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Winning Chess Puzzles For Kids is the perfect introduction to basic chess tactics for children ages 7 to 13. Full of imaginative drawings, this fun and instructive workbook combines standard chess problems with a variety of insightful chess-related puzzles.
Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids
Winning Chess Puzzles For Kids Volume 2 is a fun and instructive workbook for children ages 7 to 13. Full of imaginative drawings, it combines standard chess problems with a variety of insightful chess-related puzzles. Slightly more advanced than Volume 1, its aim is to further develop a student's tactical skills.
Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids - VOLUME 2
100 Puzzles to Torment Your Brain Cells
This chess puzzle super-challenge contains 100 fun positions to solve, ranging from encouragingly easy to mind-numbingly hard.
Chess Puzzles for Kids
This is a quiz based on very hard puzzles taken from master games, not from composed problems. Because of the difficulty and complexity of the puzzles, you score points just for getting the first move right. You do not have to see all the way to the end. At the end of the quizzes, you are rated based on how many you got right.
Chess Puzzles for Students
Assess your chess strength with this test-yourself guide. In this instructive and entertaining book, based on the author's Chess Monthly column, Grandmaster Daniel King invites you to sit alongside the leading players in the world and predict their moves.
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Test your Chess with Daniel King
Comprehensive Chess Course - VOLUME 6
This newly revised volume in the successful Comprehensive Chess Course sharpens and tightens your game through examination and study of the 300 most important chess game positions. The most important and instructive positions over the last 100 years arranged as challenges, with illuminating explanations and solutions.
Chess Training Pocket Book
New Winning Techniques for Players of All Levels
National Master Bruce Pandolfini has created a unique and challenging Chess exercise book for players of all levels. Faced with actual positions from recent tournaments and match play, readers are asked to make the winning move for some of the world's best players, including World Champions Kasparov and Karpov.
300 Winning Strategies for Players of All Levels
This book offers chess players the ultimate challenge - to find the move or sequence of moves that will finish off the imaginary opponent in a checkmate situation, allowing readers to practice traps and winning opening moves without using a chess board.
More Chessercizes - Checkmate
Match Your Wits Against the Greatest Chess Masters
This book enables the average chess player to match wits against the greatest masters of all time. The result is a book that is as instructive as it is entertaining.
Solitaire Chess
A Study of 101 Outrageous Moves by the Great Chess Champion of All Time
This book contains a collection of the most brilliant, ingenious and outrageous moves ever played by Bobby Fischer, the American who is generally acknowledged to be the greatest chess player of all time.
These 101 moves - every one a move that either forced checkmate, gained material or lead to an overwhelmingly superior position - have been selected from among all of Fischer's recorded games, most of which were were played under tournament or match conditions.
Bobby Fischer's Outrageous Chess Moves
111 Winning Endgames
Here are 111 quirky, surprising and fun tactical chess problems to improve anyone's games. Designed to promote creativity and imaginative play, all of the problems are endgame miniatures, with seven or fewer pieces on the chessboard.
Pandolfini's Chess Challenges
320 Key Positions for Players of All Levels
This book sharpens your game through examining 320 of the most important chess positions taken from games over the last 120 years. Organized by difficulty to aid players in preparing for their own competitive games, the book features instructive explanations, solutions, and tips conveniently displayed on facing pages.
Chess Training Pocket Book II
The planning and visualization skills that come from working on Chess Mazes are valuable and instructive. If you are one who often loses games by hanging pieces or missing mates, then this is the book for you. There are many good books which present chess combinations and explain tactical motifs with the goal of training your tactical ability.
Chess Mazes
When the first volume of Chess Mazes was released, it was an immediate hit with both chess instructors and students. It was a completely new kind of chess puzzle to help develop your chessplaying visualization skills. In Chess Mazes 2, author Bruce Alberston has created another 216 fascinating chess mazes.
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Chess Mazes 2
Chess enthusiasts can find out where they stand in terms of chess mastery by facing off against 20 of the world's top players with this instructive and amusing guide. Looking closely at complete games played by the experts inspires players to form new ideas about their overall strategy. Grandmaster Daniel King based "How Good Is Your Chess" on his popular Chess Monthly column.
How Good Is Your Chess?
Can you Find the Best Move?
This challenging book features two hundred challenges in the multiple choice format that has proved so popular for chess-playing readers. These instructive, elegant and entertaining positions will not only challenge and entertain you, but will also teach you how to improve your endgame while trying to find the best move of the three choices presented.
Chess Endgame Quiz
303 More Challenging Puzzles to Take On!
A carefully selected entertaining and instructive collection of tactical chess puzzles. The authors, both veteran professional chess instructors, have collected or created 303 additional game situations, to go with the original 303 typical situations featured in the original 303 Tricky Chess Puzzles.
303 More Tricky Chess Puzzles
The Quality Chess Puzzle Book starts with less difficult thematic combinations, then moves on to various scenarios where tactics arise such as in Endgames, Defence, Positions with Pawn Promotions and even the games of Vassily Ivanchuk, before ending with the appropriately named Brain Crushers, where the reader's challenge is made more realistic by puzzles where the crash-bang-wallop moment is a few moves in the future.
The Quality Chess Puzzle Book
A Fun and Instructive Workbook for Childred Serious about Chess!
Veteran chess teachers and authors, Wilson and Alberston, who specialize in teaching chess to children, present 202 fascinating puzzles that are both instructional and fun. Large diagrams and clearly explained solutions will thrill kids as they work their way through the concepts while they have fun with chess. This book is perfect for kids!
202 Checkmates For Children
Test and Improve Your Defensive Skill
One of the most important skills a chessplayer needs is the ability to defend a position that is under siege. In this third volume in the highly acclaimed, best-selling ChessCafe Puzzle Book series, International Grandmaster Karsten Mueller, along with International Master Merijn van Delft, examines and expounds upon the vital defensive concepts and techniques used to repulse enemy attacks.
The ChessCafe Puzzle Book 3
Find the Decisive Winning Moves!
303 Tricky Chess Puzzles
1001 Original Chess Puzzles to Challenge All Standards of Player, From Beginner to Grandmaster
This book provides a wealth of puzzle positions to test just about every facet of your tactical skills. The puzzles in this book have been selected by analysing games new and old in search of original puzzle positions. It is very unlikely that even seasoned solvers will recognise many of these positions. Emms, by allying his skills with those of powerful computers, has also made every effort to ensure that the solutions are sound, and that there are no unmentioned alternative solutions.
The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book
Russian chess trainer Livshitz, who has had extensive experience teaching a wide range of players from novices to masters, presents here a course for developing your combinational skill, based on the recognition of tactical motifs. As you work your way through this carefully graced series of tests, themes such as 'diversion,' 'interference,' 'X-Ray,' and many more will become an integral part of your chess armoury, to be employed in your own games. Solving these positions will not only provide many hours of pleasure but will also enable you to test - and improve! - your chess IQ.
Test Your Chess IQ - First Challenge
Test and Improve your Over-the-Board Decision Making
Most chess puzzle books put you in an artificial situation: you are told a combination exists, what the theme is and what you are required to achieve. This one is different. In a real game, a player may sometimes need to find a combination. On the other hand he may have to reject a tactical idea and simply find a good positional move. His task is to find the right move, whatever it may be.
John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book
1001 Brand New Chess Puzzles to Challenge and Entertain Players from Novices to Grandmasters
Tactical skills are paramount in chess. More than anything else, a player's ability to find tactical solutions determines how successful he is over-the-board. No endgame scheme, opening idea or strategic plan, however brilliant a concept it may be, is of any value unless it is accurately calculated and implemented.
The best way to develop tactical skills is to practice them by tackling new and challenging positions. This book provides a wealth of chess puzzles to test just about every facet of your tactical ability. It is very unlikely that even those who have read many other chess puzzle books will recognize more than a handful of these positions. Franco has searched recent events and used powerful computers to seek out previously unpublished puzzles, and has also drawn extensively upon Latin American sources that he has been scouring for brilliant examples over the last three decades.
Following the pattern of Gambit's hugely successful Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book (by John Emms), the book begins with 100 relatively easy positions suitable for novices, and ends with 100 extremely tough puzzles, which provide a mind-bending challenge even for grandmasters. There are 1001 puzzles in all, including themed sections and graded tests, all with detailed computer-verified solutions and verbal explanations of the main instructive points.
The Giant Chess Puzzle Book
Improve Your Chess with These 300 Carefully Selected Puzzles
There is something here for everyone. The puzzles in the first two chapters are based on a clear-cut tactic or checkmate, such as those explained in Gambit's best-sellers How to Beat Your Dad at Chess and Chess Tactics for Kids. The endgame challenges highlight tactics and principles in action. In practice it is vital to defend resiliently and seek counterattacking chances – there is an innovative chapter on these rarely-covered themes as well as puzzles where the reader must decide how to punch home an attack.
The Gambit Book of Instructive Chess Puzzles
New Algebraic Edition
The 300 practical chess problems included here, taken from actual tournament play, contain scores of traps, sacrifices, mates, winning combinations, and subtle exchanges that will help sharpen players' eyes and test their skills against the masters.
Win at Chess
Mastering The Positional Principles
Welcome to The Chess Puzzle Book 4! - It mostly deals with the important technical question of how to convert a static advantage. Topics include Prophylaxis, The Principle of Two Weaknesses, The Right Exchange, Domination, Do Not Rush, and Converting an Advantage. There are also many well-chosen exercises with comprehensive solutions to help guide and instruct the reader.
The Chess Puzzle Book 4
Another 1200 Puzzles to Train Your Brain
It's time to start your chess training! This is the eagerly awaited follow-up to The Complete Chess Workout, Richard Palliser's highly acclaimed chess puzzle book. Now he presents the reader with 1200 new puzzles, every one checked for accuracy by the latest computer engines.
All top chess players agree that to keep your tactical muscles in shape it's imperative to continue training, and the easiest and most fun way to do this is by performing tactical exercises
The Complete Chess Workout II
Another 1200 Puzzles to Train Your Brain
It's time to start your chess training! This is the eagerly awaited follow-up to The Complete Chess Workout, Richard Palliser's highly acclaimed chess puzzle book. Now he presents the reader with 1200 new puzzles, every one checked for accuracy by the latest computer engines.
All top chess players agree that to keep your tactical muscles in shape it's imperative to continue training, and the easiest and most fun way to do this is by performing tactical exercises
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Improve your Imagination and Calculation
Grandmaster and renowned chess trainer Michal Krasenkow presents a treasure chest of puzzles designed to stretch the minds of all players. Imagination and calculation are two of the most important qualities of a chess player, and they are qualities which, with purposeful practice, can be developed significantly. As you analyse and solve more and more positions, your brain functions more efficiently, you are able to recognize and master additional tactical methods and patterns, and it becomes increasingly easier to solve similar types of positions.
Finding Chess Jewels
From Practical Games of 2012 - Part I
There is one proven practice exercise that helps you improve chess ratings and stay in shape while having fun - chess puzzles. And what better than having the latest puzzles from the year 2012 by a top GM, and all that in one book!
Greatest 365 Chess Puzzles
From Practical Games of 2012 - Part II
The book consists of 501 practical puzzles from the second part of the Year 2012, selected into 3 different groups: "easy", "medium", and "hard". At the end of the book you can check your tactical skills in a test format and also can enjoy the 10 most beautiful pearls of the given period.
Greatest 501 Chess Puzzles
21st-Century Edition
Enhance Your Tactical Weapons! 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combination is the companion volume to Reinfeld's 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate. Of course each book can be taken on its own, but together they make a wonderful collection, and cover the full range of tactical chess. And they are now both available in 21st-century editions, using modern algebraic notation.
1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices & Combinations
Grandmaster and renowned chess coach Zenon Franco provides a training course designed to help all aspiring players to improve their chess. During each lesson, you are invited to play a 'game' in which you try to find the best moves at all the important moments.
Test Your Chess
Improve your Imagination and Calculation
Grandmaster and renowned chess trainer Michal Krasenkow presents a treasure chest of puzzles designed to stretch the minds of all players. Imagination and calculation are two of the most important qualities of a chess player, and they are qualities which, with purposeful practice, can be developed significantly. As you analyse and solve more and more positions, your brain functions more efficiently, you are able to recognize and master additional tactical methods and patterns, and it becomes increasingly easier to solve similar types of positions.
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About Emily
Emily Honeycutt
In 2002, Emily discovered a low-fat, whole foods plant-based diet and along with it, a whole new world of fresh flavor and vibrant health. Within a year, she had lost 40 pounds, going from a size 12 to a size 4. She combined her lifelong love of gourmet cooking with her newfound passion for health, nutrition and a vegan diet and lifestyle and turned it into a career by becoming the Supervisor of Salud!, Cooking & Lifestyle School at Whole Foods Market Sacramento in 2004. She ran the school, teaching many plant-based cooking classes until choosing to be a stay-at-home mom in 2007.
Emily has written for VegNews Magazine and Veggie Life Magazine and been interviewed for and had recipes featured in Sacramento Magazine. Emily has taught at Dr. John and Mary McDougall's Health and Medical Center, including twice at their Celebrity Chef Weekends. She has been a presenter at the San Francisco VegFest, the Sacramento VegFest, Farm Sanctuary, Williams-Sonoma and more. Emily teaches popular monthly classes at both Whole Foods Market Sacramento and at the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op.
In the Spring of 2010, Emily began teaching Food for Life classes for the prevention and treatment of cancer for The Cancer Project www.cancerproject.org The Cancer Project is a program of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine www.pcrm.org. PCRM promotes preventive medicine, particularly good nutrition. PCRM also conducts clinical research and promotes higher standards in research.
In 2013, Emily became an Instructor for the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies www.nutritionstudies.org, facilitating the course in Plant-Based Nutrition offered online through eCornell. Emily holds a B.A. in Religion from Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio. Emily lives in Sacramento, California.
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Bela Lugosi
Lugosi was a horror god. He had the ability to scare the bejesus out of everyone, including unsuspecting trick-or-treaters. Unfortunately, he hit the skids in a big way, when he moved into this little flat on Harold Way, in Hollywood.
This is where he lived through his infamous Ed Wood period. His death in this simple home on August 16, 1956, led Lugosi to the pine condo for the very last time (he spent most of his career there). He was 73 years old. Years of morphine, Demerol and other drug use, due to a war injury, had taken their toll.
His body was removed,
and Lugosi was (WARNING: dead pics) laid out at the now razed Utter-McKinley Mortuary, at 6240 Hollywood Boulevard.
I grabbed a hunk of it before they tore it down.
Hundreds of fans lined Hollywood Boulevard to view his body, laid out in his Dracula cape. Legend has it that Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff were viewing the body of their old friend, who had risen out of so many coffins as Count Dracula, Lorre said, "Come now, Bela, quit putting us on!" Bela's casket was taken by hearse to the cemetery.
From Findadeath friend Davi: I recently found your site, and read the Bela Lugosi piece that you wrote. I believe that you are wrong in stating
that Lugosi died after the release of Plan 9 from outer Space. Bela Lugosi died in 1956,
and Plan 9 was released in 1957.
Here is a picture of Bela in his casket, per his own request - in his Dracula costume. Warning, dead guy.
Findadeath.com friend Neil sends this in: Here's another quote from Peter Lorre, as told by Vincent Price in his autobiography. Lorre commented to Price as they were viewing Bela's body, "Should we drive a stake through his heart, just in case?"
Bela is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City.
Trivia: Bela supposedly died with a script entitled "The Final Curtain" in his hands.
Findadeath.com friend Casey Stevens sent this
entry. Interesting stuff. Thanks Casey. A gem from Big Stephen King,
quotable, from "Danse Macabre":
Lugosi died shortly after this abysmal, exploitative, misbegotten piece of trash was released, and I've always wondered in my heart if maybe poor old Bela didn't die as much of shame as of the many illnesses that were overwhelming him. It was a sad a squalid coda to a great career. Lugosi was buried (at his own request) in his Dracula cape, and one likes to think -- or hope -- that it served him better in death than it did in the miserable waste of celluloid that marked his last screen appearance." Heavy stuff from Mr. King, eh?
This just in, from Findadeath.com friend
Donna: I picked-up a copy of Bela's biography, published in 1976 with an intro by Bela, Jr., to
do some "recreational reading."
Thanks, Donna. Great stuff!
This was sent to me by Findadeath.com friend Walt Werner: "Joey Bishop was on a talk radio show not too long ago in Chicago, when he became quite agitated at the interviewers, who were trying to "dig up dirt" on Frank Sinatra. He ranted that Frank had done many good, unpublicized deeds, like paying for funerals of many actors that died paupers. When pressed for examples, Joey mentioned that Ol' Blue Eyes picked up the tab for Bela Lugosi's final act." Hmm, never heard that one. Thanks, Walt!
Feb 2002, Findadeath.com friend Laura Schiotis sends us this: I was looking at your Bela Lugosi bio and I have a few comments about Bela you might want to add to your page (or ignore, whatever): Many people say that Boris Karloff made the comment "Bela, you're putting us on" to Peter Lorre or whoever at Bela's funeral. But Boris wasn't at the funeral. In fact he was in England at the time, so obviously he could not have said such a thing.
Incidentally, Bela's third wife, one Beatrice Woodruff Weeks, was Mrs. Bela Lugosi for only three days! Bela was an old fashioned, Old World kind of guy and expected his wives to wait on him hand and foot. Beatrice, however was too busy with her own hangovers to take care of Bela. I read something in a biography of Bela Lugosi that I found both funny and interesting. Bela was doing a stage role that he hoped would get him noticed and according to a newspaper Bela came on stage to deliver his lines and accidentally tripped over a 'carefully laid pipe' that 'propelled' him into the air where he then landed on the other side of the stage, knocked over an easel with paint and got paint all over himself. The audience thought it was hilarious but Bela got up, brushed himself off, acted oblivious to the whole thing and delivered his lines . I think this shows that he was truly a great actor, and it even illustrates his often sad life, he fell, brushed himself off and somehow managed to carry himself with dignity despite the situation.
This just in, December 2004, from
Findadeath friend Steve: Just read your new updates on
Bela Lugosi. The guy who "corrected" you by saying that Lugosi died in
1956 but that the film Plan 9 From Outer Space was released in 1957 is more
incorrect than you are! True, one of the great, hilarious, but also sad things
about Plan 9 is that Bela actually died during the making of it, and director Ed
Wood got his wife's chiropractor to stand in for him, with a Dracula cape in
front of his face and everything!
July 2007 my friend Lisa Burks turned me on to the fact that Bela's condolence register was up for auction last year.
One of those amazing relics I'd love to have owned. His funeral took place on August 18th, coincidentally Criswell's birthday. It reads as a who's who for Ed Wood fans.
Amazing find, Lisa. Thank you for passing it on, I'm sure whomever bought it (12Grand yikes!) will cherish it. I hope they put it on display at some point for others to see.
This was the blurb in the auction catalogue:
The Bela Lugosi Funeral Book and Pallbearers Card with a Custom Leather Case. On August 18, 1956, Utter McKinley's Strother Hollywood Mortuary hosted the funeral of Bela Lugosi, the cinema's legendary Count Dracula. Lugosi had fallen-in-flames as few stars have before or since, cursed by alcoholism, drug addiction, marital miseries, near-poverty and a haunting fear of death itself. Yet, in his typical and touching passion, Lugosi went to his grave as a star - laid out, as he had wished, in his Dracula cape, tuxedo and medallion. It was a morbidly poetic flourish that blended legend, fantasy and reality - a touching finale to Lugosi's life and a powerful part of his mythos. Now, on the 50th anniversary of Bela Lugosi's demise, Heritage proudly offers Lugosi's funeral book, signed by the mourners who attended his wake - a number of them colorful key players in Lugosi legend and lore. There's Edward D. Wood, Jr., director of Lugosi's Glen or Glenda (1953), Bride of the Monster (1955) and the infamous "Worst Film of All Time" Plan 9 from Outer Space , released after Lugosi's death in 1959. (Wood, of course, was the subject of the 1994 film Ed Wood, starring Johnny Depp in the title role and Martin Landau in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Lugosi, and the film dramatized Lugosi's funeral and burial in his cape.) There's Tor Johnson, the bald, behemothic horror cult figure of such Wood films as Bride of the Monster and Plan 9 from Outer Space, who signed both his wife's name and his own - adding after his signature "Lobo," his role in Bride of the Monster. (Johnson, as Lugosi's widow remembered, "blubbered like a baby" at the funeral.) Others of the Ed Wood colony include Paul Marco ("Kelton the Cop"), George Weiss (producer of Glen or Glenda), Conrad Brooks ( policeman Jamie in Plan 9... ), Dudley Manlove ("Eros" of Plan 9...), "L. King" (presumably Loretta King, leading lady of Bride of the Monster), Kathleen Wood (Ed's Estimate: $10,000 - up.)


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Octomom Hits Rehab, Citing Anxiety and Stress
by Associated Press | October 30, 2012 at 9:23 PM | Celebrities
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Octomom Nadya Suleman has checked herself into a rehabilitation center, citing anxiety, exhaustion and stress.
A statement from Suleman's spokeswoman Gina Rodriguez on Tuesday says the mother of 14 had been taking the medication Xanax under a doctor's care to deal with her problems. But Suleman felt she needed a treatment program to help with her recovery.
Suleman will be in treatment for at least 28 days.
In the meantime, three nannies and two of Suleman's friends will care for her octuplets, who will be 4 years old in January, and her six older children. Rodriguez says a driver will take the kids to and from school, and their Palmdale home has around-the-clock security.
Rodriguez says the rehab center offered to treat Suleman at no charge, but Suleman has opted to pay.
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Southpaw Isle Steel Band Set for OU's Percussion Day in MI, 1/26
The sound of the islands will be heard on the campus of Oakland University starting at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26, when the Southpaw Isle Steel Band performs in Varner Recital Hall. Band members Mark Stone, Lesley-Anne Stone, Issa Sall and Miguel Gutierrez will present original compositions and arrangements for steel drums.
The ensemble is rooted in Caribbean pan tradition but continually stretches the steel band sound. Southpaw Isle Steel Band's repertoire is shaped by a wide range of musical traditions, including American jazz, Brazilian samba and Trinidadian calypso. To learn more about the group and hear them play, visit markstonepercussion.com and select Southpaw Isle Steel Band under the Performing Groups menu.
Earlier on Jan. 26, the OU music program will host Percussion Day from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. All students junior high through adult are invited to attend free of charge. A wide variety of workshops will be offered by OU percussion faculty and guests, including Miguel Gutierrez and Sandy Mabery. Information and registration is online at oakland.edu/percussionday.
The Southpaw Isle Steel Band has presented numerous workshops, assemblies and concerts. Tickets for its Jan. 26 concert are $14 for general admission and $8 for students. They can be purchased ahead of time with no service fee at oakland.edu/tickets.
Varner Recital Hall is surrounded by ample free parking. For interactive and printable maps of the Oakland University campus, visit oakland.edu/map. For more information about the upcoming performance, visit oakland.edu/mtd or call (248) 370-2030.
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February 2012
Paleolithic diets: Should we eat like our ancestors?
By Stephan Guyenet, Ph.D.
PCC employee Janice Parker has eaten a whole-foods diet for many years, but 14 months ago she changed it in a way that led her to shed 30 pounds, feel less joint pain, sleep more soundly, have more energy, and, remarkably, control her diabetes without medication.
News bites
Cheap food in America · U.S. tightens fishing policy · Citrus reduces E. coli? · EPA: stop Bt corn · GE mosquitoes in Florida · Hungary destroys GE corn · Organic can feed the world · Ranchers fight ethanol · Cattle rustling · Quinoa in the Northwest · Bee watching · Hatchery v. wild fish · Antibiotics in dairy and meat · GE salmon virus · GE sweet corn
Letters to editor
Electronic member coupon? · "Natural" label claims · Organic melon · Veal market? · Arsenic in Southern rice · Is microwaved food safe?
New worries about Roundup®
From the editors
New worries about the hazards of an herbicide used on genetically engineered (GE) crops are being ignored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Organic dairy: the true cost
The price of organic milk is going up, for good reasons. The main reason is that the cost of organic grain and hay to feed cows hit record levels over the past year, while the price farmers get for their milk has not kept pace.
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Second language acquisition has an identity problem. It is a young field struggling to emerge from the parent fields of education and applied linguistics. In his new book, Problems in Second Language Acquisition, Mike Long proposes a way to help second language acquisition develop a systematic and coherent focus using the philosophy of science as the lens.
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From the drawing the host only has 1 interface, so yeah that would be the out interface Depending on the OS the route could be shown via the IP on the interface, or could be shown as the actual interface.
What OS is on the host would be the only way to be sure on the proper syntax of creating the route on the host.
So in that table can you see the routing tables of the routers shown? Is there any mention of routing protocol between them sharing their routes? If not its hard to say the proper route out. Which way does R2 route to network host is connected too, you would like to assume least hops - but you can not be sure without some more details.
If you were routing to the 192.16.7 network via r5, what would you be talking to in that network. A host, what routing table does it have? Because if it only has a default route out R3, you most likely run into a asynchronous routing problem with hosts talking to 192.16.7 from 194.17.21
As typical these sorts of questions/exams have little to do with a real life example.
Curious to see what the documented correct answer it - its always fun to ask how they got there with what is normally a lack of actual information given.
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Has anybody heard of or had experience with this type of device?
If the IR is accurate to our temps I can kill two with one, I have a source for type K for about $13.00 for complete thermocouples.
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They are at it again: Madagascar's corrupt government is secretly trying to circumvent their own illegal log export ban, using a different French shipping company to transport timbers hacked from protected rainforests to China, to be processed for European and United States' inequitable and ecocidal over-consumption. This time French La Ligne Scandinave Agency Maritime (SEAL/PIL) shipping company is the one transporting wood, using the same excuse used previously by others, that they have "received orders from the Government of Madagascar, so they were obliged to execute". The logs left Madagascar on the ship Terra Bonna earlier this month. There are a further 10,000 tons of already illegally logged rosewood – some 1,500 containers - that will almost certainly be exported as 'exceptions' and 'personal authorizations' to the ban. And given the government's failure to live up to its word, expect logging of Madagascar's biodiversity rich rainforest National Parks to resume and escalate.
Madagascar's rainforest parks were pillaged in the aftermath of the March 2009 coup, after which reserves were ravaged by illegal loggers. Armed bands, financed by foreign timber traders in collusion with local and national officials, went into Marojejy and Masoala national parks, harvesting valuable hardwoods including rosewood and ebonies. All told, logging affected 27,000-40,000 acres of protected rainforest, in a country already 90% deforested. More than $200 million worth of timber was cut. In March, after months of international protest, a rosewood shipment finally left Madagascar. This caused even a further intense international outcry and led Interim President Rajoelina to issue a two-year moratorium on timber shipments.
Ecological Internet has previously stopped Delmas of France from shipping illegal rosewood, and was instrumental in achieving the two-year moratorium on timber which appears now to be little more than a public relations ploy by a corrupt post-coup interim government. With Sunday's shipment by SEAL/PIL of 79 containers of rosewood, it is now clear the government does not intend to maintain the ban. SEAL has been asked by local campaigners to stop abetting the illegal timber trade by transporting rosewood. They responded by saying they had the authorization of the Minister of Environment and Forests, despite being presented with clear evidence that the merchandise they are transporting is of illegal origin.
Given widespread corruption and government involvement in the logging of rainforest protected areas, we have identified shipping companies as the best pressure point. SEAL has loaded rosewood for illegal export previously, including at least 526 tons in 2009. A group of some two dozen "timber mafia" have and continue to make countless millions of US$ from a completely illegal trade in precious timber, while 19 million of their countrypersons remain in abject poverty. Their logging degrades and ultimately destroys the forests, many of which are National Parks and/or World Heritage Sites, ruins watersheds, has led to disintegration of any kind of order in society, and has had a multitude of other negative consequences for Madagascar.
The vast majority of precious woods that leave Madagascar are bound for a few cities in Southern China: Hong Kong, Dalian, Shanghai, Ganzhou. Between 1998 and 2008, Chinese imports of tropical wood nearly quadrupled, to 45 million cubic meters annually, making it by far the world's largest consumer of tropical timber. Over half of these imports are thought to be sourced illegally. Much of this goes to make wood products that will eventually be sold in Europe and the United States. The situation clearly demonstrates that in an era of hyper-capitalism and growth in population, economy and consumption; no rainforests are truly protected for long (if ever). We must remain vigilante and go after these root causes of ecocide.
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Outraged SEAL shipping exporting illegal timbers from Madagascar's Protected Rainforests
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Odd-Gunnar K. Heffermehl, Président Directeur Général, La Ligne Scandinave Agency Maritime (SEAL/PIL)
Dear Mr. Heffermehl,
I am writing to express grave concern with your company's – La Ligne Scandinave Agency Maritime (SEAL/PIL) – role in facilitating the illegal logging of Madagascar's protected rainforests. SEAL shipped 79 containers of rosewood from Madagascar on 6 June. This export was forbidden by the decree n°2010-141, article 2, 14 Apr 2010. Under article 4 you can be prosecuted for this shipment. We demand that you cease further shipments of illegal timbers from Madagascar immediately, or face escalating protest.
Madagascar's other shipping companies; Delmas in particular, have refused to export this stolen wood, realizing their reputations are more important than illegal profits. SEAL is the only shipping company who has agreed to continue shipping illegally logged rainforest timbers, thus launching once more the loggers inside the protected areas to fill again the stockpiles for the next exception to the law.
It is understood that you have been pressured to continue shipping huge quantities of illegally logged precious woods from Madagascar. Complying with corrupt government demands is unacceptable and will tarnish your company SEAL as conducting unethical and illegal business practices. Why does SEAL take advantage of the weakness of the Malagasy nation to increase your profits? Are you at all concerned with the future well-being of the great nation's ecology and peoples?
Your shipments of illegally logged timbers are particularly inappropriate as Madagascar's dwindling primary forests have a history of being used to fund political conflict. As the shipping company aiding this illicit and ecologically devastating trade, your company is a legitimate target of protest. I commit to doing everything possible to alert the international community of your wrong-doing, until you stop.
Madagascar's political stability, ecological sustainability and continued advancement depend upon your company stopping its role in the illegal log trade. The situation highlights the importance of working to end all old forest logging in Madagascar, and ensuring all remaining primary forests are left standing and allowed to expand to further local community development. The world is watching.
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BLAME the Indian Ocean for Australia's "Big Dry" - the intense drought that has dried out much of the Murray-Darling river system, devastated agriculture and led to water rationing in Melbourne.
Until now, the Big Dry and two other major droughts to hit south-east Australia - the Federation Drought from 1895 to 1902 and the second-world-war drought - have been blamed on the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which is a cyclical change in sea surface temperatures in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean. But when Caroline Ummenhofer of the University of New South Wales in Sydney and colleagues compared records from 1880 to 2006 of rainfall, land temperature and drought during the June to October winter rainy period with conditions in the Indian and Pacific oceans, they found otherwise.
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Put all the ingredients in a wide 6-to 7-quart heavy pot (don't worry if the pork is not completely covered) and bring the water to a boil, skimming the surface as necessary. Lower the heat and simmer vigorously, stirring occasionally, until the pork is fork-tender and the liquid has completely evaporated, 1½ to 2 hours. Discard the orange pieces and bay leaves. If the liquid hasn't evaporated after 2 hours, transfer the pork pieces to a bowl and let the liquid continue to bubble away, stirring often, until it has.
Preheat the oven to 450°F. Transfer the pork and fat to an ovenproof dish, if necessary, and brown the pork, uncovered, in the oven for 20 to 30 minutes. There's no need to stir.
Carnitas keeps in the refrigerator for up to three days.
Note: If you want to make half a batch, cut the amount of pork, salt, and oregano in half, but use the same amount of the remaining ingredients and water. You will need to use a slightly smaller pot.
Reprinted with permission from Truly Mexican by Roberto Santibañez with JJ Goode, © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


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And we thought Intel has completely dominated the 10-inch netbook market with the Atom processor — it looks like Acer has gotten its hand on an AMD K125 CPU running at 1.7GHz on their new Aspire One AO521.
Acer Aspire One AO521
10.1″ display screen @ 1024×600 pixels
AMD K125 @ 1.7GHz 1MB Cache
AMD M880G Chipset
ATI Radeon HD 4225 Graphics 384MB RAM
250GB Hard Disk Drive
Card Reader
0.3MP webcam
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.0
The netbook also comes with a 6-cell battery and Windows 7 Starter. The 12-watt CPU is a little higher than Intel's ULV (10-watts) CPUs but way higher than Atom's 2.5-watt rating. Add the Radeon HD 4225 and the couple could guzzle up the battery quite fast, possibly cutting into half usual battery life when compared to other Atom-based netbooks.
I'm curious with the performance of this one though (I imagine something similar to Lenovo's ThinkPad X100e). With a suggested retail price of Php21,900, the Aspire One AO521 could be a strong alternative in the Atom-dominated netbook market.


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Local Trees to be on Display at the Capitol this Christmas
The Fewell family of Winfield has donated its 25-foot Blue Spruce as one of three trees that will be used for holiday displays this year at the state Capitol Complex in Charleston. The tree has become too big for their yard, so they called the state and it became a candidate to light up the Capitol at Christmas. State Department of Administration spokeswoman Diane Holley-Brown said the Fewells' tree would be used around the north fountain at the Capitol. The other two trees came from Crickmer Farms in the Fayette County. Almost half of the farm's 70 acres is dedicated to Christmas trees, and any family can go there to cut down a tree of their own. A lighting ceremony will be held Dec. 6 at hte State Capitol as part of the annual Joyful Night celebration.


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Jun-koo Kang, Kenneth A. Kim, Pattanaporn Kitsabunnarat, and Takeshi Nishikawa, 2010, The effects of bank relations on stock repurchase decisions: Evidence from Japan, Journal of Financial Intermediation, forthcoming.
Kenneth A. Kim, Pattanaporn Kitsabunnarat, and John R. Nofsinger, 2007, Large shareholders, board independence, and minority shareholder rights: Evidence from Europe, Journal of Corporate Finance 13, 859-880.
Gong-meng Chen, Kenneth A. Kim, John R. Nofsinger, and Oliver M. Rui, 2007, Trading performance, disposition effect, overconfidence, representativeness bias, and experience of emerging market investors, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 20, 425-451.
Kenneth A. Kim and John R. Nofsinger, 2005, Institutional herding, business groups, and economic regimes: Evidence from Japan, Journal of Business 78, 213-242.
Soon-Huat Chan, Kenneth A. Kim, and S. Ghon Rhee, 2005, Price limit performance: Evidence from transactions data and the limit order book, Journal Empirical Finance 12, 269-290.
Kenneth A. Kim, Pattanaporn Kitsabunnarat, and John R. Nofsinger, 2004, Ownership and operating performance in an emerging market: Evidence from Thai IPO firms, Journal of Corporate Finance 10, 355-381.
Stephen P. Ferris, Kenneth A. Kim, and Pattanaporn Kitsabunnarat, 2003, The costs (and benefits?) of diversified business groups: The case of Korean chaebols, Journal of Banking and Finance 27, 275-297.
Kenneth A. Kim and Piman Limpaphayom, 2000, Characteristics of stocks that frequently hit price limits: Empirical evidence from Taiwan and Thailand, Journal of Financial Markets 3, 315-332.
Kim, Kenneth A. and S. Ghon Rhee, 1997, Price limit performance: Evidence from the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Journal of Finance 52, 885-901.
Kenneth Kim
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Finance and Managerial Economics
School of Management
University at Buffalo
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We document the link between increased levels of economic and policy uncertainty and unemployment at the state-level during the 2007-2009 recession. The cross-sectional variation in uncertainty robustly matches the distribution of employment outcomes during this period. When we instrument for this cross-sectional variation using preexisting institutions, we find evidence for a causal role for uncertainty in increasing unemployment. A simple model of hiring and firing under uncertainty rationalizes these results, and the within-state distribution of effects across industries, occupations, and individuals is consistent with this model's predictions. Together, these results suggest that increased uncertainty contributed to the severity of the Great Recession.
Mr. FITZPATRICK: What is the gentleman's plan to take care of the unemployment in this country?
Mr. KNUTSON: What is my plan?
Mr. FITZPATRICK: Yes.
Mr. KNUTSON: Reassure industry.
Mr. FITZPATRICK: How?
Mr. KNUTSON: By removing all the uncertainly that you folks have created. Let us assure industry and we will end unemployment in a short time.
United States House of Representatives, April 12, 1935
I Uncertainty and the Great Recession
Did high levels of economic and policy uncertainty contribute to the large and persistent increase in unemployment from 2007 to 2009? This paper presents a broad range of evidence showing that increased levels of uncertainty were an important factor explaining the cross-sectional distribution of employment patterns during the Great Recession. To do so, we develop an indicator-based state-level uncertainty index. Using this index we find that the uncertainty-unemployment relationship is highly robust, and that higher levels of uncertainty created by pre-existing institutions lead to increased unemployment. We then develop a simple model of hiring under uncertainty and show that the employment losses associated with the index were distributed according to the predictions of the model across industries, occupations, and individuals within states.
Macroeconomists have advanced a number of hypotheses to explain the severity of the 2007-2009 decline in employment. These explanations, which are not mutually exclusive, include insufficient demand due to household deleveraging, slow recalculation or adjustment to sector-specific shocks, credit constraints due to problems in the financial sector, and the aforementioned increases in policy and general economic uncertainty. Unfortunately, as is often the case in macroeconomics, distinguishing the differential impact of these amplification channels has not been straightforward.
One aspect of the "Great Recession" that might shed light on the mechanism is the substantial geographic variation in employment losses. The five states most deeply affected by the recession experienced increases in their unemployment rates of 6 percentage points or more from 2006 to 2009 (with the largest increase, in Nevada, exceeding 7.5 percentage points). Conversely, the five states least affected by the downturn saw their unemployment rates increase by less than 2.1 percentage points. Given the importance of this geographic variation, it is desirable that theories of the recession are consistent with this cross-sectional pattern.
The differential effect of the recession across places was not random. In line with a explanation centered around structural sectoral shifts, states with larger housing price run-ups and declines suffered the largest employment losses. More directly on point, overall employment losses across states and counties are highly correlated with employment losses in the construction sector.
A number of important papers have demonstrated that geographic variation in household deleveraging and weaker demand are also correlated with employment losses. Mian and Sufi (2011), in a framework that is underpinned theoretically by Philippon and Midrigan (2011), show that employment losses are most severe in areas with initially high and subsequently falling household debt-to-income ratios. They analyze data from counties with large household balance sheet shocks and claim that lessened aggregate demand was responsible for the majority of the job losses between 2007 and 2009.
Another theory, that credit constraints caused by financial sector problems lengthened the recovery (e.g. Guerrieri and Lorenzoni (2011) and Chodorow-Reich (2013)), does not necessarily predict such wide variety in regional outcomes. However, work by Gozzi and Goetz (2010) and Greenstone and Mas (2012) find that local credit crunches for small businesses did indeed lead to employment and wage losses between 2007 and 2009.
A recently popular explanation for the significant duration of the 2007-2009 recession's recovery is an increase in policy and economic uncertainty. Widely discussed in the popular news amidst analyses of the impact of Federal Reserve policy, health care reform, the rise of the Tea Party movement (see Madestam et al., 2013), debt ceiling disputes and state and federal spending levels, policy and economic uncertainty have also received attention from researchers looking into their possible effects on the U.S. economy during the aftermath of the recession. In a leading paper in this literature, Baker, Bloom, and Davis (2013) create an indicator-based measure of policy uncertainty using newspaper mentions, tax code provision expirations and forecaster disagreement. They show that higher indicator uncertainty from 2008 on was associated with a deeper and longer recession.
In their analysis of news and government documents, Dominguez and Shapiro (2013) look to see how the slow recovery was anticipated, and find that the political "stalemate" in the US contributed to the length of the recession, as did shocks from Europe. Similarly, Bachmann and Sims (2012) establish that consumer and firm "confidence" is of the utmost importance during downturns. Schaal (2011) is able to reproduce many of the dynamics of the Great Recession by introducing uncertainty shocks into a dynamic search model of heterogeneous firms, while Stock and Watson (2012) use a dynamic factor model to establish that heightened uncertainty worsened the recession significantly. That said, in its simplest exposition, the uncertainty channel does not predict a wide spatial distribution of outcomes. This has led some to argue that the policy uncertainty channel is not consistent with a central feature of the recession. For example, Mian and Sufi (2012) claim that "an increase in business uncertainty at the aggregate level does not explain the stark cross-sectional patterns in employment losses we observe," and Bachmann and Bayer (forthcoming) argue that idiosyncratic firm-level risk shocks that are consistent with the procyclicality of the dispersion of investment rates cannot explain output variations over the business cycle.
This paper serves to counter such claims, and to present cross-sectional evidence in support of the uncertainty channel. We create local measures of Baker-Bloom-Davis type indicator uncertainty from 2006 through 2009. We find that increases in local uncertainty over this period are strongly correlated with the effects of the recession, and that the correlation between uncertainty at the state level and employment losses is highly robust across alternate measures. While there is certainly a feedback loop between economic outcomes and uncertainty, we show that increases in local uncertainty are partially driven by preexisting state institutions, and that these pre-determined uncertainty amplifications cause unemployment increases. The uncertainty channel also remains strongly correlated with unemployment increases in our data in regressions that control for other mechanisms.
Moreover, we show that even when controlling for the aggregate local outcome, uncertainty affects the cross-section of industries, workers, and occupations within states in the manner predicted by a standard model. Our baseline results suggest that if uncertainty levels in all states had been at those of the five states facing the lowest levels of uncertainty in 2009, that would have been associated with a national unemployment rate that was about 1.4 percentage points lower.
The key lessen from these findings taken together is that, like the structural and demand driven channels, the uncertainty explanation is consistent with the geographic pattern of the recession. While it is hard to quantify the exact causal effect of this amplification mechanism, and to separate the impact of uncertainty from that of first-order shocks to the economy, these findings are important in cautioning researchers not to dismiss the uncertainty channel in contributing to the length and depth of the Great Recession. It also suggests that more research on the interaction of multiple channels would prove beneficial.
The remainder of this paper is structured as follows. In Section II, we develop regional measures of uncertainty, document their association with employment outcomes, and use them to construct a regional uncertainty index. We then proceed to show, in Section III, that predetermined state government institutions affect regional uncertainty. By using these institutions to instrument for uncertainty, we show that higher levels of uncertainty cause higher levels of unemployment. After that, in Section IV, we examine the relationship between regional uncertainty and unemployment levels after controlling for competing explanations for high post-2006 levels of unemployment. In Section V, we present a simple model of hiring and firing by firms that face varying levels of uncertainty to derive predictions for the cross-section of employment levels. We confirm these predictions in Section VI at the industry, individual, and occupation level, and present survey-based evidence that provides direct support for the uncertainty mechanism. In Section VII we discuss our results and conclude.
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Vice President Joseph N. Boakai has reaffirmed government's commitment to improving road network in Nimba County. Vice President Boakai made the disclosure on Monday when he broke ground for the construction of over 105.57km of feeder in Sanniquellie. Addressing citizens of the County during a well attended indoor program marking the ceremony, the Vice President noted that the people of the county deserve such development, because, according to him, it was in Sanniquellie the Organization of African Unity (OAU) now called Africa Union was established.
Meanwhile, he called on contractors who are expected to implement the projects not to compromise quality and sounded a very strong caveat that the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf regime will not hesitate to terminate the services of defaulting contractors. For his part, Public Works Minister, Attorney Samuel Kofi Woods, has described the ground breaking as a remarkable progress. Min. Wood asserted that as a former student leader, his quest for development in the County started as far back as 1986 when he was invited to organize the student movement in Sanniquellie under the Liberia National Student Union (LINSU).
Min. Woods noted that government was committed to providing quality road network for the people of Nimba County. According to him, when government needed help; the people of Nimba used their machines to maintain critical areas on major highway connecting the county, a gesture he described as timely and necessary for collective national development. Min. Woods, who is noted for his uncompromising posture by always demanding and putting pressure on contractors to deliver quality and durable infrastructures to the Liberian people under his regime, told the crowd that he was brought to the Ministry to institute a number of reform measures.
As if with renewed dynamism, Min. Woods has reiterated the commitment of his administration to closely monitor the implementation of road projects across the country to the fullest and challenged the contractors to use the money for the intended purpose, noting that Liberia is in the era of transparency and accountability. "You have to list the amount for each contract and share with the residents and community members so that they are aware of what's allocated for each project as a way of making them to take ownership of the project", Minister Woods.
In a rather uncompromising deposition, the former student leader was very clear and did not put any manner of falsehood when he said, nonperforming contractors will be blacklisted and if possible, taking to court. At the same time, the hardworking Public Works Minister, whom the President once described as a trusted lieutenant and ally, appealed to the contractors to also include women in their workforce, particularly during the implementation of those projects.
He assured the people of Nimba that the contract for the Gbarnga to Ganta-Guinea border road project would be signed early next year.
Some of the citizens thanked SIDA for their contribution to Liberia's recovery process. The project is being funded by the Swedish government.


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For a design firm like Giugiaro's Italdesign, it must get tiring to send beautiful vehicles out into the world with another company's badge adorning the grille. That's where cars like this Vadh concept come into play. Italdesign technicians designed the chassis of this concept from the ground up, and the swoopy body wears a big red "G" proudly on the front bumper, just as future models will--it's Giugiaro's new signature. The Vadh's tandem two-person cabin and the white stripe going the length of its black body make the car look like Speed Racer's worst nightmare, and it's semi-exposed hydrogen engine is straight out of that futuristic cartoon, too. The tandem cabin draws its inspiration from aeronautics, so it makes sense that inside, the steering wheel is replaced by two joysticks planted on the driver's seat armrests. Giugiaro is ahead of its time with this slick and efficient concept, and we can't wait for the day when production vehicles look this futuristic.
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SHALIMAR - Several residents of Shalimar Pointe awoke Friday morning to slashed tires and an egged vehicle, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office.
About six incidents had been reported as of 3 p.m. Deputies estimate the vandalism occurred between midnight and 7 a.m.
Deputies attributed the vandalism to youths. More patrols have been assigned to the area.


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"If you build it, they will come," goes the fable spun to local officials hard-pressed for tax revenue. "It," in this case, was a truck transfer depot proposed for the 197-acre Heritage Farm in Franklin Township, Warren County. "They" were ratables, or local tax revenues. But there's more and more evidence every year that preserving farmland wins out over the "Fable of the Ratable."
The proposal for Heritage Farm included a trucking hub and transfer station, with over a million square feet of warehouse space, 2,000 parking spaces and room for 800 trucks and loading bays. Operating 24 hours a day with significantly increased traffic on local roads, the facility would have introduced light, air, and noise pollution in an otherwise bucolic, rural area.
What could have possibly justified a truck depot on a farm? The "Fable of the Ratable," of course.
The "Fable of the Ratable" has been told countless times across New Jersey, and the results are evident: sprawl, traffic congestion, dirty air and water, and property taxes that have gone UP, not down. If this type of development led to a happy place of low taxes, economic prosperity, and healthy and high-quality living, New Jersey would be the Garden of Eden State by now!
Fortunately, for various reasons the developer of the truck depot pulled out. So there's still a chance to permanently preserve this farm and many others like it in the region. New Jersey voters consistently vote with their pocketbooks for preserving farmland, as they just did once again by passing a $400 million bond act in November 2009.
And farming still makes economic sense in this state we're in. The nonprofit Hunterdon Land Trust Alliance recently conducted a survey to determine the economic impact of the weekly farmers' market at the Dvoor Farm in Raritan Township. The land trust owns the farm and runs the market.
They surveyed the spending habits of their customers and vendors, using a tool specifically designed to measure a public market's impact on the local economy. The results revealed that the market is a regional draw - bringing customers and revenue from everywhere from Flemington, N.J., to Ottsville, Pa.
Approximately $400,000 is spent at the market each season and another $280,000 is spent at local businesses, generating about $10,000 in sales tax revenue. When market vendors reinvest their earnings locally, the total downstream economic impact is estimated at over $1 million.
The "Fable of the Ratable" has been told so many times, for so long, that many accept it as fact. But farmland doesn't need pavement to be productive! It does, however, need to be protected if we are to all live happily ever after.
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Carolina's Dilemma: Picking First In A Weak Draft
Coming into the season Patrick Peterson was touted as a rare physical specimen, the best Defensive Back in the country, and the elusive Top 5 prospect at the Cornerback position. Despite lofty expectations, he managed to live up to the billing. Peterson was named a First Team All-American, was the winner of the prestigious Thorpe Award, and also added a Bednarik Award to his shelf as the nation's top defender. By midseason most casual fans knew him as one of the most dynamic talents in college football. He became an Internet celebrity due to his astounding punt returns and even garnered a bit of Heisman Trophy hype early on. It was a no-brainer for him to declare for the NFL draft after the season and a decision that could not have shocked any within the program or fan-base.
Not every year do we see such a physical specimen that has started to put it together on the field the way Patrick Peterson has. At roughly 6'1 210, he possesses the size to matchup against any pro receiver. He's chiseled, he's long, and he plays to his size, often covering his opponents' biggest receiver. His incredible physique may only be eclipsed by his ability to run. Simply put, the guy can flat-out fly. Peterson is a shocking athlete with great explosiveness, agility, coordination, and straight-line speed. Though teams will rarely challenge him, he has displayed terrific ball-skills and anticipation when the ball leaves the Quarterback's hand. He's a very good tackler capable of delivering powerful hits. There is some concern about the fluidity of his hips, but he should be able to answer those questions at the NFL Combine, where he will show up roughly 10 pounds lighter than his 2010 playing weight (220.)
Some draft analysts may begin to refer to Patrick Peterson as the Calvin Johnson of the Cornerback position, and I can't say I disagree. Where Johnson was the prototype receiver, Peterson appears to be the prototype corner. He has everything teams look for when scouting a Defensive Back and will have a chance for NFL stardom at any position he plays. There are no schematic limits to his abilities and the absence of an injury history makes him one of the safer top picks in this draft class. Peterson will likely come off the board within the first five picks on draft day. He could be the highest rated Cornerback prospect since Charles Woodson coming out of Michigan.
+ Tremendous closing speed, very fast in straight-line
+ Great agility, quick feet, changes directions well moving forward
+ Very good ball skills; great anticipation, hands, and awareness
+ Shutdown corner down the field, not one to try to throw over
+ Solid, secure, wrap-up tackler capable of making crushing hits
+ Has size at roughly 6'1 210 to challenge any pro receiver
+ Smart football player who doesn't give up a lot down the field
+ Possesses startling physique, both chiseled and long-limbed
+ Naturally incredible athlete with fluidity & sprinters speed
+ Dynamic with the ball in his hands; a threat to go the distance every chance he gets
+ Strong enough to outmuscle even big receivers for jump-balls
+ Is big and physical enough to re-route receivers at the line
+ Versatile; talent will allow him to play anywhere in the defensive backfield
+ Offers Special Teams value, returned both punts and kicks at a high-level
+ Productive and highly decorated, First Team All-American, Thorpe Award winner
+ Very durable, has no significant injury history to this point
+ Consistently battled the most gifted receivers in the nation in the SEC
+ High character; humble, well-spoken, motivated, and mature
+ Can play right away, should be able to contribute from day one
+ Finished college with 30 career starts
– Will have to prove the fluidity of his hips at the NFL Combine
– Gave up a lot underneath to Alabama's Julio Jones and Texas A&M's Jeff Fuller
– Could stand to improve his open-field tackling a bit
– Got off easy this year in the SEC not having to face A.J. Green or Alshon Jeffery
– Might have been carrying a bit too much weight this season at 220+
– Plays at a position rarely deemed worthy of a Top 5 Overall selection
Why the Panthers will select Patrick Peterson First Overall
If the Carolina Panthers choose not to re-sign Richard Marshall, or are unable to, then Patrick Peterson makes a whole lot of sense with the first pick. In a passing league, or more importantly a passing division, a lockdown corner can be invaluable. Without Marshall in the picture, the team lacks a player capable of sticking their opponents' best receiver week-in and week-out. Peterson is a rare talent at the position and perhaps the caliber of player we won't see for years to come. Newly appointed Head Coach Ron Rivera will make sure the secondary won't be operating with gaping holes in 2011, and Patrick Peterson could be exactly the type of elite talent to make a huge difference in Carolina for the next decade.