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Lester J. Spitler, 88, 7651 S. TR 17, Tiffin, Ohio , died at 9:42 p.m. Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, at Toledo Hospital.
Lester was born May 6, 1924, to Elmer and Emma (Goetz) Spitler. He married Opal E. (Hieber) Aug. 14, 1949, and she died April 25, 2002.
Surviving are the following children: Joyce Spitler of Niles, Barbara J. (David) Sander of Genoa and David J. (Barbara) Spitler of Tiffin. Also surviving are five grandchildren, Jeffrey Thompson, Julie Thompson, Laura Mack, Christine Carlson and Rebecca Sander. Also surviving are three stepgrandchildren, Andrew Collar, Elizabeth Collar and Ben Collar. Also surviving are four great-grandchildren and two stepgreat-grandchildren. He also is survived by a sister-in-law, Mrs. Helen Hieber of Chatfield.
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He was preceded in death by two brothers, Henry and Glenn Spitler, besides his wife, Opal, and his parents.
Lester was a lifelong farmer, farming on the same farm he was born on. He was a member of St. John's United Church of Christ in Tiffin. He was a 1943 graduate of Melmore High School. He was a former 4-H adviser for many years.
He also was a former member of Seneca County Farm Bureau and the former Eden Grange. He also served his country during World War II in the U.S. Navy.
Funeral services for Lester will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, at Walton-Moore Funeral Home, with the Rev. Pam Easterday officiating. Burial will follow at Pleasant View Cemetery, Sycamore, where the Sycamore American Legion Post 250 will conduct a military graveside service. Visitation will be 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions can be made to St. John's UCC Church, Mohawk Community Library or the donor's choice in care of Walton-Moore Funeral Home, P.O. Box 350, Sycamore, OH 44882.


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EAST PALESTINE - The village was behind the curve on oil and gas leasing and that's why a lease hasn't been offered yet, Bob Rea of Buckeye Mineral Development LLC (BMD), told council this week.
He said that had the village been represented by his company earlier last year it would have been included in a group of more than 1,100 acres that were leased to Chesapeake Energy.
The village is looking to lease the surface rights of roughly 130 acres of municipal land, and Rea said companies aren't interested in leasing a small amount of land in the county right now.
"Everybody's leasing endeavor has diminished considerably. We have shown your parcels and it has had mixed reviews. Some said they are going to pass on this quarter. We are going to put it back in front of them," he said.
The village approved hiring the BMD to negotiate on their behalf last summer after discussing the possibility of leasing for several months. Village Solicitor Shirley Smith was initially negotiating for the village but council opted to move forward with BMD after time went by and no leases were offered.
Rea said the for-profit organization is an offshoot of the non-profit Associated Landowners of the Ohio Valley (ALOV) that operated out of Salem.
He explained the ALOV couldn't continue operating as a bargaining agent for landowners because of all the interest the volunteer organization generated. After forming in 2010, the group negotiated hundreds of thousands of acres in the county to oil and gas exploration companies.
The group also negotiated several thousand acres for landowners and municipalities in neighboring counties.
The development, he said, has the sustainability to continue, and isn't just about a securing a lease.
"What we wanted to do in the formation of this company is to realize we need to represent our mineral interests at large," he said.
He explained that most leases are for gas and oil exploration from the surface of the earth to the center, which can be a detriment to the landowner. Instead, landowners would benefit from leasing each shale formation independently.
"You don't want to sign away everything from the bottom of your foot to the center of the earth Potentially in this area right here you could have three producing zones, the Utica, Clinton formation and the Marcellus," he said.
Leasing in the Marcellus has not been done in the county. Its production is largely focused in the Pennsylvania area.
Rea said that unlike other parts of the county, some Marcellus exists under the East Palestine territory and the village could benefit from leasing that layer in the future.
"For you folks in East Palestine that Marcellus region has value," he said.
As for the Utica shale, the village is in a "sweet zone," but that is only a benefit if companies start showing an interest, he added.
"One-hundred-and-thirty acres is pretty minimum. If we could offer them 13,000 or even 15,000 acres it would be a different look because they have to develop the pipeline to get to it" and that takes money, he explained.
"The eastern side of Columbiana County is so leased up it's hard to bring a competitor here and put it in with everything we want to show them. We have to work at this," he said.
He added that because Chesapeake Energy already owns "the lion's share" of most of the leases in the county the company likely doesn't feel compelled to sign more at this time.
Council members questioned how much the village could earn through a lease, and like Smith had advised over several months, Rea indicated that disclosing that information wouldn't be prudent during negotiations.
The group signs confidentiality agreements with the exploration companies it negotiates with, and therefore, several things cannot be discussed in a public forum, he said.
"They don't want their competition to pick up in the newspaper what is being discussed ... We tell our landowners in the county we aren't going to bring you much of an update," he said.
A lease could be offered to the village within the next month, or a year, "I don't know," he said.
He added that benefits of a BMD lease include being paid on the gross and not the net, the inclusion of environmental clauses that protect water supplies and the Pugh Clause, which means that whatever leased acreage that isn't earning income for the landowner is no longer affected by that lease.
The BMD leases have a five-year initial term and three-year renewal.

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Carl P. Paladino believes turning around the Buffalo Public Schools should begin with bringing in a superintendent with a proven record of making significant progress in an urban district.
To do that, he proposes that the district offer a $500,000 signing bonus to the best candidate.
"You go out and hire the best. That's what you do," Paladino said. "You steal them. And how do you do that? You wave money in their face. That's smart money for the district."
Although the district faces a perennial deficit, Paladino said the money could come from savings on transportation that would be realized if the board returns to neighborhood schools for elementary school students.
Next, all of the high-ranking administrators in City Hall should be replaced, he said.
"I want to see the entire executive staff of people fired. I want appointments to be made on merit, not on the friends and family club," he said. "I'm going to go on the board, offer my suggestions, demand total transparency and demand the truth."
Beyond that, Paladino has a list of 19 goals that he says accounts for just some of the changes that need to be made in the district.
Among those goals is settling a contract with the Buffalo Teachers Federation, whose contract expired nine years ago.
"The teachers want a contract. I want to give them a contract," he said. "They'll get a pay raise. And we'll buy longer school days and longer school years from them with that raise."
Among other things the district should do, Paladino said: remove chronically disruptive students from schools and put them in a separate program; provide more counseling for students by using college interns; and improve the district's athletics program.
The district should also consolidate its 59 schools to 50, he said, given the falling enrollment.
Paladino is calling for the district to open an office to coordinate its dealings with charter schools and wants the district to offer to sell its former schools, many of which are now vacant, to charter schools.
He is continuing his call for charter boarding schools for at-risk students, something that has been done in other cities. But Paladino wants to see those boarding schools in Buffalo serve children as young as 6; in other places, such schools are designed for high school students.
For several years, Paladino has been the district's most vocal and confrontational critic, someone who seems to pride himself on being something of a lone wolf. He frequently rails against the board during his allotted three minutes of public comment at meetings – describing members as "parasitic incompetent hijackers"; and sometimes deriding "the sisterhood," a term referring to the black women on the board.
He also gained notoriety when, during his campaign for governor, it was revealed that he had forwarded email cartoons many described as racist. Paladino insists the forwarded emails were merely humorous and have no bearing on his ability to improve education in a heavily minority district.
He says he realizes that if he is elected and wants to make changes in the district, he will have to modify his role as a vocal and abrasive gadfly to that of one board member among nine who is able to build working coalitions. He says he thinks he can do that.
"I've sat on many boards in my life," he said. "I have a way of co-opting people, changing people, and I'll be successful. I can do things other people can't do."
As the chairman of Ellicott Development, Paladino has built or developed three local charter schools – Tapestry, West Buffalo and Health Sciences. He says he will recuse himself from any votes about future charter schools if he is elected to the board.
Paladino, 66, attended a public elementary school, then Bishop Timon High School. He earned a bachelor's degree from St. Bonaventure University and a law degree from Syracuse University.
His three older children attended private schools, as does his younger daughter, who attends Nardin Academy.
Paladino spent $10,000 of his own money on his campaign – half of it for radio ads – and had not accepted donations from anyone else as of early April, when he filed his first financial disclosure. If he is elected, he said, he will stay on the board as long as necessary to accomplish his goals – whether that's "one term, two terms or less than one term."
He paraphrased a couple of lines from the movie "Nanny McPhee" in explaining his thinking. "Her line was, when you need me but don't want me, then I'll be there," he said. "When you want me but don't need me, I've got other things to do."
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quote: If you want to get nitty gritty, let's look at your examples:
quote: How many commercially successful fighter planes in existence can you think of that have supersonic capability, VTOL and stealth?
quote: And why point out the 20-30 year age? You honestly think it's possible to design, engineer, build, test, win the govt. contract, and enter mass production in 3-5 years for a fighter plane?


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It was clear that he expected his second participant later in the show to be around that age as well. However, while searching the crowd for someone to sing the final verse of slacker anthem "Longview," he found a kid that could not have been more than 10 with a sign asking specifically to sing that song with the band. Armstrong broke his ringmaster character asking the kid if he really truly knew the lyrics. Not only did the child know the lyrics, but he sang them convincingly. The irony of a youngster who has likely never done the act singing "When masturbation's lost it's fun, you're fucking lonely" was not lost on the band and Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt fell over laughing as they finished the song.
"That was pretty much the most memorable moment in my entire life," said Armstrong, who gave the kid one of his guitars at the end of the song. It was refreshing to see that for their entire arsenal of effective and well-curated crowd pleasers, that the greatest moment of the show had an element of spontaneity.
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The Hispanic Women's League is offering scholarships to female students of Hispanic origin.
Candidates must be residents of the Buffalo Niagara region and show a commitment to the Hispanic community.
Students must have completed at least 24 college degree credits and have a minimum of a 2.75 grade-point average. Financial need also will be considered.
The deadline for receipt of applications is Sept. 20.
For more information or to request forms, call the Scholarship Committee co-chairwomen, Alicia Granto-Estenoz at 885-4357 or Eleanor Paterson at 851-1049. Applications also may be obtained online at www.hispanicwomensleague.org.


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The editor of the Encyclopedia of Native American Treaties, a three-volume work to be published by ABC-CLIO, is seeking writers to contribute 750-word, signed entries about treaty-related topics such as noted treaties, Indian leaders, U.S. officials, treaty sites, battles leading to treaties, and terms associated with Native American treaties. This encyclopedia, which will include essays by writers from many fields and diverse backgrounds, will aim to be a reference source for an audience that ranges in scope from students to tribal leaders to historians and political scientists and beyond. Each entry will garner the writer the humble honorarium of $10; although not monetarily lucrative, this is an excellent publishing opportunity for junior faculty members and graduate students. We will be happy to send a list of unassigned topics, a detailed description of the project, and editorial guidelines. Deadline for receipt of completed entries is March 31, 2003.
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A fun and exciting game consisting of throwing full bags of trash from the second, third or subsequent window of a building into a 50 gallon trash can below.
Hey man the kitchen trash is full again, lets get down on some Trashsketball.
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A game where you crumple up a piece of paper you were gonna throw away and throw it at the can like in basketball.
I'm the bomb at trashsketball.
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The term "vestibular rehab" is used to describe specialized physical therapy for symptoms of dizziness and imbalance. The Physical Therapy team at Cooley Dickinson Hospital offers a Vestibular Rehab Program led by a senior therapist who has achieved nationally recognized credentialing in the treatment of dizziness and imbalance.
Dizziness is a common complaint, especially as you get older. Some people experience true vertigo or spinning, some may feel light headed and others may feel mostly off balance. These symptoms can have many different causes including medications, low blood pressure, inner ear disorders, heart trouble or other medical problems
Dizziness due to an inner ear disorder can usually be treated successfully by vestibular rehab. If you suffer from dizzy spells that come on when you roll over or look up, you may have positional vertigo that can be successfully treated in one or two visits. If you had an inner ear infection with severe dizziness and you still find yourself dizzy and off balance weeks afterwards, vestibular rehab can help you ease those symptoms. Sometimes no clear cause of dizziness can be found, but as long as your symptoms get worse with movement, special exercises can help you feel better.
Imbalance can also have various causes but often improves with Physical Therapy intervention tailored to your specific problem areas.
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Obama pushes pre-K plan, won't discuss cost
February 15, 2013
DECATUR, Ga....
"continuum of high-quality early learning for a child, beginning at birth and continuing to age 5."
This is really not about the money. It is over the control of the minds of your children.
Parents, do you care enough about your children to spend time with them, raise them and teach them family values? If you're not willing, or a career is more important to you then the gov't is more than willing to.
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Enable comments for all articles stop the Censorship,maybe we have something to say about our flawed justice system.God forbid we have a opinion thats not the same as everyone else.
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Dr. Goooo
You state, "As long as the vouchers can be redeemed for alcohol and weed."
Is that to make the proposed voucher system comparable to an average day at a public school currently? :-]
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Our nation would be better off if we:
Privatize all education!
Or at least simply give an educational voucher to all parents/guardians and let some competition and experimentation create a better education.
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The problem is lack of education now. But the current administration is all about indoctrinating the lemmings that everything is free
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Obviously, our nation would be better off if we just stopped educating our kids all together. Think of the money saved.
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We all know how it works. The sooner that Obama and his "Progressive" comrades can put the citizenry on the government hook, the better for the "elite's" control...
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Just another year to start the indoctrination program. Communist nation well underway. Google the Naked Communist and check out the 45 goals. Take over of education is right in the list, an objective clearly met. I challenge anyone to find 5 that haven't been completed or aren't currently in process.
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Why does he care about cost? It isn't his money.
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Didn't the president say in the SOTU that his proposals wouldn't cost one dime?
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Why bother talking costs? It will all be free! Right?
Would be nice to think something through for a change instead of making more empty promises. Promises that cannot and will not be kept.
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Attending or not attending pre-k is not going to determine whether your child will drop out of high school later to join the drug or gang crowds. Mandating a state service again? Well, as long as we all feel like we are in this together ;)
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Ganesh Machinery's Bolt-Master series of CNC gang-tool lathes feature a variety of workhandling solutions, including vibratory bowl feeds and racked parts to automatically feed the spindle without operator assistance.
The three-axis Cyclone GT-32 lathe features 6,000 rpm, 10-hp, 1"-diameter ballscrews and hydraulic collet actuation. It also offers rigid tapping and a bar capacity of 1 3/8", and quick-changeover tool bars and high tool-density solutions. When additional tooling is needed, an eight-station tool turret is available that can mount multiple tools in each tool station.
The lathe features a C axis for machining cross holes, wire holes or Nylok slots on fasteners, and high-speed-driven and servo-driven tools are available that can rigid tap to complete the job in one handling. A Traub A-32 or 5C collet chuck can be used for workholding, and a 5"-diameter, three-jaw hydraulic chuck is available for larger work.


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The appearance of one's rectum after fisting. The internal tissue pulls out beyond the sphincter muscle. The bright red to pinkish tissue looks like a rosebud.
That dude takes alot of fists up his ass- check out that rosebud.
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the act of pushing the anus out so it comes completely out and looks like a big pink flower, or ROSEBUD
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The asshole of a gay male who bottomsfrequently. The internal tissue swells and is pushed outward from the sphincter muscle so as to resemble a rosebud.
Bruce must love taking it up the ass judging from that rosebud that pops out every time he bends over.
додав dicklicker 23 Травня 2003
inflamed asshole rosebud
gay john's boyfriend loves his rose bud
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The cheat in The Sims that gives you $1000-2000 each time you use it. Add several ;'s to the end of it and hold enter to get heaps of cash.
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + C = Cheat Box.
Enter "rosebud;;;;;;;;" into Cheat Box.
Enter "rosebud;;;;;;;;" into Cheat Box.
додав Tim XYZ 29 Вересня 2003
when the bum hole is puckered it looks just like a rosebud.
While I was licking maria's bum hole it puckered into a perfect looking rosebud.
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an anal prolapse, usually caused by the repeated insertion of oversized objects, such as fists.
Fisterbob's rosebud is no ordinary nosegay.
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The Hatter Baseball Mid Florida Showcase Camp at Stetson University is a great way for players to get a head start on the upcoming season.
The Hatter Baseball Mid Florida Showcase Camp at Stetson University will provide advancement in a players' game, teach specific baseball skills, allow players to work with highly qualified coaches and get exposure to coaches from various colleges & universities.
The Hatter Baseball Mid Florida Showcase Camp at Stetson University has been developed as an instructional baseball experience. College coaches from D1, D2, NAIA and JUCO will teach the skills necessary to reach the collegiate playing level. Players will have the opportunity to meet with members of the coaching staff one-on-one and spend two days learning from and being evaluated by them.
This showcase camp is open to players from the ninth to 12th grade as well as junior college players who want to improve their baseball skills and get exposed to multiple colleges. If you are interested in this then this is the camp for you.
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HOLLIDAYSBURG - Blair County commissioners agreed Tuesday to consider six bids for Valley View Home, ranging from $12 million to the highest bid of $16.1 million from a Brooklyn-based management company.
Commissioners Terry Tomassetti and Diane Meling said Tuesday that they were pleased with the response and surprised by the amounts.
"We're at figures now that I thought we'd be at after the second round," Tomassetti said.
"[A bid of] $16.1 million was more than I ever expected," Meling said.
Because of the way the bidding process is structured, commissioners are under no obligation to sell the home to the highest bidder.
"It's not just the price. There are other factors involved," Solicitor Nathan Karn said.
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Bids for Valley View
The bidders for Valley View Home that are under consideration and the amount they bid are:
- TL Management LLC, Brooklyn, N.Y., $16.1 million
- Reliant Senior Care Management Inc., Philadelphia, $14.2 million
- Altitude Health Services Inc., Evanston, Ill., $14.2 million
- Nationwide HC Services LLC, Brick, N.J., $13.5 million
- Complete HC Resources, Dresher, Pa., $12.55 million
- Aurora Health Management LLC, Millersville, Md., $12 million
Blair County commissioners decided not to consider bids from the following companies for the reasons noted:
- Zenith Health Care, Cedarhurst, N.Y., $14 million; declined to commit to maintaining Valley View as a nursing facility through 2023.
- Madison Healthcare Management, Brooklyn, N.Y., $14 million; failed to include the required $150,000 bid bond.
- Absolut Care Facilities Management, Roslyn Heights, N.Y., $12.2 million; decline to recognize any existing employees union.
Through the Chicago real estate investment firm of Marcus & Millichap, commissioners required all bidders to reply to a request for proposals that would include information about the bidders' experience in nursing home operations, their foreseeable plans for Valley View and their willingness to meet specific requests from the county.
Because the responses include information that is subject to negotiation, the responses are not considered public documents under current Pennsylvania law.
Commissioners, however, have the responses and may be ready for a discussion on Tuesday that could mean asking specific bidders for more information or even selecting finalists in the bidding process.
Valley View employees said they were saddened and disappointed with the commissioners' decision to take another step toward selling the home.
"Our stance has been, and will continue to be, that we are opposed to selling Valley View, and believe our seniors are best served by keeping the home public," certified nurse's aide Sharon Pope said.
Valley View employees, represented by the Service Employees International Union Healthcare, started working against the sale in October and collected 4,000 names on petitions in favor of retaining the home.
Tomassetti, who supports the sale, maintains that the home is a financial liability for the county and its taxpayers. He predicts that selling it to a private entity will put the home in a position for additional enhancements, which lead to growth and more jobs.
Commissioners eliminated three of the nine bidders that responded to the RFP. In one case, Madison Healthcare Management of Brooklyn, N.Y., failed to submit the required $150,000 bid bond.
Commissioners also agreed to exclude Zenith Health Care of Cedarhurst, N.Y., whose response indicated that it would not agree to maintain Valley View as a nursing facility through 2023, and Absolut Care Facilities Management of Roslyn Heights, N.Y., which said it would not recognize any existing unions at the home.
Of the remaining six bidders, Karn said commissioners may find some responses with which they don't agree, but nothing so significant that disqualifies those bids.
"Nobody could respond perfectly," Karn said.
The high bidder, TL Management LLC, has no website. Its bid was submitted by Rosenbaum & Associates of South Salem, N.Y. When contacted Tuesday, TL Management could offer no one to speak about its bid for Blair County's 240-bed home.
The company was in the news in 2011, when it paired up with Global Healthcare Services Group of Howell, N.J., to offer $35 million for the 725-bed Gracedale Nursing Home in Northampton County. That proposed sale fell through when a citizens group in the home rule county successfully petitioned Commonwealth Court to put the sale question before voters, and voters said no.
Mirror Staff Writer Kay Stephens is at 946-7456.


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Should have been against the Penguins purely to show them what class looks like.
Then Crosby might have to actually, y'know, shake Lidstrom's hand.
Anyway, what's more interesting to me is trying to predict which random, obscure Wings alumni will be present at the retirement ceremony? Y'know, that guy you'd even forgotten was a Wing. Kyle Calder? Matt Ellis? Sheldon Kennedy? GMR is usually good at this kind of game.


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8 Inexcusable Behaviors on Public Transportation: Part 2
The Offensively Unbelievable Panhandlers
In most cities, and certainly New York, it's against the law to beg and panhandle on the subway. There are signs directing passengers to give to established charities and not to these individuals. Also, there is definitely a certain percentage of panhandlers who are not in need of assistance. Who beg for money as a source of income, playing on the heartstrings of passengers trapped in close proximity. Nevertheless, I know there has to be a certain percentage of people actually starving. I'm not talking about them. I'm only addressing the con artists. How do you separate the two? Because so many are soooo bad at it, and they're the ones I find most offensive. If you're going to pretend that begging and conning is a job, then at least be good at it.
Yeah, I'm talking to you, kid with a box of M&Ms. We all know you're not actually trying to raise money for your basketball team's tournament. And older dude, we don't care that you don't take drugs. You're not supposed to be a drug addict. You don't get hand-outs simply for not spending it on meth.
But perhaps the worst offender was a woman I saw a few years ago who actually tucked her shirt into her sweatpants and then begged for money for herself and for her unborn child. Seriously? You want money for that level of ingenuity? If you're trying to defraud me at lease invest in a pillow because presently you're carrying the only baby who could be aborted with the old "shirt's on fire, now it's out" trick.
The "Ooh too loud" Finger Stuffers
Hey, guess what. Subways are loud. They're underground. They have brakes. And sometimes those brakes screech and echo. Know what you do when that happens? Nothing. It's screeching subway brakes the way God intended. Do you know what you look like when you stick your fingers in your ears and make some sour lemon face about the god-awful racket you have to endure? This.
You look like this:
Well, not really, but you don't look good.
The I Have No Situational Awareness That I'm Louder than Everyone Else On The Train
Many of you suggested cell phone users and drunks. Both good suggestions and I'd like to open that up to a larger category: people who have absolutely no conception or no concern for just how loud they're being. Rule of thumb: if you're more then five feet from me, I shouldn't be able to hear you. I don't care about the party or the boss or your kids or whatever Sheila said to Deborah about that thing Nancy told her. Or how about the times the car is completely silent. No one is talking. All you can hear is the soothing racketa racketa of the tracks and then one person starts talking. Loudly.
Side note. Some of the worst offenders? German tourists. Holy hell. First off, quick question Germans: why is that no matter what season you visit, you wear expensive shorts, large construction boots with wool socks, and aviator glasses. Is this standard issue or is there only one lone camping/Land's End type store in Germany? But fashion aside, who knew Aryans were so loud? I always thought Hitler was screaming in those old news clips because he was trying to inspire nationalistic fury. Maybe he was just trying to be heard on downtown 9?
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quote: It's getting funny... These days, we cant even have a single article about Samsung or Google, with out you coming in trying to change the subject to Apple and posting some totally unrelated link. Article: "Samsung did this"... You come in: "Ya but Apple"... Article: "Google CEO says this" You come in: "Ya but Apple"... And this is interesting "Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple... Apple, Apple............... Apple. " Oh really? Well that is just as interesting as it was yesterday and the day before, and the day before, and the day before (fading out) and the day before, and the day before (faded out completely). Tony, left standing in a field, all alone: "But.... Apple"
quote: You really need to get a life man.
quote: That's right.. I am on your case. You keep on with your campaign of disinformation, I will keep on posting counter to it. I've been coming here alot longer than you and I will be here long after you give up.


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WASHINGTON - Here are some of the run-ups to the current fiscal crisis threatening to rip holes in the fabric of American life and security as we know it:
A plunge over an imagined "fiscal cliff" is averted at the 11th hour, only to encounter a manufactured "sequester" promising to take bring the federal government to its knees.
On the eve of this trumpeted calamity, Congress goes home for the weekend.
In doing so, it follows the example of the President of the United States, just back from a weekend in sunny Florida playing golf with Tiger Woods.
In the spirit of good will, House Speaker John Boehner delicately tells the president and the Senate to get "off their ass" to break the impasse. He does so even as Obama is busy hyping his case for higher taxes on the rich, and painting firemen, policemen and other first responders as tied to the tracks by Republicans as an train approaches.
For comic relief, the First Lady of the United States takes time off to present the Oscar for the year's best motion picture at the Academy Awards ceremony, via the magic of modern electronics. And the Oscar for playing first lady goes to ... Michelle!
It all makes one yearn for another revival of Anthony Newley's 1961 musical, "Stop the World - I Want to Get Off." Or, better yet, the later lyrics by Randy Stonehill:
Well, it's OK to murder babies
But we really ought to save the whales
We're putting criminals in office
'Cause it's getting too crowded in jails
And we could pull the nation out of debt
For what we spend on locks and keys
Even suburbia is under attack
They're all buying handguns
Trying to fight back
There's a vigilante picnic in the cul de sac
This is too weird for me
I've just got to find a planet
Where they're interested in sanity
It's not that the President and Congress haven't been working to find a way out of the continuing fiscal mess. The nation's chief executive called in the leaders of both parties in the House and Senate on Friday for a last-ditch powwow that turned out to be a transparent fig leaf over the whole dysfunctional charade of government in action.
Boehner came out of the White House meeting reporting the House would offer a continuing resolution to kick the debt-ceiling issue down the road. But again he dug in against any further tax increases, reiterating that Obama got them in the previous go-around and it was now time to go after the deep spending cuts.
The president in his press conference immediately afterward also dug in, repeating his demand for further taxes to balance any such cuts. He expressed confidence that the country would get through the present "bottleneck," though not without pain to the middle class.
Again he set himself up as its champion and protector, arguing that there were other important issues that had to go forward in such areas as immigration and education reform and further gun control, without delving into specifics. In all, he projected a picture of presidential self-assurance that in the end compromise would out. He gave every indication of believing that his re-election would give him his way.
Both Obama and Boehner observed that this mutual recalcitrance was no way for the government to function. If anything, the president sounded a bit too confident that the congressional Republicans would allow a resolution of other contentious issues to go forward while fight over the sequester - the across-the-board mandatory budget cuts - dragged on.
Obama seemed satisfied too that the longer it lasted, the more the political blame would stick to the Republicans, particularly its House majority that continues to be his prime bete noire. At the same time, though, the seeming ho-hum attitude reflected by his golfing holiday amid this crisis and his wife's segue into celebrity could risk some public backlash.
There's nothing in the Constitution prohibiting the First Family from having fun. But when the middle class is feeling pain and is promised more to come, it may be time for a brief time-out.
- Jules Witcover's latest book is Joe Biden: A Life of Trial and Redemption" (William Morrow). You can respond to this column at email@example.com.


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Gun issue dwarfs abortion concerns
August 10, 2013
Editor: Save Our Children? California Sen. Diannne Feinstein is proposing an AR-style rifle ban while ignoring school security to save our children. Yet in this 40th anniversary of Roe vs....
Pure, pity liberals' children. Liberals only show compassion to those who will 'agree' with their views on everything. They care little to nothing for anyone else and their plight. And that is not being compassionate at all. It shows in their personal attacks and intense hatred of anything or anyone that goes against their own personal opinions or ideals. They like to attempt to control people and things around them. Just like little children who cannot have their own way; they act accordingly. Remarkably similar acts of 'tantrums' and turning blue. I suspect that is why OldBlue calls him/her/it--self by that name. But hey, I 'could' be wrong. Not likely though. lol.
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Oh yeah, listening to a radical simple-minded woman like Feinstein is always good for a laugh or two. How pathetic. THis woman is as stupid as Pelosi.
Now she's 'pretending' she's not thrilled with Obamacare. I notice a lot of democrats are pretending the closer they get to election day!
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Oh so Nelly now speaks for all liberals? LOL. You liberals just keep proving what simpletons you are.
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Murder is illegal. Murder of ANYONE; and that includes unborn BABIES!
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Nice try liberals; didn't work though. Bwahahahaha............
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News Flash to liberals who can't read or comprehend HISTORICAL FACTS:
On the 2nd Amendment.....General and President George Washington did NOT use his right to free speech to defeat the British---he SHOT them!
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Radical Progressive Democrats opinion on gun control is;
The "theory" that a woman found dead in an alley, raped & strangled with her own pantyhose...is 'somehow' morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound!
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ANd democrats hate it when you REMIND them of this:
On April 19, 1775, An English 'attempt' to confiscate guns from Americans triggered a SUCCESSFUL Revolution!! (Something Democrats WISH we'd all forget!)
ANd don't forget these words from Japan:
"I would never invade the United States. There would be a gun behind every blade of grass." ---Isoroku Yamamoto, JAPAN
Democrats KNOW they cannot CONTROL the people as long as they OWN their own weapons. Democrats' anti-gun antics have NOTHING to do with saving lives and EVERYTHING to do with controlling YOU!
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Liberals hate it when you REMIND THEM OF THIS:
The "Experts" agree---Gun Control WOrks! Just look at history....HITLER, STALIN, CASTRO, QADDAFI, MAO TSE-TUNG, POL POT, KIM JONG-IL.....and now OBAMA!!! DICTATORS!
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How very strange that radical liberals don't believe in 'executing' murderers, rapists.....yet have NO problem executing innocent and defenseless little 6 pound crying, screaming babies. Wow; aren't you liberals real brave!!
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So, Puremagix, now you speak, not only for God, but for all conservatives as well.
It was Bill Clinton and the Democrats who changed and improved the criteria for welfare qualification. It has always been the conservatives who block and obstruct progressive governmental involvement in poverty programs; and yet, it is the Red States which demand and derive the most federal assistance.
Your comments about abortion do not deserve a response.
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Abortion is a personal and private choice and it is legal. For those hypocrites whose only concern is one issue which provokes drama and gets GOP votes, I suggest a change of focus. It is the religious right who begrudge help and assistance to the poor and needy and vote to stop government assistance. Shame on all of you.
James 2:14-18
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
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One day ALL will stand ALL ALONE, by themselves, and be JUDGED by GOD HIMSELF for murdering His children. What WILL you have to say then? I doubt any of you will be so arrogant and sarcastic and so apathetic about a child's life then. Pity you! Because He takes abortion (murdering) a whole lot more seriously than the murderers do.
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I remember your saying that your family received government assistance when you were growing up, Puremagix. Perhaps you are over-compensating for this. In any event, it is you and your insular way of life which gives you such uninformed opinions.
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OK, Puremagix, according to your contorted logic, "...it is primarily liberals who take advantage of abortions, not conservatives. True conservatives would never kill their unborn child. It goes against their religious beliefs. Liberals on the other hand have no morals, so it means nothing to them to kill their offspring.", then, it is only conservatives who have unplanned/unwanted children, depend on welfare and need food stamps to feed their children. Right?
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TruthSeeker, supply a source for your claim...otherwise, you are just making stuff up.
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Abortionists murder more children than guns!!! FACT! A FACT that just makes liberals' heads start popping. TRUTH is a liberals' enemy!
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Again, Puremagix, you are fact free. The Hyde Amendment prohibits taxpayer funding for abortions. Wiki excerpt: In U.S. politics, the Hyde Amendment is a legislative provision barring the use of certain federal funds to pay for abortions with exceptions for incest and rape. It is not a permanent law, rather it is a "rider" that, in various forms, has been routinely attached to annual appropriations bills since 1976. The Hyde Amendment applies only to funds allocated by the annual appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services. It primarily affects Medicaid.
The original Hyde Amendment was passed on September 30, 1976 by the House of Representatives, by a 207-167 vote.
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Unless you live alone on an island, Puremagix, you know a woman who has had an abortion. Four in ten unintended pregnancies end in abortion. Info from Guttmacher Institute:
A broad cross section of U.S. women have abortions: 58% are in their 20s; 61% have one or more children; 56% are unmarried and not cohabiting; 69% are economically disadvantaged; and 73% report a religious affiliation.
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And like it or not, Puremagix, abortion is legal and is a Constitutionally protected right as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States - Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton, 1973. The ruling was made based on the right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.
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As always, Puremagix, your comments are offensive, ignorant and misinformed.
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Ah, yes, a Two-Fer for all of those extremist right wingers who can't focus on any other issues...anti-choice and pro-guns. The RW fails to see the irony. And, we've got Puremagix who can't be satisfied with just two knee jerk dramas...he wants to dig up the old John Birch boogey-man, floride.
It's unfortunate that The Intermountain has to resort to a Letter to the Editor written by a California voter who has a beef with his Senator.
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The Buckhannon Rotary Club heard about the vision Gene Thorn, a wildlife biologist at the West Virginia State Wildlife Center in French Creek, has for the future of the facility.
Thorn has worked as a wildlife biologist for 29 years with the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources in the wildlife resources section. He is currently the wildlife biologist in charge of the WVSWC.
"I have a bigger broader vision for the Wildlife Center than what's been there in the past," Thorn said, adding that his No. 1 goal is to establish a visitor's center at the facility.
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Gene Thorn, wildlife biologist for the West Virginia State Wildlife Center in French Creek, speaks to Rotary about his visions for the future of the state's zoological facility.
Thorn said the visitors center he envisions would have aquariums, wildlife museums and a movie theater that could show the history of the Wildlife Center and to teach about the different wildlife there. The gift shop could move to the proposed visitors center as well.
Thorn said a visitor's center could cost up to $5 million.
"It's major money," Thorn said. "These (visitor centers) are a central part to any area that people go to. They learn about it, and then go out in the area and experience it."
Thorn also said he would like to add another porcupine exhibit and build another picnic and pavilion area. He said porcupines have been crossing the border from Pennsylvania to West Virginia and are now native to the state. He added that elk have been crossing into the state from Kentucky.
Thorn said that he thinks the Wildlife Center will need to re-establish a foundation to accomplish those goals.
"I think there's so many people in this area that are invested in the Wildlife Center," Thorn said. "We have to work on a strategy of how to get that done outside of state budget limitations."
The budget for the Wildlife Center has remained largely unchanged while costs continue to rise. Thorn said that repairs and additions to the Wildlife Center have to be made individually as funds permit. He told the Rotarians that the Wildlife Center once had a foundation of organizations and businesses that were dedicated to the future of the state's zoological facility, but the foundation no longer exists.
Thorn hopes to establish that foundation again. He said anyone interested in participating in a foundation can contact the WVSWC at 304-924-5370.
The foundation would help to support the Wildlife Center's growth. Thorn said that animal food has nearly quadrupled in cost since 1986, and that he has fed some of the animals with road-kill deer. He said the center processes about 400 of those annually. It helps to curb the growing expense of food and to clean the streets.
"But that still adds to its cost because we run around all over Upshur County picking those up," Thorn said. "All these costs have basically egged the budget up to the point where we really can't build extra things."
Thorn also updated Rotarians about the damage to the Wildlife Center from Superstorm Sandy. He said a fence company was notified Tuesday that it could proceed with the repairs. Thorn said staff has been cleaning debris from pens for about 89 days now.
"Almost all of our pens were damaged in some way," Thorn said, adding that no mammals were lost or injured, although an extensive number of birds escaped.
A golden eagle was among the birds lost. Thorn said it would take a good deal of effort to replace all the birds that were lost. Some of the birds already had wing injuries and could not have flown away. All birds that come into the Wildlife Center are rehabilitation birds from the West Virginia Raptor Rehabilitation Center or the Three Rivers Avian Center.
"We never really know where we're going to have to go to get the next one," Thorn said.
Although the species of birds at the Wildlife Center are native to West Virginia, the birds that come into the Wildlife Center could be from around the nation.
The only animal that cannot be found in the state, but has lived at the Wildlife Center was Gus the Lion. Gus came to the Wildlife Center as a cub from the Smithsonian after a contribution of other animals native to West Virginia were previously given to them from the WVSWC.
About 260 animals currently reside at the Wildife Center, accounting for more than 30 species.


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by Ryan Sterry, Denise Brusveen, Victor Cabrera, Kent Weigel, and Paul Fricke
Sterry and Brusveen are agriculture agents with UW-Extension Polk County and Sauk County, respectively. Cabrera is an assistant professor, Department of Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Weigel is assistant professor, extension genetics specialist, University of Wisconsin programs administrator, and a National Association of Animal Breeders geneticist. Fricke is associate professor and extension specialist in dairy reproduction, Department of Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Nearly 350 producers and heifer growers shared thoughts on sexed semen.Follow-up research looked at its on-farm payback.
he technology to produce sexed semen has been around for decades. But, it was not until recently that commercial application became a reality.
We know that the sex-sorting technology can reliably raise the percentage of heifer calves to over 90 percent in many cases. But, the downside is a significant reduction in fertility. While researchers are still hashing out the best places to use sexed semen and the economics involved with the product, we wanted to get a better perspective on producers' value of the product.
Last winter, 17 Wisconsin Extension ag agents distributed a survey on the use of sexed semen. A total of 347 surveys were returned. Responses received reflected the state's distribution of herd sizes. Of the completed surveys, there were 309 dairy farmers and 38 custom heifer growers.
Who is using sexed semen, and where are they getting it?
Nearly half of those surveyed purchased sexed semen from Select Sires, while similar proportions (10 to 15 percent) buy it from Accelerated Genetics, Genex, and ABS. Semex, Alta, and other studs rounded out the group. Far more heifer growers, nearly two-thirds, are using sexed semen compared to only 39 percent of dairy farmers. Nearly half of the dairy farmers surveyed have never tried sexed semen versus 30 percent of heifer growers . . . 8 percent in each group tried it but discontinued use.
It was important for us to know which studs producers were purchasing sexed semen from because, at the time of our survey, Accelerated Genetics was marketing a gender-biased product which results in a smaller increase in the percentage of female calves but does not compromise fertility.
Why are people using sexed semen?
Nearly two-thirds of dairy producers surveyed plan to grow their herds over the next five years, while one-third plan to maintain herd size. Of those planning to boost cow numbers, 12 percent plan to grow their herd over 50 percent, one-third plan to add 10 to 50 percent to their current herd size, and 21 percent plan to boost cow numbers 1 to 10 percent. When asked the number one reason for using sexed semen, nearly half (48 percent) said that it was to expand the herd from within. The second most important reason was to produce more females from their best cows (24 percent).
What was the selection criteria?
Service number was the number one criteria at 30 percent. Not far behind was genetic merit of female (29 percent), followed by type of breeding - detected heat versus timed A.I. at 15 percent.
For optimum results, sperm-sorted sexed semen is best used on first-service, virgin heifers in good standing heat. A high percentage of producers are using sexed semen on both first and second service for both heifers and cows. It is important to note that, while producers are experimenting with sexed semen on their lactating cows, it is used on only a small percentage, less than 25 percent, of their cows.
What was their satisfaction level?
Farmers using sexed semen were asked to rank their satisfaction level on a scale of 1 (very dissatisfied) to 5 (very satisfied). Farmers were most satisfied (3.87) with the percentage of female calves born. Intermediate satisfaction levels were achieved for conception rate (3.10) and sire availability (3.09). The biggest dissatisfaction with sexed semen came from the higher price (2.92).
What were reasons for discontinuing its use?
Many producers (42 percent) had reasons other than semen price, dissatisfaction with sex ratio, or poor fertility for discontinuing the use of sexed semen. Nearly one-third (31 percent), though, quit because of poor fertility.
Does it pay?
After the survey, we calculated the economic value (EV) of reproduction programs for virgin heifers. This was assessed as the difference between the net present value (NPV) of conventional, unsexed semen and various sexed semen programs.
The NPV was calculated by totaling the discounted monetary values of successive services in virgin heifers starting at 14 months of age. We also considered the discounted value of the probability a heifer could be culled and replaced if not pregnant after five consecutive services.
The cost of conventional and sexed semen, including insemination fees, was set at $15 and $45, respectively. Heifer calf value was considered to be $562, and bull calves were $48. The maintenance of nonpregnant 1,114-pound heifers 15 to 20 months of age was set to $2.40 per day. The culling value of 20-month open heifers was 81 cents per pound, while the replacement value of an equal weight pregnant heifer was $1,200. An annual interest rate of 12 percent was used for discounting purposes.
A baseline conception rate (CR) for heifers was set between 65 percent (high) and 55 percent (low). The CR for sexed semen was 52 percent (high) and 27.5 percent (low). CR dropped 2.5 percent for each successive service after the first service. Resulting live births were set at 46.7 percent females with conventional semen and 87 percent with sexed.
Five semen programs were studied. These programs used sexed semen in one, two, three, four, and all five services, along with simply conventional semen.
It pays, but . . .
Based on our model, sexed semen programs have an economic benefit but only if the CR of sexed semen service is high (80 percent of the conventional).
When both CR of conventional and sexed semen were high (65 percent and 52 percent, respectively), the economic value of the reproductive programs was always positive, varying between $27 (five sexed services) and $77 (two sexed services).
When the conventional CR was low (55 percent), but the sexed semen was high (44 percent), the EV were again positive but lower than before, varying between $3 and $54. Programs with two, three, and one sexed services outperformed the four and five services programs.
When the CR of sexed semen services was low (32.5 and 27.5 percent, respectively), the EV of sexed semen was always negative, indicating that a conventional reproductive program will be more profitable. The negative spread widened as sexed semen was used for additional services.
Run your own numbers
Sexed semen programs will greatly depend on the particular farm and market conditions. To help you out, we have created a web-based tool that allows A.I. users to estimate the returns on sexed semen. The tool is free of charge and can be used directly from a web browser at the following website: www.uwex.edu/ces/dairymgt/ under the section "Management Tools" and title "Economic Value of Sexed Semen Programs."


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McLennan County has higher incarceration rate than Russia
Sorry for the stray fact in that headline, but if you've read this far you may be interested.
I followed a lot of statistical rabbit trails putting together our Sunday editorial on new criminal justice laws in Texas. Nothing was as fascinating as incarceration rates in looking at who we are as a state (as contrasted with where we're going).
A starting point is a global look at incarceration rates, which shows the United States comfortably on top, so to speak. The only other world power in the top ten, Russia, is still a good distance away, statistically.
Here are the top 10 world incarceration rates (per 100,000 population), compiled by the International Centre for Prison Studies:
United States … 716
Seychelles … 709
St. Kitts and Nevis … 701
Virgin Islands (USA) … 539
Cuba … 510
Rwanda … 492
Anguilla (UK) … 487
Russian Federation … 479
Belize … 476
Virgin Islands (UK) … 460
For perspective, nearly all Western European nations are below 200, with Austria, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany and and the Scandinavian countries below 100.
We highlighted this country's over-the-top incarceration in another recent editorial, this time on the "drug gulag," and Eric Holder's decision not to pursue cases against low-level offenders.
That takes us to the state-by-state incarceration rates, and two sources for that are a report by the Sentencing Project, which uses statistics collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics in its latest count, Prisoners in 2011.
The top ten states in incarceration rates:
Louisiana … 865
Mississippi … 690
Alabama … 650
Texas … 632
Oklahoma … 631
Arizona … 589
Georgia … 547
Arkansas … 544
Florida … 538
Missouri … 512
Hence, the statement in our Sunday editorial that Texas' incarceration rate towers over most nations on the planet. That's also true of the other "top" states, but someone else will have to worry about Missouri and them.
That takes us down to county statistics, and I was delighted to find incarceration rates compiled by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards.
So, keeping up the top 10 theme, here are the top county incarceration rates (per 100,000 population):
Kenedy … 2,324
McMullen … 1,803
Hudspeth … 551
Refugio … 484
McLennan … 480
Gregg … 476
Caldwell … 453
Ector … 448
Limestone … 447
Young … 423
Poor Kenedy and McMullen counties — and some of the rest of them — have such little population that one big Saturday night arrest at the roadhouse can push those incarceration rates whacky.
But McLennan (Waco), Gregg (Longview) and Ector (Odessa) counties are different. Their incarceration rates might cause taxpayers to wonder whether there isn't a smarter way to house suspects pre-trial and sentence those convicted on jail-able offenses.
Counties of similar size manage to operate with far smaller rates of incarceration. Seems to me this would leave incumbent DA's in McLennan and the other counties vulnerable on whether they're doing right by the taxpayers.
A district attorney shouldn't be able to use a mere "tough on crime claim" to explain a jail population that's off the charts. McLennan County, you'll notice, has an incarceration rate higher than the Russian Federation's.
The times are demanding being smarter than that, since business groups and the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation are questioning swollen incarceration rates.
So how does the McLennan County DA turn this around and campaign on these figures?
How about this: "District Attorney Abel Reyna — tougher than Vladimir Putin"
(NOTE: Here are other county incarceration rates: Dallas, 259; Collin, 115; Tarrant, 179; Denton, 175; Harris, 218. Loving and Hartley counties had a rate of zero.)


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Altoona-State College has developed into one of the area's best high school sports rivalries over the years and, anytime the Mountain Lions are victorious over the Little Lions, it's considered a good night.
Just ask Altoona wrestling coach Joel Gilbert, whose Mountain Lion grapplers held off State, 42-36, Tuesday night at the Altoona Area Junior High School gym.
"It's always special to win over a program like State College," Gilbert said. "They have a very historic program, a lot of great wrestlers every year, and, to beat them is always a feather in our cap.
"I'm real happy with tonight's performance."
Gilbert said the Mountain Lions wrestled tough Tuesday.
"We had some tough matches against some good wrestlers and, for the most part, our guys went out and did the job and got the win," Gilbert said.
The match started with the 195-pound bout and Altoona bolted to an 18-0 lead when Mante Barnes (195), Jacob Scheinberg (220) and Austin Rosenberry (285) all pinned their opponents.
"We have a nice group of kids at the upper weights," Gilbert said. "Jake Scheinberg is only a sophomore and he did the job, along with Austin Rosenberry and Mante Barnes, both seniors.
"Those three guys are nice to have, and they gave us a boost tonight."
D.J. Hollingshead (132) and T. J. Brandt (138) continued their solid seasons with victories, too. Hollingshead notched a 13-3 major and Brandt followed with a pin at 3:14.
"Those two guys are as good as anyone in the state, without a doubt," Gilbert said. "They're tough wrestlers."
SC coach Chad Dubin said, without hesitation, that a forfeit at 113 pounds was the difference in the outcome of the match.
"We lost at the scales," Dubin said. "It was a tough battle, and we just barely lost."
Altoona junior Dan Querry was awarded the forfeit at 113, and the six points gave Altoona a 24-6 lead.
"We had a kid who didn't make weight," Dubin said. "Other than that, I thought everybody wrestled pretty consistently. There were a couple guys who probably shouldn't have given up bonus points - they might not have been expecting or favored to win - but they could have fought a little harder.
"Not giving up bonus points could have made a difference."
The SC coach was referring to bouts at 132 and 170. Altoona's Hollingshead recorded a major decision at 132 and Markief Knode won by technical fall, 15-0, in 2:52 at 170.
State took its first and only lead of the night, 36-34, when Alexander Stover pinned Phil Dillen at 160 pounds. Knode's tech fall reclaimed the lead for Altoona, and sophomore Trent Kephart sealed the deal for the Mountain Lions with an 8-2 win in the final bout of the night at 182.
"Overall, I thought the match went the way I thought it would go," Gilbert said. "Trent Kephart gutted one out at the end - an 8-2 decision - and I was real happy with him."
195-Barnes, A, pinned Levis, 1:28; 220-J. Scheinberg, A, pinned Alvarez, 3:40; 285-Rosenberry, A, pinned Kusmierz, :58; 106-Catral, SC, pinned Bryan, 2:54; 113-Querry, A, won by forfeit; 120-Sills, SC, won by forfeit; 126-Haun, SC, won by forfeit.
132-Hollingshead, A, maj. dec. Kauffman, 13-3; 138-Brandt, A, pinned Holden, 3:14; 145-Horner, SC, pinned Rodgers, 2:23; 152-Price, SC, pinned N. Scheinberg, 3:21; 160-Stover, SC, pinned Dillen, 2:23; 170-Knode, A, tech. fall Fremberg, 15-0, 2:52; 182-Kephart, A, dec. Vandervort, 8-2.
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Volunteer Branwen Stenger of Mount Pleasant helps clear sand from buried sea turtle nests Thursday on Cape Island.
CAPE ISLAND -- Sarah Dawsey has not smiled all week. Not since Hurricane Irene on Aug. 26 tore to pieces the critical island for sea turtle nesting just as the season's eggs were hatching.
She pivots an ATV around the shreds of a maritime forest on Cape Island, across a thin strip of remaining beach that was secondary dunes before Irene. She is headed to the dune hatchery where the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service relocates sea turtle nests that are in jeopardy of being swamped by tides. She and a crew of three, two of them volunteers, are on their way to dig out those nests and wild nests nearby.
The nests were buried under a welt of storm-washed sand so thick and deep it would smother the hatchlings as they struggled their way free.
It's Thursday, the fourth day in a row of hot, strenuous shovel work and delicate hand-over-hand clearing. The work has been rushed like triage to clean each nest in the order its eggs are expected to hatch, before the hatchlings "pip," or break open the eggs.
For a lot of people, the worst damage Irene did in South Carolina was to tear up the Charleston County park on Folly Beach. For Dawsey, the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge manager, there's no comparison. Irene did her worst on Cape, "by far the most important island for sea turtles," she said.
Year-in and year-out, the six-mile-long strip of sand holds more than 1,000 sea turtle nests -- one-third of all the sea turtle nests from North Carolina to Georgia. Some 200 to 300 of the island's nests have been washed away. Even worse, a mile of beach has been lost to nesting, and long stretches of remaining nesting dunes have been flattened. The dock pier is collapsed. Tide swallows the ATV path from that sole usable landing.
As Dawsey turns onto the beach, you can look to the south and see the first of three new breach inlets, which cut apart the island even at low tide. It really isn't one island anymore. The ATV can't cross the inlets. The crew already tried to earlier this week. Only the last of those three isolated strands can be reached now, by beaching the johnboat behind the island.
As the ATV rumbles along, Shannon Teders, a marine biologist for the S.C. Aquarium who is volunteering to help, gasps in dismay at lost dunes.
"Oh, wow. It's gone. It looks like a completely different island," she said.
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Dawsey grew up in McClellanville and knew where she wanted to be from the first day she set foot on Cape Island, about five miles out to sea from the town, the far edge of the refuge. For 25 years, she has been responsible for the place.
She started as a Fish and Wildlife bio-technician. She became the biologist for the maze of salt marsh and remote barrier islands of the refuge that makes up more than 20 miles of the coast north of Charleston. Even now, as manager, she remains the refuge's sole biologist by default: A federal hiring freeze has stymied hiring a new one.
"She's softspoken. She's stoic. She's one of the hardest workers I've ever seen," Teders said.
This place is Dawsey's watch. The nesting beach is now strewn with "wrack" -- shanks of wood pieces, straw and debris covering the sandlike mulch. It's up to her, the few staffers and a rotating cadre of volunteers to clean what they can from the nests and keep it going.
She drives mostly without speaking. She pauses to eye the points where the tide broke through what is left of the dunes to wash into the marsh on the back side. She has long known Cape is slipping away to the inevitable creep of sea water. But, as she would say later, she didn't expect it to happen all at once.
Nobody knows what losing the island would do to the recovering population of the beloved loggerhead species and other sea turtles. Fish and Wildlife and volunteer crews work throughout the spring-to-fall season to protect nests, moving the ones they have to, wire caging all of them to protect them from raccoons and minks whose paw prints routinely track by.
The sands shift on barrier islands, that's a given. A stretch of what was Cape Island is now Lighthouse Island behind it, washed across by Hurricane Bertha in 1996.
The hope is the turtles migrate with the sands. But not enough research has been done to know how well they do. Sea turtles have an uncanny homing instinct; they will lay their eggs on or near the beaches where they hatched, a quarter-century and more later.
And at least for the immediate future, it's more likely they will nest closer and closer on the remaining Cape Island beach, crowding more hatches at more risk to predators or overwash. That's not going to help a species now thought to be on the brink of recovery.
"The habitat will certainly shift, and the turtles will adapt," Dawsey said. "Our job is to keep up the immediate productivity."
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The hatchery is a series of workman's piping and wire mesh cages set among the highest, surest dunes on the island's north end. This season it has held some 375 relocated nests.
With the overwash from Irene, the hatchery is now in jeopardy with no other good place to locate it. There's simply no sand dune left on much of the strip beach that rises more than a man's height. Turtles and hatchlings tend to follow the slope of the beach to lay nests or work their way to the ocean on hatching. Without dune slope, they don't always know which way to go. They can get stranded in the marsh just behind.
Earlier in the ride, there was a whoop from the ATV. Fish and Wildlife bio-technician Jerry Tupacz, a Georgetown retailer who works seasonally during turtle nesting, spotted the track of a single hatchling, a pattern of squiggles down a channel opened in the sand by thrashing flippers. It was the first he had seen all week, from a nest he cleared a few days earlier.
When they reach the hatchery, Tupacz is yelling, "Tracks! Tracks! Whoooooooo!" A wide swath of beach is crinkled with the herringbone patterns of tiny thrashing turtles and flippers, from nests already cleaned after the storm.
The crew will dig in and sweat for hours. They will free a loggerhead hatchling struggling in the sand, crawling in circles with a lame back flipper, a gouge from a crab bite in its head. There won't be much hope, but they will carry it to the tide wash. Branwen Stenger, a Mount Pleasant mom on her first trip as a volunteer, will get one of those lifetime thrills -- a chance to hold a baby sea turtle.
But for this moment, the stoic Dawsey stands on the beach looking at that pattern of tracks and does something she hasn't done all week. She smiles.
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This is part of an occasional series looking at how the coast and the ocean off the Lowcountry are changing, and what it means for a region where people have made a life and a living for generations in tune with the sea.For more stories from the series, go to postandcourier.com/livesonthesea.
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Derrick Williams sees the new pass-happy offense being played at Penn State under coach Bill O'Brien and can't help but be a little envious.
"When I saw they got Coach O'Brien, I said, 'I wish I could have been in this offense,'" Williams, who now lives in Hollidaysburg after retiring from the NFL, said with a little grin Thursday while helping out at a Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic youth football camp.
Williams had a solid receiving career and was a third-team AP All-American return specialist his senior year in 2008, but that's really not what he will be remembered for the most at Penn State.
He was rated the No. 1 player in the country coming out of high school, and the prized recruit took a chance on a Nittany Lion program dealing with turmoil after losing years in 2003 and '04.
The turmoil has been much greater the past two years at PSU, but Williams sees parallels in his decision to become a Nittany Lion and those decisions made by standout recruits Christian Hackenberg and Adam Breneman to stay committed despite NCAA sanctions and great uncertainty.
In both situations, Williams said, the allure of Penn State was still great, and the head coach made the biggest difference.
"With my decision, I had a powerful coach, a coach I believed in in Joe [Paterno]," Williams said. "Those guys have a coach in Coach O'Brien who's doing a heck of a job. If I was in that same position and if I had a coach other than Joe, Coach O'Brien had to be that guy. They have a good reason staying with him there."
Perhaps the biggest reason, Williams added, for kids to want to come to Penn State and play for O'Brien is his connections with the NFL.
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Williams has moved on from pro football after playing for the Detroit Lions in 2009 and '10, catching nine passes for 82 yards. He played for the Steelers during the preseason in 2012 but didn't make the team, and earlier this year he spent a brief time with the Toronto Argonauts in the Canadian Football League.
He now works in sales for Blair Companies, and this fall he expects to be doing pregame and postgame radio analysis for Penn State games.
This week's camp at Bishop Guilfoyle provided him a chance to come out and talk to younger players, which he loves doing. That was evident as he huddled up the kids and led them in some inspirational chants to get fired up before starting their drills.
"I think it means the world to these guys," BG coach Justin Wheeler said of having Williams at the camp. "When you're a young football player, probably every kid has the same dream of going to college and then going to the pros. So to get a chance to meet a guy who was in the NFL is just huge for these guys."
Williams said he still spends time at Penn State and around O'Brien when he can and said the new coach "makes me feel at home, just like when I was there with Joe."
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The Echo Art Fair, an annual sale of artwork by painters, photographers and sculptors from Western New York and beyond, will move to the Buffalo & Erie County Central Library for its third edition Sept. 7 and 8.
The move, announced Monday by Echo founder and local entrepreneur E. Frits Abell, will give the fair more space and bring a jolt of new cultural activity to downtown in late summer.
After last July's fair, held in the sweltering Larkin Center for Commerce, Abell decided to look for a larger and more amenable space for the event. Abell connected with the Central Library at the suggestion of Oishei Foundation Vice President Paul Hogan after a frustrating search through what he called a city of "quote-unquote vacant buildings" came up empty.
The fair will be held in a 25,000-square-foot space on the library's second floor, he said, adding that it is ideal for the mission of the growing art fair as well as for a library in the midst of a major transition.
"We met with them, and it was actually a godsend, because it fits perfectly in their new mission. It'll allow for the right size space as well as the right type of space," Abell said. "It'll be raw, it'll be cavernous, the electricity will work, there's good light. And I love, frankly, that it's being held in a beautiful midcentury building."
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Director Mary Jean Jakubowski said Echo's selection of the library as a venue is directly in line with the library's plans to become a cultural hub for the entire community. In a controversial process that grew out of budget constraints, the library consolidated all of its materials on its first floor and is in the process of turning the second floor – once home to stacks of books and reference materials – into office space for cultural organizations.
There was some asbestos abatement work to be done, Jakubowski said, before the library could "really create this space for arts and culturals, to bring people in and have exhibition space and whatnot. The fact that we were put together with Echo Art fits so perfectly with where we're going with this space."
The popular art fair, which began in 2010 in the Central Terminal and, by Abell's estimate, drew some 10,000 visitors last year, will include roughly 20 percent more exhibition space. Abell said he hopes that also means the fair will feature more artists and galleries than last year's fair, which hosted 28 individual artist booths and 15 galleries.
In an attempt to make the fair sustainable – the first two fairs did not break even – Abell said he will increase fees for individual booths to $500 for an 8-by-10-foot booth and $700 for an 8-by-16-foot booth. There will also be a $5 admission charge on Sept. 7, a portion of which will go to the library. Admission on Sept. 8 will be free.
Like last year's event, Echo will keep its primary focus on Western New York artists but will also draw work by artists and galleries from outside the area. A jury will select the artists and galleries to be included in the fair. The jury includes Burchfield Penney Art Center Director Anthony Bannon, Squeaky Wheel Executive Director Jax Deluca, Albright-Knox Art Gallery Chief Curator Douglas Dreishpoon, University at Buffalo professor Jonathan Katz and Marie Via, director of exhibitions at Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery. One juror remains to be confirmed.
Like last year, the "fair" part of the event will feature a series of site-specific sculptures and installations, which will be on view inside and outside the library. The site-specific work will be overseen by Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. And to help produce the event, Abell has enlisted Sarah JM Kolberg and Brooke LeBoeuf, both of whom have extensive experience on Western New York's art scene.
Because some artists were dissatisfied that they were not included in last year's fair or were unhappy with the selection process or execution of the event, a kind of anti-Echo art fair popped up alongside it.
Abell said that so-called out-fairs, regular features of larger art fairs like Art Basel Miami Beach, are signs of a vibrant and active arts community and added he would be happy to see other unsanctioned fairs or events emerge in Echo's shadow.
Overall, Abell said, Echo is an attempt to bring the growing art fair trend to Buffalo and to connect the artistic output of the region to people who are interested in paying for it. The September event will feature an expanded array of workshops, panels and other events aimed at familiarizing would-be collectors with the economics of the art world and demystifying the process of buying art.
"This is where the art market is going, so this is not unique to Western New York. In fact, not at all, so why wouldn't we follow in the same path? It makes it easier for buyers. Buyers and collectors around the world are saying, this is how we like to shop," he said. "The buyers are there. I fully believe there is money in Buffalo and the area. There just is an education process that needs to happen."
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