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Like those of the Hollywood Tara, Oak Alley's trees are unencumbered by Spanish moss (a previous owner ordered it removed because she thought it looked creepy). There is something similarly sanitized about Oak Alley itself, one of several plantations at which guides dress in period costume. Ours, a portly man wearing a Confederate greatcoat, a broad-brimmed cavalry hat, and a tasseled sword, spouted a moonlight-and-magnolias patter so canned that I half expected a Confederate drummer boy to materialize and provide rim shots for his jokes. After the tour, I sat on the veranda nursing a mint julep sold to me by a middle-aged "belle" for $6 in a plastic cup imprinted with Oak Alley's address, phone number, and Web site. As I watched would-be Scarletts and Rhetts pose for photos beneath Oak Alley's eponymous oaks, I realized that during my plantation visits, the only people of color I'd seen, with the exception of two tour guides at Nottoway, were those sweeping the floors or serving the food. (Most guides managed to avoid saying what I came to think of as "the S-word," and conveyed the impression that, on their plantations, the antebellum masters had been benevolent patriarchs who treated their slaves as they did their own children. My Madewood tour guide introduced a 59-year-old woman in a maid's uniform, born on the plantation, as "a seventh-generation employee," a semantic whitewashing that made me squirm.) Perhaps I was feeling guilty at having so thoroughly enjoyed my taste of antebellum splendor at Madewood and Nottoway. But I knew that to experience plantation life fully, I should also be sharing a sparsely furnished two-room cabin with a dozen other people, eating salt pork and molasses, and cutting cane from "can see to can't see" (dawn to dusk) without pay. My reverie was interrupted when the plantation bell, once used to summon slaves to and from the fields, rang to announce the next tour.
There is, of course, no such B&B. But there is one River Road outpost that tells the story of life behind the big house. It had its genesis in 1991, when an African-American woman named Kathe Hambrick, who had recently moved back to Louisiana to help run the family funeral home, toured a River Road mansion. "The guide said the planter had owned 12,000 acres. I asked how many people had been enslaved there. 'I think about fifty,' he said." Hambrick was troubled. "What got me was the 'I think'—that they just didn't care enough to know."
Today Hambrick runs the River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville, about an hour south of Baton Rouge. Here, visitors are confronted by the flip side of the Aubusson carpets and Waterford crystal chandeliers:a pair of leg-irons; a spiked collar used to punish runaways; a photo of a slave from nearby San Francisco Plantation, his forehead branded with his owner's initials. A sign near the entrance asks, COULD THESE BE YOUR ANCESTORS?above the names of more than 500 slaves who worked on local plantations, names that Hambrick tracked down through courthouse records. These days, people come from around the world—as well as from the predominantly African-American communities in the surrounding area—to study this list and to search local cane fields for ancestral graves.
The next day, I drove north of Baton Rouge, where the refineries end with a final belch, to St. Francisville, where the meadows, forests, and red-clay hills haven't changed much since Audubon painted 80 of his Birds of America there. I stayed at Butler Greenwood Plantation, where the live oaks, grown from acorns brought from Haiti in 1799, are now so thick one can hardly see the sky. Butler Greenwood is one of the few plantations still in the family of its original owners. Its big house, a simple raised cottage built long before the one-upmanship of Greek Revival took hold, contains a comfy clutter accumulated over centuries: the original land grant signed in 1797; silverware that was buried under the camellias to keep it from falling into the hands of Union soldiers; an ivory-handled sword that was carried by the current owner's great-grandfather at Robert E. Lee's funeral. "We haven't thrown anything out in two hundred years," says Anne Butler, the seventh-generation owner, who also writes books and speaks at Southern Belle Writing Workshopsto help keep the family seat in the family. It was here that I found myself missing my family's Big House most acutely and spinning fantasies of living there myself and never throwing anything out.
As I strolled through the music room, from whose corner the rosewood French Pleyel concert grand that Butler played as a child hasn't budged since before the Civil War, I was reminded that the River Road—despite the artificial creamers and the logo-edplastic cups—is one of the few places left in this country where history isn't framed in a museum or re-created in Disney animatronics. It is history to be touched, tasted, lived in—it must be savored before it disappears. Every few years, another plantation succumbs to fire, age, or the economy. That morning, en route to Butler Greenwood, I had seen an allée of ancient live oaks, their branches draped with pale boas of Spanish moss, leading to a field of weeds.
Small wonder that, whether they are Scarlett wannabes searching for Tara, Civil War buffs soaking up the atmosphere, or descendants of slaves exploring their roots (or Yankee writers seeking a vicarious sense of continuity), people come to the River Road looking for something they've lost. In an era when the average American moves once every five years and everything from diapers to income is described as "disposable," the plantation houses of the River Road offer an impression of endurance that is precious—and stunning. The other day, a middle-aged tourist stepped into the Butler Greenwood dining room and suddenly stopped. "It smells just like my grandmother's house," he said. Then he began to sob.


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Lunch links: Ranking the Big 12 coaches
March, 20, 2012
By ESPN.com staff | ESPN.com
It's so Austin up in here.
- West Virginia DE Bruce Irvin was arrested over the weekend for destruction of property and disorderly conduct.
- How will the quarterback competition at Oklahoma State shake out this spring? Brandon Weeden weighs in with his take.
- Athlon ranks the Big 12's coaches from top to bottom.
- Where does the excitement within WVU's program pay off? Bob Hertzel of the Times West Virginian tells you.
- What are the top five storylines as Iowa State begins spring practice?
- Who doesn't want to compare conference realignment to the 18th and 19th century European State system? Joe Walljasper of the Columbia Tribune does.
- Dennis Dodd of CBSSports.com introduces you to a man behind the success at Baylor, president Ken Starr.
- KU's spirit squad rescued a man trapped under a car in Little Rock this weekend. Crazy.
- Texas linebacker Emmanuel Acho has a great source for insight into the NFL Draft process, writes Randy Riggs of the Austin American-Statesman.
- Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy is helping the Bedlam rivalry start to catch up to the Iron Bowl and Ohio State-Michigan, writes colleague Ivan Maisel.
- Here's what to expect at Iowa State's pro day.
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Lincoln, Nebraska, Apr 20, 2012 -- USDA Rural Development Nebraska State Director Maxine Moul has released "Oh, Nebraska! Investing in Little Towns and Wide Open Spaces through USDA Rural Development", a video depicting the array of projects USDA Rural Development has funded, impacting rural Nebraskans. USDA Rural Development can build a rural community from the ground up.
"It is with great pleasure that I share this video with Nebraskans," said Moul. "I think that by viewing the video you will find projects with which we can assist rural communities as well as our accomplishments."
The video reflects that in federal fiscal year 2011, Nebraska USDA Rural Development delivered $189 million to rural areas of the state. Programs of housing was $121.9 million, community facilities and water and wastewater $29.1 million, business $26.6 million, telecommunications $10.3 million, and distance learning and telemedicine $1.5 million. More than $1.9 billion has been invested in rural Nebraska since the year 1996.
Please view the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjO8PA1ft1k&feature=youtu.be. The video was produced and directed by State Director Maxine Moul. The music "Nebraska" was provided by the Marcy Brothers of Hay Springs, Nebraska.


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When you think of an anglerfish, you probably think of something like the creature above: Big mouth. Gnarly teeth. Lure bobbing from its head. Endless nightmares following. ... READ ON
Florida has a lionfish problem. This menacing creature, which comes decorated with venomous spines, is an invasive species threatening the state's habitat and wildlife. Until now, researchers thought the fish only thrived in the salty waters off Florida's coasts. But a 6th grader's science fair project proves otherwise.... READ ON
Like a galactic purge, all the matter and light sucked in by the black hole is now spewed outward.... READ ON
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Road rage is hardly a new phenomenon. In fact, Britain's first speeding laws were enacted in the early 19th century to stop horse-drawn carriages from "furious driving." But what is it about roads that turn law-abiding Jekylls into bird-flipping Mr. Hydes?... READ ON
If I were a supervillain, I'd want my name to be Vantablack. Unfortunately, that moniker is already taken, but not by a Hollywood bad guy. No, its owner is even more dark and mysterious: Vantablack is the darkest material ever made.... READ ON
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Real Women of Philadelphia- a Recap & How You Can Still Participate!
My experience of participating as a judge in the Real Women of Philadelphia Cream Cheese Cook-Off with Paula Deen in Savannah, Georgia was quite a memorable experience. Here's a little video recap of the event, as well as an announcement about what comes next… and how you can still participate and win weekly cash prizes contributing recipes to the Philly Cream Cheese cookbook!


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this bag isn't bad, but could be better. too baggy. too bulky. maybe its just me, but i don't want to put everything i could potentially fit into it, then have my snowboard be the spine for all of the weight. i returned it & got one with a hard spine.
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I am 5.3 and I weigh 105, my waist size...
I am 5.3 and I weigh 105, my waist size is 28. I like my pants really baggy and i like to sag. would a small work? and also will these pants keep me warm when i'm shredding whister? please someone give me some answers.
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First of all, the 80g fill weight insulation will keep you warm on those blistering Whistler days! And on the size, I would go with Medium. Although Small's would do you right... you could always rock a belt and keep it G.
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This sounds like a brave and smart resolution. Step #2 is always a struggle, for me anyway. I found Gladwell's article about late bloomers helpful and inspiring, especially the part about Ben Fountain. I like the way he would lie down on the kitchen floor to rest his mind.
Thanks, Alice! No, I don't feel particularly brave, just lucky. By nature I'm sort of easily discouraged, but I'm trying to be less so. For a while I felt very guilty about taking time off from teaching full-time to write my book–I saved all the extra money I made teaching the most boring thing in the world (after-school test prep, after teaching first grade all day) in order to postpone teaching a full-time schedule. Even though I'd saved and planned, I felt guilty doing what I'd saved and planned for, because it's hard to explain to other people–it seems sort of frivolous. (Are women more prone to this worry than men? Ben Fountain didn't seem to mind taking a long time to write his book.) And then I felt really guilty when my then-agent didn't want to sell the book–I was afraid all that time had been a waste. But I think my experience is an example of the wisdom of doing what you really want to do, instead of what you feel you should do. And it helps to have supportive people in your life, of course. Maybe we should start a writing group?
Alice, what a great, thoughtful resolution for a new year and a new decade! I look forward to hearing more about how you're doing with this. I also feel like I go in a number of different directions all at once, with no real organizing force or plan. My problem is that there are just too many things I want to do. Picking one thing to be an official "direction" means making the decision to *not* choose other things, and closing doors has always been painful for me. I like potential energy a lot more than kinetic energy.
OMG, Alice, you have me all teary-eyed. Not for the first time.
Alignment. I like that. It's open to all sorts of interpretations, chacune son truc.
How would you like to write a guest blog for me? You know, you'll love it: It takes up more time you don't have and you don't get paid. Think about it. Opportunity is knocking. Lemme know.
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WASHINGTON, March 13, 2012 – Taking political cheap shots at conservatives is fun for both the usual perps and the preening media talking heads who adore them. But in the dollars-and-cents world of business, stunting like this can and does backfire. Take for example last week's Rush Limbaugh/Sandra Fluke free contraception kerfuffle. Its ultimate outcome failed to play out the way at least one of Rush's former sponsors—Internet backup company Carbonite—had imagined it would.
Last week, after El Rushbo's intemperate on-air characterization of Ms. Fluke, The Daily Caller reported that advertiser Carbonite's "CEO David Friend released a statement on his company's website declaring that Carbonite had decided to 'withdraw' advertising from Rush Limbaugh's radio show in the wake of his controversial remarks involving Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke because it will 'ultimately contribute to a more civilized public discourse.'"
Mr. Friend's ostensibly bold gesture was a big hit with the moveon.org aficionados who'd been flooding the Internet and the Twitterverse with demands that advertisers dump Mr. Limbaugh, as a way of eliminating his long-running, highly influential show from the radio airwaves.
Legal Insurrection's William Jacobson wryly observed, "There are few things that cannot wait for Monday morning, yet Carbonite issued its statement on a Saturday night, in what appears to be a matter of executives' personal and political opinions outweighing shareholder interests."
In addition to his formal statement, Mr. Friend also let the Maharushi have it via Facebook (hat tip Riehl World View):
"No one with daughters the age of Sandra Fluke, and I have two, could possibly abide the insult and abuse heaped upon this courageous and well-intentioned young lady. Mr. Limbaugh, with his highly personal attacks on Miss Fluke, overstepped any reasonable bounds of decency."
President Obama piled on last week as well. Like Mr. Friend, the President, too, sought to shelter his own two impressionable daughters from the evil clutches of Mr. Limbaugh's Excellence In Broadcasting (EIB) network. Left unsaid by both the President and Mr. Friend, however, was why their paternal instincts went MIA last year when left-wing TV personality Bill Maher savaged Sarah Palin, deploying both the c– word and the t– word along with even less flattering observations. Mr. Maher, no doubt, was adjudged to be operating within the "reasonable bounds of decency." No problem for impressionable daughters there.
In the current flap, Mr. Friend appears to have misunderestimated the negative business consequences that can result from his brand of hypocritical political stunting. Carbonite's stock (ticker symbol CARB) promptly tanked after he went public with his grand weekend proclamation. It appears that quite a few of the company's increasingly disgruntled shareholders took the incident as their cue to bail out of their positions.
Carbonite went public in an IPO last August, pricing its initial offering at $10 per share. This was somewhat lower than original market expectations, perhaps due in part to last summer's market turmoil. Nonetheless, CARB was initially lofted by the usual high-tech, high beta thermals, quickly soaring to $21.10 before commencing its steady, ongoing dive into oblivion.
Prior to the Limbaugh flap, CARB had already been retreating from its brief peak to a bid slightly lower than its IPO offering price. Since then, it's continued its downward cascade, establishing a new bottom recently at $8.05 per share, roughly a 20% drop pre-Limbaugh/Fluke and a nearly 60% drop from its 2011 peak.
The lesson here: any small-cap company needs to be wary of giving any opening to its competition, particularly when that opening has absolutely nothing to do with its product offerings. And in Carbonite's case, the competition is considerable.
According to Prof. Jacobson, Carbonite's direct competition "includes Prosoftnet, CrashPlan, Mozy (a division of VMWare, VMW), Symantec's (SYMC) Norton Online Backup, McAfee Online Backup (a division of Intel, INTC), SOS Online Backup, and others."
In other words, in the networking world, little Carbonite is already battling seriously deep-pocketed mid-to-large cap corporations for its share of the Internet backup business. Perhaps this is one reason why its shares have made little headway since its IPO. Friend's boneheaded PR decision simply made matters worse for his hapless stockholders.
So why did Mr. Friend go off the deep end on this political issue? The answer, perhaps, lies in his longstanding liberal political leanings. Accuracy in Media (AIM) notes that Mr. Friend has a certain fondness for George Soros-funded entities when it comes to making political contributions.
In the past, according to AIM, Mr. Friend has donated generously to the Howard Dean, John Kerry, and Barack Obama presidential campaigns. He's sent money to "America Coming Together," moveon.org, and "Texans for Truth" as well. This latter entity, "a so-called 527 group funded by George Soros through Moveon.org, released a TV ad accusing Bush of evading his National Guard service. One day later," AIM adds, "on September 8, [Dan] Rather and CBS['] 60 Minutes did their program based on the bogus National Guard documents."
America's self-proclaimed liberals are in actuality armchair faux-socialists with Stalinist tendencies. Their instinctive approach toward individuals whose opinion they don't like is to try to silence, either by agitating for an advertiser boycott (as in an earlier case involving Don Imus) or by smearing and slandering their target into oblivion, à la Sarah Palin.
When such an effort is mounted, the most deviant and least thoughtful voices in the blogosphere and the Twitterverse go nuts, and the censorship game is quickly afoot. Instinctively leftist, monied hitchhikers—ranging from movie stars to rock stars to the occasional wealthy CEO—then feel safe joining the scrum, chiming in with their insincere two cents' worth to score cheap publicity points.
It's all an elaborate vaudeville show, meant to draw admiring cooing, laughter, and plaudits from the raging proletariat. Additionally, it serves to insulate these hypocrites from being linked to their obvious status as members of the unfairly wealthy 1% that leftists love to hate.
But this longstanding free ride for "progressive" one-percenters may be coming to an end in 2012, at least when it comes to jeopardizing one company's bottom line.
In the case of Carbonite, the company is inexorably losing much of the considerable revenue it once generated by advertising on the Rush Limbaugh show. Limbaugh supporters are canceling their Carbonite subscriptions as they "move on" to competitors' Internet security products, often boasting about it online in defiant statements.
Back at the EIB ranch, Mr. Limbaugh is sitting pretty. He remains largely undamaged just a week after his final defeat was pronounced by the left. Prof. Jacobson notes, ironically, that significantly fewer of Mr. Limbaugh's national advertisers have left him than the moveon types have been claiming in their wildly exaggerated figures.
With possibly one exception, all Mr. Limbaugh's stations and his network have stuck with him, in fact. He continues to sign up new advertisers eager to reach his large, well-educated audience—an audience that's more than happy to consider purchasing products and services he recommends. And he's already shown the door to at least one errant advertiser who'd dumped him but then quickly came crawling back.
As for Carbonite, it's no longer on the Limbaugh advertiser roster and likely never will be again. Its stock and its stockholders are collectively getting a swirly as if the market hasn't already given them enough punishment over the last several months.
One of the oft-pronounced mantras of America's socialist class is the saying that "all politics is personal." And perhaps for these ideologues it is. As for Carbonite, a real software business that could certaily use at least one profitable quarter, Mr. Friend's brand of personal politics clearly hasn't proved to be very good for his company's business model.
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Descending, Mencia, Gojira
First band of the fest on stage were Descending, with only mission to warm up the few people who were in the place, with their well played Death/Thrash metal tunes. The crowd seemed not to know their music but I am sure that they gained many new fans that evening. Their on stage appearance was really good as they respect what they do and they do it really well.
Next band was Mencia, the second Greek band with loud and fast tunes. I have to confess that I don't know anything of their work, but I can honestly say that I really enjoyed their show. I believe that they are one of the best Greek metal bands of this times and they gonna prove it in the near future. Their on stage appearance was so professional that they managed to rip off the heads of some of their fans in the first rows.
The first foreign group of the fest was the French Gojira. This was their first appearance in Greece in front of their crazy fans. The ecologist death metalers transformed the arena into a battlefield by driving their fans into a crazy moshpit with songs like, Orborus, Vacuity, Toxic Garbage Island, Backbone. We all hope to have the chance to see them again live in a club with better sound and full set list. Until then their tunes and memories from this live will accompany us.
Nick Astifidis
Testament was absolutely bombastic! In their 50-minute dynamite show, they didn't stop driving the crowd wild and leading it into a non-stop mosh pit into the arena with the smoke flares shedding an…extra light (although, they can be dangerous at times). The band is at perfect shape with the stomping Chuck Billy leading the pack, the sound was flawless while the highlights for me personally were "D.N.R.", "The Formation Of Damnation" and naturally "Into The Pit" in which the place was surely on fire! Testament didn't lose their momentum at any moment and I strongly believe that they reached a high level of performance.
Dimitris Kazantzis
Blind Guardian
What can I say about Blind Guardian's performance, except for the fact that they were absolutely storming! The Germans were superb –far superior than their last appearance in Greece- and the fans didn't stop screaming and belauding them. Having seen them in their home country (most specifically in Wacken) a couple of years ago, I can truly say that the response that they got here was unbelievable and had nothing to do with the respective one in Germany. And that says it all…Hansi, with his short-haired look was in great spirits and Marcus Siepen and Andre Olbrich were the cornerstones of the Guardian Foundation. The band relied heavily on "Nightfall…" and "Imaginations…" and they proved to everyone that they are still a live force to be reckoned with! "Blood Tears", "Nightfall", "Mirror Mirror", "Lord of the Rings", "Traveller In Time", "Valhalla", "Bard's Song", "Imaginations From The Other Side", "Another Holy War", "The Script For My Requiem" etc. I think that they will return here really soon (and with a new album).
Sakis Nikas
Heaven and Hell
"Tony Bennett is 83 years old and still sings… I can do it as well. I know I have the voice for it…" This is what Ronnie James Dio said to Rockpages.gr a few minutes before he went on stage and if anyone had a doubt, he only had to wait…
Most of the people had gathered in the Tae Kwon Do court quite earlier, before Blind Guardian played their game. The venue, with the huge and full of light entrance, the almost deserted locker room corridors and a few meters away, the dark tiers and the gateways to the hubbub of the arena (almost feeling like you were entering the stage itself), had a weird effect in the atmosphere. Or it could be that this place didn't look neither like the countryside of Terra Vibe, nor the futuristic Calatrava style of the Olympic Stadium. Or just the side effect of the aforementioned meeting with Dio. Although smoke had gathered like a cloud in the air, the air condition was quite adequate to provide a pleasant coolness in most areas, making it preferable to stay inside than outside, as it would fit the season of the year.
The time was 22.20 and the sounds of E5150 filled the place, while we were walking towards the arena. Following the same route and in few meters away, there was Tony Iommi and his suite, heading to the stage. We ran to our spots, Nikos Astyfidis in the pit to take photos and me a few steps behind. Just a few seconds later, the intro ends and the band rushed on stage with The Mob Rules.
The first and more pleasant surprise was that Dio is in perfect shape. Tireless moving around the stage for all the show – apart from a few moments in the break of Heaven and Hell – and his voice was strong as that of a lion's.
The whole band was moving like a rock'n'roll train… Vinny Appice was keeping the headbanging tempo, Tony Iommi was throwing solos and riffs to the 6000 delirious fans with the same tranquility that normal people have when they drink coffee on the beach. Geezer Butler was contesting with Iommi for the coolest guy on stage, taking care of the low frequencies.
Many voices must have got hoarse that night (with the exception of Dio's) and if that makes sense when you watch and listen to epic songs like the twenty-minute version (!) of Heaven and Hell and Die Young, it is always a pleasant feeling when new songs are heard, like Bible Black, along with warm comments by teenagers and people after their thirties at the same time.
The night was quite satisfying for most, I guess. However, since I like walking around in venues, I must admit that the sound quality was changing depending on when someone was standing. The worst place seemed to be above the tiers, just across the stage.
The only thing that can be said as a conclusion is that I hope we'll be healthy in the next years to be able to go to concerts and see Dio singing live. It seems that he didn't got his name by accident (and I don't mean the Ronnie part of it).
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That man was 49-year-old Michael Kulhanek of 104 E. 14th St., who was charged with second-degree domestic assault; use of a weapon to commit a felony; and willful reckless driving.
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According to siblings Johanna, Al and Jesse Deal who run the Deal Farm today, their father was a conservationist and a visionary. He always said that in the future, we will not feed grain to cows, only grass. Because the world will get so starved for food, all the grain will have to be used for people. That's how they farmed then and it's how they farm now on 690 acres of Northeast Texas. "Our cows just make a big circle," Johanna says. "They come in from pasture for milking and walk right back out to pasture."
At certain times of the year when the pasture isn't enough to keep them at peak health, the 200 Jerseys the Deals milk receive a small ration of mixed small grainsbarley, soy, corn, milo, clover hay, minerals and salt, and kelp. Carefully tended by Jesse and Al, the pastures are what graziers refer to as a "salad mix" of legumes and grasses: white Dutch clover, hairy vetch and iron and clay peas in summer, and Austrian winter peas in February and March. Jesse decides which pastures are to be grazed on any given day.
The Deal Jerseys thrive. "Our herd is very long-lived," Johanna says. "Our last cow that died was 17, but typically they're 12-13 years old." She attributes this to excellent care and genetics. "We've always had Jerseys. One of the first cows our Daddy bought was an old cow straight from the Isle of Jersey. In fact, this was our foundation cow. The second was a fantastic Jersey bull." They've been line-breeding ever since, with an occasional outcross bull thrown in to keep the line supple.
While the Deals' farming methods have always been largely organic, the supplementary grains they purchased before achieving organic certification were purchased from conventional sources. Johanna calls it store feed. "It's hard for people to grasp the difference in the health of our herd even in the three years since we've been completely organic. It must be the chemicals in that 'store feed' and mineral supplements we used to buy, because that's the only difference in the way we handle our cows. The incidence of foot rot is greatly reduced and the body condition of our cows has improved. Plus we get bigger, healthier calves."
"People keep asking when we're going to increase our herd size, but we don't want to do that. Our dad always said you don't make any more money milking 1,000 cows than you do 100 cows. It's just a matter of zeros! When it's all said and done, you're just paying the bank more."
The Deals' father grew up on a dairy farm in Missouri and their mother, Gracie, was a city girl who eventually took a liking to farming and became quite keen on it. She didn't step into the barn much but she was a handy business woman who partnered nicely with their daddy. Eventually they moved from Missouri to Texas in 1974 when their farm was crowded out by urban expansion. "Unfortunately," Johanna says, "the same thing has happened to us here." Just a few years back a national home building supply store chain built a huge distribution center that directly abuts the Deals' land. "It just about killed our father," Johanna says. "Part of our farm is now within city limits."
"Our parents were the ones who decided to make our farm completely organic. Our dad signed the letter of intent shortly before he died." Johanna says. "Al and I kept going to the meetings to work out how to accomplish the final transition with the feed. Mom had to sign letters of intent again. Sadly, we received our certification five days after we buried our mom."
The Deals continue their parents' good work. "We all have our specialty niches, but no big decisions are made without all of us agreeing," Johanna says. "I mainly handle the cows. In fact, everybody's main complaint is that I see to the cows and the land before I see to the people."
Al takes care of pasture fertility and helps manage herd health, specializing in homeopathy. Lately he's become somewhat of a guru in touch therapy. "If a cow's shoulder is out of joint, he can put it back," Johanna says. "The cows just melt when he works on them. He works on race horses, too."
Jesse manages the pastures as well as the farm infrastructure. "He can fix anything," Johanna says, a critical skill in farm management. And there's a fourth Deal sibling, Luke, who has his own dairy down the road and who can always be counted on to help out on the home place.
Johanna counts her blessings on more fingers than she was born with. She went to school and worked in New York City for a few years where "you may not even see your neighbor until the EMT's come to tote them away. And then you ask yourself: What is wrong with this life? There's nothing to replace the joy of watching a little calf nursing and waggling its tail and the sun's coming up and the birds are singing.... There's nothing that can replace even one spring day once you have that experience in your soul."


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I am in Paris.
I suspect this because I see the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe from the window of my well-appointed suite. They sparkle against the inky sky, promising romance and fortune.
I am in Las Vegas. I know this because next to the City of Light landmarks is the gargantuan face of Jennifer Aniston beseeching me from an illuminated billboard to buy her new favorite perfume. Plus, I glimpse Bally's and the Flamingo and beyond them a luminescent landscape stretching flat for miles.
The Paris thing is simply a trompe-l'oeil, of which there are many in the City of Over-The-Top, Electricity-Sucking, Vertigo-Inducing Lights. I am surveying the Paris hotel from my perch across the Strip at the Bellagio, a luxury oasis in the middle of a desert of excess. I spy water, not the River Seine, but the 8-acre Fountains of Bellagio, which puts on its own floor show at regular intervals. Water geysers erupt and dance to songs by Henry Mancini, Lee Greenwood, Johnny Mathis and Madonna. Again, there are more lights.
In the morning, I venture out of my suite and head to the communal areas. Now, I am in Italy, for the inspiration of this dreamy hotel is the resort town of Bellagio in the Lake Como region. Lake Como, famous as the place where George Clooney has a home. No Clooney here, but lots of marble and domed ceilings.
Palio beckons me with the promise of pastry and a latte. I don't want to eat too much because reservations at Michael Mina pledge to fill my belly with Dungeness crab tortellini and maybe even some foie gras risotto. Perhaps I'll have the tasting menu with the accompanying wine. I hope the truffle polenta is part of the deal.
I stroll along to the Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, right off the lobby. Thousands of flowers have been fashioned into watering cans and snails and butterflies. The only thing missing is a bench to sit on and contemplate the beauty, and the thought of hitting a jackpot in the casino. Later, I find a friendly slot machine, though not jackpot-worthy.
There are more flowers near check-in. These are made of glass by renowned artist Dale Chihuly. Some 2,000 hand-blown blooms cover some 2,000 square feet on the ceiling.
After the pastry and before Michael Mina, I head to the spa. The facial is lovely, and the relaxation time afterward is even better. I am alone in the ladies' facilities with a mountain of lotions, soaps and hair products. By the time I am done, I look like I have been to the salon. Plus, I smell amazing.
Tomorrow I will check out Fred Leighton and Prada at the Via Bellagio shops. For now, I wander back to the room, my soft-soled shoes gliding over Italian marble. I meander through the Conservatory, past the enormous chocolate fountain, by the windows that open onto the Italian cypress trees that encircle the pool. The elevators take me up, up, up.
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Three Astoria residents are making sure people aren't left at the wrong polling site. Community Board 1 member Francis Luhmann-McDonald and two volunteers will be taking voters from PS 2 to 84, 85 and 122 on Election Day.
For decades PS 2, on 75th Street between 21st Avenue and Ditmars Boulevard, has served as a polling site. Then earlier this year, the Board of Elections disqualified the school as a voting spot because it does not meet Americans with Disabilities Act standards.
Instead, voters who previously used PS 2 will go to PS 84 on 41st Street near Ditmars Boulevard. During the primaries, although notifications were sent out, there was confusion for people who had always cast their votes at the elementary school.
"The Board of Elections said everyone will be renotified because there was ultimate confusion," McDonald said.
McDonald, a retired employee for the BOE, will start at 6 a.m. on Nov. 6 at PS 2 and take anyone who wants a ride to PS 84. Two other volunteers will start at PS 85 and PS 122 — two other schools that people were relocated from after years of voting at these locations — and will circle to the schools. The three longtime residents of Astoria will use their own cars. McDonald will have an American flag on her window.
"If they want a ride they get a ride," McDonald said. "I don't care who you're voting for."
For the future, CB 1 has put making PS 2 handicapped accessible on their budget priority list.
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Herbs, shrubs, or vines, perennial, from rhizomes, usually with fusiform tubers, often with fernlike appearance. Stems photosynthetic, erect, spreading or climbing, branched; cladophylls solitary or fasciculate, in nodes of reduced, scarious leaves. Leaves small, scale-like, membranous, or sometimes spiny with hardened base, subtending cladophylls. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, racemose, or umbellate, paired or solitary; racemes short. Flowers bisexual or unisexual; perianth greenish, white, or yellowish, campanulate to rotate; tepals 6, distinct or shortly connate basally, equal; stamens 6, distinct, equal; anthers versatile, 2-locular, dehiscence introrse; ovary superior, 3-locular, septal nectaries present; style 3-branched distally; pedicel with conspicuous joint. Fruits baccate, red or purplish black, globose, often with tepals persisting at base. Seeds 1-6, black, globose to angular. x = 10. Asparagus is a moderately important horticultural genus, with one species commonly grown for its edible young shoots and a number of others grown ornamentally. The genus is treated here in a broad sense (K. Kubitzki and P. J. Rudall 1998; W. S. Judd 2001) and encompasses species that have been segregated in several genera (A. L. Takhtajan 1997; S. T. Malcomber and Sebsebe D. 1993). Embryological features (P. J. Rudall et al. 1998) and DNA-based analyses (M. W. Chase et al. 1996; M. F. Fay et al. 2000; P. J. Rudall et al. 1997) support the monophyly of Asparagus and the Asparagaceae. Asparagus virgatus Baker has been collected once as a garden escape in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, but it is probably not truly naturalized in the flora. Asparagus falcatus Linnaeus occasionally persists after cultivation in the Miami-Dade County area of southern Florida (W. S. Judd 2001).
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JHU Communication Career Blog Kickoff, Alums Poggio & DiCaro Featured
JHU AAP Staff - August 12, 2013
Posted in JHU AAP Communications.
Recently, the AAP Communication Program and Alumni launched the JHU Communication Career Blog designed "to help provide invaluable career advice that does not come from a textbook or lecture to the AAP Communications community."
Many Communication graduates face the question, "What can I do with an MA in Communication? What is it like to work in communication? Where should I take my communication career?" According to the AAP Communication, the blog was inspired to help illustrate the successes of many communication professionals as a way to speak about these issues and to further foster community between alums, students, faculty members, and communication professionals not affiliated with JHU.
The blog is open to the Johns Hopkins University MA in Communication students, alumni, applicants, and faculty members, and for other professionals unaffiliated with JHU.
Blog Kickoff
The blog kickoff will begin September 9th and will feature two AAP Alumni as guest bloggers over the course of a month.
First Guest Blogger - Allegra Poggio, MA
Alumna Allegra Poggio, MA, will kick off the JHU Communication Career Blog as the first guest blogger. She is Visceral's Senior Production Director. She has six years of professional experience with online communication and integrated marketing. During this time, she has been responsible for the management of projects that range from single website builds to integrated programs that involve websites, mobile sites, mobile applications, media plans, social media and video.
Allegra has provided strategic and account support to assist the development of integrated online communication programs for a range of public, private and nonprofit clients. Her experience also includes strategy and the production management of complex technical projects, analyzing web metrics data and developing dashboards and reports to show the effectiveness of online programs. With Visceral, she facilitates day-to-day client relationships and coordinates with the strategy, design and development teams to execute projects.
Prior to joining Visceral, Allegra worked as a Managing Supervisor for Fleishman-Hillard Digital in Washington, D.C. Allegra holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Bates College in Lewiston, ME, and a Master of Arts in Communication from Johns Hopkins University's Zanvyl Kreiger School of Arts and Sciences Advanced Academic Programs.
After seven years in Washington, where she launched into her digital communication career, Allegra is moving to San Francisco to be Visceral's first Bay area employee. You can find her most days getting things done with Visceral, traveling a lot, running, dancing, doing pilates, cooking and making sure to get nourished by spending lots of time with friends and family!
Second Guest Blogger - Vincent DiCaro, MA
Vincent DiCaro, MA, will be the second guest blogger of the AAP Communications Career Blog.
As Vice President of Development & Communication at National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI) Vincent oversees NFI's fundraising efforts and external communications, runs NFI's government relations, and manages relationships with media partners. He is a graduate of The College of New Jersey, where he received a bachelor's degree in history and economics. He received a master's degree in Communication from Johns Hopkins University, where he wrote a thesis on the depiction of fathers in Hollywood films. Prior to joining National Fatherhood Initiative, Vincent worked for two years as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York City.
Vincent, his wife Claudia, and their son Vinny live in Maryland.
September 9-20, 2013 — Allegra Poggio, MA, featured guest blogger
September 23-October 4, 2013 — Vincent DiCaro, MA, featured guest blogger
At any time during the blogging event, visit the JHU Communication Career Blog at http://jhucommunication.wordpress.com. Read the posts. Most important, participate! This blogging event is an exchange in which all are welcome to contribute their questions and ideas.


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In the latest issue of Famitsu, Capcom announced a new cel-shaded 3D action game called Crimson Tears. The game has been announced as a collaborative project, with Capcom publishing, Dream Factory developing, and Spike marketing the title.
Crimson Tears takes place in Tokyo--50 years from now--where a biotechnology company named Weponix secretively controls the world as an underground manufacturer of war machines. The main three characters that fight Weponix are humanoid biological weapons called mutanoids. The mutanoids are Tokio, a 24-year-old male who is skilled at distant attacks; Asuka, a 19-year-old female skilled at close-up attacks; and Kaede, a 16-year-old female who specializes in strong attacks.
Crimson Tears consists of randomly generated dungeons. In the beginning of each dungeon, the player is situated in a base where characters and equipment can be chosen. Once in the dungeon, the player must fight enemies, find items, beat the middle boss, and then return back to the base.
Crimson Tears is currently 30 percent complete and is scheduled for display at the upcoming E3.


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This week, we're wondering what's wrong with Mike Wallace. The broad numbers aren't bad — Wallace ranks sixth in the league with 939 receiving yards to go with 55 catches and six touchdowns — but he's cooled off completely after a hot start, and his statistics have declined rapidly in recent weeks.
Wallace's receiving yardage numbers have dropped in four consecutive weeks, from 118 to 70 to 68 to 54 to 17 this past week against Kansas City. That two-catch, 17-yard, zero-touchdown performance was his worst single-game output in two years.
Now, Ben Roethlisberger was dealing with a fractured thumb Sunday night, and that might have played a role. Big Ben averaged a season-low 6.2 yards per attempt against the Chiefs. But he still completed three passes of 20-plus yards, and none of them were to Wallace. His two longest completions of the night were to Antonio Brown, who has seemingly emerged as Roethlisberger's preferred target.
Check out the last four games:
Brown: 23 catches, 343 yards, 1 touchdown
Wallace: 19 catches, 209 yards, 1 touchdown
That Wallace is now on pace to only barely surpass his yardage totals from 2010 is disappointing. That he's still not even halfway to his lofty preseason goal of 2,000 yards is surprising, especially considering that Hines Ward has disappeared in 2011.
Roethlisberger's thumb isn't helping, and the wind in Cincinnati in Week 10 was not favorable for a deep threat like Wallace. Still, a season that started out with so much promise is going downhill fast.
Then again, as long as the Steelers are winning, Wallace might not care.


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KANPUR: The Chakeri police registered a molestation case against a man, identified as Sarnam, and three others on Saturday. The accused had allegedly raped Rekha (name changed) of Lal Bangla locality on April 24, 2011. Police are conducting raids to nab the accused.
A case under Section 376, 323, and 511 of the Indian Penal Code ( IPC) was registered against the accused on the directives of the court. Further investigations were underway, the police said.
The victim, had on several occasions informed her family members regarding the harassment that she was continuously facing at the hands of Sarnam and his aides. On April 24, 2011, while the victim was alone at the house, the accused and his three aides forced their entry into the house and molested her. Sarnam, thereafter, threatened her with dire consequences. However, she informed her parents who approached the Chakeri police.
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The bamboo type with the rhizome that travels underground to emerge at a distance from the existing culms.
We suggest using running bamboo only in pots or if confined using the 'escape-proof' method.
The rhizome will travel quite far...
So..if you don't confine...don't say we didn't tell you about pots.