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MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today learned from sources close to the fight and subsequently confirmed with UFC President Dana White that T.J. Grant (21-5 MMA, 8-3 UFC) has been forced to withdraw from a planned UFC 164 contest with Henderson, and Pettis has agreed to step into the open slot.
UFC 164 takes place at MIlwaukee's Bradley Center on Aug. 31, four weeks after Pettis' expected UFC 163 featherweight title bout with Jose Aldo in Rio de Janeiro. Injury forced Pettis out of that fight, but Grant's poor fortune now allows "Showtime" a chance to fight in his hometown in a bid for the UFC lightweight title.
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Facebook's new home on Android
Next Thursday our own Phil Nickinson will be heading over to Facebook's third event of 2013, and their first that promises to be focused on mobile. Perhaps even disruptive to mobile. Phil has questions about the Facebook Android event, important ones, and rightly so. I have no answers, but I do have this:
Come See Our New Home on Android
Facebook is one of the few companies not already in the mobile platform game that's talented and wealthy enough to do something really interesting. Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry, Google, even Amazon have all already taken their shots. Each has tackled it according to their own unique corporate cultures and business needs. We've seen bits and pieces from Facebook before, from their mobile apps to their messengers to their social cameras. But what would really express their corporate culture and service their business needs?
Facebook has hired tremendous mobile talent over the last few years. Eric Tseng, who helped run Android at Google, and Mike Matas who helped create the modern era of textured design at Delicious Monster, are but two of the most prominent. Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly taken prominent iOS designers and developers for "Steve Jobs walks", and claimed Facebook was now the best place for them to dent the mobile universe.
What's all that talent been up to for the last couple years? Not making new iterations of the News Feed, and certainly not knocking out Poke apps, that's for sure. Yet Zuckerberg has also said, resolutely and on several occasions, that Facebook's mobile future doesn't lie in their own mobile hardware.
Given that Facebook so prominently name-dropped the mobile operating system of their biggest competitor, in arguably their biggest announcement of the year, might just indicate that Zuckerberg should be taken at his word. Perhaps the entire invitation should be.
Android has a concept of home screens, like iOS, but much more expansive and customizable than iOS. They can be skinned and they can be replaced. For good or for ill, Samsung with TouchWiz, HTC with Sense, and other device manufacturers often completely remake Android's stock interface with their own layers. It's not as extensive as Amazon's Kindle Fire fork, where Android is treated as little more than an embedded OS, but its enough to differentiate and provide some level of ownership.
Unlike Amazon, who wants to be in the hardware game and own their own content distribution platform -- who wants a shiny, proprietary box that will act as a dedicated front-end to the Amazon store -- Facebook wants to be ubiquitous across all platforms. Facebook currently enjoys system level integration in iOS, which is probably as deep as they'll be allowed to go. They'll never take over the experience there, or on Windows Phone or BlackBerry.
Android, however, could let Facebook own the system experience without having to own the system. Home could let Facebook provide deeper integration without turning partners into competitors. HTC could let Facebook show off an inspirational device other manufacturers and end users can immediately see and touch, while also letting them offer the same experience to other manufacturers and users down the road. Facebook for your contacts. Facebook for your photos. Facebook for your messaging. Facebook for your everything Facebook does, and Android for your everything they don't care to do, at least yet. And you feeding back all your identity, information, and transactions -- the data Facebook thrives on -- in exchange. They get to do to Google what Google does to others, they get to disintermediate Google using Google's own platform.
That's my best guess for what we'll see on Thursday -- a brilliantly engineered, gorgeously designed way to inject Facebook into the Android experience and remake it in the social giants image. If so, it's a strategy that gives Facebook a lot of benefit for very little risk, and disproportionate ownership compared to investment. Just as they overwhelmed browsers and walled the web to build their desktop platform, Facebook could be getting ready to face-hugger Android phones and remake them, Facebook-formed.
We'll find out for sure in less than a week.
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This is very interesting indeed. I am not a big Facebook user but do check it maybe a couple of times a week. I think that Facebook realizes that they have to evolve because the future is mobile. They have had a rough time of it but have worked through some of their issues. I have read rumors of an HTC Facebook device which would be neat to hear about but I would never buy it. I like my device of choice the iPhone. It is a very cool time to be a geek with all of these flagship phones...changes to mobile providers and now a Facebook mystery. Pretty cool.
I deleted my Facebook last year. The idea if sharing all that information with so much people. Mother and grandma included became weird. To use Facebook I'd have to go on a deleting spree and I'd end up with like 20 friends.
Instagram and Twitter seem to fill my social networking needs. Which essentially are just 2 of the features of Facebook.
It is really easy to limit/filter whom you want to see your posts on Facebook. (No, not just Google+). For quite some time there have been multiple different ways to customize access settings: blocking, creating custom lists, using preset lists, privacy settings. All of this is Extremely easy to use and can be changed for global settings as well as individual posts, if desired.
There are tiny little details that for which Facebook offers no user control.
For instance, if you're in a closed group and comment on someone's post (or post, yourself) that post may be shared by Facebook to your friends (who aren't members of that group), without you ever knowing.
It's similar to how, when you "like" a page, Facebook pretty much spams your friends pages regarding that page. It may be soft spam but it's still spam.
It's not that I don't trust Google or Facebook, well I kind of don't, but just knowing that they both like to use our searches or information somehow makes me scared. Knowing how Android is open makes me scared as well. Nothing is ever safe when you post on the internet. So I'm not really sure what could come from all of this. More spying into ones personal info? If what you may think could happen, Rene, it just boggles my mind that someone would want Facebook to be much more present in their OS after all of the privacy issues FB has, yet people continue to use them more and more regardless. I do use FB and sometimes I just want to quit it altogether, but for some reason I can't pull away from it. But I def. wouldn't want them to be more present on my phone with all the goodies and baddies that I have on there, teehee. Is no place safe out there? lol.Could you imagine a bug in the A-OS posting a random pic of a no no place posted on FB? The many LIKES that it can cause (or not!). lol. But let's see what April 4th brings us. I do like the way FB has the new "timeline" looking now. The other way was a complete mess!
This will interesting to see what comes out of this. There are so many possibilities. Can't wait to see what you guys report back.
I don't dislike Facebook really but I don't use it a lot anymore. I'm kind of sick of it and the fact they can't even make a properly functioning app. I'm not quite sure what they are planning and I'm also kind of irritated that they are working on this "new home" yet when I get a Facebook alert on my iPhone it doesn't make a sound even when I have selected for it to make a sound. Oh well the joys and frustrations of being a Facebook user I guess.
Facebook joined the Phone market way too late in the game. Facebook is slowly dying, a lot of my friends barely use it; I barely use it. We only use it for applications to sign in with. While I love competition in the work place due to the consumer being the one who wins, I do not think the Facebook phone will deliver that 'WOW' factor that would make it an immediate hit.
With the Facebook Application on everyone smartphone at this time, what could they offer by making a Phone on ANDROID? I simply do not see it working. The only way it could work was to have Facebook apps on other android/ios/wp/bbm phone become somewhat limited but give full access to this new Facebook Android Phone; however, that would hurt their market share dramatically. I have no hope for this device.
Pal, I know exactly what a 'launcher' is supposed to be. Has anyone outside the few comments on this page spoke about a launcher? No. It's about a Facebook Phone; hell, look at the top of the page seems like a phone..No one has really yet considered this to be simply a themed launcher, otherwise they simply could have released it already in the Google Play.
You may think you're trying to help, but this simply makes you look like a damn idiot. I know what a 'launcher' is, I have used Go, Apex, and now I use Nova.
Work on your reading comprehension.
I apologize. It appears I mixed up my articles. I thought that Rene's blog did mention the launcher aspect.
But, if you're truly paying attention, you'll already know that the "HTC Myst" phone is simply the device Facebook has chosen to demonstrate their new FacebookHome.apk, which itself is something between a simple homescreen replacement (like HTC's own BlinkFeed) and a full-blown launcher (given that they've discovered app drawer icons in its code).
Facebook free for 3 years now and loving the freedom. Now I have to insist any friend if mine that owns one of these phones immediately delete me as a contact. They probably have my name and number through other means by now anyway, but with thus they will have access to the texts, pictures, and randomness I send as well. As a non-FB user how do I opt out of that?
Zuck already conquered Apple and has the head of Cook at his desk, now he wants to do the same with Google and Brin. Fragmentation will probably be their largest hurdle.
Minor correction to the article;
"Unlike Amazon, who wants to be in the hardware game and own their own content distribution platform -- who wants a shiny, proprietary box that will act as a dedicated front-end to the Amazon store -- Facebook wants to be ubiquitous across all platforms." you are aware Amazon is ubiquitous across all platforms? The fact this announcement will have nothing to do with iOS should give you an indication your statement is a bit off.
Also ended my Facebook life years ago when pics of my kids which were marked as able to be viewed by a select few contacts ended up on the paged of someone who was two steps removed from one of the individuals allowed access.
Aside from that and knowing I do not use Facebook so if what I suggest already exists I am sorry. I see this as a launch of a new integrated app. UI will look something like a hybrid of newsfeed and flip book with integrated calendar and contact tiles all accessible from this UI. There will also be tiles with targeted ads which cannot be deleted. Ads will use integrated information from contacts, calendar and web searches to help target to your interests. In the google and Facebook style of invading your privacy to make ads more convenient and meaningful for you... And you will all use it because you need your Facebook crack!
Again just a guess from a non Facebook user.
Am I the only one that thinks a phone for a social networking website is the stupidest idea ever? This phone will fail.
I used to be all about Facebook but now when I do check it I usually get about 6 useless and random "so and so shared..." or "so and so liked so and so's picture..." before I just leave in disgust. Is it just me or has Facebook become useless as a result of just too much BS?
I highly doubt that Facebook will be able to sustain the competitive market of mobile operating systems. Facebook is not mobile operating system, it's an app for Pete's sake!! I'm sure they have the talent to create something unique, but from where I'm sitting, I find it hard to see the demand.
Not really sure what that form of equals sign means, and its difficult to dicifer if you are being contentious or not, but a launcher is not an OS. It is merely a skin or mask (launcher)on top of an structural framework (OS)
Facebook is an unnecessary evil. All preferences set so that only my girlfriend could see my check ins. On a trip with her I did a check-in at the mile high club, Baldwin style. By the time we landed, my mom, her mom, her 11 year old niece and some co workers had all commented on the "private" post. I was off Facebook within minutes. She was close behind. That was just us, i couldn't imagine having kids openly exposed like that. My father, a few exes, her ex, and the random strangers do not need to know what we are up to. Facebook has smashed al sorts if people into the same small pond and I've made a deliberate effort to stay out. Now put that cellphone in the hands of your kids, and allow the intrusion and FB proven inability to protect privacy and I'm out. It's funny -ish on a computer, put it in and there it sits, click on, click off, your choice, but on a phone it's terrifying. Do you really want all of your Facebook friends and friends of friends that closely linked to your every move? The rant. Is there an I hate Facebook forum?
I won't buy it or use it. I deleted Facebook and have loved my social life ever since. And my privacy even more
i really don't know how successful this is going to be. there are already so many android skins out there. does there really need to be another one
FB phone - I bet it will be great for social - the key will be in the hardware.
It looks like FB is releasing their own phone and a standalone app in the app store. Basically following he same path as Amazon (a no brainer move).
Re: "What's all that talent been up to for the last couple years?"
Building the Facebook Fork (tm) of Android.
To compete with the Samsung Fork (tm) of Android.
Because of the impending Motoroogle Fork (tm) of Android.
I think tearing out Google's "profit layer" and replacing it with another content store + ad delivery mechanism creates a new fork of Android. Not just a skin. A totally new ecosystem. Amazon has forked Android, Samsung is well on the way to completing their forking work (and establishing the Samsung Fork (tm) as the de-facto Android standard) and there are dozens of generic whitebox handset makers in China who have stepped all over Android and removed its connection to Google Play.
So Google will need to create their own proprietary fork just for Motoroogle and their future phones and/or tablets. The bulk of Android devices will have zero connection to Google services. Google needs to create a special proprietary version of Android for Motoroogle devices, to keep Google Play etc. alive.
Samsung has yet to fork Android (maybe they will, but I doubt it). I also doubt Motorola will ever get an Android fork (perhaps some custom apps).
Samsung might not fork Android. But only because they're ramping up Tizen. They plan to release phones based on Tizen later this year, as a hedge against the Motoroogle phone.
And, if Google decides to not create a special Motoroogle fork of Android just for themselves, they could simply delay the release of the latest version of Android to the rest of the world. Motoroogle phones (and pads?) would get the latest release months before the wannabes that haven't forked Android yet.
Apple its all by himself alone, even facebook joins Android. Ugly business
There is no quicker way to turn me off to something than to link it to FB. "Like This" to enter a contest, Login with your FB name, etc. Apple's integration of FB (and Twitter) is plenty.
Google: "F-ing Samsung never mentioned Android or Google in their f-ing Galaxy S4 promotional materials. Facebook, you need to mention Android as often as you can without making everyone sick. M'kay? Pretty please big fella?"
Facebook: "OK, but it'll cost you. Shovel over some cash and we'll talk."
you really think Facebook and Google talk? Apple and Google right now are both in a fetal position over this announcement.


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if the wrong amigo gets in office we will probably see a ban of so called " assault rifles" we will probably see ammo regulated, taxed and restricted and we will certainly see a return of the hi-cap mag ban for all law abiding tax paying citizens.
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Friday, February 26, 2010
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vlog February 25 2010 from Freddie deBoer on Vimeo.
I should say, if the title of this blog doesn't make it clear, I say "part of the problem with the French existentialism" in a context where they represent perhaps my most enduring and important intellectual influence.
When I say that people have an idealized view of themselves that is expressed online, I don't so much mean idealized in the sense of being unrealistically positive, but merely idealistic in that it operates on the level of ideas. That is, they don't necessarily or usually think of themselves as looking better than they do, they simply have a vision of themselves which they have developed a certain level of pained comfort with. Or, anyway, this is the way it works with me. I could be projecting this on to other people, although in my experience if you want to make a group of people really unhappy rather quickly, just show them a video of themselves. I mean, most of us know someone who legitimately thinks of him or herself as less attractive than the consensus view. When someone sees a picture or video of herself and recoils, it probably isn't because the picture looks significantly less attractive than the self image. It's likely just because it doesn't look quite like the self image, whether attractive or not, that he or she has become comfortable with.
Anyhow... you do have to give yourself a break, and for me, adulthood has been a struggle to at once give myself a break, and to simultaneously recognize that the internal forces that compel me to be easier on myself are worthwhile primarily to the degree that they enable me to be easier on those around me. One of the insights that I think I appreciate most about self-esteem is the notion that people with the highest self-esteem aren't necessarily or even usually the people we think of as good people. (This idea might be gaining a little ground, but even cursory Googling suggests self-esteem is still the dominant orthodoxy.) I think, ideally, the urge to be happy with yourself should be symbiotic with an urge to be better towards other people, and in part this should involve being more forgiving of their faults, while you ask for more forgiveness of your own.
Life isn't that clean, I'm afraid. Personally, I agree with those who argue that there are many various levels of self-evaluation going on in any person, and some tend to be too harsh, and some too conceited. Also, I agree with the idea that there is both level of self-esteem and durability of self-esteem, so some people (ahem) have high visions of themselves in certain areas, but those visions are easily hurt by others or by failing to meet expectations. It's all a confused soup.
I imagine I'll get some snide emails about this. Some will tell me that all this stuff probably is best not being thought about. They might be right!
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- Dara said...
"The internal forces that compel me to be easier on myself are worthwhile primarily to the degree that they enable me to be easier on those around me."
I think I need this tattooed on the inside of my eyelids.
- February 26, 2010 at 2:48 PM
- paul said...
That was a pretty meta-meta-post ... perhaps TMI, etc.
Anyway, it was somewhat insightful --- but I don't think untagging FB photos is "lying about ourselves" or really any of this complexity that you're reading into it ... I think it's just that we notice our flaws way more consciously than flaws of others. (This is particularly true if you've ever lectured or delivered a paper at a conference ... my friends and I find that we always thought thta we did far less well than we actually did.) I certainly don't have the sense of "that's not me," or "I've idealized my self and thus this image shatters this idealization," but just, "ugh, I look silly in this picture."
- February 26, 2010 at 2:56 PM
- Primeau said...
Personae are meant to mediate and interpret reality. They are hermeneutic devices that we often confuse with our actual personhoods. (Which is like confusing your eyes with your contacts -- 'contact' being actually a very intriguing choice of word given the discussion.)
The problem is that, in 'real life,' that is, in the physical world, personae are always under threat of compromise because others can look past the act and at the actor, and thus one's personae is, to everyone's frustration, significantly shaped by the reactions of others, i.e. by forces outside your control.
Online, where the threat level is substantially reduced due to the natures of the media and technologies, personae are more easily 'perfected.'
Not necessarily a good thing! It just means that our interpretive powers are unleashed, that we may determine how we encounter social space without worrying about the potentially yawning gap between person and persona.
The need to reconcile these often disparate entities -- who we are and who we want to be -- is the basis our psychological duress. Given the relative lack of restraints during the online persona creation, given the absence of genuine friction and that need for reconciliation, e-idealization often produces, uh, 'surprising,' if revealing, results.
- February 27, 2010 at 12:57 PM
- Freddie said...
I agree with you in a lot of ways, Phil, with the caveat that these personae aren't masks of some true persona but are rather all we have, dueling, interlocking personae which we create spontaneously and which cannot be removed to find some real self. It's an onion, not an orange.
Also, you know, while I think the same thing too, it's important that we remember that "guy who says personae are hermeneutic devices to interrogate reality" is itself a persona. Often enough, a useful one, but no more real than any alternative.
- February 27, 2010 at 2:03 PM
- Dara said...
The logic that it's easier to "see through" a persona in person than online is based on a (very Internet-era) notion that personae are largely created through words/ideas. In person, the personae we create aren't just in our words but in the way we manipulate our appearances, the way we move and inhabit our bodies.
- February 27, 2010 at 2:08 PM
- Freddie said...
Indeed. The thing about personae is that they are intentional. My face isn't the product of my intentions, it's the product of my genetics and the 500 pound chest of lockers that fell on it when I was 19. Some of the ways I manipulate my face are intentional, some not. The parts that are intentional are the parts that are persona.
- February 27, 2010 at 2:20 PM
Hey, I'm just trying to get laid by cute, paper-weary, PBR-sloshed post-grad post-structuralists. "CALL ME DERRIDA!!! CALL ME DERRIDA!!!"
- February 27, 2010 at 6:40 PM
- Freddie said...
Aren't we all.
- February 27, 2010 at 7:18 PM
- Primeau said...
More seriously, I maintain that all knowledge is subject to doubt, and that even the firmest convictions, those that have suffered the most extensive empirical figuring, are mere products of human cognition. And human cognition, well, let's just say it has given us such wunderkind as Mohammed and Jesus Christ. Grr.
- February 27, 2010 at 11:47 PM
- Ersatz Bling said...
How is this problem different from the inaccuracies of any self-conception?
All vanity is a misperception of what is, in favor of a conception. The conception is a static mirror that prevents us from looking - and modifying - our precious self-concepts. We experience anxiety that our concepts will be modified, that our illusions won't be confirmed by what we would see, if we simply accepted ourselves, accepted what we were witnessing.
Our self-concepts can be either positive or negative, they're equally vain either way.
- March 1, 2010 at 9:31 AM
Not sure if you've heard this already, but this week's Philosophy Bites podcast with Galen Strawson is focused on this issue.
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Oh Crap, I appear to be getting old.
I no longer understand Tweet messages. Sometimes. Quite often. A lot.
It's not that I hadn't noticed, but to be quite honest I have been so obsessed with the memories of my disappearing of my waist-line (since making the ill-advised decision to have another child at the age of 40) that I have been too preoccupied to admit what is happening elsewhere.
Wrinkle Monster
When I was 18 I thought I was fat. I clearly was not. Retrospect and the warmth of nostalgia allows me the ability to look back objectively at my taut young body and wonder what the hell I was thinking. I was a tall, skinny minx in fact.
When I was 26 I also thought I was fat. Judging by this photo from my first honeymoon (the first of a series….let's not talk about it in front of the children) I was not. Also a figment of my imagination.
Me and my thighs in my 20's, when I thought I was fat.
With my track record of getting things wrong I am now cautiously wondering, somewhat optimistically, whether I am wrong about this current concern too? Perhaps my face is not as lined as I think it is. Perhaps my boobies have always draped THAT far down my chest, and perhaps it's just the light that makes the re-growth in my hair parting glint just a teencey bit silver?
Will I look back on photos of myself in 20 years time and laugh at the memories of my own vanity (again)? Or will I be unable to actually see the photos due to my increasingly failing eye-sight?
Is it me, or does it just creep in at the edges? I am sure I was less wrinkly about the knees last month. OMG I do ACTUALLY have wrinkly knees now. This is the one area of my person that I have always been able to rely on. Steadfast and true, my knees. And yet, here I am, staring at the irrefutable corduroy-like texture which has appeared in that area.
Last week my son innocently pointed out that I have 'sticky-out veins' in my hands. Cheers. Thank God he hasn't seen the top of my legs!
I am finding it tricky to accept my demise into old age. That 'fade to white' part of life where kids look at your lined face and assume you have nothing relevant to say. Actually, my kids have pretty much been doing that since the day they were born, so no change there then. OK, so I'm not yet in a bath chair having the corner of my mouth dabbed with a tissue, but my youth has most certainly gone.
I shall go peacefully. I shall pop on a pair of elasticated slacks (no more knee-displays for me from now on) and berate pop music. I shall ask my children to 'turn it down', even if they don't have it on. I shall use the kind of wizened expressions which my parents exercised when I was a kid, like, "put on a jacket, you'll catch your death," and 'I want' never gets," and give in to middle-aged parenthood freely. Even whilst I am fighting the memories of elasticity, I am kissing 'hot' Helen goodbye and putting on a pair of comfy shoes.
Am I, b******s!
I am due at the hairdressers in 20 minutes for some serious grey-coverage action. I intend to teeter to school at 3pm in precarious heels. I shall defy gravity and go to my grave in bright red lipstick.
As George Bernard Shaw once said, "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a shame to waste it on children."
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Google Chrome's extension gallery started to display the price for each extension, which suggests that Chrome Web Store is going to be launched soon. All the extensions uploaded to the gallery can be installed for free, but web apps won't necessarily be free. "Developers will have the option to easily sell their apps through the store using a convenient and secure payment system," informs Chromium's blog.
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
The last few weeks have brought an above normal amount of rain to the region. Home gardens are suffering from the excess. What about the small farmers in the area?
The Summerville Farmers Market is host to a number of farmers and their produce looks beautiful.
However, that is the produce that has made it to market.
"We have had to be very selective sorting through," said Bernd Gronert of Cypress Hill Farm in Ridgeville.
"The heavy rains have created standing water, our blueberries have split and dropped off. Our peaches are okay but heavy rain can cause them to bruise and rot ... they split."
The rains have killed their tomato plants in a day or two, said Gronert. The wet conditions bring on mildew and the tomatoes absorb too much water losing flavor and splitting or turning black.
"Our apricot tree … the leaves are just hanging we don't know if we've lost it," Said Gronert shaking his head.
Commercial famers carry insurance for just this sort of thing. But the cost is beyond most small farmer's reach.
"We don't have insurance," Gronert said, "the cost is ski high."
Gronert says he could lose as much as several thousand dollars because of the weather.
Mark Arena, lead extension agent for the Cooperative Extension in Dorchester says the excess water has increased disease pressure.
"It also makes it difficult to get into fields with equipment."
Arena cites probable effects to soybeans, cotton as well. He notes that large farms will carry insurance and will most likely be filing claims.
Even crops that like water, such as corn, can only take so much he said. "Corn likes about an inch a week."
"Cucurbits – like squash, cucumbers, cantaloupes, honeydew, will probably see a high level of downy mildew. Cantaloupe will be smaller."
Gronert still has his fingers crossed for his fig trees. "Our figs, we're hoping…they could all fall off but so far so good."
Gronert is among the fortunate. Bobby Behr, who owns Behr Family Farm in Harleyville, with his wife Myra, tells a different story.
"Our tomatoes are all but wiped out," he said. "When the leaves continue to get wet you get fungus and disease…most have died. Our cucumbers are wiped out; our squash …wiped out…we have an onset of powdery mildew, which is really troubling. If you spray and it rains you have wasted all that money."
Behr is looking ahead though, and is in the middle of replanting for the fall crop.
The summer crop, he says, is now mostly weeds and stink bugs. "I am thinking about bagging up stink bugs and bringing them to market, there's so many of them," he laughed.
Behr has a forward outlook, which is a good thing. The rain has cost him "upwards of $15,000" this year. He doesn't carry insurance, he said, because he puts his money into organics for his four-acre farm. Organic fertilizer, fungicide and insecticide costs three times what the non-organics cost, he said. He is one of the few organic stands at the farmers' market.
Behr said he has heard other Community Supported Agriculture – CSAs have been completely wiped out by the rain.
"I had a customer Saturday," he said, "who went to pick up his CSA and was told there was nothing…they [the farm} had lost everything."
This, of course, is the gamble of a CSA – you buy into and share the gamble farmers take every season.
Behr's 5,000 tomato plants, for example, should have yielded about 100,000 tomatoes he said. Instead, he got about a third of that before they died.
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Toledo's "temporary" income tax, enacted in 1982, has lasted longer than much of its contemporary culture. A number of entertainers who made an impact in 1982 are no longer with us. Richard Pryor, Paul Newman, John Belushi, Blake Edwards, Dudley Moore, James Garner, Jack Lemmon, Henry Fonda, Burt Lancaster, John Gielgud, Katharine Hepburn and John Updike have all passed.
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Flori - it is good to hear from you again! This week is a major challenge for anyone trying to get health or lose weight. I try to limit my cheating to Thursday and behave the rest of the week. It works sometimes... I expect to mess up this time of year, but I try to limit my bad choices to things that are totally worth it. Congrats on cutting out the soda! There is sometimes a silver lining in getting sick. I hope you get some good news about the cyst on your kidney. It sounds like it could be good news if removing it could help get your BP under control. Let us know how your appointment goes next week.
I have met my workout goals for the past three week, and I am really happy about that. I had to take today off and an extra easy day last week because my stomach is really awful. I am going to try to get in six workouts this week anyway. My in-laws will be here, which makes it tougher to make time for exercise. I need to learn how to fit it in when we have houseguests.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The "Twilight" finale had better reviews than the franchise's previous four movies, but you'd never know it from the Razzie nominations singling out Hollywood's worst of the year.
"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" led the Razzies lineup Tuesday night with 11 nominations, including worst picture, lead-acting slots for Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson and supporting-acting nominations for Taylor Lautner and Ashley Greene.
Other worst-picture nominees are the naval action tale "Battleship," the family flick "The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure," Adam Sandler's raunchy dud "That's My Boy" and Eddie Murphy's comedy flop "A Thousand Words."
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It's difficult to walk through the town of Williston and not run into someone whose life was touched by Calvin Melton.
A firefighter for 35 years – 27 of which were spent as the town's fire chief, Melton was also a member of the Barnwell County Council, the Williston School District 29 board of trustees, the Williston Rescue Squad, the Lions Club and a number of other organizations. He was also a founding member and former president of the Lower State Fireman's Association.
On Wednesday, he died at his home at the age of 61 after a battle with cancer. He was laid to rest in the Williston Cemetery on Saturday with fireman's honors.
The memories of Melton, though, run just as many as the people who knew him.
"He was 'that guy' – that guy you call," said Nancy Brady-Wood, a teacher at Kelly Edward Elementary School in Williston. "There's one in every community, and he's the one in Williston. You know that he's gonna get things done. If he can't do it himself, he's gonna point you in the right direction."
Brady-Wood grew up in Williston and is now an educator in the same school system she went through as a student, teaching fourth grade along with Melton's wife, Debbie.
"It's the way his roles have been changing all through my life," she said of Melton. "When I was younger, he was the fire chief and the guy everybody called in town. And then when I got to be a teacher, he was the guy on the school board that you called because you knew you could count on him to do whatever you needed him to do and hear you out. Now, he was my friend because of being so close to Debbie and the boys."
Melton was currently serving on the school board when he died. Just last month, he was recognized for 10 years of service to the district and presented with a 10-year pin at the board's monthly meeting.
Eavon Hickson, principal of Williston-Elko Middle School, said Melton cared deeply about the school system and its students and employees.
"He wanted to know if there was anything he could do to make things better," she said. "He wanted to know how things were going, things that were set in motion. How were things working in the building? Was there anything the board needed to be aware of to make things better?"
Hickson said Melton spoke up not just for the students, but for everyone in the district. She recalled when he expressed concern about custodians being able to keep their jobs.
"You could rest assured that he was going to check on you in times of need, and to me, that was important," she said.
Alison Brown, guidance counselor at Williston-Elko High School, recalled Melton not only cared for the students and teachers, but "he was always friendly."
"It was never about him," she said. "Even during his time of sickness, if you would say, 'How are you?' it wasn't about him. He always wanted the attention to be on you. He was always concerned for others and never wanted the attention to be on him."
Mayor Tommy Rivers said Melton leaves behind "a legacy of volunteerism."
"Calvin volunteered for everything," he said. "He was just Mr. Volunteer in Williston."
Rivers recalled a humorous moment going with Melton and other Town officials to the Savannah River Site to pick up some surplus equipment. Melton had recently had open heart surgery and a nuclear stress test at the time, and the men had to go through a security checkpoint several times because the alarm kept going off.
"We go through and Calvin turns around and says, 'Somebody's setting that thing off and they need to quit,' and it was him from the nuclear stress test," Rivers recalled.
"His greatest contribution is the fire department … and bringing that department into the 21st century," Rivers said. "He loved that fire department. We're losing a legacy of volunteerism, and it'll be a hard void to fill."
Milton Widener, chief of the Williston Fire Department, fought fires with Melton for 35 years.
"He loved this department, he loved this equipment and most of all he loved his firefighters," Widener said. "Just as the other things he was involved with in the community, he put 100 percent into it."
Melton was instrumental in getting much of the department's new equipment, and in getting the department's lowest-ever Insurance Service Office rating, which lowers the cost of homeowner's insurance in a community as the rating lowers.
Widener said one of the many things he learned from Melton was "how to treat your people."
"When you're dealing with a bunch of volunteers, it's not like at work where you can threaten to fire somebody," he said.
A father of two sons, Charles and John, Melton was also a family man.
"Calvin loved his boys tremendously," Widener said. "He loved Debbie, and his dogs, especially JJ."
On Saturday, Widener drove the fire department's 1951 truck, which carried the casket containing Melton's body, from First Baptist Church of Williston to the cemetery. Melton's dog JJ rode in the front seat with him.
"He was a family man," Widener said. "I think he'll be remembered for all the avenues he's walked through life."
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Search continues for driver who crashed into houseBy Brent Curtis
STAFF WRITER | January 23,2013Vermont State Police say they have identified a man who seriously damaged a Rutland Town home when he crashed his car into it Tuesday night.
But they have yet to find the driver and a state police sergeant said Wednesday that police are withholding the man's identity for now.
"We're not giving it out at this point while we try to make contact with him," State Police Sgt. Thomas Mozzer said Wednesday.
Police spent part of a frigid Tuesday night searching Cedar Lane where the driver fled. Officers in cruisers patrolled the street near Route 7 while troopers on foot attempted a canine track that Mozzer said was foiled by the high number of firefighters, police, rescuers and neighbors outside the home that was left partially in ruins by the crash.
The walls on northwest corner of the home at 230 Cedar Lane were knocked down by the impact of the red Chevrolet Cavalier, which crashed into the house at about 6:30 p.m.
Homeowner Lenny Montuori, better known locally as hot dog and sausage vendor "Big Lenny," was shaken but uninjured after the crash. His girlfriend Susan Shaw was also uninjured as was a passenger in the Cavalier.
The welfare of the driver, who fled on foot in the single-digit temperatures outside, remains unknown.
Mozzer said police quickly identified the driver by the registration in the car and by talking to the passenger in the car who, after initially denying that she knew the driver, later admitted to being his girlfriend. Both the driver and his girlfriend are in their 20s, Mozzer said.
Montuori and Shaw said Tuesday night that the driver apologized repeatedly before insisting that he had to leave on foot to find help.
But Mozzer said Wednesday that the driver's girlfriend, who the sergeant could only identify as "Kelsey," told police a different story.
"She said the reason he took off was because he had no insurance," Mozzer said. "He wanted his girlfriend to take the blame and say that she was driving."
How the driver evaded police and escaped the area on foot remains unclear — especially since the driver left his cellphone behind — although Mozzer said police believe that the girlfriend, who was seen texting soon after the crash, may have arranged a ride for him.
Police looked for the driver at his home Wednesday but to no avail. When police checked his listed places of employment they found out the driver no longer worked there, Mozzer said.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
Evidence at the scene indicates that the Cavalier left the narrow country road hundreds of feet to the west of the home, avoided a utility pole and a grove of trees to crash into the home with enough force to demolish the entire corner of the two-story home.
Mozzer said the passenger in the car told police that the driver wasn't exceeding the 35 mph posted speed limit but based on the damage, the sergeant said that was unlikely.
"Road conditions aren't enough to explain going off the road and doing that much damage," he said. "We believe speed was a factor."
There was also no evidence that alcohol or drugs were factors in the crash, he added.
The passenger told police that the driver had picked her up from her job in Killington earlier in the evening and that the pair then went to Rutland. They were on their way to the driver's home in Pittsford at the time of the crash, Mozzer said.
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Residents discontented with proposed solar farmBy Lucia Suarez
STAFF WRITER | July 13,2013PITTSFORD Residents living next to the River Street pump station are voicing their discontent about a proposed solar farm on the town land behind their homes.
At an informal meeting earlier this week with several town officials and the project promoter Green Earth Energy, neighbors of the pump station said they could not fathom why the town would consider putting solar panels on an open field.
Why cant the industrial solar be in the cities? asked George Clifford, who lives across from the proposed site. I think its absolutely ridiculous. I didnt pay thousands of dollars to have industrial crap in my backyard.
He said residents do not want to see the solar panels, which would impede peoples view to the ridgeline. He said the town is rural and the project is not smart.
These sentiments were also echoed by Amy Moriglioni, who said they want to keep the open field as is without any interruption. She said her kids walk through it all summer to go fishing.
Why take that away from us? she asked.
Moriglioni, who said she only heard about the meeting after Clifford mentioned it a couple of hours beforehand, said there are pros and cons to solar farms, especially in how they are made.
We are not fond of them in our house, at least not here, she said.
The project in question was proposed by Green Earth Energy, a Brandon solar energy installer thats part of the McKernon Group. The company approached the town to propose the construction of 25 solar arrays, each with 24 panels on solar trackers, on the unused land around the pump station in Florence. The project scope has since gone down to about 15 solar arrays, but the location is still the same and residents do not like it.
The project would be owned by Green Lantern Capital out of Waterbury and the town would receive a 10 percent savings on its electricity bill equivalent to nearly $2,900 a year. The company would have a 20-year agreement for the project and the town would have an option to purchase after at least seven years.
If the town does not purchase the project, Green Lantern Capital would decommission it and put it back to how it used to be, said Jim Crawford of Green Earth Energy.
The financing company takes all the risk, he said.
Crawford added that the solar panels would not produce a mirror effect and that the only oil needed on-site would be about a gallon of oil for each tracker.
Town Manager John Haverstock said the conversations with the developer are still ongoing and nothing is set in stone. He said more discussions will continue among residents and town officials as early as the next Select Board meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Its not a greenlighted or redlighted project, Haverstock said. ... Our thought was if its going to save taxpayers some money, we might as well listen to them.
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Nashville Recap For Season 1, Episode 8: The Oddest Proposal
They kissed! Sorta! In tonight's mid-season finale of Nashville, we see that Deacon (Charles Esten) is going on a tour that's so not rock-and-roll, Teddy (Eric Close) and Rayna (Connie Britton) are not exactly as close as Barack and Michelle, and Juliette (Hayden Panettiere) is going to have a heck of a time finding someone to be her maid of honor.
Time to Have the Talk
Rayna is celebrating the one thing she never thought she'd be celebrating: Having a good time with Juliette. In fact, here Rayna is, being congratulated by label honcho Marshall and her team for their killer duet. And speaking of "killer," we're just thankful that Rayna and Juliette didn't actually kill each other.
Teddy is not one for savoring a moment. He tells Rayna that they need to call it a night, and once they get home, he drops his bomb about the pics that were taken of him hugging Peggy. Rayna is suspects that Teddy cheated, but he insists he didn't. Good luck with that, Teddy.
So Rayna pays Coleman(Robert Wisdom) a visit, who shows her the pics. Let's just say that these are pics that Teddy would want to untag himself from on Facebook. And then we love hearing Rayna tell Coleman to mind his own damn business. (Then again, does Rayna not know how politics works?)
Juliette is still trying to break down her straight-laced boyfriend Sean, a quarterback who makes passes on the field but not at the ladies. Sean invites Juliette to church with his fam, and it's safe to assume that if you had to make a list of places where you might find Juliette at any moment, church would not make the top 10 — or top 10 million.
However, Juliette puts on her Sunday best and actually seems to enjoy herself, meeting Sean's adorable sister, Dana. Dana convinces Juliette to sing with their choir, and Juliette indeed sounds great performing for the congregation. We also think it was probably a wise choice that Juliette didn't perform wearing the hot pants that she's worn during previous performances.
No Beer on Tour — But There Will Be Chocolate Milk
Deacon meets with the legendary band Revel Kings, who are lounging next to their pool shaped like a guitar. If you own a pool that looks like anything other than a geometric shape, you're doing well for yourself. The boys want Deacon to join them on tour, now that they're newly sober. (Speaking of geometric shapes, this tour is sounding a bit square.)
Hailey tells Scarlett (Clare Bowen) that she should consider auditioning to sing for a band Hailey knows, after Scarlett's onstage success last week. Gunnar (Sam Palladio) then confronts Hailey, suspecting (correctly) that Hailey's trying to make Scarlett scarce. Hailey tells Gunnar that she knows his heart belongs to Scarlett, so she bails. Uh, is anyone sad about this break-up? Nope — we aren't either.
Peggy tracks down Teddy at his campaign headquarters — this woman is better at finding people than Dog the Bounty Hunter — and tells him that her husband is flying into town and wasn't happy to hear about the pics. Meanwhile, Rayna is reassured by her sister, Tandy, that Teddy didn't cheat, and we also learn that it was Tandy who set Rayna up with Teddy. Nice going, Tandy.
Gunnar sees Scarlett at the Bluebird and finally makes his case. He tells her he couldn't take his eyes off her onstage, and that she should be with someone who thinks she's amazing. He then kisses her, and she kisses back — briefly, until she puts a stop to it, saying he can't just go around kissing people. (Note to Gunnar: Feel free to go around kissing us whenever.)
After Teddy, Rayna, and Lamar (Powers Boothe) have a powwow to discuss the fact that Coleman has officially gone public with the photos to a TMZ-esque site that's hilariously named "DMZ" — which sounds like the mixture of a '90s rapper and the place to get your driver's license. Rayna decides to then talk to Peggy herself, but she's too late — Peggy has OD'd on pills, although she's still alive.
Juliette meets up with Sean's family for dinner, and things start off well, with Juliette even bringing a pair of pink cowboy boots for his sister. But things take a turn for the awkward when Sean's mom says their family is above Juliette and her mom. If we were Juliette, we would have responded with, "Fine — but I'm returning those boots. Store credit is better than nothing."
A Kiss to Remember Forget
Rayna talks to Teddy again, and he comes clean about stealing from the bank and paying off the auditor. Teddy then takes Lamar's advice and holds a press conference to say that he never cheated with Peggy, and Rayna joins him at the podium to say that she supports him — although she whispers to him that she's only there for their daughters. So much for this being water under the bridge.
Deacon is still mulling over the offer to tour with his buddies, as he seems especially conflicted about being away from Rayna for so long. He then pops by Juliette's place to pass along a letter from her mom, whom he's been visiting in rehab. Juliette is furious at him and tells him to leave, but not before telling him to head out on that tour. Maybe she just wants to get rid of him?
Avery (Jonathan Jackson) visits Scarlett, bringing her a bottle of champagne that was supposed to celebrate his record deal — but he wants her to have it to celebrate her own success. She wishes him luck on his trip to Atlanta with label honcho Dominic. But then we learn that Dominic wants Avery to ditch his bandmates and find new guys. No one ever said that label honchos were cuddly.
Rayna then meets up with her un-cuddly label honcho Marshall, who informs her that her duet with Juliette is going through the roof on the charts. And because Marshall has dollar signs in his eyes at all times, he wants Rayna and Juliette to head out on the road — but this time it will truly be a co-headlining situation, with them each alternating who performs last. At least Rayna doesn't slap him, which is a step in the right direction.
Things are extremely uncomfortable between Scarlett and Gunnar, who meet up with their publisher to learn that one of their songs has been put on hold and might be performed by an artist. We'll bet that Scarlett and Gunnar are the least excited that anyone has been when being served champagne. (But there's so much champagne in this episode, right?)
Finally, Sean heads over to Juliette's place, where he sees more candles than you would see at a Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Juliette tells him that she's been doing some thinking, and so she asks him if he'll marry her. What the what? Sounds like Juliette might be about to acquire the world's worst step-monster.
So this episode was full of surprises, as Rayna seems closer to leaving Teddy, Deacon may be hitting the road for quite some time, and Gunnar and Scarlett (briefly) made us squeal during that kiss. We loved it and are not excited about a long-ish wait for the next new episode.
In the meantime, we plan to re-watch the first part of that Garlett kiss, oh, about a thousand times. Who wants to split a bottle of champagne?
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The pro golf life took a pair of Aiken County natives out of the continental United States this weekend, and both will return as victors.
North Augusta and USC Aiken product Scott Brown made up a last-hole deficit to with the PGA Tour's Puerto Rico Open, while former South Aiken and UGA golfer Kevin Kisner rode a sizzling third round to win the Web.com Tour's Chile Classic.
Brown came to the par-5 18th hole at Trump International in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, trailing Fabian Gomez by a stroke and said that he felt he would have to go for the lowest possible option to bring home the victory.
"I thought I would need an eagle as well as he was playing," he said. "So I just stayed aggressive."
Brown closed with a 2-under 70, his final birdie set up with a 3-iron that he kept low to avoid palm trees and leave himself a 30-yard pitch short of the green.
Gomez, trying to become the first Argentine to win on tour since Angel Cabrera at the 2009 Masters, was in perfect position off the tee at the 18th. That's when it went all around.
His second shot left him a tough lie in the bunker, and he blasted that over the green and into another bunker. He missed a 15-foot par putt for a 71, and then had to watch as Brown rapped in the winning putt.
Brown finished at 20-under 268 to set the tournament record. He earned $630,000, a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour and a spot in The Players Championship in May and the PGA Championship in August. Because the Puerto Rico Open is held the same week as a World Golf Championship in Florida, the win does not get Brown into the Masters.
He had been planning on playing a full Web.com Tour schedule this year. Instead, he is headed to the Tampa Bay Championship next week and can spend the rest of his season in the big leagues.
"I was nervous over that last putt," Brown said. "A kid growing up in Augusta, this is a dream come true."
Gomez tied for second with 19-year-old Jordan Spieth, who was playing on a sponsor exemption and now is exempt into the Tampa Bay Championship. Spieth shot 67.
"It was cool to battle on the back nine there and know that I was close in the heat and to feel the pressure," Spieth said. "It was a first-time experience for me."
Justin Bolli (66) and Brian Stuard (68) were another shot behind.
Brown became the fourth first-time tour winner this year, joining Russell Henley, John Merrick and Michael Thompson
Meanwhile in Santiago, Chile, Kisner followed up his 11-under round from Saturday with a 4-under 68 on Sunday at Prince of Wales Country Club to bring home his second career Web.com Tour title.
Kisner, one of three 54-hole co-leaders, played the final five holes 1-over par, but his 21-under 267 was enough to edge Brice Garnett (68) and Edward Loar (69) by one for the victory.
Kisner figured he might be in the mix despite playing poorly in Panama and Colombia.
"I don't know why I won because I played so bad the last two weeks and missed the cut," he said. "It wasn't terrible, but my game wasn't there and I wasn't confident.
"This course just fit my eye really well. I knew when I played my first nine holes in the practice round that I'd have a chance here."
Jeremy Timmerman contributed to this report.
U.S. Scott Brown, left, celebrates with his caddie after winning the Puerto Rico Open PGA golf tournament in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, Sunday, March 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)×
U.S. Scott Brown kisses the Puerto Rico Open PGA golf trophy after winning the tournament in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, Sunday, March 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)×
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