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Outfielders for Appalachian League teams facing Bluefield's Art Charles had better get familiar with the fence behind them.
Charles is in a three-way tie for the Appy League lead in home runs, with five, and he leads the circuit in runs batted in with 15.
The 6-foot-6 left-handed batter has punched 16 hits in 49 at-bats, for a .327 average. Thirteen of those hits have been for extra bases. On Friday in the Blue Jays' win over Princeton, he went 3 for 5 with another double and a triple and three runs batted in.
The biggest question surrounding Charles seems to be how long he will stay on the Bluefield roster before being moved up in Toronto's minor-league system.
The only apparent drawback? He's struck out 17 times.
The Bakersfield, Calif., resident was drafted by Baltimore in 2008, by Kansas City in 2009 and by Toronto in the 20th round in 2010. He spent most of last summer in Toronto's Gulf Coast League outpost, readying for his next move up.
"It was a lot different from here," he said of his time in the Florida league. "It's not as cool over there, it was real hot. It was just a lot of training, and getting my repetitions in."
"I signed fairly early. I got in there I think on the 18th of June, so I could get in, have a full season, and move up. It kind of took awhile, because the paperwork took awhile to get approved, my contract and all that.
"But once I got in there, I got quite a few at-bats for my first season, which allowed me to be here now."
He said the pitching in the Appalachian League is "a lot better" than the GCL.
"I feel like, over there, it's guys just coming in through the draft, trying to get a feel for their pitches, maybe learn how to throw new pitches.
"Here, they've already got a base, of what they're throwing. They've got their fastball. They're able to locate more. Off-speed, they've got more than one pitch. ... It makes it a little more difficult, and you have to adapt to it."
He has had no trouble adapting to Bowen Field. "I love it. It's a beautiful field, it has a great little backdrop to it. And, the ball carries pretty good here, so that kind of helps me out a little bit," he said. "We have a great grounds crew."
It has been an environment custom-made for him to flourish, he said.
"I came into the season knowing that I'm going to do big things, and having a lot of confidence in myself that I'm going to go and put in work, and hopefully get moved up," he said earlier this week.
"It's something that I expected to do, to come out here and compete and have quality at-bats, every night."
"It's mainly just maintaining your plan and your goals for the night. We hitters, we constantly preach having quality at-bats, getting pitches that we can hit and not missing them. Fortunately, I've been getting those good pitches and I haven't been missing them that much."
Opposing pitchers are aware of his power. He's aware of the need to be patient.
Charles said, "I've been getting a lot of off-speed pitches, for the most part, sliders coming toward the outside part of the plate, [and] even sometimes sliders in, to get me off-guard for the fastball.
"But they're going to make a mistake sometime, and that's when I ... try to capitalize on it with my adjustments and hit the ball hard."
His height and reach at first base "not only helps me, but it helps everybody," he said. "I'm a big target over there, so they don't have to throw it in a small area.
"If they throw it a little bit off, I'm long enough to be able to go up and get it. If they throw it high, I'm fortunate to be able to jump pretty good. Being as tall as I am, and having as big a wingspan as I have, it benefits us a lot — not having to come off the bag and make the play."
His experience with baseball goes back to early childhood.
He said, "My mom's side of the family, my dad's side of the family, they've all played baseball at one point. No one's played professionally in my family, but I kind of grew up around the sport."
His father was a "really good basketball player," he said, resulting in plenty of hoops games on the court. But that sport fell by the wayside.
Charles said, "Baseball, I was hooked to it, kept going with it, got better and better, and felt I had a future in baseball. And here I am now, trying to make my way to the Major Leagues."
In his junior year of high school, the first of several scouts made contact with him. He represented the Yankees.
He said, "That was kind of like surreal to me. I thought, 'Oh, man, this actually could go somewhere.'
"I was pretty good. I was always that guy who was making all-star teams. But you know there are a lot of kids making all-star teams. Whenever I got that first scout to come up to me ... that's kind of where it blew up for me."
"I just kept working hard, and took their advice about what to do, and got seen, and here I am now."
Part of "getting seen" consisted of showcases in high school, junior college, workouts at "little high school fields or college fields" for major-league evaluators.
He said, "I went to Toronto and I loved it there ... when I went to the stadium and everything. I was hoping they'd pick me up.
"Then they gave me a call and said they were going to take me in the 20th round. I was excited, my parents were excited, my whole family was excited. I'm just glad to be here."
His father had guessed the pick might come "between the 10th to the 15th, that area," Charles said.
"I didn't get down on myself, because I knew I'd probably get drafted pretty soon. Every round, we were looking and waiting. Every time Toronto would come up, we'd get excited again.
"Once they did, I was very happy — I was happy to be part of this organization."
He had plaudits for the Toronto player-development operation.
"As far as player development, we have really good guys, from our fielding to our hitting instructors ... people throughout our organization," he said.
"Every team is pretty good. We have good managers at every level. You know you're going to get your money's worth, when you go to your next team. They might teach you something new at every level.
"Our manager now, Dennis Holmberg, he's really a good, hands-on type of guy. He'll help you out to understand the mental parts of the game ... little tips and tricks. It's been good to be around these guys. ...
"I appreciate the help they've given me, at every level. ... I feel I've learned a lot since then."
He said, "From when I was drafted, until now, I've learned so much more, more than I've learned my whole life in this short amount of time."
He said part of the success of the Blue Jays this year is, "We're great teammates. Everybody gets along with everybody — a lot of chemistry throughout the clubhouse.
"We always hang out — not everybody spread out. You know, where some clubs, maybe the Latin guys are kind of spread out by themselves, and the Americans are spread out.
"But we're all together, all the time, joking around, hanging out ... acting like we're giving interviews. It's a lot of fun, but we all work together to make the team better.
"In order to have a good team, you've got to have good chemistry, a good bond with each other, and we have that here. It goes a long way."
With good stats come the tendency to be looked at as a team leader. He said he has tried to do that regardless of his statistical numbers.
"I feel like I'm a pretty good leader, without all that, without the average, and without where I hit at in the order," he said. "Whether I'm doing really well with the bat, I feel like I can bring something to the team, and I feel like I can help somebody out.
"Even if I'm struggling, I feel like I can help somebody else and make them better. I feel that we're all, as a whole, capable of being a good leader."
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---- — MORRISON, Ill. — On one of the first beautiful days of the spring season, Morrison High School played host to the Three Rivers Conference Girls Track and Field Conference Meet on Monday night.
These same conference teams met up at Fulton just three weeks earlier, and at that meet, Erie/Prophetstown ran away with first place while setting five meet records.
E/P's domination continued at Morrison as it took first place out of the gate and never relinquished. In all, the team totaled 188 points on the day.
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Relying heavily on the Rus sisters, Paige and Peyton, Erie/Prophetstown placed in nearly every event, taking first place in a majority of them. One or both of the Rus sisters were a part of the five records that fell at Fulton. This time, the Panthers broke three records in relay events, and one or both sisters were part of all three. The Cobert sisters, Courtney and Rachel, bookended all three record relays.
The sister duos combined to break the record of 1:49.3 in the 800-meter relay, winning in 1:47.41. Courtney Cobert led off, followed by Peyton Rus, Paige Rus and Rachel Cobert. Courtney Cobert led off and Rachel Cobert anchored the other two record performances. They teamed with Peyton Rus and Heather Strike to win the 400 relay in 49.66, breaking a 28-year-old record (51.30) set by Prophetstown in 1985.
The final record came in the final event. Paige Rus ran the second leg and Corrie Reiley the third as they won the 1,600 relay in 4:07.50, besting the mark of 4:08.1 set by Bureau Valley in 2006.
Fulton/Fulton Unity Christian lagged behind in the standings for the first half of the night as senior standout Erin Wessels was limited in competition by the flu. In the second half, Fulton/Fulton Unity got itself back into the meet and battled Bureau Valley for fourth place up until the last race of the night.
"Because of the sickness, I'm not getting any oxygen to my muscles, so I get tired and fatigued quickly," Wessels said. "Tonight's meet didn't go nearly as well as I wanted it to. I still did well in my given condition, but I would have loved to have done better."
In Wessels' preferred event, the triple jump, she was able to take third place despite being ill.
"My best event by far, has been the triple jump," she said. "I just started learning it last year, so I've been doing really well in that. I've been actually enjoying it, so that's always good to actually enjoy what you're doing. Triple jump, I've had a lot of success in."
Fulton's second-half charge was helped by its younger members: Averi Leitzen, Betsy Leonard and Chelsea Lesniewski. Lesniewski grabbed third place in the shot put, while Leitzen and Leonard placed high in several events to push them out of the cellar and into the fight for fourth.
"I was feeling pretty good. I got my personal record. I was going pretty good. It's been better than the rest of my 800s this season," Leitzen, a freshman, said.
Because she was ailing, Wessels was forced out of competing in the 1,600 relay in her normal anchor position. Leitzen slid into that slot for the last event of the night.
"I ran it before," Leitzen said of anchoring. "I ran it in my middle school career, and I like it a lot."
Wessels showed her support for her teammates in the final meet before Thursday's sectional meet in Erie, Ill.
"I'm always really impressed with Averi Leitzen and how well she does in the distance running, and Betsy Leonard in the hurdles and the high jump," Wessels said. "She does really well. Those two really stand out to me. They've been doing really well this season, and they're both young."
Rounding out the team standings, Bureau Valley finished fourth with 72 points, Fulton fifth with 55, Amboy sixth with 40, Morrison seventh with 20 and Newman eighth with 4.


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There's a lot of super smart people working at Zazzle. Many of them attended Stanford or Cal, but there are other schools represented. I did my Master's in Human Factors and Ergonomics through the excellent program at San Jose State University, while still working my day job. My advisor while there was Dr. Anthony Andre, and he recently invited me to come back and talk to his current crop of students about what I do at Zazzle and how I have put my degree to use in the "real world". As someone who moved from User Interface Design into Product Management, I have a somewhat non-traditional job for a Human Factors degree.
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DALLAS (SMU) -- With huge third-quarter losses expected by many airlines in the wake of Sept. 11, a group of pilots, attorneys and former airline executives and government officials will gather at Southern Methodist Universitys Dedman School of Law to discuss the future of aviation.
Organized by the schools Journal of Air Law and Commerce, Freedom vs. Fear: The Future of Air Travel, will be Oct 29-30, Monday and Tuesday, in the Hillcrest Classroom in the Underwood Law Library, 6550 Hillcrest Ave. The event is free and open to the public. Topics at the conference to be addressed include:
What may be the most overlooked story in the nation right now is the looming financial crisis faced by the domestic and international airlines and the accompanying danger this poses to the economy of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and to the nation and the world, said John Attanasio, dean of SMUs Dedman School of Law and an organizer of the special conference.
On Monday, Oct. 29, at 4 p.m., Robert L. Crandall, retired chairman and CEO of AMR Corp. and American Airlines will speak on the topic Security for the Future: Lets Get Our Airlines Flying Again.
On Tuesday, Oct. 30, from 12:15 to 2 p.m., there will be a panel with John Nance, aviation editor of ABC-TVs Good Morning America, author, attorney and a former commercial airline pilot; Albert V. Casey, former chairman and CEO of AMR Corp. and American Airlines and the Distinguished Executive-in-Residence in the Department of Management and Organizations in the Edwin L. Cox School of Business; Jim Hall, former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board; and E. Ray Hutchison, a Dallas bond attorney whose clients have included the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
The Journal of Air Law and Commerce was first published in 1930 at Northwestern University and then moved to SMU in 1961. The journal is the oldest scholarly periodical in the English language devoted to the legal and economic problems affecting aviation and space and has a worldwide circulation of more than 2,000 readers in 60 countries.


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Top score was awarded to Sofia C. (Plymouth) who scored 8.900 on vault tying 24th, 8.950 on uneven bars and tied 20th, 8.600 on beam and tied 13th, 9.225 on floor and place 9th. Her final score of 35.675 place her 11th on all-around.
Claire H. (Plymouth) scored 8.925 on vault and tied 23rd, 8.650 on uneven bars and tied 31st, 8.600 on beam and tied 13th, 9.000 on floor and placed 16th. Final score of 35.175 to place her 22nd in all-around.
Mackenzie W. (Wayzata) scored 8.900 on vault place 24th, 8.575 on uneven bars and tied for 36th, 8.375 on beam and placed 27th, 9.300 on floor and tied for 5th. Her final score of 35.150 place her 23rd on all-around.
Isabella H. (Maple Grove) scored 9.100 on vault and placed 11th, 8.800 on uneven bars and placed 24th, 7.950 and placed 44th, 8.775 on floor and tied for 25th. Final score of 34.625 to place her 28th in all-around.
Reese H. (Maple Grove) scored 8.650 on vault and tied for 46th, 8.275 on uneven bars and placed 43rd, 8.600 on beam and tied for 13th, 9.025 on floor and placed 15th. Final score of 34.550 to tied her 29th in all-around.
Geanessa R.(Crystal) scored 8.550 in vault and tied for 50th , 8.850 on uneven bars and placed 22nd, 8.100 on beam and tied for 34th, 8.675 on floor and placed 29th. Final score of 34.175 to tie her 33rd in all-around.
Anna M. (Plymouth) scored 8.725 on vault and placed 42nd, 8.25 on uneven bars and tied for 47th, 8.050 on beam and tied for 40th, 8.625 on floor and placed 31th. Final score of 33.425 to place her 41th in all-around.
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Sandra Voss is retiring from Kids Corner Child Care today after 19 years.
Voss started at Kids Corner in the child care program in 1994. She has been director of the facility for the past 3 ½ years.
Voss was a stay-at-home mom who gradually worked her way into child care. She babysat children until her own children began school. Then, she volunteered at Jack & Jill Preschool and at Webster School. While at Webster, Voss met kindergarten teacher Mrs. Grafke, who encouraged her to work with children.
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In what was one of the worst storms to hit our area in a generation, Hurricane Sandy will be remembered for many things, from the overall disruption of daily life to the lives that were lost and the hardships that were felt by millions across the Northeastern U.S.
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Basically, isn't that what brings YOU here too? We are all passionate about flying, aviation and/or airplanes in one way or other. I have been away for awhile. I guess that happens to many of us from time to time. Life is difficult on many and it takes more time these days to scrape a living together. But that just leaves even a larger NEED for a passion.
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Just wanted to thank all of you who participated in the week long series of Veterans Day observances, from all the Seacoast schools to the Partridge House, and to the four services on November 11th.
Thank you to our guest speaker Lt Col Chris Nevins USAF who did an outstanding job at all four services. Thanks to our Post 35 Color Guard and Rifle Squad. Thanks to the WHS USMC JROTOC color guards and the instructors Mike Antonio and Bill Palino. Thanks to Troop 177 Scout color guard. The Brownie Troop at the Hampton Falls service. Thank you Chaplain Joe Kutt and past Chaplain John Holman. Thank you to Bugler Mark Weatherby and soloists Elaine Weatherby and Jessica Moriarty. Thank you Pastor Ken Lawrence from the Hampton Falls First Baptist Church. Thank you to Hampton PD and Hampton FD, and the North Hampton PD and Fire Department.
Thank you to all the 100's of citizens who came out on November 11th, the men, the women, and all the children. There is so much love and respect from all of you. And we are all especially humbled, and thankful, for the many children who each year do a great job at all the schools. You are all so special.
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The new Bethesda location of Chop't Creative Salad Company opened with a nod to the season's charitable giving, raising hundreds of dollars for the county's largest food distribution center.
More than 700 customers turned out to the store's Wildwood Shopping Center opening, Nov. 14, featuring free food in exchange for a $2 donation to the Manna Food Center, according to Allison Anderson, development organizer for the charity group. The five-hour promotion raised a total of $1,504, directly benefiting Montgomery County's main food bank, she said.
"At one point, the [Chop't general manager] told me they were making three salads a minute; over 300 in the first hour and a half," Anderson said. "The line was out the door all afternoon and they ran out of lettuce right before 2 p.m. when the lunch hour was over. They had to restock for dinner! It was an amazing experience for us."
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The Gaithersburg-based food center will continue its holiday charity drives this week as it collects turkey dinners for families in need. To help contribute to a Montgomery County family's Thanksgiving dinner, donors can drop off turkeys to Manna — located at 9311 Gaither Road in Gaithersburg — through 3 p.m. today.


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Powered by Row 27, Team Teal is a fully integrated online rewards program designed for students to participate in challenges/tasks to earn points as they engage with all UNCW digital properties, including Twitter, Facebook and UNCWsports.com. Retweeting content that relates to UNCW Athletics and liking posts on Facebook will also contribute to points that students can earn.
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LOS ANGELES, May 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- ScareLA, the first-ever Southern California Halloween convention, announced today it will return to downtown Los Angeles on August 9 and 10, 2014 at The Reef (formerly LA Mart). The event celebrates the West Coast's Halloween, haunt, and horror fans with exclusive presentations, hands-on education, onsite attractions and a show floor designed to inspire and promote play. Limited-time presale tickets are now available for purchase at www.scarela.com.
The convention's 2014 program will feature previews and behind-the-scenes looks at the most anticipated Halloween events in the region. Participants include: Universal Studios Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights, Knott's Halloween Haunt, Los Angeles Haunted Hayride, The Great Horror Campout, The Queen Mary's Dark Harbor and over 30 other top local scare attractions.
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by Andrew Demillo, The Associated Press
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LITTLE ROCK — The marriage of convenience between gubernatorial hopeful Mike Ross and lieutenant governor candidate John Burkhalter is a signal from establishment Democrats that they want a unified front as they try to prevent a full Republican takeover of Arkansas. It also offered a chance to preview a pro-jobs message they hope to run on next year.
But the Ross-Burkhalter ticket poses just as many risks as rewards for the two as they seek the state's top two constitutional offices. The move gives their rivals within the party as well as the GOP an opportunity to blast pre-election deals and "good old boy" politics in a state where establishment candidates haven't always fared well.
The pair announced their mutual endorsements days after Burkhalter opted against a run for governor and said he'd instead run for the state's No. 2 constitutional office. The businessman, developer and Highway Commission member said the endorsements were not part of any deal that led to his decision to keep out of an already heated governor's race between Ross and former Lt. Gov. Bill Halter.
"This is a winning team that's going to move this state forward and create jobs," Ross told reporters as the candidates announced the joint endorsements. "I think the more voters get to know us, the more they're going to agree."
Since Arkansas' governor and lieutenant governor are elected separately, it's unusual for candidates with contested primaries to run as a ticket. The two said they're still running separate campaigns, though presented themselves as a team on economic development efforts.
The benefit is clear for Burkhalter, who has little name recognition and has never run for office in the state before. By joining forces with Ross, he attaches his name to known commodity in Arkansas politics. Ross, a former congressman who represented south Arkansas for 12 years, also wins an ally who will likely make similar pro-jobs pitches to voters.
Democrats believe they can gain an upper hand with a pro-jobs message — especially after a legislative session where they believe Republicans overplayed as the majority by pushing for new abortion limits and a law requiring voters to show photo identification.
Part of that pitch includes Ross' proposal to have Burkhalter head up a cabinet on economic development that will include heads of state agencies such as the Department of Education and nonprofit groups.
The pitfalls are just as clear for both Burkhalter and Ross. No matter how hard they'll run as separate candidates, both candidates now face the possibility of having to answer for the other's positions.
It's a dicey position for Ross, who's embracing a partnership with a candidate who hasn't been tested in a political campaign and remains a blank slate on many issues. Burkhalter may face questions about whether he aligns with Ross' positions on issues ranging from health care to abortion rights.
The partnership also opened the door for rivals to paint the move as a political calculation by two establishment picks.
It could also provide an opening for Halter, who has shown a willingness to run as an outsider candidate from his first bid for lieutenant governor in 2006 to his unsuccessful attempt to win the Democratic Senate nomination three years ago.
Halter, who is seeking the state's top office partly on his promise of an expanded scholarship program, so far isn't targeting the partnership and says he's instead focusing on his own bid.
"I'm going to spend my time, attention and energy focused on the best possible policies for Arkansas," Halter said.
It's a line of attack that Dianne Curry, the Little Rock School board president challenging Burkhalter for the Democratic nomination, was all too happy to launch.
"I believe as the true blue Democrat in this race, we will let the people of Arkansas make these decisions, not some good ole boys in backrooms," Curry said.
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Fort Worth, Texas —
Memorial service for Billy Don Robison, 52, Fort Worth, Texas, is 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, at Rosedale Cemetery, Ada, Okla.
He died Sept. 7, 2013, at home in Fort Worth, Texas. He was born March 11, 1961, in Oklahoma City.
Early in life, he lived and attended school in the town of Francis, Okla. In 1982, he moved to Arlington, Texas. He managed McLean Apartments in Fort Worth, Texas.
His later years were shared with the love of his life, Virginia James, of Fort Worth.
Preceding him in death were his parents, Marion and Oleta Robison; and brothers, Richard and Teddy Robison.
Survivors include his sister, Jo Ann Russell and husband, David, of Itasca, Texas; nephew, David Russell of Itasca; niece, Michelle Baskett and family of Copperas Cove, Texas; Virginia James of Fort Worth, Texas; her sons, Jeffrey King and family of Fort Worth, Ricky Flores and family of Kentucky, and numerous family and friends.
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— Area has new field crops, soils specialist
CANTON — Kitty O'Neil has begun traveling Northern New York as regional field crops and soils specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension. She will be working with farmers in St. Lawrence, Franklin, Clinton and Essex counties.
O'Neil grew up on a dairy farm in Cayuga County. She holds an animal science degree from Cornell University and a master's degree in Forages and Dairy Nutrition from Michigan State.
In Michigan, she helped potato growers improve their production systems and make them more sustainable. She recently earned a Ph.D. there after conducting several years of research with those potato growers, examining impacts of tillage, cover crops, manure amendments and crop rotations on soil health and productivity.
"I'm eager to apply my efforts to helping Northern New York growers and farmers adopt practices which will reduce risk and production costs while increasing efficiency and livelihoods. From conversations with farmers and other extension personnel, I can already see opportunities to work on hayfield and pasture quality, forage planning and inventory estimations and alternative forage production to reduce risks," O'Neil said.
"Fall 2013 forage inventories may continue to be affected by the 2012 shortages, though I hope that impact is slight. Only time and weather patterns will determine what is in the barn, silo and bunk at the conclusion of 2013, but I'd like to work with producers now to optimize that potential," she added.
O'Neil can be reached through the local extension office or CCE St. Lawrence County at 315-379-9192.
Tile drainage research in region being studied
CHAZY — In 2013, the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program (NNYADP) is funding research to evaluate the agricultural benefits and environmental impacts of using tile drainage on farms.
The use of tile drainage has been a critical best-management practice on American farms since 1835. In the early 1900s, William H. Miner, for whom the agricultural research institute in Chazy is named, championed the use of patterned tile drainage to dramatically improve drainage efficiency and crop production potential on poorly drained North Country soils.
The farmer-driven NNYADP has identified the need for research to better understand how the use of tile drainage interacts with the soil, crop production and the environment in the Lake Champlain Basin region of Northern New York, where agriculture is considered a major nonpoint source of phosphorus to the lake.
Tile-drained fields generally reduce total phosphorus loss compared to undrained fields, largely due to reducing surface runoff. However, few controlled field studies have been conducted over multiple years in the Northeast to quantify crop and soil benefits as well as potential water-quality risks and benefits from tile-draining fields.
Project leader Eric Young, agronomist and soil scientist at Miner Institute, said tile drainage is an economically and environmentally important management practice for dairy and crop farmers.
"On poorly drained soils, properly installed and maintained tile-drainage systems produce greater crop yields, reduce erosion and surface runoff, decrease the potential for soil compaction, enhance soil quality and lead to greater farm profitability," he said.
"However, under unique conditions, tile drainage can accelerate the loss of nitrate-nitrogen and dissolved phosphorus, two important crop nutrients that often limit yield but also have the potential to contribute to water-quality degradation."
Long-term field runoff plots have been established on a cool season grass hay field at the Lake Alice Wildlife Management Area in Chazy. The trial plots will be managed as a typical dairy-based grass forage production system with nitrogen applied in early spring and manure nutrients applied after each cutting.
The research team will evaluate surface and subsurface drainage water from the tile-drained and undrained fields during the growing and non-growing seasons to quantify how soils, crop management and other field conditions affect nutrient conservation and loss.
Registration offered for tractor driver contest
SENECA FALLS — June 21 is the deadline to register for the New York State FFA Tractor Driving Safety Contest at the 2013 Empire Farm Days at Rodman Lott & Son Farms in Seneca Falls.
The competition open to students aged 14 to 18 will be held Thursday, Aug. 8, at the Northeast's largest outdoor agricultural trade show. Contestants must contact contest coordinator Jon Clayson by June 21 with their name and age at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Preparing for the annual competition teaches students the importance of learning and using safe farm equipment operating skills. Students complete a written safety exam, a parts identification task and driving courses with 2- wheel and 4-wheel wagons.
"This competition helps students test how well they have learned safe tractor operation and driving skills. A strong performance at the Empire Farm Days event is something they can add to their resumes in pursuit of an agricultural career," Clayson said.
The Junior Division of the contest is open to 14-16 year olds; the Senior division is for 16-18 year olds. The winner of the Senior Division goes on to compete at the Big E Exposition in Springfield, Mass., in September.
Contest sponsors include John Deere, Kubota, H&S Farm Equipment, New Holland Case International, the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health, Massey Ferguson and Java Farm Supply.
The competition begins at 9:30 a.m. at the Empire Farms Days event that covers 300 acres with 600-plus representatives of agricultural institutions and organizations, farm equipment and ATV test driving opportunities, DairyProfit Seminars and other educational workshops, demonstrations of live horse round pen training, cattle handing, small-livestock care, agricultural plastics recycling, farm safety and farm family displays and more. Visit www.empirefarmdays.com for more information.


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Police responded to the complaint at Quail Rise apartments, 2015 E. Pine Tree Blvd., early Saturday morning.
While narcotics agents uncovered drugs and a firearm, police questioned individuals about alcohol consumption.
"There were several found to be under the age of 21," said Lt. Eric Hampton, Thomasville Police Department public information officer.
Hampton said blood alcohol testing at the scene showed some underage individuals had consumed alcoholic beverages.
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Goethe's Faust is a perennial college text, but in many Waldorf schools it is a standard block in the 12th grade. Why do we bring this play, published almost 200 years ago, to our seniors? What does it have to say to them? Every year as I hand out the books at the beginning of the block, someone inevitably asks "why are we reading this?" I've had to face this question squarely in order to stand at the front of that room and feel confident that they will see the answer at the end of three weeks.
As high school teachers, we recognize that that the essential question for 12th grade students is who am I? As they prepare themselves to go out into the world, young people ask themselves what is my place in the world? And perhaps more importantly, what kind of person do I want to be? What am I here to do? Woven in with such concerns are the related questions of the role of good and evil in the world, and the foundations of moral action.
To address these questions, the senior-year curriculum includes required block classes with topics focusing on the study of the self and views of the human being, and the human race, through time. For example, the seniors study human evolution, world religions and the Transcendentalist poets, all important topics in understanding what it means to be a human being. Faust addresses the central 12th grade question head on, although from a different perspective than these other block classes. It does this in two ways: first, through the story itself, and second, through the biography of Goethe.
In the previous year, the students will have studied Gilgamesh. This ancient story addresses the question that worried the people of the earliest civilizations: why is there death?
In the modern world, we accept death. As Goethe wrote, we have moved beyond that question to the conundrum of the modern world: why is there evil? How is it that human beings are the most benevolent and altruistic creatures on the planet – as Steinbeck wrote, "the only species willing to die for a cause" — but also the most cruel and evil? The catalog of horrors of the last century — from Nazi Germany to Rwanda to Darfur — calls us to try to understand evil, and to face the ultimate question of what it means to be a human being when humans are capable of such extremes in behavior.
Goethe gives us in Faust the splendid character of Mephistopheles, who struts onto the stage in a way that instantly brings to mind both Milton's extraordinary Satan and the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil: "please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste." His wisecracking character is instantly intriguing to students. Mephistopheles takes no guff from anyone, he has the answer to everything, he makes fun of education, he argues with God, and looks down on the mass of humanity as insects who stick their noses "in every piece of dung."
Students are fascinated by this character; they too have developed quite a swagger in that senior year as the big kids on campus! But this is the devil! Are we supposed to like him? What a surprise to learn that God, as presented in Faust, requires the devil to keep humans striving toward the accomplishment and achievement of which only they are capable.
Seniors are almost ready to step out into the adult world, and they feel quite proud of themselves that they have come so far, quite grown up and ready to leave the sheltered world of high school. But at the same time, they are afraid. They want the rights and freedom that come with adulthood, but they don't want to lose the qualities that make childhood so magical. They don't want to become cynical or jaded. They don't want to lose their imaginations and live a life of dulling routine. They may worry about becoming their parents (or at least blindly repeating what they perceive as their parents' lives).
Mephistopheles hits to the core of this fear. Here he is, laughing at humans because (in his view) their lives are pointless — they just keep doing the same things generation after generation, trying to achieve, no matter how he tries to stop them.
As for that scum of beast — and humanhood,There's just no curbing it, no quelling,I've buried them in droves past telling,Yet ever newly circulates fresh blood.
Through the play, Mephistopheles appears in different costumes, either red or black, representing two aspects of evil. In red, he presents the active, passionate side of evil — the violent, the rash, the angry. In this guise he goads Faust to kill a man. In black, Mephistopheles represents the colder side of evil — the calculated, the neglectful, the unfeeling. In this costume, Mephistopheles first introduces himself to Faust as representing the void that came before creation, stating that his ambition is for the world to go back to that void of darkness and nothingness. He prefers the "Eternal-Empty." Ultimately, what he represents is not active evil as we usually think of it, but rather the evil of simply not caring, of finding life hopeless, pointless and not worth pursuing.
What has this constant doing ever broughtBut what is done to rake away to naught?
Exploring these two aspects of evil, and discussing where we see them in the world, brings home the idea that it is not only what we do that may cause harm, but what we allow to be done. What an important idea to face when considering the question of who one wants to be!
When we meet Faust himself, we find a disappointed, middle-aged man grousing about in his dusty study. He is a professor, a learned man, but feels fragmented, unfulfilled; he has wasted his life in second-hand book learning, never made much money, never had anyone love him. How can any teenager identify with such a character? In the negative! This is precisely what they don't want to be. They don't want to go out into the world and become complacent, boring adults who never achieve what they once set out to do. They want to change the world!
But then we see Faust have an epiphany; after a miserable night in which he contemplates suicide, he walks through the town on Easter morning and passes through the masses of common folk. They talk about drinking, about who is handsome, who is going with whom — all silly and pointless chatter, from Faust's educated point of view. But these people are happy and smiling, and he is miserable! Is it better to be superficial and ignorant? Is that what brings happiness? If not, why is that? It would be so easy to be like a cat snoozing on the bed all day, but would it be any good for long?
Through his association with Mephistopheles, Faust puts aside his dusty books and sets off into the world of sense experience, to find things out for himself, to really live. Under Mephistopheles' tutelage, he starts with bars, skirt-chasing and visits to satanic dens — all very unsatisfying.
But then Faust goes on to grander things: an imperial court, a science lab in which life is created in a glass jar, a massive building project, marriage, and fatherhood. By the end of the play, Faust has quite literally changed the world. And — contrary to popular misconception — he doesn't have to sell his soul to the devil to do it. Goethe leaves us with the extraordinary idea that redemption lies not in refraining from doing bad things, but in doing things, getting things done, exploring and learning, even if terrible mistakes are made along the way. It is human action and effort which are the antithesis of the void that Mephistopheles would prefer. As Goethe wrote, "how can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing."
Faust ultimately brings us the message seen on so many T-shirts: "life is good." And not only that, but you can choose what kind of an adult you will be.
Goethe's biography is also brought to bear on this subject. Like the play itself, his life is not presented as a venerable relic, but as something alive – Goethe's life has something important to tell us today. Like Goethe's characters, the man himself is intriguing to students and can be identified with easily, which is not something they expect to find in this "dead white guy" at all! Goethe burnt himself out as a teenage law student, overdoing the coffee and alcohol and staying up all night madly writing poetry. He was a love-sick youth, hopelessly in love with his best friend's wife. What teenager has not suffered the pain of unrequited love? Goethe's coup, however, was to turn this experience into a best-selling novel which made him the toast of Europe. He was then hired to be a companion and mentor to a young nobleman, providing further adventures, many on galloping horses and involving close encounters with the law. But the wild living was always tempered, in Goethe's case, by responsibility and achievement.
Goethe is the anti-Peter Pan. For those students who aren't quite sure if they are ready to step out into the world, his life says, "It is good to grow up; it is exciting and rich with possibility." Here is man who was a bureaucrat for much of his adult life — but was also a celebrity novelist, a scientist, a great dancer, a writer of poetry in praise of intimacy with the love of his life. There's that message again: You can choose what kind of an adult you want to be, and in spite of its many difficulties, life is good. "Nothing is worth more than this day!"
Now out into the world with you!
Images above: Emerson by Amber Johnston '11; Faust by Mica Low '10; Faustszene by Friedrich Gustav Schlick; black and white still from FW Murnau's 1926 film. A version of this article was published in Renewal: A Journal for Waldorf Education in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue, and this version appeared in High Notes, Winter 2013.
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Norman Marks, CRMA, CPA, is a vice president for SAP and has been a chief audit executive and chief risk officer at major global corporations for more than 20 years.
Bridging Effectiveness Gaps: A Candid Look at Board Practices is the title of a new study by the accounting and consulting firm McGladrey LLP on behalf of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).
The report focuses on the quality of information provided to and used by the board. In the words of the authors:
- Effective board oversight demands information that is as current and relevant as possible. There are, however, natural gaps between what management communicates and what the board needs to know. The information flow between management and the board may not always be perfect, and board committees may have similar troubles bringing the full board "up to speed" on certain issues.
- [The] oversight role is largely dependent on the quality and scope of information the board receives, exclusively in some cases, from management. The sole reliance on one avenue of information may limit or skew needed dialogue on the most important issues facing the company. Information on risk management, for example, may be accurate but incomplete.
- If the board's oversight relies on the information it receives, then a board may be limited by management's ability to present data in a manner consistent with its own views and artfully direct the board's decision process.
- The C-suite's ability to transfer their knowledge of strategic risks is paramount to the board's oversight and understanding. Unfortunately, some CEOs may be unwilling to unveil the full scope of risk facing a company because it may be seen or felt as an admission of weakness.
A couple of other board practice topics are covered, but barely touch the surface. In my opinion, this is a skimpy and disappointing document.
However, it does raise the important question: how can the board provide effective oversight without assurance that it receives the information it needs, when it needs, and in a useful way?
I think this is a good area for the internal audit function. They can and probably should perform audit engagements designed to provide the board with assurance on this important area.
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