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Micro Focus isn't a company focused on testing. Instead, the firm lists its expertise as a specialist in the field of enterprise application modernization, testing, and management solutions.
If there is indeed a difference between the former and the latter more longhand tag, then it may reside within the newly launched Silk Mobile software tool, which works to provide "functional testing" of applications on mobile devices across Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and HTML5.
What this functional testing (as opposed to non-functional) really means is that the tool is built with gesture support including multi-touch, swipe, drag and drop, zoom, and scrolling so that it can work with applications the way an end-user would interact with their device.
As a result, mobile applications built with Silk Mobile can capture pertinent information and data by factoring in the multiple ways end users interact with different devices. Silk Mobile test scripts can be exported to a number of scripting languages such as Java, C#, Python, or Perl.
Micro Focus is a company traditionally focused on mainframe application and data modernization processes, so is this a natural extension of that pedigree to focus now more directly on mobile apps as a whole? The company cites a recent study (when doesn't it?) commissioned by, ah-hem, itself, which found that over 75 percent of respondents globally plan to extend access from modernized mainframe applications to mobile devices within the next two years.
"Organizations are under continued pressure to release higher quality mobile apps faster and more often than ever before and Silk Mobile provides development teams the tools they need to deliver on time and on budget," said Archie Roboostoff, Borland solutions portfolio director at Micro Focus. "Our goal is to make application testing easy for developers and Silk Mobile does just that. With broad support across platforms and easy-to-use visual capture capabilities, Silk Mobile is a one-stop mobile testing solution."
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Ed Reed isn't a youngster.
But is he any more of an injury risk than younger players?
Statistically, perhaps, but the Texans' best young defensive player played only five games in 2011 before suffering a season-ending injury, and the Texans' best young defensive player in 2012 played only five games before suffering a season-ending injury.
That's football. Guys get hurt.
Some guys don't.
Ronnie Lott and Rod Woodson are two modern-era star safeties, who played well in their mid-30s. Lott missed only one start in the four seasons when he was between the ages of 32-35. Woodson didn't miss a game in the five years between 33-37.
Reed, who turns 35 in September, hasn't miss a game in either of the last two seasons. He was durable enough to play 1,068 snaps last season, 22 more than Glover Quin. Some relevant Ravens' defensive numbers (first downs, yards per play, third-down percentage) were all worse than the Texans.
If the Texans' defense does its job as well as it should, particularly with a healthy Brian Cushing back in the mix, they should get off the field more often than did the Ravens last year. Reed should be called upon to play fewer snaps.
If the Texans end up in more blowouts, that's even better; more opportunities for Reed to do what he does best in center field and more likely that he'll rest late in games.
It'll be interesting watching Wade Phillips use Reed. The dynamic he brings to the field is something that a defensive coach can't get from many players. You basically let Reed roam free, because he outsmarts the quarterback. He forces teams to make mistakes.
Throw in a Reed interception every now and then, his ability to run those back (he holds the all-time mark for interception return yards) and the fear opposing quarterbacks have of challenging him, and you have a big-time difference maker.
It should be fun to watch up close.
Much will be made of Reed's leadership. It is difficult to quantify.
During the Super Bowl, the Ravens talked a lot about Reed being the one player who could get the coach to listen and demand more from his teammates as well.
There is the story of the near-mutiny when after the Texans rolled the Ravens, head coach John Harbaugh wanted to put the team through vigorous full-pad practices. Reed stepped in and told him that wasn't the best thing to do to the beaten-down squad.
Harbaugh followed Reed's suggestion and the Ravens went pads-free for the workout. It was a lousy practice.
Reed called out his teammates on the field afterward. He yelled at them that a practice like that showed they couldn't be trusted. If they wanted him to fight for them, talk the coach out of a tough mid-season practice as he had done, they must show that they deserve it.
Many Ravens pointed to that as the turning point to their season. The leader had laid down the law.
The Texans have leadership. But you can never have too much. Reed brings a special flavor that this franchise has lacked.
I've written before that DeMeco Ryans and Eric Winston were missed on the field and in the locker room. What they brought to the team was not replaced by the guys who took their spots in the starting lineup.
As popular as it is to use, lettermen jackets didn't turn the Texans from 11-1 NFL beasts into the Patriots' whipping boys. But the timing was terrible.
Had Reed been on the roster, those two post-jacket meltdowns would have been less likely to happen.
I'm not saying he would have vetoed the jacket idea (though my guess is he would have), but Reed certainly would have let his teammates know that if they were going to dress like a high school swim team – a Patriots' player's derisive description of the natty attire – they would need to play like a Super Bowl contender.
You put on those ridiculous jackets, you need to stand up and be proud to wear 'em.
The Texans didn't play like they were very proud that Monday night in Foxboro.
Then they started talking about how nice it would be to have home-field advantage in the playoffs before they won home-field advantage in the playoffs.
We all know how that turned out.
Would one more leader in the locker room have made a difference? Hard to say, but it darn sure wouldn't have hurt.


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NEW YORK, N.Y. - The Brooklyn Nets knew it wouldn't stay this easy, even if five quarters of evidence said otherwise.
The game did get close, and unlike last Monday's meltdown, this time the Nets handled it.
Brook Lopez scored 20 points, Kris Humphries added 14 points and 21 rebounds, and the Nets beat the Orlando Magic 82-74 on Sunday to complete a home-and-home sweep.
Deron Williams finished with 17 points, seven rebounds, seven assists and a couple key plays down the stretch after what once appeared to be another blowout got tight. The Nets beat the Magic 107-68 at Orlando on Friday and jumped out to an early 20-point lead in this one.
But after losing a 22-point lead at home against Minnesota on Monday, Brooklyn almost coughed up another huge cushion, letting Orlando get within five in the final 2 minutes.
"We definitely take the win. We're happy about that. We're not happy about how we finished the game and how we almost gave up a 20-point lead again," Williams said. "I don't know if we got lackadaisical or what because we were up 20, but this is something that can't happen time after time."
Glen Davis had 19 points and 10 rebounds for the Magic, who have dropped four in a row after opening with two wins in their first season since trading Dwight Howard.
"The shots that we had tonight were good shots when you look on it. It's just the matter at the beginning of the game having that focus for 48 minutes, not just three quarters or one quarter or one half," Orlando coach Jacque Vaughn said. "Soon as that ball is thrown up at the beginning of the game, that focus needs to be there."
Aaron Afflalo also scored 19 for the Magic, who won their last five games against the Nets in New Jersey but so far don't match up against the rebranded team in Brooklyn.
Playing without Jameer Nelson (right hamstring), Al Harrington (right knee) and Hedo Turkoglu (broken left hand), they simply don't have enough offence, coming into the game ranked 26th in the NBA with 90.6 points per game. They couldn't even get 20 points in the first seven quarters against the Nets, then managed 21 in the final period of this one.
"We fought hard and continue to learn. It's only game six. We'll hopefully figure out what it takes from the beginning of the game until the end of the game," Afflalo said.
Joe Johnson scored 13 for the Nets, who are still without starting forward Gerald Wallace, who hasn't played since spraining his left ankle in the season opener.
That didn't matter Friday, and sure didn't look like it would early Sunday.
"I think you can have a tendency to see the score at times and you're up, 17, 18 points and you may have a tendency to relax on a play or two, which could cause a team to get some momentum," Johnson said after a 3-for-13 performance that dropped his field goal percentage to 36.2 per cent.
"Obviously they gained a little bit, but we were able to withstand it in the fourth quarter and make a few shots and put them away."
A 14-2 run gave the Nets a 19-8 lead, and when Orlando got within seven late in the first quarter, Brooklyn scored the final 11 points, highlighted by C.J. Watson's six points in 4 seconds.
He made a 3-pointer, then stole the inbounds pass and drew a foul while making a layup. Reggie Evans' free throws made it 35-17 headed to the second and the rout seemed on, even if the Nets weren't buying it.
"Like we've been talking about, it's tough to beat a team when you play them two games in a row," Humphries said. "You have a big win, they're motivated to come in here and play. So we knew they were going to make a run, but we were able to handle it and finish the game out."
It was hardly a run. Orlando crawled back into it, with some help from the Nets.
Andray Blatche's basket to open the second made it a 20-point game, but Afflalo had a pair of three-point plays in a 12-2 surge that cut the lead in half. Brooklyn recovered and went into the half leading 50-35.
The Magic then outscored the Nets 18-13 in a tough-to-watch third quarter in which the teams combined to shoot 12 for 34, and cut it all the way to 75-70 on Davis' basket with 2:07 remaining in the game.
Williams answered with a jumper, and after another basket by Davis, he found Lopez inside for a 79-72 advantage with 59 seconds to play. He added a free throw to push it to eight and the Nets were safe from there.
Orlando finished 1 of 12 from 3-point range.
NOTES: Williams turned his ankle in the fourth quarter, and Nets coach Avery Johnson said he isn't getting enough room to land on his jump shots. ... Vaughn spent two years with the Nets from 2004-06. ... Jerry Stackhouse, 38, finished with five points after scoring 11 on Friday in his Nets debut after sitting out the first three games. ... Reserve MarShon Brooks (sprained left ankle) also was sidelined for the Nets. Avery Johnson said he wanted to see both Wallace and Brooks go through a practice before they could return. ... The Magic play their third consecutive game against a New York team when they host the Knicks on Tuesday.


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The death statistics speak for themselves..., as does Obama !
But going one step further, I'm saying to myself; 'thank God they were never in Ireland'! Being a former soldier, I pay particular attention to 'friendly fire' incidents and the number of good British soldiers killed by them is heartbreaking.
Now, following their bombing of the hospital in Afghanistan, I'm wondering if their gun law mentality is responsible for all their gaffs..., shoot first, pay later !


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I'm not exactly sure where you live (shallow sea - where is that?) but where I live and every place I have been in my life "paying for something" usually means that I give someone money for their goods or services/or they give me money for my goods and services. So I don't understand if you are complaining about "paying" to read the forum.
While in many ways I imagine that Toby does his work "from his heart", but he has to "pay" his bills too, including the direct cost of running the forum (which is arguably the best and most popular forum in the world), and compensating himself for the time he could otherwise be working.
Advertising is what most legitimate business people would consider a "cost of doing business". Some extremely successful Fortune 500 companies spend 25% of their budget on advertising...and apparently it works because they are making billions of dollars. When a new small product comes into the kitesurfing market Toby has been very generous with allowing some initial exposure...but as a business grows and becomes successful "marketing" becomes a huge part of their plan.
As I said before some people have taken advantage of Toby's leniency in this regard and I don't blame him for putting his foot down. I think that in the early days Toby provided this forum at his own expense and risk - that's called an "investment". Again, if he felt he could rely on the "generosity" of the forum members to support him he might not need to take advertising dollars. But (no offence to my fellow kiters intended) sailors, kiters, sailboarders...we are the biggest cheapskates in the world when it comes to sport participants. So asking for commercial members to spend under 1000 eu/year is nothing.
So aside from this forum NOT being a democracy, it's also NOT a "charity". And when it comes to "freedom of speech" I think it's unfair to accuse Toby of this when there have been threads discussing dozens, if not hundreds, of products and indivdual services. If you want to know something about losing your freedom of speech try existing in Syria, China, Burma, or Iran.
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The Rocksmith guitar that comes with the deluxe version of the game is a Les Paul that has a single humbucker pickup.
A humbucker is a type of electric guitar pickup that uses two coils. Humbuckers have higher output than a single coil pickup since both coils are connected in series. Like a single coil pickup, the magnets in a humbucker produce a magnetic field around the strings, which in turn induces an electrical current in the coils as the strings vibrate. A humbucking pickup is essentially two single coil pickups, one of which has the north poles of its pole pieces oriented toward the strings, and the other has the south pole of its pole pieces oriented toward the strings. Since the coils are connected in series and out of phase, noise and interference are significantly reduced. Humbuckers get their name because they cancel out interference and "buck the hum" induced by alternating current from power lines and other devices, which is normally experienced with single coil pickups.
I've read people having trouble with the game picking up notes on their guitar. Could this have anything to do with the pickup? Does the game detect notes better if your guitar is equipped with a humbucker ?


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ADDISON COUNTY — Addison County voters are expected to turn out in droves at the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 4, to cast ballots for the candidates they want to represent them in venues ranging from the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier to the White House in Washington, D.C.
Locally, there will be contests in four of Addison County's six Vermont House districts. Officials in some towns will also take advantage of Election Day turnout to decide a school bond (Bridport), a fire equipment purchase (Vergennes) and a possible expansion of the local selectboard (Bridport).
Also at stake on Tuesday will be races for Vermont governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor of accounts and treasurer.
And Green Mountain State voters will also make an impact on politics in the nation's capital, as they decide the next president of the United States and who will represent them in the U.S. House.
Vermont Secretary of State Deb Markowitz said around 64 percent of eligible voters have tended to cast ballots in a presidential election year. She is expecting an even bigger turnout this year.
"I wouldn't be surprised to see it at 69 percent," Markowitz said on Tuesday.
She noted town clerks have been seeing a heavy turnout of early voters.
"Some towns have already seen a quarter of their checklist turn out," Markowitz said. "And there is a national trend out there for voting early."
As of Monday, around 1,000 of Middlebury's 4,492 registered voters had voted early or absentee, according to Town Clerk Ann Webster. That's already a big jump from the total 732 voters who cast ballots early during the presidential election of 2004.
By KATHRYN FLAGG
MIDDLEBURY — Matthew Dickinson, a professor of political science at Middlebury College, isn't your typical blogger.
He's every inch the bespectacled, professorial type, a Bay Stater who came to Middlebury in 1992 by way of Harvard. And his Web site, "Presidential Power," reflects that same academic slant. Absent are the flashy ads, graphics, and daily polls — but present in large doses is crisp, thoughtful political analysis.
While that staid approach to election commentary seems to be in the minority among Web sites and blogs tracking the election in its last few days, Dickinson's blog is growing in popularity among a small cohort of dedicated readers — and first and foremost, among his students.
That, Dickinson said, is his audience. The blog has its roots in a series of e-mails that Dickinson began sending to his students over a year ago. Every fall, the political scientist teaches a class at the college on the American presidency, and he noticed last year that his students had taken a strong interest in the upcoming election. He also noticed, though, that "they weren't getting the full story."
"The media coverage, the stuff that they talked about when they came into class, was — inaccurate is too strong a word, but it was misleading," Dickinson said. That semester, he began e-mailing his students almost every night, commenting on a story in the day's news that he felt deserved a second look.
Soon, his students were forwarding Dickinson's e-mails on to parents, friends and other relatives. Before Dickinson knew what had happened, his political e-mails were going out to a diverse and vast list of readers. From there, the leap to blogging — a medium that he said has played en even larger role in this election than in the 2004 race — was a logical choice.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — On Tuesday, Vergennes aldermen inched closer to possibly supporting the developers of a proposed 25,000-square-foot, $5.8-million elderly housing complex off Monkton Road that would provide a community center and services as well 25 living units.
Aldermen clearly favor the elderly housing, the first phase of a proposed larger project near American Legion Post 14 that would also include a childcare center and 24 affordable, single-family condominiums.
But at the same time they oppose a state law that allows affordable and elderly housing projects to be taxed based on their cash flow, not on their cost to build.
That approach, because most renters pay less than market value, produces a lower assessment and less taxes to host communities. In October 2007 aldermen passed a resolution saying that they would not endorse any block grant applications for affordable or elderly housing units that can be taxed at a lower rate that privately owned property.
The project developers, including Addison Count Community Trust (ACCT) and Housing Vermont Inc., would like to include a $325,000 block grant as part of their funding package, ACCT Director Terry McKnight has been discussing with aldermen a binding document that would obligate the project owners to pay taxes at a rate acceptable to the city.
On Tuesday, the council agreed unanimously a motion proposed by Alderman David Austin that he, interim city manager Mel Hawley — also a city lister — and McKnight meet and work out details.
"What might work now is for Terry, myself and Mel to sit down and see what the potential impacts are," Austin said.
McKnight agreed.
"I certainly would accept going forward with that condition," he said.
Aldermen emphasized their support for the project, and their focus on taxpayers.
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Volunteer Ambulance Association (MVAA) is seeking permission to build a new, 11,860-square-foot headquarters on a one-acre site just north of Porter Medical Center.
The new, $1.5 million facility would relieve cramped conditions at the MVAA's current headquarters off Elm Street and give the growing organization room to expand in the future.
Middlebury College owns the land on which the new building would be built. Plans call for the college to lease the property to the MVAA, which would build a structure that would include a four-bay garage to accommodate up to eight emergency response vehicles; a conference room; a training room; a second-floor storage area; offices; changing rooms; sleeping quarters for up to eight workers; kitchen facilities; an exercise room; and a future dispatching office.
The land slated for the new headquarters currently serves as an emergency helicopter-landing site. That site would be temporarily relocated on the Porter campus.
Dispatching for the MVAA is currently done through Porter Hospital. Bill Edson, executive director of the MVAA, explained that there may come a time when the ambulance association will have to do its own dispatching.
"By building in a dispatching office, it will make that transition a lot easier," said Edson, who anticipates the new headquarters will meet the MVAA's needs for at least the next 50 years.
The organization has grown in recent years, mostly due to increasing calls for service. Edson said the organization is on target to answer upwards of 2,000 calls this year, which would be the most in the MVAA's 30-year history.
The MVAA currently has 13 paid staff (seven of which are full-time); three paramedics; and 47 volunteers who Edson said provide invaluable service, particularly on weekends and during the evenings.
ADDISON COUNTY — Skyrocketing grain and hay prices are making the cost of keeping horses harder to saddle for some Addison County stables.
"It's quite a serious issue," said Kate Selby, the owner and trainer at the Equestry in New Haven. "In a relatively break-even business for all of us, the rising cost of hay in particular, being so sudden, is hard to handle."
Higher fuel prices appear to have driven up the price of hay.
Selby said she's seen hay triple in price from last summer, from roughly $1.50 per bale out of the field to $4.50 today. The Equestry does not put up any of its own hay, unlike some other local stables. With fuel costs so high this summer, though, Selby said she's heard from other stable owners that their hay cost twice as much to produce this year.
Also increasing, stable owners reported, is the price of grain, with 50-pound bags selling for around $15, said Linda Schmidt, who sits on the board of directors at the Eddy Farm School in Middlebury.
"When you're feeding 28 horses, that adds up," said Jill Phillips, the owner of the Wishful Thinking stable in New Haven.
These feed costs — along with rising farrier and veterinary fees, which Selby attributed to high gasoline prices — are "taking a toll," Selby said.
Despite rising costs and tough economic times, Selby said, most horse owners are doing their best to make ends meet rather than sell their animals.
"If you've made the commitment to owning a horse … it's not the first thing that goes," she said. "You don't sell your dog. That's not the first thing (horse owners) are going to do. They may cut back on lessons but they're not going to cut back on care."
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ADDISON COUNTY — In a little more than a week American voters are going to cast their votes in an historic election as the nation faces one of its worst economic crises.
For area dairy farmers who have become more and more dependent on migrant laborers, one issue has transcended party affiliation: immigration reform. And for many there is an urgent need for something to happen.
"We need a realistic immigration policy — a system with a good and solid policy including a reasonable border control discouraging illegal immigration, but open to a thoughtful program permitting migrant workers to enter the United States to work in industries that American workers do not want to work in," said John Roberts, who keeps 200 cows on his Cornwall farm and employs two migrant laborers.
Today, Vermont's dairy farms employ an estimated 2,000 migrant workers, 500 of which work in Addison County. Migrant workers help with milking cows, working in the barns, and maintaining the daily operation of dairy farming.
"If I were to snap my fingers to remove every migrant worker in America, it would bring the country to a standstill. They fill low-skilled but very important jobs," Roberts said.
"It's not just agriculture and not just Vermont. The Hispanic workforce is booming nationally," pointed out Tim Howlett, who milks 950 cows on his Bridport spread. "The way I view it is that you can either import the labor or export the jobs. Do you want to buy milk that's produced in a country that has nowhere near the regulations and safety net that we do here?"
Howlett employs three migrant workers.
VERGENNES — Local advocates for the homeless are searching for one or more "overflow" shelters to accommodate what they believe could be a record number of people out in the cold in Addison County this winter.
The overflow shelter(s) are part of an emergency response plan for homelessness that leaders of the John Graham Emergency Shelter are putting together for the coming months, when people now living in cars and tents must find warmer quarters.
Meanwhile, advocates in other Vermont counties are also working on their own emergency response plans, which they hope will garner some state funding when Vermont's Joint Fiscal Committee convenes next month.
The state's shelters have already seen a increase of 10 to 20 percent in clients compared to the same time last year, according to Elizabeth Ready, executive director of the John Graham Emergency Shelter on Vergennes.
The helpline Vermont 2-1-1 received approximately 2,400 calls last month from people inquiring about food, lodging and fuel, Ready noted.
"Basically, there is a sense that we don't known what's going to happen this winter," Ready said.
Ready gives the John Graham Shelter board regular updates on the numbers of people seeking services. Recent updates indicate that the shelter has been unable to meet demand, even with a new transitional housing project on East Street (see story, Page 1A).
The John Graham shelter current refers homeless people it cannot accommodate to other shelters in Chittenden or Rutland counties. In some cases, overflow clients are put up in area motels where they unfortunately don't have access to support services.
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MIDDLEBURY — After several years of rapid expansion, Middlebury-based Connor Homes has scaled back operations and trimmed staff as business slows in the current economic downturn.
About 50 people now work for the homegrown company, which specializes in colonial reproduction "kit" homes assembled in the 115,000-square-foot Route 7 building that is the former home of Standard Register.
That means the employee base is down around 20 from just the past spring, when Connor Homes officials reported booming business even as the national housing market was slumping. Officials back in May said that sales had tripled during the previous year.
But Connor Homes Chief Operating Officer Holly Kelton confirmed on Tuesday that many prospective customers have been putting their orders on hold in view of recent events on Wall Street.
"In September, a number of our customers decided to postpone production of homes," Kelton said. "We have temporarily scaled back operations."
Connor Homes began restructuring at its plant in August, Kelton said, replacing some of its workers with others who had different "skill levels." She said the company started reducing its employee base last month, primarily in the design and production departments.
Gabe McGuigan of Brandon worked as an architect designer at Connor Homes until he was let go in July. McGuigan said he noticed times getting tougher when fewer orders for average-sized homes (around 2,000 square feet) were being taken on by work crews. That left smaller projects — like sheds and garages — or larger homes that were not as profitable to the company, according to McGuigan.
"The drop began at the end of June and went on from there," said McGuigan, who added the company at one point had to shut down the shop "for a couple of weeks because there was nothing to do."
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A consortium of Wisconsin business, local government and forestry interests met in Wausau in August to share thoughts and concerns about the ailing forest industry in Wisconsin. What they heard was frightening for both the economy and the health of the state's abundant forests.
They learned that Wisconsin's $28 billion forest industry is under siege from foreign competition, ill advised regulations, outdated laws and bureaucratic red tape. The majority of our over one million acres of industrial forest land, they note, is no longer owned by a forest products company. Most homegrown forest products companies have either closed or are subject to corporation takeover by national and international interests. And, good paying jobs directly related to the forest products industry are being lost at an alarming rate, with paper machines and sawmills being shut down routinely.
What does this mean to Wisconsin? The members of the organizations - Lakes States Lumber Association, Lakes States Resource Alliance, Timber Producers Association of Michigan and Wisconsin, Wisconsin Builders Association, Wisconsin Counties Association, Wisconsin County Forests Association, Wisconsin Manufactures and Commerce, Wisconsin Paper Council, Wisconsin Professional Loggers Association, Wisconsin Realtors Association and Wisconsin Towns Association - say it means the spiraling degradation of an economic sector that has been the foundation of our economy since statehood. It means more than the loss of a few loggers in northern Wisconsin, it means the potential loss of more than 200,000 family supporting jobs directly related to producing forest products and another 200,000 jobs that support the forest industry in nearly every community in the state. It means the potential loss of nearly a billion dollars in state and local tax revenue that supports schools and social programs. And it means the gradual decline in forest health.
As a first step, the consortium has appealed to U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold to initiate and support changes in the national forest policy to promote sustainable forest management of federal forests. In the past 100 years nearly 75 percent of the U.S. Forest Service's 190 million acres of forests have been declared off-limits to thinning and forest health treatments, a letter to Feingold states. Congress and/or the president has designated millions of acres as wilderness areas, roadless areas and a host of other classifications designed to exclude sustainable forest management. A recent U.S. Forest Service survey indicates that a majority of national forest lands in the nation are at high risk of loss to forest fires, insect infestations and disease outbreaks. The only forest land in Wisconsin that is deemed high risk, they note, is the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. The trend to exclude cost effective, proven scientific forest management on national forest land must be reversed, they emphasize.
Federal bureaucratic red tape is choking the life from our national forests, consortium members observe. The planning and processes used by the U.S. Forest Service are complicated and costly, and serve only as "a cottage industry for lawyers and a loophole for environmental extremists to advance their national agenda to eliminate logging in national forests."
All the events related to national forest policy that have negatively impacted national forests in the western United States are playing out in Wisconsin, they say. The current Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Plan revision's preferred alternative places more than 40 percent of the forest into land designations that exclude scientific forest management treatments that maintain forest health. Forest management practices approved by the current plan are being challenged by the appeals process, creating excessive and costly delays - ironically delays that are not the products of Forest Service neighbors concerned about national forest management, but the same extremists groups advancing their national agenda right here in Wisconsin.
While the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest comprises only 10 percent of the forest land in Wisconsin, its management has a huge impact on the remaining 14.5 million acres of forest land in state, county and private ownership intermingled with federal ownership. Insects, disease and forest fires know no legal boundary, they say.
Consortium members seek Feingold's help "to stem the spread of bureaucratic paralysis to our national forest land in Wisconsin." They seek the senator's written position on the current Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Plan Revision's preferred alternative and the president's Healthy Forest Initiative that will be debated on the Senate floor this fall. And, they ask to meet with Feingold in the near future to discuss concerns about the health of Wisconsin's forests and the forest industry.
"Failure to stem the current practices will significantly harm our economy, cost many jobs and further degrade the health of our national forests," they observe.
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Pharrell Williams has defended the raunchy video for the hit track "Blurred Lines," insisting the video was meant to be high-fashion rather than crude.
The tune, a collaboration between Williams, Robin Thicke, and T.I., was an international hit upon its release last month, but the song's video caused a storm of controversy as it features a bevy of near-naked beauties dancing seductively.
Officials at a British rape charity claimed the footage objectifies women and the song's lyrics glamorize sexual violence, but Williams insists it is intended to represent a page from a fashion magazine in motion.
He says, "We were trying to make a moving version of a page in Vogue, where you might see a woman's breast. The body isn't meant to be objectified.
"I know the video has caused some controversy, but my admiration for women supersedes anything I could ever say. We all come through the conduit of the bodies of beautiful women."
Thicke's wife, actress Paula Patton, says of the video, "It's hot and sexy and it really turned me on… It's just a video where everybody's having a good time and the women just happen to be topless. It's not vulgar. I think it's beautiful."
The video was initially pulled from YouTube.com for violating its nudity terms in March, before being reinstated.
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A summer dish made with winter vegetables -- thin slices of sweet potato, parsnip, and fennel, layered over sautéed leek and garlic, sprinkled with thyme and ground fennel seed, and topped with gruyere cheese. Adapted from this recipe from the Barefoot Contessa.
I used one sweet potato, one parsnip, and one fennel bulb. In the future, I might try to wedge in another (sliced) fennel bulb -- who knew that fennel was so good with gruyere?
Monday, January 18, 2010
Winter Vegetable Tian
Labels: dining in, gluten-free
7 comments:
- Karine said...
Fennel is amazing :)
You have a great dish! thanks for sharing.
- January 18, 2010 at 8:45 PM
- Vegan Epicurean said...
What a beautiful picture of the tian. Fennel and Gruyere was always one of my favorite combos too. I still miss cheese. :(
- January 19, 2010 at 8:37 AM
- alwayswinner786 said...
Wonderful recipes in your blog!
A gift for you in my blog.
- January 19, 2010 at 8:52 AM
- Lo said...
What a great combination of flavors -- and so perfect for a winter meal. I'd make this just for its looks alone!
- January 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM
- Foodycat said...
I have parsnip, fennel and leek... I know what I'm making next week!
- January 23, 2010 at 10:48 AM
- RamblingBabushka said...
This dish makes my mouth water. It looks absolutely amazing!
- January 27, 2010 at 10:54 AM
Fennel + gruyere!!! You've just added something to my 'must make' list!!!
- February 2, 2010 at 10:18 PM
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Can these remedies actually help you fall asleep?
Most people who toss and turn at night would agree: If there were a miracle cure that could guarantee they'd fall asleep easily and wake up feeling well rested in the morning, with no side effects, they'd take it—no questions asked.
Unfortunately, that miracle cure isn't real yet. Everyone has their own thoughts on what works and what doesn't to help them fall asleep at night.
Here's what the science says about four common sleep remedies.
"Lavender is a very relaxing fragrance," says Leah S. Pixley, CRT, REEGT, RPSGT, RST, manager of clinical neurophysiology at Sentara Obici Hospital. "You put a few drops on your pillow and it just has a very relaxing and calming effect. There are some people who swear by using that."
Lavender can decrease your heart rate and blood pressure, notes the National Sleep Foundation (NSF). This can help you drift off into a doze.
"Some people find music very calming and relaxing, especially after an extremely stressful day, which we all have in some way, shape, or form," Pixley says.
"Depending on the type of music, it can relax and calm them and decrease other hormones in the body that would allow them to go to sleep at night."
If you find yourself unable to fall asleep after lying in bed for a while, you may be better off doing something relaxing, like reading or listening to music, NSF says.
However, "Listening to music all night is one of those things I would certainly advise against," says Pixley. "It's like people who go to bed with the TV on. Subconsciously, they're still being stimulated by the sounds, and in the case of the TV, the light movement within the room."
If you have to have some background noise while you fall asleep, set it on a timer so that it will turn off on its own.
This can impair a person's ability to get quality shut-eye.
"They're not going to be able to get the deeper levels of sleep that allow the brain to relax and the body to rejuvenate and heal itself," she adds. "Research has proven that those types of things tamper an individual's memory because the brain has not had its downtime."
White Noise
On the other hand, white noise can actually help some people sleep better.
"White noise is a masking noise, "Pixley explains. "White masking noise in the background will have a tendency to offset other noises that may be occurring." So if you constantly hear blaring sirens, partying neighbors or even your partner's raucous snoring throughout the night, white noise could diminish how much those sounds disrupts your sleep.
Light sleepers especially may benefit from white noise at night. "Some people hear the heating and air conditioning every time it cuts off and on," Pixley says. "White noise has a tendency to drown out other background noises to allow the brain to relax."
"Most herbal teas—like chamomile and sleepy time teas—have a component of lavender in them. There are herbal combinations in a lot decaffeinated teas that a lot of people find relaxing," Pixley explains. "I have a soft spot for the peppermint tea. It's supposed to be good for settling an upset stomach, too."
Decaffeinated green tea is also a great option, says AARP, because it contains an amino acid called theanine, which helps decrease stress and promote relaxation.
The key word here is decaffeinated. "Usually we tell people to stay away from caffeine for about six to eight hours prior to going to bed," Pixley says, "because it tends to stay in the body for that length of time."


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According to an age-old maxim that has never appeared in Maxim, the racy men's magazine whose target audience is not exactly geezers like me, age is relative, especially if you have old relatives.
I am one of the oldest relatives in my family, not counting those who are dead, and recently proved it by reaching the ripe old age of 60. In fact, I was so ripe that I had to take a shower.
Because I have passed this milestone, which is better than passing a kidney stone, I am offering some pearls of wisdom to all you people who are younger than I am, which these days is just about everybody. Those few who are actually older either don't need my wisdom or do but will promptly forget it.
Here is the first pearl, which I got at a pawnshop: Wisdom comes too late in life to be useful to you and is best passed on to your children, who aren't wise enough to realize that you finally know what you're talking about.
As my children will swear, and not even under oath, I have never known what I was talking about, so what's the point in starting now?
A lot of people my age say they don't want to be a burden to their children. Not me. Being a burden is my goal.
Fortunately, my kids don't have to worry just yet because 60 is the new 50. Or maybe even the new 40. At least that's what baby boomers believe. As a boomer who is bad at math (and has the checkbook to prove it), I think this makes perfect sense.
I have had people tell me (because I have asked them to) that I don't look 60. Each time, I have responded: "You mean I look even older? I must be having a bad face day."
These people will invariably smile and say, "No, you look younger." Then they will make some lame excuse about being late for a root canal and walk swiftly away.
Still, this is the best time of life because you can do everything you have always done, but if there is something you don't want to do, you can pull the age card.
"I don't think I should be shoveling snow anymore," you might say to no one in particular, because no one in particular will listen to you.
Or, "I don't think I should be lugging furniture anymore."
Or, "I do think I should be lying in a hammock with a beer."
This last one may not work, especially on a nice summer day when you really ought to be doing something that won't give you a heart attack, like cutting the grass, but it's worth trying anyway.
Here's another pearl: Exercise and health food will kill you. Eat what you want because at some point in your life, someone will discover that the supposedly good things you have been eating for so long are now bad for you and that the bad things are really pretty good after all. And for God's sake, don't take up running because you will be hit by a car driven by either a young maniac who is texting or a little old man who can't see over the steering wheel.
Speaking of driving, you can't do it if you don't know where you put your car keys. Check your right pocket. If they're not there, look on the kitchen counter.
Here is the last pearl, which I plan to give to my wife before the cops find out it's missing: Never grow up. I have lived so long because I am shockingly immature, which makes me feel young.
My wife, who is the same age and is as beautiful as ever, is the real reason for my longevity. If it weren't for her, I would be either dead or in prison.
So enjoy life, fellow sexagenarians, don't forget where you put your car keys and know that there are plenty of good times ahead.
Stamford Advocate columnist Jerry Zezima is the author of two books: "Leave It to Boomer" and "The Empty Nest Chronicles." Visit his blog at www.jerryzezima.blogspot.com. Email: email@example.com.
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Equality vs Liberty
Equality cannot be attained without obliterating individual liberties.
There is an irreconcilable difference between equality and liberty.
Equality is what Freiderich Hayek, Nobel-Prize-winning economist, famously called "The Road to Serfdom." Equality must be imposed upon society, because people are born with differing talents, energies, and ambitions. Absent artificial government restrictions, some people inevitably will become wealthier than others, some people will develop literary and artistic talents, many people will prefer the active life of sports, etc.
Liberty is the principle that led the colonists to go to war with the British crown in 1776. No one had the slightest notion that equality was the objective. A recent declaration by Walter Cronkite that the Constitution guarantees equality is sheer ignorance. The colonists simply wanted to be left to govern themselves as they had been doing for the preceding 154 years. What liberty does offer us is equality of opportunity, based on talent, energy, effort, and moral character.
Above all, as Samuel Adams wrote, every citizen's private property must be free from arbitrary confiscation or restriction by government. Quoting John Locke, Adams noted that the fundamental reason for entering into the social compact we call government was to protect one's property rights, which are the source of all political liberties against the power of government.
In American politics, socialistic equality lurks in calls for "fairness," and in John Kerry's promise to "eliminate tax cuts for the rich."
An amusing report from London newspapers shows the every-day problems of setting equality as the goal of public policy. Reportedly in the UK it will now be regarded an infringement of a woman's civil rights to call her "honey." However ridiculous and trivial this seems to most people, it is a logical consequence of worshipping equality as the purpose of political society.
In the utopian paradise of equality envisioned by liberal-socialists, two mutually exclusive articles of social justice operate simultaneously. All formal distinctions of rank must be eliminated, but at the same time, it becomes a civil misdemeanor to say something that offends members of protected classes: women, blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals, et al. Some people are permitted to address others as equals, but those others must become mind-readers and avoid offending those who are more equal.
Older formalities of politeness and respect, such as addressing relative strangers as Mr., Mrs., or Miss, or of saying Yes, Sir or No, M'am, have been discarded. Nowadays, teenagers presume to address strangers who are their elders simply by their first names. It goes back to the requirement imposed after the French Revolution that everyone, peasant or former aristocrat, be addressed as Citizen. And to the similar practice under Communism of addressing everyone as Comrade.
Experience in Revolutionary France, the USSR, Mao's China, Castro's Cuba, and other socialist countries demonstrates that equality can be attained only in a prison or in an army, where everyone is regulated every hour of his life, everyone wears the same clothing, and there is no unemployment, but the jobs are assigned by intellectual planners.
In a liberal-socialist planned society, everyone is equally entitled to goods and services, but the supply of them is less than in a laissez-faire society of individual liberty. The end result of equality is that everyone is equally poor.
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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's swimming team swept visiting Colby-Sawyer in their final regular season home meet at the Tripp Athletic Center Saturday. The women won, 166-101, while the men were victorious, 137-102.
For the women, sophomore Kim Moore (Billerica, MA/Billerica HS), senior Kathleen Foley (Haverhill, MA/Haverhill HS) and freshman Cecelia Rius (Rockville, MD/Richard Montgomery HS) were double winners. Moore won the 500 yard freestyle in 5:47.16 and the 1000 freestyle in 11:36.36, Foley took the 50 yard breaststroke in 33.47 seconds and the 100 breaststroke in 1:12.29, and Rius won the one-meter diving competition with 190.20 points and the three-meter diving with 159.30 points. Freshman Morgan Cooper (Sunderland, MA/Frontier Regional HS) won the100 yard freestyle in 58.52 seconds, freshman Meredith Maki (Holden, MA/Wachusett Regional HS) took the 50 yard backstroke in 31.91 seconds, junior Lindsay Little (Danvers, MA/Danvers HS) won the 200 yard freestyle in 2:15.48, and the 400 yard medley relay team of Maki, Foley, Cooper and freshman Maggie Conlon (Methuen, MA/Methuen HS) finished first in 4:28.04.
For the men, freshman Chris Dodge (Holden, MA/Wachusett Regional HS) won two events, taking the 50 yard backstroke in 28.02 seconds, and the 100 yard backstroke in 1:00.49. Freshman Nathan O'Keefe (Taunton, MA/Coyle-Cassidy HS) won the one-meter diving with 224.63 points, junior Craig Johnson (Acushnet, MA/New Bedford HS) took the 200 yard butterfly in 2:10.87, junior Steve Szarek (Middletown, CT/Middletown HS) won the 100 breaststroke in 1:04.26, freshman Matt Dean (Londonderry, NH/Londonderry HS) took the 100 freestyle in 52.61 seconds, junior Joe Krzystofik (Chicopee, MA/Chicopee HS) won the 1000 freestyle in 11:26.26, junior Andrew Haughey (West Springfield, MA/West Springfield HS) won the 200 freestyle in 1:58.49, and the 400 yard medley relay team of Dodge, Szarek, Johnson and freshman Jake Pesante (Wakefield, RI/South Kingston HS) finished first in 5:52.12.
"This was a great way for us to finish our regular season," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Cathy Motta. "We are maintaining fast swims, while keeping up with yardage. It will be exciting to see how fast our team is going to swim in a couple of weeks. This will be one of the largest teams that we have ever taken to New Englands."
UMass Dartmouth's women are now 6-5, while the men are now 4-3. Colby-Sawyer's women are now 4-5, while the men are now 3-4.
The Corsairs will return to action when they visit the New England Diving Championships next weekend. The Chargers will also be in action at that meet.


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Let's start with the island.
I was totally thrilled when I found Mrs. Clause and the little Mouse at Goodwill. She runs by a battery and shakes her head and moves her candle all around. Perfect for the island. (I thought I would add my huge Santa to this mix, but he is a maroon red and really looked bad next to them, so the ladies are handling the show all by themselves. )
Since this is open to the Family and Breakfast area (you can see that post here) I think we definitely have enough red.
How about you, are you done or are you still decorating too?
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haha! Yep, that sounds like Greece to me :o)
In the Caribbean you have to pay to sit under the umbrellas too. I chose to wear thick sunscreen and play in the water.
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I'm in awe of the fact that you got on the strange man's motorcycle. I never would've done that. You have quite the adventurous spirit!
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I like the photos - but I love the comments! And I agree with Kelly - you really must have an adventurous spirit!
Kudos for getting on the back of a shirtless man's motorcycle. That takes guts.
What fun! I too have memories of sleeping out in Greece - but we had our own motorcycles (tiny mopeds, actually) as getaway vehicles!
Like the blog background now.
I love the lightness of being you bring to your blog...to your life! Thank you for taking us along, sparkly-eyed girl!
But how do they know if you paid? Do they give you a little ticket to stick to your forehead like the slips you have to leave on the dash of your car?
And I'm not going to kudo for getting on the back of the motorcycle. I'm glad that worked out, but, um, don't do that again. :P
Fun blog! Count me in. I always wanted to do more traveling. Unfortunately, I don't covet being groped by TSA, so I'll be happy to travel with you vicariously.
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LOVE it, thanks for the words to live by. I hereby promise I won't sleep on a beach, drunk or broke, LOL.
Love Italy, hearing cats sneeze, the George Moore quote.... Love it all, really!
hi, fellow riders.... if my magic is broke, too... (yes, i'm the one in the back you can't get to stop giggling.... ESPECIALLY when you ask me to play The Quiet Game), I'm at:
Sounds like fun. You have pay to sit in the shadow on a beach in France too. Not cheap. I can't believe you went for a ride with this guy...glad you survived!
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SAM:Very nice photos!
Samantha, this is your mother. Why am I hearing about the shirtless man only NOW? But seriously, I absolutely enjoy reading the comments from the happy campers on your slight detour.
So, where am I supposed to sleep when I'm drunk and broke?! :)
I enjoyed your photos/tour, Sam! When Alex T hands me my check, you're entitled to 50% -- give or take 45. ;D
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Great photos. I used to live in Vienna. I love visiting cemeteries, but never went to that one. I am sorry I didn't.
Good luck with your book. I will look for it and buy it in the book store!
Europe is always something I long for. Places that I've only read or heard about. Sometimes, just sometimes, I look at my suitcase and think: Let's go.
Mmm, Italy. I want to go back. How awesome that you got to go to Greece! Even if you had to pay that dollar...
I love these posts! I laughed out loud about you getting on the motorcycle in Greece... how infuriating that he was right!
Jessica - Haha! You're the expert, my dear! :D
Connie - Good choice! LOL :D
Kelly - I'm not sure "adventurous" is the right term. "Insane," perhaps? Haha!
Kara - LOL. It's a miracle I survived my twenties!
Florida Girl - Believe me, it had nothing to do with guts. I was just being
crazy stubborn. :D
Deborah - I certainly could have used a getaway vehicle back then. LOL!
Brynne - Awww...thank you. That means a lot :)
Andrew - Haha! Don't worry. I won't! :D
Susan - Thanks for the tip! :)
Stacey - Aha! I KNEW it was you giggling back there! :D
MuMuGB - Who knew the shade could cost so much? LOL :D
EQ - Thank you!!!
Mom - Because now I can laugh about it. Haha! See? :D
Kenya - Haha! You drive a hard bargain, my friend :D
Meryl - Thank you! So cool that you lived in Vienna!!!
Kate - You told me you believe in signs, right? Listen up: THIS is your sign. :)
Meredith - And I haven't even told you about the part of the story where my friend and I had to hide in the bushes on the side of a cliff from a bunch of drunks... :D
Jenny - Haha! I know!!! That was the WORST part about it!!! :D
Hahahaha! Ah the undenyable signs of youth. Getting on to a strange man's motorcycle in another country! I'm with Kelly...awe complete and utter awe, Girl.
Well at least now you can tell your little ones - If there is ever a shirtless hairy man that asks you to get on his motorcycle just say NO THANKS!!! hahaha.
Sounds like an wonderful adventure. I am planning a trip to Greece with my daughter for my 40th birthday. So thanks for the tip about pauing the hairy shirtless man! Great Post. Love the new background although I was enjoying the cherry blossoms. And thanks for introducing me to the rest of these fine people....some I know but to those I don't know.... Hi stop by anytime
Sounds like you really had some fun... And it's a good thing nothing bad happened to you with that shirtless guy.
Oh, and hello to all of you nice people, I'm the quiet one looking through the window, being car-sick and a dramamine queen, sorry about that.
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Christina - Hmm. I think the version of the story the kiddos will hear will be purged of all youth-related insanity. LOL! :D
Serendipity - Oh, wow! Enjoy your birthday trip! (p.s.the background is a scene from the book :D)
Angel011 - Hahaha! *Hands over a barf bag and a mint* ;-)
Ha! Great tour. Love the part about 20 plumbers in Venice. I learnt something new! I have slept on the beach, broke and drunk. I agree don't do it. hehe.
Haha! Thanks, Tanya! I hope that little bit of trivia comes in handy one day. LOL :D
How can one not be inspired after being to those beautiful places?! Wow, you are so lucky! Visiting Italy is still on my to-do list. I bet enjoying the cuisine merits a different entry, huh? That must've been extremely heavenly :-) Thanks for sharing Sam! That was a fun tour for me!
Hi, Joy! The food was beyond amazing! Glad you enjoyed the tour. :)
I slept on the beach in Boracay when I was drunk and broke. I had a hotel though yet I still slept on the beach. It wasn't so bad. Don't tell my daughter that story though!
On HSM (hairy shirtless man), more than the serial killer possibilities, my bigger concern is: did you wrap your arms around his hairy shirtless, and I'm assuming sweaty, torso? Is your mom still reading?
OCMom - We have to make a pact that our kiddos will not hear about these stories until they are well into their 40s. As for the HSM, I did my best to hold on to dear life by my...fingertips. (And yes, mom is ALWAYS around. LOL) :D
Your photos and all your comments are just great. I LOL'd several times...and that is always fun. I especially liked this: "Venice has less than 20 plumbers. This is not why it is sinking." Too funny. My husband (a plumber) would have liked that. Visiting from Lady Bloggers. :)
Lovely, just lovely. To the opening quote I would add that the journey is also 'pre-lived' in anticipation of itself (you can quote me on that one!). Greece is one of my all time favorite places and did you know that Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen lived 10 years in Greece on an Arts Council grant? Oh for the good old days...
Tina - Hi! Thanks for stopping by! It's great to meet another Lady Blogger. Will hop over to your blog now. :)
Cathy - "Pre-lived in anticipation..." Ooooh! LOVE that. I will definitely be quoting you on that one :D (And no, I didn't know that about Cohen. So cool!)
I had to re-read that part about you hopping at the back of some hairy-shirtless-man's motorcycle...OMG! I just cannot picture it! I mean...you?!
But, wow! That was definitely one heck of a European adventure! So fabulous really. Love it!
LOL, Mia! My only excuse is that I was young. Believe it or not, that wasn't even the craziest thing that happened to me during the trip, but I think I'll save that story for another day. HAHAHA! :D
LOL - sometimes hearing your youth related insanity is a good lesson for your munchkins...when they're older. Much older. :)
Anyway I completely forgot to tell you that your pictures are lovely! I loved Italy....haven't made it to Greece though yet. I'll have to put that one on my bucket list because it looks absolutely gorgeous!
Key words: "Muuuuuuuuuuuuch Older" :D
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The City's budget is based on a fiscal year that spans the 12 month period from July 1 through June 30. The City's budget is made up of 4 main components: the General Fund, the Water Fund, the Wastewater fund, and the City's Special Funds.
The General Fund is the main operating fund for the City. The General Fund's two most significant sources are property and sales tax. For the FY 15/16 these sources of revenue account for 66% of the City's projected revenues of $3.4 million. Total budgeted expenditures for the FY 15/16 are $3.7 million. With transfers from special funds of $381k the City's revenue over expenditures are estimated at $67k.
For the FY 15/16 the Water Fund estimated revenues are $835k. Total budgeted expenditures are $817k establishing a net change in the Water Fund of $18k.
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As we've all seen, Lohan's career and reputation took a sharp decline in the years following the success of "Mean Girls." The Hollywood starlet has faced repeated run-ins with the law, dealt with substance abuse, attended rehab multiple times and served as constant tabloid fodder over the last decade.She recently starred in a reality series on Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network, chronicling her struggles to stay sober while attempting to get her career back on track.
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Seyfried's star-power has exploded in the years since her "Mean Girls" debut. Some of her big-budget credits include "Mama Mia!," "Dear John," "In Time" and "Les Miserables."
She's next set to star in Seth MacFarlane's "A Million Ways to Die in the West."
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Like Seyfried, MacAdams has enjoyed a great deal of success since "Mean Girls."
She became a household name with the release of the ultimate tearjerker, "The Notebook," co-starring Ryan Gosling.
Other credits include "Wedding Crashers," "Red Eye," "Sherlock Holmes," "Midnight in Paris," "To The Wonder" and "About Time."
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One of the funniest performances in the film came from Tina Fey's friend and former "SNL" co-star Amy Poehler, who played Regina's mom -- a woman trying way too hard to act like a teenager.
Poehler's career has certainly been on the rise lately.
She's the star of one of NBC's most popular sitcoms, "Parks and Recreation."
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Yet another "SNL" alum, Meadows played the school's principal, Mr. Duvall, a love interest for Fey's character.
Meadows was the only cast member to return for the 2011 straight-to-DVD release "Mean Girls 2," which was poorly received.
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I have had some hard days recently. Blown out tires, dryer that went caput, children with injuries, unmanageable farm chores, and deadlines, deadlines, deadlines have all combined to make me feel plain worn out. However, I have a way of dealing with life's misery. It involves thinking along the lines of a song, "My Favorite Things," from the musical Sound of Music.
Instead of thinking of "Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens," I think about the good things happening in life right now. And it gives me the strength to go on.
My good list includes lunch with my husband at the reservoir and watching the waves, seagulls, and a pelican. The smiles of my children, a good song on the radio, time spent in prayer, and stealing time to read a good book make my "favorite things" list.
One of my best pick-me-ups has to be riding around the farm on the diesel tractor with my husband. Silly as it may be, when all else seems to be going wrong, powering around the property on the tractor is awesome, it fills me with hope for the future, and an appreciation for all the hard work we have already done.
We live in a day and age when there seem to be a lot of things going wrong, aimless government, senseless death, financial stress on many levels, yet if we think hard enough, there are some good "favorite things" to channel positive energy from.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching and photographing fourth-graders recently at Marion Central Park as they experienced nature during EnviroFest. As adults, I think it is especially important to find positive things to focus on, so that our children see that they too, have a good future to look forward to.
Many of the things that cause us quandary in our lives are also those we should be thankful for, like vehicles, jobs, relationships, and money. There is no easy way to deal with the bad things that come up from time to time, except to remember that the pendulum has to swing the other way, this too shall pass, and at least once a year, Julie Andrews and "The Sound of Music" will be on regular television programming.
Just thinking about raindrops on roses makes me feel better. Life is a balancing act and maybe bad days just make me a little more thankful for the good ones.


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The Raiders placed defensive back John Bowie on injured reserve to make room for Justin Miller, who will return kickoffs Sunday against the Houston Texans.
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If you're an oatmeal person when it comes to breakfast, try this farro porridge for a more exotic start to your day. The addition of coconut and mango makes for a flavorful breakfast that's hearty enough to keep you going all day.
What to buy: Farro is a whole-grain relative of wheat with a nutty flavor. When cooked, each grain retains a firm, chewy texture. You can find it in the bulk section of many well-stocked grocery stores and in most Italian grocery stores. If you can't find it, spelt makes a decent substitute.
Game plan: We made this recipe with both pearled and unpearled farro, and each works well. The pearled farro takes less time and is creamier but lacks that distinctive chewiness that is characteristic of unpearled farro.
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A Graveyard Visit. Photograph in Helen Julia (Hogue) Judson's Family Album, 1903-1907. Privately held by Herstoryan, Houston, Texas. 2009 [inherited from Lois Jacqueline (Judson) Wells, through her father William Levis Judson son of Helen Julia (Hogue) Judson of Dayton, Ohio]
How taunting! I can see they are at a cemetery and the headstone is before my eyes, but I have NO idea whose it is! The clues are there. I have been provoked....
People pictured: Lewis Raymond Judson, Ethel Kirk Judson, and Margaret Judson Wilson.
Date: c. 1907
Locations featured in the album: Toledo, Ohio; Dayton, Ohio; Cumberland, Maryland; Duluth, Minnesota; and Kinney, Minnesota.
Photographer: Could be Helen Julia (Hogue) Judson, owner of the album and mother of Lewis Raymond and Margaret Judson Wilson - or Helen's husband, Lewis James Judson.
Lewis James Judson's parents: Oliver and Susan (Raymond) Judson
Helen Julia (Hogue) Judson's parents: Lindsey and Nancy (Taylor) Hogue
Child of Lewis and Helen: Charles or Helen "Nellie"
Sibling of Lewis or Helen: listed below
Great grandparents: Of Lewis James Judson - unknown; Of Helen (Hogue) Judson - Hogue side unknown, Margaret (Amyx) Taylor (no match), Mark Taylor (no match).
Someone from Ethel Kirk Judson's family (wife of Lewis Raymond Judson). I don't think Helen would have put it in her family album if it had been from Ethel's side of the family.
Cousins and great aunts and uncles: that'll be the next step...
My theories:
- The headstone does not belong to Susan (Raymond) Judson, Lindsey Hogue, or Nancy (Taylor) Hogue. Oliver is buried in NY and his headstone is posted at Find a Grave. I do not think it is a match; the angle of the curve does not match in my opinion. Though they could have visited his grave on their way to Maryland from Ohio, I do not believe it is a match.
- I do not think it is a child of Lewis and Helen. Lewis and Helen are buried next to Charles and Nellie at Woodland Cemetery in Dayton Ohio. It is very hilly and their headstones are all flush with the ground.
- Is it a sibling of Lewis James Judson? He had 4 known siblings: Frank Henry Judson, buried at Woodland Cemetery; Mary Elizabeth (Judson) Cox, buried Fairfield Cemetery, Fairborn, OH; Lucy Jane (Judson) Martin, buried Woodland Cemetery; and George A. Judson, buried at Cox Cemetery behind the gates of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
- It could be the headstone of George A. Judson. He died at the age of 3 from a putrid sore throat. Here is a link to some old photos of the cemetery. I submitted a request at Find a Grave so that should be fun to see what happens.
- Is it a sibling of Helen Julia (Hogue) Judson? She had 9 known siblings. Of those 5 siblings were still known to be living in 1907: John Hogue (sheriff); Margaret (Hogue) Mason; Virginia (Hogue) Dunn; Johanna (Hogue) Eden; Henrietta (Hogue) Richards. I do not have any information for the other 4 siblings: Mary A. (Hogue) Wright; Martha (Hogue) [Dunn?]; William Hogue; James Hogue. Could it be one of their headstones?
So here are our candidates:
1. George A. Judson
2. Mary A. (Hogue) Wright
3. Martha (Hogue) [Dunn?]
4. William Hogue
5. James Hogue
6. Unknown parents of Lindsey Hogue
7. Unknown parents of Oliver Judson
8. Unknown parents of Susan Raymond
2. Mary A. (Hogue) Wright
3. Martha (Hogue) [Dunn?]
4. William Hogue
5. James Hogue
6. Unknown parents of Lindsey Hogue
7. Unknown parents of Oliver Judson
8. Unknown parents of Susan Raymond
If you land on my blog and know the whereabouts of any of these people please leave a comment. I would love to be able to someday solve this mystery!