the Zero100 foregoes the titanium bolts that come standard on the Servizio Corse model. Instead, it has stainless steel bolts. For this slight hardware modification, you save nearly 50% in cost.
Like the Servizio Corse model, the standard Zero100 is available in 10mm increments from 90mm-130mm and has the standard 82 degree rise seen on almost all Deda stems. It comes in a 31.7mm clamp size only, and is available in two colors -- the same matte black we've all become familiar with on the Deda Newton, and a "Dark Metal Polish" we refer to as grey.
The actual weights of the Deda Zero 100 Stem: 90mm is 118g. 100mm is 121g. 110mm is 129g. 120mm is 133g. 130mm is 136g.


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As we explained in Lesson Four, wireless computer networks are becoming a major part of the networking market. This is true not only for residences, but also for commercial installations.
Almost all residential networking installations include the home's telephone system. However, it is critical to remember that under the residential networking standard, all telephone outlets must receive their own home run. They may not be run from one outlet to another (daisy-chaining), as they have been traditionally. This is illustrated in Fig. 1 on page 37.
In addition, it is recommended that the telephone cables you install in networked homes be Cat. 5 or better. Not only is it a good trade practice to install the most up-to-date materials, but most installers find it much easier to carry only one type of telephone cable from job to job, rather than several types.
Modern telephones operate on essentially the same principles that were developed more than 100 years ago. They use a single pair of wires that connect the phones and a power source. When the phones are connected, the power source causes a current to flow in a loop, which is modulated by the voice signal from the microphone in one handset and excites the earphone in the opposite headset. Dialing was originally done by a rotary dial that simply switched the current on and off in a number of pulses corresponding to the number dialed. Dialing is now mostly (but not entirely) accomplished with tones.
By operating on a current loop, phones can be powered from a central source and extended simply by adding more wire and phones in parallel. Now, most phones are electronic (that is, they use semiconductors rather than electro-mechanical devices), but they use the same type of wiring, frequently called current-loop wiring.
Telephone wiring is simple because the bandwidth of telephone signals is low, generally around 3,000 hertz (cycles per second). Bandwidth is similar to speed, a low bandwidth requires lower frequencies, and a higher bandwidth requires higher frequencies.
Computer modems use sophisticated techniques to send much faster digital signals over low-bandwidth phone connections.
Because of the low bandwidth and current loop transmission, telephone wire is easy to install and test. It can be pulled without fear and if it is continuous, it should work.
The most common pieces of telecom equipment that you will be mounting are the following:
Telephones. The main concern here is that the proper phone is connected in the proper location.
Punch down blocks. It is important that punch-down blocks are mounted securely. If not, connections will be difficult to make, and the block will loosen during the termination process. Fig. 2 shows the wiring of the standard telephone punch-down block — the "66" block.
Wall jacks and connection modules. Here there are two concerns. First, that the conductors are terminated in the proper order, and second, that the jack or module is secure; it may suffer a fair amount of abuse during its useful life.
Equipment racks. Larger systems may require equipment racks. These must be not only secure, but must also be installed plumb and level.
Central consoles. Central consoles must be properly placed and installed near a source of electrical power.
Computer cards. Especially when modifying an existing system, you will have to install computer cards in existing personal computers. This requires some experience with computers, and just a bit of gentleness.
Although telephones and telephone company practices may vary dramatically from one locality to another, the basic principles underlying the way they work are the same everywhere.
Every telephone consists of three separate subassemblies, each capable of independent operation. These assemblies are the speech network, the dialing mechanism and the ringer. Together, these parts — as well as any additional devices such as modems, dialers and answering machines — are connected together, and transfer voice communications through telephone circuits.
A telephone is usually connected to the telephone exchange by an average of about three miles of #22 AWG or 0.5 mm copper wires. This wiring back to the phone company office is commonly called the loop, or the neighborhood loop. Although copper is a good conductor, it does have resistance, especially in small gauges. The resistance of #22 twisted-pair AWG wire is 16.46 Ohms per thousand feet at 77 degrees F (25 degrees C). Telephone companies describe loop length in kilofeet (thousands of feet).
Because the telephone apparatus is generally considered to be current driven, all phone measurements refer to current consumption, and not voltage. The length of the wire connecting the subscriber to the telephone exchange affects the total amount of current that can be drawn by anything attached at the subscriber's end of the line.
In the United States, the voltage applied to the line to drive the telephone is 48VDC. In other places, 50VDC is sometimes used. Note that telephones are peculiar in that the signal line is also the power supply line. The voltage is supplied by lead-acid cells, thus assuring a hum-free supply and complete independence from the electric company, which is why telephones work during power outages.
At the telephone exchange, the DC voltage and audio signal are separated by directing the audio signal through two 2 uF capacitors and blocking the audio from the power supply with a 5 Henry choke (inductive coil) in each line. Usually these two chokes are the windings of a relay that switches your phone line at the exchange; in the United States this relay is known as the "A" relay. The resistance of each of these chokes is 200 Ohms.
You can find out how well a phone line is operating by using Ohm's law and an ammeter. The DC resistance of any device attached to the phone line is often quoted in telephone company specifications as 200 Ohms; this will vary in practice from between 150 to 1,000 Ohms. You can measure the DC resistance of your phone with an Ohmmeter.
Using these figures, you can estimate the distance between your telephone and the telephone exchange. In the United States, the telephone company guarantees you no lower current than 20 mA — or what is known to your phone company as a long loop. A short loop will draw 50 to 70 mA, and an average loop, about 35mA. (Remember, in telephone work, current measurements are used, not voltage measurements.)
Telephone companies prefer the DC resistance of their lines to be about 10 megOhms when no apparatus is in use. This helps them avoid people using their 50V DC feed into the home or office for other uses. (The state of not being in use is called on-hook in telephone jargon.) A phone that is on-hook can draw no more than 5mA.
For older systems, the two phone wires connected to your telephone should be red and green. The red wire is negative and the green wire is positive. Your telephone company calls the green wire Tip and the red wire Ring. Most installations have another pair of wires — yellow and black — which can be used for many different purposes, if they are used at all. If two separate phone lines are installed in a home or office with older cables, you will find the yellow and black pair carrying the second telephone line. In this case, black is Tip, and yellow is Ring. The above description applies to a standard line with a DC connection between your end of the line and the telephone exchange. Most phone lines in the world are of this type, known as a metallic line.
Very long lines may have amplifiers, sometimes called loop extenders, on them. Some telephone companies use a system called a subscriber carrier, which is basically an RF (radio frequency) system in which your telephone signal is raised up to around 100 KHz and then sent along another subscriber's pair of conductors.
When a telephone is taken off the hook, the line voltage drops from 48V to between 9V and 3V, depending on the length of the loop. If another telephone in parallel is taken off the hook, the current consumption of the line will remain the same and the voltage across the terminals of both telephones will drop. Bell Telephone specifications state that three telephones should work in parallel on a 20 mA loop; transistorized phones tend not to pass this test, although some manufacturers use ICs (integrated circuits) that will pass.
While low levels of audio may be difficult to hear, overly loud audio can be painful. Consequently, a well designed telephone will automatically adjust its transmit and receive levels to allow for the attenuation — or lack of it — caused by the length of the loop. This adjustment is called loop compensation.
Because a telephone is a duplex device, both transmitting and receiving on the same pair of wires, the network must ensure that not too much of the caller's voice is fed back into his or her receiver. This function, called sidetone, is achieved by phasing the signal so some cancellation occurs in the speech network before the signal is fed to the receiver. Callers faced with no sidetone at all will consider the phone dead. Too much sidetone causes callers to lower their voices and not be heard well at the other end of the line. Too little sidetone will convince callers that they're not being heard.
Touchtone, the modern form of dialing, is faster and less prone to error than pulse dialing. Compared to pulse, its major advantage is that its audio band signals can travel down phone lines further than pulse, which can travel only as far as your local exchange. Touchtone can therefore send signals around the world via telephone lines, and can be used to control phone answering machines and computers.
Each transmitted digit consists of two separate audio tones that are mixed together. The four vertical columns on the keypad are known as the high group and the four horizontal rows as the low group; the digit 8 is composed of 1336 Hz and 852 Hz. The level of each tone is within 3 dB of the other, (the telephone company calls this Twist). A complete touchtone pad has 16 digits, as opposed to 10 on a pulse dial. Besides the numerals 0 to 9, a DTMF "dial" has *, #, A, B, C and D.
A large-scale view of a telephone network is shown in Fig. 3.
Data transmission over the common telephone system was almost un-thought-of only 10 years ago. Now, it is a huge business, with tens of millions of people doing this every day. In fact, data transmission is becoming a big part of the telephone business, and will probably be more important than voice transmission in a few years. So, there is a world of opportunity open to those who understand this work, and can apply their knowledge intelligently.
But the telephone business is also full of change and controversy. Things are changing. Historically, telephone companies have been government-protected monopolies. In other words, you cannot just open up your own phone company; the federal government decides who can have a phone company, and which areas they can serve. In the early 1980s, the government allowed other companies to compete with AT&T in long-distance service. That opened the way for MCI, Sprint and much lower long-distance rates.
But local-area service is still a protected monopoly. Furthermore, the phone companies see data communication as a serious threat, and are trying to delay it as best they can. On the other hand, the computer industry is trying to get the phone companies to loosen-up and allow people to get high-bandwidth lines for the best computer features.
Sending data over phone lines comes in two basic forms:
Using the phone company's switched network for low-speed modem traffic.
Using dedicated circuits that can function at high speeds and more or less independently of the network switching system.


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An event every week that begins at 9:00am on Saturday, repeating indefinitely
Every Saturday from 9 AM to noon located in Linear Park across from the Zoo. Fresh produce from local growers: tastier, healthier, cheaper, and better for the environment!


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Water Issues Major Focus For Sustainable Ag Expo November 15-16
Submitted By: Jim Caudill, August 04, 2010
Trends in Sustainability Metrics: Regulatory and Marketing Opportunities Also Featured
Paso Robles, Calif. (August 4, 2010) — California's complex water issues will get a comprehensive review at the Sixth Annual Sustainable Ag Expo, set for November 15~16 in Monterey at the Embassy Suites. Registration is now open, with early registration discounts at http://bit.ly/aA70ml.
The schedule outlining planned sessions is available at www.vineyardteam.org/events/schedule.php, where additional information on the speakers and trade show can also be found. Among planned sessions are updates on using the USDA 9-Step Process to Develop a Conservation Plan, presented by Margy Lindquist, from the US Department of Agriculture, and Changing Surface Water Pesticide Regulations with Patricia Matteson, California Department of Pesticide Regulation. Speakers and sessions are still being added, based on emerging issues.
Organized by the Central Coast Vineyard Team, the Expo combines a popular tradeshow with seminars featuring dynamic speakers on crop-specific and general topics facing vineyards and row-crops. Continuing education credits, including laws and regulations hours, are available for PCA, PA, CCA and Water Quality.
The trade show will be featured in a single location this year, and share the ballroom with the Expo's general sessions. Decision makers representing more than 125,000 acres of vineyards and row-crops attend the event.
"Water issues are high on everyone's list of concerns right now," said Kris O'Connor, Executive Director of the CCVT. "Beyond water, changing pesticide regulations, innovative metrics for measuring sustainability and soil health and nutrition are just a few of the topics addressed this year."
The conference evolved from a growing awareness, said O'Connor, that farmers of varied crops faced similar challenges as they explored sustainable practices. "As farmers have come together to explore these issues, a lot of common ground and common answers have been found," she said.
Sponsors and trade show exhibitors include Oro Agri, Deerpoint Group, Inc., Vintage Nurseries, Monterey Ag Resources and. Additional sponsors include EcoLogistics, California Fresh Fruit, Dow Agro Sciences, Practical Winery & Vineyard Magazine and Vineyard & Winery Management magazine. A complete list of sponsors can be found at http://www.vineyardteam.org/events/expo.php.
Special room rates are offered with early registration for the Embassy Suites in Seaside. Book online at http://bit.ly/aE1GJN or call 831-393-1115. The Sustainable Ag Expo room block will remain reserved until mid-October, with rates beginning at $124 per night.
More than 300 attendees are expected in Monterey for the Sustainable Ag Expo.
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You don't need to don a tutu to try a ballet-inspired barre workout. These drills are super-popular now and for good reason: They increase flexibility and tone muscles without adding bulk.
Pasadena-based fitness expert, video host and teacher Tracey Mallett (www.traceymallett.com) is the founder of Booty Barre, an approach that melds elements of dance, yoga and Pilates to strengthen and stretch the body. No prior experience required in those disciplines, though. What's important is keeping good form. Make sure that the spine, neck and head are aligned and that the movements are slow and deliberate. Here's a drill that Mallett calls "the booty lifter."
Why you should try it: It's great for toning the glutes, hamstrings and quadriceps. Form is important — keep the back, neck and head in natural alignment and the hips parallel. Use small, controlled movements while lifting the leg.
What to do: Stand facing a chair, feet together. Bend your elbows and rest your arms and head on the back of the chair, bending 90 degrees at the waist. Contract the abdominals, push the shoulders down, away from the ears. Raise one leg behind you and bend it 90 degrees, with your supporting leg slightly bent, thigh parallel to the ground and your toe pointed. Pulse the leg upward slowly, then speed it up to double time.
How much to do it: Fifteen slow pulses and 15 quick ones. Repeat on the other leg.